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|Crowds turn out for Holyoke's 125th anniversary celebration June 14-16
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Seven men entered the beard contest Saturday afternoon as part of Holyoke's 125th celebration and are pictured from left, front row, Steve Beavers of Holyoke, Rob Hinnegan of Fort Collins, Gerald Brown of Holyoke and Gary Kumm of Holyoke; and back row, Ed Hennigan of Fort Collins, Phil Wirges of Holyoke and Dominic Krogmeier of Holyoke.
Brenda Brandt and Marie Mailander embrace as they find out they are both winners for the vintage clothing contest Saturday.
Brandt's pink hoop skirt and blouse date back to 1912. The outfit is owned by Nancy Berges. It was originally made in 1912 by Jim Engelker's great-aunt for a Maypole Dance at Colorado A&M in Fort Collins. College girls made dresses of varying colors for the special dance. However, a typhoid fever epidemic broke out and six of the girls died. The dance was not held. More than 50 years later, the family asked Berges to wear it in a pageant at Ash Hollow in the late 1960s.
Mailander sewed her dress herself in 1988 to take part in Holyoke's centennial celebration. Afterward, she hung it up in her closet where it remained for the next 25 years. In preparation for the 125th celebration she got it back out and since it still fit, she decided it was perfect to wear in the contest. She noted that it was suitable for the contest because in northeastern Colorado where the weather is dry and hot, women didn't have much need for fancy dresses, so they sewed ones that could be worn to church and to picnics afterward.
Vieselmeyers' Pioneer shed on the south edge of town and entertainment by Frenchman Creek Ramblers provide a perfect setting for Saturday night's barn dance. Mary and Jim Tomky enjoy some time on the dance floor during the "Tennessee Waltz."
Phillips County Players acknowledge melodrama director Penny Dockins, pictured fifth from left, at the end of Sunday afternoon's performance of "Shawnee Lou, the Prairie's Purest Dressmaker."
Boos and hisses were appropriately yelled and hissed during the entertaining show which included Holyoke names and places just to make it interesting. The performance at the Peerless Theatre was a fine ending to the 125th anniversary celebration of the City of Holyoke.
Cast members of Sunday's melodrama are pictured from left, Lemoine Ferguson, Maury Kramer, Anastasia Conklin, Ben Martinez, Penny Dockins, Eric Conklin, Jerry Brandt, Dolly Smith, Karin Kramer, Tristen Ferguson and Ashley Sullivan.
Gary Rafert of Amherst checks out a Mustang included in the Dandelion Daze car show Saturday, June 15 at the Phillips County Courthouse lawn.
Holyoke Swimming Pool manager Karla Pargas proves any decade is a great time to take a dip in the pool as she strolls down the parade route in her 1920s swimming suit.
Delanie Davis, at left, daughter of Dustin and Karina (Kramer) Davis, isn't shy as she makes friends with Lauren Bergner and her puppy Lola during the pie and ice cream social Friday evening.
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Norman Podhoretz, born in 1930, is the grand old man of neo-conservatism. Born into a Jewish leftist family and raised in Brooklyn, he was editor in chief of Commentary from 1960 to 1995 and moved that influential public-affairs journal from left to right. Podhoretz became a supporter of Ronald Reagan and other conservatives and has frequently expressed irritation that most American Jews continue to back liberal politicians who advance policies antithetical to Jewish interests. As Passover (first evening this year: March 29) approached, I asked him to explain such behavior.
Q: Your most recent book is called Why Are Jews Liberal? Why not? Because every other socioeconomic group in the country moved rightward as their socioeconomic position improved. Not the Jews: As a famous quip by the late Milton Himmelfarb put it, "Jews live like Episcopalians and vote like Puerto Ricans." This was a puzzling anomaly. Why were they voting the way they were voting? It was certainly against their economic interests. But not only in economic interests-it was puzzling to people that on a lot of issues not in harmony with the Jewish religious tradition, Jews tended to be even more heavily committed to the liberal position than anyone else, including non-Jewish liberals.
Q: Abortion is an example. Dramatic: Jewish law prohibits abortion except where the life of the mother is at stake. That's Jewish law, and it's unambiguous. But Jewish women are off the charts in support for the pro-choice position. Why should Jewish women be so much more heavily committed to abortion than non-Jewish women? Milton Himmelfarb made another crack: At a time when other women are having too many children, Jewish women who aren't having too many children respond by wanting to have even fewer.
Q: And the rest of the liberal agenda? Jews remain heavily committed, whether it's the old liberal agenda of government spending, welfare programs, and support for organized labor, or the newer issues that make up the liberal agenda, like abortion, gay rights, gun control, assisted suicide. Many Jewish liberals will praise themselves for this. They say: "We vote against our economic interests because we are noble idealists, and the liberal agenda is something that we're committed to because it stems basically from the Jewish religious tradition, especially the prophetic books." Most of these people haven't read the prophetic books, but they know verses plucked from here and there.
Q: The election results are clear. . . Since 1928 the average Jewish vote for Democratic presidential candidates has been 75 percent. That's astronomical compared with any other group. The only Democratic candidate who failed to get a majority of the Jewish vote was Jimmy Carter, when he ran for his second term against Reagan. Except for Carter, Democratic candidates have gotten around the mid-70s of the Jewish vote. Some are lower, some are higher: Roosevelt was 90 percent, Johnson was 90 percent, Barack Obama was 78 percent-and that's in spite of the fact that Jews had very good reason to be worried about him.
Q: So, why are Jews liberal? My explanation, to put it briefly: I started with the birth of Christianity in year 1. The first half of the book is a history of the Jewish experience in Europe and then the United States in relation to the Christian churches-first the Catholics and the Orthodox, and after the Reformation the branches of Protestantism. I point out what is no big secret, that Jews did not exactly have a very good time throughout those centuries under Christian dominance. But what was fascinating to me when doing the research was how bad it was. Some of the quotes, especially from bishops and cardinals and popes during the Middle Ages, are really hair-raising.
Q: Were conservatives the enemies of Jews? In Europe, most of the time, the enemy of civil rights and liberties for Jews tended to be somewhere on the right (what they called the alliance of altar and throne, the monarchies and the churches). Those who favored according Jews rights as citizens tended to be on the left. There were exceptions, of course: Voltaire, the great Enlightenment hero, was a vicious anti-Semite. Nevertheless he was the leader of a movement that eventuated in granting civil rights and liberties to Jews. So it made sense. Up to a certain point nobody would have asked the question, "Why are Jews liberal?" because it would have seemed self-evident. Once Jews got involved in secular politics, which didn't really happen until 1848, there was nowhere for them to go but one of the parties of the left. And even if they had wanted to join one of the parties of the right, they would have been unwelcome.
