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What book is on your nightstand right now?
Free Food for Millionaires, Min Jin Lee
What's the best job you've ever had?
Besides being a mother and freelance writer, being an enterprise TV reporter where I was responsible for generating my own stories every day.
What's the hardest work project you've ever tackled?
Raising my daughter! After dealing with a nine-year-old all day, conducting a tough interview is a piece of cake! After that, investigating a large securities fraud case as an attorney at the SEC.
What's your idea of a perfect Saturday night?
A leisurely dinner with my husband or relaxing with friends with a nice bottle of wine (preferably a Tuscan red or a French white).
In ten years, I want to be:
Writing regularly for publications I respect and to be a published book author, and a well-established pundit!
What do you wish you'd learned sooner?
I wish I had learned sooner the importance of following your dreams. Getting sidetracked in a job that isn't really what you want to do, even though others think you're good at it, doesn't bring job satisfaction.
What's your idea of a perfect Monday morning?
Getting my daughter to school on time and then a nice, hot cup of coffee!


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1 Park near Chino, California
Chino Hills, California 3.66 miles SW
San Dimas, California 9.47 miles NW
Azusa, California 14.51 miles NW
Anaheim, California 16.29 miles SW
Pomona, California 16.92 miles NW
Chino, California (map) | (877) 387-2757
Sites: 75 | Latest Rate: $42.00 | 36 Reviews
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Feb 2015 - $42.00
Very spread out parkland with winding roads and mostly turnouts for RV sites. Utility connections were good, water pressure good, no WiFi, but excellent Verizon 4G service. Heavy equipment working to create a levee at rear of park next to Women's Prison. - jbrucemagon
Nov 2014 - $30.00
Rate reflects 7 nights for price of 6. Our motorhome is 45' long. It could fit in any site here and there was no problem driving the interior roads. We stayed in site 4 (as new campers in the park). In future we would look at sites 63-67 as they have nice large concrete patios, moveable tables, guaranteed satellite access. All sites have a large fire pit. The sites are widely spaced. The weekend was totally full! Pros: grass, spacious, level sites, good services, park itself, lots of birds, park rangers do a great job. Cons: loudspeaker from the women's prison begins at about 6:30 am and goes sporadically til 10 pm, gunfire can be heard from the shooting range most of the time, smell from nearby dairy farms, sewer overflowed the first time we dumped (apparently campers think it's funny to put odd things down the pipe). Otherwise would definitely stay here again. The negatives are not a deal breaker! - Larry Hamblin
Aug 2014 - $35.00
Had a wonderful stay at Prado. It is a large regional park with paddle boats, golf, target shooting, fishing and other activities within the park or very nearby. A spacious setting on a sizable Lake created by the Prado dam. The individual campsites are very roomy with a lot of space between sites. Camp sites 50-70 have large cement pads but 1-49 are also very nice. Most sites have shade and there are many lovely trees throughout the park. Lots of beautiful space for walking the dogs and many large open areas. We stayed here four nights in our 30' rig and enjoyed it thoroughly. We'll definitely be back. Maximum stay is 14 days. The park personnel were all very pleasant and helpful. - Sheridan

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Two residential developments sharing one tree-shaded area, Merriman Park/University Manor has been melded by neighborliness and a keen sense of community into one great place to live and raise families.
Located in the northeast section of Dallas, Texas, our quiet neighborhood is loaded with mature trees and nestled against the forested upland of White Rock Lake Park.
Newly Rediscovered Historic Documents
Two documents related to the formation of our association in 1978 have been added to our Little History section. View them here….
Flag Pole Hill Trail Construction Expected to Be Completed Soon
After longer than expected delays for weather and for reliable contractors, work is again underway on the Flag Pole Hill Trail along Northwest Highway. The construction contractor's finishing touches will be on the replacements of our neighborhood entrance walls and signs. Then we will begin our landscaping of the neighborhood entrances, which will be even more beautiful than when the trail project began.
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During December of 2013 we were able to afford twice as many ENP patrol hours as usual, and they seem to have really helped to hold down the number of random crimes within MPUM.
We owe a big "Thank you" to all our ENP members and to our ENP patroller!
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FFSoX Player is a Winamp (http://www.winamp.com/) plug-in based on the FFmpeg (http://www.ffmpeg.org/) and SoX (http://sox.sourceforge.net/) libraries. Using FFmepg almost all multimedia files may be played, including but by far not restricted to H.264 and VP8. Audiophile sound processing is provided using high quality 32 bit SoX algorithms and dithering.
Home: http://in-ffsox.sourceforge.net/
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Tagging Musepack files with RG values is not correct. Musepack is designed with native RG support, that's why the RG data are stored in the header. You can find the specification here
In order to apply correctly RG data to the file one should use mpcgain (cli) or music organizers as Foobar, MusicBee etc.
On the other hand, APEv2 is the only allowed tag system to store metadata in Musepack files, so I don't think that it is acceptable to use some workarounds.
Whell, it seems that mpc support needs too much efforts, so don't loose your time. There are already two ways of playing mpc files on Winamp, but they are not perfect. The first one is by using the unofficial plugin from mpc developers. However, this plugin does not support transcoding (not that I would use it anyway) and some other new features of WA5.
The other way is by the DS plugin + DS filters, but in this way WA does not show the tags (although other players with DS support show them).
I hoped that your plugin will become the new official way to play mpc files, but it seems that the ffmpeg really provide very basic implementation, so don't bother with that.
Anyway, I don't use WA anymore, this request was more because of my wife .
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Member No.: 81467
Thank you for your support, Antonski.
The other way is by the DS plugin + DS filters, but in this way WA does not show the tags (although other players with DS support show them).
That's exactly why the currently undocumented feature described above is intentionally a major feature of the FFSoX Player plug-in. It allows you to RG your music clips as well and to shuffle them through the same playlist as any other audio file. Up to now I couldn't figure out whether there is any video format (VOB, AVI, MKV, etc.) at all supporting RG or even allow to set the corresponding tags. Could somebody help out with some respective information?
Anyway, I don't use WA anymore, this request was more because of my wife .
I'm using WA because it allows playing video clips along audio. Not to forget it's API
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July 8, 1994
Hon. Janis C. Williams
Morgan County Clerk
Morgan County Courthouse
West Liberty, Kentucky 41472
Re: "Recording" of Out-of-State Will.
Dear Ms. Williams:
By letter of March 11, 1993, you asked, in substance, whether a will mailed to your office from out-of-state should be recorded, or whether, in the alternative, you should notify the out of state party wishing to record the will that it must be probated in Kentucky.
In our view, before a will, including one mailed to a county clerk from another state, may be recorded in the records of a county clerk in Kentucky, it must be admitted to probate in this state. Accordingly, a county clerk, upon receiving a will not accompanied by a copy of the order of probate issued by a district court in this state, should return the instrument to the tendering party, together with an explanation that a will offered for recordation in Kentucky must have been first admitted to probate in this state. Discussion follows.
First, "recording" of a will, in the context here addressed, means the entry of a copy of a will into the records of such instruments in a county clerk's office in this state. "Recording" of a will should be distinguished from the maker of a will "depositing" it for safekeeping with a county clerk as authorized by KRS 394.110.
Key Statutes Involved
KRS 394.300, "Recording of wills," provides:
(1) Every will or authenticated copy admitted to record by any court shall be recorded by the county clerk, and remain In his office, except during such time as it may be carried to another court under subpoena duces tecum.
