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Good grief. Your boggle threshold might well be well and truly breached; my own gob is thoroughly smacked.
At the moment I'm trying to collate a list of online resources on ethical and philosophical issues in mental health care for use by student nurses. I was particularly looking for stuff on the personal and spiritual dimensions of people who may be experiencing mental health difficulties and lo-and-behold I came across:
A Resource List for the Spirituality and Psychiatry Special Interest Group of the Royal College of Psychiatrists:
Has anyone seen this??
Check out the top named resource
That sounds an awful lot like exorcism to me....Endorsed by the Royal College???
My boggle threshold is well and truly breached...
"Expect the Inquisition..."
Good grief. Your boggle threshold might well be well and truly breached; my own gob is thoroughly smacked.
*Lies down in a darkened room *
Hi - I saw dalriada's info at BadPsychics and so thought I'd also add my reply here FYI:
The Spirit Release website might be bad enough with its 'case studies' (including proof from spirits coming thro in trance!) You could excuse one oddball psychiatrist's website and even think the Royal college just hasnt checked the site BUT IT'S WORSE THAN THAT...
If you are into reading heavy articles go to the royal college's website :
scroll down to newsletters and have a read.
There are psychiatrist pieces on why Disassociate Disorder is really possession, quoting Djwhal Khul (a Tibetan 'Master' who 'talked' via Theosophist Alice Bailey!) :
http://www.rcpsych.ac.uk/pdf/Laura%20Har....y%201.5 .06.pdf;
how mediums help you realise you are also a medium (surprise surprise):
and gems such as this:
These days, science is so bent on the impersonal credibility of normothetic statistics that case studies are seriously out of fashion. Although many parapsychological experiments have now been shown to stand up to statistical scrutiny, the phenomena associated with Mediumship are more elusive and highly individual. Perhaps this is the quantum effect. I remember talking with a medical colleague whose wife had a tumour. They went to the Philippines to see a psychic surgeon and my friend described standing next to his wife and seeing the healers hand disappear right into her abdomen, and re-emerge, without leaving a mark.http://www.rcpsych.ac.uk/pdf/APowellReviewDFontana.pdf
this has to be one of the best phrases of nonsense I have read in ages and I love how he uses quantum!
There is a goldmine of fun reading here. The credulity in some of these articles in a psychiatrists journal is breathtaking, hilarious and then pretty worrying!
That is really bad. Using exorcism on a patient would only 'feed their delusions' and make the patients condition worse.
I don't get it, psychologists that try to conduct research into measuarable phenomena get their balls busted at the mere sight of anything unethical but the psychiatrists are allowed to perform exorcisms on the mentally ill and vulnerable?
Well no because seeing as there is not actually a demon or spirit inside them then whatever underlying causes (biological or otherwise) that have created the delusions that they are being possessed will not be removed. The fact that they are being exoricsed will just reinforce their delusions because it shows that other people believe that the individual has a demon/spirit inside them as well.
It is easy to assume someone is delusional because they hold what you consider to be a strange belief, however, it maybe that the individual is from a culture where spirit possession is considered normal or that the patient comes from a culture where the idea of possession and the self is different to yours, it could simply be that the person is not particularly well educated and their assumption that they are possessed is perfectly rational.
Remember also, even if the patient is delusion, the goal here isnt to "stop them being delusion", the goal is to give the patient the best quality of life. It could well be that trying to treat the patient with drugs and talking therapies is inapropriate for that individual and they would be better off with something that helps them cope with day to day life, an if that involves some bizarre ooga-booga ritual, then sure, why not?
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Delusion - Psychiatry. a fixed false belief that is resistant to reason or confrontation with actual fact: a paranoid delusion.
The fact that they think their thinking is rational, when it isn't, further supports the idea that it is a delusion. Furthermore the topic is aimed at the royal college of psychiatrists, which is best in the UK. I highly doubt that these psychiatrists are treating anyone that are not in a 'non-western' culture and therefore drug therapies, behavioural therapies and cognitive therapies are acceptable forms of treatment for any individual.
I stand by my opinion that the only way an exorcism could be of any use is if the person has an actual demon or spirit inside them.
Its also highly unethical.
"Expect the Inquisition..."
It is entirely possible for someone to come to the conclusion they are possessed using a rational thought process (taking into account life experience and cultural context of course.)
You shouldnt automatically assume someone is mentally ill if they hold a view you find strange, they might have very good reason to believe what they believe.
Like dalriada rightly points out, culture is a large factor (as is education).
A significant proportion of british society is non-western (interestingly a disproportionate number of british psychiatric patients are from non-western backgrounds, but thats another thread.)
Also dont make the assumption all western cultural groups are educated and place high value in scientific thinking, they dont.
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Don't assume that all non-educated people who live in western cultures believe in possession either =).
And your definition of mental illness is all wrong. Mental illness occurs when it prevents (or increases the difficulty) of performing day to day tasks. In most cases if a person believes they are being possessed by a spirit or demon (even in another culture) this will make day to day tasks a lot more difficult because of suspicion etc.
It is also a mental illness if the symptoms are reoccuring over a certain period of time (otherwise most people in western cultures would have been diagnosed as depressed at some time).
We do live in a multicultural society but it is still a western society and the UK is still a developed country, where western influences are a lot more dominant.
Proof is shown through the change in religion, I know a couple of british Sikhs, and they have cut there hair and do not completely follow the rules of there religion, however in their original cultures this would not have been acceptable. Therefore when another culture is placed in a western country, the western culture influences them greater than you would think and visa versa.
Either way exorcism as a therapy has no use or no place in western cultures at the very least.
Using it in any culture is unethical for several reasons. Firstly a lot of exorcisms are violent practices, where the patients believe they are experiencing pain or do feel physical and emotional pain. How would the patient feel after the therapy, if it was successful as well? Secondly, when should exorcism be used and who gets to decide? If the patient is unfit to make such a decision should the therapy still be used, cause thats not 'informed consent'. Furthermore who gets access to that medical information? Future empoyers would not be impressed if they found out that an applicant had been exorcised, and most of the time patients who have had mental illness have to give details of there mental illness. Can a patient withdraw from the therapy if he/she so wishes? I can't see how its possible because the exorcist would not know if it was the demon/spirit speaking or the patient.
How do we know a person wouldnt respond well to exorcism?
Exorcism has been around for thousands of years and is found in almost every religion and culture, so people must be getting something out of it (?)
Violence is present in nearly every culture (apart from the amish and some buddhist cultures) and religion as well, but it doesn't mean that people are getting anything out of it.
God is in most religions and cultures, doesn't mean that god exist.
Your looking mostly at past cultures (at least in the western cultures) where the church used the idea of hell, demons and the devil as a form of social control.
Its been shown that paranoid schizophrenia has 'adapted' with technological advancements. Before space travel was invented, schizophrenics believe that there head was being invaded by radio waves. However today they believe that aliens or the goverment is using the internet to get into their heads.
