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Skip to comments.Bullied Boy Suspended for Fighting Back
Posted on 04/21/2012 3:41:34 PM PDT by Clintonfatigued
A nine-year-old Colorado boy has reportedly been suspended from his elementary school after standing up to a bully who was physically harming him.
Nathan Pemberton, a third grade student, claims that he was subject to beatings from another child and when he finally garnered the courage to stand up for himself he was punished and removed from West Elementary School in Colorado Springs, which his parents think is ludicrous, according to Mail Online.
"One kid kicked me in the back, then punched me in the face. Then I punched him in the face and then I got in trouble," Nathan told KDVR-TV.
Nathan had previously complained to the school about the constant bullying, but his parents claim that he did not receive the right assistance to properly resolve the problem.
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Public schools, ruining generation after generation, one life at a time.
He started it....
..and we wonder why this nation is going down the crapper....
The bully started it and the victim finished it. The only thing a bully understands is a fist in the face, and suddenly, the 10 watt bulb in their head goes on and they realize they can get hurt trying to push other people around. At some point he'll mess with the wrong person and end up seriously hurt or maybe dead. Tough way to learn, but then again, i knew some guys growing up that the only way you could get them to pay attention or stop doing the wrong thing was with a 2x4. Oh well, not everybody can be an Einstein, I guess.
I've been in the same spot as this kid. Got tired of getting pushed around by the school yard bully in elementary school and fought back. I had tried "following the rules" by going to the teacher twice and she basically told me to go away. So, I punched back and got creamed and in trouble.
In the end, it was still worth it, though. I didn't win the fight by any means, but I popped the creep a good one in the mouth and he never bothered me again.
I teach 3rd grade in a public school in Texas. I always tell my kids that if they bully someone, expect their victim to one day get tired of it and fight back. I also tell them that when they do, don't come crying to me. Obviously any bullying that I see I immediately nip in the bud, but I cannot be everywhere and see everything.
Liberal Nathan would know from national politicians to engage surrogates to do all the fighting back, and another stuttering kid to speak for him, in order to maintain plausible deniability, while blaming the previous administration of teachers for the unprecedented bullying he inherited.
Even in CO Spgs., no good deed goes unpunished.
The parents are right. Self defense is not a crime, this kid was punished even though he did nothing wrong.
What's worse, the school did nothing about the bullying (that's what I got from the article), but all of a sudden decided to enforce some zero tolerance policy only when the kid fought back.
The schools think they're above the law, and can enforce any law any way they like for whomever they wish to enforce it for. Guess what, until they are held accountable for this, they're right.
Any takers?
School is a crime.
Why is it so difficult to get a reasonable decision out of school personnel? The answer is simple. The schools of education and journalism in our colleges and universities have the lowest average ACT and SAT scores in the schools. They are the intellectual dumping grounds. If you can't make it in almost any other field then take either of the above mentioned. It is sad but it is true.
You know, at my print shop we're making books for an 80 year old woman, and she told us that bullying was nothing new (shocking, right?). You just had to develop a backbone and fight back. She told me she stood up a boy almost twice her size. As she put it, "I went psycho on him." She leaped onto him, scratching his face, pulling out his hair, knocked him to the ground and smashed his face into the dirt. She was never suspended (she actually thinks the teacher watched from the school window), and the boy never bothered her again... nor any other kid.
I too have read that Education majors have the lowest scores.
On the other hand, at my old school, the Elementary Education majors included some of the hottest girls one could imagine.
Public schools, ruining generation after generation, one life at a time.
The same kind of crap happened in Catholic schools in the 70s. I should know, I went through it.
Public schools are not perfect, by any means, but the constant bashing of them by a certain few members of this site has totally gotten out of hand.
Those that do it, and you know who you are, enjoy taking an incident here or an incident there and extrapolate it to any and every public school that exists. Guess what folks? You're wrong.
Please remember - correlation does NOT equal causation.
Those who so viciously attack us who choose to send our children to public schools or choose to work in them prove by their own words they are not the saints they wish others to believe them to be.
I had originally planned to comment on the ridiculousness of this situation, but the immediate public school bashing tossed all thoughts of that out the window.
You defeat your purpose with the constant bashing, since the vast majority of it is irrational.
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When moral absolutes coming from God are rejected, then human invention replaces Right and Wrong. And since humans without God's wisdom are notoriously wicked and deceitful, now Up is Down, Good is Bad, and so on. To torment another child is tolerated, but the tormented child defending himself - Bad!! Just like Zimmerman should have allowed himself to be killed. Schools are designed to make children immoral, crazy and stupid.
Uh-uh. This exact thing happened to my nephew in a parochial grade school. I was furious! We started home teaching the next year, and his learning curve shot up!
Just take your kids out of public schools.
It will help the taxpayers too.
Take the kid to an amusement park and get him some boxing gloves.
The government socialist-entitlement schools do NOT want little boys to learn how to defend themselves and later their wives and children. They are grooming an emasculated generations of metrosexuals. They want the boys and girls to grow up looking to the government for protection.
Fundamentally, the Teacher Ratcheds ( sisters to Nurse Ratched), who run the government socialist-entitlement schools, figuratively eat the testicals of little boys for breakfast.
I don't know why any sane father would allow a little boy to darken the doorway of a government socialist-entitlement school. By the way, it isn't good for little girls either.
Where's Ender on the playground when you need him?
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Personally, I consider government owned and run socialist-entitlement schooling to be evil. I ask Freepers the following questions, then decide.
Are all government socialist-entitlement K-12 schools godless in their worldview? Do students who sit in godless classrooms learn to think and reason godlessly? If they are to cooperate in the classroom how could it be otherwise?
Are taxpayers forced to subsidized the establishment of atheistic godless secular humanism preached by the government socialist-entitlement K-12 schools? How can this be compatible with the First Amendment?
Are all children whose parents can not ransom them from the godless government socialist-entitlement schools forced to attend? What happens if they or their parents refuse to attend these godless schools?
Are all government owned and run K-12 schools a socialist-entitlement?
Merely by attending do children risk learning that the voting mob that gives them tuition-free schools can be persuaded to give them **lots** of free stuff?
Once in the godless government K-12 schools is every First Amendment Right trashed? ( Speech, press, free assembly, and expression of religion) Does this in any way resemble the way prisoners are treated?
