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2010-11 Course Descriptions
NURS - Nursing
Patty Hanks Shelton School of Nursing (PHSSN)
NURS 301 Certified Nurse Aid Course (CNA) (2-2-3), summer, optional* This course introduces areas of learning vital to nursing practice. These are fundamental nursing concepts and practices related to the holistic delivery of nursing care. Included are effective communication, client teaching, basic assessment skills, nutritional support, safety principles, and beginning proficiency in selected nursing skills. Skills include, but are not limited to, vital sign measurement, hygienic care, standard precaution application and medical terminology usage. *Course is not required if student has earned CNA.
NURS 310 Pathophysiology (4-0-4), spring, summer, sophomore year. Scientific concepts related to pathophysiological process: genetic, cellular, biochemical and disease processes in specific body systems. Prerequisites: declared nursing major; BIOL 291/293; concurrent enrollment in BIOL 292/294.
NURS 321 Health Assessment (2-2-4), fall, junior year. Emphasizes the assessment of the holistic person as an individual and a member of groups, families, aggregates, communities, and society (IFACS). Demonstrates the role of the nurse in health promotion throughout the life cycle by identifying normal findings. Emphasizes acquisition of skills to record client histories, to perform physical assessments, and to communicate specific findings. Prerequisites: Admission into PHSSN, concurrent enrollment in NURS 322, 323, 324.
NURS 322 Process I - Fundamentals of Nursing (3-3-6), fall, junior year. Provides a basic knowledge of concepts inherent to the practice of professional nursing and in the care of all clients. Foundation for nursing practice based on current nursing theories, theoretical knowledge, concepts, and clinical skill. Applies theory in practice through a variety of settings. Prerequisites: admission to PHSSN, concurrent enrollment in NURS 321, 323, 324.
NURS 323 Pharmacology - Nursing Implications ( 3-0-3), fall, junior year. Discussion of the fundamental principles of pharmacology and investigation of the major classifications of drugs with emphasis on pharmaco-therapeutic actions and nursing implications will be presented. Previously learned skills and concepts as well as prerequisite science courses are integrated into the discussions. rinciples of safe medication administration will be integrated throughout the course. Prerequisites: admission to PHSSN, and concurrent enrollment in NURS 321, 322.
NURS 324 Dimensions of Professional Nursing (3-0-3), spring, summer, sophomore year. This course will explore the nurse?s professional roles and values, and the interaction of the nurse with the health care delivery system. The historical development of the nursing profession will be analyzed. Important concepts integrated throughout the course are critical thinking, problem solving, legal/ethical principles, decision-making models and the contribution of nursing theory to practice. Medical terminology and medication calculation principles/formulas will be introduced. Prerequisites: declared nursing major; BIOL 291/293; concurrent enrollment in BIOL 292/294.
NURS 332 Ethical and Legal Issues in Nursing (2-0-2), spring, junior year. Explores current issues affecting nursing practice. Includes controversies which directly influence nursing practice and have significant impact for the future. Emphasizes ethical and legal responsibilities as a professional nurse. Prerequisite: NURS 321, 322, 323, 324. Corequisite: NURS 333. BAS nursing students only.
NURS 335 Mental Health Nursing (2-1-3), spring junior year. Physiological and psychological aspects of mental health related to acute and chronic health problems across the lifespan will be examined. The role of the professional nurse in health promotion and illness prevention are key components. Emphasis is placed on the mental health milieu that exists within a community setting. Prerequisites: NURS 321, 322, 323, 324.
NURS 336 Process II - Nursing Care of the Childbearing and Childbearing Family (4-4-8), spring, junior year. Introduces obstetrical and pediatric nursing concepts and care. Focuses on normal and abnormal adaptations in the childbearing process, growth and development of the child, and conditions and illnesses that affect child health. Prerequisites: NURS 321, 322, 323 and 324.
NURS 435 Community Health Nursing (3-0-3), fall, senior year. Presentation of key concepts, theories, and issues relevant to practice as a public health/community health nurse. Prerequisites: NURS 321, 322, 323, 324, 335, 336; concurrent enrollment in NURS 443.
NURS 443 Nursing Theories and Research (3-0-3), fall, senior year. Broadens ability to read, interpret, and integrate research information and theoretical models as beginning practitioners in research and theory. A writing-intensive course. Prerequisites: NURS 321, 322, 323, 324, 336; concurrent enrollment in NURS 435.
NURS 446 Process III - Acute Care Nursing (4-4-8), spring, senior year. Examination of physiological and psychological adaptation to responses dealing with stressors/stimuli related to acute and serious health problems. Emphasis on clients experiencing physiological deviations. Prerequisites: NURS 321, 322, 323, 324, 335 and 336.
NURS 451 Process IV - Critical Care Nursing (3-3-6), spring, senior year. Examination of psychological adaptation to responses dealing with stressors/stimuli related to acute and critical health problems. Emphasis is on clients experiencing critical physiological deviations. Prerequisites: NURS 321, 322, 323, 324, 336, 446; concurrent enrollment in NURS 452 and 495.
NURS 452 Leadership and Management in Nursing (3-0-3), spring, senior year. Explore concepts of leadership and management through an examination of: various leadership/management theories, application of ethical and legal principles, organizational and resource management styles, meeting consumer needs and delegation of nursing care. Emphasis on the student demonstrating critical thinking in the application of the leader/manager role. Prerequisites: NURS 443; concurrent enrollment in NURS 451 and 495.
NURS 460 Professional Nursing (3-0-3), fall. Designed for the RN student who is seeking a baccalaureate degree. The course is designed to promote transition to role that enhances professional practice and growth built on prior nursing education and experience. Prerequisite: admission requirements and admission to the RN-BSN articulation program and concurrent enrollment in NURS 443 and 461.
NURS 461 RN - Evidenced-based Practice I (4-2-6), fall. Examination of physiological and psychological adaptation to responses dealing with stressors/stimuli related to acute and serious health problems. Emphasis is on clients who experience physiological deviations. Prerequisites: admission to the RN-BASN articulation program. Concurrent enrollment in NURS 443 and 460.
NURS 462 RN - Evidenced-based Practice II (4-2-6), spring. Examination of physiological and psychological responses to serious health problems with emphasis on clients who experience critical physiological deviations with a special focus on older adults. Prerequisites: NURS 443, 460 and 461.
NURS 470 Lab and Diagnostics (3-0-3), spring. Laboratory and diagnostic studies; rationale for studies, expected and abnormal findings, clinical implications, procedures involved in pretest/posttest care of the client undergoing studies. Prerequisite: senior standing in the nursing major.
NURS 471 Health Care Missions (2-1-3), spring. Provides the student a foundation for health care strategies that will be used to serve and evangelize in cross cultural environments. The student will be introduced to stategies for learning culture and language, as well as, communicating and educating cross culturally. Prerequisite: senior standing in the nursing major.
NURS 472 Perioperative Nursing (2-3-1), spring. The focus of the course is care of the client during the perioperative period and the nursing responsibilities inherent in caring for this unique client. Clinical experience includes activities in the preoperative, intraoperative, and postoperative stages. Legal and ethical concerns during the perioperative period will also be explored. Prerequisite: senior standing in the nursing major.
NURS 473 Care of the Terminally Ill (3-0-3), spring. Examines the components of providing holistic care for the dying client. Emphasis is placed on providing a comfortable environment for the client, including pain management and management of other symptoms. Facilitating communication among client, family and members of the interdisciplinary health care team is an essential part of providing quality care at the end of life. Psychosocial and spiritual needs of the dying client are discussed. Prerequisite: senior standing in the nursing major.
NURS 474 Clinical Nutrition (3-0-3), spring. Reviews normal nutrition; focuses on an in-depth presentation on clinical nutrition and diet strategies to manage disease. Prerequisite: senior standing in the nursing major.
