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I'm told I have an unusually sensitive nose, and though I'm clearly no rival to the bloodhound or the rabbit, both of whom are said to have a sense of smell more than a million times better than our own, I suspect that I could have found gainful employment as a perfumer, a cook, a scented-rose breeder, or a seeker of broken gas pipelines. (Natural gas has no natural odor, so the utility companies add a volatile chemical called mercaptan to the gas. This stuff smells like, depending on your perspective, rotten eggs or decaying roadkill, the latter of which appeals to vultures, congregations of which are often used by pipeline guardians to find leaks.)
There are times, of course, when having a "good nose" is something of a liability, for I'm often the first person to detect something that needs cleaning, taking out to the trash cans, or, in the case of infants, a new diaper. But these days, a working sense of smell is an absolute joy. We're now firmly in Clethra season, and a walk in the wetter parts of the woods or along the edges of most ponds and lakes is sheer heaven.
Clethra alnifolia, also known as summersweet and sweet pepperbush, is a very common shrub, between four and ten feet high, that produces enormous numbers of white flower spikes called racemes. These are particularly attractive to bumblebees, and when the Clethra is blooming, you can often find the Naturalist stopping by a patch of summersweet to drink in the show—or, perhaps more apt, to inhale the show.
The scent is incredibly powerful—I can detect it a quarter-mile away—and up close, some people have told me that it's almost more than they can handle: cloying, rather than divine. To be sure, a Clethra patch in full bloom can be as over-obvious as a teenager's first forays in the application of perfume—if a subtle hint is fine, a half-gallon is not better—but I really like the smell. In fact, I find it energizing, and as we head into the energy-draining Dog Days of August, the scent of sweet pepperbush is something that keeps me going, even as the hot, humid weather threatens to put me into a terminal torpor.
The Dog Days actually refer to an astronomical event: the time when Sirius, the Dog Star, starts making its presence in the pre-dawn sky. Although Sirius is the star of the winter sky and is associated with frigid weather, its rising for the first time in mid-summer augurs heat, often the strongest we'll get. In an 1812 book called Clavis Calendria, Or, A Compendious Analysis of the Calendar, a British author named John Brady declared that this time period was characterized by climatological evils when "the Sea boiled, the Wine turned sour, Dogs grew mad, and all other creatures became languid; causing to man, among other diseases, burning fevers, hysterics, and phrensies."
It doesn't sound like fun, but rather than give in to "phrensies"—honestly, who has the energy anyway?—I turn instead to the calming aroma of Clethra and to all the other reasons to be out at this time of year. If there's a bit of a breeze, the mosquitoes, deerflies, and other sanguivorous insects are not too annoying. That respite from serving as an unwilling blood donor makes it pleasant to go in search of other spectacular blossoms, the most eye-catching of which is Lobelia cardinalis.
The cardinal flower is a stunning, almost lurid, red: think the feathers or formal vestments of the male bird or religious figure of the same name. Readers who have been with me for a long enough time have learned that I am red-green colorblind. It's occasionally a liability, for there are field trips when something obvious to anyone with properly functioning eyes is utterly invisible to me. However, the L. cardinalis blooms are so red that even I can spot them. Then, too, these showy spikes of flowers are absolute magnets to ruby-throated hummingbirds, who "see red" and can't resist coming in for a visit. I've actually had ruby-throats insist on visiting a garden spade with a red grip on the handle, so it's no surprise to me that I can use the humming of these nectar-mad birds to find patches of cardinalis. Sometimes, these blossoms, and their pollinators, will even lure in a hummingbird moth or two, although typically, these day-flying hummingbird mimics are content to work the nearby pickerel weed flower spikes.
With the incessant electric whine of the Dog Day cicadas in the background and the dreaded temperature-humidity index so high that the weather feels like a giant hand pressing you into the ground, it would be easy to simply stay indoors and enjoy the comfort of the air-conditioner and the lack of biting insects. But the smell of the Clethra and the sight of the cardinalis blooms—these lack a strong aroma—are enough to lure me outside. Over and over.
There's a parade of young pickerel frogs heading across the meadow. The great blue heron and osprey kids are growing rapidly. By day, there are new dragonflies and damselflies—black-shouldered spiny legs and powdered dancers, respectively—on the wing, and lots of painted turtles on the logs. And if you're out by night, there are families of barred owls calling from the shadows, and the first katydids serenading from the shrubs and tree tops. The underwing moths are starting to come to the porch lights, and it's time to relearn the evening insects, both by sound and sight.
The Dog Days may be here, but don't give in to languor. There's Clethra scent in the rich, warm air, even in the darkness. This perfume will get you going. I wish I could bottle it and use the scent to keep me going, long after the Dog Days are past.
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A spokesman for the Fox family of Attica said he's pleased Carl McFarland, of West Point, won't be criminally charged for disregarding a stop sign and causing a grisly combine-minivan crash Oct. 31 that killed 15-year-old Damara Fox and her parents, Daniel, 62, and Stacey, 40.
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EAST ST. LOUIS, Ill. — A federal judge in East St. Louis, Ill., recently turned the tables on several lawyers accused of being "copyright trolls," who attempt to collect money by suing people who download pornography.
Many cases focus on legal, adult pornographic movies that might still prove embarrassing to defendants ensnared by public litigation.
The lawyers who demand payment first obtain copyrights to the movies, then monitor who downloads them and sue in federal court to obtain the identities of the computers that accessed the material. They then sue the computer owners, often offering to settle the claim for less than it would cost the owner to hire a lawyer.
Critics call it a "shakedown" and the people who do it "trolls."
U.S. District Judge G. Patrick Murphy called it "abusive litigation" in an order dated Nov. 27 in U.S. District Court in East St. Louis.
He ordered three lawyers involved in a suit against a Metro East man, Anthony Smith, to pay $261,025 in fees and costs to attorneys representing Smith and Internet service providers entangled in the case.
