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"Finally, a book that confronts the half-baked hallucinations of a drug policy gone mad. By adroitly juxtaposing the harms of marijuana and alcohol, the book shows just how badly America has overdosed on senselessly stupid marijuana propaganda and the prohibition laws it produced. If you are one of the millions of Americans who support keeping marijuana illegal but enjoy a good beer, glass of wine or cocktail now and then, I suggest you read Marijuana is Safer, rehab your mind, and get high on the facts. If, on the other hand, you already believe our marijuana laws are illogical, this book will give you hope that change is in the air — and show you how you can do your part to push it along."—David Sirota, nationally syndicated columnist and bestselling author of The Uprising and Hostile Takeover
—David Sirota, nationally syndicated columnist and bestselling author of The Uprising and Hostile Takeover
In 2012, voters in Colorado shocked the nation's political establishment by making the use of marijuana legal for anyone in the state twenty-one years of age or older.
In the wake of that unprecedented victory, nationally recognized marijuana-policy experts Steve Fox, Paul Armentano, and Mason Tvert revisit the "Marijuana Is Safer" message that contributed to the campaign's success—as the first edition of this book predicted in 2009.
This updated and expanded version of Marijuana Is Safer includes a new chapter on the Colorado victory and information about how supporters can model similar campaigns in other states, along with updates to research that supports the position that marijuana is safer than alcohol.
The authors—through an objective examination of marijuana and alcohol, and the laws and social practices that steer people toward the latter—pose a simple yet rarely considered question: Why do we punish adults who make the rational, safer choice to use marijuana instead of alcohol?
Marijuana Is Safer provides an introduction to the cannabis plant and its effects on the user, debunks some of the government's most frequently cited marijuana myths, and, most importantly, provides persuasive arguments and talking points for the millions of Americans who want to advance the cause of marijuana-policy reform and educate friends, family, coworkers, elected officials, and, of course, future voters.
Steve Fox, principal at Marijuana Strategies, is one of the leading figures in the movement to create a legal, regulated marijuana market in the United States. He is a cofounder of the National Cannabis Industry Association, which currently represents more than 250 state-legal businesses, and serves as a strategic advisor to the organization. While at the Marijuana Policy Project (MPP) from 20022013, Steve lobbied Congress and guided numerous ballot-initiative campaigns, including the Amendment 64 campaign in Colorado, which made personal possession and cultivation of marijuana legal, while establishing a regulated market for adults. In 2005, Steve conceptualized and cofounded (with ...
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Mason Tvert is the cofounder and executive director of Safer Alternative for Enjoyable Recreation (SAFER) and the SAFER Voter Education Fund. He appears frequently in the news and travels the country promoting the "Marijuana Is Safer Than Alcohol" message. He resides in Denver, where he serves on the city's Marijuana Policy Review Panel appointed by Mayor John W. Hickenlooper.
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Paul Armentano is the deputy director of NORML (The National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws) and the NORML Foundation. A recognized national expert in marijuana policy, health, and pharmacology, he has spoken at dozens of national conferences and legal seminars and has testified before state legislatures and federal agencies. He appears regularly on Drew Pinsky's nationally syndicated radio show, Dr. Drew Live, and his work has appeared in over 500 publications. Armentano is the 2008 recipient of the Project Censored Real News Award for Outstanding Investigative Journalism. He currently lives in California with his wife ...
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- After the birth of my son, a social worker visited me in my hospital room to discuss my "situation" (being bipolar). Not only was she she rude to my family who was visiting me and to my husband (she told him he was not allowed to be in the room during our discussion) but she was also hurtful and rude to me. She began by going on a rant about how bipolar women are more likely to suffer from Post Partum Depression and hurt their babies and that she was there to monitor my mood and feelings at the time. I tild her I was overjoyed at the birth of my son and that I felt great but she kept going on and on about me wanting to hurt him and asking me if my stress level was elevated and how I was going to handle it. I responded, look lady, you don't know me or my case and I am highly offended of you coming in my hospital room, a day after my C-Section, and while I am breastfeeding my son and accuse me of trying to hurt him. She said it was "standard procedure" in dealing with mentally ill?
- —Guest Mel
I'm not a stray animal. I have bipolarII
- My family are Republicans...Fake Christians.. They don't stop and think about anything pertaining to the fact that I happen to be a part of the family, and yes, I have Bipolar II...and am disabled due to that. They gloat about how the Republicans are going to end the assistance I need to survive...It's as if they are saying that I have no value, that I'm a parasite or freak of nature that needs to be killed off...because I DARE to "steal" from them via my SSI and medicaid.... I recently lost my temper and unloaded on them on face book, making it VERY clear where I stood and how I felt....hatred...extreme mistrust...endangered..and they still don't get it...I give up! NO more... Please, for the love of God, treat people with Bipolar like we're human beings...NOT stray animals to be starved to death and killed off because we 'inconvenience and burden' you...
