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Joe LeBlanc recently tagged me, the modern equivalent of a chain letter, so I thought I would give it a try. Here are seven things you may or may not know about me:
- I have an abnormally large head. No seriously, I do. If you know anything about fitted hat sizes, you know that the average adult male wears between a size 7 and a size 7.5 hat. I wear a size 8. Actually, that's not true. I really don't wear hats, due in large part to the aforementioned large head. Unfortunately, my daughter inherited this gene from me. She just turned 3, and she wears hats made for 5-year-olds.
- I once got in trouble for indecent exposure. OK, so "indecent exposure" actually makes it sound a lot worse than it really was. I was on a trip with my high school choir when I was in tenth grade, and long story short, several of us got in trouble for mooning each other. It was actually probably the worst trouble I've ever been in in my entire life. I guess I've led a pretty boring life!
- I once flew to New York on an impromptu trip to see the Late Show with David Letterman live. My wife and I got tickets to see a live taping of the Letterman show, which are extremely difficult to get. We couldn't pass up the opportunity, so we hopped on a plane to NYC. We really lucked out because we were there during sweeps week, the week when the networks pull out all the stops to get the best ratings possible to set their advertising rates for the year, so we got to see a couple of A-List guests: Tom Hanks and Kanye West.
- I sang the US National Anthem for Elizabeth Dole. When I was in high school, I sang in the school choir (see #2). My senior year was 1996-1997, which happened to coincide with the US presidential election between Bill Clinton and Bob Dole. Dole's wife, Elizabeth, made a campaign stop at my middle school, and they asked if a group of guys from the senior men's chorus would sing the National Anthem at the event. Being a part of the chorus, I was selected as one of 8 guys to sing for the event. I'm not really sure if Elizabeth Dole actually heard us sing or not, but I'll just assume that she did because it makes the story more interesting.
- I weighed 10 pounds when I was born. Not only that, but I wasn't even the largest of all my siblings. My brother weighed 11 pounds 2 ounces. I'm still not sure how my tiny little mom was able to carry us around for 9 months!
- I have never had even a sip of an alcoholic beverage. It's not that I have a problem with alcohol from any sort of moral or religious perspective. If you drink alcohol, more power to you. For personal reasons, that's just something I choose not to participate in. I'd be happy to tell you more about it, if you're interested, but I'll just leave it at that for now.
- I am a reality tv junkie. There, I've said it. I feel better now. Seriously, though, I will watch almost anything that is reality tv, with the exception of Rock of Love, Flava of Love, or any thing in that genre of reality tv. My all-time favorites are The Amazing Race and Survivor. I would love to be on either one of those shows, so if you are reading this and you have connections that can get me on the show, you know where to find me!
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Sunland Derby runner-up Astrology finished in third place at Saturday's 136th Preakness Stakes at Pimlico Race Course. Shackleford, ridden by Jesus Castanon, held off Kentucky Derby winner Animal Kingdom down the stretch. The win by Shackleford extends the streak without a Triple Crown champion to 33 years since Affirmed was the last to accomplish the feat in 1978.
Shackleford returned $27.20, $10.20 and $6.80. Animal Kingdom paid $4.20 and $3.60, and Astrology paid $8.00 to show.
Sunland Derby winner Twice the Appeal did not run the Preakness after finishing in ninth place at the Kentucky Derby.
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The US student Amanda Knox, 21, is on trial with her former Italian boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito, 25, for the murder of her British housemate, Meredith Kercher in Perugia in November 2007. The Leeds University student, 21, from Coulsdon, Surrey, was in Italy on a year's exchange programme. Another man, Ivory Coast-born Rudy Guede, was sentenced to 30 years for his role in the murder of Kercher in October 2008. Prosecutors allege that Sollecito held Kercher down while Guede tried to sexually assault her and Knox stabbed her. Guede opted for a fast-track trial, claiming he was afraid Knox and Sollecito would blame him for the murder at a joint trial. Guede's appeal will be heard in November. All three deny the charges.
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The award is bestowed upon any player submitted by a member coach who achieved a 3.50 grade point average or higher during the 2011-12 academic year. The membership category with the most participating institutions this year proved to be Division I with 140, while Division III was second by boasting 134 teams and high school ranked third with 123.
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Soda Pop Concerns: Should You Pour Out of Beverage Stocks?
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America is a consumer nation. Let's just face that. My ballooning up to the size of a blimp and then having to work to lose most of it (more than 100 pounds so far) is testimony to the fact that I'm a part of it as well.
The real question becomes WHAT is being consumed. Sugary snacks, drinks and so forth have been a strong win in that category for decades. But there are signs that might be coming to an end. Sure, soft drinks are everywhere, but who's to say it'll stay that way? America's love affair with carbonated sugar water just might be ramping down.
So what's an investor to do? Can you count on a certain level of return from these stocks or is it time to drop them like Michael Bloomberg hopes to compel everyone to do? Unsurprisingly, I have a few thoughts on the subject.
The Coca-Cola Company (NYSE: KO)
Coke is clearly under some pressure (ha!). The public health aspects of soda pop are beginning to make inroads into the public consciousness and the firm is trying to respond with an anti-obesity campaign of its own. Protip: Anytime your signature product inspires you to have to promote a program preventing your product's impact? That's a bad thing (see also: tobacco companies). Still, Coke has done more than just some PR to offset the losses to its soda business. By launching and promoting different drinks such as coffees, teas and various waters and such, the firm is moving to diversify its product line away from just the sugary stuff. It's also been buying up smaller firms that bottle and distribute its products to bring them into the family. The stock has been slightly up over the last year, rising from $34.04 to $37.70 – a gain of about 10.7%. I'd like to see better, but it does offer a 25 cent per share dividend. Still, the firm does have the top two soda pops in Coke and Diet Coke. I'd take a wait-and-see on Coke right now if you're after growth. If you're after growth and income then this could be a good play depending on your other investments.
PepsiCo (NYSE: PEP)
Pepsi is better positioned than Coke for the coming soda pop troubles. The firm makes Pepsi, of course, which trails Coke in soda sales. But it also have a lot of other products, such as Frito-Lay and Quaker Foods, that can backstop it if there's real trouble on the soda front. Even so, CEO Indra Nooyi's plan calls for creating "snackified" drinks from the firm's other products. I know it sounds strange, but at least it's a plan based on leveraging other, existing products. Recall, too, that the firm has lifetime contracts with Taco Bell, KFC, Pizza Hut and Wing Street through those chains being spun off from Pepsi as what is now YUM! Brands in 1997. The firm's stock is up for the year, though not a lot. It does pay a 54 cent dividend; more than double that of Coke. It's well-positioned and is trying to innovate its way to new growth. Nooyi says she hopes to build the firm's healthier alternatives from $10 billion to $30 billion by 2020. That's ambitious but I'm not certain I'd bet against it.
