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To register for the 25th Annual Grape Lake Run Walk, go to https://runsignup.com/Race/MI/PawPaw/GrapeLake5K
For great places to stay check out:
The map on the right is a map of the festival area and a numbered listing of event locations. A larger map may be obtained by clicking on the map, it will open in a new window, after printing simply close the window to return to the festival site. The larger map will take a minute to download...please be patient. If you need directions from another town, please see Paw Paw on Google Maps.
Q. When is the Wine and Harvest Festival?
A. The dates for 2014 are September 5-7. We are always the weekend after Labor Day.
Q. How can I contact the festival office?
A. Call 269-655-1111 anytime and leave a message on our voice mail. Due to heavy call loads 2 weeks prior to the festival calls will be returned as quickly as possible.
Q. What are the hours of the festival?
A. Friday from 5 pm to Midnight, Saturday from 10 am to Midnight and Sunday from 10 am to 5 pm.
Q. How much does it cost to attend the festival
A. Most events are free. There is a $5 cover charge at the wine and harvest beer tent and the St Julian tent, carnival rides and inflatable's require tickets which are available at the activity area.
Q. Can I bring lawn chairs into the concert (amphitheater) area?
A. Yes, you can bring lawn chairs to the concerts but we ask that you are courteous to those behind you. The taller chairs need to be placed in the back of the concert seating area. Tall chairs will NOT be allowed close to the stage.
Q. If I want my band to participate in the festival, where and when must I have the promotional material to the festival?
A. All band/musical material shall be submitted no later than December 1. Please send your promotional material to: Paw Paw Wine and Harvest Festival, PO Box 376, Paw Paw, MI 49079
Q. Do you have available spots for vendors?
A. We have a very limited number of available spaces. If you wish to be a vendor please visit our vendor link above and complete the application (food vendors please note we have a waiting list). We will contact you if we have an available space, if you do not hear from us our spots are all filled and your application has been filed. Vendor applications will not be accepted any later than 4 weeks prior to the festival
Q. I have submitted an application for the grape stomp -When will I be notified of our stomp time?
A. We try to notify you as soon as possible with grape stomp times, however due to the large influx of last minute applications we try to schedule times at least 3 days prior to the event. If you have a request to stomp after/before a specific time frame please list that on your application, we try our best to fulfill your request but it is not always possible.
Q. Are there age requirements for the grape stomp?
A. No, anyone can stomp. Please mention an age group when filling out the application (students must present their student ID).
1. Returning vendors must submit a signed vendor agreement, insurance certificate and payment in full by April 1, 2015 to secure a location comparable to previous years. After that date the space may be assigned to a vendor on the waiting list. Please make checks payable to the Paw Paw Wine and Harvest Festival. You will receive a postcard confirming your space. All correspondence should be sent to Paw Paw Wine and Harvest Festival, PO Box 376, Paw Paw, MI 49079.
2. New vendors must submit a signed vendor application complete with Michigan Sales Tax number. Upon acceptance of your vendor application, a vendor agreement with be forwarded to you with applicable due dates clearly stated.
3. You must have a Michigan Sales Tax Number. You can obtain one by writing to Michigan Department of Treasury, Treasury Building, Lansing, MI 48922 or phone (517) 373-0888.
4. Food vendors must be properly licensed by the Van Buren County Health Department. Even if you have an STFU you must still call them.
5. Set up areas will be assigned in advance. The festival board reserves the sole right to assign spaces. We try to accommodate each request, but it is sometimes impossible to honor all requests.
6. Each group must report to the registration table at the information tent before they setup. There will be absolutely no setup before sign in. Setup times are:Friday, September 11 - 8:00 am to NoonSaturday, September 12 - 7:00 am to 9:00 am
There is no set-up allowed in the lakefront area while streets are closed.
7. All spaces are open air - be prepared for rain or shine. You should be prepared for grass or asphalt areas. Vendor will be responsible for any harm to asphalt areas. Vendors to provide any tables and or tent and awnings. Tents and awnings must be free standing (no stakes).
8. You must have liability insurance for personal injury or property damage in the amount of $300,000 and list the Village of Paw Paw and the Paw Paw Wine & Harvest Festival as an additional insured for the time period covered by the festival. Send a copy of your insurance certificate verifying said coverage with your vendor agreement.
9. Vendors are responsible for taking care of their own garbage. Please do not stuff large packages into the garbage cans or place large bags or containers near them. Dumpsters will be conveniently located for large item disposal.
10. The Wine & Harvest Festival will not be responsible for or liable in any way for loss, theft, damage or displacement of any property displayed, no matter how the same may be caused.
11. The Wine and Harvest Festival will provide electricity to each vendor, however, we are not responsible for inadequate wiring in your trailer/unit/fixtures/cords. If one of our electricians are called onto the site and the problem is within your extension cables or in your trailer/unit/fixtures you will be billed for their time.
No refunds! No subleting! No guarantee of requested spots! For your application, contact the Paw Paw Wine and Harvest Festival directly at 269-655-1111. Spaces are limited and the vendors who participated last year have the first right of refusal.
The Paw Paw Wine and Harvest Festival Board and the Village would like to thank all of the sponsors who make this event possible. We ask that you take time to thank the sponsors, as they the life line for the Paw Paw Community. They support everything from our festival to local little league to your Church event to the events local service clubs offer like the food pantry.
St. Julian Wine Company – Parade SponsorCoca-Cola Refreshments – Grape Stomp SponsorPaw Paw Downtown Development Authority – Fireworks SponsorWal-MartSouth Haven Convention & Visitors Bureau
Midwest Energy Cooperative A Touchstone Energy Cooperative - Lakefront EntertainmentHiemstra OpticalWarner VineyardsHonor Credit UnionCar ZoneOld National Bank
Seelye of Paw Paw Advia Credit Union
IHS DistributingBronsink and Bos EquipmentAmore PizzaFoune Well DrillingWoodfield ApartmentsHills Prescription ShopCancun Mexican RestaurantBetzler & Thompson Life Story Funeral HomesCody Kresta Vineyard & WineryCopper GrilleBloomingdale CommunicationsElementray EdgeTravel LodgePaw Paw Brewing CompanyMite-E ExterminatingWillis & Willis LawCrystal Flash EnergyFifth Third BankLaCantina Ristorante ItalianoThe Sugar BearMattawan Pet SuppliesMaple Lake ChiropracticWalgreen'sSubway of Paw Paw
Best Way DisposalCourier LeaderOxley FarmsMroczek Sod FarmSouth Haven PackagingThe UPS StoreDr. Pepper/SnappleThe Strand TheatreArvco Container
Thank you to all our sponsors, without you, the Wine & Harvest Festival would not be able to continue at the level the community and visitors currently enjoy each September.
