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* Live Healthy Appalachia, Athens, $25,000 in support of Live Healthy Kids hands-on cooking and nutrition program
* Meigs County Council on Aging, Pomeroy, $15,000 in support of new kitchen equipment
* Ohio University - Kids on Campus, Athens, $13,000 in support of Kids on Campus Summer 2013
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* Sacred Heart Church, Pomeroy, $5,000 in support of their Migrant Program
* Washington County Habitat for Humanity, Marietta, $5,000 in support of an enclosed storage trailer
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Concerning the last category of eyewitnesses, due to prisoner uprisings and breakouts in Treblinka and Sobibor, approximately 50 Jews from each camp survived the war.148 Some testimonies were recorded even before the end of the war,149 and one Treblinka survivor, Samuel Rajzman, testified very briefly before the International Military Tribunal at Nürnberg.150 The testimonies of many others have subsequently been collected, especially at Yad Vashem, and many have been published.151
The situation regarding Belzec is much different. Perhaps as many as six prisoners escaped individually from Belzec,152 but only one, Rudolf Reder, has given extensive post-war testimony.153 In his very early testimony of December 1945, Reder recounted how he had been deported from Lwow to Belzec on August 17, 1942, in a train of 50 cars, each crammed with 100 Jews. He was only one of eight prisoners selected as skilled workers to join the Jewish labor force in the camp that day. Working in the camp as a mechanic, for several months he operated the excavator that dug graves behind the gas chamber. He could see the gas chambers even more closely when he delivered gasoline (Benzin) to the engine room at the end of the corridor that ran between the three gas chambers on each side. He gave the following description:In November 1942 Reder escaped his captors and survived in hiding in Lwow until the arrival of the Red Army. He emigrated to Canada in 1953.
In these chambers the people were packed so tightly together, that even after death they were found in standing position. As soon as all chambers were crammed full, all the doors were tightly shut; ....then the motor was started. The work of the motor was watched over by the prisoner Moniek, a cabman from Cracow. The motor was always run exactly for 20 minutes, after which Moniek gave one of the machinists the signal to turn it off. After the motor had been turned off, on the order of Moniek the prisoners opened all the doors wide and pulled the dead in pairs out of the chambers with the help of straps placed around the hands of the corpses; the corpses were then pulled to the mass graves already dug out beforehand by machine. On the way between the ramp of the chamber and the grave, dentists pulled gold teeth from the corpses.
Once again, human memory is imperfect. The testimonies of both survivors and other witnesses to the events in Belzec, Sobibor, and Treblinka are no more immune to forgetfulness, error, exaggeration, distortion, and repression than eyewitness accounts of other events in the past. They differ, for instance, on how long each gassing operation took, on the dimensions and capacity of the gas chambers, on the number of undressing barracks, and on the roles of particular individuals. Gerstein, citing Globocnik, claimed the camps used diesel motors, but witnesses who actually serviced the engines in Belzec and Sobibor (Reder and Fuchs) spoke of gasoline engines. Once again, however, without exception all concur on the vital issue at dispute, namely that Belzec, Sobibor, and Treblinka were death camps whose primary purpose was to kill in gas chambers through the carbon monoxide from engine exhaust, and that the hundreds of thousands of corpses of Jews killed there were first buried and then later cremated.
148. Jules Schlevis, Vernietigingskamp Sobibor (Amsterdam, 1993), pp. 243-50, lists the names of 47 survivors. Alexander Donat, The Death Camp Treblinka: A Documentary (New York, 1979), pp. 284-90, estimates that some 60 escapees from Treblinka survived the war and provides a list of 69 names, 13 with no accompanying information.
149. For example, the testimonies of Abraham Krzepicki and Jankiel Wiernik in Donat, The Death Camp Treblinka, p. 77-188.
150. IMT, vol. VIII, pp. 324-9.
151. For example, 29 very brief eyewitness testimonies of Sobibor survivors are published in: Miriam Novitch, Sobibor: Martyrdom and Revolt (New York, 1980). Eight considerably longer testimonies of Treblinka survivors are published in: Alexander Donat, The Death Camp Treblinka: A Documentary. The two most recent book-length memoirs of survivors are: Thomas Blatt, From the Ashes of Sobibor: A Story of Survival(Evanston, 1997); and Richard Glazer, Trap with a Green Fence: Survival in Treblinka (Evanston, 1995).
152. Thomas Blatt, Sobibor: The Forgotten Revolt (Issaquah, WA, 1996), p. 12.
153. Rudolf Reder, Belzec (Krakau, 1946); ZStL, 208 AR-Z 252/59: vol. II, pp. 226-28; vol. III, 688-90; vol. V, 981-89; VI, 1175-80 (testimony of December 1945). (In diesen Kammern wurden die Menschen so zusammengedrängt, dass man sie sogar nach dem Tode in stehender Position in den Kammern vorfand. Sobald alle Kammern vollgestopft waren, wurden alle Türen dicht verschlossen; ...dann wurde der Motor in Gang gesetzt. Die Arbeit des Motors überwachte der Häftling Moniek, ein Droschkenkutscher aus Krakau. Der Motor war immer genau 20 Minuten in Betrieb, wonach Moniek einem von den Maschinisten das Zeichen gab, ihn abzuschalten. Nach der Ausschaltung des Motors machten die Häftlinge auf Befehl von Moniek alle Türen breit auf und zogen zu zweit mit Hilfe von Riemen, die man den Leichen an die H#x00E4;nde anlegte, die Toten aus den Kammern heraus; die Leichen wurden dann zu den vorher mit Maschinen ausgehobenen Massengr#x00E4;bern gezogen. Unterwegs zwischen der Rampe der Kammer und dem Grab zogen die Dentisten den Leichen die goldenen Z#x00E4;hne heraus.)
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FREEPRESS wrote on Jan 16, 2013 4:12 AM:
It IS our well armed citizens who preclude any foreign country attempting an invasion on our soil, and, if they were foolish enough to try, they would be soundly defeated by millions of patriotic Americans.
If all firearms were suddenly to disappear, the number of suicides (the major contributor to gun related deaths as you stated) would NOT go down, they would just use other means to the end.
I will not elucidate further that the majority of the arguments you use and "facts" you state are and have been proven to be totally in error. Because you use false statistics other have used for the same purpose as you, does not make them true. "
GeorgeK wrote on Jan 16, 2013 5:41 PM:
2/3 of the US House, 2/3 of the US Senate and 3/4 of the State legislatures...
Good luck with that. "
quirt347 wrote on Jan 17, 2013 6:48 AM:
You write:
"The original intent of the Second Amendment was to enable us to protect ourselves against domestic tyranny and to provide the first defense against foreign enemies."
The American Revolution was an armed rebellion against "domestic tyranny," a rebellion fought and won against one of the world's great powers. The Second Amendment was put in place in part to allow future generations the means to rebel against a government that turned on its people.
"In today's world, it would be impossible for us to be armed at the same level as our government, nor would there be any winners in a civil war fought on American soil with modern weapons."
You are saying, in effect, even if our government becomes tyrannical, there is nothing we could do about it anyway, so why not just disarm citizens to prevent a civil war?
Therein lies the fallacy. We are a country of over 300 million people. How many are in the armed forces? A few million? Running a powerful military machine, granted. But how many of those millions would obey an order from the president or their commanders to attack Americans? Such an order would actually violate the law which prohibits American troops to be employed against Americans on our own soil. A civil war is not in the cards.