NURS 495 Professional Nursing: Practicum (0-16-4), spring, senior year. Provides comprehensive clinical experience allowing a transition from student to professional nurse. Students will synthesize and integrate previous learning and apply it to clinical practice. Students work directly with the professional nurse during the clincal experience in a self-directed independent position. Pass/Fail grade. Prerequisites: NURS 443; concurrent enrollment in NURS 451 and 452.
NURS 530 Pathophysiology I (2-0-2), fall. Scientific concepts of pathophysiology essential to diagnostic reasoning and clinical management of diseases states. Emphasis placed on concepts related to genetic, cellular, and biochemical pathophysiology.
NURS 570 Pathophysiology II (2-0-2), spring. Scientific concepts of pathophysiology related to diagnostic reasoning and clinical decision-making in advanced nursing practice, with emphasis on common disease processes affecting major systems.
NURS 610 Nursing Theories for Advanced Health Care Delivery (3-0-3), fall. Seminar to evaluate selected theories from nursing and other disciplines for application to health care delivery and advanced nursing practice.
NURS 620 Nursing Research (3-0-3), fall. The study of the research process and application to knowledge development, nursing practice, and human responses to the health-illness continuum. Emphasis on focus of study for thesis, professional paper, and/or project.
NURS 630 Role Development for Advance Practice (3-0-3), spring. Focuses on contemporary issues, concerns and trends influencing leadership roles in nursing. Theoretical bases for exercising leadership roles and the relationship to role theory and development is explained. The roles of advanced practice are explored in depth: the practitioner role, clinical specialty roles, and advanced roles in education and administration. Prerequisite: NURS 620.
NURS 632 Pharmacotherapeutics for Nurses in Advanced Practice I (2-0-2), fall. Focuses on the pharmacologic and pharmacokinetic principles applicable to frequently prescribed drugs in advanced nursing practice. The emphasis of study is on pharmacologic agents, prevention, and management of common acute or recurrent health problems.
NURS 633 Pharmacotherapeutics for Nurses in Advanced Practice II (2-0-2), spring. Focuses on the pharmacologic and pharmacokinetic principles applicable to frequiently prescribed drugs in advanced nursing practice. The emphasis of study is on pharmacologic agents, prevention, and management of common acute or recurring health problems.
NURS 642 Advanced Physical Assessment (3-6-3), spring. Students have the opportunity to develop and refine technical skills, critical thinking, and diagnostic reasoning in performing accurate comprehensive health assessments. Students perform health histories, physical examinations, and selected laboratory and radiographic tests. Emphasis is on distinguishing normal variants from pathological changes. This course runs over both summer sessions for a total of 10 weeks. 60 clinical hours. Prerequisites: NURS 530, 570, 632.
NURS 643 Epidemiology in Nursing Practice (3-0-3), fall. The scientific concepts related to the epidemiological process presented are: statistics, screening and investigatory processes, with the individual patient replaced by the community as the primary focus of concern. An assessment of a community health issue will be conducted by the class. The student will be proficient in the language of epidemiology, how diseases are transmitted, with an understanding of the concepts and mechanisms underlying the transmisison and acquisition of disease. Prerequisite: NURS 610, 620, 650. Corequisite: NURS 651.
NURS 644 Skills for Advanced Practice Nurses (1-2-3), summer. Building on previous knowledge gained in microbiology, physiology, advanced pathophysiology, pharmacotherapeutics for nurses in advanced practice, specific skills for clinical practice are learned. The focus of the course is application of laboratory methods, diagnostic methods, and ambulatory primary care procedures for the advanced practice nurse role.
NURS 645 Family Nursing (3-0-3), spring. Examines the theoretical foundations of family nursing and current research of health issues that influence, and are influenced by, a family unit served by the advanced practice nurse.
NURS 650 Health Policies and Strategies for Health Care Delivery (3-0-3), spring. Health policy and the role of the health professionals in the development, implementation, and influence on advanced health care delivery. Health policy influences include: ethics, demographics, delivery, social, political, scientific, fiscal, and other concerns. Health policy is analyzed in relation to cost-effectiveness or cost-benefit ratio. The effects of theories and research on health policy, health care programs, priorities of health care, source and numbers of providers, health care research, and funding sources will be addressed. Prerequisite: NURS 610.
NURS 651 Family Nurse Practitioner I (4-16-4), fall. Study of the major concepts and therapies necessary to implement the FNP role in primary health care. Emphasis is on analysis and application of research, theories, health policy, and clinical skills essential to health promotion, disease prevention, and early detection and management of health problems across the life span. Clinical experiences in selected primary care sites. 228 clinical hours. Prerequisite: NURS 650. Corequisite: NURS 643.
NURS 652 Family Nurse Practitioner II (4-16-4), spring. Progressive analysis of nursing and health concepts, and refinement of clinical nursing judgement in the assessment and management of acute and chronic health problems in all developmental life stages. Exploration of major issues in the delivery of holistic primary nursing care. Clinical experiences in the nurse practitioner role in a variety of settings. 228 clinical hours. Prerequisite: NURS 651.
NURS 653 Family Nurse Practitioner III (4-16-4), summer. Class presentations will continue to examine the role of the APN as clinician, researcher, administrator and educator in relation to specific core-competencies identified by professional and regulating agencies. Clinical practice in selected primary health practice sites provides the opportunity to explore and apply knowledge and skills in a guided family practice context. The course runs over both summer sessions for a total of 10 weeks. Students complete 144 hours of clinical practice. Prerequisite: NURS 652.
NURS 660 Administration I: Health Care Delivery Systems and Organizations (3-0-3), summer. Considers development of management and organizational theories as applied to health care organizations and their environment.
NURS 661 Administration II: Health Care Economics and Financial Management (3-0-3), fall. Examines financial management concepts, financial planning and budgeting, reimbursement systems in health care, and financial management skills. Prerequisite: NURS 660.
NURS 662 Administration III: Role of the Nurse Administrator (3-0-3), summer. Examines the roles and functions of the nursing administrator in health care organizations. Prerequisites: NURS 660 and 661.
NURS 663 Administration IV: Practicum (0-120-4), summer. Analysis, application and synthesis of management, organizational and leadership concepts and theories in selected health care settings. Prerequisites: NURS 660 and 661. Concurrent enrollment in NURS 662 required.
NURS 670 Education I: Curriculum Design and Development (3-0-3), summer. Focuses on concepts and theories basic to content and curriculum development in an academic or client-centered setting.
NURS 671 Education II: Instructional Methods, Testing and Measurement (3-0-3), fall. Provides an overview of evaluation techniques that enables nurses to plan and implement a variety of education-related evaluation approaches indulging text construction, item analysis, teaching effectiveness and clinical performance appraisals. Emphasis is on classroom/clinical instruction and evaluation and includes instructional technology. Prerequisite: NURS 670.
NURS 672 Education III: Roles of the Nurse Educator (3-0-3), spring. Examines the various activities inherent in the role of the nurse educator with emphasis on development and use of traditional and creative teaching and evaluation methods. Prerequisites: NURS 670 and 671. Concurrent enrollment in NURS 673 required.
NURS 673 Education IV: Practicum (0-120-4), spring. Practical experiences to apply teaching/learning principles and theories, and evaluation methods in classroom and clinical settings. Practicum is supervised by experienced faculty and includes seminar discussions focusing on solutions to contemporary issues in nursing education. Prerequisites: NURS 670 and 671. Concurrent enrollment in NURS 672 required.
NURS 698 Professional Paper (3-0-3).
NURS 699 Master's Thesis (0-0-6).*
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The sport is growing plenty on it's own. I think it would be easier to get people to work for another sweet 18 holer.
