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William C. (Bill) Berg, 71 of Wapakoneta died October 21, 2012. Bill died as a result of extensive farm accident injuries occurring one week earlier.
He was born in Lima November 25, 1940. Bill was the son of Egon Jr. and Dorothy (Knierim) Berg. Memorial services will be held at 3:00 P.M. Thursday October 25, 2012 at St. Paul United Church of Christ, 101 South Perry Street, Wapakoneta. Pastors Jeff Davis and Becky Sunday will be officiating. Friends may call after the service until 7:00 P.M. in the Timmermeister Hall at the church. In lieu of flowers memorial contributions may be made to the St. Paul Adult Bell Choir or the St. Paul U.C.C. Living Endowment Fund.
Bill graduated from Blume High School in the class of 1958. Youth activities included 4H and FFA where he served as chapter president. After graduation, he attended Ohio State University. On November 28, 1963, he married Judith Truitt Berg.
Bill was a lifetime activist for agriculture. He farmed with his father Egon for more than 30 years and began farming with his brother Jim in 1989. Bill and Jim farmed more than 1400 acres of corn, soybeans, and winter wheat as W&J Farming Partnership. Berg retired from the United States Postal Service (Wapakoneta) in 1992 with more than 30 years of service.
Appointed in 1997, Bill has been serving on behalf of his fellow farmers as a board member of the Ohio Corn and Wheat Growers Association for 16 years (then called the Ohio Corn Growers Association). Bill's commitment to his work was unquestionable. He tirelessly carried the agriculture message to Washington DC year after year, where he sat face-to-face with congressmen and senators to lobby for sound agriculture policy on behalf of his fellow farmers.
Bill hosted meetings in his county and on his farm for elected officials, foreign corn buyers and his fellow farmers to tell the agriculture story. He served at the national level as a member of the National Corn Growers Association (NCGA) Production and Stewardship Action Team, working on issues such as US Transportation Infrastructure (Locks and Dams), and Environmental Issues (balancing food production with a clean US water supply).
Most recently Bill served as Vice Chairman of the NCGA Growers Services Action Team focusing on increasing membership in the organization, communicating Agriculture's message to consumers and lawmakers and providing scholarships to college students studying agriculture. Bill's service and respected leadership in Ohio and US Agriculture built a large network of friends across the country.
Berg was president of the Auglaize County Advisory Committee and a member of the Endowment and Legislative Subcommittees of the Extension Advisory Committee. Bill held many positions with the Auglaize County Cattlemen's Association, and was chairman of the Auglaize County Cattlemen's Food Stand at the Auglaize County Fair for more than 20 years; where he enjoyed seeing many of his lifelong friends. He was honored as the Auglaize County Cattleman of the year in 1995. Berg also received the Ohio Extension Agents Association Appreciation Award in 2001. The award was in recognition for the leadership and support of the Ohio State University Extension Educational Programs. Other memberships include the Ohio Soybean Association and American Farm Bureau.
Bill was a life member of St. Paul United Church of Christ of Wapakoneta. He served on the church council and was council president numerous times. Bill enjoyed being Mr. Fix-It with other members of the congregation. He especially enjoyed playing in the Bell Choir and on the Dart-Ball team throughout the years and cherished the fellowship that was characteristic of those groups. Bill was an active bowler for over 50 years in the Wapakoneta area.
Survivors include wife Judith, and daughter Trudy Berg (Mike Redix), Houston, TX and son William Kess (Amy Joy) Berg, Chesterfield, MO; brother James F. (Carol Bauer) Berg, brother John E. Berg, Wapakoneta, OH, and sister Judith A. (Berg) Mason, Louisville, KY; nephews Mathew Berg, Scott Hittepole, Monte Berg and niece Bridget Hittepole.


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Lord Zargon wishes everyone a glorious Halloween
October 31, 2012
Deans of Demonology:
Though strong winds and steady rains have had their way with much of the land these past few days, one thing remains constant - tonight is Halloween. Dark is this night and black is my heart.
Let us join together to raise the dead and bury the living.
Yours in blood,


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Maybe you blame Cubs team President Theo Epstein for failing to take every step required to execute the trade of Ryan Dempster to Atlanta.
Maybe you blame Dempster for failing to live up to his word that he would waive his no-trade rights for certain teams and not stand in the way of the Cubs' getting better.
Truth is, it doesn't matter whether you blame Epstein or Dempster for the embarrassment last week because Epstein is going to get the blame. Dempster is still here, and so is Matt Garza. One day before the trade deadline, Epstein hasn't used his most valuable trading assets to make the Cubs better.
Epstein still has time, of course. The non-waiver trading deadline comes Tuesday at 3 p.m. After that it become more difficult, but Epstein still has until Aug. 30 to deal the likes of Dempster, Garza, Paul Maholm, Reed Johnson, Jeff Baker, player, player, player, name, name, or name except Anthony Rizzo.
So, something still might happen, but it doesn't look like it will be as good as it might've been, which makes it even worse for a team supposedly armed with two of the most valuable arms on the trade market.
Interestingly, White Sox general manager Ken Williams has no money and allegedly no prospects, but he seems to come up with young players that other teams identify as prospects. He comes up with deals. Williams traded for Kevin Youkilis to create the kind of big-boy lineup required in the American League, then Brett Myers to add a veteran set-up man/closer, and just last weekend Francisco Liriano to help a rotation get better and more rest.
Whatever anybody thought of the Sox farm system, it has been good enough -- and Williams has been smart and creative enough -- to produce young talent that can help the big league team now, either in trade or in Sox fatigues. Kind of like a parallel front. Good phrase, that. Yeah, a parallel front -- winning in the race to develop young talent and winning at the major league level. Quick, someone pass along the idea to the Cubs.
The amateur draft in June appeared to be Epstein's World Series, the biggest event of the season for the new honcho and his new pals charged with rebuilding the Cubs. But that was their event. For Cubs fans, it was no more than looking at someone else's high school yearbook.
The trade deadline, however, would be tangible moves. The trade deadline would be some kind of fans' World Series. It might be no more than the exit of known players for unknown prospects, but even the holes in, say, the rotation would represent progress, and here's why:
You can't build a team for future sustained success without getting rid of the stuff that contributed to the recent sustained losing.
In June, Dempster agreed to waive his no-trade clause for certain teams, then went on the disabled list. At that time, I urged Epstein to trade Garza so he didn't risk another injury to a pitcher who was worth a lot more in another uniform. Oops.
Dealing Garza a month ago should've given Epstein the persuasive argument that the team acquiring the Cubs right-hander would gain greater value by getting more starts than if it waited until the deadline.
But no. Garza got hurt, too, and now he won't test his cramping triceps until after the non-waiver trade deadline. Dempster is scheduled to start the Cubs' first game after that Tuesday deadline.
It might not be considered a big failure by Epstein if those remain issues for the Cubs instead of another team after Tuesday's trade deadline, but that's the way to bet.


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- ―Barney's catch phrase
- "Don't cry for me, I'm already dead"
- ―Barney during his home film Pukeahontas
Bernard "Barney" Arnold Gumble is the Springfield town drunk and Homer Simpson's best friend, though to a lesser extent after high school. Being a frequent customer at Moe's (to the point of sleeping there) Barney considers Moe to be his second best friend; however, he is often abused in the process, mainly due to Moe's personality. Barney was formerly an A-student back at Springfield High, but lost it all due to his drinking alcohol and is since then seen as a disgrace by his whole family, none of whom drinks.
