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Laura Ingraham apparently has no sympathy for crybaby military veterans, as we see HERE:
Fox News contributor and sometime �O�Reilly Factor� host Laura Ingraham predicted on �Fox and Friends� Tuesday morning that the government shutdown will end when the media starts pushing �sob stories� about injured veterans who can�t get care because of the federal closure.
Republicans in Congress, she said, will inevitably cave in to demands to reopen the government when people try to force them feel guilty for shutting down programs to help people who were hurt or traumatized serving the country in combat.
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Lewiston, ME (207) 777-8100
St. Mary's Regional Medical Center
St. Mary's Residences
St. Mary's d'Youville Pavilion
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Community Health Needs
Implementation Strategy 2013-2015
St. Mary's Health System (SMHS), founded by the Sisters of Charity in 1888, is a not-for-profit Catholic health system serving central Maine. St. Mary's Regional Medical Center (SMRMC) is a 233-bed acute care facility including medical/surgical and behavioral units.
Our Mission is to continue the healing ministry of the Catholic Church in the Spirit of St. Marguerite d'Youville by providing preventive, curative, restorative, and supportive services with compassion and respect for everyone.
We commit to these values as guides to our decisions and behavior:
The intentional affirmation that all human beings are gifted with life and uniqueness and deserve to be treated with dignity.
The deliberate effort toward achieving outcomes of the highest quality while striving for innovation and continual improvement.
The individualized and personalized caring and comforting offered through our holistic presence as health care providers.
The responsible and accountable use of all our human, material, and financial resources.
St. Mary's takes seriously the vision of our founding religious congregation and in the spirit of St. Marguerite d'Youville, we believe care of the poor and vulnerable to be integral to our mission. This is lived out through our commitment to the poor in our community whether it through direct services and programs, our willingness to commit financial resources beyond state mandates or designating some of our development resources to raise funds for programs to benefit the poor and vulnerable. This document provides a summary of St. Mary's implementation strategy to develop new and enhance established community benefit programs and services from 2013-2015. The plan addresses the top community health priorities identified in the community health needs assessment conducted by St. Mary's and Central Maine Medical Center in 2013.
St. Mary's service area includes most of Androscoggin County in central Maine, which is approximately 43,490 households (just over 107,000 people). According to the 2010 Census Bureau, the demographic distribution is:
Age group
Language Spoken at Home
*The Black/African American population in the city of Lewiston is 8.7% according to 2010 Census Bureau data.
St. Mary's Regional Medical Center is the 5th largest hospital in the state of Maine. MaineCare (a federal/state program which provides health and dental insurance assistance to people with limited resources) serves 20% of the total patient population (the highest utilization in the state), 40% are Medicare insured, 37% private pay and 3% self-pay. Lewiston is a federally designated medically underserved city.
Maine has several socio-demographic characteristics that may impact the health indicators in Androscoggin County. For example, Androscoggin County has the oldest population in the state (and Maine has one of the oldest populations in the U.S.) While being older does not necessarily equate to poor health, the reality is that aging populations use more health services than younger populations.
Maine has a lower median income than the U.S. and Androscoggin County has a higher than state average rate of people living below the federal poverty line. Unemployment rates in Androscoggin County are higher than the national benchmark and the proportion of the population with a high school diploma is lower than the state average.
St. Mary's and Central Maine Medical Center conducted a community health needs assessment in collaboration with a community stakeholders group. The data used for determining the community health needs of Androscoggin County was primarily obtained from the OneMaine Community Health Needs Assessment (CHNA) published in 2011.
The local community stakeholder group began meeting monthly in the spring of 2012 to review this data, crosswalked it to data from Healthy People 2020 health indicators, the County Rankings, the local United Way survey, the state health plan and a neighborhood survey. The identified health problems were assigned to a quadrant using a decision matrix. This matrix, based on the Precede model, focused on the importance and changeability of a given health issue. For the purpose of our assessment, the category of "importance" was related to a gap analysis-services where there were already existing resources were included in the "less important" category even though the health issue might be an identified need.
Androscoggin County community forums were held in March 2013 in Lewiston and Poland, Maine. Thirty eight community members attended, including representatives from vulnerable populations such as Tri County Mental Health Services, Advocates for Children, public health nursing, and a member of the Somali community.
Goals of the forum were:
The community forum consensus affirmed the identified priorities of cardiovascular, respiratory, sexual health and mental health, substance abuse and added oncology based on community forum feedback.
Access to Health Care and Primary Care
While Androscoggin County has a relatively low percentage of uninsured residents, access to care is an issue. Residents of this county have the highest rates of emergency department (ED) visits in the state for overall visits and high rates of ED visits for respiratory disease. This includes ED visits for patients with symptoms and conditions that could be prevented with care provided in primary care settings. As the OneMaine Health assessment notes, the issue is complex; "it could be due in part to a maldistribution of primary care providers (PCPs), the inability of patients to be seen on a timely basis or the methods of financing primary care providers. It also reflects the inability of some populations (especially MaineCare participants and the uninsured) to locate or obtain a PCP as their usual source of care." (OneMaine Community Health Needs Assessment, p. 7, 2011.)
Behavioral Risk Factors
Behavioral health risk factors are significant issues in Androscoggin County. Smoking rates are higher than the state average (20% vs. 19% ME ) and physical inactivity rates are worse than the state average (27% vs. 23% ME.) Adult obesity levels are also higher than the state average (31% vs. 28% ME.)
Cardiovascular Health
Prevalence rates of medical risk factors for cardiovascular disease are concerning in Androscoggin County. Androscoggin County has the second highest prevalence of high cholesterol (34%) in the state and a higher than state average rate for high blood pressure (31% vs. 30% ME). Residents are also more likely to have heart disease (7.3% vs. 6.3% ME).
Respiratory Health
Androscoggin County has a high prevalence of respiratory disease risk factors and respiratory disease. Asthma prevalence is high (12% vs. 10% ME) as is COPD (4.3% vs. 4.2% ME). Hospital admission and ED visit rates for bronchitis, asthma, COPD and pneumonia are also higher than state averages.
Diabetes prevalence rates are high among 45-64 year olds (16% vs 13% ME). As with other counties, diabetes prevalence is associated with high rates of obesity and sedentary lifestyle.
Cancer Health
Maine has among the highest age-adjust cancer incidence and mortality rates in the U.S. Androscoggin County has lower incidence of female breast cancer but high mortality rates for bladder cancer and females with smoking related neoplasms. The county also has high rates of cervical cancer.
Substance Abuse and Mental Health
Androscoggin County residents have the highest rates of hospital admission for most mental health conditions and substance abuse conditions, as well as the highest ED utilization rates for bipolar disorder, anxiety and acute drug related mental disorders (which could be due to both access issues to mental health services, as well as the fact that SMRMC offers a specialized behavioral emergency department.)
Reproductive Health
There are several concerning aspects for reproductive health in Androscoggin County. The teen birth rate is higher than the state average (6.9% vs. 4.1% ME) and the number of hospital admissions for high risk pregnancies is also high (499 vs. 360 ME). The infant mortality rate is 6.2% (vs. 5.5% ME).
Androscoggin County has very high rates of sexually transmitted diseases (the highest incidence of chlamydia of any county and alarmingly increasing rates of gonorrhea).