Most of our 18-hole courses are located where people have to travel several miles from their homes to play. We're fortunate that we can do that but it's not possible for everyone. It's a lot easier to get a decent 9 holes into a neighborhood park than 18. It's also a lot easier to get a city park staff to install 9 holes rather than 18.


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HOUSTON -- A week ago, Sean Doolittle was celebrating. Saturday night he was scavenging tape in the video room, looking for answers in the wake of the A's 7-6 loss to the Astros.
Barely a week after he got a new five-year contract extension, Doolittle had one of the worst outings of his career. He faced four batters in the eighth inning, all of whom got hits. And a 3-3 game exploded on him.
The A's got three of the four runs back on a ninth-inning homer from Brandon Moss, but that only made things a little worse in the second-guessing department for Doolittle.
"If I can minimize it down to one or two runs,'' Doolittle said, his voice trailing off.
He later added his night was "just not acceptable.''
It wasn't, mostly because the Astros could sit on his fastball, and on this night his usually reliable fastball wasn't good. Marwin Gonzalez and Jose Altuve singled to open the eighth, and Dexter Fowler's single put the Astros ahead.
Jason Castro followed with a single to get a second run across and chase Doolittle.
All the hits were on fastballs.
"I looked at it on film and I don't have any answers,'' Doolittle said. "I don't know. That's what makes it so frustrating.''
Doolittle said only two games in his career produced the same level of frustration.
Last Aug. 20 he took over for Sonny Gray with a 4-2 lead and faced four men, getting none of them out in a game the A's would go on to lose 7-4 to the Mariners.
And then there was Game 4 of the 2013 playoffs against the Tigers when Doolittle pitched the eighth inning with a one-run lead. He got two outs, but gave up three runs when shutting down the Tigers would have meant a trip to the American League Championship Series.
The contract extension includes language that would deal with Doolittle getting a salary bump for pitching as the team's closer. That's what he'd like to do, but he wasn't talking like a closer Saturday.
"My fastball is my best pitch,'' he said. "But they (the hitters) know that as well as I do. On a night when I don't have my best pitch, I've got to find other ways to get outs.''
Doolittle worked in spring training on mixing a slider in with his fastball and curve, but it has yet to materialize as a weapon. For it to be a weapon, hitters are going to have to be in awe of the fastball. But in his last five games, Doolittle has allowed six earned runs in four innings pitched and his ERA has skyrocketed from 1.17 to 6.17.
A's starter Dan Straily, who gave up two early homers to put the club in an early 3-2 hole, was able to take a step back.
"Sean is one of the best relievers in the game, and tonight doesn't change that,'' Straily said. "He'll come back and be the Sean Doolittle we know.''
Manager Bob Melvin suggested Doolittle's issues Saturday may have been related to the location of his pitches, but the lefty only questioned a pitch left over the middle to Fowler to produce the first run.
Catcher John Jaso said that after the first runner reached, what Doolittle needed was a grounder for a double play.
He got a grounder from Altuve, but the ball eluded Daric Barton at first base, and the inning spun out of control from there as the Astros would survive Moss's three-run homer to beat the A's for the first time in six games this season.
The ball never touched earth, a throw that Reddick compares with the one he uncorked against the Indians' Drew Stubbs last August, a throw on which Melvin said at the time "I never thought he had a chance.''
"If I eliminate the homers, I'll be just fine,'' Straily said. "They're only getting me that one way.''
For more on the A's, see John Hickey's Inside the A's blog at ibabuzz.com/athletics. Follow him on Twitter at twitter.com/JHickey3.
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Discussion in 'Football, Baseball, and Hockey' started by Nemo, Apr 18, 2012.
After a successful season, it is now time to resume dominance........
Denard Robinson Sits for Most of Michigan Spring Game: A Fan's Reaction - Yahoo! Sports Spring tune up article...
Draft 2012...... Three Wolverine players got drafted this year. Mike Martin - 3rd round David Molk - 7th round Junior Hemmingway - 7th round Guys like Ryan Van Bergen and Troy Woolfolk will get free agent tryouts..... Kinda low for Michigan...considering that Montana also had a 3rd and 7th round pick this season. These low picks are not indicative of the the way these guys played this season. Matter of fact......many of the top UM players are said to have "played over their heads". There will be another handful of Michigan players who get tryouts. My guess is that some of these guys will stick with their NFL teams. Free agent tryout guys have basically the same chance of making a team as the 6th or 7th round players. I'd bet good money that RVB will be a Carolina Panther at the start of next season.
#11 Michigan State against #8 Boise State the first weekend Friday.............and #12 Michigan against #1 Alabama the first weekend Saturday...........glad State plays first........... The two best games on the schedule for the first weekend...........Let's hope they live up to the hype..
Classic Michigan Football............now under the lights.
Great stuff.
Michigan 2012 signings should be excellent.............. Their 2013 class could be the school's BEST EVER............. Who's No. 1? Comparing the 1998 and 2013 classes=
Desmond Howard on Ohio State..................commercial.
Nemo, do you have any Appalachian State game highlights?
Nah.............I leave that kind of junk posting to Darth.............
If Drath is busy....
Hopefully it will turn out that there was an NCAA violation that removes that season from official existence.
A successful UM grad and NFL player gets arrested...............Drath cheers.......
Then they would have to forfeit both of the wins that season?
Cherish your Wolverine football history............top 50 of all time. Michigan Football: The 50 Greatest Wolverines in School History | Bleacher Report
Winning superlativesMost wins in college football history (895)Highest all-time winning percentage in college football history (.736)The most winning seasons (113)The most undefeated seasons of teams currently competing in Division I-A/FBS (23)One of only three schools with a winning record against every Division I-A/FBS conference Attendance and television The largest crowd to ever attend an NCAA football game: 114,804 on September 10, 2011 at Michigan Stadium vs. Notre DameThe longest streak in home game attendance of over 100,000 (239 games; since November 8, 1975 vs. Purdue)The most televised school in college football history: 432 televised games Current streaks The longest current streak of games in Division I-A/FBS since last being shut out: 349 games; Michigan was last shut out on October 20, 1984, at Iowa; this is the second longest scoring streak in Division I-A/FBS history trailing BYU's 361-game streak from 1975 to 2003
It's tough avoiding shutouts in the Big Ten on some of those sloppy days against the Iowa's of the world.
heck............they got beat 26-0........
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WALNUT CREEK -- Already with a loss and two ties, the Dublin High boys soccer team faces an uphill battle if it wants to win the Diablo Foothill Athletic League crown this season. But that's not going to prevent the Gaels from keeping chase.
Playing like a team looking to prove a point, Dublin beat host Las Lomas 3-1 on Wednesday night to keep pace with first-place Campolindo.
Campolindo beat Miramonte to stay five points clear of Dublin, which, with the win over Las Lomas, vaulted into a second-place tie with Alhambra.
More importantly for the Gaels, at this point, is winning to assure itself one of the top seeds for the North Coast Section Division II playoffs.
"For us, getting a higher seed in NCS is more important," Dublin coach James Fulwiler said. "We have an uphill battle with Campo and we'd need help from other teams. Our NCS seed is something we can control."
Dublin (12-1-3, 3-1-2 DFAL) did what it needed to do Wednesday, scoring early to set the pace and never letting the Knights (5-6-1, 1-4-1) get into a rhythm.
Yiannis Kournoutas scored twice in the first half, once in the third minute and again in the 34th minute. Darion Carino headed home a 64th minute goal to put the match out of reach.
Las Lomas possessed and moved the ball well at times, but once in the attacking third, the Gaels back line -- led by Zach Schmidt and Cory Stewart -- was enough of a disrupting force to not allow many clear chances.
