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User Agreement
Last Modified: August 6, 2014
This User Agreement ("Agreement") is between You and Sabre GLBL Inc. ("Company") for use of TripCase (the "Service").
1. Service
TripCase is a trip-related information and messaging service, available from the Company either online through our website at www.tripcase.com or via mobile application. The Service provide users with the ability to store trip-related information into one location, share that information, and receive updates, services and offers related to their trips. Company has no obligation to provide support, maintenance, upgrades, modifications or new releases to the Service under this Agreement.
2. Use of Service
a. Company grants You a limited right to use the Service for personal, noncommercial and lawful purposes only.
b. Restrictions. Except as expressly authorized by Company in writing or otherwise enabled by Company:
i. You will not access the Service in a manner or through an interface not provided or authorized by Company including but not limited to, any automated means (e.g., scripts or bots);
ii. You will not copy, reproduce, duplicate sell, trace, resell or exploit the Service;
iii. You will not reverse engineer, disassemble or decompile any portion of the Service or its software, except to the extent expressly permitted by applicable law, and then only after You have notified Company in writing of Your intended activities;
iv. You will not upload, transmit, post or otherwise share any content that violates or infringes upon the rights of any third party, including, without limitation, copyright, trademark, privacy, publicity or other personal or proprietary rights;
v. You will not modify, adapt or hack the Service or modify a website so as to falsely imply that it is associated with the Services. You will not create or submit unwanted email or other messages to any other Service users;
vi. You will not transmit any worms or viruses or any code of a destructive nature through Your access or use of the Service;
vii. You will not use the Service to upload, post, transmit, share, store or otherwise make available any content that we deem to be harmful, threatening, unlawful, defamatory, infringing, abusive, inflammatory, harassing, vulgar, obscene, fraudulent, invasive of privacy or publicity rights, hateful, or racially, ethnically or otherwise objectionable.;
viii. You will not use the Service to upload, post, transmit, share or otherwise make available any unsolicited or unauthorized advertising, solicitations, promotional materials, "junk mail," "spam," "chain letters," "pyramid schemes," or any other form of solicitation;
ix. You will not republish or syndicate the information available on the Service (including but not limited to information made accessible to non-paying users via any portion of the Service provided on a paid subscription basis);
x. You will not disrupt, overwhelm, attack, modify or interfere with the Service or its associated software, hardware and/or servers in any way, and You agree not to impede or interfere with others' use of the Service.;
xi. You will not alter or tamper with any information or materials on or associated with the Service. Other than connecting to Company's servers by http requests using a Web browser, You may not attempt to gain access to Company's servers by any means – including, without limitation, by using administrator passwords or by masquerading as an administrator while using the Service or otherwise.
c. You are solely responsible for up to date contact information to receive information from the Service. Company will not be liable for information sent to a device that is associated with Your outdated mobile phone number or email address. If You install any software or enable any service that stores information from the Service on any mobile device or computer, it is Your responsibility, prior to transfer of such device, to remove Your information or otherwise disable access to such software or service, in order to prevent unauthorized access to Your information or account. Company reserves the right to provide You with information relating to Your trip and/or use of the Service, including emergency matters and messages from our suppliers regarding their respective services.
d. You are solely responsible for any activity and content (including, without limitation, data, text, information, screen names, graphics, photos, profiles, audio and video clips, and links to third-party content) that is displayed, published, uploaded or posted through Your user account (collectively, "User Content"). If You have reason to believe that Your account is no longer secure (e.g., loss, theft or unauthorized disclosure or use of Your access information or computer or mobile device used to access the Service), You are responsible for changing the affected access information.
e. You acknowledge that Company has not reviewed and does not endorse the content of all sites linked to from this Service and is not responsible for the content or actions of any other sites linked to or from this Service, including but not limited to your authentication via a third party social networking site such as Facebook, Google +, or Linked In, and Your use of such sites via the Service. Your linking to any other service or site is at Your sole risk. By linking this Service to another service or site, You expressly agree to the disclosure of User Content permitted by or required to support such linking.
f. In order for You to access travel itinerary and related data, You authorize Company to obtain such data on Your behalf and You represent that You have the right to control and access the data which You request and access through the Service.
g. In order for You to receive information, including advertisements, regarding additional products or services originating from Company or third parties, You authorize Company to send You promotional e-mails, messages, and offers through the Service. You acknowledge that Company is not responsible for the content of such advertisements, e-mails, messages and offers.
3. Intellectual Property and Data
a. Company retains all rights and ownership to copyright, trademark, trade secret and any other intellectual property rights in the Service and any derivative works thereof. All content of the Service (except User Content as defined below), including but not limited to designs, text, graphics, pictures, video, information, applications, software, music, sound and other files, their selection and arrangement, and its "look and feel" (the "Service Content"), are the proprietary property of Company or its licensors with all rights reserved. No Service Content may be modified, copied, distributed, framed, reproduced, republished, downloaded, displayed, posted, transmitted, or sold in any form or by any means, in whole or in part, without Vendor's prior written permission. You do not acquire any rights in the Service or the Service Content, other than those rights expressly granted under this Agreement.
b. We do not assert ownership of the photos, profiles, (Your User Content.) When You post User Content, You authorize and direct us to disclose User Content as necessary to provide the Service and make such copies thereof as we deem necessary in order to facilitate transmission, posting and storage of the User Content on the Services. By posting User Content, in connection with any part of the Service, You automatically grant and You represent and warrant that You have a right to grant to Company, and all other users an irrevocable, perpetual, non-exclusive, transferable, fully paid, worldwide license (with right to freely sublicense) to use, copy, modify, publicly perform, publicly display, reformat, translate, syndicate, republish, excerpt (in whole or in part) and distribute such User Content for any purpose, commercial, advertising or otherwise, on or in connection with the Service or the promotion thereof, and to prepare derivative works of, or incorporate into other works such User Content. You may remove Your User Content from the Service at any time, but You acknowledge that Company may not be able to and has no obligation to restrict any use by any other person, including other users, and the license You have granted remains in effect. The use of User Content by Company is subject to applicable laws and Vendor's data privacy policy available at www.tripcase.com/privacy_policy or its successor site.
c. If You provide Company with feedback, suggestions, testimonials, comments, ideas, ratings, reviews, bug reports, or any similar or related information ("Feedback"), You agree that (a) any and all right, title and interest to such Feedback will become the exclusive property of Company, (b) Company will be able to use and share such Feedback without Your consent, only if Company does not use Your first and last name (c) If You give prior consent, Company will be able to use and share such Feedback, while including Your first and last name (d) Company will not be responsible for providing You with any compensation whatsoever regarding the Feedback, and (e) Company may already have contemplated or be contemplating the same or similar ideas as Your Feedback. If You do not agree with these terms regarding Feedback, or want to maintain ownership of any intellectual property contained in any specific Feedback, Your sole option and recourse is to not submit such specific Feedback to Company.
d. We respect the intellectual property rights of others and we prohibit users from uploading, posting or otherwise transmitting on the Company/TripCase website or Service, any materials that violate another party's intellectual property rights. The Digital Millennium Copyright Act of 1998 (as amended, the "DMCA") provides recourse for copyright owners who believe that material appearing on the Internet infringes their rights under U.S. copyright law. If You believe in good faith that materials hosted by Company infringe Your copyright, You may send us a notice requesting that the material be removed, or access to it blocked. Notices must meet the current statutory requirements imposed by the DMCA; see 17 U.S.C 512 for details. Notices with respect to the Site should be sent to Sabre GLBL Inc., 3150 Sabre Drive, Southlake, TX 76092, Attn: General Counsel. You should consult Your legal advisor before filing a notice. Note, there can be penalties for false claims under the DMCA.
4. Fees and Optional Services
a. The basic Service is provided to You at no additional charge from Company. You are solely responsible for any fees or charges incurred to access the Service through an Internet access provider or other third party, including without limitation charges incurred to receive SMS messages or other mobile access, which may be billed to You or deducted from Your prepaid balance by Your mobile provider. You agree that Company is not liable in any way for any third party charges. Company reserves the right to offer these Service and other services (Optional Service(s)) for a subscription or other fee. Any use of Optional Services will be governed by these terms and any additional terms specific to the applicable Optional Service(s) used by You.
b. Unless Company states in writing otherwise, all fees and charges for the Service are nonrefundable.
