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Cellar/Tasting Notes The goal at Acacia is to interfere as little as possible in order to preserve maximum flavor of their wine with clarity and balance. They believe in the grapes and the land.
The 2012 Chardonnay epitomizes this goal as it is a balanced and refreshing chardonnay with aromatic notes of fresh melon,..
Cellar/Tasting Notes "This shows an evident layer of oak in the form of buttered toast and vanilla notes, but the underlying wine is strong in pineapple and golden mango flavors. Fine coastal acidity and a hint of mineral provide structural balance."
Cellar/Tasting Notes A knockout! Invictus Chardonnay is sourced from the finest vineyards in Napa Valley. Full and rich and absolutely the best Invictus Chardonnay we've ever offered. It offers fresh, enticing aromas of lychee, lemongrass, and honeysuckle with bright flavors of lime zest and grapefruit, supported by..
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Cellar/Tasting Notes Covenant Chardonnay Lavan (means white in Hebrew) is fermented and aged in French oak barrels for 12 to 14 months. The wine is richly textured yet blessed with bright acidity for balance; it's also layered with lovely pear, fig, citrus, toast and mineral notes. Like most of Covenant wines, it is..
Cellar/Tasting Notes "Pale gold. Ripe pear, orange, creme brulee and ginger on the fragrant nose, with notes of vanilla bean and smoky lees adding complexity. Pliant but sharply focused citrus and orchard fruit flavors gain depth with air, picking up a deeper marzipan nuance. The pear and leesy notes carry through on..
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Cellar/Tasting Notes Donelan's 2011 Chardonnay Nancie is pretty and expressive. Another wine with lovely textural depth and nuance, the 2011 is laced with dried apricots, nectarines, flowers and mint, all of which come together in the glass. Though medium in body, the 2011 impresses for its soft, caressing personality..
Cellar/Tasting Notes This wine is a radiant, golden straw color, with notes of cinnamon, green apple and gardenia on the nose. Baking spice and green apple continue on the palate, which is highly structured for a Chardonnay. A viscous mouthfeel leads to a lingering minerality on the finish.
Cellar/Tasting Notes Founded by growers Gary and Rosella Franscioni, Roar Wines is a small, family-run producer of Pinot Noir, Syrah and most recently Chardonnay from the elite vineyards of Santa Lucia Highlands.
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Andy McCullough of the Newark Star-Ledger reports that the Yankees have "had contact" with Joe Nathan.
Eric Hosmer could miss the next month of action with a stress fracture in his right hand.
Nolan Reimold hit two solo home runs on Thursday, including a go-ahead shot in the ninth inning to help the Blue Jays edge out the Astros.
Eric Hosmer left Thursday's game versus the Twins after aggravating his right hand injury.
Fernando Rodney picked up save number 30, preserving the Mariners' one-run lead in the ninth inning in Thursday's win against the Indians.
Johnny Cueto hung in tough in a low-scoring game against the Marlins on Thursday, limiting the opposition to one run over seven innings en route to his 12th win in the Reds' 3-1 victory.
Jason Vargas (appendectomy) will rejoin the Royals' rotation on Saturday in Oakland.
The Athletics are expected to keep Jason Hammel in their rotation over Jesse Chavez.
Tyler Skaggs exited Thursday's start against the Orioles with tightness in his left forearm.
Cliff Lee exited Thursday's start against the Nationals with a left flexor pronator strain.
Will Middlebrooks (finger) will be activated from the disabled list prior to Friday's game.
Starling Marte (concussion) will begin a rehab assignment with Triple-A Indianapolis on Saturday.

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Undrafted rookie WR Dane Sanzenbacher was one of Jay Cutler's top targets again in Week Five. He led all Bears receivers with six catches for 64 yards. Four of his six grabs resulted in first downs and he was targeted a team-high 10 times.
Sanzenbacher is second to Matt Forté among the Bears' leaders in receptions with 16.
Undrafted rookie LB Dom DeCicco and third-round pick S Chris Conte each contributed covering punt returns, with DeCicco recording two special-teams tackles and Conte making one. Conte also was called for a false start on a punt in the fourth quarter, which backed the Bears up from their own eight-yard line to their four-yard line. P Adam Podlesh had to punt of the endzone, and DeCicco tackled Stefan Logan after a 15-yard return.
The Bears had only seven defensive linemen active in the game, and second-round pick Stephen Paea was not one of them. He still has yet to be activated for a game this season, but he could get a chance this week with DT Matt Toeaina dealing with a knee injury.
First-round pick Gabe Carimi's status will be monitored closely this week. He's missed three games since suffering a subluxation of his right kneecap in Week Two and Frank Omiyale has struggled, getting benched in each of the past two games, in his place.


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In continuous workflows it is very common to use the master branch as the "production" branch. Here are three common actions that we recently made very easy to accomplish.
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Assembla servers have been upgraded to Apache Subversion 1.8. This new release includes some new features and many improvements. The release notes are here: http://subversion.apache.org/docs/release-notes/1.8.html
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Subversion 1.8 makes big improvements in the merge operation. You don't have to figure out a long sequence of revisions and options. The merge operation will figure out the correct form of the merge. You will not have to track revision ranges, because the improved merge is much more likely to merge the changes that you want. You can update your working branch.
With the improved merge, you can use temporary branches and Assembla merge requests to review and accept code. You can put your changes into a temporary branch, and your operations to update the temporary branch and then merge it to trunk will work correctly. With the added quality from this code review, you can scale up your existing process to more team members. Your trunk will be cleaner, and you can run centralized continuous delivery.
Subversion 1.8 also tracks file and directory moves. In the past, when you move directories around to arrange your libraries and components, this often created a conflict with the central repository version. Now, your "update" after a move is much more likely to work correctly.
I want to give my thanks to Julian Foad and the rest of the Apache Subversiont team for taking up the request for improved Subversion merge, and making these improvements.
From the release notes: "Before using Subversion 1.8 with existing working copies, users will be required to run the svn upgrade command to upgrade working copy metadata to the new format. This command may take a while, and for some users, it may be more practical to simply checkout a new working copy."
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Recently we released an exciting feature, Server Side Hooks for our hosted Git and Subversion repositories. Today we present to you our first Community Contest - write Server Side Hooks to get Assembla for free.
Anything. Automate your workflow - reject commits that you don't like (no commit message? tests do not pass? does not comply with a coding standard?), trigger events on external services, rename branches... You know, it's software, anything is possible.
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We announced our latest feature Server Side Hooks the other day. But before we even did that, something very cool happened, we got our first hook submitted by a contributor outside of Assembla. Thanks so much Jakub. Now users with Subversion repositories can install this hook and check their PHP code syntax.
We could never have had the time to think of creating nor actually implementing a solution for checking PHP code, because we would want to check all sorts of style of code and the scope would grow. Now users can scratch their own itch with minimal effort on our part.
For those of you still not sure what I am talking about: We are allowing customers to write their own Server Side Hooks and install them on our Servers, that's right, you can extend Assembla's cloud repository offering.
Thanks again and keep those hooks coming.
Cloud repository hosts have failed us. The power of hosting your repository locally is the ability to implement Server Side Hooks. These hooks allow you to control your repository and the source code contained within. Its super convenient for an organization with many contributors to a single repository. You can syntax check code, ensure commit messages are proper, add the power of automation or anything else you need your repository to do better than if you were relying on external webhooks.
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Those of you who store multiple projects in a single Subversion repository can now easily configure permissions for your project teams on the directory level. But enough talking, if there isn't a screenshot it didn't happen, right?
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Does it have to be so difficult? Not at all. Here is where Protected Branches are awesome and a clean solution to this problem.A Protected Branch is a branch with limited write access. Specify members (or groups) of your team that will be able to submit code to a branch:
Now, only these people will be able to push to the Master branch. Everyone else will have to contribute code through merge requests. They will be able to push to any other branch in the repo, but not Master.
Protected Branches enable various common techniques - mandatory review from a senior developer, release manager that maintains release branches, feature freeze a release candidate. We have no doubt you will find even more use for it.Sometimes you just have to leave that Social Coding aside and get some work done.
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We haven't been blogging for a while, but that does not mean we haven't been busy. As you have seen, one of the things we have been working on is rethinking how code is browsed and how to improve the experience for both developers and other team members.
Dig into your code with the redesigned Code Browser
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Use the controls on the merge request to write comments (you can @mention the contributor), vote, and view changed files and diffs.
Subversion merge requests have a lot of the same great features that are in our git merge requests. For example, they get linked to tickets when you include a #ticket link in your commits. So, when you can see the status of the relevant code changes. And, when you look at a merge request, you can see the tickets you are working on.
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The Fairfax County Board of Supervisors approved Tuesday another massive development in Tysons Corner, moving along the county's long-term plan to turn the area into a walkable, urban downtown center.
The complex will occupy more than 17 acres: about 10 acres between Route 7, Tyco Road and Spring Hill Road, and another seven acres at the corner of Greensboro Drive and Spring Hill Rd.
See map at right.
The proposal is the final piece to a three-part plan by the McLean-based Georgelas Group to transofrm the area around Route 7 and Spring Hill Road.
