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The Welsh Government has recently announced radical proposals to boost the number of organs which are available for donation.
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I think my concern is that the present bill is not about organ donation. It's about deemed consent. Instead of asking people to give their organs, they are saying in this bill that if you haven't opted out then your organs can be used after yiour death. Now, I dont think that's a donation, that's not voluntary
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We know that some people are very opposed to this bill however, you need to look at it and see the benefits it will bring to many people. Organ transplantation is a hugely effective form of treatment. it improves the lives of so many people.
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by Bo Ra Kim, Sierra Student Coalition, Bates Energy Action Movement
Yesterday, Bates College disappointed many students and alumni that have been pushing the campus to live up to its "green" image. President Clayton Spencer released a public letter to the community stating that Bates would not be divesting from the fossil fuel industry.
The letter begins by explaining that Bates understands the urgency of climate change and that Bates has been a "leader in environmentally sustainable practices." President Spencer then cites the meetings that have occurred between the Bates Energy Action Movement (BEAM) and the administration. However, she wrote that section as if BEAM is an isolated group of students that are pushing for divestment. She did not mention the 500+ petitions signed by Bates students that we hand-delivered to her office calling for transparency within the endowment, or the 73 petitions signed by Bates alumni asking for divestment.
The last blog post we wrote was filled with hope, and yet somehow we have landed here. Throughout all of our meetings with the administration, it was made clear that the board of trustees would vote on this issue during an in-person meeting. However, it is unknown if that ever happened. In an email, President Spencer told us that this was a decision she made with the trustees. BEAM is shocked by the sudden lack of transparency in this process, particularly after we worked so closely with the administration.
During our past meetings with the trustees and President Spencer, we provided many articles that prove that divestment would not lead to losing money or increased risk. In President Spencer's letter, there is no indication that they have read any of the sources we provided.
President Spencer writes, "...the transition would result in significant transaction costs, a long-term decrease in the endowment's performance, an increase in the endowment's risk profile, and thus a loss in annual operating income for the college." Where is her evidence? What types of research and analysis did she and her advisers use to arrive at this conclusion?
In the spirit of MLK day, we want to push back on Bates' claim that the endowment should not be used for political purposes. In his letter from Birmingham Jail, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. writes, "We merely bring to the surface the hidden tension that is already alive. We bring it out in the open, where it can be seen and dealt with. Like a boil that can never be cured so long as it is covered up but must be opened with all its ugliness to the natural medicines of air and light, injustice must be exposed, with all the tension its exposure creates, to the light of human conscience and the air of national opinion before it can be cured."
There are tensions that exist in this world regarding climate change. As MLK said, Bates cannot be free of political tension. We can either choose to be passive and allow the fossil fuel industry to destroy our world, or we can choose to divest and be on the side of climate justice, on the side of our grandchildrens' future.
The fossil fuel industry is radically changing our world. The concept of divesting our endowment from this industry is not radical. Extracting fossil fuels ruins communities and poisons water; burning fossil fuels releases toxic chemicals and climate-disrupting carbon pollution into the air, putting children's health at risk. The fossil fuel industry is radical.
If divesting from fossil fuel companies is considered to be political, isn't investing also political? By investing in dirty energy companies, are we not endorsing their behaviors and encouraging them to grow?
President Clayton Spencer thought that she could end the conversation on divestment with her four-page letter. She is sorely wrong. BEAM will be taking up her offer to meet with her to discuss this decision. But even more than that, the 300+ campuses all around the United States will continue this fight against the fossil fuel industry through divestment, and we are prepared to continue fighting alongside them.
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I am concerned that the proposed housing project at the Menlo Park VA facility may not give absolute preference to veterans. The proposal simply states "The primary mission of the project, from inception, is to serve Veterans who are homeless or are at risk of homelessness."
Absent a guarantee that veterans will always have priority for this housing the justification for the VA's gifting of the land for the project might be called into question.
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Developers and west LA city council are trying to do the same to the VA land in Brentwood west LA.
They are trying to displace veterans to develop the site.
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I have determined that Veterans WILL get absolute priority in this project:
"The VA and developer will comply with the Fair Housing Act and fill Willow Housing with Veterans by creating a marketing plan that generates a full pipeline of Veteran applicants, and selection criteria that prefers Veterans. Also, 35 HUD-Veterans Affairs Supportive Housing (HUD-VASH) vouchers have already been allocated to the project, which ties 35 Veterans to just as many units."
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Several readers let us know Ralph Fiennes has been spotted about town recently in London, sporting a new look with a bald head, as he is apparently now filming his scenes as Lord Voldemort in Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix. You can see some recent photos of Ralph here via Getty.
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CUMBERLAND COUNTY, NC (WECT) - A teacher in Cumberland County now faces a misdemeanor criminal charge after being accused of slapping a second grade student on the face.
Detectives planned to serve a criminal summons to Tammy Moore, 35, at Brentwood Elementary Thursday morning.
Authorities started investigating on October 11th, when they say the student told his family that the teacher hit him. The sheriff's department says the student was disruptive in class and distracting others, so the teacher says she tapped him on the left side of the cheek to get his attention, sit down and be quiet.