- —Guest Nita
How can...
- How can they take a child away for such a thing? I personally see it as the person is admitting and taking control. They are going to the doctor to be treated taking their daily meds. Society has drug addicts, DUI's, criminals and worse that have custody or at least some joint.
- —Guest Jade/Guestmum
Security clearance and stigma
- in the past i have held higher levels of security clearances. when my bipolar started to skyrocket and come more and more my wife left me before i was properly diagnosed. even then my meds were all wrong and i knew it. even as my psychiatrist signed off that i was ok, the department turned against me on days when my clearance had a decision point. they drove to confusion and then full scale paranoia that just kept getting growing with my bipolar swings. they did this on several occasions, without any hope of me trying to manage it because i was still on the wrong meds. bottom line: be careful as even if someone doesn't know you have bipolar the may do these tactics to attack you indirectly or force you out.
- —Guest anonymous
bipolar people are not insane
- i have been told bipolar people are insane i live in halifax co, va with a lot of drug addicts and crooked cops, ive been been beaten but cause im bipolar i get no help. its sickening, when ive reported drug dealers time after time, and have proof but yet im the most hurtful thing ive been told is bipolar people are insane, also will you kill someone. and the worst thing i live in halifax co, va and when i reported my tires being cut to the police someone had the nerve to say i cut them myself to get attention becuase they were dating the fool who cut my tires. so sad. then when i was going to dr truitt i broke down in group and was crying and told how someone pulled a gun on me and threatened to target practice on me. they called the police not me and the officer was so rude to me, his name i want say but his initials are s.g. so many crooked police officers here not funny. im not crazy im just tried of all this mess. i reported this all to jeff oakes guess what crazy.
- —Guest tammy
I don't see anything so it doesn't exist
- I find it very hard to discuss what goes on in my brain knowing that others will reject it and say it's a phase. 10 years I've wasted asking my parents for psychological help, as they told me "Shrinks just want your money, they don't know you more than we do, and you're fine. You do well in school and sports. We have plenty of money. Nothing's wrong with you." Then years of suicidal ideology and failure to launch so to speak. My parents and friends said God made me this way, and medicine would harm his will. The meek shall inherit the Earth, right? I'm still having a hard time getting non-psychiatrists to accept my decision to go on Lithium and Lamictal and ween off of Paxil, which made me gain 100 pounds, and boy people notice and lose interest in you after about 50 pounds. I told my parents I stopped taking medication and they have never been more proud of my "recovery and self-reliance." My old friends now love my new body and wish we kept in touch.
- —Guest unbelievable
worst thing said about my BP illness
- My former stepdaughter won't associate with me because she says I'm unstable and a danger to her, her husband, and her children!
- —Rachetlm
what is "normal" about mental illness?
- I have been hurt, shocked, and appalled at responses to my mental illness! I have found people who respond badly hearing my diagnoses are scared or lacking knowledge. I don't know who set the standards for so called "NORMAL" but I am sure of one thing bet they had some form of paranoia!! We may all be mentally ill the people who scare me are the ones who won't admit it and are "bullies". Please know if you read this you are not alone...and the word "NORMAL" hopefully will make you smile...:D
- —Guest askingno1
your son doesnt even want to be seen w/
- ...you. my husband said that after I raised my voice to him. It was NOT a manic phase. I was diagnosed after we had been together 6 years. I don't think he will ever forgive me for things I did/said back then. I have been stable on lithium for 12 years and I am SICK of apologizing for things I did back when I was not in control. That was a different me then - the woman who slept 20 hours a day, or painted/wrote all night long. The one who could not get dressed so just sat in her closet and cried.
- —Guest mj7115
"You can do better" -- continued
- Bipolar disorder is known to have an effect on motivation, and that's what was being pinned down. I never got an opportunity to prove that I would hold to my word, even though my word is the most valuable thing I've ever given anyone. I asked if I could play a solo in the spring concert of my senior year--I'm a violinist--and she said, "If you really think you can do it. Personally, I don't think you will." Well f**ck you, bitch. The plan started out being that I would play the solo with the chamber orchestra backing me. But I didn't start really polishing my sound until there were about two months left until the concert. That was apparently just enough time for her to pull the rug out from under me and say, "I'm not going to make the orchestra work for something that's not going to happen. If you want to do it with a pianist, that's fine with me, but you're not wasting my time." Well, I learned the solo, and played it brilliantly, with an amazing pianist. I won.
