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A lot of folks are under the impression that the First Amendment to our constitution requires a "wall of separation" between church and state, when, in reality, the law has never been quite that clear. Sure, the government is prohibited from establishing a state religion, but it is also prohibited from interfering with the free exercise of religion.
Here in Kentucky, we have an ironic confluence of events this week, tending to illustrate just how confusing all this has become.
First, is an official proclamation by Governor Steve Beshear, naming November as King James Bible Month in Kentucky. Observing that the 1611 Bible was the first English Bible printed in the United States, the governor praised its influence on "…countless families, individuals, and institutions in the United States."
Second, is a nasty political battle being fought between Beshear—who is seeking reelection to a second four-year term as governor—and Republican Speaker of the House David Williams, who is trying to unseat him. It seems an Indian company opened a new manufacturing plant in Kentucky, and during dedication ceremonies attended by Gov. Beshear, some Hindu prayers were said.
Then, on Tuesday, Williams, the Republican gubernatorial nominee, criticized Beshear on Tuesday for participating in the ceremony, claiming he was engaging in idolatry, or the worship of idols. "He's sitting down there with his legs crossed participating in Hindu prayers, with a dot on his forehead, with incense burning around him," Williams told reporters during a campaign stop.
A state government news release last week said Beshear took part in a ground-blessing ceremony with community leaders and officials of Flex Films, which plans to build its first U.S. manufacturing plant in Elizabethtown, a $180 million investment which will create 250 new jobs for the community. The company makes polyester chips, specialty films, laminates and inks and adhesives to packaging and printing machines.
"I've been in many countries, in Buddhist temples and Shinto shrines, and they'll say clap your hands and it summons the gods," said Williams, who is Methodist. "I did not do that because that is idolatry. And that's what he (Beshear) participates in when he does that."
This provoked a critical response from Hindus who are upset at the unnecessary dragging of a Hindu ceremony of bhumi-pujan (earth-worship) into Kentucky politics. In a statement released today, Hindu statesman Rajan Zed said that it was upsetting to hear that reportedly ancient sacred Hindu ceremony termed as an act of idolatry and referred as "polytheistic situations", revered Hindu deities were called "false gods", and talking about Hindus it was said "…I hope their eyes are opened and they receive Jesus Christ as their personal savior…"
Calling upon Williams to apologize, Zed, who is President of Universal Society of Hinduism, stressed that his religion has about a billion adherents and is rich with philosophical thought and should not be trivialized and taken lightly. He further suggested that Kentucky politicians should be welcoming this $180 million 250-job manufacturing plant (for which the bhumi-pujan was held) during this recession instead of being critical of way the owners and their associates worshipped.
As for Governor Beshear, here's his proclamation:
To All To Whom These Presents Shall Come:
WHEREAS, A new translation of the Bible, authorized by King James I of England, was completed in 1611 and soon became known as the Bible for the masses, or the people's bible; and
WHEREAS, The King James Version was the first English Bible printed in the United States; and
WHEREAS, The King James Version, also called the Authorized Version, has made a unique contribution in shaping the English language, including hundreds of common everyday expressions; and
WHEREAS, The language of the King James Bible has entered into the very culture of the United States through a myriad of poetry, speeches, sermons, music, songs, and literature; and
WHEREAS, Its language has had a lasting influence on countless families, individuals, and institutions in the United States; and
WHEREAS, The King James Version, the most printed and widely distributed work in history, is now in its 400th year of publication;
NOW, THEREFORE, I STEVEN L. BESHEAR, Governor of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, do hereby proclaim November 2011 as
In Kentucky.
Perhaps this can all be resolved by giving heed to the immortal words of that great humanitarian, Rodney King, who once said: "I just want to say, you know, can't we all just get along?"
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How to Deal With Your Boyfriend's Ex
If you're in a social circle that allows for your significant other's ex to constantly remain part of the picture, it might be hard for you to draw the line. You have to understand that not all relationships end on bad terms and some previous relationships may result in a really good friendship. So how do you deal with "the ex"?
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1Talk to your boyfriend or girlfriend about the ex, and find out what the conditions of the breakup were. This will help you judge how to handle the situation. Are they still good friends that just didn't work out romantically? Do they hate each other now? Are they just polite to each other because they attend the same school or University? Knowing the conditions of the previous breakup will help you understand the way you need to handle the situation.
2If the ex is still trying to push her feelings, explain to her that they are no longer in a relationship and you would appreciate it if they accept the fact you and the other person were together. If they persist, then it might be best to have your boyfriend or girlfriend explain it to them. If they continue to do so, then talk to your significant other about getting a restraining order. Some people just don't understand "Go Away" and a court order will help get it through their heads.
3If they are still friends or co-workers, then understand that they will maintain a relationship. You can't be expected to give up your friends just because you've gotten with another person so don't expect them to do the same. The best way to handle this is to have long conversations with your boyfriend or girlfriend about your feelings for each other. If you're still worried, then that signifies you have some confidence issues that need to be addressed.
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- Never settle for second place, but also never expect them to drop every aspect of their life for you. They have relationships outside of you, and if you're dealing with an ex who has become a good friend, then you need to learn how to accept it, and be comfortable and confident enough in your relationship not to feel threatened.
- Consider this - is your partner secretly fueling the flames? Do they like the extra attention? This issue can potentially make or break a relationship. If your partner is a new one consider if they are over their ex yet and perhaps you are wanting a relationship when the other person is not ready?
- A restraining order can be stressful and potentially could destroy the relationship you share with your loved one. Before taking this step, consider whether it's worth going through the (potential) months of lawyers, court hearings, thinking and talking about it day after day etc...
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This eleventh installment continues our series on HeinOnline's digital collections.
U.S. Presidential Library is a resource on HeinOnline that gives users access to a variety of materials dealing with past Presidents of the United States. The library contains resources having to do with specific presidents, as well as resources dealing with a specific topic as applied to a few or many presidents. There is a great deal of information about various aspects of Abraham Lincoln's life, including a book of funny stories Lincoln liked to tell, books about Lincoln's career as a lawyer, and a memoir written by Lincoln after he had been elected President, but before he took office. Users have access to a book called "First Ladies of the White House (in Miniature)", written in 1941 by a woman who created detailed miniature doll-sized versions of each first lady through Eleanor Roosevelt. The book has a picture of each miniature, with an accompanying brief biography and description of what she is wearing. The library contains various speeches, including a collection of inaugural addresses through George H.W. Bush, a eulogy of George Washington, and transcripts from the proceedings of the "Great Impeachment and Trial of Andrew Johnson." Images of materials and notes from Richard Nixon's grand jury proceedings are available to view, and there are many additional resources dealing with the Watergate hearings. These are just a few of the wide variety of materials that are available on HeinOnline's U.S. Presidential Library, and this is resource would be useful and valuable for performing detailed research on U.S. Presidents, as well as providing lots of interesting materials for anyone who enjoys reading about past Presidents. Users may browse the resources alphabetically, or may search the database for something specific using a variety of search tools.
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Sometimes our best experiences with wine are those that are tied into another special occasion – an engagement, a first date, celebrating a new job, a wedding or a big accomplishment. For others, the best wine experiences are just because of the wine and the people – could be any random Thursday night, but something about the wine, the place or the people with whom you share it, make it memorable. Whatever it is, it's special to you.We are so interested in hearing your story, that we're giving away 1-cent shipping for the month of October. From now until September 30th, post your memorable wine experience here on our blog and we will randomly pick a winner to receive 1-cent shipping for the entire month of October. Read about contest details. Stories are the best part of wine, so tell us – What was your most memorable wine experience?
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My most memorable wine experience involves probably one of the cheapest bottles of wine I ever bought! My wife and I were moving cross country from Florida to Seattle. We were driving the whole way with my younger sister who was helping us move and it was long stressful trip. As we passed Arizona, we decided to visit the Grand Canyon.
After a lot of driving and exhaustive movie, I was just looking for an opportunity to stretch my legs and relax. After doing some of the "tourist things" at the education center we decided to venture out on a trail on our own. We grabbed a picnic of lunch meat sandwichs from our cooler and swung by the park's gift store to get some chips. I noticed a small refrigerated wine section of splits and plastic wine glasses. The only thing that jumped out was an $8 split of Freixenet Cava and I thought "What the heck! It'll go with turkey and cheddar sandwiches". So I grabbed a split and a few of the plastic glasses.
