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NEW YORK (AP) - New York City police say a young woman stumbling around on a Manhattan subway platform not far from Times Square fell onto the tracks and was killed by a train.
The accident happened at around 5 a.m. on New Year's Day at the No. 2 line station on 34th Street and Seventh Avenue. That's one stop from where revelers gather in Times Square to see the ball drop.
Police say the victim was in her 20s. Her name wasn't immediately released.
Subway deaths are common in the city. Last year, according to a report in the Daily News, there was about a fatality a week.
But track deaths have been getting extra scrutiny in recent weeks after two men were shoved to their deaths in December.
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Quick Pick: Connecting in Healthcare
The library has over 1300 videos and DVDs covering the RTC curriculum. Want to know if we have anything for your RTC program? Call us at (425) 235-2331.
The library is located at: 3000 NE Fourth St, Renton, WA 98056
It's About Respect: Recognizing Harassment in a Diverse Workplace. (2002).Call number: MEDIA 658.3145 ITS-ABO 2002r
Workplace harassment damages employee morale and overall productivity. But do we always recognize it when we see it? This video demonstrates several harassment scenarios. Noreen Light, Emergency Dispatch Instructor, recommends this for all instructors. "It's a great human relations video." Judith Frey of Instructional Improvement also lists it.
Eye Exam: The Essentials. (2001). By the American Academy of Ophthalmology. Call number: MEDIA 617.75 MOVAGHA 2001
This video is an introduction to the basic eye exam for medical personnel who are not eye-care specialists. Larry Bovard, instructor for the Ophthalmic Assistant program, suggests this video for Allied Health students –especially LPN and Medical Assistants – who may have to do eye examinations as part of their duties.
Arizona Idol. By the University of Arizona Dean of Students Office. Call number: MEDIA 371.93 ARIZONA 200Ui
This 9 minute video wittily covers—and discourages— disruptive student behavior: talking and eating in class, dressing inappropriately, talking on a cell phone during class. Eric Palo of the Library suggested this title.
It's Not About the Bike. (2000). Audiotape. Lance Armstrong with Sally Jenkins. Call number: MEDIA 796.62082 ARMSTR 2000
Integrating Technology Across the Curriculum. (1999). CD-ROM and booklet with strategies and lesson plans. Call number: MEDIA 371.334 ROBLYER 1999
A Journey Down Route 66. (1994).Video Call number: MEDIA 917.8043 JOURNEY 1994d
Candy & Chocolate. (1991).Video. Call number: MEDIA 641.853 CANDY 1991c
The Snows of Kilimanjaro. (1998). Audiotape. Call number: MEDIA F HEMINGW S1998
Do Penguins Have Knees? (1991). Audiotape. Answers such questions as "Why do we have ear lobes?" Call number: MEDIA 031.02 FELDMAN 1991.
I'm Normal, You're Weird: Understanding Other Cultures. (1998). Call number: MEDIA 303.402 I'M-NOR 1998y
Since RTC's student body includes people from many different countries, we occasionally experience cultural conflicts in the classroom. This video explores some of the differences between cultures with the intention of encouraging understanding. Topics covered include differences in body language, in looking at and speaking to strangers, different conceptions of suitable food, attitudes toward time and definitions of honesty.
Do Hollywood films have a place in the classroom? Many instructors believe they do. The following are a few feature films RTC Library offers for home viewing or classroom use.
Stand and Deliver (1988) tells the story of an East Los Angeles teacher who coaches his poor barrio school students to take and pass the National Advanced Placement Calculus Exam. Emphasizes the importance of mathematics, and the power of education—and a good teacher—to change lives. Call Number: MEDIA 791.4372 STAND 1988d
Apollo 13 (1995) is the dramatization of a true incident—the crippling of the 1970 Apollo 13 mission bound for the moon, the astronauts' struggle to survive, and the efforts of the NASA ground crew to save them. Emphasizes team work and problem solving. Call Number: MEDIA 791.4371 APOLLO 1995t
Glory Enough for All (1988) was a mini-series developed for the Canadian Broadcasting Company. It dramatizes the discovery of insulin at the University of Toronto in 1921. A thorough depiction of the ravages of diabetes before there were any effective treatments and of the process of scientific and medical investigation. Call Number: MEDIA 572.56509 GLORY 1988e
Separate but Equal (1991) dramatizes the events leading to the US Supreme Court decision Brown vs. Board which outlawed school segregation in the US. A long film (191 minutes) but an excellent way of beginning discussions of social equity and diversity issues. Call Number: MEDIA 791.4372 SEPARAT 1991
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Contact: Natalie Springuel, 207-288-2944 x298; Kristen Whiting-Grant, 207-646-1555, x115
ORONO, Me.– Maine's coastal communities recently have acquired two legal tools to protect public access for traditional marine resource uses, or working waterfronts. While current use taxation and the working waterfront land bond are significantsteps forward, they are only a fraction of the legal or policy options available to protect coastal access for fishermen, boaters, beachgoers, and other users.
