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Chiropractic is a medical system founded in 1895 by Canadian Daniel David Palmer. It is based on the theory that many illnesses originate in the spine, and for this reason it focuses on spinal manipulation. Chiropractic physicians may also use physical therapy techniques and methods drawn from other branches of alternative medicine such as herbs and supplements.
Most visits to chiropractor physicians are for back pain, but it is also commonly used to treat:
Chiropractic theory has based itself on "subluxations," or vertebrae that have shifted position in the spine. These subluxations are said to affect nerve outflow and cause disease in various organs. A chiropractic treatment is done to "put back in" these "popped out" vertebrae. For this reason, it is called an "adjustment."
However, no real evidence has ever been presented showing that a given chiropractic treatment alters the position of any vertebrae. In addition, there is no real evidence that impairment of nerve outflow is a major contributor to common illnesses, or that spinal manipulation changes nerve outflow in such a way as to affect organ function.
Other theories suggest that chiropractic manipulation may relieve pain by "loosening" vertebrae that have become immobile rather than by changing their position. In addition, the sudden movements of manipulation may alter the response patterns of nerves in the spine, again relieving pain.
While many people seek chiropractic treatment for back and neck pain, the current research suggests that chiropractic may offer just a modest benefit. As with most other alternative therapies, more high-quality studies are needed before researchers can come to any definitive conclusions about the effectiveness of chiropractic treatment. The strongest evidence so far seems to be in the treatment of migraine headaches—with chiropractic treatment offering long- and short results in the form of fewer and less severe migraines.
Chiropractic has also been studied as a treatment for
numerous other conditions, like asthma and
menstrual pain. Thus far, the results of studies have been inconclusive.
Chiropractic manipulation appears to be generally safe, rarely causing significant side effects. The most common reaction is local discomfort following therapy, which generally disappears within hours of treatment. Other side effects include temporary headache, tiredness, and discomfort radiating from the site of the adjustment.
Stroke is a reported rare side effect of chiropractic treatment on the neck. Other rare side effects include:
Because of these rare risks, talk to your doctor before you undergo chiropractic manipulation of your neck.
A chiropractor must have a four-year Doctor of Chiropractic (DC) degree and also must have a state license. To find a doctor in your area, websites like the American Chiropractic Association offer searchable databases. You can also ask your doctor for a recommendation.
American Chiropractic Association
International Chiropractors Association
College of Family Physicians Canada
Health Canada
Chiropractic. EBSCO Natural and Alternative Treatments website. Available at: http://www.ebscohost.com/healthLibrary/. Updated August 2013. Accessed January 17, 2014.
Chiropractors. Occupational Outlook Handbook website. Available at: http://www.bls.gov/ooh/Healthcare/Chiropractors.htm. Published March 29, 2012. Accessed April 16, 2012.
History of chiropractic care. American Chiropractic Association website. Available at: http://www.acatoday.org/level3_css.cfm?T1ID=13&T2ID=61&T3ID=149. Accessed January 17, 2014
Low back pain. American Academy of Orthopedic Surgeons website. Available at:
http://orthoinfo.aaos.org/topic.cfm?topic=A00311. Updated December 2013. Accessed January 17, 2014.
Last reviewed January 2014 by Michael Woods, MD
Please be aware that this information is provided to supplement the care provided by your physician. It is neither intended nor implied to be a substitute for professional medical advice. CALL YOUR HEALTHCARE PROVIDER IMMEDIATELY IF YOU THINK YOU MAY HAVE A MEDICAL EMERGENCY. Always seek the advice of your physician or other qualified health provider prior to starting any new treatment or with any questions you may have regarding a medical condition.
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SSC student and partner raise awareness concerning teen pregnancy
BAY CITY — Standish-Sterling Central junior, Victoria Greenwood and Bay City Central senior, Alysha Sautter, are increasing awareness regarding teen pregnancy as they compete against several groups from the state to promote a topic of local, state, and/or national interest.
According to Greenwood, the girls are spearheading the project through the Health Occupations Students of America Community Awareness program at the Bay-Arenac Intermediate School District Career Center.
The topic hits close to home for both girls.
"One of my best friends actually became pregnant so that's why we chose teen pregnancy," Greenwood said, adding no previous competitors had used the topic.
"There's a lot of girls in my school that are pregnant right now, too," Sautter said.
A guideline packet for the project says each group must first make a worthwhile contribution to the community by planning and documenting activities concerning their project, then create a portfolio of the project and develop a presentation.
Greenwood says the duo conducted a survey of 500 teen girls, developed a PowerPoint presentation, created a display board and distributed 50 T-shirts, with the slogan "Ask yourself, (front), is it worth it?, (back)", throughout the Bay-Arenac center, Bay City Central High School and Standish-Sterling Central High School.
The girls – who don't take a stance on the issue in the presentation, electing instead to expose the costs and consequences of a teen pregnancy – say the competition project isn't just about winning for them.
"It's about making teen girls aware of the cost and time a child demands," Sautter said. "A pregnancy costs between 9 and 12 thousand dollars, not counting doctor visits."
"Having the baby in the hospital isn't in that cost," Greenwood said, adding that can add another $5,000 onto the tab.
"With the economy hurting, it's not easy for parents (of teenage mothers) to help out either."
A stunning statistic revealed through the team's survey found that 5-percent of the girls said it was "cool" to get pregnant and thought that if they were pregnant, their boyfriend would stay with them forever.
"They're finding out that's not the case for most of them," Greenwood said.
Greenwood and Sautter have been promoting their cause since October and will be competing in the state competition in April at Grand Traverse Resort in Traverse City – after a third-place finish at the regional contest at Delta College – that presents the opportunity to compete at nationals if their topic is promoted the most, combined with their state competition score.
"We don't even know who's judging us." Greenwood said. She explained the methods for judgment aren't disclosed and are measured through large-scale awareness and promotion throughout the community.
They also say they're finding their presentation to be effective, although, they believe a larger-scale operation might be a better approach after the competition.
"It's about 50-50," said Greenwood. "Some girls already have their minds made up because they hadn't learned about it at an earlier age."
Both girls said they might look into starting an organization after the competition.
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I wish these girls nothing but the best in raising awareness about teen pregnancy. I hope that their peers will take to the information they present more so than having an adult lecture to them about this topic. It doesn't hurt to try.

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Under brilliant blue skies, the Nebraska football team mingled with nearly 6,000 Big Red fans on the glimmering green of the new FieldTurf under the shadows of the new East Stadium on Fan Day Friday.
On a perfect day for football, autograph signing, photo snapping and just about anything else, the 2013 version of the Huskers celebrated the unofficial opening of Fall Camp under sunny skies and temperatures in the mid-80s.
The Huskers, who are entering their third season in the Big Ten, are ranked 18th in the USA Today Coaches Poll released Thursday. NU begins their first of 24 fall camp practices Monday evening before opening play at home against Wyoming on Saturday, Aug. 31.
Prior to the festivities on the field, select Nebraska football players including seniors Jason Ankrah, Andrew Green and Jeremiah Sirles along with junior Jamal Turner met with members of the media to kick-off fall camp.