Do government owned and run K-12 schools generally look like minimum security prisons? Is there a risk that the students ( who are treated like prisoners by government functionaries) will learn to be comfortable prisoners of the state?
The school is not going to protect you, and really what you did was better for you and your bully. Same with this kid. Only thing whose than a bully is a tattletale.
You defeat your purpose with the constant bashing, since the vast majority of it is irrational.
Specifically, is there any question in post #16 is irrational and why?
Looks like we have to redefine "bullies".
Years ago, in the days before caller ID, there was a bully in my kids school. I called the bullies' father and told him that if his kid bullied my child I would settle the score with him (the father) at a time and place of my choosing. He didn't know who called him so he must have told his kid to knock it off since the bullying stopped.
I think the point is that everybody with children in school would be FAR better off if we had absolute school choice. If the liberals want their young boys to be raised as pansies...let them....give everybody else the ability to opt out.
Then you are a hypocrite because you have utilized those socialist entitlements when it served your purposes.
Are all government socialist-entitlement K-12 schools godless in their worldview? Do students who sit in godless classrooms learn to think and reason godlessly? If they are to cooperate in the classroom how could it be otherwise?
Worthless question because you are expecting a specific answer to the 1st two and if it is not your desired response, the 3rd question is a moot point. Don't bother.
You are so well versed in Alinsky tactics that you yourself are unable to see how you are as guilty, if not more so, of that which you decry in others.
You have long ago invalidated your own rhetoric, but are so entrenched in it you can not see the forest for the trees.
Your strawmen no longer work with me. neither do your bullying tactics. And that is exactly what you are when it comes to the topic of public schools - a bully. Actually I should say a wannabe bully, because you are totally incapable of bullying me, no matter how hard you try. I won't fall for your -gotcha- mentality ever again.
When you can speak rationally, I will consider you have something productive to say, but as long as you stick with Alinsky rules, nothing you say is of importance.
My son has been instructed to beat the snot out of anyone if they try picking on him. He might get in trouble at school, but he gets one get out of jail free card at home. Fortunately, he has not been a target thus far and I doubt he ever will be. He is very likable.
Son, you just keep punching those bullies in the mouth.
You'll grow up just fine.
I agree with you about school choice - my parents chose to send my brother and I to Catholic school. My husband and I chose public school for our daughter and chose the district.
My point is that there is a certain contingent here that disagree with the choice I and many others have made and thus make us out to be nothing short of the devil himself. I have been called everything from an unfit mother to an abusive parent by some of them. They only agree with school choice if the choice agrees with their choice - which is the epitome of a liberal mentality.
Parents: If you love your children get them out of the government schools.
Do whatever you have to.
yeah...nothing new here.
My son (South American Hispanic) was once surrounded by a gang (Mexicans) who always harassed him, and they ordered him to fight them one at a time or be beaten up by all of them at once. He had flattened three of them before the teachers figured out what all the noise was.
So he was suspended by the school, along with the gang. Why? The school said he should have called a teacher to stop them (which would only have meant they would have gotten him on the way home from school)....
But afterward, he was left alone...
I told my kids you gotta bully a bully. I coached my daughter on how to handle one particular queen bee and it worked.
My oldest child is 42. The youngest is in their late twenties. In the past 2 to 4 DECADES have** you** ever **changed your mind*** about an issue? Would changing **your** mind about an issue make **you** a hypocrite? ( Just wondering)
By the way, are Freepers who collect social security hypocrites because many advocate for privatization of retirement? Are those Freepers who believe federal lands should be returned to the states because they visit a national park or ( gasp!) even go camping in one? Do those Freepers who believe in the flat tax or fair tax hypocrites for paying their taxes? If they drive a car are they hypocrites for preaching an end to gasoline taxes? Freepers who advocate closing government schools and have used the government schools ( some, like me, can count the time in **days**) are they hypocrites because they may have used the schools for convenience at some time in their child's life?
The questions I have asked do have answers. Mostly I post them for other Freepers to ponder since I don't recall you ever having directly addressed any of these points. Instead, the Alinsky distraction of calling me a hypocrite is used.
By the way, I never report personal insults to the moderators. Personal insults say sooooo much more about those flinging them that they do about those against whom they are directed. I prefer for these personal insults to stand so that fellow freepers can read them.
Here are the questions again should you have a change of heart and be willing to consider them:
Are all government socialist-entitlement K-12 schools godless in their worldview? Do students who sit in godless classrooms learn to think and reason godlessly? If they are to cooperate in the classroom how could it be otherwise?
Are taxpayers forced to subsidized the establishment of atheistic godless secular humanism preached by the government socialist-entitlement K-12 schools? How can this be compatible with the First Amendment?
Are all children whose parents can not ransom them from the godless government socialist-entitlement schools forced to attend? What happens if they or their parents refuse to attend these godless schools?
Are all government owned and run K-12 schools a socialist-entitlement?
Merely by attending do children risk learning that the voting mob that gives them tuition-free schools can be persuaded to give them **lots** of free stuff?
Once in the godless government K-12 schools is every First Amendment Right trashed? ( Speech, press, free assembly, and expression of religion) Does this in any way resemble the way prisoners are treated?
Do government owned and run K-12 schools generally look like minimum security prisons? Is there a risk that the students ( who are treated like prisoners by government functionaries) will learn to be comfortable prisoners of the state?
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The thing is, you took the time to examine your choices and made the ones that best suited you. That is, you didn't blindly send your kids into government schools without first making sure the sanity level in the school district was acceptable.
I happen to live in a very conservative area where the parents are not afraid to hold teachers accountable. My kids all went to government schools, but they were government schools in a district that was very highly rated. I remained vigilant and debriefed my kids on a regular basis to see what kind of liberal nonsense they were being fed. To my surprise, the teachers were mostly conservatives themselves.
One funny story: One day the kids were at an "assembly" in the main auditorium and were shown a documentary about the Olympics. This was around 1999-2000. During the documentary there was a clip of President Clinton saying something, and as soon as his face was on the screen all the kids cracked up in laughter. My son said the horrified looks on the faces of a couple of the female teachers was priceless.
During our final parent-teacher night for our youngest - - this was in 2008 - - I noticed posters taped up around the hallways announcing an upcoming student "debate". The topic was: "Who is more qualified to be President, Barack Obama or Sarah Palin." I howled! Palin was, of course, the VICE Presidential nominee while Ubama was the rats' Presidential nominee. I am pretty sure the kids (and their teacher-mentors) failed to see the irony.
