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Sam Hagan, Observations on the Brazil Protests, Part One
Fri, August 9, 2013
Editor's note: Part two of this ongoing series can be found under the Features section.
Beginning with the protest that started in São Paulo on June 18, 2013, the people of Brazil have been making plenty of noise that has nothing to do with soccer or samba. The protestors filled the streets like never before. For many it was a chance to peacefully demonstrate their frustration with the system. For a much smaller number it afforded an opportunity for violence and looting. But for all of Brazil, it sparked a fire.
Organized by the Passe Livre Movimento (Free Fare Movement), this massive protest began as a show of opposition to a proposed bus fare increase. However, since that Tuesday, a popular revolt against the greatest wrongs in Brazilian society has been awakened by a seemingly mild bus fare increase, and is taking aim at corruption, police brutality, and a public education and healthcare system in shambles despite lavish. As protestors have chanted in São Paulo, and now in other cities like Rio de Janeiro, Recife, and many other cities, "The people are awake..."
To understand the deep polemic roots and public dissatisfaction that led to a movement that has been likened to the Arab Spring and Occupy Wall Street, it is important to look at the international perception that existed before these protests: we thought Brazil was winning! Not only were they selected as host for the upcoming World Cup and Summer Olympiad, in 2010, Brazil was one of the first countries to rise out of the 2008 global economic crisis. They even have a lower unemployment rate than the US.
So were we wrong? Is Brazil not the paradise that we believe it to be? In many ways, yes.
A highly unequal level of income distribution and reemergence of high inflation vex the poor and the very poor of brazil today. While unemployment is low, so is the minimum wage, and taxes in Brazil have never been higher, especially with its recent public expenditures on stadiums and facilities for its two largest upcoming events.
Also, even after the end of the military dictatorship, corruption and scandal have not been strangers to the Federative Republic of Brazil. Just recently, the Federal Court, the highest judicial power of the nation, condemned party officials of the Worker's Party, which has been the majority party in power for the last decade, for a massive money for votes scandal known as "Mensalão." Bare in mind that while this is a step in the right, ethical direction, none of the people involved and convicted have yet served any prison sentence.
It's important to look past the profile one usually expects when they think of Brazil; Soccer Crazy, Devout Catholics, living the life in paradise. Although it is safe to say that brazilians nearly unanimously adore soccer and have been attended mass now and again, they are far from paradise, despite the deceiving view of pristine beaches and lush jungles. The government levies one of the highest tax rates in the world, which those who attended these protests view as only going towards extravagant stadiums no one needs and lining political wallets, leaving the people with inferior infrastructure, shoddy schools, and a poor public healthcare system.
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Clive Davis, the music industry legend known for discovering Whitney Houston and Alicia Keys, recently announced (at 80) that he is bisexual, sparking conversations in many circles about the legitimacy of bisexuality among men. Even as we see an increase in the acceptance of people who identify themselves in terms that don't include "heterosexual" in entertainment and politics, this tolerance isn't afforded to everyone. There's still a huge negative stigma about bisexual men, particularly within the African-American community after the "down low" hysteria of the late 1990s. From HIV transmission fears to religious ostracizing to outright social rejection, Black bisexual men face unique challenges in affirming themselves.
In 2011, the New York Times reported on a study conducted by Northwestern University revisiting the sexual arousal patterns of bisexual men. Previous studies, found to have been flawed in how they were conducted, suggested that men only identified as bisexuals because of social norms and fear of identifying simply as homosexuals. The Northwestern study is the second to show that some men do, in fact, exhibit symptoms of physical arousal towards both men and women.
The Times article pointed out that "bisexual men may have varying levels of sexual, romantic and emotional attraction to partners of either sex." It's important to note that one's sexual orientation doesn't always dictate one's sexual identity, preferences or behaviors. Sexuality is fluid, as noted in the famous Kinsey Studies of Human Sexuality, published in 1948 and 1953, and each person's experiences related to his or her sexuality falls along a spectrum.
Discussions of sexuality, especially in Black communities, are nuanced and require further examination into what influences our acceptance of self, and the hows and whys of our disclosure choices. Our connection to religion, for example, heavily influences our ideas and behaviors related to our sexuality. Black men especially can find themselves struggling with reconciling notions of "masculinity" in a society that's emasculated them for centuries.
When same sex attraction is often equated with weakness among Black men, it can prove difficult for a man to even acknowledge his desires, much less openly express and act upon them. For more insight and perspective, I spoke with three Black men who identify as bisexual.
When it comes to the outright denial of bisexuality in men, D.J.* doesn't think people understand sexuality as a whole, and that most limit themselves to societal norms, choosing not to even try to understand sexuality beyond that with which they're comfortable. Robert agrees, admitting discouragement when people would say that bisexual men didn't exist; he knew he was one. It wasn't until he became comfortable with his attractions did he find strength to ignore the dismissals of who he was. Alex says he used to get defensive, but like D.J., realized that people simply lack the knowledge about sexuality to accept him as a bisexual man.
Dating proves interesting, to say the least. All three men say they prefer romance with women, but find that gay men are generally more accepting of their bisexuality.
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Werritty was 'special adviser' on Iran trip in 2007
Liam Fox travelled to Iran in 2007 with Adam Werritty, who presented himself as his special adviser, The Times can reveal.
The Defence Secretary, who was then in Opposition, made the rare visit for a British MP to the Islamic republic to meet fellow parliamentarians and women's rights groups, according to his spokesman.
"Dr Fox's private office paid for his travel. This did not involve any taxpayer's money," the spokesman said. It was unclear, however, who funded Mr Werritty's travel.
The Defence Secretary's former flatmate and best man subsequently visited Iran at least another two times in 2009 and 2010, trips thought to be on behalf of Dr Fox when he was still Shadow Defence Secretary, said a friend.
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As you might have read on the front page of our paper this week, the economy is still in the tank, and there are many who believe it will continue to get worse before it gets better.
Having said that, there are some numbers that are in direct contradiction with rising unemployment and a national housing market that is still in shambles.
The Mississippi housing market is looking pretty good, particularly in the Jackson-metro area.
Pending sales have gone up every month this year in the metro area with 932 in June.
Completed sales have also risen every month this year with 517 in June.
The June number of sales is up 17.4 percent from May while maintaining a high number of pendings that will close in July and August.
And the market has been pretty stable with the total listed properties having ranged from 3,942 in March to 4,027 currently.
"Both the volume of sales and the prices are down significantly from this time in 2008," says John Jenkins, president of the Jackson Association of Realtors. " But, the market appears to be improving."
Jenkins went on to say that the City of Madison continues to outperform the averages significantly in number of sales, median and average prices.
Other areas outperforming the averages are Clinton and Ridgeland (in average and median price, but not volume of sales), Northeast Jackson, Byram and Brandon (both the city and reservoir areas).
Although most of the statistics are still below 2008 levels, the Brandon (reservoir – 39047) area showed an increase in average and median price over 2008, but a decrease in the number of sales.
Unfortunately, because of the national housing crisis, many buyers believe they are going to get the deal of the century.
"I have had many Realtors indicate that some buyers are making low offers, 15 percent to 25 percent below list price, in an attempt to 'get a deal,'" Jenkins said. "Most sellers have already reduced prices to near current values, so these low offers tend to anger the seller and often prevent the negotiation process."
Statistics indicate that the sale price as a percentage of list price in the three metro counties is 95 percent to 96 percent.
Of course, some homes are over priced and some sellers are distressed, but the majority of homes are priced according to today's market, according to Jenkins.
All of this leads us to conclude that the Mississippi housing market just isn't as bad as the rest of the country.
The numbers don't lie.
At the end of May, pending sales were at 899, up from 587 from the same date last month — that's more than a 300 percent increase from the prior month.
And all of this information is in agreement with statements Jenkins made to us earlier in the year, when he said, " I'm of the opinion that the Jackson area market has pretty much bottomed out.
"We believe it is an excellent time to purchase a house, because prices always increase during the spring and summer months. Of course, complete recovery is a long-term process, and the job market is weak, but the Jackson area never realized the dramatic price increases that many other markets experienced. I've personally noted several neighborhoods and price ranges where marketing periods are under four months for sold properties. So, Jackson does not have the high inventories of listed properties that many regions have."