- —Guest Peter Keegan
"You can do better"
- I was recently diagnosed with bipolar disorder. I had a manic episode in my second semester of college and they had to take me out. Anyway, since about seventh grade--when I first began having symptoms--my academic performance has been declining, even though I have the ability to understand the material in the classes I take. I've been told by countless teachers, "You can do better." Sometimes they say, "If you can do this well on your test, shouldn't it be easy to do your homework?" I've heard just about everything of this nature. The most hurtful things, however, have come from my orchestra and choir teachers. I don't remember anything specific from my choir teacher, but my orchestra teacher first told me that I would get the lead part in a piece, then gave it to someone else; when I asked why I didn't get it, she said, "I don't see any evidence that you'll do it." she never gave me any chances, never gave me the benefit of the doubt. (To be continued...)
- —Guest Peter Keegan
you don't "look" bipolar.....
- The most hurtful things people say to me (quite often) are "you don't look like anything is wrong with you". Why are you getting SSDI? Or "it must be nice to get to stay home and not do anything". When I used to be an RN, and not a domesticated lunatic. They don't have a clue how bad it hurts not to be able to do what I used to do best.....
- —katatonic65
Spinal Headache
- I was hospitalized for another problem & had a spinal tap- that lead to a spinal tap.The neurologist let me go 8days b4 taking the time to roll me over 2 check my spine because "people with bipolar imagine things". During that time whenever i was raised more than 45degrees i had the worse headache of my life. My psch. came from different hospital & tried to vouch for me that i wasn't "crazy" that i was just bipolar- i have horrible lows that have lasted 2 years & highs that have last months but i don't make things up. During that time I begged every1 that came into my room to help me- including the cleaning people. I wish that i had been more careful & saw an independent Dr. for the bipolar than i wouldn't have been discriminated against. thanks for listening Good luck
- —Guest AmySmith
Dumped during diagnosis
- I was so manic I had to be hospitalized and my husband of 4 years filed for divorce when the doctor told him that I was bipolar. Saddest moment. I was alone in the psych ward of the hospital faced with the diagnoses of bipolar and instead of having a supportive husband he packed up all my things and took it to my parents house. He didnt wait for the medicine to work and refused to go to a counselor with me when I got out of the hospital. I was diagnosed at 28. That was almost 3 years ago. It devasted me.
- —Guest HippyChik80
Start being Healthy
- My wife left me and said "you need to forgive yourself, learn, and start being healthy" Oh ok sure let me just find the button for that....
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Antique Car Festival taking place May 15 at Gilford Community Church
GILFORD — The 9th Annual Antique Car Festival will be held on Thursday, May 15 in the parking lot of the Gilford Community Church at 19 Potter Hill Road in the village of Gilford. Antique cars, trucks and street rods will be on display, starting at 5 p.m.
Ellie Murphy will once again be catering a barbeque at 6 p.m. featuring pulled pork or hot dogs, baked beans, coleslaw, pasta salad, pickles/chips and brownies and cookies for dessert. Soft drinks and bottled water available, as well. The cost of the barbeque is $12 per person if paid to the church before May 12. After that, the cost will be $15 per person, which includes (limited) walk-ins on the night of the event. There is no fee to show your car.
Stop by the church office or mail your check to the Gilford Community Church, 19 Potter Hill Rd., Gilford, NH 03249. The telephone number for information is 603-524-6057.
If you have a vehicle that you would like to show, call in for a registration form. If you have entry questions, call Don Allard at 279-1070, Bill Littlefield at 528-4394 or Dennis Franciosi at 524-8384.
Raindate will be the following Thursday, May 22. Check church website for postponement information: http://www.gilfordcommunitychurch.org.
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Legal, medical, education notables to be honored at PSU commencement
PLYMOUTH — Plymouth State University's 143rd Commencement ceremony May 17 will feature honorary award recipients with significant achievements in the fields of law, medicine, and education.
Plymouth State alumnus Stephen J. Sedensky III, '80, the commencement speaker, is a nationally recognized child abuse prosecutor; Hugh Herr of M.I.T. is one of the world's leading bionic limb researchers; and Stephen J. Reno is executive director of Leadership New Hampshire. PSU President Sara Jayne Steen said the three guests share a common value: a commitment to excellence.
"These are creative and vibrant role models for our graduates," Steen said. "Each has applied energy, intellect, and innovation to make a genuine difference in the world, and each is an inspiration to us all."
Sedensky will receive an honorary Doctor of Laws degree. After graduating with a bachelor's in Business Administration from Plymouth State in 1980, Sedensky attended law school and has had a successful career as a prosecutor in his native Connecticut, where he is the State's Attorney for the Judicial District of Danbury. He has lectured and been recognized nationally as a child abuse prosecutor and championed the adoption by Connecticut of a training program in which child abuse professionals are taught child interviewing and investigation skills. He also has been recognized as an ethical and influential leader in the legal profession. Sedensky said he is grateful for the opportunity to address the PSU Class of 2014.
"I am truly touched and honored," said Sedensky. "My education and experiences while at Plymouth State have had a tremendous influence on my life, and I always look back fondly on that time. I am looking forward to returning to campus and attending and participating in the graduation ceremony."