But a police state that crept up on us is possible. It has happened elsewhere, in countries whose citizens thought such a thing was impossible.
Let's say, down the road, some "Civilian National Security Force" were instructed to act against the people. Do you know what they would face? Perhaps 100 million or more armed citizens who will not go willingly into that dark night. Who'll win that contest?
How in God's name is repealing the Second Amendment and giving the government the right to license who may possess arms supposed to make us safe from those who one day may wish to rule rather than govern?
Yes, atrocities are sometimes committed with guns. They are also committed with cars, matches, knives, and on and on. Our very liberty is partly dependent on the existence of an armed citizenry, the vast majority law-abiding, who possess guns for self-defense and will, in extremis, protect themselves and their neighbors from a state gone rogue.
Two hundred years have passed since our founding, weapons have changed, but human nature has not.
We're not talking here about an "overreaching federal government." We're talking about the evolution of a tyranny. And please don't say, "Well, it may have happened elsewhere, but it can't happen here." What makes us the exception?
The first thing governments that are morphing into tyrannies do is to disarm the people. The Framers of the Constitution understood this. They were among the wisest political minds in human history. It would be folly to second guess them based on an emotional response to a horrible event like Newtown. "
deborah.griesbach wrote on Jan 17, 2013 9:51 AM:
Thank you for taking the time to read and comment on my op-ed piece. Your comment does a great job of illustrating one of the biggest challenges our country faces today - namely, our inability to agree on the facts of any significant problem. Perhaps I'm looking at the past with rose-colored glasses, but I feel that we used to agree on the facts and disagree on the best solution. It's understandable that if we can't agree on the facts of a problem, we're fighting a real uphill battle to come to any kind of consensus on solutions.
I deliberately cited evidence from top-notch, peer reviewed scientific journals. You believe that I am using false statistics. I will give you links to the articles that I cited. Can you give me links to the studies that you believe prove these studies to be wrong?
1. The statistics on deaths came from The Mercer University School of Medicine, here:
2. The evidence that guns in our own homes do not make us safer came from The Journal of Trauma and Acute Care Surgery, here:
3. Finally, here is the link to the October 2012 article from the American Academy of Pediatrics that I cited:
I especially want to recommend this last article. Pediatricians are my favorite kind of doctors, and the very specific advice in this article is intended to help parents avoid tragedies in their own families. "
Deborah Griesbach wrote on Jan 17, 2013 9:58 AM:
"A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step." (Chinese wisdom)
Deborah Griesbach "
quirt347 wrote on Jan 17, 2013 12:59 PM:
Ms. Griesbach, I respect your opinion. It appears to have been forged in the wake of Newtown and is heartfelt. No one who read the essay could reasonably reject your honesty and good intentions.
I really would like to see you respond to what I wrote, which is beyond statistics and goes to the heart of why the Founders crafted the Second Amendment. To quote Thomas Jefferson: "The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government."
Thomas Jefferson said that. There is no argument that you have brought to bear that counters that one sentence. "
deborah.griesbach wrote on Jan 17, 2013 3:05 PM:
This is just a brief note to let you know that I do plan to respond to your comment. I would like to take the time needed to respond to you with the same thoughtfulness that you put into your comment.
Deborah Griesbach "
quirt347 wrote on Jan 17, 2013 5:45 PM:
I never respond to polemics/flame warfare you encounter so much on the internet. In general, I respect the expression of an opinion that differs from my own--until the name-calling and ad hominem attacks begin. Then I tune out.
You didn't do those things. You crafted an argument which, though I believe flawed, was calm, reasoned and thoughtful. I responded in what I hoped was a respectful manner. We are probably not going to convince the other to change positions, but at the end of this dialogue, we'll know where the other is coming from. And that can only be a good thing.
And that is so much better than watching opponents on MSNBC or FOX shout talking points at each other. "
roger smith wrote on Jan 17, 2013 9:06 PM:
al.cap wrote on Jan 18, 2013 5:05 AM:
every day, more states introduce legislation to disregard new gun control measures. hopefully the split will not be bloody. "
tcinco wrote on Jan 18, 2013 11:37 AM:
Why does it say State? "
al.cap wrote on Jan 18, 2013 12:12 PM:
in other words, the citizen army(the militia) is a necessary component to the freedom of a sovereign state. "
tcinco wrote on Jan 18, 2013 12:57 PM:
Sounds like he was concerned that the southern states would lose their slave patrol militias. Slavery can only exist in the context of a police state, and the enforcement of that police state was the explicit job of the militias. So maybe Patrick Henry, James Madison and George Mason were given the 2nd as what we refer to today as "pork" for their vote on the greater Constitution?
It is an interesting thought that I've seen cited in a few sources. "
deborah.griesbach wrote on Jan 18, 2013 1:40 PM:
Amen to your comments about the value of a civil discussion.
First, I agree with you that we need to protect ourselves against the possibility of a tyrannical government, and that it could happen here. We had a very interesting discussion around the dinner table last night, talking about countries where that has happened and scenarios of how it could happen here.
I believe that the first defenses against such an evolution lie in following our Constitution and in exercising our democratic rights. Our current democratic process is not working anywhere near as well as it should. Elections at all but the most local level seem to be distorted by monied special interests and reporting that focuses on everything but the substantive issues. Moreover, polemics and flame warfare are happening not just on Internet boards, but also in face-to-face discussions. It seems that more and more people are choosing simply not to discuss politics with people whom they know, like and disagree with. That does great harm to our country. You and I may not agree with each other, but we are working to understand each other. Kudos to us!
Now to your substantive point. In the course of researching and writing my op-ed piece, I relied on several books by Akhil Reed Amar, especially one called "The Bill of Rights." Amar notes that when our Founders were crafting the Second Amendment, they considered various different ways of wording it. In particular, some Pennsylvania Anti-Federalists proposed this wording: "The people have a right to bear arms for the defence of themselves and their own State, or the United States, or for the purpose of killing game." A key difference between that proposed wording and the final wording is that the final wording begins with reference to "a well regulated Militia."
There is a world of difference between having armed citizens operating on their own and armed citizens operating as part of a well regulated Militia. It is interesting to see that our Founding Fathers discussed this. Quoting again from Amar's book, "In The Federalist No. 28, Alexander Hamilton described a typical nonfederal regime: "If the persons intrusted with supreme power become usurpers, the different parcels, subdivisions, or districts of which [the nation] consists, having no distinct government in each, and take no regular measures for defense. The citizens must rush tumultuously to arms, without concert, without system, without resource." Then in The Federalist No. 46, Madison wrote "The State governments with the people on their side would be able to repel the danger…[A standing army] would be opposed by a militia amounting to near half a million of citizens with arms in their hands, officered by men chosen from among themselves, fighting for their common liberties and united and conducted by governments possessing their affections and confidence."
Now, I have never been in the military (except as an army brat), but I do have experience, which I think is relevant, as a volunteer EMT - not in Watertown, but in the small town in the northwest corner of Connecticut where I work. In order to become a volunteer EMT, I had to attend and pass a course, as well as written and practical exams. I need to be recertified periodically. For people who work in and with emergency services, the certification "EMT-B" implies very specific and understood skills. Furthermore, I have been issued specific equipment, which lives in my car, so that I have it when needed – turnout-gear, a jump kit, oxygen, a radio – and this gear is consistent with what others carry. I am also part of an organizational structure. Thus, during Winter Storm Alfred and Hurricane Sandy, we had process and procedures in place to ensure that we had the necessary people standing by at the Firehouse 24/7. The town's First Selectman, Emergency Manager and Fire Chief met every morning to agree on priorities. When the firehouse generator broke down, they knew to contact The National Guard, which promptly delivered a replacement generator.