Smith's case, filed in August 2012, was a variation on the legal strategy. It claimed he was one of a group of hackers who used stolen or shared passwords to access pornographic sites owned by Lightspeed Media Corp. Lightspeed voluntarily dropped the suit against Smith in March.
Judges in various courts nationwide have criticized this approach in which a single lawsuit may be filed as a fishing expedition against thousands of possible defendants.
Murphy is not the first judge to criticize the tactics. U.S. District Judge Otis Wright II, in California, issued an order in May saying, "So now, copyright laws originally designed to compensate starving artists allow starving attorneys in this electronic-media era to plunder the citizenry."
The three lawyers who sued Smith are Paul Duffy, of Prenda Law, based in Chicago; John L Steele, of Steele Hansmeier in Chicago; and Paul Hansmeier, of Alpha Law Firm in Minnesota.
Smith's lawyer, Jason Sweet said Smith did not want to comment on the case nor identify himself further, for fear of damaging future job prospects.
Hansmeier said he had "no comment" when reached by phone. The other two lawyers, Steele and Duffy, did not respond to messages seeking comment.
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Lockyer, Albert
Albert Lockyer worked in the Truman home on several occasions performing remodeling tasks to prepare the home for the Truman's return from Washington, D.C. Lockyer describes the Trumans' attitude towards the workers and the various changes made in the attic in 1954 and 1955.
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Reynolds, Dwain W.
Dwain Reynolds repaired the Truman home first as a child with his father and then later as an adult. Reynolds discusses minor changes to the home over the years, including the roof materials, interior door locks, and windows.
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Thomas B. Saulter owned T.B. Saulter Tree Service and was hired by the Trumans to remove over ten trees after their return to Independence in the 1950s. Saulter also painted stumps, sprayed for weeds, and cleaned the gutter. Saulter discusses his first meetings with Harry S Truman, judge, in downtown Kansas City during the 1930s.
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Often times, the real test isn't hooking fish, it's getting those fish out of the space you just flipped your lure into. You need a rod that can move fish quickly. These rods are built with a fast taper, and will do just that. The butt section collapses into the handle for easy storage.
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Lesser Scaup (Aythya affinis)
The Lesser Scaup (Aythya affinis) is considered the most abundant diving duck in North America. However, it has been identified as a focal species of management concern due to serious declines in the combined breeding population of greater and lesser scaup in North America. The combined population has fallen from 5.7 - >7 million scaup in the 1970s to a record low of 3.25 million in 2006. Population estimates for Lesser Scaup alone are difficult to determine because they cannot be distinguished from Greater Scaup (Aythya marila) during surveys. Lesser Scaup are estimated to constitute about 90% of combined continental population of scaup, based on their known distribution in the western boreal forests of Canada and Alaska, and the northern prairies; hence, concerns about the declining scaup population have largely focused on Lesser Scaup.
What may have contributed to the scaup decline is uncertain, but major concerns include declining breeding habitat due to climate change and human development, changes in food resources and contaminants on migration and wintering areas, invasive species, human disturbances, and degraded habitat in important migration and wintering areas. Warming trends in the northern boreal forest may be causing long-term loss of wetland habitat important to scaup for nesting and brood-rearing. Degraded wetlands, particularly in the upper Midwest, provide poorer quality foods to scaup during spring and fall migration than they did historically. Exotic zebra and quagga mussels that have invaded important migration and wintering habitat of the Great Lakes and Upper Mississippi River system concentrate pollutants and have largely replaced native mollusks as scaup foods. An internal parasite introduced into the Upper Mississippi River system has resulted in repeated die-offs during migration.
Development pressures along the Pacific, Atlantic, and Gulf coasts have degraded freshwater and estuarine wetlands important to wintering scaup. Habitat losses, changes in distribution, and declining numbers also have reduced opportunities for diving duck hunters in many areas.
Afton, A. D., and M. G. Anderson. 2001. Declining scaup populations: a retrospective analysis of long-term population and harvest survey data. Journal of Wildlife Management 65:781-796.
Austin, J.E ., A. D. Afton, M. G. Anderson, R. G. Clark, C. M. Custer, J. S. Lawrence, J. B. Pollard, and J. K. Ringelman. 2000. Declining scaup populations: issues, hypotheses, and research needs. Wildl. Soc. Bull. 28:254-263.
Austin, J. E., C. M. Custer, and A. D. Afton. 1998. Lesser Scaup (Aythya affinis). The Birds of North America Online (A. Poole, Ed.). Ithaca: Cornell Lab of Ornithology. Retrieved July 2009 from http://bna.birds.cornell.edu/bna/species/338.
Badzinski, S. S., and S. A. Petrie. 2006. Diets of Lesser and Greater Scaup during autumn and spring on the lower Great Lakes. Wildlife Society Bulletin 34:664-674.
Bellrose, F. C. 1980. Ducks, geese, and swans of North America. 3rd ed. Stackpole Books, Harrisburg, PA. 540pp.
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. 2009. Waterfowl population status, 2009. U.S. Department of the Interior, Washington, D.C. USA.
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WinAmp as Music Server software
This is my current system:
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Running Winamp as the music server software
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DAC to amplifier via Reality Cables balanced mode
Amplifier is a Spectron Musician III Mark II with Bybee, V-Cap and Tuning fuses upgrade
Amplifier to speakers via Reality Cables - about to switch these out for homemade Spectron sense cables to see if this is an improvement.
Speakers GR Research LS9
Room heavily treated with acoustic panels at key reflection points.
I want to get the most out of this configuration and I want to start with the music server software package to make sure it is the best I can get. My goals are pretty basic, I want the server software run on my PC, have a balance function, be as neutral as possible and be relatively inexpensive. So is the Winamp as good as it gets for this first step or are their sonically better?
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db1989: His thinking might have been along the lines of EQ and other DSPs, not any objective measure of sound quality. Some DSPs might make certain music sound better to certain people. However, that's more of a "feature" of a music player, a modification of the original sound, rather than anything to do with "sound quality". A more precise term could be used to clear up confusion: fidelity, or the faithfulness of the output to the input. No music player is going to have higher fidelity than any other.
