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|Brucemore's Nooks and Crannies Tour to be Offered in November Providing a rare look at the attic and regularly closed rooms
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|Written by Tara Richards
|Thursday, 10 October 2013 08:29
Visit every floor, peek into closed rooms, and satisfy curiosity through this all-access pass to the Brucemore Mansion during the Nooks and Crannies Tour – November 7 and 21 at 6:00 p.m. Marvel at the Skinner pipe organ room, discover the architectural oddities in the attic, and experience the sight and sound of a "rain storm" in the basement Tahitian Room. Examine the superior craftsmanship and learn about ongoing preservation work. The tour is not recommended for children under ten or individuals who have difficulty walking or climbing stairs. Admission is $15 per person and $12 per Brucemore member. Space is limited; purchase tickets online at www.brucemore.org or by calling (319) 362-7375.
The Nooks and Crannies Tour is part of Brucemore's Thursday Night Lineup. Every Thursday night, Brucemore will feature a different specialty tour focusing on topics for all interests, including arts and culture, Midwestern industry, gardening, landscape design, architecture, preservation, behind-the-scenes at Brucemore, and growing up in the early twentieth century. For more information on the Thursday Night Lineup or the fall schedule, visit www.brucemore.org or call (319) 362-7375.
About Brucemore
Experience Brucemore, an unparalleled blend of tradition and culture, located at 2160 Linden Drive SE, Cedar Rapids, Iowa. At the heart of the historic 26-acre estate stands a nineteenth-century mansion filled with the stories of three Cedar Rapids families. Concerts, theater, programs, and tours enliven the site and celebrate the heritage of a community. For more information, call (319) 362-7375 or visit www.brucemore.org.
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The track, which will be roughly a mile long, will be built around a plot of land next to the YMCA building set to become a soccer field when funding becomes available.
The project will be completely donor-funded, said Joann Rutherford, executive director of Tri-County YMCA.
"Bob Schwartz, who's been a great member for us and really supports the YMCA, said he'd help us, and he has. He's gotten several people involved who have donated," Rutherford said.
The YMCA has already accepted several contributions for the project, including use of construction equipment, but is seeking additional donations, such as the gravel-type material to complete the track.
"The first thing will be to get our foundation down. When the weather gets nice, we can finish it up and be ready to go," Rutherford said.
"We'd like to have it ready by spring if we can, but it's going to depend on weather."
The outdoor track will supplement the indoor walking track and fitness center the YMCA offers, as well as its exercise classes, youth summer camps and team sports leagues.
"We're just excited that we have another avenue and something outside to offer our members," Rutherford said.
Currently the Tri-County YMCA uses about five of its 20 acres but is looking to expand.
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At Creekside Park Elementary School in Muldoon, lunchtime can be complicated.
There's a soft-spoken kindergartner so allergic to peanuts that she needs to sit at a table declared nut-free. Her allergy, the girl's mom told her class on the first day of school, is severe enough that even airborne exposure could trigger a potentially deadly reaction.
In the school kitchen, there's a freezer compartment full of district-provided meals specially-made for another girl who gets sick if she consumes any animal byproducts.
And there's the school's cafeteria manager, Joy Johnson, who has memorized the laminated collection of cards spelling out each child's allergy: potatoes, soy, milk, corn, apples, legumes.
This is the new reality of lunch in the Anchorage School District.
As more children are diagnosed with serious food allergies, Anchorage schools are devoting more time and resources to accommodating them.
That means lunch trays filled with district-prepared, allergy-free meals of ground bison and sweet potatoes and full-time nurses at each school. It means EpiPen trainings and "Peanut Reduced Environment" signs. It means one school declared entirely "cinnamon-free." And it means each teacher, aide and cafeteria worker becomes an ad-hoc allergy expert, charged with keeping children safe from an accidental exposure through a system of checks and counter-checks.
The stakes are high.
The district counts about 1,500 students known to have an allergy serious enough to trigger anaphylactic shock, which without treatment can be deadly in minutes. That's 3 percent of the student population.
About 12,000 students -- one in four -- have a documented allergy of some type, said Nancy Edtl, the head of student health services.
Though the district has many safeguards in place, "it does keep me up at night sometimes," she said.
Overall, 4-8 percent of children have a food allergy, compared with 2-3 percent of adults, said Dr. Melinda Rathkopf, a pediatric allergy specialist in Anchorage.
"We do know food allergies are increasing," Rathkopf said.
Part of the recent increase may be that doctors are now better at diagnosing food allergies.
But the prevailing theory is the "hygiene hypothesis."
The idea is that by being born and growing up in sterile environments and taking lots of antibiotics we've put our immune systems out of a job, Rathkopf said.
Doctors who have studied kids raised in farm environments and exposed to healthy amounts of dirt found they are less likely to have food allergies, she said.
People can be allergic to almost anything: Rathkopf and Anchorage allergist Jeffery Demain documented the first known food allergy to bowhead whale and seal in an Inupiaq boy.
But children are mostly allergic to a predictable handful of foods, including milk, eggs, peanuts, tree nuts, fish, shellfish, soy and wheat.
Lots of children rely on the Anchorage School District for food. The district serves 17,000 lunches every weekday, and more meals to kids from low-income homes before and after school. Nearly half of all district students are eligible for free and reduced lunch.
By law, the district has to offer food alternatives for kids with restricted diets.