If people were bearing arms as part of citizen militias that were organized at the local level, with a disciplined training programming and a civilian command and control structure – "liberty protected through localism" - I would feel very differently about citizens bearing arms.
I happen to have friends who are survivalists. They are trying to live off the grid as much as possible, even today, when the grid is working. They are also working to prepare themselves for a number of different disaster scenarios. The particular scenario that they are planning for is an event that makes New York City uninhabitable. In that scenario, they imagine large numbers of New Yorkers fleeing to Connecticut, and they want to be able to protect their home and family against desperate New York City refugees.
While I can understand their point of view, I don't feel that it serves the larger good. Rather, they are focused on protecting their own family in the context of a total breakdown of society. The intent of the Second Amendment was to protect our civil society.
I know this has gotten very long, but let me just make two more points to close. First, I did want to clarify that I hold the beliefs that I do because of family and life experience. I held these views before Newtown, but I never attempted to publish them because it did not seem realistic to work for a repeal of the Second Amendment. The Newtown tragedy – which you recall was followed in short order by the shooting ambush of volunteer firefighters in Webster, New York – was the tipping point that motivated me to write for publication.
Second, I have a strong personal bias towards working things out without access to firearms. Call me naïve, if you want – you won't be the first person to do so! – but I believe there is enormous value to making our best personal efforts to resolve problems cooperatively. I appreciate and respect the tone that you have brought to this conversation.
With best wishes,
Deborah Griesbach "
al.cap wrote on Jan 18, 2013 5:25 PM:
that's an interesting idea. one i had not considered. in reading the passage, it seems to me that the speaker is citing the limitations of the militia. if, in fact "congress, and congress only, can call forth the militia", it doesn't seem that the militia could be an active force for policing anything. rather, it seems to be intended as a reserve defense force.
that being said, we all know the propensity for adding pork to legislation to make it more palatable to those whose votes are coveted. i wouldn't be surprised. "
roy wrote on Jan 18, 2013 5:33 PM:
There aways "Experts" on both side of the fence including doctors.
Been proven in court. It's money that buys an "Expert", not the truth.
So, my dear gun ownership is a "Right" and if the government, the police, the criminals try to take my weapons, it will be bloody, and I will not be alone.
When confiscations happens, America will never be the same, trust me.... "
conservative1 wrote on Jan 18, 2013 10:30 PM:
The founders were also worried about our own government enslaving it's own citizens. You didn't mention that. Remember the whole taxation without representation/ tea party thing? Before you say that could never happen here, look around the rest of the world. Do you think our elected officials are any more honorable than Chavez or Gaddafi? How about the politicians 200 years from now? Take our guns now, we wont have them in later years to keep our government in check.
The lawmakers are NUDGING our rights away. Little here little there. Before you know it, you are naked with a number tattooed on your arm and forcefully being walked into a group shower. (get the hint?)
Gun laws don't work. DC, LA, Philly, Chicago, NYC. Toughest gun laws in the country. Murders everyday on every corner. Chicago will have 500 children murdered in black on black shootings this year. CRIMINALS DON'T OBEY LAWS.
Freedom isn't free. That means not only do we have to defend it every so often, we also suffer some loss by those who abuse freedom. "
conservative1 wrote on Jan 18, 2013 10:43 PM:
You've obviously never been the victim of a viscous crime. There is no talking your way out of a home invasion by those who place no value on life. You sound like a very nice person, but also very naive when it comes to world politics, what the founders had in mind and of today's society. I pray you are afforded the luxury of living out your life without having to learn these lessons the hard way. "
conservative1 wrote on Jan 18, 2013 10:50 PM:
We shouldn't punish everyone for the crimes of one. No matter what. Laws only punish the law abiders. "
conservative1 wrote on Jan 19, 2013 12:10 AM:
As it is Our government allows the Chinese to poison us with the toxins they put in the cheap trinkets they sell us all to have the privilege of borrowing ourselves out of existence.
No Chinese wisdom please. "
quirt347 wrote on Jan 19, 2013 5:30 AM:
Larry wrote on Jan 19, 2013 9:34 AM:
I'm not particularly concerned with the studies you cited or the credentials of the groups that wrote them. I KNOW you sleep soundly in your bed because 50 % of your fellows have guns inside their home, and home invasion, (in a country with SO MUCH wealth stored away inside homes) is an absolue rarity in the United States. I doubt the authors of any of those prestigeous institutions included a hard number for the deterrrant effect of firearms in homes. That requires common sense, not nurse school nonsense. "
deborah.griesbach wrote on Jan 19, 2013 11:40 AM:
Thank you for your good wishes and for your prayers.
You comment that "your survivalist friends are smart. It is coming and maybe sooner than they think."
Our family is not survivalist, for a number of reasons. One of them is this: In the event of a total breakdown of society, the people in our family who have asthma will die, because we will not be able to get the medications they need to breathe. So, with no feasible back-up plan, we are totally, 100% vested in a working social order.
Having said that, I don't equate goodness with weakness or with being naive.
Deborah "
al.cap wrote on Jan 19, 2013 12:01 PM:
deborah.griesbach wrote on Jan 19, 2013 4:06 PM:
I have not argued for universal disarmament. If anything, I have said that I could see a case for the precise opposite - universal training and armament.
The framers of the Constitution did an astonishing job of balancing competing rights while at the same time working to secure for our country the benefits that can be achieved through democratic government.
It seems to me that we have a substantial number of people who so distrust the good intentions of government or government's ability to protect or benefit them that they focus disproportionately on preserving their individual rights, to the detriment of working within the system for everyone's good. I include my survivalist friends in that camp. I am in the camp that still believes that we can find a way to walk the line the Founders walked, balancing the various competing rights with the benefits of government.
Deborah "
quirt347 wrote on Jan 19, 2013 5:32 PM:
You write, "I believe that the first defenses against such an evolution [a tyrannical government] lie in following our Constitution and in exercising our democratic rights."
No sane person would dispute this. We enjoy Constitutional guarantees regarding freedom of speech, freedom to worship as we please, and so forth. We have our system of checks and balances. We have the ballot box.
But it is a mistake to believe that our rights are etched in stone and will be passed to our descendants in perpetuity. The Founders didn't believe it: one of the big issues they wrestled with was how to ensure that future generations had options to defend their freedom should it be threatened by the emergence of a malevolent government.
Yes, it would be wonderful if we all loved our fellow citizens, elected only principled leaders, tolerated opposing points of view, and settled disputes about what the Constitution really means through civil discourse. But, with respect, that's pie-in-the-sky thinking that doesn't take into account human nature. War and despots and savagery and treacherousness have been constants throughout recorded history. And history isn't over just because we're alive right now.
I believe the Framers included the Second Amendment as a kind of failsafe—if worse comes to worst, we have their blessing to take up arms against a tyranny, just as they did.
