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MASSENA The Town Council awarded contracts last week for facade and parking lot improvements at the Massena Town Hall, but it opted not to accept bids for highway garage rehabilitation or security upgrades.
Councilmen awarded the Town Hall facade work to Continental Construction for $168,428, which includes a bid price of $153,116 and $15,312 an additional 10 percent to cover contingency expenses related to the project such as administration and inspections.
They also awarded the contract for a parking lot improvement project to Barrett Paving for $124,761, which includes a bid price of $102,510, $10,251 to cover contingency expenses and $12,000 to cover any overruns.
Altogether, the council agreed to bond for $1.6 million for the work. That includes money to cover the possibility of purchasing a manufactured building for the Highway Department and having some work done in-house.
If it had awarded a contract for the highway garage along with the remainder of the projects, the cost would have been pushed to $2.3 million, which included the 10 percent contingency fund. The low bid for the highway garage was $1.3 million.
Councilmen Albert N. Nicola wondered about the priority of the projects based on earlier discussions.
At the time when we prioritized them, we did not realize the parking lot belonged to us, he said. How pressing is it to do the parking lot?
Highway Superintendent Frank J. Diagostino said it was necessary to have it done now because of drainage issues that have water building up in a corner of the parking lot.
Theres no place for the water to go, he said, noting crews would have to dig up the entire parking lot and install drainage to resolve the issue.
Councilmen agreed that facade work was necessary at the Town Hall.
We have to do the facade right away, Mr. Nicola said.
That corner of the building is starting to heave. We have structural problems because of the water, Councilman Charles A. Raiti said, noting the parking lot and facade were the most important projects to address. Those are the two I think we need to go forward with.
Town officials previously had shared their concerns about the infrastructure. They said mortar was failing at the Town Hall and chunks of it were falling off the building.
The parking lot around the hall also needed to be addressed to repair potholes and fix drainage issues, they said.
While those projects move forward, work on the highway garage and security upgrade will continue to be studied before a decision is made, although Mr. Diagostino said he believed that with a manufactured building, Highway Department members could do some of the garage replacement in-house during their slow times in the spring and fall.
Its something we could pick away at, he said.
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Gender Workshop at UN Conference Sparks Discussion
The inspiring story of SOPACDI, a Congolese coffee cooperative profiled here, and the acknowledgment of the important role of women as consumers in ethical trade set the scene for a workshop hosted by Fairtrade International and Fairtrade Africa at the UN 64th annual UN DPI NGO Conference in Bonn. The theme of this year's event, held in Bonn Germany, was "Sustainable Lives: Responsive Citizens."
It was apparent that Fairtrade and gender topics were of great interest to attendees as the three panelists, Gelkha Buitrago, Louise Luttikholt and Janet Momsen, needed to use microphones to reach the standing room only crowd and the people spilling into the hall.
Conversation focused on how Fairtrade could play a bigger role in meeting Millennium Development Goal 3: Promoting gender equality and women empowerment. While women comprise an average of 43 percent of the agricultural labour force in developing countries (FAO 2011), their contribution to agricultural production varies depending on specific crops, type of agriculture, social status, cultural attitudes, household structure and differences in property rights and land ownership. In most cases they face more severe constraints than men in accessing resources, markets and services.
A declaration was developed at the conference that will be presented to the UN General Assembly. Fairtrade made important contributions to the declaration. The following were included in the last publicly available draft:
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- We acknowledge that sustainable consumption, in particular, needs to consider the minimization of the environmental impact of purchasing decisions and the maximization of the social impact of our purchases.
- By 2020, the majority of the world's goods and services are procured by governments from sources certified by objective third parties as sustainably produced.
- A sustainable and humane food system should promote food sovereignty of communities, empower small-scale food producers in food and agricultural governance, and also encourage local production and distribution infrastructures with equal opportunities for men and women farmers and makes nutritious food available, accessible, and affordable to all, while at the same time providing sustainable livelihoods to producers through the payment of fair prices for their products. Sustainable food systems must be based on food sovereignty and the right for small-scale peasants, women's groups and local communities to plant, exchange their seed and knowledge.
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Read: How Many Games Could Be Played If The Season Starts On December 1
At CBC, Elliotte Friedman writes that if the season starts around December first, the number of games will be in the 70s and the regular season will extend into mid-April.
The NHL has already canceled 22 games this so far.
Larry Brooks wrote in the NY Post today, "Though the NHL has canceled all games through November, it is believed the possibility remains a season of up to 70 games could start on Black Friday with the originally scheduled NBC broadcast of the Rangers at Boston if the length of yesterday's meeting is indeed a signal of meaningful progress."
