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STAMFORD -- The teenager who burst into a Hope Street liquor store with an accomplice on New Year's Eve 2012, but failed to convince the store clerk that a robbery was in progress even after firing a gun, was sentenced to prison Monday.
Richard Graham, 18, of Leeds Street, Stamford, was given a term of five years by state Superior Court Judge Gary White, though a prosecutor had asked that Graham be given two additional years because he fired a gun three times during the robbery attempt.
In February, Graham pleaded guilty to criminal attempt to commit first-degree robbery as part of a plea agreement that would get him between five and seven years in prison.
In arguing for the maximum sentence, Supervisory Senior Assistant State's Attorney James Bernardi said Graham had two robbery convictions in juvenile court, and he already owed three years in prison for violating probation when he tried to rob the Hope Bottle Shop on New Year's Eve 2012.
Bernardi said Graham nearly shot an employee. The three slugs were recovered by police.
Graham's public defender, Barry Butler, said Graham had a good upbringing, being born and raised in Jamaica by parents who were "shocked" and "horrified" by their son's actions.
"He got involved in the wrong people and got involved in the wrong conduct," said Butler, adding that Graham was taking responsibility for what he did.
"Richard Graham is offering no excuses. He is here to take his medicine. He knows he is going to be incarcerated," Butler said.
White said it appeared Graham could become a productive member of society with a solid family behind him. "This is a terrible situation," White said, but that firing of the gun in the commission of a robbery could not be ignored.
Graham and another man police have identified as Jeremy "J Rock" Robinson, 22, of Main Street in Bridgeport, burst through the door of the liquor store wearing masks five minutes before it was set to close.
Graham later told police he fired three times to make sure everyone in the store would be sufficiently scared when he demanded their money.
But the husband of the owner, who was watching the store that night, thought the robbery was a practical joke. He later said he figured someone was firing blanks as a gag. Another man working in the store threw a 12-pack of beer at the men, who then fled empty handed.
The man did not call police because he continued to believe the two were involved in some type of stunt. But two days later, the man's wife came into the store and immediately noticed the bullet holes in the wall and called police.
After Graham was identified, he admitted to police he and Robinson tried to pull off the robbery.
Attorney David Marantz, who is defending Robinson, said his client maintains he is innocent. "He claims that he is not the person who was with Mr. Graham. He says he was not the other person involved in the robbery."


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OMAHA -- North Carolina needed a herculean effort to take down Carlos Rodon and North Carolina State. The Tar Heels got that. His name? Hobbs Johnson.
In the hours leading up to Thursday's elimination contest between the familiar foes in the Wolfpack and Tar Heels, it was thought that N.C. State would start loose left-handed pitcher Brad Stone, who had yet to start in the College World Series. But as the afternoon progressed, N.C. State head coach Elliott Avent had a change of heart, mainly because ace left-handed pitcher Carlos Rodon wanted the ball against the Tar Heels.
Rodon, even on just three days of rest and a pitch count by Avent, was his usual self from a velocity standpoint with his fastball touching 97, and sitting 93-96 for much of the game. But even as good as he once again was against the Tar Heels, he, for once, wasn't the shining star of the night.
This time, the guy wore Carolina blue, and it was veteran junior left-handed pitcher Hobbs Johnson, leading his club to a dominant 7-0 win over N.C. State to stay alive in the College World Series.
"Hobbs Johnson. That's the overview." North Carolina head coach Mike Fox said. "We've had some great battles with them, but tonight, it's all about Hobbs. That was an incredible performance, and we really needed it tonight. That's exactly what we needed."
Considering Rodon's history in previous starts this season against the Tar Heels, the formula for success in this one was simple for Johnson. He needed to get off to a very good start.
Rodon trotted out in the first inning and took command. He allowed a single from UNC leadoff hitter Chaz Frank to begin the game, before striking out the side the rest of the way, Landon Lassiter on a piping hot 97 mph fastball, and Colin Moran and Brian Holberton, UNC's two-best hitters, on a steady diet of 86 and 87 mph sliders.
Rodon made his stand. Johnson, though, was more than ready to meet his match. Johnson allowed a single and had a throwing error in the first inning. But he perhaps set the tone for the rest of the night by striking out Tarran Senay and Grant Clyde, both on 90 mph fastballs, to end the first inning.
From that point on, Johnson was in a groove against the Wolfpack.