In any event, I was always ready to find private schools and/or homeschool my kids if the government schools they attended got too silly. My neighbors and my brother (different district) opted to homeschool, and a close friend (again, a different district) opted for Catholic school, so I had plenty of resources available to get information about options.
Unfortunately, the district I live in is the exception rather than the rule. From what I can tell, the closer a district is to a concentrated Democrat parasite nest ("city") the more likely it is to irreversibly damage children who attend its schools.
Nice try - but no cigar.
You have a my way or the highway attitude when it comes to education and have gone so far as calling those who choose to place their children in or teach in public schools everything from unfit parents to child abusers. You are in no position to talk about others making what you consider personal attacks.
Contrary to your opinion, I am not a stupid woman and see through you better than I see through the screens in my windows.
You are the problem, not me.
And BTW - I don't use the abuse button either - I enjoy seeing others see you for what you are - a bully.
What you said BUMP!
I told my sons - - and often reminded them - - that if they ever got in trouble or suspended from school for fighting or defending themselves from bullies, I had their backs completely. My only rule was that they themselves NEVER bully anyone (although I actually didn't have to tell them that because it wasn't in their nature anyway).
I don't disagree with that at all. We moved to another state to make sure our child wasn't going to be indoctrinated. I wouldn't have put our daughter in the local Catholic school in Delaware - the tuition wasn't the issue, it was the poor quality of the education - let alone a public school. To get a decent, not good mind you just decent, education in Delaware I would have had to move closer to the cesspool known as Wilmington and pay more for one year than my parents paid for 12 years of Catholic school for BOTH my brother and I combined.
I appreciate your comments, I really do. We have had numerous family discussions about changing tracks and it is not a closed issue. Virginia is offering more and more course work on line, especially for high school students and my daughter starts HS in September. We shall see.
Again, my thanks for your kind words.
{the closer a district is to a concentrated Democrat parasite nest (city) the more likely it is to irreversibly damage children who attend its schools.}
Very well put Lancey.... my sentiments exactly.
Of entrance to a quarrel, but being in,
Bear't that the opposed may beware of thee. —Hamlet
So pathetic; but so true. Liberalism and 'it's' agenda at work. Hugs and continued 'spine' to the victim - and his family - despite the agenda. . .
Forget a 'line in the sand' time to 'draw the line'. . .
Thank you! Wish you were teaching in North Dakota! My 11 year old grandson is suffering from bullying, and has even been threatened by one teacher with a beating from her son if he stands up for himself. (investigations are pending, obviously)
For decades, it is said that the widest street in the world is West 120th Street in New York City, which separates Columbia Teachers College from the rest of Columbia University. Columbia is--or was--known for its academic rigor, whereas its Teachers College incubated much of the "progressive" education philosophy that now permeates America's public schools.
If you do a keyword search on this site for "zero tolerance," you will come up with hundreds of hits describing incidents in all parts of the country and in every type of community--urban slums, silk-stocking suburbs, rural towns, red states and blue states. Perhaps the frequency of "zero tolerance" outrages is exaggerated, but they occur far too often.
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Release date: 6/28/2004
Raleigh: Attorney General Roy Cooper announced today that Carpet DryClean, Inc. of Raleigh has agreed to stop using illegal recorded messages in its sales calls to Triangle residents and to abide by all telemarketing laws.
"Not only are these prerecorded calls illegal and annoying, but they cause real problems for seniors who depend on their phone as a lifeline," said Cooper. "Simply hanging up doesn't end these calls, so we went to court to make this company stop."
Under terms of a consent judgment approved today by Wake County Superior Court Judge Robert H. Hobgood, Carpet DryClean and its owner and manager Preston E. Laughinghouse must stop using automatically dialed, prerecorded telemarketing pitches and will pay $25,000 to the state. Carpet DryClean has also agreed to dispose of the equipment it used to make pre-recorded telemarketing calls and to comply with all laws that govern telemarketing, including North Carolina's Do Not Call law. In addition, the company will pay a penalty of $5,000 per illegal call for any future violations of the judgment.
As alleged in the complaint filed by Cooper in October 2002, Carpet DryClean began promoting its carpet cleaning service through telemarketing sometime in or before 1999. The company automatically dialed telephone numbers and then played a lengthy recorded sales pitch that often filled up consumers' answering machines or voice mail. Prerecorded marketing calls are illegal in North Carolina unless a live operator first asks if the consumer wants to hear the taped message. Consumers who received these calls from Carpet DryClean reported that no live person introduced the sales pitch and that the recording did not disconnect when they hung up the phone.
At one point, consumers reported that the company's message failed to disclose information about how to contact the company at the beginning of the recorded message. That forced people who wanted to be taken off the Carpet DryClean call list to listen to the entire, lengthy sales pitch. In many cases, consumers who waited through the message, contacted the company and asked to be removed from the call list continued to receive calls.
The Attorney General was assisted by the Better Business Bureau of Eastern North Carolina in collecting consumer complaints about calls from Carpet DryClean. A total of 52 consumers have complained about the calls.
To cut down on telemarketing calls, consumers can sign up for the Registry by visiting www.nocallsnc.com or by calling 1-888-382-1222 from the number they wish to register. A total of 1.9 million North Carolina numbers have been placed on the list since it began in July 2003. Consumers who have signed up can report telemarketers who call them to Cooper's office by calling 1-877-5-NO-SCAM toll-free within the state or by going to the website.
"People across our state have taken steps to keep telemarketers from bothering them at home," said Cooper, "But if the telemarketers keep calling, we want to hear about it so that we can put a stop to these unwanted calls."

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Last week, I joined thousands of people from around the world for the opening of the UN Conference on Sustainable Development in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Rio+20 -- the short name for the conference -- takes place twenty years after the 1992 Earth Summit in Rio and will focus on two themes: (a) a green economy in the context of sustainable development poverty eradication; and (b) the institutional framework for sustainable development.
On June 13, President Dilma Rousseff of Brazil kicked off the conference, where she called on "all countries of the world to commit" to reaching an accord that addresses serious environmental and social woes. While world leaders and stakeholders groups are busy negotiating, the public also has the opportunity to become involved and learn more about issues of sustainable development ranging from technology and innovation to governance and partnership initiatives at Athlete's Park, a venue where governments, businesses, and organizations are hosting a variety of side events.
