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I do. He was my neighbor and I have more insight about him than most here. He is taking up the job at hand and cleaning up the mess left by the previous person in office. And he is very meticulous about his job. He will not prosecute just to get numbers up. He will and does follow the law.
and my point to her or him is did kevin file 1,111 cases this week? If not then her opinion isnt fact and shes just bad mouthing someone for no other reason than she doesnt like hooper, which probably isnt wise anymore considering shes not a public official.
Good job Kevin. Thank you for taking on such a unforgiving unappreciated postion and excelling at it where others have failed.
the pa files charges when there is probable cause. the judge or jury will sort it out.all are found guilty if the pa presses charges? don't think so' It seems a new PA has some folks PO'd !!! LOL LOLI hope the Texas county pa is good. I am on the hook for jury duty until april! lookin forward to it!
Coyote, I don't think he will be kicked around as you put it. Kevin is not perfect, but I can tell you he has something the other prosecutor did not have. Organizational skills. Everyone makes mistakes. And I am sure Kevin will too. But at least he is in there pitching and not just sitting around complaining about the person he replaced. did he pee in yoiur cheerios or something? You do seem to have an agenda against him. Hope I am wrong on that though. Perhaps you are just trying to bring the people here down from a natural high. At least most of us are not disappointed in him and I don't think I will be during his tenure. Known him since before his first child was born.
Note to Kevin: Would you please put a date in the name of the thread so we will know if it is a new one or not. ThanksLike this one is called "Prosecutor Office Press Release" that is all that shows up in the topic list.If you would put "Prosecutor Office Press Release for 1/1/11" then we would know when it was first posted without going into the thread. Thanks.
So far, so good. 13 days with no complaints. How long will it be before Mr. Hillman stops being looked at as the "Second Coming?" I'm not a relative or close friend of Ms. Hooper, but I think the bashing should stop and Mr. Hillman be recognized as what he is. A first term Prosecuting Attorney who has yet to prove his worth. If you keep him up on a pedestal wearing his halo, the first time he disappoints you (and yes he will one day because believe it or not, he is human), it will be all over and you'll kick him around the same way you did Deborah. Good luck Kevin.
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Feb. 16: Officers took a report of a lockout, a dog complaint, and a trespass complaint in which juveniles were discovered to be digging through a dumpster.
Feb. 17: Police responded to a report of a disturbance in which there was a verbal confrontation between three adults. Officers also took a report of a possible suicidal person and addressed a child custody dispute.
Feb. 18: Police took a dog complaint and a prowler complaint. Officers also responded to a harassment complaint in which a woman reported being harassed by a neighbor over the possession of a vehicle.
Feb. 19: Officers took a noise complaint and a traffic complaint. Police also responded to a report of a suspicious person in which they discovered an elderly man who appeared confused. The man was missing from Oklahoma and officers stayed with him until his family arrived.
Thursday: Officers took a harassment complaint and a report of a possible overdose.
Friday: The police dog performed a building search.
Saturday: Officers took a disturbance complaint in which they removed and unwanted guest from a residence. Police also responded to a residential code complaint and a curfew violation.

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ADDISON COUNTY — When the last muzzleloader shot echoed through the woods earlier this month, concluding the final Vermont deer season of 2014, the county's total of deer taken between October and December stood at 724, the second lowest figure since 2008.
ADDISON COUNTY — The final count of bucks weighed in Addison County during the 2014 rifle season ended up at a below-average total of 359, but weigh station operators all said the animals were mostly good-sized.
"A lot of nice deer were taken this year," said Steve Ploof of East Middlebury's C&S Hunting Supplies.
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MONTPELIER — Vermont's hunters will get one final chance for a deer this year during the muzzleloader deer season and the second part of the archery deer season. The two seasons run at the same time — Dec. 6-14.
A muzzleloader hunter may take one legal buck anywhere in the state. In addition, a hunter who received a muzzleloader antlerless deer permit may take one antlerless deer in the Wildlife Management Unit (WMU) designated on the permit.
MIDDLEBURY — In all, 21 young hunters were successful during Youth Hunting Weekend and had deer weighed at Vermont Field Sports in Middlebury.
However, due to the fact that state wildlife biologists had initially taken information with them that weekend after overseeing weigh-ins, only five names were available immediately after the two-day youth hunt. They were published in the Nov. 17 edition of the Independent.
ADDISON COUNTY — A Saturday and Sunday with fair but cold weather saw Vermont's deer rifle season get off to a solid, but not spectacular, start in the area.
During the first two days of the state's 16-day rifle season, local hunters shot 154 deer and then took them to one of Addison County's official weighing stations.
That opening weekend total dropped from the 200 killed in 2013's first two days, but overall fell in line with numbers from the past four years' opening weekends.
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MONTPELIER — Hunters are gearing up for the start of Vermont's statewide traditionally popular 16-day rifle deer season that begins Saturday, Nov. 15, and ends Sunday, Nov. 30.
A hunter may take one buck during this season with at least one antler having two or more points one inch or longer. A point must be one inch or longer from base to tip. The main beam counts as a point, regardless of length. Spike-antlered deer, mostly yearlings, are protected during this season.
VERMONT — With youth deer weekend just around the corner, young hunters are encouraged to take to the field to hone their skills and to also help Fish & Wildlife biologists by reporting their deer at one of 23 biological check stations around the state, including two in Addison County.
Youth deer hunting weekend helps ensure that young hunters get the quality training they need for lifelong participation, and it also provides biological information needed to manage the herd into the future.
ADDISON COUNTY — The final count of deer reported to Addison County weigh stations during the 2013 rifle season came in at 421, up by 16, or about 4 percent, from 2012.
However, taking into account the drop in deer taken during Youth Hunting Weekend, the total not counting bow and muzzleloader seasons is almost exactly the same for 2013 and 2012.
Young hunters took 109 deer during Youth Hunting Weekend this year and 124 in 2012.
ADDISON COUNTY — Local deer hunters got off to a fast start during opening weekend of the 16-day rifle season, which started this past Saturday, as they reported 200 kills at Addison County's eight reporting stations.
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I love a good war hero story: my great uncle was a flying ace in the Battle of Britain and I relished hearing about his feats of daring (... and will gladly recount them given the slightest prompting). However, my tale today is of the wartime exploits of Museum entomologist Graham Howarth. They might not be grand in the combat sense (though he was awarded a medal for saving a senior officer during the Blitz earlier in the war), but in the scientific and curatorial sense, they are as bold and heroic as any you will probably hear.
During WWII Howarth was enlisted for army service in Southeast Asia. He was stationed in Singapore and tasked with identifying the breeding grounds of malarial mosquito species and disrupting their habitat in the hope of eradicating the tropical disease. As a result of his work, Howarth says it was 'safe to say that Singapore was a malarial-free zone'. But, in February 1942, Singapore surrendered to the Japanese and Howarth was taken as a prisoner of war. He recalls:
'The war was over as far as I was concerned, but a new one, a much more insidious affair, was about to begin. A war against boredom, starvation, pestilence, and death.'