We followed a trail that brought us close to the Colorado River. We hiked for a good hour or so until we got tired and looked for a spot to have our picnic. About 30 feet off the trail we found a nice rock clearing with the most stunning view of the Canyon and river that I've ever seen.
Words really can't describe that moment with all the color, shapes, smells and sound of simple tranquility. All the stress and strain of the previous week, just melted away. I was in utter awe at the beauty of the world and how lucky I was to be able to experience that moment. Sitting there on the dirty ground with plain cold cut sandwiches and drinking a glass of cheap sparkling Cava was a meal that ranks up there as probably the greatest of my life easily beating out drinking a flight of '82 Bordeaux from impeccable stemware at a top steakhouse.
My most memorable moment was receiving my OWN bottle of Dom Perignon for my "champagne" birthday. It was a gift from my father, and I was thrilled to have a bottle of bubbly to celebrate the occasion. I couldn't decide if my birthday was the right time, or if I should save it. And if I saved it, when would be the "right time". A few months later, I was still undecided, and was packing for a move. I packed up my car and moved across the country – actually to a new country! After 2,500 miles, I made sure I packed that bubbly. My first American holiday was Thanksgiving, and as Canadian, who celebrates Thanksgiving in October, it was my first US holiday, and a reason to give thanks at that! Being so far from family and friends, I knew then, that it was "THE" right time. The bottle was divine, and bubbly, all that jazz. But the feeling it brought to my first new holiday experience, and to share with new friends, made for a memorable experience!
My most memorable times with wine are myself and my co-workers in various jobs I have had throught the year becoming wine snobs on the left over wine left from large parties held at these establishments. We have developed a taste in wine that far exceeds our paychecks…: )
The most memorable experience I have about wine has to be, ironically, an order I received from Wine.com just before Hurricane Katrina flooded my home in New Orleans 2005. When the water from the broken levy 2 blocks away drove my husband and I out the morning of AUG 29, we had no idea how severe the situation was. I hastily grabbed a bottle of my favorite Spanish cava, thinking, as we swam up to the roof, that the waters would soon subside and we could return home. As the sun set, we opened the bottle for a bittersweet toast to our survival. Then a boat pulled up and told us we had to evacuate, the levy had broken, the waters were 8' and still rising and gas fires were imminent. As it turned out, our home was under 12' of murky water for weeks, a total loss.
It was the last wine I was to have for a long time as we lived in shelters for weeks, but the memory, and the fact that we toasted our survival will always live on. I still am not home and not receiving any gov't aid, LOL, so am always thankful for wine.com and the 1cent shipping deals delivering cheer to my often depressing hotel room in CA. I toast to Survival and Hope whenever I can!
one of my most memorable wines, was recently after our wedding. as all brides and grooms, the event was quite busy. We escaped to Healdsburg, ca, the russian river. We had been given a bottle of Cristal. Healdsburg and all of Northern CA was in a heat wave, and Healdsburg was 102 or so. HOT for our area. We went to the pool, and had the Cristal in Styrofoam cups, while halfway submerged. It was better than a reidel champagne flute!
My most memorable wine experience was a few years ago. My brother-in-law invited me to a wine tasting dinner at a restaurant he worked at. The event was sponsored by a local wine distributer looking to sell to the restaurant and us guests. With each course, a different wine was served – starting with white wine to go with the fish and finishing with a red Zinfandel at desert. At the end of the night, the owner gave me a bottle of the Zinfandel, which I could have purchased for $40 per bottle, to take home and enjoy. This being the most expensive bottle of wine I've ever been in possession of, I decided to save it for my wife and I to enjoy on our 15th wedding anniversary.
On that day, I finally opened the wine and drank. I'll never forget the taste. It was like a bowl of cherries, plumbs and grapes exploded in my mouth – by far the best wine we ever experienced. Yes, I did drink this Zinfandel at the dinner with my brother-in-law but, after seven courses and six glasses of wine, my tongue was quite numb.
My most memorable wine experience is probably uneventful to most, but a great memory for me. My sister gave me a bottle of zin the day my divorce was final. I don't remember the label. I only remember the '96 vintage. But it was truly the best glass I have ever had and I savored every sip. To this day (10 yrs later) I wish I'd logged that label. I've tried many a zin since then trying to find it, but have had no success. All I can say is that on that sad day, that beautiful wine soothed my soul to the very core.
My most memorable wine experience, has to be on my 50th birthday. I had a large party with my friends and family who flew across country to be with me on this special day. We shared so many different types of red and white wines, champagne too ! needless to say it was the most fun ever and exhausting at the same time. The party lasted for days !!
My most memorable wine experience (but not in a good way) happened about one month ago. I recently moved into a new, and much smaller, home. I purchased a new wrought iron wine rack and placed it on top of my refrigerator. One evening, my 5 year old daughter was deeply involved in an episode of Sponge Bob Squarepants. During a commercial, she came running into the kitchen, grabbed a juice pouch out of the refrigerator, then slammed the door closed, in a hurried attempt to return to her show. The impact of the door closing was enough to send two bottles of red wine crashing to the floor ….. one bottle was an expensive splurge that I purchased while on a trip, and was waiting for the right occasion to open. Naturally I was very sad to have good wine go to waste, but it took me hours to clean the red wine off of my white walls and light colored wood floors. :0( Needless to say, my wine rack is no longer located on top of the refrigerator.
I'd have to say my most memorable experience isn't something super romantic, or a train wreck of any sort. Just a fun time, with great people.
My boyfriend, a girlfriend of mine and I went to our local winery in hopes of making it to the wine-tasting. We were newly-21 and wanted to try something "sophisticated."
We went it honestly thinking that we'd just try a few wines, have a fun time, maybe find a great bottle to give as a gift to our parents or bring over for a holiday…
Not even close. We had a super great crew pour us glass after glass. Incredible sales & deals made us think twice about just leaving with one bottle of our faves. So what did we leave with? 3 DOZEN bottles. Yep, a dozen bottles, for each one of us. We giggled and laughed our way out the door, figuring we looked like we were smuggling the "good stuff" during Prohibition.
A great choice, great tastes and great memories. Our first experience at a winery set us off on dozens more trips and ensured that any new vacation destination we went to would not be complete without a visit to the locale winery.
My most memorable wine experience was our drive through the Anderson Valley Appellatia, and our stop at Husch Winery. We tasted the most amazing late harvets gewerstiminer there; we had to buy several bottles; wish we had bought more! And we stopped at the Porter Creek Winery, where the dog had just gotten done chasing the chickens, and stopped in their barn with one lone light hanging by a cord in the barn and had a wonderful talk with the wine maker and tasted some great wine and heard some great stories! We loved our drive through Anderson Valley!
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At 2:00 p.m. on Sunday, January 10, 2010, Humboldt County and the cities of Arcata and Eureka held a joint press conference regarding the earthquake experienced locally on Saturday, January 9. The press conference was attended by Congressman Mike Thompson, Assembly Member Wesley Chesbro, and elected representatives of the County and the City of Eureka as well as staff of the County and cities. Information presented at that time includes the following:
The Humboldt County Sheriff's Office of Emergency Services is continuing to gather damage assessment information. After a 24-hour operational period, the county's preliminary assessments are as follows:
What: MarineMap training and instructional presentation via teleconference and webinar. Visit http://www.dfg.ca.gov/mlpa/meetings_n.asp#public for a brief description of MarineMap.
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Citizens for Rail and Port Development held a candidates forum with the candidates for Division 3 and 4 of the Humboldt Bay Harbor District.
This forum on October 7, 2009 was sponsored by the Humboldt Bay Stewards and facilitated by the League of Women Voters, and took place at the Samoa Cookhouse.
Candidates: Division 3: Incumbent Mike Wilson, and Challenger Dan Hauser. Division 4: No incumbent, Challengers John Ash (not present), Susan Penn, and Richard Marks.
Audio recorded by Terri Klemetson, KMUD News
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This article was originally ttitled Missing Person: Sam Cushman
KMUD News reported on 10/29/2009 that Mr. Cushman's pickup truck and his remains have been found.
Here's an article in the October 30, 2009 edition of the Eureka Times-Standard:
Human remains found in Trinity County last week were identified as a missing Garberville man on Wednesday and his death appears to be a suicide.