The Wine and Harvest Festival is always looking for volunteers to assist us in the many areas of the festival.
Official volunteer t-shirt - only available to festival volunteers
Please review the volunteer opportunities below. Find an Application Here. We ask that volunteers work a 3 hour shift to be eligible for the volunteer perks listed above.
Beer Tent - Selling tickets or serving beer or selling wrist bands at the gateInformation Booth - Answering general questions and handing out festival guidesStompyland - our children's activity area (crafts, face painting, free events for children)Clean Team - Let's leave our Village the way we found it.Setup/Tear Down - Setup begins the day of the festival and Sunday after the festival closes some lifting is required.Parade - Assist with lineup of parade participantsCar Show - Assist with sign in and award presentation.


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Two-Valve Shootout Coverage with Videos
MM&FF holds its first-ever naturally aspirated, modular Two-Valve shootout.
MM&FF's first shoot-out of the year was undoubtedly a suc-cess. Never before have we witnessed so many clutch drops with so little breakage. Engines singing at 6,000 rpm and then--bam--they're heading down the track.
Our first shootout was spurred by a forum thread on www.modulardepot.com, where the naturally aspirated Two-Valve lot was having quite the discussion about their cars, and one of our former shootout winners alerted us to this intense debate. So there we were in the editorial meeting deciding what shootout to do first. It only made sense to accommodate these hard-core gearheads, and the results were pleasing.
Shootout Rules
1. No power adders of any sort.
2. Overdrive automatic or manual transmissions only.
3. No gutted race cars. Lightening OK, but up to our discretion. Rear seat removal OK. Racing seats OK. Two required.
4. Cars/drivers must possess all required safety equipment per NHRA rules for elapsed times.
5. Slicks, skinnies, drag radials OK.
6. All cars must be muffled and not be louder than 94 decibels. No open headers or bullet-style mufflers.
As customary, we had a few people drop out of the competition prior to track day. Amy Friedel of Texas had to opt out when her 12.0-capable colt was involved in an accident that caused damage to the car's chassis but thankfully not to Amy.
Dave White of Monroe Township, New Jersey, was upping the ante of his 12.29-second ride with a new intake, but he was greeted with some horrible sounds upon startup. Mass quantities of coolant in the oil pan didn't stop him from coming to the track and helping out, though.
Alex Posegate found himself battling flood-level waters at his homestead after being drenched with a few days' worth of rain. The shootout would go on, however, as we had a few people step up and fill the spots to leave us with a full field.
In addition to posting on the Modular Depot site, we also dropped a few hooks in ModularFords.com and SVTSnake.com. Why the Four-Valve site you ask? Well, the folks there know quite a few people, so we always drop them a line whenever we have a shootout. The scheduled timeframe did not allow us to make a mention in the magazine, but you'll want to check out this month's Horse's Mouth, as well as future editions, as we will be posting upcoming shootouts.
As far as the rules for this event were concerned, we caught some flak by not inviting some of the fastest known Two-Valves in the country, but we really wanted to limit the shootout to street cars. MM&FF covers more than 15 racing events each year, so there are already plenty of drag cars in these pages.
Many of our participants made some lightening modifications, but we are confident that our rules and subsequent choice of vehicles represents what can easily be accomplished by the average gearhead. Now that we have all the pleasantries out of the way, let's get down to business.
1st PLACE
Burnt out on racing his low-11-second LX 5.0, Mike Bowen eventually purchased this '01 GT with the intent of keeping it a weekend-road-trip and occasional commuter car. "After the very first pass down the dragstrip in it, it was back to business," Mike says.
Four years later and with just a tad over 18,000 miles on the odometer, this Mustang is pounding out 293 hp and 310 lb-ft of torque at the wheels. This was accomplished with a virtually stock Ford Explorer engine and a set of aftermarket camshafts. The Explorer aluminum block shaved off some 90 pounds from the front end, and Mike has made other efforts to jazzercize his colt to a svelte 3,066 pounds with driver.
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Malware authors are finding sneaky new ways to separate you from your financial data and other sensitive information.
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RODALE NEWS, EMMAUS, PA—China may have gotten the lead out, but what's used in its place is just as horrific for human health. The U.S. Consumer Products Safety Commission announced it will examine toxic toys from China after an Associated Press (AP) undercover investigation found that some Chinese manufacturers were substituting the toxic metal cadmium for lead in the production of cheap children's jewelry. Cadmium is categorized as a known human carcinogen, according to the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services.
THE DETAILS: In the AP investigation, a lab technician tested 103 children's metal charm bracelets and pendant trinkets from around the country and sold at Wal-Mart, Claire's, and dollar stores. Twelve percent of those tested contained at least 10 percent cadmium, a carcinogenic metal that has been shown to cause developmental problems in small children. Some items tested contained more than 90 percent cadmium by weight, and many shed the toxic metal easily, making it particularly dangerous to children, who often put toys in their mouth.
Congress wasted no time reacting to the AP bombshell, with Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) introducing legislation Wednesday aimed at classifying cadmium as a hazardous substance, making it illegal to use it in children's jewelry. (At the moment, it's legal to use the metal.)
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The warning notes that northwest winds of 15 to 20 kilometres per hour will combing with temperatures near the minus 30 mark to create extreme windchill values in the minus 40 to 45 range.
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It seems that media consensus has been conclusively reached: Turkey has been forced into a Middle Eastern mess not of its own making; the
'Zero Problems with Neighbors' notion, once the foreign policy centerpiece of the Justice and Development Party (AKP), is all but a romantic notion of no use in
Turkey's "policy's goal - to build strong economic, political, and social ties with the
country's immediate neighbors while decreasing its dependency on the United States
- seemed to be within sight," wrote Sinan Ulgen nearly a year ago. "But the Arab Spring exposed the
policy's vulnerabilities, and Turkey must now seek a new guiding principle for regional
This reading was not entirely unique and was repeated numerous times henceforth. It suggests an air of naiveness in Turkish foreign policy and overlooks the
country's barely selfless regional ambitions. It also imagines that Turkey was caught in a series of unfortunate events, forcing its hand to act in ways inconsistent with its genuine policies of yesteryears. This, however, is not entirely true.
The recent skirmishes of Oct 4 at the Syrian-Turkish border were reportedly invited by mortar shells fired from the Syrian side. Five people including 3 children were killed and the incident was
Turkey's 'last straw.' Turkey's Anatolia news agency reported of an official Syrian apology through the United Nations soon after the shelling and the Syrian government promised an investigation. However, their seriousness remains doubtful. But the Turkish military was quick to retaliate, as the parliament voted to extend a one-year mandate to the military in order carry out cross-border military action. Irrespective of the violence at the Syrian border, the mandate was originally aimed at Kurdish fighters in northern Iraq and it had already been set for a pre-scheduled vote in mid-October.
