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Appellate court upholds Lawrence conviction The Minnesota State Court of Appeals upheld the conviction of William J. Lawrence for violation of state game and fish laws. Lawrence was convicted last May 16 by the Ninth Judicial District Court for buying fish from individual fisherman on the Red Lake reservation instead of from the Red Lake Fisheries Association. District Court Judge Jim Preece had convicted Lawrence of the gross misdemeanor offense of buying and selling Red Lake walleye. Preece stayed the sentenced for one year. On Aug. 30, 1987, Lawrence was arrested with approximately 2,000 pounds of walleye fillets. A 1951 state regulation prohibits the sale of fish caught on the reservation except by or through the fisheries association. Lawrence, 49, works for Honeywell in Minneapolis, operates Bill's Wholesale Fish Ltd., and is publisher of the Ojibwe News, which was established last May after the Ojibwe Times ceased publication. When he was arrested, Lawrence admitted he had bought the fish for resale off the reservation. Possessing a state food-handler's license, Lawrence has been selling fish to seafood restaurants in the Twin Cities. Lawrence's attorney, Romaine Powell of Bemidji, said they plan to appeal the case to the state Supreme Court. Lawrence, who has a law degree from the University of North Dakota, argued that the application of state fish and game laws to him would violate his treaty rights and the Indian Commerce Clause. State laws, he said, are preempted by federal laws. Since Powell and prosecuter Tom Keyes agreed on the facts in the case, the appellate court had to decide whether the lower court erred in applying the law. "The trial court determined that Minnesota Game and Fish Laws are applicable to Lawrence," the appellate court said in its unpublished opinion. "We agree. . . The trial court did not err in applying the state game and fish laws to Lawrence." The appellate court also said that the possession of a food-handler's license did not exempt Lawrence from state game laws. Tuesday, Lawrence said he was disappointed that Judge Fosberg, who was not present during the oral arguments, wrote the appellate Bill would help low-income people own homes Affordable housing may not be pie in the sky for low-income families wanting to own their own home, according to legislation the Housing Division of the Minnesota Financial Institutions and Housing Committee heard March 13. Rep. Andy Dawkins (DFL-St. Paul) said his bill HF140, would create five pilot housing projects around the state. The Minnesota Housing Finance Agency would manage the projects with grant money from governmental units or nonprofit organizations. To start up the program, Dawkins' bill would appropriate $1 million, allocating $200,000 to each pilot. Dawkins said the projects would link public housing to neighborhood social services agencies. Together, they would work to preserve the level of housing stock in blighted neighborhoods. "It empowers neighborhood organizations, stops blight and crime, and it rums have-nots into have-stake homeowners," Dawkins said. Homebuyers eligible for the program must be "at risk," according to Dawkins. Those "at risk" would include people who recently lost their jobs, those on public assistance, and recovering chemical abusers. Homebuyers would pay 30 percent of their incomes on property taxes, utilities, hazard insurance, and home maintenance. The committee gave the bill preliminary approval on a 10-3 vote. Minnesota Legislature considers proposal for new state flag Minnesota lawmakers listened to a proposal March 16 for a design for the state flag. Rep. Gil Gutknecht (TR-Rochester) and Rev. William M. Becker, associate pastor, Church of St. Pius X, Rochester, testified in favor of the new design before the House Governmental Operations Committee. A Minneapolis woman designed the first state flag in 1893 as an entry in the Chicago World's Fair. In 1955, the Legislature formed a commission to simplify the flag, without creating an entirely new design. The state adopted the commission's recommendations in 1957, just in time for Minnesota's centennial celebration. Proponents of a new flag say the 1957 design is too crowded, indistinct at a distance, and expensive to make. Designers of the proposed flag say it better identifies Minnesota and its ideals. The wavy field in the flag represents the Dakota Indian word "Minisota," which means "sky-tinted waters." They say the gold North Star in the corner of the flag symbolizes Minnesota's statehood, northern location, and our guidance and hope for the future. It also recalls the explorers, pioneers, and immigrants whom the star guided northward to Minnesota. The star bears a trefoil which marks due north on a compass and is composed of a sprig of pine (state tree), two loons (state bird), and a lady slipper (state flower). The colors in the flag represent Minnesota's natural qualities: blue for lakes and rivers, green for fields and forests, yellow for mineral wealth, and white for winter snows. Some lawmakers suggested that the flag should have more white, in light of a recent snow storm. Many committee members support studying the flag proposal. However, the state seal, which the Minnesota Territory originally adopted in 1849, and the state modified slightly in 1858 and 1883, would remain the same. House committee rejects death penalty, recommends life without parole People whom the courts convict of first-degree murder may face a penalty of life in prison without parole under a bill the Minnesota House Judiciary Committee recommended to pass March 20. Lawmakers rejected a move to reinstate the death penalty in Minnesota after more than six hours of testimony on March 17. The committee defeated the proposal on a 21-to-2 bipartisan vote. Many Lawmakers said they disagree with the death penalty because it's irrevocable. One member told the committee that 25 executions have taken place in the U.S. in which evidence produced later proved the executed person's innocence. Studies also show that execution cost more than life imprisonment, though lawmakers said finances aren't the crux of the issue. Critics of the death penalty said its history "reeks with discrimination." They also said it doesn't deter crime. In fact, many states that execute criminals have experienced much larger increases in murder than Minnesota. Current Minnesota law states that those convicted of first-degree murder are eligible for parole after serving 20 years. Under the life- without-parole bill, the Board of Pardons is the only authority that could approve the release of a person convicted of first-degree muder, but not until the person has served at least 30 years in prison. The bill goes next to the House Appropriations Committee. court's opinion of the case. "It is evident that from a reading of Judge Fosberg's one page, unpublished opinion that he not only did not read the transcript of the oral argument or our legal brief," said Lawrence, "or he would have known that the Bailey case did not involve a Red Lake tribal member and we raised additional issues in the Good case which he didn't even mention." It is the State vs. Bailey (\9%1) and the State vs. Good (1986) cases on which the proseuction based its arguments. "I guess that I shouldn't be surprised by the Fosberg decision," said Lawrence, "because this is the normal treatment Indian resource issues receive from the state courts. "It doesn't appear that I am going to get any consideration of the legal issues involved in this important case until I get to the federal courts." Senate committee ok's tougher drunk driving standard—page 2 Conviction raises concern over race relations—page 3 Cultural differences contribute to high native college dropout rate—page? Founded in 1988 jsue 45 ' Copyright, the Ojibwe News, 1989 A Weekly Publication Bemidji, Minnesota 56601 Tension built during a raffle at the Rainy River Community College's First Annual Pow Wow in International Falls last weekend. Photo by Mark Boswell Bemidji