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Female Priests - trespaser5 - 11-04-2010
Just a quick question, is there any reason beyond the fact that Paul mentions it in the epistles that women cannot be priests. I would suspect that one of the church fathers would have commented on this, I usually find their reasoning pretty sound. I have heard that it is possible in Eastern Orthodox tradition for women to be Deacons or Deaconesses is this possible within the Oriental tradition ?
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- John Charmley - 11-04-2010
Yes, women can be, and some nuns are, deaconesses.
Christ chose men only to be His Apostles. He could have chosen women, He did not. We cannot say why this was, but we have not the power to contradict His example. The Fathers do not even consider the idea that women can be priests; it was unthinkable.
Indeed, until secular society in the West adopted the entirely righteous cause of women's rights, not much was heard of it in the Church. The argument that the Holy Spirit is trying to push us towards women priests would be more convincing were it not cast in the language of late twentieth century feminism.
The Eastern Orthodox and the Catholic Churchs take the same view as we do.
It is, of course, not about equality, it is about obedience. After all, not all men can be priests, and not all priests can be bishops; the Orthodox tradition is that only monks can be bishops, which means no married bishops.
Hope that helps, at least until we get a better answer
In Christ,
- trespaser5 - 14-04-2010
No it's a good answer but it does seem to be that the answer is 'because it's always been like that'. I accept that only monks can be bishops, I can also understand why that is a good idea however I find women to be brilliant speakers and leaders and can't see why it is a bad idea. I suppose it stands out because everything else about orthodox christianity seems to have such a good reason behind it.
- admin - 14-04-2010
I'm about to head out. It's my 21st Wedding Anniversary - do pray for Janet and I.
About this topic. It seems to me that Orthodoxy asks us to look beyond abilities to vocation. There are many people who have become priests and bishops over the centuries because they have great talents in terms of organisational ability, public speaking, leadership etc etc, but they make poor priests because they do not have the spiritual grace which is required.
On the other hand there are priests and bishops who shrink from public attention, do not speak impressively, even stumble over the liturgy, but whose words are filled with light and life, whose prayers being miracles, and who spend their days bearing their flock in intercessory prayer.
For myself I have had to learn that God does not need my skills and abilities, such as they are. Indeed unlike others who may be fooled by my public persona, he knows who I really am. Yet he still chooses to use me - not when I decide to do His work for Him, but when I realise that I can do nothing at all, nor even make a beginning, without receiving everything from Him.
What does this have to do with women priests? Well, it seems to me, and this is not any attempt at a definite answer, just a rough idea where I am thinking at present, that the priesthood is a matter of male vocation, and not female vocation. And that natural ability is not the deciding factor. Indeed most males, even those with great natural skills and abilities, will not be priests, and are not called to this vocation. And there are those who have this vocation and fail to fulfill it, and there are those who have the vocation and fulfill it properly - such as Abba Seraphim and Father Simon in our own community.
Being a priest is not a matter of being a manager, or holding a management position in the Church. Indeed my own Father Michael, who is a good example of a true priest and spiritual father, left all the organising to Subdeacon Michael and I. This is as it should be. There is plenty of scope for natural skills and ability to be used in the Church but these are not the same as the vocation to the priesthood. Indeed the priesthood is a very narrow calling, and one of the chief ends of the particular priesthood is to enable and facilitate the priesthood of all believers.
So I am not sure at all that there is a male priesthood because there always has been. Rather I do think that I tend to think that there is a vocation to the priesthood which is given to a few men, just as their are vocations to other forms of ministry and service, and that these vocations are not the same as skill and ability, and indeed that sometimes skills and abilities stand in the way of finding vocation and calling.
Father Peter
- John Charmley - 14-04-2010
A happy anniversary to both of you and best wishes
I think we have to distinguish between the talents we all have in one way and another, and the priesthood.
Priests do precisely one thing the rest of us cannot. In theory there is no reason why women cannot have the same call as some men have; indeed, the best of the Anglican arguments is based on just that view. If the argument were purely about vocation, then women priests would follow naturally from it.
Yet, for those of us who take the view that Christ founded a Church and set up those who would hold priestly office, the fact He chose men for this role when He could just as easily have chosen men and women, remains the key point.
Women, like men who cannot be priests or who have no call to be, can perform many tasks, and if we think that the unique function of the priest is the only task worth doing, we miss the point of being parts of the body of Christ.
In Him,
- admin - 15-04-2010
Hi John
I am not sure I agree that women, or most men, have a vocation to the priesthood in the sense I mean. I think I have used words ambiguously. I do not mean, for instance, that they have an interest in being a priest, or think that they wish to serve God in the Church in some way, or have reflected seriously on their skills and abilities and see a fit with the priesthood.
I suppose I mean by vocation something other than a personal desire to do something. It seems to me that within Orthodoxy the vocation to the priesthood and episcopate is something which one rather shrinks from. It is more like the experience of Moses, or Jonah even. It is not, as far as I can see, a subjective desire to become a priest, rather it is almost an unwanted necessity to follow that path.
My rambling and incoherent thoughts seem to lead me to be thinking at present:
i. Some men are ordained to the priesthood inappropriately because they either do not have a vocation (by which I mean a direct call and insistent call of God), or worse because they desire the priesthood for even laudable reasons but not because they have been called to it.
ii. All those men who are ordained to the priesthood as a result of a true calling of God must still grow in the grace of the priesthood, and it is all of grace and nothing at all of human skill and ability. God could and can use anyone to organise and manage the affairs of the congregation - that is a diaconal calling (which also requires a true vocation) - organising and managing is not what the priesthood is about.
iii. Those women who believe they have a vocation to the priesthood are mistaken. Some/many do think it is a matter of organising and leadership and that they are being excluded from organising and managing. But there are men who share the same view. They are also mistaken. It seems to be the same argument for women bishops, that it is not fair otherwise. But a bishop should not be an organiser or senior manager either. It is relatively easy to find people with skills to organise something, it is much harder to find the man who will shepherd and father the spiritual flock of Christ. To INSIST that we have a vocation seems to me to show that we do not have a vocation.
iv. The difference in true vocation is found in Genesis, not in the Gospels. 'Male and female he created them', seems to me to be a very important passage. What does THAT mean. Does it only mean that there are physical gender differences? Growing up in a family with boys and girls, and being married to a wife, and having worked with men and women, I would not want to say that the differences are only to do with gender physiology. Men and women ARE different.
v. If men and women ARE different then it is still proper to ask what roles and responsibilities are open to members of either sex. It is proper for the clergy to be reflective about the experience of life in the Church, and especially in OUR Church for women. It is proper for women to be involved in the organisation and management of the Church. But, I am growing committed to the view that the priesthood is a minority male vocation - because maleness is not the same as femaleness. And just as a man who is not a priest must not sit in Church saying 'I could do that better', so a woman must not. Indeed I know from my own experience that any sense of being passed over or left out is a temptation, and is self-pity. In fact none of us deserve to be used by God for anything at all. We are all sinful, weak, passion-dominated and deserving of judgement. Therefore, it seems to me, from my own experience, that when I think I should be doing something rather than someone else, I am most clearly manifesting why I should not be doing it at all.