Before last year, the district did a haphazard job of it, said LaDonna Dean, a registered dietician who is the district's head of student nutrition.
"I started getting these phone calls," Dean said from her office at the district's central kitchen. "Where the mom is saying, 'My kid is on the free program and you have nothing on the menu that my kid can eat. And I can't afford to send a lunch for my kid every day.'"
Dean knows how scary it can be for a parent to send a severely food allergic child to school. Her own son has five food allergies that can trigger anaphylactic shock. She chose his preschool in part because it was a "peanut-free environment."
So she developed a menu of optional meals that were free of the eight most common allergens.
(The district doesn't ever serve anything with peanuts in it -- or even buy from producers that can't guarantee their products are peanut-free.)
Most of it was easy substitution, she said, swapping tortillas for brown rice, say, or omitting a bun.
Occasionally she has to get creative. She buys local markets out of bison for kids who can't eat other proteins.
In the 2012-13 school year, the district handed out 3,037 special allergy meals.
Schools have ordered 1,144 such meals since classes began in Anchorage in August. .
Student nutrition has a self-sustaining $19 million budget separate from the district's operating budget, funded by what families pay for school lunches, federal reimbursement of free and reduced lunch programs and grants, Dean said.
How much more it costs the school to offer individualized meals hasn't been worked out yet, she said.
"I know I expect to be making a lot more of them in the future," Dean said.
Every school in the district has employed a full-time nurse for the past six years, said nursing head Nancy Edtl.
Before that, elementary schools had part-time nurses. But the demands became overwhelming, said Edtl.
"Things were just getting more and more complicated at more and more schools," she said.
Part of the reason: a rise in serious food allergies, along with chronic conditions such as diabetes and asthma.
Nurses see an average of 30-80 kids per day in each school, according to Edtl.
Dealing with food allergies is no small part of their job, especially on the elementary level.
School nurses such as Lillian Anderson, who has a cheery office at Creekside Park Elementary, work in tandem with teachers and cafeteria staff to stay on top of allergies.
Anderson has teachers practice sticking emergency epinephrine injectors (EpiPens) into oranges.
That way, she says, they'll be less shaky if they ever need to plunge one into a child's leg.
She also tries to be sensitive to kids who hate sitting at special "peanut-free" tables.
"It's so hard to be different as a child," she said.
Nurses also train others in the building about how to keep cross-contamination from triggering a reaction, and how to respond in an emergency.
The district used its own EpiPens, kept on hand for undiagnosed kids who don't have their own, more than 20 times last year, according to Edtl.
No data on how many EpiPens had been administered overall was available.
So far, it's working. The district says there hasn't been a food allergy fatality that happened at school in recent memory.
Rathkopf, the Anchorage pediatric allergist, says the only one she knows of occurredat the child's home.
Even with accommodations and training, sending a severely allergic child to school feels like a roll of the dice for some parents.
Jeanie Long's son just started kindergarten at an ASD elementary school she'd prefer not to name. He's severely allergic to peanuts and carries an EpiPen in his backpack.
After a meeting with the school nurse, principal and kindergarten teachers, the decision was made to have the boy eat at a peanut-free table with two other allergic boys, Long said. But that doesn't feel like enough to her, she said.
Her son is so allergic that he could have an reaction just from being touched by another child with peanut butter on his or her hands, she said. And kindergartners touch each other all the time, she said. So her goal is to get peanuts out of the classroom entirely, and is working with the principal and district to make that happen, she said.
Until then, Long said, she and her husband take turns going to school to eat lunch with their son every day.
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Kitten rescued from car engine in Jacksonville
Car enthusiasts love to hear the "purr" of a finely-tuned engine. But when they hear meowing under the hood, there's obviously a problem!
Angie Fox heard the cry for help Monday from her vehicle and called for a mechanic.
Rusty Newton was the man who came to rescue the kitten.
In the parking lot of restaurant, Newton jacked up a car because there was no room under the hood to rescue the kitten, which was lodged somewhere in the engine. The occasional cry for help came from below.
"See it. There he is," said Newton as slid from beneath the car holding a black kitten that was newly born.
"I knew he was black," said Fox who was excited when handed the kitten she had heard minutes before whimpering.
Jacking up the car was the hard part as the rescue only took a few minutes.
"We will name it boy or girl, name it Rusty," said Fox holding the kitten with Newton looking on.
Newton went back to work at White's Automotive following the rescue.
Angie Fox left for home with "Rusty" knowing there are people who care and took the time to help a kitten in need.
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Niobrara River Among America's Most Endangered Rivers
Sedimentation and Flooding Threaten Wild and Scenic RiverApril 17th, 2013

Eileen Fretz, American Rivers, 202-347-7550

Bob Olson, Niobrara resident, 402-857-3404

Mel Hansen, Niobrara resident, 402-229-3242

Richard Spellman, Niobrara resident, 402-556-0697

Paul Lepisto, Izaak Walton League, 605-220-1219

Rayder Swanson, Niobrara resident, 402-857-3515

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Washington, D.C.- American Rivers named the Niobrara River among America's Most Endangered Rivers® of 2013 today, shining a national spotlight on dam-related sediment buildup and flooding that threaten communities, recreation, and critical wildlife habitat.
