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RIDGWAY - A year-long investigation of drug trafficking in Elk County spearheaded by the Ridgway Borough Police in conjunction with the Office of Attorney General's Municipal Drug Task Force has culminated in the arrests of nine county residents charged with various drug violations.
JOHNSONBURG - Two Johnsonburg men have been arrested and charged with sexually assaulting a 15-year-old girl whom they picked up outside a slumber party at a St. Marys home.
Mary H. Marroni, 87, of Wexford House, Kingsport, Tenn., and formerly of St. Marys, Johnsonburg and Ridgway, died Monday morning, Nov. 12, 2012 at Wexford House in Kingsport, Tenn. following a lengthy illness.
She was born on Nov. 1, 1925 in Ridgway, the daughter of the late Joseph P. and Eleanor Rosaria Tegano. On June 9, 1943, she married Earnest J. Marroni, who preceded her in death on Oct. 4, 1965.
William E. Barrett, 87, of 316 N. Michael St., St. Marys, died on Saturday, Nov. 10, 2012 at Highland View Health Care in Brockway.
He was born Jan. 29, 1925 in Bellefonte, a son of the late William E. and Elmira M. Cain Barrett.
On June 6, 1959 in St. Mary's Catholic Church, he married the late Marilyn Hammer Barrett, who preceded him in death on June 5, 1996.
Russell (Rusty) Auman, 63, formerly of St. Marys, died on Friday, Nov. 9, 2012 at his home in Puyallup, Wash. after a long battle with MS.
He was born in St. Marys on Aug. 1, 1949, son of the late Marinus and Doris (Fritz) Auman. He was married to Lori (Barnhouse) Auman, who preceded him in death on Dec. 31, 2002.
He was a veteran of the U.S. Army.
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ST. MARYS - The St. Marys Area School District Board of Directors voted Monday to table a contentious plan to demolish an unused portion of the Bennetts Valley Elementary School.
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LONDON (AP) - The Rolling Stones made a triumphant return to the London stage on Sunday night in the first of five concerts to mark the 50th anniversary of their debut as an American-oriented blues band.
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Bella Swan, James Bond and Abe Lincoln have combined to lift Hollywood to record Thanksgiving revenue at the box office.
COLUMBIA - The Columbia State Historic Park's annual Lamplight Tours take place Friday, Nov. 30, and Saturday, Dec. 1.
Tickets are going fast for the biggest holiday party in Manteca - the 33rd annual Manteca Soroptimists Holiday Affair.
JACKSON – Tickets are on sale now for The Whispers concert at the Jackson Rancheria Casino Resort on Sunday, Jan. 20.
MODESTO – The Modesto Junior College Theatre Department will present Elephant's Graveyard on Nov. 30, Dec. 1, 6, 7, 8 at 7:30 p.m. and Dec. 9 at 2 p.m. in the Little Theatre in the Media and Performing Arts Center on College Avenue in Modesto.
MODESTO - The Modesto Junior College Department of Music will present "Electronic Oscillations" on Wednesday, Dec. 5, at 7:30 p.m. in the Music Recital Hall. The concert will feature original electronic music compositions created by student composers from MJC's Advanced Electronic Music Class.
MODESTO – The Modesto Junior College Civic Engagement Project Fall Film & Lecture Series will offer a free showing of the film Miss Representation on Thursday, November 29 at 7 p.m. in Forum 110 on East Campus. The film will be followed by a discussion.
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Justin Bieber is thanking his haters.
LOS ANGELES (AP) - The sun has set on the "Twilight" franchise with one last blockbuster opening for the supernatural romance.
STOCKTON - "White Christmas" is Stockton Civic Theatre's offering for this holiday season.
STOCKTON - The Sacramento Gay Men's Chorus returns to perform their Light Your World concert in the sanctuary of Central United Methodist Church on Saturday, Dec. 8, at 4 p.m.
STOCKTON - Stockton Civic Theatre has cast its first show of 2013, the madcap, screwball comedy "Lend Me A Tenor," scheduled to open on Jan. 9.
MODETSO ─ The Modesto Junior College Music Department will present a Fall String Recital on Thursday, Nov. 29, at 7:30 p.m. in the Music Recital Hall on East Campus. Admission is free; however, donations are gratefully accepted.
MODESTO - The Modesto Junior College Department of Music will present "Electronic Oscillations" on Wednesday, Dec. 5. at 7:30 p.m. in the Music Recital Hall.
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Colony Oak Elementary School's 7th grade is having a garden sale. All of the plants are grown at the school and taken care of by kids. The sale will be held in the school parking lot today, from 1:30 to 3:30 p.m.
SONORA - Fast-moving comedy comes to the East Sonora stage May 29 through June 28 in Sierra Repertory Theatre's "Unnecessary Farce."
NEW YORK (AP) - You don't think of David Letterman as a stop-and-smell-the-flowers type, but here he is, at a major turning point yet savoring his chocolate milkshake.
STOCKTON - The Stockton Opera p presents Die Fledermaus for two performances on May 29 and 31.
Music Director David Lockington will lead the Modesto Symphony Orchestra, the Modesto Symphony Chorus and the CSU Stanislaus Concert Chorale & Chamber Singers in Ralph Vaughan Williams' · Symphony No. 1, "A Sea Symphony" on Friday, May 15, and Saturday, May 16, at 8 p.m. at the Gallo Center for the Arts , 1001 I St., in Modesto.
MODESTO - Modesto Junior College Athletics and the Associated Students of Modesto Junior College (ASMJC) present a Hawaiian Concert Night on Friday, May 22, at 6 p.m. in the Auditorium of the Performing and Media Arts Center on East Campus, 435 College Avenue, Modesto.
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|Edvard Munch: Self-Portrait after Spanish Influenza (1919)
(During recovery)
|Edvard Munch: Self-Portrait after Spanish Influenza (1919)
(Later in recovery)
|The horse plague — sketches about town during the epidemic, by Theodore R. Davis. From Harper's weekly : a journal of civilization. 1872
On the evening of October 21st only a few animals were affected, but on the morning of the 22d there was scarcely an animal of the equine species that was not affected. Horses, mules, and even a zebra. More than twenty thousand were suffering in different degrees. 1
(See also Influenza before 1918, part II: 1872)
|"A terrified man realizing he has just contracted the plague, surrounded by a group of people."
