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Last week Dassault Systèmes announced their new CATIA Natural Sketch program.
Looking at the YouTube video they posted, the program looks exceptionally cool.
I sent an email to DS a few days ago, asking about the program, and got an answer back today from Derek Lane, the DS press-relations person.
I'd asked (among other things) if CATIA Natural Sketch will be sold as a stand-alone application, or only as a part of a larger V6 (or V5) installation.
The answer is that it's not a standalone product, and is not available without a CATIA installation. Specifically, it's available as part of the CATIA Industrial Design commercial product, CATIA Industrial Design PLM Express, the V6 PLM Discover Pack education product, as well as the CATIA Imagine & Shape add-on product.
This does make sense, since its value-add, according to Derek, is "its ability to generate sketches, and immediately make them part of [or the basis for] a CATIA model."
This also demonstrates something that's important to understand about Dassault Systèmes: that it is, first and foremost, an enterprise software company.
While DS does have divisions that serve other constituencies (such as SolidWorks and Spatial), the core of the company (including the CATIA, ENOVIA, SIMULIA and DELMIA organizations) is focused on delivering big enterprise applications to big enterprise customers.
If you become a DS enterprise customer, it's not because of the specific features of any individual DS products. Rather, it's because you've bought into the big DS PLM vision.
I'm not saying that individual DS enterprise applications aren't impressive. In many cases, they are. But, they're parts of a bigger system — a bigger vision — that, at its core, assumes you are going to use applications from DS and it's authorized partners. Exclusively, when possible.
If you're not a DS enterprise customer, and you're not ready to buy-into the big DS PLM vision, then it doesn't make sense to spend time evaluating the specific features of individual DS enterprise applications. As much as I hate saying it, that even includes ones as potentially cool as CATIA Natural Sketch.


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text: Local firefighters work to extinguish a truck that caught fire Monday afternoon in Runge. According to information from the Karnes County Sheriff's Office, the fire started in the truck's engine compartment. No one was injured as a result of the fire, but traffic was rerouted for about 45 minutes. The truck belonged to Startex Fuel Company.


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(Bluefield)—Bluefield State College School of Education students organized and presented a "Parent Literacy Night" at Whitethorn Primary School, February 7. In four-to-five student teams, the 24 BSC teacher candidates demonstrated literacy activities for children and their parents to use at home. The activities focused on methods to increase reading comprehension and fluency.
Greg Furrow, Whitethorn principal and Dawn Staten, Title I Coordinator for Mercer County Schools, were impressed with the quality of the BSC students' presentations. "It is wonderful for the teacher candidates to collaborate with parents and students," Mrs. Staten observed. "They were enthusiastic, involved and engaged in the learning process."
"BSC students were equally enthusiastic," added Dr. Betsy Steenken, Bluefield State College Teacher Education program director. "It's always beneficial for the students to gain real classroom experience so that they will be better prepared for their student teaching assignments and later, when they have their own classrooms."


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Pod Coffeemakers 11/25/12
Like many people who've switched to a single-serve coffeemaker, Amy Werner values the speed and convenience. Amy Werner "It's easier in the morning. Just put a cup underneath there, pop the button, and go." Consumer Reports tested 21 pod coffeemakers from names like DeLonghi, Keurig, Mr. Coffee. Also tested, the new single-serve Verismo machine from Starbucks that starts at 200 dollars. "Single-serve coffeemakers are all about convenience, so our testers look for things like how fast you'll get that first cup of coffee in the morning." The fastest will rush you your caffeine in about a minute. But this one from Hamilton Beach took three minutes to deliver that first cup. As for the Starbucks Verismo machine - you can make Starbucks' espresso, café latte, and brewed coffee … but it's pricey. Bob Markovich "For a coffeemaker that costs 200 dollars, it's really very basic. For example, you can't adjust brew strength, and the manual says you should flush the machine with water after each brew." Far better for less, says Consumer Reports, is a 150-dollar one from DeLonghi - the Nescafé Dolce Gusto Circolo. It brews a cup in a minute and makes cappuccinos, espressos, and other drinks as well. But be aware - buying a pod machine is just the beginning. Bob Markovich "The pods can be expensive, up to a dollar a cup." But Amy and her family think the convenience is worth it. ."
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The U.S. Leadership Against HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria Act of 2003 (or the Global AIDS Act) established the State Department Office of the Global AIDS Coordinator to oversee all international AIDS funding and programming. Ambassador Mark R. Dybul has been the U.S. Global AIDS Coordinator since July 2006.
As of March 2007, the program estimates that it has supported the provision of ART to approximately 1,101,000 people. See the official PEPFAR website [1], the Five Year Strategy Fact Sheet, the Funding Fact Sheet,and Funding Information for FY2006. NB that critics have questioned the accuracy of PEPFAR reporting.


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In all the time and through all the experiences you've had with Compassion, have you ever questioned whether the child you sponsor really needs your help?
Have you ever seen a photo of a Compassion-assisted child and thought, "That kid doesn't look poor. Does he really need Compassion?"
If so, you're not alone. Those thoughts even enter my mind – The Poverty of ME.
I have a preconceived notion of what abject poverty in the developing world should look like, and it doesn't involve a DVD player, television or refrigerator.
My preconception doesn't mean the child isn't in need. It just means that the child doesn't seem to be in the type of need that I feel as rewarded in fighting, when compared to other children's needs.
To me, this is the same thing I face when I look at all the other needs in the world I'm not helping with — the homeless in America, the persecuted church in China, etc.
I can't help with everything, so I have to make judgment calls based on something, and sometimes that something happens to be appearances.
So in light of this,
Would your child's easy access to e-mail, Facebook, Twitter, etc. affect the level of poverty you perceive your sponsored child enduring?


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BENNINGTON A search warrant was executed recently at Bennington Subaru and the private home of the business owner, Thomas Lyons; but lawyers involved in the case have filed motions to prevent the release of any information about the case and what law-enforcement officers were seeking.
A motion filed Tuesday by Bennington County Chief Deputy States Attorney Christina Rainville asks that the two warrants be sealed at least temporarily. Rainville said there was a third warrant involved in the case which has not been served on a woman she did not name.