Dr. Pepper Snapple Group (NYSE: DPS)
A perennial third place in the markets and in American thought, Dr. Pepper and Snapple occupy a sort of "of, yeah, them too" space in the soda pop market. Like Coke, DPS focuses heavily on the drink market without a lot of expansion into other consumables. The firm is also responding to obesity concerns, not with a marketing campaign, but with a new line of 10 calorie drinks featuring low-cal versions of Canada Dry Ginger Ale, A&W Root Beer, 7-Up and RC Cola among others. It's yet to be seen how consumers respond to it, but again, the firm is trying to build itself up outside of the weight-increasing sugary drink market. Another positive sign for DPS is its stock price. It's climbed more than 20% in the last year, from $37.67 to $45.30. Of the big three, this is the only one to outperform the S&P 500 over that time frame and that's not to be dismissed lightly. It also pays the highest dividend yield at 3% based on its 34 cent per share dividend.
There are other players in the market, and perhaps I'll deal with them at a later time. But the efforts against the industry are focused on these three firms. How they respond to those efforts against sugary drinks will control how the industry is perceived and treated for the foreseeable future.
Of the three, I'd invest in Dr. Pepper Snapple Group if I had to choose only one. The growth potential there is higher than for the other two. After that, take Pepsi for the firm's already-in-place diversified product line. Otherwise, watch and see how all three react to the pressure that America's growing kick for health places upon them.
Good luck!
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Cheyah bitch fucks, we're featuring a cat 'cause fuck it, it's Tumblr. Now that you got your bloggin' dicks wet, meet the pallas's cat. This communist kitty thrives in the Central Asian steppe region at stupid, crazy elevations and shit. When they're not hiding in caves producing homeland propaganda, they're unleashing guerrilla warfare tactics on the terrorized gerbil and partridge populations. Look at those eyeballs. Look, bitch. You see those goddamned pupils? Yeah, that shit is round as fuck 'cause right before they slit your capitalist throat they stare you down with a pair of anthropomorphic eyes. Really, there are worse ways for your punk ass to die.
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Woah, woah. Let's stop the car, get out and discuss this. This super chill amphibian is the hemiphractus fasciatus. A frog so pretentious that folks only refer to this twat by its complicated as shit scientific name. This bro lurks about the cloud forests (that's a real thing, cooters) of Central America, but if you're a fellow Panamanian frog you best check yourself lest you wreck yourself 'cause this hemiphractus traitor bitch straight up preys on other frog species. Want to learn some real wild shit? The female bad bitch hemiphractus carries all her baby bitch eggs on her back and they hatch without going through that whole metamorphosis mess. Well, fuck my dick, that's some awesome shit.
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After letting the eerie feeling that this creature has stared into the very depths and crevasses of your soul, give a warm welcome to the fucking tarsier. Those giant eyeballs are key to this baby bitch prosimian's night-dwelling habits. Lurking in the treetops of South-East Asia, the tarsier leaps about devouring hoards of goddamned, disgusting bugs. They're legit the only living entirely carnivorous primate and just be thankful that they focus their time and energy on blood-fucking the shit out of insects. Tarsier fur is soft as fuck apparently, but good luck trying to pet them 'cause like most shit found in the wild they're shy little mother fuckers.
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I'm developing cabin fever thanks to being bedridden with some kind of cold/flu death illness, so I'm going to brighten all y'all bitches' day with the pudu. This dickhole is found roaming through the temperate rainforests of South America and yeah, no shit, is the world's smallest goddamned deer. No doubt the pudu spends its asshole days prancing about on little, spindly legs and eating all manner of flora while being secretive and solitary as fuck. Male pudus have these fucking antlers that look like they belong on some bitch fuck faun straight out of a fantasy trilogy found on the bottom shelf of the Barnes and Noble bargain books section. For real the pudu needs to watch its tiny back up in the rainforest 'cause all kinds of predatory penises want a piece of that ass including owls and foxes. Let's face it, if you're taken out by an owl you're kind of a bitch.
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Well, just check out the satisfied smug ass look on that mourning cuttlefish. This cephalopod loafs about the coastal waters of where all insect-borne nightmares dwell: Australia. You better watch yourself when you're being brave as fuck and swimming off the Australian coast, that shit isn't seaweed, it's a goddamn mourning cuttlefish being a master of ultimate disguise. Like clever bastards they can alter the color and fucking texture of their skin to fool basic bitches left and right. On a documentary we watched once this bold male mourning cuttlefish disguised himself as a female to get in on some fertilizing action right under this other douche-bro cuttlefish's tentacles. Folks, meet the drag queen of the ocean.
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Say a grand "hello" to this hook-beaked mother fucker. You already know that's a fucking kiwi. This flightless, tawny-colored street rat is native to New Zealand, a colonialism-ravaged and geologically fucked up island in the Pacific. The kiwi comes in five different species, each so goddamned cute you want to burn yourself with a cigarette. These bitches have to be all different from other birds and shit by having marrow in their bones and a keen sense of smell. Kiwis are monogamous, once two of those bitches bond, in what's probably a fuck-stupid RomCom scenario, they're mated for life.
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Meet the tree pangolin, an evolutionary bad bitch who is not only so cute you want to throw it into a wood-chipper, but is also up to its empty little black eyes in evolutionary advancements. Residing in the birthplace of civilization, Africa, the pangolin is the only mammal to have a fucking keratin scale shield, which alone is amazeballs enough, but this asshole can raise and move that bad ass armor all while wrapped into a mind-crushingly adorable ball of razory death. With a stupid suck fuck mouth the pagolin only harnesses its powers to vanquish the ultimate of all evils: insects. Oh and this fuck has a prehensile tail, so watch in fucked awe as it gets all bipedal on your ass.
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After spending an entire day watching the fuck out of "Gator Boys" my only passion in life is for the crocodilian family. Stare into the majestic eyes of the Cuvier dwarf caiman. Try not to claw at your face with the cuteness of that itty, bitty dinosaur-esque fuck face. Goddamn it all. This tiny bro is found all up in South America and is the smallest living asshole in the crocodilian family, with your average baby bitch coming in at around four fucking feet long. Yeah, the dwarf caiman is pint-sized and no doubt filled to it's little toothed brim with plenty of rude reptilian sass. Fuck.
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Oh, holy fuck. That stupid face. This, folks, is the mother fucking dugong. I bet some of you are like, whaaaat that just looks like a manatee, whatevs. Well, bitch, you'd be wrong. The dugong is in the Sirenia order along with those fat manatee fucks. This pudgy ass-fuck is found throughout the Indo-Pacific and eats a fuck-ton of sea grass. These vegan bitch fucks are the only marine, exclusively herbivorous mammals, but some of these Lane Bryant customers cheat and slurp down invertebrates. I'm guessin' this is cause they just confuse shellfish with sea grass with their piss-poor eyesight and all.
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A West Jordan chiropractor charged with fraud for allegedly deceiving 10 elderly potential patients is scheduled for trial in August.
Brandon Babcock, 38, is charged in 3rd District Court with 10 counts of exploitation of a vulnerable adult, a third-degree felony, along with communications fraud, a second-degree felony.
