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"Black women on the cover don't sell magazines." That bit of white mainstream market propaganda masquerading as fact has long been accepted as truth, but recent developments tell a much more colorful story.
W magazine's February 2014 "Movie Issue" is celebrating six actors whose stellar theatrical performances transfixed audiences across the country. Included among these actors is Hollywood it-Girl and Yale School of Drama graduate Lupita Nyong'o, who breathed exquisite, tortuous life into "Patsy" in Stephen McQueen's 12 Years A Slave.
Also included is media mogul, philanthropist and actor Oprah Winfrey, whose critically acclaimed performance in Lee Daniel's The Butler is garnering Golden Globe buzz.
Kerry Washington, who has rebelled against respectability politics and one-dimensional depictions of black women as ultimate DC political fixer "Olivia Pope" in Shonda Rhimes' hit ABC series Scandal, has been featured on Vanity Fair, Elle and Lucky magazine covers in recent months.
Zoe Saldana, who sparked contentious debates when she accepted the coveted role of Nina Simone, The High Priestess of Soul, appears on the February cover of Lucky (that's two months in a row for WOC covers for Lucky) and has also graced the cover of Allure magazine.
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Beverly Johnson, Peggy Dillard, Shari Belafonte Harper, Naomi Campbell, Michelle Obama, Halle Berry, Beyonce, Jennifer Hudson, Winfrey, and several others, have all graced the cover of Vogue magazine over the years. But the pomp and circumstance surrounding each cover literally transformed them into social, cultural and racial Rorschach tests:
What do you see when black women are placed on the cover of white magazines, particularly when no interest in black women is on display within its pages?
In black magazines from EBONY to Essence, our beauty is celebrated and cultivated in all of its manifestations in ways that so-called mainstream magazines could never understand. Black magazines nurture black beauty with the gentleness and fierce protectiveness of mothers who hold mirrors to their daughters' faces to trace their features, interrupting destructive messages that tell black girls, "You could never be beautiful because you could never be white."
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No, Jada. The simple answer is no.
The racial and ethnic integration of whitewashed magazine covers is important because they have never truly been about beauty. They have stood as beacons of white authority. They have affirmed for white women that they are the unattainable standard.
If even one vestige of white supremacy is allowed to thrive, institutionalized racism will adapt to its new surroundings and continue to flourish like the virus that it is --- and that cannot be allowed.
Black women must exist in a world where we don't need to fit in to be allowed to stand out. We are exceptional in our ordinariness and ordinary in our exceptionalness -- and that is exactly as it should be. Our "otherness" can no longer be used to shame and silence us because we have waged fierce battles against the marginalization of our beauty – and we have won. Time and time again, we have won.
Beauty lies not merely in the superficial symmetry of facial features, but in an unspoken truth: barriers have been shattered, prejudices are being smashed and racism and colorism in fashion and beauty are slowly crawling bloody and bruised toward insolvency.
The unfurling diversity in mainstream magazines, on full display with Lupita, Zoe, Oprah and Kerry, says to White America: "Not anymore."
You will accept our wide hips, our full lips, our curls, kinks and naps. You will embrace our skin, so powerful it kisses the sun. You will stop and be compelled to purchase magazines because of our eyes peering at you from the cover -- dark like secrets and ocean and magic and midnight skies. You will grow to understand that this beauty is American. This beauty is African. You will be forced to see us and realize that our beauty tells stories without uttering a single word.
This shift in cultural awareness became necessary because our talent, multi-faceted beauty and axis-tilting influence simply became too huge to deny.
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Scott joined other GOP governors of Arizona, Michigan, Nevada, New Mexico and North Dakota, all of whom announced their willingness to accept the federal monies.
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For tournament players I can only recommend digital chess clocks. Analog clocks are very much obsolete. Digital chess clocks can determine more accurately when a player's allotted time has expired. Increasingly time controls are being used which include per move delays or increments. Only digital chess clocks have this capability.
With respect to improving your game I recommend a balanced strategy of studying chess openings, chess endgames, chess middlegames, and chess tactics. I recommend studying some of the games of strong masters. For older books in particular, I recommend using a strong computer to go over things. I recommend having a large number of prepared opening lines for use in serious tournaments. Of course you will find some players who employ very unusual openings that you can't possibly have a prepared line for. But use prepared lines that you know are very good as much as possible. You should specialize in a few specific openings and defenses. Don't switch around.
For post-game analysis I highly recommend using a master-strength chess computer or chess-playing software program. Chess computers can find many tactical errors that would otherwise be overlooked. Many opening, middlegame, and endgame books have effectively been rewritten by computers. They are hardly flawless but they find a lot of stuff that even the strongest human grandmasters miss. It may sound strange at first glance for me to point out the flaws found in chess computers and then to strongly recommend their frequent use. Chess computers can perform calculations far more quickly than humans. This is why they have spectacular tactical capabilities which exceed that of human grandmasters. The problems occur with positions where tactical combinations have little to do with the correct evaluation of a position. As long as you are aware of the limitations, there is nothing to worry about.
Sadly many computers have blind spots where you see a lack of understanding by the computer. Consider this example from the Houdini 3 Extreme chess-playing software which I have used in the past:
A strong human player would realize that White has a huge advantage. White's kingside pawn majority will eventually lead to the creation of a passed pawn. As long as Black's c pawns remain doubled he has no queenside passed pawn to offset it. The general plan is to centralize the King, then advance kingside pawns in preparation for creating a passed pawn, keep Black's c pawns doubled and at the proper moment create a passed pawn. This pawn will be used to divert Black's king and force a decisive entry to attack and capture Black's pawns elsewhere on the board.
The computer fails to immediately recognize the magnitude of White's advantage. It gives 1Kd2 Kd7 2g4 Kd6 with an advantage of less than 0.10 for White. From that position it gives 3f4 c5 4Kd3 Ke6 and still doesn't see that White's advantage is really huge. Then it goes 5h4 b6 6b3 c6 and only after those 6 moves for both sides each does it begin to recognize the magnitude of White's advantage.
