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HOLLIDAYSBURG - The time is 11:36. At least, according to the antique clock on the Diamond.
The real time at that moment was 1:22, but whether the clock was two hours behind or 10 hours ahead is unclear. Either way, many borough residents said they know it's wrong and don't bother checking.
Customers at D'Ottavio's Italian House, located across the street from where the clock stands, were quick to look up from their pizzas and remark that the time's wrong and it's been that way for years.
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The clock on the Diamond in Hollidaysburg has been in need of repair.
Paolo D'Ottavio, the owner and namesake of the restaurant, said he's seen people working on the clock, but "next thing I know, it's not the right time anymore."
He said customers mention it to him often, so he knows people care. But because it's not reliable, he can't use it.
Beyond concern over the clock's malfunction, its ownership also is in question.
According to Mirror archives, a clock was planned for the Diamond when real estate developer P. Jules Patt bought the old Murphy building to begin the Town Square project in 1983.
He, along with partner Ralph Albarano, divided the building into 11 spaces for use as shops and offices, and planned a walkway between the building and what is now Finds Furniture Consignment.
The storefronts now are inhabited by Dutch Hill Chocolates, a few legal offices and others.
Then, according to Albarano, the $23,000 clock was donated to the borough.
"We hoped the borough would keep it clean, painted and [operational]," he said, and added that he was disappointed the clock has fallen into disrepair.
"It's such a pretty clock," he said.
Mirror archives show that when the clock was vandalized in 1987, repairs were paid for by an insurance policy that Patt had earlier obtained. However, the story also said while Patt owned the clock, it had been donated to the borough in 1983, like Albarano said.
Furthermore, a 1985 letter to the editor also said the borough owned the clock.
A plaque at the clock's base reads, "This clock is dedicated to the children of Hollidaysburg, with the hope that they will learn it is never too late to seek a newer, better world," with Patt's and Albarano's businesses listed below.
But when the Osgood family purchased the building, it seems they took over the clock as well and have been responsible for its upkeep since.
Patt's son, Josh, confirmed his father's work on the project but could not confirm whether the clock was included in the sale of the building years later or how it could at once be Patt's, as well as the borough's, property.
P. Jules Patt was unavailable for comment.
Tom Fountaine, who served as borough manager from 1985 to 2003, said he remembered there was some question as to who was responsible for the clock when it broke early in his tenure.
Perhaps the clock was symbolically donated, but it was never made official, he said.
"It was a major issue at some point," he said.
The issue was resolved and the clock repaired, but Fountaine said he can't remember who took responsibility or who paid for it.
Over the years, costs to repair the clock mounted, and Diane Osgood considered donating it to the borough, perhaps unknowingly for a second time.
It seems neither party was aware of the clock's past and its seemingly joint private-public ownership.
At a June 2010 Borough Council meeting, President John Stultz said he'd been in contact with Osgood, who was planning to have the clock repaired again at a $1,000 cost.
After the repairs were finished, she wanted to turn it over to the borough, Stultz said.
Borough Manager Mark Schroyer recalled that it was his first meeting as manager, and he remembered receiving files regarding clock repair companies and a cost list.
Most were in the $1,000 to $3,000 range, he said.
He also said he remembers the discussion about accepting the donation of the clock, but council members never made an official motion.
So, as he understands it, the clock still belongs to the Osgoods, who was unavailable to comment.
Stultz said he knew the Osgoods sent repairmen to fix the clock as recently as last fall, but it "didn't make it through Christmas," he said. "It's almost a comedy of errors."
It is unclear whether there always have been problems with the clock keeping time or if it's a result of aging parts.
Vandalism damaged the clock's fiberglass base in 1987, when a sheaf of corn stalks attached to it was set on fire, but there was no indication it damaged anything internally.
However, Schroyer said problems with the clock might have to do with the way it was constructed.
Some of its internal mechanisms are housed in a length of conduit or tubing that runs underneath the sidewalk and into the building behind it, he said.
He speculated it may have been designed that way to protect the clock from inclement weather, but having the mechanisms run into a master-work area so far away from the clock itself might make repairing it more difficult, he said.
Borough Main Street Manager Jamie Baser said in addition, repairmen actually have four clocks to deal with. Each face has its own independent parts, so when one is fixed, another usually breaks soon afterward.
Mary Shumaker, owner of Shumaker's Clock Repair in Altoona, said her late husband, Donald, used to work on the clock before he passed away last year.
The last time he put in a bid to fix it, she said, the owners decided to go with an out-of-town business and she wasn't sure who they picked.
However, she said her husband told her the clock needed a lot of work, either multiple repairs or even a total restoration.
At a February borough Community Partnership meeting, Baser said members talked about holding a fundraising drive to either fix the clock or find another use for it.
Suggestions included replacing the clock's faces with photographs or artwork, she said.
Finding the right solution is frustrating for everyone, Baser said.
She said she knows people are upset the clock doesn't work properly, but the Osgoods have spent a lot of money trying to keep up with the repairs to no avail.
Gary Discavage, a customer of Finds Consignment Store on the Diamond and friend of the owner, said people often come in the store to ask questions about the clock, and sometimes it generates interest in the store's wares.
But it has caused trouble, also.
"People have commented that they use the clock to check the time before putting money in the meter," he said, then are surprised and upset when they come back to a ticket on their windshield.
Discavage said he would very much like to see the clock fixed.
"It's such a beautiful clock and it's a shame it's not working, because it adds to the ambiance of the street and the historical character of Hollidaysburg."
Some in the borough might have tried to take it upon themselves to see the clock repaired.
A few years ago, D'Ottavio said, someone came around asking business owners whether they would be willing to give donations to repair the clock, and he said he'd chip in.
He didn't know who they were or whether they were affiliated with its owners.
But it didn't matter, he said - no one ever returned to collect the money.
Mirror Staff Writer Kelly Cernetich is at 946-7520.


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All citizens have a right to keep and bear arms. I can't think of any good reason someone would need to know if I or a fellow citizen own a gun or not. What exactly would one do with or need that information for?????? Just assume we all own a gun or just go prowling around their house at nite and you may get your answer.
