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Moist, flavorful bars that leave just a hint of extra virgin olive oil.
Recipe Servings: 16 portions
Recipe Preparation Time: 10 minutes
Recipe Cook Time: 35 minutes
3/4 cup cooked or canned pumpkin
1/3 cup Lucini® Premium Select Extra Virgin Olive Oil®
1/2 cup brown rice syrup
1/4 cup unsweetened almond milk
1 tsp pure vanilla extract
1 cup whole-wheat pastry flour
1/2 cup semolina flour
Pinch sea salt
Generous pinch ground cinnamon
Pinch ground ginger
1/2 tsp baking powder
1/2 cup coarsely chopped walnuts
1 3.5oz ark chocolate bar, coarsely chopped (optional)
Preheat oven to 350°F and lightly oil an 8 x 8-inch brownie pan.
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NASCAR Sprint Cup Series News and Notes
Race: Coca-Cola 600
Date: Sunday, May 26, 2013
Location: Charlotte Motor Speedway
Richard Childress Racing at Charlotte ... In 131 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series starts at Charlotte Motor Speedway, Richard Childress Racing teams have earned six points-paying victories. Four wins were claimed by Dale Earnhardt, while Jeff Burton added to that total with a win in the October 2008 race and, most recently, Kevin Harvick took home the trophy in one of NASCAR's marquee events - the Coca-Cola 600 - in May 2011. Harvick also recorded an impressive win in the 2007 NASCAR Sprint All-Star Race to go along with Earnhardt's three victories in the annual all-star showcase, giving RCR 10 total Sprint Cup Series checkered flags at CMS. Additionally, RCR boasts 20 top-five and 42 top-10 finishes at the 1.5-mile track with seven different drivers including Clint Bowyer, Burton, Earnhardt, Harvick, Ricky Rudd and Mike Skinner. Childress, a former driver on NASCAR's senior circuit, contributed two of those top-10 finishes from 1978-1979. The Welcome, N.C.-based organization has led a combined 1,112 laps at the Charlotte facility.
RCR in the NSCS ... In 2,306 Sprint Cup Series starts dating back to 1969, RCR has amassed 102 wins, 42 pole awards, 438 top-five finishes and 919 top-10 finishes, with an average starting position of 17.9 and an average finishing position of 15.8. RCR has earned 14 total championships (six Sprint Cup Series championships with Earnhardt in 1986, '87, '90,'91, '93 and '94, five NASCAR Nationwide Series titles, two NASCAR Camping World Truck Series titles and one ARCA Racing Series presented by Menards title) and was the first organization to win titles in NASCAR's three national series.
RCR All-Star Rewind ... Last weekend, Harvick finished 11th in the Sprint All-Star Race while Burton and Paul Menard competed in the Sprint Showdown, finishing third and fourth, respectively.
Goodyear "Gives Back" to Help Support Our Troops® ... The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company, exclusive tire supplier of NASCAR's three major national series, is honoring the U.S. Armed Forces with the launch of the "Goodyear Gives Back" program, a charitable fund-raising effort to benefit Support Our Troops®. This organization helps to boost the morale of active duty troops and their families through care packages sent to the front lines and programs for families at home. Goodyear is running special "Support Our Troops" tires in the NASCAR Nationwide and Sprint Cup Series races at Charlotte Motor Speedway over the Memorial Day holiday race weekend (May 23-26), hosting a care package event with volunteers and NASCAR partners helping to pack and send boxes to troops deployed overseas and will be onsite with a large display where fans can get involved. Throughout the program (May 23 - July 8) fans can join in by visiting www.Goodyear.com/GivesBack, where they can bid on authentic autographed race-used Goodyear NASCAR Support Our Troops tires, rides in the Goodyear blimp, VIP at-track experiences and other racing memorabilia. In addition, fans can make direct donations, and purchase limited-edition Goodyear Gives Back merchandise - all to benefit the Support Our Troops organization.
The Collective RCR ... Throughout the season's first 11 races, RCR's Sprint Cup Series entries have earned one win with Harvick at Richmond International Raceway (April), notched three top-five and nine top-10 finishes with drivers Burton, Austin Dillon, Harvick and Menard. RCR's three full-time Sprint Cup Series drivers are 10th (Harvick), 11th (Menard) and 20th (Burton) in the driver championship point standings.
Interactive RCR ... For up-to-date news and exclusive content, visit RCR's Twitter page - @RCRracing - along with the RCR Sprint Cup Series team Twitter pages - @RCR27PMenard, @RCR29KHarvick, @RCR31JeffBurton and driver Twitter page @KevinHarvick. Information about the 14-time championship winning organization can be found on Facebook at www.facebook.com/RichardChildressRacing and at www.RCRracing.com along with official driver pages - www.facebook.com/PaulMenard27, www.facebook.com/OfficialKevinHarvick and www.facebook.com/OfficialJeffBurton.
Catch the Action ... FOX's live coverage of the Coca-Cola 600 begins Sunday, May 26 at 5:30 p.m. Eastern Time. The race will also be broadcast on the Performance Racing Network and SiriusXM NASCAR Radio.
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No. 27 Serta/Menards Chevrolet SS
This Week's Serta/Menards Chevrolet ... Paul Menard will pilot chassis No. 418 in the Coca-Cola 600 at Charlotte Motor Speedway. This No. 27 Chevrolet SS raced at Texas Motor Speedway earlier this season.
Charlotte by the Numbers ... Menard has 12 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series starts at Charlotte Motor Speedway. His best start of fifth and best finish of eighth both came in 2010. The Wisconsin native has completed 4,044 of 4,246 laps attempted (95.5 percent) at the 1.5-mile track.
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Race Rewind ... In last year's 600-mile race Menard started the No. 27 Chevrolet from the ninth position and fought a tight-handling race car thought the event, ultimately finishing 15th.
Thoughts on the racing at Charlotte Motor Speedway: "The Coca-Cola 600 has a lot of prestige associated with it. It's one of those races, like the Brickyard or the Daytona 500, that everyone would like to win. It's the only 600-mile race on the schedule, which makes it really unique. Once the engines fire though, you kind of lose track of how long you are in the car. It goes by pretty quick and I don't really notice the extra 100 miles. We'll have a long night ahead of us and we'll need to make sure we keep up with the adjustments on the Serta/Menards Chevrolet as the track conditions change throughout the evening."