By E.M. Ward, 1848.
Even the most lethal pathogens we know of don't kill every single infected individual.1. Sometimes this is because the pathogen that infects the person is relatively weak. Sometimes it's because the dose was low. And sometimes it's because of something intrinsic to the patient. Some people are genetically resistant to HIV, because they have a mutated receptor, for example.
The opposite is also true. Sometimes people are more intrinsically susceptible to a pathogen. That became terribly clear during the AIDS epidemic, when quite innocuous agents started killing people, but there are probably many, many natural genetic variants that make us susceptible to some pathogens, just as some make us resistant. When epidemiologists look for "risk factors" that increase mortality or disease severity, this is part of the information they're trying to tease out, in a rather crude way Sorting this out is part of the goal of the whole personalized medicine movement.
A fascinating example was just documented in MMWR. 2 Here a researcher was working with a genetically modified form of Black Plague bacteria (Yersinia pestis). This bacteria should have been harmless, because it had had its ability to grab iron from the host removed. 3. But the researcher became infected, and died, of an infection with the weakened strain.
We now learn that this was probably because the researcher had his own genetic mutation, hereditary hematochromatosis, which leads to increased levels of iron in the blood. He may4 have been uniquely susceptible to this strain,5 which could only infect people who conveniently made extra iron available to it:
Conceivably, hemochromatosis-induced iron overload might have a similar effect, enhancing the virulence of the infecting KIM D27 strain by compensating for its iron-acquisition defects6
Patients and pathogens are ecosystems; you need to understand both of them, or you don't understand either.
Then, it would seem to have been all but unanimous; and now, one would think, at first sight, that it were almost an insult to human understanding to be obliged to collect statistics to prove that vaccination confers a large exemption from attacks of small pox, and almost absolute security against death from that disease. … The general ignorance of the community, especially of the lower orders, as to the aim and object of vaccination, is lamentably great, and has still to be overcome.
–William Aitken
The Science and Practice of Medicine, Vol. I (Second edition)
Charles Griffin and Company, London, 1863
As I've noted several times before, regulatory T cells are important reasons for the poor immune response to tumors. TRegs are normal components of an immune response, "designed" to keep inflammation from running riot in general and to prevent responses to self-antigens in particular. Whether it's because tumors are mostly (though not solely) self antigens, because tumors are chronic sources of stimulation that could lead to inflammation running riot, or because tumors "learn" how to specifically trigger TReg-like responses, TRegs are common features of tumors.
Eliminating TRegs, in mouse models of cancer, often allows a strong immune response to the tumor. An interesting spin on this was shown in a recent J Immunol paper.1 It seems that the TRegs don't generally suppress all the response, they shut down the responses to some targets harder than others:
Our results indicate, therefore, that depletion of Tregs uncovers cryptic responses to Ags that are shared among different tumor cell lines. CT26-specific T cell responses can be elicited by different forms of vaccination in the presence of regulatory cells, but in these cases T cell responses are highly focused on a single tumor-specific epitope …Taken together, these data suggest that immune responses to some Ags are more tightly regulated than others. 1
In other words, even though you might be able to force a protective immune response to a tumor by vaccinating in the presence of TRegs, when you get rid of TRegs the response is broader, and targets T cell epitopes that otherwise wouldn't look like they're epitopes at all.
I wonder if this goes on with "normal" (say, viral or other non-tumor) epitopes – whether this sort of thing might help explain some forms of immunodominance. I kind of doubt it, but the phenomenon does sounds a little like revealing a subdominant response.
I wonder also how this ties in with a recent paper that suggested TRegs in tumors are highly focused on a small subset of tumor epitopes. Could they be more broadly-based, but on epitopes that are otherwise invisible? Again, I kind of doubt it, but it's an intriguing idea. Maybe the universe of tumor epitopes available for attack is much larger than we realize.
NASA's shameful analysis of the alleged bacteria in the Mars meteorite made me very suspicious of their microbiology, an attitude that's only strengthened by my reading of this paper.
—Rosie Redfield reviews the NASA arsenic-in-bacteria paper.
Read it.
|Worldwide HIV/AIDs Epidemic Statistics
(We are in the process of selling one home and buying another, while at work I just finished organizing a course on biosecurity for an international group. In the upcoming week I'm traveling to a conference in Washington. To say nothing of the Thanksgiving holiday. All this means short and scarce updates for a little while.)
We know that the immune response to HIV forces the virus to evolve at great speeds, so that the viral targets of the immune response change and become at least temporarily invisible. We also know that the specific targets are different for almost every infected person. So although you have rapid evolution in each individual, what does this mean to overall evolution of the global population of HIV?
The several dozen CTL epitopes we survey from HIV-1 gag, RT and nef reveal a relatively sedate rate of evolution with average rates of escape measured in years and reversion in decades. For many epitopes in HIV, occasional rapid within-host evolution is not reflected in fast evolution at the population level.1
(My emphasis) This is a modeling study (though it did look at real-life data to some extent), but their conclusion is consistent with larger-scale population studies as well; see my previous post here and links therein.
|RINDERPEST. Lips and gums, showing apthous condition1
1711 (via 1902):
Rinderpest is the most fatal disease affecting cattle. … The first great epizootic of which there seems to be records occurred about 1709 and spread over nearly all of the countries of Europe. It is reported that 1,500,000 cattle died from its effects during the years from 1711 to 1714. 2
1839 (via 1861):
Previously to the present century the only well recognized epizootics that are known to have prevailed extensively among horned cattle in Europe were the Eczema Epizootica, or "mouth and foot disease", a complaint well known in England since the year 1839, and the terrible Rinderpest or Steppe murrain.
This last named disease, which is described as being of the nature of a highly infections typhus fever, terminating in dysentary, is said to be indigenous to the Steppes of Tartary and Siberia, from whence it has descended, from time to time, upon Russia, Germany, and other European countries.
