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The General Assembly believes so strongly in the Second Amendment — the right to keep and bear arms — that it won't let law-abiding Ohioans carry firearms in the Statehouse. Most other places, almost anything goes.
So, no surprise, Ohio's House has passed Substitute House Bill 203, which further loosens Ohio's concealed-weapons law. In due course, the bill will become law. As soon as it does, the handgun lobby will do what it always does: come back for more.
The House passed the bill over strong objections from the Ohio Legislative Black Caucus. The caucus believes, according to a posting on Cincinnati Rep. Alicia Reece's Web site, that House Bill 203 is "Ohio's version of the recently criticized (Florida) 'Stand Your Ground' law."
All told, 12 of the Ohio House's 39 Democrats — almost a third — are in the Legislative Black Caucus. Even so, six House Democrats, despite the concerns of their black colleagues, voted yes on House Bill 203, revealing a significant Democratic split.
The six Democratic yesses on the gun bill were Reps. Nick Barborak of Columbiana County's Lisbon; Heather Bishoff of Blacklick; Jack Cera of eastern Ohio's Bellaire; John Patterson of Ashtabula County's Jefferson; Deborah Phillips of Athens; and John Rogers of Mentor-on-the-Lake. The districts of those six legislators are suburban or rural and, except for Bishoff's, have relatively few black voters.
Urban-suburban-rural splits aren't unusual among House Democrats. Time was when two of Ohio's most powerful General Assembly Democrats — House Speaker Vernal G. Riffe of Scioto County and future Lt. Gov. Myrl H. Shoemaker of Ross County — were from rural districts. The caucus's diversity is one reason Riffe let Democrats vote any way they chose on three issues: abortion, capital punishment and guns. But in that era, the 99-member House had as many as 62 Democrats. Today, with 39, unity may matter a lot more.
The kernel of the Ohio Legislative Black Caucus's argument against House Bill 203 is how it would change Ohio's "duty to retreat" requirement. The bill's opponents say it would nudge Ohio law closer to Florida's stand-your-ground law. Here's what Ohio's bill says: "A person has no duty to retreat before using force in self-defense, defense of another, or defense of that person's residence if that person is in a place that the person lawfully has a right to be." (Italics added.)
Current Ohio law, according to the nonpartisan Legislative Service Commission, "specifies that … a person need not retreat if the person lawfully is in the person's residence, the person's vehicle, or the vehicle of an immediate family member." That is, 203 expands where "no duty to retreat" can apply.
From the Florida Legislature's Web site, here is Florida's "duty to retreat" wording: "A person who is not engaged in an unlawful activity and who is attacked in any other place where he or she has a right to be has no duty to retreat and has the right to stand his or her ground and meet force with force, including deadly force if he or she reasonably believes it is necessary to do so to prevent death or great bodily harm to himself or herself or another or to prevent the commission of a forcible felony." (Italics added.)
Little wonder the Legislative Black Caucus worries. It's just a matter of time before the relentless handgun lobby induces someone in the General Assembly to try "completing" or "perfecting" House Bill 203 via another bill to add specific "stand his or her ground" wording. That is, Substitute House Bill 203 is an opening wedge to even more.
Thomas Suddes is a former legislative reporter with The Plain Dealer in Cleveland and writes from Ohio University.


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Death Mask of Amedeo Modigliani, 1920
Jacques LipchitzFrench, 1891-1973
Bronze, Edition of 12, unnumbered cast
8-3/4 x 5-3/4 x 4-1/2 in. (22.2 x 14.6 x 11.4 cm)
Norton Simon Museum, Gift of Barbara Poe Levee
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Jacques Lipchitz and Amedeo Modigliani (1884–1920) were close friends. Each one had moved to France at a young age, and together they matured both artistically and personally in the bohemian enclaves of Paris. The two immigrants—both of whom had come from Jewish backgrounds—lived among other young artists, including Pablo Picasso and Juan Gris, and they shared a passion for liberating the traditional boundaries of art making. Their close relationship is recorded by Modigliani in a sensitive portrait of Lipchitz and his wife (1916, Art Institute of Chicago). The mask displayed here, cast upon Modigliani's untimely death, reflects how portraiture can be used not only to identify the character of a sitter but also to record and remember a beloved figure.
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MEA membership means better contracts together
With the passage of Michigan's Public Employment Relations Act in 1965, teachers finally went from begging to bargaining. Thanks to PERA, all public school employees have the right to negotiate for fair wages, quality health care benefits and decent working conditions.
Collective bargaining is MEA's core function — more than 150,000 members working together, harnessing their collective power to bargain collectively for pay, benefits and workplace standards. MEA staff helps local members bargain more than 3,600 contracts with employers ranging from traditional K-12 schools and charter schools to community colleges and universities.
MEA membership means better contracts together.
"You get a contract," says Saginaw Valley State University English professor Gary Thompson. "That doesn't happen from thin air, but from dedicated work by your colleagues, with excellent legal and pragmatic advice from your MEA UniServ director, backed by a skilled organization."
According to the U.S. Department of Labor, full-time employees who are union members earn about 28 percent more than their non-union counterparts. That means more money to put food on the table, gas in the tank and savings in the bank.
That's not to say that unionized school employees don't face challenges, but it helps to have the state's leading advocate for public education on their side. In a perfect world, contract negotiations would take place as scheduled and would be undertaken in a fair and collegial manner. Unfortunately, that isn't always the case, and that's why MEA employs experts in crisis bargaining. Whether it's a crisis at the bargaining table, a proposal to outsource or downgrade jobs, or an emergency at worksites, MEA is at members' sides, ready to help.
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Watch: Beaver River, St. Lawrence Central Win In Football
7 News cameras were at high school sports events across the north country Saturday.
We have highlights from:
- Beaver River's 35-32 win over Lowville, meaning Lowville has now lost two in a row, after starting the season with three straight wins.
- St. Lawrence Central's 38-12 win over Gouverneur, which included 22 unanswered points in the second half.
- Watertown's 5-0 win over Lowville in boys' high school soccer. Marcus Lavarnway was in the net for Watertown.
- Clarkson's 4-1 win over St. Lawrence University in women's college hockey.
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Akamai Compares State Broadband SpeedsAkamai's 2 and 5Mbps watermarks clearly obliterate that of our own FCC, which considers anything over 200kbps to be broadband (it has been an absolutely epic struggle to get them to change that to 768kbps). Still, the U.S. fares pretty well globally, coming in at seventh place overall, with 20% of connections surpassing 5Mbps.From DSL Reports, May 29, 2008
Demand for Wireless Internet Paying Off for SchoolsFor nearly 20 years, five California State University campuses in the Los Angeles area have banded together to broadcast live courses over public airwaves that were long ago set aside by the federal government for distance learning.From The Los Angeles Times, May 20, 2008
OFCOM: Wireless Can Be Good for Your HealthWith an aging population there's going to be bundles more cash to splash on health care in years to come, if you believe UK regulator Ofcom and this year's edition of its future technology report, the Wireless World of Tomorrow.From The Register, May 16, 2008
Will Wireless Broadband Supplant FTTH?Even if Sprint Nextel Corp. and Clearwire are successful in building their nationwide WiMax network, they won't pose an immediate threat to wireline broadband service growth, according to some experts at Light Reading's The Future of Broadband conference yesterday.From Light Reading, May 16, 2008
Verizon Business to Build and Manage Secure Global Network for DHSVerizon Business will deploy and manage a secure global IP network linking thousands of U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) sites under a new Networx Universal task order awarded by the agency.From Verizon, May 16, 2008
Philly Won't Fight to Save Wi-Fi NetworkEarthLink announced on Tuesday that it will shut down the network and remove the approximately 4,300 access nodes spread across Philadelphia. It said the decision followed months of negotiations with the city and nonprofit organizations aimed at handing over the $17 million network for free so it could keep running.From InfoWorld, May 16, 2008
Richmond (CA) Gets Video Surveillance FeverTaking a cue from surveillance camera-laden London, this San Francisco Bay Area city is installing security camera systems for the police and at the port to reduce crime and protect against terrorism.
From CNET, May 16, 2008
Vt. Telecom Chooses Towers Over Cables for Statewide BroadbandMetroFi is trying to sell its citywide Wi-Fi networks in Portland (Oregon), Aurora and Naperville (Illinois) and Santa Clara, Cupertino, Sunnyvale, Foster City and Concord (California).From MuniWireless, May 16, 2008
MetroFi May Turn Off Wi-Fi for Portland, Ore.MetroFi Inc. has informed the city of Portland it will turn off the free Wi-Fi network it is building if the city or a private company doesn't step in to buy the network.From KGW.com, May 16, 2008
Washington State Seeking to Increase Broadband AccessEven as more and more people like Fallgatter tie into higher-speed Internet service, there remain large chunks of the state and pockets of population without DSL, cable, fiber optic, wireless or satellite service because it's either not available or not affordable.From HeraldNet, May 16, 2008


