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Hard to say for sure... I might try to retreat to cover but I think my instinct would be to draw my weapon.
This is a discussion on Coming at you shouting obscenities - holding ..... within the Carry & Defensive Scenarios forums, part of the Defensive Carry Discussions category; Man coming at you in the dark shouting obscenities and carrying a chair leg like a club; What might you do? Happened to a local ...
Man coming at you in the dark shouting obscenities and carrying a chair leg like a club; What might you do?
Happened to a local LEO in my area. Here's the link \ story.
A Mobile County Sheriff's deputy shot and killed 31-year-old Channing Riordan in Wilmer on Sunday night after Riordan ran screaming toward the deputy in the dark, wielding a wooden chair leg, a spokeswoman for the Sheriff's Office said Monday.
It was the second time in four days that a Mobile County resident had been killed by a sheriff's deputy. On Thursday, Sgt. Paul Burch shot 18-year-old Robert Lucas in the Happy Hill community in north Mobile. Sheriff Sam Cochran said Lucas aimed a loaded gun at Burch, who was responding to a call about drug-related activity in Lucas' neighborhood.
Sheriff's Office representatives did not name the deputy involved in Sunday's shooting. The deputy has been placed on administrative assignment pending an investigation into the incident, spokeswoman Kate Johnson said.
At 9:26 p.m. Sunday, Riordan's wife, Regina, called authorities to their Wilmer residence. She said her husband had been drinking and doing drugs and was carrying a rifle and trying to put the couple's 7-year-old son, Zachary, in their truck and drive away, Johnson said.
Regina Riordan also said her husband had already damaged their property and a vehicle, Johnson said.
Talked to boy
Johnson said the deputy arrived at the Riordan's Waltman Road home at 9:32 p.m. The deputy saw Zachary in the driveway and started talking to the boy, Johnson said.
Channing Riordan then emerged from behind the house, Johnson said. He charged toward the deputy while shouting obscenities and holding the chair leg, she said.
The deputy fired two shots, she said. Riordan was pronounced dead at the scene by paramedics, Johnson said.
The deputy acted to defend both himself and the boy, Johnson said.
Mobile County District Attorney John Tyson Jr. visited the scene shortly after the shooting. The area was so dark that investigators had to turn on their car lights to see the scene, he said.
Tyson said the piece of wood was green, about 2 feet long and ½ inch thick.
He said that given the poor lighting and the fact that Riordan's wife had said her husband was carrying a rifle, the deputy could have mistaken the piece of wood for a firearm.
"It's in the dark, this guy is charging at the officer, shouting as he's coming toward the officer," Tyson said. "Yeah, you can bet your life that's a possibility."
Riordan's record
Riordan pleaded guilty in 1996 to carrying a pistol without a permit, according to court records. In 1998, he pleaded guilty to driving under the influence of alcohol.
He also was charged in 1996 with second degree assault and second degree receiving stolen property, but both charges were later dropped, according court records.
Cochran said Monday that the fact that two deputy-involved shootings occurred within a week of each other was a coincidence.
"Our deputies are trained for these types of incidents, and though no deputy wants to fire a deadly weapon, deputies in the field must react to the actions of those they encounter,"
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Hard to say for sure... I might try to retreat to cover but I think my instinct would be to draw my weapon.
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"A superior Operator is best defined as someone who uses his superior
judgement to keep himself out of situations that would require a display of his
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Add this to a guy charging and wielding 'something' - then the outcome is not over surprising. It is foolish for anyone to behave in a threatening manner, in low light - and particularly toward an LEO.He said that given the poor lighting and the fact that Riordan's wife had said her husband was carrying a rifle, the deputy could have mistaken the piece of wood for a firearm.
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Just my opinion.
Bang Bang,
Deputy made the right choice, the hard one but the right one.
A real man loves his wife, and places his family as the most important thing in life. Nothing has brought me more peace and content in life than simply being a good husband and father.
A club or chair leg is easily a lethal instrument.
Bang Bang........Bang.
I'll take a .45 and a large side of JHPs, please.
IMHO the deputy did the right thing given the circumstance and the history of this guy. Just a darn shame the boy had to see his father die that way. He'll never forget that night.
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The deputy did what is right. You'd be a huge fool to run at an officer, and a bigger fool to have anything in your hand.
He did it just right.
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I think the guy would be a huge fool to run at most of our forum members, screaming and carrying a weapon.
Its a shame that youth is wasted on the young.
Absolutely the right choice. Any thing else would have been worse than stupid.
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The child being there complicates things. If I was alone and the distance was ok I would try to get a vehicle or something between us as I drew. But the scneario as presented, I would yell stop as I drew and if he kept coming shoot to stop.
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Not much difference bewteen a chair leg and a baseball bat as far as the human skull is concerned. Either can easily kill so it's a deadly weapon.
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He did what he was trained to do and I would have done the same given the situation.
In the dark, screaming obscenities, wielding a weapon in a threatening manner, and coming right at me? Much the same thing as the LEO, above. I would almost certainly draw, demand he halt his assault, then, if he failed to immediately halt his attack, likely fire before the threat got too close to stop. I don't care how hot the chiles were that he ate, or what bummed him. Threatening the lives of others is not okay.
Your best weapon is your brain. Don't leave home without it.
Thoughts: Justifiable self defense (A.O.J.).
Explain: How does disarming victims reduce the number of victims?
Reason over Force: Why the Gun is Civilization (Marko Kloos).


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Iran's dictator gives up pretence of democracy
Iran's dictator gives up pretence of democracy
Amir Taheri
Just before noon on Friday, June 19, the Islamic republic died in Iran. Its death was announced by its "supreme guide", Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who had come to praise the system but buried it instead. Khamenei was addressing supporters on the campus of Tehran University, transformed into a mosque for the occasion. Many had expected him to speak as a guide, an arbiter of disputes – a voice for national reconciliation. Instead, he spoke as a rabble rouser and a tinpot despot.
