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---- — Ira Clark and Carolyn Gregory, 13401 Mount Calvary Road, Loogootee, were married Nov. 25, 1953, in the Glendale Methodist Church, with Rev. Clyde Wake officiating. Their attendants were the late Eugene Potts and the late Wanda (Way) Potts.
They are the parents of three children, Marsha (Ed) Neal of Freelandville, Greg (April) Clark and Susan (Terry) Wittmer, all of Loogootee. They have five grandchildren and one great-grandchild.


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PITTSBURGH—Pittsburgh watchmaker Michael Kobold climbed to the summit of Mt. Everest last year, and he will share a slide show on his experience at 11:00 a.m. February 25 in the CCAC–Boyce campus Lecture Hall (595 Beatty Road, Monroeville). Kobold's 2009 ascent was part of an effort to raise money for the Navy SEAL Warrior Fund, an organization supporting the families of Navy SEALs who have been killed or injured in combat or training. The presentation is free and open to the public.
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WINONA, Minn. (KTTC/AP) -- It was a small step for the big movement of the frac sand industry in Winona. And just like any move in favor of the booming sand business, it was met with opposition at Monday's city council meeting.
The four action items were a couple weeks in the making. However, before the council meeting, a peaceful protest was taking place on the city halls door steps.
An impromptu candle-light vigil was used as a symbol over sand.
"I think it shows that people are against the frac sand mining industry in Winona," said one protestor. "Frac sand mining, processing, and transportation... we don't want any of it," explained another.
"We may be just at the beginning of this but we sure have a pretty good team," said protest organizer Diane Leutgeb Munson.
Leutgeb Munson has been pushing the effort for quite some time now. "Yeah it's now been over a year and a half that we've been pretty involved. and when I say we I mean all these folks standing out here," she said.
Roughly 60 people rallied outside city hall. While inside, the city council took action, tightening the rules on frac mining, sand moisture testing, facility setbacks and traffic studies.
Three of the actions passed, the traffic studies were tabled for discussion to the next meeting. So it may not have gone completely in Leutgeb Munson's direction on this particular night. "We're hearing more and more that this is going to happen no matter what we do and we're choosing not to believe that," she said. "We're trying to keep the hope alive."
With the passing of the amendments to the mining ordinance, the city of Winona has essentially ruled out mining within the existing city limits, while future mines will only be possible in annexed areas.
In the meantime, Allamakee County officials in Iowa have approved a temporary moratorium on frac sand mining just yesterday to extend the moratorium for at least 18 months to buy some time to further study the effects of mining in the area.
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Right-to-work bill finding little support in NH House
The committee voted 13-5 to recommend House Bill 322 be killed when the full House takes up the measure.
Former House speaker William O'Brien, R-Mont Vernon, the prime sponsor of the House Bill 322, pushed right-to-work legislation the last two sessions, only to have former governor John Lynch veto the bill and the House fail to override it in 2011. The Senate was not willing to engage in the debate last year, saying the outcome would be the same.
HB 322 was debated last week at the public hearing, with supporters saying right-to-work will help spur the state's economy and set the state apart in the Northeast.
But opponents said HB 322 is an attack on organized labor that will drive down wages and destroy middle-class families.
Like the bill, now dubbed the Franklin Partin right-to-work act, the arguments in support and opposition changed little from the last two years.
The bill would prohibit employers and labor organizations from including fees for non-union members in collective bargaining agreements. Unions collect the fees to pay the cost of negotiating and maintaining the collective bargaining agreement from non-union members.
The earliest the House could take up the bill would be next week.
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It's a fair question. I, for example, am still in school and must confess to not really digging into movies until my teens, whereas most of my colleagues not only grew up with countless tapes at their disposal and a likely job at a movie theater or video store, and then proceeded to write about film with the fundamentals well-watched and fondly remembered.
Me? Not so much. I'm frequently lambasted for not having seen Film X or Movie Y; I even attempted to harness the shame with a Twitter hashtag (#fessupfriday) that always seems to get the conversation going. And that's what this is really about -- having a conversation about movies.
So why leap into covering movies now, at such a young and arguably inexperienced age? Because I want to be a part of the conversation now, because opportunities arose and because others -- first editors and then readers -- trusted me to be knowledgeable. And so I owe to myself, my editors and my readers to catch up with the classics, the essentials, The Basics if you will, and while that "New to Me" series was an attempt to lend some structure to my relentless game of catch-up, I feel that volleying opinions back and forth with Hitfix's Drew McWeeny (read his entry here) would make it feel like more of, well, a conversation.
I want to be a part of this conversation, a better one anyway. And I want you to be a part of it too. So, before we begin, just let me ask one simple question...
Who the f**k is Rufus T. Firefly?
Rufus T. Firefly, as played by Groucho Marx in 1933's Duck Soup, is the newly appointed leader of the utterly fictional and nearly bankrupt land of Freedonia. He sleeps in on his inauguration day, insults the very woman who insisted that he be put in charge (not to mention every other woman and man in sight), and hires two spies from neighboring Sylvania (played by Chico and Harpo Marx) into his own cabinet on a whim.
In other words: he's the perfect president.
Rufus: "You're a brave man. Go and break through the lines. And remember, while you're out there risking your life and limb through shot and shell, we'll be in be in here thinking what a sucker you are."
This was admittedly my first exposure to the Marx Brothers, and I can undoubtedly see why they're every bit as legendary as they are. I took me a while to come around to Harpo's particular brand of mayhem (why is he cutting everything with giant scissors? Oh, right, because he can), but it only took me a second to fall for Groucho's wise-ass antics. He's so sublimely sarcastic, a one-man rat-a-tat-tat of uncouth charm, but put him together with the others and who needs words? Their slapstick routines are impeccably staged and rightfully lifted throughout the years (I knew I'd seen that mirror scene -- pictured -- before I'd ever seen this movie), and they tend to nail the film's critical balance of the innocent with the anarchic.
Because, let's face it, this is a film about a petty leader who couldn't care less if he leads his country to war. Of course the climactic battle sequence is itself a joke, with pettiness and slapstick coming back around to save the day, but they're saving themselves from the very trouble they started. No one dies in wars where you throw fruit. But what happens when real leaders with real cigars decided that a real human toll is worth the cost of something perhaps as petty? It's no wonder you gotta laugh.
Drew already beat me to name-checking In the Loop as an example of a great recent political satire, one that revels in the profane and childish so as to distract from the very real consequences of conflict. My admiration for Dr. Strangelove has grown over the years, although there's still something about it that doesn't quite floor me. (Maybe if I kept doing desk drills...) Even something like The Americanization of Emily uses sharp verbal barbs to address the serious issue of war, but Duck Soup was first at it, best at it and still holds some bearing today.
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---- — PLATTSBURGH — Vaccination against shingles can help prevent a painful and often debilitating condition that is most common in people age 50 and older.
Shingles, also called herpes zoster, is a painful skin rash that typically appears on one side of the face or body and lasts between two and four weeks.
For 1 in 5 people who develop shingles, the pain can continue long after the rash clears up, and the condition can lead to other problems such as pneumonia, hearing problems, blindness, encephalitis or even death.
"There are a lot of myths out there about shingles," said Laurie Williams, education and outreach specialist for the Clinton County Health Department. "One of our jobs in public health is to dispel those kinds of myths and increase the public's understanding, so people can make better decisions."
One common myth is that shingles is a rare condition, but that is simply not true.
"It's not rare at all," said Ruth Lucas, a public-health nurse. "One out of 3 people will contract shingles at some point in their lives. There are different levels of severity, and risk increases as you age."
