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In the consent agreement, Carroll County agreed to pay a $40,000 civil penalty to settle violations of the County's Clean Water Act permit for stormwater discharges from the County's storm sewer system. In addition to the penalty, Carroll County signed an administrative order which included a schedule for correcting the violations.
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Historically, consumer data and industry trends haven't been that easy to come by. Before launching a new product or feature, companies had to rely on expensive and time-consuming surveys and focus groups, and it often took awhile to gather enough feedback from these sources. Competitive and industry research was slow and expensive. But the abundance of search data has allowed all of that to change dramatically. We can see exactly what our customers want at a much larger scale than focus groups could ever provide, and competitive and industry data is just a click or two away. We can get immediate feedback about whether changes are working and see trends of consumer interest rising or falling before we invest in R & D.
If we combine searcher behaviour with what people are searching for (using keyword research) with why people are searching (using qualifiers like safe, reliable etc.) we can understand an audience better. We can also use tools like social listening to help us to understand the wants, needs, desires and language of potential customers.
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"Although monkfish is the highest valued finfish in the northeast U.S., aspects of the fish's basic biology and behavior are poorly understood, such as their migration patterns, what depths they live in and how they use habitat," said Anne Richards, one of the study's lead investigators and a monkfish expert at NOAA's Northeast Fisheries Science Center (NEFSC) laboratory in Woods Hole, Mass.
Information from the tagged fish could also help determine whether there is one monkfish population throughout the northwestern Atlantic Ocean or distinct northern and southern stocks, she said. "This is a critical question that has proven very difficult to answer. It's important not only for understanding the population's biology, but also important for managing the fisheries that harvest monkfish."
Richards, NEFSC colleague Larry Alade, and researchers at the Gulf of Maine Research Institute (GMRI) and the University of Massachusetts - Dartmouth began the tagging project last year. Two commercial gillnet boats, the F/V C.W. Griswold with Captain Tim Caldwell from Scituate, Mass. and the F/V Gertrude H with Captain Ted Platz from Newport, R.I., are collaborating to capture monkfish for the study.
"This study is going to give us a much better understanding about monkfish migration patterns, and that's a great thin. said Caldwell, who said the new archival tag will provide much more data than the previous tags he has worked with. " Just getting a few tagged fish returned will give us a huge amount of information."
"As members of the monkfish advisory panel, Tim and I see firsthand the difficulty associated with managing a data-poor stock like monkfish," said Platz. "This tagging study is a perfect example of the value of cooperative research as a means for obtaining species specific information to aid the fisheries management process. Ultimately, fisheries management can only be as good as the science upon which it is based."
"The longer the tagged fish remain at sea the more data will be collected, so we hope tagged fish will be returned to us over the next several years," Richards said. "We need the whole fish with its tags, and details about where and when it was caught, in order to get the most information we can from each fish." The reward is $500 if these conditions are met.
Working with Crista Bank of New Bedford, Mass., a graduate student at the University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth's School for Marine Science and Technology, the team has already tagged 150 monkfish and hopes to have the rest of the 190 available archival tags on fish in the near future.
The electronic tags, about the diameter of a AAA battery but half as long, are surgically implanted under the skin and record water temperature, depth and time every 10 minutes. The tags can record data for four to five years, and will work in water depths up to 2,000 meters (about 6,500 feet). A pair of conventional plastic t-bar tags, like those used to attach the price tags on clothing, are also attached externally around the monkfish's tail and carry instructions on how to report a tagged monkfish.
"We try to minimize the time the fish is on deck, so the tagging process only takes about five minutes," said Larry Alade, a fisheries biologist at NEFSC. "We tag fish that are about 16 -20 inches long, or roughly four to five years old and most likely mature. On our last trip we tagged 54 monkfish, some of which were up to 28 inches long. "
Data recovered from the tags can help researchers learn more about how migration patterns differ between males and females and with maturity state, where monkfish spawn, and how ocean currents and tides affect monkfish activity. The study will improve understanding of the age and growth of monkfish and the validity of methods used to estimate a monkfish's age.
Monkfish, also known as goosefish, was not a target of commercial fisheries until the late 1980s, but since the mid-1990s has been the highest valued finish in the northeastern U.S., surpassing traditional groundfish species like cod, haddock and flounders.
The scientists plan to expand the study to include monkfish in the mid-Atlantic region down to Cape Hatteras, considered the southernmost extent of their distribution in the Northwest Atlantic.
Funding is being provided by the NOAA-supported Northeast Consortium and by the commercial fishing industry through its research set aside program for monkfish.
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Beneath a tattered blue mosquito net in a crude grass-roofed shack, Cesar Chanchari Yumbato is quietly moaning.
He has been lying here for days, nothing between him and the dusty floorboards but a thin, soiled blanket. His eyes are wild, and beads of sweat dot his forehead. Beside him on the floor, a neighbor clutches his hand and does the only thing people in this remote jungle village can do when someone is critically ill: She prays.
Then, in a surreal scene straight out of a TV drama, two Colorado physicians clad in blue scrubs appear at his doorway, bearing a stethoscope and blood pressure cuff. Within hours, villagers will be hoisting Yumbato, 45, via hammock, to a waiting boat on the shores of the Amazon. By nightfall, he'll be undergoing surgery to repair a gaping hole in his bladder that likely would have killed him by morning.
This is only Day 1.
Yumbato is among the roughly 900 patients who have undergone surgeries and 30,000 who have received care in the past six years via a unique collaboration between Louisville-based Centura Global Health Initiatives (GHI) and Clinica Ana Stahl hospital in Iquitos, Peru.
As the largest city in the world with no roads leading to it, this gritty jungle outpost — accessible only by boat or small plane — largely has been cut off from the otherwise booming Peruvian economy. The hundreds of nearby villages that dot the Amazon's banks lack clean water and basic medical care. Malaria, Dengue fever and tuberculosis are facts of life. Most children have parasites. Many adults are blinded by cataracts. And in the wake of the worst flooding in a quarter-century last spring, water-borne illnesses are epidemic.
They're seemingly insurmountable problems for the many well-meaning international volunteer groups that drop in once in a while to hand out vitamins or do minor surgeries.
But GHI is trying a different approach.
Six years after sending its first Boulder medical team to Peru, the organization now sends five groups per year from across Colorado's Front Range. Orthopedic and cataract surgeons, ob/gyns and nurses pay their own way to spend a week not only treating the sick in the villages and performing surgeries in the city, but also training and collaborating with local clinicians.
Via new partnerships with University of Colorado students, and nonprofit groups in Peru, GHI is poised to extend its reach even farther.
"Our goal is to have as much impact on Iquitos and the surrounding Amazon basin when we are not there as when we are there," says Dr. David Ehrenberger, a six-time volunteer and chief medical officer at Avista Adventist Hospital in Louisville. "That's a big challenge."