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Looking for the best trails around Plymouth, Minnesota? Find the top rated trails in Plymouth, whether you're looking an easy walking path or a long bike trail, you'll find what you're looking for. Click on a trail below to find trail descriptions, trail maps, photos, and reviews.
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Afton to Lakeland Trail
4 miles
The Afton to Lakeland Trail links its namesake towns on the Minnesota side of the Saint Croix River. The trail runs between Pike Avenue near the Afton City Hall and Hudson Rd./8th St. at Crocker Park in Lakeland. The flat trail parallels County ...
Bassett Creek Regional Trail
1.8 miles
The Bassett Creek Regional Trail is envisioned as an important connector between French Regional Park and Theodore Wirth Regional Park through the cities of Plymouth, New Hope, Crystal and Golden Valley. When complete, the trail will be a total ...
Beaver Island Trail
5.1 miles
The Beaver Island Trail, also known as the Tileston Mill Spur, is currently open in two disconnected segments. The larger segment follows the Mississippi River for more than two miles from the St. Cloud State University campus south to Montrose ...
Big Rivers Regional Trail
4.4 miles
Big Rivers Regional Trail meanders between limestone bluffs and river parkways, near the confluence of the Mississippi River and the Minnesota River. The trail is flat and occupies the former rail bed once belonging to the Minnesota Central ...
Brown's Creek State Trail
5.9 miles
The 5.9-mile Brown's Creek State Trail, which opened in October 2014, stretches from the St. Croix riverfront town of Stillwater to meet with the popular Gateway State Trail in the town of Grant. With this connection, trail users have direct ...
Bruce Vento Trail
7.5 miles
The Bruce Vento Regional Trail links the White Bear Lake area with the Bruce Vento Nature Sanctuary in St. Paul, on the banks of the Mississippi River. From the nature sanctuary, the trail heads north through Swede Hollow Park and continues ...
Cannon Valley Trail
19.7 miles
The Cannon Valley Trail connects the cities of Cannon Falls, Welch and Red Wing on a former Chicago Great Western Railway line. Motorized vehicles and pets are not allowed on the trail, so hikers, bicyclers, in-line skaters and cross-country ...
Cedar Lake LRT Regional Trail
4.5 miles
The Cedar Lake LRT Regional Trail is an integral component of Hennepin County's extensive trail network, in which rail-trails feature prominently. The trail directly links 4 trails together: In the west, it branches off from both the similarly-named ...
Courthouse Loop Trail
1 miles
The Courthouse Loop Trail is one of several trails located in the Carver County city of Chaska. As the name suggests, the trail forms a loop around Courthouse Lake, which sits directly behind the Carver County Courthouse and other administrative ...
Dakota Rail Regional Trail
26.6 miles
Sections of the Dakota Rail Regional Trail, which extends westward from the Minneapolis suburbs situated along Lake Minnetonka, have been opening since June 2009. The trail occupies the former Dakota Rail corridor, which ran for a total length ...
Dinkytown Greenway
1 miles
Although short, the Dinkytown Greenway provides an important connection in a biking network connecting Minneapolis and St. Paul. The trail begins near TCF Bank Stadium and runs through the University of Minnesota's campus on the east bank of ...
Elm Creek Park Reserve Trails
20 miles
The Elm Creek Park Reserve is an outdoor lovers' dream. At 4,900 acres, it's the largest park in Hennepin County. The park provides enough amenities to keep people coming all year round. Cyclists especially will enjoy the 20 miles of well-paved ...
Gandy Dancer Trail - Southern Section
47 miles
The 98-mile Gandy Dancer Trail runs along the old Minneapolis, St. Paul, and Sault Ste. Marie Railroad corridor from St. Croix Falls north to Superior. The trail is separated into two sections: the 51-mile northern section (between Superior ...
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Gateway State Trail
18.3 miles
The Gateway State Trail is an 18.3-mile paved pathway that runs between the city of St. Paul, through urban and suburban landscapes, then across the countryside to Pine Point County Park. It offers a superb mix of parks, lakes, wetlands and ...
Great Northern Trail
4.6 miles
The Great Northern Trail offers a paved, north-south route across the City of Elk River on the northwestern outskirts of Minneapolis. For nearly 5 miles, the rail-trail winds through the community along a former railroad bed, ending at the Zimmerman ...
Hardwood Creek Regional Trail
9.5 miles
The Hardwood Creek Regional Trail is actually two parallel trails running along US 61 in rural Washington County, Minnesota. The paved trail is open for biking, walking, running and inline skating, while the adjacent grass trail is for equestrian ...
Hiawatha Trail (MN)
4.7 miles
Minnesota's Hiawatha Trail (also known as the Hiawatha LRT Trail) runs along a north-south route paralleling both Hiawatha Avenue and the Hiawatha Light Rail Line in Minneapolis. The trail connects downtown Minneapolis and the vibrant Cedar-Riverside ...
Hudson to Lakeland/Afton Trail
1.6 miles
The Hudson to Lakeland/Afton Trail begins at Buckeye Street in Hudson, Wisconsin, not far from the eastern bank of the St. Croix River. The paved trail parallels 2nd Street, heading south through Birkmose Park and offers views of the water and ...
Interlink Trail
1.9 miles
The Interlink Trail connects the southern end of Wisconsin's portion of the 47-mile Gandy Dancer Trail with Interstate Park in St. Croix Falls. Along the way, the Polk County Information Center offers restrooms, parking and resources for visitors ...
Interstate State Park to Taylors Falls Trail
2.75 miles
Interstate State Park near Taylors Falls has a small network of trails along the St. Croix River. One trail, the Railroad Trail, runs for 1.5 miles on the northwest side of US 8/State Rt. 95 somewhat removed from the river and among a densely ...
Kenilworth Trail
1.5 miles
The Kenilworth Trail runs through dense forest along the eastern side of Minnesota's Cedar Lake. Occasionally, trail users can catch glimpses of some of the stately residences in the ritzy Minneapolis neighborhood of Kenwood, which occupies ...
Lake Independence Regional Trail
15.9 miles
Beginning at the southern tip of the Crow-Hassan Park Reserve in Hanover, the Lake Independence Regional Trail spends most of its 15.9-mile span paralleling County Road 19, cutting a straight path through acres of open farmland. As the trail ...
Lake Minnetonka LRT Regional Trail
15 miles
The Lake Minnetonka LRT Regional Trail begins in downtown Hopkins, just a few blocks north of the eastern endpoint of the Minnesota River Bluffs LRT Regional Trail. The 15-mile trail (as you might guess) skirts the edge of Lake Minnetonka on ...
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Lake Phalen Trail
3.2 miles
Lake Phalen Trail offers a 3-mile paved loop around a popular lake in St. Paul. The tree-dotted pathway offers views of the lake on one side and pleasant neighborhoods on the other. It is nestled within Phalen Regional Park, which provides parking, ...
Luce Line Trail
72.9 miles
The Luce Line Trail follows a former railroad grade and accommodates biking, hiking, horseback riding, mountain biking, snowmobiling and cross-county skiing. The rail-trail heads west from urban Minneapolis through Minnesota's rural landscape, ...
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Medicine Lake Regional Trail
15.64 miles
Medicine Lake Regional Trail offers a plethora of experiences along its nearly 16-mile length. Kicking off in the Elm Creek Park Reserve in the north, the trail cuts a swath through the Maple Grove suburb of Minneapolis, passing shady hardwood ...
Midtown Greenway (MN)
5.5 miles
The 5.5-mile Midtown Greenway follows a former railroad corridor through south Minneapolis, heading due west from the Mississippi River to the neighborhood of West Calhoun in the scenic Chain of Lakes Area. The paved pathway is only 1 block ...
Mill Towns Trail
26 miles
From Mill Town Trail : The Mill Towns State Trail will provide a connection between public and semi-public open spaces serving three counties and six communities. It is envisioned as a recreational investment that will link these communities ...
Minneapolis Diagonal Trail
3 miles
The Minneapolis Diagonal Trail (also known as the Northeast Diagonal Trail) is primarily a commuter route offering grade-separated crossings of Interstate 35W. The trail links an industrial area north of the University of Minnesota with the ...
Minnehaha Trail
5 miles
Minnehaha Trail connects two popular parks in the Twin Cities as it follows the course of the Mississippi River through a corridor that is a mix of woodland and open areas. On its southern end, in St. Paul, is Fort Snelling State Park with ...
Minnesota River Bluffs LRT Regional Trail
13 miles
The Minnesota River Bluffs LRT Regional Trail runs southwest from the Minneapolis suburb of Hopkins to the eastern edge of Chaska. The 13-mile trail occupies a former rail corridor originally built by the Minneapolis and St. Louis Railway and ...
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Minnesota Valley State Trail
27.1 miles
NOTE: The trail suffered severe damage from flooding in 2011 and some sections are closed. Check with the MN Dept. of Natural Resources for updates. The Minnesota Valley Trail is used by cyclists, equestrians, hikers, snowmobilers and cross-country ...
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Mississippi River Regional Trail (Dakota County)
19 miles
The Mississippi River Regional Trail running through eastern Dakota County is a segment of a larger, regional trail system that is itself part of the National Park Service's Mississippi National River and Recreation Area. The trail is currently ...
North Cedar Lake Regional Trail/Cedar Lake Trail
9 miles
This paved trail links Minneapolis' Warehouse District to both the Minnesota River Bluffs LRT Regional Trail and Cedar Lake LRT Regional Trail in Hopkins. The trail is mostly urban at the eastern terminuswhere it is most often called the Cedar ...
North Mississippi Regional Park Trail
1.6 miles
The North Mississippi Regional Park is a fitting place to access and enjoy the Mississippi River. The linear park is walled by the I-94 freeway. The riverine trail follows the west bank of the languid river. It is a great way for users to experience ...
Red Wing Riverfront Trail
0.5 miles
Although only stretching a half mile, the paved Red Wing Riverfront Trail, which opened in 2016, offers an important connection between two parks along the Mississippi River in the charming community of Red Wing. On the trail's west side, ...
River to River Greenway
7.5 miles
The mighty Mississippi and Minnesota River are the two waterways connected by the River to River Greenway. (The project was formerly known by the less colorful moniker North Urban Regional Trail.) Spanning nearly 8 miles, the trail is part of ...
Rush Creek Regional Trail (MN)
9.64 miles
Rush Creek Regional Trail stretches 9.6 miles across forests and farmland, offering a convenient connection to some of Hennepin County's most interesting parks. The path is smooth, wide and mostly flat along its length, with plenty of signage, ...
Sakatah Singing Hills State Trail
39 miles
This trail is so nice they named it twice: Sakatah is the Dakota word for Singing Hills. The Dakota people of the Great Sioux Nation originally lived in this scenic part of Minnesota, where the Big Woods once met the prairie. A rail line was ...
Samuel H. Morgan Regional Trail
9.3 miles
A quintessential part of St. Paul's extensive trails system, the Samuel H. Morgan Regional Trail offers a variety of sights and sounds along its nine-mile path, from gorgeous views of the Mississippi River and downtown St. Paul, to the hustle ...
Shingle Creek Regional Trail (MN)
8.43 miles
Shingle Creek Regional Trail branches out of the Rush Creek Regional Trail at Noble Parkway and tracks alongside the road heading south from Brooklyn Park through Brooklyn Center. Passing through mostly residential communities, the trail then ...
St. Anthony Falls Heritage Trail
1.8 miles
The St. Anthony Falls Heritage Trail offers a nearly two-mile loop along the Minneapolis riverfront within the St. Anthony Falls National Register Historic District. Interpretive signage along the way provides information on the area's geological, ...
Stower Seven Lakes State Trail
13.5 miles
The Stower Seven Lakes State Trail runs for nearly 14 miles along an old railroad corridor between Amery and Dresser, passing through the towns of Deronda, Wanderoos and Nye. In Amery, the trail begins at Harriman Avenue, heading west. If you ...
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Straight River Trail
8 miles
The Straight River Trail forms a backwards L as it runs north-south through Faribault and then curves west. The paved trail begins at the Cannon River Reservoir, then travels through woodlands in Two Rivers Park before heading south along the ...
Sunrise Prairie Trail
16.2 miles
The Sunrise Prairie Trail runs northsouth atop an abandoned right-of-way along a Burlington Northern Rail corridor, traversing residential neighborhoods in the towns and mostly farmland in the middle. The trail also runs through hardwood forests ...
Swedish Immigrant Trail
3.4 miles
The developing Swedish Immigrant Trail will one day span 22 miles from Taylors Falls on the banks of the St. Croix River to the central Minnesota town of Wyoming. The paved trail will run east-west trail across Chisago County paralleling Highway ...
West River Parkway
8.9 miles
The West River Parkway Trail extends between N. Plymouth Avenue opposite Boom Island Park and Ford Parkway in Minnehaha Park, where you can join the Minnehaha Trail. The trail follows the Mississippi River south (down stream) to Minnehaha Falls ...
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~ Bishop Edward Fitzgerald of Little Rock, Arkansas; one of only two bishops at Vatican Council I who had opposed the definition of papal infallibility in the final vote; publicly acknowledging his acceptance of the truth thus defined.