This isn't coherent, but I am trying to express the view that we do not only have male priests because Christ only chose male Apostles, but because there is an ontological distinction between male and female, and the priesthood is a ministry which God reserves to a few males. Just as when Adam and Eve fell there were different judgements upon both. There is a distinction in being and not only in bodily form.
That is, in a rambling manner, where my own thoughts are at present.
Father Peter
- Fr Gregory - 15-04-2010
I seem to be type-cast as an agent provocateur so let me continue in that role on this topic.
I have never read or heard a sound theological argument as to why women cannot be ordained to the Priesthood. I have heard pseudo-scriptural arguments, quasi-biological arguments, arguments from Tradition, arguments based in culture, hysterically misogynist arguments....never a serious argument founded in Orthodox theology.
I accept the Tradition of the Orthodox Church that women cannot be ordained, but I would very much like to see a sound theological argument in support of that Tradition. This would be very useful when talking with exceptionally well-educated Orthodox (not to mention Roman Catholic and Anglican) women.
The argument from Genesis is truly embarrassing. It was used in the 19th century to oppose pain relief in childbirth (not to mention to support slavery and racism towards those condemned to be ?hewers of wood and drawers of water?).
There is a potent and (to me, at least) offensive misogyny in much of Orthodoxy ? no less than that found in the lunatic extremes of fundamentalist Protestantism, the dubious fringes of Anglo-Catholicism or the rabid clericalism of Roman Catholicism.
That something is ?Traditional? may or not mean it is right. Slavery was traditional, and, indeed, is entirely justifiable from Scripture. My local schismatic Greek Orthodox Church proves (?) its traditionalist credentials by refusing to allow electric light, since that was not (obviously!) traditional.
I would welcome comments!
Fr Gregory
- admin - 15-04-2010
Dear Father Gregory,
I am not sure why using the argument from Genesis would be embarassing. Surely we are made male and female, and surely the differences between the genders are rooted in our creation and not merely in culture.
I never suggested anything about pain in childbirth, but it does seem to me that the Genesis account roots our differences in God's purposes and not in human social constructs. The fact is that women are birth-givers, mothers, and nurturers in their own nature. This is different from the nature and responsibilities of of men. These are God given and God purposed differences.
There may well be men who are bad examples of men, and women who are good examples of men. But that does not diminish the differences according to nature of men and women.
A particular woman may be a better priest than a particular man, but that does not mean that women should be priests, or that the bad priest should ever have been made one.
I am not convinced that intelligence, theological ability, or education are any requirement for the priesthood. I am not saying that priests should be stupid, but the priesthood is not about organising or even leading, it is about pastoring and about spiritual fatherhood. Many priests may be poor priests, many priests should perhaps not have been ordained, but that does not seem to me to require that we compare people based on natural abilities.
I have lived with a woman for 21 years, observed my mother before that, and have spent the last 19 years with boy and girl children. It is my experience that there is a difference in nature between them as regards gender. And I find that in the beginning of the Scriptures. I am not sure why using the passage from Genesis is embarrasing? To whom?
In the beginning God made them male and female.
Father Peter
- Fr Gregory - 15-04-2010
Fine. But what does that mean?
God made them male and female - there are (or may be differences). And the theological reason why women cannot be ordained is.......
I note that the traditional "male and female" are different arguments always (surprisingly!) attribute negative and subserviant qualities to women and positive qualities to men. Women are "nurturing", men are "decision makers"? Perhaps that was God's intention. In which case let's declare it.
I do not argue (essentially from psychological and sociological and linguistic research, with all of which I am familiar) that there may not be gender differences.
But there are also differences between men.
What is the theological reason why women cannot be ordained? Or, if we are to be technical, what is it in the ontological nature of women that makes them deficient such they cannot receive Ordination? Let's leave aside the "equal but different" arguments (that had a good run in the argument for slavery). What is the "defect" that enables inadequate, incompetent men to be ordained that prevents competent, holy, highly educated women from being ordained?
Fr Gregory
- John Charmley - 15-04-2010
My reason for resting the argument (such as it is) where I did is that as far as I can see it is the only one in town.
God certainly made them male and female, but there is nothing in Genesis which says that women can't be priests. I used to hear the old Anglo-Catholic line about the priest being in propria persona for Our Lord, which meant the priest had to be a man; I wasn't convinced when I was an Anglo-Catholic, and am not now.
It seems to me that the only defence that is not open to a charge of misogyny is the one I used - Our Lord had no female Apostles. How convincing it is is another matter - but it seems to be the only one - for whatever it is worth.
In Him,
female priests - kirk yacoub - 17-04-2010
Three points: It is tradition, and important to bear in mind, that the priest performing the service becomes an embodiment of Christ. This was brought home powerfully to me during one Liturgy a couple of years ago when the officiating Bishop emerged from a cloud of incense bearing the chalice, reminding me of Christ on that first Easter morning emerging from the gloom of death.
Secondly, pagan religions had their priestesses to perform what are for us sexually immoral acts, and priestesses are always linked with lascivious practices. This is not to say that women Christians would suddenly become transformed into harlots if they were made priests, but such an expectation lies deep in human consciousness.
Thirdly, if ever a woman deserved the highest rank in the Church, then she was Mary, the Virgin Mother of God, but she had no title, remained most definitely in the background, to such an extent that there is very little of her mentioned in the New Testament.
I present these things to be pondered on and not to cause any fierce polemic.
Kirk Yacoub
- Antony-Paul - 17-04-2010
Reading throuth this thread it occurred to me to ask how long have we had the debate within the Church. I cannot recall it being discussed in my youth. Women's religious ministry was well defined within the concept of the nun who emulated Saint Mary. If I am correct this whole can of worms dates from the days of womens liberation when the ladies (often with justification) complained about inequality of (inter alia) opportunity, although this was originally in secular life of course.
The extension of the equality argument into the Church has always seemed to me rather to miss the point. In general life terms there is no question in my mind that there is, or should be, complete equality in social and economic matters, whether we are speaking of women, men, race or even creed. However, the ordained ministry within the Church is not in this bracket at all. It was established by God, for His purposes and according to His rules, not ours. It is simply not up to mankind to try to contradict Him - we do so at our peril.
More helpful would be a deeper appreciation of the nature of ministry for each of us, and his thread has identified examples of this.