As far as modifications to the sound (DSPs) goes, there's not much variability between music players there either. Just about every player these days gives you an equalizer, though some might have more bands than others. Sound-raping DSPs like reverb or hall effect should never be applied to playback, in my opinion.
In simple terms, there's no difference in "sound quality" between music software. Just pick whichever one has the features you want: whether that means how easy it is to use, how many bands its EQ has, or whether it lets you adjust the left/right balance, etc.
(If you have some strange desire to add reverb or other effects to your music, you could incorporate that into your decision as well...)
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Fordham Law Holds 101st Diploma CeremonyMay 20, 2008
Fordham Law School held its 101st graduation ceremony on Sunday, May 18, at the Wamu Theater at Madison Square Garden. Fordham Law Dean William Michael Treanor and Fordham University President Joseph McShane, S.J. conferred the J.D. degree on 472 graduates and the LL.M. degree on 104. Class members performed more than 100,000 hours of volunteer work in the public interest during their time at the Law School.
Rich Ross, Fordham Law alumnus and president of Disney Channels Worldwide, gave the graduation address and received an honorary Doctor of Laws degree. Ross urged the graduates to "connect with your passions," and reiterated to them the importance of their law school education: "This experience has not just prepared you for a career in law; it has prepared you for life.…Because you have been here, you are ready to go anywhere."
Dean Treanor congratulated the class by saying, "It is my privilege to honor you today. I have watched you through your years here with admiration and pride….I look forward to seeing you do great things in the years ahead."
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At the ceremony, awards were also given to faculty for service and achievement. The Eugene J. Keefe Award, given to the person who has made the most important contribution to the Fordham Law community, was presented posthumously to Ann Moynihan, late assistant dean for administration. Dean Moynihan's sister Nora accepted the award on her behalf. The Teacher of the Year Award was presented to Jennifer Gordon, associate professor of law, and the Dean's Medal of Achievement was awarded to Professor Michael Lanzarone.
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When faced with running a large children's program on about $390 million less than you had before, how many beneficiaries will you be forced to drop?
That's the question facing the Healthy Families program, which is considering a substantial disenrollment of the 870,000 children currently in the program.
The answer, according to Senate member Mark Leno (D-San Francisco), lies in two bills -- ABX1 21 and SBX1 9, budget trailer bills left over from the previous session.
"Going back to May and June and even before that, going back to the governor's proposed budget," Leno said, "that budget not only proposed the extension of the gross premium tax, but it also raised copays for people in Healthy Families."
That package of give-and-take was only partially passed, he said.
"The Legislature did approve the rise in copays, but did not extend the gross premium tax."
It's that managed-care tax that was funding a large portion of the Healthy Families program. Leno said it's on the table again, and that the Legislature will take it up -- quickly, since the current session only lasts a month.
"We will be addressing this before the end of our session," Leno said.
"The question will be," he added, "will our Republican colleagues go along with it?"
The trailer bills need to pass by a two-thirds vote. According to Alicia Trost of Senate President pro Tem Darrell Steinberg's office (D-Sacramento), that will be an easier sell now than at last session's budget deadline, especially if the health plans being taxed agree with the levy.
"We are reaching out to the health plans, to let them know what's at stake here with Healthy Families," Trost said. "And we intend to pass the budget trailer bill."
On the Assembly side, Bob Blumenfield (D-Woodland Hills) said that pulling health care coverage from hundreds of thousands of poor children is something no legislator wants.
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The pound strengthened to a 10-week high against the dollar as optimism European leaders are moving closer toward resolving the region's debt crisis damped demand for the relative safety of the greenback.
Sterling headed for its strongest monthly gain versus the dollar since October after Greek Prime Minister Lucas Papademos said progress had been made in debt-swap talks with the nation's bondholders. European lenders may next month ask the European Central Bank for twice the amount of loans they took in December's refinancing operation, the Financial Times reported. Data showed U.K. consumer confidence increased to a seven-month high. Ten-year gilts rose for a fifth day.
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The pound gained 0.5 percent to $1.5783 at 4:09 p.m. London time after climbing to $1.5797, the strongest level since Nov. 21, and has risen 1.5 percent over the month. Sterling appreciated 1 percent to 82.82 pence per euro and was little changed at 120.41 yen.
European chiefs meeting in Brussels yesterday agreed to accelerate the introduction of a permanent 500 billion-euro ($660 billion) rescue fund and signed a deficit-control treaty. Papademos said he's "strongly committed" to reaching a debt-swap agreement with Greece's creditors.
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Mortgage approvals rose less than economists forecast in December and consumer credit fell the most on record, a separate report from the Bank of England showed.
The pound has weakened 0.5 percent this year according to Bloomberg Correlation-Weighted Indexes, which track 10 developed-nation currencies. The dollar dropped 2 percent, and the euro weakened 1.1 percent.
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Overseas investors cut their gilt holdings by the most since March 2009 last month, according to the Bank of England. Investors sold a net 10.66 billion pounds of U.K. government debt, compared with net purchases of 16.3 billion pounds in November, data published on the central bank's website showed.
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If you have a successful business, then you know how to grow. After all, that's what initial success in business is: finding a profitable, sustainable market, and steadily increasing your share of that market.
But there comes a time in the evolution of every business when selling more isn't enough. At some point, the mathematics of growth begin to break down, and simply doing more of what you've done before brings increasingly diminishing returns.
The reason for this is straightforward. Growth brings complexity (more products, more locations, more people, more everything...), and for a smaller, growing business, complexity drains profitability. At this point, the answer to every problem up to now--simply selling more--makes the problem worse. More sales brings even more complexity, which drives down profitability even further. Call it organizational growing pains.
The answer is as simple as the problem is obvious. Put systems and processes in place that allow the organization to scale. To deliver consistent, profitable products and services in the face of complexity, the organization must learn how to do grown-up things like hiring and firing professionally, make team-based decisions, and work cross-functionally.
