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Concealed carry permits surge
Ammo shortage a concern for law enforcement
January 18, 2013
PARKERSBURG — Growing concerns over gun control laws and the right to bear arms have Wood County residents flocking to sign up for concealed carry permits, officials sai....
Look at all the war torn parts of the world. Governments are for the most part, attempting to control their populations. How do you accomplish that? First you must disarm the population. Then you can take free speech and free religion. Next, control food and money access by individuals. The taking will snowball from there until you are under complete government control. This complete control is the driving force behind the UN. If you research some of their proposals concerning the direction the population of the world would be controlled by the UN, it will scare the crap out of you! It does me. Especially with the direction this weapons rights conversation is going.
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to be used against them by the government. With all that said; concealed carry permits are good things. If you hip carry and the handle of the weapon is covered by your coat, it suddenly becomes concealed; according to the law, even if the rest of the holster w/weapon inside is visible. Now you're breaking the law, as instituted. I believe this "Assault Weapon" ban crap is a sham, to keep a foot in our door, to ultimately attempt to take our rights from us. I think many are obtaining these permits to show they are law abiding and are concurrently protecting their legal rights according to the 2nd Amendment. AaronL: I enjoyed the Psalms reference!
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Any law precluding your rights that are protected by the 2nd Amendment is an infringement, period. To me, these laws mean nothing until the Constitution is amended further to address this issue. I say this based strictly on the writing and not allowing any of my personal prejudices, pro or con, to cloud the issue. I disagree with the Supreme Court in their last writing on this. The 2nd Amendment doesn't provide any remedy for taking your rights from you. This has been done completely against the Constitution, as written. People say the 2nd Amendment is irrelevant and should be changed because of new technology in weapons. At the time it was written, people had weapons equal to what was available (Cont'd)
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drinking should be allowed at 18! I think anyone who wants to get a permit to carry a gun should be allowed to do so. What is the difference in Ohio and WV Carry?
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Why the need to drag Chief Goodwins name into your disjointed ramblings? His race is ran and doesn't have a dog in this fight.
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Trolling your anti-Constitution propaganda while attending Mr.Goodwin's funeral, are you having a beer while you wait also?
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The media has fallen right in line to "scare the Sheeple",just look around at "headline" stories; "Joe,from Podunk North Dakota,shot his buddy in the foot with a 6 shot 22 caliber 'assault pistol' after his buddy described a nice,well paid eve,with Joe's mom". Push the agenda,no matter what. I have YET to see any weapon jump up,load itself and slay just for kicks and giggles. Wm. Cook,Chas. Starkweather were lunatics from the 1950's,with no great outcry which is now.The powers that be want the Sheeple disarmed because they've screwed every-one so hard,they;re scared of repercussions.It's not a party thing,accounts deleted,it's a mass fear from the elected "Haves";Running scared for a GOOD reason. The guilty will flee,when there is no-one in pursuit.
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Guy007;How's that program working in Chucktown for you?
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Hindliar 101,thought YOU had a CCW?Maybe YOU should be one of those 95% you're crowing about,because if there ever was a more unstable POS,it's YOU.NOW,come shoot me like you have threatened to do numerous times.
Aaron N. Lohoefener.
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okay point well taken. i just do not understand how you lost freedoms you strongly feel entitled to have. and i do support the 2nd amendment, just understand it is not black and white.
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"more laws=less freedom" was only part of what I said to make my point, you disected one part and generalized it. All I am saying is, the numbers just do not work on these particular regulations, there are other more clear numbers they should be considering. And bolo, you are right, ironic, isnt it.
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just living by the "more laws=less freedom" mentality does not help our nation. it is a very general headliner as well. laws should be treated on an individual level. yes, you are right that laws do restrict - but what about laws that provide us with clean air and water? sure, it gives relative companies less freedom, but overall society gains.
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The way I see it total freedom is anarchy and total laws/rules is slavery. We live in a society that has agreed upon laws and if you break them you are tried by peers and punished. More laws = less freedom. So, I ask, if a law will have no net effect (and possibly inverse effect) on crime, then why make that particular law?
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Yes, I think Obama is using this terrible event to push a political agenda instead of actually doing something that will make a difference. These laws would not have prevented the mass shootings and they will not change anything, so I am frustrated. And, if european healthcare is so great, why does everybody in the world come to the US for any real treatment or procedures?
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@hindsight101: alas carrying a concealed firearm without a permit and you threaten others with informing the police on them. wow you have got to be the biggest hypocrit on planet earth. have you ever heard the phrase people in glass houses shouldn't throw stones? it sounds to me like you would be comfortable in a fascistic dictatorship circa 1939, provided your not the wrong color, religion, sexual preference etc.
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that should have been 18 to 21 and not 211 as we don't yet expect to get to that age.
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again hindsight mislabels things. if over 21; a person applying for a handgun concealed carry permit does NOT have to be in a job requiring concealed carry. that is for the 18 years of age up to 211
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Possessing a firearm in a commercial vehicle, hmm?
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Just Asking.
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When's the next cookout?
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further example in my explanation of comparing other nation's political parties with ours: even conservatives in the UK firmly believe in universal healthcare.
we are far behind in the times... sigh...
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and thank you for labeling me. myself, am a moderate democrat. for example, if we were to compare US political parties to other western, free democracies - our moderate democrats are in line with conservatives in a given westernized nation. and our farther left liberals are more in line with our moderate democrat and so on...
all of these are just labels and mean nothing when it comes to getting real stuff done. so you can spout off stuff and ignore it if you just say bah, that is just liberal propaganda or you can talk substance.
finally, as seen in the 2012 presidential election - the GOP was just the party of anti-Obama and didn't hash out the real stuff to win votes with moderate Americans. and when they did talk specifics, it was focused on stuff like what legitimate rape is - and we can all see how that mentality/gameplan worked out...
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Well said "pkrsbrgh"
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@slingblade - you say: "before you start attacking me with your far left propaganda...I am not a registered republican."
see this is a major problem of the current environment in our nation. all you are doing is flinging labels here name calling there and not discussing anything with substance. for example, all you are doing is categorizing Obama as a socialist, therefor i don't need to listen to him, or work with him, or strive to come together and get things done, or even realize that hey we may all disagree - but we need to find middle ground for the better of our society.
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i dont feel there are any "silver bullets" {no pun intended} you cant legislate murderous intent from an individual bent on taking lives. all ideas should be considered and evaluated. when we get into political posturing none of us come out ahead, party affiliation is meaningless when innocent lives are being lost. the rights endowed to us do not come from the government and i feel they are unassailable. we as a compassionate society owe it to the most vulnerable among us to protect them from harm however in a free country such as ours sometimes we have to take the good with the bad unfortunately. our leaders need to try and find a balance between preserving our rights and providing our security
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Lady in red Emma Stone killed it in Lanvin at the premiere for her new film Gangster Squad and can we discuss that necklace?! Major! The movie opens this Friday, January 11th, 2013.
Seriously could Kerry Washington be any more stunning?! The actress looked trés chic in Prada at the Paris premiere of her new movie Django Unchained.
All eyes were on Kate Bosworth at the Audi party to kick off Golden Globes Week 2013! Her black, sheer-paneled, cut-out Emilio Pucci dress was perfection.
The Fanning sisters looked absolutely adorable at the J. Estina SS 2013 presentation in Seoul, South Korea. We're loving their spring-forward dresses and Dakota's metallic loafer!
The Modern Family star worked the red carpet for her new film Struck By Lightening in a gorgeous Christian Siriano dress and Giuseppe Zanotti heels. Can we just say...way to nail this look Sarah!
Also spotted at the Struck By Lightening premiere was Ashley Rickards, who was rocking a bright graphic dress—we might need to borrow that one Ash.
Now there's a hottie with a body! Julie Bowen looks A-mazing for her age and always wears outfits that flatter her toned figure. When you've worked that hard for it, you gotta show it off! She wore a one-shouldered embellished dress to the Audi Golden Globes event held in LA and was easily one of the best-dressed stars of the night!

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Incline Village's historic fundraising run is no longer limited to just one weekend — or just one sport.
Starting with the 29th annual event this Saturday, the iCanTahoe Summer Series, formerly known as the i-CAN Run/Walk, has expanded into a month-long series with a different sporting event each weekend.
The event will kick off with the traditional iCANrun this Saturday, Sept. 1, and will continue with the iCANpaddle stand-up paddleboard race on Sept. 8, the iCANtri triathlon on Sept. 15 and the iCANdownhill mountain bike race on Sept. 22.
"Last year around the time of the event, a lot of people came who had done it in previous years, and they made this suggestion over and over again that we should do more iCAN events, because it's great for the North Shore," said co-organizer Chris Laramore, executive director of the Incline After-School Organization, which took over the event two years ago.
The iCanTahoe Summer Series helps support the programs of the Incline After-School Organization, sponsoring a dozen free after-school activities for all local youth.
It starts with the 5- and 10-kilometer runs on Saturday. The course, which has varied over the years, starts and finishes on the Incline High School track and takes participants by the Championship Golf Course and Incline Elementary School. Racers also have the option of running a 20K, while a "kids" race will consist of one lap around the track.
"We usually have somewhere between 250 and 500 people participating," said Laramore, adding that many people register on the day of the event. "I think we will have more people than last year. I'm expecting a great turnout."