Georgelas earned the county's first application approval in September 2011 for the first two parts of its plan, which calls for five residential/retail buildings — one of them at 300 feet and the others falling shortly below it — around the Tysons West station.
The third and final piece approved this week, "Part C," will include seven high rises — including at least two office buildings, at least three multi-family apartment buildings and a hotel with ground floor retail — at Tyco Road. About 2,000 residential units are expected.
Another part of the development at Greensboro Drive will include an office building, two new residential buildings and the integration of two existing residential buildings.
All of the buildings will be within a three to six-minute walk to transit that will take residents directly to the Spring Hill Metro station, which will be within a quarter of a mile of the development, officials said.
"We have embarked on a complete remake of Tysons," said Aaron Georgelas, a managing partner at The Georgelas Group. "It has taken a tremendous amount of courage from everyone involved to get us to where we are today."
In all, the three parts of the plan will make up 3.8 million square feet of a planned 7.6 million square feet of office, residential, retail and hotel space across three different neighborhoods.
See past reporting on an overview of Parts A and B and a
According to the county, the Spring Hill Station development will have green buildings and parks. Approximately 20 percent of the units will be affordable workforce housing
"When we adopted the Tysons Plan, we knew that there was going to be a different kind of relationship between the county and landowners in order to achieve the redevelopment," Board of Supervisors Chairman Sharon Bulova said. "I think this is a real demonstration of that kind of collaboration."
Tuesday's approval is the third significant development project to pass the Board since September 2012.
On Sept. 26, Supervisors approved Capital One Financial's 4.4 million square-foot headquarters expansion, and on Nov. 20, they passed CityLine Partners' Arbor Row, about 2.6 million square feet of mixed use development.


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Political theory and strategy that works for American humans
Our zombie obsession: explained?
Floridians and readers of news everywhere are transfixed by the fact that a naked man had to be shot to death on Miami's MacArthur Causeway after officers found him eating the face off of another man. It's an invitation to publish something so far outside the realm of standard 'sensationalism' that we may as well call it fantasy journalism:
some have likened the attack to one by a zombie. Details of the unthinkable attack included police reporting that when they ordered the cannibal to stop, he looked up with blood on his face and growled at officers.
Monsters in our midst! Our darkest visions come to life! The world is slipping out of control! Our very humanity is disintegrating before our very eyes!
The president of the Miami Fraternal Order of Police, Armando Aguilar believes the entire incident is the fault of a new drug trend that has led to similar incidents. Emergency room doctors at Jackson Memorial Hospital said they too have seen a major increase in cases linked to the street drug called "bath salts" or the new LSD.
Ah. Sorry about that. Street drugs! They're back! Like the PCP that turned Rodney King into a cop-killing monster! No normal human being would degenerate like this into some kind of bloodthirsty were-hyena. The drugs made him do it. And they're increasing.
"We noticed an increase probably after Ultra Fest," said emergency room Dr. Paul Adams, at Jackson Memorial Hospital.
Parties! Festivals with superlatives in their names! The true menace, uncovered!
Like a hellish version of the DirectTV commercials that warn you not to buy cable because you'll wake up in a ditch, the news media and our criminal justice system work together, wittingly or not, to craft a fantasy narrative about the sources of crazy chaos — the things that encourage public opinion to predicate itself on a sense of generalized dread and unmasterable fate.
First, they breathe a damp air of fantasy onto the news: one person's 'freakout' becomes an incipient trend — the promise of an already-developing, newly unthinkable reality. (This is the first of how many nude, snarling men, scrambling into the streets to gnaw each others' mouths off?) Then, they pivot to strike a pose of objectivity. They strike such a stark and abrupt contrast with the lurid panting that preceded it that it takes on the feeling of fact. The grim search for an explanation — there must be an explanation — swiftly leads, with apparent inevitability, to long-suspected culprits such as mysterious drugs and large parties. We'd better empower the authorities to crack down on these otherwise uncontrollable things. Otherwise, we might be next out there on the streets, getting our lattes spilled and our temporomandibular ligaments ripped out by a naked, inhuman freak. Otherwise, it's just a matter of time before that's us…or our children.
But wait. There's something buried down there in the paranoia and power-worship. Is it…
The suspected cannibal has been identified by the Miami-Dade County Medical Examiner's officer as 31-year-old Rudy Eugene. Eugene may have been homeless at the time of the attack…
…the truth? Inside the quasi-undead were-hyena is a…31-year-old homeless human being named Rudy? Maybe his possible homelessness is a potential fact worth following up on. Maybe the details of his journey from a baby boy to a child to a teenager to a man to a monster are worth uncovering and sharing with the reading public. Maybe the purpose of such a humane investigation isn't anything so shallow or easily politicized as 'compassion' or 'empathy', but the reinforcement of a simple but sobering statement of tradeoffs. It's as easy as can be to crack down on monsters — ban whatever places and things they associate with, throw them in jail forever, or simply destroy them like mad dogs or injured horses. What's difficult is dealing with the reality of how many monsters we're producing — and not from scratch, either. We make monsters out of people.
And if you don't like assigning responsibility that generally, let's say that we allow monsters to be made out of people. Human beings. Just like the rest of us. Their personal responsibility plays a role, of course. Some people are too entranced by darkness or too afraid to accept being merely and fully human. But the politics of personal responsibility is secondary to the simpler question of how many monsters we can accept walking, shuffling, snarling, hurting, feasting, and killing among us. Fantasy journalism makes it seem like there are more inexplicably crazy people than there are. But there are way more explicably crazy people than we'd like to imagine. Who will turn our monsters back into humans? If the market can help us answer that question, media and law enforcement will really have something to dream about.
You are on to something. This is the formula for "Change".
"Somebody has to Do Something about _____ before the whole world ______ and we have _____ in the streets _____ our children."
Raw milk, vitamins, terrorists, sunlight, wall street, war, CO2, etc….
You can make a monster out of anything these days.. But who are the real monsters?
Writer is too cool to care about zombies. So uncool.
Thank you, dear writer, for not capitalizing on our fears to sell us news.
I guess what I mean to say is, thank you for not being Fox News.
Armando Aguilar, president of the FOP, please get your facts straight. Bath salts ARE NOT LSD nor are they like LSD. They are stimulants.
According to The National Institute on Drug Abuse, "We know, for example, that these products often contain various amphetamine-like chemicals, such as methylenedioxypyrovalerone (MPDV), mephedrone and pyrovalerone."
The web site goes on to explain the dangers of these new and unknown stimulants.
LSD is an entirely different thing. While currently a Schedule I drug it is being using in several psychiatric studies and with great success for various ailments.
Mr. Aguilar, your uninformed scare tactics do nothing but inflame people's prejudices.
And Forbes, seriously? Please investigate the veracity of any statements before posting what is supposed to be news.
Well played AMC! This is the greatest buzz marketing campaign for The Walking Dead yet. http://duckduckgrayduck.com
"We'd better empower the authorities to crack down on these otherwise uncontrollable things. Otherwise, we might be next out there on the streets, getting our lattes spilled and our temporomandibular ligaments ripped out by a naked, inhuman freak. Otherwise, it's just a matter of time before that's us…or our children."
Won't someone think of the children? Clearly this event signals a coming change to all parts of America and likely the world. We obviously need some new knee-jerk reaction based laws to deal with this terrible and ever more increasing in frequency kind of event. I'm getting hungry can can't decide if I should have a burger or the dude I share an office with. Time will tell.
16 yr old Miami boy dates a zombie & lives to write an original song about it!
Demon possession, We must learn to recognize it. Read the old testament-it is real.Jesus commanded us to "Cast out demons". Just look around at what is going on in our society- more and more bizarre occurances . I see the word "zombie" being printed about this face eating man- what is a zombie but a demon. Think about it before you dismiss the idea.
This article seems to be written by one of those people who like to hear themselves talk. Too much pontificating and not enough sense.
Placing blame for the attempted consumption of someone's face on obscure, barely researched designer drugs is a poor accusation at best. If archaic U.S. drug prohibition laws were non-existant, society would be able to choose drugs that are well researched, and make an informed choice before using them.
In reality, prohibition is the norm. This creates a market for enterprising illicit chemists to create new, harmful, and more affordable drugs (designer analogs of drugs) that they can get away with selling legally until the government bans them. These drug laws are harming more people than they are helping.
An example, would be MDA (3,4-Methylenedioxyamphetamine) which was made illegal (schedule 1) in 1970. Since MDA was made illegal, chemists synthesized its analog MDMA (also known as the incredibly popular drug Ecstasy) to bypass the ban on MDA. This was legal until 1977.


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And, of course, that is what all of this is -- all of this: the one song, ever changing, ever reincarnated, that speaks somehow from and to and for that which is ineffable within us and without us, that is both prayer and deliverance, folly and wisdom, that inspires us to dance or smile or simply to go on, senselessly, incomprehensibly, beatifically, in the face of mortality and the truth that our lives are more ill-writ, ill-rhymed and fleeting than any song, except perhaps those songs -- that song, endlesly reincarnated -- born of that truth, be it the moon and June of that truth, or the wordless blue moan, or the rotgut or the elegant poetry of it. That nameless black-hulled ship of Ulysses, that long black train, that Terraplane, that mystery train, that Rocket '88', that Buick 6 -- same journey, same miracle, same end and endlessness."