The state is concerned that releasing the two executed warrants to the press will potentially enable the third person to destroy evidence before the police locate her, she said.
David Silver, a Bennington attorney who represents Lyons, pointed out that the state has made no determination as to whether a crime has been committed. Silver said Erica Marthage, the states attorney for Bennington County, had told his client that there was also no determination whether or not criminal charges would be filed.
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A storage system capable of fulfilling the growing demand for storage bandwidth and capacity motivates the need for designing cost-efficient networks. We aim to provide a means for the end user to choose among the various options we provide, given his specific demands, which will enable
him to build an interconnection network with optimal performance and minimal cost.
To achieve this objective, we have designed a simulator program, which when fed as input - graph of the desired type, the number of nodes and switches, estimates the aggregate bandwidth utilization of the network. This is
obtained by an incremental approach to choosing the heavily loaded link in the network for the randomly generated flows, and allocating the edges there onward, proceeding until all flows have been assigned a share of the network bandwidth.
We thus attempt to aid in the process of interconnecting a large number of storage nodes in the hope of providing optimum bandwidth to the various competing requests for data, in addition to keeping the latency and cost at
a minimum.
The simulator mentioned in the previous section is being coded in Python - the primary driving factor being its ease of use and provision of network packages.
The program takes as input the graph type (mesh/torus/etc), the dimension of the graph where applicable, and an approximation to the number of flows that will eventually traverse this network.
A simplified version of its pseudocode follows,
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1. Obtain a list of random flows that will traverse the
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A Florida man is accused of reaching inside a Taco Bell drive-through window and drunkenly groping an employee.
Philip Guerrero, 32, placed his order at the restaurant in Bradenton at about 2:30 a.m. Saturday, Sarasota TV station WWSB reported.
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July 11, 2012 —
At first my uncle Hal was just the one my aunt was marrying—essential, almost peripheral, enigmatic. No one could match her in beauty, so he matched her in intellect. An intellect of physics, an appreciation of ballet and opera to match her yen for Yeats and Jung. But I didn't know any of that at five years of age, when they married. To me, he was the husband. I didn't know why she needed him, but I got that it was important. He was awkward and mostly silent, not glib like the rest of our family. He wore thick glasses and his hair in a brush cut. I almost didn't see him in the glare of the rest of our family—raucous and laughing, well-oiled. But by the time my step-father had disappeared, he was still there and now a father himself. His whole being seemed to swell with the creation of his family.
By the time I was 10, my aunt and uncle had the two children that would make their family unit and lived in Greenwich Village. Even then, I knew that was cool. Hal wore turtlenecks and his hair was no longer military-style. But he couldn't shake the image of an intellectual. Maybe he didn't try. I don't think he ever tried to be anything. He was just Hal, a true iconoclast. No one talked about the work he had done in the war. Later I learned that as his unit moved to the front lines of the Battle of the Bulge, his commanding officer had assigned Hal to stay behind to guard a bridge. As the company's most skilled typist, he was too valuable to be lost in the blood-bath of that battle. When his son Michael was in high school, he insisted that he take a typing class, knowing it was a skill that could save your life in a difficult time.
After the war, Hal had studied physics at Cornell at a time when that branch of science was revered for its role in the war as much as celebrity is revered today. The Nobel Laureate Richard Feynman was a professor. With a Ph.D. from Cornell, Hal was hired by Pratt & Whitney and put in charge of a project to develop a nuclear-powered airplane that could keep nuclear bombers aloft for months on end, protected from a potential first-strike. Hal didn't think it was such a great idea to have nuclear bombs flying around all over the place so he was relieved when he determined that the plan was not feasible. As his son Michael said recently, "A lot of people poke fun at their accomplishments and belittle their skills by saying, "Well, it's not rocket science." Dad couldn't do that because what he did was rocket science."
When his daughter Jennifer was five, she was badly burned. Her nightgown had caught fire one morning as her parents slept. Hal managed to smother the flames with his bare hands but the damage was life-threatening for his precious girl-child. And the damage to his family didn't stop there. The guilt and pain of that day would have broken most families apart, but theirs held together out of sheer determination. Jennifer recovered after years of hospitalizations. She became a ballerina and later, a physical therapist.
At my uncle's memorial service recently, both his children recounted their father's professional accomplishments. Too numerous to catalog here, they include the championing of the Mental Health Professionals Law that led to the licensing of psychoanalysts in New York State.
I talked about our shared sailing adventures and said that, of all the adult role models in my life, he was the one who showed me the value of constancy in marriage, of fidelity and bravery in the face of tragedy. Not a bad legacy.


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Even after exhaustive research the late George Stanley, above, of Sackville is still credited with developing the Canadian flag.
By Wallie Sears
Any doubts as to the official founder of Canada's Red Maple Leaf – the flag that flies proudly over every province and territory – have been eradicated completely, and that honour goes without question to "one of our own", George Francis Gilmour Stanley.
There have been other claims submitted for the honour but thorough research conducted into the archives by several academics and others always comes up with the four-page letter written by Stanley to MP John Matthews, who was the point man for Prime Minister L. B. Pearson who was exerting a good deal of pressure to ensure that Canada would have its own distinctive flag that would serve as a unifying force for all Canadians.
The letter was written on March 23, 1964, and contained a hand drawn sketch by Stanley, who subsequently showed Matthews his idea, which originated from the standard in vogue at the Royal Military College in Kingston where he served as professor.
Local people may recall the divisive debate that took place over Pearson's efforts to replace the Red Ensign with something appropriately Canadian. The PCs, led by John Diefenbaker, would have nothing to do with the proposal and opposed the Liberal government every step of the way. The Canadian Legion also opposed the change as most had served their country under the Union Jack or the Red Ensign.
So, after it seemed the move was going nowhere in a hurry it was agreed to turn the matter over to an all-party parliamentary committee. Hundreds of proposals, including that of Stanley, were posted on the wall and deliberations began. The Liberals went with the three-maple leaf design favored by Pearson, the Tories proposed a flag that would have consisted in three parts – Fleur de Lis, the Red Ensign and a maple leaf. The NDPs proposal was for a single maple leaf.
