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I am a certified NRA instructor, range safety officer and the facilitator of the Walla Walla Chapter of A Girl and A Gun Women's Shooting League. "My Safety, My Choice — If I fall down, I don't wait for someone to pick me up. If I'm hungry, I feed myself. If I'm in danger, I'll protect myself. It's my life to defend."
I have the right to carry a gun. Waiting for response from authorities is not always practical.
The Santa Barbara shooter's parents had him in therapy, and his mother had called authorities twice after seeing his violent rants online. Her last effort to intervene came on Friday night, after she went to her son's YouTube channel and found a disturbing video.
She called police, and both parents raced to Santa Barbara, but arrived after the bloody spree had ended.
There were so many signs of what his intentions were, yet no one intervened. In this case, three of the victims were stabbed, yet no one is calling for a ban on knives or blaming the manufacturers of the knives.
To say college students having a party, and assume they are drinking and doing drugs, are going to shoot someone because of something that is said or done is a scenario. If that's the case, then alcohol consumption and drug use should be addressed, not whether or not they are allowed to have guns on campus.
There are a variety of things that can be used to kill someone if you are intent on doing such a thing, not just guns. It's foolish to think that it's the "gun" causing the deaths.
It can't load itself, it can't pull the trigger. It is a totally inanimate object. It takes a person to do this. Banning guns is not the answer.
Stacy Alexander
Walla Walla
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chicoli 1 year, 5 months ago
Stacy, no one is proposing BANNING guns. What we "leftist" are proposing is taking guns away from mentally unstable people, spouse abusers, alcohol and drug addicts, felons with violent records, and from people with proven impulsive rage. For this we need evidence base information, and is reasonable to ask for the NRA and its members to cooperate in coming up with a plan for such. Moreover, if a good guy with a gun turns into a drug addict, his gun needs to be removed. An "inanimate object" like a gun, in the hands of a spouse abuser is a potential murderer!
About the concept of inanimate object is really childish. All those unstable people I mentioned above can load, handle and pull the trigger of very dangerous weapons. Please remember that a military tank, a bazooka, a RPG are all inanimate objects, my friend! Do we want these things around our community? After all they are inanimate objects!
PearlY 1 year, 5 months ago
"What we "leftist" are proposing is taking guns away from mentally unstable people, spouse abusers, alcohol and drug addicts, felons with violent records, and from people with proven impulsive rage."
No, Paco, that's not what you're proposing, because those laws already exist, and the leftists currently in charge of enforcing them don't seem very interested in doing so. What they want is to go after the people who are none of those things, and make gun ownership more expensive, more inconvenient, more legally dangerous for us - like the poor man in DC with NO criminal record or mental health issues who was prosecuted for possessing an empty shotgun shell and 25 inert bullets (inert because they lacked primers and therefore couldn't be fired except in antique muzzleloaders, which he did NOT possess). He now has a criminal record, must register as a "firearms offender" and had thousands in legal fees to pay.
YOU may not want to ban guns (although everything you've written suggests otherwise) but many in the gun-control movement have made it crystal clear that they would like to and are doing what they can to move us in that direction, so please stop with the "no one is proposing banning guns" fib. It's beneath you.
salexander 1 year, 5 months ago
Pretty much the things you addressed are already in place: 'As a general proposition, there is a bright line rule (black and white) under federal law that prohibits any person convicted of a felony from purchasing or possessing any type of firearm. While there is a provision of federal law that would allow certain felons to have their rights to purchase and possess firearms restored, Congress has not funded his provision of the law. As such, ATF has no ability to use this legal mechanism.
Over the few decades state and federal penal laws have proliferated, and a whole class of crimes heretofore that were not felonies now fall into this class. There are pervasive arguments advanced for allowing non-violent felons to have their firearms rights restored. However, outside a pardon, these positions have yet to gain legal traction and be implemented.
In addition, under the Brady law, a person convicted of a misdemeanor crime of domestic violence is also so prohibited from purchasing, possessing and/or carrying firearms. State and federal law does not differentiated between handguns and long guns. This distinction generally applies to a person who must have a license to carry a handgun.
There are a number of other categories of people who are prohibited possessors, such as persons dishonorably discharged or adjudicated mentally defective. ' 'attorney Bryan L. Ciyou, Ciyou & Dixon, P.C., Indianapolis, Indiana'
This is my point. There are already laws on the books. They need to be enforced. Period.
fatherof5 1 year, 5 months ago
"If I fall down, I don't wait for someone to pick me up. If I'm hungry, I feed myself. If I'm in danger, I'll protect myself."
When I read this, I think, God forbid something ever happen in your life that makes you vulnerable. The loss of a job, a bankruptcy due to a health crisis, the loss of family members or some debilitating disease. Sometimes people need a helping hand. The Bible is full of charity and there is no shame it in, only compassion. We all need help at some point in our lives.
As for the main point of the letter, chicoli's response above is well said. No one is proposing banning guns. It is a strawman argument.
NewInWW 1 year, 5 months ago
I've noticed that no one on the side of "guns everywhere, all the time" has weighed in on the SPU volunteer security guard who was able to tackle the shooter when he had to reload after 4 rounds.
Tell me again why magazine capacity doesn't matter in these situations. I may have missed it.
barracuda 1 year, 5 months ago
Watch these small video's on you-tube.
It shows that with practice, reloading can be done in a very short period of time, that is if you have time to practice this procedure.
Most of us don't have the money or time to gain this precision timing. So a bigger magazine is attractive!
PearlY 1 year, 5 months ago
Not to mention that if magazine capacity is reduced, a lot of people trying to defend themselves will find it's their attackers who have a chance to tackle them while they try to reload. And who, waking up from sleep to confront an intruder, is likely to grab an extra magazine or two along with their firearm?
In case you want to know how many rounds it can take to defend yourself, consider the Georgia lady who hid with her two young children after an intruder broke into her house. When he opened the closet door where they were hiding, she emptied her .38 revolver (six rounds) hitting him five times and managed to get away with her kids. Meanwhile, the intruder was able to get out to his car, though he crashed not far away (thankfully not hurting anyone in the process). He survived. Thankfully, he was sufficiently disconcerted by five rounds to allow them to escape and thankfully he was alone. Otherwise that woman and her children might well be dead. But that would merely be collateral damage to the gun-control crowd.
NewInWW 1 year, 5 months ago
"But that would merely be collateral damage to the gun-control crowd."
True, there's nothing that pleases the gun control crowd more than innocent lives lost.