The peculiarly evolving epide seems unreal. Not long ago, Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan had, to the displeasure of Israel and the US, reached out to both Syria and Iran. He referred to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad as his
'brother', knowing of the full political implications of that term. When Turkey voted against Iran sanctions at the United Nations in June 2010,
'it provoked a crisis," a Wall Street Journal article read. Later, Turkey quarreled with NATO over the missile-defense initiative, a system that is clearly aimed at Iran and Syria.
"Turkey is becoming the Alliance's 'opt-out' member in operations in Muslim
countries," said the WSJ. These developments took place at the heels of the deadly Israeli military raid on the Turkish ship Mavi Marmara, which carried mostly Turkish peace activists as part of a larger effort
- The Gaza Freedom Flotilla - aimed at breaking the siege on Gaza. Israel killed 9 Turkish civilians and wounded many more on the Mavi Marmara.
Erdogan and other Turkish officials rose to the status of superstars among Arabs at the time when ousted Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak was himself complicit in the Gaza siege. Understandably, the AKP became a political model and the subject of endless academic and television debates. Turkey was the brand to beat even culturally and economically.
Internally, Erdogan and his party were credited for overseeing massive economic growth, and successfully reining in and eventually integrating the once insubordinate, coup-prone military leadership into a democratic system managed by elected civilians. Externally, Erdogan and his Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu helped rebrand and partly break the isolation of several Arab leaders, including
Libya's Muammar Qaddafi. (Turkish leaders must have been fully aware of the grievances of Arab peoples as they signed economic deals worth billions of dollars with the very dictators they helped oust.) Although
Ankara's spat with Tel Aviv didn't translate into tangible change in Israeli or US policies towards Palestinians, a level of gratification permeated: At last, a country strong enough as Turkey had the courage to stand up to
Israel's intransigent and calculated insults.
Then Tunisia overthrew its president and Turkey's foreign policy cards were mix-up like never before. If the US, France and other Western powers were inconsistent and self-contradicting in their stances on uprisings, revolutions and civil wars that struck the Middle East and North Africa in the last 18 months,
Turkey's foreign policy was particularly muddled.
Initially, Turkey responded to what seemed like distant affairs with good sound bites concerning
people's rights, justice and democracy. In Libya, the stakes were higher as NATO was hell-bent on determining the outcomes of Arab revolts whenever space allowed. Turkey was the last NATO member to sign onto the Libya war. The delay proved costly as Arab media that cheered for war seemed to target
Turkey's prized reputation and credibility.
Ramzy Baroud (www.ramzybaroud.net) is an internationally-syndicated columnist and the editor of
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Charter revamps senior executives' duties
Charter Communications announced this morning that it had tweaked its senior management team with the addition of more responsibilities for some of its top executives.
Charter characterized the new organizational structure as the best way to leverage the strengths of its leadership team, employees and resources to improve the customer experience and grow customer relationships.
"With this team in place, we are well positioned to execute our strategy and deliver a superior experience to our customers," said Charter CEO and President Mike Lovett. "We have an exceptional leadership team and significant opportunity to grow the business."
Under the new structure, Ted Schremp was named executive vice president of operations and marketing, continuing strategic leadership of marketing and adding responsibility for customer experience transformation, customer care, operations, communications and human resources.
Marwan Fawaz, executive vice president, strategy and chief technology officer, is now taking on leadership responsibility for strategy and innovation of Charter's product portfolio, as well as business development. Fawaz will retain leadership responsibility for engineering/IP infrastructure, information technology and Web technology strategy.
Greg Doody is now executive vice president of programming and legal affairs, expanding his role to include leadership for programming upon Greg Rigdon's departure next month. Rigdon, who was promoted to executive vice president of corporate development and strategy in August, is joining his former Charter boss, Neil Smit, at Comcast as its executive vice president of content acquisition.
Doody will also retain leadership responsibility for government affairs.
Rick Dykhouse has been named senior vice president, general counsel and corporate secretary and will report to Doody.
Charter's senior leadership team was completed last fall with the additions of Don Detampel, executive vice president and president of commercial services, and Chris Winfrey, executive vice president and chief financial officer.
Charter also announced today that its subsidiaries, CCO Holdings LLC and CCO Holdings Capital Corp., would publicly offer $750 million in aggregate principal amount of senior unsecured notes due 2019.
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Scramble through the ancient jungle ruins near Siem Reap, learn about Cambodia's bloody history in Phnom Penh, visit the home of the elusive fresh water dolphin, discover small mountain villages and deserted islands or sail along the mighty Mekong River to Vietnam. This beautiful country is so much more than just Angkor Wat and the Khmer Rouge; Cambodia still has an authentic, honest and mysterious feel to it.
Cambodia Travel Plan offers a variety of different bite sized adventures, usually lasting 3-4 days each. You can pick and mix from these to create your own unique trip, enabling you to travel independently, without doing a group tour. Booking in advance takes the headache out of arranging everything when you're already there. Cambodia Travel Plan will enable you to spend your holiday, on holiday, doing exactly what you want to do. ABTA and ATOL bonded.
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Discover Mekong, an Indochina-based tour operator, specializes in providing premium travel services to Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia. With over ten years of experience, the company's professional and knowledgeable local staff are always ready to make customers' Cambodia holiday wishes come true. Stay in one of their affordable hotels, partake in a day tour of Phnom Penh, cruise Tonle Sap Lake on a private boat excursion and visit the mystical Angkor Wat temple. A variety of superb packaged tours at affordable prices are also offered, covering all three countries and visiting extraordinary cities, religious monuments and cultural centres. Discover Mekong is the definitive Cambodia tour operator, visit their website today.
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Offering ten exciting tours through Cambodia, some also including Vietnam, Thailand and Laos, iExplore takes rich cultural trips through the Indochina region. Taking you straight to the heart of Cambodia, iExplore tours visit the temples, monasteries, markets, rivers and landscapes that make up this beautiful and intriguing country. A major highlight on the Cambodia tour is and extensive exploration of the ancient city of Angkor. Whether you want to cycle, trek or truck Cambodia, iExplore has a tailor-made trip waiting just for you.
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A Cambodia travel specialist, Intrepid has been catering to adventure travellers visiting this absorbing destination for over a decade. With dozens of different trips through Cambodia and the rest of Indochina varying from four days to forty and consisting of a myriad of activities from trekking, cycling, visiting temples, shopping, living with locals, discovering ancient cultures and moving through unforgettable natural landscapes, Intrepid is your gateway to a unique Cambodia experience.