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How perfect for a salad bowl to be shaped like a leaf of lettuce! Like all of the Blenko Glass pieces, this bowl is both functional (for serving lettuce, fruit salad, you name it!) and beautiful standing on it's own. Approx. 11 in. wide, 3 1/2 in. high. Outisde is textured with the veins of the leaf, and the interior of the bowl is smooth. Clover green. Hand crafted by the Blenko Glass Co. of Milton, WV. Artist statement included.


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Fatal accident in Lumberland
July 10, 2013 —
The Sullivan County Sheriff's Office is investigating a one-car fatal accident that occurred on July 6 in the Town of Lumberland. At approximately 4:30 p.m., a 1996 Honda Civic driven by Joshua Crespo, 18, of Port Jervis, was traveling northbound on County Route 31 near Glen Spey, when it ran off the road and struck a utility pole.
The front seat passenger, Amanda Moribito, 17, of Yulan, was flown from the scene to Westchester Medical Center where she subsequently succumbed to her injuries. Her sister, Ashley Morabito, 16, who was the back-seat passenger, was taken to Bon Secours Hospital in Port Jervis and then transferred to Westchester Medical Center, where she remains in serious condition.
The driver was also taken to Bon Secours Hospital, where he was treated and released. He was issued tickets for bald tires, no insurance and a suspended registration. The investigation into the cause of the accident is still pending.


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Honolulu police are investigating a murder in Kailua after a 58-year-old man was stabbed Friday morning.
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Police say there was a confrontation at Kailua District Park. A man went to the Kailua Police Substation to report the incident.
The victim was taken to Castle Medical Center in critical condition where he later died. The victim has no local address.
A 48-year-old man with no local address was arrested in a nearby neighborhood.
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DS2 always topped out the chart when he was a baby. Now he is 6 and he can pull off his 6 slim pants without unbuttoning them. (It is too inconvenient.) Not all BF babies are slim.
DS2 always topped out the chart when he was a baby. Now he is 6 and he can pull off his 6 slim pants without unbuttoning them. (It is too inconvenient.) Not all BF babies are slim.
I am Erin--happily married to the nerd of my dreams for 15 years
High School Science Teacher
Mother to: Thing 1 9/23/01, bf 15 mo, diagnosed with stage 4 neuroblastoma 1/29/02, officially cancer free for ten years in August 2012
Thing 2 6/6/05, bf 12 mo, obsessed with dynamite
Glowworm 2/18/11, bf 15 months and counting
Thanks everyone for all the support and advice. I do feel much better about my baby being big with all of your personal stories. I will keep feeding him on demand and not stress about if he knows when to stop eating. He is healthy and that is what truly matters. From what you are telling me his growing will eventually slow down and I shouldn't worry. I will look more into block feeding. This is the first time I've heard of it.
I was asked if dad is a big guy and the answer is no. Dad is average height and weight. I'm average height and weight as well.
Thanks for all of the positive feedback.
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Mama, he will be FINE.
All of my babies are wearing 3-6 month clothing by the time they were 8 weeks. One was born wearing it -- really. I was transferred to the hospital postpartum, and my DH had to bring bigger clothes to the hospital for the baby because what I'd packed was too small (). None are overweight -- in fact, one is underweight now. BF babies grow FAST at the beginning and then slow down around 4-6 months.
Make sure your doc is using the BF baby chart, as that may make his growth seem a little less extreme.
It's just babies with moms with OALD and OS do tend to grow really fast; all they have to do is open their mouths to be fed but you cannot overfeed a BF baby from the breast (a bottle, yes -- you are not bottlefeeding, right?). So you really do not need to worry about this.
FWIW, your size and DH's size doesn't really matter. I was an itty bitty baby, DH was too, and we still seem to produce babies that are at least 9 lbs and grow super fast.
Mama to my all-natural boys: Ian, 9-4-04, 11.5 lbs; Colton, 11-7-06, 9 lbs, in the water; Logan, 12-8-08, 9 lbs; Gavin, 1-18-11, 9 lbs; and an angel 1-15-06
18+ months and for Gavin, born with an incomplete cleft lip and incomplete posterior cleft palate
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Always babywearing, cosleeping and cloth diapering. Living with oppositional defiant disorder and ADHD. Ask me about cloth diapering and sewing your own diapers!
My husband and I are very average sized - really on the petite side - folks. Joe was in the top 90th percentiles for weight, height, and head size (!) until about six months, when he started to slowly level out. Like most breastfed babies, he really started to "thin" down when he got mobile. It's lucky if your baby goes up in the charts in the beginning - moms of more slender breastfed babies often get flak from their doctors in the second half of the first year when their weight gain slows. It's textbook normal for BF'd babies - doctors need to get with the program!
At two and a half, Joe is going up up up - getting taller and taller, but hardly putting on any pounds. My little chubby baby is turning into a little boy, right before my eyes.
ETA: I had OS and OALD. Like Susan said, Joe didn't have to work for his food at all. It was like a firehose!
For block feeding, start by just offering one breast, and let your baby go as long as he wants on that breast. If your baby gets hungry again within the next two or three hours, offer that same breast again, and only switch if he rejects it and still seems hungry. Some moms have to go an even longer period of time on one breast before switching to really deal with the OS, but it's good to start small. So hopefully a few days of that, and you'll see an improvement in your baby's stools, etc.
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Mom to baby boy Joe, born 5/4/09 and breastfed for more than two and a half years, and baby girl Maggie, born 7/9/12.
I should add that I'm only 5'3" and DH is only 5'8" - both of my girls are in the 90th percentile in height now. They were over 95th in weight too - but they've both slimmed out now and are in the 70's.
Mommy to our DD1 early bird (34 weeks, 2 days, 7lbs, 14oz)! Oct. 2nd, 2008 Emergency C-Section, Frank Breech, HEALTHY Girl!
Weaned @ 17 months
Our DD2 early bird (37 weeks, 3 days, 7lbs, 12oz) Aug. 10th, 2010 Our Successful VBAC, growing like a bad weed!
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FORT WORTH (KDAF) -- FORT WORTH– A Fort Worth funeral home is accused of doing the unthinkable.
The property owner gave Johnson Family Mortuary a notice to move out two weeks ago. He stopped by Thursday and you won't believe what he found.
"Shortly after 8:00 this morning, he went inside and found what he believed to be multiple unattended deceased persons," Sgt. Raymond Bush announced.
Bodies that haven't been buried.
"I've been smelling it for a few days now," Joyce Haynes said between tears. "I've cleaned out my trash cans, everything. I thought that there might have been a dead animal around my house. That is so sad."
Benetha Johnson works in the funeral business. She knows Derrick and Dondre Johnson, who ran Johnson Family Mortuary.
"I've got to go; I'm really serious because my heart is heavy. [Families] entrust us to take care of their loved ones, but I don't know what happened," Johnson said. "I worked with them for years. They are some good young men."
However, one of the brothers dodged our questions.
Before walking off, Derrick Johnson said, "I ask that y'all continue to pray for the family and for the families that we serve."
The Fort Worth PD homicide unit is taking the remains to the Tarrant County Medical Examiner.
If you believe you might have a loved one whose remains were among those recovered, call the medical examiner at 817-920-5700.
Decaying bodies found in Texas funeral home
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In Season 3 of Fringe, Olivia and her alternate version switch places – wherein each Olivia becomes trapped in her respective alternate universe. Pre-order your copy of Fringe: The Complete Third Season on DVD here today: http://bit.ly/o2MYBv !
If a version of you existed in an alternate universe, what kind of different decisions would the alternate you make?
This is such a deep question. I know there are those who just adamantly won't "go there" because they firmly believe there is no alternate universe. But one of the things about television and movies that is so appealing to the masses is that you can kind of escape reality and what is true, and regardless of the genre of the program or film you are watching, follow your alternate reality, or a dream world- its the make believe that appeals to us, that's seemingly why we enjoy television so much. (Even "reality" tv is not fully "real" and people watch those shows like crazy!!)
I don't know how an alternate "Me" would be. Or rather, I don't know how *I* would be in an alternate universe. Or maybe that would be two different situations. Once I start to think about that, I get distracted. Who would play me? Would both me's have the same hair, the same style, the same voice? Would I be like identical twins just in alternate universes?
What if the alternate me was a "bad" person? That scares me. Maybe if the alternate me was able to throw caution to the wind and fly by the seat of her pants?! Maybe the alternate me is a thin person who loves to exercise! Of course, if that were the case, then the alternate me of that alternate me would be changing places with one unhappy Brett. Alterna-Brett. The big question would be: is the other Brett a mom blogger? OR Does she love pink? Does she make her kids match all the time?
Its a lot easier when you are thinking about changing places with someone when you are watching a TV show than trying to imagine your own alternate version of yourself!
I have been hired by Warner Bros. WBWord division to promote Fringe: The Complete Third Season on DVD/Blu-Ray.