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Inequality and the (self-)selection of international migrants : theory and novel evidence
"This paper analyses the (self-)selection of migrants between countries which have substantial differences in the inequality of earnings and income levels. In an extended version of the Roy-model we consider migration costs, which tend to grow less than proportional with the income level. As a consequence, migrants can be favourably self-selected although the inequality of earnings is larger in the destination relative to the sending country. Based on a novel panel data set, covering migration from 143 sending countries all over the world into the 6 main receiving countries in the OECD from 1975 to 2000, we examine the factors which drive the selection bias of the migrant population empirically. The descriptive statistics indicate that migrants tend to be positively (self-)selected although the inequality in earnings is larger in the destination relative to the sending countries. Our estimation results suggest that both, a higher inequality in the distribution of earnings in the receiving and the sending country increases the skill level of the migrant population relative to that of the population in the sending countries. Moreover, the positive selection bias decreases with the income level of the sending country at a given income differential. Finally, migration barriers and distance affect the selection bias positively." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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On a warm and comfortable Sunday afternoon, the Alma College Men's Soccer team defeated UM-Dearborn, 2-0, in the second game of the weekend Alma-Olivet Tournament. The Scots, after losing to Hanover on Saturday, improved to 5-2 on the season, while the Wolves are now 0-3 in 2012.
"We continue to score goals we need them, which is a credit to the players that we brought in to do that job," said Scots Head Coach Josh Oakley. "We just weren't sharp all weekend, and it showed. We got through it and we really need to refocus as we jump back into conference play. Finally getting into a routine will no doubt help, but also getting a real training session in this week is important to eliminate some nasty habits that develop due to the lack of group training."
For the second day in a row, the Scots got on the board first, this time when So. F Trae Pitts (N. Muskegon, Mich./N. Muskegon) scored a goal at 17:32 on an assist from Fr. F Zach Vandeveer (Elk Rapids, Mich./Elk Rapids). Alma took the decisive 2-0 lead at 31:16 when Fr. M Matt Sovis (Williamston, Mich./Williamston) hit the back of the net with a helper from Sr. M/D Matt Kuberski (Port Huron, Mich./Port Huron).
The Scots would make those two goals hold up for the victory as the two teams played a scoreless second half that saw few good scoring chances. For the game, Alma outshot UM-Dearborn by a margin of 24-12, including 13-7 in shots on goal. So. GK Brett Galloway (Clinton Township, Mich./Chippewa Valley), seeing his first action of the 2012 season, had seven saves in net and earned the solid victory for the Scots.
Sr. M Ryan Kovach (Port Huron, Mich./Port Huron) paced Alma with three shots on goal, while Pitts and Vandeveer each notched two on the net. With today's win, the Scots have now won as many games this season, five, as they did all of 2011 - another sign of the successful rebuilding of the program under Oakley.
Alma continues MIAA play on Tuesday afternoon, when they host Hope College at Scotland Yard. Game time is set for 4:00 p.m.


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Mentor extends offer for IKOS, says it owns 9% of stock
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WILSONVILLE, Ore. -- Mentor Graphics Corp. today (Dec. 26) extended its unsolicited cash takeover offer for IKOS Systems Inc. until midnight Jan. 25, New York time, because it wants to give the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) more time to review the proposed purchase and merger.
Earlier this month, Mentor made an $11-per-share cash offer for IKOS stock in a $102 million bid to stop Synopsys Inc. from acquiring the San Jose-based supplier of emulation products (see Dec. 7 story). IKOS claims to be the second largest supplier of emulation systems in the design automation industry.
Last summer, Synopsys had struck an agreement to acquire IKOS for stock, but that deal is not expected to be completed until August 2002 (see July 2 story).
Mentor's original tender offer was scheduled to expire at midnight on Jan. 8, New York City time, but the Wilsonville-based design automation supplier said it will extend the deadline and refile its notification for the proposed merger under the Hart-Scott-Rodino act on Friday (Dec. 28).
As of the close of business today (Dec. 26), Mentor said 2,001 shares of IKOS common stock had been validly tendered into the offer. The company had 841,600 shares prior to its tender offer, and Mentor said it now has about 9% of IKOS's outstanding common stock. The shares tendered represent less than 1% of the outstanding common stock, according to the company.
Last week, IKOS's board of directors announced it was recommending that shareholders reject the Mentor cash offer, and it unanimously reaffirmed support of the planned merger with Synopsys.
Mentor argues that its $11-per-share offer is better than the agreement with Synopsys because the proposed purchase is with cash instead of stock and there are fewer conditions. Due to the long time period in Synopsys' stock-swap purchase offer, the price in that transaction could vary anywhere from $6 to $20 per share -- a total of roughly $70 million to $200 million -- depending on IKOS' financial performance through the middle of next year.


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The headline number for the gross domestic product showed another stomach-churning decline in the first three months of the year, but buried inside the data were what might be termed "glimmers of hope" for better days ahead.
The details hidden deep in the latest GDP report showed a lot of cross currents buffeting the economy at the moment.
The overall figure was stark. GDP, the value of all goods and services produced within the U.S., declined at a worse-than-expected annual rate of 6.1 percent after having fallen at a 6.3 percent rate in the final three months of last year. It marked the worst two-quarter performance for the GDP in a half century.
But consumer spending, which accounts for 70 percent of total economic activity, was actually up in the first three months of the year after having fallen for two consecutive quarters.
However, many economists worry that the first quarter bounce in consumer spending was fueled by temporary factors such as heavy discounting and incentives by worried retailers and auto dealers trying to move inventory.
Many analysts expect that consumer spending could turn negative again in the current quarter, reflecting the continued heavy job losses that U.S. households are experiencing. Many analysts look for GDP to fall by a smaller 3 percent rate in the current April-June quarter before turning slightly positive either in the third quarter or the fourth quarter of this year.
Outside what could prove to be a temporary pop in consumer spending, the rest of the GDP performance in the first quarter was pretty bleak. Housing continued plummeting and business investment plunged as firms slashed plans to expand in the face of the deepening recession.
Exports dropped by the largest amount in nearly 40 years, as American manufacturers, already suffering from weak domestic demand, were battered by falling overseas sales.
However, economists did see some faint rays of sunshine, particularly in a steep fall in business inventories – which was a drag on first-quarter GDP, but it's good news for getting the economy moving, because it can set the stage for higher production in the months ahead.
Here is a look at some key numbers, with the percentage changes reflecting annual rates:
-6.1 percent: The rate at which the GDP changed in the first quarter
-6.3 percent: The rate of change for the previous quarter
1957-58: The last time back-to-back GDP declines have been so bad
+2.2 percent: The change in consumer spending – after two quarterly declines – thanks in large part to a rebound in durable goods such as autos
-33.8 percent: The change in spending on business equipment – the worst decline since first quarter of 1958
-38 percent: The change in spending on housing – the biggest drop since the spring of 1980, and the 13th consecutive quarterly decline dating back to beginning of 2006
-3.9 percent: The change in government spending – the biggest drop since the fourth quarter of 1995
-$103.7 billion: The change in the value of inventories held by businesses
2.79 percentage points: The amount that this decline contributed to the fall in GDP in the first quarter
-30 percent: The rate of change in exports
1969: The last time such a big drop was recorded
$11.34 trillion: First quarter total GDP, if adjusted for inflation and extrapolated over a full-year period
$11.74 trillion: The total in the second quarter of 2008
-3.3 percent: The rate of change from the second quarter of 2008 to the most recent quarter


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I don't get pissed at either, but in both cases I'll definately take more waves than usual. The only thing I do differently for newbies is give them a few tips and be friendly to them. Who knows, it's the newbies that usually end up being the good surfers. I'll crowd around a kook and keep him as uncomfortable as possible.
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i really hate that *** kooks that always mess u up on a wave, i try to judge weather they will even catch it to drop in onme and most of the time ill go cause i know they wont.
what i cant stand is when u have the inside, they paddle(on surfboard) to drop in on you, catch the wave and i backout, but they dont even drop it, just stand at the top fall backwards and are right back waiting for the next set so they can c0ck block my gnarection again. And they think there the **** still cause there on a surfboard. at least most of the bodyboarders will catch it and ride it. but the surfers, if ur gonna do that, get out of the water. ur just a hazard everyone out there. There are some surfers that im fine with tho, the ones that are actually good and respect the rule that the person on the inside gets the wave. But even that rule sucks for the surfer kooks too cause the paddle for a wave that hey wont get out of but im in a better spot farther down on the wave.