As the Huskers gear up for the start of fall camp, Sirles said Nebraska's expectations are high.
"Our expectations are kind of what they have always been – to win. A lot of us are going into our senior season, and it would be great to go out as a champion, so that is the expectation we have, to win the Big Ten Championship," Sirles said. "That is what we came out with last year, and that is what we are coming out with this year. Win them all the way."


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VP Rachel Kyte Welcomes UN Special Envoys on Climate Change
World Bank Vice President for Sustainable Development Rachel Kyte issued the following statement welcoming the United Nations announcement [1] today of two new UN special envoys on climate change: John A. Kufuor, who served as president of Ghana from 2001 to 2009 and chairperson of the African Union from 2007 to 2008, and Jens Stoltenberg, the prime minister of Norway from 2000 to 2001 and 2005 to 2013.
"The appointment [1] of President John A. Kufuor and former PM Jens Stoltenberg as the Special Envoys on Climate Change by UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon is a crucial step to mobilize political will in advance of the UN 2014 Climate Summit. At the World Bank Group we are working with countries to increase ambition and take climate action by highlighting their opportunities for action that build growth, jobs, and resilience. We are delighted to support the Special Envoys, who will be critical to meeting the climate challenge."
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3 words. Full of himself.
I know that RFF in general typically doesn't root for the alpha males, so this might be an unpopular opinion, but I'm glad he found the second idol. He used it when he didn't have to, and now he gets a chance to actually try to do some good with it against the Favorites once they merge (assuming he gets that far).
And, Im a bit like Todd Herzog where I can play into peoples egos to keep them blind to my agenda.
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During the University of Minnesota's spring break, March 15-23, a group of U of M pharmacy and nursing students will spend time in Haiti on a medical mission trip. Follow their experiences here on Health Talk all week, or check in on their progress at www.reachh.org where posts originally appear.
It was quite an eventful day at our clinic today!
We came a little later than yesterday due to a quick stop at the local pharmacy to pick up two medications. When we arrived, we had around 100 patients lined up at the door waiting for us!
We did the best we could to try and get as many patients in as possible but, sadly, we still had to turn away 50 patients and ask them to return tomorrow.
Here are the official statistics for the third day of clinic: We saw 112 patients, did one blood sugar test, administered two vaccines, treated three wounds, administered three prescription immunizations, discovered two positive cases of malaria, and filled 355 prescriptions!
Tomorrow is the last day of our clinic. Wish us all the best in having enough energy to help as many patients as we can!
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The Ticonderoga Festival Guild will kick-off its 2013 membership drive with a free concert. Towne Meeting will entertain Sunday, March 3, at the Best Western Inn at 3 p.m.
The Ticonderoga Festival Guild will kick-off its 2013 membership drive with a free concert.
Towne Meeting will entertain Sunday, March 3, at the Best Western Inn at 3 p.m. with music ranging from folk to classic soft rock and some country.
"The concert is an opportunity to enjoy a musical session at no cost and bring in your membership donations at the same time," Cathie Burdick, guild executive director, said. "This program is made possible by a grant from the Pearsall Foundation with the purpose of enriching life in the Adirondacks."
For further information, contact the Festival Guild office at 585-7015.
The concert will be part of Ticonderoga's MArts Madness.
Two weeks of cultural events and activities — dubbed MArts Madness — have been planned by the Cultural Arts Initiative of the Ticonderoga Area. MArts Madness will be March 2-17.
"One of the activities of the initiative this winter has been to develop MArts Madness, a celebration of the cultural arts of the Ticonderoga area, and a take off on the basketball March Madness," explained, Vincent Smith, the group's chairman. "From March 2 to March 17 there will be a variety of cultural events. Keep your eyes open for the many activities that will brighten your winter.
"There will be a wide variety of visual, performing and literary activities," he said. "Almost every arts organization in Ticonderoga will participate in brightening up the winter months and celebrating the arts energy that goes on year round in the Ticonderoga area."
The Ticonderoga Festival Guild, Inc., was established in 1980 as a non-profit organization dedicated to the advancement of the performing arts in the Ticonderoga area.
The mission of the Ticonderoga Festival Guild is to promote, develop, sustain, present, and advance a diverse program of performing arts in the Ticonderoga area.
The Ticonderoga Festival Guild marked a milestone in 2012 as its Arts Trek program celebrated its 30th anniversary.
Arts Trek is the series of free children's programs held each summer by the guild.
"With a new audience about every five or six years, the 30-year history means that Arts Trek has entertained and impacted about five generations of younger children to date," Burdick said. "Last fall when new board members were recruited, one young woman came on board because she remembered attending the programs as a child."
Arts Trek has become the centerpiece of the Ticonderoga Festival Guild.
People wishing to make a donation or those seeking more information about the guild can call 585-7015, e-mail firstname.lastname@example.com or go online at www.ticonderogafestivalguild.com


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Equinox FrameworkAdmin
This document is under construction.
- 1 Motivation
- 2 Overview:What FramerowkHandler enables?
- 3 Terminologies used in here
- 4 Senarios that the API would help
- 5 API: Package org.eclipse.core.fwhandler
- 7 How to handle running fw information?
- 8 Configurator
- 9 Bundles provided by this incubator subproject
- 10 References
Generally speaking, an OSGi framework (hereafter we call fw) needs some configuration files for its launch. A fw will be launched by invoking java command or by executing an executable launcher file. In the former case, configurations for fw implementation to read will be required. In the latter case, executable launcher file also might read some configuration files at its invocation.
- As in Eclipse, org.eclipse.osgi plug-in that contains main class of equinox fw implementation reads config.ini in a configuration area. In addition, eclipse.exe is provided as an executable launcher which reads eclipse.ini in the same directory and invokes fw.
Currently, the focus of OSGi Service Platform Specification has been to standardize a runtime infrastructure. On the other hand, how to configure and launch a fw is not addressed. Therefore, scenarios such as bootstrapping OSGi on a clean system are left difficult to manage in a fw independent way.
Overview:What FramerowkHandler enables?
We would like to address this problem by proposing a simple API that would allow to configure a non running framework and launch it in a fw independent way. Framework Handler provides fw independent way for a bundle running on a fw to do the followings.
- Set configurations required to launch a fw, such as
- Java VM location,
- Java VM arguments,
- executable launcher location,
- beginning start level and initial bundle start level,
- Bundles to be installed and started with their start levels,
- fw configuration location,
- fw persistent date location,
- Launch a fw with the specified configurations, such as Java VM, Java VM arguments and so on.
- Expect its bundles state if the specified configurations are used for a fw launch.
Terminologies used in here
- Fw config files
- configuration files that will be read by a fw implementation at its launching, e.g. config.ini in the directory specified by osgi.configuration.area system property as for equinox.
- Executable launcher
- an executable fw launcher file, e.g. eclipse.exe as for Eclipse.
- Launcher config files
- configuration files that will be read by an executable launcher, e.g. eclipse.ini as for eclipse.exe.
- Bundles state
- state of bundles that represents what kinds of bundles are installed, resolved and to be started on a fw.