People with weakened immune systems are also at risk of developing shingles, and healthy younger people have also been known to develop the disease.
"The best thing you can do to prevent shingles is to get vaccinated," Lucas said of the vaccine that was approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration in 2006.
Health-care officials recommend that anyone 60 and older should receive the vaccine, which is readily available at most pharmacies, public-health offices and doctor's offices.
Since the vaccine has been in use only over the past several years, it is still not known how effective the shot may be over the course of a person's lifetime. The vaccine has been proven to reduce the risk of shingles by 50 percent.
Those who do contract shingles after receiving a vaccination may experience reduced pain from the condition.
Shingles is caused by the varicella zoster virus, the same virus that causes chickenpox. Only someone who has had chickenpox can get shingles. The virus remains dormant in the body until it reactivates later in life.
"There is a medical treatment for people who do get shingles, but it's important to get to your doctor as soon as possible after you notice a rash," Lucas said. "The anti-viral is most effective within 72 hours of infection."
Shingles cannot be spread from one person to another, but a person who has never had the chickenpox can get chickenpox from someone with shingles, though this happens rarely.
People with a life-threatening allergic reaction to gelatin, neomycin or other components of the shingles vaccine should not receive the vaccine.
Also, people with weakened immune systems from AIDS or another disease that affects the immune system or are on treatment with drugs that affect the immune system should avoid the vaccine.
People on radiation or chemotherapy for cancer treatment and those with cancer that affects the bone marrow or lymphatic system should also not get the shot.
Some people have experienced redness, soreness, swelling or itching at the site of the injection, and some have complained of headaches following an injection, but no serious problems have been identified with the shingles vaccine.
All Medicare Part D plans cover the shingles vaccine, though the amount of the deductible a patient has to pay varies. Medicare Part B does not cover the vaccine, and Medicaid may or may not cover the shot.
Many private health-insurance plans cover the vaccine, but people interested in obtaining a vaccination should contact their insurer.
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Publix raises over $28,000
March 28, 2014 in general, news from us
The amazing folks at PUBLIX made a visit to the Center this week to donate a check for over $28,000! The revenue comes from the Children's Cancer Center Holiday Cards and annual Calendar program – the products of which have retailed at over 105 PUBLIX Super Markets for nearly three decades of holiday seasons.
The annual campaign is not only one of our most traditional, it is also one of the keystones of the CCC annual fundraising budget and we couldn't reach our goal without their help!
The PUBLIX stores' generous giving back policy means that each super market sells our Holiday Cards and Calendar without deducting any percentage whatsoever for their efforts…the Children's Cancer Center retains 100%. Which means that the price you pay for your cards is the amount of money we receive as a donation!
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Consent Decree (Finally) for J&J
Beginning in September 2009, I watched with increasing surprise as Johnson & Johnson (J&J) recalled more and more of its products. As the recalls kept coming, my surprise turned to amazement that some of the company's facilities (particularly the one at Fort Washington, Pennsylvania) could have been maintained and run in such an apparently haphazard way. As time went on, my amazement ebbed, and the continuing stream of recalls elicited little more than a shrug.
Then, last week, the other shoe dropped. FDA and J&J signed a consent decree of permanent injunction that prevents the company from manufacturing or shipping drugs from its Fort Washington facility until it complies with current good manufacturing practice requirements. J&J had closed that facility in April 2010 and submitted a Comprehensive Action Plan to FDA in July 2010 to improve quality systems at its US manufacturing facilities. Subsequent recalls seemed to indicate that the company's measures were insufficient, however.
J&J's problems are not limited to Fort Washington—from 2009 to 2010, FDA inspectors found violations of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act at the company's Las Piedras, Puerto Rico, and Lancaster, Pennsylvania, facilities. The consent decree requires J&J to adhere to a strict timetable to bring these sites into compliance.
Until I read news of the consent decree, I thought that the only fallout from the company's manufacturing violations would be CEO Bill Weldon's 3% raise. In fairness, I should mention that his bonus was cut to $1.97 million, but I should also mention that his bonus is still larger than his salary.
The consent decree reassures me that FDA takes J&J's violations seriously, and I'm more optimistic that the company will get its house in order now that it faces focused government scrutiny. Our health is too important for FDA to tolerate anything less than diligence on the part of any manufacturer. If nothing else, J&J should be worried about healing the black eye that it has given itself. If the company follows the advice of its independent investigator, J&J may be able to make the improvements needed to regain FDA's approval and customers' trust.


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A New Kind of Adoption
by Krystine Keeler
In October 2009, a diverse team of Food Bank staff was called together to develop the Food Bank For New York City's latest volunteer project — the Adopt a Food Program initiative, a partnership with Mayor Bloomberg's NYC Service.
We began by reaching out to soup kitchens and food pantries in the Food Bank's citywide network, asking them to name their top three priorities that a volunteer could help with. Choices ranged from grantwriting to maintenance and site beautification.
With our network's input in hand, it was then the public's turn. Kicking off the initiative, Mayor Bloomberg joined Food Bank President and CEO Lucy Cabrera for a press conference at our Hunts Point warehouse, asking individuals and groups to "adopt" a local food program. Adopt a Food Program volunteers are asked to commit three months to a year of their time to assist one of our city's food assistance programs. During this time they will work side-by-side with their program's staff to create the basis for long-term capacity and service improvements — enabling that program to better serve its community over time.
Now that we have a list of food programs and their needs, as well as a list of volunteers who want to adopt a program, we — Phillip Cooke, Amruta Kale and myself, the Food Bank's NYC Civic Corps members in residence — have begun the matching process. Just a few weeks ago, Ms. Nayah Paul made a six-month commitment to be a grantwriter at the Jamaica Hispanic Seventh Day Adventist Church. Quick on the heels of that introduction, our second match was made: Ms. Navjot Kaur made a six-month commitment as a fundraiser for New Life Food & Clothing Pantry in Elmhurst, Queens.
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INDIANAPOLIS — A Columbus man identified as the sole suspect in the shooting deaths of four people in southern Indiana was indicted Tuesday on federal weapons charges, ensuring that he'll remain in custody for at least the time being.
Samuel Sallee, 55, hasn't been charged in the May 11 attack in which a couple and their two friends were killed in the couple's home in Waynesville, a small community a few miles from Columbus. However, Bartholomew County Sheriff Mark Gorbett has publicly identified Sallee as the "prime and only suspect" in the killings.
Sallee has been in jail in neighboring Brown County since May 13 on a warrant for failure to appear in court on battery charges.
No phone listing for Sallee could be found. Jail officials said they had no information Tuesday about whether he had an attorney.
Federal prosecutors in Indianapolis said in a statement Tuesday that Sallee was found in possession of a .22-caliber rifle three days after the killings. They didn't say whether they believe the gun was used in the attack, but they said Sallee couldn't legally have a firearm because of his felony record that includes intimidation and drug convictions.
Sallee has been placed on a federal hold due to the firearms charges, and the U.S. marshals would take immediate custody of him if he were released from jail, prosecutors said.
"We are working closely with Bartholomew County law enforcement in this matter, and we will do everything within our power to ensure this defendant is held to account for any crimes he has committed," U.S. Attorney Joe Hogsett said in the statement.
The sheriff's office has previously said it had sought assistance from the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.
Gorbett didn't immediately respond to a request for comment Tuesday about whether the gun seized by federal agents had been connected to the slayings.