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CARTHAGE No injuries were reported in a fire that damaged a mobile home Tuesday at 39980 County Route 40, north of Carthage near Fargo.
The fire was reported at 4:14 p.m. by homeowner Daniel Davis, who lives next door.
The house is rented by Sahrae and Nick Ganter, who lost a dog and two cats in the fire.
There appeared to be extensive damage to the mobile home, but there was no damage to the attached garage.
The Carthage Fire Department was assisted by firefighters from West Carthage, Great Bend, Natural Bridge, Champion and Castorland.
Also responding to the scene was the Carthage Area Rescue Squad.
The cause of the fire was undetermined after initial investigation by Lewis County Fire Investigator Larry A. Hall Jr., who also is the assistant fire chief for the West Carthage Fire Department. The investigation is ongoing.
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PAWTUCKET – The Samuel Slater Junior High School will be closed for two days on Monday and Tuesday while workers remove a section of ceiling containing asbestos from the Mineral Spring Avenue facility.
According to school officials, workers demolishing a ceiling in the boys' locker room found a second ceiling underneath that tested positive for asbestos.
"When they ripped the ceiling down there was an older ceiling underneath that had some asbestos," said Pawtucket School Committee Chairman Alan Tenreiro.
Tenreiro said a decision was made to close the schools because the asbestos work cannot be done during the weekend. Tenreiro said even though it would have been safe for people to be in the building during the removal process, school officials wanted to err on the side of caution.
"We felt it would be prudent and easier to just close the school for a couple of days," he said. "It's not a good situation, but safety is paramount when it comes to our students."
Tenreiro said he fully expects the school to re-open on Wednesday, Oct. 2, pending the results of air quality tests.
"So far, this company has met all its deadlines, so we're confident the school will reopen on Oct. 2," he said.
In the meantime, air quality tests conducted recently inside the locker room have come back negative.
Tenreiro said similar ceiling asbestos abatement will also have to be done at Shea High, but because there was some disruption of the hidden ceiling at Slater, a decision was made to start work there first.
Asbestos is a group of minerals that generally look like separable, long, thin fibers. These fibers are small and can be seen with a microscope. When these fibers are disturbed, causing the fibers to float in the air, they can be easily breathed into the lungs. Scientists have recognized asbestos as a health threat to humans because these fibers can be breathed into the lungs and can cause cancer and other lung diseases.
Asbestos was used as a spray-on material in the construction of school ceilings, primarily during the 1950s through early 1970s, because of its acoustical, fire-proofing and decorative qualities. Such dried materials can, over time, become friable; this process is dramatically speeded up by any external factors that disrupt the structural integrity of the ceiling material. Friable asbestos often flakes off as a fine dust that settles on surfaces but is readily re-suspended in classroom air.
The school district has been grappling with ceiling problems at many of its aging schools.
Last spring, engineers with Edward Rowse Architects conducted a ceiling inspection at six of the city's school buildings after a ceiling in a basement classroom let loose at Potter-Burns. In May, problematic plaster ceilings at Potter-Burns and Nathanael Greene elementary schools were either removed or reinforced so students could safely get through the rest of the school year.
The inspection turned up concerns about ceilings in other classrooms at Potter-Burns, built in 1914, and at Nathanael Greene, constructed in 1918. Both schools had original ceilings crafted in the plaster-over-gypsum board style of that era. At Greene, many classrooms have "drop ceilings" that were installed in later years beneath the original. However, inspectors checking above the drop ceilings found that in several rooms, the old ceiling layer had pulled away from the joists, similar to the situation at Potter-Burns, and some were being held up by pipes and other substructure that had been run underneath.
The other older schools checked by the architects, Goff Junior High, Slater Junior High, Shea High and Tolman High, were found to have a different ceiling construction than Potter-Burns and Greene. However, engineers said the inspection turned up some concerns about damaged or potentially unsafe ceilings in some isolated rooms at Slater, Goff and Shea, including in the Goff and Shea gymnasiums and in the Shea pool area.
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The signing ceremony take place at 11 a.m. on Saturday during the Helper Arts and Music Festival.
The council also appointed Sandra Diamanti, an Air Force veteran active in the American Legion, as the city's liaison with the military.


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By Erica Zaiser
Yawning has always been thought of as "contagious" among humans. When someone in a group yawns it always seems to set off a trend of yawning with people around. This has often been thought of as being social in the same way that you think things are more funny when other people laugh and you frown more when other people frown. In a new study reported on by the BBC, researchers have found that yawning as a contagion is not limited to the human species but is seen in chimpanzees as well. What is even more interesting is that chimps in their studies yawned more frequently after seeing chimps from their own group yawn as opposed to when they watched chimps from an outside group yawn. The researchers suggest that this might mean that yawning can be seen as a measure of empathy.