A forgotten city
Step out of the airport into Iquitos and the heat and humidity is crushing.
The smog-choked roads buzz with motorized rickshaws hauling wealthy tourists to the port, where speedboats whisk them up the Amazon to $300-per-night jungle lodges. Few spend much time in the city anymore.
Home to wealthy rubber barons in the 1880s, and bustling with ex-pat hippies in the 1960s, the once-quaint berg has fallen on harder times, thanks to the discontinuation of several international flights (making it harder for tourists to get here) and the waning global economy. The population has swelled to half a million — far more than its crumbling infrastructure can sustain — forcing many to build makeshift houses atop the river itself.
In a floating slum called Belen (Spanish for Bethlehem), smiling children frolic in the murky water just feet from floating outhouses. One teenage girl washes her dishes. A boy casts a fishing line. The stench is overpowering.
On their first day in Peru this past July, the travel weary team of 18 Colorado volunteers floats through the neighborhood and its market with a guide, some snapping pictures, others drifting in silence.
"I've never seen poverty like that before," one young nursing student reflects later, eyes wet. "It makes you feel kind of helpless."
But over the course of the next week, that sense would begin to lift for many on the team.
House calls in San Rafael
Just after 10 a.m. on a Monday, the visitors finally arrive. After an hour ride by rapidos (fast boat) from their hotel in Iquitos, they pull up to the lush river bank and begin unloading plastic tubs filled with antibiotics, flip-flops, sunglasses and other treasures taken for granted back home.
In front of a bright blue community center with a corrugated tin roof, 100 villagers have formed a line. It's already getting hot.
After a welcome from the mayor, the team gets to work. Outside, nurse Elizabeth Hutson offers children a lesson in hand washing, and distributes toothbrushes. Inside, volunteers Christopher and Marco Coiro, 17 and 11, occupy a group of rambunctious boys with face painting while their mom, Dr. Susanna Coiro, examines a pig-tailed 5-year-old with a suspicious rash on her back — likely from worms that have entered through her bare feet.
In the corner, ophthalmology nurse Bonnie Shippy screens adults for cataracts in hopes that a future team may operate. (In Peru, roughly 83,000 people have untreated cataracts — many due to long days worked on the glaring river without eye protection). "Try these," Shippy says, placing a pair of sunglasses on a skeptical elder.
At the door, the line grows.
Soon Susanna Coiro, an internist from Porter Hospital, and Dr. Hila Mitchell, a third-year resident from St. Anthony North Hospital, are pulled aside. Several villagers are too sick to come here. Can they do house calls? They're on the move.
They walk briskly through a tunnel of towering palm trees, past stands of pineapple and rows of grass huts. A shirtless, smiling man walks past carrying a load of charcoal on his back. Two toddlers splash happily in a puddle left behind from yesterday's downpour. A rooster crows.
Compared to Belen, it feels like a tropical paradise. But in one respect, it is at a disadvantage.
When someone gets sick here, the closest hospital is a treacherous boat ride away in a makeshift motorized canoe. Most people can't afford the gas, or the medical bill. So they stay put, brewing teas from local roots and hoping time heals. Sometimes it doesn't. One boy died of pneumonia last month. Before that, a young mother succumbed to a poisonous snake bite.
Offering perspective
At the first hut, the doctors find a 70-year-old woman lying alone on a bare floor. She has not walked for two months, she explains, through an interpreter. She is feverish, her back aches and she shakes when she tries to stand.
Back in Colorado, she would have given blood and urine samples, undergone an ultrasound and been admitted.
Here, the doctors offer their best guess — severe kidney infection. They give her a 10-day supply of antibiotics and a warm embrace, and move on.
"It really shows that people in the U.S. — no matter how poor they are or how limited their access is to resources — still have far beyond what people have in other parts of the world," Mitchell notes.
When she reaches Cesar Yumbato's tiny, dimly-lit hut, Mitchell kneels on the floor, places a stethoscope on his abdomen, and listens. He flinches. Her eyes grow worried.
"He is much sicker than the others," she says.
Fifteen minutes later, a team of nurses is at his side — one shining a cheap pocket flashlight on his arm while another tries to find a vein. As the IV bag, hanging on a rusted nail above his head, drips fluid into his body, village men arrive at his door with the hammock to haul him to the team's boat.
Back at the community center around 4 p.m., the team is packing up, and Susanna Coiro is seeing her last patient — a weary-looking young mother with three children jockeying for position on her lap.
After doling out antifungal skin cream, worm medication, multivitamins and antibiotics to the kids, Coiro glances at Mom and asks in Spanish: "Do you need anything for yourself?" The mother pauses — as if no one has ever asked her this before — then looks down at her filthy bare feet.
Coiro struggles to keep her composure.
"It's heartbreaking not to be able to do more for them," she says, voice cracking as she reaches for the last pair of flip-flops on the table.
The long view
Throughout the week, the team will see nearly 800 patients and arrange for surgeries for two more.
In the village of Pucallpa, they come upon Rusbel Fernandez, a 61-year-old farmer who, while working on his canoe, spilled a bucket of burning tar on his legs. He'd been sitting in his hut for 16 days, doing his best to keep the flies off as purple scabs engulfed the entirety of his lower legs. As the GHI nurses debrided his infected wounds, he would bear the pain without a wince — only an occasional "thank you." He would spend 10 days at Clinica Ana Stahl on intravenous antibiotics. But he'd be OK.
In the village of San Juan de Munich, the team would reunite with 4-year-old Cleider, whose left eye had been swallowed by a painful, blinding mass. Another GHI team had met him in 2011, but needed time to raise money and coordinate with Peruvian doctors for his operation. (He had surgery in September and is said to be doing well.)
But while such dramatic stories may make for good press and serve to attract volunteers and donors, Ehrenberger cautions that doing surgeries and handing out pills is not enough.
"Medical charity work is sexy. But sexy can be toxic," he says, echoing the words of Robert Lupton, author of the new book "Toxic Charity: How Churches and Charities Hurt Those They Help."
"The risk is that we storm in and do some surgeries, treat a few people with pneumonia and then we storm out of town," leaving the patients with no follow-up care, and the region no better off, he said. "It's hard to do it right, and, in some ways, we don't do it right, but we are trying to have a more sustainable impact."
GHI returns to the same 10 villages repeatedly, and has worked with local nonprofit groups, like Rotary, to build clean-water systems in some of them. Doctors and nurses from Clinica Ana Stahl — a private 30-bed hospital — work alongside Colorado surgeons during operations, and handle follow-up after they're gone. GHI also has donated equipment and is working to establish an eye clinic there.
"We learn from them and they learn from us," explains Clinica Ana Stahl director Milka Branez Claudet, who visited Colorado in September.