Babcock's five-day trial is set to begin August 12 before Judge Terry Christiansen in West Jordan.
During a preliminary hearing, there was testimony that Babcock's alleged victims — who ranged in age from 61 to 84 — were initially treated to a free gourmet dinner where they could learn about a chiropractor's "diabetes breakthrough."
But later, Babcock allegedly either signed them up for credit without their consent or refused to refund their money after telling them they could opt-out of the program within 30 days.
They were never told by Babcock that he was a chiropractor, that they were eventually charged for what was advertised as a "free" consultation and that they were tricked into or had unknowingly signed papers taking out lines of credit with Chase Health Advance, according to testimony.
Several of the victims were not allowed to cancel the credit line because it was in Babcock's name, according Dan Briggs, an investigator with the Utah Division of Occupational and Professional Licensing (DOPL).
Chase Health Advance employees told Briggs they eventually repaid nearly half a million dollars to people who claimed they were bilked by Babcock.
West Jordan City revoked Babcock's business license in August 2012 after he was formally charged. According to DOPL, Babcock's chiropractic license has been suspended.
Babcock has done business under various names, including "The Integrated Health Center of Utah" and "Functional Endocrinology Institute of Utah." His business was located at 9265 S. Redwood Road.


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Aboriginal People: Northwest Coast
The Canadian portion of the Northwest Coast is a region of extremes in topography, from wide beaches to deep fjords and snow-capped mountains. Temperatures are moderate, the January mean above freezing and July less than 18° C.
Aboriginal People: Northwest Coast
The Canadian portion of the Northwest Coast is a region of extremes in topography, from wide beaches to deep fjords and snow-capped mountains. Temperatures are moderate, the January mean above freezing and July less than 18° C. The northern coast and outer islands receive 155-655 cm of rain annually, and the protected Georgia Straits 65-175 cm, mostly in winter. Heavy coniferous forests thrive, and beaches and streams are lined with dense undergrowth.
In the pre-contact period, food was plentiful: black-tailed deer, bear, elk and mountain goat were available locally. Sea mammals (seals and porpoises) as well as vast quantities of fish and shellfish were available everywhere and whales were taken in some areas. A variety of edible fruits, bulbs and plants provided important nutritional components of diets. Most important were the Pacific salmon runs, which arrived in regular annual migrations and were eaten fresh or dried for year-round use.
Major Language Groups
Of all the Aboriginal regions in Canada, the Northwest Coast exhibits most diversity in language. The Inland Tlingit of the northwest tip of BC and the southwest Yukon are an interior branch of the Tlingit of the south Alaska coast. On Haida Gwaii are Haida. Both Tlingit and Haida are language isolates, unique languages with no proven relationship to any other. Along the Nass and Skeena rivers and the adjacent coast are people speaking three languages of the Tsimshian language family, which may be remotely related to several other language families, collectively called Penutian, spoken from Oregon southward. Strung along the coast from Tsimshian territory to northeast Vancouver Island are Haisla (Kitamaat), Heiltsuk (Bella Bella), Oowekyala (Rivers Inlet) and Kwakwala (Southern Kwakiutl). They in turn are related to the languages of the Nuu-chah-nulth (Nootka) and Dididaht, languages spoken on the west coast of Vancouver Island, and Makah on Cape Flattery in Washington. All of these languages belong to the Wakashan language family.
The remaining coastal people of BC speak languages of the large Salishan family. In the north, surrounded by Heiltsuk and Haisla, are the Nuxalk (Bella Coola). In Georgia Strait, below the Southern Kwakiutl, are speakers of seven mutually unintelligible Coast Salish languages: Comox, Pentlatch (extinct) and Sechelt, together referred to as Northern Georgia Strait Coast Salish, and Squamish, Halkomelem, Nooksack (now only in Washington state) and Straits Salish, together called Central Coast Salish. Languages are described as mutual unintelligibility to emphasize that knowledge of one language does not preclude knowledge with another language.
In summary, there are 19 mutually unintelligible languages spoken on the Northwest Coast of BC, and these in turn belong to five separate units among which no relationship has yet been clearly established (see Aboriginal People, Languages; Language Families: Table).
Historical Summary
Although the earliest settlement of the Northwest Coast occurred probably 14 000 years ago (see Prehistory), the first contact with Europeans came late in the 18th century, but diseases previously unknown to the region arrived before the Europeans. Major epidemics of smallpox killed large numbers of people in the 1780s, 1830s, and 1860s, and other diseases dramatically reduced the population throughout the 19th century and early 20th century. Aboriginal societies had already suffered a severe blow when Spanish and British explorers opened the way for traders seeking rich stocks of sea-otter pelts. Aboriginal people adopted firearms, iron tools and other European goods, but permanent trading posts awaited establishment of a series of forts by the Hudson's Bay Company, which by 1850 controlled the trade.
Discovery of gold on the Fraser River in 1857 brought a rush of miners and settlers to the newly established colonies (see Gold Rushes). Towns were few, but Aboriginal people were attracted to them from afar for trade goods. The contagious diseases, particularly smallpox, reduced the Aboriginal people to a minority within the population by 1885.
Governor James Douglas made a few small treaties with Aboriginal villages on Vancouver Island between 1850 and 1854 (see Aboriginal Treaties). This recognition of Aboriginal title was abandoned when BC entered Confederation in 1871. Commissions were established in 1876 and 1912 and charged with creating and confirming Indian reserves. Neither commission had authority to make treaties or deal definitively with Aboriginal grievances. Though reserves were imposed unilaterally and did not always meet Aboriginal requests, they did provide minimal protection for many village sites as the influx of strangers continued.
The unsettled land question and government oppression, including an anti-potlatch clause in the Indian Act in 1884, led to protests by local groups. Organized pan-Aboriginal associations emerged later with formation of the Allied Tribes of British Columbia in 1915 and the Native Brotherhood of British Columbia in 1931.
Following the Supreme Court decision in Calder in 1973 and Canada's decision to negotiate settlement of outstanding Aboriginal land claims, treaty negotiations between Canada and the Nisga'a began in 1976. BC joined negotiations in 1990, and an Agreement in Principal was signed in March 1996. The 2 senior governments and representatives of First Nations in BC appointed the BC Treaty Commission in 1993 to facilitate negotiations of treaties with other First Nations in the province. By 1996 most coastal nations had filed Statements of Intent to negotiate treaties under the Treaty Commission process. The process dragged on with few results and some bands withdrew from the process. Despite delays, the Tsawwassen First Nation treaty, the first urban treaty in the history of British Columbia, came into effect in 2009, and the Maa-nulth treaty in 2011. The Maa-nulth treaty comprises the Huu-ay-aht Nation, Ka:'yu:'k't'h' Nation, Toquaht Nation, Ucluelet First Nation, and Uchucklesaht Nation, all part of the Nuu-chah-nulth Tribal Council. The Supreme Court of Canada ruled in Haida Nation and Taku River Tlingit decisions (2004), that the Crown has a duty to consult and provide reasonable accommodation of Aboriginal interests in creating policies that might impact treaty rights. This duty arises even before treaties are established.
