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The members have different businesses, such as selling groceries, food, fruit and making dairy products. Such is the case of Elvira, president of the communal bank. Elvira is in a common law marriage and has 3 children, two boys and a girl. Elvira raises cattle from which she obtains milk that she later makes into cheese. Her business is located in the community of Chocorvo. She sells in her district and at times she takes it to the city of Lima. She does this with the help of her husband. Her loan will be invested in the purchase of cheeses from the other producers in the area. Elivira wants to train to improve every day in her family and in her business as well.
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Las socias realizan diferentes negocios como la venta D. abarrotes, comida, frutas y la elaboración D. productos lácteos.
Como es el caso D. la señora Elvira es presidenta del Banco Comunal, Elvira es conviviente, tiene 3 hijos D. los cuales 2 son varones y 1 mujer, Elvira se dedica a la crianza D. ganado vacuno, del cual obtiene leche que luego procesa en quesos, su negocio se ubica en la comunidad D. Chocorvo, sus ventas los realiza en su Distrito y en algunas oportunidades lleva a la ciudad D. Lima, actividad que realiza con la ayuda D. su esposo. Su préstamo será invertido en la compra D. quesos D. los demás productores D. la zona. Elvira quiere capacitarse para mejorar día a día en el ámbito familiar y también en el negocio.
Los sueños D. Elvira son comprar su casa en Lima, construir un hotel en su comunidad y que sus hijos sean profesionales.
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Satellite images during the day showed there might be a clear window on Saturday, but I was still a bit pessimistic as observing conditions right after a front has passed are often poor with high water vapor content cutting down transparency and turbulent seeing conditions. But I took a look at the Trapezium and knew we in for a good night as the 5th and 6th star were widely resolved and tack sharp. Later I checked the seeing by resolving an 0.8" double in Leo Minor. The sky was as dark as it generally gets at Lake Sonoma (edge of blue/green light-pollution zones) with consistent SQM readings of 21.46 to 21.52.
I started off with a look at VY Canis Majoris, an orange-red hypergiant star that varies from mag 7.4-9.6 and surrounded by an envelope of ejected material forming a reddish reflection nebula. It also holds the current record for the largest known star in the galaxy (1800–2100x the solar diameter) as well as one of the brightest (500,000x the solar luminosity).
At 175x it appeared slightly fuzzy or soft, like a brighter star that wouldn't focus in poor seeing. At 285x unfiltered, a very small non-stellar orange disc was clearly visible surrounding a brighter center. More surprisingly a short, slightly curving "tail" extended from the glow to the west. At 325x, the central star was cleanly resolved within a very small, 6" round halo. The nebulous tail or filament (ejecta from the star) swept ~8" to the WNW. The small reddish reflection nebula is ejected material from previous outbursts.
I spent awhile working through two dozen members of the Cancer I galaxy cluster. This is a relatively nearby (~220 million light years), loose cluster spread out over three degrees in Cancer with an unusually high percentage of spirals. One interesting spiral/elliptical merger? is UGC 4332. Check out the SDSS image at tinyurl.com/4t4smk9 . Unfortunately there was no sign of the striking dust lane in my scope. Most of the fainter members of Cancer I are in the mag 15-16 range, but here are some of the brighter NGC galaxies --
08 19 00.9 +20 56 13
V = 14.4; Size 0.6'x0.3'; PA = 138d
very faint, very small, round, very small brighter core, sharp stellar nucleus. A wide pair of mag 13.14 stars are within 2' SSW and a mag 10.5 star is 3.5' SE. Located 24' WSW of N2563.
08 19 10.8 +21 26 09
V = 13.2; Size 1.2'x1.0'; Surf Br = 13.3; PA = 55d
fairly faint to moderately bright, fairly small, round, 30" diameter, gradually increases to a small brighter core. Forms the eastern vertex of a small isosceles triangle with two mag 13.5 stars 2.5' NW and 2.7' SW. Also forms a larger isosceles triangle with mag 7.8 HD 69698 situated 5' NW and a mag 11 star 5' SSW. IC 2293 lies 5.6' SE. This fainter galaxy appeared faint, small, round, 20" diameter, low even surface brightness.
08 19 12.8 +20 30 38
V = 13.0; Size 1.7'x1.3'; Surf Br = 13.7; PA = 160d
fairly faint to moderately bright, fairly small, elongated 4:3 or 3:2 NNW-SSE, 32"x24", sharply concentrated with a 15" bright core.