The following Saturday, Sept. 8, the iCANpaddle will send participants on either a 1/2-mile, 3-mile or 5-mile course starting and ending at the Hyatt pier.
The Saturday after that, Sept. 15, features the iCANtri, which will include a pool swim, bike and run starting at the Incline Village Recreation Center. Three distances will be offered: Gold (800-yard swim, 13-mile bike, 3-mile run), Silver (400-yard swim, 7-mile bike, 2-mile run) and Bronze (200-yard swim, 3-mile bike, 1-mile run).
The iCanTahoe Summer Series wraps up with the iCANdownhill on Saturday, Sept. 22. This unique event uses the historic Chinese Downhill and Tyrolean trails, which peel off the Tahoe Rim Trail and plunge nearly 2,000 vertical feet to a finish line near Diamond Peak Ski Resort.
To register or learn more about the iCanTahoe Summer Series, go to www.icantahoe.com.


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The Year that Jack Bauer Saved our Summer
This guest post is by Laura Shumaker. Laura is the author of "A REGULAR GUY: GROWING UP WITH AUTISM." Join the discussion about her book on Facebook.
It was July 30, 2006, and the first day of relief from a record breaking heat wave in the San Francisco Bay Area. I stood anxiously by the escalator at the Oakland Airport waiting for my twenty-year-old son Matthew to arrive from Pennsylvania. Matthew is autistic and had been attending a special residential school there since he was 15.
He would be home for a five-week break. Worried that he would be lonely and adrift as in summers past, I hired a companion who worked at his school to fly Matthew home and stay with us for three weeks.
His name was Kim, a twenty-five-year old from South Korea who had joined the staff of Matthew's school just a year earlier. I had heard good things about Kim, but was nervous because our communication through phone and email, though cheerful, had been awkward. His English was difficult to understand, and I wasn't sure he understood the notion of "friend to hang out with" rather than "policeman". Matthew was painfully aware of his disability and need for support, but despite his innate social ineptitude, he craved independence and friendship, and wanted to be viewed by the world as a regular twenty-year-old.
In the past when I had hired "friends" for Matthew, I'd had the benefit of meeting them first in person to see if the chemistry was right. When Kim and Matthew came into view at the top of the escalator, I saw no chemistry. My son, wearing a t-shirt, shorts and sandals, rushed ahead of his smiling companion.
"I'm not with him," said Matthew, frowning in earnest. "I don't need a babysitter."
"He's not a babysitter," I said, shaking hands with the stranger in front of me, "Kim is our friend!" Matthew rushed ahead to the baggage claim. "Did you have a nice flight?" I asked Kim, who shrugged and smiled.
It's gonna be a long three weeks.
The first few days of the visit Matthew avoided Kim, and my husband and I and our other two teenage sons tried manically to make Kim feel useful and at home, talking to him, struggling to understand his English, inviting him for walks and meals, and asking him to help with the dishes. By the third day, I was exhausted from smiling, talking, and suggesting activities for Matthew and Kim that fell flat.
"Do you want to go to the movies with Kim, Matthew?"
"How about a hike?"
"No hikes."
Feeling like a prisoner in my own home, I left Matthew and Kim alone together while I took our four-month-old Labrador puppy, Cali, for a walk. When I returned, there was a police car in the driveway.
"He's stalking me!" Matthew was telling the policewoman who had responded to his 911 call. Kim smiled nervously and paced around, and the officer looked confused. I explained the situation and apologized profusely. She said she thought she'd seen everything till today.
"Look, Matthew," I sighed, "Kim is our friend. Will you please be nice to him?"
"Probably not," was his response.
There was no way I could endure this kind of grief for three weeks, and I wondered if I should just pay Matthew's friend for hire the full amount that I had promised him and put him on a plane back to Pennsylvania. But then I glanced at Kim who was stroking the puppy, and I could see he was a person who smiled even when he was hurt. Somehow I had to make his visit a successful one.
"Matthew has some yard work to do," I said. "Could you do me a big favor and wear this puppy out?"
Kim nodded eagerly, and the two fled to a walking path around the corner. Later that evening, Kim took Cali for another walk, and came home looking exhilarated. Did we have any movies he could watch on his laptop, he asked? As I was reaching for The Sound of Music, my thirteen year old handed him the first season of "24″, a cult show among teenagers about the dangerous adventures of no-nonsense counter-terrorist agent Jack Bauer. The next morning Kim slept in, and admitted sheepishly that he had been up half the night watching the series.
"That's OK," said my thirteen-year-old, "We're addicted, too!"
By the fifth day of his visit, Kim had settled into a happy routine of dog care and other chores, amiable family dinners and evenings with "24″. On day six, a Saturday, Matthew knocked on Kim's door, and asked him if he wanted to walk downtown and get some pizza.
"I decided that I might like Kim," said Matthew when they returned, and I heaved a sigh of relief, grateful that the web of reverse psychology that I had woven out of desperation snagged Matthew. I stopped counting the days until Kim's departure, as the two bonded over daily walks downtown.
The morning of Kim's departure, Matthew told him not to be sad-he'd see him in September. But Kim had a hard time saying goodbye to Cali, and knelt down to cuddle her one last time. He was still smiling, but I saw a tear cascade onto the puppy's shiny coat.
"You are going to miss uncle Kim, aren't you Cali? Let's take your picture with him." As Kim grinned for the camera, I was grateful that the painful scene at the airport three weeks earlier had unfolded so magically. It seemed that by turning our constant focus from our autistic son to the needs of our houseguest, Matthew was free to befriend his friend for hire in his own time and in is own way.
The next morning, an email message from Kim arrived. It remains on our refrigerator along with his picture with Cali.
So much thank you for you, and family, and my niece Cali.
It was a great 3 weeks for me….my best summer in life.
Thanks a lot for giving me such a nice memory.


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You sick weirdo!"This is very good, but please don't do it again." - Grandma on my roasted camembert recipe
As a child I sometimes hadWhat I would call"Fits of unreality"I would be in the school playgroundPlaying footballAlways a few yards in front of the goalAlways playing defenseAnd I was very good at thatOr it would be Wednesday noonI'd be having lunchWith my grandmaAnd she'd be cooking vealWith these small noodles I lovedThat looked like tori cut in halvesOf course I didn't know that wordThenThey looked likeSmall empty shellsAnd my grandma always cooked them twiceUntil they got really crunchyBecause I liked themCrunchyOr I'd be at homeSitting at the kitchen tableListening to my parents talkAbout people who buy expensive things with money they don't haveAbout the best brand of mattress for patients with bedsoresOr I'd be in the gardenWatching the dogs playOr I'd be looking at myselfIn the bathroom mirrorAnd suddenlyFor a few secondsThe world would become meaninglessThe playground and the ballWould seem like a jokeMy grandma at her cookerAnd her crunchy noodlesA trick of the mindMy mother and father and petsComplete strangersMy face in the bathroom mirrorThe greatest of unlikelihoodsYesFor a momentI could not believeIn myselfAnd even less in the worldAround meAnd it would have been nice thenTo be allowedTo put little labelsOn thingsLabels that would read"Ball""Noodle""Father""Mirror"One day my mother noticedBecauseFor ten secondsI had been looking at herAs if I was seeing her faceFor the first timeI was terrifiedBut she was coolAnd we decided to call these fitsSomething innocuousFor us"Vertigoes"The doctor had nothing to sayI felt like an alienIn my own homeI could not believe I was someoneIn some townIn western EuropeBut still it had to beOKA few years laterI started reading all I could aboutBuddhaAnd his lifeAnd his beliefsAnd I started thinking that maybeAt the start of a new lifeIt was not unusualTo feel a little unrealAfter allWe all need a little timeTo get used to this world againDon't we?But a few years after thatI started believing in the power of Cautious ReasoningAnd KnowledgeAnd I decided that my vertigoesMust have been the effectsOf some malfunctioning synapsesSomewhere deep in these three poundsOf white throbbing stuffHoweverTodayWhen I look in the bathroom mirrorI still can't believe in myselfI still can't believe that two peopleIn western Europe in 1976Wanted thisMeTheir little boyNow thirty years oldBent mute all day longIn man-machine symbiosisWorking hard on stuffPeople will needIn tomorrow's worldMaybeAnd I can't believeThat this may lastFor another fifty yearsNot that I'm unhappyOr even happyI just wonderI can't see a schemeOr a purposeIn their worldAnd on a day like todayWhen death has seemed so sweetAll dayI just can't believeThat I'm still hereTo not believe"This is very good, but please don't do it again." - Grandma on my roasted camembert recipe
I like this poem a great deal. Your other stuff is more universal, but, I can somehow relate more to this poem than anything else you've posted so far, even though I can't say for sure that I've ever experienced the exact thing you are describing, (and describing quite well, I may add.)I'm digging the creepier stuff... Here's something fairly new. I'm not even gonna try to deny it... I was inspired by Beetlejuice on this one, and briefly by John Wayne Gacy.For the warmth that I strive to contain in you;For the mortar I lay in your cracks;You give me the gift of a skeleton key,That's been lathered with smudged fingerprintsYou say it's authenticI wouldn't be sureIt opens all things, save for one stubborn door...The attic Refuses to budge;Hulking portal, In heavy lit frameA towering, nightly, archway of defeatI keep circling through over againLike a bird fastened tight to the rails Skating round all the cogs and the wheels In the tattooing heart of your careful inventionThat screeches and stops in another dimensionI swear there's a wild thing, nightly, you weltIt's wasting and writhing, there; pinned to a belt,Or tucked in the floorboards, like some twisted fagOf old letters - all dried out and drained of their sapSo dry, now, infact, That I'm sure they'd combust If I mentioned I'd stumbled across them, in passing Rummaging, desperate, like I was just guessing;Looking to silence the scratch in the walls I think the influence of TW is alienating me from general society. - to_dizzy
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It's too bad Monkeyboy never checks this thread, he'd be glad you mentioned him in one of your poems."This is very good, but please don't do it again." - Grandma on my roasted camembert recipe
At least now we'll get to see whether he does searches for his name.Whether in success or failure, sooner or later time must lead to disillusionment...