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A Simple Life
Rated: Not Rated
Genre: Foreign, Drama
Street Date: February 26, 2013
Available On: DVD and Blu-ray
The Film: Roger (Andy Lau) is a successful film producer who lives in Hong Kong with his family's longtime servant Ah Tao (Deanie Ip). When Roger returns from a two-day business trip and discovers that Ah Tao has suffered a stroke he is compelled to serve her as she transitions into an old people's home.
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Recommendation: Old people make me anxious, even in films. So when I say that I enjoyed "A Simple Life," even though it has numerous scenes in a cramped old people's home, it's a testament to Ann Hui's talent as a director and the fantastic performances from Andy Lau and Deanie Ip. Lau and Ip give a playful tenderness that transcends the dialogue (or subtitles). They embody the roles so fully that you don't need spoken words to understand the affection and respect that exists between the two characters. It is simply beautiful. "A Simple Life" is a rare and precious film. I feel fortunate to have seen it.
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To find out if you'll qualify for a Council Tax reduction, you can use our online claim calculator to give you an estimate of how much help you could be entitled to. If you qualify for a Council Tax reduction, you can then submit your claim online.
If you have savings or investments of more than £6,000 this may affect the amount of the Council Tax reduction you can get. If you have savings of more than £16,000 we cannot usually offer any Council Tax reduction. However, if you are over 60, with savings over £16,000, see our pages on pension credit.
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Second adult reduction is awarded when a person claiming a Council Tax reduction has a "second adult" living in their home, where the "second adult" is on a low income (from their earnings and / or benefits).
The person who is liable to pay the Council Tax bill must still make the claim for the second adult reduction, giving details of their own income as well as that of the second adult.
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The Rams promoted QB Tom Brandstater from their practice squad Saturday, perhaps providing an indication that injured QB Sam Bradford won't be able to play Sunday at San Francisco.
Bradford is questionable with high left ankle sprain that he aggravated in last week's game against Seattle. He sat out Thursday's practice and participated on a limited basis in Friday's practice.
A.J. Feeley took the first-team reps in practice this week and would start if Bradford can't go Sunday.
The Rams waived Brandstater Nov. 9 but then re-signed him to the practice squad earlier this week. The second-year man has not played in a regular-season NFL game.
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THE leaders of North Yorkshire's fire service are set to consider inflation-busting rises in its council-tax demand.
North Yorkshire Fire and Rescue Authority has launched a public consultation exercise over its precept after announcing it had fallen behind in its drive to save £2.5 million over two years, and the money it has saved has been eroded by a £384,000 increase in expenditure and £157,000 reduction in income.
The projected £307,000 increase in the service's running costs, combined with Government grant reductions, has suggested a 7.5 per cent council-tax rise would be needed for a balanced 2014/15 budget, adding £4.65 a year to band D bills.
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Malcolm, I've never had any dealings with Jensales manuals, but I do have I&T manuals, and manuals from Binder Books. The I&T is a fairly good general manual, but it doesn't give great details, especially when there is a variation in early and late versions, such as the differences in brakes (straight pull versus toggle). The Binder manuals are good quality licensed reprints of the actual IH/Farmall manuals.
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I bought an operator's manual from Jensales and the parts and service books from Binder. I agree that the Binder books are much higher quality.
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Recently bought a '75 CUB. I have been wanting one since farming with my grandfather's in the late '50s as a young boy. Anyway, I've been researching and reading posts and came across the manual for the Woods 59. Rudi, if that is yours, the only page I couldn't get was page 6. Can you help me out?. Thanks.
Sorry about that. Page 6 is a blank page if I remember correctly, will have to check the manual again. I sort of overlooked that. Will fix ASAP. Thanks for the heads up. Gee - and I thought I had got that one!
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The Bangor Daily News and WABI (Channel 5) included articles on the presence of 4-H members at local fairs. Members of 4-H, the youth development branch of the University of Maine Cooperative Extension, celebrated the group's 100th birthday at the Bangor State Fair and displayed results of hard work at the Northern Maine Fair in Presque Isle.
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FRANKFORT, KY (WAVE) - Kentucky's state park system became the first in the nation to earn Storm Ready status from the National Weather Service.
The designation indicates parks with overnight accommodations have proper communication equipment and shelters for park guests to go during a storm. All parks staff also must receive training to earn the status.
"It's just taking a system we think was protecting our guests another level higher," Kentucky Parks Director Elaine Walker said.
Walker said it didn't cost the state any budget money to earn the designation.
Four states have Storm Ready parks. Kentucky leads the way with 34, Michigan has nine, and Indiana and Iowa each have one park with the status.
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The longer I'm a professional expert the more I worry about becoming a guru asshole. These are the people who talk as if they're always right and never wrong. They lecture as if we are too stupid to do in a year what the guru could do in a day, even though they've rarely done anything they're preaching themselves, if ever at all.
Here's a list of ways you can help ground experts in all fields and keep their egos in check with reality:
- Ask "have you done this yourself?" Most gurus haven't been practitioners in a long time. It's easy to forget the difference between giving advice to do X and actually doing X. And the longer its been since they've done X, the easier X will seem to be. Of course, just because a guru hasn't done it doesn't mean they're wrong, it just means they might need to ease up on the arrogance, or seek out more examples.
- Ask "How do you know what you know?" Phrases like "studies say", "I have seen", "the leading theory is" are all possibly bogus phrases. What study? Where did you see this? Who says it's the leading theory? Don't let an expert's assumptions not sound like assumptions.
- Ask "When is the theory you are advocating wrong?" Nothing works all the time. A smart person is aware of the limitations of any idea or practice. Ask them to explain the alternative of their position, and when they might take it.
- Look for admissions of mistakes and failures. Someone who never admits they are wrong is dangerous. If they're so smart, and they've never failed, it just means they're a coward. But if they've failed and never talk about it, they project an unreal image of what is to be a human being. It's harder to learn from aliens than humans, I think. Ask for stories of mistakes and failures, their own or others. This will force any true guru into open and honest territory where they can be of greater use to you.
- Ask "Why do so many people fail at this?" A wise person will answer this with some acknowledgment of how hard the thing is to do. But there is an ego trap in this question: I once heard a famous software consultant say, in response, "because not enough people follow my advice".
Things not to do:
- One factual error doesn't dismiss a theory or a person. Factual errors are everywhere. Many good books contain them and it's hard as a writer to sort through the origin of every fact. The existence of a mistake does not mean the premise of the author, or expert, is wrong and our tendency towards confirmation bias leads us to dismiss sound ideas that have simply chosen a poor source. It indicates a mistake in research, which all popular research has. Its maddening when someone finds I misquoted someone, or got a fact wrong, and assumes all my quotes and dates are wrong. You can criticize someone's research but still buy the premise and theory, as some facts are less important than others. Instead look for gurus who make changes to their work when they learn of mistakes and grow from it. (Just fyi, there is a list of mistakes from the 1st edition of The Myths of Innovation that were corrected in the paperback edition).
- Use an expert as your negative stepping stone. This is the definition of a heckler. They want to steal thunder and use someone else's platform as a launching point for their own. This rarely works as it doesn't earn real fans. Critiquing, especially harsh venomous criticisms, is easier than creating. In life you score more points for building on what people say, not tearing it town. If tearing something down is necessary to build your theory, that's fine, but people often forget that second part.
- Demand instant satisfaction. Sometimes when I'm stumped, I say: "send me that question in email and I'll blog about it, with a better answer". This is not a cop-out if I follow through. I may have a good answer, or know a fact, but not be able to access it in real time (the older I get, the more true this will be). The goal is the truth, not how fast I can access it. Asking a guru to follow up on their blog about something is a totally reasonable request, and it's one I love to hear.