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Passion Asia offers complete holiday tour packages and arranges customised trips (including regional flights, transfers, hotel booking, meals, tours and car rental) for travellers wishing to explore Southeast Asia and China. Cambodia is one of the company's most popular destinations, so if you are looking for accommodation and activities for your Cambodia holiday, visit Passion Asia today.
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Consider the Conversation: A Documentary on a Taboo Subject is Terry Kaldhusdal's fifth documentary film winning 9 Awards to date. The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel has written that Terry Kaldhusdal's work is "clear and concise" adding that he has a "passion for learning and a talent for communicating." Columnist Laurel Walker has called his work "A-plus" and stated that he has "a knack for documenting history." As a public school teacher, Terry has traveled across his state and across the country as a speaker to improve our educational system and was honored in 2007 as the Wisconsin State Teacher of the Year.
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Terry Kaldhusdal's education on end-of-life care began at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. After meeting the President in the Oval Office as the Wisconsin State Teacher of the Year he learned that his brother Pete was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. Pete fought the good fight, but died 26 months later. That loss gave birth to an award winning documentary on the American medical culture.
Consider the Conversation: A Documentary on a Taboo Subject is Terry's fifth documentary film and it has won 8 international film awards. His work was once described this way, "Be prepared to be terrified, illuminated, profoundly moved, confronted, comforted, and warmly hugged."
Terry has traveled across the country as a speaker to improve our educational system and the culture in our medical system. He says his goal is simple, to change the American culture. The passion he brings to the classroom is the same passion he brings to the podium.
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Logical positivism grew from the discussions of a group called the "First Vienna Circle" which gathered at the Café Central before World War I. After the war Hans Hahn, a member of that early group, helped bring Moritz Schlick to Vienna. Schlick's Vienna Circle, along with Hans Reichenbach's Berlin Circle, propagated the new doctrines more widely in the 1920s and early 1930s. It was Otto Neurath's advocacy that made the movement self-conscious and more widely known. A 1929 pamphlet written by Neurath, Hahn, and Rudolf Carnap summarized the doctrines of the Vienna Circle at that time. These included: the opposition to all metaphysics, especially ontology and synthetic a priori propositions; the rejection of metaphysics not as wrong but as having no meaning; a criterion of meaning based on Ludwig Wittgenstein's early work; the idea that all knowledge should be codifiable in a single standard language of science; and above all the project of "rational reconstruction", in which ordinary-language concepts were gradually to be replaced by more precise equivalents in that standard language. In the early 1930s, the Vienna Circle dispersed, mainly because of political upheaval and the untimely deaths of Hahn and Schlick. The most prominent proponents of logical positivism emigrated to United Kingdom and United States, where they considerably influenced American philosophy. Until the 1950s, logical positivism was the leading school in the philosophy of science. During this period of upheaval, Carnap proposed a replacement for the earlier doctrines in his "Logical Syntax of Language". This change of direction and the somewhat differing views of Reichenbach and others led to a consensus that the English name for the shared doctrinal platform, in its American exile from the late 1930s, should be "logical empiricism".
Mach's influence is most apparent in the logical positivists' persistent concern with metaphysics, the unity of science, and the interpretation of the theoretical terms of science, as well as the doctrines of reductionism and phenomenalism, later abandoned by many positivists.
Wittgenstein's Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus was a text of great importance for the positivists. The Tractatus introduced many doctrines which later influenced logical positivism, including the conception of philosophy as a "critique of language," and the possibility of drawing a theoretically principled distinction between intelligible and nonsensical discourse. The Tractatus also adhered to a correspondence theory of truth which the positivists adopted, although some, like Otto Neurath, preferred a form of coherentism. Wittgenstein's influence is further evident in certain formulations of the verification principle. Compare, for example, Proposition 4.024 of the Tractatus, where Wittgenstein asserts that we understand a proposition when we know what happens if it is true, with Schlick's assertion that "To state the circumstances under which a proposition is true is the same as stating its meaning". The tractarian doctrine that the truths of logic are tautologies was widely held among the logical positivists. Wittgenstein also influenced the logical positivists' interpretation of probability. According to Neurath, some logical positivists disliked the Tractatus, since they thought it was full of metaphysics.
Contemporary developments in logic and the foundations of mathematics, especially Bertrand Russell and Alfred North Whitehead's monumental Principia Mathematica, impressed the more mathematically minded logical positivists such as Hans Hahn and Rudolf Carnap. "Language-planning" and syntactical techniques derived from these developments were used to defend logicism in the philosophy of mathematics and various reductionist theses. Russell's theory of types was employed to explosive effect in Carnap's early anti-metaphysical polemics.
Immanuel Kant also had an important influence on the positivists, both positive and negative. On the negative side, Kant was often treated by the postivists as something of a punching bag in their early debates, and Kant's doctrine of synthetic a priori truths was the doctrine they most wished to overthrow. On the positive side, Kant's views about the nature of physical objects pervaded the "protocol sentence" debate, and Kantian views about the relationship between philosophy and science were shared by the positivists to some degree.
Another less well-known factor that has triggered logical positivism was the urgency to give solution to new philosophical issues raised by new scientific developments. Vienna Circle under the influence of Moritz Schlick and Berlin Circle under the influence of Reichenbach consisted of scientists, mathematicians, and scientists turned philosophers; and they shared common goal to mend newly raised problems in philosophy of science.
Although the logical positivists held a wide range of beliefs on many matters, they were all interested in science and skeptical of theology and metaphysics. Early on, most logical positivists believed that all knowledge is based on logical inference from simple "protocol sentences" grounded in observable facts. Many logical positivists supported forms of materialism, metaphysical naturalism, and empiricism.
Perhaps the view for which the logical positivists are best known is the verifiability criterion of meaning, or verificationism. In one of its earlier and stronger formulations, this is the doctrine that a proposition is "cognitively meaningful" only if there is a finite procedure for conclusively determining whether it is true or false. An intended consequence of this view, for most logical positivists, is that metaphysical, theological, and ethical statements fall short of this criterion, and so are not cognitively meaningful. They distinguished cognitive from other varieties of meaningfulness (e.g. emotive, expressive, figurative), and most authors concede that the non-cognitive statements of the history of philosophy possess some other kind of meaningfulness. The positive characterization of cognitive meaningfulness varies from author to author. It has been described as the property of having a truth value, corresponding to a possible state of affairs, naming a proposition, or being intelligible or understandable in the sense in which scientific statements are intelligible or understandable.
Another characteristic feature of logical positivism is the commitment to "Unified Science"; that is, the development of a common language or, in Neurath's phrase, a "universal slang" in which all scientific propositions can be expressed. The adequacy of proposals or fragments of proposals for such a language was often asserted on the basis of various "reductions" or "explications" of the terms of one special science to the terms of another, putatively more fundamental one. Sometimes these reductions took the form of set-theoretic manipulations of a handful of logically primitive concepts; sometimes these reductions took the form of allegedly analytic or a priori deductive relationships.. A number of publications over a period of thirty years would attempt to elucidate this concept.