Another aspect of ministry would seem to be the concept of temporary, or short-term, vocations. From personal experience, it is clear that God can ask us to do things for a limited time, before moving us on to the next task. Perhaps a simple example might be the change that occurs once we retire and the children have left home. We are free from parental responsibilities and may well be asked to undertake other work for the Kingdom. We are not necessarily restricted to one vocation for life (other than our calling to work for God, of course), and indeed this is also true for ordained ministers. The work of the Bishop represents a change from the work of the Priest, God requiring an alteration when the priest becomes the Bishop. A change occurs when the Priest leaves the parish and becomes the theological intellectual in a college. Similarly, when accepting the Orthodox way after perhaps a lifetime elsewhere is also a change of vocation - God has a new job for the candidate.
How and why God calls women to serve Him is just as much a mystery as how and why He calls men. What He requires us to do is a decision only He can make. There are things that are clearly restricted to ladies, and it seems to me they should (and I am sure they do) rejoice in their especial gifts as women. What a privilege it must be to bring a child into the world for God - something no man could understand.
Ordination is essentially for the purpose of conducting the Sacred Mysteries. All the other jobs we thrust upon our ministers can and should be done by others. Social, administrative and managerial tasks can well be done by women as well as men. They can be theologians, teachers, canon lawyers, in fact anything except ordained ministers.
The decision to use men only for this task is God's, and God's alone, and those who are unhappy with this must reflect on who is in charge of this process. It is not for us to speculate upon His reasons, but to accept in holy humility that that is the way He wants things to be done.
- John Charmley - 17-04-2010
Dear Antony-Paul,
You hit so many nails on the head in your last post that they should all be well embedded.
The argument that the Spirit is guiding us towards womens' ordination would be a great deal more persuasive if the tones were not those of a secular agenda. I agree entirely that importing that language about that sort of equality into the Church is to miss almost as many points as possible.
But it is easy for men to talk this way. One of my female students, an Anglican, was one of the first young women to become a priest in that Church, and she certainly felt a strong sense of being called to serve in that particular way; knowing her well, it was impossible not to be moved by the seriousness with which she approached this; it has been equally impossible not to admire the way she has served in the ministry these last fifteen years or so.
I don't draw any conclusions from that experience, save that it made me think.
Our Lord called only men to be Apostles; I don't know why, nor do I need to know why. All I need to do is to be obedient. But beyond that, I can't see an argument.
There is, of course, the ecumenical angle. The Eastern Orthodox and the RCC hold the same view on the priesthood as we do, so there seems to me to be an onus on those who disagree to explain why a majority of the world's Christians are wrong. Of course the Church is not a democracy, and just because a majority do something that does not mean it is right; but it is another reason to pause before going along with what is, at the moment, essentially a secular argument.
In Christ,
- Antony-Paul - 17-04-2010
Dear John,
I have to agree that, as you say, it is easy for us to make these comments because we are men. I feel quite sad about it. I am very conscious of what marvellous pastors many women have become in the CoE. However, this does not mean that they could not be good pastors without ordination, or without the authority to act as priest during their Communion service. (I distinguish between pastor and priest in this matter.)
But I return to the point that you too have made, that the rules are God's, not ours. No matter how much we may sympathise with women on this issue we are only viewing it from the human male perspective, and must simply trust God to know what He is doing. If there are those who find such an approach sexist, I'm sorry, but I don't feel up to arguing with God!
- John Charmley - 17-04-2010
Dear Antony-Paul,
You put it perfectly.
This is something we do not have the power to change. Of course one knows the counter-arguments, and in fairness they are powerful ones. But they are the arguments of man telling God what He should have done.
It is we who need transforming into the image of God; not the other way around.
In Christ,


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Magavern Magavern Grimm named Lisa D. Primerano special counsel and Darice L. Hickey an associate. Primerano is a graduate of Skidmore College and University at Buffalo School of Law. She is a director of the Women's Bar Association of the State of New York. Hickey, a University of Virginia graduate, received her law degree from the UB School of Law and a master's of law in taxation from New York University School of Law.
Parsons Brinckerhoff appointed Garret Meal supervising engineer in its Buffalo office. Meal was chief engineer for Urban Engineers of New York. He is a University at Rochester graduate.
Synacor Inc. appointed Adam Levin and Alexa Myers content publishers. Levin most recently was an assistant editor and research assistant at the University at Buffalo. He earned his bachelor's degree at Rutgers University and master's degree from UB. Myers previously worked as a sports production intern for WIVB, Channel 4 News Station. She is a Buffalo State College graduate.
Drescher and Malecki, an accounting alternative that services to the unique needs of municipal and not-for-profit entities, appointed Luke R. Malecki a partner at the Cheektowaga firm. With the firm for nearly nine years, he received his bachelor's degree from the University of Bentley and his master's degree from the University of Buffalo.
Crowley Webb, a marketing communications agency in Buffalo, appointed Adina Pera an account coordinator. Pera received a bachelor's degree from Medaille College. Also, the agency named Shannon Toughey an account executive. Toughey previously was a brand manager at The Martin Group. She graduated from Michigan State University.


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Video: Gasp at IRS Hearing Over Destroyed Hard Drive
Internal Revenue Service chief John Koskinen was sharply questioned by a House committee Friday over the loss of email records related to the agency's treatment of politically active conservative groups. In one exchange, there was an audible gasp after Mr. Koskinen said the hard drive of former IRS official Lois Lerner was destroyed after computer experts were unable to retrieve its lost contents. Here is a video clip of the exchange between Mr. Koskinen and Rep. Dave Camp, and the transcript, provided by Federal News Service (www.fednews.com).
(Note: the initial CSPAN embed we used wasn't working properly; we have subbed in a longer clip; the exchange starts around the 4:25 mark.)
REP. CAMP: Your letter describes the Lois Lerner emails as being unrecoverable.
MR. KOSKINEN: Correct.
REP. CAMP: But fails to mention where the damaged hard drive is today. Do you know where the actual hard drive is that crashed in 2011?
MR. KOSKINEN: I'm advised the actual hard drive, after it was determined that it was dysfunctional and that, with experts, no emails could be retrieved, was recycled then destroyed in the normal process.
MR : (Inaudible)!
REP. CAMP: So was it physically destroyed?
MR. KOSKINEN: That's my understanding.
REP. CAMP: So was it melted down, do you know?
MR. KOSKINEN: I have no idea what the recycler does with it. This was three years ago.
REP. CAMP: Does the IRS have a system for tracking items?
MR. KOSKINEN: Tracking what?
REP. CAMP: Items. Does the IRS have a tracking system for items?
MR. KOSKINEN: We track items. We don't track every item that everybody has everywhere, but I'm sure we track some items. We track –
REP. CAMP: Does someone there have a serial number for that hard drive?
MR. KOSKINEN: I do not know whether they do or not. I am just advised that as a normal case, when a hard drive fails, if the email cannot be reconstructed, the hard drive is turned over to recyclers.
REP. CAMP: Well, it seems to me that if it was recycled, the government property would have been tracked.
MR. KOSKINEN: Pardon?