Sounds relatively straightforward, right? And yet many businesses never make the transition from being small and growth-oriented, to becoming larger and able to scale. Here are the three main reasons owner-managed businesses get caught in a state of perpetual adolescence, and never reach maturity:
1. Addicted to selling. There's something beguilingly addictive about selling. And many founders and business owners find it close to impossible to relinquish the dopamine rush that comes from making a sale.
As a consequence two things happen: The founder/owners try to overcome the whitewater of growing complexity by doing the very thing that will make the situation worse: generating more sales; and secondly, they balk at making the time available to engage in actually managing the business.
2. Inability to say "No." Early stage growth (growing by selling) is all about saying "Yes." Yes, we can deliver that product to you by next Wednesday. Yes, we can translate the user guide into Chinese for you. Yes, we can paint the widgets green if you'd like.
It's this flexibility and can-do approach that enables us to grab market share early on. By performing superhuman feats of customer responsiveness, we grab business that should rightly go to competitors 10, 20, 50 times our size. It's an exhilarating time, and one during which the myths and legends of the business are born.
Problem is, scaling requires the frequent, disciplined use of the word "No." For the first time, the business is faced with the situation that simply because it can do a thing, doesn't mean it should.
Strategic scaling means taking a disciplined approach to growth.
3. Fear of failure. Managing a mature business that has the systems and processes to overcome complexity, and the discipline to adhere to them is entirely different from managing a smaller, growth-oriented business. Many business owners sense this as they begin to grapple with the consequences of success, and instinctively shy away from a challenge they feel may be beyond their capability.
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Admission Requirements
To be accepted into the Paramedic Certification Program, you must:
- Be 18 years of age by course completion date
- Have a high school diploma or GED
- Show successful completion of an Anatomy & Physiology course or enroll and successfully complete our pre-paramedic A&P course
- Have completed EMT training
- Submit a completed application packet
You must also meet physical ability, CPR certification, assessment testing, insurance, immunization, background check, drug screening, and fingerprinting requirements.
Anatomy and Physiology
Anatomy and Physiology for EMS providers is required before the Paramedic Certification Program begins, unless you have anatomy and physiology with a minimum grade of C on your college transcript. UT Southwestern teaches A&P for EMS providers before paramedic classes begin. The 10-day course is held from 7:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. Monday through Friday for two weeks. The cost is approximately $200, plus $95 for the textbook.
Physical Ability
The Paramedic Certification Program's clinical rotations require that you be physically able to care for patients. This involves lifting, moving, extricating adult and pediatric patients from entrapment, and transferring patients to an ambulance. You will be on your feet for at least eight hours each clinical day. You must be able to auscultate breath and heart sounds, and respond aloud to emergency calls.
You must also be able to read fine print for medication administration purposes and may be exposed to patients with infectious diseases. Manual dexterity is required for starting IVs, administering medications, and other skills. In the event you have or acquire a medical condition that may compromise your ability to care for patients, we may require a medical release from your physician. For more details about physical requirements, read the functional job analysis.
All students must be certified in cardiopulmonary resuscitation at the health care provider level as designated by the American Heart Association. Your instructor will ask you for a copy of your current CPR card on the first day of class. CPR classes are available through the El Centro College Continuing Education Division, the American Heart Association, and various hospitals and health organizations.
Assessment Testing
All applicants to the EMT and Paramedic Certificate program must achieve specialized admission requirements including minimum assessment scores in reading comprehension and math skills. Although students entering the paramedic course are TSI exempt, they must demonstrate reading and math ability. This can be demonstrated by any of the following:
- A bachelor's degree awarded from an accredited college
- An associate's degree awarded from an accredited college
- Successful completion of an English 1301 course or Math 1300 level course with a minimum grade of C
- 3 years of documented active duty in the U.S. armed forces or Texas National Guard with retirement or honorable discharge
- Scoring at or above the minimum on the following tests:
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|SAT Verbal (Critical Reading)
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|ACT English (Reading)
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An appointment to test is not necessary. Prior to testing, applicants who have never enrolled in credit courses at one of the colleges of the Dallas County Community College District should complete an online college application. Those applicants who have previously enrolled in a Dallas County Community college but who have not attended within the last 12 months, should complete the paper college application.
Applicants for the EMT-Basic certification must obtain a testing referral slip from the El Centro College Continuing Education Office, Room A-260. Applicants for the Paramedic certification must obtain a referral slip from the Counselor's Office (214-860-2084). Please contact the Assessment Center at 214-860-2178 for hours of operation. For further assistance regarding assessment testing, please consult the El Centro College Health Occupations Admissions Office at firstname.lastname@example.com.
Students may present any combination from the reading and math test columns below to fulfill the assessment testing requirement for application to the Paramedic Certification Program. Minimum acceptable scores for each test are indicated. SAT, ACT, TAKS, and STAAR scores have a 5-year expiration date from the date of testing. The TLI expires three years after testing date. All other tests are only good for two years.
Retesting Policy
Applicants to the Paramedic Certificate program who do not achieve minimum scores in reading and math assessment testing may retest one time for a $10 fee with permission from the El Centro College Counselor's Office. If the applicant does not achieve minimum required scores on the retest, the applicant must complete one of the following options before being granted a third and final testing opportunity during that application filing period.
The three options are: a) enrolling in developmental coursework; b) submit documented proof of obtaining tutoring; or c) enrolling in the Continuing Education course "College Fresh Start" which grants access to the College Learning Center for self-remediation utilizing computer programs, video/audio tapes, etc. If the applicant does not achieve minimum scores on the final retest, the applicant will not be allowed to submit an application during the current filing period and cannot test again until the following semester.
A uniform is required as part of the EMT course. Navy blue or black pants are required (purchased on your own). It is recommended that you purchase an approved uniform shirt with the school logo. An order form for the shirt will be distributed the first day of class providing the information needed to purchase the suggested shirt. The estimated cost of the shirt is $25. (Uniform shirts with the school logo are required.)
Malpractice Liability Insurance
EMT students are required to have medical malpractice liability insurance, either through their city or through an individual policy. Insurance is available through El Centro and can be purchased when you pay your registration fees.