The Knights ruined the Gaels' clean sheet with Jake Casey's cool finish in the 77th minute.
Dublin, on the other hand, enjoyed quite a bit of possession and had many chances, but six saves by Knights goalie Jason Gendron kept the game relatively close.
Kournoutas' second goal was the result of some fine possession as Suliman Khorami made a great pass to Sam Gebremiche, who was able to beat his man to the corner. Gebremiche then sent a perfect ball into the six-yard area, where Kournoutas was waiting to capitalize.
His first goal was the result of a deflection that found its way to him, as his right-footed shot found the back of the net.


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10.8-4 Eavesdropping -- § 53a-189
Revised to December 1, 2007 (modified May 23, 2013)
Note: Section 53a-189 contains two ways that eavesdropping occurs, wiretapping and mechanical overhearing of a conversation, which are defined in § 53a-187. This instruction is for mechanical overhearing of a conversation. See also Illegal Wiretapping, Instruction 10.8-3.
The defendant is charged [in count __] with eavesdropping. The statute defining this offense reads in pertinent part as follows:
a person is guilty of eavesdropping when he unlawfully engages in mechanical overhearing of a conversation.
For you to find the defendant guilty of this charge, the state must prove the following elements beyond a reasonable doubt:
Element 1 - Eavesdropping by
mechanical device
The first element is that the defendant unlawfully listened in on or recorded a conversation or discussion, at which (he/she) was not present, by means of any mechanical instrument, device or equipment. "Unlawfully" means not specifically authorized by law.
Element 2 - Without consent
The second element is that the defendant did not have the consent of either party to the conversation. If (he/she) received permission from one of the parties to the conversation to listen in on the conversation, then (he/she) cannot be found guilty of eavesdropping. A person does an act "without consent of another person" when (he/she) lacks such other person's agreement or assent to engage in the act.
Element 3 - Intent
The third element is that the defendant intended to listen in on the conversation. If the overhearing is unintentional, then (he/she) cannot be found guilty of eavesdropping. To be guilty of the offense of eavesdropping, there must be a deliberate and wilful intention to overhear the conversation. A person acts "intentionally" with respect to a result when (his/her) conscious objective is to cause such result. <See Intent: Specific, Instruction 2.3-1.>
In summary, the state must prove beyond a reasonable doubt that 1) the defendant unlawfully listened in on a conversation or discussion by some mechanical means, 2) (he/she) did not have the consent of either party to the conversation or discussion, and 3) (he/she) intended to listen in on it.
If you unanimously find that the state
has proved beyond a reasonable doubt each of the elements of the crime of
eavesdropping, then you shall find the defendant guilty. On the other hand, if
you unanimously find that the state has failed to prove beyond a reasonable
doubt any of the elements, you shall then find the defendant not guilty.


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'The Walking Dead,' Season 4, Episode 14, 'The Grove': TV Recap
Of all the sick, demented things that have happened in the zombie apocalypse on "The Walking Dead," it's hard to imagine any as shocking and sad as seeing insane little Lizzie standing over the sister she just stabbed to death, no concept of what she'd just done, fully expecting her to "come back." Carol being forced to kill Lizzie was a close second.
There's really no two ways about it, this was one of the sickest episodes of "The Walking Dead" in its entire run. All the darkest crevices of the human psyche come out in tonight's episode, "The Grove," and while it's one thing when you see a character like the Governor do shocking, demented things, it's far more upsetting and uncomfortable to see a child, a little girl, doing them. But that's where this show went tonight. It's hard to imagine any other show on television would go that dark. You really have a build an audience up for it, because it's not an easy thing to swallow at all.
The second half of this season has been all about cycling through the stories of the scattered members of the Grimes clan as they make their way to Terminus. Tonight's lens fell on Carol and Tyreese and the girls, making their way up the tracks. When they come across a house that looks safe, they stop to rest, and contemplate giving up their quest entirely, just staying there. It's safe. It's got a well for water, and gas, it's in the middle of a pecan grove, deer for venison, and even wire fences. It's close to paradise.
It's interesting that almost every character, it seems, has had that thought, to just give up and stay where they are. None of them have been able to, and by the end of tonight's episode, Carol and Tyreese and Judith will be back on the road, too.
We had mentioned in a recap last season that it was important to understand that to one extent or another, all these characters are insane. There's no way anybody could go what they've gone through without massive psychological damage. But for the two little girls, Mika and Lizzie, the damage is even worse. They simply cannot process what has happened, and what is happening, no matter the training Carol gave them at the prison, no matter the lessons she keeps trying to impart upon them.
Lizzie is flat-out insane, unable to differential between living people and undead ones. She is still feeding walkers mice, and runs and "plays" with a walker, and is then furious when Carol saves her. Mika, meanwhile, can't bring herself to shoot a living person, even in self-defense. She simply refuses to.
The girls sit outside the house when the adults go in to clear it, in a tidy little yard. There is, tellingly, a small grave in the yard nearby, with a little pair of bronzed baby shoes on a wooden cross. It's painful foreshadowing. The demented little nuclear family settles into the living room, Tyreese amazed that they've finally found a measure of peace. But his sleep isn't peaceful. He keeps having dreams, of Karen, of her murder. Of course, what he doesn't know – yet – but that we do is that Carol killed Karen.
Lizzie is bringing mice out to a walker stuck in the railroad tracks, for food. She really doesn't understand what's happening, she even sickeningly thinks of becoming one, to show the others that the undead aren't what they think. She and Mika are chased off the tracks by a half-dozen or so walkers, all severely burned. Earlier the group had seen a plume of black smoke off in the distance, presumably the moonshine shack that Daryl and Beth set afire. This clutch of undead must have come from that fire.
There is a shootout, and the family manages to gun down the walkers. It seems that the shock of being chased, of nearly being eaten alive, has jolted Lizzie back into reality. She seems to understand what's really going on.
The next morning, Carol and Tyreese go to hunt a deer, and have a very awkward heart-to-heart. He still, of course, doesn't know what Carol did, and it's painful to see this big man talk about how he knows Mika, and Lizzie, and Carol, and can trust them. He's prepared to stay there with them and build a new life. It's certainly not a bad idea.
It's not a bad idea for all of about two minutes. They come back, empty-handed, and see Lizzie standing in the yard. Judith is lying on a blanket, and Mika is lying on her back. It's obvious something is wrong, though. Lizzie's hands are covered in blood, she's holding a knife, and she's got that 1,000-mile stare.
She murdered her own sister. She killed Mika because Lizzie doesn't understand the difference between life and the undead, and has an unhinged obsession with death. She killed Mika to prove a point. She tells Carol she was about to do the same to Judith. Lizzie, it is clear, has gone completely insane, and not only cannot be trusted with weapons, she can't even be trusted to be around other people. Carol and Tyreese realize, to their own horror, that they are going to have to kill her.
This is shocking stuff, and it's surprising that even this grisly show went so dark. "We do what we have to do," Tyreese said to Carol earlier. It's a stoic statement of survival at any cost, but this cost is too much. Carol shoots Lizzie in the back of the head, and then later confesses to Tyreese that she'd killed Karen. You almost get the sense that Carol wants Tyreese to kill her, to end her living nightmare. But he doesn't. He forgives her. They bury the girls, and leave that haunted grove.
There are only two episodes left to this season, and the Grimes clan is as scattered and messed up as it could possibly be. We don't even know where Beth is, or who she's with. Daryl is running with some seriously bad dudes. The others are making their way, in small groups, to Terminus, and God only knows what they'll find when they get there. Given where we were taken tonight, we wouldn't bet on too many happy reunions.


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Waving make-shift paper fans in one hand and grasping a bid number in the other, hundreds of Washington County Fair goers gathered in the shade of the Rabbit and Poultry Tent Monday afternoon for the Jr. Fair Small Animal Sale.
