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One fall night about 10:45 p.m. last October, while driving home from adult softball games in Burlington, I stopped at the intersection of Tucker St. and Anthony Road (yes, I stop at stop signs). But an additional reason to come to a halt was a drivers check conducted by the Alamance County Sheriff's office.
Wearing my umpire's uniform and cap, I recognized a deputy wielding a flashlight to view car occupants and driver's licenses.
"What's going on?" I said to the female deputy, once a renowned softball player and currently a coach who's known me for years.
"Just checkin' drivers licenses," she said. "Been callin' games?"
"Yep," I said. "Just finished."
Now, the deputy knew me, saw my uniform, and yet I still had to produce my driver's license and show it to her.
I am not now nor never have been of Hispanic descent, can say only "Si," "No," and "No hablo Englais," wasn't disguised as a Hispanic (some players say I'm disguised as a "blue"), yet I had to show my driver's I.D. to her.
The deputies checked one line of vehicles, not two. There wasn't a special line for anyone appearing Hispanic.
Moreover, the three or four stopped drivers, including me, knew why the deputies had set up a check point — to determine if we were wearing seat belts, decide if we were substance impaired, carrying open containers, if the smell of marijuana was obvious — or if our drivers licenses were valid.
My wife and I have encountered previous road checks by ACSO deputies. It's also happened in Caswell and
But a few drivers earn citations or are arrested, I'm sure, for failure to produce a driver's license or valid I.D. I'm fairly certain a person without I.D. or a driver's license must undergo a deeper check as part of the process to determine if they're a
That's the profiling done by ACSO law-enforcement officers and their brothers and sisters across the state.
But drivers or illegals caught behind the wheel without a legal license or any I.D. often must pay the piper. However, like softball players called out who think they should've been judged safe, they'll squawk — or fans in the stands will yell in support.
That appears to be the major similarity between softball players and DOJ officials, although often teammates of a complaining player will tell him to "Just shut up; you were out."
The serious (and expensive to local taxpayers) legal threats raised by DOJ officials who allege the Alamance County sheriff directed his field officers to engage in a pattern of discriminatory traffic stops because a number of citations were written to Hispanics is confusing since the figure I heard on a news show was the ACSO was 10-for-10 in issuing citations to illegals who later claimed they were profiled. Explain, please, how an illegal has precedence to complain, once caught without documents, he was apprehended in the first place?
Extending the DOJ/ACLU logic, if an officer stops a car for speeding and finds a kidnap victim bound and gagged in the back seat or a bomb with a message taped to the side that reads: "Revenge on Alamance County courthouse, judges and lawyers," the officer may only write a speeding citation but must send the driver/kidnapper/mad bomber on his merry way because the officer originally wasn't looking for a kidnap victim or bomb.
What's strange is of all agencies the DOJ should know the exclusionary rule to the 4th Amendment gives law enforcement officers the right to cite or arrest someone for illegal activity other than what's originally being investigated (i.e., a license check turns into an illegal alien bust).
But then the current U.S. Department of Justice is headed by Obama appointee Eric Holder, who has his own history of questionable decisions ("Fast and Furious" gun-running fiasco, contempt of Congress charge, etc.).
I think Time-News editor Madison Taylor was correct in his Sept. 23 column — Holder's DOJ may have profiled Terry Johnson for being white, male and Southern while enforcing the laws of the land.
Craig Holt is a free-lance writer who lives in Snow Camp.


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When anyone talks about football dynasties in Mississippi, three teams usually come up in conversation. South Panola (8), Louisville (7) and West Point (6) combined boast 21 state championships since 1981.
Last December, the 5A state championship between the Green Wave and Wayne County featured nine titles between the two teams. Wayne County won its third ring in 2006.
By Bryan Davis
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When anyone talks about football dynasties in Mississippi, three teams usually come up in conversation. South Panola (8), Louisville (7) and West Point (6) combined boast 21 state championships since 1981.
Last December, the 5A state championship between the Green Wave and Wayne County featured nine titles between the two teams. Wayne County won its third ring in 2006.
It's not at all uncommon for state championship games to feature mainstay powerhouses, packed with grid iron tradition. West Point's last two championships were won against Wayne County, a frequent visitor to Jackson.