These side events allow visitors to get a snapshot of how various sectors of society are becoming more sustainable and provides them with a unique opportunity to have face time with innovators who are developing sustainable products; researchers who are making new discoveries; and stakeholder groups such as women and youth whose lives are being transformed by the implementation of new policies and technological developments. The knowledge sharing, networking, and collaboration that is taking place among the various groups at the conference is an inspiration to us all and a testament of the shear number of people who are invested in this issue.
On June 15, I helped open the doors of the U.S. Center at Rio+20 to the public. Throughout this week, guests to the Center will have the opportunity to learn how U.S. society is advancing sustainable development initiatives through 45 live webchat programs with experts from the government, civil society, and private sector. All of these programs will be available online and accessible to people worldwide, with 11 of them being featured events with a social media component.
People all around the world are already addressing the sustainability issues before them and are blazing a trail as they design a more sustainable world, and a better future for us all.
What is your vision for a sustainable future?
Related Content: Remarks on Rio+20 United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development
Seymour in Idaho writes:
After reading a transcript of Prince Charles' pre-recorded speech to the summit, I am concerned that his faction will use the occasion to launch a genocidal assault on the living standards of the nations of the underdeveloped sector, targeting in particular their efforts to feed themselves. "Sustainability" ought to mean giving the people of the world access to the most advanced levels of technology so that they can manage their economies with a minimum of waste and pollution. But in some minds, "sustainability" means "kill the people so we can seize their raw materials later on down the road."
Jon M. in Michigan writes:
The only life that is truly sustainable is a lifestyle that uses ONLY renewable energy sources. Please consider peak oil power down and climate change as one issue.
Karen S. in New Mexico writes:
Please, please, please end those darn fossil fuel subsidies now! The soon we all go green, the better our national security, aside from the encological benefits.
D.T. in Washington, D.C. writes:
I find it impossible to believe that REAL CHANGE can emerge from a big meeting involving multinational oil and energy corporations which HAVE PROFIT AS THEIR BASIC MOTIVE. Corporate proits have become an issue which divides our Planet into CLASSES -- the very rich and the rapidly-becoming majority of either struggling near-poor or poor. Corporate GREED and POWER Endorsing Croporate GREED wlll be the downfall of Planet Earth. Corporations -- De-GREED YOUR AGENDAS.
Christian R. in Germany writes:
The only way is free market Capitalism worldwide so that we can develop our own ressources by economic growth, human creativity and human achievement, not Global Socialism on behalf of Environmentalist myths. According to the prophecies of the Club of Rome oil would have run out in 1990 and there would be no copper, no aluminium, no silver and several other ressources available anymore.
Environmentalism is an antihuman ideology, seeing humans as a cancer to the Earth. Read Robert Zubrins new book "Merchants of Despair" in order to see which atrocities Environmentalism has already caused.
Environmentalism wants to take our freedom and our wealth away. Climate Change is natural and happens according to Sun activities and the occurance of clouds. The climate was much warmer in the Middle Ages than it is now, without industry and 7 billion people.
Please do not kill progress, growth and wealth on behalf of a hoax.
Mike J. in Canada writes:
Global warming requires global cooling.
If we lose 5 million square miles of ice coverage we need to provide the same in reflective surfaces to offset the loss- use solar panels on everything we have built and for every new acre zoned it should be zoned green or to high density residential, commercial or industrial. Every acre lost is an acre of btu's absorbed or reflected by natural environment. Efforts globally need to focus on zoning green, working to purify water as best as humanly possible and taking zoned land converting it to high density "human" environments. No nation or entity can achieve this as there are too many chiefs. cc @maximusfun
Patrick in Maryland writes:
What is your vision of a sustainable future ?
A statainable future is one we're all around too see. One that values a persons life over everthing else.
That would be a sustainable future for everyone.
W.W. writes:
Daud K. in Washington writes:
"Live and let others live" is the very simple principle and brief phrase to present my vision of sustainable future. How? Needs more space and time. Thanx
Jordan J. in Florida writes:
Solar energy, recycled materials, vertical buildings, windows, legislation, and values before greed. Educating green initiatives is also important in our educational Institutions.
W.W. writes:
Sustainable Development and the illusion of democracy
If people only understood the rank injustice of our money and banking system there would be a revolution before morning
Val L. writes:
World-wide Transparency
Opening everyone's front door to increase understanding, awareness and knowledge of the issues, needs and opportunities available in order to drastically enhance buy-in globally amongst peers
Suzanne O. in Illinois writes:
Improve our economy, society, and environment globally, through strong projects and products which provide free clean drinking water, the opportunity to grow food, utilize natural resources such as, sun light, solar electricity, and wind energy. Build more "Green†structures such as "Earthshipsâ€. Also, more global disaster relief organizations, which meet the disasters of today and prepare for potential disasters of the future with quick, efficient, and sustainable solutions using leading edge design and innovation. Finally, leaving the rain forest alone, and helping poverty stricken children and communities through these channels.
Kerry L. in Minnesota writes:
Need to designate/zone agricultural only zones vs. urban only zones for development to maintain food supplies.
Develop ocean fish farms to ensure viable food supplies.
Designate desalination water plant locations for future water supplies.
Anwar in Bahrain writes:
My thoght about sutainable future is, America must leave others to decide their sustainable future and stop completley to interfere in our countries just leave us alone and ww know how to setup our sustainable future target, america never alow or let others from outside to interfer in their policy and its politics, this how we'll achieve our SF
Ready to deeply discuss this imp. issue.
Thanks, regards
Susan C. in Florida writes:
D.T. in Washington has a very good point. Why would Exxon/Mobil give up 450 billion dollars, give or take a few billion, in profits to change a system they have "perfected" and are now basically their own "nation". I sat on many a gas line back in the Northeast in the winters of 1973/74 to ever believe that ANYTHING will be done to stop our obsessions with big cars//suv's/trucks and big oil. How was that "crisis" handled? Carter was made fun of for asking us to turn down our thermostats, and we eventually we got the Hummer!! Here's hoping we have a better solution this time around.