"The America's Most Endangered Rivers report is a call to action to save rivers that are facing a critical tipping point," said Eileen Fretz of American Rivers. "We all need healthy rivers. They provide our drinking water, support the economies of our communities, and promote public health and quality of life. We hope citizens will take action to ensure a healthy Niobrara River for generations to come."
At its confluence with the Missouri, the Niobrara is increasingly threatened by sediment backing up in the Niobrara delta behind the Missouri River's Gavins Point Dam. The sediment build-up is so extreme that the overall level of the local water table has increased by several feet. This has led to flooded cropland and basements, and has impacted boating and other recreation. As the sediment builds within the system, the Niobrara is slowly losing the seeps, springs, riparian forests, prairies, and canyons that characterize this Wild and Scenic River.
American Rivers and its partners called on the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to improve sediment management within the Missouri River system and to prioritize funding for this critical issue in their Fiscal Year 2015 budget, in order to safeguard the Niobrara National Recreational River and nearby communities.
"I am a lifelong resident of Niobrara and have been a part of the local Niobrara government since 1964. The citizens of Niobrara and the surrounding area have been dealing with the sediment issues since the introduction of Gavins Point Dam around 1957. We are located at the confluence of the Niobrara and Missouri Rivers and have gone thru the relocation of our town and the loss of many acres of quality farm land on both the Niobrara and Missouri Rivers," said Bob Olson, a local resident. "Somehow we need to find a way to reverse this sediment issue while it is still possible to do so."
"Thousands of acres of farmland have been inundated and permanently lost due to this sediment accumulation. Our home and numerous other homes in the area were destroyed. The river itself is in danger of gradually becoming a useless bog. We must address this sedimentation problem before any further harm is done to our community," said Mel Hansen, a local resident.
"Time is running out. The confluence of the Niobrara and Missouri Rivers is the home of the Ponca Nation and the Santee Sioux Nation and the third oldest town in Nebraska. It is also where Lewis and Clark camped, and the lake named after them is being filled with sediment and destroyed," said Rick Spellman, a local resident. "Engineering technologies and sediment management solutions are available to reverse this buildup of sediment. Now is the time to fix this man-made problem so future generations can marvel at the beauty of this place."
"The sediment accumulation at the confluence of the Niobrara and the Missouri is threatening the health of two of America's great rivers" says Paul Lepisto, a Regional Conservation Coordinator with the Izaak Walton League of America. "Steps must be taken to stem the growth of the Niobrara delta and find an acceptable method to pass some sediment through Gavins Point Dam. This will benefit the sediment-starved Missouri River below Gavins Point; improve the lifespan of the recreationally important Lewis and Clark Lake; and provide needed relief for the lower Niobrara."
"I was born at the Missouri-Niobrara confluence, on 400 acres of land that barely exists. Good farmland, old grove cottonwoods and high river banks," said local resident Rayder Swanson.
"All of this has been destroyed. Time has run out for this property that our family no longer owns. When that land became unusable we purchased land five miles up the Niobrara river. Over the years, that same thing has happened to that farmland, destroyed. We now own 500 acres of Niobrara river farmland that was once productive. Due to sediment deposition, it continues to pile sand in the river from upstream. The rate of land being ruined is averaging over 200 acres per year. Without immediate intervention, this land of the Ponca and Santee Indian Tribes will only be less and less desirable."
The Niobrara River follows a winding course through three states and a landscape of steep bluffs and rolling hills. Portions of the Niobrara are designated Wild and Scenic, and provide habitat for abundant wildlife, including the endangered least tern and the threatened piping plover. The Niobrara also provides water for nearby communities, as well as fishing and boating opportunities for recreation enthusiasts.
The annual America's Most Endangered Rivers® report is a list of rivers at a crossroads, where decisions in the coming months will determine the rivers' fates. Over the years, the report has helped spur successes including the removal of outdated dams, the protection of rivers with Wild and Scenic designations, and the prevention of harmful development and pollution.


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We sat down with the four gubernatorial candidates vying for the Republican ticket and asked them questions you wanted to know. Below are how they answered the questions.
Whoever wins the Republican ticket in the June primary will go on to face Democrat Governor John Hickenlooper, who is running for a second term.
Question #1 from 11 News viewer, Erik:
Pick just one decision that Governor Hickenlooper made in his first term. State why his decision was wrong and what you would have done differently?
Mike Kopp:
"Our Governor campaigned, ah, saying he would cut red tape. He'd cut red tape so that businesses around Colorado could succeed and thrive and hire new employees. The only problem is, (he) hasn't done that. In fact, in one year, in 2012 alone, his administration adopted 14,000 new pages of rules and regulations. It's a stack of paper about five feet tall. So his decision was actually many, many non-decisions. He should have lead on this. As Governor, my administration will be geared around driving down the cost of regulations, being a regulated business here in the state by 25 percent. The way that you do that is you go through all of the rules and regs that are in the books. All of them. You do it industry by. And yet your focus is to drive down the cost by 25 percent in each industry. So that everybody is regulated fairly, but you're driving down the cost of a regulated business. The reason you want to do that is pretty simple. If government gets off the backs of job creators here in the state, more people are going to find work when they get out of college or when they are in their second career or what have you. We need more jobs in this state. That's a good way to get more jobs in our state."