Recognizing the tremendous need for additional ways to protect coastal access, the National Sea Grant Law Center has awarded Maine Sea Grant, Maine Coastal Program, Marine Law Institute at the University of Maine School of Law, and the Island Institute $54,531 to research legal and policy tools available for protecting coastal access in Maine and across the country.
Some of the tools include: cooperative agreements between coastal property owners and waterfront users; land conservation; zoning options; tax programs; and Maine's Right of Way Discovery Grants program. At the national level, Maine Sea Grant is leading an inventory of coastal access issues throughout the country. The new funding will allow case studies of best practices identified during this inventory to be converted into legal templates. The research will be conducted during the summer; in the fall, the project partners will use the research findings to develop published materials and training programs for citizens. "As a result of this legal research and outreach effort, we hope that citizens in Maine will improve their capacity
to address local access issues. Ultimately, building this type of local capacity could result in a reduction of the number of court-litigated coastal access conflicts," said grant recipient Kristen Whiting-Grant, a marine extension associate with Maine Sea Grant and University of Maine Cooperative Extension. Whiting-Grant is based at the Wells National Estuarine Research Reserve.
Maine is among only five states in the U.S. where coastal property owners hold title to the intertidal zone. In addition, of Maine's vast coastline, only 25 miles remain available for working waterfront access. "Shorefront land use and development trends are changing the character of the coast, affecting both people involved in traditional fisheries who need places to moor their boats or access the mudflats, as well as residents and visitors who have long benefited from open access to the shore," said Natalie Springuel, a Maine Sea Grant extension associate in coastal community development based at College of the Atlantic in Bar Harbor.
Springuel and Whiting-Grant, along with other partners at Maine Coastal Program, Marine Law Institute and the Island Institute, applied for the grant to research legal and policy tools for the protection of coastal access in Maine and the nation, which was one of 11 projects nationwide selected to receive funding. The grant competition is funded by the National Sea Grant College Program and administered by the National Sea Grant Law Center at The University of Mississippi. The National Sea Grant Law Center was founded in 2002 to provide legal research and outreach services to the Sea Grant community and its constituents.


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February 10, 2012
In 1980, voters approved the Placer County charter, a governing document that provides a level of flexibility in local decision making. The Charter also contains provisions that guide the organizational structure, duties and responsibilities of elected and appointed officials. One of those requirements in the Charter is for periodic review and assessment of the document to enable changes or additions.
A specific section of the Charter (601) requires the Board of Supervisors to convene a Charter Review Committee within five years of the previous review. The last review was done in fiscal year 2007-08, which will necessitate a review in fiscal year 2012-13.
The Board of Supervisors will address the formation of the Charter Review Committee at its regularly scheduled meeting on Tue., Feb. 14, 2012, at Board Chambers, 175 Fulweiler Ave., Auburn. The meeting begins at 9 a.m.
The Charter does not specify the method nor the composition or number of members of the Review Committee; that is left to the Board's discretion. There is no supervisorial residency requirement for Committee members. Prior Boards have formed the Committees in a myriad of ways. Prior Committees have numbered both five and seven members. The five member bodies represented the five supervisorial districts; the seven-member committees have represented the five districts, in addition to two at large members.
The 2007 Committee contained seven members to allow for broader representation. Staff from the County Executive Office and County Counsel will assist the Board in reviewing applications for appointment to the Committee. Recommendations from the Committee to the Supervisors are not binding and do not compel the Board to adopt any recommendations. Any proposed changes to the County Charter must be submitted to the County's voters in a ballot measure.
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At 2:15pm, the Senate will take a roll call vote on the motion to proceed to S J Res 36. If the motion is defeated, there will likely be several roll call votes related to S 1789, the Postal Service overhaul bill.
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- Durbin, Richard "Dick" J. U.S. Senator [D] Illinois
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Police release e-fit of man they want to speak to in connection with burglaries (From Essex County Standard)
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Police release e-fit of man they want to speak to in connection with burglaries
3:37pm Sunday 18th May 2014 in News
Police investigating two break-ins in Ridgewell have issued an e-fit of a man they would like to trace.
The first burglary happened in Stambourne Road between midnight on April 26 and 2.10pm on April 30.
Ornaments, cutlery and a petrol hedge trimmer were taken.
The second happened in the same road between midnight on April 29 and 4.15pm on May 7.
Details of the items missing are still being collated by the owner.
A man was seen acting suspiciously in the road on April 30.
If you recognise him please call PC Victoria Butler at Braintree CID on Essex Police 101 or Crimestoppers anonymously on 0800 555 111.