Oral Health
The state of Maine has a low ratio of practicing, primary care dentists to population, compared to national rates. Androscoggin County has higher rates of "no dental visit in the past two years" than the state average (27% vs. 24% ME). In addition, dental pain is the one of the most frequently cited reasons for Emergency Room visits in the state of Maine.
Logic Model & Implementation Strategy
Some needs identified through the community health needs assessment have not been addressed in this implementation strategy. In initial discussion and subsequent prioritization, St. Mary's considered the levels to which some needs were already being addressed in the service area. Additionally, some community health needs are beyond the scope of expertise and resources of St. Mary's Hospital. The following chart outlines how these needs are being addressed in the community and are therefore not part of St. Mary's prioritized strategy:
Identified Community Need
Reproductive Health
Oral Health
St. Mary's Board of Directors approves this implementation strategy that has been developed to address the priorities of the 2013 Community Health Needs Assessment. St. Mary's will utilize this implementation strategy as a roadmap to collaborate with the community to address these identified health priorities.
They included: Brenda Joly*, MPH, PhD Assistant Research Professor in Health Policy and Management Program. Muskie School of Public Service, University of Southern Maine, Cynthia Rice*, Director of Community Health, Wellness and Cardiopulmonary Rehab, Central Maine Medical Center, Elizabeth Keene, VP of Mission Integration, St. Mary's Health System, Steve Johndro*, Executive Director, Healthy Androscoggin, Catherine Ryder*, Executive Director, Tri-County Mental Health Services, Ginny Andrews, Nutrition Services Program Manager, Western Maine Community Action, Becky Grant, Western Maine Community Action, Brenda Czado, Director Home Care, Androscoggin Home Care and Hospice, Cara Ouellette, Director of Outreach Services, Safe Voices, Darby Ray, Executive Director, Harwood Center at Bates College, Joan Churchill, Director of Resource Development Community Concepts, Karen White, Community Transformation Grant Coordinator, Community Concepts, Alexander Veguilla-Aponte, Wellness and Recover Services Coordinator, Tri-County Mental Health Services. (* Members of Lewiston/Auburn Public Health steering committee)


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Seven vehicle burglaries were reported overnight at a Manatee County mobile home park.
The Manatee County Sheriff's Office responded to the incidents involving unlocked vehicles at Swan Lake Village, 620 57th Ave. W., lifting several prints from the scenes, according to a news release.
A purse, tools, two GPS units and $5 in change were reported missing. The purse was recovered at the park entrance. Nothing was taken in two of the break-ins.
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A Facebook page that purported to bully a student at Lacache Middle School was determined to be a hoax, Terrebonne Parish school officials said Friday.
"This was addressed this morning," Assistant Superintendent Carol Davis said. "An investigation was done, and it's all been resolved. Kids are not cyber-bullying, there is no validity to the page." School officials refused to provide details, citing the privacy of the student or students involved.
The Facebook page was created Thursday and taken down Friday. It was up for less than 24 hours.
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The Lens of Impressionism: Photography and Painting Along the Normandy Coast, 1850–1874
October 10, 2009 through January 3, 2010
This exhibition advances a new argument for the origins of what was called "the new painting," namely that a unique convergence of forces—social, artistic, technological, and commercial—along the Normandy coast of France dramatically transformed the course of photography and painting (as well as of the region itself). Within this framework, the invention of the camera and the development of early fine art photography in that particular setting will be seen as the specific catalysts that brought about a new approach to painting.
The project will showcase paintings, photographs, and drawings by some of the most treasured artists in the Western canon—Gustave Courbet, Edouard Manet, Edgar Degas, and Claude Monet among them—as well as pioneering photographers such as Gustave Le Gray and Henri Le Secq. Inspired by the scenic Normandy coast of France, these works—including representations of beach scenes, seascapes, fishing villages, resorts, and the region's pastoral beauty—will be brought together with archival materials related to early tourism and regional expressions of French nationalism from popular culture for an innovative examination of the impact of the then-new medium of photography on ideas of image making, the recording of passing time, the capacities of painting, and the rise of Impressionism itself.
Organized by UMMA, this exhibition is made possible in part by the Florence Gould Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, the University of Michigan Health System, Office of the Provost, Office of the Vice President for Research, School of Music, Theatre & Dance, the Center for European Studies-European Union Center, and Department of History of Art, Masco Corporation, Furthermore: a program of the J. M. Kaplan Fund, the University of Michigan Credit Union, and the family of Dr. Raymond F. Cunningham in his memory. The Lens of Impressionism would not have been possible without the generosity and cooperation of the Bibliotheque nationale de France (BnF) and features exceptional loans from the BnF and the Musee d'Orsay. Following its showing in Ann Arbor, the exhibition will travel to the Dallas Museum of Art.


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The parties in F. Scott Fitzgerald's iconic novel are the stuff of legend, not only in fictional West Egg but the real world as well.
Now "The Great Gatsby" is inspiring Champagne-soaked soirees from coast to coast. New York City's Plaza Hotel, a Fitzgerald hangout featured in both the book and Baz Luhrmann's movie, opening May 10, is celebrating by turning its famous lounge into a Gatsby-esque Moet Champagne Bar with Imperial Gatsby cocktails.
In Oakland, flappers and dandies danced the night away at a Gatsby fete at the Scottish Rite center in January and celebrated Gatsby-style at the Art Deco Preservation Ball held at the Paramount Theatre last weekend. Fitzgerald fans will be kicking up their spats -- and dancing the Shimmy and the Charleston -- at a lawn party at Healdsburg's Michelin-starred Madrona Manor this Sunday.
If you're throwing a Gatsby party of your own, Fitzgerald's prose evokes plenty of atmosphere. It's a tad short on usable details, though, unless you find the descriptions of "pastry pigs" and "salads of harlequin design" enough to go on.
The upside? You can be inspired by the book, the movie and the period without being too literal, says Madrona Manor chef Jesse Mallgren.
"Keep it light and fun and festive," he says. "A mixture of picnicky stuff, badminton and some passed hors d'oeuvres as well -- formality and picnic stuff are part of the whole novel."
Mallgren's menu may be too gloriously over-the-top for a DIY backyard party, but guests at the Madrona Manor garden party will surely enjoy the crisp, tempura oysters wrapped in spicy, house-cured Carolina ham (Mallgren says oysters and ham is one of his favorite flavor combinations), whole suckling pig, Waldorf salad and lobster hash with chervil and caviar.
Flapper-approved gin rickeys, Champagne and slider-sized fried chicken sandwiches are also great picnic fare. Mallgren will serve his fried chicken noshes with a Sierra Nevada ale-infused aioli -- a nod, he says, to a late-night scene in which Daisy and Tom Buchanan talk over a plate of cold fried chicken and two bottles of ale.
Champagne is de rigueur for any Gatsby party, but costumes and vintage cocktails really set the scene, say Pacifica party planners Adine Le and Kendra Rimbach, whose Perfectly Party company did the Scottish Rite event as a fundraiser for Alameda County Family Services. They served bathtub gin fizzes, dirty martinis, mint juleps and, Le says, "little nibbles."
"Deviled eggs were popular back then, so we did deviled eggs punched up with shallots and garlic, Waldorf salad in endive cups, diced melon on baguettes, mini brownies. Really doable yummy stuff," she says. "People pulled out vintage things from their moms or from vintage shops, gorgeous dropped-waist dresses, headpieces."