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I notice alot of people who sit inside right before where the waves breaks and they hop on there boards infront of me and do like 3 pumps and fall over. Or there are the ones who think they know it all cause there folk bought them the latest CI or Lost and they try to start paddling for a wave you are already on and they are in the white water well behind you and they hollar at you like you just dropen in on them . That happend to me once this weekend I was already on the wave did my bottom turn and trimed up to the top of the wave and was on the nose and so kid was in the foam behind me yellin at Me. So after I heard that a walked back the the tail stalled and turned outa the wave. The kids said the me , "Yo WTF you dropin in on me for " . I told him if he was paying attention and knew anything about surfing you would have seen that 1 was already up and on the wave while you were still paddleing and 2 that you were in the foam and I was at the peak postion. He did that to 2 other people that day and he got worked hard by some guy on a Keel fin Fish . I guess dome people just dont learn
I dont get all agro or my attitude doesnt change when it crowded or there are alot of there newbs or "kooks" in the water. If you get all hostle or worried about stuff like that your kinda missing out on what surfing is all about
I feel as though i surf better when I am surrounded by noobs. If it is crowded with legit surfers and noobs, then I get ancy, frustrated, and agressive. It's an oil water mix which leads to frustration. If you get a noob dropping in and call them off, usually they then realize to look side to side before they take off the next time. It's all a learning process. I also don't get super mad because I was a noob at one point and so was everyone else. It just needs to be a quick learning noob with common sense...( why would I take off on this wave if there's someone already on it...ect. ha)
If a noob takes a wave and has the right of way, I will let him have it because it teaches him the rule and respect. Plus, on that wave he may finally realize how to do a bottom turn or his first cut back.
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not like I rip or anything but after 25 years I know what I'm doing. When the lineup is packed with learners/beginners usually its because the waves are not what you would call exceptional so I'm always calling people into waves, backing off, etc. When its epic 2-3x a year and my break gets packed with the best surfers in the state, I get called into waves by surfers much better than me, so I act the same. I'm very, very easygoing with teenagers and women, way less so with typical "35 year old men learning on longboards" you see more and more.
I was out with some kooks and some newbies yesterday. This 2 guys kept dropping in on me and messing up my waves. So I just burned them a couple times. Then another kid dropped in on me but i knew that he was new so I just told him what he did and he didn't drop in on anybody anymore (except for one of his friends). After that i was calling him into waves and cheering him on whenever he had the peak on a set. But even with the waves I called him into, I still got a lot more waves than usual.
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maybe they don't know any better...
some guys are jackasses, but some are just ignorant. it's hard to make a jackass understand that he's a jackass, and even harder for him to stop being one even if he realizes that he is one. but some guy who just bought a board and is out there trying to figure it all out, floundering around and getting in the way, probably doesn't even know that he's doing something wrong.
so it's not that he's selfish or intending to screw up others' times out there, he just doesn't realize what the rules are, where he's supposed to be/not be, what waves he paddle for/let go. sadly, because most people are non-confrontational and don't really want to take the time to get involved, these guys who don't know any better will continue to get in the way, drop in on others, miss waves and paddle out right through you line until and unless someone explains to them (kindly and pleasantly the first time, at least) that what they did isn't really the way things are supposed to work out there. when i started, i would try to be as deferential to the guys tearing it up, and thankfully some of them explained a few things to me here and there, preventing me from being a nuisance everytime i paddled out. a few kind words can go a long way; not just towards keeping the energy and feelings positive, but maybe even more importantly, to teaching new guys (whether they're 13, 35 or 50) what's expected of them, and how to avoid having the others groan everytime they see you getting in the water.
Jul 21, 2010, 03:26 PM #19
agreed. it's when you try to nicely help somebody and then they get ignorant that the bad stuff happens.
Summer = newbs in the lineup
My general stance is, if they can catch the waves then I won't drop in on them. If they're going to miss the wave or ride it straight in, I'll take it all day. Since we're not talking kooks here, I won't mention all the jacka$$es that have been dropping in like its nothing lately.


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Rush to Judgement
Regarding Patricia Calhoun's August 21 column, "Once Upon a Mattress":
KOA should fire Keith Weinman. The only reason to listen to any Jacor station is to hear Rush.
Don L. Lewis
It's very appropriate that in last week's letters column, Mike Cooper compared Keith Weinman to "the missing link." Until men learn not to beat women, evolution has a long way to go.
Joy Frick
Put That in Your Pipeline and Smoke It
I guess it was a slow news week that led to Ward Harkavy's "Pipeline to Palestine," in the August 14 issue. Reading this article, I didn't know what exactly I was supposed to feel--admiration? The fact is that these guns and ammo ended up killing and injuring untold numbers of civilians and soldiers. Gee, what's next? A Congressional Medal?
This story belonged in the National Review, not Westword.
Victor D. Padilla
Are we supposed to admire Sam Sterling for running guns to Palestine in the late 1940s? "Jews carrying one-pound bricks of TNT would run up to Arab houses, jam short fuses into the bricks, light them, hurl them through a window, and run like hell," you say. If this appeared in an article about Bosnia, one would assume it was an example of the evil acts of vicious people. To Sam Sterling, though, a man who made such acts possible, it was merely "necessary." Sure, innocent Arabs had to be murdered in their homes, but at least "it was historically Jewish land," says Sterling--although is that a hint of guilt peeking through when he continues by saying, "if one could make that claim after 2,000 years"?
Of course, the only way to enforce such obscure claims is through murder, as no useful piece of land has remained empty for 2,000 years. In any case, the claim would be spurious even if claims from antiquity were valid. Many Israeli Jews, perhaps most, are not descended from inhabitants of the Holy Land. Many European Jews are descended from Asian tribes that were converted to Judaism, for instance, and black Ethiopian Jews are quite obviously not Semitic.
In order to build a new country in Palestine, the people who had lived there for generations had to be either subdued or removed, a process we now call ethnic cleansing. Sam Sterling is as guilty as the Yugoslavian Serbs who assisted in the cleansing of Bosnia. As the son of a Jewish survivor of the Holocaust who decided not to go to Israel, I believe that two wrongs do not make a right; the murder and displacement of thousands of Palestinians does not somehow make amends for the Holocaust, and the claim that it was necessary to create a safe place for Jews to live seems ridiculous--are Jews really safe in today's Israel?
Peter Kent
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Good Book, Chapter and Verse
I would like to make a few comments regarding Ward Harkavy's August 14 article, "King James's Version." Most Christians refuse to realize that the belief system they adhere to is more allied to a kind of liberal humanism than to the worship of that vengeful god Jehovah--a god who advocates genocide, rape, murder and slavery in his name.
They feel that the figure known as Jesus (the Christ), the son of this god, is exempt from these politically incorrect ideas, despite the fact that not only does he descend physically from King David (a murderer, liar and adulterer) but is also supposedly the incarnation or mouthpiece of said deity.
Religions fashioned by human hands as they are tend to reflect attempts at social engineering by their human creators rather than any spiritual influence by a supernatural "creator." Some religions prohibit the consumption of pork. This most likely originates from a health risk present at the time these texts were purported to have been written.
Also, at this time women were considered the property of men. Changing the wording of the Bible is another attempt at social engineering akin to the Klan saying "We're the new Klan, not the old Klan" to reflect the moral climate. The motives for these changes are painfully transparent.
Michael Todd
Take a Lode Off
Stuart Steers's article on Summo Mineral Corporation's recent encounter with the National Wildlife Federation ("Lode Warriors," August 7) makes prominent reference to the fact that, instead of copper, the company ran into a "rich lode of environmentalists." The article should have read, "a load of rich environmentalists."
Far from the warm, fuzzy image portrayed on wildlife calendars, groups such as the National Wildlife Federation are big business--a business that provides much in the way of employment for lawyers and litigators. With an annual budget of more than $97 million, a number that is much higher than the budgets of most industry associations, the organization packs considerable economic wallop when it comes to dishing out trouble for legitimate businesses whose only sin is the desire to conduct responsible mineral extraction and reclamation activities, hopefully at a profit, on lands where such activity is permissible under applicable law.
The NWF must continue to find "villains" in order to survive. Yet we in industry question whether a case against a responsible operator like Summo serves any legitimate environmental purpose or is simply part of a well-orchestrated campaign against mining in the West.
Mining is an important industry in Colorado, Utah and throughout the West. According to a recent study, the industry contributes $7.7 billion to the economy of Colorado alone. Moreover, as in the case of Summo Mineral's mine in the Lisbon Valley, mining brings high-paying jobs to economically depressed rural areas.
We have every reason to believe that the Lisbon Valley operation will finally be approved, but at what price? It is little wonder, given the economic muscle of environmental special interests and shortsighted federal land-use policies, that so many companies are simply finding that the U.S. is no longer a hospitable environment for mining and are choosing to locate new mines in foreign countries where the government welcomes environmentally responsible mining operations like Summo.