It will be a good test indeed."This is very good, but please don't do it again." - Grandma on my roasted camembert recipe
Planet Earth is getting warmerHe saidI saidI guess soSo he askedWhat are you doing about it?And I repliedWell, it's been freezing all week,So I guess I could takeA degree or sixThen he saidDon't be cynicalWhat world do you want for your kids?And I saidWhat kids would want our worldAnyway?I didn't want itMy father didn't want itAnd my father's father before himNo one ever wanted itIt runs in the familySo he saidDon't be selfishI'm sure your kids want to be bornAnd I saidAs much as I'd like to outnumberThe religious nutsThe woman hatersThe football fansAnd most of allThe polar bearsThere's no way I can be a fatherSo he saidIf everyone was like youIt would be the end of mankind!And I saidCry me a river"This is very good, but please don't do it again." - Grandma on my roasted camembert recipe
The ideaIs to take every single shitty ideaAnd to turn itIntoArtYou're in bedReading some disturbing poemBy some girl who took her own lifeAnd you think about putting a bullet in your brainThen it becomesArtOr you're at homeSitting on the throneAnd you feel like cryingAnd moving to a sunny island somewhereThen it becomesArtOr you're bored at workThinking about the next time you'll get drunkAnd you have a childhood reminiscenceAbout some mental dysfunction you hadThen it becomesArtOr you're taking a showerWhistling "Well, you needn't" byThelonious MonkAnd you realise how easy it isTo write about just anythingThen it becomesArtDoesn't it?"This is very good, but please don't do it again." - Grandma on my roasted camembert recipe
At first I wanted to respect youI assumed the bestLike some naive childBut then you blew it allWith a dry replyAnd a scornful lookI said nothing thenBut you have no ideaHow much I wanted to plant my nails in your shoulderUntil you bledUntil the pain made you cryUntil you realised who it is who pays your wagesAnd what a despicable piece of shit you areYes, I've been too kind againThat's my biggest flawI try but I can'tBe haughtyBe nastyAnd I can't speak loudBut rest assuredYou despicable piece of shitThat next time we meetI will plant my nails in your shoulderUntil you bleedUntil the pain makes you cryAnd I'll break your teethWith the nearest bongo drumAnd I'll crush your ballsWith the shiniest saxophoneAnd I'll bang your headWith the newest EpiphoneUntil you show me respectOr die trying"This is very good, but please don't do it again." - Grandma on my roasted camembert recipe
You're fourteen years oldWearing your purple sweatsuitLooking at postcards in a shopIn your home townYou look around and noticeA guyUnkempt hairBeardedThirtyishStanding closeAnd he gives you a weird smileYou smile backBut you're not usedTo peopleSmilingFor nothingLike thatThen you look for your motherBut she went outSo you go out tooBut you can't find herSo you do what's bestGo back to the car and waitBut she's not there eitherSo you look aroundAnd there in the next carIs a manSat at the wheelWhite greasy hairGolden ringsSixtyishAnd he gives you a wide smileAnd he's friendly and talkativeAnd he asks where your mother isWell here she comesYou replyAnd suddenly his smile is goneAnd he's all shy and quietAs you get in your mother's carYou have school tomorrowAnd there life will go onAs usualYou'll keep acting rude toThe one you love (she doesn't know)And some gorgeous girl you'd never noticedWill ask you outAnd you'll say noBecauseHonestlyYou can't see the point in twisting your tongueAround hersAnd you're not even sure what "going out with" meansThen you'll go back homeAnd gaze at the fashion pages in CosmopolitanFor a long long timeUntil the tensionAt lastIs releasedAnd then you'll fall asleepThinking that you and your mother's magazinesHave the healthiest of relationships"This is very good, but please don't do it again." - Grandma on my roasted camembert recipe


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The Newburg Children's Museum of Natural History will hold a children's festival Saturday, May 11, from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.
The museum, an annex to the Houston House, is located at 120 Water St., Suite B, Newburg.
Guided tours of the museum will take place at 10:15 a.m., 12:15 p.m. and 2:15 p.m.
ArtsRolla! will have art activities and a recycled art display. There also will be a free bar-be-cue lunch.
Live music will be offered throughout the day, starting at 10 a.m. with Pat and the Good Old Boys. At 11 a.m., the Rolla Community Children's Choir will perform followed by Rosa Stringworks at noon. At 1 p.m. Dixie Union will perform and at 2 p.m. Bliss Hippy will play.
In addition, there will be snakes and birds on display, dog agility demonstrations, a pottery wheel, a blacksmith, rye coil baskets, Civil War exhibits, children's games and story time. Hands-on science activities will be held at 11:30 a.m. and 1:30 p.m.
For more information contact Rose at 573-426-4875 or visit www.newburgchildrensmuseum.org.
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How a Record Label Got Ready to Do the Harlem Shake
During the week the Harlem Shake went bananas, Jasper Goggins went to the Grammys. The manager of the record label Mad Decent, which released the song "Harlem Shake" last spring, was attending the awards with Diplo, the DJ who owns Mad Decent and was nominated for producer of the year. On the morning of the Grammys, they saw that the track was at No. 80 on iTunes. By the end of the ceremony, it was passing No. 50.
Such is the experience of watching a hit happen in real time. As of this week, the song by the DJ and producer Baauer had hit No. 1 on iTunes in at least six countries (including Russia) and was atop the Hot 100, thanks to Billboard's decision to include YouTube views in its tallies of the most popular singles in the nation.
It was a coup for Mad Decent, an indie label whose acts, including Major Lazer, Rusko and Zeds Dead, are making cutting edge music but aren't found in the Hot 100. Still, even if Mad Decent wanted to capitalize on the Harlem Shake craze by releasing more music by Baauer, it can't—Baauer isn't officially signed to the roster of Mad Decent artists.
The DJ's connection with Mad Decent shows how the label has positioned itself to benefit when its material catches fire in the wilds of YouTube. When "Harlem Shake" blew up, "We weren't expecting it, but we were prepared for it," Goggins says.
Mad Decent released "Harlem Shake" on a sub label called Jeffree's, launched a year ago as a showcase for emerging talent. Through Diplo and other channels, Mad Decent was getting loads of submissions from DJs and producers, many of them just hoping to land a track on the label's popular blog.
"Out of a single blog post, a lot of unknown guys were getting booking agents and touring. We thought, why don't we try this model as a business?" Goggins says. So far about 40 acts (including Baauer) have signed one-off deals to release singles and EPs through Jeffree's. At first their music is given away for free, which encourages fans to check it out and share it. Then after a month or so, the tracks are bundled on digital collections that get sold by stores like iTunes and Beatport.
"We look out for artists who we can bring up to the next level. Sharing their tracks online makes waves here and there. But there's not a lot of risk for either party because we're not putting a lot of money into marketing. If something takes off, then great."
Even when music fans aren't clicking "buy," the label and the artists can still make some money. Through a company called INDmusic, the label collects a share of the advertising revenue from YouTube videos that incorporate its music, including user-generated videos.
But you need to rack up views in the multiple millions before such ad revenue really amounts to much. Instead of hoping for one song to take off, "Harlem Shake" style, the smarter strategy is to flood the zone with material, Goggins says. Take Riff Raff, a Mad Decent rapper. "He puts up a video every week at least. Music videos, videos of him messing around, videos with other artists. He gets a significant check every month from YouTube ads."
Goggins won't discuss how much money has come in from "Harlem Shake," but he says paid downloads account for a much bigger share than the ad revenue kicked up by YouTube.
As the Internet meme rolls on, everyone involved is trying to keep things in perspective, he says. "We had a moment and got lucky, but it's not the kind of thing where people say, 'What's the next Baauer song?' It's not an artist-driven phenomenon." The DJ is expected to release an EP this springl. It won't be coming out on Mad Decent, but Goggins says the label is talking to Baauer about future opportunities: "It's a bit of a free agency thing."
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SNL: Top 5 Banks Own 44% of Industry
Big banks are getting bigger.
A new report released Thursday by data provider SNL Financial found that the country's five largest banks own 44% of the industry's total assets. That continues a march higher that has been going on since at least 1990, when 9.67% of the industry's total assets came from the top five banks.
"Total assets concentrated in the five largest banking institutions have steadily increased since 1990, reaching a peak in the third quarter of this year," said SNL analyst Marshall Schraibman in his report.