Health Care Insurance
All students functioning in a clinical setting are required to provide proof of personal health insurance coverage before beginning their clinical rotations. El Centro College maintains a helpful list of health care coverage options.
Physical Exam and Immunizations
Before your course begins, you'll need to verify that you've had immunizations and/or diseases through your own records, school records or parents. We'll provide a form you can use to document a medical history, physical examination, and current record of these immunizations:
- Tuberculin skin test within the last six months. (If positive, chest X-ray required within last two years)
- Tetanus/diphtheria/pertussis (TDaP) current within the last two years.
- Measles/mumps/rubella (MMR). Two doses of measles are required either separately or in combination with MMR.
- Two varicella vaccinations or verification of having the diseasethrough titer (serologic confirmation).
- Hepatitis B series. You must complete the Hep B series before the start of direct patient care or show serologic confirmation of immunity to the hepatitis virus. To meet this requirement, you must complete the first two injections before applying to the program and submit documentation that you've completed all three injections before class begins. The third dose must be four to six months after the first dose. If you have a health situation (e.g., pregnancy, allergies, nursing mothers) that may prohibit the use of the hepatitis vaccine, you must provide documentation from your doctor and sign a waiver.
- Influenza vaccination (current flu season; August/September-March/April)
- Meningitis vaccination (current within 5 years; exempt if you are 22 and over)
(On January 1, 2014, the age requirement changed to those who are under the age of 22, instead of 30.)
You can visit a private physician, clinic, or medical center for the physical examination. The immunizations are available through the El Centro College Health Center at a reduced cost. Please call 214-860-2113 to make an appointment for immunizations. The El Centro College Health Center does not provide chest X-rays or physical exams.
Criminal Background Check and Drug Screening
Once you've been accepted to the program, you need to complete a criminal background check and drug screening so you can participate in hospital and field rotations. If you work for a fire department, we may be able to accept previous documentation from fire department personnel records. If you're a civilian, you need to initiate the background check and screening process within the date range indicated in your acceptance letter. The cost is approximately $84.
Results are forwarded to the El Centro College Health Occupations Division and reviewed El Centro College Health/Legal/Distance and Workforce/Continuing Education Division.This initial procedure will be honored by all hospitals for the duration of your enrollment, as long as you haven't had a break in enrollment (one fall or spring semester) during the program. Please be aware that criminal background and drug screening results are the property of El Centro College and are not released to students.
The drug screening follows National Institute on Drug Abuse guidelines and screens for 10 substances in the Substance Abuse Panel 10: amphetamines, barbiturates, benzodiazepines (Valium), cocaine, cannabis, methadone, methaqualone (Quaaludes), opiates, phencyclidine (PCP), and propoxyphene (Darvon). SAP 10 test results that fall outside of acceptable ranges are considered positive test results and are automatically sent for a separate confirmatory test by gas chromatography mass spectrometry.
If these results remain positive, the test results are sent to a medical review officer, who will contact the student to determine if there is a valid prescription for the drug in question. If a valid prescription exists and is verified, the test result will be deemed to be negative and acceptable. The MRO review has an additional cost of $25-$75 to the student.
The criminal background check reviews your criminal history seven years previous to the date of program application. The check will include all cities and counties of your residency during that time period. The following histories will disqualify you from consideration for a clinical rotation:
- Felony conviction
- Misdemeanor conviction or felony deferred adjudication involving crimes against persons (physical or sexual abuse)
- Misdemeanor conviction related to moral turpitude (prostitution, public lewdness/exposure, etc.)
- Felony deferred adjudication for the sale, possession, distribution, or transfer of narcotics or controlled substances
- Registration as a sex offender
The program may request an exception from the first clinical agency for a student with a felony deferred adjudication and no alternate recourse through a licensing/registry authority, i.e., Board of Nurse Examiners for the State of Texas. If the licensing/registry body approves the individual to take the licensing/credential exam, the individual may participate in the clinical rotation. For more information, contact Kanora Jackson, Division Coordinator, at email@example.com or 972-860-5095.
Right of Removal
A clinical agency reserves the right to remove a student from the facility for suspicion of substance use or abuse including alcohol. The clinical agency will notify the El Centro College Health Occupations administration to facilitate immediate removal of the student and request that the student submit to a repeat drug screening procedure at the student's expense on the same day of removal from the clinical agency.
Failure to comply will result in immediate expulsion from the clinical agency. Further, regardless of testing or test results, the agency reserves the right to expel any student from its facility. The agency will provide El Centro College Health Occupations administration with written documentation of the student's behavior(s) by two or more agency representatives.
If a student accepted to a health occupations program is prohibited from attending a clinical rotation experience due to findings of a criminal background check and/or drug screening, the student may be dismissed from the health occupations program.
For more information about criminal background check and drug screening requirements, please contact Dr. LaCheeta McPherson, El Centro associate dean of allied health, at 214-860-2271.
Although fingerprinting isn't required for admission to the Paramedic Certification Program, the Texas Department of State Health Services now requires it for EMT certification. All initial EMS applicants not currently certified by the department at any EMS level, are required to submit their fingerprints through the Fingerprint Applicant Services of Texas (FAST) for Texas/FBI criminal history.
You'll be required to indicate if you have any previous criminal activity on your record when submitting a TDSHS application. You must report all convictions, arrests, and deferred adjudications higher than a Class C misdemeanor (Class A, B, and felonies), regardless of the state in which they occurred or how much time has elapsed. If you have any offenses or incidents you need to report, be sure to gather your information the course begins to avoid delay with your certification.


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The Art of Paco PometJuxtapoz // Monday, 11 Apr 2011
There is just something off here, but in a good way. Paco Pomet's slightly off, eerie scenarios look as if, at times, they could be portraits from a 1950's sci-fi film set, with added bizarre elements. The Granada-born artist does in fact base his paintings off of old photographs, but it is his additions that make them interesting.
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"Our Generation has had no Great war, no Great Depression. Our war is spiritual. Our depression is our lives."