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This Week's Budweiser Folds of Honor Chevrolet SS at Charlotte Motor Speedway ... Kevin Harvick will pilot chassis No. 425 from the Richard Childress Racing NASCAR Sprint Cup Series stable in the Coca-Cola 600. This Chevrolet is new to the No. 29 team lineup and will make its first competitive laps this weekend at Charlotte Motor Speedway.
CMS Stats ... This Sunday's race marks Harvick's 24th points-paying, Sprint Cup Series start at the Concord, N.C.-based facility. In addition to his 2011 Coca-Cola 600 victory, the California native has collected two top-five and seven top-10 finishes, completed 97.3 percent of the laps contested and led six laps.
Here's to the Heroes ... The No. 29 Budweiser Folds of Honor Chevrolet will don a special patriotic paint scheme for Sunday's 600-mile event at Charlotte Motor Speedway to reflect the special "Red, White and Blue Summer" packaging featured on the iconic Budweiser bottles and cans this summer. The packaging represents a special initiative in which the brand will contribute a portion of all sales from May 5 - July 4 to help raise as much as $1.5 million for the Folds of Honor Foundation*, which provides post-secondary educational scholarships for families of U.S. military personnel killed or disabled while serving their country. Since 2010, Budweiser has raised more than $5 million for the Folds of Honor Foundation and provided more than 1,000 educational scholarships to the families of soldiers killed or disabled in service. (*Donation of 2 cents per case of Budweiser sold, May 5, 2013 to July 4, 2013, with a maximum donation of $1.5 million.)
Harvick Visiting Fort Bragg ... On Thursday, Harvick will join Folds of Honor Foundation Founder Major Dan Rooney and Rocky Sickmann, director of military sales for Anheuser-Busch, at Fort Bragg, N.C. to make a special presentation to the base, tour the Warrior Transition Battalion and meet with soldiers. The visit is a part of Budweiser's "Red, White and Blue Summer" initiative, which benefits the Folds of Honor Foundation. Media members will have an opportunity to interview Harvick, Rooney and Sickmann at 10 a.m. ET at the Fort Bragg Mini-Mall.
Budweiser Red, White and Blue Festival ... Budweiser will honor area members of the U.S. Armed Forces and their families with the Budweiser Red White and Blue Festival in Fayetteville, N.C., from 4 - 10 p.m. on Thursday, May 23, at Festival Park. Entertainment for the evening includes country music recording artists Jason Michael Carroll, Parmalee and Jamie Tate, and members of the All Veteran Parachute Team. The event will feature photo opportunities with the iconic Budweiser Clydesdales and Kevin Harvick's No. 29 Budweiser Folds of Honor Chevrolet. Guests can also try their hand at being a NASCAR pit crew member with the Richard Childress Racing interactive pit car or participate in a cornhole tournament. Food and beverages will be available for purchase, but admission to the festival is free and open to the public. Additional details about the Budweiser Red, White and Blue Festival are available on the Festival Park website: http://www.faydogwoodfestival.com.
Welcome Home ... Army Lt. Jennifer Jackson, who recently returned from a deployment in Southwest Asia, will be an honorary member of the No. 29 Budweiser Folds of Honor Chevrolet team on Sunday at Charlotte Motor Speedway. Jackson is being recognized as part of the track's "Welcome Home Our Troops" program to honor the many men and women returning from deployment. The speedway placed members of several units that recently returned to Fort Bragg with each of the 43 NSCS teams competing this weekend.
Teeing Off for a Cause ... On Wednesday, Harvick will tee off in the fourth annual John Paul Linville Memorial Golf Tournament Presented by BB&T Wealth, an event that honors wife DeLana's father who lost his battle with cancer in 2005. Funds raised at the tournament will benefit the Kevin Harvick Foundation, which is dedicated to the support of programs that positively enrich the lives of children throughout the United States by supporting programs such as the Kevin Harvick Athletic Scholarship, Kevin's Krew, children in foster care and P.O.W.E.R. of Play.
Double Duty ... In addition to driving the No. 29 Budweiser Chevrolet SS in Sunday night's race, Harvick will pilot the No. 33 Hunt Brothers Pizza Chevrolet Camaro in the NASCAR Nationwide Series event on Saturday, May 25. This race is scheduled to air live on ABC at 2:30 p.m. Eastern Time, along with the Performance Racing Network and SiriusXM NASCAR Radio.
Race Rewind ... Harvick and RCR's No. 29 Budweiser Folds of Honor team collected an eighth-place finish in the 2012 Coca-Cola 600 under the lights at Charlotte Motor Speedway after starting 14th and battling handling issues for the majority of the event.
The Coca-Cola 600 is a special race annually, because it falls on Memorial Day weekend. Share your thoughts about the event and the many ways it honors America's Armed Forces: "To be able to have so many service men and women at the race track for our race this weekend and be able to see them, and shake their hands and tell them thank you is something that I think all the fans and drivers - and our sport in general - do a very good job of showing our appreciation. To have the race on Memorial Day weekend is just an added bonus, but to honor our troops is what it's all about."
Share your thoughts on running the Coca-Cola 600. "Man, the Coca-Cola 600 is a long race. For drivers, our bodies have adapted to running 400 or 500-mile events. This event is unique not only because we have to mentally prepare ourselves for that extra 100 miles, but the team also has to set the car up to go from day to night. It's a challenging race and a lot can change or happen. We were fortunate to win this race in 2011 and it came down to the last lap and fuel mileage, so you just never know how things are going to play out."
What is the key to being physically and mentally prepared for such a long, competitive race? "The biggest thing is just hydration. Obviously, you're mentally trained to run 400 or 500 miles, so that last 100 miles is different than what your body and mind is used to. You definitely have to prepare yourself a little bit different to get through those last 100 miles."