Retro cocktails are always fun, says New York literary-cocktail buff and Broadway actor Tim Federle, but you can create your own riffs on the theme, too. Federle just published "Tequila Mockingbird: Cocktails with a Literary Twist" (Running Press, $15, 160 pages), which includes recipes for everything from "A Cocktail of Two Cities" to "A Rum of One's Own" -- but no Gatsby. So the San Mateo native designed a Grapefruit Gatsby just for us.
"Classy enough for the old-money crowd and foolproof enough for the rest of us," he says, "this sour twist on the flapper-era mimosa tastes like all doomed romances: one-part bittersweet and one-part bubbly."
It's a Champagne and grapefruit cocktail, served in a flute and garnished, of course, with a daisy.
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Gatsby Soiree
Unleash your inner flapper or 1920s dandy at Healdsburg's Michelin-starred Madrona Manor from 2 to 5 p.m. Sunday at the Great Gatsby Soiree, a lawn party featuring retro cocktails, lawn games, live jazz and Gatsby-inspired fare. Tickets are $65 at www.gatsbyatmadrona.eventbrite.com.


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It's time to tone down the language a bit. No, I'm not suggesting everyone's got to keep their daily discourse airplane-friendly by filtering out expletives. I've been known to use a colorful metaphor or three from time to time (just ask anyone who works with me). What I'm proposing is that we take the inter-category smack-talk down a notch.
Last month at the National Beer Wholesalers Association's 75th annual convention in San Diego, the usual hand-wringing over wine and spirits grabbing more and more of beer's alcohol market share took place, but it seems like the verbiage being used in such discussions has been amped up quite a bit (and I've gone to every one of these conventions in the past decade, so I've got a pretty good personal history to draw upon).
It was one of many topics of conversation on the panel of beer executives including Bill Hackett of Crown Imports, Luiz Edmond of Anheuser-Busch, Tom Long of MillerCoors, Dolf van den Brink of Heineken USA and, from the craft realm, Sam Calagione of Dogfish Head.
During the course of the panel, I heard terms like "threats" and "adversaries," being used to describe the wine and spirits categories. Pledges to "kick" wine and spirits' "rear"—and less euphemistic terms—were hurled around.
I get it, it's a very competitive market place and competition is what makes the beverage and any other market great. But what's being lost in all of the posturing and machismo is that fact that consumers, by and large really don't care. There are actually very few drinkers of alcohol beverages that only drink from one category. Most are cross drinkers. I myself am a cross drinker. I've made no secret of my partisanship toward craft beer, but I do enjoy drinking a good glass of Cabernet, a single malt Scotch or a straight bourbon pretty frequently. I've taken personal trips to beer-centric areas like Belgium and Asheville, N.C. But I've also spent multiple vacation days in Napa. And I recently figured out how to make a pretty good mint julep (if I do say so myself), which has found a spot on my growing list of go-to drinks.
The cross-category lines have blurred in distribution as well. Beer distributors increasingly have taken on products beyond their core segment, including wine and spirits. Look at a major wine and spirits distributor like Wirtz, which does some pretty healthy beer volume.
In my cover story on the craft distilling movement, I talk to Rick Steckler of Click Wholesale, which has made a name for itself distributing beer and wine. With the privatization of spirits sales in the state of Washington, the company saw an opportunity to use its existing distribution infrastructure to excel in the spirits segment as well.
I hardly think companies like Click or Wirtz are pitting one segment against another with such hostile rhetoric.
The mission of the Beer Institute has been to build "Brand Beer"—as well it should be because that's within the organization's purview. However, as an editor of a magazine that serves all drinks categories and as a consumer who drinks a little bit of everything I'm becoming an advocate for something more radical: Brand Beverage.


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Pitt recruits' Boyd and Howard lead Pennsylvania over Maryland 58-27 in Big 33
Pennsylvania's Tyler Boyd takes the opening kick off back for a touchdown against Maryland during the first quarter of the Big 33 football game, Saturday, June 15, 2013, in Hershey, Pa. (AP Photo/PennLive.com, Joe Hermitt) by Jim Carlson HERSHEY, Pa. (AP) — Tyler Boyd didn't think he had anything to prove at Saturday night's Big 33 Football Classic high school all-star game. But with an NFL Network audience watching, along with about 8,000 fans in the stands, Boyd showed off the all-around skills that made him a solid recruit for the University of Pittsburgh. The 6-foot-1 receiver from Clairton returned the opening kickoff 91 yards and had a hand in five touchdowns as Pennsylvania defeated Maryland 58-27.


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The Houston Lightning 02 based out of MLAB in Spring, TX is currently looking to add a few players to strengthen their roster.
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The Nike "I Love" (MLB Dodgers) Women's T-Shirt shows everyone that you're a loyal member of Dodger Nation. And it does it with style, combining edgy lettering and a home-plate graphic for an attention-getting look. A slim silhouette crafted of soft cotton delivers the feminine flair and comfort that today's baseball fan appreciates.


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- It offers workshops providing acting skills, voice, movement, mime, improvisation, text reading, stagecraft, character development and confidence building.
- Go along to see a variety of dance including contemporary, hip hop, cabaret, physical theatre, salsa, mime and physical character.
- He was the outsider who was on intimate terms with them, communicating through comic mime with expressions and gestures that became a well known code.
- Her majesty also watched a mime and street dance performance from students at Welling School on the theme of life as a teenager.
- On the night of January 27 there will be a two-hour multi cultural performance of drama, songs, dances and mimes.
- They cleared the floor and treated the crowd to a mime and dance routine that had us all in stitches.
- And, when they do, they always smile and sigh, and there's a silent mime of applause.
- Joshua made circles of his fingers over his eyes, a brief mime of spectacles.
- Finally he ended with a mime of what looked like the preparation of an egg dish.
- One night a friend and I went into town to see the mime artist Marcel Marceau.
- Musicians, dancers, acrobats, clowns, actors, mimes and every hybrid in between entertain and educate audiences of kids, their parents and teachers.
- There will be actors strolling among the crowds, square dancers, singers, mimes and someone creating balloon animals.
- In fact, in Greece during the first centuries ad the term denoted a category of actors who recreated ancient legends on stage through dramatic mimes!
- These were designed for public performances - gladiatorial contests and other spectacles in the amphitheatres, plays and mimes in the theatres - and were accessible to all classes of Roman society.
- N. Purcell examines imperial mimes, K. Coleman presents a study of the punishment of delatores - those who had spied for previous (and now deceased and discredited) emperors.
- The title role was mimed in the original version.
- They gave him easy stuff to do, such as miming a scene while someone else did the voice.
- So Jon and I were standing there, miming this scene from Moonlight Mile - and have I mentioned just how scrumptious Jake Gyllenhaal looks in this movie, with the doe eyes and the buttery, knobby shoulders?
- It feels real, thanks to the inclusion of a small girl who can effectively mime fear and horror.
- Robyn stood back and clasped her hands together, miming maidenly awe.
- My character mimed ill-disguised boredom while waiting for him to settle down.
- Matt, Charlie and James will collectively flick the switch at 5.30 this Sunday and will then mime to some of their popular chart hits such as What I Go To School For and Year 3000.