He was held prisoner for three years, first at Changi and then Jinsen, Korea. But, ever the entomologist, Howarth - known as 'The Prof' to his fellow captives - maintained his scientific curiosity by collecting insects. He says:
'(Collecting) gave me something to think about rather than the boredom of being confined to an area with a hell of a lot of other people, with nothing very much to do. We weren't worked too hard. And as long as you exhibited a certain amount of respect for the guards, and didn't stick your head above the parapet too often... Of course, with a butterfly net, I would tend to be a bit conspicuous, but I didn't flaunt it, shall we say.'
He had fashioned a net from a piece of galvanised wire and some mosquito netting, and if he saw 'a butterfly or a living insect or a flying insect' he would catch it, kill it, paper it and put it in an empty cigarette tin. His most important and remarkable find came in July 1944 when he spotted a caterpillar in the POW camp's garden.
'We had a flowering cherry in the garden, and on one occasion I looked up and there was a little caterpillar and I collected that. I didn't recognise it, being something foreign to me. I found some more and I took them in and fed them on the cherry and bred them out. And (when I got home and properly identified them) it turned out to be a new species.
That's right: in between the forced labour and subsisting on meagre, weevil-infested rice rations as a prisoner of war, Graham Howarth discovered a never-before-documented moth.
'It was nice to discover a species new to science in, shall we say, rather difficult circumstances.'
On his return to the Museum he described his discovery as Apatele cerasi, after Cerasus, the scientific name for the cherry on which the larvae fed.
Apatele cerasi documented by Graham Howarth in the Proceedings and Transactions of The South London Entomological and Natural History Society 1949-50.
But, aside from finding the larvae, breeding it out, recognising it as something different and keeping his collection below the radar of the guards, it was the getting it all back to the Museum that was another feat in and of itself. By the time he was liberated, Howarth had amassed about 1,500 specimens and he had to beg kit bag space from his comrades to help bring it all home.
'(When I got back to the Museum) I set them and documented them, and they're still there, 1,500 of them.'
Part of the Graham Howarth POW collection, which fills 13 trays and includes 1,115 Rhopalocera, 347 Heteroera and nearly 100 specimens of other orders. And, of course, Apatele cerasi.
The Museum's Lepidoptera collection consists of around 10 million specimens stored over four floors and curated by 5 scientists. Butterfly curator Blanca Huertas says it is the largest collection in terms of time and geographical range, represents 65% of all known species and contains more type specimens than any other museum. You can discover more about the collections and how they are maintained in Alessandro Giusti's Curator of Lepidoptera blog.


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Normally it works fine, but I found a way to break out of the state machine which enables you to fire under water.
This is how I think it works:
When I enter water it enables the sprint animation so it looks like the player is swimming, this is done with:
stateName[4] = "ReadyMotion"; stateTransitionGeneric0In[4] = "SprintEnter"; stateTransitionOnNoMotion[4] = "Ready"; stateWaitForTimeout[4] = false; stateScaleAnimation[4] = false; stateScaleAnimationFP[4] = false; stateSequenceTransitionIn[4] = true; stateSequenceTransitionOut[4] = true; stateTransitionOnNoAmmo[4] = "NoAmmo"; stateTransitionOnTriggerDown[4] = "Fire"; stateSequence[4] = "run";This is the state when the player is moving and you can see the state: "stateTransitionGeneric0In[4] = "SprintEnter";" which is probably what happens when entering water, so when entering water the player is sprinting and cannot fire the weapon or reload and all that stuff.
So now look at the sprinting state itself:
stateName[12] = "Sprinting"; stateTransitionGeneric0Out[12] = "SprintExit"; stateWaitForTimeout[12] = false; stateScaleAnimation[12] = false; stateScaleAnimationFP[12] = false; stateSequenceTransitionIn[12] = true; stateSequenceTransitionOut[12] = true; stateAllowImageChange[12] = false; stateSequence[12] = "sprint";As you can see that the sprinting state has no case where it enters sprinting, so this is why when you manage to enter and dive under water while in the sprint state you will then exit the sprint state and end up back in the ready state, which enables you to fire under water, but as soon as you enter the water surface it will transition to swimming motion again.
So any ideas how to fix that?


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YORK, PA – York College of Pennsylvania Assistant Dean for Athletics and Recreation Paul Saikia is proud to announce that Carly Zinn has been selected as the Spartans' new field hockey head coach after a national search.
Zinn replaces Jamie Swartz who resigned her position in the spring. Swartz had guided the Spartan program for the last five seasons as she accumulated a record of 52-49.
Zinn is happy to take the reigns of the Spartan program.
"I would like to thank Paul Saikia, Dean Joe Merkle, and Dr. Waldner for the great opportunity to lead the York College field hockey program," said Zinn. "I am excited to take the next step in my coaching career. I feel very prepared to take over the program. I want to make York College a place for a field hockey student-athlete to come and have great experience."
Zinn comes to the Spartan program after serving the last three years as the lead assistant coach at Dickinson College including a four-month stint as the acting head coach while the Red Devils were in the midst of a search.
Saikia believes Zinn will be a strong leader for the field hockey program.
"We were fortunate to have a very favorable response to our coaching search, with several strong candidates showing interest in the position. Ultimately, we felt Carly was an excellent fit for our program. She brings great enthusiasm for the sport of field hockey and relevant collegiate experience--especially in the realm of recruiting. We were looking for someone with a sincere drive for excellence, and the prospect of longevity with York College. Carly rose to the top of our list."
Zinn was a three-year member of the Lock Haven University field hockey team, missing her sophomore year due to a medical redshirt. She helped lead the Eagles to a stellar mark of 54-14 (79.4%) during her career.
Zinn has a definite idea of what type of player she wants to recruit to York.
"Accountability is high on my list of what makes a successful team and program," states Zinn. "Players need to hold themselves accountable and they should be able to hold their teammates accountable for what they do both on and off the field. Having those types of people will lead us to success. I want athletes who are willing to work hard and put in the time to be successful. I also want student-athletes who are mentally tough and willing to compete at a high level."
Zinn also feels that York is an attractive option for Division III student-athletes.
"We will recruit student-athletes who will make a difference in our program. We want to create a family atmosphere where there is support from the coaching staff and the squad. We have great facilities that are some of the best in Division III. I feel we can attract a talented group of kids that will enable us to build a successful program."
Saikia looks for great things from the Spartan field hockey program.
