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RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — The state Supreme Court on Thursday reversed a jury's wrongful death verdict against the state stemming from the 2007 killing of 32 students and faculty at Virginia Tech in the deadliest mass shooting in U.S. history.
The justices ruled in the case of two students whose families argued that they might have survived the rampage if the Blacksburg campus had been alerted earlier to the gunman's initial shootings at a dormitory. Erin Nicole Peterson, Julia Kathleen Pryde and 28 other people were killed nearly three hours later in Norris Hall, a classroom building.
But the justices agreed with the state — that there was no way to anticipate the deadly intentions of student Seung-Hui Cho, who killed himself after the killings.
"Based on the limited information available to the commonwealth at the time prior to the shootings in Norris Hall, it cannot be said that it was known or reasonably foreseeable that students in Norris Hall would fall victim to criminal harm," the court wrote. "Thus, as a matter of law, the commonwealth did not have a duty to protect students against third party criminal acts."
The court reversed the jury's findings and issued a final ruling, meaning there is no avenue for appeal.
In a statement, the state attorney general's office said the court "found what we have said all along to be true."
Spokesman Brian Gottstein wrote in an email: "The commonwealth and its officials at Virginia Tech were not negligent on April 16, 2007. Cho was the lone person responsible for this tragedy."
The case was the lone pending legal action stemming from the massacre, Gottstein said.
The appeal attorney representing the parents of Peterson, 18, and Pryde, 23, said justices applied a stricter standard than the trial judge. The public perception of the university's actions could be a different matter, attorney L. Steven Emmert said.
"Now in the court of public opinion the university may suffer, that's quite possible, but that's not the court's to deal with," he said. "Courts will decide legal rights."
The justices ruled on a March 2012 trial in Montgomery County, near the Tech campus, in which jurors found the state should have issued more timely campus warnings after Cho shot two in a dormitory. The jury awarded the families $4 million each. The trial judge later reduced the award to $100,000 for each family, the state cap on damages.
The trial focused on the time between the dorm shootings, shortly after 7 a.m., and the mass killings at Norris Hall, shortly before 10 a.m. The campus of more than 30,000 wasn't told of the shooting until nearly 2 ½ hours after the initial incident, in a campus-wide email at 9:50 a.m. warning of a gunman on campus and advising students to remain inside. By then, Cho had chained the Norris Hall doors and killed the victims.
The state argued that law enforcement officials believed the first shootings were targeted, the result of a domestic dispute, and they concluded the larger campus was not at risk, even though the gunman remained on large. The justices concluded that university officials acted properly.
Attorneys for the parents also sought to put on trial Tech President Charles W. Steger. The opinion did not address that point, presumably because the ruling reversed the jury's findings.
The state was the only defendant at trial.
Steger, who has announced his retirement, in a statement extended his gratitude to state attorneys who argued the appeal and "throughout the lengthy fallout from this wrenching tragedy."
The Petersons and the Prydes are the only families of Tech victims who did not join in an $11 million settlement.
Their attorneys have shielded the Prydes and the Petersons from the media but they have said they were intent on holding university officials accountable for their actions on April 16, 2007.
In a statement Thursday, Virginia Tech said the high court ruling "can never reverse the loss of lives nor the pain experienced by so many families and friends of victims of one person."
Steve Szkotak can be reached on Twitter at http://twitter.com/sszkotakap.


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Art Historian, Criminal Law Expert Named Top Teachers
February 05, 2009
Each year, students from the College of Arts and Sciences and Lewis & Clark Law School reflect on the extraordinary teaching of their respective professors and select one for top teaching honors.
Ben David: Undergraduate Teacher of the Year
In April, students in the College of Arts and Sciences named Benjamin David, associate professor of art, Teacher of the Year.
"Ben doesn't merely value student input; he uses it. Questions do not only influence his lectures; they determine them," said senior Max Fulton, who introduced David at the Teacher of the Year ceremony. "Ben always comes through with buoyancy, balance, and brilliance."
David, who also serves as chair of the art department, joined Lewis & Clark in 2005. He earned his B.A., M.A., and Ph.D. in art history from New York University. His areas of specialization include Italian Renaissance painting and manuscript illumination, late medieval art, theories of narrative, and visualization of Dante's Divine Comedy. He is currently writing a book titled Practices of Narrative in Italian Renaissance Painting and Illumination.
The Teacher of the Year is named each year by members of the Pamplin Society of Fellows, who solicit nominations from undergraduate students.
John Kroger: Law School's Leo Levenson Award
For the third time in four years, John Kroger, associate professor of law, has won the Leo Levenson Award for Teaching Excellence. However, it will be his last teaching award for a while because he was elected Oregon's attorney general this fall and will be leaving the law school in January.
"In John's classes, you not only learn the law, you learn how to engage the law," said graduating law student Micah Steinhilb, as he announced Kroger's award during commencement in May. "He challenges students to look beyond textbook answers and to see the law not as a series of rules to be memorized and regurgitated, but as a dynamic process that we will all take part in as lawyers."
Kroger earned his B.A. and M.A. from Yale and his J.D. from Harvard Law School. He joined the law school faculty in 2002. Prior to teaching at Lewis & Clark, Kroger served as an assistant U.S. attorney in New York, successfully prosecuting more than 200 federal criminal cases involving the Mafia, public corruption, and narcotics trafficking.
The law school's teaching award is named for Leo Levenson, who was a distinguished Oregon attorney and a highly respected instructor at the law school for many years. It is presented annually to a faculty member selected by the graduating class.

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Duke Energy�s argument to hike the cost of electricity would raise rates for residents across Gaston County.
Duke Energy�s argument to hike the cost of electricity would raise rates for residents across Gaston County.
The powerhouse electricity provider is in talks this week with the N.C. Utilities Commission, the state's official consumer advocate.
If the Utilities Commission approves Duke�s most recent proposal customers will likely be paying more for their power later this year.
Duke Energy customers
Duke Energy initially brought the rate increase proposal before the commission in February, suggesting a hike of 9.7 percent.
Since then, the commission has hosted hearings, and a settlement agreement has been drawn up.
That agreement is what�s being discussed this week.
In the recent proposal, Duke Energy suggested an increase of 4.5 percent working gradually up to 5.1 percent after two years.
The total increase for an average home would be less than $8 a month, according to Lisa Parrish, Duke Energy spokeswoman.
Wholesale power
Dallas residents get their bill from the city.
Dallas buys wholesale power from Duke Energy then passes it along to residents.
That arrangement has both pluses and minuses for consumers.
Duke Energy dictates the rate that Dallas city leaders pay for electricity. But the municipality aims to absorb some of the cost, according to Jim Palenick, Dallas interim city manager.
The city saves money by purchasing the electricity wholesale, and the city has a fund balance for electric that could likely be used to offset some of the cost in the event of another increase, Palenick said.
Dallas last had a rate increase of 5 percent in January 2012.
Electricities members
The city of Gastonia also buys its electricity wholesale but through a membership with ElectriCities.
Cherryville is also a member.
Ultimately, each of the municipalities purchases the power and is also affected by rate increases by Duke Energy.
Gastonia residents just experienced a rate hike starting July 1.
The 3.18 percent increase should add about $3.88 to a monthly bill for the average homeowner, according to Ron Gaff, engineering manager.
This marked the second year that Gastonia residents experienced that level of a hike, Gaff said.
According to Gaff, City Council and staff aim to minimize the impact on power users. Gaff said the economy, revenue, growth and increases from Duke Energy all factor into the equation.
�We rarely pass the entire increase onto our customer,� said Gaff.
Why the increase?
New power plants and facility improvements have forced the need for rate increases, according to Parrish.
Some Duke Energy plants were built in the 1940s and needed to be replaced, she said.
Now that new facilities have been put in place and others have been upgraded, the company needs to recoup some of the cost, Parrish said.
�Our job is to make sure the power is on when you need it, and we�ve got to keep our plants in top condition,� she said.
The Utilities Commission will review information gathered during this week�s hearings and likely announce a decision in September, Parrish said.
If the rate hike is approved, it�d be the third since 2009 for customers of Duke Energy Carolinas.
You can reach Diane Turbyfill at 704-869-1817 and twitter.com/GazetteDiane.
Who�s got the power?
(And how much does it cost?)
In February Duke Energy requested an average rate increase of 9.7 percent that would�ve been implemented over time.
Now a settlement agreement is being discussed with the N.C. Utilities Commission.
According to the settlement, the new rate increase would be approximately 4.5 percent for the first two years. An additional 0.6 percent would bump up the total average increase to approximately 5.1 percent.
The total increase could mean a difference of about $7.60 more a month to residential customers.
Source: Duke Energy Carolinas
Average energy costs
Dallas customers $106.65
Duke Energy customers $110.32
Gastonia customers $125.75
Costs are estimated on an average home using 1,000 kilowatt hours per month.