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The Littletown Food Bank on the southeast side, behind Pima Air and Space Museum, has caution tape around the storage building.
It's waiting on fire inspectors to go through all the food to see if any of it is still salvageable.
Volunteers set up canopies this morning. It's the first day
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Arson investigators are looking into what may have started
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Volunteers say there was arson there about four years ago,
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Considering the fact that Gray Maynard and Nate Diaz had met twice before, splitting those bouts in 2007 and 2010, respectively, it only made sense for the two lightweights to have one more go of it. That happened in the main event of tonight's (Sat., Nov. 30, 2013) The Ultimate Fighter (TUF) 18 Finale at the Mandalay Bay Events Center in Las Vegas, Nevada.
Maynard came out aggressive from the start, leaping in with that left hook he throws so very often. He missed, allowing Diaz to send some counter punches his way, but nothing doing.
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Obesity has become an increasingly difficult problem in the United States, especially among youth. All facets of society have proposed ideas on how to combat the issue, including education campaigns, research into the impact of media on children and restrictions or bans on food marketing.
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The AAF believes advertising can be a dramatic force in combating obesity. We are working with our member companies, clubs, federations, districts, physical education groups and others to seek out ways to educate consumers on how to live healthy lifestyles. The AAF's member companies have introduced or reformulated thousands of food products to make them healthier and more nutritious. Advertising can be used for positive change, such as campaigns from the Ad Council in support of physical activity. The self-regulatory work done by the Children's Advertising Review Unit (CARU) and the National Advertising Division ensure that all advertising is fair and accurate. We support the Children's Food and Beverage Advertising Initiative administered by the Council of Better Business Bureaus (CBBB) and the National Advertising Review Council (NARC). The initiative will enforce pledges made by member companies to increase the promotion of healthier products and exercise, as well as limit the use of licensed characters and interactive games in their marketing.
Consumer interest groups such as the Center for Science in the Public Interest, Campaign for a Commercial-Free Childhood, Commercial Alert and others have decried marketing as a source of the obesity problem and believe that eliminating the marketing of unhealthy food will end its demand. Critics of self-regulation have called for increased scrutiny of the way CARU operates. Some groups recommend that advertising distinguish between "healthy" and "unhealthy" foods, and some have called for an outright ban of all advertisements of "unhealthy" food to children.
Beginning in November 2006, fifteen companies comprising the Children's Food and Beverage Advertising Initiative have pledged to focus their advertising directed to children under 12 on products meeting better-for-you nutrition standards or refrain from advertising to children entirely. The companies will restrict using third-party-licensed characters to products meeting nutritional criteria and Web sites promoting healthy lifestyles. The Council of Better Business Bureaus, which oversees the initiative, monitors the companies' advertising to ensure compliance with the pledges. In July 2008, the CBBB released a report on its Children's Food & Beverage Advertising Initiative, announcing overwhelming compliance with companies' pledge obligations.
Senators Sam Brownback, R-Kan., and Tom Harkin, D-Iowa, along with Federal Communications Commission Chairman Kevin Martin and Commissioners Deborah Taylor Tate and Michael Copps, convened a Media and Childhood Obesity Task Force with major food and media companies and trade associations. AAF President & CEO Wally Snyder represents the AAF on the task force. Sen. Brownback said he is "hopeful that this task force will forge a voluntary, public-private partnership to effectively address the pressing issue of media and child health."
A 2005 Institute of Medicine Report, "Food Marketing to Children and Youth: Threat or Opportunity," warns that "current food and beverage marketing practices put kids' long-term health at risk." This report was requested by Congress, especially Sen. Harkin, and funded by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The AAF believes this report does not adequately address proactive steps the food marketers have taken to combat obesity.
The Federal Trade Commission and Department of Health and Human Services convened a workshop on food marketing to children in July 2005. AAF President & CEO Wally Snyder spoke at the workshop, praising CARU for its hard work in monitoring advertising to kids and said that the organization is "a thread woven into the fabric of self-regulation," noting that all ads directed at children undergo intense scrutiny—beginning with the advertiser, its agency and media outlets—before they air. In their report on the workshop, released in May 2006, the FTC and HHS made several recommendations for the food and advertising industries but did not call for further government action. Rather, the report called on all industries to intensify efforts to combat obesity already in place.
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Martin Johnson, Manusamoa Tuilagi, Jonny Wilkinson, Joe Simpson and Captain Lewis Moody, speak exclusively to the RFU Podcast as England prepare for the final stage of the build-up to the Rugby World Cup.
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We've got three Rugby World Cup winners looking ahead to this autumn's tournament on the RFU.com podcast this week, as England 2003 heroes Ben Cohen and Jason Leonard and Australia's 1991 star Michael Lynagh give their thoughts on the rugby showpiece. We've also got England Women's hooker Amy Garnett on her 100 caps and London Scottish captain Lewis Calder looking forward to life in the RFU Championship.