In spite of problems like this I strongly recommend using a computer or chess-playing software for post-game analysis. I don't know which ones are objectively best. I have altered a number of prepared opening lines based on information I got from my chess-playing software. The computer often helps to identify where I messed up in recent tournament games. I think I am actually winning some games I otherwise would not have won because of information I got from a computer.
In game 16 of the 1972 World Championship match between Bobby Fischer and Boris Spassky, we have the opening sequence 1. e4 e5, 2. Nf3 Nc6, 3. Bb5 a6, 4. Bxc6 dc6, 5. O-O f6, 6. d4 Bg4 producing the position shown below:
Fischer tried 7. de Qxd1, 8. Rxd1 fe, 9. Rd3 but could only draw. According to Houdini 7. c3 is better. The computer says that 7. ____ ed, 8. cd Bxf3, 9. Qxf3 Qxd4?, 10. Rd1 is very bad for Black. Houdini gives 9.___ Qd7, 10. h3 Be6 as better but insufficient for equality. This is an example among many others of how computers are rewriting chess books. Although computers are by no means flawless I find them to be an excellent and valuable training tool.
In some cases computers confirm what has generally been accepted for decades. Consider for example the Sicilian Dragon and the Yugoslav Attack. The conventional wisdom has long been that the Yugoslav Attack poses more difficulties for Black than other variations. Computers have largely confirmed this to be true. Computers have been used to determine the truth about many endgames.
The chess-playing software I have used has had occasional problems with technical issues. Sometimes "Unpacking error" would appear on the screen and it would go into a perpetual loop with a very annoying "ding, ding, ding, ding." From experience I found a way out when this happened which avoided having to take the computer to a repair shop. You unplug the your PC and keep it unplugged for about 45 minutes. Then you plug it back in again. If you see a message on the screen that says "Reconfiguring Windows" you are out of the woods. If you instead hear "ding, ding, ding" again, you have to unplug again. You have to keep the PC unplugged long enough to force it to recreate windows. Houdini 3 has been replaced with Houdini 4. I hope later versions of Houdini got rid of this terrible software bug. If you have Houdini or buy it somewhere and run into this problem, this is how you get out of it. This problem tends to distract from the fact that Houdini is one of the strongest chess playing software programs out there.


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Over 5 million Americans currently have the disease, and that number will climb dramatically as the baby boom generation ages. Millions more worldwide are afflicted with Alzheimer's, threatening to overwhelm governments. A disease that slowly robs you of your mind can be especially cruel to its victims, but it also takes a heavy toll on families and caregivers as well.
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Catholics Must Defend Marriage
It also celebrates the fact that two Catholic leaders have spoken out in defence of marriage. We, as lay Catholics, have a duty to support these leaders, and to ask all our Bishops to come to the defence of marriage in no uncertain terms.
Prior to Christmas I was overjoyed to hear two sermons that utterly condemned homosexuality and the idea of 'homosexual marriage' by a priest with the love of God in his heart. However, if the church is to lead the way, then every Bishop must inform every priest (and every lay member of the Church militant) that it is our duty to make a stand to defend marriage.
Not to do so would be a grave sin of omission.
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ROSARY TOMORROW, 5th February, 12 am GMT, FOR THE DEFENSE OF MARRIAGE
Tomorrow (5th of February), the first bill proposing same-sex marriage is going to be heard in British Parliament. I ask you to join me, and many others, in the praying of a rosary tomorrow to ask for Our Lady's intercession in this. We are aiming to pray together at 12 am, noon (GMT) tomorrow. Pray whatever you are able to do - a decade, a Mystery, the full Rosary, even a short prayer to Our Lady -to beg for her help.
It is our hope that if Catholics pray together for this, we can gain Our Lady's intercession in this dark hour.
Please pass the message on any way you can! Email, blog, text, social media. 12 am tomorrow - a worldwide rosary for the defense of marriage.
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The laws of most U.S. states may allow doctors and hospitals to disregard advance directives when they call for treatment, food, or fluids, according to a report issued by the
NRLC Robert Powell Center for Medical Ethics.
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Euthanasia / assisted suicide proponents were involved in writing the Health Care Bill.
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Link: Medical Serial Killer, nurse, Charles Cullen: 'I thought I was helping'
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Will to Live Project
The increasing pervasiveness of the "quality of life" ethic among health care personnel means that it is more and more likely that they will assume that individuals who are no longer able to make health care decisions for themselves would be "better off dead" and should be denied lifesaving medical treatment, food, and fluids to bring about this result. A measure of protection is possible when a patient, while competent, prepares an "advance directive." This is a document that, when completed in the manner provided for by state law, establishes the individual's wishes concerning medical treatment should he or she become incompetent.
The National Right to Life Committee has prepared such documents, which express a preference for life, for each of the 50 states and the District of Columbia. These directives, called "Wills to Live," are available on the NRLC Web site, www.nrlc.org. (The specific address is
Burke J. Balch, J.D., director
(202) 626-8815
Doctor charged with hastening death of donor
Erin Allday, San Francisco Chronicle Staff Writer
Tuesday, July 31, 2007
A San Francisco transplant surgeon was charged Monday with prescribing overdoses of medication to speed up the death of a man at a San Luis Obispo hospital and harvest his organs.
Dr. Hootan Roozrokh, 33, prescribed excessive amounts of morphine and Ativan and injected the topical antiseptic Betadine into Ruben Navarro's stomach in February 2006, prosecutors in San Luis Obispo County said. Navarro, 26, who was severely disabled mentally and physically, had suffered respiratory and cardiac arrest and had been taken off life support, authorities said.
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In order for doctors to harvest organs, a patient must be declared dead within 30 minutes of being taken off life support. Navarro, however, died eight hours after being removed from a respirator and his organs were never recovered.
Roozrokh is believed to be the first doctor in California ever accused of criminal charges in connection with procuring organs. He faces felony counts of dependent adult abuse, administering a harmful substance and unlawful prescription of a controlled substance.
A warrant has been issued for his arrest. If convicted of all three counts, he could be sentenced to eight years in state prison.
Roozrokh, who at the time was a surgeon with Kaiser Permanente's now-closed kidney transplant center in San Francisco, was in San Luis Obispo as part of a team that harvests organs of people who have just died.