Tyrannies have a way of sneaking up on people. Germany, Japan, Russia are 20th century examples of countries that slid into despotism through the efforts of a handful of determined bad actors. And, for various reasons, the general populations were powerless when these opportunists made their move to bring about transformations that resulted in so much misery and death.
"A well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed."
I've decided it's pointless to follow you into the weeds trying to parse what this sentence was really meant to convey. It's been argued over by smart people on both sides for a long time. You cite Amar and his references to Hamilton (Federalist #28) and Madison (Federalist #46) to support your position. In support of mine, I could also cite Madison in Federalist #46, Hamilton in Federalist #2, #28, and #29. Round and round she goes. To this day the Supreme Court has not ruled definitively on the language.
So, instead of trying to puzzle out what this particular phrase means in relation to that particular clause, let's use common sense.
Had the colonial rebels not been armed, they would have been unable to throw off the yoke of oppression. The Founders recognized that, the Constitution notwithstanding, there might come a time when leaders arose who would attempt to strip citizens of their liberty. So they said to their descendants in that one disputed sentence and in other places: if your own government threatens your freedom, you have the right to resist, as we did, by force of arms. And we have written into the compact that no future government may deprive you of the right to arms, as such denial is a preamble to tyranny.
Go a bit further down this path. Madison and others envisioned organized resistance (i. e., a "militia") to state tyranny. If such militias come into being because of oppression, the ordinary citizens in such a force must be in possession of arms to wage their campaign. In other words, the existence of militias isn't a precondition for the right to bear arms; rather, the right to bear arms is a precondition for forming militias.
I have no more to say on the matter. "
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Thank you. I have learned from our discussion.
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Your belief is that the 2nd Amendment should be a privilege. I have given you your answer on how to make it such, but it will not happen. I would start stepping off on your 'journey' because it is going to take a great deal of time and effort to convince over half the country it's a good idea. There are so many pro-gun states in the Union, if somehow, an Amendment were made and passed to repeal the 2nd Amendment, it would effectively split the Union in two or more pieces. Texas, Mississippi, Alabama, Wyoming and more states have already made it clear, they aren't allowing the enforcement of further gun-control legislation within their borders and are going to prosecute those who try. Repeal the 2nd, and they'll just take their ball and go home. And none of this malarkey about these states not being allowed to secede. Allowed or not, what stops them from putting up a border and drafting their own constitution or charter. Nothing.
Your reading of the Federalist 46 is correct but its interpretation is way off. The militia was never an official membership. It was the word used to generally refer to land-owning men who could muster at a moments notice to defend against an attack. You have a gun? Does it work? Welcome to the militia. That was it. It could be formed at any moment and was really intended to be organized at the local level. If you need some help with interpretation a lot of what Patrick Henry said at the Virginia Ratification Convention Debates can also help.
I can give you some credit that while I staunchly oppose your view of making adjustments to the Constitution, you are at least presenting it in an intelligent manner that does foster debate. Kitty should take some pointers off of you. "
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Community discord over a plan to build a new trail in Palo Alto reached City Hall on Monday night.
Nearly two dozen members of the public called on the city council to either reaffirm support for the plan or intervene and make changes. Council members, however, could not formally respond to the requests because they came during the oral communications portion of the meeting.
Stanford University has proposed a "perimeter trail" along Junipero Serra Boulevard between Old Page Mill Road and Stanford Avenue, Stanford Avenue between Junipero Serrra Boulevard and El Camino Real, and El Camino Real between Stanford Avenue and Quarry Road.
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At issue is the section along Stanford Avenue. More than half of the 60 parallel parking spaces for the popular Stanford Dish recreational trail would be eliminated to make way for the new perimeter trail. Thirty-three parking spaces would be relocated to Coyote Hill Road.
Several campus residents and employees said the plan would bring some much-needed order to the area. Bicyclists and pedestrians are often forced into the roadway to avoid parked cars.
"It is completely dysfunctional because it's used as a parking lot," Katherine Talbot said about Stanford Avenue. "This makes Stanford (Avenue) inconvenient to drive down, unsafe to bike and, most importantly, unsafe for our children who are trying to navigate that road to get to Nixon Elementary."
Tim Assimes, an assistant professor of medicine at Stanford University, was blunter in his assessment. Access to the Dish trail is ultimately at stake, he said.
"Stanford Avenue is an accident waiting to happen," he said. "If there's an accident, we will close the gates."
But Nancy Krop, a resident of the Barron Park neighborhood, said she didn't think safety would be improved by eliminating parking on Stanford Avenue and moving it to Coyote Hill Road. Instead, it would force people who park at Coyote Hill Road to traverse busy Page Mill Road.
"The last thing you want is hordes of walkers walking down Page Mill and then crossing at the Page Mill-Junipero Serra intersection, which is one of the most dangerous intersections," said Krop, who wore a red T-shirt emblazoned with a picture of the Stanford Dish and a green button imprinted with the words "Palo Altans for Dish Access."
Diane McGrath also pointed out that the walk from Coyote Hill Road to the start of the Dish trail is about 20 minutes. That's too long, she said, for busy young mothers such as herself.
"Please do not take away Dish parking," she said. "Rather, add parking to the adjacent streets to ease the congestion on Stanford Avenue."
The perimeter trail would help Stanford University satisfy a condition of approval outlined in a general use permit it received from Santa Clara County in 2000. In exchange for permission to expand by 5 million square feet, the university agreed to create new hiking and biking trails to offset the loss of recreational opportunities due to the construction.
The Santa Clara County Board of Supervisors signed off on the plan in November 2012 but told the university to hold two community meetings, the most recent of which took place in September. The Palo Alto City Council endorsed the perimeter trail concept in September 2012.
Susie Brando called the Dish trail a unique resource and credited it with helping her live a long and healthy life.
"Do keep it up," the 87-year-old resident urged the city council. "We need it. You're going to be old someday."
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Why always the hard way?
It seems we always have to do things the hard way - ever since I can remember - until we can pressure teams for 90 minutes on a regular basis no matter what the score is in games then we're gonna have to go through unnecessary anguish like last night. Coming out for the second half with the attitude that the game was won was unacceptable. I know what Rodgers has said in the papers but I think they will have got a roasting after the game. After all, it was a strong team with the exception of 2 players.
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Isn't the hard way the Liverpool way? In all seriousness I agree while BR was defending his players in public by talking up the positives from last night, I'm sure in private they were given a right talking to. The defending for both goals was atrocious, you just cannot loose your man in the box, especially when he's a big target man!
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Everything we do, especially when having a lead, is the complete opposite and antithesis of the Man Utd way, which is, we've scored 2, let's score 3. We've scored 3, let's score 4. Offense in many instances, is the best for of defense, and obviously leads to counters and more chances. Granted I think we hit the bar like 4 times, but we should have put it to bed at 3-0, w/ some chances missed.
Hate to pick on any one player, and it's not totally his fault since he's been moved to and favors CB, but Wisdom was at fault for both goals, and conceded the foul that led to the set piece where Kolo has injured his groin. Not to say Kolo wouldn't have, but just a point.. Let's just keep our fingers crossed Skrtel is fit and ready to go at the weekend, because no matter how much Utd may have struggled to score in their last match, it was vs Jose and a Chelski team who went to park the bus, and with Cahill/Terry partnered, and Ivanovic/Cole always in the right place at the right time..
I fear the worst for Kolo's injury, so let's also hope aside from Skrtel that one of these deals, Tiago Llori of Sporting, Sakho from PSG, or Alderweireld from Ajax gets done YESTERDAY! Perhaps Carra still has 70" in him?