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Per policy of the Mecklenburg County Board of Commissioners, the Board may maintain standing committees as determined by a majority vote of the Board. The Board may also establish non-standing ("ad-hoc") committees as determined by a majority vote of the Board. Each committee includes 4 Commissioners, with one member serving as the Chair of the Committee. Members of each committee are appointed by the Chairman. The Mecklenburg County Board of Commissioners currently has three standing committees, the Health and Human Services Committee, Economic Development Committee, and the Intergovernmental Relations Committee and two ad-hoc committees, the Performance Review Committee (formerly the Compensation Committee) and the Audit Review Committee.
The Health and Human Services Committee is responsible for making recommendations to improve the health and well being of Mecklenburg County residents with emphasis on children, seniors and families. The committee meets the third Tuesday of the month at 3:00p.m. Committee Chair: Dumont Clarke; Committee Members: Vilma Leake, Karen Bentley, Pat Cotham; Staff Support: Michelle Lancaster
The Economic Development Committee is responsible for making recommendations that contribute to business and job growth in Mecklenburg County. The committee meets the first Tuesday of each month from 3:30p.m. to 5:00p.m. Committee Chair: Matthew Ridenhour; Committee Members: Trevor Fuller, Karen Bentley, George Dunlap; Staff Support: Leslie Johnson
The Intergovernmental Committee is responsible for helping to coordinate the intergovernmental relations between and among Mecklenburg County and all of the governing bodies operating within the County at the federal, state, and local levels. The committee meets the fourth Tuesday of each month from 1:45p.m. to 2:45p.m. Committee Chair: Dumont Clarke; Committee Members: Vilma Leake, Kim Ratliff, Karen Bentley; Staff Support: Dena Diorio and Chris Peek
The Performance Review Committee is responsible for reviewing the performance of the County Manager. The committee will meet after the County Manager presents the work plans for herself and her teams. Committee Chair: Vilma Leake; Committee Members: Dumont Clarke, Bill James, Matthew Ridenhour; Staff Support: Chris Peek
The Audit Review Committee is responsible for reviewing and evaluating proposals from all firms that express an interest and make a recommendation for selection to the Board of County Commissioners. Committee Chair: Kim Ratliff; Committee Members: Bill James, Pat Cotham, Matthew Ridenhour; Public Member: Richard Harris; Staff Support: Wanda Reeves


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ROCK HILL, S.C. (AP) - An elementary school teacher in Rock Hill has been accused of hurting a female student, leaving a bruise on her arm.
Thirty-five-year-old Daniel Johns of Rosewood Elementary School has been placed on administrative leave with pay after he was charged with third-degree assault and battery.
Officials say Johns was on hall duty early Wednesday when a 9-year-old girl became unruly. School spokeswoman Elaine Baker says Johns talked with the girl and then took her into a classroom and spoke with her again before returning her to the hall.
The girl told school officials about the incident later that day and officials called police.
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SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) -- It was bad enough that Rutgers drew Gonzaga as its first opponent in the NCAA tournament and had to travel across the country to play the game on Gonzaga's home floor.
It got even worse when coach C. Vivian Stringer and her Rutgers team got a look at Gonzaga's McCarthey Athletic Center on Friday.
"It's kind of blue in there, isn't it?" Stringer said of the color scheme. "We're going to think we are in UConn again."
Sixth-seeded Rutgers (22-9) plays 11th-seeded Gonzaga (26-5) on Saturday afternoon. Third-seeded Miami (25-5) plays No. 14 seed Idaho State (24-7) in the second first-round game in Spokane later Saturday.
Gonzaga's up-tempo style and heavy reliance on passing also reminded Stringer of Big East rival Connecticut, which beat the Scarlet Knights twice this season.
"Look at how many games they win as a result of assists," Stringer said of Gonzaga. "You know they are playing together well as a team."
"It's hard to stop a team's offense when they know each other inside and out," said guard April Sykes, who averages 13 points to lead Rutgers. "Watching Gonzaga, they are a team like that."
The Zags also have a devoted fan base, as Connecticut does, that will pack the 6,000-seat area Saturday.
"We anticipate that everybody that can breathe is going to be packing it up and getting in there," Stringer said. "We anticipate a loud, boisterous and enthusiastic crowd."
Stringer said she had a feeling her team would be sent to Spokane, and expressed no displeasure at having to play on Gonzaga's home floor.
"I looked at where the different sites were and considered which was the greatest distance from us," Stringer joked.
But she liked getting her team away from the distractions of family and friends.
"I wasn't disappointed," said Stringer, who has an 11-2 record in NCAA opening games.
Gonzaga coach Kelly Graves said playing at home is not automatically good.
"There is added pressure when you play at home," Graves said. "The expectations are they will play better in their home gym."