Hugh Herr will receive an honorary Doctor of Science degree. Herr leads the Biomechatronics research group at the MIT Media Lab, creating bionic limbs that emulate the function of natural limbs and allow recipients to perform normal activities, even to succeed as athletes. In 2011, TIME magazine described Herr as the "Leader of the Bionic Age" because of work that marries human physiology with electromechanics. Herr lost both legs in a climbing accident in the White Mountains 30 years ago; he has designed his own bionic legs, the world's first bionic foot and calf system called the BiOM. Herr has been widely recognized for his achivements.
"I am deeply touched to be the recipient of an honorary doctorate from Plymouth State University," Herr said. "PSU is a great university, and receiving this doctorate is indeed a tremendous honor."
Stephen J. Reno will receive the Granite State Award for exceptional contributions to New Hampshire. He is the executive director of Leadership New Hampshire, a program in which leaders learn about the state in order better to respond to its issues. He has created initiatives such as Stay, Work, Play New Hampshire, to attract and retain young workers in the state and has served as a consultant to many New Hampshire non-profits. For nine years, he was the chancellor of the University System of New Hampshire, leading higher education initiatives that positively impacted the state's students and families. Reno said he is pleased to receive the Granite State Award on behalf of all of his colleagues throughout the University System.
"The greatest strengths of the University System are the quality and dedication of its faculty, staff, and leadership, and its increasing number of partnerships with business, industry, the professions, the state, and communities," said Reno.
The 2014 Plymouth State University Commencement will start at 10 a.m. on Currier Field at the institution's Holderness campus. The unified ceremony recognizes more than 1,200 graduates receiving bachelor's and master's degrees, certificates of advanced graduate studies, and doctoral degrees.
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Law Firm Decides to Simplify Name by Going Back to Its Roots
LACONIA — Their website boasts "Sound Counsel since 1927." While this is something that the folks at Wescott, Dyer, Fitzgerald and Nichols, PA, are proud of, the length of the firm's name has been known to cause confusion.
"We found that our clients had difficulty remembering the four attorneys' names comprising the firm name. Since we would typically find ourselves simplifying the name to 'Wescott Law,' we decided to embrace it", stated Attorney Rod Dyer, one of the firm's five shareholders. Therefore, as of May 5, the full-service law firm comprised of 10 attorneys will be known as "Wescott Law."
At one time it was customary to name a law firm after its shareholders, especially when there was only one or two per practice. Due to the frequency of mergers and acquisitions, the number of surnames increased, making firm names sound more like roll call. In the past decade, this dated naming technique has started to go out of vogue with firms choosing simpler names for their business entities.
There is a lot of work that goes into rebranding, and the attorneys all agreed with the reasoning that the new name should be one that could carry them indefinitely, thus eliminating the need to go through the process again in the foreseeable future. Regardless of what happens years from now — who joins the firm, becomes a partner or retires — the new name will remain the same.
"In my opinion 'Wescott Law' does justice to both the firm and our clients — while it is concise and modern, it continues to honor the firm's history and values," stated shareholder Attorney Paul Fitzgerald.
"There few independently owned businesses that can claim nearly ninety years of success; so, in making decisions regarding our future, we believed it was crucial to acknowledge our past," stated Attorney Allison Ambrose who joined the firm in 2010 and worked closely on the project with the firm's marketing consultant, Debbie Bolduc of BizBuzz Marketing Partners, to update the firm's logo, ads and overall brand.
Harold E. Wescott founded the firm in 1927. In 1947, he was appointed to the bench and served as a New Hampshire Supreme Court Judge until his retirement in 1957. Judge Wescott was a man of character and integrity, traits that live on in the firm today. The firm's attorneys have continued in Judge Wescott's footsteps, and throughout the years have played important roles in the legal system and their local communities, including service on the Board of Governors of the New Hampshire Bar Association, as the Belknap County Attorney, Mayor of Laconia, School Board Representatives, New Hampshire State Senate, and as judges in the Family and District Courts of the State of New Hampshire.
Wescott Law, P.A. is dedicated to serving the legal needs of businesses and individuals in the Lakes and Seacoast Regions of New Hampshire. View their blog or practice areas at www.wescottlawnh.com and follow them on Facebook.
Attorneys Paul Fitzgerald, Robert Hemeon, Erik Simensen, John Giere, Rodney Dyer, Allison Ambrose, Peter Millham and Edmund Hibbard. Absent at time of photo are Dorcas Gordon and Matthew Huot. (Courtesy photo)
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Jordan Associates wins Outdoor Design Award
LACONIA — Tim Jordan, ASLA, is pleased to announce that Jordan Associates, Inc. has won the top Outdoor Design Award from the NH Home Magazine. NH Home Magazine honored the Granite State's best residential designs and the people who created them at the Radisson Hotel in Manchester, recently.