Stuart Anderson, president
Colorado Mining Association
Paul C. Jones, executive director
Minerals Exploration Coalition
Beaver Damn
Andy Klein's August 21 review of Stick It to Beaver, er, Leave It to Beaver was too kind. It appears movie reviewers now accept as commonplace the slamming of races (the suburban black boys use Ebonics to explain that on their summer vacation their dad left and came back--broken homes can be hilarious!). Lumpy is seen stuffing pastries down his throat (this should help all the overweight kids in the schoolyard). How about some family-death humor (grandma died this summer--ha ha). It seems like everyone gets to pick on the Beaver. Wally sheepishly stands by as Eddie Haskell relentlessly insults and abuses a kid half his size (good training for wannabe bullies). Ward Cleaver is dark and disturbed, and he emotionally abuses Beaver from the beginning. After a sixteen-year-old steals the Beaver's treasured bike, instead of calling the police, Ward blames it all on his boys. (Maybe he could have thrown in a lock, or at least a helmet, when he bought the bike.)
Yes, it is only a movie. But I believe we underestimate the influence of our entertainment on our society--and especially impressionable young children. Tasteless humor, stereotyped minorities and child abuse is standard fare in today's entertainment industry.
I guess it's business as usual for your reviewer.
Dennis Gronli
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She's Got a Secret
I just finished reading Bill Gallo's review of Mrs. Brown ("Victoria's Secret," July 24) and found it to be one of the most refreshing, insightful reviews I have come upon in years. I never read these reviews, but this one lured me in and held me captive. Gallo should be commended.
Amy Haimerl
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Geek Tragedy
Just wanted to let you know that I enjoy your newspaper each and every week. Of course, I'll also take this opportunity to bitch. Get rid of Michael Roberts. He seems to believe that any music he doesn't like personally is crap.
Westword should fire this geek and hire someone with a more mature perspective.
Sean Dougherty
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Hagar the Not-So-Horrible
Regarding Michael Roberts's "It Was All Eddie's Fault," in the August 28 issue:
All right, Sammy Hagar is an egotistical jackass whose music, with or without Van Halen, is about as irritating as a jackhammer at five in the morning. But I have a confession to make: There is something I like about Hagar. I like the way he nourishes a vendetta against Van Halen.
I enjoy a good rock-and-roll quarrel, often more than the music itself. I have to say Westword's Hagar interview delivered the trash talk and ego I like to hear in a rock-and-roll brawl. Hagar, I believe, makes a moron out of himself during the interview, but more important, he is able to express his resentment and contempt for Van Halen. Hagar, clearly, is on a mission. He is out to destroy the reputation of Van Halen, and that makes me like him.
Sadly for me and countless other Van Halen fans, Halen's rep was gone the day they asked Hagar to be their new frontman--a decision I cannot blame on Hagar. Now that Hagar has bitterly split with Van Halen, I have to side with him. Because, frankly, Hagar and I have something in common: We both loathe Van Halen.
Mark Zawisa
Regarding your recent interview with one of the larger minds in rock, Sammy Hagar:
Probably everything that needs to be said about this will be covered by more articulate souls than me, but I did have two distinct impressions. One, who cares anymore about the ongoing drama of who fucked who over in this dissipated bunch of pizza-barfing ex-frat boys? They ceased to be anything significant after the first album, but of course, they had to go on and fashion a legend. That supports my long-held theory that anytime we find some cultural thing that we really like here in America, we have to proceed to beat the living crap out of it. Maybe it's genetic, I don't know.
The other thing I noticed (and again, maybe it's just me) is the increasing resemblance that Sammy Hagar bears to Jimmy Buffett. The implications of this are too gruesome to even imagine. Being of a fragile nature myself, I am going to have some brown M&Ms and go to bed.
Victoria Frerichs
via the Internet
Michael Roberts, you say that Marching to Mars is "jaw-droppingly awful" and that, although Sam sucks, he's still got a high opinion of himself. I'd like to know exactly what you don't like about Marching to Mars. And what did Sam ever do to you to earn your disgust?
If you don't like the man, fine. But don't accept an assignment to interview him and then spend the whole time sniping about him. It's immature and pathetic.
Gesi Rovario
via the Internet
I would just like to say that I think Sammy kicks ass without Van Halen and that what they did to him was crap. Sammy's right: Any VH that comes out will suck. I lost a lot of respect for VH, but dicking Sammy over was stupid.
Kevin Keller
via the Internet
Barry, Barry Good
Thank you, Michael Roberts, for the article about Barry Fey ("The Long Goodbye") and the Hit Pick notice of the Tommy Bolin Tribute Concerts in the same August 14 issue.
I am a mother and a grandmother out of the Zephyr-generation Colorado. Candy Givens and Tommy Bolin were simply the best--the most original and unique--female singer/blues harp player and male guitarist of the genre. There will never be another Candy or Tommy.
I'm just a mosquito here, but I did sing with both of them. Candy was my good friend in high school, and Tommy taught me jazz licks (he was fifteen years old) after I introduced him to my husband at the time, who became their protector and roadie/confidant when Zephyr started touring.
Barry was the soul of kindness to me and to Candy and Tommy during those early days with the band. Barry remained so when went to see him again 25 years later. He offered to help me (a nobody) and graciously received me and my tiny granddaughter when we stopped by his office for an unannounced visit.
Barry Fey took care of hundreds of thousands of crazed, music-happy kids over a period (a long period) of years. He was not much older than we were and was constantly placed in the position of being the responsible adult in the midst of a very large, unruly family. He had to make many difficult and unpopular decisions to benefit the greatest number of kids; a lot of them never grew up mentally, emotionally, physically or spiritually.
I'm thankful that Barry was there for us--a constant and true friend. And I miss Candy and Tommy--the Hunna Bunna's.
Kathryn "The Grape" Elisha
Every Dogster Has His Day
Regarding the Caroline Corley and Keanu Reeves incident, discussed in the July 31 Backbeat and then in subsequent letters columns:
First, let me say that I am proud to call Caroline a very dear friend, and to all of those self-assuming "assholes" out there, I was on the phone with her less than a minute after her "on-air" interview with Reeves and the rest of Dogstar. I have never heard her upset after an interview (if you call one question answered on the air an interview), but the whole situation has been blown out of proportion.
I have attended numerous concerts and shows with Caroline in the past, and never have I seen her be "off-putting" to anyone.
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By Ridge Mahoney
If Tim Chandler plays against Honduras on Wednesday, the first of 10 Hexagonal games, he will be the latest player sired by an American and raised in Germany to be bound to the U.S. team. And he will almost immediately take on a vital role as the Americans embark on qualification for the 2014 World Cup.
It's not simply that Chandler plays outside back, where aside from veteran Steve Cherundolo, the U.S. team has used stopgap measures for much of the past decade. The much-maligned Jonathan Bornstein stepped up his game at the 2010 World Cup, but since leaving Chivas USA to test his luck in Mexico has disappeared from the national team.
Like Cherundolo, Chandler plays regularly in the German Bundesliga, where Coach Jurgen Klinsmann started his illustrious career before adding to his fame in Italy and England. The emergence of another Bundesliga regular, Fabian Johnson, has eased the pressure on Klinsmann to fill that spot, and like Johnson, Chandler can play either corner, and so can yet another Bundesliga-based player, Michael Parkhurst.
Yet not many players appear in nine friendlies before playing in a competitive match, and Chandler's avoidance of playing in a game that would tie him to the USA prompted rumors and speculation. Was he under pressure from his club, Nuremberg, as former U.S. international Tony Sanneh suggested? Did he hold out hope he'd be summoned by the German national team? Was he just a flake, or too lazy to rack up the thousands of air miles and annoying jet lag that plagues Concacaf players required to cross the Atlantic Ocean?
One facet of coaching the USA that Klinsmann has needed some time to comprehend is the arduous distances often traveled by U.S. players based in Europe to play in their Concacaf qualifiers. When first called into the national team by predecessor Bob Bradley, Chandler balked at flying to the U.S. to play in the 2011 Gold Cup, citing fatigue after a long European season. Subsequent efforts by Klinsmann to field him in Concacaf games were rebuffed, and his decision not to play in the semifinal qualifying round last year left some fans and journalists exasperated.
Yet while Klinsmann said last summer the U.S. program had "moved on," he didn't slam the door on Chandler. Only a coach overstocked with national team players could afford to take such an extreme stance, and Klinsmann doesn't enjoy that luxury. Managing personalities is just as important as preaching tactics and providing motivation, and Klinsmann knew drawing a line in the sand would accomplish nothing with a young player – Chandler turns 23 on March 30 -- still finding his feet in the professional game.
Klinsmann didn't hesitate to call in striker Terrence Boyd, 20, last year before he'd played a first-team Bundesliga match, and while that decision flustered some observers wondering about veterans of MLS and other leagues who were passed over, Boyd has since moved onto Rapid Vienna and is scoring regularly. That's a step down in leagues, but a jump up into the first team. He wasn't called in for the Honduras game but is certainly in the pool, the Bundesliga contingent of which continues to grow.