In 2010, however, the bout for the 5A state title will be one fought between the well established culture of West Point playoff football and the growing tradition of the Brookhaven Panthers.
The Green Wave championship story dates back almost three decades to the year 1982. The fledgling classification system in Mississippi high school sports was merely a year old. West Point was classified in the AA football class. The Green Wave team defeated Gulfport High School for the first of what would eventually be half a dozen state titles over the next 28 years.
West Point would win the title game in three consecutive seasons spanning 1987, 1988 and 1989. The first two were 4A titles, while the latter was the team's first 5A championship. They reached the game in 1986, but finished runners-up.
The Green Wave would have to wait another 16 years before they would emerge victorious over the 5A class again.
The 2002 season saw the Green Wave return to the title game, but Wayne County came out on top. In 2005, they defeated Wayne County for title No. 5. One year ago, the Green Wave rolled over Wayne County again for the sixth.
Currently, West Point is enjoying its tenth straight season in the playoffs. In those 10 years, they have two state titles and four North Half titles.
When West Point arrives at Veterans Memorial Stadium in Jackson on Saturday, they'll be on the other side of the field from a Brookhaven team that is trying to establish itself as a yearly state title contender.
In 2004, head coach Tucker Peavy's (nine years head coach at Brookhaven) Panthers took home the 4A state title, the school's first ever. Over a seven-year stretch, Peavy has guided the Panthers to the post-season.
Brookhaven has won its district in 2003, 2004, 2007 and tied for the title in 2006.
Since 2003, 11 Panthers have been selected to play in the Mississippi/Alabama All-Star Game, and 20 of Brookhaven's players have gone on to receive college scholarships to play.
Brookhaven breezed through the first round of the 2010 playoffs at Long Beach. The following week, they faced off against last year's runners-up, Wayne County, and they won by a touchdown to proceed to round three against undefeated West Jones.
The Panthers proved they were no fluke when they slipped past the West Jones team 27-26, advancing to Saturday's game.
Now that the 5A title is down to two teams, neither side will be thinking about traditions at kickoff.
West Point will be playing an entirely new opponent this year. Thoughts of 2009 and the other five years of championship football won't matter inside regulation.
Brookhaven will be trying to nail down title No. 2 for their school. There will be plenty of time for talk of tradition and dynasty later.
That talk can start when the buzzer sounds to end the game, whether in regulation or overtime.
However Saturday's game turns out, nothing will detract from either team's quest to establish or continue its football tradition.
West Point's been there eight times and has won six. This is Brookhaven's second trip to the most coveted game in high school football.
Any talk of an underdog can be thrown out. Both teams will exit the field powerhouses.
West Point will always have the longer history in championship football, but the Panthers are currently making history.


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The Springboks will play Argentina in their first game of next year's Rugby Championship, the four-team southern-hemisphere tournament replacing the existing Tri-Nations.
An agreement confirming Argentina's participation was signed in Auckland recently by the Sanzar Joint Venture partners after several months of negotiations with the Unión Argentina de Rugby (UAR) and the International Rugby Board (IRB).
The new-look tournament has been given a new name and a new fixture line-up with two Tests on each match day. Each participant plays home and away matches against each of the other three participants.
The Boks open their campaign against the Pumas in South Africa on 18 August before taking part in the first Rugby Championship match on the South American continent a week later. The match venues will be announced in due course.
'The regular participation of Argentina at a higher level is long overdue and we are excited about their inclusion in The Rugby Championship,' said Sanzar CEO Greg Peters, 'Playing in the Championship will have significant benefits for Argentinian rugby as a whole and will bring new energy to the jewel in the crown of Sanzar.
'The Pumas, as they showed at the recent Rugby World Cup, play an exciting and different brand of rugby to the other three teams, which will definitely add a new dimension.'
According to a statement by Sanzar, the new name of the Rugby Championship reflects its claim to be the ultimate contest, featuring teams that are currently ranked first, second, fourth and seventh in the world.
'The Rugby Championship is an annual contest between the 'best-of-the-best' in world rugby – nations who have won six of the seven Rugby World Cups,' said Peters.
Saru CEO Jurie Roux said he hopes these changes will result in a more balanced tournament. In the past, South Africa has suffered because of travel.
