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A final call to duty
(Local News ~ 01/06/09)
Family members, law enforcement officers, emergency personnel and area residents said goodbye to one of Bourbon County's most upstanding citizens on Monday. About 400 people crowded into the First Southern Baptist Church Monday morning to pay a final tribute to Bourbon County Sheriff's Deputy John Taylor, 53, Fort Scott. ...
Pastor requests school board re-allow him student lunch visits
(Local News ~ 01/06/09)
The USD 234 School Board's recent adoption of a new policy, caused some concern among the clergy at one local church. Community Christian Church Children's Pastor Paul Martin and church elders Steve Armstrong and Jerry Witt attended Monday night's board meeting to ask the board to reconsider a lunchroom visitor policy which was passed at the December board meeting. ...
Marshall: Cancer diagnosis will not interrupt move into legislature
(Local News ~ 01/06/09)
A recent brief bout with cancer is not going to stop Sen.-elect Bob Marshall, R-Fort Scott, from heading to Topeka next week. "Don't worry, I'm going to be there," Marshall told The Fort Scott Tribune on Monday. Marshall, who is scheduled to be sworn into the Kansas Senate District 13 seat on Jan. 12, said Monday that he had a cancerous tumor removed from one of his vocal cords not long after the November general election in which he defeated Patty Horgan, D-Pittsburg, for the position...
(Obituary ~ 01/06/09)
Dr. John Harold Spencer, 61, of Fort Scott, died Saturday, Jan. 3, 2009. John was born in Emporia, Kan. in 1947 to Dr. Harold and Margaret Spencer. He graduated from the College of Emporia in 1970 (of which he is a member of the alumni board), and went on to attend KU Medical School...
(Obituary ~ 01/06/09)
Johnny Dale Taylor, age 53, a resident of Fort Scott, died Wednesday, Dec. 31, 2008, at the Skaggs Hospital in Branson, Mo., following a lengthy cancer illness. He was born Nov. 18, 1955 in Mayfield, Kentucky, the son of Robert Dean Taylor and Jean Suttles Taylor. John was a 1974 graduate of Fort Scott High School. He married Evelyn Charley on Jan. 4, 1983 in Miami, Okla...
(Obituary ~ 01/06/09)
Juanita Joan Jackson, age 77, a resident of rural Redfield, Kan., died Sunday, Jan. 4, 2009, at the University of Kansas Medical Center in Kansas City, Kan. She was born Dec. 16, 1931, in Bourbon County, Kan., the daughter of Lloyd Biles, Sr. and Vera Biles...
(Obituary ~ 01/06/09)
Stella May Wehar, age 71, a resident of rural Fort Scott, Kan., died early Saturday, Jan. 3, 2009, at her home following a lengthy illness. She was born Feb. 8, 1937, in Fort Scott, Kan., the daughter of Robert Rivers Holt and Dora Agnes Moore Holt...
(Obituary ~ 01/06/09)
Carl Clyne Elliott, age 91, a former resident of Fort Scott and more recently of Shawnee, Kan., died Friday, Jan. 2, 2009, at the Garden Terrace Nursing Home of Overland Park. He was born Aug. 19, 1917, in Galt, Ontario, Canada, the son of William Harrison Elliott and Hattie M. Gill Elliott...
(Obituary ~ 01/06/09)
Larry M. Prather, 60, of Fort Scott, died early Tuesday morning, Dec. 30, 2008 in Kansas City at the KU Medical Center. He was born on September 7, 1948 in Fort Scott, the son of Charles Morgan and Mildred Louise (Goddard) Prather. Larry is survived by a son, Fred Prather and two grandchildren, all of Fort Scott. He was preceded in death by his parents...
Nursing home ratings questioned
(Local News ~ 01/06/09)
Of the eight nursing homes located in or within 25 miles of Fort Scott, none received a five-star rating through the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services nursing home comparison Web site, www.medicare.gov. The site, launched last month, offers a rating system designed to provide families looking for a nursing home facility with additional information about the home's quality standards. ...
City commission votes down term-limit proposal Tuesday
(Local News ~ 01/06/09)
By Michael Pommier The Fort Scott Tribune Despite covering issues of Commissioner term limits and the local cable company, the main focus of Tuesday night's meeting of the Fort Scott City Commission was the Fort Scott Municipal Airport master plan update...
Adams announces plans to file for second term
(Local News ~ 01/06/09)
By Michael Pommier The Fort Scott Tribune The Fort Scott City Commission has three seats up for election in April. Two of the three commissioners have chosen not to pursue their seat. Commissioner Jim Adams, however, announced Friday he will run for a second term. Adams is coming off a two year term with the commission. He said he was undecided until the weekend when he talked it over with friends...
A look back at Fort Scott's 2008
(Local News ~ 01/06/09)
Many interesting events occurred in 2008, and more are sure to come in 2009. As a look back at the past 12 months, the Tribune is presenting a month-by-month review of some of the more noteworthy stories of 2008. The following are just some stories that happened each month during the first half of 2008. Look for a review of the second half of 2008, as well as a story recapping one of Fort Scott's biggest stories of the year, in upcoming editions of the Tribune.
A special new year's gift
(Local News ~ 01/06/09)
By Rayma Silvers The Fort Scott Tribune Larry and Natonya Beerbower, Uniontown, received two special surprises within the last nine months. According to Natonya, the couple had talked about having another baby. However, they decided against it, fearing they would not be able to afford a sixth child. ...
Uniontown boys win at SCC
(High School Sports ~ 01/06/09)
LeROY -- Uniontown's boys improved to 4-2 on the season with a 56-46 non-league victory over Southern Coffey County here Monday night. Uniontown's girls lost to SCC, 68-42. Southern Coffey County is the defending Three Rivers League girls' champion but left the TRL this season to join the Lyon County League...
FSHS stays 'Sharp' in big win
(High School Sports ~ 01/06/09)
CHANUTE -- Fort Scott High's girls continue to lead the Southeast Kansas League after a 42-27 win over Chanute here Tuesday night. It was the first time the teams had met in Chanute's new gymnasium. The Tigers (4-0 SEK, 5-2 overall), winners of five straight games, saw junior Jolee Sharp scored 21 points as she went 10 of 13 from the field while hauling down 12 rebounds...
Tigers pull away in fourth
(High School Sports ~ 01/06/09)
CHANUTE -- Fort Scott High's defense held Chanute without a field goal in the fourth quarter of a Southeast Kansas League battle here Tuesday night and went on to a 52-37 victory in the first battle between the Tigers and Blue Comets in the new Chanute High School gymnasium...
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"That's a big mosquito!" a boy in the crowd said.
However, my pet for a brief moment was a harmless mayfly, attracted to the lights of my kids' ballgame. At the river earlier that day, there also was a "hatch" (a periodic emergence of insects, often in large numbers) of another much smaller species.
This last week, my usual river smallmouth bass tactics were met with less than enthusiastic hits. I attributed my lack of success to the low river level and the massive amounts of fry in the shallows. However, periodic hatches of mayflies and such, can affect the bite too.