Surely before either radio waves and the goverment/aliens were formed as concepts it was possible for a schizophrenic to believe that demons were trying to invade their head, and without prior knowledge the church identified these people as 'needing to be exoricsed'. If it worked at the time it may be because of a behavioural response:
"If I tell people demons are trying to invade my head they will punish me with pain and threaten to send me to hell." Therefore the person may still believe that demons are trying to invade there but just not express it which could make the condition much worse.
In which case just because something removed the behaviour it doesn't mean that the condition is not there still.
One last point, trepanning has been around for 1000's of years and was used on mentally ill patients it does not mean that the patients got anything out of it (other than an infection and possible death).


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It is worth watching the video on his retirement! http://www.baltimoreravens.com/
My wife and I have been right there with Ray for 17 seasons. We started off going to the games at Memorial Stadium. We were just dating back then. We endured long bus rides from Ellicott City to Memorial Stadium/ had our car towed twice/and lost most of the time. But we saw Ray Lewis as a 20 year old MLB and have watched him for 17 years, year in year out, never quitting at anything.
The year we were married we moved into M&T Stadium. We have sat 7 rows right behind Ray for 15 seasons now at M&T. We watched him on the sideline at every game and how he was always talking with teammates about this or that, or just standing intensely by himself watching the game he loved. And once on the field he was like a locomotive busting up cabooses. How can any of us ever forget that he is most likely the greatest MLB the game has ever seen!!?
We stayed with him through good days and bad, through his trial back in 2000, and never had any doubt that he would overcome all the adversity. I defended him for over two years on this website. And how he has done it!! What a man he is!! We will be there Sunday with tears in our eyes. But they will be tears of love and friendship toward Ray. May he do as well in his next phase of life as he has done with the past 17 seasons here in Baltimore!! I am not sure I can go to M&T with him being gone...

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Banning Big Sodas: Too Much Government?
New York City is considering a measure to ban the sale of giant sugary sodas at movie theaters and other public venues. Good for health? Bad for government?
With Missouri ranked as the 11th most obese state in the nation in a study published about a year ago, we thought it would be worth a discussion about a ban on giant sugary soda sales in New York City.
If New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg has his way, that's what's coming next to your favorite five-borough restaurant, movie theater or street vendor.
The mayor plans to eliminate the sale of sugary drinks larger than 16 fluid ounces in each of those places in an "ambitious" effort to combat obesity, The New York Times reported last week.
"New York City is not about wringing your hands; it's about doing something," Bloomberg told the paper.
Exemptions, such as for diet drinks and sales in supermarkets, are expected to be part of the new law, eyed for spring 2013, according to the Times.
It would mark the first such ban in the country, but follows the mayor's successful efforts to ban trans fats and curb public smoking.
The New York City Beverage Association is certainly not thrilled.
Does Missouri need to consider something similar to combat the rotund waistlines? Is this nanny-state-gone-mad or nice job Bloomie?
Paul James
7:47 am on Sunday, June 3, 2012
An absurd and offensive example of government overreach. In addition, an action that will have zero effect on obesity. A true leader would have proposed a severe limit on the types of foods permitted to be purchased with food stamps. An outstanding leader would stop trying to create a nanny state. More made-up government regulations equals more bloated government with more government employees justifying their existence by standing on the necks of free enterprise and true job producing businesses.
Robyn K.
8:58 am on Sunday, June 3, 2012
Ok. So the mayor does not propose banning super size diet sodas, just the regular "sugary" ones. Well that certainly makes sense to go ahead and "allow" everyone to load up on Aspartame which, everyone knows, is so much better for you and is key in preventing obesity! NOT!!!
Stay out of our private lives Mr. Mayor and do the job you were elected to do and that does not include policing what people eat and drink.
Julie Betlach
9:07 am on Sunday, June 3, 2012
The problem here is that the government isn't going far enough. We need them to ration our entire day's meal, as well as requiring us to do manual labor for a few hours each day! Just think how sweet that would be... sure, a little like a prison, but we'd all be fit, right?
Margaret Poynter
9:17 am on Sunday, June 3, 2012
Obviously a large number of Americans cannot control their intake, and those that can pay higher insurance premiums because of the diseases associated with obesity. Take control or let a small governmental nudge help you from destroying your health.
Jay Buck
9:28 am on Sunday, June 3, 2012
Margaret makes a lot of sense. We just got back from a trip down South and I was amazed at the size of many of the people down there. Hopefully it won't take government action to make us do what we should already be doing. (See cigarettes)
2:09 pm on Sunday, June 3, 2012
It's not America anymore. It's turning into Amerika with a hammer and a sickle for the last three and a half years with untold and uncountable government regulations being shoved down our throats (among other places). This is no longer the "land of the free."
Kevin Lane
9:30 pm on Sunday, June 3, 2012
Marge, this is about your rights, not obesity. It won't help obesity. The "Diet" drinks that are 10x worse for you, AND your diet, are being left alone. Aspartame is poison.
1) "Anytime the government wants to 'save' you, or 'protect' you, first you won't recieve any 'real' help, (like raising the minimum wage, which results in forced inflation & price increases for everyone, which means you didn't help anyone, but hurt everyone. And you'll have to do it again next year) AND you will pay for it with you freedoms."
2) "Never let the camel get his nose into the tent, rest assured, you'll soon end up with the whole camel in the tent."
Perfect Examples:
1) Telling you what products you CAN or CAN'T purchase (like this), or
2) FORCING you to buy a product for your entire life (like health insurance, which nearly everyone had before the government taxed away the ability to either provide it or buy it).
Anybody defending this is not thinking it through. Like the rock & roll, rebel, anarchist, Red Hot Chili Peppers doing a benefit for a President that wants bigger government, and more government control of your personal life. How is that Rock & Roll? Or Rebellion?
Like Margaret here, who seems like a nice enough person, but I wonder if she can explain why these believe "it's a woman's choice what she does with her body", but somehow THIS is non-intrusive.
This is just hint of what will happen with "Universal" (Marxist) healthcare. This is a BIG door to open. I'm against it.
Kevin Lane
10:38 pm on Sunday, June 3, 2012
PS- Bloomberg isn't 'saving' anyone, he's attacking them. You should have the right to order hemloch if you want. If this were about obesity & this tool was actually somehow more capable of making wiser decisions than we are, he would have banned the drinks that actually cause obesity. Start with diet drinks & products like Aspertame. You can work off sugar, but the weight added by Aspertame (which ALL diet soda contains) is nearly impossible to lose. People keep drinking it because it says "Diet" on it. (Try telling someone their 'diet drink' is making them fatter, see what response you get.) They're trying to drink healthier products, but they only gain weight, just like Bloomberg wants. If people keep gaining weight, he can keep making new laws. Many people will think it's a great idea, giving no thought to a result that only leads to a 'need' for more government interference & control.
If we keep allowing this, they will keep slipping more of these laws past people who can't see this for what it really is. We have proof the government can't fix everything for us, the last 20 years proves that. We've not only seen that we can't trust them to fix it, but us even allowing them to try, is the very reason there is so much still needing fixed.