5. Disclaimers and Limitation of Liability
a. COMPANY MAKES NO REPRESENTATIONS OR WARRANTIES, EITHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, OF ANY KIND WITH RESPECT TO THE SERVICES, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE ACCURACY OR COMPLETENESS OF ANY INFORMATION CONTAINED THEREIN OR PROVIDED BY OR THROUGH THE SERVICE.. THE SERVICE IS PROVIDED "AS IS" WITH NO WARRANTY. YOU AGREE THAT YOUR USE OF THE SERVICE IS AT YOUR SOLE RISK. TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMISSIBLE UNDER APPLICABLE LAW, VENDOR EXPRESSLY DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, WITH RESPECT TO THE SERVICES, INCLUDING WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, SATISFACTORY QUALITY, ACCURACY, TITLE AND NON-INFRINGEMENT, AND ANY WARRANTIES THAT MAY ARISE OUT OF COURSE OF PERFORMANCE, COURSE OF DEALING OR USAGE OF TRADE. COMPANY DOES NOT WARRANT THAT THE SERVICE WILL OPERATE IN COMBINATION WITH HARDWARE, SOFTWARE, SYSTEMS OR DATA NOT PROVIDED BY COMPANY OR THAT THE OPERATION OF THE SERVICE WILL BE UNINTERRUPTED OR FREE OF VIRUSES OR ERRORS.
b. THE SERVICE INCLUDES INFORMATION PROVIDED FROM A VARIETY OF SOURCES AND THIRD PARTIES. THE PROVIDERS OF SUCH INFORMATION AND/OR OTHER SERVICES ON TRIPCASE ARE INDEPENDENT CONTRACTORS AND NOT AGENTS OR EMPLOYEES OF COMPANY OR ITS AFFILIATES. COMPANY'S DISPLAY OF SUCH INFORMATION DOES NOT IN ANY WAY IMPLY, SUGGEST, OR CONSTITUTE ANY SPONSORSHIP OR APPROVAL BY COMPANY OF SUCH INFORMATION OR ITS PROVIDERS. YOU AGREE THAT COMPANY IS IN NO WAY RESPONSIBLE FOR THE ACCURACY, TIMELINESS, OR COMPLETENESS OF INFORMATION IT MAY OBTAIN FROM THESE THIRD PARTY SOURCES. YOUR INTERACTION WITH SUCH PROVIDERS IS AT YOUR OWN RISK. COMPANY AND ITS AFFILIATES WILL HAVE NO LIABILITY FOR THE ACTS, ERRORS, OMISSIONS, REPRESENTATIONS, WARRANTIES, BREACHES OR NEGLIGENCE OF ANY SUCH PROVIDERS OR FOR ANY PERSONAL INJURIES, DEATH, PROPERTY DAMAGE, OR OTHER DAMAGES OR EXPENSES RESULTING THEREFROM. COMPANY AND ITS AFFILIATES HAVE NO LIABILITY AND WILL MAKE NO REFUND IN THE EVENT OF ANY DELAY, CANCELLATION, OVERBOOKING, STRIKE, FORCE MAJEURE, OR OTHER CAUSES BEYOND OUR DIRECT CONTROL.
c. Limitation of Liability. IN NO EVENT WILL EITHER PARTY BE LIABLE FOR ANY INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES, OR DAMAGES FOR LOSS OF PROFITS, REVENUE, BUSINESS, SAVINGS, DATA, USE OR COST OF SUBSTITUTE PROCUREMENT, INCURRED BY EITHER PARTY OR ANY THIRD PARTY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION IN CONTRACT OR TORT, EVEN IF THE OTHER PARTY HAS BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES OR IF SUCH DAMAGES ARE FORESEEABLE. IN NO EVENT WILL COMPANY'S LIABILITY FOR DAMAGES HEREUNDER EXCEED THE LESSER OF (I) AMOUNTS ACTUALLY PAID BY YOU TO COMPANY FOR THE SERVICE OR US$500. THE PARTIES ACKNOWLEDGE THAT THE LIMITATIONS OF LIABILITY IN THIS SECTION AND IN THE OTHER PROVISIONS OF THIS AGREEMENT AND THE ALLOCATION OF RISK HEREIN ARE AN ESSENTIAL ELEMENT OF THIS TRANSACTION BETWEEN THE PARTIES, WITHOUT WHICH COMPANY WOULD NOT HAVE ENTERED INTO THIS AGREEMENT. COMPANY'S PRICING REFLECTS THIS ALLOCATION OF RISK AND THE LIMITATION OF LIABILITY SPECIFIED HEREIN. SOME STATES/COUNTRIES DO NOT ALLOW THE EXCLUSION OR LIMITATION OF INCIDENTAL OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES, SO THE ABOVE LIMITATIONS AND/OR EXCLUSION OR LIMITATION OF LIABILITY MAY NOT APPLY TO YOU.
6. Resolution of Disputes
a. Except for resolution of disputes concerning TripCase's Safe Harbor Program which is outlined in TripCase's Privacy Statement, these Terms shall govern any disputes between You and Us. If a dispute does arise between You and Us, our goal is to provide you with a neutral and cost effective means of resolving the dispute quickly. Accordingly, You and We agree that we shall resolve any action, claim or controversy at law or equity (a "Claim") that arises out of your use of the Services, these Terms, or the parties' relationship in connection with the Services or these Terms in accordance with one of the subsections below or as otherwise mutually agreed by the parties in writing. Before resorting to these alternatives, we strongly encourage you to first contact us directly to seek a resolution by contacting customer service, since most customer concerns can be resolved quickly and satisfactorily in this manner.
b. Submission to Jurisdiction in Texas. You agree that unless otherwise mutually agreed by the parties in writing or as described in the "Mandatory Arbitration" subsection below, any Claims shall be brought in the state or federal courts located in Tarrant County, the State of Texas, United States of America. Unless otherwise prohibited by applicable law, any Claim must be brought within two (2) years from the date on which such Claim arose or accrued.
c. Mandatory Arbitration. Any Claim where the total amount in controversy is less than US$10,000, shall be resolved via binding arbitration initiated through the American Arbitration Association ("AAA"). The arbitration will be governed by the Commercial Arbitration Rules and the Supplementary Procedures for Consumer Related Disputes (collectively, "AAA Rules") of the American Arbitration Association ("AAA"), as modified by this Agreement, and will be administered by the AAA. The AAA Rules are available online at www.adr.org or by calling the AAA at 1-800-778-7879. AAA and the parties must comply with the following rules: (a) if either party requests an in-person hearing the process shall be governed by subsection (c) below, otherwise, the arbitration shall be conducted by telephone, online and/or be solely based on written submissions, the specific manner shall be chosen by the party initiating the arbitration; (b) the arbitration shall be conducted by an arbitrator in Tarrant County, Texas who is approved or otherwise affiliated with the AAA; (c) if either party requests an in-person hearing, the arbitrator shall decide whether a hearing is necessary or whether the arbitration shall proceed as described in subsection (a) above. If the arbitrator deems that a hearing is necessary, the hearing shall occur at a mutually agreed upon location, or, if the parties are unable to agree on a location, at a location that is reasonably convenient to You and is selected by the arbitrator. Either party may elect to participate in an in-person hearing by phone, unless the arbitrator decides otherwise (d) the arbitrator may award injunctive or declaratory relief only in favor of the individual party seeking relief and only to the extent necessary to provide relief warranted by that party's individual claim; (e) unless otherwise mutually agreed by the parties in writing, the arbitrator may not consolidate more than one person's claims, and may not otherwise preside over any form of a representative or class proceeding; and (f) any judgment on the award rendered by the arbitrator may be entered in any court of competent jurisdiction. If subparagraph (e) above is found to be unenforceable, then the entirety of this Mandatory Arbitration provision shall be null and void. YOU UNDERSTAND AND AGREE THAT, BY ENTERING INTO THESE TERMS, YOU ARE EACH WAIVING THE RIGHT TO A TRIAL BY JURY OR TO PARTICIPATE IN A CLASS ACTION WITH RESPECT TO THE CLAIMS COVERED BY THIS MANDATORY ARBITRATION PROVISION. Notwithstanding the foregoing, either party may bring an individual action in small claims court in Tarrant County, Texas.
d. Improperly Filed Claims. All Claims You bring against Us must be resolved in accordance with this "Resolution of Disputes" section. All Claims filed or brought contrary to this "Resolution of Disputes" section shall be considered improperly filed and void. Should you file a Claim contrary to this "Resolution of Disputes" section, we may recover attorneys' fees and costs up to $1,000, provided that we have notified you in writing of the improperly filed Claim, and you have failed to promptly withdraw the Claim.
e. Attorney's Fees. If we take any action to enforce these Terms, and such Claim is not resolved pursuant to the "Mandatory Arbitration" subsection above, we will be entitled to recover from you, and you agree to pay, all reasonable attorney's fees and any costs of litigation, in addition to any other relief, at law or in equity, to which we may be entitled. Moreover, you agree that we may debit your credit or debit card or charge you for any such amounts.
f. Injunctive Relief. You acknowledge that a violation or attempted violation of any of these Terms will cause such damage to us as will be irreparable, the exact amount of which would be impossible or difficult to ascertain and for which there will be no adequate remedy at law. Accordingly, you agree that we shall be entitled as a matter of right to seek an injunction from any court of competent jurisdiction, restraining such violation or attempted violation of these Terms by you, or your affiliates, partners, or agents, without having to post a bond or other security.
7. Termination. This Agreement is effective until terminated by You or Company. Company may terminate this Agreement at any time upon (i) Your breach of any of the provisions hereof or (ii) upon electronic notice to You. Upon termination of this Agreement, You will cease all use of the Service.
