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TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) -- The Florida Supreme Court upheld the state's death penalty law Thursday, saying the U.S. Supreme Court declined to address it after striking down Arizona's capital sentencing statute.
The state's high court ruled unanimously on petitions from two death row inmates who contended Florida's law was similar to the Arizona law, which allows a sentencing judge -- rather than the jury -- to find facts in imposing the death penalty.
The decisions left the stays of executions granted earlier to Linroy Bottoson and Amos Lee King in effect for 30 days. An appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court is expected.
Gov. Jeb Bush praised the court's ruling.
"Justice has been delayed for too long in these cases," Bush said in a statement. "Bottoson and King have both spent more than 20 years on death row. Justice will now be served for the brutal murders they committed."
The court said the U.S. Supreme Court had an opportunity to specifically apply the Arizona decision to Florida but had not done so.
"They're leaving it for the U.S. Supreme Court to make a decision," said Marty McClain, a lawyer specializing in Florida capital cases.
Florida's law allows judges to overrule jury sentencing recommendations and does not require unanimous recommendations from juries. It came into question when the U.S. Supreme Court struck down the Arizona law.
The court ruled that Arizona death row inmate Timothy Ring's right to a jury trial was violated when a judge sentenced him to death after finding aggravating facts in the absence of the jury.
Although the Florida justices agreed to defer to the U.S. Supreme Court, they disagreed strongly over the state's law. There were three pages in each opinion on which all of them agreed and a total of 115 pages of separate opinions.
Chief Justice Harry Lee Anstead said the court had sought a "safe harbor" by leaving the decision to the U.S. Supreme Court but the harbor might turn out not to be all that safe.
Anstead wrote in his opinion that Florida appeared to have a judicial fact-finding process that is directly contrary to the U.S. Supreme Court's holding in the Arizona case.
In the majority opinion in the Bottoson case, the Florida Supreme Court said the U.S. Supreme Court summarily denied his request for review four months after it issued the Arizona decision.
"The United States Supreme Court repeatedly has reviewed and upheld Florida's capital sentencing statute over the past quarter of a century," the state court wrote.
King was convicted of murdering Natalie Brady, 68, in her Tarpon Springs home in 1977 after slipping away from a work-release prison. The jury was unanimous in recommending death.
Bottoson was convicted of slaying Catherine Alexander, the Eatonville postmistress, in 1979. He robbed the 74-year-old woman, held her captive for 83 hours, stabbed her 16 times and killed her by running over her several times with a car.
The jury recommended 10-2 that Bottoson be executed.
Sen. Locke Burt, an Ormond Beach Republican who heads the Commission on Capital Cases, said he was pleased to see a unanimous opinion.
"That's the important part," Burt said. "That is going to be a surprise to the public and the defense attorneys and the prosecutors."
Assistant Deputy Attorney General Carolyn Snurkowski said the state had contended all along that only the U.S. Supreme Court could resolve the issue of whether the Arizona decision applies to Florida.
Snurkowski said the Arizona law was significantly different from Florida's.
But Eric Pinkard, a regional counsel who represents death row inmates, said the two laws were substantially the same.
The U.S. Supreme Court will make that determination if it agrees to accept the appeal that Pinkard said will be coming.
Justice Charles Wells warned of the dangers of ruling Florida's sentencing statute unconstitutional.
"Extending Ring so as to render Florida's capital sentencing statute unconstitutional as applied to either King or Bottoson would have a catastrophic effect on the administration of justice in Florida and would seriously undermine our citizens' faith in Florida's judicial system," Wells wrote.
Wells said all 369 people on death row would have a new basis to challenge their sentences, and retrials would be difficult because evidence would have grown stale or been lost or destroyed, witnesses would be unavailable and memories would have faded.
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LORAIN — It was an odd night.
That is, the teams with odd numbers were the winners Wednesday in the 2008 Lorain County Volleyball Coaches Association's Senior All-Star matches at Southview High.
In the first match, Team 1 prevailed 25-16, 25-15 and 25-21 over Team 2. Team 3 defeated Team 4 25-23, 27-25 and 25-10 in the evening's second match. Both matches consisted of three games so that all of the girls would get as much playing time as possible.
Erin Kretovics of Elyria Catholic served six straight points to break an 11-11 tie in the first game to propel Team 1 to its victory. Three of those points came via aces, while Panthers teammate Katie Wetzel served the winners' last six points.
Amherst's Olivia Sliman broke a 1-1 tie in the second game with eight straight points, two of them aces, for Team 1. She added five more points late in the game, which gave Team 1 a
22-12 lead, its largest of the game.
Comets setter Lauren Percival's six straight service points put Team 1 in control of the third game (13-6), while a late Kretovics kill helped assure the team's sweep.
"It really was nice to play with my teammates one last time," said Jacki Street of Midview and a member of Team 2. "Hannah (Duran), one of my teammates, is the best setter I've ever played with. She and I have worked very well together in our high school days."
Chloe Irish had three kills to fuel Team 3 to a 14-8 lead in the first game of the second match before Admiral King's Dominique Higginbotham's kill pulled Team 4 within 20-18. From there, the action went back and forth until a long hit by a Team 4 player gave the win to Team 3.
Briana Shullick of Clearview served six straight points in Game 2 to give Team 4 a 13-7 lead. After the two teams exchanged five straight points, Team 3 rallied to pull even at 19. Four more ties ensued before a missed serve and bad hit by Team 4 gave Team 3 a second win.
Jocelyn Andersen of Keystone started Game 3 with six straight points for Team 3. After a Team 4 point and an Irish kill, Gina Lurry tacked on five points. Two more spurts of three points each helped fuel the easy win before a Lurry ace put an end to the evening's festivities.
"This was a fun thing to do," said Ali Gendron of Brookside and a member of Team 3. "This evening puts a nice ending to a season in which we (the Brookside team) made a complete turnaround. We had a solid team and I'm really proud of that."
Between the two matches, the association recognized Wellington coach Marsha Coultrip for getting her 400th win during the season. Also, former Elyria High coaches Carol Russo and Connie Rusynyk were tapped for the Hall of Fame.
Russo compiled a 543-110 record in her 27 seasons as Elyria's head coach. She and her mother, Sue Brady of Oberlin, are the only mother-daughter combination to take teams to the state finals.
Rusynyk won 349 matches in 24 years as the Pioneers' junior varsity coach, making her one of the winningest JV coaches in the state.
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bruce (or any other with personal experience on subject),
ive checked archives but did not find precisely what i would like to know so here it is....i utilize saftee acid and ez-100 for everything (best tanning product on the market in my eyes) we are an active duty military family and i currently have several capes, hides, L/S skins that are green....normally i tan with the ez-100 then mount following the "sweating period". we are getting ready to move again and i dont have enough time to mount everything....can i tan and dry the skins then when i get to my new destination and get settled in just re-soak tanned hides in water then mount and still get the excellent stretch and prolonged workability that i normally get from the ez-100 tan,and also have them re-dry as they normally would if i were mounting straight out of the tanning solution...this would seem to be my best option for preserving specimens till i can mount...salt dry is not really a preffered option as the skins are going to be boxed up and stored, who knows were for several months. thanks for your input and im hoping youll tell me what i hope to be true
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I personally prefer to dry my skins and capes - then rehydrate them prior to mounting. It saves freezer space and I dont have to worry about "brown outs"!
Yes - tan and oil your work - then hang them to dry. I dont even work them soft - just dry. Then when I'm ready - I use the 1 handful of salt to every 1 gallon of water method, soak them for 30 minutes - plastic bag them, tie it off and put them in the frig overnight. This method will work great on any tanned skin - EZ-100 - Alum - Lutan F! Remember - if its tanned - there's no good reason to add Bacteriacide to the salt solution! Dont waste your money!
hoping you would tell me.....now i dont have to worry about what to do with em all thanks again...you've really put me at ease not having to worry about what to do with all the skins


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Lit Thursday: Women Aren't Funny, They're Hilarious
An excerpt from Jen Kirkman's memoir I Know What I'm Doing – And Other Lies I Tell Myself: Dispatches From a Life Under Construction.