GHI also has led to spin-off organizations, such as CU Peru. The nonprofit group of medical students from the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus now spends each summer in the villages offering free workshops for lay health care workers, called promotores, who otherwise have little or no medical training.
"By returning again and again we would like to someday teach ourselves out of a job," says CU Peru President Shelby Kemper.
Saving lives
But for patients such as Yumbato, the impact already is tangible.
Lying beneath crisp white sheets in his hospital room after his bladder surgery, Yumbato looked weak but pain-free when Coiro and Mitchell dropped in. His incision was healing well, and, within days, he'd be returning home.
The three smiled and posed for a snapshot before parting ways. But none of them would be the same.
"We get as much from them as they get from us," Mitchell says.
Adds Coiro: "We saved one life. To me that alone makes it all worth it."
From Colorado to Peru
Global Health Initiatives: Founded in 2004 by Niwot resident Greg Hodgson and administered by Colorado hospital chain Centura Health, Centura Global Health Initiatives (CGHI) sends doctors and nurses from Front Range hospitals to Peru, Rwanda, Nepal and Haiti several times each year to perform surgeries, train health care providers and provide community health services. For more information or to make a donation, visit centuraglobalhealth.org.
CU Peru: CU Peru is a nonprofit group of University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus nursing, pharmacy and medical students who train lay health care volunteers in the villages of the Loreto Region of the Peruvian Amazon. For more information or to make a donation, visit cuperu.org.


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Göran Söllscher was born in 1955 in Växjö, Sweden. He grew up in Kalmar on the east coast of Sweden and started to play the guitar at the age of seven. After his musical education, including studies at the Malmö Conservatory (1975–77) and at the Royal Conservatory of Copenhagen (1976–79), Göran Söllscher embarked on an international career after winning the first prize at the "Concours International de Guitare" in Paris, in 1978. He has since appeared worldwide in recitals and concerts with leading orchestras under such conductors as Claudio Abbado, Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos, Sir Alexander Gibson, Sixten Ehrling, Woldemar Nelsson and Esa-Pekka Salonen and makes frequent appearances on radio and television. His repertoire is exceptionally wide, ranging from Renaissance music to well-known standard concertos for guitar and orchestra, to contemporary music often written especially for him.
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Panorama photos of Venice with Canal Grande
My passion is to capture the actual look of the major skylines from as many as possible directions. In the past 15 years thousands of photos in panoramic, standard, horizontal or
vertical format have been shot. My goal is to make aesthetic photos of the Frankfurt Skyline, other skylines and landscapes worldwide.


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There are many positives that come with an Economics major at IPFW. First and foremost, you will find the subject of economics interesting and intellectually challenging. It is a way of thinking about the world that complements many disciplines. In fact, many IPFW students create "double majors" in economics and a second discipline because of its applicability to a wide range of academic studies. In the past, we have had students pair the Economics major with majors such as Business Administration, Political Science, Mathematics, Physics, Sociology and foreign languages.
Second, economics has social relevance. Dealing with issues such as unemployment, poverty, inflation, market structure, international competitiveness and the quality of our environment, economics attracts students with an interest in understanding important economic problems and a desire to use what they learn to improve the human condition.
Third, economics will help you develop analytic decision making skills that will be valuable in the future profession of your choice. You will find individuals using their undergraduate Economics majors in all walks of life, including education, banking and finance, business, social service, government regulation, politics and law.


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Flood waters that uprooted whole families and split cities in half by overrunning roads have pushed northern Colorado commuters onto circuitous routes that in some cases doubled the time it takes to travel between home and work.
Brian Haitz's usual commute from Lakewood to Longmont is long but predictable — Interstate 25 north to Colorado 52, go west and then north again to the office.
But closures on Colorado 52 and 119 have forced Haitz to use U.S. 287 to get home in the evening, adding 30 minutes to a commute that typically takes 45 minutes.
"People say I'm already crazy going from Lakewood to Longmont," Haitz said, "but now it's even crazier."
Cheyenne Carpenter commutes from Greeley to Longmont, via U.S. 85 and Colorado 66. But flood-related closures have rerouted her to I-25, transforming a 40-minute drive into a trek of at least 90 minutes.
"And I'm not sure what's up with I-25," said Carpenter. "It bottlenecks from the Berthoud exit to the Loveland exit. While my slight detour isn't nearly as drastic as some, the commute time nearly doubled for some reason."
Blame the gawkers for at least some of the delays on I-25 — traffic slows to a crawl near Colorado 119 and U.S. 34 as drivers rubberneck to get a glimpse of the now massive St. Vrain and Big Thompson rivers.
Colorado Department of Transportation spokeswoman Amy Ford said commutes are getting smoother as roads reopen and repairs are made.
Assessment teams are finishing their work and by early next week will have identified roads and bridges that need the quickest fixes. Contractors will launch soon after.
The state transportation commission on Thursday released $100 million in contingency funds to begin the work, Ford said.
In Weld County, most of the major truck routes for the oil and gas industry are open, including County Road 49, between Interstate 76 and Kersey, county spokeswoman Jennifer Finch said.
But travel is still tough in and around Kersey, east of Greeley, and Milliken, a southwest Weld community ravaged by flooding last week.
"People coming from Kersey to Greeley have to take back country roads to get here," Finch said. "And a county employee in Milliken used to get here in Greeley in about 20 minutes. Now it takes her about an hour-and-a-half."
Weld County road crews are also working to make sure roads are in good repair for farmers trying to bring in crops. Gov. John Hickenlooper said Thursday roads between farms and markets are "critically broken" across northeastern Colorado. Fixing them, he said, is as important as opening roads to stranded mountain communities.
Closer to the Front Range, those still-clear county roads will have to be shared for a while, Finch said.
"It's harvest time here and these roads are used by commuters," she said, "and now the farmers."


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Top Stalker brauchte ein neues Logo Design und hat einen Wettbewerb auf 99designs gestartet.
Aus 56 Designs von 24 Designern wurde eine Gewinner gewählt.
This project is to create a logo for a new celebrity photo sharing and gossip website named Top Stalker. The brand should appeal to women, without turning off men. It should be provocative and edgy without being dark or creepy.
Top Stalker
Top Stalker is a new celebrity gossip and photo sharing website. Think of it as a consumer web 2.0 social media website. The website will initially target the 18-35 year old female demographic, so the brand should be appealing to women. But not so much so that it will turn off an eventual mainstream audience that may include men.
Ideally, the logo would include an icon or illustration representing the face of an enthusiastic "stalker". This character might be shrouded in a bit of mystery – slightly nefarious, slightly playful – you're not quite sure. The icon should be included with the logo, but strong enough to stand alone as the brand becomes more recognizable.
The two founders of this company are serial entrepreneurs with a proven track record of consumer Internet success and experience starting and leading venture capital backed startups. The founders have assembled an experienced technical and editorial team to launch this project. This initial logo design project may lead to other design projects for Top Stalker.