J.P. Morgan Chase, Bank of America, Citibank, Wells Fargo and U.S. Bank held $6.46 trillion in assets as of the third quarter of 2013, SNL found. The rest of the industry, comprised of thousands of midsize, regional and smaller players, held a total of $8.15 trillion.
In 1990, the five largest financial institutions held $457.92 billion, or 9.67% of the industry's total assets, according to the research firm.
The top five banks in 1990 were predecessors to the top five institutions today.
Mr. Schraibman said varying narratives have developed to explain the concentration of assets. Some argue that new regulatory burdens make banking overly costly for smaller institutions. Others say the history of consolidation that created "too big to fail" institutions are still impacting the banking sector today.
While some observers had predicted a wave of M&A among smaller institutions to deal with the increased regulatory costs, Mr. Schraibman said those deals have failed to "move the needle" in terms of asset concentration. Mergers among big banks are largely a thing of the past, due to heightened regulatory concerns after the financial crisis.
One other trend noted by Mr. Schraibman was that the median return on average assets for the top five institutions today is nearly 50% higher than the overall industry. That's in sharp contrast to the return on average assets in 1990, where the largest institutions trailed the sector by 0.33 percentage points.


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Investigators are looking into whether or not LTC Mitchell Sivas had a a sexual relationship with a student. (WRDW-TV / March 15, 2012)
News 12 at 6 o'clock / Thursday, March 15, 2012
THOMSON, Ga. -- A former JROTC instructor could face criminal charges for an alleged sexual relationship with a student. Now multiple agencies are investigating; all of them trying to get to the bottom of it.
The Thomson Police Department, Columbia County Sheriff's Office and Columbia County School System are comparing notes and statements after the instructor admitted he made a "terrible mistake."
Retired Lt. Col. Mitchell Sivas is no stranger to combat, he spent 26 years in the Army. Now, he's fighting another battle, as investigators determine whether or not the 57-year-old JROTC instructor had an inappropriate sexual relationship with a 17-year-old female student at Harlem High School.
"Our teachers are here to educate our kids and broaden their knowledge, but certainly not to take advantage of a child who basically has fallen prey to a school teacher," said Thomson Police Chief Joe Nelson.
Earlier this month after being alerted to a possible relationship, investigators said they found the student at Sivas' home in Thomson.
"That night they told us they had only had dinner and that she had come over to see a police dog that he had purchased," Nelson said.
In an incident report, Sivas told the principal he made a "terrible mistake and was resigning." It also says, after first denying the allegations, the student "did finally admit to having a sexual relationship with LTC Sivas."
"When we questioned the individual, Mr. Sivas, he did advise my officers that he had strong feelings toward the 17-year-old and when we spoke with her she advised us that she had the same strong feelings for him also," Nelson said.
But in Georgia, neither age nor consent matter when you're talking about a student-teacher relationship.
"A school teacher, a principal or an assistant principal can be prosecuted if they are actually having and carrying on an affair with a student," Nelson said. "We certainly don't want school teachers taking advantage of our children. Our children go to school to learn; they don't go to school to be taken advantage of."
News 12 tried to get a comment from Sivas, but he did not answer the door or answer our calls.
"We're going to continue to investigate this case," Nelson said.
News 12 spoke with the 17-year-old's father Thursday. He said Sivas told his daughter he wanted to help her with a school report and invited her over. The father said he believes Sivas then took advantage of the teenager.
The Columbia County superintendent has already filed a report with the professional standards committee and hopes Sivas' teaching certificate is revoked. They tell me Sivas did not actually teach this student, but none the less calls the scandal a disappointment.


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Banana-Ginger Oatmeal
Serves 3 to 4
1/4 to 1/2 cup crystallized ginger
1 cup whole rolled oats
1 cup milk or soy milk
1 medium banana, peeled and sliced
1 tablespoon flaxseeds, optional
1 tablespoon honey
Pinch salt
1 tablespoon sugar, optional
1. Chop the ginger into small pieces.
2. Put all the ingredients into a 1-quart saucepan with 1 1/4 cups water; stir to combine. Cook over low to medium heat until oatmeal simmers lightly, about 15 minutes. Serve with strawberries and honey, if desired.
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'The Blacklist' Recap: Season 1, Episode 8, 'General Ludd'
I'll get to "The Blacklist" recap in a moment, but first we need to point out the highlights from the comment section last week.
First of all, a new nickname has been born. Everyone is so convinced that Liz's husband Tom is really a secret spy that he has been dubbed Tom Bond (James Bond's American cousin). Poster "selinabln" points out that whenever we see Red recalling his troubled past, it focuses on someone who appears to be his daughter and we never see or hear anything about his wife. Selinabln suspects that Red's wife may still be alive and working with Red's "Adversary." There is a lot of speculation that Liz may be The Adversary's daughter and that Red may be using her to get revenge on his nemesis.
Speaking of The Adversary, TVGuide.com reported this week that Alan Alda would be joining the cast of "The Blacklist" as a man named Mr. Crawley and that Crawley would be an old enemy of Red's. Perhaps Hawkeye is The Adversary!
[UPDATE: An NBC representative confirmed to Speakeasy that Alda will be a guest on the show.]
We probably won't meet Crawley for a few more episodes. It is now time to see where the twists and turns of "The Blacklist" will take us tonight…
It all begins with a man and his son playing football in the park. Suddenly, pieces of an airplane start falling out of the sky. It is a cargo plane, not a passenger jet.
Cut to scenes of protests across the globe. Some men in strange red masks record a message, "The storm has come. It will wash away the greedy and when it does you can thank General Ludd."
At Tom Bond and Liz's house, they are showering together. The man with the apple watches them on his monitor. After the shower, Liz gets a call from her dad (adopted father, of course – Liz claims to have never met her biological father and the show keeps on hinting that Red is her real daddy). The dad is played by famed character actor William Sadler who has been in dozens of movies and TV shows over the years – from playing one of the prisoners in Shawshank Redemption to playing the President in Iron Man 3.
Daddy is in the hospital. Liz is worried but he says he is fine, even though they are testing him for cancer. The doctor scolds him for not telling Liz how serious his condition is.
At the FBI, Red is trying to get access to a government database. He offers to help the FBI catch the person who brought down the plane in exchange. He claims the plane was taken down by Gen. Ludd's people. We get a history of Ludd's terrorist acts against the rich and powerful. Red has promised the FBI he will help them catch a man named Nathaniel Wolfe, the founder of the group. The FBI figures out that a man named Arthur Denning got the chemicals. They look at pictures of him and figure out that one person is using various identities to collect dangerous materials.
We see Ludd's people making a bomb out of a laptop. The man who was in the pictures is going to take it somewhere and blow something up. He appears to be dressed like a pilot. Meanwhile, the FBI figures out that Wolfe and Denning are the same person, Wolfe just changed his face to take on a new identity. His father had been an airplane mechanic who's life was ruined when Wall Street destroyed the airline that had employed him. Now we know Wolfe's motivation for forming Gen. Ludd's army.
Red is hanging out with a couple of his employees, two women who are counterfeiting money for him. Liz goes to visit Red and Red turns the tables on her by talking about her father and his cancer. Liz can't tell how Red knows so much about her family. Red changes the topic again and tells Liz that a man named Dr. Maltz probably performed the surgery to change Wolfe's face.
In South Beach, Liz and Red go to visit Dr. Maltz. He is played by actor/comedian Andrew Dice Clay! I love the Diceman!! Red asks him how to find Nathaniel Wolfe. Maltz refuses until Liz reveals that she is a FBI agent and threatens to arrest Maltz. The Diceman tells them Wolfe's new name, Bradley Holland. Red covers for Liz (and himself) by pretending that this was all a test to see if Maltz could be trusted. It turns into a pretty funny scene. I can't wait for the Diceman to be back on the show again in the future!
The FBI figures out that Wolfe has used his fake ID to get a job as a pilot and he plans to wreck another plane. We see Wolfe at the airport, getting ready to board a passenger jet. He tricks a gate agent into putting his bags, including the exploding laptop on the plane.
Liz gets a call from Tom Bond. He says her father's cancer has spread to his liver. They need to go see him in Nebraska.
At the airport, the FBI thinks it has stopped the bombing by grounding planes, but the plane explodes while still on the ground.
Liz wants to visit her dad, but all flights have been grounded because of the threat from Gen. Ludd. The FBI has a lead though. They have tracked Wolfe's credit card to a storage facility in Brooklyn.
In Nebraska, Liz's father, Sam, has a visitor. Red is there is see him and they are clearly old friends. They laugh as they talk about people they knew many years ago. Red begins talking about his impressions of Liz. He says, "You gave her an incredible gift, Sam, taking her in and loving her as your own." Sam tells Red that he only has 6 weeks to live. He says, "I need to tell Lizzie." "I can't let you do that," says Red. We get no clue what Sam wants to tell his adopted daughter.
At the Brooklyn storage facility, the RBI discovers more of Wolfe's fake identities. It turns out the entire plan has been an elaborate scheme to steal money being shipped across country. Wolfe is trying to steal $500 million.
As Liz and Ressler race to catch Wolfe, she gets a call from her father who tells her about the cancer, but does not reveal anything about the secret he shares with Red. After Sam hangs up the phone, Red comes to his bedside and says he can only hope to love and protect Liz as well as Sam has. "You will always be her father," Red says to his old friend. Earlier, Sam joked about wanting to die quickly instead of suffering through cancer. Red pulls out a pillow and suffocates Sam to death. William Sadler… we hardly knew ya!