Senarios that the API would help
- to ease the targeting of various frameworks
- Provisioning agent
- to setup a non running framework
- Building an application
- to create all the config files required to run
- Running the framework
- to configure and start a framework from java command
API: Package org.eclipse.core.fwhandler
Interfaces defined in org.eclipse.core.fwhandler package will be introduced briefly. See the codes and Java docs in detail.
The only interface whose implementation will be registered into the OSGi service registry in this package is FwHandlerAdmin.
The client bundle will get the appropriate FwHandlerAdmin service object that can meet its requirements by filtering service properties in the service registry. An example of filtering is the target fw implementation and its version. As for filtering, later section will explain it in detail. Then, the client will get new instance of FwHandler which plays a main role in this API.
The interface has a method which might return the FwHandler object initialized according to the running fw and launcher state. Detail of this would be introduced later.
In addition, it also has a method to launch a fw according to the specified FwHandler object.
A client bundle can get a FwHandler object by FwHandlerAdmin.getFwHandler(). This object keeps both a FwConfigData object and a FwLauncherData object, each of which has setter and getter methods on parameters to be required for a fw launch. The client can set some parameters to be required for launching a fw via FwConfigData object or FwLauncherData object. The parameters set in this object can be saved. Where to save is determined according to the parameters set at that time in a way dependent on a target framework and launcher implementation.
The client also can load parameters from fw config files and launcher config files in the specified locations.
After parameters are set to this object either by setting via a FwConfigData or a FwLaucnherData or loading from configuration files, FwHandlerAdmin.launch(FwHandler, File) will launch a fw according to the current parameters set in this object. It might invoke a fw by java command or executing the specified launcher.
Remember if you have set parameters but not have saved yet, this launch might use other parameters because actual launch will use parameters retrieved from the configuration files.
In addition, FwHandler enables for a client bundle to expect bundles state if the specified configurations are used for launch without actual launch.
FwConfigData is a class that keeps some parameters for a FwHandler object such as,
- Bundles list to be installed, with their persistently marked flag as started or not and their start level for its configuration.
- Beginning start level and initial bundle start level.
- System properties dependent of a fw implementation.
- System properties independent of a fw implementation.
For most fw implementations, these parameters will be saved into their fw config files. However, this API doesn't restrict where to save. For example, a fw implementation and a launcher implementation might need to save these parameters not in fw config files but in a launcher config files. It depends on the target implementations.
FwLauncherData is a class that keeps some parameters for a FwHandler object such as,
- Location of Java VM.
- Java VM arguments.
- Location of fw config files.
- Location of fw persistent data, where a fw implementation save information to be kept persistently, such as bundles state, permissions of bundles, start level information, private persistent storages for bundles, and so on.
- Clean flag: a flag to clean the specified location of fw persistent data.
For most fw implementations, these parameters will be saved into their launcher config files, if executable launcher is used. However, this API doesn't restrict where to save. As in Apache Felix, location of fw persistent data should be written in its fw config file. Therefore, the implementation of FwHandler for Felix should save it into not launcher config file but its fw config file.
The implementating object of FwBundleState will be created by FwHandler object. At the time of its creation, this object will compose bundles state according to the parameters that the FwHandler object keeps. It means, bundles which can be obtained by FwHandler.getFwConfigData().getBundles() will be installed on a virtually launched fw using parameters about fw persistent data location. If the data location is not empty and clean flag is false, the installed bundles persistently recorded there should be taken into consideration to compose the bundles state.
After creating this object, this object also provides ways for a client to resolve bundles, install additional bundles, uninstall bundles virtually. Modification of this object never affects the parameters of the FwHandler object which created this object.
Provider of these APIs
First of all, we supposed that an implementation of this API for each fw implementation will be provided by the implementators of the target fw, because the persons who know the fw implementation the most are the implementators of the target fw.
For clients to filter the proper service object, the provider must register the FwHandlerAdmin object with service properties keyed by the followings.
- FwHandlerAdmin.SERVICE_PROP_KEY_FW_NAME
- String; name of the framework
- FwHandlerAdmin.SERVICE_PROP_KEY_FW_VERSION
- String; version of the framework
- FwHandlerAdmin.SERVICE_PROP_KEY_LAUNCHER_NAME
- String; name of the launcher
- FwHandlerAdmin.SERVICE_PROP_KEY_LAUNCHER_VERSION
- String; version of the launcher
- Current Limitation: there is no version range.Version Range might be required.
- Offline, the implemenentator of FwHandlerAdmin must declare these values and client must know them.
There is another service property name to be standardized.
- FwHandlerAdmin.SERVICE_PROP_KEY_RUNNING_FW_FLAG
- true if its getFwHandlerRunning() returns the initialized FwHandler object of running system.
- Detail of it would be introduced later.
Client of these APIs
A client bundle will get appropriate FwHandlerAdmin service object from an OSGi service registry by filtering the service properties described previously in order to get the FwHandler objects to handle the desired fw and launcher implementation.
Which interface should a method of launch operation belong to?
Currently, a method of launch operation belongs to FwHandlerAdmin interface. I can separate this API into another interface like "FwLauncher". But I am not sure how much merit of it would be.
- One merit of the separation is, we can restrict some bundles so that can configure a fw but cannot launch it, by not giving ServicePermission("GET","FwLauncher").
- One demerit of it is, number of interface will be increased by one, even if this interface only has one method.
Launching a fw instance in the Same Process
At this point, launching a fw instance in the same process is not considered yet in this API, explicitly. However, it will be supported in the future.
- What is not sure is "general way of launching a fw instance in the same process". The API might be able to support it (JavaVM and JavaVM arguments are not used for it obviously).
How to handle running fw information?
There is a need for manipulating configurations of not only a non-running fw but also a running fw. While there are several ways to realize it, currently we adopt the following way. The alternatives to realize it are shown Alternatives of Handling a Running Fw.
Current our proposal
The bundle that registers a FwHandlerAdmin service for a particular fw and launcher implementation will do at its registration as follows;
- A bundle checks if the bundle can register a FwHandlerAdmin object whose getFwHandlerRunning() returns not null but a FwHandler object initialized according to the running fw and launcher implementation, somehow. The way how the bundle checks it is dependent of its target fw and launcher implementation.
- If no, the bundle registers a FwHandlerAdmin service for a target fw and launcher implementation, whose getFwHandlerRunning() returns null, with specified service properties including the ones representing fw name/version and launcher name/version.
- If yes, the bundle registers a FwHandlerAdmin service for a target fw and launcher implementation, whose getFwHandlerRunning() returns a FwHandler object initialized according to the running fw and launcher implementation. The registration is done with specified service properties including not only the ones representing fw name/version and launcher name/version, but also FwHandlerAdmin.SERVICE_PROP_KEY_RUNNING_FW_FLAG="true".
Regarding when the bundle should register a FwHandlerAdmin service is not addressed. However, the typical timing is at its start up.
A client bundle can get the initialized FwHandler object as follows;
String filter = "(FwHandlerAdmin.SERVICE_PROP_KEY_RUNNING_FW_FLAG=true)". ServiceReference references[] = context.getServiceReferences(FwHandlerAdmin.class.getName(), filter); FwHandlerAdmin fwHandlerAdmin = (FwHandlerAdmin) context.getService(references[0]); FwHandler fwHandler = fwHandlerAdmin.getFwHandlerRunning(); < initialized.