7. General Terms
a. Applicable Law. This Agreement and all matters arising out of or relating thereto, except as governed by federal law, will be governed by the laws of the State of Texas without giving effect to any choice of law rule. This Agreement will not be governed by the United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sales of Goods, the application of which is expressly excluded. Any controversy, claim or dispute between the parties arising out of this Agreement may be tried solely in a state or federal court for Tarrant County, Texas, and the parties hereby irrevocably consent to the jurisdiction and venue of such courts. Before resorting to this alternative, we strongly encourage You to first contact us directly to seek a resolution.
b. Severability and Waiver. If any provision of this Agreement is held to be unenforceable, such provision will be enforced to the extent possible consistent with the stated intention of the parties, or, if incapable of such enforcement, will be deemed to be severed and deleted from this Agreement, while the remainder of this Agreement will continue in full force and effect. The waiver by either party of any default or breach of this Agreement will not constitute a waiver of any other or subsequent default or breach.
c. No Assignment. You may not assign or otherwise dispose of this Agreement or any rights or obligations under this Agreement without the prior written consent of Vendor. Any purported assignment by You will be null and void. Subject to the foregoing, this Agreement will be binding upon and will inure to the benefit of the parties and their respective successors and assigns.
d. Export Administration. You will comply fully with all relevant export laws and regulations of the United States, including, without limitation, the U.S. Export Administration Regulations (collectively "Export Controls"). Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, You will not, and You will require Your representatives not to, export, direct or transfer the Program, or any direct product thereof, to any destination, person or entity restricted or prohibited by the Export Controls.
e. Entire Agreement. This Agreement constitutes the entire agreement between the parties and supersedes all prior or contemporaneous agreements or representations, written or oral, concerning the subject matter of this Agreement.
f. Right to Modify. Company reserves the right to modify or replace this Agreement at any time and in Company's sole discretion. Company will indicate at the top of this Agreement the date such document was last updated. Any changes will be effective immediately upon posting the revised version (or such later effective date as may be indicated at the top of the revised Agreement). It is Your responsibility to regularly check the TripCase.com website to determine if there have been changes to this Agreement and to review such changes. Your continued use of the Service following the posting of any changes to the Agreement will mean Your acceptance of any such changes. If You do not agree to the changes, You must stop using the Service.


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This handmade vinyl card holder by Dear Sukie is made from this beautiful birds and flowers patterned paper and then covered in a clear, heavy weight vinyl and sewn together.
All Dear Sukie vinyl card cases are handmade from start to finish in small quantities, so they are each very distinctive and unique!
Curious about how a Dear Sukie wallet is made? Check out my appearance on The Martha Stewart Show, where I taught Martha and her audience how to make a vinyl wallet!
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* 4" W x 2.5" H
*Entirely handmade
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Since I am not able to set different postage rates for different provinces I must charge a flat rate of $7.50. If you have been overcharged I will refund you the difference asap.
Regular orders ship out within 3-5 business days.
Custom orders ship out within 5-7 business days from Payment.
Shipping times:
Within Canada 3-5 Business Days
US Orders 1-2 Weeks
Everywhere Else 2-3 Weeks
Just contact me within: 14 days of delivery
Ship items back to me within: 30 days of delivery
But please contact me if you have any problems with your order.
Because of the nature of these items, unless they arrive damaged or defective, I can't accept returns for:
If you are at all unhappy with your purchase please do not hesitate to send me an email so we can arrange a return for a full refund.
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All PDF patterns and pattern kits are the copyright of Dear Sukie - © Clarke Sewing 2017.
All rights reserved
Any redistribution or reproduction of part or all of the contents in any form is prohibited other than the following:
♥ you may print or download for your personal and non-commercial use only
♥ you may sell your finished cross stitch item
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Over the course of his 55 years in the game, Bruins scout Tom McVie has been both in the thick of the action and behind the scenes.
He's seemingly been through every situation imaginable from every position available in hockey … well at least now he has since the Bruins won the Stanley Cup.
Veteran writer Mark Spector of Sportsnet.ca has a great story about McVie, who at 75 is a living encyclopedia of hockey history. Of his day withe the Cup over the summer, McVie told Spector:
"When the gentleman in the white gloves came to me, handed me the Stanley Cup, it was mine for 12 hours. It was the most wonderful day of my life."
An even more telling sign of McVie's contribution to the organization is this quote:
"There is a certain way the Boston Bruins play; there is a certain way the people of Boston want them to play. When I'm out scouting players, and come back to our meetings, I just say, 'He's not a Bruin. Can't do it,' right in front of GM Peter Chiarelli and Bruins president Cam Neely.
"Now, Cam Neely was a Bruin. Terry O'Reilly was a Bruin. Don Marcotte was a Bruin. You've got to be a Flyer to be a Flyer? You've got to be a Bruin to play for the Bruins."
There's no way to measure how much McVie and the rest of Boston's scouts contributed to the drought-ending Cup win.


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I received an e-mail today from an old friend. To paraphrase the executive in the movie classic Network, my friend, lets call him Tom, is mad as hell and he's not going to take it anymore — at least not without expressing his opinion.
He has an IV after his name, which I needle him could easily stand for 'intravenous'. Tom is the fourth generation of Toms in his family, and the previous three generations have been farmers — just like him.
After reading his e-mail, I decided a phone call was a better option than responding by e-mail. We had a good conversation, but I don't think he felt any better about having to continue to ride his proverbial horse with the same burr under his saddle.
He asked my opinion on high fuel prices and why the American public seems to be quick to place the blame for high food prices on the farmers who grow food, rather than on the oil industry, where he reckons the blame rightly belongs.
Tom is irate that he pays over $600 per ton for the same fertilizer that cost him $200 a ton a couple years back. Likewise, he can't understand the tripling in price of glyphosate-based herbicides in the past six months, though he suspects that's also tied to high oil prices. This frustration doesn't even include the $4 a gallon diesel fuel it takes to operate his 3,000-plus acre row crop operation.
Tom says he and his economist friend estimate to stay in business in 2008 an irrigated grower better be making 215-plus bushels of corn, 2.5-plus bales of cotton and 2.5-plus tons of peanuts.
Those are high yields that require the stars to align right year in and year out, he muses. "I talked about it with one of my USDA economist friends, and all it is going to take is a new pest, extreme drought and heat, and or bad harvest weather and even the best growers could be on the wrong end of the stick when the dust settles on 2008," Tom figures.
My friend can't understand why so many Americans are quick to point the finger at ethanol as the cause for high food prices. Ethanol, poor as it might be as a source of alternative fuel, is after all the best option we have right now, he contends.
I pointed out that biodiesel would be a better option, but unfortunately 90-plus percent of American automobiles are gas powered, not diesel powered. Plus, what consumer in his or her right mind would go out and buy a diesel-powered car or truck, knowing diesel prices are 50-60 cents a gallon more than gasoline.
Clearly, big oil companies want to keep diesel prices higher than gas to encourage Americans to continue to buy less fuel-efficient gasoline engines. Soybean stocks worldwide are so low and prices so high, soybean oil isn't a viable option for high volume biodiesel production.
Biodiesel production is a simple process compared to making ethanol from corn. In the Southeast and Southwest we could grow non-edible peanuts with enough oil to produce 150 gallons or so of biodiesel per acre. Not to mention, canola, sunflowers and oil bearing crops endemic to every part of the United States.
My friend's family has been in the peanut business since the War Department encouraged his great grandfather to grow peanuts to help the war cause — the big war, World War II. Neither peanut growers nor the peanut shellers or grower associations support growing peanuts for oil — lowers the value, he says.
I pointed out a crop you can't grow for less than it costs you to grow it has no value. If farmers continue to see input costs escalate, even $500-600 per ton peanut contracts won't be profitable enough. Five hundred acres of edible peanuts and 500 acres of non-edible peanuts — two different crops, I contend, may make more sense in the future than 1,000 acres of edible peanuts and 1,000 acres of corn.
Satisfied we would not solve the nations energy crisis, Tom switched to politics. Who should I vote for president? Which of the three candidates would be best for agriculture?
I'm hard-pressed to recommend any of the current candidates, I replied. I don't think agriculture can survive another four or eight years of Republican business as usual. On the other hand, I don't trust either of the Democratic candidates any further than I can throw one of those parked 18-wheel diesel rigs that drivers can no longer afford to drive.
Tom says his grandfather told him a long time ago, "when the Republicans get elected, you better buy two pairs of shoes, because you won't be able to afford another pair until the democrats come back." Being a college-educated progressive, conservative young agribusiness leader, Tom laughed off his grandfather's backward thinking. Tom isn't laughing anymore!
I told him, I get an opportunity to talk to a lot of farmers and their political views are much the same: We are not anti-American, but we've got to stop the war. We're not liberal, but we can't survive any more right-wing politics. Quietly, they whisper, "I'm going to have to vote for him or her, seemingly not able to vocalize the words Hillary Clinton or Barack Obama.
Most farmers I talk to agree that their most stable economic years in recent history came during the William Jefferson Clinton administration. Assuming Hillary and Bill share the same economic philosophies that would seem to be a point in her favor. On the other hand, she is a part of the Democratic-controlled Congress that seems to be determined to undermine agriculture.
Obama is an unknown. Maybe that's a good thing, I told Tom. If he does what he says he will do and stops the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan that would give us an extra trillion dollars or so to use for something else. What that something else is concerns both Tom and me.
Then there is venerable old John McCain whose main claim to fame is being captured and held for several years by the supposedly technologically inferior North Vietnamese. "Just another W, Tom says, and the W doesn't stand for win"
It was good to hear from my friend — hadn't talked to him since we won a golf tournament a few years back. Unfortunately, or maybe fortunately, economics and politics are not among our scarce intellectual specialties. Being concerned about the future of agriculture is.


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The last time that Velvet jackets seriously disturbed the High Street was in the 90s, when inspired by movies like Swingers and clubs like Smashing, dressing up like Noel Coward (and don't forget that neck scarf) became a must for both gay and straight men. It seems now that velvet jackets are making a return to the High Street now. …
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Ray-Bans were last year's hit sunnies, but this year maybe try something a little more anonymous?
Next's orange sunglasses retail at £12, and despite the lack of branding still have a distinctive retro look. The orange frames look great with a tan and there's a nice clash going on with the purple lenses.