Early critics of logical positivism said that its fundamental tenets could not themselves be formulated in a way that was clearly consistent. The verifiability criterion of meaning did not seem verifiable; but neither was it simply a logical tautology, since it had implications for the practice of science and the empirical truth of other statements. This presented severe problems for the logical consistency of the theory. Another problem was that, while positive existential claims ("there is at least one human being") and negative universals ("not all ravens are black") allow for clear methods of verification (find a human or a non-black raven), negative existential claims and positive universal claims do not allow for verification.
Universal claims could apparently never be verified: How can you tell that all ravens are black, unless you've hunted down every raven ever, including those in the past and future? This led to a great deal of work on induction, probability, and "confirmation", which combined verification and falsification.
Logical positivists' response to the first criticism was that logical positivism is a philosophy of science, not an axiomatic system that can prove its own consistency (see Gödel's incompleteness theorem). Secondly, a theory of language and mathematical logic were created to answer what it really means to make statements like "all ravens are black".
Many commentators on logical positivism have attributed to its proponents a greater unity of purpose and creed than they actually shared, overlooking the complex disagreements among the logical positivists themselves.
Popper's concern was not with distinguishing meaningful from meaningless statements, but distinguishing scientific from metaphysical statements. Unlike the positivists, he did not hold that metaphysical statements must be meaningless; neither did he hold that a statement that in one century was "metaphysical" and unfalsifiable (like the ancient Greek philosophy about atoms), could not in another century become falsifiable and thus scientific. He was, in general, more concerned with scientific practice than with the logical issues that troubled the positivists.
Popper thought his philosophy of science could itself be deemed as verifiable. He denied that science need rely on inductive reasoning, although most philosophers think it obvious that science does rely on it.
A response to the second criticism was provided by A. J. Ayer in Language, Truth and Logic, in which he sets out the distinction between "strong" and "weak" verification. "A proposition is said to be verifiable, in the strong sense of the term, if, and only if, its truth could be conclusively established by experience." (Ayer 1946:50) It is this sense of verifiable that causes the problem of verification with negative existential claims and positive universal claims. However, the weak sense of verification states that a proposition is "verifiable... if it is possible for experience to render it probable" (ibid.). After establishing this distinction, Ayer goes on to claim that "no proposition, other than a tautology, can possibly be anything more than a probable hypothesis" (Ayer 1946:51), and therefore can only be subject to weak verification. This defense was controversial among logical positivists, some of whom stuck to strong verification, and claimed that general propositions were indeed nonsense.
According to Hilary Putnam, a former student of Hans Reichenbach and Rudolf Carnap, making an observational/theoretical distinction is meaningless. The "received view" operates on the correspondence rule that states "The observational terms are taken as referring to specified phenomena or phenomenal properties, and the only interpretation given to the theoretical terms is their explicit definition provided by the correspondence rules". Putnam argues that introducing this dichotomy of observational terms and theoretical terms is the problem to start from. Putnam demonstrates this with four objections.
Subsequent philosophy of science tends to make use of certain aspects of both of these approaches. W. V. O. Quine criticized the distinction between analytic and synthetic statements and the reduction of meaningful statements to immediate experience. Work by Thomas Kuhn has claimed that it is not possible to provide truth conditions for science independent of its historical paradigm. But even this criticism was not unknown to the logical positivists: Otto Neurath compared science to a boat which we must rebuild on the open sea.
Logical positivism spread throughout almost the entire western world. It was disseminated throughout the European continent. It was spread to Britain by the influence of A. J. Ayer. And later, it was brought to American universities by members of the Vienna Circle after they fled Europe and settled in America during and after WWII.
Logical positivism was essential to the development of early analytic philosophy. The term subsequently came to be almost interchangeable with "analytic philosophy" in the first half of the twentieth century.
Logical positivism was immensely influential in the philosophy of language and represented the dominant philosophy of science between World War I and the Cold War.


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I have always had a strong fondness for vampire films. Honestly, much of the vampire films these days are full of cliché and while most of them does attempt at something original, they all have one common denominator; to induce HORROR. Well, Sweden seems to have mastered an original take on the vampire lore and yes, this film has been marked to be "Americanized" very soon. "Let the Right One In" is a film adapted from the novel and written for the screen by John Ajvide Lindqvist with very powerful direction by Thomas Alfredson. Rather than a vampire film geared to induce scares, this film is heavy on mood that will definitely terrify and touch our very hearts.
Oskar (Kare Hedebrant) is a 12-year old boy whose parents are separated, he collects news clippings, and who gets bullied in school by his classmates. He usually wanders his apartment grounds at night while pining for vengeance against his tormentors. One evening, he meets Eli (superbly played by Lina Leanderson), a mysterious young girl of the same age with whom Oskar forms a provisional friendship. The two become quite close, as bizarre murders begin to run rampant in their community. Eli is a girl with powers that Oskar can barely understand, and she sees Oskar as an innocent, kindly soul worth preserving. Oskar sees Eli as his friend and confidant, as he becomes attracted to her. However, Eli has been twelve for quite a long time--she is a vampire. Their world is about to fall apart as things begin to spiral out of control.
Ever wonder what would happen if a 12 year old girl is turned into a vampire at such an early age? Being an immortal stuck at this pre-teen age can become quite complicated. Well, this Swedish vampire tale attempts to answer that question. The film is a moody affair and is full of hauntingly effective emotions. The film's main focus is the relationship between Eli and Oskar, and Eli as an immortal with a tortured soul and a conscience. "..Right One" observes the naïve sensuality between pre-teens and the brutality of having to kill to survive. As an immortal, Eli is longing for companionship, there is a subtle hint that the man who brought her into Oskar's apartment complex isn't exactly her father but that definition isn't really revealed which gives Eli a sense of being an enigma.
Eli isn't a villain, but rather also a victim. It was wise for the screenplay to treat her as another casualty rather than the antagonist--her situation itself is the film's "bad guy". "..Right One" is also a thematic affair in regards to isolation, loneliness as reflected by our two leads, and an empty life to live that requires viciousness to survive. The direction has a methodical approach, as it slowly brings Eli and Oskar together, introduces the violence without any elucidation to build on the film's psychological impact. Director Alfredson cleverly plays on how each scene of violence is shown, the violence is brutal but never for a minute do we forget about feeling sympathetic to Eli's situation. He allows the sympathy to steadily build within his audience but never for a minute does he forget to hold the viewer's interest. The way the film is shot is a form of minimalism, it avoids fancy camera shots, it lingers on some scenes to convey its mood and uses a lot of perspective. The film looks gorgeous, and the atmosphere has that darkly foreboding look that exudes sympathy accentuated further by its soundtrack.