It soon became clear to the Conservatives that they could never get their submission passed and so they swung behind the NDP suggestion as there was no way they would budge in favour of the government. Realizing he could never get his triple maple leaf to pass, Pearson threw his weight behind the NDP entry and, finally, there was unanimous agreement on what should make up Canada's new flag. But while there was agreement there it didn't settle down with all Canadians and even to this day there are a few "monarchists" who bristle each time they see our flag, which is highly regarded around the world. Actually, it was only a few years ago your columnist was accosted by one such individual who said "we have only one flag .. and that is the Union Jack."
On another occasion when humorist Alan Fotheringham posed the question "why should we (Canadians) fly the flag of a foreign nation over our buildings – referring to our penchant for flying the Union Jack below the Maple Leaf – there was a lot of muttering and reaction. However, there is a belief that this attitude will disappear with ensuing generations.
But there were rancour and bitter words thrown through the halls of power in Ottawa until finally a flag that all – or at least the vast majority of Canadians could rally around. Removal of any indication of the British flag permitted those in Quebec to show their allegiance and support and now the maple leaf flies from sea to sea to sea.
The thing that sparked this column was a CTV W5 show last week, which, in pictures, took viewers step by step through the development of our flag. It even showed Stanley at his desk at RMC with the famous letter and sketch that ultimately made it into an international symbol.
While Stanley is claimed as our own in Sackville and was buried here following his passing in 2002, he enjoyed a long, varied and productive career. Born in Calgary, he became a man of letters, earning a Rhodes Scholarship along the way. His first teaching position was at Mount Allison but he left to enlist for the Second World War, retiring in 1947 as lieutenant colonel. Later, he taught and held administrative positions at UBC and RMC before returning to Sackville where he headed up the first Canadian Studies program in Canada.
Retirement came in 1981 but only from the classroom as he continued to do research and write voluminously at his Frosty Hollow home.
I recall visiting Stanley during the time he was being wooed by Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau to serve as New Brunswick's lieutenant governor. He wasn't overly enthusiastic about the position, mainly because of the extra expenses he would face, but the gap was overcome and he went on to bring a new level of decorum to Fredericton in the role.
He completed his term in 1987 and again returned to Sackville where he continued his writing and joined the Group of Four that met regularly at the Vienna Coffee House where world affairs were discussed knowledgably by the group that changed from time but included David MacAulay, Bill Sawdon and other dignitaries.
Many years earlier Stanley married Montreal lawyer Ruth Hill and they had there daughters – all academics – Della, Marietta and Laurie. Mrs. Stanley still resides in Sackville, her chosen home, and continues to lead a busy and productive life.
Stanley has been recognized by the Sackville Heritage Committee along with the late John Fisher for their outstanding contributions to the advancement of Canadian life and culture.
Meanwhile, Sackville continues to bask in the limelight caused by the brilliance of an Albertan who made his way to New Brunswick. Definitely a reversal of what is happening today as the old adage "Go West Young Man" has taken hold in a major way.


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0215 – Received call from 1234 Alleycat Lane about burglary in progress. Two squad cars sent in response, but suspect eluded arrest. Video footage of the burglar was obtained.
0850 – Received call from the area near Angora and Cheshire. Apparently a small gathering occurred in the fields. Suspects were advised to wrap up their activities and the assembly broke up peaceably.
0945 – After complaints of a suspicious odor at an unnamed night club, an arrest was made for possession of marijuana. The suspect was released on a personal recognizance bond when he stated, "I just found out that Romney is visiting Texas".
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Portales senior Ethan Tucker goes up for two points against Carlsbad on Friday night at PHS. (CNJ staff photo: Tony Bullock)
By Mickey Winfield: Freedom Newspapers
The Portales Rams missed their shots, and the Carlsbad Cavemen made theirs. Put together, the two facts resulted in a 62-36 blowout Friday night at Portales High School.
Travis Nygren scored a game-high 13 and Jose Cruz Lopez added nine points for the Cavemen, who never trailed.
Senior Skyler Partin led the Rams (2-2) with 12 points while Chance Sherburne added nine and Hunter Rackler contributed 7.
"We don't have any excuses, they just beat us," Partan said. "We couldn't make anything, free throws or shots right under the basket."
Two 3-pointers and a steal from point guard Zack Mendez, another 3 from Joseph Jenkins and a layup from Brian Barnes powered Carlsbad to an early 11-0 first-quarter lead.
"I didn't think we handled adversity tonight," Portales coach Mark Gallegos said. "We didn't do anything with any confidence."
However, Gallegos was impressed by how his players responded after the opening lapse.
"I was pleased in the first half, how we kept it close early on, and we didn't panic when we got down," Gallegos said.
Carlsbad went into the second quarter with a 15-7 lead, before outscoring the Rams 18-10 in the second quarter to take a 33-17 half-time lead.
"We really didn't panic that much at all," senior Cruz Ontiveros said. "But when you go down 11-0 on a good 5A team it's kind of hard to come back on that kind of team."
Carlsbad's Chance Neatherlin hit a jump shot to midway through the third quarter to give Carlsbad a 40-21 lead, and the Cavemen outscored Portales 11-6 in the third period to head into the final stanza with a 44-23 lead.
"We really didn't come out ready to play tonight, but hopefully tomorrow we'll pick it up," Ontiveros said.
The Portales boys (2-2) don't have long to dwell on Friday night's game, as they host the Aztec Tigers at 2 p.m. today. The Tigers are coming off an even bigger loss, 63-25 against Clovis.
"The nice part is you get to forget about tonight and get back on the floor," Gallegos said. "And it'll tell a lot about our character, it'll tell a lot about our mental toughness and tell us where we're at.
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An ex-Wall Street trader improved on Moneyball's famed sabermetrics to place bets that would beat the Vegas odds on Major League Baseball games - with a 41 percent return in his first year. Trading Bases explains how he did it.
After the fall of Lehman Brothers, Joe Peta was out of a job. He found a new one but lost that, too, when an ambulance mowed him down. In search of a way to cheer himself up while he recuperated in a wheelchair, Peta started watching baseball again, as he had growing up. That's when inspiration hit: Why not apply his outstanding risk-analysis skills to improve on sabermetrics, the method made famous by Moneyball - and beat the only market in town, the Vegas betting line? Why not treat MLB like the S&P 500?