draws fire for turning down federal housing money Bemidji (AP) The city council's decision to pass up nearly $1.5 million in federal money for low- income housing has shocked poor residents of this north-central Minnesota where 180 families are on a waiting list for subsidized housing. The Department of Housing and Urban Development last fall awarded the city the money to provide subsidized houses for 20 poor families, but the council rejected the offering saying it needed to study the city's housing needs first. "You don't just take the money and run," said Doug Peterson, Bemidji's mayor for 14 years. "I've learned you study a problem first, find out what your needs are." "The city would be putting the cart before the horse if it spent the money before knowing what the need is," said John Ostrem, director of the development commission that's conducting the study. But critics say the council is just avoiding facing up to some difficult problems in a city that is a tourism gateway to northern Minnesota. "The city doesn't want to admit that the heart of their city needs attention," said John Loftus, a Beltrami County commissioner. "And they don't want to deal with the underlying social and economic problems." Loftus represents a district that includes some of the city's most blighted houses. He has become the loudest critic of housing policy. The HUD award, $1,468,400, was a coup. With the money, the city was supposed to buy 20 houses with at least three bedrooms, big enough for large families. The houses would be rented to families who qualify for housing assistance. Those houses represented nearly one-sixth of the houses HUD planned to finance in the entire state of Minnesota. "The need's tremendous," said Jim Klein, director of the city's Housing and Redevelopment Authority. "Just drive down that street and you can see," he said of America Ave., one of the shabbiest in town; A block away from City Hall is a four-bedroom shelter where 342 homeless people stayed last year. To the north, beyond the prosperous downtown, are the drafty, crowded, peeling houses crowded with poor people, many of them Indians. Public housing for the poor rs new territory for the city. Although about 220 poor families already are receiving housing assistance, they're living in privately owned apartments, not in public housing. The only public housing in the city a 100-unit building for elderly people. Federal officials were more than a little surprised when the city council rejected the offer. "There's hardly any money out there for housing, so if we had a clue they didn't want it, they'd never have gotten it," said Pat Mack, a HUD information specialist in Minneapolis. "It's unusual for anyone to turn down public housing in this day and age.' It hasn't happened before in Minnesota as far as anyone can remember, she said. But a reluctance to provide public housing for the poor isn't all that rare. Public housing for the elderly exists in all but 10 Minnesota counties, but 46 counties have none for the poor. "Elderly housing, yes—but families are another issue," Mack said. "Most people don't want poor families with children living near them. Like my boss said, the only thing most people want next door is a park." Red Lake Mission School to close Tribal funding withdraw/ By William Lawrence Publisher The, News has learned that the Red Lake Mission School is to close at the end of the current school year for financial reasons. According to several undisclosed sources, the Red Lake Tribal Council's withdrawal of financial support is the primary financial reason for the closing. The Red Lake Tribal Council has been providing the mission school with $15,000 of support annually. Sources indicate that the council intends to use next year's funds to operate an alternative school on the Red Lake reservation. Chief proponent of the alternative school concept on the reservation is reported to be Verna Wood, tribal education director. The Red Lake Mission School was established on the reservation by the Benedictine Order of monks and sisters on Nov. 1,1888. The school has educated thousands of reservation residents and is highly regarded for educational excellence on the reservation. The school has a current enrollment of 100 students in grades 1 through 6, and employs four full-time and one half-time teachers. Annual tuition costs are $170 per student with a sliding scale for multiple-student families. Official action to close the school is scheduled to take place at a diocese meeting in Crookston, Minn, on April 11,1989. Leech Lake tribe objects to MCLU campaign against sports nicknames Minnesota Civil Liberties Union officials are studying a request by the Leech Lake band of Minnesota Chippewa that the MCLU and the state Board of Education drop their efforts to eliminate Indian nicknames from public schools. Several tribal leaders, meanwhile, applauded Leech Lake's resolution and said the entire Minnesota Chippewa Tribe—six reservation bands with a combined enrollment of more than 30,000 people—could adopt similar positions. "I'd support such a resolution," said Eugene Boshey, chairman of the Bois Forte (Nett Lake) Reservation. "I don't care whether it's up here in Orr, where we have the Braves, or in a Twin Cities suburb. If they take pride in the name, let them use it." The Bois Forte Business Committee is expected to pass a resolution in support of the nearby Orr school's keeping its nickname, the Indians, Boshey said. "A big percentage of our kids go to that school," he said. A similar resolution was passed on the White Earth Reservation in support of the Mahnomen school keeping its nickname, also the Indians. "A lot of schools have pride in what they're doing and have taken the time to become more knowledgeable about another culture. To take that away is like reverse discrimination," said Robert Peacock, chairman of the Fond du Lac Reservation. Leech Lake leaders said Tuesday that a survey of residents overwhelmingly found pride, not offense, regarding the use of the names. The band's unanimous resolution is the first official protest by an Indian government to a campaign this year to rid state schools of team names such as Indians, Chiefs and Warriors. The MCLU said the campaign, which includes threats to sue up to 50 Minnesota school districts in federal court if they don't change team names, was designed to stop disparaging references to Indians. The MCLU's push prompted the state Board of Education to urge schools to drop their Indian emblems and symbols. Many schools, including 10 iri the Twin Cities area, are discussing the question. However, some Indian leaders said the MCLU and state educational administrators neglected to ask Indians how they felt about the issue. "We are opposed to the action of the MCLU, and we question their authority to speak on our behalf," said Myron Ellis, a representative on the Leech Lake Reservation's Business Committee, the band's governing body. "We view the use of Indian names as a point of pride if they are used respectfully and in good taste," he said. "The vast majority of our people do not have a problem with the various school districts using Indian names to represent their teams." Matthew Stark, the MCLU's associate director, said he needed to study the Leech Lake action before commenting. "Right now the plan is that at a certain point we go to federal court and go forward with the litigation," he said. "I will say that it's delightful that this whole issue is being discussed." State Education Commissioner Ruth Randall was out of town Tuesday and Wednesday and could not be reached for comment. The Leech Lake resolution asks the MCLU and the Board of Education to stop their efforts to change team names, and instead work with the Minnesota Chippewa Tribe and the Minnesota Indian Education Advisory Council to decide which names or symbols are being used in a derogatory way. It also asks that "the MCLU and the state Board of Education refrain from attempting to speak for all Indian people without consultation of the elected tribal officials."