Outside the tent, young 4-H and FFA members tugged on goats, loaded rabbits into laundry baskets, and ushered their turkeys toward the tent for the culmination of months of hard work.
"I think if you're gonna do it, you've got to do it right," said 16-year-old Hunter Smitley, of raising his grand champion turkey.
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Hunter Smitley, left, and Holly Becker, anxiously await their turn to sell the turkeys they have spent the last several months raising at Monday's Jr. Fair Small Animal Sale at the Washington County Fair.
The trick is to really work with the birds as much as possible, said Smitley, of Wingett Run.
"I like to let them walk around and build leg muscle. It helps in the long run," he said.
Smitley's method worked well. He was all smiles after his turkey sold for $330 dollars at the auction.
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Today's county fair highlights
9 a.m. - Jr. Fair Dairy Showmanship
10 - Jr. Fair Horse Show
10 - Dairy Breeding Judging
11, 4 and 6 p.m. - Chase's Racing Pigs, end of Jr. Fair Bldg.
4 - Midway opens
5 - Large Animal Buyer Reception
6 - Jr. Fair Large Animal Sale
7 - Demolition Derby
11 - Midway Closes
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"I'm very excited. This is a thank you for my buyers," he said indicated a basket full of fall-themed items.
Watering the three New Zealand rabbits she raised with a cousin was the highlight 10-year-old Cayley Cox's 4-H project.
"They needed to stay with their mom for three weeks but then they came to my aunt's house and I watered them and my cousin fed them," said Cox, who has been helping to raise the rabbits most of the summer.
It was goats that kept 16-year-old Page Weckbacher, of Lower Salem, busy this summer.
"You have to do the usual stuff. Food and water and make sure their pen is clean. You've got to get them used to showing, like having their legs picked up," said Weckbacher, who had two goats at the fair.
But the hardest part of raising the goats was yet to come as Weckbacher waited for her animals to be sold.
"It's sad watching them go," she said.
While the animal sale was underway, hundreds of other attendees enjoyed some of the many other fair offerings Monday.
Garret Stewart, 9, of Sunbury, Ohio, had come to the fair to see the chickens that his cousin was showing, but ended up doing a whole lot more.
"I hit the mallet thing and won a prize," said Sunbury, who was toting a large inflatable gun.
The racing pigs were another highlight, he said.
A large cheering section gathered around Chase's Racing Pigs, which returned to the county fair after making their first appearance last year.
The pigs were certainly a first for Julie Smit, whose family would likely win the furthest traveling fair attendee award.
"We're from Luxembourg, in Western Europe. My son is married to a girl from Barlow and we're visiting family," said Smit, 57.
The fair experience was "absolutely fantastic", said Smit.
"This is a fantastic day for the family. They have nice rides and a petting zoo. We're loving it," she said.
Caleb Hartline, 10, of Marietta, and Isaiah Tullius, 7, of Beverly were enjoying the rides Monday afternoon, but Sunday night's Buckeye Rodeo was the highlight so far for Tullius.
"They had bulls," said Tullius.
Tullius' older brothers ride bulls and someday he hopes to do the same, said Tullius.
Caleb's younger brother, Grady Hartline, 6, said he was looking forward to Monday night's Mini Monster Trucks.
"I might get to get inside one," he said hopefully.
And the tractor pull was a big draw for Kail Bauerbach, 6.
"I like the cage tractors," he declared.
A weekend of sunny skies and very little rain helped boost fair attendance this year, said fair board treasurer Sandra Hickey.
"We're up both Saturday and Sunday over last year and there are still people coming through the gate today," said Hickey Monday afternoon.
Hickey said she expected the crowds would pick up even more as they neared the evening entertainment, which was changed at the last minute due to a death in the family of scheduled performer Cledus T. Judd.
Zack Shelton & 64 To Grayson, an alternative country band, were called in to cover the 8:30 p.m. performance.
"One of our fair board members knew of them and called around to get them," said Hickey.
Sunday's attendance was up 700 people compared to the same day last year, where the fair was plagued by a rainy weekend.
"We're hoping this weather holds out. It would be the first time in like three years we haven't been rained out," said fair board member Frank Tucker.
The good attendance will hopefully help the fair board pay some of the bill's left over from last year's fair and break even this year, said Hickey.
"We still have some expenses from last year. We still owe the ride company a bit. We're hoping to have enough to cover all this year's bills too," she said.


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Data Virtualization: Federated and Hybrid
By Krishnamoorthy on Nov 20, 2012
Data becomes useful when it can be leveraged at the right time. Not only enterprises application stores operate on large volume, velocity and variety of data. Mobile and social computing are in the need of operating in foresaid data.
Replicating and transferring large swaths of data is one challenge faced in the field of data integration. However, smaller chunks of data aggregated from a variety of sources presents and even more interesting challenge in the industry.
Over the past few decades, technology trends focused on best user experience, operating systems, high performance computing, high performance web sites, analysis of warehouse data, service oriented architecture, social computing, cloud computing, and big data.
Operating on the 'dark data' becomes mandatory in the future technology trend, although, no solution can make dark data useful data in a single day. Useful data can be quantified by the facts of contextual, personalized and on time delivery.
In most cases, data from a single source may not be complete the picture. Data has to be combined and computed from various sources, where data may be captured as hybrid data, meaning the combination of structured and unstructured data. Since related data is often found across disparate sources, effectively integrating these sources determines how useful this data ultimately becomes.
Technology trends in 2013 are expected to focus on big data and private cloud. Consumers are not merely interested in where data is located or how data is retrieved and computed. Consumers are interested in how quick and how the data can be leveraged.
In many cases, data virtualization is the right solution, and is expected to play a foundational role for SOA, Cloud integration, and Big Data.
The Oracle Data Integration portfolio includes a data virtualization product called ODSI (Oracle Data Service Integrator). Unlike other data virtualization solutions, ODSI can perform both read and write operations on federated/hybrid data (RDBMS, Webservices, delimited file and XML). The ODSI Engine is built on XQuery, hence ODSI user can perform computations on data either using XQuery or SQL.
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The objective of this agreement is to support research to provide high throughput sequencing services for phytopathogenic fungi, plant insect pests and the associated host plants for use in genomic and transcriptome analysis. ARS desires the Cooperator to provide goods and services necessary to develop appropriate RNA, DNA and cDNA libraries from ARS provided material for sequencing. The cooperator will provide sequencing and data processing to ARS in the form of usable sequence data and all raw data.
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STOCKTON – Three business robberies in north Stockton by a lone gunman within the course of a little more than two hours Monday night have police considering the possibility of one suspect behind them all.
"Our detectives are looking into all the cases that they are related," Stockton Police Department spokesman Officer Joe Silva said. No one was injured in any of the incidents, but in each case a handgun was used to compel victims to comply with the gunman's demands.
The first robbery occurred at 9:06 p.m. at a business in the 8000 block of West Lane. Police reported the suspect entered, pointed his handgun at the clerk, demanded and received money from the register and then fled on foot. He was described as a 20-year-old black man wearing dark clothing.
At 10:13 p.m., a black man between 20 and 25 years old wearing a black sweatshirt entered a business in the 4700 block of Quail Lakes Drive, where he robbed an employee and two patrons at gunpoint, police reported. He fled on foot northbound on Quail Lakes.
In the third robbery of the night at 11:15 p.m., employees were locking up a business in the 8000 block of Holman Road when an armed suspect showed up and demanded all their money, which they handed over. He then fled on foot, police reported. The suspect in that robbery was described as a black man between 18 and 20 years old, 5 feet 6 inches tall and 150 pounds, wearing a white hooded sweatshirt, a gray ski mask, dark jeans and dark shoes, according to police.
