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John Ryan, a pioneer in fresh produce food safety, quality and traceability systems, has resigned as quality assurance administrator for the Hawaii State Department of Agriculture.
His last day on the job was May 13.
The state agency has begun a search for his successor, Ryan said.
"I'm not retiring," he said. "I'm relocating to California where I will continue to work on projects."
Among his current projects for Ryan Systems, the company he has founded, is a website that will register companies that have been safety certified and will help market the companies, he said. He also is working with a software company to develop further a Ryan designed computer system that will collect traceability, risk assessment and compliance data and help to speed up recalls.
"Data in the system's server will continue to be privately held by the grower-shipper, but the server will be able to talk to computer cloud systems," Ryan said.
During his five years with the Hawaii State Department of Agriculture, Ryan cemented his legacy in the fresh produce industry. Working with Hawaii-based grower-shippers and several companies, Ryan developed the first radio frequency identification pilot project.
He developed Hawaii's comprehensive food safety system that covers grower food safety compliance, risk assessment, supply chain yield management, traceability and rapid recall.
Ryan's most recent project involves a group of Asia-based companies, Honolulu-based Armstrong Produce Ltd. and the development of cold chain traceability using battery powered radio frequency identification temperature tags and waypoint and sales order tracking among the Hawaiian islands.
The project, which also involves air cargo and land transportation companies, should expand to include trans-Pacific transportation controls, Ryan said.
While he is relocating to the arid California desert, sandy beaches and Pacific breezes will continue to be a part of Ryan's life.
"I'm a surfer, so I assure you I'll be getting over to San Diego," he said.

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What do medical assistants do?
Medical assistants have a great amount of variety in their jobs and are cross-trained to perform many administrative and clinical duties. Of course, duties vary from office to office depending on location, size and specialty. Over half of medical assistants are employed in physicians' offices. They may also work in hospitals, outpatient care centers, educational services, government agencies, laboratories, and nursing care facilities.
Administrative duties may include:
- Using computer applications
- Answering telephones
- Greeting Patients
- Updating and filing patient medical records
- Coding and filling out insurance forms
- Scheduling appointments
- Arranging for hospital admissions and laboratory services
- Handling correspondence, billing and book-keeping
Clinical duties vary state by state, but may include:
- Taking medical histories
- Explaining treatment procedures to patients
- Preparing patients for examination
- Assisting the physician during the exam
- Collecting and preparing laboratory specimens
- Performing basic laboratory tests
- Instructing patients about medication and special diets
- Preparing and administering medications as directed by a physician
- Authorizing prescription refills as directed
- Drawing blood
- Taking electrocardiograms
- Removing sutures and changing dressings
How long will it take me to complete the program? Will I have to attend full-time?
It will take two years to complete the Medical Assisting Program which spans five semesters. Students who have had related courses prior to entering the program (or who are transferring courses in from another institution) may not have to repeat those courses unless the grade received was lower than a "C". The number of courses taken ahead of time may decease the amount of time spent in classes each semester, but will not decrease the overall span of the curriculum.
Is the medical assisting program online?
Many courses are online. Courses with lab components are not online.
What kind of job can I get with this degree?
Graduates may work in physicians' offices, health maintenance organizations, health departments, and hospitals.
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Yak mounts lumbering your way in Mists of Pandaria {WoW}
Feb 22nd 2012 12:39PM Just going to weigh in and say I don't like the big mounts. I didn't like the Northrend Mammoths (aptly named) and from the looks of them, I won't like these. They are too much trouble getting through doorways, they take up too much room on the screen, and they just aren't very pretty. Might not be the most popular of opinions, but figured I'd weigh in.
Officers' Quarters: A gkicked player takes revenge {WoW}
Feb 7th 2012 12:57AM That is an awesome picture of Lord Godfrey, btw.
Patch 4.3.2 released today, launch your clients early [Updated patch notes] {WoW}
Jan 31st 2012 11:17AM Yay! They finally buffed Mass Dispel! Now with 50% more uselessness!
Breakfast Topic: Do your WoW and real-life friendships overlap? {WoW}
Jan 27th 2012 8:17AM No, but I really wish they did. Sometimes I feel lonely. :-(
The Care and Feeding of Warriors: How to tank for non-tanks {WoW}
Jan 15th 2012 12:37AM And as a quick follow-up...
Years ago, I read my first article on tanking and one piece of advice has stuck with me ever since: "There are 3 rules of tanking: Get aggro. Keep aggro. Die first."
The Care and Feeding of Warriors: How to tank for non-tanks {WoW}
Jan 15th 2012 12:35AM Just a quick heads up: Retaliation appears to share some sort of internal cooldown with Shield Wall. Whenever I hit Retaliation, Shield Wall grays out for a little while. So don't be like me and hit it when you're in danger of dying. Heh.
What might Mists of Pandaria mean for healing? {WoW}
Jan 4th 2012 12:48AM I am very much looking forward to this class. Healing is my favorite part of the game. I've leveled and raided with all four healing classes. Although I still love my priest and all the tools in his arsenal, I'm a bit bored with healing tbh. Monks are an exciting change. I may hate them in the end (looking at you paladin healing), but at least it will be something new.
Around Azeroth: Everybody knows that the bird is the word! {WoW}
Jan 4th 2012 12:45AM What an odd title for an article. I hadn't heard anything about this.
The Queue: Post-Winter Veil recovery {WoW}
Dec 26th 2011 2:53PM @Draelan, et al.,
Were you even around when this grind was in place back during early Vanilla? It was, bar none, one of the most grueling things to do in the game. Endless PVP'ing. We had a couple of Grand Marshals in my guild and they had to be logged in and playing 8-10 hours a day for _weeks_ just to keep their rank up.
I say let them have a little reward. There are plenty of beautiful transmorg sets available. Go find one you like and stop the QQ over something you can't have. We can't have everything.
The Queue: Morshed Khan the sitar player {WoW}
Dec 24th 2011 1:30PM I've been in groups before and seen two of the same token drop as well. I've felt no problem rolling Need on both. I've never won both rolls. If I was fortunate to win both of them, the correct thing to do would have been to stay in the group and offer them to the next highest roller.
I'm not sure what else there is to say. I'm certainly not going to halve my chances at winning by passing on one of the token. That would be madness.


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In physics, a rare form of subatomic matter that is a mirror image of normal matter. The antiparticle corresponding to an elementary particle has the same mass as the particle but is opposite in all other properties. The antiparticle corresponding to an electron is a positron, which has the same mass as an electron but a positive charge. Antiprotons have the same mass as protons but a negative charge. When matter and antimatter come together, the two particles annihilate each other, converting their mass into energy or into other types of particles.
Note: As far as scientists can tell, there is almost no naturally occurring antimatter in the universe, although it is possible to make antimatter in particle accelerators.
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Perhaps slightly glossed over in the various reports and comments on the short to medium term future of the platinum price, and the power problems being faced by the South African mines which produce the vast bulk of the world's new mined supply is that of refrigeration. No this is not some esoteric new use for platinum catalysts, but an absolute necessity for the deeper platinum mining operations – and the world's two largest producers, Anglo Platinum and Implats are both fast approaching mining depths where refrigeration of the intake air into the mines will be vital to maintain safe working conditions and productivity. Without refrigeration working conditions become too h0t for miners to maintan concentration over a full shift and there is the attendant risk of death from heatstroke.
As an example of the amount of power needed for this, Northam Platinum, which is already deep enough to require intake air refrigeration, uses around 40 percent of its power allocation just to keep the refrigeration systems running. If Eskom, South Africa's power utility, remains insistent on restricting mining operations to 90 or 95 percent of current power levels, then Angloplats and Implats will both be unable to run their own refrigeration plants on grid power and may thus be unable to mine the deeper levels now being accessed, without some form of additional power. If the Eskom power crisis continues to 2015 or beyond, as some observers feel may well be likely then the platinum majors will either need to commission expensive to run alternate power supplies, or cut production.
