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The next British brigade heading to Afghanistan will enter Helmand Province with a new emphasis on giving locals enough confidence to oust the Taliban from their strongholds.
Ten years and now 350 British military deaths into the mission, their focus will be on improving the lives of ordinary Afghans first and on front-line fighting second, in a clear strategy shift.
Leaders of the 6,500-strong 3 Commando Brigade believe success rests on convincing nervous residents of the long-lawless Helmand that they can place their trust in the democratic governance on offer.
The Royal Marines formation is heading back to Afghanistan in April with memories still fresh of the 33 men it lost when it led British operations in the country in 2009.
The first British brigade to go on a gruelling fourth tour, they will take charge in the southern province's central belt -- fighting the insurgency, training up local troops and assisting reconstruction efforts.
"The central pillar of our approach is to focus on the people first and the insurgents second," Brigadier Ed Davis, who will command the operation, told journalists Thursday as his troops underwent final training.
"If we are going to succeed in Afghanistan, we need to focus on the cause of the insurgency -- which is the intimidated, vulnerable, disenfranchised people -- and not the symptom, which is the insurgent fighter.
"It is our job to make sure we give them the confidence and the courage to reject the insurgency, accept the offer that the government is giving them and put their hopes for the future in the Afghan state.
"They need tangible evidence that their own security forces will be able to protect them."
He added: "We'll be going out there with our eyes wide open: the progress is fragile and it is reversible."
The brigadier's troops have had 12 months of general and then mission-specific training before entering final rehearsal manoeuvres on Salisbury Plain in southwest England.
On the bleak grassland home to the famous Stonehenge monument, Chinook and Sea King helicopters sweep down to drop off a platoon outside a replica village.
While the Cold War-era buildings are modelled on Germany and the Afghan troops in the mixed patrol are played by Gurkhas, the civilians are played by genuine Afghans.
So when the troops sit down for a "shura" meeting with the local elders, complete with tea and sweets, the Pashto dialogue is translated for the fresh-faced British officers -- but these days they take a back seat to their Afghan counterparts.
Outside, as Afghan women chop carrots and boil rice on a wood fire, Marine Sam Magowan keeps watch.
"For lads like myself it's the first time out there. It's a new experience but the training prepares you well," the 18-year-old said.
"We're trained to deal with IEDs (improvised explosive devices), mine strikes, suicide bombers, small arms fire, indirect fire, absolutely everything.
"I'm anxious to get out there, do the job and see whatever comes our way."
Britain wants its troops out of a combat role in Afghanistan by 2015 and is therefore training up local security forces so they can gradually take over.
Defence Secretary Liam Fox visited 3 Commando to see the next deployment's preparations.
"They've got the security mission on the ground to look after but they're going to be in a very different political environment when the shift in Afghan policy is going to move to the political arena," he told AFP.
"The security improvement that we want will not be won by the military alone."
A critical part of the effort is the 200-strong Helmand Provincial Reconstruction Team, headed by Foreign Office diplomat Michael O'Neill.
He said progress in building up the infrastructure of a functioning state had taken off in 2010, with governors now in 10 of the 14 Helmand districts and an increasing numbers of judges across the province.
"The challenge in 2011 is to consolidate and deepen that because it is still fragile," he told AFP, 24 hours after leaving Helmand's capital Lashkar Gah.
"The most important part is building the confidence and trust of the Afghan people in their own government.
"An Afghan face, an Afghan lead -- that is what will win them over."
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Thank you, Laurel [Bellows], for those kind words -- and for your commitment to the important work of the American Bar Association. As you assume your new role as ABA President, I look forward to working with you to build on the progress that's been made in recent years -- through the support of so many of the people in this room, and under the leadership of my friend, Bill Robinson. Although I'm sorry that President [Bill] Robinson couldn't be with us today, I want to thank him for his engagement on -- and dedication to -- the issues we've gathered to discuss. I'd also like to thank Bob Stein, Chair of the ABA's Standing Committee on Indigent Defense and Legal Aid; and Executive Director [Norman] Reimer, of the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers -- along with everyone who worked so hard to bring us together this weekend -- for your efforts in planning and preparing for today's important Summit.
It's a pleasure to be back in New Orleans, and a privilege to join with so many distinguished leaders and essential partners -- from members of the bench, such as Judge [Andre] Davis and Judge [Vanessa] Ruiz; to leaders of legal defense associations like NLADA; to key members of the private bar, the academic community, and nonprofit and legal advocacy organizations -- in discussing how we can, and why we must, take our indigent defense efforts to the next level.
In this conversation, every person here provides valuable expertise and -- perhaps most importantly -- a commitment to progress. That's why this Summit is so critical -- and why I'm so grateful to be part of it. Over the years, through gatherings like this one, the ABA and NACDL have helped not only to raise awareness about the indigent defense issues that impact the bar -- but to remind every member of our nation's legal community of the sacred responsibilities we share, as well as the challenges that we must address.
Especially in this time of economic difficulty -- when government budgets are on the chopping block, and so many of us have been asked to meet growing demands with increasingly limited resources -- the obstacles we face have been brought into stark focus. And the need to take action has never been more clear -- or more urgent. And that's true nationwide.
Across the country, public defender offices and other indigent defense providers are underfunded and understaffed. Too often, when legal representation is available to the poor, it's rendered less effective by insufficient resources, overwhelming caseloads, and inadequate oversight.
As a result, too many defendants are left to languish in jail for weeks, or even months, before counsel is appointed. Too many children and adults enter the criminal justice system with nowhere to turn for guidance -- and little understanding of their rights, the charges against them, or the potential sentences -- and collateral consequences -- that they face. Some are even encouraged to waive their right to counsel altogether.
Now, I know you're here today because you've heard these stories. You've seen the alarming statistics. And some of you have experienced this harsh reality firsthand, in the communities where you live and practice. So I don't need to tell you that this represents a crisis -- one that the ABA and other organizations have been working for decades to overcome.
Ever since the Supreme Court's landmark decision in Gideon v. Wainwright -- handed down fifty years ago next March -- it has been settled law that the Constitution requires defendants in criminal cases to be provided with legal counsel, even if they cannot afford an attorney. Yet, as we come together this afternoon -- in jurisdictions here in Louisiana and across this country -- the basic rights guaranteed under Gideon have yet to be fully realized. Millions of Americans still struggle to access the legal services that they need and deserve -- and to which they are constitutionally entitled. And far too many public defender systems lack the basic tools they need to function properly.
Fortunately, the American Bar Association has responded to this crisis not with despair, but with dedication, optimism, and a plan of action. For years, ABA members have taken a leadership role in advocating for quality indigent defense systems. You've laid out important guidelines and policies for improving legal representation for disadvantaged populations. In many cases, you've lent your time and expertise to help make these policies a reality. And -- through the Ten Principles of a Public Defense Delivery System that the ABA released exactly a decade ago -- you've not only given shape to our aspirations, but quite literally set the standard, and developed a framework for progress.