(2)(a) A will probated in the court of (1) Kentucky county and recorded in the office of the county clerk for that county may be recorded in the office of the county clerk for other counties without process of probate in the other county.
(b) Production of an attested copy of the will together with an attested copy of the order of probate shall be required by the clerk of the other county before recordation.
(c) The clerk shall make the same charge for recordation as is otherwise provided for recording a will.
KRS 394.130, "Will not admissible as evidence until probated -- Effect of probate," provides that:
No will shall be received in evidence until it has been allowed and admitted to record by a district court; and its probate before such court shall be conclusive, except as to the jurisdiction of the court, until superseded, reversed or annulled.
KRS 394.150, "Nonresident, will of, how probated," provides that:
When a will of a nonresident has been proved out of the state, an authenticated copy and the certificate of probate may be offered for probate in this state. When such copy is offered the court shall presume, in the absence of evidence to the contrary, that the will was duly executed and admitted to probate as a will in the state or country of the testator's domicile, and shall admit the copy to probate as a will in this state.
In our view, the express direction of the legislature, as set forth in KRS 394.300, that every will or authenticated copy "admitted to record by any court shall be recorded by the county clerk," indicates that the alternative (recordation of a will that has not been admitted to record) is not authorized, and, therefore, shall not be carried out by a county clerk.
Support for the view expressed immediately above is also found in the fact that the legislature obviously affords a special status to a will that has been "admitted to record" (which we believe equates with the term "probated") in "any court" (meaning any district court of this state, see KRS 394.130). Such special status is indicated by the legislature's requirement that such an instrument be recorded with a county clerk (KRS 394.300(1)), and by the provision that unless it has been so admitted, it shall not be admitted to evidence (KRS 394.130). It would be untoward to suggest, in view of such provisions, that a will that has not been probated, and thus has not had its legal efficacy determined, is entitled to occupy the same status ("recordation," with its attendant legal notice imprimatur) as one that has been probated.
Will From Out-of-State
Turning to your specific question, asking, in substance, whether a will mailed to a clerk from out-of-state should be recorded, or, in the alternative, notice given of the need for an order probating it before it may be recorded, we note that the specific facts concerning the will with which you are concerned are not clear. If the will mailed from out of state is that of a "nonresident," whether it may be recorded will be governed in part by KRS 394.300, as interpreted above, and by KRS 394.150 (above).
In any event, whether the will is that of nonresident of Kentucky mailed to a county clerk in this state from out-of-state, or the will of a resident so mailed, before it may be "recorded" by a county clerk in this state, it must be "admitted to record" (probated) in a district court of this state. See KRS 394.300(1), KRS 394.130, and 394.150 (above), and the preceding discussion in this opinion.
Should it be contended that the phrase "any court," as used in KRS 394.300(1) (see above), includes a court in another state, such that a will from another state is required to be recorded under that provision (KRS 394.300(1)) upon a showing of its admission to probate in another state, we believe the phrase "any court," as used in KRS 394.300(1), means any district court in Kentucky. This view is buttressed, on one hand, by KRS 394.130, which provides that before a will may be received in evidence it must be allowed and admitted to record by a "district court." The phrase "district court," as used in Kentucky's statutes, unless the context or specific words require otherwise, obviously refers to a district court in Kentucky. On the other hand, KRS 394.150 (above) provides for probate in this state of the will of a nonresident proved out of state. See Penn v. Pennsylvania Co. for Insurances, Etc., 294 Ky. 271, 171 S.W. 2d 437, 441-442 (1943). If a will could be recorded by a county clerk solely by virtue of having been admitted to probate in another state, KRS 394.150 might be rendered relatively superfluous, a character which is inconsistent with the import of Kentucky's statutes.
In order to be recorded by a county clerk, a will must have been first allowed and admitted to record (probated) by a district court of this state. A will received by a county clerk, which does not have necessary documentation to establish that it has been admitted to record (probated) by a district court of this state, should be returned to the person who submitted it. The clerk should include with the returned instrument, information regarding what is required in order for it to be recorded. See for example, KRS 394.150 and KRS 394.300.
Gerard R. Gerhard
Assistant Attorney General


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Dior New Look 1947
2 reviews
50% would repurchase
Package Quality: 3.0
Price: $$$$
Package Quality: 3.0
Price: $$$$
Age: 36-43
Skin: Combination, Fair-Medium, Not Sure
Hair: Red, Other, Other
Eyes: Hazel
New Look 1947 was released in 2010 among La Collection Couturier line with its huge bottles. It is a pleasant blend of slightly sparkly, slightly sharp tuberose and a blend of soft creamy flowers decorated with just a tad of woods. The first time I sampled it, it was from a little vial so I could only dab and I got this big, candied tuberose that immediately put a big smile on my face. However, I have been using a big, spray decant for some time now and it definitely allows me to experience greener, slightly sharp, sometimes a bit hissy top notes where tuberose is rather dominant. With a spray, I get a candied waft around myself but the scent on my skin is definitely greener. It then settles into a nice melange with softspoken fresh pink roses, amicable peonies and maybe a bit of salty iris. These are paired with the tuberose and woody notes and ultimately create an easy-to-wear tuberose softened with other flowers. I find its drydown floral and creamy but I also feel that it may end of somehow powdery depending on your chemistry.
Dior created the New Look collection to celebrate the end of WWII that had been inevitably dictating a plain, somber style on women. To quote from Voguepedia, 'With a few elegant strokes of his pencil, Dior had swept away the utilitarian and frugal styles that had dominated during the war years: His New Look, as it came to be known, was a "direct, unblushing plan to make women extravagantly, romantically, eyelash-battingly female." '
The 2010 release New Look 1947 is indeed romantic and even a bit frilly with its rose and peony - albeit somehow not very interesting. When I wear it, I really feel like having some light pink blush on my cheeks, curl my hair, put on lots of mascara so that I can flutter my eyelashes at a well-dressed suitor and whatnot. I also feel elegant in work situations. I like it but I do not love it the way I love my Nuit de Tubereuse which is darker, sharper, deeper and sparklier.
New Look has low to medium sillage on my skin with medium lasting power of 5ish hours. 3.5
Age: 19-24
Skin: Oily, Fair, Cool
Hair: Blond, Straight, Medium
Eyes: Hazel
Wish I wasn't the first to review this as I really don't have an expert nose in the world of perfumes! But here goes, for me its clean, sophisticated and enticing. A very Parisian scent. For the heavy price tag a perfume has to be truly classic for me to purchase and as lovely as this is I'd only buy if I was flush with cash.
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Pecan Shortbreads with Raspberries and Raspberry Puree
If you like classic crème pâtissière (French pastry cream) but have no time to make it, a combination of ready-made custard and crème fraîche makes a lovely alternative. If you use it to sandwich together crisp, wafer-thin pecan shortbreads, raspberries and raspberry purée, you have a real winner for summer entertaining. But don't be tempted to prepare these too far in advance, because once the filling goes in, the shortbreads begin to lose their crunchiness.
Serves 8
|For the pecan shortbreads:
|4 oz (110 g) pecans
|5 oz (150 g) softened butter
|2½ oz (60 g) unrefined golden icing sugar
|2½ oz (60 g) rice flour or ground rice, sifted
|5 oz (150 g) plain flour, sifted
|For the raspberry filling:
|1 lb (450 g) fresh raspberries, reserving 24 for the garnish
|7 fl oz (200 ml) crème fraîche
|5 fl oz (150 ml) fresh custard
|2 drops vanilla extract
|To garnish:
|unrefined golden icing sugar, to dust
|For the raspberry purée:
|8 oz (225 g) fresh raspberries
|2 level tablespoons golden caster sugar
|Pre-heat the oven to gas mark 4, 350°F (180°C).