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Hi, this is my first bit of latin longer than just a line or two that was thought of without having to translate English-Latin. I'm actually kinda pleased that I thought of some of it in latin. haha. baby steps. That said, I need practice and criticism, so here it is.
Sōle trāns caelum rubrō ardente et, ultrā caelō, lūnā caelum idem nocte dōnante, caelum caeruleīs oculīs ōtiōsīs sapientissimīs aspexit. Caelō vīsō, ut nepōs suus nātūrae pulchritūdinem vērē sentiat et cernat quī quoque caelum cum eō virō oculōs caruleōs habente aspexit, senex tum dīxit; 'Pax, nepōs. Nunc vērissimam pācem aspicis, et nātūram cernis; animō haec nātūrae pax pulchritūdōque semper teneātur nam in nātūrā Deus. In nātūrā Deus. Nātūra amanda enim semper est."
Etiam sentiō et cernō pulchritūdinem nātūrālem et amō. Haec pax mēcum etiam remanet, ō pater matris.
I.V.M. nepōs
NB Originally it was just one or two big sentences connected with alot of ets and atques, but obviously I changed that... I'm not sure if I formed the adjective 'vere' right or not, as I haven't gotten there in my book yet. And not sure about the abl. absolute in the beginning.. But hopefully I'll get tons of criticism. I'll provide a translation if the above passage doesn't make sense and a translation would show where I went wrong.
I don't know how to say 'grandfather'. verbum quaeram.


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Stunts Trivia (DOS)
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If you create a level with a long enough straight and then place three jumps in a row like this (side view):
racing it with the Indy Car will cause it to land directly past the summit of the third jump. When this happens it'll launch vertically in the air for hundreds of meters. Not very useful in races, but it makes for very interesting replays!
There's a very cool easter egg in the track editor. If you press Shift+F1 in the track editor a "secret tileset" appears. These tiles are for editing the terrain. This way you can make the land flat or make hills and even water and islands.
There is a small bug in the game called the "turbo boost": If driving really fast over a jump using the Indy Car it gets boosted-up and drives much faster than it should normally be possible.
An interesting, and also useful feature of Stunts is the ability to pause the game at any time... while driving of course, but also during the intro, at the main menu, or in the menus, in the track editor, anywhere really.
Okay, try this in real life: Drive real fast down a long, straight road, then do a huge jump, get airborne, and then (while in the air) slam on the brakes to slow down in time to make it around that nasty corner. Is it going to work? Nope, but it works in Stunts! ;-) Of course, this just makes the game more fun! :-)
The game is available in FOUR versions: as Stunts 1.0, Stunts 1.1, 4D Driving 1.0 and 4D Driving 1.1. Reportedly, 4D Driving 1.1 is the best choice, with many bugs removed.
This game is referred to in a few places as "4D-Racing". Search Related Sites for the FAQ and more info why.
Stunts was developed by the same team (DSI) that made Test Drive and Test Drive 2 for Accolade. It was released around the same time Test Drive 3 (not made by DSI) was released.
Editor's note: Accolade chose not to renew their business relationship with DSI for Test Drive 3 because DSI had, under a "psuedonym" (USI), used the same technology they developed for TD1 and TD2 in Outrun. Accolade sued them, claiming that they owned all the technology created for the Test Drive projects. (If memory serves, they settled out of court with DSI paying a settlement to Accolade.)
One of the appealing features of Stunts is how buggy it is. It is not uncommon to hit a car, wall, or other obstacle and--instead of merely crashing--fly straight up into the air 500 feet high, then slowly fall back to earth. There are many replays available on Stunts fan pages that document this.


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Coal, natural gas, and oil accounted for 87 percent of global primary energy consumption in 2012 as the growth of worldwide energy use continued to slow due to the economic downturn. The relative weight of these energy sources keeps shifting, although the change was ever so slight. Natural gas increased its share of global primary energy consumption from 23.8 to 23.9 percent during 2012, coal rose from 29.7 to 29.9 percent, and oil fell from 33.4 to 33.1 percent. The International Energy Agency predicts that by 2017 coal will replace oil as the dominant primary energy source worldwide.
The shale revolution in the United States is reshaping global oil and gas markets. The United States produced oil at record levels in 2012 and is expected to overtake Russia as the world's largest producer of oil and natural gas combined in 2013. Consequently, the country is importing decreasing amounts of these two fossil fuels, while using rising levels of its natural gas for power generation. This has led to price discrepancies between the American and European natural gas markets that in turn have prompted Europeans to increase their use of coal for power generation. Coal consumption, however, was dominated by China, which in 2012 for the first time accounted for more than half of the world's coal use.
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Police Search For Missing Child in Wichita Falls [UPDATED]
UPDATE (7/30/13 6:49pm): WFPD confirm that Antonio Gonzales has been located and is safe.
The Wichita Falls Police Department is currently investigating a missing child.
The Missing Child is 6-year-old Antonio Gonzales last seen wearing a blue baseball t-shirt. The Child has a shaved head and missing a tooth. The child was last seen in the area of 1600 Best Street.
The police department will be establishing a command post at Lamar Elementary School on Lucas Street.
If you have any information on this child you are asked to contact the Wichita Falls Police Department at (940) 720-5000.


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So, I got super nerdy and made a spreadsheet! I slunk around four different grocery stores near my house, surreptitiously scratching prices onto a clipboard.
So here is what I found! For Tom Thumb, if there was a lower price for reward card holders I have listed that price because the card is free.
Blueberries, 1 pint, organic
-Whole Foods 5.99
-Natural Grocer 2.69
-Sprouts 2.98
-Tom Thumb 2.99
Boneless, skinless organic chicken breast (price per pound)
-Whole Foods 6.99
-Natural Grocer 6.29
-Sprouts did not carry this
-Tom Thumb 7.99
Synergy kombucha, 1 container
-Whole Foods 3.49
-Natural Grocer 2.25
-Sprouts 2.50 on sale, normally 3.49
-Tom Thumb 2.99
Strawberries, 1 pint, organic
-Whole Foods 4.99
-Natural Grocer 3.59
-Sprouts 2.98
-Tom Thumb 2.50
Cilantro, 1 bunch, organic
-Whole Foods 1.69
-Natural Grocer 1.49
-Sprouts did not carry this
-Tom Thumb 1.49
Kashi Cinnamon Harvest cereal*
-Whole Foods 4.39
-Natural Grocer 4.55
-Sprouts 4.49
-Tom Thumb 3.99
*This is not organic, but on the spectrum of cereals it's pretty far in that direction. Incidentally, my husband read a Men's Health article that named this the tastiest (read: least cardboard-y) healthy cereal on the market.
Annie's Italian salad dressing, 8 oz., organic
-Whole Foods 3.99
-Natural Grocer 3.15
-Sprouts 3.29 on sale, normally 3.79
-Tom Thumb did not carry this
Applegate organic sliced turkey
-Whole Foods 6.99
-Natural Grocer 4.69 on sale, normally 5.99
-Sprouts 7.49
-Tom Thumb did not carry this
Baby carrots, 1 pound bag, organic
-Whole Foods 1.69
-Natural Grocer 1.79
-Sprouts 1.50 on sale, normally 1.69
-Tom Thumb 2.99
I'm going to call this one a tie because the Sprouts winning price was a sale price.
Romaine lettuce, 1 head, organic
-Whole Foods 2.49
-Natural Grocer 1.50
-Sprouts 1.69
-Tom Thumb 1 ($3 for three heads in a package)
I'm also going to call this one a tie because I prefer to not buy packaged produce. Also, I don't want to buy three heads of Romaine lettuce at once because it's too much for my little family of two. By the time we get to all three, there is likely to be spoilage, which I hate.
Granny Smith apples, organic, price per pound
-Whole Foods 3.59
-Natural Grocer 3.49
-Sprouts did not carry this
-Tom Thumb 2.50
Bananas, organic, price per pound
-Whole Foods .89
-Natural Grocer .49
-Sprouts .69
-Tom Thumb .69
Silver Hills bread, 22 oz loaf
-Whole Foods 3.99
-Natural Grocer 3.75
-Sprouts 3.99
-Tom Thumb did not carry this
Green bell pepper, organic
-Whole Foods 1.69 each
-Natural Grocer priced theirs per pound so I can't compare
-Sprouts 1.50 each
-Tom Thumb 1.49 each
Tomato sauce, organic, 1 jar
-Whole Foods 2.50 on sale
-Natural Grocer 2.69
-Sprouts 2.99
-Tom Thumb 2.50
Whole Foods 2 wins
Natural Grocer 9 wins
Sprouts 2 wins
Tom Thumb 7 wins
Whole Foods has an excellent store brand called 365. It has by far the nicest store experience. Maybe it's that the one in my neighborhood is just a year old, but it's beautiful and I'm a sucker for gorgeous displays. Factors like an olive bar, in-store restaurants, clothing and shoes department, in-store bar, and huge selections of cleaning and beauty products make this a really good shopper experience. I feel healthier just breathing in that store. But its prices are high.
Natural Grocer is the most granola store. They sell ONLY organic produce- no conventional even available. No cross-contamination possible. They offer ripe and overripe produce at a huge discount. They don't even offer plastic or paper bags- you have to bring your own or buy! Their people were also the nicest, calling the back of the store when we couldn't find basil (which they had and literally RAN to the check-out counter). I think I was asked five times if I needed help finding anything. I'd never been before, and I think this will be our primary place for weekly shopping in the future. However, it's smaller and doesn't carry everything; shopping here guarantees we'll have to grocery shop at two places. I'm ok with that.
Sprouts, frankly, was a huge disappointment. I will not go back. Giant signs saying "fresh", "local", "organic" and "natural" adorn the walls, but I found the organic produce section to be just a small table or two surrounded by conventional fruits and vegetables. I honestly felt that they were being dishonest in the marketing, both in the produce section and in the processed foods- far fewer organic foods on the shelf than Whole Foods or Natural Grocer. Many products were labeled as "all-natural" and other similar labels that are not regulated by the government. Only products that are scientifically tested and proven are allowed to be labeled with the word organic; many other words are used to make their products seem more healthy or chemical-free than they really are.
Tom Thumb is Tom Thumb. Big box, one-stop shopping. They sell everything, and there's no doubt that convenience is worth something. They also have the organic house brand called O that offered several of the winning prices. You can also use your grocery spending to earn discounts on gasoline via the reward card. I thought I'd have to leave Tom Thumb when I wanted to switch to organic groceries, but it turns out I can get quite a few organic items there, and often at the lowest price.
Happy shopping, eating, and saving!
Nota bene to my dear former readers from the Haiti era. If you are wondering what this post has anything to do with Haiti, the answer is nothing. But I did all this work and wanted my friends to benefit from it, too!