Meanwhile, Rodon put together yet another good performance against the Tar Heels, but he was bested this go-round. Rodon threw three scoreless frames to start the game. But the Tar Heels finally got to him in the fourth inning on a sacrifice fly by Michael Russell, a play that was controversial after N.C. State's Jake Fincher nearly threw Brian Holberton out at home. N.C. State argued the play, with Rodon throwing down his glove, Brett Austin throwing down his catcher's mask. However, replays showed that Holberton narrowly escaped the tag.
The Tar Heels tacked on another run against Rodon in the fifth inning on an RBI single by Colin Moran, who had a stellar showing at the plate, going 3-for-4 with a run scored and two RBIs. As for Rodon, he suffered his third loss of the season in an 80-pitch effort, striking out six, walking one and allowing two runs on four hits in five innings.
"I definitely wanted to pitch today. I felt good yesterday and the day before, and I felt good out there tonight," Rodon said. "I had some velocity, then it came and went a little I guess. The slider was pretty good and effective. Just overall, I felt pretty good."
North Carolina's offense would get rolling later in the game against North Carolina State's bullpen, capping things off with a four-run eighth inning. But this game was all about Johnson.
The 5-foot-11, 210-pounder, was no stranger to this N.C. State club. Despite allowing five runs on five hits in 1 2/3 innings of work his last start against South Carolina in the Chapel Hill Super Regional, recent history suggested a good start against the Wolfpack. His last performance against N.C. State? Johnson struck out nine in 5 1/3 strong innings of work.
He bested that performance tonight with a fastball in the 90-91 range and great command of the strike zone. Interestingly, when asked after the game about his repertoire against the Wolfpack, Johnson said he didn't throw an off speed in the contest -- none what so ever. Catcher Brian Holberton confirmed that.
"There's some deception in his fastball. He hides the ball a little bit out there," North Carolina coach Mike Fox said. "It gets on you a little quicker and he's able to pitch in the top of the strike zone. Even against our players in scrimmages in the fall, our hitters would tell us his fastball was hard to pick up. Tonight, he had good command and threw a lot of first-pitch strikes."
Overall, Johnson struck out six batters, walked two and allowed just five hits in 8 1/3 innings of work, with reliever Chris McCue recording the final two outs of the game.
"I've had success with them up in the zone, and that's where I like to pitch," Johnson said. "I saw them against UCLA, and UCLA seemed to have a lot of success against them up in the zone, so that was something I liked. I felt like I had an opportunity to go deep into this game."
Well beyond just knocking North Carolina State out of the postseason, Johnson's performance on Thursday was important for another big reason -- the Tar Heels must beat UCLA twice now to advance to the CWS Championship Series, and saved some valuable bullpen arms in the process.
North Carolina will either go with left-handed pitcher Kent Emanuel or right-hander Benton Moss Friday against the Bruins. Interestingly, should the Tar Heels, and Oregon State in the other bracket, find a way to win their next two games, the two teams would have a rematch of their back-to-back national title series meetings in 2006 and '07.
Meanwhile, North Carolina State's magical campaign comes to an end. The Wolfpack would rather have their season ended by anyone but North Carolina, but there's no time to think about that. This was a terrific year for Elliott Avent's club, perhaps changing the tone of the program for years to come by getting to Omaha for the first time since 1968.
As N.C. State's season comes to an end, it went out with its best -- Carlos Rodon -- on the mound. Rodon, again, was beastly in his approach.
It's just, tonight, Hobbs Johnson was better.
CWS snapshot: North Carolina vs. North Carolina State
Player of the game: LHP Hobbs Johnson, North Carolina -- Johnson put together a dominant performance with his club's backs also against the wall. Johnson struck out six, walked two and allowed just five hits in 8 1/3 innings of work in the win over rival North Carolina State. Johnson's start against the Wolfpack in Omaha builds off his last start against this club, where he struck out nine and allowed just a run in 5 1/3 innings of work. On a night, when much of the talk was about Carlos Rodon, Hobbs Johnson was simply masterful.
Turning point: North Carolina certainly blew the doors open on the way to a 7-0 win over N.C. State, but the game certainly could've gone a little differently momentum-wise had the Tar Heels not scored in the fourth inning. With one out and a runner on third base, UNC's Michael Russell hit a pop up to Wolfpack right fielder Jake Fincher. Fincher threw an absolute rocket home to catcher Brett Austin, but UNC catcher Brian Holberton just slipped past the tag to make it 1-0 in the Tar Heels' favor. Replays showed the call by the umpire to be correct. The Tar Heels got into a groove after seizing the momentum and never looked back.