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Title | The Ojibwe News (Bemidji, Minnesota), 1989-03-29 |
Edition | Volume 1, Issue 45 |
Date of Creation | 1989-03-29 |
Publishing Agency | Native American Press Company (Bemidji, Minnesota) |
Language | English |
Minnesota Reflections Topic | American Indians |
Item Type | Text |
Item Physical Format | Newspapers |
Formal Subject Headings |
Ojibwa Indians Community newspapers Indians of North America -- Newspapers |
Locally Assigned Subject Headings | American Indians; Native Americans; Ojibway; Ojibwe |
Minnesota City or Township | Bemidji |
Minnesota County | Beltrami |
State or Province | Minnesota |
Country | United States |
Contributing Organization | Bemidji State University, 1500 Birchmont Drive NE, Bemidji, Minnesota 56601-2699 |
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Local Identifier | bdj_1989 |
LCCN | sn 2001061867 |
OCLC Control Number | 25931514 |
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Thanks for the new chapter!
What an amazing twist with Darryl!
Looking forward to the next chapter!
Thanks for the new chapter!
What an amazing twist with Darryl!
Looking forward to the next chapter!
Been waiting for this all day to, thank you .
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Thank You Kathy for another great tale.
Kathy, you have touched on my greatest fear. How to know who will be friend or foe.
I tend to trust everyone, it's only with life experience can a person weed out the phoneys.
Thank You, Kathy. Another good chapter. True friends are very hard to come by.
Yay! Thanks for the chapter Kathy. I was surprised by how quickly and easily things turned racially ugly, but I guess it doesn't take much for some people to bring on the hate.
I have plenty of acquaintances but only a few true friends. If the tried and true were to turn on me I'd be crushed. Thank you for the new chapter.
Let's not get on Dorrie's case too hard yet. There's often more than meets the eye at first glance in Kathy's characters.
Thank 'ya Mam. More please.
Thank you thank you thank you!!! Good moar story.
The problem is that people keep screaming:"The wolf is coming, the wolf is coming!" so often that we never notice the coyote that is running off with the chickens.
"I could be wrong, it could be worse." Infomajic
Thank you Kathy. Glad she was able to get her seeds and some other goodies.
I work, come back and check, work, come back and check, repeat.
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I get up, I check, I go to work, I come home I check, and check till I go to bed.
I'm addicted to Kathy's stories!
There I said it!!
Kathy, I hope Tropical Storm Debby didn't bother you too much.
The Weather station was talking about nine inches of water last night with more to come.
How did you make out?
Not sure where Kathy is right now, but this is the view down on Anna Maria Island off of Sarasota yesterday.Noramly the Gulf is calm and smooth instead of 8 to 12' waves...Stay safe Kathy!
Being PC will be the death of us all yet!
"But we've got to have faith or we have nothing. We have to have faith in our God, our resolve, our cause and our brother patriots."
Black, Leo - The Last Stand on Earth.
Prayers for you and all the Floridians getting spanked by Debby.
Keep your powder dry and stay safe. Story can wait until you gat a chance to catch your breath after the clean-up.
The problem is that people keep screaming:"The wolf is coming, the wolf is coming!" so often that we never notice the coyote that is running off with the chickens.
"I could be wrong, it could be worse." Infomajic
Thank you for this good story and please stay safe.
If I have to get up on one more roof in the ran I am going to be a very, very cranky wet hen. (sigh)
Hubby sent me home so I am drying out a bit. Have to head up to our BOL to check things out which is in the cross hairs right now.
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We are all wishing you and yours the best and God Blessing on you and the others in the middle of this mess.
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Prayers of safety for all of you.
At our BOL and nearly had to swim in. Good thing I wasn't pulling the trailer like we normally do. Worse here than back in Tampa. Weather.com say 3 to 4 inches ... yeah right, try double that. We keep losing power. If I can post something tonight I will but if I don't it is more than likely due to lack of power. No trees down ... yet ... but the limerock of our road is pretty mushy in places. No flooding in the house either but we are going to dig a trench down from the garage just to make sure. Sigh. Lovely, lovely Florida. Oh well ... better this than snow.
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I don't know with snow, you can at least make snow ice cream out of it and snowmen....
then blast the snowman with snow cannon balls.....
not to mention you can put the snow where you want it.....
We have just teh opposite problem - no rain. Our hospital was on alert last night due to a fire (60 square miles) within 25 miles of us. Burned most of a little town, and I'm crying for the farmers who just lost a beautiful wheat crop and cattle.