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|You will also need two large baking sheets (lined) and a 3½ inch (9 cm) round pastry cutter.
This recipe is taken from How to Cook Book Two.
To begin, toast the pecans by spreading them out on a baking tray and popping them in the oven for 8 minutes.
Then, once cool, place them in a processor and grind them down until they look rather like ground almonds. Now, in a mixing bowl, cream the butter and icing sugar together until light and fluffy, then gradually work in the sifted flours, followed by the ground pecans, bringing the mixture together into a stiff ball.
Place the dough in a polythene bag and leave in the fridge to rest for 30 minutes.
After that, roll it out to a thickness of ¼ inch (5 mm), then stamp out 16 rounds by placing the cutter on the pastry and giving it a sharp tap, then simply lift the cutter and the piece will drop out. Now arrange the biscuits on the baking trays and lightly prick each one with a fork.
Bake for 10-12 minutes, leave on the baking trays for about 10 minutes, then remove to a wire rack to cool completely. While the shortbreads are cooling, place the raspberries for the purée in a bowl, sprinkle them with the sugar and leave for 30 minutes. After that, purée them in a processor and pass through a nylon sieve to remove the seeds, then place in a serving bowl, cover and chill till needed.
For the raspberry filling, whisk the crème fraîche in a mixing bowl with an electric hand whisk until it becomes really stiff, then add the custard and vanilla extract and whisk again, also until thick.
Cover and chill till needed.
Just before serving, spread equal quantities of the cream mixture over 8 of the biscuits, then arrange the raspberries on top, not forgetting to reserve 24.
Spoon some purée over, then sandwich with the remaining shortbreads.
Place 3 raspberries on top of each one, and lightly dust with the icing sugar.
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Local fire departments were called to the park, located at 4201 Highway 10, at around 6:20 p.m., said Lt. Brian Spence with the Stevens Point Fire Department. Fire departments from Hull and Plover also responded to the scene.
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First Known Use: circa 1656
noun cam·paign \(ˌ)kam-ˈpān\
: a series of activities designed to produce a particular result
: a series of military battles, attacks, etc., designed to produce a particular result in a war
Full Definition of CAMPAIGN
: a connected series of military operations forming a distinct phase of a war
: a connected series of operations designed to bring about a particular result <election campaign>
See campaign defined for kids
Examples of CAMPAIGN
- The group launched a campaign to protect the area from commercial development.
- The university is organizing a campaign to attract a more diverse student population.
Origin of CAMPAIGN
French campagne, probably from Italian campagna level country, campaign, from Late Latin campania level country, from Latin, the level country around Naples
Other Government and Politics Terms
Rhymes with CAMPAIGN
abstain, again, air lane, airplane, amain, arcane, arraign, attain, Bahrain, Bassein, Beltane, biplane, birdbrain, block plane, bloodstain, boat train, brain drain, bugbane, champagne, champaign, Champlain, checkrein, chicane, chilblain, choke chain, chow mein, cinquain, cocaine, Cockaigne, Coltrane, coxswain, complain, constrain, contain, cordwain, cowbane, crackbrain, demesne, deplane, destain, detain, detrain, devein, disdain, distain, distrain, dogbane, domain, drivetrain, dumb cane, edge-grain, Elaine, enchain, enplane, entrain, ethane, explain, eyestrain, fast lane, fleabane, floatplane, floodplain, food chain, forebrain, Fort Wayne, Gawain, germane, Great Dane, grosgrain, half plane, henbane, hindbrain, house-train, humane, Hussein, Igraine, immane, inane, ingrain, insane, jack plane, lamebrain, left brain, lightplane, lo mein, long-chain, Lorraine, maintain, marchpane, membrane, methane, midbrain, migraine, Montaigne, montane, moraine, mortmain, Moulmein, mundane, neck-rein, New Spain, obtain, octane, ordain, pertain, plain-Jane, profane, propane, ptomaine, purslane, quatrain, raise Cain, refrain, remain, restrain, retain, retrain, right brain, romaine, sailplane, sea-lane, seaplane, seatrain, split-brain, sustain, tailplane, tearstain, terrane, Touraine, towplane, triplane, Ukraine, unchain, urbane, vervain, vicereine, villein, volplane, warplane, wave train, wolfsbane
: to lead or take part in a campaign to support or oppose someone or something or to achieve something
Full Definition of CAMPAIGN
intransitive verb
: to go on, engage in, or conduct a campaign
transitive verb
: to enter (as a horse or boat) in competition
— cam·paign·er noun
Examples of CAMPAIGN
- She campaigned to save the town library.
- He campaigned hard to get more funding.
- a time when women were campaigning for the right to vote
- I campaigned for her when she ran for governor.
First Known Use of CAMPAIGN
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CAMPAIGNER Defined for Kids
noun cam·paign \kam-ˈpān\
Definition of CAMPAIGN for Kids
: a series of activities meant to produce a particular result <an election campaign>
: a series of military operations in a certain area or for a certain purpose
Definition of CAMPAIGN for Kids
: to take part in a series of activities meant to produce a particular result <They campaigned for a new library.>
— cam·paign·er noun
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November 30, 2015
Washoe County Sheriff's search and rescue crews are working a stretch of the Carson River near Dayton.
They are looking for an unidentified 19-year-old man who was swept away while wading in the water Monday evening.
The man was last seen around 7:30 p.m. Monday going into the river after his dog. The man was reportedly with his brothers, his step-mother and some friends.
Lyon County Sheriff's deputies say the family is a local family from the Dayton/Silver Springs area.
Washoe County Search & Rescue is assisting at the request of the Lyon County Sheriff's Office.
Officers are walking the river and have divers in the water.
We have a news crew on the scene and will have more information as it happens.
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The Seven Valleys Writing Project (7VWP)
Writing changes how we think. It creates a deeper, more intimate, more powerful relationship with what we read, what we know, and what we teach. Our Writing Project site, linked to SUNY Cortland in Central New York, is run for teachers and by teachers. Our site (part of the state and national network of Writing Project sites) supports the teachers in our region by providing
- Access to a local network of progressive teacher-colleagues, K-12;
- Strategies for developing their own public voice and reflective practice;
- High-quality professional development that incorporates teachers' varied knowledge and interests in conjunction with school and community needs;
- Reading, writing, and thinking experiences that prepare them to participate in and contribute to their communities;
- Strategies for using the power of writing for authentic learning from kindergarten to college and all points in between.
7VWP believes that:
- Writing is a powerful tool for learning and thinking in all content areas and for all age groups.
- Writing can create thoughtful, collaborative communities.
- Writing is powerful in many forms, lengths, genres, and media (in other words, in many forms besides the essay).
- Excellent teachers are powerful teachers of their adult colleagues.
- The best teachers of writing are those who write
Statistics show that teacher retention is strongly increased by National Writing Project participation. Furthermore, a recent study shows that "in every case the improvement of students taught by teachers who participated in NWP programs exceeded that of students whose teachers were not participants" (http://www.nwp.org/cs/public/print/resource/3208).
Join us as we continue to move forward in our pursuit of teaching, learning, and writing.
More information is available for our upcoming Writing Matters Conference, for the 2015 Summer Institute, and any questions may be directed to Dr. David Franke.
Seven Valleys Writing Project is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization.