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everything is a conspiracy , i think u two need to practice what u preach and stop believing everything the republicans are telling u
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Well I think we just saw for past 5 years how gullibe the radical left is. They believe every single deceit and lie that comes from their party members' mouths. They even voted for things that came back to 'bite them.' They voted for socialistic policies; now complaining they get less paycheck; less food stamps; no home any longer so now have to 'rent' as they've lost their homes, etc....but have they 'learned' not to take any politicians word as gospel? Nope. They turned around and voted stupidly again for the same socialist president and agenda. Still complaining as usual too. Bwahaha....you just can't make this stuff up. Some people live by the words...."Ignorance is bliss." Painful too, eh??
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Omg! I can't believe there's a couple of idiots out there left who believe everything the govt tells them. Hilarious. Absolutely hilarious. Bwahaha.....liberals are too funny.
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there are two words id use for u, moron and paranoid. everything in life isnt a conspiracy or the fault of welfare people. only a paranoid moron would think so.
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there is one person that is in the dark, dark ages, and thats you pure. turn out the lights your party is over.
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From Shakespeare to Schizophrenia
By Courtney Reyers, NAMI Publications Manager
"It's important to know how much people living with mental illness pervade our society and do great things. People with mental illness enrich our lives."
This year, NAMI honored Dr. Nancy C. Andreasen with its 2012 Scientific Research Award, which recognizes outstanding individuals who have made significant contributions to the understanding of mental illness and the advancement of treatment for the people who live with these illnesses.
A foremost authority on schizophrenia and a recipient of the President's National Medal of Science, Dr. Andreasen pioneered the use of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) to identify brain mechanisms of mental illness. She was also among the first to pioneer the integration of neuroimaging and genomics. Much of her current work focuses on genetic/genomic regulation of illness onset, course and outcome, particularly with respect to neuroimaging brain measures.
Dr. Andreasen's research has also provided insight into brain mechanisms underlying language, emotion and the creative process. She led the first extensive empirical study of creativity and was the first to recognize the association between creativity and bipolar disorder. She is currently conducting a second study of creativity in prominent artists and scientists.
Her contributions to science and to educating the lay public have been enhanced by her unusual combination of expertise in literature—her Ph.D. is in Renaissance English Literature—and science. Her work was among the first to suggest that schizophrenia is linked to abnormal brain development and that a decrease in the size of the brain's frontal lobe is associated with certain symptoms of the disorder, including impaired cognitive function. She has used her literary skills to write books designed to educate the lay public and to reduce stigma. Among her 15 books is a "brain trilogy" written to educate nonscientists about neuroscience, mental illness and creativity: The Broken Brain, Brave New Brain and The Creating Brain.
NAMI spoke with Dr. Andreasen to find out more about her life, her work and her passion.
NAMI: What is neuroimaging? Can you tell us about your work with MRI?
Andreasen: Neuroimaging is a broad term for MRI, positron emission tomography (PET) scanning—any kind of scanning technique you use to study the brain. MR imaging is not invasive and is widely used today. It's a no-risk procedure, is easy to do and you can generate images of brain anatomy [the black and white images] and brain function [colored images]. There are numerous subfields in neuroimaging. People are looking at cognitive functions ranging from attention to language to memory to motor coordination to stress response—you have endless questions you can examine.
I was part of a team that conducted the first study in brain abnormalities in 1986, which rolled into a landslide of studies to use MR to measure brain structure in a lot of illnesses, including autism. Being the first, you realize that you do an imperfect study and you want to continue the work. Very early on, we recognized that software development to automate measurements to make the data valid was key, so we also put a huge amount of effort into software development—now we can generate measurements within 15 minutes or less.
Over the years, doctors and researchers began to develop more elegant designs and paradigms to study different kinds of brain functions. In the early days, researchers focused on hard cognitive science, asking questions like "how do people learn a basic function, like how to recognize a face?" Today we're looking at more complex things, like how people experience emotions. Or what happens in the brain when someone experiences pleasure and how is that different from asking that person to describe how pleasurable something is?
[At the University of Iowa], we had someone from our sociology department who was using MR to look at stereotypes of social class and race. You can call it "neurosociology." Economists are interested in how people make financial decisions—whether they are willing to take a small reward early or delay and take a greater reward later. What started as a small field limited to a few people has expanded to people in the arts and science, businesses, sociology, religious studies. Even the military—they want to understand the effects of stress. It pervades every aspect of things that the human mind does. Bottom line, it's become useful in studying both normal brain structure and function as well as illness.
NAMI: Your work around creativity and bipolar is fascinating—I have seen a link between mental illness and creative people in my work as a journalist interviewing musicians, actors and writers. I often ask them about this link and they say that they see it a lot of mental illness in their line of work. What can you tell us about that connection?
Andreasen: In a way, this is another first in my career. My first Ph.D. was in Renaissance English literature, and I taught for five years before I went on to med school (and three of those years were here at the University of Iowa Writer's Workshop). I decided to do a study of creativity in writers in the workshop as a side project. My hypothesis was that the writers wouldn't have mental illness, but that I would find it in their family members. I had done a lot of work on James Joyce, who had a daughter with schizophrenia, and Albert Einstein, who had a son with schizophrenia—there were a lot of examples of the link between creativity and mental illness.
As I began to contact the workshop writers, frankly I was astounded when they came in, one after the other, and told me about their own problems with mood disorders—to the tune of 80 percent of the writers I interviewed. It was one of those instances where you're taught that science provides hypotheses and then you confirm them, but it's far more interesting when you can't confirm them. These writers had a high rate of mood disorders as well as a high level of creativity in their families. Since then other researchers have done studies with slightly different designs, and it's been a fairly well-replicated finding.
It's difficult though because you have to identify creativity and identify a group. I'm currently replicating my first study in a second study. I said to myself: Did I get these results because I studied writers? Is there something about being a novel writer that requires a lot of introspection and self-criticism? What would happen if I studied other creative types? You mentioned music, acting—and there are the sciences. The multiple examples of schizophrenia I can think of are based in science and math—what would I find if I studied schizophrenia instead of bipolar?
One of the issues is recruiting people who are both prominent and busy. For my second study, I would use people who are already well-recognized, who have won Nobel and Pulitzer prizes, the Fields Medal, math prizes—people like George Lucas who is well-known in his field.
NAMI: So what drives you?