Housing, Banking, Education, the Economy, Business/Unemployment, Healthcare, Foreign Trade, Tax Codes, Racism/Segregationism -ALL of these things are all screwed up because we keep allowing these "Bloombergs" to try to fix them for us.
Devon Seddon
4:06 pm on Friday, August 24, 2012
"Small Governmental Nudge"?
Maybe you need the government to coddle you & make all your decisions for you, the rest of us have a brain.
It's funny how ALL WEEK, we were talking about "my body, my right". Where did that go?
Melinda Pennington
10:03 am on Sunday, June 3, 2012
Just put a bullet in our foreheads and let's call it a day. What happened to the word "freedom"? If people want to eat foods that are bad for them, let them, they are going to anyways.
Margaret Poynter
11:00 am on Sunday, June 3, 2012
Unfortunately some overweight people are so very unhappy that the bullet to the head is sadly possible. Perhaps a bullet to the heart may be a better description of their doom.
Rich Pope
11:02 am on Sunday, June 3, 2012
Women want the right to have complete control of their bodies when aborting a fetus. But they don't have enough control of their own bodies to drink a 64 ounce soda???
12:23 am on Monday, June 4, 2012
How did this become just about women? I've seen plenty of men drink sodas that big. I've also seen many men come in to the grocery store and by a twelve pack (or larger) of beer every day. You don't think that causes weight gain?
Margaret Poynter
12:08 pm on Sunday, June 3, 2012
I'll have a 12 ounce soda with a shot of stem cells please.
Jay Buck
12:55 pm on Sunday, June 3, 2012
Freedom's not absolute. What rights in the Constitution are absolute? There is no right to absolute freedom. There are limitations. You might want to say the same thing about a whole variety of other things that are on the Internet — "let everybody have it, let everybody do it." No. There are certain things that actually do cost people a lot of money, cost them their lives, cost them their fortunes that we shouldn't have and make available, to make it that easy to do.
2:20 pm on Monday, June 4, 2012
Exactly. Your "God given right" to kill yourself ends when it affects others. Joe Blow's "right" to be fat means we all pay higher insurance premiums, wait longer to see doctors, and cover for Joe at work when he's out with his obesity-related illness du jour.
Like Mr. Tate says below, I have a tough time understanding why anyone would want to drink a HALF GALLON of anything. Somehow we've come to a place where that seems reasonable, so soda is probably just a small part of the American weight problem. I think the Mayor recognizes this and is using the issue to start a conversation. If this kind of legislation seems ridiculous, so does drinking from a "cup" you could also bathe in in a pinch.
David Altman
1:06 pm on Sunday, June 3, 2012
Since over one third of Americans are now obese with that number growing, those who cannot control their weight seem to need a "nanny state" since they are obviously not able, responsible, or educated enough adults to take control themselves and their health which affects us all in ever growing, out of control health insurance premiums from weight related diseases including diabetes and heart.
Jim Fowler
1:37 pm on Sunday, June 3, 2012
I think the Mayor picked the wrong liquid to restrict. If the Mayor of New York wants to do something that will help the health of New Yorkers he might impose a total ban of alcohol. I'm sure many wives and children of all the abusive alcoholics would be thankful to receive fewer beatings at the hands of their drunken husbands. Think about how many fewer auto accidents there would be and how many fewer missed workdays there would be. But no, he is worried about soda pop. What an idiot.
Sara S.
3:25 pm on Monday, June 4, 2012
I agree that Bloomberg is off base with this initiative, but YOU are an idiot if you're actually suggesting we return to a ban on alcohol. Everyone knows Prohibition was a complete failure..
Carlos Restrepo
2:09 pm on Sunday, June 3, 2012
I think that instead of banning a product they should try to promote healthier choices. I don't understand why in the U.S. natural juices are so darn expensive while soda is dirt cheap--it was the other way around where I am from.
David Altman
2:19 pm on Sunday, June 3, 2012
FYI: Contrary to what food companies promote, packaged natural juice drinks including OJ are almost just as bad as soda as far as concentrated sugar calories go.
Sara S.
4:02 pm on Monday, June 4, 2012
It's not just the sugar that makes orange juice bad for you...The food companies add all kinds of flavoring and preservatives to it. Each brand has a specific flavor that has been researched for consumer preference.
Mel Hall
2:56 pm on Sunday, June 3, 2012
The mayor is obviously not at all concerned about the environmental impact of such an intrusive regulation. The customer who wants a 32 oz soda will simply buy two 16 oz sodas. For every cup and straw that wastes, the cost goes up for the seller and the buyer, and that many more cups/bottle/containers must be shipped and disposed of in our already overflowing landfills. Folks that want to drink that much soda will still do so and the rest of the population will suffer the results.
David Altman
3:05 pm on Sunday, June 3, 2012
I doubt the buyers of banned 32 oz sodas will decide to buy/carry around two 16 oz sodas with less convenience and higher price. If they are that thirsty, they could save
their money and health by buying a refillable bottle with water and ice from either home or restaurant.
Mel Hall
3:49 pm on Sunday, June 3, 2012
David - I doubt that the ones buying huge sodas will drink water instead - that's the problem in a nutshell. They may not buy 2 at a time, but will probably still buy them separately. Of course they should save their health and money by drinking water from home in a bottle they saved, but realistically that is not likely to happen. As far as bottled water goes, it is horrible for the environment as well - what's wrong with tap water? Mine tastes fine. Personally, I drink water all day from an insulated 32 oz cup that I wash each morning for that purpose. But I digress.....point being it's none of the government's business how much or in what size folks drink soda. And I bet if it passes NY WILL see an incease in their trash volume.
Rich Pope
3:43 pm on Sunday, June 3, 2012
If I can't buy a 32 ounce soda, I'm going to buy two 16 ounce sodas. That's twice the trash (two lids, two straws, two cups). Did the mayor consider this?
Earl Higgins
4:31 pm on Sunday, June 3, 2012
If the government can ban something as harmless as marijuana, then certainly they can then something that is actually harmful like GINORMOUS sugared drinks. Thanks for standing up for what's right, Mayor Bloomberg!
ward y
8:26 pm on Sunday, June 3, 2012
Thats allright,keep suppressing peoples rights and there will be a revolution sooner than later.
William Rapp
8:48 pm on Sunday, June 3, 2012
Here's a bit of wisdom a well known author extolled in the 1950s;
The only proper purpose of a government is to protect man's rights, which means: to protect him from physical violence. A proper government is only a policeman, acting as an agent of man's self-denfense, and as such, may resort to force only against those who start the use of force. The only proper functions of a government are: the police, to protect you from criminals; the army, to protect you from foreign invaders; and the courts, to protect your property and contracts from breach or fraud by others, to settle disputes by rational rules, according to objective law. But a government that initiates the employment of force against men who had forced no one, the employment of armed compulsion against disarmed victims, is a nightmare infernal machine designed to annihilate morality: such a government reverses its only moral purpose and switches from the role of protecter to the role of man's deadliest enemy, from the role of policeman to the role of a criminal vested with the right to the weilding of violence against victims deprived of the right of self-defense. Such a government substitutes for morality the following rule of social conduct: you may do whatever you please to your neighbor, provided your gang is bigger than his.