In Trading Bases, Peta shows how to subtract luck - in particular "cluster luck", as he puts it - from a team's statistics to best predict how it will perform in the next game and over the whole season. His baseball "hedge fund" returned an astounding 41 percent in 2011 - and has never been down more than 5 percent. Peta takes listeners to the ballpark in San Francisco, trading floors and baseball bars in New York, and sports books in Vegas, all while tracing the progress of his wagers.
Often humorous, occasionally touching, and with a wink toward the sheer implausibility of the whole project, Trading Bases is all about the love of critical reasoning, trading cultures, risk management, and baseball. And not necessarily in that order.
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"A fascinating book, but buy the print version."
With lively energy and a passion for the material, Joe Peta guides the reader through his journey from investment banker to investment better. His prose style is compelling, and he holds just the right mix of anecdote and analysis from cover to cover. The issue is that he does so with a myriad of statistics which, when read one by one, become incredibly tedious and difficult to interpret. Strongly recommend this book, but only in its print form.
Captured from the first chapter. Great baseball insights. I do not gamble but the complexity of the analysis had many applications.
"Excellent ideas!"
This book had some very unique and excellent ideas! As someone who is a fan of baseball as well as an advantage player when betting on it, it was one of my favorite books I've read so far!
"Entertaining & Informative!"
This is an excellent book. It's fascinating to hear how the author combined his love of the game and his experience from Wall Street to profit by gambling on baseball. I love baseball and I'm not opposed to gambling on sports. I've never bet on baseball, partly because I didn't understand how it worked. The book explains in great detail about betting baseball and how it's very possible to use data to gain an edge. There are chapters that go over various odds and statistics for each team. I found those sections a little boring in the audiobook format but I'm sure they were great on paper. Still overalls it's an awesome book and the narrator did a great job.
"My Words Sound Better Out of Fred Sanders' Mouth"
Certainly honored the man who read Born to Run -- a staple on the iPods of many of my running friends -- ended up reading my words.
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"Interesting baseball book for fans and gamblers"
I have recommended it to my brothers and family. Every stock broker can learn something from this book.
The casual baseball stories Joe Peta tells.
His daughters first baseball game.
Some moments made me laugh and other made me sad. Baseball has that effect on people. This guy knows baseball and transmits it clearly.
"Solid book but dry at times"
If you like baseball and sabermetrics this is an interesting story. I found it a bit dry at times. It also gets into advanced math that might be better understood by reading the book. Fascinating story though.
"Interesting book better suited for reading than listening"
Trading Bases was a great research based story involving formulas established to successful betting on baseball. There was ample background information to support the main story. With all the numbers and chart reading done by the narrator, it was a bit difficult to follow/remember the significance.
Being a baseball advocate, it was easier for myself to know the statistics the narrator referred to, but a casual reader would probably need a physical book to get a better grasp of the number crunching. There are long lists of statistics, and it definitely helps to know a little baseball history to comprehend the tables read aloud.
As with all books that give insight and strategy into making money, it intrigues me to find out how odds makers have altered their strategies in lieu of this book, if they did at all. It takes numerous hours and a high competency for statistics to put this knowledge to use, so I suspect there won't be a large number of new betters after reading/listening to Trading Bases.
I would listen to this book again, although it definitely has a larger effect when heard closer to when it was written. The strategies can probably be applied for future applications, again assuming on how odds makers change their strategies.
"Very interesting!"
Good listen, narrator is easy to listen to and subject is interesting. Lots of stats that would probably be easier to understand if visualized but not a huge problem.
"Interesting system and approach"
Abridging the book for audio would have worked better, as just trying to read tables of information doesn't work too well in an audio book. Just summarising the important information would have worked better. The other content is good though.
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Very close to the downtown area of Frankfurt, Germany, lies a sprawling 11/2 -sq.-mile industrial park that straddles both sides of the Main River. It's an impressive sight, with all the trappings you'd expect. It is here where Bayer CropScience houses its global research and development programs of the company's herbicides.
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Committee on Contaminants in Foods (CCCF): The 7th Session of CCCF met in Moscow, Russian Federation, and completed its work last Friday. Some key outcomes from the Session include:
- The United States led the electronic Working Group on lead which had as its focus the reduction of exposure to lead to the greatest extent possible, starting with foods consumed by infants and children, such as fruit juices, milk, and infant formula. The CCCF was successful in getting agreement on several new proposed maximum limits (MLs) for lead in selected commodities.
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Committee on Pesticide Residues (CCPR): At the upcoming Session of CCPR, scheduled for May 6-11, in Beijing, China, a one day workshop on the safety assessment of pesticide residues will be held prior to the start of the meeting, on Sunday May 5th. The workshop will provide an overview on how the risk assessment of pesticides is performed by the FAO/WHO Joint Meeting on Pesticide Residues (JMPR) for purposes of establishing Maximum Residue Limits for pesticides. It will also go over the Risk Analysis Principles applied by CCPR in setting the Codex schedules and priority lists of pesticides for the evaluation and re-evaluation of new / existing chemicals by JMPR, and in deciding the revision, retention or withdrawal of Codex MRLs/Pesticides. Cases of chemicals that JMPR has evaluated with no support from the manufacturer will also be discussed. The workshop aims to assist the Committee in their deliberation on the revision of the Risk Analysis Principles, in particular the Periodic Review Procedure.
Committee on Food Labeling (CCFL): The 41st Session of the Codex Committee on Food Labeling (CCFL) will convene May 14—17ml, in Charlottetown,Prince Edward Island, Canada. The Among other matters, the Committee will discuss issues related to Guidelines for the Production, Processing, Labeling and Marketing of Organically Produced Foods and the Consideration of Labeling Provision in Draft Codex Standards. The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and the World Health Organization (WHO) of the United Nations are sponsoring an information meeting on "Front of Pack Labelling," from 10:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. on Thursday, May 16th. The purpose of this meeting is to provide information to CCFL delegates and observers regarding the issues related to front-of-pack labeling (FOP). Topics include the role and use of FOP, how FOP is developed, challenges with FOP, as well as some country experiences with FOP. Parties in the United States interested in participating should contact the U.S. Codex Office (firstname.lastname@example.com) for further information.