It has been estimated that during the eighteenth century the Rinderpest destroyed, in Europe, as many as two hundred millions of cattle.3
1865 (via 1880) :
In 1865 the plague appeared in Holland, and was carried thence to England. In both countries the disease carried off one hundred thousand head of cattle in the course of a few months.4
1889 (via 1909):
About the year 1889, or shortly before, a virulent form of rinderpest started among the domestic cattle and wild buffalo almost at the northern border of the buffalo's range, and within the next few years worked gradually southward to beyond the Zambesi. It wrought dreadful havoc among the cattle and in consequence decimated by starvation many of the cattle-owning tribes; it killed many of the large bovine antelopes, and it wellnigh exterminated the buffalo.5
14 October 2010, Rome – An ambitious global effort that has brought rinderpest, a deadly cattle plague, to the brink of extinction is ending all field activities, paving the way for official eradication of the disease.6
John Hawks1 has a long and very interesting post on the human mutation rate — not just the actual number (which turns out to be less well documented and much more slippery than I had realized), but the techniques used to calculate the rate, and difficulties therein.
So much of the literature in this area is ultimately circular, I'm pulling out my sparse hair reading through it. By the time we get back to the mid-1990's, the sequence data are even sparser than my hair by today's standards — only a few hundred base pairs, or a sampling of restriction sites. But the divergence time estimates have propagated forward from that time to today, recycled through the assumptions of papers in the intervening time. It's like the genetic equivalent of money laundering!
Conceptually, it's very reminiscent of the questions about viral mutation rates, although the technical barriers are quite different and (especially for RNA viruses!) the mutation rates are vastly different. For example, Hawks' post talks about which edge of a two-fold range the human mutation rate falls on — between 2.5 x 10-8 and 1.1 x 10-8 mutations per site; in a table I've used before we see a ten-thousand-fold range for poliovirus error rate estimates.
|RNA virus mutation rates 2
I have to get my kids ready for school now, so I don't have time to talk about the techniques here — it's notable that sequencing, though much easier on the tiny viral genomes than on the much vaster human scale, hasn't completely resolved the issue, though the variation gets smaller as sequencing technology gets getter.
Here are some of my previous posts that mention replication error and mutation rates …
|T cells (green) and herpesvirus-infected cells (red)
(from Akiko Iwasaki)
We know that lots of viruses, especially herpesviruses, block antigen presentation. The assumption has been that they are thereby preventing T cells from recognizing infected cells, though long-term readers of this blog1 will know that I've been puzzled about the details of this for quite a while.
A recent paper2 raises yet another complication for this pathway: In humans3 there are T cells that specifically recognize cells in which antigen presentation is blocked:
Our data indicate that the human CD8+ T cell pool comprises a diverse reactivity to target cells with impairments in the intracellular processing pathway2
If so, you might wonder why the viruses would bother blocking antigen presentation. They might avoid recognition by T cells specific for the viral proteins, but at the cost of being recognized and eliminated by the T cells that recognize antigen-presentation-defective cells.
As always, I don't have an answer. I do have the unhelpful observation that viruses are incredibly subtle and efficient, and given that herpesviruses have apparently maintained the ability to block antigen presentation for some 400 million years it's presumably useful to them. I'll also add the even more unhelpful observation that immune systems are also incredibly subtle and efficient and have also persisted for 450 million years.
However, there may be a clue in the techniques that Lampen et al used to turn up this subset of T cells: They used multiple rounds of stimulation, which is going to expand these cells massively. We don't know how abundant they are inside a normal human – perhaps they are so rare that they don't have a chance to impinge on herpesvirus infection early enough.
The catch with that, though, is that tumors also frequently get rid of antigen presentation via mutation; in fact, eliminating antigen presentation seems to be one of the most common forms of mutations in cancers, suggesting that it's an important part of their ability to survive and expand in the face of immune attack. Tumors are immunologically present much longer than viruses ((Although herpesviruses set up a lifelong infection, most of that is generally in a non-immunogenic, latent form). So why doesn't this long-term tumor presence lead to amplification of these antigen-presentation-deficient-specific T cells that would eliminate the tumor?
My guess here is that this is where TRegs come in. As I said in a recent post, TRegs are very commonly, if not universally, associated with tumors, and prevent immune attack on the tumor. I wonder if the tumors mutate to avoid T cell recognition early in their development, before they are able to trigger the TReg response; that allows them to grow large enough and long enough that by the time the presentation-defect-destroyers kick in, the tumors have their TReg defenders set up. (I admit that this doesn't account for the correlation between a tumor's loss of antigen presentation, and poor prognosis, but I leave this as an exercise for the reader.)
And, of course, where either of these defense systems for the proto-tumor fails, we normally would simply not see any tumor at all. Perhaps this is happening all the time inside us — proto-tumors are being eliminated by T cells, some are mutating their antigen presentation pathway and lasting a little longer and are then eliminated by a different subset of T cells, and we never know it.


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Bryan Brasher: Deer season is also poaching season
For most of us across the Mid-South, the opening day of deer season means we'll have our first chance in about eight months to climb into a tree stand and wait patiently for a deer to come browsing into gun range.
But for an unlucky few, the opening day of deer season is also the beginning of a four-month patrol with virtually no breaks.
Poaching is such a common problem in the Mid-South that each state's conservation department has a hotline set up for landowners to call when they find someone hunting illegally on their property.
When you buy a patch of hunting property and manage it for big, healthy whitetail bucks, you're managing for poachers, too.
They'll come just as sure as the deer do — and since the state conservation agencies don't have nearly enough manpower to keep the poachers at bay, some landowners are forced to become neighborhood watchmen from the moment the season opens at daylight until the day it closes at sunset.
It's a miserable situation.
Just imagine:
You've spent thousands of dollars on a choice piece of hunting property in western Tennessee.
In today's market, you may have spent hundreds of thousands or even millions.
You've spent more money grooming that property to create the perfect whitetail paradise. You've visited seminars and implemented advice from people who've devoted their lives to the topic.
You've grown some nice young bucks, and you've been patient the past few seasons as you've waited for one particular buck to reach true trophy status.
Then just before it's time for you to hunt that buck — your buck — you see a mysterious four-wheel-drive truck hastily leaving your property one night.
You find blood and guts.
You find hair.
You never see your buck again.
It happens to someone every season — and it can't help but lessen the resolve of well-meaning landowners and managers.
Many people are so afraid of poaching that they don't want their names or locations printed in the paper for fear they'll have their deer targeted more often or their lands vandalized by poachers they've already caught and prosecuted.