Ayn Rand circa 1957
12:27 pm on Friday, August 24, 2012
If Ayn Rand is against gov't forcing us to do something why are Rand followers so Pro-Life and not Pro-Choice?
Because they are all about freedom as long as it's in line with their concept of freedom.
Phil Gonzalez
9:29 pm on Sunday, June 3, 2012
Michael Bloomberg is an idiot. Hitler told people what, when and how much they could eat. Way to go Bloomberg. You're up there with Hitler in taking away the rights of people.
Wendy S.
9:43 pm on Sunday, June 3, 2012
What is wrong with Mayor Bloomberg?!?!?! Does he not have other more pressing issues to address than obesity and the size of sodas being sold?!?!?! What's next ... a rationing of donuts, cookies, candy, etc. ... the list could go on and on!!!! I'm not even sure what country this is anymore!!! It's certainly not the America I knew as a child growing up!!!
Greg S
11:15 pm on Sunday, June 3, 2012
This is a terrible idea. Where does it stop? Too much sun is bad for you. Next the government will want to ban swimsuits or restrict what clothing we can wear. Why don't we all just line up for our daily ration of MREs. NO SOUP FOR YOU!
Jean Whitney
3:19 am on Monday, June 4, 2012
I'm not endorsing the ban of biggies, but I can see the benefit in trying to move habits in the direction of smaller portions, for health reasons. Other nations I've lived in had smaller sized servings, and I don't remember feeling thirsty all the time, or angry about it.
Margaret Poynter
8:16 am on Monday, June 4, 2012
Ms. Whitney, do you also recall in other nations that the majority of overweight people were American tourisrs? It is a harsh reality.
8:44 am on Monday, June 4, 2012
Not to worry folks...............New York will soon start a "soda happy hour" which will probably be valid for 23 hours a day and spread to the rest of the country. Buy one 16 oz soda and get another for free! The American Entrepreneur will find a way around this!
Andy Gross
8:54 am on Monday, June 4, 2012
America continues to develop into a country where many do not accept responsibility for their actions. It is easier to blame someone else than to accept the consequences of our actions. I don't want the government telling me how much soda I can buy at one time, and I rarely drink any type of soda. I understand the concern about obesity and the costs associated therewith, but "outlawing" large soft drinks is an example of extreme government overreach.
Tom Cooper
12:24 pm on Monday, June 4, 2012
For the people who want to impute the evils of big government in restrictions like this, I suggest they trace the government evil to its actual source.Maybe if the United States didn't have such huge agricultural subsidies for the corn producing industry, which feeds the high fructose corn syrup industry, these kinds of sodas could not be produced so profitably. Much of the obesity epidemic is directly traceable to government artificially propping up what is a largely an unprofitable enterprise--growing corn.
Sara S.
4:21 pm on Monday, June 4, 2012
I am surprised you are the only one to have mentioned corn subsidies in this discussion. I couldn't agree more!
Tom Cooper
7:21 pm on Monday, June 4, 2012
Sara--Most people don't know. And the government likes it that way. They can keep their corn belt constituents happy with massive infusions of taxpayer money, and our children pay the price in rapidly declining health.
Edward Tate
12:35 pm on Monday, June 4, 2012
How in the world did the desire for such huge quantities of soda happen? Is marketing so effective that it so easily induces the masses to overindulge? Consuming one 64 oz portion of soda a day equals 325 pounds of sugar intake in one year. What happened to moderation?
When I was younger, an occasional soda was considered a treat. At that time, most sodas were bottled in 6 or 6 1/2 oz portions. After drinking our 6 oz treat, we would have never considered following it up with 9 or 10 more!
I would hope that if the medical and dental problems associated with excessive sugar intake could be imbedded in our youth at an early age, we could begin to see a more healthy society.
Jean Whitney
1:58 pm on Monday, June 4, 2012
Mr. Tate—I would SPLIT a bottle of soda with my father (at home) as a kid, when 16-oz bottles came out, since a whole bottle seemed like a lot for either of us! So I guess it is marketing.
Sensible? I think so
10:24 pm on Monday, June 4, 2012
Good question. My guess is that it isn't so much marketing as it is the Typical American Desire for Bigger and Cheaper, regardless of consequences. That's encouraged by marketing but I think there's more to it. The agricultural subsidies mentioned by Tom are a huge force. And so is the resistance to revisit such decisions, including the lobbies that make the decisions effectively permanent. And so is the unbridled profit motive when prices don't reflect true costs. That gets to what I suspect might be the real goal here: a sugar tax.
Elizabeth O'Fallon
7:38 pm on Monday, June 4, 2012
Should people eat/drink healthy? Absolutely. Should the government force them to do so? Absolutely not. As a mom, I take responsibility for myself and for my family and for what we eat. I am also the person who makes sure we get enough exercise by encouraging my kids to go for a bike ride a family walk, etc. As a family we believe in eating all foods in moderation. Is eating chocolate cake or drinking soda every day good for you? No. Is enjoying it occasionally detrimental to your health? No. Obviously the healthier you eat the healthier you will be, but what ever happened to that old fashioned idea of personal responsibility?
Andy Gross
8:14 pm on Monday, June 4, 2012
I understand that we as a society pay more in health insurance for those who choose to eat poorly and not take responsibility for their health. However, I cannot get past the idea that government is overstepping its bounds.
David Altman
1:31 am on Tuesday, June 5, 2012
How is this any different than seatbelt and helmut laws or are those against soda ban also against these safety laws?
Kevin Lane
12:11 am on Thursday, June 7, 2012
Yep, disagree with all of 'em. The government isn't & was never intended to be responsible for my decisions. Or yours. If I don't wear a seatbelt, they don't fly through the window, I do. If somone wants to drink enough soda to get fat, fine, let them pay for their own health issues. Can't afford health insurance? Drink fewer sodas, that should help you save up. Forward is accountability, responsibility & evolution. Why the constant push for us all to just devolve into dependence?
Our government can't even get itself in line. Why do we always think they are the handyman when they break everything they touch? Housing, Banking, Education...
Paradigm shift, what happens if you don't wear your seatbelt? You pay the government. What about a helmet? Same thing. Same for nearly every one of these kinds of laws.
Is paying a fine really more of a deterrent than what could happen if you don't wear a seatbelt or helmet? No but they get money.
What about these?
Could they make car makers build cars that won't go into gear until the belts are fastened? Or cars that won't start when they sense alcohol? Or a cellphone (which all have GPS) that won't allow texting if it's moving faster than 5 MPH? Of course they could. Would it save more lives than fines, or DWI Checkpoints? By light-years! Then why don't they do that? There are tons of simple alternatives.
It's seems clear that no matter how much they tell us otherwise, saving lives is a DISTANT 2nd to finding a new source of revenue.