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Kids can program this robot to follow their commands
Kids can immerse themselves in programming and have a lot of fun at the same time with this exceptional programmable rover. Kids can program this toy robot to follow a course and carry out a task, such as delivering a treat to the dog or spying on a sibling. They'll use a mission map to plot out Rover's course, gridding out the plan and writing step-by-step programming code. They can add sound effects (like a laser blast) and record commands. The built-in microphone can record voices when Rover goes on a spy mission!
Features an on-board computer with a 10-button membrane keypad, triangular track-drive system, 2 high-powered LED headlights, memory bank (stores 9 trips with up to 50 commands each), sound file bank (4 sound files for recording), 5 prerecorded sound effects; microphone, speaker, cargo hold, multi-directional navigation with return-home feature, diagnostics test. More good stuff this toy robot has a cargo hold, rotating head, adjustable neck, carry handle. Sound-activated lights flash when Rover speaks.
For ages 8 years and up. ReCon Rover Kit Includes: Programmable Rover with on-board keypad & LCD screen, measuring device, manual. Requires 3 C batteries, not included. ReCon Rover Dimensions: 9.5" x 8.5" x 9" WARNING: CHOKING HAZARD—Small parts. Not for children younger than three. Do not expose eyes to the LED.
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June 26, 2017 Posted by cmassaro
We're proud to announce that Iroquois Group's President Laurie Branch has been named among the Elite Women in Insurance in the latest edition of Insurance Business America magazine, which gets distributed starting today (June 26, 2017).
Branch has taken Iroquois from a small regional network of agencies to one that now lists more than 2,200 independent property and casualty insurance agencies in 42 states. The Dartmouth College graduate has earned two master's degrees and recently earned a Ph.D. in Management. Branch is also very active in her home community of Olean, N.Y., where she will soon retire from the local school board after 15 years of service. In addition, she continues to serve St. Bonaventure University as an adjunct professor in the School of Business.


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The horse that Megan Gaynes bought at a Mira Loma auction last month for $300 was once worth $50,000 and ran races in both the east and west coasts in his younger days.
Gaynes, founder of Auction Horses Rescue in Santa Clarita, said they knew the 12-year-old gelding was a racehorse. A tattoo on the horse led to his name, "Return of the King". She later found out what befell his former owners when someone e-mailed the rescue group.
King had belonged to James and Charles Ortega who were killed along with seven relatives in Covina on Christmas Eve 2008 by a former brother-in-law.
After the tragedy, the gelding ran two more races then disappeared from the racing records.
King earned $175,948 as a racehorse. But his racing days are over.
A visit to the vet showed his right front leg has an old fracture and arthritis while there's also damage to the bone in the left front hoof, according to Gaynes. The bone has moderate to severe micro factures, she added.
"He can't even be ridden. He's just a pet now," Gaynes said.
But King will be returning home to Kentucky. His breeder, James Keogh, agreed to take in the gelding. Now the rescue group is trying to raise as much as $2,500 to transport the horse to Kentucky.
While Keogh followed King throughout the horse's career, the gelding's last race was in 2009.
"I wasn't aware of what happened to him until three weeks ago," Keogh said.
A friend of Gaynes contacted him and relayed the horse's plight. Keogh said he was surprised to hear King wasn't taken care of.
King was born in 2002 and sold the next year for $50,000.
Racing records show Three Amigos Stable owned King when he ran a race on Jan. 26, 2005 at the Aqueduct Racetrack in Queens, New York. He went through four more owners before James Ortega became his owner on Oct. 7, 2006.
Then tragedy struck the Ortega family on Dec. 24, 2008.
Dressed as Santa Claus, Bruce Pardo of Montrose showed up in the 1100 block of Knollcrest Drive in Covina that night and slew his ex-wife Sylvia Pardo, her parents, Joseph and Alicia Ortega, her brothers, James and Charles Ortega, her sister-in-laws, Cheri and Teresa, her sister, Alicia Ortiz and Alicia's 17-year-old son, Michael Ortiz.
Covina Police Lt. Tim Doonan said the Pardos' divorce had been finalized a week before the murders.
Pardo shot his victims then sprayed the residence with gas using a compressor he modified, according to the lieutenant.
"He spread the gas in the house at a high rate. While he was doing that, fumes from the gas likely hit an open flame, most likely the fire in the fireplace. That ignited the gas," Doonan said.
Pardo received third degree burns on both forearms and hands.
"Our belief is he would eventually flee across the border, " Doonan said. "But because he was so critically injured, he changed his plans to escape."
Doonan said Pardo knew he couldn't be treated at a hospital because there were survivors and police knew who he was, He said Pardo went to his brother's home in Sylmar, crawled through a doggie door to get inside then shot himself.
On Feb. 28, 2009, relatives and friends of the Ortega family gathered at Santa Anita Park in Arcadia for a tribute and fund-raiser. Return of the King also ran a race and finished second.
The race was dedicated to the Ortega family.
Mike Willman, director of publicity at Santa Anita Park, said it was the last race King ran.
It was a claiming race which means the horses running are available for sale. King was claimed by M Racing.
There is no record of another owner after 2009, according to Willman and online racing records.
What happened to King in the next five years is a mystery. It's not clear how he got injured or how many owners he had before he turned up at Mike's Livestock Auctions in Mira Loma on June 14.
His last owner couldn't be reached for comment.
Mike Murphy who owns Mike's Livestock Auctions said the owner couldn't afford to keep the horse anymore. He didn't know where the owner got King.
Gaynes said she was at that auction when she noticed King standing in what seemed to be a significant amount of pain. She said one of the horse's hind legs was swollen. When the horse was made to walk, she said he seemed to have sore front legs.
"I asked the staff if I could buy him before auction," she said. Typically, she said they don't let the horses be bought before auction.
But the staff agreed. She bought King for $300.
"All I know from the lot was that a family had him but we don't know what they did to him," she said.
Depending on the shipper, Gaynes said the cost of transporting King to Kentucky ranges from $1,500 to $2,500.
Keogh said the horse can live out the rest of his days in Kentucky.
"He's a horse with a lot of character and spirit," Keogh said, adding that they'll be waiting for the gelding,
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The other day I found myself reading a leftist rag that made outrageous claims about America. It said that we are becoming a society in which the poor tend to stay poor, no matter how hard they work; in which sons are much more likely to inherit the socioeconomic status of their father than they were a generation ago.
The name of the leftist rag? Business Week, which published an article titled "Waking Up From the American Dream." The article summarizes recent research showing that social mobility in the United States (which was never as high as legend had it) has declined considerably over the past few decades. If you put that research together with other research that shows a drastic increase in income and wealth inequality, you reach an uncomfortable conclusion: America looks more and more like a class-ridden society.
And guess what? Our political leaders are doing everything they can to fortify class inequality, while denouncing anyone who complains–or even points out what is happening–as a practitioner of "class warfare."
Let's talk first about the facts on income distribution. Thirty years ago we were a relatively middle-class nation. It had not always been thus: Gilded Age America was a highly unequal society, and it stayed that way through the 1920s. During the 1930s and '40s, however, America experienced what the economic historians Claudia Goldin and Robert Margo have dubbed the Great Compression: a drastic narrowing of income gaps, probably as a result of New Deal policies. And the new economic order persisted for more than a generation: Strong unions; taxes on inherited wealth, corporate profits and high incomes; close public scrutiny of corporate management–all helped to keep income gaps relatively small. The economy was hardly egalitarian, but a generation ago the gross inequalities of the 1920s seemed very distant.
Now they're back. According to estimates by the economists Thomas Piketty and Emmanuel Saez–confirmed by data from the Congressional Budget Office–between 1973 and 2000 the average real income of the bottom 90 percent of American taxpayers actually fell by 7 percent. Meanwhile, the income of the top 1 percent rose by 148 percent, the income of the top 0.1 percent rose by 343 percent and the income of the top 0.01 percent rose 599 percent. (Those numbers exclude capital gains, so they're not an artifact of the stock-market bubble.) The distribution of income in the United States has gone right back to Gilded Age levels of inequality.
Never mind, say the apologists, who churn out papers with titles like that of a 2001 Heritage Foundation piece, "Income Mobility and the Fallacy of Class-Warfare Arguments." America, they say, isn't a caste society–people with high incomes this year may have low incomes next year and vice versa, and the route to wealth is open to all. That's where those commies at Business Week come in: As they point out (and as economists and sociologists have been pointing out for some time), America actually is more of a caste society than we like to think. And the caste lines have lately become a lot more rigid.