Alongside key partners like the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers -- which has made meaningful, measurable strides in engaging the private bar -- you've also led the way in rallying others to this cause. Just last month, with the support of a grant from the Justice Department's Bureau of Justice Assistance, the ABA and NACDL convened a Focus Group comprised of 18 successful reformers from across the legal community -- from prosecutors and defense attorneys; to leaders from state governments and NGOs; and of course federal partners like our very own Assistant Attorney General Laurie Robinson, Director Denise O'Donnell, and representatives from the Department's Access to Justice Initiative.
Together, this diverse group worked to develop concrete strategies for reforming our nation's indigent defense systems, and to identify actions that the Justice Department can take to help facilitate this work. Their findings -- which I had the chance to review earlier this week -- will undoubtedly guide reform efforts long into the future. And their recommendations will reinforce the robust commitment that the Department has already demonstrated.
Nowhere is this commitment more clear than in the work of our Access to Justice Initiative -- a landmark office that was launched nearly two years ago to help ensure that basic legal services are available, affordable, and accessible to everyone in this country -- regardless of status or income. Under excellent leadership -- first, from the legendary Professor and Constitutional scholar, Larry Tribe; and, today, from Senior Counselor Mark Childress -- the Access to Justice staff has collaborated with state, local, tribal, and federal officials -- as well as a variety of nonprofit and private sector partners -- to broaden access to quality legal representation, to highlight best practices, and to bring new allies into this work. Although Mark will soon be departing to become a White House Deputy Chief of Staff -- and although we will miss him -- I can assure you that this work remains as strong as ever, and will continue to be a key area of focus for the Department, and for me.
In fact, as we speak -- through Access to Justice, the Office of Justice Programs, and a number of other components -- the Department is moving to develop and implement a series of concrete steps to help us better understand and address the indigent defense crisis. And I am proud to announce two of these important steps today.
In a few weeks, OJP's National Institute of Justice will begin officially soliciting applications for grants to support research on the fundamental issues surrounding access to legal services -- and the need for quality representation -- at the state and local level. Although we currently have a basic knowledge of some of the concerns at play, OJP's track record indicates that -- with rigorous, scientific study, our understanding of the barriers that defendants commonly face in securing effective representation will grow -- and our ability to address and remove these obstacles will significantly improve. Of course, in light of recent budgetary challenges, funding for this type of research -- however critical -- has been particularly difficult to secure. That's why I am especially pleased to announce that NIJ has made this forthcoming grant solicitation a top priority -- and that we are prepared to invest up to $1 million in research projects focused on indigent defense.
This represents the largest single commitment that the Department has ever made for this purpose -- and it presents an exciting opportunity to take a close look at an under-studied set of issues. Although this is an historic move -- and although enhancing our understanding of this crisis is essential -- it's only the first part of the equation.
I mentioned ABA's "Ten Principles" just a moment ago. Like many of you, I consider them to be an essential guidepost for ensuring that our indigent defense efforts are as effective -- and as efficient -- as possible. This afternoon, I am pleased to announce another new grant program -- administered by the Bureau of Justice Assistance -- that will help to make these Principles a reality.
This spring, BJA will release a solicitation to award grants to jurisdictions -- and their partners -- to use in directly supporting oversight of public defender and assigned counsel systems; to help ensure access to counsel for defendants at the earliest stage of criminal proceedings; to provide the structure and support necessary for members of the private bar to get involved in this work; and to reduce caseloads and help ease burdens on all elements of the criminal justice system.
Here in Louisiana, I know your legislature has adopted a resolution creating a task force to help implement the Ten Principles in advancing your reform efforts. In other states like Pennsylvania -- where a commission recently issued a report highlighting the importance of the ABA Principles -- similar efforts are also underway. And this afternoon, I am proud to announce that the Justice Department stands ready to support this kind of work -- and the advancements that are taking place in countless jurisdictions across the country -- by dedicating as much as $1.4 million to this new grant program.
These initiatives represent an unprecedented level of support -- from this Justice Department, and from the Administration as a whole -- for reforming America's legal system, and improving its ability to serve those who find quality representation to be out of reach. But these two grant solicitations are only the tip of the iceberg -- and it's important to note that they build on a wide array of efforts that are already in progress.
I am also pleased to announce a series of additional measures to strengthen indigent defense. The Department will keep working to bring stakeholders together -- including law enforcement, court officials, prosecutors, indigent defense providers, and corrections officers -- to refine and strengthen existing programs, such as Byrne-JAG, and to ensure that their impact is considered across the criminal justice system. In fact, we will soon be issuing new guidelines for Byrne-JAG recipients, designed to encourage stakeholders to come together in a comprehensive criminal justice planning process.
At the same time, we're developing a national-level "Census of Public Defender Offices" to provide a snapshot of the work that's taking place across the country, and to help identify best practices and assess the training and resource needs in the field. We're partnering with the Bureau of Indian Affairs and the Office of Defender Services to offer free training sessions to defenders, prosecutors, and judges who serve Indian Country -- the first time such an effort has ever been undertaken. And we're working closely with the ABA to examine the collateral consequences that often accompany certain convictions -- and to determine whether those consequences which create barriers to work and civic opportunities should be eliminated.
In this study; in the critical discussions you're hosting here in New Orleans; and in the ten defining principles you've been advancing for the last ten years -- at every turn, the ABA and NACDL have stepped up, and spoken out, for indigent defense. As Attorney General of the United States, I am proud to do so as well.
Your efforts have expanded and improved this work through events like this Summit. They've helped the Justice Department and other partners come together to move the ball forward. And they have inspired generations of lawyers -- and even law students -- to serve as sound stewards of America's legal system.
This afternoon, we can all be encouraged by the progress that you and so many others have helped to achieve in recent decades -- not to mention the advancements that lie ahead, thanks to the resources that our new grant programs will soon be bringing to this fight.
But, as we approach the 50th anniversary of the Gideon decision -- and move to confront the challenges that remain before us -- we must also recognize that this is no time to become complacent.
As we build on this work, let us seize the opportunity to ensure that it becomes not just our shared priority, but our common cause. Let us redouble our efforts not merely to win cases, but to do justice. And let us come together -- in the spirit of fidelity to the law, and in service of those it protects and empowers -- to realize the promise of our justice system for all Americans.
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Hmm, I loaded up and tried Rock Band 2 (black screen) and Guitar Hero 5 (stuck at loading) briefly as well using 223v4, is it possible I have corrupted base IOS or something?
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Hmm, I loaded up and tried Rock Band 2 (black screen) and Guitar Hero 5 (stuck at loading) briefly as well using 223v4, is it possible I have corrupted base IOS or something?
I currently use gx version 2. I have a thread on here with a list of working ios' for all my singing games. Theres only a couple I couldn't get to work w mic and Beatles is not one of them. Search
" singing games list with song tracks "
There's a pic in there showing each game and the working I used. hope it helps
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Nope, I tried loading using USB Loader GX 2.3. Still getting black screen. Sigh.