Q: And in the United States? This carried over into the United States, where the closest counterparts of the hostile forces of Europe seemed to be the Republicans, and the friendly counterparts seemed to be Democrats or to the left of the Democrats, the Socialists and at one point even the Communists. Nobody, up to a certain point, would have wondered why Jews were liberals. What else would they be?
Q: But in the 1960s everything changed. . . The real problem arose, as I date it, after 1967. For various reasons related to the culture of the '60s, there was a very dramatic reversal of roles between right and left, not just in the United States but everywhere in the world. This had to do with the State of Israel but spilled over into Jews in general. Whereas the right had always been unfriendly, enemy territory, it was suddenly becoming friendly. Whereas the left had been friendly territory, it was suddenly becoming hostile. This reversal has developed further and further, until today you could say without any equivocation that the most passionate supporters of the State of Israel in the United States are the evangelical Protestants, probably even more than the Jewish community itself by now.
Q: Who are Jews' worst enemies? The worst enemy of the Jewish state, and of Jews generally, is anti-Zionism, which is what anti-Semitism used to be. The canards, libels, and hatreds that were developed against the Jewish people in the past have been translated into the language of foreign affairs and directed against the Jewish state. The worst enemies of the Jewish state, and of Jews generally, are now to be found on the left, both here and around the world.
Q: Why do so many Jews refuse to recognize, acknowledge, and act upon this huge change in political culture that is now almost 50 years old? In the third part of my book I try to analyze the various theories that have been propounded to explain this puzzling phenomenon. I try to show that there are sociological, historical, and religious theories, and while they all have an element of truth, most are inadequate or just plain wrong. What I try to explain is that liberalism has become much more than a set of political opinions for political Jews: It has become a religion in its own right, with its own Torah of liberalism and its own set of commandments.
Q: Does this new Torah supersede the old? To the point where whenever they conflict, the new Torah will always trump the old. The devotion of three-quarters of my fellow Jews in America to liberalism and the Democratic Party is as passionate and scrupulous and faithful as the devotion their great-grandparents had toward the Torah of Judaism. They are very loyal to it, and they regard any move from left to right, or from liberalism to conservatism, with the same horror that their grandparents and great-grandparents felt about conversion to Christianity. There was a time when Orthodox Jews would actually go into mourning if a child converted. Many of my friends on the left went into their form of mourning when I became an apostate as a neo-conservative. They didn't know that they were aping their grandparents, but that's what they were doing.
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this is simply a sleeve which you slide over your console. it could be padded more, or it could be substituted with something home-made, but it works fine for when i store my stuff in the regulator bag, keeping my first stage from hitting my console. this has been said in the other reviews but is worth repeatingwhen im carrying my setup either on the boat or on the shore, the sleeve tends to slide off. i may replace this with something that has a closure system.
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I purchased this bag mainly for my save-a-dive kit and first-aid kit. I was able to fit an extensive first-aid kit into the main storage area after placing all the items into a large ziplock. First-aid items could also be placed into the zippered mesh pockets in the main storage area. To the sides of the main storage area are three mesh pockets where I placed an 8 oz bottle of 500 psi wash, a bottle of ginger pills, and hand sanitizer. In the longer of the smaller pockets, I was able to fit a save-a-dive kit including two spare fin straps, a snorkel keeper, a weight belt buckle, five mouthpiece ties, and a mouthpiece. In the remaining three smaller pockets I was able to fit my spare o-rings, tools, and a Trident Otter Dry Box 1000. Ive found the bag and the smaller pockets to be water resistant and very sturdy because of the material. Its a great a way to carry a lot of small items in a conveniently sized bag.
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I recently purchased this mainly for my trip to Belize, but also for future travels. While the wallet has a place for everything, is very sturdy, and has a versatile neck/across-the-chest strap, it is much too bulky to keep hidden under clothing. It was very convenient at the airport, but stayed in the suitcase when at the destination.
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While the compact size of this bag is a very convenient way to store and carry my weights and weight belt, I even have extra room to place my two small back-up lights and Pelican 4300 on top. The U-shaped zippered opening makes for easy access. The mesh panel on top is surprisingly sturdy, as well as the handles and zipper. I carry 24 lbs and my lights comfortably. The only downfall was that a shoulder strap was not included with the bag, even though the bag does have shoulder strap clips. Luckily, I had a spare, but in all honesty I never use it since the carry handle is actually more comfortable.
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My girlfriend purchased one of these from our local dive shop after a passer-by stepped on her snorkel, causing the plastic snorkel clip to snap. Of course, there are no worries of rubber snorkel keepers snapping, but the tendency of sticking while sliding the snorkel through the tight openings makes it somewhat difficult for slight adjustments and quick separations. On the other hand, I entirely trust the silicone snorkel keeper to last for years. While I did purchase this one for my save-a-dive kit, my girlfriend purchased hers for under a dollar. There is no visual difference in quality.
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as a newbie in the scuba world, i purchased this as part of the save-a-dive kit i was putting together. since i found the entire box too bulky to bring on my diving trips, i placed a few of each o-ring into sandwich sized ziplocks. a list corresponding size to use would have been convenient, but i may be naive as one could probably fit the appropriate o-ring through trial and error. also, ill probably never use some of the included o-rings a few of them seem to be for tech divers or for off-size items. it may be a better idea to only buy o-rings i need through an o-ring manufacturer, as buna-ns and vitons are cheaper by bulk through an industrial merchant. on the upside, however, the kit comes with three brass picks.