At issue was the June 12 presidential election that millions of Iranians, perhaps a majority, believe was rigged to ensure the re-election of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad with a two-thirds majority. Since its inception in 1979, the Islamic republic has organised 31 elections at different levels. All have been carefully scripted, with candidates pre-approved by the regime and no independent mechanism for oversight.
Nevertheless, the results were never contested because most Iranians believed the regime would not cheat within the limits set by itself. Elections in the Islamic republic resembled primaries in American political parties in which all candidates are from the same political family but the contest is free and fair. The June 12 election was exceptional because three of the four candidates challenged the results.
Once the initial shock had passed, everyone looked to the supreme leader to find a way out of the impasse. Instead, Khamenei came out with a long lyrical monologue, hailing the election as a "miracle" and a "triumph for Islam". Never before had Khamenei commented on the results of elections beyond accepting them as an expression of the popular will. The Khomeinist system was supposed to be 80% theocracy and 20% democracy, regardless of how bizarre the combination looked.
On Friday, the 20% democratic part disappeared, as Iran was transformed from an Islamic republic into an Islamic emirate headed by the Emir al-Momeneen (Commander of the Faithful) Ali Khamenei. As Iranians marched in the street in support of more freedom and democracy, Khamenei served notice that he was determined to lead the country in the opposite direction.
A sign that the self-appointed emir wanted to jettison the republican part of the system was there for all to see. The diminutive Ahmadinejad was relegated to the third rung of the faithful praying behind Khamenei. Sandwiched between two mullahs with giant turbans, he was almost hidden from public view. For almost a week the usually voluble Ahmadinejad has been kept off the airwaves. Suddenly the office of the president has become irrelevant. Ahmadinejad is there not because the people wanted him but because the emir found "his views closer to mine than the views of others".
Khamenei's decision to kill the Islamic republic may lead Iran into uncharted waters. The move has split the establishment as never before. All prominent figures of the "loyal opposition", including former presidents Hashemi Rafsanjani and Mohammad Khatami, boycotted the Friday gathering. Nearly half the members of the Majlis, Iran's ersatz parliament, were absent – along with most members of the Assembly of Experts, a body of 92 mullahs supposed to supervise the work of the supreme leader. Many senior figures of the military/security establishment were significantly absent, too.
If Khamenei had hoped to intimidate the protesters into accepting the results, he was quickly disappointed. No sooner had the "emirate" been born than millions of people throughout Iran were on the rooftops shouting, "I will die, but won't accept humiliation!" A week of nationwide protests has claimed at least seven lives. Khamenei's intervention has been followed by a wave of arrests. The supreme leader has tried to divide the opposition by offering public assurances to Rafsanjani and Ali Akbar Nateq-Nuri, the former parliamentary Speaker, that they would not be prosecuted on corruption charges as threatened by Ahmadinejad. Nevertheless, both men still refuse to endorse Ahmadinejad's re-election.
As the principal face of the opposition, Mir Hossein Mousavi has come under pressure to wind up the movement. Yesterday Abbas Mohtaj, the head of Iran's security council, issued a veiled death threat. Zahra Rahnavard, Mousavi's wife and principal campaign manager, has retaliated by publishing a poem through Twitter and SMS sent to millions of Iranians: "Let the wolves know that in our tribe / If the father dies, his gun will remain / Even if all the men of the tribe are killed / A baby son will remain in the wooden cradle".
For the past three days the regime has held back its security forces while tightening the lasso around the opposition leadership, especially Mousavi. He is under virtual house arrest.
Today there are two Irans. One is prepared to support Khamenei's bid to transform the republic into an emirate in the service of the Islamic cause. Then there is a second Iran – one that wishes to cease to be a cause and yearns to be an ordinary nation. This Iran has not yet found its ultimate leaders. For now, it is prepared to bet on Mousavi. The fight over Iran's future is only beginning.
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WASHINGTON - President Obama forced out the head of the IRS on Wednesday, seeking to restore the public's faith in the tax agency while asserting a measure of control over a rapidly growing political problem.
Making a hastily scheduled statement at the White House, Obama denounced the targeting of conservative groups by the Internal Revenue Service as "inexcusable" and pledged to "do everything in my power to make sure nothing like this ever happens again."
"Americans are right to be angry about it, and I am angry about it," he said. "I will not tolerate this kind of behavior in any agency, but especially in the IRS, given the power that it has and the reach that it has into all of our lives."
Steven Miller, a tax lawyer and career IRS official, agreed to resign at the request of Treasury Secretary Jacob J. Lew after coming under fire following revelations that the agency had singled out conservative organizations for special scrutiny. Miller, who has been the acting commissioner since November, will remain at the agency until early June to allow a smooth transition.
Questions mounted about his role this week as it became clear that he had not disclosed the problems to Congress in letters and testimony despite being briefed on it.
Several lawmakers, including Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., and Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., had called for Miller's resignation.
Three congressional committees have scheduled hearings, with Miller set to testify at the first on Friday.
The hearings will build on an audit by a Treasury Department inspector general that found IRS workers in Cincinnati inappropriately flagged conservative organizations, pulling aside applications with keywords such as "tea party" and policy objectives such as "educating on the Constitution and Bill of Rights."
The organizations were seeking recognition as tax-exempt social-welfare groups, which are permitted to do a limited amount of political activity, as long as it is not their primary purpose.
The audit concluded that dozens of advocacy groups were forced to answer exhaustive and intrusive questions about their activities and donors. Their applications languished - some for more than three years. The inspector general blamed poor management and a lack of clarity within the IRS about how much political engagement of such organizations is allowed.