From earliest contact with outsiders, coastal Aboriginal people traded willingly and worked as labourers, boatmen and house servants. Those living in dispersed locations with viable subsistence economies were ideal seasonal workers in the early stages of resource development. Some communities created economic enterprises of their own in the 19th century. However, as mechanization and centralization of the fish and timber industries proceeded, participation of Aboriginal people as workers and independent small producers diminished. Resource industries still dominate Aboriginal occupational patterns, but by the 1960s unemployment and underemployment in coastal communities was chronic.
Traditional Culture
Division of Labour
Throughout the Northwest Coast the material bases of life were similar. Carpentry was men's work, and with blades of stone and shell, wooden wedges and stone hammers they fashioned the myriad items of everyday use. Huge winter dwellings of post-and-beam structure covered by split cedar planks were created in distinct regional styles. So too were dugout canoes, which provided transportation along rapid streams and on the open sea.
It fell mainly to women to spin twine required for fishnets and lines and to weave items from cedar bark and roots - large storage containers, open-work collecting baskets and exquisite, finely decorated hats. Mats fashioned from cedar bark or rushes provided furnishings and lined houses for additional warmth. Women also twined cedar-bark skirts and cloaks for everyday wear. Elaborately decorated Chilkat blankets of twined cedar bark and mountain-goat wool were worn on special occasions by people in northern communities. Among Coast Salish, mountain-goat wool supplemented by dog wool was twilled into heavy blankets with decorative borders. These were items of daily wear in cold weather. Everywhere on the coast, fur cloaks supplemented this simple stock of clothing.
Fishing, hunting and gathering were the means of subsistence on the Northwest Coast. Resources from the sea were of first importance. Fishing devices were adapted to suit specific conditions of sea and stream and local occurrence of fish species; techniques included trolling and jigging with baited hooks, harpooning and spearing, use of nets and construction of tidal traps, or weirs, in streams. Land mammals were taken with bow and arrow, snares, deadfalls and nets; sea mammals with harpoons at sea and with clubs or nets wherever animals came ashore. The abundant waterfowl fell prey to a variety of ingenious nets. Gathering of shellfish, berries, edible roots, bulbs and green shoots provided additional nutritious foods. Resources were not evenly distributed in all regions, and coastal communities followed a migratory pattern or dispersed from winter villages to outlying sites as each resource changed with the seasons.
While fishing and hunting were mainly the work of men, and women did most gathering of plant and beach foods, the division of labour was complementary and often co-operative. Both men and women made the tools necessary for work. Because almost all foods were produced at times in quantities greater than immediate need, they were preserved. Men did most of the initial production of fish and game, but women did the cooking and preservation.
Social Life
The primary unit of society everywhere on the Northwest Coast was a large group of kin who usually shared common ancestors. Among northern peoples, membership in the kin group was passed down through women, but in the south membership could be claimed through either the male or the female lines. In both areas the result was a core of close kin with in-married spouses living together in a house or house cluster under the direction and guidance of capable leaders. These leaders held formal titles or prominent names hereditary within the family line and acted as managers of family property, including nonmaterial possessions such as names, ritual performances, special songs or secret knowledge. The foundation, however, was ownership of real property such as house sites, berry patches, hunting territory, seal rookeries and fish-trap sites. While some territory and waters were open to general use, more productive harvesting places were privately owned.
Real property, combined with skilful management of family labour and individually owned capital equipment, enabled kin groups and their chiefs to achieve high productivity and accumulate tangible wealth. Property was the basis and vehicle of the Northwest Coast system of rank and class. In some communities there was precise status with internal ranking; in others, flexible categories. An upper-lower distinction of some form was universal, as was the institution of slavery. Slaves were acquired in war or by purchase and, although they lived in owners' houses, lacked full civil rights and were required to perform menial chores.
Villages were always close to navigable water, with houses ranged parallel to the beach facing the water. Although united by kinship, dialect and common interest in territory, villages had no government except that effected by powerful lineages. During the early historic period, among Coast Tsimshian and Northern Westcoast (Nuu-chah-nulth), strong village leaders emerged and began to extend their influence through the confederation of villages. These alliances were the only formal Aboriginal organizations. Feuding occurred in response to injury or trespass, and occasionally escalated into warfare. Acquisition of property, including slaves, was also a motivation for conflict. The small size and divisiveness of village units, and the practice of restituting wrongs with gifts, helped to limit the scale of warfare.
High-ranking individuals from separate kin groups and villages found common cause in class membership and ritual associations, often termed secret societies. Most important of all were bonds of marriage and gift exchanges which accompanied them. Marriages were contracted between people of different kin groups, often in widely separated villages. In order to validate lineage rights and maintain class position, assemblies of people from many kin groups were convened to witness claims. Guests were fed and given gifts at these potlatches. Barter and trade occurred, but gifts and feasts were major means of distribution and exchange.
Religious and Spiritual Life
Native groups conducted serious religious rites in winter and viewed summer as more appropriate for games, feasts and naming activities. There was no strict segregation of the sacred and secular, as the sacred was implicit in all thought and action. Belief in potent spirits identified with animate objects and forms was fundamental. Spirits could interfere in human affairs, but by self-purification an individual might induce them to become personal helpers. They were a source of power for religious practitioners or shamans, but also endowed ordinary folk with special competence or good fortune, and in some areas became hereditary privileges. This awareness of power in the animate, nonhuman sphere was consistent with widespread use of prayers and welcoming ceremonies to foster the annual runs of fish (see Aboriginal People, Religion).
The course of each person's life brought changes of status as puberty was attained, names received or marriage made. Taboos and elaborate ritual and feasting accompanied these events. Illness, while associated with physical causes, was also ascribed to soul loss or intervention of spirit forces, and shamans were called upon for diagnosis and corrective treatment. Aboriginal people believed in existence after death and in ghosts that could be harmful to the living. Funeral and memorial ritual served to separate the living and the dead and to sustain, honour and placate the dead.
Culture and Art
Music and decorative arts were associated with both sacred and secular activities. Spirit helpers conferred songs, and secret society or family tradition was transmitted through songs which often accompanied masked re-enactments of mythic events. There were songs for all occasions - soothing infants, playing games, expressing love and sorrow. The voice was the only melodic instrument, although a variety of percussive devices, whistles and horns was used as accompaniment.
Sculptural and decorative art was also part of daily life, applied to tools, houses, baskets, clothing and items associated with the supernatural. Wood sculpture and painting, notably totem poles, are the most renowned features of Northwest Coast culture. Archaeological evidence suggests that art has a long history in the area and that regional styles share basic similarities of form with an earlier tradition. In the north the art is highly formalized and often depicts family crests on property. Wakashan sculptors excelled in creating masks for dramatic performances. The Salish put emphasis on religious implements with little concern for crests. In all areas ownership of sculptural and decorative art was indicative of wealth and denoted class position (see Northwest Coast Aboriginal Art).
