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Unemployment numbers among post 9/11 veterans are almost 2 percent higher than the civilian population, a trend the Veteran's Job Fair at Western Technical College is trying to reverse.
More than 50 businesses and service groups were at the job fair on Wednesday.
The organizer, local veterans employer representative Rick Larson, said last year more than 20 veterans were hired on the spot.
He said job fairs help veterans develop a network, which he said is one of the best ways to find a job.
"They expect you to have the skills when you apply for the job but you need that network to help you. Eighty percent of the people are going to find a job by someone they know so it's very critical to have a network system available for them," said Larson.
For some veterans, networking is not the only challenge.
Some face a gap between what they learned in the military to what they need to know to be hired in the civilian workplace, a problem that didn't take long for Jene Bennett to discover, which sent him on a new mission to close his skills gap.
"It was a quick and painful discovery," said Bennett.
After serving in the Army for 17 years, automotive technician Bennett realized his military skills weren't enough to get him a job.
"Coming out, you discover how more complex things are because you're working on more models of vehicles compared to what I worked on in the Army," said Bennett.
"A lot of the tools are going to be the same but a lot of the technology on the vehicle, a lot of their equipment and vehicles they're going to be working on, is a tactical nature and ours isn't tactical," said Western Technical College automotive instructor Bob Marconi.
Now Bennett is weeks away from graduating from Western Technical College and as he starts his job hunt again, he's much more optimistic.
"I feel confident but I want to get out there and I want to get more training done so I can really establish myself," said Bennett.
Bennett said he's filled a skills gap that many of his fellow soldiers also face.
"Difficulties are pretty uniform, pretty uniform among all of us," said Bennett.
"What has happened in the industry is some of the manufacturing jobs are less, there are less of those jobs out there so for today, the jobs that are available are the jobs that require skills," said Marconi.
But if they can stick with it, instructors in Bennett's program said veterans have an advantage.
"They have that discipline, when the employer asks them to do something they're used to following instructions and listening to those instructions and having again some of those leadership skills," said Marconi.
While Bennett has had to pick up some extra skills, it's character built in the military that's paved the way for his future in the civilian world.
"It's all about mission accomplishment. You have to improvise. You have to adapt. There's no choice in the matter," said Bennett.
Bennett said it's extremely important to get connected with the local veterans services in your community.
He said not only do they help you with the work transition, but they also provide emotional support as well.
Organizers of the Veterans Job fair said about 150 veterans turned out for the event.


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BARRE – Thanks to an ominous weather forecast students from two local schools will be sent home early today and – per order of Mayor Thomas Lauzon – will get the day off on Thursday.
With a major snowstorm bearing down on central Vermont students at Barre City Elementary and Middle School and Spaulding High School were scheduled to be released at noon, according to Superintendent John Bacon, who didn't get the chance to cancel school on Thursday because Lauzon did it for him.
Exercising the authority granted him by the city's charter, Lauzon ordered both of Barre's public schools – BCEMS and Spaulding – closed on Thursday due to what he characterized as a looming weather emergency.
With forecasts calling for between 12 and 20 inches of snow to fall on central Vermont over the next 24 hours, Lauzon informed Bacon of his decision by email shortly after 9:30 a.m. today.
"… While our crews will work diligently and in split 16-hour shifts, we simply cannot guarantee safe roads at all times due to the severity of this storm," Lauzon wrote, noting that he was troubled that he hadn't heard back from Bacon on the subject, but had consulted with city and state officials who shared his concerns.
Bacon said he had spoken with Chief Tim Bombardier earlier in the day and was planning to wait until this afternoon or possibly this evening to determine what to do about school on Thursday. He said that would have given parents ample time to plan in the event school was canceled, while giving him a better idea of what to expect from a storm that had only barely begun, but was expected to intensify.
Lauzon saved him the trouble.
According to Lauzon, giving parents extra time to plan was one of his considerations. But, he said, he didn't want to risk school officials underestimating the storm that he believed would challenge the city's ability to keep roads and sidewalks clear.
"It looks like this storm is going to live up to its billing," he said.
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We are just about ready to purchase salivary cortisol collection swabs from the company Salimetrics (yea…), and the total, including rush shipping, is probably going to be approximately $150 or so. If I needed to buy these swabs for my own personal use, I could probably just call the company and buy them. But since we are going to use them for the study I needed to call Dr. Knight's assistant who e-mailed the study coordinator who asked the budget coordinator how to get money out of the account.
Dr. Knight has been able to expedite this process a little bit, but this is just one of many obstacles that has greatly slowed our progress. My experience with this project has been rewarding, indeed, but in ways other than what I expected. I thought all of the data was going to be collected by the time I left and that there was going to be a paper in the works. The world is not that fast, in fact it looks like this, especially when so many people have their hands on the wheel, and each of these individuals is trying to control a dozen or so wheels. I have learned so much from my literature accumulation/review that will help me in the future, but I also realized the great amount of work actually goes into developing a research study.
When I was discussing this was Dr. Knight today and she sensed the frustration in my voice, she looked at me with this look…this look that wanted to knock out my naiveté. Pretty sure it worked, as far as I know.


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An internal investigation at the University of Hawaii at Manoa determined Sunday that Athletics Director Jim Donovan was cleared of wrongdoing after the canceled Stevie Wonder concert.
A UHM news release stated Donovan will return to full-duty status and will report directly to Chancellor Tom Apple, but his new role at the university was not disclosed.
"The parties mutually believe that Mr. Donovan has served the university well throughout the 21 years he has worked on the Manoa campus," the news release said. "In his new position, Chancellor Apple believes Donovan's considerable and diverse talents will be best utilized to help UHM move forward."
Donovan will have responsibilities ranging from marketing and communicating with the community to assisting with the university's evolving land grant mission.
Officials said Donovan's base salary will remain the same through the term of his current contact that ends in March 2013. He will then be reassigned to a new position and be recommended for a three-year appointment with a salary of over $200,000.
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Detectives from the Portland Police Bureau's Missing Persons Unit are asking for help in locating 14-year-old Antonio Paredes, who was last seen at about 7:00 p.m.Saturday.
Antonio ran out of his house, in the 16100 block of Northeast Glisan Street, after becoming upset. Family members expressed concern that Antonio may present a risk to his own safety.
Antonio is described as a white male, 14 years old, 5-fee t 4-inches , 130 pounds, with short, black hair and hazel eyes. "Paredes" is pronounced "Par-ay-dehs."
He was last seen wearing a white, zippered hoodie jacket, with blue writing on the chest, a long-sleeved, blue/white plaid flannel shirt, dark-colored blue jeans with white stitching on the back pocket, white K-Swiss tennis shoes, and an unknown-colored baseball cap. He was believed to be carrying a black backpack.
