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School's out, but there's plenty for children to do
For at least a few students, the countdown to summer vacation began last August. Others maybe waited until January, by which time the bitter cold and recent memories of semester finals started giving way to daydreams of summer sunshine and three months of test-free bliss.
But Illinois summers also come with high humidity, and, come next August, teachers, parents and students (whether they admit it or not) all feel the brain draining effects of a three-month television marathon when school begins again. But complaints of thick air and the familiar "I'm bored" refrain don't have to be this summer's status quo. Springfield offers a range of summer treasures, at least a few of which are both free and air-conditioned.
The Illinois State Museum, 502 S. Spring Street, for years has offered the Bob Steffan Summer Film Fest. Each week in June and July, the museum offers a Tuesday and Wednesday daytime viewing of a short film geared towards young children. Covering all things from dinosaurs and erosion to aerodynamics, the list of films includes a few Magic School Bus gems.
After watching the films and enjoying special day events, or as a separate trip altogether, children can also check out the new Mary Ann MacLean Play Museum, where they'll find hands-on insight into the world of natural history and museum professions.
"You're walking into a new environment when you're walking into that room. With trees and a rock cropping, it's a very fun experience," says Elizabeth Bazan, the museum's education coordinator. "It's a place for discovery." She adds that the free museum is the perfect place for a family outing. For more information, visit www.museum.state.il.us or call 782-5993.
Story times are another enrichment program offered to children in the Springfield area. Lincoln Library, 326 S. 7th Street, holds a "Lap Sit Stories" program for the youngest children, those 18 months and younger, on Mondays at 11 a.m. Registration is required for Lap Sit Stories, but not for two story times designed for children of all ages. Thursday Stories are held at 10:30 a.m. and Saturday Stories are held at 11 a.m. Both programs are closed for the month of May but will begin again in June.
This year's summer reading program theme is "A Midsummer's Knight Read," which means a reading room decked out to look like a dungeon and at least one potential sighting of a living, breathing "knight in shining armor." Registration starts June 4, and the program, complete with daily activities and weekly prizes, is open to anyone 18 years old or younger. For more information call the library at 753-4900 or visit www.lincolnlibrary.info.
Henson Robinson Zoo, 1100 E. Lake Drive, offers summer-long programs for any student between the ages of 7 and 17. Seven through 12-year-olds are invited to Zoo Camp, a four-hour program held on Wednesdays, Thursdays and Fridays in June, July and August at a cost of $50 for Springfield Park District residents. For a younger set, those aged five and six, the zoo will host Saturday Zooper Edventures, full of games, crafts and critters, in June and July from 1 to 3 p.m. Though fun is key to all children's programs, participants will also learn about different animals, plants and habitats.
The zoo's education coordinator, Emily McEvoy, admits there's a motive beyond entertaining kids: "To try to accomplish a conservation goal, people have to care. The best way to get people to care about the animals and the situations they're in is to get people interested. If you get kids interested in it, hopefully someday when they grow up they can make a difference out there for the animals in our area or maybe even world wide."
If children's summers are already too booked to commit to the two-month-long programs, they can still get special looks at the zoo during one-day events, including World Oceans Day on June 11 and a free admission Zoofari on July 9. For more information call Henson Robinson Zoo at 753-6217 or visit www.hensonrobinsonzoo.org.
When hunger strikes, look no further than Springfield Public Schools, where eight schools across the district are expected to offer free breakfast and lunch to any area child, regardless of income, courtesy the federal government. The list of schools offering the program is still waiting for approval, but parents can call the district's food service office at 525-3046 for more information, including dates and times. Most of the schools will start serving in early June. Parents and grandparents can come too, but expect a fee of a few dollars for each adult meal.
For high school students, summer school is always an option, too. Whether to make up lost time or to get ahead, District 186 offers summer coursework in a number of areas, including driver's education and ACT preparation. Students can register for summer courses through June 17. For more information call 525-7913 or visit www.springfield.k12.il.us/summerschool.
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Analysts: Shining Path bruised, far from defeated
LIMA, Peru (AP) — The ambush killing of what Peruvian authorities say is almost certainly half the Shining Path's four-man leadership comes amid a territorial expansion by the cocaine-fueled insurgency and, analysts say, is not apt to cripple it.
DNA tests were being done Tuesday seeking to confirm that among the dead were "Comrade Alipio," the band's military chief, and "Comrade Gabriel," the youngest of the three Quispe Palomino brothers who led an estimated 500-strong remnant of a rebel movement that terrorized Peru in the 1980s and 1990s.
Shining Path "will now try to retool, because they always have young guys who want to advance," said Peru's armed forces chief, Adm. Jose Cueto.
He said an explosion apparently triggered by bullets during a firefight and an ensuing conflagration killed the two rebels Sunday night along with Alipio's security chief, a man in his mid-20s. The bodies were burned beyond recognition.
About 15 navy special forces commandos accompanied by police had been lying in wait for the rebels outside a house where Shining Path kept explosives in a hamlet in the Llochegua region of the Apurimac and Ene river valley, Cueto said.
He said the ambush capped a manhunt of "various months" that employed human intelligence and radio intercepts as well as electronic surveillance, on which he would not elaborate.
Analysts said the blow's effectiveness will depend on the military's ability to follow up in the hostile environment of that Peruvian region, which has in the past few years become the world's single biggest cocaine-producing valley.
Expert say Peru has now surpassed Colombia in coca cultivation and likely cocaine production, too.
Sunday's killings are the biggest blow to Shining Path since 1999, when the group's No. 2 leader, Comrade Feliciano, was captured, said Jamie Antezana, a security expert.
A splinter faction in the coca-growing Upper Huallaga valley was dismantled last year with the capture of "Comrade Artemio," who was sentenced to life in prison in June for crimes including terrorism and drug trafficking.
But "Alipio," whose real name is Alejandro Borda Casafranca, was far more influential and was a "bloodthirsty" veteran strategist who will be difficult to replace, security expert Pedro Yaranga said.
Antezana said Sunday's blow comes as the organization's influence is spreading north to the jungle state of Loreto and south to Puno, which border's Bolivia at Lake Titicaca.
"This is the moment (for the military) to get on the offensive" against a band that has killed about 100 government troops since 2008, mostly in ambushes, he said.
The two surviving Shining Path leaders, Victor and Jorge Quispe, are not military men but have gained considerable influence by spreading their cocaine wealth through a sparsely populated region of dense jungles and rugged hills.
The U.S. State Department has offered a $5 million reward for Victor Quispe, who it says runs several cocaine labs in addition to taxing production by others.
Alipio and Gabriel had apparently alienated some locals, however, by destroying heavy equipment last month used in a road-building project after extortion money went unpaid.
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The Phillies have released righthander Aaron Cook, who was eligible for a $100,000 bonus if he accepted an assignment to the minor leagues. Assistant general manager Scott Proefrock said the Phillies decided on their own to release Cook rather than pay him the bonus.
Cook, a veteran sinkerballer who has struggled the last couple of season, posted a 3.38 ERA in six spring outings. As usual, his strikeout numbers were low (five in 18 2/3 innings, against four walks).
Cook did not have an obvious spot on the big league roster. His departure leaves the Phillies without a veteran starter at Triple-A. The move would seem to indicate that promising lefty Adam Morgan will start the season at Triple-A along with righties Jonathan Pettibone and perhaps Ethan Martin. Righthander Tyler Cloyd is on the 40-man roster and started a handful of games last season and provides added depth.
"I think we feel pretty good about the depth that we have," said Proefrock, who added that the club was stretching out reliever B.J. Rosenberg to join the Triple-A rotation.


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Sunday, September 6, 2015
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Is it Safe to Take a Break From Fosomax?
I am 59 years old; had a total hysterectomy at age 32. I have continued with HRT (.025 Vivelle-Dot) and the past 5 years 70mg Fosamax, along with Vitamin D. My last bone density test indicated no additional bone loss from the previous (2 years ago) test results.
I'm wondering if a break from Fosamax would be advisable. My physician simply leaves that decision to my discretion. I feel great, have no complaints but I don't want to take a drug if it isn't truly necessary. Your response will be greatly appreciated.
Fosamax (alendronate) is a medication indicated for both the treatment of osteoporosis and also the prevention of osteoporosis in postmenopausal women. It works by inhibiting cells that break down bone, which slows bone loss. It has also been shown to increase bone mineral density and reduce the risk of fractures. The optimal duration of treatment with Fosamax in postmenopausal women is unknown. Furthermore, little is known about the long-term side effects of Fosamax therapy. Studies have shown that bone mineral density continues to improve throughout ten years of treatment with Fosamax, however, reduction in fracture risk has only been proven to occur throughout a four year treatment period. After five years without Fosamax therapy, significant bone loss has been shown to occur at the hip and top of the femur. However, bone density in the lumbar spine remained increased. An individual's risk of fracture should also be taken into account when deciding whether or not to continue therapy with Fosamax. History of fracture, low body weight (<127 lbs), current smoking, use of oral corticosteroid therapy for more than 3 months, impaired vision, dementia, frailty, recent falls, lifelong low calcium intake, low physical activity, estrogen deficiency at less than 45 years of age, and more than 2 alcoholic drinks per day can all increase the risk of fracture. Regardless of prescription medication use, it is important for all patients with decreased bone density to consume adequate amounts of calcium (at least 1200 mg/day) and Vitamin D (400-800 IU/day), regularly perform weight-bearing exercise, and avoid smoking and excessive alcohol intake. Response prepared by Sherri Steinkirchner, Pharm D. Candidate, Ohio Northern University
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I get the feeling that a few people are frustrated searching the online church records so I thought I would point out a few things.