By the way, how does a story about a woman who successfully defended herself with a six shot revolver in any way justify large capacity magazines?
PearlY 1 year, 5 months ago
If you can't figure it out from the story, you're being willfully obtuse. As usual.
salexander 1 year, 5 months ago
There is yet another example of a man who defended his family against someone who broke into their home. Used his 6 shots, wounding/killing him, only to have another coming in the house the other way. Now his gun is out of ammo and that leaves him and his family in harms way...
PearlY 1 year, 5 months ago
The "no one is proposing banning guns" fib is WAY beneath you, fatherof5.
fatherof5 1 year, 5 months ago
To clarify, no one I know of with the power to do anything about it is proposing banning the kinds of guns that civilians traditionally own. All of the recent serious national proposals for gun control have supported the 2nd Amendment and have only sought to curb the proliferation of military-style weapons and ammo, particularly among those who have forfeited their right to own them. How's that?
This letter concludes with "banning guns is not the answer." I see that as a strawman argument that causes folks to get riled up against enemies of the 2nd Amendment who largely do not exist.
PearlY 1 year, 5 months ago
You are ignoring the fact that the Supreme Court, with just one (1) more Obama appointee, whom you would have favored, would have maintained the DC ban on just about everything. Not exactly a pro-Second Amendment position. Please don't pretend it is.
People should get riled up as much as possible against enemies of the 2nd Amendment, who currently control the Democratic Party and exist in substantial numbers.
salexander 1 year, 5 months ago
What is the definition of 'military style weapons and ammo' ?
PearlY 1 year, 5 months ago
On weapons, it's anything that looks scary, has been used in a Bruce Willis movie, or has lots of gadgets on it that people don't understand. On ammo - who the heck knows?
salexander 1 year, 5 months ago
Assault is an action, not an object
fatherof5 1 year, 5 months ago
Let's put it this way, if you can kill 30 people in 30 seconds, then it isn't for hunting or self-defense. It is for military use.
salexander 1 year, 5 months ago
An AR is a rifle just as a .223 is a rifle just as a 10/22 is a rifle. They can be used for hunting, self-defense, target shooting, competition, varmints and plinking. I have fired them, know what they can do and frankly they are a lot of fun to shoot. ANY thing in the wrong hands can be dangerous...gun violence has less to do with guns more about the people who use them for such things.
fatherof5 1 year, 5 months ago
Yes, but when the wrong weapons get in the wrong hands, which they clearly do, the result is the deaths of many innocent lives. This is also why there is an effort to regulate gun sales to the best extent possible to responsible citizens like yourself.
salexander 1 year, 5 months ago
wrong weapons in wrong hands. Knives, cars, vases? Anything can be used as a weapon. As far as regulating gun sales, there are numerous things in place, back ground checks, laws as to who can and cannot purchase, etc. I know that if you pawn your gun, when you go to pick it up, you have to pass the background check. If you don't, you don't get it back. More is not what we need. Common sense is what we need. How many of the shootings have taken place in a 'gun free' zone? There are some of these people that would have or did pass all the background checks, etc. If people are intent on killing, they will find a weapon and do it.
salexander 1 year, 5 months ago
12 shots in under 3 seconds with a single reload...on target. Does this make a Smith and Wesson revolver one for military use? He and his entire family are competitive shooters and hold many records...
PearlY 1 year, 5 months ago
Maybe YOU can kill 30 people in 30 seconds with a 30-round magazine, but I'm pretty sure that would make you a uniquely skilled individual, unless you could get them to line up in rows for you and stand still.
I have a 17-round pistol. I figure it's barely enough if two to three home invaders kicked in my door, assuming I had it loaded with HP and none of them were too fat, muscular or hyped on drugs. You may disagree with me, but can you PROVE I'm wrong? If not, shouldn't the decision on how I protect myself be mine?
PearlY 1 year, 5 months ago
fatherof5, do you understand that the Washington DC city government used to, for all practical purposes, ban guns and still would like to? And do you understand that four out of nine of our Supreme Court Justices found that to be just fine and our current President agreed with them? How can you keep on repeating the "no one is proposing banning guns" claim with a straight face? It's a lie and if you don't know it it's only because you haven't bothered to think about it for 10 seconds.
salexander 1 year, 5 months ago
I have experienced some of those things you mentioned, including holding my mother's hand as she took her last breath. If my family or I am in danger, I don't intend to wait an extensive amount of time waiting for the authorities to get there. Sometimes you have seconds to react when 'help' is minutes away.
And I think if you look into it, you will see that there are those that would like to 'ban' guns...I don't think it's a stretch to think that is the goal.
Iopine 1 year, 5 months ago
fatherof5 - I'm not sure if I read your post correctly? Are you saying that there is something wrong with a positive, strong, independent person who demands to stand on there own two feet? Not everyone is going to pull themselves into a cocoon just because they are afraid something might happen. I believe Ms Alexander is doing quite well for herself and all the more power to her in her future endeavors.
This post is in response to your post way up yonder. :)
pdywgn 1 year, 5 months ago
Ybarra was involuntarily committed on two separate occassions at Swedish Hospital in Seattle. Jon Meis did a great job in a very bad situation. Just a quick questions for the posters on here. If Jon Meis had a firearm would he have been justified in shooting Ybarra while he was in the process of reloading or would he have had to use the pepper spray and tackle Ybarra?
fatherof5 1 year, 5 months ago
Yes, Meis would have been justified. No one I know would argue otherwise. But Meis wouldn't have needed a machine gun or a 30-round clip to take the shooter down, and presumably he could have passed a background check. Thankfully, the shooter didn't have a 30-round clip or more students would probably be dead.
PearlY 1 year, 5 months ago
Even passing a background check wouldn't have authorized him to carry a firearm on the SPU campus. That's a "gun-free zone" AKA "shoot-at-will zone".
Don't you ever read the articles about how many rounds police often discharge when they find themselves in a shoot-out with an armed (or the occasional unarmed) suspect? Do you notice them confining themselves to one responder shooting only two or three rounds? If police who, at least in theory, practice regularly with their firearms and are knowledgeable about the effects of hits don't think it's wise to limit themselves, why should I?
Is there a 30-round clip available for shotguns?
barracuda 1 year, 5 months ago
What if Meis was 25" farther away from Ybarra? Would he still be a hero?
Based on the story, no.... He would have most likely been a statistic!