Antonio is believed to be on foot. Family members said he likes to frequent the skate park at Ed Benedict Park, at Southeast 109th Avenue and Powell Boulevard, as well as Pioneer Square.
Anyone who knows where Antonio may be is asked to immediately call 911. Anyone with non-emergency information about this case is asked to contact Detective Mike Weinstein, at (503) 823-0446.


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Ohio Northern University to hold fourth annual Artists Against Hunger luncheon
The Ohio Northern University Department of Art and Design will hold its fourth annual Artists against Hunger luncheon in the Wilson Art Gallery on Saturday, Nov. 16, at 11 a.m.
The Artists Against Hunger luncheon offers the community an opportunity to give back in exchange for a lunch and a handcrafted ceramic bowl made by students from Ohio Northern University and Hardin County schools. The bowls will be filled with one of a variety of soups, including minestrone, chicken noodle, butternut squash and chili.
Each bowl will be $10, and all proceeds will go to the Hardin County Backpack Program. In addition to lunch and the choice of a one-of-a-kind bowl, the community will be encouraged to participate in a weeklong food drive, during which non-perishable food items can be donated at various locations on ONU's campus.
Mayumi Kiefer, studio arts student at Ohio Northern, founded the event three years ago in order to combine her two passions of helping others and creating art. The event raised approximately $1,100 in its debut, and, last year, $2,000 was donated to the Backpack Program.
The Backpack Program seeks to eliminate hunger on weekends for students in school districts by providing the students with non-perishable foods in backpacks. Backpacks are discreetly distributed to deserving students (in easily accessible and safe environments) on the last day prior to a weekend or holiday vacation.
In Hardin County, the program aims to help the 15.8 percent of the population that lives below the poverty line. In Kenton City Schools alone, 51 percent of students receive free or reduced lunches. Currently, there are 130 students at Kenton who are recipients of the Backpack Program.


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Yeah he sounds a bit crap to be fair.
I used to dikk ride this rapper named papoose back in 2006, but he ended up becoming one of the worst rappers EVER
"I'll bag dad(Baghdad) like Iraq"
"He made a mistake (miss steak) like his family already ate all the meat"
"Im in the hood like stop signs, matter of fact im everywhere"
"rapping is my bread and butter
sometimes for breakfast, i have bread and butter"
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breh, you're right.
papoose by far is the worst punchline rapper.
i stay high like the word used when we greet each other.
Papoose ain't THAT bad, "Alphabetical Slaughter" is a masterpiece.
Wayne is a million times worse than Pap. Pap has fallen way off recently, but his older (~2004/2005) **** is pretty good.
Alphabetical Slaughter made no damn sense.
Papoose/Wayne are hyped...their rhymes are just funny to me.
Blackalicious kills Papoose
"When you go to sleep with dogs you wake up with flees
Papoose, my lines are hotter then 98 degrees
like the popular boy band from the 90's with Nick Lachey
but back to what i was saying, sleeping with dogs is gay"
"every time i show her an image i have permantently etched on my body in ink
she shows me one of her breasts
i call it going tit for tat"
"Paps known in each of the 50 states like major highways"
"im in the streets like tar and cement
please buy my mixtapes so i can pay the rent"
This guy is ****in terrible, i cant believe i was once on his dikk (no homo). He had alotta dikk riders back in 06, but now hes just become the biggest joke in rap.


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Give Your Section 401(k) Plan a Compliance Check
Originally published: 05.01.12 by Mike Coyne
10-point checklist will tell if you might need adjustments.
The Internal Revenue Service recently issued an interim report produced by its Employee Plans Compliance Unit (EPCU), reporting on its Section 401(k) compliance check project. Section 401(k) plans are the largest part of the private retirement plan system, comprising 60% of all plans. These plans, unfortunately, also suffer from the greatest number of compliance problems, owing primarily to the complexity of the law and ever-changing regulations.
In the interim report, EPCU identified the most frequently identified problems on audit of Section 401(k) plans. Among the most frequent problems were failure to adopt amendments in a timely way, failure to follow the plan terms, failure to follow the plan's eligibility requirements, using an incorrect definition of "compensation," and failing to make required minimum distributions after a participant attains age 70½.
As a result of this project, the Internal Revenue Service is placing a strong emphasis on encouraging employers to adopt internal controls and perform internal audits. Operational mistakes with retirement plans are inevitable, given the high volume of "events" that occur during a particular year: deferrals being made, distributions
The Internal Revenue Service has published a 401(k) Plan Fix-It Guide to help employers identify problems and provide advice regarding correction. This Guide can be found on the IRS website at www.IRS.gov/pub/irs-tege/401k_mistakes.pdf#page=2. While some parts of the Fix-It Guide are helpful, other parts would have meaning only to a pension professional. You can give your plan a quick checkup by answering the following statements with a "yes" or "no."
- You received a brand-new profit-sharing plan document (sometimes referred to as a restatement) between April 1, 2008 and April 30, 2010.
- Someone in your office is responsible for determining when an employee becomes eligible to contribute to the plan.
- Your new employees (or newly eligible employees) are given a summary plan description and an explanation of how to contribute funds from their paycheck into the plan.
- Contributions to your Section 401(k) plan by employees are deposited within two or three days of the date the money is withheld from their paychecks.
- Employee contributions from their paychecks were limited to $16,500 for the 2010 and 2011 calendar years. (The limit for 2012 is $17,000.) For employees aged 50 and older, total contributions from their paychecks were limited to $22,000 for the 2010 and 2011 calendar years.
- If your plan permits participant loans, all loans are being repaid in equal installments (either monthly or quarterly) over a term of no longer than 60 months.
- The interest rate on participant loans is always at least equal to the prime rate plus 1% at the time the loan is made.
- If your employees can choose how their money is invested, you provide them with quarterly statements of their account balances.
- If your employees cannot choose how their money is invested, you provide them with an annual statement of their account balances.
- All employees age 70½ or older have received or are receiving distributions of their profit sharing account on a regular basis.
If you answered "no" to any of the statements, your Section 401(k) plan may be out of compliance. In such case, you should check with your accountant or plan administrator to be sure that there are no problems. Most of the potential problems described above can be "self-corrected" under Internal Revenue Service rules. Those problems that cannot be self-corrected can be corrected under a voluntary compliance program at relatively low cost.
Michael P. Coyne is a founding partner of the law firm Waldheger Coyne, located in Cleveland, OH. For more information of the firm, visit: www.healthlaw.com or call 440.835.0600.
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Testimony at the Louisiana Field Hearing, "Keeping America Competitive: Federal Programs that Promote Small Business Exports"
Thank you, Senator Landrieu. The people of Louisiana and America's small business community are fortunate to have such a strong voice for them in the U.S. Senate.