One landowner — Clay Canaday of West Tennessee — has always been open with me about the fact that he's caught and prosecuted more than two dozen poachers on his property. But he prefers that I remain vague about his actual whereabouts, and I gladly oblige.
I read an article the other day about a group of guys who were nervous about posting Quality Deer Management Association signs on their property for fear that it would increase poaching traffic.
The previous three paragraphs are a sad commentary on the state of our world.
It's almost like our best landowners have to hide their efforts for fear they'll fall into the cross hairs of people who simply refuse to do the work that's necessary to create good hunting property.
I wish it didn't have to be that way.
The officers from the Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency, the Arkansas Game and Fish Commission and the Mississippi Department of Wildlife, Fisheries and Parks are doing all they can to stop it.
The people who make the laws in each state are increasing the penalties and giving people more incentive to do things the right way.
Someday they'll get it stopped.
But until they do, all the best landowners and land managers will be forced to add "patrolling" to their list of things to do from October through January.
To reach reporter Bryan Brasher, call 901-529-2343; email: firstname.lastname@example.com. His blog can be found at MidsouthOutdoorsBlog.com or follow him at twitter.com/Bryan_Brasher.
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My friend and I went to the arthall in Rotterdam and saw an exhibition called ICON DRESSED designed by Annette Meyer, each garment was made of paper and represented a decade of women clothing from the 1800's till now. I was amazed by a garment which looked exactly like the dress Keira Knightley wore in Pride & Prejudice, I went home got into a romantic state of mind, converted that into creativity and made this.
Pull the ribbon through the casing using a safety pin. Pull tight and tie.
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I've done this for dance costumes and they came out great! I'm about to try this with sweatshirts. Wish me luck!
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TY for your instructions. I am going to make this for my daughter as a cover when she nurses her baby.
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Knox: "Painful" to have acquittal overturned
ROME Amanda Knox says it's "painful" to have her acquittal on murder charges overturned by Italy's highest criminal court but she's confident in the truth, and says remaining questions about her case must now be examined by objective and capable prosecutors.
In a statement Tuesday, Knox said the Perugia prosecutors' theory of her involvement in the murder of British roommate Meredith Kercher is "completely unfounded and unfair."
She says: "No matter what happens, my family and I will face this continuing legal battle as we always have, confident in the truth and with our heads held high in the face of wrongful accusations and unreasonable adversity."
THIS IS A BREAKING NEWS UPDATE. Check back soon for further information. AP's earlier story is below.
Italy's highest criminal court on Tuesday overturned the acquittal of Amanda Knox in the slaying of her British roommate and ordered a new trial, prolonging a case that has become a cause celebre in the U.S.
The Court of Cassation ruled that an appeals court in Florence must re-hear the case against the American and her Italian-ex-boyfriend for the murder of 21-year-old Meredith Kercher. The exact issues that have to be reconsidered won't be known until the court releases its full ruling.
Lawyers for Knox and her ex-boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito looked grim as they huddled with prosecutors and court officials to get details after the ruling was issued. Lawyers for the Kercher family said they had got what they wanted.
Kercher's body was found in November 2007 in her bedroom of the house she shared with Knox and others in Perugia, an Italian university town where the two women were exchange students. Her throat had been slashed.
Prosecutors alleged Kercher was the victim of a drug-fueled sex game gone awry. Knox and Sollecito denied wrongdoing and said they weren't even in the apartment that night, though they acknowledged they had smoked marijuana and their memories were clouded.
An Ivory Coast man, Rudy Guede, was convicted of the slaying in a separate proceeding and is serving a 16-year sentence. Knox and Sollecito were also initially convicted of the murder and given long prison sentences, but were then acquitted on appeal and released.
The high court's ruling Tuesday overturns the appeals court acquittals.
Italian law cannot compel Knox to return from the U.S. for the new trial. The appellate court hearing the case could declare her in contempt of court but that carries no additional penalties.
It is unclear what would happen if she was convicted in a new appeals trial.
"If the court orders another trial, if she is convicted at that trial and if the conviction is upheld by the highest court, then Italy could seek her extradition," Knox's lawyer Carlo Dalla Vedova said Monday.
It would then be up to the United States to decide if it honors the request. U.S. and Italian authorities could also come to a deal that would keep Knox in the United States.
Knox, now 25, and Sollecito, who turned 29 on Tuesday, were arrested shortly after Kercher's body was found in a pool of blood.


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COLUMBIA CITY ŌĆö The former Columbia City man facing charges of child seduction will go to trial in June and the prosecution has attached more weight to the charges.
DeWayne E. Stewart, 47, will face a trial by jury June 21 in Whitley County Circuit Court.
Following the announcement of the court date by Circuit Court Judge James Heuer, Whitley County Prosecuting Attorney Matt Rentschler approached the bench and submitted what he called an ŌĆ£enhancement to Count One.ŌĆØ
Whitley County residents are reminded that the spring installment of property taxes are due today, May 10. The treasurer's office is open until 4:30 p.m. or there is a drop-box located on the north side of the Whitley County Government Center where payments may be dropped off. If you mail your taxes, they must be postmarked with today's date.
Payments after today will incur a penalty.
COLUMBIA CITY ŌĆö Approximately one in six Americans lives with some sort of disability.
Often those disabilities impact the individual in ways that non-disabled donŌĆÖt even think about.
Like getting gas.
A task most people take for granted and usually accomplish in less than five minutes can take a disabled person 30 minutes to do.
With full-service filling stations few and far between, there is a program that provides assistance for disabled motorists.
COLUMBIA CITY ŌĆö Contrary to rumors circulating, Whitley County Salvation Army director Pat Mossburg, the local organization is alive and well.
ŌĆ£Nothing has changed; weŌĆÖre still here,ŌĆØ Mossburg said this morning.
She said that over the weekend, she had gotten several e-mails asking her if the local Salvation Army was closing its doors.
Mossburg said the Salvation Army is not leaving the community and is stronger than ever and doing the most good in Whitley County.
COLUMBIA CITY ŌĆö An error in calculation has made it necessary for a company contracted by Whitley County to make a second presentation.
Thomas Payne, director of marketing for Border Energy, appeared before the Whitley County Council last week to give an update on his companyŌĆÖs efforts to save the county money on its energy bill.