Barney was born on April 20, sharing his birthday with Adolf Hitler.[3]His father, Arnie Gumble, died in a 1979 parade float accident along with Sheldon Skinner, Iggy Wiggum, Etch Westgrin, and Griff McDonald, all of whom had served in Abe Simpson's WWII squad, the Flying Hellfish. Barney once had a near-death experience in which he expects to be reunited with "my loved ones, my dad, and that plant I never watered," perhaps implying that he did not get along with his father, though this line could also be interpreted as Barney reuniting with his "loved ones: my dad and that plant I never watered."[4]
As a teenager, Barney had great potential. He was Harvard-bound until Homer introduced him to beer on the night before they had to take the SATs. It has also been implied that he took to drinking after his high-school sweetheart Chloe Talbot left Springfield to become a successful TV reporter. In spite of the years of alcoholism, he still appears to maintain some of his great early potential. For example, when forced to quit drinking while training to be an astronaut, he almost immediately regained his diction and balance and proved to be an exceptional astronaut candidate. (Unfortunately, to celebrate the completion of his training and selection as an astronaut, he was given non-alcoholic champagne, which immediately resulted in a relapse.)[5]
Later on, with Homer, he was a member of The Be Sharps barbershop quartet, in which his stellar Irish singing voice was discovered. Barney showed his artistic side again when he won top prize at the Springfield Film Festival for his moving documentary about his life as an alcoholic, unfortunately titled "Puke-a-hontas".[6]
Mr. Black also hired Barney to act like Krusty the Clown for the campers at Kamp Krusty, although Bart was not fooled by his attempt at defaming Krusty (as Barney was poorly disguised as Krusty), and also ends up confirming Bart and the rest of the campers' suspicions that Black just "slapped a clown suit on some wine-o" by answering that he is "Krunchy the Clown," as well as clamoring for Krusty's return (or, as he calls him, "Krunchy").
Barney was inspired by Homer's Mr. Plow business to have his own snow removal service, calling himself the Plow King and buying a snow removal truck much bigger than Homer's. He even got Linda Ronstadt to sing on his commercials. "We've been looking for a project to do together for a while," he explained. He took away all Homer's customers and earned the key to Springfield (which was taken away from Homer). Homer eventually fools Barney into traveling to "Forbidding Widows' Peak" to plow through the snow for a $10,000 bill, but is caught in an avalanche. Homer ends up saving Barney, they become friends again and team up, only to find the snow melting (after Homer comments "When two best friends team up, not even God himself can stop them." To which a voice from the sky replies "Oh, no?" and promptly beams down a ray of light to melt the snow), and Homer's truck repossessed.[7] Barney is seen driving his plow as the Plow King again in several occasions.[8][9]
When Mr. Burns caused Moe's Tavern to close down and was shot later, Barney became a major suspect for shooting Burns after Burns blocked the sun (despite his easygoing nature, Barney
apparently carries around a derringer at all times).[10][11]
Barney served in the United States Navy Reserve for a short time, as a submariner on the USS Jebediah with his own mother as his superior officer, although he briefly served in the U.S. Army during his youth.[12]
Before Barney started drinking, he was a very intelligent young man, but while studying for the S.A.T.s Homer offered him one of Abe's beers. After giving in to Homer, Barney took his first sip and quickly downed the entire can. His clothes and hair quickly became a mess and he ran out of Homer's house. Barney is almost always seen in Moe's Tavern, where he is a regular. His desperation for alcohol has been the source of many jokes. He has a quavering, slightly broken voice and a distinctive loud belch (although he sings completely differently, having a beautiful "Irish tenor" type voice), as well as a characteristic wandering eye. He remains friendly and good-natured despite his unfortunate condition. Heavyset, slovenly, and unmarried (though occasionally seen with women), he lives in a very untidy and sparsely-furnished apartment. It has also been implied that he has "lived" in Moe's Tavern. Barney drinks so compulsively that Moe had to send his beer tab to NASA for it to be calculated: it ultimately came out as fourteen billion dollars worth of beer (although Moe mistakenly stated it was seventy billion dollars until he realized that that was actually the cost of the Voyager Spacecraft),[13] and has contributed to at least one of his fellow barflies' beer tab (such as when Homer went to Japan).[14]
He is occasionally seen doing some sort of manual labor, such as working for his Uncle Al at Barney's Bowlarama, but has also been the owner of a successful snowplowing business and been employed by NASA as an astronaut. Barney states that he is 43 years old and his first name was revealed to be Bernard, although he also appears to be in the same high school class as Homer in flashbacks.[15] When streaking at his high school prom earned him "about a decade's worth of detention", it was hinted that he was either to be held back a year, or had already repeated. He had also ended up having to do court-issued community service with picking up roadside litter where he attacked Principal Skinner (who was trying to cross the interstate with a tank of gasoline for his car at the time) after hallucinating that Skinner was a giant beer can.[16]
Barney has survived experiences such as exploding zeppelins,[17] malfunctioning Jet packs,[18] and being crushed by a falling table.[19]
Barney also apparently takes pictures of Legs' sister, as stated in "Homie the Clown" when Homer states he is "Barney Gumble" after the mob picks him up thinking he is Krusty.
When alcohol is not readily available, Barney is seen drinking just about anything, such as turpentine, varnish, rubbing alcohol, and brake fluid. In addition, when someone forces him to be sober from alcohol, he sometimes becomes murderous and deranged, which happened on at least two occasions. The first time was when, due to Mr. Burns' slant drilling operation forcing Moe's Tavern to close due to the toxic fumes, he brought out a gun with the intention of wanting to murder Mr. Burns for this, although he never actually got a chance to use it before Mr. Burns was shot by Maggie.[20] The second time was when Mr. Burns diverted all the beer from Springfield and then issued a manhunt on TV to force Homer to give back Bobo, to which Barney was at the door with a gun warning Homer to do as Mr. Burns said, although he ended up accidentally shooting and presumably killing a woman who was crossing Evergreen Terrace after Homer slammed the door in his face, and it is implied that he was arrested for this action shortly thereafter.[21]
When he was nominated alongside Homer to join NASA, Barney quit drinking to undergo the rigorous training. He succeeded and was even nominated to go into space. However, due to the severity of his alcoholism, a taste of non-alcoholic wine was enough to get him intoxicated again, thus resulting in Homer going to space instead of Barney.[22]
Barney was once forced to remain sober for the drinking night at Moe's when he received the position of Designated Driver that night (coincidentally on the same night that he was to win a bottomless glass of Duff from Duffman). The mental strain of that single night of sobriety sent Barney on a two-month bender with Homer's car, after which Barney remembered nothing except for a guest lecture he gave at Villanova (or maybe it was on a street corner). The car was later found parked illegally in New York City, though Barney had no memory of how it got there.[23]
Barney once attempted to kick his alcoholism habit. For his birthday, Moe gave him a gift certificate for helicopter flying lessons, not expecting Barney to actually use them. "Can you imagine this tanked-up loser at the wheel of a whirlybird?", Moe asked. This comment, coupled with a humiliating videotape of Barney's actions while inebriated, gave Barney the drive he needed. Barney attended Alcoholics Anonymous meetings, became sober, and took the helicopter lessons. He became fairly proficient at it, though he admitted he had not yet mastered right turns. This new skill helped Homer rescue Bart and Lisa from a forest fire. Unwilling to lose one of his most crucial customers to his tavern, Moe figured out a way to channel Barney's tendency for addiction into a dependency on the caffeine in espressos.[24]
Barney once made a movie about his struggle with alcoholism and submitted it to the Springfield Film Festival. When he won the grand prize, he vowed to remain clean and sober from that point forward, but quickly backed off his vow when it was announced that the grand prize was a lifetime supply of Duff Beer.[25]
Homer encouraged Barney to drink a beer when he played Ulysses S. Grant in a re-enactment of the Battle of Springfield. (Surprisingly, this did not cause him to become alcoholic again. Barney himself was both surprised and hesitant to drink the beer, even for his role, as he was a recovering alcoholic.) He briefly sobered up and got back behind the controls of his helicopter to rescue his old girlfriend Chloe from a volcanic lava flow. He was also relatively sober and piloting his helicopter again when helping Homer take celebrity photographs.[26] When he suggested that an indicted Marge go to a particular rehab clinic to help her kick her drinking habit, he stated that the clinic had "cured him 5 times," implying that he has been switching between a current and recovering alcoholic.[27] It's revealed that he's always sober in the morning until he enters Moe's Tavern.[28]
During Trappuccino, he was one of the barflies who run into the church, and even later Barney was attending an AA meeting and went crazy when the coffee ran out.[29]
Website Biography
If there's one thing Barney Gumble loves more than beer, he hasn't discovered it yet. And not for want of trying. Hard liquor, sterno, cough syrup, turpentine, he's tried them all. Once, in a fit of desperation, he drank some non-alcoholic champagne, with near-fatal consequences. But Beer! Wonderful Beer! Barney would kill his own brain for a beer. He's drunk beer out of ashtrays, sucked beer our of bar rags, licked windows made of beer bottles, and, realizing a dream come true, drunk straight from the tap until his heart stopped. As he's said more than once, "If Moe's Tavern didn't close, I'd never leave."