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The surgery itself will be performed using one of two techniques. These techniques will be discussed with the donor in advance of the procedure so he or she will know what to expect.
Laparoscopic donor nephrectomy is the operative technique most often used to remove a kidney. The laparoscopic technique requires several short incisions in the donor's abdomen, through which a specialized camera and other instruments are inserted. This allows the surgical team to free the kidney from its surrounding tissues. An additional incision is made in the lower abdomen, and the surgeon removes the kidney through this opening. Since the incisions are small, the surgeon is able to enter the abdomen without actually dividing muscles. The donor suffers less pain, and recovery is rapid. With laparoscopic nephrectomy, donors can generally expect to be in the hospital for three to four days.
In approximately 20 percent of kidney donors the laproscopic donor nephrectomy procedure may not be appropriate. For these donors, using the open technique provides a safer alternative. This technique involves an incision in the side of the abdomen (flank) below the rib cage and the division of some muscles. The kidney is removed through this incision, and the muscles and the skin carefully closed. This technique is associated with more postoperative pain, but the pain can be effectively managed with medication. The donor can expect a hospitalization of approximately four to five days, slightly longer than for a donor having the laparoscopic procedure.
Following either type of surgery, the donor will be observed for a period in the recovery room and then be returned to his or her hospital room. Both the donor and the recipient will be on the nursing unit of the hospital that specializes in the care of patients with kidney disease, nephrectomies and transplants.


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whole grains, vegetarian main dishes, vegetarian entrees, healthy grains, barley, millet, quinoa, Jessica Kellner
One of the best ways to eat nutritionally complete meatless meals is to rely on whole grains such as quinoa and barley, which offer protein, fiber, healthy carbohydrates and vitamins packed into a low-calorie package. Versatile grains lend themselves to a wide array of cooking techniques and recipes. To learn more about diverse and nutritious whole-grain options, read our Whole Grain Guide, or choose to learn hands-on with these delicious recipes featuring hearty whole grains. Toasted Almond and Citrus Quinoa Serves 4
Eat this light dish as a healthy lunch, a hearty side or pair it with a side salad or broiled veggies for a nutritious, light dinner.
1 tablespoon lemon juice 1 tablespoon cold-pressed olive oil 2 tablespoons chopped fresh tarragon 1/4 cup chopped fresh parsley 2 oranges, peeled 1/4 cup toasted, slivered almonds (with skin if possible) 2 1/2 cups cooked quinoa, cold or room temperature (read the basics of cooking quinoa)Salt and freshly ground pepper to taste 1. Whisk together the lemon juice, oil, tarragon and parsley in a serving bowl large enough to hold all the ingredients. 2. Section the oranges and cut each section into thirds. Stir the oranges and any juices into the bowl. 3. Add the remaining ingredients and mix well.4. Add salt and pepper to taste. Serve chilled or at room temperature. Reprinted from The Herb Companion's article "Cooking with Quinoa"
Swiss Barley Risotto Serves 2 as a main dishThe nutritional powerhouse barley takes the place of traditional arborio rice in this cheesy risotto. 1 medium onion 2 tablespoons butter 1 bunch organic Swiss chard 1 cup water 1 cup pearl barley 2 tablespoons olive oil 1/2 cup white wine 3 cups mushroom or vegetable broth, divided 3 ounces Gruyere (or other Swiss cheese), grated Salt and pepper, to taste 1. Mince onion and toss with butter in a large frying pan over medium heat, stirring regularly until translucent (about 5 minutes). In the meantime, wash chard, remove thick ends of stems, roll leaves like a cigar, and slice thinly. 2. Add chard to pan and toss until wilted (about 2 minutes). Add a cup of water, reduce heat to low and cover. Cook for 4 minutes. 3. Set a strainer over a medium bowl and strain cooked onion and chard, collecting pot liquor. Press veggies with a spoon to release liquid, and set liquid aside. 4. Process chard and onion in a food processor until smooth and set aside. 5. In a medium saucepan, heat oil over medium heat and toss in barley, stirring to coat. Continue to stir for about 5 minutes, until barley begins to toast. Add wine and stir until liquid is absorbed. Add green liquid from chard and 2 cups of broth. Cover, reduce heat to medium-low, and stir every 5 to 6 minutes for about 45 minutes, adding broth whenever mixture thickens. 6. When barley is cooked (it should be soft but chewy), add pureed vegetables and cheese, stirring until well blended. Season to taste. Read the original article, "Take Comfort: 3 Winter Recipes for Comfort Food."
Millet "Meat" Balls Makes approximately 30 "meat" ballsSate your comfort food cravings with these Millet "Meat" Balls courtesy Bob's Red Mill.1 3/4 cups cannellini beans (cooked or from can)*1 medium onion, diced1 clove garlic, minced2 teaspoons basil1/2 cup water 1 1/2 cups cooked hulled millet3/4 cup plus 1/2 cup seasoned bread crumbs (or gluten free Bread Crumbs) 1/4 cup grated Parmesan cheese1/2 teaspoon salt1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees. In blender or food processor, puree cannellini beans, onion, garlic, basil and water. Combine with cooked millet (see note), 3/4 cup bread crumbs, parmesan cheese and salt. Let stand 5 to 10 minutes. 2. Lightly spray cookie sheet. Shape mixture into 1-inch balls and roll in remaining bread crumbs. Bake for approximately 40 minutes, flipping halfway through. Serve with marinara if desired. Makes approximately 30 "meat" balls. NOTE: To cook millet, bring 2 cups water to boil. Add 1/2 cup Hulled Millet and reduce heat to simmer. Cook for 35-40 minutes, or until tender. Recipe courtesy Bob's Red Mill, contributed by Cassidy Stockton, courtesy Grit magazine
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Claremont McKenna College offers a major in Classical Studies. By focusing on the classical and medieval periods of the Mediterranean, Europe and the Near East, the major complements a broad liberal arts education through the cultivation of intellectual skills in disciplines of government, history, literature, philosophy and religious studies. The classical studies major at CMC is ideal for students interested in the culture and achievements of ancient and medieval civilizations for their own value and for students preparing for graduate work in law, medicine, government and foreign service or any of the humanities and social sciences. The major also combines well as a dual major with any of the other major programs.
Classical studies at CMC includes the interdisciplinary, intercollegiate Classics program taught by faculty from Pomona, Scripps, Pitzer and Claremont McKenna Colleges. Through the major's participation in the intercollegiate program, students may pursue a number of different tracks: classical studies, with a focus on the study of classical culture and civilization in English translation; classics, with a focus on the study of Greek, Latin or Hebrew; or late antique and medieval studies (LAMS), with a focus on the emerging Christian and Islamic cultures and states. Language requirements for the classical studies major (Latin, Greek, Hebrew or Arabic) satisfy the CMC general education requirements for foreign languages.
Students majoring in classical studies selects a CMC faculty member of the program Advisory Committee as advisor to help plan a course of study in the major and may select an off-campus faculty member for the purpose of advising the senior thesis.
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Easter Sunday, March 23-Winds ahead of a low-pressure system bring warm, moist air into the Ohio Valley. Temperatures rise from 30 degrees in the morning to 70 degrees that evening.
Monday, March 24-Storms move into the area, dropping record total rainfalls of 3 to 8 inches over areas of Ohio, Indiana and southern Illinois in less than 48 hours.
Tuesday, March 25-Ohio Gov. James Cox is alerted to severe flooding in communities throughout the state. Heavy rains continue over the Ohio Valley. Floodwaters rush into Ohio cities, including Dayton, Akron, Zanesville, Youngstown and Cleveland. Gov. Cox calls out the entire Ohio National Guard to assist in flooded districts.
