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RALEIGH Shortly after President Lyndon Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act of 1964 first proposed by President John Kennedy, the story goes, he turned to an aide and observed, "We just lost the South for a generation."
His meaning was clear. In the Old South states where opposition to desegregation was a gnawing issue, Democrats would find it hard to win national elections.
Within four years his words seemed prophetic. Republican Richard Nixon won the 1968 presidential race nationally and in North Carolina. While Democratic presidential candidates have won nationally three times since Johnson's prediction, in North Carolina they've won only once – 1976 when fellow Southerner Jimmy Carter won a single term.
The coming wave
Johnson wasn't the only one to see it coming. Democrats in the N.C. General Assembly, who have dominated the legislature for most of the last century, also saw the Republican tidal wave coming. That's why in 1967 they took steps to insulate state government from presidential races. They voted to separate the presidential election from the rest of the state ballot for U.S. senator, governor, lieutenant governor, eight other Council of State offices, and a long list of legislative, county commissioner and other candidates running on the Democratic ticket.
That meant two things. If you cast a straight-ticket vote for Democratic Party candidates, you aren't voting in the presidential race. Same thing for the Republican ticket. You also have to cast a separate ballot in the presidential race. The effect has been that North Carolina voters continued to elect Democrats in most state offices while they were also supporting Republican presidential candidates. N.C. voters did elect three Republican governors during that time, plus one lieutenant governor, a lot of Republican judges and Council of State members and U.S. senators, and lots of legislators. But in the main it has helped Democrats hang on to state government offices.
It may also have backfired. Researchers have long realized that a lot of N.C. voters haven't been recording a choice for president. Research in other states shows that the number who deliberately choose not to cast a vote for president tops out somewhere around 1 or 1.1 percent. But in North Carolina that rate is much higher. Duke University researchers found that as many as 3.15 percent of N.C. voters did not cast presidential ballots in 2000, and 2.57 percent in 2004. They concluded that most of those undercounts are likely voters who don't understand North Carolina's ballot setup and don't realize they aren't voting for president. It's even conceivable that the undercount may have helped George H.W. Bush when he narrowly defeated Bill Clinton in North Carolina in 1992. Clinton won nationally, but Bush helped keep alive the Republican's long victory streak in N.C. presidential elections – unbroken since 1968 except for that 1976 election.
An obvious irony
The irony of all this is obvious as North Carolina approaches a historic election Tuesday. It's possible that the 1967 decision to uncouple the presidential ticket from the straight-party ticket in N.C. election could cost Democrat Barack Obama a lot of votes here, conceivably even the N.C. election. It's also possible that decision could cost Republican John McCain some votes from straight-party Republicans as well. But if Obama is benefitting from support from voters new to North Carolina – or who previously have not voted – then many may not realize a straight-party vote won't help their presidential candidate. Only a vote in that separate race will.
Lawrence Norden, an expert at the Brennan Center for Justice in New York, points out that North Carolina is the only state that has this arrangement of a separate presidential ballot from the straight-party ballot. South Carolina used to have it, too, but got rid of it last year.
New voters at disadvantage
North Carolina's ballot has instructions telling voters how to cast ballots and a warning about straight-ticket voting. But Norden, whose expertise includes ballot design, says the N.C. ballot "puts new voters at a real disadvantage" because most people think straight-party voting means voting for every candidate in that party.
Norden isn't a fan of straight-party voting, though it does make voting faster and simpler. But he thinks North Carolina ought to get rid of the split voting process. If not, it should at least make changes in design that makes it clearer how to vote.
Legislators must fix
"It's very conceivable that this could have an effect" on the presidential race outcome in North Carolina, he notes. "There's an irony that it was passed by Democrats and now it could harm Democrats."
Whatever you think about the split ballot, don't blame election officials. It's the responsibility of state legislators to fix this, and they've got some work to do. They ought to clear up the confusion by making it possible for those who want to vote a straight ticket top-to-bottom to do so.
I don't like straight-ticket voting. But if we've got a ballot that fools some voters into thinking they've voted for president when they haven't, this state is engaging, intentionally or not, in fraud.
Jack Betts is an Observer associate editor based in Raleigh: firstname.lastname@example.com
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Nicknames for cars
Teragramposted 4 years, 10 months ago
I'm either mad or sad lol but just changed my little old micra last night for a peugeot! The micra was brill but wouldn't get through another mot, hence the change. It was red and I nicknamed it Ruby. But can't think of a nickname for the peugeot which is blue. Any ideas?
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- superskilly4 years, 10 months ago #1Show comment tools Replypug....
- cannyscot4 years, 10 months ago #2Show comment tools ReplyPépé (peppy like your new car)
- sennasnit4 years, 10 months ago #3Show comment tools Replybluey.
- DJNG224 years, 10 months ago #4Show comment tools Replybess! just what my dad used to call his cars so I do the same!
If she is struggling............ come on bess!!
- Teragram4 years, 10 months ago #5Show comment tools ReplyThought of pug but my friends car has that name.
Pepe is growing on me - quite like that.
Thanks everyone.
- numptyj4 years, 10 months ago #6Show comment tools Replyeleanor :p
- michelleleemoo4 years, 10 months ago #7Show comment tools Replyguiseppe
- Trickyjabs4 years, 10 months ago #8Show comment tools ReplyMoonie (Blue Moon).
