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Enables you to use your SHUCard at all participating debit locations on and off campus. Dollars on this account are deposited at your discretion. Once the account is opened, any balance on the account will carry over from semester to semester as long as you are actively affiliated with Sacred Heart University. When you graduate, withdraw or terminate employment, the balance on your account will be refunded to you upon request less an administrative fee of twenty-five dollars ($25.00). No refunds will be made prior to graduation, withdrawal and/or employment termination. Please note if a card holder has an outstanding balance with the University, the SHUCash dollars will be applied to the account. Any remaining balance will be refunded to the card holder upon request. Sacred Heart University reserves the right to close any account that is inactive for twelve (12) months or more and all balances will be forfeited. Print the Refund Request Form. No funds may be transferred from SHUCash to the Required Meal Plan or vice versa. No funds may be transferred from one cardholder's SHUCash account to another cardholder's SHUCash account.
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The laundry account is a prepaid account provided to all students living in equipped University housing. Each student living in an equipped campus residence hall, is provided with 65 washer or dryer cycles per semester. These cycles are not transferable to future academic semesters or years. If a student expends all of their laundry cycles prior to the end of the semester, the laundry system will automatically debit the student's SHUCash account provided funds are available.
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Resident students who live in a residence hall must enrolled in the required meal plan. A predetermined amount of food dollars is automatically put on this account each semester and can only be used at on-campus dining locations. Only $300.00 unused meal plan dollars will be carried over for use in the spring semester. Unused food dollars in the student's declining balance account at the end of the fall semester are non-refundable. There is no carry-over between academic years, nor may the unused balance from the fall semester be used to reduce the room and board portion of the spring semester's invoice. The Required Meal Plan will be cleared from students' accounts at the end of the spring semester. No funds may be transferred from the Required Meal Plan to SHUCash or vice versa.
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TALLAHASSEE – For the second time in the last four decades, Florida State will be welcoming a new football coach.
Willie Taggart will be formally introduced later today at Doak Campbell Stadium. The former USF coach – most recently at Oregon – takes over for Jimbo Fisher.
"I am truly honored to be selected as the next head coach of the Florida State football program," Taggart said in a statement. "I grew up in a family of Seminole fans, and this is a fantastic opportunity to fulfill a life-long dream while returning to my home state. I want to thank Ed Burr, President (John) Thrasher and (AD) Stan Wilcox for trusting me to lead the best program in the country. I understand and embrace the expectations at Florida State and am excited to start working together toward our next championship."
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Jeremy and Erica Thesing are proud to announce the birth of their second child, a son, Laken Jade Thesing. Big Sister Leila Rain is also excited to announce the arrival of her new baby brother. Laken Jade Thesing was born September 23, 2010 at 10:30 p.m., at Covenant Medical Center in Waterloo. He weighed 8 lbs. 8.8 ozs. and was 21.25 inches long.
Grandparents are Jeff & Kim Thesing of Reinbeck, Richard & Dodie Fuller of Crawfordsville, Ind. Great grandparents are Dale & Bea Greiner and Carolyn Thesing of Reinbeck, Harold & Helen Slabaugh of LaPorte, Ind. and Don Fuller of Crawfordsville, Ind.
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When you're conducting "population-centric comprehensive operations" to support an embattled host nation government in a foreign country, it's a good idea not to insult the very population you're trying to support and protect.
For starters, it's a good idea not to call their country "forsaken."
But that's just what a staffer at the Kabul-based ISAF Joint Command did this afternoon when Tweeting thanks to well-wishers for birthday messages they had sent along.
The Tweet has since been taken down.
The IJC is the primary warfighting command for the more than 50 coalition countries that have committed personnel to Afghanistan, and is spearheading efforts to hand over operations to Afghan forces by the end of 2014 so they can continue to fight the Taliban and other anti-government Islamic groups.
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Walter Hopps Award for Cuauhtémoc Medina
Manifesta 9 and the Manifesta Foundation congratulate Manifesta 9 Curator Cuauhtémoc Medina on the occasion of receiving the Walter Hopps Award for Curatorial Achievement.
Established in 2001 in honor of Menil Collection (Houston, USA) Founding Director Walter Hopps, the award recognizes curators in early to mid-career having made significant contributions to the field of contemporary art and confers a stipend of $15,000. Previous awardees include Adam Szymczyk, Maria Lind and Hamza Walker.
Josef Helfenstein, Director of the Menil Collection:
"Working in an institutional setting, as he did with success at Tate Modern, or collaborating with artists with whom he has developed longstanding relationships, Cuauhtémoc Medina has consistently and innovatively advanced our understanding of a broad spectrum of contemporary art. The Menil Collection congratulates him on this richly deserved award."
The award panel was composed of Helfenstein, Toby Kamps, Menil Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art; Russell Ferguson, Adjunct Curator, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; Elisabeth Sussman, Curator; Sondra Gilman, Curator of Photography, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; and Ulrich Loock, curator and professor of art history and former Deputy Director, of Museu de Serralves, Porto, Portugal.
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text: Office of the United States Trade Representative Executive Office of the President Washington DC 20506 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Wednesday, January 15, 1997 CONTACT: Jay Ziegler, Kirsten Powers, Christine Wilkas (202) 395-3230 USTR-DESIGNATE BARSHEFSKY ANNOUNCES GSP SANCTIONS AGAINST ARGENTINA FOR CONTINUING IPR PROBLEMS United States Trade Representative-designate Charlene Barshefsky today announced the Clinton Administration's decision to withdraw 50 percent of the trade benefits granted to Argentina under the U.S. Generalized System of Preferences (GSP). Duty-free importation of products from Argentina will be withdrawn with respect to approximately $260 million of trade. This decision was the result of the "out-of-cycle" review under the U.S. Government's "special 301" program, designed to advance the protection of U.S. intellectual property rights around the world. Barshefsky recently announced that she would conduct an out-of-cycle review to assess legislation enacted by the Argentine Government on December 18, 1996 and assess any further developments toward the protection of intellectual property in Argentina. The Administration has now concluded this review and determined that current IPR protections are clearly inadequate. In April 1996, at the time of the last annual special 301 review, Barshefsky placed Argentina back on the "priority watch list" because the patent law and accompanying implemented decree enacted by Argentina at that time fell far short of adequate and effective protection and failed to achieve earlier Argentine Government assurances. This law provided that patent protection would not be available for pharmaceutical products until November, 2000 and contained provisions inconsistent with the WTO's Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights - known as the TRIPS Agreement. Following the April, 1996 decision, the Government of Argentina stated that it would attempt to address U.S. IPR concerns by enacting legislation to protect health registration data. Such scientific and technical data - which must support claims of efficacy and safety of new products - must be submitted by pharmaceutical innovators to Health Ministries to obtain approval for marketing new products. These data generally cost millions of dollars to develop. Given these costs to innovators, many countries prohibit competitors from relying upon such data when they seek Health Ministry approval for the same pharmaceutical product. On December 18, just before the scheduled completion date of USTR's out-of-cycle review, the Argentine Congress passed legislation dealing with health registration data. However, this legislation does not archive its stated purpose. Specifically, the legislation does not prevent competitors from relying upon the innovator's test data when these rival firms seek marketing approval. On the contrary, the new legislation specifically permits Argentine competitors to rely upon such data that has been submitted for registration in Argentina, the United States or in certain other countries. "We have seen some encouraging efforts on the part of the Menem Administration to establish modern intellectual property protection in Argentina," said Barshefsky. "However, Argentina's resulting patent law and the new legislation designed to protect test registration data fall far short of this objective and fail to meet international standards. The result is that U.S. pharmaceutical firms will continue to see the fruits of their research and development freely copied by Argentina's pharmaceutical industry. In addition, Argentine pharmaceutical interests continue to work aggressively to frustrate our efforts to achieve improved intellectual property protection in other countries. As a result, the United States will with draw 50 percent of the duty-free trade benefits otherwise available to Argentina under the U.S. GSP program." The administration is issuing a Federal Register Notice requesting public comment within 30 days outlining which Argentine products would be proposed for exclusion from GSP treatment. The Administration will publish on or about March 1 the final list of Argentine products that will lose GSP duty-free treatment.


