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When I started my food storage, I just started grabbing extra cans of everything I used when they went on sale. I was really proud of myself and then I started to learn more. Having canned foods is not enough. It goes well with the philosophy of "having something is better than having nothing," but there was more I could be doing.
Educating yourself on food storage shelf life is important. Emergency preparedness covers a huge variety of emergencies. If an emergency, like an earthquake, hurricane, war, etc., arises then you will not have the luxury of running to the store to supplement what you already have. Some of your food could be expired and you may not have realized it. Be educated on how long items last and what you will need to sustain your family during an emergency.
The duration of shelf life is determined by temperature, moisture and oxygen. When temperature is below 75 degrees F (optimal is 50-60 degrees F) then the food will be edible longer. Increased temperatures destroy food and its nutritional value by breaking down the vitamins and proteins. Moisture creates conditions for growth micro-organisms which cause a chemical reaction that can make us sick. (That's why there is dried food.) Oxygen can deteriorate food by providing conditions that enhances growth of micro-organisms which grow and break down the foods components. This is why oxygen absorbers are placed in dried-food containers. Taste and nutritional quality decreases over the length of time the food is stored.
Canned foods and mixes will have dates stamped on them, ex. "Best if used by…" or "Expiration date." These dates give you guidelines for how long the recommended food life is. After this date, the original taste and quality of the food decreases; micro-organisms start to break down the food components, making the food start to go bad. The 'wet' foods and those packaged without oxygen absorbers will have a shortened shelf life. With canned meats, jam, packaged mixes you will have about a year. Acidic foods like canned fruits will give you a 1-2 year shelf life. Soups, gravies and non-acidic food will have a 2-3 year shelf. Sugars and white rice are good for two years; pastas and uncooked cereals are good for about a year, but brown rice is only good for 6 months. This is why it is so important to rotate your food storage; you need to use all the items before they go bad. Be aware of what you put in your 72 hour kits; crackers and other similar prepackaged items are only good for 6 months.
Remember, the dates are only a "guide." Be aware of how the food looks and smells. If a can is swollen, leaking, badly dented, or rusted then toss it out. If the color has changed dramatically or the food gives off a bad odor, toss it.
Freeze dried and dehydrated foods packaged in sealed containers with oxygen absorbers last for 25+ years (items that Augason Farms carries). Freeze dried foods keep their original size, whereas, dehydrated foods will shrink in size, but both are great food storage items. Prepackaged items in #10 cans with an oxygen absorber last from 10 to 30 years. Freeze dried and dehydrated fruits and vegetables are great foods to stock up on. They are delicious snacks right out of the cans or easily added to a variety of recipes calling for fruits and vegetables, which means they are easy to rotate through. Once they are opened, they are exposed to oxygen, so they'll need to be used within about a year (along with most items packaged in #10 cans). Adding freeze dried and dehydrated foods to your 72 hour kits are a great idea because you won't have worry about switching out your kit out as often.
Remember, shelf life refers to how long your food will remain good for. When making a choice on what to store in your food storage, take the shelf life into consideration. Make sure you have a good balance of freeze dried and dehydrated foods and that you have a plan in place for rotating your food storage. Also, remember to keep the food storage supply in a cool, dry place to pro-long the shelf life.
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Ike: "Golf was essential to his daily routine."
Barack Obama played his first round of golf since August but after reading Evan Thomas' golf.com excerpt from Ike's Bluff, the President has a long way to go when it comes to matching the Oval Office's greatest golf nut.
We all know about President Eisenhower's 800 rounds, but there was all this...
Golf was essential to his daily routine. When he awakened in the morning, he limbered up by taking a few swings in his bedroom with his favorite eight-iron.
He sometimes swung the club when dictating to Mrs. Whitman. At 5:00 p.m. he would rise from Teddy Roosevelt's old Navy Department desk in the Oval Office, put on his golf shoes, and head out the door, leaving tiny spike holes in the floorboards. On the Ellipse, the greensward stretching south from the White House toward the Washington Monument, he would practice fairway approach shots. His faithful valet (or as he was known in military parlance, his striker), Sergeant John Moaney, would shag the balls while tourists peered through the iron fence.


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Doctors choose bone marrow registry members in this age group more than 90% of the time.
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Rotorua tourist attraction shut down after woman breaks legs
One of Rotorua's famed tourist attractions has been shut down, after a WorkSafeNZ investigation - but the company is still selling discount passes for the ride.
The Zorb's giant ball-rolling activity has been ordered to stop operating until it complies with adventure activity regulations.
WorkSafe, a Government agency, is responsible for ensuring commercial operators comply with health and safety laws and has issued Zorb two "improvement notices."
They were issued after an accident in June 2015 which saw a visitor to the Zorb injured, breaking both her legs.
"Before this incident, based on information supplied by Zorb New Zealand, WorkSafe ruled that the company's activities were not covered by the Health and Safety in Employment (Adventure Activities) Regulations 2011.
"However, based on new information obtained as a result of the incident and follow-up assessment, that decision was reviewed and Zorb New Zealand Ltd was found to be covered by the regulations," the WorkSafe statement said.
It goes on to say the company is now working towards registration as an adventure activity operator.
"Until it is registered, or is granted a temporary exemption, it cannot legally provide the downhill 'ball rolling/Zorbing' activity."
The NZ Herald quoted Zorb Rotorua general manager Haydn Marriner as saying the company was working on the issue.
"We are in a unique position being caught between two worlds. Previously we were considered as a non-adventure activity, and now we are, so WorkSafe has asked us to cease operation until we are compliant.
Zorb was shut yesterday and today for scheduled electrical upgrades, but the WorkSafeNZ requirements could mean it is another six weeks before they receive an exemption to operate.
However the company was tonight still selling cheap passes to the ride, on the GrabOne website.
There was no stipulation that the ride was closed, only that the voucher - a $14 discount - could not be refunded and had to be used by the end of April.
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ATTOCK, Nov 23: District police officer (DPO) Syed Ali Nasir Rizvi has formed a team to probe into a triple murder case reported from the Nartupa village two days back.
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Boy rescued from island in fast riverJun 24, 2014 By Eric Blom, Staff Writer
A crew from the Riverton Fire Protection District rescued a young boy from an island in the fast-moving Little Wind River on Monday.
They delivered the child, Trulan Oldman, 10, safely to his mother waiting on shore.
Oldman and four other children were wading across the river from north to south west of the Gas Hills Road bridge just before noon that day when the current swept them away. The others were carried downstream to the south bank, but Oldman was deposited on a small grassy island in the middle.
The river is still running faster and deeper than usual as seasonal runoff continues.
"It was way too deep. They lost their footing, and the water took them away," Fremont County Undersheriff Ryan Lee said.