Of course, the film does have its dose of blood and gore, but it is very calculated. Most of it occur throughout the film as it builds towards its excellent climax. "..Right One" also has the usual rules that apply to vampires; vulnerability to sunlight, dependence on blood for sustenance, the usual powers, and the need to be invited to one's home. (It was quite interesting to see what happens to a vampire when they aren't invited to come in one's home). Eli kills her prey after she gets her fill, she doesn't want to turn anyone and she only kills because she has to. The performances by Lina Leanderson and Kare Hedebrant is just brilliant with their simplicity and the two never for a moment falter in showing their age. Their awkward but endearing relationship is the film's showstopper as it endears, charms, frightens and explores the boundaries of their friendship.
Now, don't think that Alfredson and Lindqvist does nothing else with the script. When we aren't watching Eli and Oskar, we become privy to the paranoid community as they talk and gossip about the murders. The film goes into poetic visceral overdrive as a mistake becomes the turning point for our young leads and all hell threatens everything and turns the wheels of destiny.
I highly doubt that this film would translate well in becoming "Americanized" in its intended remake, given its very distinct European roots (as with the case with Asian Horror). "Let the Right One In" perfectly balances visceral punch with thrilling emotions that takes its brutality into sincere purity. The film takes some chances and I commend it for asking us to forgive a child and to accept her form of evil--to give her a show of compassion and sympathy. The film is grisly, grotesque, unnervingly beautiful and gentle, and is a welcome installment in vampire lore. It features the concerns of pre-teens mixing it in with waiflike atmosphere. It is one dishearteningly stupendous art house horror film!
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Over 1 500 jobs were created during implementation of 401 food security projects to alleviate poverty and provide food to needy households across the North West province, Premier Thandi Modise revealed during the State of the Province Address on Friday.
"The vision of the National Development Plan is that people should be able to access high-quality basic services that enable them to be well nourished, healthy and increasingly skilled, North West has proved to be on par," said Premier Modise.
The Premier reported that the provincial government had also launched the new revitalised Kgora Farmer Training Centre to serve as a world class, accredited, income-generating farmer training centre that emulates "learning by doing" for emerging farmers.
Training offered at the centre focuses on household food security, primary production and agro-processing value adding, with the view to reduce poverty, create decent employment and improve rural livelihood.
Other milestones that were highlighted by Modise included the launched Mahikeng and Taung Farmers markets to improve access to the markets for smallholder producers. The provincial department of Agriculture and Rural Development is looking into the feasibility of the projects to be launched in Dr Kenneth Kaunda and Bojanala Platinum, districts later this year.
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He was born February 24, 1928 in Burnsville, WV and was the son of the late Skiler and Lovie (Greathouse) McClain.
Earl was a heavy equipment operator for Babcock & Wilcox for 30 years and retired in 1979. He was a member of Community Gospel Tabernacle Church in Barberton, a member of the Masonic Lodge and was a U.S. Army veteran of WWII. He enjoyed the outdoors, carpentry and was a "Mr. fix it".
In addition to his parents Earl was preceded in death by his wife Leona (Riffle) McClain who passed away in 1996; one daughter Shirley; one son Ralph; one sister Glenda; five brothers, Pat, Burt, Delbert, Steve and Roy; two grandsons, Michael and Josh.
He is survived by one daughter Tammy (Michael) Osborne of Salesville; one brother Sam (Betty) McClain of Lakemore; two sisters, Elanor Reese and Mae Johnson both of Burnsville, WV; six grandchildren, Angela (James McKelvey), Michelle (Frank Jr.) Dickey, Ryan (Fiancé Bobbie Mason) ,Dakoda, Shawna (John) Parker Sr. and Scott; four great grandchildren, Timothy, Natalie, Hannah and Johnny Jr.; one daughter in law Peggy McGague of Quaker City; several nieces and nephews.
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Making a cup of tea is not supposed to hurt. One morning, as I filled my kettle, the lid's plastic knob broke off in my hand, leaving a hole beneath. It meant steam would scald my fingers every time I poured. Hardly a tragedy, you may say, but it was a daily irritation.
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Previous: Kentucky 69, Louisville 61
On the heels of a 69-61 win over in-state rival Louisville, Kentucky advanced to the national championship game for the 11th time in school history and the first time since the Cats won the 1998 national championship.
Anthony Davis tallied his 20th double-double with 18 points and 14 rebounds while adding five blocked shots.
Darius Miller (13) and Doron Lamb (10) also scored in double-figures for the Wildcats, while Marquis Teague dished out a game-high five assists.
The Wildcats shot 57.1 percent from the field, while holding Louisville to just 34.8 percent.
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This is the 27th meeting between Kentucky and Kansas. Kentucky is 20-6 all-time against Kansas.
The last meeting in the series came earlier this season when the Wildcats defeated the Jayhawks 75-65 in the Champions Classic in Madison Square Garden.
Kansas has won three of the last four in the series.
John Calipari collected his first win against the Jayhawks in the win in November. However his most memorable game against Kansas came in the 2008 NCAA title game while he was with Memphis.
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Do you use your PlayStation 3 to stream Netflix content? According to Sony and Netflix, you're not alone.
The two companies announced that that the Playstation 3 was the largest TC-connected platform for viewing Netflix content.
"PS3 is our largest TV-connected platform in terms of Netflix viewing, and this year, at times, even surpassed the PC in hours of Netflix enjoyment to become our No. 1 platform overall," said Reed Hastings, Netflix CEO. "PS3 is a natural fit for Netflix in terms of developing and first deploying our most advanced features. We can transparently update our application with new features on a daily basis, and through the free PlayStation Network, people around the world can sign up for Netflix directly from their PS3."
The PlayStation 3 wasn't even the first console to offer Netflix on their devices, with the Xbox 360 being the first console to offer this. Sony though say that because they were the first to offer Netflix in 1080p, they are the number 1 streaming device.
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But the owner of this curious cockatiel has revealed the animal is also addicted to her iPad, mobile phone and TV.
Strood beauty therapist Usha Sheikh's pet Ghugi constantly wants to play with and perch on her gadgets.
The 60-year-old, of Leybourne Road, said the 10-month-old female cockatiel wants to keep at the cutting edge of technology.
Mrs Sheikh said: "She is very sharp and always curious to learn tricks.
"This makes me very happy when she plays with my newspaper, mobile phone or watch TV. She is a very social bird."
And although Ghugi has a lot of love for Mrs Sheikh, it is her husband who is the animal's favourite.
"She likes men," she said. "When my husband is around, she doesn't want me to touch or sit near my husband. That doesn't bother me - we just laugh."