Tom Bond is in Nebraska and finds out Sam is dead. He goes outside to have a cup of coffee and Red sits down next to him. They act like they have never seen each other before. Red clearly knows who Tom is, but Tom sure seems ignorant of Red's identity. They talk about losing loved ones and how heartbreaking it is. Tom laments the loss of his father-in-law and Red gives a speech about how Liz's father will always be watching and protecting her, watching those who get close to her to make sure they are honest. Tom Bond noticeably swallows nervously during Red's speech. Tom is hiding something!!
In New York, the FBI corners the truck with the money. Wolfe and his followers engage in a shootout with the feds. The Gen. Ludd terrorists eventually get the $500 mill off the truck and blow it up, sending bills flying into the air. Wolfe gets away in all the confusion.
The FBI figures out that Wolfe wasn't after the money. He was after plates for new $100 bills that were hidden in the truck. They think Wolfe is trying to get away by air. Liz calls Red to help figure out how Wolfe is going to fly with all the planes grounded. Red knows where Wolfe is leaving from and meets him there. He knows that Wolfe's real plan was to counterfeit billions of dollars of money and bankrupt the US economy. Red likes capitalism though so he stops Wolfe and turns Wolfe over to the FBI.
Liz calls Tom and finds out that her father is dead. The next scene is his burial with Liz putting flowers on the casket. Tom Bond comforts her.
We see Red looking at the FBI database he wanted access to at the beginning of the episode. He is looking up the criminal history of a young redheaded woman. Is this his daughter?
Liz goes to confront Red about his counterfeiting efforts but he deflects her by talking about her father. He urges Liz to preserve her father's memory by talking about her memories of him.
And the episode is over!
It feels like we got some interesting hints about Liz's history, but nothing definitive, of course. The show continues to give lots of hints that Red is Liz's father. I continue to think this is too obvious. Frankly, the side stories about the bad guys being caught each week are getting dull. We want to learn more about Tom and Liz and Red. But the show is giving that info out in very small doses.
Now, it is your turn. The comment section has been full of clever ideas and theories. Post your thoughts and join the conversation. I'll see you there!
If you want to hear more of Jason Evans' thoughts on the world of movies and TV, follow him on Twitter @TVFilmTalk and be sure to check out Speakeasy every Monday and Wednesday for his recaps of The Blacklist and Arrow.


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Thanksgiving deals not only enticed more shoppers to hit the stores this weekend compared to last year, but also helped holiday consumers keep more money in their pockets, a national retail organization stated this week.
According to the National Retail Federation, holiday shoppers spent on average $407 from Thanksgiving through Sunday, down from $423 during the same period last year. Total spending was estimated to reach $57.4 billion.
More than 141 million unique shoppers visited stores this weekend, up from 139 million in 2012. Nearly one-third, or 45 million, of those unique consumers began their shopping on Thanksgiving Day, a 27 percent increase over 2012, the National Retail Federation reported. Black Friday deals attracted 92 million shoppers nationwide, up from 89 million in 2012.
"Cold weather, unique promotions and unbeatable prices put millions of Americans in the mood to shop for holiday gifts this weekend," said National Retail Federation president and chief executive officer Matthew Shay in a news release. "Retailers' late night and early morning promotions struck just the right chord for those hoping to kick off the holiday shopping season with friends and family."
Although 141 million shoppers hit the stores this weekend across the country, Jayne Esser, general manager of the Outlets at Silverthorne, said it's too soon to tell what Summit County's share of this year's holiday spending spree will be. Final sales figures from this weekend won't be available until about mid-January 2014.
Despite hard figures still being about 45 days away, Esser said consumer traffic was up this year compared to last, even with shorter operating hours.
"According to our traffic counters, traffic was up every day, including Thanksgiving night," Esser said. "Even with the shorter hours on Thanksgiving night — we stayed open until 1 a.m. versus last year when we were open all night long — we saw more vehicles at the center. We had good weather all weekend long, which was a positive thing as well."
In addition to the number of shoppers who visited stores this weekend, the National Retail Federation reported a record number of online shoppers on Thanksgiving and Black Friday.
The national retail organization predicted those trends would continue into Cyber Monday, estimating 131 million people would take advantage of the last holiday promotion of the holiday weekend. If estimates are correct, the number of Cyber Monday shoppers would be up by 2 million compared to last year.
"An extremely promotional Thanksgiving weekend got consumers excited about the holiday shopping season and on the lookout for more great deals and prices," said Prosper's Consumer Insights director Pam Goodfellow in the release. "Shoppers are still checking off their gift lists and millions will use Cyber Monday to hunt for remaining items while staying in line with their budgets."


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West Alabama's Whitney Brown wins weekly Gulf South honor
Published: Wednesday, February 27, 2013 at 3:30 a.m.
Last Modified: Wednesday, February 27, 2013 at 12:01 a.m.
LIVINGSTON | University of West Alabama outfielder Whitney Brown has been selected as the Gulf South Conference softball Player of the Week after a record-setting performance in a pair of games last week for the 7-2 Tigers.
In a doubleheader sweep of Miles, the junior outfielder from Fyffe went 7-for-8 with three home runs and 12 RBIs. She scored seven times, walked twice and of the seven hits, only one — in her final at-bat — was not for extra bases. In the opener, she went 5-for-5 with two doubles, a triple, two home runs (one her second grand slam of 2013) and 10 RBIs.
Brown set UWA and Gulf South Conference records for total bases in a game with 15 in the opener. She now owns the UWA record for RBIs in a game with 10 and tied the school record for hits in a game with five. She was one RBI short of the Gulf South record for a game. Brown leads the league in several categories, including batting average (.563) and RBIs (27). She has five home runs.
The team's home opener, scheduled for Thursday against Alabama-Huntsville, has been postponed to 2 p.m. Saturday because of field conditions.
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Lauren Brumbach Rothermel has two sons, 12 and 5, the older of which was diagnosed with PDD-NOS in 2000. Shortly after his diagnosis in December, Lauren visited a DAN! Doctor, started him on the GF/CF diet and began intensive ABA. She continues to work closely with physicians and other experts in trying new methodologies related to finding a cure for autism. She also served as president of the Berks Autism Society and spearheaded the first Walk for Autism Awareness in Berks County, that is in its 8th year.
I'd like to introduce you to a new website, Autism360.org. Autism360 is a web-based tool for parents of autistic children. This website gives parents the ability to build a profile of their child and compare their child to others. This tool actually clusters children who share similar characteristics. The best part is that you can see which treatment options seem to work best for children who look like your child. You can then discuss these treatments with your health care providers or try them on your own.
Initially, basic information needs to be entered into the site to set up your child's profile. You will add things like height and weight. The next step asks you to enter specific information and history on your child. When you are finished, you can do two things. Click on "others like me" to see a cluster of children like your own. This will show you the treatments that have worked and not worked for this group of children. You can also "generate a report". This is especially useful for therapists, doctors and anyone working with your child.
My son is now twelve years old. I really wish I had a web tool such as Autism360 to use when he was first diagnosed. I remember feeling completely alone and worried that I was the only one who was experiencing these new things. Autism360 connects you to other children just like your child. You learn that your child is not the "only one" and begin to feel much more connected. And you get some useful ideas about treatment options.
I worked on inputting my son's data one night after the kids went to bed. It was very easy to do. The great thing about Autism360 is that it saves all of your child's information so you can come back to it later on. It is completely confidential and will generate reports for you so you don't have to create them yourself! Plus, it's totally free and we love that!
I urge you to give it a try, you won't be sorry!
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As one of Sid Baker's cofounders of Medigenesis, the engine behind Autism 360, I am beyond thrilled to have the site finally made easily accessible and useable for our our community. I knew from the minute Sid described his idea to me that this could be one of the most important research tools in existence for both individuals and scientists, looking to figure out what helps some children (but not others) and why. Autism 360 is something we can do, as a community, to help ourselves…bringing us back to Bernie Rimland's fundamental idea of defeating autism now.
Judy Chinitz
November 23, 2010 at 6:41 pm
I have heard alot about autism-360 from my friends who have kids on the spectrum. I have not tried it yet, but am eager to do so.
November 24, 2010 at 6:51 am
Autism 360 is a great tool for tracking what stratagies you have tried with your child, and looking at new ones. Because you can see what has worked with other children who display the same types of symptoms,and what their response to treatment was, it can help you with decsion making. It is a very detailed system, that is VERY easy to use and comprehensive. I highly reccomend checking it out and giving it a try.
November 24, 2010 at 8:52 am
Thank you Autism Speaks for sharing this resource with us.
November 24, 2010 at 9:25 am
This website really help ,I entered my son's information ,build his profile .It's useful for doctors to make a diagnosis . It's easy to update ,then you can see the treatments that have worked or not . I love it .
December 4, 2010 at 10:30 am
anything about children with autism who Do not speak at all My nephew is 12 and dont speak and doesnt use a computer but he does let you know what he wants by pointing or getting it himself BUT when he hurts or is sick its hard to tell what is wrong with him I was wondering if their was any tests or research int o y this happens to some of these kids


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Our LO has had rashes on neck and chest and his cheeks since about 6 weeks old. We've asked the doctor twice about it, because we've tried two regular baby eczema creams and neither do anything to help but our doctor just tells us to try another cream.