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text: Home Culture My Husband's Too Hard on My Daughter Ask Demetria: Giving stepparents a role in disciplining children is key to a happy blended family. By: Demetria Lucas D'Oyley Posted: April 25 2013 12:16 PM 0 Generic image (Thinkstock Images) (The Root) -- "I don't like the way my husband disciplines my 9-year-old daughter from a previous relationship. He doesn't speak down to her or hit her or anything, but he seems unnecessarily hard on her sometimes by taking away her electronics or TV access for long periods of time or restricting her activities excessively. He doesn't have any children yet and insists that he would discipline the children we have together the same way, but there's no way to tell because, again, we don't have children together. I asked him to let me handle any discipline from now on and told my daughter that would be the case. I was trying to solve the problem, and instead it started a big argument with my husband. I want to respect my husband, but I also want my daughter to be treated fairly. What do I do?" Disciplining children is a common point of disagreement between partners, and it's even trickier in blended families like yours, where there is a nonbiological parent taking on the full-time responsibility of raising a child. From your letter, it's clear that you are frustrated (and your husband is, too). But the good news is, with improved communication between the two of you and your daughter, this can be fixed. I'm going to guess that since you married him, your husband is a good guy who wants the best for your daughter, just as you do. It's time for a candid conversation to fix the discord between the two of you. You have two major issues to address: disciplining your daughter and fixing the rift that you caused by pushing him out of a necessary family dynamic. Even when parents disagree, it's important that they put up a united front ... well, in front of the kids. As the child of parents who were all too aware when they didn't see eye to eye, I learned early how to exploit it to my advantage, which only caused more problems (more so for them than for me, but still). By taking away your husband's ability to discipline and informing your daughter of this, you've undermined his position in the household. No adult would take kindly to that. Earlier this year, The Root did a series of interviews with black couples who are making love work. Two of the couples -- one part of a blended family and another a lesbian couple -- were asked about the difficulties of raising families, and disciplining children led the list. The blended-family couple -- Lamar and Ronnie Tyler, the founders of the site Black and Married With Kids -- had a scenario very similar to your own. Ronnie entered the marriage with two children from a previous relationship, and Lamar had none. Initially she believed that he was hard on her son, who was about the same age as your child. (Ronnie's daughter was a baby, so the discipline factor didn't come into play as much.) Lamar insisted, much like your husband, that he would treat his own biological children similarly -- and when the couple had children together, he lived up to the promise. I share their story with you so you know that your husband's stance on what he would do with his biological children isn't so far-fetched. In order to work through this issue, the Tylers told me that they had to have several frank conversations -- note the plural, because the matter wasn't solved overnight -- about their differing styles of discipline. Through their communication, they recognized that they both wanted what was best for the kids, but they just had differing ways of going about it. They talked often -- and out of the earshot of their children -- about their differing styles of discipline, their expectations for each other as disciplinarians and, of course, what was best for their children. They realized that both of them had some changes to make for the benefit of their family. Ronnie had to ease up on some on her protectiveness, and Lamar had to adjust some aspects of his discipline style. When both of them made concessions, they were able to find a comfortable middle ground that worked for them and the children. I hope you can follow the Tylers' example and reach the same place. Good luck! Demetria L. Lucas is a contributing editor to The Root, a life coach and the author of A Belle in Brooklyn: The Go-to Girl for Advice on Living Your Best Single Life. She answers your dating and relationship questions on The Root each week. Feel free to ask anything at firstname.lastname@example.com. Like The Root on Facebook. Follow us on Twitter. Get what we're watching delivered to your inbox everyday! Sign up for our daily video newsletter below. Page 1 of 2 NEXT PAGE > Powered by Livefyre 0


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Video: Teen Charged In Waldorf Woman's Death
WALDORF, Md. (WUSA) - The Charles County Sheriff's Department has made an arrest in the deadly shooting that happened in Waldorf on Oct. 26.
The suspect is a teenager, who's also charged in the murder of a D.C. cabdriver last week. Now he's accused of killing two people and critically injuring another.
In the case of the cab driver, Joshua Terrell Mebane of Waldorf, Md. allegedly committed the crime with his 17-
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I killed a cab driver." The pair, she said, had robbed the cab driver
and later went to a computer and watched the video of the burning cab.
Both Mebane and Bury are due in D.C. Superior Court on Nov. 20 at 9:30 a.m. in the death of Quadar.
Mebane acted alone the evening of Oct. 26., allegedly using a semiautomatic weapon when he gunned down a couple walking their dog on a Waldorf footpath. 40 year-old Teresa Bass was murdered. Her husband Jerry, critically injured, is now out of the hospital. On Tuesday afternoon, the Sheriff's Department was able to tell him they had arrested her killer.
"The Sheriff was the person who broke the news to him. He was again very emotional, and very happy we caught Mr. Mebane," said Captain Ray Aportadera of the Charles County Sheriff's Dept.
The arrest followed what authorities called an investigative marathon, involving Metropolitan Police who shared ballistics information with Charles County about the murder of a D.C. cab driver last week. The suspect in that case--Joshua Mebane-- had ties to Waldorf.
"We are all committed to safety. Just know this: We are confident we
have the guy. And he is in custody," said Rex Coffey, the Charles County
In the case of the taxicab driver's Nov. 7 death, police had responded last Wednesday night at 9:07 to the 1400 block of Brentwood Parkway NE for a report of a car on fire. They arrived to find a burning vehicle and an unidentified man inside.
EMS responded to the scene, extinguished the fire and removed the body of the driver, later identified as Quadar, which was taken to the Chief Medical Examiner's office.
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A look back on the Hollywood headlines of years past.
1959: Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and J.P. "The Big Bopper" Richardson were killed in a plane crash in Iowa. Holly was 22, Valens was 17 and the Big Bopper was 28.
1967: Jimi Hendrix recorded "Purple Haze" in London. It was released in March in the U.K. as a follow-up to his first British single "Hey Joe."
1968: Paul McCartney recorded "Lady Madonna" at the Abbey Road studios. The record is credited to The Beatles, but McCartney played with unknown session musicians.
1969: The Beatles, over objections from Paul McCartney, hired manager Allen Klein to straighten out the band's financial affairs. The band's mismanagement and money problems eventually led to its breakup.
1993: Singer Gloria Estefan got a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, with about 400 fans and family members on hand.
2003: Authorities arrested producer Phil Spector at his mansion in suburban Los Angeles. The body of actress Lana Clarkson had been found in the foyer.
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Cities | Longstanding threats from Muslims, plus new threats from terrorists, are cornering northern Nigeria's Christians
KANO, Nigeria-When there's a break at Baba Alhamdu Secondary School, you know it. Students pour from narrow classroom doorways and flock to benches where they can talk beneath trees and out of the sun, kicking red dust from the schoolyard as they go.
Laughter and teasing are raucous as young men and women in blue-checked uniforms race to a wooden shanty selling warm sodas and fresh oranges. Students from a primary school on the same compound are at recess, competing for snacks and benches.
High-schoolers Amos Chetus and Victor Othniel, composition books tucked under their arms, pause when a visitor wants to take their photo, but they are in a hurry to make science class. "Did all your friends show up for classes today?" I ask. No, they say together, shaking their heads.
Beneath what looks like normal hubbub at Baba Alhamdu, these are no ordinary days. The school sits in the city center of Kano, where the terrorist group Boko Haram has struck repeatedly this year. City residents have been under a dusk-to-dawn curfew after the deadliest bombings Jan. 20 killed over 185.
