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LANSING -- Twins from Portage who were artificially conceived after their father's death are not eligible to collect survivor benefits from the Social Security Administration, the Michigan Supreme Court ruled Friday.
When Jeffrey Mattison got sick, he froze some of his sperm so the chemotherapy he was about to undergo wouldn't prevent him and his wife, Pamela Mattison, from having more children.
When Mattison died in 2001, his wife used the banked sperm and conceived twins -- Mallory and Michael -- who were born about 10 months after their father's death.
The Social Security Administration refused to treat the twins as Jeffrey Mattison's heirs and grant them survivor benefits of a few hundred dollars a month, saying the children didn't "survive" their dad, because they were conceived after his death.
Pamela Mattison sued.
In an opinion released Friday, the state Supreme Court said the position the federal agency took is consistent with state law.
"The statute ... does not allow the twins to inherit from Jeffrey because the twins were not conceived or born during plaintiff and Jeffrey's marriage, given that the marriage legally terminated upon Jeffrey's death," the court said in an opinion written by Justice Marilyn Kelly and joined by Justices Stephen Markman, Diane Hathaway, Mary Beth Kelly and Brian Zahra.
"Obviously, we're disappointed," said Victor Bland, Pamela Mattison's attorney.
"I understand they were trying to interpret the statute literally, but it leaves a couple of kids, who are certainly biological children, out in the cold."
Justices Marilyn Kelly and Michael Cavanagh wrote a concurring opinion, saying the majority was legally correct but "lamentable." They urged the Legislature to address the issue.
Chief Justice Robert Young Jr. said he would have declined to answer the certified question sent from federal court. Young, who agreed with the law stated by the court's majority, said the issue was clear enough that the federal court should have been able to rule without sending a certified question to the Michigan Supreme Court.


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November 27, 2015
WASHINGTON (AP) - Budget cuts from Congress will soon reduce the number of free exhibitions on view each day at the Smithsonian Institution and will furlough U.S. Park Police officers who guard the nation's monuments.
Smithsonian Secretary Wayne Clough testified Tuesday in Congress that the museum complex must reduce its security contract for gallery attendants because of budget cuts. As a result, the Smithsonian plans to begin rolling gallery closures after May 1.
Clough says the Smithsonian will likely postpone or cancel some exhibits for 2014.
The Smithsonian had to reduce its budget by $41 million due to across-the-board cuts imposed by Congress. Separately, the National Archives saw a $20 million cut and already reduced its operating hours.
The National Park Service is making $153 million in cuts, leading to police furloughs.
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This gross photograph shows the cut surface of a kidney which has been longitudinally bisected. There is a large renal cell carcinoma in the upper pole with a typical variegated appearance with bright yellow areas, areas of hemorrhage, and tan and white areas. The bright yellow color is related to the lipid content in these tumors.
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The typical "clear cell" appearance of many renal cell carcinomas is illustrated in this photomicrograph. The malignant cells have abundant clear or empty appearing cytoplasm, and the delicate lobular growth pattern is a result of the numerous capillaries between clusters of cancer cells.


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This is specialized technical instructional work in the training of transit mechanics in the Mass Transit Division.
Work involves planning, implementing, conducting, and evaluating bus maintenance training programs. Work also involves planning, developing, researching, and documenting training activities, developing courses that convey complex and diverse material to a work force with varied backgrounds, analyzing current local, state, and federal regulations pertaining to bus maintenance training programs, researching current training needs and priorities, and conducting formal training sessions. Employees in this class are provided latitude for independent judgment and discretion in evaluating student performance and developing training methods while operating under the scope of established divisional rules, regulations, and procedures. Work is reviewed by a superior through oral and written reports and observations of program effectiveness.
Prepares new bus maintenance training courses or revises existing courses; compiles training materials including course outlines, lesson plans, and training aids; researches, edits, and develops training materials for use in on-the-job and classroom training.
Reviews and interprets current regulations from federal, state, and local agencies to develop training programs related to bus maintenance and repair requirements to remain in compliance with existing guidelines.
Consults with management and supervisors to determine current bus maintenance training needs and relative priorities; identifies additional training needs from research and observations of bus maintenance operations.
Participates in service training by conducting formal training sessions or seminars; assists supervisory staff in training methods and techniques for on-the-job training.