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Free-agent analysis: Confidence in WR corp largely depends on if Cowboys can re-sign Laurent Robinson
How the Cowboys feel about the group heading into training camp, however, will largely depend on whether they were able to re-sign Laurent Robinson.
Robinson emerged as the Cowboys' third receiver last season and provided quarterback Tony Romo with a reliable target in the red zone. Robinson led the Cowboys with 11 touchdown catches and finished with 54 receptions for 858 yards.
He's now an unrestricted free agent. Robinson played last season under a "minimum salary benefit" contract in which he was paid $685,000 but counted about $220,000 less against the salary cap.
What's for sure when free agency begins March 13 is that Robinson won't come nearly that cheap after his breakout 2011 season.
The good news is that Robinson has already spoken publicly about his desire to re-sign with the Cowboys, and owner Jerry Jones and coach Jason Garrett have said they want to re-sign him.
Jones said in late February that if Robinson gets away from the Cowboys in free agency, Andre Holmes could be a viable candidate to replace him. The Cowboys are high on the 6-5, 210-pound Holmes, but he's never played in an NFL regular-season game.
Bottom line: The Cowboys must decide what they're willing to spend on a third wide receiver when this position isn't a priority in free agency.
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Friday, August 23, 2013
Newtown Interfaith Clergy Association will present the next interfaith gathering for prayer on Sunday, September 1, beginning at 4 pm.
An ongoing monthly series launched in the weeks following 12/14, this month's gathering will follow the theme "Prayers for Back to School." Gatherings are on the first Sunday of each month and rotate between various locations.
All are invited to join faith leaders from Newtown's houses of worship for the event. This month it will be presented on the front lawn of Newtown Middle School, 11 Queen Street, rain or shine. The gatherings last approximately 25 minutes.
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San Carlos Week of the Family 2015
Saturday, February 2, 2013 from 10:00 AM to 12:00 PM (PST)
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Starting at 10:00 AM, meet at the San Carlos Museum of History. Take a walk through downtown San Carlos looking in store windows for items listed on their Scavenger Hunt Card. Scavenger hunt rules and Scavenger Hunt Cards will be available online at www.sancarlosweekofthefamily.org, early Saturday morning or pick-up at the Museum at the start of the event. Return the completed card to the Museum to collect prizes. There will be prizes for the most correct answers for a family with children 6 and under, a family with children 12 and under.
When & Where
San Carlos Museum of History
533 Laurel Street
San Carlos,
Saturday, February 2, 2013 from 10:00 AM to 12:00 PM (PST)
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As federal transportation safety officials continue investigating the flaws in a Boeing Co. jetliners battery systems that led investigators to ground the 787 Dreamliner fleet, there is growing scrutiny of the Federal Aviation Administrations practice of letting manufacturers self-certify the safety of critical aircraft systems.
This is an issue when you have a regulator with limited resources, National Transportation Safety Board Chairwoman Deborah A.P. Hersman said last month, raising concerns about the budget-driven practice.
The issue is likely to be a focus of congressional oversight in light of the grounding of the 787s. Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Chairman Jay Rockefeller, D-W.Va., has already said his panel will look into the aircrafts problems, although he has not yet scheduled hearings.
The FAA began a big push toward self- certification in 2005, when it created the Organizational Designation Authorization program. Expanding the reporting roles of safety managers employed by manufacturers would allow the FAA to concentrate its resources on the most safety-critical matters, the agency said in a Federal Register notice published that October.
Certification work by the FAA had increased five-fold over the last 50 years, the notice read, creating a labor crunch. Ultimately, a need to cut costs drove the change.
We determined that the rule will generate both improved safety and reduced costs, officials wrote. We will be able to more efficiently use our resources while extending our oversight coverage, thereby increasing safety.
Chicago-based Boeing, the nations largest exporter, was an early adopter of the FAAs expansion of self-certification. In 2009, the company was allowed to deploy 400 of its own inspectors to complete reports on behalf of the FAA. A team of 30 FAA employees oversee the operation, auditing the inspectors and reviewing their reports. While the vast majority of the oversight work is conducted by the Boeing inspectors, FAA employees must issue final approval of aircraft safety.
Hersman said the safety board will continue probing whether that revised safety-system certification played a role in missing problems with lithium-ion batteries in the 787s.
Federal authorities grounded the aircraft type after overheating batteries caused smoke onboard planes in Japan and at Bostons Logan International Airport. Getting the 50 aircraft the company has already delivered back into the air is critical for Boeing, which already has taken more than 800 orders for the aircraft, which carries a price tag of about $200 million each.
But the process of identifying the problem and fixing it is unlikely to be over soon. All Nippon Airways, a Japanese carrier with the most 787s, has canceled flights on the aircraft through May.
Investigators have already determined that a short circuit in the battery caused failures, Hersman said at a news conference last month updating reporters on the status of the investigation. NTSB officials are still looking for the cause of the short circuits, which likely include battery charging, the design and construction of the battery, and the possibility of defects introduced during the manufacturing process, she said.
Our task now is to see if enough and appropriate layers of defense and adequate checks were built into the design, certification and manufacturing of this battery, Hersman said.
The ultramodern jet marked a departure from traditional manufacturing processes. It was designed using ultra-light composite materials instead of traditional metal, promising improved energy efficiency and enhanced passenger comfort.
It also ushered in big changes at Boeing, bringing in many new suppliers that were overseen under the FAAs revised self-certification model. In the case of the 787, the FAA issued more than three dozen special conditions, or regulations for a novel or unusual design feature.
That included the lithium-ion batteries that have caused problems with the 787s. The FAA noted that the batteries have certain failure, operational, and maintenance characteristics that differ from types used in existing aircraft. In certifying the batteries as being ready to fly, Boeing said it expected an overheating incident that caused smoke to happen once in 10 million flight hours for the fleet. The rash of incidents that grounded the 787 happened with fewer than 100,000 flight hours logged.
Hersman questioned whether the self- certification model at the FAA is working.
You can delegate some of the action, but you cant delegate responsibility, said Hersman, whose agency makes safety recommendations that generally carry weight with lawmakers, though the safety board does not set policy itself.
For its part, Boeing is continuing to work with NTSB and FAA officials to identify a fix for the 787s battery and get the aircraft back into regular service. The company says it is also willing to revisit and strengthen oversight.
We are working corroboratively to address questions about our testing and compliance with certification standards, and we will not hesitate to make changes that lead to improved testing processes and products, Boeing said in a statement.
If the NTSB does determine that flaws in the certification process played some role in the fleets battery problems, aides for lawmakers in both parties say the policy would be a likely target for changes in future legislation.
Its unlikely, though, that any changes to the current inspection system would come quickly. Congress just enacted a four-year reauthorization (PL 112-95) for the FAA a year ago. It ordered the agency to further streamline its certification processes beginning this month in a manner than supports and enables the development of new products and technologies and the global competitiveness of the United States aviation industry.


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Police are investigating a fire in Miami Lakes that claimed the lives of a mother and her two children.
It sparked early Wednesday morning on the third floor of the Country Lane condo along Northwest 170th Street and 67th Avenue.
Neighbors were trying to put the flames out when firefighters arrived. Firefighters had to smash a window to put the flames out.
The victims have been identified as Katrena Williams and and her two children -- Vincent, 3, and Makayla, 12.
Miami-Dade police spokesman Alvarado Zabeleta told the Herald the victims likely died of smoke inhalation.