Eric in New Mexico writes:
I think in order to even contemplate arriving at some kind of balanced and sustainable future humanity can live with, one has to accept the data and trends that show beyond reasonable doubt that the modern civilization that we have created is unsustainable by unintentional design for this planet's ability to sustain us in such vast numbers.
For in the seeds of what we call progress and development, we have changed the balance of nature, and created the means to our own extinction as a species both through developing better and better WMD's to do this deliberately or by accident, as well as lacking the collective social wisdom to change our own violent nature as a species and get along with one's fellow human.
We have on this planet whole nations suffering from PTSD born of intractable conflict over decades...(Syria being only the latest example of social unsustainability)
We've changed our environment to the point that hundreds of other species on this planet are either extinct or soon to become extinct.
We've been burning and cutting the planet's forests since Humanity first learned to use fire to drive heards over cliffs way back in the stone age of pre-history in order to have a tribal barbeque on a regular basis.
And in the last 200 years have deforested almost two thirds of the timber that existed before the industrial revolution started.
One wonders why the planet's atmosphere is out of balance and CO2 is on the rise?
I figure this planet can comfortably sustain only 4-5 billion people, and only with some radical changes in society's industrial architecture, as well as depending on resolving the inherant lack of social dicipline needed to sustain peaceful coexistance with each other and Mother Nature.
We pack ourselves into cities one atop each other like rats in a cage and we expect to have healthy social norms?
We've lived so long with our ability to exterminate ourselves on a militaristic whim, that folks have grown so numb to the potential that I've read comments on Dipnote wondering what the big deal is with non -proliferation, and whether it's just more government "fear-mongering"?
Well, they can bet their lives on the fact that any government that builds WMD's for "deterrent" capability is counting on the "fear factor" involved in having them available for use at the push of a button, as one Pakistani General boasted in Oct 2001 that they could "nuke all of India in 8 seconds".
My point being here is that there is absolutely no hope whatsoever of achieving any kind of "susatainable" future for Humanity until the level of human conciousness on this planet rises above its long standing dysfunctionality as a species.
And since that mental leap of faith has always historicly lagged far behind Humanity's technological or bi-polar ability to do harm to itself, I fear that all the good intent put into the efforts included in the original post above will be for nought, until we have screwed up so big, so completely, and at the cost of millions of lives in a week that only this would shock humanity into correcting the course it is presently on.
One thing's for sure, we have created this reality, therefore we can change the parameters of this one if we have the sustained will and courage to change it for the better.
A lot of folks think the "One child" policy of China to be a bit Orwellian as a measure of a state's control opon population growth, but their alternative was not to and have about a billion extra people starving to death over the next decades.
Sec. Clinton's comments in regards to lowering child mortality rates equating with smaller family sizes because parents can be more assured a child will survive to grow to adulthood were perceptive and well founded, as sustainability starts with the family unit and how many mouths can be fed in any given environment.
And this is where one aspect of the rise in levels of human conciousness must begin, with the family unit.
If humanity can't do this on its own volition, natural forces will cull the heard as it does with any species gravely overpopulated to the point of unsustainability in its environment.
So far we've defied nature by altering the parameters of our environment, but we're already feeling the backlash of that practicve, and know there's a finite limit and a line that has been crossed, as global warming is all but irreversable unless we have about 5 Krackatoa size volcano's go off one after the other which might buy us another 20 years to find a solution which ultimately involves planting millions of square miles of forests to achieve a re-balanced carbon cycle.
Ed in Georgia (U.S.A.) writes:
A sustainable future means that first we have to recognize that "growth" cannot continue indefinitely on a planet of limited resources. Second we need to have international treaties for shared resources, like the oceans. Anthropogenic climate change and ocean acidification are global problems which will require co-operation on a scale that has never been seen before. The US should be a leader on this front.
Bob in the U.S.A. writes:
Sustainable development is impossible with the current financial machine – talk of sustainability all you want but our lives are driven by economics -the two issues at the moment are at diametrically opposed positions -completely incompatible. (clever people would argue otherwise – but those same clever people have brought us to this point – their wishful thinking of "ifs†and "onlys†are fantasy)You cant have both, as things stand now -its impossible.
To put it real simple, for rich or poor wherever you are -â€your money or your life -you cant have both†-its just a matter of time before this realization sets in(for many around the world its sinking in fast).
If we continue with our current economics we will lose a lot of life – we already have and it will worsen. Its a no brainer.
Rodrick J. in California writes:
The planet needs to be considered as an organic whole and the individual governments of the various regions of Earth should all recognize this and work together to ensure the health and wellness of the Earth, not just the various human populations.
Alejandro B. in Guatemala writes:
The main problem of the world right now is a hiperinflated incapable bureacracy in all key institutions of the planet (financial, State, etc). Huge salaries are ok, but the performance of the bureacrats must correspond fully to the demands of their job posts. Meritocracy is a must in these cases where mankind is at stake. The US must take leadership in this cause.
Jenny I. in Wisconsin writes:
I believe that clean energy and water will be the largest issues facing human civilizations this century. All countries need to educate their people on how to create renewable energy systems. The whole world needs jobs and creating a whole new way to generate electricity, and accompanying infrastructure, will employ millions of people. Every human also needs clean water to survive. We need to collectively stop polluting the small percentage of fresh water that exists on Earth. Please look to the similarities humans have rather than our difference. Thank you.
Yocamille A. writes:
I'm counting on the US to finally lead in this conference and the rest of the way! It's been 20 yrs and our only planet is not holding much longer. Everyone is waiting on us and I think the moment has come. In a world where we've been financing "subsidizing" Oil companies for decades even with record earnings, it's clear our lawmakers have had an interest of their own present not the future. Unfortunately, as a very wise man once said: "progress isn't progress if it isn't sustainable"!
Fossil fuels are clearly NOT progress! President Obama may get a second shot at the presidency but he must ensure to lead our country & hence the world into a clean sustainable future for the sake of his daughters as well as mine.
A very concerned "independent" 40 yr old Mom
Steven M. in New York writes:
Saving what resources we have and upgrading/investing in the green energy of tommorow now! So our kids and there kids have something left.
Also helping rid the world of hunger now! I like to see heavy machinery seed fair irrigation practices , and education as the new aid for this century!