What other points would you recommend to authors and experts who want to avoid becoming jerk gurus?
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I suspect that if Kerry gets elected the BIG gun grab issue will raise its ugly head again as it was all during the Clinton reign years. So I am posting this bit of news as a reminder of what could happen.
Subject: Only the Truth
From: Ed Chenel, A police officer in Australia
Hi Yanks,
IÂ thought you all would like to see the real figures from Down Under.Â
It has now been 12 months since gun owners in Australia were forced by a new law to surrender their 640,381 personal firearms to be destroyed by our own government, a program costing Australia taxpayers more than $500 million dollars. (That's $780.79 for every gun collected and destroyed. - RRP)
The first year results are now in: Australia-wide, homicides are up 3.2 percent, Australia-wide, assaults are up 8.6 percent;
Australia-wide, armed robberies are up 44 percent (yes, 44 percent)!Â
In the state of Victoria alone, homicides with firearms are now up 300 percent. Note that while the law-abiding citizens turned them in, the criminals did not.
While figures over the previous 25 years showed a steady decrease in armed robbery with firearms, this has changed drastically upward in the past 12 months, since the criminals now are guaranteed that their prey is unarmed.
There has also been a dramatic increase in break-ins and assaults of the elderly.
Australian politicians are at a loss to explain how public safety has decreased, after such monumental effort and expense was expended in "successfully ridding Australian society of guns."Â Â
I suspect that you
won't see this on the American evening news or hear your governor or members of the state Assembly disseminating this information.
The Australian experience proves it. Guns in the hands of honest citizens save lives and property and, yes, gun-control laws affect only the law-abiding citizens.Â
Take note, you Americans, before it's to late!
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Horse puckey from one end to the other. The premiss is invalid. The conclusions are invalid. Even the basic data is wrong. Here is that Snopes has to say about this urban legend:
Origins: Although
the old adage says that "Figures don't lie, but liars figure," those who seek to influence public opinion often employ a variety of means to slant statistical figures into seemingly supporting their point of view:
Percentages by themselves often tell far from a complete story, particularly when they involve small sample sizes which do not adequately mask normal fluctuations or the potential influence of a number of extraneous factors affecting the phenomenon under study. A statement such as "The number of deaths attributable to cancer increased by 2% between 1973 and 1983" is probably much more significant if the number of cancer deaths increased by twenty thousand among a population of one million than if they increased by two among a population of one hundred. (In the latter case, for example, two people who already had cancer could have moved into an otherwise cancer-free small town, but it's far less likely that immigration would completely account for an increase of twenty thousand cancer cases amidst a city of one million.)
Context is especially important, and percentages alone don't provide context. A statement such as "The home run total in the American League jumped by an astounding 50% between 1960 and 1961" sounds misleadingly impressive if you don't know that after 1960, the American League expanded by two teams and increased the length of its schedule, thereby adding two hundred more games to the season.
Most importantly, percentages don't establish cause-and-effect relationships — at best they highlight correlations which may be due to any number of factors. If (to continue our previous example), the total number of home runs hit by all teams increased by 30% from one year to the next while the number of games remained the same, a great many people might claim that the baseballs used in the latter year had obviously been "juiced" (i.e., manufactured in such a way as to cause them to travel farther when hit). But a number of other unconsidered factors (individually or collectively) might be responsible for the increase, such as an abundance of warm weather, or an expansion in the number of teams which brought more inexperienced and ineffective pitchers into the league.
In the specific case offered here, context is the most important factor. The piece quoted above leads the reader to believe that much of the Australian citizenry owned handguns until their ownership was made illegal and all firearms owned by "law-abiding citizens" were collected by the government through a buy-back program in 1997. This is not so. Australian citizens do not (and never did) have a constitutional right to own firearms — even before the 1997 buyback program, handgun ownership in Australia was restricted to certain groups, such as those needing weapons for occupational reasons, members of approved sporting clubs, hunters, and collectors. Moreover, the 1997 buyback program did not take away all the guns owned by these groups; only some types of firearms (primarily semi-automatic and pump-action weapons) were banned. And even with the ban in effect, those who can demonstrate a legitimate need to possess prohibited categories of firearms can petition for exemptions from the law.
Given this context, any claims based on statistics (even accurate ones) which posit a cause-and-effect relationship between the gun buyback program and increased crime rates because "criminals now are guaranteed that their prey is unarmed" are automatically suspect, since the average Australian citizen didn't own firearms even before the buyback. But beyond that, most of the statistics offered here are misleading and present only "first year results" where long-term trends need to be considered in order to draw valid cause-and-effect conclusions.
For example, the first entry states that "Homicides are up 3.2%." This statistic is misleading because it reflects only the absolute number of homicides rather than the homicide rate. (A country with a rapidly-growing population, for example, might experience a higher number of crimes even while its overall crime rate decreased.) An examination of statistics from the Australian Institute of Criminology (AIC) reveals that the overall homicide rate in Australia has changed little over the past decade and actually dipped slightly after the 1997 gun buy-back program. (The chart found at this link also demonstrates how easily statistics based on small sample sizes can mislead, as when the homicide rate in Tasmania increased nearly eight-fold in one year based on a single incident in which 35 people were killed.)
Then we have the claim that "In the state of Victoria alone, homicides with firearms are now up 300 percent." This is another example of how misleading statistics can be when the underlying numbers are not provided: Victoria, a state with a population of over four-and-a-half million people in 1997, experienced 7 firearm-related homicides in 1996 and 19 firearm-related homicides in 1997 (an increase of 171%, not 300%). An additional twelve homicides amongst a population of 4.5 million is not statistically significant, nor does this single-year statistic adequately reflect long-term trends. Moreover, the opening paragraph mixes two very different types of statistics — number of homicides vs. percentage of homicides committed with firearms. In the latter case, it should be noted that the Australia-wide percentage of homicides committed with firearms is now lower than it was before the gun buy-back program, and lower than it has been at any point during the past ten years. (In the former case, the absolute number of firearm homicides in Australia in 1998-99 was the lowest in the past ten years.)
Other claims offered here, such as the statement that "While figures over the previous 25 years showed a steady decrease in armed robbery with firearms, this has changed drastically upward in the past 12 months" and "There has also been a dramatic increase in break-ins and assaults of the elderly" are even more difficult to evaluate, because they don't offer any figures or standards of measurement at all. Do they deal with absolute numbers, or percentages? Do they reflect all incidents of crime, or only those committed with firearms? How much of an increase constitutes a "dramatic" increase? According to the Australian Bureau of Statistics, the proportion of firearms used to commit armed robbery has actually declined over the last several years:
1995 - 27.8%
1996 - 25.3%
1997 - 24.1%
1998 - 17.6%
1999 - 15.2%
2000 - 14.0%
The ABS does report that the number of assaults on victims aged 65 and over has increased over the last few years, but hardly in a proportion one would describe as "dramatic":
Number of victims of assault aged 65 and over:
1996 - 1474
1997 - 1662 (12.8% increase from previous year)
1998 - 1663 (0.06% increase from previous year)
1999 - 1793 (7.8% increase from previous year)
The main point to be learned here is that determining the effect of changes in Australia's gun ownership laws and the government's firearm buy-back program on crime rates requires a complex long-term analysis and can't be discerned from the small, mixed grab bag of short-term statistics offered here. And no matter what the outcome of that analysis, the results aren't necessarily applicable to the USA, where laws regarding gun ownership are (and always have been) much different than those in Australia.