1) You can search with wildcard character in the first name field, within limits.
e.g., Cat* will match on Catherine Cathe Cate etc.
2) The first name field also accepts large boolean expressions. For example to search for an ancestor named Kate I would enter in the field:
(Cathe or Cath or Cats or Catha or Cathn or Cathne or Cate or Cat or Catherine or Catharine or Catherina or Catharina or Kath or Katherine or Kate or Katy or Katty or Kitty or Cotturim or Catharinam)
This might turn up a few more possibilities for you.
3) At first I thought the union of two wildcards would not work, but I just now got it to work:
(Hum* or Um*) will search for first name Humphrey.
My list of boolean expressions is growing steadily so I will post it up on my website. You can copy and paste these expressions into first name fields.
4) Some of the indexing is atrocious and causes more problems. Think about how your ancestor's name might have been misindexed. For example, I found some confusion between Humphry/Morty. I then thought Humphry could have been misindexed as Murphy and thus found more men named Humphry. Last night I found a Humphrey indexed as "Helen." I am not joking. Remember, these records were indexed by people who did not necessarily know the families in the locality you are searching.
Other pairs that cause confusion: L- versus S- e.g., Louney versus Souney, Lantry versus Santry. L---y could be Leary or Loony. P- and B- can be confused.
It almost goes without saying that if your name is Regan or Reagan you must check Ryan and vice versa.
5) Surnames are not as automatically cross-referenced as I would like. I cannot get boolean expressions to match for surnames but wildcards seem to work. Col* will turn up Collins, Coleman, etc.
6) Some townland names are hardly recognizable any more or grossly misspelled/misunderstood. I hope you are equipped with a good gazetteer or atlas or map. Once you crack a few mistranscribed townlands, the records will get easier to read.
seanruad.com and logainm.ie are good for looking up locations.
7) I repeat, look at the images. Get your eyes acclimated to the syntax of the church records. Look at lots of records.
My husband joked that there were a lot of women named "Hillary" in Ireland when what we were looking at was a phrase starting with "& Mary " .
Here's another example:
[child's Christian name] of [father's name] & [mother's name]
The "of" gets mistaken as a final "h" on the child's name - then the child's name may be transcribed incorrectly as Jeremiah or Johannah or something that ends with h.
Similarly, the abbreviation Pr (presence of) has been misread as the initial R.
8) Some questions have been raised about missing records. For gaps in records, drill down to the individual RC parish information at the Irish times website.
9) Some parishes have records that start relatively late and some information remains forever lost. There are multiple Skibbereen parish entities. From my earlier post - according to Skibbereen Heritage, Skibbereen & Rath were one parish until 1851. What is listed as Creagh & Sullon are the baptism records of this combined parish and then Skibbereen after 1851. Baptism and marriage records of Rath post 1851 are under Rath & Islands. Skibbereen & Rath start listing marriages in 1837.
10) If you think a record ought to be there and it isn't, make sure you review your assumptions about where your ancestors were at a given point in time and you have some other proof or basis for assuming they were in a specific location.
11) Priests transposed names into the wrong fields, and indexers may have picked up names off what is immediately preceding a record. There are all sorts of ways errors can be made.
12) The date in the index can be off. Check the entire page for the record, not just under the date the record is indexed by.
I have gotten a few date transpose errors from what I have obtained from other means.
13) Watch out for records that have been erroneously overwritten by a well-meaning transcriber from times past. An overwritten record in my Grandmom's family has been a major cause of confusion in my family for literally decades; there is something screwy about the way it is indexed at Skibbereen Heritage; and it has even caused confusion for other researchers outside the family. Daniel was overwritten with Denis. As a result, some in my family weren't sure what the first name of Grandmom's grandfather was.
I'm still working on finding everything online that Skibbereen Heritage has found for me and I haven't come close to finding everything yet.
Happy hunting.
Friday, October 14, 2011
reading the online church records
I get the feeling that a few people are frustrated searching the online church records so I thought I would point out a few things.
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Wednesday, October 12, 2011
Too many Humphreys
So the big bombshell coming out of the release of additional Cork church records is that in my Granddad's side of the family there were multiple Humphreys in the Skibbereen area in the 1820's - 1840's. The majority of Humphrey Collins occurrences are out of Caheragh RC parish.
This really shouldn't be a surprise given that my uncle Humpsey had three similarly-named cousins of the same generation in school with him at the same time.
Before I get into searching for Humphrey Collinses in Caheragh, I thought I would mention this tip about searching the church records. The first name field can take a large boolean expression or a wild card - within limits.
If you want to search for John, enter: (Jn or Jno or John or Jon or Johannes or Joannes or Joannim or Johannam)
If you want to search for men named Morty, you can enter Mor*.
As far as I can tell, the first name field does not take a union of two wild card results. For example, if I want to search Hum* or Um* as a boolean expression, it doesn't work that way; however (Hum* or Ump*), with a minimum of three letters, may work.
Now the problem with Humphrey is that name - really any name - can be mistranscribed. I suspect a Morty Collins is really a Humphrey, and I also found a few occurrences of Murphy Collinses who are Humphreys.
When Skibbereen Heritage originally looked for my gg-grandfather Michael Collins, born about 1822, they were unable to locate a baptism record for a Michael son of Humphrey Collins and Johanna Barnane. And they probably searched Drimoleague & Drinagh as well. Humphrey and Johanna were married in early 1820 - though that marriage record has its problems - and the first child Catherine was born in December of that year - and that birth record has a few problems too. Then nothing until son John was born 1824.
So there is certainly a convenient slot for my gg-grandfather, whose birth year I estimated from the 1901 census. If he and his wife Ellen Driscoll were "old school" in the way they named their children, their first daughter might have been named after the paternal grandmother. That also fits, as daughter Johanna was born 1856. Ellen's mother was Margaret Loony.
Then the additional church records came online and I took a shot at searching for a baptism record for Michael and found one - born to a Humphry Collins and Ellen Sweeny in September 1822, and it looks like they were staying in Blue Hill (Knockgorm) at the time.
I went to Skibb Heritage and was told their records had that indexed as Morty. So I went on a fishing expedition and collected several handwriting samples and compared them. In the image below, the entry labeled 1822 in the left column was indexed as Morty at Skibb Heritage and Umpy on the church record site. The rest in the left column are indexed at the church record site as Humphry, Umpy, or Umphry or similar. The entries in the right-hand side are from Morty Hourihanes in Caheragh about the same time (so presumably handwritten by the same priests).
I think Morty is Umpy. And I can't dismiss this as some fluke or mistake. There is no other Michael born to a Humphry Collins. A Catherine Sweeny showed up at the wedding of Michael Collins and Ellen Driscoll in 1854. In fact, that Catherine Sweeny may have married just five days before to a Hourihane from Tooreen. Could Catherine Sweeny have been a cousin or aunt to Michael?
And then there's my DNA. I have a decent Family Finder match to somebody with Sweeny in his list of names. So far I haven't heard anything in response to my inquiries.
The online records have just opened up a whole new set of questions. There are no more records for Ellen Sweeny with this Morty/Umpy Collins. However, there is an Ellen Sweeny with a Denis Collins in Knockgorm shortly after, and they had several children.
The imagination can run wild here. I have not seen church records state whether parents are dead or alive. Could Morty/Umpy have been deceased and could Ellen Sweeny have remarried?
To get a better handle on the Humphrey Collinses running around, I decided to construct a timeline of sorts:
Where's Humphrey Collins?
|RC Parish
|Humphrey Collins & "Mary" Bernard(1)
|Anne Barrett
|sponsor Humphry Collins
|Catherine Collins
|parents Humphry Collins(2) Johanna Bernard
|Cornelius Keohane
|Humphry Collins sponsor
|Michael Collins
|parents Humphrey Collins(3), Ellen Sweeny
|John Collins
|parents Humphry Collins, Johanna Barnane
|Charles Brien & Mary Collins
|Humphry Collins & Mary Brien witness
|Mary Collins
|parents Humphry Collins, Johanna Barnane
|Joan Mangan
|mother Mary Collins, Humphry Collins sponsor
|Nory Collins
|parents Humphry Collins, Johanna Barnane
|Pat Crimeen
|Humphry Collins sponsor
|Catherine Minihane
|Humphry Collins sponsor
|Humphrey Collins
|parents Michael Collins & Mary Donovan
|Denis Carthy
|Humphry Collins sponsor
|Bridget Bary
|Umphy Collins sponsor
|John Casey & Catherine Burke
|Humphry & Michael Collins witness
|Cornelius Hourihan & Honora Casey
|Humphry Collins witness
|James Collins
|parents Humphry Collins, Johanna Barnane
|Jerry Coakley
|Humphry Collins sponsor
|Johanna Collins
|parents Humphry Collins, Johanna Barnane
|John Collins
|parents Humphry Collins, Mary Galvin
|Margaret Collins
|parents Humphry Collins, Mary Galvin
|Skibb & Rath
|John Collins & Margaret Donovan
|Humphry Collins witness
|Pat Collins
|parents Humphry Collins, Ja(o)ne Barrett(4)
|Pat Coakly
|Humphrey Collins sponsor
|Mary Collins
|parents Humphry Collins, Mary Brien
|Johanna Collins
|parents Humphry Collins, Mary Brien
|Jerry Collins
|parents Humphry Collins, Mary Collins
|Pat Cadigan
|sponsors Humphry Collins, Johanna Bernard(5)
|Catherine Collins & Denis Donovan
|Humphry Collins & Honora Collins witness
|Michael Collins & Ellen Driscoll
|Humphrey Collins, Catherine Sweeny witness
|John Collins & Ellen McCarthy
|Humphry Collins witness
|Humphry Collins
|Humphry Collins sponsor; Michael Collins & Ellen Driscoll parents
|Humphry(7) Collins
|John Collins & Ellen McCarthy parents
|Humphrey(8) Collins
|Denis Collins & Margaret Mahony parents
|Skib & Rath
|James Collins & Catherine Driscoll
|Humphry Collins witness
|Humphry Collins
|son of a Jerry?