He was at the right place/time and did an incredibly brave thing!
jubilado 1 year, 5 months ago
Stacy--As several people have pointed out no one is asking to ban guns. They banned handguns in D.C. and the Supreme Court (District of Columbia v Heller) said that city ordinance was not legal, that it violated 2nd Amendment guarantees. However, in a dicta the court said: "Although we do not undertake an exhaustive historical analysis today of the full scope of the Second Amendment, nothing in our opinion should be taken to cast doubt on longstanding prohibitions on the possession of firearms by felons and the mentally ill, or laws forbidding the carrying of firearms in sensitive places such as schools and government buildings, or laws imposing conditions and qualifications on the commercial sale of arms."[46]
Second Amendment purists do not do themselves any favors with statements which say "they" (whoever they are) are trying to ban guns or actions like taking AR-15's into restaurants, both of which hurts your cause.
PearlY 1 year, 5 months ago
jubilado, the Heller decision was 5-4, meaning that four Justices voted that the ban was legal. Do NOT pretend that if Obama appoints a Justice to replace one of the five, the next vote will be 5-4 to ban them. So much for the "no one wants to ban them" lie.
PearlY 1 year, 5 months ago
Obviously, I meant to say, "Do NOT pretend that if Obama appoints a Justice to replace one of the five, the next vote will not be 5-4 to ban them."
chicoli 1 year, 5 months ago
Well, Pearl, this is the AMWAY. Even if the second amendment is given the original intent interpretation, there will be guns around for ever, hopefully in good hands, like yours. In Israel (a Country at war) and in Switzerland there are more guns per capita than here, but are scrupulously kept in safe hands by sensible laws. They don't have the equivalent of the second amendment, and they have a fraction of gun fatalities when compare to ours.
After all we do not need a second amendment for every piece of property we own
salexander 1 year, 5 months ago
1 Over the past 20 years, gun sales have absolutely exploded, but homicides with firearms are down 39 percent during that time and "other crimes with firearms" are down 69 percent.
2 A study published in the Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy discovered that nations that have more guns tend to have less crime.
3 The nine European nations with the lowest rate of gun ownership rate have a combined murder rate that is three times greater than the nine European nation with the highest rate of gun ownership.
4 Almost every mass shooting that has occurred in the United States since 1950 has taken place in a state with strict gun control laws…
With just one exception, every public mass shooting in the USA since at least 1950 has taken place where citizens are banned from carrying guns. Despite strict gun regulations, Europe has had three of the worst six school shootings.
5 The United States is #1 in the world in gun ownership, and yet it is only 28th in the world in gun murders per 100,000 people.
6 The violent crime rate in the United States actually fell from 757.7 per 100,000 in 1992 to 386.3 per 100,000 in 2011. During that same time period, the murder rate fell from 9.3 per 100,000 to 4.7 per 100,000.
7 Approximately 200,000 women in the United States use guns to protect themselves against sexual crime every single year.
8 Overall, guns in the United States are used 80 times more often to prevent crime than they are to take lives.
9 The number of unintentional fatalities due to firearms declined by 58 percent between 1991 and 2011.
salexander 1 year, 5 months ago
10 Despite the very strict ban on guns in the UK, the overall rate of violent crime in the UK is about 4 times higher than it is in the United States. In one recent year, there were 2,034 violent crimes per 100,000 people in the UK. In the United States, there were only 466 violent crimes per 100,000 people during that same year. Do we really want to be more like the UK?
11 The UK has approximately 125 percent more rape victims per 100,000 people each year than the United States does.
12 The UK has approximately 133 percent more assault victims per 100,000 people each year than the United States does.
13 The UK has the fourth highest burglary rate in the EU.
14 The UK has the second highest overall crime rate in the EU.
15 Down in Australia, gun murders increased by about 19 percent and armed robberies increased by about 69 percent after a gun ban was instituted.
16 The city of Chicago has some of the strictest gun laws in the United States. So has this reduced crime? Of course not. As I wrote about recently, the murder rate in Chicago was about 17 percent higher in 2012 than it was in 2011, and Chicago is now considered to be "the deadliest global city". If you can believe it, there were about as many murders in Chicago during 2012 as there was in the entire nation of Japan.
17 After the city of Kennesaw, Georgia passed a law requiring every home to have a gun, the crime rate dropped by more than 50 percent over the course of the next 23 years and there was an 89% decline in burglaries.
18 According to Gun Owners of America, the governments of the world slaughtered more than 170 million of their own people during the 20th century. The vast majority of those people had been disarmed by their own governments prior to being slaughtered.
Sadly, you rarely hear any facts like these on the mainstream news networks. Instead, they give countless amounts of air time to the radicals that are obsessed with gun control.
And did you know that there is now an official propaganda manual that has been put out for gun control advocates? This manual actually encourages gun control advocates to emotionally exploit major shooting incidents to advance the cause of gun control…
Democratic strategists have drafted a how-to manual on manipulating the public's emotions toward gun control in the aftermath of a major shooting.
"A high-profile gun-violence incident temporarily draws more people into the conversation about gun violence," asserts the guide. "We should rely on emotionally powerful language, feelings and images to bring home the terrible impact of gun violence."
PearlY 1 year, 5 months ago
As I've pointed out before, when you say someone has "a fraction of gun fatalities when compared to ours" you are being deceptive. "Our" gun fatality rates are vastly different if you're talking about Detroit or Chicago versus Provo or Montpelier. If you want to tackle gun violence, then you have to understand what makes for that difference. You don't have to make it harder for people in Provo or Montpelier to access guns, you have to figure out why some of the people of Detroit or Chicago (because even there, it's not ALL the people) are so inclined to be violent, whether with guns or knives or fists.
chicoli 1 year, 5 months ago
Pearl, two of Bundy's "patriots" open-carried assault weapons into a Las Vegas pizza parlor. Customers believed these are two good guys with guns open-carrying . Another two real good guys with guns (police officers) are peacefully eating lunch.
You guess it, the two good guys with guns were brutally killed by Clive Bundy's protégés. I ask again, how can you tell that open-carrying guys are good guys with guns?
About a month ago Republican politicians in Washington were calling those guys "patriots" because they were defending deadbeat Clive Bundy's "territory". How many more "good guys with guns" are still there? Right wing extremist pundits continue to inflame these dangerous people by promoting "war" to the US Government with deluded paranoid rhetoric such as the proverbial black helicopters coming to take your weapons away.
Pearl, all of us need to help in stopping this madness. Let's learn from other countries who have the same incidence of mental illness and deranged people we do have, but have learned to keep weapons away from them! I will do my part in counseling families and help patients from a preventive, public health point of view as it relates to access to the dangers of weapons. But we in the medical field need the NRA off our backs, please! You people, good republicans , need to help for the sake of the lives of innocent American citizens.