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The Internet Sales Tax proposal, backed by (often-rightfully) dying brick-and-mortar establishments and bloated state governments, will force any individual or business who sells a product online to collect sales taxes in any jurisdiction. There are 9,600 state and local systems of taxation which any individual who wishes to sell a product online will have to comprehend, and the consumers of online products will pay.
In 1992, the Supreme Court ruled in Quill Corps v. North Dakota that Internet sales taxes can only be levied if the seller has a physical presence in the same state as the buyer.
In defiance of the Supreme Court, both Democrats and Republicans are promoting the "Marketplace 'Fairness' Act", appealing to the "fairness" promoted by liberals and Occupy Wall Street protesters (along the lines of "fair trade" and "Fairness Doctrine"). Supporters of the Left's concept of "fairness" are also exploiting nostalgic feelings of "your favorite store", which are among the numerous anti-capitalist tactics the Hollywood Mafia has used to outlaw, attempt to outlaw, or regulate in their favor every new technology since the piano roll.
In the past, Congress sought constitutional amendments when the Supreme Court ruled something unconstitutional. This is why we have a Sixteenth Amendment – the Supreme Court ruled in 1895 that direct income tax was unconstitutional, and a change was required to add that ability to the federal government.
As if Washington's epidemic of selective enforcement of self-interpreted laws wasn't bad enough, never mind their blatant disregard for freedom in general, Congress is now, in the same vein as the Russian government's permitting perpetual terms for Putin, defying the Supreme Court and the Constitution.
But if Republicans are to defy the Supreme Court on a taxation issue, why not defy the Supreme Court on their sanctioned genocide of millions of unwanted American individuals, that is, abortion?
Abortion has killed over 53 million individuals, a death toll equivalent to at least eight Holocausts. Republicans have promised for decades to outlaw this domestic genocide, yet have only given conservatives a few breadcrumbs.
Why are Republicans allowing this? Because Republican politicians are all pro-choice. The medical establishment, which funds all politicians of both parties, supports abortion. Big Pharma gets more money for every individual they abort, in the same manner that technologically incompetent retailers make money with every new item they sell. And just like Occupy Wall Street's "Fairness" taxes, legalized abortion and its accompanying lie of "freedom of choice" enables Big Pharma to make more money.
Republican politicians are some of the most vocal promoters of abortion, and many fall victim to their tricks. Here are several of the tricks Republican politicians use to mislead Republican voters:
- Trade Agreements Are Only About Trade. Notice how Latin American countries have been legalizing abortion one-by-one in recent years? We have Bush II's CAFTA (Central American Free Trade Agreement), supported by Bush II's bicameral Republican Congress, to thank for this.
- "Repeal Roe v Wade" (or, the Paul Family Con). Here we have people like Ron & Rand Paul who claim to be pro-life, but want abortion to be a "states' rights issue". Like slavery, states would decide who qualifies as a full, partial, or non-person, and like Jim Crow, who would be separate and who would be equal.
- Establishment Platform Plank Scam. Popular among Mitt Romney, Chris Christie, and others in the Republican elite who have the final say in the Republican platform. Here legalized abortion is encouraged in cases of rape or incest. In other words, legalizing the killing of an individual when the individual's birth and/or any associated consequences are unwanted – the pro-choice justification for legalizing all abortions.
- Catholic District Doublespeak. "I'm pro-life but the woman should decide", "I will vote pro-life regardless of my personal views", etc. This garbage has long been popular among Democrats, and now Republicans are starting to pull this too.
- Hidden Gas Chambers. This involves legislation to make abortion more "humane", as how the electric chair was replaced by the gas chambers. Examples include banning only partial-birth abortions and pumping in anesthesia before the abortion.
America is on a dangerous path, and if Congress and the President are allowed to defy the Supreme Court by fiat, America will become a nightmare. If our anti-new-company, anti-individual-freedom government will be using Occupy Wall Street "fairness" tactics to make the American economy less free, tomorrow it can be Putin-style infinite terms and Chinese-style amputation of rebellious workers' arms.
And if it must be this way, we must demand that Republican politicians outlaw abortion, or they will be exposed as pro-choice liars, which intelligent Republican voters know they already are.
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If the average person were to walk up to Katie Hoff tomorrow and explain in a calm and rational voice that, at age 16, after the year she has had, Hoff might have earned the right to call herself the best female swimmer in the world, her reaction would likely be something like this: nervous laughter, some significant eye rolling, plenty of blushing, then most importantly, denial, denial, denial.
The affable Hoff - who lives in Towson and trains at the North Baltimore Aquatic Club - doesn't do cocky, which is just fine, because her accomplishments do all the boasting necessary. After winning gold medals in the 200- and 400-meter individual medleys at the FINA World Championships last summer, plus another as a member of the United States' 800 relay team, Hoff has been the toast of the swimming world. Last week, she was named SportsWoman of the Year by the United States Olympic Committee, the first time a swimmer has received that award since Jenny Thompson in 1999.


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NED President Carl Gershman Honored by South Korean Government
On Feb. 7, the South Korean government presented NED President Carl Gershman with the Order of Diplomatic Service 'Heungin' Medal in recognition of his work for North Korean human rights. The ceremony took place at the South Korean Embassy in Washington, DC, and was presided over by Ambassador Han Duk-soo (pictured here with Gershman, right). The medal, which had been conferred in Dec. 2011, was the result of recommendations from 12 South Korean human rights groups, including grantees Citizen's Alliance for North Korean Human Rights and NKnet.
Gershman was subsequently honored by grantees during a visit to South Korea.
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Captain blames Wagner for Natalie Wood death
LOS ANGELES A yacht captain said on national TV Friday that he lied to investigators about Natalie Wood's mysterious death 30 years ago and blames the actress' husband at the time, Robert Wagner, for her drowning in the ocean off Southern California.
The circumstances of her death remain one of Hollywood's enduring mysteries and continue to create renewed intrigue, with homicide detectives on Thursday unexpectedly re-opening the case that had long been classified as a tragic accident.
A Los Angeles County sheriff's detective will speak to reporters Friday about the decision to take another look at the Oscar-nominated actress' nighttime demise in the chilly waters off Southern California on Nov. 29, 1981. Wood drowned after spending several hours drinking on Catalina Island in a yacht with Wagner, fellow actor Christopher Walken and the ship's captain, Dennis Davern.
Davern, skipper of the Splendour, told NBC's "Today" show on Friday that he made mistakes by not telling the truth about events leading to the Thanksgiving weekend death and had urged Los Angeles County sheriff's homicide investigators to reopen the case. It is the latest attempt by Davern to change the official account of what happened in the hours before Wood's death.