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I was assailed by memories of a life that wasn't mine anymore, but one in which I'd found the simplest and most lasting joys.Albert Camus
The realization that life is absurd and cannot be an end, but only a beginning. This is a truth nearly all great minds have taken as their starting point. It is not this discovery that is interesting, but the consequences and rules of action drawn from it.Albert Camus
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Niether shooter had " a bullet proof vest", stop spreading misinformation.
Gun control? Really? That's the take away from yesterday's tragic shooting? This looks to me more of an issue of mental illness than it is an issue of gun control legislation. It should be obvious that this act was premeditated and was not an accident. The man was mentally ill and wanted to do harm to as many people as possible. If he was unable to obtain a gun, there can be little doubt that he would have used another weapon, such as a bomb, a knife, a club, a car, a truck, a bus, an airplane, etc. We need to start addressing the real problem which is violently mentally ill people who are free to roam in our society. Their mental illness is often diagnosed but doctors and law enforcement lack the tools that they need to take these people off the streets. How about we look at that issue, rather than trying to deny sane people access to guns that they need to protect themselves from the crazies?
Thank you for this article. It is one of the most fair and neutral writing, covering only facts.
Conn. has some of the most restrictive gun control laws in the country. They didn't help. In fact, there is in inverse correlation between gun control laws and deaths by guns. Counterintuitively, the states with the toughest laws have more gun deaths than states with less restrictive laws. Similarly, "blue" states have higher gun death rates than "red" states.
We can pass all the laws we want, but they won't stop insane individuals from acting.
What gun control law could be enacted that would keep mentally ill individuals from doing this? When an unstable individual uses their agency to commit a crime, they do what they want, not what is legal. A more relevant issue to address is mental health and the responsibilities of families to care for their sick children before they commit these heinous crimes against society.
A shard of sense - thanks
Just one factual quibble: there's no evidence that either the Aurora shooter or this guy wore body armor. It seems they were both wearing nylon vests to carry ammunition, nothing bullet resistant. Not to say that this makes arming teachers any more practicable, just a tidbit that has been repeatedly and widely misreported by our careless, incompetent media establishment.
Who is going to talk about the CULTURE of killing and violence that Americans perpetuate in almost all storylines on tv, movies and especially videogames. We, as Americans, romanticize and endorse mass killings in our culture, so why anyway is surprised by these acts is the big mystery to me.
Most people can agree that laws need to be tightened and that certain guns need not be in the hands of citizens, such as automatic weapons. But the left seems to think that guns cause these awful massacres. They also have such faith in a prohibition on guns when no prohibition of anything else has ever worked in this country and they are the first to point it out vis a vis drugs and alcohol. Does anyone rational really believe that banning guns would NOT create a wonderful new business for organized crime? The real problem is the breakdown of family and religion and community social controls that has been so relentless since the 60s, a development that the left applauds.It has resulted in broken families, fatherless kids, lost and alienated people and a culture of self absorption and promotion of victimhood with utterly predictable results.
Did any happen to notice that this week in China someone attempted to kill 20 people with a knife? Evil is gonna find a way to manifest itself no matter what kind do controls are in place. Television is all about portraying violence in everything.
None of this matters.. The real aim is to get rid of all guns, and the push is not from anyone in the U.S. Govt. The push comes from the U.N.. It is the U.N. who wants guns to be totally banned.. So it does not matter what either side of the isle says, they are just puppets whether they know it or not..
The headline and the story are nothing alike....very deceptive
What I would like to know from an academic is whether these gun controls actually worked. What do the studies show, if anything? I could see banning handguns and assault rifles IF it would reduce crime significantly. It certainly might keep young men with mental problems from creating such tragedies, but can we be sure that it really would make life safer for most Americans everywhere?
Perhaps the answer is not as complex as political as the author believes but rather stems from the simple fact that previous attempts of the Socialist movement to legislate social change have rarely if ever worked? There are approximately 10,000 people killed in the US each and every year by alcohol-related car accidents alone (an order of magnitude more will suffer lasting pain or disability from the same cause) despite the implementation of increasingly strict DUI laws; when is the last time a politician went on television and cried over that reality of human nature?
Wasn't the engine of the 1930 gun violence cited in fact largely the Federal government's attempt to control drinking by Prohibition? How did that folly turn out? Perhaps we should require a background check, permit and safe for the everyone who possesses car keys? What about matches?
I am going to support gun bans when someone invents a firearm that possesses its own free will.
re: We can and should do more to make it harder for them to obtain guns, which could reduce the number of daily gun deaths at the margins. Whether the political environment has been transformed enough to allow that to happen remains to be seen.
That's the problem. There are no laws that will do that. Eliminating guns is unconstitutional. So that's not going to happen. The problem was protecting the kids. I heard one announcer say that there's only two reasons for guns: One, to kill people and the other to practice killing them. That's laughable. He forgot to mention that guns are a deterrent. That's why cops carry them. Responsible gun owners, me included, lock up their guns or carry so other people can't get them.
There were four mass shootings this year, several more than in some other years. That's not a gross misuse of guns in that 300M exist in the US. There will always be someone as sick as this person and if handguns are not available, some other means is not far away.
Make a bullet cost $10,000.
This article is all wrong. We need to arm responsible people with conceal carry permits so nuts like this will think twice. More guns in responsible hands will stop much of this
I'm English. We have far fewer tragedies like this in the UK. Why? Because guns are much harder to get hold of here, thank God. Fewer guns=fewer tragedies. It's that simple. How many more innocent lives and awful tragedies like this one have to happen before America wakes up? Ban the guns, ban the guns, ban the guns.
You are all so black and white. The key statement in the article is that ANY amount of gun control will help at the statistical margin of violent crime. We should at least be always chipping away at that. The 2nd amendment is dated anyway.
Guns are illegal in Mexico that must make it safest place in the world according to thguy
Where's the "secret" in this history? And what is the point of the article? You apparently scorn the NRA for not supporting enough gun control, but then you say nobody knows of controls that would actually prevent shootings. Nevermind that! Knees be a-jerkin'. "Make it harder for mentally ill to obtain guns" is the only thing you stand behind and nobody disagrees with that. But if this was a worthwhile article you'd explore that.
First, I am not sure you will find large discrepancies in the murder rates of UK and a comparably small, homogenous and racially matched sub-population of the USA.
Second, Americans have always loved liberty more than life. For one, I still do.
It is quite sad to see gun enthusiasts so focussed just on the liberty to bear arms at the cost of innocent lives!
Isn't it obvious. If somehow, perhaps magically, all the guns in this country dissappeared there would be no such gun violence. The argument gun enthusiasts try to make is that it is the person behind the gun that kills. Obviously someone has to pull the trigger. But of there were no trigger to pull can that person kill innocents like we have been seeing time and time again?
So who are these guns meant to protect? Who's right is more sacred - the right to live without fear of guns or right to bear guns?
"Second, Americans have always loved liberty more than life. For one, I still do."
Do you still love that liberty today when innocent children lie dead? Ban guns and such tragedies will be fewer and far between. That's just common sense.
You'll see that there is such a massive discrepancy between UK deaths by firearms vs US deaths by firearms that the matching of small matched areas has anything to do with it.
I love living in the UK. There is nothing I do that makes me feel I don't have full liberty. Moreover, I can live without the fear that someone I am passing owns a firearm that they might one day use against me. I would much sooner live in a society that has just as much liberty as you do, but which does not have a firearms problem.
As Nicholas says, ban the guns, ban the guns, ban the guns. There is NO argument against gun control. How on earth can there be after the horrific events in Newtown?