As we pointed out here earlier, the multiplicity of serious new platinum miners on South Africa's Bushveld Complex, the source of nearly 80 percent of the world's platinum supplies, are all having to rethink their economics to incorporate much more expensive self-generated power into their capital and operating costs and this could lead to delays, and also the failure of the weaker projects economically which will all have an impact on projected future supplies.
Few of the new projects have a firm agreement in place with Eskom over security of grid power supply – and even those which do, as Platinum Australia apparently has with its Smokey Hills development – cannot be certain that the power utility will not renege on its agreement as it has already done with some of the country's power hungry aluminium smelter projects.
The major possibility for increased platinum output elsewhere is, of course, the economically chaotic Zimbabwe where the domestic power supply situation is even worse than that in South Africa and where shortages of plant and spares as well as power means mines struggle to keep going in any case.
Add to this the speculative element which can tie up supplies in ETFs. These supplies could be going instead for industrial usage and thus some of the forward price projections for the metal currently being seen could be conservative in the extreme. There has been some concern that these ETF holdings could be released into the industrial sector and lead to reduced prices. But this would seem unlikely if the consensus is that further investment gains are likely from restricted supplies.
Big increases in price, though, will accelerate the substitution likelihood and this could mean that in the short and medium term prices stay very high – or even increase substantially – while in the longer term as substitution begins to take effect, the demand could fall leaving the producers with excess output and less robust economics. But this would be some way away yet.


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Divided Government Cannot Survive
The 2012 election showed as always that half the US is liberal and half conservative. We are right back to where we were in 1860. The issues are different today but the results are the same. The National Government remains liberal and through its military power forces the conservative half to accept policies they will never concede to.
The Republican Party is dead, never to be conservative again. The Democrats will grow stronger by bringing in more minority emigrants and promising more government handouts. In this election 24 States voted Republican and 26 Democrat. The popular vote was almost 50-50. Given that the Republican Party is dead, what are the possible future outcomes?
A. The liberals will forever control the nation if all things remain the same. But all things will not remain the same.
B. The Federal government will collapse under Democratic policies.
1. The Federal government debt will never paid down much less off.
2. Spending will continue which means the government will continue to borrow and print money to pay for social programs and others to borrow and print devaluing the dollar.
3. The US credit rating will continue to fall, creating a difficulty to sell bonds to pay for social programs.
4. Taxes will rise to make up the difference and people won't be able to pay their taxes, because,
5. Unemployment will continue to rise as businesses lay-off more people to avoid costs of government regulations.
6. As more people go on welfare and unemployment checks, there will be fewer taxpayers to support government spending.
7. The value of the dollar will fall requiring more dollars to buy the same amount of goods and services. Even those with jobs won't be able to pay all their bills and will exhaust their savings if they even have any. Most people don't have any savings because they live off credit cards, which expands their debt.
8. As governments and individuals ability to pay their expenses continue to rise, the paper dollar will collapse.
9. At this point riots and thefts will be numerous so that the federal government will no longer be able to protect the people and the nation will break-up with every man, woman and child having to protect themselves.
10. A majority of the people will then become "mean as hell" extreme conservatives forming their own regional governments.
11. The military and local police will support these regional governments or,
12. They may over-throw the Federal government and put the Nation under dictatorial control.
13. Whichever way it goes liberalism will be dead, a new nation will be formed and a new monetary system will be created.
A divided nation cannot stand, unlimited spending cannot continue, and during the break-up process there will be decades of enormous pain and suffering for everyone. This would have happened regardless of which party won the 2011 election, Democracy is a failed experiment. The People have shown that they cannot govern themselves. The people have shown that they cannot govern themselves.
When Benjamin Franklin stepped out of the constitutional convention, he was asked, what type of government do we have? Franklin replied, "a republic if the people can keep it". The people have been unable to keep it.
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But don't worry Government is going to cut spending... Didn't you get the news?
It's called "jump on the gravy train before it leaves the station" and they ALL do it! And we are the fools who put them into office!
Until relatively recently, people of different ideologies, religions, etc. belonged to both of our major political parties. As a young person, I remember liberal and conservative opinions discussed by Democrats and Republicans. Today, there are very few people of color who fear 'white' people. There appeared to be a concentrated effort to encourage fear of those who were different than 'whites'. Lee Atwater and his not so subtle strategy worked in some regions of our country. Here we are, according to Shadow and others where we were in the 1860's. I hope not. Our foreign enemies are watching us destroy our country from within. We proved that we would not bow to fear after 9/11. Americans can unite and overcome this so- called fear of those who are 'different' based on skin color, ethnicity, and/or religion.
Republican and Democratic politicians have been united in their cowardice in the face of the NRA bullies.
Today it was the murder of elementary school children and their teachers in Connecticut. A few days before it was a shooting in a shopping mall in Oregon. Before that a mass killing in California. Earlier it was a killing at a worship service in Wisconsin. Before that a theater in Colorado. Virginia Tech, and the list goes on and on. Twenty-four mass killings in America since 2006.
These killings have come as the number of guns in America has proliferated and gun control laws have been relaxed in most states. Driven by fear mongering by the NRA, the gun dealers, and their gun worshiper followers, Americans have bought guns in record numbers.
Now guns are easily available to any disturbed or angry person who decides to strike out against those he thinks have offended him or at total innocent strangers. Many times it is a suicide act taking others with him.
It is time to get guns in America under control, and put an end to the silly idea that more guns make America a safer place. More guns and their easier availability did not make that elementary school safer today. And the next school threatened by guns could be anywhere in America including Fayette County Georgia.
Nothing, nothing can stop this type of thing. Connecticut has some of the strictest gun control laws in this country along with California and NY. The school that was attacked had locked doors and you can only gain entry by being "buzzed" in. This criminal was allowed in because his mom worked at the school.
So, what's your solution? Repeal the Bill of Rights?
My solution, PTO, is not to interpret the Bill of Rights to allow any idiot to possess a weapon (either automatic or semi-automatic) capable of mass killings.
Do you not think our Founding Fathers had more common sense and good judgement than the dangerous fools running he NRA?
So what is your solution?
Make our elementary schools armed prisons? Arm every Principal, teacher, and staff member? Arm every child over four years old?
The argument that more guns make us safer is wrong and sick and must be rejected.
I understand your complete disregard for anything to do with firearms. A lot of people have these fears.
However, you still have not offered any type of reasonable solution. You just seem ready to have "Ban All Guns" mentality.
I would like to point you to a story on Drudge today where a man in China entered an elementary school with a knife and slashed/stabbed 27 children. Your first comment will more than likely be that none of the children died, Praise God that none did, but what chance would the children have if he wanted to kill them instead of harm them??
Of all the massacres that you pointed out over the years, you forgot one. Pearl, Mississippi 1997 (my home) a student showed up on campus and started firing. One of the staff ran to his vehicle and retrieved his handgun and, without killing the young man, he used his firearm to stop the student from getting into the buildings where students were hiding.
So yes, an appropriate answer is to allow "Responsible and Trained" staff to have concealed weapons for protection against nutjobs like this.
Just my take on it.
Arming school staff (some) sounds like a reasonable idea to me--and publicly advertise it so that all the wackos know that they will face armed challenge should they decide to attack. I suspect that there are already a number of school officials who are licensed carry oncealed than we would guess.
Arming school staff is a sick and crazy idea.
What kind of America do you live in?
There is little or no evidence that armed civilians can act to prevent mass killings.
This idea is just a fantasy of the NRA and its gun nut followers.
I would not ban all guns but I would come closer to that situation than the idea that all weapons, assault weapons included, are OK in my country.