|Humphrey Collins, age 88
|Humphrey Collins present at death (left mark)
|Timothy Collins
|Humphry Collins sponsor
|Humphry Collins(6)
|parents Patrick Collins,Catherine Collins
|Denis Collins
|Humphrey Collins, sponsor
- 1 - Skibb Heritage was of the opinion the priest made an error and this should have been Johanna.
- 2 - Another error - father is recorded as John and baptism sponsor Humphry.
- 3 - Probably my direct ancestral line.
- 4 - There is no confusion between Barrett and Barnane. The handwriting of Barrett is clear, and there were Barretts in Lissane. However, I haven't dug up a marriage record for a Humphrey Collins and a Jane/Joan Barrett, which makes me wonder if the priest was hard of hearing or what!
- 5 - Johanna Barnane was alive as late as 1846, which means that her husband couldn't have been married to Mary Galvin or Brien at the same time - therefore there was at least one other Humphry!
- 6 - Indexed as Helen!
- 7 - Whoever indexed this entry gave up entirely on the first name and just left it blank.
- 8 - The father Denis *could* have been the son of Michael Collins and Mary Donovan of Lissane Lower. This couple had a son named Humphrey in 1831. But there is no baptism record of Denis.
I can't figure out what was going on in 1833. Humphry went to two different Casey weddings on the same day?!? In fact his calendar was so full in 1833 it makes me wonder if he had time to farm.
Caheragh records start in mid-1818; Drimoleague & Drinagh mid-1817. Now, what about Skibbereen records? There are multiple Skibbereen parish entities. According to Skibbereen Heritage, Skibbereen & Rath were one parish until 1851. What is listed as Creagh & Sullon are the baptism records of this combined parish and then Skibbereen after 1851. Baptism and marriage records of Rath post 1851 are under Rath & Islands. Skibbereen & Rath start listing marriages in 1837.
Given that Mary Galvin and Mary Brien were baptizing their children in Skibbereen and not Caheragh, this information leads me to conclude that their marriage records fall out of range, so that information is forever lost.
I am curious about the names Galvin and Mangane. There are a few Galvins here and there. Mangane is rather uncommon. I get the feeling these names could be agnomens for another name. Brien, perhaps?
Ultimately, I am going to have to view every single image to decide for myself if the transcriptions are correct and if my assumptions are correct.
Monday, October 3, 2011
Some bingos and a bombshell
Today the government of Ireland released the remainder of what it had intended to release of the south Cork church records. Thanks to this effort I have new insights on my Grandmom's Collinses, I believe I have a more conclusive link to the Mahonys in Bredagh, and I have discovered a bombshell in the Humphrey Collinses of Lissane, which really is just another insight.
First, some words about these church records. I can now better understand the delay for releasing them. The illegibility of some of these records made indexing and computerization very difficult, and no doubt there are substantial errors. In my own family I have discovered a number of errors already. Therefore, I encourage anybody reading this to take the time to browse the records, and to be very flexible with your searches. When new information becomes available one has to be ready to throw out some old assumptions.
Second, here's a little trick when searching for Christian names in the church records. You can build a search string as a large boolean expression. For example, to search for a woman named Catherine Neil, enter the following string into the name field:
The software engine is normally pretty good at cross-indexing surname variants. But not always. Again, I highly recommend browsing. And take a good look at the images, because there could be errors in the index. One day while browsing Skibbereen I noticed somebody with the surname Neil with something like Sheehy appended to it, as if Sheehy were a local nickname. That wasn't in the text index. You just never know what you'll find.
If you are researching south Cork like I am, read Nora Hickey's article, "What's in a Name?" Unfortunately, the website originally hosting this article has taken it offline, and you will be directed to the Internet archive. When you get to the archive, make a backup copy of it on your own computer to reference.
The article talks about some of the odd south Cork locality-specific secondary names you may be struggling with while researching your ancestry.
Thank God these records are finally online. It is better to have these illegible records with their dark smudgy illegible handwriting and indexing errors than to not have them at all.
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Looks like a fantastic trip Lukas. I'm sure you took loads of images and if these are anything to go by we are in for a treat. I look forward to some lengthy posts.
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What kind of shutter speeds do you use to get the water effects like in #6 - flowing over the rock? I love all of these shots, really great!
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Was it cold? There seems to be some fresh snow on the ground in a few of those. I'm curious how you dealt with backpacking in the snow, so far I've chickened out whenever I had the chance. And, are these sunsets,rises, or both? A cold sunrise is a thing I have a hard time getting out for.
I was gonna ask about elevation, but that's answered. Strange that you never came close to the elevation of my house, and yet there are towering glaciated mountains everywhere.
What kind of gear did you use and were there any issues getting it overseas? I've actually never been backpacking more than a 2 hour drive from where I live. The thought of bringing a tent etc. on a plane makes me cringe.
Yeah it was cold for the most part. The wind is what made it really cold. It did snow one day. Most of the snow in #9 melted by later that day which was around the elevation we camped at. The snow in the other shots was at a higher elevation so we weren't camping in the snow for very long. Cold is all about how you prepare for it. I was cold at times, but it was never so bad that I wanted to leave because of it. Some of the locations require hiking so we were waking up at 2:30am and hiking for an hour and a half. The concern there is working up a sweat then reaching the shooting location and standing around in damp clothing for 2 hours. Everything but 5 and 6 was taken at or around sunrise. The peaks only catch a bit of side/rim light in the evening.
As for gear I just brought everything I'd have used here. Super easy. I actually forgot the fuel canister in my stove which is a no no. It ended up making it all the way through (3 plane flights) with no issue. Checked everything except my camera gear. Checked the tripod as well. I wanted to carry it on, but I decided it was better to pack it well than risk them turning me around at security and not be able to pack it well. I wanted to do something to protect my pack, but didn't want to carry anything around that provided additional protection. I ended up just removing the shoulder straps.
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What kind of shutter speeds do you use to get the water effects like in #6 - flowing over the rock? I love all of these shots, really great!
20 seconds I think. I wouldn't normally go that long for a river, but I wanted the cloud movement.
Lovely photos, Lukas. After giving them the "which would I like to have hanging on my wall to look at every day" test, I'd have to go for 2, 6 and 4 in that order. But I'd have been pleased to have taken any one of them!
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Here are a few more from my travels. I'm pretty sure my level is off since everything seems to be leaning right since I got it. Looks like I need to find a better one.
More stunning shots Lukas but yes you definitely need a new level for Christmas!
Maybe it was only a northern hemisphere level. Perhaps one of the group from down under has a working one for the other side
I like 1,2,5 of the most recent set.
great work.
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Seton Hall Law School's Interscholastic Moot Court Board finished the 2009-2010 school year with 20 awards, commensurate with the Board's 28 awards in 2008-2009, 27 awards in 2007-2008, 21 awards in 2006-2007 and 25 awards during the 2005-2006 school year. The 2009-2010 season produced two Regionals Champions at the NAAC Competition and a First Place finish at Whittier's Juvenile Law Competition. The awards ranked Seton Hall's Interscholastic Moot Court Board as 6th in the nation by LawSchoolAdvocacy.com. Seton Hall was also selected for the third consecutive year to participate in the National Moot Court Invitational in January 2011 at the Advocacy Institute in Houston, Texas with the top sixteen programs in the country.
The Board also hosts the John J. Gibbons National Criminal Procedure Moot Court Competition, which focuses on timely issues of criminal procedure and criminal law. The competition hosts 40 teams from around the country. Due to the popularity of the competition, registration is limited to one team per school, with two or three students per team. Past winners of the competition include Loyola University of Chicago (2010); Albany Law School (2009); Texas Wesleyan (2008); Boston College (2007, 2006); Georgia State University School of Law (2005); American University-Washington College of Law (2004); New York Law School (2003); New York University School of Law (2002) and George Mason School of Law (2001).