When not entertaining the rest of the barflies with his lip-rippling belches, Barney seeks semi-occasional employment. He has worked as a sneeze-guard tester, handed out pamphlets dressed in a diaper for Lullabuy$ Baby Shop, appeared as a float in a temperance parade, and made regular donations to the Springfield Sperm Bank. However he was also given the key to the city for his heroics as the Plow King, and won a Grammy as tenor singer for Be Sharps, a barbershop quartet comprised of Homer, Apu, Skinner, and Barney. His romantic life, also semi-occasional, has ranger from Linda Ronstradt and Japanese conceptual artist Kako to Selma Bouvier to the woman in front of the drugstore who's always yelling things.
Being the swinging single that he is, Barney's apartment is decorated in an early 70's style -- replete with cable spool table, Farrah Fawcett poster, and empty pizza-box motif. A style guaranteed to keep Barney a swinging single forever. For this fundamentally existential lifestyle, Barney owes Homer Simpson thanks. They have been friends since high school and it was Homer, on the eve of the all-important SAT test, introduced Barney to his first beer, sparing him the shame of an Ivy League education and the burden of steady employment.
Non-Canon Appearances
The Simpsons Game
Barney first appears as one of the contestants in the Duff Ultimate Eating Challenge in the level Around the World in 80 Bites. He also appears in Mob Rules as one of the people Marge can use to protest the sales of the Grand Theft Scratchy videogame to minors.
Behind the Laughter
Barney was partly based on "Crazy" Guggenheim, a character from Jackie Gleason's American Scene Magazine. Matt Groening noted: "Barney was taking the standard sitcom sidekick and just making him as pathetic as possible. And also there was a sort of unspoken rule about not having drinking on television as a source of comedy. So, of course, we went right for it. In "Days of Wine and D'oh'ses" Barney was sobered up, a move that many staff members were against believing "a wide-awake, freshly showered, sober Barney just isn't as funny as an unkempt, disoriented, drunk one." Castellaneta did not change his voice after the sobering, because "[he thinks Barney's] still got 15 years of booze left in his veins."
The name Barney Gumble is a parody (and near homonym) of Barney Rubble, Fred Flintstone's best friend on Hanna-Barbera's The Flintstones. In several of the episodes of the first season, Barney Gumble's hair was yellow, just like Barney Rubble's hair. He was also born on April 20.
Barney first appeared in the episode "Simpsons Roasting on an Open Fire", in which he worked as a department store Santa and gave Homer a tip for winning at the dog track. The Season 1 DVD indicates that the script writers originally intended for Barney to be Homer's next-door neighbor.
Barney is also a major character on the show and has been central in a few episodes such as Mr. Plow, Homer's Barbershop Quartet, and Days of Wine and D'oh'ses. Barney has also appeared in every single season although in season 19 he made only cameo appearances. In seasons 2-5, Barney made lots of speaking appearances approximately 10-15 episodes, because he was always seen in Moe's. He has appeared in 274 episodes.
- Barney is likely Norwegian. In "Lisa the Greek", Barney asks Homer to go bowling on Superbowl Sunday, to which Homer suggests they go next Sunday instead. Barney states "well, my mother is flying in from Norway, but sure!"
- In "Homer's Triple Bypass", Barney had once mistaken Homer's heart operation as him trying to go through a sex-change operation.
- Barney in Season 1 had blonde hair.
- Barney's bar tab at Moe's is at $14 billion, but after Barney paid $2,000, Moe said that it's "at least halfway." But could be him not going to school, missing math lessons or beer killing his brain cells.
- In order to pay off his $14 billion bar tab, Barney would need to pay for 10 beers a day, at $2 each, for roughly 1.95 million years.
- At one point, Barney was implied to have been severely injured by a Crow mafia led by Homer Simpson when they enveloped him.
- Homer mentioned Barney's birthday being July 15th whilst trying to remember Marge's birthday during the episode "Viva Ned Flanders".
- At one point, Barney was on a coffee binge to replace beer, but suffered a relapse and became an alcoholic again.
- In "Homer vs Lisa vs the 8th Commandment," Barney is at Homer's house, but in The Simpsons Movie, he is seen in the mob of angry people who do not know where the house is at.
- In Selma's Choice, we learn Barney is a sperm donor and has fathered an untold amount of children.
- In "Mr Plow", Homer is awarded the key of Springfield for clearing the town of snow. But when Barney took Homer's idea and made himself the Plow King, Homer was forced to give up the key to Barney.
- He was an honor student before Homer offered him a beer, which made him alcoholic.
- In early episodes, he was a blonde but his hair was changed to brown because it is easier to animate.
- ↑ A Star is Burns
- ↑ Homer's Barbershop Quartet
- ↑ Viva Ned Flanders
- ↑ Simpson Tide
- ↑ She Used to Be My Girl
- ↑ A Star is Burns
- ↑ Mr. Plow
- ↑ Miracle on Evergreen Terrace
- ↑ O Brother, Where Bart Thou?
- ↑ Who Shot Mr. Burns? (Part One)
- ↑ Who Shot Mr. Burns? (Part Two)
- ↑ Simpson Tide
- ↑ 22 Short Films About Springfield
- ↑ Thirty Minutes Over Tokyo
- ↑ A Star is Burns
- ↑ Lost Verizon
- ↑ Lisa the Beauty Queen
- ↑ Deep Space Homer
- ↑ The Boy Who Knew Too Much
- ↑ Who Shot Mr. Burns? (Part One)
- ↑ Rosebud
- ↑ Deep Space Homer
- ↑ The City of New York vs. Homer Simpson
- ↑ Days of Wine and D'oh'ses
- ↑ A Star is Burns
- ↑ Homerazzi
- ↑ Co-Dependent's Day
- ↑ Lost Our Lisa
- ↑ The Simpsons Movie


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Tips for getting your cloth diapers into daycare
- tim
- Jan 11, 2010
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For our family, finding a daycare provider willing to use cloth diapers on our baby would be an absolute requirement. Any reasonable daycare provider would either accept our diapers without question or be willing to learn to use them even if they had never seen them before. If they were not reasonable on this matter, I would be concerned about how well we'd work together and about whether they would respect our parenting decisions on other matters as well.