PearlY 1 year, 5 months ago
Paco, you're in such a rush to demonize and slander everybody you disagree with you don't bother to check the facts. According to the news reports, the Las Vegas shooters were KICKED OFF the Bundy Ranch. And I don't remember reading of ANY Republican politicians in Washington calling the Bundy protestors "patriots." Do you KNOW that to be true, or are you just throwing accusations around? Shame on you.
Why don't you take your plea to Eric Holder and his Department of Justice and to Obama and his Administration, who are basically refusing to enforce the gun laws we already have?
Why don't you take your plea to Obama's former Chief of Staff, Rahm Emanuel, now Mayor of Chicago, who spends his time trying to take guns out of the hands of suburban housewives and hard-working plumbers, and can't be bothered to crack down on the gangs that shoot hundreds of people every year with illegally acquired guns.
The NRA has already been there ahead of you, but Democrats control Chicago, Detroit, DC, Philadelphia, Memphis and all the other hell-holes where the vast majority of gun violence happens. And liberal Democrats aren't interested in actually "stopping this madness."
salexander 1 year, 5 months ago
There are plenty of rules and regulations on the books. If people would research, they'd see. Adding more regulations will not fix the problem. It's just going to make it more difficult for 'normal' people to purchase guns.
"...For example, according to the Centers For Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the total number of deaths related to automobiles in 2009 was 34,485. In other words, more people died via automobiles in 2009 alone than died in gun-related deaths for the years 2005, 2006, and 2007 combined.
Moreover, according to the CDC, more people died from falls in 2009 alone than died in gun-related deaths for the years 2009, 2010, and most of 2011 combined. (Total number of deaths via falls in 2009 was 24,792.)
The bottom line: Driving down the interstate and climbing rocks and ladders is exceedingly dangerous when compared with owning and using handguns, shotguns, and rifles. ..." AWR Hawkins
Iopine 1 year, 5 months ago
paco - do you ever post a factual comment instead of a fabricated fantasy version? Your whole comment is bogus.
"I will do my part in counseling families and help patients from a preventive, public health point of view as it relates to access to the dangers of weapons. But we in the medical field need the NRA off our backs, please!"
That sentence in itself is a joke. To have you counsel someone would be the most devastating day of there life. To subject a person to un-necessary abuse is called medical inflicted torture.


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Wow! This is an amazing story, Nerys, a fantastic glimpse into a chilling universe where being human no longer means what it once did. I think you perfectly captured the voice of your narrator, allowing him to slowly unveil the horrors that had been perpetrated by the Dominion and yet still providing hints as to the moral dilemma they now face. I also love the little nods to other things, most especially the little throw away paragraph about the Romulans and how the Dominion actually saved Romulus where the Federation failed.
A truly chilling, beautifull written story, that I'm proud to imagine was inspired even a little by my story last month (although I have having read it that this is all you, all the way)
Well done!
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When I saw the conflict playing out in the mind of your Vorta, Peekar, I imagined the same thing happening across the entire human species, and that's where the idea of the Graft came from. And then, when I realized how long it was likely to take to defeat the Dominion, I then wound up with that dilemma...because what do you tell all of the children born since then, or who were too young to really remember what it was like before the Graft? Even knowing the human race is altered--it seems like there's a very real question of whether it would be doing the same thing in reverse if the older generation decided they wanted to reverse the Graft but not all of the younger ones felt like they actually had anything
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The Dominion saved Romulus...but I am not sure if any ROMULANS even lived there anymore. Considering that star was sitting on a subspace rift (in my fanon explanation of how one nova could threaten an entire GALAXY), I figured they'd have to do something about it no matter what.
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Martha Lou Moore Leonard, 87, passed away peacefully at her residence on Chincoteague on Friday, Nov. 30, 2012, surrounded by her family.
She was born in Birmingham, Ala., to the late John Augustus and Ruth Brownell Moore. Martha grew up in Tuscaloosa, Ala. She attended the University of Alabama. She was a member of the Zeta Tau Alpha (ZTA) Sorority. She remained an avid Alabama Football fan for the rest of her life. On June 12, 1944, she married Donald J Leonard of Chincoteague at the Christ Episcopal Church in Tuscaloosa. They moved to Chincoteague shortly thereafter.
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A descriptive, observational, time-series regression analysis for both states assessed the influence of maternal determinants known to impact first trimester care utilization. RESULTS: In Oregon, two factors were significantly associated with declining first trimester care: Medicaid funding (P<.01) and maternal Hispanic ethnicity (P=.016). In Washington, there was no significant association between any assessed determinant and first trimester care. DISCUSSION: In Oregon, over the period of our study, women dependent on Medicaid and women of Hispanic origin were less likely to utilize first trimester care. A similar trend for these variables was not observed in Washington. At the time of our study, both states had different policy approaches which may explain some of the observable patterns. Amid current health care reforms and rising immigration, our findings suggest the need for strong advocacy for those less able to access or utilize care. This is a non-final version of an article. 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Using logistic regression, I identified that, Socialist affiliated voters, were less likely to sell their vote compared to the Democratic affiliated voters and the Socialist movement for integration affiliated voters. I also found, socialist voters were less likely to sell their vote than the DP ones regardless their party affiliation due to weak party affiliation and the incumbent vote penalty. My findings have the potential to expand upon cost-benefit analysis, which focuses mostly on economic incentives, and highlight important social and political factors that influence one's tolerance toward engaging in corruption in the public sector. 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The study reported here examines whether either support or opposition to state government leadership in the development of alternative energy technologies can be explained by environmental values as measured by the New Ecological Paradigm (NEP). The research results are based on mail surveys of randomly selected households conducted throughout Oregon and Washington in late 2009 and early 2010. Findings suggest that younger and more highly educated respondents are significantly more likely than older and less educated respondents to either support or strongly support government policies to promote bioenergy, wind, geothermal, and solar energy. Those respondents with higher NEP scores are also more supportive of government promotion of wind, geothermal and solar technologies than are those with lower NEP scores. Support for wave energy does not show a statistical correlation with environmental values; maybe a reflection of this technology's nascent level of development. The paper concludes with a consideration of the implications of these findings for environmental management. This is an author's peer-reviewed final manuscript, as accepted by the publisher. The published article is copyrighted by Springer and can be found at: http://link.springer.com/journal/267 2015-03-01T00:00:00Z Science, Policymaking and the Politics of Climate Change in the U.S. and the E.U.: The co-production of consensus and controversy http://hdl.handle.net/1957/56375 Science, Policymaking and the Politics of Climate Change in the U.S. and the E.U.: The co-production of consensus and controversy Martins Marcos, Patricia Climate change policies present multiple quandaries to the field of public policy and science studies. Despite the prevalent scientific consensus, approaches demonstrate great heterogeneity. With one side advocating for the facticity of climate change and a pro-active stance, while the other argues about negative economic trade-offs, viewpoints diverge. 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Whole Grain Rustic Apple Tartlets for Two
I love rustic or "free-form" tarts. This recipe makes two perfect tarts and can be filled with just about any type of firm fruit – apples, pears, peaches, nectarines or plums – whatever is in season. I used Arrowhead Mills Organic Whole Grain Pastry flour and it gives the crust a perfectly tender, flaky, buttery crust.