I would not want to live if I could not perform. It's in my will. I am not to be revived unless I can do an hour of stand-up.
Joan Rivers has been a hero to me since I started my journey in stand-up comedy back in 1997. I'm sorry to say "journey." I don't mean to sound like I'm a guest who's overly proud of herself on an episode of Oprah's Master Class. But stand-up is an actual journey because it can take you places—literally places that exist on maps and figuratively places in your head that make you wonder,
Why the hell am I doing this? Am I even funny? Why aren't things going better for me? I'm funnier than him/her/it/everyone. Maybe I should quit. Why doesn't everyone else quit and make room for me? If you're smart you'll also journey to therapy. Neurosis can always be mined for laughs as long as the audience is confident that the performer is not currently having a nervous breakdown on stage.
Joan's first memoir, Enter Talking, was my bible. I carried it around with me in my purse when I was a lowly temp pounding the pavement in New York City. (That isn't an expression—I used to wear very heavy John Fluevog brand Mary Jane heels.) Joan became a stand-up in her twenties and by her midthirties she still hadn't found the big break that her peers Woody Allen and Bill Cosby had. She also hadn't married her stepdaughter or allegedly drugged and raped countless women—which illustrates my theory that if you're going to be jealous of people, you have to be willing to trade places with the ENTIRETY of who they are, their whole life, and not just their success. Joan may not have been making millions as America's favorite TV dad but she also wasn't an (alleged) rapist, so life wasn't all bad. She taught me to never compare and despair and to never fucking stop doing what you love. At the very least you'll drop dead having done what fulfilled you.
Joan's big break came on her first appearance on Johnny Carson in 1965—an appearance that was hard fought. She had been rejected by the show many times—not by Johnny directly but by the gatekeepers, the talent bookers on The Tonight Show. That's another lesson I learned from Joan. There will always be people in life who tell you no and sometimes it's because they have nothing else to do that day except exert their power, and if you let their no stop you, you've just validated their opinion of you as worth more than your own.
I admired Joan for being one of the only stand-up comedians who also happened to be a woman at a time when women weren't supposed to be doing men's jobs, least of all comedy. Women weren't supposed to be funny. Women weren't supposed to speak their truth about how hard it is to be pregnant and feel sexy. Women weren't supposed to talk about abortion, being single, sex with their husbands—not even in private, let alone on television. Also, I say "stand-up who also happened to be a woman" because I don't believe in saying "female comedian." A comedian is a comedian is a comedian. "Female" is not a type of comedy. You can say that someone is a one-liner comic, a storyteller, a prop comic, or a shitty comic, but when you write "female" it's implied that male is what a comic really is and a female comic is a lesser version. It also implies that females only talk about "one thing"—being female, and that men, just regular old comedians, discuss more important, universal things. You know, like their dicks.
I held Joan's story in my heart when I saw many of my peers and even men who started comedy after I did get their own TV shows or start selling out comedy shows on the road while I still struggled to get noticed. Joan was funny, wildly original, indefatigable, and she couldn't get noticed for over a decade? Maybe, just maybe, Joan's story was my story too. It gave me hope. And hope is what you live on when you're young and broke. That and free ketchup packets.
On a particularly down day when I was working as a temp at
DKNY I got reprimanded by my fabulous gay boss for what he called a "fashion sin"—I was wearing ankle socks with Capri pants and flats. "Honey, no socks. Ever. I don't care if it's negative ten degrees. Socks make people here sad."
I worried about the people working at the DKNY corporate office if ankle socks were affecting their serotonin levels. Did they read the newspapers? (Page Six doesn't count.)
I took my socked feet on a walk during my lunch hour. I had also been told that bringing my own lunch every day made everyone sad (someone please get some Zoloft over to DKNY headquarters in Mid-town stat). So that I didn't accidentally spark chain-reaction suicides in the office, I walked up and down Fifth Avenue eating my peanut butter and jelly sandwich. Coming toward me—on what was normally a bustling sidewalk but at this moment seemed to be occupied only by us two—was Joan Rivers. I stared at her, letting her pass. She had no idea she had just brushed by a young comedian who idolized her and had a copy of Enter Talking in her purse—a purse that probably made everyone at DKNY utterly despondent. I wanted to stop Joan and ask her for advice. But I already knew—there is no advice. She can't give me some fast-track option. That doesn't exist. The advice? The advice is stop asking for advice and just keep fucking doing it, open mic after open mic, and then when you get better at it—Indian casino after Indian casino.
Fifteen years later I'm sitting with Joan Rivers and our mutual agent at lunch somewhere on Fifth Avenue. We've had two glasses of wine and she's holding my hand as I tell her the story of walking by her—the lowly temp eating a peanut butter and jelly sandwich—and now I'm eating chopped salad with her as she willingly gives me advice on how to continue in this business and in life as a divorced woman. We both got misty-eyed about how much our work means to us. She joked, "You were right not to stop me that day fifteen years ago, bitch. Those socks sound awful."
The last time I saw Joan we were performing together at a theater called Largo in Los Angeles in the summer of 2014. She was kind enough to agree to share a bill with me and let me keep all of the money. I bought brand-new wineglasses and a bottle of Cakebread chardonnay for us to toast with backstage and to thank her. She rehearsed her opening with the pianist. She made notes backstage up until she went out there to perform. When the lights dimmed and the crowd roared, ready to greet her fabulousness, she said to me, "Well, you know what Ethel Merman said, 'If they could do what we do they'd be backstage ready to go on and we would be in the seats.' " I said, "That's great. Is that your mantra now?" She said, "No, that's Ethel's mantra. I'm always nervous and insecure before I go on." And she took her gum out of her mouth, stuck it to the wall, and walked toward the stage in her sequined jacket. She giggled to herself, shook her head a little, and said, "It's time."
At Joan's funeral I watched Howard Stern make a speech that started with "Joan Rivers had the driest vagina" and ended with him choking back tears. I thought about how Joan never stopped, until life had to forcibly stop her. I thought of her coming up in the repressed 1960s with only Lenny Bruce and gay audiences on her side. She had it a lot harder than I do when the only thing that truly annoys me is people asking, "So what's it like being a woman in comedy?" (My answer? "I don't know, I've never been a man in comedy.") Hey, at least people are asking questions, trying to understand why it's so hard for some people to accept women as funny. But I don't feel like teaching. I just want to make jokes. And I learned from Joan that making jokes is the best way to teach and to heal.
I always think about what Joan once said to me when I told her a story about my orthodontist, who told me that I needed to settle down and intimated that my life wasn't "real." She said, "Your life is a gift and you know better than to waste it with your fingers inside of people's mouths."
Adapted from the book I Know What I'm Doing – And Other Lies I Tell Myself: Dispatches From a Life Under Construction by Jen Kirkman. Copyright © 2016 by Block of Cheese, Inc. Reprinted by permission of Simon & Schuster, Inc. All Rights Reserved.


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In this article Edward Goldsmith explains how traditional wars were ritualised conflicts in which mortality was minimised, in contrast to the mass death and destruction of modern industrial modes of warfare.
It was originally published in The Ecologist in May 1974, then in Le Sauvage in April 1975 (France). This revised version appeared as Chapter 6 of The Great U-Turn, 1988.
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Never before have so many governments throughout the world committed themselves so piously and so persistently to the ideal of world peace – yet never before has this world been ravaged by so many wars and on so vast a scale.