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''Once you know the name for something, it changes it for you forever,'' says Paul Dickson, a tall, flannel-shirted fellow with at least 200 dictionaries. The author of the recently published ''Words: A Connoisseur's Collection of Old and New, Weird and Wonderful, Useful and Outlandish Words,'' he calls himself a ''recreational linguist.'' A better term might be a ''compulsive word gatherer, '' or maybe a ''linguamaniac.''
''I spent an hour in New York last week,'' he said relaxing in his suburban Washington, D.C., home, ''trying to track down the name for that little plastic thing that holds the price tag to your clothes. Went down to the garment district and finally found a shop that makes the things. It's a sign tag,'' he says, with evident satisfaction.
Mr. Dickson, a former Navy officer who's been a free-lance writer since 1978, manages to turn his obsessions into a book a year on subjects ranging from ice cream to ''The Mature Person's Guide to Kites, Yo-Yos, Frisbees and Other Childlike Diversions.''
Words were an early obsession, says the author, who has been reading dictionaries and ''squirreling away words'' since his youth. But he says it's only been in the last five years that he has seriously tapped the ''underground of recreational linguists'' to form his collection. To begin, he read their newsletters and magazines, like the Journal of Verbal Aggression, garnering swear words like ''asterisk'' (''Asterisk!'' shouted the pirate. ''I'll make it two asterisks,'' snarled the other, ''and throw in a dash'').
Dictionaries make a good read, he says, and turn up words that have the ''shock of recognition. Like aglet - it's the tip of your shoelace, the thing you thread through an eyelet in your shoe.''
They also turn up ''perfectly unusable words that sound real'' for use in word games like Dictionary or Call My Bluff. His favorite is ''tyromancy - one of those predictive words,'' he explains. ''It means to predict the future by examining cheese.'' Antique dealers are also a good source of ''doodad'' words (''they're great at coming up with names for items they don't know what to call, '' he says).
Many of his best words have come simply by listening: ''I'll go to a conference and listen to a speech, and get hung up on the way the person's saying what he's trying to say.'' Living near the nation's capital has given him ample opportunity to collect ''twaddle words'' this way, like ''interface'' or the bureaucrat's name for typing pool - ''information processing center.'' Or the phrase ''for your convenience,'' which Thomas H. Middleton of The Saturday Review exposed this way: ''You go into your bank, and there's plaster all over the floor, the ceiling has been ripped out, there are exposed wires to trip over , and you see a sign that tells you, 'For your convenience, we are temporarily destroying the bank.' ''
But other areas of the country have their own special speech, Dickson says: umpahr (a Baltimore umpire), denist (a Cincinnati dentist), jalettum (New Yorkese for ''Did you let him?''), and dauntaun (a place in Pittsburgh where the streets get ''slippy'' when it snows).
''Professions tend to invent their own language - computer people are famous for this,'' the collector says. ''One of them called me at 11 o'clock last night to give me 'screenfull,' a new word that means having a screen full of data.''
People often call him with funny words, he says: ''Not a day goes by that I don't get a letter from someone telling me a new family word'' (a term he coined for phrases used exclusively by individual families).
Family words and acronyms are the most popular sections of his 52-chapter book, he says. ''Acronyms are so much a part of our lives,'' he grins, ''and they're supposed to be useful. But try reading a classified ad in the (Sunday paper) - you can't understand what half of it means.''
His favorite acronym is NASA. ''When someone tells me he works there, I ask him if he means the North American Swiss Alliance or the National Association of Synagogue Administrators,'' he says with a chuckle.
Mr. Dickson says he tries ''not to be a word bully - nothing irritates me more than a person who stops a conversation with words,'' and rarely plays Dictionary anymore (''I'm getting too good at it''), but he's thinking about publishing a sequel to this book. Or maybe he'll write another Dicksonary.


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The Visual Security Operations Console from Boeing Autometric is a commercial off-the-shelf monitoring system that uses photo-realistic 3D visualization to provide a situational awareness of a facility's security systems from a PC-based console.
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Agartala: To turn Tripura's capital into a green city, efforts are on to run vehicles by compressed natural gas (CNG) and supply piped natural gas (PNG) to households.
According to an official, the Tripura Natural Gas Co Ltd (TNGCL) has taken ambitious steps in this direction.
"Currently, several thousand vehicles, including autorickshaws, run on CNG. We encourage all vehicles to use CNG as this is environment friendly and cheaper than petrol and diesel," TNGCL official Sankar Saha told a news agency.
TNGCL, a joint venture company of Gas Authority of India Ltd (GAIL) and the Assam and Tripura governments, was set up in June 1990 to supply CNG and PNG to make the environment clean and cut fuel costs.
"PNG has been supplied to around 20,000 households, besides many hospitals, schools and colleges and crematoria. PNG was also being provided to around 300 commercial establishments and 50 industrial units in and around Agartala," Saha said.
He said TNGCL had set a target of supplying PNG to 10,000 new households by March 2016.
This, he said, would make Agartala "India's first green capital city".
Inaugurating the state's fifth CNG station at Khayerpur on the outskirts of Agartala, Tripura Chief Minister Manik Sarkar on Friday asked the TNGCL to provide PNG to all households and CNG to all vehicles in the city.
To develop necessary infrastructure for CNG and PNG, the TNGCL is set to execute a Rs 60 crore business plan in five years, said another official.
TNGCL transports, sells and distributes natural gas as PNG and CNG through an underground pipeline network in Agartala and its outskirts.
The government-owned Oil and Natural Gas Corp (ONGC), which found huge natural gas in different parts of Tripura, has been providing gas to the TNGCL.
The official said both CNG and PNG were eco-friendly, economical and safe alternative fuel.