Good assessment of the problem, including the radicalization of the NRA. I'm a patron-level life member of the NRA and a certified instructor and training counselor. I've given them some serious coin and a lot of volunteer time. They do well when they're supporting training and other activities such as competition.
But their claims of being non-partisan are pure newspeak. Their support for a lot of Republican policies that run contrary to the interests of their overwhelmingly middle class members in return for unflagging support for gun rights has become a pact with the devil.
On Monday, hundreds of legislators will file into a building surrounded by heavily armed guards to discuss disarming the rest of us.
The real question that nobody seems to want to ask is: Why do gun you control advocates always point to tragic instances where nobody had arms with which to defend themselves as proof for why nobody should have arms to defend themselves? Do they want this to happen more often? Every mass murder in US History involving guns was an instance where nobody had arms but the murderer. In every case, when people have arms to defend themselves, the number of persons killed is reduced.
The big problem in this country is the mentally ill. It is politically incorrect to designate a person as such and they are free to roam amongst us without health insurance to help them and protect us. Until we start calling a spade a spade, nothing will be done about the mental problems. The liberals just put the blame elsewhere. Once they have compete control over us, they will put us where they want and it will not be a place with freedom. But they will have all the guns, so we will not have a chance to survive.
Adam Lanza's father might have been available to guide his son and avoid this tragedy. But easy divorce laws, even when children are involved, are more important.
Blame guns if you want, but I blame parents that quit their families.
we should be smart on this. you can buy all the guns and ammo you want. the Constitution grants us the right. however, Constitution also grant govt the power to tax and license. i would do 500,000% sales tax on gun, 100,000% tax on bullets (the Chris Rock approach). feel free to buy all the guns/bullets, when buying a bullet become like buying a new car, buying a gun cost like a house but no mortgage loans. gun ownership will dramatically go down. this saves us the time to debate about what the framer really meant.
The anger shown this election cycle, the personal attacks rather than debate of issues and facts, the politics of personal destruction are all part of our culture which is a result of the lack of education on emotional maturity, the difference between emotion and facts, anger as assertion of fact, what constitutes logic and its use all leave many in our society unreasonably but really frustrated with few or no healthy outlets.
The politicians (our elected leaders whom we choose) all feed off of this electorate that is basically uneducated and angry and are as much the problem as anyone or anything else.
Most workers are fearful of losing their jobs to an impoverished but culturally superior Chinese fellow and are not equipped to raise their skills through education because our school systems are bankrupt in all senses of the word so that the status quo remains - poor education.
Poor education. Entitlements are superior to mental health and real education.
So we have eighty years history of gun laws not solving the problem, but we want more gun laws. People feel good about gun laws because it s an easy solution, to be implemented by someone else. How about alternative solutions like mental health solutions or addressing the creeping violence promoted by the entertainment industry and consumed mostly by the young men who later commit horrible violent crimes. Never a fan of the NRA, it is pure political demagoguery to lay this on them.
@Jim in Austin Having been through one (and spending 10 years defending crazy lawsuits from my ex even after the final decree) I can promise that there is NOTHING easy about a divorce involving kids. You're stuck in family court until the kids age out of the system. The dad in this case was paying $10K/month in alimony and child support and was committed to all the college expenses and the court had them on a parenting plan, no doubt with an expensive GAL.
As I said, when it comes to divorce with kids, there pretty much is no such thing as easy.
In a previous comment, James Miller mentions the knife attacks on 20 children in China. NONE of those children died! They will recover and their families will have them. If that knife-wielding attacker in China had possessed an assault rifle, those 20 Chinese children would probably all have been DEAD.
Taking my guns because because a mentally ill person shoots up a school and kills several children and adults makes as much sense as taking my car because because a drunk driver runs down a family. A country of 300 million people includes many mentally ill whose identity is protected by medical confidentiality (HIPAA) laws. A paranoid schizophrenic could be working alongside you, thinking you're shooting radar beams into his head and waiting for his chance to murder you and your coworkers and you would never know it. There are no laws that can stop this.
This article is factually incorrect. Per the Connecticut Chief Medical Examiner, many of the victims were shot with an assault rifle, multiple times (3-11) each.
ArtIcle is factually incorrect, an assault rifle was used per the Chief Medical Examiner.
Another stupid argument is that if the teachers were themselves carrying guns they could have stopped the crazed gunman. Think about this in society at large. To stop such mass shootings almost everyone would have to be carrying a gun themselves. Think about how many bar fights would result in shootings if everyone was always carrying a gun. The overall rate of gun violence would go up.
Aside from the 2nd Amendment, which is not ambiguous like liberals are fond of repeating, states the less gun control have lower incidents. Schools are a favorite target, Why?? Because they are "gun free" zones, that's why! A sicko who wants to act out his XBOX fantasy knows he can suit up in his black outfit and head down there and everyone will be defenseless until the police show up, always far too late to stop him from harming people. Workplace incidents usually involve "it's all about me" types who are compelled to take matters into their own hands, almost always against unarmed people who are not allowed means to defend themselves.
. In a state like Nevada, anyone, man or women can carry and there are few helpless victim incidents. Chicago and DC are shooting galleries where more people die each month than in our mid-east wars! Since most are black folke, the media ignores and even covers this inconvenient fact up. They both have the most restictive gun laws in America! My final point is "assault rifles". They are not defined anywhere and if the media can get away with it, every incident always has assault rifles or weapons and bullet proof vests! An assault rifle or hand weapon is an automatic, repeat firing gun. There is an absolute ban on owning one of these legally except by licensed ranges in one state and the gun cannot leave the premises! so much for accurate reporting.
A modest proposal: children should be armed and trained to use guns.
There is only one reason to own a gun.
You are either small or weak, so the gun makes you feel stronger and taller.
I agree with jan there is no reasoning with these nut cases.
GIVE THE 7 year old the rights to a gun. To protect themselves from people that own them.
Why can't the people of America see that the current situation is untenable? The second amendment was meant to guard people against a militia or government that was out to get them. That was a threat in 1776. It's not a threat now. And even if it was, do you think you could defend yourselves against a mass government machine? No.
Do you then choose to fight fire with fire and give firearms to teachers? No. If you bring guns into schools you exacerbate the problem and increase the risk of guns being used in those schools. The best post on here is the one which said that guns should be surrendered or taxed until it is no longer viable to keep one.
I also don't buy any of these arguments about 'taking my gun away is like taking my car away, because both could kill'. Wrong. A car is made to get people from A to be. A gun is made to kill someone or something. You can't equate the two.
Ultimately, if you like guns, tough. Get into another sport.
@Jan, what a ridiculous statement.
What a shame these children have had to die because of some sad anachronistic idea that guns are required in society. Every other nation manages without guns. Get rid of them.
What we need to do is get all those 300 million guns out there to turn themselves in, unload themselves and enter therapy. Gun Rehab if you wish. Make these guns understand that violence is wrong. That they need to use their God Given Brains before they start pulling their God Given Triggers. Start thinking STRAIGHT like Mad does. get yourself "from A to be"
We will put gun control on the table IF the left will pursue and prosecute blatant acts of corruption. Our right to bear arms was not so that we could go duck hunting. It was given to us to keep government in control.
1 example of blatant corruption:
We were given the freedom of information act. Richard Fine and Dr Shirley Moore discovered that the L.A. Superior Judges were taking bribes. After Sturgeon vs. Los Angeles County declared those payment UNCONSTITUTIONAL they paid a lobbyist to pass SBX211 (Retro Active Immunity from Prosecution) When Government and Corporations are held to the same standards of the LAW then we will put gun control on the table. But No more taking the money from the people and giving it to banks. Government must be held accountable to the laws with NO Retro Active immunity From Prosecution.