Andreasen: I have a real passion about educating people about mental illness and reducing stigma. I have written three books for lay audiences that I hoped would do those things. They provide access to accurate information to people and their family members that doesn't oversimplify or talk down to them, and that these are real illnesses and need to be treated w the same respect as other illness. If you want to make me angry, just call someone with mental illness "crazy." One of the things I'm really upset about these days is that so many resources are being pulled away from the care of people with mental illness, it's being done everywhere—the government, health care delivery systems, community mental health centers—to save money. In psychological practices, doctors are trying to get patients out in 15 minutes. People with mental illness deserve better than they're getting. I'm getting set to write another book. Each of the books I've written has been triggered by a personal experience with how wrong the public's experience with mental illness is, or a health care provider's viewpoint is. In a recent issue of Time Magazine, in the context of these killings of these young men and gun control, an article flippantly said, "the problem is that crazy people have access to guns." That [Time Magazine] would allow that kind of language usage is upsetting.
The truth is I've had one experience—and it's 100 percent private—but it was not the trigger that gave me the passion I have. The trigger is the patients that I have seen and continue to see. Someone like Kay Jameson, and I myself, I think are pretty darn sane. My husband would say, "God seems to be trying you." I've had a lot of personal tragedy, my first husband died from cancer, my oldest daughter just died from cancer. And, frankly, being a woman coming up through the medical school system in the 1960s and '70s because women were truly discriminated against then. My response is not depression, it's what I call the "O-3 model:" outwork, outsmart and outlive them!
NAMI: What was it like working on the DSM (the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, published by the American Psychological Association (APA)) task force? Did you find it rewarding, frustrating, or both?
Andreasen: I was involved with DSM at two different time points. The first being the DSM-III—that was in the early days when there was a tremendous excitement about making diagnoses more reliable and valid. That particular DSM was generated when psychoanalysis was still the prevailing model in American psychology at that time. Those of us who were developing that DSM generally came from a more biologically-oriented field, and that's when I wrote The Broken Brain. Most people thought of it in terms of the psychodynamic model and the thesis of Broken Brain was that [how we look at the brain] would change to a biological model. DSM III was exciting, and was done by a small group of people and we worked very well together. I think we did a lot of things right. We were pleased with the outcome at that time. What we didn't expect was the enormous impact the DSM would have on practices, diagnosis, the insurance industry, the legal profession—and neither did the APA. In fact after it came out, it was chronically out of print.
I agreed to do the DSM-IV and chair the schizophrenia workgroup because the DSM-III said nothing about negative symptoms, and I was one of the first to introduce negative symptoms into psychiatry. I developed the first scales for rating negative symptoms, so I wanted to make sure that negative symptoms got acknowledged in DSM-IV. I'm not involved at all in DSM-5—III and IV were quite enough for me.
[In 2007], I wrote an article, "DSM and the Death of Phenomenology in America: An Example of Unintended Consequences" (Schizophrenia Bulletin). The gist is that those of us who were involved in it had really the best of intentions in terms of helping clinicians and patients by demystifying psychiatry and making the diagnostic process more transparent and reliable. We were surprised that it had unintended consequences, misunderstandings and abuses. These days, I'm pretty critical of the DSM approach to diagnosis. I've always thought it very important to treat individuals as a person versus a diagnosis. You have to put everyone into a personal context—family work, personal interests. The DSM doesn't address that at all. It's more "use the symptom checklist and you're done," and that's not what psychiatry should be about. The DSM encourages that and it's become overvalued.
NAMI: What do you hope the future looks like for people with mental illness?
Andreasen: It should be an option for a psychiatrist to order a MR scan whenever he or she thinks it might be informative—such as when somebody has an odd presentation, an odd age for onset, unexpected motor symptoms. Scanning is not yet at the point where it's diagnostic—although some doctors would claim otherwise. But I'm one of the first pioneers in the field and I've been doing it for 30 years and I would know if MR scans were diagnostic—and they're not. They might provide information, but you cannot take any kind of MR scan and make a diagnosis, with the possible exception of Alzheimer's disease—there are PET scans approved for the FDA for that.
It's a matter of time, money and technology development. Can we use FMR to look at brain circuitry disruptions that might lead to psychosis? We haven't done the study yet, we don't know what the results will be and if we did, could we link them to genetic measurements as well? If not diagnostic, let's at least make things predictive. Predication is important as well. If I have a genetic and imaging profile of somebody and combine them, I can predict that this person may be more sensitive to an antipsychotic, then I'll use medication a instead of medication b. It's not saying this person has schizophrenia, but it helps to say that this person is sensitive to medical side effects and therefore should have certain treatment.
Dr. Andreasen served as editor-in-chief of The American Journal of Psychiatry for 13 years. She also served on the DSM-III and DSM-IV task forces, developing the first widely used scales for rating the positive and negative symptoms of schizophrenia. Today, she is the director of the Psychiatry Iowa Neuroimaging Consortium at the University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine. Read more about Dr. Andreasen at nancyandreasen.com.


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Members of the Toledo Symphony present a program of chamber music, featuring the famous "Trout" Quintet of Franz Schubert.
POULENC: Sonata for Horn, Trumpet, and Trombone (Alan Taplin, horn; Thaddeus Archer, trumpet; Garth Simmons, trombone)
HAYDN: String Quartet No. 4 in D Major (Cheryl Trace & Jillienne Bowers, violins; Timothy Zeithamel, viola; Renee Goubeaux, cello)
SCHUBERT: Piano Quintet in A Major, "Trout" (Kirk Toth, violin; Valentin Ragusitu, viola; Martha Reikow, cello; William McDevitt, double-bass; Valrie Kantorski, piano)
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Merkeled is a term for sexual assault by Islamic immigrants. It usually involves sexual intercourse or other forms of sexual penetration perpetrated against a kafir (disbeliever of Allah) and without that person's consent. The term originated in Germany, after mass rapes were carried out due to the huge influx of Islamic immigration which was enabled by Angela Merkel.
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quote: It is funny isn't it. Apparently Android devices selling more than iOS devices is good for some reason that doesn't involve:
quote: none of the handset makers seem to be be able to make any profit doing so, with the exception of Samsung,
quote: Now I assumed you understood economics, but I'll break it down.More units sold=lower prices=better value proposition for users/carriers.
quote: Having the greater market share also means you have control over the direction of the market.
quote: And you're beginning to see Androids effect on the direction of the market- Apple has started to follow Android's lead by integrating features that Android has had (in some cases) for years prior to iOS and creating products that can compete with Android's value proposition (downmarket) to recapture market share.
quote: quote: none of the handset makers seem to be be able to make any profit doing so, with the exception of Samsung,Why do you seem to think this has anything to do with Android, please provide proof instead of supposition.