What will bear watching over the next year or so is whether the younger Bundesliga players ascend to bigger clubs in the Bundesliga or elsewhere. International play sharpens their abilities and increases their value, but comes at a cost in fatigue, possibility of injury, and intense pressure. Cherundolo, who turns 34 on Feb. 19, has played more than a decade at Hannover, but he's an exceptional case.
"It's a huge opportunity for Timmy and I think he's simply just maturing," said Klinsmann pointedly and politely. "He's growing into his role as a full-time professional and that's why we were very patient with Timmy to mature.
"It's a coach's job to understand where certain players are in their own process and pick them up to help them get to the next level. We are patient with Timmy to get to the next level, and now there is this opportunity of a big World Cup qualifier coming up."
I think you're a bit oversensitive on this one, Ric. I think most of us look at sired in this context as we would saying Javier Hernandez has good 'bloodlines' because his family has turned out other soccer players. There's enough "legitimate" racism in the world that needs to be eliminated that relatively harmless sayings like this fall far down the list of things to be concerned about. One man's opinion only, of course.


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NEWARK, N.J., Jan. 25 (UPI) -- U.S. gospel singer Cissy Houston says she never confronted her late daughter, Whitney, about her drug problems because she didn't want to scare her away.
Whitney Houston drowned in a hotel bathtub while under the influence of drugs and alcohol in Los Angeles last year. She was 48.
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My dog bit friends ds :((22 Posts)
Don't let any child approach your dog. If the child wants to stroke the dog, he or she must call the dog to him/her. Arm your children with lots of high value treats and get them to practice calling the dog and treating, so they associate the children with good things (getting treats).
To be honest, I would go ballistic if any child (my own, or someone else's) put either of my dogs into a headlock.
I do think though you should seek specialist advice. This was a warning and no one was seriously hurt. That may not be the case next time and if the dog and children do not learn mutual respect, there almost certainly will be a next time.
No i dont think this is about learning or reading the signs- you need to take preventative action rather than reactive iyswim- the fact you didnt notice the boy going over tells me maybe you arent as watchful as you need to be with small dcs and dogs in the same room.
I didnt say your dcs jump on him. Tey should just be leaving him alone altogether unless he comes to them for a cuddle. Lying on him is them being in his personal space and as he cant talk- you cant tell whether he wants it or not.
I wouldnt have a tug toy tbh- its still tug whether a specific toy or not and one day one of your dcs will try and take something from his mouth.
They only play tug with her tug toy. If she has a teddy or something, I get it off her. My dc are not constantly harassing her btw. If ddog lies down they dont immediately jump on her. Im pretty good at reading her signs (there was none today except for the incident a few month ago) My friend and I were watching telly and hadnt even noticed her ds going over. Once second he was sittin in between us the next he was on the floor having been bit. I believe a lot of you will say "you should of read the signs..." but it was so quick and unexpected. The 1st time it happened we both thought he'd hurt ddog and thats why she snacked, but now I know that was hes "warning". I didnt realise there could be so long between warnings (we've seen him a few times inbetween) Now I do and im going to do everything I can to make sure it will not happen again, without having to rehome her.
I know opinion varies on this but i never let anyone play tug of war with my dog. It confuses the dog when he picks up something he shouldnt have and one of the dcs try to get it off him- he thinks its a game and doesnt give it back, growls, gets possesive- needs to keep it in order to win. Imo tug of war is a terrible 'game' to introduce to any dog. Unless you are completely on top of training commands to give or drop and he knows them well.
Also- you dont have to be body slamming or rough playing to annoy him- just being in his space can be too much for any dog. Think how sometimes you just arent in the mood for your child to be talking right in your face or cuddling you round the leg while you try to wash up- dogs need their space too- try to discourage your dcs from lying on him.
When i say play fighting, i mean tug of war etc, not like body slamming her lol. I didn't explain properly as i was a bit upset (was shaking after they left )
If someone lies on the floor with their head down ddog gets excited and tried to lick your face but she can't because its hidden so climbs over you to try to get it, its just a silly game we play.
Thanks for all the replies. I WILL be keeping the dog away from her ds from now on. Ive had advice from another forum on how to do that. Just for the record, my dds are not rough with ddog, they know how to be around her (dd3 still needs reminding sometimes as shes only 3) Will reply more later as just on my phone and it takes ages to type.
you are allowing your children to do too much with the dog - he will "tolerate" it with them to a degree but with soeone else he wont. Dogs really aren't toys and shouldn't be put in a position where their only response is to bite.
So its because of the way your children are with the dog that this boy got bitten i think
The dog must be put in another room while guests are here. It's not safe for the child or fair on the dog who has tried to tell you already that she doesn't feel comfortable around him.
I have a dog who is brilliant with children too.
Each and every time my DS has friends round, the dog is either put outside or in the downstairs bathroom.
It's not because I don't trust her - I would just rather take evasive action than wish I had.
Can you put a baby gate across any of your rooms - even if it's one in which you wouldn't normally allow the dog?
Poor dog ... basically I agree with the other posts that I've skimmed. Dogs need to be respected ... I had a friend who's DS showed complete lack of respect for our dog ... who growled but didn't bite ... friend & son not invited back here. I wouldn't trust many dogs around small kids, particularly if the kids don't know how to behave. Hope you get it sorted.
Don't let children manhandle your dog, put the dog in a different room if they visit...
You must have a room with with a door somewhere in your house?
I wouldn't be happy if DS was bitten by someone else's dog, but I also wouldn't allow him to put a dog in a headlock (especially one he doesn't know). If I was your friend I don't think I would be coming back to visit until you had found somewhere that the dog could go away from visitors, to be honest I don't think my DS would want to return either!
I am not an animal lover anyway, but even I can see this is less an issue with your dog's temperament and more an issue with the way you allow others to treat your dog.
Muzzle it when you have visitors, maybe. I wouldn't trust it with my own DCs in your place, though.
Child gate across the kitchen door perhaps? When I was younger an Uncle had 3 German Shepherds. They were always locked in the bedroom when we visited and I was too young to ask to see them. I am a huge dog lover (have a large breed dog)
A dog is a dog.
No matter how much a loved family pet - keep it away from small children.
Maybe reassure your friend that you will keep dog in garden or in another room next time they call.
And you need to find a place where the dog can go to get away from everyone that is quiet and the dcs know they are NOT allowed to go to or bother him at- he needs a retreat for when he is streased
I dont understand. How can you have nowhere to put your dog? The garden, the kitchen, a bedroom? I agree as well. A dog is not a toy and some dogs dont like strangers putting them in head locks. The fact it was a child is meaningless to a dog.
tell the kids to leave the dog alone.
My auntie has a dog that nips. I tell my 5 year old to not touch that one
Sorry- i mean dds
Get him checked out by the vet to rule out any injuries/illness he might have.
And then teach your ds and visitors how to treat dogs properly.
You need to show your dog more respect its not surprising the poor thing snapped when its treated like a toy. You'll get better advice soon but for now keep them separated and teach your kids how to behave around a dog if I was your friend I'd be very very angry with you as its your fault not the dogs.
I have 3 girls 3, 5 and 9. My dog is great with them. They can sit on her (not properly just like leaning against her) play with her, lie on the floor play fighting etc and she has never bit them. My friends son (4) went to stroke her today and she bit him. He had a dint/bruise above his eye and a small graze on his nose.
A few months back he put her in a kind of head lock and she snacked at him then too but luckily didnt bite him. It all happened so quick. She was lying on the floor and he went over to her and stroked his head and she snacked. I (and my friend) were sitting right behind them but didnt anticipate it at all.
I dont know how to handle it. Obviously we kept them away from each other the rest of the visit, but i have no-where to put her (dog) while they are here, which might mean they stop visiting which will devastate my friend as she is suffering from anxiety at the minute so needs my help/support and her dp will go ballistic if he finds out.
Any advice? I really really dont want to rehome her as, like i say she has never shown any aggression at all to anyone else and she is absolutely perfect but not sure if i would be expected to? What would you be thinking if it was your ds?
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Beholder won the 2013 Breeders' Cup Distaff in a stunning performance to cap off the first day of the two-day Breeder's Cup World Championships at Santa Anita.
But it was a big day for European trainers and horses as they took three of the five Breeders' Cup races on Friday before a crowd of 35,833. Nine races remain on Saturday, including the Breeders' Cup Classic.
Here's how the other four Breeders' Cup races went down on Friday, a day that produced a Pick 5 carryover that could top $4 million on Saturday.