One mayfly hatch on the Mississippi River during the 2012 Bassmaster Elite season greatly affected the smallmouth activity and frustrated the anglers. Bill Lowen was quoted as saying, "I would have given a hundred-dollar-bill for one mayfly (lure) today." And Brent Chapman was so impressed by the feeding intensity that he was having a special fly rod made to accompany him during the 2013 season.
Fly fisherman especially pay close attention to hatches and thus "match" their fly selection accordingly for trout. They use terms like "duns," "drakes," "sulfurs," "nymphs," "spinners," and "subimagos," referring not only to different species, but also different life stages of these insects as they hatch and progress through the water column, providing a trout smorgasbord.
For bass anglers, this periodic massive insect activity can make fish very fussy. If unable to find a close enough match to tempt the fish feeding on the insects, you may find success by focusing on the other fish attracted to the party. Sunfish, minnows, and chubs can feed on these insects at all stages of the water column but the swirling and smacking of the surface in the evening will not go unnoticed by larger predators like catfish, bass, pike, and muskie.
A hatch may only last a few days or a few hours. When it is over, the fish should resume regular feeding patterns so I'm heading to the river again today to see what else I can learn besides a "subimago" is not an Italian hoagie.
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LAST NIGHT OFFALY man Joe Troy was on a night out in the village of Shinrone.
Late on in proceedings, he realised he didn't have a lift home to Rath – so he thought he'd walk it.
And his Snapchat story – shared by his friend James – documents the epic journey
"I can not get a lift home…"
For context Shinrone to Rath is a long old distance
Which Google says is a casual 4 hour 15 minute walk.
Temperatures weren't too bad, despite the time
"We'll need to pick the speed up a bit now…"
The story has been viewed over 30,000 times on Facebook already.
"It started out as a joke but will I ever get f**kin home"
Tunes were needed as the miles went on late into the night
Finally, after hours of toiling and with his resources depleted… his mam came to the rescue in Kilcolman
The Westlife backing track was perhaps the highlight.
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Scotch Plains, NJ (PRWEB) April 22, 2015 -- NJ Top Doc, Dr. Eric A. Waldorf, is a licensed Chiropractor serving the Bridgewater community for over ten years. He has been freeing people from pain in his office in Bridgewater, NJ. As a Chiropractor with experience, Dr. Waldorf is committed to promoting optimal health and well being of patients.
Dr. Waldorf uses a "whole person approach". This approach to wellness means looking for underlying causes of any disturbance or disruption (which may or may not be causing symptoms at the time) and make whatever interventions and lifestyle adjustments that would optimize the conditions for normal function. Using this unique approach, Dr. Waldorf is able to help you to accelerate and/or maintain your journey to good health. At Waldorf Chiropractic Center, they employ high technology with old fashioned family values that are rarely seen in the business today. Dr. Eric is striving to be the best doctor he can be to maximize the health of all his patients and the community is constantly attending classes to learn more and more to help you.
Most people need chiropractic care and they may not realize it. Their brain sends out messages to the body to keep it functioning properly. If there is any interference in the spine due to misalignment (called subluxation) the messages cannot get to their intended destination. This can cause pain and other symptoms in the body. A list of things that chiropractic helps are as follows:
Back Pain
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While chiropractic does not treat these conditions, they are affected by spinal misalignment. So if the spine has subluxations, you can experience any of the symptoms listed.
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Top 20 jQuery Interview Questions and Answers
jQuery is a JavaScript library. It is open source, lightweight and easy to use, simple than JavaScript, it has many inbuilt methods and it can handle events, Html DOM, Ajax and animations too.
What is jQuery?
jQuery is a JavaScript library. It is open-source, lightweight and easy to use, simple than JavaScript, it has many inbuilt methods and it can handle events, Html DOM, Ajax, and animations too.
Why use jQuery? What are its advantages?
There are many reasons behind its popularity; some of them are listed below
As it is developed using JavaScript language, it has all features that JavaScript has, with multiple inbuilt methods it is easy to use for validation
Event handling is one of the good features of jQuery
It's easy to apply CSS to the controls using jQuery
jQuery has good support to AJAX.
jQuery has good support to animations as well.
Can you tell me the differences between jQuery And JavaScript?
The simple and visible difference is, jQuery is a library whereas JavaScript is a language, jQuery is created using JavaScript only, it has methods that use JavaScript language.
How to use jQuery?
We know jQuery is the collection of JavaScript classes; these classes are bundled and put it in.JS files. To use jQuery, we just need to add the reference of its library to our page.
When to use jQuery?
Basically, jQuery can be used more than validation part, jQuery has a rich set of methods and events that can be used to handle CSS, controls and page design, jQuery also has good support to animations so it is a good alternative to flash plugins
What is CDN?
It's a large network of shared servers, use to distribute some contents. It's known as 'Content Distribution Network', if we use CDN to load libraries, it loads fasters and performance will get improve. Microsoft, Google, and jQuery give you jQuery library CDN.
Can I use JavaScript and jQuery on same page?
What is min.js and why it is used?
min.js is a minified version of jQuery will mainly be introduced to enhance application performance. As the Size of the minified jQuery file is smaller than normal jQuery file it loads faster than a normal file.
What is jQuery UI?
jQuery UI is a JavaScript library, basically, it is a user interface portal that is built using JavaScript and can be easily added in new and existing web applications it contains interactive widgets and effects, and we can build rich UI and highly interactive applications using it. It is free and open source.
What is the difference between jQuery UI and jQuery?
jQuery UI is built using JavaScript, but upon jQuery so to use jQuery UI you need must include jQuery, jQuery is the library built on pure JavaScript
Can we debug jQuery? If yes, how can we do that?
jQuery can be debugged easily using the following ways:
using a debugger; keyword: Add debugger; keyword just before the line where you want to debug
using Breakpoint: If you have visual studio then you can place a breakpoint on the line where you want to start debugging
Which is the performance responsive selector?
The elements which are selected using ID are the performance responsive selector as the ID is unique throughout the rendered page
Which is the slow selector in jQuery?
Class selectors are slower than id selector, so the slow selector is a class selector.
What is caching in jQuery?
We know cache is the temp memory that store data, each time when access any page it accesses cache and load data from there only, it will boost application performance, the same concept applies to jQuery we can cache jQuery elements and use them instead of re-querying or re-executing methods/property on DOM
var $controlcahce = $("#button1") $controlcahce.css("color", "red"); $controlcahce.text("text set!");
Code Snippet Explanation: In the above snippet, we have selected button1with its ID and store it in a controllable variable, later on, we can use it directly to set CSS value or set text
What are the jQuery get methods?
jQuery has more powerful ways of manipulating and changing HTML elements and attributes. Following functions are known as jQuery Get methods
What is the difference between "this" and "$(this)" In jQuery?
To refer current element, we use 'this' element, in traditional, we use 'this' object and in jQuery, we use '$(this)' this new object will also help us to explore and support jQuery methods also. No doubt you can use 'this' in jQuery also. Look at below sample
//Using 'this' $(document).ready(function () { $('#id1').click(function () { alert(this.innerText); }); }); //Using $(this) $(document).ready(function () { $('# id1').click(function () { alert($(this).text()); });
Code Snippet Explanation: above snippet shows, we can use 'this' object in jQuery also but if we use ' $(this)' then we can have access to jQuery methods
What is the difference between 'length' and 'size' in jQuery?
