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|November 11, 2007, 10:48 AM
Join Date: November 11, 2007
Location: ohio
Posts: 1
Hi from OHIO
Just joined this morning after finding the forum while looking for info on a jamming problem with my Buckmark. Looks like some great info and discussions.
I am a relatively new shooter. I have recently been shooting in an indoor pistol league - learning the ropes and improving every week.
I own several rifles and pistols. It all started when I took the CCW class and bought my Glock 27. Also own a cheap Hi Point 9mm (which is more accurate than I was told, although bought just for plinking), Colt Mustang .380, S&W 686Plus, Ruger SP101. Rifles - Rock River NMA2 (took the Small Arms Rifle School this summer at Camp Perry and decided to learn highpower), brand new Henry H001, Hi Point 9mm carbine (fun for plinking), cheap home defense pump shotgun (hatsan?), Ruger Mini-30 (probably will be selling).
I am just now getting involved in target, and hopefully competitive, shooting. There are so many different categories and types of competitive shooting - I hardly know where to start.
I am also interested in learning sporting clays, trap and/or skeet - will be looking for a good beginner shotgun for that in the near future.
I am 55, retired ATC. Also into motorcycles, learning horses.
Not much more to tell. I am looking forward to exploring this forum.
|November 11, 2007, 12:04 PM
Join Date: November 4, 2007
Location: Quinlan, Texas
Posts: 3
New (FREE) website for Buying/Selling Firearms In-State
Not sure where this post belongs, so am putting it here, to be safe... Please advise if it should go to another subject. Thanks!
I wanted to alert you that yesterday we opened a FREE classified site dedicated to helping people buy or sell firearms from/to people IN THEIR OWN STATE. As it turns out, it's legal in MANY states to buy/sell/trade firearms between INDIVIDUALS without having to register the transaction nor to report it to any government agency. Many people don't know that.
(Of course, there ARE precautions the seller should take to protect himself/herself in case of illegal use of the weapon, like get a photocopy of driver's license, a signed receipt for the weapon, etc., which can be found elsewhere online.)
At any rate, for anyone interested, you can visit the IN-STATE FIREARMS SALES classified website at:
As I said, it's brand new, so firearms-for-sale are scarce at the moment, but feel free to post a firearm-for-sale, or a want-to-buy. There is NO CHARGE for this service, not even for posting a photo .... once the site becomes known, I think it will be a valuable resource, so please tell your friends!
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|November 11, 2007, 02:42 PM
Join Date: June 6, 2006
Location: Northeast USA
Posts: 19
Hi there everyone...
I joined up here about 18 months ago but traveling has gotten in the way of posting. I've recently posted a little in a few other sites but like the feel of this one the best. Have a few handguns, (have CCW) and just one .22 rifle and one nice 12 gauge for unannounced late-night visitors. But I hope it never comes to that.
Looking forward to joining in and asking a few Qs, and maybe even offering a little advice to new gun owners. Hmm, I see in my cp that I have a couple of unanswered posts to attend to.
- Ian
- Ian
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|November 11, 2007, 03:22 PM
Join Date: November 11, 2007
Posts: 2
New member saying Hi.
Hello all,
I'm known online as Steellord, and I'm a Michigan gun owner and hunter.
I'm into all things gun related and much more that isn't.
|November 12, 2007, 09:06 AM
Join Date: November 8, 2007
Location: Lewisville,Tx Just north of Dallas
Posts: 13
I don't have any guns, yet. I've been spending alot of time on this site checking out what everyone has to say, it's been VERY big help in trying to pick my first gun. I haven't been shooting in like 10-15 years, so I'm really looking forward to doing that again. I'd just like to say thanks for everyone for all the info.
|November 12, 2007, 11:57 AM
Join Date: September 27, 2007
Location: NJ
Posts: 58
Hello all, I've been interested in guns and shooting sports since I was a kid. It's great to have such a wealth of information and experience in one location.
|November 12, 2007, 05:57 PM
Join Date: November 5, 2007
Location: GEORGIA, GO DAWGS!
Posts: 801
I'm a new member, I love hunting and defensive pistols and shotguns, I want an ak. I grew up in Chicago Il. and joined a gang at the age of 12. i saw many of my freinds die, and was present at two shootings, I saw my friends shot. One lived after a 4 month hospital stay, and the other just got a through and through above the elbow. After my parents had enough of living in the ghetto, and seeing my friends getting killed and maimed, and me and my brother getting locked up for various charges, they moved us to Georgia, I was under 17 when all of the charges happened, It took me at least 5 years to get over living in complete crap, and now I am am a shooter, hunter, husband, and a well-adjusted citizen, although I think that I am wiser on the streets than you.
Kimber classic custom series 1
Colt Anaconda .44
taurus 85 hammerless
weatherby vanguard 7mm. rem. mag.
winchester model 70 30-06
marlin 336 30-30
marlin model 60 22 lr
mossberg 500 persuader 12 ga. 18"barrell
browning b-80 12 gauge
t/c woods riflw .50 cal
|November 12, 2007, 09:20 PM
Join Date: November 11, 2007
Location: TX
Posts: 205
Hey, all. I'm new to the forum but not to guns. I heard about THR from a friend during our annual "guys weekend/shoot". I have hunted and shot guns since I was a wee one and was a professional big game guide for 4 years. Mostly exotics, but managed White-tail and birds as well. I enjoyed every minute, but the woman in my life didn't like the hours. Now I'm a banker and hunt for myself instead of for others. I have no specific preference on guns. I love them all. However, my Baer is my baby. I do have more rifles and handguns, but that doesn't mean I'm not looking for more shotguns. I'm looking forward to some good gun discussion with everyone. So far I've seen good stuff. Not too catty, which I can't say I've seen with other forums. Religion, politics, and guns you know.
|November 13, 2007, 01:43 PM
Join Date: November 2, 2007
Location: Houston TX, USA
Posts: 33
hello, i live in HOUSTON TEXAS, new to the board. i own 2 ruger 9mm pistols, p94 and p95, a marlin 60 22lr, ak 47, and 2 shotguns, 12 and 20 gauge, both with the 18.5 inch barrels. hope to learn alot from this board. thanks.
|November 13, 2007, 05:01 PM
Join Date: November 6, 2007
Location: West Texas
Posts: 37
Hi, I'm in the low 40's live in northeast Texas, practice law, own numerous hanguns and shotguns, enjoy some reloading, clays. I am a CHL holder and consistently dissatisfied with my leather/clothing/concealment issues. It's a favorite gripe, one day I will find the perfect setup and have nothing left to gripe about....
|November 13, 2007, 06:31 PM
Join Date: November 13, 2007
Posts: 1
Hey everybody!!!Thought I would check out your happening 'lil forum...
peace and good will,yall...
|November 13, 2007, 11:08 PM
Join Date: November 13, 2007
Location: Oregon
Posts: 49
New Here
I'm new to this forum, but not guns. I've been a hunter since I could walk. I just turned 60. I've had a bit law school and currently work as an analyst.
I own the following:
Ruger Mark III slabside, stainless w/ rubber grips.
Colt pocket .32 auto
Berreta .25 auto
S&W (Howa) .30-06
Ruger 10-22
Marlin 336C .30-30
Ithaca 37 feathweight 20 gauge
Browning Citori 12 Gauge 3-1/2"
I also own a Remington #1 rolling block that is presently in the process of being converted from .38 Long RF to .357 Mag and otherwise restored to its original condition. I'm doing all the new wood myself. Rechambering and relining the barrel, and refinishing the metal is being done by the best craftsmen I could find. I can hardly wait to shoot it. It belonged to my GGrandfather and hasn't been shot since about 1920.
|November 13, 2007, 11:38 PM
Join Date: November 13, 2007
Posts: 6
Hi from Maryland
Just found this site - looks like a mine of information.
I am an implant from the UK, we don't have much in the way of shooting left over there...
I was a cadet in school and participated in lots of rifle and mg shooting events and competitions. Joined the Territorial Army (UK equivalent of the NG) when I got to college and managed to try out a lot of neat weapons over the next few years.
Hoping to get back into shooting - looking for a range in the Towson, MD area if anyone knows of one.
|November 14, 2007, 03:53 PM
Join Date: November 12, 2007
Location: In a house.