Be safe Kathy (and our other folks in FL).
Thank you for letting us know how you and the family are doing. Yeah I agree I didn't like the thought of you on the roof.
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Glad to hear that you arrived safely!
Hopefully the storm will move off tonight and everything will start drying off!
The amount of rain that the weather station says is being dropped on Florida is amazing.
Take Care!
Dear Diary,
Got a text from Cal not to worry but that he wouldn't be home until in the morning … maybe … or possibly tomorrow night. Not sure what it means; texting is so limited. He has said we aren't to put anything vital or private out and I can understand that, yet at the same time knowing he isn't going to be home but not knowing why … well, I just don't like it. He says not to worry and when Daniel said that I eventually learned that that was exactly when I should start to worry.
Got a visit today. I'm not sure what to make of it. It was a woman, a little older than me I think or at least so she looked. She told me she was in the Coast Guard and was wondering if I would be willing to tell her and some of the others what the different fruit trees were in their compound.
I asked her with a smile, "You aren't from around here are you?"
She shook her head. "Boston."
I laughed but not at her and she understood. "I didn't think so. Tell you what, I can't leave the house but if you bring me leaves off the trees I'll be happy to tell what they are. But can I ask you something? What made you come ask me? Surely someone over there knows what the plants and such are."
"Saw you and that man … your husband? … eating things straight off the trees while ah was woking the gahd dawgs. Thought to ask before we eat anything."
I know I'm not getting her accent right but it was pretty fun to listen to. She was friendly but not overly friendly. She and another woman and a guy came over with a box full of stuff. I wound up having to go back into the house and come out with scrap paper, tape, and a permanent marker to help them label the different types of plants.
Most of what they had was citrus but they had some kumquats and loquats too. And they brought a sea grape leaf and I told them, "Around April or May you'll be able to eat those too."
The young man who sounded like Mississippi to my ears said, "Are you serious?"
Smiling I told him, "Yeah, you can eat them when they go to a deep purple color. Some people make jelly out of them … and wine too for that matter. I never was able to gather enough to do much more than eat them fresh."
That's all there was to it. The first woman that came over did warn me not to go wandering over near the compound. Made me want to ask why they had then come wandering over to mine but I didn't. I think they were actually trying to be nice and keep me from getting into trouble. Personally only an idiot would go snooping where they obviously weren't wanted. What am I going to do? Throw Feena in a sling and get dressed all in black and spy on them or something? Yeah. I want to get shot.
Wonder what Cal is up to?
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Nice way to break the ice, would have never thought of that.
God Restore The Republic
Ahhh thank you, nice treat for us in the middle of all you have going on. Would you believe it was 38 degrees this morning here and just pouring, it is now 46 degrees and the wind blowing making us wear jackets and hats outside.
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Dear Diary,
Wish I could write what a giggle sounds like in this journal. Geez but I have got to find out why Cal snores so loud. And he's doing it right behind me. I had to put Feena back in her crib but pull it close to the bed … my side. She kept trying to stick her blankey in Cal's mouth. I was afraid he was going to gag and suffocate. He only does it between being lightly asleep and being fully asleep; I ought to know, I listen to him most nights from down the hall. Only tonight? No more down the hall.
It is been a full day. When I woke this morning it was to a beautiful winter day. The sky was cerulean blue and not a cloud in sight. Humidity was so low all Feena wanted was her cuppy all morning long. I didn't sweat a bit as I worked on the garden and around the house. Then about eleven thirty as I was feeding Feena her lunch I noticed that the sky wasn't quite so bright.
I stepped outside and sure enough off to the northeast I saw a line of storm clouds … a front. The wind had picked up a bit as well; not so that I would really notice it, but the water did as I saw a few white caps had started to form here and there. I put Feena on my hip and walked towards the dock to look towards the mouth of the river and sure enough, the closer to the Bay it got the slightly rougher the water became.
I jumped and turned. It was Darla. one of the women from yesterday. She and someone else were out in sea kayaks and wet suits. I waved.
Darla came close to the dock. "Wetha bulletin says a cold front is cuhming. Be heyah by evening."
I looked at her and said, "It'll be here by six the way it is moving. We're already getting white caps into the river; usually means the Bay is really gonna churn. I probably don't have to tell you that you better tie down good on the Bay side. If the wind is pushing the water this hard already no telling what it will be like tonight, probably pretty cold."
"This is cold?"
I smiled and admitted, "OK, maybe not for you but you might be surprised how nasty what we call a cold front can be."
She gave a small smile then just nodded her head and gave a casual wave of her paddle; she and her companion were off and around the shoreline vegetation and then out of my sight though I noticed they weren't all that silent. They slapped the water with their paddles too much like they were afraid of gators or something. She'd be better off watching out for something coming out of the mangrove swamps. I've seen novice kayakers freak out and turn themselves over at sighting horseshoe crabs or baby sharks.
We started having rolling brown outs at one o'clock and I could already feel the temperature dropping. The radio said they were trying to conserve energy for the hospitals and emergency shelters since not all of the electrical capacity had been rebuilt. It was bound to get cold sooner or later, it was December after all. I sat Feena in the swing Cal had strung in the old oak near the rear of the house and I started moving my more sensitive tropicals into the Florida room. What a job that was. Lucky for me I got a nice surprise right around three thirty.
He looked tired but when he saw me and smiled and got out of his truck, came over, and swung me around in a happy greeting.
I laughed, "Are you crazy?! Put me down you big goof!"
He was still smiling and so was I when he said, "I can't tell you how good it is to have someone welcome me home and mean it."
"Well I'll do more than say it. Why don't you go get cleaned up and I'll put some soup on."
"Actually I brought dinner home."
That surprised me so much I didn't know what to say at first. "Brought … brought dinner home?"
"Let's get this in the house … should stay warm in the oven even without turning it on … and then I'll help you finish getting this stuff put up. I wasn't sure whether you'd know there was a cold front coming in."