Sam Dunlea Cushman, 36, was reported missing May 3 and was classified as "at risk," according to the Humboldt County Sheriff's Office. The Trinity County Sheriff's Office determined that Cushman died from a self-inflicted shotgun wound. He was identified through his dental records.
A citizen hunting on private property reported finding a 1998 green camouflage Toyota Tacoma truck approximately two miles south of Island Mountain in Trinity County on Oct. 24. The truck belonged to Cushman, according to the Humboldt County Sheriff's Office.
Cushman dropped off his child at his former girlfriend's home on April 28 and then disappeared. After he did not return phone calls and e-mails, his former girlfriend notified police.
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Date: May 08, 2009 From: Brenda Godsey, PIO
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Subject: Missing Person Case: 200902894
Humboldt County Sheriff's Office is looking for a Garberville man who has been missing after unexpectedly dropping off his child at his ex-girlfriend's house and disappearing. On May 3, 2009. Sam Dunlea Cushman's ex-girlfriend reported that she had not seen nor heard from Sam since he dropped off their child on April 28. The woman added that Sam had not returned her phone calls or e-mails and that was unusual for Sam. She said on April 29 she had received a telephone call from a friend of Sam's who told her he had seen Sam that day. He told her Sam had been acting strangely and he was concerned about Sam. That was last time Sam has been seen.
Sheriff's Deputies checked Mr. Cushman's house and found many of his personal items still at the house. Further investigation revealed that Mr. Cushman may be struggling with some personal problems and he has a history of drug use and depression. Mr. Cushman is considered an "at-risk" missing person.
Mr. Cushman drives a 1998 green camouflage Toyota Tacoma, California license plate 8S71716. Mr. Cushman is known to travel to Mendocino County via Bell Springs Road. He is 36 years old, 6 feet tall, and 145 pounds. He has brown hair and green eyes. He has several tattoos including a lion's head on is back. Anyone with any information regarding the whereabouts of Sam Cushman should call the Humboldt County Sheriff's Office at (707) 445-7251.
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A meeting to discuss the future of the Southern Humboldt Community Park was held at the Mateel Community Center in Redway on February 24, 2009. It was attended by about 200 people, most speaking in support of rezoning the park from Agricultural zoning to Recreational.
KMUD News reporter Cynthia Elkins attended the meeting and recorded the statements. As a public service we make the recording available in two parts. You can listen online or download the file to your computer. If you would rather receive a recording on two CD's (in higher audio quality) you may purchase the set for $15, shipping included. Call KMUD at (707) 923-2513.
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The Eureka Police Department is requesting the public's assistance in locating a missing juvenile named Christine Noel McArthur. Christine is a white 16 year old female, 5'07", she weighs 100 lbs, has brown hair and brown eyes. The last time Christine was seen was approximately two weeks ago. Any one with information regarding Christine is urged to contact PSO Mary Anderson at Eureka Police Department at (707) 441-4300 or call the 24-hour dispatch number (707) 441-4044.
(Bulletin issued February 19, 2009)
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The Minerals Management Service has proposed a new 5 year program for offshore oil and gas developments. The public has until March 23rd September 23rd to submit public comment.
Northwest Training Range Complex
The U.S. Navy has been training in the Northwest Training Range Complex for national defense purposes for over 100 years. In line with the Northwest Training Range Complex-wide management practices, the U.S. Navy has prepared a Draft Environmental Impact Statement/Overseas Environmental Impact Statement (EIS/OEIS) to comprehensively evaluate the effects of current and future Navy activities within the range complex on the environment.
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This Wednesday afternoon community radio station WORT in Madison, Wisconsin talked about last week's "Operation Southern Sweep" and interviewed KMUD volunteer Charley Custer.
Here is audio from A Public Affair, Wednesday edition, courtesy of wort-fm.org
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if we're not supposed to talk about advocacy issues here why is this a subforum of advocacy and safety and not commuting
if we're not supposed to talk about advocacy issues here why is this a subforum of advocacy and safety and not commuting
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Smash the state!
Secret, Let it rest man...
This can be a great forum. Do you really want to have a forum where car owners will feel threatened by the discussions, and not come around? If you have no car owners on this board then how is it advocacy?
Talking about the carfree lifestyle, and helping out would-be carfree is the best advocacy you can do.
You have a wealth of knowledge on the carfree lifestyle, you can chose to use it to help propagate your message, or you can chose to hate cars and make sure all the would-be carfree ppl will stay way from you. Which will it be?
Yeah what we most want to see in this forum is car owners here, asking questions, and us supplying answers that help them with the basic how-tos, so they start driving their cars less and biking more.
More butts on bikes makes it safer on the streets for all of us!
On the one hand I'm with you Secret. It would be nice to have a discussion about some car-free issue without things getting sidetracked by someone piping up about how THEY couln't possibly be expected to go car free because they HAVE to drive their child 40 miles across town at midnight through the worst neighborhood on the planet (sure there is a ball diamond close enough to home to walk or ride to but their child has to be on the team across town, after all it's THE team to be on in THE league to be in). Or any of the other ridiculous things that come up because some people are unwilling or unable to question the assumptions they've made about how their life has to be lived.
On the other hand, while there probably isn't much to be done to dissuade the "head in the sand, won't hear anything about changing my life" types. Consider how many people are registered here at bikeforums. A little over 30k if I remember correctly. There must be an awful lot of people who read without ever posting. Heck, you don't even have to register to read the forums. When a few people come in whining about how and why they can't go car free, point out how they could if they'd change certain aspects of their life. You may not have any impact on the one making the post, but maybe you'll have an impact on one of those anonymous people out there who are just reading and never post.
Trust me, I LOVE a good car bash, both physically and verbally, but maybe this isn't the place. The admins seem to think so. So even if you disagree they're still going to move your post.
Hope this was coherent at 10 minutes after waking up. if not, oh well
AC! You're late for work!Originally Posted by AverageCommuter
Sin after sin I have endured, but the wounds I bear are the wounds of love.
Thank you AC, I agree with your 2nd and 3rd paragraphs. Secret, You are a great advocate for carfree living. I doubt if very many people disagree with your points. Just please make those points on A & S or Commuting, where I for one love reading them, so we can try to make a go of this board within the stated guidelines. Thanks dude.
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They joy's of working the evening shift. Don't have to be at work 'til 6pm.
Just some thoughts from a fellow car free person. I would say that going car free is not posable for every one at all times in their lifes. I recently went car free, my car died last Ocotober and I never got it repaired, and I junked it in April. Not sure when you want to count where I went car free, when I stoped driving in Oct or when I finally was able to cancle the insurance when I junked the car. But 5 years ago, I would not have been able to go car free, I was still living with my parents and going to collage (a 30 minute drive on the high way and that was the closetest collage to where we lived for 20 years so moving was not an option) There are people out there that can not go car free for one reason or another, also some people can not afford to live car free, let me explan. I live car free because I live in the city, but to live in the city I have to pay 500 to 700 more a month then if I lived in the subburbes. If I was to live in the subburbes and even with a car (and its extra cost) it would still cost less each month, I am one of the furtunate few that can afford to live in the city and car free.


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Ok, great the only think that I said in the Facebook message is the she bankrucpt 4 of the 5 husbands she was married to. That was based on her 5th husband which is my husband now, he said this to me. This is the only statement that I am not sure is true. But everything else is true a very proveable. You said she probably couldnt find a lawyer to take her case, what about her going to the state attorneys office with this and getting a retraining order as she has threatened many times to do.
I was wondering if you replied to my reply to your answer. I have not received it yet.
Ok, thank you! You have been extremely helpful and maybe now I acan sleep. Yes I will not write any more to her new husband's daughter. This only a one time thing. Thank you again for all your help! Have a very nice evening.
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The Ammunition Recognition System identifies ERGM projectiles and propelling charges and preclude the unsafe mixing of ERGM and conventional ammunition. A Gun/ERGM interface will provide for the transmission of pre-flight data into the guidance and navigation subsystems of the ERGM prior to loading and firing. The control system is modified to accommodate ERGM changes and to digitally interface with the Mark 160 Mod 8 Gun Computer System. With an ORDALT, existing WM25 Fire Control Systems for the 5"/54 (12.7 cm) Mark 45 may also be used.
A 23 August 2007 BAE press release stated that BAE had been awarded a contract for the overhaul, manufacture and upgrade of these guns and mountings as part of the CG-47 Cruiser Modernization program. These ships will replace their existing 5"/54 (127 mm) guns and mountings with the Mark 45 Mod 4.