OR as it's a peugeot and it'll always be in hte garage, how about 'useless piece of shlt'! :)
- michelleleemoo4 years, 10 months ago #9Show comment tools ReplyTrickyjabsMoonie (Blue Moon).
OR as it's a peugeot and it'll always be in hte garage, how about 'useless piece of shlt'! :)
hahaha, my clio was called cowbag because of that :-D
- Tanchi4 years, 10 months ago #10Show comment tools ReplyI call mine Mazzy Mazda
(its a mazda)
- Grapey4 years, 10 months ago #11Show comment tools ReplyMy standard answer to any naming question is Bob or Dave so let me stick those two in the ring right now.
- GAVINLEWISHUKD4 years, 10 months ago #12Show comment tools ReplyDory - Small blue fish out of Finding Nemo (you have a small blue car)
- blobbyrob4 years, 10 months ago #13Show comment tools ReplyA friend of mine calles her's Polly
- michelleleemoo4 years, 10 months ago #14Show comment tools ReplyGrapeyMy standard answer to any naming question is Bob or Dave so let me stick those two in the ring right now.
- geegee-pinata4 years, 10 months ago #15Show comment tools ReplyWe had panthro and snarf (Focus and KA) :oops:
- michelleleemoo4 years, 10 months ago #16Show comment tools Replyvi (for viagra)
duncan (out of Blue)
ray (as in bluray)
peter (blue peter)
goony (blue lagoon)
- deeky4 years, 10 months ago #17Show comment tools ReplyI must be getting old.
- malang4 years, 10 months ago #18Show comment tools ReplyThe 'AVATAR'
- MrGrumpyman4 years, 10 months ago #19Show comment tools ReplyI've had
"Morris" the Marina
"Peggy" the Polo
"Button" the little brown Mini
And a VW Beetle called " the chicken chaser"
- Teragram4 years, 10 months ago #20Show comment tools ReplyThanks everyone lots of good names. Will let you know when we finally make up our minds. Cheers :thumbsup:

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Raising a Visionary.
Sol just turned 9 last month. He is one of the coolest kids you will ever meet. He always has a smile on his face. He's very lovable and affectionate. He's very helpful. Friendly. He works hard and he loves hard.
But this year is the first year that I began to notice him struggling with his schoolwork. Up until this point, I just thought he was just being scatter-brained. Lazy, even. But I realize now that while everyone else is advancing, he's staying the same. Then I came to understand that he was never at their level to begin with. He's been struggling since day one, getting by on memorization, decoding pictures and having his brother Diego read and write for him, since he constantly flips letters and numbers around--classic signs of dyslexia.
And that just breaks my heart. Because if you knew this boy, you'd know he is very bright. He loves to build things with his hands. He's very active. He's very helpful. He is far from incapable or "dumb".
One thing about Sol...he loves, loves, loves to draw. I think because he faces so many challenges with his learning, the easiest way for him to communicate is to draw. We work on reading, writing and I can visibly see his mind chugging along, like a train on a crooked track...it just doesn't flow smoothly. But put a pencil and drawing pad in front of him, and he just goes and goes, and there is nothing holding him back.
Its like second nature.
Everyone always asks if the chil'rens like to paint and draw, what with having two artists for parents. Some do, more than others. Some show promise, at a very young age. Others looks like should be drawing on the short bus--clearly their gift will be in some other area of life.
But Sol..he's wired for creative expression.
He finished dinner and then got his new "Where the Wild Things Are" book that his grandma bought him, pulled out some paper and set out to create one of the characters. He didn't ask for help. He didn't trace.
He just flowed.
You go, boy.
I like to think that God didn't create him with a learning handicap, or some sort of hopeless disability...but with a different way of seeing things.
He has a fresh pair of eyes.
The same kind of eyes that belong to famous artists, architects, musicians, athletes, inventors and scientists.
So basically, I'm raising a visionary here.
I'm blessed.
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Hmmm I read your post and it's like Wow, she's kinda talking about my kid who is 8, sweet as pie, a drawer, an artist, but lately been flunking out of every class in school, he was homeschooled until we moved to a good county and put them back in the system, WRONG Decision, but God slapped me in my behind and me and hubby are pulling them back out, thanks for backing me up girl, us mommas know what our kids special talents are, and who more to nurture that than us and at HOME!!ReplyDelete
Sean - 8 years old, is being tested for dyslexia currently. And he does most of his written communication through drawing and "sculpture" or three dimensional paper drawings depending on how you want to look at it. He is exceptionally creative. I am blessed that since I can not homeschool (what with the never actually being home) he has wonderful and supportive teachers who are a thousand times more patient than I could ever hope to be!ReplyDelete
Sol definitely got the right Mommy! You are awesome!
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I was a special education/ elementary ed major in college for a hot minute (long story, anyway...), but one thing I DO remember is that kids with learning difficulties, especially dyslexia? When you give them any sort of intelligence inventory you can throw at them? Score at or above the level of kids their age without dyslexia. Your boy's a smartie-pants, and you're right, his brain's just wired differently. Fearfully and wonderfully made.ReplyDelete
My hubby has dyslexia. College graduate Cum Laude, attending Seminary to be a teacher of the Word one day. School is Hades for him and he has to put in at least double the time compared to most... he's a wonderful artist. He asks me to spell words like "read" and "dose" for him still, but give him a camera and there are no more questions asked. Sol will find his way with what the Lord gifts him in. My hubby's site: davidblairphotography.comReplyDelete
Love his work... :) You are helping him so much by homeschooling..ReplyDelete


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Learn more about the Text Elements by Task (TExT) model of text complexity and how it was used to design the texts in the popular QuickReads program.