This seeming paradox, our politicians would undoubtedly explain in terms of some technicality, such as a shortage of funds with which to implement their peace-making strategies. None, perhaps, would even conceive the possibility that it was the strategies themselves that were at fault. Yet this is the only conclusion that is reconcilable with our knowledge of the problems involved, both empirical and theoretical.
Let us consider our present attitudes to war and methods of controlling it. First, it is held to be irrational, since it reduces material wealth by killing people and destroying property. People on the other hand are regarded as rational. It must follow that war can only be the result of misunderstandings, which can surely be dispelled if our politicians be allowed to meet for heart-to-heart talks.
Hence the extraordinary faith people seem to attach to summit conferences as a means of averting wars, an illusion fully exploited by several of our recent prime ministers for whom the setting up of such conferences was one of their major goals, on the basis of whose achievement they persuaded the electorate to judge the success of their government.
If negotiation is the answer, then it is clearly important to do so, we are told, "from a position of strength", hence the arms race, or, as it is euphemistically called, 'mutual deterrence'. With the passing of the Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty (SALT) mutual deterrence has been consecrated as the principal means of controlling wars. The agreement attempts to control the arms race by applying quantitative limitations on arms build-up. However, its effectiveness is seriously compromised by the fact that it makes no mention of qualitative controls.
As Frank Barnaby points out, the nuclear arms race, in any case, was about to become a race for quality rather than quantity. [1] This means that a new premium has now been placed on research and development into ever more lethal weaponry. It is not surprising that the US budget for research and development in this field is likely to increase beyond the present $8 billion a year (1974), about the same as is spent by the USSR – a sum greater than any other country devotes to its entire military budget. It seems quite extraordinary that we should have created a situation in which a world war of unprecedented horror can only be averted by spending such gigantic sums on ever more sinister instruments of death.
"It is this process of industrialisation which . . . must both increase the probability as well as the destructiveness of war"
Mutual deterrence is the industrial solution par excellence. It involves forever expanding the world's industrial machine as, if nothing else, a means of providing armaments for preventing war. Yet as I shall attempt to show, it is this process of industrialisation which is causing the maladjustments which must both increase the probability as well as the destructiveness of war. Never, in fact, was a policy so evidently self-defeating.
If we want to control warfare we must first understand why it occurs, which must mean examining aggression, i.e. that feature of animal behaviour which, in the case of human animals at least, gives rise to war.
One must first distinguish between two fundamentally different types of aggression; that displayed by a predator towards its prey and that displayed by an animal towards a rival animal of the same species. First of all the goal is different. In the first case it is to seize the prey and eat it. In the second it is to establish a position in the hierarchy, which may enable a male to claim rights over a particular group of females or a particular territory. Its object is not to kill but to subdue a rival so that he accepts a lesser position in the hierarchy.
Since the goal is different, the behaviour that will achieve it must also be different. Thus a predator will approach its prey as stealthily and noiselessly as possible. When accosting a rival, however, an animal will behave in precisely the opposite manner. The lion will roar, the dog will bark, the peacock will swell himself up so as to intimidate his rival with his size and splendour. The effect can only be to frighten away a rival, the last thing a predator wishes to do to its prey. These two types of aggression are kept distinct in the animal world.
Significantly, warfare among human beings was conducted very much along the latter lines until a short time ago. Soldiers would wear the most flamboyant uniforms and go into battle to the blare of trumpets and the beating of drums.
In present-day warfare, however, there is indeed little ritual left. Soldiers are dressed in camouflage so that they can creep up on their enemies unobserved, like predators on their prey. Indeed, the goal of today's warfare is not to frighten but to destroy the enemy, so as to acquire for one's own use its land and other resources.
In this way modern warfare has diverged very radically from that carried out among traditional societies. But then, our society is highly aberrant, which means that to understand warfare, we must begin by examining it as it occurs among non-human animals and among tribal societies-which are the normal units of social organisations.
If we do so, the first fact that can be established is that aggression is a fact of life. As Eibl Eibesfeldt writes,
"fighting between members of the same species is almost universal among vertebrates from fish to man." [2]
This is no hazard. Animals are simply designed that way, which is a fact that is confirmed by physiological studies of the neural and hormonal processes involved. [3] Researchers have even succeeded in inducing fighting behaviour among birds and mammals by stimulating specific areas of the brain with electric currents.
Humans are no exception to the rule, though many of us would like to think we are. Some anthropologists like Derek Freeman consider that, if anything, humans are more aggressive than other animals. According to him,
"the extreme nature of human destructiveness and cruelty is one of the principal characteristics which marks off man behaviourally from other animals." [4]
This point has been cogently expressed by the biologist Adolf Portman:
"When terrible things, cruelties hardly conceivable, occur among men, many speak thoughtlessly of 'brutality', of bestialism or a return to animal levels. As if there were animals which inflict on their own kind what men can do to men. Just at this point, the zoologist has to draw a clear line, these evil horrible things are no animal survival that happened to be carried along in the imperceptible transition from animal to man; this evil belongs entirely on this side of the dividing line, it is purely human." [5]
Whether humans living in their natural habitat are as unpleasant animals as Freeman makes them out to be, is very debatable. Freeman may have been deceived by the fact that most societies we know about are, to a large extent, aberrant.
The Comanches, for instance, were regarded as particularly bloodthirsty warriors, but they were not always so. They came to adopt that way of life only after they had come in contact with the white invaders who, among other things, provided them with horses. To quote Kardiner,
"there were no aggressive war patterns in the older culture and little intertribal fighting. Though there was a little fighting with warlike neighbours there were no special honour aspects to war." [6]
The same can also be said of the Zulus. The career of Chaka, the founder of the Zulu Empire, was considerably affected by contact with the Boers whose activities gave rise to the freak situation he so fully exploited.
As I shall show later, aggression between human societies, living in an environment to which they have been adapted phylogenetically and culturally, takes a far less destructive form.
The fact that aggression must be a feature of social behaviour among non-human and human animals can be deduced from the fact that it fulfils important functions, on whose fulfilment, societies depend for their very survival. Thus Eibl Eibesfeldt regards aggression as serving
"the important function of spacing out individuals or groups in the area they occupy. This thereby secures for each the minimum territory required to support its existence, prevents overcrowding and promotes distribution of the species." [7]
Aggression among primitive societies, in particular among hunter gatherers, leads to fission of the group into rival factions which part company and develop on their own. This prevents society from getting too big. This is particularly important as the bonds holding together a society, as Malinowski was perhaps the first to point out, are derived from those which serve to hold a family together and cannot be extended to hold together too big a social unit. When the maximum size is reached, the unit must break up, alternatively it disintegrates into a mass society incapable of adaptive behaviour. It is in this light that Margaret Mead interprets the fission of social groups among the Maori.
"The disintegrative potentiality in the Maori form of organisation was this factor of size: when the society grew too large it was not possible to maintain their complete identification, and a subgroup would split off and become another autonomous, dosed, co-operative unit, competing without and co-operating within." [8]
In this way, a society remains a cohesive unit characterised more by co-operation than by competition, and bickering and fighting is reduced to a minimum.
Competition and co-operation
Aggression is best regarded as a form of competition, which, as we shall see, takes a slightly different form as we move up from one level of organisation to the next. At each step, it plays a bigger role, and can become more violent, i.e. can resemble more what we call aggression, without thereby bringing about social collapse.
Undifferentiated individuals competing for the same ecological niche cannot co-operate in any way. They can only compete with each other. It is only when, as a result of competition, they have been forced to specialise in such a way that each one learns to exploit a different sub-niche, that co-operation becomes possible and the competing individuals are transformed into a viable social unit. It is only by competition therefore that conditions are established in which co-operation can occur.