-- Nick Tosches, Where Dead Voices Gather
-- Nick Tosches, Where Dead Voices Gather
When Legends Gather #712
David Lynch and Vincent Price
This entry was posted by Tom Sutpen
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5 comments :
- WillyC said...
- November 07, 2012 6:13 AM
- Spiracle said...
Is this the only known photo of Lynch wearing a tie?
- November 07, 2012 7:32 AM
- Randolph Hoppe said...
Wikipedia sez Lynch's father's name was Donald. Only checked because I have friends who live in Walton, NY.
- November 07, 2012 7:14 PM
- estiv said...
The blend of middle-American small-town banality and horror movie reference is very Lynchian.
- November 08, 2012 2:36 AM
- Pearce said...
Fake, or at least not the film director David Lynch. Lynch was born in 1946, so when he was 11, it was 1957. Vincent Price was not yet known as a horror movie star - his horror streak did not even start until 1958, and it was only the Corman/Poe movies.
Also, as someone else has pointed out, that it not Lynch's father's name; and I can't find any record of Lynch living somewhere called Walton (although oddly, that was his dad's middle name).
- December 01, 2012 5:50 PM
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After what happened to an Omaha man who lives near the Knolls Golf course, you might think twice about running a friend to the airport.
The victim tells police he was only gone for an hour, enough time to drive to the airport and back, when someone broke into his house in the 10500 block of Sprague Plaza.
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Godsmack announced today that due to continued vocal issues with singer Sully Erna, the band are forced to cancel the remaining dates on their currently scheduled European tour. Erna was examined by throat specialists in the US yesterday and the advice of his doctors has been advised to not sing for the next several weeks to allow time for his vocal chords to heal. The current tour marked the first time the band had toured Europe in nearly nine years, and the band were only able to perform two of their fourteen scheduled dates in Europe.
In an e-mail from Sully, he writes:
"Sorry Europe. Seems like we can't catch a break there lately. London you were one of the best crowds we've played to in a very long time.... Belgium, you were awesome as well. As for the rest of you in Europe that we weren't able to reach, I promise you we'll be back!! For now it's lots of rest and fluids for me until my vocal specialist clears me to sing again. My deepest apologies Europe! You'll see us again. Thanks for your support and understanding."
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Women's Hoops Reaches South Region Final
FORT MYERS, Fla.- In a match-up between the No.1 and No.2 ranked defenses in the country the No. 1 Eagles defense and No.1 national ranking prevailed 50-41 it front of 2359 people in Alico Arena.
In a game where there was not much scoring Valdosta St. got on the board on their opening possession with a lay-up by Khaleh Thomas. Katie Schrader (Sr., Fort Collins, Colo.) then knocked down a couple free throws to tie the game at two. FGCU and Valdosta continued trading baskets until the 12:05 mark of the first half this is when the Lady Blazers scored on another Thomas lay-up to give Valdosta a 7-6 lead. That is where the Eagles would put on another one of their defensive displays as Valdosta St. was held scoreless over the next four and half minutes. FGCU was not able to put that much together themselves and could only build a 9-7 lead. Thomas once again ended the scoreless streak with a free throw to make the score 9-8 before Schrader went on a 6-0 run by her self to give the Eagles a 15-8 lead. The lead was 18-11 at the 4:47 mark in the first half but Valdosta St. would not go away as they ended the half with a 7-2 run to go into the locker room down 20-18.
Schrader, Alex Nelson (Sr., Edinburgh, Scotland), and Delia De la Torre were the only Eagles to score in the first half. Schrader finished the half with 13, Nelson chipped in with 5 and De La Torre had two. FGCU shot 32% from the field and only 16% from behind the arc. Nina Risto was the Lady Blazers leading off the bench with seven.
Valdosta St. started the second half on a 7-2 run to build a 25-22 lead. Amanda Pierce (Jr., Altoona, PA) hit two free throws and Steffi Sorensen (Fr., Jacksonville, Fla.) hit one of her two threes to give the Eagles the lead back at 27-25. Over the next three minutes both teams traded baskets and the score was 28-27 FGCU at the 13:11 mark. The Eagles then went on a 6-0 run ending with another Sorensen three ball and the Eagles looked like they might pull away. The Lady Blazers would not go down without a fight though as they cut the lead once again to four at 34-30 with 7:26 left in the game. Sorensen then hit a jumper and made a foul shot while Ashley Haegele (Jr.,Imperial, Mo.) made one out of two from the line to give the Eagles another eight point lead 38-30. Valdosta St. still would not go away as they closed to with in 42-39 with 1:45 left in the game. On the Eagles next possession Sorensen turned the ball over with just one second on the shot clock but when Valdosta was bringing the ball up the court Leschelle Matthews was called for a traveling violation to give the ball back to the Eagles with one minute to go. The Eagles would convert on the turnover as Nelson drove down the lane got fouled and put it in the hoop to give the Eagles a 44-39 lead with 38 seconds left. Nelson knocked down the free throw to put the game away.
FGCU was led by Schrader's 17 and Nelson's 16 as the seniors did not want this to be their last game at FGCU. After going scoreless in the first half, Sorensen finished the game with 11 points and a team high six rebounds. The Eagles shot just 36% from the field for the game but held Valdosta to 34%. The Eagles were only 3-of-10 from behind the arc.
Valdosta St. was led by Khaleh Thomas's 16 the only Lady Blazer in double figures. Valdosta was forced into 18 turnovers and shot just 15% from three point range as they finished 2-of-13.
The Eagles will face #4 Delta St. in the South Region championship Monday night at 7:00 PM at Alico Arena. The winner will go to the NCAA Elite Eight Tournament in Kearney, NE starting March 21.


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By Wally Kennedy
Globe Staff Writer
PIERCE CITY, Mo. —
Editor's note: In the days leading up to May 4, 2003, weather forecasters knew that conditions were ripe for the development of a powerful tornado. What they did not see coming were three of them.
Three long-lived, powerful tornadoes hit Southeast Kansas and Southwest Missouri, killing 19 people and injuring 143.
An F-3 tornado touched down in Cherokee County, Kan., before moving through the community of Smithfield and then into Carl Junction. It killed one person in Cherokee County, two others near the state line and a couple just west of Carl Junction. More than 30 percent of the homes and buildings in Carl Junction were damaged or destroyed.
A second tornado that hit Pierce City was rated an F-3. It remained on the ground to the edge of Springfield. One person was killed in Pierce City, and six others were killed before that storm played out.
Yet another tornado hit the unincorporated Crawford County, Kan., community of Franklin. The F-4 destroyed about one-third of Franklin's 200 households. One resident was killed. The tornado lifted briefly before touching back down in rural Barton County, and it stayed on the ground through Stockton. In all, that tornado claimed seven lives.
With the passage of a decade, the communities have rebuilt and moved forward, but the recovery continues.
That night also marked the beginning of a new era of severe storms for the region.
Before May 4, 2003, Pierce City and its Victorian business district did not change much day to day. That's one reason people say they liked to live here. The town had what it needed to support its nearly 1,400 residents.
But at 6:45 p.m. that fateful Sunday, Pierce City was changed forever by a powerful F-3 tornado that claimed one life, destroyed 81 houses and left the historic downtown in shambles. All but a handful of the town's 45 businesses downtown were destroyed, which meant Pierce City also lost much of its tax base. Virtually all of the essential businesses needed to support residents were blown away, including the grocery store, drugstore and hardware store.
Afterward, Pierce City set about reinventing itself.
Though it lost much of its historic character that night, it is much better organized than it was before the storm, some say.
But one thing has stayed the same: Pierce City does not change much from day to day even now.
"You know, Pierce City has always been that way,'' said Jim Moore, a Pierce City architect who helped the town recreate itself into a more livable place after the tornado.
"It does not change from year to year. It stays about the same. Because of the tornado, it really improved a lot of the aspects of the town,'' he said. "We have a really nice supermarket now. It's twice as big as the old one. We have a new library, a new drug store and a new senior citizens place.''
The town's population fell from 1,385 in 2000 to 1,292 in 2010, a 6.7 percent decline. But, Moore said: "The town has had a population of 1,200 to 1,300 people for as long as I can remember.''
After it recovered from the tornado, it went back to the town it was before — a place where change doesn't happen that much.
"There's nothing — no big industry here — to spark it to do anything great,'' Moore said. "It just plugs away. People live here and work somewhere else, and it's a nice place to raise your kids.''
Stores rebuilt
The tornado destroyed the town's hardware store that was operated by the late Gene Kluck for 65 years.
Mark Chapman, Kluck's grandson, said, "Friendly Supply was built back within a year or so by my grandfather, who was 80 years old. People questioned him building back at his age. He said it was important to him. He felt like the town needed it, and it did.
"It was really good for several years post tornado. We had a lot of economic activity with regard to rebuilding. But the downturn in the economy caused things to slow down here. It leveled off, but it's on an uptick now.''