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Postseason high school all-star games sometimes lack high-level intensity and drama.
Take the North-South girls all-star soccer game, for example. It could have been a yawner. After all, the players had only one day of practice to get ready for Sunday's matches. And then there was the weather. The comfort level at Blackbaud Stadium was in the upper 90s, thanks to the heat and humidity.
But Sunday's North-South girls match defied the odds. There was plenty of intensity, drama — and perspiration.
Wando's Hannah Ross scored from 20 yards out 75 seconds into stoppage time to give the South a 2-1 victory.
"After the first two minutes, we were dripping with sweat and it was gross," said Ross, who played on two state championship teams at Wando. "It was humid, but we knew we had to dig down deep."
In the boys game, the North dominated the South, with a 19-10 advantage in shots en route to a 3-1 victory.
For most of the girls match, the South seemed to have it in the bag. They took a 1-0 lead in the 50th minute when Hilton Head's Kelsey Fitzhugh scored on an assist from Wando's Grace Gore.
But the North tied the score in the 77th minute when J.L. Mann's Elizabeth Oliver scored on an assist from Clover's Naomi Matley.
But Ross scored on a breakaway to give the South an 8-7-2 advantage in the series.
"After they scored, we looked at each other and knew we had to finish it," Ross said. "I wanted to score the whole game, so I was glad when it happened. Scoring the winning goal made it even better."
Sunday's game was the final match of Ross' career.
"I am going to Clemson. Today was good, but winning the state championship my senior year was my biggest memory. I got brought up to the varsity for the playoffs when I was a sophomore, and we won the state championship. We didn't win it last year, so we were worried going into this year's championship."
Fitzhugh of Hilton Head was the South MVP, while Matley was the North MVP.
In the boys match, the North opened the scoring in the 42nd minute when Blythe-wood's Quenten Howard's service found Gaffney's Victory Ramirez's head on the backside for an impressive goal.
Sixteen minutes later, the North increased the lead when Sam Moss of Wren scored unassisted.
The North closed out its scoring when Nick Retter found the back of the net.
Jonathan Glenn of Academic Magnet had the South's only goal. He scored on a shot assisted by Alan Hernandez of Stall.
Howard was the North's MVP while Noah Gulley of Waccamaw was the South MVP.
The North won for the first time since 2009 and now leads the series 15-8-2.


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This will allow for massive lease sales that will endanger coastal lands and communities.
The move poses a grave threat to the Arctic Refuge after more than 40 years of bipartisan support for protections.
Joining the Trump administration's assault on federal lands across America, the state of Alaska is preparing to renew efforts to explore for oil on the coastal plain of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.
Alaska Sen. Lisa Murkowski has revived her ongoing attack on Alaska's Izembek National Wildlife Refuge by introducing a bill (S. 3204) that would force construction of a road through a designated wilderness area.
National wildlife refuges are some of our most accessible public lands, and some of the least appreciated.
President Roosevelt's creation of the Pelican Island National Wildlife Refuge in Florida enjoys a prominent place in conservation lore, both for the public lands precedent it set and the rather
On the heels of President Obama's historic recommendation last January to preserve nearly all of Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge as wilderness, a record number of U.S.
These are your public lands, so be sure to make the most of them year-round.
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Monthly Archives: May 2018
The Practical Side of Lewis: Patriotism
It would be plausible that any writer who fought in World War I and lived through World War II would have something to say about nation-building. Should a Christian find some personal identity in one's country? I found two occasions where Lewis talks about this practical issue. One occasion is a letter …September 29, 2018 3:12 am Leave your thoughts
The Practical Side of Lewis: Occupation vs. Vocation
You may think C.S. Lewis's writings only offer an intellectual approach to faith, one that certainly employs a creative vision, but is often stuck too far in the clouds. I would argue that such an approach, bathed in imagination, actually becomes the legs that everyday, practical faith actually walk on and …September 14, 2018 11:13 am Leave your thoughts
What Do You Know?
C. S. Lewis would be among the first to run clear away from a Christian message that promises God's comfort without the reality of sacrifice. Through history, from the beginning of the Christian Church through today's plethora of options, some preachers have chosen to emphasize the more acceptable, tolerable, comfortable …August 30, 2018 5:44 am Leave your thoughts
Lewis and Politics
By Tim Scheiderer – In 1951, Winston Churchill and the Conservative Party regained control of the prime-ministership and Parliament. A few weeks after the election, the Prime Minister's office wrote C.S. Lewis indicating the Prime Minister would like to bestow upon Lewis the honorary title, "Commander of the British Empire." …August 23, 2018 6:54 pm Leave your thoughts
Summer Reading
Do you have your summer reading list put together? We certainly encourage you to read Lewis in whatever format you choose. But you might also want to read a book that was in Lewis's library–a book that influenced him.July 29, 2018 11:52 am
Stephen to Lazarus
As you know, Lewis wrote poetry throughout his life. Many of these works are collected in the volume simply called "Poems." In addition, it's helpful to note that his first book, Spirits in Bondage: A Cycle of Lyrics (1919), was a work of poetry, though it would be years before he would …July 23, 2018 6:02 pm Leave your thoughts
Two New C. S. Lewis Compilations
Introducing two new C. S. Lewis compilations, one on Christianity and one on Prayer, culled from his beloved works and available wherever books and ebooks are sold. Here are some insights into each of these new books, from the Preface:July 17, 2018 7:57 pm Leave your thoughts
Chosen for the Unchosen
The Old Testament speaks of a "chosen people." It's a label that sounds exclusive, and our modern minds find it abrasive. "Democrats by birth and education," Lewis says in Miracles, "we should prefer to think that all nations and individuals start level in the search for God, or even that …June 22, 2018 4:44 pm Leave your thoughts
Reading Children's Stories
In continuing our group of entries on reading, you might assume–and correctly–that Lewis has something to say about stories for children, especially given the Narnia series and secondarily (I think) the space trilogy. In Of Other Worlds, he gives us three ways of writing for children in an essay aptly titled, "On …June 18, 2018 2:13 pm Leave your thoughts
Reading Expands Us
In An Experiment in Criticism Lewis says this: "Each of us by nature sees the whole world from one point of view with a perspective and a selectiveness peculiar to himself." Reading well helps us to step outside our own naveled gaze and into a different point of view. "We want to see …May 31, 2018 7:58 pm Leave your thoughts