Wednesday, March 26-Heavy rain continues over the Ohio Valley. Marietta residents awaken to homes and businesses surrounded by floodwaters. The Putnam and B&O Railroad bridges washed into the Muskingum. The McConnelsville-Malta bridge also washed away.
Thursday, March 27-Heavy rains begin to subside, replaced by some light snow and much colder temperatures.
Friday, March 28-Rivers continue to rise in Marietta.
Saturday, March 29-The flood crests in Marietta at a record of 58.7 feet by noon. An area of approximately 3.5 square miles of the city is flooded.
Sunday, March 30-Marietta Mayor Charles Leeper announces flood victims are "well-provided for, except for bread. We need 500 to 1,000 loaves at once."
A temporary flood relief committee, headed by B.F. Strecker, met at Marietta College that afternoon.
Leeper issues orders to police and National Guard members to "shoot to kill anyone found looting or attempting to steal anywhere in the city."
The text for Sunday services at the Methodist Episcopal Church is "And they all escaped safely to land."
Monday, March 31-Rivers falling slowly. By 2 p.m. the flood had dropped to around 51 feet.
Four carloads of provisions from Caldwell and Cambridge were at Whipple, awaiting transportation into Marietta.
The relief committee met at the Presbyterian Church where 25 people were assigned, one for each city precinct. Relief efforts would follow plans adopted during the San Francisco earthquake and fire.
Capt. Thomas Wilson requested clothing and bedding to be sent to the Marietta High School building.
"Please do not give clothing or goods to people soliciting at your door. Send your gifts to the established city center from which they will be distributed," Wilson wrote on a handbill.
Gov. Cox issues statement that Ohio had suffered an estimated $300 million loss from the disaster.
Tuesday, April 1-Martial law declared in Marietta. First contact with Gov. Cox made from the city at 9:55 a.m. when Congressman George White and the Honorable D.B.Torpy called the governor "over the long distance wire of the Bell Telephone Company, which was for official use only."
At 8 a.m. a fire broke out in a large area of Parkersburg. The blaze, which started in the C.C. Martin Wholesale Grocery House near the Belpre ferry, reportedly swept through a "wide section" of the city.
Twelve wagon loads of provisions arrived in Marietta from Cambridge.
Wednesday, April 2-Relief committee chairman B.F. Strecker makes an appeal to Marietta citizens for financial help.
An Ohio General Assembly committee sends legislative members to assess property losses throughout the state.
72 bodies were removed from the flood ruins in Columbus.
The Bellevue Hotel (now the Lafayette) was threatened by fire that broke out in a storeroom.
Thursday, April 3-River Gas Company workers restoring water-damaged gas mains in Marietta.
A carload of lime and chemicals ordered for "sanitary work" throughout the city.
National Guard Company E from Caldwell arrived in Marietta. Soldiers were transfered to the city's west side where they would "have complete charge."
Friday, April 4-High school classes expected to resume two weeks from Monday. Grade schools not expected to reopen until May 1.
Red Cross hospital established in the Historical Building of Marietta College. Two patients were recorded. One suffered from a sprained ankle, and the other had "a slight attack of the grip."
City council notified Marietta was in danger of typhoid fever if the streets were not cleaned up at once.
Saturday, April 5-Estimated 6,000 people being fed daily in Marietta by commissaries established at the high school and Marietta College.
Sunday, April 7-Reports received from the relief committee that 115 homes had been washed away, 50 were carried from their foundations, and 200 were uninhabitable-most in the city's east end and west side.
Saturday, April 19-Just past noon the first train since the flood crosses the B&O Railroad Bridge. A pontoon bridge, made of barges, has been constructed in place of the Putnam Bridge.
Source: National Weather Service records and March and April 1913 issues of the Marietta Daily Times, Marietta Register Leader and McConnelsville Register Herald.


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It's too soon for champagne, but perhaps a beer is in order. In a 2-1 decision in the case of Halbig v. Burwell, a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit has ruled that the Internal Revenue Service cannot interpret the Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare, as allowing subsidies for those Americans who purchase health insurance from the federal health insurance exchange known as Healthcare.gov. This is because the text of the law specifies that subsidies or tax credits are available for insurance purchased on state-created exchanges.


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Embassy attack
Published: Tuesday, October 23, 2012 at 4:30 a.m.
Last Modified: Monday, October 22, 2012 at 4:50 p.m.
To the editor: There was a lapse in security in Benghazi, Libya, that led to the tragic murder by terrorists of our ambassador to Libya and three other Americans. Seeking to downplay the lapse, Vice President Joe Biden said we are waiting for the facts.
Well, sir, it is now coming to light: You had the facts. Enough so that had the administration acted on them, the disaster could have been prevented. Britain and the Red Cross had pulled out. Repeated requests for better security were denied.
A plausible explanation is that to acknowledge the threat would undermine the administrations campaign narrative that its wise policy had al-Qaida on its heels, and it constituted little terrorist threat.
If this be so, no wonder the administration does not want to talk about it. Furthermore, it becomes a strong and proper argument for denying Barack Obama a second term.
Candler A. Willis
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To the editor: A letter writer on Oct. 12 praised Obamacare and condemned Mitt Romney, citing statements in an AARP flier as evidence.
The AARP is an allegedly nonprofit, tax-exempt organization that in reality is a profitable wolf in sheeps clothing that preys on its membership and the public at large. Settlements of $135 million in 1994 and an undisclosed amount in 1999 with the IRS for tax liabilities led to the creation of numerous subdivisions of the AARP, some taxable and some nontaxable.
Through lobbying and other pressures, the AARP blocked some Medigap reforms from inclusion in Obamacare and as a result will see upward of $2.8 billion in additional profits over the next 10 years. These reforms would have saved the average senior up to $415 a year.
For details, readers should consult The AARP America Doesnt Know, a House Committee On Ways & Means report, and a Forbes report from Sept. 22, How the AARP Made $2.8 Billion Supporting Obamacares Cuts to Medicare.
The facts in the government report are indisputable and shocking. One might wonder why the letter writer would use the AARP to support her political views, but I suppose perhaps she is one of those many Americans unaware of the nefarious dealings of the AARP.
Bob Hoover
A better future
To the editor: I have no ax to grind where political parties are concerned. Were all to blame and should hang our heads in shame for what weve done to this country. Few avail ourselves of the privilege to vote and even fewer become educated about whom or what were voting for, thus the blame is ours.
Political processes have always been a dirty business involving wheeling and dealing. Politicians promise whatever constituents want. There are the millionaires and billionaires, and then there are the rest of us. Were the divided states of America.
Whoever believes Mitt Romney has the best interest of the middle class, the poor, the sick and the elderly at heart has blinders on. He alone cannot fix what ails us. Its taken decades to get into this deplorable quagmire, and itll take decades to get out.
President Barack Obama inherited a sorry mess and was hopeful enough to believe he could unite this country, stop wars and boost the economy by ending the export of jobs to Third World countries. He didnt move factories and production plants overseas for cheap labor. Corporations, which are now people, did.
Re-elect President Obama if youre among the 99 percent who want a better future.
Ines Illgen
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Board design of the TOM BURT 172
Years, and years of trying all kinds of different boards with different sidecuts, nose shapes, flexes, stances, and constructions in all types of conditions from ice to powder, flats to steeps has led to the design this board. I started my design process in 1985 with the first boards to incorporate camber, sidecut and taper instead of rocker, sidecut, and taper. I have been designing and testing boards since then and my years of experience in design has put this board, the TOM BURT 172, into production. Here are the features and concepts behind it, which sets this board apart from others and why you should ride one.