Both are return numbers and used to find element existence, element value length, etc., but the length is much faster than size as the length is property and size as the method.
What are the supported methods to Ajax in jQuery?
Below methods are used to deal with Ajax in jQuery
Can we use multiple document.Ready() function?
Yes, we can use multiple documents. Ready function on a web page, this is helpful when we need to execute a large jQuery code and split it into multiple files.
What is the difference between .remove() and .detach() methods in jQuery.
Basically, both the methods are used to remove data from jQuery DOM, but .detach() method retains all removed data associated with removed elements so that it can be used later.
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Small incentives for immunizations have large positive effects on using health services in India, so why not employ the same strategy for Golden Gophers? Even grad students like suckers.
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Land-grant university speak for "positive externalities"
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text: This is the Roll A Memory game. It's a simple paper cube with various questions about childhood likes, dislikes, homes, school, vacations, etc. Players take turns rolling and then every player must answer the question. After everyone answers, they get some sort of candy or goodie, which is a good incentive for kids or adults who are reluctant to play at first. Anyone, from preschoolers to senior citizens and everyone in between, can play this game! It would be fun to do at larger family gatherings - to really get people talking about their memories of people and places of the past.


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The electrical JIB have issued an important statement about the EAL Level 3 Electrotechnical Qualification 601/7345/2 when used outside the 'electrical trailblazer' apprenticeship.
Essentially this qualification and the AM2 is not a recognised combination for the ECS card. Apprentices for the electrical trailblazer (English apprenticeship standard) must undertake the graded AM2S as the End-Point Assessment for this standard.
Where appropriate, non-apprentice learners may continue to use either of the following for the ECS card:
EAL Level 3 NVQ Diploma in Installing Electrotechnical systems and equipment (buildings, structures and the environment) 501/1605/8 (includes AM2) (also the apprenticeship framework qualification in Wales and Northern Ireland).
EAL Level 3 Diploma in Electrotechnical Services Experienced Worker Assessment Route (ETS3) 601/0161/1 (includes AM2).
Please be aware of this update to ensure non-apprentice learners are registered for the appropriate qualification.
The full statement can be viewed here, and is published on the ECS card website's FAQs section.
There is also additional information about this in our recent webinar on the new 18th Edition Wiring Regulations. Click here to view this.
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By Carl Dennis
My mother's father missed out on Swami Muktananda.
He thought that the suits he pressed for 29 years
In the basement of Famous-Bar Department Store
Were real, real as his skill on the French horn,
As his pride in the marches he composed for the store [...]
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One of these fine days all those who wronged you,
Having failed to forgive themselves, will return
And row ashore, a raggedy crew,
Like Homer's battered Greeks returning from war.
Up from the dock they'll stagger
With armloads of drenched gifts
To st [...]
Only a few stars are visible when I step outside
For a walk to the mailbox with my packet of poems.
In a week or two Mary will take time out
From preparing her class on Melville to read
This latest offering to the temple of fruitful pages.
She'll mar [...]
How much would it take for this city
That so far has belonged to others
To be yours as well,
The houses set in rows and each row named
So you can find the garden of your new acquaintance
Long before sundown, just as you promised,
And the talk has tim [...]
The way I admire this couch, unsuitable for my house,
In the window of Gardner's Antique Furniture
And brood on its curves and subtle carvings,
Would convince you, if you were here,
That I can be intimate now with the beautiful
On its own terms, with [...]
Not one prayer in their direction,
But we've always revered them, our guardians.
Stingy with gifts like all gods
But lavish in examples.
As fruitful for us to follow them
As for a metal worker in Greece
To keep in mind the sky forge,
For a bowman to [...]
Pensioners fondle the books in the sidewalk bins
For the big bargains, two for a dollar:
Eat Yourself Slim, Secret Missions of the Civil War,
Great Train Wrecks, Photographing Your Dog.
At home on their tables the books, never finished, pile up,
Thei [...]


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After Ivan's McDonald's Party last Sunday, we made a quick trip home to freshen up, then went straight over to Alabang Country Club for Sophia's 7th birthday celebration. The little guy was very excited about having two parties to attend, and he was really looking forward to spending time with his classmates outside school. That's why Mr C and I really cleared our schedule last weekend to be able to accommodate both of our little boy's scheduled events. What a busy 6-year this one is!
Sophia's party was ballerina themed, and everything was pink and white and just lovely. Oh the joys of having a little girl! Every time I attend events like this one, I thank my lucky stars that my kid is a boy. Had I given birth to a girl, I can't even begin to imagine all the stuff I'd want to buy, from clothes to accessories, toys, school stuff, decor, EVERYTHING pink, purple, glittery and pretty! So yeah, thank goodness I have a little boy!
We were one of the first among the school people to arrive at the party, and Sophia and her mom greeted us right when we got there. Her mom is such a cheerful, fun person. I totally love her already! Once we were seated and some of the other kids arrived, the party host came in and started the party off with some games.
|There's the birthday girl in her cute pink and white polka dotted dress.
|Goofing off while the kids were dancing in front.
|The host asked the kids to get one of their parents, and the little boy chose his daddy LOL!
It's a good thing the game was really simple. It was sort of like a treasure hunt where you were to bring everything you own that's color purple. I have so many purple things in my bag! Everything from my wallet, card holder, hairbrush, even my driver's license case is purple!
|This is Mr C's "We're so gonna win this game" look.
|Thought I was off the hook until the moms were called for another game. I had to dance. Twice. Haha! It was fun.
The party lasted until past sunset. Everyone was just enjoying the games, magic show and puppet show that were part of the program, and of course the yummy buffet prepared by the club. Before the party ended, there was a nice slideshow of photos of Sophia from birth growing up, and she also performed two ballet numbers. So cute! Oh, if I had a little girl…
|More games!
|Puppet show, then pabitin!
We had a blast! Thanks to the Matsuo family for inviting us! I really hope all the kids can join us when we celebrate my little boy's 7th birthday next year.
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Phoenix (/ˈfiːnɪks/) is the capital, and largest city, of the state of Arizona. With 1,445,632 people (as of the 2010 U.S. Census), Phoenix is the most populous state capital in the United States, as well as the sixth most populous city nationwide.
Phoenix is the anchor of the Phoenix metropolitan area, also known as the Valley of the Sun, which in turn is a part of the Salt River Valley. The city is the 13th largest metro area by population in the United States, with approximately 4.3 million people in 2010. In addition, Phoenix is the county seat of Maricopa County and is one of the largest cities in the United States by land area.
Settled in 1867 as an agricultural community near the confluence of the Salt and Gila Rivers, Phoenix incorporated as a city in 1881. Located in the northeastern reaches of the Sonoran Desert, Phoenix has a subtropical desert climate. Despite this, its canal system led to a thriving farming community, many of the original crops remaining important parts of the Phoenix economy for decades, such as alfalfa, cotton, citrus and hay (which was important for the cattle industry). In fact, the "Five C's" (Cotton, Cattle, Citrus, Climate, and Copper), remained the driving forces of Phoenix's economy until after World War II, when high tech industries began to move into the valley.


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Those of you who have read any of my books know I enjoy writing poetry. It is my refuge, I get lost in it, and I rediscover myself.