It is also a pleasure to be here with Ambassador Ron Kirk, Chairman Fred Hochberg of the Export-Import Bank, Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary Patty Sefcik at the U.S. Department of Commerce, and everyone who has joined us today.
Truly, it is going to take all of us working together to "keep America competitive," as the title of this hearing states.
Madam Chair, I am pleased to share the SBA's efforts to help small businesses compete in the global marketplace.
The SBA provides access to capital for small businesses on Main Street and to some of the country's high-growth, high-impact small businesses.
The SBA has a portfolio of loans and loan guarantees of more than $80 billion.
We have 68 district offices, including one here New Orleans.
We have more than 2,000 employees as well as more than 1,200 trained standby employees who can be deployed to communities affected by disaster. We also have 18 Senior International Trade and Finance Regional managers around the country.
Our partners include nearly 900 Small Business Development Centers (11 in Louisiana), more than 100 Women's Business Centers (2 in Louisiana) and 350 chapters of our mentoring program called SCORE (5 offices in Louisiana).
All told, our network includes about 14,000 SBA-affiliated counselors.
We know that this is a tough time for small businesses to gain access to capital. Since the Recovery Act passed, we have redoubled our efforts to put more money in the hands of entrepreneurs and small business owners.
We raised guarantees on 7(a) loans to 90% and reduced or eliminated fees in our flagship 7(a) and 504 loan programs. As a result, SBA loan volume is up more than 35%#1 compared to the weeks before the Recovery Act. Also, we've brought nearly 600 banks and credit unions back to SBA programs, nearly half of whom had not participated since 2007.
For Louisiana, this has resulted in $55 million in lending support for nearly 200 small businesses throughout the state#2. Two quick examples:
In West Monroe, Sawyer Industrial Plastics has provided plastic repair parts for the paper industry for 32 years. The owner was shifting his strategy to a new market when his conventional credit was canceled. The SBA loan of $700,000 was a lifeline, and the fee savings allowed him to add an employee to help with his new products.
Just north of here in Mandeville, Woolf-Harris plumbing bought a new building but they were left short of cash, even though demand for their products and services was high. With the increased guarantee, a local bank was able to extend $250,000 for working capital through a 7(a) loan.
Nationwide, about 20 percent of these loans have gone to minority-owned businesses and 19 percent have gone to women-owned businesses#3. In fact, SBA loans are three to five times more likely to be made to women and minority owned businesses than conventional loans#4.
In addition, just two weeks ago we opened up a brand new program called America's Recovery Capital (ARC) loans. These loans are providing the relief that many viable but struggling small businesses need. ARC loans are: 100% guaranteed by the SBA, up to $35,000 over 6 months, interest-free for borrowers, and have no repayments for 12 months after the final disbursal.
The Recovery Act also provides billions of dollars in contract opportunities. We are responsible for making sure that small businesses have opportunities to deliver at least 23% of federal contracting. This is a win-win situation. Small businesses benefit with increased volume and sales, and federal agencies benefit by working with the most innovative companies, often with a direct line to the CEO.
All of these efforts with the Recovery Act are aimed at building a stronger foundation for small businesses to grow and explore areas such as international trade.
Overall, small businesses accounted for more than $500 billion last year in export sales or nearly 30%.
It is still difficult, though, for many small businesses to know exactly what steps they need to take to reach potential export markets.
In Fiscal Year 2008, the SBA facilitated more than 3,300 loans for exporters. In the Louisiana and Texas region, we were able to provide training and counseling to more than 300 lenders and more than 600 small business owners.
With our international trade loans, the Recovery Act has allowed us to establish a 90% guaranty across all programs and to waive our upfront fees for borrowers on loan terms greater than 12 months.
For example, the Export Working Capital Program loan is coordinated through our SBA staff that work in collaboration with the Department of Commerce at 18 U.S. Export Assistance Centers around the country. In addition, we have a growing number of Preferred Lenders who we delegate the authority to process EWCP loans directly to our Loan Processing Center in Sacramento. These loans are important because small businesses often need an initial line of credit for suppliers, inventory, or production of export goods – especially when the first big order from abroad comes in. The SBA provides up to nearly $1.7 million for these loans, and we can also co-guarantee with the Export-Import Bank on loans up to $2 million.
Another key program is the Export Express loan, which can be up to $250,000 and can usually be approved within one or two days by an SBA Express lender. These loans can be used to enable a small business company to prepare for exporting. For example, it can help with translation of a business website and marketing materials. Also, it can help them participate in trade missions.
So far for this fiscal year, the SBA has guaranteed 598 loans to exporters, and we are working tirelessly to continue our outreach and advocacy for small business exports both here in Louisiana and throughout the nation.
As part of that, I am pleased to say that we are in the process of hiring our newest Senior International Trade and Finance manager, who will be permanently assigned to the U.S. Export Assistance Center here in New Orleans.
With all of these efforts, I am pleased to be working with Ambassador Kirk, Chairman Hochberg, Secretary Locke, Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary Sefcik and other agencies represented by the Trade Promotion Coordinating Committee.
Through our collaboration, we can ensure that small business will build a stronger foundation of American competitiveness while creating well-paying jobs in the 21st century.
1 Comparison of average weekly gross approvals in the 7 weeks before ARRA signing to average weekly gross approvals since then
2 Gross loan approval value. Typically, due to cancellations and loan amount reductions, 15–20% of gross approvals are not disbursed. Includes estimate of 504 third-party first mortgages (calculated as 125% of SBA 504 debenture portion due to the typical "50/40" split between the third-party and SBA portions of a 504 loan)
3 Demographic data is self-reported.
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Health Homes for Medicaid Enrollees with Chronic Conditions
New York's Medicaid program serves over 5 million enrollees with a broad array of health care needs and challenges. While the majority of Medicaid enrollees are relatively healthy and only require access to primary care practitioners to obtain episodic and preventive health care, the Medicaid program also has several population groups who have complex medical, behavioral, and long term care needs that drive a high volume of high cost services including inpatient and long term institutional care.
Navigating the current health care system can be difficult for relatively healthy Medicaid recipients and even more so for enrollees who have high-cost and complex chronic conditions that drive a high volume of high cost inpatient episodes. A significant percentage of Medicaid expenditures are utilized by this subset of the Medicaid population. Appropriately accessing and managing these services, through improved care coordination and service integration, is essential in controlling future health care costs and improving health outcomes for this population.
A Health Home is a care management service model whereby all of an individual's caregivers communicate with one another so that all of a patient's needs are addressed in a comprehensive manner. This is done primarily through a "care manager" who oversees and provides access to all of the services an individual needs to assure that they receive everything necessary to stay healthy, out of the emergency room and out of the hospital. Health records are shared among providers so that services are not duplicated or neglected. Health Home services are provided through a network of organizations – providers, health plans and community-based organizations. When all the services are considered collectively they become a virtual "Health Home."