11 August 2011
England scrum half Richard Wigglesworth takes the lead on the RFU.com podcast this week, talking about his opportunity to stake his claim for a Rugby World Cup spot from the outset against Wales this weekend. We also hear from fellow starters wing Chris Ashton and flanker Tom Wood, who speak about Wales in Cardiff and meeting the fans at this week's well-attended open training session at Twickenham Stadium. Plus, England's most capped hooker of all-time Steve Thompson answers your twitter questions; we wrap up the JP Morgan Premiership Sevens with Luke Fielden; and meet the next generation at the Rugby Player Association annual Academy Induction Day.
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Debutant England centre Manusamoa Tuilagi headlines the RFU.com podcast this week, chatting about winning his first cap against Wales this weekend and the battle to get to New Zealand. England Team Manager Martin Johnson talks about his new outside centre and Jonny Wilkinson, who starts at No.10 on the occasion of his 86th cap. We've also got centre Mike Tindall answering Twitter questions; prop Matt Stevens on the August 9 open training session at Twickenham Stadium; Defence Coach Mike Ford on the Rugby World Cup build-up; Peter Winterbottom previewing the finals of the JP Morgan Premiership; and Nicky Ponsford on the three series Test agreement between England Women and arch-rivals New Zealand.
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We concentrate on England on the RFU.com podcast this week, with four members of the Rugby World Cup preliminary training squad – lock Courtney Lawes, scrum half Danny Care, No.8 Thomas Waldrom and wing Charlie Sharples – bringing us the latest from the camp. We also hear from England Women's Head Coach Gary Street as he prepares to start the Nations Cup in Canada and round up the latest from the JP Morgan Asset Management Premiership 7s Series with Sarries wings James Short and Chris Wyles.


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Yeston won the Tony Award in 1982 for the Best Original Score of Nine and again in 1997 for the Best Original Score of Titanic. He was Tony-nominated for Grand Hotel. He also penned the music for Off-Broadway's Death Takes a Holiday as well as the song cycle December Songs, originally written for Andrea Marcovicci and recently performed by Tony nominee Laura Osnes at 54 Below.
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If you read American Police Beat, you already know that Pennsylvania Governor Ed Rendell was forced to apologize after the state department of homeland security sent a bulletin to local law enforcement. The bulletin was intended to provide intelligence about potential security threats. The police agencies that received it said the information was re-hashed Internet garbage and useless as far as intelligence purposes. In addition to being worthless, the so-called intelligence report was also expensive.
The state paid one of the thousands of homeland security start-ups $100,000 for intel of such low quality that one law enforcement official described the contents as something one might find in the National Inquirer.
But now the controversial no-bid contract has been terminated and the state department of homeland security says they will do their own work from now on.
According to an article in the Post Gazette newspaper, Pennsylvania is hiring four analysts and a supervisor to work at the 28-member Pennsylvania Criminal Intelligence Center.
The PCIC is part of the state police that already provides security alerts to government and law enforcement agencies, said Steve Crawford, chief of staff to Gov. Ed Rendell.
The new hires can't do any worse than the firm that used to produce intelligence. The Institute of Terrorism Research & Response, a private company based in Philadelphia and Israel, had been performing that work under a $103,000 annual contract.
A hundred grand seems kind of steep considering the fact that the company's "security bulletins" were compilations of news clips and Internet posts.
Pennsylvania Homeland Security Director James F. Powers, who had approved the contract, resigned because of the controversy.
In what many refer to as the "Post 9/11 gravy train," quality control and value for dollars spent are an afterthought at best.
The homeland security industrial complex is characterized largely by no-bid contracts and back room deals.
"What's wrong with the system will not be cured by the resignation of Mr. Powers," said committee Chairwoman Lisa Baker R-Luzerne, who presided over a hearing to learn the governor's plans to remedy the problem of a contract that she said "veered so far off track."
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Facebook is getting a facelift of sorts.The social networking site is tweaking one of its major elements.The titan of social media borrowed a page from print media to describe the changes to Facebook's Newsfeed."What we're trying to do is give everyone in the world the best personalized newspaper we can," said CEO Mark Zuckerberg.In a presentation streamed on company's website Zuckerberg and colleagues unveiled a makeover which allows users to divide their Newsfeed into sections, such as publications, music and photographs.Allowing users to create topic specific Newsfeeds is an effort to keep them on Facebook longer, seeing more content and ads.The Newsfeed makeover also includes giving it a consistent look from computers to mobile devices."About 60 percent of Facebook users are engaging through mobile, and that number's only going up. They're going to have to get creative about how they're monetizing that," says Gene Munster, Senior Research Analyst with Piper Jaffray.The Newsfeed makeover is not being imposed on Facebook users at this point. In fact, theyHave to sign up on a wait list to be able to take advantage of them.The changes are being rolled out slowly to a limited number of users over the next couple of Weeks. Facebook says it'll make tweaks and adjustments based on their feedback before putting it out for all users.