- We also had some Simon and Garfunkel which we would use to mime to and put on concerts!
- They then hired a young unknown Chester band called The Wayriders to mime to the track in the accompanying video.
mimer sustantivo
- Oraciones de ejemplo
- Bringing more good news from Sweden, these foxy female 20-somethings have been playing since pre-pubescence, and this well-timed stateside debut hits girlie bands and Strokes mimers where it hurts.
- The other aim of the acting lessons is to help the mimers to develop their ability to work with others and to create their own material.
- We had mummers and mimers, too, with ballads and traditional dialogues, and the famous old interlude of the Hobby Horse.
Early 17th century (also in the sense 'mimic or jester'): from Latin mimus, from Greek mimos.
pantomime from late 16th century:
This word comes from Greek pantomimos 'imitator of all'. In Latin pantomimus was used for an actor using mime. This later developed into a comic dramatization with the stock characters of Clown, Pantaloon ( see pantaloons), Harlequin, and Columbine. The familiar panto based on fairy tales such as Mother Goose or Cinderella and involving music, topical jokes, and slapstick comedy developed in the 19th century, with a new set of conventional characters including the dame, the principal boy, and the pantomime horse. Mime (early 17th century) and mimic (late 16th century) come from the same root.
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Switzerland beats Serbia 4-1
The Swiss Davis Cup Team has secured its place in the World Group. Roger made everything clear with a 6-3, 6-2, 6-3 win over Novak Djokovic of Serbia.
After winning Friday's opening singles match against Janko Tipsarevic and then taking a second point in the doubles alongside partner Yves Allegro on Saturday, Roger made it three out of three on Sunday to put the Swiss 3-1 up with one match left to play.
Marco Chiudinelli beat Serbia's Janko Tipsarevic 6-4, 6-1 in the remaining reverse singles match.
"It was very important for us to keep our place in the world group and it's a fantastic feeling because somehow the Davis Cup always brings out a lot of emotion," Roger said.
Djokovic came into Sunday's encounter on the back of an impressive 12 months during which he had climbed 60 ranking places to world No. 21.
Switzerland were drawn into this weekend's relegation battle after losing 3-2 to Australia in a first round match which Federer did not play. Since taking Switzerland to the semifinals and quarterfinals of the 2003 and 2004 competitions, Roger has decided to skip the Davis Cup first round to concentrate on his individual career.
"I'd love to play all the Davis Cup [matches] because with the quality in this team we definitely have the potential to win it one day," Roger said when asked about his future commitment to the competition.
There are many debates in Serbia last few days about Rogers statement that Novak misuses rule about me
sorry heard wrong it's at home in Switzerland so that gives roger home surport of that is roger will be playing and i surpose that also goes for nadal we will have to see.
I just heard the results for next year's davis cup Switzerland against spain at home in spain so we all know what surface that will be on. Don't now if roger would play that one but you can bet that nadal will.
Anyway good luck roger
I hope for the Netherlands new talent is on the way....because this group is not playing very well.....
Nice to hear Switserland won, i realy like this country. Been
Normally the website colour is changed every time Roger plays a new tournament. Sometimes according to the surface eg. green for Wimbledon or red for Swiss Davis Cup (red cross on their flag and the clothes they wear I guess) etc. This colour


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Documentation - Download - Install - Example
uWSGI is a fast, self-healing and developer/sysadmin-friendly application container server coded in pure C.
Born as a WSGI-only server, over time it has evolved in a complete stack for networked/clustered web applications, implementing message/object passing, caching, RPC and process management.
It uses the uwsgi (all lowercase, already included by default in the Nginx and Cherokee releases) protocol for all the networking/interprocess communications.
It can be run in preforking mode, threaded, asynchronous/evented and supports various forms of green threads/coroutines (such as uGreen and Fiber).
Sysadmins will love it as it can be configured via several methods: command line, environment variables, XML, .ini, yaml files and via LDAP.
On top of all this, it is designed to be fully modular. This means that different plugins can be used in order to add compatibility with tons of different technology on top of the same core.
See the following table for a list of current plugins:
|Available from version
|The first available plugin, supports WSGI (PEP333, PEP3333), Web3 from version 0.9.7-dev and FastFuncs. Works with VirtualEnv, Multiple Python interpreters, Python3k and has unique features like module aliasing, DynamicVirtualenv and uGreen
|Support wsapi, coroutine and threads
|PSGI support. threading mode supported
|Rack and RubyOnRails support. A loop engine for Ruby 1.9 fibers is available
|Beta, needs test reports
|allows message exchanging between uWSGI and Erlang nodes. ErlangIntegration
|allows integration between uWSGI and the JVM. An example WSGI-like (jwsgi) handler is available
|still at early stage of development allows integration between uWSGI and Mono
Current Core Features
- Written totally in C
- Very fast (and simple) communication protocol for webservers integration (apache2, nginx, cherokee and lighttpd modules available)
- Low memory footprint (thanks to the evil premature optimizations)
- Support for multiple application in the same process/domain
- A master process manager that will allows you to automatically respawn processes and monitor the stack status
- Preforking mode to improve concurrency
- Address space and rss usage reports
- Advanced logging (even networked, see UdpLogging)
- Static file serving via sendfile() (where available)
- Portability (tested on Linux 2.6, Solaris/OpenSolaris, OpenBSD, NetBSD, DragonflyBSD, FreeBSD, MacOSX, Nexenta, and Haiku)
- Support for funny architectures like SPARC64 or ARM
- Support for threads (configurable, available from 0.9.7-dev)
- CGI mode for lazy users or ugly webservers (example CGI included here and here)
- 'Harakiri mode' for self-healing
- Vector based I/O to minimize syscall usage
- Hot-add of applications. See DynamicApps
- On the-fly configuration parameters. See ManagementFlag
- Big (professional) user-base (hundreds of production ready wsgi apps) thanks to its main development managed by the Italian ISP Unbit
- Commercial support available (contact Unbit for informations)
- All code is under GPL2 (but you can buy a commercial license if you want to modify it without releasing source code)
- Configurable buffer size for low-memory system or to manage big requests
- Customizable builds (you can remove unneeded functionality)
- Intelligent worker respawner with a no-fork-bombing policy
- Limit requests per worker
- Process reaper for external process managers (as daemontools). Avoids zombie workers.
- Per-request modifier for advanced users (See RunOnNginx for an example usage, and uwsgiProtocol for the modifiers list)
- UNIX and TCP socket support
- Graceful restart of worker processes and hot-plug substitution/upgrade of the uWSGI server using Signals. See uWSGIReload
- A shared memory area to share data between workers/processes. See SharedArea
- An integrated Spooler for managing long running task.
