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Last week, Nature Live caught up with Museum scientist Dan Carpenter who has just returned from the wilds of Borneo! I was lucky enough to join him for the last two weeks of his trip in the state of Sabah (in the North East of Borneo) and was blown away by the size and beauty of the rainforests there.
The trees in Borneo are massive and often have buttress roots.
Dan and his team were using similar methods to those they've used previously in the New Forest, and were trying to find out more about the diversity of invertebrate species living in the rainforests of Borneo.
A large earthworm found in the rainforest
To carry out their work, Dan and the team used a variety of collecting methods, including pitfall traps and something called a SLAM trap - which looks a bit like a tent hanging up in the trees!
A SLAM trap hanging up in the trees
In last week's Nature Live event, Dan explained how all these different collecting methods worked and what it was like to spend six weeks living in the rainforest.
To find out more, catch up with Dan's blog or read my blog about the work being carried out by Dan and other Museum scientists in Borneo (including Holger and Pat, who study lichens) and see some great film footage of the wildlife we encountered.

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text: Note taking is something that a lot of us do, either sitting in a lecture trying to keep up with the professor, taking minutes at a meeting, or even just writing a "to-do" list. How people take notes varies just as much: on paper, in a word processing document, on sticky notes, or in e-mail messages. Microsoft OneNote 2010 can help all note takers. Using a desktop, laptop or tablet PC, you can collect or manage information all in one place. Topics will include exploring the 2010 interface; how to create a simple notebook; how to take notes; organizing content; searching for information; and using OneNote 2010 to share notes with others.


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This means that Microsoft must either alter Word so that it no longer infringes upon i4i's patent, or it must cease selling Word altogether on the US market after January 11, 2010. Of course, a more likely outcome is that Microsoft will pay the fine, license the patent, and move on. They can place one more appeal, this time to the US Supreme Court.
"A small company was practicing its patent, only to suffer a loss of market share, brand recognition, and customer goodwill as the result of the defendant's infringing acts," the judges in the appeals case argue, "The district court found that Microsoft captured 80 percent of the custom XML market with its infringing Word products, forcing i4i to change its business strategy."
The patent in question does not deal with XML in itself, but with specific algorithms Microsoft uses to read and write custom XML files. OpenOffice, for instance, does not infringe on i4i's patent.
In addition, Engadget explains that i4i is probably not a patent troll. The company is a database company employing 30 people, and shipped one of the first Office XML plugins. It also XMLified the entire USPTO database back in 2000 - no small feat.


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This story appears in the September 2011 issue of National Geographic magazine.
Perched on the edge of a cold, windswept dune in North Carolina, I was about to fulfill a dream I shared with Leonardo da Vinci: To fly. The Renaissance genius spent years deciphering the flight of birds and devising personal flying machines. On his deathbed in 1519, Leonardo said one of his regrets was that he had never flown. Five hundred years of innovation since then had produced the hang glider I held above my head, simple and safe enough to be offered as a tourist entertainment. But despite those centuries of adventure and experimentation, personal flight—the ability to bound from Earth like a skylark, swoop like a falcon, and dart as blithely as a hummingbird—remains elusive.
That's not for lack of trying. Many lives have been lost and fortunes squandered pursuing the dream of flight, and even today scientists, inventors, and adventurers persist in the quest.
Leonardo drew hundreds of images of birds on the wing, trying to decode their secrets, and drafted meticulous plans for flying machines not unlike today's gliders and helicopters. But he never figured out the physics of flight. It took more than 300 years and many more failed experiments until Sir George Cayley, a British engineer, determined that flight required lift, propulsion, and control. He built a glider with a curved wing to generate lift. Then he ordered his coachman into it and had farmworkers pull it down a slope until it gained enough speed to fly. Control, alas, was lacking. The craft crashed after flying a few hundred yards. The coachman survived, but reportedly was not amused.
My student hang glider was almost as low concept as Cayley's, and though I knew it could fly, control clearly remains an issue. The instructors at Kitty Hawk Kites, at Kill Devil Hills a couple of miles from where the Wright brothers flew the first powered aircraft in 1903, explained that piloting requires just five simple motions: lean left or right to turn; push the control bar up or down for speed; push the bar up to land. But students in my class still augered into the sand. One fell hard enough to break the glider's sturdy aluminum strut. That made me more determined to succeed.
I have always loved to fly, even in lumbering jumbo jets. When the Kitty Hawk Kites school quoted Leonardo as saying, "For once you have tasted flight, you will walk the Earth with your eyes turned skywards," I sighed in recognition.
Some years back I learned to fly a single-engine plane, but flying a small plane is about as thrilling as sitting at a card table. I hoped hang gliding would deliver the unencumbered essence of flight. It certainly delivered the fear. My grip on the control bar was painfully tight as I ran down the lip of the dune. Suddenly I was running in thin air. Flying! After a few seconds the instructor shouted "Flare!" I pushed the control bar over my head and landed, unsteady but on my feet—then headed back uphill. I wanted to feel again that strange, lovely moment aloft.
A glider wing is an efficient way to generate lift, but my seconds-long flight proved that running off a dune doesn't generate much speed. Glider flight is a controlled descent; pilots gain altitude only if they catch rising air and ride it aloft. Birds don't have that problem; they fly with great efficiency and more precision than any aircraft. Sooty shearwaters log almost 40,000 miles migrating from New Zealand to Alaska and back, while ruby-throated hummingbirds can fly 20 hours without stop migrating across the Gulf of Mexico. Scientists still struggle to understand the physiology of avian flight, but light bones and an intricate collaboration among chest and wing muscles appear essential. A hummingbird's chest muscles account for 20 percent of its mass, according to Bret Tobalske, a University of Montana physiologist. "If a human had that mass of muscles, it would stick out like a 55-gallon drum," he says. "It would be freakin' enormous."