Students who don't read much over the summer show a decline in reading performance from the end of one grade to the start of the next. Research done at Harvard University by James Kim shows that even reading 4 or 5 books over the summer helps to prevent the summer slump.
Having books at home explains how much students read over the summer. Unfortunately, the very students who are most at-risk are the ones who often don't have enough books. SummerReads changes this situation by providing accessible, engaging texts for at-risk readers… for FREE! And it provides enough text for an entire summer of reading.
TextProject's new BeginningReads program supports teachers, parents, and tutors in bringing children into reading. Before children learn about written language, they have developed a substantial oral language word bank. The goal of BeginningReads is to connect student's oral language knowledge with written language. All ten levels (of 12 books each) are available now.
Talking Points For Kids is a prototype program that aims to increase discussion amongst students on topics that relate to them. To read about the importance of talking about ideas that matter, take a look at the Frankly Freddy entry: High-Leverage Action #1.
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New Flowers and Friends Go Together
If you're like most people, you keep your gardens near the house. Neighbors walk by, but they may not stop to chat. The little strip of land between your sidewalk and the street - sometimes called a parkway, parking strip, or boulevard - is just begging for an attractive garden. While you put it in, new friendships could sprout at the same time.


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The smart phones from Nokia are advanced and reasonably priced but their usability is somewhat low. This is due to the operating system (OS) which they use. Recently Nokia has made major changes in this front to increase usability. So it is advisable to check whether the smartphone you are planning to buy comes with a usable and intuitive interface. The number of applications available for Nokia phones is also relatively low.
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- Codebreaker is a docu-drama about the tumultuous life of Alan Turing, in whose honor the Spencer Museum mounted a major exhibition in the Spring and Summer of 2012. The screening will be followed by a Q&A with Patrick Sammon, Executive Producer of the film. Perry Alexander, Director, Information and Telecommunication Technology Center (ITTC) will introduce the film and producer. This film includes mature content. Film running time: 81 minutes Contact: 785-864-4225, email@example.com http://www.spencerart.ku.edu/programs/calendar.shtml#2.21 Department: The Commons Ticket Cost: Free Sponsored by the Spencer Museum of Art, University Honors Program, School of Engineering, Center for Digital Humanities, Dept. of Film & Media Studies, Dept. of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, The Commons, Information and Telecommunication Technology Center Thursday February 21, 2013 6:00pm Spencer Museum of Art, 309 Auditorium
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Live Crime Blogging.
I opened the cupboard doors so the dogs could go for a mouse and that is illegal under the Hunting Act 2004
Send me cake with a file in it when I am in Gaol please
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Hunting Act 2004
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A person commits an offence if he hunts a wild mammal with a dog, unless his hunting is exempt.....
I can't use the stalking exemption because it is a condition that:
a) reasonable steps are taken for the purpose of ensuring that as soon as possible after being found or flushed out the wild mammal is shot dead by a competent person, and
(b) in particular, each dog used in the stalking or flushing out is kept under sufficiently close control to ensure that it does not prevent or obstruct achievement of the objective in paragraph (a).
I am not planning to blast Mrs Englishman's kitchen with the twelve bore if the mouse appears, and I'm afraid the dogs aren't under control. And it I believe it is a mouse, not a rat so that is all the loopholes filled. So no defence, well it's been nice knowing you......


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The pARTY in the Park Adoption Event Was a Big Success
We're so happy that three dogs found homes through our adoption event at Russellville's pARTY in the Park! Thanks to all our great volunteers for helping to find homes for these dogs, but also for showing how this community is ready for a NO KILL solution at the Russellville Animal Shelter. Check out these inspiring smiles:
Spring Break Adoption Event!
Join us on March 29 from 10:00-3:00 for another adoption event!
Spend your spring break helping us find forever homes for shelter dogs from the Russellville Animal Shelter. We are looking for volunteers who are staying in town to help in 2-3 hour shifts from 10am to 3pm at Azzore vet clinic on Parkway. Please message us on Facebook if you're able to volunteer!
St. Patrick Day Adoption Event — Help a Lucky Dog Find a Home!
NKR invites you to City Mall parking lot at Arkansas and Parkway on Saturday March 15 (from 10:00-3:00) for our St Patrick Day's Adoption event. Help us find forever homes for a few LUCKY dogs from the Russellville Animal Shelter. Studies have shown dogs are good for your heart and your well-being! Bring a little luck and love into your home by adopting from the Russellville Animal Shelter. Fee is $40 and all dogs will be ready to go home that day! Please spread the word.
Day after Valentine Adoption Event — Find a Sweetheart of a Dog!
NKR invites you to join us Saturday Feb 15 (from 9:00-3:00) at Atwoods in Russellville for our Canine Valentine's adoption event. We are excited Atwoods was eager to allow us to have the event on their property! Stay tuned to see photos of the dogs we will have available. We are also looking for additional volunteers for the event to help us walk the dogs, talk to potential adopters and get our message out there. We can all work together to find these great dogs loving forever homes! Please message us for details about this weekend or future events!