Lawmakers on Wednesday said many questions remained, even after the audit. House Speaker John A. Boehner, R-Ohio, escalated the rhetoric early in the day, telling reporters that his question "isn't about who's going to resign" over the controversy. "My question is, who's going to jail?"
A separate criminal investigation is already underway. Testifying on Capitol Hill, Attorney General Eric Holder said the Justice Department investigation would look at possible civil-rights violations and false statements.
Most important, he said, "If we have to bring criminal actions to make sure this kind of activity does not happen again," the department will do so.
Holder did not say whom the Justice Department was targeting in its investigation.
According to the inspector general's report, Miller became aware that there were potential problems more than a year ago. In late March 2012, amid news reports that tea-party groups were having difficulty getting their applications approved by the IRS, he asked one of his managers to find out what was going on.
On May 3, 2012, Miller learned that the agency had improperly singled out groups that used conservative terms in their paperwork, the IRS said this week.
But six weeks later, in a letter to the chairman of a key House oversight subcommittee, Miller made no mention of the inappropriate handling of the applications. He wrote that after an increase in filings for tax-exempt status in 2010, the agency "took steps to coordinate the handling of the cases to ensure consistency."
Miller noted that some applications had lingered "for a longer time than expected." And he made an allusion to some internal problems, writing that, in early 2012, "issues with respect to these cases were brought to the attention" of top officials who "ensured more timely and consistent handling of the cases."
He continued to defend the IRS process in letters to Congress in June and September 2012, months after staff attorneys had flagged some of the questions as "troubling" and the agency had decided to destroy some donor information.
And in July testimony before a House Ways and Means subcommittee on oversight, Miller fielded questions from lawmakers who said groups in their districts felt they were being harassed by the IRS. He described the process for evaluating social-welfare groups, without mentioning that agents had used inappropriate criteria to screen potentially politically active groups.


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Scientists feel urgency trying to find Ebola cure
Mon., Aug. 4, 2014
SEATTLE – Scientists working on an Ebola cure say the growing outbreak in West Africa lends urgency to their mission.
"To see how fast it's spreading is incredible," said University of Washington immunologist Michael Gale Jr. "It shows how dire the need is for antiviral therapy."
Gale and colleagues at Kineta, a Seattle biotech company, have identified compounds that stop the spread of Ebola and other viruses in laboratory experiments on human cells.
Another Seattle lab, headed by UW microbiologist Michael Katze, is using genetic analysis to understand how some individuals survive the deadly infection and to screen existing drugs for Ebola-fighting ability.
Katze and his team have also helped analyze the body's response to an experimental Ebola vaccine that proved highly effective in monkeys.
Neither Seattle lab is close to bringing a drug to market, but researchers say the outlook is promising – at least from a scientific perspective.
The biggest hurdles are likely to be economic.
Despite the deaths of more than 700 people in recent weeks, Ebola remains a very rare disease, concentrated in some of the world's poorest countries, Gale pointed out.
"There's no money in it," he said. "American pharmaceutical companies won't touch anything unless there's at least a billion-dollar market potential."
Gale hopes to avoid that pitfall by developing treatments that are effective against a wide array of viruses in addition to Ebola – including flu, West Nile virus, dengue fever and possibly the common cold.
His team is sharing in a five-year, $8.1 million federal grant to identify compounds that rev up the natural infection-fighting ability of cells, allowing them to repel many types of viruses.
In earlier work, Gale identified an enzyme that is key to activating what's called the innate immune system – the body's first-line defense against outside invaders.
The enzyme "turns on literally hundreds of genes that fight off viral infection," he said.
Some viruses, like Ebola, have devised ways to dial down that enzyme, said Shawn Iadonato, chief scientific officer for Kineta.
At the company's South Lake Union lab, workers screened more than 100,000 chemical compounds for the ability to dial the enzyme up. They identified 20 promising candidates, three of which stood out in follow-up tests.
No labs in Seattle are equipped or approved to work with Ebola virus, so those tests are conducted at a University of Texas facility in Galveston. "There's a special building with 3-foot-thick concrete walls, negative pressure, Pine-Sol showers, all that kind of stuff," Gale said. Researchers who handle the virus wear respirators and full protective gear.
The next step in the project is to see if the compounds work as well in monkeys as they do in test tubes, Gale said.
The difficulty of conducting human tests with a disease as deadly as Ebola has stalled progress on other promising treatments, including vaccines, said Angela Rasmussen, a UW researcher who works with Katze.
She and her colleagues have developed strains of laboratory mice that mimic human populations in terms of their genetic variability. When the mice are infected with Ebola in experiments at the federal Rocky Mountain Laboratories in Montana, the animals exhibit the same range of symptoms as infected people, including hemorrhage and liver failure.
Most of the mice die. But about 20 percent get sick, lose weight and then recover.
"That's what we see in human outbreaks," Rasmussen said. "Some people can survive, perhaps because they have some genetic trait or immunity."
By analyzing the mouse genetics in detail and comparing it with the animals' symptoms and outcomes, the scientists hope to figure out what allows some individuals to recover.
They're also screening drugs already on the market, to see if they might prove useful.
Though the prospects are good that treatments can be developed, not many U.S. labs are focused on Ebola, Iadonato said. Only a few are working on broad-spectrum antivirals.
Much of the funding comes under the umbrella of biodefense, out of concern that the Ebola virus could be used as a weapon.
Considering the number of cases this year, the National Institutes of Health decided to fast-track initial human trials on a promising vaccine that worked well in monkeys. But even if the vaccine proves safe and effective, approval wouldn't come in time to help stem the current outbreak.