Competition does not establish just any type of organisation, but that which best satisfies environmental requirements, i.e. that which is most adaptive. Thus, in a social system that earns its livelihood by hunting, the position of an individual in the hierarchy will depend on hunting ability. In a society in which the main activity is warfare, war-like qualities will be determinant.
It is important to note that the basis of a hierarchical structure will change in accordance with its adaptiveness. Thus any important change in environmental conditions will call for a modification in a system's behaviour pattern which can only be ensured by a reorganisation of its hierarchical structure in such a way that a premium is placed on the new qualities which the society must display in order to adapt to the new conditions.
The influence of an individual will depend on his position in the hierarchy and so will his command over the best territory, the most desirable females, etc. In times of serious shortage this means that he is less likely to succumb than are those lower down in the hierarchy. Seen over a longer time scale, it is the individuals at the top of the hierarchy who are most likely to transmit their characteristics to their progeny.
Competition also serves the purpose of eliminating deviants who, for various reasons, do not fit into the social structure. In a traditional society this is probably a minor function of competition as, on the whole, most cultural patterns provide socially acceptable outlets for predictable deviant forms.
In the human family, the relative roles of the father, the mother, the children, the grandmother, etc. have, to a certain extent, been determined biologically, while cultural tradition, transmitted during socialisation will complete the differentiation process. In such conditions, there is little need for much competition. Aggression has some role to play in sexual behaviour in many animals, probably also among humans in the initial stages of a relationship. Its role may well be to establish the basis of what then becomes a co-operative relationship.
As we move from the family to the community, so does competition tend to increase. Competition is in fact necessary to establish an individual's status when this has not been established by inheritance. Societies vary according to their degree of co-operation and competition. The competitive society will have the advantage of being able to modify at more frequent intervals the basis of its hierarchical structure. This will enable it to adapt to a rapidly changing environment. It does not appear to have any advantage however in a relatively static environment.
Since aggression is a basic feature of human behaviour, the idea of eliminating it altogether, to bring about the universal human family is naive, while efforts to achieve this can only be counterproductive. In traditional societies, however, a number of strategies are exploited to reduce its destructiveness to the very minimum.
One such strategy, as we have seen, is fission. Significantly when population pressure increases, fission is no longer practicable. On the contrary, the distance between social groups is increasingly reduced, and warfare becomes correspondingly more destructive. Thus among the Nuer in the southern Sudan whose territory has shrunk considerably as a result of increased population pressure, tribal disputes according to McDermott lead to considerably more casualties than was once the case. [9]Back to top


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Americans Finally Permitted to Use ReWalk Exoskeleton at Home by FDA
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Europeans enjoyed use for last two years, have enjoyed marked improvement in standard of living
On Thursday (6/26) the
U.S. Food and Drug Administration
finally approved
the ReWalk-P system for home and personal use. Produced by Israel's
Argo Medical Technologies Ltd.
, this wearable robotic leggings, backpack, and wearable smartwatch-style mode control allows people with partial paralysis to stand, walk, and even climb stairs again without the spasticity, discomfort, and other limitations of traditional alternatives.
The FDA had
already approved
a slightly different version of the device -- the ReWalk-I -- for use in clinics back in 2012, one of only two exosuits to receive such approval. The Rewalk-P -- the home use model -- is the first such exosuit to be FDA approved.
I. Spinal Injuries -- Global and U.S. Prevalence
While some exosuits are focused on rehabilitating patients with muscle weakness or increasing the strength of healthy humans for military, industrial, or construction purposes, Argo Medical's focus is more singular -- it wants to treat paralysis. While stem cells (i.e. lab-grown spines) are clearly the superior solution in the long term, in the short term Argo Medical has committed to delivering a product that will give paralyzed users more mobility at a relatively low cost compared to powered wheelchairs.
The first ReWalk user, a wounded Israeli veteran, gets a visit from Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu and U.S. President Barack Obam [Image Source: ReWalk]
The ReWalk-P's FDA approval thus -- at this point -- only covers those with spinal core injuries (SCIs), or more specifically paraplegia. Under the new FDA approval, the ReWalk is only approved for home use for those with lower spinal injuries (in the T7 (thoracic) vertebrae through the L5 vertebrae (lumbar)). In those with mid-spine injuries (T4-T6 (thoracic) vertebrae) it remains only approved for use at rehabilitation clinics in the U.S.
Spinal injuries are unquestionably one of the most terrible types of physical affliction. According to
a 2013 paper
that combined known statistics with advanced modeling, it's estimated that between 133,000 and 226,000 spinal injuries occur per year.
The World Health Organization
(WHO) offers
a slightly higher estimate
-- 250,000 to 500,000 per year.
The European Federation of Pharmaceutical Industries and Associates
(EFPIA) offers a
crude estimate
that about 2 million people globally are living with serious SCIs. Roughly 80 percent are male -- typically due to males' higher participation in athletics and violent conflicts. According to most estimates, over half of people with an SCI are classified as paraplegic; so over 1 million people may be living worldwide with paraplegia.
In developed countries like the U.S., traffic accidents are the most frequent cause, followed by falls. In developing regions like Africa and the Middle East violence is often a cause.
In the U.S. various estimates place the population living with a traumatic SCI at anywhere
between 200,000
310,000 Americans
. Of these, an
estimated 11,000 people per year
become paraplegics in the U.S. About 45-50 percent of those who incur an SCI, according to various estimates, become paraplegics. That's as many as 150,000 Americans, or roughly 1 in every 2,000 Americans.
II. A Costly Disease Gets an Unprecedented Treatment
While paraplegics typically still have the use of their arms, the disease causes a number of serious complications ranging from loss of sexual function, digestive problems, bladder control issues, and depression. Many of the negative affects are linked to the loss of the ability to stand and walk. Among the maladies associated with loss of walking are:
Pressure sores (often known as "bed sores")
Osteoporosis (weakening of the bones)
Thrombosis (blood clots)
Heart disease (e.g. higher "bad" cholesterol)
Spastic movements
Chronic pain
Loss of bowel/bladder function
Urinary tract infections
Loss of muscle tone
Another indirect problem is cost. Founded by actor Christopher Reeve, who was paralyzed in 1995 while horseback riding, the
Christopher & Dana Reeve Foundation
has served as an advocate for the disabled on this issue. According to
its statistics
, on average a paraplegic paralysis results in roughly half a million dollars in hospital bills.
Each additional year of life incurs another $66,000 in costs for treating the above health problems, attending physical therapy and driving wheelchairs. Other
more conservative estimates
place the cost of the initial hospitalization at around a quarter million and estimate around $28,000 USD in annual costs.
Paraplegic patients face a challenging and costly outlook. [Image Source: Jochen Sands]
The average paraplegic in the U.S. is paralyzed at age 29. At that age, it is estimated that the cost of treating the disease for the rest of their life will be around $2M USD.
A very good wheelchair costs between $15,000 and $20,000 USD, but insurance typically only covers around $6,000 USD of that cost. Aside from treating resulting illnesses, the rest of the cost goes to expensive rehabilitation devices such as automated treadmills and mechanical walking apparatus for rehab centers. An automated treadmill cost around €300,000 (~$410,000 USD) in 2008.
Off the treadmill, traditionally isocentric reciprocating gait orthosis (IRGO) -- a mostly mechanical precursor to the exosuit --
was typically used
for further rehabilitation. More recently
functional neuro-stimulation (FNS) with a walker or a hybrid neuroprothesis (HNP) with a walke
r (basically, FNS+IRGO) have been gaining traction.
Traditional walking devices and even the more exotic electrical stimulation can prove painful and or dangerous. [Image Source: VA.gov]
But the hardware for all of these approaches remain expensive and the dropout rate among patients remains high. Many patients struggle to take steps with these kinds of devices and also suffer upper body pain while walking. Another cause of dropout is that the electric stimulation can lead to new spastic movement disorders. These disorders can sometimes become severe and dangerous enough a patient must stop their rehab work.