- Message exchanging (via uwsgi protocol) for easy-implementation of distributed applications (look at ClusteredExamples)
- Get statistics of all the workers using the EmbeddedModule
- Integrated Async/Evented? Proxy for load-balancing and healtchecking of big clusters (from version 0.9.5)
- Address space usage limiting (from version 0.9.5)
- integrated SNMP agent and nagios-friendly output (from version 0.9.5) See UseSnmp
- VirtualHosting mode (from version 0.9.6)
- Embedded async/evented HTTP server for easy development/testing and load balancing (from version 0.9.6)
- Emperor mode for massive hosting (from version 0.9.7)
- Linux Cgroups and Namespaces support (from versione 0.9.7)
- A Signal Framework for managing external events (file system modifications, timers...) SignalFramework
- Shared Cache/Hashtable/Dictionary? see CachingFramework
Planned Features / TODO
|Planned Feature
|Target Release Version
|Integrated support for wsgi middleware
|Is this really useful?
|More intelligent anti-fork-bombing policy.
|Advanced conditional logging
|0.9.6.5, improved in 0.9.7
|Linux cgroups integration
|See UseCgroups
|SSL support w/ certificate client authentication
|Allows remote management of the uWSGI stack.
|Support for multiple listening sockets
|Already in Mercurial repository, add more --socket options.
|Please see PEP-444
|preliminary support in 0.9.7
|IPv6 support
|SCTP support
|Experimental support is in 0.9.5, but needs performance improvements.
|AIX, Hurd and MorphOS support
|Improved Rack/Ruby? On Rails plugin
|Add a message queuing system on top of the Spooler
|Message queuing system should support publish/subscribe. Should be able to export via the STOMP protocol
Get it
The current (stable) release can be downloaded from:
(Released on 20110317)
The old stable (long-term-support) release can be downloaded from:
(Released on 20110207)
Mercurial repository (trunk, unstable, may not be easily compiled)
hg clone http://projects.unbit.it/hg/uwsgi
Use it
To get started with uWSGI, take a look at the Install section of this wiki. When you are finished installing, have a look at the Doc page in order to learn about the options available. You can also view some example configurations at the Example page.
Developers/Users? mailing list
Please note that with a large open source project such as uWSGI, the code and the documentation may not always be in sync. This mailing list is the best source for help regarding uWSGI.
Gmane mirror
pkgsrc area
Gentoo ebuild
Ubuntu packages
Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)
Why does this project exist? There are already mod_wsgi, flup and lot of other protocols (fastcgi, scgi...). Is this faster or simpler to configure ?
All of those systems work very well, but not one of them is a real (and complete) deployment system. uWSGI wants to be a complete solution with;
- Process management,
- Long running task handling,
- Cluster communication,
- Load balancing,
- Monitoring,
- Resource limiting
and all of those other annoying tasks that you delegate to tons of ugly/inefficient external scripts and sysadmin tasks to. It is our belief that keeping your app running smoothly shouldn't require effort.
If you are searching for a simple wsgi-only server, uWSGI may not be for you. Though, if you are building a real (production-ready) app that needs to be rock-solid, fast and easy to distribute/optimize for various loads, you will find yourself pathetically and morbidly in love (we hope) with uWSGI.
What about the protocol?
The uwsgi (all lowercase) protocol is derived from scgi but with binary string length representation and a 4 byte header that includes the size of the var block (16 bit length) and a couple of general-purpose bytes. A typical WSGI request translate to:
header (4 bytes, size is in little endian) :
WSGI env vars follow (this is a block of the size specified in the header, string size is 16 bit little endian):
And no, we are not reinventing the wheel. Binary management is much easier and cheaper than string parsing, and we need every bit of power for our projects. If you need proof, look at the official protocol documentation and you will understand why a new protocol was needed.
Can I use it in cluster environments?
Yes, this is one of the main features of the uWSGI stack. For example, using the uwsgi Cherokee handler you can specify different uWSGI servers running on different systems, or you can use the integrated upstream load balancer of Nginx.
On webserver handlers without load balancing (as Apache) you can use the integrated proxy.
Remember that the uWSGI server can pass string messages, Python dictionaries and even Python marshaled objects via its network protocol, so you can use it to build a complete clustered/distributed Python application. See Clustering and ClusteredExamples.
Why all those timeout configuration flags?
Good timeout choosing is the key for high-availability. Do not trust network applications that do not permit you to choose a timeout.
Why are most of the advanced features disabled on UNBIT systems?
Because most of the self-healing functions and resource management are integrated in the platform.
How can I buy commercial support for my company?
Write an email to info at unbit.it with the word 'uWSGI' in the subject. The email you send should include company information and your specific request. We will reply as soon as possible.
Will this allow me to run Python apps on my ancient close-minded isp?
Probably not. The uWSGI server has no support for automagic configurations.
Where are the benchmarks?
Sorry, we only do "official" benchmarks for regression testing. If benchmarks are very important to you, you can search on the mailing list (for example on the cherokee list we posted a simple benchmark with flup), make your own benchmarks or search on Google.
What is 'Harakiri mode'?
We host hundreds of unreliable web apps on our servers. All of them run on hardly (at kernel level) constrained environments where having processes blocked for an implementation error will result on taking down an entire site. The harakiri mode has two operational modes (from version 0.9.4): one that we define as 'raw and a bit unreliable' (used for simple setup without a process manager) and another one that we define as 'reliable' that depends on the presence of the uWSGI process manager. The first one sets a simple alarm at the start of every request. If the process gets a SIGALRM, it terminates itself. We call this 'a bit unreliable' because your app or some module you use could overwrite (or simply cancel) the alarm with a simple call to alarm(). The second one uses a master process shared memory area (via mmap) that maintains statistics on every worker on the pool. At the start of every request, the worker sets in its dedicated area a timestamp representing the time after the process will be killed. After every successful request this timestamp is zeroed. If the master process finds a worker with a timestamp in the past it will kill it.
Will my app run faster with uWSGI?
Probably not. The biggest bottleneck in web app deployment is the web app itself. If you want a faster environment, optimize your code or use techniques such as clustering or caching. We say that uWSGI is fast because it introduces a very little overhead in the deployment structure.
What are the most important options for performance and robustness in the uWSGI environment?
By default uWSGI is configured with almost-good-for-all values. But when things start going wild, tuning is a must.
Increasing (or decreasing) timeout is important, as is modifying the socket listen queue size.
Think about threading. If you do not need Python threads, do not enable them.
If you are running only a single application you can disable multiple interpreters (-i option).
Always remember to enable the master process in production environments.
Adding workers does not mean "increasing performance", so choose a good value based on the kind of your app (IO-Bound, Cpu_Bound, IO-waiting...)
Why not simply use HTTP as the protocol?
Good question.
HTTP parsing is slow, really slow.
Why should we do a complex task twice? The web server has already done it!
The uwsgi protocol is very simple to parse for a machine. HTTP is very easy to parse for a human.
When humans are being used as servers, we will abandon the uwsgi protocol in favour of the HTTP protocol.
Why do you support multiple methods of configuration?
System administration is all about skills and taste. uWSGI tries to give sysadmins as much choice as possible based on personal-taste and integration with already available infrastructure. Having multiple methods of configuration is just one way we achieve this.
What is the best webserver handler?
It is very hard to give an answer on this topic. We will try to give you information on every one:
uWSGI support is officially included in the Cherokee webserver. Cherokee is fast and lightweight, has a beautiful admin interface and a great community. Their support for uWSGI has been awesome since the beginning and we recommend its use in most situations. The userbase of the Cherokee uWSGI handler is probably the biggest of all. It is commercially supported by Unbit.
The module is included in the official Nginx distribution from the 0.8.40 release. A 0.7.x version is maintained in the uWSGI package. This is a stable handler commercially supported by Unbit.
This is the first module developed, it is stable but could be better integrated with the Apache API. It is commercially supported by Unbit.