08 19 51.9 +20 59 06
V = 13.3; Size 1.4'x0.3'; Surf Br = 12.4; PA = 93d
fairly faint, fairly small, elongated 5:2 or 3:1 E-W, 0.8'x0.3', sharply concentrated with a small bright core and fainter extensions. Located 1.5' E of a mag 10.4 star and 11' SW of N2563.
08 20 23.7 +21 07 53
V = 12.9; Size 1.0'x0.7'; Surf Br = 12.3; PA = 3d
moderately bright, fairly small, elongated 4:3 N-S, 30"x24", contains a small bright core that gradually increases to the center. Forms a nice pair with brighter N2563 4.7' SE. N2560 lies 11' SW and UGC 4332 is a similar distance W.
08 20 35.7 +21 04 04
V = 12.2; Size 2.1'x1.5'; Surf Br = 13.3; PA = 80d
moderately to fairly bright, moderately large, round, 1.0' diameter, pretty sharply concentrated with a bright, 20" core. With direct vision, the core increases to brighter stellar nucleus. Slightly brighter and larger than N2562 4.7' NW. Located 20' NNE of mag 5.8 HD 69994. This is the brightest galaxy in the core region of the Cancer I cluster.
08 21 21.1 +20 52 03
V = 14.3; Size 0.6'x0.5'; Surf Br = 12.8; PA = 119d
faint, very small, round, 15" diameter, very small bright core in a fainter halo. A thin, distinctive triangle of mag 13 stars (separations roughly 12", 30", 30") is 1.5' following. Forms a pair with N2570 2.6' N. Located 16' NE of mag 5.8 HD 69994.
08 21 22.6 +20 54 37
V = 14.5; Size 1.1'x0.6'; Surf Br = 13.9; PA = 70d
very faint, small, slightly elongated ~E-W, 0.4'x0.3', very low even surface brightness, no noticeable core or zones. Appears larger than N2569, located 2.6' S, but more difficult due to a lower surface brightness. Located 14.5' SE of N2563 (brightest galaxy in the region) and 17' NE of mag 5.8 HD 69994.
While in Cancer, I also decided to take a look at Abell Galaxy Cluster 671. While the Cancer I cluster is probably an unbound group, AGC 671 is a very tight knot of galaxies with a half-dozen packed into a 6' circle including IC 2374, IC 2376, IC 2378 and IC 2380. The brightest of these has a B mag of only 14.9 and I was also able to glimpse a few members as faint as B = 16.4.
08 28 22.1 +30 26 36
V = 15.3; Size 0.5'x0.45'; PA = 163d
extremely faint to very faint, very small, round, 15" diameter. Forms the NW vertex of an equilateral triangle with IC 2378 2.2' ESE and IC 2376 2.3' SSE. CGCG 149-028 lies 1.4' NNE.
08 28 26.1 +30 24 28
Size 0.7'x0.45'; PA = 65d
faint to very faint, very small, elongated SW-NE, 18"x12". Located 25" NW of a mag 13.7 star and 1.8' SW of IC 2378.
08 28 31.6 +30 25 53
V = 14.0; Size 1.1'x0.8'; PA = 30d
faint to fairly faint, fairly small, slightly elongated SW-NE, 45"x35", low surface brightness halo with only a broad weak concentration, then sharply concentrated with a very small brighter nucleus. This is the largest and brightest galaxy in the core of AGC 671 with a number of faint galaxies nearby including IC 2374 2.2' WNW, IC 2376 1.8' SW, IC 2380 3' SE, CGCG 149-28 and CGCG 149-35.
08 28 43.9 +30 24 16
V = 14.4; Size 0.75'x0.6'; PA = 169d
faint, very small, round, 20" diameter, weak concentration. Situated 1.4' NE of a mag 12 star and 3' SE of brighter IC 2378.
Later on in the evening I took a look at Porrima (Gamma Virginis), a striking mag 3.5/3.6 double. Back in the early '80's this was one of my favorite doubles with a separation of around 4". But it started closing and by 2002 the separation was down to 1". In 2004, with the separation down to 0.5", all I could see was an elongated disc (nearly a figure 8), so I could tell the star was double! It reached a minimum separation below 0.4" in 2005, when it was merged in most amateur scopes, though has been slowly increasing since. The separation is now back to 1.6" and the components were cleanly split at 280x. I'd recommend a look this spring if you haven't observed this bright pair.
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Great report. Your decription of VY CMa is fascinating. Must put it on my obs list!
The small nebula surrounding the star was discovered visually back in 1917 using a 4.8-inch scope at the Cordoba Observatory, yet I'm not aware of any modern catalogue designation as a (reflection) nebula. Here's the discovery description:
"Senor Guerin described the object as a nebula about 8" x 12", red, tending toward dark red or scarlet; as containing three nuclei, the preceding of which is the brightest and the point which he observed for position. The general aspect is that of a comet, the tail (which is excessively faint) extending to the east (Power 220)."
