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DUBLIN -- Decked out in 49ers red and gold, he walked among the rabid throng of Seahawks faithful, outnumbered but uncowed.
In the wild exuberance of Seattle's Super Bowl victory parade last week the young man, since dubbed "Niner Waldo," endured the boos of rival fans and the occasional toss of Skittles in his direction.
Photos of the stranger-in-a-strange-land went viral, catching the attention of Catherine Tate, a Dublin resident and president of the all-female Niners' booster club Ladies of the Empire. Impressed with the young man's bravery, she offered him a front row seat at next year's Seahawks-49ers game, at midfield of the new Levi's Stadium.
But in a bizarre twist, what Tate envisioned as a modest crowdfunding source for airline fare and hotel rooms, has turned into something much more -- finding a new home for a homeless teen.
"I thought he needs a lot of help and guidance other than a ticket," Tate said. "This one just fell out of the sky into our laps, and there's no way we could turn it down."
Dubbing him "Niner Waldo" for his striped stocking cap and sore-thumb obtrusiveness, it didn't take long for Tate to track down the superfan through Facebook, where she discovered his real name is Ronnie Andrews. He's 15 and a ward of the state living in a Kirkland, Wash.-area shelter.
A social worker Andrews identified as his said she wasn't allowed to provide details on her clients.
As the story hit the national and social media, money began pouring in. It began with a $5,500 goal and has reached nearly $40,000. Most important, five licensed foster care families have stepped forward, Tate said, meaning not only will Andrews have his pick of a new home, but four other kids will likely have placement options.
"It's awesome," Tate said. "We've saved a life. And not just his life ... five lives are going to be directly, positively affected right now. ... I can only imagine how far it's going to go."
Donations continue to arrive from across the country and beyond, including from players and fans of other teams admiring Niner Waldo's courage. Seahawks fans have donated a significant portion of the funds.
"I have a new respect for the 12th Man," Tate said, of the Seahawks fan base.
According to Tate, Andrews planned to meet friends at the parade but lost them and decided to go it alone. The photographer who snapped the viral photo, Jay Adams, is a Seahawks fan who traveled to the parade from Vancouver, British Columbia.
"I try to pay attention to stuff that's outside the norm and can start a conversation," Adams said. "When you see a kid dressed up as a Niner fan at a Seahawk parade, it gets your attention. ... It went nuts from there."
Tate's offer to take in the next big rivalry game with Andrews at the new stadium still stands, but with the teen's basic needs -- school supplies, clothes and possible foster home -- addressed, efforts have turned to creating a college fund. The goal is now $50,000, but collections will continue as long as funds keep arriving.
Andrews won't be able to touch the money until he turns 18, said Tate, who plans to create a trust fund to ensure it's spent on college.
"Niner Waldo" is being restricted from communicating, including on the Internet, for his own safety and privacy amidst the media storm, but Tate said he is "overwhelmed."
"He said 'I want to help other kids like me,'" Tate said. "He's shocked and blown away that strangers want to help him."
Contact Jeremy Thomas at 925-847-2184. Follow him at Twitter.com/jet_bang.
To make a donation to the Ladies of the Empire's "Niner Waldo" fund, go to www.gofundme.com/get-niner-waldo-to-sf. For more on the Ladies of the Empire, go to ladiesoftheempire.com or the group's Facebook page.


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Miami Man Is Killed in SR 60 Crash Near Lake Wales
Published: Sunday, March 17, 2013 at 4:06 p.m.
Last Modified: Monday, March 18, 2013 at 2:55 a.m.
A Miami man was killed in a two-vehicle crash Sunday on State Road 60 near Lake Wales, the Polk County Sheriff's Office said.
Polk County sheriff's spokeswoman Carrie Eleazer said a 2012 Chevrolet Impala was trying to make a left turn from Mammoth Grove Road onto S.R. 60 about 11:15 a.m. and crossed into the path of a 2003 Dodge Dakota pickup pulling a trailer with an ATV on it, which was traveling west on S.R. 60.
The vehicles collided and rotated, according to reports. Deputies said the driver of the Impala died at the scene. His passenger, also from Miami, was taken to Lakeland Regional Medical Center and was stable.
Sheriff's officials said Sunday night they were still trying to contact the next of kin of the man killed in the crash.
The driver of the Dakota, Karen Vozniak, 23, of St. Petersburg, her husband, James Vozniak, 27, and their two children were treated for minor injuries at Lake Wales Medical Center and released, according to deputies.
All parties involved were wearing their seat belts.
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Something to Be Grateful for in Everything
This has been an amazing month. There have been incredible gifts that have poured into me in surprising and glorious ways. There have also been challenges, upheavals and upsetting experiences. As I moved into meditation and contemplation on my experiences I had the thought, "There is a gift in everything."
Now, that was not surprising, since I believe that everything that happens has a purpose. However, when thoughts come in like that, I pay attention. What I discovered is that I have been allowing little thoughts of concern to creep into my consciousness. I have a strong spiritual practice, but still I noticed that parts of my body felt constricted. That is always a powerful sign to pause.


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The following is an excerpt from our 2013 Annual Report: A Recipe for Success.
During a trip to Hawaii in April of 2000, Irene Schaefer's husband fell, hit his head, and died two days later at Queens Medical Center in Honolulu. Irene was completely alone, except for the chaplaincy volunteers at the hospital who sat with her during her husband's final two days.
"It was traumatic and sad, but those people kept me going," says Irene.
Just a month later, back in Randolph, a local reverend with the help of a team of area churchgoers started the volunteer chaplaincy program at Gifford. It was too soon for Irene, a local resident, but when a second training was scheduled that November, Irene signed up. "I had to get out and give back because of what I had been given in Hawaii."
In the more than decade since, this now 85-year-old has made Gifford her "second home." "It's very rewarding. I get more out of it than I give," she says.
She comes several times a month to spend a couple of hours visiting with patients. When a patient is dying, Irene offers a prayer "for a calm and smooth transition." Mostly, though, she listens. "Everybody has a story," she says.
She is often the person called in the night to comfort a patient or family in the Emergency Department.
For Irene, it is not her first "job" or even her first volunteer job. From New Jersey, Irene was a church secretary for years. Upon moving to Randolph 40 years ago, she worked at DuBois and King as the "girl Friday" distributing mail, developing photos in a dark room and operating the business' first computer, which was roughly the size of Gifford's chapel, she recalls. She went on to do computer work for a local accountant, until retiring in 1991. A decade of volunteering at White River Valley Ambulance in billing followed.
At WRVA, Irene chased down patients and insurance companies for payments.
At Gifford, the only payment a soft spoken, elegant and humorous Irene is seeking is peace of mind.
"I think I could write a book. The experiences have been from very humorous to very sad. I have had a marriage proposal," she says with a laugh. "I've also been in the Garden Room (for end-of-life patients). I don't want to say it's my favorite place, but it's a place where I feel comfortable, when some of the other (volunteers) do not, because I have been there personally, and I totally admire our palliative care system."
That admiration and an ongoing need for a comforting hand and listening ear will keep Irene volunteering with Gifford's chaplaincy program as long as she's able.
"I look at it as a need. It's a need that's being fulfilled, which doesn't happen at all hospitals. It's part of Gifford's outreach and caring and the reason why patients want to be here."


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Weather Journal: Big Chill May Lead to Snow
Greater New York may finally have something to show for the current bone-chilling cold snap: significant snows are in the forecast.
On an absolutely frigid Tuesday, meteorological harbingers were beginning to point towards the increasing chances that a major East Coast snowstorm is in the offing.
Since the nascent weekend storm is still getting its act together over the Gulf of Alaska, much is still subject to change. However, the latest weather models released on Tuesday afternoon pointed to anywhere from three to nine inches of snow headed for the five boroughs by Saturday. If those numbers pan out, it would be the heftiest snow storm — and only the second one-inch-plus total outside of two freak autumn nor'easters — in more than two years.
In the meantime, bitter cold will linger as some of the coldest air in at least two years entrenches the tri-state. Wind chill values were as low as six degrees above zero in Central Park on Tuesday afternoon and are expected to dip below zero intermittently in the city over the next two days. Daytime highs on Wednesday and Thursday will only reach the low-20s, but brisk and blustery winds will make it feel much, much colder. Actual temperatures are expected to dip into the single digits in New York City early Wednesday morning, something that hasn't happened since Jan. 24, 2011. However, despite the intense cold snap, January 2013 is still on pace to go down as one of the warmest Januarys in Greater New York's recorded history, continuing a lengthy warm stretch that began months ago.
Climate Takes Center Stage in Obama's Inaugural Address
On Monday, discussions over what to do about climate change reached the peak of presidential priorities and formed a good chunk of Obama's second term inauguration remarks. Just days after 2012 was announced as the warmest year in the nation's history, at issue is the growing impact that accelerating extreme weather is having on the country's economy and environment.
Greater New York's recent weather is a perfect example: Superstorm Sandy — one of the most destructive hurricanes ever to hit the United States — took an unprecedented beeline for the tri-state, causing record coastal flooding that was worsened by anthropogenic sea level rise. Last year was the warmest in the city's record books, and probably the warmest locally since well before the city's founding. Annual snow totals have decreased by more than five-and-a-half inches at Central Park over the last 100 years, while the year-to-year variability of seasonal snowfall has increased sharply. Scientists at Rutgers University in New Jersey have linked increasingly erratic winter weather to the melting Arctic ice cap, primarily due to human-caused climate change.
What all this means is that climate change is already making real impacts — most notably in Greater New York — and is only expected to intensify unless (and very likely even if) immediate actions are taken during Obama's second term. After superstorm Sandy, the issue rose to the fore of national debate. Weather Journal will continue to follow what direction that debate takes us in 2013.
Weather Journal's Greater New York forecast roundup for Wednesday:
- WSJ Headquarters in Manhattan:
- Actual High: 20; High feels like: +10
- Actual Low: 12; Low feels like: -3
- Weather: Bitter cold lingers
- Brooklyn: 20/14
- Queens: 22/15
- Bronx: 22/14
- Staten Island: 19/11
- Poughkeepsie, N.Y.: 21/+6
- Trenton, N.J.: 24/14
- Islip, Long Island: 20/10
- New Haven, Conn.: 21/+6
Meteorologist Eric Holthaus contributes daily weather reports and analysis on Metropolis. For the latest on conditions in New York and elsewhere, follow his updates @EricHolthaus.