What they said: "I think you said it. We laid a foundation for future classes. Hopefully we can get some good classes next year, and the years following that and make some trips back here and win it for the ACC and for North Carolina State. We've never won one, and the ACC hasn't won one in 50 years. So we definitely want to come back and try to change that." -- North Carolina State shortstop Trea Turner
What's next: With the win over rival North Carolina State, the Tar Heels now stay alive in the CWS, but now have the very tough chore of beating UCLA twice to advance to the CWS Championship Series. The Tar Heels could bring back left-handed pitcher Kent Emanuel in the first game against the Bruins, but we'd give the nod to right-handed pitcher Benton Moss, who has yet to pitch in Omaha. Meanwhile, the Wolfpack ends their season with an impressive 50-16 overall record. N.C. State's 2013 club had a magical campaign as the first team since 1968 to reach the CWS.

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A resident spotted the saltwater animal lurking around Stack Street, at Koongal, on Saturday morning and reported it to police, a Rockhampton Regional Council spokeswoman told AAP.
The area where the crocodile was seen, on the northern side of the river, is only two blocks away from the flooded Lakes Creek Supermarket. The sighting comes as authorities brace for the Fitzroy to reach 8.7 metres by early Sunday morning.
The revised flood peak is below the 9.2 metre level reached in 2011 but it still forced the closure of Rockhampton Airport on Friday night.
The central Queensland city's deputy mayor Tony Williams said the airport was likely to remain closed until possibly Wednesday, following the weather bureau's updated flood prediction.
"We would have been on the home stretch today," he told reporters.
"It has been a little bit disheartening because we were planning - all the agencies were doing their best to keep everything open and business as usual."
On Thursday, Mr Williams told AAP the city would have operated "business as usual" if the flood peak had stayed at 8.5 metres.
But on Saturday, he conceded that Rockhampton needed new flood gauges in place for future inundation, and left open the possibility of relocating homes away from low-lying, flood-prone areas.
"It's something that we really need to consider and look at that in our future planning," he said.
The main southern access road into Rockhampton - the Yeppen crossing over the Bruce Highway - is also being closed again to light vehicles on Saturday night from 6pm (AEST) because of visibility issues.
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Usage of ConnectedAnimationService is covered in the reference page. The animation library does not provide animations for every possible scenario. There are cases where you might wish to create a custom animation in XAML. For more info, see Storyboarded animations. Additionally, for certain advanced scenarios like animating an item based on scroll position of a ScrollViewer, developers may wish to use Visual Layer interoperation to implement custom animations.
See Visual Layer for more information. The Windows Runtime animation system and the animation library serve the larger goal of enabling controls and other parts of UI to have an animated behavior. There are several distinct types of animations.
The following animations are supplied in the animation library. Click on the name of an animation to learn more about their main usage scenarios, how to define them, and to see an example of the animation. Use page transitions to animate navigation within an app. Since almost all apps use some kind of navigation, page transition animations are the most common type of theme animation used by apps.
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Use the reposition animations RepositionThemeAnimation or RepositionThemeTransition to move an element into a new position.
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Use the Маладое азарбаежан секс animation to show and hide a pane or panel. This is for large edge-based UI such as a custom keyboard or a task pane. Use the AddDeleteThemeTransition animation to add animated behavior when you add or delete an item in an existing list.
For маладое азарбаежан секс, the transition will first reposition existing items in the list to make space for the new items, and then add the new items. For delete, the transition removes items from a list and, if necessary, repositions the remaining list items once the deleted items have been removed.
Note that these animations are included in маладое азарбаежан секс default ListView and GridView templates so you do not need to manually add these animations if you are already using these controls. When active, the animations show the user that the маладое азарбаежан секс can be rearranged around a dropped item.
It is helpful for users to know where the item will be placed in a list if it is dropped at the current location. The animations give visual feedback that an item being dragged can be dropped between two other items in the list and that those items will move out of the way.
The following table summarizes our recommendations for which animation you should use when you create a custom version of these Windows Runtime controls:. Ideally, your app uses animations to enhance the user interface or to make it more attractive without маладое азарбаежан секс your users.
One way you can do this is to apply animated transitions to UI so that when something enters or leaves the screen or otherwise changes, the animation draws the attention of the user to the change.
For example, your buttons may rapidly fade in and out of view rather than just appear маладое азарбаежан секс disappear.
We created a маладое азарбаежан секс of APIs that can be used to create recommended or typical animation transitions that are consistent. The example here shows how to apply an animation to a button so that it swiftly slides into view. In this code, we add the EntranceThemeTransition object to the transition collection of the button.