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This is an issue that honest people can disagree on, but we all know, or should know, that the most important part is the uncertainty whether any individual is armed or not. It's that uncertainty that makes all of us safer regardless of our opinions regarding concealed carry and gun ownership in general. It's shameful that the responsibility for the safety we all share is resisted by many of the beneficiaries, and only promoted by the small minority who will actually take the necessary steps to qualify for concealed carry... as I intend to. Ohio has just passed the legislation to make it possible... finally!
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I agree completely with what you said. The "Ed Chenel" essay however is totaly BS. As has been observed in other venues, someone can't have much faith in the value of their convictions if they feel like they have to deliberately lie to support it.
Horse puckey!!! Careful guys, we don't want this to get rough. We're dealing with guns here. I went to the NRA Annual Meeting in Pittsburgh a few weeks ago and did not see anything unusual; no demonstrators, no funny looking people with swastikas tattooed on their foreheads, chiefly a bunch of ordinary and clean cut appearing middle age and retirement age guys (and quite a few gals). I understand that 80% of the NRA membership resides within 300 miles of Pgh. Here in PA a person can be licensed to carry a firearm for self-defense (contingent on a background check) and PA is a leading eastern hunting state (about 250,000 deer and 1,000 bear legally taken/year and last year I thinkaround 50 elk were permitted to be taken). The 2nd Amendment has become an emotional and political issue because crimes have been committed with firearms in the wrong hands. As Jim pointed out, statistics can be used to support an issue and when emotions enter the scene logic and practicality may be cast aside.
I personally do not believe that any change in administration in this country will ever force the citizens of this country to give up their firearms. I support gun control, but I also own 14 firearms, pistols, shotguns, rifles, even an industrial 8 gauge used to blow buildup from the inside of large kilns. Many of the guns that people in this country own are heirlooms passed down through the generations. If legislation were passed that made firearms illegal, then about 80% of the gunowners I know would at that time become criminals, because there is simply no way that they would ever turn them over to the government. There are not enough law-enforcement officers to enforce any type of legislation that would ban personal gun ownership.
I advocate certain gun control measures, better backgound checks, assault weapon bans, only because these measures have proven effective at preventing crime. If you want to shoot a fully-automatic rifle, join the Marine Corps like I did. You'll shoot more rounds than you ever hoped too, and it won't cost you a cent (.50 cal rounds run about $12 a shot).
Gun control is another smokescreen issue, used to divert the attention of the American people from real issues like Tort reform, the economy, the environment, civil liberties, energy policies, urban sprawl, etc.
Gentlemen, I have the conviction that gun control does lead to higher crime rate.....George is right on the nail. I have several assault rifles and several battle rifles amongst my collection and mine have never harmed a soul. Our government need to ENFORCE the current laws regarding criminal USE of firearms.......not the firearms themselves. As long as the laws have no bite, and justice has no teeth......we will continue to have problems related to improper use of firearms. I further feel that a citizen with no criminal background should have the right to own any type of firearm he/she chooses. By the way.....the cost of a .50 cal. BMG round is $1.50 a shot. George.....Missouri recently passed the CCW law (finally!) and my permits on it's way also. Our right to posses firearms will not be taken from us by the government, I believe it will be taken by voters and law enforcement will not collect them, it will be the military. Has everyone forgotten about Germany-1936?.....I believe at that time this will become the senario.
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This is one of those issues I don't talk much about (because I don't want people to know that I have firearms in my house), but I fell very strongly about the right to own.
As Charleton Heston (sp?) said, "Only from these cold, dead hands!"
or something like that....
Lord, give me wisdom. And if you ain't got none to spare, help me find someone willing to share.
just courious if many of the people of ohio has followed through with getting their conceal carry permits?
I just renewed mine had it for over 8 years.
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Add to our resolve the difficulty of even knowing where the guns are. Many of mine have a history that is impossible to know, even though they all carry serial numbers. If the gun grabbers are clever enough to find the information, I'd like to know more about the history of the Springfield Trapdoor on display in my office, among others.
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K, gonna stick in my 2 cents worth here.
Here in Canada our violent crime rate is probably similar per/capita with the US for most such as rape, assault etc. However, our rate of violent crimes committed with firearms is nowhere near the per/capita rate in the US. Whatever the reason for that is, I am not quite sure and I ain't guessing
We have always had the right to bear arms. No FAC's, FOP's or any of that garbage was ever required. Very seldom would you actually hear of a violent crime committed with a gun. A knife - sure, baseball bat - of course, a vehicle - sometimes, but very seldom a gun.
Then some moron politician decided that the tree-huggers, Brigitte Bardot, PETA, city-slickers and all the other "we know what is better for you than you do types" were smarter than the rest of us and decided to lobby for gun control.
The Federal Government decided about 10 years ago that a National Firearms Registry was required and passed legislation to enact the laws required to force gun control upon us and enable the National Fire Arms Registry. The sole motive of this was to take away the right of country folk to go hunting on their properties. An interesting by-product was a humongeous tax grab which has generated millions per year in licensing fees.
Get this, 10 years and over ONE BILLION dollars later , we still have only about 40 to 50 % of the nations weapons registered and we still have the same or lower per/capita gun crime level as we did 10 years ago. The only other gain seems to have been in fees.
The point - Governmental Control, an enourmous tax grab and appeasement for all those who wish to CONTROL our lives. Personally, I think they are all nuts.
Guns DON'T KILL People kill Whether it be a knife, a fist or another instrument, it is PEOPLE WHO KILL PEOPLE, not weapons.
Until those who are so intellectually superior than the rest of us unwashed masses get this point into their thick skulls, we will have this gigantic divisive problem as well as the enormous costs that are associated with it pestering us for many, many years to come.
I really think we need intelligent, down to earth people with common sense and a desire to actually do what is right represent us either in the Congress/Senate, or in the House of Parliament/Senate. As long as we have wishy washy, please all the special interest and lobby groups and not the vast electorate itself, politicians running our Countries, then we are going to have these kind of problems.
Just my opinion though, and we all know what that is worth
Confusion breeds Discussion which breeds Knowledge which breeds Confidence which breeds Friendship
That isn't going to happen until the voters get off their own lazy asses and 1) learn something about the candidates and 2) actually bother to vote.
In the meanwhile, the winners in the elections will be whoever runs the most slick ads on TV. The formula for winning at that is special interest money.
Having held public office, I have a little first hand experience on this. To point 1 above, our current mayor leaves a nice enough first impression. However, he never thinks through anything and votes whichever way he thinks will be liked with whoever he is currently trying to get in the good graces of. A number of years back he was caught red-handed pulling up and hauling away my campaign signs. To point 2 above, I once lost an election by 1 vote. I had more people than that tell me afterwards that they voted for me but in fact hadn't bothered to vote at all. (I can read the voter records just as easily as anyone else can.)
By and large, we get the quality of lawmakers we choose to accept.
I have some comments on the gun issue that started this thread which I may post later.
I heartily agree with your sentiments. One of the major problems, at least here that I see with our education system is that CIVICS is no longer taught in our schools
How can one learn how to be a good citizen, one who does ones duty and carries it out to the best of their ability, if one does not know how
I blame a lot of our current lawmakers for this. They seem to adhere to the school of thought that prefers to keep them stupid, so they can pull the wool over their eyes much easier.
Our children barely know how government runs, never mind what it is or what it is supposed to do. They have no idea how to choose a representative. It seems whoever is cuter or has a nicer smile or promises to make someone feel good gets elected. Most of our elected officials whether they be municipal, provincial/state or federal no longer have the backbone required to do what they have historically been mandated to do - REPRESENT THEIR CONSTITUENTS
As long as our citizens do not understand what their role - what their duty is and how to execute that duty, things will not change. Same with Jury Duty. Everyone tries their damnedest to escape, find some reason why they cannot discharge this basic of civic duties.....