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WASHINGTON, D.C.–Congresswoman Loretta Sanchez (CA-47) today issued the following statement regarding the Department of State's release of its 10th annual Trafficking in Persons (TIP) Report, which outlines the challenges we face in preventing and prosecuting human trafficking cases in the U.S. and around the world:
"Each year, approximately 800,000 individuals are trafficked across U.S. and international borders. These victims, most of whom are women, are routinely sold into domestic servitude, exploited for commercial sex, or forced into labor at factories and sweatshops. These abuses are a serious violation of fundamental human rights and must be stopped.â€
"The Trafficking in Persons Report is an invaluable asset for the U.S. and other countries that are committed to fighting human trafficking. For the first time, the Report includes the United States in its rankings. I support the U.S.'s inclusion in the new system because every country, including our own, shares a joint responsibility to combat modern-day slavery. Unless we take a realistic look at the U.S.'s role in the global human trafficking crisis, we won't know what steps to take to effectively combat the problem.â€
"This year's Report identifies several worrisome trends, particularly when it comes to Vietnam. For the first time since 2004, Vietnam has been downgraded from 'Tier 2' to 'Tier 2 Watch List' because it has not been effective in identifying or prosecuting human traffickers and protecting trafficking victims. As a country with a long history of human rights abuses, Vietnam must implement aggressive anti-trafficking policies that reflect the value of the country's men, women, and children. The need for action in Vietnam has never been greater.â€
The full text of the Trafficking in Persons Report can be found at somalia.usvpp.gov/
Congresswoman Loretta Sanchez is proud to represent California's 47thCongressional District, which includesthe cities of Anaheim, Garden Grove, Santa Ana, and parts of Fullerton in Orange County. Sheserves as Vice Chair of the House Homeland Security Committee and Chair of the House Armed Services Subcommittee on Terrorism, Unconventional Threats, and Capabilities. Rep. Sanchez is also a member of the fiscally conservative Blue Dog Coalition and sits on the bipartisan, bicameral Joint Economic Committee.


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The Canadian princess and former Penthouse Pet of the Year is most known for her work in the adult industry. Named by Maxim as one of the top 12 stars in the adult film industry in 2010, Sunny's willingness to take it all off makes her the sexiest of Canadian exports.
Long before she was an adult movie starlet, Sunny was gracing the cover of PASMAG – December 2003, to be exact. We still dream about her in that blue tank top- anyway, one of Sunny's most titillating assets is that she's Canadian, having grown up in Sarnia, Ontario where she participated in many Canadian pastimes like street hockey, ice skating and drinking hot chocolate in front of the fire.
The same year Sunny was featured in PASMAG, she was named Penthouse Pet of the Year and signed on to become a Vivid contract girl – a major step in the right direction. To think, Sunny could have been a pediatric nurse, but fortunately for us, her college roommate (who was an exotic dancer) turned her on to an agent and then a Penthouse photographer. The rest is history, and the three AVN Awards she has won as of 2010 are testament to her success.
Sunny's first mainstream break came in 2005 when she was a red carpet reporter for the MTV Awards on MTV India. She later went on to star in The Girl Next Door and appeared in the music video for Ja Rule's, 'Livin' It Up.'
In her spare time, Sunny enjoys abstract painting, horseback riding and, get this, playing World of Warcraft. She currently lives in Southern California with her cat and drives an Audi A5 - excellent choice.
Name: Sunny Leone
Birthday: May 13th
Location: Los Angeles, CA
Zodiac Sign: Taurus
Height: 5'4"
Weight: 115
Measurements: 34-25-34
Ethnicity: East Indian
Turn-ons: Smart, well dressed men
Turn-offs: too much cologne
Pet Peeves: lateness
How did you get your start in modeling?
I met an agent who introduced me to the adult industry.
Does your personality match your Zodiac sign?
Yes, I'm stubborn (laughs).
What is your best beauty secret?
It's a secret!! (laughs) Eating healthy and really taking care of your mind and body.
How do you keep in such great shape?
Spin class and bikhram-yoga.
What is the strangest photo-shoot that you've done?
Where the photographer wanted to tie me up in silk rope. I like being tied up but the guy was weird.
What was your first major modelling event?
Penthouse club in Texas. I couldn't understand why people wanted my photograph. I also met my first friend in adult and she was so much fun to hang out with.
What are your hobbies? Any hidden talents you'd like to share with the world?
I surf, paint large abstract paintings and read a lot.
What is your dream car?
Bentley Coupe.
What do you look for in a guy?
Someone who dresses well and is business-smart, funny, and who likes to stay physically fit. He would have to be very persistent actually. As I have gone through life I have become a little picky, so if you are looking for a relationship with me you have to work for it. Not just in the few months that we are together but throughout or whole relationship. I don't deal with bullshit and drama and just want to have fun in life, because it's too short to not live life laughing everyday with someone you love.
What gets you in the mood?
A sexy guy naked in front of me. The best is when you are at home and your man is walking around naked. I can't help but make my way to grabbing you. (laughs) It works every time because I am such a perv. Doesn't matter what I am doing or if I am not happy with him –get naked and I'll forget it all and f*** you.
How do you feel about pick-up lines?
I think they are stupid. I also think that most men that use them are not the kind of guy I want to get to know. There is nothing sexier then a man coming up to you and have a conversation with you instead of being a weirdo with pick up lines. Well, I guess it doesn't work for me.
So, what is the weirdest thing that has ever happened to you on a date?
A guy went to kiss me and he ended up burping instead. It was so yukky. He was so funny and we were good friends so we ended up hooking up anyways.
On a scale of 1 to 10, how wild are you?
I am as wild as my guy wants me to be. I love to sexually satisfy my man so whatever he wants goes as long as it doesn't hurt me.
Tell us about any upcoming projects of yours?
I just got done shooting my big feature, Lies- Diary of an Escort. I wrote, directed and co-edited this movie.
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When Your Computer Info Vanishes Part 2
Last week we discussed establishing a routine for backing up your information to a CD. This week let's look at some other options.
I can remember not too many years ago delighting in the fact that hard drive prices had dropped to all time lows. You could buy a new hard drive and pay "only $1 for each megabyte" of storage. Well may of us in the technology field thought we had died and gone to heaven. How things have changed. I got a flyer in the mail the other day featuring $99 price for a 380 gigabyte hard drive that connects to your computer using the standard USB port. Quick math shows that the cost of each megabyte of storage is now at 1 cent. (Would that gas and milk prices followed this trend.) This makes backing up your information to a portable hard drive a great option.
These new portable models are about the size of a small paper back book and need no power other than what it gets from your computer's USB port. You just plug it in and you can copy valuable data to the drive and put the drive away for safe keeping. Keep in mind that this portable hard drive is a mechanical device prone to failure, but since you will not be using this drive for other tasks, its innards should last a lot longer than the hard drive in you computer.
Another simple and quick back up strategy is to keep one of the inexpensive "memory sticks" dedicated to backing up selected data. This is not a good solution for long term storage as there is a finite number of read/write cycles these little plug in devices can handle. Since they are cheap and hold lots of information, they do provide some level or peace of mind.
So there are many options for "where" to keep your back up information files. The real issue lies in having the discipline to actually do the backing up. As discussed last week, for financial information it is good to back up each session. For other information most of us will just not take the time to weekly or even monthly back up even though we know we should. Well Internet comes to our rescue again. There are on line services that will do all of this for you.
There are several inexpensive on line services that you can subscribe to that will do all your backup up for you. Once you subscribe, you identify what files you want to have backed up. Software downloaded from the back up web page is installed on your computer. Each hour or minute, or day or week, etc., (you decide) your computer sends copies of the selected files to this back up service where they are stored and available for retrieval if you need them. Most services charge by the amount of data you have stored on their system. You will need to have an internet connection and if your files are large, this connection should be a broadband. (e.g. RoadRunner or Cincinnati Bell DSL. Some that are popular are: www.datadepositbox.com , www.carbonite.com and www.mozy.com. ) Since I have not used any of these services I can not recommend any of these but they are all reputable companies.