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Logan Township police have added an 8-ton vehicle to its fleet.
The 2012 Lenco Bearcat G3, a $250,000 4-wheel-drive armored truck purchased with federal grant money, will be housed in the township garage and available to respond to any high-risk situation in the region.
"If we never use it, so be it. If we use it once, so be it," Chief Ron Heller said Thursday night.
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Logan Township recently took possession of an armored vehicle on behalf of the South Central Mountain Regional Task Force that can be used on high-risk emergency or terrorist incidents across the region. Money for the vehicle came from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security.
The South Central Mountain Regional Task Force, one of nine in the state formed in 1998 to help local municipalities deal with large-scale events such as terrorism attacks, sought the grant money through the Pennsylvania Emergency Management Agency and the Department of Homeland Security.
Because the task force cannot own the vehicle, Logan Township agreed to title, house, maintain and insure it.
"This is our tax dollars coming back to us," Supervisors Chairman Frank Meloy said after getting a close-up view of the vehicle outside the township municipal building.
Supervisor Jim Patterson praised Heller for his efforts to acquire the vehicle that will be added protection for the township SWAT team officers responding to dangerous situations.
"It's another tool that we have available to use," Patterson said.
"Our SWAT guys are an asset to the task force," Heller said.
Through a memorandum of understanding, the vehicle and SWAT team are available to respond to high-risk situations outside local jurisdictions.
"We provide that service to those who need it," said Heller, pointing out that the closest comparable vehicles, both owned by the state police, are stationed in Hershey and Pittsburgh.
Logan Township mechanic Jeff Stevens said the truck has a lot of get-up-and-go for weighing in at 16,000 pounds. It was built on a Ford F-550 frame with a 6.7-liter twin-turbo diesel engine.
"For as big and heavy as it is, it moves pretty well and can turn pretty tight," said Stevens. "It can get out of a tight spot very well."
The Bearcat is designed to take on just about anything a heavily-armed criminal might throw at police, Heller said.
The truck, including its windows, has the ability to stop .50-caliber bullets. It carries up to 10 officers in full gear as well as a driver and passenger. It has 10 gun ports, a gun turret, has run-flat tires and comes with sensors that can detect nuclear, biological, chemical and explosive threats outside the vehicle.
Running boards can allow officers to ride outside the truck, a necessity when trying to move quickly into or out of a dangerous area. It also has a ram, at the front, which can be extended as much as 16 feet.
"The vehicle is great, but it's unfortunate in today's society that we have to have something like that," Supervisor Joe Metzgar said.
Heller said the truck, painted with a military-grade paint, will get police decals. Lenco Armored Vehicles, the Massachusetts-based company that built the vehicle, already affixed a Pittsburgh Steelers license plate on the front.
Mirror Staff Writer Greg Bock is at 946-7458. Staff Writer Kay Stephens is at 946-7456.


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text: Now kids can try they're hand at offset printing! This art set shows kids another creative way to make art. Print making kit comes with detailed instructions and a history lesson. Simply sketch on the foam plate, add the ink, and peel off a colorful creation! Art kit includes enough material to create 14+ prints. For ages 5 years and up.Print Making Art Kit Includes: brayer, printing inks, pencil, foam sheets, paper and instructionsAwards: Best Toy Award


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on January 1, 2013 - 1:00 AM
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By Jeffery M. Leving
It's sad to think that with the new year here, many children find the possibility of an active, involved father in their lives as remote as the chance of finding a pet reindeer under the tree.
According to a recent survey of 2,000 Christmas shoppers, the only thing that many kids wanted this yuletide was a dad. The UK's Daily Telegraph reported that a father was the 10th most desired item on children's holiday wish lists, which also included requests for snow and exotic pets, like horses and reindeer.
The arrival of each new year reminds us that time is precious, and time spent with children, who change so quickly and whose fanciful notions about reindeer soon harden into more realistic ideas about life, is the most precious time of all.
In the 1960s, I was among the 8 percent of American children growing up without a father. Today that number has swelled to a mind-blowing 23 percent.
My friend Arthur Kallow lost his father in 2003. His parents had been married 58 years, and his father was around all his life. Like so many, he realizes how precious his time with his father was only now, when it's too late.
It's all too easy for men who find themselves in a divorce or a breakup to simply do what society tells them to do: Start sending money and settle for an alternate-weekend relationship with their children, if that.
Even if the split goes amicably, the emotional pain that surrounds a breakup can make it all too easy for a father to be inconsistent or emotionally absent in his relationship with his children going forward, because in many cases our society expects little else.
This New Year's Day, I urge all fathers not to fall into the traps that failed relationships and society lay out for us. Make a resolution to be there for your kids, no matter what your situation is.
Study after study has shown that, even when a mother's relationship to her child is controlled for, children who have emotionally engaged, interactive, "hands-on" fathers have higher self-esteem and greater empathy for others, and show better cognitive development and adjustment to life overall.
Children who don't have involved fathers are more likely to be violent, to drop out of school or to be abused.
Children don't stay children forever, and fathers pass away. If fathers miss the critical bonding time that comes during a child's early years, they will never be able to make it up.
The legal system can grant the wishes of children who only want a dad for Christmas right now. Hope is still there for fathers who miss their children.
And for the young fathers in their 20s and 30s, who have never experienced a death, and who have never realized how important their role is: Now is the time to learn.
Jeffery M. Leving is the author of "How to Be a Good Divorced Dad" and is chairman of the Illinois Council on Responsible Fatherhood.


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The Other Side Of Christmas
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She had a great post, and it all boils down to the same thing. Celebrate Jesus! To each family, their own. We are all free to celebrate in the best way we prefer, and that's awesome!ReplyDelete
She has an interesting perspective but I still think the whole holiday has gotten out of control. I don't think most people are joyfully celebrating the season to honor Jesus Christ, they are doing it to feed their obsession with material goods. If the whole season were actually fun for most people and not stressful due to incurring debts and being overextended then maybe I would be more inclined to agree with her. She reminds me of my sister, though, just really happy and excited about Christmas for the right reasons and likes to see the world through rose colored glasses. We do need more people like that to keep true joy alive in the season.ReplyDelete
LIke always, JMO! :-)
I enjoyed your friends post. I actually wrote an editorial for my high school newspaper on the same theme. Though, now as a parent I do feel there is too much of clutter.ReplyDelete
Perhaps we need to focus on the fun and parties and movies rather than presents, presents, presents.