We need to somehow electrify our citizenry to become involved, state their opinions and do so on a regular basis. Your example of losing by just one vote, is a perfect example of how one person can actually change the outcome of an election, change how government is run or do almost anything.
Special interest groups, lobbyists and others of their ilk need to be controlled in their access to government. When a few garner more power than the people (by whom the Constitution of both our countries guarantees the right to be heard and to make law), we will end up seeing more of this so-called "totalitarian democracy" invade our society and eventually destroy our freedoms.
As I have said so many times in my emails, and say it to every politician, student, teacher and citizen I come across:
It is the soldier, not the reporter, who has given us freedom of the press.
It is the soldier, not the poet, who has given us freedom of speech.
It is the soldier, not the campus organizer, who has given us freedom to demonstrate.
It is the soldier, not the lawyer, who has given us the right to a fair trial.
It is the soldier who salutes the flag, who serves under the flag, and
whose coffin is draped by the flag, who allows the protester to burn the flag.
If you want to keep all that they have sacrificed - VOTE Excersise your basic most unalienable right - excercise your franchise. If you don't - be quiet
btw, sometimes the soldier is not just the guy or gal who puts on the uniform, but is Joe and Jo-ann Citizen who stands up for what they believe in!
In God We Trust All else is but shifting sand.....
Confusion breeds Discussion which breeds Knowledge which breeds Confidence which breeds Friendship
MONEY and GUNS are the same...... It can be used for good or for evil. The good and evil is the way in which it is used BY the individual in control. People who want to take away your guns think "GUNS ARE THE ROOT OF ALL EVIL". Like someone said before, it's just a political football and sounds good to the people who are emotionally involved. One other thing.... Don't ever believe they can't take your gun rights away. They'll chip away at it, little by little. Until they know where most of them are and come knocking at your door..................
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A family's home suffered a lot of damage during a fire in San Tan Valley Friday morning. No one was home, except the family cat, which was rescued by firefighters and brought back to life by a paramedic.
This is one lucky cat. It was trapped inside the home as it filled with smoke.
Firefighters say it was nearly lifeless when they pulled it from the house, and then a paramedic gave the cat oxygen using a special mask just for pets.
It's a picture that shows just how far first responders will go to save a life -- Southwest Ambulance paramedic Shane Collett giving oxygen to Baby the cat.
"I know one of the fire guys said when they went upstairs to find it, that it was pretty much lifeless," says Collett. "After it started getting the oxygen through it and stuff like that -- it was really responsive and didn't want to go away."
No one was home at the time of the fire, so a neighbor took care of the cat until owner Cory Vanhoozer got home.
He's thankful the firefighters and paramedics did so much to save the cat that's been part of the family for six years.
"They saved everything. They did a really good job - I thanked them when they left," he says.
The special oxygen masks for pets on Rural Metro Fire engines were purchased by the staff at Johnson Ranch Animal Clinic.
"And our staff, instead of doing the gift exchange, decided to pool their money and purchase these kits for the fire department," says Dr. Marc Schmidt of Johnson Ranch Animal Clinic.
The home was heavily damaged by the fire, but Cory puts it all in perspective.
"Yeah, that can be fixed. As long as no one else got hurt, that's the most important thing. Everything else is replaceable."
The home sustained heavy damage.
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My first novel, THE TICKET is the life saga of Karl and Katja Kessel. The reader discovers the peace and prosperity of their lives in a German colony in Austria/Hungary at the turn-of-the century. Why then did they decide to leave and immigrate to America? The reader soon discovers why they left their home there and why Karl went first to America and Katja followed a year later with their three small sons. Karl was determined to be a success as a farmer and he was. He was totally unaware of the terrible toll his ambitious goals were taking on the relationship with his family and in particular with his wife, Katja. They lived through the WWI, the Great Depression, then WWII when their third son signed up and was sent to the Philippines. The end of life for Karl and Katja was not what they had worked or hoped for, but it was what happened.
My second novel, SEED of the VOLGA begins at a castle in the Black Forest of Germany and for grave reasons, takes the reader to the Volga River in Russia where scores of Germans settled upon invitation from Catherine the Great of Russia in 1765. Here, David Steiner grew up in a strong German home and community. Bit by bit, all of the promises Catherine had made to them were taken away and the Russian government had them by the throat. David and wife Sofie decided to immigrate to America with their three small daughters. David was overwhelmed with the way of life and the endless opportunities in the new country and so they pulled up roots and moved time and time again, always searching for the kind of community and life they were used to in the 'old' country. This fast-moving story takes the reader with the Steiners as they struggle through the world wars, economic depression, and the news that their oldest son is listed as MIA in the Philippines. This is a page-turner, another life saga of love, sorrow, and disappointment; the thing that sustains them is their faith in God. The Volga Germans came to this country with a sugar beet hoe in one hand and the Bible in the other!


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The Gloucester Housing Authority has a homeownership lottery for three newly-built condos at 10 Taylor St., Gloucester. The two-bedroom condos are spacious and have an extra huge finished, heated room in the attic with skylights and a harbor view. The two condos are priced at $125,000 each. The lower level is an open floor plan wheelchair-accessible condo with a separate bedroom and laundry room. Price: $90,000. All three condos have off-street parking. Lottery applicants should be below 80 percent of median income. Even though certain descriptions are listed as a "preference," all should apply. Call 978-281-4770, ext. 110.


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Comment: Re:She probably wants kids (Score 3, Insightful) 186
Not every female wants kids ever. Nor every male. Sometimes personal reasons can mean "I want something different out of life", or "I am tired of the PR", or any other number of things.
Not every female wants kids ever. Nor every male. Sometimes personal reasons can mean "I want something different out of life", or "I am tired of the PR", or any other number of things.
If by physicists you mean to include some fringe folk like Tegmark, then sure.
Closing one's ears to people one might disagree with is a sure way to rot as a community. It's not like the community that attends such conferences is unanimous in their views; it's not *all* technolibertarians. If you look at other presentations by such bodies at past conferences, you see that they're often quite good.
Thankless means that few people in broad society adequately respect the need for or the practices of police officers. They're underappreciated.
Police don't usually have the time, when people pull a gun on them, to carefully consider every possible option. If they can pick the least bad option, great, but if the situation is that someone pulls a gun on an on-duty cop (meaning pulls it out and begins to point it at them), I'd be very reluctant to second-guess them if the policeman shoots that person.
Police do a necessary and often thankless job at high risk to themselves. If a policeman needs to arrest you, it's best not to make them feel unsafe.
Not all of us on the left have a problem with this.
Always? If someone did manage to grab your gun and aims it at you, I think you'd prefer your gun to fail at that point.
Without consent of the Ukrainian government, such a vote would not mean anything more than, say, if my neighbourhood in Brooklyn voted to secede. The current Russian occupation of Crimea is not valid.
I'm 35. I recently left a startup where most of the people there were about 10 years earlier. The difference is a bit more than age for me - I spent most of the 10 years I had on them working for a University, but the combination of age and differences in interests were very rough - I didn't feel that I fit in, I didn't hang out with them after work, I didn't want the same things out of life, and so on. It can be rough.
A bit of contract law that would:
1) Mark these rights as unwaivable
2) Mark as unenforcable or nonactionable any part of any contract that would bar or establish consequences for asserting these rights
It'd be amazing if there were a hollywood blockbuster that theorises that doing this will make the Earth run out of rotational energy and fall into the Sun.