As far as I know there hasn't been research which has shown if this yawning bias towards ingroup members is present for humans. Empathy in humans has been linked to pro-social behaviour and there is research suggesting that people tend to be more prosocial and feel more empathy towards people in their ingroup than in their outgroup. So if yawning is a measure of empathy, it would make sense that people, like chimps, would yawn more when they see members of their ingroup yawning than when they see outgroup members yawning.
Read more: Chimpanzees 'catch' contagious yawns from friends. BBC- Earth News.
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Social Categorization and empathy for outgroup members. British Journal of Social Psychology. 2010.


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A thoughtful, well-executed collaboration is a thing of beauty-just think how much lovelier life is in a world with Bottle Rocket (Anderson and Wilson), Mozza (Batali and Silverton), and She & Him (Deschanel and Ward). Since we truly believe in the power of partnership, we did a little dance o' joy when we heard that Charlotte Ronson was working with Urban Outfitters to create PLAY by C. Ronson, a mini-line available exclusively in UO stores.
The PLAY by C. Ronson collection is very appropriately named, as each piece seems to have been cut from the same sweetly frolicsome cloth-figuratively speaking, of course. Where Ronson's eponymous line is more polished, PLAY by C. Ronson has youthful energy in spades. For example, the UO collection includes reversible tanks and rompers (stripes on one side, polka dots on the other, how fun is that?) and other soon-to-be favorites like snuggly cardigans in gray or green, flattering day dresses, and an excellent cuffed pair of railroad stripe shorts.
The designer herself has a soft spot for the Rosebud Blouse, as Ronson's particularly keen on its unfussy print and perfectly worn-in fabric. "It's like my old favorite t-shirts," she says. "The cotton is very soft and it feels like vintage." We asked her how she'll personally style the blouse and her answer hit our fashion bull's-eye: "tucked into any piece of denim from the Current/Elliott collection," (she's as obsessed with the jeans as we are!) and a pair of Manolo Blahnik for Thakoon high heels.
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NCSE is pleased to announce the winners of the Friends of Darwin award for 2010: David Hillis, Gerald Skoog, and Ronald Wetherington, all scientists in Texas who have fought for the integrity of science education in the Lone Star State.
NCSE's Mead and Scott in the blogosphere
Two members of NCSE's staff, education project director Louise S. Mead and executive director Eugenie C. Scott, recently surfaced in the blogosphere — Mead with a guest post on the blog of the National Association of Biology Teachers, and Scott in a question-and-answer session on the La Ciencia y sus Demonios (Science and its Demons) blog.
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Writing at the Huffington Post (February 12, 2010), NCSE's Steven Newton offered, in honor of Charles Darwin's 201st birthday, a list of five ways in which evolution is important to medical practice: improving the understanding of H1N1 and emerging diseases, HIV, vaccines, antibiotic resistance, and drug development.
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A milestone: there are now over 5000 fans of NCSE's Facebook page. Why not join them, by visiting the page and clicking on the "Become a Fan" box by NCSE's name?
NCSE's Scott on-line
NCSE's executive director Eugenie C. Scott recently read from, and discussed, the second edition of her book Evolution vs. Creationism: An Introduction (University of California Press, 2009) in Albany, California — and video is now available on NCSE's YouTube channel. Additionally, she was recently interviewed for three different podcasts: The Skeptic Zone ("the podcast from Australia for science and reason"), Skeptically Speaking, and the Rational Alchemy blog. And if that's not enough, a talk that she gave on "Evolution versus Creationism" at Stanford University in 2008 is now available on-line.
Barbara Forrest profiled in Church and State
Barbara Forrest was profiled in the January 2010 issue of Church and State, published by Americans United for Separation of Church and State.
Eugenie C. Scott honored by the National Academy of Sciences
The National Academy of Sciences is to honor NCSE's executive director Eugenie C. Scott with its most prestigious award, the Public Welfare Medal.
Further praise for Evolution vs. Creationism
Lawrence S. Lerner lauded the second edition of Eugenie C. Scott's Evolution vs. Creationism: An Introduction (Greenwood Press/University of California Press, 2009), writing, "Evolution vs. Creationism is a superb introductory guide through the tangle, whether the reader wishes simply to get a clear basic picture of what is going on and what one might expect in the future, or plans to dig further into the subject."
Two end-of-the-year reviews
As 2009 and its celebrations of the bicentennial of Darwin's birth and the sesquicentennial of the publication of the Origin near their end, NCSE is pleased to bid them farewell by offering a peek at two reviews forthcoming in 2010 in Reports of the NCSE.