REP. CAMP: It seems to me that if it was recycled, government property would have been tracked, or people could simply walk away with property from the IRS. So I assume there's a tracking system for the disposal of government property.
MR. KOSKINEN: Right, there's a tracking system for computers. My understanding is that Lois Lerner's computer continued to be functioning with a new hard drive. The hard drive fits with inside (sic). I'm not aware whether hard drives have computer — have identifiers.
REP. CAMP: Can we get the serial number of this hard drive and all the other employees that — whose hard drives have been — whose emails have been lost?
MR. KOSKINEN: If they have serial numbers, you're welcome to them.
REP. CAMP: All right. Because I want that hard drive, and I want the hard drive of every computer that crashed during that time frame.


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The re-emergence of a city police team known as the Special Operations Group, dressed in black for effect, and better use of manpower and technology to try to stop a rise in heroin and violent crime are initiatives Mayor Gabriel J. Campana wants to see immediately employed.
In an interview Monday, after Friday's statements by District Attorney Eric R. Linhardt detailing a rise in local heroin use and new initiatives his agency will use to combat the problem, Campana and city Police Chief Gregory A. Foresman defined their crime-fighting goals.
"There has definitely been a rise in heroin use and some incidents, such as shootings and violence, on the increase," Campana said. "Heroin is definitely a big issue," Foresman added.
The mayor has authorized police to re-start a Special Operations Group, a tactical team that operated in the city between 2008 and 2009.
Officers in the unit will wear all black, with the goal of drug interdiction. Saturation patrols by officrs, who may not be in all black clothing, will be done by city polic and Pennsylvania College of Technology police in some neighborhoods, Foresman said.
"It's all about drug interdiction," he said, adding that "the city was (already) looking at many of the initiatives spoken of by the district attorney."
"We always felt the Special Operations Group was a proactive measure and we believe with the recent shootings and a perception of a rise in crime and people who don't feel safe, it will benefit the city," he said.
The participating officers can identify people in the community, through their knowledge of who is on the streets and dealing drugs and hopefully they can make arrests, Foresman said.
The new initiatives will cost additional money the city does not necessary have, according to Campana.
"We're asking the District Attorney's office for some dollars," Campana said, citing every attempt to prevent overtime expenses, but recognizing that it is likely to be needed.
"We're going to stay within the police budget of $7.1 million," Campana promised.
Foresman said the group would be flexible. As for the black clothing and reasons why, Campana said it sends an image.
"Believe me, when the public sees them in black - it will get their attention."
The Special Operations Group is to aggressively patrol the streets of the city, not only its parks, he said.
Campana said his intention is to hire two more police officers using an amended Department of Justice COPS Hiring Grant of $419,000 that was unanimously approved by City Council, and one that council won't have to vote on because it is an amendment. "I was notified last week of our approval," he said.
Foresman said the department was unable to use the $419,000 grant it had acquired two years ago because the complement was not kept up to 52, as required in the original grant.
"We went back to the department to ask for permission to amend it to be able to receive it and keep the complement as is," Foresman said. "The decision returned said the minimal complement can be 49 and the grant would pay for two officers, bringing the complement to 51," Foresman said.
Strings that are attached to the grant are the city must pay for the salaries and benefits of the two officers in the fourth year of the grant, according to Foresman, who estimated that cost to be around $160,000.
Campana said the cost for the grant can be paid for through savings the city will see after he was able to have the police union and the administration renegotiate a police contract.
Specially, he said, the savings will come from any newly hired officers, who must now contribute toward their family's health insurance.


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BASCOM - A Tiffin teenager was flown by Life Flight from the scene of a snowmobile accident in Hopewell Township Thursday.
A Mercy St. Vincent Medical Center spokeswoman said Nathaniel R. Dull, 16, of Tiffin, still was in the emergency room Thursday evening.
He was driving an Arctic Cat snowmobile southbound near SR 635. Deputy Christopher Potter of Seneca County Sheriff's Office said the vehicle crossed TR 132 and struck a deep ditch. Dull and his passenger, Nicole N. Davisson, 17, of Tiffin, were thrown from the snowmobile, he said.
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An exclamation that, when uttered in conjunction with taking an object, immediately transfers ownership from the original owner to the person using the word regardless of previous property rights.
Though I cherished my automobile, I had to purchase a new one when my second cousin came up from behind me and politely exclaimed, "Yoink" while taking my car keys.
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A phrase appearing often in "The Simpsons" televison program used to verbally indicate one has taken something from another and fled.
"Hey, great science project, Lisa. Yoink!"
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the legal way to steal. Only requires that you say the word "Yoink" and then take desired object.
"Hey, that's a nice bottle of rum you've got there... 'YOINK!'"
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Onomatopoeia referencing a common cartoon sound effect played to enhance the action of an object being quickly stolen. The word obtained a more popular use after it's frequent utterance from Homer Simpson, the animated star of Fox's The Simpsons.
Word is spoken to make obvious or humorous the playful theft of an item in front of others.
Word is spoken to make obvious or humorous the playful theft of an item in front of others.
You shouldn't leave your wallet lying around like that...Yoink!
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Said while taking something from someone in front of their face.
Also the sound effect made while stealing
Also the sound effect made while stealing
Man1: Yoink
Man2: Hey, where did my food go?
Man2: Hey, where did my food go?
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Often used in conjunction with gank , the word 'Yoink' confers legitimate ownership of the 'ganked' item to the one who exclaimed 'Yoink!'
"Yoink! I have ganked your french fries!", exclaimed Bill.
"Damnation! They are now yours, regardless of my feelings!", declaimed Fred.
"Damnation! They are now yours, regardless of my feelings!", declaimed Fred.
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Word used in Daffy Duck's rendition of Robin Hood.
When Daffy is about to swing from a vine, he says, "Yoinks, and away!" Subsequently, he crashes into a series of trees as he's swinging and repeating "Yoinks and away" with each crash.
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An 18-hour dance marathon to raise awareness about Alzheimer's disease and funds for the local chapter of the Alzheimer's Association will take place in early March.
The "Step Up and Dance For Alzheimer's" event will begin at 6 p.m. Friday and run until noon the next day in Sinful Nightclub, 334 Delaware Ave. It is the first-ever dance-themed event to raise money for the local organization, planners with the Western New York chapter of the Alzheimer's Association said.
A $20 fee covers registration for the event, which is alcohol-free for all participants. Music, food and beverages will be available, as will games and prizes, organizers said.
To register, see the dance event website at [URL]www.stepupforalz.com;http://www.stepupforalz.com/[URL]. Information is also available on the association's website, [URL]www.alz.org/wny;http://www.alz.org/wny.
/[URL]Registrations must be made in advance by Wednesday.
The phone number for the Western New York chapter of the association is (800) 272-3900.