"Honestly, you'd think I'd never lived here before. All I had to do was look outside and see that line of clouds and see the white caps."
He nodded. "Yeah, you'd notice that."
"And besides a couple of people from the base or compound or whatever warned me."
All the good humor drained from his face. "What was his name?"
"Him was a her … two hers actually although they had a guy with them yesterday. Her name is Darla Dutton and I suppose there is a rank in front of the name but I don't know what it is. Darla is Coast Guard. I don't know what the other two are."
Sounding like an interrogation he asked, "How did you meet them?"
"Darla came over wanting to know if I would tell her what trees were what because they didn't know what fruit was safe." I stopped, laughing in remembrance. "Can you believe they didn't know what a kumquat was? They couldn't tell the difference between a sour orange and a calamondin. Darla was telling me how awful the oranges tasted and they thought they were poisonous or something."
I was giggling but stopped when I saw Cal was still looking serious. I put my hands on my hips and said, "I didn't go over there if that's what you are thinking. I do have some sense you know. They brought me leaves and I labeled them … by the time they were finished it looked like a science project for middle school."
Still serious he asked, "That's all they wanted? Then why did they come back?"
"They didn't come back exactly. I walked down to the dock to look towards the mouth of the river and they were out paddling in kayaks. From the junk on the hulls it looked like they had just come from one of the water trails through the mangroves. I waved, they paddled over. They didn't stay and only stopped for like two or three minutes max."
He finally relaxed and started to help move all my pots. "I don't like to leave you with so many strangers around."
"Well, you might as well get over that. Now are you going to tell me if you still have your job or not?"
He stopped for a minute and was just as serious as he had been about my visitors. "Would it bother you if I didn't?"
Slowly I answered, "Only if it bothered you. We'd have to sit down and work out a strategy of how we were going to make ends meet but I don't want you worrying and taking some stupid, crazy job just to say you have a job. I …"
He bent over and shut me up with a kiss. "I've still got a job but they've … hmm, how to put this. They've temporarily repurposed our department."
"What do you mean repurposed?" I asked cautiously.
"We're still law enforcement but rather than all of us running the streets the National Guard and DHS is going to do that."
Irritated I said, "They are so not making you guys the scapegoats for what has been going on."
"Yes and no. They've put the county on 'observation' but they can't really do it without us. They know it. They're … er … selectively adjusting our job descriptions."
"What about … you know … what you guys did before. Especially like the holding cells and prisons?"
"Most of the prisons are being privatized …"
I didn't mean to yelp but it came out that way. "What? You mean like … like a corporation kind of thing?"
He nodded. "Pretty much. The prisoners are going to have to contribute to the cost of their own maintenance by participating in whatever the industry is that gets set up in each prison. It is going on around the state. They'll dump the ones they can … petty criminals, drug addicts, drunk drivers … and from what I understand they are bringing back hard labor."
I shook my head. "Sounds like a recipe for disaster. With the way things are dumping people that have already proven they'll ignore the law onto the streets just means we've got more desperate people with no way to support themselves except through crime. That will just get them sent right back in."
"Maybe, maybe not. The streets are … are going to get pretty tough. Looters are to be shot on sight."
I dropped a pot on my foot and started dancing around. When it finally stopped hurting long enough for me to listen Cal said, "That's why the National Guard is going to work the streets. They aren't messing around with this martial law anymore."
"But … but that's … I don't know … that happens in other countries, not here."
I shivered and Cal brushed some hair behind my ear. "Things are changing Aria."
"Yeah, apparently. I'm almost afraid to ask what you are supposed to do."
"Everyone has their own territory but mine is to watch the river between here and Commongood Park."
Surprised I said, "All the way up there? And how do they expect you to do that?"
He snorted, "All the way up there isn't that far compared to what I used to drive. And how? In my boat. In civies. Keeping a low profile."
"Uh huh. And where is Fish and Wildlife in all this?"
"Good question. Ask another 'cause I don't have the answer to that one. I think they have their hands full in other areas. There are a lot of people squatting on public lands because they don't have any place else to go and they imagine camping is going to be safe. We got a lot of people heading south to escape the cold of up north … assuming when they get here someone will just have to help them. Well they get here and find out they assumed wrong. There's a lot of homelessness right now."
"What a mess," I said dejectedly.
"Yep, but there are perks to this new situation. Since I have to keep a low profile I'll be able to do more fishing. My fuel will be delivered right to the house here … probably by Josh because he is a floater."
"You aren't partners?" That alarmed me because I knew that Josh would always have Cal's back.
"We're working on it. He's … uh … look, got a question for you."
Hearing the tone in his voice I asked slowly, "What?"
Cal sat the last pot in the Florida room and then shut the door before grabbing my hand and pulling me over to the bench near Feena's swing. He gently pushed me to sit down while he stood and pushed Feena, much to her delight. "You … have you and Dorrie had a fight or anything?"
"No! Why on earth would you ask?"
"Darryl told Josh you probably wouldn't want to go shopping with Dorrie for a while."
I rolled my eyes. "Geez, that man has no tact."
"So you and Dorrie have had a fight?"
"I told you no."
"So, is there like anything else going on?"
I sighed, "Cal, it's nothing … not really. Just …"
"People are getting so weird and Dorrie's mother is so clueless about it." When he just kept looking at me I told him, "Look at me Cal. I'm half 'cracker' whatever that means but I don't look it. My complexion is even darker than Dad and Papa's were and even they weren't one hundred percent Hispanic. I'm just, a … a throwback."
"You aren't that dark," he said.
"I'm not exactly that light either if you catch my drift. Add in my black hair and what do you think certain types of people are going to act like."
He snorted impatiently. "But you've got green eyes."
"You know how many times I've been asked where I get my contacts from?"
"They aren't contacts … are they?"