The terrorist group has vowed to attack police, military, and Christian institutions. It has promised to kidnap Westerners-and has abducted a Brit, an Italian, and a German worker. Baba Alhamdu shares a walled compound with a medical clinic and one of the oldest churches in northern Nigeria, which began in 1933 under Sudan Interior Mission (SIM, now Serving In Mission). On the jihadi websites used by Boko Haram, the compound is named as a target.
Violence and the threats-including a Christmas Day bombing at a Catholic church that killed 44, and a January warning that all Christians should leave northern Nigeria-are taking a toll. There used to be 700 students at Baba Alhamdu, but attendance is down to just over 300. "Many are too afraid to come," said vice principal Danjuma Alkali. "Some have left to go south or east, but most parents have a lot of business in Kano, so it's a hardship to leave. Some parents died in the bombing-three at least, but it's hard to get information with so many absent."
The school has cut afternoon classes, dismissing students at 2:00 ahead of the evening curfew. Church attendance remains strong-about 2,000 at two services on Sundays-though Boko Haram killed one church member, a policewoman the terrorists shot in the head.
Boko Haram wants to impose Sharia law across Nigeria and oust the current president, a Christian named Goodluck Jonathan. In Hausa, the dominant language of west and north Africa, Boko Haram means "Western Education is Sinful." Its official name, Jama'atu Ahlis Sunna Lidda'awati wal-Jihad, is Arabic for "Group Committed to Propagating the Prophet's Teachings and Jihad."
In a Jan. 25 video posting on YouTube, Boko Haram leader Imam Abubakar Shekau took responsibility for the Jan. 20 attacks and said: "I am not against anyone, but if Allah asks me to kill someone, I will kill him and I will enjoy killing him like I am killing a chicken."
Boko Haram started in 2002 in the Borno state capital, Maiduguri, and in June 2010 it formalized links with al-Qaeda of the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM). With that came large-scale terrorism: A suicide bombing at UN headquarters in Abuja, Nigeria's capital, killed 18 last August; and the Christmas Day bombing at St. Theresa Catholic Church in Madalla. With fighters who've trained in Somalia, Libya, Sudan, and elsewhere, counterterrorism experts worry that Boko Haram will launch transnational terror.
As a result, military checkpoints and intense street security are facts of life in Kano now. Alkali and others who work inside the compound regularly pull night duty also, checking the perimeter and gates for possible intruders. The vice principal, who helped start the school 20 years ago, lives on campus with his family: "I am not going anywhere, whatever happens."
The facilities inside the compound are run by ECWA, a denomination launched by SIM that recently changed its name from Evangelical Churches of West Africa to Evangelical Churches Winning All. Adjacent is a hospital also started by SIM-the ECWA Eye Hospital-a 170-bed teaching facility that's reportedly the best of its kind in West Africa. A Boko Haram posting from late last year says the ECWA site, plus those of nine other Christian denominations in the north, "must be bombed and leveled." It also cites eight pastors, most Muslim converts to Christianity, as targets "to be eliminated."
If it's possible to bring a city of 9 million to a standstill, Boko Haram has done it in Kano. When bombs began exploding on Jan. 20, "whole buildings were shaking," said Alkali, "and there was so much vibration that some people collapsed from it." Officials in Kano reported 23 separate explosions in the city that day, targeting police stations and government buildings. Masked Boko Haram gunmen riding motorcycles shot and killed bystanders at close range. Alkali said in the streets he saw "so many bodies that they were lifted into heavy lorries. Only a few could be identified."
Whole blocks of businesses are closed as city residents have taken flight from the terror. Some churches canceled services, and banks are open only a few hours each day.
This was not the first time militant Islamic groups attacked the city-Muslim riots in 1980 killed over 4,000 people in Kano in just 10 days-but the destruction of government posts brought a swift response from Nigeria's military and police. They've closed major thoroughfares near government buildings and sandbagged entrances to police stations. Because Boko Haram has used motorcycles in attacks, drivers of motorcycle taxis (okadas) must dismount at armed checkpoints, often at clogged traffic circles, and walk their bikes through security.
Kano, Nigeria's second-largest city, has been described as the sixth-biggest Muslim city in the world (after Karachi, Jakarta, Dhaka, Cairo, and Istanbul). With Christians the majority in the southern tier of the country, northern Nigeria is frequently differentiated as "the Muslim north."
Christians who live in the north say the characterization, while true overall (Christians make up just over 50 percent of Nigeria's 160 million people, the largest population in Africa, and most live in the south), dangerously misrepresents what's happening to them. The north's indigenous Christian population numbers well in the millions and is made up of converts from local tribal religions or Islam, yet unlike southern Nigerians most live under Muslim-dominated state governments that have since 2000 adopted Sharia law.
In those 12 states authorities prohibit Christians from holding office, discriminate against them in property and business activities, and subject them to Islamic law. Some districts in Kano state have Christian majorities, but district governments are run under the state's Sharia system. That makes Christians subject to the Islamic court system and requires students to take Islamic courses. In some areas I visited, Christian women wear hijab (Muslim head coverings) in public.
Most disturbing: Since Sharia law went into effect in northern Nigeria, over 13,000 mostly Christian Nigerians have been killed in religious-related violence, according to the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom. Two thousand of those deaths, according to Open Doors, took place in 2011.
"Boko Haram is not doing anything new," said Peter Akinola, the retired archbishop of the Anglican Church of Nigeria. "More than terror attacks, this is part of an ongoing attempt to Islamicize Nigeria. This country began as a democracy, but now in my own country I cannot live freely."
Akinola held church offices in the north for decades before becoming archbishop of the area in 1998 then of all Nigeria in 2000, leading a church of 37 million at a time when it was considered the fastest-growing church in the world-and when the wave of violence from Muslim militants began. "Nigerians have lost count of the number of religiously induced but senseless bombings that have taken scores of lives-not only in Kano, but in Gombe, Maiduguri, Damaturu, Abuja, and elsewhere," he said.
South of Kano the cityscape rapidly turns to brown farmland and workers in silhouette stack millet into tall circular stacks. It's the dry season, time for harvest, and the grain will feed cattle, goats, and guinea fowl that free-range the cut fields. The road crosses from Kano to Bauchi state-also a wholly Sharia state-and in Ganjuwa a police station sits by the side of the highway, empty and blackened. Boko Haram gunmen bombed the station on Dec. 9 last year. It was late at night and one policeman inside escaped.