Mango launches Mango HE for men
Mango is launching its first menswear collection for a decade, and it will hit stores this spring.


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Shelby County Commissioners will probably talk again Monday, Oct. 14, about who should apply for $23 million in federal funding for the Head Start program.
Last month the commission approved a resolution urging Shelby County Schools to apply for the early childhood development program now administered by Shelby County government.
Shelby County Mayor Mark Luttrell has said his staff is preparing an application but would prefer that some other entity, preferably Shelby County Schools, apply for the program instead with county government's blessing and expand the early childhood program's reach.
Shelby County Commissioners are likely to talk Monday about whether the Shelby County Schools system will seek the $23 million federal contract to run Head Start services now administered by Shelby County government. Oct. 22 is the deadline for the application.
(Daily News File/Lance Murphey)
The commission meets at 1:30 p.m. at the Vasco Smith County Administration Building, 160 N. Main St. Follow the meeting at @tdnpols, www.twitter.com/tdnpols.
Although it is not on the agenda, commissioner Steve Mulroy may introduce a resolution urging Luttrell to apply for county government again depending on what Mulroy hears about efforts by the school system.
The deadline to apply is Oct. 22 and the school system is still mulling its options. Monday's commission meeting is the last of the body before the deadline.
Commissioner Henri Brooks tried to rule Mulroy out of order last week in committee sessions for even raising the question publicly.
"I had explained to you that I had conferred with chairman (James) Harvey and that it was not to come before us," Brooks told Mulroy. "You are out of order."
The commission votes Monday on a resolution that would convert long-term temporary county government employees working more than 30 hours a week to permanent positions to comply with the federal Affordable Care Act.
The act, also known as Obamacare, requires that employers provide health insurance coverage to employees who work more than 30 hours a week.
The Luttrell administration directed county departments to review their temporary positions and cut temporary employees to below 30 hours wherever possible and to seek a "permanent" position for those jobs requiring more than 30 hours a week.
The result is a set of 17 permanent positions in the resolution the commission considers Monday. Six are in Memphis-Shelby County Juvenile Court with five in the county's Corrections Division, three in county Public Works, two in the Trustee's office and one in the public defender's office.
The 17 new full-time positions would also mean a reduction of 39 temporary positions. Because the 17 full-time positions were once temporary positions, those positions are included among the temporary positions cut for a net reduction of 22 positions overall.
A dozen of the full-time positions would be funded through the county's general fund budget. The remaining five would be funded through enterprise funds – money a particular division makes through fees or revenue other than general fund revenue.
The net impact across all of the budgets involved would be a savings of $145,638.
In each of the five offices or divisions affected as well as the county general fund and the enterprise fund, the reductions in temporary labor costs are more than the increase in cost for health insurance as well as county retirement and other post employment benefits.
Also on Monday's agenda is the second of three readings of an ordinance Harvey proposed that would regulate used tire businesses and those hauling used tires in the unincorporated county.
Commissioners question the need for the ordinance because there are no such businesses in the unincorporated county. They also raised questions last month about whether the ordinance would cover someone taking the tires from one city to another within Shelby County if their route takes them into unincorporated Shelby County.
They are awaiting a written legal opinion from assistant county attorney Carter Gray. Gray said a sheriff's deputy could conceivably pull over someone hauling used tires in one of the county's seven cities and issue a citation if the person doesn't have the necessary county permit under the proposed ordinance which comes with a $250 fee.
"I thought this ordinance was to get to the point of where they are dumping them," said commissioner Terry Roland. "Not where they are originating. It doesn't make sense."
Harvey said that wasn't his intent either.
"It is ground work. It is not the only effectiveness that we can deploy," he said. "It institutes in the minds of the community that dumping is no longer allowable."
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Thank you draino ! I see what you are getting at, but I dont see how race is at all the issue here. I think that any difference in anybodys experience would cause varying interpretation of almost any text! I just dont get how race is a factor!
You are correct in this assesment. Simply being black doesn't affect the person's ability to interpert the text...it is in fact the person's experience that limits his/her ability to interperet the text because the text, like most things in our society is geared towards the average white student. It's this type of hidden discrimination that people of color experience on a daily basis that I believe AA aims to get around, NOT the name-calling, police-brutality, sitting-at-the-back-of-the-bus type discrimination that people seem to think it's meant to address.The fact is that with this type of hidden, institutional (and unintentional) bias towards white students, a black person that acheives a 3.1 gpa very well could have been using every bit as much mental capacity and horse-power as a white student that acheived a 3.3 gpa.
well yeah! the german person might speak a foreign language, has studied a different set of standardized curriculum, eats different foods, drives on a different side of the street.... i mean german person comes from a really different background. But even in our system, the german person would not benefit from affirmative action...an URM who lives in america, eats mcdonalds like the rest of us, speaks english, and drives on the Right side of the road would benefit from the system and would somehow diversify the class better! So the german wins there.. But how are 2 people who's only difference is race really that culturally different if we all grew up here on mcdonalds?
I would say that no system is perfect and there really isn't a point justifying the chinks in the chain. To iron them out would take time and effort that not many people would care to give.URMs are generalised, probably overly as well. I believe should you put a white person next to an urm, they would be judged equally (in the perfect world) unless it can be proved beyond reasonable doubt that the URM had gone through more difficulties than the white person or vice-versa. The foundation on which URM was established was the recognition of unequal standing within society by people. Although a great deal of this has been resolved, it can be expected that URMs would raise hell if they weren't given the place should their educational/life bground be exactly the same as the white person's. They have a lot going for them "to redress past discrimination".However, I would like to add that most URMs who apply to T14s do get in on their own merit. It is usually URMs who can only apply to third tier toilet thrash that do raise the above argument saying that "white boy always treat me, my gramps, my gr8 gramps.... like dirt".Be humble and be satisfied that you made it into LS. You reap what you sow, so there isn't a need to compare nor to examine why that URM made it in but you didn't because that would be plain offensive and absolutely indicative (every finger you point at someone, four are pointed back at you) - EVERYONE IS EQUAL - It's an opportunity that not many people recieve so remember to give back to society.Your Asian Friend,acccr4pPS: I know some of the terms and phrases used are really crude but I didn't see the point to beat about the bush. It's just my honest opinion with no offense or hurt intended. Everyone is entitled to their own view so please respect theirs and they will respect yours.


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We open this week's column with a very special message we have been asked to convey to an island sixth grader. The request came from her mother via e-mail and reads: "I am not impressed by a lot, yet my daughter continues to amaze me. As a parent, sometimes I forget that she likes to hear that I think she's great! For example, this year she has been working at odd jobs for family and friends and mother's helper to earn enough bucks for an ipod.
"I commend her on her diligence and patience working for what she wants. Her grades have been terrific, her music playing (clarinet and violin) wonderful, and her attitude ,awesome. And, she carved a path across her bedroom floor so I can kiss her goodnight.
"The final accomplishment is that last week her Peace Poster Project was recognized as one of the sixth grade's best.
"I think she deserves the ipod, so dear Walrus will you tell her to open up the gift box on her desk. Thanks much, Ellissa's mom (Amy Barclay) and Aunty Phyllis."
Done!! Have fun, Ellissa.
Kudos to Jamestowners Natalie Salk, Gabriel Salk and Michael Brendlinger who won the Great Oaks 2007 high school regatta at the Southern Yacht Club in New Orleans with five first-place finishes.
Sailing 420s on Lake Pontchartrain and representing Providence Country Day School, they also won the Babs and Larry White Trophy for outstanding performance for a first-time team.
A new arrival on the island is Kukla, a 4-month-old black female kitten with white "mittens" adopted from the Potter League for Animals by Nancy Cloud.
Kukla was brought into the home to help console 12-year-old Ollie, a "sad" brown lab whose friend Oboe passed away in September.
Nancy said the kitten has been with them for a month and Kukla and Ollie are already "good pals." In case you haven't guessed already the kitten got her name from that great TV show, Kukla, Fran & Ollie. Substitute the Fran with Nan and it's a whole new trio.
All the state's problems are the fault of Rhode Island voters. They keep sending the same pols back to the statehouse to continue with their grubby ways.
*** Tired of Christmas yet?
Four members of the Jamestown Community Band, tubists Jeff Hunter and Fred Pease and euphonium players Lorne Palmer and Martin Hellewell will play in the annual Tubaphonia Christmas Concert Saturday, Dec. 8, at 7:30 p.m. in the North Kingstown High School auditorium.
The free concert features musicians of all ages, middle school to senior citizens from the tri-state area playing an amazing array of low, conical brass horns including baritones and euphoniums (even a double-bell), ophecleids, cimbassos, helicons, sousaphones, and, of course, tubas of all sizes.
Martin promises that "the spirited performance will appeal to all ages with its robust sound and familiar melodies." Questions? Call 295-1607 or 423-1285.
We know where some of your neighbors will be tomorrow.
Harry Curfman will be with his daughter on Reservoir Circle; Matt Clarke is hosting some 15 family members; Skip Walls will be with his sister in Bristol; Cathryn Jamison said she's "table jumping;" her sister, Johnna is home with friends; Ilesh Patel will also be with friends; Andrea von Hohenleiten has her whole family coming in; Suzanne Cooke will be with mom and dad on Beavertail; Marlene Murphy, "Mom's house;" Don Haskell, "at home with all the kids;" and Sean MaGee will be in Connecticut at his mother's house.