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HENDERSONVILLE— Myrtle Bradley Smith, 90, of Mills River, went to be with her Lord on Nov. 28 at the Brian Center. Myrtle was born in Polk County and raised in the Edneyville area of Henderson County. She was the daughter of the late Harrison John Robert Bradley and Lexie Laughter Bradley and the wife of the late Bud Smith, also of the Mills River Community.
Mrs. Smith retired from the Olin Corporation, Brevard, NC, in 1985 after over thirty years, mostly in the finishing department. She loved to work to help provide for the family and also have fellowship with her co-workers. She loved to garden and could be seen tending to her plants when not at work.
Through the years, she belonged to numerous churches in Henderson County, the last being First Baptist, Mills River. She loved the fellowship of the church family and provided her house to the church as a meeting place until she became too sick to do so. She will be missed by all her Christian friends, but will be remembered as a true friend and supporter of Christian values.
Her passion in life was her family. She is survived by Linda and David Villers, of Mills River, Rick and Diane Smith, of Hendersonville, and Chuck and Pam Smith, also of Mills River. Grandchildren include Ricci Villers, Angela Bagwell, Tracy Kimball, James, Tanner, Jonathan, Merritt Smith and Audrey Barnwell. She is also survived by eight great grandchildren, and one great-great grandchild, and special nieces and nephew, Joy Straughan, Billie Schell, Jeanne Smith, and Steve Bradley.
In addition to her parents and husband, she is preceded in death by sisters Dallas Plemmons, Gladys Bradley, Amelia Leatherwood, Nelle Williams, Maude Dalton and Brother Herman Bradley.
Services will be held on Sunday December 2, 2012 at 3:00 P.M. in Thos. Shepherd's Church Street Chapel with Rev. Mike Willoughby officiating. The family will receive friends one hour prior to the service, and other times at Chuck and Pam's Home in Mills River.
In lieu of flowers, donations can be made in memory of Myrtle Smith to The Brian Center, 1870 Pisgah Dr, Hendersonville, NC.
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Why they're smiling in Barneys New York Dallas store at NorthPark
Earlier this week, the outlook at luxury retailer Barneys New York turned more positive than it's been in many years.
Its debt was slashed and new majority owner Perry Capital said there are no plans to close stores.
A debt-for-equity swap removed $590 million in debt crushing down the on chain.
Barneys reached an agreement with its lenders Perry Capital and Yucaipa Cos. and its current owner Istithmar World that slashed its long-term debt to $50 million.
Women's Wear Daily first reported the news on Monday. Fans of Barneys at NorthPark Center in Dallas may find comfort in knowing the answer to a question about store closings. CEO Mark Lee said there are no plans to close any stores.
I'm wondering if new owners will resurrect old plans to put a signature Fred's restaurant in the Dallas location.
Gensler, the firm that designed the Dallas store, had drawn up plans to carve out about 4,000 square feet for a full-service restaurant with seating for 150 to 175. The two-level store is 88,000 square feet so there's room.
Those plans were scrapped in 2009.
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SNOWMASS VILLAGE --Gretchen Bleiler, a four-time Winter X Games gold medalist, decided last week to drop out of the snowboard superpipe competition.
The Snowmass Village resident first announced her decision on Twitter midday Jan. 24 and spoke that night on ESPN about her decision. The Winter X Games were on Buttermilk Mountain from Jan. 24 to 27.
Bleiler was due to compete despite shattering her eye socket during a trampoline session in June in Park City, Utah. It was a long journey back to being able to compete as she struggled with double vision and vertigo resulting from surgery.
"My vision is better, but I just need a little bit more time on snow," Bleiler told X Games host Ramona Bruland.
Bleiler, 31, placed fourth in the superpipe last year and hasn't medaled since claiming gold in 2010. She said on Twitter that she is, "Keeping a big picture perspective on Sochi."
If Bleiler qualifies for the Winter Olympics next year in Sochi, Russia, they would be the third of her career. She claimed silver in Turin, Italy, in 2006 and finished 11th in Vancouver, B.C., after falling on both runs in 2010.
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MORGANTOWN - Who knows how much differently - if at all - this season would have turned out for West Virginia if it had played Kansas earlier in the season?
This much is true: Every other team in the Big 12 got a chance to fatten up on the Jayhawks before the Mountaineers. Given that Kansas has a 20-game conference losing streak, is 1-10 and has been outscored by 165 points this season, all other teams in the league have used the Jayhawks to gain a little confidence, and in some cases, get some guys some rest, and others some reps.
On the whole, Kansas, which faced the toughest schedule in college football, has lost 36 of 42 games under three different coaches and needs a victory Saturday against the Mountaineers to avoid its worst season in 14 years.
West Virginia coach Dana Holgorsen said neither he, nor his players, will take Kansas lightly.
''If our guys have learned anything this year, it is you better be ready to play,'' he said. ''All of the opponents in the Big 12 can win on any given day. Kansas is no different. They are a couple points away from having three Big 12 wins this season. We have to play hard.''
The Jayhawks will try to avoid making those numbers worse against the nation's 11th-best offense and sixth-best passing offense that has added a wrinkle. With the return of bruising running back Shawne Alston from injury and the addition of slot receiver Tavon Austin to the backfield, WVU suddenly has a running game that is equally as formidable as its passing game, which is led by a Davey O'Brien semifinalist at quarterback (Geno Smith) and a Biletnikoff finalist at receiver (Stedman Bailey).
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Big 12 Matchup
Kansas at West Virginia
Game time: 2:30 p.m. Saturday
Television: FSN
Spread: WVU is a 21.5-point favorite.
Series: West Virginia leads 1-0.
Notes: This marks the second meeting between the two schools and the first between the two coaches. WVU is 1-0 against Kansas, having defeated the Jayhawks, 21-0, at Morgantown in 1941. Mountaineers coach Dana Holgorsen served as offensive coordinator at Texas Tech from 2005-07 and at Oklahoma State in 2010, facing Kansas twice. The Red Raiders defeated the Jayhawks, 30-17, in Lubbock, Texas, in 2005, and the Cowboys won, 48-14, at Lawrence, Kansas, in 2010.
''Obviously this team is as dynamic an offense as you can possibly go against,'' Kansas coach Charlie Weis said. ''They have that 1-2 punch, that No. 1 guy (Austin), taking him where he's not just playing wide receiver, playing him at running back; they have the smashmouth (Alston) guy and the absolute burner.''
Speaking of Weis, along with defensive coordinator Dave Campo, Holgorsen has a whole bunch of respect for the extensive resumes they have put together that include wild success in the NFL.
''We're going to be at a major schematic disadvantage going against their coaches,'' Holgorsen said. ''They've coached everybody in the world. Our coaches are going to be able challenged to go against what we're going to go against.''
It hasn't been much of an issue for other teams, who have averaged 34 points per game against the Jayhawks and given up 19.
Weis says he prefers to be a 50-50 playcaller in terms of run and pass, but the strength of his team is its running backs, so he's basically been scheming different ways to get the ball to his best players - running backs James Sims, the Big 12's leading rusher at 119.5 yards per game (200 carries, 956 yards, eight touchdowns) and Tony Pierson (110 carries, 730 yards, four touchdowns) and Taylor Cox (88 carries, 461 yards, three touchdowns).