Malin in the U.S.A. writes:
Stop all the wars. Use that money to invest in this world's future. The money spent on all these USELESS WARS, could of clothed, fed and educated the world's poor for YEARS! Instead of investing in green fuels, more wars are created OVER OIL! There are no terrorists, only the ones that are created by invading and occupying those countries raping their resources so they be sold on Wall Street! That's why we have terrorists!
Stop the bloody wars!
Susan M. in Massachusetts writes:
We need to work on clean and renewable energy. Nuclear plant radiation, oil spills killing our oceans and fracking polluting the gound and air. Remember when there is a huge solar energy spill it's just called a "nice day"
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American should return to Eisenhower's "Atoms for Peace" policy, and help developing nations to get nuclear energy, instead of threatening them with invasion when they try to do it on their own.


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The Paatuwaqatsi 50K Run and Relay stands out in the list of races included in the 2012 Trail Runner Trophy Series because it is not a race, not really. It is a monument to community, heritage and preservation. In the spirit of giving, it is a non-profit event, operated entirely by volunteers, and hosted by the Hopi people in Northern Arizona to celebrate the sustaining connection between water and life in the way they have done for centuries—by running.
In a paper for the American Studies Association, Matthew Sakiestewa Gilbert describes the Hopi as "a people who [place] running at the center of their cultural identity." He wrote that "Hopi footraces transcended the individualistic concepts of personal gain and self-accomplishment," held the cohesiveness of community and served to honor the entirety of it. An ancient Hopi myth tells of a race between two tribes. One runner prepared with miles and miles of independent training while the other accepted protection against bad spirits in the form of a magic powder from Spider Grandmother. "The Hopi runner who chose to accept [this external guidance, who] did not rely entirely on his physical abilities [won the race]. He listened to his elder, he drew upon the strength of his culture, and he received power from the spiritual world of his people."
The Paatuwaqatsi Run connects the village foot trails to seven natural springs. The run's focus on water aligns with the ancient belief that running brings rain. The Hopi people ran for practical purposes as well, relying on their feet in hunting, inter-village competition and transporting critical information in times of war. The trails are seen as the veins of the village and thought to keep the springs healthy. They open to the public for this event alone, one day out of the year.
The run involves nearly 5000 feet of elevation change over trails that range from soft, sandy singletrack to exposed slickrock mesas. In addition to manning organized aid stations, villagers come out to remote and distant locations all along to course, bringing buckets of water to runners, cheering them on in native Hopi tongue.


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Instead of doing harm, you should appreciate what all these volunteers are doing so that the rest of us can enjoy Oleson Park and all the animals for many years to come.
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Tuesday, April 16, 2013
L-3 Wescam Completes MD540 Flight Demos for MX Series
L-3 Wescam has completed flight demonstrations for several new weapon systems at the U.S. Army's Yuma Proving Ground in Arizona, using MD500 helicopters.
MD500E. Photo courtesy of L-3 Wescam
The flight tests demonstrated L-3 Wescam's MX series designator systems, including the MX-10D, MX-15D, MX-25D and MX-RSTA. The company funded the demonstrations as part of a risk-reduction effort in response to constrained defense budgets of potential users worldwide.
Flight tests featured an MD540 with the MX-10 system firing an FN HMP 400 .50 cal machine gun and an MD500E using the MX-10D to fire an M134 mini-gun. The MX-10D, MX-15D and MX-25D were integrated and tested two weapon control systems from an MD500E and a Cessna 208 Caravan.
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Get an overview of this hotelHotel in New York's Chelsea neighborhood near Empire State Building
Hotel Indigo NYC Chelsea is in the heart of New York, walking distance from Fashion Institute of Technology and Madison Square Garden.
This 4-star hotel is close to Macy's and Empire State Building.
Make yourself at home in one of the 122 air-conditioned rooms featuring minibars and flat-screen televisions. Complimentary wired and wireless Internet access keeps you connected, and cable programming provides entertainment. Bathrooms have designer toiletries and bathrobes. Conveniences include laptop-compatible safes and complimentary newspapers, and housekeeping is provided daily.
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Situated amid the Chelsea Flower District, Hotel Indigo NYC Chelsea offers guests a vibrant, cosmopolitan ambiance in one of Manhattan's most eclectic neighborhoods. Enjoy stunning views of the city skyline from Glass, the hotel's 20th-floor rooftop bar. Dine at Blu, a restaurant designed for open spaces, and work out night or day in the on-site 24-hour gym. For business or social gatherings, the hotel has 512 square feet of event space. This New York hotel also provides complimentary wireless Internet throughout the building.
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Hey, just watched this last night on netflix. It was a play shown on TV in 1970. Starring William Shattner , directed by George C Scott who does the intro and story set up.
The story is about the trial of confederate mass murder Henry Wurtz, the commandant of a POW camp in Andersonville Georgia. Some 14,000 union prisoners died under his mismanagement. Sure, Shattner is still playing the Captain Kirk role but he was pretty good and in his prime.
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Friday, June 14, 2013
Northrop Grumman to Build Caribbean Ground-to-Air Communications System
Park Air Systems, Northrop Grumman's U.K.-based air traffic management subsidiary, has a new agreement with Dutch Caribbean Air Navigation Service Provider (DC-ANSP) to build a ground-to-air communications system for the Curacao Flight Information Region.
The system consists of 300-watt transmitters, mast-head amplifiers and high-gain antenna rays, replicating air traffic systems installed in other oceanic regions such as Hudson Bay in Canada, Greenland in the North Atlantic, Bay of Bengal, South China Sea and the Arabian Gulf. DC-ANSP was looking to upgrade its current air traffic management system due to the high volume of flights between North and South America in the Curacao region.
Park Air has already delivered its T6 VHF radios, which will be installed on the hilltop site Seru Gracia on the island of Curacao, though the company has not yet targeted a date for completion of the new system.
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Students are accepted into a major program for the purpose of obtaining a specific degree, diploma, or certificate. Enrollment Services also provides information regarding application and admission to the various selective programs offered at the College.
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Skip to comments.Problems with viewing longer threads....anyone else?
Posted on 01/29/2013 12:02:50 PM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach
Can't get beyond the first 17 replies in a thread.....
I thought it was only me.
Somebody broke the internet.... :0)
Same here, something's afoot.
Yup same here.
Same here. It forced me to set my prefs to 20 per page before it would work right...
Same here. Something is falling apart.