Other costs tend to be more subtle. At the time of their accident 58.8 percent of people are employed with the remainder being either homemakers, students, retired, or unemployed in a traditional sense at the time of their accident. Given the mobility difficulties only 34.4 percent of paraplegics still are employed 8 years after their accident. That indicates over 40 percent of people who have a job when they're paralyzed lose it in under a decade. This exacerbates the cost issues as they often lose employer-provided insurance.
ReWalk may allow patients to go well beyond traditional physical therapy. By making them more mobile it may cut back on the typical job loss and relationship struggles associated with even paraplegia. [Image Source:medizin-und-technik.de]
Paralysis patients are also more likely to remain single if not married at the time of their accident and are more likely to get divorced. In both cases, this can bring financial hardship for those who manage to keep their job (e.g. lack of tax credits and potential child support costs).
The Rewalk-I -- like traditional rehab devices -- did little for patients in terms of making them more ready to experience normal social interactions and to be able to navigate at their workplace. But the newly improved ReWalk-P can allow a paralysis victim to walk around at work (almost) like normal and allows them to see eye to eye with potential mates, a key psychological factor in interpersonal relationships.
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Two weeks ago I visited the OSGi DevCon in London. The crucial but disruptive transition in the Enterprise Java World from the old, monolithic thinking to the new way of thinking modular is not a smooth one though, and takes time. It's interesting to see the politics, technological challenges and evangelization taking place, in an increasingly more open way. I wrote a blog about this important transition, the state of OSGi in the (enterprise) Java world and advancement in Enterprise OSGi standardization. You can find it here: http://www.gxdeveloperweb.com/Blogs/Martijn-van-Berkum/State-of-OSGi-in-the-Java-world.htm
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I'd like to share a Valentines Day reading/writing project with you. The idea came from Writing Fix,
one of my favorite online writing resources. The lesson there is called "Scheming Against an Adversary: Writing an Original Tale of Non-Violent Revenge", and it's based on this book by Derek Munson. Do you know it? It's a great story about a very smart dad who helps his son turn an enemy into a good friend - without either of the "enemies" realizing exactly what's happening!
Before reading, we talked about the word "enemy", with of course a few vivid examples of "enemies I have known" eagerly discussed! We identified these as self-to-text connections that wold help us understand the plot and characters of the story.
During reading, we stopped to discuss the dad's plan as it developed - why it might or might not work. We noted changes in the characters as the story progressed. We made predictions, and revised them as the story continued.
After reading, we partnered up to do quick-writes of lists: ingredients for our own "enemy pies". everything from soap to mud to dog food and bugs would appear on those lists!
The next day, for our writing follow-up, we'd do a shared writing of a chart list of other ways to turn an enemy into a friend. The kids would make suggestions like sharing at lunchtime (basically a no-no at our school because of food allergies, but a nice thought, no?), inviting the enemy for a playdate, or just simply smiling at them every day (that'll get any enemy going, right?). In other words, there was lots of good thinking and discussion about getting along, conflict resolution, and even dealing with bullies. Then, each child chose an item from the chart list as an idea to write about and expand upon as able. We took it through a short process of sharing with a small group, revising, and editing.
Each child made a self-portrait with hands to hold the finished writing piece and there you have it - a writing display for your hallway or bulletin board!
Here's a very cool bonus that I found when writing up this post. Derek Munson has a website devoted to this book. I seriously love children's authors' websites, because so many of them are now aimed at young readers and writers, and because it makes authors more real to our young readers. I love to watch kids' reactions when they see some of the pure silliness at these sites... proving once again that reading is FUN!
In case you'd like to make a display like ours, here's a very slightly-jazzed up version of the one you see above.
Would you like to win a copy of Enemy Pie? Sign up for Derek Munson's newletter at enemypie.com, where a free copy is given away each month!
If you've used this book with your class, please share your ideas and activities in a comment!
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2Notice that the older iPods have a backlight setting that can be changed right from the starting screen.
3If you don't have a shuffle you have a good iPod. If you have a shuffle, you have a really compact iPod.
4View the tech specs on apple's website. It's been found that the 4th gen nano had less battery life than the 3rd gen.
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Pat, you are the kindest person but you realize you're just encouraging him. Have you done either the pm or tm version of Bullets? Well, maybe if I focus on time more and practice, I'll be able to say nicer things about him too. I love the one John posted today where ship meets bridge!!!!! It's calling to me. (later)
Oh, wow, John, you really zipped through this--good job!
Curses, foiled again.........
A huge compliment coming from you - the King of torture (puzzle wise only -maybe) Thanks - but what took you so long? - you missed numero uno by half an hour. However, I still haven't finished your pm Bullets (+_+).
A good jig, mp.I only wish that I had posted it myself!!!
AIS - having a mind is way over rated. I haven't had one for ages. Just looked at your page and you have some super puzzles - I love patterns. I may have to take a dip in your pool of puzzles. Never gone over 180 but soon - maybe - possibly - might happen. Where are those margaritas?
Susie, I would love to join ya'll. Thank you for the offer. mpilnadyful, thank you for a wonderful puzzle, i think lol. my hair is much grayer and my mind is gone, but I had a good time getting there.
MY dear JC, SV, PD and AIS, - I consider it an honor to have been able to contribute in some small way to your overall mental health. Even though frustration, exhaustion and insanity may not be GOOD mental health they're still part of the field. Thank you all. TM, was the universe not enough for you or are you just on a break while looking for your heart?
Way to go Aishahm!! Would you like a 'Rita with the rest of us...or a Beefy Martini like PD? Come on over...we are celebrating our insanity!! :oP
Ok that was completely insane! And yet I can't wait for the next one.
If everyone had to solve a puzzle like this before being allowed to have a drink, there would be no more problems with people getting drunk, ever again! LOL!
p.s. Way to go on the time, PD of the Everreadies!! You have earned your dry Beefy-dude martini :oD
I make my margaritas with Florida Key Limes, so I think we're ok, Milady. And I think they taste MUCH better than martinis, but if anyone wants one of those, no problemo, we can make it happen, with both an olive, and a twist!! ;oP
Well, it's also Thanksgiving in Canada, so we could all celebrate twice! I know I'm in the mood for either a margarita or my favorite, a very dry Beefeater martini straight up with both an olive and a twist!
Susie, do you think that since it's a US holiday that we should be having martinis? Except, I don't like martinis - at least not the old fashioned kind. Did have some incredible "chocolate" martinis that were out of this world - and that's about where they put me. Hi pd, it's only just after 10am here and look at me - already with the drinks. - just dreaming. I actually do drink a lot - iced tea - non alcoholic - refreshes without a hang over. Have fun everyone. Happy Holiday - this is the Columbus one, right? Now back to our noses to the puzzle board. ;-))))
Yes, PD, it is still early... but it's a national holiday, so margaritas are expected to be enjoyed at any time of the day!! So come on over!! Milady and JC should be here soon...
I would LOVE a margarita, even though it's only 11:15 AM! This puzzle creates an exception to the rules!!!
Yayyyy...PD is here to join the fun!! Would you like a margarita? I can whip up another pitcher...no prob atall.....hiccup!! LOL
I'll have an apple tomorrow ;oP
You're putting me to shame. I've just been sitting on the sidelines watching. Thanks. I think "sheesh" says it all.
1:02:38=28% sheesh!