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Israel 'walks like an Egyptian' but protests like a bourgeois Zionist
By Seraj Assi
Nearly three weeks ago angry young residents of Tel Aviv took to the streets to protest soaring housing prices. The protests have rapidly reached different sectors of the Israeli society. The Israeli media has propagated the event as a glorious democratic manifestation, while Western media rushed to compare it to the people revolutions in neighboring Arab countries.
Yet it must be recalled that by far the Tel Aviv protests are taking place within the Zionist consensus. For many Arab citizens, the protests are widely seen as a bourgeois distributional conflict over Zionist colonial spoils. No wonder the protests are directed against high housing prices per se rather than against the founding policies and fundamental causes behind the crisis.
We should remember that the real victims of the state's housing policies are not the middle-class Jewish Israelis longing for the exclusive and luxurious privileges offered by the Tel Aviv center. They are the poor Arab residents of Jaffa who have been pushed out of the city by decades of ethnic gentrification, urban exclusion and alienation.
In the meantime, the Israeli media reports the event as if the Arab population, the real victims of the state's economic policies, does not exist. The real narrative- the dispossession, the disempowerment, the unrelenting daily grind of injustice and discrimination, and the daily violation of human rights and dignity - does not fit into the format of the Israeli media's agenda.
When a year ago Arab residents of Jaffa took to the Ajami neighborhood to protest the new housing plan designed exclusively for Zionist-Jews, known as Be'emuna Jews-Only housing project, they were dismissed as subversives to the state's Jewish character. When they later marched to Jerusalem to demonstrate ahead of the High Court hearing over the project, they were widely presented as a punch of unruly Arabs. Requests and petitions by Ajami residents to stop work in the project have been unanimously dismissed by the Tel Aviv District Court and the High Court of Justice.
While the shortage of housing had been threatening Arab residents of Jaffa for decades, the Israel Lands Administration gave itself a right to sell public land to a construction company devoted to pushing Arab residents out of the city. Nothing has been done to stop Bemuna's attempts to dilute Arab neighborhoods by moving in religious Zionist Jews at the expense of local residents. Nor to address Be'emuna's repeated racist statements, discriminatory marketing methods and housing policies. The "domino effect" of the project has instead brought more and more racist housing projects to Jaffa.
The process of internal occupation of Arab lands is by no means confined to Jaffa. Judaization is expanding all over the country from the Negev region in the South down to the Galilee in the North, including the Arab Triangle in the center, and the major mixed cities of Haifa, Acre and Jerusalem. Policies of transfer, dislocation, land expropriation and housing demolition continue uninterrupted. Statics show that over the past few decades, Arab lands in Israel were rapidly diminished from nearly 19.5 million dunams (in 1947) to only 404 thousand dunams (in 2005). At the same time, Jewish settlements inside Israel has grown from 317 to 907, and they now constitute 96 percent of the country territory.
Moreover, we have not seen a single protest against the wave of fascist and racist laws directed against the Arab population, starting from the Nakba law through the loyalty law, and multiple bills regulating admission to "Jews-only" communities. Protests by Arab residents were rather rooted out by state violence and widely condemned by the Israeli society. Only when the state's economic policies began to threaten the narrow interests of the White Ashkenazi society did they draw attention and media coverage.
It can be argued that bourgeois Israeli Jews are now paying the prize that Arabs in Israel have been paying for decades. But we should remember that soaring housing prices in Tel Aviv are themselves the outcome of the racist policies that were originally designed to prevent Arabs and other poor Jewish communities from approaching the city center. We should also remember that those middle-class Israeli yuppies that came to live in Jaffa for an "oriental" experience are no less responsible for turning Jaffa into a fashionable neighborhood and making prices unaffordable for the local Arab residents.
The dirty secret of the Tel Aviv protests is that the bulk of those middle-class Ashkenazi protestors are moved by a racist hysteria. They are simply afraid of being moved to the city peripheries and the far less fashionable parts of the country. For when they complain that they only feel at home in Tel Aviv, they explicitly express a racist desire to stay away from the development towns and neighborhoods populated by Arabs, poor Mizrahi and Ethiopian Jews.
This should not be taken as an invitation for a common struggle between Arabs and poor Mizrahi, Ethiopian and Russian Jews. Nor should it let us forget that the struggle of Arab Palestinians with the state cannot be simply reduced from a struggle over land and existence to class and civil struggles. Indeed, nothing is more ironic than to see Arabs protesting against high housing prizes in Tel Aviv as if they were allowed to live in Tel Aviv at all.