May the goblins be good to you.
Happy Halloween!
Ghosts at Taylor Reservoir© by Celeste Cooper
Driving the Winding Taylor Canyon Road,
Late August teases of tales to be told.
Giant pines grace roads through this land.
Forest shadows retreat, a reservoir at hand.
Man made, Taylor reservoir feeds the crops,
But once, so much more on this mountain top.
Peering voyeurs of past remnants and such,
This land, bare bones, a boom that went bust.
Tailings at Tin Cup scream loud with their voice.
Tarry you will, but this land was our choice.
Ancient gravesites, ghost tales of lore,
Make great stories when done with the chores.
Sheer splendor tugs at my heartstring,
Cottonwood Pass, the tales you bring.
Time walks on these forest floors,
Taylor River, canoes, Ute Indians explored.
Ancestors relished this county as host,
To share pieces of forest, relics, and ghosts.
Excerpt from Winter Devotions. Learn more here.
Feel Free to use this poem as a template for writing your own. Following is an excerpt from one of our books that will help you get started.
"At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet."
~Plato, 429–347 BC
Love in Poetry (Day Nine)
Excerpt from Fall Devotions Learn more here.
Some poetry can only be interpreted by the author, others, by the reader with his or her own ideas on what the poem says. There is no need to think you can't write your own poem. Here are a few tips.
- It doesn't have to rhyme.
- Pick some favorite words from the dictionary, a book on flowers or birds, or even the telephone directory.
- Add shapes, sounds, texture, color, or smells.
- Put your own spin on it, and let your mind run wild.
- Remember your poetry can be on a real or imaginary experience.
- Title your poem before or after you write it, because there are no boundaries.
- There is no specific length. It can be one sentence.
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Tax bills and receipts and other papers related to the Woodlawn Property Owners Association, a community organization. Participation in the organization reached as far south as 74th Street in the late 1920s, beyond the official boundaries of the Woodlawn Community Area of Chicago (Ill.). According to one letter (Apr. 3, 1929), this organization of white people sought to restrict ""Woodlawn


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Tombow will announce a winner on Monday April 21st at 3:30 P.M. EST.
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Well, my Montana trip is drawing to a close along with my time off. Tomorrow night it is off to a hotel in a different city to attend an event Friday morning, then I start the day-long trek home. I was hoping to drive it straight through but I don't know if I will or not since I will be getting a late start. I am not much on driving in the dark these days (especially with the animals on the roadways at night), and as I mentioned in my last post I'd rather stop for the night on longer trips. I definitely hope to at least get into Washington on the way back so the rest of the trip will go quicker.
The weather has held out for us so far, and it looks like the trip home should be fine (the sound of knocking on wood…) from what I can see. The drive across eastern WA is somewhat tedious and similar to western KS except fewer towns.
It has been busy the last few weeks between moving my stuff then helping Loran and Meghan move some of their things here to the new house. I have gotten some pretty good exercise over the last couple of months between that and the Europe adventure where we walked our asses off! It will help to get me back into the busy work season a little easier. I just need to keep it up.
This may end up being another long season. I am not sure if it will be yet but I hope to find that out in the next few weeks after I start the new job. They may not know yet but we'll see. I think there is a good chance it could go longer. That would cut into my time off but that is fine. I will still be off a few months if it does go long, or I will be off longer if it doesn't. It's a win for me either way.
It has been a great start to 2018, though…I got to work and make some money unexpectedly, there was the trip to Europe in January and February, I moved to a new place for a new job over the last few weekends, and I am writing this while in Montana! I'd say for being only three months in it's been a pretty good start to what will be a great year with a new beginning.
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LA CAÑADA, Calif.,—Sponsored by the Armenian National Committee of America Greater Crescenta Valley Chapter, the musical performance "A Journey of Angels," based on Dr. Kay Mouradian's genocide memoir "My Mother's Voice," will take place at La Canada's Lanterman Auditorium. The performance will be staged on Friday, September 20 at 8 p.m., at 4491 Cornishon Ave, La Cañada Flintridge, CA 91011. It is produced by an American creative team composed of book writer Brent Beerman, composer and lyricist Kathi Chaplar, and director Kay Cole.
The memoir tells a story of horrors experienced by a 14-year-old Armenian girl during the Armenian Genocide of 1915. By telling one family's story about the tragedy of the Armenian nation, the author emphasizes that the tragedies of the past must never be forgotten for the sake of the future.
"Flora's story is a symbol of hope. We all find hope in the struggle against all oppression and intolerance," said book-writer Brent Beerman. "Her story, however, is more than a historical marker; it chronicles the life and journey of one Armenian town, focusing on one family, chronicling the persistence of one girl's dream and the face of unspeakable atrocities. If we are to overcome future despots, then we must never forget what happened to Flora and to the Armenian people through the horror of genocide."
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It's quiet in pod C5, deep inside Pelican Bay State Prison's Security Housing Unit, home to about 1,200 of California's most violent offenders. There are no sounds from outside, because there are no windows--only a skylight high overhead, through which gray daylight seeps into the bare quadrangle facing the pod's eight cells, stacked four on four. All that can be heard are a few subdued voices, and the occasional thunderous sound of a flushing toilet reverberating off the blank concrete walls.
This is not the crowded, clamorous kind of prison you see in the movies. The SHU, as it's known, is a starkly efficient place of electronically controlled doors and featureless concrete and steel. Occasionally, the monotony is punctured by bursts of noise and violence. Sometimes inmates scream at guards, other inmates, or themselves. Sometimes there is the clangorous racket of a recalcitrant prisoner being forcibly extracted from his cell. But most of the time, nothing happens. Almost nothing is permitted to happen. That's the idea of the SHU.
If you're an inmate in a regular prison--even a maximum-security prison, which the other two wings of Pelican Bay are--most days you can play basketball in the yard or cards in the day room, work in the laundry room or dining hall and take meals with the other men on your tier.
In the SHU, there are no jobs, no activities, hardly any educational programs and barely any human contact. You are locked in your 8-by-10-foot cell almost around the clock. You can't see the other prisoners in the cells adjoining yours, nor the guards watching from a central observation booth. Most of the time, all you can see through the fingertip-sized perforations in your cell's solid steel door is the wall of the eight-cell pod, the larger cage containing your cage. Guards deliver your meals. Once a day, the remote-controlled cell door grinds open, and you get 90 minutes to spend alone in a walled-in courtyard--a place more like the bottom of a mine shaft than an exercise yard. It's an environment about as restrictive and monotonous as human minds can design--and, perhaps, as human minds can tolerate.
Pelican Bay, which sprawls over 275 acres just south of the Oregon border, in a Tolkienesque region of misty mountains and ancient redwood forests, was among the first of a wave of new prisons equipped with ultra-restrictive "supermax" lockups that have proliferated nationwide in recent years. There are as many as 20,000 inmates housed in such facilities in at least 30 states.
California has three SHUs for men in its Pelican Bay, Corcoran and Tehachapi lockups, plus one for women in Valley State Prison in Chowchilla. They house about 3,000 convicts in all. But Pelican Bay is the one with the hardest cons and the harshest conditions, the end of the line for the inmates whom correctional officials call "the worst of the worst."