Bob Beauprez:
"Yea, signing the renewable energy mandate. Uh, that impacted rural Colorado. I think rural Colorado was unanimous in saying 'we don't want this. It's going to drive up our energy prices at a time when we can't afford it because, especially in rural Colorado, the economy was still trying to get up off the mat to get moving again. And here comes the governor, I guess to placate constituents of his, ah, and an agenda of his, ah, to continually push renewable energy whether it's good for the economy and people want it or they don't. I think it was a serious mistake in sighing it."
Tom Tancredo:
"He supported Amendment 66, and he did so with gusto. It was one of the few things he actually got out in front of, it took him a while, but he actually finally got out in front and wanted a billion dollar tax increase for education even though there was not even a single iota of reform in that thing. and of course the people of the state, quite rightly turned it down. It was just another billion dollars that year, It would have been a billion dollars that year but billions after that, so it was a terrible thing to do, it was a terrible idea to begin with and luckily the people of the state saw through it. Surprisingly, no not surprisingly Governor Hickenlooper did not see through it."
Scott Gessler:
"I think his decision to sign the gun control bills. And I think they were wrong for a couple of reasons. One is that it had no practical impact on crime. It didn't reduce crime at all. Makes it harder for people to defend themselves. It does infringe on civil liberties. It drove good jobs out of the state of Colorado. I view that very much as a narrow, ideological agenda, that had very little to do with practical impacts. I would have vetoed those bills."
Question #2 from 11 News viewer, Sarah:
We should all be asking their stance on Common Core Education and what they plan to do to help either 1) opt-out of it or 2) help small school districts come up with the funding necessary to both purchase the technology the new tests require and the staff to make such changes available without cutting funding from other areas including the elimination of teaching positions.
Scott Gessler:
"I'm against common core. And the reason I'm against it, is that think they are very mediocre standards. People who created common core claimed that they're a very good international standards, but they're just not. I think what we need to do in Colorado is ignore the common core standards and come up with our own, better standards and we've got plenty of models that we can look at. I also think that some of the testing is excessive. I strongly believe in testing to measure ourselves, but when you're testing and testing and testing, for testing's sake and it's causing you to, causing schools to have to spend money, and loose time instructing students, then it becomes a problem. So I would get rid of common core in Colorado, and replace it with something better."
Tom Tancredo:
"We must get us out of common core, the standards themselves are relatively innocuous and that's how everybody buys into this stuff. We were essentially, the state board of education, was enticed into accepting this with money from the federal government, promises of money and the standards that they have adopted or in the process of especially, when you read them you say well that's not so bad, but the standards are irrelevant, what happens in common core and unfortunately with every federal government education program, it's not the standards themselves, it's what happens after that because then you establish curriculum and the curriculum is designed to fit the tests that are then created that's the real problem. When you look at the tests then you realize why this is such a very very bad idea. An example, a couple of questions that were in the common core English language arts section, one was, and kids were just supposed to change the tense or just correct the tense. The question was: 'All government orders have to be obeyed,' what? Another one was something to the effect of' the good of society is more important than the value of the individual, the good for the individual'. There were test questions, they aren't phrased as questions. They were phrased in a way where the kids had to change the tense or correct the tense right? But the statements were left there as accurate. You're not supposed to say true or false, you're supposed to say they should have used past tense or whatever. That's the problem, you then create the curriculum to fit the tests and the standards become irrelevant. it's a bad idea its a horrible idea we have to get Colorado out of it."
Bob Beauprez:
"Opt out of it. Opt out of it. George Will, who I respect a lot, said it very succinctly, whether they say this is about curriculum or not, this is the federal government seizing even more control of education. Nationally, I believe what we've got to do with education is turn what has become the model up-side-down. We've had way too much crammed on from the federal government onto the states, and the states onto the local school districts. We've gotta trust the local districts, especially trust parents, to be making the good decisions on how to best educate their children. We don't need the federal government involved in one more enormously huge segment of our society, especially out here in Colorado where we can do just fine on our own. Tell the federal government 'go away,' ah and a governor can make that happen. I would like to be that governor to sign and opt out."
Mike Kopp:
"Well, my position is that we should repeal common core. Actually, part of it is, um, a set in statute. So you're gonna have to have some statutory changes, which I would push as governor. Um, if there are parts of common core that people find laudable and useful, um you can find a way to keep those. Um, but right now, the turmoil, that this is causing our education system and around the state, um, I think is ground enough to go back do that very thing, to repeal it. That's the direction that I would take. I think we need to have strong standards, but they need to be standards that won't make parents blush, that parents can get onboard with, and that local communities can get on board with, and they need to have a very strong local control component to them. You know, standards that are determined by somebody, by elites, way outside of our state are not the right direction for our state."
Question #3 from 11 News viewer Troy:
Will you correct the Nathan Dunlap reprieve? Another viewer asked, would you follow other states such as Texas in speeding up the death penalty? What is your view on keeping prisoners incarcerated who are sentenced to the death penalty?