I snorted a laugh. "No. Geez … observant much Mr. Police Man?"
"Watch it," he said with a grin. But then the grin faded. "You didn't tell me you've been bothered. I thought it was just Darryl … being Darryl."
"I've discovered he's more bark than bite these days. Maybe he was before and I just caught him on a bad day although Dorrie said that he was like that all the time most of her life. And maybe he's changed now. Don't know, not sure I care, just know I can live with whatever he is now."
"Then I'm not getting it. Something happen while you all were out?"
I shrugged. "Like I said, people are … different. Stressed out. They see something and fixate on it. They see me and … and the old prejudices and fears come back. Somehow I'm taking an unfair share or something. I never did understand some of the damage people carry around with them. We're just to a point that I don't need to deal with it right now so I'd rather not."
He gave Feena a big push that would keep her going and then sat down making the bench squeak in protest. "You aren't telling me something."
I sighed and leaned my head over onto his shoulder. "People change Cal. Something … something is going on with Dorrie. Maybe it was always there and I just never saw it but I don't think so. She started changing when they got to her through her work, making her rat on people. Her mother is clueless; she's always been a bit ditzy but she seems to get worse the worse things get around here. Dorrie … I just don't know but I'd … I'd just rather not … she just let people … look, can't I just say I'd rather not go shopping and that be enough?"
"You sure you're OK with things being that way? Did she … did she say something to hurt your feelings?"
"I'm not OK with it exactly but I'm not going to put myself into other people's crosshairs just to try and force some kind of confession out of her one way or the other. And she didn't say anything precisely so I don't even know if I'm imagining it. But she … she didn't stand up for me either. I would have for her. I thought that's what friends did for each other. And when she and her mother got going at the same time it just … it left a bad taste in my mouth. I just … look … I didn't say anything because I don't want trouble between you and Josh."
"There won't be trouble between Josh and I. He and Dorrie … they never really settled things after he got out of the hospital. He said she threw walls up that he just decided he wasn't interested in trying to climb over after the first few tries. He's actually looking for an apartment but not having much luck because he is tired of the having people make assumptions and, like you, doesn't want to cause problems by having to explain. They're her family after all."
I opened my mouth but he said, "No. I like the guy – I'm closer to him than I am to my brothers – but no."
"You don't even know what I was going to say."
"Yeah I did. You were going to say he could have the spare room here."
"Ok, so you did know what I was going to say. But are you sure?"
"Yeah. I'm sure. Josh can … he can be … he's a flirt and has a mouth on him."
I snorted, "Like that is supposed to be a surprise. He tones it down around me."
"But if he lived here he wouldn't. He'd get … comfortable. And I just don't want that stuff around you or Feena. Josh can also … he can drink. He doesn't do it on the job but on a long weekend you can bet he can put it away."
"He's … he's an alcoholic?" I asked in surprise.
"No," he said with absolute certainty. "He just likes to drink. Some guys are like that. Josh is one of them. He's not a mad drunk or a sappy drunk … in fact you can't really tell the difference Josh drunk and Josh sober but his reflexes suck and his mouth can get a bit much to handle when he gets loose. Like I said, I like the guy but I might not if I had to put up with it 24/7."
"Ok," I told him not really knowing what else to say.
Rats! Pen is running out. Looks like I'll be finishing this tomorrow night. Should have put the good stuff first of why my feet aren't going to be cold tonight, or any other night for that matter so long as Cal is home.
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I just hope Kathy's place isn't under water, she did say something about her husband digging a trench to divert the water. The weather station talked about 2 feet of water in some places and it was supposed to be worse in northern Florida. The water could have knocked out her internet. Hopefully she and her family are okay!!!!!!
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Bimpnottin wrote:I've got 2 squares from Clue 4 and 4 squares from Clue 5 left to do.
Been hard to motivate around here the past week. It was 80 degrees in NE Wisconsin this weekend - absolutely unheard of for the middle of March in Wisconsin.
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I totally agree, it has been very hard to motivate myself to crochet with the weather here in Connecticut being beyond beautiful. We all just want to be outside enjoying the close to 80(farenheit) degree weather. I have 3 more motifs to do on clue 5. I hear it is going to chill down this weekend so maybe I'll get more motivated to curl up with my yarn.


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"You always feel like you let the team down if you don't get two points, especially when you don't score enough goals," he said. "We're playing good hockey. Maybe (we need to) touch up on a few things, get bodies to the net. Their goalie played great, but I think we made him look a lot better than he was."
Regin, who had missed the previous seven games with a chest injury, thought he won it for Ottawa when he hit a crossbar with three seconds left in OT.
"I heard it hit and then I couldn't find the puck. Usually you can see the puck. But when you can't find it, it's usually in the net," he said before downplaying the notion that the Senators are invincible in shootouts.
"Shootouts are lotteries. We're going to lose shootouts too this year. We've won three in a row, but one day we might lose three in row too, I think."
Regin has no goals and two assists in 13 games this season. When MacLean was asked why he used the fifth-year pro in the shootout, he smiled and said it was just "a great coaching decision."