Posts: 1
Hello Everyone...
I am a new member here on THR. My husband has been on here a while. Although I was very Anti-Firearms when we first met, he showed me the good side of them and they can actually be a fun thing.
I am signing up for my CPL license and am thinking about getting a CW9. Not sure yet if that is "THE" one. It's kind of like picking out a new husband... only now I can have a lot of them!
So if you have any ideas as to what would be a good carry gun for a petite gal, let me know... I'm interested in trying out a few things.
"The beauty of the second amendment is that it will not be necessary until someone attempts to take it away." Thomas Jefferson
|November 14, 2007, 08:38 PM
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Welcome, ma'am. Hope you find us well behaved and informative. If you want good insight on "a carry gun for a petite gal," I recommend http://www.corneredcat.com which is the creation of THR member, pax.
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|November 15, 2007, 10:09 AM
Join Date: August 1, 2006
Posts: 12
New Member
My first reply to a THR thread. How cool is that?! Born and raised in a small Arkansas town, I've had a gun by my side almost every day of my life. I like em all, from pistols to shotguns. Lately I've taken more intrest in .22 rifles. Thinking of getting a new one from Santa this year. (I'll post a thread about that later.) Well, nice to meet y'all and look forward to being a member here.
|November 15, 2007, 10:21 AM
Join Date: November 14, 2007
Posts: 2
Hello, just another gun nut checking in. I am a sheriffs patrol deputy working in a very rural part of the northeast. I love shooting, reloading, hunting, fishing and all the other outdoor manly stuff country boys do. I have been having a look around the place and like what I see so far. I look forward to getting to know some of you.
|November 15, 2007, 10:24 AM
Join Date: November 15, 2007
Location: Omaha, Nebraska area
Posts: 3
Helo, my first visit here......
I get around the forums, too many to list or recall them all.
A several airgun forums, AR15.com, Snipershide.com,
Several antique gun forums, several military gun forums, a few cowboy forums, and the list goes on!!!
I like ALL guns. I collect and shoot old and new airguns, old and new black powder guns, old and new sporting and hunting firearms, some older target guns, old and new cowboy guns, old and new military guns, and when I get the chance, I shoot full auto and supressed guns. I may have missed something, but you get the idea.
I like shotguns, rifles and carbines, and handguns.
I also aquire knives and swords on occasion.
I will pick up lots of odds and ends if they have something to do with guns, shooting, or fishing.
I hope to meet some new friends here. I am always glad to share info and
to learn somethong new.
Good Shootin!!
|November 16, 2007, 09:48 AM
Join Date: November 12, 2007
Posts: 29
High I just got my first gun. Im into swords and knives too. I am also an avid zombie hunter.
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|November 16, 2007, 11:54 AM
Join Date: November 16, 2007
Location: In an Altered State
Posts: 13
Checking in
Hello Folks,
My name is Joe-R right now I'm in the Valley of the sun AZ.
I have been into firearms arms knives and the outdoors all of my life.
I am not a hunter not because I think it's wrong because it's not for me.
Too damn early and cold for me.
I hope that I can add to the pool of knowledge here.
|November 17, 2007, 06:58 AM
Join Date: August 22, 2007
Location: Latrobe, PA
Posts: 8
New Guy
Hello all...I am new to THR, but not new to forums! I am an avid gun collector and a active member of the PAFOA. I just thought I'd stop in and say hello! I've been lurking for several months and I may want to jump in on some discussions. See ya around the forums!
Member: Pennsylvania Firearm Owners Association
"The right of the citizens to bear arms in defense of themselves and the State shall not be questioned."
~Pennsylvania Constitution, Section 21
|November 17, 2007, 08:19 AM
Join Date: November 12, 2007
Posts: 4
My name is Charlene and I am a retired Detroit Police Officer. I was among the first 75 females hired to patrol the streets of Detroit in 1975. Wanted to be a cop since I was five or six years old. I retired before I had 15 years on the force because at the time, cops had to live in the city of Detroit and it was just to crime ridden to raise my then, six year old daughter.
I am a Campus Safety Officer in a college in Detroit and I love it. We aren't allowed carry guns on our person while on duty. The campus is very safe and I work days, so that isn't a problem for me.
I am not a collector of guns and don't have a passion for guns. Just a passion for the 1st Ammendent. We must always have the right to have guns. We all know that when a government takes away our guns, only the criminals will have the guns. Guns, and seperation of church and state is what this country was founded on and we must keep it that way.
Among my jobs in the Detroit Police Department, patrol, narcotics, Mini Stations, were Crime Prevention in Sexual Assault, and Personal Safety for all while in the home, shopping, driving, etc. I am hoping to share some of my training when needed.
I tried to find the site of the brother who wanted to protect his college sister by giving her a gun but decided not to. I would agree with him NOT to give her a gun. I wouldn't wait around for the college to put in peep holes in the door. I would be at that college with my drill and peep hole and install it myself. What is the college going to do, charge him for making the students safer? Do it and don't waste the time waiting for approval. Usually I follow rules but not when it comes to safety, especially a young woman at college.
ALSO, for those of you that have young children, the kids know not to open a door, but why not install a peep hole at their height level? We did this for our daughter at our Detroit home. That way she could at least say, "Hey mom, it's Aunt Nancy!"
Approach the campus safety officers and ask if the college has any training they give the males and females on campus about sexual assault. I believe it is Michigan Central University that has a wonderful program they give to every freshman on what happens to anyone that commits a sexual offense of any kind. It would be worth checking it out.
Anyway, this is the kind of info I hope to provide.
I wrote a book about my experience as one of the 1st female officers on patrol in Detroit and other events that happened in my life. It is called Badge 3483, A True Story. Sub title: Some dreams really do come true, so do the nightmares.
The web site for the book is www.courvillepublishing.com
|November 17, 2007, 05:35 PM
Join Date: November 17, 2007
Posts: 1
New member help wanted
Hello everyone,
I have found this forum to be very informative. I just inherited a S&W 38 special CTG. It is blued and has a 6" barrel. The handle is walnut. The serial number on the bottom of the handle is S 948309. This was my grandfathers gun and I have admired it since I was 9 years old and that was 38 years ago. I would never sell this gun so value is not important to me. I need help in trying to find out how old this gun is. Any help you could give me would be greatly appreciated.
Thank you in advance!
|November 18, 2007, 09:21 AM
Join Date: November 18, 2007
Location: Upstate NY
Posts: 3
Hello THR members from upstate NY
Greetings All
I'm a longtime handgun shooter with CW licenses from NY, MA, ME, CT, FL, PA & NH. Favorite carry guns = Colt Defender 45ACP, H&K USPc .40S&W, Kahr P45. Looking forward to some great discussions on this forum.
|November 18, 2007, 04:44 PM
Join Date: November 18, 2007
Location: connecticut
Posts: 53
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By Ed Struzik on EdmontonJournal.com
"We wish that all of us, the environmentalists and the government, could focus on implementing SARA [Species at Risk Act] to the fullest extent possible, so it can do what SARA was created to do: keep Canada from losing more species.
Kevin Burke was guiding a group of tourists along the shores of western Hudson Bay in late November when he spotted six bears in the distance.
Initially, he didn't know what to make of the small female among them that was bluff-charging a bigger bear in a stand of willows. But once the tundra vehicle got up close, he quickly discovered why the animals were so excited.
"First, I saw the pool of blood on the icy pond. Then I saw a male bear with something in its mouth. And then, when it turned towards us, I realized, 'Uh-oh, that's the head of a cub.' The mother was desperately trying to save it, while the rest of the bears were trying to get in on the action and feed on the remains. It was all over by that point. There was almost nothing left of it when we got there."
Having guided in the Churchill region for the past 24 years, Burke had seen and heard of incidents of cannibalism in the past. Like some Inuit hunters on the west coast of Hudson Bay, he doesn't think it's anything out of the ordinary.
A male polar bear carries the head of a polar bear cub it killed and cannibalized in an area about 300 kilometers north of Churchill, Man., in November. Scientists believe climate change has turned some polar bears into cannibals as global warming melts their Arctic ice hunting grounds. The U.S. recently listed polar bears as a threatened species.
