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Nettleton Lodge: An Attempted Theft of Property By The Grand Lodge
This article is a discussion of the sordid history of a 'progressive' Arkansas Masonic Lodge and its relationship with The Grand Lodge of Free and Accepted Masons of Arkansas. This matter is part of ongoing litigation in the courts. The following documents are to explain the actions transpiring in Arkansas.
- The Officers of Nettleton Lodge, attending a Grand Lodge Communication were publicly notified that the Charter of the Lodge was being arrested for: a.) Initiating a man of the Wicca belief, and b.) Allowing an expelled Mason to attend an open-meeting Officer's Installation Ceremony.
- A Black man petitioned Nettleton Lodge for the Mysteries of Freemasonry and the Master was informed that if he allowed a Black man to become a member of the Lodge he would be expelled from the Fraternity. The investigating committee was pressured by Grand Lodge representatives to report unfavorable even though members of the committee admitted they could find no fault with the petitioner.
- Members of the Masonic Fraternity in Arkansas have been pressured to waive their rights to a Masonic Trial and "expel themselves" for life without benefit of appeal.
- The Grand Lodge attempted to appropriate the assets of the Lodge, including the building. This action was challenged in the Courts and Nettleton Lodge prevailed.
- The Worshipful Master, the Secretary, the Treasurer, the Junior Deacon, and a general member (who was NOT an officer at this time) were expelled. No charges were filed against any of them except the non-officer Member. Each officer was expelled via a letter sent from the Grand Master James Graham dictating that they were henceforth expelled. The Treasurer was reinstated a year later after turning over Lodge property, belonging to the members of the Nettleton and not the Grand Lodge, as demanded by the Grand Lodge.
- The non-officer Member of the Lodge has a black grandson who desired to join Freemasonry. It was made clear for two years prior to this incident that the Lodge wanted for this black grandson to be permitted to join. The Grand Lodge repeatedly said this would not be acceptable. Without any true justification for the expulsion, this run-in with the Grand Lodge added to the Member's demise. He had only two incidents with the Grand Lodge of Arkansas. The second incident was a proposal to remove unapproved language in the Arkansas by-laws which created and dictated that a Mason is automatically self-expelled when he resigns from the State of Arkansas' jurisdiction. This language was never voted on or approved at a Grand Session, but had been found to be an addition by Grand Lodge officers secretly.
- The Junior Deacon of the Lodge was expelled solely for being friends and refusing to disassociate himself from the Secretary of Nettleton Lodge as demanded by the Grand Lodge. The Grand Master and other Grand Officers specifically stated that if the Junior Deacon from disassociate himself with his friend, he would be reinstated. The Deputy Grand Master said "we can take care of you" if the Junior Deacon would do as demanded. This deal was revoked and a meeting to resolve the matter was canceled upon the filing of a lawsuit by another member of Nettleton Lodge; the Junior Deacon was not a party when the lawsuit was filed.
The only communication between the officers of Nettleton Lodge and the Grand Lodge of Arkansas came via telephone on February 15th. The Grand Master demanded that the Lodge, specifically the Secretary, of Nettleton Lodge turn over the keys to their building. The Grand Lodge held a Masonic trial to expel the non-office member of the Lodge; the Grand Master cited sections of the by-laws that did not pertain to the subject matter whatsoever. No references were given except his word over the men standing accused.
Please review the attached evidence. A note of significance is that the same members of Grand Trial Committee, including John Penrod and Robert Jackson, have continued to be called upon to rule in the expulsion trials of many Masons including the 2010 case of Derek Gordon.
"Justice Is that standard or boundary of right, which enables us to render to every man his just due, without distinction. This virtue is not only consistent with Divine and human laws, but is the very cement and support of civil society; and, as justice in a great measure constitutes the real good man, so should it be the invariable practice of every Mason never to deviate from the minutest principles thereof, ever bearing in mind the time when you stood in the Northeast corner of the Lodge on the first step of a Mason which is the Pedal or fourth perfect point of entrance.
"The only way things will change in Arkansas or any other State in a similar situation- is when the Brothers of these Jurisdictions have a change of heart. As we are waging a battle for the hearts and minds of Freemasons we must do our part to bring to light all of the facts and information surrounding this injustice, and one of the most important ways for us to do this is through online articles and discussions.
"As you must already be aware any "seeming" violation of Masonic law will serve as the pretext for the immediate expulsion of any Brother who would attempt to bring about this important change. While the battle must be fought, and while we must be men of integrity I think you should take every reasonable precaution to guard against this inevitable attack. That being said there should be no restraint shown on our part to do everything legally within our power to bring about a Freemasonry which in act is more closely related to its principles."
Jasper #21 Expels Member, Grand Lodge Ignores Plight
A Brother from Arkansas wrote in to personally share his story with the world. He tried for several years to have the wrongs righted before speaking out. However, he was only led to believe things would be repaired. The end result was an embarrassing.
I was expelled from Masonry in an un-masonic fashion by a Small lodge in Arkansas (Jasper #21) acting with the direction of the Grand Lodge of Arkansas without a trial. It is a lifetime expulsion. If I were to write everything that has happened to me in the last 2 years, it would take a book to discuss. Therefore, I'm just going to give the highlights.
I'm a 20-year Mason and have been Past Master 6 times. I lectured, I did funeral services for lost brethren. I lectured at least six men at Jasper #21. I assisted them enter the principal chairs and taught them the necessary work to excel.
My troubles started when the W.M. of Jasper #21, Gary Lamb, started breaking the by-laws. Gary refused to get a dispensation to sit in the W.M.'s chair. This was the first station he had ever sat which was against the normal by-laws. He declared that he and the two other police officers who were part of Jasper #21 could do "any damn thing" they wanted to do.
The D.D.G.M. that year, Michel Tovar, was a former Police officer as well. Basically, these men had me expelled for standing up for the by-laws and what they mean. Actions against me were instituted by the following: W.M. Gary Lamb (police), S.W. John Griffith (police), Treasurer Marshell Metzgar (police), Sec. Richard Matlock (the local town-store manager), D.D.G.M. Michel Tovar (police), J.D. John Williams (assistant manager at the town-store), and Shannon Willis (Mayor of Jasper).
W.M Gary Lamb fabricated all kinds of falsehoods about me. He filed a charge against me for resigning my post as W.M. in 2004. When asked why he brought up such charges against me at my trial, Gary said that "the Grand Lodge (of Arkansas) said to dig up anything you can on" me.
I called my D.D.G.M. Michel Tovar and talked to him about this problem. He laughed and said that Grand Lodge doesn't want me. I spoke to now-G.M. Martin Gene Warren and showed him the charges against me. We discussed them in detail; he seemed very concerned about what was going on. He thought I was getting a raw deal. But, when I asked him if Bill Jones might be a good bet for my Masonic lawyer. He said Bill could NOT be my lawyer, more directly "hell no."
Bill is a P.G.M. and I thought him to be as good of man as you could find. I should of known how corrupt G.M. Warren was by that point. Now, Warren went around telling folks he obtained written admissions of my guilt. This was false and a fabrication.
I told W.M. Gary Lamb that he was as "full of shit as a Christmas Turkey" while sitting with five other brothers. Further, I proved that he was fabricating lies about me. I had witnesses of this.S So, they expelled me for being a true and just man and allowed the lying coward to march free
I would like to give you a snippet of the list of un-masonic actions from my trial:
- I was charged while I was on vacation visiting my aged mother. W.M. Gary Lamb was well aware that I was out of the state.
- The trial was held during a called meeting, but many of Jasper #21's members were NOT given notice.
- The investigation committee NEVER contacted me. No phone calls, no home visits.
- A non-member of the lodge, John Havens, was allowed to vote on me.
- I was appointed a Masonic Lawyer of their choice, not the one I had chosen, who had NO knowledge of my situation.
- My lawyer never came to the trial; he "forgot" the lodge meeting was that night.
- Because of #6, my lawyer never read my letter to the lodge.
- A non-member was given authority and used it to call Masons to write negative, false statements about me
- I never received a copy of any of the statements written about me nor was I permitted to know who wrote the false accusations. (How do you defend yourself against what you do not know.)
- I did not feel safe going to the trial as it was almost entirely made up of police officers who were permitted to carry their guns during the lodge trial. (They were known to carry their revolvers, pepper spray, and other objects in lodge regularly.)
I wrote an appeal addressed to the Grand Lodge, to the officers of Jasper #21, and all fellow Masons of Arkansas. It outlined everything above and in more detail.