Other News
Committee on Nutrition and Foods for Special Dietary Uses (CCNFSDU): Dr. Paula Trumbo, Director (A), Nutrition Programs in the Office of Nutrition, Labeling and Dietary Supplements, Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition (CFSAN) of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) was recently confirmed as U.S. Delegate to the CCNFSDU.
Committee on Food Labelling (CCFL): Felicia Billingslea, Director, Food Labeling and Standards Staff in the Office of Nutrition, Labeling, and Dietary Supplements, Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition (CFSAN) of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) was recently confirmed as U.S. Delegate to the CCFL.


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Newspapers across New Mexico reported the outgoing governor left a letter on her desk for the incoming governor. It's a tradition. They all do it.
Only here will you get the real scoop. Susana wrote back. Your humble columnist has the only known copy of that letter.
William, I hope you don't mind my dispensing with the traditional "dear." I mean, really!
Your transitional letter was received and noted. You want me to stop talking trash about your administration. Well, OK, but that's hardly helpful advice. I am wallowing in a sea of debt. What I really need is a lifeline. Do you know of anyone who wants to buy your Choo Choo?
I'm writing, William, to find out about some of the stuff you left in your office and what you want me to do about it.
Where should I send the replica of the Oval Office Rug? Helen, the marvelous lady who helps me keep this place tidy, said you would have her drag the heavy thing out of the closet when you were alone some afternoons.
She said she would peek in the door to see you leaning back in your recliner, a cigar in your hand, sipping a glass of Merlot, humming along to "Hail to the Chief." She said you had a wistful smile and a dreamy look on your face. William? You really need to talk to someone about this.
Oh, before I forget. Yesterday's mail brought a scathing letter from the Billy the Kid Historical Society thanking you for absolutely nothing. They are still mad about your refusing to pardon that scrawny, murderous little weasel. They write, "Mr. Richardson, we discussed possible campaign donations should you again seek office. Please note the enclosed." If it is all the same to you, William, I am giving their $25 McDonald's gift card to my hubby. He is more than a little miffed that I sent packing two of the three cooks at the Mansion.
You'll remember that under the office window there are those hidden cabinets that blend in so well they are hardly noticeable? I thought those would be an ideal place to store my Sarah Palin posters and other Sarah thingies, but was shocked to find the shelves are still full of box after box of Super Sized Snicker Bars. Did you have an addiction other than one for power, William?
This next one is a real puzzle. You left behind in the corner filing cabinet 14 pathetic letters from some strange fellow in Ruidoso. His handwriting is horrible, but his name looks like "Nedward Cantrell." I guess he wanted a job or something, keeps begging you to appoint him as a "spokesman."
In this one letter he is saying "I am sorry I called you Chubby Cheeks, Mr. Richardson. I really would be a great spokesman. If I could just have a job as spokesman, say, for the New Mexico State Barbershop Commission, I bet I would have plenty of time to come over to the Mansion on Saturday mornings to wash your black SUV."
This fellow seems pleasant enough if not particularly bright. I note you didn't bother to respond.
The courtside Los Angeles Lakers ticket stubs autographed by Jack Nicholson? Glad you left them behind. I'll see what I can get on eBay to help reduce your horrible deficit.
I've got to close now. Busy, busy, busy here. Just this moment the Fed-Ex guy is handing me a package the staff says needs my attention.
Until next time, or more likely, never,
Susana M. Martinez
Oookay, what's this now? Wait. Oh, no. It's a CD from the nutcase in Ruidoso. He's recorded himself singing to me! No, dear Lord, please, make him stop.
Oh! Susana,
Oh! don't you cry for me…
I come from Rueedoser…
A spokesman sure to be!
Have a nice day.


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On DVD
Captain America: The First Avenger
Movie Review
Nazis. We hate those guys.
When it comes to cinematic villains, they're at the top of the list. (Or is it the bottom?) Oskar Schindler duped 'em. Rick Blaine shot one of 'em. Indiana Jones killed nearly a whole battalion of 'em.
Steve Rogers doesn't care for Nazis much either. Hey, it's the heart of World War II and the Axis powers are carving up Europe. How could he? But neither is he eager to go all Indiana on their sorry, movie-screen souls.
"I don't want to kill anyone," he confesses. But, he adds, "I don't like bullies. I don't care where they're from."
Steve knows all about bullies. The dude looks like he's the 90-pound weakling in those Charles Atlas bodybuilding ads. He's got the curvature of a pool cue, the strength of a partially melted Jell-O salad. He makes Michael Cera look like one tough hombre.
But that doesn't negate the guy's courage. Steve stands up to bullies wherever he sees them, and he obsessively tries to sign up for the war—even falsifying his records to get in. "There are men laying down their lives," he says. "I have no right to do anything less." But no military doctor will pass him.
Until, of course, he runs into mysterious and brilliant scientist Dr. Abraham Erskine, who drafts the lad into a secret government program designed to create super-soldiers through the wonders of cutting-edge chemistry. Steve seems the perfect candidate—not because of who he is on the outside, but who he is on the inside. Before long, the little guy finds himself strapped inside a coffin-like apparatus and infused with a weird assortment of drugs. And when the painful procedure is done, out steps …
Charles Atlas, of course.
No, no. It's just Steve … only he's about a foot taller and his shoulders are two feet wider. He looks ready to kick sand into the face of Adolph Hitler himself.
But those Nazis won't leave well enough alone. Wanting the secret superhuman serum all to themselves, a spy sneaks into the lab and, before Steve can flex his mighty biceps just once, shoots several people and absconds with the formula. He doesn't get far—Steve makes sure of that—but the formula's destroyed and Erskine is dead. When the scientists made Captain America, they really did break the mold.
Positive Elements
For those who mourn the dearth of real heroes in Hollywood, Marvel has your back. Captain America, aka Cap, is as pure and honest and obvious a hero as you'll find in theaters these days—so good he could only be a work of fiction.
But within this fiction you can find some resonant themes. We learn that everything that really made Steve heroic was already inside him before they pumped him full of experimental serum. He stands up to bullies. He throws himself on (what he thinks is) a live grenade to save his fellow soldiers. He's polite and generous and self-effacing and … well, just the sort of guy you'd like to represent your country in times of trouble.