Photograph by: Iain D. Williams, Reuters, Edmonton Journal
Scientists who have been studying polar bears in the region, however, believe that this event, and seven other acts of cannibalism recorded in the area this fall, are more signs that climate change is taking its toll on the bears of western Hudson Bay.
"I've been studying polar bears in this region for 35 years, and prior to this fall, I personally knew of only one cub, and two other adults that were victims of cannibalism in that time," says Ian Stirling, retired from the Canadian Wildlife Service and now an adjunct professor at the University of Alberta.
"To get eight in one year is really dramatic, especially when the bears came off the ice this year in fairly good shape. Breakup was later this year than it has been for a few years, so they had the extra time to hunt seals and put on weight before the ice went out. But it apparently wasn't enough to sustain all of them until freeze-up, which was particularly late this year."
Polar bears in western Hudson Bay need to fast on their stored fat reserves for at least four months when the ice breaks up and disappears in late spring and early summer.
The longer the bears need to stay ashore, the more they use up those reserves.
This year's late freeze-up is typical of a trend that has been developing over the past decade.
According to research conducted by scientist Andrew Derocher and his team at the University of Alberta, nearly three-quarters of the western Hudson Bay polar bear management zone should have been covered by ice during the first week of December. But this year, only 21 per cent of the area was frozen by that time.
The polar bears of western Hudson Bay are not the only populations that are having trouble coping with thinning ice.
Mounting evidence suggests that bears of southern Hudson Bay and the Beaufort Sea are getting hard hit as well.
Scientists in Alaska and Canada, for example, recently reported four cases of cannibalism (three on adult females, and one yearling), three bears that starved to death, and a number of bears that drowned during a storm that hit while they were swimming in open water.
They are also seeing more bears denning on land because the ice is too unstable for them to dig secure maternity dens offshore.
Disturbing as this all may be, it should not come as a surprise.
More than two years ago, a blue-ribbon panel of U.S. government-commissioned scientists warned the former Bush administration that two-thirds of the world's polar bears could disappear by 2050 if the Arctic continues to warm at the pace that climatologists are predicting.
By that time, most of the bears in the western Hudson Bay, southern Hudson Bay and the southern Beaufort Sea are likely to be gone.
Accepting this projection as valid, the U.S. recently listed the polar bear as a "threatened" species.
It banned the importation of polar bear products and issued a moratorium on oil and gas exploration off the coast of some parts of Alaska until it can be determined whether these activities will harm the animals.
The polar bear specialist group for the International Union for the Conservation of Nature, an organization that represents polar bear scientists, the Inuit and representatives from each of the polar bear nations, had already made the same decision by designating the polar bear as globally threatened.
Environmentalists along with most of the world's polar bear scientists think that Canada should be taking action as well.
But since becoming law in 2003, the Species at Risk Act (SARA) has performed more like a lamb than the lion that scientists and environmentalists had hoped it would be. They hoped it would help wildlife recover from the devastating effects of climate change, habitat loss, pollution and overharvesting,
In dozens of cases, the federal government has either stalled, delayed or evaded taking legal protection for species that dwell on federal land.
It has also never used the so-called "safety net," which gives it the power to protect species that may be at risk and not protected in any meaningful way in a province or territory.
In fact, the federal government has sometimes fought so hard not to do anything that a Federal Court of Canada justice recently ruled that Environment Minister Jim Prentice was in "clear contravention of the law" in one case that is likely to apply to many others.
"It's like a death watch," says Susan Pinkus, a biologist for Ecojustice, the environmental law group that went to court on behalf of several environmental groups recently to force the government to set aside critical habitat for the greater sage grouse and for the Nooksack dace, a small fish that dwells in a handful of freshwater streams in British Columbia.
"Instead of working to protect Canada's endangered species, the federal government is working to evade the law intended to protect them."
Under the Species at Risk Act, the Committee on the Status of Endangered Wildlife (COSEWIC) is the authority that identifies and assesses wildlife that may be in trouble.
To date, scientists on the committee have listed 585 species. Of those, 250 are considered to be endangered, 150 threatened, 162 of special concern and 23 are extirpated, meaning they are no longer found in the wild in Canada. Thirteen wildlife species are extinct.
It is the government, however, that has the sole power to determine whether those species get legal protection. So far, largely for cultural, economic and political reasons, the government has not given more than a quarter of them the legal protection that scientists insist they need. The government's record for developing action and management plans to help wildlife recover is even worse.
Using the best-case scenario that Environment Canada paints, critical habitat on federal lands has been identified in only nine cases so far. What's more, eight of those are located in national parks where the habitat was already protected.
Now that a five-year parliamentary review of SARA is underway, many scientists, lawyers and environmentalists are wondering whether the same fate awaits hundreds of other species that are at risk of becoming extinct or extirpated. They also wonder whether it will ultimately be left up to the courts to force the government to apply legal protection for wildlife when it is needed.
The Species at Risk Act "itself has a lot of potential," says Ted Cheskey of Nature Canada, part of a coalition of non-government organizations that have weighed in on the five-year review.
"It requires the government to identify and protect habitat in which species need to survive and recover. And habitat loss, we know, is the reason why 84 per cent of the species on the list are in trouble. But so far, we've seen little progress in his area."
Most everyone realized when the legislation was passed that the government would face a lot of challenges, especially when it came to legally protecting species that have economic or subsistence value for Inuit and First Nations people.
This proved to be more the case than most everyone imagined.
In a scientific paper recently published in the journal Conservation Biology, for example, Scott Findlay, a University of Ottawa biologist, and his colleagues showed that species such as the Atlantic cod, which has declined by as much as 99 per cent in some regions, were less likely to be listed if they had commercial or subsistence harvesting value.
In a separate study done for the same journal, Jeff Hutchings and Marco Festa-Bianchet, the current and past chairmen of COSEWIC, found there was also a significant bias against listing any fish or mammal that dwells in the Canadian North. None of the 10 Nunavut species on COSEWIC's list, for example, are on the SARA registry.
It's not as if this was all dropped on the government's shoulders in 2003 when the Species at Risk Act went into force.
Even before legislation came into effect, hundreds of studies had raised the red flag, warning the government that wildlife from all across the country were threatened or on the brink of extinction.
In the 1960s, for example, there were an estimated 26,000 Peary caribou inhabiting the islands of the High Arctic. The animal is found only in Canada.
A series of catastrophic freeze-ups in the 1970s and 1990s, however, resulted in most of the animals starving to death because they could no longer crater through the hard snow and ice on land to get food.
In response to this precipitous decline, COSEWIC classified the Peary caribou as threatened way back in 1979. Then, as numbers continued to drop, it declared the animals on Banks Island and the Queen Elizabeth Islands as endangered in 1991. COSEWIC confirmed their sorry state when it reassessed the status of the animal in 2004.
Despite this 45-year decline, virtually nothing has been done to help the Peary caribou recover. There are now, at best, no more than 2,000 animals left.
No one knows for sure because the Canadian Wildlife Service stopped monitoring the fate of the species back in the 1990s when the Edmonton-based scientist responsible retired and was not replaced. That left the cash-strapped Northwest Territories and Nunavut governments to pick up the slack.
Environmentalists say the government's latest excuse for doing nothing about Peary caribou is inexcusable. The government claims the Inuit and the Nunavut government were not adequately consulted when COSEWIC commissioned its last review in 2004.
"That was six years ago," says Pinkus. "All they've done so far is get a memorandum of understanding with Nunavut. In the meantime, the species is on the brink of extinction."
In light of what has happened to the Peary caribou, there is growing concern that the polar bear and many other species in the Canadian North will suffer a similar fate.
The polar bear was first listed as species of concern in 1991, long before climate change in the Arctic became an international concern.
Even since it became clear that climate change was likely to destroy much of the polar bear's habitat in some areas of Canada, little has been done to soften the blow.
Instead of developing a management plan to help the animals cope with the changes, the former Liberal government dropped the polar bear off the SARA list in 2004, once again claiming that COSEWIC failed to consult the Inuit.
Given the polar bear's iconic status in the climate-change saga, scientists had hoped the federal government would have taken the lead in what is rapidly becoming an international cause celebre on the global warming front.