3/4 cup whole grain pastry flour (or unbleached all purpose flour)
1/2 teaspoon sugar
1/4 teaspoon salt
5 tablespoons unsalted butter, cut into 1/4" pieces, chilled
2-3 tablespoons ice water
2 small apples (Macs, Empire, Rome, Golden Delicious, Gala), peeled, cored, and sliced into 1/4" pieces
3 tablespoons sugar
1 teaspoon fresh lemon juice
1/4 teaspoon cinnamon
Pinch of nutmeg
1 tablespoon unsalted butter, cut into small pieces
1 egg white, lightly beaten
1 tablespoon turbinado sugar
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2. Divide the dough into 2 even pieces on a piece of plastic wrap and flatten into a 3" disc. Wrap tightly in plastic wrap and refrigerate for 1 hour. (Dough can be refrigerated for 2 days or frozen for a month)
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1. Adjust oven rack to center position and heat to 400°F. Remove dough from refrigerator and soften slightly for 10 minutes. Working with one disc at a time, roll out dough into a 7" circle between two small sheets of lightly floured parchment paper. Slide the dough rounds (still between parchment paper) onto a rimmed baking sheet and refrigerate until firm, about 20 minutes.
2. Toss the apple slices with sugar, lemon juice, and spices together in a medium bowl. Remove top sheet of parchment from each dough round. Stack apples slices evenly in a circular pattern, leaving 1 ½" border of dough around the edge and reserving a few slices to fill in the centers of each tart. Drizzle any of the remaining filling liquid in bowl over the apple slices.
3. Fold 1 inch of the dough up and over the fruit, leaving ½" border between the fruit and the edge of the tart shell, pleating the dough together every 1-2 inches as needed.
4. Brush the dough with egg white and sprinkle with tubinado sugar (or granulated sugar). Dot the tartlet filling with butter and bake until crust is golden and crisp and apples are tender, 35-45 minutes.
5. Let the tartlets cool on sheet for 5 minutes, then transfer to wire rack and let cool for 10 minutes. Serve plain or with a dollop of ice cream or crème fraiche.
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|TYRE AND EXTENDED-MOBILITY WHEEL-TYRE ASSEMBLY - A tyre has a form of a torus that is open radially on an inside portion. The tyre includes inner and outer walls, a crown, two sidewalls, two beads, a crown reinforcement, and a carcass reinforcement anchored in the beads and extending at least from the beads as far as the crown. The inner wall is covered at least in part with an airtight layer, and the airtight layer is covered at least in part with a layer of a self-sealing product. Each of the beads includes an annular reinforcing structure, with each annular reinforcing structure being formed of a plurality of windings of a single metal thread. The windings are arranged in a plurality of radially superposed layers, with each layer having a group of the windings arranged axially in a side by side manner, such that the superposed layers have a hexagonal cross section.
|PNEUMATIC TIRE TREAD - A pneumatic tire tread capable of mitigating air column resonance and maintaining drainage performance while ensuring that the flexible fences are abraded to a similar extent to the tread portion is formed from a rubber composition, and has a tread portion in which a primary groove is formed and multiple flexible fences is formed in the primary groove; the flexible fences are formed from at least a rubber composition for fences that is different from the rubber composition for the tread portion; the rubber composition for fences of the flexible fences has an abrasion index that is more than or equal to twice the abrasion index of the rubber composition of the tread portion; and the rubber composition for fences comprises a filler composition that is based on (a) a diene elastomer, (b) a filler A, which is more than 50 phr of filler A in which the filler particles are nanoparticles having an average grain size (by weight average) smaller than 500 nm; and (c) a filler B, which is more than 50 phr of filler B in which the filler particles are microparticles having a median grain size (by weight average) larger than 1 μm.
|ACTIVATION OF CATALYTIC SYSTEMS FOR THE STEREOSPECIFIC POLYMERIZATION OF DIENES - An activated preformed catalytic system for the 1,4-cis stereospecific polymerization of conjugated dienes based on at least:
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|TIRE COMPRISING A TREAD MADE UP OF SEVERAL ELASTOMERIC COMPOUNDS - A tire with radial carcass reinforcement, comprising a crown reinforcement, itself capped radially by a tread connected to two beads by two sidewalls, the said tread comprising at least two radially superposed layers of polymer compound, a first layer of filled elastomeric compound, constituting the radially outer part of the tread, has a macrodispersion score Z higher than 80 and a maximum tan(δ) value, denoted tan(δ)max, lower than 0.130 and a second layer of elastomeric compound radially on the inside of the said first layer of elastomeric compound has an elongation at break at 60° C. that is higher than 600%.
|GRAFT POLYMER TO WHICH COMBINED NITROGEN MOLECULES ARE GRAFTED - The present invention relates to a modified polymer obtained by grafting a compound comprising at least one group Q, and at least one group A bonded together by at least, and preferably, one "spacer" group Sp in which:
|TIRE WITH A TREAD COMPRISING AN EMULSION SBR HAVING A HIGH TRANS CONTENT - The present invention relates to a tyre, the tread of which comprises a rubber composition comprising at least:
|HIGH CONTRAST TIRE PATTERN - A rubber tire comprising a surface having, over at least a portion of this surface, a pattern comprising a plurality of bars placed substantially parallel with one another, each comprising a tip distant from the surface of the tire and a base materially integral with the tire. Each bar of the plurality of bars comprises two inclined walls extending on either side of the tip towards the base, the angle of inclination of each inclined walls less than or equal in absolute value to 25° relative to a direction perpendicular to the surface. The bases of the bars are not in contact with one another so that the bases of two adjacent bars delimit a residual surface between the bars. The width of the residual surface corresponding to a distance between the bases of the two adjacent bars is less than or equal to half the height of the adjacent bars, the height being between 0.1 mm and 0.8 mm.