Sara S.
10:25 am on Tuesday, June 5, 2012
This is similar to seatbelt and helmet laws...but just because those laws make sense, doesn't meant I haven't personally questioned whether they should exist. Helmet laws do not even exist everywhere (Chicago comes to mind).
David Altman
12:32 am on Thursday, June 7, 2012
Concerning the proposed idea that fat people pay more for health care ... Found this in the NY Times:
The question of personal responsibility, ends up being more complicated than it may seem.
Parents are working longer, and takeout meals have become a default dinner. Gym classes have been cut. The real price of soda has fallen 33 percent over the last three decades. The real price of fruit and vegetables has risen more than 40 percent.
The solutions to these problems are beyond the control of any individual. They involve a different sort of responsibility: civic — even political — responsibility. They depend on the kind of collective action that helped cut smoking rates nearly in half. Anyone who smoked in an elementary-school hallway today would be thrown out of the building. But [until recently with new regulations] if you served an obesity-inducing, federally financed meal to a kindergartner, you would fit right in.
[Taxing fat people idea] may have its problems. The obvious one is its severity. The more important one is probably its narrowness: not even one of the nation's most prestigious hospitals can do much to reduce obesity. The government, however, can. And that is the great virtue of [the] idea.
Acknowledging that any effort to attack obesity will inevitably involve making value judgments and even limiting people's choices. Most of the time, the government has no business doing such things. But there is really no other way to cure an epidemic.
Kevin Lane
2:22 am on Thursday, June 7, 2012
Yes there is, there are a THOUSAND different ways. What are the reasons for the 33 & 40%? Start there. Start with aspertame, a fat-hoarding poison that can be found EVERYWHERE they try to limit sugar. There are tons of options that would work better than getting the government involved, which is always "more complicated than it seems".
My suggestion was not that fat people pay more, my suggestion was that everyone pay for his OWN healthcare, it's the only way to promote responsibility, accountability, and incentive. You & I paying for it provides NONE of that.
12:23 pm on Friday, August 24, 2012
I wonder how many people that are in favor of smoking bans are against a soda ban. As a smoker, I knew this sort of thing would eventually come up and I tell the anti-smokers that gov't will go after something they like . . . then they'll know how much freedom the really have.
Howard Roark
12:36 pm on Friday, August 24, 2012
There's a distinction to be made between a person sitting in proximity to someone smoking a cigarette, and to someone drinking a Big Gulp. To find equivalency between the two means you're either stupid or being obtuse.
I'm all for you smoking as much as you want, just don't do it near me and don't expect me to pick up your medical tab.
2:35 pm on Friday, August 24, 2012
That's the rub isn't it Roark? We are all paying for each others health costs and it opened Pandora's box. Now we have our noses in each others business. No smoking, no sugared drinks, you've had too much salt, no baby formula for you. etc., etc. We've given up so many simple freedoms for a false sense of security. Although, I'm not exactly sure what security people think we've gained. I'm mean, am I going to have a happier, longer life if my neighbor isn't allowed to get big gulps? If I want to eat an oreo, is that really going to hurt the mailman? It wouldn't matter if the whole nation became vegetarians and exercised 2 hours a day religiously. Even if the whole world maintained a perfect BMI it isn't going to to change the fact that the number one cause of death is being born.
2:49 pm on Friday, August 24, 2012
This is NOT a Soda Ban.
It is a Size Ban.
There is a big difference.
No one has Banned smoking. It's where you can smoke.
Howard Roark
3:14 pm on Friday, August 24, 2012
"We are all paying for each others health costs and it opened Pandora's box"
You can also argue that restricting smoking is a Pandora's box as Rahib seems to suggest. Why ban pot and not alcohol? Science? No...
Look, this can be argued until we're blue in the face but the reality is that Bloomberg's ban on selling Big Gulps in certain establishments for certain types of drinks in New York City will have no impact in St. Louis, nor will it likely last in NYC.
It's a cannard that incites page hits.
2:14 pm on Friday, August 24, 2012
What if, instead of government dictates on what you CAN'T do, we tried positive reinforcement, like you get big discounts for staying fit. Lower sales tax on raw fruits and veggies? When you make something be considered "off limits" it just makes people rebel and do the very thing you don't want them to do. Make the emphasis be on the good instead of the bad.
2:43 pm on Friday, August 24, 2012
Yeah, opinion is virtually unanimous. Regulating soda size is a ridiculous idea
(see, we can agree on something :).
There are so many poor diet and snack choices -and big sodas are just one of them. It's impossible and counterproductive to regulate.
Perhaps the extent of what the government can or should do is try to get some or better labeling on those big cups. It costs very little do that calories, sugar, and % of daily intake for that serving size.
Granted, labels will have limited affect and may just drive people to drink giant diet sodas -which isn't exactly healthy either (some study shows diet soda drinkers have more obesity problems than regular soda drinkers.) -perhaps some diet soda warnings. I don't know...it all may be a wasted effort.
2:45 pm on Friday, August 24, 2012
ooh! You used that phrase "Government Dictates". That is not what any country needs.
The people should "dictate" on everything ----not the Government.
All of our laws come "From the People". The congress (Government) or State only approves what the people want.
5:17 pm on Friday, August 24, 2012
Roark - "will have no impact in St. Louis"
I disagree Roark, I'm not sure if you noticed but many of the new laws we have in the area are a direct result of "X put a regulation in place, maybe we should too". Case in point the prescription requirement on the OTC drugs. One of the arguments was that other counties had already done it. The smoking ban...the same thing. There seems to be a standard for passing laws called "everyone else is doing it" If you want a big scale example, the ACA was repeatedly sold on the concept that other nations have a national healthcare plan. Granted what was ultimately passed is different, but you get the idea.
2:39 pm on Friday, August 24, 2012
It's the "SIZE" of Government that All Americans must get rid of.
Not the size of soda.
There is a difference in Banning the Size of a product vs. Banning The Product.
Gee! I wonder if a man/woman sexual relations could be next in Limiting the SIZE OF P_ _ _ _.