That said, Graves believes the benefits of playing at home outweigh any disadvantages.
Rutgers is making its 10th consecutive appearance in the tournament, and 14th under Stringer. They were ranked as high as No. 7 this season before a five-game losing streak knocked them down.
Rutgers relies on a solid defense that limited Connecticut to 49 points even though they lost that Big East tournament game. They score an average of 60 points per game.
Gonzaga averaged 75 points per game this season, eighth best in the nation. They earned their first at-large bid to the tournament after losing to BYU in the West Coast Conference tournament title game.
The Bulldogs are led by Kayla Standish, who averages 15.8 points per game. Standish averaged 30 points in two NCAA tournament games at McCarthey last year, both Gonzaga victories.
Standish expects Rutgers to play a lot of pressure defense.
"We've got to stay composed with that," Standish said. "We've got to take care of the ball."
Graves said Rutgers presents several defensive schemes, including full-court and half-court traps.
"I'm not sure we can be ready for everything," Graves said. "We've got to play with our heads on a swivel."
Miami, which was upset by Wake Forest in the ACC tournament, is led by guard Shenise Johnson, who averages 16.8 points and 7.9 rebounds per game.
But senior guard Riquna Williams did not accompany the team to Spokane. Coach Katie Meier said Williams did not make the trip because of conduct detrimental to the team. Details were not immediately available. Williams averages 16 points per game and was an All-ACC first team selection this year.
Krystal Saunders will start in her place, Meier said.
"I am extremely confident in the Hurricane team that will take the floor in Spokane," Meier said.
The Hurricanes average 76.9 points per game, sixth best in the nation. Miami is a No. 3 seed for the second consecutive year. They lost to Oklahoma in the second round last year.
Idaho State, winner of the Big Sky tournament, is making its third appearance in the NCAA tournament and first since 2007. They have not won a game in the tournament.
The Bengals have four players who average double figures, led by Chelsea Pickering at 12 points per game.
"They are incredibly balanced," Meier said. "They have no selfish players."
The Bengals also are relaxed, said coach Seton Sobolewski
"We let them be goofy and have a good time," he said. "If I get really uptight with them, they are going to get tighter and not play as well."
Idaho State didn't find out about Miami's decision on Williams until they arrived for practice, but the move won't make much difference to his plans, Sobolewski said.
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The Cadastral Framework Project is a cooperative project which involves developing the federal cadastral data content standard into a database, converting DNR data, serving data over the Internet, and integrating data from additional partner organizations over the Internet. Cadastral data are the geographic extent of the past, current, and future rights and interests in real property. Rights and interests are the benefits in real property that can be conveyed or transferred to another for some consideration. Federal, state, local, tribal, and private organizations each keep specific and detailed proprietary databases of their land rights and interests. All of these organizations conduct business among each other, and many are interested in communicating their land holdings and transactions to facilitate their business operations. The goals of this project are to develop a basic information standard of communication for land holdings and transactions, create a common database of cadastral information, implement a method of communicating cadastral information between organizations and the common database, and reduce the duplication of effort in maintaining cadastral data.
The framework cadastral database being developed is based on traditional surveys and cadastres for taxation, and title registers. Records collected for taxation purposes typically include the property owner, the amount of land, the primary or most valuable use of the land for assessing value, and the estimated value of the land. An ancient and notable example is the Domesday Book of William the Conqueror. Napoleon Bonaparte's cadastre was a survey of land ownership that included measurement of the extent of land ownership to get a more accurate estimate of the amount of land that could be taxed. The value and amount of land are used to calculate the amount of tax to be levied on the property owner. The framework cadastral database can accept data on land owners, land use, land value, and the geographic extent of land.
Title registration came from a different perspective - to protect the rights of the property owner. Land title records usually specify the owner, the description of the extent of the land, and the rights to and encumbrances on the land. The registration of deed records protects the buyer of land from the seller attempting to resell the same land to another, or from buying land without a full understanding of other obligations on the land. Ancient oral contracts requiring witnesses to verify the transfer of land were replaced by written contracts, then registration of those written contracts on the public record further protected property rights. The framework cadastral database can accept additional data on the description of land, rights, encumbrances, and conveyance instruments. Both tax surveys and title registration have been brought together under the term cadastre.