It's that sort of character that earned him the honor of being Erskine's guinea pig. See, the first batch was actually used years earlier by a notoriously evil guy named Johann Schmidt, head of the super-secret Hydra wing of the Nazi military complex. The serum seemed to make this already bad Nazi a whole lot worse, so Erskine wants to restrict it to "good" men. Steve fits the bill. "The weak man knows the value of strength," Erskine tells him. "And knows compassion." And before the procedure begins, Erskine makes Steve promise one thing: "That you will stay who you are. Not a perfect soldier, but a good man." Steve does just that, striving to be a "good man" through the entire course of this movie—capping his efforts with an act of heroic sacrifice.
Spiritual Content
The idea of drawing strength from weakness offers us a faint echo of Christianity. God seems to love to work through weakness, and we see that true heroism, while sometimes manifested through the body, finds its true source in the spirit and soul.
Those oblique suggestions of faith are marred a bit by some occult references, though. Schmidt is in possession of an energy cube of awesome power—one supposedly the stuff of Teutonic myth. We hear several times that the cube is a power that comes from "the gods." "And the Fuhrer digs for trinkets in the desert," Schmidt says dismissively—a nod to Raiders of the Lost Ark, in which the Nazis dig for the Ark of the Covenant, and perhaps to Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, too, where the Holy Grail is the object in question.
Those who saw Thor earlier this year know that the cube comes from Thor's home planet of Asgard, and that he and his kin actually aren't gods, they were just perceived to be such by ancient humans. But that doesn't wholly mitigate the references we hear here.
It's hinted that Schmidt, also known as Red Skull, has been damned by taking a less-perfected form of the serum (which altered his appearance and perhaps made him even meaner). "You will burn!" a poor villager shouts. "I already have," he says.
Sexual Content
Some of the garb we see women wear here would be considered pretty provocative … in the 1940s. USO girls wear skimpy sequined outfits and dance in short skirts. Other women sport blouses that accentuate their breasts. Steve is given a heavy kiss by a female soldier (supposedly a "thank you" for the lives he saved). But he only has eyes for one woman—agent Peggy Carter. He admits to her that he's never danced with a girl before. "I figured I'd wait," he says. And when she asks what he's waiting for, he says, "The right partner." She later favors him with a kiss of her own.
After Steve undergoes his transformation, he walks out of the contraption shirtless—obviously impressing Peggy. When a civilian invites a female agent to have some fondue with him, Steve mistakes it as a suggestive, sexual invitation.
Violent Content
Violence is part and parcel of the superhero movie genre, so much so that some film critics have completely stopped talking about it. That makes this especially noteworthy: Captain America is more violent than many of its peers. Perhaps because the film serves as a war movie too.
Audiences see loads of fisticuffs, firefights and explosions—far too many to detail here. And unlike some superheroes, Cap doesn't hesitate to kill his enemies.
Schmidt guns down a civilian, spattering bright-red blood. We also see a small exit wound in the man's back. Another unfortunate ends his screen time in the blades of a propeller. (There's a brief blood spray visible.) Folks fall from great heights, and one man is sucked into a weird energy vortex. Another is crushed by part of a building, and we see a bit of blood on his head.
Those are modern-tinged gory scenes in the middle of a movie that otherwise has the vibe of a 1940s serial: The body count is high, but the squirm factor low as scores of characters are simply zapped out of existence—with a bloodless blue poof—via futuristic weapons powered by the cube.
Steve apparently suffers some serious pain while being injected with the serum. A spy bites into a cyanide pill and dies, foaming at the mouth.
Crude or Profane Language
Jesus' name is abused once; God's a handful of times. "H‑‑‑" pops up about a dozen times, complemented by a few other choice words: "a‑‑," "b‑‑ch," "d‑‑n." A Brit interjects "bloody." We don't see it, but it's implied that one of the soldiers makes an obscene gesture, aiming it at Cap.
Drug and Alcohol Content
Captain America obviously owes his physique to an exotic cocktail of chemicals injected directly into his body. While this sort of behavior these days would probably get him dragged to Capitol Hill for hearings (and it certainly would disqualify him from the Tour de France), back in the 1940s, improving one's life through the power of science and medicine seemed pretty A-OK. And because the film encourages us to embrace a more innocent ethos from days gone by, we're asked to turn a blind eye to these steroids on steroids.
Erskine drinks some Schnapps the night before Steve's big transformation, admitting later that he drank more than he should have. Steve, after his best friend dies, is found drinking in the bar; he laments the fact that his altered body (because of its regenerative powers) makes it physically impossible for him to get drunk. When he drafts a small team of soldiers over drinks at a bar, one soldier agrees, but says, "You gotta do one thing for me … open a tab." Later, a man marvels at their ability to drink. "Where do they put that stuff?" he says.
Other Negative Elements
In trying to get into the army, Steve falsifies his records. He later leaves base against orders (but does so in order to rescue 400 men from certain death, and when he comes back he gives himself up for disciplinary action). Schmidt shows disregard for the prisoners he's forcing to build weapons. "Use up what strength they have, doctor," he says. "There are always more workers."
By definition, superhero movies are about … heroes. We've seen a bevy of them walk, run, jump and fly through our movie theaters during the last several years, and there's no sign of them stopping.
But we haven't seen a hero like Captain America in a long, long time.
Cap traces his comic book roots to World War II, when he was created to take on Nazis and fight for the American Way. He was always an unapologetically nationalistic figure, and in this new movie he still is. As such, the film is an intentional throwback to a more innocent, more optimistic time, before scandal and cynicism and cable news shout-fests had beaten our national character beyond recognition. This movie recalls the days when Americans—most of them, anyway—truly considered the country a beacon, a city on a hill. And Captain America represents what we've long thought to be what's best about us: Strength. An uncompromising spirit. Bravery, sometimes brash, but polite and self-effacing too.
"You don't give up, do you?" Schmidt groans at Cap during a climactic melee.
"Nope," he says.
How very "American" his response is. Simple. Straightforward. This is a guy who lets his actions speak for him.
Now, we need not say Cap represents an America that, for the most part, only ever lived in its national imagination. We must point out that the film has a few troublesome problems, including its love of wall-to-wall violence and the fact that our main hero is partly the product of (when you really sit and think about it) some potentially problematic chemistry. It's a little weird to cheer for a guy who got strong through scientific alchemy when most of us are warning our kids about the dangers of body- and mind-altering drugs.