I had honestly never really took the time to think about it his way! I do think there is a balance. Somewhere...ReplyDelete
- gretchen from lifenutDecember 09, 2007 12:32 PM
Thanks for posting the link. What a great post.ReplyDelete
Doh...didn't realize it was a guy! Apologies...ReplyDelete
i just read your original posting about your desire for a less-materialistic Christmas & your friend's view, too. i enjoyed them both.ReplyDelete
i think finding the balance at Christmas is the same as the struggle many women & moms deal with in everyday life. And balance will always be an issue because we are imperfect people. All the more reason to be thankful on this wonderful day of Christ's birth!
We just really focus on it being Jesus' birthday & on other simple, fun traditions that we do as a family every year. These are the things we all will cherish for years!
Okay--this is long...but I just really enjoyed those thoughts of yours! Blessings to your family!
It's all about balance, and where your heart is at. Thanks for the link! I really enjoyed (his??) writing!ReplyDelete
Stephanie, you were right on. I think the best part of Christmas is when you kind of find Christ in a quiet moment. It's like meeting privately with a friend during their ginormous birthday party. I never feel like I've experienced Christmas until I have that moment. After that, all the excess makes a lot more sense, and the need to satiate my greed kind of goes away.ReplyDelete
Not quite there yet this year . . . maybe soon. :)
I read your post about simplifying Christmas and your friend's. I am trying to do what you are doing and focus less on the excesses of Christmas and more on the meaning of Christmas. Your friend definitely offers something to think about from a different perspective. I have to admit, I like getting my kids gifts, and decorating, etc. It was a bit harder than I thought paring down the gifts for my kids, because I love getting people something they really, really want and my kids are the easiest to do that for. However, they have way more than their fair share of stuff.ReplyDelete


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Oprah's Real Favorite Things? Her Dogs
She no longer has her daytime talk show to stage a blockbuster giveaway. Instead, Winfrey has a network, and on Sunday, she unveiled this year's favorite things on a two-hour special on OWN.
In addition to puffy coats and sparkly totes, Winfrey gave military spouses trips to an all-inclusive resort in Fiji.
For Winfrey herself, though, favorite things don't always have to come with bells and whistles. There are simpler pleasures to savor as well, like time with her cocker spaniel Sadie.
"Flying home with Sadie. One of my favorite things," she Tweeted on Saturday. In the accompanying photo, Winfrey sits on her private plane with Sadie in the next seat over, both snuggled under a cozy blanket.
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A little less warm, but still just as enjoyable for Winfrey, a walk in the rain with her five dogs: in addition to Sadie, Winfrey is mom to golden retrievers Luke and Layla, and springer spaniels Sunny and Lauren.
She Tweeted"I love walking in the rain. Another favorite thing."


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Two suspicious fires – one in the city's Genesee-Moselle neighborhood, one in Black Rock – are under investigation by Buffalo fire officials.
Firefighters were called at 8:04 p.m. Monday to extinguish a blaze in the rear of a vacant a 2-1/2 story house at 24 Moselle St., fire officials said. Damage was estimated at $1,000.
But firefighters were called at 6:38 a.m. Tuesday to extinguish another fire at the same house. This time, the fire did an estimated $50,000 damage to the structure.
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Eau d`Hermes
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Which of these leather scents do you prefer?
Creed Royal English Leather - it's addictively good stuff.
Petty small minded people have no place in my life.
Two of my favourite fragrances, and both are in my current 'micro-wardrobe' of ten bottles.
Not sure that they're strictly comparable - when I think of Royal English Leather, I think of Knize Ten and Chanel's Cuir de Russie as its competitors.
Royal English Leather gets my vote.
Comparing the generic short story of REL to the mystery and multiple transformative plots of Roudnitska's Eau d'Hermes is a little ridiculous.
Eau d'Hermes.
REL is good stuff (compared to other Creeds) but don´t even comes close to the sublimity of Eau d´Hermès, IMO...
What JCE wears.
Leather or not, they're too diverse to meaningfully compare. No doubt Roudnitska's is by far the greater perfume, but there's a very special place in my heart for REL. Happily, there's no need for having to choose.
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i think anime is better than eating jk
Anime is pretty damn awsome, i'll agree with you there. "You will See, in Time you shall walk the same path as I"
normal movies "Soon the ashe's of your past shall burn again."
Yea I like anime....it's the one thing that I can watch and no one will bother me....lol"Live in the dark and Look for the light"ma <3 EVP 4-Ever


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Management accountants fill a critical need in business, one that largely has been inconsistently understood. With the introduction of the CGMA, we are seeking to elevate management accounting and emphasize its importance with a recognized designation. CPAs who work in business have long asked for another way to signal to employers and the marketplace that they are uniquely positioned to drive strategic business decisions that lead to maintaining and growing a business. Those holding the CGMA will be acknowledged as trusted business strategists who can connect the dots between financial fundamentals and physical assets and a broad array of performance factors.
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Thursday, June 5, 2014
There is an end in sight for Berkeley County motorists affected by the collapsed bridge on Cypress Gardens Road.
The South Carolina Department of Transportation awarded the contract to build a replacement bridge to a Wando construction firm.
According to a DOT press release, on Thursday, June 5, the SCDOT awarded an emergency contract in the amount of $3,050,000 to Cape Romain Contractors, Inc. of Wando to replace the Cypress Gardens Road Bridge near Highway 52 in Moncks Corner.
On April 28, a CSX train derailed and hit the bridge, which caused the structure to collapse.
Work is scheduled to begin during the week of June 8. The contract calls for a no excuses completion of the bridge by Oct. 25, 2014.
Additionally, incentives have been included in the contract to provide a mechanism to accelerate delivery of the completed project ahead of the Oct. 25 date.
Secretary of Transportation Janet P. Oakley commended the work of SCDOTs staff and partners. I am very proud of how our staff, both in the district office and SCDOTs headquarters responded to this emergency situation. The safety issues were taken care of within hours of the incident and the processes to secure an emergency contract to replace the bridge were underway early the next day.
The Secretary also praised the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) for its major role in the emergency response process.
FHWA SC Administrator Bob Lee and his team not only worked with our staff to secure approval for 100 percent federal funding for this emergency contract, they took the extra steps to provide emergency cash-upfront so that we could begin acquiring the outside services we needed to get this project moving as fast as possible.