Lion, as I feared your fears of firearms overrides your reasoning.
I live in the kind of America where citizens have the right and responsibility to protect themselves.
I go back to my previous post. You gave many examples of where a crazed person with a gun did mass damage. I gave you one example.
Can you see the the difference here??
In your examples, there was no one present with the means to protect themselves against the threat and were victims. In the example I gave one person, let me repeat, ONE PERSON with a firearm was able to not only protect himself, but also numerous students.
Even in the face of the events of the day, we should never let emotions override reason..
I do not fear firearms. I fear the ignorant bullies who worship guns and glorify them to support their manhood. And I fear the America they have made in which anyone--including the sick, angry, and deranged can have access to guns to kill as their twisted minds drive them.
Guns are not the solution; guns are the problem.
So what is your solution??
I have given you mine
There is no 'one' thing that can be done that will prevent these tragedies from happening but we can do things to reduce the chances of it happening at all and mitigate the extent of the slaughter when it does happen.
The first thing that comes to mind is:
Make military-style semi-automatic assault weapons along with high-capacity ammunition magazines, less readily available to the general public.
Improve background checks and close loopholes including all sales by unlicensed sellers.
Enact laws to help law enforcement combat firearms trafficking that supplies guns to criminals.
Use microstamping that can match bullet casings found at a crime scene to the gun used.
All this can take place today and I wouldn't have to worry about anyone taking my guns away.
You DO know that the CT shooter used pistols (registered to his Mother), not a long gun don't you?
AHG, I'm sure that fact will bring much comfort to the families of the dead.
I did read the killer had a Bushmaster rifle in the car he drove to the massacre. There is nothing better than having a good assault rifle by your side, to enhance the mental fantasy of a lunatic on a killing spree, eh?
Make military-style semi-automatic assault weapons along with high-capacity ammunition magazines, less readily available to the general public.
In Switzerland when a boy turns 19 he is conscripted to service. About 80% are taken. They do a year of active service and then go into something like our reserves until they reach the age of 34. They keep all of their equipment with them in their homes. That includes their assault rifles. All citizens are encouraged to own weapons, even females and those not deemed able to perform military service. As a result about 85% of all homes there have weapons in them and most of those have assault weapons. Still Switzerland has one of the worlds lowest crime rates.
I think America has focused to much on the tool (gun) and not enough on the person using it. I think that we need to look at our laws as they pertain to mental illness. The way we treat (or ignore) our mentally ill in this country is, or should be criminal. Most of these shooters in these events have a history of some sort of mental illness. Yet they roam free and untreated because you can't force a person to get treatment unless they have been proven to be a threat to themselves or others. Sometimes that is too late.
G35, I'm pretty sure the Swiss train the conscripts before they let them take the weapons home with them, eh?
Personally, I think we would have less gun related deaths if people were formally trained on the care, use, safety, and responsibilities of the weapons they keep in their home. I recommend my old drill sergeant, (or people like him,) to do the training. You don't pass the training, no gun for you!
Where I think we should put the focus, is for everyone to close their eyes for a minute and imagine a room full of kindergarten children.
At the front of the room enters a homicidal maniac spraying the children with bullets from two semiautomatic pistols.
In slow motion, imagine the bullets exiting the barrel of the guns with a flash and roar, pass through the air, and smash into the flesh and bone of young children as they scream, "Mommy" or "Daddy".
Now open your eyes. Can you still pretend that we can't do anything about this BS? Is some lame anecdote or factoid a good enough excuse to prevent us from trying to do something? I don't think so.
Now open your eyes. Can you still pretend that we can't do anything about this BS? Is some lame anecdote or factoid a good enough excuse to prevent us from trying to do something? I don't think so.
Never did I say that we shouldn't do something. I was suggesting that we focus on the mental illness of the shooters rather than the guns themselves. I'm not sure how familiar you are with the way this country treats it mentally ill. It is a shame. On the one hand they are ignored and denied treatment because they can't pay while on the other they are allowed to refuse treatment and still walk among us. They suffer and ultimately so do we. And I do agree that anyone that wants a weapon should be trained on the use and care of it.
G35, as a practical matter, I can't imagine how the, "focus on the mental illness of the shooters rather than the guns themselves," will help reduce or mitigate gun violence. What exactly are you recommending?
What exactly are you recommending?
I'm recommending that this country spend more time and money treating the mentally ill. Those guns did not fire themselves. Take away the guns and these people will find other ways to inflict harm, like Tim McVeigh did. And these people are suffering themselves. They're not getting the attention/treatment that they deserve. So they lash out. If you've ever had a family member or friend with mental illness you'd understand how broken the system is in regard to them.
Gangs and criminals are a different matter of course. But still banning guns won't work. We tried to ban alcohol and you see what happened. We've tried to ban drugs. Again that hasn't worked. So all you'll do by banning guns is give criminals free rein to do whatever they want.
G35, if that's the way you want to do it, it's okay with me. I just don't see how it would work.
How would you like to have the job to take guns away from the mentally ill ?
FYI, I never said I wanted to ban anything.
If you read this and still don't understand you never will.
G35, I'm not against your approach, I just don't think it's possible to do. Mental health isn't like 'missing a finger,' it's much more subjective. Civil liberties, rights to privacy, confidentiality between doctors and patients, I'm sorry, I just don't see it happening.
On the other hand I'm happy to see you are becoming a health care advocate.
You also seem to be very worked up about assault rifles. I'm not sure why though. It seems like this CT guy had an assault rifle in his car, but killed everyone with a pair of pistols. Also, since he was only 20, he shouldnt legally be allowed to have them in the first place. But apparently criminals dont always follow the rules. Columbine, Virginia tech, all used pistols. The worst mass school killing in American history happened in the 20's, when fully automatic weapons could be mail orderd to your house, but the guy used bombs. The worst school killings in the U.K. and in canada both used pistols. The worst school killing in Germany was a guy who used a pistol and a pump shotgun in Erfurt. The second worst in Germany was a guy who had a club and a flamethrower he made out of an insecticide sprayer. Yes, the guy in Aurora used an assault rifle, but it was the high-capacity magazine jamming that made him stop shooting. Interesting that if the high cap ban was still in place, MORE people would have died. High cap mags are something else that always gets targeted by anti gun people, as if you cant just carry more with you. As a former military member, I can tell you from experience that in practiced hands it takes less than half a second to change a mag out. I do it all the time. Banning them makes about as much sense as the high cap soda ban in NYC. As if you couldnt just buy 2 or 3 sodas if you wanted. But, thats liberal logic, believing that if you tell someone to stop, they will. Youre a fool if you think banning assault weapons or high-caps will prevent any crime at all.
Wake up! If Americans can't unite on this issue which is destroying our unity, then the persons seeking further division in our country win! Gun Control/ no Gun Control is not the main issue here! Who and what is causing the violence? Take a look at 'gangs' and the 'militias' supported by hate groups - of all colors.. Joe's insertion of race is interesting. That's always the other elephant in the room when the goal is to divide Americans. When parents lose a child, they grieve - regardless of the color of their skin. Liberal children bleed just the same as conservative children. Sandy Hook School and the community it served had all the standards that concerned parents want - liberal or conservative. 20 babies are dead. Guns were purchased legally. There are other issues here than 'control', race, political ideology
Renault, actually I had four recommendations. AHG, G35, and you are the ones focused on assault rifles.
FYI, I never said anything about banning any kind of weapons. That was your Pavlovian conditioning taking over whenever a discussion on this subject is attempted. You are seeing things that are not there!
Renault, that's French isn't it?
I came across a website in Connecticut this morning that had pictures of some of the slain children and teachers. I wish I hadn't. I noticed that I had tears streaming down my face on to the keyboard while just wondering WHY? WHY? WHY?