Culture Change
Though early acceptance of European clothing and tools brought visible changes to Northwest Coast cultures, villages, often on ancient sites, still retain their original orientation to the sea and traditional foods are favoured in the diet. Enforced Westernization was the policy of missionaries and government administrators until recent times. Compulsory education in centrally located boarding schools, where Aboriginal speech was forbidden, had devastating effects on community structure, socialization and languages (see Residential Schools). Today, several Northwest Coast languages have only a few fluent speakers and are in danger of extinction, despite efforts to reverse the trend with formal language-teaching programs. Pentlatch, for example, is already extinct.
Despite the ban on the potlatch from 1884 to 1951, feasts and ceremonious exchanges, especially among the Southern Kwakiutl, never completely ceased and have experienced revival in recent decades. The few Coast Salish villages where spirit dancing survived have served as centres for a dramatic religious revival that has continued to attract followers. These institutions remain private to the Aboriginal communities, where they strengthen indigenous identity and self-esteem (see Shaker Religion).
The population of Northwest Coast nations has continued to increase since a low point in 1915. In 2006 there were over 80 000 registered Aboriginal people and perhaps as many again who are nonregistered descendants of coastal First Nations. Isolated villages have lost residents as unemployment and educational opportunity induced people to move to urban centres. The 2006 census reported more than 60% of Canada's First Nations are off-reserve residents. At that time, 98% of the residents living on reserves were Status Indians.
Northwest Coast Aboriginal people have remained steadfast in objecting to policy and practices that have reduced Aboriginal rights and left land claims unsettled (see Aboriginal People, Government Policy). They have been strong supporters of provincial and national Aboriginal associations.
Suggested Reading
Northwest Coast, Handbook of North American Indians, Vol 7,. Wayne P. Suttles, vol. ed
Links to other sites
Canadian Aboriginal Writing and Arts ChallengeThe website for the Canadian Aboriginal Writing and Arts Challenge, which features Canada's largest essay writing competition for Aboriginal youth (ages 14-29) and a companion program for those who prefer to work through painting, drawing and photography. See their guidelines, teacher resources, profiles of winners, and more. From Historica Canada.
Museum of AnthropologyThe website for the Museum of Anthropology at the University of British Columbia. Features a virtual tour, online exhibits, and a First Nations of BC map. Canada's largest teaching museum is best known for its extensive Northwest Coast First Nations collections.


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HOOVER, Ala. – A short time ago I had the pleasure of having a semi-exclusive interview with LSU quarterback Zach Mettenberger before he began to make the media rounds here at the Wynfrey Hotel. A couple of LSU beat writers and I were able to spend 10 minutes talking to Mettenberger in the Buckingham Room here soon after he and his coach and teammates arrived for SEC Media Days.
Mettenberger is, of course, a former Georgia player who was dismissed from the team shortly before pleading guilty to two counts of misdemeanor sexual battery in the spring of 2010. He grew up in Watkinsville, Ga., as a huge Georgia fan and his mother has worked in the Bulldogs' football office for 10 years.
Now he finds himself as the starting quarterback for national championship-contender LSU. You need to know nothing more than the fact that the Tigers chose to bring him to Media Days despite Mettenberger having never started a game to know how they feel about him.
I'm writing a story that will appear in tomorrow's print section — and online as well — but I wanted to go ahead and share the interview I had with Zach as a Q&A since it's the most extensive opportunity I've had to talk to him since he left for Butler Community College in Kansas in the summer of 2010.
So here you go . . .
Q: Were you surprised that LSU asked you to represent the team here today?
A: "Not really. I've just been working hard to be a leader on the team and I think the coaches have seen that hard work in me. They believe I'm a well-spoken individual who's capable of representing this team. It means a lot that they had that trust in me to let me come here and know that I'm going to represent the team well. I'm a little nervous being here, but if I can get through these butterflies then I'm going to be all right."
Q: Does it feel like a practice run?
A: "It's kind of a big first practice [laughs]. There's a lot of people here. I'm just going to try to have fun today and learn from it."
Q: How does is feel to now be the undisputed starting quarterback?
A: "I'm very comfortable. It's definitely a lot different. I guess I won't really know until we get on the field and start playing."
Q: Have you spent much time contemplating the event that got you to this place?
A: "No, not really. My Mom working at Georgia and being at Georgia my whole life, I thought I'd be at Georgia now. But that's not how God wanted it. That's not the path he had for me. So I've dealt with the adversity and I think I've handled myself pretty well. So I've just got to keep working every day to better myself as a player and a person."
Q: Is it your ultimate desire to face Georgia in the SEC Championship Game?
A: "Just getting to the SEC Championship Game my first year as a starter would mean a lot. It wouldn't matter who we played. Regardless, it's a goal I have this year. Hopefully we can get there."
Q: What do you think it would be like facing Georgia?
A: "It'd be, not awkward, but it'd be kind of funny seeing all my old roommates and old buddies over on the other sideline and playing against them. It's something I look forward to, but not any more than if we played South Carolina or Florida."
Q: Do you have any Georgia gear anymore?
A: "No I don't actually. I left it all at my house in Watkinsville."
Q: Have you been back home much since leaving UGA?
A: "Maybe three or four times I've been back. I don't get back a lot. I don't have a lot of time to drive 10 hours and go see my parents. When they have a chance they come see me as much as I can."
Q: When were you last in the Athens area?
A: "Actually I was there over spring break. I was in Gulf Shores (Ala.) and I just drove up to Athens one day and showed up at Mom's work. It was a surprise for her. She was happy to see me and I was glad I did that.
Q: Did it feel strange being in enemy territory like that?
A: "It's different, but it's my hometown. It's really not awkward or weird for me to go back. A lot of those coaches have known me since I was 10 years old."
Q: Did you get a chance to visit with your old position coach, Mike Bobo?
A: "I saw him. We had a good talk. That's a guy I've known since he was a G.A. for Georgia and my mom first got the job. It's been great having him as almost a father-figure in my life. He gave me some good advice while I was back home."
Q: Are you still good friends with any of the Georgia players?
A: "Me and Aaron are definitely good friends. We lived together for a year. I know we had the competition but, despite that, we're very good friends. I roomed with Dallas Lee, Austin Long, Blake Sailors. Blake and I went to high school together and I grew up with him. So there are a lot of guys I'm really good friends with."
Q: Are parents going to LSU games?
A: "Yeah, as many as they can make. I can't wait to see them. Hopefully they can make them all."
Q: Doesn't your mom go to all the Georgia games?
A: "She hasn't been to a Georgia game since I left."
Q: Is there something behind that?
A: "No, she supports everybody on that team because my buddies are all like sons to her. But because I'm not playing there's really no point for her to go. She'd rather stay home and watch it on TV.
Q: How has being the starting quarterback changed you?
A: "I'm just trying to everyday develop my leadership ability. This team doesn't have a lot of leaders right now, so we need some guys to step into that role. I've been working hard every day trying to get the guys to rally around me to be the offensive leader. We're just trying to make the offense better and hopefully we can go out there this year and execute."