Hey dude, I've got guitar hero system of a down and I have changed the iOS but the only one I had was 223-mload, is that the right one??? Is there any other modifications I have to make in the options???
that info and ios' worked for me w my particular system and gx 2.2. There are many other threads out there that may/may not suggest a different cios and prolly even use with USB loader. try another search, I thought krank had one with descriptions of suggested setups for alot of problematic games
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Have you looked at THIS GUIDE? Other confirmed working configurations are listed.
Still having trouble with Guitar Hero 5. Every other game works, tried cios 248 base 56 d2xv7 and cios 223 base 38 merged with base 37 Hermes v4. Still sticks at loading screen. Every other game works with no issues. It's not so much a desire to play it at this point as it's just frusturating to have this one title not working.
this thread. Once i have similar (i think) problem that i was using 100% good cIOS but game wont start. I had to change loader to different (trying start in cfg usb loader and game freezes) so ive change is to uLoader and game starts working with both :)
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Basilisk let us know they have posted two new screens from Eschalon: Book II at the official site.
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Looking forward to this game. Like the combat and i really do like the looks and gameplay(part1) !!
Love the polished look of the game. Insta-buy for me.
Is it just me or did the interface/setting become more bright and cartoon like in those screens ???
In comparison to part 1 its looking a bit smoother.. perhaps thats what you are seeing?
I am eager to play Book II. The first part was awesome :-)
Definitely agree - do we have an estimated arrival yet?
Well I haven't heard anything about testing in awhile….so hopefully I will hear something soon.
Nice. It may be just a bit crisper and brighter, but I don't think it's cartoony. Looking forward to this a lot.
Same here going to get this the second it's released. I like the added buttons he has on the screen. I don't use the keyboard very often anymore. Those buttons will make things a bit easier.
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On Thursday, the Drug Enforcement Agency ruled that hydrocodone combination products, some of the most widely prescribed pain medications, would be reclassified as a Schedule II drug, a more restrictive class reserved for the most dangerous medicines.
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On the one hand, there is a legitimate concern that too many opioids are on the street, and these very addictive pills can act as gateway drugs, particularly for teenagers, to heroin and other even more dangerous narcotics.
On the other hand, the Institute of Medicine estimates that as many as 100 million Americans suffer from some sort of chronic pain and reclassifying these drugs might make it harder for those people with legitimate needs to get relief.
When the rule takes effect in early October, drugs such as Vicodin will only be able to be prescribed for a 90-day period, and refills won't be able to be called in to a pharmacy. Patients will have to be seen by a doctor for a new prescription. Before this change, patients could receive a 180-day supply.
This rule only impacts hydrocodone that is combined with an over-the-counter painkiller like acetaminophen or aspirin. Pure hydrocodone is already a Schedule II drug.
The move will have little legal impact in New York, where Attorney General Eric Schneiderman pushed through a reclassification in 2013 as part of a campaign to curb drug abuse, saying at the time that "implementing new rules for hydrocodone, including ensuring follow-up visits with patients instead of providing automatic refills ... can prevent more New Yorkers from being trapped in a damaging cycle of addiction."
Senator Chuck Schumer has been a persistent proponent of reclassifying hydrocodone and, in a press release, commended the D.E.A.'s recent decision saying, "we cannot continue to lose more children and young adults to this painkiller scourge."
This new federal rule limits over-prescription, and the smaller amounts of hydrocodone available per prescription will limit leftovers in medicine cabinets that are ripe for abuse, said Meredith Kelly, a spokeswoman for Schumer.
While this will not solve the prescription drug abuse problem overnight, it's a step in the right direction, she said.
Some advocates stress that it's a limited one.
Bob Twillman, deputy executive director and director of policy and advocacy for the American Academy of Pain Management, points to the fact that oxycodone remains one of the most abused drugs, and it has always been Schedule II, as are Ritalin and Adderall. (Marijuana, which the federal government considers to have no valid medical purpose, is a schedule I drug, as is heroin.)
Schumer's office disputed that comparison, saying there is no real way to know how much worse oxycodone abuse would be if it had been a Schedule III drug.
It's still too soon to know whether New York can provide a useful test case for the federal change. There isn't enough data to know whether opioid addictions have been impacted or whether prescribing habits have changed, but New Yorkers have no trouble getting oxycodone despite its more restrictive classification.
Bridget Brennan, the city's Special Narcotics Prosecutor told the city council in 2012 that hydrocodone prescriptions had fallen 4 percent in 2011, but "could be explained by a shift to oxycodone."
Her office reported that the number of oxycodone prescriptions filled by New York City residents increased 124 percent between 2007 and 2011.
In 2013, the mayor's taskforce on prescription painkiller abuse reported that the number of oxycodone prescriptions filled in 2012 increased 83 percent from 2008 to 2012, while the number of hydrocodone prescriptions has decreased by 15 percent.
"I'm not sure this is going to have the impact they think it's going to have," Twillman said of the D.E.A.'s ruling.
And though both Schneiderman and Schumer took pains to say this would not hinder access for people who legitimately need the drug, many wonder if the D.E.A.'s ruling will do more harm than good.
"People who live with chronic pain in our country have become collateral damage in the war against drugs," Christopher said. "There's a Chinese proverb: people are wont to kiss dragons and stomp gnats."
Most federal policy acts as a blunt instrument and that can sometimes be the point.
The federal government wants fewer hydrocodone pills prescribed. This is as much a message to doctors as to patients.
"Almost seven million Americans abuse controlled-substance prescription medications, including opioid painkillers, resulting in more deaths from prescription drug overdoses than auto accidents," D.E.A. Administrator Michele Leonhart said last week. "(This) action recognizes that these products are some of the most addictive and potentially dangerous prescription medications available."
They are also some of the most widely prescribed. An estimated 25 million Americans are on automatic refills of hydrocodone, Twillman said. Many of those users will now have to schedule an appointment with their physician.
If a typical office visit costs $100-$160, this change could cost the health system hundreds of millions of dollars each year, much of which will be borne by taxpayers through Medicare and Medicaid.
Heading to a doctor may also be hard on elderly patients who are less mobile such as those being cared for by their children or those who live in long-term care facilities, meaning the new rules will keep the drug away from those who need it most.
"There is no evidence to suggest that reclassifying hydrocodone will curb misuse and abuse of pain medications," several pharmacy groups, pain consultants, health professional groups and advocates wrote. "However, there is evidence that rescheduling medications to higher classifications can reduce patient access to medications and cause harm. Thus, while it is highly unlikely that D.E.A. will achieve the desired outcome of reducing abuse of combination hydrocodone products through this rescheduling action, patients who rely on these medicines for chronic pain will face obstacles to care."
The American Academy of Pain Management released a statement expressing concern "about the potential negative effects that these restrictions will have on healthcare professionals who are diligent in their efforts to alleviate patients' pain and suffering."
The reclassification was also opposed by the American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network.
It was supported by several lawmakers and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.
Federal classifications result from the 1970 Controlled Substance Act, which lists five categories for drugs. Hydrocodone in combination with other pain relievers was originally listed as Class III, while drugs such as pure hydrocodone and oxycodone were Class II. This led to what became known as the "Vicodin loophole" and may have contributed to the popularity of the prescription pain reliever.