Like their counterparts in other states, California corrections officials say they need SHUs to control incorrigibly violent cons in the state's vast archipelago of prisons, teeming with nearly 160,000 inmates. While no one could argue with that goal, there are significant concerns about the tactic. For starters, it's not clear to what extent SHUs are indeed reducing prison violence.
More disturbingly, there's a growing worry that supermaxes--long decried by prisoner advocates as dangerous to the mental health of inmates--may be breeding danger for the general public.
Psychiatrists, activists and some correctional officials say the intense isolation of supermaxes is producing prisoners who are uncontrollably furious and sometimes violently deranged. Most of those prisoners will one day be set free. In the past three years, in fact, nearly 1,000 California SHU inmates at the end of their sentences were moved to less-restrictive prisons for just a few weeks, and then released.
And at least 403 inmates were paroled without even that intermediate step: They were taken straight from the solitary cells where they spent years marinating in their rage, handed $200 in gate money and put on a bus to rejoin the rest of us.
"T.C.," a Pelican Bay SHU inmate who, like most of the nearly two dozen current and former SHU prisoners interviewed for this article did not want his name published, wrote: "How does society expect a person to act once he has been released from the SHU, in most cases after spending years back here? There are things that happen here which people out there are never aware of; these things tend to build anger and hate in some persons, and if these persons don't have anyone to talk to, or complain to, that anger and hate continues to grow. If that person paroles, he's now a human time bomb waiting to release all that anger and hate, waiting to explode."
You can hardly blame prison authorities for liking the idea of supermaxes. Prison guards are spit on, screamed at and assaulted daily. Reducing the chances of being stabbed in the neck with a sharpened toothbrush is understandably a higher priority for them than fretting over how solitary confinement might change an inmate's mood.
But America's supermaxes have been denounced as inhumane by organizations from the ACLU to the United Nations. Fistfuls of lawsuits have been filed in recent years challenging conditions in supermaxes from California to Massachusetts. Some have succeeded in forcing changes. The latest, a suit on behalf of a Pelican Bay inmate charging that long-term SHU confinement constitutes cruel and unusual punishment, is slated to go to trial in December. So far, the courts have upheld the constitutionality of supermax-style imprisonment. But just because they're legal doesn't necessarily mean they're good policy. In fact, Democratic state Sen. Gloria Romero of Los Angeles, head of the Senate's Select Committee on the California Correctional System, has launched a campaign to investigate how supermaxes are affecting prisoners--and the public.
No question the Pelican Bay SHU holds a great many extraordinarily malicious men. Most of California's top prison gang leaders are there, including such luminaries as Aryan Brotherhood shot-callers Paul "Cornfed" Schneider and Dale Bretches, the original owners of the dogs that mauled a San Francisco woman to death in 2001. The day before my visit there this year, a SHU inmate who was appearing in court stabbed his own lawyer with an ice pick-like shank he apparently had hidden in what a Pelican Bay spokesman referred to as his "keister."
There is considerable debate, however, about whether everyone in the SHU deserves to be there. No one is in the SHU for crimes they committed on the streets; you get sent there for doing something while you're in prison.
This works in two ways. The first is straightforward: If you violate prison rules--say, being caught with drugs or for attacking another inmate--you can be sent to the SHU for a set period of time as punishment.
The second is more ambiguous: Simply being declared a member or associate of a prison gang lands you in the SHU--indefinitely. About half the state's SHU inmates are in for this reason. Aside from getting paroled or going certifiably insane, the only way a "gang-validated" inmate can be released from the SHU is by "debriefing"--confessing everything he knows about other gang members, which entails obvious risks--or by convincing prison officials that he has been free from gang activity for six years.
"Prison gang members and associates are responsible for the largest percentage of violence in our institutions," says Steve Moore, the head of gang-related issues for the California Department of Corrections. "The idea is to extract those people from the general population."
Corrections officials and prisoners agree that California's half-dozen major prison gangs--Nazi Low Riders, Aryan Brotherhood, Black Guerrilla Family and several Latino factions--are behind a hefty chunk, though certainly not all, of the trouble in prisons statewide, from stabbings to drug dealing. And as the number of people cycling through the prison system has swelled in recent years, some of those gangs are believed to have begun forging increasingly close links with street gangs on the outside.
Activists and inmates, however, charge that the department's criteria for determining gang membership are overly broad, sending many undeserving inmates to supermax solitary. SHU inmates in Corcoran and Pelican Bay have staged two hunger strikes in the past two years over the issue, and Romero convened a hearing in September to investigate the corrections department's policy of identifying gang members. "I have very serious concerns about the validation process," Romero said at the hearing, held in Los Angeles. "In this time of constrained budgets, it's a good time to look at who is going into SHUs and whether they should really be there."
In response to these criticisms, Moore ordered a review of all gang validations. As of September, his office had looked at several hundred cases and found 17 that didn't pass muster.
Regardless of why prisoners are put in the SHU, perhaps the most pressing concern for the public is the inmates' mental states upon release. Dr. Stuart Grassian, a Boston psychiatrist who lectured at Harvard Medical School, has been studying the effects of solitary confinement for more than two decades, during which time he has examined more than 100 supermax prisoners, including 50 at Pelican Bay. His conclusion: Supermax prisons can literally drive inmates crazy.
"There are many scores of cases of people who never suffered psychiatric illnesses and developed them while incarcerated in supermaxes," he says. Other mental health professionals agree. "I've seen many prisoners with no history of mental illness who after some time in the SHU started cutting themselves," says Dr. Terry Kupers, an Oakland-based psychiatrist with decades of experience in prison work. "I've almost never seen self-mutilation among adult males anywhere else, but it's very common in SHUs." At the landmark Madrid v. Gomez federal trial in 1995 over conditions at Pelican Bay, even the prison's senior staff psychologist acknowledged seeing psychiatric deterioration among some SHU prisoners.
Supermax prisoners often develop similar symptoms, Grassian says. These include hallucinations; hypersensitivity to external stimuli; paranoia; panic attacks; hostile fantasies involving revenge, torture and mutilation; and violent or self-destructive outbursts, to the extent of gouging out one's eyes, smearing oneself with feces or biting chunks of flesh from one's own body.
Take Matthew Lowe, convicted of armed robbery, assault on a peace officer and grand theft auto. During his three years in the Pelican Bay SHU, Lowe never got to the point of biting off pieces of his sizable biceps, but in other ways he fits Grassian's diagnosis of a mentally ill inmate. Lowe is a big guy in baggy jeans and a motorcycle-shop sweatshirt, with a tiny soul patch on his chin and tattoos on his neck and fingers. At 38, he has spent most of his life behind bars, but he says his time in the SHU changed him in a way prison never had before.
"Them years of sitting in that little cell--it did something to me, I don't even know what," says Lowe, sitting on a couch in his girlfriend's tidy bungalow in a blue-collar suburb of San Francisco. "I only had conversations with about five or six people in three years. I'd sit in there and just think about doing crazy [stuff] all the time, like Tim McVeigh-type [stuff]. Your average prison doesn't do that to you." After years of obsessively ruminating about blowing up buildings and shooting cops, Lowe was finally paroled last year. He was taken from his SHU cell, shifted to San Quentin for a few days and then let out onto the streets of Marin County.