How much does Charlotte Motor Speedway change from start to finish during the Coca-Cola 600? "Charlotte (Motor Speedway) is definitely a track that changes more than most. For some reason, it seems like sun changes that track drastically, so when the sun starts going down the race track starts to take a turn in a different direction. You have to be prepared, and try to set your car up in advance for those changing conditions."
Jeff Burton
No. 31 Cheerios Chevrolet SS
This Weekend's Cheerios Chevrolet at Charlotte Motor Speedway ... Jeff Burton will race chassis No. 372 this weekend at Charlotte Motor Speedway in the Coca-Cola 600. This No. 31 Chevrolet was utilized earlier this season at Bristol Motor Speedway.
Career Charlotte Stats ... The 2013 Coca-Cola 600 marks Burton's 39th start at the 1.5-mile facility and his 667th-career NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race. Burton notched his last Sprint Cup Series victory at Charlotte Motor Speedway in October 2008. Throughout the years, he has amassed three wins, eight top-five and 15 top-10 finishes at the track, leading 435 laps.
No Stranger to Victory Lane ... Burton has made six previous visits to Charlotte Motor Speedway's Victory Lane across Sprint Cup Series and NASCAR Nationwide Series competition. He owns two Coca-Cola 600 race trophies from wins in 1999 and 2001, the 2008 Charlotte 500 race trophy, hardware from three Nationwide Series victories (2000, 2002 and 2007) and one Nationwide Series pole award (2001).
Black and Yellow ... The iconic General Mills brand Cheerios returns as the primary sponsor on Burton's No. 31 Chevrolet SS. America's No.1 cereal franchise will bring its fan-favorite yellow and black paint scheme to these additional races in 2013: Dover International Speedway (June 2), Michigan International Speedway (August 18) and New Hampshire Motor Speedway (September 22). General Mills has roots as a NASCAR sponsor for more than 15 years and began its partnership with RCR in 2008 with the Cheerios brand as the primary sponsor of the No. 33 Sprint Cup Series team. The program moved to the No. 31 team as a co-primary sponsor for the 2012 Sprint Cup Series season.
Bring a Sharpie ... Burton is scheduled to participate in an autograph session on behalf of Coca-Cola at the Walmart located on 5825 Thunder Rd NW, Concord,N.C. on Wednesday, May 22at 3:30 p.m. Eastern Time.
Race Rewind ... Burton and the No. 31 Wheaties Chevrolet team finished 19th after a tire issue late in the race forced them to make an unscheduled green-flag pit stop in the 2012 running of the Coca-Cola 600.
Talk about your mindset at Charlotte Motor Speedway with track changes from day to night in the Coca-Cola 600. "Track position is so important in a long race like the Coca-Cola 600. If you don't push your car, you won't realize what it can and can't do. You just can't ride around, and you must put your car in position to learn from it and know what you have as the intensity picks up at the end of the race. You have to run hard every lap if you want to accomplish your goals. The temperature change definitely affects the track more here and at Indianapolis Motor Speedway than anywhere else for some reason."


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- Conservation rules for entanglement transfer between qubits
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- Chan, Stanley; Reid, M. D.; Ficek, Z.
- Abstract
- We consider an entangled but non-interacting qubit pair a1 and b1 that is independently coupled to a set of local qubit systems, aI and bJ, of 0 bit value, respectively. We derive rules for the transfer of entanglement from the pair a1–b1 to an arbitrary pair aI–bJ, for the case of qubit-number conserving local interactions. It is shown that the transfer rule depends strongly on the initial entangled state. If the initial entanglement is in the form of the Bell state corresponding to anti-correlated qubits, the sum of the square of the nonlocal pairwise concurrences is conserved. If the initial state is the Bell state with correlated qubits, this sum can be reduced, even to zero in some cases, to reveal a complete and abrupt loss of all nonlocal pairwise entanglement. We also identify that for the nonlocal bipartitions A–bJ involving all qubits at one location, with one qubit bJ at the other location, the concurrences satisfy a simple addition rule for both cases of the Bell states that the sum of the square of the nonlocal concurrences is conserved.
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- Research centre
- Swinburne University of Technology
- Source
- Journal of Physics B: Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics, Vol. 43, no. 21 (2010)
- Publication year
- 2010
- FOR Code(s)
- 0202 Atomic, Molecular, Nuclear, Particle and Plasma Physics; 0205 Optical Physics
- Keyword(s)
- Conservation rules; Entanglement transfer; Qubits
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- 0953-4075
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Body Heat Activated Teddy Bear Hidden Camera Monitors and Records Your Home Covertly
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PIR Body Heat Activation Only Records The Action
The original teddy bear hidden camera has experienced a serious upgrade. Featuring a PIR motion activation system this hidden camera senses body heat up to 30 ft. away, this hidden camera immediately starts recording high resolution video onto a removable SD card. No more false alarms that set the camera off and drain the battery. With body heat activation, there is virtual no battery drain because the camera will ONLY record the action. This lets the hidden camera last for up to 1 year on a single charge with 20 hours of actual recording before you need to think about recharging.
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No more power cords required! Our totally portable Teddy Bear Hidden Camera can quickly be placed in any location without the worry of AC outlets or extension cords. This ordinary looking bear is 10" tall and 5" wide and fits in any child's room or bedroom to easily monitor your kids or any room in your home. Recordings can be played back to TV/VCR directly from unit, or SD card can be removed from hidden, zipped compartment and played on your PC.
640 x 480 VGA High Resolution @12~ 1 fps (User Selectable)
MPEG4 (30fps real time video) Resolution 320 X 240
Low Light Color CCD 450 LOR Camera .05 Lux
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The Curriculum Advisory Committee for the new associate degree Lodging Operations program at the Greenbrier Community College Center of Bluefield State College met recently to provide input. Advisory Committee members include Rod Stoner (The Greenbrier Resort), Ashby Berkley (Pence Springs Hotel), Tootie O'Flahery (Swift Level), Leslee McCarty (Current B and B), Marlene Ferguson (State Fair of WV), John McIlhenney (Lewisburg Visitor Center), Cary Butler (Snowshoe Mountain Resort), Nan Morgan (General Lewis Inn), Cheryl Griffith, Natalie Sandell (Creek Side), Rhonda Floyd (Super 8 Motel), Cara Hefner (Pocahontas Tourism Commission), Mary Pearl Compton (WV House of Delegates), Dr. David Perkins (GCCC Director), Dr. Lessor of mat advise the College regarding courses and content, serve as a liaison with the community to share information about the program, and assist in career placement of graduates. The establishment of the Lodging Operations Program Advisory Committee represents a significant step in strengthening the quality and usefulness of the program,'" Dr. Perkins noted. "The advice we receive will benefit both program participants and lodging employees in the Greenbrier Valley."