Chapman said spring is the beginning of the construction season, but his favorite time of year carries a new attachment now.
"I now know how violent storms in the spring can be,'' he said.
Doug Thompson, owner of Thompson Family Drug, said, "The newer stores seem to be doing pretty good. Our business is still good, but we will always have the normal woes of a small town. One of them is people being enticed to leave town to spend their money. We would rather they do that here.
"After the tornado, we were out of business for most of a year. The people here found they needed a local business community so they wouldn't have to drive miles to get what they needed,'' he said.
Pierce City's business district took a major hit with the closing of Freda Mae's, a popular eatery on Commercial Street that gave the town a destination. The property is for sale. But despite that, the town has continued to forge ahead.
Polly McCrillis has opened Bookmarks, a bookstore, at 100 W. Commercial St.
"Pierce City is old-fashioned; it still likes books,'' she said.
McCrillis said people who travel through Pierce City still stop because of what existed there before the tornado — antique stores and galleries. Though only five of those storefronts remain, those that do, such as Wholly Moley Antiques and The Thistle Quilt Shop, are still benefiting from that legacy. She said Pierce City would do better economically if it had more antique stores and a restaurant to replace Freda Mae's.
"We were left with just a little section of what had existed before. But, it's still enough for people to stop,'' she said.
"We're still trading on the old,'' added Norma Bacarisse, with the quilt shop.
McCrillis said the Pierce City area is still home to several artists, who are now participating in the Pierce City Arts Festival. The fifth festival will be held Saturday, May 18, in Pierce City Park.
In addition, a farmer's market has been created for Pierce City. It will be held in a new city park that is being constructed at the southeast corner of Commercial and Ford streets.
Without a Chamber of Commerce or any marketing, the community is getting the word out that "we're still here,'' said McCrillis. "We are a small community of people who care about each other. That is invaluable.''
At Flummerfelt's rebuilt Town & Country grocery store, cashier Carolyn Gildea, 77, recalls how she came to Pierce City with her late husband in 1975 from Arizona. The store where she worked was destroyed by the tornado. Her home was damaged, but she never once entertained the idea of leaving Pierce City.
She was reduced to tears when she visited Joplin after its tornado.
"It was awful. I cried all the while I was there. I knew what everybody was gong through,'' she said. "It broke my heart.''
Those who experienced Pierce City's tornado have been brought closer together because of it.
"There are so many nice people here,'' she said. "They really feel like family. I could not leave that, but I do miss the old town and I do miss the old buildings.
"You know, my grandson came to visit. As we drove through town, I would wave at people. He said: 'Grandma, do you know everybody here?' Why, yes I do.''
Mass planned
Although no official city event is planned, St. Mary's Catholic Church, 200 Front St., will hold a special Mass at 4 p.m. on Saturday to mark the anniversary. The Rev. Peter Morciniec, pastor of the church, said the Mass is open to the public and to anyone from the neighboring cities who helped rebuild.
"We want to celebrate and remember the outpouring of help that we received from all over Missouri," Morciniec said. "That's why we are inviting them back to see how their work paid off."


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State had 12% fewer home sales from 2000-12March 18th, 2013, 3:41 am by By JEFF COLLINS
Californians sold 12 percent fewer homes than previously reported over the past dozen years, and 16 percent fewer in 2012, the state Realtors association has reported.
Just under 6 million single-family homes changed hands in the state from 2000 through 2012, the California Association of Realtors reported. That's down from 6.8 million sales previously reported in that time.
In 2012, sales were revised down to 440,690 from the previously reported total of 525,120.
The revisions resulted from a periodic review of sales data based on updated U.S. Census figures, the Realtor group said. The results are similar to a home sales "rebenchmarking" that the National Association of Realtors performed in recent years.
California's last rebenchmarking was performed in 1999, the association said.Read the rest of this entry »


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Frank Miniter, Contributor
I expose the excesses of the bureaucracy.
Looking north across the border, American gun owners may well see the fall of Canada's long-gun registry with relief. This, after all, lessens the odds that the anti-gun movement will be successful in its attempt to install a gun-owners database in the U.S. However, before American gun owners forget about Canada all over again, there's an incredible story here not being told outside Ottawa political circles that needs to be heard by every American who cherishes their freedom.
The way the press is telling it, the Conservatives finally gained control of the House of Commons and the Senate and then used, as they said they would, their majorities to begin the repeal of Canada's long-gun registry. Their first big step, taken on February 15, was the House of Commons vote to kill the long-gun registry. They accomplished this by 159-130. Next up is Canada's Senate, where repeal is inevitable because Conservatives also have a majority there. Finally, it'll make its way to the Governor General of Canada where it will receive Royal Assent and be passed into law. So sometime this spring law-abiding Canadians will no longer have to fill out forms and pay fees in order to keep authorities aware of what's in their gun cabinets.
All that seems to say that the political winds simply shifted and blew over the registry. The problem with that assumption is it isn't quite true.
The true story is actually much more interesting; in fact, it needs to be heard by every American, as the arguments used by the anti-gun groups in Canada are the same ones being promoted in the U.S.
The story begins on an evening in January in 1994 in a little town called Preeceville, Saskatchewan. Garry Breitkreuz (pronounced Bright-Krites) was then a new member of Canada's Parliament. He had been elected in October of 1993. Preeceville has about 1,000 residents. Garry was excited. This would be his first town-hall meeting. The topic was about a new gun-control bill, C-68, brought in by the then Liberal Government. It included the creation of a long-gun registry. "I'll never forget that first meeting," says Garry. "Even though it was 39 degrees below zero outside the place was packed and the people heated."
Now it should be noted that Garry was hardly a gun-rights activist. Not yet anyway. Sure, he grew up in a rural Saskatchewan home and had a .30-30-caliber rifle he used to hunt deer with. "But when it came to the gun issue," says Garry, "I was very naïve."
Naïve indeed. Garry started the meeting off by saying to the crowd that "this long-gun registry seems to make sense. Maybe it'll catch a few criminals…." He barely got started in this manner when his constituents made it clear they didn't agree.
"They challenged me," says Garry, "to do some research to find out if forcing people to register their guns will really save lives."
Garry shut up and listened. Before a few more minutes passed he promised to do some research to find out if requiring people to register their guns really reduces crime.
This is where the story behind this repeal takes a "Mr. Smith Goes to Washington" shift. Garry set out to learn if making citizens register their deer rifles with the police really prevents homicides. "After just a few months of digging into it I did a 180," says Garry, who soon hired a researcher to help. The researcher's name is Dennis Young. Together they started asking the government from the inside how much the gun registry was costing and whether it was really reducing crime. The bureaucracy began stonewalling him, so he started filing "Access to Information" requests (the American equivalent of "Freedom of Information Act" requests). By 2002 he'd filed more than 500 such requests.
He learned that the Canadian government was horribly underestimating the costs of the long-gun registry. In 1995 Canada's Department of Justice told Parliament that the Canadian Firearms Program would cost $119 million to implement and that this cost would be offset by $117 million in fees; however, by 2000 Canada's Department of Justice was already estimating that the long-gun registry would cost over $1 billion.
Meanwhile, the gun-owners database wasn't reducing crime rates. In fact, John Lott, author of More Guns, Less Crime, looked into Canada's long-gun registry recently and couldn't unearth one murder the registry solved. Lott says, "The Royal Canadian Mounted Police and the Chiefs of Police have not yet provided a single example in which tracing was of more than peripheral importance in solving a case."
The reality of gun control in Canada is really a lot simpler. Gun registration has always been a red herring, and continues to be. The real problem is gun licensing, and that just gets worse, from year to year, regardless of the governments, provincial or federal, in power.
The sad reality Mr. Breitkreuz doggedly refused to address over all these years is that Canadians' access to firearms is controlled entirely arbitrarily, opaquely, and without any recourse to judicial appeal of any sort, by nameless bureaucrats and police officials. That has not changed.
For example, when you apply for a permit to carry a handgun in the field for protection against wild animals, it is not even possible to obtain a description of the circumstances under which such a permit might be issued. One fills out the application forms, which are not even available for download or inspection online (so there's no way to tell whether all candidates are subjected to the same requirements), and no reasons are given for denial of the permit, nor is there any avenue of appeal, judicial or otherwise. No records are published on how many such permits are issued, nor for what stated purposes.
And such "wilderness carry" permits are issued under quite restrictive conditions in my personal experience. The firearm(s) must be transported unloaded,with the permit, in a locked container to and from the "wilderness area" (which is delineated in the permit). The firearm may not be drawn from the holster, let alone fired, except to protect human life (ie. not your dog). It must not be concealed (although an official explanation of the proper non-concealment is lacking), and the permit must present the permit to any peace officer on request. The permit must also be renewed every two years. Aside from having passed the national test for competence in the handling and storage of firearms and having previously obtained a license to possess and acquire restricted firearms, one may be required to do a range-fire examination by a "range officer".
I know of at least one prospector who was killed by a grizzly when his truck broke down and forced him to walk back to camp at dusk unarmed. I'm told on good authority that he always had a fear of bears, and had tried repeatedly to obtain a wilderness carry permit before finally giving up the effort.