NCSE's Newton in the Philadelphia Inquirer
NCSE's Steven Newton's op-ed "Science denial is on the rise" appeared in the December 24, 2009, issue of the Philadelphia Inquirer.
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JP Mason, a son of The High Country and a senior at Virginia Tech, sent this email home to parents Lynne and Andy, who shared this with goblueridge.net:
I know this e-mail is a long time in coming. I want to first thank each of you for your concern about my personal safety and wellbeing - as well as that of the larger Virginia Tech community. Many of you I haven't talked with in quite a while
Family and Friends,
I know this e-mail is a long time in coming. I want to first thank each of you for your concern about my personal safety and wellbeing - as well as that of the larger Virginia Tech community. Many of you I haven't talked with in quite a while – some of you I talk to more regularly. As strange as it sounds, I am blessed by this opportunity to get back in touch with each of you.The last several days have been very dream-like. The truth is I don't really know how I feel or how I am supposed to feel for that matter. I go back and forth often between wanting to cry and wanting to laugh – and in the middle I just am. As some of the excitement of this all begins to fade away – as the media slowly beings to leave and move on to other stories and news – the entire community up here is slowly starting to realize and actualize what in fact happened up here. You can all read the news reports and watch stuff on T.V. to get the facts of what happened; most of you probably know them better than I do at this point. I guess all I am trying to get across in this e-mail is where my heart is with all of this right now, and where we all go from here. I pray that you take your time to read through this e-mail – to reflect on it – to pray about it.
For the last several weeks, I have been feeling the tension between graduating in less than a month – and therefore not wanting to do anymore work – and the realization that I have never been able to just not do my work because I didn't feel like doing it. I felt as if I was sprinting towards some finish line in early May, but that I would look back at the race and wonder what I had given up along the way so that I could get to the finish a little more quickly – a little faster than everyone else… The truth is school was not at all what I want to be doing right now. Don't get me wrong – I feel amazingly blessed that I even have the opportunity to go to school – and even more blessed that I am studying something which I find fascinating, applicable, and useful. In short, I wanted to be spending more time with friends, and less time in front of my computer at two o'clock in the morning with a cup of coffee in one hand, a book in the other, and an unfinished term paper waiting to be written on the screen ahead of me.
Monday morning, I was working on finishing a term paper for my social influence class in psychology. The paper was to be due on Tuesday morning, and I was having a hard time focusing in my apartment, so I decided to take a shower and head towards campus to study in the student union. On my way out the door Monday, one of my roommates received the first e-mail from the University about a shooting that had taken place in West AJ – one of the resident halls on campus. I remember my roommates and I were joking about it all at first – about how Morva (the guy who had killed two police officers on the first day of classes last fall) had escaped or something and was back at it. At this point, I decided not to leave just yet… We joked as the second e-mail from the university came into our inbox, "A gunman is loose on campus. Stay in buildings until further notice. Stay away from all windows." Really professional we thought – way to be ambiguous…
In theatre you can talk about the 'moment of tragic realization' – the point in the play where either the main character or the audience realizes the events that have befallen them. I felt as if everything that happened next was analogous to that – realizing that our candid jokes were somehow fueling the fire of what was unfolding across campus at that time. I remember going up to a friends house, which overlooks campus and the stone-clad buildings I have come to be more than familiar with over the last several years, and watching some news on his TV. I can not remember a time when I felt more detached from myself as when I was watching CNN in his living room with the buildings themselves lingering – almost playfully – in the corner of my eye. I have never felt so distant from reality. For most of the rest of that day – as we all learned more about what happened – as I tried calling friends to make sure they were alright despite the overloaded cell phone towers – as I ran along the outskirts of campus later that afternoon – as I prayed with some of the people in my church later in the day – I felt as if it were all a dream. Most of the day – as I said above – I didn't know how to feel. I expected I should feel sad – but in reality I felt (and still do) numb and detached.
The surreal nature of it all, however, has slowly begun to fade as we have learned pieces of information about our friends (and the friends of friends) who were killed on Monday. I was at a prayer service Monday night when I learned a girl in my small group Bible study was reportedly still missing. She had not been admitted to any of the hospitals in the area - and she had never been accounted for anywhere else. We didn't receive word until yesterday around 3:00 pm that she had been one of the students in the German classroom of Norris who had died. It took so long for the medical examiners to identify her body – she was the last to be identified – because she died with another student's identification in her hand. All we can figure is that the gunman left the room for a moment, some of the students, including my friend, tried to get the people who had already been shot with their identifications in their hands, the gunman had heard them talking, returned and killed the others in the classroom. Of the twenty-three or so students in the German class – only four survived.