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May 12, 2010
To our graduates and to their families who supported them every step of the way, congratulations, I am honored to be with you today.
May 8, 2010
It is a pleasure to be here today to do something which I think we do too little of in the field of education—and that is to celebrate success.
May 3, 2010
Thank you for that gracious introduction President DeGioia—and thanks to Parenting magazine for sponsoring not only this special event but for honoring the critical importance of parental involvement in our nation's schools.
April 30, 2010
I have a confession to make tonight. I am getting impatient with talking about "islands" of educational excellence. If no man is an island, no school should be either.
April 21, 2010
President Obama and I believe that every child deserves a world-class education. When the president says every child, it is not just rhetoric--he means every child, regardless of his or her skin color, nationality, ethnicity, or ability. The truth is, however, that virtually everyone professes to believe that all children deserve a world-class education.
April 20, 2010
I am pleased that the Department is issuing this Dear Colleague letter on athletic programs today. I think this reaffirmation of longstanding policy will help to bolster Title IX and assure that educational institutions that receive federal financial assistance do not discriminate on the basis of sex.
April 14, 2010
Secretary Arne Duncan's Testimony Before the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies Regarding the FY 2011 Education Budget
Chairman Harkin, Ranking Member Cochran, Members of the Subcommittee:
I planned to begin today by talking about education reform because there is a lot of good news to reportbut before I do I want to talk about education jobs.
April 9, 2010
If there is a message that I hope you will take away from today's conference it is this: The arts can no longer be treated as a frill. As First Lady Michelle Obama has said, "the arts are not just a nice thing to have or do if there is free time or if one can afford it... Paintings and poetry, music and design... they all define who we are as a people."
March 29, 2010
Thank you for joining me today for this historic announcement.
Today, I'm proud to announce that Delaware and Tennessee have won grants in the first phase of Race to the Top.
March 18, 2010
Secretary Arne Duncan's Testimony Before the House Appropriations Committee on the President's Proposals for the 2011 Education Budget and for the Reauthorization of ESEA
Chairman Obey, Ranking Member Tiahrt, Members of the Committee:
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Most of what arrives at my mail servers is unwanted: viruses, spam, and executable garbage. Even if you're running something other than Windows on the desktop, the sudden appearance of a new virus can overwhelm your inbox. If you're an administrator, your users likely aren't as reliable about not clicking on attachments as we'd all like. Combined with the flood of spam and random garbage, putting a mail server on the Internet without filtering is like covering yourself with barbecue sauce and breaking into the Charity Home for Badgers with Rabies. Decent spam and virus protection measures can save you a lot of time and effort.
While the systems I use for this article are FreeBSD, the tools and techniques will work on any UNIX-like operating system running modern Sendmail.
Many commercial vendors provide garbage mail protection for Sendmail, but if I go around buying software then I'm never going to be able to afford that 17" laptop. Instead, I use MIMEDefang for generic content handling, SpamAssassin to identify unwanted bulk mail, and ClamAV to reject viruses. This combination eliminates almost all unwanted mail, while letting the good stuff through.
Sendmail(8) provides a
milter (or mail filter) API for
third-party programs. This means that it's fairly straightforward to add
functionality to Sendmail with very little overhead. We can attach MIMEDefang
to Sendmail via
milter. MIMEDefang can call both SpamAssassin and ClamAV. To
make this work, however, you must install and configure the various programs in
the correct order.
Install ClamAV from /usr/ports/security/clamav by running
make install. Do not run
make clean yet! The
work subdirectory contains some sample viruses that we'll use to confirm that the program works correctly. The port will install the main virus scanner,
clamd(8), a command-line console
clamscan(1), a
preliminary virus signature database, and an assortment of documentation and
ancillary programs. Under normal operation, the
clamd(8) virus
scanner should be running at all times. Other programs can send files to
clamd(8) to learn if they are infected.
clamd from the command line. Though it requires
configuration, we'll be able to test it before doing our custom setup. While
you're still in the port directory, use the console command to scan the
subdirectory for viruses.
# clamscan -r -l testoutput.txt
-r recursively scans the current directory and the
-l tells
clamscan to log the output to the text file
testoutput.txt. When you run this command,
will check every file under the current directory for viruses and print out its
status. A condensed version of the results, containing only the path to the
infected files and a list of statistics, will appear in the logfile. For
ClamAV 0.65, this test should discover five infected files.
Now, let's configure ClamAV to cooperate with MIMEDefang. The main
configuration file is /usr/local/etc/clamav.conf. Many of the
settings are tweakable as you desire. See the
clamav.conf(5) man
page for all of the options. The most important change is that you should set
the user to mailnull, the same user that Sendmail and MIMEDefang
run as.
#User clamav
User mailnull
By changing this setting, you also need to change the permissions on the various directories to which ClamAV writes.
# chown -R mailnull:mailnull /var/run/clamav/
# chown -R mailnull:mailnull /var/log/clamav/
Now that you have a basic virus scanner, you can update your virus
definitions. Virus definitions are maintained by volunteers from around the
world. When a major new virus hits, you can expect to see a definition
available within hours. As I write this, the ClamAV database has signatures
for 10,131 popular viruses. First, run
freshclam as
root to confirm that your software can successfully contact one of
the virus signature mirrors and download the latest definitions. You should
see the program check the freshness of main.cvd and
daily.cvd before returning to the command line.
Once you know the update process works, enable the
daemon to check for updates. There is one minor complication, however;
freshclam runs as clamav and
clamd runs
as mailnull, so by default you won't be able to write
freshclam reports in the
clamav log directory. While
you can muck around with file and directory ownership or change the user that
freshclam runs as, the simplest thing to do is put your
freshclam log elsewhere. When you're done, your
/etc/rc.conf should have the following new lines:
clamav_freshclam_flags="--checks=1 --datadir=/usr/local/share/clamav \
--daemon-notify=/usr/local/etc/clamav.conf --log=/var/log/freshclam.log"
The next time you reboot, the system will start the ClamAV virus scanner and
updater. You might need to
touch /var/log/freshclam.log and
chown clamav:clamav /var/log/freshclam.log if
freshclam(8) has trouble starting.
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By default, ClamAV puts its UNIX socket in
/var/run/clamav/clamd. MIMEDefang expects to find it in
/var/spool/MIMEDefang/clamd.sock. One or the other must change.
If you do not change the socket, you will see errors in the mail log where
MIMEDefang cannot communicate with the virus scanner. I consistently change
ClamAV to use the MIMEDefang location, simply because it doesn't make any
difference to the programs, but it's easier for me to remember. Change this in
the clamav.conf file under the
Once you change this in the configuration, however, ClamAV will not run until you've installed MIMEDefang. Despite advances in computing technology, placing sockets in nonexistent directories still presents difficulties.
SpamAssassin is perhaps the most celebrated piece of anti-spam software. It's a Perl package that uses pattern-matching to assign each piece of email a score. Key phrases, such as "Make money fast" and "Work from home," will increase the mail's score, as will bogus headers and an origination IP of a known spam source. You can set your mail client to delete or filter mail that has a score above your preferred limit.
Install SpamAssassin from /usr/ports/mail/p5-Mail-SpamAssassin.
As SpamAssassin is managed as part of MIMEDefang, we don't need to configure SpamAssassin itself; its configuration has been assimilated into MIMEDefang. Proceed directly to installing MIMEDefang.
MIMEDefang can add the common legalese found at the bottom of some email messages, provide very fine-grained access control, and alter emails in almost any other way desired. Our main interest is in using MIMEDefang to strip out unwanted attachment types and coordinate ClamAV and SpamAssassin activities. MIMEDefang's port lives under /usr/ports/mail/mimedefang. Like SpamAssassin, it's written in Perl. Like ClamAV, it runs in daemon mode, so that the system can avoid the massive overhead of starting up a Perl program for every email that passes through the system. When you install MIMEDefang, the configure script will automatically detect that you have both ClamAV and SpamAssassin and will build itself appropriately.
MIMEDefang's configuration file, /usr/local/etc/mimedefang/mimedefang-filter, contains fragments of Perl code that integrate with the main MIMEDefang daemon. If you are not comfortable with Perl, don't worry; just be certain that you implement new functions exactly as they are shown and you won't have any trouble. (I also highly recommend that you spend a few hours with an introductory Perl text; even though I'm a systems administrator and not a programmer, Perl is far too useful in my day-to-day work.)
You should set a few variables in
mimedefang, such as
$AdminAddress and
$AdminName. If you have a separate
MIMEDefang administrator, you can enter a specific name and email address, but
otherwise, just use your network's generic mail management information. (For
those of you unfamiliar with Perl, the single and double quotation marks are
very important and must be as shown.)
$AdminAddress = 'email@example.com';
$AdminName = "Mail Administrator";
MIMEDefang will occasionally send an email about an action it has taken.
Set the
$DaemonAddress variable to the email address you want it
to use.
$DaemonAddress = 'email@example.com';
Everything else in this file is strictly optional. Take a look at some of the settings, however, as you might find them useful in your network. There are examples of blocking emails with too many MIME parts, as well as configuring where MIMEDefang will place its alerts. The default includes antispam and antivirus functions, as well as mail quarantine.
Personally, I find that MIMEDefang's mail quarantine functions are reliable enough that I'm comfortable simply rejecting viral emails. There's a comment in the mimedefang-filter file much like this:
# But quarantine the part for examination later. Comment
# the next line out if you don't want to bother.
action_quarantine($entity, "A known virus was discovered and deleted. \
Virus-scanner messages follow:\n$VirusScannerMessages\n\n");
By commenting out the line beginning with
MIMEDefang will make Sendmail reject incoming viruses as soon as possible.
Finally, the variable
$bad_exts contains a list of extensions
that MIMEDefang will block. Extend this list as needed. For example, if
some evil mastermind were to write a high-powered virus that propagated via
files with the .doc extension, you could block them by adding .doc to this
list and restarting MIMEDefang.
To make MIMEDefang start at boot time, go into /usr/local/etc/rc.d and copy mimedefang.sh-dist to mimedefang.sh. By default, this program does not start when the
system boots. You must have
clamd(8) and MIMEDefang running;
SpamAssassin is included as part of MIMEDefang, so you don't need
spamd(8) as you would for a standalone SpamAssassin
MIMEDefang includes a configuration file for its SpamAssassin calls: /usr/local/etc/mimedefang/spamassassin/sa-mimedefang.cf. If you want to make any changes to the global SpamAssassin settings, change this file. Editing other SpamAssassin configuration files will have no effect whatsoever on SpamAssassin. You can configure SpamAssassin in almost endless ways; we'll cover only the bare bones.
Adjust the sensitivity of the filter with the
variable. The default is 5. When a piece of email scores more than 5 points
on the spam-o-meter, SpamAssassin flags it as a piece of spam. Users can
choose to filter as they see fit.
Another important feature is the whitelist, which allows you to list email
addresses that should never be considered spam sources. For example, my sister
sends HTML-laden, image-heavy email from a known spam sewer. By listing her
email address on a
whitelist_from line, SpamAssassin will let it
pass, even if she forwards me a piece of pornographic spam and asks me where it
came from. Similarly,
blacklist_from variables allow me never to
see email from chosen addresses.
One surprise for users familiar with SpamAssassin is that MIMEDefang does not allow SpamAssassin to alter the email in any way. Instead, SpamAssassin reports a score back to MIMEDefang and lets MIMEDefang change the message. The MIMEDefang FAQ includes several suggestions for editing the filter configuration so as to display SpamAssassin information as desired.
By default, MIMEDefang displays a single header that contains the SpamAssassin score and a series of asterisks, much as the example below shows.
X-Spam-Score: 21.207 (*********************)
Many email clients have difficulty filtering on this header; their filtering rules will not let them compare the numerical score. By making one minor change in how MIMEDefang marks spam email, you can make life much easier for these users.
In /usr/local/etc/mimedefang/mimedefang-filter, you'll see a line like this:
action_change_header("X-Spam-Score", "$hits ($score) $names");
If you exchange the
$score and the
$hits variables
as shown below, your users will be able to filter on the number of asterisks
action_change_header("X-Spam-Score", "$score ($hits) $names");
Your email header will then look something like this:
X-Spam-Score: ************* (13.002)
You can write a rule that searches the X-Spam-Score header for a certain number of asterisks and filters those messages away. With this header setup, users can easily adjust their own spam tolerances; you can be harsh on spam detection on the server, knowing that all you're really doing is adding a header. If a user decides to set his sensitivity to two asterisks and loses some vital email, that's not your fault.
Now that you have a working MIMEDefang/SpamAssassin/ClamAV installation, how
do you tie all this into Sendmail's
milter interface? A modern Sendmail system
Makefiles that simplify creating a configuration file.
You need a custom Sendmail .mc file, so go into
/etc/mail and copy freebsd.mc to a file named after
the host. For example, on bewilderbeast.blackhelicopters.org, I
use a .mc file called bewilderbeast.mc. Next, enter
this filename in /etc/make.conf as the
Whenever you rebuild your system, this tells
make(1) to use
your custom .mc file instead of the default. This retains your
customizations, instead of making your spam protection fail after every
make installworld. (After an upgrade, be certain you compare the
newly updated freebsd.mc with your custom file, just in case
something important changes.) Now add the lines below to the end of your custom
.mc file.
MAIL_FILTER(`mimedefang', `S=local:/var/spool/MIMEDefang/mimedefang.sock, \
F=T, T=C:15m;S:4m;R:4m;E:10m')dnl
define(`confINPUT_MAIL_FILTERS', `mimedefang')dnl
Stay in the /etc/mail directory and run
make all install
restart. This will rebuild your sendmail.cf file from your
customized configuration file and restart Sendmail with it.
If you
tail -f /var/log/maillog, you will be able to see log
entries from MIMEDefang as it processes every message. Viruses will bounce at
the border, while spam will be conveniently flagged for your users. Even a
small mail server such as mine is hit with hundreds of viruses and thousands of
pieces of spam a day; now, it's all flagged or rejected. Just as much junk will travel
across the Internet, but you won't be so aware of it. Today, that's as good as
you're going to get.
Michael W. Lucas
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Sullivan's Foods is holding Job Fair for the new Sullivan's Foods in Marengo.
The Job Fair will be at: 101 Franks Road, Marengo (Glo-Bowl) on Wednesday, June 26 from 10am to 4pm.
Sullivan's will be taking applications at this time for:
Store Manager Assistant Store Manager Front End Manager Shift Managers Bookkeeper Pricing Coordinator Dairy Manager Frozen Food Manager Meat Market Manager Meat Cutters Meat Wrapper Produce Manager Deli Manager Bakery Manager Cake Decorator
They will hold a 2nd job fair at a later date for Cashiers, Baggers and Stock Clerks.