The way I view this situation, the Grand Lodge of Arkansas was aware of everything that occurred at Jasper #21. They have received powerful letter from concerned witnesses at my trial and other Masons aware of the travesty befalling me. Apparently, they condone breaking the by-laws. The Grand Lodge through me out of Masonry for life without a trial. But, they sure as hell kept the money I paid for perpetual dues to be a LIFE LONG member. Brotherhood, maybe, exists. But, it sure isn't floating around Grand Lodge. It's more of a damn chicken coop unless you're in the good ole system.
This is just one of hundreds of sad stories of abuses that brethren have allowed to be swept under the rug. At some point fellow Masons must accept that we all have a role to play and to begin working to resolve these wide-spread situations and continual series of abuse. The abuse is not isolated.
A Case Study of Contemporary Masonic Cronyism and Inequity
The article below was posted on a Masonic website in 2004, by Arkansas Mason Maxwell D. "Doug" Simmons, a Past Master of Blocher Lodge No. 247, in Booneville.
Headed for Disaster!
Thread started on: Jul 27th, 2004, 09:06am
During the past few years, I have witnessed some of the most asinine, un-thinking, cruel-minded petulant children masquerading as FreeMasons in every Lodge I have visited, and every Grand Lodge Communication I have attended in Arkansas.
This Fraternity of Free and Accepted Masons of Arkansas has degenerated into a social club lacking even the simplest rules of good conduct. Not many of the members I see are following the tenets of Friendship, Morality, or Brotherly Love. There is little old-fashioned courtesy or respect displayed in most Masonic communications I have witnessed or taken part in.
In reading recent email messages circulating among some of our Brothers, concerning the death of our Grand Master and the assumption of his duties by the Deputy Grand Master, I was ashamed of the lack of character displayed by nearly all of the participants in those messages. I have not seen such vicious back-biting, back-stabbing, and even outright lies from friends, acquaintances or neighbors, and it is particularly shameful to see it coming from those who pretend to be correct and upright men and Masons.
The sad fact is – we have done this to ourselves! We have failed to live up to our own standards, and we have failed to honor our several obligations, sworn to in good faith, in the presence of God.
Through negligence, apathy, fear of dwindling membership, and lack of desire to participate in the decisions of our Lodges, we have neglected our duty to properly investigate prospective candidates or petitioners for affiliation who wish to join our Lodges. We have allowed individuals of low character and morality to permeate our Fraternity and they have undermined the integrity of this institution.
We have lost our focus; we have lost our character; we have lost our morality. And worse, this has gone on for so long the damage may be irreparable. It may now be so in-grained in our Fraternity that it can't be corrected.
Focus: We have forgotten that our Lodges exist to promote the Fatherhood of God and the Brotherhood of Man. Our duty includes charity – to our Brothers and to our communities. We have allowed our Lodges to conduct fund-raising activities to pay their bills! We're supposed to be givers of charity, not takers. Is it right or proper to ask our friends and neighbors for money to pay our operating expenses, instead of raising our dues to cover the costs?
Over the years, our Lodges have become 'coffee clubs' populated mostly by old men who have little interest in the current world or its current affairs. We prefer to live in the past, and yearn for the 'good old days.' We moan about our declining membership but we refuse to face the problem: we have nothing to offer the young men in our communities. I don't know any young men who would want to join a group of old cronies who have no real interest in today's world, and don't even have the courtesy to provide a meaningful Masonic education to those who would join. A few of us (less than 10% of our Lodge membership) gather at our Lodges once or twice a month, plod through our ritual with almost total indifference, pay a few bills, and then go drink coffee and join in the gossip.
We have forgotten that Lodges exist in this State only by Charter of the Grand Lodge. Our charters are issued by that body, and can be removed by that body. The Grand Lodge does not exist to 'serve' our Lodges; we are ruled and governed by the constitution and by-laws of that body. The Grand Lodge owes us nothing but the right to operate, and then only in accordance with the rules and regulations established by the Grand Lodge officers and Delegates. Our Grand Lodge is the guardian of the Landmarks of Ancient, Free and Accepted Masons, and we are not allowed to promulgate rules, laws, or regulations that are not in compliance with those Landmarks.
Character: We made a number of promises when we were initiated into this Fraternity, and we are failing to honor those promises – all of them! We criticize and nit-pick everything the Grand Lodge officers do and say… we petulantly refuse to do anything those officers suggest… we constantly accuse them of various
plots and schemes that will eventually bring this institution to ruin, without ever wondering why they might want to do that.
When we asked the Grand Lodge to look into the possibility of an 'umbrella' insurance plan, a questionnaire was sent to all Secretaries to gather the necessary information required by various insurance providers in order to provide quotes. This generated an outcry that the Grand Lodge was taking an inventory in preparation for shutting down and taking over various Lodges!
When our Deputy Grand Master announced that he was going to honor the election and installation of the Grand Master after his death, and act as the Presiding Officer (as provided by our Constitution and By- Laws), the DGM was accused of trying to steal two years as Grand Master! And it gets worse: The Deputy Grand Master, Presiding has been the target of vicious character assassination attacks; he has been the subject of cruel, personal attacks on his motives, business affairs, personal affairs, and even his competence.
At our last Annual Communication, the main topic of conversation among the Delegates was childish, spoiled-brat complaints about the lack of coffee and doughnuts, and some of those spoiled brats were heard to comment that because there were no doughnuts or coffee, they were not going to vote for the per capita dues increase!
Morality: We no longer live by the standards of morality we swore years ago to uphold. Adultery is an accepted fact among our Brothers unless we get singled out for special condemnation by those with axes to grind; We don't offer much help to our wives, widows or orphans; We don't look for men of good character, or those who possess a higher standard of morality than others around them… we just look for more members.
Every year at our Grand Lodge Communications we are faced with attempts to lower our standards for the sole purpose of increasing membership.
We begrudge almost every dollar donated to charities or worthy causes, and criticize the Grand Lodge officers for picking the 'wrong' charities.
All this from men who call themselves Masons! I don't wear my Masonic ring any more – I'm ashamed to be associated with a group of selfish, un-caring, petulant children.
Due to lack of interest from anyone this site was designed for – other than my few notes, nobody has posted much of anything here – I'm shutting down this Board on August 15th until this Fraternity comes to its senses and returns to its honorable principles established so long ago… if it's possible.
I have a deepening dread that it's too late for redemption, and I'm afraid Freemasonry will disappear in Arkansas within the next 5 – 10 years.
Doug Simmons
Simmons hosted the Masonic website on which the article above appeared, but he shuttered it as his rise in the Grand Lodge of Arkansas began. It's a matter of speculation whether his condescending attitude, and his opinion that Masons exist only to serve their Grand Lodges, was a factor in his many subsequent Grand Lodge appointments.
In recent years, Simmons has served on almost all of the politically motivated trial committees appointed by the Grand Lodge of Arkansas. As an example, he was one of five members of the Grand Lodge trial committee that convicted and suspended every officer of Sebastian Lodge No. 706 in Ft. Smith (as reported in the first Masonic leak published on this site), then immediately thereafter, he was appointed special Grand Lodge "overseer" for the convicted brothers' lodge!
Simmons later served as one of five members of a Grand Lodge trial committee that convicted and expelled five Past Masters of various Arkansas lodges, including retired US Marine veteran Otis D. Burtcher, who was convicted in absentia after he suffered a heart attack at his Masonic trial and was rushed away in an ambulance to undergo emergency surgery (see: last week's Masonic leak).
As unbelievable as it seems, after that and similar displays of "morality and brotherly love," Simmons was presented the Grand Lodge of Arkansas' highest Masonic award, the "Medal of Honor, Category #1″ for "distinguished service to the fraternity!" His state's Grand Master Ronnie Hedge, Deputy Grand Master Gene Warren, and Grand Secretary James Weatherall, traveled more than 200 miles to personally present the award (see: http://blocher.westark.net/trboard.htm ).
Despite his Grand Lodge's prohibition against electronic Masonic communication, adopted in February 2010, Simmons has continued posting public commentary like the following on "The Burning Taper" blog: Arkansas Grand Lodge resignations confirmed. Furthermore, he apparently created, copyrighted, and maintains his current lodge website, while many other Arkansas lodges have been forced to dismantle or drastically alter their similar sites (see: Blocher Lodge No. 247 , Sebastian Lodge No. 706 ).
Even though Simmons has indisputably and repeatedly violated his state's Masonic by-laws, as well as his own Master Mason's obligation in numerous ways, the only action taken as a result, has been to heap additional honors and awards upon him.