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Placer County's Department of Child Support Services is hosting a monthly "Open House" seminar to provide information to residents interested in learning more about the services it provides. This month's seminar will be held Tuesday, May 21, 2013 from 4 p.m. to 5 p.m. at 1000 Sunset Blvd., Suite 200, Rocklin.
"Government involvement in people's lives can sometimes provoke anxiety," said event coordinator Kristen Mindus. "By providing access to experts in each area of child support that can assist with answering those questions, the department continues to foster honest and transparent relationships with those it serves."
From the best way to open a child support case, to the nuances of bank levies and garnishments, an expert in each field will be available Tuesday to answer questions. The goal of these monthly events is to give residents a clear understanding of the processes and of the many services Placer County is committed to providing.
"Providing information to our customers allows greater opportunity for some to make informed decisions about payment schedules and avoiding difficult circumstances if an obligation has not been met," Mindus said.
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BOSTON — A suspect in the Boston Marathon bombings died from gunshot wounds and blunt trauma to his head and torso, a funeral director said Friday.
Worcester funeral home owner Peter Stefan has 26-year-old Tamerlan Tsarnaev's body and read details from his death certificate. The certificate cites Tsarnaev's "gunshot wounds of torso and extremities" and lists the time of his death as 1:35 a.m. on April 19, four days after the deadly bombing, Stefan said.
Tsarnaev died after a gunfight with authorities who had launched a massive manhunt for him and his brother, ethnic Chechens from Russia who came to the United States about a decade ago. Police have said he ran out of ammunition before his younger brother dragged his body under a vehicle while fleeing.
Tsarnaev's family on Friday was making arrangements for his funeral as investigators searched the woods near a college attended by 19-year-old Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, who was captured less than a day after his brother's death.
The funeral parlor in Worcester is familiar with Muslim services and said it will handle arrangements for Tamerlan Tsarnaev, whose body was released by the state medical examiner Thursday night.
The body initially was taken to a North Attleborough funeral home, where it was greeted by about 20 protesters. Stefan, owner of Graham Putnam and Mahoney Funeral Parlors in Worcester, an hour's drive west of Boston, said everybody deserves a dignified burial service no matter the circumstances of his or her death and he is prepared for protests.
"My problem here is trying to find a gravesite. A lot of people don't want to do it. They don't want to be involved with this," said Stefan, who said dozens of protesters gathered outside his funeral home, upset with his decision to handle the funeral. "I keep bringing up the point of Lee Harvey Oswald, Timothy McVeigh or Ted Bundy. Somebody had to do those, too."


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Mass in Motion Melrose/Wakefield aims to provide residents with simple, practical and cost effective ways to eat better and move more at home, work and in the community. The Mass in Motion grant is being used to support these initiatives by coordinating a cross section of local agencies, community groups, local businesses and coalitions to address the issue of obesity in a local comprehensive approach.
Ambitious overall county goals include increasing availability and affordability of healthful foods throughout the communities. This includes foods offered in local restaurants, at public schools, in convenience stores, and at local farmers markets. Melrose and Wakefield are also increasing the total number of physical activity opportunities by creating safer routes for students to walk to school, and creating more opportunities to walk and bike throughout the community.
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Representatives from the West Texas Native American Association were in Abernathy on Thursday to offer a blessing for Quanah Parker Trail Arrow #56.
The arrow was installed on June 6, 2013 by the City of Abernathy working in conjunction with the Texas Plains Trail Region.
Holle Humphries sent us this description of the event on behalf of the Texas Plains Trail Region:
The Quanah Parker Trail is a special initiative launched by the Texas Plains Trail Region to celebrate a unique history of our area.
The purpose of the Quanah Parker Trail is multifold: to honor the memory of Quanah Parker and his extended family, to commemorate the Comanche people who dominated our area once known as "The Comancheria," to remember the American Indian tribes who joined with them as allies at the end of the 19th century in the battle to preserve their way of life on the High Plains of Texas, and to pay respect to the Native Americans of the past and present who formerly and presently occupy our region today.
The Quanah Parker Trail arrow, created and generously donated by New Home artist Charles A. Smith, is intended to serve as a visible symbol to help invoke this undertold story of our region.
Participating counties and towns of the Texas Plains Trail Region's Quanah Parker Trail are always pleased to welcome interest and honor brought to the Quanah Parker Trail arrows.
Therefore, the members of the West Texas Native American Association are owed our gratitude and respect for conferring their blessing upon the Quanah Parker Trail Arrow of Abernathy, Texas, on the 4th of July, 2013.
Most particularly, we were all honored by the presence at the dedication ceremony of Ms. Jena Parker and her son and daughter, all of whom are descendants Quanah Parker and who live in our region.
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LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) -- Streets in West Louisville were blocked off for several hours this morning after a fatal shooting.
Police say they got the call at around 6:15 AM that shots had been fired.
They say when they arrived at the corner of 22nd and Magazine Streets they found a woman who had been shot to death. She was found behind the Salisbury apartment complex.
The coroner identified the woman as 30-year-old Dominique Carter-Bryant, and say she lived in the apartments. She died of multiple gunshot wounds.