I think it is probably as bad having friends of friends who were killed. You always hear about the degrees of contact – how we are all separated yet connected to each other, but a relatively small number of degrees of contact. There is nobody on this campus that was not affected by Monday's events. There is nobody in this country that was not affected, and indeed, I argue there is nobody in this world that was not somehow affected by these events.
I am not mad. I can't be mad, and I would speculate that a large number of people on this campus are not mad. What should we be mad at after all? The gunman? I think not: I try to look at his life as a novel or a storybook in which the events from this past Monday were the tragic conclusion to twenty or thirty chapters preceding the conclusion. He is a human – just like me and you – and while I can't imagine the events and situations which he lived through which brought him to the place he was Monday morning, I can't help but feel that some of the responsibility for his actions must fall back on me and you. I speculate that for every time one of us asks God why He let this happen, He is asking the same thing of us… I also don't think we can be mad at the University's reaction to this all – or the police's response. It is human nature to want to blame something when stuff like this happens. Put yourself in President Steger's shoes and question what decisions you would have made. Try to begin to empathize rather than criticize and I think you will begin to see that this blame game is rather futile.
No I am not mad – I can forgive. I can forgive because Jesus could forgive when he was part of the ultimate injustice – 'Father forgive them, for they know not what they do.' – I can forgive because as Nikki Giovanni – a Civil Rights activist and English professor at Virginia Tech – said after speeches yesterday by President Bush, Governor Kaine, and President Steger, "We do not understand this tragedy. We know we did nothing to deserve it, but neither does a child in Africa dying of AIDS, neither do the invisible children walking the night away to avoid being captured by the rogue army, neither does the baby elephant watching his community being devastated for ivory, neither does the Mexican child looking for fresh water, neither does the Appalachian infant killed in the middle of the night in his crib in the home his father built with his own hands being run over by a boulder because the land was destabilized. No one deserves a tragedy."
No one deserves tragedy. But tragedy still persists and will continue to persist. What happened at Virginia Tech, I speculate, is so upsetting because it disrupted the normalcy of everyday life with such fervor. In an academic environment stressing unity and peace and academic pursuits to enrich life in this world – we don't expect for things like this happen. And at the same time, I must also realize that things like this happen everyday around the world – maybe it has the façade of a natural disaster – or occurs on the battlefield rather than in a classroom – but this maxim remains the same; tragedy is as much a part of life as living is itself. Please don't get me wrong…I am mourning the death of my friend and trying to support my classmates and friends I can in anyway. I just know that God mourns the deaths in these other tragedies just as much as He is mourning the tragedy here at Tech – media coverage and presidential speeches or not…
And so I leave you with these things right now…
- Please don't ask the question why right now. It is a natural thing to want to be able to understand the world in which we live. Understanding enables us to control – yet in times like these, hastily drawn conclusions about 'why' or 'how' somebody could be capable of doing something like this, puts all the blame in all the wrong places. It is a tragedy – nothing more and nothing less – and that cannot simply be explained away…
- Learn to forgive more. This world is often cruel and cold. My friend died the other day – she did nothing wrong – she was beautiful, full of energy, devoted to God, and someone you just wanted to hug when you saw her. She was a freshman – young, full of dreams and hope and life and love. I can't help but picture her being able to forgive Cho – the gunman before he shot her, just as Christ was able to forgive us all – because we simply don't know what we are doing. Life is too short and too fragile to harbor animosity in your heart. The power of forgiveness is remarkable – certainly stronger than bullets. Learn to forgive and you will learn more about yourself and the nature of this world than you will in any college setting. We are told to 'love our enemies.' This is unconditional and without regard to how sickening of a thing that has befallen you or someone you know. Power begets power and hate begets hate, but love and forgiveness have the power to overcome anything else. If you don't believe me here, I would argue that you have never tried…
- Be slow to blame. As I said before, we all want to pass the blame off on someone else when things like this happen. It has to be someone's fault we think. Does it? Why can't there be things out there which are beyond us and our attempts at explanation? What has happened now is in the past – we have the ability to decide how we respond. I pray that you are able to extend grace to those who hurt you, love those who hate you, forgive those who persecute you, and try not to cast blame when all we are in fact called to do is care for one another. I do not care whose 'fault' any of this was. It happened. How will we respond to it?