State law forbids transplant doctors from treating potential organ donors before they are declared dead.
Kaiser placed Roozrokh on administrative leave Monday, officials at the health care group said. He voluntarily stopped seeing patients last year, after Navarro's family first accused him of trying to speed up the sick man's death.
Roozrokh's attorney, M. Gerald Schwartzbach of Mill Valley, said in a statement that the charges against the surgeon are "unfounded and ill advised" and said his client has been "the subject of an 18-month witch hunt."
"Nothing that Dr. Roozrokh did or said at the hospital that night adversely affected the quality of Mr. Navarro's life or contributed to Mr. Navarro's eventual death," Schwartzbach said. "Dr. Roozrokh did not commit any crime."
Navarro had been living in a nursing home when he suffered a respiratory and cardiac arrest Jan. 29, 2006. He was in a coma when he was taken to Sierra Vista Regional Medical Center in San Luis Obispo. Doctors there said he had suffered irreversible brain damage and he was put on a respirator, but he was not declared brain dead.
His mother gave approval to donate Navarro's organs, and on Feb. 3 the California Transplant Donor Network sent a surgical team, including Roozrokh, to San Luis Obispo to handle the organ recovery.
Earlier this year, the coroner's officer in San Luis Obispo County reported that Navarro had died of natural causes.
Navarro's mother filed a wrongful-death lawsuit last year against Roozrokh and several others, including the hospital, Kaiser and the California Transplant Donor Network, claiming that her son had been removed from life support without her permission and had been given lethal doses of drugs.
Kaiser officials said Monday that Roozrokh had been acting independently of their health care organization when he went to San Luis Obispo. Officials with the California Transplant Donor Network would not comment on the case.
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Oregon and Assisted Suicide
Ten Years of Death with Dignity
by Courtney S. Campbell
The Oregon Death with Dignity Act (ODDA), which permits physicians to write a prescription for lethal drugs to qualified terminally ill patients, has been in effect for a little over a decade. It has, from October 1997 to the present, been the only such statute until 2008 in the United States permitting what is variously called physician-assisted suicide, physician aid in dying, or death with dignity (the statute refers to the procedure as the ending of life in a humane and dignified manner).
The central stated purpose of the ODDA is to expand patient control over end-of-life choices. Before ODDA passed, it remained illegal to hasten death intentionally through the prescription of lethal drugs.
The ODDA aimed to end this ban on the grounds of patient self-determination and choice. They saw no principled difference between, on the one hand, refusing medical treatment in a way that would inevitably bring about death and, on the other, hastening death with a lethal drug.
The article
Ten Years of Death with Dignity
takes a look at the results of 10 years of the Death with Dignity act.
Medicine exists only for three specific purposes: to prevent illness, to heal and to alleviate pain. The taking of human life does not serve any of those purposes; thus, assisted suicide is not legitimate medicine. It does not become medicine regardless of whether the perpetrator is a doctor, the patient is terminally ill or a state rescinds criminal penalties for the act.
In an attempt to legitimize euthanasia, some would blur the line separating assisted suicide from the treatment of pain. An argument used to further this notion is that pain medication hastens death (via the depression of respiration). This is only true when ones tolerance is low. When the medication is administered properly in increments, the patient will develop a tolerance such that respiration will be unaffected.
Indeed, there is a distinction between euthanasia and pain treatment. The primary difference between assisted suicide and the treatment of pain lies in the intent. Physicians providing palliative care intend the easing of a patients pain (success occurs when suffering is relieved). Physicians assisting in suicide primarily intend the patients death (success occurs when the patient has expired).
The distinction is also recognized in law through the Assisted Suicide Funding Restriction Act of 1997 (ASFRA) and the Controlled Substances Act (CSA). ASFRA prevents the use of federal funds for the payment of items that cause or assist in death, but does not prevent the use of federal funds for items to alleviate pain. CSA is consistent with the distinction in its restriction against physicians who prescribe large quantities of tablets to one who had previously attempted suicide.
When the distinction is recognized and euthanasia prohibited, patient care improves as a whole. When the distinction is blurred, resources are redirected from care in favor of killing. In the majority of assisted suicide cases of Oregon, no palliative care intervention of any kind was given. In fact, Oregon physicians who assist suicide are not even required to know how to relieve suffering or to evaluate whether a patient is simply suicidal.
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U.S. Supreme Court and Assisted Suicide
There are two court cases that serve to demonstrate the Constitutional validity of state laws which prohibit assisted suicide. The Washington v. Glucksberg court decision states that Washingtons law against euthanasia does not violate Constitutional guarantee of liberty. The Vacco v. Quill decision rules that New Yorks similar law does not violate guarantees of equal protection.
In Washington v. Glucksberg, Washingtons euthanasia prohibition law is proven not to offend the 14th Amendment. Indeed, the opposition to assisted suicide mindset remains consistent with the legal doctrine and practice of several centuries. The case reveals the slippery slope in how assisted suicide may lead to the coercion of vulnerable (elderly, poor, ill) people into assisted suicide.
In Vacco v. Quill, New Yorks euthanasia prohibition law is shown to uphold the Equal Protection Clause. New Yorks law treats people evenhandedly: everyone is entitled to lifesaving medical treatment; no one is permitted to assist suicide. Also a distinction is made between physician-assisted suicide and the withdrawing of life-sustaining treatment. The underlying difference is in the physicians intent. In withdrawing life-sustaining treatment, the physician intends to respect the patients request to not endure unnecessary treatment; in contrast, in assisted suicide, the physician acts with the clear intent to end the patients life.
Assisted Suicide: What is at Stake?
There is a real danger to the structure of society that results from permitting physician-assisted suicide. Life is a gift from God; once the sanctity of life is ignored in one form, eventually it becomes easier to ignore it in another form. This is a concept known as the slippery slope. Even the American Medical Association feels that physician-assisted suicide is fundamentally incompatible with the physicians role as healer. They recognize that to take life is a power that most physicians could not control. In a society where assisted suicide is permitted, the less important members of society will be coerced into dying by physicians who feel that they are a burden unworthy of life. The drive for cost-efficiency will tend to treat patients by their economic worth; economic liabilities such as the poor and disabled will be more driven to giving up their life. The Netherlands is a prime example of this degradation of society. After a few years of practicing euthanasia and assisted suicide on the terminally ill without restriction, the practice of assisted suicide expanded to use on the disabled and psychologically distressed; in fact, thousands of patients in the Netherlands have been killed by their doctors without any request.