Now, when the маладое азарбаежан секс is маладое азарбаежан секс rendered, it swiftly slides into view rather than just appear. You can also define transition animation themes in the style resources of your app, allowing you to apply the effect uniformly.
This example is equivalent to the previous one, only it is applied using a Style:. The previous examples маладое азарбаежан секс a theme transition to an individual control, however, theme transitions are even more interesting when you apply them to a container of objects.
When you do this, all the child objects of the container take part in the transition. In the following example, an EntranceThemeTransition is applied to a Grid of rectangles. The child rectangles of the Grid transition into view one after the other in a visually pleasing way rather than all at once as would be the case if you applied this animation to the rectangles individually. Child objects of a container can also re-flow when one or more of those children change position.
In the following example, we apply a RepositionThemeTransition to a grid of rectangles. When you remove one of the rectangles, all the other rectangles re-flow into their new position.
You can apply multiple transition animations to a маладое азарбаежан секс object or object container. For example, if you want the list of rectangles to animate into view and also animate when they change position, you маладое азарбаежан секс apply the RepositionThemeTransition and EntranceThemeTransition like this:.
There are several transition effects to create animations on your UI elements as they are added, removed, reordered, and so on.
Transition animations are simple to apply. But you маладое азарбаежан секс want to have a bit more control over the timing and order of your animation effects. You can use theme animations to enable more control while маладое азарбаежан секс using a consistent theme for how your animation behaves. Theme animations also require less markup than custom animations. Here, we use the FadeOutThemeAnimation to make a rectangle fade out of view.
You can also change the default behavior of the animation. For example, you can slow down the fade-out by increasing the Duration time value on the FadeOutThemeAnimation. Rather, you usually integrate the library animations into the XAML styles and templates applied to controls or elements. Learning about templates and visual states is a little more involved. You can apply several other theme animations to your Маладое азарбаежан секс elements to create animation effects.
When theme animations are not enough for your needs, you can create your own animations.
You animate objects by animating one or more of their property values. For example, you can animate the width of a rectangle, the angle of a RotateTransformor the color value of a button. We term this type of custom animation a storyboarded animation, to distinguish it from the library animations that the Windows Runtime already provides as a preconfigured animation маладое азарбаежан секс.
For storyboarded animations, you use an animation that can change values of a particular type for example DoubleAnimation to animate a Double and put that animation within a Storyboard to control it. In order to be animated, the property you are animating must be a dependency property.
For more info about dependency properties, see Dependency properties overview. For more info on creating custom storyboarded animations, including how to target and control them, see Storyboarded animations. For more info, see Storyboarded animations for visual states.
Our new feedback system is built on GitHub Issues. Read about this change in our blog post. Tip The Windows Runtime controls for XAML include certain types of animations as built-in behaviors that come from an animation library. Product feedback Sign in to give documentation feedback Content feedback You may маладое азарбаежан секс leave feedback directly on GitHub.
There are no open issues. Provides a Windows personality animation for page navigation in маладое азарбаежан секс Frame. Provides the animated transition behavior for when controls add or delete children or content.
Typically the control is an item container. Provides the animated transition behavior for when the content маладое азарбаежан секс a control is маладое азарбаежан секс. You can apply this in addition to AddDeleteThemeTransition. Маладое азарбаежан секс the animated transition behavior that applies to pop-in components of controls for example, tooltip-like UI on an object as they appear.
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Diagnosing Hand ConditionsDiagnosing Hand Conditions - Causes, Symptoms, Diagnosis and Treatment
How are hand conditions diagnosed?
Diagnosing many hand conditions may require surgery, depending on the underlying cause of the condition. In general, diagnostic procedures for hand conditions may include the following:
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Arthrography - a contrast dye is injected into the hand to allow for better visualization of the joints on x-ray.
Bone scintigraphy - a dye is injected into a vein and images are obtained to show the distribution of activity of the dye in various tissues and structures. The study is usually conducted in phases, with images of the hand taken at different times after the injection of the dye.