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Attendance Law Cup
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Its early days yet and the new team is clearly a work in progress but I liked the attitude and sheer hard work of this team, which I believe will count for a lot with many ORLFC fans.
There is such big potential out there for a thriving ORLFC , Team Spirit just doesn`t carry things forward on the pitch only, a great deal needs to be completed this year off the pitch if there is a genuine desire to achieve promotion.
Posted 19 February 2013 - 09:01 AM
Finally I realised on Sunday that attending magic weekends and super league grand finals to get my fix of live rugby league don't come amywhere close to the feeling of watching MY team.
Posted 19 February 2013 - 10:25 AM
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My comment after the game was that in my opinion Oldham thoroughly out enthused Rochdale and I felt the enthusiasm from the players filtered through to the fans. I just hope they can keep this up every game, playing with that sort of work ethic and desire............... I for one will be one happy old man and continue cheering them on.
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Local rivalry is all good and well. Rochdale will continue to improve but so will we. Looking forward to a really good competitive season.
Very good news about the U20's. Many other clubs should hang their heads in shame
Posted 20 February 2013 - 11:41 PM
You will both go down well working in Mr Hamiltons Accounts Firm working with figures like that. . ie. larger than , bigger than ....smaller than . . . . etc etc ............ specifics are always a good idea, and not difficult for most people unless they are chairman of A RLFC ( for a fine example of being specific see Electricsheep posting under Law Cup Result ...........829 ........ )
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If you are so big on specifics Roughyedz can you specify where you get Electricsheep from . Perhaps specifics are not your strong point after all.
Now now boys................settle down.
The correcting of the spelling and/or grammar of individual posts would be a full time job.
We can forgive the odd typo can't we ?
Posted 21 February 2013 - 07:47 PM
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If you are so big on specifics Roughyedz can you specify where you get Electricsheep from . Perhaps specifics are not your strong point after all.
At least I tried and made an effort to add the info ........................... more than you two did ..............ha ha ha ...I DID type something in ..............829 wasnt TOO difficult was it now .......as eclecticsheep found ............ just 3 figures after all ....... im sure that you will let me know however if I have made any typos in this message as well .......
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discriminating - showing or indicating careful judgment and discernment especially in matters of taste; "the discriminating eye of the connoisseur"
Sheep (Ovis aries) are quadrupedal, ruminantmammals typically kept as livestock. Like all ruminants, sheep are members of the order Artiodactyla, the even-toed ungulates. Although the name "sheep" applies to many species in the genus Ovis, in everyday usage it almost always refers to Ovis aries. Numbering a little over one billion, domestic sheep are also the most numerous species of sheep.
Posted 22 February 2013 - 04:22 PM
Brian: you are not sheep!
Crowd: we are not sheep.
Lone voice: I am!
Was that you Eclectic?
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Della F. Franklin
Della Frances Davis Franklin, 68, of Parkersburg, W.Va., passed away on Jan. 28, 2013, at her residence.
She was born June 21, 1944, in Parkersburg, a daughter of Helen Wittekind Davis of Parkersburg and the late Edwin E. Davis.
Della graduated from Keyser High School, graduated from Camden Clark School of Nursing as a registered nurse, had worked at the WV Masonic Home and was retired from Love and Care Personal Care Home. She loved her family and being a grandmother, enjoyed traveling, was a children's Bible class teacher, and was a member of the North End Church of Christ.
She is survived by her husband Robert B. Franklin; two sons, Robert E. (Paula) Franklin of Parkersburg and Walter B. (Marcia) Franklin of Manchester, N.H.; two sisters, Deanna (Lewis) Pifer of Vienna, W.Va. and Dixie Twyman of Parkersburg; two brothers, Edwin (Leasa) Davis and Charles (Lynn) Davis, both of Parkersburg; and three grandchildren, Andrew and Isabella Franklin of Manchester, N.H. and Benjamin Franklin of Parkersburg.
Funeral services will be conducted 11:30 a.m. on Friday, at the North End Church of Christ with Steven Haguewood and Teddy Tackett officiating. Interment will follow at Sunset Memory Gardens. Visitation will be from 2-4 and 6-8 p.m. today at Lambert-Tatman Funeral Home, Pike St., south Parkersburg.
Memorial contributions may be made to Love and Care Personal Care Home, 5386 Dupont Road, Parkersburg, WV 26101.
Any online condolences may be left for the family at www.lamberttatman.com.