Through Seton Hall's Interscholastic Moot Court Program, students compete in Appellate Moot Court competitions throughout the country. Students engage in competitions addressing such issues as criminal law, health law, trademark law, juvenile law, and civil rights law. Students are selected for the Moot Court Board, composed of approximately thirty-two students, based on their writing and oral advocacy skills as demonstrated through their participation in the Eugene Gressman Moot Court Competition for upper-class students and the Ronald J. Riccio First-Year Moot Court Competition. A student must be a Board member to compete in an interscholastic moot court competition. Jodi A. Hudson, Esq., a Seton Hall law graduate and a certified Civil Trial Attorney, has served as Director of the Moot Court Program since 2000.


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PHOENIX (AP) — A 14-year-old girl is dead and her mother and three siblings are in critical condition following a Sunday morning apartment fire in west Phoenix.
Firefighters responded at 12:45 a.m. to a report of a blaze in a second floor unit of an apartment building, fire department Capt. Jonathan Jacobs said. They battled heavy smoke to quickly put out the fire and found the victims.
Phoenix police Officer James Holmes said a firefighter kicked open a bedroom door and found the family.
"What he found was five family members — a 33-year-old mother and her four children — inside of that bedroom. All of them were unconscious," Holmes told The Associated Press.
Holmes said the mother and a 10-year-old are hospitalized in critical condition, and a 3-year-old and a 3-month old are extremely critical but stable.
The fire may have been intentionally set, and could be related to a case of domestic violence, Holmes said. A person of interest has been detained, he said.
Nearly 30 other people who live in the building were displaced because of electrical damage and other problems.
Among them is Jennifer Sheppard, who lives with her four children in a two-bedroom unit below the victims, who lived on the second floor. Sheppard said she is thankful a neighbor knocked on her door, waking up her 14-year-old son.
"I didn't hear anything. I didn't feel anything," Sheppard said.
Sheppard and her kids ran outside barefoot and that's when they saw the magnitude of the fire.
"It just hit me, all that heat toward my face," Sheppard said.
They then watched firefighters carrying the children over their shoulders and place them on the ground to administer CPR.
Sheppard said she didn't know the family well and never saw any domestic violence between the mother and her live-in boyfriend. The kids were usually playing on the balcony if they went outside, she said.
Sheppard said she still can't imagine what the mother must be going through.
"At least we got out safe," Sheppard said.
Hayla Miller, 12, who lives in another part of the complex and was close friends with the 14-year-old, said her friend was nice to everyone and fun to be around.
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LONG serving Labour MP Nick Ainger has lost his seat to the Conservatives.
Mr Ainger, who had served as the constituency MP for South Pembrokeshire for 18 years, lost in the poll to Simon Hart.
Mr Ainger said: "It has been a huge honour and a privilege to represent this constituency.
"It is a wonderful part of the world, as you all know, and we all love it.
"I think in the last 13 years we have seen a transformation in our local economy and we have seen many jobs created, partnerships with local government, the Assembly Government, Government and Europe that have brought prosperity to this area.
"I feel if the incoming governement gets that partnership wrong, then the people of this area will suffer in the same way that they did in the early 80s and 90s.
"It was a great privilege to represent this area and I am very grateful that I was able to do some good in that time."
Mr Ainger has served South Pembrokeshire for 18 years, and West Camarthen for 13 years, since a change in the constituency boundaries.
Mr Hart paid tribute to Mr Ainger and his work in the last 18 years.
He said: "It would be churlish of me not to mention Nick Ainger's long and significant service as our MP. He has never been the enemy, but opposition.
"If I do a job half as well as he has done, I will consider I have made a good impact. I wish him well."
Mr Hart, who has been Chief Executive of the Countryside Alliance and previously worked as a chartered surveyor in Carmarthen and Haverfordwest, praised his fantastic campaign team.
"There is no greater challenge, and no greater honour than being asked to represent you in parliament and I'll do my level best, and I will start this very minute, to do justice to the job you have given me."
The full results for the Camarthen West and Pembrokeshire South Constituency were:
- Nick Ainger (Labour) 13,226
- Ray Clarke (UKIP) 1,146
- John Dixon (Plaid Cymru) 4,232
- John Gossage (Liberal Democrat) 4,890
- Simon Hart (Conservative) 16,649
- Hentry Langen (Independent Democrat) 364
Provisional figures show a turnout of 69%. The result was declared by returning officer Bryn Parry Jones at 3.50am.


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|Patriot Wildfire SF-2281 Solid State Drive
|Reviews - Featured Reviews: Storage
|Written by Olin Coles
|Monday, 11 July 2011
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EVEREST Disk Benchmark
Many enthusiasts are familiar with the Lavalys EVEREST benchmark suite, but very few are aware of the Disk Benchmark tool available inside the program. The EVEREST Disk Benchmark performs linear read and write bandwidth tests on each drive, and can be configured to use file chunk sizes up to 1MB (which speeds up testing and minimizes jitter in the waveform). Because of the full sector-by-sector nature of linear testing, Benchmark Reviews endorses this method for testing SSD products, as detailed in our Solid State Drive Benchmark Performance Testing article. However, Hard Disk Drive products suffer a lower average bandwidth as the capacity draws linear read/write speed down into the inner-portion of the disk platter. EVEREST Disk Benchmark does not require a partition to be present for testing, so all of our benchmarks are completed prior to drive formatting.
Linear disk benchmarks are superior bandwidth speed tools in my opinion, because they scan from the first physical sector to the last. A side affect of many linear write-performance test tools is that the data is erased as it writes to every sector on the drive. Normally this isn't an issue, but it has been shown that partition table alignment will occasionally play a role in overall SSD performance (HDDs don't suffer this problem).
The high-performance storage products tested with EVEREST Disk Benchmark are connected to the Intel P67 SATA 6Gb/s controller and use a 1MB block size option. Read performance on the Patriot Wildfire Solid State Drive measured an average 483.0 MBps bandwidth with a relatively close maximum peak speed of 501.8 MBps. What's interesting about this test is that every Linear Read benchmark conducted with the Patriot Wildfire showed SATA-3Gb/s levels of performance for the first 10% of capacity. Everest linear write-to tests were next...
The waveform chart below illustrates how the integrated buffer manages file transfers, and makes linear write performance appears relatively even. The results seen here are still relatively consistent compared to most other SSD products we've tested in the past. The Patriot Wildfire-series solid state drive recorded an average linear write-to speed of 457.5 MBps, with a maximum performance of 492.2 MBps.
The chart below shows the average linear read and write bandwidth speeds for a cross-section of storage devices tested with EVEREST:
Linear tests are an important tool for comparing bandwidth speed between storage products - although HDD products suffer performance degradation over the span of their areal storage capacity. Linear bandwidth certainly benefits the Solid State Drive, since there's very little fluctuation in transfer speed. This is because Hard Disk Drive products decline in performance as the spindle reaches the inner-most sectors on the magnetic platter, away from the fast outer edge.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — High-powered rare earth magnet sets sold under the names Magnicube Spheres and Magnicube Cubes are being recalled because of the possibility of injury from swallowing them.
The recall is part of the settlement of a case filed by the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission in December 2012 in which regulators sought a mandatory recall of Magnicube products made by Star Networks USA LLC.
Each package contains between 125 and 1,027 high-powered, magnetic balls and squares made in China. Approximately 22,000 sets were sold for between $20 and $80 on magnicube.com, Amazon and through Groupon.
The CPSC said that since 2009, it has received numerous reports of ingestions involving small, high-powered magnets, and many instances led to surgical procedures.
Consumers are advised to immediately stop using the products. They should also check for magnets that may have become separated from the set.
Star has agreed to provide a full refund to customers who return a full set of Magnicube Cubes or Magnicube Spheres. Those who return a partial set will receive a refund prorated based on the percentage of magnets returned.
Consumers can contact the company at www.magnicube.com to request a refund.
The settlement resolves CPSC allegations that the Magnicube Spheres and Magnicube Cubes create a substantial hazard. Star Networks USA LLC disputed the allegations, but has agreed to the recall to settle the complaint.
Magnetic products have been recalled for similar reasons in the past.
April 2013 the CPSC said that Barnes & Noble, Bed Bath & Beyond, Brookstone, Marbles the Brain Store, ThinkGeek and Hallmark retailers were recalling "Buckyballs" and "Buckycubes" magnet sets after the CPSC received 54 reports of children and teens ingesting them, with all but one of those cases requiring medical intervention.
In 2012 the CPSC said that 11 manufacturers and importers of Zen Magnets' desktop magnet toys agreed to voluntarily take them off the market.


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Being a Christian, I've made my decision. That decision offers no compromise; therefore, I'm closed to anything else.
My understanding has always been that Jesus was "a part of god" from the very start (whenever that was). John 1:1 is often used to support that assertation (In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God).
When was Jesus created?
Back in Catholic school we were taught that Jesus always was...since He was God. All 3 of them always were. So Jesus just hung around waiting for His short 30 year appearance and then He is done...well, except for appearing on chips and things. Which means that God must have known this was all going to play out this way even before He created the world. That God...you can't get anything past Him.