Having said that, I haven't used daycare for my children, so when it came time to put together recommendations for the many parents who contact us about information to use in daycare selection conversations, the best sources were the moms who had done it. The Real Diaper Association (RDA) conducted a survey on the use of cloth diapers in daycare facilities. We received over 250 detailed responses. The responders were largely parents who had talked with daycare providers about their willingness to use cloth diapers on their children while caring for them. We culled the best advice they had, and came up with this tip sheet for using reusable cloth diapers in daycare.
The tip sheet includes practical advice about finding a daycare provider and talking with them about your diapers, and specific options you could consider to make it work for both of you. It also has links for parents to inform themselves about state daycare regulations and about proper sanitation practices for changing diapers in a daycare facility.
This tip sheet represents the first step in a joint project by volunteers from RDA and RDIA (Real Diaper Industry Association). Follow ongoing efforts to facilitate the use of cloth diapers in daycare at the RDA website or on this blog. Many thanks go to Ann Maclean, Northern Virginia Real Diaper Circle Leader, and RDA volunteers Angie Gregory and Ada Vaughan for all the work they did in putting it together.


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SOUTH EASTON, Mass., June 4, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- During their presentation at the Marcum SmallCap Conference on May 30, 2013 (http://wsw.com/webcast/marcum/pbio/), Pressure BioSciences, Inc. (OTCQB: PBIO) ("PBI" or the "Company") announced they have achieved and passed proof-of-principle objectives in their multi-year investment into the development of a high throughput ("HT") system for their patented pressure cycling technology ("PCT") platform. The Company believes the new HT design will allow their PCT platform to integrate with the automated, universally accepted HT sample preparation and analytical system formats installed in tens of thousands of biological research laboratories worldwide. The Company further believes that this breakthrough has the potential to significantly accelerate its growth in existing and new PCT-based applications and products, its ability to attract and form new strategic partnerships, and its overall revenue ramp going forward.
The Company believes there are more than 80,000 research laboratories working with biological samples worldwide and that many of these laboratories use automated, HT sample preparation and analytical systems in their studies. HT systems generally use sample handling robotics and "multiwell" test plates in standardized formats (e.g., 24, 96, or 384 wells per plate) for processing and testing large numbers of samples simultaneously. The multiwell plate is often processed in an automated fashion, allowing scientists to perform other important tasks while samples are being processed unattended.
"Although a number of studies have shown significant advantages of the PCT platform in preparing biomolecules (e.g., DNA, proteins, and lipids) for analysis, the PCT platform continues to be used primarily in small but important research studies," said Dr. Nate Lawrence , VP of Marketing and Sales for PBI. "Unlike today's popular HT multiwell plates that use an automated, unattended approach, the PCT Platform uses individual test tubes that require a lot of manual sample handling. We believe these manual sample handling requirements have prevented the PCT platform from being better accepted by the research community. To that end, we also believe that our new HT multiwell format will substantially enhance and accelerate the acceptance of the PCT platform in the life sciences R&D marketplace."
Mr. Richard T. Schumacher , President and CEO of PBI, commented: "To achieve proof-of-principle for a HT PCT-based multiwell system operating under the extremes of PCT conditions was a daunting engineering task, and now an amazing achievement. Because current multiwell plates cannot withstand the high pressures and temperatures demanded by the PCT process, it was necessary to design and develop multiwell plates that simply do not exist in laboratories today. Adding an additional challenge, the pressure system of the PCT platform had to be redesigned as well. Despite the immense challenges, our development team – led by Dr. Edmund Ting and Dr. Alexander Lazarev – succeeded in accomplishing these formidable tasks. On behalf of all stakeholders in PBI, I applaud the team's ingenuity, perseverance, and achievement."
Mr. Schumacher continued: "First generation HT PCT platform applications are being planned for enhanced enzymatic digestion, deglycosylation, and lipid profiling. We expect beta units to be built and tested by the end of 2013, and market-ready units to be available for sale in the first quarter of 2014. We further believe that the new HT multiwell PCT platform has the potential to significantly accelerate growth in existing and new PCT applications and products, sales reach, installed base, strategic partnerships, and overall revenue stream going forward. We believe this technology breakthrough is a game-changer for PBI."
About Pressure BioSciences, Inc.
Pressure BioSciences, Inc. ("PBI") (OTCQB: PBIO) is focused on the development, marketing, and sale of proprietary laboratory instrumentation and associated consumables based on our proprietary technology – pressure cycling technology. PCT is a patented, enabling technology platform with multiple applications in the estimated $6 billion life sciences sample preparation market. PCT uses cycles of hydrostatic pressure between ambient and ultra-high levels to control bio-molecular interactions. PBI currently focuses its efforts on the development and sale of PCT-enhanced sample preparation systems (instruments and consumables) for mass spectrometry, biomarker discovery, bio-therapeutics characterization, vaccine development, soil and plant biology, forensics, histology, and counter-bioterrorism applications.
Forward-Looking Statements
Statements contained in this press release regarding PBI's intentions, hopes, beliefs, expectations, or predictions of the future are "forward-looking'' statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Such statements include, without limitation, statements regarding achieving proof-of-principle for the processing of HT multiwell plate format; that the new HT system will integrate the Company's PCT platform with automated, sample preparation/analytical systems worldwide; that the achievement of proof-of-principle is a PCT breakthrough, with potential to significantly increase PCT applications and products, sales reach, installed base, strategic partnerships, and overall revenue stream going forward; that there are more than 80,000 research labs worldwide, many of which use automated, HT sample preparation/analytical systems in their studies; that the significant advantages of the PCT platform in extracting biomolecules has been repeatedly shown; that PCT is primarily used in small but important research studies; that the manual, time-consuming requirement of the PCT platform has prevented it from being more widely accepted; that achieving proof-of-principle was a daunting task, an amazing achievement, and a game changer for PBI; that beta units will be built and tested before the end of 2013, and market-ready units will be available for sale during 2014's first quarter; and the size of the life sciences sample preparation market. These statements are based upon the Company's current expectations, forecasts, and assumptions that are subject to risks, uncertainties, and other factors that could cause actual outcomes and results to differ materially from those indicated by these forward-looking statements. These risks, uncertainties, and other factors include, but are not limited to: possible difficulties or delays in the implementation of the Company's strategies that may adversely affect the Company's continued commercialization of its PCT-based product line; changes in customer's needs and technological innovations; the Company's and its strategic partners/distributors sales forces may not be successful in selling the Company's PCT product line because scientists may not perceive the advantages of the Company's current PCT platform products or its' new HT, multiwell PCT platform over other sample preparation methods; unforeseen technical difficulties or costs that may delay or prevent the Company from completing beta units and/or market-ready units of the HT, multiwell PCT platform before the end of 2013 and the end of the first quarter of 2014, respectively; and if actual operating costs are higher than anticipated, or revenues from product sales are less than anticipated, the Company may need additional capital beyond June 2013. Further, given the uncertainty in the capital markets and the current status of the Company's product development and commercialization activities, there can be no assurance that the Company will secure the additional capital necessary to fund its operations beyond June 2013 on acceptable terms, if at all. These statements are based upon the Company's current expectations, forecasts, and assumptions that are subject to risks, uncertainties, and other factors that could cause actual outcomes and results to differ materially from those indicated by these forward-looking statements. These risks, uncertainties, and other factors include, but are not limited to, the risks and uncertainties discussed under the heading "Risk Factors" in the Company's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2012, and other reports filed by the Company from time to time with the SEC. The Company undertakes no obligation to update any of the information included in this release, except as otherwise required by law.