Taper: I have been a backer of taper since I started snowboarding. If you look at the Wintersticks of the past, the swallow and roundtails they were all about taper for the ability to ride powder and still be able to weight your front foot. The taper also helped with tracking and finishing turns with the board still pointing down the hill. These features I incorporated into my board. My board is designed with 4mm of taper. This amount of taper allows my board to track well on hard pack as well as powder, but at the same time it allows it to finish a turn with the board pointing down the hill. The reason you want this to happen is that it takes less energy, effort, and force to get from one turn to the next, and it will help keep your upper body stable and still. Taper will also let the back of the board sink in powder and thus more weight can be applied to the front of the board enabling turns to be done with more control because you are not leaning back (a position you never want to be in when you ride). Taper also shifts the center of sidecut toward the back of the board. This allows the riders stance to be shifted to the back of the board but still be over the sidecut. Giving great control due to a positive edge. The best way to feel what taper does is to ride a board with taper then go back to a board without it. You should feel the difference. A board without taper will want to finish its turn across the fall line not down the fall line, won't let the tail sink in powder unless your weight is shifted back, and will catch edges easily when tracking straight.
Sidecut: I use a 11.0 meter radial sidecut. Why such a straight sidecut compared to most boards? Two reasons: the ability to do large to small carving turns, and control at speed. For turning sidecut dictates the carve. If a board has a small sidecut, say 8 meters, a carve with this radius is the biggest turn it can make. If you try to do a longer turn you will have to release your edge and slide to do a longer turn, thus losing edge control during the turn. Where as starting with a straighter sidecut will allow a long turn while carving. Of course smaller turns while carving are possible by flexing the board during a turn. Depending on the amount of force to bend the board will dictate how small of a carve can be made. A board with a 11.0 meter sidecut can be bent to carve a 8 meter turn but a board with an 8 meter sidecut can never carve an 11.0 meter turn, only eight or smaller. Control at speed is a big factor of a larger sidecut.
Flex: I put a stiff progressive flex on my board. This stiff flex is designed into the core with a longer softer flex in the front of the board and a shorter stiffer flex in the tail. The front of the board thus initiates turns easily but will not fold or over flex during a turn. The tail being stiffer will hold, not over flex, out of the turn where the most power of the turn is happening, and this will power you into the next turn. Being a stiff board, a rider will have to put more energy into a turn at slow speeds, but as the speed increases the flex will allow you to relax more because the speed creates the energy needed to flex the board. Thus the flex gives you control, and power.
Construction: I chose a full length, white aspen wood core and trapezoidal UHMW sidewalls for my construction along with the Winterstick carbon matrix system, Durajet high carbon race base and oversized full raped edges and dampening foils. Why these features? The wood core is the heart and sole of the board, giving it its flex and life. From the core UHMW sidewalls are added which are incredibly damp and chatter free, especially at speed. The carbon systems are added to increase torsional rigidity, strength, and dampening. Then the dampening foils are added to reduce chatter and harmonic vibration. The base and edges with the sidewalls are bomber to punishment of hard riding. Putting it all together the features give the board a damp, strong, chatter-free ride, which gives great control at speed and in all types of terrain.
Nose and Tail shape: I designed the nose and tail for overall riding. The nose is 23cm long with a long flat rocker, which is great for lift in powder and crud; this allows for weight to be shifted forward while initiating a turn, giving edge control throughout the turn. Also the nose shape leaves the effective edge fairly straight for 10cm or so thus forcing the nose to help initiate turns especially on steeper terrain. The tail is 17cm with similar rocker to the nose. It is there to ride fakie, and to extend the tail length to give stability to landing airs.
Put all these features together and that is the Tom Burt 172. Aboard that is designed for speed and control. Try it and compare it to your current board to feel the difference of the design of the Tom Burt 172.
Enjoy the ride!!
Tom Burt


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Assuming that reasonable Americans can read, understand and comprehend the English language, and further assuming that they believe in the rule of law to govern their lives, then it would follow that they would repose that belief system in the patent and English words set forth in the Constitution of the United States or in the constitutions of their respective states (in my case, Colorado).
It would further ensue that these founding charters constitute the fountainhead from which all statutes, ordinances and regulations, state or federal, derive authority to govern the people of the United States through a republican form of government (14th Amendment).
That said, would it be reasonable to interpret the very English word of "arms" to mean "instruments of offensive or defensive combat" in accordance with the Webster's dictionary definition rather than some vague spin of the term from some progressive judge's concept of a "living Constitution" or conjured from the recesses of an ambitious politician's mind as some would have it?
Having accepted the above definition and the rule of law as the proper authorities under which I may be governed, I then cross the Rubicon to correctly comprehend what rights I have to keep and bear arms as set forth in the U.S. and Colorado constitutions. This is a mean thing in view of the hysteria roiling in Washington, D.C., and Denver over the subject matter.
I believe that "the people of this state have the sole and exclusive right of governing themselves, as a free, sovereign and independent state" (Colorado Constitution, Art. II, sec.2). This is even guaranteed to them by the United States under Art. IV, sec. 4, of its Constitution.
I further believe that "all persons have certain natural, essential and inalienable rights, among which may be reckoned the right of enjoying and defending their lives and liberties" (Colorado Constitution, Art. II, sec. 3).
In recognition of this natural and inalienable right of self-defense, the constitutions of the United States and the state of Colorado patently, without qualification, state: "The right of no person to keep and bear arms in defense of his home, person and property, or in aid of the civil power when thereto legally summoned, shall be called in question" (Colorado Constitution, Art. II, sec. 13); "the right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses ... shall not be violated" (U.S. Constitution, 4th Amendment); and therefore, "the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed" (U.S. Constitution, Second Amendment).
The U.S. Constitution contains no expressed provision, power or authority under which the United States can qualify, redefine or parse the word "arms" into anything else other than its plain and English meaning unless by further amendment to that charter. Likewise, this is true under the Colorado Constitution. We are only accountable to obey that law that is definite, understandable, comprehensible and prescribed in English, since that is another right we have - "due process" (U.S. Constitution, Fifth Amendment). There being no patent qualification of the term "arms" in the U.S. Constitution, then "the powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the states respectively, or to the people" (U.S. Constitution, 10th Amendment).
It is of further note that the Colorado Constitution does not qualify or modify the plain meaning of the term "arms" either, which brings me to the point I wish to make that the legislatures of the United States or the state of Colorado cannot modify or change the plain meaning of the word "arms" by enacting laws to that effect in contravention of its constitutional meaning, since that would in effect be an amendment to it by legislative fiat.
Nor can President Obama change the definition by executive order, since that would also be an amendment.
To define an arm as not including an assault rifle, for instance, would be a redefinition of the term "arm." To redefine "arms" by legislative fiat to exclude weapons such as "assault rifles," automatic rifles, etc., would be to in effect illegally amend these constitutions and sandbag every American who understands English.
If these weapons are offensive or defensive weapons, then they are "arms" in plain English? If you want to clarify or redefine their meaning "arms," then to be legal about it, you must amend the state and federal Constitutions pursuant to Art. V, U.S. Constitution, and Arts. XIX and XX, Colorado Constitution.
Redefining the word "arms" by amending Webster's dictionary to accomplish that end would be intellectually dishonest, an ex post facto nullity and unconstitutional (not in accordance with the rule of law), albeit, it might comport with the left-wing agenda to subjugate the American people under their rule by executive orders or nonsensical legislative acts such as Obamacare, TARP, etc.
Law only has efficacy if it is written in the language that the people understand. If the language is ever-changing as a result of the arbitrary whim of the politician or judge, then it is not a law to which obeisance is required.
If the Second Amendment goes, so goes all of the other "inalienable rights" delineated in the Constitution for want of the means to resist the foreign invader or domestic tyrant.
Fredric Butler