In regards to the ERGM and BTERM munitions, a 15 March 2005 House Armed Services Committee Subcommittee on Projection Forces report stated "In order to mitigate risk for the munitions development, the Navy will conduct an open source selection in Fiscal Year 2005 between the Extended Range Guided Munition (ERGM), the Ballistic Trajectory Extended Range Munition (BTERM) and potential competitors. The contract will be awarded in early Fiscal Year 2006 with IOC planned for Fiscal Year 2011." Other information on these guided munitions may be found below in the Ammunition section.
However, in March 2008 the Navy abandoned the ERGM, after it failed a series of tests in February 2008. This ends a 12-year, $600 million project that has been plagued with multiple problems.
The Republic of Korea has purchased a manufacturing license for these guns in which United Defense delivers most of the upper gun, the shield and the loader, while the Republic of Korea company World Industries Ace (WIA) is responsible for the production of the lower hoist, the panels and the assembly and test of the gun itself. A 19 December 2002 press release by United Defense stated that the Republic of Korea had purchased total of six weapons.
Japan has also purchased a manufacturing license for these weapons for use on their Atago class Aegis destroyers. Japan Steel Works will manufacture, assemble and test the weapons. The Republic of Korea has selected this weapon to arm their newest destroyers. Denmark has purchased two of these weapons, the first European country to use this weapon.
United Defense made a proposal in mid-2004 that the British Type 45 destroyers use this weapon, but the proposal was turned down and the Type 45 are being armed with the 114 mm (4.5") Mark 8 Mod 1 mountings.
5"/62 (12.7 cm) Mark 45 Mod 4 on USS Winston
Churchill DDG-81
|Gun: 5"/62 (12.7 cm) Mark 36
Mounting: 5"/62 (12.7 cm) Mark 45 Mod 4
|Ship Class Used On
(see Note 2)
|United States
New-construction Arleigh Burke class DDG's - First installed on USS Winston Churchill DDG-81
Modernized Ticonderoga (Flight II) CG-47 class
Republic of Korea
|Date Of Design
|Date In Service
|Gun Weight
|Gun Length oa
|Barrel and Bore Length
|310.0 in (7.874 m)
|Rifling Length
|Chamber Volume
|Rate Of Fire
(see Note 1)
|16 - 20 rounds per minute
1) The Rate of Fire in this table is for conventional ammunition. ERGM or ANSR rounds can be fired at a maximum rate of approximately 10 rounds for the first minute. The sustained rate is 2 to 4 rounds per minute and depends upon the magazine crew's ability to manually move rounds from the shipping container to the loading position.
2) As many as 14 Ticonderoga (CG-47) class cruisers were planned to be upgraded to the 5"/62 (12.7 cm) depending upon available funding. Upgrades were to include using the Mark 160 Mod 11 Gunfire Control System (GCS) and two Mark 46 Mod 1 optical sight systems to replace the Mark 86 GCS. Magazine stowage flexibility was to be enhanced with the installation of the universal tie down system in both forward and aft magazines. However, it was not planned to make these ships capable of handling larger rounds such as ERGM or BTERM. In January and February 2004, the Navy decided to save money by not upgrading these ships to the larger guns and $100M was cut from the Cruiser Modernization program. In May 2004, the US Congress sent a letter to the Secretary of the Navy asking the USN to reconsider this decision. In August 2007, BAE announced the awarding of a Basic Ordering Agreement (BOA) from the U.S. Navy which included upgrading the CG-47 Flight II cruisers to the 5"/62 (127 mm) Mod 4. The upgrade package for these cruisers does not include the ability to handle longer rounds such as ERGM.
|Projectile Types and Weights
(see Notes)
|Mark 80 HE-PD - 67.6 lbs. (30.7 kg)
Mark 91 Illum-MT - 63.9 lbs. (29.0 kg)
Mark 116 HE-VT - 69.7 lbs. (31.6 kg)
Mark 127 HE-CVT - 68.6 lbs. (31.1 kg)
Mark 156 HE-IR - 69.0 lbs. (31.3 kg)
Mark 172 HE-ICM (Cargo Round) - N/A
ERGM - 110 lbs. (50 kg)
BTERM - 96 lbs. (43.5 kg)
|Bursting Charge
|See Note 9
|Projectile Length
|Mark 80 - 26 in (66 cm)
Mark 91 - 26.1 in (66.3 cm)
Mark 116 - 26 in (66 cm)
Mark 127 - 26 in (66 cm)
Mark 156 - 26 in (66 cm)
Mark 172 - 26 in (66 cm)
ERGM - 61 in (155 cm)
BTERM - 61 in (155 cm)
|Propellant Charge
(see Note 8)
|Mark 67 - 18.25 lbs. (8.3 kg) NACO
Cartridge weighs 38.9 lbs. (17.6 kg) filled
EX-167 for ERGM - about 25 lbs. (11.3 kg)
EX-175 High Energy - about 26 lbs (11.8
|Muzzle Velocity
|Mark 80 projectile with Mark 67 cartridge
- 2,725 fps (831 mps)
Mark 80 projectile with EX-175 cartridge - 3,450 fps (1,052 mps)
Mark 91 projectile with Mark 67 - 2,750 fps (838 mps)
ERGM with EX-167 cartridge - 2,750 fps (838 mps)
|Working Pressure
|Mark 67 cartridge - 18.5 tons/in2
(2,758 kg/cm2)
EX-167 cartridge - 29.0 tons/in2 (4,570 kg/cm2)
EX-175 cartridge - N/A
|Approximate Barrel Life with Mark 67 cartridge
(see Note 7)
|7,000 rounds
|Ammunition stowage per gun
(see Note 4)
|Arleigh Burke: 680 rounds
1) This weapon has many different kinds of ammunition. The ones listed above are meant to be representational, but by no means is this a complete listing.
2) Ammunition abbreviations:
3) All projectiles have a 0.5 caliber boat-tail.
4) The ammunition stowage figure above is for conventional projectiles. Each ERGM projectile takes the place of about 1.75 conventional projectiles. It was estimated in 1998 that an Arleigh Burke could carry about 230 conventional projectiles and 230 ERGM. The ready-service loader drum for this mounting has a maximum capacity of 20 ballistic rounds or 10 extended-range rounds (such as ERGM or BTERM). Ballistic and extended-range rounds can be mixed in the drum.
5) The Arleigh Burke class ammunition magazine takes approximately 16 hours to be loaded out with 680 ballistic projectiles and associated propelling charges during at-sea replenishments. This assumes favorable weather conditions and calm seas.
6) The addition of extended range guided munitions such as ERGM or BTERM will require a manual magazine reconfiguration to accommodate the specific mix of ammunition provided. These guided munitions will also require additional load cycles because only 16 of these guided rounds will fit on a standard pallet versus 48 conventional ballistic rounds.
7) The introduction of higher energy, hotter burning propellant for ERGM will reduce the expected gun barrel life. The threshold wear life of the Mark 45 Mod 4 gun barrel for ERGM is 1,500 rounds with an objective of 3,000 rounds. This is compared with the current 5"/54 (12.7 cm) Mark 45 barrel wear life in excess of 8,000 rounds for ballistic ammunition fired with standard NACO propellants. Extended range ammunition such as BTERM that use a boost to range concept can be fired using cooler burning propellants such as NACO and therefore will not adversely affect barrel life.
8) The Mark 67 cartridge uses standard NACO propellant. The EX-167 extended-range guided munitions (ERGM) propelling charge uses EX-99 propellant.
9) Most conventional rounds have a burster of about 7.75 lbs. (3.52 kg). The ERGM has a burster of 7.2 lbs. (3.3 kg) PBXN-9 explosive. BTERM has a fragmenting warhead made up of 9.9 lbs. (4.5 kg) preformed tungsten fragments plus 7.6 lbs. (3.4 kg) of explosives.
10) The rocket engine on ERGM burns for 7 seconds. The rocket engine on BTERM provides 20 seconds of burn time.
|Notes on ERGM
This section provides some details of the development history of ERGM along with some test results.