We're told she is a mother, and was believed to be returning home, when something went terribly wrong right outside the back door of the building.
Neighbors like Chaz Dunbar walked outside after the incident.
"There was a couple gunshots, but I didn't think too much of it, you know. Something I hear, I'm not gonna say quite frequently, but it is often," says Chaz Dunbar.
Community activist Christopher 2X says this is exactly the kind of violence city leaders have been working together to stop.
"Even though we came up with those recommendations for the mayor, this is going to be a long road to hopefully try to quail these acts of violence," says Christopher 2X.
In this case, it was the 2nd murder of the year. This number doesn't include the other shootings this year, that haven't been fatal.
"For the first 40 days of 2013, you're talking about 12 individuals being hit by gunfire, and 2 fatal," says Christopher 2X.
Officer Alicia Smiley of the Louisville Metro Police Department says they are still looking into what happened. She said a friend of the alleged victim spoke to police at the station, and that person is not a suspect.
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Shakhira Dunson, 20, leaves behind a 10-month-old son.
The boy's father, Carlos Simpson, is accused of shooting Dunson on Eagle's Nest Circle on Tuesday.
The victim's mother said Simpson threatened to kill her daughter if she ever left him.
Dunson's mother says she's also just learned her daughter was 20 weeks pregnant.
Dunson's 10-month old son is now with Shakhira's mother.
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In the April 1987 issue of Theatre Crafts The cover story featured The Hunger Artist (photographed in early tech rehearsals by Carol Rosegg/Martha Swope Associates), which marked the third collaboration of lighting designer Paul Gallo with director Martha Clarke and set designer Robert Israel.
Another story featured Theatre Crafts' 20th anniversary. This year marks 40 years of theatre coverage for the franchise.
A look at "costume sculpture performance" artist Sha Sha Higby and her creations included Cows Under a Pepper Tree and Chiffon and Wood, a ritualistic dance.
In "Rock 'N' Roll Lighting Control," then technical editor Steve Pollack looked at consoles and how having Bump and Solo buttons was not enough for the ultimate rock show of 1987. This included an overview of consoles from Avolites, CAE, Celco, Spectrum Design, Teatronics, and Zero 88.
The Washington Ear was providing audio description services for hearing-impaired patrons in Washington, DC theatres.
A preview of the 26th annual USITT conference in Minneapolis-St. Paul included award news, with that year's recipients including Jules Fisher (for service to the industry), Tanya Moiseiwitsch (Thomas DeGaetani Award), and Richard L. Arnold (Founders' Award for service to USITT).


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Includes adopting a pet, animal control, and local vets and shelters.
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Noah Brommeland of the Placer County District Attorney's Office has been named "Investigator of the Year" by the California District Attorney Investigators' Association.
Brommeland, 36, a four-year veteran of the Placer County office, received the award Thursday night in Palm Springs at the association's 54th annual training conference awards banquet.
It is the first time that an investigator from the Placer County District Attorney's Office has won the honor.
Brommeland played a key role in the successful prosecution in January of Paul R. Kovacich Jr., a former Placer County sheriff's sergeant who was found guilty by a trial jury of murdering his wife in 1982. Kovacich was sentenced to 27 years to life in state prison.
To assist in the prosecution against Kovacich, Brommeland reviewed 11,000 pages of documents, conducted more than 85 interviews and wrote 58 new reports in just a few months, according to David Koppin, chief investigator of the Placer County District Attorney's Bureau of Investigation.
In past years, Brommeland was the lead investigator in two other high-profile trials that resulted in murder convictions by the District Attorney's Office, Koppin noted.
These included the cases of Eric Dungan, who was found guilty of second-degree murder in the DUI-related death of Rocklin Police Officer Matthew Redding, and Timothy Brooks, who stabbed and killed a man in a road-rage incident in the Lake Tahoe area.
"Noah proved himself time and time again with his investigative tenacity, insightful analysis and dedication to overcome the most rigid and determined defense," Koppin said.
In 2008, Brommeland also took the lead in organizing a countywide committee of law enforcement agencies, which developed and implemented a protocol that articulates the manner in which officer-involved fatal incident investigations would be conducted.
Brommeland said he was honored to have played a key role in the Kovacich investigation, which consisted largely of circumstantial evidence against the defendant. Only the top portion of the victim's skull was ever found in the 26-year murder mystery.
"There is no greater honor bestowed on a police officer than when you are entrusted with the investigation of the death of a human being," Brommeland said. "I am pleased that the Placer County community finally received justice for the victim, Janet Kovacich."
He was also pleased to have spearheaded the committee that developed the protocol for officer-involved fatal shootings or other deaths.
"The investigations of these incidents are complex and have to be thorough," he said. "It was the goal of the committee to develop a protocol that assured the public that such incidents are investigated fully and independently."
Brommeland, a native of California, received his degree in criminal justice from California State University, Sacramento. He is currently working on a masters degree in public administration from Golden Gate University.
His law enforcement career began with the Santa Clara County Sheriff's Department, where he spent seven years and worked his way to the position of sergeant. He was also a member of the department's SWAT team.