Declaration on Euthanasia (1980)
The following is a declaration on the subject of euthanasia and similar issues regarding the sanctity of life. Utmost in importance in regard to these issues is the value of human life. To Catholics, human life should be recognized as a gift of Gods love, which should be preserved and made fruitful. As such, the nature of human life gives rise to certain consequences. An attempt on the life of an innocent person opposes Gods love for that person; it also violates the fundamental right of life and thus is a most grave crime. We are obliged to lead our lives in accordance with Gods plan. The intentional taking of ones own life is equally as wrong an act as murder; suicide is a rejection of Gods sovereignty and plan, as well as a refusal to love oneself.
Euthanasia is defined in the context of this document as an action or an omission which of itself or by intention causes death, in order that all suffering may in this way be eliminated. The essence of euthanasia is rooted in intention (to kill) and methods. Incidentally, those who are terminally ill whether they realize it or not, when asking for death, for most instances, are actually giving an anguished plea for help and love. Indeed, what sick people truly need is human love, intimate care and compassion from family, friends and even physicians.
Suffering even plays a role in the life of a Catholic. In suffering, one shares in the passion of Christ. However, one is not expected to endure great suffering; the use of painkillers is acceptable to relieve this suffering. Indeed, Pius XII condoned the use of painkillers when no other means exist and they do not prevent the carrying out of religious and moral duty; in such a case, pain relief is the primary intention and death is in no way sought. And unless there is serious reason for such, one should never deprive another of consciousness.
In regard to remedies, one should never use extraordinary means (great disproportion of life-sustaining effort such that a great burden is imposed with little to no results). Guidelines to this effect are as follows: when there are no other sufficient remedies, with the patients consent, one may use the most advanced (even if experimental) means; when results fall short of expectation, one may interrupt such treatment; one is permitted to accept the normal means that medicine can offer as this is simply an acceptance of the human condition; and when death is imminent, despite all effort, one can refuse special treatment as long as normal care is still provided.
Statement on Euthanasia (1991)
Efforts are being made to legalize euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide. The proponents of these deadly acts manipulate the confusion, ambivalence and fear of modern life-sustaining technology usage to garner support. They redirect the focus of the issue from the unspeakable act of ending a human life to the ultimate freedom of having complete control of ones body and life. Nevertheless, the fact remains that life is a precious gift given by God, and as such should not be so frivolously tossed aside at a whim. Indeed, one is not morally obligated to use every available medical procedure at every possible opportunity, but that should not lead one to intentionally cause ones own death; these situations are in no way equivalent! Truly, the legalization of euthanasia would not only violate fundamental human rights and equality, but in doing so, also weaken and deteriorate all other rights. Eventually all people disabled in one way or another will be at risk of their freedom to be killed.
Terri Schiavos Feeding Tube Removed
Painful starvation death took 13 days.
Terri Schindler Schiavo, a 41-year-old disabled woman from Florida, died on March 31, 2005 after 13 days without food or water. This was not only a death, this was a killing. Rev. Frank Pavone of Priests for Life told the press minutes after she died. Terri Schiavo became physically and mentally impaired in 1990 due to a lack of oxygen to her brain. The cause of her injury is uncertain. Her fate was the subject of an extensive court battle between Terris husband and parents over her guardianship.
Terris parents contend she was denied medical care to treat infections, regular dental care, and any rehabilitation or therapy after Michael was awarded a settlement of nearly one million dollars for her care. Terri was not allowed to practice her faith, to attend Mass and receive the sacraments. Her husband obtained three court orders to euthanize her. Terri was denied a guardian ad litum to represent her interests during most of the litigation between Michael Schiavo and Terris parents, Bob and Mary Schindler.
When Florida Circuit Court Judge George Greer ruled that Schiavos feeding tube must be removed and set the date for March 18th, he thwarted efforts by Congressional Republicans to keep her alive by issuing subpoenas for Schiavo, her husband Michael Schiavo, and her health care providers to appear at hearings on March 25th and March 28th. Greers ruling also contradicts a move by fellow Circuit Judge David Demers who temporarily blocked removal of the feeding tube an hour earlier.
Greer appears to believe he is above the law by ignoring Congress and the rulings of a fellow Circuit Court Judge. Greer ordered Terris feeding tube removed on March 18 without allowing her parents a reasonable amount of time to appeal. No convicted murderer is treated in such a manner. All appeals are exhausted before an execution can take place. In Terris case, the date to remove her feeding tube was set knowing with certainty that she would be dead in a matter of weeks. Terri Schiavo, who left no written document with regard to her wishes, was denied due process. Her parents and their lawyers filed emergency appeals. No new review of her case was granted. If the Schindlers had a reasonable amount of time to present their case, the outcome might be different: Terri might still be alive.
How could a Circuit Court Judge thwart a Congressional order and the order of a fellow Judge? Greer simply ignored the rule of law. He ordered Terri Schiavos starvation death and no one challenged it. At least not to the point where they would attempt to rescue Terri. Florida Governor Jeb Bush sent social workers to the hospice where Terri was being starved to death, but they did not take her into custody.
This was another tragic case where judicial activists thumbed their nose at the Constitution and the will of the elected Representatives of the American people. Unless such judges are impeached, the votes of the American people will mean nothing.
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Unless such judges are impeached, the votes of the American people will mean nothing.
This action came too late to save Terri, but if an example were made of Judge Greer, other innocent Americans might be protected and other judicial activists might be less likely to think themselves above the law.