SCDOT Commissioner Jim Rozier, who represents the 1st Congressional District including Berkeley County said the response to this emergency has gone very well.
Im delighted that the Department of Transportation has reached the point of awarding a contract so quickly, he said. The fact that a contract to replace an entire bridge has been ironed out in just over a month is amazing. What further delights me is that we are taking the quickest path to get the bridge back in service for the people and businesses in Berkeley County.
Berkeley County Supervisor Dan Davis pledged his complete support of the bridge replacement project and hoped for an expedient completion by the projected due date.
?It has been my hope all along that SCDOT would be expeditious in addressing this problem which has caused much hardship for many of our citizens? and industries, Davis said. As County Supervisor, I will do everything within my powers to stay involved and keep our citizens informed as work progresses. I feel everyone has been inconvenienced enough by this unfortunate situation?.
According to SCDOT records, the Cypress Gardens Road bridge had an Average Daily Traffic (ADT) count of 6200 vehicles. Trucks accounted for about five percent of that traffic.
Prior to its April 28 collapse, the bridge had been last inspected on Oct. 29, 2013. That inspection rated the structure in fair-to-satisfactory condition. The bridge was not classified as structurally deficient or functionally obsolete at the time of the last inspection, according to the SCDOT.
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Monday, June 23, 2014
Its been a busy summer for the Town of Moncks Corner, and things are just getting started.
On Monday, June 16, the Town flipped the switch, turning on the field lights at their new Regional Recreation Complex, making the cloverleaf of four baseball fields light the night sky.
If you build it they will come...
Good news for area baseball and softball fans, its almost built.
It was a monumental day for Moncks Corner Park and Recreation, said Park and Rec Director Ralph Jones. We turned on the ball field lights for the first time. It was a pretty inspiring sight, especially at night. The fields looked like something out of Field of Dreams.
Jones said electrical workers were aiming the lights, a rather involved process that took several days to complete.
Workers had to aim each light at the field, he said. It wasnt like we just turned the lights on because we liked the look. Turning on the lights served a purpose.
The new Rec Center Complex also took another major step toward being ready to host games when the Public Service Dept. successfully tested the sprinkler system on the ball fields.
The testing of the sprinkler system went off with flying colors, said Town Admnistrator Marc Hehn. Now we can get down to the business of growing grass.
The Town hopes to host the JV portion of the Hanahan Invitational Tournament (HIT) in 2015.
Jones also added that the Machine Pitch All-Star team enjoyed some early success in its summer all-star tournament beginning on Monday, June 16.
While tournament results werent available at press time, the Machine Pitch All-Stars had gone 3-0 in the tournament through June 20.
In other Town Council business last week, Moncks Corner Police Department Chief Chad Caldwell praised the successful completion of the towns 10th summer camp.
The kids really had a good time at this years camp, Caldwell said, adding more than 100 area youth attended the camp with the help of 20 volunteers.
In the ten years of our police department summer camps we have served more than one thousand kids attending, Caldwell said.
The Town also announced the addition of a new restaurant with Chik Fil-a planning to open a new restaurant in Moncks Corner in early 2015.
It will be located in the vacant lot near Walmart next to Wendys.
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on March 5, 2013 - 12:01 AM
Perhaps the conservative members of the U.S. Supreme Court were living in an alternative universe last year, but when they express doubts about the need for the Voting Rights Act, it is clear they are not in possession of all the facts.
Fact 1: Last year, South Carolina attempted to diminish the turnout of minority voters by enacting a bogus voter identification law that would have done nothing to stem the problem of voter fraud, which is all but nonexistent.
Fact 2: Last year, Texas did the same.
Fact 3: Last year, Florida did the same. It has also limited early voting so that people had to stand in line for hours last November to cast their votes.
These states have larceny in their hearts and so, sadly, does Pennsylvania, which not only passed its own voter ID law, but did so specifically to ensure that Mitt Romney won the state in November's presidential election. The state's photo ID law would "allow Governor Romney to win the state of Pennsylvania – done," said Mike Turzai, majority leader of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives.
Uniformly, these laws were passed by states where Republicans held sway, and who were willing to pursue their political ambitions by disenfranchising millions of voters. These were revolting attempts to resurrect Jim Crow, decades after Americans thought he was dead and buried.
What is more, Congress reauthorized the Voting Rights Act in 2006 with overwhelming support in the House and unanimity in the Senate. The vote followed extensive congressional testimony that detailed continuing abuses in the states covered by the law, and the measure was enthusiastically signed by President George W. Bush. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia didn't care about that. It was bad legislation, he said.
But the court's job is to root out unconstitutionality, not unwise laws. Even then, the painstaking reauthorization of the law in 2006 and the despicable efforts to minimize the votes of minorities well document the need to maintain this law. It is not only wise, but necessary to ensure that the right to vote is safe from those who would molest it.
Scalia and his conservative brethren on the court should reconsider their beliefs. Conservatives like to rail against justices legislating from the bench. Unless it is not constitutionally possible, justices are supposed to defer to the legislature, not substitute their own political judgment for that of elected officials.
That's what a bare majority of the court did last year with the Affordable Care Act, and it's what a unanimous court should do this year with the Voting Rights Act.


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Nesbit started off the competition on Saturday with a seventh-place finish in the long jump with a mark of 5.93 meters and became the first Mountaineer to score in both the indoor and outdoor championship meets.
The Roseville, Minn., native returned on Sunday for the final day of competition to take runner-up in the triple jump with a mark of 12.51 meters. Nesbit tallied 10 points for WVU in the meet and was the only Mountaineer to score in multiple events.
WVU Student-Athletes of the Week
Week 1: Christal Caldwell, Women's Basketball
Week 2: Haily VandePoel, Women's Swimming and Diving
Week 3: Hailey Barrett, Women's Tennis
Week 4: Christal Calwell, Women's Basketball
Sydney Cummings, Women's Track and Field
Week 5: Petra Zublasing, Rifle
Week 6: Kaylyn Millick, Gymnastics
Week 7: Petra Zublasing, Rifle
Week 8: Rachael Burnett, Women's Swimming and Diving
Week 9: Petra Zublasing, Rifle
Week 10: Matt Frazer, Baseball
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Week 13: Katlyn Shelar, Women's Track and Field
Week 14: Dan Dierdorff, Baseball
Week 15: Harrison Musgrave, Baseball
Week 16: Harrison Musgrave, Baseball
Week 17: Stormy Nesbit, Women's Track and Field
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WVU will host TCU from May 10-12, at Appalachian Power Park in Charleston … Friday's game begins at 6:30 p.m., followed by a 4 p.m., start on Saturday and Sunday's finale begins at 1 p.m.