It appears that Simmons has successfully ascended to a level in Arkansas Masonry that's exempt from the rules and regulations applying to ordinary Masons, who otherwise meet upon the level of equality, and act by the plumb of rectitude.
Please, review all reference materials and evidence:
Review the archived Grand Lodge of Arkansas website as seen in 2008
Review previous article discussing Simmon's involvement to expel a brother who had a heart attack during the trial
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Brother Suffers Heart Attack at Masonic Trial: Expelled in Absentia
The following "leak" is indicative of a few of the many wrongs perpetrated against the "regular" Masons of Arkansas by their Grand Lodge.
The letter (at the end of this release) is from Past Master Otis D. Burtcher, a retired US Marine veteran, who was ordered by his state's "Deputy Grand Master, Presiding," George R. Franks, Jr., to appear at his own blue lodge and re-take his Master Mason's obligation as means of punishment for asking why Franks refused to be installed in his deceased predecessor's office as Grand Master.
Like most Masonic constitutions, the Constitution of the Grand Lodge of Arkansas requires a Grand Master, and says that if a Grand Master dies in office, the Deputy Grand Master is to succeed him. When Deputy Grand Master Franks steadfastly refused to do that, brother Burtcher and several others gained permission from the majority (11 of 20) of the state's living Past Grand Masters, to charge him with un-Masonic conduct.
As soon as Franks became aware of the action, he summonsed a meeting of the living Past Grand Masters at a time so inconvenient as to prevent the most aged ones from attending. He then named one of his supporters as temporary "chairman" of the group, and in that capacity, the new chairman declared that no votes would count, except from members physically present.
As the complete vote was shrewdly circumvented and the majority fell short at the called meeting, Deputy Grand Master Franks declared all of the Masons who attempted to charge him with un-Masonic conduct "suspended pending trial." He then appointed 5-member trial committees to try those brothers, and he ordered that the trials be held in a back room of the Grand Lodge offices in Little Rock, not in the brothers' own lodges, not with their own brothers to judge them, and not with any audience or witnesses except those specifically called to testify.
Brother Burtcher showed up to defend himself at his scheduled trial, but before the proceeding began, he suffered a heart attack and nearly died. While local emergency services were in route, a brother from a different jurisdiction offered him some nitroglycerin tablets to alleviate his pain, but withdrew them when the ailing brother reached for one, saying: "we'd better not do that, we might get in trouble."
Paramedics subsequently administered two maximum-dosage units of nitroglycerin while transporting the stricken brother to the nearest hospital. His cardiac surgeon reported that he suffered cardiac arrest, and immediate surgery was required to save him. The surgery was successful, but the 35% permanent loss of heart function he suffered, might have been lessened or prevented if the visiting brother hadn't denied him the medication.
Finally, to add insult to injury, "Mr." Burtcher was informed by a member of his Grand Lodge Trial Committee, that the trial had been a mere formality, and no defense would have made any difference in its outcome. Apparently, the Grand Lodge of Arkansas sees no need to allow an accused brother to rebut evidence against him, or to introduce exculpatory evidence, as is typically offered in any other court of law and equity.
A few weeks later, at the Grand Lodge's next annual communication, the majority of voting members voted to uphold the unjust expulsion. They were misled into doing so, however, because they were told that brother Burtcher "failed to appear" in answer to his summons to trial, and was declared expelled as a result.
One member of the trial committee who expelled brother Burtcher (and many others while serving on similar Grand Lodge Trial Committees), Maxwell D. "Doug" Simmons, was later awarded the Grand Lodge of Arkansas' highest award for "service to the Masonic fraternity." Another member, Robert L. Jackson, subsequently entered the state's "grand line," and is on track to be the state's Grand Master next year.
The following is a letter written by PGM Arthur J. "Buddy" Mhoon (Grand Master in 1985) discussing the mockery being made of Freemasonry in Arkansas after this and other expulsions. It was written to PGM Garry C. Jones for his actions under the guise of his title:
January 3rd, 2005
M.W. Gary C. Jones, PGM, Gr. Treasurer
17810 Middle Ridge Road
Ozark, AR. 72949
Dear Brother Gary,
I have always had a high reguard for you dedication and devotion to Masonry in Arkansas, as you have served in several capacities in your Masonic Career. However, I think you should step down as Chairman of the Masonic Law and Usage Committee for the following reasons:
1. There is no provision in the Digest(Sec. 2170) for selecting a Chairman for the Committee on Law and Usage, so your election was neither ill-legal nor legal. It has been my experience that when no law exists, Ancient Usage is applied. Ancient Usage tells me that Brother Quinn Lafarge should be the Chairman if he is able. If not, he should appoint someone to fill that station.
2. You have demonstrated that you are not impartial on matters coming before the committee. When Brother Quinn Lafarge handed you a packet of papers to be presented to the Committee, you simply glanced at them and placed your judgment over and above the collective judgment of the Committee. None of the committee has been given any of this information. You did not even read aloud the contents of this packet, much less appoint a committee of investigation. You made the decision to do the thinking for the committee and not to share it with the Committee.
3. You will have a conflict of interests, when you preside over the deliberations of the committee on any recommendations that you make as Treasurer. How could you not be impartial over your own recommendations.
4. There have been presented several Resolutions from your own Lodge which you as Secretary signed. A couple of which, if passed, would fly against the face of tradition in this Grand Lodge (14 Year olds may be made Mason's) (Grand Lodge Officer's only to be allowed to vote in Grand Lodge) If you remain as Chairman of the Law and Usage Committee, you would preside over the deliberations of these resolutions. Will you make the decision for the Committee or will you allow input from the rest of the committee? I do not believe any Past Grand Master who holds an elected Office in the Grand Lodge should be allowed to preside over the deliberations of the Committee on Law and Usage.
5. Brother Gary, I hope and pray that you will do the Honorable thing, relinquish the Chairmanship of the Law and Usage Committee, to the rightful Chairman. If not, I will be very disappointed in You.
Fraternally and Sincerely
A. J."Buddy" Mhoon, PGM
Copy To PGM's, Brothers:
Bill A. Jones
Quinn D. Lafargue, Jr.
Marty D. Byers
Frank A. Smith
Kevin L. Hatfield
Jack B. Stockburger
Dickey J. Fortner
Paul C. Bush
Dick E. Browning
Monroe Robinson
John H. Kidwell
Joe C. Smith
Bobby D Pope
Hayden P. Davis
James L. Weatherall
Danny R. King
Here's a personal letter from this expelled brother to other befallen brethren:
Dear Brothers,
I spoke with Mac [Past Master Malcolm R. McHughes] on the phone this afternoon. He and Charles [Past Master Charles Baker] had just left a conference with an attorney. Mac told me there were two attorneys present, and you can contact him if their names are important. It seems the attorney Mac first consulted, asked another attorney to meet with them, as the other is more experienced in slander suits.
At the meeting, the attorneys told Mac and Charles they had a "slam-dunk" case against Franks [Grand Master George R. Franks, Jr.] for slander, specifically referring to the letters Franks sent in which he made accusations of them telling lies and such. Those letters were copied to third parties, and according to Mac, the lawyers said that a suit with that evidence would be successful. Other comments made by Franks while addressing the craft could, should — and would also be perused, but the letters alone were enough for a case.
The lawyers went on to point out that if the case was successful and a judgment obtained, it would probably be of no financial avail. The court can't take Frank's house, car, and certain other properties. They also pointed out (as did I) that if a judgment was forth coming, Franks could — and would in all probability — file bankruptcy, thereby avoiding any financial loss.
Based on that probability, they were unwilling to take the case on a contingency basis, as a judgment that's un-collectable, doesn't put beans on the table. We can all see their point there. Thus, they would require an upfront retainer. Mac was of the opinion a sum in the range of $5,000 to $8,000 is needed.
All should be aware that a "slam-dunk" is their opinion, and may be the case, but there's no guarantee, and the money spent — whatever the amount, will be non-refundable.
Mac also said there were many throughout the fraternity who said they'd be willing to help with finances, but I seriously doubt that even a fraction of the necessary amount can be raised. Men who were unwilling to stand up to what they all privately professed to be wrong, were the same men who failed to come forward and let their strength of numbers be known. I doubt they are any more willing to thrust their hand into their pocket in an effort to see justice done now.
As I strolled down to my garden to harvest tomatoes this evening, I contemplated some of the above. I asked myself what is to be gained. Face? I haven't lost face. I still think as highly of myself as before, actually a little more. I was along with you doing the right thing. We, to the man, counseled each other in an effort to do things by the book. We did them by the book, the same book that the Grand Lodge flat ignored, so in my view, I have no loss of face to be regained.