Brommeland, who was hired by the Placer County District Attorney in 2005, is the office's fourth member to win a prestigious state award this year.
Senior Deputy District Attorneys Suzanne Gazzaniga and David Tellman, who were the prosecutors in the Kovacich case, were named "Prosecutors of the Year" by the California District Attorneys Association in June.
Brandon Olivera, another investigator for the office, was honored in July as "Officer of the Year" by the California Narcotics Officers Association. Olivera, hired in May by the District Attorney, won the award for his work with the Rocklin Police Department.
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Tons of people loved Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix. I did too, but a lot of people I've spoken to, in person and online, have said that one of the things that they didn't like about the book was Harry's seemingly constant anger. I've heard many things such as, "He was way too moody," "He was so ticked off all the time," "His anger was so irritating," and "He was such a whiner in this one." On forums, I have seen people casually calling our hero "Emo-Harry", "CAPSLOCK-Harry", as well as some rude slang terms. It seems that the sources of Harry's anger are flying right over many fans' heads, as though this sudden, unfounded anger appeared out of nowhere. A lot of people found Harry's rage annoying and attacked him for it. But Harry's anger comes out of a very real place. Because of the events in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, Harry is experiencing anger and depression.
"Depression is a result of a deep sense of loss or repressed, pent-up anger." 1 Anyone who has ever lost someone or been through a horrific incident can very easily identify with Harry and his rage. You don't have to be a psychiatrist to notice that Harry is experiencing just that in Order of the Phoenix. People have actually told me that Order of the Phoenix helped them get through their own depression by reading about Harry's. They knew exactly how Harry felt, and I think it made them feel less lonely. The same has been said about people near the Gulf Coast reading Harry Potter books because they helped them cope with the aftermath of the hurricane disaster.
The events in Goblet of Fire were very traumatizing. According to the research, Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder occurs "in children or teens [...] following their seeing, or being involved in a very frightening event or trauma." 2 What if what Harry went through on that fateful night in June suddenly happened to someone in real life? In fact, similar events do happen, but not a lot of people are fully aware of it. If that happened to someone you knew would they be the same person? Just to put this in perspective: If one of your friends were killed right before your eyes for no reason, and you were tied, tortured, and almost killed, you would have several good reasons for being angry. Add to that the guilt and anger at yourself for believing that you contributed to your friend's death. An adult would have an extremely hard time dealing with that, but Harry is fourteen at the time the Triwizard Tournament ends with a fellow student's death. There are fourteen-year-old teens in our world who deal with some sort of trauma like that, and they rarely process it all without experiencing a lot of anger. "Following a traumatic event, children and teens may feel very fearful, helpless, angry, sad or guilty that they were somehow the cause of the traumatic event…." 3 In Harry's case, he is angry, guilty, and feeling helpless about the whole thing! It is natural. It is human.
It is said that what happens to us means less than what happens in us. At the time that we first meet Harry in Order of the Phoenix, he's locked in his room for most of each day for thirty days, and he does a lot of thinking (he has no one to talk to, after all). After the events in Goblet of Fire, there are many things he has been mulling over in his mind for a month, stewing in anger, guilt, and sadness. What else would Harry think about? The Dursleys are not helping. There are no caregivers helping Harry through this. He is also frustrated as heck at the fact that his two best friends aren't telling him a thing about what's going on. Anyone who has been left in the dark about something important can more than understand how frustrating it is. Then, he almost has his soul sucked out again by two Dementors, who make him relive some terrible moments. This does not make him feel any better. Needless to say, Harry isn't having a very good summer during his vacation.
Harry's anger and frustration are further fueled by the behavior of the political authorities. At the hearing it's as if the Minister of Magic has capriciously slapped him in the face, while The Daily Prophet is pleasantly whistling and looking in the other direction. Later in the year, he has to deal with Dolores Umbridge. She physically tortures him with an enchanted quill. She emotionally tortures him by preventing him from playing Quidditch; and we later find out she psychologically tortured him by sending the Dementors to Privet Drive. She also persecutes the Gryffindors at school and anyone who doesn't go along with her. She takes away the students' freedoms, and recruits the Slytherins to turn in their own classmates. The High Inquisitor is a HUGE contributor to Harry's rage.
Another thing to remember is that not all of Harry's anger is Harry's. How can we forget his and Voldemort's special mind link? Not only is our hero trying to handle his own feelings, but he also has to deal with Voldemort's. He is basically carrying around with him the thoughts and emotions of two people. That in itself is a heavy load. The Occlumency lessons are making matters worse and make him sick as well. In the scene where Harry has just returned from his first Occlumency lesson with Professor Snape, we see the effects the connection to the maniacal emotions of Lord Voldemort has on Harry:
He opened the door of his dormitory and was one step inside it when he experienced pain so severe he thought that someone must have sliced into the top of his head. He did not know where he was, whether he was standing or lying down, he did not even know his own name.
Maniacal laughter was ringing in his ears…he was happier than he had been in a very long time…jubilant, ecstatic, triumphant…a wonderful, wonderful thing had happened…
"Harry? HARRY!"