For comparison, here is a list of a few peer or competing websites:
- Mass market appeal
- Controversial, provocative, and edgy
- Colors and style skewed towards female audience
- Icon representing a "stalker"
- Suitable for web and print
- Great logo for a t-shirt
- Vector logo in Adobe Illustrator format
- Dark colors and/or style
- Creepy logo or icon
- Generic clip art
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Basketball Cake
Dimpled orange frosting and licorice laces make this basketball cake look deliciously realistic. It's as much fun to make as it is to eat. —Lonna Liccini, Clifton, Virginia
Total TimePrep: 20 min. Bake: 1 hour + cooling
Makes12-16 servings
- 1 package chocolate cake mix (regular size)
- 1-1/2 cups canned vanilla frosting
- Orange paste food coloring
- 4 pieces black shoestring licorice
- Prepare cake batter according to package directions. Pour into a greased and floured 2-1/2-qt. ovenproof bowl.
- Bake at 350° for 60-70 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean. Cool for 10 minutes before removing from bowl to a wire rack to cool completely.
- In a small bowl, combine frosting and food coloring. Place cake on a serving plate. Spread with frosting. Gently press a meat mallet into frosting so texture resembles a basketball. For seams, gently press licorice into frosting.
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I had trouble with the frosting; it kept sticking to the meat mallet and pulled up into peaks so I failed to get it to resemble a basketball texture. Used black food coloring instead of licorice.
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My son Likes basketball as a sport and loved the cake!
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I made this cake for my grandson a couple years ago. It was a hit. The only problem, I completely failed to find shoestring licorice. Had to modify that.


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1) Using the Custom CSS area in the VamTam options panel
This is the preferred way if you only need to make a few small changes:
VamTam > General settings > Custom CSS Area
If you would like to add a specific class or ID for any element, you can do this by first wrapping the element in a Column, and then adding your chosen class/ID to the respective column options.
In the case of the ID, you need to enter an alphanumeric string without any spaces. In the case of the Class option, you need to enter a space-separated list of classes without dots (similar to how you would use HTML's class attribute). If you have entered my-column-class as the column's class, you can then use the following CSS selector for this column:
2) Creating a child theme
This is recommended if you want to build your CSS on top of ours, but don't want to use the Custom CSS Area in the theme options.
You can find sample child theme here: http://vamtam.com/child-themes/
The official WordPress documentation explains this topic really well: http://codex.wordpress.org/Child_Themes
Please note that you should always have a copy of your custom codes as sometimes you may mistakenly reset theme options to default and lose all your custom css.


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There are some common myths in the cleaning industry that circulate because they may have been practiced in the past or because a product was promoted based on generalized misconceptions.
What follows are some of my favorite myths and misconceptions as they relate to hard floor care.
I am sure these will shock and amaze you, especially since these fables are often taken as commonsense industry knowledge.
1. The First Myth Of Floor Care: Sealers and finishes do the same thing, so only one of them is necessary
A floor sealer and a floor finish are not the same product.
A sealer will have a higher solids percentage — after evaporation, more polymers remain on the floor — than a finish, effectively filling pores and smoothing out inconsistencies in resilient tiles.
Sealers are used for building a base before you apply a finish and, given their high solids percentage, they exhibit little or no shine — a sealed, unfinished floor will have a dull or matte appearance.
Even though some tiles come with a factory-applied sealer, you must seal a floor before applying finish.
A high solids percentage in a floor finish does not make it a sealer; it does, however, mean it will be very difficult to remove when it comes time to strip.
2. The Second Myth Of Floor Care: A floor should be sealed after it has been stripped and refinished
Despite that it is an old idea and an outdated practice, I still see this mentioned in articles by floor care professionals.
Floors do not need to be sealed after stripping; resilient flooring needs to be sealed when it is first laid down.
Two to three coats of sealer should be applied, turning 90 degrees with each new coat — if you are going north-to-south when applying the first coat, apply the next in an east-to-west manner — then end with a final coat.
If done correctly and at the proper time, the floor will never need to be sealed again.
To prove this once you have stripped a floor bare, use a red pad and buff the bare floor, a mat shine will appear this is the sealer still in the floor.
If your floors are poorly stripped — there is often little time to complete floor care tasks and a small amount of old finish can remain — and then sealed, you will seal in the old, dirty finish, which makes the floor yellow faster and makes future restorative maintenance harder and more time-consuming.
3. The Third Myth Of Floor Care: A floor stripper can be applied and quickly mopped away
This myth actually contradicts the core cleaning principle of time, agitation, chemical and temperature (TACT).
First, the idea implies that you do not need dwell time and that you can just apply a product and then mop it off.
Second, it infers you don't need to agitate the surface with a floor machine and a scrubbing/stripping pad.
If the stripper is so strong that you can mop it on and then easily mop it off, you either have very little finish left on your floor or your rubber boots will melt while you apply the solution.
All strippers need dwell time — surface contact upwards of 20 minutes in most cases — and you need to use a swing machine with an abrasive pad to effectively remove the floor finish.
I am sorry, but there are no shortcuts here, and a mop-on, mop-off floor stripper is about as real as a unicorn.
4. The Fourth Myth Of Floor Care: If a surface is considered no-wax flooring, it doesn't need to be finished
Marmoleum, a type of linoleum flooring made of recycled materials, bonding agents, linseed oil and wood particulates, was and still is promoted as no-wax flooring.
The truth is that there is no such thing as a no-wax floor.
All resilient flooring needs a finish, as it protects the floor from damage.
Without finish, floors will wear and discolor more quickly and can be permanently damaged.
While resilient flooring of all kinds has a protective surface coating, it is a manufacturer's coating applied at the factory and is only designed to prevent damage to tiles before they are installed.
When initially installed, resilient floors require a light scrub, the application of a sealer and at least three coats of finish.
5. The Fifth Myth Of Floor Care: Restorer can save you time and money
Remember back in the day when you or your coworkers would mix a 50/50 solution of finish and stripper in a spray bottle to spray buff the floor using a swing machine operating at 350 revolutions per minute (RPM)?
Before high-speed floor machines or ultra-high-speed (UHS) finishes, spray buffing was a common task.
Today, restoration finishes are essentially a waste of time and money.
Think about it: For the time it takes to mix your solution, apply the restorer and complete the spray buffing task, you might as well just refinish the floor with a top scrub and recoat.
6. The Sixth Myth Of Floor Care: Top scrubbing and stripping are one in the same
A common assumption made by custodians is that, because they used stripper when they scrubbed the floor, it is stripped.
In reality, however, the floor has not been stripped.
To strip a floor properly — to remove all of the finish down to the substrate — you need to leave the stripper on the floor for at least 20 minutes, agitating with a mop or other tool so it does not dry.