Calls for Bedouins from the unrecognized villages of the Negev to join the protests are quite revealing here. For we know very well that the struggle of these Bedouin communities is primarily against the state not the government. Not surprisingly Israel is now suing Bedouin of al-Arakib village (which has been recently destroyed by the state more than twenty times) for NIS 1.8m for "illegal invasions" of state lands and "destruction expenses".
The struggle of Palestinians in Israel cannot be separate from politics colonization, ethnic discrimination and racism. That is to say that Palestinians in Israel have not to join the protests so much as to make sure they formulate their own struggle away from the Tel Aviv bourgeois protests that are now taking on racist Zionist formulations and being joined by racist settler movements like Yesha Council and Im Tirzu.
We are running out of time. Even as we speak, the circle of internal colonization is closing up. Palestinians in Israel should be fully aware that their struggle cannot be formulated within the Zionist framework, but only outside of it.
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Regime threatens violence against tent-camp protesters. Regime uses violence against Palestinian protesters. Need to set up tent-camps all over the country. In each tent camp, need to set up defense committees. Defend the tent camps! Defend the right to a home! The people demand social justice! The people demand a state of all its citizens! The people demand an end to the stormtrooper regime! Solidarity against the stormtrooper regime! Freedom for Palestine! Social justice for all! A home for all! Solidarity now!
so much disinformation. First, be aware that Arab Israelis are better off in Israel than Arabs are in any other neighboring country - economically, housing, safety, rights, and general well being. Second, the current protest is very focused and this time it is not (for a change) about the occupation. Third, colonialism is a term describing a nation which keeps colonies outside of its proper boundary. In the case of Israel and the territories it occupied from the Kingdom of Jordan during the 1967 in which Jordan and 6 other Arab nations unsuccessfully tried again to destroy the newly established state of Israel, this is not colonialism: there are no colonies governed by a distant nation. There never was a Palestinian state, and the only chance for one to be created is if Israel creates it, hoping it does not turn into another police state ruled by an iron fist of a monarch or a derelict general, with no rights to its citizens but the right to be bitten and killed by their Arab brothers, in mosques, hospitals and cemeteries like every single Arab state in the region. It is always amazing to see the solidarity between Arabs - how 1000's of unarmed civilians are killed over months in most gruesome ways by fellow Arab brothers and hardly a word of criticism is heard. I really feel sorry for these guys. Imagine what will this blog would read like, as well as world media, if a single frame of these atrocities we see in 1000s of videos coming out of Syria for 3 months now - was showing Israelis. hypocrisy seems to be inherent in the Arab point of view
YESS! Thank you Seraj!
But FYI, as one of the Palestinian protesters in TLV know that the Irony does not surpass me. I did not think for a second that the protests are in any shape or form about my rights in Jaffa and the REAL housing crisis in Jaffa where 700 hundred Palestinian families are under threat of demolition and evacuation. My presence in Rotchild was meant to serve as a reminder that there can NEVER be social justice while Israel continues to suck the blood of another nation. Israelis have to know that they have it GOOD in TLV and yeah rent and sushi prices may be high but better high rent and sushi prices than no access to water, living in camps, having limited freedom of movement and the constant physical danger of being an occupied people under a brutal army.


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A Canadian man bitten by a venomous viper while vacationing in Costa Rica was saved by antivenin from Seattle s Woodland Park Zoo.
The Zoo said Friday that 61-year-old Michael Lovatt from Roberts Creek, B.C., didn t know the snake that bit him was a viper. When he returned to Vancouver Monday, he went to the hospital where he was diagnosed with kidney failure. He also was bleeding and had swelling from his foot to his mid-thigh.
A medical team worked around the clock to figure out what type of snake bit the man. The symptoms pointed to a Fer-de-lance Bothrops asper, native to Central and South America, which is known to cause death in humans.
Doctors contacted Woodland Park Zoo and Harborview Medical Center Tuesday. Twenty vials of antivenin, kept by the zoo for emergencies for a Mexican species of pit vipers, were airlifted to Vancouver.
The man s condition improved within minutes of receiving the antivenin and his condition stabilized within six hours. Without the work of the doctors and the zoo, medical experts said the man would have died.