|BEAD FOR A TIRE FOR A HEAVY CIVIL-ENGINEERING VEHICLE - The invention relates to improving the endurance of a bead of a radial tire for a heavy vehicle of construction plant type by reducing the compression to which the turn-up is subjected when the tire is driven on. According to the invention, for a tire for a heavy vehicle of construction plant type comprising two beads intended to come into contact with a rim having two rim flanges, a carcass reinforcement comprising at least one carcass reinforcement layer having a main part wrapped, within each bead, from the inside towards the outside of the tire, around a bead wire of substantially circular meridian section, to form a turn-up, a filling element extending the bead wire radially towards the outside and axially separating the main part and the turn-up, the distance (d) between a first segment of turn-up and the main part decreasing continuously, radially towards the outside, from the bead wire as far as a minimum distance (d
|METHOD FOR PRODUCING A TIRE CARCASS PLY - In the method for producing a tire carcass ply for a vehicle, the ply is wound onto a drum and contains reinforcements running in planes that are radial to an axis of the drum, of which:
|PNEUMATIC TIRE AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING SAME - A method for producing a pneumatic tire in which a noise damper in the form of at least one continuous ribbon for reducing cavity resonance in a tire cavity is provided on the internal surface of a tire on the inside in the radial direction of the tire corresponding to the tire tread, including, providing a vulcanized and shaped tire; mixing a composition for forming the noise damper with a foaming agent to produce a liquid composition; rotating the tire in an upright state by means of a tire holding and rotation device, and introducing the liquid composition onto the tire internal surface by a device for introducing the liquid composition; varying the relative positional relationship of the pneumatic tire and the introduction implement in the axial direction of the tire while introducing the liquid composition is introduced onto the tire internal surface, and forming the liquid composition into a gel; and foaming and drying the gelled liquid composition.
|TIRE, THE CARCASS REINFORCEMENT OF WHICH IS REINFORCED WITH A LAYER OF REINFORCING ELEMENTS IN THE BEAD REGION - The invention relates to a tire having a radial carcass reinforcement, consisting of at least one layer of reinforcing elements anchored in each of the beads by an upturn around a bead wire, said carcass reinforcement upturn being reinforced by at least one layer of reinforcing elements or stiffener, the radially outer end of which is radially on the outside of the end of the upturn.
|ELASTOMERIC COMPOSITION EXHIBITING GOOD DISPERSION OF THE FILLER IN THE ELASTOMERIC MATRIX - The invention relates to a rubber composition based on at least one diene elastomer, a reinforcing filler comprising at least carbon black and an inorganic filler with an inorganic filler content of less than or equal to 50 parts by weight per hundred parts of elastomer, characterized in that the composition is obtained from a first masterbatch comprising at least one first diene elastomer and carbon black, and having a dispersion of the carbon black in the elastomeric matrix that has a Z value of greater than or equal to 90, added to which is the inorganic filler and at least one second elastomer, identical to or different from the first elastomer, and also to the process for preparing such a composition.
|RUBBER COMPOSITION WITH LOW SURFACE AREA CARBON BLACK - Tire components including bead area components and sidewall supports for a run-flat pneumatic tire that are constructed of a material based upon a cross-linkable rubber composition. The cross-linkable rubber composition includes, per 100 parts by weight of rubber (phr)* between 10 phr—and 90 phr—of a polyisoprene rubber and between 10 phr—and 90 phr of a polybutadiene rubber. The rubber composition further includes between 60 phr and 100 phr of a thermal carbon black having a nitrogen surface area of between 5 m
|POLYURETHANE - A polyurethane that is a reaction product of reaction components, the reaction components comprising (a) a polyol; (b) a polyisocyanate selected from an aromatic, alicyclic or aliphatic polyisocyanate or combinations thereof; (c) a mixture of chain extenders that includes (i) a chain extender having a sulfur bridge in an amount of between 1 and 30 weight percent of the total mixture of claim extenders and (ii) a main chain extender, wherein the chain extender having a sulfur bridge. The chain extender having a sulfur bridge may be characterized as
|APPARATUS FOR CASTING A NON-PNEUMATIC TIRE - This invention relates generally to an apparatus for casting a portion of a tire, and, more specifically, to an apparatus that has a cap and an outer ring that are rotatably attached to a fixed portion of the molding apparatus for centrifugally molding the spokes of a non-pneumatic tire from polyurethane or some other suitable material. The cap and outer ring have separate rotatable attachments to the apparatus and are not otherwise connected to each other, so they are free to rotate without obscuring the pouring slot of the mold.
|Tire Cover Comprising a Self-Adherent Composite Reinforcement - Pneumatic tire comprising a composite reinforcer (R-2) that is self-adhesive by curing to a diene rubber matrix, comprising: one or more reinforcing thread(s) (
|Composite Reinforcement and Manufacturing Process Therefor - Composite reinforcer (R-
|Tire with Improved Bead - A tire comprising two beads, each bead comprising an annular reinforcing structure, a carcass reinforcement, anchored in the two beads by a turn-up around the annular reinforcing structure, so as to form a main portion and a wrapped-around portion. Each bead comprises a bead filler situated at least partially between the main portion and the wrapped-around portion of the carcass reinforcement. Each bead further comprises an outer strip situated axially on the outside of the wrapped-around portion of the carcass reinforcement. The bead filler has a thickness E(r), this thickness corresponding to the length of the intersection of the direction perpendicular to the main portion of the carcass reinforcement with the bead filler, r denoting the distance separating the point of intersection of the direction perpendicular to the main portion of the carcass reinforcement with the carcass reinforcement from the radially innermost point of the annular reinforcing structure. The assembly formed by the bead filler and the outer strip has a thickness ET(r). For all the points of intersection of which the radial distance from the radially innermost point of the annular reinforcing structure is greater than or equal to 10% and less than or equal to 35% of the radial height H of the tire, the ratio E(r)/ET(r) is greater than or equal to 0.3 and less than or equal to 0.5.
|Tire for Heavy Vehicles, Comprising a Layer of Circumferential Reinforcing Elements Consisting of a Central Part and Two Axially External Parts - The invention relates to a tyre comprising at least two working layers (
|RUBBER COMPOSITION FOR BARRIER LAYER - A barrier layer is provided for impeding the flow of inflation gas through an inflatable article, the barrier layer constructed of a material that is based upon a cross-linkable rubber composition, the cross-linkable rubber composition comprising, per 100 parts by weight of rubber (phr), between 50 phr and 90 phr of a butyl rubber and between 10 phr and 50 phr of a total amount of a GCO copolymer comprising epichlorohydrin derived units and allyl glycidyl ether derived units and a GECO terpolymer comprising epichlorohydrin derived units, allyl glycidyl ether derived units and ethylene oxide derived units, wherein the GECO terpolymer is between 1 percent by weight and 50 percent by weight of the total and also including a sulfur cure system.