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Adam Oates has been hired as Washington's new head coach. I'm looking into tendencies and coaching style - it's hard to tell, when his last gig was an assistant with the Devils. Live chat right here on Sunday. When should I start it? Noon? Call it noonish. But let's chat. I'll invite all the writers on, and I'm sure some or most will be up for it – chat it up, get your voice heard and your questions answered! If the Penguins get Zach Parise, I'll eat my hat. They freed up cap space to keep Crosby and add a complementary winger – and still have a bit leftover for a deadline deal. So enough of the stupid talk. In unrelated news, I have this awesome new hat made of nachos. So who do the Penguins target? A second-tier winger, which means PA Parenteau, Jiri Hudler, Kristian Huselius, Brad Boyes, Shane Doan or Ray Whitney. My money would be on Parenteau or Doan. Florida would have to be crazy to go after Roberto Luongo. Not with Jacob Markstrom as close as half a season away from becoming an NHL starter. And when Markstrom is a starter, he won't be 25th in the league… or 18th in the league. He'll be top 10. Luongo is dreaming. Mike Gillis is dreaming too. Another GM I respect (I think he, Burke, Lombardi, Tallon, Shero, Holmgren, Holland and Chiarelli are my favorites – off the top of my head, hope I didn't leave any out). But he's going to play the waiting game with the Luongo situation. The problem is - he only has one opponent. I don't think he will admit that to himself yet, but Brian Burke is his only potential deal. Sure, there are rumblings about Chicago, but payroll-wise the Leafs have better flexibility and desperation-wise the Leafs need goaltending more. There were only three teams in absolutely desperate need of a goaltender – Toronto, Tampa Bay and Columbus. Two of those teams have apparently addressed the need. Gillis lost the waiting game with those guys. Gillis has made some smart moves, but in this I don't believe he has a lot room to maneuver. I think it's Toronto, and I think if he waits until the season starts and something happens like a James Reimer of old re-emergence, or a Ben Scrivens show, then the potential return will only get worse. When you have such a big contract, you almost have to give it away. My prediction on Parise: Minnesota – 30% Toronto – 10% Other – 20% The Lightning did not qualify Benoit Pouliot. That seems weird, considering what they gave up for him, and he will apparently get a shot in the top six. But the team and Pouliot both believe that they will come to an agreement of some sort. Apparently the Islanders offered Columbus all of their draft picks just for Ryan Murray. Snow was turned down. Uh…interesting. I guess, credit goes for originality? But is Murray so good that he's worth Reinhart and six draft picks? So instead, the Isles drafted seven defensemen with their picks and thus increased the odds that one of them will turn out to be as good as Murray. Yes. Yes, that would be smarter. If you missed it yesterday, my Puck Daddy column on draft weekend trade impact – here. And my THN column on the impact of some of the key draft picks – here. Calgary did not give qualifying offers to Blake Comeau or Logan MacMillan. So they will be UFA's. The Rangers qualified Mats Zuccarello, which is interesting since he agreed to a KHL contract. So they have hope of a return next year? They also qualified Anton Stralman, who will return to Sweden according to several sources. Nashville did not qualify Jack Hillen or Zach Stortini. They did qualify Alexander Radulov (of course), among the others. This one slipped by me – Isles Trevor Gillies signed to play in the KHL. Just an FYI. The Stars took their time with this decision, but they did indeed qualify Tom Wandell. They qualified the rest of the RFA's (who they wanted) last week. Hall of Fame announcement later today – Sakic and Sundin are the locks, with Shanahan close behind. Although most experts will say Sakic and Shanahan are the locks and it is Sundin who is close behind. But I always go back to the best player in the world in their position for a give season. I think there were two or three seasons where Sundin was second or third best on the planet. I don't know if Shanahan was ever the second or third best winger on the planet. Anyway, whatever – my criteria is different from the HoF's and I don't get a vote. The Oilers qualified, among others, Linus Omark. Cam Barker was not qualified. The Habs did not qualify Petteri Nokelainen, nor Michael Blunden. The Wild did not qualify Nick Johnson or Guillaume Latendresse, but they plan to sign the latter to a contract soon. Here is the most interesting one – Peter Mueller. The Avs did not qualify him AND they do not plan to pursue him, per Adrian Dater. Now watch him sign and flourish elsewhere, injuries behind him. Or maybe he just Pascal Leclaires his way out of hockey. Kevin Porter also not qualified. Florida did not qualify Wojtek Wolski, and Vancouver did not qualify MA Gragnani. This Fabian Brunnstrom Damien Brunner guy is starting to sound pretty promising. Mike Babcock, via mLive: "I know a lot about him because I went to the World Championships (in May) and watched him play,'' Babcock said Saturday at the NHL entry draft. "The thing for us is he's high, high paced, he scored, looks like he has tons of skill. Can he adjust and play the North American game? We're going to give him every opportunity. He'll be a top-six forward to start with us and see where he goes with us.'' Wow – you just don't hear that kind of stuff about an unproven player. I don't think Roman Cervenka even got those kinds of words from Calgary brass. 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Now for those thinking about purchasing a Sweet Potato, save your money and head straight for the Baked. I kid you not having ridden SP and a PN, the BP is hands down the perfect stick for me. I always loved my SP for its easy paddling and speed, making it so much fun. The skatey feel was great on little 2-3 footers. Only problem was that tail, which is great for catching gutless waves but also prevented its agility.
The BP is just as much fun and keeps that skatey feel but adds a touch more control. I can get in just as early but can square off the bottom a lot better making staying tight in the pocket easier. The SP tended to always race out on to the shoulder, not sure if its just because quads do that. I still find the BP as fast if not faster than the SP, and had trouble trying to wash off the speed while surfing it quad. I changed to thruster and felt the control a lot better but lost a bit of speed. Not a bad trade off but perhaps I try a knubster with the quad set up.
I can't say enough about the BP, for me it's the refinement the SP needed, and FW has done their homework well. Don't wait for the FST, just look after this board and it will serve you well. Great work guys... The board is ALL TIME!


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To shit oneself by accident ROFL, did you hear about what happened to Eric on the way home from school? Yeah, he pulled a Gomes. Diarrhea running all down his leg!
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Worse than a Gomez, Gomer and Guido combined. Gomes is a steamy, ultra-runny, chunky (peanuts), light tan colored, most vile pile of diarrhea that one accidentally extricates at a inopportune moment. A Gomes is a surprise attack that can happen anywhere and always occurs while fully dressed. For some reason it has been know to occur at a disproportional rate while walking home from school. Perhaps due to being overly bored in class all day? To be called a Gomes is to be called this. Simply Nasty!