"We've won conference championships in ten different sports at YCP. My ambition is for us to be performing at that level, consistently, with all of our teams. With the proper commitment, we can get there. My goal is to have the right coaches in place and to provide those coaches with the necessary resources. Several of our programs are there, several are on the verge of breaking though, and some, like field hockey, are taking their first steps on a new path. I believe that adding Coach Zinn to our staff is significant, and I'm excited to watch her and her program grow."
Zinn assumes her duties immediately as the Spartans will open their 2013 campaign on August 30 at home against Randolph-Macon. She is the seventh coach in the history of the 45-year history of the Spartan field hockey program. York has an overall program record of 327-302-33.


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Freshmen Chris Calnan (Norwell) and Adam Gilmour (Hanover) are headed to Philadelphia after the Eagles on Sunday eliminated UMass-Lowell, 4-3, in the NCAA Northeast Regional final in Worcester.
WORCESTER – Standing in the concourse of the DCU Center accepting congratulations from a steady stream of friends and family. An NCAA Northeast Regional championship baseball cap perched backward on his head. A ticket to Philly in his future.
Yep, this is exactly what Chris Calnan signed up for.
"That was definitely a big part of the decision to come here," the freshman fourth-line right wing from Norwell said Sunday after helping Boston College punch its ticket to yet another Frozen Four (the Eagles' 11th in 17 years) with a 4-3, come-from-behind win over UMass-Lowell.
"It's such an historic program. I knew coming in that there was a history (here) of making the Frozen Four and winning national championships. That's my goal. That's why I wanted to play college hockey. I made the right decision, so I'm happy."
Everyone on BC was beaming after the Eagles (28-7-4) had advanced with a gritty conquest of the River Hawks (26-11-4).
Just three seasons ago, UMass-Lowell staggered through a 5-25-4 nightmare. Then coach Norm Bazin came on board and the arrow started pointing up immediately. Under his guidance, the Hawks are 3 for 3 in making the NCAA tournament. They lost in the national semifinals last spring and have won back-to-back Hockey East Tournament crowns.
This senior class, including backup goaltender Doug Carr of Hanover (8-2-2, 1.80 goals-against average, .936 save percentage this season) was instrumental in the turnaround, and Bazin saluted them one last time in the postgame new conference.
"Right now it's hard to swallow," he said, "but in time they'll realize that they've been part of some pretty good teams."
Of course, you could say the same about BC's seniors (including reserve forward Cam Spiro of Hingham), who are aiming for their second national championship. The excellence stretches back even further – under Jerry York the Eagles won national crowns in 2001, 2008, 2010 and 2012, and each title run began right here in this building.
Next up: BC will face East Regional champ Union (30-6-4) in the Frozen Four semifinals on April 10 at the Wells Fargo Center in Philadelphia. The other matchup is Minnesota (27-6-6) against North Dakota (25-13-3). The final is April 12.
"It's exciting stuff," said freshman center Adam Gilmour of Hanover, Calnan's linemate. "Our team has worked so hard. Obviously, it's been our goal from Day One. It's an awesome feeling to go in my first year of college hockey. (All the freshmen) have a great support group – parents, coaches and unbelievable leadership (on the roster)."
The freshmen haven't been merely passengers on this journey. Thatcher Demko made 29 saves in this one, and after Lowell broke a 2-2 tie with a goal just 43 seconds into the third period (off a BC skate, no less), it was a pair of rookies who saved the day.
Winger Ryan Fitzgerald notched the equalizer on a rush only 21 seconds later, and defenseman Ian McCoshen converted a perfect setup from sophomore Teddy Doherty for the winner at 11:16. It was Fitzgerald's 12th goal of the season and McCoshen's fifth.
"A lot of the freshmen have come in and contributed right away," said Gilmour, who has 7 goals and 12 assists on the season. "Ryan and Ian are both unbelievable players. Ryan had a great move to score that (tying) goal, and then Ian finished off a great pass from Teddy Doherty and put the game away for us."
Seniors Kevin Hayes (No. 27 on the season) and Bill Arnold (No. 14) handled the first two goals, with all-world junior linemate Johnny Gaudreau (2 assists) being named the Most Outstanding Player of the regional.
But Arnold said seeing the kids pitch in late was a thrill.
"There's almost a little more excitement on the bench when you see the younger guys score," he said. "It's a lot of fun."
By the way, did you catch Gaudreau (35 goals, 42 assists, 77 points) trying to head a puck out of midair and into the net in the second period? It didn't work, but still ...
"He does that stuff all the time," Calnan said with a laugh. "I wouldn't be surprised if he scored like that. He does it all the time in practice. It sounds crazy, but that's what he works on. Just a special player."
Now – again – it's a special time for BC.
Arnold noted that the two best practices of the season are the one immediately after this weekend and the one in between the national semis and final.
The Eagles will experience the first one for sure. And don't bet against them for the second one.
"When I committed, Coach York told me that his goal for all of his players is for them to leave with a diploma in one hand and a ring in the other," Gilmour said. "So he's doing a pretty good job of that right away for the freshmen.
"We have a great team. Making the regionals, we weren't going to settle for that. We want to go all the way. We want to win it all."
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In Volusia's struggling state of tourism, even a simple nomination to a local tourism advertising authority can light a fuse.
In Volusia County, where the struggling state of tourism tends to turn discussions into fierce arguments, even a simple nomination to a local tourism advertising authority can light a fuse.
Which is what happened this week, when one County Council member blasted another's nomination, and a prominent local tourism leader responded by referring to the critical councilman as a "s--- head."
"I've been called worse," said County Councilman Josh Wagner, the one referred to as "s---head" in an email by Bob Davis, president of the Hotel & Lodging Association of Volusia County and a member of the Daytona State College board of trustees. "I have been very critical of how tourism tax dollars have been spent in the past, and this is an example of what I've been dealing with."
Davis on Saturday backed away from the name calling and promised to smooth things over with Wagner. But he also said the disparaging reference was in response to the councilman's attacks on certain members of the Halifax Area Advertising Authority.
"The comments that he made were just not of character for an elected official," Davis said.
The fuse was lit Thursday, at a regular council meeting, when Councilwoman Deb Denys nominated former Daytona Area Convention & Visitors Bureau executive director Sharon Mock to join the HAAA board. Mock was the CVB director for more than 20 years, which, for six members of the council, suggested she had valuable experience. For Wagner, it suggested she was part of an "old status quo" era that led the Daytona area to its current condition.
Mock was also the boss of Janet Kersey, who succeeded her as CVB director, and who was fired in 2011 by a HAAA board led by Ted Doran (a Wagner appointee), who led the hiring of the current director, Jeff Hentz.
Those are the types of tangled local history lessons that many would like to see removed from the debate on how to bring more visitors to Daytona and improve the quality of its hotels and motels along the beach.
The insulting email came the morning after the council meeting. Davis sent Mock a list of email addresses for council members so she could send thank-you or other messages. Each person's name was listed next to an email address — except Wagner, whose name was replaced with the profane nickname. The council and others were copied on the email.