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Michael Reagan,FloydReports.com
How long would the Norway gunman have lasted in Texas or any state where
concealed-carry laws are on the books? I ran a survey while on a cruise:in
Texas,3 minutes;in Montana,7 to 8 minutes;in Arizona,2 minutes;and in Nevada,3
to 5 minutes.
Had Norway not surrendered to the anti-self-defense nuts,and allowed
Norwegians to protect themselves by legally carrying guns,the massacre might
well have been prevented. There's a lot of truth in the old adage that if guns
are outlawed only outlaws will carry guns.
That was certainly true in Norway where Anders Breivik,a lone gunman,launched his assault on youth
campers of Utoya Island. According to press reports he fully expected Norway's
special forces to swoop down and stop him at any minute. It didn't happen. Faced
with unarmed victims he was given plenty of time to kill 68 innocent people who
could not defend themselves. Had just one of them been armed,Breivik could have
been stopped dead and lives would have been spared.
Moreover,if anyone had paid attention to Breivik's rants they would not have
been surprised when he acted on them,especially since Breivik had preceded his
attack by setting off a car bomb in the heart of Oslo.
Tragically,Norway's anti-gun hysteria resulted in laws restricting gun
ownership by law-abiding citizens,leaving them exposed to gun violence at the
hands of criminals such as Breivik,who simply ignore anti-gun ownership laws.
Despite the Second Amendment,which protects American citizens'rights to access
to guns for self-protection,the Constitutional right of citizens to bear arms is
under constant assault….


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Bald Eagle rescued from animal trap
Hunters spot protected animal caught in trap, alert police
Two hunters scouting the woods for possible hunting locations on Thanksgiving Day helped find a Bald Eagle caught in a trap.
The eagle was caught in a trap off of Garabedian Drive in Salem, New Hampshire.
Officers found the eagle with his right leg caught in a metal snap type trap, which was set up next to the recently skinned remains of a beaver. It appears the eagle was attempting to feed on the beaver and unfortunately got caught in the trap.
The officers were able to approach the eagle and cover him with a blanket. The officers and hunters worked to untangle the eagle's wing from around a small tree and to release the jaws of the trap.
A short time after being released, the eagle flew off, landing on the top of a large pine tree.
Officers removed the trap but later determined that the trap was in compliance with state laws. The identification tag for the owner of the trap was eventually located at the scene.


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Self Cleaning Oven
Early Saturday, the main suspect is located in 011, shot multiple times:
- As family struggled to keep a boy from remembering the details of a shooting that claimed the life of his mother and 5-year-old brother Friday, a suspect lay in a hospital bed across the city with several gunshot wounds of his own.
- As the family struggled to come to terms with the slayings, police said the 18-year-old man suspected in the homicides was found bleeding from at least four gunshot wounds Friday night on the West Side.
The man shot Friday night is in critical condition at Mount Sinai Hospital. Someone walked up to him in the 2800 block of West Arthington Street in the Lawndale neighborhood about 9:10 p.m. and shot him in the buttocks, neck, leg and groin, police said.
Less than 20 hours passed between the homicides on Winchester and the Arthington Street shooting.
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The United States appears to be in the midst of an unusually severe flu season, officials at the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Friday.
The flu season started early, which is never a good sign, and the flu is already widespread throughout the country, the CDC's latest report shows. Half of states are reporting especially intense flu activity.
"We are currently in the midst of a very active flu season with much of the nation experiencing widespread and intense activity," CDC Director Brenda Fitzgerald told reporters during a briefing.
Based on the latest available data, the United States could be experiencing one of the most severe flu seasons in years, possibly similar to the severe 2014-2015 flu season, officials say.
"Flu is everywhere in the U.S. right now. There's lots of flu in lots of places," says Dan Jernigan, director of CDC's influenza division.
Officials cautioned, however, that the flu is very unpredictable. So there's a chance the season could slow down quickly or end early, making it a more normal flu season.
But the most recent data show that the proportion of people rushing to their doctors to get treated for the flu has already hit 5.8 percent, which is as high as that number gets during the peak of a really bad flu season, the CDC says.
In addition, the rate at which Americans are being hospitalized for the flu almost doubled in the last week, to 22.7 for every 100,000 hospitalizations, according to the CDC.
Those are two of the key ways the CDC monitors the severity of a flu season.
So far, 20 children have died from the flu, compared with a total of 101 last season.
During the 2014-2015 flu season, 40 million Americans got the flu, 19 million people went to the doctor to get treated for the flu, and 970,000 people were hospitalized.
Officials, cautioned, however, that the hospitalization rate for the flu so far this year is slightly below the 2014-2015 rate.
The main reason the flu appears to be so severe is that it's a strain known as H3N2. That strain tends to make more people sick, and the people who get the flu tend to get sicker. It's especially dangerous for children and the elderly.
"When H3N2 is prominent, we tend to have a season with far more hospitalizations and deaths," Fitzgerald says.
To make matters worse, the vaccine may only be about 30 percent effective against that strain. That is better than the 10 percent effectiveness reported in Australia, which has its flu season before the United States does and often predicts what will happen in this country.
Nevertheless, health officials are urging people to get vaccinated. Any protection is better than none. And the vaccine may end up being more effective, especially if other strains of the flu become more common. The vaccine is more effective against those other strains. The vaccine can also lessen the severity of illness in people who get sick.
The flu season may be peaking in this country, but it could continue for many more weeks. So even though it takes two weeks for the vaccine to start protecting people after they get vaccinated, it's still worthwhile to get vaccinated, they say.
"While our flu vaccine is far from perfect, it is still the best defense we have," Fitzgerald says.
Officials are also encouraging doctors to treat some flu patients with antiviral drugs quickly, including children, the elderly, people who get severely ill and those suffering from other health problems. While there are spot shortages of antiviral drugs, the overall supply is plentiful.
The flu season is bad this year. That's the message today from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. NPR health correspondent Rob Stein is here with details. Hey, Rob.
ROB STEIN, BYLINE: Oh, hey, Ari.
SHAPIRO: Health officials did warn us about this. So just how bad is it?
STEIN: It's pretty bad out there, Ari. You know, the flu season has started early. And that's never a good sign. And it really took off early in the south and spread quickly around the country. And the latest data released today from the CDC shows that it's really pretty much everywhere. The flu's pretty much everywhere in the country right now. And it's really intense in dozens of states. And it's reached epidemic levels. So the proportion of people who are rushing to their doctors to get treated for the flu is as high as it ever gets in a really bad flu season already. And the percentage of people who are in there - up in the hospital to get treated for the flu, it doubled in the last week alone.
SHAPIRO: Wow.
STEIN: So, you know, we're hearing reports about ERs being overrun in California, pharmacists - pharmacies running out of antiviral drugs. And at least 20 kids have already died from the flu this year.
SHAPIRO: Wow. What makes a bad flu season more intense than a regular one?
STEIN: Yeah. So starting early, that's one factor. But a big factor this year is the particular strain of flu that's dominating. It's called the H3N2 strain. And it's notoriously nasty. It's the kind of bug that makes more people sick. And when they get sick, they get sicker. And it's especially dangerous for the people who are the most vulnerable to the flu, like kids and older people.
SHAPIRO: Does this just mean that most people didn't get the flu vaccine?