About 130 million prescriptions were written for hydrocodone last year.
Twillman is also concerned that the D.E.A. and proponents of the change will get exactly what they want—that doctors will change their prescribing habits. Yes, that would mean fewer dangerous pills on the streets, but it could also mean switching to a less effective drug such as Codeine, which has been known to have side effects such as nausea.
To really attack the opioid problem, most addiction experts argue in favor of a more comprehensive approach that addresses mental health issues, funds treatment programs and changes the cultural perception of both pain and addiction.


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|March 14, 2010, 01:46 AM
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Is there a discreet way to ask...
I am looking for an apartment in the Tallahassee, Fl area because I'm going to be going to FSU. I found a place and I was ready to sign a lease when I noticed that it specifically prohibits firearms multiple times in the lease. I didn't sign because I "need more time to think about it".
Now I know it may not be legally right, but if it comes down to it I believe my right to bear arms is a Natural Right that comes from God and I am willing to defy the lease and accept responsibility for the consequences if I get caught, but I would much rather bring my rent money to someone more reasonable.
Is there a way to ask if guns are prohibited without letting them know I have guns?
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When I lived in an apartment, I told the manager that I hunted as a kid and was thinking about getting back into it, so I wanted to know if there were going to be any issues with me having a rifle in the future.
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That's the craziest thing I've ever heard!
What are the local laws concerning firearms? I thought Florida was a gun friendly state! Check with your local law enforcement if you have any concerns.
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Wow I am sorry to hear that. I would not be moving anywhere that prohibits my right to bear arms. I live in California where the gun laws are just about the worse and that sounds rediculouse to me.
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|March 14, 2010, 03:27 AM
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Find another apartment and tell them why. It's not worth sacrificing your integrity. Knowingly violating the terms of a legal contract isn't exactly what I call integrity.
Or tell them you want the apartment, but they will have to wave the ridiculous firearms clause, because well, you're an adult and this is America.
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Take your money elsewhere. If the apartment owner won't respect your constitutional rights, you have no business doing business with him/her. Also, let them know exactly why you're not going to accept the terms of the rental agreement.
|March 14, 2010, 07:58 AM
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Good idea interrogator!
Bluehighways and maestro, I'm inclined to agree with you. Ideally I'd tell any landlord that they can't have my business if that's how they do business, but if it turns out to be a standard clause in every complex that's near campus then I've just eliminated myself from all the suitable places. A lot of places are filled up already. If I tell them I'm a gunowner and I end up having to come crawling back I might be SOL or end up falling under extra scrutiny after I move in. What kind of proof does a landlord need to search your room? Or rather, can the landlord call the cops if he suspects I have a gun and get them to search my room?
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In most rental agreements, a landlord can enter with no reason as long as they give you so much notice. They own the property, after all. IIRC, in TX, they had to give me 24 or 48 hours notice to enter my apartment.
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I am not a lawyer, but I believe this to be a constitutional rights issue. An apartment is a dwelling. They can not ban the resident based on his desire to keep and carry a gun.
Discuss this with a lawyer. Hotels can't ban guns either, as far as I know.
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I have to agree with the above post, especially in the State of Florida where they respect and uphold the Second Amendment, the landlord has no right to impinge upon the law of the land. I would have to think it is a "CYA" thing for the landlord in case there was a shooting in the building involving your gun. He can say the lease specifically prohibited you from having a gun and you violated his mandate, thereby absolving him of all liability.
I say, in the case of concealed carry, go ahead a move in and take your gun with you. Just make sure it is not flaunted nor shown to anyone and see that it is properly secured and locked away in some sort of safe for those days you leave it in the apartment. Some landlords can be very prying, even when they have no right to.
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I brought this very thing up with my last landlord. When I was filling out the agreement, I asked if that was a standard clause or something she had put on the form. She asked if I had a firearm and I told her I did and that parting with it would be an issue. She then said it was something that she usually does not enforce but keeps available as a tool to justify ousting non-payers, deadbeats, people with multiple complaints for police calls (domestic issues), etc. She asked "You're not one of those who waves it around and displays it a lot are you?" That's when I told her I am a LEO. She was OK with that, but I still have reservations about a landlords ability to exercise their own viewpoints when it comes to 2A. Seems to me they can be as pro or anti as they want and stand behind the signed lease agreement even if there is no legally posted 30.06 Sign (Tx no gun zone sign) after all, they can come up with just about any reason to deny your lease or continued lease.
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OK... I also live in an apartment in Florida. Any business owner (including a landlord) may declare his business a gun free zone. However I wouldnt make a point of telling the rental agency, or the property manager that I own firearms,or have any intent to do so. As someone else stated the property manager has keys to your apartment. I wouldnt want anyone who has keys to know about my firearms. If the lease forbids firearms, and the apartment isnt within a campus... why say anything? As long as your not violating any laws. How would they know?... If you had to use the gun in your own defense? What are they going to do?... Ask you to move?
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Your constitutional rights mean nothing towards a private landlord unless they are specifically established by law to do so (why we needed the civil rights legislation in the 60s to prohibit race etc based renting). Even if the SCOTUS incorporates the 2nd against states and municipalities it still doesn't do anything against a private landlord.
As for "what can he do", what are you going to do if he calls hazmat and has your guns removed as "immediate danger"? You might win damages in court, if you have the money to fight, but it's you the college student renter against the landlord apartment owner with an insurance company footing the legal bills.
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[1] This is not an issue of constitutional rights. The Constitution doesn't regulate private conduct.
[2] In general, unless there is a state statute or local ordinance prohibiting it, a landlord may include a "no guns" clause in a residential lease and enforce it.
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I wonder, if everyone knows it's a gun free complex, what is the crime rate in or near it?
I would look elswhere just on the principle of it!
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Ask for a Waiver to the gun clause. If they agree be sure to get it in writing before you move in!
If you get caught with a gun on their property they have the legal right to take action agaist you, usually not much more than kicking you out without refunding your deposit -- You broke the lease, and they can keep the deposit for "legal fees".
Any contract is negotiable to a point.
Ask if you and the lease holder can sign a waiver in agreement to null that/those particular gun clauses. Many times they'll do just that.
Don't accept a word of mouth agreement, it'll never hold up if somebody knows that you have a gun and files any type of complaint. Their written complaint will always take precident over your verbal agreement.
Ask for a waiver, if they say no - Walk away.
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|March 14, 2010, 11:08 PM
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fiddletown, If I were to draw my weapon in a justifiable defensive situation would the landlord just be able to kick me out for breaching the lease agreement as some have suggested, or could there be criminal charges for possesing the firearm in the apartment? Is it the same kind of "gun free zone" as a school or govn't building just because the landlord says it is?
|March 14, 2010, 11:31 PM
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answers should be found here..http://www.leg.state.fl.us/STATUTES/...EChapter%20790
this is florida statues, and while it won't cover the contract for lease, it will cover all the other questions..
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no clue on that one..
FSU police reports maybe, as they are public record?