''We've morphed into a run-first team,'' Weis said. ''Our runners are good and offensive line run blocks pretty good. It's given us a chance to stay in some games.''
To that end, offensive lineman Tanner Hawkinson can set a school record for games started as he is schedule to make his 48th career start.
For the most part, the Jayhawks are a zone-read team, but through this mess, they've tried a whole bunch of stuff.
''You never know what you're going to get,'' Holgorsen said. ''It's the flavor of the week. They have a staff that understands football as well as anybody in the country. You have the material, and you do like you do every week. You look at what they do in certain situations, and what they do against specific defenses. You just try to figure it out. When it gets down to it, it's still just football. We are going to look and see what their tendencies are. We want to defeat some blocks and make tackles.''
As Holgorsen pointed out, Kansas has been competitive at times, having played Oklahoma State (20-14 loss), Texas (21-17 loss), and Texas Tech (41-34 in overtime) tough in league games.


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I've recently moved from Cedar Rapids to Indianola. I'm looking for someplace that carries new and used plastic.
Rusty's in Indianola seems to be closed or mostly closed,
Daydreams had good selection but everything was overpriced, and Play it Again in Des Moines had little selection and maybe 10 used discs.
Is there somewhere better that I should be going to?
I'm in dyer need since Pickard has eaten 13 of my discs since I moved here in June


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How NASCAR teams transport their cars
Front Row does a lot of hauler scrutinizing ahead of a grueling June and July stretch with runs to Delaware, Pennsylvania, Michigan, California, Kentucky, Florida, New Hampshire and Indiana.
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With major league baseball owners poised to meet early next month, a source close to A's owner Lew Wolff says he is "very confident" the league is close to clearing the way for his team to move to the South Bay.
The latest wave of enthusiasm came Saturday after yet another unconfirmed report surfaced on Twitter that the league will grant the A's permission to move to San Jose in February.
However, Major League Baseball sources told this newspaper that "nothing has changed. No decision has been made."
Since March 2009, a special MLB committee has been reviewing the A's request to move across the bay into territory long claimed by the San Francisco Giants, who are balking at the move.
But city leaders in San Jose confirmed Saturday that they have been hearing rumblings the league is moving toward a decision.
"All I know is that Lew is optimistic," said Mayor Chuck Reed, who spoke to Wolff last week.
Another source close to Wolff said Saturday that Wolff "is very confident that the A's (deal) was going to happen." The source said that confidence is based on "communication between Wolff and (MLB commissioner Bud) Selig, which is very frequent."
Wolff could not be reached for comment, and A's spokesman Bob Rose said the team continues to wait for Major League Baseball's report on the A's stadium situation and would have no further comment until then.
Team owners are expected to discuss the A's move at a meeting Jan. 11 to 12 in Scottsdale, Ariz. A move to San Jose would have to be approved by three-quarters of the owners. But sources say they may not end up voting until a settlement with the Giants can be negotiated.
The A's want to build a new stadium on land the team would buy from the city of San Jose next to the downtown Diridon Station.
A's general manager Billy Beane declined to comment on the Twitter report that the A's will receive permission by February to move to San Jose.
USA Today's Bob Nightengale tweeted Saturday morning: "All signs and top MLB sources say that the Athletics will be granted permission by Feb to move to San Jose."
Beane said he was unaware of any such news when reached by phone Saturday and didn't want to comment further.
Selig appointed a committee to research the A's stadium options almost three years ago, but there has been no public revelation of those findings. But Beane has expressed optimism this winter that a decision will come soon.
Beane's reasoning for his optimism has remained vague, but he did say on a media teleconference Friday night: "We just keep hearing (a decision will come) soon. Any other information I have I'd probably rather keep to myself."
Oakland officials discounted the latest Twitter report as "just rumors," said Susan Piper, a spokeswoman for the city's mayor. Earlier this month, Mayor Jean Quan held a news conference to make one more pitch for Oakland's stadium plan to keep the A's in town.
The city is touting a pair of sites to build a ballpark for the A's on city-owned land -- one at Victory Court along the waterfront, and the other as part of a proposed Coliseum City that would include stadiums for the A's, football Raiders and basketball Warriors, along with a retail and entertainment development, and a convention center.
"We have two very strong options," Piper said.
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I hope you like long release notes, because this release needs them. Here is the short version - check Documentation/Release.txt for the long one:
- OpenTK.OpenAL has been renamed to OpenTK.Audio. Alut and Alc have been replaced by AudioContext and AudioReader. EFX and XRam extensions are now supported. Many fixes and improvements to the interface.
- OpenTK.OpenGL has been renamed to OpenTK.Graphics. GraphicsContext (previously GLContext) has improved support for context creation and sharing - stencil, stereo and the rest of the parameters finally work. DisplayDevice allows to find and change the resolution of any monitor in the system.
- GameWindows can now be fullscreen. You can also set the border of the window to "fixed" (cannot be resized) or "hidden". The mouse cursor now behaves correctly.
- Many bug and stability fixes: mouse deltas are now reported correctly, the font renderer now correctly restores state, Matrix4.Frustum now works with skewed matrices and much more.
- New examples: Julia Set (GLSL), OpenAL Playback.
- New tests to play with: Input logging, Resolutions, and GameWindow states.
The Release.txt file details how to upgrade from 0.9.0 to 0.9.1, so make sure you take a look.
The next release, 0.9.2, is planned to add support for joysticks, which is the last missing feature before the beta stage. As always, feature requests (or even better, implementations), thoughts and comments welcome! Also, please report any regressions you happen across.
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The Next Big Thing?
This post is from Guest Blogger, Stanley Nelson, M.D. Dr. Nelson is the Director for the UCLA Site of the NIH Neuroscience Microarray Consortium, and Professor of Human Genetics and Psychiatry at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA. Dr. Nelson was also a co-author on last week's collaborative Nature paper.
Investments in the genetics of autism have been substantial and the results are beginning to come forth, with last week's announcement of the latest findings from our collaborative Autism Genome Project adding to previously identified genes and copy number variations that made last year's Top 10 Autism Research Achievements of 2009. The latest results, funded in large part by the tremendous efforts of Autism Speaks, are interesting alone, and I hope that all have learned that there are indeed novel genes being identified that lead to autism. However, there is a perhaps more important message from the paper which relates directly to the couple hundred thousand families directly affected by an autism spectrum disorder in the US alone.
Within the recent Nature paper are compelling new findings demonstrating that autism can be caused by genetic mutations in a wide range of different genes, but the findings highlight how complex the genetic causes will be, likely in the hundreds. With this level of complexity, it is also clear that this sized sample that took 15-20 years to collect at the cost of tens of millions of dollars including molecular testing and analytical effort, we were only able to find genetic causes for a small minority of the children with autism (a few percent). So detecting the meaningful gene variants is largely a game of statistics. With the relatively small size of the autism samples available to us today, many gene mutations that may be causative in an individual with autism will go 'undetected' because our sample size lacks the statistical power to identify them as definitively associated with autism. This is because these causative variants are each "rare" in the whole autism population. Even though rare, each gene variant that confers risk is important. Why? When considered together, these gene variants will collectively explain the majority of cases of the disorder, as well as inform us greatly about the still largely unresolved biological causes, both genetic and environmental. To get us to the next phase of understanding the genetic risk of autism, we need a way to cost-effectively recruit tens of thousands of affected individuals and their families to enable the appropriate large scale genetic studies needed to address this pressing scientific need. My attitude is well described in an interview written by Nancy Shute at US News and World Report.