And yet there's an inescapable optimism here, a goodness. Captain America tells us that muscles and nifty shields are great and all, but true heroism comes from within. And that it never goes out of style.
Pro-social Content
Objectionable Content
Summary Advisory
Plot Summary
Christian Beliefs
Other Belief Systems
Discussion Topics
Additional Comments/Notes
Episode Reviews
Readability Age Range
Chris Evans as Captain America/Steve Rogers; Hayley Atwell as Peggy Carter; Sebastian Stan as 'Bucky' Barnes; Tommy Lee Jones as Colonel Chester Phillips; Hugo Weaving as Johann Schmidt/Red Skull; Dominic Cooper as Howard Stark; Stanley Tucci as Dr. Abraham Erskine; Toby Jones as Dr. Arnim Zola
Joe Johnston ( The Wolfman, Hidalgo, Jurassic Park III, October Sky)
Paramount Pictures
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In Theaters
July 22, 2011
On Video
October 25, 2011


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Dems and GOP both seemingly exhausted
At this juncture, observing politics resembles watching paint dry. Both parties seem virtually exhausted, out of ideas, bereft of solutions. Republicans seem content at obstructionism and Barack Obama appears to have reached the "small issue" place that so mesmerized Bill Clinton.
Although American politics has never been particularly ideological, it has reached a point of quasi-nihilism. Republicans are driven by hucksters such as Ted Cruz and inspired by carnival barkers like Steve King and Sarah Palin. Democrats try compromises and are content with symbolic politics. Lost in the whole discussion is why the two parties exist at all.
Republicans seem motivated primarily by fear. Whether it is immigration or guns, they live in the past. Any attempts by some of their leaders to reach a half-way point are dismissed out of hand. Like fire-eaters in the South before the Civil War, they insist that time can be frozen and two choices are possible, rule or ruin.
Democrats are hampered by a policy freeze which rather dully tries to gain, without success, Republican support. No amount of dinners, social hours or flattery will move the GOP; something substantial, such as a cut in the budget or even a tax cut, is never offered. Not all compromises are sellouts. However, they can be forgiven in that Republicans often suggest a middle way, then pull back at the last minute.
Neither parties have leadership worthy of the name. Although Obama still has the gift of rhetoric, it goes off sometimes like an unguided missile. No one quite knows what the target might be or the point. Very little is said concerning where the United States is heading in the next decade. One small issue at a time, nothing that can inspire; after all his exhausted efforts, it amounts to no more than symbolic gestures, followed by empty phrases.
Republicans make everything a big deal, from weak legislation on background checks to immigration. They engage in fiery language and threaten to use the veto on every issue, however small. Anything to defeat Obama; that's the game everybody knows. They resemble Democrats in the early 1970s who rejected Richard Nixon's family assistance plan – which would have represented a GOP capitulation to the welfare state. Opposing it just to oppose, Democrats essentially dropped an ill-advised throw by Nixon on his 20-yard line. Needless to say Nixon never gave them a second chance.
If this state of "push me, pull you" goes on unremedied by reality, both parties might be irrelevant. It is a state of dueling Whig parties, one stuck with its own version of the "American System" and the other convinced of compromise for its own sake. Perhaps a moderate party will emerge from disaffected Republicans and frustrated Democrats.
Especially for Democrats, who see another president facing a determined and almost frantically obstructionist opponents. For some GOP'ers the specter of the National Rifle Association playing for blood over a bill which was woefully weak is cause for concern. Raw power, not issues was Wayne Lapierre's game.
Certainly other more important issues await. But for health care, environmental concerns and immigration reform, voters might be concerned that government simply does not work. Given that state of affairs ,they might demand a change in how business is done. As Abraham Lincoln once intoned, if "the tug is going to come, let it come."


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[Editor's note: Following is a guest blog post by Leslie Josel]
Back-to-School is right around the corner! It's the perfect time to take stock and get your student organized for the new school year. Here are some sure fire tips for starting off the school year on the right track.
Use an academic planner to stay organized. Whether you use a paper planner or electronic calendar, make sure your planner is set up as a grid system so you can see your week at a glance. Record all your after school activities, weekend commitments, class assignments and projects so you can "visualize" your available time to get your homework and studying done. Include a row in the planner for "Organizing" so that you can plan your locker, knapsack and binder clean outs. Maintenance is key to getting AND staying organized. Continue reading The ABCs to Getting Organized for Back-to-School!


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What seems like never-ending winter weather in Wisconsin is straining municipalities' snow removal budgets.
The city of Eau Claire burned through half of its 2013 winter road budget by the end of last month. The city's road clearing budget of $1.5 million has to last until the end of the year. Above average snowfall has kept snow removal crews busy. Eau Claire received about 37 inches of snow last winter. This winter, more than 62 inches of snow has fallen in the city.
Eau Claire County highway commissioner Marcus Evans told the Eau Claire Leader-Telegram it's been a difficult year so far. The county has spent about $460,000 removing snow in January and February, compared to $320,000 during the same time last year.


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Good Afternoon. The regularly scheduled meeting of the
State Board of Education next week will be for one day only,
Next week, I will also be testifying before committees in both the House and Senate. The schedule for the hearings is included in this message, along with these other topics:
Schedule of House and Senate Committee Appearances
I will testify at three committee hearings next week:
February 18, , Room 400, the Capitol; Subject: Education Funding Advisory Board – The Senate Education Committee has also invited State Board Chairman Ronald Gidwitz and EFAB Chairman Robert Leininger to testify.
February 19, , Room 118, the Capitol; Subject: General State Aid – The House Education Appropriations Committee hearing continues.
February 20: , the Capitol; Subject: No Child Left Behind legislation – The House Education Committee has asked for an overview of the legislation.
Homeland Security Information
We have received several calls asking for advice on disaster preparations since the President raised the Homeland Security Advisory System threat level to high (orange level). We are advised that every county has an emergency management person who is responsible for coordinating the county's disaster preparedness plans. The best preparation for any potential disaster is to review your school and district disaster plans regularly, to coordinate your plans with the county's emergency management plan, and to have a designated person to keep in contact with the county emergency management staff and with local law enforcement and fire department officials.