Terri died of starvation and dehydration, which was the direct result of the removal of her food and water, as ordered by Judge Greer. The Scranton Chapter of Pennsylvanians for Human Life placed four ads in the Scranton Times following the starvation killing of Terri Schiavo. One dealt with the effects starvation and dehydration has on the body. These included: her mouth would dry out and become caked or coated with thick material; her lips would become parched and cracked, her tongue would become swollen and might crack. Her eyes would sink back into their orbits, and her cheeks would become hollow. The lining of her nose might crack and bleed, the lining of her stomach would dry out causing dry heaves and vomiting. Her skin would become loose and dry; her urine highly concentrated causing burning to the bladder. She could develop a high body temperature, have convulsions and eventually all her major organs would fail. These statements are true and taken from the finding of fact in the Paul Brophy case, another so-called death-with-dignity case in which Mr. Brophy was starved to death. Administering drugs does not take away the effects of starvation and dehydration.
Peggy Hamill, state director of Pro-Life Wisconsin said it well, Terri Schiavos court-ordered death is barbaric and entirely senseless. Our courts are supposed to protect people, not give a husband permission to kill his wife by dehydration and starvation.
Our laws must presume in favor of nutrition and hydration because food and water are ordinary means of sustaining a persons life, even if administered by a feeding tube, said Matt Sande, director of legislative affairs for Pro-Life Wisconsin.
Food and fluids are not medical treatment. They do not become treatment simply because they are taken by tube; anymore than penicillin or Pepto-Bismol become food when taken by mouth.
Certainly if Terri was facing imminent death, or was physically unable to receive food or water, it would be morally permissible to remove nutrition and hydration. However,
the removal of food and water to cause death should never be permitted.
As basic human needs, food and water are basic human rights.
Reprinted from Pro-Life Reporter Spring 2005
Nutrition and Hydration: Moral and Pastoral Reflections (1992)
In this day and age, where the achievements of medical technology seem limitless, the moral ramifications become more complicated. The medical moral dilemma is especially present in the issue of providing nutrition and hydration. The following set of principles may aid one in making decisions consistent with the Judeo-Christian moral tradition.
Foremost, one should recognize that human life is the foundation of all other human goods. One must oppose all attacks on human life, including euthanasia and willful suicide (any action with the intent of ending a human life). The good of suffering is that it is a sharing in Christs passion; however, ones relieving of suffering is also good. One is obligated to care for ones own life and health and to seek care from others when necessary; however, one need not employ disproportionate means of preserving life (means that offer no reasonable hope or involves excessive burden). At the final stage of death, one need not prolong death by whatever means; one can acceptably refuse treatment. Without hastening death, one should accept reality and prepare for it. One must always make decisions regarding human life without a bias based on age or dependency. Society should protect the right to life through its laws and policies.
Indeed, in regard to use of assisted feeding, such principles are essential. When one removes assisted feeding from a patient, one should clearly realize a direct causation of death; in intending this, one performs euthanasia. Though one need not accept burdensome prolongation of life, one still must receive the normal care due to a human being. In most cases, hydration and nutrition are essential human care; yet, even when assisted feeding would involve discomfort and no real benefits (in the case of one nearing death), one could still relieve suffering of dehydration without need of euthanasia by offering sips of water or chips of ice.
According to medical ethics, a procedure is appropriate if it offers hope of saving life, reestablishing health or alleviating suffering. Food and fluid sustain life, provide sound health care and prevent suffering of dehydration and hunger.
A specific concern in the discussion of assisted feeding is the unconscious or persistent vegetative state (PVS). Some would argue that unconscious patients are lesser humans because of their low quality of life or because they are incapable of advancing their spiritual life (interacting with God through prayer). These people would argue that the life is a burden and need not be prolonged. The reality, though, is that all humans have inherent dignity and value, and as such should never be directly killed.
Ultimately, in the matter of nutrition and hydration, one should follow this procedure. Reject omission of nutrition intended to cause death. Presume the providing of assisted nutrition and hydration to patients in need, only yielding in cases where procedures have no hope of sustaining life or pose excessive risks or burdens (as judged by the patient or family).
Human Dignity in the Vegetative State
Despite the long-held physician mindset as evidenced in the term persistent vegetative state that people without consciousness or sensation could never recover (after a lengthy period of time), various patients have indeed recovered from the vegetative state. Truly, our understanding of the nature of this state is very limited, to say the least, and yet we may remove basic sustenance from one such patient with absolute certainty that it is the best thing to do. Indeed, the issue of providing basic care to these people is significant to this era, and as such the Pope addressed this issue in 2004.
Among the points the Pope made were the following. No living human can descend to the category of vegetable or animal, and no one can judge the value of another human life (measure a quality of life). Since all human life retains dignity, no human, regardless of condition (even those in persistent vegetative state are capable of recovering), can be denied basic care (nourishment). The deliberate withdrawing of food and water from a patient aims at one outcome, the death of the patient, and therefore is euthanasia by omission. We are still not required to impose excessively burdensome treatment on patients; the ending of such treatment is acceptable.
The supporters of the right-to-die promote the withdrawal of assisted feeding to patients in a vegetative state. They push the idea that the vegetative patient has become an empty shell, drained of its former dignity by being subjected to forced feeding, such that the act of ending its life would be beneficial to both the patient and the family. Such thought is most fallacious. Assisted feeding should not be thought as extraordinary means (it is in fact basic human necessity that does not burden the patient) and as such should be maintained.
As a patient, actions should be made to properly address certain situations. One should be wary of advanced directives rejecting assisted feeding across the board. Rather one should seek documents that recognize the presumption in favor of assisted care when not imposing undue burdens. Other positive actions include acquiring forms to convey your wishes or assigning a proxy to make decisions when one is incapacitated.
Indeed, hospitals and physicians should not be obliged to comply with any immoral request from patient or family. The physician is responsible to observe his/her own moral conviction over the demands of certain people.
Ultimately, it is the responsibility of the decision-maker to recognize that though medical procedures may become useless or burdensome, the patient, as a human life, should never be considered a burden; as long as this is recognized, one will always recognize that basic human care is essential.
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Raw Meat
Raw meat is obtained from dead animals. To get some, the first step is to find an animal and kill it. Second, at the animal's corpse, select the "Gut Animal" option from the mouse wheel menu. A Hunting Knife is required to gut an animal.