However our son now likes to scratch his little chest till it bleeds during the night. We've tried socks (baby mittens he just pulls off with his mouth) on his hand at night but them he sleeps with soaked/cold hands.
I'm worred that if we can't get this under control he's going to end up with infections.
We wash his face a couple times a day and he gets a daily bath (was once every three days then doctor changedher mind and said to do it daily)
Anyone tired anything else that works?


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Amaretto Apple Streusel Cupcakes (from Cooking Light)
These are so moist and light, they'll melt in your mouth. Swears.
Those look great. What a funny post. Hope you have/had a good nap!
Sweet dreams my friend. These look amazing.
The cupcakes look yummy. But I am more interested in the nap. I love naps!!!!!!!!!!!!
I am so with you on the recipes torn out of magazines! Add all the ones I've bookmarked on blogs (including this one), I have so many I don't know what to do!!! Every weekend I think I am going to organize them. Maybe this weekend.
These look so good and the nap sounds wonderful.
I'm proud of you that you didn't just glug those last couple ounces of Amaretto but put them to use in this wonderful sounding recipe! I will have to try these.
I have looked at this recipe often because I do love me some Amaretto! I just haven't made it because the ingredient list was so long...guess that's not a good excuse, but that is why! LOL.
These look great and I bet were much appreciated by the coworkers; do you know Dali insisted on taking a nap every day, said it was essential to his health and well-being?
do they need a marketing person at your hubby's work??? because I can totally be available if I get to eat all these treats :)
I so so so want to be a co-irker.
So weren't you going to take a break from posting so frequently????
You are one funny lady and a great baker. I am off to track down that recipe. It sounds and looks yummy.
Then, I have to decide if I should bake your recipe or Moogie's. Heck. I should just make both of them.
I am off to try.
So I'm sure that better late than never, right?
Now that we are unable to comment at work it takes me a little longer to comment at all.
But let me tell you these are worth talking about. As one co-irker stated, "I think this is my favorite thing that Mags has made."
While I don't quite agree with that - I am , after all, a cheesecake fanatic- these are good - heavy and moist and heavenly.
Thanks so much our acutely amazing Apple Streuseling amazon.


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WASHINGTON (November 13, 2012)—The U.S. government started the 2013 budget year with a $120 billion deficit, an indication that the nation is on a path to another $1 trillion-plus deficit during the current fiscal year.
The Treasury Department said the October deficit was 22 percent higher than the same month last year.
Officials said last year's October deficit was lower than expected because of calendar quirk that allowed some benefits to be paid in September 2011.
The budget year begins on Oct. 1.
The government has run deficits in excess of $1 trillion in each of the last four years.
President Barack Obama and Congress are under pressure to come up with a plan to curb the deficit while also reaching a budget deal to prevent tax increases and deep spending cuts from kicking in Jan. 1.


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tap 1
- Look for a model with digital output temperature control, which delivers consistently hot water from the tap, regardless of flow rate.
- Boil for one minute, then drain through a sieve and rinse under the cold tap.
- When you turn on the tap, unfiltered water flows through the faucet head at a full-pressure flow as with any conventional faucet.
- The power system doesn't like it but it compensates for it by changing the tap on the transformer.
- Loop length, the presence of load coil, bridge tap and wideband noise can affect DSL performance adversely.
- So you'd have to hold on to the tap, and drop in the transformer plugged into an extension lead from your hallway.
- Is that because it would have revealed a tap on his phone, a tap on his cell phone and the GPS locator?
- I have a police scanner and a tap on the police computers and phone lines.
- Check it out, but be careful leaving comments - it won't be long before the Department of Homeland Security has a tap on his modem.
- So far, he has done precisely nothing - despite, as the telephone tap makes clear, having first-class intelligence.
- Listening in on the tap, a man laughed, putting his head set down.
- It was the first-ever tap of a private computer network under a 1968 crime act that set legal guidelines for wiretaps.
- The Heiner screw box and its original tap are for threads of two-inch nominal diameter with two and a half threads per inch.
- This is a hard narrow cone-shaped tool resembling a thread tap, except it has rough reverse threads on it.
- The surgeon uses a reamer and threaded tap to drill a hole to hold the titanium cage containing the bone graft.
verb (taps, tapping, tapped)[with object]
- To the back of Adian lay a bar, with flasks and wooden kegs that were tapped for liquid stacked in every available place.
- The early closing time of pubs meant that carousers were forced to gather at dusk in private homes, where the host would tap a barrel.
- When we get back the New Belgium kegs get tapped and we start getting primed for the night.
- The water needed to be tapped from a reliable spring four miles away raising the cost of the scheme to £3,000 - to be paid by the householders.
- The deep Israeli wells in the Jordan Valley have good water quality since they tap the Lower Cenomanian aquifer system.
- President-elect George W. Bush has argued that the oil can be tapped without killing wildlife or marring the environment.
- The trees are tapped for latex by cutting spiral grooves in the bark and inserting a spout with a cup for collection of the latex.
- In summer they might have found fresh honey in the woods produced by wild bees or perhaps tapped maple trees in spring to harvest sweet sap.
- With the warm days and cold nights, maple trees are tapped for flowing sap.
- The two-man crew has tapped into the oxygen supply of a docked cargo ship.
- There's clearly a huge customer resource yet to be tapped; the question is how to go about it.
- The groundwater that is tapped into by wells on private lands is in fact a common resource, something nobody can effectively own.
- As for Paul himself, he is the oddball in his family whom they cannot quite work out, but tap for money as if he was a bank.
- He, is an introspective artist whose success has left him in a lonely place, where livelihoods rest on his shoulders and old friends regularly tap him for money and favors.
- In the immediate aftermath of the events, the public may not have thought of libraries as a source to tap for relevant information.
- For really big cases, the agency buys expensive software from a telephone company to tap phones directly.
- And it is likely that there will be an effort to tap your hard-wired telephone as well - (more on that in a bit).
- A Scanner is a device that is used to tap into cell phone conversations.
- For this I had to drill holes in the frame and tap them so the screws turn in the frame.
- The stud is drilled and tapped to accept the front action screw.
- Drilling and tapping the tough steel of a receiver, while keeping the holes straight and aligned, is a task for a good machinist.
on tap
- Ready to be poured from a tap: the hard water most of us have on tapMore example sentences
on draught, cask-conditioned, real-ale, from barrels, not bottled/canned
- We didn't come across a single bar that didn't have at least ten different brews on tap.
- At 5 p.m., beginning this week, the bar menu starts, served upstairs in a cozy nook outfitted with a small bar, a handful of seats, a chalkboard menu, and beer on tap.
- While each restaurant carries the 110 beer minimum (30 on tap, 80 or more in bottles), no two menus are alike.
- informal1.1 Freely available whenever needed: trained staff are on tap from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m.More example sentences
on hand, to hand, at hand, available, ready, handy, accessible, obtainable, in reserve, standing by
- In the past the producer was simply required to make a batch of programmes in an integrated factory, within which a large range of back-up services were available on tap.
- This juxtaposition seems topsy-turvy: education should be on tap and drugs should be difficult to obtain.
- Whenever I feel everything's getting on top of me, I just pop in there and every kind of support and counselling is on tap.
- North American informal1.2 On schedule to occur: the first space walk is on tap for DecemberMore example sentences
- A major march is on tap for August 6 in Atlanta to commemorate the 40th anniversary of the Voting Rights Act and to mobilize support for extension of some of the Act's provisions.
- Also on tap are the launch of a public diplomacy initiative to improve the U.S. image in the Muslim world and a possible trip to the Middle East.
- Regardless of how he fares on Friday, he has another fight on tap for the fall, though he's a bit less pumped up about that one.
tapless adjective
- Example sentences
- Before you know it, you will have electrifying combinations for a fun-filled tapless step class.
- It further comprises a tapless feedback circuit for providing the feedback signal.
- This class features the step with adjustable heights and a tapless style of choreography for a natural flow.
tappable adjective
- Example sentences
- There's an innate tappable sympathy for the underdog, in sports as well as investment.
- If the Federal Communications Commission adopts the proposal, Internet Service Providers and nearly all VoIP companies will have to design their systems to be tappable.
- The environmentalist opposition to ANWR drilling should probably continue just so that ANWR remains effectively as a national petroleum reserve tappable when oil gets scarce.
Old English tæppa 'peg for the vent-hole of a cask', tæppian 'provide (a cask) with a stopper', of Germanic origin; related to Dutch tap and German Zapfen (nouns).
A tap was originally a stopper for a cask. It controlled the flow of liquid, so the same word came to be used for the fitting which controlled the flow of water elsewhere. Drink from a cask that was ready for immediate consumption was on tap. From the 1860s tap began to be used in reference to listening in secretly to a telegraph and then a telephone, from the idea of 'siphoning off' information. Tap in the sense of 'strike lightly' is a completely different word, which probably represents an imitation of the action in its sound.