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It's their property, and you're signing an agreement. You're free to agree to terms, or part ways.
However, in my experience, even here in the very anti-rights Crook County, IL, the leases tend to forbid the illegal use of firearms in gang activity / drug dealing / etc.
So check the fine print--it may be a non-issue.
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Children of the boom: Residents recall growing up in hectic De Soto
December 16, 2009
Lawrence Allen remembers fondly the De Soto of his childhood, which he said was far different than the farm town of a few year earlier or the bedroom community that would follow.
"It was a lively place. It was just a boom town," he said. "I lived on my smarts right down there when it was going its strongest."
Now 76, Allen moved to De Soto soon after his father closed his junkyards in Gridley to take a job helping build roads in the newly commissioned Sunflower Ordnance Plant. His father, Harvey "Junky" Allen, would later open a store in De Soto's suddenly crowded two-block downtown.
As the United States entered World War II in December 1941, a 12-year-old Walt Johnston was living with his family in Abbott Hall, a two-story limestone building dating from 1865 that remains downtown's western anchor.
"My aunt and uncle owned the building," Johnston said. "My dad had a blacksmith shop in the basement."
All that was about to change as the boom overtook a town with a official 1940 population of 383.
In March 1942, the De Soto News started reporting "the world's largest" munitions plant was planned for near De Soto in northwest Johnson County instead of in eastern Douglas County as had been previously thought.
From that date, stories told of the press to get the plant built and operating by early 1943. Sunflower would employ 12,000 during its peak World War II production but the job rush started soon after the decision to build the plant and the hiring of the first of the 10,000 worker involved in its construction.
Early activity included constructing the Sunflower railroad spur through De Soto, the erection of administrative buildings and the opening of employment office in De Soto.
As workers were drawn to Sunflower, De Soto was transformed as inhabitants and newcomers saw opportunity.
In May 1942, the newspaper reported Abbott Hall was sold to a "Kansas City man," who planned to convert it into a restaurant and living space for Sunflower workers.
Johnston said his family moved to a farmhouse in the Kansas River bottoms west of De Soto. With no space for a blacksmith shop, his dad would start working at Sunflower.
Other buildings would also be converted, including the car dealership/garage that was also remodeled into a cafe and lodging. Johnston and Allen remember four cafes on the south side of Main Street in the one block from Shawnee to Wea streets. There was plenty of business at all hours.
"The owner of the Midway Cafe threw the keys to the building into an empty lot across the street," Johnston said, "He said 'When I need the keys again, it'll be time to close down.' He ran it 24 hours a day."
Among the town's businesses were four grocery stores, a drug store and movie theater, Allen and Johnston said.
There were money-making opportunities for boys, too. Johnston said for a period he joined those shinning shoes on Main Street.
"You could make as much money shinning shoes as you could up on the plant," he said.
The businesses served the newly arrived workers and the parade of plant employees who passed through downtown going to and from work until a bypass was built to the south later in the war.
"It was terrible bumper-to-bumper traffic," Johnston said. "You couldn't cross the street for two hours at shift changes. There would be traffic cops directing traffic at Abbott Hall."
Those looking to avoid a long drive found lodging hard to come by in De Soto, especially before the first 863 apartments in Sunflower Village opened in August 1943.
A Nov. 18, 1942, story in the Kansas City Times reported on a U.S. Office of Price Administration door-to-door survey of homes in De Soto meant to ensure landlords weren't exceeding rent ceilings. De Soto service station owner Robert Turner told the reporter he was getting constant inquiries about renting his barn and sheds as living space and that the renters of a five-bedroom home he owned had taken in 11 boarders at the rate of $2.50 a week.
It was also reported the going rate for new arrivals to pitch a tent or park a trailer in yards was $2.50 to $3.50 a week.
Allen said when he first arrived in De Soto, he lived with his parents in a tent with a wooden floor behind a downtown grocery store while his three teenage sisters lived in a converted garage about a block away.
As Spartan as his family' lodgings were, they were superior to those of new arrivals who slept nearby on matteresses in the open, Allen said.
Other men rented sleeping quarters on a schedule that corresponded to Sunflower shift changes. Sally Bedford, whose father started work at Sunflower in 1944, said the parents of a childhood friend rented four beds in their attic in such an arrangement.
"There wasn't even enough room to stand up," she said. "You slept for eight hours, and then you had to give it up to the next fellow."
Bedford said her family arrived in De Soto in 1944 with a trailer her father bought while working construction on a defense plant in Oklahoma.
"People would live in chicken coups, sheds or anything that would give them a little bit of shelter," she said. "We felt like with a trailer, we really had it good."
The family first lived at a trailer village near the main gate to ordnance plant, Bedford said. When that was closed in 1944, they moved into De Soto, parking the trailer in the Methodist Church parsonage, she said.
The federal government's focus on getting the plant constructed didn't extend to building classrooms for the children of plant employees.
Johnston said De Soto's elementary school at the time was a wooden two-story building with two classrooms per floor. The top floor was closed off before the war, when 88 students attended the school, he said.
Elementary enrollment grew to 346 in 1942-43 and to 992 in by the war's end.
To meet the crush, the top-floor was reopened and then petitions built in the rooms to double the number of classrooms.
Bedford, a fourth-grader in 1944, said the crowding made for long days for the students of the trailer village.
"They would empty the bus and send it out again," she said. "The principal said because the local kids had chores to do, they would pick us up from the trailer village first. And then since we came earlier — we were waiting to hear what he said to us — he said we would get to stay late. But we weren't that dumb. We realized what he said to us."
The opening of a temporary school for the trailer village students helped ease the situation before the first school was opened in Sunflower Village in 1944.
The crowded schools was one of the things that caused longtime residents to resent the newcomers, Bedford said.
"There were ones who went, 'There's all that trailer trash coming into town,' But we came anyway," she said. "We knew it was crowded, and we recognized why natives were angry with people coming in.
"But I always thought everything was fine, and I had all I wanted."
Allen said he saw a different side of the boom years because he lived downtown throughout and the the nature of this father's business.
Among the cafes and bars on the south side of Main Street, his lifelong Republican father opened a business with the tongue-in-cheek name of "Junky's New Deal Shop," Allen said. His father ran the store in an arrangement with a Kansas City family who saw the war coming and stockpiled merchandise, he said.
Hot items were washboard and tubs for those living about De Soto or at the Sunflower trailer village without laundry facilities, Allen said. In a time when things were tightly rationed, the store's black-market supplied shelves had lye and lard for soap, sugar and other hard-to-come-by items.
"He had things like rubber tires, canned peaches, red and green packs of Lucky Strikes and bubble gum," Allen said. "Nobody had bubble gum."
The merchandise was brought in after the store closed at night on two Willys trucks his father owned, and it was often his job to unload the trucks, Allen said. A basement storeroom also contained a stash of small bottles of whiskey his father gave to favored customers and was the scene of crap games, he said.
His father moved Allen and his sisters into the bottom floor of a boarding house on Main Street about a block west of the store, Allen said. His parents lived in a trailer parked behind the store so that his father keep an eye on it, he said.