"That's the thing about depression: A human being can survive almost anything, as long as she sees the end in sight. But depression is so insidious, and it compounds daily, that it's impossible to ever see the end. The fog is like a cage without a key."
"In depression . . . faith in deliverance, in ultimate restoration, is absent. The pain is unrelenting, and what makes the condition intolerable is the foreknowledge that no remedy will come -- not in a day, an hour, a month, or a minute. . . . It is hopelessness even more than pain that crushes the soul."
"This is my depressed stance. When you're depressed, it makes a lot of difference how you stand. The worst thing you can do is straighten up and hold your head high because then you'll start to feel better. If you're going to get any joy out of being depressed, you've got to stand like this."
"I cry a lot. My emotions are very close to my surface. I don't want to hold anything in so it festers and turns into pus - a pustule of emotion that explodes into a festering cesspool of depression."
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East Meadow, NY .Eight NuHealth staff members from the Nassau University Medical Center recently completed training offered by the Center for Domestic Preparedness (CDP), in Anniston, Ala. The CDP is operated by the United States Department of Homeland Securitys Federal Emergency Management Agency and is the only federally-chartered Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD) training facility in the nation.
The training was intense, but well worth it. There was a full schedule each of the five days that we attended, comprised of hands on and classroom learning. The facility was incredible in regards to the equipment that was available, the comfort of the classroom and breakout rooms for group exercises and the staff was amazing full of knowledge, welcome to questions and wanted to make sure we got the most out of our experience, said Mary Harms, part of NuHealths emergency management team, a paramedic and captain of the Wantagh Fire Department, as well as serving as liaison between the Nassau University Medical Center and the EMS community. It was an exciting experience, on one of the days, to learn how to set up a decontamination area and clean contaminated patients in order to protect our hospital and patients.
The CDP develops and delivers advanced training for emergency response providers, emergency managers, and other government officials from state, local, and tribal governments. The CDP offers more than 50 training courses focusing on incident management, mass casualty response, and emergency response to a catastrophic natural disaster or terrorist act. Training at the CDP campus is federally funded at no cost to state, local, and tribal emergency response professionals or their agency.
Resident training at the CDP includes healthcare and public health courses at the Noble Training Facility, the nations only hospital dedicated to training healthcare professionals in disaster preparedness and response.
A number of resident training courses culminate at the CDPs Chemical, Ordnance, Biological and Radiological Training Facility (COBRA). The COBRA is the nations only facility featuring civilian training exercises in a true toxic environment using chemical agents and nonpathogenic biological materials. The advanced hands-on training enables responders to effectively prevent, respond to, and recover from real-world incidents involving acts of terrorism and other hazardous materials.
Responders participating in CDP training gain critical skills and confidence to respond effectively to local incidents or potential WMD events. Information about CDP training programs can be found at http://cdp.dhs.gov.
Photo left to right: Dr. Mark Fonrose, Mary Harms, Kim Edwards, Lisa McLoughlin, Ada Feng, Chanukka Smith, George Araujo and Judy Eisele LaPlante.
NuHealth is a Long Island health care organization delivering essential medical care and disease and lifestyle management to everyone at every stage of life. Also known as Nassau Health Care Corporation, NuHealth is a public benefit corporation managing the operations of Nassau Medical Center, A. Holly Patterson Extended Care and a network of Family Health Centers that bring primary and specialty care out into the community. By emphasizing wellness, cultural sensitivity and collaborative efforts with the North Shore-LIJ Health System, NuHealth is working to make good care more affordable and easier to access.
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Dr. Carolyn Evans named senior assistant dean of graduate business programs at the Leavey School of Business
Carolyn Evans, a senior economist at Intel Corp., began her role as senior assistant dean for graduate business programs in the Leavey School of Business at Santa Clara University Jan. 27.
"Dr. Evans' academic expertise and industry experience make her an exceptional choice to lead the growth of our graduate business program," said Dean Drew Starbird, in making the announcement. "Her leadership will be significant as we strengthen our flexible MBA offerings and add new master's degrees to serve a diverse Silicon Valley workforce."
Evans was most recently senior economist in the sales and marketing division at Intel. Previously she was associate professor of economics and faculty director of the undergraduate business program at Santa Clara University. She was formerly a senior economist for the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve, and served as senior staff economist on the Council of Economic Advisers at the White House.
She earned A.B., A.M. and Ph.D. degrees from Harvard University, and holds a master's of science degree from the London School of Economics.


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(LOSANGELES.CBSLOCAL) — The cabin quadruple-murder suspect Christopher Dorner is believed to be holed up in is now fully engulfed in flames, according to KCAL9′s Carter Evans.
LAPD Cmdr. Andy Smith Tuesday urged Dorner to turn himself in as a gun battle and barricade situation raged on in San Bernardino County.
"Enough is enough. It's time to turn yourself in. End the bloodshed," Smith said, adding that Dorner, who allegedly shot and killed his fourth victim — a San Bernardino County Sheriff's deputy — Tuesday afternoon, is holed up in a Seven Oaks cabin.
Dormer is also accused of shooting a second deputy, who was undergoing surgery after being airlifted to Loma Linda University Medical Center. Smith, who says Dorner likely has access to television and other media outlets, requested that media helicopters pull out of the area.
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November 30, 2015
A well known West Virginia businessman and philanthropist dies.
James "Buck" Harless was 94.
He started out as a coal miner and worked his way up, building Gilbert Lumber into a multimillion dollar conglomerate.
He was also a prominent donor to many organizations, including West Virginia University and Marshall University.
Harless is a member of the the West Virginia Coal Hall of Fame and the West Virginia Business Hall of Fame.
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The PGA Tour plays the equivalent of a homecoming game this week, as the strongest field in professional golf returns to TPC Sawgrass for THE PLAYERS Championship.