Maintains resource library materials, training aids and equipment; orders training materials; coordinates the scheduling of personnel in training programs and the maintenance of related records.
Prepares periodic reports on program progress and makes revisions to the curriculum as required.
Performs related work as required.
Considerable knowledge of heavy duty truck or transit coach mechanics, power plants, electrical systems, HVAC, pneumatics, hydraulics, transmissions, and related components.
Considerable knowledge of the planning and conducting of bus maintenance training programs.
Knowledge of general adult education theories and principles.
Knowledge of current federal guidelines and state requirements for certification of work force.
Ability to plan, implement, and evaluate the effectiveness of bus maintenance training programs.
Ability to develop training courses designed to disseminate highly technical information to individuals with varying levels of education.
Ability to present classroom instruction, conduct seminars,and perform hands on training to achieve bus maintenance training objectives.
Ability to evaluate technical material related to buses and bus maintenance training programs.
Ability to prepare and submit accurate reports on training programs and mechanic performance.
Ability to communicate effectively both orally and in writing.
Ability to serve the public and fellow employees with honesty and integrity in full accord with the letter and spirit of Broward County's Ethics and Conflict of Interest policies.
Ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships with the general public, co-workers, elected and appointed officials, and members of diverse cultural and linguistic backgrounds regardless of race, religion, age, sex, disability, or political affiliation.
Desirable Experience and Training
Graduation from high school supplemented by additional course work in heavy duty truck or diesel mechanics and training and education; considerable experience in bus maintenance, including experience in adult education and training; or any equivalent combination of training and experience.
Possession of a CDL with Air Brake and Passenger endorsements and a Federal 608 Certification.
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Now is the time fishermen wait for all year. The fall run of striped bass switched into high gear over the past couple of days with anglers on the beaches and in the boats catching plenty of nice bass.
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Two long-time holdouts to the Mac platform -- Google's Picasa photo editing software, and Sling Media's Slingbox TV application -- are now available to users of Apple Macintosh computers.
Picasa, a free photo editing program that also lets shutterbugs manage their ever expanding photo libraries, is a speedy wonder that zips through huge collections of photos in seconds.
The Slingbox is a device that connects to your TV, and allows you watch programs from your computer or cellphone. A new SlingPlayer for Mac is being unveiled at the Macworld conference.
Additionally, it works with the iPhone as well, via Sling's new iPhone application. Sling hasn't announced pricing. Both the iPhone app and SlingPlayer for Mac are expected in the next few months.
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October 16, 2015
Automating security, privacy in software programming
Jean Yang, who created the Jeeves software language, explains why the industry needs to do a better job of enforcing security and privacy policies in its applications.
July 30, 2015
Intel, Cisco pushing for enhanced security communication, integration
Vendors, such as Intel and Cisco, are hoping to pave the way for a security ecosystem in which applications communicate threat intelligence amongst each other. Will it work?
July 17, 2015
Subway app reverse engineering highlights uptick in mobile app safety
News roundup: Are the tides turning on mobile app safety? One white hat hacker's attempt to reverse-engineer the Subway app offers surprising results. Plus: CloudFlare Transparency Report; another call to eliminate RC4; Black Hat attendant survey.
June 23, 2015
Study: government compliance-based vulnerability remediation is failing
In its State of Software Security Report, Veracode has found the government has the most vulnerabilities and the lowest rate of remediation in developing Web and mobile apps.
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Q&A: Secure application development in the age of mashups
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Ferengi Ship Classes
Starships, Shuttles & Probes - Unknown Ferengi Class
Two surplus Birds-of-Prey of the B'rel class were acquired by renegade Ferengi and used to attack the USS Enterprise NCC-1701-D in 2367.
Article: The Bird-of-Prey Size Paradox
Klingon Bird-of-Prey Gallery
|Known ships
No name given
1) The BoP is included here only in case someone should miss it. It is not a regular starship of the Ferengi. For more about the BoP, see Klingon Ships.
2) The episode "Rascals" where the two Birds-of-Prey appear, leaves out no opportunity to annoy the viewers. It calls for allegedly smaller and weaker Birds-of-Prey (to explain how the Ferengi could purchase them), but actually shows stock footage of the large BoPs from TNG: "Yesterday's Enterprise". Even worse, these outdated ships, manned with a bunch of intellectually challenged Ferengi, overpower the mighty Enterprise-D with ease. What an incredibly stupid script!