Outhouses used by downtown boarders and those living in tents and trailers lined the downtown alleys, Allen said. They were also a place desperate men who failed to find work would mug those too flashy with their cash in the bars, he said.
"I saw more than one mugging," he said. "They were just dunks rolled for money. No one had bank account back then."
De Soto's boom ended with the war. Sunflower was mothballed in 1946, but De Soto didn't shrink to its pre-war population.
Allen's parents moved on to open restaurants in Kanas City, Kan., but he continued to live with an older sister who would made De Soto her home.
Bedford said her mother wanted to settle down and her father started working on area bridge crews. She eventually married Archie Bedford, whose family also moved to De Soto during the war.
"A lot of people moved on," Johnston said. "But a lot of people stayed. A lot of them became important to De Soto."
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New York City residents Marcia and Charlie Reiss were visiting the track in Saratoga when they saw an ad for a canoe trip outfitter and decided to take a paddle down the Battenkill. They enjoyed it so much they drove back the next day to explore the region's back roads and discovered the home of their dreams for sale on Roberson Road in Shushan. It was a Greek revival built in 1840 with 47 acres of high quality farmland along the Battenkill, which has been in agricultural production since before the Revolutionary War.
Behind the house there is a historic structure that was built in 1770 by Philip Embury, an Irish immigrant who founded the Methodist Church in New York. Embury built the small frame structure with his brother-in-law and their two families shared it, one living upstairs and the other on the ground floor. A horse barn was later attached and Methodist services were held there for a number of years. Embury died in a hayfield in Shushan in 1773 and members of his family, loyal to the Tories, fled to Canada for refuge during the war. Marcia and Charlie say several of Embury's Canadian descendents have stopped by to visit and learn more about their family history.
Both Marcia and Charlie share a passion and appreciation for architecture and history. They met as teenagers and dated long distance while Marcia studied English at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor and Charlie studied architecture at Cooper Union in New York City. They married and attended graduate school together at New York University where Charlie received a Masters in urban planning and Marcia a Masters in English Literature. Charlie served as Deputy Commissioner of Housing in New York City for 23 years creating affordable housing before starting his own business as a real estate development consultant.
Marcia began her writing career as a reporter for the Brooklyn Phoenix, served as governmental affairs director for the New York City Department of Ports and Trade. She taught at Hunter College and Columbia University's graduate School of International and Public Affairs. Marcia has authored eight books about New York City history and architecture, most recently Lost New York (2011) and New York Then and Now (2012), as well as a series of guides to historic Brooklyn neighborhoods.
Charlie and Marcia gave up their digs in the city and moved to Shushan full-time in 2005. They have a son and daughter and two grandchildren who love to come visit and play in the river. Charlie and Marcia decided to protect their historic and agriculturally rich property by donating a conservation easement to ASA in December 2012. Marcia explains, "When we drove down Roberson Road for the first time sixteen years ago, we were struck by the beauty of the open fields and mountains across from the house. We later learned that it contains some of the best farming soil in the region. The land has been this way for centuries and we want to preserve it for generations to come." Charlie and Marcia currently lease their fields along the Battenkill to Skip Clark, a local dairy farmer who has also protected his land with ASA.
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Patrick and Peggy McLenithan donate their development rights on Happy Kids Farm to ASA. "I couldn't see it destroyed. It would have eaten my soul. This land is meant to be farmed." - Patrick
"Preserving the agricultural heritage of our community and keeping this land available for farming in the future has always been our goal." – Carleton Philpott
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ATHENS (KYTX) - The Athens Police Department responded to a shooting in the 700 Block of Robbins Road on Sunday afternoon.
When officers arrived they found Cedrick Alvin Collins, 23, of Malakoff, lying on the ground beside his vehicle with what appeared to be a gunshot wound. At least one witness in the area reported hearing gunshots and seeing two subjects fleeing the area on foot, northwest on Robbins Road.
The fleeing subjects appeared to be black males; one with light skin tone and one with darker skin tone.Collins was transported by ambulance to East Texas Medical Center in Athens where he died a short time later.
Henderson County Justice of the Peace Randy Daniel conducted an inquest and ordered Collins' body sent to the Southwest Institute of Forensic Sciences for an autopsy. Athens police detectives, with the assistance of the Henderson County District Attorney's Office and the Texas Rangers, are conducting the investigation.
Collins' vehicle and its contents are being processed for evidence. At this time, it is unknown if the subjects fleeing the vicinity are directly related to the shooting. However, it is believed that the two subjects were known by Collins.
Anyone with information relating to this incident is encouraged to contact Detective Adam Parkins at 903-675-5454. Tips can also be reported to the Henderson County Crime Stoppers by calling 800-545-8477, or online at www.hccstips.com.


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If your NYU Langone doctor suspects you have an adrenal tumor, he or she may ask about your prior or existing health problems and your symptoms before performing any tests.
Most adrenal tumors are benign, meaning noncancerous. It is important to determine whether the tumor is functional, which means it produces elevated levels of hormones, or nonfunctional, which means it doesn't.
Most functional tumors are benign, but even benign tumors often need to be removed because the elevated hormone levels can lead to hypertension, or high blood pressure; stroke; heart attack; weight gain; diabetes; and other health problems. A small percentage of adrenal tumors are malignant, or cancerous, and about half of all malignant tumors are functional.
Nonfunctional tumors can be either benign or malignant. Both types can grow large enough to compress nearby organs and may cause pain in the abdomen, side, or back.
Sometimes the results of a routine test—such as an imaging test your doctor ordered because you have high blood pressure that is not responding to medications—may reveal that you have an adrenal tumor. If your doctor suspects you have an adrenal tumor, or sees one on an imaging test, he or she may run a series of additional tests.
Doctors may use blood or urine tests to check for abnormal levels of hormones in the body, which may be produced by adrenal tumors. Physicians can test some hormone levels in your blood. In some instances, doctors may need to test samples of your urine that are collected over a 24-hour period. This test can tell doctors how quickly your body is producing hormones.
Our doctors can also test for abnormal levels of potassium and the protein renin. The kidneys release renin when sodium levels are low. Abnormal levels of the hormone aldosterone, sodium, potassium, and renin may be signs of an aldosteronoma.
Your doctor may also test you for hormones like cortisol, which helps your body respond to stress. Elevated levels of cortisol may indicate the presence of Cushing's syndrome. Elevated levels of other stress hormones, including dopamine, norepinephrine, and epinephrine, can be a sign of a pheochromocytoma.
Doctors can also test levels of adrenal androgens such as dehydroepiandrosterone, also known as DHEA, to determine whether an androgen-producing adrenal tumor may be present.
Although elevated levels of adrenal hormones may lead physicians to suspect that an adrenal tumor is present, imaging tests can confirm the diagnosis. Sometimes imaging tests are used when the only symptom of an adrenal tumor is pain in the abdomen, side, or back.
Often, imaging tests reveal adrenal tumors when a doctor is evaluating an unrelated condition. These tumors are called adrenal incidentalomas.