Then, after allowing the stripper to dwell, scrub it using a brown or black pad before picking up the slurry with a wet vacuum.
Now, the floor is ready to be rinsed and neutralized, which should be done a minimum of three times — more if all of the finish is not removed.
Simply using stripper and giving the floor a quick scrub and rinse is not considered stripping; said process is more akin to heavy-duty scrubbing or what is commonly called a top scrub.
7. The Seventh Myth Of Floor Care: There is no need for a neutralizer, especially since many offerings are now self-neutralizing
Because strippers and some heavy-duty cleaners are alkaline, you need to neutralize them using either a citric acid neutralizer or vinegar, which is acetic acid.
Even applying large amounts of water will simply dilute the alkaline; water will not neutralize an alkaline substance.
Without neutralization, floor finishes can react to the dry alkaline residue left behind and not adhere to the floor properly.
To reiterate: Water is not a replacement for a neutralizer, and even if you are using a self-neutralizing product, it is always a good idea to neutralize a floor after it is stripped.
8. The Eighth Myth Of Floor Care: Today's floor finishes are fast drying and cure very quickly
Floor finishes dry from the bottom up; because of this, they require curing time.
No matter how quickly the finish may dry, and despite that is may feel dry to the touch, it is still wet as it soaks into the floor.
Although finishes dry faster today than they did in the past, allowing for more coats to be laid down in a shorter timeframe, it still takes a full 24 hours for a base coat to properly cure — possibly longer if more than four coats of finish were applied or if the humidity is high.
Because it dries from the bottom up, the more finish you apply, the longer the drying and curing time will be.
While the floor may be dry enough to walk on without marring, it will not be dry enough to put furniture or other heavy objects on for at least a day.
9. The Ninth Myth Of Floor Care: No-rinse chemicals can eliminate a step in the cleaning process
If you're not rinsing, how exactly do you get rid of the dirt?
Again, this contradicts TACT; you cannot simply apply a cleaning chemical to a surface and expect it to work, which "no-rinse" suggests.
Agitation is still necessary, and after that is done, you have to wipe the surface clean — that is, remove the chemical you have applied with a mop, a squeegee, a vacuum or another similar method.
Since most cleaning chemicals or detergents are alkaline, they leave a residue on the surface that attracts dirt.
So, despite well-intended guidance from many, you still need to rinse a floor to remove any residual matter.
10. The Tenth Myth Of Floor Care: A wet/dry vacuum is a multiuse piece of equipment that can be used for nearly anything
A wet vacuum is a wet vacuum — period.
While wet/dry vacuums are sold as dual-purpose machines, the filters are made of muslin and require daily cleaning and frequent replacement.
Once used as a wet vacuum, the filter will not seal very well and can lead to unfiltered, dusty air billowing out of the exhaust when used again as a dry vacuum.
The filtration system of a wet/dry vacuum is for water weight suction rather than being a high-efficiency particulate air (HEPA) system.
Water suction is not the equivalent of dry vacuum suction with HEPA-filtered bags.
The suction of a wet/dry vacuum is significantly reduced when compared to dry-only canister vacuums.
11. The Eleventh Myth Of Floor Care: Feather dusters are useful for quick surface cleaning
Feather dusters are useless for cleaning; they simply spread around dust, dirt and bacteria that will need to be removed with future cleaning events.
And, while disposable or launderable static wipers do collect more particulates than a feather duster, they are not as effective as using either a dry microfiber cloth or a damp microfiber mop to remove surface dust.
The inadequacy of feather dusters has been known for over 100 years and is reflected in a quote from the 1913 book, School Janitors, Mothers and Health.
"Is the dust removed after the 'dustless method' necessary at home? If not, it is imperative to bring it about promptly. This means vigorous and faithful effort until feather dusters are replaced by cloths used so as not to scatter the dust, with open windows allowing as much as possible to blow out, and certainly not within one hour before the assembling of pupils," exclaims Dr. Helen Putnam.
12. The Twelfth Myth Of Floor Care: Clean smells lemon fresh or has a piney musk
Clean has no smell; in actuality, clean is the absence of smell.
Malodors are caused by bacteria off-gassing, and the presence of odors is usually a sign of inadequate cleaning.
In order to eliminate odors, you need to remove all soils and biofilms by cleaning with a detergent and then kill the bacteria using a sanitizer or a disinfectant.
If you use bleach to "clean" and disinfect, you are not effectively doing either.
Instead, you are depositing volatile organic compounds (VOCs) into an area that compromise indoor air quality (IAQ) without achieving your desired outcome of a clean, hygienic surface.
Again, as Dr. Putnam noted a century ago, "Odors of disinfectants must not be accepted as proof of cleanliness. They merely disguise other odors, much like perfumes. Cleanliness has no odor."


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Tax season is in full swing and cyber-criminals are sending out tax-related emails to infect unsuspecting taxpayers with the Zeus banking Trojan, according to AppRiver.
Emails pretending to come from tax preparation software TurboTax are circulating at "very high volumes," Troy Gill, senior security analyst for AppRiver, wrote on the AppRiver blog. The messages are well-crafted, including the same graphics that TurboTax uses in its emails, as well as linking back to the real website. On first glance, these malicious messages closely resemble the real ones sent by TurboTax, Gill said.
The attack relies on users opening the zip file attached to the message. The zip file begins with the word "TAX" followed by a random number. When downloaded and executed, this variant of the Zeus Trojan collects all the browser cookies, Web history, and Outlook password stored on the computer and installs a backdoor. The "ultimate goal" is to steal banking and credit card credentials, Gill said. All the data are currently being transferred to an IP address located in Malaysia, according to AppRiver.
"Cyber-criminals are using a familiar tactic to spread the [Zeus] infection," Gill said.
Gill posted a screenshot of one such attack message, which included the subject, "TurboTax: State Return Rejected" and appeared to come from intuit.com. (Intuit owns the TurboTax software.) The message informed the recipient the state return was rejected.
"All information has been reviewed and validated by Intuit, please find more information attached," the attack email said.
The zip file contained an executable (.exe) file called TAX_3919473. This particular Zeus variant features basic evasive techniques, as it terminates immediately if it detects that it is being executed in a debugger or in a sandbox.
How to Stay Safe During Tax Season
If you receive an email with an attachment that you didn't request, do not open it, even if the sender seems legitimate. Scammers will notify victims of "problems" with the tax returns via email; just remember, the Internal Revenue Service will never initiate contact over email. By the same token, the IRS will never ask for PIN numbers or credit card numbers over email.
"Remain vigilant and try to use simple logic—if it seems too good to be true and it is sitting in your inbox, delete it," AppRiver said.