Bundles provided by this incubator subproject
- "org.eclipse.core.fwhandler": APIs related with FwHandler and Configurator which will be used by clients.
- "org.eclipse.core.fwhandler.equinox": Implementation of FwHandler for Equinox. See javadoc of BundleActivator of this plug-in.
- "org.eclipse.core.fwhandler.felix": Implementation of FwHandler for Apache Felix. See javadoc of BundleActivator of this plug-in.
- "org.eclipse.core.fwhandler.kf": Implementation of FwHandler for Knopflerfish. See javadoc of BundleActivator of this plug-in.
- "org.eclipse.core.simpleConfigurator": Implementation of SimpleConfigurator.
- "org.eclipse.core.simpleConfigurator.manipulator": Implementation of ConfiguratorManipulator for SimpleConfigurator.
- "org.eclipse.core.fwhandler.internal.utils": Utility classes used for implementing "org.eclipse.core.fwhandler.equinox", "org.eclipse.core.fwhandler.kf", "org.eclipse.core.simpleConfigurator" and "org.eclipse.core.simpleConfigurator.manipulator".
- "org.eclipse.core.fwhandler.examples": An example of client bundle of the APIs related with FwHandler.
To understand how a provider is implemented the APIs, see bundle 1 and 2. To understand how a client uses the APIs, see bundle 1 and 7.


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Cyril's Fish House, the traffic-stopping hotspot on Napeague, has been front and center at the East Hampton Town Planning Board's last two meetings, on Nov. 28 and again on Dec. 5, as the board debated whether to recommend a change in its zoning status from residential to neighborhood business, under which a restaurant is an allowed use.
The change would bring Cyril's into compliance with the zoning code, allowing it to expand legally. The restaurant was cited for over 40 code violations in the past year alone, according to Robert Connolly, an East Hampton Town attorney.
Rezoning would affect not only the lot the building sits on but a vacant one to the west, between Napeague Harbor Road and the restaurant, as well, folding the two properties into one 1.13-acre parcel and allowing for an expanded parking area on the western lot. An expansion from 62 seats to 92 might also be allowed, although a number of variances from the Zoning Board of Appeals would probably still be needed.
Cyril's, which is in a residential zone, is allowed to operate as a restaurant because it was doing so before current zoning rules prohibited it, giving it a special status. However, under such nonconforming status, expansion of the site is not allowed.
In May 2009 the town's chief building inspector, Don Sharkey, who has since died, told town attorneys and the planning and code enforcement departments that expansion had taken place on the property. He counted 15 structures built without site plan approval or building permits and lacking valid certificates of occupancy, naming several seating areas, a reach-in cooler, a propane tank, and storage trailers, among others.
Both lots in question are owned by Michael Dioguardi, who has leased the restaurant parcel to Cyril Fitzgerald for many years. The site has been developed since at least 1960. In 1969, according to town records, a C of O was issued for a "one-story frame restaurant and gas station" with a gravel patio.
The gas pumps are long since gone, but the site has housed a restaurant, in one guise or another, ever since. It has changed names several times, from Fish 'n' Chips in 1972 to Skipper's Galley in 1984, to Beach House in 1989, finally becoming Cyril's in 1990. Always popular, Cyril's now draws so many 20 and 30-something patrons that it stops traffic on summer afternoons, as motorists brake to a halt on a road with a speed limit of 55 miles per hour in order to allow people to cross the highway. Cars park up and down the shoulder of Route 27, often a quarter-mile or more away.
If the planning board recommends it and the town board approves, Mr. Dioguardi intends to situate the restaurant farther back from the highway and add 37 parking spots to the west, on the back half of the combined lots. He would also install a new sanitary system; the current septic system is considered outdated.
The plan has been in the works for several years. In 2010 Eric Schantz, then a member of the Planning Department, weighed the pluses and minuses of a change in zoning and suggested that it might, all things considered, be for the good. Among possible benefits, he wrote, were "safety, both for the patrons and motorists on Montauk Highway," and the possible reduction of "the impact of the site on the adjacent protected natural features, most notably the expansive freshwater wetlands present."
He concluded, however, with a warning: "Any zone change approval
. . . which is solely based upon the fact that a pre-existing use is nonconforming to current zoning would establish a precedent that could adversely impact many other neighborhoods."
There is indeed a precedent for the planning board to consider. In 2003, the town agreed to provide the same zone change for the land upon which the Lobster Roll, another destination dining spot on Napeague, sits. However, in that case, no expansion of the restaurant was contemplated. Instead, the town received land for preservation and the Lobster Roll was allowed to improve its parking facilities, as well as widen its entrance and exit onto Montauk Highway.
The planning board tabled the matter for a week to allow members to mull over the documents involved, before holding a final debate on Dec. 5. Robert Schaeffer, a board member, began the discussion.
"There are some sanitary issues," he said, noting that as part of the proposal the owner would be installing a new septic system. And, he said, "rezoning can restore it to its intended use."
Reed Jones, the board chairman, while calling himself "pro-business," nevertheless said he was opposed to rezoning. "I don't think it is fair to compare this to the Lobster Roll," he said. "If you grant rezoning it could lead to expansion of use."
"It's a dangerous site. We all want to correct that," said J.P. Foster. "Now they're trying to grow it by another 30 seats."
Diana Weir disagreed with Mr. Foster. "I don't think it does anything but give us more control" over the number of seats in the restaurant, she said.
Ian Calder-Piedmonte also embraced the proposal. "I think it's a good idea," he said, calling Cyril's "sort of an East End tradition." He reiterated Mr. Schaeffer's view that the town would get, in return for the zoning change, improved parking and sanitary conditions.
But Nancy Keeshan, who drives past Cyril's almost daily on her way from her home in East Hampton to her real estate business in Montauk, strongly disagreed. "I enjoy a daiquiri as much as the next girl," she told the board, smiling, but said that approving the zoning change would be akin to approving the current status quo.
The board split down the middle when it came time to vote, voting three in favor, three opposed. Ms. Weir, Mr. Calder-Piedmonte, and Mr. Schaeffer voted to recommend approval. The seventh board member, Patrick Schutte, was unable to attend the meeting. In the end, the board agreed to draft a letter to the town board giving the reasoning behind both pros and cons.
The planning board's recommendation is necessary before the town can act on the change. The town board can take the zoning change up at its own discretion, once it receives the planning board's letter.
Members of the Amagansett Citizens Advisory Committee, had they been members of the planning board instead, would almost certainly have sent a less evenly divided letter to the town board. At their meeting Monday night, members of the committee spoke forcefully about what they consider egregious code violations, a dangerous traffic situation, and, chiefly, Cyril's impact on the environment, despite the perceived advantages of a rezoning — a greater ability to enforce code, added parking for the always-crowded business, and improved sanitation.
Thirty more seats, or a dozen additional parking spaces, were negligible, committee members felt, in the context of the several hundred patrons who routinely crowd the front of the restaurant. "It's not the 60 or 90 people sitting, it's the thousand people standing," said Britton Bistrian.