The private home winner was located in Moultonborough, and consisted of the following outdoor elements-outdoor kitchen (covered), spas(2), fire pits (2), pool, walls, stone arch, fencing, walks and perched beach, patios, landscaping, and nature paths. Contractors included: Skittington Homes, Belknap Landscape, and Dan Batting Architects. This outdoor design was also the Gold Award winner in the NH Home Builders Awards in 2012. Look for it in the March/April issue of NH Home Magazine.
In 2014 Jordan Associates, Inc. celebrates 25 years in business and during that time has received upwards of 75+/- national, regional and local design awards.
Jordan Associates, Inc. is a member of the American Society of Landscape Architects, Granite State Landscape Architects, and Lakes Region Home Builders Association. Tim Jordan can be contacted at their offices in Laconia, at 603-524-6900 or on the web at: www.jordanassociatesinc.com.
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Mother of runaway Lexus victims offers emotional testimony during hearings
WASHINGTON Her family devastated by the crash last August in Santee that brought national attention to problems with runaway accelerators in Toyota-built cars, a Vallejo mother and grandmother broke her public silence on the tragedy today with a simple declaration to Congress.
"I didn't come here to cry on someone else's shoulders," Fe Lastrella told the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee. "It is for the safety of someone else in the world."
In her allotted five minutes, Lastrella affectionately and tearfully recalled her daughter, Cleofe, son Chris, granddaughter Mahala Saylor and son-in-law Mark Saylor, all killed when the Lexus sedan driven by Mark Saylor accelerated out of control on state Route 125, on Aug. 28.
The car's speed reached 120 mph before it ran off the road, rolled over repeatedly and burst into flames. Fe Lastrella avoided those grisly details in her statement, instead giving lawmakers a mother and grandmother's perspective on the loved ones she lost.
Cleofe Saylor, her eldest child, was a dedicated wife and mother, and a respected colleague in her biotech field, she said. Cleofe's husband, Mark, "was a person of honor and integrity" who dedicated himself to his work as a California highway patrolman.
Mahala Saylor, her granddaughter and Cleofe and Mark's daughter, "was a promising athlete" and captain of her high school soccer team.
And Chris Lastrella, her middle child, was an aspiring voice actor with a passion for basketball, Lastrella said. His auditions and training "made him so composed" and help explain the clarity in his voice as he recounted the family's final moments in a 911 call, she said.
"Hold on. Pray…pray," were his last words. She has never listened to the tape.
Fe Lastrella was among the final scheduled witnesses in a day of testimony that also featured U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood and Akio Toyoda, Toyota's president. The auto executive, whose prepared testimony included an apology for the accelerator problems, met privately with the Lastrella family on Tuesday.
The crash that killed Chris Lastrella and the Saylors, who lived in Chula Vista, was the emotional centerpiece of the hearing.
"We now know that the terrifying deaths of this family were not caused by a freak accident," committee chairman Edolphus Towns, D-NY said as the session opened. "It turns out that people from all over the country had been complaining about sudden acceleration in Toyota vehicles for years."
"Prior to today, we cannot say that Toyota was a great company, perhaps not even a good company," declared Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Vista, and the committee's ranking member.
The Japanese automaker ultimately will be judged by whether it learns from its mistakes, Issa said, echoing a Toyota advertising campaign launched in the wake of the recalls.
Issa said Toyota knew of problems with sticking accelerators and had implemented a solution in some of its Japanese models well before the Saylor tragedy.
The Lexus ES-350 provided to Saylor while his own Lexus was being serviced was not among those targeted for the repair, Issa said. But the loaned vehicle had been returned to the dealer in El Cajon days earlier by another customer who complained of a balky accelerator.


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Authorities probe hacking of Bush family e-mails, photos
HOUSTON, Feb 08, 2013 (Xinhua via COMTEX) -- A criminal investigation is underway into who hacked e-mail accounts belonging to members of the Bush family, U.S. media reported Friday.
A Bush family spokesman confirmed authorities are conducting an investigation into the hacking, according to local TV channel ABC13.
The hacker, who went by the online moniker "Guccifer," gained access to Dorothy Bush's e-mail exchanges between friends and family members, including her father, former U.S. president George H.W. Bush, and her brother George W. Bush, according to report by the Houston Chronicle.
Information such as telephone numbers, pictures and gate access codes were posted online for all to see, the report said.
The website Smoking Gun displayed photos it said came from the hacker, including one that appears to show the elder Bush during his recent near-two-month stay in a Houston hospital with a bronchial infection.
The word "Guccifer" is plastered across the photos published on the Smoking Gun website. The website quotes "Guccifer" as describing himself as a veteran hacker who has long been in the government's sights.
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Protect Your Kids' Hearts: Summer Activity Can Trigger Genetic Disorder, Say Results for Life, Sudden Cardiac Arrest Association
Prevention may be as simple as making sure children eat nutritious meals, exercise, stay away from cigarettes and have check-ups.