Last Week in Baseball
The Mountaineers went 2-2 last week, highlighted by a series win over No. 10 Oklahoma in Charleston … WVU fell 4-3 in 10 innings on Friday night, before winning 9-3 on Saturday and 9-6 on Sunday to win two out of three … earlier in the week, WVU fell 7-6 to Pitt in front of a record crowd of 2,535 on Tuesday at Hawley Field.
Notes & Quotes
WVU batted .313 as a team last week, led by junior designated hitter Matt Frazer, who went 5-for-9 with three runs, four doubles, three RBIs, three walks and one hit by pitch … over the weekend, junior first baseman Ryan McBroom had a double, two home runs and seven RBIs to help lead the Mountaineers to two victories … sophomore left-hander Harrison Musgrave continued his fantastic season, picking up a no decision on Friday against Oklahoma … Musgrave allowed two runs on four hits with 11 strikeouts in 7.0 innings.
This Week in Track and Field
The West Virginia University track and field team will travel to Charlottesville, Va., for the Virginia Challenge on May 10-11 … competition is set to begin at 3 p.m. on both days.
Last Week in Track and Field
The Mountaineers competed in their first ever Big 12 Outdoor Track & Field Championships in Waco, Texas last weekend … WVU had 12 different athletes score in the meet, as they tallied 40 points for an eighth-place finish.
Notes & Quotes
On the first day of competition, Heather Adams was the first to score for WVU with a school record breaking mark of 56.96 in the hammer throw for a fifth-place finish … Katlyn Shelar also scored by coming in eighth in the pole vault with a mark of 3.76 meters … On day two, Stormy Nesbit placed seventh in the long jump with a mark of 5.93 and became the first student-athlete to score points in both the indoor and outdoor championships … Nesbit started the team off strong on the final day of competition by placing second in the triple jump with a mark of 12.51 meters … all four 3,000-meter steeplechase competitors scored on Sunday with Jordan Hamric leading the way with a second-place finish and a school record breaking time of 10:11.06 … Sarah Martinelli placed fifth, while Sarah McCauley and Aubrey Moskal rounded out the scoring runners at seventh and eighth place, respectively … Sydney Cummings and Hannah Stone both scored in the high jump by placing fifth and sixth … Chene Townsend and Sarah-Anne Brault were the final scorers for WVU in the 100-meter hurdles and the 5,000-meter run, respectively.
This Week in Women's Rowing
WVU is idle.
Last Week in Women's Rowing
The Mountaineers placed fourth at the 2013 Big 12 Championship, as they competed in five of six events and tallied 75 points.
Notes & Quotes
WVU's first varsity 8+ crew of Rachelle Purych, Danielle Widecrantz, Kelly Kramer, Lisa Deklau, Elizabeth Kantak, Jessica Hurlbert, Karen Verwey, Courtney Schrand and coxswain Mallory Fisher crossed the finish line in 6:36.45 in third place, a spot higher than their fourth seed … Oklahoma won the Big 12 team title for the first time, with 136 points, followed by Texas (117), Kansas (81), West Virginia (75) and Kansas State (66).
"Fourth place in the team standings is a good result for our first year in the Big 12. Going into the last event, the Varsity 8+, we were tied with Kansas State, so the difference between fourth and fifth came down to the final race. Our varsity eights led the way for us today and represented WVU very well within the Big 12 Conference. The coaches of the other schools and the officials of the Big 12 were very welcoming to us this weekend, and I want to commend Kansas for the great job they did in hosting the championship." – Coach Jimmy King


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Tiffin reports
Bethany M. Aiello, 23, of Tiffin, was charged with theft Monday.
A man went to the station Monday afternoon to report someone may be living in the hallway above Sports Cut Barber Shop, 130 S. Washington St. He took two bags of items found in the hallway to the station.
A woman reported Monday afternoon locks had been changed on her residence in the first block of Franklin Street. She reported items missing.
A first-block Sycamore Street woman reported early Tuesday morning a man broke into a bedroom window. When he was confronted, he said his name was Josh and jumped off of the second-story porch roof. A spokeswoman from the Tiffin Police Department said the woman knew the man.
County reports
Donnie L. Jackson, 51, of Tiffin, was charged with open container Monday. He also was cited with operating a vehicle while intoxicated and violating traffic lanes.
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CLEMSON — Clemson offensive coordinator Chad Morris will likely remain at Clemson in 2013 after Texas Tech football announced Wednesday evening it hired Kliff Kingsbury to be its head coach.
Morris interviewed for the Texas Tech job on Tuesday.
But Clemson coach Dabo Swinney knows Morris is unlikely to remain at Clemson for the long term, judging by the amount of interest Morris attracted after the regular season, interviewing with both N.C. State and Texas Tech.
Swinney revealed Wednesday that even if Morris eventually leaves the program, the up-tempo, no-huddle offensive philosophy will remain.
"It's a Clemson offense, not a Chad Morris offense," Swinney said. "We hired Chad because it's what we wanted to do philosophically,"
Morris was hired from Tulsa after Clemson's poor offensive showing in 2010 and led Clemson to the nation's No. 9 offense this season.
Swinney thinks the Clemson offense can continue to be productive whenever the program enters the post-Morris Era.
"I think one thing we've hopefully demonstrated in four years is we can take players and be creative with them and have success," Swinney said. "My first year, in '09, we had three pretty dynamic guys in (Jacoby) Ford, (C.J.) Spiller and Michael Palmer. I think it's well documented we used those guys in a lot of ways and set school record for scoring with a little different way of doing things.
"(After 2010) I really knew what I wanted to go do. It was just a matter of the right timing and having the personnel. The only candidates I was considering were guys that fit (up-tempo, no-huddle) philosophy. That's who we are. That's the personnel we have. That's who we'll continue to be."
Swinney said Wednesday he was already working on contingency plans in the event Morris left for a head-coaching job. The Post and Courier was told by a source close to Swinney this fall that wide receivers Jeff Scott could be considered for Morris' position if Morris should depart Clemson.