"banning this" or "arming that" or simply rounding up every person with some type of mental illness and warehousing them won't solve the basic problem. Neither will the cries of "bring God back into the classroom."
We(USA) have failed miserably in any kind of global leadership role. We glorify and promote violence like it's a drug and export it worldwide. Sex..err, not so much. It's better to have movies with a lot of bad guys with their brains splattered everywhere than two people having sex. Whatever.
I hope the generation of my young adult children can reverse this decline that "my generation" has horribly failed at. I'm not advocating any kind of censorship or banning anything, but maybe we can stop glorifying absolute **** mvoies like Silence of the Lambs and extremely violent video games? Maybe make your kids go outside once a while and have human interaction? Here's an alternative to worshipping killing people in video games or some kind of serial killer?
No easy solutions, but there has to be better than this.
I think as the analysis of the young man's life unfolds, we'll find several significant factors one of which will be the role of these violent video games and other media. These video games actually reward violent behavior and, for many, that stimulus is the road to addiction.
Back in our younger days, our elders warned us of what would happen if we let this "crap" get a foot-hold in our society. Lo-and-behold, look what happened.
Now we are faced with trying to picking-up the pieces.
I agree. It's not too late to start making the corrections. There will be many who will say it's too late; or too difficult to change a culture. I've lived through situations that were never supposed to change; gosh - at least let's try! Even if we don't know the specific reason for this tragedy - at least the conversation has started about CHANGE. I have worked in situations in public education where we had armed personnel on site. In this situation, unless they were at the right place at the right time, I don't know if their presence would have made any difference. It's the same in some communities where random gun shots have killed children in the sanctity of their own home. NUK - I imagine a lot of people have cried. At least one good has come from this tragedy - the human race can come together to express love and compassion in a tragic situation. As humans, we are not lost.
Make military-style semi-automatic assault weapons along with high-capacity ammunition magazines, less readily available to the general public.
if you werent talking about a ban, then please clarify. How will you make them "less readily available?" And what will banning purely cosmetic accessories like bayonet lugs and flash hiders ( the things that make something an "assault" rifle) do to prevent crime?
Renault, I'm against a ban because most people that own them take their responsibilities seriously to prevent unauthorized use of these weapons. It would be a slap in their face to ban them.
The problem is some people are too cavalier about their responsibilities and these weapons too easily get into the hands of people that shouldn't be let near them.
I'm not a lawyer or a lawmaker but my opinion is, if you want to own one of these weapons, perhaps background checks, training, and ability to safeguard the weapon against unauthorized use, should come under more scrutiny than it does now.
That's the preferred weapon for the ultra-violent scum calling themselves the MS-13 gang and they are growing rather rapidly in the USA. They like to hack body parts off before getting around to the actual killing.
Connecticut's very tough gun laws made absolutely no difference at all. Connecticut law (1) requires you to register yourself before buying a gun (2) requires registration of all guns (4) has a minimum age of 21 for gun purchases and (4) bans assault weapons. All four were violated.
I will give up my guns when the liberals give up knives, abortions and standard lawn fertilizer. And like Nuk said, add machetes to the list.
There is little or no evidence that armed civilians can act to prevent mass killings.
the reason for this might just be that with the exception of the Tucson shooting, all of the mass killings you mention that have happened since 2006 have been in "gun free" zones. apparently, everyone read the signs, except the criminals. And speaking of not being able to read the signs, They recently banned gun ownership in Austrailia. Crime immediately went up. ESPECIALLY home invasions. Because with all the law abiding citizens turning in their guns, criminals know there are no nasty surprises waiting for them. Did banning guns help that? Obviously not. You also seem to be very worked up about assault rifles. I'm not sure why though. It seems like this CT guy had an asault rifle in his car, but killed everyone with a pistol. Also, since he was only 20, he shouldnt legally be allowed to have them in the first place. But I guess criminals always follow the rules, right Lion? Columbine, Virginia tech, all used pistols. The worst mass school killing in American history happened in the 20's, when fully automatic weapons could be mail orderd to your house, but the guy used bombs. The worst school killings in the U.K. and in canada both used pistols. The worst school killing in Germany was a guy who used a pistol and a pump shotgun in Erfurt. The second worst in Germany was a guy who had a club and a flamethrower he made out of an insecticide sprayer. Yes, the guy in Aurora used an assault rifle, but it was the high-capacity magazine jamming that made him stop shooting. Interesting that if the high cap ban was still in place, MORE people would have died. High cap mags are something else that always gets targeted by anti gun people, as if you cant just carry more with you. As a former military member, I can tell you from experience that in practiced hands it takes less than half a second to change a mag out. I do it all the time. It makes about as much sense as the high cap soda ban in NYC. As if you couldnt just buy 2 or 3 sodas if you wanted. But, thats liberal logic, believing that if you tell someone to stop, they will. Youre a fool if you think banning guns, specifically assault weapons or high-caps will prevent any crime at all. The clinton assault ban didnt.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention studied the "assault weapon" ban and other gun control attempts, and found "insufficient evidence to determine the effectiveness of any of the firearms laws reviewed for preventing violence."[6] A 2004 critical review of research on firearms by a National Research Council panel also noted that academic studies of the assault weapon ban "did not reveal any clear impacts on gun violence" and noted "due to the fact that the relative rarity with which the banned guns were used in crime before the ban ... the maximum potential effect of the ban on gun violence outcomes would be very small...."[7]
The United States Department of Justice National Institute of Justice found should the ban be renewed, its effects on gun violence would likely be small, and perhaps too small for reliable measurement, because rifles in general, including rifles referred to as "assault rifles" or "assault weapons", are rarely used in gun crimes.[8]
That study by Christopher S. Koper, Daniel J. Woods, and Jeffrey A. Roth of the Jerry Lee Center of Criminology, University of Pennsylvania found no statistically significant evidence that either the assault weapons ban or the ban on magazines holding more than 10 bullets had reduced gun murders. However, they concluded that it was "premature to make definitive assessments of the ban's impact on gun crime," and argue that if the ban had been in effect for more than nine years, benefits might have begun to appear.[9]
Research by John Lott in the 2000 second edition of More Guns, Less Crime provided the first research on state and the Federal Assault Weapon Bans.[10] The 2010 third edition provided the first empirical research on the 2004 sunset of the Federal Assault Weapon Ban.[11] Generally, the research found no impact of these bans on violent crime rates, though the third edition provided some evidence that Assault Weapon Bans slightly increased murder rates. Lott's book The Bias Against Guns provided evidence that the bans reduced the number of gun shows by over 20 percent.[12] Koper, Woods, and Roth studies focus on gun murders, while Lott's looks at murder, rape, robbery, and aggravated assaults. Unlike their work, Lott's research accounted for state Assault Weapon Bans and 12 other different types of gun control laws.
The Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence examined the impact of the Assault Weapons Ban in its 2004 report, On Target: The Impact of the 1994 Federal Assault Weapon Act. Examining 1.4 million guns involved in crime, "in the five-year period before enactment of the Federal Assault Weapons Act (1990-1994), assault weapons named in the Act constituted 4.82% of the crime gun traces ATF conducted nationwide. Since the law's enactment, however, these assault weapons have made up only 1.61% of the guns ATF has traced to crime."[13] A spokesman for the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) stated that he "can in no way vouch for the validity" of Brady Campaign's claim that the ban was responsible for violent crime's decline.[14]
even the brady centers report didnt say gun crime went down, just that assault rifles were used less. Lion, do a little research before you try to take away my rights by reacting emotionally and passing laws that make you feel like your doing good but actually endanger everyone instead.