Quote from: Aaron123 on October 15, 2013, 09:12:44 AMMy understanding has always been that Jesus was "a part of god" from the very start (whenever that was). John 1:1 is often used to support that assertation (In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God).The OP question was spawned from thoughts in that other thread about the "sacrifice":http://whywontgodhealamputees.com/forums/index.php/topic,25573.msg573980/topicseen.html#msg573980Now I'm thinking how could the "Word" suffer? The "Flesh" yes. But the "Flesh" was dispensable and did not exist prior to conception.The "Flesh" was not in a position to anticipate its sacrifice and suffering since the beginning - only for the short time that the "Word" insisted on going through with the mission.The "Word" component of Jesus was not like a human - our souls are created at conception and develop and mature with our awareness (and knowledge acquisition) which is integrated with our fleshly development. So any suffering of our flesh is fully our suffering. The "Word" on the other hand was already fully developed and godly from the start - from before the "Flesh" existed - so its maturity and functional state could not be in any way dependent on the "Flesh" or the physical fate of the "Flesh". The "Flesh" could not hold back the "Word". The "Word" was already at the pinnacle.The "Word" was just a passenger in the "Flesh" and wouldn't have suffered in the slightest when the "Flesh" suffered.The "Word" was faking it through the "Flesh" at the expense of the "Flesh". Makes complete sense now
Scholars help me out please. When was Jesus created?
Came up with this gem on my first try!Question: "What does the Bible teach about the Trinity?"
Scholars help me out please. When was Jesus created? At conception?A bit before when God budded a piece of himself off for the Angel to carry to Mary?Or was it much earlier when God started inspiring the prophets to drop hints about the Messiah? If it was much earlier then why didn't God deploy Jesus, His best asset yet, earlier in the piece?
Or Jesus the ...
Quote from: Dr H on October 17, 2013, 04:54:53 PMOr Jesus the ...Any Jesus ... happy to pin down any of the variants before they mutate


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MICHIGAN CITY, Ind. (AP) — A 6-year-old boy who spent more than three hours buried under 11 feet of sand after being swallowed by a massive Indiana dune is recovering well, but remains in critical condition at a Chicago hospital.
Michigan City Police Chief Mark Swistek said the parents of the boy told him Saturday that the outlook for the child is very good.
"They are very upbeat and hopeful. They are watching him closely and hoping to speak with him in the next few days," Swistek told The News-Dispatch (http://bit.ly/15diUnZ ).
"The father expressed to me that we didn't give up hope," Swistek said. "He wanted people to know that every minute in this rescue made a difference in this child's life."
The boy remained in critical condition Sunday at Comer Children's Hospital in Chicago, spokeswoman Lorna Wong said. His name and hometown haven't been released, but The News-Dispatch reported he was from Illinois. Wong said she could not confirm or deny the information.
Michigan City Fire Department spokesman Mark Baker told the newspaper he learned the child doesn't have life-threatening injuries or a brain injury from any lack of oxygen he might have experienced. Wong said Saturday the boy had responded to simple commands Friday when he arrived at the hospital.
Michigan City Fire Chief Ronnie Martin told WSBT-TV that firefighters prodding the dune located the boy in an air pocket that enabled him to survive for so long underground.
The boy's family reported he was playing on the dune known as Mount Baldy on Friday when he dropped partially into it, Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore Ranger Bruce Rowe said. While they were trying to dig him out, the dune collapsed.
The family called 911, and emergency responders were on the scene within 15 minutes and began digging by hand, Rowe said. Crews with excavating equipment were brought in to help the rescue effort.
The dune is part of the Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore on the shores of Lake Michigan, east of Chicago.
Information from: The News-Dispatch, http://www.michigancityin.com


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Discrimination is an action or a decision that treats a person or a group negatively for reasons such as their race, age or disability. These reasons are known as grounds of discrimination. Federal employers and service providers, as well as employers and service providers of private companies that are regulated by the federal government, cannot discriminate against individuals for these reasons.
These 11 grounds are protected under the Canadian Human Rights Act:
- race
- national or ethnic origin
- colour
- religion
- age
- sex
- sexual orientation
- marital status
- family status
- disability
- a conviction for which a pardon has been granted or a record suspended.
There are several ways that a person could be discriminated against. The Canadian Human Rights Act calls these discriminatory practices. The following seven discriminatory practices are prohibited by the Canadian Human Rights Act when they are based on one or more of the 11 grounds of discrimination:
- Denying someone goods, services, facilities or accommodation.
- Providing someone goods, services, facilities or accommodation in a way that treats them adversely and differently.
- Refusing to employ or continue to employ someone, or treating them unfairly in the workplace.
- Following policies or practices that deprive people of employment opportunities.
- Paying men and women differently when they are doing work of the same value.
- Retaliating against a person who has filed a complaint with the Commission or against someone who has filed a complaint for them.
- Harassing someone.
Federal employers are not allowed to discriminate against their employees. In fact, they are obligated to make every effort to accommodate an employee 's individual circumstances that relate to protected grounds of discrimination. We call this the duty to accommodate.
If you work for or receive services from a business or organization that is regulated by the federal government, and you believe you have experienced discrimination because of one of the 11 grounds, you can file a complaint with the Canadian Human Rights Commission.
Examples of discrimination based on the various grounds:
- A bank has lending rules that make it unreasonably difficult for new immigrants to get loans. This is an example of discrimination based on two grounds — race and national or ethnic origin.
- A person is systematically referred to secondary screening at airports due to the colour of their skin. This may be a case of discrimination based on the ground of colour.
- An employer assigns her employees to weekend shifts without recognizing that some employees observe the Sabbath and cannot work on those days. This may be a case of discrimination based on the ground of religion.
- An employer 's physical fitness requirements are based on the capabilities of an average 25 year old instead of being based on the actual requirements of the job. This imay be a case of discrimination based on the ground of age.
- A female employee with an excellent performance record announces that she is pregnant. Immediately, her employer begins to identify performance issues that lead to her dismissal. This may be a case of discrimination based on the ground of sex.
- A policy provides benefits to some married couples but not to others. This may be a case of discrimination based on two grounds — sexual orientation and marital status.
- After having a child, a woman cannot find childcare to continue working overnight shifts, and her employer does not allow flexibility by scheduling her on day shifts. This may be a case of discrimination based on the ground of family status.
- An employer requires all employees to have a valid driver 's licence. People who cannot drive due to a disability are not given an opportunity to show how they could still perform the job by, for example, using public transit. This may be a case of discrimination based on the ground of disability.
- A person is denied a job because of a previous conviction for which a pardon has been granted or a record has been suspended. This may be a case of discrimination based on the ground of pardoned conviction.
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The current Ligue 1 champions have revealed on their official website that the 23-year-old has travelled to England and is currently undergoing a medical ahead of his move to Alan Pardew's side.
Newcastle have yet to confirm the transfer themselves but the move is expected to be concluded within 24 hours.
|Newcastle are 16/1 with Bet365 to finish bottom
However, after selling off star striker Olivier Giroud to the Gunners, Montpellier managed to hold onto their skipper until January.
Yanga-Mbiwa featured during his side's Champions League campaign, which saw them finish bottom of a group containing Arsenal, Schalke 04 and Olympiakos.
And, despite reported late interest from the Gunners, Newcastle look set to capture the signature of the highly rated defender.
Toon boss Alan Pardew is under pressure after a desperate run of one win and six losses from their last seven league matches to leave last season's fifth-placed surprise package just two points above the drop zone.
Pardew will hope to pair Yanga-Mbiwa with Fabricio Coloccini in central defence, despite the Argentine's desire to move back to his homeland due troubles in his personal life.


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Once "fiscal cliff" negotiations were in the hands of Mitch McConnell and Joe Biden (who replaced Harry Reid last night, apparently at McConnell's request), the prospects of a deal improved considerably. Deals are what McConnell and Biden do.
The problem is that McConnell and Biden may not be in a position to make good on any deal. John Boehner, who has been in the wings for some time, and Harry Reid, who was sent there yesterday, will be far more instrumental in the passage of any deal. It is Boehner, not McConnell, who must sell a deal to House Republicans. And it is Reid, not Biden, who must sell it to Senate Democrats.
Which brings us to the latest report on negotiations. According to AP:
The contours of a deal to avert the 'fiscal cliff' emerged Monday, with Democrats and Republicans agreeing to raise tax rates on couples making over $450,000 a year, increase the estate tax rate and extend unemployment benefits for one year, officials familiar with the negotiations said.
But with a midnight deadline rapidly approaching, both sides were at an impasse over how to handle automatic, across-the-board spending cuts set to take effect on Jan. 1. Democrats want to put off the cuts for one year and offset the so-called sequester with unspecified revenue.
Left to their own devices, McConnell and Biden could easily compromise on delaying the across-the-board spending cuts — split the difference and delay them for half a year. And Reid could probably bring the Senate along.
But House Republicans will, I assume, balk at tax rate increases on those making $450,000 a year or more unless they receive something better in return than a delay in the sequester to be offset with "unspecified revenue." After all, they wouldn't agree to tax rate increases for "millionaires" only without concrete spending cuts.
We can expect Boehner to push for whatever deal McConnell signs off on. And he won't need to bring his entire caucus, or even a majority of it, along in order to pass a Senate bill. But he would be ill-advised to push for a deal that a majority of his caucus doesn't want, especially if they don't want it because it kicks meaningful spending cuts too far down the road.
President Obama is scheduled to speak about the "cliff" in a few minutes. So stay tuned.