Ironically, "full-time prospector" has always been an pursuit eligible for wilderness carry permits, while hunting, even bow-hunting, has always been denied a priori (at least here in British Columbia – each province makes its own secret rules – go figure!). Photography is an acceptable pursuit, mushroom picking apparently is not…
A Canadian policeman can casually confiscate one or all of one's firearms and ammunition and cause the owner the loss of their use for months and even years before recovering them at the cost of thousands of dollars in legal fees while being deprived of the legal right to buy or borrow new ones, WITHOUT SO MUCH AS A CHARGE BEING LAID. It happened to an acquaintance of mine.
When he finally got his rifles and right to hunt back after almost two years he asked about the hundreds of dollars worth of ammunition that was also seized, and was told that the RCMP had no room to store his ammunition, and so it was "destroyed". The architect of this injustice was then posted to the Mounties' national training centre as an instructor.
OTHO, when a Canadian policeman loses his loaded weapon, or leaves it unattended in his vehicle, or even shoots a fellow officer dead during informal, unsupervised "practice", as happened with the Calgary Tactical Squad not so many years ago, etc., there are no legal or career consequences.
None of this has changed.
In fact, the whole gun registry epic has been a game of dumb and dumber between the two "sides" of the debate. Now, the "long gun" registry, which never existed, is "abolished", because Canadians have become persuaded by sober facts and statistics that it achieved absolutely nothing but to waste money and manpower and harass honest people.
The burning question no one wants to answer is "why then isn't the 'short-gun' registry being abolished?", since absolutely no data has been presented to suggest it is any more efficient than the "long-gun" version?
In fact, the abolition of registration of no-restricted firearms (long guns that are "restricted" will continue to require registration and special licences and permits for transport and use) will inevitably cause many Canadian long-gun owners, and policemen, more headaches.
The simple reason is that the classification system of non-restricted, restricted, and prohibited firearms with long barrels is so arbitrary, and the knowledge required to accurately identify a given rifle so rare, that most peace officers will find themselves out of their depth when examining an uncommon long gun in the field. Up to now, when in doubt they had only to consult the registry, and as a final backup, the tiny team of technical experts in the firearms verifiers classification section in Ottawa. Without a registration, the technical experts (last I checked, one man was available to handle inquiries from all of Canada after 3pm MT) will be the only resource. The answer – seize the firearm and let someone else sort it out later.
Agreed 100% .. Licensing is the REAL problem..It turns any firearm owner into a criminal because THAT'S what the law says.. the simple possession of a firearm in Canada is a CRIMINAL offense. However, the government will sell you a license. A license is a piece of paper that protects you from being charged with a criminal offense. So, under the Liberal Firearms Act, you are a criminal FIRST, then still a criminal, with permission to posses the item that defines you under the criminal code of Canada as a Criminal. The previous FAC system made no one a criminal for the simple possession of a legally obtained firearm. And THAT is what we must go back to.. The government HAS to decriminalize the peaceful possession of legally obtained firearms. Licensing under the criminal code only puts MORE guns on the street. Millions of Canadian firearm owners have simply said no to licensing themselves in order to posses their own previously legally obtained property. Someone not having a firearms license, that has a firearm stolen, will likely just suck up the loss and not incriminate him or herself by reporting the theft. As long as the simple possession of a otherwise legally obtained firearm is a crime. Don't expect people to turn themselves in by reporting the theft. Why would they want to open themselves up to financially crippling court costs, job loss, and prison? Under these conditions, for most it's a no brainer. they would just shut up, suck up the loss, and go on with their life.. Under the old FAC system (that made no legal owner a criminal) which worked much better, stolen firearms would be reported immediately, be recorded in the CPIC system, and be in effect registered as stolen. The owner could then collect his insurance for the loss, and the police would know it was 'out there'. The current system promotes crime by criminalizing the theft victim. The Sooner the CPC realizes this, the sooner we can get back to the VERY effective FAC system that used to exist, and the sooner sanity will prevail in the case of firearms owned by target shooters, hunters, and collectors. I any American want's to find out just how dysfunctional our firearms and self defense laws are, Google Ian Thompson +Welland .. As a Canadian Citizen, you are a Politically Groomed Victim, living in a Culture of Defenselessness.. Don't forget to thank a Liberal for this at the next election!
If you don't fight for your rights NOW, you may not have the right to fight for them later!
The end of the long gun registry is a very major first step. Many lawful owners and supporters put a lot of time and effort into helping to make its' demise happen.
If the handgun owners, and supporters (I would support the idea as well although I personally have no need of or desire to own a handgun) were to put out a similar effort, I'm sure that its' days would be numbered as well.
Dear Mr. Miniter: Thanks the credit you give Mr. Breitkreuz and myself in your article for our role in getting rid of the long-gun registry. We could only achieve what we did with the support of millions of law-abiding gun owners.
The 1,200 people at the Preeceville meeting were trying to get rid of the previous Progressive Conservative government's Bill C-17 rammed through Parliament by Kim Campbell. Here's the link to Garry's news release concerning the meeting in Preeceville, Sask.
There is much, much more work to do to get rid of all the costly, useless gun control laws in Canada.
Dennis R. Young, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
It took us many years here in Canada to get rid of this very expensive and useless piece of political correctness. If we had put the 2.6 billion into police and social services it could have made a huge difference in decreasing gun crime. What we really need is better social and education services to lead children away from becoming criminals, and better policing to catch people if they do decide to become criminals.
Hello Mr. Miniter,
A great article on the efforts of initially a few brave souls to tackle the mammoth problem of ignorance buttressed by overwhelming numbers and influence. Mr. Breitkreuze did a hell of a service for his constituents and a nation of owners of firearms. Every day our freedoms and rights are imperiled by arrogant, oafish squads of bureaucrats imposing ever greater taxes and arbitrarily establishing illiberal rules and conduct for the most mundane activities. To fight this suffocating and relentless force is admirable. To hand it a defeat, though a small one, is incredible.
As the fellow commenters above noted, there is still much work to be done. I have a strong and positive feeling that the stifling and rigid laws on self-defence in this country are in for an enlightened re-write. And it may come to pass that those seeking firearms permits, after having completed all the necessary forms and adhering to the endless rules, will actually receive one without having to petition the courts.
Gary Marshall
Saskatchewan, Canada
Gary Mauser and the folks who put a phenomenal effort into fighting for the rights and reputations of the little guy are to be congratulated and thanked for putting parliament back on a footing where politicians work for their constituents rather than the other way around. I used to be a strong Liberal supporter but watching the lying, fumbling, stealing actions of that party made me sick to death. I took a chance and voted Conservative and am so glad I did. We finally have a party in power that does what they say they're going to do and do it at the start of their mandate to clear the way for new issues that arise rather than dole them out one promise (if kept at all) at a time leaving the biggest until just before the next election.
"The interesting thing about staring down a gun barrel is how small the hole is where the bullet comes out, yet what a big difference it would make in your social schedule." ~P.J. O'Rourke, Holidays from Hell, 1989
Since the majority of Canadians actually are favour gun control, this lionizing of a man who has cynically exploited the political process to ensure the ka-ching continues for this $6 billion dollar industry is amazing!
About 80 per cent of Canada's nine million guns are owned by men, so perhaps by definition, gun control can be seen as a "woman's issue." And repeated polling shows a substantial majority of women support the gun registry, perhaps because we know that guns are often used to harm or intimidate women in the throes of domestic violence. Women around the world are at greatest risk of harm from their intimate partners—"the usual suspects" in such cases. Fully 85 per cent of Canadian women who are murdered are killed by their spouse or partner, and most of those shot dead are killed with legally owned firearms.
Despite pro-gun lobby bluster, this gun violence is not just an urban phenomenon — the rate of women killed with guns is higher in rural areas because rural people own more guns. And murder is just the tip of the domestic violence iceberg—for every woman killed, many more are injured or threatened. And these "domestic violence" incidents appear in the papers almost daily. Several examples from a short period in 2009 (when this article originally appeared):
Smith AB, July 30th: Ian Jeffrey Paget kills estranged wife Joan Hanson, her daughter and granddaughter, and then turns the rifle on himself at her rural home in northern Alberta.
Kitchener ON, August 11th: Nadia Gehl is shot in early February at a bus stop near her home. Months later, police nab 3 suspects: her husband and two of his friends.
Orangeville ON, September 13th: Police investigate a murder-suicide that left a mother of two and her estranged husband dead. Witnesses say 39-year-old Heidi Ferguson, shot in the chest, sought help at a neighbour's. As she lay dying, Ferguson reportedly cried, "I've been shot by my husband … please help me." An avid hunter and gun collector, Hugh Ferguson turned the gun on himself after a standoff with police.
Winnipeg MB, September 17th: Police are called after a 19-year-old woman is allegedly assaulted and threatened with a firearm. The woman flees the house and calls police from another area residence.
Fort St. John BC, September 30th: A northeastern B.C. man is shot and killed by the RCMP after a five-day standoff that began when the 41-year-old farm resident pursued a van carrying his wife, an unspecified number of children and a friend, and shot out the front tires.