Someone had hit him around the face. The insane laughter was punctuated with a cry of pain. The happiness was draining out of him, but the laughter continued…
He opened his eyes and, as he did so, he became aware that the wild laughter was coming out of his own mouth. The moment he realized this, it died away; Harry lay panting on the floor, staring up at the ceiling, the scar on his forehead throbbing horribly. Ron was bending over him, looking very worried. 4
This scene indicates just how much Harry feels Voldemort's emotions, even when the emotion is not anger. There are many scenes throughout Order of the Phoenix where the Dark Lord's feelings influence Harry. That needs to be taken into account.
At the end of Order of the Phoenix, Harry is almost killed by Voldemort, his godfather is murdered, and again he feels it is partially his fault. The last of the Blacks and the last father figure he had is gone; Harry finally snaps. It had to happen. Harry could not have held all of that anger in forever, so he had to let it out. Who better to vent his anger and frustration at but Albus Dumbledore, the only real adult source of help (besides maybe Lupin or McGonagall) he has left? Who better than the person who should have been helping him and guiding him? Who better to storm at than the man who had refused to even look him in the eye the entire year?
In Order of the Phoenix, Harry has to deal emotionally with the murder of Cedric and the return of Voldemort while working through the events he is experiencing at school. Harry's anger is a natural reaction to those events. He's not superhuman. He has been through a lot and his anger isn't permanent. Maturity is an ongoing process; one cannot just get there overnight. If Harry had not responded to his anger in Order of the Phoenix, he would not have been able to handle the horrible events that occurred in Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince and would definitely not be ready for what's to come in Book Seven. If you removed Order of the Phoenix from the series, an essential piece of that process would be missing. It would not be a natural transition for Harry to go from Goblet of Fire to Half-Blood Prince just like that. Just as we do, Harry has to overcome more challenges and gain control over his emotions. Order of the Phoenix did that for him, so that now, he's on his way to becoming a man.
1. McGee, Search for Significance, 72.
2. Taylor, "Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder(PTSD) in Children," 1.
3. Ibid., 2.
4. Rowling, Order of the Phoenix, 478.
McGee, Robert S. Search for Significance. Houston, Texas: Rapha Publishing, 1992.
Rowling, J.K. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. London: Bloomsbury, 2000.
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Two and a half weeks after the massive East Coast storm displaced New Yorkers and still has left thousands without power, Obama made an aerial tour that included the Breezy Point community where roughly 100 homes were burned in a massive fire. Below Marine One, blue tarps covered some homes instead of roofs and debris was scattered across neighborhoods still drying out after the storm.
"We're reminded that we are bound together and we have to look out for each other," Obama said from Staten Island, where he met with residents coping with destroyed and damaged homes.
The president met with a couple, Glenda and Damien Moore, whose young sons were washed away in the storm surge.
"I expressed to them as a father, as a parent, my heartbreak over what they went through," the president said.
He praised a police official, Lt. Kevin Gallagher, for going above and beyond his job description by staying with that couple until their boys' bodies were found. "The Moores, even in their grief, asked me to mention Lt. Gallagher, and that says something about them as well," Obama said.
Obama also announced that Housing and Urban Development Sectretary Shaun Donovan will be his administration's point person for long-term redevelopment in the area.
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Prior to joining the Obama administration, Donovan served as commissioner of the New York City Department of Housing Preservation and Development.
Obama was joined on the tour by New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, Mayor Michael Bloomberg, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano, HUD Secretary Donovan, Sen. Charles Schumer, Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, Rep. Michael Grimm, Staten Island Borough President James Molinaro, and others.
Obama traveled to New Jersey on Oct. 31 to meet with Gov. Chris Christie and view recovery efforts in coastal communities. The president viewed flattened houses, flooded neighborhoods, sand-strewn streets and a still-burning fire along the state's battered coastline. Parts of the New Jersey shore's famed boardwalks were missing.
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Pierre lawyer Wade Fischer filed the lawsuit last week. The Argus Leader newspaper reports that it lists plaintiffs from various states who received loans from Martin Webb's companies in the past two years that charged higher-than-allowed interest rates. It seeks unspecified monetary damages.
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For benefit of the International Red Cross, Nazis stage a football match at Theresienstadt, in Czechoslovakia, on 23 Jun 1944. Inspectors watch the game taking place in the camp square. (Comite International de la Croix Rouge)
For Holocaust Remembrance Day, on the 65th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, we publish a 2008 interview with William Heyen. A Brooklyn-born child of German immigrants, he has authored numerous collections of poetry and essays about the Holocaust. In his poem "Parity," Heyen addresses the collusion that Nazis at Auschwitz forced on special squads, or Sonderkommando, by giving the primarily Jewish units the job of running the crematorium. At least once in 1944, the SS also staged a football match between representatives of the two groups, held in a crematorium courtyard.
Primo Levi in The Drowned and the Saved uses the phrase "gray zone" to describe the camp's network of complicity in which perpetrator and victim were bound institutionally to the job of extermination. The warped reality is captured in the soccer game. In Heyen's poem, the SS in this match envisions "the conjoining of spirit / for mutual health & benefit."