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To shit oneself by accident. ROFL, did you hear about what happened to Eric on the way home from school? Yeah, he pulled a Gomes. Diarrhea running all down his leg.
To shit your pants while walking home from school. I just gomesed in my pants.
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Epic, yet avoidable Fuck Up. Has its origins with Tottenham Hotspurs FC Goalkeeper Huerelho Gomes, who has a nack for making the difficult saves look easy while messing up simple saves Can also mean a fuck up that is derived from overthinking a situation that requires quick thought. See also. Usless. To pull a Gomes: 'Dude, I just dropped my phone in the toilet!'
'Well you shouldn't have been talking on it while having a piss you fucking Gomes' To Gomes. 'Is this my stop? dang, I hate taking the bus, If I get off here, I can go round the corner to the shop, maybe bump into a hottie and...Ah Fuck...missed it...total Gomes.' |
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Chris Galen is the Senior Vice President of Communications for the National Milk Producers Federation .
The current issue of Time magazine – certainly at the front of the line of organizations we call the mainstream media – has an extensive assessment of organic food. Specifically, it asks the question of whether organic foods, and food production, is better for people.
Drilling down to dairy foods (and specifically, fluid milk), the article concludes that yes, organic dairy products are better, and here's where the reporting goes off the deep end as Time renders the verdict in the case of organic vs. conventional milk :
Verdict: Go organic if you can; the extra chemistry in commercial cows is just too much. Time bases that conclusion on the fact that "Cows that produce organic milk are not treated with antibiotics or hormones; this is especially important, as drug-resistant bacteria and early-onset puberty in girls continue to be on the rise."
Nowhere does the article say what "extra chemistry" may be present in conventional milk. In terms of hormone levels, the Journal of the American Dietetic Association asked that very question two years ago, and in a peer-reviewed research paper, found that hormone levels were consistent between organic and conventional milk. If anyone has studied milk in this country and found different and purportedly better hormone levels in organic milk, I would like to see their research [sounds of crickets chirping]. Organic milk has growth hormone levels the same as conventional, otherwise those cows wouldn't lactate.
In terms of antibiotic levels, no one outside the dairy industry seems to know or care that every tanker load of milk is tested for antibiotics to prevent residues from entering the food chain. Last year, more than three million residue tests were conducted, and fewer than one milk tanker truck in 1,000 tests positive; those loads of milk that do are dumped at the cost of the farmer.
The thing is, I see these pro-organic milk arguments show up in media interviews all the time. That's time, small case, as in not just Time magazine, but in interviews that supposed health and medical experts give. And that rationale they inevitably cite for preferring organics is hormone levels in milk, even though they, as purported experts, never cite any data to back up their conclusions. Is this journalism, or is it just wishful thinking because other right-minded people believe in the same thing – which is not necessarily believing in the facts?
I was having breakfast with my son today, who was enthusiastically devouring a bowl of EnviroKidz Organic Peanut Butter Panda Puffs. I am fairly confident that, as a seven year-old, he is unaware of, and unconcerned about, the supposed benefits of the certified organic corn and sugar cane that went into the product. Nor was he overly interested in the fact that the cereal manufacturer donates part of its proceeds to helping wildlife, such as the increasingly rare pandas illustrated on the box.
No, he just likes the peanut butter flavoring of the cereal. That's why he picked it out when we went shopping last week at Trader Joe's. For that matter, I like it, too, as a mix-in with my high-fiber, boring grown-up cereal.
And that allowed me to get all nostalgic for a moment in time, perhaps four decades ago, when I was eating a very similar breakfast product: Capn Crunch's Peanut Butter Crunch (which, after all these years, is still being sold, unlike my other childhood favorite, Quisp, which apparently you can purchase over the internet, but not in stores).
I got to wondering that, apart from the socially-conscientious marketing strategies of the Nature's Path Organic food company that makes the Panda PB product, how do the two cereals really compare? A quick check of the nutrition facts labels indicates that they are very similar in the area of added sugars and total carbohydrates, which is the key criterion of the cereal comparison:
A 30-gram serving of Peanut Butter Panda Puffs has 24 total grams of carbos, including 7 grams of sugar.
A 27-gram serving of Peanut Butter Capn Crunch has 21 total grams of carbos, including 9 grams of sugar.
It's also worth noting that both products have exactly the same 2.5 grams of fat, and no cholesterol, although the EnviroKidz product has no saturated fat in that serving, while Capn Crunch has 1 gram of sat fat. So in fairness, the key metrics favor the Panda Puffs over the CC Crunch – but the margin of victory is quite small and not, to this parent anyway, of much significance.
The reason I bring all this up is the real thing that both products have in common: the manufacturers' respective use of cartoon imagery to hock their wares. My recollection is that Capn Crunch himself has been a staple of the Quaker Oats marketing stable for decades, at least since this baby boomer was still a baby. And they're using him still.
Meanwhile, Nature's Path is employing a more 21st century, politically-correct equivalent to the venerable Captain: a cute, albeit endangered, panda to push peanut butter puffs.
I am reminded of this contrast by an insightful recent Freakonomics blog posting by James McWilliams, who also used the eating preferences of his kids to illustrate part of the challenge of dealing with childhood obesity, i.e. that junk food advertising is often blamed as the reason kids are increasingly fat…but that's only part of the real battle. In McWilliams' mind, the real battle is the culture of food decision-making that parents – not kids – enter into when they go to the supermarket.
As I said earlier, let's face it, food companies sourcing from certified organic ingredients, and giving money to save the pandas (or gorillas, or the others helped in this marketing effort), is mostly about appealing to parents' sense of conscientiousness, not their kids. Kids care about tasty and fun, but our culture of concern (bordering obsession, in some circles) about good foods vs. bad ones is making it a lot harder to blithely make any type of consumer purchase. So smart marketers are using other appeals to sell to parents what, at least nutritionally, is essentially an identical product. Bagels, anyone?
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