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A Sweeping, Dramatic History of the Americans Who Chose to Side with the British in the RevolutionThe American Revolution was not simply a battle between independence-minded colonists and the oppressive British. As Thomas B. Allen reminds us, it was also a savage and often deeply personal civil war, in which conflicting visions of America pitted neighbor against neighbor and Patriot against Tory on the battlefield, the village green, and even in church.In this outstanding and vital history, Allen tells the complete story of these other Americans, tracing their lives and experiences throughout the revolutionary period. New York City and Philadelphia were Tory strongholds through much of the war, and at times in the Carolinas and Georgia there were more trained and armed Tories than Redcoats. The Revolution also produced one of the greatestand least knownmigrations in Western history. More than 80,000 Tories left America, most of them relocating to Canada.John Adams once said that he feared there would never be a good history of the American Revolution because so many documents had left the country with the Tories. Based on documents in archives from Nova Scotia to London, Tories adds a fresh perspective to our knowledge of the Revolution and sheds an important new light on the little-known figures whose lives were forever changed when they remained faithful to their mother country.
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28 I want to heal
28 Becoming a counselor.
23 Spontanious painting
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17 A great relief
17 Dissociation
17 Indifference
12 The enlightened Witness
10 "And now there is no pet anymore".
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04 about guilt
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04 We can't buy a new family
24 A daughter kills her mother
20 Letter to my mother
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20 Scary, yes.
02 Longing for the familly
02 Hitting to teach you a lesson
02 Survived a hell.
24 The good start
23 To listen to the body
23 to breath better
17 The consollation of illusions
14 My life
12 Dealing with anger
12 Leaving the silence
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31 Reactions to an article on the NYT
29 No university interested in the issue of child abuse
29 About depression
25 Healthy "narcissism"?
25 Working with PTSD
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19 the avoided rage
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16 a question regarding a referral
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11 The unsolved problem
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02 "For Your Own Good"
30 Thank You
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28 Super Nanny, is she good or is she the best we can get?
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24 Integrating Shadow Dynamics Handed Down From Parents: Collective Unconscious Embodied in An Epoch
23 Interview with child advocate Andrew Vachss
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27 I no longer play your game.
26 Why psychoanalysis can't help effectively.
24 Gifted child question
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22 Freud and repression
20 The Fourth Commandment: Threat of Murder
20 brooklyn boy reborn
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17 never your fault
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15 The Emperor has NO CLOTHES.
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26 I believe in Santa again
26 Global Initiative to End Corporal Punishment Web Site
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23 The Truth Is Not ( I say NOT) a Punishable Offense
23 the truth will set you free
22 Santa Claus and Deception
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18 Separation from the Soul
16 the drama of the gifted child
16 Letter to Alice
14 What I Know
14 A catalyst for change
12 EOL program air 12/10/ 07 with barbara rogers
07 enlightened witness revisited by science
06 Why is the Truth so Scandalous?
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01 Senator Hillary Clinton
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30 Nursing Homes
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20 Manuscript on Fighting Depression
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09 What My Body Is Shouting About
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14 Your book really touched me
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07 If the bible was AGAINST beating children
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05 Anger is One of My Feelings
05 My body rebells
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19 The killings in Virginia
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18 Poisoneous pedagogy in the spiritual perspective?
18 PRI Therapy
18 Good Work
18 Texas Teacher speaks up.
15 Confronting Abusers
15 Causes of depression
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13 Ignorance
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12 Surrealism The Aftermath Of Minds Of "Abused Children"?
10 Alone in Italy
08 Is there a cure for Depression?
07 Learning to Sink Your Feet into Life!
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05 Abusive childhood leads to codependence, another kind of prison
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04 We are not going mad
03 My own rage scares me
23 Laughter at a child's mistreatment
20 What I would like to tell you
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09 Where artist's biographies are encouraged but artist talks cause agonizing shame
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26 Feedback for the truth will set you free
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07 How to live
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02 The Body Never Lies
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03 Richard Dawkins on Saddam Hussein's execution
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31 Brainwashing in the medical training
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30 Also in Japan
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12 Forgiveness was a farce
09 Youth gangs "maras" in Central America
07 The Drama. . .
01 The Truth Will Set You Free
25 Post WWII trauma?
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21 Emotional neglect
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16 Permission to use the "12 points"
16 A dream on the gifted child
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31 What is hatred?
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22 Drama of The Gifted Child
22 Blocked memories
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20 An abused child... a hurting man
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18 Expectations
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06 I cry without reason
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02 Honor Thy Father & Mother
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30 My situation
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03 Becoming human
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17 Wishing to train in Psychotherapy with Children
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15 Depression
14 The body will never understand
14 Why My Body Refuses to Obey the 4th Commandment
13 Buried memories & emotions
07 Oedipus Complex
07 Take seriously what you already know
05 Can men be frigid?
03 Paralyzed
01 Our body does not accept compromise
26 Harmful non-physical abuse
23 Homosexuals are not an exception
21 They deserve to be punished?
20 The most important person
18 quotes
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15 corporal punishment
13 Please advise
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26 The abused child suffers
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20 Buddhism & Your Work
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18 Addiction versus ADHD
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Dear Alice.