Legend has it Icarus fell from the sky because hubris led him too close to the sun, melting the wax that held the feathers on his wings. More likely, his arms just gave out. Uncounted numbers of "birdmen" have died over the centuries after leaping from tower or cliff, not realizing they could never flap homemade wings hard or fast enough to stay aloft. Their modern heirs, BASE jumpers, leap from buildings, cliffs, and bridges, plunge for a few exhilarating moments, then throw out a parachute to slow their fall. Some don wing suits, with baffled fabric wings that generate enough lift to propel the wearer forward at up to 160 miles an hour while falling. J. T. Holmes of Squaw Valley, California, who has made about a thousand wing-suit jumps, says, "It's as close as human beings can get to flying like a bird." It's also extraordinarily dangerous: About 12 BASE jumpers die each year. Hitting the mountain while free-falling or after the parachute deploys is a common cause.
The best success in purely human-powered flight came in 1988, when the Daedalus,a lightweight aircraft built by a team at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, flew 71.5 miles from the Greek island of Crete to Santorini. The 69-pound craft, pedaled by a Greek Olympic cyclist, got caught in turbulence as it approached the beach at Santorini. It crashed in the sea, a few yards from the shore.
To solve such problems, Wilbur and Orville Wright had fitted a motor and propeller on a glider. That clanking, smoky machine may have ushered in modern aviation but apparently delivered little joy. The Wrights also returned to flying unpowered gliders off dunes. But powered aviation did offer hope of a personal aircraft that could soar into the air like a bird, something my glider could not do. Enter the rocket men.
After World War II, the American military funded a parade of personal-flight experiments, none of which fulfilled the mission of safe, maneuverable, or stealthy flight. Consider rocket belts. The wearer of the belt would fly less than a minute because of limits on the fuel a person can carry. Plus, the device is expensive, noisy, and notoriously difficult to control. Just ask Bill Suitor. His neighbor Wendell Moore, a Bell Aerospace engineer, needed an average guy to test the Rocket Belt, which he was developing for the U.S. Army in the early 1960s, and recruited 19-year-old Suitor. Now 66, Suitor has flown more than 1,200 times. "Controlling the rockets' power was the biggest challenge," he says. "It's like a fire-breathing dragon."
Inventors continue to try to bring the comic book fantasy of personal jet flight to life, and Yves Rossy has come closest. This Swiss pilot flings himself out of an aircraft wearing a six-foot-wide carbon-fiber wing of his own invention, powered by four tiny jet engines. In May, Rossy leaped from a helicopter above the Grand Canyon and flew eight minutes before parachuting to Earth. The jets give him powered ascent and the oomph to do loops. That freedom doesn't come easy; it took Rossy years to master his tiny craft. "I steer myself in space with only my body," he explains. "To go left, I turn my shoulders left, and that's it!" He says it's like parachuting with a wing suit, whose panels between the body and limbs slow a skydiver's fall, but with more liberty. "It's awesome, it's great, it's fantastic!"
You won't catch me jumping out of a plane with a wing strapped to my back. But I yearn for even a small measure of Rossy's joie de vol. After five runs off the Outer Banks dune last April, I was getting closer—able to fly into the wind, then floating gently down onto my feet. It was as if the glider wasn't there.
I wanted more. Sandra Vernon, a 47-year-old mother of three in my class on the dune, egged me on. She'd been flying towed tandem flights, pulled up to 2,000 feet behind an ultralight. This usually grants a hang glider a good ten-minute flight back down to Earth, even if there are no rising thermals to help keep the craft aloft. "I'm short, I'm chubby, I'm not spry," Vernon says. "I wish I had been doing this in my 20s. You can't help but love it."
Challenge accepted, I strapped myself into the harness of a tandem glider with instructor Jon Thompson. He warned that the moment when the towplane released us would remind me of going over the top of a roller coaster. I'm a coaster fan. This was nothing like that. It felt like falling headfirst off the top of a 2,000-foot-tall building. "You can fly now," Thompson said, genially offering me the controls. "No!" I shouted over the wind. In a few moments the glider gained lift and leveled off. My terror waned, and I took control. I banked left, then right—more of a pigeon than a sooty shearwater but flying all the same.
In pursuit of flight, I'm also keeping my eye on the Puffin, a "personal air vehicle" that became an Internet sensation when NASA unveiled it in 2010. Big advances in superefficient electric motors and control systems, which let the aircraft feel the intention of the pilot, may make it possible to fly a one-person craft like this safely without typical pilot training. "We are trying to create a horse-and-rider kind of experience," says Mark Moore, a NASA aerospace engineer who developed the prototype. "A horse is an intelligent vehicle, but it's only intelligent at certain things. The rider knows his intent better than the horse could ever discern."
The Puffin may never fly, but other inventors are tinkering. JoeBen Bevirt, an entrepreneur in Santa Cruz, California, has already flown a small-scale prototype of his version of a flying car. He envisions it as a sleek, red plane with eight electric motors. It would take off and land vertically and fly a hundred miles in an hour, zooming him to a San Francisco meeting in half the time it takes in his Prius. "I want one," he says flatly.
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Here are some more mock drafts, plus some other links to pass along.
ESPN.com's Todd McShay is another one who has the Eagles taking Wisconsin offensive lineman Gabe Carimi:
Outside linebacker is a bigger need, but no available prospect fits the Eagles' scheme and is worth this pick. Carimi has versatility to play tackle or guard immediately and should develop into a very good starting tackle -- likely on the right side -- in the very near future.
Pete Prisco of CBSSports.com has the Birds taking Carimi also:
Andy Reid always seems to draft big people. He can use another tough-guy offensive lineman. Carimi, the Outland Trophy winner, is a tackle, but he could also play guard.
Rob Rang of CBSSports.com projects the Birds to take Colorado cornerback Jimmy Smith:
The Eagles feature one of the league's best corners in Asante Samuel, but have struggled with consistency on the other side without journeyman Ellis Hobbs. Smith's frame and rare agility have earned comparisons from scouts to former Ravens' star Chris McAlister.
Chad Reuter of CBSSports.com has the Eagles going with Mississippi State offensive tackle Derek Sherrod:
Andy Reid likes to use his first round picks to build up the offensive and defensive lines. Sherrod's mobility and pass protection ability are impressive.
SI.com's Don Banks says the Eagles' biggest offseason question is: Can they afford to keep Kevin Kolb and Michael Vick?