Be aware that for some children who have an inherited heart disorder known as Long QT Syndrome, research shows that typical summer activities can trigger sudden cardiac arrest. Genetic tests can identify Long QT Syndrome and help physicians manage the condition.
The most common form of Long QT is triggered by strenuous exercise, especially swimming.
The condition often causes the tragic deaths of seemingly healthy young athletes who collapse on the playing field. More than 3,500 children and young adults die each year due to sudden cardiac arrest.
Fortunately, most deaths can be prevented if Long QT Syndrome is identified early — often through a genetic test — and treated. The Sudden Cardiac Arrest Association and the American Clinical Laboratory Association's Results for Life Educational Campaign offer the following tips.
Test for Long QT Syndrome if your child has:
- A family history of Long QT Syndrome or sudden, unexplained death of a family member before age 40. If one person in your family is identified with Long QT Syndrome, your entire family should be tested.
- Fainting episodes during or just after physical activity.
- Fainting as a result of excitement, distress or a sudden startle.
- Consistent or unusual chest pain and/or shortness of breath during exercise.
A physician will test for Long QT Syndrome by doing an electrocardiogram (ECG), often followed by a genetic test.
"The genetic test can be an important component to diagnosing Long QT Syndrome. In most cases, doctors can't tell for certain if a patient has the genetic disorder by just doing a clinical examination," says
Medications known as beta-blockers help prevent sudden cardiac arrest in most people. Pacemakers or automatic defibrillators are used in others.
Parents who live with children who are vulnerable to sudden cardiac arrest should:
- Learn CPR and check that lifeguards or coaches know CPR.
- Make sure an automatic external defibrillator (AED) is on-site at the playing field, pool, or wherever children exercise.
The American Clinical Laboratory Association is a non-profit group representing the nation's clinical reference laboratories. The group's educational campaign, Results for Life, reflects a collaboration of laboratory professionals, clinical labs and test makers focused on the value of laboratory medicine. For more information: www.labresultsforlife.org.
The Sudden Cardiac Arrest Association is the largest advocacy organization singularly dedicated to the prevention of sudden cardiac arrest.
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"The Idea of Black Criminality was crucial to the making of modern urban America. Khalil Gibran Muhammad chronicles how, when, and why modern notions of black people as an exceptionally dangerous race of criminals first emerged. Well known are the lynch mobs and racist criminal justice practices in the South that stoked white fears of black crime and shaped the contours of the New South. In this illuminating book, Muhammad shifts our attention to the urban North as a crucial but overlooked site for the production and dissemination of those ideas and practices." "Following the 1890 census - the first to measure the generation of African Americans born after slavery - crime statistics, new migration and immigration trends, and symbolic references to America as the promised land were woven into a cautionary tale about the exceptional threat black people posed to modern urban society. Excessive arrest rates and overrepresentation in northern prisons were seen by many whites - liberals and conservatives, northerners and southerners - as indisputable proof of blacks' inferiority. What else but pathology could explain black failure in the land of opportunity? Social scientists and reformers used crime statistics to mask and excuse anti-black racism, violence, and discrimination across the nation, especially in the urban North." The Condemnation of Blackness is the most thorough historical account of the enduring link between blackness and criminality in the making of modern urban America. It is a startling examination of why the echoes of America's Jim Crow past continue to resonate in "color-blind" crime rhetoric today.
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1 Saving the Nation: The Racial Data Revolution and the Negro Problem 15
2 Writing Crime into Race: Racial Criminalization and the Dawn of Jim Crow 35
3 Incriminating Culture: The Limits of Racial Liberalism in the Progressive Era 88
4 Preventing Crime: White and Black Reformers in Philadelphia 146
5 Fighting Crime: Politics and Prejudice in the City of Brotherly Love 192
6 Policing Racism: Jim Crow Justice in the Urban North 226
Conclusion: The Conundrum of Criminality 269
Manuscript Sources 279
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BERKELEY – Cal's women's volleyball team is adding two of the nation's top high school players to the program for the 2014 season.
Ashten Smith- Gooden, a 6-foot-2 outside hitter from Rancho Cucamonga, Calif. (Los Osos High School) has signed a National Letter of Intent to play for the Bears. Furthermore, Laura Leap, a 6-foot-5 middle blocker from Thousand Oaks, Calif. (Thousand Oaks High School), has signed a Statement of Intent to Register at Cal and will enroll in school for the spring semester of 2014.
Smith-Gooden is a 2013 Under Armour First Team All-American who is rated as the nation's No. 5 Senior Ace by PrepVolleyball.com. She was the 2012 All-Inland Valley Player of the Year and an All-CIF selection.
Smith-Gooden is the highest-ranked recruit to sign with Cal since Tarah Murrey signed as the nation's No. 2 prospect in 2007.