Until recently, we have not had a nationwide infrastructure that could allow anyone in the US to participate with a child with a diagnosis of autism. That has changed with the initiation of the IAN Genetics Project, funded by Autism Speaks through the High Risk, High Impact Initiative. Using the web portal of the IAN Genetics Project, families provide information about their child through simple web-based questionnaires that require only a few hours effort from home, anytime. Families also give consent for the DNA collection portion of study online. Interested families may participate in this study by taking their child to one of 1,600 blood draw sites nationwide with our corporate partner, Labcorp. This is all made possible through the Interactive Autism Network, and more information can be found at IANPROJECT.ORG, where I encourage all families with an affected child to register and complete the requested questionnaires. For those interested in learning more about the DNA Study, specific information can be found by following this link. Any questions about the project can be answered by IAN staff, who can be reached through the link.
Please register at IANPROJECT.ORG, even if not interested in the DNA Study. Simply filling out the online forms provides powerful new data to researchers that can only come from many thousands of individual families taking the time to help solve the complex issues of autism beyond genetics alone. Together we can take this next step to help reveal the causes of autism and help alleviate the struggles of those living with autism today.
June 14, 2010 at 8:08 pm
Wouldn't you need the parent's DNA along with the child's DNA?
June 15, 2010 at 6:31 pm
We can analyze individual children or children with parents. Both are effective for the search for rare mutations that lead to autism. Parental DNA samples are useful for determining if the DNA mutation is inherited or a new mutation, and of course is useful clinically once the mutations are established to be truly associated with autism.
June 20, 2010 at 8:33 pm
Thanks Stan.
Another question. I read a post from a woman who claimed she took her son to get his DNA checked and they didn't find anything although his father was autistic. I realize we don't know where she went to get tested but is this possible? Wouldn't the father's DNA show up in the son's DNA even if the son didn't have autism?
June 14, 2010 at 8:33 pm
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June 16, 2010 at 12:35 am
i was wondering if all siblings of the affected child is going to be used especially if all kids come from same parents?
June 16, 2010 at 12:53 am
i would like to find out what made my oldest different from my asd child.my oldest daughter is gifted and the asd child is only a few steps behind her in giftedness;i feel the need to find out what made them different.i would like to find out why my affected child has recooperated enough to be called adhd with austic traits and people tell me that austism is no longher associated with her person.
June 16, 2010 at 1:24 pm
I applaud these efforts but this project is insanely expensive, time consuming and isn't giving us sufficient value back on our investment. Meanwhile hundreds of treatment intervention studies go unfunded and environmental research, although emphasized with words, has received little action in terms of money and support of innovative science. We need to focus our very limited financial resources towards uncovering the environmental mechanisms causing the de novo mutations. There could easily be 50 variants of autism, this project could take 25 years- by that time autism could be affecting 1 in 50 boys. Naturally autism requires a genetic suseptibility – then what? What is turning on these rare gene variants that were dormat a generation ago.??? Our genes have barely changed in the past 25 yrs yet autism has increased 1,000%. Probably 95% of people w/ autism ( not aspergers) do not reproduce. If autism were primarily genetic autism would be rapidly decreasing!
June 17, 2010 at 1:58 am
It is certainly a fair point to state that the results may not justify the costs. The whole study 'explains' about 3% of why individual kids have autism. However, the cost of such projects should be rapidly decreasing as the cost for collecting genomic DNA samples and effectively (but minimally) phenotyping affected kids through IANPROJECT.ORG, with funding provided through Autism Speaks, we are now in a position to rapidly increase the sample size for genetic analysis in a cost effective manner. Collecting the sample has dominated the costs of these studies to date. If we do not identify the genetic causes, there is little hope for identifying the core basis of autism's many forms, including how environmental insults contribute which will likely be in the context of specific mutations in many children (but of course not always). I would like to clarify that it is unlikely that environmental factors are playing a large role in causing these mutations. Mutations happen as part of our DNA passage from parents to kids, and there is no large increase in CNVs in autism kids than the control kids from the available data. And there are many rare genetic diseases that are clearly caused by spontaneous DNA mutations and are not caused by any environmental factor. We should expect autism spectrum disorders to be similar. The mutations that happened in the kids with autism are affecting genes that have a role in brain development, a small number of which are now observed to be clearly contributing to autism risk. Very rare mutations (maybe occurring in only one in one thousand kids) appear to be the rule. Thus, we will learn about the mutations that happened in the set of kids whose DNA is studied, and these DNA findings will be the basis of our understanding of autism. So it is best to have as many different affected people as possible to participate in the DNA studies. There are likely hundreds of variants of autism and all deserve to be identified so that a larger portion of parents have a discrete known cause for their child.
June 17, 2010 at 6:17 pm
Dear Stan,
I respectfully disagree w/ you assertion that it is unlikely the environment plays a role in the mutation and I think you will find that 90% parents of children under 10 agree w/me. What we are seeing now is a different type of autism than the one geneticists have been studying for 20 yrs. Yes, there are many rare genetic diseases like Retts and Huntingtons in which a normally progressing person suddenly lurches backwards into a terrible and sometimes fatal regression. These are all single gene diseases and have little in common with autism in terms of autism vast hetereogenity. There are also NOT diseases growing at an astonishing rate.
It is a given in the autism community that the environment plays a very strong in the explosion of autism cases. I hope you talk to Geri Dawson and get her opinion. That said I am talking specifically about children like my own who were where healthy, speaking, affectionate, athletic toddlers who regressed into a state of catatonia, chronic illnesses, severe rashes, horrible life ruining allergies, seizures, inflammatory bowel disease- NONE of which are found in our family. The difference w/ my son's autism and the autism you are studying is his autism manifested itself after 4 days of fever following 7 vaccines in one day. He has never been the same. My son was not programmed to self destruct.
He deserves answers as well as the parents of clearly genetically driven autism.
Respectfully, Katie
July 13, 2010 at 1:40 pm
Katie, I'm so sorry to hear what you've been through. Look, there is NO doubt SOME kids with autistic features or full blown autism acquired autism by being damaged in some way, to vaccines. Most likely, they were allergic to the ingredients or hypersensitive to the side effects. Frankly, I'm tired of all the research, because while millions goes to people sitting in labs playing with rats and looking at brains, thousands of parents are sitting at home going crazy because they have LITTLE help to handle the day to day operations of living with autism. We need more research into the brain function of our politicians, as to determine why such callous indifference to such a incredible challenge and national threat to our population. No doubt as well, we live in a toxic world. God only knows what's in our food and water that can't be helping our brains. Especially autistic brains, already compromised and in need of healing and improvement. I say skip the autism research and start funneling the money into researchig how to set up nursing or caregiving centers so parents dealing with severe autism can get a damn break. You tube has some good videos about severe autism. Too bad the researchers wouldn't check out your son and others who are featured on you tube, to see if they could help. I mean think about it. So what if they discover what causes autism, which they won't of course, ever, because it's become too big of an industry….and it's rooted in multiple etiologies….so as usual, we will be TEASED every few months with a potential "new exciting discovery" that will never be anything concrete or helpful to those currently living with real autism.