2014 marks the 30th staging of the event and this year the THE PLAYERS is adopting a new 3-hole aggregate playoff in the event of a tie after regulation play. Many players and officials had felt that an aggregate playoff is more appropriate than sudden death for a tournament of this magnitude and the new system will certainly capitalize on the most dramatic holes at the Stadium Course - the risk/reward par-5 16th, the short par-3 17th, with its famed island green and the intimidating par-4 18th, a 462-yard, sweeping crescent that is guarded by water from the tee to the putting surface.
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COVINGTON -- A Covington woman was charged after striking a school bus Tuesday morning.
The Georgia State Patrol charged Stella Gabrielle Pulliam, 44, of Covington, with failure to obey a traffic control device after running a red traffic light at the intersection of Crowell and Brown Bridge roads.
About 8:35 a.m. as the school bus entered the intersection, a 2010 Nissan Sentra driven by Pulliam ran the red light and struck the bus on the front end, according to Gordy Wright, public information officer for the Georgia State Patrol.
"No students were on the bus at the time of the accident," said Sherri Davis-Viniard, director of Public Relations at the Newton County School System. "Neither the driver, nor the monitor sustained injuries."
According to NCSS Transportation Department personnel, the bus had minor damages.
will 3 years, 10 months ago
Stella lost her groove, RED MEANS STOP
jenniferthomason 3 years, 10 months ago
you would think that would have been known by now
will 3 years, 10 months ago
The newton sheriffs dept cannot get the drivers ed course too soon. Alot of adult drivers do not know how to drive just drive down Washington street and watch people try to use the turn lane or use the roundabout on Turner Lake and watch the drivers around the square, its not that hard people. I wonder if Stella was on her cell phone or applying make-up when she hit the big yellow bus
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So Many Players, So Little Time!
This year could be the most interesting of any Trade Deadline of past years, mainly because of the new Salary Cap regulations. Plenty of players will be available for teams pickings mainly because of their salary or their lack of performance.Here is a list of possible Goalies who may be pcking their bags. Along with the names I will try to guess to most possible and logical destination for each of these men. Some of these players are most likely to be traded while others have been players who haven't really been brought up but could be shipped for the right package.
Jean Sebastien Giguere– With young rookie Ilya Bryzgalov right on his heels and the recent fall off from his performance since the Ducks Stanley Cup appearance Giguere could be had for price. Most likely Destination if traded: Colorado or Detroit
Andrew Raycroft: With the pure athleticism of rookie backup Hannu Toivonen and Raycroft's inability to get the job done lately Raycroft may be packing his bags very soon. MLD:Vancouver
Martin Biron: With his trade value very high after his terrific play of late and because of teo cheaper goalies in front of him Biron may be dealt for some young talent or D.MLD: Vancouver,Edmonton or LA
Nikolai Khabibulin: With his monsterous contract that seems to have come back to haunt the Hawks he may traded to give the cheaper Anderson a chance.MLD:Edmonton
David Aebischer: Will most likely be dealt only if another team is willing to trade a higher ranking goalie in return.MLD: Montreal
Marc Denis: With Pascal LeClaire ready to take over the starting role and Denis being to least appreciated goalie in the league it would be best for his career if he is dealt.MLD: Vancouver or Colorado
Roberto Luongo: The most wanted man in the league Luongo can win game all by himself with his magnificent skill. However, the price tag is quite high for his salary and for what FLA wants in return.MLD: Colorado, Detroit, Edmonton, Vancouver
Jose Theodore: With Huet over acheiving as of late and Theodore under achieving, Bob Gainey may pull the trigger on a Patrick Roy like deal which may end up hurting more then helping.MLD: Coloado.
Manny Fernandez/Dwayne Roloson: One of these pieces of the dynamic duo may be traded to acquire more help offensively for the club, plus with Josh Harding still waiting for his shot in the minors this deal has a high chance of happening, only problem, which one to trade? MLD: Carolina, Tampa or Philly
Curtis Joseph: The veteran may be traded to make room for David LeNeveu and could be had for a cheap price tag. MLD:Edmonton,Toronto??(insurance incase Belfour is injured during or before the plyoffs?)
Olaf Kolzig: The big man wants out of Washington and finish the last couple years of his career off with a winner.MLD: Vancouver, Colorado,Detroit
As you can see there are plenty of goalies that can be had for the right price. And plenty of teams out there looking for a good quality goaltender to help out. These next few weeks will be quite interesting!


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Carolyn Scruggs Installed as Warden at Baltimore Central Booking
September 27, 2011 - There were a sharp Division of Pretrial Detention and Services Honor Guard; dozens of Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services (DPSCS) leaders; more than a hundred correctional officers in uniform; and many outside guests from law enforcement, Baltimore City Police, the states attorneys office, the public defender, and the community. But for the woman being sworn-in as warden of the Baltimore Central Booking and Intake Center, the best part was that her 96-year old grandmother was there to see her installed.
Carolyn Scruggs officially became the warden of one of the nations busiest booking facilities on September 27, an ascension that was particularly meaningful to her since Central Booking, which she now runs, is the place where she began her DPSCS career in 1995.
Warden Scruggs started out in criminal justice as a District Court Commissioner in Baltimore City, moving to Central Booking the day it opened. She quickly rose through the ranks, and eventually became an expert in a variety of criminal justice processes, from fingerprinting and identification to warrant processing.
Ms. Scruggs, who graduated from Baltimores Western High School at age 16, holds a B.A. in Political Science from Towson and a Master of Arts in Criminal Justice Administration from Coppin State. She also holds a number of certificates from the FBI, the Maryland Correctional Training Commission, and various law enforcement agencies.
Warden Scruggs is the sixth leader of the busy Central Booking, succeeding Naomi Williams, who retired earlier this year. She will lead a staff of more than 500 in a facility which last year processed nearly 60,000 arrestees. Central Booking, along with the Baltimore City Detention Center, is part of the Maryland Division of Pretrial Detention and Services under Commissioner Wendell France.
DPSCS salutes Warden Carolyn Scruggs and all of the hard-working men and women in the Division of Pretrial Detention and Services.