Don't conduct sensitive financial transactions over public hotspots or open WiFi networks such as in airports, hotels, libraries, restaurants, cafes, and other locations. Wait till you are home or on a secured network, or just wait till you are on a wired connection. If you must use an insecure network, at least use a VPN service. PCMag has reviewed several popular VPN services, and recommends quite a few, including the latest Editors' Choice, PrivateInternetAccess.
Check to make sure any pages collecting credit card information and other sensitive data is using a secure connection. The browser should show HTTPS in the site's Web address, or display a security padlock symbol in the address bar.
If you are using a public terminal or shared device, log completely out of financial sites, AppRiver said. Attackers can hijack open sessions.
"You can avoid infection from this threat by ceasing to click on links and attachments included in unsolicited email," Gill said. Don't click on links in emails you didn't specifically request, ever.
Malicious emails using tax-related tactics are fairly common at this time of the year, and the social engineering tactic being used in these spam campaigns is nothing new, Gill said."But, given its continued use, it is evidently quite effective," Gill said.
Further Reading
- Zoom's Encryption Keys Are Sometimes Being Sent to China, Report Finds
- Zoom: Rush of WFH Users Exposed Security, Privacy Flaws We Plan to Fix
- Were You Zoom-Bombed? Video of It May Now Be on YouTube, TikTok for All to See
- Amid Pandemic, Microsoft Alerts Dozens of Hospitals Vulnerable to Ransomware Threat
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Eero Tamminen wrote:The icon RSC files were missing and teradesk.inf had lot of stuff (that didn't exist in the mini setup), but after adding icons it was working fine.
I tried then replicating OL setup. Teradesk from that worked fine too. After adding "myaesmin.prg" and gemsys directory with OL's MyAES & MiNT-mini builds, Teradesk started crashing to bus error. Doesn't help much I admit.
OL, I'm wondering why in your setup there are two of these, and why they differ:
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$ ls -l gemsys/ldg/screen.ldg gemsys/myaes/libs/screen.ldg
163816 gemsys/ldg/screen.ldg
163812 gemsys/myaes/libs/screen.ldg
for screen.ldg, just a small difference for dithering.
Continue to not understand, renaming gemsys/myaes/kernel/mintmini.prg to something else to not load it, no crash.


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JT3T necesitaba un nuevo diseño de página web y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 62 diseños de 7 diseñadores freelance.
StoryGoRound.com is a start-up company, which is an online children's book rental company (like Netflix for children's books). We need design templates for our web pages so that the programming of the pages can begin.
We would like a design for the home page and one inner page - the Member Page. The winning designer may also be contracted to design at least 4 additional inner pages.
Here are links to a few websites whose look we like - just to give you a feel for our aesthetic:
http://www.thecupcakeshopperaleigh.com/ (this is our favorite)
We want the design to be a bit playful and fun, but still clean and easy to peruse. (And definitely not cartoonish).
Feel free to design the home page first and await feedback before designing the inner page. We will provide feedback regularly.
The target audiences for the site include families with children and teachers. Additionally, we will target people buying gifts for children or baby showers (friends, grandparents, etc).
*Home page and the Member Page:
- - Attached you will find wireframes for each of these pages to use as a general guide (not an exact layout) for content we intend to include on each page.
*We have attached a suggested header graphic. We would like to see something along these lines, but we welcome creative changes as long as it retains the theme and spirit of the design. (Note - The bar on the left side of this file will not be needed unless you choose to use it in your design.)
*The company logo is also attached. The colors for the page can be taken from the header graphic and the logo. (Mainly soft blues and greens).
*There is one additional graphic attached, which our logo designer also created that we liked. Feel free to use in design, but not required.
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It became official on December 12 last year: professional women's soccer would be coming to Houston. A whirlwind four months later, the big day is here as the Houston Dash open their first National Women's Soccer League season at home to Portland Thorns FC on Saturday night (7 p.m. CT; TICKETS).
The capacity for Dash fixtures at BBVA Compass Stadium will normally be capped at 7,000, but demand to see the first-ever match has been strong and the club will open part of the upper bowl on Saturday.
Give some of the credit for the expected large attendance to Dash defender Nikki Washington. "I'll have a good amount of family and friends coming in, you'll hear the Washington clan for sure," she told HoustonDashSoccer.com. Most will not have too far to come—the 25-year-old hails from Mesquite, near Dallas, and grew up in the area.
Washington will also have some friends on the opposite end of the field. She spent last season with the Thorns before the Dash signed her via a trade at the NWSL College Draft. She was a regular in the Portland lineup in the 2013 campaign until suffering a knee injury in July.
"I think it'll be a good match up, playing the defending champs is a good test to see where we are, a good measure," she said. "I'm sure they'll be well prepared, very organized, with great individual talent. It's a big game for everyone, we'll hope to catch them off guard a little bit."
Portland and the Dash are the only two of the nine NWSL clubs affiliated to MLS organizations. The Thorns won the inaugural championship last year with a 2-0 victory over the Western New York Flash in the title game.
Saturday's visitors have undergone some roster turnover since last year but in Paul Riley have a new head coach with plenty of experience in the women's game. They are without two U.S. stars, midfielder Tobin Heath, who is currently with Paris Saint-Germain, and the injured Alex Morgan.
Canada goalkeeper Erin McLeod will be wearing the captain's armband for the Dash this season after a vote by the players gave her the honor. At 31, she is the most senior player on the roster, has taken part in three Women's World Cups and is approaching a hundred caps for her country.
On a young team constructed during a hectic offseason, head coach Randy Waldrum is also looking to forward Ella Masar and midfielders Brittany Bock and Becky Edwards to act as mentors and leaders. "I think all four will be clearly our leadership group. I think Erin will be a good decision. She's played in World Cups, she's played in the Olympics, a medalist in the Olympics, so I think from an experience and age standpoint she'll be really good for us," he said.
At the end of the 24-match regular season (half the games at home, half away) four teams will progress to the playoffs. That's the Dash's target, of course, but Waldrum also wants the players to show patience and focus on gradual improvements.
After all, this is a brand-new group that has only spent a month training together. Nor will Houston start the season at full strength, especially in defense. U.S. players Whitney Engen and Meghan Klingenberg are currently with Swedish side Tyresö, possibly until the end of May, and Canada defender Lauren Sesselmann is out with a long-term knee injury suffered last month during training with the national team. Engen and Klingenberg both featured for the U.S. on Thursday night in a 3-0 friendly match win over China in San Diego.
"I tried to get across to the players from day one, let's don't be a result-driven team right off the bat. We want results, we want to win, we have goals like getting into the playoffs. Let's go that way but let's don't be focused every week on the result. Let's focus more on the process that gets us the result," said Waldrum.
Washington is optimistic that the Dash will impress. "Our motto I think is going to be: 'why not us?' I think we're going to come in, set our goals high and go through the process to get there. There will be ups and downs, as every team will have in this long season, but we're aiming to bring the championship back to Houston," she said.