Tom Tancredo:
"I think every one of us, I'm sure every Republican is going to answer this the same way. Yes indeed I would correct the decision, the non-decision that was made by Governor Hickenlooper. He didn't really make a decision and that was really one of the worst parts of it. He didn't say we were going to pardon this guy. I'm going to reprieve, no no, what he said was we're going to kick the can, down the road until the next governor. Well if I'm the next governor, I will accept that responsibility and I will withdraw that particular order of Hickenlooper's and we will put him back on the path of being executed, that he was sentenced to and after 20 years of going through every single part of the court system through appeals, everyone agreed, he needed to absolutely be executed. Governor Hickenlooper thought, well maybe I shouldn't do this, maybe it's not right. Is it really the right thing to do with this guy, well you know what governor, that's why you're elected, to make tough decisions and either say, I'm pardoning him end of story or we're going to let it proceed, but the worst thing to do especially to the families of the people who indeed were murdered, the surviving members, have to deal with this now, again and again. And you remember the father of one of those individuals that was murdered said and I will never forget this because I announced the next day that I was going to run for governor, and I did so really as a result of what this guy said. it affected me idly. We were planning on announcing at some point but i wan't thinking of doing it that early. What the guy said was 'There's been a knife in my back for the last 20 years and what this governor did was twist it with this decision'. Well that's enough from me."
Bob Beauprez:
"He took an oath to enforce the laws of the state of Colorado. The law, ah, says that Nathan Dunlap has exhausted all of his appeals, he'd been sentenced to die. A judge had set his date, and for whatever reason, ah, the governor decided that he not only wouldn't commute the sentence, as he had the power to do, and he wouldn't allow it to be carried out. He simply said, 'I'll let the next guy deal with it.' I think that demonstrated an element of weakness. I think a lot of people saw that, an inability or unwillingness to make a tough decision. And on my watch justice will be served and Nathan Dunlap's execution will go forward. The death penalty law has been used very, very carefully in Colorado. We only have three on death row right now, I believe in Colorado. Others have been accused, James Holmes, may be one of those who is being tried based on death penalty accusations and incitement. I don't believe Colorado has abused that law at all. In fact I think we've been very judicious, and that's the way I'd like to see it continue. I think it ought to be rare, but the citizens of Colorado have stood up time, and time again, and said they want that ultimate penalty to be part of our law. When I take the oath of office to be the next governor, and promise to enforce the laws of the state of Colorado, that will be one of them. Nathan Dunlap will see justice served, because the reality is, that by doing what he did on the Dunlap decision, John Hickenlooper denied the justice that the victims' families have been waiting for for 20 years in the case of Nathan Dunlap. Twenty years, and now they are still waiting. That's simply wrong."
Scott Gessler:
"So I started my career as a federal prosecutor at the department of justice. And, I'm very much a law and order guy. So I would allow that to go forward, the execution. And we never celebrate that, but we do have the death penalty in Colorado for the worst crimes, and that was a very heinous crime, one of the worst mass murders we got. A jury looked at that, judges reviewed it that should go forward. Um, with respect to overall the death penalty and the time, I do think it's too long. It's shouldn't take decades. That said, you have to look at each case individually, on its own merits."
Mike Kopp:
"He created a third route on, the decision around the murder and Nathan Dunlap. He could have commuted the sentence, or he could have set an execution date. Instead the governor, put him, essentially, into a holding tank. The governor campaigned as though he were in favor of capital punishment, and when the decision came to his desk to make, he didn't make it. He punted. He should have made that decision. Nathan Dunlap was found guilty by a jury of his peers. As governor I would set the execution date; our governor has not been willing to do that. Yea, we do need to bring about the reforms in our corrections system to make sure we can implement justice much sooner than we do. Nobody wants to see games being played, ah, by clever attorneys. That's just the bottom line. If you're sent to death row, and you've gone through your appeal process and it's a fair appeal process, then we need to follow through on the decision that was made at that time. And so, for that reason, guys like Nathan Dunlap, the murderer Nathan Dunlap, we should, um, move quickly toward insuring justice is served, especially for the families of the victims."
Question #4 from 11 News viewer, Jimmy:
On the pot issue, would they recommend to other states and Governors to legalize it with all the revenue Colorado is taking in and how would they utilize the funds to be spent?
Bob Beauprez:
"That would be a false choice. I think to go after it for the revenue is a mistake. I was not for amendment 64, but it's now part of our constitution and I'll have the obligation to enforce that law now that it is a law of the state of Colorado. I think the challenge in front of us is obviously to regulate it as tightly as the law allows, keep it out of the hands of our children, and educate the general population as to the real dangers. We've got a lot of people who are finding out after the fact, 'oh, I just used a little bit if it; I used it recreationally, now legally, but they fail a drug test and they fail to either get or keep the job that they'd like to have. That's a consequence I think a lot of people didn't understand was out there. And we've seen all kinds of evidence about the damages done to our children. I wouldn't encourage other states to do it. In face, I would be leaning the cause in the other direction. I think it's a mistake. I think the consequences are serious. And I think we as the state of Colorado ought to be rethinking that decision."
Mike Kopp:
"I would not recommend to Governor Scott Walker or any governor around the country that they follow Colorado's example of legalizing marijuana. I think, I voted against the amendment to the constitution. Now it's in the constitution, so we have to deal with this. We have some real safety problems, especially as it relates to our kids, adults too around the issue of legalizing this. I think it's a bad drug. I think it's going to be bad for our society. I would absolutely not encourage other governors to follow suit. No amount of money, I think, is worth the kind of problems that this is only creating for our society. And, frankly, the problems that we're just now beginning to understand. It's very difficult to undo because it's in the state constitution. The House and the Senate could refer a measure to the people. Citizens in this state could form an initiative. We could do it that way, but it needs to go to a vote of the people. Well, the money needs to be spent and strict law enforcement to keep our roads safe, We're gonna have DUIs. Of course, we're gonna have an increase in DUIs. We need to keep our roads safe. We need to keep our kids safe in these schools. People who are guilty of peddling this drug to our children need to be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. Those are two critical areas where we need to be spending our money."