But that hope is fading fast.
Virtually nothing significant, for example, came out of a round table on the future of the polar bear that was convened by Environment Minister Prentice nearly a year ago in Winnipeg.
Nor was anything meaningful accomplished in Norway shortly afterward when the polar bear nations met to discuss strategies. All Canada did was promise to work with Greenland to manage the Baffin Bay population.
In fact, Canadian government delegates at that meeting behaved so badly that one Norwegian government adviser wrote an editorial in the journal Polar Research in which he wondered whether Canada has now replaced the U.S. as the
"bad guy" in efforts to conserve the animal.
To the chagrin of many scientists, there seem to be no bounds to the lengths to which the Canadian government will stall, delay or obfuscate when it comes to using legal action to help animals at risk.
Woodland caribou populations in Canada, for example, have been rapidly declining for the past three decades.
The science in this case is clear as it's ever going to be. Oil and gas and forestry developments are altering the landscape in a way that is favouring other ungulates and predators at the caribou's expense.
Environment Canada, however, recently decided that a review of the data needed to be done before it would do anything. So it commissioned 30 scientists to review the literature and provide recommendations that could be used to launch action under the auspices of SARA.
Most everyone involved in the process expected that would be the end of the stalling.
But when the scientists issued their report last spring, Environment Canada once again claimed it could do nothing because First Nations were not consulted. The department also claimed that not enough is known about the "spatial distribution" of caribou to warrant identification of critical habitat.
Like other scientists on the advisory committee, Mark Hebblewhite, a University of Montana scientist, insists that consulting with First Nations was never part of the mandate.
Now he wonders what it will take to get the Canadian government to move on this issue.
"Thirty of the top boreal ecologists in the world weighed in on this," he says. "The recommendations should have been untouchable. But somehow Environment Canada found a way to defer taking action.
"What they're asking for is almost impossible to put down in numbers," he added.
"Woodland caribou are very cryptic, mysterious animals. They live in miserable conditions and they are almost never seen. In some cases, we have satellite data that pinpoint their locations in incredible detail. In other cases, we have nothing at all. Plus, we have more than 60 herds scattered across the country. What Environment Canada is asking for would take years, if not decades to document. By that time, they'll all be gone."
One "threatened" woodland caribou herd, in fact, has already disappeared. The last of Banff National Park's dwindling herd died in an avalanche last spring.
Hebblewhite is not alone in wondering how the Canadian government could allow this to happen in a national park where launching action under SARA should be relatively easy.
"I think the recent court rulings (on greater sage grouse and Nooksack dace) about SARA es pecially make the case of caribou conservation in the Rockies especially interesting because it's so completely obvious from a legal perspective that Environment Canada has completely dropped the ball on the legislated action required in the recovery planning process for southern mountain caribou," says Hebblewhite.
The demise of the greater sage grouse in southern Alberta and Saskatchewan has also been well documented.
Last year, the population in Alberta dropped by 20 per cent, leaving just 66 males on the leks (courting areas) in the spring of 2009. The decline suggested the birds could be extirpated by 2015 if nothing was done to protect them from oil and gas developments, which fragment their habitat.
So far, Alberta has done little to stop the decline. Realizing that the Canadian government was unwilling to step in and take action under SARA, the Alberta Wilderness Association and several other conservation groups went to Ecojustice to take the matter to court on their behalf.
In the Federal Court, lawyers for the federal government maintained that a recovery strategy under SARA was limited because the breeding grounds couldn't be identified.
The court, however, dismissed this as "unreasonable" given the weight of evidence proving the contrary. It ordered Environment Canada to go back and redraft a recovery strategy that identified critical habitat based on the best information available.
In B.C., Justice Douglas Campbell of the Federal Court went even further when government lawyers used the same excuse for doing nothing to protect the critical habitat of the Nooksack dace.
This is "a story about the creation and application of policy by the minister (of fisheries and oceans) in clear contravention of the law, and a reluctance to be held accountable for failure to follow the law," he ruled.
Jason Unger, counsel for the Environmental Law Centre of Alberta, suggests that the rulings have major implications for woodland caribou and for how government will act in enforcing the rules under SARA in the future.
Other legal experts are warning that the rulings could have major implications for investment in the resource sector.
Lawyers for the Calgary law firm of Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt, for example, recently mused on their website that companies making investment decisions in Canada must now "carefully consider the potential delay risk associated with unfulfilled obligations under SARA."
Just how the federal government will respond is unclear.
Neither Environment Minister Prentice nor any senior government official with responsibility for SARA was willing to be interviewed.
But an Environment Canada media relations spokesperson insists the government is doing a good job and that progress is being made.
"Since the act came into force, the government has increased the number of species on the List of Wildlife Species at Risk from 233 to 447," says Tracy Lacroix-Wilson.
"Considerable effort continues to be made on the part of the federal, provincial and territorial governments to prepare recovery strategies, management plans and/or action plans for listed species. It has also posted recovery strategies for 115 species on the Species at Risk Public Registry, begun work on over 200 recovery strategies, and delivered over 1,600 stewardship projects to benefit species at risk."
Lacroix-Wilson also points out that responsibility for the conservation of wildlife in Canada is shared between the federal and provincial/ territorial governments. The implication is that the federal government is not solely responsible for the welfare of these animals.
This kind of talk infuriates Pinkus and her colleagues.
"This would be a lot easier to accept if provinces like B.C. and Alberta had provincial legislation to protect and recover species at risk and their habitat," she says.
"Since they don't, we expect the federal government to step in and provide effective protection for species at risk unfortunate enough to have habitat in these laggard provinces, until the provinces provide that effective protection themselves.
"The government can describe good work they do on SARA implementation," she adds. But it is not the whole picture"
Caught in the middle of this is COSEWIC.
By most accounts, the organization of scientists has done a pretty good job given the meagre resources it has at its disposal. Unlike the United States, where hundreds of thousands of dollars are often spent to determine if a species is in trouble, similar studies in Canada are done for a fraction of the cost.
But COSEWIC has not always been consistent in the way it goes about its business. Scientists on the committee, for example, have been willing to subdivide some species into regional categories. That has allowed them to pronounce certain populations of beluga whales, like those in Ungava Bay, as endangered, while others further north in the Arctic appear to be doing well.
But the organization balked at doing the same for the polar bear even after two of the world's top scientists in the field published a report, which suggested that the populations should be broken down into five management zones.
That would have allowed COSEWIC to recommend that the bears of western and southern Hudson Bay and the Beaufort Sea be listed as threatened, a move that would have put more pressure on the government of Canada to do something.
To make matters worse, the committee hired a climate change skeptic to co-write the report.
As things stand now, no one -- not the Inuit, the Nunavut government, environmentalists nor scientists -- is happy with the status quo on the polar bear, which hasn't changed since 1991.
Hutchings, the COSEWIC chairman, acknowledges that the listing of the polar bear was one of the most difficult decisions COSEWIC has had to make under his tenure.
Although he defends the decision, he is critical of the assessment process. Too much time is spent dealing with socio-economic issues at the expense of a recovery strategy early in the game, he says.
That said, Hutchings is hopeful the bias against listing northern species will end now that a memorandum of understanding has been signed with Nunavut.
"I am personally willing to cut Nunavut some slack because it does seem clear that the pre-listing consultations being undertaken under SARA were inconsistent with the consultation requirements stipulated under the Nunavut Land Claims agreement.
Festa-Bianchet, COSEWIC's past chairman, is not as optimistic: "If anything, the situation has gotten worse since we wrote that report. The problem is that the governments do not take it seriously; even when species are listed, things only seem to happen when lawsuits are initiated or threatened." He points to the lack of action on Peary caribou and on woodland and mountain caribou.
Pinkus agrees.
"The federal government has put considerable effort into evading their obligations under SARA, until we file a lawsuit against them" she notes.
"We wish that all of us, the environmentalists and the government, could focus on implementing SARA to the fullest extent possible, so it can do what SARA was created to do: keep Canada from losing more species.
"Instead, we are being forced to go to court to make SARA work. This is a ridiculous situation."
Despite the record, scientists and environmentalists are not giving up on SARA.