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A bomb squad was brought in to remove them.
Officials say they were hollowed out and not dangerous.
The grenades were found in a part of the park that is not open to the public.


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Christina Ryan-Kilcoyne doesn't normally advertise her dance classes. She doesn't normally have to.
"I've never had to advertise before," says the fair-haired teacher from County Clare, who came to the U.S. in 1988 and set up a dance school in Pennsylvania.
"The kids just used to come. But this year my beginners' class is down by half."
Ryan-Kilcoyne hasn't started yet, but she's soon going to put out fliers publicizing her school.
Since the 1990s, and especially after "Riverdance" Irish stepdance has grown wildly popular. But it has also become hugely costly, and in this downturn it is suffering.
Enrolment is low at schools across the country this fall as parents who have lost their jobs struggle to pay for lessons. Parents who have money are doing their best to hold onto it, signing their kids up for fewer classes.
This has had an impact on teachers. Ryan-Kilcoyne is married and the school is not her sole source of income, but others are less lucky.
"For people for whom it's totally their livelihood, it must be a hard place to be," she says.
Kerry Kelly-Oster is another teacher whose school has taken a hit. She teaches at her Kelly-Oster School of Irish Dance, based in Brewster, New York. It's a well-established school and her students win awards at feiseanna across the country, but in this economic climate even that success doesn't help.
"I can definitely see an impact," Kelly-Oster affirms. "There's not as many children joining the classes."
Last year was even worse, Kelly-Oster adds, saying this year numbers are more level. Now, she says, "parents and families are being more stringent with their choices."
How schools are faring depends on where they're located -- whether there's a strong Irish presence in the area, and, of course, how much the downturn has damaged local industry.
Kathy Egloff, a parent director of the Butler-Sheehan School in Syracuse, says there have been few foreclosures there. Everyone worries about money, but student numbers at the school are about the same as before.
"If you don't get too heavily into feises, it's not as expensive as other sports," she says.
Nor has Sean Culkin, director of the Culkin School of Traditional Irish Dance and regional director of the Southern Dance Teachers Association (IDTANA), had any problems. He had 85 beginners this year, and he puts it down to location.
"We're a suburb of Washington, D.C., Montgomery County. There's a lot of government money down here. Generally speaking, we're not getting hit," he says.
It's clear enrolment is something teachers are talking about among each other. Kevin Broesler teaches at the Broesler School of Irish dance, which has classes in New York, New Jersey and Maryland.
His schools are doing fine, he says, but he recently had a conversation with a teacher from Detroit. The demise of the automotive industry has had a knock-on effect on dancing, and stepdance in Detroit is going through a very tough time.
"The teacher said enrolment was down 60 percent," Broesler says. "The Detroit area has been decimated."
The thing with Irish dancing is that it's not just the classes that cost money, as every parent and dancer knows. If you want a top dress, you'll shell out $3,000. Shoes and wigs all add up too, and that's before you've paid feis entry fees and sorted out transport to competitions.
"I don't think there's any other sport where you pay more for the dress than for the class tuition," Ryan-Kilcoyne says.
Dresses in particular have become increasingly elaborate in recent years, even though the young girls who wear them are bound to outgrow them quickly. Some schools, like the Culkin School, have "dress exchange" sections on their websites, and other sites exist where used dresses can be bought and sold (Dance Again Irish Dance Dresses and the Irish Dancing Exchange are two examples).
But the fact remains that fashions change. This year diamante and bubble skirts are in, but who knows what will be hot in 2010? The parent who spent that $3,000 might hope to get half the value back at the year's end.
The astronomically-priced outfits are a cause of concern in the dance community. "The commission (An Coimisiún le Rincí Gaelacha) is trying to come up with a solution and make it known that they've recognized the problem," says Kelly-Oster, explaining that the coimisiún is trying to pass the message on to teachers and parents.
She points out, "It's not the costume that makes the dancer, it's the dancer."
Yet some kids, and their parents, still think the dress helps them win. Kelly-Oster says parents will always want their kids to have that "edge."
Many teachers long for the cheaper, simpler dresses of yore. "I'd love to see it go back to much more simple costumes, and be much more affordable," says Ryan-Kilcoyne. "You wouldn't pay that amount for a wedding dress."


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CRYSTAL BAY, Nev. - Jesus is coming and, man, he is hot.
The sizzling sacred steel sound is featured at Snowlive's Rock Night, played by the genre's greatest star and the players he learned it from.
It took an incredibly fast and good-looking pedal lap steel guitarist, Robert Randolph, to capture the world's attention to the music which, since the 1930s, was only heard in the House of God Church. Shortly after Randolph was discovered, Rolling Stone magazine named him on of the 100 greatest guitarists of all time.
Willie Eason recorded approximately 18 songs in the 1940s and 1950s, and they received some radio play but it took another half-century for national attention to arrive.
"All of it came alive when he (Randolph) came on the scene," said Aubrey Ghent, the nephew of Willie Eason, the patriarch of sacred steel music. "After he came on they started asking him questions and that let the cat out of the bag. I was playing a little with Robert at that time."
Randolph will perform at Snowlive with the Slide Brothers: Ghent, Calvin Cooke, and brothers Chuck and Darick Campbell. Touted as 80 years in the making, "Robert Randolph Presents: The Slide Brothers," the band's debut album was released Tuesday.
Randolph told Lake Tahoe Action in a 2010 interview he grew up listening to Henry Nelson, Chuck and Darick Campbell, Calvin Cooke and Ted Beard in the House of God Church in Florida.
"These guys were basically my Muddy Waters and Stevie Ray Vaughans and Jimi Hendrix's to me," Randolph said. "Where all of my stuff came from is these guys. Now having the opportunity to take those guys out on the road with me and really show everybody these are the real-deal dudes, this is where I got it all from, this is such a great treat."
Ghent's father, Henry Nelson, was also schooled by Eason and played sacred steel for more than 50 years, sharing the stage with such gospel singers Sister Rosetta Tharpe and Mahalia Jackson.
While Randolph often plays secular music, Ghent remains spiritual. Known as the "Preaching Deacon," Ghent not only recorded with Derek Trucks and Susan Tedeschi, the preacher officiated their marriage ceremony.
The new album is produced by Randolph and includes appearances by the Blind Boys of Alabama, Shemekia Copeland and Billy Cox, who played bass with Jimi Hendrix's Band of Gypsies.