I am writing to you as you seem to be the only person who sees clearly what tragedy it is when a child is being hit, and sees that ALL corporal punishment is abuse, even though many parents divide it into groups, where a small smack is suddenly nolonger abuse... It is good that there is someone like you in the world, whose lense doesnt get foggy when these parents sternly try to explain how a small smack is not violence..
I am writing you now as I have learned that my brother is expecting his first child. Both of us have had therapy for years because of out own traumatic childhood full of tyranni and emotional abuse (no fysical abuse however).
His girlfriend on the other hand has been subjected to fysical abuse and has become quite shy as a result of it. She has also suffered from losing a parent at a young age. But she refuses any kind of therapy. Last year when we were discussing how teachers can take liberties towards students, by threatening them and so on, to gain "control" in the classroom, and how that was something that teachers didnt have the right to do, but still did very much, she said: "well I have been hit when I was a child and I was never damaged by it".
Now I feel very very bad. I think I should be doing things to prevent her from hitting the unborn child. I have talked to my brother, but he seems to have blinded himself. He just keeps saying; I have talked to her and she says that she will not do that. And he doesnt believe she would ever do something like that because she is in his words such a gentle person. But how does this add up with her saying that a child doesnt get damaged by being hit, and the categorical refusal of getting therapy? I feel I should do something but I dont know what I can do. I can report it if it does happen, but in my mind that would already be too late. Is there anything I could say to her that would help her see how shes rejecting her own childhood pain and in that way open her eyes to the possibility of repetition. Or do you think it sounds like everything will actually be okay, and Im overreacting at this point?
I would really appreciate your help.
Best Wishes, K.
AM: I can well understand your concern. Try to talk to her, but saying that she would need therapy would probably not help to open her. From the web www.nospank.net you can get the brochure PLAIN TALK ABOUT SPANKING. You can give her this text to read, and I hope that this will give her the information she needs. You can also give her my book FOR YOUR OWN GOOD.
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Ticks in Maine
Ixodes scapularus (=dammini)
The "deer tick", officially known as the black-legged tick, is essentially the sole vector of the Lyme disease spirochete, Borrelia burgdorferi, as well as the agents of anaplasmosis, babesiosis, and deer tick virus. This tick's life cycle requires at least two years for completion.
Following its first appearance in southern Maine in the 1980's, this tick advanced along the coast and then inland, and may now occasionally be encountered in northern Maine. A mated adult female deer tick, having obtained a blood meal from a white-tailed deer, dog, cat, or other large mammal in the fall or early spring, may deposit up to 3000 eggs in late May and early June.
The Lyme spirochete is not passed from an infected female deer tick to her eggs. Uninfected larvae emerge in mid-summer and soon seek a blood meal, primarily from mice, other small mammals and certain songbirds. Many of the animals they feed on, particularly mice and chipmunks, will have been previously infected with the agents of Lyme and other tick-borne diseases; it is from these "reservoir hosts" that they become infected.
After over-wintering, larvae molt to nymphs which seek a second blood meal in the spring, passing on the infections they acquired as larvae to the next year's crop of small mammal/avian hosts.
Nymphs also feed on humans, dogs, and horses, and other hosts. Their tiny size and painless bites may allow them to remain undetected through the ~36 hours it takes for spirochetes to be transmitted from a feeding tick.
Most human Lyme disease results from the bite of undiscovered nymphs in the summer. Dogs and other furred animals are more frequently infected by adult ticks which escape detection. In Maine, nymphs peak in late June and July, which is when ~65% of the human cases of Lyme disease are reported. After repletion, deer tick nymphs drop to the leaf litter, and in early fall molt to adult males and females.
Ixodes cookei
The "woodchuck tick", is widely distributed in Maine and is the second most common species of Ixodes found on people. It has not been associated with Lyme disease transmission. I. cookei usually feeds on wild animals, such as woodchucks , skunks, and raccoons, but will also feed readily on humans and domestic animals. This tick is known to be a vector of Powassan virus which causes severe encephalitis with high morbidity and mortality. Fortunately, chances of becoming infected with this virus are very low. The first reported case in the state was in 2000, and there have been four Maine-acquired cases reported since then.