Cyril's outmoded septic system is a critical component, said Councilwoman Sylvia Overby, the committee's liaison to the town board, citing the parcel's close proximity to Napeague Harbor, and Kieran Brew, the chairman, pointed out that the western lot would be used for a new system.
Cyril's is located in a FEMA flood zone, noted Sheila Okin, the vice chairwoman, with a shallow depth of groundwater. "The sanitary flow will exceed what is allowable by the County Health Department," she said.
John Broderick voiced concern that Cyril's might exploit the Lobster Roll precedent. "The precedent is an important issue," he said. "They're using [it.]" Of the restaurant's numerous code violations, Mr. Broderick added, "There's so little enforcement as it is. These are critical, egregious violations. At what point do those violations become a shutdown issue?"
Ms. Overby reminded the committee that the town board might elect not to consider the proposal to rezone. In any event, she said, if the board does decide to take it up, there will be a hearing.
Members pondered making a recommendation to the town board. "I really feel we should make a recommendation," Ms. Okin said. "It's serious." But Ms. Overby responded that a recommendation at this juncture was premature.
However ACAC members felt about the proposal, said Mr. Brew, "Cyril's is not going away. We have to find a way to deal with it."
And whatever the town board decides, said Ms. Overby, "the gorilla in the room is, it's still going to be a mess."
With reporting
by Christopher Walsh


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The next time a really big truck or bus locks in on your car's rear bumper just keep in mind in the near future both you and it will be able to stay on the road a lot longer between fill-ups.
The cat and mouse road game, you being the highway mouse, potentially could last for hundreds of miles after the latest mileage requirements for cars and trucks kick-in later this decade.
For cars, U.S automakers will have to build vehicles that average a fleet-wide 54.5 mpg by 2024, up from the existing fleet average of about 27.8 mpg. The government has set mileage requirements for cars and light-duty vehicles since 1975.
Last week, for the first time, the government unveiled fuel-efficiency and greenhouse gas emission standards for long-haul trucks (those 80,000 pound 18-wheelers), heavy and medium-duty work trucks (everything from fire trucks to cement mixers), buses and other heavy-duty vehicles (garbage trucks, dump trucks, flatbeds, refrigerated trucks, and cargo and step vans) requiring mileage improvements of 9 percent to 23 percent depending on the category.
By model year 2018, semi rigs will have to reduce fuel consumption and gas emissions 20 percent, heavy-duty pickups and vans, by 15 percent, and vocational vehicles such as delivery trucks, transit buses and garbage trucks, by 10 percent.
Fuel savings for 18-wheelers could reach 4 gallons of fuel for each 100 miles traveled, The Detroit News said, and 1 gallon per 100 miles traveled for vocational trucks.
"While we were working to improve the efficiency of cars and light-duty trucks, something interesting happened," President Barack Obama said in a statement. "We started getting letters asking that we do the same for medium and heavy-duty trucks. They were from people who build, buy and drive these trucks."
Experts at the Union of Concerned Scientists say reducing truck emissions by 20 percent would result in an average 8 mpg boost in fuel economy. U.S. engine and truck manufacturers say that's fine with them.
The Engine Manufacturers Association and the Truck Manufacturers Association praised the ambitious final rule -- nearly 1,000 pages -- announced Tuesday by the president and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.
"EMA and TMA members strongly support a uniform, national program to address greenhouse gas emissions and fuel efficiency that aligns with the needs of their customers and the nation," Jed Mandel, EMA-TMA president said in a statement. "The final rule provides a novel program that expands the use of existing fuel efficiency improvement technologies, incentivizes the introduction of advanced technologies, accelerates improvements in medium and heavy-duty truck efficiency and reduces greenhouse gas emissions."
The Obama administration announced new passenger car fuel economy rules two weeks earlier after wrangling with the automakers. Auto companies will make 11 million to 14 million vehicles this year while only a few hundred thousand new commercial trucks will roll off the assembly lines.
Republicans and corporate lobbying groups warned the new regulations could destroy jobs but environmentalists said they would give Americans cleaner air, lower fuel costs and reduce dependency on foreign oil. The Los Angeles Times said the rules encourage car and truck manufactures to use existing technology to meet the mileage and emission standards, even though some industry observers said meeting them will be a challenge for truck builders that have to invest billions.
The EPA estimated the new standards could cost new vehicle buyers $8 billion, which would be made up by fuel savings realized in the first few years of operating each truck.
The Owner Operator Independent Drivers Association said the final rule overlooked the most effective fuel-savings method of all -- driver training -- which it said is responsible as much as 35 percent of fuel economy, Truckinginfo, the Web site of Heavy Duty Trucking magazine said.
"With this rule, EPA and NHTSA have now set an example for what could be a worldwide GHG (greenhouse gas) and fuel efficiency regulation for heavy duty trucks and engines," said Daniel Ustain, chairman of Navistar, a commercial and military truck maker that helped come up with the standards.
In 2010, the government awarded Cummins Inc., a U.S. diesel engine maker, $54 million in federal grants to develop high-efficiency drivetrains that meet the EPA's requirement. Cummins said it can do it early.
"The emissions technologies in use today provide the foundation for meeting the 2014 standards, and Cummins is ready to meet this regulation in 2013," said Steve Charlton, vice president and chief technical officer of Cummins' engine business.
About 95 percent of commercial trucks and 85 percent of buses on U.S. roads are powered by diesel engines -- once reviled for belching dirty blue-black smoke and fumes -- that consume some 22 billion gallons of fuel annually.
Figuring the long distances they travel, the poor mileage they get, and the amount of time they sit idling, commercial trucks use an estimated 20 percent of all vehicle fuel burned in the United States.
The new engines are not your grandfather's diesels.
The Diesel Technology Forum, a trade association, said the new efficiency rules could cut U.S. oil consumption by more than 530 million barrels over the lifetime of the next-generation vehicles.
Currently, a long-haul truck traveling 150,000 miles annually averaging 6 mpg burns around 25,000 gallons of fuel. At $4 a gallon, that fuel costs around $100,000, Allen Schaeffer, executive director of the Diesel Technology Forum told The New York Times.
"The billions of dollars in research and development by engine and truck manufacturers over the last decade has paid off and led to the new technology diesel engines and fuels we know today," Schaeffer said. "These engines offer an unmatched combination of energy-efficiency, work capability, reliability and now near-zero emissions making them the technology of choice for commercial trucks today and into the foreseeable future."
U.S. "Car Czar" Ron Bloom, a former investment banker who helped the administration save General Motors and Chrysler in an $85 million bailout and restructure the industry, is stepping down.
A one-time adviser to the United Steelworkers, Bloom helped work out agreement on new passenger vehicle fuel efficiency standards to increase fleet mileage to 54.5 mpg by 2025.
"For the past 2 1/2 years, Ron Bloom's leadership and expertise has helped us put America's automakers back on the road to recovery, launch new partnerships and make our manufacturers more competitive, and set aggressive fuel economy standards that will save consumers and businesses money at the pump," said President Obama.