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FaEB^Oa MEMCRIAt LlBMRTf B. MERRICK RD. FUSEBORi M Jf-..^:-...™ -.- :........... "NASSAU'S LAllGEST WEEKLY'^ MORE News Feittires Pictures FREEPORT BALDWIN MERRICK 28ih Year. II(at..44 ROOSEVELT FBEEPOHT. ». Y.« THiraSDAY. FE^SWAHY 27, I88« FMCEt FIVE CENTS PER COPY ^^««^^zmp:!^^'i^ni^^^&iSis^tii»if^is^asimm^^syA NEWS & VIEWS it g %t ft I P. BY EDDIE VASIL Mi': %*' United Press InternaUoml .^otiofisi Press Syndicate LEADEH'S DIGEST . . , FreeporJ'. DAVID BUCKLEV was tta-tuted Ihis moaUi as a itiodBl in a lull-page adv in a national msgaxSaes. (He's a Iqp Pinkextoq exec ai Iho World's FakJ . . . h. W, WENCK of FreaportiPatsonnol Director at Betiujilic Avia. lioa! atid FRED (Hempaieaa Town official) THAWTWEIN ol Baldwin were re-elecled directors of the Nassau Coully DlTision, ." American Cancer Society . , . WARHEN SHIBBH of this willaste is president of the very acUT© L. I. COIWETTE OWNEflis ASSO. which Usli many professional men ta m motabeiship including BILI* LANHIK, M.D. <rf Doctors Hospital wlio k a charter member . . . Maitro W WHITEY METZ of the Americaii Logion Dug-Out promises a Ijigger and Ijotter St Patrick's Day^ Dance (and com beef and cabbage) on Sat, March 14 . . . In case yoa • wondered! That was not JOE HABMIS shoveling snow last Thursday afternoon from the track at ROOSEVELT RACEWAY. 1 *» ™ Treasurer, he was si^vta^ his strength to count the loot • ' left by the record-broaklng asJOQ'fens. -' - •• • , ' - . . ' ' " ' v A ' , • • , • - - • ' • • . • • ' * . - -• • . EDDIETOR'S NOITEs; ; i'i Thfe^; v^ charming' MKi. ROY CACClATORE Cnee Anna Jean; Hennesspn) is not oplyl one of tlie moit active womeh in this area as a motiior, teacher and wife of a ' ' • tConlinucd on page 4) FHS Seniors To Present Unusual Variety Show On Friday, February 28, and Saturday, February 29, the audi-loHum of the Frecport Senior High School will bo Iransforroed into a "T.V, studio" lor the presentation of "W-FHS, Channel '64" the Senior Class" Variety Show.- . This type of production has become an annual tradition at Fieeport High, and this year's show is said to be the best ever. AUithe participantt Jn. <bo s^>^^^ ai'e seniors at Freeport, anif love* staged the show entirely by them-selves under the fine leadshlp of Stanley Davis. The theme of the show is that • of a'T.V; studio, and- the. atidl-ence will be made to feel that they are watching a live T.V. ' spectacuXat (with no commercials.) , Co-directors SlcBi .Bernstein •and Robert Levitt, along with assistant directors Nancy Gorme-itano, Nwicy Heller, Roy Wralcy, arid BiE ZawJhy have planned the entertainment so that there is ,30inBtHlng fot.ovcryonc; plcntj' -Of singing, dancing, and comedy of all kinds. The class Is fortunate to have as the Enicue.-! for the .-ihow five of the most talented youngsters around. Patti. Carboiigh, Slefi Friedman, Judith Gfonim,' John Franlclin, and Bob Kirk, whose pleasure it will, be to host the proceedings, , The dancing in the show has been expertly staged by Choreo- - '(Continued on page lOlS "_ RECORD 900 SIGN FOR 1964 LltUE LEAGUE A record number of BOO boys turned out' for the 1964 registration of Freeport Little League this .year and It is the highest number since the inception of.this league over 10 years ago, With such a large registration and with the greater.number of registrants in the National League, south of the L.I.R.R. tracks, the Board of Directors plan' 1 2 ^ • '• —; '— ROOHB teams; 10. teams in the power will be needed to take Minor League; 6 to the Majors charge of these' ieanas. 1£ both -and 4 in the Senior Division. In arc not- forthcoming, then the the American League they plan 6 number of teams, will'be lessened Rookie teaijis; 7-ln the Minor di- and some boys will not be "picked visionj 4 In the Majors and 4 in for teams this year. , -the Senior Dlvi4c«i. - . There wiU be a general meet- ThJs plan calls formoi'e spon- Ing of all league personnel (man-sors t h m w « e obtained Isit year agers, coaches, etCi> on Friday, and it also means tliat more man- (Continued on page 14), TOP OFFICIALS DEDICATE NEW FIRE DEPT. TRUCK Judge Ed Freemdii Named Director Of Nassau Magistrates Police r^ustice Edwin J. Procd-rnan of Freeport was elected a director of the Nassnu County Magistrates* Association at its annual dinner hold February 13th at the Bar Association .Building in Minc-ola. _, ^ The Association, consisting of .village and city court justices from ail-.tbe incot^pratcd villages and cities in Nassau County, works to improve traftic court procedures and practices. ,. Judge .Charles E. Lapp of Ca-darhttsst :-«mi,.;elect^^ JudgOi Nathan r Stem !o|, Re^tetjii Vice iPresidentT-Judge' CBiud J. Steain.s of Great Pfeck, Treasurer; and Judge Edwin J. lioewy of Hempstead, Secretary. In addition to Judge Preedman, the Board of Directors consists of Judges Joseph Muldoon of Glen Cove, Gilbert H. Meyer of Kings Point, Abraham Sohlissel of Long Beach, Albert C. Moore of Mine-ola, and Nathan Zelby of Lyn-brook. AHRC Plans^nnual Luncheon March 17 The Freeport Auxiliary of the Association lor the Help of Re-lardod Children (AHHCU'will held ils Annual Spring Lunchmm. Tuesday, M^rch 17 at noon at Cart Hoppl's. The Luncheon, which has always been a great success, will bo oven more gala this year as U features a fashion show by Saks Fifth Avenue. Tickets miy be obtained by calling Mrs. Carol Mitchell; BA 3-8323. Spedal events feofoires will also include a special draw-lag of wonderful prizes, such as a'silver coffee service, and a gour met basket, etc. Freeport Civil Service Employees Plan Meeting There will be a membership meeting of the Fr^port Unit, Nassau Chapter, Civil Service Einplby^e's Association on Monday, March .2, at 8 p.m., at the Exempt Fireman's HaU, No. Lang Beach A^e,, Freeport. DiRUG STORE NOTICE. The Berkley Ptaannacy, 268 N. Main St., Freeport, will iwnaia <^a Mts, imta-lO p,m. ttEls Sua- Mr, MsKh 1. All otUz diug stores • who aare tnazaben of the Fse^poit Pharmacy AJuMdalion' close at 2 pjn."'^og Sumtey*."!** Berktoy Pharmacy iel^hone Aunhw la fB 9-S«65. Fireepolri Fire .Dopl, efflelally dodlcaled lis nkw.Plr^.Timdt, a iSHO gallon pumper. Ceremonies were livid |tl Fire HeadquartMr*. N. Mela. St. Mayor .Sweeney, after a .brief folk, presented Ihe : leoya to Captain Angela Capoxsoli and the chairman of Engine > • Company's New Truck committee Bill Balchl, Rev, Robert Pierce of The Chflreh of the Transllgurallon, io. Long Beach Ave., Freeptot. blessed Iho New Truck. Shown In .the, Picture *b»»« are (Standing Top Row. L. to R.) 2nd Deputy Chief Lou ModagUa and 1st Deputy Chief Paul Falcone. (Standing Middle Row. L. to R.) Chief Pat Collgnola, Captain Aiigoto Capoizoll and BUI Palchl. (Lower Bow, L. to H.) Trustee Honry AUorgarton, Rev. Robert Pierce. Truslna aeorgo Falrborg, Mayer Robert Swcenoy, Trustee Frank Musio and Trustee Frank Somers, SUNDAY AFTERNOON MUSIC HOUR- SBRIES^.. CONTINUES ;,..v Froeporfs third In the scries of Sundny AtturncwHi Muaic Hours will bo presented in the Jr. High School Auditorium, Pino St., at 2 p.m., iWarch Isl. . Performing will be the Jr. High Concert Bund and Orchestru, led by Leo F. Ursini, Director of Music in the Jr. High School. The band consist.^ of 85 members and the orchestra it The Jr. High twirlers will also perform. Included in the program will be a trumpet trio with Fred Hai-rison, Harry Key, and Robin Levy performing. ' The public is invited and there is no admission charge. The .second in the sc-rle.i (»f Sunday aflornon music hours was held in (ho High School Audi-lorium. Mr. Paul Garbo, member ol tho (Continued on page 18) FREEPORT-ROO$E¥ELT NAACP PLAN MEETING The FreepoSifeosevclt Branch of the N.A.A,C.P. hold Its regular monthly meeting on Tuesday, February 25, at the Freeport Memorial Library. In honor of Brotherhood Week the newly organized Yoiith Group performed three original skits. "New. Miss," a satire written by Larry Stephens was enacted by Barbara Alleyne, Gerard. Edwards, Paul Stephens and Larry Stepjigils. . . . "No For Sate Sign Here" by IJaren Taylor'dealt with the unexpected welcome given to a Negro famdli? when they ptirchased a home in a previously all-white cohtaaunity. The cost included Jackie Gwen, Karen TiO'tor, Andrea Thomas, Lariy .Stephens, Paul Stephens • and Kathleen Zicgler. , An ad lib skit pointing up the need for a N.A,A.C.P. was performed by "Beverly Lane, Joyce Lockhardt, Paul Stephens and (Continued on page Ifl) •a ( , iii