Lee was driving down Gas Hills Road when he saw the kids start to cross the river. Knowing fording the stream was unsafe, he pulled his truck around.
"I was going to talk to them about it, but by the time I got back the one kid was in distress," Lee said.
He told the boy to stay on the island while he called for Riverton Fire's water rescue team.
"There was really no way to get to him without a boat," he said.
A U.S. Geological Survey stream gauge at a fixed location noted the Little Wind's depth at about 3.1 feet and flow at about 500 cubic feet per second during the rescue. The river's depth at the spot of the incident might have been deeper.
The Wind River Police Department also responded and led law enforcement aspects of the operation. A Fremont County Ambulance arrived on scene but was not needed. About 20 minutes after the first call, Riverton Fire's water rescue unit arrived and began inflating a 15-foot-long rubber raft.
Rescuers Matt Lee, Nate Lee and Brian Hutchins donned wetsuits and helmets and launched the raft with the help of a shore crew, including Dave Witthar, Cory Higgs, Ron Caines, Kim Wells and Riverton fire chief Mike Hutchinson.
Assistant chief Scott Walters said Riverton fire personnel train for exactly this type of scenario, called a swift-water rescue.
While those on shore held a rope tethered to the boat, the three in the raft paddled through the strong current for about 30 feet before landing on the island.
After the boat was already underway, however, a woman came onto the scene, saw the child on the island, and rushed to try to help. She ran down the bank, calling to the boy, and waded into the water. The boy started toward her but remained on the island before a WRPD officer and Fremont County Sheriff's deputy, concerned for her and the boy's safety, rushed in and stopped the woman. She was cursing as they led her in handcuffs to an WRPD vehicle.
Once on the island, one rescuer helped Oldman put on a life jacket and climb into the boat. The three men sat astride the inflated sides and rear of the boat and paddled it swiftly back to shore with the help of those on land pulling on the rope.
Walters walked the boy up the bank before his mother rushed in and swooped him up in a hug.
Oldman was calm throughout the ordeal until he reached his mother's arms, when his emotions overcame him and he burst into tears.
"He probably got a little upset. On the other hand, he probably was pretty happy," Walters said.
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By Emmanuel Luganda
Businessman Boney Katatumba has evicted Shumuk Company properties from his Blacklines House in Kampala.
Court on last week issued an eviction and attachment orders allowing Katatumba vacant possession of his properties Katatumna Suiites on Plot 2, Colville Street and Hotel Diplomat Plot 970&971 Muyenga Tank Hill that were fraudulently taken by his former business associate Mukesh Shukla aka Shumuk.
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George Brosius married Anna Catherine Simon in Herron-Sulzbach, Germany. The family left their home in the Rhein-pfalz for Holland and the new world on the ship, "Lydia". They arrived in the port of Philadelphia on September 27, 1740. Johan George also took Oaths of Allegiance on the same day. To his signature, he printed the initials JB, as his seal. It is unknown how long the Brosius Family stayed in Philadelphia, Pa., but by 1743, the family was living in the Tulpehocken area. There were 205 acres of land, patented to him in 1750. The family joined the western edge of the present day Rehrersburg, Berks Co., Pa. George Brosius was one of the original members of the Christ Tulpehocken Church, and appeared in the church rolls of 1743-46. The family settled in the area, known as the Mano rof Andulhea, which was a land grant to Thomas and Richard Penn.6
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by Pete Bodo
[For more on the Australian Open, also check out our latest podcast, which ought to be live later this afternoon. And while you're at it, check out our new feature, The Daily Spin.]
It's the first bleary-eyed morning of the year's first Grand Slam event, and I find myself once again wondering, "What's with this blue?" Granted, the potter's clay-colored court Down Under is a vast improvement over the Marlin blue the Aussies featured last year. It's an interesting, easy-on-the-eyes color. But it would look even nicer if the areas outside the lines were a complimentary, pale shade - a light green, perhaps?
But the Lords of Tennis seem to have this absurd fixation with blue, especially dark blue. I felt that way last year at this time, and also when tuned in to the ATP World Tour Finals. I also thought that when I heard Ion Tiriac floating the idea of blue clay courts. And I keep asking myself, why blue?
It's not like blue is a color that's psychologically associated with the game. Blue is a maritime color, and a Big Sky color; tennis is a grass and red-dirt game, played on dry land (unless you're on a cruise ship). Tennis evokes the solid, not the liquid or the transparent. Originally, those who could afford to contemplate the aesthetics of tennis painted the top skin of their hard courts in a maroon and green combination; the court itself was green, with white lines; the surrounding area a medium shade of brick, not unlike red clay, or terre battue. Consciously or not, those original colors nodded pleasantly to the roots of tennis as a game played mostly on green grass and maroon clay. Now that was psychologically satisfying.
So, why blue? Just to be different? Or maybe the lords hired one of those market-research firms that tries to associate consumer choices and desires with specific colors or designs. Let me ask you this, lords: Haven't you heard expressions like, I'm feeling a little blue...He's got the blues...Blue Monday...Or maybe the idea is to get people so bummed out and depressed that they just want to stay in the house and...watch tennis!
So that's my rant. Let's move the game and forget this silly obsession with blue and start looking at nice, organic, light-side colors - the grays and tans and greens and maybe even yellows. Let's emphasize the bright and mellow, the earthy.
And while we're on the subject of earthy, did you catch Serena Williams' brief interview yesterday during the evening ESPN broadcast? I had to ask myself, what's with this giggly, girly Serena all of a sudden? Maybe she was just in a good mood. Or maybe her handlers told her that she looked pretty scary during that unpleasant incident that ended her semifinal match with Kim Clijsters at the last major, so it would be in her own best interest to really ham it up, and show a softer, gentler side to help wipe away memories of the foot-fault affair. Well, Serena really wanted to be an actress, and only her lack of can't miss talent enabled us to keep her for a little while longer. Now she can act - as well as rain perdition down on all comers.
BTW, did you see what a big deal was made out of Serena's streak of 41 consecutive first-round wins at Grand Slam events? Darren Cahill joined that conversation with an unfortunate prelude, citing Roger Federer's record of having appeared in 22 consecutive Grand Slam-event semifinals, and then segued to praise Serena's mark. He didn't equate the records, but just discussing them in the same breath seemed a bit of a reach.
Just out of curiosity, I checked the records of a few other top women, and came up with this: Kim Clijsters lost in the first round of a major just twice in her career (once in Australia, and once at Roland Garros), in the first year she played said majors. Henin has lost four times (also early in her career) and Serena's sister Venus has suffered just three first-round losses at majors. A consecutive anything streak is worth noting, of course. But first-round losses are oddities, not indicators -- especially so on the WTA tour -- and are virtually unknown once a player has a year or two of experience under her belt. So it begs the question, does the streak deserve to be highlighted and emphasized, or is it merely worth a mention and tip of the hat?