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Re: My Danica Patrick Collection
Wow--you really ARE a serious Fan & Danica collector. I have most of her Indycar diecasts, a couple small 1/64 scale but mostly replaced for the bigger 1/24 etc scales of Indycar and Nascar, NNS and the #10 cup car of course. I have around a dozen large scale die casts and around 5 smaller scaled ones but no pictures or anything, but have a couple Nascar decals of the #7 & #10 decals on my bumper. Very nice collection though so does Danica know about it as obviously you've met her and taken a pic with her, as she should be very impressed? Nice.


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Tuesday, February 25th, 2014 Mill Valley Public LibraryCreekside Room7 PM (doors open at 6:45)Illustrator I | February 25th, 7:00pm In this class, we will explore the basics of Adobe Illustrator CS6. We'll take a tour of the Illustrator user interface, and look at some of the key drawing tools. We'll practice drawing with the pen tool, and creating vector graphics with shape tools and the pathfinder. We'll take a brief look at text in Illustrator, as well as the Live Paint and Image Trace features. The class will also include a discussion of differences between Photoshop and Illustrator, and differences between vector and raster (bitmap) images. This class is geared towards students who have experience working on the Mac OS and are comfortable with computers, however no background in Illustrator is required.
Instructor: Elaine GruenkeElaine Gruenke has worked as a professional graphic designer for over fifteen years. She has a special passion for Photoshop as well as all of the Adobe Creative Cloud applications. Her experience includes working on fine art for the Venice Biennale using Photoshop, as well as working as a project manager and lesson designer for Adobe Press' Photoshop and After Effects Classroom in a Book books for the CS6 and CC versions. She has an M.A. in Graphic Design from Savannah College of Art and Design, and is the owner of Smartwork Design.
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Here is a look at recently released music.
Passion Pit "Gossamer"
Passion Pit's 2009 release, "Manners," was a breakthrough album for the Boston-based electro-pop band. So why did they wait more than three years to release the follow-up? According to posts on the band's website, lead singer and Passion Pit mastermind Michael Angelakos can be a bit of a perfectionist. That means trying out more music parts for one song than some bands do for an entire album. The result of this tedious process is "Gossamer." The album is mostly along the same lines as "Manners" when it comes to its sound. Angelakos' voice though doesn't sound as high as it did on that album. Here, he sounds closer to the way he did on Passion Pit's 2008 EP, "Chunk of Change." Still, these songs are heavy with keyboards and poppy beats. The opener, "Take A Walk," marches along to a bouncy cadence of keyboards and drums. "Mirrored Sea" is a little more frantic with its pop beat. The poppiness is dialed down in other songs, something that didn't happen on "Manners." Tracks such as "Constant Conversations" and "Love is Greed" are much more lush in their approach. But then there are the lyrics. This time around, we get more of a look inside Angelakos' head. "I'll Be Alright" talks about his racing thoughts. Passion Pit recently canceled tour dates so the 25-year-old singer could address mental-health issues including his bipolar disorder. "Carried Away" offers apologies and shows relationships aren't always ideal. "Gossamer" is a perfectionist putting his imperfections on tape.
The Gaslight Anthem "Handwritten"
The Gaslight Anthem continue its trend of being equal parts Bruce Springsteen and Social Distortion on "Handwritten." The New Jersey band enlisted Brendan O'Brien to produce its latest album. He was able to keep The Gaslight Anthem punk/folksy rock vibe intact while getting the band to expand on its sound. "Mulholland Drive" is typical Gaslight Anthem fare but with a drawn-out guitar solo. "Keepsake" tips the scale more toward Springsteen as Brian Fallon's voice even sounds like "The Boss" in some parts. Although, "Handwritten" isn't a direct ripoff of Springsteen. Instead, it pays tribute to the artist while the band keeps its punk leanings. The song "45" strikes a nice balance between the two. The album closes with "National Anthem," a nice acoustic number on which Fallon's voice is at its best.
The Reverend Horton Heat "25 To Life: Live"
Purveyors of the "psychobilly" sound, The Reverend Horton Heat celebrate its 25 years of existence with the concert CD/DVD, "25 To Life: Live." The CD sticks to Reverend live show staples including the combination of "Big Sky" and "The Baddest of the Bad" back-to-back along with "Psychobilly Freakout" and "Big Red Rocket of Love." There's a couple of noticeable exclusions from the setlist, but they manage to get most of the usuals in there. The Reverend Horton Heat is worth checking out at least once in concert. Jim Heath is masterful on the guitar and makes his country-meets-punk riffs seem all too easy. While Heath remains as smooth as can be on one side of the stage, Jimbo Wallace slaps around his standup bass on the other side. Most of that translates well on this live CD.
Out this week: Antibalas, "Antibalas"; David Archuleta, "Begin."; Apache Dropout, "Bubblegum Graveyard"; Atlas Genius, "Through the Glass"; Beat Connection, "The Palace Garden"; Blonds, "The Bad Ones"; Buffalo Killers, "Dig. Sow. Love. Grow."; Colt Ford, "Declaration of Independence"; Graham Gouldman, "Love and Work"; Bruce Hornsby, "Red Hook Summer: Music From The Original Motion Picture"; Los Straitjackets, "Jet Set"; Branford Marsalis Quartet, "Four MFs Playin' Tunes"; Marcus Miller, "Renaissance"; MuteMath, "Odd Soul Live In DC"; Redd Kross, "Researching the Blues"; The Reverend Peyton's Big Damn Band, "Between the Ditches"; Sixpence None the Richer, "Lost in Transition"; 10 Years, "Minus the Machine"; Various artists, "NOW That's What I Call Music! 43."
Out Aug. 14: Michael Andrews, "Spilling a Rainbow"; Black Pistol Fire, "Big Beat '59"; Spencer Breslin, "Labor Day"; The Classic Crime, "Phoenix"; Dead Can Dance, "Anastasis"; Insane Clown Posse, "The Mighty Death Pop!"; In This Moment, "Blood"; Korpiklaani, "Manala"; Loudness, "Eve to Dawn"; Loverboy, "Rock 'N' Roll Revival"; Michael Maricle, "The Heart Found You"; Charlie Mars, "Blackberry Light"; Daniel Powter, "Turn On the Lights": Shoes, "Ignition"; Slightly Stoopid, "Top of the World"; Twitch the Ripper, "Colorblind"; 2 Chainz, "Based on a T.R.U. Story"; Steve Vai, "The Story of Light"; Various artists, "Just Tell Me That You Want Me: A Tribute to Fleetwood Mac"; Yellowcard, "Southern Air."
• Rob Carroll writes about pop culture and entertainment for the Northwest Herald. He can be reached at email@example.com. You can also follow him on Facebook and Twitter.