Since the gun registry was created, close to 23,000 firearms licenses have been refused or revoked because of safety concerns. We register our cars and our dogs–not to register our guns would be criminal.
No matter what the gun lobby says, gun control works. Consider the following :
· Controls on rifles and shotguns were strengthened in 1991: that year 1441 Canadians were killed with guns. By 2005, the number of such deaths dropped by almost half, to 818.
· The number of women murdered with guns fell from 85 in 1991 to 32 in 2005. But the number of women murdered by weapons other than firearms declined only slightly during the same period of time. Again, the effectiveness of gun control is inescapable.
My son was at Dawson College on September 13, 2006 when Kimveer Gill went on his murderous rampage. I will never understand why Mr. Gill had such easy access to such enormous firepower–the fact that he managed to kill "only" a single young woman was due to the fortuitous coincidental presence of two brave and well-trained police officers. (I say "only" because, of course, for her parents, family and friends, the murder of 18-year-old Anastasia De Sousa is no small loss.) Kimveer Gill didn't need those guns and he shouldn't have had them. Why should his right to feel "big and bad" have trumped Ms. De Sousa's, my son's, or anyone else's safety?
Though our Mr. Breitkreuz and Prime Minister Harper refuse to face it, rifles and shotguns are the firearms used most often to threaten women and children, and the weapons of choice in the murder of police officers. Look, for example, at the 3 Mounties killed in Mayerthorpe, AB. And the only charges levied in that case were against the gun providers, who were traceable because of the gun registry!
Why don't you just look at the numbers:
USA: 270 million guns, ~9,000 gun deaths per year, handgun homicides: ~6,000 (population 300 million)
Canada: 9 million guns, ~170 gun deaths per year, handgun homicides: 94 (population 33 million)
When Mr. Harper talks about law and order one day, and gutting gun control the next, I'm not sure whether to laugh or cry.
Hello Beverly,
The homicide rate in Canada has been in decline since the mid 70′s.
Firearms related deaths have been in decline just as long.
In 2010, handguns accounted for the majority of homicides committed with a firearm (64%), followed by rifles or shotguns (23%), and other firearms such as sawed-off shotguns, automatic firearms or other firearm-like weapons (13%) (Table 5). Much of the decline in firearm-related homicide since the early 1980's can be attributed to a decrease in homicides involving a rifle or shotgun. Despite a small increase in 2010 (from 30 to 36 victims), recent rates of homicide involving a rifle or shotgun are about one-fifth of those seen 30 years ago (Chart 7).
Homicide in Canada is a relatively rare event. In 2010, there were 554 homicides in Canada—representing less than 1% of violent incidents reported to police (Brennan and Dauvergne 2011).
Following a decade of relative stability, homicides decreased substantially in 2010. There were 554 police-reported homicides in 2010, 56 fewer than the year before (Table 1a). The 2010 homicide rate fell to 1.62 per 100,000 population, its lowest level since 1966 (Chart 1).
Over the past 30 years, the most common method used to commit homicide has varied between shootings and stabbings (Chart 6). In 2010, 32% of homicides involved shootings, followed by stabbings (31%) and beatings (22%). The remaining incidents were committed by strangulation or suffocation (8%), or other methods (8%) such as by motor vehicle, fire, poisoning and Shaken Baby Syndrome (Table 3). Although there have been some annual fluctuations, there was a decrease in shootings from 2009 to 2010 (-7%), consistent with a general decline in firearm-related homicides seen over the past three decades.
Over the past three decades there has been a general decline in the rate of intimate partner homicide in Canada (decreasing 32% from 1980 to 2010) (Chart 10). A decline in rates of homicide committed by an intimate partner can be found in most parts of the country, with the largest decreases reported in British Columbia and Ontario.5 Previous research has suggested that a decline in rates of intimate partner homicide can be attributed to many factors, including improvements in women's socioeconomic status and the increased availability of resources for victims of violence (Dawson et al. 2009; Pottie Bunge 2002; Dugan et al. 1999).
In recent years, the number of intimate partner homicides, including spousal homicides, has been relatively stable. In 2010, there were 89 victims of homicide by an intimate partner, one above the number recorded in 2009.
So men do kill women, but women also kill men.
In recent years, the number of intimate partner homicides, including spousal homicides, has been relatively stable. In 2010, there were 89 victims of homicide by an intimate partner, one above the number recorded in 2009.
Men account for about 30% of the victims. Women the rest.
Things have been improving for a long time for women. The gun registry did nothing. It did not stop one murder because if not a gun, then a knife or a car
So save your anti-firearms bluster for the willfully ignorant. According to the stats cited above, the numbers killed by shotgun or rifle, which predominates in the rural areas, is a small fraction of the total, 1/5th of what they were 30 years ago. So stop lying about the great threat this type of firearm poses and all firearms generally.
You can find all the cited information here along with so much more:
I don't think we shall be hearing from you again. Now back to the women studies' propaganda.
Gary Marshall
Sorry, Bev – no matter how much you and you kind screech to the contrary, "Gun Control" is not "Crime Control", it's "Citizen Control". It has always been such.


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Governor proposes drastic measures to get California in the black.
Gov. Schwarzenegger proposes to eliminate a $15.2 billion deficit by selling lottery bonds and cutting billions in state programs.
SAN FRANCISCO—As the sluggish economy continues to bog down state budgets across the country, California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, a longtime foe of one solution—raising taxes—has decided to give voters here a dramatic choice. To close the state's $17 billion budget shortfall, Schwarzenegger proposed yesterday that voters either approve his new plan to borrow $15 billion from Wall Street lenders in exchange for a three-year cut of the state's lottery revenue—or face a 1 percent increase in the state's sales tax. "Our crisis is real and it's very serious," Schwarzenegger said at a press conference announcing the proposal. "We need additional revenues, and we've got to get creative without raising taxes."
California is far from the only state grappling with a looming budget gap, but the size of its shortfall—and, as of yesterday, the governor's proposed remedy—make it a special case. Last month, a report by the National Conference of State Legislatures found at least 22 other states are facing budget gaps next year because of slowing revenue. All of those shortfalls combined add up to just over $15 billion. "California's budget gap is larger than most states' overall budgets," says Corina Eckl, director of fiscal affairs at NC SL.
Even Schwarzenegger, a man who came into office wrapping himself in the mantle of an antitax crusader, seems to be acknowledging that the time has come for drastic measures. Since taking office in 2003, he has never budged from his opposition to raising taxes. His first act as governor was to repeal the state's unpopular "car tax," which had tripled annual vehicle registration fees, a move that saved the average driver a little more than $200 a year. Over the past few months, as the slowing economy has begun to eat into state revenues, Schwarzenegger hasn't budged. In his initial budget proposal in January, he proposed a 10 percent cut across all state agencies, which he said would require closing 48 state parks, releasing early from prison as many as 22,000 nonviolent offenders, and trimming $4 billion from next year's K-12 budget. Political experts described the proposal—which some saw as an attempt to pave the way politically for a tax increase—as a deliberate strategy of shock and awe. "He [wanted] to create as much of an emergency as possible," said Daniel Mitchell, a professor of public policy at UCLA's Andersen School of Management, "He was trying to get people's attention."
It worked. Lobbyists swarmed Sacramento this winter, pleading for reduced cuts. But while the rest of the state has been moving in one direction, the governor yesterday said he wanted to move in another. "When we had our budget deficit in January, I was convinced we could do without additional revenues," Schwarzenegger said yesterday, "When we saw the budget getting worse and worse and worse, I saw we needed some." His new spending plan promises not just to tap into new—albeit borrowed—revenue, but to clean up the budget mess, at least in the short term, in one quick swipe. While Schwarzenegger still intends to reduce spending—his plan includes more than $12 billion in cuts—he has walked away from his plans to close state parks or dramatically reduce prison and education budgets.
His new budget proposal, experts say, amounts to one big swing for the fences. Schwarzenegger plans to ask voters this fall to allow him to securitize the state's roughly $3 billion lottery, keeping California running by borrowing against its future earnings. (The lottery, which the governor calls an "underperforming asset," will have to grow by several billion dollars in the next few years for this plan to work.) Schwarzenegger is willing, apparently, to use the specter of a tax increase to get his way. Should voters reject the lottery proposal, which could appear on the ballot as early as November, the plan includes a "trigger" that would boost the state's sales tax—already among the highest in the country—by 1 percent, so lenders can recoup their investments. A similar solution to the state's budget woes in the 1980s was enacted by Gov. George Deukmejian, but the state's revenues picked back up again before voters ever had to pay the tax. A handful of other states, like Illinois, have proposed privatizing their lotteries in recent years, but none have borrowed against anticipated growth in revenue—a far riskier proposition.


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University Place Christian Church to celebrate
University Place Christian Church will celebrate the Rev. Dr. Thelma Chambers-Young's second anniversary at 3:30 p.m. Sunday.
The Rev. Don Johnson, Central Christian Church Associate Minister will deliver the message and the Holy Temple Baptist Church of Oklahoma City the music.
The church is located at 2107 E. Broadway. All are welcome to attend the celebration.