"It' still the best way of identifying which species in Canada are at risk," says Pinkus. "What we need now is for the government to accept the judgments of the courts and take the legal action that is necessary to protect these animals that are in trouble."


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The Pennsylvania State Data Center provides answers to emergency management officials needing to determine evacuation routes and to fourth-graders doing class projects.
It collects and shares all kinds of federal and state statistics, helping people find answers about the state's population, housing, business and government.
It helps legislators, state agencies, businesses, municipalities, regional planning commissions, the news media and residents. Center staff field about 5,000 questions a year, most from average people. They conduct trainings and publish maps and statistics. They create state population predictions with information by sex, age and race.
Although most of their questions come from residents looking for information to apply for grants or do projects, the majority of its money comes from clients needing larger research projects.
The data center's annual budget is about $1.1 million, said Jennifer Shultz, manager of data services. Clients pay 91.2 percent of that, and the rest is covered by Penn State University and the governor's office to cover the costs of government questions and residents' questions, she said.
Eight full-time employees and one part-timer work there. The center is in the Institute of State and Regional Affairs at Penn State Harrisburg in Lower Swatara Township and was established in 1981.
Every state, plus Washington, D.C., and Puerto Rico, has data centers that make census data available locally. They also help the Census Bureau in gathering and checking information.
"Their population estimates are very important to the work we do," said Christine Caldara Piatos, spokeswoman for the Center for Rural Pennsylvania, which works with the data center. "By working with the data center, it saves us time. It saves us money. With our staff we just would not be able to do any work like that, the population projections."
Bob Rusiewski has used the center for four decades. He's a project director for the North Central Pennsylvania Regional Planning and Development Commission.
"They've helped us out here quite a bit," Rusiewski said. "It's getting more difficult for us to do it because we don't have the financial resources to hire someone or to extrapolate data. The State Data Center does that."
There's always new and exciting information coming in that Director Sue Copella likes to help people understand so they can apply for a grant or understand their region's comprehensive plan. Copella has worked there 21 years.
They get their share of wacky questions, too. Two of their favorites are: the number of dogs per capita in a town and the number of cows in Lancaster County. But the U.S. Census Bureau doesn't track cows or dogs.
Although in the Internet Age, it's easier for everyone to find data themselves, the center has years of experience in gathering and analyzing data and a reputation for impartial information, Copella said.
These days, the center gets fewer questions about the population of a given place. Now, more often people want to know why the population is changing.
Years ago, when someone called with a question, staff had to go through tapes of information and create a computer file to access the data, Copella and Shultz said.
"It's interesting to see how the census has changed over the decades," Schultz said.


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Update, 1:21 p.m.:
McDonagh will wear #27.
Update, 1:16 p.m.:
McDonagh will be paired with Matt Gilroy while Michael Sauer will play with Steve Eminger.
Update, 1:14 p.m.:
The Rangers also tweet that Henrik Lundqvist will be in goal tonight, while Sean Avery will skate on a line with Artem Anisimov and Marian Gaborik.
…i expect a big game from Avery tonight.
Update, 1:12 p.m.:
@thenyrangers has this quote from McDonagh on making his debut…
"It's exciting…it's a lot of hard work to get ready for this…I just want to help this team keep winning, keep rolling"
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Steve Zipay tweets that Michal Rozsival (ribs) is out of tonight's line-up meaning Ryan McDonagh will make his NHL debut tonight against the Dallas Stars.
McDonagh had 1g, 7a in 38 games for the CT Whale this season.
…on Twitter @ScottyHockey was saying lining McD up against Richards and Eriksson could be a tall order for the rookie, and while it will be you've got to start the kid somewhere.
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Unless you're a 20-year-old, trust-fund baby with an underdeveloped prefrontal cortex, you probably think a lot about risk when you manage your investment portfolio. You might be surprised to hear that considering non-traditional factors, such as environmental management, may help to reduce risk in your holdings.
John Vechey of PopCap Games recently joined The Motley Fool for a climate change summit. Among his guests were Stu Dalheim, vice president of shareholder advocacy at Calvert Investments, and Todd Larsen, director of corporate responsibility for Green America.
In the video below, Larsen tells Foolish investors how greening your portfolio can provide comparable or even improved returns, while Dalheim discusses the Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP) as one way that investors are expressing interest in climate issues and how businesses are acting to respond.
Companies certainly seem to think that the CDP is important. Exelon (NYSE: EXC ) recently announced that it had significantly surpassed its emission-reduction targets. The company emphasized its inclusion in the S&P 500 Carbon Disclosure Leadership Index, which is administered by CDP. Similarly, in its recent announcement that its second-quarter earnings call would take place on Aug. 6, Spectra Energy (NYSE: SE ) made prominent reference to its inclusion in the CDP's Global 500 and the S&P 500 Carbon Disclosure Leadership Indexes.
In releasing its fifth annual CDP disclosure this month, Union Pacific (NYSE: UNP ) discussed its efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by using fuel more efficiently. "Environmental sustainability is a vital consideration in Union Pacific's business planning and practices," explained Bob Grimaila, vice president of safety, security, and environment.
Watch the video below to hear the experts' takes on how solid environmental management can reduce risk exposure.
The CDP's growing prominence is just one more sign that reducing carbon is a winning proposition for companies. Forward-thinking energy players like GE and Ford have already plowed sizable amounts of research capital into this little-known stock... because they know it holds the key to the explosive profit power of the coming "no choice fuel revolution." Luckily, there's still time for you to get on board if you act quickly. All the details are inside an exclusive report from The Motley Fool. Click here for the full story!


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JOHNS ISLAND – Reona Hirai of Summerville and Adam Garrett of Easley lead their respective divisions after Tuesday's opening round of the Beth Daniel Junior Azalea golf tournament being played at The Golf Club at Briars Creek.
Hirai shot a 1-over-par 73 for a one-shot lead over Riley Lovorn of Anderson in the girls 13-18 division. Hirai, who won the South Carolina Junior Golf Association's 2012 Beth Daniel Player of the Year award, had two birdies and three bogeys for the round.
Garrett holds a one-stroke lead over three players heading into today's final round. Garrett overcame two early birdies five birdies in a seven-hole stretch starting at the ninth.
Adam Garrett, Easley 69
Will Miles, Hilton Head 70
Doc Redman, Raleigh, N.C. 70
Tyler Young, Kennesaw, Ga. 70
Trevor Phillips, Inman 71
Jake Carter, Aiken 71
Drake Cassidy, Hartsville 71
Trace Crowe, Easley 71
Zachary Lee Bishop, Travelers Rest 72
Bryson Nimmer, Bluffton 72
Weston Sanders, Greenwood 72
Reona Hirai, Summerville 73
Riley Lovorn, Anderson 74
Anne Taylor Hough, Spartanburg 76
Hannah Berman, Jacksonville, Fla. 76
Carly Burkhardt, Greenville 77
Brandi Hammonds, Bluffton 77
Kate Harper, Isle of Palms 77
Sarah E. Harrison, Martinez, Ga. 78
Victoria Huskey, Greenville 79
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Donut Dash race raises money for children's center
4-mile run draws nearly 2,000
UPDATED 11:16 AM PST Mar 09, 2013
The fifth annual Donut Dash drew nearly 2,000 participants Saturday morning to William Land Park in Sacramento.
The four-mile race raised $40,000 for the Child Life Program at Sutter Children's Center in Sacramento.
Runners stop halfway through the race to eat four donuts at Marie's Donuts, and then run two more miles to the finish line.
Watch Kellie DeMarco's piece that ran earlier this week: 'Donut Dash' helps young patients like Emily Lucero
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The Medal of Honor franchise was rebooted in 2010 with Medal of Honor, a more realistic take on special operations in the world with an emphasis on missions that were actually based off of real life events. The game received generally favorable reviews and a sequel was put into motion. Medal of Honor Warfighter has finally hit store shelves but is it any good?
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a little bit of just about everything else as you can see I'm eclectic
Favorite Books:
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Favorite Movies:
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anything that has action or comedy basically.
Favorite TV Shows:
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Favorite Movies:
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anything that has action or comedy basically.