Ixodes marxi
The "squirrel tick", has not been associated with Lyme disease, but is a vector of Powassan virus. It will only occasionally bite humans.
Ixodes muris
This tick may be being displaced by I. scapularis. It is only occasionally found in Maine. Usually it feeds only on voles and mice, but it may bite humans, cats, dogs, and birds. A recent report indicates that it is a weak vector of Lyme disease, but no human cases of Lyme disease have been attributed to it. We have associated its bite with a reaction in cats, dogs and other domestic animals characterized by pain, swelling, fever, lethargy, and loss of appetite.
If you observe this reaction, we would like to receive the tick for identification. Please call us at (207) 396-8246 for arrangements.
Ixodes angustus
This tick is usually found only on voles and mice and is common in many parts of Maine, but it is very rarely found on humans or domestic animals.
Dermacentor variabilis
The American dog tick is not a vector of Lyme disease. This tick is particularly abundant in southwestern Maine, but its range has been expanding in recent years. Immature stages feed on voles and other small rodents, but adults are often found on humans, dogs, and other domestic animals. The adults, found from May through July but rarely later in the season, are larger than Ixodes ticks and can be distinguished by characteristic grayish-white markings. The tick is the vector of Rocky Mountain spotted fever in the eastern United States. No Maine-acquired cases of Rocky Mountain spotted fever have been confirmed to date. In the bar graph showing the seasonal abundance of adult dog and deer ticks, note that dog ticks are not active in October and November when adult deer tick activity is at it's peak.
Dermacentor albipictus
The "winter tick," or "moose tick" is found on moose and deer and occasionally on horses, cows, dogs and humans, particularly in central and northern Maine. This is a one-host tick, so that once the larvae are on a moose in the fall, they feed and molt to nymphs, and then again to adults, resulting in huge numbers of ticks on moose by the end of the winter causing stress and anemia frequently resulting in death of the animal. Large numbers of the tiny larvae may be encountered by hunters in the fall, particularly in habitat where moose are found. This tick has not been associated with Lyme disease.
Haemaphysalis leporispalustris
Also known as the "rabbit tick," I. leporispalustrus is usually found only on rabbits and birds. Although it has been reported to be rarely infected with Lyme disease bacteria, it does not transmit Lyme disease to humans.
Amblyomma americanum
The "Lone Star tick," is becoming more frequently found in Maine, most often on people traveling from states to the south where it is very common. The adult female is easily identified by the white spot on her back. This tick carries the agents of human and canine ehrlichiosis. It also transmits a spirochete (Borrelia lonestari) which in humans maybe associated with a rash and mild symptoms similar to Lyme disease.
Rhipicephalus sanguineus
The "brown dog tick" or "kennel tick," is widely distributed over the world, but only rarely found in Maine. It is commonly associated with dogs from large kennels. Dogs are the principal host. It has not been associated with Lyme disease transmission, but is the vector of canine ehrlichiosis which can be a debilitating illness in dogs.
Other species of Ixodes, I. brunneus (found on migratory birds), I. dentatus (found on rabbits and hares), I. uriae (found on marine birds), and I. gregsoni (found on mink, weasel and marten) are encountered in Maine, although infrequently. The bird tick Haemaphyhysalis chordeilis and Ixodes banksi (found on beaver and muskrat) may occur in Maine as well. There is no record of soft ticks, Family Argasidae, being collected in Maine.
Elsewhere in the country, ticks may carry other diseases, including tularemia and Q fever.
Top Row: Ixodes scapularis (dammini), the deer tick which transmits Lyme disease. Left to right: nymph, adult male, adult female, engorged adult female. Nymphs are most common May through July. Adults appear in the fall and early spring (graph).
Bottom Row: Dermacentor variabilis, the American dog tick, which is not thought to transmit Lyme disease. Left to right: adult male, adult female, engorged adult female. Adults are most common in May, June, and July. Note that the adult dog ticks are somewhat larger than adult deer ticks, and have characteristic white markings on the dorsal (top) side.
Photo by Jack Milton, Portland Press Herald


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The potential for continued sideways movement in the cotton market and tempting grain prices could slash cotton acres in the Mid-South significantly more than the National Cotton Council's January projection, according to cotton analysts in the Ag Market Network's March 13 teleconference.
The analysts agree that Mid-South cotton plantings could fall below 3 million acres in 2007, representing a 30 percent decline. Southeast cotton producers are expected to cut acres by 26 percent.
The NCC had pegged declines of 19 percent for the Mid-South and 22 percent for the Southeast.