Receiving the call for help was quite a harrowing experience, said zoo curator Mark Myers in a statement. I was relieved to hear that he improved within minutes and that we played a life-saving role.
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Loyola saves heart attack patient with super-fast balloon angioplasty
Loyola saves heart attack patient with super-fast balloon angioplasty
When 45-year-old Bobbie Jeske arrived at Loyola's ER with a massive, life-threatening heart attack, it took Dr. Fred Leya just 15 minutes to perform an emergency balloon angioplasty.
The procedure opened up a major heart artery that was completely blocked, effectively stopping Jeske's heart attack in its tracks. Fifteen minutes is one of the fastest - if not the fastest - "door-to-balloon" times for any Chicago-area hospital. And because of this fast response, a heart attack that could have been fatal wound up causing virtually no damage to Jeske's heart.
Hospitals around the country are striving to save heart attack patients by reducing their ER door-to-balloon times to 90 minutes or less. Loyola University Medical Center has helped lead the way by launching a Heart Attack Rapid Response Team (HARRT). Loyola is the first hospital in Illinois to have an interventional cardiologist and other members of the response team at the hospital 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
"Mrs. Jeske's case is a textbook example of how the HARRT program can save hearts and lives," said Leya, director of Loyola's Cardiac Catheterization Lab. The case also illustrates the critical role of paramedics. Northlake Fire Protection District paramedics performed an EKG and called ahead to Loyola, putting the HARRT team on alert.
"Northlake EMS did a terrific job, and they deserve much of the credit for this great patient outcome," said Dr. Mark Cichon, medical director of Loyola's Emergency Department.
On the morning of Aug. 11, Jeske went outside her Northlake home to fix a fence. After swinging a hammer twice, she felt a terrific pain in her left arm. Her throat was on fire and she broke out in a cold, clammy sweat. Jeske, who has four children, said her arm hurt as much as labor pain. She called her mother, who rushed over and called 911.
Paramedics Brenda Farlow and Brian Houdek did a 12-lead EKG, which indicated Jeske was having a heart attack. (Northlake is among the growing number of EMS districts that are equipping ambulances with sophisticated 12-lead EKG machines.) Following protocols, Farlow then gave Jeske aspirin, nitroglycerin and morphine, and called Loyola saying they were en route with a cardiac patient.
Farlow and Houdek rushed Jeske into the ambulance and turned on the flashing lights and sirens. They activated a strobe light that turned traffic lights green, enabling them to cover the 7½ mile trip to Loyola in 12 minutes, without exceeding speed limits.
The HARRT team was waiting at the ER door. Team members read the EKG readout, confirmed Jeske was having a heart attack and rushed her to the cardiac catheterization lab on the ambulance's wheeled stretcher.
Jeske's right coronary artery was 100 percent blocked. Leya threaded a catheter (thin tube) from an artery in Jeske's groin up to her heart. When the catheter reached the blockage, Leya inflated a balloon at the tip of the catheter to open the artery. He then placed a stent (wire mesh tube) to keep the artery open.
The effect was dramatic. Within a few minutes, Jeske's pain subsided and her color returned.
"They were fast, and they all knew what they were doing," Jeske said.
During a heart attack, a blockage in an artery stops blood flow. Heart muscle begins to die due to a lack of blood and oxygen. An emergency angioplasty can reopen a blocked artery and restore blood flow. The procedure does the most good if done within one hour of the patient's arrival, known as the Golden Hour. After three hours, there may not be enough benefit to justify the risks of the procedure.
"Time is heart muscle," Leya said. "The sooner we can open the artery, the better."
A task force of the American College of Cardiology and American Heart Association recommends that a patient undergoing a heart attack receive a balloon angioplasty as soon as possible or at least within 90 minutes of arriving at the hospital. Speed "is of central importance," the task force said in a November 2008 statement.
Loyola's HARRT team, launched in 2009, far exceeds that standard, with a median door-to-balloon time of 46 minutes. One hundred percent of Loyola cases meet the 90-minute guideline and more than 85 percent are done in less than 60 minutes.
"These results are a testament to the entire team at Loyola," said HARRT co-director Dr. John Lopez. "These are results that any hospital in the United States would love to replicate." Jeske has made a full recovery and has returned to her school district jobs as a bus driver, custodian and supervisor in the lunchroom and after school.