Q: Are you feeling any pressure about the position you're in?
A: "Not really. I was just telling somebody, I'd rather be in The Swamp right now playing a night game than talking to all you guys. I've never really gotten nervous before a football game. I don't know what it is about me but that's the way it's been since peewee and high school is over. I really haven't gotten nervous."
Q: Word is you guys are going to be airing it out behind your big arm this season. That true?
A: "I'm definitely excited. As long as I can get the ball in the hands of the playmakers on our team, my job is easy. If we have to run the ball 100 times I'm will to do that. I'm here to win ballgames, not to promote myself as a quarterback, just to be a winner for LSU."
Q: Are your parents still big Georgia fans?
A: "Both of my parents are more LSU fans now than Georgia fans now. That's just because they love me and support me so much."
July 18th, 2012
5:40 pm
I wish Mettenberger nothing but the best, but he needs to realize God didn't make him get thrown off the team. That was his decision and God forgave him and allowed him to have a second chance. I hope he makes the best of his playing time unless it is UGA vs LSU in the SECCG!
July 18th, 2012
5:43 pm
If god had wanted you to go to lsu, I'm pretty sure he wouldn't have taken the sexual assault route.
July 18th, 2012
5:44 pm
I wish him the very best…but I dont think God had much to do with his behavoir in Valdosta Ga
July 18th, 2012
5:45 pm
July 18th, 2012
5:47 pm
We have gotta kick LSU's Butt
July 18th, 2012
5:50 pm
Well said, bucket!
July 18th, 2012
5:50 pm
I think the kid is saying that after the problems at Georgia happened…..God opened the door at LSU and he is doing well there. I agree totally that God didnt want him to committ a crime of sexual assault but rather….will take us when we do make a mess and work it out for us. I hope that is what he is saying at least!
July 18th, 2012
5:52 pm
Dont know about the sex charges, but from what i saw, he was better the Murray, while he was here!
July 18th, 2012
5:55 pm
What a disgusting answer. "God had different path?" Zack, YOU chose this path. It was bad enough what you did in that bar but then you went outside and made it worse. Then you came home and lied to Richt's face.
Guess that was God's path for you? Geez…
July 18th, 2012
5:55 pm
This is a great kid who did an extremely immature and stupid thing. I hope you goes 12-0 and loses to uga in the title game. He will be an NFL qb in 2 years.
July 18th, 2012
6:00 pm
Im glad some of you know God so well that you know how He personally deals with Zach. Thruth is, you can not say that God didn't allow Zach's actions just to bring him where he is now, spiritually, physically and mentally.
July 18th, 2012
6:01 pm
I don think he can credit or blame God for doing something so stupid to get kicked off the UGA squad. Have some responsibility for your own actions and grow up.
July 18th, 2012
6:01 pm
Hutson Mason is better than aaron murray but will never get to play. The canning at UGA will give Mett an opportunity to play QB at a great college and venue each week not the mention the millions now obtainable after getting away from richt and UGA.
H Mason should have transferred to VANDY, sat out this year and started the last two years giving himself a chance at Pro football. Never will happen at UGA unless AM gets hurt whcih no one wishes on any player.
J Jenkins, IS HE GOING TO BE ELGIBLE FOR 2012?
July 18th, 2012
6:01 pm
Yeah this one stings because we all know the Mettenberger is slightly better than Murray skill-wise…decision-making is still up in the air. And the whole "God chose this path" part…maybe, maybe not because he works in mysterious ways, but I don't think making someone else a victim is God's way of paving a path. Dude is not on our team anymore so we really shouldn't care too much. How about some interviews with current players please.
July 18th, 2012
6:02 pm
Frigg-in hypocryates———-Who hasn't grabbed a girl in a crowed bar
sexaul assault my a$$——rumor has it her boy-friend caught her and mett messing around and
she cryed wolf—————She through mett under the bus———–women, cant live with them
————————————-cant hit em either, "O" know the cops just arrived too put me
in jail for my thoughts, mett and the dawg nation got screwed that night—–not mett
July 18th, 2012
6:02 pm
I think God has a plan for him alright, but he might not like the results. What a piece of dung.
July 18th, 2012
6:03 pm
one too many————yaa
July 18th, 2012
6:04 pm
I wonder how the victim of his sexual assault is doing?
July 18th, 2012
6:05 pm
Mettenberger has nothing on Aaron Murray skill-wise. He has a bigger arm and a height advantage. That's it. Murray has all the tools. Unless, of course, you know more than the Manning brothers, who said as much last week.
July 18th, 2012
6:06 pm
What a joke! God led him to where he is today. Yeah, God would really force you to do harm to a girl. Idiot. Glad CMR cut you loose. Sounds like CMR needs to cut his mom loose to. That way she can just move to LSU with her MettenBaby.
There should be a new rule. If you are thrown off a team in D1 football then you cannot ever play D1 football again. There shouldn't be additional chances for low lifes that cannot follow the rules the first time. There are so many more kids that deserve a college scholarship but instead we give two, three, four and five chances to idots like Mettenberger, Crowell and the likes. The NCAA should step up and put a rule like this in place.
July 18th, 2012
6:08 pm
@GAME CHANGER—-Hudson is the starter waiting in the wings—–murry knows this, and the pressure has already got to him in the spring game.
When murry throws 3 int's before half time. well we will see. Sorry murry im a MASON FAN
I gave you two years
July 18th, 2012
6:10 pm
Charlie hayes….100 percent agreement
July 18th, 2012
6:12 pm
I wonder if Zach likes the path God chose for his victim.
July 18th, 2012
6:13 pm
Mason is a taller Joe Cox. Brings nothing to the table. If Lemay isn't ready to go by the time Murray leaves, it will speak volumes about him. If UGA is lucky, Murray will stay two more years, Lemay will get one or two, then Brice Ramsey will take over. If Mason finds his way into the fold, something is very wrong.
July 18th, 2012
6:21 pm
Why do we have to even use the God language anyway Mett? Just keep God out of it. God has his hands feeding the poor, trying to heal the sick, and what you did was a mistake and just say I was immature, I am sorry,and I am so grateful for a second chance. Geez people, leave God alone when it comes to sports and movies and crap.
July 18th, 2012
6:22 pm
Don't know where to start. He had to go. I hope the kid learned from his mistake and is sorry for the impact he made on the young woman's life. Go Dawgs.
July 18th, 2012
6:25 pm
bucket, once again, spot on!!
July 18th, 2012
6:26 pm
Next time you idiots complain and cry about how assinine Bama fans are, come back and read this blog. UGA fans are well represented here. You have got to be proud.
July 18th, 2012
6:26 pm
Some of the comments on this blog are making me sick – everybody makes mistakes and Zach made an enormous one. If we were all punished for life for something we did at 18 years old, none of us would have jobs. My family knows his, and I can tell you first hand: he is a great kid who did something colossally stupid. He paid the price, got a second chance somewhere else and has done everything right since he got it. Les Miles wouldn't have brought him to media days if he wasn't convinced mett had his stuff together. Glass houses people. Don't be hypocrites.