Rasmussen, who has assisted in studies on another promising vaccine, would like to see the process accelerated even more.
"This is an emergency situation where people's lives are at stake," she said. "It's a terrible human cost, and it's a terrible way to die."


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We're only eleven-twelfths through 2012, but already we've seen what seems like a big year in local crime – robberies at Gander Mountain and a local gas station, attempted abduction on TART trail, vandals damaging Oakwood Cemetery…and of course skirmishes and escapades in the wee hours downtown.
But is crime actually on the rise in Traverse City, or are we just hearing more about it? The Ticker inquired. We crunched numbers obtained from the TCPD for the first quarter (Jan-Sept) and compared them to the same periods dating back to 2008.
And the verdict is…yes, crime's up.
There were 3,640 calls to police regarding criminal behavior in TC between January and September 2012, up 15 percent over the same period last year, and up 23 percent from the first nine months of 2008 There's a slow yet steady rise from the beginning of each year (8 percent of the total annual calls) to July, with nearly 18 percent of 2012's police calls.
Meanwhile, annual statewide crime appears to be on the decline. Overall criminal incidents declined 22 percent between 2008 and 2011.
Nick McAllister, owner of House of Doggs, located across Union Street from a few of Traverse City's bars, isn't surprised to hear about the increase, but isn't terribly concerned.
He says while the warm summer weather brings in rowdier crowds and people tend to stay out later, "people are just out relaxing and having a good time." He adds that his eatery has not seen an increase in criminal behavior since its 2006 opening.
Where are the calls coming from? TC Police divide the city into five geographic patrol sectors. Downtown (which of course includes the Union Street area) had 29 percent of the criminal calls so far this year, followed closely by the southeast region (east of Boardman Lake, south of Eighth) at 21 percent. The safest region is the west (west of Division).
Despite the increase in local crime, Traverse City is still a relatively safe place to live. According to neighborhoodscout.com, we saw 2.73 violent crimes per 1,000 people last year, much lower than the statewide average of 4.90 per 1,000 people. The site says the safest neighborhoods in Grand Traverse County are Greilickville and Old Mission.
This is a joke right? I am originally from Chicago, moved to Detroit at about 10 and lived in Traverse City for 16 months. Let me assure you, I have seen violent and real crime in front of my own eyes. Traverse City is made up of a mainly white demographic, usually either wealthy or above average and you feel unsafe if someone sags their pants. Crime is not up, there is no real crime. Sure there was that murder/suicide a while back but it didn't even make it in the news outside of Traverse City. Get off your high horse and suck it up.
i would like to know more about zodiac's comment. if true, that is far more of a concern than any of the other "criminal activity" being discussed in this forum.
Either the Police are in charge.....or the people making trouble are in charge. It appears as though the latter is true at the moment. The Police need to send the CLEAR message who is in charge and what will and will not be tolerated.
I the people know there is a price to pay for their actions and Traverse City won't put up with it...they move on. Obviously they know they can get away with it....thus it never stops and will ONLY get worse. Crack down now - T.C. will be better for it in the long run.
1) when population increases crime rates follow suit.
2) Ann Arbor and "liberal" cities like it consistently receive awards as most livable cities.
It is frustrating when the cops do their jobs and charges are tossed by the DA. A fight downtown in front of Wilson's antique store results someone being thrown through the windows. No charges filed. Any other jurisdiction would have filed disturbing the peace charges. Nope not here. Public intoxication charges don't exist in TC. If you are not hurting yourself or anyone else it is PERMITTED! Crazy.
Driving with a suspended license in TC gets you a ticket. Anywhere else you go directly to jail. That decision comes from the top.
Pardon me for being picky, but the last I looked Greilickville was in Leelanau County, not Grand Traverse. (That's a separate issue from whether part of it is within Traverse City catchment area for police coverage.)
First quarter Jan to Sept? Quarter of what?
Crime should be down since the Gestapo in TC now have the right to come to your house 45 minutes after you have been home and arrest you for drunk driving. Did they see you drive....NO! Somebody called and said you were driving...um..maybe that person who called doesn't like you...maybe you never even left the house....but apprently the Gestapo doesn't have to even see you....whats our country comming to? Just Wrong!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
In August we had just dined at Amical and my husband was walking back to retrieve our parked car over the bridge when he was approached by a male who he felt was going to try to rob him. My husband told him to back off, and fortunately he did.
Cuts in our sheriff and state police departments make it a lot easier for criminals these days. TC is becoming a liberal town like Ann Arbor where everyone can do as they please and with it comes law breakers and people looking for a free handout on the back of us tax payers. Downtown use to be a nice place to stroll at night but no longer. This was once a nice town. What is happening?
You'll notice that drinking and crime go hand in hand. Our society has a serious drinking problem and as long as the theme of our entertainment has alcohol as it primary focus there will be more crime. The areas that were the safeest have the lowest number of bars...Ta dah!
KB! Dude!... If there really has been ( and there's not) a 40% drop in crime in Colorado, it would have to be because you and the other brainiacs have been paying even less attention than you did prior to Nov 6th.
See Russ, that's what I'm sayin....If the powers that be would toss the book at ALL criminals this town would have a reputation for " if you do the crime, you do the time"" do not pass go, do not collect...."...but it MUST include EVERY official caught doing something criminal or against an oath!
As Steven said- new leadership- the "good ole boys" need to get the heck out...
Geat! Lets add a wet house/toke house/snort house and see if our crime decreases.
Severe punishment works, or at least it removes them from the street.
With Colorado and Washington legalizing marijuana cime has dropped 40%. Imagine that !!
OH, and the states are taxing and making money. Help Michigan. VOTE
I'm concerned about all the "drunk crime" outside the bars downtown each weekend night, and I cannot understand why our local police don't simply walk through those bars once per hour on weekend nights like police do in so many other towns; it's a proven deterrent.