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German court dismisses bid for full Eichmann files
BERLIN (AP) — Germany's foreign intelligence agency can keep secret some of its records on Adolf Eichmann, the man known as the architect of the Nazi Holocaust, a court ruled Thursday.
The Federal Administrative Court ruled that the intelligence agency was within its rights to black out passages from the files sought by a journalist attempting to shed light on whether West German authorities knew in the 1950s where Eichmann had fled after World War II.
Thursday's ruling followed a decision last year in which the court said the Federal Intelligence Service had to release some files it had previously kept secret.
Israeli agents abducted Eichmann in Buenos Aires in 1960 and brought him to Jerusalem for trial. Eichmann, who helped organize the extermination of Europe's Jews as the head of the Gestapo's Jewish affairs office during the World War II, was found guilty of war crimes, sentenced to death and hanged in 1962.
The mass-circulation Bild daily, whose reporter sued for the files' full release, has reported that West German intelligence knew as early as 1952 that he was in Argentina.
In 2006, the CIA released documents showing that it wrote to its West German counterpart in 1958, saying it had information that Eichmann "is reported to have lived in Argentina under the alias 'Clemens' since 1952" — both his correct whereabouts and only a slightly different alias, which was actually Ricardo Klement.
The German intelligence service said in an emailed reaction to the ruling that most of the files it holds on Eichmann are already public and only a small portion still needs to be blacked out. It said that the need to do so stems from laws on "protecting state security interests" and data protection laws.
A lawyer for Bild's publisher, Axel Springer, said after Thursday's ruling that it reserved the right to take the case to Germany's highest court. Christoph Partsch said in a statement that Germany's interests would be harmed by redacting the files, not by releasing them.
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Digestive Disorders
After Gallbladder Surgery
I just had my gallbladder removed on Tuesday and sti have the same pain in the general area where my gallbladder would be. I went back to the ER for severe abdominal pain 48 hours after surgery which came up inconclusive on the ctscan with and without contrast. My abdominal pain has since significantly decreased but I still have a dull ache where the organ was, horrible acid reflux/heartburn and pain between my shoulder blades. My gallbladder was removed due to an 8 percent ejection fraction and absolutely no gallstones sludge or infection. How long will I continue to have this `phantom` pain?
Removing a gallbladder for low ejection fraction does not always solve the problem. Some will have the same pain and most surgeons will tell you this before hand. On the positive, side, it may be pain from the surgery itself and this can last up to 4 weeks but should decrease over that time.
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Writer Sandra Tsing Loh loves her 91-year-old father. As he lost his independence, she began caring for him and has encountered frustration that many children of aging baby boomers may face. In a piece in The Atlantic , she confesses that there are moments when she wishes he would die.
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Sandra Tsing Loh confesses to a moment of frustration in which she surprised herself by screaming: I want my father to die. She loves her 91-year-old dad. And like many children who are now caring for their aging parents, her relationship with him is complicated. In the piece she wrote called "Daddy Issues" in this month's Atlantic, Loh touches on the real difficulties of caring for parents who are aging and sometimes ill, the conflict between feeling obligated to care for somebody who cared for you, the resentment of the financial burden and the knowing worry that you're neglecting your own kids and your own life for the sake of your parent, feelings that it's difficult to fault, but they're nevertheless fraught with guilt.
In the next two decades, tens of millions of the youngest baby boomers will be turning 70. People are living longer than ever before, and they include our parents. So we want to ask you: If you have taken care of an aging parent, have you actually lived this internal conflict? It's a tough one. And we would like to hear from you. Our number is 800-989-8255. Our email address is firstname.lastname@example.com, and you can join the conversation at our website. Just go to npr.org and click on TALK OF THE NATION.
Well, Sandra Tsing Loh joins us from NPR member station KPCC in Pasadena, California. Sandra, it's nice to have you with us.
SANDRA TSING LOH: Well, thanks for having me, John.
DONVAN: So when you screamed aloud that you wanted your father to die, you were talking with someone and you shocked that person. You also shocked yourself, it seems.
LOH: Yes. And I think that many of us are in a peculiar position, that we just - all of our, you know, therapy - you know, I'm 50. I've been in therapy for several decades. You know, you have this narrative of you rebel against your parents in your teens. You're 23, you break away. You're 33, you become friends with them. You're 40s, now you have children, so you feel nostalgic. You make your peace with the Kubler-Ross stages. But now, some of us are at a point where, you know, it's like - it's open-ended how long our parents will live.
Our children may leave the nest, and we may still be taking care of these elderly people. You know, over the - 85 and older is the fastest growing demographic. And what that becomes is very complicated. And I think many of us are finding as we enter this unbelievably expensive - the care, you know, for my father and his wife is like $10,000 a month in caregivers, just to keep them sort of off the street. Because the thing is even though my dad is 91 and has Parkinson's, is in a wheelchair, he's incredibly active and he wheels himself down to the bus and goes to lectures at UCLA and sort of still is all over the streets of Los Angeles.
Police are bringing him back at various points of the day. So you have to have a caregiver chasing them at, like, 18 bucks an hour. And it's - you go - this is something we never anticipated...
DONVAN: It's the word...
LOH: ...and how do we deal with it?
DONVAN: The word burden comes to mind, and then it's not a nice word to use about our parents.
LOH: It isn't, and it's a hard thing, because we could just let the police bring, you know, my elderly relatives who are wandering home every day. But you don't want to have that burden on society. And then often, people will say, just put him in assisted-living. But if, you know, elderly folk don't want to go, you kind of almost have to sedate them out of their minds and then handcuff them and drag them away. And that's a very hard moral decision to make just to make it more convenient and to make it somewhat cheaper.
So to give them their freedom as much as they can, it can be really expensive and time-consuming, and it's - every day, you're just full of angst and ambivalence about it.
DONVAN: Well, speaking of ambivalence, what really complicates this, I think, two thoughts I have, one is - number one, these are the people who took care of us when it wasn't particularly fun necessarily...
LOH: Right.
DONVAN: ...to be taking care of us. Number two, give us enough years, and we're going to be in this situation, well, and we want to be taken care of. We will become the burden ourselves. And if we're feeling now towards an older generation that they're - that we have to carry them and we resent, that it that it suggests we're in for - be causing an awful lot of resentment ourselves.
LOH: Well, and I think, John, what's interesting about that is that - and I've talked frankly with many other people in this situation going, OK. My parents took cared of me from zero to 18, and I lived with them. I lived under their roof. I did everything they told me to, and then I was out. We may take care of our elderly parents for 20 or 30 years because the longevity is so much longer now. They don't do what we ask them to. They're not under our house. They're not under our holiday schedule, so it's actually in this book that I talked about, Jane Gross' "A Bittersweet Season," in The Atlantic. She talks about the mommy track versus the daughter track.
And although parents, we complain about our children and how tough it is to find day care and good schools, et cetera, kind of the daughter track is far more open ended and has no rewards, you know, at the end except for death. And it's longer and it's unpredictable and it's a totally different track people are experiencing now.
DONVAN: We can see sometimes by the number of phone calls that light up the switchboard how active a topic this is. This one is very active. We have a lot of people who want to stand by and talk with you about this, and I want to go first to Evan in Baltimore, Maryland. Evan, hi. You're on TALK OF THE NATION.
YVONNE: Hi. My name is Yvonne.
DONVAN: Oh. I apologize.
YVONNE: That's OK. In 2000, my mother's heart suddenly stopped. And I took care of her for 10 years, and towards the end of that - and that was total care. That means, you know, bathing, making all of her meals, changing her diapers. I also work in long-term care for a corporation called Genesis. I'm a registered nurse. And on top of that, my youngest daughter gave birth to a child that she really couldn't take care of herself. So I was doing, wow, all of that.
LOH: Oh, my God.
YVONNE: And I got to tell you. There were times I thought I was going to lose that. Just talking about it now brings up so much emotion. I'm so sorry but...
LOH: Oh, my God. I feel like this - I think it's so good. I'm just like completely weeping as well, and I think it's good to just get it out there. Sometimes words cannot express...
DONVAN: Yvonne, is your - Yvonne...
YVONNE: Let me just say this while I gain my composure. What (unintelligible) is how angry I felt. I could not - I felt so angry, and I'm ashamed of that.
DONVAN: So you were angry about being angry, it sounds like.
YVONNE: Yes. Yes because it was my mother.
DONVAN: Yeah. Hey, Yvonne...
LOH: No.
DONVAN: Let me just step in because I want to give Yvonne the break of silence. So, Yvonne, listen. Thank you for sharing that. I don't want to push you anymore...
YVONNE: Your welcome, guys.
DONVAN: ...because you made a very, very powerful statement there. And thank you for that. Go ahead, Sandra.
LOH: Well, I think there was two things - that she didn't get the support around her that she could have had, but I think that's what we are still looking at our parent as my mother, my father, where, in fact, at some point, you have to just look at them as this being. Not like a plant or a piece of furniture or a pet or something to just separate these things out because our childhood, you know, dramas and emotions that come up, but they're still very active as for adults. And I think just what Yvonne is going through is just so common.
DONVAN: I know, though, that there were going to be listeners who feel - and maybe at some point you agree with them on this - who are going to feel, hey, that's the deal. That's the contracts within a family. They took care of you. You take care of them. I know it's not easy. I know it costs, but family is family. And I'd like to hear your view on that.
LOH: In the year 1900, you know, the life expectancy was about 40 in the United States, so everything was different. You know, now, it's, you know, it's into the - into the 80s, so nobody - were this really interesting, unique time almost of human biology, or because of our lifespans have extended by several decades now. It kind of rejiggers the whole notion of, you know, kind of marriage, children, family, and caregiving and even financially at some point. I think many of us - if I am 50, I have two girls, would've put them through college. I'm actually - our family finances are going to go to cut up the children of the caregiver of my dad (unintelligible).
DONVAN: Sandra, if you're a listener now listening to this program, and you're 91 years old and you're weak and you need the help, what - how do you feel? What are you supposed to feel about this?
LOH: Well, I mean, I think that, for instance, for my father, let me say, if there's a 91-year-old person who's sentient and livid and listening to this, I think that's great. My father is in a position where he is sort of unbrokerable(ph) about these things. We have taken - you just wait for your caregiver to get there at 8 in the morning. No. He'll get on the bus at 7:45 and flee the caregiver. So I think my father is a particularly irascible person that you can't reason with about things.
But if there's a 91-year-old person who one can reason with through all this, so I think that's kind of wonderful and great. But some people when they get older like my dad, they just lose more. They don't want to broker. They don't want to make any deals. They don't want to follow any instructions. And so it's like kind of riding a wild bucking bronco. So it's not every one - 90-year-old.
DONVAN: Yeah. I just don't want that sentient person who's 91 listening to this to feel that we're talking about us and them, and they are them and not part of us.
LOH: Right. Right.
DONVAN: Mark in Portland, Oregon. You're on TALK OF THE NATION. Mark, hi. You're on the program.
MARK: Oh, hello. Thanks. This is a really great topic because I think that the children who end up taking care of their parents really - in some cases, the parents are quite grateful. In other cases, they're very ungrateful...
MARK: ...because of mental illness and so forth. In 2006, I began intervening in my mother's life because I was pretty clear she'd become a hoarder. And by 2008, I had her extracted from her house where she was then declared a disabled person in Illinois. Along with that, at least in the state or the county of Cook in the state of Illinois, there is a tremendous legal burden that comes along with being the guardian. You have a certain amount of - well, actually, a severe amount of court supervision. There are - you have to have your own attorney, a case manager is assigned. And there's a guardian ad litem who's there to speak to make sure that the disabled person has a voice. In my case, you know, I have all of those things going on, so I have all those people to answer to. Plus, I have the ongoing care for my mother. Luckily, she has the financial means to be supported.
DONVAN: Depends on how long she lives though, doesn't it?
MARK: Pardon me?
DONVAN: That depends on how long she lives. I mean, I do know of families who felt that they were supported when the money was needed at age 85. And then 10 years later, the money ran out.
MARK: Yeah, that's true. We've done our (unintelligible) report, we know. We're pretty lucky that way.
DONVAN: All right. Thank you very much, Mark, for your call. We really do appreciate it.
MARK: Thanks.
DONVAN: I want to read an email from Susan who writes: My father lived with multiple sclerosis for 22 years. I was 28 when he died. I never saw my mother cry until that day, and it was from relief not sorrow. She was exhausted from tirelessly raising four children with a totally disabled husband. I changed diapers and emptied urinals from the age of 10. We loved our father but it was a relief when he passed away. That's an incredibly honest, incredibly honest thing to say because...
LOH: Right.
DONVAN: You know why? Because you're not supposed to say it. And you're in that realm as well, Sandra. I think you're saying things that are supposed to be taboo. And in the article - and I really do recommend that people read it - you do this very skillful thing of making it feel tongue in cheek when it really isn't. And is that because you know, you're aware of the line that you're walking on this?