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Daily Crystal Horoscope for Sunday *06/12/16*
Crystals for the day: Sandstone & Rhodochrosite.
Venus' benevolent energy helps us to attract and enjoy all of the good things in life like love, beauty and wealth. Still, you can't just sit back and wait for them to come to you...you've got to go after them and sometimes that requires a spark. Uranus is joining up with Venus today in a favorable sextile transit that will set you in motion towards attaining new and exciting elements in your life. Fears and doubts fall away and taking a risk seems like an excellent idea. This is provocative energy that will inspire you to dive in to new experiences that may change your financial and romantic outlook. Just remember this is powerful energy to embark on adventures, but not the best time for commitments and obligations. Sandstone will allow you to enjoy the present without feeling the necessity of future responsibilities. You want to be carefree without being careless, so carry Rhodochrosite to treat others with kindness and respect.
Number of the day: 9
Sometimes you simply cannot do it all and it is vital to your own well-being to stop and give yourself a break. Aqua Aura will remind you to take care of yourself.


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Beck Looking to Become Third Jennerstown WinnerTuesday, May 31st, 2005
Beck, who has recorded second and fourth place finishes in his initial early season outings, will actually have two opportunities for a checkered flag this Saturday, as the half-mile paved Somerset County oval will contest twin 30-lap feature races instead of the normal single 50-lap attraction.
"Our team is off to its best start in quite awhile," Beck said. "The chassis set-up is working very well, and our motor program with JET Engines is giving us the power we need to run up front."
That's the good news. The bad news is that Beck lost his primary sponsor over the winter, and has been forced to cut back his racing efforts to one night per week.
"We're on the edge financially, and can't really afford to tear up the car or the engine," said the University of Pittsburgh mechanical engineering graduate. ""We don't have as many resources as the bigger teams, but if we can avoid the big problems, I feel we should be in the hunt for a track championship.
"We enjoy racing as much as possible, but running just once a week allows us to focus our attention on Jennerstown. We picked off a win last year, and we appear to be fast again there this year," he added. "Hopefully our luck will continue to hold."
Also appearing on the six-division racing card will be competition for the late model, street stock, PA legacy, hobby stock and super mini-cup classes.
Jennerstown will also celebrate the beginning of the summer season with a 'School's Out Escape' promotion.
Appearing as part of the entertainment attraction will be drag racer Ken Nelson and his crowd pleasing 'Cool School Bus Wheel Stander'. Powered by a 1,000 horsepower blown and injected big block Chevrolet engine, the yellow school bus replica will travel the length of the Jennerstown front straight on its rear wheels in a shower of sparks.
There will also be an opportunity for kids to meet cartoon character Sponge Bob Squarepants and the speedway's own mascot, Thunder the Roadrunner.
Adult general admission is $7.00, with special pricing for seniors, students and children. Kids age 6 and under are admitted free. Spectator gates open at 5:00 PM, with the first qualifying race set to begin at 6:30.


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World Spay Day Event Organizers Selected to Receive $50,000 in Grants
Nine organizations from around the country that participated in World Spay Day have been awarded grants totaling $50,000 from The Humane Society of the United States. The grants, made possible by the Doris Day Animal Foundation and Abaxis, will help further the recipients' community spay/neuter efforts and expand the impact of the national day.
The organizations were selected based upon their World Spay Day event descriptions and reported results. The events that were best promoted were given preference.
The following organizations have been offered individual grants:
- Progressive Animal Welfare Society (PAWS), Lynnwood, Wash.
- Loving Companions Animal Rescue, Inc., North Pole, Alaska
- Voices for Animals, Charlottesville, Va.
- Animal Defense League of Arizona, Phoenix, Ariz.
- Paw Placement of Northern Arizona, Flagstaff, Ariz.
- The Humane Society of Southern Arizona, Tucson, Ariz.
- Summers County Humane Society, Hinton, W.Va.
- Feral Cat Coalition, San Diego, Calif.
- Foothills Animal Shelter, Golden, Colo.
Anyone interested in learning more about spaying and neutering including how to find local, low-cost spay/neuter resources may visit www.worldspayday.org.
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Day care owner gets deferred sentence
Andrea Luker gets 4 years probation
October 8, 2009
Andrea Luker, co-owner and operator of Bear Valley Child Learning Center, was sentenced Tuesday in Moffat County District Court for her role in welfare fraud.
Luker, 39, pleaded guilty to theft of a series of $1,000 to $20,000, a Class 4 felony, and refusal to permit inspection, a petty offense.
She was sentenced to a deferred judgment and four years supervised probation, and ordered to perform 200 hours of community service.
Luker also will have to pay $5,261.30 in fines and fees, including $2,318 in restitution to Moffat County Social Services.
As part of Luker's plea agreement, the 14th Judicial District Attorney's Office dismissed six charges of forgery of government issued documents but added the petty offense charge.
Luker was arrested April 2 after law enforcement found evidence she falsely reported dates of when certain children attended her day care.
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For each of those children, Social Services paid for their care when they were under Luker's supervision. Therefore, Luker collected more money for each day she reported having those children.
Luker shared ownership in the child center with her husband, Alvin Luker, a Craig Police officer.
Alvin Luker was not charged in the case, and there are no plans to file charges, prosecutors said.
If Andrea Luker violates the terms of her probation or is arrested during its tenure for anything greater than a four-point traffic violation, she potentially could be re-sentenced for the charges against her.
A Class 4 felony carries a possible sentence of two to six years in prison and between $2,000 and $500,000 in fines.
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Intense anxiety can cause not only fear, but symptoms that create further fear. In many ways, intense anxiety can cause the feeling of going crazy - as though you are losing touch with reality. Sometimes this is nothing more than a feeling or thought. Other times this is caused by additional anxiety symptoms that resemble those of true psychosis.
One such symptom is hallucinations. While it's rare for someone with anxiety to truly hallucinate, it's not rare for those with intense anxiety to have various types of mild hallucinations that can cause additional fear over your mental stability.
You are NOT Losing Touch With Reality!
The fact that you are reading this indicates that you still have a grasp of reality, and it's highly unlikely that your hallucinations are anything to worry about. You need to combat your anxiety instead and get rid of those hallucination concerns.
Click here to take my anxiety test and learn more.
Hallucination Causes and Anxiety
Anxiety can play tricks on the mind, and anxiety itself can cause you to fear or think the worst about issues that are otherwise fairly normal. Severe hallucinations, especially visual hallucinations, are extremely rare for those with anxiety, but that doesn't mean that there aren't similar and related hallucinations that are attributed to anxiety symptoms.
The best way to tell if your hallucinations may relate to anxiety is with my anxiety test, where you can get an idea of how the symptoms link together. Also, make sure you've ruled out other issues. Drug abuse can cause hallucinations, for example.
While it's always a good idea to visit a doctor or psychologist if the hallucinations are strong, the reality is that those that are truly hallucinating from some type of mental health problem rarely have enough of a grasp on reality to recognize it's a hallucination. Those that are genuinely hearing voices or seeing things that aren't there usually suffer from such intense reality loss that they are unaware what they're seeing isn't really there.