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This week's Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit and all the associated road closures are having a big impact on businesses around the Hawaii Convention Center.
Big and small businesses said they're taking a big hit this week because residents are staying away from the area.
Akasaka?s parking lot was empty at the height of the lunch hour, which is normally a profitable time for the popular Japanese restaurant.
"Never like this. It hurts a lot. Yes. Look at it. This is empty," said Akasaka manager Mi Ok Choe.
Choe cut Wednesday?s staffing in half because the restaurant is losing $700 to $1,000 a day on lunch and up to $1,500 on dinner, even though there is access to the restaurant on Kona Street.
But there is a roadblock at the end of Kona at Atkinson Drive, and Choe believes that is keeping customers away.
"If I were a customer too, I wouldn't come. It's too hard. I don't blame them," Choe said.
Seoul Garden Yakiniku restaurant on Kapiolani Boulevard is seeing a 70 percent decline in customers.
"They scared to get too much traffic and taking time, especially lunch hour. Big time, losing business,? said Seoul Garden owner, Yun Hee.
The right eastbound lane of Kapiolani Boulevard remained open up to Atkinson on Wednesday, leading right into the parking of lot of popular eateries like Blazin Steaks, which is usually packed during lunch hour.
Its owner pumped up inventory 400 percent to prepare for possible APEC crowds, which haven?t materialized yet.
"It's definitely a little slower than we thought, than we anticipated. But we've been pretty steady. I think we've been a little more fortunate than most businesses around here,? said Blazin Steaks owner Keone Gaspar.
At Ala Moana Center, employees said the shopping mall was also empty.
Vendors along the mall said business was way down on Wednesday.
?See, usually we sell 21 boxes. I?ve sold two boxes today -- two boxes of tea. That?s horrible. I?m not even trying anymore. I want to go home. I didn?t make any money,? said Catalina Freitas, a weight-loss tea vendor.
But the restaurants and businesses hope to see a recovery starting Thursday when world leaders and foreign dignitaries start arriving and APEC kicks into full gear.


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In the medical field, doctors have to be prepared for the routine and the irregular.
That's why staff at Gundersen Lutheran Hospital in La Crosse were busy this week, sharpening their skills in case of a rare emergency situation.
"I'm doctor Copps, I'm one of the emergency room doctors," said Dr. David Copps, an emergency physician with Gundersen Lutheran.
It's the challenge emergency room doctors face, how to treat patients quickly and safely.
"Any head injury [or] loss of consciousness?" Copps asked Tri-State paramedics. "Nope, isolated injury," said the paramedic."
But how do doctors treat patients with a problem they've rarely or sometimes have never seen before?
"He is radioactive," the paramedic told Copps.
Copps and about a dozen other staff members at Gundersen are participating in a planned exercise to brush up on their skills in treating patients with radiation contamination.
"It's a contact issue," said Copps. "So if you touch something that's contaminated [and then] go and do something else [then] go back and touch some other part of the patient, then you've re-contaminated the patient. So that's [the reason] why for the very regular checks with the very sensitive radiologic detectors."
This radiation contamination training is required once a year not only for hospital staff, but those who work at Dairyland Power Cooperative.
That's the company that owns the former nuclear power plant 15 miles south of La Crosse in Genoa.
Even though the plant hasn't been operational for more than twenty-years, both the plant and hospital staff still need to be prepared.
Gundersen's Emergency Manager, Tom Wright said this type of training could come in handy for other rare events too.
"In this day and age, we think there's always the possibility for terrorism, and so to stay continuously ready, that's our mission," said Wright.
So after cleaning and a thorough scan with the detector, the patient is ready to be wheeled into main hospital for further treatment.
While most of the focus is on keeping the patient's safe, doctors also have to remember to take care of themselves too.
"We're getting pretty good at this as we're going along," said Copps. "It's always difficult to remember as far as getting the clothes on taking the clothes off -- the order, and making sure we're getting our potentially contaminated clothes off without contaminating the clean parts of our body."
Once the nuclear plant in Genoa is completely decommissioned, staff at Dairyland Power will no longer have to do this type of training.
However, hospital staff will likely still continue with theirs.
There is another nuclear generator located in Red Wing, Minnesota and Gundersen doctors say it's always good to be prepared just in case.
Planned exercises take place at Gundersen Lutheran once every few months. Staff trains for not just radiation, but chemical and biological emergencies as well.


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Law enforcement officers always have to be prepared for anything, but answering calls for mental health issues can pose some unique challenges.
The La Crosse police department received a $35,000 grant from the Wisconsin Department Office of Justice Assistance to offer local law enforcement additional training.
As mental health issues are playing more of a role in crimes they're seeing, it becomes that much more important for officers to know what signs to look for and how to handle the situation correctly.
"We're trying to do the right thing for the right people, and sometimes the old thing wasn't the right thing for the right people," said Lt. Chuck Frandsen of the La Crosse Police Department.
In his 13 years with the La Crosse police department, Frandsen has responded to his fair share of mental health calls.
"Sometimes it's a daily thing," said Frandsen. "Sometimes it's a multi-daily thing (and) sometimes it doesn't happen for a week."
He said knowing the right way to respond can make a big difference.
"If we treat the people in the wrong way and we just storm in there, 'I'm in control, I'm in charge. You're going to do what I say' then these people sometimes have a lot of different reactions," said Frandsen.
The grant allows officers and county sheriff deputies to refresh the skills they have learned throughout their career and gain new ones through additional crisis intervention training.