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Gary Sowatzki, 71, of Devils Lake, N.D., passed away on Sunday morning, December 8, 2013 at his home after a courageous battle against cancer. He was in the loving care of his family and Mercy Hospice.
Funeral services for Gary will be held on Friday, December 13, at 11 a.m. Visitation will be held on Thursday afternoon.
Gilbertson Funeral Home, Devils Lake, is in charge of arrangements.
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For the last month or so, we conducted our second annual Sexiest Woman Alive Madness tournament to allow America to choose its own honoree for Esquire's coveted title. Turns out your two-million votes made things almost as interesting as that other epic March competition. Except the finals on Esquire.com weren't nearly as ugly, and the underdog, we can now reveal, actually won.
Conveniently, for the last couple of months we've also been working with a notable (and anonymous) photographer on an expansion of his fantastic web site, MeInMyPlace.com — real women, in their real homes, in their real clothes, at their invitation. Only we've been asking a couple women you might know to invite him over, and he happened to be free this week.
So, as a trophy presentation of sorts, may we introduce to the world of men Katrina Bowden — damn fine 22-year-old actress (whom you probably recognize as Tina Fey's assistant on 30 Rock); near-perfect embodiment of the word Cinderella (who miraculously upset reigning champion Brooklyn Decker); heart of a champion. Herein, her first shining moments.... —The Editors
Came out of nowhere. I know that Esquire does their Sexiest Woman Alive every year, but I didn't know that there was this online bracket as well. I don't even know what Butler is.
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Whenever it rains, the manhole at the corner of Virginia Avenue and Coleman Street floods, filling the street with sewage. (WRDW-TV)
News 12 at 6 o'clock / Monday, February 11, 2013
AUGUSTA, Ga. (WRDW) -- Whenever it rains, the manhole at the corner of Virginia Avenue and Coleman Street floods, filling the street with sewage.
Some of what News 12 saw we decided is too nasty to even show you.
"You know your yard is turned into a cesspool of poo," said neighbor Jamie McGahee.
That's what comes to mind when McGahee hears it's going to rain, and she's not the only one.
"If it rains really, really hard, the whole mancover bounces up and down, then all of that, whatever people put in their toilets, comes out in my yard, down the street. I mean, it's awful," LaDonna Carter explained.
It starts at the manhole at the corner of Virginia Avenue and Coleman Street.
All the trash around it is left from last week's rain and the stuff neighbors thought was gone forever.
"I see all kinds of paper, you know, toilet paper and whatever else is with it. It's just really, really nasty. You don't want to walk through your yard," Carter said.
"They told me to bleach my shoes and take them off before I go in the house," McGahee said.
But her shoes aren't her biggest concern -- she's more concerned about her child.
"It's pretty disturbing that the county knows about this and it runs right past all her little toys and stuff," she said.
It wasn't until News 12 started asking questions that crews started hosing down the road today.
Neighbors say this isn't the first time this intersection has needed a good cleaning. With rain in the forecast for the rest of the week, they say it probably won't be the last.
"I always pray for soft rain so it won't back up," Carter said.
Hoses push the waste back where it came from and powdered lyme helps cover the smell, but neighbors are hoping for a more permanent solution.
"These places that have chronic problems will be programmed into our capital improvements plan, and we'll be planning permanent solutions to them," said Augusta Utilities Director Tom Wiedmeier.
I spoke with the Georgia Environmental Protection Division Monday afternoon. They said they gave the City of Augusta an order to evaluate all the pipes and the whole collection system back in 2011.
According to the workers who were out rinsing off the road, homeowners could be adding to the problem, too. Grease that people pour down their drains could be helping cause the clog.


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In order to comment on nuclear power usage in the United States, it seems that one must have at least been in the field. I have served in the US Navy as a nuclear power plant reactor operator and am currently acting as a nuclear power plant repair supervisor. Nuclear in the US is safe. The new reactor designs such as the AP 1000 Westinghouse is safer. The AREVA French double containment reactor design with the core capture containment is even safer. We would be best positioned to reduce our dependance on oil by aggressively pursuing a means of power that can provide enough right now to supply our needs. Solar and wind are too little and are false economies. Nuclear is the only viable option until we can develop something that can provide more or equal power. It makes sense also, since US plants are storing waste on their own sites, rather than depending on one flimsy repository such as Yucca Mountain. Also, nuc waste is not as damaging as petroleum is, based on current evidence.
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Should the potential meltdown in Japan put the brakes on nuclear energy development in the United States?
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Granted, nuclear power is a clean power source, but, it can also be used for weapons. Until we can figure out how to safely use up the spent fuel rods, and do not have to transport them to some vulnerble location, other safer sources should be examined, solar, sea-tides, wind, Etc.
I feel we have had a harness on America to long. We have held Her back with the use of this great power source for our future. We've been given this to long ago, With this country to be on top. The brake lights was due to mistakes on (TMI)and fear. The mistake to be learned from that was communication and information. Our (NRC) has resovoled this years ago. The highest concern with US Nuclear Plants is safety. Compared to other Countries. The knowledge we dont use hold us back from our future. Future of other greater possibilities. We lack advancements for now in: JOBS, HEALTH, Millitary, & The Dependency of other Countries. France has one of the best examples nuclear energy. They have used this resource at a greater scale then anyone else. Where is our (NASA) space programs?? We need to unlesh everthing we got and use it. The world needs it, Our future should be look at what America DOES!!! Because right now we are America, That says thats good enough. I work nukes PF/wLU.123/USN VET
I have no problem with newer, better designed nuke plants as long as they build them within 250 miles of the destination of the power produced and they must build them without taxpayer subsidy. If we have to subsidize it to make it work, let's do wind, solar, geothermal, Bio-Mass or any other renewable resource : if a windmill falls, how many birth defects will it cause?
Windmill failures vs. birth defects is a function of the number of Swiss milk maids in the evacuation zone at the time of the failure. Of course, for the formula to work you must define "birth defects" to contain the set of postpartum failures caused by direct contact with the aforementioned windmill at the time of the failure as well as the probable number of fetuses that would have reached full & normal gestation in direct relation to the affected milk maids.
You DID ask.
There are promising studies in reactors including liquid-fluoride thorium reactors (LFTR) which can go a long way toward removing the operational dangers and the dangers of long term waste storage. Obviously more work is needed to perfect a commercial solution. I would like to see effort toward perfecting one of these approaches and then standardizing on a limited number of designs to reduce production, maintenance and licensing costs.
The Fukishima plants didn't fail from an earthquake or tsunami, they failed because a single worker left his post and the emergency generators ran out of fuel. Only after tsunami damage prevented the restarting of the generators did their real problems begin. From the few clues we already have, the actions went downhill from there. Any Navy RO will tell you that adding any kind of water the temperature of seawater to a reactor core will *increase* the core power output in heat, not cool it down. The explosions at plants 1 & 3 came on the heels of seawater cooling attempts, and I bet they were steam explosions, not hydrogen. Plant 2's explosion was certainly hydrogen - you could see the fireball. The steam explosions would have come at the very worst possible place - inside the core structure and the contamination of the coolant water would have been extreme - as has been noted. Bottom line: Reactors only need a human brain WHEN the mechanical failure occurs, not IF it occurs.
Like bvtkinne, I was also trained by the best nuclear school in the world. While the Navy can spend what it takes for reactors that can withstand the stresses of submerged mobile battle, the civilian industry must be constrained by cost vs. benefit. This is true in both the plant hardware and the plant employees. The problems come when the employees become more afraid of the boss than the reactor. A Navy Reactor Operator (RO) will tell anyone NO - including the vessel's Captain (scary!) - if NO is the right answer. The RO at TMI should have trusted his gauges (which indicated a classic LOC situation), sounded the alarm for a Loss of Coolant Accident and stopped the emergency while there was still time. The press coverage of a sudden loss of power to ANY number of homes will always be better than the press coverage of a core meltdown. Any manager who says "you caused us to lose X dollars" should be replaced by one who says "Thanks for acting to save our $100 Billion investment".
It is still, by far the Most Efficient form of creating Electrical Power.
We just have to remain Diligent and keep the JackAsses from Imposing More Outlandish Restrictions.
We also cannot be held Accountable for the Mishap in Japan.
By ONLY relying upon Primary, Secondary & Alternate (3rd)Systems, have exhibited they're NOT enough.
REMOTE Tap-In Locations for a 4th, or even a 5th System Tie-In Point, maybe necessary.
It's sure that we can NOT burn oil or coal forever. For the human race to continue, we must have some other source of energy. Without that, we will not continue as human. Wind and solar power, while clean and somewhat unlimited, can not provide the level of energy we need. If we outlaw nuclear, then it will never be safe. We must continue to work on the safety problem. We have to learn from the current and past mistakes.
I worked in both naval nuclear power & civilian nuclear power for 45 years, operating, repairing, testing, evaluating performance, etc. US Nuclear Power (both Naval & civilian) is as safe as we want to make it. There is no way to plan for ALL possibilities, instead we plan for proabilities.
The workers both employees & contractors all work to keep the general public safe.