STEIN: No. The proportion of people who are getting - who've gotten vaccinated so far this year is pretty much on track for what it is most years. The problem, again, is this H3N2 strain of the flu. It tends to mutate when the vaccine is being made. And that's exactly what happened this year.
SHAPIRO: Wow.
STEIN: So the vaccine doesn't work as well. And in Australia, which has its flu season right before ours, it looks like it may have only been about 10 percent effective against this strain.
SHAPIRO: Only 10 percent effective?
STEIN: Yeah, only 10 percent. Now, officials in this country are saying look; we think it's going to work better in this country, but they're saying at best it may be around 30 percent effective. So that's leaving a lot of people pretty vulnerable.
SHAPIRO: Suddenly, the suit of armor I thought I was wearing seems a lot less secure.
STEIN: Yeah. Yeah.
SHAPIRO: So is there any point in getting a vaccine in that case?
STEIN: Yes, definitely. There's - people should definitely still get vaccinated. And there are lots of reasons for that. One is, you know, any protection is better than none. And if you get vaccinated - even if you get sick, you might not get as sick as you would've gotten if you hadn't gotten vaccinated. Another reason is that if other strains of the virus start to dominate, the vaccine works better against them. So you'll be protected against those other strains if they start to become more common. And although the season appears to be peaking right now, it could go on for weeks and weeks and weeks. So there's plenty of time for the vaccine to protect you.
SHAPIRO: This all sounds very dire - people going to the hospital, people dying. How worried should most Americans be?
STEIN: Well, so, you know, the thing about the flu is that it's notoriously unpredictable. You know, it could go either way. It could be that, you know, the season is peaking now and it could peter out really quickly. And it started earlier. And it could end early. And it could end up in the end just being an average year. But if it goes on for weeks and weeks and weeks, it could end up being the really nasty flu season year that people have been worrying about for a while.
SHAPIRO: You said that the flu can mutate as they're developing the vaccine. Is there a more updated vaccine? Should those of us who got a shot months ago get a new one?
STEIN: No. Unfortunately, there isn't. There's a lot of research going on to try to develop better vaccines. That's a really intense area of research. And a lot of people are calling for more money to do just that because we need to have a better vaccine they can rely on year after year. But at the moment, unfortunately, that's just not available.
SHAPIRO: Otherwise, just wash your hands a lot, stay home if you're sick, cover your mouth if you cough, all the regular advice.
STEIN: That's right. And that makes a big difference, really.
SHAPIRO: NPR health correspondent Rob Stein, thanks a lot.
STEIN: Oh, sure. Thanks, Ari. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR.


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Welcome to Linda Kako Caplan's website. Discover, listen to, and get to know Canada's premier koto and shamisen musician through the video's, photos, accolades, credentials, and other interesting tidbits on these pages.
Caplan's performance of traditional and contemporary Japanese music adds a lovely ambience to a wide range of events, whether private or public, social, corporate, or diplomatic. If you'd like her to play at your upcoming function, please see the performances page. if you want to learn koto or shamisen yourself, please go to the Private and Group Lessons page.
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As the zone administrator, use the pkgrm utility in a non-global zone to remove a package. The following limitations apply:
pkgrm can only remove packages from the non-global zone.
The package cannot affect any area of the zone that is shared from the global zone.
The package must be set SUNW_PKG_ALLZONES=false.
The following steps are performed by the pkgrm utility:
Dependencies are checked on the non-global zone's package database. If the dependency check fails, then pkgrm fails and the zone administrator is notified. The check fails if either of the following conditions are true.
Any component of the package affects any area of the zone that is shared from the global zone.
The package is set SUNW_PKG_ALLZONES=true.
The package is removed from the zone.
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The $199.99 Motorola Electrify 2 for U.S. Cellular has the same sticker price as the Samsung Galaxy S3. Offering the Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich operating system, a bright 4.3-inch screen, responsive performance, and long battery life, the Electrify 2 would make a very compelling option in a world without Samsung's superphone. Unfortunately for Motorola, shoppers on U.S. Cellular will be hard-pressed to find a reason to choose its phone over the more capable Galaxy S3.
Motorola's sleek and silver Electrify 2 (pictures)See all photos
Motorola definitely didn't depart from its current design philosophy when crafting the Electrify 2. The phone's clean lines and thin, angular chassis make it a close cousin to the Droid Razr and Atrix HD. I do prefer the Electrify 2's elegant silver highlights though to the sober black and dark gray of the Razr or white plastic feel of the Atrix HD (also available in titanium gray).
Measuring 5.1 inches tall by 2.6 inches wide by 0.3 inch thick at its thinnest point, the Electrify 2 has practically the same small footprint as the Droid Razr. Weighing a mere 4.6 ounces, it's also much more compact and portable than the original Motorola Electrify model.
On the front of the handset is its 4.3-inch LCD with a VGA camera above it. There are no physical or even capacitive buttons here, but three icons running along the screen's bottom edge serve to control main Android functions. Continuing the phone's minimalist aesthetic, the only actual keys are a thin volume rocker on the device's right edge and a power button up top placed next to the 3.5mm headphone jack and Micro-USB port. A flap on the Electrify 2's left side covers slots for micro-SIM and microSD cards. The phone lacks an HDMI port, however, to connect it to HDTVs.
The device features Motorola's signature Kevlar fiber coating around back that's designed to provide a sure grip, plus guard against scratches and prints. Besides offering the cachet of Kevlar, it feels soft and I think futuristic. A hump on back contains the phone's 8-megapixel camera and LED flash. Since the 1,780mAh battery is embedded, you won't find a back plate to remove.
In keeping with the company's latest handsets such as the Atrix HD and Photon Q 4G LTE, the Electrify 2's 4.3-inch qHD (960x540-pixel) screen uses what Motorola calls ColorBoost technology, which promises a wider color range than on many Motorola handsets before it. Motorola even claims ColorBoost serves up more colors than the iPhone 4S.
Indeed the display does look very bright and produces natural hues. When stacked up against the HTC One V and Samsung Galaxy Nexus, the difference was clear. With all three phones set to maximum brightness, the One V's LCD screen appeared slightly green while the Galaxy Nexus' AMOLED display pumped up reds a bit too much. That said, the greater resolution of the Nexus' screen created sharper details while its higher contrast produced pleasingly deep blacks.
Though its price places it at the top of U.S. Cellular's hardware lineup, the Motorola Electrify 2 is moderately appointed but not brimming with bells and whistles. For instance the device lacks a 4G data connection, and has no NFC chip to support short-range wireless transmission via Android Beam. These are all capabilities the Samsung Galaxy S3 (U.S. Cellular) offers for the same price.
That said, the Electrify runs the Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich OS that provides a modern mobile computing experience. Rousing the handset from sleep launches its lock screen, which displays time and date in a slim and attractive font. You can also switch sound on or off by sliding a switch at the top of the screen. Placed at the center of the display is a flashing key symbol that you drag right to unlock the device. Pulling the key left, up, or down will launch the camera, phone, or messaging function respectively.
As an Android smartphone the Electrify 2 brings to the table support for all of Google's popular services, such as Gmail and Google+, along with Google Play stores for music, books, and movies. Motorola has added a version of its special UI, formerly known as Motoblur, on top of Android, but on the Electrify 2 its influence is much less evident than on other devices. Unlike on the Atrix HD and Photon Q 4G LTE, there isn't the option to add extra home screens (up to seven) to supplement the Electrify 2's standard supply of five.