Over time, new response methods are developed and resources change.
"One particular issue is being able to recognize and access the services from one place to another," said Debra Day of the La Crosse County Mental Health Recovery Services. "One of the things I think is special about CIT training is that is one of our focuses today." "'How can we help the police officers help the people they have contact with in our community access the services they need?'"
They're learning to look for signs like depression, a change in mood, substance abuse, addiction problems, thought disorders like Schizophrenia or Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder.
Depending on how officers handle the situation could mean the difference between someone having a medical or a criminal record.
"If you have a medical record that's related to mental health, you are much more likely to be hired than if you have a criminal record that's forced on you because of the behavior related to the illness," said Margaret Larson of the La Crosse Mental Health Coalition.
While there's never a one size fits all response for every situation, training on how to identify the issues makes these officer's jobs of keeping the community safe a little easier.
"It makes us feel a lot better knowing that they got the help they need," said Frandsen.
The grant is being used to facilitate three crisis intervention training sessions.
The sessions are geared towards responding to mental health crises in veterans and adolescents.
Frandsen said the extra training is especially important with vets returning from Iraq and Afghanistan.
A lot of the veterans have PTSD issues, and obviously they are trained to a level through combat and through their military service that they could obviously do great harm to us, as officers, and to neighbors and other individuals in society," said Frandsen.
This is the first time the La Crosse police department has received this grant.
The money is making it possible for about 75 law enforcement officers to receive the additional training.


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"I think this is the most excitement I have seen from our community about an event in a long time," former Three Rivers Mayor James Liska said. "Without Murrell (Foster) and Mike (Pierson) we wouldn't be nearly as organized. They really have done a good job of putting this together. It's something I'm proud to be a part of and something we will remember for a lifetime."
It took a team of 24 on the centennial committee to get the festivities lined up along with city and chamber of commerce employees and volunteers. The centennial is actually a year-round celebration with events scheduled throughout the year in addition to selling custom-made throw blankets, commemorative plates and a book detailing the town's history.
"I have to commend Mike Pierson; he has taken the ball and run with it," Centennial Committee Chairperson Dianne Kuenstler said. "Everyone that worked hard needs to be thanked, but it's hard to recognize everyone for what they did."
Putting next Saturday's big event and the entire year's celebrations together took extensive planning and collaboration, but that's just half the battle. The other half was funding it so it could be free of charge with the exception of food and drinks. This was made possible thanks to funds from the hotel occupancy tax. Three Rivers Chamber of Commerce Executive Director Murrell Foster and Liska each said these funds can only be used for events that bring people to the community in an effort to promote local tourism.
"It has been good since the Eagle Ford came in," Foster, said. "We wanted to do something free for the whole community. We decided early on that we weren't going to charge admission."
Festivities kick off at 4 p.m. with vendors of both food and drinks, and arts and crafts. Although most of the entertainment will be geared towards adults, there will be about a dozen small carnival rides available for children.
Foster said there will be two beer tents with 24 stations, so he doesn't anticipate the estimated 10,000 guests will have to wait in long lines.
"I think it's going to be a fun event, something our city has never seen before," Liska said. "This might be one step higher than what we are used to; it ought to be fun and enjoyable."
Then at 7 p.m. there will be approximately 30 minutes of speeches from elected officials including Texas Sen. Judith Zaffirini, State Rep. Ryan Guillen, Live Oak County Judge Jim Huff, County Commissioner Donna Mills and Mayor Sam Garcia. As of June 19, invitations have been sent to the governor's office and Congressman Rubén Hinojosa but they hadn't confirmed yet.
McMullen High School graduate and K-99 Corpus Christi DJ "Big Frank" will emcee the event.
"A lot of people know him because he grew up here," Foster said.
Speeches will end at approximately 7:30 p.m. with Gary Glenn and the 20 X Band taking the stage as the crowd hits the dance floor from 7:30 to 8:30 p.m. Glenn is a Three Rivers High School graduate who started his music career as the lead singer of Wildcard, a "show band" that toured Texas dance halls from 1995-2008 until the formation of his current band with many of the same musicians.
Local Tejano band Ruben Salazar and Grupo Patron will follow from 8:30-9:30 p.m. with approximately 30 minutes of fireworks afterwards.
"The 'big bang' has to do with the fireworks," Liska said. "I'm not talking small fireworks; these are ones for huge events. It should be a really nice fireworks display."
Once the fireworks die down, things will heat back up again as the Randy Rogers Band takes the stage as the Big Bang's grand finale. The band's last four studio albums have made it to Billboard's Top 10 Country Albums and their most recent album debuted as the most downloaded country album on iTunes.
Foster said Liska suggested the band with the intention of drawing in a younger crowd.
"He is one of the top country bands; a lot of people like him," Liska said.
The Three Rivers Chamber of Commerce started searching for the Big Bang's big act over a year ago and the Randy Rogers Band was booked late last winter. Liska said Randy Rogers was "the most sought-after" band as the city was working with booking agents.
In order for the town to accommodate the large crowd the Randy Rogers Band typically attracts, the chamber organized six designated parking lots. Parking will be available at the Three Rivers Independent School District campus, on city property behind the Rialto Theater and Valero offered the use of its property across the street from the refinery which is typically used for turnarounds.
As a fallback plan, additional parking will be available at the Live Oak County Fairgrounds with three shuttle buses operating before, during and after the concerts for free.
Safety has also been bulked up for the event with 28 law enforcement officers patrolling the area and 20 security guards tending to parking, according to Foster.
"I think people need to come out and have a good time to celebrate our 100th birthday," Liska said. "Most of us living today will not see the next 100th year."
See next week's edition of The Progress for a detailed list of upcoming Three Rivers centennial events for the remainder of the year.


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i posted that at 199,950 (well would've probably been 51 after i posted maybe a few more :p)
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i helped to get the 200,000 i hope there are new features
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I wonder when it'll get to 1 million posts
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I wonder when it'll get to 1 million posts
at this rate I'd say... 6 or 7 months :D
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Due a great number of 100.000 posts, we have released a new forum layout!