Raw meat can be cooked to turn it into Cooked Meat at either a Fireplace or a lit barrel. To create a fireplace, a Box of Matches and Wood Pile is required, but it can be placed anywhere. A barrel can be lit without matches, but can only be found in certain locations.
Raw Meat amount from animals
- Rabbit: 1 meat
- Chicken: 1 meat
- Goat: 3 meat
- Boar: 4 meat
- Sheep: 5 meat
- Cow: 8 meat
There is currently a glitch to get more Raw Meat: if multiple players activate the "Gut Animal" option at the same time, the amount of Raw Meat will be multiplied by the number of players gutting the animal.


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Dream big when it comes to your honeymoon. No, not just the bedroom—the location! For many couples, it may be the only time in their working life that employers let them take two weeks off. And if you've got that much time, then boy do I have a suggestion for you: get thee Down Under! It's no secret that I wear my love for Australia on my sleeve—literally the Sydney Opera House is tattoed on my arm.
Over the next few posts, I'll share some of my favorite recent finds on my Priscilla-esque journey that ended at Uluru/Ayers Rock.
First, while many travelers start in Sydney, I now advise folks to go right away to Hamilton Island in the Whitsundays near the Great Barrier Reef. It's an easy connection after you've landed in Sydney or Brisbane. After a 14-hour flight (from LA), you probably just want a shower. But trust me, don't stop—go recover from jetlag in the splendor of qualia resort—and then head back to Sydney when you're ready to party.
Here are my taste-y reasons why qualia should be on your gay wedding/honeymoon list:
Taste-y Style: The private villas are Aussie chic—the best of the Asian-inspired open layout with plunge pools but decorated in a modern, sleek, comfortable and sexy style. The only tough decision I had was where to lie down and take in the view—the tub, the bed, the outdoor couch or the pool.
Taste-y Relaxation: Spa qualia uses all natural Australian products formulated from native earth and plants. Opt for the Kumali Ritual—a steaming ball of native herbs and spices dipped in Aussie macadamia and sweet almond oil, then massaged, pressed, and rolled over the entire body.
Taste-y Morsels: Aussie native Chef Jane-Therese Mulry was a trusted right hand of London superstar Marco Pierre White. At qualia, she's turning out some of the most original combinations I've ever tried—meat paired with fruit for a main course anyone? The BBQ Wagyu beef with Honeydew in a Raspberry Vinaigrette packed a punch—of flavor and delicateness.
Taste-y Activities: One visit to Hamilton Island Golf Club—a ferryride away on a neighboring island—and I was ready to convert from tennis to the links The eco-friendly course design features spectacular views of the Whitsundays. Between the roaring ocean and my cute Aussie golf instructor, I could hardly keep my eye on the golf ball.
Taste-y Nuptials: If you're lucky enough to convince a group to attend your ceremony on the island, then reach out to Hamilton Island Weddings. They have the inside scoop on the best spots for various groups—and can take care of all the details having done many same sex ceremonies.
And just like that famous Aussie hospitality, qualia is celebrating New York's marriage equality vote with a special Gay Honeymoon Package that includes over $1,800 in special amenities and savings. This honeymoon package includes one complimentary night (valued at $1,045) making it a seven night stay (believe me, you won't want to leave), plus: complimentary bottle of French champagne (valued at $170); dinner for two at Pebble Beach Restaurant (valued at $330 per couple); and a sunset cruise including cocktails and hors d'oeuvres (valued at $265 per couple). The total package is priced at $6,270 for accommodation in the Leeward Pavilion* type suite and available through March 2012 with some blackout dates.
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Editor's note: lucky JP, he was a guest of qualia for two nights.
About Jon Paul Buchmeyer
Jon Paul Buchmeyer is the author of the award-winning humorous memoir Alphabet City: My So-Called Sitcom Life and writes frequently for Condé Nast Traveler and Bon Appétit magazines. In addition, he is the author of his own popular blogs: ABCityblog.com and Poptimistic.com.


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As you know by know paranormal lit is not really my thing, but I received a reading copy of Forever and felt obliged to try it.
I haven't read the first 2 books in the trilogy, but the story was pretty easy to pick up. Wolves and teen angst is the short version!
It was well written; quite engaging in fact. The story moves between the four main characters - which allows the author four times the usual opportunities to delve deep inside the heart, soul and psyche of teenage romance and heartache.
The covers of the 3 books are gorgeous and the coloured fonts are a nice touch (but can be difficult to read, especially when tired).
Paranormal lit is still not my thing. But if you loved Twilight and you thought the Bella/Edward/Jacob angst was wonderful and romantic, then Stiefvater's trilogy could be for you.
P.S. There are sexual references throughout the book.
Sunday, 31 July 2011
Forever by Maggie Stiefvater
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I've read this compelling series in less than a week and know I'm looking back with pure awe. My soul is being punctured to know that this love is dead. A thousand ways to say good-bye, but none are breathed without a twinge in the heart.ReplyDelete
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Tuesday, January 14, 2014
The Great Grill & Sushi Buffet: Now Even More Sushi in Appleton!
One of the many changes I noticed when in Appleton in December was that the Old Country Buffer on the north side of the Fox River Mall was becoming The Great Buffet, or more specifically, The Great Grill & Sushi Buffet. Just a few days ago it officially opened, as reported by Maureen Wallenfang in her popular column, "The Buzz" in the Post-Crescent. Haven't tried it yet, but my expectations are high.
There are now so many sushi options in Appleton. Far East, Koreana, Island Sushi, Osaka Grill, Great Buffet, Dong Po, and a few others. What is your favorite?
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Video: McLaren announces 2012 racing plans for MP4-12C
McLaren has announced the full list of teams that will compete with its new GT3 spec MP4-12C in 2012, which includes an entry in the FIA GT1 World Championship.
Many and varied iterations of the new and highly acclaimed supercar (it is truly awesome) will hit tracks across Europe this year, after a few competed in selected races in 2011, for development purposes.
There are 25 cars in total, across 13 teams. Aside from last year's racing outings, the gestation of the car included more than 35,000 miles of road and track work.