The Detroit News said the government still has a 26 percent equity stake in GM and owns 74 percent of Ally Financial, formerly GMAC. Chrysler Group LLC is on its own after being acquired by Italy's Fiat Group.


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The North Adams Library will be closed on Friday, Nov. 19, from 10:30 to noon so staff can attend the funeral of the late Edna Rudnick, who lead the Friends of the North Adams Public Library as president for 20 years.
"Edna was a strong supporter of the library and helped raise the funds to complete the beautiful renovation of our library that she loved so much," said Library Director Rick Moon in explaining the closure.
Rudnick died this past Saturday at age 86. She was a longtime booster of the library and involved in other civic activities, including chairman of the city's Council on Aging and a longtime member of the Planning Board. Her participation in these committees was put on hold a couple months ago when she fell and broke her hip.
After surgery, she entered North Adams Commons for rehabilitation and was expected to return to her home in the High-Rise apartments, where she also was active with the tenants' association. Rudnick even posed for a testimonial on how well she was doing in rehab for Northern Berkshire Healthcare.
However, her health suddenly declined and she died at the nursing home this past Saturday. Her husband, Stafford Rudnick, who was a police officer in the city in his younger years, died in 1985. She left no immediate family in the area.
A calling hour for Rudnick will be held Friday, Nov. 19, from 10 until the funeral service at 11 a.m. at Flynn & Dagnoli-Montagna Home for Funerals, Central Chapels, 74 Marshall St., North Adams. Burial will follow in Southview Cemetery.
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November 22, 2011
"It's a bad paper." – Gore Vidal, referring to the New York Times.
"Mr. Chapman, 21, said he had not heard Mr. Ortega talk of taking violent action. But more than a year ago, he recalled, Mr. Ortega and others watched an antigovernment film on the Internet called "The Obama Deception," which was written, directed and produced by Alex Jones, a Texas-based conservative talk show host who has espoused a number of conspiracy theories involving the federal government." – The New York Times, "White House Shooting Suspect's Path to Extremism," November 20, 2011.
The Establishment media is at it again: Calling anti-treason and truth speech "anti-government."
The New York Times is using a violent act by a nutcase near the White House to demonize the American truth and justice movement, make Alex Jones look bad, and censor political speech.
The morally bankrupt media is really getting desperate. They hate the fact that "conspiracy theorists" are truthful, honest, generous, kind, honourable, and peaceful, so they are using every excuse and event to make us look like deranged mental patients.
But, ironically, the only people who are buying their propaganda are deranged mental patients.
The NY Times is the most popular paper in mental hospitals.
Seriously, though, this is no joke. The New York Times is committing a serious crime by connecting political speech to a violent act by a mentally disturbed individual. It is implying that people who watch The Obama Deception by Alex Jones are a threat to civil society and the public order.
This is an attack against the first amendment by the NY Times.
The NY Times must be opposed and defeated for suggesting their psycho-babble bullshit is true. There is nothing in The Obama Deception which encourages individuals to use violence to take America back from the traitors and criminals who hijacked the federal government. The film is an educational tool that is in the tradition of the best social criticism and political speech in American history.
The Obama Deception is not "anti-government." It is anti-state criminality, anti-mass murder, anti-financial crime, anti-treason, and anti-state terrorism.
What Alex Jones and the Infowars crew are doing is heroic, virtuous, and brave.
Shame on the NY Times for stooping to the level of the Soviet Union and using the language of psychiatry to target political speech. They are exposing themselves to be evil totalitarian apparatchiks for the U.S. Shadow National Security State.
Here is an excerpt from Wikipedia's entry about the Soviet Union's use of psychiatry to go after political critics and democratic dissidents:
In the Soviet Union, systematic political abuse of psychiatry took place. Soviet psychiatric hospitals were used by the authorities as prisons in order to isolate hundreds or thousands of political prisoners from the rest of society, discredit their ideas, and break them physically and mentally. This method was also employed against religious prisoners and most especially against well-educated former atheists who adopted a religion. In such cases their religious faith was determined to be a form of mental illness that needed to be cured. Formerly highly classified extant documents from "Special file" of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union published after the dissolution of the Soviet Union demonstrate that the authorities of the country quite consciously used psychiatry as a tool to suppress dissent.
It is evident that the CIA learned quite a few tricks from the KGB about how to crush rebels and freedom fighters without using violence.
But the KGB and its newspapers failed. And the CIA and its newspapers will fail too.
The arrogant and laughable liars at the NY Times can't escape the judgment of history. Their reputation is sinking every day. The lies they have told over the years have destroyed America, and their new lies are directed at the American freedom movement which wants to restore the American constitution.
But the "paper of record" is going extinct. It is collapsing.
Its circulation is already in the toilet. The people who still read the NY Times are brain dead and brainwashed.
Killing independent thought is what the NY Times does best.
The NY Times propagandists are mad that the American people are rejecting their propaganda and turning to "conspiracy theorists" like Alex Jones to get news and commentary.
The conspiracy theory movement has liberated the American mind and the American soul from the hell of oligarchical totalitarianism and mass brainwashing by the corporate-state media.
America is no longer mentally occupied by self-appointed media priests and political myth makers who define the boundaries of what is the truth and what is a conspiracy theory.
The NY Times can't live in a world that is based on truth and freedom because it has embraced totalitarian lies and government tyranny. It has staked its existence on the success of the fascists state terrorists who carried out the 9/11 attacks and the global fascist government they are building.
But they've made the wrong choice by siding with the evil state terrorists. They are on the wrong side of history. The day the NY Times goes bankrupt will be a beautiful day in America and the world.
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Here's a bit of good news:
An ambitious military sweep appears to be dramatically reducing Baghdad's homicide rate, U.S. and Iraqi officials said Sunday — even as violence nationwide killed at least 80 people, including six U.S. soldiers in and around the capital.
Last month, the Baghdad morgue received more than 1,800 bodies, a record high. This month, the morgue is on track to receive less than a quarter of that.
Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri Maliki seized on the drop in slayings during a CNN interview.
"The violence is not increasing…. No, we're not in a civil war," Maliki said. "In Iraq, we'll never be in civil war. What you see is an atmosphere of reconciliation."
Although the smaller monthly tally offers encouragement to U.S. and Iraqi officials, it remains a triple-digit reminder that sectarian violence and insurgent activity continue to roil the country.
"It is not possible to create a democracy at the barrel of a gun…. We cannot even work freely as politicians," said Saleh Mutlak, a Sunni Arab member of parliament. "It is not possible for us to even hold meetings. We cannot travel between one province and another."
U.S. Army Maj. Gen. James D. Thurman, commander of military forces in Baghdad, attributed the capital's declining violence to a sweep involving 8,000 U.S. soldiers and 3,000 Iraqi troops aimed at stopping sectarian violence.
The numbers certainly are still unpleasantly high — it's not nice to live in a City that has close to 400 homicides per month — but the decline (more than 75%) is staggering and impressive. Many congratulations to both the U.S. and Iraqi forces for bringing this sea-change about.


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The rate of teenagers getting pregnant in Ilkeston and Derbyshire is the lowest it has ever been, new figures reveal.