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Young Springbok fly-half Johan Goosen has been given a huge vote of confidence by his provincial captain ahead of his first Test start against Australia in Pretoria on Saturday.
Cheetahs skipper and Springbok vice-captain Adriaan Strauss gave a glowing assessment of the 20-year-old's ability to handle the pressure that comes with wearing the green and gold number ten jumper.
Goosen was handed the pivot role in place of Test veteran Morne Steyn on Wednesday and Strauss is adamant that he'll live up to expectations.
"I've told him before he handles pressure better than any other player I've met," said Strauss.
"So I have no doubt he is the kind of player who can handle it. Sometimes it looks like he doesn't feel the pressures at all.
"He will probably have some nerves but he won't allow it to get the better of him. You see the best of Johan under pressure.
"It is great to see Johan to get the opportunity and he has proved himself.
"Morne has proven himself as an exceptional player over the years. I think Johan will be able to fill his shoes."
As far as the rest of the team is concerned, Strauss said that 'pressure' is not the right word to describe the feeling in general in the Bok camp, as they look to build on a strong performance, especially up front, against the All Blacks a fortnight ago.
"We'd rather look at it as a challenge and hopefully we can get the result," said the hooker, who has seen his role in the squad grow in the absence of Bismarck du Plessis and Chiliboy Ralepelle.
"Everyone has the greatest support for Heyneke Meyer. We all believe in the vision he has for the team and we are working towards achieving that goal.
"As a leader in the team, it has been quite easy, there are some guys who hardly say anything while there are others who bring a great amount of energy. But everyone is pulling their weight.
"Credit must go to the coach however; he wants SA to be proud with the way the team perform."
The Wallabies will be without Stephen Moore but Strauss has the utmost respect for Tatafu Polata-Nau, who will start at hooker for the visitors.
"He defends very well and makes some big hits sometimes," said Strauss, who will earn his 17th cap.
"I think their line-outs went well [against the Springboks in Perth]. Every week is a new game and they'll be up for it.
"They also scrum well and we need to counter them as a unit.
"With a Test there is always pressure and we need to handle it. Dunedin was tough for us to lose, but every time you put yourself out there it will be tough."


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Painter Comes Home to Capture the Influence and Energy of Bluegrass Music Sometimes getting back to your roots means getting down to earth. Margo Russell knows that better than most folks. She got away from her roots for a while and discovered she is a Southerner after all. "I realized I liked grass and trees and water," Russell said, laughing. "Santa Fe was not the place for me." Russell had left her home in Alabama to spend a decade of life in the hot, desert country that was home to her mother. But she was also the daughter of a country boy from Ramer and she longed for sweet home Alabama. "When I got back home – to Andalusia, friends, who were then middle-aged, were playing bluegrass," she said. "The more I heard that high, lonesome sound of bluegrass the more I began to respect it as an art form." Russell had received a bachelor of arts degree from the University of Alabama and a master's degree from Florida State. She made her art marks in the mid-1960s during the emergence of abstract and impressionistic art. But, in mid-life, she became fascinated by the music of musicians who got their licks on old-time strings. "Bluegrass has a special beat, a beat not like any other music," Russell said. "I began to watch the gestures of the bluegrass musicians. Their gestures are different from those of other musicians. They move, but then they don't. There's an energy to their movements or lack of movement unique to bluegrass."
Russell began to travel to bluegrass festivals all around the state. At each one, she was energized and she flourished as a painter. But not as much – never as much – as at Rex Locklar's bluegrass festivals in the sleepy, blink-and-you-miss-it, community of Henderson in rural Pike County. "I started going to bluegrass festivals and painting pickers about 20 years ago," Russell said. "I was so energized by the music and so fascinated by the movements – the gestures – of the pickers I made bluegrass pickers my main motif. I fell in love with the whole process of the discipline of people playing bluegrass music. "I've been going to Rex's bluegrass festivals for about 17 years and I love going there. It's a different atmosphere, especially back in Hippie Hollow." Some might say Henderson is in the backside of nowhere and Hippie Hollow is in the backside of there. And that's where the pickers make their licks and Russell finds her marks. She doesn't initiate the music. She just waits for it to happen. Russell can't play a musical instrument. Her instruments are a pencil and paintbrush. And, with them, she can capture the energy of bluegrass with brush strokes that the pickers generate with their strings. "The pickers' music gives me permission to draw and then to paint, so it's an interchange," Russell said. "So I can enjoy the music and be a part of it through my paintings." To be an on-site painter and, especially one who depends on others for the energy needed to paint, an artist has to be able to be "in the moment." No artist is more in the moment than Margo Russell. "When I hear the music start, I throw my drawing board on the ground, get down on my knees, get dirty and let the energy of the music 'move' me," Russell said. "First, I draw the gestures of the pickers while they play. As they move with the music, I 'draw' from their energy." With big, sweeping, fluid marks, Russell begins to pencil in the scene on inexpensive brown stock paper. At times, there is a lone picker playing. Other times, there will be several pickers and maybe a dancer or two. When the brown paper drawing is completed, Russell moves it to the side and puts an expensive sheet of French watercolor paper in its place on the drawing board. First she "pencils in" the musicians' gestures, careful to make sure the figures are placed so the painting will have perspective and not be a flat one-dimensional artwork. "I always leave the tiny pencil marks on the paper, like rabbit tracks in the snow," Russell said. "Then, I'm ready to paint." Russell works from a palette that is actually a tray of paints. "I've used this palette so often I know exactly where the colors are," she said. "I could paint with my eyes closed." But instead, she plays her "instruments" with her knees firmly planted in Mother Earth and her head moving in sync with the gestures of the pickers. She paints in quick, fluid motions and in broad strokes. The facial expressions of the musicians tell some of the story; their gestures tell it all. Her finished paintings have the lively, quick, happy feeling of a well-turned bluegrass tune or of the high lonesome sounds, as Hank Williams wrote, could send the moon behind the clouds to hide its face and cry. Russell also captures the gestures of bluegrass musicians in clay and in three dimensions. She brings clay to life and gives it the energy of bluegrass music. It's almost possible to hear the music, as if the clay absorbs it and then gives it back just as Russell absorbs the music and gives it back. Russell is a bluegrass musician almost as surely as was Bill Monroe. She plays her instruments – her pencil and her broad brush – with the same energy and feeling pickers strum their strings. She's a Southern gal, back home and making her marks in the world of bluegrass music. Jaine Treadwell is a freelance writer from Brundidge.