Cops and soldiers expect that they may die in the line of duty. I know, I was one. Now it seems, we can add public school teachers to that list. But, maybe if the teachers or the principal had been allowed to carry, they wouldnt have HAD to die in the line of duty and 20 kids would still be alive. Cops and soldiers accept that risk, but they get guns to defend themselves with. If they didnt, Im sure recruiting would be a slightly harder job. Parents turn their kids over to me ( a current public school teacher) every day expecting me to keep them safe. If I am expected by society to keep them safe and risk my life doing so, why cant I have the right tools for the job, the same tools that everyone else in my situation (expected to defend others with my life) gets?
A gun in the classroom is not an educational tool and does make a school safer. This is a stupid and dangerous notion.
American schools should not be armed camps.
A gun in the classroom is not an educational tool and does make a school safer.
and what research or sources can you cite that allows you to make that informed opinion? if schools are not safer with guns, the why do school resource officers carry them? When they passed a law banning weapons on the Ga tech campus, crime skyrocketed. We dont know if schools would be safer with a few armed teachers or not, because its never been tried in america to my knowledge. But it has been tried in other countries, specifically israel, to great success. The only thing we know for sure is that schools that DONT have guns inside them are easy pickings. You still refuse to answer the question i have put to you many times, why do the overwhelming majority of these shootings happen in "gun free" zones? is it just an extrordinary coincidence?
...but please look up the number on traffic deaths compared to gun deaths. It doesn't justify anything but may put a different perspective on the 'guns are evil' debate. People will do stupid things in stupid ways resulting in stupid, revolting outcomes no matter what:
Motor vehicle traffic deaths - Number of deaths: 34,485; Deaths per 100,000 population: 11.2
All firearm deaths - Number of deaths: 31,347; Deaths per 100,000 population: 10.2
Source - 2009 CDC statistics
You just can't predict who's going to do what to whom and when and how; it's the bane of living in a free society. This disturbed soul was going to harm as many as possible in any way he could. If he didn't have a gun he would have probably made pipe bombs or any number of vile weapons; the Internet is an easy conduit to such info.
I believe we should respect our founding fathers. Here is my compromise.
Muskets are the ONLY guns allowed in the USA since that is all that was available to our founding fathers.
I don't care if you conceal it, wear it like a purse, keep it under your car seat, or floss your teeth with it. Is is your right as an American.
As for the rest, GET RID OF THEM. We are an poorly educated country with some backwoods values still imbred in our culture.
They are simply replacements for lack of confidence, education or common sense.
Hunters. Use muskets.
Families. Use muskets
Criminals. use muskets... and remember when you re-load, me and the deer are kicking your f'n ass.
its stupid for assuming, yet again, that if you ban all guns besides muskets, that criminals will obey the law. Drugs are illegal, but criminals still smuggle them in. Do you think they wouldnt smuggle in modern weapons? Of course you realize they will, so why should the criminals have them but not you or I? If you want to respect our founding fathers, do so by heeding their words. What part of "shall not be infringed" do you not understand? Also, its dumb for assuming amrican colonials had muskets. Most of them had rifles, something completely different. A technicality, but an important one, and heres why. The british army DID have muskets, which were inferior in range and accuracy to american rifles. The founding fathers, in writing the second amendment, (even if taken in its historical context) were ensuring that the average person had unrestricted access to firepower that was GREATER than the standing militaries and police forces of the day. Respecting that, you should not have any problem with civilian ownership of assault weapons and high cap magazines. Or you can admit that you are just being silly and have no idea what you are talking about.
His mother's stepfather was a school principal for 26 years. Just unimaginable sorrow all the way around.
And we are still faced with so-called random killing involving guns in the hands of the mentally unstable. Lots of ideas for working towards solutions. NO ACTION! Do we act, or become accustomed to this shame in American society .


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Australian author Peter Carey, who has twice won the Booker Prize for Fiction, slammed the decision to open the Commonwealth award to US writers, as judges prepared to announce the 2014 winner on Tuesday.
Two US authors are among the six nominees for 2014 Man Booker, one of the highest-profile prizes in English-language literature, with the winner to be announced in a glitzy ceremony at London's Guildhall late on Tuesday night.
"There was and there is a real Commonwealth culture. It's different. America doesn't really feel to be a part of that," Carey, 71, told the Guardian newspaper.
The annual Man Booker Prize was until now awarded for the best original full-length novel written in English by a citizen of the Commonwealth, Ireland or Zimbabwe. But, in 2014, the judges widened the field to any author writing originally in English, so long as their novel is published in Britain within the 12-month entry period. Opening the prize, called the Man Booker since 2002, to US novelists was a bid to establish the prize as the English-speaking world's foremost literary award.
"I find it unimaginable that the Pulitzer or the National Book Award people in the United States would ever open their prizes to Brits and Australians. They wouldn't," said Carey, one of only three novelists to have scooped the prize twice.
The winner of the prize receives £50,000, but the award which began in 1969 guarantees a huge upsurge in book sales and a worldwide readership.
Bookmakers have put Britain's Indian-born Neel Mukherjee as the 5/2 favourite for The Lives of Others, ahead of Richard Flanagan of Australia with The Narrow Road to the Deep North on 3/1 and then Britain's Ali Smith at 4/1 for How to be Both.
Britain's 2010 winner Howard Jacobson is fourth-favourite at 9/2 with J, ahead of US contenders Karen Joy Fowler on 11/2 with We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves and Joshua Ferris at 8/1 for To Rise Again at a Decent Hour.
"Oddly this year, the American writers are the two outsiders," Graham Sharpe, spokesman for bookmakers William Hill, told AFP. "Neel Mukherjee has become the clear favourite," he said.


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Caetano Veloso November 20, 2007 By Ernest Barteldes Nokia Theater New York City Brazilian
After performing with lavish orchestras in his previous tours, Caetano Veloso came on stage backed by the same simple guitar band backing that is featured on his latest disc, the rock-inflected Cê (recently reviewed here by Tad Hendrickson). The stage setting was also simple enough, with no more than the stage lighting and the theater's own bare walls. He entered the stage with little ceremony, opening with "Outro" and quickly moving on into the English-language  "Nine Out Of Ten," a more obscure tune from his 1972 Transa LP, recorded shorty after he returned from England after a four-year forced exile and then into the Carnaval-inflected "Chão da Praça."
Early in the show, Veloso's voice sounded a bit rawer than usual, but that suited the material played that night, which had more of a rock than a poppier Brazilian Popular Music (MPB) feel. He also showcased many songs from previous discs duly rearranged for a small band - the classic "Sampa" (a song he wrote in the late 70s in homage to the city of São Paulo) and "Fora de Ordem" stood out as examples.
In one of the concert's highlights, the band left the stage as he paused to speak about one of the songs as he picked up an acoustic guitar. After telling some of the story behind that tune, he ended with a comment from a Brazilian blogger that said that "everyone is tired of what Caetano Veloso has to say, but even worse is his guitar playing." He then set to play "Coração Vagabundo," a classic from his 1965 début (Domingo, which he did with Gal Costa) and the Spanish language ranchera classic "Paloma," which became sort of a hit for him after Pedro Almodóvar featured it on his Oscar-winning Talk To Her.
Another great moment came with "Odeio" (I Hate) – only someone like Veloso could sing lyrics that express hate (the refrain simply says "I Hate You, I Hate You") with a smile on his face – he later said that his friend and composer Jorge Mautner came to tears when he heard a demo of the song, telling him that Veloso had found the best way to express love by using the word "hate."
At 65 years old, Veloso still retains plenty of his youthful energy, often prancing around on stage and doing a some samba steps during a few songs.  His band is incredibly tight, and the new arrangements to his older songs fit them like a glove. Caetano has reinvented himself, and he has done that with a perfection that few artists have been able to accomplish.


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Jungle Habitat
Jungle Habitat, located in West Milford, in Passaic County, New Jersey, United States, was a Warner Brothers-owned theme park that opened in the summer of 1972, and closed in October 1976. By November 1972, the park had 500,000 paid visitors. The park contained well over 1,500 animals, a drive-through section and a walk-through section. The drive-through section was an animal safari park and the walk-through area was called Jungle Junction.