In any event, I thought Serena at times yesterday looked awesome; she's the only woman who can hurt you as much with her serve as her return (see yesterday's post). But I do wonder about her stamina, should she get into a fracas with a woman who can move her around the court and make her work for every point.
Roger Federer had a few uncomfortable moments before he rassled down Igor Andreev. My feeling is that the model for playing Federer has been established: engage him and try to extend the points as much as possible, and work his backhand with the high-bouncing forehand (the court is especially bounce-friendly). Await the inevitable letdown(s) that have been creeping into The Mighty Fed's game, now that he's entering the "all gravy" phase of his career.
Watching Roger yesterday, I had to re-examine some of my own assumptions - the ones drawn from around the time of the U.S. Open final until now. I've expected Federer to be prone to lapses of focus and a certain amount of mental and emotional fatigue (or disinterest) now that he's bagged the Grand Slam singles title record. And I believe he was victim to them at the tail end of last year. But it's a new year, and perhaps that changes things more than we might expect.
All the while, I've also considered (and written about) Federer's greatest asset, his simple love of the game. He's a happy camper playing tennis, and that suggests that maybe that major No. 15 wasn't really such a big deal. Given how much the guy enjoys the game, maybe after Wimbledon last year year, he was thinking: Fifteen, great! That doesn't mean I have to stop now, does it?
Federer has declared his intention to keep playing ad infinitum, and why not? This guy just isn't in a hurry to collect his trophies and deposit tickets and go into hiding in the Arabian desert. You might as well ask Bubba if he'd like to stop drinking beer, or bass fishing.
It naturally follows that Federer may be less prone to those anticipated lapses, or days when he simply feels too sideways to produce his best tennis. The temptation to psycho-analyze his competitive identity and accomplishments can lead to some pretty pat assumptions about the state of his motivation, but let's remember that Federer didn't set out to break Pete Sampras's mark; it just became part of the job description, and like any good employee he just kept his mouth shut and fulfilled it. This tournament may tell us a lot about whether the 15th Grand Slam was merely another milestone of Roger's journey on smooth pavement, or a sign sending him off on a fork in the road that quickly turns bumpy. I'm leaning back toward the former.
I thought James Blake looked sharp in his win over Arnaud Clement, and particularly good in his subsequent on-court interview with Pam Shriver. His light-hearted mood and lively, utterly relaxed banter with Shriver had to make you smile. I was impressed by how relaxed James looked, which bodes well for him in his next match, against Juan Martin del Potro. Those swirling rumors about the condition of Delpo's wrist are ominous; things like that seem to get out and into the public forum to prepare us all for disappointment. You can't blame Delpo or his camp from looking for a soft landing, but there's always a flicker of the white flag implicit in such revelations. And that means Blake's chances of getting by Delpo automatically improve. I'd look for the upset in that one.
I also liked it when Blake related how he and his American countryman John Isner were originally scheduled to play side-by-side on outside courts. "I could have been yelling over, Go Dawgs," Blake said, referring to Isner's college days as a Georgia Bulldog. "And he could have yelled, Go Crimson!" -- a reference to the small northeastern University where Blake spent some time before turning pro. And it was telling how Blake said that worst thing about being banished to the hinterlands (now that he slipped out of the Top 25) was the absence of Hawkeye and the line-call challenge system. Until recently, Blake could always count on being on a court using Hawkeye, and he said he found it somewhat unsettling to have to make do with it.
It's just another good reason for Blake to look upon his exile as a wake-up call. Have you hugged your digital aides and accessories today?


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Hamstrung negotiations?
Dick Spotswood's column on Sunday is a perfect example of why the majority of current opinion about Congress, particularly the House, is dysfunctional.
Attempting to handcuff your elected representative with "my way or the highway" approach was popular four years ago. Most of the sane, reasonable people I've talked to since the past election, both from the left and right, are now interested in participatory government hammering out workable deals.
Corporations, unions and individuals negotiate the best contracts they can for their interests. Often the most acrimonious meetings produce the most lasting, workable benefits and conditions for both sides and the future.
A private pension fund I am familiar with started in the '40s and recently was adjusted to reflect current economic reality.
Everyone who has paid into it will receive their benefits in full. Different projections were required to assure future members' benefits.
If this can be done privately, Congress should be able to make adjustments to items such as Social Security to keep those who have paid in properly funded while securing the future of the program.
Social Security was started in the 1930s when the average mortality age was in the mid-60s.
With people living much longer, that has to be addressed to keep the future of the program stable.
I would expect Rep. Jared Huffman to seek the best solutions for his constituents and the nation as a whole. Letters of concern on issues certainly should be sent. If he does his job, he need not be worried about threats to his reelection.
Charles Viebrock, Novato
Loans and leadership
Comforting the afflicted, and afflicting the comfortable: The Marin IJ hit the mark of great journalism this past Sunday.
The Tamalpais Union High School District is in the midst of a leadership crisis. We have many local vice principals who also grew up and went to school here in Marin.
While none of them own a $1.65 million home, several would make great principals and superintendents. They don't need special zero-percent mortgages, no payment required, to be a part of the community.
They respect the culture and unique abilities of our schools. They understand the need for Tamiscal and independent programs. One size fits all never works.
We need people who can build upon our strengths, not tear us down. We need to move away from the culture of the all-powerful executive, and move to the light of open dialogue and positive change.
We need to raise the bar, not dive to the lowest common denominator. We need leadership that can bring us together and at the same time respect our different abilities.
It's time for a change at Tam Union.
Joe MacKie, San Anselmo
Building an audience
I too found the piece about the recent walk-off at the Sweetwater amusing.
It seems the epitome of irony that it was the clientele that built them — dreadlocked pot smokers — who infuriated that founding member of the Grateful Dead into walking off stage.
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The mother and child endured the kind of day that has become all too familiar to families forced to face the challenges of pediatric cancer.
First, they drove to St. Petersburg so doctors could give the young girl radiation treatments. Then they traveled back across the bridge to Tampa for chemotherapy.
"I had been gone all day and was exhausted," the mother wrote in a note. "I opened your letter and was moved to tears. I cannot say in words how grateful we are for the gift cards.
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In July 2005, just days before his eighth birthday, doctors diagnosed Sherry and Dirk's son Zach with cancer. They identified a tumor on Zach's brain as glioblastoma multiforme, a cancer more often found in adults.
At the time, the Tuckers called it a mouthful of distasteful evil.
"Both of us just prayed 'Let it be one of us instead of him,' " Sherry said. "I think that's the prayer of every parent who hears, 'Your child has cancer.' The emotions become a lot more raw and a lot more real and a lot more intense.
"As you go through it, everything is magnified because all of a sudden you're standing at that line where it's life or death."