If the seeing is good, jack up the magnification and see if you can see multiple nuclei. Guerin described the "tail extending to the east", but I saw the tail as heading west or WNW.
Posted 01 March 2011 - 03:08 PM
Very interesting observation on VY CMa! I will give this one definitely a try. From your description, it resembles a bit R Aqr, though that one is a double star. What is the cause of the curved tail with VY CMa?
Hi Reiner, here's a study (based on HST/WFPC2 images) on the knots and arcs surrounding VY CMa (the tail I described being the brightest).
Posted 01 March 2011 - 03:30 PM
Great report. Your decription of VY CMa is fascinating. Must put it on my obs list!
Me too! Hopefully some clear, dark skies are on their way before VY gets too low in the southwest.
Posted 02 March 2011 - 02:21 PM
Star Size Comparisons
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Also tried for PNe in Orion eg Abell 12 [easy] and Abell 14 but not recorded @ mp18.2
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(Above The Law Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) With the Supreme Court's 2013 term concluding on Monday, many Americans are assessing how they feel about the judicial branch of their government. Even if you are still reeling about some of the decisions made recently by the least dangerous branch, don't forget the executive. The president and his agencies can also make you wonder how the American experiment is panning out.
On Tuesday, U.S. District Judge Reggie Walton issued an order to hear oral arguments from lawyers representing the Internal Revenue Service and the conservative nonprofit True the Vote. True the Vote is one of the conservative groups claiming IRS improperly targeted its application for nonprofit status based on the group's political and philosophical affiliation. True the Vote filed a motion for a preliminary injunction and expedited discovery on Monday, calling for an independent forensics examination of any IRS hard drives, servers, or other computer hardware involved in the government agency's possible targeting of conservative nonprofits' applications for tax-exempt status. It wants an outside computer expert to try to ascertain how and when any electronic evidence, such as former IRS Commissioner Lois Lerner's emails, may have been lost. Also, it would be great if the government didn't spoliate — I mean "recycle" — any more evidence….
In its motion, True the Vote argues that the law obligated the IRS to preserve potentially relevant evidence, including electronically stored information. The IRS knew that the hard drives and emails of Lerner and other officials were of significant legal interest. By the time the agency supposedly began disposing of Lois Lerner's computer hardware, Congress was publicly investigating the IRS scandal. Pro-Israel group Z Street, Inc. filed suit in August 2010, alleging similar improper targeting as True the Vote claims. In September 2013, True the Vote itself sent a litigation hold letter to counsel for the IRS officials, including Lerner, who the group believed were involved in IRS wrongdoing. The government clearly had notice that the computer equipment and information should be preserved as potential evidence.
If the account alleged in True the Vote's motion is accurate, opposing counsel was none too cooperative. Despite earlier attempts to confer with IRS counsel, attorneys for True the Vote did not learn of the missing emails of Lois Lerner and other IRS officials until Friday, June 13, 2014, when news reports publicized the loss. On that day, IRS finally informed Congressional investigators that the agency could not recover two years' worth of Lerner's emails. Apparently, Lerner's hard drive crashed in 2011, its data was unrecoverable, and the government had no available back-ups.
Talk about bad luck — finding out on Friday the 13th that two years' worth of emails spanning the time period when you believe the federal government committed illegal acts have been "lost." Of course, it is hard to believe in bad luck when federal-government malfeasance is involved. Did IRS officials violate True the Vote's constitutional rights by improperly singling out their application for tax-exempt status as the conservative group claims? Was this politically motivated targeting the result of overzealous lower-level employees? Did members of the Obama administration orchestrate this campaign to punish the administration's political enemies? We don't know. That's the kicker about the spoliation of evidence.
IRS explanations of how Lerner's emails during the crucial time period were lost have not inspired much confidence, under the circumstances. Perhaps the only reason to believe that the IRS and Obama administration are telling the truth about the lost evidence and the IRS scandal is that their explanations look so extraordinarily — almost laughably — suspicious that someone would have to have "courage" the size of the U.S. Treasury to claim such things with a straight face.
In June, U.S. Rep. Steve Stockman (R -TX) wrote a letter to Admiral Michael Rogers, Director of the National Security Agency, asking that NSA turn over all metadata the agency has collected from Lerner's email accounts from January 2009 to April 2011. Stockman's request was more clever political theatre than sincere attempt to recover relevant evidence. It is fitting, though. While one part of the federal government may be improperly amassing information on all of us, another part can't keep track of its own top officials' emails.