Other than that, I do applaud our police for being respectful and hard-working. Thank you!
If the TC Cops would spend their time dealing with REAL crime instead of harassing good citizens, maybe they could prevent some of the increased criminal activity.
The problem is, TC Police have a very difficult time with discernment and seem to have difficulty figuring out who's a criminal and who's not. We need new leadership at the top that will cast a positive vision about serving & protecting our community, and not allowing his cops to power-up on innocent people.
First, lets not skew the numbers using phrases such as:"regarding 'criminal BEHAVIOR'". After all, a few of those calls were BECAUSE a cop was 'involved'! We all know that there are several definitions for criminal behavior that the police use, lets just compare apples to apples. It seems that the total amount would actually be higher. Are these the true numbers of actual CRIME INSTANCES? We sure wouldn't want tourists to find out that our sleepy little town is filled with drunk drivers, wife beaters, assaulters, etc....and that's just the people in charge!


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When I watched Dr. Sanjay Gupta's report about a nonprofit that gives bullied kids free plastic surgery, my heart was both warmed and broken.
In the video, he talks to Nadia Ilse, a 14-year-old whose classmates started harassing her about her ears when she entered the first grade. Throughout the years, they repeatedly called her "Dumbo" and "elephant ears," which she says turned her very withdrawn and antisocial--she said the constant taunting "hurt so much." She desperately wanted to have surgery to get her ears pinned back, because she believed it would keep the children from bullying her.
Her wish was recently granted by the Little Baby Face Foundation, a nonprofit that provides free corrective surgeries to children born with "facial deformities," such as cleft lips, palsies, tumors, and malformations. The organization doesn't exist to help kids who have been bullied specifically, but it does have some intention of lessening the trauma that kids with facial deformities (and their families) go through.
Nadia qualified to have her ears pinned back with the organization, and while she was under consultation with the doctor, he pointed out that her septum was crooked, and that her chin required mentoplasty so that her face would be more symmetrical. All three surgeries totaled about $40,000--free to Nadia, though--and she says that she now "feels beautiful." She was beautiful before, too, of course.
Plastic surgery has been on the rise for young Americans--more than 90,000 kids had plastic surgery in 2007. Obviously, not all of these cases were the result of bullying... but was surgery the right answer in those that were?
Is permanently changing your appearance the ideal way to deal with bullies? Won't there always be someone, somewhere, who doesn't like your nose/eyes/chin/whatever?
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SYDNEY (Reuters Life!) - Australia's fashion industry is putting on the glitz for its major annual show next week with prospects brighter after the financial crisis and rising global interest in a new guard of Down Under designers.
Last year's Rosemount Australian Fashion Week was 15 percent smaller than the previous year with only 41 shows which mirrored similar cuts at shows in the major fashion capitals of London, Paris, New York and Milan.
But Daniel Hill, general manager of event organizer IMG Fashion Australia, said interest had picked up this year with more than 60 shows scheduled between May 3-7 and over 165 registered international buyers and media, up from 134 last year.
International buyers attending Australia's 15th annual fashion week includes Selfridges and Net-A-Porter from Britain, Fred Segal and Urban Outfitters from the United States, and a significant increase in interest from Japan.
"Last year was tough around the world but Australian designers are pretty resilient and this year is looking really positive with a strong schedule," Hill told Reuters.
"Australia is seen as a market that can provide something different to international buyers and, while we have the established names, we also have the new guard, like Dion Lee, Konstantina Mittas, and Romance Was Born, which are targets for buyers coming here."
The 2010 fashion week got off to an early start when designer Carla Zampatti opened up her Sydney mansion this week to show her new spring/summer 2010/11 collection of sleek, fitted suits, crisp shirts, and taffeta and organza evening-wear.
Zampatti is not the only high profile designer opting to do her own show outside fashion week or invest in showing at New York or London fashion weeks instead which get greater coverage. Other notable absentees this year are Sass and Bide, Wayne Cooper, Bowie, Willow and Collette Dinnigan. Continued...


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It couldn't have started much worse for Lakes against Meadowdale. The Lancers committed turnovers on their first two drives, and lost quarterback Nick Webster to an early knee injury on their way to a season-ending 24-0 loss to the Mavericks in the 3A state playoffs on Nov. 15 at Edmonds-Woodway High School.
Webster was intercepted by Josiah Evans on the third play of the game, and the Mavericks converted it into a 34-yard field goal by Brett Schafer. Then, after scrambling for 46 yards on the first play of the second drive, Webster was pushed out of bounds and came up hobbling. He left the game with what appeared to be a serious knee injury.
"That's the heart and soul of our team," said Lakes head coach Dave Miller. "It really sent our kids for a loop. We were reeling. We made a lot of mistakes. We played so well last week and just didn't have it tonight."
A botched handoff by Caleb Lyons was recovered by the Mavericks' Marzel Simmons three plays later, and Malik Braxton scored on a 1-yard touchdown run to make it 10-0 with 5:10 to go in the first quarter. Meadowdale forced a quick three-and-out defensively, and was in the end zone again with 22 seconds to go in the first quarter on a 1-yard quarterback sneak by Jeremiah Evans.
"That first quarter kind of told the tale right there," Miller said. "Our kids in the second half battled a lot harder and played with a lot of pride, so I was proud of them."
Kemonee Jenkins led the Lancers downfield early in the second quarter with two long runs, but the drive stalled out and the Lancers had to punt. Jenkins was intercepted by Jimmie Bruders on the third play of the next drive, and Evans connected with Charlie White on a 14-yard touchdown pass with five seconds to go in the first half to cap a 14-play, 54-yard drive.