To read the rest of this story, please order an e-subscription, found under the e-edition subscription link, or call The Post & Mail at 244-5153, ext. 207 and ask for a subscription.
COLUMBIA CITY ŌĆö The Columbia City Board of Works and Safety received word last week that a brand-new sewer lift station, dinged up by an excavator during installation, is fully repaired and ready to be put in the ground.
ŌĆ£The repair has been made and meets the repair action plan,ŌĆØ said City Outside Operations Manager Jeff Walker on Friday.
ŌĆ£There was no real damage, it was more of a cosmetic and aesthetic issue than anything else. IŌĆÖm pleased with how it turned out.ŌĆØ
COLUMBIA CITY ŌĆö Amidst a recent budget crunch that included the release of more than 20 teachers, the Whitley County Consolidated School CorporationŌĆÖs Board of School Trustees is more than a little resistant to spend money on a couple of vehicles.
At its regular board meeting last week, the board heard a presentation from corporation Business Manager Tony Zickgraf and Superintendent Dr. Patricia OŌĆÖConnor about the need for corporation vehicles for the school districtŌĆÖs maintenance director and transportation director.
COLUMBIA CITY ŌĆö Earlier this week, The Post & Mail received a press release from Mark Espich, president of the board of the Whitley County Humane Society, that they are facing a financial crisis.
In a plea for public support to offset operating expenses, Espich praised the Whitley County Community Foundation for a recent grant given to help stabilize the shelterŌĆÖs finances.
ŌĆ£The economy has been particularly hard on our areaŌĆÖs non-profit organizations,ŌĆØ explained September McConnell, Community Foundation Director.
COLUMBIA CITY ŌĆö The Whitley County Consolidated School CorporationŌĆÖs Board of School Trustees is paying, reluctantly, for the design of a renovation to the former Marshall Middle School that some board members said they didnŌĆÖt see coming.
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The St. Louis Rams surprised many by taking Brian Quick in the early 2nd round. While Quick has the raw physical tools, most assumed the Rams would target a player with more NFL-ready skills.
While former Rams great Torry Holt didn't offer an opinion on the selection of Quick, he did analyze Quick's early performance in Rams camp:
"He has to play to his size. That's the biggest thing I saw … he's not really playing to his size. Once he understands what type of strength that he has, and it's OK to use that strength, I think we'll start to see more production out of him."
Holt's assessment is consistent with what many scouts saw from Quick at Appalachian State. The skills are certainly there, but he needs time to develop. As a result, it's probably not realistic to expect much from Quick in the 2012 season.
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I would say (without seeing either one) get the plasma. Much faster for gaming, although the LCD's are much better than they were. The reflection problem is bad on both LCD and plasma. With plasma it's more like a mirror (or a tube TV) where you can see a reflection of whatever is in front of the tv, but the picture does not wash out like it will with an LCD. With the LCD in direct sun light, you get a big washout spot on the TV that too me makes it almost unwatchable.
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Jimmy Nelson would replace Yovani Gallardo on Sunday
Miami - The Brewers weren't ready to announce it Friday because right-hander Yovani Gallardo had yet to be scratched from his scheduled start Sunday against Miami but top pitching prospect Jimmy Nelson is on hold to pitch that day if needed.
And all indications were Nelson would get the start. He was scratched from his scheduled start Friday night for Class AAA Nashville and replaced by Taylor Jungmann, who was called up from Class AA Huntsville. The Sounds are in New Orleans, which would be an easy flight to here.
Asked if he were leaning toward calling someone up to start Sunday, manager Ron Roenicke said, "I'm leaning towards it; he's leaning the other way."
Roenicke said general manager Doug Melvin was en route from Milwaukee and the two would sit down with Gallardo to discuss the situation.
Gallardo sprained his left ankle Tuesday night in Atlanta in the fourth inning trying to field a chopper over the mound and left the game. He pitched a "touch and feel" bullpen Friday afternoon at Marlins Park to test the ankle and said he thought it was good enough to pitch.
Asked if he felt any discomfort in the ankle, Gallardo said, "A little bit but nothing that will stop me from throwing the ball. It definitely got better the last two days.
"I pushed the bullpen back a day so I would have thrown light anyway. Of course, I want to pitch. Anybody would want to go out there every fifth day. I know myself pretty well. It's nothing that's going to alter some of the things I do on the mound. I'm satisfied with how I threw today so we'll see."
Roenicke is worried about other things that Gallardo would have to do, such as fielding his position, covering first base and possibly running the bases as a hitter.
Asked how Gallardo's bullpen session went, Roenicke said, "Really well. That doesn't mean he'll make the start. We need to sit down with him and talk to him a bit more. There are still reasons why we're concerned about the difference in having some control in a bullpen (session) and being in a game.
"There's a lot of things that bother us about letting him go out there Sunday. In the second inning, if somebody bunts on him and he goes for the ball and all of a sudden tweaks it again, we're in trouble getting through that game, and the next game and the day after. That's probably the biggest concern.
"He's at a point where I'm not worried about his arm so much. I think he'll land well with the ankle and won't alter the way he's pitching. It's the other stuff that has me concerned."
Nelson has been pitching great at Nashville, going 5-1 with a 1.71 ERA in nine starts. Opponents are batting .180 against him, and he has walked only 17 hitters while recording 58 strikeouts in 58 innings.