The problem is not "identifying laws that will prevent mass shootings," the problem is finding any restrictive law on civilian firearms that does not have a history of sending violent crime rates sky high. There are more than 22,420 restrictive gun laws currently in force, and not even one of those has ever reduced violent crime.
But all of the 417 permissive gun laws have. As a result of our increasingly permissive gun laws, our violent crime and homicide rates are about half what they were in 1991. Even though Americans have bought more than 150 million new guns in the last 20 years.
And at a time when ever more restrictive European gun laws have sent Western Europe's violent crime rates soaring to multiples of ours.
Norway has most restricted gun laws and had horrible massacre. I agree with you who site our culture of killing people who you see as wronging you. This kid had problem (Aspergers) that make him not emotional capable of reason like others but extremely smart. Playing violent games and watching violent "entertainment" could be factor for a lot of recent events. The Tarantino movie and it's star rant about the violence and "I get to kill a bunch of whites". Now the Golden Globes has nominated...really..after all that just happened? If we push for a stop to this by not buying such...they will stop?
I dont know why people think that people with body armor cant be brought down. I got hit in Iraq by an iraqi in the front plate of my body armor with a pistol that is basically just a little more powerful than a 9mm and it putme on my ass. Luckily i had teammates to clean him up.
QUOTE: gun control advocates still face the problem of identifying laws that will prevent mass shootings
If you want to stop school shootings, not just ban guns, then the obvious answer is to shut down public schools. There is no evidence they do any good. Indeed, nothing ever invented, including child labor, has ever been more harmful to children than today's government / union schools.
The scary part is Americans are already desensitized to gun slaughter happening over and over again.
Federal and State governments having the only legal access to guns in this country is FAR more fearful (for the safety of myself and family) than every American (including future criminals) having access to them. Having said that, reasonable restrictions such as background checks for mental illness, felonies using guns and the outright banning of armor piercing shells with large ammunition clips for semi-automatic weapons seems acceptable to me and prudent.
Is it just coincidence that Mr.Obama has been president for 4 years now, and in that 4 years we have had mass shootings in Colorado, Oregon, Arizona, and now Conneticut. The last mass shooting of these magnitudes happened under Bubba Clinton (with an assault weapons ban in place). All these crimes committed by "crazies", that absolutly nobody has clue, about what triggered them. Is there government covert involvement here? It's no secret that the democrats/progressives/marxist, wants do away with the Constitution. They just have to disarm those pesky gun toteing bible thumping citizens first.
"Some are calling for reenactment of the assault weapons ban; the Sandy Hook shooter, however, apparently used two commonplace handguns inside the school."
We've known for 24 hours that it was an assault weapon was used. Update your article.
"We can and should do more to make it harder for them to obtain guns, which could reduce the number of daily gun deaths at the margins."
This piece is useful, but it fails to recognize the widespread horror of how our nation has sunk to a point that we have put our little children on the front lines of a cultural war over… well, what? Hypothetical rights to own weapons designed for their mass killing impact?
Let's start from the statement that mass-murder rampages are destroying our civilization, our society. All the parents in America shuddered at the thought that their children might be next— despite security systems, well-meaning bystanders, security guards and all the billions of dollars we spend to fight this cancer. What is necessary to lift ourselves out of this Hell?
Rather than say what's politically impossible or a "start" at the margin, let's start with what it would take to substantially eliminate this disease, and then look to see how we be more relaxed without harming our goal.
Otherwise, we'll be in the same shock in a few months again.
Maybe it's because all those gun control "reforms" didn't actually decrease violence. In fact, mass shootings seem to occur far more commonly in states that have strict gun control laws (see the article on my website tomorrow).
I think that most gun owners would agree that the mentally ill shouldn't have access to guns. The problem is that the left will cast the widest net possible to prevent as many Americans as they can from owning guns.
Essentially, gun control is a patch for a moral, cultural and societal problem that the government doesn't have the will or the means to address.
Mr. Winkler starts off impling he is serious about a solution, but ends it in a typical anti ERA tiff. IF he is serious about a need to reform things, one of the very first questions that must be asked is not why thes evil young men do this, but rather what stops the killing once it starts. Anyone who is honest will say ther is little to nothing that can be done short term to change anything to prevent these events. So how are they ended? If the resolution is the arrival of the police, actions of an armed civilian, or simply suicide by the killer, then we should know it. We should be able to sit down at a table and say these are the primary reasons the killing stopped then come up with suggestions to make that sequence of events happen quickly to minimize the deaths. In truth, the vast majority of these killing sprees end when the police disable or kill the shooter, or when a civilian shots the killer. the next question should be how quickly does it happen for each response and how does it affect the total. Can we speed up the circumstatnces to end the attack quickly? this is where the political ideologists are goig to dig in and fight based on their own urban myths. We know many of these thugs kill themselves almost as soon as police show force. This is the fact that Senator Boxer's proposal and the NRA's proposal are based on. If putting armed guards in schools and malls reduces the easy targets, that alone will deter thugs. Every time one of them sees an armed guard and says not there, it inceases the chances they will not kill. It is not a total solution, but it is a step that can be done quickly. And an honest assessment will say it can save lives. If an armed guard were at Sandy Hook, he should have been able to stop the punk from getting to the kids. He (or she) did not have to kill the punk, only pin him down long enough for the police to get there. Some of those little angels would still be with their families. If it save one child's life, it would be worth it.
If you control the ammunition you (slowly but surely) control the weapon. Require that all sales and resales of ammunition have a verifiable paper trail that is stored in a national database. Require a gun card for any purchase of ammunition or the precursor ingredients like gunpowder and shell casings.
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A medical condition caused a man to run a stop sign and crash into a residence Tuesday.
The 28-year-old man was driving west on Nevada Street when he suffered a seizure at 8:34 a.m. The vehicle went through the intersection with Jackson Street and struck a residence, Oshkosh Police Lt. Kevin Konrad said.
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Glendale graduate Megan Deines and the Louisville Cardinals will continue their improbable run with a Final Four game today in New Orleans against California.
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You can ask anybody on the 2012 PCM Mustangs football team that losing senior quarterback, Nate VandeWall for the season on a freak injury in their loss at Albia was a blow not only offensively, but morally as well. PCM head coach, Greg Bonnett, said that there were some leaders on his Mustangs team, but VandeWall was THE leader for his squad this season. Bonnett also told KNIA/KRLS Sports that VandeWall's "motivational pep talk" during halftime of the game against C-M-B was the difference maker in that game.
"Yeah, Nate VandeWall was the dominant leader on this team and it was kind of his team," Bonnett said. "I really don't think we would have beat C-M-B if it hadn't been for Nate VandeWall's motivational speech at halftime and just him rallying the troops, so to speak. He was a kid that everybody looked up to, and when he told you something, you knew that he meant it."
Bonnett also said that the senior signal caller was quick to point out his own mistakes, but also expected the same out of his teammates if and when they botched something up on the field. PCM went 1 – 3 without VandeWall, and finished the season with a 4 – 7 record.
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Open Automotive Alliance forms to add Android to vehicles
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Alliance creating single platform for Android-based in-car systems
Google is pushing to bring Android to cars, confirming recent rumors, though not as a partnership with a single car manufacturer as first thought. The Open Automotive Alliance (OAA), made up of Google, Audi, GM, Honda, Hyundai, and Nvidia, has been formed to create a single common platform for in-car systems, one which it hopes will improve the experience of the driver and passengers on the road.