Health Home Quick Links
- Health Home Member Brochure (PDF)
- Health Home Provider Manual (Billing Policy and Guidance)
- Health Home CMART
- A Map of Health Homes by County
- TCM and Health Homes
- Health Home Standards and Requirements for Health Homes, Care Management Providers and Managed Care Organizations (PDF)
- Guidance from NYS to Health Homes on Protecting Personal Health Information (PHI) (PDF)
- Health Home and Managed Care Organization Workgroups
- Statewide Health Home Quality Measures (PDF)
- Health Home Redesignation Process and Tools


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This week I've had a few of my interests intersect – the Quantified Self, virtual reality, biofeedback / neurofeedback, and consciousness. Earlier this year I came across the Oculus Rift , a next gen virtual reality …Read the full story »
Increasing number of articles dealing with philosophy and psychology. Topics include Integral philosophy, consciousness, and age old advice on how to live "the good life".
Learn tips and tricks on GTD (Getting Things Done), goal setting, time management, and increasing your personal power.
Put mind mapping to use in your personal and professional life. Learn tips and techniques on enhancing creativity, accelerating learning, and increasing productivity.
My latest discoveries on personal knowledge management. Discover what PKM is all about, learn about the Semantic Web, and find out how to use Wikis to help track all of your important information.
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I haven't posted here in a while, but I still stalk the site and love reading the reports. I've moved from Asheville to outside of Boston, and I'm trying to fish as much as possible.
Just came back from a weekend in Maine and had a great time. Caught a couple of small salmon, lots of brookies, and lots of fun. No big ones, but we did stumble upon a secluded beaver pond, and it was a nice end to the weekend.
It's a huge report with some pics, so here's the whole thing:
Hope to be back in the smokies soon and will always love this forum!
It's the unexpected that always makes the trip........thanks for posting.........:smile:
Wicked Awesome! (A Maine thing to say)
I moved to Sevierville 2 years ago FROM MAINE!
Looks like your photos are from the RANGELEY AREA; not a place I fished very often.... perhaps a hundred times or so over 25 years. Mostly I fished the Kennebec River, the upper Penobscot West Branch, the Roach river in Kakajo and the ponds of the Moosehead Region.
The East Outlet of Moosehead and below the BRASSAU (pronounced brass-way) dam are great for landlocks and brookies.
In Early July Maine Brookie ponds have huge hatches of giant mayflies... HEX. You will want to be there for this hatch.
The good thing about Maine is access to rivers; there is none of the "private property" crap like there is in TN... just fish! A law from 250 years ago makes access no problem.... . it's the right of the people to access water to fish through private property and the large paper companies who own so much land leave it open to the public.
A WORD OF WARNING BROTHER.... BE CAREFUL ON THOSE LOGGING ROADS... BIG TRUCKS ON WEEK DAYS AND ALSO WATCH OUT FOR DOWNED CHAINS AND CABLES! I have been stranded behind cables and chains so bring bolt cutters... essentially you may find that on a friday you enter a timber operation and go fishing.... on the way out they have chained you in for the weekend. This happened to me in 1984 when I first moved to Maine and it was in the Rangeley area.
If you want any intel on fishing (meaning fly) in Maine let me know.
NOW; since you are in Boston.... I would hope you are getting into some fly fishing for striped bass. If you don't get into them you are missing out on an awesome fishery....
Keep us posted. BTW... Evergreen Camps on the Kennebec in Solon Maine is very affordable, you can catch a grand-slam of landlocks, browns rainbows and brookies there in the same day.
Corbo -
My wife and I are big fans of the Acadia area, but I've rarely had the chance to fish during our yearly trips because it was usually a family trip. Now that we are semi-empty nesters I will probably have a better shot of fishing within an hour or two of Ellsworth. One of the streams I would like to fish is the Narraguagus above Cherryfield (AS would be great but any fishing would be fine). But being unfamiliar with the private property issues in that area I have only scouted spots around overpasses.
One of the areas that really intrigued me was through the blueberry barrens in that area. There are all sorts of access points to the river, but you have to drive on private roads that are owned by the blueberry companies. Do you know if they ever allow access to the roads, to get to the stream in those sections?
I had planned on calling the blueberry farms (Jasper Wyman & Son) and seeing if they would allow me to access the stream, but I had no idea of whether they would or not.
Have any good contacts I can call? Any help is greatly appreciated!
Drive anywhere you want in the barrens or anywhere else for that matter and access the river anywhere you want... this is Maine and the big landowners invite the public to enjoy their lands. You will not see posted signs anywhere for the most part. The law is that if land is not posted with signs annually you can freely enter to fish, hunt trap or whatever.
NOW as to Atlantic Salmon.... Sorry Dude but my buddies and me sued the Feds many years ago to enforce the ESA so you cannot target AS on any downeast River. There are likely no AS left on the Narraguagus.
There are some brokie ponds on Acadia but they are marginal. You might try discovering the Moosehead Region, no access issues there either and it's beautiful country.
I have fished in a few places on Acadia and I agree, they are very marginal. I've also been up to the Moosehead region a few times, but its 2-3 hrs away and the times of the year we get up there (late may through late june: before tourist season on Acadia), the blackflies are thick as peanut butter...
Wow, Thanks Corbo! It is Rangeley, and I don't know it very well. It's a big change from Western NC to Boston, but I'm getting my feet wet, literally. I'd love to pick your brain on maybe somewhere closer than Rangeley, in Maine, that has good fishing. 5 hours is a haul.
I'm exploring new MA waters to tomorrow, but need to hit Maine again soon. Thanks for the response, always nice to have help from around the country!
I would suggest the Kennebec River from the East Outlet down stream to the Madison area. Bows & browns can be had.Fly Fishing Only Fly Shop is located in Fairfield, ME right on the Kennebec. Mike and his wife are great people.
Kentucky Bill
Mike & Linda are great friends of mine; sadly they closed FLY FISHING ONLY in Fairfield two years ago. They still maintain their website forum though. The Shawmut tailwater at their shop was once awesome but has totally failed in the past several years.
The fishing on the Kennebec is great from Madison Tailwater up to the Mooshead tailwaters.
"Evergreen" Campground in Solon is a great place to stay if you wish to catch lots of fish.
I could not tell anyone what rock to stand on in the Rangeley area as I mostly fished the Kennebec.
By Ellsworth area there are few great trout fishing streams or rivers; you must drive a ways.
If you want to google "grand lake stream" you might want to try it but it's a ride.
Maine fly fishing is not as good as it was ten years ago..... that is one of the reasons I move to eastern TN.