Last week, Texas Senator Ted Cruz (R – TX) called for Attorney General Eric Holder to appoint an unbiased special prosecutor or face impeachment proceedings. Cruz said that "conducting a nakedly partisan investigation to cover up political wrongdoing [ . . . ] by any reasonable measure constitutes high crimes and misdemeanors." Cruz criticized the Department of Justice's appointment of Obama donor Barbara Bosserman to head the IRS investigation. Cruz said, "Attorney General Eric Holder has the opportunity to do the right thing. He could appoint a special prosecutor with meaningful independence who is not a major Obama donor." So, scrutiny of IRS officials continues apace. Counsel for IRS and True the Vote are set to appear before Judge Walton on July 11. We'll see what comes of True the Vote's push-back against the government.
In the meantime, whether you are still gritting your teeth over the Supreme Court's final decisions of OT 2013 or trying to swallow the IRS's intransigence or incompetence in "losing" Lois Lerner's email, you'll have the Fourth of July holiday to mull it over. Perhaps revisit and critique Federalist No. 69 or de Tocqueville's Democracy in America (affiliate links) over the long weekend? Happy Independence Day.
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Tulsa Police Capt. Jonathan Brooks cautioned that authorities are still piecing together the limited evidence and are not yet certain that a single person was responsible for all the shootings. Some witnesses, including one of the victims, said they had seen a white man in a pickup truck who might be the shooter.
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Tulsans of all races came together last year to commemorate one of the ugliest events in Oklahoma history, the Tulsa Race Riot, which resulted in the deaths of dozens of residents of the city's then-prospering black community. From May 31 to June 1, 1921, fires burned more than 1,000 residences in 35 city blocks.
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"This is an event that is unprecedented in our recent history, and it is certainly one that ... we want to bring to an end very quickly," Tulsa Mayor Dewey Bartlett told CNN. "The only thing in common is the randomness."
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" It just means that when you piss off a psycho killer, people get killed -- whether or not the psycho killer smokes pot" ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Or, it just means: parents don't steal your kids shit, even more so if it is very expensive. You never know what might happen.
Pot is not evil.. If used responsibly it can be as a medicine.. John G. was the one responsible.. The next thing you going to tell us that T.V. And video games were responsible for the murders... John G. There had to be some warning signs that people over looked.. Like the death threats..
Yup this guy a really winner..
A lot of crazy, evil people smoked marijuana. John Wayne Gacy, Charles Manson, Richard Ramirez. There was a violent criminal organization in old India called The Thugees who smoked hashish and then went out to kill people for hire, or steal and kill all witnesses violently. I have on rare occasion been angry or frustrated at something and exploded. The other thing is to call these bath salt substances synthetic marijuna. If it isn't pot, it isn't pot. Don't call it pot when it isn't, it is some shit made in a lab that used to be legal before Big Brother stepped on it.
yeah he looks like a bitch. see this is not a product of mary jane its a product of spare the rod spoil the child this is what happens these kids think that they can do anything beause human resourse says the can
Everyone has problems, and everyone has a darkside. I know this better than most. I have seen what happens when you buy into what the government tells you is right, and wrong. People die... Good people that have the best of intentions. I have mental illnesses too, but I learned to live with them. This kid was a classic case of a sociopath who lacks empathy. The drugs had nothing to do with it although there is a good chance that he was abused in some way which led to his detachment disorder. YOU KNOW WHAT THEY SAY ABOUT ASSUMPTIONS THOUGH RIGHT?
I like to read how the progress (or lack of) of legalizing pot is moving along. I don't smoke pot and never have. I am a senior brought up very conservativly so there was a time in my life when I also had the knee jerk reaction to the "evils of pot". However, time and observation have shown me that #1 there a lot of pot smokers out there and #2 thay are all nice or nasty according to their individual selves. Pot doesn't seem to make a difference. Now as to the writer of this article. I don't see a reason to post a report with foul language. Is your vocabulary so short you cannot find express yourself sufficiently with out using ugly words. If you are going to write publicly. Educate yourself.
its evil. lol really it does nothing but relaxes you. what idiots
people please pot is not to blame. wow.
"Wow," that's #^%^&* amazing. I don't smoke Maryjouana, no affiance to the pot smokers of the world I do believe Marijuana does have medical applications, I just read an article about THC killing Cancer cells. I do believe that Marijuana, and what this nut did, is as close as a sun rise and a sun set. This kid has some real problems, not associated with pot. I believe this kid was probably very spoiled, and was never denied anything in his life, the first time they say no to him, he can't understand the concept of the word no. So he freaks out on his parents. I believe he was showing them his version of what no means to him. I have a theory that we as a people have a tendency to misuse and abuse our freedom almost every minute of the day, on a daly bases. Anytime that freedom is threatened for more than a couple of minutes, people will start getting very uncomfortable. Very quickly. final theory to much freedom. We have a excessive amount of freedom. Freedom to do what ever we want when we want. We even have the freedom to kill, If we so chose to.