You can also find a large amount of additional information on Governor Blagojevich's Homeland Security Web pages at http://www100.state.il.us/security/. Included are American Red Cross guidelines for recommended action at each of the threat level classifications, which were adopted by the Illinois Terrorism Task Force, as well as "County and Municipal Government Guidelines for Implementation of the State of Illinois Homeland Security Advisory System," developed by the Illinois Terrorism Task Force.
The Illinois Emergency Management Agency also has a good Web site for further information about emergency planning: http://www.state.il.us/iema/.
Small Area Income and Poverty Estimates (SAIPE) and Title 1 Funding
The U.S. Census Bureau recently released the 1999 Small Area Income Poverty Estimates for school districts. We understand that the U.S. Department of Education will use these numbers as the basis for Title I funding. In addition to SAIPE, the Department of Education will include other poverty measures, such as children in (1) institutions for the neglected and delinquent; (2) foster homes; and (3) families above poverty receiving assistance under the TANF program. However, children from these three other poverty measures will add little to the Title I–eligible count for districts – only 0% to about 5%.
SAIPE data for your district is at http://www.census.gov/housing/saipe/sd99/sd99_IL.dat. For the poverty estimate, look at the third column of data after the district name. It comes just before "sd99_IL.dat" in the fourth column.
The Census Bureau has provided an appeal process for
those who believe a SAIPE estimate
is incorrect. Appeals should be
sent directly to the U. S. Census Bureau to Dr. Daniel Weinberg, Chief,
Housing and Household Economic Statistics Division, U.S. Census Bureau,
e-mail to email@example.com.
For details on appeals, please refer to Question #24, and if you have other related questions, refer to Question #25 of the Frequently-Asked-Questions section of the SAIPE Web site at http://www.census.gov/hhes/www/saipe/faq.html.
Please note that while SAIPE will be used for Title I
funding, the poverty impaction part of the Illinois General State Aid formula
will be based on a separate set of poverty data derived from decennial
census. Information was provided in
the Weekly Message from the
State Superintendent on
Public Comment Period on Administrative Rules for Induction and Mentoring
The public comment period on the administrative rules
for induction and mentoring concluded on
In regards to funding for induction and mentoring in FY03, ISBE believes the money appropriated is effectively frozen. If there is a change in this situation, the State Board will promptly notify school districts, regional offices of education, and other stakeholders. Additionally, directions for submitting proposals for State Board review will be shared.
Robert Schiller
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#1 Romney Picks Baked Potatoe for Running Mate07-13-2012, 09:36 PM
I don't care, I'm still voting for him even if it's a choice potato, it's better than what we got!The difference between pigs and people is that when they tell you you're cured it isn't a good thing.
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07-13-2012, 09:54 PMThe difference between pigs and people is that when they tell you you're cured it isn't a good thing.
A potatoe you say? I think you're trying not to tell us something! It's Dan Quayle?!?!?!Good men sleep peaceably in their beds at night because
rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.
Real superheroes don't wear capes. They wear dog tags.
Government is not the solution to our problem, government is the problem.
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We could say they are spending like drunken sailors. That would be unfair to drunken sailors, they're spending their OWN money.
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Townshend man charged with hate crime assault of VPIRG canvasserJuly 17,2013By SUSAN SMALLHEER
Staff Writer
BRATTLEBORO A 62-year-old Townshend man pleaded innocent Tuesday to charges of racially-based simple assault for a July 2012 incident involving a canvasser with the Vermont Public Interest Research Group.
Herman Donna is charged with threatening an African-American man, Maroni Minter, 27, of Burlington, who was canvassing on behalf of the Montpelier-based nonprofit organization. He was not injured in the incident.
The simple assault charge, with a hate crime enhancement, could land Donna in prison for two years with a $2,000 fine.
According to the Vermont State Police, Minter believed Donna had a gun in his hands and threatened to shoot him, and called him racial epithets. Police said that while Donna did not own a gun, he admitted using a long-barreled lighter and a garden tool to threaten Minter.
Donna then got into his sport utility vehicle and chased Minter, who was traveling by bicycle. Minter told police he was carrying his VPIRG identifying information, as well as a clipboard and brochures about the groups programs. Minter told police that a woman at the home told him they were not interested, and he had turned to leave when he was yelled at by a man.
Minter stated that he turned around and observed the male reach up and grab a gun, described as a black colored pistol, from above the porch doorway, state police said.
VPIRG regularly canvasses during the summer, raising money for its programs on health, the environment and the economy, state police said.
State police investigated the July 17, 2012, incident at the time, and charges were brought a year later by the Vermont attorney generals office. Assistant Attorney General Ultan Doyle, who is handling the case, did not return a call for comment for the delay in bringing the charges.
According to a press release from the attorney generals office, Donna used several racial epithets and chased the canvasser from his property, while threatening to kill him.
Minter believed that Donna had a handgun and he told police that Donna threatened to shoot him repeatedly, and even followed him down his driveway at 216 Jay Road in an SUV. Police determined that Donna actually had a garden tool and a lighter with a tube extending from the handle.
Minter, who was on a VPIRG-issued bicycle, said he tried to get away from Donna as quickly as possible, but his bike wasnt working well, so he went to a neighbors home to ask to use the phone and to get away from Donna.
The neighbor told police Minter was shaking and appeared very afraid after the incident. Minter told police that on a scale of 1 to 10, his fear was the maximum.
Donna and his wife Deborah Donna told police their home had been broken into a few years ago, and he has now become paranoid so he locks the house and cars to keep from being burglarized again.
He said he is vigilant and watches out for his neighbors too and he was not sure what Minter was up to nor did he recognize him, the police officer wrote.
Deborah Donna said her husband did yell at Minter, but never threatened to kill him.
Herman Donna denied making any racially-based statements, the affidavit filed in court stated.
Paul Burns, executive director of the Vermont Public Interest Research Group, said last summers incident with the canvasser was an isolated incident, and he declined further comment because it was a criminal case.
He said that VPIRGs experiences going door-to-door were overwhelmingly positive. VPIRG started canvassing in Windham County again last week.
Burns, who said he was not aware that the charges had been brought, said the canvasser in question was again working for VPIRG this summer.
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