Zach ultimately lost his battle in May of 2006, but his plight became what family friend Joe Brus called a "holy vortex." His bravery and strength inspired the Tuckers, their friends and their church family at the Crossing. People rallied behind them, lending support through meals, emotional support and love.
Through it all, Christian faith sustained the Tuckers. Sherry and Dirk drew on each other's strengths. She quit her accounting job to become Zach's caregiver, while Dirk continued to work to help the family deal with the financial burden.
They eventually concluded a bigger purpose came with their experience.
"We were given so much through the journey we took, that we needed to turn it around and give something back," Sherry Tucker said. "It was just a heavy thing on my heart.
"We had to do more for these families because I knew what they were going through."
Social workers from Tampa's St. Joseph's Children's Hospital and St. Petersburg's All-Children's Hospital refer families to the Giving Hope Through Faith Foundation regardless of income. Tucker says treatment costs can devastate even the wealthy.
For 12 consecutive months, the foundation sends the families packages, each containing gift cards from stores and restaurants and spiritual guidance written by Tucker, who authored the book Unfinished Love — Walking By Faith Through Pediatric Cancer.
The idea of gift cards came from the first Christmas the family spent without Zach. To fill his empty stocking hanging in the home, Tucker asked friends to give gift cards she could donate to other pediatric cancer families.
They received more than $4,000 in donations.
Tucker's advice covers topics such as worry and fear, hope, doubt and anger, and each comes with Scriptures from the Bible.
But the foundation doesn't discriminate based on religion. Tucker said the effort includes a mother who is atheist.
"We've had a lot of interesting conversations, but I feel that's okay," Tucker said. "Whatever a person's belief system is, that's their right. All we're trying to do is bring a perspective that we feel helped us get through.
"If they draw some encouragement from it in some way, we've done what we're supposed to do."
On Oct. 30, the foundation will hold the inaugural Zach Tucker Memorial 5K run and walk at Lithia Springs Elementary, Zach's old school. Runners will cover a course through River Hills, some wearing Halloween costumes.
It'll be the kind of event Zach would have loved.
"By doing all of this, it kind of helps me keep a piece of him here," Tucker said. "Sharing his wonderful spirit and what a great kid he was, I don't want to lose that. And through this, we get to share our faith and I think that's so important.
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There was only one race at stake in Tuesday's general election on the Fond du Lac Reservation this week — District II (Sawyer) representative — with incumbent David Tiessen Jr. edging out challenger Brenda Shabiash by just 14 votes.
The final vote count in the race was Tiessen, 75, and Shabiash, 61. The two moved on from the April 1 primary from among a field of eight candidates.
Tiessen has held the position of Sawyer Representative for the past year and ran on a platform of drug abuse reform through strengthening cultural awareness on the reservation.
"My goal was to establish a cultural building," stated Tiessen in his candidate statement earlier this spring. "There is now a cultural building in the works for Sawyer that should begin construction this year."
Tiessen said in order to supplement the project he began donating a portion of his salary to be utilized as an incentive for learning the Ojibwe language.
"I have and will continue to donate to it as long as I hold this position," he added.
He said his goals as District II representative will be to continue combatting the drug problem, instituting training programs for the people of the reservation, supporting economic development that is beneficial to Band members, and better communication between the Reservation Business Committee and the people of the reservation.
"One of the strategies I have already been using to communicate with band membership is monthly community meetings and making myself available as much as possible," stated Tiessen. "Communication
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The office of secretary/treasurer was also up for election this spring, but incumbent Ferdinand Martineau secured an additional term in that post by receiving more than 50 percent of the votes in the primary, with 53.43 percent (382) supporting him out of the total vote count of 715.
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LONG BEACH -- Robin Tyler says she's not offended by the term "dyke. "
Tyler, 71, a long-time gay and lesbian equality activist, who along with her wife, Diane Olson, 59, was the first couple to sue California for the right to marry, will deliver the rally cry and lead Friday's Rally and Dyke March along Broadway.
"I'm proud of the word dyke," Tyler said during a telephone interview from her North Hills West home. "A dyke is a lesbian, or any type of woman, warrior.
"A lesbian will knock on the door and ask for her rights, but a dyke will kick the door down and demand her rights."
Heterosexual, bisexual, lesbian and transgender women will be marching to protest discrimination in the workplace, lack of access to healthcare, sexism in the gay community and physical and emotional abuse of women.
The protest will start 6:30 p.m. Friday near Broadway and Junipero Avenue and march west, ending at Hamburger Mary's. It precedes the Long Beach Gay Pride Festival and Parade Saturday and Sunday.
"We have not yet achieved full equality. This march is designed just for women's issues, celebrating women and their rights," said Denise Penn, a cofounder and board member at the Artful Thinking Organization, the march's organizers.
"Straight, bi, lesbian and trans females are encouraged to march with us in solidarity as we empower all women," Penn said.
Tyler says the march is not a separatist movement.
"It's women warriors who see women's issues as a primary focus. It means you're dealing with problems that directly impact women," she said. "There's nothing wrong with it. It's the right thing to do. If you homogenize things, you try to put everyone in the same category, you demean and minimize the problems."
The first Dyke March in the United States was held in Washington, D.C., on April 24, 1993 and attended by more than 20,000 women. It coincided with March on Washington for Lesbian, Gay and Bi Equal Rights and Liberation.
The march was intended as a woman-only event, organized by the Lesbian Avengers who encouraged gay, bisexual and straight men, as well as other supporters, to cheer from the sidelines.
That tradition will continue in Long Beach, Penn said. But Tyler adds: "I also want to see a lot of guys cheering us from the sidewalks."
Marches have been held in San Francisco, New York, Los Angeles, and it's time for Long Beach to have one, Penn said.
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CHARLOTTE, N.C. (March 29, 2011) – For Kevin Harvick and the No. 29 Jimmy John's Chevrolet, the winning move occurred on the final lap, but preparation and pit strategy helped propel the Richard Childress team to Victory Lane and claim three post-race contingency awards in the Auto Club 400 at Auto Club Speedway.
The No. 29 team claimed the Moog Chassis Parts Problem Solver of the Race, the Mobil 1 Oil Driver of the Race – its third of the season – and the O'Reilly Auto Parts Position Improvement Award for moving ahead 23 spots during the race.
Crew chief Gil Martin, who claimed the 2010 Moog Chassis Parts Problem Solver of the Year Award, captured his first race award of the season. Martin made the decision to stay out after a late caution instead of coming in for fresh tires. The award is presented to the team that spends the least amount of time on pit road during a race.
"One of the major things that made me feel reasonably confident about it was how Tony (Stewart) was able to perform when he stayed out, and everybody pitted earlier," said Martin. "After about two laps, he posted some of the best laps of the race out there. Clean air and the tires being pumped up, I think there was just a lot of speed there."