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- what do you expect?i just bought this gun a few days ago - not much i'm gonna say besides amazing.
all metal
very realistic
the mad bull xm204 shell fits in it which is the most amazing shell 204 bbs!
and very easy to use
fits on almost every gun
basically nothing
to really enjoy this gun you have to get the xm204 shell. it's the most amazing one out there.
- Nothing scarierI looked like i caught a wicked case of small pox in my side after getting hit with this.
My friend had just got one in the mail and he hooked it up on his FAMAS.
I give this launcher some props,
other than Madbull launcher,
It can be hooked up on most anything.
Plus it has the fear factor of looking damn close to the real steel launcher.
Can be hooked up to just about any weapon with a rail.
Comes with all the other hook-ups for any other M-16/M-4.
Grenades are bit expensive.
(But the look on your opponents face will be priceless when a wall of plastic comes flying at them)
Just as a note. the paintball grenade isn't suggested for this.
Anything longer than the paint grenade is asking for trouble with the launcher
- great!This is good if like to get different guns but don't want to buy a different launcher for every different mount style. I used to have a m4, it had no ris rails so i had to buy them to get a launcher that could mount, but with this it can mount to so many things.
that's it yo
- top notch launcherThis is the third launcher i have owned and by far the best.
Much more solid than the previous two, including an earlier echo. The mounts work great and mount it to my M-4 so solidly. Everything on the launcher works so flawlessly. The barrel/pump have a slight rattle if there is no grenade inside, but since your hand is on it while using the gun it stops.
I would recommend this to anyone who wants a grenade launcher for their airsoft gun.
- A good add-onI have had this launcher for about a year now. I don't always use this in combat though. It is more of a shotgun rather than launcher with most shells. I have found it limiting to the rifle man "class" only. When i do use it, it is with my Echo 1 M4A1. It's a good add on, but again, it is situational. With the one shell I have, it is single use, which limits it even more. If not used properly, then you waste gas, anywhere between 50-200 BBs, and then must carry an extra 5 lbs. of metal with you the rest of the match.
That all being said, when used properly with practice, you can arch the rounds to hit your target much more often, learn the spread of the rounds, and possible "save your life" in a match.
Can be effective when used right
Good spread of BBs
Easy to use
Easy to put on, or take of your weapon.
Can be used without a main weapon.
Uses a lot of gas.
Heavy, extra weight after it's used.
This weapon can be used effectively, but you will need practice, and a practice situation for it. If it's your forte, then buy it.
- You'll have to decide if it's worth the $...This is a full-metal accessory and awesome-looking addition to an assault rifle! There is no denying (regardless of the grenade round capacity you choose) that when you pull the trigger on someone they will notice. The real question is, does this weapon fit your style of play. I learned early on that this grenade "launcher" should be treated like an under-mounted shot gun and not a device that launches projectiles. When I adapted my style of play so that anyone inside of 40 or 50 feet got peppered, it worked great! In the end I preferred to mount a bi-pod instead of the launcher since I rarely played CQB games.
When determining if you should buy an airsoft weapon or in this case a weapon accessory, I believe the following factors should be considered:
Intimidation - 10/10
The cloud of gas released, hollow thud sound (almost like a spud-gun), and fact that even if you only have a 48 round capacity grenade loaded you're going to pepper someone so badly they will probably poop themselves makes this one of the most intimidating weapon options on the airsoft market.
Firepower - 10/10
Even firing the smallest capacity grenade is awesome firepower. If you opt for the 200 grenade (overkill) then don't shoot someone you want to have a civilized conversation with later...
Rate of Fire - 3/10
Beyond the obvious fact that a grenade launcher is a single shot weapon, I found it next to impossible to reload the grenades in the field, so unless you have a reloading bench or enough money to buy plenty of grenades you'll only enjoy a few shots per game tops. (Note: do not unscrew the grenades all the way; I did this in a rush to reload behind a tree. The grenade came apart, small pieces spilled everywhere and the grenade never worked again.)
Cost - 2/10
Let's be honest, for the cost of the launcher and two or three spare grenades you could buy a pretty nice back-up AEG. That's a lot of money for an accessory you might not get the chance to use every game. How much intimidation comes from a weapon you never get to fire?
Realism - 5/10
Depending on the mounting option you choose the realism look is almost identical to the real thing. I only gave it 5 out of 10 because beyond look this thing doesn't launch anything!!! And under-mounted shotguns don't look like 203 launchers.
Total - 30/50
Like I said, you'll have to decide if it's worth the money and if it fits your style of play.
Let me know if my ranting helped you decide or not, please rate.
- Crikey! I'd be set with this and many many shells...This thing is awesome. First off, I do not personally own this, but I have used it multiple times (more than my friend has actually)and I love it. I would definitely invest in one. It's perfect for those tight situations where you need to re-load or re-wind your mag and you have multiple (or one) enemy approaching you. Or if you're like me, use it as a full-blown assault weapon. Depending on the type of grenade you use, it will unleash hell on your opponents before they know what hit them. It still works great in the cold too!
WAR STORY: Last weekend I was with my team, and we were facing a bunch of our friends (18 vs. 7 to be exact, we were the 7) and my friend gave this to me to use, and I lent him my Mk. 1 Carbine (great gun) for a few rounds. Yes, I did run around with only this launcher because it was entertaining. Reloading is a pain, so get multiple grenades if you can afford them, but it doesn't take THAT long to reload completely (I can do it in under a minute). We were playing king of the hill, and my team was on one side of this barn, I was on the other side, and they provided covering fire, I rushed the hill and popped this bad boy off on 4 guys up there, they were all crying in pain ready to surrender. Later that match (no more king of the hill), I was hiding in an old grain silo, and ambushed 3 separate guys, 3 separate times (more time to master the reloading) and then a 4th guy came around, and I wasn't even finished reloading yet, but I put the empty shell back in and held it to his face, and he surrendered without knowing the shell was empty, so the intimidation factor is outstanding. If someone sees you coming at them with this, they will be afraid. Who wants to get showed with bb's anyways? It hurts! Just ask the other team.


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I recently learned the news that Lenovo is entering the server market outside China.
As the editor of Free Software Magazine, the first question that came to mind was: "Will they run Linux?". To my surprise, the answer was nowhere to be found.
Lenovo: hardly a Linux-friendly maker
Back in April 2007, Lenovo announced that it would "offer a wide selection of low- to high-end machines be loaded with Linux software from Novell Inc.". I won't comment the odd choice of GNU/LInux distribution, which is besides the point (I am an Ubuntu fan, and am convinced that any new Linux desktop user should be given Ubuntu for a number of reasons). What I do want to point out, is that some ten months later those laptops are nowhere to be seen.
Going back in time a little bit, when IBM still owned their laptop unit, they made a big deal about the fact that they worked with Linux. Back then, when buying a laptop intending to install GNU/Linux on it was a huge gamble, IBM came to the rescue for many GNU/Linux users. Then, Lenovo took over and we heard this:
We will not have models available for Linux, and we do not have custom order, either. What you see is what you get. And at this point, it's (Microsoft) Windows.
Probably in fear of losing customers, Lenovo was quick to rectify the statement:
There has really been no change in the support and commitment to the Linux community and to our customers and business partners," Marc Godin, vice president of marketing for Lenovo's notebooks
The person setting the record straight must have been a politician: there was no change in support--where in fact that support was absolutely minimal. A little later, I bought a Lenovo V100 and failed to have Linux preinstalled in it. "What you see is what you get. And at this point, it's (Microsoft) Windows".
Now, on the server side
Now, Lenovo has announced that it will start selling servers. However, there was no mentioning of GNU/Linux--none what so ever. This is in itself a huge problem: a company is about to start selling servers, and doesn't tell them if those servers will run the operating system chosen by most system administrators and companies?
Supporting a server is a very delicate matter. While it's much easier to put together a server that is absolutely perfect for the Linux kernel, it's also important that none of the components have any problems working with the Penguin. If my Lenovo laptop doesn't wake up once in a while, it's not (normally) a major problem; if there is a small bug in the SCSI controller's driver in my Lenovo server, the results could be a major disaster. Linux (the kernel) needs to be carefully tested with the server's hardware, and--in this case--a Red Hat certification is not just "optional": it's crucial.
The final words
I sent an email to Lenovo, but haven't yet received a response. I somehow doubt I will. While I do hope that Lenovo will provide and support Linux and GNU/Linux on their server, for some reason I doubt it.
What I think it will happen, is that they will sell the servers either with no OS, or with Windows Vista. Then, people will start writing reports about their servers working fine with Linux, which hacks might be needed, etc.
That might work for end user laptops used by GNU/Linux enthusiasts; however, I doubt it will really work with servers.
I wonder if Lenovo's management realises it. We shall see.
Linux on Lenovo
Back in April 2007, Lenovo announced that it would "offer a wide selection of low- to high-end machines be loaded with Linux software from Novell Inc.". ... What I do want to point out, is that some ten months later those laptops are nowhere to be seen.
It seems that they are now going to start delivering on that promise. That said try finding anything on their website about it!
This is one of the things that shows me that vendors are still not taking GNU/Linux seriously. If Lenovo were about to launch servers that ran a new M$ server OS they would make a big song and dance about it--adverts on the homepage etc. . With GNU/Linux it kind of slips out quietly as if they didn't want M$ to notice what they were doing. So nobody hears about it, thus nobody buys them, thus the "experiment" is deemed a failure!
With regards servers, perhaps we--free software users-- can mount a campaign. If they see enough demand they'll may change--eventually. It worked with Dell :o)
cheers Ryan
Let the market speak to them
Ryan: no need to campaign, comapanies vote with their dollars every day.
I doubt Lenovo will last long as a server player without supporting Linux -- give it 9-12 months you'll first see a partnership with Novells enterprise offering, then Red Hat.
This was probably just a move to get a discount on MS products to increase their profit margins, as in if we go only Windows Server, will you sell it to us for $1 USD per box or something equally Microsoft-esque