"Ashten is arguably one of the best, most promising outside hitters in the class," Cal coach Rich Feller said. "We've really, really liked Ashten for a couple years now. We're very, very excited to have her coming into the program. I see a great future for her. I think she can have a chance to help us right away. She's big, she's physical, she's mobile, and she's athletic."
Leap is ranked as the No. 94 Senior Ace by PrepVolleyball.com and a two-time All-Tri Valley League First Team selection.
"Laura has worked really, really hard on her game and her academics," Feller said. "For her to move forward and graduate early from high school and join us in the spring is a big bonus for us. I think that Laura has a chance to really have a great career here."


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It's been a pretty damn good summer for bikini lovers thus far, and the swimwear keeps coming with Hayden Panettiere pleasing us with a simply green bikini. I don't think she was suspicious of any snapshots being taken, until the end, and thank heavens for that. It's been far too long since I've gotten a reminder of how perfectly my favorite Hero's ass goes with the rest of her. I think she has a certain appeal to a certain group of fellows, but when people dig her, they really dig her�almost to the point of no return. She could never be unattractive, for example, I loved her long blonde hair and I hate to see it gone but f**k it, it's just hair. It's not magnificently crafted like the rest her, nor is it the part of her that makes me think to myself "dammmn".
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"Do what you do so well that they will want to see it again and bring their friends" – Walt Disney.
Customer service is the provision of service to customers before, during and after a purchase. Customer service is a series of activities designed to enhance the level of customer satisfaction – that is, the feeling that a product or service has met the customer's expectation.
Customer service and taking care of your consumers truly has to be a priority for any business or organization. To not only ensure the success of that particular business or organization but of the area as a whole. Our goal is to have the Ticonderoga area be known and noted for its amazing customer service.
We have many great examples of excellent service within the area that we need to continue to foster and grow. The Ticonderoga area truly has so much to offer with is scenic beauty, rich history, recreational opportunities, wonderful events, businesses, organizations and attractions. As a community we need to work together to ensure we greet others with a friendly hello, smile and always ask how can I help you. We know it is often hard to balance everything in life when we all have so much going on, but it is so important and necessary to treat others how you would want to be treated.
We have all experienced above and beyond customer service and service that was not exactly acceptable. It is our job as ambassadors for the Ticonderoga area to show how much we truly care about others by being leading examples in the customer service field. We have to lead by example in showing what good customer service is to each other, the community and visitors. The chamber is truly working hard to be a leader in setting by example.
Matthew Courtright is executive director of the Ticonderoga Area Chamber of Commerce.
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Welcome to lootedart.com
This site contains two fully searchable databases.
The Information Database contains information and documentation from forty nine countries, including laws and policies, reports and publications, archival records and resources, current cases and relevant websites.
The Object Database contains details of over 25,000 objects of all kinds – paintings, drawings, antiquities, Judaica, etc – looted, missing and/or identified from over fifteen countries.
All images on the site are published under fair use conditions for the purpose of criticism and research.
For a list of Essential Website Links, showing all key research sites and resources,click here.
For details of international resources, see below, Online Resources and Case News.
For the Gurlitt collection at the Kunstmuseum Bern, click here. For the full range of developments on the Gurlitt case, click here. For all news stories, see the News Archive. For all other materials, including ALIU reports, etc, search 'Gurlitt'.
To subscribe to our looted art newsletter, click here.
The International Tracing Service at Bad Arolsen, Germany, with its UNESCO recognised archives containing more than 30 million documents from the National Socialist era, World War II and the immediate post-war period, is seeking a new director who can give strong international, academic and administrative leadership. For details of the post, click here.
The Centre's team at its new address at Humboldtstraße 12 has been announced as Dr. Andrea Baresel-Brand, Dr. Michael Franz, Sabine Kramer, Susanne Zwick, Yvonne Sommermeyer, Christin Blaeß and Torsten Declercq, all seven former employees of the Koordinierungs-stelle Magdeburg. There are also three former employees of the Arbeitsstelle für Provenienzforschung, Birgit Rombach, Nadine Bauer and Dr. Uwe Hartmann. The full-time Executive Board will be appointed later this month.
Although the key purpose of the Centre is to promote and fund provenance research throughout Germany in order to identify Nazi-looted art and enable its return to its rightful owners, it is notable that the Centre's website http://www.kulturgutverluste.de/ only appears in the German language, and there is no mention of when or if the site will provide an English language version, which is essential for the rightful owners.
On 26 March, EHRI – the European Holocaust Research Infrastructure – presented its online portal. It provides access to information about more than 1,800 Holocaust-related archival institutions in 51 countries, to 57 country reports, and to over 150,000 archival descriptions in 465 institutions. Starting out in 2010 as a EC-financed initiative, scholars in 20 institutions in Europe and Israel worked together to make archives accessible and to connect collections. The EHRI portal offers access to information on Holocaust-related archival material held in institutions across Europe and beyond and plans to keep expanding. To visit the portal, go to https://portal.ehri-project.eu.