Wagner wrote back to Davis: "You have an interesting way of spelling my name."
The nature of the nickname itself wasn't necessarily surprising to anyone who has been following the local tourism debate. In April, Wagner offended longtime tourism leaders when he was quoted in the newspaper saying: "Honestly, we need about 10 funerals, and then things will change." (Davis said: "Certainly, the arrow was in my back.")
Earlier this month, Wagner irked fellow Councilman Doug Daniels by calling Volusia's tourism-Ocean Center rift "the laughingstock of the state" in a public meeting. The two wound up exchanging words in a back room.
Daniels and others could only chuckle at the email: "I have no idea what he would've been thinking," Daniels said of Davis.
Said Vice Chair Joyce Cusack: "We can disagree, but we don't have to be disrespectful. We have to respect each other and the positions we hold."
Mock had no part of it and said she was hoping to move past that kind of hostility. "I only want the best and absolutely the best thing for the Daytona Beach area," she said. "That's my only agenda. I don't have any other thought process... I just want to see them succeed."
Davis, who initially said someone might have tampered with his email before he sent the message, eventually admitted: "Maybe I got a little excited... If you did something wrong, you need to stand up and say, 'I did something wrong.'"
"I make a statement today that I'm going to work with Josh Wagner," he said Saturday. "I'm going to try to reach over... I am going to send him a blank piece of paper, and I'm going to say, 'Let's start fresh.'"
"I don't ever look back," said Mock. "It's all business to me. It's never been personal with me, and it won't be personal in the future. I'm sure I'll never understand what motivates Josh Wagner, because I don't go that way... There are people appointed to those boards all the time, and you can like them or not like them."


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|Ted Greenberg's Top Five Taxi Entertainments
Categories: Taxi Cabs
Posted: December 6, 2011
by Ted Greenberg
As the writer/performer of the only Off-Broadway comedy show with a free cab ride home, I'm often asked my opinion about the portrayal of taxi drivers and taxis in movies and on television. As a taxi cab driver, I, of course, have a strong opinion on the matter.
Here's my list for my Top 5 Taxi Entertainments:
1) Taxi Driver – Martin Scorsese's 1976 dark film about a former Vietnam vet turned taxi driver (Robert De Niro in a groundbreaking role) inspired me to get my hack license in the 1980s. From the moment I saw this classic film, I was in awe of how the film captured Gotham's haunting allure, especially the night scenes.
2) Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown – Pedro Almodovar's zany 1988 film features one of the most outrageous taxis in the history of the world. With a whimsical cab interior that's equal parts Liberace and Lady Gaga, I'm not sure why anyone would ever get out of this vehicle. Last year, a musical stage adaptation of the film opened on Broadway. My childhood friend and David Letterman co-writer David Yazbek wrote the show's music and lyrics and received a Tony Award nomination for Outstanding Score. And, the production's taxi driver (Danny Burstein) was as hilarious and riveting as Guillermo Montesinos was in the film.
3) Night on Earth – Filmmaker Jim Jarmusch has great hair. Great white hair. The Mascot and I are NOT jealous. Not jealous at all. Mainly because he also makes really great films. His 1991 effort Night on Earth follows five cab drivers in five cities – New York, Paris, Helsinki, Los Angeles and Rome. While I wouldn't mind having Beatrice Dalle as a passenger (she is fantastic as a blind Parisian), I'm a New Yorker at heart. Just like Jarmusch.
4) Taxi – Having been nominated twice for the Andy Kaufman Award, how can I not love the iconic TV show that starred the comic genius alongside Judd Hirsch, Marilu Henner, Danny De Vito, Tony Danza and the late Jeff Conway?
5) Friends – On the famous comedy TV show, Phoebe (Lisa Kudrow) was bequeathed a yellow cab by her grandmother. The cab was featured in the show on occasion, including a visit to Phoebe's mom in season 3. Her mom was played by the inimitable Teri Garr, who turned in comic gold performances in Young Frankenstein, Mr. Mom and Tootsie and was a regular guest on the David Letterman show while I was a writer there. Here's a video of Garr's 1987 visit to Letterman:
What's your favorite taxi featured in a film, TV show or play?
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Cary-Groves Joslyn Nicholson, left, looks to pass against Stevenson last week.
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Its been well chronicled that Burlington Central girls basketball coach Mark Smith knew he had some talent coming in when he took the Rockets head coaching job.
And Smith knows talent. His daughter, Kelsey, plays at DePaul and as a boys basketball coach for several seasons at St. Charles North, as well as a former high school and college player himself, Smith knows good players when he sees them.
But even Smith admits being surprised at how well his freshman-laden team has done this season. At 19-4 overall and having secured their first Big Northern East championship since 2006-07, the Rockets also cracked the Daily Herald Top 20 this week for the first time this season, and theyre the No. 1 seed in the upcoming Class 3A regional that they will host. Central has not won a girls basketball regional since 1990 and has only three regional banners in program history.
The Fab Five freshmen Shelby Holt (11.3 ppg), Samantha Pryor (8.6 ppg), Kayla Ross (7.4 ppg), Becca Gerke (4.4 ppg) and Samantha Cruz have meshed well with the senior leadership of Camille Dela Cruz (6.2 ppg) and Erika Haynes and sophomore returnee Alison Colby (7.3 ppg) to put the Rockets in position to threaten the school record for wins (23) and win a regional for the first time since the Shelly Lange-coached BC team did so 23 years ago.
If you look at our leading scorer from game to game its different a lot of times, Smith said after the Rockets beat Richmond 56-34 Saturday to secure the outright BN-East title.
Realistically, I had heard the kids were good but I had no idea what was in the conference. One benefit we have is that they all play AAU. Theyre dedicated and passionate about basketball. I knew it was a good group, I just didnt know how good.
Central will get a good test Wednesday night when it travels to Streamwood (17-5). The Sabres are currently tied with Geneva in the loss column in the Upstate Eight River and need to beat Larkin and Batavia this week to secure at least a share of their first conference title since 1987-88. The nonconference game with Burlington Central comes in between those two important River games for Streamwood.
For the Rockets, they need only to beat Marengo and North Boone for a second time to close out an undefeated conference season. They also have a nonconference test at home Feb. 5 against St. Charles North, where Smith teaches.
Then will come a regional that will surely be a challenge to win. Plano, somewhat of an unknown with a 17-5 record, is the No. 2 seed while Kaneland (11-8), which owns a 56-53 overtime win against BC, is the No. 3 seed. Even fourth-seeded Sycamore and No. 5 Hampshire cant be counted out. Sandwich is the No. 6 seed.
Hampshire has run off some wins and Sycamore plays in a great conference, Smith said. It wont be easy.