Financially? Yes. Strategically, probably not. The Eagles will franchise Vick if franchise tags are in play, waiting until a new CBA is in place to try to work out a long-term deal with No. 7. That's a $20 million one-year commitment, but it's the price Philly may have to pay to secure its starting quarterback for 2011. As for Kolb, he's on the books for just less than $1.4 million this year, so the Eagles could keep him if they don't like any of the trade offers they get. But they should get some solid bids, because there are so many QB-needy teams. Arizona, Minnesota, San Francisco and Tennessee make the most sense to come after Kolb, and someone might just be willing to part with a first-round pick.
Alex Marvez of FoxSports.com identifies what he thinks the Eagles need to be a contender:
A meshing of the new coaching staff. After a first-round playoff loss to Green Bay, Eagles brass made far more offseason staff changes than expected. Defensive coordinator Sean McDermott was axed and replaced by offensive line coach Juan Castillo, an extremely risky move considering the latter lacks prior experience in the position. Snagging well-respected defensive line coach Jim Washburn from Tennessee was a coup, but the Eagles also lost secondary coach Dick Jauron to a Cleveland Browns defensive coordinator position.
Adam Caplan of FoxSports.com has the Eagles 12th in his season-ending power rankings:
No team made a more stunning coaching move than to shift offensive line coach Juan Castillo from offensive line coach to defensive coordinator. At least the Eagles were able to pry veteran offensive line coach Howard Mudd out of his brief retirement. The Eagles, however, have issues on defense to address at several positions.
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Booker T noted in a conference call that he will not be participating in this year's Royal Rumble match. Here are some other topics which were discussed courtesy of Arda Ocal.
* Booker T said he thinks another WCW reunion or invasion is not necessary.
* Booker T said he is starting a second book right now. No name, but working with Medallion Press. Book will include WCW, WWE, but not TNA Wrestling.
* Booker T hopes to do more voiceover work – during his time in TNA he would use different accents in his promos to show his range.


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Alright here goes...hopefully I've placed in the correct forum. what I'm trying to accomplish is taking an Excel spreadsheet, which has linked data from other excel spreadsheets and trying to query on the master excel spreadsheet. Problem I'm having is when trying to create a query the query does not recognize the data from the external spreadsheets. Fist off is it even possible for me to do this and if so how would I accomplish this task if it is possible.
There are 7 Excel files linked to 1 master excel file. they had to be created seperately due to some screwed up security procedure. Anyway, I've been asked to take the data from the master excel file, which there is no input by a user because it is updated by inputting information using the other 7 excel data files. The 7 excel files are password protected, and cannot be read without inputting a password. Now the 1 master file is used by everyone but is read only. I need to query the information in the master excel file (which again gathers information from the other 7 excel files) for ease of reading for the users. I'm hoping with all the intelligent people here someone could be of some assistance. Thank you for your help!


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NEW DELHI (AP) — Indian police said Sunday that they have arrested five fishermen for selling 1,500 liters (330 gallons) of diesel fuel to crew members of a U.S.-owned ship who have been arrested on charges of illegally transporting weapons and ammunition in Indian waters.
The five worked for a local shipping agent in Chennai, the capital of the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu, said police officer M. Durai. He did not give further details.
Indian Foreign Secretary Sujata Singh said eight crew members and 25 security guards aboard the MV Seaman Guard Ohio were arrested Friday after they failed to produce documents allowing them to carry the weapons.
The ship, which was detained Oct. 12, is owned by Virginia-based security company AdvanFort but is registered in Sierra Leone. AdvanFort denies the charges.


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It is so tiresome to face yet another round of the paranoid gun loonies warning that their Second Amendment rights are going to be taken away because of all the recent shootings. We heard how President Barack Obama was going to take our guns away, and that did not happen. It wont happen this or the next time, either. What is this gun-loving crowd so afraid of that it has to be able to buy any guns made?
While your guns are not going to be taken away, your semi-automatic weapons should be. The Second Amendment was written more than 220 years ago when things were very different. The arms in the Second Amendment were single-shot black-powder rifles a far cry from the semi-automatic weapons used in the recent mass killings in America.
The purpose of it was to allow militias to overtake a tyrannical government. To the best of my knowledge, nobody yet has had to use arms for this purpose in America. And to be able to overthrow the U.S. government, one would have to have an arsenal of weapons that could take out any country in the world. The Second Amendment is an anachronism.
Times have changed, and so should the Second Amendment. It is flawed and no longer fits our society. Gun policy in America has been dictated by blackmail tactics of the National Rifle Association, which has several million members in a country of more than 300 million people. Its holding hostage of reasonable gun-control measures is not democratic nor good for the country.
Here is my crack at a new Second Amendment: Citizens of the United States have the right to own weapons for sport and self-defense, but such weapons shall not include weapons that can be used for mass murder. Further, the president and Congress have the right to regulate the use and ownership of guns for the common good and benefit of the people. I am sure this will send all the gun loonies to the store to load up to protect themselves from whatever it is that makes them so fearful.
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NEW YORK (AP) — When a man goes courting, it generally doesn't involve shouting and flailing around in ice skates on rotten floorboards in the middle of summer. Yet the 1944 wooing of southern belle Sally Talley by an unlikely suitor includes all that and much more.
Lanford Wilson created this lively, unorthodox courtship in his 1979 Pulitzer Prize-winning comedy "Talley's Folly," part of his series about the wealthy Talley family of rural southeastern Missouri. A sparkling, absorbing revival that opened Tuesday night off-Broadway by the Roundabout Theatre Company features two accomplished theater pros, Danny Burstein and Sarah Paulson.
Burstein warmly and engagingly renders Matt Friedman, the genial yet outspoken Jewish socialist accountant from St. Louis making his big move for future happiness. Paulson is primly nuanced as conflicted, ambiguous Sally, subtly conveying a variety of repressed emotions.
While it seems clear that these intellectually-matched, liberal characters would probably be good together, it's a mystery why Sally is angrily rejecting Matt's every creative appeal and urging him to get on out of town.
The 97-minute play takes place on the Fourth of July in 1944 in a beautifully rendered, dilapidated boathouse on the Talley farm. Designed in perfect, dusty, broken-down detail by Jeff Cowie, the boathouse is the Victorian-style folly of the title.
The times are rapidly changing. As Matt explains in the prologue, which Burstein delivers energetically and comically to the audience, the propaganda and economic machinery of World War II is causing the public to turn their focus to individual prosperity, abandoning the common unity they felt during the Depression. Sally, who tends to wounded veterans as a nurse's aide, has a perspective on reality that's alien to her small-minded family.