"Was the fight between Natalie Wood and her husband Robert Wagner what ultimately led to her death?" show host David Gregory asked.
"Yes," Davern replied.
"How so?"
"Like I said, that's going to be up to the investigators to decide," the captain said after a long pause.
Davern said he believes Wagner had intentionally kept the investigation into Wood's death low profile and didn't do everything he could have done. When Gregory pressed Davern for supporting details, the captain said that was the duty of investigators.
Davern has said for years that the official account of Wood's disappearance was not what really happened, including in a 1992 appearance on a Geraldo Rivera special and in a 2000 Vanity Fair piece. He also worked with author and friend Marti Rulli on "Goodbye Natalie, Goodbye Splendour," a book released last year.
Wagner spokesman Alan Nierob said Friday a statement he released Thursday spoke for itself.
"Although no one in the Wagner family has heard from the LA County Sheriff's department about this matter, they fully support the efforts of the LA County Sheriff's Dept. and trust they will evaluate whether any new information relating to the death of Natalie Wood Wagner is valid, and that it comes from a credible source or sources other than those simply trying to profit from the 30 year anniversary of her tragic death," Nierob wrote in the statement.
Davern denied he was motivated to speak out for profit.
Sheriff's spokesman Steve Whitmore said Thursday the renewed inquiry was prompted by unspecified new information about Woods' case. The Los Angeles Times reported that Los Angeles Sheriff Lee Baca said detectives want to talk to Davern and that he had "made comments worthy of exploring." The paper said the agency had also received information from an unidentified third party.


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2. Address unnecessary legal barriers, particularly relating to the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, that may prevent states from making information available to the background check system.
3. Improve incentives for states to share information with the background check system.
4. Direct the Attorney General to review categories of individuals prohibited from having a gun to make sure dangerous people are not slipping through the cracks.
5. Propose rulemaking to give law enforcement the ability to run a full background check on an individual before returning a seized gun.
What's wrong with these?
These are dangerous as it puts health officials in a position to as patients if they have fireams. It has nothing to do with health, but allows government to locate gun owners.
21. Finalize regulations clarifying essential health benefits and parity requirements within ACA exchanges.
22. Commit to finalizing mental health parity regulations.
16. Clarify that the Affordable Care Act does not prohibit doctors asking their patients about guns in their homes.
14. Issue a Presidential Memorandum directing the Centers for Disease Control to research the causes and prevention of gun violence.
First two don't seem to have anything to do with guns.
Third one i dunno. it doesn't instruct doctors to ask, however, which it would if it was supposedly as tyrannical as you'd like to think.
Fourth one is also sketchy. But frankly if i were living in the US i'd be wondering if gun-nuttiness was some kind of transmittable mental disease too.
These are an attempt to take more states rights. Now, many states perform the background checks on there own, Just another power grab.
1. Issue a Presidential Memorandum to require federal agencies to make relevant data available to the federal background check system.
Just BS as millions of backgrounds are performed every year and even I know how to perform them.
6. Publish a letter from ATF to federally licensed gun dealers providing guidance on how to run background checks for private sellers.
First one is strictly about federal agencies. Has nothing to do with individual states.
Second one is redundant. Still has nothing to do with state rights.
That's enough. Most, if not all of these, are redundant – they add nothing of particular significance to current legislation; I've seen UN resolutions with more teeth. There is no power-grab here…while you're complaining about needles in a haystack, you've got indefinite detention for any citizen still on the books in 2013. That's a cause of concern, that's actual tyranny. This, on the other hand, is just an excuse to bitch about obama. There are far better reasons to bitch about him then watered-down EO's that do next to nothing to prevent you from shooting anyone, anytime, anyplace. You Americans are soaked in gun liberty. It's your other civil rights you should be worried about.


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The Convener of Ardrishgaig Community Council, Edward Laughton, has written to the CEO of Argyll and Bute Council questioning the effective competence of the council's timetable for community council by-elections.
Nine community councils are currently to see by-elections.
Mr Laughton's key point is that the tightness of the scheduled time makes it hard to recruit informed nominees.
Consequently he is asking for the by-elections to be postponed for one month to allow for already scheduled meetings of community councils to address the issue with local residents and attract nominees.
He notes that the web address given on the hard copy of a downloaded nomination pack on community councils was given as www.argyll-bute.gov.uk/communitycouncils
Following this took him to last years by-election.
This is the sort of pervasive carelessness with public information shared by Argyll and Bute Council with government at all levels.
The Ardrishaig letter to the council CEO is here: ACCbyelectionsComplaint


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Very good! I used left-over roast chicken instead of rotisserie, but otherwise followed exactly. Love tarragon, but think it could use a little less, and a few more mushrooms. Needs a deep s...
Loved it! I had no green onions or tarragon, and used white onion instead. The taste would have been better with the green! Otherwise, I kept everything to a tee. Thanks for sharing this recipe!
Very good. I would however leave the nutmeg out next time, because I don't like it. I could still taste it. But otherwise very good.


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Now that New Directions's edition of The Unfortunates is starting to get reviews, I wonder: Is everyone reading the same book?
The idea behind the book is that it's a collection of unbound signatures that you pick from randomly and read in whatever order chance dictates (only the first and last ones are designated, and those you're supposed to read as assigned).
So I wonder, is everyone here working with the same text?
I've so far seen two reviews of this book. Benjamin Lytal's review has its virtues, but noticeably lacking is a consideration of what it means to review a book that your readers will likely never read, even if they read it.
John Lingan in Splice Today comment much more thoroughly on the book's structure. And, although he does consider the question at hand, he seems to dismiss it rather quickly:
Regardless of what order the reader assembles these chapters in, however, the dramatic thrust of The Unfortunates isn't likely to change; the writing is all first person, comma-heavy stream of consciousness. Each chapter typically corresponds to a specific recollection, such as the friends' first meeting or the narrator's late visit to the hospital, and while they contain beautiful passages individually, the novel's power comes from their accumulation. Together, in whatever order, they form a dual portrait of the narrator's attempt to write well about a dull football match, and the difficulty imposed on that goal by the haunting memories that accompany the match's hosting city. . . .
Try reading it simultaneously with a friend, as would no doubt heighten
the touching—and entirely unromanticized—reflections on friendship that
Johnson offers. You'd be reading a physically different book as you
technically read the same one, just as the narrator reflects that,
"everything we know about someone is perhaps not the same, even
radically different from what others, another, may seem or understand
about them, him."
Perhaps this is true–that whatever order you read it in the experience is more or less equal. But then if this is true, I wonder if Jonson didn't fail at what he attempted. Because the book does seem to be about encountering the same person differently. Or maybe it's really about how people are more or less the same, even when encountered differently.
I guess I should read the book for myself.
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