"They put the ball into play. Sonorous laughter filled the courtyard," writes Jewish doctor and Josef Mengele assistant Miklos Nyiszli in his eyewitness account of camp life. He continues:
The spectators became excited and shouted encouragement at the players, as if this were the playing field of some peaceful town. Stupefied, I made that mental note as well. Without waiting for the end of the match, I returned to my room. After supper I swallowed two sleeping tablets of ten centigrams each and fell asleep. A badly needed sleep, for I felt my nerves stretched to the breaking point. In such cases, sleeping tablets were the best remedy. (57–58)
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GG: Say some of your connection with soccer. I know it's long-standing and that you've played the game. What are some of your first recollections?—I imagine it was a while before there was organized soccer for you to play.
WH: As a kid I played lots of kickball games and that kind of thing at the playground. When I went to high school, and this was at Smithtown in Long Island, I think I was a sophomore when I began playing soccer and felt part of a team. That's when I began playing. And then because my high school coach had gone to [SUNY] Brockport here in western New York, I ended up at this place. I played more than three years on the varsity. I was all–New York State for a few years, and then I was all-American for two years, including first-team in my senior year. Just a few months ago for the first time I was vain enough for the first time to have one of my all-American certificates framed.
In those days there were no divisions in college soccer. Even little Brockport. We had just 800 or 900 students. We played the University of Pittsburgh and CCNY [City College of New York] and Army and Navy and other good schools. Brockport was co–national champions with Penn State in 1955. After that the centers of soccer moved out to the Midwest and to the West. But in those days we were at the hub of things.
I played what we called center-half back in those days. I don't know how much I'm in touch with the game anymore. I did follow the [2006] World Cup, and I've watched big matches in the past. I'm sort of an American now who has fallen under the spell of football and basketball. But soccer is maybe my heart's sport.
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First it was a bulging disc, but Chris Carpenter still was slated to start on Opening Day for the St. Louis Cardinals.
Now, not so much. Carpenter has been re-evaluated in St. Louis, and will be out of action indefinitely with nerve irritation in his pitching shoulder. The good news is that he's dealt with this injury before, and always come back without needing surgery.
Here's GM John Mozeliak, via Stltoday.com's Joe Strauss:
So whether it's rest or some sort of treatment program that we've done in the past to get him back, it does not appear to be... anything surgical or we know that if we have to take that next step, he's done for the year. None of that is on the table."
This could obviously be a lot worse, but it's still a blow to the Cardinals, who were obviously looking forward to having Carpenter and Adam Wainwright in their rotation for the first time since 2010. But Carpenter's struggled with this injury a number of times before, and he did throw 273 innings last season, including the postseason. So maybe we shouldn't be surprised that he's hurt once again.
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Penises are the new roses.
In the online dating world, there's tons of competition. Some men will go to great lengths to gain the attention of their chosen lady. So, what's their ingenious idea to win your heart? Show you their penis of course! I'm not sure of the rationale behind the latest spike in penis picture sending. Reading many dating blogs, this seems to be an increasingly regular occurrence. Perhaps the male species finds arousal in the idea of you checking out their junk. Maybe they think us women will find it sexy and immediately proceed to masturbate over the image of their below average, veiny and often unkempt penis. False sense of penis pride? One thing is for sure, no sane woman will EVER respond favorably to a stranger's creepy wiener photo.
And what is with these guys taking the pictures while they stand over a toilet? Did they just pee?
My best friend is a gay male. Like many of us, he is also involved in the misery that is online dating. He receives at least 2-3 messages per day on his Cleveland dating app that feature attached photos of skeevy schlongs. And rarely are they good looking penises. Playgirl material these men are not – their things are better left to the imagination. Gay or straight, no sane or moderately stable person wants to date a whack job who whose idea of "wooing" and "romance" includes proudly flashing their hairy ball sack.
To further my point, my best friend recently bought a used iPhone off Craigslist. He got it from some Lakewood dude (Watch out… He lives on Robin in Birdtown) who was probably 30-years-old. Upon turning it on, we found HUNDREDS of photos of this guy's junk that he was sending to women. For an added personal touch, this guy would write each woman's name with black marker on his erect penis. The accompanying messages always read "You Like?" Many other photos featured this man bent over spreading his cheeks to show off his hairy butthole. He left his email logged on and let's just say… those were even worse. You know, nothing screams romance like writing a woman's name on your wiener and showing her the location where your feces emerge.
The only men who send pictures of their junk are the men whose penises no one ever wants to see. I have yet to meet a woman who thinks it's a wonderful idea to send photos of her vagina to potential suitors. (I'm sure they are out there…)
Sexting your boyfriend/girlfriend is one thing. Sending photos of your nasty penis to a stranger is another. What ever happened to sending a cute e-card or surprising women on the first date with flowers? Instead we now receive a vomit-inducing picture of a small, crooked penis with the caption "You Like?"
No. We don't. We don't "like."
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