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What I like to do:Work out, play video games, read about video games, talk about video games, write about video games, bowl, hang out with friends the usual
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South Africa's Minister of Trade and Industry, Mandisi Mpahlwa (Department of Trade and Industry, Republic of South Africa, dti), has been elected Chairperson of the Conference of African Ministers of Trade (CAMI) Bureau, a position he will hold for the next two years.
The appointment took place during the 18th CAMI Conference, hosted by South Africa, at the Inkosi Albert Luthuli International Convention Centre in Durban, KwaZulu-Natal, from 24-28 October 2008.
The conference has produced the Draft Implementation Strategy regarding industrialisation of Africa. The strategy "Action Plan for Accelerating Industrial Development of Africa" will only be effective once it has been submitted to the heads of state next year in January.
The strategy outlines a range of short, medium and long-term interventions in various clusters, including industrial policy and institutional direction, upgrading production and trade capacities, promoting infrastructure and energy for industrial development, and human resources development for industry.
The biennial conference involved the participation of twenty-three African Ministers of Industry. The session was also addressed by the African Union's (AU's) Commissioner for Trade and Industry, Elisabeth Tankeu. Tankeu cautioned that, if Africa wants to achieve the developmental challenges of the 21st century, attain the Millennium Development Goals, eradicate poverty, and achieve rapid and sustainable development, the continent must accelerate the pace of its industrialisation.
The conference was a joint effort of the dti, the African Union, and the United Nations Industrial Development Organisation (UNIDO).
For more information, please contact:
Mr. Sidwell Medupe, Department of Trade and Industry (dti), Republic of South Africa


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• An 8-year-old boy with idiopathic juvenile osteoporosis and multiple fractures had three abnormalities of bone mineral metabolism: calcitonin deficiency, elevated serum calcitriol concentrations, and hypercalciuria. Calcitonin deficiency was documented by two attempts to stimulate calcitonin secretion with intravenous calcium and pentagastrin. Treatment for 11 months with daily subcutaneous injections of human calcitonin and oral administration of calcitriol failed to reduce the excessive bone resorption observed on bone biopsy, and the fracture rate did not decrease. Treatment was discontinued for two months, then resumed with calcitonin injections and oral calcium supplementation. The fracture rate decreased but bone biopsy continued to show excessive resorption. Therapy was discontinued. After the onset of puberty, endogenous calcitonin was detectable. Exogenous calcitonin therapy may have failed to control bone resorption for several reasons: insufficient dose, reduction of bone receptors from long-term calcitonin exposure, secondary hyperparathyroidism, or lack of association between calcitonin deficiency and the bone disease.
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Bombs targeting soldiers, shoppers kill 16 in Iraq
BAGHDAD -- Attacks across Iraq, including a series of bombings targeting shoppers in a Sunni neighborhood in the country's capital, killed at least 16 people Saturday, authorities said.
The deadliest attacks struck Baghdad's predominantly Sunni neighborhood of Dora.
On Saturday morning, police said two bombs exploded on busy commercial streets, killing four people. Police said that on Saturday night, three more bomb blasts in the same area killed five people and wounded 10.
No one immediately claimed responsibility for the blasts, though Shiite militants have retaliated in the past for Sunni insurgent groups killing their own. The Sunni-led violence, part of a series of stepped-up attacks since 2013, aims at undermining Iraq's Shiite-led government before a crucial vote later this month. The parliamentary election on April 30 are Iraq's first since the 2011 U.S. troop pullout.
Outside of Baghdad, police said a suicide bomber killed five soldiers and wounded eight at a checkpoint in Mishada, about 20 miles north of the capital. Also Saturday, police said a roadside bomb killed two soldiers on patrol and wounded five people in Tarmiyah, 30 miles north of Baghdad.
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What do you get when you add up 100 non-profits, 100 new Toyota vehicles and 100 days? The Toyota "100 Cars for Good" program. Company officials have given the generous initiative the green light for 2012 and thus Toyota will be delivering automotive donations to deserving organizations around the nation once again.
In case you aren't familiar with the "100 Cars for Good" program, this is the second year that the automaker will provide vehicles to non-profits in order to help them carry out daily functions. Michael Rouse, Vice President of Philanthropy and Community Affairs for Toyota, announced the news at the recent Chicago Auto Show. Speaking on the motivation behind this program, Rouse says, "At Toyota, we appreciate what a big difference a new car can make for organizations working to improve lives and strengthen communities across the country."1
To decide which non-profits receive the new Toyota vehicles, the automaker calls on its social media hubs. Those interested in providing input can head to the Toyota Facebook page (http://www.facebook.com/toyota) and start applying as soon as March 12. Past organizations to benefit from "100 Cars for Good" include soup kitchens, service dog programs, child support centers, and animal therapy programs.
Not only will the selected organizations be receiving a brand new automobile for free, but they will be given the comfort of knowing their new Toyota vehicle is built to last. More specifically, winners will have a choice between six models: Camry Hybrid, Highlander, Prius v, Sienna (minivan or mobility), and Tundra.
To find out more about Toyota initiatives and community involvement, be sure to contact East Coast Toyota. If you know a great non-profit that deserves a new vehicle, feel free to swing by 85 State Hwy 17 Wood Ridge, NJ 07075 and let us know or head to the automaker's Facebook page and apply as soon as possible.
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Contact Information
Physical Address:
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Web Team Help
School Loop Help
School Loop also has an internal Help System which you are welcome to use. In there, you'll find documentation, Frequently Asked Questions, and a Help Ticketing System that's available 24/7/365.
The Web Team has completed the unification and standardization of all the regular and alternative (Schools of Choice) APS school websites throughout the district. The new websites will enable APS to present a searchable, modern, and familiar online presence for every school in the district.
The school sites also allow the district to publish important messages and events on every school website, and to make changes to their websites when school personnel are unable to do so.
The Tool: School Loop
School Loop is a content management system that allows administrators, teachers, and staff to easily post and maintain information about their school.
If you're interested in seeing more School Loop sites, you can view them at http://www.yolo.k12.ca.us/portal/school_list.
Benefits of School Loop
School Loop has many benefits for schools and teachers.
- It's Free for Schools – Design, migration, training, and technical maintenance of all the school websites is supported by the district.
- Free Teacher Sites – Teachers can create free websites with the ability to post news, assignments, and resources for students and families
- Unified APS School Websites – If principals, technology coordinators, or teachers switch schools within the district, they won't have to relearn a new tool.
- This also means that tech coordinators can support each other better!
- Emergency News and Weather Delay Notifications – Lockdowns, shelters-in-place, and delay / cancellation notifications are posted on school homepages by the Web Team.
- Google Search / Translate on Every Site – Every site has Google search and translator embedded on every page to help visitors access information quickly.
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- Easy Login – Teachers and staff can log into the system from any computer, anywhere.
- Free Support: Your school staff can take advantage of the excellent support built into School Loop and your webmasters can contact the Web Team for training, design changes, or for help making content changes, if needed.


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Dear H-Film Subscribers,
I am contacting you on behalf of the School of Media Studies at The New School in New York City. I would like to invite subscribers to the H-Film network to present at our upcoming annual Critical Themes in Media Studies Graduate Student Conference taking place April 5 - 6, 2013 in New York City. You will find our call for proposals attached as a PDF file, which asks applicants to submit their proposals by January 1st, 2013.
The Media Studies Department at The New School, as an institution of progressive education, strongly focuses on the intersection of theory and practice-based scholarship. In accordance with our tradition, we encourage the submission of proposals that include short abstracts for papers and presentations on digital media projects (from artworks to apps, games and web-based works).
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So I am sitting here waching TV and an interesting ad came on for a new acne medicine. Their selling point: if you have acne, don't blame the french fries; blame biology.
CW has really come a long way. Better yet, this really reflects the current mindset of the US: point a finger and blame. We have to blame something for our problems rather than face responsibility of our actions.
It is also prevalent in the news: as every news story has to end by attempting to find a scapegoat on which we could point our finger.
So remember, don't blame the french fries which dangerously vacillate insulin levels, exhausting your pancreas, cause the body to inflame in order to react to the toxins, throwing off hormones which eventually contribute to acne.
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In any sport, the word "discipline" is spoken more often by coaches than any other word. Each and every sport requires a high level of self-discipline. For Randy Young, this quality has become evident over the last several years at LaRue County High School.