July 18th, 2012
6:27 pm
There is no God. Everyone makes their own decisions. There is no zombie son of God either. Jesus may have lived back in the day but he wasn't the son of God, he was a spiritual teacher. Live for today, not for the promise of a happy afterlife. What good does that do for the world we all know and live in? Not the next life some believe in.
July 18th, 2012
6:30 pm
Hey Charlie Hayes, that was a less than brilliant post you made at 6:06…do everyone a favor and refrain from posting nonsense again.
July 18th, 2012
6:32 pm
Mason can do it given a chance.. we might need him.. he had huge #'s at Lassitter H.S.. I 'm sure we all made mistakes like Mett on spring Break.. I know I did .. Good luck at LSU Zach !!
July 18th, 2012
6:33 pm
Chip should have never allowed there to be comments on this story. Just a conduit for ignorant UGA fans to insult this kid and his family. And to think, in you idiots eyes, he was a DGD. UGA fans are the worst in the SEC, bar none.
July 18th, 2012
6:33 pm
Bucket, well said. Does God forgive? Yes. Did He cause the stupid event that caused him to have to leave UGA? No. Within His Omniscience know how to work these things out? Definitely. Could Mettenberger have chosen a better way to say what I think he was trying to say? Without a doubt. God forgives. Go forward young man, but may you lose every game you play against UGA.
July 18th, 2012
6:36 pm
Truth? If Jesus did not rise from the dead, then why did the Apostles testify to the fact that they knew Him after He had risen from the dead, and give them the courage to literally give up their lives for Jesus Christ, and die brutal deaths?
July 18th, 2012
6:38 pm
See you guys cannot even make it into practice and UGA morons are already calling for Hutson Mason over Aaron Murray. Eating your own is the UGA way.
July 18th, 2012
6:42 pm
Zach wanted to play at UGA but God told him to get drunk and sexually assault a girl at a bar. Therefore Zach wasn't really responsible, it was just God's plan.
Absolutely pathetic.
July 18th, 2012
6:45 pm
Rationale, because it's a book. Were you around then? In other news, good luck to Mettenberger just not when they play UGA in the SEC championship.
July 18th, 2012
6:49 pm
Personally, I am rooting for Mettenberger. I don't support his actions, but Athens has the ability to change good young men for the worse. Getting out of there and getting a fresh start will be good for his life and his career.
July 18th, 2012
6:55 pm
GTrollBob, so it wasn't God who made him do it, it was Athens. Pathetic, as always.
July 18th, 2012
7:03 pm
Great comment bucket.
July 18th, 2012
7:04 pm
@ lil_bit1…you said "Im glad some of you know God so well that you know how He personally deals with Zach. Thruth is, you can not say that God didn't allow Zach's actions just to bring him where he is now, spiritually, physically and mentally."
The truth really is that any person that has read the Bible will be able to say with confidence that God had nothing to do with Mettenberger's choice of actions. God did not make him do anything or encourage him to commit his actions.
Simply put…God could not have been involved in Mettenberger's actions because had HE had anything to do with Mettenberger's actions, then that would make God just as guilty. If God was guilty of doing anything wrong, then God would immediately cease being God because HE would be less than holy and perfect. Therefore, God was not involved in a sinful act.
The good news is that God is a God of forgiveness and grace. His unmerited grace extends toward everyone that asks for forgiveness of any sinful behavior. Let's assume that Zach is genuinely sorry for his actions and has asked for God's forgiveness. According to the Bible (God's authoritative word), God forgives everyone that comes to Him in repentance and puts their sinful past as far as the east is from the west.
Consequently, since God has forgiven Zach Mettenberger and knowingly acts as though it has never occurred, shouldn't the rest of us forgive the young man and hope that he moves on with his life in a positive manner? Everyone makes mistakes.
Zach has tried to move on to a new opportunity…support him…encourage him…be happy for him.
July 18th, 2012
7:09 pm
Funny crap on this one:
You religious freaks post some funny stuff —
@rationale – it is a bunch of short stories written by man, translated three times, many chapters left out on purpose by christians faiths, the character Jesus was missing from 12 to 30 years of age.
Is thier a God, probably, is it what all you religious make things out to fit your needs, HELL NO.
July 18th, 2012
7:10 pm
Ive never seen anyone troll another board like your fruity self. Get a life.
July 18th, 2012
7:11 pm
I don't think Mettenberger meant to say it like that but it's to bad that he had to learn the hard way. What will get you kicked off Georgia faster than anything is to lie to Richt, that's where he draws the line. Sounds like Mett. is a lot more mature now than he was when he got into trouble but it does should like he and his family does have at least a small grudge and if that is the case neither he or his family think what he did warranted him getting kicked off. I hope he doesn't have a sister because I still don't hear any deep sorrowful regret. I paid my debt is all I am hearing. What he did was a felony but to keep him out of jail and Pro football the victim must have agreed to reduce the charge to a misdemeanor.
I have two daughters and I guarantee he wouldn't be at LSU right now if he had done that to one of them. I wouldn't have been so easy .
July 18th, 2012
7:14 pm
July 18th, 2012
7:16 pm
Now ole Christian Lemay, son of a preacher, made whoopee during the time of books, then got kicked off his HS team, then got offered by UGa. All as a result of God's divine providence.
July 18th, 2012
7:18 pm
Mettenberger definately beat out Murray in that g-day and I was very disappointed that he was kicked off the team. No, God did not lead Mettenberger to do wrong no more than he led Mr Richt to kick him off the team.
Mark 2:17 On hearing this, Jesus said to them, "It is not the healthy who need a doctor, but the sick. I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners."
July 18th, 2012
7:20 pm
guns, drug arrest, dui arrest, assault females, sexual assaults, high school blow jobs
ALL IN THE NAME OF God — FUNNY
July 18th, 2012
7:23 pm
"What will get you kicked off Georgia faster than anything is to lie to Richt"
Unless my recollection is bad, Washaun Ealey hit a car in a parking lot while driving with an expired license after telling Mark Richt that he wouldn't drive with an expired license and he didn't get kicked off Georgia's team until after the next season and another problem or two.


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In 1955, the Ballet Russe came to town. It was the first time I'd ever seen a professional ballet company, and I saw it from the stage! They needed a young dancer to play Clara in second act of The Nutcracker at Cincinnati's Music Hall. Marian La Cour, a local teacher, suggested me for the role. I was to sit quietly on a little red velvet bench on the side for the whole act. The curtain went up, and I was in heaven. Alicia Alonso was the Sugar Plum Fairy, and after the performance I asked her for her autograph. She was very kind. Several years later, the Royal Ballet came to the Music Hall with their production of The Sleeping Beauty. They needed four mice to pull the wagon of the wicked fairy Carabosse, and I was chosen to don a gray leotard with a long tail. In March 1958, Marian La Cour was giving a demonstration with the Cincinnati Orchestra called "Introduction to the Art of Ballet," and we danced on the apron of the Music Hall stage. I was one of 10 corps girls, with sparkling tutus and tiaras on our heads. On that huge old stage, looking out into the theater with its chandeliers, tiers, and boxes, I decided that I wanted to dance. —Suzanne Farrell, Ballerina and founder of the Suzanne Farrell Ballet at The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts.