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The Lancers had their best chance to score after recovering Spillum's fumble at their own 43-yard line and marching inside the Meadowdale 10-yard line early in the fourth quarter. But sophomore Jaiave Magalei – the Lancers' fourth quarterback – was pressured on 4th-and-goal and his pass fell incomplete.
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Warner was dropped from the match after what the England and Wales Cricket Board described as "an unprovoked physical attack" on Joe Root in the Walkabout pub in Birmingham at the weekend.
Those who did make the starting XI were hoping to make up for their opening defeat England but had to settle for a point when bad weather set in 15 overs into the second innings. At that time New Zealand were on 51 for two chasing Australia's 243 for eight - 15 short of the Duckworth/Lewis par, which can only be used to determined a result after a minimum 20 overs.
Prior to the rain it had been a productive day for Adam Voges (71), George Bailey (55) and New Zealand's Mitchell McClenaghan, whose mixed bag with the ball yielded four wickets for 65 runs. In the nascent New Zealand innings Clint McKay took the early wickets of Martin Guptill and Luke Ronchi, leaving both results possible when play was halted.
Having won the toss Australia's top order seemingly attempted to draw attention away from Warner with a shambolic start to their innings. Shane Watson lasted just seven balls before he wafted at McClenaghan and was caught at the wicket by Ronchi, who started his international career with a brief stint in the Australia one-day side before his recent switch of allegiance.
Phil Hughes was then run out for a duck after a botched single involving Matthew Wade allowed Guptill to take the bails. The dependable Bailey, again captaining in place of the injured Michael Clarke, was next man in and he and Wade steadied the ship with a controlled stand of 64.
Wade fell for 29 in 57 balls when Nathan McCullum trapped him lbw, a verdict that was unwisely reviewed by the batsman. Bailey's next partner was Voges and while Daniel Vettori made it hard to score, the new man looked to pick up the rate.
The fourth-wicket put on 77 in 16 overs before McCullum managed to bowl Bailey, who had mustered a 71-ball half-century. Australia made 25 without further loss in the batting powerplay, reaching 176 for four, but the return of McClenaghan halted their progress.
He took two wickets in as many balls, Mitchell Marsh (22) mis-judging a pull and the aggressive Voges somehow hitting a full toss into the hands of a grateful Brendon McCullum. It was an ill-fitting end for an enterprising innings that included seven fours and almost a run-a-ball.
That left Australia 196 for six with 35 balls remaining and they added 47 runs for the loss of two wickets. Maxwell was key to that burst, hitting two sixes and a four off Kane Williamson.
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It's been a few months since I posted, and I'm emerging from my technology sabbatical. Fall quarter is in full-swing; it's time to share what's new.
It's often the day-to-day kinds of activities where a little change can make a big difference. My focus in this post will be changing a default setting in Outlook that affects the order in which Outlook shows you messages.
Outlook assumes that you want to start reading the most recent message first. After deleting or filing the first message, Outlook takes you to an earlier message.
But that's not how I read my messages. I start with the earliest one I haven't read and then move forward in time toward the most recent message.
If I had no other mail in my inbox, it wouldn't be a problem. However, mail I haven't decided what to do with yet stays in my inbox until I have time to get to it. For instance, in the example I'm using, I may begin reading with the email marked with the arrow below.
After I delete or file that message, Outlook automatically takes me to the message below it. But I've already read that message. I want to move to the one above it. To do that, I have to use the arrow keys or the mouse to navigate. Or I can change Outlook's default setting so that it moves up instead of down.
In Outlook, go to the File tab and select Options. Click Mail. Scroll down to the very bottom of the screen. In the dropdown menu, select "open the previous item."
Click OK.
Now when you delete or file email messages, Outlook will automatically advance to the next most recent item.
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Thanks Sue,
Super clear and super cool. Every little bit helps.
Hey Sue, This works fine if you first double click on the first message to OPEN it. However, not if you just preview it in the preview pane. Is there anyway to force this to happen if you preview the message and file/delete it, but NOT OPEN it? Thanks.
This is exactly how i read my messages and was looking for a way to make this change. My only problem is I have outlook 11 for MAC. I cannot figure out how to make this change in my outlook. Can you help?
I use Outlook for Mac, too, and would like to change this very behavior! My hopes soared when I came across the article and then crashed when I couldn't find the setting!!! Wow…what a difference it would make for me to be able to change this!
On a mac, you could mimic this behavior by using the "Oldest On Top" setting under the View –> Arrange By menu.
Now if you delete a mail item, the focus goes to the next (newer) mail message.
Yeah, I get that. That means that the oldest is on top not the newest, which is the opposite of what we're trying to achieve here. 🙂
Outlook for Mac feels like a downgrade from Entourage in many ways. I understand in others it is an upgrade (though I've noticed very little). Thankfully, I've integrated my Exchange into Mac Mail/Address Book/iCal but my manager has yet to do that and I have a feeling he won't like the fact that it's not possible in Outlook 2011 yet.
Thanks so much! This would've taken forever to find in Outlook help, but thanks to you I found and solved it quickly.
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Sue, I have got Outlook 2011 and it doesn't have options in file tab? So I cannot get this done. Do you know why? Thank you Yvonne
A big thank you!
Very useful (and as you say, little things can go a long way!)
Great instructions – that's always bugged me, too. Thank you.
omg i just had someone call in about this problem Thanks a lot!!!!
Sue – we read emails in the same order!! IT just replaced my 8yr old machine (obviously I work in higher ed if I was using an 8 yr old computer) and now all my settings need to be changed. THanks for providing easy to use directions!!!