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Authorities see just four instances in Wood County
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PARKERSBURG — In 2012, West Virginia became the 36th state to adopt a law banning texting while driving....
Unfair or not, 17C-14-15 states the law does not apply to 1st responders in the performance of their duties. Not saying it is right or not, just the law. In some areas in WV, 911 calls can and are texted to 1st responder cell phones.
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why should the enforcers be doing it either???
i think it's great that they passed this law, however i do agree about constantly seeing those who are supposed to be enforcing the laws doing it themselves... and this isn't just city and county.. i have seen state troopers doing it as well. i am not from parkersburg either, so it isn't just there that they do it
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Why should nonenforcers(those not associated with the objective of saving lives) be texting? Is texting to see if one is going to be available for dinner and company later that day an emergency? I think not!!! Texting by nonenforcers should be punished to the extent the law allows!!!
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MrT hit it. You can't pass a cop in his cruiser where he isn't on the phone.
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It's hard to enforce a law when the biggest violators are the one's enforcing it.
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Gee what a shock. West Virginia needs to quit passing new laws and try enforcing laws already on the books.
In June we'll see news reports about how cell phone usage while driving becoming a "primary offense." That won't be enforced either.
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U.S. Rep.� Darrell Issa (above), the California Republican, is his party's principal scandalmonger in Congress. Interestingly enough, he's also the beneficiary of campaign contributions from a certain company currently in the national spotlight.
HERE's the story:
Republicans� new Obamacare attack line hinges on allegations that the contractor in charge of building the disastrous healthcare.gov website landed the gig through sweetheart deals from the Obama administration.
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ANGELS CAMP - A 21-year-old San Andreas man was arrested on suspicion of sexually assaulting a child younger than 10, the Angels Camp Police Department reported Thursday.
Angels Camp police said the victim's family on Tuesday reported the alleged assault by an acquaintance and said the person responsible had left the area. Angels Camp investigators said they identified the person responsible as Jason David Anthony Roberts. Police said they found Roberts at 6:15 p.m. Wednesday in the 3000 block of Highway 49 in San Andreas.
Officers said that Roberts confessed to sexually assaulting the child. Roberts was arrested and booked into the Calaveras County Jail.
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Tuesday, October 28, 2008
Unpaid markers, naive mothers, and model trains..... the conclusion
The latest example of this can be found in this case. In 1999 Keith Nelson snatched 10 year old Pamela Butler, he strangled the life out of her, because he wanted to, because he could, simple and horrible as that. Nelson got the death penalty, the federal death penalty. That means the process from sentencing to death wont stretch out over 2 or 3 decades, the feds don't play that shit. Nelson contends that his lawyers failed to introduce his mental health history, they didn't adequately investigate his life. In other words, someone may have done something bad to Nelson when he was a kid, and that's why he strangled a little girl, a complete innocent stranger. He couldn't help it, it was beyond his control, not his fault.
In most prisons today there are sexual offender treatment programs. They are kept separate from the general population. They wear different colored clothes from the other inmates, it helps the prison staff keep track of them during movements, keeps them safe. If they take these classes, they usually get a time cut, they are rewarded. The reason sex offenders are often attacked in prison is simple, it isn't because convicts have strong values or morals. It's payback, retribution by proxy, it's because many inmates suffered some form of child abuse, molestation, etc.
In this day and age we have our priorities and perspective all screwed up. We lock up twenty year old low level dope dealers for life. We put people away for life for 3 strikes, even if those 3 strikes are petty crimes, yet the average length of confinement for sex offenders is around 5 years. There is something wrong with a justice system that rewards those who pray on the most vulnerable, yet has no qualms about putting away teenagers who stand on a corner in the inner city, slinging dope to people who actively seek it out. That's why people often take shit in to their own hands, that's why that old man almost got put to sleep permanently.
If you were looking for some big conclusion to this story you are probably disappointed. How much effect that incident, 40 years ago, played in my life is open to debate. I didn't become a criminal because of it, it didn't make me run out and start blowing little boys, or strangling little girls. It happens to a lot of people, I'm not unique. I still drive past the old mans house, he is still alive, must be in his 80's by now. His shades are always drawn, the lawn is manicured, it's just another well kept home sitting on Brookside. I don't regret not following through, I could have gone away for the rest of my life, in the end I think thats all that saved him, it was as close as I've ever come to killing someone, and I came close. In the end, I did what most people do, I moved on, I let it alone. The past rears it's ugly head from time to time, but it doesn't define me and it doesn't rule my life. We all have our scars, nobody escapes this life unscathed.
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More evidence (as if anyone needed any) that you are the best blogger in town. Hands down. No contest.ReplyDelete
I'm speechless.ReplyDelete
Unfortunately as you imply your story is not unique. The fact that this guy lives on, and in my neighborhood sickens me to the core.ReplyDelete
Hopefully your story will remind people to talk to their kids about this kind of thing.
Thanks for sharing your story.
- AnonymousWednesday, October 29, 2008
I have been reading your blog for nearly a year now. Sometimes it makes me smile and laugh, sometimes it makes me pause and consider the world beyond my life that could be right around the corner. Never have I been so moved as today.ReplyDelete
I believe one of the most important lessons to learn in life is that no one has control over your actions except yourself. But as much as I can say it, to hear someone who has been through truly painful events in life really brings it home. Saying "good job" would do little, as I am a stranger, and the results of life's actions are often their own punishments and rewards.
Thank you for your wit and writing, and thank you for letting us in.
- SavoyeeWednesday, October 29, 2008
Thank you for sharing your story. I know a person I used to call a friend going through troubled time and is blaming instead of accepting. I sent him your link to let him see that he is not the only one that life is not fair to but you have to move on.ReplyDelete
Again thank you. I read your blog everyday. Xavier took the words right out of my mouth.
I get the point, but I still wish it ended with the old man's dick shot off. Like the other commenter pointed out -the old creep still lives in his neighborhood.ReplyDelete
Thanks for sharing your story with us. I wish that I could say that I would have done the same thing, but I really can't.
Stay strong.
- old 49/63 residentWednesday, October 29, 2008
Sad, but this was all over. I know of two kids involved in the same deal.ReplyDelete
The old man has long been dead, but the memory lives forever.
XO is right.ReplyDelete
You are an amazing writer and this was a very moving post. Thank you for sharing it with us.
- AnonymousWednesday, October 29, 2008
I, too, have been reading your blog for sometime - I appreciate your words, thoughts, insights, and voice.ReplyDelete
I always enjoy your stories. "Enjoy", however, is the wrong word for this one. Saddened by your experience (and that of so many others) but heartened by your strength and resiliency - things we all need.
A quote I'll share from 'anonymous' (which means it was probably said by a woman): "A gem cannot be polished without friction."
As you say, you live through it, deal with it, and move on.
Thank you for this.
Thanks... harsh, edgy story. It reads as though it is hard to tell, but I know it had to be told. It's all part of the journey. I walked through a different fire than you did, but I know how the hate can eat you alive. It's still hard to walk away, still hard to avoid playing that tape through to the end -- how you wanted to "fix" things. I don't know for certain what happens when we die, but I hope there is a special hell for certain people. You know what I mean.ReplyDelete
I can't help but feel the same way about this story as the others do. I hope you realize how amazing we all think you are. I hope it helps in some teensy, tiny way.ReplyDelete
Thanks for this.ReplyDelete
this kind of abuse cost me a marriage and ruined my ex wife. It manifested itself in ways not condusive to marriage. Its a real shame, we were a good pair.ReplyDelete
I've taken the physical non sexual abuse and for the most part I've let it go as well, Its just not worth getting caught to put a bullet where it needs to go.
thank you for sharing this and your thoughts about people getting on with their lives; as you know and said, people have different ways they handle what happened to them as children or at other times in their lives and some can move on and do well in spite of the most tragic of circumstances while others flounder all their lives; I'm glad you aren't in that latter category although I also can imagine your life was not an easy oneReplyDelete
it is a shame that that man never have to face the repercussions of his actions; I heard a statistic from someone who would have known that 20% of offenders are caught (and this is a recent statistic within the past few years) back then I'm sure it was a much lesser number
Hey Midtown,ReplyDelete
I can completely relate with every last word.
Excellent post.