The Rockets will open the regional on Feb. 13 against the winner of the Hampshire-Sycamore game the night before. Central beat Sycamore 42-40 in OT on Nov. 17 and downed Hampshire 49-27 on Dec. 8.
Welcome change: For the past several years, some coaches and a lot of media have sought a remedy to the late weeknights caused by the second game of postseason doubleheaders not starting until 8:15 or 8:30 p.m. Its usually happened when the first game goes overtime and then theres tiebreaker shootouts in the IHSAs 3-point shootout contest. Finally, a remedy has been put into place.
Starting this season, the 3-point contest will only be held on regional championship and sectional championship nights instead of every night of the postseason. The previous format had players shooting each night their team played or would have played, and that format lended to some late nights and long trips home for student-athletes on school nights.
The new format will bring up to four players from each team in the regional together on the same night as the championship game, at which time the regional representatives to the sectional round will be determined. Shooting will begin at the regional site at 6 p.m. and the championship game at 7:30 p.m.
At the sectional level, the four players who advance from the regional will all shoot on sectional championship night to determine the four players who advance downstate. Sectional 3-point shooting will also begin at 6 p.m. and the game at 7:30.
More than anything, the new format should ensure that all those 8 p.m. games on doubleheader nights actually start at 8, if not even a few minutes early.
Pairings set: The IHSA released the pairings for the Class 3A and Class 4A postseason this past Friday. The Class 4A Streamwood regional certainly does have a rivalry factor to it on opening night Monday, Feb. 11. At 6 p.m., District 300 rivals Jacobs and Dundee-Crown will meet for the third time this season. Jacobs, the No. 4 seed, owns two wins over the fifth-seeded Chargers this season. Then, at 8 p.m., Elgin and Larkin will battle for the fourth time this season. The third-seeded Maroons own a 2-1 edge over the sixth-seeded Royals this season. On Tuesday, Feb. 12, top-seeded Streamwood faces the Jacobs vs. D-C winner and at 8 p.m. No. 2 South Elgin takes on the Elgin-Larkin winner. The championship game is Feb. 14.
Huntley (19-5) may have been given the toughest regional opener around, despite the Red Raiders record. Assigned to the Belvidere North regional, the Raiders are the No. 3 seed and have to open on Feb. 12 against No. 2 DeKalb (21-3). Belvidere North (18-6) got the No. 1 seed and gets a first-round bye.
Bartlett got the No. 8 seed in its own sectional complex and has been assigned to the Wheaton Warrenville South regional, where the Hawks will play No. 9 York in the 8 p.m. semifinal on Feb. 12. A win would likely put the Hawks against No. 1 WW South in the regional title game, which would be a rematch of last years Hoffman Estates sectional title game won by Bartlett.
And in Class 3A St. Edward, which is up from Class 2A this year and part of the Vernon Hills sectional complex, is assigned to the Lakes regional. The 18th-seeded Wave will play No. 15 Chicago Senn in a Feb. 11 play-in game. A win would pit St. Edward against top-seeded Vernon Hills, the defending Class 3A state runner-up.
The week ahead: Who will win the Upstate Eight River and Fox Valley Conference Valley Division championships will, for all intents and purposes, be decided this week. in the UEC River, Streamwood and Geneva are tied in the loss column with one loss each. Streamwood is at Larkin Thursday and then hosts Batavia Saturday at 2:30 p.m. to close out their River schedule. Streamwood can secure no worse than a tie for its first conference title since 1987-88 by winning both games. In the FVC Valley, Cary-Grove and Huntley are in a virtual tie for the top spot. The Trojans are at Jacobs Wednesday then host Huntley at 2:30 p.m. Saturday and finish their Valley schedule against Dundee-Crown next week. Huntley is at D-C Wednesday and the Red Raiders final conference game is Saturday at Cary-Grove.


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I'm experiencing a very annoying problem on the laptop I use at work. I'm using an up-to-date Arch with Gnome-shell and we have a bunch of network shares on several servers.
I access them via Nautilus and everything's fine as long as I don't unplug the cable. If I do that while Samba shares are mounted in Nautilus (through GVFS), the entire desktop freezes and I have to restart GDM to get it back (but all applications are killed and that's not cool).
I also realized that when I mount a Samba share I'm accessing through a personal VPN (so, through the Internet), the entire desktop becomes slow and choppy. If I transfer a file to the remote folder using Samba over this VPN, I cannot do anything until the transfer is finished. During this time the desktop is freezed. But after that I get it back and it's working again (but is still slow as long as I keep the share folder mounted).
When I unmount the "slow" Samba shared folder, everything works perfectly.
Why is Gnome so dependent on such thing as a simple mounted shared folder? Is there a way to prevent this behaviour?
Thanks in advance
I use gnome-shell and mount samba shares often, I don't have any of those issues. If I lose my connection while the share is mounted the desktop continues to work fine. If I click on an unavailable share in nautilus the desktop and nautilus remains responsive, and nautilus tells me it couldn't retrieve the share list after a minute. The only time I've seen anything like this happen on my computer is when I tried to access an unavailable samba share via the gnome-shell places menu extension, which froze the shell for a minute (but not the whole desktop). I've never seen freezing behavior like that through nautilus. So afiak gnome isn't "dependent" on the mounted share.
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Well, that's strange.
When I first read your answer I thought about 2 extensions I'm using: Places Status Indicator and Removable Drive Menu. Both are linked to the Samba shares in some way so I tried to disable them and restart my DE.
But I got a freeze again a moment after (this time without no apparent link to mounted shares in Nautilus) and I had to restart GDM once again.
So after all, I have no idea why I get this behaviour with Samba shares, but what is sure is that Gnome-Shell is sometimes unstable and crashes the whole desktop. Fortunately, it only happens once or twice a day which is "acceptable". I keep on investigating on this...
Hi nanawel, i've a very similar problem to your on my home machine: this (https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=1196319) is the thread i found when researching my problem, so i started investigating it and then discovered the samba shares problem, so i found out your problem when looking up for similar annoyances in Google.
Have you been able to track it down?
As i said in the other thread, i don't have installed any of those gnome-shell extensions, but i have the TweakTool->Desktop option named "Show mounted volumes on the desktop" enabled, as well as an entry in my /etc/fstab file: tomorrow i'm going to have some tries with my brother's pc and see if i can find out something more.. i'll keep posting on this thread then, since it looks like my problem is very very similar.. hopefully we'll be able to track it down this beast.
But also, I'm also experiencing that "slow network share/choppy desktop" on my work machine only: it looked like a FUSE issue, but could never debug that since i've a quite important deadline at work and can't start debugging my OS during working hours
Anatolik was kind enough to chime in and suggest to debug it (https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php … 7#p1193437), this is the thread about it.
I'm still experiencing this, just connecting to a WinXP machine via nautilus, if the machine became unreachable then my machine's gnome shell will hang, need to restart gdm or reboot.