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Consumer Reports Calls You A "Pushover" For Buying The Extended Warranty Sales Pitch
Consumer Reports makes no secret of the fact that they think extended warranties are a big old waste of money for consumers, but now they've actually launched an advertising campaign against the warranties, says the New York Times.
Not surprisingly, the car dealers who sell the extended warranties disagree. A spokesman for the National Automobile Dealers Association likened the warranties to insurance for which, of course, policy holders as a group pay more than they get back to protect against the rare problem that is ruinously expensive.
Kenneth Weine, a vice president of Consumers Union, said the ad campaign is a way to further the group's mission, "to make the market a better and safer place for consumers."
The basis for the campaign is a new survey that shows that most extended warranty purchasers lost money on the deal.
From Consumer Reports:
But extended warranties sell costly "peace of mind" for repair nightmares that probably won't occur, according to a survey of more than 8,000 readers in December 2007 by the Consumer Reports National Research Center. We have long advised that extended warranties are a poor deal for almost every product. Now we have the first data showing that this advice applies to most new cars as well.
The survey found that warranty buyers on vehicles from the 2001 and 2002 model years paid an average of $1,000 and received $700 worth of repairs in exchange, says the NYT. A full page ad will appear in Tuesday's USAToday, warning against extended warranties and featuring a sign that says "Pushover on board."
Bearer of Bad News Decides To Advertise It [NYT] (Thanks, Molly!)
RELATED: Extended Car Warranties Are A Ripoff
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Update: Suspicious bag in Nashua just trashBy Kimberly Houghton
Union Leader Correspondent
July 12. 2013 1:12PM
NASHUA -- Police investigated a suspicious bag that was left unattended outside of a city store on Friday, which turned out to be improperly discarded trash.
Lt. Michael Moushegian of the Nashua Police Department said police received a call about a duffle bag that has been sitting outside of The Paper Store at 213
Daniel Webster Highway since 9 a.m. on Friday.
A patrol unit investigated the bag shortly before 1 p.m. at the Royal Ridge Plaza, and ultimately determined it was garbage, according to authorities.
'About 99 percent of the time these turn out to be nothing,' said Moushegian.


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Singer Leann Rimes has enrolled in a health facility for treatment to address "anxiety and stress".
The Blue singer checked herself into a 30-day in-patient program on Wednesday, the day after she turned 30.
Her representative Marcel Pariseau tells People.com, "LeAnn has voluntarily entered a 30-day in-patient treatment facility to cope with anxiety and stress.
"While there will be speculation regarding her treatment, she is simply there to learn and develop coping mechanisms. While privacy isn't expected, it's certainly appreciated."
The country star will continue to perform in September, with her spokesperson adding, "The facility has granted her permission to keep her weekend tour obligations, as LeAnn doesn't want to disappoint her fans. She will report back after each weekend."
Rimes tells the website, "This is just a time for me to emotionally check out for a second and take care of myself and come back in 30 days as the best 30-year-old woman I can be.
"All the things in my life will be there when I get out, but you know what? I'm hoping they're not going to affect me as much. I'll have the tools to know how to deal with them."
The star's husband Eddie Cibrian has pledged to fully support his wife during her treatment and has praised her courage for seeking help.
He adds, "My wife is the most remarkable and courageous woman I know. I am so proud of her for having the strength to finally take some time for herself. I will be with her every step of the way."
Rimes' representative tells the website the star is not seeking treatment for an eating disorder or substance abuse.
Singer Leann Rimes has enrolled in a health facility for treatment to address "anxiety and stress".


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Are those part of the style trim group? I think the base tail lamp lenses do not have those 2 strips but I may be mistaken?


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Audio from Maine Folklife Center
In 2004 The Eastern Fine paper mill closed permanently and employees had strong opinions about the reasons for the closing. Different opinions may be due to the changes that took place at the time when they worked there.
Many of the employees who first worked under Bruce Hamilton and then Joe Torras felt Torras was to blame while many who started working at the mill after Torras had purchased Eastern had different reactions. Yet there is no simple answer why some employees blamed Torras while others did not.
Some employees had no idea the mill was going to close, while others believed that they could see it coming. While they cannot agree on why it closed, most would agree that its closure not only affected them and their families, but also the entire Brewer community.
View the slideshow to listen to former employees talk about the closure of the Eastern Fine Paper mill.


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This October, one of First State Heritage Park's most popular events returns to The Green. During the park's "Dark Dover" program, visitors will witness firsthand the chilling true stories of gruesome murders and whippings, and encounter characters whose legends have left their sinister imprint on The Green in Dover. 18th-century judge Samuel Chew and the murdered servant Cooch Turner are just two of the specters who will make their appearance on this most unusual tour through the Dover Green. Unusual twists include an unexpected retelling of the Poison Candy Murder tale from the point of view of the victim's deceitful and philandering husband, who attempts to clear his name.
Pre-registration is required and spaces are limited; call (302) 739-9194 for reservations.
First State Heritage Park
Kent County
We make every effort to ensure the accuracy of this information. However, you should always call ahead to confirm dates, times, location, and other information.


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Donepezil (Aricept®): Start with 5 mg/day; increase to 10 mg after four weeks and then to 23 mg after 3 months.
Side effects: nausea; diarrhea; poor appetite
Galantamine (Razadyne®ER): Start with 8 mg a day; increase by 8 mg every four weeks up to 24 mg a day.
Side effects: nausea; diarrhea; poor appetite
Memantine (Namenda®): Start with 5 mg a day; increase by 5 mg a week up to 10 mg twice a day.
Side effects: headache, dizziness, confusion
Rivastigmine Exelon®): Start with 4.6 mg/24 hour patch daily; increase to 9.5 mg/24 hour patch daily in 4 weeks.
Side effects: nausea; diarrhea; poor appetite
Bupropion Wellbutrin® ): 75 - 300 SR mg/day in two divided doses or 150 ? 300 XL mg once a day.
Side effects: agitation; anxiety; seizures; restlessness; insomnia; arrhythmia
Citalopram (Celexa®): 10 - 60 mg/day
Side effects: nausea; dry mouth; sedation
Clomipramine (Anafranil®): 50 ? 250 mg/day in two divided doses
Side effects: sedation; seizures; weight gain; sexual dysfunction
Escitalopram (Lexapro®): 10 ? 20 mg/day
Side effects: nausea, dry mouth; sedation
Fluoxetine (Prozac®): 10 - 40 mg/day
Side effects: anxiety; insomnia; nausea; weight loss; tremor
Fluvoxamine (Luvox): 50 - 300 mg/day in two divided doses
Side effects: nausea; insomnia; sedation
Mirtazepine (Remeron®): 15 - 30 mg at night
Side effects: sedation; weight gain; dry mouth
Nortriptyline (Aventyl®): 25 - 75 mg/day. Be sure to have doctor check the patient's blood plasma levels.
Side effects: dry mouth; confusion; constipation; sedation; light-headedness
Paroxetine (Paxil®): Start with 10 - 40 mg/day.
Side effects: insomnia; nausea; anxiety
Sertraline (Zoloft®): 50 - 200 mg/day
Side effects: insomnia; diarrhea; tremor
Trazodone (Deseryl): 50 - 300 mg at night
Side effects: sedation; light-headedness
Venlafaxine (Effexor®): 37.5 - 150 XR mg/day
Side effects: nausea; sedation
Aripiprazole (Abilify®): 5 to 15 mg/day
Side effects: activation; sedation
Clozapine (Clozaril®): 6.25 - 200 mg/day in one or two doses. Must get weekly white blood counts.
Side effects: severely low white blood count; light headedness; confusion; dry mouth; sedation; constipation
Haloperidol (Haldol®) : 0.25 - 2 mg/day. Gradually increase this dose. Use sparingly only for severe agitation.
Side effects: Parkinson's Disease symptoms; sedation; falling; abnormal movements
Olanzepine (Zyprexa®): 2.5 - 10 mg/day
Side effects: sedation; light headedness; confusion; dry mouth; constipation
Quetiapine (Seroquel®): 12.5 - 200 mg/day in two divided doses
Side effects: sedation; light headedness
Risperidone (Risperdal®): 0.5 - 2 mg/day in two divided doses
Side effects: sedation; Parkinson's Disease symptoms
Ziprasidone (Geodon®): 20 ? 160 mg/day in two divided doses
Side effects: irregular heart beat; sedation; Parkinson's Disease symptoms
Aspirin: 81 - 325 mg every day
Side effects: excessive bleeding; stomach irritation
Clopidogrel (Plavix®): 75 mg every day
Side effects: stomach irritation; rash; bleeding
Ticlopidine (Ticlid®): 250 mg twice a day. Blood tests required every two weeks for six weeks
Side effects: May cause a decrease in the number of neutrophils - a type of immune cell - in blood
Aspirin and extended-release dipyridamole (Aggrenox®): one capsule twice a day.