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Cleys, T., Erickson, L., and Humm, G. (2010) Rehabilitation of the Lents Trunk Sewer in Portland, Oregon
Found in Reporter March 2012
Portland, OR is under a State mandate to control its combined sewage overflow outfalls into the Willamette River.
This project includes; CSO pump station construction, force main and use of the existing 1922 horseshoe-shaped Lents Trunk Sewer (LTS) outfall as pump station storage. In converting the outfall sewer into storage line, an investigation was conducted to look at feasible alternatives.
The investigation found the LTS upper end was in good condition. This 3400 ft. (1.04 km) will receive spot repairs and increased maintenance.
The lower 1000 ft. (0.30 km).portion where internal pressures would be greatest required repairs.
Technologies were evaluated would have to withstand external groundwater and internal pressures from the stored water and to conform to the arched configuration. The repair had to pass through a 37 ft. (11.82 m), 100 ft. (30.5 m) radius bend and be installed without intermediate access. Total length was 4,500 ft. (1.37 km).
Grafenauer, T. and Orton, C. (2010). Pre-Chlorinated Pipe Bursting Project: Largest Ever in North America
Found in Reporter March 2012
The versatility and capability of the static pipe bursting method continues to accelerate thanks due to contractors like Murphy Pipeline, Inc., Jacksonville, Fla., that continue to push the method to achieve better, more effective results. The Livonia, Mich. project demonstrates this point.
Livonia, Michigan's eighth largest city has a population of 100,000 and a water demand of 16 MGD (60,566 m3) for 38,000 users. As with many Detroit area communities, Livonia's infrastructure was constructed in 1940 is deteriorating. The system is mostly cast and ductile iron pipe.
The city needed to replace approximately 23,000 ft. (4.01 km) of its undersized and deteriorated 6 (152.4mm) to 8 in. (203.3 mm) cast and ductile iron water mains and install 4,000 ft. (1.2 km) of new main. This aged and undersized system had a history of breaks.
This was the largest pre-chlorinated static pipe bursting project ever completed in North America.
Lawlor, J., (2010). Starting from Zero- A Case Study in Building a Proper Public Works Facility
Found in Reporter July 2012
Building a proper Public Works Facility requires a sound design and the consensus of the community. A well planned and constructed public works facility enhances the agency's operational effectiveness and projects a positive, professional image to the community. Too many public works agencies occupy facilities that are not designed properly for their intended purpose. Residing in such facilities does not help promote public works as a profession, rather an afterthought. In order to ensure a proper public works facility design, the agency must be properly defined, a complementary project team must be created, the site for the facility must be selected and the concept of this undertaking must be sold to all of the community decision makers. The City of Waterbury, Connecticut has undergone the process to create a public works facility that is properly planned to support the agency's purpose, and properly constructed to further ensure operational functionality.
Marcotte, J. (2011). A paradigm shift towards a cap and trade-based solid waste system.
Found in Reporter September 2011
Under current solid waste disposal practices it is not possible to implement a zero waste reduction. By maintaining the status quo of waste management, vital resources are being consumed and the environment is being managed in an unsustainable way. Policies regulating industrial development encourage the rapid conversion of resources from raw material to product and then to waste.
What is proposed in this paper is to implement a cap and trade on waste production, a system that is similarly based on the cap and trade system on carbon. To set in place a cap and trade program, Congress would enact legislation to establish an economy-wide cap on solid waste, measured in metric tons, and the cap would be tightened over time based on population, efficiencies and the economy of individual states. The Environmental Protection Agency would then auction "waste allowances" that correspond to the level of the waste cap.
Milam, F. (2012). Curbside Recycling in America: Peer-Pressure in Public Works.
Found in Reporter January 2012
Throughout America, pricey curbside recycling programs (CRPs) are now as ubiquitous as the relatively inexpensive bike racks on transit busses and computers in public libraries – a "must have" amenity that competitive communities often use to promote their progressiveness with. This paper provides an overview of the current status of residential recycling initiatives, considers whether these programs are always in the public interest, and discusses the extent that legislation, politics, and costs drive the policies that underscore their implementation. Further, it explores the microeconomic notions of willingness-to-pay and returns-to-scale alongside the important policy development and implementation concept of issue-framing and the related determination of societal factors that may cause people to react to frames in particular ways. Then, the designs of various CRPs are contrasted and program rationality is considered in the contexts of a lack of comprehensive cost-benefit analysis and the presence of pressing global waste management concerns. Lastly, one is left to consider whether CRPs are the obvious environmental imperative they are often regarded as and if unevaluated continuation may be a drain on public works resources.
Selin, R. (2011). Water Leak Billing Adjustment Policy: City of Austin & General Guidelines
Found in Reporter September 2011
The City of Austin has policies that allow for utility account billing adjustments for water leaks. Management is concerned that the current policy is too liberal and generous, undermining the goals of local water conservation efforts and weakening the financial position of the utility. The utility would benefit from implementing common practices utilized by utilities and municipalities across the nation to improve the strength and control of the current City of Austin customer water leak adjustment policy.
There are two main objectives of this paper: to provide information and recommendations that are specifically tailored to the City of Austin, and to create a set of general water leak adjustment policy guidelines/considerations that can be utilized and applied by other municipalities/utilities that are seeking to tweak existing policies or create new policies. In addition, the effects that ineffectively designed policies can have on financial positioning and water conservation will be discussed.
Skolnik, J. (2010). Price Indexing in Transportation Construction Contracts. Jack Faucett Associates for Transportation Research Board of the National Academies and NCHRP 20-07/Task 274 – Research for ASHTO Standing Committee on Highways.
Found in Reporter September 2011
When market prices of cement, steel, asphalt, fuel or other commodities used in transportation infrastructure construction are increasing, state departments of transportation (DOTs) will typically be faced with demands from their contractors that price indexing or cost escalation clauses be incorporated into construction contracts. The objectives of this research were to describe the current state of practice in using price indexing or cost escalation clauses in construction contracts and provide guidance for agency staff making decisions about whether and how such clauses should be used. The research was intended to review primarily the experiences of those DOTs that have used price indexing or cost escalation clauses, but considered also other available data that illustrates the effectiveness or ineffectiveness of these practices. The research study provides agencies with guidance for judging if indexing and escalation clauses are warranted, whether the benefits an agency may gain using such clauses outweigh the costs, and how best to implement indexing.