Matt also hopefully predicts at the outset that his ensuing courtship will be "a waltz, one-two-three; a no-holds-barred romantic story." He accurately predicts the no-holds-barred part. Directed by Michael Wilson, the staging is dynamic, as Matt bounds around the boathouse trying to persuade a very reluctant, spiky Sally that she would be happy with him.
They are no longer young, yet not terribly old, although in that era, a 31-year-old unmarried woman like Sally was considered a hopeless spinster. Matt's character in 1940s rural Missouri was a fish out of water, and Sally's family considers him to be a "Communist traitor infidel" who needs to be run off the property with a shotgun.
Sally's also suspicious that Matt, a decade older, is hiding a wife someplace, yet Paulsen skillfully alternates between hope, suspicion, despair and glimpses of fondness for Matt.
The sensitive, intelligent battle between Matt and Sally see-saws back and forth, with Burstein fighting valiantly for a yes and the audience pretty much rooting for him. Sally cannot turn away this ardent suitor, no matter how hard she tries, not even with ladylike insults such as, "You do not have the perception God gave lettuce."
It turns out that each of them is hiding a painful secret, but none so big that would render this odd pair entirely incompatible. Even if you know the outcome, it's a real treat to watch these actors embody this touching pair of wanna-be-, oughta-be-, might-be-happy-ever-after lovers as they do the dance once more.


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Nature dictates that young people incur little in the way of medical expense, on the average, while old people incur a great deal. Thus every government scheme that strives to supplant the obvious, fair alternative–everyone pays for his own medical care, with the aid of whatever insurance he may have purchased–attempts to do two things: 1) force young people to contribute far beyond their own medical costs, and 2) limit the amount that is spent on health care for old people. This is absolutely inevitable, once you get away from the principle that has guided the health care industry for centuries; namely, that people are entitled to as much health care as they are willing and able to pay for.
Leftists have sold socialized medicine to various populations on the fraudulent premise that government-run health care can do the impossible: reduce costs while simultaneously providing all the care one wants, especially in one's old age. The reality has been entirely different. Socialized medicine has resulted in spiraling costs and reduced services, much like government-run post offices.
The United Kingdom, home of one of the first and most comprehensive socialized systems, remains a beacon for leftists. Unfortunately, the reality of government medicine demonstrates the futility of liberals' magical thinking. The Telegraph reports that under Britain's National Health Service, more than one-half of those in nursing homes or assisted living facilities "are being denied basic health services while staff are failing to to do enough to preserve their dignity."
Some older people routinely have to wait up to three months for formal checks for painful conditions such as bed sores, according to figures from the health care watchdog.
A quarter were not given a choice of male or female staff to help them use the lavatory and more than a third of care homes surveyed admitted delays in getting medication to residents.
Campaigners blamed NHS bureaucrats showing a "lack of interest" and failing to provide expert assessments for conditions as basic as incontinence.
The findings emerged after almost 1,000 elderly people yesterday descended on Parliament to lobby their MPs calling for a radical overhaul of the social care system.
Of course, this is what inevitably happens when voters succumb to the temptation of getting something for nothing from the government.
Fresh evidence of the failings in the system was detailed as a raft of previously unpublished data gathered by the health care regulator the Care Quality Commission (CQC) was released. It was drawn from the first ever nationwide review of how the needs of needs of care home residents across England are met.
The CQC report discloses that people suffering from incontinence have to wait more than two weeks for an assessment of their condition in almost 40 per cent of homes for the elderly surveyed. But a separate detailed analysis of the CQC data carried out by the British Geriatrics Society, also found that more than 40 per cent specialist providers set themselves a target as long as 90 days to carry out such assessments.
Such delays have led to elderly people being denied the treatment they need or forced to wear incontinence clothing when they do not need it.
The CQC research also says that 30 per cent of nursing homes investigated had no clear policy on when to attempt to resuscitate patients who suffer a serious deterioration in their health. …
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People across the U.S. and around the world are still discussing the historic two days of oral arguments on marriage equality at the nation's SUPREME COURT on March 26th and 27th. The high court heard arguments on CALIFORNIA's marriage equality-banning PROPOSITION 8 on the 26th. Justices explored issues of legal standing, states' rights, discrimination, and the purpose of marriage in society (with an on-scene report by ALICE OLLSTEIN of "Free Speech Radio News" featuring comments by lead plaintiff KRISTEN PERRY, and excerpts from the hearings including remarks by CHIEF JUSTICE JOHN ROBERTS, JUSTICES SONIA SOTOMAYOR, ELENA KAGAN, STEVEN BRYER, Prop 8 defense attorney CHARLES COOPER, and Prop 8 opposing attorney TED OLSON; additional excerpts from the hearings feature JUSTICES SONIA SOTOMAYOR, ANTONIN SCALIA and ANTHONY KENNEDY, and Prop 8 defense attorney CHARLES COOPER; NYU Law School professor KENJI YOSHINO then briefly discusses the arguments with MSNBC's RACHEL MADDOW)
Justices turned their attention on March 27th to the Defense of Marriage Act, or DOMA. The 1996 law bans the federal government from recognizing same-gender couples who've been legally married in Washington, D.C. and the 9 states that currently allow it – and denies them more than 1100 federal benefits available to their heterosexual peers. Brief comments by plaintiff EDITH WINDSOR following the proceedings precede ALICE OLLSTEIN's report for "Free Speech Radio News", with comments by U.S. SOLICITOR GENERAL DONALD VERRILLI, DOMA defender PAUL CLEMENT, and JUSTICE ELENA KAGAN; additional hearing excerpts feature JUSTICE RUTH BADER GINSBURG, CHIEF JUSTICE JOHN ROBERTS, and Windsor's attorney ROBERTA KAPLAN; and SHANNON MINTER of the National Center for Lesbian Rights predicts DOMA's demise with gay journalist REX WOCKNER
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SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A world-renowned Lego brick artist is bringing his fun, yet thought-provoking work to Park City.
Nathan Sawaya, 39, started playing with Lego bricks as a child, but unlike most of us, never stopped. His sculptures are life-size and made out of hundreds of thousands of tiny Lego bricks.