I am sorry to hear this. parents need to understand when they are being threatened, accept what you are seeing and protect yourself. this is so sad. perhaps if they did not throw out the weed they may still be alive. sounds like this kid needed the weed to keep him calm and non-violent.
Lord this is so very sad.... Kids killing their own parents for any reason is damn sad... Lord have mercy on his soul. Let him live the rest of his life knowing what he did to his parents. Don't blame drugs for this. He is a selfish little boy. If he had any respect for his parents instead of threatening to kill them all the damn time why not move out grow your pot and live your own life. True meaning of a selfish bastard.
i believe you mean 'safe' drug.......I too smoked pot and ingested various drugs till I was 55.Marijuana was first drug drug I used.I have depression and memory problems but I am 60 and drug/alcohol free and have a B.Phil. degree.......Not smart enough to have stayed off of drugs.I majored in Philosophy..........
Fine.. Do a pych eval and then hang the little paracite. " He THREATENED them repeatedly" to quote the article. What's the problem? Are we again looking for a boogie that's not there. Get real.
Mental illness is usually not a direct result of parenting
FUCK time i want to smoke the hell out of weed legally some dumb ass is doing something to make us look bad weed is not bad for you in fact it actually save me from a couple off life ending thing lol cant really give that info but take my word for truth
something is wrong with him... foreal...
Parents can no longer spank, they can no longer discipline and kids are told their parents can't make them do things or not do things and you want to blame the parents? I blame society.
Paul adams you are a heartless son of a bitch. You are the kind of idiot that will blame everyone for not being successful in life. you are sick. ask for help b/f you murder your parents too.
Just hang the idiot. His brain is all messed up.
No! you fuck your mom.
You think like a sociopath. Clearly it takes one to know one.
there are plenty of reasons to have 4000 come bitch when he has 40000 cash. not many good reasons for that much. he could have been buying a used car i had to have about that much one time. but then again pretty early.
i don't know how you could blame the parents for their own death,,,obviously they "child" was over indulged and had everything he could want,,but the fact that he turned out to be a pot head murderer has no baring on the parents,,,he could be mentally ill,,which again is a brain disease , not from the parents,,,he sounds like a bad seed,,,unless you have a child with a mental disorder,,you should not assume the parents are to blame,,
What about bad influences outside the home and other children. All it takes is one bad friend to turn one's life upside down. Think about before you right such garbage.
This kid is a nut case plain and simple. His parents no matter how they raised him did not teach him to kill. Anyone who kills has a screw loose and needs to be locked up forever. Society can,t have a killer walking around with a mind to kill as soon as they cannot have their way, or do not agree with the laws of the land. There is no excuse anyone can give if they take another life except in self defense, and thats the bottom line.
you can raise your kids to be the best, but once they get a certain age they have a mind of their own.you just have to pray that they take you advice and make the right choices.no parent never knows how their child will turn out...
damn parents, you got your rich gems no more knocked tfo
Of course the people will focus on the marijuana but obviously this kid was messed up regardless of the trigger to psychopathy
but it's OK to diagnose him as psychotic as if this is the sort of things psychotics do. Hand to face.
http://www.facebook.com/photo....lol, It went like this.
caleb writes: Nowhere, not even on the shit-ball news sites that I've never heard of, did any of the writer/reporters make reference to the pot-plant incident being the cause. Not once. And the pot-plant incident was not even mentioned on any real new sites such as NBC or the Chicago Times.
Here is your smoking gun from www.myfoxchicago.com in plain black and white:Police believe the violent attack awakened Granat's father, the source said. But the elder Granat "didn't have much of a chance," the source said. "It (the attack) was very brutal." The younger Granat apparently was angry because his father had destroyed marijuana plants the teen was growing in the home, the source said. "It was a falling out over that," the source said. Another source close to the investigation confirmed the confrontation over the marijuana plants, but said it took place several days earlier. Police said Granat had threatened his parents' lives before the slaying.