The ERGM is a 12-caliber, rocket-assisted projectile. The projectile is launched from the 5" (12.7 cm) gun mount and guided to its target using both a Global Positioning System (GPS) and an inertial guidance system for a planned CEP accuracy of 10 to 20 meters. The warhead was originally to contain 72 submunitions, but this was later changed to be a unitary blast fragment type. As ERGM is much heavier than conventional munitions and has much longer range specifications, a special propellant charge is required. The resulting substantially increased firing "blow" led to the need for a more robust mounting with a longer gun barrel and hence the development of the 5"/62 (12.7 cm) Mark 45 Mod 4. This program has had a troubled development and may be cancelled in favor of the competing BTERM long-range guided projectile.
From a 15 June 2005 audit report issued by the Department of Defense Office of the Inspector General: "In September 1996, the Navy awarded Texas Instruments, Lewisville, Texas, a cost-plus-award-fee development contract for $43.9 million to design and develop the ERGM. The Navy Acquisition Plan stated that development costs for the ERGM Program would be $113.2 million and that technical development risk was low to medium. The Project Manager, Naval Surface Fire Support (the Project Manager) based the reports cost projections on the assumption that the technology from the former semi-active Laser Guided Projectiles developed in the 1980s could be leveraged without significant redesign. In January 1997, Raytheon Missile System (Raytheon), Tucson, Arizona, acquired Texas Instruments and relocated work on the ERGM development contract to Tucson. Since the relocation, the Navy has twice restructured the contract, with contract development costs increasing from $43.9 million to $178.6 million and estimated ERGM total life-cycle costs increasing from $523.7 million to $1.37 billion. In June 2004, the Project Manager notified the Navy Acquisition Executive that the ERGM Program was close to the threshold for classification as an acquisition category I program because the projected research, development, test, and evaluation (RDT&E) funding totaled $363 million."
The 25 October 1999 issue of Inside the Navy reported that Dr. Lee Buchanan, Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Research, Development and Acquisition, in an 8 October letter to Raytheons chief executive officer, expressed "great concern" about the ERGM development and stated that "we have no confidence that the end [of ERGMs problems] is in sight. I have insisted that [Navy program officials] seriously consider even the most extreme alternatives as I do not believe that marginal adjustments will be effective." He added that, "The [R&D] cost of the program has more than doubled and current predictions call for delivery at least three years late." The article went on to say that the problems with ERGM are "frustrating senior service officials who are concerned that, despite conquering some challenges, further development puzzles still lie ahead." Some of the problems reported include unacceptably short barrel life and failure of the ERGM guidance system. In the FY2001 fiscal plan, the Navy greatly increased the development budget for this weapon in an effort to speed deployment.
According to a 26 June 2002 Raytheon Press Release, a test flight on 25 June 2002 for the "ERGM was launched from a representative Mk45 Mod 4 gun system, using a tactical propellant charge, and successfully executed navigation and guidance after global positioning system (GPS) acquisition. This flight test achieved all test objectives. The projectile demonstrated proper navigation and guidance despite experiencing extreme G-forces during gun launch . . . The test also demonstrated a flight range of 39 nautical miles in under four minutes time of flight and airframe stability and control with proper internal system operation." This last sentence apparently reflects an increase in actual flight time from what was expected previously. According to a Naval Surface Warfare Center (NSWC) document from 1997, "Concept of Employment for Naval Surface Fire Support (Near-term Capability)," the time of flight for 40 nm was then expected to be 2.5 minutes and that for 63 nm to be 7.5 minutes. See ERGM Time of Flight below for more detail.
Three ERGM unitary warhead tests have taken place as of March 2003. These have all successfully met the design goals of the project.
An April 2003 briefing paper by Admiral Vern Clark to the Seapower Subcommittee of the Senate Armed Services Committee stated that ANSR and ERGM would be "headed for a shoot off in FY05 to determine which round will provide greater range, lethality, and accuracy and ultimately be incorporated into the Navys arsenal."
The ERGM program has experienced multiple cost and schedule overruns and is now in danger of being suspended. A March 2004 GAO report stated: "The ERGM program began development with very few of its critical technologies mature, and while progress has been made, program officials do not expect to achieve maturity on all critical technologies until at least February 2004. No production representative engineering drawings were released to manufacturing by the design review; however, over half of these drawings have since been released. The program office expects to have a complete and updated drawing package by October 2004. Finally, due to several test failures, the program did not meet a Navy deadline that required successful completion of two land-based flight tests by November 2003. The Navy is conducting an independent assessment of the programs readiness to proceed with further flight-testing. The Navy has also issued a solicitation for alternative precision-guided munition concepts that could offer cost savings." In May of 2004, the planned introduction date for ERGM was moved to 2006 vs. the originally scheduled date of 2002 and it was estimated that each ERGM round would cost $50,000 US. A November 2004 GAO report estimated service introduction of ERGM could be delayed to as late as 2011 and noted that the Navy was now proposing diverting the monies appropriated for it to fund railgun development.
During a test shoot in April 2004, the ERGM did not deploy its tailfins and the rocket motor failed. However, in a February 2005 test, two ERGM rounds were launched from a representative Mark 45 Mod 4 gun system, using a tactical propellant charge, and successfully executed navigation and guidance after global positioning system (GPS) acquisition. Quoting from the 17 February 2005 Raytheon press release: "Both rounds exited the gun after transferring through a severe gun environment; additionally the tails erected and the rocket motor ignited. Moreover, both rounds achieved stable flight, acquired and tracked GPS satellites, developed in-flight navigational solutions, and guided to the target area more than 40 nautical miles away. The first round flew into the target arena and detonated the warhead." This wording seems to suggest that the second round did not enter the target arena.
ERGM Time of Flight from "Naval Surface
Fire Support Overview" by Major Jeff Graham, USMC
ERGM rounds are to be stored as "wooden" rounds, that is, they are powered down to a safe mode. After the round is placed into the loader drum, target and GPS data is inductively transmitted to the ERGM via a special Setter Hood that fits over the nose of the projectile. It takes an average of 2.6 seconds for all target and GPS data to be transferred to the ERGM.
In February 2008, the Navy and Ratheyon conducted a series of test firings, which reportedly were unsuccessful. As a result, the Navy canceled further funding in March 2008 and the project is now considered to be finished.
|Notes on ANSR and BTERM
This section provides some details of the development history of ANSR and BTERM along with some test results.
This is another long-range, rocket-assisted guided projectile that is currently under development by Alliant Techsystems (ATK). This was originally known as the Autonomous Naval Support Round (ANSR) but is now known as the Ballistic Trajectory Extended Range Munition (BTERM). ANSR was something of a private venture by ATK, receiving little official development monies from the Navy. The round is much simpler in concept than the ERGM and basically trades warhead weight for sustainer propellant.
ANSR was described in an article by Daniel Goure in the February 2003 issue of Navy League of the United States as follows:
Range is not ANSR's only distinguishing feature, though. Unlike most competitors, ANSR flies a purely ballistic trajectory that helps to simplify system design and reduces its susceptibility to countermeasures. And it uses a global positioning system and other high-tech systems to provide exceptional accuracy. ANSR is compatible with both 5-inch/54 and 5-inch/62 caliber naval guns. This means it can be deployed both on existing Navy ships -- providing an immediate fire-support capability of some 150 guns -- and on the new DD(X).The following is taken from an ATK press release of 03 October 2003: "On Sept. 24, at the White Sands Missile Range (WMSR) in New Mexico, two Autonomous Naval Support Rounds (ANSR) flew more than 61 miles (54 nautical miles) in less than three minutes. Using inputs from up to nine GPS satellites, the projectiles guided to within 20 meters of their designated targets."
ATK announced in a press release dated 11 May 2004 that their "Ballistic Trajectory Extended Range Munition (BTERM) II, an extension of the earlier Autonomous Naval Support Round (ANSR), captured the highly competitive award for development of the Navy five-inch Extended Range Munition (ERM). With a value of $30 million, the contract calls for ATK to perform a 16-month demonstration of an innovative extended range, low cost, gun launched projectile capable of operation in the Mk 45 Mod 4 and Mod 2 naval gun systems."
BTERM uses a single axis control system (autopilot) that consists of a single-pair of canards for lateral control and tail fins for stability. The canards are deployed just prior to guidance activation which typically occurs at apogee; the fins are deployed right after the projectile leaves the muzzle. The projectile rolls about its longitudinal axis throughout its flight at a rate of 20-30 RPM and the control system uses roll commutation to translate guidance commands into canard deflection commands.