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I teared up as I read your story. What a beautiful ending to your nursing relationship with your daughter! How lucky you are to have has that closeness for such a long time! Well done Mamma!
I teared up as I read your story. What a beautiful ending to your nursing relationship with your daughter! How lucky you are to have has that closeness for such a long time! Well done Mamma!
Mama to DD born September 7, 2010, and DS born October 28, 2012 and Wife to DH July 5, 2008
We love and love
It sounds like you and your daughter made this decision TOGETHER, which is fitting for a relationship that does involve two people. And you provided her (and yourself) with such lovely closure. Wonderful.
You can call me JoMo!
Mom to baby boy Joe, born 5/4/09 and breastfed for more than two and a half years, and baby girl Maggie, born 7/9/12.
Thank you again. I so much appreciate the comments letting me know it was a joint decision. I was feeling like I had somehow "made" her do this. It has now been almost a week. She sees her little brothers nursing and does not ask, but sometimes she tells me that she misses her "nursey". Hugs and cuddle time are especially important to her right now.
I love this place – so supportive and helpful!
What a lucky girl! I'm going through some of the same emotions right now, too. My DD will be 4 in November and has started going up to a week at a time without asking for milk. There's no doubt that I'm dry, even though she swears up and down that there's still a drink inside. Her latch is funny now that's hardly nursing and it kind of gives me the heebie jeebies. Still, I feel bad telling her no. It's a HUGE milestone, and parenting is so different with a child whom milk isn't the cure-all. We have not failed them, though.
tears.. I was thinking of beginning to wean my 2 year old and then I read this.. I don't think I can do it.
Momma to Benjamin, we recently made it nursing to age 2!!!!
Benjamin born 9-17-09


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ICBA Bancard's Subsidiary, TCM Bank, N.A., Sponsors Summer Back-To-School Promotion
Benefits Community Bank Customers and Local Students
Washington, D.C. (August 13, 2013)—TCM Bank, N.A., a subsidiary of ICBA Bancard, today announced that it organized and sponsored a summer credit card promotion for its agent bank clients from May through July. The idea behind the promotion was to help community banks grow their credit card portfolio while giving back to the students in their communities.
"This promotion was very successful because it combined the best things about community banking—high-quality personalized service, an excellent credit card offering and support for the local community," said Paul Weston, president and CEO, TCM Bank, N.A. "At TCM Bank, we are proud to be the 'back office' for our agents, helping them to be successful with very competitive, bank-branded credit card services."
Nearly 70 banks participated in the promotion, and the five that submitted the most credit card applications were announced as winners. TCM supplied 48 backpacks filled with school supplies along with balloons, Frisbees and T-shirts to each winner. Some of the winning banks held their community day event in conjunction with local youth organizations.
"We are so pleased to be winners of the TCM Bank Summer Visa® campaign. As our area's hometown community bank, we continually strive to give our customers the personal service they deserve and help them reach their financial goals with the best products possible," said S. Phillip Collins, president and CEO, Sound Bank, Morehead City, N.C. "Our campaign was a huge success because our associates were happy to offer such a high-quality Visa product to our customers while also giving back to local students. It was a true win-win."
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About TCM Bank, N.A.
TCM Bank, N.A., a subsidiary of ICBA Bancard, provides payment services for community banks including credit card program consulting, portfolio acquisition, product development and agent bank sponsorship choices. Through its Total Card Management™ program, it helps community banks promote their branded cards while limiting their exposure to risk and expense. For more information, visit www.icbabancard.org/tcmbank or call (800) 242-4770.
About ICBA Bancard
ICBA Bancard is the wholly owned payment services subsidiary of the Independent Community Bankers of America. ICBA Bancard provides community banks with equitable access to cutting edge credit card options, debit card options, ATM and merchant processing solutions as well as exclusive services including the Fraud Loss Protection Plan, portfolio consultations and portfolio analytical tools. For more information, visit the ICBA Bancard website at www.icbabancard.org or call (800) 242-4770.


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What is False Imprisonment?
False imprisonment happens when an employee is intentionally and illegally held against his or her will. False imprisonment in the workplace usually occurs when an overzealous employer investigates allegations of employee wrongdoing and tries to question the employee or coerce a confession.
Do I have to be forcefully restrained?
No. False imprisonment can occur in a few different ways. The most common way is if an employer refuses to allow you to leave a room. The employer might do this by locking you in a room, or by placing someone at the door to the room to prevent you from leaving. However, your movement must be completely confined in order for the employer's action to qualify as false imprisonment. Blocking your freedom of movement in one or more directions is not enough. If you can reasonably exit the room, false imprisonment has not occurred.
False imprisonment, however, does not require physical restraint. For instance, false imprisonment also occurs when an employer threatens to harm you or your property if you leave. In addition, false imprisonment could also occur if an employer threatens to have you arrested if you leave.
Can my employer confine me if I am suspected of theft?
If your employer has a lawful purpose to confine you, such as during a theft investigation, then false imprisonment has not occurred. But even in that situation, your employer may lawfully confine you while the only while it conducts a reasonable investigation. What is "reasonable" is determined on a case-by-case basis depending on the facts of the particular situation. For instance, an employer who confines an employee for five hours because he or she believes the employee has stolen a pack of gum is probably not reasonable.
What if I was not confined for very long?
There is no exact length of time that an employee must be held before an employer's action becomes false imprisonment. In at least one case, a court decided that a false imprisonment occurred when the confinement was for a period as short as fifteen minutes. However, the longer you are held, the less reasonable the confinement becomes.
How do I file a claim of False Imprisonment?
False imprisonment claims must be filed in court. But remember that even if your situation sounds like a false imprisonment case described above, it normally makes sense to file a claim only if you have some "damages." Damages are things like medical bills or the wages you lost from missing work time because of the false imprisonment. You might also have damages for emotional distress or psychological treatment you received as a result of the incident.
The amount of "damages" you are owed will usually determine which court you will want to file in. For smaller cases, Small Claims court might be your best bet. In Small Claims court, you do not need to find a lawyer (actually, lawyers aren't even allowed in Small Claims court), but the maximum amount you can recover is $7,500. If your claim is greater than $7,500 you should file in Superior Court.
The turnaround on Small Claims court claims is usually faster than Superior Court. The Small Claims court hearing is normally held within 30 to 70 days after the claim is filed. See the California Courts Self-Help Center for more information. Many counties also have a Small Claims Legal Advisor's Office that can you help with your claim.
For larger cases filed in Superior Court, you will have a much easier time if you hire a lawyer to represent you. Unfortunately, it might be difficult to find a lawyer to represent you unless you have a particularly large case. If you are not sure where to find a lawyer, you should start by contacting your local Bar Association and asking for a referral. Many questions about filing in court can also be answered by the Superior Court Clerk.
Should I file a Workers' Compensation claim if I suffered stress from my false imprisonment?
Probably not. False imprisonment claims are not covered by the workers' compensation system, meaning that you must file a lawsuit in court. to recover for an injury from false imprisonment by your employer.
For further information about your employment rights, contact the Workers' Rights Clinic.
This Fact Sheet is intended to provide accurate, general information regarding legal rights relating to employment in California. Yet because laws and legal procedures are subject to frequent change and differing interpretations, the Legal Aid Society–Employment Law Center cannot ensure the information in this Fact Sheet is current nor be responsible for any use to which it is put. Do not rely on this information without consulting an attorney or the appropriate agency about your rights in your particular situation.


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Now that we're well into President Obama's fifth year in office, there are no prizes for guessing what the GOP's response is to a diverse slate of nominees to the critical DC Circuit Court of Appeals.
Obstruct. Obstruct. Obstruct.
Even before they were nominated, Republican Senators were laying the groundwork to block anyone nominated to the circuit. Now that President Obama has nominated three unquestionably qualified jurists with broad support from across the ideological spectrum…Republican leaders are still intent on denying them simple yes-or-no votes.
We've created a simple graphic to share on Facebook to let Republicans know you're watching how they treat this diverse set of nominees. Click here to share.
Earlier this week President Obama nominated three unquestionably qualified candidates – appellate attorney Patricia Millet, former civil rights attorney Cornelia Pillard and D.C. District Court judge Robert Wilkins – to the D.C. Circuit, the second most influential court in the country. Republicans are already fighting hard against these nominations, claiming that the D.C. Circuit doesn't have a large enough workload to necessitate filling the vacant seats. Sen. Chuck Grassley (D-IA) even went as far as to say, "No matter how you slice it, the D.C. Circuit ranks last or almost last in nearly every category that measures workload."
Not quite. Glenn Kessler at The Washington Post wrote an article this morning delving deeper into Sen. Grassley's claims. Kessler wrote,
"Challenged by Grassley's claim that the D.C. Circuit is last 'no matter how you slice it,' we came up with two other measures that might shed more light on the D.C. Circuit's workload… One way to measure this is by looking at the data for 'administrative appeals.'
In 2012, nearly 45 percent of those appeals at the D.C. Circuit involved administrative appeals concerning federal rules and regulations, which many experts say are highly complex and take more time to review. By contrast, at the other circuits, virtually all of the administrative appeals involve immigration cases. Using the data in Table B-3, we found that in the other circuits, administrative appeals that did not involve immigration matters accounted for less than 3 percent of the appeals. (In some circuits, it was less than 1 percent.)"
In other words, the D.C. Circuit is considering some of the most intricate and far-reaching cases of any court. The complexity of these types of cases make apples-to-apples comparisons with other circuits difficult.
Kessler continues:
"Another measure of the complexity of the cases are statistics on written opinions. The raw data suggest that judges on the D.C. Circuit write fewer opinions than judges on other appeals circuits. (This was one stat that Grassley staff sent us.) But Table S-3 shows that the D.C. Circuit produced a greater proportion of written, signed opinions on cases determined on the merits than most other circuits."
Overall, the Post concludes,
"[T]he certainty in Grassley's argument is particularly misplaced, given the unusual nature of the D.C. Circuit… you can't just assert that one appeals filing is equal to another — or that one set of statistics is better than another. Depending on the metrics, the D.C. Circuit could very well be in first place."
In 2005, Sen. Grassley did not seem to have these workload concerns when he voted to confirm Bush nominees Janice Rogers Brown and Thomas B. Griffith to the tenth and eleventh seats on the D.C. Circuit. Yet when he and other Republicans cast those votes, the court was handling the same number of cases as it is now. As President Obama pointed out in his speech announcing the three nominees, this is an overtly political move on the part of Senate Republicans:
"When a Republican was president, 11 judges on the D.C. Circuit Court made complete sense. Now that a Democrat is president, it apparently doesn't – eight is suddenly enough."
People For the American Way today applauded President Obama's announcement that he would nominate Cornelia (Nina) Pillard, Patricia Ann Millett and Robert Leon Wilkins to the DC Circuit Court of Appeals.
"Today's announcement is an important step toward filling the remaining vacancies on one of our nation's highest courts," said Marge Baker, Executive Vice President at People For the American Way. "These nominees all have accomplished records. They should receive prompt hearings and votes in the full Senate without delay.
"These nominations are a clear statement by the President that he won't be held hostage by the relentless obstruction by Senate Republicans," continued Baker. "Nearly five years after he was elected, President Obama has had only one nominee confirmed to the DC Circuit, but Republicans are insisting that fulfilling his constitutional obligation to nominate individuals to fill open seats on this Court is somehow 'court packing.' That's ridiculous. Republican Senators should stop playing political games with the courts and end their mindless obstruction of President Obama's nominees."