Stopping at a church in Bauchi City, pastor Muhamed Dan'Amariya recounts the recent damage from Muslims who rioted against Christians following last April's election of President Goodluck Jonathan: "Thirteen churches here were attacked and many homes burned, five Igbo Christians were killed and eight members of the National Youth Service Corps [a Christian ministry group]. A policewoman was beheaded and the killers put her head on her chest. Further north two church women-both Bible study and fellowship leaders-were killed. And in eastern Bauchi ..." he pauses, "... none were spared. There is no church left standing. All Christian homes, all Christian shops ... destroyed."
In all, Muslim attackers destroyed 92 churches, 104 houses, and 54 businesses in Bauchi state in April 2011. They killed 30 Christians and injured 69, according to the Stefanos Foundation, a research group. The attackers, Dan'Amariya said, included local "fanatics and terrorists" and members of Boko Haram: "They used the excuse of a Christian president elected, but they were looking for excuses."
In June, Boko Haram set ablaze police stations and looted banks in Bauchi. And two days after the January attacks in Kano, the terrorists struck two churches in the town of Tafawa Balewa (ECWA Church No. 2 and a Church of Christ in Nigeria church), leaving at least seven Christians dead. Sporadic attacks on Christian farms and houses killed 10 others that month.
In a refrain I would hear from other pastors in the five northern states I visited, Dan'Amariya said government officials have refused to grant permission to rebuild the damaged properties and have not come through with agreed-upon compensation for victims: "The state government says it is the responsibility of the federal government since the violence occurred over national elections," he said.
Christians throughout the Sharia states in the north faced post-election violence. In Kaduna state, Muslims destroyed 409 churches and over 2,000 homes, killing 137. In Gombe state, they destroyed 39 churches and 74 homes, killing 20.
In Katsina state, attacks took church leaders by surprise: "Until April last year we had no serious problems with the Muslims, only with the government," said one. Another: "This has never happened, and it took the churches unaware. Like an amateur I took my video camera to see what was happening, with no idea how deadly it would be."
Nearly all the pastors I spoke with are first- or second-generation Christians from the leading tribes in the region, the Fulani and the Hausa. Both tribes are majority Muslim but the majority of Christians also come from those tribes. One told me his village is "50/50 Christian and Muslim" yet all must follow Sharia law: "We don't have any other town than this one. We are part of the place, and we don't have anywhere to run to."
As election results came last April, young Muslim men in Katsina poured over the walls into church compounds, using propane and gasoline to set fire to church buildings and vehicles. The church leaders I met in the towns of Malumfashi and Funtua presented me with a detailed, printed, and signed assessment of the damages: churches from 16 different denominations burned or vandalized, and most destroyed; 22 houses destroyed and 23 families displaced; 13 businesses and one medical clinic burned; 25 cars, 36 motorcycles, and six bicycles burned and destroyed. The attackers killed seven in Katsina and injured six.
The rampage lasted only several hours but destroyed property that took decades to accumulate. Gone from the ECWA church compound in Malumfashi were the church, classrooms, offices, pastors' residences, and all material documenting the history of the church, including its 1936 certificate of occupancy. Members now meet in the original church, a low-slung colonial building with a tin roof they had converted to a Sunday school hall.
In Funtua, 30 miles south of Malumfashi, 29 of the city's 35 churches "burnt to ashes," said resident and church member Mezadu J. Dandada. They include an Anglican church with 2,700 members that today sits open to the elements, and a Catholic church where over 500 still walk over shattered glass to attend services under a repaired roof ("Many of our parishioners have left," church council chairman Sira Chukwu told me).
Funtua, with a population of about 225,000, gained international notoriety as the family home of Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, the 25-year-old "underwear bomber" who tried to blow up a Northwest Airlines flight bound for Detroit on Christmas Day 2009. Abdulmutallab grew up in nearby Kaduna state and attended Islamic school before moving to Kenya with his banker father, and going to high school in Togo.
At Funtua's Deeper Life Bible Church, pastor Aaron Reuben Kajang said he suspects that Boko Haram organized and participated in the attacks: "They said all Christians must leave, they even were sending text messages to some of our phones three days before the attacks, and many people did leave the town."
Gangs torched Deeper Life, along with many nearby homes and shops belonging to members of the church. Three children of one family at Deeper Life died, their charred bodies discovered inside their burned-out home. "The parents have fled, they have gone east," said Kajang, "but they are in a desperate situation financially. They have lost everything."
Kajang's church meets on the concrete slab of the burned-down site, in rescued chairs set up beneath a green tarpaulin. "We have 50 to 80 adults coming now and 10 to 20 children," he said. "Before we had more than 500."
The road climbs south to enter Plateau state and a cloudless sky does battle with the Harmattan, the dry season trade winds that blow into persistent dust storms in West Africa. Through the red haze swim the bright burqas of Muslim women on their way to market, but crosses dangle from car rearview mirrors and Scriptures adorn school buildings. Plateau is a mostly Christian state in Nigeria's Middle Belt-an imprecise designation of about 10 interior states south of Katsina and Kano whose makeup is a mix of ethnic and religious groups.
Jos, Plateau's state capital, has long been a hotbed for religious violence. In 2008 a Muslim-led riot killed 300, displaced 7,000, and destroyed many businesses, churches, mosques, and homes. In 2010 rioters killed an estimated 500 mostly Christians in Jos and nearby villages, hacking them to death with machetes or burning them.
In 2011 a steady toll of attacks continued: At least 37 separate attacks by Muslims on Christians in 2011 resulted in over 100 deaths in Jos, according to Stefanos Foundation.
Sources told me to consider Jos "a safe haven" in 2012 compared to Kano, but the tension between Christians and Muslims, who would like to enact Sharia law in Plateau state, for now is only tamped down.
Mark Lipdo, director of the Stefanos Foundation, is working to keep eyewitness logs of the attacks-in part because he sees Western media and human-rights activists using secondhand information that's misleading: "They have misrepresented violence as a clash when it was an outright attack from the Muslim minority."
Lipdo himself was on hand in 2010 when Muslims gangs raided three predominantly Christian villages near Jos on March 7, slaughtering hundreds of mostly women, children, and the elderly. He saw another village attacked 10 days later where Muslim gangs killed at least a dozen people and burned at least 15 homes.
The New York Times on March 8 reported the attacks as "in reprisal" for earlier attacks that killed 150 Muslims. Human Rights Watch also reported on March 8 that the attacks "appeared to be in retaliation for previous attacks against Muslim communities in the area and the theft of cattle." Both reports were datelined Dakar, Senegal, and cited "officials" as sources. Lipdo says those officials were Muslim commanders, police, and civil servants in the area. "We were there when the whole conflict started. We saw a Muslim military commander release people caught carrying out the attacks with their weapons. Where Muslims were outnumbered, Christians were portrayed as killing Muslims, but this is not what was happening."