Insane that this "feature" was removed from Office 2011. How hard/complicated can it be?? I cannot ever every understand why "upgrades" remove features that we had in the past! >:(
Thanks so much. I recently upgraded to Office 2013 and it does take a while to get things they way you want them on all these programs. I quick internet search and then a reader-friendly answer is a great thing to find !
Thank you! This has been annoying me since I changed jobs a few weeks ago and was forced to change from Mac to Windows. Now if only my hideous HP could become a Macbook Air…
Yes, I looked at that question and looked over it.
Thank you for explaining what it all means.
Every time I get a new MS Office install I have to look this tiny preference up because I miss it in the Outlook options. Every time! So, thanks for the quick reminder.
Thank you!! I just switched from Entourage to Outlook and was getting so frustrated!
My problem is that I can only read the most recently received message. I cannot access earlier messages without deleting the more recent ones. Clearly a problem when trying to reread kept emails.
Settings are correct in Outlook 2013 but it still reverts to the newest message after deleting or moving an email. Frustrating!
I have Outlook 2007 but Options is not under the File tab. What do I need to do to have my cursor move up instead of down?
Thank you for these clear step-by-step directions. This issue has bugged me from the time our office started using Outlook. I am thrilled to undo this annoyance. Again, Thanks! From Amy Schutzer at the Law Office of Sheldon S. Aronson
It's the little things that make a difference – this is a great tip, thank you.
Thanks! Still works for me in Outlook 2016
Thx! Confirmed in Outlook 2016 also.
I just upgraded (well changed from) Entourage to Outlook 2016 for Mac. This absolutely drives me crazy too but I can't find "Option" anywhere. Please don't tell me I can't do this is Outlook 2016 for Mac either.
I'm sorry to be the bearer of bad news… But I'm pretty sure Macs don't have this option.
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County commissioners will begin with a work session on the agenda items.
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Tuesday, June 2, 2009
BLOGGING: It's Tuesday, Where Are You?
Did you know that the Pulitzer Prize wasn't given out in 1974 and 1977? Imagine the discussions around that judges table where they make that decision. That would take some guts. Especially when you see some of the books that were nominated that year. Michelle has a little poll going on over at 1morechapter where you can have your say amongst the books that were published that year. Go on over, everyone loves a little poll.
I am still taking suggestions here for a book you buy that you forgot you already read/own. I know there are readers out there who have done this already, so what can you call this? The suggestions stay open until Wednesday, when Suey will put a poll up at her site. Then you can go vote again. Ticky boxes, woo hoo!
In reading:
I just landed in England and it is 1949 after the war. I am a doctor who is fascinated by a local mansion that is falling apart. (The Little Stranger by Sarah Waters)
Where is reading taking you? Leave a comment, write a post, spread the word.
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- Beth F said...
Wow! Am I really first? Here's my Where Are You?
- June 2, 2009 at 7:17 AM
- gautami tripathy said...
I gotta read Sarah Waters!
Here is my tuesday post
- June 2, 2009 at 7:33 AM
- Ladybug said...
I've just landed in India.
Here's my Tuesday post.
- June 2, 2009 at 8:08 AM
- Staci said...
Here I am:
- June 2, 2009 at 8:15 AM
- fleurfisher said...
I amin England too, and very close to home here in Cornwall.
- June 2, 2009 at 8:30 AM
- Margot said...
I'm in the United States but it is 1863. Find me at Joyfully Retired.
- June 2, 2009 at 8:53 AM
- Tea said...
I've just left Minnesota. I was on a camping trip in a Graphic novel titled "Lost." I've been down the Boundary Lakes. It was soooo exciting.
- June 2, 2009 at 9:31 AM
- Mo said...
I'm in New Jersey .
Happy Reading to you all!
- June 2, 2009 at 9:32 AM
- BooksPlease said...
I'm in Suffolk. Here's my post.
- June 2, 2009 at 9:54 AM
- Bonnie said...
Here is my My Tuesday Post
- June 2, 2009 at 10:22 AM
- Sherrie said...
Your books sounds interesting! Mine is posted at my place, Just Books.
http://sherriesbooks.blogspot.com/2009/06/its-tuesday-where-are-you-teaser.html Have a great day!
- June 2, 2009 at 10:28 AM
- Whitney said...
I'm in Missouri. My post is here:
- June 2, 2009 at 12:24 PM
- Carrie K. said...
I'm still all over the place this week! http://booksandmovies.colvilleblogger.com/2009/06/02/teaser-tuesdays-and-its-tuesday-where-are-you-june-2-2009/
- June 2, 2009 at 12:25 PM
- Petunia said...
Just started your meme. I'm in Virginia in the 1950s.
- June 2, 2009 at 2:03 PM
- Jenny said...
Jealous of where you are right now! In about twelve hours that's where I will be too. (The Little Stranger is my airplane book.)
- June 2, 2009 at 2:27 PM
- katrina said...
I love Sarah Waters, I'm not allowing myself to buy this till the summer holidays when I can lay in the sun and enjoy it.
I'm in an unnamed city where blindness has became infectious. (Blindness by Jose Saramago)
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- Lady Lazarus said...
A little late for Tuesday as it's the early hours of Wednesday but nevertheless, here's mine :-)
- June 2, 2009 at 8:52 PM
- Bybee said...
I'm in Vancouver BC Canada. It's 1997. Karen just woke up after 17 years in a coma.
- June 3, 2009 at 6:49 AM
- Les said...
I'm hoping to read The Little Stranger sometime soon. I really like Waters!
Hmmm, I guess I'm in the U.S. I'm reading In Defense of Food by Michael Pollan. It's very good and very readable!
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A recent rant submitted by Gary Marbut of Montana Shooting Sports Association is so void of fact that it requires rebuttal (see Letters, "Let FWP starve!" Jan. 26).