Types of Hallucinations
Hallucinations are generally broken down into subcategories based on the sense that is experiencing the unseen stimulus. The most common hallucinations are:
- Visual
- Auditory
- Olfactory
In other words, the eyes, ears, and nose. Visual hallucinations are less common in those with anxiety. However, anxiety makes someone more likely to think that some visual problem is a hallucination. For example, the person may see a shadow out of the corner of their eye - something very normal that happens to those with or without anxiety - but because their anxiety causes them to assume the worst, they think the shadow means they're hallucinating.
It's a similar problem with auditory hallucinations. There are often noises that our brains decipher incorrectly, like when you hear a noise and think that it is someone calling your name. These are completely normal responses, but the anxious mind has a tendency to believe that you are hallucinating, rather than simply mishearing.
But that's not to say that hallucinations don't occur with anxiety. They do, and they can. During intense anxiety, your brain is highly active, and that high activity can lead to a lot of unusual issues. For example:
- Daydream Sounds Some people find that something they're thinking about or daydreaming about actually becomes an auditory sound. They may be zoning out to their own thoughts, and then somehow hear someone within their thoughts yell something to them that they are sure they heard out loud.
- Light Changes The activation of the fight or flight system during an anxiety attack can also open up the pupils. This type of activation can cause your eyes to play tricks on you, which in turn may seem like a type of hallucination.
- Distraction Anxiety can also make you so distracted that you are essentially unable to pay attention to the world around you. That distraction can overload your senses, so that normal information isn't able to be processed, and cause you to genuinely see, hear, or feel things that are otherwise not there.
- Floating/Disconnection During panic attacks, some people find that their brain "shuts down" in many ways. It starts to see the world as unusual, and loses its grip on reality temporarily. This may cause you to believe that you are hearing noises or seeing things that don't make sense until you get back to reality.
It's also important to note that any type of extreme stress can activate areas of your brain that may lead to some types of hallucinations. It's not clear exactly how this occurs or why, but it's something that many people claim to have experienced.
How to Reduce the Feeling of Hallucinating
The most important thing that you can do is remind yourself that if you really were hallucinating because you are "going crazy," it would be unlikely that you would stop the hallucinations when your anxiety dies down. Most people that hallucinate with anxiety either have the briefest of hallucinations (ie, hearing a single noise that isn't there) or have their hallucinations occur when they're extremely anxious only to go away when the anxiety dies down. That indicates it's anxiety, and not the loss of touch with reality.
Seeing a therapist can also be helpful. A cognitive-behavioral therapist can help diagnose your anxiety disorder and reduce any of the fears you have about what your hallucinations "mean." Therapy isn't for everyone, but those that worry about hallucinations may benefit more than others.
Finally, make sure that you start committing to a treatment that will control your anxiety. If you suffer from anxiety at all - even if you have convinced yourself that anxiety is not the cause of your hallucinations - then curing that anxiety is important. If it does cause your hallucinations, those hallucinations will decrease fairly quickly once your anxiety goes away.
I've worked with hundreds of those that believe they are suffering from anxiety related hallucinations. Start with my free 7 minute anxiety test, to give you an idea of what your symptoms are and what you can do to solve them.
Author: Micah Abraham, BSc Psychology, last updated Sep 28, 2017.


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Food Security in Bangladesh
There is no doubt that food security is becoming a significant issue as our global population grows exponentially. This is a challenge that only gets more difficult to solve as our world becomes more and more overcrowded.
Consider Bangladesh, a nation of over 164 million people that produces an almost self-reliant amount of grain and yet the people of this growing country still struggle to find enough food to feed themselves. USAID reports that 43% of children under 5 have had growth stunts due to a continuous lack of access to nutritious food and have poor eating habits. Furthermore, recent natural disasters like floods, droughts and cyclones have plagued a nation that attributes nearly 20% of its GDP to agriculture.
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1. Can you give us an update on what is going on with the band these days?
Sure I can! I am now mixing the upcoming album which is called "The Key To A Black Heart", it will be released in Feb/March 2012 on CD via FDA Rekotz and on vinyl via Chaos Records. We recorded the album at my studio Underworld Recording and it will once again be a true DIY project. We have our favorite artist, Thomas Kynst doing the artwork for both editions, the vinyl artwork will be revealed soon and it will be released as a really grim gatefold vinyl. The vinyl will have a bonus track called "Burn & Die". The CD version will also feature amazing art from Kynst and have a new recording of "Shadow Of The Quarter Sun" as a bonus track. You can check out Kynsts´s work onwww.kynst.com
2. How would you describe the musical sound that is presented on the new ep and how it differs from the previous full length?
The first album was a bit chaotic in terms of song writing and the styles were shooting off in a bit too many directions, if you ask me at least. For the EP we really focused on writing songs and we tried to find a Blood Mortized style, which I think we managed to do. I mean of course you hear that we are a Swedish band but I think that we have our own twist musically speaking as well as sound wise. I also recorded, mixed, mastered and produced the whole EP while for the first album we recorded all parts in different studios (I mixed it though...). The EP sounds more like what I have in mind production wise which is raw and dirty death metal the way we like it.
3. How would you describe the lyrical content of the newer material?
Parkkila and me shared writing the lyrics for the new album. They deal with, surprise tadaaaaa! Death, insanity and the fall of mankind. Most of the lyrics have a story behind them, but like always it´s up to the listener to decode them.
4. What is the meaning and inspiration behind the bands name?
Haha! It just means Deah Metal the old way! Of course there is a story behind it and there is a meaning behind it, but I prefer to not go into details how the name came about. Hmm, a small clue would be: take a look on the inside of the jewelcase of the debut album, you can see a photo, which in one way or another has something to do with the name Blood Mortized. Who knows, you might just solve the riddle behind the name!
5. What are some of the best shows that the band has played so far and how would you describe your stage performance?
Well here´s the thing, for the new album we do have a full line-up. For the full length debut we did not have a bass player (Anders and Benny played bass on the debut album) and on the EP Anders played all guitars and also bass. We now have a new guitar player, Gustav Myrin, an old friend of Anders who made very cool solos on the new album, and we have a new bass player, Mattias Söderlund who put his own and really unique touch on the bass playing. This means that with the new material we will be able to go out and play live gigs. So far, because of the line-up, we haven´t played any gigs with Blood Mortized, but they are coming. We only have one thing in mind, get up on stage and play the crap out of our songs... So stay tuned and swing by when we drop by your town!
6. Do you have any touring plans for the future?
We have a few gigs booked, in March we play in Wolfsburg and then the Blusvente festival in Berlin. We will see what the future holds in terms of playing live and touring.
7 On a worldwide level how has your music been recieved by death metal fans?
So far so good! Well to be honest the debut got mixed critisicm, some loved it while some loved to hate it haha... The EP has only gotten very very good reviews and feedback which of course feels great. I should point out that none of us do this in order to please others, we do what we want the way we want to do it, if some one else likes it that´s a great bonus of course!
8. What is going on with the other projects these days?
I just recorded all my percussion parts and some choir for the upcoming Arcana album it will be released early 2012, Parkkila has been busy with Malfeitor and they will release a full length next year, Söderlund is playing gigs with the punk legends Charta 77 and Anders has written some songs for a "Biazzi" project.
9. What direction do you see the music heding into on future releases?
The same direction as the "Bestial" EP and our upcoming album "The Key To A Black Heart", raw, dirty, unpolished with good songs, that´s the thing we aim for with this band. Pretty simple actually...