From the 0.9.6-dev version a second Apache2 module is included (mod_Ruwsgi) that is more apache-api friendly. mod_Ruwsgi is not commercially supported by Unbit.
This module is the last developed but its inclusion in the official lighttpd distribution has been rejected, as the main author consider the uwsgi protocol a "reinventing the wheel" technology while suggesting a FastCGI approach. We respect this position and we will continue to maintain the module as a third party one. There is currently no commercial support for this handler. We consider this module "experimental".
This is a "commodity" handler, useful mainly for testing applications without installing a full webserver. If you want to develop an uwsgi server, look at this module. RunOnTwisted
The included servlet can be used to forward requests from tomcat to the uWSGI server. It is stable, but currently lacks documentation. There is currently no commercial support for this handler.
The CGI handlers are for "lazy" installations. Their use in production environments is discouraged.
The uwsgi IIS handler is a commercial product. You can get information by emailing us at: info at unbit dot it


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Academic Advising: Students interested in studying Biotechnology can work with the Advising and Transfer Center staff for course selection or with the Math/Science department coordinator. Kirkwood has articulation agreements with all three state universities and many other four-year institutions in the state. It is recommended that you work closely with your advisor to ensure that you are aware of specific requirements for the institution you will attend, such as foreign language, laboratory science, diversity and grade point average.
Scholarships: Several Kirkwood awards are designated for students interested in a Science,Technology, Engineering or Math (STEM) field: National Science Foundation S-STEM scholarship, Rockwell Collins STEM Scholarship, ACT Endowed Scholarship, Rohde Family Engineering Scholarship, Shive-Hattery Engineering Scholarship, Ervin Poduska Memorial Math and Science Scholarship, Gene Phillips Memorial Endowed Scholarship, Genecor Scholarship, Highway Equipment Company Endowed Scholarship, Giacoletto Foundation Scholarship, and Jim and Patricia Nemmers Endowed Scholarship. To view the process, click here.
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The Mexico Area Family YMCA Summer Food Program began July 2 and according to Sherry Medley, executive director of the Y, they are averaging a total of 130 meals a day in the four locations.
The food is prepared at McMillan Elementary School and volunteers deliver meals to each destination – YMCA, Garfield Community Center, Mexico Optimist Park and Centennial Baptist Church. The locations were chosen so kids in the four areas are able to walk or ride their bikes to the site closest to their home.
Tracey Darby and Debbie Steele prepare the healthy balanced meals. The menu is planned in advance but Darby and Steele explained they can make more if needed. The meals consist of a sandwich, vegetables, fruit and milk. Wednesday's meal consisted of turkey and cheese rollups along with the fruit and vegetables.
Medley stated volunteers are on hand at each destination to help an appointed Y staff member who oversees each site. "We have had volunteers from Kiwanis, Altrusa and individuals. Centennial provides their own volunteers" said Medley adding the community has been very supportive to the program. In addition to the meal the kids also participate in various activities. Each day their names are written down by volunteers and on Friday a drawing is held for prizes.
According to Lori Brandow, YMCA staff member overseeing the meals at Garfield Center, this is a learning process for them and she has been taking notes this week for suggestions of improvements. The number of kids varies from day to day.
The United States Department of Agriculture and a community grant funds the program which is for kids 18 and under. The free lunches are offered Monday through Friday and will continue through Aug. 15.
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A volunteer swim coach at Ashland High School was arrested Tuesday on multiple counts of felony rape and sexual assault stemming from alleged conduct with a 14-year-old member of the team.
Camren M. Mitzel, 24, of Ashland, is being held in the Jackson County Jail on four counts of third-degree rape and four counts of second-degree sexual assault. His bail is set at $40,000 and he is scheduled to be arraigned in Jackson County Circuit Court this afternoon.
Mitzel is the son of AHS swim team's head coach, Steve Mitzel, who did not immediately return a phone message today.
Ashland Police Department Chief Terry Holderness said a several-week long APD investigation determined that "no force was used" between Camren Mitzel and the victim, who is an AHS student.
— Sam Wheeler
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Booxter is a library tracking application to track your books, music, movies, and comic books. It supports all the expected features: Amazon (and many other sources) lookups, bar code and iSight scanning, export to HTML and iPod, and Spotlight integration, and a modern MacOS interface. What makes Booxter unique is that it is lightning fast, even with enormous collections, and allows a degree of customization that other similar apps do not.
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Tags: books , music , dvd , comics , library , collection
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Great app for keeping tracks of books (and now CD and DVD). What I particulary appreciate is the reactivity of the developper : bugs have always been fixed very quickly and functionality added upon user request. I strongly recommend it.
It's shareware: 49.95.
Delicious Library gets all the buzz, but Booxter has Library of Congress searching, along with many other search options, and it's fast, stable and comprehensive. I much prefer it.
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Grand Junction, Colo. (KKCO) – Tuesday's gas leak and explosion has displaced several residents from their homes, but some felt the effects of what happened more than others.
Corey Wright was sitting in his home Tuesday afternoon when he heard a booming noise come from the house next door "out of nowhere there was a huge explosion like you wouldn't believe," says Wright. He says the windows in his house blew in. Wright's first instinct was to make sure everyone in his house was ok.
Wright and five other people were inside the home and went outside to see their next-door neighbor's home had collapsed. When he saw his neighbors he quickly dialed 9-1-1. "I see the two guys that were in the house at the time both completely burned from head to toe," describes Wright. He couldn't worry about his own home because he needed to immediately turn his attention to his suffering neighbors. Making sure they got the medical help they needed, Wright says he was "screaming for an ambulance like hey can we get these guys some help I don't know what's going on."
In the midst of the confusion, Wright looked up to see his home burst into flames. It didn't take long for him to realize all of his and his roommates' possessions and valuables were destroyed. "I'm a musician and had thousands of dollars of musical equipment," says Wright, but Wright says it's not his things that matter. "Seeing everything up in flames was both awful and really restorative because it was like it's just possessions there's so many more important things. Honestly life will go on. It's, I mean, at the core of it, it's just a restart."
The Red Cross Western Colorado chapter is pitching in to help evacuated residents.
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10.3-1A Identity Theft -- §§ 53a-129a, § 53a-129b, § 53a-129c, and § 53a-129d
Revised to December 1, 2007; archived April 23, 2010
Note: This instruction is accurate for crimes committed before October 1, 2009. Public Acts 2009, No. 09-239, §§ 1-3, redefined identify theft and added provision with a lower dollar amount if the victim is over 60 years of age.
Note: Identity theft is defined in § 53a-129a. The degree of identity theft depends on the value of the items obtained. See § 53a-129b (first degree: exceeds $10,000); § 53a-129c (second degree: exceeds $5,000); § 53a-129d (third degree: no value specified).
The defendant is charged [in count __] with identity theft in the (first / second / third) degree. The statute defining this offense reads in pertinent part as follows:
a person commits identity theft when (he/she) intentionally obtains personal identifying information of another person without the authorization of such other person and uses such information to obtain [or attempt to obtain] (money / credit / goods / services / property / medical information1) in the name of such other person without the consent of such other person.