That self-discipline has paid off in the classroom as well as Young is an outstanding student-athlete carrying a 4.0 grade point average.
The great Vince Lombardi once said, "The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and the determination that whether we win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand."
For Karrington Donahue, a freshman tennis player for the LaRue County tennis program, the development of her game comes from her hard work and dedication to the game.
The second-year tennis player found the love of the game by attending a summer tennis camp conducted by Coaches Allison McDowell and Terry Caven.
The Lady Hawks lost Friday to Campbellsville, 5-4.
Sophomore Kaitlyn Warnshuis had an RBI double for LaRue County, which has lost 2-of-3.
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Paige Dabney and Caitlin Bright. Emillee Cundiff and Sierra Mullins. WP: Dabney. LP: Cundiff. 2B: Dabney (C) 2, Kaitlyn Warnshuis (LC) 2, Delany Eastridge (LC).
UP NEXT: LaRue County plays at Green County at 6 p.m. Monday.
LARUE COUNTY 8, LOUISVILLE ATHERTON 5. Sophomore Cameron Dawson's RBI double in the bottom of the fifth gave the Hawks (9-5) the lead for good over the Raiders (7-2).
Freshman Dane Milby tacked on an RBI double, while senior Turner Cottrell had a run-scoring single in the sixth.
Sophomore Matheo Lynn hit a two-run triple in the first, when the Hawks took a 3-1 lead.
UP NEXT: LaRue County plays Allen County-Scottsville at 7 p.m. Friday in the Saving Second Base tournament at Marion County.
Whether playing baseball, basketball, or golf, LaRue County High School sophomore Cameron Dawson loves competition.
"This year's team is why I love baseball," he said. "We are young and all are competitors."
Dawson, 16, has pitched from his days in wiener league to the high school mound.
On the Hawks' varsity roster since he was in the eighth grade, Dawson found that competing against older players helped him with command and control on the mound and with his self-confidence.
Members of the freshmen Hawks' baseball team are front from left, Bryson Arnette, Wyatt Pearman, Chase Childress, Zach Newman, Preston Carter, Gavin Nall, Clay Cecil; back, Coach Jorge Venegas, Austin Burgess, Hunter Howell, Noah Davis, Keaton Puckett, Chase Baker and Hayden Waddle.
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Team scores
1. Green - 70
2. John Hardin - 55
3. LaRue - 54
4. Marion - 4
1. Green - 94
2. John Hardin - 61
3. LaRue - 31
Girls 100 Meter Dash
4. Savia Brashear, 14.73
7. Peyton Murray, 14.93
8. Ashley Summitt, x15.36
11. Jadah Montgomery, x16.63
Girls 200 Meter Dash
1. Savia Brashear, 31.22
2. Peyton Murray, 31.68
Griffin Dulak, a freshman at LaRue County High School, traveled to Independence, Missouri, for the Brute Nationals Wrestling Tournament. He placed fifth, earning him All-American status. Griffin is the son of Dave and Kathy Dulak of Hodgenville.
The Lady Hawks split their games in the TSCA Classic during spring break.
LaRue County beat Rossview (Tenn.), 3-2 and Clarksville Academy (Tenn.), 12-2. The Lady Hawks lost to Brighten (Tenn.), 5-3 and Collinwood (Tenn.), 7-1.
n Brighten rallied to beat the Lady Hawks, scoring four runs in the bottom of the fourth.
Sophomore Chasity Bryant homered for LaRue County, while junior Shakeya Washington had an RBI single.
n The Lady Hawks jumped out to a 6-2 lead over Clarksville Academy after three innings and never looked back.
BARDSTOWN — Results from Saturday's meet at Garnis Martin Field:
Girls' Team Scores
8. LaRue County, 19
Boys' Team Scores
14. LaRue County, 4
Individual Results
Girls' 100-Meter Dash
24. Kalaya Barnes, 16.45
25. Harley Keller, 16.91
Girls' 200-Meter Dash
11. Jackie Rigdon, 28.82
27. Kalaya Barnes, 34.76
Girls' 400-Meter Dash
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The victim has been identified as: James Williams, B/M, 24, of Fairfield, Alabama.
Officers from the East Precinct arrived to investigate a report of shots fired in the area. Officers arrived to find the victim suffering from a
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The Myth of the Lower Marginal Tax Rates
Conservatives' Go-To Growth Solution Doesn't Hold Up
SOURCE: AP/J. Scott Applewhite
If you asked any random conservative lawmaker the most important thing the federal government could do to promote economic growth, he would probably answer, "lower the top marginal income tax rate." A few examples:
Speaker John Boehner: "We've seen over the last 30 years that lower marginal tax rates have led to a growing economy, more employment and more people paying taxes."
Sen. Jim DeMint: "But we also need to just cut the top marginal rate for individuals and corporations so that we're more competitive and companies can look way out in the future and know they'll have a competitive tax rate."
Club for Growth: "To stimulate GDP growth, a tax cut has to cut the marginal tax rates upon which the decision makers in the economy base their decisions to work and, above all, to invest."
Cutting taxes for the wealthy has become conservatives' one, and often only, response to any economic problem. Just one problem: History doesn't bear them out. Not at all.
The top marginal income tax rate has ranged all the way from 92 percent down to 28 percent over the last 60 years. With such a large range, it should be easy to see the enormous impact of lower rates on overall economic growth, as conservatives routinely claim. Years with lower marginal rates should boast higher growth, right?
That's definitely not what happened. In fact, growth was actually fastest in years with relatively high top marginal tax rates. Back in the 1950s, when the top marginal tax rate was more than 90 percent, real annual growth averaged more than 4 percent. During the last eight years, when the top marginal rate was just 35 percent, real growth was less than half that.
Altogether, in years when the top marginal rate was lower than 39.6 percent—the top rate during the 1990s—annual real growth averaged 2.1 percent. In years when the rate was 39.6 percent or higher, real growth averaged 3.8 percent. The pattern is the same regardless of threshold. Take 50 percent, for example. Growth in years when the tax rate was less than 50 percent averaged 2.7 percent. In years with tax rates at or more than 50 percent, growth was 3.7 percent.
These numbers do not mean that higher rates necessarily lead to higher growth. But the central tenet of modern conservative economics is that a lower top marginal tax rate will result in more growth, and these numbers do show conclusively that history has not been kind to that theory.
Michael Linden is Director of Tax and Budget Policy at American Progress.
See also:
- Rich People's Taxes Have Little to Do with Job Creation by Michael Linden
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WASHINGTON - The House on Wednesday overwhelmingly renewed a surveillance law that allows the government to monitor conversations of foreign spies and terrorist suspects abroad, while requiring approval from a secret court when Americans are targeted anywhere in the world.
Supporters emphasized that the bill is aimed at foreigners overseas, not Americans. The vote was 301-118 to extend the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act monitoring provisions for five years.
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Hamsters generally choose one specific area where they eliminate. To keep a hamster healthy and satisfied with its surroundings, clean this area daily, using a slotted scooper to remove droppings, uneaten food and soiled bedding. Longhaired hamsters, especially, can suffer soiled fur, urine scald and hutch burn if they spend much time in a cage where urine and feces have accumulated.
Housetraining isn't really essential for hamsters because they're unlikely to be roaming the house on their own. You can, however, learn to anticipate a hamster's need to go potty. If you notice that it's becoming restless while you hold it, put it back in its cage. You'll probably find that it runs over to its potty area right away to use it. You may also find that the hamster grows a little warmer in your hand right before it pees or poops on you. If you notice this, it's a signal to set the hamster back in its cage, quick, before you have a little mess to clean up.
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How Much Is Your Time Worth?
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Ever wonder how much an hour of your time is worth? We grapple with this question all the time without really quantifying it more than we realize. Is it worth driving the extra two minutes to save five cents a gallon on gas? Which flight to pick, the cheaper one or the shorter one with no layovers? While we probably have a mental concept of how much an hour is worth to us ($10? $20? $200?), wouldn't it be useful to get something tied in with our current salary?
I found this little tool, MSN's Time Value Calculator, which takes your salary, how much you work (and travel as a result of work), subtracts all your typical expenses and crunches out a number that is your "worth." The result is basically how much take-home-pay per hour you are getting from your job. What that means is if you could turn that hour into work, then you would earn an additional scratch.