Rid a Fraternity of people like Franks? I ask you and myself, to what avail? What benefit is to be gained if Franks is kicked out of Masonry? What benefit if a judgment goes against him and he files bankruptcy? I'm out money up front on lawyers who say the case is a "slam-dunk," but if it was so open and closed, I would think the lawyers would expect to be able to obtain some kind of remuneration from the successful prosecution of the case.
As I strolled back from my garden, I recalled that we've already made an effort to inform the craft of the wrongs being committed. I personally devoted more than two days and one all-night session in that endeavor, and we collectively spent over $500.00 mailing evidence to every lodge in the state, but to what end?
We thought the men we called "brothers," the men we'd gone to such great lengths to warn about the wrongs being committed, the men we were putting our Masonic careers on the line for, would prove themselves to be men who'd display their strength of character. Ha! What a joke that turned out to be! The same people we tried to uphold the principles of a fraternity for — and with, proved to be as disinterested in those principles as I am disinterested in those men today.
I've come to the conclusion they deserve to have the likes of Franks within their ranks. They were unwilling to assist us in our effort to see right done within the fraternity, and then were unwilling to come to our aid. Now, I'm unwilling to go further to rid them of the cancer that's eating away at their Fraternity.
Masonry is an idea conceived of, perpetuated by, and sustained by men. The majority of those men have proven to be less than men in my eyes, and my tomatoes are more important to me now.
As for me, I'd rather not pursue the matter additionally, but I joined in this venture with all of you, and as you've stood by me, I'll continue to stand by you. I think highly of each and every one of you. None of you, nor I, have done anything less than we should have, and were obligated to do. In keeping with those principles, I'll match any of the brother's individual financial contributions.
I am,
Otis Dean "O.D." Burtcher
Please remember that there are MANY more documents and evidence provided as attachments of this article.
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|School Debates Hiring Third Nurse
|Written by Nancy Bowman
|Wednesday, 21 November 2012 00:00
More nursing time has been added at the Tipp City Schools primarily to assist students with diabetic-related needs.
Superintendent John Kronour told the board of education in an October report that he and Gretta Kumpf, assistant superintendent, were exploring options for adding to nursing care.
More students are requiring nursing services, he said.
"The number of diabetic students seems to be growing at a very rapid rate," Kronour wrote to the board. The severity of some of the cases also has intensified, and many of the students are on insulin, he said.
The most critical time for care is around the lunch break, he said.
The district had two full-time nurses, RNs, working with students until recently when a third, a LPN, was hired for two hours a day, five days a week.
"We are trying to work with students on how to manage their situation," Kronour said. In many cases, attention may be limited to checking sugar levels.
"We want to do this economically, but still provide the level of care needed," he said.
The mayor of Columbus commented last week on the rapidly rising rate of students with diabetes in the state's capital's schools. Mayor Michael B. Coleman listed the rate of students with diabetes among the challenges facing the city's public schools The Columbus Dispatch reported Nov. 17.
The JDRF, once known as the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation, offers information on diabetes and a Back to School Basics page on its website www.jdrf.org.
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Skaneateles Members of St. James Episcopal Church are excited to get their heads shaved, and they are inviting Skaneateles residents to join them.
The upcoming event is a St. Baldrick's fundraiser to help fight childhood cancer. Participants collect pledges from family and friends and agree to have their heads shaved as a visible, outward sign of the fight against all types of cancer. The money goes to St. Baldrick's, a national organization, but one that helps numerous children in the Central New York area, specifically through donations to Upstate Medical Center in Syracuse.
"It is such a positive, energetic, inspiring event full of hope," said event co-chair David Plogman. "It is about beating cancer and remembering those children who have lost the fight."
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| February 21, 2005
Republicans complain that they are unfairly caricatured as heartless corporate lobbyists who get their jollies yanking health insurance away from little old ladies in wheelchairs. Fine, I say. So how do they explain Haley Barbour? Most of Washington remembers Barbour as the former Republican Party chairman and a consummate K Street insider. But lately, Barbour has been gaining a different sort of notoriety in Mississippi, where he became governor in 2004. Mississippi is struggling to afford Medicaid, the joint federal-state program that provides health insurance for the poor, because rising medical costs and swelling enrollments have made it so expensive. Last year, Barbour came up with a crude, if effective, solution: Cut from the rolls 50,000 people who live at or near the poverty line. When critics protested that the cuts would expose these people to substantial new medical bills, Barbour insisted the new Medicare drug benefit would take care of them--even though Medicare's benefit, which is less comprehensive, won't even start until 2006. Then Barbour began ranting about Medicaid fraud. "I'm not going to make people who work two and three and four jobs to support their families and pay their taxes have to pay for people to get free health care who could work but choose not to." But the people Barbour was ousting from Medicaid weren't lazy; they were part of Mississippi's plad program, as in "Poverty Level Aged and Disabled," meaning age or disability keeps them from working. Soon Barbour got a lesson in the difference between Washington, where budget cuts look like numbers on a spreadsheet, and state capitals, where budget cuts look like your neighbor's elderly aunt. After legislators passed Barbour's proposal, they came home to crowds of irate constituents. Now those lawmakers are scrambling to undo the cuts, and Barbour has agreed to consider alternatives. But he has already ruled out raising taxes to close the program's funding gap; the former tobacco lobbyist is particularly unhappy about a proposed 50-cent levy on cigarette packs. That means significant Medicaid cuts loom no matter what the legislature concocts. One measure under discussion would reduce the yearly limits on Medicaid coverage from seven prescriptions to five and from 30 days of hospitalization to 15. It's still more than adequate--unless you happen to get really sick. Barbour is hardly the first governor to try to reduce the flow of money into Medicaid. In fact, it's a gubernatorial tradition that reaches across party lines and renews itself every time a recession tightens state budgets. When the Democrats controlled Congress or the White House, however, they usually blocked such efforts because they believed in preserving Medicaid as an entitlement that would grow with the population's needs. Even as the program got more expensive, they did their best to have the federal government contribute its share of dollars. Then they pushed states to do the same. Today, Washington is under different management. In 2003, President Bush showed some of his famous compassionate conservatism by ripping a page from Newt Gingrich's "Contract With America" and proposing to turn Medicaid into a block grant, thereby putting a lid on the federal government's contribution. The initiative failed, as even Republican governors had qualms about it. But, this week, Bush revealed in his new budget proposal that he still expects to extract tens of billions of dollars from the program over the next few years. Most of these savings will allegedly come from eliminating waste, which sounds easy enough, until you realize that Medicaid already pays doctors and hospitals less than either Medicare or private insurance. Most likely, states will be hard-pressed to comply with Bush's budget goals without cutting people or benefits. And that seems to be the whole point. Bush's new secretary of health and human services is Mike Leavitt, the former governor of Utah, whose claim to fame was a rather creative restructuring of that state's Medicaid program in 2002. Leavitt reduced benefits for one group of beneficiaries, then used the savings to offer uninsured residents deeply discounted "insurance" that covers doctor visits but not hospitalization. (Coming soon: car insurance that doesn't cover collisions.) The entirely predictable result of this so-called expansion was to contract the basic Medicaid benefit package. 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Leopardus pardalishttp://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2008.RLTS.T11509A3287809.en
|Scientific Name:
|Leopardus pardalis
|Species Authority:
|(Linnaeus, 1758)
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|Taxonomic Notes:
|This species is genetically very diverse across its range and shows a high degree of population structure, with four distinct clusters: Central America and Mexico, north-northwest South America, north-northeast South America and southern South America. The demarcation between northern and southern South America was identified as the Amazon river (Eizirik et al. 1998).
|Red List Category & Criteria:
|Least Concern ver 3.1
|Year Published:
|Date Assessed:
|Caso, A., Lopez-Gonzalez, C., Payan, E., Eizirik, E., de Oliveira, T., Leite-Pitman, R., Kelly, M. & Valderrama, C.
|Nowell, K., Breitenmoser-Wursten, C., Breitenmoser, U. (Cat Red List Authority) & Schipper, J. (Global Mammal Assessment Team)
Recent ecological studies have shown that the ocelot usually ranks first in felid abundance in most habitat types in the lowland Neotropics, and that the species can reach density estimates high enough for maintaining several long-tern viable populations, especially in the Amazon Basin, its stronghold (Oliveira et al. in submission, Oliveira et al. in press). For this reason it is listed as Least Concern. However, some subpopulations are threatened, and decreasing (IUCN Cats Red List Workshop 2007).