A big reason for price stagnation has to do with a changing world situation for old crop cotton, noted Jarral Neeper, Calcot, Inc., Bakersfield, Calif. This includes a USDA March 9 forecast of larger India cotton production. The 500,000 bale increase "is not good news if you're looking to get rid of Indian cotton so the United States can move some of its cotton into China."
Neeper adds that China is going to do whatever it can to use its domestic stocks "before it has to come to the world market, which is a suggestion that their cotton crop is at least as big as they say it is and perhaps a little larger. Total Chinese import needs for the rest of the crop year are at least a million bales lower than what USDA is carrying."
The reduction in import demand by China results in lower U.S. projected exports to around 13.4 million bales and higher U.S. ending stocks of 9.4 million bales, "which is not a very pretty picture. And I don't think USDA is through lowering exports and raising ending stocks."
Assuming the United States can capture a 40 percent marketshare of China's imports for the rest of the year, estimated at a total of 11.25 million bales, "then U.S. shipments between the end of January and the end of the crop year need to be 4.5 million bales. To ship that much, we would need to sell 4.8 million running bales."
Going into the 2007-08 crop year, "we have a market that is going nowhere," Neeper says. "Every time the market dips down, we get a little support out of the trade as they're making sales, and every time the market goes up, we're getting some resistance due to the knowledge that we have a large carryover."
The combination of stagnant cotton prices and a bull market for corn could lead to substantial declines in U.S. planted cotton acreage this spring, says Neeper. "Right now, I'm all the way down to 12.23 million acres, down 20 percent from last year.
"The Southeast is down 26 percent, to 2.48 million acres, the Mid-South is down 30 percent, to 2.97 million acres, Texas, Oklahoma and Kansas are at 6 million acres, down 12 percent, and upland acres in the Far West are 440,000 acres, down 16 percent. In the Far West, the decline in upland acres will be offset somewhat by a 6 percent increase in Pima acres to 345,000 acres."
If the United States harvests 11.24 million acres, a production estimate of 17.9 million bales "would be a welcome relief, I guess, compared to 21 million bales. But when you add in 9.4 million bales of carryover, that still gives us quite a substantial amount of cotton, 27 million to 28 million bales of cotton to market."
Neeper believes with a little luck, U.S. ending stocks could be worked down to 5 million to 6 million bales. "Again China is going to be the mystery this year as to how much cotton they're really going to need."
Neeper projects a 117-million bale world crop for 2007-08. "If you assume that the United States in round numbers has 18 million bales, then the rest of the world would be producing a record 99 million bales of cotton. All kinds of numbers are coming out of China. Clearly, the prices in China have done nothing to discourage growers from planting anything but cotton this year."
Neeper believes that China will not repeat its record yield of 2006, which should result in a slight decline in production from 30.9 million bales in 2006 to 30 million bales in 2007.
"We're looking at an increase in all other foreign countries of around 5 million bales. Projected world consumption, while not robust, is very steady at 122 million to 124 million bales, so we will have a deficit this year of about 7 million bales."
Neeper says the "market is getting close to an inflection point, and it will turn from a buyers' market into a sellers' market. But with these kinds of stock numbers, we're at least a year from a major inflection point, to where we see the sellers have a little bit more influence on prices.
"If we have a crop problem at all, and we don't get anywhere near that 117 million bales for the world, this could come as early as August or September. So we're probably going to do a lot of nothing for quite some time."
Carl Anderson, professor emeritus, Texas A&M University, noted that good rains in Texas so far "make us optimistic that we're going to get a crop up this year, and we hope we don't lose as many acres. We're going to cut acres more than the 400,005 acres the NCC report showed — we'll easily come down another 300,000 acres to 400,000 acres."
One complication is that Texas growers "are having a hard time finding corn and grain sorghum seed for what they may want to plant. We also have some handling and storage problems all up and down the Delta, which hopefully will be addressed sometime between now and harvest."
If there is a smaller crop in the United States, Anderson projects a 5-cent bump in prices, "which could happen anytime after we get our September crop report. So we may see stronger prices for December 2007 futures, but nothing I see will run it up very high above 60 cents at best."
One fly in the ointment would be if U.S. growers continue to increase cotton yields, according to O.A. Cleveland, Mississippi State University professor emeritus. "For five years now, in round numbers, we've had record yields. The genetics out there have definitely improved, and we're starting to see this improvement internationally.
"So we can't discount the fact that we could continue to have record world yields and even increased yields in the United States."
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