Now that I hope I've set the record straight for all parties concerned, what intrigues me about this case is the brutality and violence involved. Was this kid on some prescription drugs as others have alluded to or performance enhancing steroids as this article on Fox seems to suggest? Fox made no attempt to demonize cannabis as reader Leigh ignorantly tried to do on this thread because her comments show a total lack of scientific knowledge, research studies, etc. This callous murder has NOTHING to do with cannabis. Cannabis users are NOT prone to violence contrary to "Reefer Madness" smear propaganda and myths. In fact, Nixon placed cannabis on Controlled Substance Schedule I list so he could lock up as many pot smokers and war dissenters as possible since they made such poor soldiers due to their pacifism. This represented a 180 degree about face for the government since it had spent the previous 30 years trying to associate cannabis use with violence and murder. In was plain to see that most hippies had no interest in going to Asia and murdering Vietnamese peasants. So much for that failed strategy!Now what intrigues me about this story from a mental health professional perspective is the lack of empathy and cold blooded murder that took place. Cannabis plants getting discarded was just a trigger for a deeper underlying psychopathology. I am intrigued to know this child's prior history of violence, if any. Was he on steroids or other prescription drugs? Any prior mental illness history? Prior anger management issues? Prior history of physical or sexual abuse? SOMETHING led to this child's violent temper and murder impulses and cannabis is essentially unrelated to the murder. The plants being thrown away was just a trigger, but it could have been anything! Maybe he was just bullied at school? Maybe his girlfriend just broke up with him? Maybe he was having a bad drug interaction problem with any number of possible substances? One thing is clear! This is NOT normal behavior and is relatively rare. Thank God this child is receiving a psychiatric evaluation. Maybe he has toxic lead poisoning? Lead makes persons aggressive. Maybe he has PTSD or traumatic brain injury? We do NOT have enough data to form any succinct conclusion at this point. Although it is easy to judge this child, a rush to judgement is counterproductive until we have all the facts. If indeed this child was physically abused or has lead toxicity is it fair for any of us to cast such harsh blame on this child when he may be indeed a victim too? This to me is what makes forensic psychiatry so fascinating and interesting!
id probably kill them too.
So, I was looking around online, and all I was able to find on-line was that a few weeks prior to the murders, the kid's parents had found some pot plants that he was growing, threw them away, and so the kid threatened to kill them, and subsequently told some friends that he was going to kill them.
Nowhere, not even on the shit-ball news sites that I've never heard of, did any of the writer/reporters make reference to the pot-plant incident being the cause. Not once. And the pot-plant incident was not even mentioned on any real new sites such as NBC or the Chicago Times.
No one even attempted to make the connection. They were simply stating facts. They could just have well been saying "the kids parents caught him speeding and took away his car, so he threatened to kill them" or "the kid flunked math, so his folks took away his PS3, so he threatened to kill him". Not anywhere did I find even an inkling of correlatory subtext.
In fact, the only place I did find said correlation was Toke of the Town. Did the guy who wrote this article just do a google search, read the first three links that came up, and fly into a passionate rage? Was there any research at all done? I kind of like Toke of the Town, but time and time again I come across inaccuracy and just plain irresponsibility. Such as taking the tragic story of a sick kid who killed his parents and using it to soap-box about how it's bad to blame pot for a sick kid's actions, when that was NEVER DONE. If it had been, I would agree, that's total b.s., but guess what, never happened.
Maybe, Mr. Elliot, you should lay off the bong rips till AFTER you've written your articles. No one anywhere said that Granat killed his parents BECAUSE they took away his pot plants. Once again, for the cheap seats, NO ONE SAID THAT. All anyone said was that he threatened to do so after they took away his plants. Which is a statement of fact, which is what reporting the news should be about, Mr. Elliot. You're the only, Mr. Elliot, to have taken that connection and run with it, as though someone did actually blame weed. But no one did. Maybe you should switch to Indica, cut down on the paranoia.
Please, Toke, stop running these lame articles, fire these lamentably sub-par writers, and grow into a pro-cannabis news site of note. Schlock like this is a step in the wrong direction.
With all due respect, I feel that your publication would have alot more credibility if your writers attempted to maintain some modicum of objectivity. I mean, obviously, everyone associated with Toke of the Town is pro-cannabis, so I guess my suggestion is a little silly, but I'm not saying that the writers need to be as objective as a national news reporter (and, yes, I am aware that "objective reporting" is fast becoming an oxymoron), but maybe, just maybe, you all would get your point(s) across a little better is you refrained from phrases like "fucked up shit-bag of a human being," and things along those lines.