Regardless of the scorelines, Waldrum wants to keep fans entertained, week-in, week-out. In the short time since the Dash were born, the 57-year-old recruited from Notre Dame has tried to mold a roster that will produce an appealing, exciting style of play. That's already been evident during several goal-laden preseason victories.
"We've spent a lot of time trying to be—I said it off-the-cuff in one of the early press conferences and now everybody's kind of run with it—but I said I want to be like the Barcelona of women's football. We want to be a very attractive team in the way we play," he said.
"We've been pretty successful with it so far but now we're up to a new challenge, now we're going to be playing pro teams instead of college teams. Hopefully we can keep that going. I think the fans will see we're going to try to be a very attack-minded team. By design it won't be a team that sits back and defends. There may be some games that we're on our heels and we have to defend but for the most part I think the fans will see that we're a very up-tempo, fast and attacking oriented team," he said.


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The mission of the Department of Pastoral Counseling is to provide spiritual and emotional support to all patients, visitors, and staff personnel of Augusta University Medical Center, particularly in times of loss and bereavement, and to do so in an interdenominational, multicultural manner in which all faiths are respected. We will work with the community to ensure access and availability to the spiritual resources requested by our patients.
Patient Care Settings
Chaplains in the Department of Pastoral Counseling perform their duties in various settings throughout the medical complex. Patient rooms, waiting areas, clinic rooms, intensive care units, and common areas throughout the hospital serve as settings for pastoral encounters. The goal of the department is to be visible in, and maintain a relationship throughout, all clinics, nursing units, clinical areas, and support areas throughout the Medical Center. Any patient admitted into the Augusta University is a potential recipient of the services of the Pastoral Counseling Department, as are their families and friends, and other associated visitors. A great deal of time is also given to staff support, as the nature of health care work lends to stress related responses. We seek to support the staff as well as to help care for them when events occur in their family.
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There are three different spaces set aside on the Augusta University campus designated as Chapels/Meditation Rooms. The Chapel in the main Hospital is located on the second floor on the hallway near the Terrace dining room, BA2473. The Chapel in the CHOG is located on the first floor, next to the gift shop. The Meditation Retreat in the Comprehensive The Georgia Cancer Center is also on the first floor. Each of the spaces in the hospitals are open 24/7. The The Georgia Cancer Center Meditation Room is open during operational hours for the center. All of the spaces are non-sectarian in nature to allow for the use by all people of all faiths and creeds. We hope our patients, families, and staff will take advantage of these quiet places.
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November 2010
Vol. 75, No. 11
From the grounds up: Can fair trade grow beyond just coffee?
By Daniel P. Smith
Coffee and chocolate sales have become seasonal staples at parish Christmas bazaars, but how much of a difference is fair trade really making? Daniel P. Smith explorews whether this movement is sustainable.
The future of fair trade
Trade, from farmer to cup (PDF)
Internal medicine
By Daniel Sulmasy, O.F.M.
The human side of health care has been replaced at the bedside by burdensome technology, especially at life's end, says physician and ethicist Daniel Sulmasy, O.F.M. But Catholic wisdom that predates even antibiotics holds the key to rediscovering the art of dying well.
Do I need an advanced directive?
Sounding Board
Let's bury the eulogy
By Father James Field
A funeral is no place for an open microphone, argues Father James Field, speakng from experience. The Mass for the dead shouldn't be a tribute to the deceased but a thanksgiving for a disciple's life in Christ. In Feedback readers discern the boundary between appropriate remembrance and too much information.
(Essays, short stories, and poems may not be available online.)
Visiting hours
By Sue Fox McGovern
Sue Fox McGovern discovers lessons for living as she walks with the dying in their final days.
Day by Day
By Robert Ellsberg
There was more to Dorothy Day than bread, soup, and picket lines, writes biographer Robert Ellsberg. As her personal letters reveal, the energy for her activism had deep roots in spiritual discipline.
A rite to remember
It turns out there's an app for that, too, writes Christopher Wilson, who catalogs some of the best ways for digital-age Catholics to stay connected to the divine.
In Person: A good rep
By Heidi Schlumpf
From a war-torn Saigon to a Katrina-ravaged New Orleans to a divided Capitol Hill, U.S. Rep. Anh "Joseph" Cao's experiences of suffering have truly made him a man of the people, writes Heidi Schlumpf.
Word of God, Word of life
By Meinrad Scherer-Emunds
Though not quite a rock star, the late Eugene LaVerdiere, S.S.S. helped U.S. Catholic readers find in the Bible rock-solid faith, writes executive dditor Meinrad Scherer-Emunds.
Editors' Note
You May Be Right (Letters to the Editor)
Signs of the Times (News)
Catholic Tastes (Humor)
Culture in Context: Music, film, and book reviews
At Home with Our Faith (Family spirituality)
Eye of the Beholder (Art meditation)
Glad You Asked: Is Dia de los Muertos the same as All Souls Day?
The Examined Life: America the anxious
By Bryan Cones
Margin Notes: Take the next exit
By Kevin Clarke
Culture in Context: Hope against hope
By Patrick McCormick
Testaments: Soul searching
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'Where we'd have the Haves and the Have-nots'
By Vin Suprynowicz
Candidate endorsement interviews at the Las Vegas Review-Journal are a tag-team affair. As my partner this year I drew political columnist Steve Sebelius.
It's been years since we allowed ourselves to be surprised by the lack of any clear-cut political or economic philosophy among the main body of candidates who come trooping through. Most of these souls can't even imagine why anyone would want one, attempting to spin their lack of any moral or philosophical rudder into an asset, insisting it's better to "judge each matter on its merits as it comes along" than to be "doctrinaire" or captive to any "hidebound ideology" ... as though the shipping line would be more likely to hire a captain who, instead of avoiding rocks as a matter of principle in a dull and plodding way, made a fresh decision each morning whether to risk the lee shoals, depending on whether the first lobbyist to get to him that day managed to present that course of action as "moderate" and "reasonable" and "well-received by our focus groups."
Oct. 4 was a good day. First in the door was incumbent Republican Assemblyman Dennis Nolan, whose daytime job sees him supervising the administration of drug-testing programs to 30 different transit systems.
Mr. Nolan, a Republican who believes the salaries of state bureaucrats are too low, thinks state government "runs pretty tight" in delivering its services, and can't imagine anyplace where the state payroll could be cut.
"You keep using the word 'services,' " I noted. "If I wait in line down at the DMV and someone finally takes my money to register my car, they're rendering me a 'service,' is that right?"
"That's absolutely right," responded the neatly coiffed, diminutive lawmaker.
Advised that Mr. Nolan believes the War on Drugs can still be won, Mr. Sebelius asked how we're going to keep drugs off the streets, if we can't even keep them out of the prisons.
"I think we can keep drugs out of the prisons" Mr. Nolan responded. "You have personnel bringing them in."