Good logic - I'm liking the longer ones more now too. Not up to 300 yet though. I'm so sorry you had to drink all the margaritas by yourself. I really wanted to help but at least with all that "medicinal" help you'll be feeling fantastic this week. Way too much time is spent eatting apples to keep the doctor away - get real. It was fun for me just watching. Thanks
You see why I love these brain-twisters?? 1) The challenge brings you closer to other nut-jobs like yourself, 2) Easy puzzles become kindergarten level puzzles, 3) You don't have to feel guilty about consuming a pitcher of margaritas all by yourself on a Sunday afternoon...you can justify it as "medicinal purpose"...and 4) You very rarely lose your spot in the top 10 :oD
Thanks for the fun, chicas :o)
I'm still laughing, too. I imagine Susie and I will always be in the "Top Ten" on this puzzle! LOL!
Oh, I wish you could hear me laughing!!!! I'm laughing WITH you. Thanks. Now JC you have to live, live, live. Get Sue and go out and celebrate. You're a hero in the BIG PUZZLE Club. (I'm still laughing)
The first 3 hours, it was the moon and planet and stars and galaxies then all I saw was camera fuzz and my will to live slowly draining away. But it was fun--once!
I've said I love a challenge. I do. Now every puzzle I do is going to be easier than this one!
Hey!!!!!! I only saw your comment - YOU MADE IT!!!!! Congratulations - glad I could help you stay out of trouble on this lovely Sunday. Wow, I'm impressed and way to cowardly to ever try a stunt (puzzle) like this. So, nix the flowers and money. You survived. Thanks
So it's just FUZZ now is it? What happened to the moon and planet and stars and galaxies???? Just remember, you're on an adventure through space and time - OK, mostly time but it wasn't my idea - Susie made me do it - and now she's having fun in Margarita Ville. Try some cider - spiked - then you might see back to the Big Bang in this Doozey puzzle. Good luck and bless you. Would you like a nice, tasteful floral bouquet or money sent to your favorite charity?
I love a challenge BUT no more camera fuzz!!!!!!!
SusieV - you're awesome!!!!! Party time for sure. Congratulations!!! You get TWO straws. And I'm afraid all you guys may have pushed me over to the Dark Side. I've found some more of my pics that might be somewhat cruel aka "fun?" Biggies. So fellas, keep up the good work - brain clear - eyes focused. May the . . . be with you.
Thanks JC...how YOU doin'...?? LOL
Well done, Susie!
Woohoo!! Tug's here!! I thought you might like this one :oD
Milady...I like the idea of very long straws...and 4 pitchers!! Guys...it seems you're on your own...so hurry up cuz I hate drinkin alone!!
...And I need to celebrate finishing this monster. Yes. Finished. And it was GOOD!! Very good!! Thank you kindly, Milady :o)
tugman - just looked at your monstrous "fingerprint" - your Heart must be at the dry cleaners. I've tried your aka ptman medium puzzles and that's as much as my timid heart can take. And SusieV - I'm on my way. I could stop off to pick up the guys but then you'd have to make up four pitchers. I do fortunately have an abundance of salt or I could just bring some very long straws and we wouldn't have to bother with glasses.
I don't know who's on whats but I want to know how Stoney did that in just over 2 hours!! I'm at 2:38:42and 58%!! Hmmmmm...yup...deffo time to mix up a pitcher of Maggies...always seem to get faster with a lil tequila in me LOL :oD
Come on over my friends...Milady bring your salt!!
This will be painful ---- someone after my own heart(If I had one!!!)
See, this is a good sign! You still have your sense of humor!!! (or at least still part of it - right?). So, I Don't Know's on 3rd? Now back you go JC - to Infinity and Beyond.
It's not a race, milady. It's a matter of survival!
And Hu's on 1st. I saw the picture not long ago!
Wow SusieV, I just finished breakfast but a margarita sounds really good - I think I need the salt. ;- ;- (It took me over 30minutes just to do the 100+ one) - You guys are AWSOME. But stonehenge beat you to 1st. Now, Who's on 2nd? And What's on 3rd. (Sorry, couldn't stop myself)
This is where I start to babble...and crave a margarita...(or 6!!!)...
Ahhh, JC - tomorrow will do. I'm feeling badly for you guys.
TWO hours and I'm at 35%!!!!!
You guys are gluttons for punishment. I have to say though, I admire you. It will never be me at 300. On the good side - aren't you just so thoroughly enjoying watching those stars and galaxies appear before your very eyes - aren't ya - huh, now aren't ya??? And don't forget the planet.
22% is just the outline!!!! It gets much harder!
LOL, JC!! 24 minutes in...22%...sigh :oP
I'm surprised it hasn't been solved yet! LOL
Ok...here we go!! :oD
Well, get back to it and stop taking time outs for comments!!!!! :-)))))))
I have to get done before it becomes an obsession!
You're enjoying this WAY too much!
This may be a multi day project!
Shhhhhhh, the Universe is listening.
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Calgary Stampeders head coach John Hufnagel delivered one of the greatest pre-game speeches in the history of the Grey Cup in 2008.
When he was asked if he'd recycle it next Sunday, Hufnagel quipped, "What speech is that?"
Stamps longsnapper Randy Chevrier can help his coach out. The veteran remembers it well.
"I just got goosebumps when you brought it up," Chevrier said. "I don't remember a lot from past games, but I'll always remember him saying, 'Men, we've got them right where we want them.'
"I would say it's one of the great football speeches of all time.
"I want to go Youtube it right now, watch The Gladiator and go hit something, but I know I have to wait until Sunday."
He'll also have to wait for Sunday to hear Hufnagel's 2012 Grey Cup speech.
Hufnagel said he didn't spend weeks or even days coming up with the '08 speech.
"It was that morning," Hufnagel said. "I always try to formulate what I'm going to say to the team before we go out the morning of the game.
"I want to feed off what happened during the week so I know what to say."
Hufnagel, who likely won't choose to hit the motivational-speaker circuit after he's done coaching, said he's surprised his pep-talk is so popular with football fans.
"I thought it would send the right message to the team," Hufnagel said.
"I've never seen it, nor will I ever watch it. I'm surprised (by its popularity), but I guess there's a lot of bored people out there."
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Former Alltel Exec Touts More Mobile Connectivity For Rural U.S.
Editor's Note: This opinion-editorial has been provided by Diane Smith. Smith, a former Alltel executive, serves on the board of Mobile Future (mobilefuture.org), an advocacy group for wireless infrastructure investments. She was co-founder and CEO of a ground-breaking IPTV and advanced media services company in Kalispell, Montana.
Every morning as I head out the door, I enagage in the universal "pat down" to ensure my trusted mobile device is close at hand, along with my keys and wallet. This daily routine plainly demonstrates just how much mobile innovation has changed the way we work, do business and stay connected to people and to innovations that expand our economy and improve our lives.
And nowhere is the promise of the mobile Internet -— and the next-generation networks that make it possible —- more apparent than in rural communities. Mobile connectivity gives businesses, located virtually anywhere, the opportunity to compete and succeed.
Earlier in my career, I worked for Alltel, headquartered in Little Rock. I was able to spend lots of great time in Arkansas and witnessed the rapid evolution of mobile services and technology in the state.
As an entrepreneur now living in Montana, I have seen first hand how expanding capacity and reaching into rural areas is a smart investment. Transitioning to next-generation networks and wireless technologies can help Americans living in rural communities more fully participate in the mobile revolution. Mobile technology has been my passport to business success. I started a technology company from a table in my local coffee shop. My first network was my cell phone. Because of the communications infrastructure available to me, I was able to grow and run my business where I wanted while keeping my finger on the pulse of my urban counterparts.
Carriers of all sizes are working relentlessly to deploy service far and wide, focusing a great deal of time and billions of dollars building out advanced networks to provide customers with robust service options.
No technology has come so far, so fast as the wireless web. Today, there are more mobile subscriptions than people in our country. And, by 2015, Cisco forecasts there will be nine networked devices for every man, woman and child.