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Dirk Nowitzki Takes on Worthy Opponent in 1-on-1 Mini Basketball Game at Children's Hospital (Video)
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Will Kolassa did what many NBA players still struggle to do — give Dirk Nowitzki all he could handle. Kolassa met Nowitzki during the NBA star's recent visit to Children's Medical Center in Dallas. The two talked some hoops, but their relationship quickly extended beyond small talk, as a pickup game of 1-on-1 mini basketball suddenly broke out. Nowitzki, who stands at 7-feet, had the clear advantage, but Kolassa proved that grit and determination can match up with height any day. The youngster gained the upper hand by knocking down a high-arcing 3-pointer to kick off the game. And while Nowitzki showcased some skills of his own, it was clear Kolassa wasn't playing in his first roundball game. Kolassa admitted during the duo's day of fun that his allegiances lie with the Chicago Bulls, but after sharing some laughs and smiles with Nowitzki, it wouldn't be surprising to see him root for the Mavericks in the Western Conference. You know, mini basketball rivalry aside and everything. Check out Nowitzki's awesome visit in the video below, with a hat tip to SportsGrid. Photo of the Day POW! Right in the kisser! Quote of the Day Like Doc said, nothing's gonna happen. These guys aren't gonna fight. This isn't MMA. They wear skinny jeans and glasses with no lenses in them, people. They're not going to fight anyone. –CSNNE's Donny Marshall, responding to the officials overreacting to the whole Kevin Garnett-Gerald Wallace fiasco Tweet of the Day You've been warned. Make sure ur kids don't read my tweets. Just bad parenting if u ask me. Idon't even have any kids by the way
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Dd8 has, like her older siblings, been unschooled. They all started school part-time or full-time at the high school level. She's the only one still at home full-time. It's been a big shift in our home life: last year we had four kids home most of the time. This year dd17 is living across the country, ds15 is in school 3/4 time and dd12 is in school full-time. We've done pretty well at filling youngest dd's life up with interesting occasions, travel, projects, field trips and social opportunities but there has been a big change.
This week she was part of a fabulous all-day art-and-outdoor education workshop. It was held at the local K-12 school and was just for the homeschoolers. She had a great time. But because she was at the school most of the day it got her thinking again about "when I go to school." We've talked about this in the past. She would love a challenging school program -- she's a performer, a social kid, likes producing output, likes teacher approval, isn't terribly perfectionistic or anxious. In many ways she's very well-suited to school. But because of the academic mis-match, I'd always told her "school won't really work so well for you until you're at a high school level," and explained that high school students are able to take courses at a variety of different levels according to their need for challenge. Which is true in this school, and has worked well for her siblings.
Yesterday she had heard some 10-year-old girls in the hallway quizzing each other on basic division facts and it brought home to her how vastly advanced she is compared to what is typical.
"How am I ever going to fit into school if I keep learning math? If I'm four years ahead when I'm 8, and I keep doing math, I'll still be four years ahead when I'm 12. I'll never fit in! Maybe I should stop doing so much math."
Well, the reality is that she spends maybe an hour a week on math, if that. Often weeks go by with no math work at all. I reminded her how much math classroom time her school-going brother and sister spend, and made it clear that compared to school children, she's doing very little work on math.
"Then why am I so far ahead?" she asked. "What makes school-learning so much slower?"
Compared to my other kids, this one is far more curious about how she fits in (or doesn't) with the rest of the world.
I explained that the difference isn't so much in the type of teaching, or the amount of time spent, but in the different ways people learn. She learns academic things with great leaps of understanding, rather than with repetition and practice. She got it. She's had experience with having to work at things. Sight-reading on violin, for example, has come gradually and with consistent work, not all in a rush. But she had thought that her "great leaps of understanding" were a typical learning trajectory, and the "repetition and practice" thing more an exception to the rule. It was kind of a revelation to her to realize that her learning is on rather a different plane than is typical for the majority of children. Her frame of reference has been her gifted older siblings.
She found the whole thing a little depressing, as she was looking to envision a way that she might fit in at school. I could sort of see the cogs and wheels turning in her mind as she processed this. I wonder what will come of it? I'm sure she would love a gifted school, but that's really not an option.
I do feel that a bit more excitement and challenge in her life would distract her from the question of fitting into school, but it's hard to provide that without furthering the academic mis-match. What to do?
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What a great conversation.
I don't have any ideas for you besides perhaps any particular winter sports she could throw herself into?
It has to be really hard to transition to suddenly be the only child homeschooling. It is a big shift for both of you. Is part time school an option where you live? If she is really social I'm wondering if she would be okay with less academic challenge at school just to get the rest of the stuff about school that might be appealing.
I think there will always be an academic mismatch between her and others. In many ways it isn't about what you learn, it is about how easily and how deep you learn it - and that isn't going to change whether you provide excitement and challenge or not.
Meet her needs now and deal with tomorrow, tomorrow.
I vote for more excitement and challenge if you feel she needs it.
Part-time attendance becomes an option in 10th grade when a different funding model kicks in. I think that's part of what was so depressing for her: 10th grade seems astronomically far away. Even if we could get the school to agree to a radical acceleration of two grades (which they might), that would be almost five years away.
I've seriously considered putting her in school full-time but it's really difficult so see where to put her. The classes here are multi-grade, divided 2/3/4 and 5/6/7. In many ways the 5th/6th/7th grade classroom would be a good fit for her both socially (she has several friends there) and academically. We also know the teacher very well, and she is fabulous. But ... that classroom comprises the Outdoor Education Program, with tons of heavy-duty physical activity involved: multi-day bike tours over mountain passes, two-hour morning snowshoe hikes, wilderness canoeing and kayaking trips. Even the smaller 5th-graders struggle. Dd is a very petite 8-year-old, not yet 50 pounds. She wouldn't be able to cope with that stuff, and not partaking fully would leave her forever on the outside of the classroom dynamic. And the 2nd/3rd/4th grade classroom is not going to satisfy her. She hangs out with a couple of the 7-year-olds in that class, but that's in the role of paid mother's helper a.k.a. babysitter. She would have no interest in being in that classroom.
Winter sports is a great idea but a challenge here where there is little to nothing organized in a "kids' sports program" kinda way that would grab her with its social appeal and structure. There is XC ski program that may be taking shape to the east of us. I'm trying to pique her interest in that, but it'd be a lot of driving.
More excitement and challenge now is kind of how I've been dealing with it this fall. Focusing on lots of enrichment, rather than forward progress, but of course I'm not kidding myself, this still increases her mastery and allows her to move ahead even faster when she is introduced to more advanced stuff. But now that she herself is expressing concern about moving farther ahead, it's giving me pause.