We've all had enough of this stormy winter weather, so let's get to know some great dogs at another adoption event! Come out and meet the pups from 9:00-3:00 at Tractor Supply once again (THANKS Tractor Supply for all your support!) and hopefully take home a loving animal who can keep you warm! Here are the dogs we plan on having at the adoption event (some of them may get adopted before Saturday):
NKR will be hosting two adoption events—this Monday, December 23, and Saturday,
December 28 — canceled because Russellville Animal Shelter did not have dogs spayed/neutered; new date is Saturday, January 4 (unfortunately, also canceled for same reason) — both from 9-3. Message us on Facebook if you'd like to spread some holiday cheer by helping out with these events!! Let's make this a Merry Christmas for ALL of Russellville!
NKR is happy to present Canine Capers at this year's Fall Fest in downtown Russellville, Saturday, October 26 from 1:00-4:00. We'll have fun contests and events for kids and their pets! For a full schedule and a list of our generous sponsors go to our events page on Facebook: Canine Capers!
We'll also have an information table at Fall Fest (10:00-4:00) where you can learn more about no kill and NKR's efforts to transform the Russellville Animal Shelter to a no kill shelter.
Sign up for Canine Capers and stop by to find out about NKR and no kill solutions!
After our incredibly successful month of adoption events in August, we met to discuss future plans. Stay tuned for announcements here and on our Facebook page for news about the events we're planning for this month and the rest of the year.
First, the numbers: we were able to find permanent homes for 22 dogs and foster homes for 3 more dogs. That's 25 dogs who aren't in the shelter anymore and who are living in new homes! We had a placement rate of 89.3%! And we're checking to see if those other dogs found homes through the shelter — we hope we brought visibility to those animals and we know we helped socialize them and give them some time to play with kids and adults!
We are very grateful to Azzore Veterinary Specialists for hosting every single adoption event in the month of August. Thank you. You helped make this success story possible!
Check out the great television news story from Fox 16 on Bear and the Bryan family who adopted him (click here for the video and full story).
We are showing that a dedicated set of volunteers can help achieve the no kill goal.
We're not done yet, though! We will be meeting soon to discuss the next stage of our plans. We know we will be holding more adoption events as well as dog walks. But we have other ideas that we'll soon tell you about. Stay tuned!
We've posted a lot about our dog adoption events, but don't think we've forgotten about our feline friends. Petsense provides a wonderful service by keeping shelter cats in their store for adoption — they've placed over 400 cats in the last 3 years! The pictures below show 3 of the 4 shelter cats currently up for adoption. If you're looking for a cat to adopt, stop by Petsense (319 Weir Road in Russellville, next to McAlister's Deli) to meet these and other animals!
Click on any of the pictures above to see a gallery of larger images.
4 out of 6 dogs found new homes! And two of them will be together! Daisy, Cowboy, Alan, and Honda were adopted, but we're still trying to find homes for Ida and Sammie (Sammie starred on the front page of the Russellville Courier on Sunday, August 18). They're in the picture below (Ida is on the right). If you're interested in either or both of these girls, get in touch with us at firstname.lastname@example.com or message us on Facebook.
We still have one more adoption event in August — spread the word and come on out to adopt and/or volunteer!
The fact that Bear got adopted at our last adoption event is a really big deal to us at NKR. Why? Bear was at the shelter for 1 1/2 years without getting adopted. NKR found a home for him in less than 6 hours.
How did this happen? We think it's the volunteers who made it their highest priority to find a home for him. We think it's having a vision for success instead of accepting the status quo. We think it's about relentless visibility: getting animals out into the community so people can see how wonderful they are.
We've been showing week after week that changing the way we think about shelter animals can have a huge impact on the lives of animals. It's time for the Russellville Animal Shelter to accept the fact that they need to change. We need a shelter director who has vision and can find innovative solutions to make no kill a reality. We need someone to lead and inspire. We owe it to all the animals.
No kill works. Bear has a home.
Once again we were able to get most of the dogs adopted — 4 out 5! That's great news, but what is maybe the best news of all is that Bear got adopted (see picture) after having spent 1 1/2 years at the shelter! Look at the great family he will have!
Talk about flipping the scipt: the misperception is that animals at no kill shelters have to wait too long to get adopted, but NoKillRussellville brought Bear from a high kill shelter and in less than 6 hours found a loving home for him. Think no kill doesn't work? Think again.
The Russellville Animal Shelter and it's director have NO MORE EXCUSES.
We were able to adopt 7 out of 8 dogs today. We're showing that Russellville can make real changes in the lives of animals and have fun doing it. Let's go NO KILL Russellville!!!
We had a great turnout! We found homes for most of the dogs we had, and all the dogs had fun walking, playing, and spending time with some really great volunteers. Check out our Facebook album of the event.
We still need volunteers for upcoming weeks, so get in touch with us (email@example.com or message us on Facebook) if you're interested! Remember that we have events every weekend in August.
NKR will be hosting an adoption event every Saturday in August! The stars have lined up for our first event, which will be this Saturday, August 3 from 9-3: not only has Azzore Veterinary Specialists graciously agreed to host our event, but the mayor has waived the adoption fee!