Neither the news outlets nor the officials were able to provide eyewitness accounts of the attacks that killed 150 Muslims. But the photos of mass graves bearing hundreds of Christians were real. Local media reported police on the scene who did nothing to stop the Muslim attackers.
"There were military men in uniform, who were marching in front, and they were shooting, scaring people while Fulani men carrying machetes and clubs and axes were following them behind," one villager told the Daily Champion, asking that his name not be published. Another, whose wife and two children Muslims killed in the attack, said, "As they were killing and burning our homes, they were chanting 'Allahu Akbar,' meaning 'God is great.'"
Lipdo acknowledges that Christians have retaliated for attacks with violence, just not to the level overseas media and government reports imply. And few organizations have investigated the government's lack of prosecution or aid to victims.
The reporting slant shows up in U.S. policy, as well. The 2011 report of the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) describes "sectarian violence" in Nigeria driven by "religiously motivated actions" without ever saying that the overwhelming number of deaths involve Christians. Last year USAID awarded a five-year, non-competitive contract of $4.5 million to the Interfaith Mediation Center in Kaduna "to provide conflict mitigation and management assistance in northern and middle belt Nigerian states."
Yet Plateau and Kaduna are the only Nigerian states where "Christians have defended themselves against attacks," according to U.S.-based Nigerian human-rights lawyer Emmanuel Ogebe.
"This is because though Plateau is predominantly Christian and is viewed as the Christian capital of the northern 'Bible Belt,' it is facing strident challenges from a burgeoning occupationist and expansionist thrust," Ogebe said. "Kaduna is also balkanized along Muslim-Christian lines and is the state with largest Christian population that was forced to impose Sharia law. Because of the controversy and crisis that trailed this action, thousands were killed then and everyone is on the defensive."
The failure of the United States and other Western governments to name Muslims as the overwhelming perpetrators of violence has given them "a free ticket" to continue attacks with impunity, said Ogebe.
Yet with the added threat of Boko Haram, Lipdo believes security in Jos for now is improving. That's because protection since Jan. 20 has come from a joint national army and police force that includes Christians from the south along with northerners.
An al-Qaeda-linked menace, though, means "things will get worse before they get better," said Lipdo. "But the best thing that has happened to us is Boko Haram. Now the world knows, because Boko Haram has come out claiming it clearly, that terrorists exist in Nigeria. This we in the north have known all along."


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|Experience of a lifetime
|Written by Chris Lee
For someone who knows almost every line of every Indiana Jones movie ever made, meeting Harrison Ford should probably be at the very top of their to-do list. For HHS freshman Rachel Schneider, she got to cross that item off her list Saturday, Nov. 14. Flying as Ford's co-pilot—she crossed that off her list too.
Schneider along with parents John and Lynn, traveled to Denver's Centennial Airport for the event. Ford was there to speak with kids about his time with aviation.
Toward the end of September, John heard something on the news about Ford going to Denver. Wings over the Rockies museum was honoring Ford with the Spreading Wings award for his contribution to aviation and flight.
There was a contest and the first 250 kids who took in models of planes got entered into a drawing. Rachel took a Lego model of the Flying Wing from Raiders of the Lost Ark. Names were drawn at the end of October and by early November, Rachel received an e-mail notifying her that she was one of the winners.
The drawing was for a ride with a pilot. Rachel got lucky. Her pilot was Ford.
It was a brisk morning but the snow held off and planes were able to fly. Schneider's job during her flight—hold Ford's coffee while sitting in the co-pilot's seat next to him.
"Awesome," Rachel said, explaining the experience.
She said listening to the radio and what pilots hear while flying was fun and interesting.
While Rachel was sitting pretty in the front seat of Ford's DeHavilland Beaver airplane, four other lucky kids were behind her in the plane. She said a lot of people asked Ford about his movies.
Rachel said they flew around Denver for about 20 minutes before landing back at the airport.
In all, about 40-50 lucky kids were able to go up into the air with different pilots.
Lynn said there were some other activities for the kids to do such as a flight simulator.
Rachel said she has been showing everyone the photo of her with Ford. She can probably say she is the only student at HHS to have met him.
Harrison Ford starred as Indiana Jones in the 1980s movies: Raiders of the Lost Ark, Temple of Doom and Last Crusade, as well as Kingdom of the Crystal Skull in 2008.


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Gael Monfils was spotted in an uncompromising position during his first rounder in Melbourne today. The Frenchie dismissed Argentine Martin Vassallo Arguello 6-1, 6-3, 7-5 and will face Austrian veteran Stefan Koubek in the next round.
Been there, done that La Monf. But be careful what you ask for because you might get it.
Just sayin'...
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Tuesday, January 20, 2009
PHOTO OP: La Monf lies in wait for something but what could it be?
Labels: Australian Open, Gael Monfils, photo op, tennis
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Aw Rich. You cheeky man you.ReplyDelete
Oh my god ! x)ReplyDelete
Oh I'd give it to him, no problem ! Would you, Rich ? :DReplyDelete
OMG RICH!!What dirty thoughts!!LFMAOReplyDelete
So tell us Rich, is that THE BEST position??
did someone say "cheeks"?ReplyDelete
Yeah Enrique Iglesias every time he pep-talks Kournikova!lolReplyDelete
She actually wears a dog tag with CHEEKS on it!Cause that's her nickname...
I'm so offtopic...:)
is that true tessa? do tell!ReplyDelete
again, i keep hearing "cheeks". is that you babz??
position-wise, yes it's a good one. no a great one. no it's ok. no outstanding. just try it. trust me.
I DID. I SAID CHEEKS.ReplyDelete
You know you love it.
About Kournikova's dog-tag with "cheeks", yeah yeah, that's true, that's her nickname coming from an Enrique.She's wearing that dog-tag since the first time she got it from Enrique, so forever.ReplyDelete
Why all the fuss? I greet my UPS man like that every day. ;)ReplyDelete
- uvijek argenJanuary 20, 2009 at 1:34 PM
You guys are KINKY today : DReplyDelete
LMAO @ natch. Too good!ReplyDelete
Now I can't help but imagine Rich going all Pussycat Dolls: "Be careful what you wish for cuz you just might get it!"