LOH: Well, I think I'm - I have never been afraid to say things that I'm feeling and other people are feeling to put it out there even if it doesn't sound pretty. But I think also, really honestly, this topic that's going to be around with us for a long time, this elder care, I mean, it's just more and more people are going to be experiencing it. You know, to be honest and with Yvonne who was like - it is so emotional and can be so sad and sort of almost hilariously tedious because something can begin with, you know, a parent kind of like stubs their toe in the shower. And that seems like nothing. And it becomes a four-year journey of medical things and problems.
So it's like even though I found some humor in it in a certain way, and I have siblings who do - you know, we do talk to each other with a certain gallows humor about it. I think you actually have to, if possible, laugh about it sometimes. You can because we're going be doing this for a long time. And, you know, one of the points I make in my article, which is just totally like my dad, is like every day he wants sex. And it's like - we're just like, oh. It's the last thing that you want to hear, but he's - he's ready. He's calling me, do you have any girlfriends? And it's kind of like ghoulish, but it's kind of - if you know my dad, it's kind of like hilarious that he's still out there.
So at a certain point, you know, I think as opposed to crying because I have a father who doesn't remember the names of his grandchildren, not because he's senile, just that's it's not really not interesting to him. He wants to eat ice cream and go to chemistry lectures and sing opera loudly in front of strangers. It's like, if I can just kind of take the notion that just look at this guy with the spirit to live, you know?
DONVAN: Yeah. He is alive.
LOH: Yes, he may bankrupt the family, but my kids can go to junior college. Look at that spirit to live. That's all I'm going to get from that. So that's kind of why I try to add some, you know, different twists and turns to it so we just don't weep our way through 400 page books.
DONVAN: You do it very well. You're listening to TALK OF THE NATION on NPR News. Back to callers. Mary in St. Louis, Missouri. Hi, Mary. You're on TALK OF THE NATION.
MARY: Hi.
DONVAN: Hi.
LOH: Hi.
MARY: Hi. I want to thank your guest for giving us permission to feel this.
DONVAN: And you feel like you need permission, sounds like.
MARY: Well, you know, we've been taking care of my mother. She was 105 in October.
LOH: Oh, my God.
Yeah. We still have her at home. And the state only gives us three eight-hour shifts a week of an aide, which we pay $333 for.
Oh, my God.
MARY: That's all the help we get. So the rest of the 24/7 care is apportioned out to different volunteer family members. And luckily, I'm the youngest of 10 children, so we do have more help than most. But the point I wanted to raise was I think the general public should be made aware that there is very little help out there from the states. It differs from state to state. If you want to keep your parent at home, every single roadblock we've gone through, they say, well, you know, they would take care of her if you put her in a nursing home.
DONVAN: Yeah.
MARY: Well, my mother isn't dying. She's actually been dropped from hospice twice. And...
LOH: Oh, God.
MARY: ...she survived the six-month term. And...
DONVAN: Mary, I have to interrupt only because we're completely out of time. But I want to thank you for your call and take that your point is that help is needed, that it's very, very difficult dealing with them.
MARY: Lots more help.
DONVAN: All right. Mary, thanks very much for your call and to everybody who's talked with us so honestly and emailed. I really want to give you a heartfelt thanks for that. And also to Sandra Tsing Loh who joined us from NPR member station KPCC in Pasadena, California. I need you to tell me in 10 seconds, Sandra, seriously, 10 seconds, do you want to live to be 100?
LOH: Oh, I don't know.
DONVAN: All right. You...
LOH: Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes.
DONVAN: Yeah, you do, you're saying.
LOH: And I won't be - and I'll be a pleasure to my children, of course.
DONVAN: All right. Yeah. There's a link to your piece in The Atlantic on our website. Just go to npr.org, and click on TALK OF THE NATION. Tomorrow, what information companies collect on you and does it matter? Join us for that conversation. This is TALK OF THE NATION from NPR News. I'm John Donvan in Washington.
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Swelling in the hands and fingers takes a very, very long time to go away. Usually many months at the minimum with an injury like the one you described. You probably sprained some ligaments in the ring and small fingers, it certainly wouldn't hurt to see an orthopedist who specializes in hands. If your primary doc doesn't agree, that's his problem. I would see an orthopedist, or maybe at least a PT who is hand therapy specialized. I think that you may need some guidance in terms of how to exercise the hand appropriately.
The bone is likely not swollen, it is probably the tissue around it.
Thanks Dan. Yeah initially I was certain the hand was broken given all the swelling and pain. The only part that was discolored was the inside of my hand below be ring and pinkie finger.
It has gotten better but it seems like the knuckles on the injured hand are bigger than the one on my other hand, so I wasn't sure if bones ever swell up or if it's just areas near them.
I'm going to do what I have to do to see an ortho.
I know you have limited info and can't see it, but if it was something major that required surgery for a tendon, muscle or ligament, would I be in more pain and have less range of motion? The fingers bend and move fine. Just won't bend at the knuckle, hopefully just due to swelling.
Thank you for the responses.
If a tendon was disrupted, you wouldn't be able to bend and extend the fingers. Most likely this is a knuckle ligamentous injury. I would guess most likely not surgical, but like you said I can't see your hand.
Keep the hand moving Chris, I just wouldn't be too aggressive about your activity level.
I too jammed my hand a while back. Now I'm having problems with making a fist and gripping items. There was no fracture and the fingers are swollen but bend and flex fine. The knuckle however is real swollen and keeps the hand from bending like it should.
For a while it seemed like the ring finger had trigger finger as it would not go completely straight. It only would if I forced it and id feel pressure on the outter part by the knuckle. Now it is pretty much straight but there's a slight curve.
Any guess as to what I might have damaged? It seems like the ring and pinkie knuckles and inner side of my hand right below those two fingers are swollen but no longer discolored, just stiff and some discomfort if I try to "bend" the hand like my healthy one bends.
This patient sustained a high-pressure injection injury to the PIP joint of his right index finger. The patient's description of how the injury occurred suggested this, and the radiograph confirmed it by showing some paint under the skin (See arrow, F I GURE 1 ). Such injuries occur when a high pressure (typically from a hose) forces air or a substance—eg, diesel fuel, paint, or solvent—through the skin into the finger.
Although high-pressure injection injury often has a benign presentation, it is actually a medical emergency. If aggressive surgical debridement does not occur within a 6-hour window, the patient runs a high risk for amputation of the digit. 1 A hand surgeon should be contacted as soon as possible.
The severity of the injury varies, depending on the amount of pressure (amputation rates are as high as 43% when the pressure per square inch >1000), the type of material injected (diesel fuel is the most toxic), and the location. 1,2
Instruct the patient to remove any jewelry, such as a wedding band or watch, on the affected hand or wrist, and to keep the hand elevated. Broad-spectrum antibiotics should be started right away, and a tetanus booster given, if needed. Do not apply heat or use local anesthesia, as both can increase the swelling. 2
CASE 2 A 17-year-old cheerleader comes to see you on Monday afternoon, after injuring her left pinky during a Friday night game. The patient, who is right-handed, points to the left PIP joint when you ask where it hurts, and tells you that the finger is stiff. She has been icing it since the injury occurred, to make sure she is ready to cheer by next weekend.
The injury occurred when she was spotting another cheerleader during a routine, the patient reports, adding that the pinky was "dislocated." The coach "popped" it back in place and buddy-taped the injured finger to her ring finger.
The patient is able to flex and extend the DIP joint on the pinky when the PIP joint is stabilized. She can also flex the PIP joint unassisted, but has difficulty extending it. The digit demonstrates slight flexion of the PIP joint. You note tenderness over both collateral ligaments and the dorsum of the PIP joint, but not over the volar aspect of the injured finger, and order x-rays ( FIGURE 2 ).
1. Hogan CJ, Ruland RT. High-pressure injection injuries to the upper extremity: a review of the literature. 2006;20:503-511.
2. Gonzalez R, Kasdan ML. High pressure injection injuries of the hand. . 2006;5:407-411.
3. Freiberg A. Management of proximal interphalangeal joint injuries. . 2007;15:199-203.
4. Perron AD, Brady WJ, Keats TE, et al. Orthopedic pitfalls in the emergency department: closed tendon injuries of the hand. . 2001;19:76-80.
5. Oetgen ME, Dodds SD. Non-operative treatment of common finger injuries. . 2008;1:97-102.
6. Anderson D. Mallet finger. . 2011;40:91-92.
7. Smit JM, Beets MR. Treatment options for mallet finger: a review. . 2010;126:1624-1629.
8. Goodson A, Morgan M. Current management of Jersey finger in rugby players: cases series and literature review. . 2010;15:103-107.
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The Little Grey dress
Added Nov 7, 2012
by marionouchka
Rennes, France
I was invited to a wedding and I needed something warm, a bit classy but not too much…. and I found THE pattern on october's burda mag!
The fabric I chose was a bit too thick to make the gathers but otherwise, it was quite easy to make
Material Notes
wool, invisible zipper and thread!
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Nov 20, 2012, 07.34 PMby Kim Mullins
oh lovely i have seen a few of these on here they are all nice, i looked at the pattern but its not made in my size and my skills do not stretch to drafting up a sizes and being 183 tall i would have to draft up and out.. too complicated for me! but this looks fantastic on you and i wish i could have one.
Nov 15, 2012, 06.29 PMby tejka
nice dress!!
Nov 8, 2012, 03.54 PMby Sara Álvarez
Looks so warm and comfy! I'm going to make one in red crushed velvet. Hope it looks as nice as yours.
Nov 8, 2012, 06.56 AMby leokadia
SUPERSCHÖN! ich gratuliere!
Nov 7, 2012, 10.20 PMby milkyway
I adore this pattern definitive I will give it try but sure in a bright color, superb
Nov 7, 2012, 09.42 PMby Karen Thoonen
I love it! I was going to make the blouse version of this dress. But now I want to make the dress too! I think you did a great job. The thickness of the wool gives the dress something extra in my opinion!
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R.A. Dickey said the pictures and literature couldn't have prepared him for the young boy who approached him last week on one of the squalid streets of Mumbai's red-light district.
The boy was maybe 3 years old, 4 at best. He had no pants on. His body was covered with open sores.
"He was playing amongst the open sewage and filth with rats as big as dogs. Unsupervised," the Toronto Blue Jays' new knuckleballer told The Canadian Press on a conference call Tuesday from India's most populous city. "You see these images and pictures that just don't seem like they should exist. And you hope that it's the only one … but that's what's representative, these lives that just don't have a voice."
The 38-year-old former Mets ace, who was traded to Toronto this offseason, is in Mumbai to work with Bombay Teen Challenge, a Christian organization that has rescued women and children from sex trafficking for the past 23 years.
It's a cause that Dickey says speaks to his own narrative. He wrote about being sexually abused as a child in his autobiography "Wherever I Wind Up: My Quest for Truth, Authenticity and the Perfect Knuckleball."
"It's authentic to me because of my past experience, also I have a sentimentality to it because the girls that I've seen firsthand in the streets, these 19-, 20-, 21-year-old girls. You have to look beyond that and see at one point they were daughters themselves, and having two daughters … that just for me was so compelling."
He made the trip with his daughters, 11-year-old Gabriel and 9-year-old Lila.
"I want to give my children a heart for humanity," Dickey said. "The only way to really do that is to get them outside of the bubble that they live in, and expose them in very measured ways to what real life is to a lot of people. They've responded beautifully."
The 2012 NL Cy Young winner said it's been "a roller-coaster" visit, from the visceral red-light images of women in doorways and the cages where they keep them when they're first trafficked.
But he also saw hope.
Dickey and his daughters stayed at Ashagram, a rehabilitation campus outside Mumbai that's home to 300 women and children. They were the "most hopeful days" of the trip. They played cricket and sang songs with the children, many of whom are HIV positive.
"Those are the miracles, the 300 lives in Ashagram, those are 300 living miracles," Dickey said. "Sure (my daughters) heard about the wickedness and the darkness, but they got to actually see the redemption, so their response has been really positive. This is a seminal trip for them."
Dickey, who speaks openly with his daughters about his own sexual abuse, helped celebrate the opening of a clinic in the midst of Mumbai's red-light district. He helped pay for the clinic, raising over $100,000 by climbing Mount Kilimanjaro last winter.
"The facility is like a beacon of light in the middle of a swamp," he said.
BTC's Thomason Varghese said the organization was blessed by Dickey's presence.
"But we think we've been even more blessed by his daughters," Varghese said. "Just to see innocent girls loving our girls and playing with them with no inhibitions, it's just been a real joy for us to see and experience. There are friendships that have come through this despite how different their backgrounds are.
"Today the girls were in our feeding truck serving food to those who are coming from the street, just watching that was a sight to see."
While estimates of sex trafficking in India vary, most studies put the number at more than a million children involved in the country's sex trade.
Dickey was asked how can one measure success in the face of such grim statistics.
"If the organization rescues one human life from that hell, then it's done its job in some way," Dickey said. "You're talking over the last 23 years over 1,000 lives being rescued, given a second chance to have a life, rescuing children, people who were left for dead on doorsteps of these brothels. . .
"The women who had been trafficked into prostitution, dying in hospitals with their children by their bed, here's the Bombay Teen Challenge with a relationship in place to be able to take in and care for these children.
"How do you measure success? I think it's one life at a time."