Read what Dr. Joshua Hatch of the Jamestown Animal Clinic has to say about that other pet, the rabbit, in his Pet Tip of the Week.
"In addition to cats and dogs, we see plenty of other small animals as pets. Rabbits are one of the more popular ones because they have great personalities, are very quiet, and can be easily litter trained.
"Rabbits tend to pick a specific corner of their cage to use as a bathroom and if you put a shallow or triangular litter pan in that spot and place some of the rabbit droppings in the litter box they will start using it readily.
"The most common problem seen with house rabbits involves obesity because they are fed too many pellets and not enough timothy hay. Most rabbits should eat almost exclusively good quality hay with only a little supplement from pellets and the occasional vegetable. Overweight rabbits are more prone to intestinal issues and keeping them in good shape with plenty of exercise will minimize stomach problems in the long run.
"Visit The House Rabbit Society website at www.rabbit.org for some great tips on rabbit ownership."
It's that time of year when some Jamestown pets are in need of new families with which to share the festive holidays.
Barbara Szepatowski says that even though Paws and Claws is closed she still receives two to three phone calls each week from people looking to place their pets in new homes.
"Sometimes it's a death in the family, sometimes a divorce, but most often it's just the realization their lives are too busy to include a pet. To keep the Paws and Claws adoption program going until a real shelter is built on Jamestown, we have a number of islanders who adopt the animals as 'foster pets' from relinquishing families."
The ad in this week's Press lists three guinea pigs, three gerbils and four rats, all who come with their own cages; six cats, three kittens and three dogs.
If you want to brighten your holidays with a warm, friendly critter sharing your home, call Paws and Claws at 423-9677.
Eleven-year-old Evin Barrett is in possession of a little treasure. And, if you ask to see it, he'll probably show it to you. The Jamestown School sixth grader caught a foul ball at Fenway during a game between the Sox and Baltimore in September.
He was wearing a borrowed catcher's mitt when the ball came his way. He often played that position last summer in the Rec Department's baseball league.
Great catch, Evin.
*** Cathryn Jamison celebrated her birthday Sunday. Hugs please.
The Jamestown School on Melrose Avenue reeked of the great smell of garlic last week when the kindergarten harvested its garlic patch in the class's garden.
Everyone went home with food cravings.
Boy Scout Troop 1 got the jump on the rest of us last weekend and cooked its own turkey dinners at Cub World at the Feinstein Youth Camp in Pascoag. Members of Cub Scout Pack accompanied the older scouts on the campout.
The turkeys were cooked outof doors and each patrol prepared a side dish.
Scoutmaster Dave Volpe said that prior to the feast on Saturday night the scouts launched rockets, participated in a compass hike and explored the area.
Other adults attending with the troop were Jim Archibald, Harry Chase, John Keavy and Diane Archibald.
Does your mother know you're out..........
The Jamestown Community Chorus will lead the singing of Christmas carols at the Jamestown Christmas Tree Lighting Saturday, Dec. 1, at East Ferry.
The choristers, under the direction of Bruce J. Whitehouse, are in extra fine voice after months of rehearsals for their Christmas concerts, entitled "Holiday Medley" to be presented Saturday, Dec. 8, and Sunday, Dec. 9, at the Central Baptist Church.
A winter book sale will be conducted at the Jamestown Library Friday, Dec.7 through the weekend during regular library hours.
Head Librarian Judith H. Bell suggests considering the books as stocking stuffers or as packaging for that check to the teenager who just might read the book.
Prices are $3 for hardcovers and $1 for paperbacks and children's books. There are special priced books available including a table of Jamestown and Rhode Island history volumes.
Captain Robb Roach takes his kids, Ben and Ethan, along with friends, John and Tom, for a fastpaced fluke fishing trip on Saturday morning's edition of "Kettlebottom Outdoor Pursits" on Cox 3 at 10:30 a.m.
Once home, Robb prepares an easy, delicious fluke recipe that you'll want to stick on your refrigerator door. Later, Buck Shope gives dog tips on training your retriever to be more attentive to your commands.
The program is produced by Robb Roach's Kettlebottom Outfitters.
Saturday's full moon is the Frosty or Beaver Moon.
Give thanks with your families tomorrow.
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French actor Gerard Depardieu relieved himself into a bottle on a plane on Tuesday evening because he's suffering "prostate problems", according to his friend Edouard Baer.
The 62-year-old star, who was traveling with fellow actor Baer, boarded a flight from Paris, France to Dublin, Ireland but was caught short when it was delayed on the runway.
He was told by the cabin crew that passengers were not allowed to visit the bathroom until after take-off – so he urinated in an empty bottle towards the rear of the plane. Urine splashed onto the floor, prompting the plane's pilot to taxi back to the terminal so the aircraft could be cleaned and the flight was delayed for a further two hours.
Baer has addressed the incident, insisting his friend is full of remorse for his actions but was unable to avoid the drama because of health problems.
In a statement, Baer says, "Gerard is very sorry for what happened. He wanted to go to the toilet but he was forbidden because we were about to take off, so he was forced to do it on the plane in front of everybody. I found the solution by passing him a mini Evian water bottle, but it was too small and overflowed.
"He has prostate problems and it was very worrying and humiliating for him. He was also stone-cold sober at the time. This is not the way he usually behaves."


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An entertainment kingpin named Harvey with a voracious appetite for awards campaigning? And an involvement in multiple hit productions?
Hollywood veterans would immediately think of Harvey Weinstein. But the description fits another Harvey: Fierstein, the equally outsized showbiz character who over a long career has proved himself to be a marathon man of awards season with a Midas touch at the big show that ends it.
Fierstein, 61, demonstrated his chops again on Sunday with his latest effort, "Kinky Boots." The hyphenate wrote the book for the shoe-themed extravaganza, which won six Tony Awards including best musical. Cyndi Lauper, whom he famously persuaded to collaborate with him while she was washing dishes, took home the prize for score.
It was the sixth Tony nomination for Fierstein. And though it didn't turn into his fifth win, the show once more thrust the writer-performer — gravelly of voice, outrageous of aside — to the fore. After a 13-year hiatus from the stage that ended in 2002, Fierstein is now firmly back. He now has earned nominations two years in a row (after "Newsies," also for book, in 2012) and has achieved the Broadway holy grail: two hits playing simultaneously.
"A lot of gay men walk in thinking they're going to see a big ol' gay show,"he said Tuesday when asked about the appeal of "Kinky Boots." "But if [cross-dressing main character] Lola was gay, she'd be [having sex]. Men sit there and they get it — heterosexual men dragged there by their wives. It's about two people who didn't feel they measured up to their fathers. Which is why everyone can relate to it."
Fierstein had spent the day after the Tonys running around Manhattan, accepting, with a large group, an award for New York entertainment personalities at the mayoral residence Gracie Mansion and giving a gay-rights speech at Cooper Union, a place where, he noted self-deprecatingly — possibly — Abraham Lincoln gave a landmark anti-slavery speech. Lincoln, he added, did not have any association with a show like "Kinky Boots." ("But the man's hats were strange enough, I wouldn't be surprised if he had a thing for shoes.")
On Tuesday, Fierstein decided not to attend a performance of "Kinky Boots" to see how the audience received the show after its big win. (In the past he has found it "like watching someone have an orgasm. They're singing along like it's 'Mamma Mia.' And these aren't exactly songs that have been with us our whole lives.") Instead, he chilled out at his Connecticut home with the cats and dogs he's rescued (Elvis and Lola, to name two. Yes, the last is named for one of the "Kinky Boots" characters.)
Fierstein established himself as Broadway royalty early in his career, becoming the only person to garner Tonys for writing and acting in the same show (his semi-autobiographical "Torch Song Trilogy" in 1983). He also came out as gay in his 20s, at a time when few celebrities did; in a now-famous interview with Barbara Walters on ABC, he gamely parried her questions while she pushed him on whether homosexuality was a disease, or the result of a domineering mother.
But after the failure of his Depression-era musical "Legs Diamond" in 1989, Fierstein took a long break, returning a little more than a decade ago as an actor in iconic works such as "Hairspray," also going against type as Tevye in "Fiddler on the Roof." A few years ago he put acting aside to concentrate on writing, which he said has been a welcome switch.
"I don't know how people do one thing. I would die. I would just die." He then added that, in no particular order, he also thought of himself as a "quilter, someone who likes to cook, and paint and garden. But I garden less than I used to."
Fierstein is aware of his reputation, tweaked sometimes in the New York media, as a tireless Tonys campaigner.
"I know it's the no-one-campaigns-like-Harvey. But that's not why I do it. I've been writing. I'm locked in the … dark. It's a very insular experience. And then the show opens and I get to see Judith Light, or Audra McDonald," he said. "OK, let somebody say, 'There's Harvey showing up at a Tony nominee lunch.' Yeah, there's Harvey showing up — because Tom Hanks is on one side and ['Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?' director] Pam MacKinnon is on the other."
Plus, he said, he thought it was necessary. "We're in a business. We have tickets to sell to a public in a business where advertising doesn't matter like it used to."
After several years in the musical trenches, Fierstein has been writing a new play, a nine-character ensemble that's his first non-musical in nearly 30 years. It will open next March on Broadway, he said. He wouldn't reveal details but acknowledged that he debated starring in it before realizing it wasn't a good fit. ("I read for it. After 15 minutes I fired myself.")