B'rel class
Length: 110m
Max. speed: Warp 8
Bok's probe
This is a small probe whose general purpose is unknown.
Gallery: Ferengi Starships
|Known probes
No name given
1) DaiMon Bok's probe from TNG: "Bloodlines" is just stock footage of the Angosian escape pod, only colored brownish.
2) We don't know if it is a standard Ferengi probe, although this seems very likely, considering that it accomplished nothing more than relaying holographic messages to Picard.
3) The model also appeared as an Yridian freight container in TNG: "Firstborn", but is not listed in this database.
None available
The Ferengi Marauder is a combination of a freighter and a warship. As the latter, it is nearly a match to a Federation Galaxy class.
Article: Appearances of the Ferengi Marauder
Gallery: Ferengi Starships
|Known ships
1) The Marauder of the D'Kora class, designed by Andrew Probert, first appeared in TNG: "The Last Outpost". Probert intended the vessel to have an extendable neck and weapon platforms. The ship actually changed into this this configuration in "The Last Outpost". The model was not only tilted to suggest that the neck was extended. The weapon platforms are definitely visible on the last of the three screen caps (left picture), and they match the configuration as it can be seen on the studio miniature. In all other appearances the D'Kora remained in the standard configuration. Probert explains the extended configuration as a posture of surrender.
2) There was supposedly an auxiliary craft like a captain's yacht embedded into the Marauder's ventral hull too, which never saw action either.
3) As it is probably with Romulan Warbirds too, the term "Marauder" may be a collective name for large Ferengi starship types (if there are any more). D'Kora (so called in TNG: "Force of Nature" where the crew complement of 450 was mentioned too) denotes a specific class.
Length: 366m
Crew complement: 450
Early Ferengi ship
This small type of vessel is in use by the Ferengi in the 22nd century.
Gallery: Cardassian Starships
|Known ships
No name given
The early ship from ENT: "Acquisition" has some reasonable retro-engineering and sports already elements of the later crab-like structure and the flat bottom of the D'Kora and the shuttles. This ship, with its configuration and technology, should have allowed Starfleet to identify the Ferengi in later encounters, most notably the Battle of Maxia, but the writers want to make us believe that the Ferengi will stay completely out of Starfleet's way and will remain a total mystery for over 200 years.
Length: approx. 55m
Crew complement: 4
Large shuttle
This is a considerably larger version of the small Ferengi shuttlepod.
Article: Variations of the Ferengi Shuttle
|Known shuttles
"Quark's Treasure"
There is no way that "Quark's Treasure" as seen in DS9: "Little Green Men" and other DS9 shuttles could be the same size as the standard Ferengi shuttlepod of 6m. Quark's ship had a real bridge and not only a small cockpit, and there was supposed to be a cargo bay at the rear end, plus sleeping quarters, as one U.S. Air Force officer said. Also, Quark himself stated in the beginning of the episode that he would need a large ship. We get the impression that the ship is considerably larger than a jeep when it is hovering above Hangar 18. Its absolute minimum length is 11m, and evidence from other episodes puts it to about 18m. The most significant difference to the small shuttle is the additional pod. Maybe the proportions are somewhat different too, owing to the larger size. Much more evidence in an extensive article.
Length: 18m
This is a two-seated shuttlepod, equipped with warp drive.
Article: Variations of the Ferengi Shuttle
Gallery: Ferengi Starships
|Known shuttles
No name given
The size of the shuttle becomes obvious when the pod appears next to a 3.5m long Federation Type-15 shuttle in TNG: "The Price".
Length: 6m
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With the opening rounds of the AFL now done and dusted, one thing has come to the fore – and it's not good. In fact, it's detrimental to the players, and the game itself.
We are speaking about it now, but Geelong skipper Joel Selwood has made it a sticking point in his game for half a decade, and consistently drawn free kicks doing so.
Yes, drawing the free with nicely time dive has been in the game since anyone can remember.
Players have always thrown their head back in anguish after being brushed with an errant finger, or fallen forward after feeling a slight nudge in the back.
But now, players are deliberately looking for free kicks via ducking into tackles, both as opportunistic individuals and – dare we say it – under team orders.
Players with low centres of gravity are bending slightly more at the knees and gathering stray arms whenever they contest the footy in tight situations, and are more often than not rewarded with free kicks.