Scott Gessler:
"At this point I can't recommend legalizing it for other states, we have to see how it works here in Colorado. I do have a lot of worries about public health and safety. I think what we need to do though, and what this Governor has done wrong, we need to send more of that money to law enforcement, because we still have black market, we have cartels, we have real problems with drug use and illegal activity around that. So we need to send more of that money to law enforcement as well."
Tom Tancredo:
"I supported 64, Amendment 64. The problem we're having is the problem of regulating it properly, a problem of enforcing the laws that are on the books as a result of the passage of Amendment 64. It isn't an issue as to whether or not know if we're going to change it, we're probably not. It passed with a wider margin than, got more votes than Obama got in Colorado. So i doubt it's going to be reversed. Our challenge is to figure out how to regulate it so as to meet the demands of the people of the state of Colorado that want it legalized and on the other hand reflect the law itself. For instance, it's against the law to smoke pot in public, right? It's against the law. It's part of the amendment, I remember distinctly. Yet, on certain days of the year, they open up parts of the city grounds for hundreds of people to come in and do that. It's a clear violation. The children that are supposedly obtaining the substance now, that maybe were not before, that's what we're led to believe, all these kids are getting it. Well, how are they getting it? And what you read in the paper, it's their parents, or in some cases their grandparents, right? Well, that's child endangerment. Show me where anybody's been actually prosecuted for giving their children marijuana. If we gave a kid, if somebody gives a kid a loaded fire arm and sends them off to school with it. Don't you think that they'd be liable for endangering the lives of not just their own kids, but others? I think so and I think they should be prosecuted. When you give your child, if anybody out there is stupid enough to give their kids marijuana, they should pay a penalty for that, there should be actual prosecution. So, there are things the state can do to make sure the law is upheld, the law is put in place and is adhered to. That's the problem, we're not seeing an efficient way of regulating, and it's a learning process, I understand, but there are some things that are pretty clear, it's against the law to smoke dope in public, end of story."
Question #5 from James:
What they would do towards getting our gun rights back? Reversing the high cap mag ban would be nice. I'm not a criminal so I support the background checks though.
Tom Tancredo:
"Well, most people do, by the way, support the background checks, the reality is that none of these things, what we have learned ever since Columbine, which I was in Congress, I'd only been in Congress a couple of months, when that occurred, and that was my district, I only lived about a mile from Columbine High School. Most of my neighbors and many, many of our friends had children there. Some killed there, others wounded, it was a horrendous experience. What we have learned since then, after unfortunately many other experiences of a similar nature, what we have learned is that none of these things have anything to do with gun safety, nothing, or gun violence as the left likes to put it. They're irrelevant, it doesn't matter. In fact, this is really important for people to understand. Governor Hickenlooper was asked by an individual up in Grand Junction not too long, if he thought any of these bills he signed would actually reduce, quote 'gun violence'. He said, 'Not really." So they asked him the next question, of course, 'Why did you sign the bills?' And he said, and I quote, 'I sign a lot of stupid bills.' The next day, or maybe it was two days after, he was on the stage with Barack Obama touting these bills, here in Denver. I and just wonder if he turned to Barack Obama and said, 'You know Mr. President, these were pretty stupid bills.' I doubt it, but you know what, they were stupid bills."
Scott Gessler:
"I think what we need to do is protect Second Amendment rights and I would not have signed the bills that that governor did."
Mike Kopp:
"So, I would have voted against the bad gun bills that were sent to the governor last year. He should have vetoed those bills last year. As a matter of fact, adding more gun laws to the books does not create more safety. Just ask places like Chicago or Washington DC. You know, our gun rights are granted to us by our creator, but they're guaranteed under our constitution. When lawmakers and governors want to sort of nibble away at those in small ways and in big ways, we've got a problem. So, absolutely I would go after the heart of those gun bills last year. I would be sure we reinstate our Second Amendment just as it was before John Hickenlooper took office."
Bob Beauprez:
"I think he's where a lot of Colorado citizens are. I think he's very close to where are lot of Colorado citizens are. I'd like to sign the repeal of the mistaken bills that Governor Hickenlooper signed. I think the vast majority of Colorado, and you demonstrated right here in Colorado Springs with the results of the recall election, I think the vast majority of people think that was an overreach, that it infringed on their liberty, and I'll remind you that our sheriffs, the almost unanimous group of our sheriffs, 55 of the 64 of them, showed up at the capitol and said this won't make our society any safer, and we can't enforce these laws, don't pass them, don't sign them, and yet the Democrat legislature passed them, the governor signed them, and when asked why he signed them in Grand Junction, he apparently responded 'Oh, I sign a lot of stupid bills.' Really, which other ones? I'm anxious to ask him that question. I'd love to sign a repeal of those gun bills. Either you trust people or you don't. And law abiding citizens first and foremost ought to be trusted and they shouldn't be infringing on their constitutional rights."
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This 1973 photo of a Panará named Sôkriti who was among the first of giants to made contact with white men.