The park featured a drive-through safari section, which allowed for wild animals to roam free and approach vehicles as they slowly drove through. Riders potentially could observe peacocks, baboons, camels, elephants, llamas, giraffes, and Siberian tigers in this section, either in their own cars or on board one of the available buses. Many of the animals would climb atop the cars, bringing them to a halt, and signs were posted along the route to warn visitors to keep their windows closed. Great Adventure in Jackson Township, New Jersey, approximately 100 miles (160 km) to the south, also had (and still has) a similar type of drive-through safari attraction.
The walk-through section was a small theme park which included a petting zoo, camel and elephant rides, snack bars, gift shop, reptile house, dolphin show, Bugs Bunny and Friends shows including live Warner Bros. Looney Tunes characters, and a small train station and ride-on train called Jungle Junction. The park did not have any amusement park rides, although there were plans to add them for the spring season of 1977.
Shortly after the park opened, a tourist named Abraham Levy driving through the safari in a taxi was attacked by a lion on October 19, 1972, bringing negative publicity to the park.[1] In 1974, a woman was bitten by a baby elephant who had reached out of its enclosure with its trunk and grabbed the woman; she ultimately was awarded $200,000 for her injuries.[2]
The park was plagued by problems, including reports of dangerous animals escaping into West Milford.[3] Several of its animal residents had contracted tuberculosis and were euthanized.[4] In addition, the increase in summertime and weekend traffic on West Milford's roads created problems for local residents.[citation needed]
The park was profitable for its first several years. However, business declined gradually as it failed to attract repeat business without changing its attractions or adding new ones. In 1975, Warner Brothers proposed a $20 million expansion project to the site. The project would include a large wooden roller coaster, a steel junior coaster, a carousel merry-go-round, a log flume ride, about a dozen adult spinning rides, and a few kiddie rides. The township's residents were divided on whether or not to approve such a project. The potential for further traffic congestion was a major issue.[citation needed]
Closure and current status[edit]
The park opened as usual during the summer of 1976, with rumors of a big expansion planned for the following summer. The park's last weekend in operation was Halloween weekend. On November 2, township residents narrowly voted against the expansion. Following the vote, Warner Bros. decided to shut the park down and sell the land. After the park closed, newspapers reported that several animal carcasses, including an elephant, had been left there to decay.[4] Competition from Great Adventure, combined with poor management and the park's inability to easily expand, may have contributed to the demise of Jungle Habitat.[citation needed]
For years after it closed, the site's deteriorated buildings remained, and rumors of animals still roaming the property attracted curiosity seekers. Accounts of such explorations were published in Weird NJ[5] magazine, and on its website. None of the animal based rumors are true, the animals were sold off to all corners of the USA.[citation needed]
The 800-acre (3.2 km2) Jungle Habitat property, containing 26 miles (42 km) of paved roads, was purchased by New Jersey for $1,450,000 in 1988. The property, adjacent to Norvin Green State Forest, is part of Long Pond Ironworks State Park and is administered by Ringwood State Park. In 2007, under the direction of Ringwood State Park, the Ramapo Valley Cycling Club (a chapter of the Jersey Off Road Bicycle Association, also known as JORBA) performed a cleanup of the park, with 70 volunteers contributing. Brush was cleared and two dumpsters of trash were removed. Today, under the management of Ringwood State Park, JORBA is building single-track trails designed for shared, non-motorized use (bicycle, equestrian and foot traffic only). Currently, there are eleven to twelve miles of single-track trails on the land, with more being planned in 2008.[needs update]
Negotiation is underway between West Milford and the State of New Jersey to lease the 10-acre (40,000 m2) macadam parking lot for recreational use. In recent years,[when?] the property been used to host West Milford township's Fourth of July celebrations (known as Thunder in the Highlands) under a special-use permit. In addition, a local bicycle shop also sponsors "Rumble in the Jungle", an annual mountain bike race.[6] The area has become popular with dog walkers, mountain bikers, trail runners,equestrians and black bears.
See also[edit]
- ^ Laplaca, Bryan. "Back in the Day - Oct. 8, 1997: 'Hal from North Bergen' sued Bloomingdale", Suburban Trends, October 15, 2012. Accessed September 22, 2014. "The man in the picture is Abraham Levy who was in the intensive care unit of Chilton Hospital in Pompton Plains. He was bitten by a lion while visiting Jungle Habitat in West Milford.... Two eyewitnesses to the mauling of Levy on Oct. 9, 1972 blasted the Habitat management for allowing what they called dangerous conditions to exist."
- ^ The Region: $200,000 for Woman In Elephant-Bite Suit., The New York Times, p. B4. Accessed August 15, 2009, from ProQuest Historical Newspapers The New York Times (1851 - 2006). (Document ID: 111348438).
- ^ Hudson, Edward. "Habitat Neighbors Fear Possible Animal Escapes", The New York Times, December 16, 1972. Accessed September 22, 2014.
- ^ a b Hanley, Robert. "Decaying Animal Carcasses Found Unburied at Site of Jungle Habitat", The New York Times, April 6, 1977. Accessed September 22, 2014. "At least two dozen dead animals have been left unburied at the site of the former Jungle Habitat drive through zoo here and state and local officials today began looking into any possible hazards posed by the decaying carcasses."
- ^ Jungle Habitat: Wild and Abandoned in NJ
- ^ Rumble in the Jungle bike race, sponsored by Town Cycle.
External links[edit]
- Official website
- "West Milford - Many still wrangling over Jungle Habitat site". 2006 article by Sharbari Bose about plans for the former park, online at the New York New Jersey Trail Conference site
- Jungle Habitat. Personal blog post of memories and pictures of Jungle Habitat.
- Historical overview of the park and e-museum
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June 6, 2013 by TMO
The basics of investing in 529 plans
Section 529 plans have become a popular way to save and invest for your child's college education. If you're new to 529 plans, you might wonder how they work. These 10 common questions and answers will help get you up to speed.
1. How does a 529 college savings plan work?
Also known as a Qualified Tuition Program, a 529 college savings plan is a great way to save and invest for a child's future college education.
2. What are the tax advantages of a 529 plan?
Any earnings in a 529 plan have the potential to grow free of federal income taxes. And when you withdraw funds for your child's higher-education expenses, you generally won't pay federal taxes, and you may not have to pay state taxes.1
There's no federal income tax deduction for contributions to a 529 savings plan. But many states offer state tax deductions for contributions.
3. Who can open a 529 plan? Who can contribute?
It's not just parents who can open 529 plans—anyone can, like a relative or a family friend.
And even if you didn't open the 529 plan, you can still contribute to it. For example, a grandparent can contribute to a 529 college savings plan set up by the child's parents.
4. Who has access to the money in the plan?
The assets remain in the control of the person who opened the 529 college savings plan—for example, a parent. So decisions about how the funds are used are always in your hands.
5. What can the money in a 529 college savings plan be used for?
Funds can be used to pay for qualified higher-education expenses1, such as tuition, fees, books, as well as room and board at colleges, universities and vocational schools. For 2010, the costs of computers and certain computer technology have also been deemed as qualifying expenses.
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If your child receives money as gifts on birthdays and holidays, make it a habit to deposit the cash in your child's 529 college savings plan.
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Most 529 plans offer a variety of investment options, including stock mutual funds, bond mutual funds and money market funds. Consult a financial advisor to determine your best investment choice. Please remember there's always the potential of losing money when you invest in securities.
7. Are there contribution limits?
The total contribution limit depends on your plan, but most 529 college savings plans offer a contribution limit higher than $200,000.
You can contribute up to $65,000 ($130,000 for married couples) in a single five-year period without incurring gift taxes, as long as there are no other gifts made to the child in the same five-year period.