Another new tactic is sliding feet first to gather a loose football, which doesn't rely on a free kick from an umpire, but rather puts the feet and body between the ball and an oncoming opposition player.
These tactics have caused serious injuries this season in particular, and the injuries will continue to mount.
Commentators and fans alike seem puzzled as to how to stamp out these tactics, or whether they should even be taken out at all – are they illegal? Are they bad for the game? Is the game just evolving?
If the AFL is serious about getting rid of these new approaches by players, it does not need to introduce new rules and regulations. In fact, it shouldn't do anything at all.
It needs to be the responsibility of the high-end coaches in the AFL, junior state competitions and draft camps to get players out of these mind sets.
Tackle around the waist and keep your feet – two of the first and most simple rules kids are taught as five-year-olds.
Rules that until recently have applied at the highest level for over 150 years.
It's simple; if someone is trying to exploit the high tackle rule the onus is on the tackler to get it right – watch and aim for the hips.
The sliding pick up is an ugly part of the game but if coaches still obeyed one of the oldest and most simple rules in football there would be no mention of the matter – If someone deliberately loses their feet when pursuing the ball, drag them.
That's how kids learn and get it out of their system over time and AFL players should react in a similar manner.
We don't want the game to get to the point where the days of getting your head over the ball and being brave will no longer be rewarded at AFL level.
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In the height of all the World Cup excitement, watching games, coaching soccer camp, watching more games, watching late night soccer recaps, and youth soccer commitments, I almost missed my deadline! How awful would that be at the peak of our soccer excitement. I have nothing to say.
Thursday is a huge match for our national team - the much-anticipated match vs Germany. I talked about watching the first game with very little Fond du Lac community excitement, then on Sunday Vik and I traveled to Shoreword for the Portugal game. We met up with three of our boys at a very friendly soccer ...


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(103 mins, PG)
Directed by Jessica Bendinger; starring Jeff Bridges, Missy Peregrym
- Stick It
- Production year: 2006
- Countries: Rest of the world, USA
- Cert (UK): 12A
- Runtime: 103 mins
- Directors: Jessica Bendinger
- Cast: Jeff Bridges, John Patrick Amedori, Missy Peregrym, Vanessa Lengies
Stick It has a plot almost identical to The Guardian's, except that the setting is a gymnastic academy in Houston to which a 17-year-old former star athlete (an actress with the Faulknerian name of Missy Peregrym) is sent by a juvenile court judge as an alternative to prison. This insolent, middle-class delinquent initially refuses to collaborate with the legendary coach (Jeff Bridges) who runs the place.
But through tough talk, hard discipline and amateur psychology, he wins her over and turns her into a likeable team player and Olympics-standard gymnast. It's vapid stuff with some attractive Busby Berkeley-style choreography, and the moral appears to be that a leotard can change its spots.


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ASHEVILLE — Democratic congressional candidate Hayden Rogers this week released his first television ads of the general election season.
Hes behind rival Republican Mark Meadows by about two weeks in hitting the airwaves, but people are just now tuning into the election season so that shouldnt hurt him too much.
And Rogers has another advantage with these ads: They are very local.
As North Carolina gets bombarded with Romney and Obama ads in the next month, theres a chance that Meadows ads which focus on Obama wont cut through the TV clutter.
The first ad shows Rogers walking with his family and talking with people.
Growing up here, you know mountain values, he says in the voice over. Strong faith in God, loving our family, and helping our neighbors. We believe in common sense ideas. We dont spend money we dont have, and we take care of our own, especially our seniors.
The second ad is a little edgier and focuses on details about Rogers as a person. The background music has a bit of banjo.
Im Hayden Rogers, and Im running for Congress, he says. So there are a few things you ought to know about me. I drive an American truck, not some fancy foreign job. Ill fight to create jobs here in America, not in China. I hunt and fish, I dont play tennis.
That last part seems to be a shot at Meadows, though he said Thursday that hes not a big tennis player but may have listed the sport on his Facebook page.
It might upset some tennis players, but the overall tone of both ads is effective.
They tell the viewer something about Rogers and his ties to Western North Carolina. Those details are important to voters in the South and particularly in Appalachia.
People in the mountains want to know their elected officials.
Im not knocking Meadows ads. The strategy is also a good one in the 11th Congressional District.