Zang, Y., Bigham, J., Li, Z., Ragland, D., and Chen, X. (2012). Associations between Road Network Connectivity and Pedestrian-Bicyclist Accidents
Found in Reporter July 2012
It has been extensively accepted that the road network connectivity can positively impact the propensity and duration of non-motorized travel. But its impact on non-motorist traffic safety is still under debate: on one side, well-connected road network could lead more through traffic into the core area of a region so that pedestrians and bicyclists would be more frequently exposed to conflicts with cars; on the other side, it could be safer when vehicle speed is slowed down by dense intersections and drivers are forced to concentrate on surroundings by active walking and bicycling. This debate stimulates the paper to estimate the associations between road network connectivity and pedestrian-bicyclist crashes. Four commonly utilized connectivity measures including block density, intersection density, street density, and mean block length are calculated based on the road networks of 321 census tracts in Alameda County, California. Then the four measures together with other factors like traffic behavior, land use, transportation facility, and demographic feature are employed separately in a spatial statistical model called geographically weighted regression. Conclusions are: first, the decrease of pedestrian-bicyclist accidents is significantly related to higher block density, higher intersection density, higher street density, and shorter mean block length; second, compared with the other three connectivity measures, street density is better for modeling because of its higher stability and stronger explanatory ability; third, employing street network, traffic behavior, and transportation facility data into the same model can produce the best model fitness.


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What does mom have to say?
Following a list of controversial antics during the last few months by her son, Justin Bieber, Pattie Mallette acknowledges the 19-year-old doesn't always do the right thing.
"I'm not naïve to think that my child is perfect and making all the best decisions of his life," the Nowhere But Up author, 38, recently said on Watch What Happens Live.
Bieber's recent controversial acts have included: writing that he hoped Anne Frank would have been a Belieber; collapsing on stage during a concert in London; appearing on stage at a show two hours after his scheduled performance time; and most recently, he was seen on video urinating into a mop bucket and yelling an expletive at a photo of former president Bill Clinton.
"He knows what I disagree with and he knows all the things that I'm really proud of him for, too," Mallete says. "I mean, people don't talk about all the great things he does every day. Every night before a show, he meets with Make-a-Wish kids. He goes to sick kids' hospitals. He visits with them [and] takes his time. He gives back to charities."
But Mallette fails to address anything specific about her son, vaguely telling ET Canada, "I just deal with whatever comes up, I think as you would if your kid was off to college and making decisions. You just … I just talk to him, I call him … and he knows what I think."
Mallette – who shot down Bieber questions by telling the reporter, "No one wants their mom on television talking about their business" – did say that when it comes to his relationship with off-and-on gal pal, Selena Gomez, she's "just [going to] support him in whatever he decides, and I think that he's made good decisions so far on that whole scene."
Justin Bieber's Mom, Pattie Mallette, Weighs in on Her Son's Behavior
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Where to File Your Patent Case
Mark A. Lemley
Stanford Law School
October 27, 2010
Aipla Quarterly Journal, Vol. 38, No. 4, p. 1, Fall 2010
Stanford Public Law Working Paper No. 1597919
Patent lawyers spend a great deal of time figuring out the best districts in which to file patent cases. Based on a comprehensive study of all patent lawsuits over the past ten years, I identify the best – and worst – districts for patent owners along a variety of metrics. The answers will surprise you.
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I am a Communication major and a Business Marketing minor. Aside from my academic pursuits, I am in my fourth season as a first baseman for the Saint Vincent baseball team. When I'm not in class or at practice, I work as a Student Assistant in the Sports Information Department here at the college. My roles include everything from writing game stories for the school's website to serving as the play-by-play broadcaster for the Saint Vincent webcasts. I am also a member of Alpha Lambda Delta and Lambda Pi Eta honor societies.
My favorite thing about the college is the close-knit, supportive community. Everyone from the professors to the staff to the monks wants to see the students succeed in whatever we are pursuing. I love the small class sizes and that our professors know the students by name and develop relationships with us. It's reassuring to know that any problem we may have, be it in or out of class, our teachers will do anything they can to help us succeed, and that has made my college experience that much better.
I have had the privilege of being taught by a number of remarkable professors in my four years at Saint Vincent. If I had to pick one professor who I would consider the most influential, it would be Dr. Aupperle. I had him for Protestant Traditions, and he is a person who has seen a lot of different things in his lifetime and shares his experiences with the class. Dr. Aupperle tells it like it is, to use an old cliché, and the life lessons he shared with the class were just as valuable as the course material itself.
My favorite class would have to be Sports Marketing with Dr. Cline. The class was offered for the first time last fall, and I was very glad I took it. Everything we did was relevant to our sports world today and provided valuable insights into some of the business aspects of sports. I've had Dr. Cline for a few other classes and his teaching style and his extensive background made this class, along with the others, a very enjoyable and informative experience.
As a freshman, things may seem overwhelming at first, especially if you are living on your own for the first time. After the first few days, though, you will be able to settle into a routine and things will be a little bit easier. Also, it is really important to get involved on campus. Whether it is a sport, a club, or a work study position, being involved allows you to meet new people and make a lot of new friends. I really didn't know anyone when I came to college and, through baseball and my other activities, I have a close group of friends who I am excited to have a relationship with long after we graduate. Overall, just enjoy the time you have here. It seems like just yesterday when I moved into Benny freshman year and now I am only a few months away from graduating. These four years were extremely fast but I would not trade them for anything because Saint Vincent has been a fantastic experience. Enjoy It and Have Fun!


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The location of Zermatt at the foot of the Matterhorn and in the middle of an enormous hiking and ski region makes it one of the world's most attractive vacation villages. The ski region encompasses 54 mountain railways and lifts as well as 360 kilometers of pistes. The region called "Matterhorn glacier paradise" is Europe's largest and highest lying summer skiing region. Numerous national ski teams train here in the summer.
The region is legendary amongst mountaineers: the Haute Route, a challenging international route that takes several days to complete, leads from Mont Blanc to Zermatt. Over 400 kilometers of hiking trails lead through and out of the Matter Valley, including the mule traders' trails, which date back to the 13th century (a part of these paths is paved).
Walking, cycling, climbing and high-Alpine tours are popular activities in summer and autumn. Every year, the four-thousand-metre summits attract many Alpinists. 400 km of walking trails also guide guests who are not overly adept at climbing through the mountainscape around Zermatt.
The cog railway operates between Zermatt and the 3089-metre-high Gornergrat. The summit offers up spectacular views of the Matterhorn, the glaciers and the Monte-Rosa massif.
At 3883 metres in altitude, Europe's highest vantage point able to be reached by cableway also offers a fascinating panoramic vista of the Matterhorn (4478 metres) and summits of the Swiss, Italian and French Alps. The glacier palace can be admired 15 metres beneath the ice surface. Six ski lifts as well as a cableway provide access to the Matterhorn Glacier Paradise, the highest summer ski region of the Alps on the Theodul glacier.
In winter, the snow-assured ski region offers 360 km of pistes in three varied ski areas: the Sunnegga-Rothorn, Gornergrat-Stockhorn, Schwarzsee and Matterhorn glacier paradise. Snowboarders and freestylers are able to hone their skills in the Snowpark Zermatt in which Olympic hopefuls also train. A crossover to the Italian ski region of Breuil-Cervinia and Valtournenche is possible from the Matterhorn glacier paradise / Theodulpass.