According to a Defense Daily report, ATK conducted an engineering test of a redesigned rocket motor with an unguided round at White Sands on 31 October 2005. The redesigned rocket suffered an early motor burnout, leading to a cancellation of a test planned for 4 November 2005.
ATK announced in a 22 February 2006 Press Release that the BTERM development team had "successfully conducted a challenging short-range, unboosted, guided flight test of ATKs ballistic trajectory extended range munition (BTERM) in support of the Navys extended range munition (ERM) requirement. In this engineering test, the advanced, BTERM guided projectile flew more than 8 miles and landed within two meters of the target. This is the latest in a series of engineering tests leading up to guided and boosted flight-tests, currently being scheduled for this spring."
ATK announced in a 25 April 2006 Press Release that it had successfully fired a BTERM rocket motor in an boosted, unguided test. In this test, the unguided round exited the gun barrel, achieved ignition and then performed a complete burn, thus validating the rocket motor design. In a separate flight test, the Ignition Safety Device (ISD) successfully ignited the rocket motor four seconds after exiting the gun barrel. The ISD is critical to the rounds range performance across the entire set of range requirements, which extends from 15 nautical miles to 55 nautical miles. Both tests were conducted on 14 April 2006 at the Yuma Proving Grounds in Arizona.
BTERM failed some of the crucial elements of later tests and the Navy has cancelled any further effort in this direction. In a March 2007 Government Accountability Office (GAO) report a US Navy official stated that the US Navy concluded that Extended Range Munition (ERM) was a more viable option for fielding a tactical round by FY11, and it was no longer requesting funding for BTERM. Navy officials stated at that time that a competition could still occur in 2011 for ERM production. However, a 2011 GAO report says that the Navy has now dropped the ERM program.
|Notes on Mark 172 HE-ICM
Cargo Round
This round carries 49 Mark 2 submunitions, which are a variation of the Army's M-80 DPICM. This round is designed to explode above the ground in order to dispense its munitions over a wide area. As this is an unguided round, its CEP is considerably larger than those of the ANSR and ERGM projectiles, about 365 yards (333 m) at 16 nm (29 km). This round may also be used against surface targets, especially high-speed attack boats, where its wide dispersal pattern is considered to be very useful.
|With Conventional Projectiles using Mark 67 Cartridge
|Range @ 47 degrees
|25,880 yards (23,660 m)
|With Conventional Projectiles using EX-175 Cartridge
|Maximum Range
|about 40,000 to 42,000 yards (36,600 to 38,400 m)
|With Mark 171 ERGM
(see Note 2)
|Up to 63 nm (115,000 m)
|With BTERM
|Up to 55 nm (98 km)
1) Illumination rounds are automatically timed to ignite at an altitude of 1,050 feet (320 m) over the target area.
2) ERGM is intended to be used against targets 13 to 63 nautical miles (nm) away from the firing ship. Conventional munitions would be used against closer targets. According to "Concept of Employment for Naval Surface Fire Support (Near-term Capability)" a Naval Surface Warfare Center document from 1997, at ranges up to 40 nm, the ERGM flies a ballistic flight path and has a time of flight of about 2.5 minutes. At longer ranges, the flight path is not ballistic and the time of flight increases significantly, up to a duration of 7 minutes at the maximum range of 63 nm. However, a 26 June 2002 Raytheon Press release suggests that the time of flight for 40 nm is closer to four minutes.
3) During a test firing in 2003, a ANSR round flew 54 nm (96 km) in less than three minutes.
|Single Mounting
Republic of Korea
|Mounting without lower hoist: 50,456
lbs. (22,886 kg) [est.]
Mounting with four-flight lower hoist: 54,398 lbs. (24,674 kg) [est.]
|-15 / +65 degrees
|Elevation Rate
|20 degrees per second
|+170 / -170 degrees
|Train Rate
|30 degrees per second
|Gun recoil
(see Note 3)
|19 to 21 in (48 to 53 cm)
1) In general, the design of the Mark 45 Mod 4 mounting is similar to the original Mark 45 mounting and they share many of the same components.
2) The Mark 45 Mod 4 mounting has a reduced radar signature as compared to the original Mark 45 mounting.
3) The recoil distances given above are nominal values when firing a conventional projectile with a standard service charge at elevations between 30 and 40 degrees. When fired with a proof charge at max elevation, recoil is about 23 inches (58 cm). If the heavier BTERM or ERGM projectiles are fired at max elevation and at proof pressure, then the gun will recoil about 29.25 inches (74 cm). The absolute, metal-to-metal recoil distance is 30 inches (76.2 cm).
4) This mounting requires 440 VAC, 60 Hz, 164.35 KW Peak.
5) Manning is Gun Captain, Panel Operator and four ammunition operators, all below deck.
7 April 2008 - Benchmark
18 April 2010 - Added information about use on Japanese, Korean and Danish ships
26 September 2011 - Added gun barrel designation, end of ERM program


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Suspended IAS officer Pradeep Sharma, who is also a staunch critic of the Narendra Modi government in Gujarat, filed a plea in the Supreme Court Saturday, urging it to order a CBI inquiry into the controversial audio tapes that feature the alleged illegal surveillance of a woman architect.
The application by Sharma alleged that one of the prime reasons for his victimisation by the Modi government was his knowledge of the intimacy shared by Shri Narendra Modi with a young lady architect, aged 27 years, from Bangalore, but originally from Bhuj in Gujarat, who was introduced to Shri Modi by the applicant himself in the year 2004.
Citing the transcripts of the audio tapes aired by news portals Cobrapost and Gulail that contain the alleged conversations between Modis close aide Amit Shah and suspended IPS officer G L Singhal, Sharma has alleged that a number of false and frivolous cases were registered against him with a view to implicate and punish him.
The application, filed through advocate Sunil Fernandes, has stated that the surveillance was in severe violation of the Indian Telegraph Act and in absolute disregard to the guidelines laid down by the apex court.
The said tapes/transcripts reveal a strong bias and prejudice of the state of Gujarat against the applicant herein and the states intent to somehow implicate the applicant herein in criminal offences, the application said, pointing out there were approximately 267 tapped conversations that Singhal submitted to the CBI during the investigation into the Ishrat Jahan fake encounter case.
The contents of the conversations, the plea said, would reveal the hostile attitude and malicious attitude of the state government and hence, the claims by the government that surveillance was done in pursuant to the request by the womans father must be put to judicial scrutiny.
The BJP and the father of the woman have both said that the surveillance followed a request from the father for help. Pranlal Soni, the father, has also said that his daughter was fully aware of the help and that there has been no encroachment of her privacy.
Sharmas application pleaded for taking on record the documents and transcripts and directing the CBI to register a case and conduct a thorough investigation into the violation of the Telegraph Act and other laws by Modi, Shah and others. Earlier this week, Sharmas counsel Prashant Bhushan had sought an urgent hearing into the case, saying


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May 29, 2016
Stone faced and for the most part silent, Shawndale Clark heard the three charges against him. Clark, 26, faces two counts of murder and one count of child abuse in the death of his daughter, 14-month-old Amaree Mathis.
Last Friday, Blackman Township police were called to the Polo Club Apartments to check on a baby, the parents said, wasn't breathing. Emergency crews found Amaree dead when they arrived. An autopsy shows she died of blunt force head trauma and other injuries were cited as well.
Clark is being held in the Jackson County Jail with no bond. He's back in court next week.
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After what has been the fourth wettest February in Idaho since records have been kept, the water outlook for southern Idaho has gone from bleak to almost normal. Although irrigation companies start delivery of irrigation water to farmers in April, the New York Canal, and Indian Creek through Kuna, is flowing a bit earlier than normal according to locals.
Not so, says a press release from the Lucky Peak Power Plant Project (LPPP). Mike Kukla, the Project Administrator for the LPPP says that the traditional diversion of water begins the first week of March to fill Lake Lowell.
This has an impact on power production at Lucky Peak dam as well.
"During the non-irrigation season, the Boise River drops to minimum stream flows so our power output drops to about two megawatts. Our output will increase to about 18 megawatts next week as more water is released from Lucky Peak to fill Lake Lowell," Kukla said.
The LPPP was built and is owned by the irrigation districts and the revenues from the sale of electricity and is used for operation and maintenance of the irrigation canal system.