There's a modest selection of third-party apps preloaded such as the Kindle e-book reader, the Audible audiobook subscription service, and Amazon MP3 music. The Electrify 2's application tray has standard U.S. Cellular software too, such as Daily Perks for news and weather, and Mobile TV, which provides both live programming and full TV episodes and movies. Taking a page from other mobile carriers, the service adds an extra $9.99 per month to your bill. It's basically a ploy designed to soak up your data ration like a thirsty sponge since the app won't connect over Wi-Fi.


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A B.C. woman filed a civil suit Thursday in Vancouver seeking damages for alleged sexual abuse by a priest when she was a teenager in the 1980s.
Both the priest, Lawrence Dean Cooper, also known as Father Damian, and the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Vancouver are named in the notice of claim.
The Vancouver archdiocese does not dispute the woman's general claims, and said Thursday the church "regrets how she was drawn into a sexual relationship with the priest."
Vancouver archdiocese spokesman Paul Schratz said Cooper was "removed from the ministry" after the woman disclosed the abuse in 1994. Schratz said this meant he was not able to work as a priest anywhere in the world. However, Schratz said, Cooper went on to work for years as an associate pastor at the New York Diocese of Rockville Centre.
In the notice of claim, Kathleen Taylor says she first met Cooper in 1985 as a 15-year-old when he was acting as chaplain at Camp Latona on Gambier Island, when she was attending a leadership retreat.
She started seeing the priest, who was ordained in 1986, for counselling as a 16-year-old Grade 11 student after school at the Roman Catholic Cathedral offices next to Holy Rosary Cathedral in Vancouver.
Soon afterwards, he was giving her "prolonged embraces" after the counselling sessions.
Then Cooper began driving her home and having long talks with her. By 1987, when she was 17, he was taking her to motels and having sex with her, according to her notice of claim.
In 1992, Taylor broke off contact with Cooper, according to the court documents.
Taylor is seeking damages for sexual exploitation and/or sexual assaults because she says she has suffered psychological damage.
She is seeking general, aggravated, punitive and special damages, as well as loss of past and future earnings.
In an interview, Taylor said that when she came forward with her story to the Vancouver archdiocese in 1994, she did not go to the police because she trusted the church and then-archbishop Adam Exner to ensure Cooper would not be in a position to abuse other girls.
She said she has come forward with her story now because she is finally comfortable to go public with it. She chose a civil suit rather than going to the police because, she said, she feels she has more control in a civil proceeding.
"I was afraid to tell my story. I was carrying a shame," said Taylor. "So, part of what I'm trying to do by sharing my story is to put that shame back to the church's leaders where it belongs."
Schratz, the Vancouver Catholic archdiocese spokesman, said while the church does not agree with every detail of Taylor's interpretation of the events, it agrees she was wronged by the priest.
"I can say without any hesitation that what happened to Miss Taylor was absolutely tragic. And that we obviously deeply regret how she was drawn into a sexual relationship with the priest," said Schratz.
"By any definition it's wrong, it's hurtful. And so we obviously extend our deepest apologies to her and her family, recognizing that may seem woefully inadequate."
Now, the church will go to court to try to resolve what is the appropriate compensation for Taylor, said Schratz.
Although all the details are not clear because it was 18 years ago that the abuse was reported, Schratz said the church took steps to ensure Cooper could do no more harm, including counselling and removing him from being a priest.
However, Schratz said that after Cooper's eight-year tenure at the Vancouver archdiocese, he went to the Parish of St. Hugh of Lincoln in Huntington Station, N.Y., in 1995. The Vancouver archdiocese had nothing to do with him going there, Schratz said.
Cooper then served as an associate pastor in the Diocese of Rockville Centre for almost six years and was assigned to Our Lady of Perpetual Help in Lindenhurst, N.Y. before being let go, said Schratz.
It's not clear exactly what Cooper's duties were in New York, but Schratz said an associate pastor is normally a priest.
There's no record the New York diocese checked back with the Vancouver archdiocese about Cooper's record, which would have shown he could not be a priest, said Schratz.
Cooper is believed to be living in the U.S., but Schratz did not know where.
When Taylor approached the church in 1994, she was provided with funding for counselling and living costs while she pursued a postgraduate degree in the U.S., noted Schratz. (Taylor acknowledged the church paid for counselling for a period, but declined to discuss the funding in detail because of the civil suit.)
Schratz said the church did not go to police with Taylor's claim of sexual abuse out of respect for her privacy.
He noted that when Taylor came forward, she was an adult and was accompanied by her brother, a lawyer.
"The practice at the time would have been to advise her if she wished to bring the matter to the police she was absolutely free to do so," he said.
Cooper served in various capacities in the Vancouver archdiocese, including as pastor at St. Joseph's in Squamish and at St. Jude's in Vancouver.
Exner, who was Vancouver's archbishop when Cooper was removed from being a priest, had been asked in 1992 to develop a national church protocol for dealing with sex abuse issues.
Under guidelines his committee developed, Exner said at the time that Canadian Catholic Church officials concluded they must "fully cooperate" with police when they receive sex allegations against clergy.
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According to the trokosi tradition practiced in southeastern Ghana, virgin girls are given to village priests as a way of appeasing the gods for crimes committed by family members. The word trokosi in the Ewe language means "slaves of the gods." Once given to the priest, a girl becomes his property and is made to carry out domestic chores such as cooking and washing, as well as farming and fetching water. After the onset of menstruation, the bondage also involves sexual servitude.
In March 1998, Equality Now launched a campaign calling for the banning of the practice and release of trokosi. Later the same year the government of Ghana passed a law prohibiting the practice. Equality Now welcomed this development, as well as reports of the subsequent release of around 2,800 girls. In its 1998 Women's Action on the trokosi practice, Equality Now highlighted the case of Abla Kotor (pictured above). At the age of 12, Abla had been given to a local priest in atonement for the rape that resulted in her birth--he rape of her mother by her mother's uncle. Although other trokosi were liberated from the Awlo-Korti shrine where Abla was enslaved, after the law was passed Abla continued to live in the shrine effectively under the control of the priest because her aunt was afraid that otherwise the curse of the gods would revisit the family. Happily, Abla has now moved away from the shrine and is living with an uncle and going to school in western Ghana.
Many of those who have been liberated from the shrines are being helped by International Needs Ghana, a non-governmental organization that has been central to the release and rehabilitation of trokosi. It negotiates the return of the women and girls to their families or communities, provides housing and food, counseling, schooling and income-generating skills. Survivors for Change, a human rights organization formed by survivors of the trokosi practice, is also advocating for enforcement of the law against the practice and has launched its own campaign aimed at various government ministries and seeking the support of international ambassadors based in Accra.
In spite of this welcome progress, Equality Now is deeply concerned that, over three years after the banning of the practice of trokosi by the Ghanaian Government, several thousand girls and women are reported to be still in bondage as trokosi. According to reports, some traditionalist groups in Ghana are obstructing the release of the trokosi. One group, Afrikania Mission, maintains that the practice is part of its culture and that the law should not destroy its culture. Afrikania Mission is said to be exerting pressure to prevent the enforcement of the law, and to have persuaded some priests that it is their right to continue the tradition.