The answer is to institute random drug testing for corrections officers, as well as for the prisoners themselves, Mr. Nolan says. Also -- since "People object; it doesn't look good" to have over-eager police dogs knocking over small children in the prison waiting rooms, the new electronic "sniffing" wands should be used to check visitors for drugs, including the tiniest tots.
"Sometimes they sneak the drugs in in the babies' bibs, or the women hide them in a balloon in their mouths and then pass them to the prisoner in a kiss," Mr. Nolan explains, his eyes widening with enthusiasm as he warmed to his subject.
"But how are you going to punish prisoners when you catch them with drugs?" asked Mr. Sebelius. 'I mean, they're already in jail, right? What are you going to do, put them in 'jail' jail?"
"You have to find some way to discipline them, there's no doubt about it," replied Mr. Nolan, enthusiastically.
What about the schools, I asked. Should the new electronic sniffer technology be used to randomly sweep our schoolchildren and their lockers?
"No," Mr. Nolan replied. However, "One of the states -- I can't remember which one right now -- has adopted a voluntary 'no drugs' contract from the fourth grade on; both the kids and their parents sign this contract, and in the contract they volunteer for random drug testing. ... I think that's a good idea, it's a great program, because if they don't sign then they can't participate in computer labs and after-school activities and so forth."
So the kids, already dragooned under threat of jail for mom and dad if they don't report to the mandatory government propaganda camp nearest them, now further see their Fourth Amendment protections against unreasonable search and seizure neatly sidestepped as they're requested to "voluntarily" sign please-take-my-pee "contracts," with those who refuse to sign being sent home in ignominy while other kids get to go on field trips and play soccer after school and act in the school play.
Sounds plenty "voluntary" to me. After all, it's not as though little kids tend to ridicule and ostracize anyone who won't go along with the program. Surely no little kid is ever going to be asked why his parents are the only ones who refuse to "volunteer" him for the pee tests, unless, of course, they're ... on drugs, or something.
No sooner had we sent Mr. Nolan on his merry way, than Democrat Terrie Stanfill showed up to fill our door. Ms. Stanfill -- recruited by the capital Democrats to challenge Ray Rawson, a solid and hard-working state senator, though not exactly Mr. Showbiz -- got off to a fast start, waxing enthusiastic about the many wonderful things she hopes to accomplish up in Carson City with all our tax money, from college scholarships for poor children to visiting nurses for the infirm. The casinos "probably need to be taxed more" -- though perhaps not as much as an additional 5 percent, right now -- and no one should be allowed to escape from paying "their fair share," she insisted.
"So no one should get out of paying for the public schools?" even if they spend their own money to send their kids to private schools, asked Mr. Sebelius.
"No, because then we'd have the Haves and the Have-nots; if we take money away from the public schools things would be worse."
"What is the purpose of state government?" I asked Ms. Stanfill.
"To be sure we're doing what the people are wanting, running the state business, that we're introducing laws that should be voted on by the people," she replied. "You're there for the people; at the state level you're introducing the bills."
Not a sentence, not a word (needless to say) about just governments being instituted among men to secure for us our God-given rights and liberties.
"Are there any things that the state Legislature might like to do, that it can't do?" I asked.
"I'm not sure I'm understanding your question," Ms. Stanfill replied.
"Are there any matters in which the state lawmakers might think it was a good idea to get involved, but where they're not allowed to?" I tried again.
"I'm not sure I'm understanding the question," she repeated.
Mr. Sebelius tried his hand at translating for me.
"Let's say a constituent went to a lawmaker, and wanted him to, say, outlaw machine guns in Nevada, but the lawmaker said, 'Gee, I've looked at the list of powers granted to us by the state Constitution, and while I agree that's a good idea, I just don't find that we have any delegated power to do that.' What would you think about a lawmaker who said that?"
"Oh, that would be a cop-out," replied the state senate candidate.
I do not mean to imply that, when these candidates go home after a hard day knocking on doors and promising everyone a share of my purloined paycheck, Mr. Nolan changes into tall shiny boots and a sharply creased black uniform with silver skulls on the collar, nor that Ms. Stanfill secretly sneaks out late at night to attend Communist cell meetings.
I'm sure most of their neighbors would testify these are both fine folk who love their children and are always willing to bring cookies to the bake sale.
But so too were the faceless clerks and functionaries who kept the trains running on time in Italy and Germany in the 1930s, pleasant and uncomplicated folk who loved their dogs and brought flowers to church on Sunday. They did their jobs, and never gave a thought to which trains were headed where, or who had been loaded aboard.
Because, after all, they didn't mean any harm. Obscure, theoretical notions like governments of limited power, or the endowment of the People with certain inalienable rights -- among them the right to keep what we earn -- were best left to the eggheads up at the university. These were not the concerns of the kind of practical folks who merely wanted to make sure no one was ever allowed to decide what substances to put into his or her own body, while guarding against anyone who would dare "take any money from the public schools," lest the nation find itself in a situation "where we'd have the Haves and the Have-nots."
Vin Suprynowicz is assistant editorial page editor of the Las Vegas Review-Journal, and editor of Financial Privacy Report (subscribe by calling Norton at 612-895-8757.) His book, "Send in the Waco Killers: Essays on the Freedom Movement, 1993-1998," is available by dialing 1-800-244-2224; or via web site http://www.thespiritof76.com/wacokillers.html.
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At 11 p.m. on Monday, April 22, Jessey Dean Dudley was arrested on a warrant for escape after voluntarily turning himself over to the Snow Hill Police Department. He is currently being held at the Worcester County Detention Center. Additional charges are expected, according to local authorities, including resisting arrest and the assault on the police officer who had previously attempted to arrest him.
At 8:30 Monday morning, according to the Worcester County Bureau of Investigations, the Snow Hill Police Department was advised on a tip that Dudley was wanted in Delaware for escape and burglary charges. He was spotted in the area of Pleasant Manor in Snow Hill, and the Snow Hill Police Department attempted to apprehend the suspect as he fled on foot into a wooded area. He was described as a white male, wearing a blue hooded sweatshirt, and blue jeans. Due to the general clothing description there were numerous false sightings.
The Worcester County Sheriff's Office, Maryland State Police, Maryland State Police Aviation, Maryland Department of Natural Resources, Worcester County Criminal Enforcement Team, Worcester County Bureau of Investigations and the Pocomoke Police assisted with the search in an attempt to locate and apprehend the subject.
Due to the fact the Pleasant Manor Apartment complex is near Snow Hill High School, it was determined to place all of the schools in Snow Hill on "lockdown" as a precaution. Local law enforcement remained at the schools for safety. There was no risk of danger for anyone at the schools. The lockdown was lifted Monday afternoon prior to school dismissal. At no time during the lockdown did normal school activities alter, school officials reported yesterday.
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