When LPPP is up to full capacity, the plant has potential to generate 101 megawatts of power. Revenues from the sale of that electricity go to the irrigation districts that built and own LPPP and all revenue is used to pay for the operation and maintenance of the irrigation delivery system.
"The earlier start means we will begin putting power on to the grid earlier and able to generate revenues for the irrigation districts," said Kukla.
"The good news for Treasure Valley residents is that these electricity revenues keep water costs down for farmers and for residential consumers that receive their irrigation water from one of the participating districts," Kukla concluded.
Lucky Peak Power Plant is owned by the Boise-Kuna, Nampa & Meridian, Wilder, and Big Bend irrigation districts and operated by Seattle City Light.


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Yes friend, tears. Tears are what I'm shedding right now because Benedict Cumberbatch's time on the set of Black Mass has come to an end.
The Sherlock actor wrapped shooting in Boston yesterday, which means he's gonna go back into hiding and we won't see any photos of him for a long while. At least that's what he's done in the past. Maybe it'll be different this time! Maybe!
Ooo, does this mean that Black Mass itself is almost done shooting? Cause I'm tired of seeing creepy Johnny Depp.
Luckily Benedict looked very good in his costume, so he was a joy to stare at. Then again, I'm pretty sure he would look good in any costume. Or in no costume. Meaning no clothes. Yeah, I like that option. Although I doubt even Benedict can look good in jorts. Sorry world.
Launch the gallery to check out all the photos of Benedict. And remember to appreciate them thoroughly.


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Mothers Day Crafts
Family Tree Craft
Help your fifth grader trace your family's roots and interview all the living mothers to create a makeshift, 3-D family tree!
Mother's Day Poem
Help your teen analyze "To My Mother" by Edgar Allan Poe, and then experiment with his poetry skills to create a version of his own.
Write a Concrete Poem For Mom
Boost those first grade reading and writing skills with this sweet Mother's Day poem idea.
Forever Flowers
In this arts and crafts project, have spring all year round by letting your kindergartener create colorful flower bouquets of tissue paper.
Photo Bouquet
Make the sentiment of live flowers last and last by showing your kindergartener how to craft a bouquet that will never wilt--a family photo bouquet, that is.
DIY Planter
Show your preschooler how to construct this very special planter for Mom. It makes a great pick-me-up, and it's easy for kids to make in a flash!
Mom Card
Forget expensive store bought cards, this handmade card truly delivers--and it helps your preschooler with letter recognition.
Heart Brooch
Kids generally can't come up with the cash to buy the bling they dream of giving mom. With this project, they can make her jewelry themselves!
The History of Mother's Day
It's a fun day for flowers and chocolate, but Mother's Day has solemn roots as well. Here's the story of our American holiday.
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As Mother's Day approaches, everyone's grateful! Let your third grader assemble this special book with words from the whole family.
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Maritimo survived multiple fightbacks from Academica to win their Liga Sagres clash 3-2 on Monday.
The visitors to Estadio EFAPEL took control of the Portuguese top-flight contest when they went two goals up through 25 minutes courtesy of finishes from Danilo Dias and Artur.
Academica pulled one back just before the half-time whistle, though, when Edinho was on target, only for Maritimo to reinstate their two-goal lead three minutes after the interval when Sami scored.
The three points were then never in doubt for Pedro Martins' side, although Wilson Eduardo struck in the fourth minute of additional time - albeit it too late to salvage a result.
It was Academica's third straight league defeat, leaving them 12th on 20 points - just five above the drop.
Maritimo, meanwhile, are sixth on 28 points - seven behind Pacos de Ferreira in third spot, and a potential European place.


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"Thirteen" (2003)
While we're definitely out of step with the near-universal praise and acclaim that was heaped upon Catherine Hardwicke's directorial debut, there's no denying that it's a film that at its heart is about a messed up mother/daughter relationship. Chronicling the rapid devolution of it central character, the unbearably self-involved 13-year-old Tracy from happy, healthy tween to Whip-It-huffing, promiscuous, self-harming wild child, the film's unquestioning allegiance to the validity of her point of view is, for our money, its main shortcoming: Hardwicke plays it out with all the music-video shallowness and woozy histrionics that a self-indulgent teen might indeed display, which is no doubt part of the point, but it does yield a film that, like its central protagonist, we just spend the entire running time wanting to slap. However, it does have one interesting facet in the relationship between Tracy (Evan Rachel Wood) and her mother Melanie (Holly Hunter), and the way in which Tracy's turbulent coming-of-age in fact marks the figurative coming of age for her mother too. What's key here is the characterization of Melanie: a young mother, and a financially insecure recovering alcoholic with bohemian leanings who has relationship with Tracy that seems more like a friendship than mother-and-daughter. And so some of Melanie's initial inaction in the face of Tracy's changed behavior can be chalked up to this free-spirit tendency, however what actually happens is that the light-switch change in Tracy will reveal Melanie to be less youthful than immature, and frighteningly ill-equipped to curb her daughter's sudden excesses.
Tracy is a good girl, on the cusp of "that difficult period" who suddenly notices the different (ie more provocative) way the popular girls at school dress and talk and act. Forcing her mom to buy her some tight jeans and a "cute" shirt, Tracy pursues a friendship with queen bee Evie Zamora (Nikki Reed, credited as co-writer here, on whose experiences the film is reportedly loosely based) which sees Tracy transform into a cigarette-smoking, purse-stealing, scowling bad girl and beyond. A cycle of drug and sex one-upmanship begins between Tracy and Evie, in that peculiarly competitive way of teenage best friends, just as Melanie reestablishes a romantic relationship with an ex-junkie (Jeremy Sisto). Eventually the volatile nature of the relationship between the girls begins to tell on them both though, and Tracy's escalating criminality, failing grades and self-destructive tendencies force a cathartic but emotionally devastating confrontation with Melanie. Leaving aside our issues with the film (and they are myriad, in case you hadn't noticed), at the very least it can be lauded for trying to portray that often traumatic period in a girl's life when she shifts gear from childhood to adulthood, and when, paradoxically, she may start to reject her mother at exactly the point she needs her most. "Thirteen" does a decent job of inhabiting the mind of a troubled teenage girl, but whether that's a place you want to spend any time is another question.
"Mommie Dearest" (1981)
Estranged, even abusive mother daughter relationships aren't entirely new to Hollywood as evinced by this list and several many other cinematic examples (here's five horrible movie mothers we've covered in the past and another five to boot), but one of the most memorable and borderline Grand Guignol is "Mommie Dearest," Frank Perry's 1981 drama about actress Joan Crawford and her daughter Christina (even if it's ultimately not that successful). Based on Christina Crawford's scandalous 1978 autobiography of the same name—one of the more infamous Hollywood tell-alls to bring plenty of juicy dirt — the film stars Faye Dunaway as Crawford and Mara Hobel and Diana Scarwid as the younger and older versions of Christina respectively. Adopted by Crawford at a young age, the film (like the exposé) alleges that the diva movie star was a shamelessly publicity-hungry, domineering, hyper-controlling and physically abusive mother that took in the child for selfish matters of loneliness (and suggests perhaps she did it to get press too). The notorious "wire hanger" scene—wherein Joan beats her daughter for having the audacity to hang expensive clothes on cheap wire hangers—is both genuinely disturbing and comical (though obviously it isn't meant to be funny). There's a lot of histrionics—"Don't fuck with me, fellas!" being a rather for-the-ages ridiculous line—and it doesn't always work, but Dunaway does play a convincing and rather insecure and troubled movie star whose vanity and need for attention is a poisonous by-product of her industry.
The young Crawford (and her brother Christopher) were famously left out of Joan's will "for reasons which are well known to them," and it's been speculated by several industry pundits, this act of parental rejection from the grave was what inspired Christina's book and not actual abuse. But even 30 years later the surviving Crawford contends that it's all true. "I can't tell you how many times I have been told in person and with letters that reading the book made people realize for the first time that they weren't alone," she said in a 2013 interview.