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2005 Playoff Contenders Alex Smith Autograph RC #/401
|The San Francisco Bay Area, and Northern California in general, is a part of the world that can embrace athletes the rest of the sporting world has written off. Some examples in the past might be the Raiders team and made it to the Super Bowl with Rich Gannon, Jerry Rice, Tim Brown and other "older" players. Barry Bonds was hated and often booed across the entire country, but still draws cheers from fans to this day in San Francisco. Vlade Divac was re-born in Sacramento, Aubrey Huff and Cody Ross are superstars.
That being said, the fans around here can go from being "some of the best in the league" to booing & trashing the players on talk-radio … especially when you don't win.
You could throw Alex Smith, quarterback of the San Francisco 49ers, and former #1 pick in 2005, into the list of players fans were booing for most of his career. The 49ers themselves have tried to replace Alex Smith several times, they even drafted young quarterback Colin Kaepernick in 2011. Not to mention during the current off-season, after Alex Smith finally has a great season, (which led the 49ers all the way to the NFC championship game) the 49ers were rumored as one of the teams trying to sign Peyton Manning. Coach Jim Harbaugh downplayed the issue after Manning signed with Denver, but one thing is for certain, Alex Smith's career has been a wild ride!
Speaking of wild rides, you can bet with the ups/downs Alex Smith has experienced in the past year – one of his best rookie cards has been going up/down right with him. Smith has tons of rookie cards, but I found some really nice data on his 2005 Playoff Contenders RC #106 – which has a stated print run of 401 copies. This time last year (July 2011) collectors weren't paying much attention to Alex Smith, and most San Francisco 49ers fans had given up on the 7 year pro. Being the #1 pick, Even as the 49ers were winning games, the lack of big numbers from Smith kept most collectors away.
Then this little thing called the NFL Playoffs started
|The rise in this price graph is not nearly as impressive as the data actually is if you include all the Buy-It-Now cards that were sold. Many eBay sellers were moving these during the December – January months as the 49ers marched through the playoffs for Buy-it-Now prices similar to the ones you see in the month of January. This data below only includes auctions with multiple bids … so the volume of cards sold during the NFL Playoff months was much greater.
This graph shows how quickly your cards can go up in the NFL if your team starts winning games. This graph also shows how important it is to remember as collectors – you can always wait until the hype wears off to buy the cards at a lower price. Even if the 49ers had went on to win the Super Bowl, his cards would have certainly cooled off a bit during the off-season. Buying cards during the heat of the playoff run is always exciting …. but being able to sell the card for that price ($200) is going to be difficult now unless Alex Smith can win a Super Bowl.
Buying in at today's price of $75 – $80 really can't get you hurt too bad considering the same card was selling for $25 – $40 when everyone thought he sucked. Additionally, if you are a collector who never really sells your cards, you can see selling this card during the hype would have been a great idea because you could have bought one back later at a much lower price. You'll want to keep this in mind as we are on the cusp of the 2012 NFL season
Here Is The Raw eBay Data
7/10/2011 — $37.00
|Current Contenders Cards on eBay
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text: Hi I am breastfeeding my newborn son who is 3 days old. We did great in the hospital he had 6 wet diapers and 3 dirty diapers on both days. He latched on great the only thing is he would only nurse for about 5 min on each breast before falling asleep. Now at home today it has been horrible he won't nurse on my right breast and he will only nurse on my left breast for five minutes before falling asleep he only had 3 wet diapers today so I am worried maybe he is not getting enough now. I pumped out my milk from my right breast which was only about 1 ounce each time. When I get him to latch on my right breast he will suck a couple of times and then starts screaming. I don't know what to do. I don't think hes getting enough milk. When he does nurse on my left breast he falls asleep after five minutes and if I take him off he starts to cry or wakes up after I put he down and wants to nurse again. I am so confused. Should I supplement until he starts to nurse longer or just keep trying to feed him on left breast only?


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Christopher Rouse: Heimdall's Trumpet heralds Armageddon in Chicago(February 2013)
Christopher Rouse's new concerto, Heimdall's Trumpet, summons gods and humans for one final battle, in a showpiece for trumpet soloist and orchestra alike.
Heimdall's Trumpet, Christopher Rouse's new concerto for Chicago Symphony principal trumpet Christopher Martin enjoyed a successful premiere in December, with Musical America describing it as "a concerto I would happily hear again and one that virtuoso orchestras will surely want to play… [Martin's] technical command was literally breath-taking. He nailed the composer's huge, exposed leaps and tight, lightning-fast passage work with eloquence and ease." Rouse characterises the trumpet part as a clarion call to a world on the brink of destruction, drawing on Norse mythology when Heimdall's blasts on his trumpet will announce the onset of Ragnarok.
"…the premiere of Heimdall's Trumpet was an evocation of Armageddon, the moment when the god Heimdall summons gods and humans for one final battle …the 20-minute concerto was a deftly paced ride to the edge of the abyss… Rouse shapes his compositions with purpose. This is not a work that alternates between frenzy and quiet simply to show off the orchestra's myriad colors, its ability to handle tricky rhythms, or to keep listeners off-balance… there seems to be emotional reason behind every note. Whether the querulous, jittery flutters of the solo trumpet or the quietly ecstatic lyricism of serene winds and hovering strings, we feel that this musical journey is taking us somewhere we want to go."
Musical America
"Count Heimdall's Trumpet as another Rouse success. Not all of the American composer's works for soloist and orchestra are outright display pieces but this trumpet concerto melds solo pyrotechnics against a dramatic symphonic tapestry in especially graceful and compelling fashion."
Chicago Classical Review
"… hold on to the roller coaster and enjoy the ride…"
Chicago Tribune
Rouse has started his two-season residency with the New York Philharmonic and the first major new score is a concert-opener, Prospero's Rooms, to be premiered on 17 April and toured in May to Istanbul, Zürich, Munich, Dresden and Vienna under the baton of Alan Gilbert.
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Computerworld – Two separate enforcement actions taken this week by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services for HIPAA privacy violations should serve as a warning to all healthcare entities, say privacy analysts.
The agency announced on Thursday that it had imposed a civil monetary penalty of $4.3 million on health insurer Cignet Health for violating the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act's privacy provisions.
This week's other enforcement action involved Massachusetts General Hospital, which agreed to pay HHS a total of $1 million to settle potential HIPAA privacy violations.
The action against Cignet represented the first time since HIPAA became law that such a fine has been imposed on an organization in the healthcare field over a privacy violation.
HHS said the fine was levied on Cignet for two reasons: It did not give 41 patients access to their medical records when they asked for it, and it did not subsequently cooperate with an investigation into the matter by HHS's Office for Civil Rights (OCR)…
…The actions could be a sign that HHS is getting serious about enforcing HIPAA's privacy requirements more stringently, said Deborah Peel, founder and chairwoman of the Patient Privacy Rights Foundation.
These actions are among "the most significant things that the administration has done for patient privacy," Peel said.
Both HIPAA and the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act, which was passed as part of the 2009 stimulus package, contain provisions for protecting the privacy and security of patient data.
"But nobody has been paying attention to them. It's like mass civil disobedience by industry," Peel said. "So this is incredibly welcome for patients."


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Pet of the Week - Jango
Meet Jango! Jango is a 5 month old neutered male. He has short Black hair and can't wait to meet you! This handsome man is sweet, silly, and playful. He is young and enjoys playing with toys to release some of his kitten energy! He is hopeful that he will find a family who will play with him and provide lots of fun toys and soft beds! Jango's personality should make him a great fit for any home. With parental guidance, he should do well with children of any age; however he would likely do best with children who are a little older and understand his kitten play style. With time to adjust and proper introductions, he should also do well with other pets. We think he would really enjoy another feline friend in the house and if you wanted to adopt him and a friend, you can do so for just one adoption fee through our Twice the Love Program. Jango is in search for the "purrfect" family to join-come on in; he can't wait to meet you!
If you would like to help our wonderful friends while they are waiting to be adopted, the Coulee Region Humane Society is always looking for donations. These donations go a long way in making the stay more comfortable for our animal guests.
Click here to view the latest updated Wish List from the Coulee Region Humane Society
Coulee Region Humane Society
911 Critter Court, Onalaska, WI 54650
Phone: (608) 781-4014
Fax: (608) 781-1646
Office Hours:
Monday, Wednesday and Friday: 9:00 a.m. -- 5:00 p.m.
Tuesday and Thursday: 9:00 a.m. -- 7:00 p.m.
Saturday and Sunday: 1:00 p.m. -- 5:00 p.m.
Kennel Viewing Hours:
Monday and Friday: 1:00 p.m. -- 5:00 p.m.
Tuesday and Thursday: 1:00 p.m. -- 7:00 p.m.
Wednesday: CLOSED
Saturday and Sunday: 1:00 p.m. -- 5:00 p.m.
Mission Statement:
The Coulee Region Humane Society actively promotes the humane treatment of animals and positive human-animal relationships.