|Previously published Red List assessments:
|Range Description:
|The ocelot is widely distributed from Mexico through Central and South America south to NE Argentina and southern Brazil and Uruguay, found in every country except Chile. Only a small remnant population is found north of the Rio Grande in the United States, estimated at 80-120 animals (Sunquist and Sunquist 2002). In Mexico it has disappeared from much of its historic range on the west coast. There are report of the species up to 3000 m but there are likely outliers.
|Countries occurrence:
Native:Argentina; Belize; Bolivia, Plurinational States of; Brazil; Colombia; Costa Rica; Ecuador; El Salvador; French Guiana; Guatemala; Guyana; Honduras; Mexico; Nicaragua; Panama; Paraguay; Peru; Suriname; Trinidad and Tobago; United States; Venezuela, Bolivarian Republic of
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|Ocelot population densities throughout its entire range from 5 to 100/100 km², and are typically much higher than other small sympatric felids (Oliveira et al. in press). Ocelots exert a negative effect on the population of the smaller sympatric species (the ocelot effect) (Oliveira et al. in press). Vulnerable in Colombia (Rodriguez-Mahecha et al., 2006) and Argentina (Diaz and Ojeda 2000). In Brazil, populations outside the Amazon are listed as VU (Machado et al. 2005).
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|Habitat and Ecology:
|The species occupies a wide spectrum of habitats including mangrove forests and coastal marshes, savanna grasslands and pastures, thorn scrub, and tropical forest of all types (primary, secondary, evergreen, seasonal and montane, although it typically occurs at elevations below 1,200 m) (Nowell and Jackson 1996), and shows a higher level of habitat plasticity than previously thought (Oliveira et al. in press).
The ocelot is a medium sized felid (11 kg), with a litter size of 1.4 kittens (1–4), and typically nocturno-crepuscular activity, but that could also be active during daytime (Oliveira and Cassaro 2005, Oliveira 1994). Throughout much of its range (including Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica and Belize) this tends to be the most abundant cat species. The ocelot also reaches higher density estimates than its sympatric smaller species, usually >>0.15/km², and also negatively impact its small guild members. Its diet includes small mammals, birds and reptiles, but larger sized prey (>800 g), such as agoutis, armadillos, pacas, etc. are vital for the species persistence in an area. Average mean weight of mammalian prey is 1.4 kg (Oliveira et al. in press).
|Major Threat(s):
|The ocelot has been described as being tolerant of disturbed habitat and persists in wooded patches near human settlements. However, recent studies have depicted a more specialized animal operating under rather harsh environmental constraints (Nowell and Jackson 1996). Although widespread commercial harvests for the fur trade ceased decades ago, some illegal trade still persists. At present the major threats are habitat loss and fragmentation, illegal trade (pets and pelts), and retaliatory killing due to depredation of poultry (IUCN Cats Red List workshop, 2007).
|Conservation Actions:
|Included on CITES Appendix I. The species is protected across most of its range, with hunting banned in Argentina, Brazil, Bolivia, Colombia, Costa Rica, French Guiana, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Suriname, Trinidad, United States, Uruguay and Venezuela, and hunting regulations in place in Peru (Nowell and Jackson 1996). Part of the species range includes protected areas, including some capable of maintaining long-term viable populations (Oliveira et al. in submission).
de Oliveira, T.G. 1994. Neotropical cats: ecology and conservation. EDUFMA, São Luís, MA, Brazil.
de Oliveira, T. G. and Cassaro, K. 2005. Guia de campo dos felinos do Brasil. Instituto Pró-Carnívoros/Fundação Parque Zoológico de São Paulo/Sociedade de Zoológicos do Brasil/Pró-Vida Brasil, São Paulo, Brazil.
de Oliveira, T.G., Mazim F.D., Kasper, C.B., Tortato, M.A., Soares, J.B.G. and Marques, R.V. Submitted. Small Neotropical felids density in Brazil: a preliminary demographic assessment of the little known species. Biological Conservation.
de Oliveira, T.G., Tortato, M.A., Silveira, L., Kasper, C.B., Mazim, F.D., Lucherini, M. Jácomo, A.T., Soares, J.B.G., Marques, R.V. and Sunquist, M. 2010. Ocelot ecology and its effect in the small-felid guild in the lowland Neotropics. In: D.W. Macdonald and A. Loveridge (eds), Biology and Conservation of Wild Felids, pp. 563-584. Oxford University Press, Oxford.
Díaz, G. B. and Ojeda, R. A. (eds). 2000. Libro rojo: mamíferos amenazados de la Argentina. pp. 106 pp.. Soc. Argentina para el Estudio de los Mamíferos, Buenos Aires.
Eizirik, E., Bonatto, S. L., Salzano, F. M., Johnson, W. E., O'Brien, S. J., Crawshaw Jr., P. G., Vie, J.-C. and Brousset, D. M. 1998. Phylogeographic patterns and evolution of the mitochondrial DNA control region in two neotropical cats (Mammalia, felidae). Journal of Molecular Evolution 47: 613-624.
IUCN. 2008. 2008 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Available at: http://www.iucnredlist.org. (Accessed: 5 October 2008).
Machado, A.B.M., Drummond, G.M. and Martins, C.S. 2005. Lista da Fauna Brasileira Ameaçada de Extinção: Incluindo as Espécies Quase Ameaçadas e Deficientes em Dados. Fundação Biodiversitas, Belo Horizonte, Brazil.
Nowell, K. and Jackson, P. 1996. Wild Cats. Status Survey and Conservation Action Plan. IUCN/SSC Cat Specialist Group, Gland, Switzerland and Cambridge, UK.
Rodriguez-Mahecha, J. V., Alberico, M., Trujillo, F. and Jorgenson, J. 2006. Libro Rojo de los Mamíferos de Colombia. Serie Libros Rojos de Especies Amenazadas de Colombia. Conservación Internacional Colombia & Ministerio de Ambiente, vivienda y Desarrollo Territorial, Bogota, Colombia.
Sunquist, M. and Sunquist, F. 2002. Wild Cats of the World. University of Chicago Press.
|Caso, A., Lopez-Gonzalez, C., Payan, E., Eizirik, E., de Oliveira, T., Leite-Pitman, R., Kelly, M. & Valderrama, C. 2008. Leopardus pardalis. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2008: e.T11509A3287809. http://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2008.RLTS.T11509A3287809.en . Downloaded on 09 October 2015.
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MADRID – Madrid-Waddington Athletic Director Gary Tischler called 2012-13 a banner year for the Winter Athletic program for the Yellowjackets on Tuesday evening at their awards night.
What a year, said Tischler. Our merger athletes with Canton and Norwood-Norfolk were huge successes both athletically and with character. Our basketball teams in boys and girls basketball at both the Junior Varsity and Varsity levels were extremely successful with the four banners in front of me. We won three divisional championships, a Section 10 Class D overall championship in boys basketball, and a Section 10-7 Class D Boys Basketball championship. Academically, we had a New York State Scholar Athlete team and had success in the classroom. And our modified teams show excellent promise. So much of this is attributed to the work beginning at the biddy levels, travel teams, and modified coaches and the parents. There is a sense of tradition and pride that continues to grow here at Madrid-Waddington.
Girls Varsity Basketball Coach Tischler, Cheerleading Coach Danielle Armstrong, Boys JV Coach Tim Dashnaw, Modified Girls and Boys Basketball Coaches Buffy Gabri and Shane Sudol, and Varsity Boys Basketball Coach Aaron Jones briefly spoke about their seasons. Coach Tischler also spoke on behalf of Canton Girls Hockey coach Anita Francis and Track coach John Casserly on merger athletes.
Varsity Boys Basketball: Coach Aaron Jones thanked his team for a fun ride.
It was a fun ride or journey that our team was able to experience together. It was a journey like no other, said Jones whose team recorded a 17-7 mark, 13-5 during the regular season. We had a team of experience, no experience and little experience but we came together as a team. At times we played extremely well and then we had some games that we didnt play well at all. Our team didnt like being the called the sixth seed and we put together a great run and finish.
The Jackets finished with Colin OBryan and Greg Thompson as NAC First Team All-Northerns and Richard Wright as a Second Team All-Northern. Terry Crump was the NAC Sportsmanship Award winner. Wright was credited with stepping up at point guard during the middle of the season when OBryan injured his knee. Thompson was a force inside and was credited for sending M-W into the overall championship game hitting a buzzer beating basket against Edwards-Knox.