The platform will in theory allow drivers to access various functions usually reserved for smartphones, such as maps, music, and phone calls, though without necessarily requiring a mobile device to be connected. The vehicle's dashboard display could potentially show maps and a route, updated in real-time based on traffic reports collected from the Internet, or music apps could temporarily take over the dash display and accepting hands-free input, instead of forcing the driver to move their attention from the road and to the car radio.
An earlier in-car system developed by Nvidia and Audi
"The worlds of consumer and automotive technologies have never been more closely aligned, and this alliance will only pave the way for faster innovation," said Ricky Hudi, head of Electrics/Electronics Development at Audi AG. "Working toward a common ecosystem benefits driver safety above all." Nvidia president and CEO Jen-Hsun Huang claims "The car is the ultimate mobile computer," something the graphics company took to heart by announcing a version of its new Tegra K1 mobile processor destined for use in vehicles.
The OAA hopes to bring the first cars using Android to market sometime before the end of 2014, though it does not mention which of the group will do so first. Audi could certainly be a good candidate for this, considering its appearance in the recent rumor, as well as having previously worked with Nvidia on in-car systems.
Despite the relative importance of the deal to the motor industry, it is not the first to bring smartphone-style controls or integration to vehicles. A system from Apple called iOS in the Car allows for drivers to take advantage of Siri and other iOS systems while driving, though unlike the OAA's efforts, it does require a connection to an iOS device in order to operate. So far, Honda, Nissan, Mercedes-Benz, Ferrari, Chevrolet, Lexus, Kia, Volvo, and Jaguar have all announced they would be adding iOS in the Car to their vehicles.


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Bubble Printing
by Susan Sorrell
Prepared For Dye 100% cotton fabric
Pebo Seta fabric paint
Dye-na-flow fabric paints
Sponge brayer
Plexiglas or glass flat surface
Different sizes of bubble wrap
Spray bottle with water
Large paint brush and small plastic cups
When I get stumped on a piece of
fabric art or end up with a piece of ugly fabric, I like to bubble
print. It is a really easy way to change the look of a piece of
fabric and takes no experience using fabric paints. The best part is
that bubble wrap is being made in different sizes, so I am always
saving scraps of bubble wrap from the packages I get in the mail.
Step 1
Assemble all of
your materials, so you can dive right in and paint. I starting out
with a white piece of cotton and I can add color later after the
bubble print dries. You will need a piece of glass to put your
fabric paint and a hard sponge brayer. The hard sponge brayer won't
soak up all of your paint and will give you a nice even print. I
like to use Pebo Setacolor paints and the one I have chosen for this
print is the opaque red. I am going to use the large bubble
wrap, but l like to use all sizes and keep a stash of them next to
my painting table.
Pour some fabric paint out on your
printing plate and roll your brayer through your paint. Try to get
an even coat on your brayer, which means roll your brayer through
your paint several times.
Roll your brayer
over the bubble wrap several times to make sure you have enough
paint to make a print. If you want a light print don't apply a lot
of paint and for a darker print apply a lot of paint to the bubble
Step 3
like to place my material on top of the bubble wrap if it is a large
piece. I run my hand over the material with a light touch until I
start seeing the paint soak into the fabric.
Step 4
Let you bubble
print dry and then iron according to the instructions of the fabric
paint you are using. You can leave it with a white background or you
can use some Dye-na-Flow paints and give your bubble print some
I like using
the Dye-na-flow paints, since this is the closest I can get to
dyeing fabric in my studio. The colors are bright and easy to blend.
Step 5
When applying
the Dye-Na-Flow, I use a spray bottle to wet the back of my fabric
and then apply the paint dyes with a brush and by dripping. I have
found if you put the Dye-Na-Flow in small cups and add a little bit
of water it is easier to brush onto your fabric.
If you want to
get some pretty color combinations when using the Dye-Na-Flow paint
dyes, use only the Magenta, Yellow and Turquoise. These three colors
will blend into pretty oranges, greens, and purples.
Now you might
be wondering why I applied the dye paints to the back of the fabric
instead of the front. Well, I like to see the print sit on top of
the colored background and if I paint on top of the print, the dye
paints might cover up some of the red dots.
Here is my
finished piece of fabric. I have also included some examples of
other bubble prints I have made.
This was a
piece of fabric that the painting didn't turn out to my liking, so I
make a white bubble print on top of it with a small bubble wrap. I
made the print really show up by applying a lot of white paint to
the brayer.
I like to use
Lutradur a lot in my work and this piece need a little something
added to it, so I did a light bubble print on it with white paint.
The bubble wrap
printing is part of my Monoprinting on Fabric
workshop, which gives you a taste of different ways to play with
paint and other materials to print on fiber.
If you need
supplies to experiment and try bubble printing you can find them as
here for PFD fabrics.
here for Pebeo Setacolor Opaque/Shimmer paints or
here for Setacolor Transparent paints.
here for Dye-na-Flow paints and exciter pack.
here for Lutradur.
Susan teaches a
number of online classes at joggles. Click
here to see her classes.
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Developers for Pittsburgh's Saks property identified by URA
Pittsburgh's Urban Redevelopment Authority is expected to vote on Thursday to start negotiations with a pair of developers who would transform the former Saks Fifth Avenue store, Downtown, into a parking garage with retail and residential space, an official said.
The development partners are Downtown-based McKnight Realty Partners and Millcraft Investments in Washington County, said Robert Rubinstein, URA's acting executive director.
Pittsburgh Parking Authority also would be involved in the talks, which could last up to 150 days if a 60-day extension is approved, Rubinstein said. If successful, construction could begin 12 to 18 months after talks end, he said.
"This agreement gives us all the flexibility to try to put what are some great conceptual ideas and flesh them out in terms of costs, structure of ownership and rules of ownership," Rubinstein said.
Officials have discussed building a 400- to 600-space parking garage at the site, with retail space at ground level. Rubinstein said the proposed development also includes a 101-unit residential development above the retail and parking space.
It's unknown how many levels of parking would be located below ground and how many would be above.
Rubinstein said URA board member Bill Rudolph will not participate in the board's discussion of the proposed project or vote on it, because he is a principal in McKnight Realty Partners.
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World of Warcraft movie moves to Universal
In the wake of Legendary Pictures divorce from Warner Bros., the latter has decided that they will not distribute a number of Legendary feature films including Seventh Son, Hot Wheels, Mass Effec and its World of Warcraft movie. WB and Legendary will still partner on 300: Rise of an Empire and Godzilla. Legendary has also been cut out of the Man of Steel sequel that's tentatively titled Superman vs Batman but they will co-finance Christopher Nolan's Interstellar.
Legendary will be presenting its World of Warcraft movie (and Mass Effect project) to Universal in the coming months and from there, it will be Universal's decision as to whether they want to distribute the films according to The Hollywood Reporter. Without a distributor, the likelihood of a Warcraft film actually getting made is very unlikely.
Initially put into development in 2006, progress on a World of Warcraft movie was jumpstarted in 2013 with the revelation that Source Code director Duncan Jones had signed on to helm the project. At San Diego Comic Con 2013, test footage for the project was shown which was recieved highly positive reactions from fans and critics alike. The movie is set to occur one year before the events of World of Warcraft and follow the Alliance. Sam Raimi was previously attached to helm the project before Jones. Johnny Depp is currently rumored to be up for the role of Medivh. Screenwriter Charles Leavitt (Blood Diamond, Seventh Son) penned the script.