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Also, some other things has been changed, but we will show them later this week.
Thank you all for being a member of NarutoBase. The forums is only 2 months old right now and we got 100.000 posts already!
Edit: 26 july: 200.000 already :p
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There are several servlet filters that most web applications should have. A few of these filters are detailed in my previous article "Two Filters Every Web Application Should Have," but the theme to these types of filters is always the same — provide some type of functionality that will seriously help almost any web application. In the previous article, two filters were presented: a cache filter and a compression filter. In this article, we will code a filter that can modify HTTP response headers with the intention of using it to modify the client's web browser's cache. Client-side caching isn't as obvious as server-side caching, but it can be incredibly helpful, and it's near-trivial to implement.
Note: In this article, a nice user-friendly introduction to servlet filters is skipped, because you can find a perfectly good one with my previous article. Be sure you know what a servlet filter is before continuing, or else the code will make little sense.
The current HTTP specification is quite large and it is easy to only pay attention to the things that are forced upon you; e.g., you probably know what a URL is for index.jsp at www.jspbook.com (http://www.jspbook.com/index.jsp), but do you know how to type the HTTP request for the same resource? Did you know that a basic HTTP request is nothing more than plain text? Just for fun, here is what a basic HTTP 1.1 request looks like. Notice that it is typed using
# telnet www.jspbook.com 80
Trying 18.104.22.168...
Connected to www.jspbook.com.
Escape character is '^]'.
GET /index.jsp HTTP/1.1
host: foobar
After typing in the request (be sure to hit the
Enter key an extra time), the web site www.jspbook.com returned the contents for /index.jsp, an HTML page.
Set-Cookie: JSESSIONID=285168DA4C5ACC1AF04EE3994F88BC15; Path=/
Content-Type: text/html
Transfer-Encoding: chunked
Date: Thu, 08 Jan 2004 03:12:26 GMT
Server: Apache-Coyote/1.1
The HTML page's content was here but is skipped for brevity.
And that is how a web browser gets the content it uses to render a web page. Interesting if you haven't seen it before, but that is the greater point. If you haven't seen an HTTP request before, it is likely because you don't have to, when coding the average web application. The greater point being that the HTTP specification is full of all sorts of information, and the Servlet/JSP API doesn't necessarily reflect everything in the HTTP specification.
Some great examples of helpful things in the HTTP specification that new J2EE developers commonly don't know about are the HTTP headers that aren't abstracted by a method in either the
javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest or the
javax.servlet.http.HttpServletResponse class. Most developers know that an HTTP response can specify the length of its content and what type of content is being sent (i.e., MIME type). Both of these things correspond to HTTP response headers that are modified by the
javax.servlet.http.HttpServletResponse object's
setContentLength() and
setContentType() methods, respectively — methods that directly abstract an HTTP response header. But what about all of the headers you can set using the
HttpServletResponse object's
setHeader() method? You'll have to look at the HTTP specification if you want to know these.
The following is the list of all the valid response headers as of HTTP 1.1.
You can click the above links to see what each response header is used for. We are going to specifically focus on the HTTP response header
Cache-Control, which affects client-side content caching. Various uses of this header are helpful for most any web application, but it is not obvious that you can use them if you only look at the Servlet/JSP API documentation. Here is a key example: most web applications have a common graphic used on every page (say, your site's logo), and every request to your web site will require a user to download the common graphic. Why not have the client cache the graphic and save your server from having to transmit it for every single request? With the
Cache-Control header you can do just this.
Cache-Control HTTP header may be used to specify if and when a resource should be cached, and how long to consider a cache valid. Continuing the example above, imagine that we have a web site that uses the same logo (say, logo.png) on every page. In most cases, it makes a lot of sense to tell a user's browser that this graphic should be cached, which will hopefully benefit the user the next time they visit a page on your site. This is easily done by setting the
Cache-Control header to have the value
max-age=3600 in the HTTP response that transmits logo.png. The value
public specifies that the content of this response is public information and that it should be cached by anything that can cache it. The value
max-age=3600 specifies that the cache should be considered valid for 3600 seconds, which is 60*60 seconds, or an hour. For all requests up to an hour, unless the client forces the cache to be revalidated, the user's browser won't send a request to your server for logo.png; it will use the existing cached file. For one user, this is pretty neat -- the content-cached image will appear to have downloaded instantaneously. However, imagine the larger picture. If you use this technique as a standard practice, you can seriously cut down on the amount of HTTP requests hitting your server(s) just by making sure you are only sending a client the information they haven't already seen — imagine telling your boss you don't need that second server.
Hopefully, it should be clear that being able to manipulate HTTP headers is helpful; the
Cache-Control header alone proves this point. The question now is, how do you do it? As mentioned earlier in the article, a simple servlet filter does the trick nicely. Here is the complete code for such a filter. The code is from the book support site for Servlets and JavaServer Pages; the J2EE Web Tier. You can also deploy a compiled version of the filter with your web app by putting jspbook.jar from http://www.jspbook.com/jspbook.jar in the WEB-INF/lib directory of your web application.
package com.jspbook;
import java.io.*;
import javax.servlet.*;
import javax.servlet.http.*;
import java.util.*;
public class ResponseHeaderFilter implements Filter {
FilterConfig fc;
public void doFilter(ServletRequest req,
ServletResponse res,
FilterChain chain)
throws IOException,
ServletException {
HttpServletResponse response =
(HttpServletResponse) res;
// set the provided HTTP response parameters
for (Enumeration e=fc.getInitParameterNames();
e.hasMoreElements();) {
String headerName = (String)e.nextElement();
// pass the request/response on
chain.doFilter(req, response);
public void init(FilterConfig filterConfig) {
this.fc = filterConfig;
public void destroy() {
this.fc = null;
The only thing the above filter is doing is setting HTTP response headers to match whatever initial parameters that were provided for the filter. The four lines of code that accomplish this are the following.
for (Enumeration e=fc.getInitParameterNames();
e.hasMoreElements();) {
String headerName = (String)e.nextElement();
Aside from the above code, the rest of the filter is nothing more than a bare-minimum implementation of the
javax.servlet.Filter interface.