For you to find the defendant guilty of this charge, the state must prove the following elements beyond a reasonable doubt:
Element 1 - Obtained
information without authorization
The first element is that the defendant intentionally obtained the personal identifying information of the complainant without (his/her) authorization. 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.>
"Personal identifying information" means any name, number or other information that may be used, alone or in conjunction with any other information, to identify a specific individual including, but not limited to, such individual's name, date of birth, mother's maiden name, motor vehicle operator's license number, Social Security number, employee identification number, employer or taxpayer identification number, alien registration number, government passport number, health insurance identification number, demand deposit account number, savings account number, credit card number, debit card number or unique biometric data such as fingerprint, voice print, retina or iris image, or other unique physical representation.
Element 2 - Used information
without consent
The second element is that the defendant used the personal identifying information to obtain [or attempt to obtain] (money / credit / goods / services / property / medical information) in the name of such other person without the consent of such other person. 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.
[<Include element 3 only for first and second degree:>
Element 3 - Value of property
The third element is the value of the <identify property> obtained by the defendant using <insert name of complainant>'s personal identifying information. The value of the (money / credit / goods / services / property) obtained [or attempted to be obtained] must exceed <insert as appropriate:>
First degree: $10,000.
Second degree: $5,000.
For purposes of determining whether the state has proved the alleged degree of identity theft, the value of the (money / credit / goods / services / property) shall be ascertained as follows: "Value" here means the market value of the goods, services, or property at the time and place of the crime. "Market value" means the price that would, in all probability, result from fair negotiations between willing buyers and sellers at the time and place of the crime; the probability being based upon the evidence in the case.
If you can determine the price the property sold for at the time of the crime, then that is the controlling value. If the market value cannot be determined, then you should consider the replacement cost of the goods or services within a reasonable time after the crime.]
In summary, the state must prove beyond a reasonable doubt that the defendant 1) intentionally obtained <insert name of complainant>'s personal identifying information without the consent of <insert name of complainant> [and] 2) used that information to obtain [or attempt to obtain] something of value in the name of the complainant, [<insert only for first or second degree:>, and 3) the value of the <identify property> exceeded ($10,000 / $5,000).]
If you unanimously find that the state
has proved beyond a reasonable doubt each of the elements of the crime of
identity theft in the (first / second / third) degree, 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.
Medical information would only be relevant to third degree, as it has no
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A man walks into a gun store. He wants to purchase a gun. He fills out the proper paperwork, passes a FBI background check and walks out, the proud owner of a new gun.
No joke. It is simply the thorough process that customers go through before purchasing guns from a federally licensed gun dealer, said Jim Stewart, owner of Jim's Gun Shop in Coal Run. No one who is forbidden from having a gun will ever purchase one from a federally licensed gun dealer, he said.
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JASMINE ROGERS The Marietta Times
Marietta resident Ralph Shuttleworth fills out the necessary paperwork Tuesday in Cain's Outdoor, Inc. to purchase a fire arm. Unlike guns purchased from federally licensed dealers, guns purchased from individuals do not require any paperwork or background checks.
The rules are much less strict for non-licensed sellers, although one was arrested in Marietta this month for illegally selling guns.
"I have to call the FBI," said Stewart. "They punch information into the computer from the paper you filled out. And they will then say, yes, you can have the gun or you might get a further delay which means the computer matched something with someone who has a problem with the law."
Those requirements-proper paperwork and a background check-follow Stewart and other federally licensed dealers no matter where they choose to sell their guns.
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The laws
Laws governing federally licensed firearm dealers:
Must have potential buyers fill out Federal Form 4473.
Must call the FBI and have them perform a background check on the buyer.
Can be required to delay the purchase of the gun up to three days if the FBI finds the purchases has criminal restrictions.
Are required to keep the corresponding paperwork for 20 years following the sale of a gun.
Can not directly sell handguns to individuals from a different state.
Laws governing private citizens selling firearms:
Do not need to require identification from the buyer.
Do not need to perform a background check on the buyer.
Do not need to record the sale or keep any record of it.
Can sell handguns to individuals regardless of state of residence.
"A licensed dealer can set up at a gun show and you would have to undergo the same process," he said.
Additionally, a law that specifically targets handguns prohibit an Ohio federally licensed dealer from directly selling a handgun to a citizen from another state, regardless of whether or not they complete the required paperwork and background check. Citizens wishing to purchase a handgun out of state have to have the gun physically transferred to their home state, he said.
However, the same rules do not apply to licensed dealers and private citizens, explained Washington County Sheriff Larry Mincks.
"As far as going out to a flea market or a gun show, you don't even have to provide identity," said Mincks.
Private citizens can sell their guns to any individual without seeking identification, paperwork or a background check. They can also sell a handgun to any individual, even those from a different state, said Scott Cain, owner of Cain's Outdoors, Inc. in Williamstown.
Despite the fact that there are few rules governing the sale of guns by private citizens, a man selling guns was arrested Saturday at Rinky Dinks flea market, said Capt. Jeff Waite of the Marietta Police Department.
The man, Clarence W. Weddle, 68, of Portland, was a convicted felon, said Waite. And it was not trying to sell guns that got him into trouble so much as simply possessing them in the first place.
Weddle was arrested for having weapons under a disability, a law that prohibits prior felony convicts from possessing a firearm.
The MPD arrested Weddle after receiving a tip that he was selling guns at the flea market. He was convicted of robbery in 1978 and had not been relieved of the gun disability, according to the police report.
"This wasn't the first time he'd been there selling," confirmed Waite.
The arrest brought up questions as to how much, if any, additional policing is necessary outside of traditional gun stores.
Both Mincks and Waite said their offices do not actively police gun shows.
"Most of the people who are involved in gun shows are very reputable people. So we really don't put a lot of emphasis on them. They are law abiding people," said Mincks.
On top of that, individuals can sell their guns virtually anywhere -over the Internet, in the Bulletin Board, at a flea market, inside their home, at a yard sale or at a gun show, said Mincks.
And finally, there are very few ways in which an individual seller could even violate the law. Basically, the person would have to be a felon, as was the case with Weddle, or would have to be selling stolen property, he said.
Adding more restrictions to personal gun sales could give law enforcement more leeway to make sure guns never end up in the possession of felons.
However, Cain said the idea of stricter policies for personal gun sales is unnecessary and impractical on several levels.
To begin with, convicted felons do not usually purchase guns, he said.
"A majority of convicted felons are not going to buy a gun. They are going to steal it," said Cain.
Additionally, adding extra limits and restrictions on the individual sale of guns directly infringes on rights, he said.
"It's your private property," Cain said of individuals who wish to sell their guns. "We wouldn't want the government preventing us from selling our own items."
Still said Cain, even he recommends that his customers leave a paper trail as far as their personal gun sales are concerned.
"If you're going to sell one, bring it in to a dealer," he said.
Though not necessary, individual sellers can have the store provide a background check. They can also have the dealer record the transaction so if the gun is used in a crime sometime in the future, the seller can prove he no longer owned it, said Cain.


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A Houma man being arrested Wednesday afternoon on charges of striking his girlfriend was further charged with assault after he threatened to hit her again after he got out of jail, authorities said.
Dustin Hutchinson 27, 1 Stones Throw, No. 285, was jailed on charges of domestic abuse-battery and simple assault, according to a Terrebonne Sheriff's Office report.
Deputies responding to disturbance complaints at the couple's apartment met Hutchinson as he was leaving and learned of a fight between him and the woman.