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An Oct. 4 wedding is being planned by Aly Link and Evan Beilstein, both of Butler.
The bride-to-be is the daughter of Lloyd and Karen Link of Butler. Parents of the prospective bridegroom are Robert and Tammy Beilstein of Butler.
The future bride is a 2008 graduate of Butler High School. She studied massage therapy management at Butler County Community College and graduated in 2010.
She is employed as a licensed massage therapist at Shear Heaven Salon and Spa in Butler.
Her fiance graduated in 2011 from Butler High School. He studied heavy equipment operations and commercial truck driving at New Castle School of Trades and graduated in 2012.
He is employed as a CDL driver and milkman for Marburger Dairy in Evans City.


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Water main break closes Benjamin Parkway in Greensboro
Water main break closes Benjamin Parkway in Greensboro
Benjamin Parkway is expected to remain closed through early Tuesday morning after a water main break caused a school to dismiss early.
The break occurred around 11:30 a.m. Monday near Kiser Middle School. Benjamin Parkway is closed in both directions between North Elam Avenue and Aycock Street.
Two southbound lanes and all northbound lanes are will reopen by 7 a.m. Tuesday, City of Greensboro officials said. A detour route will be posted.
All afterschool activities scheduled for Monday at Kiser Middle, including sports practices, were canceled as well.
Kiser dismissed school due to a lack of water service following the line break. Service is expected to be restored by 10 p.m. Monday, city officials said.