I like how they place an emphasis on it being small, but they require you to link the whole damned thing into your app. And of c ourse that doesn't help you write correct software, because you won't figure out if you really need -lm unless you also test your app on a more correct libc.
Lightweight and correct indeed.
Steps to a useless comment:
1) Speculate on the features of something
2) Note that that speculated feature set doesn't include something you want
3) Criticise based on your speculation
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The strike at the Goodman Manufacturing plant in Fayetteville could soon be over.
After four days on the picket line, workers with the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers reached a tentative deal with the company Wednesday afternoon.
Union members will vote on the proposed deal Thursday night at the Ninth Grade Academy in Old Central High School in Fayetteville at 6 p.m., according to a union news release.
The release stated that a majority vote to accept the offer would effectively end the strike.
Company officials declined to talk with WAFF, but earlier on Wednesday, WAFF 48 News spoke with a union spokesperson. Just hours before the announcement, he expressed hope that a deal was near.
There were several issues that had to be worked out according to the union. Health care prices were one of the main points of contention.
"You can call us greedy, but that's just not the case." said IAM spokesman Bob Wood. "The folks here have given up concessions, their pensions have been frozen, because they understood that it's important to keep the jobs here. We've given a lot, and so, workers need to stand together now."
Wood also pointed out that he's seen a lot of backing for his workers from the community. Cars honked in support as they drove by the picked line during our interview. "The community has been very supportive of us, we've had lots of donations from local businesses, we've had bottled water out here for the strikers and food and things like that. So this is a community effort."
In a statement from Goodman Manufacturing, officials said the deal would include "increased wages, improvements in employee contributions on medical coverage, an improvement in the two-tier wage scale from the previous offer, and improvements in pay for employees on continuous shifts."
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In response to the growing awareness of gluten intolerance, Okemo Mountain Resort is now offering gluten-free meal options at all of its culinary outlets. An estimated 3 million Americans have Celiac Disease. Celiac Disease is an autoimmune disorder caused by a reaction to the protein gluten, which is found in wheat, barley, and rye. The only treatment for Celiac Disease is a gluten-free diet.
"What we are trying to do is make the experience for every guest a great one. We want every guest to feel at ease about what they are ordering from our culinary outlets." says Assistant to the Culinary Director Mandy Smith. Each of the Resort's chefs was tasked with developing gluten-free menu options. In an enthusiastic response, new menus containing gluten-free selections were developed at each of the culinary outlets.
At Siena, Okemo Mountain Resort's Italian restaurant, gluten-free pasta, pizza shells, and flatbreads are offered in lieu of their gluten-rich counterparts. Guests at Epic and Coleman Brook Tavern will be pleased to find that each dish containing gluten has been starred and guests are shown how to order the dish to ensure that it is gluten-free. In the cafeterias, gluten-free items such as salads are offered daily, and gluten-free specials such as soups will be offered on a regular basis. Guests are advised to call in advance of their visit for more information on the gluten-free cafeteria specials of the day.
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"Slowly but surely, new technologies will allow us to change the way we plan our missions, procure equipment, and conduct campaigns. Solar power and microgrids for bases, better insulation for mobile camps, fuel cells to power the equipment of individual soldiers, biofuels for military vehicles – the possibilities are endless", Ambassador Gábor Iklódy, NATO Assistant Secretary General for Emerging Security Challenges said. "We are not investing in energy saving and environmentally friendly technologies because they are "politically correct". We are investing in them because they make sense: they are the key to success in our military missions."
The event was organised by NATO, the Lithuanian Energy Security Centre and the Ukrainian Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
This workshop is funded through NATO's Science for Peace and Security Programme. For more information, visit www.nato.int/science (see "Calendar" for organisers' contact details).


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Milford — Preventing bullying and promoting respect were the topics of the day at Milford Central School on Tuesday.
Katy Allen of the Impact Training and Evaluation, Inc., visited the district to host informational sessions about working together to implement The New York State Dignity for All Students Act. According the State Education Department, the legislation, which took effect on July 1, seeks to provide the state's public elementary and secondary school students with a safe and supportive environment free from discrimination, intimidation, taunting, harassment and bullying on school property, a school bus and/or at a school function.
Allen went over the definitions of words such as conflict, bullying, cyberbullying, drama, and harassment and described mean teasing verses fun teasing – all things that educators will be dealing with to help ensure students feel like schools provide comfortable learning environments.
According to Allen, a study done in 2001 showed 9 percent of students bullied others in school yearly and 13 percent were victims. She said she estimates that 16 to 24 percent of high school students were involved in cyberbullying (bullying that takes place using electronic technology) the past year.
MCS Principal Michael Miller said overseeing cyberbullying is hard enough, but dealing with something that turns into aggravated harassment is even more tricky because that is a crime. Miller said he understands aggravated harassment to be the use of electronic technology of some kind and making someone feel uncomfortable.
"We are not in a position to judge that. We do not know yet as a school district, because we won't know until July of 2013, as to whether or not the police departments- whether the state police or the county police or the local constables- will work with us. We don't typically turn things in. Our MO is to say to you as parents, 'that this is something you might want to take to the police department,"' Miller said.
Allen explained that schools do not have to address cyberbullying under the Dignity Act until next summer.
"There is a lot of complications with all of this, particularly around sexting, when students start sending pictures (often nude) back and forth to one another," Allen said.
Another factor, according to Allen, is a student's age.
"What is happening in some places is that kids have been labeled sex offenders because they have passed child pornography around and that is what it ends up being about," she said.
First Amendment freedom of speech rights make things even more complicated, according to Allen. She said there have been several court cases that have gone all the way to the Supreme Court that challenge the schools' ability to regulate free speech of students. Outcomes seem to be determined based on whether or not the communication is "substantially interrupting the learning environment," Allen explained.
For example, Allen said a court ruled in favor of a boy who started a website that posted bad things about his principal. Allen said the judge determined it was obnoxious speech, but free speech,and that actions taken by the school would be more disruptive to learning than the actions of the student.
"There are all kinds of constitutional issues here," he said."There is freedom of speech versus freedom to come to school."
Allen went over signs that a student is being bullied, but cautioned that they are also signs of stress. Signs include symptoms of depression, an increase in trips to the nurse (vomiting or headaches that aren't accompanied by a fever or other flue symptoms), bouts of anger or other emotional outbursts, refusal to associate with someone or appearing afraid of someone, avoidance of particular places in school, missing items, a drop in grades and a lack of interest in activities previously enjoyed. Allen said there are different forms of bullying such as physical, verbal, visual and social-relational.
Why do students bully one another? Allen said it can alleviate boredom, provide entertainment or amusement, enact revenge, express contempt for someone who is disliked, ostracize or shun someone who is not welcome, enhance status with peers or force someone to conform to group norms.
Allen said she also believes the environment one grows up in contributes to bullying. She used the research of Diana Baumrind to show three types of parenting styles _ permissive or neglectful, authoritarian and authoritative. The characteristics of the later is what should be encouraged, according to Allen.
"Those characteristics include believing in the child, trusting the child, listening to the child and letting that child know he is important," Allen said. "Democracy is learned through experience and discipline should be handled with authority, but dignity is protected. Rules should be simple and clearly stated ..."
What may come as a shocker is Allen does not see punishment as the best solution for correcting bullying. She said it often leads to worse behavior.
"They are all works-in-progresses," she said. "They are learning and making mistakes. We have to look at them as mistakes and help them move beyond them."
Because of the way laws are written, Allen said, there is a requirement to find somebody who is a victim and somebody who is is a perpetrator. However, she said it is not as clear-cut as that.