So far, he's doing all right, working as a roof-gutter installer and going to AA meetings. But he scares himself with how jumpy and paranoid he has become. "So many times I've come so close to snapping since I got out," he says. "One time in a store, someone cut in front of me in line--a 50-year-old guy, I don't think he even realized it. I had to catch myself, because my first thought was just to smash him."
Penal solitary confinement was essentially invented in the united States. In the late 1700s, whips and stocks were the preferred tools of public punishment. But reformers argued that by isolating criminals, their consciences would naturally lead to repenting their evil ways.
In 1790, Pennsylvania opened the first prison designed for this purpose, dubbed a "penitentiary." Several American states and European nations soon followed suit. But the penitentiaries gradually fell out of favor as evidence began to mount that they were often driving inmates mad. As the Supreme Court observed in an 1890 ruling condemning the penitentiary system: "A considerable number of prisoners fell, after even a short confinement, into a semi-fatuous condition . . . and others became violently insane; others still, committed suicide; while those who stood the ordeal better were not generally reformed."
Still, solitary confinement continued to be used as a short-term punishment for inmates. But the idea of keeping large numbers of convicts permanently in such severe conditions didn't return until the 1980s, as America's prison population began mushrooming. Driven largely by tough anti-drug and "three-strikes"-type mandatory minimum sentencing laws, the number of Americans behind bars has quadrupled since 1980 to an all-time high of about 2 million today. In the same get-tough-on-criminals spirit, many states have also cut back educational programs, exercise facilities and other "perks" for prisoners. Violence grew apace. Desperate to restore order to the federal maximum-security lockup at Marion, Ill., authorities in 1983 put the entire facility on indefinite lockdown. Under the administrations of then-Gov. George Deukmejian and then-Corrections Department head James Rowland, California was among the first states to copy the concept, opening SHUs at Corcoran in 1988, and Pelican Bay in 1989.
Pelican Bay came under fire almost right away, both over alleged abuses by guards and conditions in the SHU. In the Madrid v. Gomez decision, U.S. District Court Judge Thelton Henderson ruled that there was a "pattern of brutality" by the guards. On whether the SHU itself was damaging to inmates' mental health, he ruled that while the SHU "may press the outer bounds of what most humans can psychologically tolerate" and could seriously exacerbate previously existing mental illnesses, there was not enough proof to show that it could drive a sane man mad.
Pelican Bay instituted several reforms as a result of the case, including creating a 127-bed psychiatric unit and beefing up its mental-health staff to a total of 79. As far as the prison was concerned, that took care of the problem. "We moved all of those with mental illnesses into the [psychiatric unit] after the Madrid decision," declares Rawland Swift, who, until recently, was the Pelican Bay spokesman. Certainly, the SHU's conditions aren't as extreme as those that so appalled the 1890 Supreme Court. Pelican Bay SHU inmates can talk to others in neighboring cells, receive letters and see visitors (through security glass) on weekends. Those who can afford them have TVs (though they can only watch during the day and must listen through earphones). Most occasionally leave their cells for brief excursions to court or for medical treatment.
A select number of SHU inmates even have cellmates, but most are housed alone, and the overwhelming bulk of their time is spent in a small concrete and steel box. It seems entirely possible that a good many SHU inmates are losing their grip on reality--whether their keepers acknowledge it or not.
Prisoners are given mental-health attention if their guards--hardly experts in such matters--deem their behavior strange enough to warrant an examination. Swift told me that while seemingly troubled prisoners are often taken to the psychiatric unit for evaluation, the psychiatrists almost always send them back, saying, "He's got a behavioral problem, not a mental health problem." This echoes disturbingly a finding of the judge in the Madrid decision: "It is clear . . . that an overburdened, and sometimes indifferent, mental health staff is far too quick to dismiss an inmate as a 'malingerer' and thus deny him needed treatment."
Almost all of the inmates I interviewed (and at least one correctional officer who did not want to be named) said they had seen other prisoners suffer serious mental deterioration in the SHU--screaming, banging on doors, cutting themselves. "I have seen plenty of people lose their sanity while in the SHU. I used to think that they were faking it . . . but once being around them for a while you could see that it was no act," writes Pelican Bay SHU inmate Otis Booker. "When you hear a guy holding a conversation with himself, or calling out cadences to exercises that he's not even doing or growling out animal sounds all day, you know something's not right."
Grassian estimates that as many as one-third of all supermax inmates are suffering some kind of psychiatric trouble--most of which goes undiagnosed. "A guard may see a prisoner hiding under a blanket, obviously delusional, but as long as he's not screaming or throwing feces, he's OK as far as they're concerned," Grassian says.
All of which could help explain the case of Erik Scott January, convicted of armed robbery. His mother, Long Beach resident Laura Daniher, says that before he was sent to the Corcoran SHU in 1997, January had no history of mental health problems. After a couple of years in the SHU, though, he started raving about the evil spirits he saw dancing on the walls.
In a letter to her from mid-2001, January writes relatively lucidly for most of two pages, asking about her house and other chitchat--and then mentions that he has been seeing things and experiencing other "strange occurrences." A few months later, another letter makes it apparent he has left reality far behind: "I am Tutankamen mother. . . . take a time to pray to your hi Hitler power of white skin because I need some hand in time I need hand time handtime . . . god is the sun I am the sun I am Satan I am Lucifer."
Vanessa Filley, a member of California Prison Focus, a San Francisco-based advocacy group, visited January early last year and found him "in a delusional state," suffering "visual hallucinations." In a letter to the warden asking that January be taken out of the SHU, Filley states that she was told by a Corcoran psychiatrist that January "is not dysfunctional to the point of forced intervention, therefore barring any specific behavior we can't do anything." At the time of this writing, January was still in the SHU.
Certainly, SHUs don't drive everyone over the threshold of clinical insanity. But they may have dangerous effects short of that. What happens when you take a man who had antisocial and violent impulses to begin with, lock him in a cell by himself for five or 10 years, and then let him out?
"It's like keeping a dog that has bitten someone in a cage, kicking it and beating it all the time until it gets as crazy and vicious as it can be, and then one day you open the cage and run away," Grassian says. "Taking someone straight from the Pelican Bay SHU and sending them back to San Francisco or Los Angeles is about as dangerous a thing as you can do."
Even some corrections officials agree. "From my experience as a prison administrator, the prolonged confinement of inmates with little or no contact with others will only make people worse," Jerry Enomoto, a former California director of corrections, said when the Madrid lawsuit first hit the courts. (Current Department of Corrections director Ed Alameida did not respond to several requests for an interview.)
Some people, of course, are less affected by the SHU than others. But at best, it seems, coming out of the SHU often leaves prisoners dangerously ill-equipped to cope with the stress of being around other people.
"Tony" is a 30-year-old Latino and former gangbanger with a generous mustache and hair cropped so short you can see the scars on his head. He has done time in both the Corcoran and Pelican Bay SHUs. Since his parole last year, he has been living with his mom in a quiet Bay Area town and working as a diesel mechanic. On the spring afternoon I met him, an ancient little dog was asleep on a pillow in the front yard next to Tony's massive weight set.