He said that even his song-and-dance writing is animated by a certain high-mindedness; his motivation for creating "Newsies," about a real-life 1899 newsboy strike, was that "I saw the Arab Spring and was shocked. Young people were taking over the world. It took me back to my childhood in the '60s and how revolution comes from the young. I wanted people to walk out of the theater feeling that."
Then he added drolly, "I'm glad they can't see into my mind when they see the show."
Fierstein has gone to some lengths to balance the serious with the silly. Tony viewers last year may recall his appearance on the show wearing a tube around his waist, dressed in beach wear and holding a tropical cocktail to introduce a cruise-ship performance of "Hairspray." (He said he did it that way because there were objections in the room over a non-union production being featured at the Tonys and this was his way of lightening the mood.)
This year, he topped himself by allowing a deli to name a hot dog after him — an event he then proceeded to celebrate by having hundreds of "Kinky Boots" audience members follow him through Times Square to the restaurant. "It was stupid. So … stupid. Really. So … stupid. Which is why it was magical."


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The second full serial to feature Tom Baker in the lead, the four part storyline Doctor Who: The Ark In Space was originally aired in late January through mid-February in 1975. Directed by Rodney Bennett and written by Robert Holmes, the story begins when the TARDIS materializes inside a large space station. When the doors open, out walk the Doctor (Baker) and his companions, Sarah Jane Smith (Elisabeth Sladen) and Harry Sullivan (Ian Sullivan). They explore the facility and before you know it, against the Doctor's orders Harry has pushed a button, a door closes locking Sarah in a room, and she's soon without oxygen. This is fixed quickly enough but they soon realize that the auto-guard programmed to protect the place has a pretty itchy trigger finger.
Once the Doctor and Harry neutralize the defenses they're able to further explore the place and soon realize that they've essentially wandered into an 'ark' chock full of people in suspended animation chambers. Before you know it, Sarah's been put into one of the pods but soon a 'med-tech' named Vira (Wendy Williams) wakes up and explains things to Harry and the Doctor. Also revived early on is the stations leader, Noah (Kenton Moore), who is understandably suspicious as to the space stations newly arrived guests. Unfortunately for all involved, humans are not the only creatures onboard. At some point during its journey the station's integrity was compromised by the presence of some wasp like aliens called the Wirrn. Having had ample time to use the humans' onboard as hosts, there are larvae crawling around the ship causing trouble. When Noah heads into the thick of it to check things out, he becomes a host and soon starts mutating into one of the Wirrn - at which point his personality changes and he starts to use the space station's technology to let the Wirrn take over and eliminate what is left of the human race.
Picking up where the last serial, Robot, left off, The Ark In Space wastes no time getting to the good stuff. There's quite a bit of action here and some solid moments of suspense as well and we can't help but notice how Baker is quickly beginning to make the role his own. Having really only had one proper story prior to flesh out the character to suit his style, it's impressive that even this early on in the fourth Doctor's run his take is distinct and unique and not at all like the three who came before him. There's a slightly unhinged aspect to Baker's work on the series that his predecessors lacked and it's easy to see how and why he'd become, in the eyes of many fans who grew up on his incarnation, the definitive Doctor, or at the very least the actor most instantly recognized for his work on the series. Supporting efforts from the charming Elisabeth Sladen and the amusing Ian Sullivan make for some fun moments, particularly the back and forth that occurs between them and the Doctor which is often the source of this particular storyline's only real humor. Wendy Williams is great as the slightly pretentious medical technician while Kenton Moore does a pretty solid job as the space station leader, Noah (subtle, right? Let's name the guy in charge of the 'ark' Noah!).
As far as the production values go, it's a bit of a mixed bag. The set design is great, with clever use of mirrors used to coyly make the interior of the space station look far bigger than it really is. There's a very clean, sort of 2001 inspired look to the inside of the space station that works well in the serial's favor and the few exterior shots that there are work fine given the age and technology used in the show. The monster effects are a different story, the main problem being that once Kenton Moore's Noah starts turning into the Wirrn, they've obviously just wrapped parts of him in green bubble wrap. Now, the extras explain that bubble wrap was fairly new at the time and not as common as it is now, so maybe this was more effective back then, but by modern standards, yeah, that guy is obviously wrapped in green bubble wrap and that's a little hard to look past. Fans of the series won't likely take issue with this, however, as the show was, at the time at least, always made with a pretty modest effects budget. As to the fully formed Wirrn, they fare a little better, but are still obviously men wobbling around in costume, which explains why we never see them shot from the ankles down.
Overall, however, despite some questionable effects and production values, Ark In Space is a lot of fun. Baker has started to come into his own, the set design is impressive and the storyline is both exciting and enjoyable, even occasionally offering up some minor food for thought. Fans will eat this one up, and it's easy to see all these years later why it remains a very popular entry in the Baker years run.
Doctor Who: The Ark In Space arrives on DVD in its original fullframe aspect ratio. There are moments where the picture is muddy looking and fairly murky and detail is generally below average throughout playback as the transfer is sourced from the master tape - but this is probably as good as it's ever going to get and those accustomed to other releases of Who material from the same era will more or less know what to expect. It's all watchable enough and scenes shot inside tend to look cleaner and clearer than those shot outdoors (probably due to better lighting and the fact that in this particular series a lot of the outdoor shots use miniatures and effects work), but this isn't really a great transfer even if it's obvious that the powers that be have done their best with the material that they had available. The disc is well authored in that there are no problems with compression artifacts and as soft as it all is, at least it's clean in that there aren't any nasty issues with print damage. Again, for what it is, this looks fine and those accustomed to earlier DVD releases from this era of the show will know what to expect and have no problems - but those expecting pristine quality will be disappointed.
The sole audio option on this release is an English language Dolby Digital Mono track that comes with optional subtitles available in English only. The quality of the track is fine in that it's always easy to understand and there are no problems to report in terms of hiss or distortion. There isn't a whole lot of range - this is an older mono mix after all - but the levels are well balanced and the feature sounds just fine.
Extras start off with a commentary track that comes courtesy of producer Phillip Hinchcliffe and actors Tom Baker and Elisabeth Sladen. It's a lively look back at the making of this storyline, an early one in Baker's run and one in which the actor has much to discuss. This is an older track, recorded for the original release ten years ago, so Baker isn't exactly at his warmest here, he's a bit persnickety at times, but his memory is pretty sharp. They talk about the effects, the character development and the sets as well as some of the challenges that arose during the production and some of the changes that the story went through. It's a fine talk that covers what you would expect are all the major bases here.
Up next is a thirty minute minute retrospective featurette entitled A New Frontier which lets Hincliffe discuss how when he came onboard as producer how he intended to take the show in more interesting directions than it had been in the past. They also discuss the bubble wrap monsters with input from director Rodney Bennett, designer Roger Murray-Leach and actor Kenton Moore, also noting what was done to make the sets look bigger than they were. Actress Wendy Williams also pops up here to talk about her character and how in retrospect she played it very holier than though style. A very interesting and well put together look back at the making of this particular four part series and quit an enjoyable watch.
Roger Murray-Leach flies solo for a ten minute look back at his work on this storyline and a few others. He starts off by stating outright that he does not want to talk about Blake's 7 before going on to share some fun stories about what he did to create various bit and pieces of the Doctor Who universe. Much of the focus is on dealing with the budgetary restraints that were always an issue on the show but he also shares some interesting memories of befriending Tom Baker and a few other fun anecdotes. This is complimented nicely by a quick Model And CGI Effects Footage which is nine minutes or so.
Doctor Forever! Love & War is the first of five mini documentaries that examine the Doctor Who universe outside of the TV shows. Here we spend twenty-seven minutes or so strolling through the novelizations that Virgin Publishing was pumping out during the nineties, the time when the series was off the air. It's an interesting piece that sheds some light on an aspect of the series that doesn't really get talked about or discussed as much as the TV series does but which still manages to do some interesting things with the characters. Scene Around Six is some footage that was shot of Baker on a trip to Ireland where he's basically mobbed by fans as he makes the rounds and does different media appearances. It's fun to see him pop up at a school to see some obviously very amused kids and serves as a reminder of just how popular the series was in the UK when Baker was in the role. Also worth checking out is some 8mm Location Footage that Baker shot on the set of Robot. It's short and shot without sound but presented in color and interesting enough to see even if it's only a quick minute in length.
This set also includes the seventy minute TV Movie Version that was shown in 1975. It tights up the pacing a little bit here and there but mostly tells the same story - interesting for completists but you'll probably want to opt for the full version when you watch the story. Rounding out the extras is another one of the really interesting text based Production Notes subtitle stream, a one minute clip of 3D Technical Schematics, a seven minute long still gallery of production and promotional photographs, a one minute trailer for The Ark In Space, an Alternate Title Sequence, a one minute Tardis Cam quickie, PDF materials made up of various radio listings and promotional materials, animated menus and chapter selection.
Doctor Who: The Ark In Space is pretty great stuff. The story is interesting and well told and it moves at a fast pace, making it easy to overlook the fact that the effects budget was obviously on the low side. There's a lot of creativity on display here and Baker does some great things with the character, always a plus. The BBC's presentation looks about as good as it realistically can given the format that it was shot on and the two disc set is loaded with extra features. Highly recommended.
Ian lives in NYC with his wife where he writes for DVD Talk, runs Rock! Shock! Pop!. He likes NYC a lot, even if it is expensive and loud.


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Dino Tour
The American Museum of Natural History has one of the greatest dinosaur fossil collections in the world. Explore the world-famous dinosaur exhibits on this self-guided tour.