Those in search of something different can try their hand at paragliding or off-piste heli-skiing accompanied by an experienced mountain guide.
Child-care is offered throughout the year in the Zermatt – Matterhorn family resort. And everywhere you see the fun loving «Wolli» mascot, children come first! Lamb Wolli accompanies you on the climate theme path, kids under 9 ski for free in the whole region - and whoever wants to ice-skate at the rink, investigate a cheese dairy or hang around in the climbing hall can! Crystal-clear mountain lakes to swim in further entice, adventurous nature days and exciting visits to the Forest Fun Park.
- Gornergrat – a cog railway wends its way up the mountain to an altitude of 3089 metres; a magnificent panorama.
- Matterhorn Museum – houses the items of equipment used during the first ascent of the Matterhorn in 1865 which ended tragically.
- Matterhorn glacier paradise – the highest place in Europe (3883 m) able to be reached by a cableway, with a viewing platform and the highest glacier palace in the world.
- Gorner gorge – a footpath across narrow bridges and steps as well as a fixed rope route guide visitors through the deeply scarped gorge.
- Village of Findeln – original Valais settlement with a small chapel; it has Switzerland's highest rye crop fields at an altitude of 2100 metres.
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- Horu Trophy Zermatt – the Horu Trophy is one of Europe's largest Open Air Curling-Tournaments (January).
- Matterhorn Ultraks Skialp – ski tour races in breathtaking mountain scenery (March/April every two years).
- Patrouille des Glaciers – a cult ski mountaineering race from Zermatt to Verbier via Arolla (April, every other year).
- Zermatt Unplugged – international stars at the Matterhorn (April).
- Gornergrat – Zermatt Marathon – a race to the Riffelberg with an altitude difference of 1,853m (July).
- Matterhorn Eagle Cup – Golf Tournament in the alpine landscape of the Gornergrat region (July).
- Swiss Food Festival – feasting at the highest level (August).
- Matterhorn Ultraks Trail – trail running at the foot of the Matterhorn (August).
- Folklore Festival – Grand Folklore Pageant in the Village (August).
- Zermatt Music Festival & Academy – the classical music and arts festival with soloists and ensembles of the Berlin Philharmonics (August/September).
- Perskindol Swiss Epic – a six-day mountain bike stage race (September).


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Let instructor Jenny Doan introduce you to amazing time-saving techniques for producing gorgeous quilts. Jenny makes it simple to piece a variety of quilt blocks using pre-cut fabric charm packs, jelly rolls, layer cakes and honey buns. No matter your skill level, you're sure to learn new tips and quilting techniques. Using pre-cuts takes away the intimidation (and cost) of choosing several different prints that go together, and allows you to cut to the quilting chase. Learn to make nine-patch, pinwheel and hourglass quilt blocks. Stitch with Jenny to create your own tote bag, too!
Meet your instructor, Jenny Doan, and discuss what you will learn in this class and how to use the Craftsy platform.
Learn how inexpensive and simple the essential tools for quilting can be as Jenny leads a discussion on what you'll need and what you can live without.
Beginners can start off with a quick and easy block with this simple four-patch charm-pack quilt.
Give your quilting a boost with this speedy, yet sophisticated, pattern using charm-pack pre-cuts that you will sew together, cut apart and rearrange to create engaging blocks.
Half-square triangles, the basis of so many projects, including pinwheels, are made easy with this speedy and revolutionary new technique.
Start working with layer cakes in addition to jelly rolls with this beautiful and versatile block, as Jenny shows you how to make it and two variations on the pattern.
Investigate how you can use this pattern with a variety of pre-cut fabric sizes and how scale affects the overall design.
Go step by step through the jelly charm block as Jenny demonstrates how to square up the block and add a piano key border.
Learn how to use jelly rolls, honey buns and charm packs to create some classic strip-quilt patterns, including a quilted bag you'll love to carry!
Turn your finished quilt top into a beautiful heirloom with the four B's of quilting: borders, batting, backing and binding.
"I have been quilting for 10 years and I learned so much from you. You are a great teacher. I know that I will be quilting faster and enjoying it even more after going through your class. Thanks so much, you are inspiring!"
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Racist term for African Americans, derived from the city being called the jungle and the fact that these people jump fences when running from the police.
Oh shit, it's a jungle bunny! Hide your jewelry.
ayon kay Cerpintaxt ika-28 ng Hulyo, 2005
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Word used to describe a person of Black color, usually from South America or Africa regions. Considered usually armed and dangerous by the White Man.
Son, lock your doors, we're in Oakland now... plenty of Jungle Bunnies there!
ayon kay LordRemus ika-02 ng Nobyembre, 2004
A low class black person. This is not the same thing as an African American, as the politically correct term should only apply to those of color who are deserving of respect. An African American is nice, does not recieve governent assistance, and does not live a life of crime. Jungle bunnies, on the other hand, live off of foodstamps and the meager wages they receive from stealing cheap electronics.
Bill Cosby is an African American. The guy you see out your window breaking into your car so he can steal your cell phone and CD player, on the other hand, is a jungle bunny, as is his girlfriend that's selling crack.
ayon kay lacoste_lover ika-08 ng Nobyembre, 2005
Offensive term for a black person. So-named because most of them live in cities and have the uncanny ability of the jump high fences and reproduce like actual bunnies.
Black man: Ay man, lem-me gidda dolla !
White man: What for?
Black man: I funna get some flamin' hot cheetos.
White man: (to friend) Stupid jungle bunny.
White man: What for?
Black man: I funna get some flamin' hot cheetos.
White man: (to friend) Stupid jungle bunny.
ayon kay Colin Z. ika-23 ng Marso, 2007
A term commonly used with great accuracy to reflect life for African Americans in the urban city, which originated in the early 1960's. The reason this term would be seen as accurate by many, is because a large majority of urban areas were seen as reminescent of concrete jungles. Blacks were first knick-named 'Bunnies' by law enforcement as to reflect the trend of them hiding like 'scared bunnies' whenever law enforcement figures were present. Over a short span of time, the two words married into one another. Many would say that the word holds greater meaning today than it did in the 1960s, as racial tension once again rises.
(Offensive): "Hey Bill, did you see that jungle bunny run when asked him to stop for a moment?"
ayon kay Cornelous Hartford ika-18 ng Abril, 2007
A Jungle bunny, refers to any black individual. It can also be used as an expression to identify a "black" action, such as being excessively loud or stealing.
"Stfu Jungle Bunny"
"Brandon watch my stuff there's jungle bunnies here."
"Brandon watch my stuff there's jungle bunnies here."
ayon kay Shiv_Reading ika-22 ng Abril, 2008
Another word to define an African American. Slang; or , a black person in a white community
Hey Johnny , look at the junglebunny walking by your house
ayon kay God ika-06 ng Abril, 2005


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TAHOE CITY, Calif. - We owe it to our children and future generations to look at our positions on school safety and the ramifications of gun ownership and gun control in light of what we know about future possibilities. No matter who we are, a critical examination of our opinions on these issues is as important as addressing specifics, such as school building design and access, and gun control legislation in the context of the 2nd Amendment.