OBryan has been a fixture on the court for M-W for four seasons.
Other members of Coach Jones squad honored were Randy Ball, Jacob Barney, Zach Brock, Terry Crump. TJ Gagnon, Alex Hammond, James Hunt and Maurice Rease.
Varsity Girls Basketball: Coach Gary Tischler told the crowd his team started with eight players and received a Christmas present.
We began the season with eight girls and needing to find someone to step in for Bridget Beldock, who became our Christmas present after not being able to play soccer because of injury and illness. Our nine players were truly a wonderful blend of athletes, a coaches dream of cohesiveness and true caring for one another. Comparisons with past teams are something I try to avoid – but I have to say this groups chemistry was as good as any group Ive coached in any sport, said Tischler whose team had a scholar athlete team of seven.
The Jackets were led by freshman second team All-Northern Olivia Parmeter, NAC Sportsmanship award winner junior Taylor Lenney, senior second team All-Northern Katie Marcellus, senior first team All-Northern Bridget Beldock and first team All-Northern Tess Knight.
Also honored for a 18-2 finish were Jenn King, Desiree Pryce, Sierra Dumas and Shelby Kendall.
JV Girls Basketball: Coach Tischler spoke on behalf of Coach Larry LaMere.
This team of 10 players are incredibly self-disciplined, unselfish and have great chemisty. The icing on the cake was a 15-2 mark and two tournament titles and a league championship, said Tischler speaking for Coach LaMere.
Honored were: Amelia Bailey, Samantha Dugan, Kaleigh Field, Elizabeth Froats, Danielle Hough, Hannah Marcellus, Brooke Nichols, Dia Richards, Sophia Roome, and Mary Young.
JV Boys Basketball: Coach Tim Dashnaw spoke regarding his teams 16-2 mark.
We finished 8-0 on the NAC North season and beat a very good Morristown team in overtime, went 1-1 against Potsdam, beat Chateaugay and lost to OFA – one of the best programs around. We had a great year with great attitudes, said Dashnaw.
Members of the team honored were: Aaron Armstrong, Jordan Arquitt, Matthew Delosh, Austin Lanning, Wade Lawrence, John Lenney, Dakota Matthie, Liam Miller, Luke Miller, David Odendahl, Michael Thew, Harrison VanBuren, Brandon Vice and Dylan Wolfe.
Cheerleading: Coach Danielle Armstrong thanked her team for their dedication.
This year, we were very flexible with our practices and cheerleading commitments so we can cheer on the basketball teams and prepare for competitions – something we did this year. We tried and did many new things this season and they worked very hard. I just want to thank the teachers and staff here at M-W that helped us raise money to attend the Edwards-Knox competition after we needed to cancel at Heuvelton to support our basketball team in the state playoffs and lost our entry fee, said Armstrong who awarded certificates and pins to Autumn Beckstead, Ashley Bernard, Bailea Bigelow, Natalie Boland, Abbigail Cope, Michelle Finnegan, Selena Gonzalez, Jessica Lamay, Corinne McKnight, Kennedy Murray, Karlie Robertson and Alyssa Sabre. Also honored were: Morgan Beeson, Leslie Anne French, Casandra McKnight and Mariah Patenaude.
Track and Field: Cassidy Scott (distance), Austin Scott (distance), Branden ONeill (200,400), Brian Jaquith (mid distance), Nicholas Zeledon (High Jump, 4x400, 4x100) and Connor Maskell (Shot Put, 4x200) participated for Canton as M-W students. The Bears Girls Team went unbeaten on the season and the boys team led Austin Scott improved each week during the season
Hockey: Coach Tischler, speaking for coach Francis, spoke from a email. Taylor Marcellus, Blake Orosz and Lauren Orosz made a big commitment this season, traveling to practice and games for our girls hockey team. These are three of the finest players Ive coached. Section 10 girls hockey is very competitive. We lost to Potsdam in our finals but beat three of the four teams in the final four, said Francis.
Meanwhile, coach Tischler also honored Tyler Fobare who plays in the Norwood-Norfok hockey program.
Modified Boys Basketball: Shane Sudol thanked his teams for a solid year and working hard learning a new offense.
We improved a lot during the season and worked extremely hard to improve. This team has a lot of potential in the future if they make the commitment, said Sudol. The Yellow team consisted of Nate Plumley, Austin Delosh, Chris Thew, Seth Gabri, Devin Thomas, Braxton Chambers, Charles Pryce. The Blue team consisted of Brett Taylor, Mason Pankey, Jake Robinson, Caleb Lawrence, Justin Taylor, Brian Middlemiss, Mike Pankey, and Kobi Burwell.
Modified Girls Basketball: Coach Gabri spoke about her teams improvement.
We improved so much in the second half of the season that I didnt want the season to end, said Gabri. But most of all, Im extremely proud of our academics. We had 13 of 16 players on the honors list.
Members of the team are: Ashley Curran, Shelby Dumas, Logan Fairbridge, Hope Kingston, Kristen LeFleur, Carlie Stoner, Felicia Timson, Breanna Bouchey, Emily Bracy, Brianna Hammond, Taylor Harris, Kerry Mayette, Celse McAloon, Cameryn Paige, Ariana Ramsey, Gabriella Scott, Alexis Stoner and Alexis Wells.
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Question regarding distance on a treadmill
I'm sure this is a stupid question, but here goes. I am trying to figure out, if you walk the treadmill 3.0, how many minutes will it take to reach a mile? I am trying to set up a plan for myself, so eventually I can build up to 5 miles by May, for the cancer walk.
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I think that the setting of 3 will take 20 minutes for 1 mile.
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According to the treadmill, it will take about 16 minutes if you walk the pace on level 3.
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depends on how fast you walk it or what the grade is. for instance if you walk 5 miles perhour with a grade of 2 than it would talk longer than if you walked it 7 miles per hour with a grade of 2.
- Response by nationalguardwife04, A Sweet Sarah, Female, 36-45, Medical / Dental
Not sure, but going by the other responses, you should have a good idea. I wanted to congratulate you, sometimes the hardest part is starting.
- Response by newyorkjoe, A Career Man, Male, 36-45, Lawyer
You should do 15 minutes per mile.
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The average person walks 2 to 3 miles an hour, so I'd say it's the same on a treadmill.
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I always assumed that the numbers meant miles per hour. So a 3 would be 3mph or 20 minutes.....
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Tarn on the south side of Gabbot PassLake 11,808, Ionian BasinMiles of boulders in Davis Lake BasinFrozen Goethe Lake, Humphries BasinUnnamed lake west of Dragon Pass with Mt Rixford in the backgroundSnowshoeing across frozen Muriel Lake, Humphries BasinTarn in Miter Basin
Long Lake, Emigrant
Chicken Springs LakeThousand Island LakeSummit LakeOne of the Clarke Lakes
Excellent Pictures Doug!!Marlette Lake & Lake Tahoe
Edited by Creachen on 12/05/2013 20:27:08 MST.
Thank you Jay! I think they pale in comparison to most of the photos in this thread, but I sure had some fun times taking them. Now that winter is upon us, I'm planning places to see this coming summer. :)
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What sort of camera did you use for these, Doug? Beautiful photos!!!
Lake Tahoe
"What sort of camera did you use for these, Doug? Beautiful photos!!!"Thanks very much DK! The last three photos were with my old Canon T3 Rebel and kit lens. The last photo, of Clark Lake #1, I used a circular polarizing filter. I also used a Giottos carbon fiber tripod and Manfrotto mini-ball head. Here is another photo from that trip...It sort of qualifies for this thread since it is the outlet of Thousand Island Lake. It's not the greatest photo, but I like it because it is me and my pup, Vixen, out enjoying the wilderness together. That's the awesome thing about a tripod, if you're a solo backpacker, you can get yourself. :)The first photo in that batch (Chicken Springs Lake) was taken with my newer camera, a full-frame DSLR, the Canon 5DII, with a 24-105f/4L lens. Since then I have replaced the 24-105 with a 17-40, and plan on adding a 70-200f/4L IS to my collection. I used to own that lens and was extremely happy with it. That said, my next backpacking trip will be with my new Sigma DP2M, which I'll receive next Wednesday...should be DSLR image quality in a much lighter and smaller package. I'm really a very novice photographer, but I'm a gear junkie, so I enjoy researching and taking along nice toys...much better than my skill level actually calls for. HahaI don't have to look any further than this page to see examples of truly great photography, like Andy's photo of the Tarn in Miter Basin and Jay's photo of Marlette Lake, to see what I should aspire to. But all the same, you all are very kind to complement my photos, it motivates me to do better. :)
Edited by Jedi5150 on 12/06/2013 21:20:16 MST.