His work will be on display at the Kimball Art Center in a free show that runs from Feb. 9 to April 21. Sawaya will be at a members-only opening event Feb. 8 that people can attend by buying a yearlong membership that is $25 for kids and educators and $50 for adults.
This will be his second show at the center, said Robin Marrouche Executive Director of the Kimball Art Center. Sawaya attracted some of the largest crowds the facility has ever had in 2009 with art that appeals to both young children and adults, she said.
"On one hand, it's fun and playful with these humungous statutes made out of these toys we all played with," Marrouche said. "But there is also this really interesting subtext."
In a piece named "Yellow," Sawaya has created a sculpture of a man opening his chest, with tiny Lego bricks falling out. In another, called "Think," tiny Lego men are climbing out the top of a man's head.
Other pieces, however, are just playful and fun, such as a life-size bumble bee and yellow bear.
The show features 29 sculptures and six wall hangings, ranging in size from 18 inches to nearly 7 feet. Children are amazed when they see the massive sculptures, which typically are made of 15,000 to 25,000 Lego bricks, Marrouche said. They often want to grab the bricks.
"They turn into the main gallery, and they can't believe what they are seeing," she said. "I've got staff tackling children."
Sawaya told The Salt Lake Tribune that he began making the Lego brick sculptures as a stress reliever during his off time when he was a corporate attorney in New York. He created a website — brickartist.com — and did his first show in 2007. Since then, he's displayed his work around the world and been featured on The Today Show, Late Night with David Letterman and the Colbert Report.
He spends more than $100,000 yearly buying Lego bricks and has more than 1.5 million pieces in his New York studio, Marrouche said. He sometimes spends weeks on a sculpture.
"It's very therapeutic to just sit and work hours at a time," Sawaya told the Tribune. "I just put on music, and to me, it's part of the process. I go into it knowing that it's going to take time."
The exhibit is certainly unique in its broad appeal, Marrouche said. Since his last show in Park City, children and adults have been asking when he's coming back.
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Security regulations can evolve with changing threats, NIST researcher says
The Federal Information Security Management Act has become the whipping boy for security vendors, chief information security officers and legislators, but we should not be too eager to abandon it, says a leading security researcher at the National Institute of Standards and Technology.
"We tend to want to make 'compliance' a bad word today," said NIST senior computer scientist Ron Ross. But regulatory compliance does not have to be a static checklist, and it is part of effective risk management, he said.
If the regulations are fundamentally sound and adaptable, they can evolve to address a rapidly changing security environment, and that is what is happening with FISMA, he said. "The fundamental reforms already are ongoing, coming from grass-roots activities," not from policy or legislative changes, Ross said.
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As the head of NIST's FISMA implementation program, Ross, who spoke recently about changes in cybersecurity requirements at a forum hosted by InformationWeek, is hardly a disinterested observer. Since the passage of FISMA in 2002, a great deal of the resources of NIST's Computer Security Division have gone to creating standards, recommendations and guidelines on how to achieve compliance. That body of work has been praised as one of the accomplishments of FISMA while at the same time condemned as overly comprehensive and prescriptive.
But we should not exaggerate FISMA's weaknesses or ignore its strengths. The NIST guidance is not static and is evolving to meet changing needs. One example is the Joint Task Force for Unified Standards that has been working for several years to harmonize standards and requirements between national security IT systems and those in the rest of government. "That has nothing to do with legislation," Ross said.
Ross said the increased emphasis on continuous monitoring of IT systems is not a contradiction of the long-standing requirements for periodic certification of systems to ensure that proper controls are in place. Assessing controls is an essential part of knowingly accepting certain levels of risk, which is what accreditation is all about. "Continuous monitoring is not strategy; it is a tactic," he said.
Efforts such as the well-publicized success at the State Department with monitoring essential controls are not contradictory to FISMA requirements. They are part of an evolution in FISMA. "We have all of the standards in place to make this transition to near real-time awareness," he said.
If FISMA is essentially sound, why are we still seeing so many IT security failures?
"We are aggressively using IT across government," with more networking and sharing than was anticipated eight years ago, Ross said. At the same time, there has been an exponential growth in the numbers of threats and attacks against such systems. "You put these things together, and you are going to continue to see breaches in federal systems," he said.
The problems are being caused not so much by a failure of basic security policy as by an unprecedented growth in risk, and the solution is to manage that risk with the best tools available. That requires frequent evaluations and upgrades of policies and practices to provide agile defenses against agile threats.
"There is no such thing as a secure system in today's world," Ross warned. "The best you can hope for is risk management."
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Bravo Ron!!! about time somebody explains that Continuous monitoring is only part of a complete program. Some want to make a lot of money from continuous monitoring tools, training and capabilities, but this is completely a tactical solution. Hope to see more articles like this.
The major issue is that few agencies are funded to adequately perform all of their mandates. What this means is that security and privacy often get short shrifted; keeping the trains running gets the majority of resources. Thus, it is due to humans being involved, and trying to get their work done, that undoes much of what our security institutions and installed technology try to accomplish. The important thing is to have people watching, and to do enforcement when they do bad things. Unfortunately, most agencies are unable or unwilling to watch carefully. (This is the reason why FDA has missed on various food scares, and why Congress chose to (for the first time!) allow State AGs to enforce HIPAA security and privacy. Note that IRS audits some 1% of 1040s and gets good compliance, so watching and enforcement do give good results. So the difficulty is not the policy (which is actually pretty good), but the poor execution of it and the poor understanding of risks by the users. And I say this having been the first CIO for CMS (and thus responsible for many of the HIPAA regs) and the main Compusec Officer for Los Alamos. What NIST has done is appropriate, but you are correct in saying that FISMA and the NIST rules are good policy: it is just that execution, particularly in civilian government, is poor to non-existant.
Yet another voice of reason that continous monitoring is part of the overarching C&A process (and I stress process) - go Ron!
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Yup, no angry, proto-fascist right-wing extremists here. Just some of your "friendly" liberals. I'm looking forward to the day when Reuters describes a conservative who characterizes a Democratic politician as an "international terrorist" as "friendly."
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MOSCOW (AP) — Russia's most outspoken and charismatic anti-drugs campaigner accused authorities on Tuesday of trying to close his rehabilitation center by falsely claiming it has abused patients.