The work of International Needs Ghana has apparently also been hindered by several inaccurate descriptions of the trokosi practice by the United States Government, which minimize the severity of the practice and have reportedly influenced some funders to stop supporting the efforts of International Needs Ghana to end the trokosi practice. The State Department's reports on human rights and religious freedoms for 2001 differ substantially from those issued in previous years, and it is interesting to note from one of these that in May and July 2001 US Embassy officials met with the leadership of the Afrikania Mission "in order to learn about their views on religious freedom in the country," and reported that "the Afrikania leaders expressed gratitude for the visit…"
One hundred and thirty trokosi priests who have released all trokosi from their own shrines and now oppose the practice were so incensed by the inaccuracies in the US Government reports that they met on 4 January 2002 to refute in very specific terms the US Government's claims. The State Department, for example, claims that trokosi is a religious practice "involving a period of servitude lasting up to 3 years" and that "there is no evidence that sexual abuse is an ingrained or systematic part of the practice." The trokosi priests affirmed in contrast that "once a girl has been sent into trokosi servitude, she is a trokosi until her death. After she dies, she has to be replaced by her family, " and that the trokosi "serve we the priests domestically, satisfy our sexual desires and work on our farms to provide our economic security." The priests affirmed that "the girls have no right whatsoever in deciding when and who in the shrine should have sexual intercourse with them…" and that part "of the rationale for deciding on the female gender as the object of reparation has to do with providing sexual gratification to those serving the deity." Equality Now has repeatedly raised its concern with State Department officials that the United States Government has misrepresented the trokosi practice, but has not to date received a substantive response.
In addition to the 1998 law specifically criminalizing the trokosi practice as a form of slavery, the trokosi practice violates the Ghanaian Constitution, specifically Article 14, which provides that "Every person has a right to personal liberty" and Article 16, which provides, "No person shall be held in slavery and servitude or be required to perform forced labor." Numerous international human rights standards similarly prohibit slavery, in particular the Slavery Convention and the Supplementary Convention on the Abolition of Slavery, the Slave Trade and Institutions and Practices Similar to Slavery, and the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, all ratified by Ghana. Although Ghanaian government officials have expressed their opposition to the practice, and a new government, which took office in 2001, has declared its commitment to human rights, it is clear that not enough action has been taken to ensure the release of the remaining trokosi. There have been no prosecutions under the 1998 law.


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When Lawrence agreed to take on the central role in "The Hunger Games," the big screen adaptation of the first book in Suzanne Collins' thoughtful, bestselling trilogy, she knew that she'd be just as scrutinized by the novels' die-hard fans as the fictional Katniss was when she entered into the Reaping.
Like Katniss, Lawrence is a young woman from rural America who at a young age found herself in the spotlight--though the actress' time on "The Bill Engvall Show" was hardly a life-or-death affair.
But after an Oscar-nominated turn in "Winter's Bone" and a literally stripped-down follow-up in a big-budget studio film "X-Men: First Class," the 21-year-old actress was certainly prepared to win the favor of the fans – even while knowing she was sacrificing her anonymity in the process. The role of Katniss, a young woman who finds herself among 24 teens trapped in an arena and forced to fight to the death was too big an opportunity to pass up.
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After about 10 years of female action hero characters like Lara Croft in films - sort of James Bond-as-women – this character feels like a real woman. How hard did you work to make sure that she stayed a relatable person, and not become just a collection of karate chops, kicks and punches?
That's the beautiful thing about her in the books and in the script. It was important to keep her vulnerable. I didn't want anybody, at any point in time, watching her in the arena and thinking that she couldn't die, because I don't think that there was one moment while she was in the arena where she thought that she wasn't going to die. So I think that keeping vulnerability and keeping her scared, she's a young girl that's in this position. She's not a Lara Croft or a James Bond, who's done this a million times and knows he's going to survive. She doesn't.
There's very much a celebrity and showbiz allegory going in with the story, and you've been in the ultimate Hollywood version of that having been nominated for an Oscar. What's your experience been going beyond just delivering a performance to then being a personality out in the public eye and things coming down to how people perceive you? How did that hit you since you have been in an Oscar race?
Well, it's just weird because my job is normally reading scripts, talking to directors, showing up on set – and then all of a sudden my job was wearing the right designers and getting people to like you. It's odd...It's a weird thing to get used to. It's understandable. I get why it's a part of the job, but it's just odd.
Did you use some of that for Katniss?
Yeah, there were definitely parts of the books where I was reading that and going, 'I know how that feels.' I know what it feels like to feel like you're a doll and people are shoving dresses onto you that you would never wear, and all this makeup and just not really feeling like yourself – cameras and questions. It's just a weird thing to not feel like yourself and have a camera in your face.
Such a big deal was made about your hair. What was your thought process while people were fussing about that?
Well, I never saw it – I heard it from reporters, like, 'So many people were upset because you were blonde…' and I was like, 'Really? That's what they get upset about?' There would be a million other things that I'd get upset about if I were a fan and saw me get cast other than my hair. That can be dyed so easily. I thought that it was funny because I thought maybe they thought I'd go through the whole movie with blonde hair, and just be like, 'Yeah, Katniss is blonde. She wears lipstick and she fights in high heels.'
Did being the centerpiece of 'The Hunger Games' give you any pause, and did you talk to any fellow actors who have had this kind of attention in a franchise?
No. It did give me pause because it was scary. It was kind of a terrifying thing, but there was nobody that I could really talk to because it was kind of like one of those things that nobody really knows what you want other than you. So there was nothing that anybody could really say. It was just something that I had to work out with myself. That was the three days that I gave myself before I said yes, just thinking through every single thing, combing through every doubt so that when I was here and people were taking my picture and people were screaming and following me or whatever was going to happen, I knew that I thought it through and I said yes without a doubt in my mind. I signed on and I haven't doubted or second-guessed myself since.
Where did you reflect on that, those three days?
I was in England and I was walking around London, going into coffee shops and going in everywhere and I just kept thinking, 'A year from now I'll be in here and people will be taking pictures of me with their phones and that'll suck.' But I've just spent the last months kind of enjoying every last thing of being semi-normal. I went to Times Square in New York and I've left the house in sweatpants and I've been like, 'Crap. It's too late.' They've already got pictures of that.
Are you at all excited about all the little side items that spin out of this part, like action figures? Will you have a room in your house with all of these things?
It's cool. I'd by lying if I was, like, 'Oh, I think it's stupid.' It is bizarre that someone is going to have a doll with my face on it. You don't ever think that way when you're an actor. It's weird. Lionsgate texted me a picture of the action figure and the only thing I could think to reply was, 'I'm a choking hazard?' I saw it on the box and I was like, 'Oh, I don't want to do that.' It's a weird thing to process, because you look at it and it's the same thing as looking at a movie poster. I can look at it as much as I want, but it doesn't look like me, because when I look in the mirror I'm not going like this.
How different was it to play the story that was laid out in a book from playing a comic book character in a new story about her?
There was a lot more pressure, because with 'The X-Men' I could just watch Rebecca Romijn and be like, 'Oh, okay, that's how she walks.' There was something to base it off, and then with this it was just that a lot of people have read these books. A lot of people have an idea of what she looks like and how she would be. I've got my own idea of that and now I just have to do it. So it was different in that sense.
Was action hero and major franchise a goal when you embarked on your acting career?
No. 'The X-Men' thing happened. I was doing indies and I wasn't really looking for a studio movie to do, and then I read the script and it was great. It was really cool, and I think that Matthew Vaughn is an incredible filmmaker. Then it was one of those things where you can do indies and then you can't do the studios that you want to do, or you can do a couple of studios and then you can do all of the indies that you want to do…It just kind of opens your career up more, which is kind of a wise thing. Then after doing it, it's a cool thing. It wasn't until later where I was like, 'I'm Mystique!' That's cool. She's kind of a historic superhero and that's really important to a lot of people and the comic has been around for so long. It's a cool thing to be a part of.


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Uruguay has long been recognized as the most secular state in South America, having declared itself separate from the authority of the Roman Catholic Church in the early twentieth century. It was among the first countries to remove any biblical influence from the education system and to legalize divorce. Read more
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