- Develop your faith. I haven't talked to many of you in years, so this is a little awkward. I do not know where many of you are in your faith journey or whatever you want to call it, but these last couple of days have been a wake-up call to me and so many other people about what matters in life. Like I said, we operate for the most part with the expectancy of normalcy close at hand, that when something like this happens, everything gets messed up. I want more than anything to let each of you know that you are loved, your life is important, and no matter where you are now, never underestimate your personal ability to be redeemed and justified through Christ. You each have the potential to change the world by embracing each other and doing life together in a world that tries to pull you apart. Don't expect life to always be perfect by our definition of success. Rather embrace life and those around you with a love and forgiveness which we can only really see in God. I would love to talk to any of you more about this if you want. Like I said, I don't know where this e-mail finds you today, but please take time to reflect on this, on your life, and try to dig a little deeper into places you have not explored before. Disrupt your complacency of life – remove yourself from what this world expects from you – and you see that so many things we swear are so important are little more than a finish line you will never reach.
So take this, and apply it. Take this and share it with others. Take this and ask questions about yourself. Learn to love, forgive, and change the world by embracing your friends and family – one day, one question, and one heartbeat at a time. Love the place in which you are right now, rather than sprinting towards some conclusion which is ultimately uncertain. And love your Maker with all of your heart.
I love you all, please continue to keep the entire Virginia Tech community in your prayers – and please don't hesitate to call me.
John Paul MasonBoone ResidentSenior at Virginia Tech "Never doubt that a small group of people can change the world - indeed it is the only thing that ever has." Margaret Meade
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Constanza Ceruti is an Argentinean archaeologist who studies ceremonial sites associated with mountains around the world.
I have climbed over 100 mountains -- many of them solo -- to survey the peaks. I have found that nearly every mountain has meaning given to it by the local people. In collaboration with other archaeologists, I discovered several mummies of children who were offered as a sacrifice to the mountain deities in Argentina during the time of the Incan Empire.
Ever since she was a child growing up in Buenos Aires, Constanza knew that mountains were going to be part of her life.
When I was about 14 I climbed a hill and was entranced with seeing the horizons. Something special happened to me at that moment and I dreamed of going to the mountains. But it wasn't until about 8 years later that I made my first climb. I went straight from hiking in Patagonia to climbing in the High Andes. I felt completely whole and fulfilled and at peace in the mountains.
Since that first climb I have had the opportunity to climb in many other places around the world from the Canadian Rockies, to Sinai, Greece, Italy, Mexico, Norway and throughout the Andes in Ecuador, Chile, Peru and Bolivia.
Constanza studied anthropology at the University of Buenos Aires and received her PhD in history with a specialization in high altitude archaeology from the University of Cuyo in Mendoza, Argentina. Her expertise is the ceremonies that the Inca people carried out in association with mountain peaks. To date about 25 mummies have been found in the modern countries that make up what was the Incan Empire. Constanza was part of a team that discovered mummies of three children on Mount Llullaillaco in Argentina. At 22,109 feet the team excavated the highest archaeological site in the world. The three mummies and their offerings are now in a museum in Salta, Argentina.
Constanza explained the significance of the mummies:
These were children from higher social status. They were selected from different localities of the Empire because of their physical beauty and intelligence. They were taken to the Incan capitol, Cuzco, and groomed for a year to be special ambassadors to the gods then taken up to the mountain to be sacrificed. Two of the mummies were girls.
Constanza said that the sacrifices probably happened in times of stress or changes in the life of the Inca (the ruler) or political transitions, all of which would have required some intersession with the Gods. One was a girl who was 15 known as "The Maiden." The other two are a boy who was seven and a girl who was about 6.
We studied them for over six years at the Catholic University of Salta.
Constanza learned many things about the children during the study. For example, the hair analysis showed that during the last year of their lives the children had an enriched diet based on corn.
Through the CT scans we found the organs were in an extraordinary state of preservation making them the best-preserved mummies in the world.
Analyzing the clothes and ornamentation was part of the study. The children were wearing moccasins and carrying spare sandals.
The Maiden wore typical Inca clothing including a sleeveless dress and a woolen shawl. She carried a feather headdress showing she was a chosen woman of the Incas destined to be a "virgin of the sun." She was wearing ornaments on her shoulder. The boy was wearing a typical male poncho. He had feathers on his forehead and a bracelet. The younger girl was hit by lightening after she was buried because she had a metal plaque on her forehead that attracted the lightening. In spite of that, the organs in her body are still in a great state.
Interestingly, different ethnic origins can be inferred from the shape of the heads, which some groups intentionally modeled during infancy.
The younger girl has a conical shaped head modified to resemble a mountain. We suspect they all died from exposure to the cold. We know from analysis they were given coca leaves during the last year of their lives and probably on the trek. Coca leaves played a prominent role in Andean/Inca rituals.