Side effects: Stomach irritation; bleeding; rash; flushing; dizziness; chest pain
Buspirone (BuSpar®): 10 - 60 mg/day in divided doses
Side effects: dizziness; nausea; headache
Carbamazepine (Tegretol®): 200 ? 800 mg/day in three divided doses
Side effects: confusion, imbalanced gait; nausea; low white blood counts
Cimetidine (Tagamet®): 100 ? 300 mg four times a day
Side effects: headaches; diarrhea
Valproic Acid (Depakote®): 125 - 1500 mg/day in three divided doses or 250 ? 1500 ER mg once a day
Side effects: nausea; sedation; liver toxicity (rare); inflammation of the pancreas
Gabapentin (Neurontin®): 100 ? 600 mg/day in two divided doses
Side effects: sedation; imbalanced gait; confusion
Lamotrigine (Lamictal®): 50 ? 500 mg/day in two divided doses
Side effects: rash; liver or kidney failure; arthritis
Lorazepam (Ativan®): 0.5 - 2 mg every day in divided doses. Use sparingly only for severe agitation.
Side effects: confusion; sedation; uninhibited behavior; abnormal movements; anxiety if taking the drug is stopped
Melatonin: 1 ? 9 mg/day
Side effects: sleepiness
Propranolol (Inderal®): 40 - 320 mg/day
Side effects: slowed heart beat (less than 60 beats/minute); low blood pressure
Zolpidem (Ambien®): 5 - 10 mg at night.
Side effects: daytime drowsiness; dizziness; headache
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Two charged in burglary/home invasion in HampsteadBy JAMES A. KIMBLE
Union Leader Correspondent
February 20. 2012 11:33PM
BRENTWOOD - Two people are facing charges in connection with a Hampstead home that was burglarized then became the target of a home invasion a month later.
Kelly Schulz, 40, of Haverhill, Mass., was indicted on a charge of helping an accomplice steal six handguns from a home on Kent Farm Road on June 17.
Schulz, who was an acquaintance of the victim in the case, did not enter the house and steal the firearms herself, according to police and prosecutors.
Another woman took the guns from the home, but she has not yet been charged in the case, indictments say.
Avery Walker, 19, of Haverhill, Mass. brought a group of armed people to burglarize the same home in July, according to court documents.
A group of armed burglars entered the home and assaulted two occupants, who suffered cuts and bruises in the attack, police said.
Walker is not charged with entering the home. He was indicted on conspiracy to commit burglary and accomplice to burglary earlier this month in Rockingham County Superior Court.
More charges are expected to come against others in the case, prosecutors said.
Indictments say that Walker brought Angel Sanchez and Max Menagerman to the house.
Menagerman and Walker have not yet been charged in connection with the Hampstead case, but were recently arrested in Haverhill, Mass., for a home invasion in that city.
In that case, Menagerman and Sanchez face a variety of charges - including kidnapping and burglary - for allegedly breaking into a home where a man was shot and a woman was tied up and sexually assaulted.
They have been held without bail in Massachusetts since their arrest in September.
Schulz is facing a class A felony charge, punishable by 7 � to 15 years in state prison. Walker is facing charges that are punishable by up to 3 � to 7 years in prison.


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Wow, things went a little quickly in that first episode! Things were so quick that we might not have gotten all that good an opportunity to know the girls, but here's a little run down of the line up for the Achiga all girl's High School Mahjong club:
Shizuno Takakamo
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The protagonist of this story, she was classmates with Nodoka Haramura in Achiga from elementary school up until Junior High before she transferred out due to family reasons. Fueled by her desire to reunite with Nodoka in the National Mahjong Tournament, Shizuno restarts the Achiga all-girl's High School Mahjong club together with her childhood friend, Ako. Contrary to her nickname "Shizu" (lit. "quiet"), she is somewhat rowdy and spontaneous, but maintains a positive, light-hearted attitude throughout.
Ako Atarashi
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Childhood friend of Shizu and confidant. She left Achiga after graduating elementary school to go to Ada Middle School in hopes of entering Bansei High - the current prefectural mahjong champion at the time. Due to Shizu's random desire to restart the Achiga all-girl's High School Mahjong club, Ako reconsiders entering Bansei High and reunites with Shizu to start the Achiga Mahjong Club. Somewhat straightforward in nature, Ako never fails to re-direct Shizu when her antics get the best of her.
Kuro Matsumi
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Senior by one year to Shizu and Ako and the younger sister of Yû, Kuro maintained the Achiga Mahjong Club after it closed down a few years before she graduated junior high school. Although dazed at times, she has an uncanny ability to collect all the dora in the final match of a mahjong game.
Yû Matsumi
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Senior student at Achiga High and older sister of Kuro, she joins the club after being persuaded by her sister. Intolerant to the cold and crowded areas, she is likewise shy and soft-spoken.
Arata Sagimori
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A second year student at Achiga High and acquaintance of Kuro, she joins the club per suggestion of Kuro. She was a fan of Harue Akado during her time as the star player of the Achiga all-girl's High School Mahjong Club before she lost her will to play. Up until then, she stopped playing mahjong, only to regain her conviction after hearing the reinstated Achiga Mahjong Club's goal to win at the National Tournament. Serious and with a taciturn choice of words, she still shows a lingering affection and respect for Harue.
Harue Akado
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Former star player of the Achiga all-girl's High School Mahjong club during her high school years, she stopped playing mahjong after a traumatic defeat at the National Tournament. As a means to rehabilitate her broken spirit, she opted to teach elementary students how to play mahjong. After regaining the courage to play again in the professional league, her company team unexpectedly disbanded. After returning to Achiga, she finds the Mahjong Club reinstated, and decides to train the girls as the club's advisor.
I can't say much for the episode, other than it's somewhat overdramatized and fast-paced. Out of all of these characters, though, only Kuro seems to have some sort of weird super power going about her. She has the strange ability to gather up all the dora come the final round of a match. We'll take a more in-depth look at how significant this is in this week's Saki's Corner.
Follows is a list of terms used in this week's "Saki's Corner"
Dora Indicator - A tile located three tile away from the opposite end of the wall from which players draw tiles. The value of the tile AFTER it indicates the dora tile for that given match (e.g. 1-stick dora indicators means that the 2-stick is the dora for that round).
Han - Points awarded for specific combinations that are used as multipliers in computing one's score for a winning hand. The higher the han, the higher the score (or worth) of the hand.
Ippeiko - A hand containing one set of identical sequences (of the same suit). Worth 1 han point and for closed hands, only.
Mangan - A hand who's han points has reached 5, or a hand who's basic points have exceeded 2,000 after calculating. A different calculation for points is used at this point.
Menzen Tsumo - A tsumo called without having revealed any tiles from one's hand. Oftentimes abbreviated to simply tsumo. Worth 1 han for closed hands, only. If the tsumo is called with an opened hand, then no additional han point is added to the hand.
Pinfu - Also known as a "peace" hand, is a winning hand that has no additional basic points. This type of hand has no triples or quads, no honor tiles, and no wind tiles of either the current round or the seat of the player. The winning tile must also be the result of a multiple wait (more than a single tile to win) that completes a two-sided sequential meld. Worth 1 han point and for closed hands, only.
Riichi - A play that consists of a player depositing 1,000 points when they are one tile away from winning. The player who calls riichi must discard all tiles that don't complete their hand. If the player wins the round after declaring riichi, they re-claim the 1,000 points and have an additional Han point added to their hand.
San Ankou - A hand containing three concealed sets of triples. Worth 2 hand points, whether or not it is closed or opened.
Tanyao - A hand containing no terminal tiles (1's or 9's), being made up of all simple tiles and no honor/wind tiles. Worth 1 hand point and may be for open or closed hands, depending on the rules.
Tenpai - Being one tile away from winning. Any player who is tenpai may call out "riichi", but they don't have to if they don't want to.
Tsumo - Also called winning a game by drawing the winning tile from the wall.
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Saki's Corner: 1st Tile
Nodoka's play
Nodoka's style of play is typical of her character: cool and calculated. She almost always goes out on a tsumo, which reflects a more tempered style of play that focuses less on chance and more on statistical probabilities.
Let's take a look at Nodoka's winning hand:
The total han she has here is four, and includes 1) pinfu, 2) tanyao, 3) ippeikou, and 4) menzen tsumo. Nodoka, however, says her score is 2000 - 4000. The first number here indicates what each non-dealer pays Nodoka - namely 2,000 points, while the latter indicates what the dealer pays - 4,000 points (totaling 8,000 points).
Now, if you took a look at the point scoring table here, you may be wondering where this is in the 4-han territory. The answer is that it isn't. Remember that once the basic points go beyond 2,000, the hand is already a mangan. In this case, we can assume that Nodoka actually has a 5-han hand. The extra han may either be the result of a previously declared riichi, or a dora tile (not shown).
Pop quiz time!
Analyzing her hand, Nodoka went out on a 4-stick tile. She actually could have gone out on a 1-stick, as well, and the tsumo would still be complete (2-2-3-3-4 + 1 becomes 1-2-3 and 2-3-4) - but if you were Nodoka, would you have done so?
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Answer - Probably not. Though it's true that this will still be a winning hand, the total han would only be 3 (pinfu and menzen tsumo, plus the riichi/dora). The 1-stick will violate the conditions for getting a tanyao and ippeikou as previously scored, so the total score will drop down to only 1000 - 2000. This gives us a total of only 4,000 points - HALF of what we would have got if we went out on a 4-stick tile!
The lesson here is that you should take into account the total han you're actually gaining with a winning hand, and gun for the one that gives you the most. Of course, this means that you risk losing if you delay your win by forgoing a possible exit on a tile. However, each play should be considered on a case-to-case basis. Sometimes, you'd LIKE to go out quickly if you feel like your opponent is close to completing their own hand. All things being equal, though, Nodoka clearly thought things through to make sure she could maximize her points!