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"We are not going to legislate or punish our way out of the bullying problem," Allen added. "We need to think of creative and humane ways to help kids shape their behavior."
It is a good idea to offer children opportunities for amnesty (opportunity to confess without fear of punishment), according to Allen. She said she used this tactic right before bed with her children at home because it provided an opportunity to talk about what was done, why, how it affected others and what could be done so it would not happen again.
"This is important because one thing we are finding out is there is a lot of reciprocal aggression going on back and forth between young people. For example if you give me a nasty Tweet then I will give you a nasty Tweet back," she said. "Sometimes it makes one person look like the bully, but in fact it may be that there is a lot more mutuality going on there than what anybody knows about."
Allen said a child might go to their mother and show her a bunch of nasty Tweets posted by someone else after deleting what they had previously posted.
According to Allen, educators cannot be the only ones held responsible for educating students about acceptable behavior; there needs to be help from parents. The messages that parents can give to help include:
*"You don't have to like everyone, but you need to treat everyone with respect."
* "It is wrong to be mean to someone just because you don't like him or her."
* "Being assertive is standing up for yourself in a respectful way. No one has the right to hurt you, but neither do you have the right to strike back at someone who has hurt you. Objecting to aggression is not the same as striking back to inflict the same amount of or more harm than you experienced."
* "Being respected is better than being popular."
*"Revenge usually backfires."
* "Just because someone is different does not mean he or she is unworthy."
* "Life isn't always fair and you won't always get what you want."
Allen said adults should model anger management, self control, respect and empathy. Children should also be taught that boundaries are critical, she continued.
"Youth seem to have an infatuation with celebrity-ism. They can get that feeling when presenting themselves on Facebook and other social media platforms. However, when you make the world a stage by putting yourself out there in network spaces for all to see, you may become a celebrity, but as with all celebrity-ism, there are people who will take nasty shots at you," she said.
Other social networking sharing advice provided by Allen included:
* Never share a Facebook username and passwords with anyone except a parent.
* Don't vent, criticize or attack anyone via text, Tweet, or Facebook because even if it is deleted it can still be attained.
* Don't post anything on a social networking site or a blog that you would not want your grandmother, parents or principal to see. It lasts forever and the consequences of bad judgment now can follow you for your whole life. Ask yourself, will this hurt my chances of getting into college or getting a job if an admissions officer or an employer sees it.


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Tweeting About Your Station"
March 18, 2011
"Your on-air DJ just tweeted something negative about an advertiser. The advertiser called you and has threatened to cancel all advertising unless you fire the DJ. You are planning to fire the DJ. What do you need to look out for as you get ready to fire him to make sure you are covered?"
John: What's a GM to do?
This is, sorry to say (as much as I encourage the full employment of lawyers), a "call your local lawyer" question. Labor laws on termination of employees vary from state to state so it is wise to seek legal counsel before any employee termination decision in which you have reason to believe the station will become involved in potential employment litigation or claims.
Further, while hopefully not the case, if the DJ managed to libel or otherwise damage the advertiser in the 140 character tweet, the advertiser might ask the station for real compensation in addition to the advertiser's visceral delight at seeing the DJ fired. If you, in consultation with legal counsel, believe that there may be a claim for damages that could be made by the advertiser, it may be wise to involve the advertiser in some sort of documented promise not to bring legal action if you follow through with your termination of the DJ. Otherwise, you could find the advertiser using your firing of the DJ as evidence that you admit that what the DJ did was wrong.
It might be time for a review of your station's social media policies as they relate to employees. Social media use is an area for which there are no right or wrong answers, but there are certainly many questions and potential pitfalls. At the same time, review your errors and omissions insurance policy to be sure that it covers social media use and posts by your station's employees as when the need arises for such insurance, it is already too late.
Finally, it goes without saying that, from the FCC's perspective, the job vacancy created by the termination of the DJ, assuming the DJ position is full-time, requires the FCC's EEO broad outreach and recruitment efforts for the vacancy including documenting job interviewees and each interviewee's referral source.
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Part One:
One from the back of an Arthur video: "Will Arthur spend the rest of his life at D.W.'s beckon call, endlessly fetching ginger ale and playing Crazy-eights?"
Shame on the Arthur people for letting that one get by.
And yet when I googled "beckon call" it appeared not only on lists of expressions that certain people get confused, but in many other places online.
Just so we all know--it's "beck and call." You can beckon Arthur to fetch you gingerale, but when you make him your slave, he's at your beck and call.
Part Two:
Today Crayons told me she was so cold she was getting "goof bumps."
Aren't kids funny, I thought--isn't that original?
Well, I googled that one too, and noticed that several other peoples' kids beat Crayons to it, which doesn't bother me at all, it was still funny--but when I noticed that several adults also referred to "goof bumps," it did make me wonder. "I felt goof bumps washing over my arms. This was one of the few times I actually felt I belonged, at least partially to the group. ..." This was my favourite, though:
"I got goof bumps and everythin." Larry slammed the desk again. "You killed them. Squirrel! You shot Gus. You shot him and you shot Luisa and you shot Paul. ...Oh my...that writing is so good it gives me goof bumps.


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A NEW Cross teenager has denied murdering Kevin Ssali in Lee after a row on a bus.
Kevin, 14, from South Norwood, died following the attack in Burnt Ash Road, Lee, on September 15.
The Crown Woods College pupil was taken to hospital by ambulance but died a short while later.
A post-mortem examination gave the cause of death as a single stab wound to the heart.
Today, a 17-year-old boy, who cannot be named for legal reasons, appeared at the Old Bailey where he denied murdering Kevin.
He was remanded in custody for trial on June 24.


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One of ExpressJet's own mechanics is a real life rocket scientist.
Darius Hooker, A&P technician – Shreveport, participated in the Team America Rocketry Challenge for three years while in high school. To prepare, he took crash courses in physics, trigonometry, software and more. As a junior, he took his new knowledge and designed a rocket that almost landed his team a spot in the finals.
"For a couple of guys who started out not knowing much about rockets, we did pretty decent," Darius said.
Darius' senior year, he took his design from the previous year and made some improvements. He knew it was now or never.
"The goal was to build a rocket that could carry two raw eggs 800 feet 43-47 seconds," Darius explained. "On our last shot, the rocket made it 801 feet in 45 seconds."
That last shot earned the team a score of 1, placing them in the top 1% of the country and securing their spot at the national competition in D.C.
The national competition was an unforgettable experience. Darius and his teammate, Wesley Carter, raised $15,000 in donations to help them get to D.C. They arrived on a chartered plane and had a car service waiting to meet them at the airport. The boys spent three days touring D.C., speaking with the press and competing in the national competition.
"As the first African American team to qualify, we already felt like winners," Darius said. "It was a great accomplishment for us."
Later, when Darius was in A&P school, he received a phone call from the White House. President Obama wanted to meet Darius and Wesley, and invited them to come back to D.C. to participate in the White House Science Fair.
Once again, they received the super star treatment. Lockheed Martin flew them in and took care of all their expenses during the trip. They toured the National Mall, saw the Lincoln Memorial and biked through D.C. to Virginia. Then, on their last day they went to the White House to meet the President.
"He shook our hand three times – I counted! We were the first ones in the room who got to meet him. It was just like talking to a normal person. He asked us all about the competition and what we planned to do in the future."
Darius now works as an A&P technician at our Shreveport base. His long term goal is to get a degree in aeronautical engineering and management.
"Working at ExpressJet and working on aircraft will definitely give me the upper hand in my classes and my future."
Pictured: Darius, Wesley and President Obama