More people here voted for John McCain over Obama in 2008 than anywhere else in the state and this election will probably not be much different.
My biggest grip with the Meadows ads is they could run just about anywhere in the United States.
They have the look and feel of many of the other GOP ads Ive seen this season and his most recent one leads with the you didnt build it sound bite from Obama, which the Republicans have taken wildly out of context.
Rogers this week said his ads are aimed at bringing the race home. Hes spending $36,000 on both ads.
To me this race is about Western North Carolina and I need to localize that, he said.
The voters need to know me and who I am, what I am and where Im from, and those sorts of cultural values that I can appreciate and have a good perspective on that Mark lacks.
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Signed the petition.
Signed the petition.
WSB - This is yet another example of an instance where something's legality and its morality differ.
Petition signed.
casimir81, anotherthought, and others who say no laws were broken,
Since when is it legal to repeatedly punch animals that are not being aggressive? Which animals do you consider acceptable to punch?
Sunset, I suggest you re-read the post by anotherthought. He/she was referring to a libel case - not animal cruelty.
anonyme, I suggest you re-read the first paragraph of post 48.
How about some levity!
Sunset, don't misunderstand - I am fully as angry as you are. I was even a fully trained PETA soldier at one time. Not only that, one of my earlier posts was even deleted due to my blunt 'opinion' of the perp. But that's not the issue at hand.
I read the paragraph you refer to, and anotherthought is correct. What Dylan did was not right IMO, but unfortunately it was legal. I agree completely that punching an animal to death is horrible, but not very different from the standard method - which is clubbing - or the even more horrible death by "butchery" - slicing the octo up for super fresh sushi while it's alive. When it comes to non-mammalian sea life that is considered a food source, there are laws about how the creatures can be "harvested" - but none that I know of that regulate how or when they are actually killed.
Again, I AM NOT SUPPORTING ANY OF THIS. Only anotherthought can clarify this for sure, but I didn't read anything in the post that sounded pro-cruelty.
If the community here is too inhospitable for you, Dylan, I hear there's this fishing fleet in Taiji, Japan, that works the waters in your preferred style.
Montanapup, Irukandji - hearts and thumbs up! "Octopi West Seattle"? Awesome. I'm in for a T-shirt!
BTW, Montanapup - welcome to the WSB. So far, I really like your style.
@ anonyme - thanks! the WSB is a great resource. i love all the folks and the community. great group.
hmmmm, regarding t-shirts - didnt think of that! it would be a great way to bring attention and maybe fundraise? let me check to see what it would take!
Montana, my thoughts exactly. Fund the cause.
montanapup - If you put "Octopi West Seattle," along with a cool octopus design, on a green, blue, black, or red t-shirt, please let me know where I can send my $30. :)
I think anonyme describes my view correctly. I also pointed out then (and reiterate now) that there is a difference between legal and right. And I hate what happened.
I neither hunt nor fish. I don't eat seafood. The modest amount of meat I do eat is all farm raised in, as best I am able to tell, a humane manner. But hunting and fishing ARE legal -- and for some low income families also their only real source of protein.
Cove 2 is not currently a protected area. It is legal to take one GPO per day with a shellfish license. He had a shellfish license. It is legal to take while on SCUBA. It appears to even be legal to take it had it been a female with eggs (it appears a male was likely taken). It does not appear that they used an illegal technique (spearing or using chemicals).
For reasons that I don't understand, the social norms around "hunting" are very different above and below the water. Can you imagine allowing catch and release hunting for deer using a hook baited with an apple -- that you then reel in? Or it being OK to use a "fish stick" on an elk?
In this instance, the diver said the octopus had a tentacle around his neck and was using another to try and dislodge his regulator. And that, while he was at the surface, his face was still in the water and the punches were to get the octopus to release the grip.
Thus why I think what he did was legal (but not right). These two guys are both around 20 and need to be educated on some things...I am hopeful that can be done in a civil manner.
I can hook you up with someone who creates a BEAUTIFUL piece of Octo Art, and she's here in West Seattle: Jennifer Cepeda. Maybe she'd be interested!
Thanks for the petition link - if I had eight arms, I'd sign it eight times!
Libel may be a stretch, but here's something those directly involved may want to consider:
Obstructing the taking of fish, shellfish, or wildlife — Penalty.