For more than a decade, businessman and art historian Yevgeny Roizman has been waging a crusade against drug pushers and corrupt police in the Ural Mountains city of Yekaterinburg amid a drug epidemic that has made Russia the world's largest heroin consumer.
The center Roizman founded and partly funds is seen by many Russians as a model of community-driven rehab efforts, and his followers have helped police identify and arrest dozens of drug dealers.
But Yekaterinburg officials have accused Roizman's team of isolating patients without their consent and using violence and forced labor as part of therapy.
On Tuesday, a court in the town of Berezovsk near Yekaterinburg charged Roizman's deputy, Yevgeny Malenkin, with illegally imprisoning patients and issued an arrest warrant for him.
Malenkin left Yekaterinburg earlier this week after police tried to question him, Roizman said, adding that the charges against him were initiated after police pressured former patients to file complaints.
Roizman has accused police of using this tactic against his center before. He said police pressured former patients to file complaints in 2004, accusing him of illegal imprisonment at the center, but that all of them were dropped by 2007.
Roizman has claimed the campaign against him is part of the regional governor's attempt to boost his own anti-drugs credentials and to challenge the center's success and Roizman's allegations of corruption among local police.
Roizman has alleged that investigators sent from Moscow have tried to force their subordinates to secretly extort bribes from local drug pushers in exchange for immunity from persecution.
Dozens of Russian police officers have been convicted and jailed for accepting bribes from drug dealers or selling drugs directly.
"I was one of the few who talked about it out loud," the burly 50-year-old wrestling enthusiast said Tuesday.
In May, a senior narcotics officer in Yekaterinburg was sentenced to 17 years in jail for selling heroin.
In 2009, two narcotics policemen died of a heroin overdose in their office, although their superiors initially claimed food poisoning was the cause of death.
Some 2.5 million Russians are addicted to illegal drugs, and 90 percent of them use the heroin that has flooded into Russia from Afghanistan since the late 1990s, the government says.
The U.N. has said Russia, a nation of 142 million people, consumes 70 tons of Afghan heroin annually — more than a fifth of the drug consumed globally.
Yekaterinburg, a grim industrial center of 1.4 million people, has been hit hard by the heroin plague, while new drugs — such as highly addictive synthetic marijuana and a cheap and lethal concoction made of codeine pills known as "crocodile" — compete with opiates.
Roizman called the creation of his rehab center in 1998 "a riot against drug pushers, a genuine popular riot." The crusader owned a thriving jewelry workshop at the time and was writing a book on Russian icons in the Urals region.
He and his supporters violently confronted a group of mostly Gypsy and Central Asian drug dealers, driving them out or facilitating their arrest and conviction. Parents of heroin-deprived addicts responded by flocking to Roizman to ask for his help.
His rehabilitation methods have involved isolation, strict discipline and such unorthodox punishments as handcuffing addicts, but high recovery rates made Roizman a local hero.
"I am not holding pageants to select my patients. They are not Nobel Prize winners, and some parents brought them to me in their cars' trunks," he said. "What I am trying to do is to make them human again."


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LUBBOCK, Texas (AP) Texas Tech has reinstated a highly regarded defensive back from Miami who last month broke the jaw of a Lady Raiders basketball player.
Tech athletics spokesman Blayne Beal said Wednesday that Nigel Bethel II will return to the team, but will sit out the first three games of his first season.
Berthel punched Amber Battle her during a June 28 pickup basketball game at the campus recreation center and was dismissed from the football program the next day. However, Lubbock County grand jurors declined to indict Bethel on an aggravated assault charge Tuesday.
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Sept. 2, 2011— Russ Taff joined the list of such diverse luminaries as Johnny Cash, President Bill Clinton, Evangelist Rex Humbard, Gen. Douglas MacArthur, Dr. James Dobson and Maya Angelou as he was inducted into the Arkansas Walk of Fame on Saturday. The Walk of Fame was established in 1996 to honor persons born or raised in Arkansas who have made a significant contribution in their fields and are recognized nationally for their work. The ceremony was held at the RayLynn Theater in Taff's hometown of Hot Springs, with the unveiling of the plaque immediately following. Inducted also was veteran Hollywood character actor Brent Jennings, who has appeared in movies with Denzel Washington, Robert Redford, Eddie Murphy and Harrison Ford.
Mayor Ruth Carney presented Russ with a framed proclamation officially declaring September 3rd as "Russ Taff Day." Taff was joined by friends and family members including Bud and June Smedley who took Russ into their home when he was 17 years old. June, Russ' former English teacher, spoke movingly at the ceremony of the lifelong bond that formed between them, and recounted a few funny stories about the adjustments required when the fiery son of a Pentecostal preacher joins a family of mild-mannered Methodists.
A personal message from Russ' friend and mentor Bill Gaither was read, as well as a congratulatory note from fellow Arkansan James Hollihan, who began playing in a band with Russ when they were both still in high school, and went on to become a noted guitarist, writer and producer. Long-time friend Jim Pennington also spoke, as well as Otto Beck. Russ performed two songs, then thanked the participants and the city of Hot Springs, noting tearfully, "This town was good for a young man who had a dream. The encouragement I got from people around me made me. I prayed this morning that maybe one person would pass by this plaque in the ground and be inspired, and it could spark them to follow their dreams, too."
L to R: Tom Wilkins, owner of RayLynn Theater, Russ Taff, Charlotte Taff, Kim Smedley Masino, June Smedley, Bud Smedley, Carolyn Spillers
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Congratulations Russ, can't think of anyone that deserves it more. We have been so blessed by your music for a long time and we love seeing you honored like this. Thanks for everything that you continue to do. Keep making that awesome music that gets us from one day to the next. Love to you, Tori, Madi and Charlotte. We love you all.
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Pep Guardiola is determined to continue his sabbatical in New York and will not accept an offer from Chelsea, in case the London club would contact him.
Goal.com have learned, from sources very close to the Catalan coach, that the possibilities of him traveling to London are "minimal, to say that there are any".
According to those sources, Guardiola is enjoying this time with family and feels it is too early to a return to the pitch. He is also aware that when he decides to return there will be no shortage of interesting offers from top clubs, so he's not in any hurry to end his voluntary retirement.