This rapid pace of progress is unquestionably positive for our economy. But, the blistering evolution and demand for wireless connectivity is straining the airwaves that fuel our mobile ecosystem. Today's smartphones on average generate 35 times more mobile data traffic than basic feature phones. That tablet in your hand? It burns through 121 times more wireless capacity than your smartphone.
Already, U.S. mobile networks operate at 80 percent of capacity, compared to a global average of just 65 percent. With Cisco predicting two billion networked mobile devices in the U.S. by 2015, it's no surprise that the FCC is now warning that demand for mobile Internet may overwhelm existing capacity as early as next year.
Important ideas are now advancing to make sure this capacity is repurposed to its most critical modern use— expanding the mobile Internet. The FCC is advancing plans for voluntary incentive auctions that allow broadcasters to put their spectrum assets up for auction and share in the proceeds with the U.S. Treasury. And, leaders in Washington are looking at how more efficient spectrum use by government agencies can unlock greater expansion of the mobile Internet for the broad benefit of all Americans and the economy.
This is all good news for Arkansas. Freeing up more spectrum for mobile along with the transition to advanced networks will lead to expanded wireless connectivity and new waves of opportunity. Nearly two-thirds of small business owners, for example, say they couldn't survive without wireless technologies. Given that two out of every three new U.S. jobs are created by small businesses, mobile connections are critical to Arkansas' economy. Distance health care and learning opportunities —- key to rural life -— also are increasingly conducted via connected mobile devices.
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Charlie Sheen hasn't spent all of his money on crack and hookers … in fact, the Warlock has announced he's donating ONE MILLION DOLLARS to support our men and women in uniform.
Sheen has pledged to give at least $1 million to the U.S.O (United Service Org.) … the largest single contribution the USO has ever received from an individual.
Sheen says he will donate 1% of the profits from his "Anger Management" earnings … with a minimum of $1 mil … and an unlimited cap. So the more $ he makes from his show, the more $ goes to the USO.
General John I. Pray, Jr., Executive Vice President and Joint Chief of Staff, U.S. Air Force released a statement saying, "[Sheen's] support is greatly appreciated, especially from our wounded warriors and their families."
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MLRA 4/11/2009A Feature:1. Jeremy Payne (Springfield, MO), 2. Jack Sullivan (Greenbriar, AR), 3. Will Vaught (Seneca, MO), 4. Eric Turner (Hermitage, MO), 5. Al Purkey (Coffeyville, KS), 6. Alan Vaughn (Belton, MO), 7. Chad Simpson (Mt Vernon, IA), 8. Duke Whiseant (Texarkana, AR), 9. Chris Simpson (Oxford, IA), 10. Mike Collins (Carter Lake, IA), 11. Tony Jackson Jr. (Lebanon, MO), 12. Rylan Long (Greenfield, MO), 13. David Turner (Adrian, MO), 14. Brantlee Gotschall (Nevada, MO), 15. Joe Kosiski (Omaha, NE), 16. John Anderson (Omaha, NE), 17. Brad Looney (Republic, MO), 18. Denny Woodworth (Mendon, IL), 19. Jeremy Kelley (Walnut Grove, MO), 20. David Barker (Kingsville, MO), 21. Aaron Seabaugh (Freeman, MO), 22. Bill Koons (Ohama, NE), 23. Bryant Goldsmith (Corning, IA), 24. Terry Phillips (Springfield, MO),
B Feature 1:1. Brad Looney (Republic, MO), 2. David Turner (Adrian, MO), 3. Tony Jackson Jr. (Lebanon, MO), 4. Gary Stolba (Willow Springs, MO), 5. Delbert Smith (Wichita, KS), 6. Jason Bodenhamer (Centerview, MO), 7. Shad Badder (Oak Grove, MO), 8. Justin Zeitner (LaVista, NE), 9. Matt Johnson (Archie, MO), 10. Leon Zeitner (LaVista, NE), 11. Donnie Timmerman (ElDorado Spring, MO), 12. Bob Test (Jefferson City, MO), 13. Shawn Harker (Nebraska City, NE), 14. Curt Schroeder (Des Moines, IA), 15. Jason Sivils (Bolivar, MO), 16. Burl Woods (Republic, MO), 17. Bob Cummings (Sedalia, MO), 18. Larry Clawson (N Kansas City, MO),
B Feature 2:1. Terry Phillips (Springfield, MO), 2. Chris Simpson (Oxford, IA), 3. David Barker (Kingsville, MO), 4. Denny Woodworth (Mendon, IL), 5. Evan Hubert (Cross Timbers, MO), 6. Micheal Wilson (Joplin, MO), 7. Ricky Frankel (Quincy, IL), 8. Jeremy Grady (Story City, IA), 9. Bryon Allison (Marshall, MO), 10. Bill Koons (Ohama, NE), 11. Chris Smyser (Lancaster, MO), 12. Brett Wood (Warrensburg, MO), 13. Chris Hawkins (Neosho, MO), 14. Larry Jones (Eldrado Springs, MO), 15. JD Hubert (Cross Timbers, MO), 16. Larry Moon (Sedalia, MO), 17. Zachary Goulden (Gladstone, MO),
Heat 1:1. Jack Sullivan (Greenbriar, AR), 2. Joe Kosiski (Omaha, NE), 3. Alan Vaughn (Belton, MO), 4. JD Hubert (Cross Timbers, MO), 5. Chris Simpson (Oxford, IA), 6. David Barker (Kingsville, MO), 7. Bill Koons (Ohama, NE), 8. Delbert Smith (Wichita, KS), 9. Larry Jones (Eldrado Springs, MO), 10. Zachary Goulden (Gladstone, MO), 11. Larry Clawson (N Kansas City, MO),
Heat 2:1. Bryant Goldsmith (Corning, IA), 2. Rylan Long (Greenfield, MO), 3. John Anderson (Omaha, NE), 4. Duke Whiseant (Texarkana, AR), 5. Tony Jackson Jr. (Lebanon, MO), 6. Gary Stolba (Willow Springs, MO), 7. Burl Woods (Republic, MO), 8. Brett Wood (Warrensburg, MO), 9. Bob Test (Jefferson City, MO), 10. Bob Cummings (Sedalia, MO),
Heat 3:1. Will Vaught (Seneca, MO), 2. Aaron Seabaugh (Freeman, MO), 3. Al Purkey (Coffeyville, KS), 4. Terry Phillips (Springfield, MO), 5. David Turner (Adrian, MO), 6. Jason Bodenhamer (Centerview, MO), 7. Denny Woodworth (Mendon, IL), 8. Donnie Timmerman (ElDorado Spring, MO), 9. Ricky Frankel (Quincy, IL), 10. Chris Smyser (Lancaster, MO),
Heat 4:1. Jeremy Payne (Springfield, MO), 2. Brantlee Gotschall (Nevada, MO), 3. Justin Zeitner (LaVista, NE), 4. Chad Simpson (Mt Vernon, IA), 5. Bryon Allison (Marshall, MO), 6. Evan Hubert (Cross Timbers, MO), 7. Jeremy Grady (Story City, IA), 8. Chris Hawkins (Neosho, MO), 9. Leon Zeitner (LaVista, NE), 10. Jason Sivils (Bolivar, MO),
Heat 5:1. Mike Collins (Carter Lake, IA), 2. Jeremy Kelley (Walnut Grove, MO), 3. Brad Looney (Republic, MO), 4. Eric Turner (Hermitage, MO), 5. Shawn Harker (Nebraska City, NE), 6. Matt Johnson (Archie, MO), 7. Shad Badder (Oak Grove, MO), 8. Micheal Wilson (Joplin, MO), 9. Curt Schroeder (Des Moines, IA), 10. Larry Moon (Sedalia, MO),
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Imagine! It is dusk and you are sitting on the deck of your luxury safari tent with a cool drink. Directly in front of you are the Bua River and the wilderness on the opposite bank. To the west the reds and gold of the setting sun are reflected in the river's pools. A fish breaks the mirror surface of the water. A bushbuck barks. The paraffin lamp hanging in the stately tree beside your deck casts a warm orange glow. There is silence apart from the river, the frogs (and the bushbuck!). Not another person in sight. You feel you are alone in the wild!