Typically, cadastral records are kept by public and private surveyors, county recorders, county tax assessors, land title companies, private land management businesses, private land agents, and government agencies entrusted with public lands. Each organization keeps the records which are necessary to conduct its business. Surveyors measure and describe land; they keep records of their surveys and legal descriptions. Counties are responsible for publicly recording business transactions including conveyances, easements, leases, and sales from the land, and they keep these records. County tax assessors are interested in the value and usage of land as the basis of local government revenue. Land title companies duplicate the public records of land transactions and organize the records so that they can insure the title for land transactions. Private land managers, such as timber, railroad, and mining companies, along with government agencies managing public lands, must track the extent of their large dispersed holdings and any encumbrances and restrictions in order to manage their lands effectively. Private land agents, such as developers and realtors, watch the transactions of land closely for investment and marketing opportunities. Each organization keeps a specific and detailed proprietary database of its business interests. All of these organizations conduct business among each other, and many are interested in communicating their land holdings and transactions to facilitate their business operations. The goals of this project are to develop a basic information standard of communication for land holdings and transactions, create a shared database of cadastral information, and implement a common method of communicating cadastral information between organizations and the cadastral database.
The utility of a cadastral database with data from multiple organizations is apparent. The database could answer future queries for public lands inventory such as: Who owns the land? How much land is owned? Where is the land located? What is the land used for? However, if integration of cadastral data is not supported by a broad spectrum of organizations then the cadastral database would only be able to answer those questions in part. The Department of Natural Resources has maintained a set of public lands data for several years and that data is being moved into the cadastral database. DNR maintains basic major public lands ownership information to support its proprietary, regulatory, and planning needs. The update schedule meets basic DNR needs, but may not be sufficient to meet the requirements of other organizations. DNR would prefer for individual organizations to maintain and share their current ownership in the framework database so that the data is more accurate and comprehensive, and so that the duplication of maintenance effort is minimized.
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Here's the big news from Joe Capozzi (via The Palm Beach Post):
Juan Pierre is back with the Marlins.
He has agreed to a one-year contract, giving the Marlins an option in center field until top-prospact Christian Yelich is ready.
Pierre, 35, played center for the Marlins from 2003-05. He didn't miss a game during that tenure and he was a favorite of then-manager Jack McKeon's because of his strong clubhouse presence and indisputable work ethic.
Pierre is a candidate to lead off for Miami, since both Jose Reyes and Emilio Bonifacio are on their way to Toronto.
Yelich is expected to start the year at Class AA Jacksonville. He could get promoted to Miami if he gets off to a strong start.
Fast players generally age well, but that "indisputable work ethic" might have something to do with the fact that Juan Pierre essentially has never changed. Sure, his batting averages have fluctuated over the years -- and with it, his value -- but batting averages fluctuate; that's why they're called batting averages. Pierre's skills are essentially the same today as when he played for the Marlins: sub-par outfielder, hard to walk or strike out, speedy on the bases.
Well, his skills are almost the same. Pierre does the same things, just not quite as well. From 2003 through '5, he was actually quite a good player. Not a great player. But his combination of skills made him a good one. In the seven seasons since, though? Essentially, Pierre's been just another guy. Better than replacement-level in some seasons, and worse in others. And always sort of hovering around that level.
In 2012, Pierre was a bargain for the Phillies at $800,000. In 2013 he's getting a big raise, percentage-wise -- quite a coup for a 35-year-old player -- but should be a bargain for the Marlins at $1.6 million.
But aside from the remnants of the South Florida Chapter of the Juan Pierre Fan Club, this move doesn't likely salve the emotional pain of those locals who feel betrayed by the franchise's latest fire sale. Pierre is merely a place-holder, the sort of player who will at least help keep the Marlins from sinking into abject ineptitude; sign enough Juan Pierres, and you might not lose 100 games.
Because that's the short-term goal on the field. It has to be. Whether this is true or not:
Beinfest: "We think we brought in championship quality talent." #marlins— Juan C. Rodriguez (@JCRMarlinsbeat) November 19, 2012
Of course, Beinfest wasn't talking about Juan Pierre; he's not an idiot. Beinfest was referring to seven prospects coming over from the Blue Jays in the fire sale. And maybe he's not just whistling in the dark. Beinfest has done pretty well over the years, when trading veterans for prospects. And I wonder if maybe he's not the perfect man for this particular job. You know how much fun a Rotisserie Baseball draft is? How it's actually the funnest thing about playing in one of those leagues, most years? I think that's how Beinfest feels. Sure, it's fun to sign a bunch of free agents, like he did last year. But the thrill wears off, especially when most of the free agents don't play as well as you expected. But what's this? My owner's ready to start over again? Hurrah! I can imagine a championship!
Consider how many crappy sequels come out of Hollywood every year, maybe Beinfest should be drafted as a screenwriter. It can pay just as well as working for Jeffrey Loria, and Beinfest seems to have the requisite imagination.


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Baylor's offense hasn't missed a step since a group of skill players went down with injuries, and they could receive an added boost ahead of their marquee matchup against Oklahoma State. Running backs Lache Seastrunk and Glasco Martin could return for the Bears' biggest game of the year.
Briles says Lache + Glasco both ran "extremely well" yesterday. "Good possibilty" both will be ready. Both will go through some reps today.