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Linda Louise Gerlach, 70, of Wheelersburg, died Tuesday, Jan. 15, 2013, at Concord Nursing and Rehabilitation Center. She was born May 11, 1942, in Portsmouth, Ohio, a daughter of the late John and Lillie Eulett Allard and was a member of the Sciotoville Christian Church.
Linda is survived by a son, William James Gerlach II of Portsmouth; a daughter, Kristianna Powell of Wheelersburg; two sisters, Juanita Adams of Lucasville and Mary Selbee of Portsmouth; and three grandchildren, Eli Gerlach, Alyssa Gerlach and Ashleigh Powell. She was also preceded in death by three brothers, Eddie, Albert and John Allard; two sisters, Freda Dillow and Phyllis Johnston and a good friend Eileen Henry.
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Abilene has seen a drop in the number of armed robberies from January to March 2012. Staying at a rate of two per month, that's only 6 aggravated robberies in the last three months, which is down from this time last year.
"in comparison to the first quarter of 2011, we saw that there was actually 14 aggravated robberies," said Officer Spindler.
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In a continuing trend of higher fines and forfeitures, the U.S. Attorney's Office and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) announced ABC Professional Tree Services Inc. (ABC) had agreed to pay $2 million as forfeited funds to the Department of Homeland Security and adhere to revised immigration compliance procedures in return for the government agreeing not to criminally prosecute the company.
ABC is a Houston-based company that provides right of way vegetation management for electric utilities in more than a dozen states. ICE-HSI agents, in Birmingham, Alabama, began investigating ABC in early 2008 following complaints that a significant portion of the company's employees were undocumented aliens. In March 2008, agents conducted traffic stops on ABC crews and detained employees, who were determined to be unlawfully present in the United States.
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The government's investigation revealed ABC had ignored federal law for years, by falsely attesting on I-9s that work authorization documents presented by new hires appeared genuine. In addition, for several years, ABC had received "no-match letters" from the Social Security Administration (SSA) and similar information from the company's payroll processor, both of which indicated employee names and Social Security numbers did not match SSA records. However, the company failed to take corrective measures, resulting in the continued employment of the undocumented aliens.
ABC derived at least $2 million in revenue from the provision of services to electrical utilities with its undocumented workforce from 2006 through 2011. This figure represents the amount of money that ABC agreed to forfeit to the government.
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Just in 2012, ICE-HSI has fined or agreed to forfeitures at the following companies or business executives in these amounts (only listing those of $100,000 or more): Atrium Companies – $2 million; Advanced Containment Systems Inc. (ACSI) – $2 million; HerbCo – $1 million; Sun Drywall and Stucco, Inc. – $225,000; two executives of LTCI Ltd. – $223,000; and J & J Industrial Supply – $150,000.
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Senators from both parties have embraced the possibility of Senator John F. Kerry being nominated for secretary of state, a reflection of the chamber's clubby ways, Republican interest in giving recently defeated senator Scott Brown a chance to return, and genuine respect for the Democrat's work across the political aisle.
"I think the most important thing is that he's well qualified," said George Mitchell, a Maine Democrat and former Senate majority leader who served with Kerry and has led a post-political life of diplomacy and mediation.
This would be a great way for Kerry to screw the Commonwealth, paving the way away from all that Senator Kennedy stood for and directly into republican agendas. The thought of Warren having to work with Brown who didn't seem to care much for the Commonwealth he 'represented' makes my stomach turn. And Massachusetts has been doing so well politically too!
Why is the Globe quoting Judson Philips about anything? In addition to believing only property owners should be able to vote, he's still trying to get Obama declared an illigitimate President. His lastest scheme involves having Romney ignore the Electoral College so the House can put him in office. He's also accused Scott Brown of "throwing conservatives under the bus." That he's trying to reorganize the Swift Boaters is no surprise.
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Kerry needs to stay put.
Vickie Kennedy's only claim to fame is who she married - the last name. Putting her into the Senate would be oh so wrong. If she took the position, she is trading on the name. As never in a million years would she be considered if she hadn't married a Kennedy. Haven't seen her doing anything here in Massachusetts, since Ted died. Wonder if the sheep like Democrats will vote her in because they are told to, party line must be followed, never mind what is good for the people. Why can't we have qualified people in government, not party hacks. Why can't people vote on conscience, not as sheep (doing what they are told no matter what)? Vickie, if you want to do some good, stay where you are, you must really know it is your last name, not you. Getting Kerry out of the Senate would be good. When have you ever seen him in your area? Has he ever left DC to make a visit to 'his state'?
The Governor will appoint his party's choice and that person will be someone who intends to run for the office. I want Brown back, a moderate who is not in lock step with the Republican party. We need him to counter the "follower" Warren, who will take all direction from her party. At least Kennedy & Kerry could work with the other party from time to time, just as it should be.
Scott Brown's reelection--even via a special election, which is the way he won the first time-- is unlikely. Scott greatly damaged his reputation as a nice guy in his--and Karl Rove's-- campaign strategy of repeatedly making false claims in an attempt to ruin Elizabeth Warren's character. Further, voters became increasingly aware that Scott's claims of bipartisanship were all talk and contradicted by his votes. He is a poster boy for Wall Street; they depend on his vote and want him back in the Senate. He also supports big oil subsidies.


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Archipelagusche Eylanden - Van Keulen Johannes , 1697-1709.
Sea chart of the Northwest of the Aegean Sea with three inset maps: the street between Tenedos and Turkey, the eastern coast of the island of Chios and one of the Gulf of Smyrna in Turkey.
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