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October 29, 2010
All four regions (the Northeast, South, Midwest, and West) and 8 of the 9 divisions experienced over-the-year decreases in initial claims for unemployment insurance benefits due to mass layoffs in September. Among the census regions, the Midwest registered the largest over-the-year declines in initial claims.
Of the geographic divisions, the East North Central and the Pacific had the largest over-the-year declines in initial claims.
Thirty-one states experienced over-the-year decreases in initial claims, led by California, Illinois, and Michigan.
California recorded the highest number of initial claims in September 2010, followed by Florida, Pennsylvania, New York, and Illinois.
These data are from the Mass Layoff Statistics program. See "Mass Layoffs — September 2010" (HTML) (PDF), news release USDL-10-1452, to learn more. Each mass layoff action involved at least 50 persons from a single employer.
Bureau of Labor Statistics, U.S. Department of Labor, The Economics Daily, Decreases in mass layoff initial claims in September 2010 on the Internet at http://www.bls.gov/opub/ted/2010/ted_20101029.htm (visited October 09, 2015).
New estimates of personal taxes in Consumer Expenditure Survey
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Trends in long-term unemployment
Long-term unemployment reached historically high levels following the recession of 2007–2009.
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Man Utd, Liverpool Target Mauricio Isla Ready To Quit Udinese
Udinese defender Mauricio Isla admits he plans to leave in the summer.
Isla has talked up the prospect of joining Manchester United, while he is also wanted by Liverpool.
The Chile international said: "I talked to the president and he is committed to my sale in June. The most important thing is for me to recover from my injury and return to the same form I have been showing."


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The Space Coast could see as many as 21 launches this year, the Air Force's 45th Space Wing reported Tuesday.
According to Local 6 News partner Florida Today, that would be a 50 percent increase over last year, which saw 14 launches of spacecraft on Atlas V, Delta IV and Falcon 9 rockets, plus submarine-launched Trident missile tests.
United Launch Alliance is preparing an Atlas V rocket for a Jan. 23 launch of a NASA Tracking and Data Relay satellite, the first of its 10 local launches planned this year.
SpaceX already has one Falcon 9 launch of a commercial satellite under its belt this year, and is targeting a Feb. 22 launch of cargo to the International Space Station for NASA.
The 45th Space Wing is also launching what it calls a "year of innovation," striving to improve efficiencies and performance with a tighter budget, said its commander, Brig. Gen. Nina Armagno, during a presentation to the National Space Club Florida Committee in Cape Canaveral.
The space club presented the 2013 Forrest S. McCartney National Defense Space Award to Air Force Capt. Joshua Carmer for his work supporting launches of GPS satellites.


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C.B. Anderson is the longtime gardener for the PBS television series, The Victory Garden. Over the past four years, more than a gross of his poems have appeared in dozens of online and print journals. When he is writing. and even when he isn't, he enjoys fine single malt Scotch whisky. He lives with his wife and kids in Maynard, MA.
Kate Bernadette Benedict lives in New York City where she edits the online poetry journal Umbrella in a combination boudoir/office.
Alison Brackenbury was born in 1953. Her new collection, Singing in the Dark, will be published by Carcanet in February 2008. New poems can be seen on her website, www.alisonbrackenbury.co.uk, and on www.myspace.com/alisonbrackenbury.
C.E. Chaffin edited and published The Melic Review for eight years prior to its hiatus. Widely published, he has written literary criticism, fiction, personal essays, as well as being the featured poet in over twenty magazines. Hes appeared in The Alaska Quarterly Review, Byline, The Cortland Review, Envoi, Kimera, Magma, Pif, The Pedestal, the Philadelphia Inquirer Book Review and Rattle, among others. For more of his work simply google C. E. Chaffin, or visit his website at www.cechaffin.com.
Claudia Gary is a poet, composer, editor, and freelance writer. Her full-length poetry collection Humor Me was published in 2006 by David Robert Books. It was published under her earlier name Claudia Gary-Annis, as were many of her poems and both of her chapbooks: SCHADENFREUD(e) and Other Occupational Hazards (Musings Press, 2004) and Ripples in the Fabric (Somers Rocks Press, 1996). Her poems have appeared in Sparrow, The Formalist, Light Quarterly, The Lyric, Orbis (U.K.), Pivot, Edge City Review, Loudoun Art Magazine, and other journals and anthologies. Her musical works, performed in a number of U.S. cities, include chamber music and art-song settings of contemporary poems (by Frederick Turner, Dana Gioia, Phillis Levin, Frederick Feirstein, Marilyn Marsh); and of classics (by Shakespeare, Marvell, and Heine). She is currently senior editor of Vietnam Magazine and Northern Regional VP of the Poetry Society of Virginia. For more information and a selection of her previously published poems, see www.claudiagary.com.
Richard Epstein: A contributor's note about Epstein appeared in the last issue. His life hasn't changed much since then.
Juleigh Howard-Hobson was a finalist for the 2006 Morton Marr Poetry Award. English-born, she has lived in the UK, Australia and both sides of the US. She now resides in the Pacific Northwest with her artist-blacksmith husband, their three home-schooled children and a library of classically wrought literature... too many volumes of which are sadly out of print. Juleigh has had work appear most recently in The Barefoot Muse (who nominated her poem for the 2007 Best of the Net Award), and Snakeskin, Her poetry is forthcoming in Pemmican, Mobius: the 25th Anniversary Issue, Lucid Rhythms, 2008 Poets' Guide To New Hampshire (NH State Poetry Society), and Poem, Revised: 54 Poems, Revisions, Discussions (Marion Street Press). As far as horror goes, her horrible works (fiction as well as poetry) have appeared, or will appear in Champagne Shivers, Bewildering Stories, Dead Will Dance (1018 Press), Black Box (Brimstone Press), Loving The Undead (From The Asylum Books), History is Dead (Permuted Press) and (the aptly titled for every one else's but not Juleighs) Appalling Limericks (Sam's Dot Press).
Don Kimball lives in Concord, NH. His poetry has appeared in the Edge City Review, The Formalist, Iambs & Trochees, The Lyric, The Blue Unicorn, and various other journals. In 2007, he won first prize in the national contest sponsored by the Poetry Society of NH. His poems also appear in four anthologies, the two most recent ones being The Powow River Anthology and The Other Side of Sorrow.
Janet Kenny has metamorphosed from painter to classical singer to anti-nuclear activist, researcher, writer, illustrator and poet. Started in New Zealand and zigzagged across the globe to finally settle in Australia. She has published fairly widely as a poet. Some of her poetry can be found at her website http://janetkenny.netpublish.net/.
William McGonagall, the Poet and Tragedian, died in 1902. William McGonagall III, his great-grandson, is a retired Arbroath haddock-smoker and sometime freelance writer and poet. He lives near Dundee with a canary and four goldfish.
Duncan Gillies MacLaurin read Classics at Oxford University but left without a degree. After a short spell of French, Psychology and Anthropology at London University, he spent two years busking in the streets of Europe. In 1986 he met Danish journalist and writer, Ann Bilde, in Italy and went to live in Denmark. He took degrees in English and Latin at Aarhus University and since 1995 has taught these subjects at a high school in Esbjerg.
James AL Midgley's poetry has recently appeared or is forthcoming in The Rialto, Smiths Knoll, Iota, The New Writer and Parameter, among others. He is usually busy editing the poetry journal Mimesis or getting to know a bottle of Glenfiddich.
Rick Mullin Rick Mullin is a business journalist and painter whose poetry has appeared in several print and online journals including Relief, The New Formalist, and The Umbrella. He lives in northern New Jersey .
Kevin Andrew Murphy:Native of Silicon Valley, California, Kevin Andrew Murphy is a writer whose fiction has been widely anthologized in the science fiction, fantasy and horror fields. He's one of the writers for Wild Cards, George R.R. Martin's superhero shared-world series, returning this next year with INSIDE STRAIGHT and then BUSTED FLUSH. He's also done short stories, novels and games for White Wolf's World of Darkness and has critical essays in SmartPop's Seven Seasons of Buffy and Farscape Forever. His poetry has appeared in Midnight Zoo, Light, First Things, The Chimaera, The Shit Creek Review, Hastur Pussycat Kill! Kill! and the print edition of Poets Against The War. His short story "Clove Smoke," which first appeared in Permission #8 and now reappearing in The Shit Creek Review, is also currently being turned into a short film in the city of its birth, San Francisco. Kevin is a regular contributor to the group blog www.deepgenre.com and has a personal website at www.sff.net/people/Kevin.A.Murphy.