The car will make its competitive debut tomorrow (31 March) in the opening rounds of the VLN and ADAC GT Masters championships at the Nürburgring Nordschliefe and Oschersleben, Germany.
The Blancpain Endurance Series will see more MP4s than you could shake a Ferrari 458 at, with ten due on the starting grid when racing begins in Monza next month.
Teams competing with the McLaren include ART, ASM, Gulf Racing (car below), United Autosports and Von Ryan Racing.
French GT1 Champion Hexis Racing will be putting a McLaren into the FIA GT1 World Championship this year, having defected from Aston Martin after a five-year spell. Team Manager Philipe Dumas said: "For me it's really simple...to be honest, I only thought of McLaren after Aston Martin."
In May, Gemballa Racing and Doerr Motorsport will both enter GT3 cars in the 24-hour Nurburgring endurance race.
Probably the most famous driver among all those set to use a McLaren this year is former F1 racer Mark Blundell, competing with United Autosports.
Despite each team having its own agenda and, of course, desire to win, McLaren is offering full technical backup to every team it has sold a car to, including use of its cutting edge race simulator. Teams will have access to a catalogue of spare parts.
Andrew Kirkaldy, Project Manager for McLaren GT said: "In one year, McLaren GT has taken the 12C GT3 from concept to race readiness. We will learn more about the car in the early part of the season - and expectations will naturally be high of a car full of Formula 1 technology - but our objective is to make the 12C GT3 as much a pleasure to own and run as it is race."


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Pope Benedict XVI Quotes About EternityQuotes about: Eternity
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Love has a particular trait: far from being indulgent or fickle, it has a task or purpose to fulfil: to abide. By its nature love is enduring. Again, dear friends, we catch a further glimpse of how much the Holy Spirit offers our world: love which dispels uncertainty; love which overcomes the fear of betrayal; love which carries eternity within; the true love which draws us into a unity that abides!
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The students hanging from the trees, the adulating crowds, the campaigner's hoarse voice calling for "a movement for change"—it all made President Obama's appearance last night at Ohio State look something like October, 2008. For a moment, the 'enthusiasm gap' seemed to vanish, along with any anxieties about employment, polling and favourability numbers. It reminded me of an old chestnut: "Let Reagan be Reagan" was what the Gipper's advisors used to say during his mid-term slumps. In other words, get him out among his people, the people who put him in the White House in the first place, then just let him work his magic. The problem for President Obama is that it isn't clear just who his people are right now: as we know, the tea partiers are marching, the left is in whiny, quasi-revolt, and the middle is mad as hell and not about to take it any more.
What to do? A twelfth presidential trip to Ohio was a good start. The state is the platonic form of bellwether: as Ohio goes, so goes the nation, more than 90% of the time in presidential elections. Ohio "contains a bit of everything American—part north-eastern and part southern, part urban and part rural, part hardscrabble urban and part suburb" is how The Economist aptly describes it. In recent years, the buckeyes have leaned Democrat and the party has registered over 1,000,000 new Ohio voters since 2004. Still, Obama won only a quarter of Ohio's counties in '08 and a look at the speakers on the dais last night shows that things are not quite hunkey-dorey for Ohio Democrats. To Mr. Obama's right (on the dais, that is) was Governor Strickland, who is currently trailing former Rep. John Kasich, the no-nonsense, budget-cutting maverick Republican. Also seated nearby was Lt. Governor Lee Fisher, the Democratic U.S. Senate candidate, who is trailing his G.O.P. opponent by some 15 to 19 points, depending on which poll you read. Sure it's impressive for a President to muster 35,000 voters for a mid-term election rally, but let's not mistake last night's gathering for a representative sample of Ohio voters.
The results of the races in Ohio, of course, will have serious repercussions for 2012. It is likely that fewer states overall will be in the swing column in 2012, meaning that the traditional swing states, like Ohio and Florida, will be even more important. Governors and U.S. Senators, with their bully pulpits, their money and their organizations, have a lot of potential to influence the swing of their states. If both offices in Ohio are held by the G.O.P. the climb will be a lot steeper for Democrats than it was in 2008, when Obama won Ohio by less than 300,000 votes. Remember also that Ohio's unemployment rate is nearing 10%. It was only 8.5% when Ohio sent Jimmy Carter packing in 1980. In order to carry Ohio in 2012, Obama will need to be Obama circa September, 2008: He'll have to get back to Ohio a thirteenth, fourteenth, fifteenth time and more, sure up his base in places like Columbus, and then win back the marginal counties. This strategy assumes, of course, that the Obama of '08 still exists and that voters beyond the walls of Ohio State are still willing to trust him.
If one reads into his history before being president such an appraisal is not surprising. I believe a lot of people are seeing what Cavuto sees. So letting Obama be Obama is probably the worst thing that has happened to the Democrats in the last two years. Of course Nancy Pelosi has contributed immensely.
Yes, I am partisan. Partisan to a vibrant economy and low unemployment and true social justice.
Would you say that Father Malone's comments and those of many other authors here are partisan spin?
- You need to re-read your Augustine, Deacon, if you're putting that much faith, hope and trust in politicians. I'm 30, work hard, try to save and be conscious of the future, and generally hope one day to earn enough to have to worry about Mr. Obama's tax, but I have never been more pessimistic about the future of the country.
I've worked hard in my profession for over forty years and raised four children and was looking forward to be able to save up a little money during my remaining work years after I get my last kid out of college (just 2-1/2 years to go). But between losing my job and paying for insurance my employer used to pay for. my life savings are headed south. You'll have to pardon me but lately all I have time to read is my daily office and the readings that I'm to preach on next. But I must respond even without reading Augustine, no - I do not put my faith in politicians, that is reserved for God alone. You also should have noted that I say I am "more optimistic" - I've never lost my optimism, which is based on my hope and trust in God. I'm sorry you feel so pessimistic with your whole life ahead of you. You'll waste an awful lot of energy on worrying and fretting over things you cannot control. My main point is simply to say that things are not as bad as people want to paint them and they're definitely never as bad as the press reports them.
Try to take it easy...