Harvick led just one lap on the day despite running strong during many of the green-flag laps that dominated the day at Auto Club Speedway. With a car that was strong on long runs, it was a late-race move on the last lap to overcome Jimmie Johnson that took the checkered flag at Auto Club Speedway.
"Yeah, we led the right one (lap), that's for sure," said Harvick. "But our car was really fast all day on the long runs. The restarts weren't exactly what we needed to have. But as everybody started to stay out those last two times, at least the guys we were racing, our car was able to get some air pressure built up in the tires and we were able to really fire off there right off the bat up top."
All awards are part of the NASCAR Prize Money and Decal Program, also referred to as the contingency program, which provides teams prize money and weekly awards based on performance in several categories.
With the win, Harvick moves to ninth place in the 2011 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series points standings heading to Martinsville Speedway on April 3 for the Goody's Fast Relief 500 (1 p.m. ET, FOX).
Official winners of this week's NASCAR Sprint Cup Series Prize Money & Decal Program special awards include:
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· GOODYEAR GATORBACK BELTS FASTEST LAP: Ryan Newman (180.737 mph, Lap 81)
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· MOBIL 1 OIL DRIVER OF THE RACE: Kevin Harvick
· MOOG CHASSIS PARTS PROBLEM SOLVER OF THE RACE: Gil Martin (crew chief for Kevin Harvick, 0.202 secs.)
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Be precise over reason for dismissal
What is the reason for dismissal, asks Mary-Jane Thomas in Work to Rule.
Be sure you are sure. It can often be the case in employment law that an employer intends to dismiss an employee and believes there are very good grounds to do so when there may not be. One of the reasons for this is that it is easy for employers to conflate two or more issues that they have with an employee. The end result being that they may dismiss an employee and it is not clear the basis of the dismissal.
The Employment Relations Authority (ERA) recently focused on this very issue. The case involved a bus driver, Mr D, and an airport shuttle service. Mr D was employed to shuttle passengers between the airport and the long-term car park. Not long into his employment a customer complained that Mr D drove the bus like "Peter Brock at Bathurst". The customer also complained that Mr D did not help passengers with their bags and spoke with a friend throughout the whole trip.
Following the complaint, the employer investigated the matter further. This investigation led the employer to believe that Mr D had a case to answer and determined that a meeting should take place for Mr D to respond to the allegation.
At the meeting the employer was particularly concerned about the allegation of speeding as this invoked further concerns about health and safety - meaning that this was the most serious allegation and if proven could lead to Mr D's dismissal.
When Mr D was specifically asked whether he was speeding, he repeatedly said things along the lines of "I usually don't speed" or "if I speed I get a ticket". Mr D never actually rejected or accepted the allegation of speeding.
The lack of a specific response was quite unsatisfactory to Mr D's employer and it determined it could no longer trust Mr D and thus dismissed him.
Later Mr D, through his lawyer, wrote to his former employer asking for the reasons for the dismissal. The employer responded that it had preferred the customer's contention that Mr D had been speeding and accordingly terminated his employment.
When questioned in the ERA Mr M, on behalf of the employer, was quizzed on what steps he had taken to determine that the contention of the customer was to be preferred over that of Mr D. Mr M stated that he decided not to investigate the matter further, by doing such things as questioning other staff about Mr D's driving, as Mr D did not actually say he had not been speeding. Mr M said that if Mr D had denied speeding, he would have made further investigations. When questioned about what he would have done if Mr D admitted speeding, he stated that he would have given him a final written warning.
Provided with this evidence, the ERA determined that Mr D's dismissal could not have been for speeding as Mr M had accepted that if Mr D had said that he had not sped he would have had to investigate the matter further before making his termination. On the other hand if Mr D had accepted speeding, he would have only been given a final written warning. Therefore, the only reason for dismissal could have been the fact that Mr D failed to expressly answer the question as to whether he was speeding.
The ERA determined that dismissal for the equivocal statement was unfair as Mr D had not been advised that failure to give a clear response could have been a reason for dismissal. The ERA awarded Mr D nearly $7000 in lost wages and $5000 in compensation.
This case is a clear example of why it is important to be sure of the reason for dismissing or even investigating an employee. The employer in this case raised an allegation of speeding and originally claimed that this was the reason for dismissal.
However, the employer acknowledged it was the fact that Mr D had failed to answer the questions that had led to the determination that Mr D could no longer be trusted. By conflating the failure to answer with the allegation of speeding, the employer has ended up paying thousands of dollars to its former employee when, if the issues had been separated and a bit more time taken to investigate each issue separately, dismissal may well have been justified.
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3-D Structure of Alzheimer's Disease Filament Shows How It Zips Up Peptides
Newswise — Researchers have solved the three dimensional structure of the long thread-like fibers that fill the brains of Alzheimer's disease patients. The structure reveals the proteins that make up the fibrils lock onto each other much like a zipper on a jacket. This advance, reported in the Nov. 14th early online edition of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), helps illuminate the molecular roots of Alzheimer's and possibly other degenerative diseases of the brain.
"Now that we understand at an atomic level how these fibrils form, it might help researchers develop a biomarker test to diagnose Alzheimer's disease at an early stage, as well as drugs to treat it," says the study's lead investigator, Salk Institute for Biological Studies scientist Roland Riek, Ph.D., who collaborated with researchers at the University of Lausanne and Roche pharmaceuticals, both in Switzerland
As a result of the study, Riek and his colleagues may now understand how a potential Alzheimer's disease medication now in clinical trials in Europe reacts to the fibril. The drug binds to the end of the fibril chain of beta amyloid proteins, halting their lethal accumulation, an early step in the formation of the amyloid plaque deposits that are a hallmark of Alzheimer's.
The research team of the Salk Institute in collaboration with the University of Lausanne and Roche, developed new research techniques to determine the 3D structure that mimics the most common type of fibrils found in patients with the disease.
They discovered that beta amyloid proteins (peptides) that make up these fibrils attach to each other on one end with an ever-growing property.
"From this structure we can nicely see what happens physically, where the fibril forms a template on which to bind other amyloid peptides in an inter-collated way," Riek says. "The way these peptides lock on to each other is like a zipper on a jacket." Due to the ever-growing property the zipper binds more and more loose peptides together to produce dense "plaque" filaments that may be toxic to the functioning of brain nerve cells.
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Illinois lawmakers have defeated a plan that would allow residents to carry concealed guns.
The 'concealed carry' measure needed 71 votes to pass the Illinois House of Representatives, but failed to reach that threshold as 32 lawmakers voted against the proposal on Thursday.
Illinois is virtually alone among states in barring people from carrying concealed weapons.