|BARRIER LAYER FOR INFLATABLE ARTICLES - A barrier layer for impeding the flow of inflation gas through an inflatable article, the barrier layer constructed of a material that is based upon a cross-linkable rubber composition, the cross-linkable rubber composition comprising, per 100 parts by weight of rubber (pbr) at least 50 phr of a primary elastomer selected from at least one of a halogenated butyl rubber or a polymeric halogenated rubber comprising C
|Accumulator Assembly for a Battery of an Electric or Hybrid Vehicle, Provided with a Deformable Connector Support - The accumulator assembly comprises a plurality of electrical energy accumulator elements
|THIN PLATE FOR A LINING OF A MOULD INTENDED FOR VULCANIZING A TIRE TREAD - The invention relates to a blade for a lining of a mould intended for vulcanizing a tire tread, the said blade being produced by selective laser melting. The blade comprises an anchoring part configured to anchor the blade in a body of the lining, a moulding part configured to mould at least one cut in the tread of the tire. The blade further comprises reinforcing means, wholly present in the anchoring part of the said blade.
|SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MANAGING A PLURALITY OF TIRES - Systems, methods and computer program products are provided for managing a plurality of tires from their procurement through their disposal. An embodiment may include a method for determining all the costs of a tire over its total service life including procurement costs, repair costs, retread costs and disposal costs. An embodiment may include managing an inventory by automatically replenishing the inventory by following a set of stored inventory management rules. An embodiment may include helping to ensure that an impermissible tire is not mounted on a vehicle. A stored set of tire mounting rules automatically check the tire being mounted against requirements for the tire set by the rules, the requirements set as to by vehicle type and wheel position.
|TIRE TREAD FOR HIGH PERFORMANCE TIRES - Tires having treads constructed of a material that is based upon a cross-linkable rubber composition, the rubber composition in some embodiments including between 25 phr and 5.0 phr of a butadiene rubber and between 50 phr and 75 phr of a styrene-butadiene rubber (SBR). wherein the butadiene portion of the SBR has at least 50% vinyl content. The rubber composition may further include between 25 phr and 60 phr of a plasticizing resin having a glass transition temperature Tg of between 30° C. and 120° C. and between 25 phr 60 phr of a vegetable oil. The ratio of the vegetable oil phr to the high Tg resin phr may, in some embodiments, be between 0.75 and 3. Further, such rubber compositions may also be reinforced with between 100 phr and 200 phr of a silica filler.
|TIRE HAVING A CROWN AREA PROVIDED WITH A SUBLAYER COMPRISING A THERMOPLASTIC ELASTOMER - Radial tire having:
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International Employment Relations Association (IERA);Nanyang Technological Univesity, Singapore
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- 18th Biennial 2011 IERA Conference "Work, Life and Environment Relations: An International Perspective" - International Employment Relations Association
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- Comparative studies, focussed upon different sectors, such as public and private, or different countries, industries or occupations are especially welcome. Tracks:- HRD and HRM policy- Organisational Culture and Power- ER Processes: Collective and Individual- Community Resource Development- HRM Outcomes: Empowerment, Job Satisfaction and Productivity- Workplace Learning- Values, Politics, Power, Ethics and HRD- Employment Relations in Public Policy Level- HR and Corporate and Sustainability- Leadership[gem?_?? den Informationen des Anbieters - according to site editor's information]
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GREELEY, Colorado — Six people walked away unhurt following a small plane crash in southeastern Weld County.
The Greeley Tribune reports (http://goo.gl/TkV3RZ ) the twin-engine Beachcraft Baron 56TC suddenly lost altitude during takeoff and crashed near the Platte Valley Airpark about 3 miles northwest of Hudson on Sunday evening. The Weld County Sheriff's Office declined to release the names of the people on board.
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- Equipment World - http://www.equipmentworld.com -
Crane body dominates heavy work load
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Iowa Mold Tooling™s Dominator IV crane body handles an 80,000-foot per pound crane. The unit has been enhanced to include increased workspace, greater accessibility to tools and improvement to operator™s mobility around the vehicle. IMT has also developed the 8025, a new telescopic crane designed to accompany the redesigned truck body. Enhanced features on the Dominator IV include improved access to tools and parts, an inverted A-frame floor structure that reduces body weight, three-point door latches that require less force to open and close the door, rain eaves over the compartment doors, a 24-inch workbench bumper with increased storage capacity and an overhang at the rear for clamping. The Dominator has improved rear LED taillights visibility and sidepacks for greater storage. Other IMT telescopic cranes compatible with the Dominator IV are the 5525 (55,000 feet per pound), 6025 (60,000 feet per pound), 6625 (66,000 feet per pound) and 7025 (70,000 feet per pound).
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Marianapolis Preparatory School in Thompson has recently named a number of students to its headmaster's list, dean's list and honor roll for outstanding academic work in the first quarter.
Marianapolis Preparatory School in Thompson has recently named a number of students to its headmaster's list, dean's list and honor roll for outstanding academic work in the first quarter.
Headmaster's list: Dylan A. Horn, Sterling; William O. LaFiandra, Woodstock.
Dean's list: Christian S. Adams, Woodstock; Emily J. Audet, Woodstock; Jamie L. Barrette, Thompson; Matthew J. Bellerose, Putnam; Elyse M. Bergeron, Putnam; Sarah L. Cavar, Brooklyn; Garrett D. Downs, Brooklyn; Cooper Everson, Sterling; Christopher P. Lundt, Woodstock; Alex L. Murphy, North Grosvenordale; George F. Murphy, North Grosvenordale; Doreen Reagan, Pomfret Center; Phoebe S. Reagan, Pomfret Center; Megan K. Romprey, Thompson; Elizabeth J. Sisko, Brooklyn; Sarah A. Spiker, Brooklyn; Emily B. Taft, Putnam; Marie E. Thibodeau, Woodstock; Caitlin M. Walsh, Thompson.