Credit: Pedro Martinelli
The Panará stepped back into Brazilian history in the 1970's. Nobody knew what they called themselves. They were "giant Indians," or Krenacore, Kreen-Akore, Kreen-akarore, Krenhakarore, or Krenacarore – variations of the Kayapó name kran iakarare, which means "round-cut head," a reference to the traditional haircut that is typical of the Panará. In extensive reports from the time of contact, there is an underlying concern with explaining their unknown origin. Calling them giants, or white Indians or black Indians, was a way of identifying them while removing them from the disturbing state of absolute otherness.
Map showing Mata Grosso.
The discovery was an international sensation. The first expeditions to find the "Giant Indians" were in the late 1960s, but were unsuccessful.
Cover the newspaper O Globo with the first photo of a Panará
The story of "Giant Indians" yielded books, theses , films , photo essays and poem inspired by Carlos Drummond de Andrade and music by the former Beatle Paul McCartney on his first solo album. Feared by their enemies, the Panará were seen as ruthless warriors as they took no prisoners in battle.
Currently, we know that this tribe Panará had previously inhabited also the state of Goiás to the east, however, little was known in 1970, when construction began on the highway Cuiabá -Santarém, which is in the basin of the Rio Peixoto de Azevedo where they live.
Contact with the white man
Upon completion of the work and the opening of the road, the Panará began to suffer from diseases transmitted by the white man. The population dropped from 400 Indians at the time of first contact, to only 79 in mid-1975, when the National Indian Foundation (Funai) transported to the tribe of the Xingu Park .
Credit: Pedro Martinelli
In 1970, with the start of construction of the highway, the indigenous brothers Orlando and Claudio Villas Boas decided to form a team to locate the tribe. Although a worker involved in the construction have been hit by an arrow (possibly the Panará), in 1972, the first contact occurred only in 1973.
After an initial approach, which included overflights in the village and sending gifts such as machetes, axes, beads, dolls and mirrors, dispatch of Villas-Boas finally met the Panará.
Orlando Villas-Bôas tells that at the time of contact there were at least eight giants among the Panará. However, they died from white men's diseases. Panará's adults who lived in the Peixoto de Azevedo River area prior to 1973 are absolutely emphatic about the existence of "veeerry tall" kinfolk in the past.
Photo: Panara with Orlando Villas Boas
Orlando Villas Boas said that in 1950, at the tribe of the Kayabys the Panará were known as men of great height. Their huge bows and axes could be have 1.80 meters in length. They terrorized their opponents. The giants were "spooky" to other tribes.
In 1971, in a reportage, published in the magazine O Cruzeiro, Fernando Pinto journalist wrote on these legendary natives by calling them whites giants! In his text, Fernando Pinto states that these giant Indians belong to a tribe called Parakanã, and not Panara.
In February 1973, Veja magazine published reportage on the first official contact between the giant Indians and the white men. This happened during a expedition of the researchers of indigenous peoples Orlando Villas Boas (1914-2002) and Claudio Villas Boas (1916-1998), held that year (1973). This adventure turned an historic fact.
Magazine Cover of the Cruise in the 70s
The Indians were located on the river Peixoto de Azevedo, in Xingu basin river. Here is an excerpt from the story: They were there. They were athletic men painted black from head to toe. They were completely naked, their hair trimmed up to the ear. They belonged to the kranhacãrore tribe or the giant Indians. Eight of them, guys very young had between 15 and 18 years and none had less than 1.80 m of height ... (VEJA, 1973)
However, after the Cuiabá-Santarém highway was opened, little was said about the fate of the tribe.
After many ups and downs, and several changes of village life with old enemies (the Kayapó), the Panará returned to their original territory in 1994. Currently, they still live in Mato Grosso , in an area near the Rio Iriri recognized by Funai as Indian territory.
The descendants of the giants shave their their heads using a plant: the razor grass. The name Kreen-Akrore comes from the Kayapó name "kran iakarare", meaning "roundlike cuthead", a reference to their traditional hair style which invariably identifies them.
Photo: René Fuerst, 1972.
The Panará are the last descendants of the Southern Cayapó, a large group that dwelled over a vast area in central Brazil in the 18th century.
Vista of Panará village area before the first contact with the white man
Photo: Peter Martinelli
During many years observing the indigenous villages from an airplane, authorities and scholars preferred to avoid contact. In 1961 the British geographer Richard Mason was killed upon entering in the territory of the Panará tribe.
Panará shoot arrows at the Villas-Boas brothers' plane
Photo: Peter Martinell
Panará children in the village where they live today, in the headwaters of the river Iriri near the location where they were taken in 1973
Photo: Peter Martinelli
Although the legend of "Giant Indians" has become widespread, few members of the tribe were really giants Most averaged around 1.70 meters in heigth.
Some say that they belonged to the tribe Mura. Professor Shirley Gomes, descendant of Muras, recalls: They were very tall. Academic sources, however, say that the giant indigenous were of the tribe of Panará.
The Panará were even known as the giants among other indigenous tribes in Brazil. One of the first to be captured, a man named Mengrire, who was 2 meters tall well above the average height of Brazilian indigenous peoples.
The ferocity of these Indians was legendary. Their rivals, like the Tchucarramães, made the fame of the giants telling the histories their exploits.
They stood hidden for two hundred years in the heart of the forest in northern Mato Grosso. Only in 1973, when the tribe was shaken by the high mortality caused by diseases of whites, they made the contact with civilization as a last hope to survive as a people. Too late. In 1975, the population of the Panara tribe was only 79 individuals. But this situation has changed through the decades. In 2008, there were 374 of them.