Charles Musser studied at St. John's College in Annapolis, Maryland, currently works for the American Red Cross, and lives in Lansing, Michigan. He is co-editor of the online journal for the spoken word, Soundzine. His poetry has been published in the L.A. literary journal Andwerve, and the British poetry journal, Mimesis. He lives with his dogs Maxwell and Benjamin, who ghost-write most of his poems.
Frank Osen lives with his family in Pasadena, California. His work has appeared in various publications, including Measure, Light Quarterly, and Blue Unicorn. He was a finalist for the 2006 Howard Nemerov sonnet award and won the Lord Byron award in the seventeenth annual World Order of Narrative and Formalist Poets competition.
Rose Poto's work has appeared in various online and print magazines.
Thomas Rodes is a semi-retired and fully burnt-out information management consultant who spends the cold months in the Washington, D.C. suburbs and summers and falls at his farm in rural Maine. His most recent non-poetic accomplishment was installing a solar power system on his sisters land in Mendocino County, California. His poems have appeared in Umbrella, The Panhandler, The American Organist and The Shit Creek Review.
Rick Roots has been floating around the darker recesses of the internet and committing poetry for a while now. He is proudly and avowedly self-published, and blogs at The Rik Files - pop in for a browse, when you have a moment to spare!
Joseph S. Salemi teaches in the Department of Classical Languages at Hunter College. C.U.N.Y. His poems, essays, translations, book reviews, and scholarly articles have appeared in over 100 print journals world-wide. He is a N.E.H. scholar, a winner of the Classical and Modern Literature Prize, and a four-time finalist for the Howard Nemerov Award. He has published three books of poetry, the latest being Masquerade (Pivot Press).
Nic Sebastian hails from Arlington , Virginia. Her work has appeared in publications such as The Shit Creek Review, Loch Raven Review, Words on the Web, Lily and The Adroitly Placed Word. She blogs at Very Like A Whale
Salli Shepherd lives in Melbourne, Australia. She is co-editor of Soundzine, an audio e-zine for poetry, prose and fine art, and has recently been published in Mimesis and Magma. Horror films and literature were her first love, and remain a source of inspiration to this day.
Tom Sheehans Epic Cures, (short stories), from Press 53 won a 2006 IPPY Award from Independent Publishers. A Collection of Friends (memoirs), 2004 from Pocol Press, was nominated for PEN America Albrend Memoir Award. His fourth poetry book, This Rare Earth & Other Flights was issued by Lit Pot Press, 2003. Print mysteries are Vigilantes East and Death for the Phantom Receiver. An Accountable Death is serialized on 3amMagazine.com. Six novels seek publication. His short story collection, Brief Cases, Short Spans, will be issued in 2008, and The Quickening Source has been completed, as has Silas Tully, Saugus Cop Now and Then. He has nominations for eight Pushcart Prizes and two Million Writers Awards, a Silver Rose Award from ART for short story excellence, and many Internet appearances. He is a veteran of the Korean War (31st Infantry Regiment), a Boston College grad after Army service, and has been retired for 16 years.
Lafayette Wattles is a former high school English teacher and recent graduate of Spalding University (MFA Creative Writing), who has had poems and short fiction published in several small-press journals (print and online), and has won a few regional poetry contests. His poem, "Goodbye," will appear in the December 2007 issue of RUNES and his poem, "Everything's Harder Than It Was," will appear in the Fall 2007 issue of The Louisville Review.
John Whitworth is oldish, fattish, baldish. His tenth book of poems Being the Bad Guy was published by the great and good Harry Chambers in Cornwall. Les Murray likes it and so should you.
Leo Yankevich lives with his wife and three sons in Gliwice, Poland. His poems have appeared in scores of literary journals of both sides of the Atlantic, most recently in Blue Unicorn, Chronicles, Envoi, Iambs & Trochees, Staple, and Windsor Review. He is poetry editor of The New Formalist.
Mark Bulwinkle, artist, B. 1946 Boston Mass., lives in
Oakland, Ca., Former student of Robert J. Clawson, Weston, Mass.,
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K.R. Copeland is not a lumberjack, trapeze artist, dairy farmer, bricklayer's assistant, cigar maker or waste paper packer. She is a poet, and also the Art Director of the online political lit-zine Unlikely 2.0. She has one chapbook, Anatomically Correct available through Dancing Girl Press.
Gustave Doré engraved stuff. He was pretty good.
Betsyann Duval is an artist who works in a variety of media including: performance, painting, printmaking, sculpture, and installation. In her art, she explores the tipping point where representation and abstract intersect, where balance slips, and where paradox, incongruity, and contradiction prevail.
Patricia Wallace Jones is a retired disability advocate with an art degree who knows what it's like to be up Shit Creek. She loves having the time now (not to mention a paddle) to be what she wanted to be when she grew up. More of her work can be seen at http://imagineii.typepad.com/imagineii/
Born 1974 in Parkersburg, WV, R.C. Miller currently lives and works in New York City. His poems and photographs have recently been published by Silenced Press, Hecale, and The Green Gnome. Miller may be reached by writing to roadinsect at yahoo dot com or www.myspace.com/rcmiller23. To view Miller's photographs visit www.flickr.com/photos/rcmiller
Peter Schwartz is a painter, poet and writer. He's also an associate art editor for Mad Hatters' Review. His artwork can be seen all over the Internet but specifically at: www.sitrahahra.com. He's had hundreds of paintings, poems, and stories published both online and in print and is contstantly submitting new work as if his very life depended on it. His last exhibition was through Aesthetica Magazine and featured a projection of his digital painting 'Terminal 4' on a busy street in York, UK. This December his work will be featured at the Amsterdam Whitney Gallery in Chelsea NYC.


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Before joining FIT, he served briefly as a senior consultant in management systems design for the Internal Revenue Service. Prior to that, for five years as chief information officer (CIO) and vice president of Information Technology for University College, the University of Maryland, he managed a 100-member IT staff and an infrastructure supporting 125 offices and labs in 30 countries.
His previous assignments include serving as director of Systems Architecture and Operations for the Montgomery County Public Schools; as deputy CIO, Office of the Chief Financial Officer, District of Columbia Government; senior systems manager for the Montgomery County Government; CIO of the Technical and Management Services Corporation. He began his career as a senior systems engineer for the Singer Company, designing systems based on specifications to simulate various systems on military ships and aircraft.
His professional affiliations include the CIO Council, CIO Executive Council, Technical Advisory Group-Peoplesoft, Ziff David Focus Group Technology, Maryland High Technology Council, Educause, and the IMS Global Learning Consortium.
Mr. Chottiner is working toward certification as a Project Management Professional. He earned certification as a Federal CIO, General Services Administration, at CIO University in 2005; CIO certification and his Master of Science in Information Technology Management and Systems at the University of Maryland, Adelphi, MD in 2005; and his Bachelor of Science in electrical engineering at Capitol College, Laurel, MD.


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Wednesday, September 29, 2010
Jill of All Trades
Case in point: I finally submitted my thesis proposal. This means that it's now out of my hands, and it's up to the powers that be to decide whether I'm a) smart enough and b) well researched enough to take on the task I'm setting before me. Since I knew this really just meant handing it to a secretary and not the committee themselves, I dressed spiffy enough to make myself feel smart enough to have done all that.
Then, I came home and changed the turning signal bulb in Scott's car. How many of my friends can say they can do that? I think the strangest thing, however, is that I felt more confident changing the lightbulb (something I had never done, and something I knew my father-in-law would mock me for if I did it wrong).
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Cara, I'm so sorry that you're taking flak from your colleagues because of your interest in fashion! Unfortunately I think it's something we'll both have to deal with on a fairly regular basis. Hang in there. It's great to be an intelligent woman eith many interests. XxReplyDelete
I am sorry about your colleagues. I have experience with that first hand so I feel for you. People think caring about your appearance = stupid. I don't understand why it has to be a negative trait to so many in academia. I can be smart and look great thank you very much!!ReplyDelete
Yes please stick with it! Don't let them win.
I am so sorry for your colleagues as well...you stick with it woman....I think your blog is great...and its great for your soul too...and good for you for the light bulb...I wouldnt have had a clue where to even begin.....Im sure you are going to do just GREAT!!!ReplyDelete
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