Constanza has a new book coming out entitled Inca Rituals and Sacred Mountains co- written with Johan Reinhart.
I hope this book raises awareness of how fragile the cultural heritage of the mountains is and that they will be protected. As I have learned more and more about the Inca, I am impressed with their wisdom regarding the natural landscape and the earth we live on.
To really understand the beliefs ancient people had about the mountains, Constanza has been spending a lot of time with the descendants of the Inca.
The happiest years of my life were when I lived in a tiny village in the Argentinian Andes. It was wonderful because the people were so welcoming. The pacing of life was more natural. I found that almost every aspect of their lives had a sacred dimension. That experience helped me to understand more about the archaeology. The wisdom of the past lives on in the traditions of the isolated mountain people today.
Constanza went on several mountain pilgrimages in Argentina and Peru that have ancient roots with a Catholic overlay. The Virgin Mary is usually associated with the mother earth, Pachamama and Saint Santiago is associated with the ancient Illapa, the deity of thunder and lightening.
Andean people and their current rituals and offerings to mother earth have a lot in common with the ancient rituals. For example, people today make tiny miniatures of the things they want from the Mountain Gods or Saints. The tiny llama figurines, sandals and food items mirror ritual items used by the Incan peoples in their ceremonies; whereas miniature cars, money, wedding rings reveal 'westernized' needs. What they do with the items is take them to the mountain where they are displayed. In some places they are placed on the snow where the people believe the objects absorb power, making them more likely to manifest in reality. In one festivity in Peru, for example, the people go to glaciers and take some of the ice back to their towns. They also collect herbs from high up to use in medicine. Medicine from the mountains is believed to be much more potent.
What I have learned from the Andean people is the enormous respect they have towards the mountains, a respect that is tinged with fear, reverence, and affection. They see the mountains as being alive. We have a lot to learn from mountain people regarding having a deeper connection with the natural world and the care that is needed.
Constanza is currently working on a worldwide survey of indigenous peoples relationship to mountains.
I feel wonderful when I am in the Mountains.
Milbry Polk is the Founder and Director Emeritus of Wings WorldQuest, the preeminent organization supporting women explorers throughout the world. She is the author/editor of a dozen books including Women of Discovery, The Looting of the Iraq Museum, Baghdad, and Egyptian Mummies; and she is the book reviews editor for The Explorers Journal.


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MASSENA - Two years ago Town Supervisor Joseph D. Gray suggested requiring cat owners to license their animals the same way dog owners are required to.
The idea, which went nowhere at that time. has again resurfaced, this time at the urging of Massena resident Charlie Romigh.
A good pet owner would license their cat, he said. I am not an animal hater, but what I am is pro-pet responsibility.
Mr. Romigh, who lives on Monroe Parkway, said for the past month he has been caring for a cat in his neighborhood that supposedly belongs to one of his neighbors.
For the last month Ive been feeding the most pitiful looking animal you have ever looked at, he said. He was bleeding, his hair was falling out and you could count his ribs.
Since that time, Mr. Romigh said the cat has gained weight and had some of its fur grow back. He said he has spoken with the animals owners, but they tell him theres nothing they can do as their cat likes to be outside.
Mr. Romig, though says he struggles to keep the cat from coming into his home.
If I had a cat that I loved, I would be damned if I would let the neighbors across the street get all the pets and purrs, he said. I would welcome him into my home so my family could play with him.
After speaking with Heidi Bradish at the Massena Humane Society, Mr. Romigh said he stopped feeding the cat for two days. I went 48 hours listening to him outside my back door looking for food.
Mr. Romigh also said that with the increase in rabies cases in the region it would make sense to require cat owners to get rabies vaccines for their pets, the same way dog owners are required to.
What would happen if a little girl got scratched? he asked. This is the time to take action. What if some little kid gets bit or scratched and ends up with rabies. Then it would be too late.
Mr. Romigh said the towns animals deserve better.
We are human beings. Is this the way we want to treat the other creatures god put on this earth? he asked. I always say the way people treat their animals is probably the way they treat their kids.
Mr. Romigh said he wasnt looking for the board to take immediate action, but he was hoping for them to at least consider it.
Talk it over amongst yourselves. I will be approaching the village board with it at their next meeting.
Town Supervisor Joseph D. Gray recalled bringing up the issue two years ago.
I once broached the issue of licensing cats, and I dont think I ever got so many calls on anything, he said, adding that he agreed with Mr. Romigh.
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Its not fair that dog owners have to license their pets and cat owners dont, he said two years ago. I dont hate cats at all. Cats are kind of cool.