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The North Carolina toddler is the first U.S. child to receive the implant, and video of him hearing his father say "Daddy loves you," has spread across the internet.
Clamp was born without a cochlear nerve, which connects the auditory portion of the inner ear to the brain. But a cochlear implant, which has been successful for others, did nothing for him.
Grayson's adoptive parents, Len and Nicole, enrolled Grayson in the ongoing FDA trial for the "miracle device."
University of North Carolina doctors implanted the microchip inside the boy's brain, and it helps him process and recognize sounds that travel through tubes to his ear.
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A candidate for New Bern mayor in the November runoff election is being accused by his challenger's son and committee treasurer of noncompliance with campaign finance reporting.
Richard Bengel, treasurer for his mother Sabrina Bengel's mayoral campaign, issued a complaint to the Craven County Board of Elections about Dana Outlaw's campaign finance reporting.
Outlaw, who spent less money than Bengel in the October election but ran a close second to her, is challenging her in the Nov. 5 runoff.
Bengel spent $36,948.79 from $37,650 raised in contributions, while in comparison Outlaw spent $3,920.29, according to Craven County Board of Election records.
Richard Bengel said, "While submitting campaign finance reports, I noticed numerous critical omissions from Mr. Outlaw's campaign finance reports."
Bengel called the omissions "serious violations" and said he believes his candidate can not run a successful campaign if her opponent does not following the rules.
The complaint alleged 18 omissions in disclosure of reports, disbursements, and contributions, some of which included not stamping the date to statements that were submitted, no identification number on the disclosure page, no detailed summary, credit card statements submitted with campaign finance reports that "contained personal, business and campaign expenses," the name of the candidate and not the committee listed under the Committee Information sections, and purchase amounts greater than the amount of money in the account.
Outlaw said in an email Wednesday he was aware of the complaint and would turn in his complete and amended reports Thursday.
"This is a Bengel for Mayor divide and conquer maneuver and I will not dignify it with any further comment other than we strive and will continue to endeavor to be in full compliance with Craven County Board of Elections requirements," Outlaw said.
Sheryll Harris, compliance specialist with the State Board of Elections, said Bengel's complaints are under review.
"We do have a complaint and we are reviewing it and expecting the reports to be amended this week," Harris said Wednesday. "…The biggest thing that I see is a lot of omissions. The information is not complete."
Harris said it wasn't unusual to have campaign finance reports that need amending; and she did not know if the reporting omissions could have been in part done because there was no director of the Craven County Board of Elections when campaign finance reports started coming in during the October campaign.
Meloni Wray became director of the Craven County Board of Elections Aug. 28 and prior to that there was no audit of the October election campaign finance statements, and some reports could still be out.
"In discussions with the state board, I have said a director was not present when the reports started coming in," Wray said. "Everyone was learning as they went along. That is why there was not an audit (of campaign finance reports) immediately. But we are doing that now and we have requested training from the state board."
Harris said the campaign finance statements are audited on the county level before going to the State Board of Elections and in New Bern they were not audited as quickly as they might have been if a director had been in place at the beginning of the campaign. The election board staff was also in the middle of an election campaign, she said.
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Unfortunately our post war society has been way too eager to shrug these people off as "evil" to actually learn something important from this tragedy. Until we acknowledge that any one of us could had been herding people into the gas chambers, had we been brought up there, and believed what they believed, we will never prevent it from happening again.
I agree with you there, 100%. Although, as you say, we're probably in the minority to hold this opinion.
Before we agree to disagree on the topic of morality vis-à-vis intentions and behavior, let me ask one last question: Do you think morality should have utility? Is it something we should be able to apply in real life as a means to some (for now, unidentified) goal, or is it best left as a purely theoretical construct?
But if the day would come where we had to level the entire middle east with nukes, or see the free world leveled. It would not take me a moment of hesitation to press the red button. No matter how horrible the results and how many innocent deaths. But again, that suggests it is the only option left.
I don't think we're so far apart on this. It's just a matter of you coming to terms with the fact that we're a lot closer to running out of options than you think.
Of course, that has very little to with Islam in my opinion though and very much to do with social structure.