For free guided tours during your visit, check tour listings.
For turn-by-turn navigation during your visit, as well as behind-the-scenes stories about exhibits, quizzes, and more, download the Museum's free Explorer app.
Reenacting a hypothetical drama between predator and prey, the Museum's popular Barosaurus display shows the enormous plant-eating dinosaur rearing up to protect its young against an attacking Allosaurus.
The 4-foot-long jaw, the 6-inch-long teeth, the massive thigh bones—almost everything about Tyrannosaurus rex indicates the enormous power of one of the largest theropod dinosaurs that ever existed.
Floor: 4th Floor | Exhibit Hall: Hall of Saurischian Dinosaurs
At one time, some scientists thought Stegosaurus had a second brain because the one in its head seemed so small. Stegosaurus did, however, manage with one small brain.
Floor: 4th Floor | Exhibit Hall: Hall of Ornithischian Dinosaurs
The Glen Rose Trackway is a 107-million-year-old series of fossilized dinosaur footprints. Excavated from the bed of the Paluxy River in Texas, the trackway gives a picture of dinosaurs that in some ways is more striking than that offered by fossils.
Floor: 4th Floor | Exhibit Hall: Hall of Saurischian Dinosaurs
The Museum's Apatosaurus, collected in the late 1890s, was the first sauropod dinosaur ever mounted. Museum preparators labored over the specimen for years before it went on view in 1905. It has been a focal point of the collection ever since.
Floor: 4th Floor | Exhibit Hall: Hall of Saurischian Dinosaurs
The Museum's dinosaur mummy is a fossilized imprint of the carcass of a duck-billed dinosaur. One of the most complete pieces of Mesozoic dinosaur remains ever found, this fossil represents one of the greatest discoveries in the history of paleontology.
Floor: 4th Floor | Exhibit Hall: Hall of Ornithischian Dinosaurs
At 7 feet long, Deinonychus belonged to a group of dinosaurs called maniraptors, or "hand-robbers." Its hands and feet were equipped with sharp claws for catching and grasping prey. The dinosaur's hollow bones and long legs indicate swift and agile movement.
Floor: 4th Floor | Exhibit Hall: Hall of Saurischian Dinosaurs
This 65-million-year-old Triceratops has a large frill on the back of its skull, two large horns over its eyes, and a smaller horn on its nose. On the side of the skull on display is a partially healed injury, perhaps caused by a conflict with another Triceratops.
Floor: 4th Floor | Exhibit Hall: Hall of Ornithischian Dinosaurs
Anatotitan was a duck-billed dinosaur, one of the most widespread dinosaur groups. About 70 million years ago, duck-billed dinosaurs lived in the Americas, Europe, and Asia. Their habitats varied from forests in river valleys to swamps in coastal floodplains.
Floor: 4th Floor | Exhibit Hall: Hall of Ornithischian Dinosaurs
Museum explorers uncovered these Coelophysis specimens in a "death assemblage," in which a group of the same animal is found preserved. It is thought that these sites are the results of flooding, when carcasses were washed into a muddy pond and covered with silt.
Floor: 4th Floor | Exhibit Hall: Hall of Saurischian Dinosaurs
At 4 feet long and 2 feet tall, Psittacosaurus (pronounced sih-TACK-oh-sore-us) lived some 100 million years ago. Despite the fact that it didn't have any horns, Psittacosaurus was a member of the same group as Triceratops.
Floor: 4th Floor | Exhibit Hall: Hall of Ornithischian Dinosaurs
Corythosaurus is a member of the group of duck-billed dinosaurs called hadrosaurs, which walked and ran on their two hind legs. The species' strange skull is capped by a crescent-shaped helmet that contains extended tubes, which formed elaborate nasal passages.
Floor: 4th Floor | Exhibit Hall: Hall of Ornithischian Dinosaurs
In January 2016, the Museum added another must-see exhibit to its world-famous fossil halls: a cast of a 122-foot-long dinosaur.
Floor: 4th Floor | Exhibit Hall: Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Orientation Center
Cullman Hall of the Universe
The Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Hall of the Universe, located on the lower level of the Rose Center for Earth and Space, presents the discoveries of modern astrophysics. Divided into four zones, the hall covers the formation, evolution, and properties of stars, planets, galaxies, and the universe.
Food Court
This is the food court.
Hall of Meteorites
The Arthur Ross Hall of Meteorites explores essential questions about the origins of our solar system some 4.6 billion years ago by examining meteorites, rocky fragments from space that reveal clues about the formation and evolution of the Sun and planets.
Hall of Planet Earth
The David S. and Ruth L. Gottesman Hall of Planet Earth, the first part of the Rose Center to open in June 1999, displays an amazing collection of geological specimens, chosen specifically to show how our planet works.
Hall of Ocean Life
The Milstein Hall of Ocean Life highlights the drama of the undersea world and its diverse and complex web of life in a fully immersive marine environment. The hall is home to one of the Museum's most celebrated displays—a 94-foot-long, 21,000-pound model of a blue whale suspended from the ceiling.
Hall of Human Origins
The Anne and Bernard Spitzer Hall of Human Origins pairs fossils with DNA research to present the remarkable history of human evolution. The hall covers millions of years of human history, from early ancestors who lived more than six million years ago to modern Homo sapiens, who evolved 200,000 to 150,000 years ago.
Grand Gallery
The Museum has completed a major renovation of the historic 77th Street lobby that restores the grandeur of its original 1904 design and celebrates the preservation and revitalization of a century-old Museum icon—the 63-foot-long Great Canoe.
Hall of Minerals
The Harry Frank Guggenheim Hall of Minerals presents hundreds of striking mineral-bearing specimens collected from around the world, including a giant topaz crystal from Brazil, a 4.5-ton block of azurite-malachite ore from Arizona, and a nephrite jade slab from Poland.
Hall of New York State Environment
The Felix M. Warburg Hall of New York State Environment focuses on the village of Pine Plains and Stissing Mountain in New York's Dutchess County, an area that includes mountains, natural lakes, forests, rock formations, and both wild and cultivated land.
Northwest Coast Hall
The Northwest Coast Hall highlights the traditional cultures of the native peoples of North America's shores from Washington State to southern Alaska, including the Kwakiutl (known today as Kwakwaka'wakw), Haida, Tlingit, and others.
Hall of North American Forests
The Hall of North American Forests explores the ecology and variety of the forests of North America—from a northern spruce and fir forest of Ontario to a giant cactus forest in Arizona—in addition to highlighting the forest food web and presenting techniques for protecting forests.
Hall of North American Mammals
The Hall of North American Mammals features 28 dramatic examples of the large and medium-sized mammals of the North American continent in carefully re-created habitats.
Hall of Small Mammals
The Hall of Small Mammals, which is an offshoot of the larger Hall of North American Mammals, depicts a variety of animals in small dioramas of their natural habitats, from the Canadian tundra to the brush country of southern Texas.
Hayden Planetarium
At the heart of the Rose Center for Earth and Space is an 87-foot-diameter sphere that appears to float inside a glass cube. Its upper half constitutes the Hayden Planetarium, which opened in 2000 along with the Rose Center for Earth and Space.
Discovery Room
The Discovery Room offers families, and especially children ages 5–12, an interactive gateway to the wonders of the Museum and a hands-on, behind-the-scenes look at its science.
Bernard Family Hall of North American Mammals
Each diorama shows an actual place on the continent, at one moment in time, with the plants and animals you'd see there.
Theodore Roosevelt Memorial Hall
The Exhibition Department is renovating, reinterpreting, and updating the first-floor Theodore Roosevelt Memorial Hall exhibitions for reopening in Fall 2012.
Hall of Biodiversity
The Hall of Biodiversity presents a vivid portrait of the beauty and abundance of life on Earth, highlighting both biodiversity and the factors that threaten it. Ecological biodiversity is illustrated by a 2,500-square-foot walk-through diorama that remakes part of the Dzanga-Sangha rain forest, one of Earth's most diverse ecosystems.
Hall of Gems
The Morgan Memorial Hall of Gems exhibits an array of precious and ornamental stones—uncut, polished, and even a few set in elaborate pieces of jewelry—as well as organic materials such as coral and amber that are prized as gems.
Hayden Big Bang Theater
The lower half of the Hayden Sphere is home to the Hayden Big Bang Theater, where visitors can look down into a concave screen to view the Big Bang presentation, a dynamic flight through the virtual universe based on an accurate cosmic atlas mapped using millions of astronomical observations.
Hall of Mexico and Central America
The Hall of Mexico and Central America features the diverse art, architecture, and traditions of Mesoamerican pre-Columbian cultures through artifacts that span from 1200 BC to the early 1500s.
Hall of Birds of the World
The Hall of Birds of the World showcases distinct environments around the world and the birds unique to those locations. Each of the hall's 12 dioramas depicts a major biome—a region with a particular community of living things, such as a desert or tropical rainforest—along with representative species.
Hall of South American Peoples
The Hall of South American Peoples features the art, tools, technologies, and traditions of the continent's pre-Columbian cultures—the ancient Inca, Moche, Chavin, and Chancay—in addition to exhibits about the traditional cultures of modern Amazonia.
Hall of African Peoples
The Hall of African Peoples explores Africa's cultural heritage from ancient Egypt to more modern times. The hall highlights lifestyles and customs—many of them disappearing—of peoples living in four environments: grasslands, deserts, forests, and river regions.