$500,000 Breeders' Cup Marathon, 1¾ miles: Won by London Bridge, owned by Waratah Thoroughbreds (Paul Fudge), trained by Jo Hughes (with assistant Mikael Magnusson), ridden by Mike Smith, who won his 18th BC race, best all-time. Run in 2:58.32. Paid $20, $10.20, $6.40. Fudge bought New York-bred London Bridge a month ago to run here. Hughes, a former nurse, has only been training for a couple years on her own. Didn't make trip. It was her first BC entry. Had been racing in France and Britain and this was his ninth different track, fourth win. "He had to work really hard because he just wasn't sure of the dirt," Smith said of London Bridge's first race on dirt.
$1 million Breeders' Cup Juvenile Turf, 1 mile: Outstrip won it for Godolphin Racing, trainer Charlie Appleby of England and Smith, who made it two winners in a row and extend his all-time record to 19 BC wins. Ran three weeks back from last race and won it 1:33.20. Second win in a row for Great Britain-based trainer and horse that had been running there. "I was following two of the greatest turf riders, Gary Stevens and Corey Nakatani," Smith said. "They showed me a great way to go." Paid $14, $6.80, $3.60.
$1 million Breeders' Cup Dirt Mile: Goldencents romped to win by 2¾ lengths, winning for Glen Sorgenstein and Josh Kaplan of W.C. Racing, Dave Kenney and RAP Racing (Rick Pitino), trainer Doug O'Neill and jockey Rafael Bejarano. Fourth BC win for O'Neill. Goldencents ran the mile in 1:35.12 after blistering fractions (22, 44.75). Goldencents paid $9.60, $5 and $4. "I never lost faith in him," Sorgenstein said. "He's the real deal and best miler out there. He won the Santa Anita Derby and now the BC Mile, the Delta Mile, Horse of the Year to us. It's a nice body of work. If an actor had it, he'd win an Academy Award."
$1 million Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies Turf, 1 mile: Irish-bred Chriselliam gives Europeans three of four first BC races. Is this the Ryder Cup or Breeders' Cup? Owned by Willie Carson, Miss Emily Asprey and Christopher Wright, trained by Charles Hills and ridden by Richard Hughes. Paid $15.80, $7.80, $6.20 and set BC record with 1:33.72 for the mile. Asprey is just 17 years old and the youngest to ever own a BC winner. She's an eighth generation descendent of William Asprey, founder of the world famous jewelers and silversmith, Asprey, in 1781. "Bloody marvelous, what else can you say?" Carson said.


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Spate of fatal shootings has many concerned about perception that Fayetteville is dangerous
By GREG BARNES | The Fayetteville Observer, N.C. | Published: August 10, 2014
The headlines scream from the front pages: "Rampaging gunman kills 2" and "3 die in shooting."
At least six Cumberland County residents died in a week's span of violence that erupted from domestic problems. At least a dozen other people have been shot in the county since July 5, three of them fatally.
The violence - in an Army community that cannot shake the "Fayettenam" moniker from the 1970s - feeds the perception that Fayetteville and the neighborhoods around it are dangerous.
And that is a perception, officials say, that hits everyone in the community, whether they have ever been touched by violence or not. Crime - especially violent crime - shakes confidence in the community. It makes companies thinking about bringing investment and jobs to Fayetteville reconsider. And that leaves too many residents mired in poverty.
The more poverty, research shows, the more crime and the more overwhelming the perception that people are not safe even in their homes.
Some of the comments about a Fayetteville Observer story on Facebook speak volumes about the perception that Fayetteville has become increasingly violent. The story, first posted Tuesday, was about a gunman shooting a mother and her son to death in front of a home in Eureka Springs, on the edge of Fort Bragg.
Investigators have since identified the shooter as Gerald Marr and his victims as 14-year-old Zachary Phillips and 31-year-old Diana Maria Hathaway. Zachary's 15-year-old sister, Kelsey, was wounded.
On Facebook, many of the comments offer prayers and condolence.
Others offer this:
"It breaks my heart that there is so much violence in Fayetteville."
"Another shooting? Wow it's daily now; what the hell is going on?"
"A tragic occurrence that is happening all too frequently."
The story spread swiftly on social media. It landed on national news wires and Internet sites. So did stories of murders seven days earlier, when a man shot and killed two members of his wife's family and seriously wounded a Cumberland County deputy while emptying a high-powered rifle into a home in Crystal Springs. The shooter, Andrew Michaelis, died in a shootout with deputies.
The stories - sensational and horrific - feed into the image that Cumberland County is turning more violent.
Fayetteville Police Chief Harold Medlock says that is not the case, at least not within the city limits. Both of the incidents that resulted in multiple deaths over the past two weeks happened in neighborhoods outside the city.
Medlock cites police statistics showing that there were 165 aggravated assaults - violent acts in which someone was hurt - in the city through the first seven months of this year, compared with 174 in the same time period of 2013.
Homicides are down from 12 to 11 in the period, Medlock said. Looking only at July, aggravated assaults fell from 30 in 2013 to 27 this year, he said.
Violent crime is down 4.2 percent from last year, and overall crime fell by 11.4 percent, the chief said.
But Medlock said he is aware of the perception of a more violent Fayetteville. He said he heard about it from a number of residents during National Night Out gatherings last week.
"You can give them those numbers, but it's what they see on TV and what they read in the paper," Medlock said. "That's what folks see, and it scares them."
It scares people who are not from here, too.
Last week, Kim Breeden, chief executive of Big Brothers Big Sisters of the Triangle, talked about the dire need to establish a satellite office in Fayetteville. Like so many others, Breeden has seen news reports of the recent violence in Fayetteville.
"It's just breaking my heart to see what's happening there," Breeden said. "It's just every day now."
Preconceived notions
Dr. George Corvin, a forensic psychiatrist in Raleigh, said Fayetteville has unique circumstances, created in part by being a military town. Corvin runs through the usual list - high unemployment, poverty, transient residents, young soldiers and domestic violence.
But Corvin said all cities have most of those problems, to varying degrees.
"It's just how we tend to categorize them," he said.
The murder late last month of University of North Carolina professor Feng Liu was a horrible crime, Corvin said. So was the murder of UNC student president Eve Carson in 2008. But Corvin said nobody paints a picture of Chapel Hill as the wild west.
Instead, they see it as a city of rolling hills, smart students, stately homes and expensive cars. Bad things that happen there don't stick, Corvin said.
By contrast, many people from outside Fayetteville view this city as young soldiers in fast cars, strip clubs and blighted neighborhoods. In a fiction piece for Rolling Stone Magazine in 1996, author Tom Wolfe described Bragg Boulevard as "the gaudy gullet of hell."
People's preconceived notions are hard to reverse, and violence in Fayetteville tends to get magnified because of its reputation, Corvin said.
"Those things sort of stick in your memory," he said.
Corvin said he had a similar image of Fayetteville, until he began visiting here.
"I think you have a great town," he said.
But it is far from perfect. Only four of North Carolina's 100 counties - Mecklenburg, Durham, Lenoir and Robeson - had a higher violent crime rate than Cumberland in 2012, the most recent year for which complete statistics are available from the State Bureau of Investigation.
Fayetteville's crime rate is nearly four times as high as that of Orange County, where Chapel hill is located.
Marketing the city
As president and chief executive of the Fayetteville Regional Chamber, part of Doug Peters' job is to market the city to businesses looking to relocate.
"What is frustrating to me is that when these sorts of events happen, as unfortunate as they are, it does reflect on the community and in the eyes of many an unfair stigma of our community," Peters said.
Two years ago, Jay Garner of Garner Economics in Atlanta produced an economic planning strategy for the county.
Garner said public safety is the No. 1 quality-of-life issue that businesses consider when expanding or relocating. Their employees want to feel safe, Peters said.
"It's very important and obvious it will have a profound consequence on Fayetteville and Cumberland County if the crime statistics don't go in an opposite direction," Garner said.
Peters said the community will always be at a disadvantage until it comes together to help find solutions to our crime problems and public image.
Medlock said he is moving the Police Department in the right direction, but it could take years to make a significant dent in the violent crime rate.
The high-profile murders in the past two weeks were characterized as domestic-related, cases in which some kind of relationship tensions exploded into violence.
But much of the violence that regularly plagues the community occurs in isolated pockets among young men, ages 18 to 28, who have adopted a high-risk lifestyle, Medlock said.
"That's not an absolute, but that's the reality," he said.
"We the cops, the officers, sometimes become discouraged, but we are going to make folks feel safe in this city," Medlock said. "We just need the public's help. But we are making gains day by day, week by week.
"It's not the Wild West here."
Visitors watch a ceremony at the North Carolina Veterans Park in Fayetteville, N.C., Nov. 9, 2013.


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A settlement between major banks, the Obama administration and state attorneys general announced Thursday could benefit both black homeowners and Kamala Harris, the African-American attorney general in California who was a major force in the agreement.