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Images: US, ADF compete during Talisman Sabre 2011 [Image 17 of 29]
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Australian Defence Force personnel assigned to 2 Airfield Defense Squadron, based at Amberley, Queensland, compete in a military skills training competition against U.S. airman from the 36th Contingency Response Group, from Anderson Air Force Base, Guam, at Wilhamson Airfield during Talisman Sabre 2011 July 25, 2011. Talisman Sabre 2011 is an exercise designed to train U.S. and Australian forces to plan and conduct combined task force operations to improve combat readiness and interoperability on a variety of missions from conventional conflict to peacekeeping and humanitarian assistance efforts.
This work, US, ADF compete during Talisman Sabre 2011 [Image 1 of 29], by MSgt Michele Desrochers, identified by DVIDS, is free of known copyright restrictions under U.S. copyright law.
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Nate Davis, USA TODAY Sports
It takes about three seasons to accurately evaluate an NFL draft. It doesn't take 24 hours to unfairly grade it. So based on first impressions, USA TODAY Sports hands out report cards (written in pencil) for the just-completed 2013 draft:
St. Louis Rams: They might have hit on all seven players. West Virginia WRs Tavon Austin (No. 8) and Stedman Bailey (Round 3) give QB Sam Bradford needed options; LB Alec Ogletree (No. 30) is a steal if his head is on straight ... and Jeff Fisher is happy to help him; S T.J. McDonald (Round 3) is filling for another cavity; OL Barrett Jones (Round 4) plays anywhere, assuming he's healthy, and might take a guard spot in 2013; CB Brandon McGee (Round 5) looks like a dime back and special teams contributor out of the chute; and all-SEC RB Zac Stacy (Round 5) caps the haul. GM Les Snead opted against taking Robert Griffin III in 2012 but is doing his best to make that look like a smart move given the bounty he got in return. GRADE: A
Baltimore Ravens: It's difficult not to respect any draft run by GM Ozzie Newsome. He said in February that improving the guts of the defense was Priority No. 1, and he might have found three new starters in the first three rounds who should do exactly that: S Matt Elam, ILB Arthur Brown and DT Brandon Williams. Brown, in particular, backfills the ability and leadership departments after Ray Lewis' retirement, though any comparisons obviously are unfair. DE Kapron Lewis-Moore could surprise if healthy, and ex-Wisconsin T Ricky Wagner might get a look on an O-line also in transition. GRADE: A
Tennessee Titans: If the Mike Munchak era is to extend beyond this season, it's time to win now. No better way to do that than by importing quality rookies, four seemingly capable of making their marks instantly. G Chance Warmack (No. 10) and C Brian Schwenke (Round 4) complete an offensive line makeover that should benefit QB Jake Locker and RB Chris Johnson. WR Justin Hunter (Round 2) is a deep threat who might supplant Nate Washington, while CB Blidi Wreh-Wilson (Round 3) is a big corner who could take the nickel role and allow Alterraun Verner to shift into the slot. GRADE: A
Tampa Bay Buccaneers: If they'd traded their entire draft for CB Darrelle Revis, who is only 27 and still has quite a few years to re-stake his claim as the NFL's best defensive player, GM Mark Dominik and Co. would probably look pretty smart. They look even better by getting another good cover guy (Johnthan Banks, Round 2) and young arm (Mike Glennon, Round 3) who might give the team negotiating leverage when QB Josh Freeman's deal runs out in 2014. GRADE: A
Cincinnati Bengals: They've quietly become a strong-drafting club, and it appears they nailed it for a fifth consecutive year. TE Tyler Eifert and RB Gio Bernard represent needed options for QB Andy Dalton when WR A.J. Green is double covered - which is usually. DE Margus Hunt ought to be a force on passing downs and special teams. Third-round SS Shawn Williams could crack the starting lineup. (For what it's worth, finally getting RT Andre Smith re-signed was an excellent sidebar from draft weekend.) GRADE: A
Kansas City Chiefs: Hard to argue with T Eric Fisher at the top, nor the trade of their second-round pick for QB Alex Smith. Fourth-round RB Knile Davis could more effectively assume the battering ram role behind Jamaal Charles after vets Thomas Jones and Peyton Hillis struggled in recent seasons. Former Alabama LB Nico Johnson (Round 4) might start, and Round 7 pass rusher Mike Catapano of Princeton is a developmental prospect to monitor. GRADE: A-
San Diego Chargers: It's not hard to argue they got first-round value on their first three selections, only one of whom actually cost them a Round 1 choice (T D.J. Fluker, No. 11). ILB Manti Te'o (Round 2) and WR Keenan Allen (Round 3) fell for various reasons, but new GM Tom Telesco was there to catch them and just might be rewarded with Pro Bowl dividends. One bit of advice: Go back to the free agent market, which still has quality blockers QB Philip Rivers really needs. GRADE: A-
Pittsburgh Steelers: Round 1 OLB Jarvis Jones? Bargain, should start. Round 2 RB Le'Veon Bell? Bargain, should start. Punishing Round 4 S Shamarko Thomas? Bargain and overdue investment. Round 4 QB Landry Jones? Intriguing. The rest is gravy. GRADE: A-
Houston Texans: WR DeAndre Hopkins could finally be the guy to complement and, perhaps one day, replace Andre Johnson. Hard-hitting S D.J. Swearinger probably won't start right away, but it may be tough not to find a role for him. DE Sam Montgomery's talent exceeds third-round value if coordinator Wade Phillips can light a fire under him. OL Brennan Williams and David Quessenberry could vie for roles on the right side. GRADE: A-
Green Bay Packers: Looks like GM Ted Thompson's usual haul of potential starters, including DE Datone Jones and quality depth (OL David Bakhtiari). And don't be shocked if fourth-round RB Johnathan Franklin pushes second-rounder Eddie Lacy (but nice value at No. 61) for playing time. GRADE: A-
Carolina Panthers: They only had five picks, but new GM Dave Gettleman appeared to get impact players. DTs Star Lotulelei (Round 1) and Kawann Short (Round 2 with Round 1 talent) could form one of the league's scariest lines in between DEs Charles Johnson and Greg Hardy. Sixth-round RB Kenjon Barner could be a slippery change-of-pace option who could potentially allow Gettleman to trade Jonathan Stewart or DeAngelo Williams down the line. GRADE: B+
Chicago Bears: Not everyone viewed G Kyle Long as a first rounder, but the Bears did and think he might even be able to eventually nail down one of the tackle posts. Regardless, GM Phil Emery improved the protection in front of QB Jay Cutler and replenished the depleted linebacking corps with promising Jon Bostic and Khaseem Greene, who should be starting no later than 2014. Sixth-round DE Cornelius Washington is an exciting project. GRADE: B+
New Orleans Saints: A pretty nice job for a team that lost its second rounder in the aftermath of Bountygate. S Kenny Vaccaro (Round 1) is the playmaker the defense has lacked; OL Terron Armstead (Round 3) is a gifted athlete, and the Saints have a penchant for finding O-line gems; John Jenkins (Round 3) is the nose tackle the new 3-4 defense was lacking; and WR Kenny Stills (Round 5) could replace Devery Henderson as QB Drew Brees' deep threat. GRADE: B+