Words that rhyme with tapbap, cap, chap, clap, dap, entrap, enwrap, flap, frap, gap, giftwrap, hap, knap, lap, Lapp, map, nap, nappe, pap, rap, sap, schappe, scrap, slap, snap, strap, trap, wrap, yap, zap
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verb (taps, tapping, tapped)[with object]
- With lifeless voices, singers march through the streets, striking bells and tapping on drums made of buffalo skin.
- She taps the 'send' button and I hear the computer printer crackle in the kitchen behind us as it prints out the order ticket.
- Gently tap to eliminate excess spice mixture and then coat uniformly with bread crumbs.
- She absently tapped her artistry pencil on the sketch paper as she stared out onto the whitened garden with unseeing eyes.
- He shifted slightly, but his foot tapped my ankle, causing me to yelp.
- The one that spoke wore his strawberry blond hair in a braid and was tapping a wickedly curved sword against his shoulder, looking none too impressed with the man below him.
- "Information," He taps the syllables out soundlessly against his temple, "You see, is the key."
- Emily and Anna sang along with the radio with Emily tapping the beat out on the steering wheel occasionally.
- He began tapping a tempo out on the woodblock and nodded his head to the tune.
- The electrical surge's frequency was tapped out via Morse code and then transformed into a vibration that eventually came out as sound.
- And we don't think the fighter pilots will be tapping IMs on keyboards.
- She stands at a terminal, tapping things into the keyboard.
- But an even higher profile role came in 1987, when Ronald Reagan tapped him to be chairman of the Federal Reserve.
- The President tapped him last year be the Afghan ambassador, and he's shuttled between Kabul and Washington ever since.
- But with extensive prior experience in camping, she was tapped to assist with the development of this new program.
- A quick tap on the first door to his right was all he gave before pushing it open and entering.
- She started toward her bed, but just as she took her first step, a sharp tap sounded at the French doors that led to the terrace outside her window.
- A light tap at the door announced the arrival of the servant.
- Soon after she got a job as a dancing assistant in tap at Arthur Murray Studios.
- They are paired with six expert young dancers who each dance in a particular style - bhangra, street, musical theatre, pop, Irish dancing and tap.
- Dance students of all ages will perform a variety of song and dance including tap, classical ballet, jazz, national character and expressive dance.
- They were carrying canes and doing a sort of tap-dance, minus the taps.
- They have a metal tap on the toe/ball of the foot section, and another on the heel.
- Popular in 19th-century minstrel shows, versions such as 'buck-and-wing' (danced vigorously in wooden-soled shoes) and 'soft-shoe' (shoes) developed as separate techniques; by 1925 they had merged, and metal taps were attached to shoe heels and toes to produce a more pronounced sound.
- At taps, he personally inspects each man with standards that would make a recruit company commander flinch, says goodnight and turns out their light.
- After getting it to his satisfaction, he directed me to sound that call for Taps thereafter in place of the regulation call.
- Taps began as a revision to the signal for Extinguish Lights (Lights Out) at the end of the day.
- No bugle is to sound taps for his military triumphs.
- The US Department of Defense is studying the use of a digital bugle to render taps at veterans' military funerals.
- The manual for Military Infantry Drill published in 1891 made taps mandatory at military funerals and playing taps remains an honour today.
- Seeing so many nationalities represented at the ceremonies, and hearing the World Song, Our Chalet song and Taps sung in so many different languages was a very moving experience.
- Our unit has made a tradition of humming taps and having the girl that received the Good Turn squeeze recite the Promise.
- Each week we find ourselves constantly scrambling to fit the opening, an active game, all the program work plus a campfire and taps into a two hour window.
tapper noun
- Example sentences
- Each 'Kerasudha' unit should have at least 100 trees, which will give direct employment to 10 toddy tappers, three women who process the drink and several others who market the produce.
- Drawing on evidence from female villagers, one male survivor and a former Malayan police officer, he claims that all of those who died were unarmed rubber tappers and tin miners from the Chinese ethnic minority.
- This year's Living Treasure in American Dance Award was presented to 92-year-old tap dancer Leonard Reed, inventor of the Shim Sham Shimmy, now a standard step for all tappers.
Middle English: from Old French taper, or of imitative origin; compare with clap1 and rap1.
A tap was originally a stopper for a cask. It controlled the flow of liquid, so the same word came to be used for the fitting which controlled the flow of water elsewhere. Drink from a cask that was ready for immediate consumption was on tap. From the 1860s tap began to be used in reference to listening in secretly to a telegraph and then a telephone, from the idea of 'siphoning off' information. Tap in the sense of 'strike lightly' is a completely different word, which probably represents an imitation of the action in its sound.
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The Delaware Valley Opera (DVO) will present the opera "The Merry Wives of Windsor," a comedy by Carl Otto Nicoli, the German composer at three locations. The opera is based on William Shakespeare's comedy of the same name.
Wallenpaupack Area High School is one of the venues, Sunday, August 12th at 3 p.m.
The main character is the indomitable scoundrel and gold-digging philanderer Sir John Falstaff who is also the main character of Shakespeare's "Henry IV, Part Two." But this is a very different Falstaff, not the beer-belly, comic Falstaff but the merciless seducer of innocent females, preferable married ones.
Some of the main themes of the opera are that women can hold their own with men and that things are not as they seem.
The DVO Company has delighted audiences earlier this summer with performances of Verdi's "Otello" and Cole Porter's "Kiss Me Kate," both based on Shakespeare's plays.
The show opens on Friday, August 10th at the Tusten Theatre in Narrowsburg at 8 p.m. and continues through the weekend with performances on Saturday, August 11th at Sullivan West High School at 8 p.m. and Sunday, August 12th at Wallenpaupack High School at 3 p.m.
The final three performances will be held at Tusten Theatre on Friday and Saturday, August 17th and 18th at 8 p.m. and Sunday, August 19th at 3 p.m.
Tickets are $25 general admission, $20 for seniors and $10 for students (at the box office the day of the show). Tickets are available at the box office the day of the performances or in advance by either calling DVO office at (845)252-3136 or on line at www.delawarevalleyopera.org.
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This proud selection is what standing tall is all about:
Ten gorgeous gold foil holiday boxes, each with a different
Southern specialty from Savannah's Candy Kitchen.
Savannah's Pecan Pralines, Milk Chocolate Gophers,
Southern Pecan Divinity, Chocolate Walnut Fudge,
Glazed Pecans, Sugar and Spice Pecans, Hand Made Chocolate Toffee, Assorted Gourmet Truffles, Chocolate Covered Peanut Brittle, Chocolate Covered Peanuts
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"A better way to buy information technology products." That's what Patricia Gallup and David Hall had in mind when they established PC Connection in 1982. Seeing a significant business opportunity in the emerging personal computer industry, the two entrepreneurs launched their direct computer supply business with the philosophy that providing technical advice and focusing on customer service was as important as low prices. Using their personal savings, they purchased $8,000 of inventory, placed a 1/9th-page ad in Byte Magazine, and took their first step on the road to unprecedented growth and innovation. As the magazine hit the newsstands, they waited two long days for the telephone to ring. On the third day, it started ringing. It hasn't stopped since.
Before the first phone call was answered, Gallup and Hall planned to create a business culture designed to provide exemplary service and build long-term customer relationships. This strategy has proved to be very successful and remains a key component of PC Connection's mission. Since its inception, PC Connection has been credited with many direct marketing service innovations, and has received many awards for customer service and dedication.
Some of the programs PC Connection pioneered established industry standards while raising the expectations of today's computer shoppers. Some of our innovations include:
In recent years, PC Connection has grown into a Fortune 1000 company, with revenues topping $2.1 billion since 1999. In March 1998, the company conducted an Initial Public Offering; today, our stock is traded on the NASDAQ exchange under the symbol PCCC.
Today, our more than 1,900 employees work in three offices in New Hampshire, our sites in Florida, Illinois, Massachusetts, Maryland and South Dakota, and in our full service distribution, custom-configuration and repair center in Wilmington, Ohio.
In 1998, PC Connection opened its new corporate headquarters in Merrimack, N.H. In 1999, PC Connection purchased ComTeq Federal, a Maryland-based company that has successfully served the expansive and growing computing needs of federal government agencies since 1993. In 2001, ComTeq Federal was re-christened GovConnection, Inc., and now handles all government and education customers. In 2000, the company purchased a call center facility in Marlborough, Mass.
In 2002, the company purchased MoreDirect, a company that provided medium-to-large corporate technology buyers with a comprehensive web-based e-procurement solution. In 2005, the company purchased the business and selected assets of Amherst Technologies, Inc. a New Hampshire-based company.
In 2004, the company introduced its ServiceConnection brand, offering small businesses a full range of configuration and professional support services to effectively manage their IT needs.
Business customers generate about 90 percent of the company's total net sales. To further address this business segment, PC Connection continues to expand its technically-trained corporate sales staff, which is dedicated to meeting customer needs with personal service and a wide range of end-to-end computing and networking solutions.
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SUV rams into restaurant
Published: Tuesday, October 8, 2013 at 6:48 p.m.
Last Modified: Wednesday, October 9, 2013 at 10:13 a.m.
A drunken driver rammed her SUV into a Houma Subway restaurant early Tuesday morning, Houma Police said.
Ashley St. Amant, 30, of Houma veered off Main Street, hit a utility pole and crashed into the Subway at 8061 Main St., Police Chief Todd Duplantis said.