In addition, the manager doesn't think the Blues are the right place for him, based on the usual treatment that the Roman Abramovich led board has dispensed to the coaches who have gone through the Stamford Bridge bench. When he comes back, Guardiola wants to be part of a serious project, where he will have time to put his ideas in practice, and it seems to him that Chelsea is not the place to do it.
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I have grown weary of giving out 5's as a rating. That is because a 5 is a movie that has neither the artistry nor the bungling joy that are requisite in order to provide the viewer with an hour and a half of solid escape. As a reviewer 5's are the worst kind of film because they represent both a failure to succeed and a failure to fail. Writing about films in this score range is a bit like trying to crank out a detailed essay on the flavor profiles of poi.
"Masks" is a heart warming little tale about an aspiring young actress who travels to Germany to be taught in a school that was once led by an insane instructor who killed himself after his techniques were banned. From what I can tell those techniques includes forcing people to scream after each other and then have an orgy while covered in blood. For your viewing pleasure a few images and a new trailer has hit the tubes and surprise surprise, it's bat shit insane.
"Yellowbrickroad" has absolutely nothing to do with "The Wizard of Oz" and most of all has no regard for spaces in between words. It does though sound pretty cool and the new trailer that's up looks pretty trippy. The movie focuses on a research group that uncovers a mysterious trail that an entire town went down and disappeared over 70 years ago. I hope there's munchkins at least. Those little fellas are adorable.
To say the last season of "Dexter" was kind of a bummer is putting it mildly but according to the new teaser for Season 6 all hell is going to break loose. The only reason I believe it is because they do a recap of previous seasons in the clip and don't even mention the storyline of season 5. It's like Julia Stiles never existed! It's like I haven't watched "Save the Last Dance" and cried like a baby every Christmas Eve for the last 10 years.
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"It has been a lot of frustration,†Lady Bisons coach Jon Ireland said. "We've had a very good team this year and that has been the frustrating part because we didn't have more success.â€Â
This season's edition of the Lady Bisons has been the most talented in the history of the program. But often the team has played with only two subs.
"A lot of coaches that have played against us have told us this is the best team we have had here,†Ireland said. "Unfortunately, what they say about us doesn't equal out to wins.
"We had a lot of injuries to begin the season. We have got some players back, but the fitness level of the injured players is not what it needs to be so we are still limited.â€Â
The Lady Bisons are 0-8 all-time against Belmont in the "Battle of the Boulevard". The Lady Bisons are 4-13-0, 0-9 in the conference. Belmont is 4-11-0, 3-6-0 in the A-Sun.
Game time at the Whitten Soccer Complex is 1 p.m. Saturday. Both teams have struggled offensively. Belmont is ninth overall in the conference with 17 goals. The Lady Bisons are 10th with 10.
"Belmont has struggled to find goals this season,†Ireland said. "They have just been unlucky.
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Tatjana Shirley and Andie Thornton are the top scorers for the Lady Bisons. Each one has scored two goals.
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On the positive side of things Ireland thinks the competition gap between the Lady Bisons and the rest of the A-Sun is closing.
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"We only have two seniors on the team. We have most of the team coming back. We know the pieces we need in terms of offensive help next season.â€Â
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Erectile Dysfunction (ED) is defined as "the inability of the male to achieve an erect penis as part of the overall multifaceted process of male sexual function." In the past, ED was regarded as the inability to get and/or keep an erection for satisfactory sexual intercourse. The current definition de-emphasizes intercourse as the main aspect of sexual life and gives equal importance to other aspects of male sexual behavior.
ED can become present in most men somewhere between the ages of 35 and 65.
Inability to have Repeated Intercourse - Some people believe ED means that they cannot have a second episode of vaginal intercourse in one evening. While it is possible when you are young, most men usually only have one episode of vaginal intercourse per 24-48 hours.
Premature Ejaculation - Premature or early ejaculation, or ejaculation that happens almost immediately upon penetration is different from ED.
Lack of Desire - A lack of sexual desire should not be confused with ED. A lack of sexual desire is known as low libido.
Vascular Disease - It is believed that ED is caused by diseases that affect the blood vessels/circulatory system (also known as the vascular system) such as:
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Lifestyle - Lifestyle and behavioral problems such as cigarette smoking, and drug and alcohol abuse, which are associated with cardiovascular disease, also contribute to ED.
Cancer Treatment - In other cases, impotence can be caused by hormone imbalance brought on by prostate surgery or radiation therapy for prostate cancer or other types of surgery for cancer of the pelvis.
Psychological Issues - Occasionally, psychological issues can be associated with erectile dysfunction. Certainly stress in the marriage or on the job, and other types of issues can cause ED. Depression may also be associated with or cause ED.
Injuries and Trauma - On rare occasions, trauma or injuries to the perineum or crotch area can cause ED. There have been suggestions that men who are chronic or avid bicycle riders can become impotent from this activity. Some manufacturers have tried to respond with more "user friendly" seats for male bike riders, although their effectiveness has not been established.
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The members of the Jamestown Police
Department are the ones normally on the receiving end of calls for help.
Now, they are asking us for help.
On Oct. 18 of this year Payton Watson was diagnosed with leukemia (AML). Since then, she has been a patient at Hasbro Children's Hospital in Providence. Her parents, Jamestown Police Sergeant Frank Watson and Elizabeth (Goode) Watson, take turns sleeping with her nights in her room.
Payton, who turned 10 on Saturday, is in the fifth grade at the Hamilton Elementary School.
The IBPO Local 305 of the Jamestown Police Department has established a medical fund to assist Payton and her family with their ever growing financial needs.
If you feel you can help, make your check out to the Payton Watson Medical Fund and send it to the IBPO Local 305, 250 Conanicus Ave., Jamestown 02835.
With Christmas shopping going into full gear this weekend, Tony Rafanelli, president of Jamestown Baseball, has some gift ideas for those adults with young baseball players on their lists.
"This coming spring, Jamestown Baseball will cease to provide batting helmets so each player will have to provide his/her own helmet. This is for health reasons. Players should get helmets approximately one size bigger since they will have grown significantly between December and April," Tony advised.
He said that other gift ideas include gloves, wood bats (no aluminum), and cleats, again at least one size larger.