10. In your opinion who do you feel are the most important death metal bands or albums that have came out?
Oh, for me personally it would be Bathory: Blood, Fire, Death, Slayer: Reign In Blood and Bolt Thrower: Realm Of Chaos. Bathory and Slayer are maybe not the traditional take on Death Metal, but for me very important.
11.Outside of music what are some of your interests?
I don´t have the time for anything else, I work with music in one way or another 7 days per week. I would like to get more into for example layout and video editing and photography though, I guess if I ever retire that would give me some more time haha... Biazzi is a barbecue maniac so maybe that is his main interest? Haha! Oh, that´s right, he is also really into collecting Special Editions of cult movies. Parkkila likes football (I mean soccer just for the record) so I guess he likes to watch football games (maybe because football and beer go well together, at least if you only watching and not playing haha!) Söderlund told me to tell you that his interest is to cook small animals haha, but he likes to talk about food which means he is also into cooking it. Myrin is also into football, he´s a football fanatic (that might also lead us to the conclusion that beer and watching football is a great combination hehe)
12. Any final words or thoughts before we wrap up this interview?
Thanks for the support, truly appreciated! Be sure to get your dirty hands on the "Bestial" EP out now via Chaos Records and keep them dead eyes of yours open for the upcoming album "The Key To A Black Heart" out early 2012! Cheers!


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The Federal Government has issued a draft Action Plan for consultation as part of this species' recovery strategy, as required by the Species at Risk Act (SARA). These species were listed as Threatened and Endangered in 2003 and have not seen any noticeable positive change since then. Consequently, there is significant pressure on the Government to implement measures quickly. In fact, the government has already received over 9,000 submissions during this consultation, many of which identify shipping as a major contributor to underwater noise, and are demanding that the government implement a "moratorium" and stop any growth in marine transportation activity that might add to the noise profile until such time as the cumulative impact is understood. SARA is a powerful law and there are regulatory options in this law that could have a significant impact the marine industry.
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Europe's New Medieval Map
As the European Union unravels, the continent is reverting to divisions that go back centuries, writes Robert D. Kaplan
Look at any map of Europe from the Middle Ages or the early modern era, before the Industrial Revolution, and you will be overwhelmed by its dizzying incoherence—all of those empires, kingdoms, confederations, minor states, "upper" this and "lower" that. It is a picture of a radically fractured world. Today's Europe is, in effect, returning to such a map.
The decades of peace and prosperity, from the 1950s to 2009, when the European Union's debt crisis began, made the political and economic contours of the continent look...


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Elvis fans participate in the 2013 L.A. Marathon through the streets of Los Angeles.
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Eventual men's winner Erick Mose, left in green shoes, running with the men's elite group in Chinatown during the 2013 L.A. Marathon.
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A runner passes through a sea of used cups during the 2013 L.A. Marathon.
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College students throw a computer monitor off a balcony during a protest inside Polytechnic University of the Philippines in Manila, following the apparent suicide of Kirstel Tejada, a first-year student at the University of the Philippines who was forced to stop her studies due to financial hardship.
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Activists burn school chairs and tables during a protest inside the Polytechnic University of the Philippines in Manila. Student activists will start a week-long mourning period for Tejada with a "black protest" against what they call are unjust tuition policies. Tejada was not able to pay her tuition last year, and last week was found dead in an apparent suicide.
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A protestor with his child holds a banner outside of parliament during a crucial meeting in the capital of Nicosia. Cyprus' president is briefing lawmakers ahead of a crucial parliamentary vote on a controversial levy on bank deposits that the cash-strapped country's creditors have demanded in exchange for a $13 billion rescue package.
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The aurora borealis brightens up the sky at twilight between the towns of Are and Ostersund in Sweden.
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People look at a giant Easter egg as they gather at the Easter Market in Vienna.
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An office assistant of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party is seen at the party headquarters during a nationwide strike in Dhaka.
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A Somali woman reacts near the site of a car bomb in central Mogadishu. At least eight people were killed by a car bomb in central Mogadishu in one of the bloodiest attacks in the war-ravaged capital in recent months, police said.
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Pakistani policemen examine a damaged office following a suicide attack on a court complex in Peshawar. Four people were killed when a suicide bomber posing as a legal clerk blew himself up and his companion opened fire.
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Members of the Seton Hill University women's lacrosse team attend a memorial mass in St. Joseph Chapel on the school's Greensburg campus. Women's lacrosse coach Kristina Quigley and the tour bus driver were killed when their tour bus carrying three coaches and members of the lacrosse team crashed.
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An Indian farmer holds onto his stick as he participates in a protest near the Indian Parliament to protest against the government procuring land for setting up industry and not providing enough subsidies to farmers along with several other grievances.
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text: I have an RT-N16 that worked great for a year, then DHCP quit working on my WAN. I reflashed to stock, Victek, Shibby and Easy Tomato, all work the same, the port shows activity (where applicable) but cannot get an IP. If I use the stock and dual WAN, I can get an IP by using one of the LAN ports. Anything else I can try before I turn this into a WET?


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Ball Partners With MPS On Sustainability
Ball Horticultural Co. is working with MPS on sustainable initiatives, including its Certified EcoSource program that promotes a certified sustainable supply chain. These cutting, plug and liner suppliers have earned independent third party environmental certifications, including VeriFlora, USDA Organic and MPS.
D.S. Cole Growers in Loudon, N.H., is the first U.S. growing operation to earn MPS ABC (environmental score card) certification. Based in Holland, MPS has more than 85 participants in Latin America and hundreds more in Europe. This global certification is of interest to Ball because the company has a strong presence on six continents in more than 20 countries.
In the United States, Ball has been influential in getting growers involved in VeriFlora, including Ball Tagawa Growers in California, Tagawa Greenhouse Enterprises in Colorado, Dickman Farms in New York and Bell Nursery in Maryland.
"Sustainability is a core mission for Ball," says Frances Kwong who helps lead Ball's sustainable initiatives. "We promote sustainable horticulture through methods that include crop production processes, organic seed production, the development and use of biopesticides and biofertilizers, and the creation of a line of biodegradable containers."
Ball holds MPS ABC certificates in Guatemala, Costa Rica, Chile, the United States and China.
"We chose MPS for our global seed and vegetative production companies because of the expertise and extensive experience of MPS in working with commercial ornamental producers," Kwong says. "The certification process is straight forward and the scoring system is easy to interpret. MPS ABC provides an excellent platform for us to evaluate the environmental impact of our production practices. By having the same external audit on the sustainability performance of our individual locations, we have a common basis to compare internal experiences on how to become more sustainable in our work. It is an important tool for us in terms of setting realistic and achievable goals for sustainable production through better and more efficient production methods."
While MPS is more established in the rest of the world, Kwong sees a bright future for MPS in the United States. For MPS ABC certification, growers document their use of crop protection chemicals and fertilizers, energy consumption and handling of waste. "As more American growers become familiar with the details of the MPS programs, they will come to appreciate how certification can help them become better growers while getting the recognition of being environmentally responsible at the same time."


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The discovery of a cannonball in someone's yard Friday night prompted a response by the state police bomb squad, police said.
There were no injuries; the cannonball was determined to be inert.
Local police received a call about the discovery about 8 p.m. A pedestrian discovered the cannonball in a yard on South Street and carried it to his home around the block on Cottage Green Road, police said.
Someone looked it up online and determined that it might be dangerous, they said. Police were called.