Each volunteer can make a HUGE difference since the more volunteers we have, the more animals we can bring to the event. Interested in volunteering this Saturday? Email us ASAP at firstname.lastname@example.com. Available roles: transporting animals and/or pairing up with an animal at the event (2 hour shifts). Once we hear from you, we will personally contact you with more details. Let's get out there, have some fun, and empty the shelter!
Pictures of Animals at Shelter
A volunteer (not associated with NKR or the Russellville Animal Shelter) has kindly taken pictures of animals currently at the shelter. Check out the Facebook album she created!
Dog Walking! (July 26)
NKR friends! We will be hosting another dog walk event this week. Barring bad weather, we will be meeting Friday morning (7/26) at 9AM at the Russellville Animal Shelter. We will be departing from the shelter by 9:20AM and heading to Bona Dea trail. We will take the mile walk with the dogs and return to the shelter afterwards. Please remember to bring your own leashes and water! We will be bringing water and buckets for the dogs, but feel free to bring water for the pooches as well! Also, please feel free to invite friends. We will have some "adopt me" vests available for the dogs, but we have a limited number, so if you would like, please bring collars to use as well. We can't wait to see you there!
Conference Updates: Day 2 of No Kill Conference, Washington D.C. (July 14)
The conference was fantastic and we learned so much that will help us work toward transforming the Russellville Animal Shelter to no kill status. While we were really disappointed that the Animal Control Director declined our offer to send him or someone from his staff on an all-expense-paid trip to the conference (see more in Upcoming Events), we are confident we can use this experience to build the will to become no kill. We'll have a summary of our experiences at the conference posted soon!
Video clip from the final remarks by Nathan Winograd, director of the No Kill Advocacy Center and author of many books on no kill, including the award winning Redemption.
Final presentation on Pet Retention Programs.
We're meeting people (like Chuck Reinhorn and Julie St. Germain pictured above) who can help us with "Rescue Roadtrips" that will help transport animals from the South to places where they can be adopted.
Palliative care lecture and presentation from Austin, TX shelter on how they went from 45% to 90% save rate.
Conference Updates: Day 1 of No Kill Conference, Washington D.C. (July 13)
Final slide of fantastic presentation from Austin Pets Alive.
Notes from the conference: "Animal control was the biggest challenger to the no kill program" — from a shelter that has now been no kill for six years.
First day at the conference: auditorium for opening ceremonies; panel presentations; lunch and networking.
Conference Swag! Great learning materials that will help us make smart choices in our efforts to transform RAS to a no-kill shelter.
No Kill Conference in D.C. (July 13-14)
Our two representatives are at the No Kill Conference — follow their updates on Facebook and Twitter (@NoKillRuss)! NKR offered an all-expense-paid trip to this conference to Animal Control Director Mike Vernon or someone on his staff, but he turned us down. Read the full text of our offer and the city's response on our Upcoming Events page.
You can also follow the conference through Christie Keith's live blog from the conference or Twitter #nokillconference #nokillconf.
Information booth was fun — we had a great turnout! (July 13)
Closer to home, we had an information booth at "Collectibles on Commerce" Saturday (July 13). It was a nice cool morning, lots of people came by to sign up as volunteers and just find out about our mission, and we met a lot of great people…and dogs!
Dog Walking Event! (July 10)
Though it was hot (yes, we had plenty of water for dogs and humans!), we had a great time walking dogs at Bona Dea this afternoon. Thanks to the many volunteers who helped! Check out this really short video of a curious pup (his name is Scruffy and he is ready for adoption!):
Organizing Meeting (June 25)
We had a great turnout for the meeting! Though our initial plans are still in the works, the meeting helped us connect with many people willing to take on responsibilities with NKR. Keep checking our Facebook page and Upcoming Events for what we have planned!
Article in the Russellville Courier (June 24)
Read Rebecca Soard's great article about NKR: Russellville Courier Article on NKR.
Letters to the editor in response to the Courier article.


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A Chronicle of Edward Abbey and Radical Environmental Movements
In Review: Wrenched
The new film Wrenched, by filmmaker ML Lincoln, explores the life of environmental writer and activist Edward Abbey and the direct action environmental movements that he helped to inspire. Rather than focusing purely on Abbey himself, Lincoln told me in our correspondence about the film that, "Wrenched is about his actions." Lincoln, a longtime activist herself, worked on the film for over seven years and interviewed 40 people, including many of Abbey's long-time friends and associates. This is her second feature length documentary, and follows her 2007 film Drowning River about the loss of Glen Canyon underneath the Powell Reservoir in Arizona.
Photo by Mark Stevens, on Flickr
Wrenched excels at exploring the origins of direct action environmental movements in the United States, and particularly Abbey's environmental activism in the Southwest.
In doing so, the film delves into Abbey's early life and his emergence as a writer and activist, including his involvement in anti-war activism during the Second World War and the beginning of the nuclear age. This period was critical to the formation of his perspectives on the terrifying destructive power of industrial capitalism at the middle of the twentieth century. The film also touches on two events significant in the history of the Southwest that were also central to the maturation of Abby's worldview: The construction of the Glen Canyon Dam and subsequent drowning of Glen Canyon, and the Central Arizona Project, through which Colorado river water was diverted to Arizona's desert cities, pumped by coal from the Black Mesa plateau.