A CT scan is a form of X-ray that uses a computer to create cross-sectional, three-dimensional images of the adrenal glands. Before the scan, you may need to drink a liquid contrast agent and contrast dye may be injected into a vein to enhance the CT images. The contrast allows doctors to get a clear image of the adrenal glands.
Another option for detecting adrenal tumors is an MRI scan. This imaging test uses a magnetic field and radio waves to create three-dimensional images of structures in your body. Before the scan, a contrast dye may be injected into a vein to enhance the MRI images.
Doctors at NYU Langone may use a PET scan to determine whether an adrenal tumor might be cancerous. If a person has a known cancer, doctors may also use a PET scan to determine whether it has spread or metastasized to the adrenal gland.
To perform a PET scan, your doctor injects a small amount of radioactive glucose, or sugar, into a vein. The glucose collects in highly active tissue—meaning the tissue is rapidly metabolizing, or processing the sugar. This tissue, including some cancers, is detected by a special camera. A computer then creates three-dimensional images of the tumor that tells doctors how active the tissue is.
Doctors are able to confirm whether a tumor is cancerous or benign after it is removed with surgery and examined under a microscope by a pathologist.
If doctors need more detailed images of your adrenal glands, they may use a combined PET/CT scan to evaluate them. Whereas the CT portion of the scan uses X-rays to create cross-sectional images of the body, the PET scan detects how active a tumor is and whether it is more likely to be cancerous.
When the body produces elevated levels of aldosterone, doctors may perform what's known as adrenal venous sampling. This test helps physicians determine whether the high levels of aldosterone are coming from a single adrenal tumor, called an aldosteronoma, or a condition called bilateral adrenal hyperplasia, in which both adrenal glands are producing too much aldosterone.
To perform the test, doctors place a thin catheter, or hollow tube, into the vein in the thigh leading to both adrenal glands. They draw blood samples from both glands. Elevated levels from one gland suggest a tumor may be present, whereas elevated levels from both glands suggests that adrenal hyperplasia or another condition may be causing the problem.
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MORRISONS is to acquire its first banana ripening site as it continues to grow its manufacturing business.
The Bradford supermarket giant will open its new factory in Boston, Lincolnshire, so it has more control over the quality of Britain's most popular fruit.
The acquisition is a joint venture with Global Pacific, a well established trading partner of Morrisons. The 58,000 sq ft factory is nine years old and was operated by Del Monte until November 2011, when it ceased operation.
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Examples of Workplace Hazards Faced by the Trafficking Victim
Every workplace poses the risk of accidents to a certain degree, and this is something that is truer in the case of hazardous jobs. It is the basic duty of the employer to ensure that the risks are brought down to a minimum, in accordance to the situation and the level of hazard posed by the job description. The scenario, however, becomes much different when the victims of trafficking come into the picture. These people are lured into immigrating to other countries by individuals or organisations pretending to offer lucrative jobs, usually in the hospitality and entertainment industry. Some of them are also given the offer of working as interpreters. Reality, however, intervenes in its ugly form. Most of the trafficked population are sold or forced into jobs as unskilled labourers in the most dangerous workplaces like construction sites and explosives factories, as well as sweatshops.
Why are Hazards Not Eliminated?
The abovementioned workplaces are highly dangerous in themselves, either in terms of instant hazards or long term ones, or both. While every unskilled worker in these jobs has to work with a degree of risk in mind, the situation is direr in the case of the victims of trafficking. These people are often young and uneducated, as a result of which they are often unable to stand up for themselves or to assert their rights. In fact, in most cases, these people are not even aware of the rights that they have as workers. Moreover, these people are also completely at the mercy of their traffickers as well as their employers as far as money is concerned.
What Makes Them Hazardous?
The sweatshops employ a major percentage of the people smuggled into a country on illegal terms. Conditions in these sweatshops are usually extremely dingy, dimly lit and suffocating. Moreover, the work is endless and backbreaking; besides, many of these factories actually have material that is unhealthy and hazardous. It can be seen, in most cases, that the people working in any of these sweatshops have to deal with a certain degree of difficulties in hearing and eyesight after a long term association. The ones at maximum risk are the children, huge numbers of whom are employed in sweatshops on account of their softer and nimbler fingers.
Children- both young girls and boys- are employed in factories. While many of them have to deal with dangerous machinery completely inappropriate to their age, many others also have to deal with hazardous materials like gunpowder and other flammable substances, especially those working in the ammunitions and explosives industries. These children are constantly exposed to the risk of being immolated in an explosion or a fire breaking out. In fact, this is something that actually happens every year, with hundreds of children dying in such accidents.
Children employed in the domestic sector also face high risks of being beaten to death and ill treated. This happens mostly in cases where the child is sold to a family; that is, the family exerts a right of ownership over the commoditised human.


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Distinguished Service Award in Sports Journalism
The most prestigious honor offered to sports media personnel in Louisiana by their peers is the Distinguished Service Award in Sports Journalism.
The Louisiana Sports Writers Association presents the award each year during the Louisiana Sports Hall of Fame ceremonies.
Recipients are chosen by the 30-member Hall of Fame selection committee each year after the annual winter meeting.
Nominees are drawn from the ranks of the LSWA based on their professional accomplishments and impact in local, state, regional and even national arenas. Candidates must be 60 years old, or have three decades of Journalism credentials, reflecting a lifetime of service in the profession.
Names of the Distinguished Service Award winners have been displayed in the Hall of Fame. There will be a "writer and broadcasters wing" of the Hall of Fame Museum, much as there is in the Baseball Hall of Fame at Cooperstown.
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INVESTIGATORS are looking into the circumstances surrounding the police shooting of a man wielding a knife in an empty streetcar that was caught on video.
The shooting, posted on YouTube, has sparked outrage in Canada's largest city, with some calling it unnecessary police force.
Video shows Sammy Yatim, 18, holding a knife inside the streetcar with police outside. Yatim goads police while officers yell: "Drop your knife!'' Shortly after, three shots are fired. After a pause, six more shots are fired. A Taser is also later used on Yatim.
Ontario's Special Investigations Unit, which is charged with carrying out independent investigations of police shootings, is examining the early Saturday morning shooting. The SIU says Yatim died from multiple gunshot wounds.
Toronto Police Chief Bill Blair said he's seen the video and is conducting a parallel investigation. He said he understands the public's concern.
"I have viewed the video. I recognize there is a need for answers,'' Blair said.
Mark Mendelson, a former Toronto police detective, said investigators have the benefit of the video which "doesn't lie.''
"If you look at it on its face value at this point, it's not hard to come to the conclusion that excessive force was used,'' Mendelson said.
Mendelson also noted there are numerous civilian witnesses and at least two video angles of the shooting including security camera footage.
A march has been organized for Monday evening that calls for justice for Yatim and an end to police violence.


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WASHINGTON: US lawmakers and experts warned on Sunday that the White House and rival Republican lawmakers might fail to reach a deal to end a default before the deadline.