— Craig Smoak (@CraigSmoak) November 20, 2013
Both running backs missed the Bears' win over Texas Tech last week. Seastrunk has averaged 8.71 yards per carry and has scored 11 touchdowns this season, while Martin is at a 4.3 yards per rush clip with five touchdowns. In their absence, Shock Linwood ran 29 times for 187 yards and one touchdown.
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It also shows 33-percent of local high school seniors use marijuana, compared with 21-percent statewide.
While the report shows the health needs, local doctors said it also identifies our community's social needs.
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The tragedy at Sandy Hook Elementary School is without rational explanation. As with any crisis, we review and reflect on what, if anything, could have been done to prevent or reduce the negative results of such an event.
The opinions in this instance can be polarizing and will be discussed and reviewed by many for months and years to come.
The adage that "it takes a community to raise a child" is on point in preventing or reducing the chances for such a tragedy in the future. It takes increased awareness and action from the entire community to be as successful as we can in this endeavor.
While we entrust our children to school on most days, it is unreasonable to expect that they alone can deal with this problem. Our school staffs have a love for our children and, as witnessed by the bravery of teachers at Sandy Hook, sacrifice themselves for our kids.
But it takes more.
In California, we have some of the most restrictive gun policies in the nation, but many do not secure their guns in their homes and they are easily accessible. Those that choose to own guns must be responsible gun owners and help protect our community by keeping their weapons secured.
Mental health services in Ventura County far surpass those in many other counties. Unfortunately, since the state cut funding years ago, many who need the ongoing assistance of a mental health professional are unable to get it.
We all must be aware and be willing to step up to take preventive action if we see behavior that concerns us. Call 211 for mental health referral needs.
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Joe Flacco recently became the NFL's highest-paid player after signing a six-year, $120.6 million contract with the Baltimore Ravens. As we contemplate the future of the Atlanta Falcons star quarterback, we can presume Matt RYan will be receiving a hefty sum when his current contract expires a year from now.
Ryan signed a six-year, $72 million deal when he entered the league in 2008, with $34.75 million guaranteed. He is set to make a base salary of $10 million in 2013, a price that could easily double if/when the Falcons re-sign him.
D. Orlando Ledbetter of the AJC recently reported on the outlook of Ryan's future contract, citing a forecast made by Joel Corry, a former sports agent. Corry believes Ryan will outdo Flacco in earnings. ""He should average at least $21 million, $22 million or $23 million," said Corry.
Thomas Dimitroff just sent an intern to the gulag out of sheer anger.
According to Corry's estimation, Ryan could pocket up to $138 million with $60 million or more guaranteed. A contract that lavish would make No. 2 the new highest-paid player in the league.
Is Ryan worth $21 million or more a year? Yes, he's a franchise quarterback. Yes, he's led the Falcons to the most successful era in franchise history. But, does it feel a bit exorbitant to make a endowment of such an extent to the Matt Ryan fund at this juncture? Flacco received his contract in the wake of winning Super Bowl MVP. Drew Brees, the highest-paid player prior to Flacco, was coming off a record-setting campaign when he signed his deal last year.
Now, before you take out the torches and pitchforks, I am one of the biggest Ryan supporters you will find. I fully backed him during his adverse playoff span. He's clearly the future of Atlanta, and deserves to get paid. He's better than Flacco in my estimation as well. The Falcons have to be careful, though, about how they arrange his cap hit.
Flacco's deal will ultimately cost the Ravens $29 million in cap space in a few years. That contract will be restructured, as we can probably expect the later years of Ryan's to be as well. Regardless, $138 million is almost unfathomable.
The Falcons have an entire year ahead to negotiate. I don't personally know Matt Ryan, but he doesn't seem like a money-hungry guy. He cares about winning and what's best for the franchise. His agent, Tom Condon, might not be as concerned. We'll see how this plays out.
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He was born Tuesday, Feb. 2, 1932, in Mt. Vernon, the son of Howard Edgar and Ora (Beamon) Jones. He married Beverly Evans on May 5, 1962, in Streator. They were married for 51 years.
Howard served our country in the United States Air Force in the Korean Conflict. He worked as a draftsman for Burgess-Norton Mfg. Co. in Geneva where he retired. Howard was a member of the Society of Mechanical Engineers.
He is survived by wife, Beverly Jones of Lincoln, Ark.; two sons, Jeff Jones and wife Jeannie of Granbury, Texas and William "Bill" Jones and wife Beth of Geneva; two daughters, Cindy Samuel and special friend John Tarnowski of St. Charles and Michelle Ford of Fayetteville, Ark.; eight grandchildren, Christina, Michael and Rachel Ford of Rockford, Heather Jones of Lakewood, Colo., Joshua Jones of Geneva, Madelyn Jones of Geneva, Christy Marriner and husband Joel of Greeley, Colo. and Shane Buxman of Oxnard, Calif.; two great-grandchildren, Makena and Madisyn Drake of Greeley, Colo.; two brothers, Herbert Jones of Paragould, Ark. and Jerry Jones of Illinois; sister, Pat Gyure of Beardstown; and several nieces and nephews.