In the film, Abbey's own participation in direct action, or "night moves" as he describes them, are explored in the context of his writing, his activism, and the movements that he helped to inspire. The film gives a rough history of the origins of Earth First!, the radical environmental group that that was inspired by Abbey's writings. It examines several instances of state repression in the 1980s and 1990s, and highlights FBI infiltration, instigation, and, as some would say, entrapment, related to the so-called Arizona 5, a group of Earth First! members arrested for conspiracy to sabotage nuclear power plants. The film also describes the development, actions, and subsequent imprisonment of individuals associated with the Earth Liberation Front, another radical environmental group.
Present in these stories from the radical environmental movement, as well as in the film more broadly, are two questions Abbey and other movement participants struggled with: How far do you have to go in order to address the rapidly escalating ecological crisis, and what forms of action are most effective?
These questions are present in the connection the film makes between Abbey's work and contemporary radical, direct action environmental movements. In particular, Tim DeChristopher, who served almost two years in federal prison from 2011 to 2013 for disrupting the Bush Administration's efforts to auction land in southern Utah, recounts the inspiration he took from Edward Abbey's books. In the film, he half-jokingly mentions how he started reading Edward Abbey when he was 18. "It's kind of a dangerous age to read The Monkey Wrench Gang," he says. "I was old enough to understand it, but not quite old enough to understand it wasn't a manual." Speaking of his fake bidding during the land auction, he reflects that "there was this feeling of resignation and hopelessness and I knew I want to do more and push things harder, so I went inside."
DeChristopher's actions and subsequent federal imprisonment provides a powerful example of the no-compromise attitude that looks beyond the kinds of action sanctioned by large environmental organizations and existing institutions, and for which Abbey was such a fierce advocate and practitioner.
My own experience as an activist involves similar inspiration from Abbey's writings. I read Desert Solitaire and The Monkey Wrench Gang at roughly the same age as DeChristopher. Both books were important in planting seeds in my mind, exposing me to radical perspectives, and connecting me to the extraordinary energy of land and wild places. These seeds later developed into an involvement in the radical climate movement with Rising Tide North America, which has most recently involved participating in a series of blockades targeting oil-by-rail facilities in the Pacific Northwest.
While Wrenched excels at immersing the viewer in Abbey's participation in, and influence on, radical environmental movements, it has some deep flaws. One of its major shortcomings is the rather uncritical treatment of the movements in question. While posing hard questions about the state of the ecological crisis and its root causes in industrial capitalism, the film largely presents a celebratory view of Abbey and early radical movements. Issues of racism, including Abbey's personal views and those tied to the early Earth First! movement, are entirely absent. When I asked Lincoln about this choice, she described my questions about race as "not relevant" to the film and stated that this "film is about saving wilderness, not race, privilege, or oppression."
I believe that the idea that these issues can be separated is an unfortunate and problematic perspective that replicates aspects of early radical environmental movement culture that many activists have worked hard to move beyond. The failure to engage with issues of gender, race, class, and other forms of oppression critically undermined Earth First! and other wilderness movements. The notion that race, privilege, and oppression can be absent from any discussion about addressing environmental issues is a serious misconception and is damaging to attempts to build the kind of movements necessary for systemic change. Furthermore, this perspective ignores the ways in which such dynamics play out within movements and shape who has access to power and leadership.
Presumably the film, in its focus on actions and movements, has as a target audience those already engaged in environmental activism or interested in getting involved. For this audience in particular, a critical presentation of the radical environmental movement's history, lessons learned, and the interrelationships of power and privilege could not be more important. While Lincoln suggested engaging these issues would be a "whole other film," I believe their engagement must be part of any exploration of the ecological crisis and environmental movements.
Despite this major shortcoming, the film has much to offer. In an interview in the film, Kieran Suckling, the Director of the Center for Biological Diversity, provides important context in understanding Abbey's influence, as well as that of Earth First!. Far from allowing state repression to kill the passion and drive of the movement, Suckling believes that responses to state repression "reinforced it and pushed it out into a hundred different tentacles that [the government] couldn't control." This influence lives on in contemporary Earth First! organizing and in many organizations that emerged out of the radical movement cultures explored in the film, including the Center for Biological Diversity itself.
The stakes of the moment in which we live could not be higher. For Lincoln, "the environmental issues that we are facing today are now far more acute" than during Abbey's life, and the question is not "whether or not we should get involved" but rather how to get involved and take action in a form that will make a difference. In the film, the author Terry Tempest Williams similarly describes our moment as one in which we must ask ourselves how serious we are about doing something and "what we are willing to do for a livable future."
The first words we hear Abbey speak in the film are about displacement. "Like so many others in this century, I find myself a displaced person shortly after birth and have been looking half my life for a place to take my stand." We no longer live with the luxury of this kind of time to find our place. Thankfully, a tremendous amount of experience precedes the moment in which some may be contemplating this question for the first time. Prior movements and individual actions, including those chronicled in Wrenched, will help us determine the place and form that our stand can take. This film shares important stories of those who have chosen and continue to choose to take their own
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curmudgeon on September 27, 2013 at 8:46 am
Although primarily built for cinema, a large stage for theatrical presentation was also included. Sadly, little used. Occasional amateur pantomimes during holiday periods, and some local school speech nights was the sum total of this under-used facility. Recent inspection revealed auditorium little changed, apart from all seating removed and a flat floor to accommodate a dance studio. Original proscenium and silver/grey tabs remain.