Where it starts to get dangerous is when it starts to tell you how you can use this little tool. It says that if you can hire someone to do something for you at a cost less than what it would be for you to do it (based on your salary), you should hire them if you have the cash sitting around in your mattress. If instead of doing that chore I could generate income at the rate the calculator states, working overtime or a second job, then it would make sense to hire someone because I earn more than I would pay. (You need to do 10 hours of chores a week, if you can pay someone to do it for $6/hr and then earn money on the side at $12/hr, then you've earned yourself $60) But is that realistic? Mostly likely not for the vast majority of people.
Summary: It was a fun little calculator to use but I wouldn't base any decisions solely on the numbers that it produced because I value my free time more than how much the calculator says its worth (probably on the order of two or three times more). But it gives you an idea of how much you're being paid at work after taxes and typical expenses.
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Lisa Rinna: Dancing with the Average Joe
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Lisa Rinna has gone from Dancing with the Stars to dancing with, well, anyone who shows up.
Rinna and her DWTS teacher/partner Louis Van Amstel have set out on their own, and for twenty bucks you too can tango with the actress.
"Louis and I have started our own dance class called 'Cardio Ballroom,'" the DWTS alum told PEOPLE at the Got Chocolate Milk? Celebrity moms and kids pumpkin patch event in West Hollywood Tuesday.
"So you don't need a partner and it's basically doing like the Cha Cha, The Salsa, Jive and Disco, those are the dances we're working on for a full hour head-to-toe cardio," Rinna said. "That's all I've been doing I think just since we've started I've lost 5 lbs!" The pair first thought up the idea when their own dance studio, which is currently in the process of coming to fruition, was taking too long.
"We thought, we can't seem to get the studio open right away," said Rinna. "It's taking longer. We're still going to do it. We're looking into places and whatnot. But, it takes a long time and there's a lot of red tape and it's not the easiest thing to do. But I'm tenacious and so is Louie, and I said, 'Louie, why don't we just start a class? Let's just start it now!' "
The class, which is in the "workshop" phase until Oct. 22 when things officially get going, according to Rinna, is offered in the Los Angeles Valley at Anisa's School of Dance at 14252 Ventura Blvd.
Hour-long classes are $20 on Monday, Wednesday and Friday at 10 p.m., with a Saturday class coming soon. "It is fantastic," Rinna said. "We're getting more and more coming. And we're just starting it and by word of mouth, we now have a class."
Fans will be assured of a treat: Rinna promises to be at every class.
"I'm there every time," she said. "Well, secretly, I want it just for myself, and then all the moms wanted it. And so we just started it and are coming in droves. It's the craziest thing." –Jed Dreben
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If most of the jobs out there are created through small businesses, seven area kids have given themselves a good head start.
They've plunged headlong into the world of commerce, where profit and loss becomes as much a part of their language as peanut butter and jelly. They will sell their homemade goods today and next week among
100 other youths through the Young Entrepreneurs Market-place in Denver.
For the Gonzales family and Ariane Vigil, 14, of Greeley, this will be the first time these "tweens" and teens stick their necks out for a sale, while
11-year-old Cody LeBlanc of Fort Lupton will return today for his fourth trip to the annual marketplace.
The marketplace is offered through the Young Americans Center for Financial Education, a Denver program dedicated to teaching youth about banking and personal finance, global economics, free enterprise and entrepreneurship. The program offers classes, tours and programs to kids of all ages. The center also runs Young Americans Bank, the only bank in the world exclusively for kids.
The home-schooled Gonzaleses - Cinnamin and Jasmine, both 12, Mariah, 10, Selena and Rey, both 7 - have the next week to prepare, starting today with making 500 heart-shaped bottles and bars of their all-natural personal care recipes that include almonds, vanilla, cucumber, coconut oil, Vitamin E, and other skin salves to complete their list of 20 products.
For Cinnamin, the chance is better now than later.
"I get the opportunity just to own my own business so I don't have to wait 15 years to have my own business," said the 12-year-old who shares the workload and profits with her four siblings. All five researched their products and business, and they decided as a group to donate half of any profits to world orphans.
Mother Cassandra Gonzales loves the concept, but it also helps in their schooling with math and science.
Vigil, also home-schooled, has toiled for a good three months to build up her inventory of about 30 fringe purses made of colored duct tape and chain-linked straps, cloth purses with bamboo handles and clutch bags covered in caution tape. She used her friends as focus groups to decide which purses to make.
"I am nervous," said Ariane, who is admittedly a little wary of the Type-A world of salesmanship. "I just want to try it to see how it goes. If it goes good, maybe I'll try again next year."
For mom Sandra Vigil, the marketplace is not only a great part of her education, but a great way to help pull the 14-year-old out of her shell. Her business is cleverly called Purse-uade, and she has business cards ready to hand out.
"She's more on the quiet side, and it will really help her to do something on her own, open up," Vigil said.
Far from quiet, Cody,
11, has been running his own business with his grandmother, Genevieve LeBlanc, since he was 6.
Five years, one ill-advised business motto of "no order is too big," and one big recession later, young Cody is still running strong with Bizcuits & Bonz. He and his grandmother bake on Thursdays and Fridays. He works on the books, which he said made math in school suddenly more interesting and useful.
"When I was 6 I had no idea," Cody said of the business world. "I'm going by the day right now. It's just kinda hard to tell. For a while we were thinking we might have to stop because we were just wasting money on buying ingredients and not selling. We had a dry spell for a year."
But this is the time of year sales pick up, the veteran Cody notes. And, he said, this year, they'll diversify a little and try their hand at homemade dog bandanas and dog soap.
Always focusing on business, Cody offered a little sound advice for the new business owners going to the marketplace: "I'd just say that they probably need to not overprice items and to just bring what they think they'll sell, or bring enough overstock so they can have extras, so they won't run out."


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OSHA News Release – Region 5
U.S. Department of Labor
Region 5 News Release 04-651-CHI
April 16, 2004
Contact: Brad Mitchell
Phone: (312) 353-6976
APPLETON, Wis. -- The U.S. Labor Department's Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), through its Wisconsin area offices, the state's Safety Consultation Bureau, and three state logging associations, has formed an alliance to help keep logging industry workers safe in Wisconsin.
OSHA alliances are part of U.S. Labor Secretary Elaine L. Chao's ongoing efforts to improve the health and safety of workers through cooperative partnerships.
The Forest Industry Safety and Training Alliance, the Timber Producers Association of Michigan and Wisconsin, and the Wisconsin Professional Loggers Association will sign the alliance with OSHA on April 16 at the 2004 Wausau Logging Conference.
The alliance places a high priority on increasing safety and health awareness, particularly in the areas of ergonomics, personal protective gear, noise control and safe operation of equipment. Key goals are to develop curricula to inform employees of the value of safety and health in the logging industry and to reach young workers and high school students in Wisconsin who are considering logging as a career.
Since 2001, the U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration has created more than 160 alliances with organizations committed to fostering safety and health in the workplace. OSHA is dedicated to saving lives, preventing injuries and illnesses, and protecting America's workers. For more information, visit www.osha.gov.
U.S. Labor Department (DOL) releases are accessible on the Internet at <http://www.dol.gov>. The information in this news release will be made available in alternate format upon request (large print, Braille, audio tape or disc) from the COAST office. Please specify which news release when placing your request. Call (202) 693-7765 or TTY (202) 693-7755.
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I'm trying to import and run the IntelliJ git4idea (Git Integration) plugin in order to play around and contribute some of my own code.
I've pulled the Intellij community edition from the github repo, and imported the git4idea plugin as a project. I'm running the Intellij community edition.
My main issue is this:
After importing all the modules, the git4idea module comes up as a general module type, and not a plugin module type.
This means that when trying to create a new run\debug configuration, I get
[none]under "Use classpath of module", instead of of the ability to select the git4idea plugin. This obviously results in a "Run configuration error: no plugin module specified for configuration".
So the question is - How can I change the general type of imported "git4idea" to plugin type?
Or better yet, what are the steps required in order to import and build/debug/run a plugin from the Intellij community edition repo?