Honor roll: Liam S. Adams, Woodstock; Noah D. Aubin, North Grosvenordale; Seth D. Aubin, North Grosvenordale; Ryan J. Baronowski, Thompson; Brian D. Barrette, Thompson; Jillian R. Bodreau, Quinebaug; Jonathan S. Burkart, Brooklyn; Joel C. Cheney, Woodstock; Philip B. Cheney, Woodstock; Joshua A. Eilerman, Thompson; Emily A. Emilio, Pomfret Center; Caitlyn E. Faucher, Brooklyn; Camile R. Harvanek, North Grosvenordale; Rylee G. Hehir, Putnam; Harry P. Holte, Sprague; Reed J. Hopkins, Putnam; Jeremiah W. Knipe, Putnam; Miranda J. Lazzara, North Grosvenordale; Tyler A. Lefebvre, Pomfret Center; Taylor M. Lovrien, Brooklyn; Erin K. McDowell, Woodstock; Austin C. Miller, North Grosvenordale; Nicholas D. O'Brien, Pomfret Center; Jeffrey Peiczarka, Thompson; Carly N. Quinn, Danielson; Rachel M. Roach, Danielson; Isabella M. Velasquez, Canterbury; Michaela N. Young, Moosup.
Marianapolis Preparatory School is located at 26 Chase Road, Thompson. For more information, call (860) 923-9565, or visit marianapolis.org.
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Milestone: flashrom v1.0
7 years late (Jul 6, 2008, 12:00:00 AM)
Flashrom has become a mature tool over the years. It is time to release version 1.0 at some point. This milestone will capture all the TODOs for flashrom before it can be released.
Milestone: flashrom v1.1
7 years late (Aug 31, 2008, 12:00:00 AM)
This milestone gathers updates to flashrom that will not go into 1.0 anymore.
Milestone: Setting up coreboot v3
7 years late (Oct 31, 2008, 12:00:00 AM)
We started a version 3 tree of coreboot. This tree brings a lot of new features, but it does not support many boards yet and is less tested than coreboot v2.
Milestone: Cosmetic fixes
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We intend to clean up some parts of the code. This includes renaming files and variables for more consistency, enforcing code style, removing unnecessary #includes etc.
Milestone: Going mainstream
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coreboot was running on roughly 10 million systems out there in 2007. While this is a great achievement, we aim at supporting a much larger number of different systems, including servers, desktop systems, embedded systems, laptops, and more.
Milestone: Resolve license issues
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To ensure coreboot is never going to have trouble like Linux was having with SCO, we set up strict requirements with regard to licensing of coreboot contributions. This milestone aims at cleaning up the existing codebase to make this easier in the future.


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Applicants can find complete details on eligibility by downloading a packet at Military Friends Foundation http://www.militaryfriends.org/
"I was honored to be recognized and rewarded by the Military Friends Foundation for my hard work during my freshman year juggling my school work and athletics. The scholarship helped pay for my year's books and any other school supplies needed. It is great to feel the support from the Military Friends Foundation while my dad has been away for the past year on deployment,"
"Today, there are nearly a million children with a parent serving in our Armed Forces. Here in Massachusetts, more than 10,000 troops have deployed since September 2001. When a service member deploys, their family serves beside them. By offering the Patriot Scholar program to support higher education, our goal to recognize the service and sacrifices made by these special kids," said Sarah Keller-Likins, Executive Director of the Military Friends Foundation.
Funding for this and other Military Friends Foundation programs come from the generosity of private donors and voluntary contributions from Massachusetts taxpayers on Question 32E on the Mass. State Tax Form (Mass. Military Family Relief Fund check-off box). To learn me more about support local military families on the state tax form, visit http://www.militaryfriends.org/
For more information about the Patriot Scholar program or other Military Friends Foundation programs, please visit http://www.militaryfriends.org.
The Military Friends Foundation (formerly known as Friends of the National Guard and Reserve Families, Inc.) was established in 2003 to recognize the unique service of Citizen Soldiers and Airmen. Created as an independent non-profit organization, it assists eligible Massachusetts National Guard members, Reservists and Families of the Fallen in times of need. Through generous donations, the Military Friends Foundation has provided more than half a million dollars in grants to Massachusetts military families in more than 300 cities and towns throughout the Commonwealth. The Foundation proudly administers the Massachusetts Military Family Relief Fund created by the state legislature after September 11, 2001. Taxpayers can directly support local service members through a voluntary contribution under Question 32E – the Mass. Military Family Relief Fund, on their Massachusetts State Income Tax Form. For more information, please visit http://www.militaryfriends.org.
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Before Penn State University fired Joe Paterno as head coach of the football team, he was widely regarded as wielding heavy influence in the Penn State community, where football was king. Until this week, he was the winningest coach in NCAA history. For this, he was making $1,022,794 in his role as coach.
He wasn't, however, close to being the highest paid college football coach in the country -- not by a long shot.
Paterno ranked near the middle, compared to coaches around the country at colleges with major football programs. Among the Big Ten, Penn State's conference, he was second to last.
USA Today found college football coaches were compensated $1.47 million on average in 2011. Even as public universities have taken major hits in state funding, the average pay grew 55 percent in six seasons, from $950,000 in 2006.
About one-quarter of the 82 public schools that retained their coaches after last season gave raises of $200,000 or more; some of those raises were built into contracts that remained unchanged. However, nine schools provided boosts of $500,000 or more to incumbent coaches via new, or amended, contracts.
Very few of FBS athletics departments were able to pay all their bills without help from university or state funds or student fees, in 2010, according to USA Today.
Check out the 17 highest paid college football coaches in 2011:
Total Pay: $5,193,500 Photo Credit: Andreanna
Total Pay: $4,833,333 Photo Credit: Atliad
Total Pay: $4,075,000 Photo Credit: Flickr user Billy A
Total Pay: $3,856,417 Photo Credit: JustDog
Total Pay: $3,785,000
Total Pay: $3,638,000
Total Pay: $3,500,000
Total Pay: $3,254,000 Photo Credit: Missy Caulk
Total Pay: $3,221,000 Photo Credit: Benjamin Blue
Total Pay: $2,939,800
Total Pay: $2,828,000
Total Pay: $2,800,000
Total Pay: $2,775,000
Total Pay: $2,771,750
Total Pay: $2,750,000
Total Pay: $2,700,000
Total Pay: $2,598,186
This slideshow is based on USA Today's "Total Pay" tab. According to the USA Today, the total pay includes "base salary; income from contract provisions other than base salary that are paid, or guaranteed, by the university or affiliated organizations, such as a foundation," and "income from sources listed on the coach's most recently available, self-reported athletically related outside income report." Some schools require this to be disclosed, others do not.