Anyone with a solution for this?
What happens if you use the mount command instead of automounting or graphical programs?
man 8 mount.cifs
What happens if you use the mount command instead of automounting or graphical programs?
man 8 mount.cifs
I got the same problem the other day exactly by "mount.cifs" and an fstab entry with "..,noauto,soft,.." to let's non-root users to mount it.
I'm still plagued by this: as soon as any samba share is unreachable gnome shell freeze, anyone ever come up with a solution for this?
The problem is still there, but i found out how to manage to unfreeze gnome-shell: CTRL+ALT+F2/F3 and switch to another TTY, then
sudo fusermount -zu <mount_point>
I wonder why Nautilus can't do that on its own whenever a machine is not reachable anymore...
I'm having the same problem with i3. Have you solved the issue?
@ryzion, i never fully solved it on my own, but this has been probably solved upstream with the gvfs that came with the new gnome-shell since i'm not seeing this problem anymore since shell 3.10 came out. Sorry for not being of any more help for you..
I have this same issue. 2 years later and still no fix :-(
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School Bus Driver
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- First Student Canada
- Location
- Battleford, Saskatchewan
- Posted
- April 28, 2018
- Closes
- September 29, 2018
- Sector
- Transportation and Couriers
- Function
- Supply Chain and Logistics
- Contract Type
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full Time
FIRST STUDENT, North America's largest & leading school bus company is training and hiring steady part-time and spare drivers RIGHT NOW.
- Approximately 7:00 AM to 9:00 AM and 3:00 PM to 5:00 PM, Monday to Friday (September to June) on school days only;
- Ideal for retirees, self-employed people with flexible schedules, or stay-at-home moms or dads;
- In many cases you may even be able to bring your toddler along with you (ask about child ride along);
- No nights or weekend work.
- Safely driving students to and from school, following a prescribed route, on a daily basis during the school year;
- Performing daily vehicle safety inspections;
- Communicating clearly and interacting with parents, school employees, passengers, co-workers & the public in a courteous, professional manner;
- Being part of a world-class organization;
- Security and opportunities for potential advancement;
- Extra assignments may be available at many locations, but are not mandatory;
- Competitive wages and a well-maintained fleet of automatic vehicles;
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- Meet the minimum age requirements to hold a school bus driver's licence in your province;
- Have at least 3 years of driving experience (at least 1 in North America);
- Hold a valid (non-probationary) driver's licence and a very good driving record. Communicate clearly in English or French (depending on the area and school district requirements);
- Undergo & pass a Ministry prescribed Medical examination, drug testing, criminal record search, vulnerable sector clearance and other background checks.
First Student is an equal opportunity employer that welcomes a diverse workforce. We encourage applications from persons with a disability, Aboriginal peoples and members of a visible minority.


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Annual to tree
Leaves generally compound, alternate, stipuled; leaflets generally entire
Inflorescence: generally raceme, spike, umbel or head; flowers sometime 12 in axils
Flowers generally bisexual, generally bilateral; hypanthium generally flat or cup-like; sepals generally 5, fused; petals generally 5, free, or the 2 lower ± fused; stamens 1many, often 10 with 9 filaments at least partly fused, 1 (uppermost) free; pistil 1, ovary superior, generally 1-chambered, ovules 1many, style, stigma 1
Fruit: legume, sometimes including a stalk-like base above receptacle, dehiscent, or indehiscent and breaking into 1-seeded segments, or indehiscent, 1-seeded, and achene-like
Seeds 1several, often ± reniform, generally hard, smooth
Genera in family: ± 650 genera, 18,000 species: worldwide; with grasses, requisite in agriculture and most natural ecosystems. Many cultivated, most importantly Arachis , peanut; Glycine , soybean; Phaseolus , beans; Medicago ; Trifolium ; and many orns
Reference: [Polhill & Raven (eds) 1981 Advances in legume systematics; Allen & Allen 1981 Leguminosae]
Family description and key to genera by Duane Isely.
Annual to shrubs; cotyledons generally petioled, withering early
Stem generally erect
Leaves palmately compound in CA, generally cauline; stipules fused to petiole; leaflets 317, generally oblanceolate, entire
Inflorescence: raceme; flowers spiraled or whorled; bracts generally deciduous
Flower: calyx 2-lipped, lobes entire or toothed, generally appendaged between lobes; banner centrally grooved, sides reflexed, wing tips slightly fused, keel generally pointed; stamens 10, filaments fused, 5 long with short anthers, 5 short with long anthers; style brushy
Fruit dehiscent, generally oblong
Seeds 212, generally smooth
Species in genus: ± 200 species: especially w North America, w South America to e US, also tropical South America, Medit
Etymology: (Latin: wolf, from mistaken idea that plants rob soil of nutrients)
Some cultivated for fodder, green manure, edible seed, ornamental; some naturalized from CA in e North America, South America, Australia, s Africa;
some (e.g. L. arboreus, L. latifolius, L. leucophyllus ) have alkaloids (especially in seeds, fruits, young herbage) TOXIC to livestock (especially sheep)
Reference: [Barneby 1989 Intermountain Flora 3(B):237267]
Infl length does not include peduncle
Horticultural information: Many lupine taxa need seed pre-treatment (scarification, stratification, inoculation) for successful germination.
Perennial 324 dm, green, glabrous to hairy
Stem erect
Leaves cauline; stipules 510 mm; petiole 420 cm; leaflets 511, 40100 mm, upper surface glabrous to hairy, lower surface ± hairy
Inflorescence 1660 cm, open; peduncle 820 cm; pedicel 212 mm; flowers whorled or not; bracts 812 mm, deciduous
Flower 818 mm; calyx upper lip 510 mm, entire to 2-toothed, lower lip 48 mm, entire or notched; petals blue or purple to white; banner back glabrous, patch generally white to yellowish turning purple, upper keel margins ciliate from claw to middle, lower keel margins generally ciliate
Fruit 24.5 cm, ± densely hairy
Seeds 610, 34 mm, mottled dark brown
Ecology: Common. Generally moist areas in woodlands, shady to open areas
Elevation: < 3500 m.
Bioregional distribution: California (except Great Central Valley, Desert)
Distribution outside California: to British Columbia, Utah, Arizona, Baja California
Synonyms: L. rivularis Lindl. in part
TOXIC: causes birth defects in livestock.


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I finally threw away my very old Body Shop powder brush. I was looking out for a good powder brush and I could use another blush brush for my cream blushes. I didn't want to spend too much on them and have heard how good Eco Tools was so I decided to give it a try.
Drugstore.com had a recent sale and I was able to get my powder and blush brush for 20% cheaper. They usually go for USD$8.99. I bought mine at USD$7.20, that is about SGD$10.42.