"I think in this position you always have an idea of what you want to do," Swinney said. "You have a Plan A, B, C, D, how many letters are there in the alphabet?"
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Swinney said he's not in a rush to hire a replacement for defensive backs coach Charlie Harbison who left for Auburn earlier this month. "We have no shortage of great candidates," Swinney said. … Swinney said WR Martavis Bryant was suspended for the bowl game because he broke a team academic policy, not one related to university policies or standards. "You have to follow the rules. We have study hall rule you have to follow here," Swinney said.


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LOCKPORT – There was almost universal praise Friday in Niagara County Court for Pierce L. Abrams – even from the judge who sent him to state prison for drunkenly crashing his car and killing his best friend.
"When you complete your sentence, I am certain you will pick up the pieces of your life and become the spectacular individual and leader everyone expects you to be," County Judge Sara Sheldon Farkas told Abrams, 22, of Printup Road on the Tuscarora Indian Reservation.
Abrams was sentenced to one to three years behind bars for second-degree vehicular manslaughter and driving while intoxicated.
His speeding 2008 Suzuki went off Mount Hope Road just east of Green Road about 4:45 a.m. Aug. 19. The westbound vehicle crossed the road and struck a ditch, a culvert and a small boulder before becoming airborne, smashing into a tree and overturning.
Abrams' passenger, Kyle Atkins, 22, his best friend since middle school, died of his injuries Aug. 24 in Erie County Medical Center. Abrams' blood alcohol content was measured at 0.22 percent, almost three times the legal threshold for intoxication.
A presentencing report by a Niagara County probation officer recommended a five-year probation sentence for Abrams, to begin with a six-month stint in the County Jail. Farkas rejected that idea in favor of what she called "general deterrence."
The judge said, "We're not going to stop people from drinking and driving, unfortunately, but we do minimize it to some extent. We don't want people to think it's OK to drink and drive. That can never be the message from the court. I cannot condone a probation sentence in a case such as this."
That wasn't what Darelyn Clause, Atkins' mother, had hoped to hear.
"I was hoping for six months instead of a year," Clause said. "I was hoping he wouldn't go to state prison. But I know he'll grow into a beautiful, wonderful person."
As an officer was handcuffing Abrams, Clause tearfully walked up behind him and told him, "I love you."
She had told Farkas before sentencing, "I love Pierce as my own son … I don't want him charged with manslaughter."
The families were very close, defense attorney Joel L. Daniels said.
He said Abrams, who had no prior record, won a lacrosse scholarship to Syracuse University, where his father is a professor, but he never played a game because he tore a knee ligament in a practice session.
"He drove too fast and he drank too much. He makes no excuses. He blames no one but himself," Daniels said.
"I'd like to just apologize. [Clause's] son died and it was my fault and nobody else's," Abrams said. "My parents are teachers. They teach people to live the right way. I let them down."
The victim's father, Darrell Atkins, a Navajo who lives on that nation's reservation in New Mexico, wrote a letter that was read by Deputy District Attorney Theodore A. Brenner.
It said in part, "The Navajo Nation and the Tuscarora Nation lost an ambassador … While I can forgive Pierce, he has to be accountable for his actions. That includes going to jail."
"This is such a waste," Brenner said. "Both of these young men had such promise."
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INCLINE VILLAGE, Nev. - Picture the Lake Tahoe basin in a deluge of rain. Weeks of downpouring and melting snowpacks. Landslides render highways and roads impassable. No lights, no water, no heat, no food.
Businesses shut down. The local economy is devastated. And little outside help is on the way, considering outside responders are overwhelmed with storm damage in surrounding areas.
A deluge of this magnitude is inevitable in Lake Tahoe's future, but it doesn't have to turn catastrophic - so long as preventative steps are taken now, two U.S. Geological Survey scientists said during a presentation last Thursday at the Tahoe Environmental Research Center.
Such storms will likely come from atmospheric rivers, gargantuan bands of warm water vapor that form over the Pacific Ocean and move eastward, some of which hold enough water to fill the Mississippi River 10 times over, said Dale Cox, a regional hazards coordinator for the federal agency. Satellite imagery shows them to be at least 1,200 miles long and 250 miles wide.
"Atmospheric rivers are particularly vicious storms," added Michael Dettinger, a USGS research scientist. "They lift up mountain ranges more easily than other storms, cool, condense out, then boom - lots of rain."
The weather phenomenon "Pineapple Express" is one example of an atmospheric river, said Cox, adding that the large storms that hit the region and threatened to flood the Truckee River in late November and early December, 2012, were atmospheric river storms.
"You will probably be seeing more atmospheric rivers with climate change," Cox said. "What you can expect from climate change in the west is expanded periods of drought, higher temperatures, sea level rise and more frequent and ferocious storms."
An ARkStorm - a hypothetical term developed by USGS that's short for an AR (atmospheric river) 1000 (k) storm - is an extreme scenario featuring continual downpour of two to eight inches of rain a day for extended periods in California.
The last catastrophic series of rain storms hit California in 1861-62, causing extensive flooding across the state, devastating the economy. According to various historical accounts, newly elected California Gov. Leland Stanford had to be taken to his inauguration in a rowboat.
Cox said current AR 1000 scenario models are scaled back from the 1861-62 storms.
"If people see a possible catastrophic event as being too large, they think it is not believable and they don't prepare for it," he said.
Dettinger said he and Cox came to Tahoe last Thursday and presented at TERC "to discuss who from the area we should connect with so that such an effort was of maximum utility for emergency responders, planners and the community at large."
Michael Schwartz, chief of the North Tahoe Fire Protection District, attended the presentation. He recalled a major storm that hit the Tahoe area in 1986, when roads and highways were closed and there was a high fire danger due to broken gas lines.
"We realize we'll be alone for a while," said Schwartz, in the event an AR 1000 hit Tahoe. "As far as being prepared, we're as ready as you can be."
California communities are starting to use AR 1000 scenario for disaster exercises, Cox said, the most recent of which took place Jan. 23 at Truckee Tahoe Airport, featuring the 95th Civil Support Team out of Hayward, Calif.; Eastern and Central Placer County Hazardous Materials Teams; California Office of Emergency Services; Placer and Nevada County Environmental Health; FBI; Truckee Police Department; and the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department's ARMOR Unit.
- Frank Fisher is a freelance reporter for the North Lake Tahoe Bonanza and Sierra Sun. He can be reached for comment at email@example.com.
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