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Accommodation is provided in six purpose-made, luxury safari tents, erected on varnished wooden floors and shaded by thatched roofs. Large mosquito-netted windows, ventilation flaps and screen doors, ensure that even on the hottest day the tents stay cool inside. Each is located to ensure seclusion and to engender a feeling of solitude. Each has an extensive viewing deck to the front, that overlooks the beautiful Bua River. Much of the furniture has been made by local artisans and, in many cases, constructed from dead hardwood trees found within the lodge site.
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At least 20 people have been killed in an upsurge of violence in the disputed territory of Kashmir.
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Six other soldiers were injured in the ambush while one militant was also killed, police said.
The attack came after Indian soldiers shot dead 10 militants in separate gun battles elsewhere in Indian Kashmir, including four rebels trying the Line of Control which separates the state from Pakistan-controlled Kashmir.
Suspected Islamic rebels attacked a former top guerrilla leader, killing him and four others and wounding 20 others.
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Tom Ross: Home, home on the range
April 28, 2012
Steamboat Springs — If you and I were cowboys and cowgirls living in the Yampa Valley in spring 1912 instead of 2012 (and sometimes I wish we were), by this date, we would already have driven the cattle into the foothills to begin the annual shove up.
If we were lucky, the cook driving the chuck wagon was an even-tempered fellow who knew when to stop boiling the coffee and didn't hesitate to serve his biscuits warm. Though, either of those two qualities would have made him a relative gourmet.
Early in the 20th century, the Yampa Valley still was the territory of the mythical American cowboy. Outfits like the L 7, Two Bar, Keystone and the Two Circle Bar still rounded up cattle on the Snake River east of Baggs, Wyo. Some cowboys trailed cows from Bear River to the Williams Fork, others pushed the dogies from the mouth of the Williams Fork south of Craig to Twentymile Park in the vicinity of Steamboat Springs.
Some of the best grazing was in Slater Park, up the Elk River from Steamboat, and the cowboys drove large herds south of Columbine to camp amidst the sweet grass in Trilby Flat. The next day, they drove the cattle around Pilot's Knob and past the Deep Creek Valley to Steamboat.
If those cowboys were lucky, the guy driving the chuck wagon knew his business.
One of the best accounts of old-time camp cooks ever written is contained in the late Steamboat author John Rolfe Burroughs' 1962 book, "Where the Old West Stayed Young."
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From the spring shove up into the mountain pastures, Burroughs wrote, until New Year's, a cowboy's life centered for eight or nine months on the chuck wagon.
"Almost all chuck wagon cooks were short-tempered, not without cause," Burroughs wrote. "For one thing, rain or shine, wind, snow or sleet, their day began before dawn — usually before 3:30 — which in itself is sufficient to sour a man's disposition."
Burroughs described one feisty little rooster of a cook named Pat Dawson, who was known to beat a green cowhand with a stick if he failed to bring in the right mixture of sage knots and aspen kindling for the cook fires.
Dawson's job included preparing the all-important morning meal for the cowboys, serving cold biscuits, canned tomatoes, salty bacon and sometimes freshly fried meat. But when it came to the morning coffee, he was a disaster.
"Dawson's coffee was as vile as his disposition," Burroughs wrote. "Pat made coffee in a five-gallon water bucket. Each morning, he tossed a couple of handfuls of freshly ground coffee beans in on top of the old grounds and added water until the proportion of liquid to solids was approximately one to one. Bitter as bile and almost as black as coal, the resulting brew was like nothing that ever had trickled down a protesting gullet before."
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I am representing myself in child custody and divorce. My husband has been abusive and keeping money from me. I need to have a copy of his bank statements to prove this. How do I go about getting a supoena (or whatever you call it) for his bank statements?
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You should be able to get assistance in things like this from your local domestic violence shelter, even if you are not currently staying there. This bulletin board is NOT a good place to get that type of question answered, because local court rules govern discovery and you run the risk of annoying the judge,--or worse, not getting the information you need. Items such as bank accounts and pensions, however, are standard discovery and in general, you shouldn't have to go through extraordinary measures to get them.
As for child support, he will be required to provide that information to the friend of the court (child support agency), so you shouldn't have to work too hard to get it for that purpose. For marital asset allocation, however, you should be able to glean a lot of it from tax returns. You probably had to sign them, so you shouldn't have any trouble getting them from his accountant.
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I was sitting in my friend's backyard on a weekend afternoon when a fat bumble bee appeared overhead.
Immediately, her two-year-old son jumped into action, brandishing a small twig and striking a defensive pose. He scowled skyward, and we burst into hysterical laughter.
"Just you wait," she said to me between guffaws. "Just. You. Wait."
It was the first time anyone had said those three words to me in a way that actually made me happy. She was referring, of course, to the crazy stunts my baby daughter will pull in the coming years — the good ones.
Before then I'd heard the phrase countless times, but it was always delivered with an eye roll or a smarmy smile. "Just you wait," people would say, and I'd think, "No, thank you!"
"You think you're tired now? Just you wait until the baby's born."
"You think it's hard having a newborn? Just you wait until she can crawl."
"Just you wait until she throws a tantrum in the grocery store."
"Just wait until she's a teenager."
What are our fellow parents trying to accomplish with these warnings? And what do they expect me to do with them?
It's probably too late to give my child up for adoption, and it can't be a good idea to leave her locked in the closet until all the "just you waits" come and go.
These advisories were hardest for me to take during pregnancy. I was so tired, and so puffy, and it was all I could do to find the light at the end of the tunnel — the one with the lunchmeat and beer in it. Every time I felt like I'd found something to look forward to, though, some stranger would counter it with a "just you wait" — usually involving diapers or exhaustion or baby screams — and I'd sink back into my funk, wondering what I'd gotten myself into.
Of course, I know that's probably not what people intend. They just want to share their own horror stories in bite-sized warnings. They want to let us know that they've been there, they've seen worse, and that they've made it out alive.
Misery loves company, I suppose, and as parents, we're in one of the biggest clubs out there.
I'd rather "just wait" for my daughter's first absurdist knock-knock joke or improv dance routine, or the first time she writes her name. And if I ever hand down a "just you wait" myself, I hope I say it while I'm laughing my butt off.


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Brain Injury: Football Culture's Biggest Problem?
Junior Seau, football's "monster in the middle," became a victim of the sport he loved and played.
Seau, who played for the New England Patriots and other NFL teams, committed suicide last year. After his death, his family donated his brain to the National Institutes of Health for research.
On Thursday, medical researchers confirmed that Seau suffered from Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy at the time of his death — likely caused by repeated blows to the head.
Bill Littlefield, host of NPR's Only A Game, wrote recently about America football culture on Cognoscenti, WBUR's opinion and ideas page, noting how it places a premium on those "nasty hits" and "crushing tackles."
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- NFL Player Junior Seau Had Brain Disease CTE
- Cognoscenti: Can We Really Expect Football Culture To Change If We Don't Want It To?
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The survey has now been modified and updated to 10 questions. This should only take like two minutes of your time, and if you could fill out the questionnaire honestly, it would be much appreciated.
The link to the survey is provided above. This information will be used in important research/analysis regarding the various needs, lifestyles, and attitudes of the Singapore gaming community.


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