You can find Eco Tools in Singapore. Watsons sells Eco Tools exclusively and can be found at Watsons Ngee Ann City. I went over to check their prices and they sell for about $15.90. Unless you are hauling at Drugstore.com and have picked out a few other items, it would be good to pick up some Eco Tools brushes but I don't suggest you just buy them on its own, it is not worth it because of the shipping costs.
These brushes are cheap and makes you feel good because you aren't harming too much of nature by buying them. The bristles are very soft and feel just lovely on the skin.
I wish the bristles on the blush brush was shorter though. This brush would be great for sheer powder blush application but not good for cream blush. It didn't pick up the cream blush well enough and caused wastage. I had to pump out more of my MUFE HD blush for application. It could not pick up my MUFE Aqua Cream blush because the bristles were too long and soft. But I was pleased when I used it with my Stila Mango Crush and GA Fluid Sheers. My conclusion is it is great for very liquid gel blushes but not for cream ones. Overall, it is still a great blush to have for softer application.
The powder brush was very good. I use it to set my liquid foundation. It does not interfere with the foundation as it is very soft. It picks up the powder well.
The handles are made of sturdy bamboo. Easy to grip. I won't suggest that you soak your brushes too long into brush cleaner liquid. It may eventually spoil the handle though.
(Taken from Paris Presents website)
EcoTools - 1200 BAMBOO Powder Brush
• Ideal for applying powder and setting makeup
• Soft, cruelty-free bristles
• Natural & recycled materials
This earth-friendly powder brush provides a smooth, soft finish and sets your makeup. And, it shows respect for the planet:
• Bamboo handle has a low impact on the earth's resources as it is a highly sustainable plant.
• Synthetic taklon bristles are 100% cruelty free.
• Sleek ferrule is made from recycled aluminum.
• Glide brush across pressed or loose powder and tap off any excess.
• Evenly apply over entire face to create a smooth, soft finish.
EcoTools - 1201 BAMBOO Blush Brush
• Expertly tapered for easy highlighting and contouring of cheekbones
• Soft, cruelty-free hair
• Natural & recycled materials
This earth-friendly blush brush evenly applies color to brighten up your face. And, it shows respect for the planet:
• Bamboo handle has a low impact on the earth's resources as it is a highly sustainable plant.
• Synthetic taklon bristles are 100% cruelty free.
• Sleek ferrule is made from recycled aluminum.
• Dip brush in blush and tap off any excess.
• Start with the brush at the highest point on the apples of the cheeks, then gradually stroke back toward hairline and slightly upward.
Overall, if you are on a beauty budget or a beginner, Eco Tools are a great way to start collecting your essential beauty tools. For seasoned makeup aficiandos, having a few extra brushes they don't cost heaven and earth is a godsend too. I know I appreciate being able to rotate my brushes.
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PeaceHealth is seeking a relief Provider based in the Sedro-Woolley community.
Req ID: 171536
We're seeking a BE/BC General Surgeon to assist with temporary coverage at United General Medical Center.
This group is well respected in the Sedro-Woolley / Burlington community and fully integrated into a leading system with specialty service lines supporting the St. Joseph Medical Center in Bellingham, St. Joseph is a 253-bed tertiary hospital.
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We strongly prefer a candidate with a passion to work with the underserved and a rural population.
PeaceHealth United General Medical Center is a 25-bed critical access hospital serving several communities with a catchment area of 50,000 over more than 2,000 square miles in Skagit and Whatcom counties. The hospital services include cancer care, cardiology, gastroenterology, neurology, OB/GYN, orthopedics, pulmonary and sleep medicine and in the near future, behavioral health provided by the PeaceHealth system.
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PeaceHealth, based in Vancouver, Wash., is a not-for-profit Catholic health system offering care to communities in Washington, Oregon, and Alaska. PeaceHealth has approximately 16,000 caregivers, a multi-specialty medical group practice with more than 900 providers and 10 medical centers serving both urban and rural communities throughout the Northwest. In 1890, the Sisters of St. Joseph of Peace founded what has become PeaceHealth. Today, PeaceHealth is the legacy of its founding Sisters and continues with a spirit of respect, stewardship, collaboration and social justice in fulfilling its Mission.
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-Marianne Williamson
Like birth, menstruation, and menopause, the unfolding of childhood is an inherently natural process. Nevertheless, every morning before going to school, 3 to 5 percent of American schoolchildren take a mind- and behavior-altering prescription drug called Ritalin (methylphenidate).1 They do so because they have been diagnosed as having a "disease," called "Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder" (ADHD).
It may seem paradoxical to give stimulants to children who are hyperactive in order to calm them down. But this is done because these drugs often have the reverse effect on children than they do on adults. Although the actual impact of Ritalin and similar substances on the brain and mind of young people is poorly understood, children diagnosed with ADHD often continue to take it for years.
What happens to the youngsters who take this medication? Their actions tend to be more goal-directed and "on task" than before. They often become less distracted by things going on around them, and better able to stay focused on their schoolwork. They tend to become less aggressive, less apt to get into trouble, and generally more docile and compliant. They follow rules better.
These changes make them easier for adults to manage. Psychiatrists, parents, and teachers are often pleased with the changes they see in a child who is put on Ritalin, who may appear to be "finally settling down."
I have been dismayed to learn, however, that the drug usually does nothing to enhance learning or improve actual academic achievement beyond the short term.2 Actively seeking to find evidence for enhanced learning in children on Ritalin, psychiatrists Russell Barkley and Charles Cunningham analyzed 17 studies on the subject, and called the results "uniformly discouraging."
In 1995, a school board member from Litchfield City, Connecticut named Patrice Fitch publicly described her daughter's response to Ritalin: "In the classroom, she became more likely to pay attention or do what the teacher instructed. Yet, while she may have had her pencil poised over the work assignment, closer inspection revealed that she was not actually forming the answers but instead imitating the stance. While Ritalin made it possible for Amanda to sit more or less calmly in her chair, it did not help her to learn."4
Approximately one-third of the children diagnosed as hyperactive do not become less restless on Ritalin. Some actually become more agitated. At best, the drug can help those children who have been accurately diagnosed to focus their minds so they can temporarily absorb information better. But others become withdrawn and stare off into space, not responding to much of anything. While these children no longer make trouble for their teachers or get into fights, they begin to exist in a state of disconnected social isolation.5
Even for those children whose behavior does respond as intended, the effect is only a temporary suppression of symptoms, not a cure. When children stop taking Ritalin, they are back where they started, only now they may also have to deal with a rebound effect from the medication, which may make them more distraught than ever.
And then, as with any drug, there are inevitably adverse side effects.6 Many children crash when their dose wears off, behaving even more uncontrollably than they did before. The Physicians' Desk Reference lists more than 25 symptoms-ranging from anxiety to hair loss to convulsions-that have been observed in Ritalin users having no preexisting conditions. Reactions include nausea, insomnia, headaches, weight loss, and a slowing of growth. Some children develop bizarre compulsive behaviors, such as insistent biting of their fingers and nails until they bleed. Other reactions include elevated heart rate, increased blood pressure, and a serious disorder known as Tourette's Syndrome, characterized by repetitive involuntary movements or tics.