Yes something has gone wacko again here at FR. Good luck.
The interwebz have a cold.
This happened to me last week and again now. I thought it was a browser issue.
I tried that .....didn't help me.
No sidebars either.
Haven't you heard Ern it is a conspiracy. Every thon we need more money to fix it. :>)
Rush thread just crapped-out at 2:50pm; 94+ posts and only 63 viewable.
All the worthwhile replies are in the top fourteen anyhow. So don't worry about it.
Same here. Switch to headers vs. text under latest articles and at least you get the sidebar back.
Sorry about the truncating pages and missing sidebars problem
Yep, the latest articles page gets cropped at about 1 1/2 pages. Looks like some sort of char limit is being hit.
His Execrable Majesty Emperor Barackula mistook the interwebz for a skeet ...
I guess it was Jim that put the thread up....and his suggestion worked for me....as to seeing the replys at the end of a moderately long thread....
I closed my browser and reopened it and everything is working fine
How ticked are you that 2 posters added comments while you were adding yours?
In all seriousness the reason threads are being truncates is becau
>> How ticked are you that 2 posters added comments while you were adding yours?
Actually, for comic effect I intended to come in at #15, i.e. the first worthless post, but carriage_hill slipped in first without asking me.
I hate it when a gag turns into a big wad of FAIL! :-)
GMPA. Heh.
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I need help accessing a MySQL database and reading in information from a table. I was able to do it by using the mysql2 gem directly, but the code is ugly. I wanted to be able to put this code into a model, in order to properly format the output.
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The Trespa Design Centre New York offers a unique environment and showcase for design-related programming and is available to the design community to set appointments or simply stop by to discuss Trespa materials and applications for projects at any stage of design. Architects are also welcome to use the centre for project meetings with clients or to access our design publication library while having a coffee.
Trespa Design Centre New York's catalog of design programs include series such as Visionaries and Third Thursdays. The Visionaries series gives architects, designers, and firms a forum to present and discuss their ideas. The Third Thursday series, Trespa's signature programming on the design and construction of building envelopes, offers education on products, applications, services and relevant industry issues connected to building envelope design and construction.
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Beautiful wavy hairstyle with fringe for African American women
Long, black African-American hair is straightened and given incredible body in this coif-like hairstyle. Color and natural hair texture combine to turn naturally curly hair into a solid-looking curtain of black when straightened. A side part has one side covering half of the face, while the other is brushed back over the shoulder. The natural wave is retained even while the strands are straightened, producing volume and interesting lines in the silhouette.


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Short hairstyle with beautiful curls
Thin but curly blonde can still be styled with great movement and playful curls. Here, short beige blonde hair is cut in a very short shag. Sections are then taken and wrapped a third of the way around a hot curling iron. Locks immediately around the face are especially styled, then applied with set and shine serum, for a light hold that will not overwhelm. Curls are then finger styled, avoiding a neat part and hanging a bit over the forehead, creating the illusion of more volume.


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Treat yourself to great food in a fun, casual setting at our CityWalk Bistro at Universal Studios Hollywood (located between the Universal Studios entrance and Fountain Court). This Bistro is a great casual dining choice for locals and tourists alike.
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WISC TV is in the midst of contract negotiations with DirecTV on a fair price for carrying WISC's programming, and there's a chance that programming will no longer be available on DirecTV as early as midnight Monday. We don't want that to happen. And because our editorial policy here at WISC has always included our responsibility to provide you with the information you need to make good decisions about your life here in our community we think this rises to the level of editorial comment.
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Wednesday, August 27, 2008
Sikorsky X2 Flies
Sikorsky Aircraft today completed the first flight of its X2 technology demonstrator. Lifting the aircraft off from the Schweizer Aircraft subsidiary in Horseheads, N.Y., Sikorsky Chief Test Pilot Kevin Bredenbeck maneuvered the coaxial-main-rotor compound helicopter prototype through hover, forward flight, and a hover turn during the roughly 30-min flight. The X2 team has been working more than four years on design, development and testing of the demonstrator, which is designed to cruise at 250 while retaining helicopter attributes such as excellent low-speed handling, efficient hovering and safe autorotation. Another goal is a seamless and simple transition to high speed. "The team's achievement … sparks the imagination for what ultimately the technology can mean to the future of the rotorcraft industry," said Sikorsky President Jeff Pino. For related news


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Bell to Produce Venom, Viper Trainers
The U.S. Marine Corps has issued a $44-million contract to Bell Helicopter for the procurement of two UH-1Y Venom flight training devices (FTDs). The agreement also contains a provision for the baseline configuration upgrade of one AH-1Z Viper FTD. Bell plans to divide the work among its facilities in Missouri, Oklahoma and Texas.
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Our curtain rises to welcome you to the Department of Theatre and Communication Arts at Whittier College. Located 23 miles from the heart of downtown Los Angeles' arts district, the Theatre Department strives to provide a balanced preparatory foundation, exposing students to multiple approaches and applications of theatre – all of which is firmly based in the liberal arts tradition.
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Friday, January 29, 2010
Blame Jack.
Beam's Choice has always been an oddball. It is Kentucky Straight Bourbon Whiskey, not a blend (that's Beam's Eight Star). They now call it Jim Beam's Choice (pictured above), but that's a recent change.
In 1987, Beam bought National Distillers and got a large portfolio of spirits brands. Before that, Beam was essentially a one brand company. Jim Beam white label was their primary and only significant product. It and Jim Beam Rye were the only products that used the "Jim Beam" name, but "Beam" or "Beam's" was used on many others. They even bottled a tequila called Beamero.
What is now Jim Beam Black Label was then called Beam's Black Label, and looked similar to Beam's Choice. Beam's Black was 8-years-old, Beam's Choice was 5-years-old. When Beam got heavily into decanters in the 1960s and 70s, those were sold under the Beam's Choice brand too.
But forgetting the decanters and just looking at the Beam's Black and Beam's Choice bottles, notice the words "charcoal filtered" on both labels and you can figure out why those two expressions were created. They were intended to appeal to Jack Daniel's drinkers. In those days before Gentleman Jack and Single Barrel, JD's two expressions were the black and green labels.
Beam wasn't alone in going directly after Jack Daniel's drinkers. Evan Williams, Ezra Brooks, and several other brands were created for the same purpose, to serve as Jack Daniel's knock-offs during a period when Jack Daniel's was in short supply.