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Did the extra cup of coffee or the TV news cause my anxiety? Or should I attribute my uneasiness to the news headlines blaring over my car radio as I brake to a stop on a ten lane Los Angeles freeway? The media will report on any "news" that might produce anxiety in the reader, listener or viewer.
Like my fellow sufferers from exposure to untold dangers and impending calamities, I look for redress in shopping (even if only for Prozac). I don't want to sound paranoiac, but I sometimes suspect that the mass media intends to induce shopping behavior. Just because of who pays the bills for the news!
So, the mass media reports uncritically on a government official's remarks that scare people. Still reeling from the attacks of 9/11, the public now learns that it must fear a new form of terrorism. On May 6, John R. Bolton, the under secretary of state for arms control, "revealed" that US intelligence has concluded that Cuba possesses a biological weapons capacity and, worse, has shared this germ warfare technology with other "rogue states."
This publicized accusation colored the atmosphere for former President Jimmy Carter's visit to Cuba and provided a right wing, pro embargo context for all discussion of the Cuba issue for the next few weeks.
The media gave immense amounts of space to Bolton's undocumented but fear-provoking accusation and, days later, offered only a few lines to Cuban President Fidel Castro's strong denial. In order to win big space in the media, I suppose Fidel would have had to say: "If Colton doesn't retract that outrageous lie, we'll spray him and his whole family."
I feel as I get sprayed with shotgun pellets of media information, true or false, but always incomplete. The media spews annoying and constant data. I take it in the eyes, ears and brain.
The charge against Cuba had clear political motives, but to what do we attribute mass media's coverage of transportation and natural disasters in the third world? Like the emphasis given to the accusations about bio-warfare potential in Cuba without affording equal space to the refutation of the charges, so too do transportation disaster stories tend to increase anxiety levels while simultaneously creating mysteries that the media leaves unsolved.
In the second week of May, for example, yet another Haitian boat loaded with migrants sank. The boat was overloaded, the press reported. The newspapers and TV don't explain why so many Haitians boarded an overloaded boat. Presumably, they were bound for Florida.
Should we conclude from the report that Haitians are desperate and therefore undesirable as immigrants? Or, we get responses like "oh well, it was only Haitians," as if dying at sea somehow relates to one's being Haitian. We get no insight into the nature of Haitian poverty, or the role the United States played in the internal affairs of that impoverished island.
A May 4 Los Angeles Times 14 line article reports that a ferry in Bangladesh capsized in a storm with 400 people aboard. Police feared hundreds were dead, but "as many as 100 people were reported to have swum to shore or were picked up by other boats." Then, you learn an apparently important detail: "The ferry sank nearly two hours into the trip from Dhaka, the capital, to Patuakhlai, 95 miles south."
The New York Times ran a similar, slightly longer story the next day. Neither story said why the ferry capsized. Both implied that a storm had caused the tragedy. Yet, storms don't cause the capsizing of the Vancouver-Seattle ferry or the passenger ships that cross Lake Michigan.
Was this storm so powerful that it simply knocked the boat over? Was the ferry captain drunk and maybe steered the ship into a reef? Was the ferry unsafe because of poor construction or poor maintenance? Did it not have enough life rafts? Well, I could go on guessing. But how good it feels to shop for something you don't need or want after digesting the bare details of a massive catastrophe.
How many short accounts have all of perused of fatal train wrecks in India or Bangladesh, busses going over cliffs in Peru killing fifty passengers and twenty chickens and ferries sinking in the Philippines with hundreds drowning? Rarely do we learn the cause of the mishap. Should we assume that third world drivers and pilots have less competence than those that steer our public vehicles, or that third world trains, busses and boats are poorly maintained?
One of my students concluded from reading such short accounts of calamities that third world people are prone to bad luck ("God doesn't seem to bless them") or that they lack adequate disaster relief agencies. The implied message in many of these disaster stories is: think twice about taking any ground or sea transportation in the third world and thank the Lord that we have a National Transportation Safety Board to impose safety standards on public vehicles.
As President Bush told people after 9/11, don't be afraid to take a plane and go to Disneyland – whether you want to or not.
We rarely read in the mass media about how systemic pressures by those who manage the world economy have forced third world farmers to substitute cut flowers and macadamia nuts for corn and beans and other staples. Nor do we learn about how such policies can lead to hunger and even starvation. The deforestation of the third world, for industrial wood use, chop sticks and packing cases, has also led to climate changes; in turn, droughts and floods?