I think its obvious, Christianity was the same once as Islam is now. Its fairly easy to be unconvinced by reasoning if you live in a place where you don't receive any criticism for believing nonsense. Secular society has forces Christianity to where it is today. Now, ask yourself the question, from where we stand today. Would it had been a good idea to nuke Medieval Europe?
Harris adresses this exact issue in The End of Faith. "...The world is filled with poor, uneducated, and exploited peoples who do not commit acts of terrorism of the sort that has become so commonplace among Muslims; and the Muslim world has no shortage of educated and prosperous men and women, suffering little more than their infatuation with Koranic eschatology, who are eager to murder infidels for God's sake." (Chapter 4, The Problem with Islam.) Attributing the behavior of Islamic terrorists to their social structure doesn't hold up in the face of these facts.
If Medieval Europe had had nuclear weapons, I think it's safe to say we would be extinct. Now, with Islam, we're dealing with that same, Medieval European mentality.


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TAMPA, FL - The Pfeiffer men's basketball team (3-7) fell to a tough Eckerd (6-4) team by a final score of 85-68 in the opener of the University of Tampa Tournament. The Tritons had five players score in double figures, led by 21 points from Josh Snodgrass, who went 7-for-9 from the field. Freshman Mike Smith, Conference Carolinas leading scorer at 25.7 points per game, had 24 points, his ninth straight game scoring over 20 points. Sophomore forward David McNair also continued his strong play posting a double-double with 14 points and 10 rebounds, his third consecutive game with double digit rebounds.
AJ Clark added 15 points for the Falcons and Matt Ellwood grabbed nine boards.
Alex Bodney had 17 points for Eckerd and Malcom Brunner Jr. had 14 points and eight rebounds. Forward Ray Darnell finished with eight points, 11 rebounds and five assists for Eckerd who shot 50.9 percent from the field.
The game was tight for the first 30 minutes of the game and a bucket in the lane from Silvere Aluko cut the lead to 52-47 at the 11:20 mark of the second half. However, Eckerd would outscore the Falcons 33-21 the rest of the way to secure the victory.
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To detect, quantify, and occasionally monitor drugs that are causing acute overdose symptoms; results from emergency and overdose testing are used primarily for treatment purposes. If results are needed for legal proceedings, then specific legal (forensic) procedures must be followed for sample collection, storage, and testing.
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What is being tested?
A variety of prescription and over-the-counter (OTC) medications, illegal drugs, and household substances can cause drug overdoses. Emergency and overdose drug testing is ordered for single drugs or groups of drugs by an emergency room (ER) doctor to detect, evaluate, and monitor a drug overdose.
Drugs and related substances that are ingested or absorbed are typically broken down (metabolized) by the liver over a period of time and then eliminated from the body, primarily in the urine. The rate at which this happens depends on a number of factors ranging from age, weight and sex to food intake and presence of underlying diseases. Moreover, the development of toxicity depends on the type of substance absorbed or ingested.
Some substances cause symptoms only if they are present in high concentrations or above therapeutic levels. Some common examples of these include:
- Acetaminophen—an ingredient in many over-the-counter preparations; it can cause significant liver damage if recommended doses are exceeded.
- Aspirin (also known as salicylates)—at higher levels, it can cause an acid-base imbalance.
- Therapeutic drugs—used to treat conditions such as heart failure and epilepsy
Some substances can cause symptoms at both low and high concentrations depending on the user. Long-term users of drugs such as alcohol and illegal drugs (drugs of abuse) may be able to tolerate more drug than someone who is taking it for the first time.
Other substances are toxic at any concentration and some have toxic break-down products (metabolites). Examples include:
- Toxic alcohols, including methanol and isopropanol
- Ethylene glycol (antifreeze)
Ingestion of a variety of other drugs and chemicals may cause acute toxicity. This article is limited to the drugs and a few other substances more commonly tested for in the clinical laboratory. Some of the various general categories of substances that may be tested are listed below:
Prescription and over-the-counter (OTC) medications
Overdoses caused by prescription and OTC drugs may be due to:
- Ingestion of too much of a medication
- Interaction of multiple drugs
- A decrease in the body's ability to eliminate a drug and/or its metabolite. Many drugs are processed by the liver; that is, the liver changes the drug into a different form, which is then eliminated from the body. If the liver or kidneys are not working properly, then the drug and/or its metabolite may build up in the body.