His claim of FWP's "shocking tolerance and support for large predators" stems from a federal reintroduction of gray wolves and federal courts treating wildlife management as abstract legal theory rather than science. Fact is, there's nothing FWP could do to change that.
Does he suggest FWP should have disregarded federal laws and court? Common sense tells us FWP was handcuffed by the federal wolf reintroduction. FWP could have ignored common sense—much like Marbut and MSSA did during the 62nd Legislature, when they promoted over 30 unfavorable bills, including one to gut the state wolf management plan, which would have resulted in continued federal wolf protection.
His attack on the integrity of FWP personnel should not have been allowed by an editorial board. It is without any supporting evidence. Strong personal attacks need to be supported by fact, not a personal tirade, as when he says FWP has been "fudging game counts and census numbers, and...blaming any game population declines that could not be covered up on climate change, sunspots, lazy hunters or aliens—anything but the truth."
These claims, if not so incendiary, would not be worthy of a reply. This logic, or illogic, ignores loss of habitat, a politically-influenced elk management plan and legislative meddling as primary causes for current elk numbers. Unfounded claims such as Marbut's have no place in the discussion.
Fact is, Marbut's friends in the legislature continue meddling in the affairs of FWP, to the detriment of resident hunters, making science-based game management political fodder. Sen. Debbie Barrett and her colleagues have passed bills requiring FWP to keep elk and deer populations under already low objectives. Those bills and the low objectives in the Montana elk management plan have done much to reduce elk populations in the Madison, Bitterroot and Gallatin. That's a fact.
Now for the most humorous of his quotes: "Nobody at FWP noticed or cared several years ago when the editor of the NRA's nationwide American Hunter magazine published a feature article about his fruitless elk hunting trip to southwest Montana, a trip where the only tracks he saw were wolf tracks."
Since when is FWP responsible for a magazine editor's hunting skill, or in this case, lack thereof? Given the abundance of elk "several years ago," it is hard to believe an experienced hunter could not even find a track. Unfortunately, this kind of storytelling serves as truth among some who serve in Helena.
Montana finally has control of our wolves. We now have a wolf season to go with our mountain lion and black bear seasons, year-round coyote hunting and a myriad of other ways for hunters to deal with the predators Marbut implies are causing the "crashing herds."
In the last two months, friends and I have hunted wolves whenever possible. Predators have fallen to our bullets, including one wolf. Hunters managing predators, as planned. With wolf delisting, we have every tool reasonably expected to manage predators. How many vocal critics are actually out there using these management tools versus sitting behind their computers whining that FWP is not killing these predators for them?
Speaking of predators, the kind that prey on resident sportsmen seem abundant during legislative sessions. Bills promoted by MSSA and Marbut have often been attacks on FWP, resident hunters and anglers and common sense. Bills like H.B. 321, which would have cost Montana sportsmen over $24 million in federal matching dollars. Or H.B. 369, which would have crippled our game wardens and let poachers have free reign.
Marbut's tirade seems most driven by fear of a slight fee increase. Whether or not FWP will go to the next legislature for such, who knows? What we do know is that history shows MSSA will likely be on the wrong side of the issue when measured against facts, common sense and what is best for resident hunters.
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Misti Chastain was a 10-year-old when she first saw her dream ranch. Twenty years later she bought that land and turned it into a dream ranch for those who need it most.
But her dream was almost thwarted when the county government tried to force senseless regulations on her property.
Chastain owns a horse ranch outside of Olympia, Washington, where she rescues horses and hosts children with special needs. Her work there has been lauded by local teachers and community leaders.
One day, she received a letter from Thurston County that threatened to close her ranch down. It listed 11 property violations, which allegedly stemmed from a neighbor's complaint. She was charged with building a swimming pool without a permit (it was already there when she moved in) and having a well too close to her garage.
Even worse, it limited her to only have six horses on her thirty acres— a regulation that was not even in county land codes. This forced Chastain to put some of her prized horses down.
I'm getting rid of horses. I'm saying goodbye to kids. I'm closing down programs. It was devastating.
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She called the number on the sign, which led to the Freedom Foundation's Glen Morgan. Morgan provided the information that restored her will to fight the county officials.
She testified and invited county officials to look around her property—and she invited her friends with video cameras. The county decided that there was nothing wrong with her property, and Chastain was vindicated.
Chastain's is not an isolated case. Many people suffer under oppressive government regulations on their property or businesses. Glen Morgan warns citizens in Chastain's position that "your silence will not protect you." She shined the light of day on what government was doing to her, and she changed her situation.
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MURPHYSBORO, Ill. - Archaeologists have uncovered 1,000-year-old Native American artifacts on the grounds of a southern Illinois airport just ahead of scheduled construction projects to extend runways and relocate a nearby road begin.
Crews with the Illinois State Archaeological Survey discovered five house plots from the Mississippian Era at the Southern Illinois Airport in Murphysboro. The archaeological excavation was required before construction could begin and to determine where future roads in the area could be placed, the Southern Illinoisan reported on Friday. The discoveries weren't completely unexpected, but the dig unearthed more than some expected.
"This ended up being much denser than we anticipated," said Gary Shafer, the airport's manager. "However, it is fascinating to look at things from the history of the area."
Workers also uncovered a stone ax that is thousands of years older than the plots. It would have been used to cut trees and wood, said Patrick Durst, the statewide survey coordinator with the Illinois State Archaeological Survey. He said the plots could have belonged to a Native American community
"We are going to excavate those houses, collect all the data, so when we piece this back together later, we can create a clear picture of what was happening here," Durst said.
He identified about 40 areas to dig on the airport property, leading to the many discoveries. Archaeologists say they'll continue working at the area for a few more weeks to search for more artifacts.
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