Gun advocates argue that concealed carry laws improve safety and say people should be able to carry them if they have the proper training. Opponents fear such a law would increase shootings.
Democratic Gov. Pat Quinn opposed the bill and promised to veto it if it passed.


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This post is part of the HBR Insight Center Making Collaboration Work.
On recent visits to India, we have found that "innovation" is the buzzword on everybody's lips. Indian CEOs and policy-makers inject this word into practically every sentence they utter. President Pratibha Patil has even declared 2010-2020 as India's "Decade of Innovation." But to ensure that India realizes its true innovation potential and achieves inclusive and sustainable growth, we suggest it may be more appropriate to make this decade the Indian "Decade of Collaboration."
As we enter the 21st century, the closed and insular innovation models of the 20th century are giving way to open and globally-networked approaches fit for a knowledge economy in which creativity and R&D talent are globally dispersed. Biocon is one Indian company that is adapting well to this new global reality by embracing a polycentric innovation model. For instance, in October 2010, Biocon struck a $350-million marketing alliance with Pfizer, the world's largest drug maker, to commercialize four of Biocon's insulin biosimilar products in non-overlapping markets globally. Biocon also sources drug molecules from other partners, especially from developing countries, such as the Cuba-based Center of Molecular Immunology (CMI).
Biocon's core competency lies in building and orchestrating global innovation networks — the cornerstone of a polycentric innovation model. Global innovation networks represent a next-generation collaborative approach to innovation built on global partnerships in which four specialized players come together to co-create and co-market new solutions — namely:
- Inventors. Inventors are engineers, scientists, or entrepreneurs who come up with an original idea.
- Transformers. Transformers, who are capable of mingling tech-savvy with business acumen, grab inventions from anywhere and transform them into market-valued products and services.
- Financiers. Financiers, who excel in spotting growth opportunities worldwide, fund internal and external invention and transformation activities.
- Connectors. Connectors are the matchmakers with a multicultural background and a global mindset who can bring Inventors, Transformers, and Financiers together and facilitate their interactions. They use their exceptional interpersonal skills to link domestic and international technical talent with global market opportunities.
Biocon has deftly mapped its own and its partner capabilities to the four aforementioned value-adding global innovation network roles. While its in-house scientists continue to invent new drugs, Biocon doesn't attempt to 'hoard' its R&D inventions but willingly shares them with partners like Pfizer capable of transforming them into global products. Similarly, Biocon doesn't suffer from a "not-invented-here" mindset: it gladly sources inventions from partner labs like the Cuba-based CMI and uses its transformation skills to manufacture and market them in India and abroad as its own branded solutions. In this fluid system, Biocon finances CMI's inventive R&D, while using the funds from the Pfizer deal to finance its own R&D and go-to-market activities.
The vision and purpose of Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw, chairman and managing director of Biocon, is to deliver affordable drugs to the masses in both India and other markets. By practicing polycentric innovation she has been able to convert that lofty vision into reality much faster than her competitors. In many ways, Shaw plays the role of the Connector in her firm's Global Innovation Network: she regularly travels abroad to link up with talented inventors like CMI and resource-rich transformers and financiers like Pfizer.
Many Indian companies we interact with confuse invention and innovation. Invention is a novel idea or new technology that can be patented or copyrighted as intellectual property (IP). But IP on its own cannot generate business returns. Innovation is the successful exploitation of that IP which yields commercial (and societal) value. Simply investing more in R&D (as many Indian policy-makers and CEOs are fond of saying they ought to do) won't make India more innovative. It will make the country more ingenious at best. To bridge the invention-innovation gap, corporate India must overcome its insularity and integrate tightly itself into the global knowledge economy. Like Biocon, Indian firms must learn to source promising ideas from abroad that can be transformed into local solutions using low-cost manufacturing talent while partnering with large foreign entities to transform in-house inventions into global solutions.
Sadly, while the media headlines trumpet Indian companies' forays abroad through M&A, our research shows that the Indian firms tend to go global more often to tap into foreign brands, markets, or supply base rather than to seek out R&D capabilities. Actually, the CEOs of two Indian corporations that had acquired well-known brands in Europe candidly told us that it's only after acquiring these firms that they "they discovered by accident the R&D jewels" locked inside these European organizations. Now these two Indian firms are enthusiastically building global innovation networks by connecting their cutting-edge European R&D capabilities with their low-cost Indian transformational capabilities.
We believe that the Indian government should play its part in helping Indian firms integrate into global innovation networks. Here are three concrete policy suggestions to shore up India's collaborative, "Connector" capabilities:
- The National Innovation Council, chaired by Sam Pitroda, is planning to launch a National Innovation Portal to showcase Indian inventions and connect entrepreneurs across states. We suggest this Portal be made trans-national in scope, by integrating it with organizations such as the U.S. Small Business Administration so that American midsize firms can co-invent and co-transform products and services with their Indian counterparts. The Innovation Council should earmark at least 20% of the recently launched Inclusive Innovation Fund to finance such cross-border innovation projects.
- Rather than inviting MNCs to set up 'captive' R&D units in India which employ only a handful of engineers or scientists, the government should encourage multinationals to set up lean and nimble "Connector" hubs in India like Procter & Gamble and Xerox have done. Instead of taking the traditional "captive" route of owning all R&D resources, P&G and Xerox have built innovation hubs that focus on partnering with local universities and start-ups to get scale and speed in taking their cutting-edge ideas to market both domestically and globally.
- The Indian Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) can enable polycentric innovation by leveraging its global network of Embassies and High Commissions. Indeed, the MEA could position "innovation scouts" in embassies and consulates located in innovation hotbeds such as Silicon Valley, Boston, Taiwan, Israel, and Oxbridge who can identify and connect creative local entrepreneurs and university researchers with Indian firms. Similarly, these embassies could organize "innovation missions" to India for foreign companies eager to connect and partner with Indian entrepreneurs. By building these global innovation networks, and playing the role of an objective Connector in them, the MEA can project India's entrepreneurial "soft power" in an interesting new way.
In our increasingly interdependent global economy, (local) knowledge doesn't confer power. Instead, power stems from finding and sharing knowledge across national boundaries. Eschewing vertically-integrated, insular R&D models, Indian CEOs and policy-makers must learn to orchestrate global innovation networks anchored by collaborative partnerships. We look forward to India's "Decade of Collaboration."
Navi Radjou is Executive Director of the Centre for India & Global Business at Judge Business School at the University of Cambridge where Dr. Jaideep Prabhu is the Jawaharlal Nehru Professor of Indian Business and Enterprise. Dr. Prasad Kaipa is a CEO Coach and advisor in the Silicon Valley and a senior fellow at Center for Leadership, Innovation and Change at the Indian School of Business. Dr. Simone Ahuja is the founder of Blood Orange Media.