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Dáil Éireann - Volume 552 - 24 April, 2002
Written Answers. - Nursing Staff.
Mr. G. Reynolds Mr. G. Reynolds
[1229] 65. Mr. G. Reynolds asked the Minister for Health and Children the steps he is taking to increase the supply of nurses to hospitals. [12586/02]
Mr. Durkan Mr. Durkan
113. Mr. Durkan asked the Minister for Health and Children the extent to which the number of nurses is adequate to meet requirements; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12774/02]
Mr. Martin Mr. Martin
Minister for Health and Children (Mr. Martin): I propose to take Questions Nos. 65 and 113 together.
The Health Service Employers Agency, HSEA, undertook a survey of nursing vacancies at 31 January 2002. A copy of this survey will be forwarded directly to the Deputies.
While all sectors reported that recruitment was well ahead of resignations-retirement, employers reported that 1,089 vacancies existed at 31 January 2002. These circumstances arise where the volume of additional nursing posts being created outstrips capacity to recruit. The combination of utilising agency nurses and overtime working provides the equivalent of around 1,270 full-time nurses to the service to cope with difficulties arising in the provision of services while employers continue the recruitment process to fill vacancies.
A major recruitment and retention initiative, costing in excess of €6.35 million, was launched by me on 29 November 2000 to address the present shortage of nurses and midwives. In particular, a scheme of flexible working arrangements for nurses and midwives in the public health service came into operation on 1 February 2001. Under the scheme, individual nurses and midwives may apply to work between eight and 39 hours per week on a permanent, part-time basis.
As part of my overall recruitment-retention strategy, I have introduced the following: financial support for nurses and midwives undertaking post-registration educational courses; payment of fees to nurses-midwives undertaking part-time nursing and certain other undergraduate degree courses; improved scheme of financial support for student public health nurses; enhanced financial support package for student midwives and student paediatric nurses; payment of fees and enhanced salary to nurses-midwives undertaking courses in specialised areas of clinical practice; abolition of fees for "back-to-practice" courses and payment of salary to nurses-midwives undertaking such courses; and financial support to State-enrolled nurses, SENs, working in the Irish health service wishing to undertake nursing conversion programmes in the United Kingdom.
The ongoing recruitment of nurses from abroad is also impacting positively on the vacancy situation. A total of 2,719 working visas-work authorisations were issued to nurses from non-EU countries between June 2000 and January 2002.
[1230] My Department is also engaged in strategic planning through the study of the nursing and midwifery resource. The focus of this work is on longer term planning. The primary objective of the study is to forecast, as far as is possible, future nursing and midwifery workforce needs. An interim report was published in October 2000 and widely circulated within the health services. The final report is due to be published in June 2002.
On 1 November 2001, I launched the new four-year undergraduate pre-registration nursing degree programme which will commence for the academic year 2002-03.
The new nursing degree programme, to replace the current three-year diploma programme, will put the education of nurses on a par with that of other health care professionals. The nursing profession has long been seeking such parity, and the Government's decision implements a central recommendation of the Commission on Nursing. Educating nurses to degree level will enable them to develop their clinical skills to a greater extent and to respond to future challenges in health care, for the benefit of patients and client groups.
The Government has approved a capital building programme totalling €223.5 million for the construction of facilities to accommodate nursing students at 13 higher education institutions throughout the country. This programme is due to be completed by September 2004.
A total of 1,640 places nationally will be available on the degree programme as follows:
I also announced a new sponsorship scheme for certain categories of experienced health service employees wishing to train as nurses. Up to 40 sponsorships will be available annually. Successful applicants will be allowed to retain their salary during the four years of the degree programme.
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Here I am on my writers' retreat in Banff, with six other writing friends–including Robert J Sawyer–and I have submitted the story I wrote last week, plus one other that I had edited but not submitted, last fall. So many deadlines coming up around the end of this month! So, I am putting on a real short-fiction push!


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Renters' Guide: Tenants, Landlords And Types Of Leases
Landlord and Tenant
A landlord is an owner of real property who agrees to rent all or part of a property to another party, called the tenant, for some period of time. A lease establishes the relationship of landlord and tenant. The lease is both a conveyance of a possessory estate in real property and a contract between the landlord and tenant. The tenant receives a right to legal possession of the property in exchange for valuable consideration (rent) paid to the landlord. A lease typically specifies the duration of the agreement, any terms for extending the agreement and details regarding the payment of rent.
Because a lease acts as both a conveyance and a contract, two sets of rights and duties between the landlord and tenant arise; namely, the rights and duties that exist in regard to traditional property law rules, and those arising because of the contractual promises of the lease. In addition, many states have legislation designed to protect the rights of residential tenants, such as the right to fit housing and privacy, and statutes that protect tenants from acts like illegal discrimination and retaliatory evictions.
Landlord-tenant laws vary depending on location. It is important to check state laws for specific details.
Types of Leases
A non-freehold estate is an interest in real property that is less than a freehold estate. It is created through a lease or rental agreement that can be either written or oral. The landlord maintains ownership of the property, and the tenant has the right to use the property as established in the terms of the lease or rental agreement. Non-freehold estates involve tenants, and they are often referred to as tenancies. There are four types of tenancies:
1. Tenancy for Years
A tenancy for years is a type of lease that specifies a definite term for the agreement, such as one month or one year. The lease terminates automatically at the specified end date without the need for notice by either the landlord or tenant.