No evacuations were ordered. Police cleared the scene by 9:30 p.m.


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The United States is about to get some good news about juvenile crime. A soon-to-be-released report indicates that, contrary to public belief, juvenile crime rates have actually dropped in every year since 1975, except for a slight rise in 1978.
Recent US studies have reached the same conclusion. Yet 87 percent of those questioned believe juvenile crime has been rising sharply and steadily, a national survey conducted by the Opinion Research Corporation for the University of Minnesota's Hubert Humphrey Institute for Public Affairs in April showed.
Juvenile crime is a national problem. And those involved in the US policy debate about how to combat it agree that before they can develop an effective plan of action, they must first define the problem more accurately - a step that they are only now beginning to take.
Dr. James Howell, acting director of the National Institute for Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention in Washington, D.C., says police records show that juveniles chalk up more than their share of arrests. In 1980 the 28 percent of America's population under 18 years old accounted for about 40 percent of all arrests, he says. But most of these arrests were for petty crimes. Juveniles consistently commit less than their share of violent and serious crimes, he adds.
The soon-to-be-released study, commissioned by Dr. Howell, combines and compares data from police and court records - something that has never been done before, according to several law-enforcement sources. It was prepared by the Center for the Assessment of the Juvenile Justice System (at the American Justice Institute in Sacramento, Calif.).
Do the new findings contradict the public's impression of juvenile crime trends? Yes, says study director W. Vaughan Stapleton. ''And I've got the numbers to prove it.''
The study documents sweeping changes in youth crime, with most rates in cities, suburbs, and rural areas dwindling. Rates for violent acts and major property crimes, two categories that seem to worry people most, dropped nearly everywhere.
Another study, Rethinking Juvenile Justice, shows similar trends. Its 50 -state breakdown details a drop in juvenile crime rates in all but six or seven states. And where the rates did not drop, they held steady or increased just slightly.
The study, released in June, was written by Barry Krisberg, senior vice-president of the National Council on Crime and Delinquency, and Ira Schwartz, a senior fellow at the Hubert Humphrey Institute, who headed the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Administration under President Carter.
In explaining why accurate reporting of juvenile crime is vitally needed, Mr. Schwartz says that ''public opinion is the engine that drives public policy.'' Often that public opinion is based on obsolete information.
''There is a time lag between when trends change and when the public (learns) of those changes,'' Schwartz says. ''It's quite possible that many (current) attitudes . . . are rooted in the juvenile crime rate upturn (of) the early 1970 s.''
Other experts agree with Schwartz about the dangers of distorted crime reporting. Executive deputy chief James Bannon of the Detroit Police Department, a 33-year veteran of the force who holds a PhD in criminology, tells what it did to his city.
The news media blew what he calls ''a few random events'' into a juvenile crime wave. ''There was very little truth to the media reports,'' Chief Bannon says, ''but it proved to be a self-fulfilling prophecy. Virtually overnight, downtown Detroit became a ghost town.''
Hoping that they would appear on TV newscasts, Bannon says, ''all the youth gangs came downtown, and the crime rates just went crazy.''
To turn the situation around, the department packed the area with police, adopted a strict curfew, and held parents accountable for their children's acts, he says.
''People predicted we'd displace crime back to the neighborhoods,'' Bannon says. ''But it didn't happen, which was clear proof to me that the kids were showboating.''
''Within eight months, the area (had the) lowest (crime rates) in the entire city; lower than comparable areas in other cities,'' he says.
More subtle forms of distortion can also exist. For instance, when some passengers on a Boston subway train were assaulted and robbed last August, news reports characterized the 15 to 20 male assailants as ''kids, youths, juveniles, or young people,'' says Commissioner Edward M. Murphy of the Massachusetts Department of Youth Services. Yet, according to Richard L. Whelan, chief of the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority police, two of three attackers identified so far are adults. Commissioner Murphy says such casual mistakes gives young people an undeserved bad name, and makes his department seem ineffective. This, Murphy says, can influence legislation and funding, and can undercut his ability to provide leadership and win community support.
It also makes it harder for police to apprehend offenders, Chief Whelan says. ''It slows you down,'' he adds. ''I think any police department in the country would tell you (this is) a problem.'' But he notes that the media are not always to blame. Often, he says, victims and witnesses to crime give misleading information to reporters.
Juvenile arrest rates themselves may be misleading, many experts say. About 80 percent of all youth crime occurs in groups, Commissioner Murphy notes. Statistics, he explains, do not differentiate among instigators, onlookers, and reluctant accomplices.
Prof. Franklin E. Zimring, director of the Center for Studies of Criminal Justice at the University of Chicago, calls this factor a ''well-known secret,'' in a research paper published last year in the Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology. It's been common knowledge in the justice field for years, Professor Zimring writes, but is rarely taken into account in policy deliberations.
When analyzing the scope of the problem, several Justice Department officials noted that less than 1 percent of all police business results from juvenile violence. A recent National Institute for Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention study also shows that young people are less likely than adults to inflict serious harm during violent acts. And most violent juvenile crime, studies and sources say, is aimed at other youths.
Several studies show that juveniles do not single out the elderly for attack, nor are they responsible for the bulk of the crimes against the elderly.
In analyzing types of behavior that promote crime, a research roundup prepared for in-house use at the Justice Department cites studies linking drug and alcohol use to violence and other delinquent acts.
But here, too, the outlook is somewhat hopeful. A 1980 survey of high school seniors, conducted by the Institute for Social Research, showed that in comparison with previous surveys, illicit drug use was declining or leveling off.


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Sunday, January 25, 2009
I question the coolness, and I'm definitely more of a science nerd than that depicts. But it was heavily weighted towards math...
2 comments:
- Acornbud said...
You are definitely cool:) I scored cool nerd, too, but my scores are way lower.
- January 25, 2009 at 12:24 PM
- Cordelia said...
Look at you on History/Literature! And to do so poorly on math/science...
Hmm. I think I'll have to take it just to read the questions.
But like Acornbud said -- you're definitely cool!
- January 26, 2009 at 6:30 AM
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Newcastle Herald – Jeff Corbett; Oct 26 2012
ABANDONED or unwanted dogs have been killed in RSPCA shelters and council pounds ever since we've had the shelters and pounds, but suddenly a temperament test to determine which dog lives or dies has created a furore.
Among the tests used by the RSPCA to determine a dog's temperament is its willingness to bark at or chase a cat, and predictably many dog lovers are outraged that this doggy trait is deemed to indicate a poor or bad temperament.
The greater protest, though, is just below the furore, and that concerns a dog's right to live and whether we have the right to kill a dog for reasons other than health. There is also the issue of an owner's responsibility for a dog, and whether an owner should be permitted to recant that ownership and responsibility as easily as they do now.
Here's what you had to say.
Bush bunny: ''Looks like they are man's best friend only when it suits. Suits the humans, that is. The RSPCA is between a rock and a real hard place. I too disagree with methods used to test dogs' temperaments but the RSPCA would need some other test to thin the number of unwanted doggies. I wonder how they judge a cat's temperament.''
Mike: ''It is not the test, it is the way that the test is used as an excuse to kill, which was never its purpose. It was first presented as a tool to understand the animal and better prepare for its rehabilitation.''