The Democrats repeated their Jimmy Carter follies of the late 1970's in the last two years as they lowered fed rates and spent heavily with fiscal policy. That was a massive failure in the 1970's as it has been the last year. They have repeated the anti business approach by passing massive regulatory legislation producing an unknown future in terms of hiring costs and margins. On top of this no knows the tax rates just 2 1/2 months from now. Withholding rates are unknown for the immediate future. Essentially the Dems and Obama have created a great uncertainty for the future, just the opposite of what is needed for an economy to grow. They haven't even proposed a budget for next year as they did not want to have to run on it during the elections.
The inflation has not hit yet because the multiplier affect has not set in as people are not spending. The Fed just agreed to insert another massive amount of money into the economy. If it ever starts turning, we could get 70's type inflation as some think the Fed wants this to inflate the housing market and get people out from under water. Unfortunately that has a lot of other problems.


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From Event Reports to Actions
Date: October 15, 2009
Patient Safety Director Lori Paine describes how The Johns Hopkins Hospital leverages adverse event reports to improve care.
After The Johns Hopkins Hospital replaced its paper-based adverse event-reports with the online Patient Safety Net system, leaders realized that they needed a strategy for turning those reports into improvements. Lori Paine, director of patient safety for the hospital and the Center for Innovation, explains Hopkins' system for sorting through more than 200 entries per week, ensuring follow-up and making system fixes.
Who reads a report after it's submitted?
Usually more than one person reads each report. In 2005, we hired a patient safety analyst to review every event, make sure that it's sent to all relevant people, and seek clarifications from the person filing the report if information isn't clear.
Reports also go automatically to people in the organization who are "mapped" by the Patient Safety Net system to receive them. A report about an event involving anticoagulation therapy, for instance, would go to the nurse manager on the unit where it occurred, to assigned pharmacy leaders, to departmental quality improvement staff, and to an anticoagulant task force that reviews all such events throughout the hospital.
Aside from these automatic notifications, how does the hospital sort through reports?
We have a group called HEAT—the Hopkins event action team—that meets weekly to review reports, discuss trends and make sure that someone takes charge of the investigation. The team is led by our vice president of medical affairs and includes high-level faculty, risk management, pharmacy and nursing. Before each meeting, the patient safety analyst reviews the week's reports and culls out the ones that are most concerning, either because of potential harm or harm that actually happened.
Does this team investigate all of these events on its own?
No. One of HEAT's main functions is making sure that the appropriate people are looking into incidents. One way we do this is by categorizing events under more than a dozen safety indicators—mislabeled specimens, for instance—and forwarding them to groups that have been assigned to review them. HEAT also makes sure that other types of adverse events without "homes"—people or groups already responsible for reviewing them—are addressed. For instance, we've tracked events involving violations of the code of conduct.
What's an example of a safety issue that the group has helped to address?
When we were looking at handoff-related events, we realized that there were a fair number that had to do with transitions of care during the transport process. So we decided to have a group look at transport completely separately. Now a patient transport events team has made a variety of changes based on the reports, such as requiring that glucose meters be available on all transports. In the past there were reports of patients who would get transported off their unit for lengthy periods without necessary monitoring.
What advice do you have for hospitals looking to improve their follow-up of event reports?
Don't be fooled into thinking that the high-harm events are always the most significant. Recently, our patient safety analyst flagged an event report from an ICU nurse who noted an unsafe condition: A bag of the paralytic vecuronium, a high-risk medication, was being stored in a medication refrigerator next to similar looking bags of antibiotics. Recognizing the potential for a nurse to accidentally grab and administer the vecuronium, we brought this to the attention of a group that reviews significant medication events. The group immediately put strategies in place for packaging and labeling vecuronium bags so the contents are more obvious.
Rather than waiting for bad things to happen, we need to do a better job of addressing these unsafe conditions and near misses so they don't occur in the first place.


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SOURCE: Babula, William. "Whatever Happened to Prince Hal? An Essay On Henry V." Shakespeare Survey 30 (1977): 47-59.
In the following essay, Babula studies the maturation process Henry undergoes in Henry V. The critic notes that as Henry progresses his language moves from artifice to honesty.
E. M. W. Tillyard is right in his assertion that Shakespeare in Henry V was 'jettisoning the character he had created' in the Henry IV plays.1 The Hal that developed out of those earlier histories is not present at the opening of Henry V. This does not mean that Shakespeare has now accepted a Henry 'who knew exactly what he wanted and went for it with utter singleness of heart …'2 Nor has he, as Mark Van Doren would have us believe, stretched a hero 'until he struts on tiptoe and is still strutting at the last insignificant exit.'3 Nor, on the other extreme, is...
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To the surprise of few connected with the Carroll County Boys' Soccer League and to the consternation of even fewer, the Baltimore Football Club will not return next season.
Several weeks ago, the league's team representatives voted unanimously not to invite Baltimore back.
The action was unprecedented, said league president Steve Maloff.
"This is the first time there's ever been anything derogatory said (about a team) by one person, let alone the entire body," he said.
During its one campaign, Baltimore Club was a dominant force in the league's under-10 division and two under-12 divisions.
It went 28-1 in winning two of three regular-season titles, losing only to the Freedom Strikers, who went 11-0 to win the Intermediate (under-12) Division crown.


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how high up are they are they still there?
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did they all vanish at the same time, or one after the other?
some basic trig places the altitude where the lights disappeared anywhere between 2,000 and 8,000 feet. The entire event lasted about 8 minutes.
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If your camera didn't pick these things up, they may be opperating in the infrared. Cloaking so to speak. After all, invisbility is just the bending of light around an object.


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Wallkill on alert for possible child abductor
Parents in Orange County are on alert this morning as police investigate a possible child luring attempt in Wallkill.
Police say the incident happened at about 7 p.m. Sunday on Lorelei Drive in Wallkill. They say a 9 year-old boy was playing in his front yard when a male driver in a blue pickup truck asked him to hop in. The boy ran inside, and the man drove off toward Whipple Road.
Police say the pickup truck had a picture of green pine trees and a river on the door.
Anyone with information is asked to call Wallkill police at (845) 692-6757.