To use the above filter in a helpful manner, you will have to set appropriate initial parameters to change the HTTP headers in which you are interested. The following deployment would change the
Cache-Control header to match the earlier example. If you are trying the code, add these lines to your WEB-INF/web.xml file.
A web application using the given code for the filter and the given deployment above would have clients cache the logo.png file, and the web application would not have to serve the image to clients who had already downloaded it within the last hour. The code can be tested by deploying it with a real web application and logging the HTTP requests (if you container doesn't log requests, you could code a filter to do so). Here is a simple demonstration using the latest release of Tomcat (5.0.16), which conveniently provides a method to dump HTTP request/response information. If you have Tomcat installed, uncomment out the following line in /conf/server.xml to enable the
RequestDumperValve class.
With the
RequestDumperValve enabled, a new file will appear in Tomcat's /logs directory, named
catalina_log.[today's date].txt, where
[today's date] is replaced with whatever the current date is. The contents of this file will include all of the information about HTTP requests and responses that Tomcat handles, including the HTTP headers involved.
The final step to testing the response header filter is to browse to a resource in a web application with and without client-side caching and to look at the difference. You can certainly use any resource you like, but for this article, we will use the simplest thing possible. Save the following HTML page in your web application with whatever name you please (we'll assume test.html for this article). Recall that only logo.png is important, since our response header filter is mapped to it.
If you are using Tomcat, a convenient place to save this file is in the base directory of the ROOT web application.
<title>A Simple Page</title>

Some text, with a logo

Next, save an image named logo.png in the same directory as the above HTML file. Any image will do. Finally, open your favorite web browser and browse to test.html; e.g., http://127.0.0.1/test.html. The page should render as expected with some text and a graphic. Check your HTTP request/response log to see what went on behind the scenes to make this happen. In Tomcat's log you'll note two instances of a HTTP
GET: one for the content of test.html and one for the content of logo.png. For example, Tomcat's logs include the following:
2004-01-15 18:48:20 RequestDumperValve[Catalina]: REQUEST URI =/test.html
2004-01-15 18:48:21 RequestDumperValve[Catalina]: REQUEST URI =/logo.png
2004-01-15 18:48:21 RequestDumperValve[Catalina]: header=Cache-Control=max-age=3600
And, if you look closely at all the headers your container set for the response, you'll find that logo.png has the response header
Cache-Control set with a value of
So what does the above information mean? When your web browser retrieved the content for test.html there was a link to logo.png in the document, for which your browser then automatically made another HTTP request. In total, your web browser needed both test.html and logo.png to display the page, and it sent HTTP requests for both of those resources to your web application. Recall we are pretending that logo.png is an image that appears on all of your pages in the web application, and we are trying to use a HTTP header to have the web browser cache logo.png so that it is only downloaded once. The previous request will have done exactly that, because we set the
Cache-Control header. Now you can test if the browser successfully cached the image by browsing to another page in the web application that uses logo.png; we'll just reuse test.html. Browse to test.html again. (Don't use the Refresh button!) Again, check the HTTP request/response log your container generates. This time notice there is only an HTTP request for test.html In Tomcat's log, some new lines are appended that include the following:
2004-01-15 18:50:10 RequestDumperValve[Catalina]: REQUEST URI =/test.html
No HTTP request is made for logo.png. This is because we told your web browser to cache logo.png locally for an hour. Go ahead, try browsing to the page again within the hour and you'll notice the same results. You can even try browsing to any other page (try making one up) that uses logo.png, and the local cache will still be used until it expires. After an hour passes, you can browse back to test.html and once again you'll see logo.png retrieved from the server once and cached for another hour.
Before moving on, let's tie up one loose end. I explicitly said that you should not use your browser's Refresh button to browse back to test.html. Understanding why I said this is important so that there no confusion about how things are being cached. HTTP has a good system for caching content. Similar to how we told the web browser to cache logo.png, the web browser can explicitly choose not to use its cache and the web browser can even try to have the server refresh its own cache. A web browser's Refresh button is almost always the shortcut that causes this. If you are trying this example and you use the Refresh button to revisit web application resources, you will likely notice that client-side caching just doesn't seem to work.
The HTTP response filter is not only good for having a client cache content. It is equally helpful for having a web browser not cache content, and the technique is as simple as the previous use of the
Cache-Control header. Instead of setting the
max-age value to an hour, try setting it to zero. This will mean the content is immediately invalid, which in practice will cause a web browser to invalidate its cache. However, the more technically correct method of forcing a client's browser not to cache information is to set the
Cache-Control header's value to
no-cache. You may also use the
private value to specify that the HTTP content should not be cached in any public cache. You can even use the
no-store value to ensure that the content is removed from memory as quickly as possible, so that there is little chance it would ever appear in something such as a tape backup of the server.
The following deployment would use all of these values to ensure a HTTP-1.1-compliant web browser doesn't cache content.
Mapping the declaration above to resources in a web application will ensure they are not cached by web browsers. If you are really concerned about HTTP 1.0 browsers, you can look into also setting the
Expires header and
Pragma header, which are the old way of accomplishing the same thing. If you would like to test the HTTP response filter's ability to prevent caching, try it out using the same techniques we did earlier in this article. Instead of seeing the requests prevented, you'll see the cache-preventing headers set and a request for every resource every time you browse to the page. We won't walk through such a test in this article, but it should be a straightforward exercise if you wish to do it.
Client-side cache manipulation absolutely helps, and it is something that can benefit most web applications you make. In some situations, you need to ensure that a web browser doesn't cache content; say, an instance where sensitive information is being passed to a web browser. Using HTTP headers is your only good method to accomplish this. However, the example of preventing a cache isn't nearly as interesting as having a client cache information. A key part of building an efficient web application is in getting content to a client as quickly as possible and with as little burden on your server(s) as possible. Client-side caching is ideal for this. We looked at the example of caching common graphics (e.g., your company's logo) that appear either at the top or bottom of every web page. However, don't think this technique only works for graphics. You could also have a client's browser cache style sheets, script files, or any other resource your web application uses. Additionally, you can benefit from briefly caching dynamic content. We used an example where the cache was valid for an hour. Why not set the cache to expire in five minutes and apply the filter to every resource in your web application that slowly changes (e.g., news feeds or directory pages)? Being able to control the HTTP caching mechanism is a very helpful tool to have, and it can be as simple to accomplish as using the filter presented in this article.