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Despite only scoring 14 points in the first half, missing four free throws in the final two minutes, and committing six fourth-quarter turnovers, Bloom-Carroll pulled out a 42-40 win against Canal Winchester Monday night.
"We were frustrated the whole night," Bulldogs coach Chad Little said. "We're just lucky to escape. We're just glad to get out with a win."
The Indians (3-7) and Bulldogs (4-6) slogged their way to a combined 11-for-42 first-half shooting performance, which saw Bloom-Carroll enter halftime with a tenuous 14-12 advantage. Little kept his team in the locker room until all ...


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|Neural tube closure in Xenopus laevis involves medial migration, directed protrusive activity, cell intercalation and convergent extension.
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|PMID: 10498689 Owner: NLM Status: MEDLINE
|We have characterized the cell movements and prospective cell identities as neural folds fuse during neural tube formation in Xenopus laevis. A newly developed whole-mount, two-color fluorescent RNA in situ hybridization method, visualized with confocal microscopy, shows that the dorsal neural tube gene xpax3 and the neural-crest-specific gene xslug are expressed far lateral to the medial site of neural fold fusion and that expression moves medially after fusion. To determine whether cell movements or dynamic changes in gene expression are responsible, we used low-light videomicroscopy followed by fluorescent in situ and confocal microscopy. These methods revealed that populations of prospective neural crest and dorsal neural tube cells near the lateral margin of the neural plate at the start of neurulation move to the dorsal midline using distinctive forms of motility. Before fold fusion, superficial neural cells apically contract, roll the neural plate into a trough and appear to pull the superficial epidermal cell sheet medially. After neural fold fusion, lateral deep neural cells move medially by radially intercalating between other neural cells using two types of motility. The neural crest cells migrate as individual cells toward the dorsal midline using medially directed monopolar protrusions. These movements combine the two lateral populations of neural crest into a single medial population that form the roof of the neural tube. The remaining cells of the dorsal neural tube extend protrusions both medially and laterally bringing about radial intercalation of deep and superficial cells to form a single-cell-layered, pseudostratified neural tube. While ours is the first description of medially directed cell migration during neural fold fusion and re-establishment of the neural tube, these complex cell behaviors may be involved during cavitation of the zebrafish neural keel and secondary neurulation in the posterior axis of chicken and mouse.
|L A Davidson; R E Keller
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|Title: Development (Cambridge, England) Volume: 126 ISSN: 0950-1991 ISO Abbreviation: Development Publication Date: 1999 Oct
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|Created Date: 1999-11-19 Completed Date: 1999-11-19 Revised Date: 2007-11-14
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Principal-component analysis of the presence of 10 antibodies and 19 clinical signs for 57 patients diagnosed with SSc, SLE, or UCTD. The plot is based on principal components 1 and 3, which explain 18.96% and 8.74% of the total variance of the data, respectively. The individual disease populations are circumscribed by an ellipse representing an 87% confidence level.
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I dont really see the point in announcing a 'World Tour' if your going to skip entire continents
Sydney!! Would love to see my all time favourite band playing at one of the big sydney venues. Sydney Entertainment Centre or Newcastle Entertainment Centre would be preferable for you guys. Please come down to Australia, you guys have sooo many fans over here that are dying to see you in concert format. If you do come down any chance you could get Mike Mangini to do a drum clinic in sydney? That would be a dream come true meeting my idol and learning from him.


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As of Thursday, March 27, 2014
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COVINGTON — A elderly woman who told police she had fallen victim to a scam that cost her $30,000 has died.
A Covington Police Department officer was called to a home on Capes Drive around 3:30 p.m. on Wednesday, March 19, because the 80-year-old woman was distraught.
According to the report, the woman told a friend that she "did not want to live anymore because she had nothing to the live for." The victim told police that she had sent a man in Jamaica who goes by the name "Bob Marley" about $30,000 over a year's time.
The officer called Newton EMS to the scene and the woman, who had taken a significant amount of medication, authorities said, was transported to Newton Medical Center. According to the report, the victim died the next day.
"This is a sad case, a sad situation," said CPD Capt. Ken Malcom.
According to reports with the Covington Police Department, the woman was contacted on her cellular phone a little more than a year ago by a man who said she had won $6 million, a Mercedes-Benz and a flat screen television in a sweepstakes.
She was instructed by "Bob Marley," who had a Jamaican accent, to send him money in Jamaica through Western Union.
The victim and her daughter contacted the CPD in July 2012 and reported that the woman had sent the man money on 10 different occasions for a total of about $8,000. She had also accrued more than $1,300 in cell phone charges when she used her cell phone to return the man's calls.
The victim's daughter told the police that she wanted to file the police report.
When police were called to her home on March 19, the victim said that "Bob Marley" had contacted her several more times to send money, and instructed her to open accounts at a of couple banks. The banks and creditors had begun demanding that she replace the funds and "Bob Marley" threatened her when she told him she was contacting the police, the report states.
Capt. Malcom said scam artists like this are shrewd and prey mostly on senior citizens using a number of techniques to lure their victims into turning over money.
"They may call 100 different people a day, but they only need one or two to take the bait," he said. "And when the victims do challenge them, they often become hostile and threaten and intimidate them. Many victims know they probably should not continue to give money, but they feel they have to."
To further complicate matters, the scammers are often located out of the country – many in the Caribbean – and use untraceable telephone numbers, which makes it difficult to pursue criminal charges, Malcom said.
"These people are ghosts," he said.
Malcom said everyone at some point in their lives has probably been manipulated into doing something that is not wise, so it's important to remember a few tips:
• If you haven't entered a contest or a sweepstakes, you haven't won anything;
• Investigate the sweepstakes if contacted and ask a family member or trusted friend for advice or to help you check into claims of any winnings;
• Don't be intimidated by the scammers. "They're not going to come after you," Malcom said;
• If you do send money, in some cases you can reverse the transaction. Malcom said there is a very short window of time – perhaps just a couple of hours – if the transaction is reversed before the other person picks up the funds; and finally,
• If it sounds too good to be true, it is.
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