Are there long-term side effects from the drug? This is an important question' because children are often placed on this medication for many years. It is also a frightening question, because to date no adequate longterm studies have been performed.7
Although more difficult to quantify than physical side effects, there are emotional and psychological consequences to labeling a child as having ADHD and putting the youngster on drugs. Having this kind of a diagnosis and treatment become a permanent part of a child's health files and educational records hardly helps her or him build self-esteem and selfrespect. In 1993, pediatric neurologist Fred Baughman, M.D., asked in the AMA journal, "What is the danger of having these children believe they have something wrong with their brains that makes it impossible for them to control themselves without a pill? What is the danger of having the most important adults in their lives, their parents and teachers, believe this as well?"8
Others have asked what the implications are of telling a child, "Say no to drugs, but don't forget to take your behavior-controlling, consciousness-altering medication before lunch." What happens to children when the full weight and authority of the medical profession tells them to take drugs to control their behavior? How will children learn to understand their emotions and deal with them constructively if they are told to take a drug to make them go away?9
When Clinical Psychiatry News discussed the heavy use of illicit drugs among adolescents, the journal lamented the increasing numbers of young people falling prey to substance abuse. Ironically, right next to the article, and visually overpowering it, was a prominent ad for Ritalin.'°
Ciba-Geigy, the company which manufactures Ritalin, says that the drug is not addictive if used as directed. But like cocaine and amphetamines, it is classified by the Drug Enforcement Agency as a Schedule II drug, meaning that among those substances regarded as having medical use, it is considered to have the highest potential for abuse. And even CibaGeigy acknowledges that some youngsters buy or steal the drug from classmates' sniffing and injecting it to get high.
In England, physicians simply do not prescribe Ritalin or other stimulant medications for children." They are far more cautious than we are about drug use in children to begin with, and particularly so for drugs with pervasive central nervous system effects. Throughout western Europe children almost never receive medication for hyperactivity.
In the United States, however, it's a different story. Although the Physicians' Desk Reference specifically states Ritalin "should not be used in children under six years [of age]," that did not stop U.S. physicians from writing 200,000 prescriptions for Ritalin and similar stimulants in 1993 for children ages five and younger.'2In the U.S., Ritalin has been prescribed to children as young as 18 months old.
The 1980s saw a dramatic increase in Ritalin use among children in the United States which coincided with publication of influential work by the University of Pittsburgh's Stephen Breuning. His research was believed to have proven that stimulants such as Ritalin were effective answers to hyperactivity. But evidently Dr. Breuning was somewhat lacking in the noble spirit of open-minded scientific inquiry. In 1988, it was discovered that much of his data had been completely fabricated. It turned out that he had reported studies that had never been performed.'3
Breuning was sentenced to prison for this fraud, and articles condemning his actions appeared in major medical journals. Yet many teachers, pediatricians, psychiatrists, and parents are still influenced by the pro-Ritalin wave that washed across the country during the years when his "research" was believed to be genuine.
In the years immediately following Breuning's exploits, there was an exponential increase in the use of medication for children diagnosed with ADHD. A 1987 study found that 6 percent of all schoolchildren in Baltimore were on medically prescribed stimulant drugs.'4 An outraged public response in that city caused Ritalin use there to decline in the following few years, but in the rest of the nation, the number of children being dosed with this and other medically prescribed stimulants continued to increase.
By 1995, more than 6 million psychiatric prescriptions were being written every year for Americans under the age of 18. 15 And in 1996, the World Health Organization estimated that nearly 5 percent of all elementary schoolchildren in the United States were on Ritalin.16
Which Kids are Put on Ritalin?
The assumption is that these children have a brain dysfunction or disease Yet doctors prescribing Ritalin rarely, if ever, perform neurological tests." Instead, they take the word of parents or teachers, whose judgments are invariably subjective. The scores that are obtained from the various scales used to diagnosis ADHD give the appearance of scientific precision, as though they were measuring something tangible, like blood sugar levels. But in reality, ADHD is defined entirely in behavioral, nonmedical terms. The numbers merely sum up a particular teacher or physician's subjective impressions. In fact, a number of studies have shown that when parents, teachers, and clinicians rate the same child, they frequently come up with wildly differing scores.18
Who, then, are the children who get diagnosed with ADHD?
Some, who may be so unruly that they can completely disrupt an entire class, or who are impossible for their parents to handle, may benefit from the drug, at least in the short term. But many are simply children who have a strong sense of their own inner rhythms and timing. These youngsters often feel frustrated in authoritarian situations, and conforming to the rules of a classroom or of autocratic parents can be difficult for them. Such children are potential recipients of an ADHD diagnosis, because the American Psychiatric Association's criteria for ADHD officially points the finger at children who "interrupt others, and have difficulty following instructions."
Children who are especially intelligent are often bored in today's schools, and will sometimes try to answer their teacher's questions as quickly as possible, in the manner of game show contestant "whiz kids" eager to display their knowledge. This behavior, while hardly evidence of pathological brain chemistry, may nevertheless lead to a diagnosis of ADHD, because another of the of ficial criteria targets kids who "often blu* out answers to questions before they have been completed."
Children who are assertive by nature may also receive the diagnosis. One of the scales that is most widely used by parents and teachers to assess for ADHD is the Revised Conner's Questionnaire.'9 According to this scale, children are suspected of being hyperactive if they are "sassy," and guilty of "wanting to run things."
Then again, those children who happen to be especially sensitive or timid aren't exempt, because other criteria include being "shy," and having their "feelings easily hurt."
Kids who come from difficult family situations are also likely candidates for the diagnosis. Being "basically an unhappy child," and "feeling cheated in the family circle" are considered symptoms of ADHD.
It's hard to avoid the suspicion that just about any kid who doesn't fit easily into the school or family system might fall prey to the diagnosis and Consequently be treated with Ritalin. The Revised Conner's Questionnaire actually goes so far as to state that children who behave in a "childish" way are displaying a symptom of ADHD. And here all along I had thought that behaving in a childish way was a natural part of childhood.
In fact, the more I've looked at the diagnostic criteria by which children are labeled as having ADHD, the more I've begun to suspect that the only children who are completely safe from a diagnosis of ADHD are those who are so frightened to disobey that they are compulsively dutiful and obedient.
Are Our Schools for Compliance or for Learning?
Not being a particularly big fan of either Ritalin or our mass production school system, educator John Holt told Congress plainly that we give kids this drug so that "we can run our schools as we do, like maximum security prisons, for the comfort and the convenience of the teachers and administrators who work in them."20