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I wonder whether there is any way to ever cope with the huge achievement gap that your kids must be having in respect to their peers in math. Did your two older kids ever take math classes in school? It strikes me as the most linear subject of all - once you're at a certain level, there really does not seem to be much "broadening" or "deepening" that you can do, whereas it appears to me that you can always find a different angle to look at things like literature, art, history or social studies (I may be wrong about that - people have talked a lot in this forum about wanting to give their gifted kids a broader or deeper understanding in say, arithmetic, in the loads of time they have to spare waiting for other kids to catch up, and I have never really gotten it. Maybe because it's not my subject at all, unlike your daughter, it's the one I actually occasionally had to work for. Maybe I am just a bit jaded about the whole notion of trying to keep a kid moving sideways- as you have observed in your post, people who think you can stop gifted kids advancing that way are kidding themselves). Maybe math is just really the one example of subject in which school will never do anything for her. But you have written about your son loving and thriving with part time schooling, for instance - he must be doing other things that enrich his experience. And while you haven't written that enthusiastically about your DD2's full time experience, she must be getting something out of it, and at least enduring math. Maybe your youngest will have to understand now, once, and for all, that in math, she will only ever be doing interesting stuff with you and maybe her older sibs and if she decides to do full-time school at some point before 10th grade, just go through the motions in class. maybe if you focus on all the other things school has to offer - you can back it all up with her siblings RL experiences. And in the meantime, build up her stamina in the outdoor sports she'd have to do with the 5/6/7th graders in case she decides to go that route.
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I don't see math as quite as linear as you. I'm kind of a math-y person and now, by the fourth kid, I feel like I've developed a fair number of ways to work laterally and on para-math learning rather than moving relentlessly forward into Algebra I and II. I think we can do that with dd8 for a year or two -- though as I say it will probably just make the high school stuff come that much more quickly and easily when she finally does tackle it.
As for how it worked for my first three kids, they did eventually pick up standard high school courses just a year or two ahead of their age-grade. However, they were not quite this advanced at age 8, and had not so much enthusiasm for math and workbooks and school-like learning. They finished pre-algebra at age 9 or 10 and were definitively not ready for Algebra I, not from a maturity and motivation standpoint ... so they set aside regular math work for a year or two or four and did adolescence instead. And music. Tons of music. By age 12 to 14 or so they were ready to start picking away at math again, but they were able to sidle into the school system at that point, take courses just a year ahead of their age-grade, and move relatively slowly through relatively unchallenging stuff without too much annoyance. Dd12 had done the entire Grade 9 math curriculum and much of the Grade 10 as a homeschooler, but has been happy to re-do the Grade 9 stuff this year, so that's the course she's in and of course it's a cakewalk. But there's a difference between a non-math-keener going back a year and a half at a high school level after a long gap, and a math-keener going back four years at a primary level.
With respect to the Outdoor Ed program, she's got good physical stamina for her age and size (she runs 5k in about 35 minutes, which consistently puts her in the top 10% for her age group) but there's a difference between pushing a 30-lb bike over a mountain pass when you're 50 lbs. vs. 100 lbs. The bike issue is a biggie: she's still on a kiddie bike with 16" wheels (and will be for another year) while all those kids ride youth- or adult-sized mountain bikes, most with disc brakes and 18+ gears.
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Does the outdoor education program continue to be as rigorous in 8th grade? I'm wondering if it would be an option to grade skip a couple of years to eighth in a couple of years.
I don't have an answer to the problem of academic fit, but I do think that as time goes the best bet is going to be for everyone to be honest about what's happening. Even though it worked for her siblings, high school may not work academically for your youngest. It might still work IF she enjoys doing it primarily for social and other reasons even if the academic part isn't a fit. Your daughter's plan of not doing "so much" math or your plan of going horizontally may not ultimately slow the pace. The process of development may largely be one that is more internal than something that is really about external factors that you or your daughter can control. We attempted to do go wide not deep but you know some kids can take anything and make it deep. You think you are cheerfully just doing light enrichment about fractals so you don't have to move on with the math sequence and then you see that even your happy little enrichment activities have just provided more fuel for the engine and the child is making gigantic leaps anyway. Short of hitting her in the head, there may not really be a lot that slows her down. Even if she somehow got "even" to where the curriculum is at school, she is likely going to continue to be a different learner.
If your daughter's current life consisted of hours and hours of desk work with a structured curriculum, I'd have a lot more confidence that "going wide" might change things significantly because there might be more chance what got her to that place was the pace of instruction. But, the reality is that it sounds like she's already got the "going wide" lifestyle with music, foreign language, outdoors activities, crafts, cooking, etc. and that hasn't stopped her.
No, Outdoor Ed. is just 6th and 7th grade (and this year, due to a demographic blip, 5th as well). From 8th grade on they're just back to a traditional school program. A skip to 8th is sort of what I'm wondering about. But she's only technically 3rd grade age now, so a double-grade skip into 8th is still almost three years off. That seems a mighty long time to her.
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No, Outdoor Ed. is just 6th and 7th grade (and this year, due to a demographic blip, 5th as well). From 8th grade on they're just back to a traditional school program. A skip to 8th is sort of what I'm wondering about. But she's only technically 3rd grade age now, so a double-grade skip into 8th is still almost three years off. That seems a mighty long time to her.
Hmm...I was thinking that it was rather ambitious to design a rigorous outdoor ed program that is supposed to be still challenging for 7th grade boys who may have had their growth spurt but not actually physically hazardous for petite 5th graders. So they weren't originally planning to be quite as, um, inclusive (I'm thinking crazy but don't want to knock the original intent of physically challenging adolescents and introducing them to all these wonderful outdoors activities which sounds brilliant)? Do you feel that they might be saying already "what were we thinking? next year, it's going to be back to just 6th and 7th graders for sure!" Then you could have her try out school as an official 5th grader, have her do 7th grade work in everything but PE and, if she wants to stay in school, have her skip into the 8/9/10 after one year or two, whatever feels right.
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I don't want to over-dramatize the Outdoor Ed program. It's challenging, but the teacher is amazing at finding the sweet spot where the challenge feels like just a little too much, but the kids can push through and feel a great sense of accomplishment ... and that goes for the 75 lb. 5th graders as well as the growth-spurt 7th graders. I've been along on one of the bike tours as a safety rider / chaperone. It's an amazing experience and it isn't too much for the younger kids. But ... my dd is such an outlier for size and age, younger than the youngest of them, and also on the 10th percentile for size for her age.