Hall of Asian Peoples
The Gardner D. Stout Hall of Asian Peoples—the Museum's largest cultural hall—showcases some of the finest collections in Asian ethnology in the Western Hemisphere. Some 3,000 artifacts, which represent about 5 percent of the Museum's considerable holdings, are displayed in the hall.
Hall of African Mammals
The Akeley Hall of African Mammals showcases large mammals of Africa. At the center is a freestanding group of eight elephants, poised as if to charge, surrounded by 28 habitat dioramas.
Theodore Roosevelt Rotunda
The Theodore Roosevelt Rotunda is New York's official memorial to the 26th President of the United States. In addition to leading expeditions for the Museum, Roosevelt championed environmental conservation.
Hall of Oceanic Birds
This hall's dioramas represent the bird life of the far-flung islands of the Pacific. These islands are geologically diverse, ranging from low coral to high mountains. One of the dioramas represents the bird population of the Guano Islands, named after the birds excretion, or guano, that coats the islands rocks.
Scales of the Universe
Displayed along the 400-foot-long walkway that hugs the glass curtain wall on the second level of the Rose Center for Earth and Space, the Scales of the Universe vividly illustrates the vast range of sizes in the universe, from subatomic particles and objects on the human scale to the largest objects in the observable cosmos.
Heilbrunn Cosmic Pathway
The Harriet and Robert Heilbrunn Cosmic Pathway is a 360-foot-long path in the Rose Center for Earth and Space that spirals from the exit of the Hayden Big Bang Theater to the base of the Hayden Sphere, laying out the 13-billion-year history of the universe.
Hall of Asian Mammals
Between 1922 and 1928, Museum Trustee Arthur S. Vernay and British Colonel John C. Faunthorpe conducted six expeditions to collect animal specimens in India, Burma (now Myanmar), and Siam (now Thailand). The specimens were then donated to the Museum and formed the foundation for the Hall of Asian Mammals, which opened in 1930.
Hall of Pacific Peoples
Anthropologist and longtime Museum curator Margaret Mead provided the foundation for the hall that bears her name through her groundbreaking expeditions to Samoa, New Guinea, and Bali.
Hall of Eastern Woodlands Indians
The Hall of Eastern Woodlands Indians focuses on the traditional cultures of the Native American peoples living in the Eastern Woodlands of North America, including the Iroquois, Mohegan, Ojibwa, and Cree, through the early 20th century.
Hall of Primates
The Hall of Primates explores the mammalian order that includes apes, monkeys, and humans. Primates range in size from the pygmy marmoset to the gorilla, and include species that feed on insects, fruit, leaves, and sap.
Hall of North American Birds
The Leonard C. Sanford Hall of North American Birds features more than 20 dioramas that depict bird species in habitats ranging from the Florida Everglades to Alaskan riverbeds, with forest, prairie, marsh, and desert among the ecosystems represented.
Hall of New York State Mammals
The Hall of New York State Mammals introduces visitors to the diversity of local wildlife. Arranged in cased displays of discrete specimens, the hall presents a range of more than 50 land mammals—from shrews to bats, beavers to bobcats—and invites comparisons of their distinctive external features, such as fur, claws, ears, body shape, and size.
Hall of New York City Birds
The Hall of New York City Birds showcases the rich diversity of birds in the greater New York area. The region attracts more than 400 species of birds because of its varied habitats—which include ponds and lakes, marshes and seashore, open meadows and wooded sections—and due to its location along major bird migratory routes.
Hall of African Mammals
The Akeley Hall of African Mammals showcases large mammals of Africa. At the center is a freestanding group of eight elephants, poised as if to charge, surrounded by 28 habitat dioramas.
Hall of Reptiles and Amphibians
The Hall of Reptiles and Amphibians explores the anatomy, defense, locomotion, distribution, reproduction, and feeding habits of reptiles and amphibians.
Hall of Plains Indians
The Hall of Plains Indians focuses on the life of 19th-century Hidatsa, Dakota (Sioux), Cheyenne, Arapaho, Crow, and other Native American peoples of the North American Plains.
Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Orientation Center
The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Orientation Center introduces visitors to the key concepts presented in the Museum's fourth floor fossil halls.
Hall of Vertebrate Origins
The Hall of Vertebrate Origins traces the evolution of vertebrates, or animals with backbones, back more than 500 million years.
Saurischian Dinosaurs
One of two halls in the David H. Koch Dinosaur Wing, the Hall of Saurischian Dinosaurs features fossils from one of two major groups of dinosaurs. Saurischians are characterized by grasping hands, in which the thumb is offset from the other fingers. This hall features the imposing mounts of Tyrannosaurus rex and Apatosaurus.
Milstein Hall of Advanced Mammals
The Paul and Irma Milstein Hall of Advanced Mammals is one of two halls in the Lila Acheson Wallace Wing of Mammals and Their Extinct Relatives, which together tell of the great diversification and sudden extinctions of this group of animals.
Hall of Ornithischian Dinosaurs
One of two halls in the David H. Koch Dinosaur Wing, the Hall of Ornithischian Dinosaurs features fossils from one of two major groups of dinosaurs.
Hall of Primitive Mammals
The Hall of Primitive Mammals, one of two halls in the Lila Acheson Wallace Wing of Mammals and Their Extinct Relatives, traces the lower branches of the evolutionary tree of mammals, including monotremes, marsupials, sloths, and armadillos.


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Sam Cohen: 'No compromise' gun groups shoot themselves in the footBY SAM COHEN
March 10. 2014 4:22PM
Gun Owners of America (GOA) has been attacking New Hampshire's Senate Bill 244 from the beginning with the shock propaganda phrase, "See a shrink, lose your guns." The New Hampshire Firearms Coalition (NHFC) has adopted the GOA slogan. They're both wrong. And tragically, that slogan may scare people away from getting the mental health help they really need.
SB 244 would add New Hampshire to the other 37 states that report mental health gun-possession disqualifiers in the same way as felony conviction gun disqualifiers to the FBI's National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NCIS), which licensed dealers must query by phone when they sell a gun. Importantly, it also would create, for the first time, a legal mechanism to "un-prohibit" people whose mental health problems have been cured.
The New Hampshire Senate Judiciary Committee is considering an amendment proposed by the committee chair, Sen. Sharon Carson, R-Londonderry, that would retain the second part of the bill — to allow people to remove themselves from the disqualified list — while deferring the first part to a commission to investigate its nuances. Unaccountably, GOA and the NHFC oppose even this version.
The problem with the "see a shrink, lose your guns" rhetoric is that it's simply not true. People who object to SB 244 keep saying that the bill would disqualify people from possessing guns, but that's a huge mistake: the people who would be reported to NICS are already disqualified. They are disqualified whether their names are on NICS or not.
In New Hampshire, to be disqualified from gun ownership for mental health reasons requires a court order (with a defense lawyer present) that a person is a "danger to himself or others," is incompetent to manage his affairs or stand trial, is found not guilty by reason of insanity in a criminal case, or is involuntarily committed to a mental health institution (specifically excluding emergency three-day observation). This is already the law. Reporting such people to NICS, as SB 244 would do, not only helps protect society from truly dangerous people, it saves disqualified potential buyers from committing a federal felony that carries a ten-year prison sentence, which is the result of lying on the federal paperwork for buying a gun from a licensed dealer. It also protects dealers from civil and possible criminal liability resulting from selling a gun to a federally prohibited person.
While the billionaire politician Michael Bloomberg has been promoting mental health gun-prohibition legislation, and the Veterans Administration has been pushing PTSD diagnoses into gun disqualifiers, SB2 44 has nothing to do with the VA or Bloomberg. The bill originated with the the National Shooting Sports Foundation, the firearm industry trade organization, along with the NRA.
And that brings us back to Gun Owners of America and the New Hampshire Firearms Coalition. GOA has always positioned itself as the "no compromise" rival of the NRA, and the NHFC also claims "no compromise" status in New Hampshire. They've declared SB 244 as "anti-gun" — their favorite insult — and have gone to desperate lengths to demonize its supporters, including my organization, Pro-Gun New Hampshire, which GOA has also declared "anti-gun."
Since they started attacking us in January, we've been posting articles on our website, www.PGNH.org, exposing their errors. For example, to show the supposed horrors of SB 244, GOA wrote about the case of Noreen Cousins, a woman from Ossipee who was arguably mistreated in what was supposed to be a three-day IEA (Involuntary Emergency Admission for mental health observation), as reported in a Union Leader article on Feb. 3 ("Employee sues hospital after being locked up for 6 days for claimed 'homicidal ideation'"). Ironically, this ploy backfired, as Cousins didn't even come close to being prohibited from possessing guns.
Most recently, state Rep. J.R. Hoell, R-Dunbarton, the secretary of the New Hampshire Firearms Coalition, even labeled the National Shooting Sports Foundation, the ultimate source of SB2 44, as "anti-gun," telling legislators that NSSF is an anti-gun pro-Bloomberg organization, and that is why any form of SB 244 needs to be killed.
But the firearms industry trade association certainly isn't anti-gun. And why would gun-rights organizations oppose a bill that restores the gun rights of people who are found to be safe and sane after their mental health problems have been cured?
The "no compromise" label is a smart marketing tool to attract membership, donations and political support, but by attacking good legislation and good organizations with absurd vitriol and downright lies, GOA and NHFC are shooting themselves in the foot.
Sam Cohen is executive vice president and CEO of Pro-Gun New Hampshire, Inc., a Second Amendment membership organization.


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