In closing, he said, "I hope all of our players are throwing occasionally. After all, the season opener is only five and one half months away!"
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We hope you read Peter B. Lord's article on the front page of last Friday's ProJo, "Ticks are taking over." And if you looked at Conanicut Island on the map you saw that we are infested with the little blood suckers.
Thomas N. Mather, a URI scientist who has been tracking tick populations in Rhode Island since 1993, was quoted as saying this year more than twice as many Rhode Islanders - about 717,000 - face a high risk for encountering deer ticks in their neighborhoods than in 1993, when 275,000 were at risk.
Accoring to Lord, each year hundreds of Rhode Islanders contract Lyme disease that causes high temperatures, muscle pain, and headaches. More advanced cases lead to arthritis, encephalitis, and other complications.
Lord does not mention that one of these other complications is death. Rhode Island has one of the highest infection rates, per capita. Babesiosis, another tick-borne disease, is on the rise.
We hope that property owners on the north end will voluntarily open their land to hunting even if only on weekends.
We love animals dearly and appreciate the fact that deer are cute and remind us of Bambi.
But when we see a deer in the back yard, we see years of heartwrenching pain and sickness for those who acquire Lyme disease.
We have been blessed so far, but winter will be here soon and Dr. Joshua Hatch of the Jamestown Animal Clinic in his Pet Tip of the Week warns that extra caution must be taken to protect your pets.
"As the weather gets colder there are some additional dangers for our outdoor pets. Cats and kittens like to nap on warm places and this can include car engines. Knock on the hood or honk the horn before starting the engine to scare the cats and get them out from under the hood. "Another vehicle related issue in the winter is antifreeze toxicity. Most antifreezes smell good to cats and dogs and actually taste sweet. Very small amounts licked off the ground or from under your car can do irreversible damage to animal's kidneys. Thoroughly clean up any spills. Store your antifreeze in tightly closed containers, and store it where pets and children can't get to them. Finally, be aware of the expected cold temperatures and upcoming weather and bring your pets inside or make sure they have plenty of shelter from the elements before it starts to get bitterly cold." Thanks, Doctor.
For Thanksgiving time, Mister five by five he's ...
Islander Dorrie Linn writes, "Operation Support Our Troops has experienced a reduction in contributions this year, and we have had to use our postage funds to buy socks, treats, and various items to send to our brave troops for Christmas.
The U.S. Postal Service here has allowed me to place a box in the lobby for such donations, as has Baker's Pharmacy. I will be asking other places also, in addition to putting out canisters marked with 'Pennies for Postage.'
"In the few years I have lived here, I have found the people of Jamestown to be very caring and giving. So my hopes are high."
Keep up the good work, Dorrie!
And from SGT Alan D. Weaver Jr., 520th ENG DET (Firedawgs), 10th Mountain Division, FT Drum, NY, comes this: "I read your column last week and wanted to share with you this version of 'It is the Soldier.' It's a little shorter than the one Mr. Schaefer sent in to you . . . but I think it's just as powerful.
'It is the soldier, not the reporter, who has given us the freedom of the press.
'It is the soldier, not the poet, who has given us the freedom of speech.
'It is the soldier, not the campus organizer, who gives us the freedom to demonstrate.
'It is the soldier who salutes the flag, who serves beneath the flag, and whose coffin is draped by the flag, who allows the protester to burn the flag.' "So true huh?" So true!
Jamestown artist Rene Stawicki has an exhibition of paintings and works on paper for sale in the Tearoom Gallery upstairs at the Cathryn Jamison Salon on Narragansett Avenue.
The Boy Scouts of Troop 1 got in an early Thanksgiving dinner while camping out the weekend before last at Cub World at Feinstein Youth Camp in Pascoag.
The troop busied itself with launching bottle rockets and participating in a five-mile compass hike as well as explorations of the camp areas.
The "Thanksgiving Feast" was held on Saturday night with the bird cooked outdoors and each patrol preparing a side-dish of its choice.
Scoutmaster David Volpe said Scouts attending were Senior Patrol Leader Brian Volpe, Asssistant Senior Patrol Leader Kyle Wright, Drew Matley, John Chase, Zack Volpe, Cobra Patrol Leader Eric Archibald, Nick Fay, Vaughn Nelson-Lee, James Perry, Dylan Walsh, Saints Patrol Leader Cameron Toppa, Josh Nolan, Matt Rafanelli, Nick Dalton, Screaming Eagles Patrol Leader Sal Morenzi, Mike Brendlinger, Dan Bailey, Sam Baugh, Hayden Maclean and Chris Waterman.
Now, that's the way to eat turkey.
This from Town Councilwoman Barbara Szepatowski:
"Thank you for fielding Rick Bothelo's question on the building permit for the animal shelter.The animal shelter will be built with no town funds or labor. Because the building is owned by the town, the building permit had to be issued to them. Once the town administration staff move to the new town hall, many hope that the property will be used for an affordable housing site.The rehabiliated building could then become the office, meeting place, storage, etc., for the housing complex. This could help the housing project rather than hinder it, since the building could also be used for a construction management office. The worse case is that the building would be torn down. If this happened all of the usable materials would be harvested as was done with the planning office (fire alarm system, new replacement windows, interior doors, piping) and reused as is being done now. And while this project has taken longer than we had hoped to "officially start," all found and abandoned pets have been fostered leaving no cost to the town for placement at the neighoring shelters in North Kingstown or Newport County. Our system of fostering Jamestown's homeless animals has also always had the lowest euthanization rate, 0 to 2 percent, in the state.
"The Animals Shelter has been on the table for a long time. But with any all-volunteer project, patience is needed. Often other topics move to the top of the list - the teen center being the main one. When we looked at the shelter building and the commercial building on Narragansett Avenue as teen center locations it was without the use of any tax dollars for rehabilitation or rent, just volunteer labor and donations. Both sites were also studied and discussed to raise public awareness to the question of why weren't the teens at the rec center where they were until about 10 to 12 years ago when their area was turned into the rec staff's office. At that time, nothing was done to find another site for them. So 10 years later, they are moving back, and we hope the grand opening in early January will be the highlight of the New Year."
We're looking forward to it. Thanks, Barbara!
A tentative date has been set for January 5.
*** Happy Thanksgiving to all!
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