To this day, IMF and World Bank experts lecture third world peasants, those who have fed the world for a millennia, on how they should forego planting their traditional crops, which they know about and with which they can feed themselves and, instead, try to attract foreign investors -supposedly to benefit their national economies. Yet, the experts fail to address the established character of foreign capital, which has proven to be more fickle than Hollywood movie stars.
The media, a veteran reporter assures me, doesn't want to get into complicated explanations about the roots of large-scale tragedies. It prefers to stick to the gory facts and readers or viewers can draw whatever implications they wish.
How can one dram any logical conclusions if one has just received a shotgun blast of data? The newspapers and TV make priorities. They give tiny space to a ferry tragedy that claims hundreds of lives in Bangladesh and several pages to a Los Angeles commuter train that collided with an oncoming freight train in which three people died. In early May, the LA Times gave banner headlines to the case of a 33 year old southern California teacher who ran off to Nevada for a day with a fifteen year old student. They did or didn't do the unspeakable act.
Local news always demand space, a veteran reporter scolded me. And how many Bangladeshis live in the Los Angeles area? What's a few hundred dead Asians compared to a home grown sex scandal? But while the media routinely reports the causes of death in the obituary section, it often neglects the causes of large-scale third world death in the news and opinion sections.
Ironically, the US population has become ever more third world in origin. Do newspaper publishers and TV news executives still assume that their South Asian readers care little about following up on the initial loss of life reports from that part of the world?
Despite the existence of a large population of Korean origin in southern California, the LA Times did not cover a late April United Nations warning that mass starvation looms in North Korea if that government doesn't receive additional funding for food supplies. Indeed, as Sam Smith reports in the May 3 Progressive Review, UN aid officials said in early May that the World Food Program, UNICEF and the U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs had issued a joint statement that more than 6 million North Koreans face acute shortages of food, medicine and drinking water.
The papers and TV provided regular and critical coverage about the breakdown of even the facade of democracy in Zimbabwe as President Robert Mugabe patently rigged his recent re-election effort. Reports abounded about unfair attacks on opposition candidate, the censoring of the press and the intimidation of honest judges. But the same papers have provided scant coverage of the current drought in Zimbabwe's where five and half million children face serious food shortages.
Take the May 3 report of an Indian Air Force jet on routine patrol that crashed into a bank in a city in northwest India and killed at least eight people. The pilot, who survived, reported that the "Soviet-made fighter" went into engine failure. Possible conclusions: Lousy Soviet-made jets? Or just a careless pilot bailing out and letting his plane crash into a populated area?
Compare that bad-newsworthy event, which leaves the reader baffled, with a warning from the World Food Program that the 2.6 million people it is currently feeding in Southern Africa could double in a short time because of harsh weather conditions, economic and political instability and the spread of HIV/AIDS. "The situation is extremely critical," said WFP regional director Judith Lewis.
Or, we learn from the Los Angeles Times that the extreme right in England has won a few local elections, but read nothing about an impending famine in Sudan. Food and Agriculture Organization Director General Jacques Diouf called on representatives of countries participating in the 27th FAO Regional Conference for Latin America and the Caribbean in Havana to intensify efforts against hunger, which afflicts 54 million people in the region.
Large scale accidents and procedural rights violations certainly merit coverage, but why emphasize those stories to the detriment of massive starvation reports that governments could stop by rapidly supplying food? Since sensitive people would certainly respond with concern to reports of massive starvation, I would assume that the media would report them. It couldn't hurt shopping patterns!
Behind the selection of what gets reported and what doesn't, lies, among other factors, the accessibility of the tragedy site to news photographers. TV news editors have concluded that without pictures it's hard to keep an audience's attention, so it's best to minimize such stories.
Yet, in the so-called information age, TV news has claimed a right to present its version of "the world tonight" as serious discourse, albeit it presents it inside of an entertainment format. Newspapers try to compete with such packaging by juicing up their stories with color photos.
Reflect on Aldous Huxley's warning in Brave New World that when the prestigious fountains of information burlesque our culture they also threaten to shrink and trivialize it.
When a right wing ideologue like John Bolton issues an alarming but totally undocumented allegation about Cuba's supposed biological warfare potential, the reporters should have asked him for proof. Bolton, like other ultra reactionary types who occupy high positions in the Bush Administration, understands that in an atmosphere of mindless reporting on third world threats or accidents, he can spin the media in his direction.
The public's right to know the facts – the reporter's job – doesn't enter into either Bolton's or the news editors' criteria for making news. By treating the world's events in scandalous modes the public becomes not only anxious, but detached from reality. The news, in other words, helps to remove people from participating in their historical drama.
So, don't blame your all of your anxiety on the caffeine in your morning coffee.


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