Under the deal, a group of five banks have agreed to pay $25 billion to current and former homeowners and states as restitution for fraudulent foreclosure practices that included use of "robo-signed" affidavits, failures to offer non-foreclosure alternatives and filing improper documentation in federal bankruptcy court, according to the Department of Justice.
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About one million people will have debt on their home reduced or be able to refinance at lower rates, while another 750,000 whose homes were already foreclosed would receive checks for $2,000, according to the New York Times.
It's not known exactly how many African-Americans will be among the nearly two million who get aid, but it's likely thousands of blacks will benefit. The mortgage companies in the agreement include Bank of America, JPMorgan Chase, Wells Fargo, Citigroup and Ally Financial.
The settlement is part of a broader Obama administration push to resolve the housing crisis, which has become a drag on the broader economy as well as reducing the assets of millions of Americans.
Harris, who was elected in 2010, has been one of the major forces in the agreement, pushing the Obama administration to both toughen the agreement on the banks and make sure that states can still file their own suits against banks as well, which the final settlement does allow. Her role could be a boon for the rising star in California politics.
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jmo2 I am sure his clients and workers are just fine. As all these dangers from lead exposure from lead paint are Highly Over blown. If a house is covered with lead paint. I mean every inch of siding and trim has multiple layers all lead based paint. and you stripped every bit of it right down to the bare wood. Unless you are eating it by the pound as a adult you would have NO Health issues from it. IF you did it every day for the rest of your life you might after 20-30 years have some brain damage if you took no precautions from ingesting the dust and paint chips and you smoked while working putting your hands covered in dust to your mouth but that is is you did it every day for 20 -30 years. (many old painters do have health issues from lead based paints mostly from putting their hands covered in paint near their mouth or eating and drinking near the paint) BUT simply taking minor precautions of a mask and not eating when working or covered with paint or dust and your be fine. Lead poisoning studies actually derives at least 90% of poisoning cases were from Vapor, Dust and Soil contamination caused by leaded gasoline combustion and only 10% from old lead based paint. And most of that 10% cased by paint it was investigated and attributed to direct ingestion of Lead based paint. NOT DUST from a remodel) meaning the child was chewing on a rail of crib or toy with lead paint on it. or was Chipping off large pieces of lead paint and putting it in their mouth. It was continued daily exposure and ingestion of lead paint not picking up a bit dust left behind by a remodel. Yes lead is a health risk especially to those who work with it daily where it is exposed to combustion or converted to vapor or dust. (like when soldering or pipe or wire using lead based solder) BUT simple precautions to avoid ingestion like not eating or drinking around areas where they may be lead dust and cleaning your hands before eating and drinking or smoking after handing lead and your pretty safe. Lead based paint in good condition does not leach much lead until the paint layers are disrupted. and the worst way to remove it is using a heat gun or torch to loosen the paint as that vaporizes the lead. (believe it or not this was once the preferred abatement method to remove lead paint as it looks like your reducing chipping and dust as the paint stays together in globs of heated paint but the vapor is very bad for those doing the work) But don't confuse risks to those that work around lead every day with occasional exposure during a one time remodel if you work clean you can reduce risk to to a minimum to workers that might be doing this type of work every day for many years once normal cleaning is done to the job site before people reoccupy the remodeled area the risk is so minimal it is crazy to attribute and Lead poisoning to exposure to a tiny bit of lead paint dust left from removing a few trim boards that had lead paint on them. Here is a link to a google play book you can read online all about lead exposure studies. Draw your own conclusions after reading it. I find the health risks currently being attributed and precautions taken are going above and beyond and most cases. But hay what do I know maybe I have already lost my mind from all the lead I have been exposed to I should be mad as a hatter. https://books.google.com/books?id=-wt0AXfjiUIC&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0
Not in all states in MA you must pass the Construction Supervisor License. http://www.mass.gov/eopss/consumer-prot-and-bus-lic/license-type/csl/construction-supervisor-license.html But in CT was way too easy to get a license. But there are plenty of GOOD and BAD contractors everywhere. Most people run into trouble with contractors because they select who they hire based on one question. "How much will it cost"? and they pick the cheapest guy. Or they pick a friend of a friend. And then they wonder why it all goes wrong. A Permit and inspections do not guarantee it is done right as it is up to engineers and architects to do their job and builders to do their Job. The Building inspector is just looking at the job after each step he is not there as it is done. But when someone says "no you don't need a permit" then he is probably not going to do it right. Be they a DIY friend or calling themselves a contractor. There are times I feel this industry gets a bad rap as there are a lot is really good builders and subcontractors out there. BUT there are also a bunch of guys who entered the building trades because they could not or find work or keep a job doing anything else. And they have no business being anywhere near a job site. The situation is also getting worse as fewer and fewer young people see a job in the trades as a goal they want. So many skilled tradesmen are aging and moving to retirement without having trained a apprentice. Trade schools are a start but nothing replaces working under a true Master of a trade for 5-6 years to really learn you trade.
Cedarist is spot on. Pressure treated decking is junk. Around here it is mostly yellow pine but not of the grade of years ago. Years ago you could get all heart wood, tight grain clear yellow pine I have seen old trim boards (painted of course) made from this that outlasted newer pressure treated boards. The key is in the grain and how it was milled. Many old trim was rift sawn like siding and although it is the same species of tree you would not recognize the grain of those boards with anything in a mill yard today. (unless it was reclaimed old growth yellow pine) I just got done building a deck for a customer that insisted on buying his own decking and on using Pressure treated yellow pine. It look great now but I told him he gets no warranty from me on the materials. I stated when the boards cup and split don't call me unless he is prepared to pay me to replace them. And I stress WHEN not IF the cup. No matter how much you seal or how you nail it down it will cup. Most of the boards were cupped before we even installed them and many already had checks and splits I tried to cull out the worst but he was cheap and would not let me reject many except the very worst ones.
If this law suit lead to saw stop tech in all saws I am glad my too larger saws will last me until I retire. Of course many portable saws on the market are crap and unsafe anyway but the Saw stop tech on the job site cutting wet and or pressure treated wood I think would lead to many false trips. especially since the only saw now sold with this technology is the Saw stop saws and I think they still hold the paten.
NMVFC writes: ...the Hartford clamp works just as well and is commercially available--about $60 a clamp. I have four of them and use them for all my miter/spline joints. Just Bing "Hartford Clamps" Yup I agree the Hartford clamp is great. I have many of them and I think they are even better then this clamp and they have been around a lot longer. Also if you really want your mitered casing to hold you need a spline (plate jointer works) of some type. Since a miter joint is mostly end grain and end grain to end grain glue joints are not very strong. But install a spline you get a very strong miter that will never come apart If you live in the Hartford CT area East coast tool is a great place to get them.
I understand the dangers of lead but I really wonder about this. Seems like all registered contractors should have received notice long before this took effect this is the first I have heard of it and I only have a few weeks to get certification? Also I think this will only make it harder for people to get work done. Your house built was before 1978 sorry call a lead abatement contractor then call me. For a small project the liability is not worth getting involved even though the true risk may be very small. I really wonder about this lead dust claims they act like even dust amounts so small you can not see it will kill you or cause enough brain damage to a child to give them serious health problems and learning disabilities. Yet at one time people drank out of solid putter and lead cups, kids played with lead/tin toys and we all lived in old houses full of lead paint. And the numbers of people effected vs exposed do not add up. Many more were exposed to lead then got sick from it. I am not saying lead is completely safe I do not reject all the studies but I really feel the way they treat it like it is Nuclear fall out is over kill. I have never had my own lead levels checked that I know of but I can name a thousand reasons why it should be through the roof. I grew up in old house my whole life I worked with lead based painted both house paint and Artist oil paints (lead White) I used lead based solder I made my own lead fishing weights and as a kid we used to use lead shot sinkers and crimp them with our teeth. (this was all before 1978) I ate birds shot with lead shot and got the occasional shotgun pellet in my food (again before regulations against lead shot). I have stripped lead based paint (before people made a big deal about it) And was covered in it. Now I should have ingested enough to have serious health problems by now but as far as I know I have no ill effects from any of it. Yet they are trying to tell us some dust so small as to be invisible or blend in with normal house hold dust is enough to cause serious health problems in children. Well I of course take precautions now but in the back of my mind I wonder how much of this is hysteria. Please spare me the stories I have heard it and read the data from the EPA yet I have a hard time reconciling the data with my own experience.