San Francisco 49ers: We're going to nitpick. First, kudos for getting first-round talents in RB Marcus Lattimore (Round 4) and DE Tank Carradine (Round 2), who can essentially redshirt in 2013 without counting against the Niners' already stacked 53-man roster. But given this team's talent, we would've liked to see them convert more of their picks into future selections rather than pick 11 players this year. S Eric Reid, whom the Niners came up to get at No. 18, may not be the slam dunk Vaccaro seems to be but does fill the vacancy created by Dashon Goldson's departure. With Delanie Walker also gone, TE Vance McDonald (Round 2) should play now in the team's favored double-tight sets. Like Lattimore, pass rusher Corey Lemonier (Round 3) and WR Quinton Patton (Round 4) could be impact players down the road. GRADE: B+
Jacksonville Jaguars: New GM Dave Caldwell's first draft looks like a very solid one, starting with T Luke Joeckel at No. 2. Much of the rest was devoted to the secondary, and new coach Gus Bradley oversaw an exceptional one while coordinating the Seahawks defense the past four years. Former Michigan QB Denard Robinson brings an X-factor element to the offense, but he's not going to compete with Blaine Gabbert and Chad Henne (nor is anyone else barring the addition of a free agent arm). GRADE: B+
New York Jets: If you purely judge this draft off the selection of QB Geno Smith in Round 2, alarm bells sound - though given Smith's talent, at least they didn't overreach. Still, his presence creates yet more distractions, and his arrival came at the cost of patching other holes on offense. But he wasn't the only player new GM John Idzik picked. Two potential impact defenders came via Round 1 (CB Dee Milliner, DT Sheldon Richardson), and needed O-line depth was selected in Smith's wake. Idzik also acquired 25-year-old RB Chris Ivory for a fourth rounder then signed him to a very reasonable three-year, $10 million deal - all things considered, a fairly deft stroke. GRADE: B
Arizona Cardinals: Guards aren't sexy picks, but they're invariably good ones, and Jonathan Cooper immediately improves a shaky line. Kevin Minter and Alex Okafor upgrade the depth of the defense, and Minter's likely to play immediately for suspended ILB Daryl Washington. RBs Stepfan Taylor and Andre Ellington brought great value at the back of the draft, and either could push Rashard Mendenhall for carries. The Tyrann Mathieu selection is an intriguing risk. It's a plus that former LSU teammate Patrick Peterson can look after the erstwhile Honey Badger. But is this the best spot for Mathieu to succeed given he has to learn a new position (free safety) and may not get a chance to return many punts given how well Peterson already does that job? GRADE: B
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By JON CAMPBELL
Albany Bureau
ALBANY -- The University at Buffalo has removed the "peer-reviewed" label from a document touting a recent study on natural-gas drilling and hydraulic fracturing, acknowledging that it may have given an "incorrect impression."
Last week, the UB Shale Resources and Society Institute released its first study, which analyzed more than three years of regulatory violations in Pennsylvania's portion of the gas-rich Marcellus Shale formation. The authors concluded the number of environmental fouls compared to the total number of wells drilled dropped from 58.2 percent in 2008 to 30.5 percent in 2010.
Originally, the university touted the study as "peer reviewed, a process of self-regulation to maintain standards and provide greater credibility." By Wednesday, an "editor's note" was attached to the top of the original news release that detailed the study.
"An earlier version of this story described the report as 'peer-reviewed,'" the note reads. "This description may have given readers an incorrect impression."
In general, peer-reviewed studies are submitted to a scholarly journal and subjected to a lengthy oversight process by scholars.
The news release was edited to read that drafts of the UB study were "reviewed by several individuals with expertise in related areas, who provided comments to the authors." The edit was made to "more accurately describe the process by which the report's authors gathered comments before finalizing their report," according to the editor's note.
UB spokesman John DellaContrada said in an email Wednesday: "We clarified the term 'peer-reviewed' as described in the press release after receiving feedback from faculty."
Last week, the authors of the study said the research shows Pennsylvania's regulations have become effective at mitigating environmental impacts.
"While prior research has anecdotally reviewed state regulations, now we have comprehensive data that demonstrates, without ambiguity, that state regulation coupled with improvements in industry practices results in a low risk of an environmental event occurring in shale development, and the risks continue to diminish year after year," Timothy Considine, a University of Wyoming professor who co-authored the study, said in a statement.
Scott Anderson, senior policy advisor with the Environmental Defense Fund's Energy Program, called several of the report's conclusions "questionable."
Anderson was one of five experts who reviewed drafts of the report, according to the university.
"While I was a reviewer, this does not mean that all of my suggestions were taken or that I agree with all of the report's opinions and conclusions," Anderson wrote on the Environmental Defense Fund's website.
In particular, Anderson took issue with the authors of the report separating "environmental" violations from "administrative" violations, the "narrow" definition they gave to environmental violations, and the suggestion that Pennsylvania's regulations have been effective because the rate of violations has dropped.
"In sum, there's a lot of good information to be gleaned from the study, but caution should be exercised with regards to some of the conclusions," he wrote.
The report was written by Considine; John Martin, co-director of the UB Shale Institute; and Pennsylvania State University researcher Robert Watson.
Watson and Considine have authored previous studies financially underwritten by industry or business-backed groups, including a three-part Penn State study funded by a gas-industry trade group and a 2011 report funded by the Manhattan Institute.
Some portions of the UB study were updated extensions of those in the Manhattan Institute report, which had sought to place a cost on New York's de facto moratorium on high-volume hydrofracking. The Manhattan Institute report looked at the Pennsylvania environmental violations between 2008 and 2010, while the UB report included some 2011 figures.
DellaContrada said Wednesday that the UB study was funded by its College of Arts and Sciences, which "processes its funding through the UB Foundation," the school's separate fundraising arm.
The report "was not funded by or commissioned by external sources, including industry," he said. "The Shale Institute does not have any external funding."
New York sits atop a significant portion of the Marcellus and Utica shale formations, though the state has yet to allow any high-volume hydrofracking. The much-debated technique used with gas drilling is on hold until the state Department of Environmental Conservation completes a regulatory and environmental review.


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