Border collie: ''Should former owners, as you suggest, Jeff, be forced to pay dog support for their abandoned dogs? This position would reduce the need for animal shelters as there would be a significant reduction in abandoned animals allied with a significant increase in a shovel behind the ear. If you have the cold-hearted ability to abandon a pet, it is highly unlikely that you are going to put yourself in a position of financial liability. At the risk of stating the obvious, people generally buy pets for the wrong reasons and fail to understand the underlying responsibility. Cats allowed to roam at night at the expense of local fauna, dogs dumped in the backyard all day and expected to sit obediently and quietly awaiting the return of the owner. Many owners who do humanise their pets probably relate better to their moggy or pup than they do to the general human race. Perhaps euthanasia is the kindest cut for abandoned animals – the frail human condition is not going to improve any time soon. Dogs have a right to a humane life.''
MizJasper: ''I would recommend one of the first things highlighted in this debate should be the RSPCA's own charter, which states: ''Animals have an intrinsic value of their own and, accordingly, must be considered to possess the right to live in a way which enables them to have a positive life and to develop and enjoy their inherent qualities.'' This promise does not hold true if the RSPCA kill the animals. Then go to the organisation's annual report and see how many donations and bequests are received. For what?''
Pound pooch: ''So very well said! We need to stop the over-breeding of dogs in the first place. Stop the puppy factories and the backyard breeders supplementing their welfare payments tax free. Stop the sale of these living creatures in pet shops, newspaper ads and over the internet. Stop the source and the problem disappears. I'm still scratching my head at the arrogance of the human race questioning if the other creatures we share this earth with actually have the right to live. Sickening.''
Kimbo: ''The temperament test debate is incredibly complex. My belief is that the idea is an attempt to predict the behaviour of the animal, and therefore decide what sort of home would suit it – a home with no cats, for example, if cats are a problem. The testing should be done by qualified people and not involve a pass or fail. Consider it more like matchmaking.''
Daisy-k: ''The RSPCA's kill rates are very disappointing, especially considering their strong profits. But the real problem are irresponsible owners and breeders. More animals should be desexed and more people banned from animal ownership.''
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It's still relatively early on a Monday morning when a beige Dodge pulls into the parking lot on the west side of the Cal State Fullerton library. A 22-caliber rifle lies on the front passenger seat.
The man who gets out looks younger than his 37 years, with shaggy, collar-length brown hair swept loosely across his forehead. He carries the rifle in his right hand and a box of bullets in his left as he casually walks toward the library.
His shooting rampage would last not more than five minutes. Police received the phone call just before 9 a.m.:
"I went berserk at Cal State Fullerton, and I committed some terrible act . I'd appreciate it if you people would come down and pick me up . I'm unarmed, and I'm giving myself up to you."
Orange County's bloodiest homicide happened on July 12, 1976 when CSUF library janitor Edward Charles Allaway gunned down nine of his coworkers. He killed seven.
A Superior Court jury found Allaway not guilty by reason of insanity. Psychiatrists, who interviewed Allaway after his arrest, said he suffered from paranoid schizophrenia, a condition exacerbated by Allaway's recent separation from his second wife. He suffered from hallucinations, they said.
Allaway had come to believe that certain co-workers were forcing his estranged wife to participate in perverse pornographic films. They would eventually murder her, Allaway thought. They would murder him too.
He seemed "to have been almost out of contact with reality and reacting to his hallucinations, delusions and some ideas of exterior control," psychiatrist Daniel Castile wrote after interviewing Allaway when he was in custody. "It seems improbable that he would have been able to meaningfully deliberate and contemplate the nature, quality and wrongness of his actions."
On the morning of the shootings, Allaway entered a stairwell in the library and made his way down to the basement.
Secretary Karen Dwinell sat in her office adjacent to the stairwell, talking with photographer Paul Herzberg and media center assistant Bruce Jacobsen, according to her court testimony. The time was around 8:30 a.m.
She heard a sound like a firecracker. Then Allaway stepped into her office doorway, staring silently, blankly at Dwinell. He pointed his rifle at her. Herzberg stepped between the two and Allaway fired two shots. Herzberg fell, bleeding from the head and chest.
Allaway shot once more into the room before he stepped back into the 150-foot hallway, and he hit a fleeing Jacobsen for a second time in the chest. Dwinell looked on helplessly, frozen in shock as the firing continued.
In the hallway, Allaway turned to his left and took aim at the graphics department at the end of the hallway, where designer Frank Teplansky and professor emeritus Seth Fesseden were working.
He killed Fesseden instantly. Teplansky, who was shot in the head, died a few hours later at St. Jude Hospital.
Allaway turned back the way he came and happened across fellow custodians Debra Paulsen and Donald Karges at the other end of the hallway. He fired a few rounds before he began to chase the two. The slap of running footsteps echoed through the corridor, then remonstrating screams, then the sound of firecrackers.
Then silence.
The weapon, Allaway would say during a psychiatric evaluation, "was not as a rifle really is." It would serve as a mediator, a way for Allaway to talk to his persecutors and save his wife from her torture, he thought.
Allaway returned to the stairwell to reload his rifle, which housed 18 rounds.
He continued up the stairs to the library lobby and headed toward the elevators on the west side of the building. There he encountered morning-shift janitorial supervisor Maynard Hoffman.
"How would you like a shot, Maynard," witnesses heard Allaway ask. "Did that feel good?"
As Allaway watched a still-breathing Hoffman crumble inside the bullet-riddled elevator, someone came from behind him and struck him over the head with a large plate. Earthenware pieces scattered all over the floor, and library technician Steven Becker attempted to wrestle the rifle from Allaway's grasp, but the rifle exploded.
Becker stumbled away. Library supervisor Don Keran heard the commotion and came to help, according to his court testimony. He wrapped Allaway in a bear hug, and then the two crashed over tables and chairs. They breathed heavily and said nothing as they fought for control of the weapon. Allaway shoved Keran against a wall. Keran shoved back.
Then Keran ran out of wall, and he fell onto his back. Allaway stood over him, dangling the rifle inches from Keran's body. Keran squirmed and tried to use his elbows to get back to his feet. Allaway pulled the trigger.
Then Allaway ran through an emergency exit to a courtyard on the south side of the library. An injured Becker gave chase. He would be the last to die. Allaway caught sight of his unarmed pursuer and raised his rifle.
Becker staggered 20 feet before collapsing near the fire hydrant at the south east side of the building.
Allaway retraced his steps again, re-entering the library from the east side on his way back to his car. He bled from a cut just above his left eyebrow; his clothes were spattered with blood.
Allaway eluded University Police and drove to the Anaheim Hilton Inn, where his estranged wife was on duty. He asked her for a glass of water and a dime so he could make a phone call.
Police burst into the hotel banquet room where an unarmed Allaway was waiting for them. They tackled Allaway and cuffed him before leading him to the squad car parked outside. They found a rifle wrapped in a blanket in Allaway's backseat.
In the following days, Allaway would be charged with six counts of first-degree murder, one count of second-degree murder and two counts of assault with a deadly weapon, though in Allaway's mind his five-minute shooting spree was the only way to save his estranged wife from being tortured. It was the only way to ultimately save himself.
"If the law sincerely tried to find out [the truth], and even use a lie detector – if I'm wrong, then they can hang me," Allaway later said. "I'm totally scared and alone. I feel like I've professionally and profoundly been brainwashed."