I'm pro-cannabis, pro-legalization, and manage a dispensary in San Francisco, California, and I use Toke as a news source, and post alot of your stories at my dispensaries various social media sites. I like your site. I just cringe, sometimes, when I read a story that sounds like it was written by an angry high-schooler, and it makes me hesitate to promote your site. I'm sure that, for instance, someone like the gentleman/woman who wrote the article about the kid who beat his kids to death was going for a Matt Taibi-esque spin on the story, but Taibi has skills, data and references, and rarely, if ever, obscures the point with editorializing. Which is wild, because that's all he does, is editorialize, but he does so in a classy, well-thought-out, and evenly presented way. The result is, when I read something like that, I don't question the veracity, even if he swears or is otherwise vulgar. With Toke, however, I find myself who's running the show, who the hell writes some of these articles, and if I'm alone in wanting the world to have a good opinion of pot culture as a result of the minds and mouths that represent the culture putting their best feet forward. Maybe dial it down a notch?
All I can say is that the teenagers will easily get involved in all these activities. Thus it become really dangerous to them to stop the addiction of marijuana. The strong care should be taken to keep teenagers far from this poison. I have searched in many other sites about the symptoms and treatments of addiction where i found that 70% of the addiction by marijuana is easily acceptable in teenager. I liked your post. Thanks for sharing.
this was obviously the result of the combination of influences from bad parenting, mental illness, and retarded faggy pothead friends. Sorry bout it but if you smoke pot you don't got your shit straight no matter how you see yourself. Thanks for supporting the marijuana cartels assholes.
I agree don't steal or destroy peoples shit, I wouldn't have murdered anyone over this but I would beat the living shit out of both of them and piss on them then kill them.
@in_the_know Shut the fuck up. It's not the victims fault you dumbass. He was growing Marijuana in their house - that they paid for. So because they didn't want to be co-conspirators - they're somehow to blame? Is it because they opted to throw out the drugs - instead of calling the cops? Give me a break.
@shy Yes. If they "spoiled his ass too much", it would be the parents fault.
heres a thought make it regulated. grow it in the us. provides jobs for AMERICANS.... cuts off the cartels. less money spent on fighting it. money coming in from taxes. and a record of everyone who uses. seems pretty obvious to me


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This video is a demonstration of the Linux framebuffer driver and the QT GUI library on LPC17xx. The demo runs on the Cortex-M3 core of the NXP LPC1788 microcontroller using the Embedded Artists LPC1788-DEV-KIT board as a hardware platform.


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The End of Motherhood? but Somehow the United States Better Mixes Child Rearing and the Job Market Than Do Other Advanced Societies
Samuelson, Robert, Newsweek
Byline: Robert Samuelson
Russian president Vladimir Putin has inadvertently spotlighted one of today's momentous mysteries: collapsing birthrates in industrialized countries. Putin proposed that Russia pay women to have children to remedy a "critical" population outlook. Actually, he might have said "desperate." In 2000, Russia's population totaled almost 147 million;
Putin says it's declining by 700,000 a year. With plausible assumptions, the U.S. Census Bureau projects it at 111 million in 2050. The median age (half the population above, half below) would be almost 50, up from 38 now. Could this Russia maintain a strong economy, national optimism or a capable military?
Russia's case, though extreme, isn't isolated. There's no more population "explosion." In wealthier countries, motherhood is going out of style and plunging birthrates portend population loss. This is a hugely significant development, even if we don't fully understand the causes--experts didn't predict it--or consequences. One way or another, the side effects will be massive for economics, politics and people's well being. Indeed, they may already have started. Is it a coincidence that Germany and Italy, two countries on the edge of population decline, are so troubled?
First, some facts. On average, women must have two children for a society to replace itself. The actual number of children per woman is called the "total fertility rate," or TFR. Here are the 2005 TFRs for some major countries: Germany, 1.4; Greece, 1.3; Italy, 1.3; Japan, 1.4; Poland, 1.2; and Russia, 1.3. Low fertility rates don't instantly lead to population declines. They can be offset by immigration, longer life expectancies and greater numbers of young mothers. But ultimately, low fertility rates suggest falling populations (table).
"The forthcoming and dramatic depopulation of Europe and Japan will cause many problems," writes Ben Wattenberg in "Fewer," his excellent book on the subject. "Populations will age, the customer base [for businesses] will shrink, there will be labor shortages, the tax base will decline, pensions will be cut, retirement ages will increase." All plausible. In 2000, one in six people in Germany and Japan were 65 or older; by 2050, the projections are for one in three. Of course, projections go wrong. But they could as easily underpredict population loss as overpredict.
Up to a point, we understand plunging fertility rates. …


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Welcome to the Arbutus Folk School
Enriching lives and building community through joyful, hands-on learning with master artisans.