Dang it!, I wasn't aware that FFO had shuttered their doors. I went to their website, and it said they had retired. Mike and Linda are great people. About 3 or 4 years ago, my wife (fishing buddy) & I went to Maine to fish for a week on the Kennebec, and do some sight seeing before the "leaf peapers" decended upon Maine for the fall colors. Mike and Linda made us feel at home, and set us up with a guide named Marshall Demott. Marshall took us up and down the Kennebec chasing trout. We had a blast. The last day, we went to the store to thank them for all of their guidance and assistance. They had just put their Orvis rods on sale, and I picked up a nice 9 ft, 6 wt. mid flex rod at 1/2 price. Nice end to a great trip.
P.S. I hate to see another fly shop close their doors. Its nice to have a fly shop "local" to the area you're going to fish, that knows whats hatching, whats catching, and where to go. I felt that we had that with FFO.
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The frustrating thing about psychics, mediums, and fortune tellers is that they're still able to make a pretty goddamned comfortable living, even in 2013. Their inability to provide empirical evidence that what they do is anything other than a scam to prey on the gullible seems to have had little effect on their bottom line. Still, there have been little victories along the way, and cameras have been there to capture the hilarity.
6 Uri Geller Is Exposed on the Johnny Carson Show
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Contrary to what you might assume, the people most hostile to claims of supernatural powers are magicians. That's why nowadays they usually prefer the term "illusionist" -- they want to be clear from the outset that what they're doing is a trick. But then, every so often, one of them will hit the big time by claiming that they have genuine magic powers. Such is the case with Uri Geller, who in the '70s was basically the Sith Lord of illusionists. And millions of people believed him.
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"Let the naivete flow through you."
If you're too young to remember, Geller found fame with mind-reading tricks and, more famously, mind-powered spoon bending. Swearing that he had actual psychic powers, he used a bunch of sleight-of-hand tricks already well-known to magicians to apparently bend spoons with his thoughts. Of course, any magicians with a moral compass knew exactly what he was doing and made it their mission to take the weasel down. The result was one of the most tense and cringe-worthy appearances in talk show history (in a medium loaded with them):
When Uri Geller was booked to appear on The Tonight Show, host Johnny Carson (a former magician himself) was understandably skeptical about Geller's claims and had called up professional illusionist and psychic head-stomper James Randi to ask how the tricks might really be done. As Randi explained, the easiest way to bend a spoon with your mind would be to spend a few minutes before the show bending the spoon back and forth with your hand until the metal is so weak that it just falls limp when you hold it up to the camera.
With this in mind, Carson surprised Geller on the show by presenting a table full of assorted spoons and knickknacks, rather than letting him bring his own props, and gave Geller free reign to pick whatever trick he wanted to perform. You can watch Geller slowly descend into panic mode, knowing that his trick won't work and millions are watching.
He thought it would be a canned, no-sweat interview, like he was on [network you hate].
It just gets harder to watch as it goes. Carson looks on, annoyed, as Geller tries to stall by ineffectually waving his hands over the table while he works out how the hell he's going to get out of this one.
For the first time, he found himself genuinely trying to call on a higher power.
After a series of the most incredibly awkward silences you will ever witness on a television broadcast, Geller eventually squirms out of the segment by claiming that he's just not feeling strong enough tonight.
Geller spent the rest of his career trying to sue James Randi over the humiliation, and after consistently losing his legal battles, he eventually quietly admitted that he was nothing more than an entertainer and not a wizard who could wield the powers of black magic. No shit?
5 Psychics Channel the Ghost of a Fake Person
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A British television entertainer wanted to test the abilities of three psychics, inviting them to an abandoned chocolate factory to try to summon the spirit of its long-deceased owner. Amazingly, the psychics were all able to channel the ghost of the man -- an American named George Bull -- and provide a startlingly accurate account of his life on the spot. He had managed the factory in the late 1800s. Angry, aggressive, and generally the opposite of Willy Wonka, Bull got himself killed on the job when he caused a team of delivery horses to panic and trample him.
That's incredible information the psychics were able to glean just from speaking to the spirit, especially considering that Bull never existed and his story was completely made up on the spot.
In preparation for the show, the producers had planted fake information about George Bull on the chocolate factory's website and hung a fake photograph of him in the foyer. Even though they were told nothing about the story beforehand, the mediums still managed to channel a guy named George who got trampled by horses -- in other words, they revealed that they possessed the amazing power to do a basic Google search.
A power that you can now use to track the mediums down.
The host, who could not resist making the psychics look stupider than they already did, suggests to one of the mediums that it might help if she went into a trance. She replies that she could "probably go into a semi-trance, but not a full trance." Presumably a full trance could kill her with the sheer volume of bullshit. Turning off the lights, she closes her eyes and summons the ghost of, we reiterate, a man who never existed, and slurs "the horses, they ran me over."
Of the three psychics participating, only one of them had not clearly researched George Bull beforehand and relied on trying to draw information from the environment to construct his story. After seeing the portrait of George in the foyer, he suddenly channeled the name "George Bull." When it was pointed out that the portrait had a name plaque, he said he couldn't see it without his glasses.
"An' if I were going to sneak a peek, I'd na' have done it right in front of the camera, would I have?"
Ultimately, the host pointed out to all three psychics that the whole thing was made up and pressed them for an explanation. The trance lady bafflingly claimed she'd known it was bullshit all along, while the second theorized that he'd been drawing his information from the host's mind. The third, the guy who forgot his glasses, decided to argue with the guy who made up the story about the truthfulness of the story. Because when you've dug yourself into a hole that deep, the only option is to keep digging in the hope that you can escape to China.


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#32361 - 06/14/01 07:35 PM Re: a whole nother thread!???
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As a half-Suthrenah, I say "whole nother" too, wow. But I'm relying on maverick, Helen and, why not, Faldage and/or Jackie to splain us why we say it (I forget - I'm tarred)
#32362 - 06/14/01 09:26 PM Re: a whole nother thread!???
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And that's a whole 'nother thang!
Interesting that you put an apostrophe (a napostrophe?) at the beginning of 'nother, wow. I've seen it that way as a contraction for "another"...but is that appropriate here? And have you seen the apostrophe in this context before?.....y'all?
#32363 - 06/15/01 06:31 AM Re: a whole nother thread!???
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you teasin me, E?! well, Ill rise anywayz
I think what s going on here is actually a bit more complicated, though based on tsuwms infix observations.
The main sense of this phrase is surely designed to bring out the otherness as its basic feature remarking on how different something is. So buried in the sub-conscious linguistic pattern is our frame of an other experience, by analogy to an exciting experience etc.
Yet when we want to express it more forcefully by inserting whole, we also recognise that we are forced to make an agree with it by dropping the n.
This leaves a taste of incompleteness in the mouth and when the tip of your tongue finds itself towards the top frontal position dictated by the el sound of whole, it comes back into mind, requiring you to just inflect the sides of your tongue upwards to form a palatal seal for the change to nother.