She told deputies that as he collected things to leave the apartment, she tried to keep him from taking her things and was struck in the face.
Hutchinson tried to avoid arrest but was chased down and handcuffed. As he was being taken away, deputies reported, he told the alleged victim, "You think I hit you before, wait till I get out of jail."
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2009 (FRESHMAN): Appeared in 16 games for the Islanders tossing 16 1/3 innings … was 0-3 on the season with a 9.37 ERA … recorded lone start of season in final appearance of year, as he got the starting nod at Sam Houston State (5/14) … longest outing of the season was at Nicholls in relief as he pitched 2 2/3 innings.
High School: Played for Coach Rudy Rodriguez and the Bobcats at Bloomington … posted a 9-1 record … also hit .490 at the plate … set the school record with 15 strikeouts in a game … named all-district four straight seasons … was the team's Player of the Year as a junior and senior … first-team all-area as a senior … was a four-year player in football and basketball.
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The Lucifer Effect: Understanding how Good People Turn Evil
Random House, 2007 - Psychology - 551 pages
What makes good people do bad things? How can moral people be seduced to act immorally? Where is the line separating good from evil, and who is in danger of crossing it?
Renowned social psychologist Philip Zimbardo has the answers, and inThe Lucifer Effecthe explains how–and the myriad reasons why–we are all susceptible to the lure of "the dark side." Drawing on examples from history as well as his own trailblazing research, Zimbardo details how situational forces and group dynamics can work in concert to make monsters out of decent men and women.
Zimbardo is perhaps best known as the creator of the Stanford Prison Experiment. Here, for the first time and in detail, he tells the full story of this landmark study, in which a group of college-student volunteers was randomly divided into "guards" and "inmates" and then placed in a mock prison environment. Within a week the study was abandoned, as ordinary college students were transformed into either brutal, sadistic guards or emotionally broken prisoners.
By illuminating the psychological causes behind such disturbing metamorphoses, Zimbardo enables us to better understand a variety of harrowing phenomena, from corporate malfeasance to organized genocide to how once upstanding American soldiers came to abuse and torture Iraqi detainees in Abu Ghraib. He replaces the long-held notion of the "bad apple" with that of the "bad barrel"–the idea that the social setting and the system contaminate the individual, rather than the other way around.
This is a book that dares to hold a mirror up to mankind, showing us that we might not be who we think we are. While forcing us to reexamine what we are capable of doing when caught up in the crucible of behavioral dynamics, though, Zimbardo also offers hope. We are capable of resisting evil, he argues, and can even teach ourselves to act heroically. Like Hannah Arendt's Eichmann in Jerusalem and Steven Pinker's The Blank Slate,The Lucifer Effectis a shocking, engrossing study that will change the way we view human behavior.
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The Truckee baseball team went 2-1 in a Division I-A crossover tournament against the Lahontan League over the weekend. The Wolverines defeated Dayton 6-3 on Friday and Fallon 10-2 on Saturday before ending the tourney with a 13-7 loss to Fernley later Saturday.
The defending state champs got off to a slow start against the Dust Devils (1-4), who scored single runs in the first, third and sixth innings while blanking Truckee through six.
The Wolverines' offense came alive in the seventh, however. They took over the lead with a six-run outburst, highlighted by a two-run home run off the bat of senior Chris Towle.
Senior Erik Holmer went 2-for-3 in the game, while Towle, Riley Guiragossian, Bradley VanSchoonhoven, Andy McKechnie and Travis Ferre contributed a hit apiece. Aside from Towle's two RBIs on his blast, VanSchoonhoven and Guiragossian each drove in a run.
Ferre and Guiragossian pitched. Ferre started and went four innings, giving up two runs on four hits and three walks while striking out four. In three innings, Guiragossian, who earned the win, allowed a run on three hits and a walk while recording two strikeouts.
Truckee jumped out to an early 1-0 lead against Fallon (2-5) and extended it to 6-2 with a five-run third. The Wolverines added two runs in the fifth and two more in the sixth. Fallon scored both its runs in the third.
By the time the Wolverines faced Fernley (4-2) they were running out of pitching, as both Holmer and Aaron Pado were unavailable to throw due to injuries.
Senior Jackson Rohlf, who caught seven innings against Fallon earlier in the day, started and lasted two innings. Gavin Broad and Ty Vaio pitched two innings apiece in relief as Truckee struggled defensively in the game, committing seven errors.
Truckee managed 11 hits, led by Thor Retzlaff's 3-for-3 performance. Towle had two hits, both doubles, while Ferre and Pado also had two hits, and McKechnie and Broad each had one. Towle, Pado and Rohlf drove in two runs apiece, and McKechnie drove in one run.
The teams were tied after one inning, but Fernley scored six runs in the second and never trailed after that.
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Friends, family and some of the world's most famous entertainers celebrated the life of Whitney Houston on Saturday, in a joyous funeral ceremony at the Newark church that the New Jersey-born pop legend...
Hours after his ex-wife's funeral in Newark, N.J. on Saturday, Bobby Brown will be on stage in Connecticut.
Whitney Houston's fans will be given a virtual front-row seat for what's shaping up to be a star-studded funeral.
Whitney Houston's 18-year-old daughter Bobbi Kristina is "doing much better," her father Bobby Brown said on Wednesday.
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ALAMEDA -- Raiders owner Mark Davis and coach Dennis Allen finally had their face-to-face meeting Tuesday night. A short time later, Davis said Allen is going to remain as the Raiders coach for 2014.
"It's been that way ever since he signed a four-year contract to be the head coach of the Oakland Raiders," Davis said, by phone, of Allen's status being secure.
When asked if there was any uncertainty moving forward, Davis said: "No. There hasn't been a question about it, either."
The meeting took place Tuesday night, a few hours after Allen told a public relations member at 5:30 p.m. that he was headed home for the night.
On his way out, Allen stopped his car, rolled down his window and said to three media members, "I got nothing for you."
When asked if he met with Davis, Allen said: "Again, I don't have anything for you."
By night's end, it was Davis doing all the talking. He said the call on Allen's job ultimately rests with general manager Reggie McKenzie, who hired Allen away from the Denver Broncos in 2012.
Davis said he expects to meet with Allen again Wednesday, along with McKenzie.
At that point, "We'll talk a little bit about free agency and all that stuff and just start putting together next season's plan."
Davis said he and Allen covered a lot of ground Tuesday night in a meeting that lasted about two hours.
"Dennis and I had a great meeting," Davis said. "We talked about last season, recapped it. We talked about the process going forward, (talked) about some of the personnel, the coaching situation, all of those things."
Allen said several times since the season ended that he expected to be back as the Raiders coach next season. He just finished the second season of the four-year contract he signed in 2012.
Still, there remained uncertainty until Allen met with Davis and made sure they were on the same page.
One of the main issues was Allen's staff. Allen and McKenzie wanted the assistants working on two-year contracts. Davis refused.
Several assistants that balked at the hard-line stance and were told to take the one-year extensions or seek employment elsewhere.
By Tuesday, six or seven assistants had signed extensions through next season.
As of now, none of the assistant coaches whose contracts were about to run out or had only one year left resigned.
In other news, scout Larry Marmie resigned from the Raiders and accepted a job with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.