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"Ingenious. A magnificent scholarly achievement. A sweeping new narrative account of [western] history. A book to ponder and plunder."
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"Not only well researched and presented but instantly absorbing."
—Adrienne Caughfield, Journal of American History
Pulitzer Prize nominee and winner of the Bancroft Prize—historical writing's most prestigious award—Empires, Nations, and Families is an epic work of American History that fills in the blanks on the map of the American West between 1800 and 1860. Historian Anne F. Hyde—author of An American Vision: Far Western Landscape and National Culture and co-author (with William Deverell) of The West in the History of the Nation—tells a riveting true story of Native Americans, entrepreneurs, fur trappers and fur traders in a vibrant "wilderness" to which Daniel Boone himself was a Johnny-come-lately.
Winner of the 2012 Bancroft Prize
The Louisiana Purchase in 1803 doubled the size of the new United States, promising not only land but prosperity for its citizens. But the West was not the virgin wilderness of common myth. Rather, as historian Anne F. Hyde makes clear in her groundbreaking, prizewinning history, America was a newcomer in a place already complicated by vying empires–native and European. Here, for the first time, she traces the network of multiethnic family associations, which, along with the river systems of the trans-Mississippi West, had formed the basis for the global fur trade for centuries. Involved with this trade were trappers, hunters, merchants, bankers, and politicians by the thousands. Dazzling in its breadth and startling in its intimacy, Empires, Nations, and Families provides a new look at Native nations and the economies and societies they built as well as a radically new understanding of the web of families, businesses, and personal empires that organized the North American West before the Civil War and the rise of the American empire.
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STOCKTON - Police are searching for two men who committed a home invasion robbery early Saturday morning in central Stockton, authorities said.
A man who lives in the 2100 block of North Manchester Avenue told officers he heard a knock at his front door about 5:45 a.m. When he opened the door, the victim was confronted by two armed men who forced their way into the residence, police said.
One of the intruders held a revolver to the victim's head while the other ransacked the home, authorities said. One was described as a white man in his 20s standing 5 feet 9 inches tall and weighing 240 pounds with black clothing, officers said. The other was described as a white man in his 20s standing 5 feet 8 inches tall and weighing 170 pounds with a gray hooded sweatshirt and blue jeans.
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easily position windows to fill exactly half the screen
In Short
TwoUp allows you to easily position windows to fill exactly half the screen. This feature, similar to âwindow tilingâ in other operating systems, is missing from the otherwise rich Mac OS X interface.
Using TwoUp
TwoUp consists of four actions which can be performed on the frontmost application window:
- Left (move window to fill the left half of the screen)
- Right (move window to fill the right half of the screen)
- Up (move window to fill the top half of the screen)
- Down (move window to fill the bottom half of the screen)
Required OS: 10.5
Tags: window , tile , arrange , tiling
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Homepage says "TwoUp Has Been Discontinued" they suggest using Cinch or SizeUp.
Damn, 400 char limit on posts. Reconstructing the script from the two parts left as an exercise to the reader.
tell application frontApp
if (frontApp = "Macintosh HD:System:Library:CoreServices:Finder.app:") or (frontApp = "Macintosh HD:Applications:Mathematica.app:") then
set bounds of front window to {disp_x1, disp_y1 + 44, disp_x2, disp_y2}
set bounds of front window to {disp_x1, disp_y1 + 22, disp_x2, disp_y2}
end if
end tell
set frontApp to (path to «constant afdregfp» as Unicode text)
tell application "Finder"
set {disp_x1, disp_y1, disp_x2, disp_y2} to {0, 0, 1920, 1200}
(* Assuming that we have only one desktop we can set it to "bounds of window of desktop"*)
end tell
The same functionality can be achieved in Applescript, which is handy if you want to trigger it from launchbar/quicksilver/gsb/etc. I pasted below the source for expanding windows to fullscreen on a 1920×1200 resolution monitor. Tweaking the code a little will give you half-screen and quarter-screen resizing for arbitrary monitor size.
god this is an amazing idea. Thankyou!
developer is building a version with quadrants and fullscreen. In the meanwhile i'm searching for an alternative..
This should've been a staple of the OS since like 10.2
But since it's NOT a part of OS X, this app makes things very, very convenient.
Thanks, this is very useful!
This is JUST what the doctor ordered. Perfect.
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There were 75 bookings at the San Joaquin County Jail in the 24 hours ending at 8 a.m. Friday. At that time, there were 1,398 people held at the jail, which has an official capacity of 1,411.
Weapons arrest: Community Response Team officers and members of the multiagency San Joaquin County gang task force conducted a traffic stop near Knickerbocker Drive and Bordeaux Avenue about 6:25 p.m. Thursday. Inside the vehicle, officers said they found a concealed handgun. Gary Whitaker, 25, was arrested on suspicion of unlawful possession of a firearm.
The California Highway Patrol did not submit an incident report Friday.
The Stockton Fire Department responded to 86 calls for service in the 24 hours ending at 8 a.m. Friday, including three vehicle accidents, 71 medical calls and two structure fires.
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Hello iam new here. I really like pms. After building a big media server on a early 2008 white macbook, Ive just ditched cable and bought a hd homerun atsc dual. The problem are that this device can't live stream ota via dlna like the just released new hd prime firmware (its for cable card anyway)
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CORPUS CHRISTI – Final touches are being made to the Dr. Jack Dugan Soccer & Track Stadium, but due to weather delays, the facility will not be available for the Islanders High School Soccer Clinic and the Youth Soccer Clinic on June 10-11. Both camps will now be held at Haas Middle School (630 McArdle Road, Corpus Christi, TX 78412).
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James Moorhead is Princeton Theological Seminary's Mary McIntosh Bridge Professor of American Church History. He earned his M.Div. from the Seminary and his M.Phil. and Ph.D. from Yale University. He specializes in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Christianity, with a focus on mainline Protestantism, and teaches courses on American Christianity and Presbyterian history and theology. An ordained Presbyterian minister, he is senior editor of The Journal of Presbyterian History.
Princeton Seminary in American Religion and Culture (Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 2012)World Without End: Mainstream American Protestant Visions of the Last Things, 1880–1925 (Indiana Press, 1999)American Apocalypse: Yankee Protestants and the Civil War, 1860–1869 (Yale University Press, 1978)
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Seven long years after he was battered to death, the family of a former Antrim schoolboy has finally got the justice they craved.
Fifteen-year-old Michael McIlveen died in May 2006 following a brutal and nakedly sectarian attack.
Two Ballymena men were convicted of the cold-blooded killing back in 2009, but the convictions were later quashed on appeal.
Undeterred, the Court of Appeal ordered a retrial, and Christopher Francis Kerr (26), from Carnduff Drive, and Aaron Cavana Wallace (24), from Moat Road, were back in the dock.
However, just before the retrial began, the pair pleaded guilty to murdering the Catholic schoolboy, and both started a life sentence last week.
[Source: Antrim Guardian]
"A great man in heart and mind, a true republican" was how Cullyhanna man, Jim McAllister, was described at his requiem mass in the village on Thursday.
Mr. McAllister passed away on Tuesday, April 9, at the age of 68, after a short illness.
Delivering the oration at the funeral of his close friend, Pat McNamee said it was the true values and principles of republicanism that defined Jim McAllister and that his greatest wish was to be remembered as "an unapologetic, unreconstructed republican".
[Source: Examiner Newspaper]
A County Carlow publican who was confronted by violent raiders says he had no regrets about shooting at them.
"If I didn't shoot, I wouldn't be here talking to you," insisted well-known publican Gerry Mellett, who, along with his wife Margaret, runs The Ardattin Inn. "That night I had to defend myself and my property."
On Wednesday night, April 3, Gerry fired his shotgun after he came face-to-face with four violent balaclava-clad raiders, who were armed with a pickaxe and sledgehammer. The 58-year-old publican, who has run the pub for 13 years, said he felt compelled to act to protect his family and his property.
[Source: Carlow Nationalist]
A Cavan bar hosted a send-off event to mark the burial of former British Prime Minister, Margaret Thatcher.
While many in England were mourning the death of the so-called "Iron Lady," some who were not so sad to see her passing held a celebration of sorts in the Breffni Inn. The Cavan Town bar kicked-off their party at around 2:30 p.m., and while there was only a score or so of revelers when the Celt called into the bar, the landlady was expecting a large crowd later that night.
Proprietor of the Breffni Inn, Siobhan Neary, told The Anglo Celt they were having a farewell party "to say good luck to her – and that is the polite version!"
[Source: The Anglo Celt]
The availability of U.S. Customs and Border Protection pre-clearance at Shannon was a bigger factor than the airport's separation from Dublin Airport Authority in U.S. Airways' decision to resume its Philadelphia service after four years.
U.S. Airways Senior Vice-President Suzanne Boda said while the Shannon-Philadelphia route is only back for the summer season initially, if it goes well there is a good chance it will become year-round. She was in Clare last week to address Shannon Chamber members at Dromoland on Tuesday.
Speaking to The Clare Champion the morning after the Boston bombing, she said she was hopeful that the incident wouldn't stop people traveling due to concerns over terrorism. "Obviously we hope not. It's certainly a tragedy what occurred during the Boston Marathon yesterday and our thoughts and prayers go out to all the people who are affected by it. Hopefully, this doesn't impact on travel. Unfortunately, we've been dealing with issues like this for a number of years and it just brings us back to the fact that we all have to be very observant of security rules and ensure that we're following all the protocols that are in place."
[Source: Clare Champion]
"I can finally be like everybody else."
That is how members of the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (L.G.B.T.) community in Cork have reacted to the vote taken two weekends ago that paves the way for marriage equality.
The Constitutional Convention debated the merits of marriage equality over two days in Malahide and members of the convention passed the measure on a vote of 79 percent to 19 percent.
"I think it shows how far we have progressed as a country," said Clive Davis, manager of the Other Place, a resource center and cafe for members of the L.G.B.T. community in Cork City.
[Source: Cork Independent]
The Dalai Lama arrived in Derry last Wednesday afternoon for a special two-day visit.
His Holiness, the 14th Dalai Lama of Tibet, was welcomed by Richard Moore, director of Children in Crossfire, at City of Derry Airport as he touched down for the event.