What happened in Connecticut should concern us with reality, not appearances, and not the nearsightedness we casually allege the authors of the 2nd amendment had. What Ben Franklin may or may not have foreseen in terms of what the world would be like in 200 years, or what kinds of weapons would exist, should motivate us to be realistic now about what the future might hold. Ben knew that weapons technology evolves, and why. It had evolved before and during his lifetime. James Madison knew that population growth, technology and human weakness would put the future of America at risk.
The same holds true today. Purely political reactions to recent events only keep us in the dark. We need to give more thought to the next 200 years to ensure that our feelings and intentions will not lead to actions that hinder the ability of people living in 2213 to protect their freedom and defend themselves from every possible threat.
Armed guards have been used by school districts for years with the consent of parents and communities. They are a fact of life. Their appearance should not be as much of a concern as having no protection at all. But, even with armed protection, there is no guarantee that every threat can be stopped. That would require pure luck. As long as there are mentally unstable people, no school or public building security system will always be fail safe. But every school and public building owner has a right, and a duty, to at least try. It is more than a little unreasonable in a free country to object to people protecting each other.
The idea that we do not need automatic and semi-automatic assault weapons for hunting, or any other use, makes perfect sense if all we look at it today.
Our history is red with "sanctioned" bloodshed. Hired guns in the early years of union organizing were merciless. The Matewan, West Virginia coal mining murders are one small example. If the government, and corporations, don't use force against citizens again, then there is no need for private citizens to have assault weapons. But, if things like that, or worse, happen again (and they can), survival is a natural right.
Whether or not our right to bear arms only applies to a well regulated militia or also to individuals, the sad fact is, assault weapons may come in handy for both in the future. When assault weapons are outlawed, only the government will have assault weapons.
Assault weapons against an oppressive government are useless in the hands of private citizens only because the government always has more firepower. Assault weapons against the world's largest military and air force would not deter a rogue government. But they would give the people using them to defend themselves more time.
Everybody I know likes the idea of having more time.
Finally, it would be irresponsible to dismiss the worst case scenario, the chance that our government is neutralized by an unfriendly foreign power or natural disaster, and social chaos, or worse, ensues. Threats to water supplies, public utilities and national defense from biological and chemical weapons, cyber espionage, global warming, volcanoes, super storms and earthquakes already exist. Like it or not, or believe it or not, this is the world we live in.
Anything can happen during the next 200 years. It would be tragic to leave our descendants defenseless just because we thought we knew everything.
Bob Sweigert is a Sierra Sun columnist, published poet, former college instructor and ski instructor. He has a B.A. and an M.A.T. from Gonzaga University. He has lived at Lake Tahoe for 30 years.


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MINGO JUNCTION - As the once roaring Wheeling-Pittsburgh Steel mill enters its fifth year of silence, steelworkers and government officials maintain hope for a restart - even as the facility's current owner demolishes its older portions.
The Mingo facility, the largest of the former Wheeling-Pitt plants, still contains the modern $115 million electric arc furnace installed in 2004. However, workers have not produced any steel at the plant since its 2009 idling while under the ownership of OAO Severstal.
Due to RG Steel's 2012 bankruptcy, Buffalo, N.Y.-based Frontier Industrial purchased the entire Mingo facility - including its electric arc furnace - for just $20 million. Last year, Frontier branded the closed mill as the "Mingo Junction Steel Works."
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Contractors demolish part of the Mingo Junction Steel Works plant, which has been closed since OAO Severstal owned it in 2009. The plant once employed thousands of workers under the Wheeling-Pittsburgh Steel badge
"We do speak with Frontier representatives on a regular basis," said Mingo Junction Village Administrator Steve Maguschak. "They have obtained demolition permits for the older sections of the mill."
On a Thursday visit to the site, workers could be seen demolishing portions of the north side of the plant. According to Frontier's website, the company specializes in "dismantling, industrial gutting, plant stripouts and scrap metals recycling ..."
Nevertheless, Craig Slater, general counsel and vice president for Frontier, previously said he would work to find investors to help restart portions of the mill. He estimated this would take roughly an $80 million investment and six months of work.
"We feel kind of like a duck. Our feet are moving awfully fast under the water, but you can't see anything moving on the surface," he said last year regarding his efforts.
Slater said if anyone has plans to operate the mill again, a critical component of the business strategy will need to be finding an economical source of energy. He said last year he engaged in discussions with American Electric Power, as well as the Public Utilities Commission of Ohio, to possibly work out a deal for reduced power rates.
Slater did not return calls seeking further comment for this article.
"They are currently attempting to find a investor to open the southern sections of the mill, such as the continuous caster, 80-inch (hot strip mill), and electric arc furnace," Maguschak said.
Because the mill has been shut down for so long, the United Steelworkers Local 1190 office closed last year. Tony Montana, spokesman for the USW, said the union believes an operator could restart the mill to provide new jobs.
"The Mingo assets are in good shape. The assets have not been cannibalized," he said.
As the Mingo plant awaits a final destiny, the former Wheeling-Pitt plant in Yorkville also sits idle. Esmark Inc. purchased this facility for $4.7 million during the 2012 RG bankruptcy. Ohio Gov. John Kasich joined Esmark Chairman and CEO James P. Bouchard at the plant in October 2012 to announce the acquisition and plans for a restart. Shortly thereafter, USW members voted 194-24 to accept Esmark's contract offer in hopes of getting back to work.
Since then, however, Esmark has not done anything in Yorkville. The company is considering offers for the mill's assets.
As for the remaining former Wheeling-Pitt facilities, the rusting structures of the former Steubenville plant are now mostly gone, thanks to the demolition efforts of Wheeling-based Strauss Industries. Wheeling businessmen Quay Mull and Joseph N. Gompers purchased the Martins Ferry mill land for $2 million. The long-time Wheeling-Pitt corporate headquarters in downtown Wheeling was eventually sold to New Albany, Ohio-based Access Infrastructures for $800,000.


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A century ago, trapping fur-bearing animals was not only a way of life for many Vermonters, it was also a necessity to make ends meet and put food on the table. Much progress has been made to regulate trapping, making it as safe and humane as possible. Leg-hold trap technology has improved to the point that if a non-targeted animal is trapped it can be released unharmed. Today trapping it is more of a management tool than a profitable venture, with trappers being summoned by landowners with nuisance animals. And for many families it remains an important way of life. We head out with Tom Decker and his two kids to learn more about the critical role trapping plays as a management tool as well as discover some of the advancements in technology.
"Regulated Trapping and Furbearer Management in the United States" is available on videotape from The Vermont Department of Fish & Wildlife. Call (802) 241-3700 for more information.