Photo: Ailton Costa, 1994
For the Panará, the stars represent the Panará of the past - the small ones being men, and the larger, more brilliant ones, being women.
The mystery of these Amazonian giants remains even to today. Even the name of the tribe is a puzzle. While some call these natives Panará, others prefer identify them as Parakanãs.
Three tribes, one myth
The comparative study of giant Indians of Brazil shows that there is some confusion about the which tribe they belonged, the . There are at least three tribes, speaking different languages, that have traditionally inhabited areas very close to each other that researchers think to be the origin of the giants.
The Panara were on the border between the states of Mato Grosso and Para. The Parakanã, were found only at Para state. However, The Panarás are speakers of Jê language group while the Parakanãs are speakers of the tupi-guarani language group.
Adding to the confusion, there is a third tribe, the Asurini, who are speakers of the Tupi-Guarani language, that they also lived at Pará state. Since the nineteenth century, the Indians that ruled the area between the Xingu and Bacajá rivers. These people are today known as Araweté, Arara, Parakanã, were named Asurini (or Asonéri) – a word that for the other tribes means "red", according to ethnographer Curt Nimuendajú*(1843-1945. German-Brazilian ethnologist, anthropologist and writer 1963c:225 – IN POVOS INDÍGENAS DO BRASIL) . The three tribes are also called by the natives of others peoples Kranhacãcore or Krenacore. The word means "big man with round head".
Many scholars have vehemently denied the existence of the indigenous giants in Brazil. They say this based on the current complexion of the descendants of those warriors. However, testimonies of the indigenous themselves and reports of researchers of indigenous peoples of the mid-twentieth century confirm that they existed.
Other narratives confirm the existence of this mysterious tribe: Caciques (chiefs of the tribe) of Juruna tribe (or tribe of Yurun or Yudjá) say that their grandparents had contacts with the giants. They had over 2 meters and a half of height. Today, they disappeared and became "Mamaés" or nature spirits.
During the sixteenth century, many Jesuit priests participated in the colonization process of South America. They wrote about these giants in their chronical. In "Discovery of the Amazon River", three priests – Alonso de Rojas, Christoval de Acuña, Gaspar de Carvaja – they described: they are giants and have between two to three meters tall. The braves, they live naked and they wear big hoops of gold in their ears and nose (STURARI, 2006).
This mysterious nation always avoided the connect with white men. There are indications that at the time of the arrival of European peoples, portugueses, french, holaneses, the giant Indians lived more to the east. Then, they occupied a long strip of land between the states of Mato Grosso, Minas Gerais, north of Sao Paulo, Goias and Para. Today's Tribes, like Assurinis, Panarás, Parakanãs, in past times they were a single culture, a great nãção. The nation of the Kayapos
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On the 30th of March, the Berlin-based leather accessoires and fashion label Liebeskind Berlin has inaugurated its third non-European store in Tel Aviv (Israel). The shop is located in Sarona, an emerging historic district of Tel Aviv, occupying an area of 50 square meters, split into two different floors. Decorated with vintage leather furniture in Berlin industrial design, the Liebeskind Tel Aviv store features the brand's accessories, bags and shoes lines together with selected pieces of Liebeskind Berlin's menswear collection "Männersache".
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Totally refurbished in 2015 the Mercure Eastgate Hotel has a range of beautifully presented bedrooms and stylish public areas. This 17th-century building enjoys a great location in the centre of histo...More about Mercure Oxford Eastgate Hotel
This Grade II listed building with its elaborate Elizabethan-style chimney stacks stands at the gates of Waddesdon Manor and was named after the Rothschild family emblem. Individually styled en suite ...More about The Five Arrows
This Victorian property is located close to the centre of Oxford and offers smart, comfortable accommodation. Stylish bedrooms and suites are attractively presented and some have balconies. The public...More about Cotswold Lodge Hotel
A purpose-built hotel, which offers comfortable and spacious rooms with well designed working spaces for business travellers. There are also extensive conference facilities. The open-plan restaurant a...More about Best Western Buckingham Hotel
At Innkeeper's Lodge you'll find accommodation with comfort and character in equal measure, and everything needed for a relaxing stay, from easy check-in and free parking to complimentary breakfast an...More about Innkeeper's Lodge Aylesbury (South)
Premier Inn Kettering is in the heart of the lovely Northamptonshire countryside and has good transport links nearby for all the business and leisure attractions in the area. Visit Rockingham Castle, ...More about Premier Inn Kettering
Premier Inn Leamington Spa is situated in the heart of the town, Warwickshire's Georgian gem. Discover the splendour of the Royal Pump Rooms and Jephson Gardens (a formal Victorian park with a glassho...More about Premier Inn Leamington Spa Town Centre
Hill Farm is set in its own extensive grounds yet is conveniently close to Oxford City centre. This 18th-century cottage has many original features and is most comfortable. Bedrooms are very well appo...More about Hill Farm
At Innkeeper's Lodge you'll find accommodation with comfort and character in equal measure, and everything needed for a relaxing stay, from easy check-in and free parking to complimentary breakfast an...More about Innkeeper's Lodge Stratford-upon-Avon
Premier Inn Northampton Great Billing/A45 is beside the marina at Billing Aquadrome and you'll find parkland, play areas, lakes and all kinds of leisure activities on the doorstep. You could be scalin...More about Premier Inn Northampton Great Billing/A45