The Central and Regional Library of Berlin is checking its stock for Nazi-looted books with the aim of returning them to their rightful owners or their heirs. At the end of January, it published a further updated list of the names of the rightful owners of looted books in its collection identified through signatures, stamps, inscriptions and notes found in the books - all of which have been photographed by the Library.
The list includes all the names of persons whom the Library could not yet identify clearly or names of people persecuted by the Nazi regime whom they were able to identify, but were unable to trace their heirs.
Any information about the persons in the list could help the Library with its search for the rightful owners and their heirs. Restitutions to date in 2015 are published here by the Library with information about the owners and their history.
The list of names of owners is published on lootedart.com here, with full details of all related information and contact details for the Library.
The decision concerns the painting Old Man with Beard by Salomon Koninck (1609-1656).
At the beginning of the Second World War the painting was sold by the art gallery Firma D. Katz in Dieren to the German Alois Miedl, who shortly before had taken over the Amsterdam gallery J. Goudstikker N.V. The work was then sold on to an art buyer acting for Adolf Hitler's proposed Führer Museum.
In an exhibition catalogue produced by Katz in 1939, the entry about the Salomon Koninck work mentions 'Stettiner, Paris' as one of the former collections. According to the applicants this refers to the Jewish Stettiner family and/or the Stettiner et Cie. gallery in Paris.
No information was found during the Restitutions Committee's investigation about the moment at which the painting left the possession of 'Stettiner, Paris'.
The Restitutions Committee concluded that the right of ownership of the Stettiner family and/or the Stettiner et Cie. gallery in Paris during the period relevant to the restitution application is not highly probable, and it therefore advised the Minister to reject the applicants' claim to the artwork.
To read the full report, click here.
The government appointed independent review of the UK Panel praises the work of the Panel to date and makes several recommendations. These include that the membership be refreshed, that further members from the museum and fine arts sectors be added, that the Terms of Reference remain the same but that the conduct of museums not be considered relevant in assessing a claim, that a "fast-track, small claims procedure" be established, and that "legitimate public comments by members [of the panel] is incompatible with membership". To read the Report, click here. To read the UK Culture Minister's response to the recommendations, click here.
In June 2011 the City of Ghent turned down the claim of the von Klemperer heirs to the painting, now in the Museum of Fine Arts in Ghent. The panel it had appointed concluded that the painting was not sold under pressure and that its ownership by Ghent was indisputable both in Private International Law and in the context of post-war Allied and West German restitution laws.
Professor Flamée, a distinguished Belgian lawyer, has analysed the decision, examining whether the panel correctly drew the line between fairness and arbitrariness in accordance with the Washington Principles. He questions whether the panel should have been tasked with combining the two different approaches, 'positive law' and 'fairness', looks at whether the panel took into account all known facts and whether, when taken into account, a different decision might have been reached. He investigates who bears the burden of proof and for which facts, and queries whether any part of the burden should have rested on the claimant. Finally, he explores the concept of fairness and how the prescription of fairness derived from Washington might apply to works of art acquired prior to 1998.
The study, is published by kind permission of Professor Flamée. To read it, click here. The original decision of Ghent is available here.
Images published under fair use conditions for the purpose of criticism and research.
"Our goal is for you to be able to walk down any street in Europe and learn the Holocaust history of that specific place."
Tracing the Past is a non-profit organization based in Berlin and launched at the end of October 2014 dedicated to the research and memorialization of the persecuted in Europe 1933-1945. Its first project has been to create a database from the 1939 German Minority Census. As a result, approximately two-thirds of the nearly 170,000 Shoah victims from Germany are now searchable for the first time by residential street address here.
Mapping the Lives is a proposed project dedicated to creating biographies, online maps and smartphone applications pinpointing the residential street addresses of all known victims of the Nazi Regime who were persecuted for reasons of race, religion, political views, resistance, sexual orientation, social orientation, and physical or mental incapacity.
To visit the site, click http://tracingthepast.org/. To listen to Roderick Miller, chairman of Tracing the Past, in a Tedx talk given in Vienna on 1 November 2014, click here.
Lawsuits: provides details of claims and cases ruled on or being settled in court with copies of court filings and judgements.
Research Resources: provides details of family records, tracing services, art historical resources, texts of post-war reports, and books and publications.
Web Resources: provides details of various online databases of looted paintings, results of provenance research in countries around the world, archival records available online and other research materials.
Seeking Owners of Identified Looted Property: provides lists of names of individuals whose looted property has been identified in institutions in Germany and whose heirs are being sought.
Other categories of information include Governmental Conferences and Hearings, Laws, Policies and Guidelines, Art Trade, and Press, Television, Radio and Film. To explore all these sections, click here.
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