Like Matthew Lowe, Tony was sent straight home from the SHU after a few days in San Quentin. "On my first day out, my mom took me to the grocery store," he says. "I blew up on a couple of people. There was some woman who came up about five feet behind me, and I turned and said, 'Don't stand so close to me!' " Months later, he still breaks out in hot sweats when he's out in crowds. The day before, he says he found himself moving warily away from an elderly woman standing behind him in line at the post office. "I'm not the same," he says. "Look at me, I'm paranoid of a 90-year-old lady in the post office. It's from being so isolated. No wonder people who've been in five or six years come out and kill people."
There have been at least a few hair-raisingly brutal crimes committed by convicts fresh out of supermaxes. In 1992, one day after getting out of the Pelican Bay SHU, Robert Lee Davenport, 24, kidnapped, beat and raped a woman in El Cerrito. In 1995, within a week of his release from the same facility, Robert Walter Scully, 36, killed a Sonoma County sheriff's deputy, took hostages and barricaded himself inside a house in a standoff with police before finally surrendering.
Judging from the media coverage and conversations with people who remember these cases, it doesn't seem that anyone made the connection, or pointed to the SHUs as possibly having contributed to crimes committed by former SHU inmates. Grassian says he has served as consultant on more than a dozen similar cases nationwide. There may be more crimes to add to this list, but no one keeps track of what happens to SHU inmates as a group after they are freed to their parole officers. They are just another former con.
The jury is still out on whether isolating troublemakers in supermaxes is actually cutting down prison violence.
According to Department of Corrections statistics, killings in California prisons dropped dramatically in the years immediately after the Corcoran and Pelican Bay SHUs opened. But the total rate of assaults in the state prisons has been rising since. As of 2000, the inmate-on-inmate assault rate was just as high as in the years before the SHUs opened, and the rate of armed assaults on staff was even higher. Despite its oppressive security, there were 221 assaults in the Pelican Bay SHU last year--inmates assaulting guards when they are taken to court, for example, or by ingenious methods such as firing homemade blowguns though the perforations in their cell doors. More ominously, in the past two years federal prosecutors have charged more than a dozen members of two prison gangs with directing--via letters and visitors--scores of murders and attempted murders in prisons around the country from their cells in the Pelican Bay SHU.
Moore is aware of all this. But, he says, the SHUs are better than nothing. "We have much better investigative tools with the gang leaders in the SHUs," he says. "We know where they are. We can monitor them more closely. Will we ever totally stop them? No. But are we hindering them? Yes. And the best way we've found so far to do that is the SHU."
This is a common view among supermax supporters. Still, as a 1999 National Institute of Corrections report on these facilities points out, "There exists little or no hard data comparing such perceived impacts on entire systems versus the fiscal cost to gain such results." That's no small matter, considering how prodigiously expensive supermaxes are. Taxpayers forked over $218 million to build Pelican Bay, and spend $115 million every year to keep it running. It costs California about $28,000 per year to hold an average prisoner, but SHU inmates, with their elaborate security measures, cost substantially more. The Department of Corrections won't provide an exact figure, but most experts estimate the cost is as much as two or three times greater.
"We should definitely be looking at ways to reduce the number of inmates in SHUs," says state Sen. Romero, who visited Pelican Bay in June. "We may not like the fact that someone is a gang member, but is that a reason to throw them in this prison-in-a-prison? I'm not convinced of that, especially given the high costs." She aims to keep up pressure on the corrections department to modify its gang-validation policy, and to have more research done into what happens to SHU inmates after they are released.
It makes more sense, says Charles Carbone, an attorney with California Prison Focus, to deal with chronic violent offenders on a case-by-case basis, rather than shovel everyone who might be involved in violence into SHUs. "The purpose of the SHU can be served in each prison by administrative segregation," he says, referring to a type of solitary confinement that's not as restrictive and long. "But even then, those people should not be cut off from rehabilitative programs. In fact, they should get more. Cutting them off completely from all stimulation does nobody any good."
Psychiatrist Kupers, among others, believes the main cause of the surge in violence in the '80s was overcrowding and the idleness that resulted from programs being cut. "If you take everything away, prisoners become desperate, and therefore uncontrollable," he says. "Crowding, idleness and lack of rehabilitation cause violence. And no amount of supermaxes will stop that."
Even if you believe SHUs are necessary, Grassian says, they can be modified to make them more humane. In particular, Grassian recommends creating a transitional program to slowly reintroduce inmates to interaction with other people, something that happens in several other states. At present, with the exception of prisoners who are debriefed, the only pre-release preparation Pelican Bay SHU inmates are offered is a voluntary program that primarily consists of watching videos.
Making visits easier could also ease the transition, with prisoners housed in SHU facilities closer to home. Most experts agree that prisoners who maintain family ties generally do better after release. But Pelican Bay is a solid 14-hour drive from Los Angeles, its biggest single source of inmates; getting up there is a challenge for many families. "That visiting room is never full, even though there are over 1,000 people in the SHU," says Oakland resident Helen Grimes, who makes the trek almost every month to visit her son.
No such changes seem likely to happen soon, however. While the current state budget boosts corrections spending overall, it cut funds for inmate-related programs. Gov. Gray Davis understood well that most voters are not especially concerned about what happens to prisoners in SHUs or elsewhere. For them, the moral equation seems simple: Prisoners broke the law; let them suffer the consequences.
But most of the prisoners locked away in the maddening solitude of the SHUs will one day be freed to return to our midst--some of them angrier, more impulsive and more unbalanced than ever. And we will all have to live with those consequences.
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Patients who are about to undergo surgery are rightfully concerned about the breast lift recovery period. Most patients will heal quickly enough to resume normal activities after surgery if they follow instructions provided for post-op care. You will be required to rest for a few days following surgery. You will be able to be up and moving around after surgery. However, you will be instructed to refrain from any strenuous activity or from lifting heavy objects for three to four weeks following your surgery. It is important that you closely follow your doctor's instructions regarding the healing process. Failure to do so can increase the risk of complications and other health issues. Following instructions will also allow you to resume your normal activities within a reasonable amount of time after recovery.
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Twitter hack aftermath, more Android malware, actors on alert and a streaming media warning.
Welcome to Cyber Security Today. It's Friday July 17th. I'm Howard Solomon, contributing reporter on cybersecurity for ITWorldCanada.com.
This week's embarrassing hack of celebrity Twitter accounts so crooks could tweet a bitcoin scam should serve as a wake-up to organizations. Several experts I talked to said firms need to toughen security controls for IT administrators who have access to user accounts. The attackers didn't hack individual accounts. They got into a bunch of accounts by accessing system management tools that were in the hands of a few employees. While Twitter was worried about disinformation and fake accounts on their platforms it forgot to take extra steps to prevent account takeovers. Twitter has given a vague account of what happened. It would be helpful to give a more detailed account so other companies can learn lessons. Meanwhile, consumers can learn too: If a deal sounds too good to be true it probably is, especially on the Internet. Especially if it's offered by a celebrity. Why would a celebrity give away money? Answer: Because their account was hacked.