#32364 - 06/15/01 08:53 AM Re: a whole nother thread!???
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Good job, mav!
#32365 - 06/15/01 09:27 AM Re: a whole nother thread!???
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I see, maverick...so, in essence, we drop the "a" off another and insert "whole" instead...subconsciously speaking, of course! So, then, do you think it is appropriate to write it that way?
#32366 - 06/15/01 09:41 AM Re: a whole nother thread!???
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WO'N asks: do you think it is appropriate to write it that way?
Certainly if you want to write what you speak. Writing serves a whole range of purposes. I think those who equate writing with formal and speaking with informal are guilty of inability to see that different circumstances demand different responses. Certainly speech making and debating are formal and while the former may be written at some stage in its development, it is not necessary. Notes to oneself and brief memos, although written, are informal. I would contend that posting in AWAD is mostly informal although one may be formal if one so desires.
So put dat in yer fadder's mustache an smoke it!
#32367 - 06/15/01 11:32 AM Re: a whole nother thread!???
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So put dat in yer fadder's mustache an smoke it!
LOL - what a scriptwriter Bush coulda had!
Yes, the difference of style expected in different channels of communication is one of the things I am really interested in just now. One of the (many) intriguing things about this forum is the way these style boundaries are crossed and joined. Forming sometimes in the nature of very colloquial speech and with many of the discursive and collaborative features of dialogue, and made sometimes in more formal written style with reference to other written texts, this seems to me a whole nother way of designing a discourse. I am looking forward to David Crystals book due out this autumn, in the hope that he may have some interesting research in this area.
#32368 - 06/16/01 09:32 PM Re: a whole nother thread!???
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Ill rise anywayz
maverick, I've never known you not to be able to rise to the occasion!
And--thanks, Honey, for the suggestion on increasing the number of posts-per-page to 99. That is REALLY speeding up my catching-up. 'Cept I still can't get to the latest in Wombats.
#32369 - 06/18/01 07:13 AM Re: David Crystal
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I first heard about D.C. rat cheer in this venerable forum - many of you Brit types have praised him. Well, lo and behold, while helping my mom go through her books, what did I find but his "Encyclopedia of the English Language." Wow! I open the book to any page and am instantly riveted. I feel like a bull in a candy shop!
#32370 - 06/18/01 07:18 AM Re: David Crystal
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Encyclopedia of the English Language
I agree, E
A few weeks ago I got an assignment back which queried my failure to use the term isogloss, and I was able to quote the page number of this to validate the more precise term I had chosen. Can't let ancient perfessers think they know it all!
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NOAA recently declared this winter to be the 4th warmest on record [2] for the contiguous United States. That sort of announcement might be expected in a warming world. But what about the relatively cold winters of 2009-2010 and 2010-2011, which featured historic blizzards in the Midwest and the East Coast? Florida had snow seven times in 2010 [3]! And while we Americans enjoyed a very mild winter this year, Europe endured its most frigid cold snap in decades. That sort of winter weather may seem counter-intuitive in a warming world; it's the sort of weather columnist Thomas Freidman has in mind when he writes about "Global Weirding [4]."
Over the past few years, science has begun to demystify the weirdness in our winter weather, linking it directly to global warming. A paper [5] published prior to the 2009-2010 blizzards found that changes in atmospheric circulations triggered by sea ice loss—a factor strongly connected to climate change—could also mean snowier winters in mid-latitudes. The lead author, Dr. James Overland, concluded [6] that, "This can result in a warmer-than-average Arctic region and colder temperatures that may include severe winter weather events on the North American and European continents."
More recent research [7] provides further evidence that reduced Arctic sea ice cover generates wind patterns linked to heavy snowfall in North America, Europe and East Asia. Jiping Liu and coauthors concluded "that the recent decline of arctic sea ice has played a critical role in recent cold and snowy winters."
|Normal jet stream configuration (Left). Jet stream configuration during the cold snap (Right)
The jet stream separates cold air in the north from warmer air to the south. Normally, relatively gentle bends in the jet cause warmer or cooler than normal weather. However, the circulation changes linked to the reduction of sea ice increases the risk of a more meandering jet stream in mid-latitudes; a southward meander of the jet brings frigid arctic air with it, resulting in cold surges. This increasing tendency of the jet stream to meander means an increased risk of frigid temperatures and snowstorms in areas where most Americans and Europeans live. Meanwhile, this same meandering jet stream allows warmer air into the Arctic, which can further contribute to sea ice melt, reinforcing the cycle.
This dynamic is consistent with the cold snaps and blizzards of the past few years, most of which have been associated with perturbed jet flow. In other words, the past winter's unusually cold temperatures in Europe [8] and Alaska [9], as well as cold waves in recent years in the continental [10] U.S. [11], are indeed the types of events that we can expect to see more of in a warming world.
[12]This recent science provides more evidence that global warming can alter the climate in ways that we don't expect—global weirding. From cold snaps to droughts and extreme rainfall, climate change is influencing a multitude of weather events all over the globe, resulting in more weather at both extremes. Last year's record snowpacks [13] in the Western U.S. gave way to record snowpack deficits [14] this year and the recent yearlong drought in Texas was punctuated by massive floods just north and east along the Mississippi and Missouri Rivers. The string of blizzards along the east coast, from 2009's Snowpocalypse [15] through the blizzards [16] of January 2011 [17], was a historic run of storminess, but since then there has been nary a flake to be found [18]. Meanwhile, Europe experienced a historic cold snap coupled with abnormally heavy [19] and widespread [20] snow this winter. In Asia, heavy snow [21] and avalanches [22] have buried towns [23] and the coldest weather [24] in years [21] caused the price of heating fuels to spike. This cold snap was in sharp contrast to heat waves [25] in recent summers, some of which broke all time records [26] in 12 Asian countries.
In the future we must prepare for more "weird" weather events, especially since studies suggest that as the arctic continues to melt, its influence on weather patterns here at home will grow. It has already changed wind patterns and as they continue to change, we'll find out how weird the weather can really get.
Dan Huber is a Science & Policy Fellow at C2ES.