Senator Lindsey Graham, a Republican, said on ABC's "This Week" programme that he did not anticipate a deal by the Oct 16 deadline.
"I don't see one," Mr Graham said. "If you break spending caps you're not going to get any Republicans in the Senate."
David Plouffe, a former senior adviser to President Barack Obama, warned that America was dangerously close to default. "I think the notion that somehow this is going to be easily solved this week is completely false," Mr Plouffe said on the same programme.
Senator John McCain, a former Republican presidential candidate, urged President Obama to be more engaged in talks to reopen the federal government and avoid default on the nation's debt.
He said he was "disappointed" that Mr Obama "has not played a more active role in this, as Bill Clinton did in '95".
Mr McCain also criticised his fellow Republicans for tying the government shutdown to an effort to defund President Obama's healthcare plan.
With just two more working days left to a potential US default, Republicans and Democrats have once again failed to arrive at a compromise to end the stalemate.
On Sunday, Senate Democrats and the White House indicated that they were working on a plan to force House Republicans to reopen the government and raise the debt ceiling. The proposed deal will leave President Obama's signature healthcare plan largely intact, angering Republicans who have demanded defunding or delaying the Obamacare act.
The partial shutdown of the federal government reached its 13th day on Sunday while the default deadline — Oct 16 — is only two working days away as Monday is also a holiday.
The new Democratic move to force a solution has enraged House Republicans.
"They are trying to jam us with the Senate and we are not going to roll over and take that," House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan, a Republican, told reporters.
But Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, a Democrat, offered some hope for a compromise. He told a Sunday afternoon session of the Senate that his talks with Mitch McConnell, the top Republican in the Senate, could lead to an end of the shutdown and an increase in the nation's debt limit.
"Americans want Congress to do its job. … That's all they're asking us to do," Mr Reid said. "I'm confident and hopeful that will be accomplished."
The past week saw a flurry of proposals offered and rejected, as both parties and both chambers of Congress failed to resolve their differences.
The latest move failed on Saturday, when 45 Republican lawmakers blocked a Senate bill that would raise America's debt ceiling through 2014.
The Republicans offered their own proposal to raise the debt ceiling through January and reopen the government for six months in exchange for repeal of the medical device tax.
Senate Democrats rejected the Republican proposal.
The House Republicans' first proposal, which offered to increase the debt limit for six weeks, was rejected by President Obama.
The Republicans then offered a modified version, to create a framework for negotiations on a bigger budget deal. That offer too was rejected as President Obama wanted the proposed deal to include a mechanism to raise new revenue.
House Democrats are now seeking signatures for a petition that would force a vote on a bill raising the debt limit and reopening the government if it is signed by a majority of House members. If all 200 Democrats sign, they would need 18 Republicans to force a vote.
This effort also is unlikely to succeed.
The Republicans are trying to use the threat of default to undo the healthcare act while President Obama is adamant to enforce it with support from his fellow Democrats who control the Senate but are a minority in the House.


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INDIANAPOLIS A state-funded research pact between Indiana's top two state universities has yielded its first fruit a human clinical trial that will test a promising new therapy for spinal cord injuries.
Purdue University and Indiana University say the Food and Drug Administration has cleared them to test on humans an implantable device that harnesses electrical fields to stimulate nerve growth in damaged spinal cords.
By year's end, the first patients taking part in the project will undergo surgery to implant the device above their spinal injuries.
The hope is that by feeding weak electrical fields into the wound, the device will spur nerve growth, healing the spinal cord enough to allow the test subjects to regain at least some feeling and movement.
As a phase one clinical trial, the test is aimed only at assessing whether the device is safe to use in humans.
But the Indiana University School of Medicine researchers who will conduct the trial as part of the Purdue-IU partnership said they are hopeful it will have some therapeutic effect.
"Something will happen, the question is how robust the response will be. We'll just have to wait and see," Scott Shapiro, a professor of neurosurgery at the IU School of Medicine, said during a recent announcement of the study.
Shapiro, who will oversee the clinical trial, said it will be about a year before the results are made public.
Under the study's rigid criteria, patients must enter the trial within 18 days from the time of their injury because tests on dogs showed the stimulator worked only on canines treated within two weeks of injury.
Patients must be between ages 18 to 65 and have suffered a complete motor-spinal cord injury below the cervical spine level 4. Patients with certain illnesses and injuries may be excluded by the trial's rigid guidelines.
Shapiro said the weak electrical field generated by the battery-powered device about 600 microvolts per millimeter mimics that which promotes rapid growth in human and animal embryos.
He said the stimulator, which is about the size of two joined lipstick cases, will be removed after 14 weeks of stimulating the tissue. The device has six electrodes radiating from it, three of which are placed above the spinal injury site, and three below it.
Because nerve growth occurs only when bathed in a negative electrical field, the direction of the current flow is reversed every 10 or 15 minutes so that nerves grow toward each other, closing the gap, said Richard Borgens, director of Purdue's Center for Paralysis Research.
Borgens and his colleagues began work on the oscillating field stimulator in the late 1980s. The device was first tested on dogs with natural cases of paraplegia in the early 1990s, but it has since been fine-tuned in anticipation of human trials.
In the series of dog trials performed to date, about 85 percent of the canines showed improvements in their bodily functions. A few even regained the ability to walk, said Borgens, a professor of developmental anatomy.
He said adapting the device for use in humans couldn't have been possible without $2 million in state funding approved in 1999 for the joint Purdue-Indiana University initiative. Researchers from the two schools are working on a number of other potential treatments for paralysis.
During the announcement, one of the dogs successfully treated during the Purdue animal tests roamed the stage as his owners described how their beloved 7-year-old dog, Yukon, was able to walk again.
Then came 19-year-old Nichole Richards of Indianapolis, who was paralyzed in a car crash and wept as she described how her life had changed since the accident left her in a wheelchair and with limited use of her arms.
"What's going on here is making all of us anxious and excited and we hope that what they've been able to do with dogs they will eventually be able to do with humans," she said.
Richards is not a candidate for the Purdue-IU clinical trial because her injury occurred in February.
The joint initiative is one of a handful under way worldwide, including the controversial transplantation of fetal spinal cord tissue into patients, said Naomi Kleitman, education director for the Miami Project to Cure Paralysis.
If any of those therapies prove successful, they will add to the limited tool box of therapies doctors can dip into to treat the wide range of spinal cord injuries, as well as related trauma such as head injuries, said Kleitman, an adjunct associate professor of neurosurgery at the University of Miami's School of Medicine.
"The fact they they're going to a clinical trial in Indianapolis is very exciting and it's good evidence that the field has made progress, but obviously we have to be realistic. There's no guarantee any of this will work in humans," she said.
During the announcement of the Purdue-IU study, the chairwoman of the Indianapolis Motor Speedway said she is donating $2.7 million to the two schools to create endowed professorships aimed at promoting further paralysis research.
Mari Hulman George said her main motivation in making the donation was a spinal injury her grandson, Jarrod, suffered in a bicycle accident when he was 9. He recovered from his paralysis and is now a healthy 18-year-old.
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