A classic example of an OTC drug with a toxic metabolite is acetaminophen, a common pain reliever that is also a component of a variety of other OTC and prescription medicines. One of the metabolites of acetaminophen is toxic to the liver, but the liver is able to detoxify "normal" amounts of it. However, if someone takes more acetaminophen than the liver can process, then the toxic metabolite builds up, damaging the liver and, in some cases, causing liver failure.
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Overdoses of illegal drugs can also occur. The illicit drugs encountered in the ER depend on their prevalence in the community and whether these substances cause acute symptoms alone or in combination with other substances. Some drugs of abuse are "diverted" prescription medications, such as oxycodone or amphetamine. Some drugs, such as marijuana and other cannabinoids, can linger in the body for days to weeks but rarely cause overdose symptoms. Other substances, such as gamma-hydroxybutyrate (GHB), can cause acute symptoms such as a loss of consciousness but are metabolized so rapidly that testing for them is rarely useful. For more on these, see the article on Drugs of Abuse Testing.
Household substances
There are a wide variety of household substances that may be abused or accidentally ingested. Those commonly involved in emergency drug testing include methanol, isopropyl alcohol, and ethylene glycol (antifreeze), which some people ingest as substitutes for ethanol, also known as grain alcohol. Other poisons, such as rodenticides, aerosol and cleaning products, insecticides, and heavy metals, can also have toxic effects. (For more information, see the web site of the American Association of Poison Control Centers.)
How is the sample collected for testing?
A blood sample is obtained by inserting a needle into a vein in the arm. Urine and saliva are collected in clean containers. A breath sample is collected by blowing through a tube, into an instrument.
NOTE: If undergoing medical tests makes you or someone you care for anxious, embarrassed, or even difficult to manage, you might consider reading one or more of the following articles: Coping with Test Pain, Discomfort, and Anxiety, Tips on Blood Testing, Tips to Help Children through Their Medical Tests, and Tips to Help the Elderly through Their Medical Tests.
Another article, Follow That Sample, provides a glimpse at the collection and processing of a blood sample and throat culture.
Is any test preparation needed to ensure the quality of the sample?
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The story of blues guitarist Buddy Guy as a boy, using a necktie pin as a phonograph needle to play a 78-rpm record of John Lee Hooker's "Boogie Chillin'" – by holding the pin between his teeth, no less – is one nugget in a gold mine of anecdotes in the book Guitar Masters: Intimate
Portraits (Hal Leonard Books, $29.99). Author Alan Di Perna, a Phoenix resident and senior editor of Guitar World magazine, paints vivid portraits of nine awesome ax-men, including Guy, Dick Dale, and Keith Richards, who reveals the Stones and the Beatles had "a deal between us, almost" to not put their new records out at the same time. The full-color, glossy pages include several photos – perhaps most memorably a pre-big-beard shot of ZZ Top guitarist Billy Gibbons.
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NORFOLK After months of concerns about layoffs, some good news arrived today for workers at BAE Systems Shipyard in Norfolk.
The company was awarded a $49 million contract from Naval Sea Systems Command to repair and upgrade the Navy guided missile destroyer USS Porter.
Back in February, BAE sent 'WARN' letters to 1,600 of its workers, advising that layoffs were a possibility, amid concerns over sequestration defense-cuts and the then unresolved continuing resolution for Fiscal year 2013.
The Porter was badly damaged during a collision with a large tanker in the Strait of Hormuz last year.
BAE workers said today they're hopeful this large contract will mean layoffs won't happen.
'This last couple of months, we've been struggling trying to figure out if we're going to be working during this time,' said Treyvon Davis.
'I'm very relieved,' said John Butrick. 'I've been very stressed over this whole situation. I'm just glad, relieved to be hearing something like this. Hopefully, we can keep it going for the good.'
BAE's spokesman wouldn't offer an opinion on whether the Porter contract will have an affect on layoff decisions, noting that the entire ship-repair industry is still trying to figure out what sequestration will mean in the long run.
In a statement, BAE Director of Communications John Measell said, 'We're pleased to support the Navy's mission readiness requirements by providing maintenance, repair and modernization of the USS Porter. We appreciate their confidence in our capabilities and the great work of our employees.'