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Before moving from the topic of HTTP caching, it is only fair to point out that a gray area exists between the two extremes of caching on the server side and caching on the client side. In my previous article, the benefits of caching on the server side were introduced. In this article, the benefits of using a client-side cache were introduced. However, HTTP provides several other caching opportunities, some of which are done automatically via HTTP headers. There are two sets of HTTP headers in particular that are worth mentioning, as they fall in this gray area of caching. The first set has to do with keeping track of when content was generated. By default, most web browsers and web servers take advantage of the
if-modified-since HTTP request header to keep track of how current content is and to cache content when possible. The process is simple, and works as follows: when a browser first retrieves content from a server, a timestamp is generated. On subsequent requests, the browser requests content but also uses the
if-modified-since header to indicate an older version of the content is cached. A HTTP server, upon receiving such a request, can then check if the content has changed since the browser last saw it. If so, new content is sent (the HTTP 200 response). If not, the server sends back a short response (HTTP 304) indicating that the old content should be reused. When everything is over, if the browser's cache is valid, the content is not resent by the server. However, this scheme does not prevent any HTTP requests from occurring; it merely reduces the amount of information that need be sent per request. This significantly differs from the
Cache-Control header that was used earlier in the article. Using the
Cache-Control header can prevent an HTTP request from ever being needed: the browser already knows the content is good, there is no need to check a timestamp against the server. This difference is significant because an HTTP server can only handle the processing of a certain number of requests, regardless of how much content is being returned per request. If you are expecting to get optimal performance from your web server, it is important to avoid unneeded HTTP requests.
The second gray area is that of HTTP 1.0 cache control. The
Cache-Control header is something new as of HTTP 1.1. In HTTP 1.0, you could get the same effect, but you would have to use the
Pragma and
Expires headers. The
Pragma header with a value of
no-cache works same as the
Cache-Control header with a value of
no-cache. Note that in HTTP 1.1, you should no longer use the
Pragma header for this purpose; the
Cache-Control header is the official replacement. But it might prove handy to use the
Pragma header if you are restricted to HTTP 1.0. The
Expires header works in a similar way to the
Cache-Control header's
max-age directive. In HTTP 1.0, you could set the
Expires header with a date (optionally, a date before the current date) to signify if content should be considered a valid cache or if a cache should be explicitly reset. As with the
Pragma header, the
Expires header's use for cache control is intended to be replaced with the
Cache-Control header, but it is handy to know about the
Expires header if you are working with HTTP 1.0.
HTTP headers are helpful. The Servlet API lets you manipulate any HTTP header, but it is a poor place to learn about all of the HTTP headers you can manipulate. Realize that you can change HTTP headers to make your web application work better, and use the latest HTTP specification to determine what HTTP headers are helpful for you to use. In this article, we took a specific look at the HTTP response
Cache-Control header. This header is helpful for caching things on the client side (saving your server some work) and/or ensuring content is not cached on the client side (making sure a web browser has the latest version of your content).
Take the HTTP response filter that was provided in this article, and use it to aid in your web application development. You have the entire source code, and you may modify it as you see fit. Or, if you simply want to drop a .jar file into the WEB-INF/lib directory of your web application and start deploying the filter, you may get the appropriate .jar file at http://www.jspbook.com/jspbook.jar. The code is actively maintained, and if you like the example, be sure to take a look at my book Servlets and JavaServer Pages; the J2EE Web Tier. It covers up to the latest JSP and Servlet specifications and provides many more helpful code examples for you to use.
Jayson Falkner is a J2EE developer, student, and webmaster of JSP Insider.
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They Will Have to Ban More Than Guns
Let's pretend for a moment that the point of infringing on the Second Amendment is not to impose tyranny, but to make the public safer from the maniacs and criminals law-abiding citizens employ firearms to defend themselves and their families against. Our statist overlords will have to ban more than guns. They will also have to go after hammers…
A 61-year-old man is facing a federal felony charge in connection with the hammerpoint stickup Wednesday of an Anchorage, Alaska bank, according to an FBI affidavit.
…better make that a double ban on hammers…
Dallas police are calling the beating of a grocery store clerk a brutal, senseless robbery.
The clerk was beaten with multiple hammers at a grocery store on Military Parkway in Dallas.
…and knives…
Police are investigating after a woman was attacked and stabbed multiple times inside a New Jersey store Thursday afternoon.
The victim, identified by her family as 29-year-old Kerri Dalton of Keansburg, also had a baby with her inside the Middletown Bed Bath & Beyond store, when the attack occurred.
…and razors…
A woman is recovering after she was attacked in a very public place and her face was slashed with a razor [in Lexington, Kentucky].
The incident happened Tuesday afternoon in Fayette Mall as shoppers walked by. You're probably thinking how can this happen in a place as busy as Fayette Mall. Well it did, right out in the open, now police are looking for the two young women who cut up the victim's face.
…and even fire extinguishers:
Shortly after 8 p.m., police responded to a call about a robbery at El Meson restaurant at 615 S. Frederick Ave. in Gaithersburg [Maryland]. Witnesses said two men opened the front door of the restaurant and discharged a fire extinguisher inside the restaurant, according to a news release from the Montgomery County Police Department.
Because of the fire extinguisher, police are investigating the incident as an armed robbery, said police Captain Paul Starks.
"They threatened the employees with and used the fire extinguisher," Starks said.
Since our ruling class doesn't distinguish between criminals and law-abiding citizens, there isn't much we can be trusted with.
Here's idea: ban everything, put everyone who doesn't work for the government/media complex in a straitjacket, and lock us all up in padded cells. Solitary confinement will be required, so we don't bite each other. Then at last our masters will have made us safe.
On tips from Bo-Jangles, Bob Roberts, and Wiggins. Cross-posted at Moonbattery.
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