Sorry but I have to agree with Jjwcrawford on this one it is not a good idea to go breaking off plaster keys in most old houses they have enough problems with the old plaster as it is to go start breaking it up from behind. This tip may make the electricians job easier but it is the same as a plumber just hacking away at framing to make running pipes easier. You do not sacrifice the structure or finish of a old house just to make the job of adding modern utilities easier. And sometimes doing it does require some destruction. But it is better to just go ahead and make the mess and repair it then to cause hidden damage and leave. In this case the electrician may think he saved him self some patch work but in reality he caused hidden damage that will eventually lead to someone else having to do a repair in the future. He may not care since he is gone and his check has already cleared. But it is not the way to do business.
Mr Chase I hope you also read the comments on this blog that agreed with you. I for one would much rather FineHomebuilding actually do research and feature you house and all of it's construction. After all that is what readers of FineHomebuilding do we build homes. And not simple cheap homes it is called FINE Homebuilding not CHEAP Home building. You would not see Architectural Digest undercutting the very industry and those that support it like those writing this blog. Many of the technologies and features in this house can be applied to more modest homes. I for one find nothing wrong with building this house. Maybe the blogger should start a blog on the The Voluntary Human Extinction Movement site http://www.vhemt.org/ Not FIne Homebuilding.
This is a great article But have you seen how Benson wood has progressed in their timber frames they use CNC German-built Hundegger cutting machinery. http://www.hundeggerusa.com/ http://www.bensonwood.com/engineering/cnc.cfm All the timbers are shaped by CNC machines. (they still use hand work especially on some details) Don't you just love tools.
Now this is a FineHomebuilding quality post. Keep up the great work.
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I saw it, enjoyed it a lot, and posted about it in the Castle thread.Originally Posted by Miss_Griss;4145533;
I saw it, enjoyed it a lot, and posted about it in the Castle thread.Originally Posted by Miss_Griss;4145533;
Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
-- Benjamin Franklin, Historical Review of Pennsylvania, 1759
Hmmm. I'll have to check out the Castle thread. Thanks!Originally Posted by Florimel;4146111;
Seeking form amidst the void.
But if that's not possible, gimme a Margarita...shaken, not stirred...and hold the salt, please.
Gilles becomes an American citizen tomorrow, according to his FB page:
Gilles Marini Official
I am having my LAST Supper as a French Man , Cause tomorrow morning I will be Sworn in as an AMERICAN Well I decided to be very french and Order A ..... CREPE .. LOL I think it was very proper ! But tomorrow after the ceremony Guess what I will eat as my first meal as an American ??? You tell me the Answer )
Ps: And Wish me Luck ! I know I won't sleep tonight And doing this without my family ( cause everyone is in France on Vacation) is really weird for me , I always have my kids and wife around supporting each other ! But Hey , that is life Home alone or not I am going to Become American tomorrow ))))))
"Whatever you are, be a good one." Abraham Lincoln
What is an "MFWalkoff?"
Ahhh. Best Wishes Gilles! Welcome to the rights and privileges.
The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity. Dorothy Parker, (attributed)
Congratulations to Gilles on becoming an American citizen! Here's a photo from his FB page. So handsome!


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IDM PowerTips
Version Control Comparison
UltraCompare v6.40 includes major improvements to the command line support that allow greater flexibility when integrating with other applications. If you're using version control in a team development environment, then UltraCompare v6.40 is exactly what you need. UltraCompare v6.40 integrates with your version control software to quickly diff files, resolve conflicts, merge, and more...
While most version control systems provide similar functionality, each version control system has a unique way of building the command line. Some are simple, just sending the two file names, others are more difficult. In order to support all the different systems, UC has been improved to process a wide array of command line parameters.
As a base, we have tested UltraCompare with the following version control systems. Click on the links below to learn how to integrate UltraCompare with the respective version control system:
- AnkhSVN with Visual Studio 2008
- Subversion
- Perforce
- Visual SourceSafe 2005
- Tortoise CVS
- Tortoise SVN
The command line support is the key component to the version control support. While the command line support is very flexible, there are some rules you must observe when building your command line strings:
1. All parameters must be separated by a space.
2. Compare type switches such as -t, -3, -p, -x, -d, and -w must always precede the related compare object (ie: the paths for the files/folders being compared).
GOOD: -t <filename1> <filename2> -b -lt -o <outputfile>
BAD: -t -o -b <filename1> -lt <filename2> <outputfile>
3. Logical units can appear in any order on the command line so long as they are paired with their related parameters:
GOOD: -title1 <titlename1> -title2 <titlename2> -t <filename1> <filename2>
GOOD: -title1 <titlename1> -t <filename1> <filename2> -title2 <titlename2>
GOOD: -t <filename1> <filename2> -title2 <titlename2> -title1 <titlename1>
BAD: -t <filename1> -title2 <titlename2> <filename2> -title1 <titlename1>
The following command line parameters may be used to invoke UltraCompare Professional from the command line. For a full list of the command line parameters, see the UltraCompare Help.
|3-way text mode
|sets Show All
|ignore blank lines in text compare mode
|ignore spaces in text compare mode
|folder compare mode
|sets Folder Compare type to Basic
|sets Folder Compare type to Full
|sets Folder Compare type to Smart
|force all files to be compared as binary in folder compare mode
|force all files to be compared as text in folder compare mode
|sets view to horizontal layout
|ignore case in text compare mode
|ignore line terminators
|sets Show Matching
|sets Show Differences
|creates output file
|appends output to specified file
|fast binary compare mode
|runs specified profile
|quick difference check performs a byte by byte check until the first difference is detected
|compare folders recursively in folder compare mode
|reset ignore options
|read only merge mode
|text compare mode
|sets alias/title name for file/folder in first pane
|sets alias/title name for file/folder in second pane
|sets alias/title name for file/folder in third pane
|sets view to vertical layout
|3-way folder compare mode
|smart binary compare mode
AnkhSVN with Visual Studio 2008 (http://ankhsvn.open.collab.net/)
- Open Visual Studio 2008.
- Select Options from the Tools menu.
- Select Source Control and click on Plug-In Selection.
- Under Plug-In Selection select AnkhSVN.
- Under Subversion User Tools enter the following into the External Diff field:
"C:\Program Files\IDM Computer Solutions\UltraCompare\uc.exe" "%base" "%mine%"
Perforce for Windows (http://www.perforce.com/)
- Select Preferences from the Edit menu.
- Go to the Diff tab.
- Under Default Diff Application select Other Application.
- Click the browse button next to the Location box and browse to the UltraCompare install directory. Select uc.exe.
- In the Arguments field, enter:
%1 %2
Subversion (http://subversion.tigris.org/)
- Create a batch file named "ucsvndiff.bat" in the UltraCompare install directory (e.g. "C:\Program Files\IDM Computer Solutions\UltraCompare").
- Open ucsvndiff.bat for editing..
- Type the following:
"C:\Program Files\IDM Computer Solutions\UltraCompare\uc.exe" "%6" "%7" -title1 %3 -title2 %5
- Go to Subversion's configuration area, normally
- or -
C:\Users\<username>\Application Data\Subversion
(One way to find this folder is to enter %APPDATA% in the address bar and then search for the "Subversion" folder.)
- Change the following lines in the "config" file in the "Subversion" folder:
#diff-cmd=diff_program(diff, gdiff, etc.)
diff-cmd=diff_program(diff, gdiff, etc.)
- Edit the diff-cmd to point to the ucsvndiff.bat file, e.g.:
diff-cmd=C:\Program File\IDM Computer Solutions\UltraCompare\ucsvndiff.bat
TortoiseCVS (http://www.tortoisecvs.org/download.shtml)
- From context menu in Windows Explorer select CVS and then Preferences.
- Select Tools tab.
- For Diff application, browse to UltraCompare install directory and select uc.exe.
- For Two-way diff parameters enter the following:
"%1" "%2"
Please note: A space must be inserted between the specified values.
TortoiseSVN (http://tortoisesvn.tigris.org/)
- From context menu in Windows Explorer select TortoiseSVN and then Settings.
- Go to Diff Viewer under External Programs.
- Under "Configure the program used for comparing different revisions of files" select External.
- Click browse button and browse to UltraCompare install directory. Select uc.exe and press OK.
- Add the following string to the end of the uc.exe path:
%base %mine -title1 %bname -title2 %yname
- The constructed string should now look like this:
C:\Program Files\IDM Computer Solutions\UltraCompare\uc.exe %base %mine -title1 %bname -title2 %yname
- Press Apply button.
Visual SourceSafe 2005 (installed from Visual Studio DVD)
- Select Options from Tools menu.
- Select Custom Editors tab.
- Select File Difference under Operation:.
- In the File Extension field, enter: ".*"
- In the Command Line field, enter: C:\Program Files\IDM Computer Solutions\UltraCompare\uc.exe %1 %2
- Press Add button.