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Adam Miner Berrien and Sonya Kayla Sanchez, both of Central Point, were married April 28 along the Rogue River at Shady Cove. A friend of the couple, Myles Johnson of Jacksonville, officiated the ceremony, and about 50 friends and relatives attended.
The bride is the daughter of Linda Sanchez of Gold Hill and Manuel Sanchez of Reno, Nev. She was given away by her uncle, Jimmy Markwick, and was assisted by two maids of honor, Chelsea Sanchez and Kayleen Walker; two bridesmaids, Emily Wilder and Lauren Beard; and two flower girls, 3-year-old Natalie Sacket and 9-year-old Scarlett Garner.
The groom is the son of Richard and Gay Berrien of Big Bar, Calif. He was accompanied at the altar by best man Ben Dombrowsky and groomsmen Kyle Davis, Memo Sanchez and Tommy Ryan.
The bride's grandparents are Michael and Suk Wirth and Clyde and Vivian Markwick, all of Central Point. The groom's grandparents are Dick and Joan Berrien of Weaverville, Calif.
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Irish Voice reporter APRIL DREW is loving her life as a new mom in her adopted hometown, New York, but as she explains in a new column that she'll write on her experiences of motherhood, it can be tough being so far away from home without family to share in the joy.
On Monday, November 29, 2010, my husband and I welcomed our son, Colum James Mooney, into the world.
After 30 hours of never-doing-this-again type of labor and an emergency c-section, our little man came out kicking and screaming at 1:08 a.m., weighing in at 7 pounds, 11 ounces and 20.5 inches long.
Clap on the back for mommy and daddy, job well done we told ourselves. I think we smiled from ear to ear with pride for 24 hours solid until we crashed with exhaustion.
Then came the overwhelming feeling of love that other parents had warned us about, a love they said that would know no bounds. I certainly wasn't prepared for such intense feelings.
I was shedding more happy tears than pounds in those first few days (hormones hard at work) and snapped more "oh-so-proud-mommy" photos than the paparazzi tracking Charlie Sheen in LA. It was a trip into the unknown, but we're glad we went there.
Today Colum is 12-weeks-old and growing at a rate too fast for mommy's liking. He has just begun sleeping through the night and communicates with us through smiles, babble and cries.
He has recently discovered his hands and feet and knows how to use his cuteness to get what he wants! In fact today he chuckled for the first time when I tried to teach him some sign language. John and I are have fallen hard for our little man, and every day we count our blessings.
If someone told me when I arrived in New York seven years ago that I'd be married to a Limerick man, a mother to a baby boy and still living in this country I would have said the following: "As much as I love the buzz of New York I'll definitely be having my kids back in Ireland."
The plan when I came here back in 2003 was to stay a year, maybe two, take on board all the opportunities that came my way, enjoy life in the big city and return to Ireland fulfilled, a plan many immigrants reading this today had.
I guess we all know by now that this city and country has a way of sucking us in, captivating our hearts and never letting go. So after seven years of loving every second of our time here, John, and I decided to have our son in New York.
Did we make the right decision? There is no question in our minds. Everything from doctor's visits to the birth and after care has been fantastic. Doctors, nurses and even their receptionists have shown us nothing but professionalism and respect.
However one thing was missing from the whole experience -- family. Like every big decision in life there are pros and cons, and having a baby away from home comes with one big con -- the lack of grannies, cousins and siblings to share in the joy of our newborn and his diaper changes!
Of course we have been blessed with visits from family since Colum's birth, but we certainly missed them during those first few weeks back from the hospital.
The upside is the army of both American-born friends and ex-pats who graced my hospital bed and our front door bearing gifts, advice and babysitting offers. But nothing, I can only imagine, beats having granny around 24-7 for the little things.
It would have warmed our hearts to share our bundle of joy and his little personality with our immediate family. To share his first yawn, cry, first bath and all that good stuff with those who matter the most to us in life. But it was just us (and of course our New York friends).
There were definitely days where John and I sadly looked at each other and repeated all too often, "Pity granny isn't here to see this."
The night we brought Colum home from hospital was very special, but also tinged with a spot of sadness. It was December 4, the night before our first year wedding anniversary.
Although I was excited to get Colum settled into his first home it also felt unnerving. John assembled the Christmas tree with the help of Colum's new "aunty" Marion filling the house with holiday cheer, so why I cried when I walked in the door is beyond me.
Hormones I've been told, but it felt deeper than that. I suppose I'd always imagined bringing my first baby home to a house full of family waiting with open arms to take turns holding the new addition.
Instead it was just John and I and a six-day-old baby who relied solely on his "responsible" parents.
After I dried away the tears we settled in and began parenting. We've survived 12 weeks -- another clap on the back!
It would have certainly been good, though, to have Colum's grannies around for advice. It's the little things I certainly needed help with, the common sense stuff that everyone should know, but I didn't.


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Editor's note: The Summit Daily News received Ralph Kohler's letter on Dec. 28. Because it contained claims that had not appeared in the newspaper, the letter was held until its claims could be verified. Only recently was the Summit Daily able to view the videotaped confession of Gregory Scott Gavin.
> Karl Kohler was not the man that he was portrayed in the Summit Daily News, and my family has been disappointed by your coverage of the callousness and brutal act that ended in my brother's death, and the way you covered his life. We understand that "the evil that men do lives after them, the good is oft' interred with their bones." So let it be with Karl, though you should know that he was an honorable man. We understand now your coverage was in part because you weren't privy to the confession made after defendant accepted the state's plea agreement.
> My family would like the people of Summit County to know the hard, cold truth - from the killer's confession - that Karl's death wasn't a crime of passion, but pre-meditated murder. Karl, (unarmed) and his killer (with a baseball bat) got in a fight. In that early morning altercation, the defendant swung first on Karl's blind side and Karl was beaten to within an inch of his life. Once Karl lay on the ground unconscious, the defendant walked to town - after using the baseball bat on Karl's leg and hand for to make sure he could not follow.
> The killer walked around town for several hours, mulling his options; eventually, he "decided what to do, and see if he [Karl] was alright"; returning to camp to find that Karl was exactly where he had been hours earlier. This is where things got bad. Finding Karl alive - though far from "alright" - he stood over Karl with that baseball bat. The moment Karl - a man who had been lying unconscious for several hours - opened his eyes for the last time he, was bludgeoned repeatedly in the head with that baseball bat.
> Karl's murder was no Shakespearean tragedy and the case was not heard in a court of justice, but a court of law, to paraphrase Karl and former Chief Justice Holmes. My family and I think that the readers of the Summit Daily News deserve to know the whole truth about how Karl died and they can decide for themselves whether they think the punishment of 12 years for his killer was just.
> We would like to thank those involved in the investigation and the people
of Breckenridge for their work on this, as well as Karl's friends and supporters in Colorado.


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Let's face it: Making business software exciting can be tough. Databases. Human resource management. Customer relationship management. Oy.
But still, these are billion-dollar markets with giant personalities and egos involved. And every once in a while, this buttoned-down corner of technology lets the smack talk fly. Or something resembling it.
It will be no surprise that in this case Larry Ellison, chief executive of Oracle (ORCL), is involved. Early last year, Ellison sounded off about rival's SAP plans to build technology to compete with Oracle's bread-and-butter database product.
"When SAP and, specifically Hasso Plattner, said they're going to build this in-memory database and compete with Oracle, I said, 'God, get me the name of that pharmacist, they must be on drugs,'" Ellison said.
Plattner, SAP's co-founder, was in Palo Alto on Thursday as part of a media event the company held to announce the official release of the product in question, dubbed SAP HANA. (HANA is short for HAsso's New Architecture.) SAP says it will allow customers to run its various software without the need for Oracle's database.
An audience member asked Plattner about Ellison's provocative remarks. Plattner smiled and said:
"I don't do what Larry does, I stick to technology and facts. I enjoy that he is not smiling."
So, game on, ladies and gentleman. We await Ellison's response.