St. Amant had a blood-alcohol level of .23 percent, he said. That's nearly three times the legal limit of .08 percent.
She was charged with driving while intoxicated and reckless operation of a vehicle.
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Homemade shrimp dumplings with chili garlic sauce in wonton noodle soup - chicken broth with leafy vegetables, spring onions, and just a hint of ginger...
If I haven't been blogging frequently, it's because the food's been too good. =)
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2. Tea party: 21:36
I had my first tea party at 666 today. I really enjoyed having people over for tea and conversation!
I served roiboos tea (with milk and cube sugar!), the banana bread Wayne baked (yum!), and Belgian chocolate biscuits. Gabriel's vegan, so I offered him dragonfruit (which no one else had tried). I also brought out tortilla chips and spicy black bean dip. I also prepared tablea hot chocolate, which went well with the brown sugar cubes.
Next step: get more mugs so that I'm not constantly washing... ;)
Feel free to join me for tea next Sunday from 3:00 to 6:00. I'm going to try baking!
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Yesterday, Wayne helped Quinn build a steadycam for her film projects. They picked up some parts from the hardware store and built a steadycam for ~$20 following instructions on the Internet. Yay D.I.Y.! (Me, I stayed indoors and read Miss Manners.)
Quinn's really excited about shooting film. Her Super-8 seems to be broken, but she might borrow one to shoot the party on Saturday.
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Two Chauvin men arrested on drug charges after driving against oncoming traffic
Published: Tuesday, January 21, 2014 at 8:24 a.m.
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Two Chauvin men were arrested on drug charges shortly before 11 p.m. Monday after being stopped for driving against oncoming traffic on Grand Calliou Road near Boudreaux Street, Houma Police said.
Officers said they discovered several types of prescription pills, suspected methamphetamine, cocaine, a digital scale and $30,000 cash inside the southbound pickup truck.
The driver, Jack Lyons, 38, of 316 Northland Drive, and one of his two passengers, Allen White, 43, of 5521 Bayouside Drive, were charged with possession with intent to distribute schedule I, II and IV drugs, transactions involving proceeds from illegal drug transactions and possession of drug paraphernalia, said Police Chief Todd Duplantis.
Lyons was also charged with driving against oncoming traffic, having an expired driver's license and not wearing a seat belt. A 34-year-old unnamed passenger was issued a summons on drug charges and released due to an undisclosed medical condition.
Lyon's allegedly was in possession of a container filled with Diazepam and Oxycodone pills. White was allegedly found to be in possession of Diazepam, Oxycodone and Valium.
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I have never been a fan of Nile. I should probably start by saying that.
It seems like I should be. High speed death metal? Check. Ancient Egyptian mythology? Yep. References to H.P Lovecraft? It's got those, too! If Nile could see fit to squeeze in a couple tunes about chocolate cake and the Oakland Raiders, they'd have a bunch of the basic tenets of my personality covered. Yet, it doesn't work for me.


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SAN JOSE -- One of San Jose City Hall's three recently born falcon fledglings slammed into a wall and died Sunday, apparently while trying to land while carrying a pigeon for lunch.
The 7-week-old fledgling succumbed to one of the many hazards of avian adolescence. He was one of three falcon chicks that had been born in a nest atop City Hall, and learned to fly about a week ago.
On Sunday morning, a passerby noticed the falcon carcass on a walkway near the north tower of City Hall, on East Santa Clara Street. San Jose Police and wildlife officials rushed to the scene and took the bird's body to the Wildlife Center of Silicon Valley.
"This is just the natural order of things," said Glenn Stewart, director of the Santa Cruz Predatory Bird Research Group at UC Santa Cruz, which has been monitoring falcons' progress and welfare for four decades. "People watch these birds and expect it to be the Disney Channel and to have a happy ending. We're watching nature unfold."
Deadly maneuver
Falcon chicks undergo a compressed spring training that leaves them vulnerable to even small error.
Mom and Dad -- Clara and her mate Fernando El Cohete -- still hunt meals for their offspring. But it's not breakfast in bed. An alert fledgling can spy a parent from half a mile away returning home with food. The baby will race out, meet Mom and flip upside down with an open mouth -- awaiting an airdrop from Mom. In this case Clara was carrying a pigeon she'd killed by decapitation -- and successfully dropped it into the fledgling's mouth.
"This is a pretty good trick," Stewart said, but this time something went wrong. "Here's the youngster, still pretty clumsy and now carrying a large bird. In the process of aiming for a perch (where he can enjoy his meal) he slams into a building. It was pure bad luck."
Or maybe a miscalculation of velocity, distance or the force of forward motion while carrying the equivalent of half one's own body weight.
Stewart identified the dead bird only as 95/S. The bird scientist declined to say whether it was Comet, Orion or Striker -- out of concern for the feelings of the San Jose schoolchildren who chose the birds' names. It's hard to tell if Clara and Fernando are distressed over the death of one of their brood, Stewart said. They are still feeding the other two.
Bigger picture
Peregrine falcons, which can fly at speeds in excess of 200 mph and one of the fastest creatures on Earth, catch prey midair. Unlike other birds of prey, they don't eat gophers or snakes. Parents will hunt for their offspring for about two months, Stewart said, so the two surviving fledglings have three more weeks of free meals, if they successfully maneuver midair snags from their parents.
"We all want to be like them," Stewart said. "They're fast, they see better than we do and they do these superhero stunts in the air."
Sadly, tragedy is part of a bird's life, Stewart said: "Bad things happen to peregrine falcons."
About Sunday's incident, Stewart said he can't get emotionally involved with each of the birds. Instead, he thinks of the bigger picture. Previous City Hall babies, he notes, are now nesting on the Bay Bridge, near San Francisco Airport, on an Interstate 280 bridge in San Mateo County and a Fruitvale Avenue bridge in Alameda County.
And whereas California's peregrines were near extinction in 1970, when only two known pairs remained, the banning of DDT and the breeding and nurturing of the Santa Cruz Predatory Bird Research Group have helped the iconic bird made a comeback, with 250 to 300 pairs in the state.
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Court will hear campaign donation limits appeal
Published: Tuesday, February 19, 2013 at 11:17 a.m.
Last Modified: Tuesday, February 19, 2013 at 11:17 a.m.
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court will hear a challenge to campaign finance laws limiting how much an individual can give to political campaigns.
The justices on Tuesday decided to hear an appeal from Shaun McCutcheon of Alabama and the Republican National Committee. They are arguing that it's unconstitutional to stop a donor from giving more than $46,200 to political candidates and $70,800 to political committees and PACs.
McCutcheon says he accepts that he can only give $2,500 to a single candidate but says he should be able to give that amount to as many GOP candidates as he wants.
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia upheld the limits, but the high court decided to review that decision.
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Start Date: Dec 21, 2011
End Date: Dec 20, 2016
Laboratory studies will be used to gain process-level understanding on the effects of topographic driven surface water convergence and soil hydraulic gradient driven subsurface flow on sediment and chemical loadings. Landscape attributes affecting convergence of surface and subsurface flows will be used to validate the lab findings on conditions for channel initiation and chemical transport. To identify practices that optimize the benefits of no-till while minimizing risk of P losses, laboratory experiments will be used to test a large array of fertilizers and production practices. Plot scale experiments will be used to evaluate practices over a 5 to 10 yr period as they relate to soil and water quality. To identify practices that optimize drainage while maximizing nutrient removal, lab and streamside fluvaria will be utilized. Treatments of various materials including gravel and woodchips below stream sediment will be tested, as will use of various heights of sediment dams, to reduce nutrient losses in stream water. Controlled drainage on tile drained fields to optimize soil moisture status to reduce excess loss of nutrients, in combination with a soil amendment of flue gas desulfurization (FGD) gypsum will be evaluated. This project will continue to monitor runoff and water quality in subwatersheds of the St. Joseph River (SJR) in northeastern Indiana, and also conduct ecological studies through an SCA with Indiana-Purdue University Ft. Wayne and a cooperative project with ARS-Columbus. Detailed flow and pollutant data in the SJR subwatersheds are available from 2003-present, allowing for both uncalibrated, calibration, and validation studies with a number of watershed hydrology, sediment, and water quality models. The models can also be applied in a forecasting mode, to examine impacts of widespread or targeted placement and implementation of various land management practices (e.g. conservation tillage, different crop rotations, buffer strips, etc.) on predicted runoff and pollutant losses. Use of information from Global Environment Models will be downscaled to develop modified climate inputs to the Water Erosion Prediction Project (WEPP) model. In-house and cooperative erosion model development, testing, and validation efforts will be conducted. Work will include maintenance of WEPP, including model scientific code, user interfaces, model databases, and user support. Cooperative efforts on development of a combined wind and water erosion model will be continued. A new WEPP-Water Quality model will be developed which will also allow examination of the impacts of projected future climate change on runoff, sediment, and chemical losses and how management practices to reduce these losses may change. Geostatistical scaling techniques will be applied and evaluated to allow linkage of various soil parameters (i.e., hydraulic conductivity, porosity) across scales ranging from a few hectares to subbasins of 10,000+ ha. Loading of endocrine disruptors and selected metabolites to the SJR will be examined for significant relationships between analytes. Through statistical correlation analysis, potential surrogate analytes will be identified.