Continuing with their imitation of Jack, Beam put the words "Old No. 8 Family Formula" on the label which, like JD's Old No. 7, many people confused as an age statement. If Jack was going to be 7, Jim was going to be 8, one better, just like the amplifier volumes in "Spinal Tap." The actual age statement of 5 years was in small type on the side of the label. (Now it's on the front.)
It's hard to explain why Beam's Choice has hung on for all these years, especially since it's a very small brand. It apparently sells just enough to justify its existence. I assume some people like to feel they've discovered something exclusive and special. It's not particularly special, though at five years it is slightly older than white label.
There is nothing wrong with it, but if you want Beam whiskey with more age on it, Booker's, Baker's, Black Label, and Knob Creek are all better choices than 'Choice.'
9 comments:
- Rob K said...
I've always wondered if that was made with the Lincoln county process.
- January 29, 2010 at 8:36 PM
- Chuck Cowdery said...
There's charcoal involved. I don't know how much, but it's nothing like what Daniel's does.
- January 29, 2010 at 8:49 PM
- sam k said...
Chuck, where does the Beam's Choice fall pricewise within the range of their other bottlings?
- January 31, 2010 at 12:06 PM
- Chuck Cowdery said...
Hard to say, in part because you don't see it that often. It should be slightly more than white label and less than black, but your results may vary.
- January 31, 2010 at 2:24 PM
- sam k said...
Then good enough reason as any just to stick with the black!
- January 31, 2010 at 8:44 PM
- T Comp said...
Chuck, Just as you said.... On a recent dusty hunt I found a ONE PINT tax stripped bottle of a Black Label, BEAM'S SOUR MASH, aged 101 months and 90 proof.I'd say this is a pre 1980 bottling with no UPC or metric and the glass engraved with words (BEAM, ONE PINT and SINCE 1795)at the top and bottom on both sides. In addition to CHARCOAL FILTERED at the bottom of the front label, the back label has the further information that "BEAM'S SOUR MASH IS DISTINCTIVE OF FLAVOR; LIGHT AND MELLOW OF CHARACTER. A RESULT OF BEAM'S EXCLUSIVE CHARCOAL FILTERING AFTER AGING" with "AFTER AGING" underlined.
- February 9, 2010 at 8:19 PM
- Chuck Cowdery said...
Most bourbon is chill-filtered, which occurs just before bottling and usually involves charcoal. The words 'charcoal filtered' on a bourbon label refer to that process.
- February 9, 2010 at 8:35 PM
The other day, my eyes caught an unfamiliar bottle that it appears you mention in this post. It was "Beam's Black 8 year 90 proof" and stated "Charcoal Filtered". The bottle looked brand new like it just came off the line yesterday. Has Jim Beam done a throwback bottle/label recently for this product? If not, what years would if have been produced? I have seen several other references to this bottling, but instead of 8 years, states 101 months on the front label. When I saw "charcoal filtered" on the label, it got me thinking what this product would taste like, JB or JD...
- June 5, 2013 at 2:38 PM
- Chuck Cowdery said...
First, it will taste like Jim Beam.
Second, if it says "Jim Beam" then it's recent. If it just says "Beam's" then it's old. They started to transition away from the "Beam's" about 20 years ago.
- June 5, 2013 at 2:57 PM


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About the Author: Marcia Anglarill is an Assistant Information Officer at the U.S. Embassy in Bogotá, Colombia.
The United Nations declared 2011 the International Year of People of African Descent, and the Public Affairs Section at Embassy Bogotá is already celebrating. In honor of Martin Luther King Day, we encouraged audiences to learn more about the meaning of this holiday through an online scavenger hunt. The embassy posted questions on Facebook and Twitter about the life of Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and his role in the American civil rights movement. Answers could be found on U.S. government websites. Between January 11 and 14, we posted one question per day. The first person to submit a correct answer to each question received an embassy calendar and school kit. Through the holiday weekend, the embassy posted facts about Dr. King's life and work, including quotes and links to additional information on other websites.
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Winston-Salem: Attorney General Roy Cooper today announced that $100,000 in grants will go to food banks across North Carolina as part of a court-approved settlement.
"We know that in many cases, the local food bank is the only reason that a child goes to bed well-fed rather than hungry," said Cooper, speaking at the Second Harvest Food Bank of Northwest North Carolina, one of the grantees. "Food banks provide a critical service to many North Carolina families, and I'm pleased to be able to offer them this extra help in a time of need."
Food banks in North Carolina serve hundreds of thousands of people each year through partner agencies such as food pantries, soup kitchens, food delivery programs, Meals-On-Wheels, and feeding programs for seniors, children and families. North Carolina food banks distribute more than 60 million pounds of food annually, according to America's Second Harvest. Almost half of the people served by food banks in North Carolina are children, another 11 percent are elderly, and many others are among the working poor.
Cooper announced today that grants of $15,000 will go to the following: Food Bank of the Albemarle, located in Elizabeth City and serving 15 counties; the Food Bank of North Carolina, headquartered in Raleigh and serving 34 counties; MANNA Food Bank, located in Asheville and providing services in 16 counties; Second Harvest Food Bank of Metrolina, located in Charlotte and serving 16 counties; Second Harvest Food Bank of Northwest NC, providing services in 18 counties from its location in Winston-Salem; and Second Harvest Food Bank of Southeast NC, headquartered in Fayetteville and serving seven counties.
Grants of $5,000 each will go to the Inter-Faith Food Shuttle of Raleigh, which serves seven counties, and to Community Food Rescue of Charlotte. Checks will go out to the grantees later this month.
The grants are part of a national settlement Cooper and 45 other attorneys general reached with Salton, Inc. in 2002 to resolve charges that the company manipulated pricing of its popular George Foreman™ grills. According to the states' two-year investigation, Salton pressured retailers to fix prices for the grills and to pull from their shelves similar grills manufactured by other companies. The states allege that the company punished retailers that offered the grill at a discount or sold competitors' grills by cutting off their supply of Salton products. Salton paid $8.2 million to the states to resolve these claims.
"The need for food banks is always great, not just in cold winter months but all year long," said Cooper. "With hurricane season already hurting our state, we anticipate that even more families may turn to food banks for help in the months ahead."
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