The information, released by the Office of National Statistics, shows that nationally the number of girls under 18 getting pregnant has dropped by 9.8 per cent to 27.7 per 1,000 between 2011 and 2012.
Nationally, this is the lowest it has ever been since records began in 1998.
In Derbyshire the drop is even greater at 13.6 per cent – a rate of 22.3 per 1,000 – over the same period. The Derbyshire trend shows the figures are falling generally but there are differences across the county - with the highest number of teen pregnancies in Chesterfield and the lowest in the Derbyshire Dales.
However the gap between the districts which have higher rates and those with lower figures has been narrowing since 2004.
Derbyshire County Council's cabinet member for health and communities, Councillor Dave Allen, described it as encouraging to see the county's overall teenage pregnancy rate at an all-time low.
He added: "It's also good to see that the the gap between districts is narrowing.
"It's clear that teenage pregnancy is not inevitable and can be prevented, even in areas where rates have been high in the past.
"We need to sustain the progress we are seeing and there is no room for complacency.
"We have a way to go before bringing rates in line with other Western European countries."
Teenagers in Derbyshire can access a range of support and information in schools and other settings.
The Sexual Health Promotion service offers the C-card scheme − a scheme aimed at young people to improve information and access to free condoms.
The long-term trend shows that teen pregnancy rates are falling faster in Derbyshire than in the rest of the country.
The rate in Derbyshire has fallen 46.4 per cent between 1998 and 2012 compared with 40.6 per cent in England.
The number of under-18 conceptions in England fell by 10.3 per cent to 26,157 and in Derbyshire by 14.5 per cent to 319.
The rate of under-16 conceptions has also fallen in both nationally and across the whole county.


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It was looking rather bleak as the harvest approached, but the weather changed just in time as Indian summer conditions arrived to help dry out the grapes and extend the growing season into October. Hot days and cool nights allowed fruit and sugar development while retaining crucial acidity. Brief spells of rain forced growers to stop and start several times during the harvest, but the most astute among them were able to keep an eye on the weather while coaxing as much as possible from the vines after the uneven summer.
In the end, the late season comeback helped save the vintage, which produced a small but excellent crop of white wines that have superb concentration with fruit nicely balanced by lively acidity. For the growers who put in the time in the vineyards during the summer and harvest to select only the best fruit, the reds were solidly concentrated ripe wines with good depth and excellent structure.
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Screen reveals the winner of our annual international critics jury vote in Cannes. See the full grid here and find out which film won.
Terrence Malick's The Tree of Life may well have won the Palme d'Or at Cannes this year, but the surprise winner of the annual Screen International critics jury was one of the last films to screen In Competition, Nuri Bilge Ceylan's Once Upon a Time in Anatolia.
The film managed a score average of 3.3, just putting it ahead of early festival favourites Le Havre, directed by Aki Kaurismaki (which had a score of 3.2) and Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne's The Kid With a Bike, which tallied 3.1.
The Tree of Life received a score of 2.8, a figure also achieved by Michel Hazanavicius's The Artist and Paolo Sorrentino's This Must Be The Place.
At the other end of the voting scale, the lowest score went to Bertrand Bonnello'sHouse of Tolerance with an average of 1.1 (which included two deadly 'x' ratings, the lowest that can be awarded). Other poor critical performers were Sleeping Beauty (1.5), Hanezu (1.6), Hara-Kiri: Death of a Samurai (1.7) and The Source (1.7).
The jury was comprised of nine international critics: Jose Carlos Avellar from escreVerciema.com in Brazil, Michel Ciment from Positif in France, Alberto Crespi from L'Unita in Italy, Dennis Lim from The New York Times in the US, Nick James from Sight & Sound in the UK, Bo Green Jensen from Weekendavisen Berlingske in Denmark, Derek Malcolm from the Evening Standard in the UK, Jan Schulz-Ojala from Der Tagesspiegel in Germany, and David Stratton from The Australian in Australia. The 11th vote came from Screen International's individual critic for each film.
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HOXIE, Ark. (AP) - Richard Millsap gets by.
"My children get what they need, and Jill is a good wife and mother," he said.
He works during the day at Russell's Auto Repair in Portia, and Jill works second shift.
"I'm a poor boy, myself," he said. "I struggle, and to see people that struggle more than me hurts my heart."
This Christmas Eve, he and Santa will deliver presents to four families in Black Rock, Hoxie, Walnut Ridge and Piggott.
A total of 13 children will receive brand new shoes, socks, underwear, shirts, pants and coats, purchased from $1,500 Millsap raised last weekend during a garage sale.
"I'm not doing it to 'touch' nobody. I don't like pats on the back," he said. "I think everybody deserves to open a present."
For five years, Millsap has been buying Christmas presents for families in need. He began when a woman he knew was left by her husband four days before Christmas.
Millsap decided to buy presents for her two children. He delivered the gifts to her doorstep on Christmas, rang the doorbell and ran.
"Ever since then, I help children at Christmas." He's driven truckloads of presents to Ravenden, Jonesboro, Sedgwick, and as far as Thayer, Mo. "A lot more places than I can remember."
In November, Millsap began preparing for Christmas. He had two sheds in his backyard that were full of items donated for the garage sale, and he filled a storage unit that a local person offered to him for free.
He said a lot of community members donate clothes, some of them still marked with a Dillard's price tag.
Clothing leftover from the garage sale will go to Shepherd Care and The Children's Shelter, both of Walnut Ridge.
A lot of donated items are nice, some are not so nice, and some just need to be cleaned.
"It takes time to clean, money for cleaning supplies, and storage," he said.
Millsap operated the sale under his own system: take what you want, and give what you want.
He mentioned a woman who wanted to buy an armload of items from the garage sale, but only had a hand full of change.
He assured her it would be all right, and she paid with the change she had.
A few days later, "the same lady handed me a $100 bill," Millsap said.
Local businesses also contributed monetary donations, totaling more than $500.
He received a $25 donation from a company in Michigan City, Ind., and speculates someone heard about the fundraiser through his Facebook page, "Richard Millsap."
His Facebook friends message him names of families who may need help. He picks a few, contacts their friends to discern the children's needs, then prepares to deliver their presents on Christmas Eve.
"It's a family thing, and it's growing every year," he said.
He said he couldn't pull it off without his friends and family: Shea Bobbitt, Jody Sanders, Tina and Chuck Adams, Allen Blackwell, Gabby Millsap, and Terry and Shirley Millsap.
"He's got a really big heart," Bobbitt said. A single mother of 3, Bobbitt said her family has never had to worry about getting by, in part because of help others have offered.
"I know that it does get hard sometimes, no matter how good you're doing," she said. "You always want to see other people do good, also."
Bobbitt found out about the fundraiser through Facebook.
"It's heartbreaking to know there is so much want and need," Millsap said. "Most people can't take the time to look next door. Nobody does that anymore."
Millsap is raising his children differently, and volunteering helps him bond with them.
"I get to spend time with my boys," Landon Taleff, 12, and Lake Light, 7.
He also has an 18-month-old daughter, Kimley.
Families need help all year long, he said, not just at Christmas, and he helps with numerous other fundraisers.
He said last year he shaved his head to raise money for a cancer patient, for whom he collected $1,000.