[1] http://www.c2es.org/blog/huberd
[2] http://www.c2es.org/blog/huberd/2012-4th-warmest-winter-us
[3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_snow_events_in_Florida#21st_century_.2814_Reported_Events.29
[4] http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/17/opinion/17friedman.html
[5] http://www.webpages.uidaho.edu/envs501/downloads/Overland %26 Wang 2010.pdf
[6] http://www.noaa.gov/features/02_monitoring/warmarctic.html
[7] http://www.lasg.ac.cn/UpLoadFiles/File/papers/2012/2012-pnas.jiping liu.pdf
[8] http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/story/2012-02-15/europe-cold-deaths/53102356/1
[9] http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/sotc/national/2012/1
[10] http://www.wunderground.com/blog/JeffMasters/comment.html?entrynum=1411
[11] http://www.srh.noaa.gov/images/epz/Storm_Reports/Cold11/Feb2011ColdWx.pdf
[12] http://www.c2es.org/docUploads/jetstream3.png
[13] http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2011/03/31/BAOL1IMPJB.DTL
[14] http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2012/02/28/latest-sierra-snowpack-measure-fall-well-short-of-normal/
[15] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_American_blizzard_of_2009
[16] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/January_31_%E2%80%93_February_2,_2011_North_American_blizzard
[17] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/January_25%E2%80%9327,_2011_North_American_blizzard
[18] http://www.wunderground.com/blog/JeffMasters/comment.html?entrynum=2027
[19] http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/capital-weather-gang/post/parts-of-romania-overwhelmed-by-deep-snow-photos-and-video/2012/02/13/gIQAyKAvAR_blog.html
[20] http://www.wunderground.com/blog/JeffMasters/comment.html?entrynum=2030
[21] http://www.asiaone.com/News/AsiaOne%2BNews/Asia/Story/A1Story20120202-325430.html
[22] http://www.ekantipur.com/2012/01/17/headlines/Heavy-snow-avalanches-kill-16-in-Afghanistan/347372/
[23] http://news.tj/en/news/350-houses-trapped-under-heavy-snow-muminobod
[24] http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/02/08/afghanistan-cold_n_1262289.html
[25] http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/japan/8645326/Japan-struggles-to-cope-with-heatwave-with-26-dead-of-heatstroke.html
[26] http://climatesignals.org/2010/06/unprecedented-heat-wave-in-africa-asia-sets-more-all-time-highs/
[27] http://www.c2es.org/category/topic/science
[28] http://www.c2es.org/category/keywords/extreme-weather


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Things to come
Council could impose layoffs, increase parking fines, cut services and hike fees by spring
By André Coleman , Kevin Uhrich 12/29/2011
Pasadena officials met in a hastily called early-morning session the day after the Thanksgiving weekend to discuss ways to weather an $8.3-million budget shortfall, with some of the suggestions being layoffs, an increase in traffic fines, higher permitting fees and service reductions.
At that time, all of those proposals and a number of others aimed at closing the city's budget gap heading into the New Year were shelved. But in light of the damages caused by a devastating windstorm that slammed the city three weeks ago, Pasadena officials are now saying they may have to reconsider making potentially devastating budget cuts if the economy does not improve.
One of those shelved recommendations would increase parking fines by $20, costing drivers about $57 per violation. Pasadena processes 3,082 parking tickets a month — about 103 tickets a day — and increasing the fines would allow the city's cut to bring in an additional $350,000 a year, according to city documents.
Other recommendations include eliminating after-school programs and reducing youth violence prevention services.
"As far as I am concerned, everything is on the table. We have an existing deficit, which will be exacerbated by wind cleanup," said Councilwoman Margaret McAustin, referring to the hurricane-force winds that whipped through Pasadena late Nov. 30 and early Dec. 1. The storms caused an estimated $23 million in damage, much of which will eventually be reimbursed by FEMA. "We have
to look at everything to get our budget balanced. The City Council agreed to increase the transfer from the utility, which
is permitted, but we have to recognize there is a cost to that. We can't continue to use the utility as a piggy bank."
At its Nov. 28 meeting, the council voted to increase the annual transfer from the city Light and Power Fund to the General Fund by 2 percent, up from 12 percent, taking the total budget supplement from $12,688,000 to $15,860,515.
A government watchdog alleged the city had broken the state's open meeting law by not posting the agenda for that meeting until 9 p.m. Nov. 23, the night before City Hall closed for the four-day Thanksgiving holiday. The agenda must be posted 72 hours before a public meeting "at a location accessible to the public," according to the statute. It was first believed that that agenda was not posted outside city offices, but both City Clerk Mark Jomsky and city Public Information Officer Ann Erdman said the agenda for the Nov. 28 meeting was posted the previous Wednesday night outside of Council Chambers and in the entrance to City Hall. The agenda is also electronically sent to various news agencies, many of which were closed or short-staffed over the long weekend.
During that meeting, council members approved some reorganization measures and struck down proposals that would have led to eight layoffs and brought the total number of city layoffs since 2009 to 294. The proposed layoffs were in the Finance, Fire, Police, Housing, Human Services, Planning, Public Works and Transportation departments.
The council also voted down a proposal that would have decimated the city's local hiring program, which has been fighting to get locals jobs on the $152-million Rose Bowl renovation project.
In the end, the council decided to reorganize some city programs, including tree trimming schedules, and implement a 25 percent General Plan maintenance and implementation fee on all building permits. It also reduced stipends for the Summer Rose program from $1,200 to $600. These three changes are expected to save the city $248,000 a year.
The city will also eliminate paper payroll checks, which will require all employees to enroll in direct deposit — a move that is expected to save an additional $31,000 every year — and defund vacant positions, including five in the Police Department.
"When we were going through it, some things felt unnecessary and would hurt people. It's not complete yet, but we are trying to be thoughtful," said Councilman Gene Masuda. "We have cut so much already, and to do an additional $4 million is difficult. If it keeps going down and we keep losing revenue, we are going to have to cut wherever it is necessary," Masuda said.
"We cannot spend more money than we bring in. that is not a way to run our city. You can't just keep borrowing from the rainy day fund. At some point, you have to solve the problem," Masuda said.
The city is looking at other ways to help solve its financial problems. Officials will study soliciting advertising on city ARTS buses and contracting programs with the Pasadena Unified School District, a move that could save both agencies an undetermined amount of money.
"I wouldn't be surprised if those items that were considered but not recommended appeared in front of us again this spring when we begin the 2012-13 budget process," said Councilwoman Jacque Robinson.
Under the budget deal reached this summer by Gov. Jerry Brown and Democrats in the Legislature, the state would face up to $980 million
in cuts, beginning next year in a number of public services, such as libraries.
Although Pasadena's sales tax base tax is doing well, it is being driven largely by big-box retail and auto sales. Auto dealers have been leaving Pasadena over the past decade, with 11 dealerships pulling up stakes for auto malls in neighboring cities, such as Monrovia and Glendale.
"As we go forward preparing next year's budget, if we still need to make cuts and we don't identify them, it is possible some of the things may come back when we submit the budget," Assistant City Manager Steve Mermell said.
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WHITE RIVER JUNCTION A Springfield teenager faces felony charges after he allegedly gave prescription Percocet pills to a younger friend.
Kevin Morin, 18, pleaded innocent Monday to two counts of felony drug delivery to a minor and to accompanying misdemeanor charges of possession of narcotics and petty larceny.