Perhaps falling short of the macabre horror-melodrama that Robert Aldrich perfected with the beautifully twisted twofer of "What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?" (1962) and "Hush, Hush, Sweet Charlotte," (Perry just isn't an auteur of that rank unfortunately, though he was nominated for Best Director in 1962 for the already forgotten "David And Lisa"), it does come close thanks to Dunaway's operatic go-for-broke performance. Perhaps because it was meant to be a drama, it doesn't go for the Aldrich grotesquerie of aging stars that we love so much, but we really wish DP Paul Lohmann would have actually lit the picture with even a slight ghoulish edge instead of its almost TV-flatness. And therein perhaps the fatal flaw of "Mommie Dearest," it is melodramatic, shrill and over-the-top, but it has no real flair for camp or sense of sly humor. It takes itself deadly seriously (which often makes it unintentionally funny) and just isn't very artful. Critics panned it at the time (Roger Ebert said in his review, "I can't imagine who would want to subject themselves to this movie") and "Mommie Dearest" has become a cult classic, but aside from "Thirteen" it's easily the weakest film on this list (amusingly enough Paramount switched gears in the marketing and embraced irony when they discovered audiences taking to its unintentionally funny moments). Still there are delights in the performance just for its sheer scene-chewing and as far as delicious depictions of monstrous, but vulnerable mothers, you could do a hell of a lot worse than Dunaway as Joan Crawford. Christina's own final word? "It's not a very good movie."
"Postcards from the Edge" (1990)
Mike Nichols' adaptation of Carrie Fisher's screenplay (based on her book of the same name, which was in turn loosely inspired by her own life with her famous mother, Debbie Reynolds) is a film that feels like it's fallen somewhat out of fashion, but is probably ripe for rediscovery. Directed with typical comedic nuance and sympathy by Nichols, it's also a sterling showcase for its performers, of course, with Meryl Streep gaining an Oscar nomination, but Shirley MacLaine maybe even stealing the show, at least according to our recent rewatch. They play daughter-and-mother Suzanne Vale and Doris Mann, both actresses, with Vale (Streep) only really hitting her career stride, while Mann is a bona fide old-school star, with all the attendant publicity, wealth and tribute drag acts that come with it. The contradictory nature of their relationship is heightened by the fact that they both are of the same profession, and that that profession is one that itself fosters an unusually high degree of drama and volatility in its practitioners (you can't imagine quite the same conflicting currents of jealousy, vanity and ageism flowing through, say, a film about mother-and-daughter dental hygienists). But the film is also remarkable for the real warmth that exists between the women, even though their relationship is fractured and can be fractious: Suzanne's joy at her mother's showboating performance at the unasked-for post-rehab party Doris throws her is as genuine as her age-old anger at how Doris lifted her skirt to flash the attendees at Suzanne's 17th birthday ("IT TWIRLED UP!" snarls her mother). And ultimately, it's a hopeful film, in which admissions in hospital rooms can lead to rapprochement and forgiveness and each can learn, despite tangled histories to appreciate the other for the magnificent mess-ups they both are.
The film begins as Suzanne fluffs a word (tellingly, she says "Mummy" instead of "money") during a long take shot of a movie she's working on for director Lowell Kolcheck (Gene Hackman), after which Kolchek discovers she's on drugs. Later overdosing during a one-night stand with Jack Faulkner (Dennis Quaid), Suzanne is admitted to rehab by her mother Doris, where she (without too much difficulty, it must be said) gets clean and tries to go back to work, only to be told that she's uninsurable unless living with a responsible parent, i.e. her mother. We can forgive the film it's rather glossed-over take on addiction and recovery because it's really not the central focus, instead the story's main fascination is with the love-and-loathing tussle that exists between the two women—at no point is it suggested that either has been a monster to the other (contrasted with, say "Mommie Dearest" which gets a shout-out), but neither is either one totally blameless. And so the story actually works quite evenhandedly, delivering in the end less an overcoming-obstacles-to-find-success narrative than a satisfyingly balanced, and still inside baseball-funny, tale of the older generation learning the grace to pass the baton, and the younger generation learning how to accept it gracefully.
In addition to "Coraline," "Precious" and of course the first "Carrie" which we've written about in roughly this context previously (those links again are here and here), "Mildred Pierce" is another film we adore which takes as its central theme a completely borked mother/daughter bond, and which, in having Joan Crawford portray the heroically self-sacrificing and infinitely loving mother, provides a nice counterpoint to "Mommie Dearest," above (and the Todd Haynes miniseries is pretty fantastic too). "White Oleander" is another female-ensemble-led drama of a hard mother spawning troubled offspring, while the horror genre has also provided a few entries, with "Mama" and "Orphan" being some of the more recent examples. Aside from that there are many, many films in which a fucked-up maternal relationship with a daughter forms a subplot, but two we found particularly memorable were "Wild at Heart" which scores extra points for featuring real-life mother and daughter Diane Ladd and Laura Dern, and Hitchcock's misogynist, mother-hating marvel "Marnie." With the sole caution that we did try to focus on films in which both mother and daughter a full characters (as opposed to the daughter being a baby or small child, for example) feel free to get all Electra complex on us and shout out your favorites of the ones we've missed below. - with contributions by Rodrigo Perez


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State of the World's Minorities 2008 - Algeria
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Parliamentary elections in May 2007 were only the third democratic poll to be held since 1992, when the army cancelled the first multi-party elections which were won by the fundamentalist FIS (Islamic Salvation Front) party. The consequences of the ensuing civil war, marked by extreme brutality, are still being felt today. The Salafist militants, relaunched in 2007 as a branch of al-Qaeda, have their roots in the armed Islamic opposition to the Algerian state. Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb has claimed responsibility for a number of attacks across North Africa, including a series of bombings in Algeria, leaving many dead. In January 2007, it targeted security forces in the minority Berber area of Kabylia in north-eastern Algeria. According to BBC News, seven bombs were detonated and at least six people were killed.
Observers said the low turnout in the parliamentary poll reflected the electorate's understanding that power was concentrated in the hands of the presidency not the parliament. For the Berber minority – which makes up approximately 25 per cent of the Algerian population – grievances about recognition of their distinct language and cultural rights remain. Berber political parties were divided about whether to contest the elections: the Rally for Culture and Democracy gained 19 seats, re-entering parliament after a boycott in 2002. However, the Social Forces Front decided once again not to contest the election. About half of the Berber-speaking population is concentrated in the mountainous areas east of Algiers – Kabylia – and this area and its language have been at the centre of most Berber issues in modern Algeria. In 2001, riots and demonstrations erupted in the region, due to widespread claims of repression and marginalization. Since then, the government has promised more economic assistance and eased some restrictions on the use of Tamazight – the Berber language. In its 2007 report on Algeria, the US State Department noted that:
'Access to print and broadcast media for Tamazight and Amazigh culture continued to grow. Tamazight programming also increased on the non-Berber language channels, as did advertisements in Tamazight on all television and radio channels. Beginning in the 2006–2007 scholastic year, the Tamazight language was officially taught in primary schools, starting in the fourth grade in 17 predominantly Berber provinces.'
However, this progress still falls short of Tamazight being recognized as an 'official' language – as demanded by Berber campaigners. Moreover, there are complaints that, outside Kabylia, Berbers' linguistic and cultural rights continue to be restricted.


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Water gushed out a pipe and down a street of Madera's Parkwood neighborhood Tuesday evening as workers flushed rust and other build-up out of the system. An emergency drill team had to dig 300 feet before striking ground water.
"It's nice to see this water flowing though," said Hope Cuellar, a Parkwood resident.
Hope Cuellar and 600 of her neighbors had been frustrated the past two days not having running water in their homes.
"Especially for a hardworking mom. I hate to see dishes in the sink when I come home. We couldn't run the washer or the toilets," said Cuellar.
Madera County workers delivered 10 pallets of bottled water to folks as a way to get by.
The old pump is a known problem and the drought has made it age even faster. On Sunday, it basically began sucking air.
"If the well would have failed another week from now we would have been in a better position," said Madera Co. Engineer Kheng Vang.
County Engineer Kheng Vang says his department received approval on June 25th to allow Parkwood to tie into the city of Madera's water system as a backup to the unstable well.
"Contractors will be starting Friday and it will take them about three to five days to get the physical connection made.
There was no way to speed up the construction process because workers have not received the parts.
"They're being built and manufactured out of the area so they should be delivered Friday," said Vang.
This water is suitable for showering and washing clothes, but for cooking and drinking the county says stick to bottled water through Wednesday night.
"The reason is we have to test for contaminants and within 24 hours we should get the results back," said Vang.
The cost to fix the pump is $50,000 to $60,000. The good news is the county has secured a $250,000, so the county will get reimbursed and can invest that money into a new well.
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