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Report from
Vogue Knitting Live
New York, NY
January 14-16, 2012
One year ago, Vogue Knitting hosted its first Vogue Knitting Live in New York City. It was Vogue's entree into the knitting show arena and the stakes were high. They flew in top teachers from around the world, and they pulled out all the stops to make sure it was a success.
A second VK Live in Los Angeles this fall helped the Vogue team iron out any kinks and get its event engine running smoothly, so that by the time the third Vogue Knitting Live took place in New York last weekend, the engine was revving at full throttle.
There was everything you'd expect: Classes and lectures galore, a two-story marketplace with its very own escalator, ongoing fashion shows, and a gala dinner.
A Gala Affair
Let's start with the dinner. In an elegant ballroom presided over by Vogue Knitting's Trisha Malcolm, we were first treated to a brief presentation by a representative of the Australian Merino Wool Industry. His goal was to convince us to use wool. As you can imagine, he didn't really have to try hard.
Next, over our chicken and risotto, we were treated to some storytelling by Alice Starmore. She told us of her childhood, her island, her Highland cattle, her first visit to Oregon ("I never saw so many shades of green in my life"), her sources of design and color inspiration, and her yarn.
But the most important news of all, especially for those of you whose retirement savings is tied up in copies of Starmore's out-of-print books, was that she's just signed the contract with Dover for Tudor Roses Re-Imagined. The book is slated for August 2013 release.
A gasp and giggle spread through the room when Starmore was asked if she'd read Adrienne Martini's book Sweater Quest, in which Starmore features prominently, Martini having spent a whole year working on a single Starmore sweater. "No" was all she replied.
Dinner plates were quickly swapped out for dessert and then the lights again dimmed, this time for the fashion show. "Everything old is new again," said Trisha Malcolm, narrating the parade of handknits from the pages of Vogue Knitting Magazine.
The evening's comic relief came when Malcolm asked a model to unbutton her sweater so we could see its unique construction—not knowing that the model had nothing on underneath. The model escaped the runway with dignity and sweater intact. But the crowning moment came when Malcolm declared the poncho "the upmarket version of the snuggle," adding, "It's not going away." You've been warned.
For three days teachers were tucked in their rooms presenting workshops on everything from steeking to yarn substitutions, twisted stitches, and knitted skirts. The classes began at the extra early hour of 8am so that students would have a three-hour lunch—giving them plenty of time to peruse the marketplace. This led to many an afternoon classroom smelling like roast beef or tuna as students wolfed down sandwiches, having spent the entire three-hour lunch break overindulging in the marketplace.
The Market
Which brings us to the marketplace. The role of the event marketplace is adapting to the evolving LYS landscape, becoming the LYS for some people. Lots of yarn stores set up shop at the show. Some simply displayed everything, while others selected certain yarns that had been put in kits to match garments on display.
It was a scratch-and-sniff replica of the yarn world in miniature. You had everything from qiviut and discount cashmere to inexpensive shiny novelty yarns. You had Cascade and Classic Elite, Rowan, Berroco, all the big names. And you also had smaller vendors—farms, hand-dyers, and people who source their fiber locally and have it spun into their own yarns.
The Skacel booth was buzzing with news of their brand new Addi Click interchangeables featuring the pointy Addi lace tip we know and love, but on generous five-inch needles. The original Addi Click Lace interchangeables featured four-inch needles to accommodate the shorter 16-inch cord lengths. But many knitters, myself included, found the shorter needle a little tiresome on the hands.
The lace tip and longer needle are reason enough to sing the new kit's praises, but it also features something totally unusual: A cord with a built-in slot to hold waste yarn for lifelines.
A lifeline is like a backup of your knitting, a snapshot of the stitches at a certain moment. It's especially helpful for lace projects. If you mess up on your pattern and have to unravel stitches, which can be a nightmare with all those increases and decreases in lace, you simply unravel down to the most recent lifeline instead of having to unravel all the way back to the beginning.
In other kinds of interchangeables knitters simply run a strand of yarn through the tightening keyhole on the needle base. But it's a tiny hole that innately limits the kind of waste yarn you can use for your lifeline. Here the cords have actual slits just a short length from the join mechanism. (It's a challenge to capture in a picture.) Push the cord together and the slit pops open to accept your lifeline. Otherwise it stays firmly shut, your cord completely smooth.
Each week more kits will arrive from Germany and should be at an LYS near you within the coming month. Do give them a second look.
Right before the show began, Scottish designer Ysolda Teague popped open the very first case of her much-anticipated sequel to her Whimsical Little Knits series. This one, Whimsical Little Knits 3, features nine projects total, including hats, shawls, socks, ballet slippers, and mittens with narwhals on them.
Everybody was eager to get their hands on a copy. But what they didn't know was that Ysolda had also just hatched a second booklet called Saturday Treat. In it are six more accessory patterns designed in collaboration with British yarn company Fyberspates.
Yarn was literally leaping out of the display at the Buffalo Wool Company booth. While the Buffalo Wool Company (previously Buffalo Gold) has been making significant inroads into the felt hat market (they had some gorgeous Stetson hats in their booth, all made by hand in the U.S.), they aren't ignoring their knitters.
All eyes were on two stunning new lace-weight yarns. First, Spirit, featuring 40% bison down, 30% camel down, and 30% silk. Second, and even more brilliant and electric, a yarn called "Sexy Color by Koigu" featuring the Koigu palette on a base of 50% bison down and 50% silk. Both made their debut in anticipation of TNNA and should also be in yarn shops this spring.
Finally, I was pleased to see even more farm yarns on display than last year. Wool awareness is on the rise, and the "crunchy" was well-represented.
We had Wensleydale and Teeswater from Yellow Farm, Jacob from Barton Hill Jacobs, a veritable farmyard of happy sheep breeds from Solitude Wool, and these skeins from newcomer Long Island Livestock Company.
The farm features an award-winning flock of llamas as well as a few sheep and angora goats. Owner Tabbethia Haubold-Magee is also an expert shearer, and her connection to her flock is evident. Each skein label credits its "contributors" by name. A llama/mohair/Dorset wool skein—with fibers from Strobe, Iggy, and Nija—followed me home. A perfect ending to a perfect weekend.Comments
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Why Use an Air Purifier?
Indoor air pollution is widely recognized as one of the top environmental health risks.
Health effects
Symptoms can be mild and non-specific such as headaches, tiredness or lethargy; similar to colds and flu such as irritated eyes, nose or throat; or more severe such as aggravation of asthma or allergic responses. People who are more susceptible to air pollutants including newborns, young children, elderly people, heart patients, people with bronchitis, asthma, hay fever or emphysema, and smokers.
Pets and Pollen
Many animal allergens (from cats, dogs, birds or even cockroaches) can also spell problems for some people. The allergens are usually contained in the animal's droppings, saliva or dander (tiny skin scales) and can become airborne when small particles dry and fall off. In people sensitive to them, inhaling these allergens can trigger a reaction in the lungs or nose, through asthma or hay fever.
Moulds and Mildew
These are fine, often invisible spores become airborne and can be inhaled. Damp areas in the house are a perfect place for mold and fungal growth, as are water-damaged carpets and building materials.
In people sensitive to mould spores, inhaling them can cause various allergic reactions. Mould can also produce poisons known as mycotoxins which, when absorbed, can sometimes affect the nervous system. Some fungi can also infect various parts of the body, particularly the lungs and skin.
Air Purifiers can eliminate these pollutants leaving the air clean and fresh.


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This about regulation, the good and the bad. We'll leave the ugly for November.
Recently, a small outbreak of common sense descended on Washington, D.C., a town that seems to partake more of Wonderland than wisdom.
A popular outburst among farm folk and those who represent them has apparently derailed - for the moment, at least - a really bone-headed rule from the Labor Department concerning child farm labor.
While the term "child labor" invokes images of toddlers tending power looms, that's not what's involved here. The proposed restrictions would have prevented children from doing almost any farm work, save on "family farms," defined as a farm owned by mom or dad, or both. As an aside, this is a little confusing: A group that has no problem with Heather having two mommies doesn't think Uncle Bob should be considered family. In farm country, that's a real problem.
I grew up on a family farm. We raised hay, grapes, horses and cattle. My grandparents had a vegetable garden that, to an 8-year-old charged with weeding, seemed to stretch from the banks of the Columbia River to Cleveland, Ohio. Or at least, Boise.
When I was 12, I took command of a 1958-vintage two-cylinder John Deere tractor. I towed rotary discs, ditchers, harrows, an antique hay-baler and when the time came, a trailer for baled hay or 40-pound boxes of grapes. Friends helped; sometimes, we spelled each other driving and hoisting. Was it potentially dangerous? Yes. But we respected the equipment, understood the downside, and came away unscathed, as the vast majority of farm kids did, and do.
None of this would have been possible under the proposed regulations. Instead, we would have had to hire help; the extra cost would have forced us out of the farming business in short order. Perhaps that's what the Department of Labor had in mind, small businesses being so pesky to regulate and all.
Maybe they were misguided. No widespread hearings preceded the draft regulations, apparently drawn up by folks who think meat comes from a supermarket. Perhaps it was about control: If you make child agricultural labor illegal, you give yourself the right to enter farms and ask just about any question you want, or else. It's a professional snoop's dream. Possibly, they were just inept.
Whatever the reason, I - and a lot of others - am glad that foolishness has been laid to rest. I just wish that Colorado's Sen. Michael Bennet, who has a seat on the Senate Agricultural Committee, would have at least been visible in the process.
So, is all regulation misguided or wicked? No. Some degree of it is necessary to civilized society, as the Founders recognized. Case in point is Colorado Initiative 84, whose goal unites me with the Colorado Progressive Coalition: if a bank wants to repossess your home for failure to pay your mortgage, they should at a minimum be required to show they have a right to do so.
You read that right: Colorado is the only state in the union which allows a bank to repossess a home solely on the say-so of an attorney, who may or may not be familiar with a property's "chain of title" - that paper trail showing who has the legal right to foreclose. Initiative 84 would demand that lenders prove standing, usually through documentation registered with the clerk of the county in which the property is located.
I have some quibbles with the initiative. It makes the registration requirement a constitutional provision rather than law, but since the legislators - Democrat and Republican both - have been unwilling to act, well ... That's what initiatives are for.
The Colorado Bankers' Association argues Initiative 84 will be so expensive that the secondary mortgage market will "grind to a halt." Nonsense. If I can afford the fee to register my original deed of trust when I make the mortgage, the lender can jolly well afford it when it's sold to another institution. This is the way things worked before the relevant law was changed in 2006, and there's no evidence it won't work now.
The CBA also argues that the Initiative will drastically reduce the number of mortgages funded, and would "stifle borrow-lender communication" on foreclosures. Oh, please. Banks didn't have any trouble making mortgages before 2006, and if anyone has recently tried to "communicate" with their lender about an impending foreclosure, they'll recognize the latter objection as laughable. The current situation is what is untenable.
So, a commonsense conservative position on regulation: a pox on that which creates more problems than it solves, but full marks when actual problems are addressed. Common sense will tell us which is which - if we bother to pay attention.
Hello... Senator Bennet?
Summit County resident Morgan Liddick pens a Tuesday column. E-mail him at firstname.lastname@example.com.