Three white pills identified as Percocet were discovered on June 5 when the assistant principal and school nurse at Springfield High School searched a 15-year-old girls purse. Police said the search was a daily routine because the girl had brought prescription medication to school previously and had once overdosed while in school.
The girl told school officials she thought the pills were ibuprofen and that Morin gave them to her because she was feeling ill, police said.
Morin admitted taking the pills from a relatives prescription bottle, police said, and the relative determined that more than 50 Percocet pills were missing.
Percocet is prescribed for moderate to severe pain.
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As you have no doubt realized, the practice of TCM involves a lot more than just the insertion of acupuncture [8] needles. To become a competent and qualified TCM practitioner in the United States requires three to four years of full time post-graduate study at an accredited educational institution.
Just like your M.D., your TCM practitioner must adhere to rules that ensure that his or her licensing and training is up-to-date. Some fast facts about TCM regulation:
So TCM is indeed quite carefully regulated.
The National Certification Commission for Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine (NCCAOM) provides national board certification for TCM practitioners.
NCCAOM is a non-profit organization established in 1982 to promote nationally recognized standards of competency and safety for the practice of acupuncture, Chinese herbal medicine, and Oriental bodywork.
To be eligible to take the NCCAOM exam, an applicant must have successfully completed a formal education in acupuncture or Oriental medicine through an accredited school (although apprenticeship can allow for eligibility in certain cases). See the table for education requirements.
|Type of Certification
|Must complete an accredited course of study that can document at least 1,905 hours (about 3 years full-time schooling) of didactic and clinic education.
|Oriential Medicine
|Must complete at least 2,625 hours (about 4 years of full-time study) of didactic and clinic coursework in both acupuncture and Chinese herbal medicine. In most states this level of education is considered equivalent to a masters level program.
At present there are more than 50 master's programs for acupuncture and Oriental medicine in the United States. The Accreditation Commission for Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine (ACAOM) is reviewing post-graduate doctoral programs as a pilot process. As of September 2008, there were three doctoral programs accredited by the pilot program and an additional seven programs that have applied for review.
Search for master's and doctoral programs [9].
The National Certification Commission for Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine (NCCAOM [10]), Alexandria, Virginia.
Acupuncture and Oriental medicine licensing and regulation [11] in the United States; state by state listings.
[1] http://www.takingcharge.csh.umn.edu/explore-healing-practices/acupuncture
[2] http://www.takingcharge.csh.umn.edu/explore-healing-practices/cupping
[3] http://www.takingcharge.csh.umn.edu/explore-healing-practices/dermal-friction
[4] http://www.takingcharge.csh.umn.edu/explore-healing-practices/dietary-therapies
[5] http://www.takingcharge.csh.umn.edu/explore-healing-practices/herbal-therapies
[6] http://www.takingcharge.csh.umn.edu/explore-healing-practices/moxibustion
[7] http://www.takingcharge.csh.umn.edu/explore-healing-practices/therapeutic-massage-tui-na
[8] http://www.takingcharge.csh.umn.edu/glossary/3#term4
[9] http://www.acaom.org/find-a-school/
[10] http://www.nccaom.org/
[11] http://www.acupuncture.com/statelaws/statelaw.htm
[12] http://www.takingcharge.csh.umn.edu/our-experts/christopher-hafner-lac


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Students at the Chewelah middle school returned from Christmas break to find their principal, wasn't there greeting them in the morning anymore. Jon Symonds was injured in a serious snowmobiling accident.
Today the school received a distinction award, meaning it's in the top five percent of schools for improving in the state. While the award is an honor, the middle school just wants their principal back.
As the faculty of Jenkins Middle School accepted a distinguished award Tuesday, there was an absence of a daily reward.
Two weeks ago, their principal Jon Symonds was in a serious snowmobiling accident on Christmas day. It left him paralyzed from the waste down.
So instead of going back to school after the ceremony to share the award with the students right away, they stopped by St. Luke's Rehabilitation Center to present the award to the man responsible for it.
"It's very humbling. It means a lot," Symonds said of the surprise visit.
The accident is still fresh in his mind as he held back tears talking with us.
"It's been tough not to be able to get up in the morning and go to work and see those people."
Symonds continues to improve just two weeks after losing movement in his legs. He hopes to be back to school by the end of February.
Before they faculty and staff left, they opened a box full of paper for Symonds. It was, perhaps, the most important paper of the day.
It turns out the students at Jenkins wrote well wishes onto small pieces of paper for Symonds. The paper chain now decorates his room at St. Luke's.
The school is setting up a fund to help the Symonds pay for Jon's recovery. If you'd like to help, you can contact the school district at 509-685-6800.


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Gain a better understanding of the world we live in by learning about the people and events that shaped our past. Through the study of different civilizations, you will learn important skills, including critical thinking and analysis, historical writing, evaluation of evidence, and historical argumentation--all of which will prepare you for graduate study or a career in education, public service, international relations, business, or law.
Why North Park?
Our program will develop your interests, perspectives, and skills in a way that helps you fully engage with our world. As you learn about world civilizations—from the United States and Europe to Africa and the Middle East—we'll encourage your participation in internships and study abroad programs. Our classes also reflect North Park's Christian, multicultural, and urban mission by teaching the history of Christianity, introducing diverse perspectives, and connecting coursework to Chicago.
Recent graduates have worked for the U.S. State Department, Archdiocese of Chicago Archives, Chicago Public Schools, Sabeel Ecumenical Liberation Theology Center, and Pietisten Journal, or earned graduate degrees at Loyola University, Yale University, Boston University, York University, University of Washington, Rutgers University, Northwestern University, and more.
From world-class museums to public and private libraries, Chicago is full of resources for research and internships. North Park students regularly conduct independent research on topics that range from Jane Addams's founding of Hull House to the Chicago-style hot dog. History majors have completed internships at places like the Field Museum, Evanston Historical Society, Pritzker Military Museum, and the Archdiocese of Chicago.
Two recent history majors received prestigious Fulbright Scholarships—Michael Nelson C'11 taught English and history in Poland after an internship at the Polish Museum of America sparked an interest in the culture and language, while Ruth Blidar C'10 returned to her parents' home country of Romania to teach English as a second language.
Read more about their experiences.
North Park alumna Susan Rabe combines her passion for history with teaching and working with students, helping them prepare their for careers while fostering their intellectual, ethical, and social development.
Learn more about Professor Rabe and the history faculty.
Many North Park history students study abroad, including at the prestigious University of Oxford, where they develop their academic writing and research skills at one of the oldest schools in the world, with opportunities to visit many historically significant sites. Learn more about your study abroad options.
History majors who desire to teach at the high school or college level can apply for the Virginia E. Hahn Memorial Scholarship. This award, endowed by the generosity of a lifelong history teacher, provides $5,000 or more per year for the duration of your studies at North Park, above and beyond other scholarships for which you qualify. Learn more.
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