(1) A person is guilty of obstructing the taking of fish[, shellfish,] or wildlife if the person:
(a) Harasses, drives, or disturbs fish, shellfish, or wildlife with the intent of disrupting lawful pursuit or taking thereof; or
(b) Harasses, intimidates, or interferes with an individual engaged in the lawful taking of fish, shellfish, or wildlife or lawful predator control with the intent of disrupting lawful pursuit or taking thereof.
(2) Obstructing the taking of fish, shellfish, or wildlife is a gross misdemeanor.
(3) It is an affirmative defense to a prosecution for obstructing the taking of fish, shellfish, or wildlife that the person charged was:
(a) Interfering with a person engaged in hunting outside the legally established hunting season; or
(b) Preventing or attempting to prevent unauthorized trespass on private property.
(4) The person raising a defense under subsection (3) of this section has the burden of proof by a preponderance of the evidence.
Just like gun ownership...like it or not, sport harvesting is a right people have. So much so there is a specific WA law written to protect that right. Bob Bailey, and people looking to identify and confront Dylan (or ANYONE involved in legal sport harvesting), could be looking at a gross misdemeanor.
made NPR this weekend:
His picture is also making the rounds on facebook - several friends across the US have posted it over the last couple of days asking if anyone knows who he is. Anyone know whether he's been connected with a diving mentor yet? It'd be nice to see the guy who confronted him do it.
So often the negative media over powers the positive. In order to make sure that this story doesn't get lost I wanted to post this update:
A group of divers made a presentation today to the WDFW commisoners to ask for an emergency closure of the Seacrest Park to the harvesting of Octopi. While no decisions were made today the most importatn thing to note is that DYLAN MAYER showed up and spoke to the comission to support the iniative. DYLAN showed a lot of maturity today and should be commended by the community for doing the right thing under pressure. He deserves the positive attention today.
After being blackballed from every dive shop in the Pacific Northwest, he did something that a dive shop owner asked him to do so that he'll be able to dive again. That doesn't show maturity; it just shows that he will do what he needs to do to get what he wants.
He seems to enjoy making creatures that are smaller than he is suffer. I don't want him to come back here because I see no reason to believe that he will stop that kind of behavior.
That's great to hear!
"I don't want him to come back here because I see no reason to believe that he will stop that kind of behavior."
And what makes you think that anybody really cares what YOU want?
Frankly, you are not in the position to pass judgment on this kid nor do you have the right to do so. It appears that the overwhelming consensus amongst his peers is that he has made his amends.
Your mind-set is part of the problem, not the solution.
Someone old enough to vote, marry, and serve in the military is not a "kid." At the legal age when one is expected to have the maturity and judgment to do those three things, one is old enough to be expected not to hurt smaller creatures for amusement.
I'd really like to know if anyone on the forum has seen the Facebook postings that caused such an uproar? If true (killing a porcupine for fun, blowing up a snake with a firecracker) these acts indicate a sadistic streak that is unlikely to be diverted by attendance at any meeting. Even for hunters, this is not normal behavior.
So, like Sunset, I'm a little skeptical about precisely what lesson Dylan has learned, and what he's done to make "amends", aside from becoming more secretive and careful about what he does and says in front of witnesses.
Here's a sample:
sunset (#74) . . . yes and no.
Yes, a 19-year-old is old enough to know better than to hurt animals. Hell, a 5-year-old should know better than that. But in the case in question, a young person actually made two mistakes, not one. And the age of accountability does not apply equally to both of them.
His first mistake was "harvesting" an octopus in a particular way. (Whether he regrets that now is a point under discussion here, but I'll address that in my next post.)
His second mistake was in boasting about what he did, threatening to go get another octopus, and so on. Looks bad when you think about the poor octopus, yeah. But really, those are typical behaviors for a 19-year-old. It's part of being a teenager to act recklessly, to boast, to contradict the advice of wiser heads.
Let me ask you something:
Were you ever a 19-year-old?
Didn't you ever make mistakes and then persist in them?
Ever tell your parents or the other adults to get lost?
If not, you'd be the rare exception. I know that I did all these things. And how!
Don't let the fact that a 19-year-old can join the Army* or vote fool you into thinking that he's a bonafide grown-up. There are lots of things a 19-year-old still can't do legally, and that would include things like drinking a beer, renting a car, getting an unsecured credit card.