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Simmons broke one of ESPN's 10 Social Networking Commandments, and it earned him a little company-imposed break from tweeting: thou shalt not talk smack about ESPN on Twitter. Well, I'm paraphrasing. Here's what the rule actually is, according to the ESPN employee handbook: "Keep internal deliberations confidential. Do not discuss how a story or feature was reported, written, edited or produced; stories or features in progress; interviews conducted; or any future coverage plans." And here's the video (and subsequent Tweet) that got him in trouble.
I am not defending this segment – youtu.be/j6x-O3kb1sI – I thought it was awful and embarrassing to everyone involved. Seriously.
— Bill Simmons (@BillSimmons) March 8, 2013
Bill, c'mon. What were you thinking? You know you can't comment on the idiot circus that is First Take. That's what we're here for, dude. We can say whatever we want about the damn show. Let this be a reminder that you work for Disney, and in effect, signed a gag order not to bitch about Mickey and Donald and Yosemite Skip (I know, that's a Warner Bros. reference, but you get the point.) Imagine if Shepard Smith commented on every stupid thing that came out of Fox and Friends. Exactly.
In Simmons defense, First Take has become the Jerry Springer Show, and Simmons is a very intelligent, unabashed analyst, who brings a great deal of integrity to ESPN. Hell, they probably brought him onboard to balance out the integrity they're hemorrhaging from their morning shit show. What's more, there's something fundamentally wrong with a news channel injecting itself into the subject they're covering through inane, 7th grade-esque, on-air pissing contests. Let's just hope the doesn't deter Bill Simmons from speaking his mind in the future.
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He was a young rising star in the internet age of sports media.
Just two years removed from earning a broadcast journalism degree from the University of Oklahoma, he won a regional award voted on by his peers for sports reporting. He won that award as the sports director at a tiny TV station in Kalispell, Mont.
His name is Dari.
A year later, he moved to Lincoln, Neb., to anchor for KLKN-TV. He did well in Lincoln. He covered the Cornhuskers, built his brand, met the most important woman in his life.
He'd marry that woman, and she'd follow him wherever his job led. She's committed to him, committed to helping him raise a family he loves, that loves him.
He was a young rising star in the internet age of sports media.
Just two years removed from earning a broadcast journalism degree from the University of Oklahoma, he won a regional award voted on by his peers for sports reporting. He won that award as the sports director at a tiny TV station in Kalispell, Mont.
His name is Dari.
A year later, he moved to Lincoln, Neb., to anchor for KLKN-TB. He did well in Lincoln. He covered the Cornhuskers, built his brand, met the most important woman in his life.
He'd marry that woman, and she'd follow him wherever his job led. She's committed to him, committed to helping him raise a family he loves, that loves him.
He'd earn an opportunity to return home to, to Tulsa, Okla., to report and anchor for KOTV. His friends are there. His family is there. But he can't stay.
There are bigger things ahead for him, the biggest. ESPN television offered him a job just two years after he arrived back in Tulsa. Could he really say no?
Sure, there's a choice to be made. After all, Tulsa is home. Tulsa is where his heart is.
What did he know about Bristol, Conn.? Do he really want to uproot his family again? He turned to his wife, and she said he must go.
At 28, he became a member of the illustrious fraternity of Tulsa broadcasters to assume a national gig. He's proud to follow in the footsteps of Ron Franklin, John Anderson, Becky Dixon, Bob Carpenter and Steve Zabriskie.
He committed himself to making a go of it in Bristol, and, by God, did he ever make the folks back home proud. Slowly but surely, he rose through the ranks at ESPN.
By August 2011, he'd become the lead anchor of ESPNU, a 24-hour college sports network in Charlotte, N.C.
The folks back home couldn't have been happier for him, a native son making it to the big time. He'd never felt better about life. Just weeks after receiving his promotion, he introduced his third child, and the fifth member of his family to the world.
His name was Hayden.
Hayden was healthful, strong. Hayden was cleared to go home to begin his new life with Dari and the rest of the family, just three days after his birth. For the first five days of Hayden's life, everything appeared normal.
Life was beautiful.
But things changed for Hayden on his sixth day, he became hot. His 102-degree fever necessitated a return to the hospital.
It was virus causing Hayden's fever. Then a doctor delivered terrible news: The virus attacked Hayden's heart, and he would need a heart transplant to survive.
So, he held out hope.
Hayden's name was marked near the top of the transplant list. If there were hearts available, he should have been one of the first to receive one.
He waited days for a heart for Hayden. Then a few more. But he couldn't take watching his baby boy suffer.
Dari Nowkhah and his wife, Jenn, lost their third child in 2011 after just 39 days. His name is Hayden.
Later that year, a Sooner basketball player, James Fraschilla, concocted the idea he could make circus shots on all kinds of surfaces over all kinds of obstacles. All he needed to make it work was a basketball and basketball goal.
Fraschilla, a walk-on freshman then, doesn't have high hopes of playing in the NBA or even becoming a Division I basketball coach like his father and ESPN analyst, Fran Fraschilla. He studies broadcast and electronic media at Oklahoma, like Nowkhah did.
He's practiced his love of video production since high school and saw an opportunity to put his two great loves -- basketball and video editing -- to great use in the winter of 2011. He put the videos together during off days and after practices.
James' teammates have respected him since the day he stepped on campus because his work ethic is second to none, and his want to make his teammates better at each practice is contagious.
"He brings it every time," Oklahoma point guard Sam Grooms said. "When he says stuff to us on the court, we respect him because of the work ethic that he does have."
James put his disciplined mind to work, studying basketball trick shot artists like Kyle Singler. He came up with an assortment of his own shots, taped himself and set the video to music and uploaded it YouTube. He repeated the process in December 2012.
At each video's end, he asks for a donation to the foundation the Nowkhahs have created to raise awareness for children's organ transplants. The foundation is called Hayden's Hope.
"I had a few people email me and tell me that they made contributions, and that made it all worth it," James said.
James doesn't have any immediate plans to make another trick shot video, but he's thinking about what he could do next to help the Nowkhah's cause.
"The issue of pediatric organs transplants is something that not a lot of people know about, so I just wanted to kind of give that some plug."
To date, James' videos have accumulated over 70,000 views in just over a year's time. Nowkhah didn't know Fraschilla was going to make the first video to help raise awareness for Hayden's Hope until he received an email from Fraschilla asking what he thought of the video's production.
"What a kid," Nowkhah said. "My first reaction was like 'Wow'. To spend that kind of time and effort, this is hours in the making. He spent a ton of time doing this."
But more than the technical aspects of the making the videos, Nowkhah was amazed by James' perspective. That's what he asks others to remember whenever he's asked to speak in front of people who want know his story.
Remember the important parts of life. That's why Nowkhah believes James produced these videos.