The Rev. Don Couch to preach
at Evangel Assembly of God Church
The Rev. Don Couch will preach at 10:50 a.m. and 6 p.m. Sunday at Evangel Assembly of God Church, 2717 W. Broadway.
The Rev. Couch has pastored in the Tulsa area for more than 25 years. He has served as presbyter of 70 churches and approximately 300 ministers in the Tulsa area. For 15 years he served as youth director for the Tulsa section overseeing youth ministries.
He also is the founder of Eastland Christian Academy, a school for children and youth with special needs and "Bring Them In," a church for adults with special needs.
Bethel Baptist Church to host concert
Bethel Baptist Church, 901 S. Cleveland, will host John and Nelda Flanagan in concert at 10 and 11 a.m. and 6:30 p.m. Sunday. Everyone is welcome.
Tabor College Choir to sing at
Mennonite Brethren Church
The Tabor College Concert Choir will give a performance at 7 p.m. Sunday at Enid Mennonite Brethren Church, as part of the annual spring tour, which will include eight performances in Kansas, Oklahoma and Texas. The church is located at 2500 N. Van Buren.
Under the direction of Dr. Brad Vogel, professor of choral music, the theme for this year's concert series is "Eternity in our Hearts."


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By Andrew Glover
STILLWATER, Okla. —
Only one of 23 signings by the Oklahoma State University football program on Wednesday was from Oklahoma. Coaches traveled hundreds of miles from Stillwater to recruit players. What made those recruiting trips successful was the use of private planes.
"We have a number of donors and OSU supporters that donate us private planes to allow us get to one city to another," OSU coach Mike Gundy said. "Without everyone pulling in the same direction and the use of planes, it would be difficult to put together a class like this."
The Cowboys signed 17 players from Texas, two from Georgia and one each from Missouri, Kansas and Utah.
Oklahoma State is being more cautious with its personnel flying in private planes after the November 2011 plane crash that killed then-women's basketball coach Kurt Budke and women's assistant coach Miranda Serna. Gundy said the aircraft is thoroughly checked before use.
"There's stipulations and things in place that we go through," Gundy said. "We certainly make sure that we are traveling on planes that are serviced and everything."
The Cowboys signed Darius Curry, the younger brother of freshman wide receiver C.J. Curry, from Flowery Branch, Ga. According to ESPN.com, Darius is a four-star recruit and is ranked 23rd among cornerbacks. He was team captain and MVP.
"He's a big, physical corner who is athletic," cornerbacks coach Jason Jones said. "He has a high football IQ — his dad was his high school defensive coordinator."
Also from Georgia is defensive end Naim Mustafaa from College Park. Mustafaa enrolled early and will participate in spring practice. He is the son of former NFL player Najee Mustafaa, who played for the Minnesota Vikings, Cleveland Browns and the Oakland Raiders in the 1990s. His cousin, Derek Smith, played in the NBA with the Los Angeles Clippers, Sacramento Kings, Philadelphia 76ers and the Boston Celtics. Defensive coordinator Glenn Spencer said Mustafaa is a big-time defensive end who can rush the passer.
"He has a very high motor and is a competitor," Spencer said. "He uses his hands very well. He is a quiet person by nature, but he turns it up when he's on the field."
The farthest recruit from Stillwater was defensive tackle Ofa Hautau, a junior college transfer from Salt Lake City, Utah. This past season at Snow College, Hautau recorded 41 tackles, five sacks and 11 tackles for a loss, earning First-Team All-American from the National Junior College Athletic Association. New defensive line coach Joe Bob Clements said Hautau can play from sideline to sideline.
"You can tell that he plays with a tremendous amount of energy and strength," Clements said. "He's a guy that can be very disruptive for us up front. Our hope is that he comes right in and makes an impact immediately."
Of the 17 Texas recruits, six are from cities more than 500 miles from Stillwater. Rennie Childs will graduate from Cypress Ridge and played running back for the Rams. In his senior season, he rushed for 1,945 yards and scored 19 touchdowns. Gundy said the team was able to sign him after junior running back Joseph Randle declared for the NFL draft.
"We liked (Childs) from the start, but (Corion) Webster committed first," Gundy said. "We're excited about both of them and we think they fit our style of play."
Brandon Garrett from Deer Park, Texas, played at Trinity Valley Community College and was one of five offensive lineman signed. He enrolled early and could push for immediate playing time.
"The big guys are difficult to find," Gundy said. "We wanted to make sure we got those on both sides of the ball."
Tre Flowers from Converse, Texas, was an All-District and All-Area selection with 76 tackles and three interceptions in his senior year. Also from the San Antonio area is safety Jordan Sterns, who was a Class 5A first-team All-State selection at Cibolo Steele that scored five non-offensive touchdowns last season. Vincent Taylor played defensive end at James Madison High School in San Antonio and was a Class 5A first-team All-State and area player of the year.
From the Austin area, Deric Robertson was a top 100 recruit in Texas, forced five fumbles, recovered a fumble and had two interceptions in his senior season. Other out-of-state recruits include Jack Kurzu, a first-team All-State offensive lineman from St. Louis, Mo., and cornerback Jerel Morrow from Emporia, Kan., who was a first-team All-State as a receiver and defensive back.


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The Risk of Incompetent Investigations
A blog by Compliance Week editor, Matt Kelly on the topic of the recent Renault fiasco (as he eloquently puts it), reminded me of an assertion I frequently make in my presentations:
"A poorly performed investigation can cause more damage than the suspected misdeed."
Here are guiding principles I used when I was responsible, as CAE, for performing investigations or for assessing the adequacy of investigations performed by others (such as Human Resources):
There is more. However, these are the main principles.
What would you add to the above? Do you have any stories to share?
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BP Says Gulf Spill Payouts Are 'Inflated'
BP is escalating a media campaign disputing unpaid Gulf spill claims.
BP has begun an aggressive ad campaign to defend its dispute of billions of dollars of compensation in settlement payouts to businesses following its 2010 oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.
Although the oil company has already paid out more than $42 billion in fines, clean-up costs and compensation, it is now fighting many claims that it says are "inflated" or "do not even exist," according to CNN. BP placed full-page ads in the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times and the Washington Post on Wednesday to defend its position.
"Whatever you think about BP, we can all agree that it's wrong for anyone to take money they don't deserve," the ad stated.
[READ: North Dakota Looks to Pioneer Portable Oil Refineries]
On Tuesday, the London-based company also began sending out hundreds of letters to lawyers for many Gulf Coast businesses it believes received excessive payments from the multibillion-dollar settlement, according to the Associated Press.
In the letters, BP warns lawyers for the businesses that it may seek to recover at least some of their clients' shares of the settlement if it is successful in its July 8 court appeal, CNN reported.
"BP reserves whatever rights it may have to pursue any legal method to recover such overpayments," company attorney Daniel Cantor wrote in the letter, according to the AP.
Because the company agreed to a compensation formula and framework in a legal settlement, BP has no control over its payments to the businesses, according to Reuters. The company insists that the formula is being misinterpreted, but the court-appointed claims administrator disagrees and its process has been upheld by the New Orleans federal court that is dealing with a host of legal issues surrounding the 2010 disaster.
BP's ad claims that the ruling "interprets the settlement in a way no one intended" and results in settlement payouts to businesses that didn't suffer any spill-related losses.
[ALSO: Oil-Eating Bacteria Mitigated Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill]
"Even though we're appealing the misinterpretation of the agreement, we want you to know that the litigation over this issue has not in any way changed our commitment to the Gulf," it says, according to the AP.
BP spokesman Geoff Morrell said the newspaper ad is consistent with the company's efforts to keep the public informed of its economic and environmental restoration efforts.
"It explains the actions we are taking to defend the contract we agreed to and to assure the integrity of the claims process," he said in a statement. "But it is also intended to make clear that BP remains as committed today as it was 3 years ago to doing the right thing. While we are actively litigating the payments by the claims program for inflated and even fictitious losses, we remain fully committed to paying legitimate claims due to the accident."
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The Macon City Council held its monthly meeting in the City Council Chambers on Tuesday evening. There was no old business, so the council jumped right into new business.
The Macon Municipal Utilities received a grant from the Missouri Intergovernmental Risk Management Association (MIRMA) for their participation in the associations risk management awards program. The city was reimbursed $679.80 for purchasing fall protection equipment for its bucket trucks. This equipment will help prevent serious injuries and fatalities.
In addition to this, two ordinances were approved. First, the FAA was concerned about the gas mains located west of the north turnaround at the Macon Fower Memorial Airport. The ordinance amends the removal and relocation of these mains. The second ordinance approved the Enhanced 911 Board.
During the Administrator's report City Clerk, Vicky McLeland, discussed the utilities audit process that took place Tuesday. "Everything went well," said McLeland. "We scored in the high 90s—Can't get better than that!"
Mayor Dale Bagley expressed his excitement for 2013. "Lots of things are going on in Macon for 2013 that we can all be really proud of," said Bagley. "It will be a great improvement to our community."
Projects for 2013 include the expansion of Macon Fower Memorial Airport, the Maffrey Street Improvement project and the Roundhouse project.