If 5th grade weren't part of Outdoor Ed next year, that would be because the classroom splits had gone back to K/1/2, 3/4/5 and 6/7, with the latter comprising the Outdoor Ed program. So if she was registered just a year ahead as a 5th grader to avoid the Outdoor Education program, she'd be in the 3/4/5 classroom which is the same cohort of kids who are this year in the 2/3/4 class, not an appealing fit at all for her. And subject acceleration doesn't work at this school in the elementary program because the teaching is cross-curricular and project oriented with no separate subject blocks scheduled into the day.
There are some very good people at the school. At some point I will probably arrange to have a talk with them about the possibilities for the years to come. Our homeschooling program is umbrella'd under this same school, and so they are very familiar with F's abilities and personality. I don't doubt there are creative possibilities I haven't yet thought of which would add more options and more food for thought.
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Serves me right for thinking I might have seen a solution that you yourself have overlooked! So I suppose the best idea would be to sweet-talk them into keeping up the 5/6/7 split for next year whatever happens demographically so she could try that one being a year older and having more outdoor experience under her belt (and having a spiffy new bike with gears! though I know it's hard finding the right size bike for kids who are outliers - DS is way tall for his age and nowhere near ready for the "real" bikes with gears that he could theoretically ride on, so we bought the biggest kiddie bike available which looks a bit incongruous but is enough challenge even so). And you could go along as a chaperone on the trips you feel she might need your help for...maybe you could ride a tandem;). And she'd probably still need for you to bring workbooks in at her level!
If she is still really interested in schooling that is. She may not be. Your DD13 might come home disillusioned and there will be more life at home again.
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Treasure-trove from Boko Haram
First was the arrest of Abu Qaqa, the Boko Haram spokesman whom the terrorist sect operating in the Northeast and Northwest of Nigeria call Abu Dardaa. But whether he is Abu Qaqa or Abu Dardaa, there is no denying the vantage position the arrested militant occupies in the sect. Then there was also the arrest of the main suspect in the Madalla Christmas Day bombing, Kabiru Sokoto. He had once been arrested but escaped, taking down with him the reputations and careers of two top police officers, the Inspector-General of Police himself, Hafiz Ringim, and Zakari Biu, a reinstated police commissioner. Both arrests have thrilled both the government and the people of Nigeria, especially those who still think Nigeria can best fulfil its manifest destiny as one country.
For the government, the two arrests have yielded invaluable information on the membership, funding and tactics of Boko Haram, the Islamist sect Nigeria's Muslim leaders have long and repeatedly disowned. Nigeria's intelligence community has shared with the media only information on the sect that would not jeopardise their operations, but has left us tantalising titbits on their sociology, such as seedy details on who marries whom, and how even among bank robbing Boko Haram members honour has appeared irretrievably lost. Security operatives are ecstatic about what they have learnt about the sect, and they seemed anxious to see the end of the northern militants.
But some of the sect's leaders have given the country warnings ominous enough to dampen the enthusiasm of security operatives. Irrespective of the number of sect members arrested or its leaders killed, Boko Haram leaders swore defiantly, the fight would continue because they have the appetite for a long, grisly war. It is a warning and defiance intelligence operatives should take seriously. The exulting State Security Service (SSS) operatives know what it has cost them to get so far in the campaign, and they can appreciate more than any other security arm what nightmare returning to square one would mean.
The arrest of Boko Haram leaders, as significant as it is, is merely one admittedly laudable event in an unplanned government offensive. Too many mistakes were made in the early years of the war. First was the extra-judicial murder of the sect's former leader, Mohammed Yusuf. This was followed by the embarrassing vacillation of President Goodluck Jonathan who oscillated between fiery push against the sect one day and mournful desire to negotiate the next day. A third mistake was the equivalent of the United States military scheme of rendition, in which a captured militant was transferred to another jurisdiction. In the Nigerian case, arrested militants were sent back to their traditional chiefs for rehabilitation instead of facing the law. Then finally, there was the indiscriminate offensive against the sect, a mistake that is still being repeated even now.
If the ongoing offensive and mopping up of remnants of the sect are managed as poorly as they had been executed in the past, the war will enter a difficult stage of attrition. The government must not lose sight of the tragedy involved in the killings and general destruction that have laid many parts of the Northeast and Northwest waste and crippled their economies. The killings and stagnated economies could become a tragedy that reinforces itself if the government gets carried away and continues to use disproportionate force against both lawbreakers and innocent citizens. The war must be waged intelligently and scientifically, and when it is won, the federal and state governments must urgently address the poverty in a large swathe of the North that has made the Boko Haram terror machine acquire such venomous efficiency.
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Historic bill gets House approvalPublished 8:03pm Thursday, April 4, 2013
A bill that will provide an income tax credit for those that pay for the rehabilitation, preservation and development of historic structures passed in the Alabama House of Representatives Thursday and will now go to the senate.
The city of Selma has the largest, continuous historic district by area in Alabama and this bill would directly affect those that seek to revitalize downtown buildings as well as homes.
President of the Selma-Dallas County Historic Preservation Society Inc., Nancy Bennett, said she thinks the passage of the bill will be beneficial to Selma because it does not only help commercial building owners, but the residential owners and rehabilitators as well.
"I think that this can be good for communities particularly for somewhere like Selma," Bennett said. "It will give people an incentive to rehab and at the same time hopefully give work to local people, local suppliers and in the long run, increase the tax value of the properties which will in turn help the city and the county."
The Alabama Trust for Historic Preservation collected statistics specific to Alabama about what historic preservation does to create jobs.
Don Rypkema, a real estate economist in Washington D.C., found that with rehabilitation projects, 60 to 70 percent of the project is labor, "most of which is hired locally," his report said.
He also found the use of rehabilitation tax credits stimulates an average annual private sector investment of $17.4 million and creates and average of 400 jobs.
Ellen Mertins, director of outreach for the Alabama Historical Commission said that dollar for dollar, preservation projects add more jobs to the economy than almost any other form of investment, "and jobs are something that Alabama really needs right now."
"It would be a boon to historic homeowners and owners of commercial property all over the state," Mertins said. "Several adjoining states have this legislation and when people are looking to invest in historic buildings, our neighboring states look more attractive than we do."
State Rep. Darrio Melton who represents Selma in the 67th District said he voted for the bill to pass, saying it would help Selma in regards to tourism.
"It is a great opportunity for us to benefit in regards to the historic structures and buildings that we have in our area and I think it's a great economic opportunity for the city," Melton said.
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