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Woodworking, blacksmithing, fiber arts, ceramics and music. Hand-made tools and musical instruments. Growing and preserving food and playing music. Seasonal festivals, dances and summer camps. Intergenerational learning, historic preservation and cultural exchanges. These activities describe the heart of the Arbutus Folk School (pronounced ar-BYOO-tus) located in Olympia, Washington.
The Arbutus Folk School brings together highly skilled teachers and artisans of crafts to offer rich, positive experiences that inspire lifelong learning. Students will be able to explore the richness and variety of the Northwest's unique cultural heritage through activities which have served Northwest communities from one generation to the next. Read about our Craft Philosophy here.
Upcoming classes and events will be communicated via our e-newsletter. To sign up, enter your email address in the box on the right. Classes currently scheduled will be listed on the "Current Classes" page.
Our core program areas Wood Arts, Ceramic Arts, Metal Arts, Fiber Arts, Music and Living Arts. Over time, these program areas will each have dedicated facilities and deep program offerings to enrich even skilled crafters. We hope to expand our program areas over time.
For a little peek into Arbutus, click here to view a video of "Folk Music 101" with Professor Banjo and several local young musicians performing at a recent music event.
The Arbutus Folk School is a 501(c)3 tax deductible non-profit. Registration fees pay for instructor's time and building rent. However, all operational costs, equipment and tool replacement and services we require to operate are paid by individual contributions and small grants. Becoming an Arbutus Guild Member is the best way to ensure a strong craft culture! Additional ways to support the school can be found on the "Support" page.
We proudly welcome students of any race, color, gender and national or ethnic origin. Please contact us with questions or comments at: info "at" arbutusfolkschool "dot" org.
Upcoming events:
—Open Mic: Every month on the second Monday: Acoustic Open Mic (7-9pm)
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Playing all of today's best country for you as you wrap up your workday and head home. Listen for your chance to win with the Drive at Five Top 3 Requested Songs of the Day at 5 P.M.
UPDATE: As of 3 p.m., the blockade of the 700 block of Glenwood is down, although police still remain on the scene. The GJPD released an incident report which in part stated:
Further investigation lead officers to 752 Glenwood Ave...
The 2013 Spring Grand Junction Citizen's Academy has begun, and I have decided to take it this year and share with you a little of what I learn. The Citizen's Academy is free and open to anyone who is interested in finding out firsthand how our first responder systems work. I will be writing a short article about what we do week by week for the 16 classes. Week Two was a facts and figures filled week with the guest speakers being the Grand Junction Police Departments Crime Analyst Chris Wilson and Police Commander Tim Grimsby.
This guy got the job done faster than anyone else. I bet the others were made because they were getting paid by the hour!
Check out one of the best NBA plays of the year compliments of the Clipper's Jamal Crawford and Blake Griffin.
The 2013 Spring Grand Junction Citizen's Academy has begun, and I have decided to take it this year and share with you a little of what I learn. The Citizen's Academy is free and open to anyone who is interested in finding out firsthand how our first responder systems work. I will be writing a short article about what we do week by week for the 16 classes.
The CMU Maverick Basketball Teams ended their regular season play Saturday night at Brownson Arena on the Colorado Mesa University campus in Grand Junction. The regular season ended in usual fashion for the women's team, and on a downfall for the men's team.
The Pirates were seen at Colorado Mesa University last night for the opening of a joint production between the Department of Theatre Arts and the Department of Music on the main stage at Robinson Theater in the Moss Performing Arts Center. As the 2012-2013 Theatre season continued with the operetta 'The Pirates of Penzance'
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Are you looking for ready-to-use primary Design & Technology lesson plans? PlanBee is a hive of primary teaching resources to assist with KS1 and KS2 DT teaching. All our DT resources can be purchased as entire schemes of work or as individual lessons to complement your existing planning, providing everything you need to teach an entire primary Design and Technology module. Alternatively, dip into the wide range or worksheets, resources and teaching materials to bridge any gaps in your own short-term or medium-term plans.
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Updated version now available with improved slides, plans and activities! This series of five 'Alarms' lessons based for Year 4 gives your class the chance to experiment with circuits and switches before taking on the challenge of designing, making and evaluating their own alarm systems for a particular purpose. Will they be guarding diamonds, apprehending burglars or improving fire security?! The choic…More Information
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Finally the weekend has come were I get to race. I have never raced on the road before so I am curious how it will all go. I have read all the race reports on the race I can find online and primers on racing crits and just general racing info. There are a couple local guys that I know that race that I talked to. Most of them said the pace is around 18-24, which is fine since I can maintain upwards of 23-24 on my own for a few hours.
Any last minute advice? I just plan to cruise along for the first 15minutes or so and see how it all goes, then decide on what to do from there.