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LATHROP - The recession took a chunk out of budgets providing public services in Lathrop, and city officials are turning to voters to pass a sales tax measure to prevent further cuts and start rebuilding.
LATHROP - The recession took a chunk out of budgets providing public services in Lathrop, and city officials are turning to voters to pass a sales tax measure to prevent further cuts and start rebuilding.
Measure C would add about $2 million to the city's annual budget with a 1 cent sales tax. The money could be used to bolster the operations budget, but city leaders have stressed the importance of shoring up police and fire protection.
The Lathrop Chamber of Commerce is also supporting the measure for a number of reasons, said Mary Kennedy-Bracken, CEO and president of the chamber. "Public safety is first and foremost," she said. Increased police and fire protection will help people feel more safe and comfortable, and the measure can help create jobs while supporting the growth and development of the city, she said. "All of these together will make the city of Lathrop a better community."
Kennedy-Bracken joined Mayor J. "Chaka" Santos and Lathrop-Manteca Fire District Chief Gene Neely in signing the argument in favor of the measure that voters will receive in election materials. It notes the city is home to about 400 documented gang members and has lost one of its four fire stations. It also notes the staffing level for police and fire are below national standards.
No opponents of the measure submitted a formal argument against it to the county Registrar of Voters.
But San Joaquin Taxpayer's Association President David Renison said cities looking to increase sales tax do not get to the root of their budget problems with such measures. A tax hits struggling families and businesses, he said. "I think the residents of Lathrop should shift the responsibility back to the policymakers to find other options."
The sales tax rate in Lathrop is currently 7.75 cents for every dollar spent, which is the lowest tax rate in the county, where it ranges up to 8.25 percent. In the state, sales tax varies from 7.25 percent (the state minimum) to 9.75 percent (the most the state allows).
Lathrop's measure doesn't set a sunset date on the tax increase. It would, however, create an oversight committee to oversee how the money is spent and require the city's independent auditors to include revenue raised and spent through the measure in its reports, according to the city. The measure requires a simple majority to pass.
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Straight Talk on Sharpening
While a cambered plane blade works fine, why start the hard way?
By Deneb Puchalski
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From the December 2011 issue # 194
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A sharp edge is an absolute necessity for hand-tool woodworking – but for many beginners, sharpening plane irons and chisels is an obstacle rather than a gateway to enjoying hand tools. Using dull tools not only requires more effort, it yields poor results. I believe sharpening is a skill that you must master in order to do good work. That doesn't mean it has to be hard to do.
PLAN: Download a free PDF plan for Deneb's "Angle Setting Jig."
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Every Friday in January and February I will be showcasing a birthday themed project. Today I have an assortment of 5 cards from the 2013 Stampin' Up! Annual Convention!
The first card features the Perfectly Penned stamp set (available wood mount #128703 and clear mount #122892).
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The next card uses the Sketched Birthday stamp set (available wood mount #130423 and clear mount #130426) and the Yippee-Skippee! stamp set (available wood mount #131341 and clear mount #131344).
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Although he agrees that 2012's drought caused tight supplies in the grains, Shawn Hackett, president of Hackett Financial Advisors, sees its impact on grains dissipating over time. Instead, in 2013 Hackett is watching the soft ags and cattle, markets that typically have longer cycles.
In the softs, Hackett says 2012 was the year of the surplus, but now prices have fallen in nearly every instance to below the cost to produce them. "A year from now, we will be talking about tight supplies in nearly the entire softs complex. Weather will determine if they are still adequate or if they will be too tight," he says. "Where the grains likely are looking at much more supplies a year from now, the soft ags have fallen so dramatically that we've likely priced in most of the surplus."
Within the softs, Hackett is most bullish on coffee because he says the fundamentals for coffee likely will tighten first compared to other markets where surplus are much higher. "There's a possibility that we could see coffee going to $2.00, and it could see $2.50 if we have weather problems in Vietnam or Brazil," he says.
The second market Hackett is expecting to outperform is cattle. "The drought effect will be leaving the grains and entering the livestock markets. The herd liquidation has already taken place," he says. "The lower supplies are coming due to the fact that we slaughtered so many animals because of the tighter economics. This suggests we'll be entering a period of significantly tighter supplies of beef, pork and dairy."
He explains that cattle has a much longer cycle than the other meats. Where hogs can see a turnaround in the herd in about six months, and even less than that for chickens, it is a couple of years for cattle. "The only way to get through the next couple of years will be to get prices high enough that people stop going to steak houses," he says.
Hackett expects live cattle to go to record highs in 2013 with a price target above $1.50 per pound, but says that if we have more heat or dryness over the summer, we could get to $1.80.
Although 2012 is a year many are happy to see behind us, a lot of the same problems seem poised to follow us into 2013. Nonetheless, opportunities can be found.


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Books Slideshow: Business Process Management: Ten Bold Predictions
By Dennis McCafferty | Posted 04-19-2012
Business Process Management tools enable organizations to enhance innovation, integration and the speed at which they're able to deliver products and services, helping 21st Century businesses gain an edge over the competition. And effective use of BPM tools can help CIOs with other issues like regulatory compliance and keeping up with the global marketplace by leveraging IT. It can even help improve a company's brand recognition. And BPM use will grow quickly as it becomes more influential in the business world, according to the book "Value-Driven Business Process Management: The Value-Switch for Lasting Competitive Advantage" (McGraw-Hill/available now). Authors Peter Franz and Mathias Kirchmer reveal how using BPM can maximize differentiation, performance and day-to-day alignment with strategic objectives. The following are ten predictions about trend drivers that will fuel the demand for BPM in the future. Both Franz and Kirchmer are top BPM managers for Accenture. For more about the book, click here
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"Once upon a time, a Linux distribution would be installed with a /dev directory fully populated with device files. Most of them represented hardware which would never be present on the installed system, but they needed to be there just in case. Toward the end of this era, it was not uncommon to find systems with around 20,000 special files in /dev, and the number continued to grow. This scheme was unwieldy at best, and the growing number of hotpluggable devices (and devices in general) threatened to make the whole structure collapse under its own weight. Something, clearly, needed to be done." The solution came in the form of udev, and udev uses rules to determine how it should handle devices. This allows distributors to tweak how they want devices to be handled. "Or maybe not. Udev maintainer Kay Sievers has recently let it be known that he would like all distributors to be using the set of udev rules shipped with the program itself." ComputerWorld dives into the situation.