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While Lower Providence Patch hasn't quite made it to a year (we launched at the end of July), there have been some popular stories published on the site.
Below is a countdown to the top five most popular stories of 2012 including links to the headline, sub-head and publish date:
5. Recent Lower Providence Health Inspection Reports - Find your favorite spots and see how they fared with their health department inspections (Published Nov. 8).
4. - The toddler is believed to have been abducted from her family's King of Prussia apartment on Monday (Published Oct. 25).
3. Methacton Teacher Arrested for Alleged Illicit Relationship with a Student - Sean Michael McCullough is accused of having sexual relationship with one of his female students at Methacton High School (Published Aug. 16).
2. One Dead at Audubon Water Tower - Second worker taken to Paoli Hospital after three-hour rescue (Published Dec. 5).
1. Saanvi Venna's Body Found - The 10-month-old had been missing since Monday. A family friend has been charged in the murders of the child and her grandmother, who reportedly attacked the would-be kidnapper as he tried to take her granddaughter (Published Oct. 26).
And, here are some big stories just for Lower Providence or some of my personal favorites, linked out in no particular order:
- YMCA at The Club at Shannondell Proposed - Many residents spoke in favor of having a new state-of-the-art YMCA, just not in Audubon's The Club at Shannondell (Published July 27).
- Methacton School Board Discusses MHS Field Improvements Update - Methacton School District superintendent Dr. Timothy Quinn presented a document containing conditional field use as drafted by the district and neighboring Worcester residents (Published Oct. 17).
- LowPro Sewer Authority Responds to Rising Rates and Interceptor Dispute - The Lower Providence Sewer Authority discussed the expected LPVRSA rate increase and recent accusations by neighboring municipalities over the Township's opposition to a proposed Middle Interceptor. (Published Oct. 12)
- Big Plans in Store for Ridge Pike West Revitalization - The Lower Providence Planning Commission sets a vision for a corridor of Ridge Pike that may lead to the creation of 'Evansburg West'. (Published July 26)
- Viewfinder: Last Snow Day of 2012 - Many families in and out of the township gathered to have some wintry fun at Eagleville Park on Dec. 30 (Published Dec. 31).
- Worcester Elementary Holds First Cancer Awareness Day - The event included teacher donations to Locks of Love and a school-wide donation to Alex's Lemonade stand. (Published Oct. 22).


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Vow to fight windfarm plan for Bullington Cross
7:00am Wednesday 16th January 2013 in Environment By Rachel Masker
John Paterson, Peter Hutchinson, Nicola Graham with her children Arlo and Gabriel and Douglas Paterson, at the proposed wind turbine site near Bullington Cross.
CAMPAIGNERS are gearing up to fight proposals for a controversial wind farm north of Winchester.
Keep Hampshire Green is opposing plans for 14 wind turbines up to 126 metres tall from "scarring the landscape" at Bullington Cross.
EDF Energy Renewables is poised to submit planning applications to Winchester, Test Valley and Basingstoke councils as the proposed site crosses three district council boundaries.
At a meeting in Victoria Hall in Sutton Scotney, Douglas Paterson, chairman of Keep Hampshire Green, said: "People think of Bullington Cross as a dual carriageway and traffic junction with a scrapyard on it but that is not the case."
The dairy farmer showed photos of rolling chalk downland which he said had remained unchanged since novelist Jane Austen walked from Steventon to Hurstbourne Prior.
There were gasps as he showed a slide of a barrage balloon the protest group is flying at 126 metres high over a field in Wonston to demonstrate the height of the proposed turbines.
Mr Paterson said: "It is five or six times the height of trees on the horizon."
Protesters say the turbines would be visible from as far afield as Winchester, Salisbury and even Southampton as the site is on high ground.
Mr Paterson said letters of objection to district councils should focus on planning issues, including impact on the landscape, nearby homes, ecology, noise, footpaths and bridleways.
EDF Energy claims the wind farm would have a capacity of 28 MW and capable of providing enough clean electricity to meet the average annual consumption of over 13,000 households.
But Mr Paterson said it would produce at best less than one per cent of coal-powered Didcot Power Station which is set to close – and 230 wind farms the size of Bullington would needed to replace it.
Keep Hampshire Green argues the main benefits would be to the developer and the land owner who could reap millions in Government subsidies for wind energy.
They argue public money would be better invested in green alternatives, including tidal energy as is already happening on the Isle of Wight.
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8:24am Wed 16 Jan 13
gazdance says...
What would scar the landscape more; a wind farm or a nuclear power station?
Wind farms are happening. Get used to it. Nimby fools.
8:35am Wed 16 Jan 13
hulla baloo says...
gazdance wrote:Not at all. Nuclear power stations do not require being built on rolling hillsides and being a blot on the landscape, sticking out like a sore thumb. I, and possibly along with many others, have yet to be convinced that wind farms are cost effective, now or in the long term.
Scarring the landscape? Tw*ts.
What would scar the landscape more; a wind farm or a nuclear power station?
Wind farms are happening. Get used to it. Nimby fools.
In the meantime, the tree huggers continue trying to justify their need/belief whilst inflicting these monstrosities on everybody else.
12:11pm Wed 16 Jan 13
Ginger_cyclist says...
2:52pm Wed 16 Jan 13
one in a million says...
2:33pm Mon 28 Jan 13
Ivor Ward says...
Lets see now: EDF are a French Company that produce power from Nuclear reactors in France at 11p a unit and from Nuclear and wind in the UK at 17.5p a unit. Oh dear that isn't so cheery after all. Lets try something else.
EDF claims 28MW from their farm so using their figure the maximum subsidy they can get is the ROC price of £41 per MW x 28MW x 24hrs x 365 days =
£10, 056, 480. TEN MILLION POUNDS which they will take and use to subsidise the French consumers power.
Has that cheered you up yet? No?
But on top of that subsidy EDF will get 5pence per unit. i.e per 1 kw. so that is £50 per MW .This is the payment for electricity produced.
So lets run the calculation again.
£50.x28MWx 24x365= £12,264,000.
Yes TWELVE MILLION POUNDS on top of the TEN MILLION POUNDS in subsidy. So if EDF figures were right they would make £22 million pounds per year from this one wind.factory. This is of course inflation proofed and guaranteed for 25 years. Are you cheering up yet Mr Gazdance? No?
This should do it. Guess who is paying all these subsidies? YOU ARE!!!! on every electricity bill you get. Surely you must be happy now?
Here is a spark of comfort for you. Because wind speeds are so low around Winchester EDF cannot hope to get more than 20% percent of the maximum so you'll only have to contribute your part of £5 million to help keep the electricity bills low in France.
Here's the killer... I have a house in France so I thank you for your contribution to my bills.
At least I am happy. It is such fun being a NIMBY!!!
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If you saw our review of Chimpact a short time ago you maybe under the impression that I blooming love the game. You would be right. An update to the game hit my Z10 today and while this isn't the biggest news of the week the update has brought a couple of nice new features to the awesome game.
These include:
I'm pretty stoked to see the developers integrate Scoreloop. Now all my 'Games' friends can see when I'm playing Chimpact and how well I do at it. If you haven't tried Chimpact yet I urge you to. It is truly stunning.
HedoBum Feb 23, 2013 at 5:43 pm
Got mine updated already. I actually got the game after reading the original article. Great game.
BBPandy Feb 23, 2013 at 6:47 pm
I hope they update the PB version. I would love to have scoreloop on it.
SparkyBC Feb 23, 2013 at 7:47 pm
Playbook probably won't be updated. Like everything else lately there it's all OLD releases. Or flood with garbage app generator apps which are useless.
Wirelezz Feb 24, 2013 at 8:11 am
serious what a useless game . any real apps i dont play games .
Rootbrian Feb 25, 2013 at 8:28 am
Seriously? Don't piss all over these reviews. Get off if you don't like it.
BlueRocks Feb 25, 2013 at 9:15 am
I downloaded Version 184.108.40.206 last week. The picture above shows the game at version 184.108.40.206.
It does not have an update in BlackBerry World as of 9:15 this morning (Canada - EST).
So what is the updated version number?


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corrupted paladin, responsible for murder and havoc across the region, returns to his ancestral home to conduct a necromantic ritual. Adventurers must assault the haunted manor, overcome its guards and hazards, and prevent the blackguard from enslaving the tortured spirits of his ancestors.
An adventure built for use with a set of the Shadowghast Manor Dungeon Tiles set.


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At the size of a CD case, the Apple MC684ZM SuperDrive is the perfect traveling companion for your super slim MacBook Air laptop. Using it's built-in USB cable, it allows you to listen to CDs, watch DVDs, and burn either.
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Tree Wardens are a national force of local tree champions and a key part of The Tree Council's community action programme.
The Tree Council, which launched the Tree Warden Scheme in 1990, co-ordinated it nationally. It works with local authorities, voluntary organisation, parish councils and local partnerships to set up and develop Tree Warden networks - in towns, city and countryside.
Today there are around 8,000 Tree Wardens in over 150 local networks throughout the UK, forming a volunteer force of immense value to the environment.