8. What if my child doesn't go to college?
Every Section 529 college savings plan has a designated beneficiary. If that person doesn't go to college, the account owner can change the beneficiary to another family member, like a sibling.3
You can also withdraw the money, but earnings will be taxable, and you'll generally pay an extra 10% penalty tax on top. 2
9. What happens if the parents divorce or declare bankruptcy?
A 529 college savings plan is an asset of the account owner, often one of the parents. In a divorce settlement, the 529 plan will be treated as an asset—for example, in some states, it can be split into two separate 529 college savings plans.
What about bankruptcy? Depending on many factors, including which state your 529 college savings plan is in, it might not be protected from creditors.
10. Do I have to choose my own state's 529 college savings plan?
No—you can compare the features of 529 plans offered by other states and choose the one that is most suitable for you.
Generally, a student can use a 529 college savings plan to attend college in any state. Qualified higher-education institutions include all accredited post-secondary institutions that are eligible to participate in Federal Student Assistance Programs. This broad list includes public universities, private colleges, graduate schools, vocational schools and even some foreign schools.
If you still have questions, learn more about the 529 college savings plan at Bank of America's Student Center. As with most savings plans, the earlier you start, the more the funds have the potential to grow. Try setting up an automatic monthly transfer into your 529 college savings plan to make saving that much easier.
What's next? How to apply for scholarships and financial aid
Before you invest in a 529 plan, request an official statement and read it carefully. The official statement contains more complete information, including investment objectives, charges, expenses and risks of investing in the 529 plan, which you should consider carefully before investing.
You should also consider whether your home state or your beneficiary's home state offers any state tax or other benefits that are only available for investments in such state's 529 plan.
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Infinite Spirit of Life, we ask thy blessing on these, thy messengers of fellowship and love. May they remind us amid diversities of knowledge and of gifts, to be one in desire and affection, and devotion to thy holy will. May they also remind us of the value of comradeship, of doing and sharing alike. May we cherish friendship as one of thy most precious gifts. May we not let awareness of another's talents discourage us, or sully our relationship, but may we realize that, whatever we can do, great or small, the efforts of all of us are needed to do thy work in this world.
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In the name of the Providence which implants in the heart of the seed the future of the flower, and which implants in our hearts that unrest which will not be quenched till people live lovingly with each other, we bless these flowers.
In the name of the highest, in which we move and take our being, and in the name of the deepest, which makes father and mother, sister and brother, lover and loner who they are, we bless these flowers.
In the name of the prophets and sages who sacrificed their lives to hasten the coming of the reign of mutual respect, we bless these flowers.
Let us renew our resolution, sincerely, to be as of one with each other, regardless of the barriers which estrange.
May these flowers be for us the sign of the glory and variety to which we aspire, knowing the whole while that we are One Family, the Family of Spirit and Nature.
In this holy resolve may we be strengthened by the spirit of love, that we ourselves may bloom, bloom in splendor of a joyful life. Amen.
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Top 20 Miliitary Spouse Friendly Employers - 2012
Our official list of America's Top 20 Military Spouse-Friendly Employers for 2012!
Welcome to Military Spouse magazine's fifth annual list of Military Spouse-Friendly Employers. We're once again putting the spotlight on companies that actively hire military spouses and work to keep them on board through the challenges of deployments and PCS moves.
Each year, we seek out the best places for military spouses to find employment, assessing these employers based on many factors. Among the most critical are these:
- Are they actively recruiting and hiring military spouses?
- What is their current percentage of military spouse employees?
- How do they approach workforce development and the retention of military spouse employees?
- Do they have policies in place to support military spouses during deployments, PCS moves and other challenges that military life can bring?
Some of the companies that rank highest in our analysis are ones that have military families as their customers. USAA, TriWest, AAFES and more: These organizations understand the rhythms of military life, and they know first-hand the impressive capability of many military spouses. They're also aware that no one can understand and serve their customers better than the customers themselves.
Others companies appearing in our Top 20 operate entirely in the civilian world. Although they may not be part of the military community, they've discovered what we've always known: Hiring military spouses is good for business. This varied and talented workforce is made up of people with experience responding quickly to change, juggling multiple responsibilities and taking obligations seriously.
Increased awareness at these organizations has eliminated old roadblocks to military spouse hiring. Companies like Sears, T-Mobile, Verizon and RE/MAX, with numerous locations nationwide, have found that moving a good employee from location to location isn't really all that complicated. Staffing firms like Adecco or Kelly Services embrace the idea of working with military spouses, many of whom find that temp assignments fits their lifestyle well.
Meaningful Change
When we began tracking Military Spouse-Friendly Employers five years ago, many companies were new to thinking of military spouses as a distinct workforce. As the years have passed, that has dramatically changed.
Last spring, the White House launched the Joining Forces initiative to bring the subject of military spouse hiring directly to America's corporations. Several months later, President Obama issued a blunt challenge to U.S. companies: Hire or train 100,000 veterans and military spouses by the end of 2013.
We are closely tracking corporate America's response to that challenge. And we will continue acknowledging the employers that understand the value of hiring military spouses and working to educate those that have yet to actively recruit from this valuable pool of talent.
On the following pages you'll find details on the companies that ranked in our Top 20. Not planning to job hunt in 2012? This list can still work for you: Read on to find our advice on preparing to enter, or perhaps to re-enter, the work force with these companies in the future.
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Wales Wildflower Day
Come to an orchid-rich hay meadow just two minutes' walk from our Seasons Restaurant.
Join artists and plant enthusiasts in being inspired by Welsh wildflowers.
• Enjoy our guided tours of butterflies, bees and flowers
• Find out how to collect wildflower seeds
• Learn how to identify wildflowers
• Get to know what's special about Welsh orchids
• Taste the health giving flavour of Welsh wildflowers
• Admire a special hay meadow stitching exhibition
• Wildflower woodturning demonstration
• Make your own wildflower inspired creation – you're welcome to bring sketchbooks, paints, needles or whatever you can use in a meadow!!
10 – 11am: Moths in the Meadow. Join moth trapper Marigold Oakley to see which moths have been feeding on our wildflowers overnight. Venue: Stables Courtyard
11- 11.30am & 2.45 – 3.15pm: Butterfly Walk through the Meadow with Deborah Sazer*
12 – 12.30pm & 3.30 – 4pm: Bee Walk through the Meadow with Clare Flynn*
1 – 1.45pm: The Orchids of Welsh National Nature Reserves with Sue Parker. Venue: Theatr Botanica
2 – 2.30pm: Wildflower Walk through the Meadow with Bruce Langridge*
*All guided tours leave from the marquee in the hay meadow (see map)
Special Extra
Help artist Martin Reed create a painting in tribute to Dylan Thomas' Under Milk Wood.


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As I'm planning items for the fall swap here in Columbus, I'm reminded of the swarms of yellow jackets we get here in the fall. They climb in the food, climb in pop cans and even stung our beloved Princess Mimi - gracious hostess.
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Andy Kuhn Archives - Robot 6 @ Comic Book Resources
As crime comics experience a resurgence, one of the genre's pioneers has been yellowing with age … but one group sketch blog is looking to bring some new attention and appreciation to the detective. Rafael Albuquerque, Andy Kuhn, Tyler Crook and other members of Ashcan All-Stars have been producing sketches to celebrate Chester Gould's Dick Tracy and have been doing it with no shortage of style or talent.
Take a look below at some of the highlights, and head to Ashcan All-Stars' website to see more as they're revealed.
Andy Kuhn RAWKs Tr!ckster with exclusive print
Firebreather artist Andy Kuhn sent over a peek at "RAWK!," his new $25 limited edition print that'll be available exclusively at the Tr!ckster store. If you're attending Comic-Con in San Diego next week, be sure to drop by Tr!ckster, the free event that will take place at the San Diego Wine and Culinary Center, to check out everything they have for sale, have a drink (with a cool glass!) and hang out with artists.