"Have perspective of what's important," Nowkhah said. "I know that Hayden has given all that to James. I know James appreciates life and wants to help us."
Hayden's Hope has a goal of reaching $75,000 in donations toward raising awareness for child organ transplants. To date, Hayden's Hope has raised just over $62,000. You can make a donation to Hayden's Hope here.
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Governor Ted Kulongoski wadded into another legal morass this week, an issue that also involves Oregon's connections to Mexico.
The case of Gabriel Allred has received widespread media attention since the Oregon Department of Human Services decided the two-year-old boy should live with his grandmother and extended family in Mexico.
He's been living with foster parents in Toledo near the coast. Steve Brandt says he and his wife Angela are trying to keep Gabriel at the five-acre rural home that he's known since he was four months old.
Steve Brandt: "If we were to just rip him away from all that. it doesn't matter if it's Mexico or Poland or California. I mean these are going to be strangers to him. That's still just a huge issue in the development of this little child and the problems he might face in the future because of it. It's just the fact that he would be moved with what he knows and loves."
But Gabriel Allred's grandmother — Cecilia Martinez — has said she will raise the boy as her own in Mexico.
An Oregon review panel ruled that reuniting the boy with his extended family is in his best interest. But this week a judge in Lincoln County put that order on hold for a month.
Governor Ted Kulongoski is having state attorneys map out his legal options. The Democratic governor could announce a decision next week.
Meanwhile, Steve Brandt says he and his wife — have tried to shield the Gabriel from all the hullabaloo over his future.
Steve Brandt: "We are honestly in it for his best interest. You know we're not in it just for our sake. He's only two years old and we are his parents. And we're going to stay in it until the bitter end, you know. And we're not going to give up."
Gabriel's biological father faces deportation to Mexico after being convicted of drug and sex abuse charges. His American mother has also been convicted on drug charges and has lost custody.
On the same day that Steve and Angela Brandt challenged the state Department of Human Services in court, they also filed papers asking to adopt Gabriel.


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In its first white paper documenting its fight against official corruption, Beijing vowed to strengthen efforts but acknowledged that the task of building a clean government is 'complicated and arduous'.
Meanwhile, the ruling Communist Party stepped up its anti-corruption drive against the rank and file in the armed forces, according to a new trial regulation published yesterday. It will be applied to party members and officials, especially party chiefs in the People's Liberation Army and the People's Armed Police.
President and party General Secretary Hu Jintao and other party leaders have warned that widespread official graft could threaten the party's hold on power.
From 2003 to 2009, prosecutors at all levels investigated more than 240,000 cases of embezzlement, bribery, dereliction of duty and rights infringement, the document said.
From January to November this year, the party's discipline watchdog investigated 119,000 graft cases, resulting in 113,000 people being punished, of whom 4,332 were prosecuted, Wu Yuliang, secretary general of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection, told a press conference yesterday.
From 2005 until 2009, more than 69,200 cases of commercial bribery - involving some 16.59 billion yuan (HK$19.45 billion) - were investigated, the white paper said. Last year, 7,036 officials were held responsible for serious mistakes, breaches of duty, and failing to manage and supervise subordinates, it said.
The preface to the 39-page document says the government has 'always kept a clear vision of the long, complicated and arduous nature' of the anti-corruption undertaking and addressed both the 'symptoms and root causes of corruption'. It said China will continue to perfect the system of punishment and prevention, including implementing 'more resolutions and powerful measures'.
But sceptics have questioned the long-term efficacy of such anti-graft campaigns, with efforts in past decades only resulting in growing malpractice. Dissidents and political scientists say the root problems - one-party rule without an independent judiciary and free press - are yet to be addressed.
Corruption has been the chief reason for public discontent in recent years. While trying to soothe public anger, the party has also launched campaigns to crack down on press freedom and freedom of expression, with the government becoming increasingly uneasy that widespread discontent over endemic corruption, a yawning income gap and social injustice will undermine its rule.
Widespread abuse of public spending on official vehicles is also a focus of anger, with many believing the country's huge fleet of official cars has contributed significantly to traffic congestion in most cities.
Wu said the party watchdog would introduce stricter rules on the purchase and use of official cars.
'I can assure you that the standards [of the vehicles] will be generally lower and the number will be less next year as we will tighten the management of government vehicles,' Wang said in answer to a question raised one day after a Politburo meeting chaired by Hu identified official vehicles as one of the targets for next year's anti-corruption drive.


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WASHINGTON (Dec. 8)
The deputy chairman of the Anti-Zionist Committee of the Soviet Public refused Tuesday to confirm reports here that the Kremlin is planning to disband the anti-Israel propaganda organ.
When asked by the Jewish Telegraphic Agency if the reports were true, Samuil Zivs, in Washington for Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev's summit meeting with President Reagan, chuckled and refused to comment.
But on Monday, Zivs told The New York Times, "No public organization can last forever." Reports of the Kremlin's plans to disband the committee, attributed to an unidentified American official, first appeared in the newspaper Tuesday.
The committee was formed in April 1983 at a time when anti-Semitic propaganda was proliferating in Soviet books, media broadcasts and newspaper articles. It has been used by Soviet authorities to counter activism by Soviet Jewish refuseniks and their supporters in the West.
"The Anti-Zionist Committee was a blunder when it was created, and never accomplished what the pre-Gorbachev rulers wanted to accomplish," Jerry Goodman, executive director of the National Conference on Soviet Jewry, told the Jewish Telegraphic Agency Tuesday.
He said the committee became "an embarrassment" to the Kremlin, because of its "crude propaganda and heavy-handed approach. It did not deter Jews who wanted to leave for Israel and its propaganda was never bought in the West except by pro-Moscow apologists."
Shortly after the committee was formed, Zivs announced that nearly all Jews who wished to leave the Soviet Union had done so, that there was no Jewish problem in the USSR and no anti-Semitism. He later retracted the statement on emigration.
Prior to the 1985 summit meeting in Geneva between Reagan and Gorbachev, Zivs told the news media they were victims of "false propaganda," yet admitted that several thousands Jews still wanted to emigrate but could not be granted exit visas because of "state secrets."
Zivs later became persona non grata in the United States, Goodman recalled, and was refused entry even though he had applied as a member of the Soviet Lawyers' Association at the urging of the American Bar Association.
Because the committee members "caused an obvious embarrassment in the West, they were excluded whenever possible from participating in meetings, even if they came under other sponsors," said Goodman. "It was obvious they were a liability in trying to project the new image of a new Gorbachev and a changing society."
Goodman said he would welcome the dissolution of the committee, "because maybe there will be less anti-Semitic pollution in the Soviet Union."
But he said its elimination would "not suggest, in and of itself, a real shift in terms of Jews living in the Soviet Union."