2. Tenancy from Period to Period
A tenancy from period to period is a type of lease that specifies a definite initial time but that is automatically renewable unless terminated by either the landlord or tenant. The lease could be from week to week, month to month or year to year, and is renewable indefinitely for a like period of time.
3. Tenancy at Will
A tenancy at will exists at the pleasure of the landlord and tenant. In other words, it is in force until either the landlord or tenant terminates the agreement. In theory, a tenancy at will can be terminated instantly whenever notice is given by either party. In practice, however, landlords typically provide a reasonable amount of time for the tenant to vacate the property.
4. Tenancy at Sufferance
A tenancy at sufferance is never intentionally created and exists as the result of circumstances. This type of non-freehold estate occurs when a tenant remains on a property after a lease has been terminated or the agreement has expired. The only difference between a tenant at sufferance and a trespasser is that the former had at one time a right to occupy the property.
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I have found that the "tip" that has changed my life most profoundly is "Let the darkness come." Setting a curfew—on the internet especially—has had a pretty huge effect on not only my life, but my family's as well. I guess I didn't realize how much I was missing, and how much my husband and children were missing me, when I worked straight through dinner and late into the night on the computer. I'm an extremest, to my own detriment, and tend to get caught up in doing everything I do in a big way—except of course for laundry, and I am working on emptying the hampers without resentment.
Being more aware of each of these 10 things has made an actual difference in my household. I am always so surprised when something actually works for me—you should see the pile of self help books next to my bed, it's waist high and three rows deep. What's nice about this list is that it's not hard to remember, and it's like conditioning—when I wake up in the morning I immediately look for the sun, when I am sorting through enormous piles of laundry, I am actively trying not to be pissed off, I make it a point to make the bed every morning, where as before I didn't—I am more aware. That's what mindfulness is, awareness.
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Cleveland, 1967-74
The Case of E.T. Hooley played loud psychedelic laced blues rock in the manner of Cream and Jimi Hendrix. At their peak they were one of the biggest bands in town and had a large following. The original band included bassist Dale Peters who joined the James Gang just before they hit it big. Guitarist Richard Shack also played in the James Gang albeit much later. Other members included former Missing Lynx guitarist Donnie Baker and singer Chip Fitzgerald.
The band was apparently close to a record deal but ended up never releasing a record. In their later incarnation it's believed they were known as E. T. Hooley. Chip Fitzgerald was the only original member to last throughout the band's tenure. Later guitarist Todd Sharp joined Hall and Oates touring band in the '80s.


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Louis Bacon Receives Audubon Medal For Conservation, Environmental Work
In the Bahamas, Mr. Bacon has led a campaign to preserve Clifton Point and create the Bahamas Clifton Heritage Park. Today, as a result of his work, Clifton Cay is a national park, protected forever on behalf of the people of the Bahamas as well as the birds and the wildlife.
On Long Island, he donated a conservation easement and developed a habitat restoration and management plan on Robins Island that will preserve the island as a haven for endangered shorebirds, including Least terns and Piping plover.
In North Carolina, he restored an extensive habitat of rice fields, marshes and long leaf pine forest at Orton Plantation, which in the early 20 th century was home to the only known colony of the Great Egret, the Audubon's iconic symbol. This effort increased the populations of egrets, herons and the endangered Red-cockaded woodpecker to the area.
In Colorado, he led an effort to stop the construction of industrial transmission lines across the San Luis Valley. There he partnered with Interior Secretary Ken Salazar to create the longest protected wildlife corridor in the Lower 48 states by donating the 167,000-acre easement that launched Salazar's Sangre de Cristo Conservation Area. His 260 square miles of Colorado landscape -- an area 8 times larger than the island of Manhattan -- is the largest conservation easement ever donated to the U.S. Fish And Wildlife Service.He supported the Nature Conservancy's creation of a 50-acre safe haven for three protected bird species on Tern Island, New York, and he backed a campaign to protect the Everglades, key to wading birds like the Roseate spoonbill. He is a leading supporter of the National Audubon Society, its state field operations and numerous chapters. In 1992, Mr. Bacon created the Moore Charitable Foundation to provide financial support to nonprofit organizations that work to preserve and protect wildlife habitat and improve water systems. Since then, the foundation has provided significant funding to local and national conservation and environmental protection agencies. Mr. Bacon is the founder and CEO of Moore Capital Management, LP and received his B.A. in American Literature from Middlebury College and his M.B.A. in Finance from Columbia Business School. For more information about Moore Charitable Foundation please visit: www.moorecharitable.org For more information about Louis Bacon please visit: www.louisbacon.com SOURCE Moore Charitable Foundation
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As if there was no better way to conclude the past eight years of the current administration, President Bush will host his own personalized going-away party: the world's first "global financial summit," where leaders will discuss the current global economic troubles and hopefully ways to prevent such crises from recurring.
The meeting—the first in a series—will discuss the financial crisis and ways to prevent it recurring.
Leaders from the G20 group of nations—the world's leading industrialised countries and major developing nations—will attend.
The winner of the US presidential election will also attend the summit.
The meeting, to be held in the Washington DC area, will consider the reforms needed to avoid another financial crisis and look at the progress being made so far.
President Bush, shown here waving with first lady Laura, will host a summit—probably his last—with world leaders to discuss the current economic crisis.
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