Comics A.M. | The graphic novel market, and webcomic economics
Publishing | Calvin Reid interviews Kuo-Yu Liang, vice president of sales and marketing at Diamond Book Distributors, about the state of graphic novel sales, the international market, manga and more: "I think we are entering the golden age of selling graphic novels. The demographics and the audience are both broadening. We are lucky that the core readers have stuck with us through the recession. We are finding new readers crossing over from literary, commercial, speculative and genre fiction. Non-fiction graphic novels are doing well. We're getting more kids and parents (I'll talk more about that later). I also think the growth of internet shopping has changed the game, because now it is easier than ever to find what you like to read, and get recommendation from fellow readers. The key is still good books. Without them, we don't have an industry." [Publishers Weekly]
Publishing | Heidi MacDonald spotlights BOOM! Studios, with a focus on the publisher's marketing efforts. "The secret to our success to go to the thing that other people haven't done; it isn't to go head to head against people, or trying to take their market share away or trying to duplicate their editorial style," says co-founder Ross Richie. "We've had to invent a space in the market place to exist. " [Publishers Weekly]


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Sir A. Balfour. Versailles, France.
France Heads of state. Arthur Balfour; former Prime Minister of Great Britain; exiting building; walking left; several others also stand outside. (Bearded man may be Serbia's Vesnitch.) Balfour talking to some military officer. Balfour walking down street beside tall iron fence; followed by a few British Army guys. Lloyd George & a few others walking down street; toward camera. Artist at work; painting He is mixing colours on his palette. Several portraits on stands in the studio.
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Murder Will Out September, 2013
Lynn Raimondo and Seth Harwood make their Mystery Debut this month.
A fete worse than death by Claudia Bishop
Bad Little Falls by Paul Doiron
Dante's wood: a Mark Angelotti novel by Lynne Raimondo
Gun machine by Warren Ellis
In broad daylight: a Jess Harding novel by Seth Harwood
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Look What's In Large Print: March 2012
10th anniversary by James Patterson and Maxine Paetro
Afraid of the dark [large print] by James Grippando
Heartwood [Large print]: a novel by Belva Plain
Love me if you dare [Large print] by Carly Phillips
Mar 06, 2012
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Best Mysteries of 2009
Janet Rudolph of Mystery Fanfare announced her picks for Best Mysteries of 2009. Her number one choice: Dog On It by Stephen Quinn.
Dec 22, 2009
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Suspense, Mystery, Murder
Fans of Denise Mina or Minette Walters should try:
- Mallory's Oracle by Carol O'Connell
- A Perfect Evil by Alex Kava
- Judgment Calls by Alafair Burke
- Detective Inspector Huss by Helen Tursten
- Echoes of Lies by Jo Bannister
- Dead Wrong by Mariah Stewart
- Death's Autograph by Marianne MacDonald
- Baltimore Blues by Laura Lippman
Dec 03, 2009
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Kay Scarpetta On Film
Patricia Cornwell's Kay Scarpetta mystery series is coming to the big screen. None other than Angelina Jolie will play Ms. Scarpetta. Producers Mark Gordon and Geyer Kosinski are hoping for a franchise out of Ms. Cornwell's books, though none of the films will necessarily follow the plotline of any particular tome. According to Variety,
This film won't be tied to a specific Cornwell mystery title. Much the way that Jason Bourne morphed into an action hero in plots not rigidly locked into the Robert Ludlum book series, the opera-loving coroner Scarpetta will be the lead in a suspense thriller in the vein of "The Silence of the Lambs" and "Seven."
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The actor showed off some seriously sticky armpits at a press conference in Tokyo yesterday promoting his new movie Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol.
Tom spent a good hour greeting fans at Tokyo airport and another hour signing autographs at the film's premiere, so it must have been all that mingling with his admirers that got him so hot and sweaty.
Tokyo just experienced its coldest winter day – so he can't blame this wardrobe malfunction on the weather!
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13 I can do all things in him who strengtheneth me. | 13 I can do everything through him who gives me strength. |
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From the streets of New York City to the townships of South Africa, the LGBT rights movement and its opposition are engaged in an unprecedented international battle. GlobalPost presents an ongoing series of reports from key locations at this pivotal time in history, telling highly personal, often overlooked stories from the fight.
Many countries typically seen as progressive on LGBT rights continue to mandate the practice.
STOCKHOLM, Sweden — Aleksa Lundberg remembers being 4 years old and standing by the kindergarten's wading pool. The teachers began separating the children into groups for an autumnal walk through the nearby woods, ushering boys to one side, girls to another. Lundberg remembers being unsure which side to choose.
"I knew that I was expected to join the boys, but equally I knew that I wanted to join the girls," Lundberg says.
As Lundberg moved to join the girls' side, a teacher with a tight, graying perm framing a face contorted in anger grabbed Lundberg by the wrist and "half led, half pulled" her to the group of boys, telling her firmly that this was where Lundberg belonged.
"It was my first experience of an 'authority' telling me what I could do, what I should be, and it led to what is my first memory of an anxiety attack," says Lundberg, now a popular 29-year-old actress who completed the transition from male to female when she was 18. "The silhouettes of the boys standing around me transformed into jail bars in front of my eyes."
More than two decades later, Lundberg is a dramatic voice in a larger struggle against authority — the Swedish legal requirement that people who want to officially change their sex with the government must be sterilized first. The law also forbids the freezing of sperm or eggs before corrective surgery, which effectively means transgender Swedes are barred from having biological children.
"I believed I had to give up every vestige of being male to complete the process."~Aleksa Lundberg
"Forcible sterilization" has been quietly practiced for decades in countries typically cast as progressive on LGBT rights: France, the Netherlands, Australia and a number of U.S. states still require it. Italy and Germany have just recently overturned similar legislation.
Although Swedish leaders have been talking for months about repealing the sterilization law that Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt called a "dark chapter in Swedish history," it remains on the books. The conservative Christian Democrats have doggedly opposed the repeal, arguing that sex reassignment surgery is a threat to traditional social roles. Transgender advocates like Lundberg say they are fed up with being the last of the LGBTs to win their rights.
"It infuriates me that a group of people think they have a right to tell another group of people what they can and cannot do," Lundberg says.
When she began the intensive process of changing her sex from male to female over a decade ago, Lundberg didn't give much thought to the fact that she would have to be sterilized. She was 17. But before the Swedish government would certify Lundberg as a woman, she was required to undergo a full surgical removal of her male sex organs.
Human rights groups say Lundberg has been robbed of a fundamental human ability: procreation.
"I believed I had to give up every vestige of being male to complete the process. I cried and shouted for joy when that final piece of paper dropped in the mailbox telling me that I was now legally a woman," she says.
With her fair complexion and light hair growth, Lundberg has suffered none of the stubble some other male-to-female patients endure when taking the hormone estrogen which reduces facial hair growth. A bob of glossy blonde hair crowns her tall, slim figure.
Only in recent years did she come to see the infertility requirement as a violation of her rights.
"We are not even allowed to freeze sperm. I am today fully incapable of having my own children," says Lundberg, who has not ruled out adoption if she meets the right man to start a family with.
"I was hoping as an actress to not have to talk about this topic," she says. "It became a political issue for me when I have been expected to hide the darker notes of my voice to give the appearance of being 'a normal woman,' when it became clear that it wasn't granted that every individual be allowed to be herself," says Lundberg. "That's when I decided I couldn't remain silent."
After years of hiding the fact that she had been born male, Lundberg first opened up about it four years ago. She has since launched a one-woman show called "Infestus," which chronicles her experiences as a young boy, her sex change in her late teens and life as


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