Criminals are finding new ways of infecting Android apps to steal money. A report this week from a security company called ThreatFabric details the latest malware. It's aimed at stealing money and personal data from 337 apps including banks. Called BlackRock it is often distributed as a fake Google Update app, but NOT in the Google Play store. After installation any time a victim accesses their bank account or buy products this malware plants an overlay on top of the screen login screen. Then the malware copies the bank or payment card username and password and forwards it to the crooks. It also interferes with any antivirus software on their phone. Banks in Europe, Australia, the U.S. and Canada are among the targets as well as eBay, Amazon and PayPal. To make sure you're not a victim limit the number of apps you download, only download apps from the Google Play store and when choosing an app make sure it's from a reputable company and has been reviewed independently.
Another company has allowed private data to be seen on the internet because an employee left a database unprotected. According to a website called Safety Detectives the company was a U.S. online casting company called My Casting File. Names, addresses, phone numbers and other personal information of about 260,000 actors could have been seen by anyone who knew where to find it. The data could be used for phishing, impersonation or stalking.
Cheating doesn't pay. It doesn't pay when you write exams, do your taxes — or try to get around streaming media services. A report out this week from security vendor Kaspersky notes that apps or phishing messages promising free access to Netflix, Disney Plus, Hulu, Amazon Prime or Apple TV Plus without paying come with a price: Malware that steals your payment card data or data on your computer. Crooks use a number of techniques: You may get a phishing message offering free access to the final show of a series for creating a so-called free account. Or see ads offering "Free Netflix Accounts" or "Cheap Hulu Subscriptions." Or you may go hunting for an unofficial or modified version of a real streaming media app to save money. The five shows most often used as lures are The Mandalorian, Stranger Things, The Witcher, Sex Education and Orange is the New Black.
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Monday, January 16, 2017
The Difficulty of Evaluating the Real Impact of Advocacy
While we'll be testing a different pro-chicken video against our current one in February, we've not tested our message / video against a "standard" message, because we don't know how to get data that would be meaningful. As you know, we would need to get impact data from everyone who sees the message, not just those who click through.
More importantly, and even more difficult is to get is the longitudinal data necessary to be able to make clear conclusions. Given that 80% of people who go veg go back to eating animals (and thus become spokespersons against ethical eating), it is important (but basically impossible for us at this time) to do long enough studies to see what everyone's full reaction is over time.
This is, of course, why the default for evaluators is to recommend corporate campaigns and other welfare reforms: those are easily measured. But if we want a truly better world, as opposed to one simply less bad, we need to change people's actual purchases, in a realistic and meaningful way.
Our intention, of course, is that by avoiding a veg message, we avoid creating four failed vegetarians for every lasting new vegetarian.
6 comments:
- Brian said...
Never thought about the regressed veg as being a potential spokesperson against going Veg. Hmmmm
- January 25, 2017 at 4:18 AM
- Jennifer Liepin said...
It's disappointing to read, "Given that 80% of people who go veg go back to eating animals (and thus become spokespersons against ethical eating), it is important to do long enough studies to see what everyone's full reaction is over time," but as someone involved heavily in an Vegan Outreach program, I'm glad to be aware of this stat.
- January 25, 2017 at 12:23 PM
- Mon7que said...
Where is the evidence for the 80%??
- January 26, 2017 at 11:29 AM
- Matt Ball said...
There have been a number of studies, in this country and the UK. This is the latest: https://faunalytics.org/how-many-former-vegetarians-and-vegans-are-there/
5x more former vegetarians than current.
Thanks for asking, and please consider supporting work that avoids this!
- January 26, 2017 at 11:38 AM
- Unknown said...
So I wonder what the best target audience would be for OneStep? Can we really expect health concious omnivores to accept the message? People who don't eat much chicken anyway, like red meat eaters, might be willing to listen but would forget as soon as a friend offered to take them out for chicken wings (anecdotal observation).
- January 26, 2017 at 12:38 PM
- Matt Ball said...
This is a great question. There are two answers:
1. Anyone who might be interested in changing their diet, but finds going full veg to be too hard. (See the Portland post for more on this.)
2. People who love animals but who, again, finds the idea of being veg too hard.
3. People who used to be veg because they found it too hard or didn't feel healthy, but they still want to make a difference.
The best thing about online outreach is we test different audiences via Facebook and find which one(s) are most receptive, in terms of click-throughs and conversions.
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Last week's menu planning post was very well received so I will continue to share our weekly menu plans.
I created this week's menu plan on Sunday afternoon while I watched The Avett Brothers perform at Bonnaroo on YouTube. It was an awesome show! I kind of felt like I was at Bonnaroo but with the perks of being clean at home in the air conditioning!
Here's what we're working with this week.
- Roasted beet salad with oranges, beet greens and goat cheese
- Sautéed grouper
- Whole wheat couscous with caramelized onions and garlic
- Lettuce wraps (carry over from last week's menu – never ended up making these)
- Sushi rice
- Sautéed Asian green beans (I will sauté the green beans with garlic, ginger, soy sauce and sesame oil)
- Grilled pork tenderloin with tomato peach compote
- Collards
- Field peas
- Might have to whip up some cornbread with this Southern dinner! 🙂
MY BIRTHDAY!!! Out???
- Baked falafel
- Pita
- Tzatziki sauce
- Greek salad
- TBD – probably grill kebabs or hamburgers
Breakfasts: oatmeal, yogurt, overnight oats (for me), protein shakes (for Brandon)
Lunches: salads and veggies sandwiches (for me), homemade chicken salad and crackers (for Brandon), lots of fresh fruit


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TIJUANA (Border Report) — There's been a rise in the number of migrants from the state of Michoacán arriving in border cities like Tijuana, according to José María García, director of a shelter in the Mexican border city.
García blames organized crime for forcing people to displace and flee.
"There's some groups from the state of Michoacán who have gradually begun accumulating here, people who have suffered a great deal of violence," García said. "Unfortunately, the violence has grown within these criminal groups."
According to García, cartels are now resorting to using drones that drop grenades and other explosives into crowded areas.
"We don't know the motives why organized crime wants to displace so many people. There's probably something else going on. There's been a lot of violence there since 2016. Unfortunately, in the last few weeks it has increased."
The violence is reportedly not generated by drugs, but avocados.
The state of Michoacan produces about 75% of avocados grown in Mexico, totaling about $2 billion per year in sales.
Cartels are trying to gain control of this industry.
"My son was shot 10 times," said Oralia Abrago, who arrived in Tijuana a few weeks ago. "He was a bodyguard for an avocado grower. He went to see about a shipment when they shot him."
Abrago says her son survived for about a week before he died at a hospital. Days later, two men in a motorcycle drove up to her with a warning.
"They told me I had to drop the complaint and if I didn't, they would kill me, my daughter and grandchildren," she said.
According to Abrago, that's when she decided to flee along with her daughter and grandchildren.
"It's my only daughter. It's best to leave, but I didn't even get a chance to say goodbye to my mother," she said. "We went to San Ysidro border crossing but they told us they weren't letting anyone in and they gave us a number to this shelter."
According to others who run shelters for migrants, Abrago is one of about 1,500 people who have been displaced by violence in Michoacán in recent weeks.
Abrago now hopes to be able to cross the border at some point.
"I say please open their hearts and let us cross, we're not going to harm anyone over there, I'll just dedicate myself to just working," she said.
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