Recent studies have suggested that young people don't reach full maturity in terms of their emotional and ethical development (to say nothing of judgment) until around age 26. If that's true, then our guy has several years to go.
On the other hand, he's gotten some particuarly hard lessons lately, so he might actually be ahead of the curve at this point.
*Ever wonder why the Army welcomes teenage boys into its ranks? Did you really think that was because of their maturity?
I expect that I'm not going to convince my friend anonyme on this, but in this young man's defense, I'd like to cite the following tidbit from today's Seattle Times.
Please pay special attention to the second paragraph:
The Washington state Department of Fish & Wildlife announced Thursday that it will consider bans on octopus harvesting near popular Seattle beaches and possibly other areas in Puget Sound.
Dylan Mayer, the octopus hunter who sparked an outrage when he took one of the charismatic animals at Cove 2, a popular dive site in West Seattle, was the first voice for a ban on hunting in the cove at a public hearing before the state Fish and Wildlife Commission meeting in Olympia.
Now please consider that this young man, after having already taken considerable public criticism, came to a meeting where he knew he could expect even MORE criticism . . . and expressed remorse for his actions, while at the same time giving full support to a new law that would forever stand in condemnation of what he did.
To me that doesn't sound like an "angle." That sounds like a genuine change of heart. A change of heart of the kind we sadly don't see too much of anymore.
Dylan's made some serious errors, yes. But what he's done to atone for those errors is certainly more than some of our recent Presidents have done to atone for their considerably graver ones.
But then, perhaps we're holding this young man to a higher standard than the one to which we hold our leaders.
Think about that.
I will shoot, kill, eat lots of things. I can give a Coho a good slap with the ball bat when I land em...no much remorse for deer or elk.. But, there are few species, that will actively seek us out..and seem to want a contact, want to interact. So.. dolphins, whales, noooo... but the octopus... it's an ancient survivor..and it is too too smart for me to harvest. If it meets you in the sea.. and all is cool... he will want to know as much about you as you do it. It's a very, very intelligent animal to lay waste to. It's an arbitrary line to draw (I suppose some PETA folks were offended the first line). But a species that smart, so unlike us ..that will develop social rituals with us in their environment if they are not afraid or threatened. Something to consider.
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She looks way too mature for me to be comfortable. Who told her that this was ok?!
lol! i used to tell the girl i babysat for, 6 years younger than me, & my oldest niece, 7 years younger than me, they couldn't grow up. they didn't listen of course. now both are in their 30's, married & my niece has a stepson. i know i'm not much older than them but when i think of when i used to babysit them & then now as wives & mothers i feel so old! ;o)
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The on again, off again negotiations that would send the University of Hawaii football team to Colorado next month to play a school-record seventh road game are apparently on again.
UH athletic director Ben Jay said Tuesday night that negotiations are back on the table and a decision on whether to play could come as soon as Wednesday.
Colorado was forced to cancel its nonconference game against Fresno State last Saturday due to severe flooding in Colorado. When the Buffaloes were unable to work out a makeup date with Fresno State, they contacted several schools, including UH, about a possible replacement game.
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SalvorHardin wrote:
Enjoy...or not
..With Earth under terrorist attack from Benedict Cumberbatchs ex-Starfleet employee John Harrison, Kirk is this time forced into a rash decision that breaks a critical Starfleet command, puts his crew in danger & costs him his captains chair. Now out of uniform and dressed down in space civvies of black leather jackets and boots, our three heroes have separated from the Enterprise and headed off on a mission to try and rectify his mistake
I'm going with not.
We waited what, four-five years for this film and finally it comes out and Kirk's not going to be in command of the Enterprise?
Terrific. I'll bet the first nine minutes are the only time Kirk's in command. Why don't we get to see any business-as-usual Trek with these new cast members?
It's almost as awesome as the Toby Maguire Spider-Man films where Spider-Man always either takes his mask off or gets it knocked off. So instead of enjoying Spider-Man as he should appear we're looking non stop at Toby Maguire's grotesque face for 2 hours intervals.
Anyway... I'm sure as a 'film' it'll be good but Star Trek... oh, how I wish it was back on
where it rightfully belongs.
These five year waits between uninspiring revenge fantasies are not my cup of Earl Grey.
Well said Doctor Huxtable.
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