Nodoka's concern
Nodoka makes a comment regarding the dora on the table. In Saki, the girls use a special Mahjong set that includes four "RED" dora that function as fixed dora tiles, in addition to the dora that are indicated at the start of a round with the dora indicator. In this sense, there can be at least EIGHT dora at any given point in time during a match.
Remember that the purpose of the dora is that it adds an additional han point to an existing hand. This is a good thing, but it doesn't mean you can't let go of them should the need arise. This is one of the reasons why Nodoka makes a comment about not seeing any doras thrown, despite their being in the middle of a round. Again, we're seeing Nodoka's tendency to be a little analytical, so it comes as no surprise when she is shocked by the unlikely odds.
Kuro's hand is interesting, as we see here:
She had all the dora! Even though she isn't tenpai yet, we can see that her hand is forming along the lines of a tanyao, and maybe even a san ankou. Even if she didn't win off of a tsumo or declare riichi, she could have at least scored 11-han. Given that she's the dealer, this would mean a total score of 36,000! Never underestimate what doras can do for you!
Pop quiz time!
So it's a shame that Kuro lost, but if she didn't drop that 9-character tile, what do you think she would have dropped? Take note of the current discards of the players at the time:
Looking at Kuro's hand, it's tempting to simply throw the 9-character away, given how useless it is. There IS a problem, however - Shizu's discards. Shizu's discard pile is seen on the left-hand side of the screen (she sits to the left of Nodoka), and by the looks of it she's collecting character tiles! Throwing away any character at this point in the game is risky, and unless you're playing defensively, you would think twice before discarding ANY character tile so thoughtlessly. So if you couldn't throw away the 9-character tile, which tile would you have discarded?
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Answer - Let's see what would happen if we opted NOT to throw away any character tiles. This would mean that we forgo a tanyao, and we end up forcing ourselves to make the 9-character tile our pair meld. In effect, the two 5-ball and two 6-stick tiles MUST be triple melds. We can then break up the 2-stick quad and force an open-ended wait for a 1-stick or 4-stick tile (2-3 needs either 1 or 4 to complete a sequential meld). We'd most likely expect the latter because there are already three 1-stick tiles on the board (including the dora indicator). Breaking the quad has its benefits, too, because it secures us an extra 2 han points if we plan on completing a san ankou (from triple 5-ball, 6-stick, and 2-stick melds). For this reason, it would probably make the MOST sense to discard the red 5-stick dora. Little do we know, however, that we will NEVER win unless Shizu decides to change her tiles and ends up discarding her 9-character. We can only win on her discard if we are tenpai by the time that happens. If in any case we DO win in this manner, the total han points would only be 9 (7 dora + 2 han from the san ankou), giving us just 24,000 points.
The lesson here is understanding how to read other player's plays, and how it affects the hand you're forming. I actually don't like Kuro's hand at all, because we're very limited with regard to how to maximize the use of all of the dora. We can be easily tempted by all of those dora, but avoiding greed and compromising as necessary in a defensive manner may mean the difference between winning and losing.
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post more please,,,this is some great stuff, and helped me alot in learning more. Hard to find Riichi Mahjong here, seems what few that do play are either Hong Kong, or American style
This is the first time i see am impressive explanation about riichi mahjong in CR. I would like to see on crunchyRoll Akagi or something like that...
Wow, thanks for the replies. I was worried about how I was going to continue this since things were getting a bit busy (I'm 4 weeks behind, after all), but yeah - I'll post the next updates when I can. Thanks for the feed back!
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Can the case be removed from Small Claims?
Before commencement of a trial, the plaintiff or defendant may, upon filing a demand, require that the trial be conducted before a district court judge and not a magistrate, or may remove the case from the small claims division to the general civil division of the district court.
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Where to file your Small Claims?
You must file your small claims in the court which has the venue (the court in which proceedings may be instituted) for the particular area where the defendant lives or where the action arose.
Can you sue a corporation?
You can start a lawsuit against a sole proprietorship, partnership or corporation.
A corporation, sole proprietorship, or corporation as plaintiff or defendant may be represented by a full time employee who has direct and personal knowledge of the facts in dispute. Partnerships may be represented by a general partner.
How many cases can you file at one time?
Within a district court district a person can not file more than five (5) claims in the small claims division in one (1) week.
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Amount of money claimed - (You may ask for court costs on the affidavit and claim by writing the amount of money claimed plus costs) (example: amount of money claimed, $35 plus costs) The Court will determine if costs will be awarded. (costs include the filing fee and service fee)
You must sign the form in the presence of a deputy clerk or a notary public.
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The defendant (person being sued) has to be served with a copy of the affidavit and claim by a deputy sheriff, sheriff, bailiff, appointed court officer, legally competent adult who is not a party or an officer of a corporate party or by certified mail. (you may utilize this court's process server or if you choose service by certified mail, this court will process the certified mailing)
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When you file your small claims, the clerk will schedule a hearing date approximately 6 weeks from the date of filing, depending on the docket. Please advise the clerk if there are any days you are unavailable when filing your small claims case.
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Who will hear your case and what can you do if you are not satisfied with the decision of the court?
Your case will be heard by an attorney/magistrate. The magistrate's decision can be appealed within seven (7) days from the date of the judgment. If the magistrate's decision is appealed, the case will be scheduled to be heard before the assigned Judge. Once the Judge makes a final decision, it is final and you have no right to appeal.
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If you (the plaintiff) fail to appear for your hearing, the case will be dismissed. If the defendant fails to appear, a default judgment will be entered in your favor. The court will prepare the appropriate judgment. Both parties in these instances would have the right to file a motion to set aside the dismissal/default judgment within 21 days from the date the dismissal or the default judgment is signed. If the motion is granted, a trial date could occur immediately following the outcome of the motion or a new trial date may be held.
If the lawsuit is settled before the hearing date, you must prepare a carbon pack "dismissal" form or four (4) copies of the form and submit the completed form to the court before the hearing date or submit a statement in writing to the court before the hearing date advising the court that the case has been settled and the hearing is not necessary. Go the
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Another View -- Melissa Ritchings: Where was Shaheen when we needed her on Obamacare?MELISSA RITCHINGS
October 31. 2013 10:18PM
With regards to Sen. Jeanne Shaheen's letter to President Obama requesting an extension of the Affordable Care Act's (ACA) open enrollment period, I feel I must ask: why the change of heart?
Less than a month ago Sen. Shaheen's fellow Democrats and their media mouthpieces were decrying Republicans in Washington as terrorists with "bombs strapped to their chests" (senior White House adviser Dan Pfeiffer); hostage takers with a gun to the head of the U.S. economy (President Obama); jihadists (Rep. George Miller, D-Calif.); and seditionists (MoveOn.org), among a slew of other insults; and for what? For having the gall to request that the President afford individuals the same opportunity he'd given businesses by delaying the ACA's individual mandate as he had the employer mandate.
In fact, the Republican request for a delay to the individual mandate would have had the benefit of actually being a legal exercise of legislative power, as opposed to Obama's illegal overreach in delaying the employer mandate through executive fiat.
The shutdown need never have happened — let alone the media circus over the debt ceiling "crisis" — had Obama and Sen. Harry Reid, D-Nev., simply agreed to the House Republicans' many continuing resolution requests, all of which would have funded the government while either defunding or delaying implementation of the ACA. Instead, for 15 days Republicans were pilloried for having the temerity to tell the President that his signature legislation was a lead balloon.
Where were you, Sen. Shaheen, when I and those who believe as I do were being treated to a daily dose of unhinged abuse for requesting a delay similar to what you are now requesting of the President? Where were you when innocent Americans and foreign travelers in our country were being denied access to public spaces; when they were being barricaded in their hotels and threatened with arrest for the sin of "recreating"; when they were being pushed out of their homes and having their private businesses shuttered because they had the temerity to lease public land? Where were you, senator, when the rights and liberties of innocent people were being violated because you and your fellow Democrats would not budge on delaying implementation of the ACA? My, hindsight sure is 20/20, isn't it, senator?
The problems with the Affordable Care Act were obvious long before it passed — starting with its laughably Orwellian title — and the rollout of the exchanges was a disaster by the close of business on the first day of the shutdown. You could have asked for this delay then, senator. You and your fellow Democrats could have negotiated with the Republicans to prevent or shorten the shutdown while saving hundreds of thousands of Americans from the ruinous effects of the "Affordable Care" Act for at least one more year, but you didn't. Where were you?
No, senator, there are no do-overs. I'm sure next November is looming like a dark specter for you, and you would do anything to remove the pall of the ACA from your re-election efforts. With all due respect, senator, you should have thought of that sooner. You should have thought more about how this monstrosity of a law would affect every-day Americans rather than how you could leverage it for your own petty political posturing. But now that the bloom has fallen off the diseased rose, you want the Republicans to do what they always do and rush in to fix the mess your Democrats have made so that you can campaign as a politician who's "looking out for the little guy." I would laugh at the hypocrisy if it weren't exactly what I expected.
You want a delay? Sorry, that ship sailed with the shutdown. You didn't notice? Well, where were you?
Melissa Ritchings lives in Franklin.