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I agree with him 100 percent, said Shalyn Frederick. If my dog went into someone elses yard, I would get in trouble. It should be the same for cats.
Mayor James F. Hidy stopped short of agreeing with Mr. Gray, saying he would have to look more into the issue before making a decision.
Im going to have to do a little more research to see this is something thats viable, he said. It might warrant some consideration.
Mr. Hidy said he has heard complaints about feral cats in the Grove area, as well as the Homecroft area, where Mr. Romigh lives. This is becoming a village-wide issue, he said.
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Most years the number one thing on most Utah State legislators' minds prior to the general session in January: budgetary concerns.
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As the representative from District 69 in the House side of the legislature, Christine Watkins, who was unopposed in the early November election, has a number of issues she says that the state will be looking at starting Jan. 18, 2011.
"I think the most high profile bill we will be considering will be Sandstrom's (Rep. Stephan Sandstrom (R), District 58) immigration bill," said Watkins in a phone interview on Sunday. "The final bill has not been released yet. However I think he is mad about the stand the coalition took last week on the bill."
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"I believe we do have a problem, but it isn't the same as some states," said Watkins. "We are not a border state and this really is a federal problem. I know I am concerned about getting involved in a bill that could produce litigation, which costs the state money."
While Sandstrom's immigration bill has been a highlight of the off-legislative season, another bill that was never brought to the floor last year - but Watkins feels will show up again this year - is a bill that aims to do away with affirmative action programs in the state of Utah.
"If a bill like that comes up, it will be a tough one to figure out for me," she said. "I can see both sides of that issue. I really believe people should make it on their own abilities and hard work, but on the other hand there are those in our society who need protection and help. I will have to look at the issue and the bill closely."
That bill will probably be sponsored Margaret Dayton (Senate District 15, Orem) and Curtis Oden (House District 14, Clearfield).
Watkins said that there will be some local bills in the legislature as well. One will be to change the sales tax revenue loss that came from a prior bill that passed three years ago and has decimated Wellington City's operating budget.
"There were actually a lot of small communities that were hurt by the bill," stated Watkins. "The way it appears it will be written is that cities of certain sizes will be allowed to prove the loss of revenue and then recoup what they lost. It will not just be automatic, they will have to show how the loss affected them."
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MASSENA Massena Public Library officials are in early discussions about the possibility of forming a library district, which would create a separate charge on property tax bills for homeowners in the towns of Massena and Brasher.
The library currently receives most of its funding from the town of Massena; it also receives money from a library tax billed to Louisville residents.
Library board members want to examine the tax option as they face a difficult budget climate.
Maybe well decide its not a good thing for the library, but I think we need to explore it now so five, six months from now when were looking at the budget cycle, well know which way to go, board member Emily Hutchison said. I would hate to just wait and then decide, Oh, lets look into that, and then we wont really have time.
Library Director Elaine Dunne-Thayer said that formation of a library district is still in the exploratory phases and that it is too early to estimate the effect on taxpayers. Any such action would have to be approved in a referendum, she said.
In 2010, Louisville residents voted yes on a proposition to have property owners in the town contribute to the librarys budget. Louisville residents are billed a separate line item on their property taxes for the library. Each year, Louisville contributes $9,000 to the library, according to Supervisor Larry R. Legault.
In 2010, library officials collected 200 signatures on a petition in Louisville, more than the 110 needed. However, they ended up with about a dozen fewer signatures than the 63 they needed in Brasher. The number of signatures needed is equal to 10 percent of the voters in the last gubernatorial election.
One factor in considering a library tax district is the amount of revenue the library receives from the town of Massena and from fundraisers. The town is contributing $673,000 for 2013, down $78,000 from the previous year.
Massena Councilman Charles A. Raiti told library officials that the Town Council plans to start its 2014 budget earlier in the cycle, to promote fiscal responsibility and better gauge the needs of departments and agencies.
He said the town is awaiting a report from assessor Michael C. Ward to determine how much revenue it can anticipate for next year.
Meanwhile, Mr. Raiti cautioned library officials: Dont plan on much more than what you got for this year. Just plan on what you have, and if you get more, great.
Ms. Dunne-Thayer said library officials still had to discuss the idea of a library district with the North Country Library System to determine whether the move would put additional costs on the library.
Obviously, funding is a factor, and its an issue facing all libraries, Ms. Dunne-Thayer said.
She also stressed the importance of providing the same level of service to the residents of Massena, Louisville and Brasher.
Were hoping to keep up with what we currently provide, Ms. Dunne-Thayer said. Obviously, its a terrible economic time, and we understand the town is having trouble funding all its entities.
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