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42 U.S. Code § 292i - Insurance account
(a) In general
(1) Establishment
There is hereby established a student loan insurance account (in this section referred to as the "Account") which shall be available without fiscal year limitation to the Secretary for making payments in connection with the collection and default of loans insured under this subpart by the Secretary.
(2) Funding
(A) Except as provided in subparagraph (B), all amounts received by the Secretary as premium charges for insurance and as receipts, earnings, or proceeds derived from any claim or other assets acquired by the Secretary in connection with his operations under this subpart, and any other moneys, property, or assets derived by the Secretary from the operations of the Secretary in connection with this section, shall be deposited in the Account.
(B) With respect to amounts described in subparagraph (A) that are received by the Secretary for fiscal year 1993 and subsequent fiscal years, the Secretary may, before depositing such amounts in the Account, reserve from the amounts each such fiscal year not more than $1,000,000 for obligation under section 292h (d) of this title.
(b) Contingent authority for issuance of notes or other obligations
If at any time the moneys in the Account are insufficient to make payments in connection with the collection or default of any loan insured by the Secretary under this subpart, the Secretary of the Treasury may lend the Account such amounts as may be necessary to make the payments involved, subject to the Federal Credit Reform Act of 1990 [2 U.S.C. 661 et seq.].
Source(July 1, 1944, ch. 373, title VII, § 710, as added Pub. L. 102–408, title I, § 102,Oct. 13, 1992, 106 Stat. 2007; amended Pub. L. 105–392, title I, § 143,Nov. 13, 1998, 112 Stat. 3581.)
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A prior section 292i, act July 1, 1944, ch. 373, title VII, § 709, as added Oct. 12, 1976, Pub. L. 94–484, title II, § 207, 90 Stat. 2252; amended Nov. 9, 1978, Pub. L. 95–623, § 12(b), 92 Stat. 3457, related to shared schedule residency training positions, prior to repeal by Pub. L. 97–35, title XXVII, § 2720(a),Aug. 13, 1981, 95 Stat. 915.
Another prior section 292i, act July 1, 1944, ch. 373, title VII, § 710, as added July 30, 1956, ch. 779, § 2,70 Stat. 720; amended Sept. 24, 1963, Pub. L. 88–129, § 2(a), 77 Stat. 164; Nov. 18, 1971, Pub. L. 92–157, title I, § 102(k)(2)(A), 85 Stat. 437, related to preparation and submission of annual reports to the Congress through the President, including its contents, as to grants for construction of health research facilities, prior to repeal by Pub. L. 94–484, title II, § 201(a),Oct. 12, 1976, 90 Stat. 2246.
A prior section 710 of act July 1, 1944, was classified to section 292k of this title prior to the general revision of this subchapter by Pub. L. 102–408.
Another prior section 710 of act July 1, 1944, was renumbered section 709 by Pub. L. 97–35and was classified to section 292j of this title prior to the general revision of this subchapter by Pub. L. 102–408.
1998—Subsec. (a)(2)(B). Pub. L. 105–392substituted "fiscal year 1993 and subsequent fiscal years" for "any of the fiscal years 1993 through 1996".
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I hadn't heard of Mexican-American singer Jenni Rivera before her tragic plane crash last Sunday, but like so many others, I hoped that she'd be found alive. She sounded like a fascinating woman -- not just a star in the Latino music community, but a TV producer, an entrepreneur, and the spokeswoman for the National Coalition against battered women and domestic violence. Rivera had five children and two grandchildren.
Last Sunday, Mexican officials located the wreckage of the plane that carried her and six others, and they confirmed everyone's worst fears: there were no survivors. I'm sure the news must have been absolutely devastating to her family ... especially to her brother Juan Rivera, who despite the discovery of the plane, insists that the family has faith that Rivera will be found alive.
Worse, her 11-year-old son is also saying that he believes his mother is not dead -- and this all seems to be thanks to the ongoing claims made by a psychic.
More from The Stir: Singer Jenni Rivera's Horrifying Plane Crash Details Released But Family Still Has Hope
U.S. officials confirmed that Rivera died on impact during the crash, and her father relayed the news to Telemundo on Sunday. Rivera's other brother, Pedro River Jr, also seems to have accepted the tragedy of his sister's passing:
We are feeling devastated. Life is like that. We live and we die. We may be sad, but when God has the last word for all of us in our last days, it's time to go.
Her brother Juan, however, told reporters that he and other family members were holding out hope:
In our eyes, we still have faith that my sister will be OK. We have no confirmation of her body being recovered, dead or alive.
Rivera's 11-year-old son, Johnny Angel Lopez, has been posting on Twitter that he knows his mother is alive:
My Mama is alive. I lost hope but I got it back. She is not dead. #saveJenni.
His account is filled with messages that indicate he and other family members strongly believe Jenni is alive, thanks in no small part to a psychic's claim that Rivera escaped the crash. According to the psychic, Rivera is injured but making her way along a stream 12 miles from the crash.
It's hard to know what's going on here, and what's motivating this psychic to continue spreading information about Jenni Rivera to her family. I'm a skeptic by nature so I'm inclined to think this person is a horrible opportunist, but maybe they truly believe they're helping in some way.
At any rate, I feel terrible for Rivera's family, who are now caught between those who believe she's alive -- and are thus insisting on sending out search parties -- and those who have accepted the confirmation of her death made by both Mexican and U.S. officials. I hope that everyone finds peace soon, and can begin grieving the loss of a woman who was clearly an important part of many people's lives.
What do you think of this psychic's claims about Jenni Rivera?
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I watched I love Jenni on Mun2...not having any idea who the heck she was. But she & her family are pretty entertaining.
If they didn't find her body in the wreckage, maybe she is alive. But I am also a skeptic when it comes to psychics.
let's just hope
Body parts have been found already, among them a foot with red nailpolished toes, scalp with long brown tresses, just like hers. Terrible tragedy for any family to accept. Lets not forget about the other 6 passengers that also lost their lives. She was one of a kind, and many latino woman felt she was their inspiration for seeking a better life for themselves and families. Check out the latest interviews she gave, it does seem she was at peace with God and the world. Was in divorce proceeding from MLB player Loaiza.
Psychic is probably just picking up messages from her on the other side, or she's just ripping off the family. (They used to call that sort fortune tellers.) Depends on what kind of psychic she is.
When I was nine my dad was in a car accident in which he was rendered brain dead. I had an Aunt who kept telling me he would get better because her psychic told her, and a grandmother who told me the virgin Mary visited her and told her he would come home and be healthy, but that he would walk with a cane. Three years later, he DIED. I spent 3 years believing them and he DIED. What the family is doing to her child is deplorable.