Information from: The Jonesboro Sun, http://www.jonesborosun.com
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Piute County (Utah). County Clerk Death register
Dates: 1898, 1904.
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These records contain death registers recorded during the years 1889 and 1904. Each entry has an assigned number, name of the decedent, age, sex, race, color, term of residence, birthplace, marital status, occupation, residence, cause of death, date of death, and the name of the party making the report.
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This is more of a vent post than anything.
I'm simply getting more and more aggrivated because of what is happening in my current residence and all I can think is that this entity does not want me to leave.
From the first night in the house that I'm living in right now I could tell there was something else there. It's quite an old town house, three stories and it still has all it's originaly features. It's now used as student accomidation. The stair case we have is right next to my room, the first night I was here I went through the door to my room into the hallway to say hello to other person that had already moved in. At the time it was only myself, my boyfriend and this other girl that was living there, we were all standing in the hallway at the bottom of the stairs talking. I happened to glance up the stairs and saw a shadow person. If there had been someone else living there I'd have said that it was someone simply standing in the shadows on the stairs because the lights weren't on so they were dark, but since it was only us three it couldn't have been another living person.
I brushed this off thinking it was just because I was tired from moving, but then the other resident happened to mention in passing conversation that another person that lives in the house but had gone home for the summer had mentioned that she thought there was something in the house, and it seems to bother her the most wen she was there but when she was away from the house things would start happening to other people. I kept getting glances of this shadow figure and hearing strange noises for a while until this person moved back into the house and then it stopped.
Then at christmas the girl who had the most experience with the spirit went home for winter break. And once again these experiences started happening. To be perfectly honest I had forgotten about everything by this point. But once the girl moved out the electronics in my room started playing up. At first I just assumed it was low batteries in controls sending off dodgy signals and turning the TV on or over etc. but I replaced all the batteries and even at one point took the batteries out of all the controls when I was not using them and this still happened. When my boyfriend wasn't home I'd hear scratches and shuffling, as well as the odd footsteps outside the bedroom door, I started to check to see if it was one of my housemates playing tricks but there was no one ever there, and this even happened when everyone had left for winter break leaving just myself and my boyfriend in the house. As well as this I started to get the sense of being watched, which I must admit could have just been paranoia from the experiences but it did get to the point where I'd look the bedroom door at night when I was there on my own and I'd make sure to take my phone everywhere with me in the house just in case something happened or there was an unknown intruder that was to blame for this.
The girl I mentioned before moved back in and everything clamed down again, or at least it did for me. Since I didn't talk to this girl much, she could have been having experiences for all I know.
Pretty much everyone has now moved out of the house now except for myself, my boyfriend and another male resident that basically keeps to himself at the top of the house and is very rarely actually in the house. Now the activity has picked up more and more closer to the point where myself and my boyfriend are going to move out. At first, about June time, the noise outside the door started and the electronics started playing up again. I decided just to ignore this because to be perfectly honest I couldn't be bothered with it. But now I've had things falling on me when I've been in the room on my own. Our mini christmas tree came flying off our wardrobe and hit me in the face at one point. Our things have been getting moved around, now I'll admit that I'm not exactly the most organised person with things so I've left out some of the stuff that's went missing in case it's simply the fact that I've misplaced them but there are some items which I make sure I put in certain places everytime because they're either so small that if I lose them I wont find them again or they're really important.
For example I have a pair of tweazers like every girl probably has, since I've misplaced many of these when I used to live at home I always put these tweazers either behind the TV on our fireplace or in the bathroom on the sink so that I know exactly where to get them from. On this paticular occassion I'd left them on the sink in our bathroom (no one uses this bathroom but myself and my boyfriend). A couple of days later I went back to get them and couldn't find them, I checked the fireplace too just incase I'd put them there instead and they weren't there either. I turn that bathroom and our room upside down looking for them, this may seem strange for a pair of tweazers but I hate losing stuff. They were nowhere to be found, I assumed they must have been knocked and went down the plug hole or something along those lines. A couple of weeks later I'd dropped some money behind the cushion of our couch, I went to get it and there were my tweazers, sitting behind the cushion like they had just been placed there. Strange but fair enough their small, despite the fact I knew I had put them in another room I just passed it off as one of those things.
A couple of weeks later, my keys which I always leave on our table beside the door went missing. My boyfriend and I once again turned the room upside down looking for them and couldn't find them. I decided to do some washing since it's obvious I wouldn't be able to go anywhere that day, I emptied out the washing basket so that I could get some white things together to wash, sitting at the bottom of the basket under some clothes that had been there for almost a week were my keys. The keys which I had used the day before when I was driving to see my mum....
One of the other significant item disappearances and one of the very few incidents that have actually shook me and caused me to feel anxious was my phone. I'd had my phone in my bag from a night out the previous night. I went to get my phone from my bag and it wasn't there, I was panicing because I had borrowed this phone from a friend so I obviously didn't want to lose it, I emptied out everything from my bag and organised everything on my bed so that I could make sure I hadn't missed it. When I didn't find it I took the house phone and went to call my boyfriend who was staying at his friends house to see if he had moved it. He told me he hadn't seen it from the night before. When I returned to my room, there was my phone sitting on the bed in the middle of all the things that I had laid out on the bed, as if someone at just placed it there so I'd see it as soon as I came through the door.
Since then my keys have went missing a few more times and have turned up at the back of things at haven't been moved in weeks at under chairs which are nowhere near where I placed them. At one point I had put them down on the couch and I saw them fall between the foot stool and the couch itself, I left them there while I nipped to the toilet and planned to pick them up when I came back, they weren't there when I came back. I ended up finding them a couple of hours later under a another chair that we have in our room where all the shoes are kept underneath it.
It is now two weeks until we move out, I'm just wondering what the big finale will be and I'm dreading packing everything up because I'm pretty confident that our belongings will not stay in the boxes.
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Started by PoisonMookie , Aug 20 2012 09:17 AM
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Posted 28 September 2012 - 03:37 PM
The most popular game for spirits is hide-and-seek.They especially seem to like hiding small items that you habitually place in one location. Frustrating to be sure. Just tell the spirit in a firm tone to cut it out. That should work long enough until you move.
Posted 07 October 2012 - 05:33 PM
Thanks for sharing such a detailed story. The house is difinitely haunted. At least you're not as creeped out about it as I would be.
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My daughter is currently 4 months old and I recently pulled some frozen breast milk that is about 2 months old from my freezer. When it was almost all the way defrosted I smelled it and it smelled bad. More sour than soapy. I tasted it and it was horrible. All 3 bags I pulled were like that. I also noticed this smell and bad taste when my milk is in the fridge for more than 48 hours. At first I thought it was excess lipase. So yesterday I scaled my milk and then put it in the fridge to test. After 24 hours it not only smelled bad but also had some small chunks in it. I threw it out. So does this mean it is a chemical oxidation issue? I am following proper pumping and storage procedures. If it is chemical oxidation, is the milk bad for baby? She actually drank the bad smelling milk yesterday and seemed fine. I only gave it to her because I thought it was excess lipase and I know that is fine for the baby as long as she will drink it.
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