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MARIETTA -Products from local manufacturer Solvay Advanced Polymers made history Friday as they helped launch an entirely solar-powered airplane on its cross-country American voyage.
As one of the first sponsors of the project, the polymers giant has been helping for nearly a decade to develop components for the Solar Impulse. The Solar Impulse is a small plane with a massive wingspan covered in solar panels that enables it to fly without using fossil fuels, said David Klucsik, Solvay's director of North American communications.
"The biggest accomplishment, I think, is it is the first solar-powered aircraft to fly day and night," he said.
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Solar-powered aircraft Solar Impulse completes a test flight over San Francisco's Golden Gate Bridge. The plane, which was built in part with materials from Solvay Advanced Polymers in Marietta, began its first trip across America Friday.
The Solar Impulse has already completed an intercontinental flight in Europe and has broken a record by completing a flight lasting more than 26 hours.
The solar-powered airplane left Northern California on Friday for the first leg of a planned cross-country trip that its co-pilot described as a "milestone" in aviation history.
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* The plane will make stops in Washington, D.C., New York City, and other locations.
* People can learn more about Solar Impulse and follow its travels at www.solarimpulse.com
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It is expected to reach Phoenix around 1 a.m. today.
Each flight leg will take about 19 to 25 hours, with 10-day stops in each city.
Several Solvay technologies have contributed to the success of the Solar Impulse.
Solvay Specialty Polymers in Marietta was responsible for manufacturing Radel for the plane. The light-weight, heavy duty plastic was used in areas that would traditionally be made of metal on a plane, said Wally Kandel, plant manager at Solvay Marietta.
"Our product goes into a lot of applications for metal replacement," he said. "The whole science is how you get as much energy as possible from the sun to the movement of the plane. You have to have a lot of efficiency and as little weight as possible."
The Radel is used to house the throttle and the instrument panel, said Klucsik.
The result is a plane about 71 feet long with a 208-foot wingspan and a weight comparable to that of a small car, he said.
The project has been a source of great pride to the employees at the Marietta plant, many of whom are planning a trip to see the plane on its flight across America, said Kandel.
In addition to the lightweight plastics produced locally, other Solvay plants have produced lubricants that work under a variety of conditions, lithium battery components that improve energy storage life and a super thin coating for the more than 10,000 solar panels that span the plane's wings.
Though the plane has already achieved many significant feats, perhaps the most emotional one was seeing the plane's first flight in Switzerland in 2009, said Claude Michel of Brussels, Belgium, the Solar Impulse manager for Solvay.
"It was probably the shortest and smallest flight. The pilot just took off and landed after about 40 seconds. But it really proved that all the choices and options we took technically were the right ones," said Michel.
The next phase of the project is taking the lessons learned from the Solar Impulse, and building a second solar-powered plane with the goal of flying around the world, said Klucsik. That plane is being built and will hopefully make that voyage in 2015, he said.
However, the purpose of Solvay's involvement in the project was never to shift the company's focus to aviation or to claim that solar-powered planes will supplant current fossil fuel ones, said company officials.
"The purpose really is to demonstrate that innovation can be harnessed to accomplish something that would otherwise be thought impossible," said Klucsik.


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noun (plural colonies)
1A country or area under the full or partial political control of another country and occupied by settlers from that country: Japanese forces overran the French colony of Indo-China
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territory, possession, holding, dependency, province, dominion, protectorate, satellite (state), settlement, outpost
historical tributary, fief
1.1A group of people living in a colony, consisting of the original settlers and their descendants and successors: the colony looked forward to fifty or more years of autonomy
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2A group of people of one nationality or race living in a foreign place: the British colony in New York
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- He mobilized the elite of the American colony in Paris into a volunteer committee, whose first task was to help stranded tourists obtain money.
- The first and largest Irish colony in London could be found in St Giles in the Fields.
- There was an important Italian colony in London, mostly of Florentines and Lucchese, dealing in silk and silk fabrics.
population, community
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community, association, commune, settlement, quarter, district, section, ghetto
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3.1A group of fungi or bacteria grown from a single spore or cell on a culture medium.
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Exclusive NYC 'Autism Friendly' Screening of Disney Pixar's summer blockbuster, Cars 2!
John Ratzenberger, a long-time friend of Autism Speaks, who famously played Cliff Clavin on the NBC hit sitcom Cheers, is supporting the autism community in a big way! John has been featured in all 12 Pixar movies and lends his voice to the character of Mack in Disney•Pixar's upcoming summer feature, CARS 2.
Hi everyone – John Ratzenberger here. My friends Bob & Suzanne Wright, co-founders of Autism Speaks, asked me to do a quick blog post to let everyone know about a special event I'm hosting with them for the autism community in a couple of weeks time.
I'm excited to announce that we're going to host an Autism Speaks screening of Pixar's highly anticipated summer blockbuster, "Cars 2″ in 3D, here in New York City on June 11. That's a full two weeks before the movie is out in theaters!
The screening will be 'autism friendly'; meaning that the sound will be a little lower and the lights will be up a little higher. There'll also be a 'quiet room' for you to go to during the film if needed. Most importantly, the theater will be full of people who understand autism: it'll be a judgment-free zone. The idea is to bring people together to see the movie in a way that celebrates individuals with autism and their families. It's an Autism Speaks exclusive event, meaning the general public won't be allowed in: it's just us.
Tickets are only $20, but that admits one adult and two children, and also gets you a soda and popcorn! We need to charge this fee to pay for the theater, but we hope you agree that it's a great deal!
To recap:
What: Special advance screening of Disney•Pixar's "Cars 2" in 3D!
Where: New York City's famous Ziegfeld Theater, 141 West 54th Street
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When: June11, 2011, 8.30 a.m. Doors, 9:30 a.m. Doors Close,
Program and Screening: 9:45 a.m.
How much: $20 for one adult and two children (small popcorn and drink included!)
Note: Due to the advanced nature of the screening, recording devices will not be permitted into the theater. Unfortunately, this includes iPads. We are very sorry for the inconvenience.
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It promises to be a fantastic morning! Hope to see you there!
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For the first time in its 68-year history, the Apple Festival will compost apple cores and other food waste in addition to its recycling efforts.
"We have been recycling for a number of years and that has greatly reduced our waste flow. The addition of composting adds to that effort," said David Nicholson, executive director of the North Carolina Apple Festival. "We appreciate food vendors and apple growers helping us eliminate the use of Styrofoam this year."
During the 2013 Apple Festival, 3.81 tons of items were recycled that, otherwise, would have entered the landfill, according to a news release from Henderson County. This year, the goal is to exceed that recycling figure with the addition of incorporating food waste, the release says.
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BERKELEY -- A wounded mountain lion wandering around in the Berkeley hills prompted a shelter-in-place order at Lawrence Berkeley National Labs above UC Berkeley Thursday, but a multiagency law enforcement response failed to find the cat, police said.
UC Berkeley Police Lt. Eric Tejada said the department got a call about a "limping mountain lion" near McMillan Road in the Berkeley Hills at 12:12 p.m.
"We did issue a shelter in place order at a couple of buildings until we could determine it was all clear," Tejada said. "We never did see it."
Tejada said Berkeley police, East Bay Regional Parks Police and California Fish and Game officers responded to the call to look for the mountain lion but left the area about 2:43 p.m.
"The mountain lions are definitely up there and once in a while you see a half eaten turkey," Tejada said.
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