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Sberna weds Phillips
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Mariah Fernández marries Michael Washington
July 3, 2013 Mariah I. Fernández and Michael F. Washington were united in marriage Saturday, June 22, at Grace United Methodist Church in Cape Coral. The ceremony was officiated by the Rev. Wes Old. more »»
Meyer weds Lagana
June 21, 2013 Rachel Meyer and Giovanni Lagana were married on April 13, 2013, at Gateway Country Club in Fort Myers, officiated by Hilda Ratay. more »»
Craig Stegall marries Karen Castrischer
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Mark Stachowicz marries Diane Kilborn
March 23, 2013 On Feb. 23, at 3 p.m., Mark and Diane exchanged wedding vows overlooking the waterways in Cape Coral. They were surrounded by family and close friends. more »»
Cliffton D. Rosensweig marries LeAnn Kohl
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Jason K. Veirs marries Danielle E. Young
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Monday, January 02, 2012
Giving Thanks to a Rule-Breaker
It broke every proscribed rule.
After all, I was not on call. Thanks to the wonders of computer technology, it was very clear that I was being covered by my colleague. And yet, despite this, it came.
"Dr. Fisher, I'm so sorry for calling you at home, but I received a call from Ms. X, the wife of your patient Mr. Y. who said she really needed to speak to you about her husband... she seemed quite concerned and insisted I call you…. I told her I'd see if I could reach you at home… I'm so sorry, but it sounded urgent… I have her number, could I connect you?"
"That would be great, thank you…"
I wish I got the name of the operator that evening. I have no idea what intuition, what verbal cue she received that prompted her to break all the rules. She was, after all, just a hospital operator who should have followed the playbook but decided to take a huge personal risk to rely on her judgment instead. There was no playbook, no algorithm involved – in fact, it was just the opposite.
But one thing's for certain: this operator should to know that the patient, his family, and I will be forever grateful.
Thank you.
8 comments:
- Tom B said...
To me this is just more evidence that medicine needs to change and embrace the era of participatory medicine. A patient's spouse with a critical concern shouldn't be considered lucky to have spoken to a physician.
- Mon Jan 02, 09:02:00 AM CST
The CEO of the ACC, Dr. Jack Lewin, would refer to this as pushing volume over quality. Once physicians submit to the ACO model of medicine where all patients and doctors are equal and interchangeable components in a health care machine which operates on a fuel of 'guidelines', patients will feel comfortable with any health care surrogate. Personal relationships with patients must end as our new health care system is implemented. Health care workers must be comfortable doing what is right for society over the individual patient.
Please, get with the guidelines!
- Mon Jan 02, 12:25:00 PM CST
Tom B said, "... this is just more evidence that medicine needs to change...'
In case you misunderstand the situation, the "colleague" who was on call was "a physician." So, the patient's wife had no problem talking to "a physician." She was put through to "the physician", Wes, for some reason that Wes felt was important. Unless you can produce a physician who can be on call 24/7/365, they have to be OFF call sometimes. I have had the experience of taking call weeks in a row. It doesn't help your skill, your asttitude, or your family life.
You people seem to think there are more than 24 hours in a day and forget that doctors have more than one patient at a time. Call your man Obama since he knows more about medicine than we doctors. I sincerely hope you experience medical care as he is shaping it. You may have to do it without physicians, though. Maybe you'll get the guy who took the 3 Months to Becoming a Medical Provider
course. How will that hope and change work out for you?
- Mon Jan 02, 08:33:00 PM CST
- DrWes said...
Tom B-
A patient's spouse with a critical concern shouldn't be considered lucky to have spoken to a physician.
As a point of clarification, the patient's wife would have spoken with the physician on call. That was not the issue here. Rather, the operator recognized the wife's need to speak with the doctor with whom she had a prior relationship - the one who knew both her and her husband best.
By "participatory medicine," I hope you're implying that medicine of tomorrow needs to value the sanctity of the doctor-patient relationship. If so, then you get my drift.
- Mon Jan 02, 09:11:00 PM CST
Anon: Perhaps you have never been on the patient end of the medical system. As a professional, graduate school educated individual who has had the misfortune to require several intensive hospitalizations over several years for a myriad of problems - let me educate you. Not all patients and doctors are "equal and interchangeable components." The value of the doctor/patient relationship cannot be overemphasized. For anyone with a complex medical history, having the confidence that the treating physicians from various specialties can communicate with one another and the patient often on a continuing basis, sometimes in emergent situations, is what this patient believes quality healthcare is all about. An "interchangeable doctor" is unable to know the nuances and interpret the unspoken signs frequently picked up by those with whom the patient has a confident, secure relationship.
The ACO model suggests that patients will feel comfortable with ANY health care surrogate? NO, they won't.
- Tue Jan 03, 08:44:00 AM CST
Anonymous said, "An "interchangeable doctor" is unable to know the nuances and interpret the unspoken signs."
I suggest that the only way you're going to have your doctor be available to you 24/7/365 is to hire your own exclusive physician. Even if a doctor could be continuously available, you might call when they are tied up for hours with another patient. So, you'll have to have one all to yourself. Now, if you keep your Michael-Jackson-like personal physician up for 2 or 3 night in a row, he/she won't remember all those little nuances you expect. He'll be exhausted. Soon he'll be divorced, penniless, and crazy due to working all the time. Doctors have to have down time and sleep just like everyone else. Residents in training are even restricted in how many hours they can work without rest. I'm not sure how that trains them to take care of patients like you who expect continuous coverage.
Yes, in Utopia, everyone sees the same physician every time, day or night. The physicians need no rest, and everything is known about how the human body functions and reacts.
Either temper your expectations to the real world or look for a one-way ticket to Utopia, or, as Michael Moore might suggest, Cuba or Venezuela!
- Tue Jan 03, 04:04:00 PM CST
Physicians need a break, the FAA recently promulgated mandatory periods of rest for pilots. Are physicians not entitled to similar considerations?
Marcus Welby was fiction, practicing physicians are real they are entitled to rest periods like pilots and their patients
- Tue Jan 03, 08:33:00 PM CST
Yeah they need a life but that one time you need them will be remembered for a lifetime. Thank you dr fisher for restoring my faith in people not just doctors.
- Wed Jan 04, 06:14:00 PM CST

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The oil house stored the tanks of kerosene that was used to light the flame for the Fresnel lens at the top the lighthouse. The window located on the east side of the oil house was not on the original construction blueprints and is believed to have been added sometime after 1905. This window has been removed and the wall restored to its original design. The building's roof was blown off during a wind storm in the 1970's, a new roof, as well as new door hinges and door complete the restoration.
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DADT, an accountability moment, and a look ahead
It was nearly two years ago that Congress debated the repeal of "Don't Ask, Don't Tell," featuring a near-hysterical Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) warning of horrible consequences if gay and lesbian soldiers were permitted to serve openly.
We heard the horror stories of weakened recruiting, poor morale, a breakdown in unit cohesion, an inevitable lack of readiness during a time of war. Even after the Pentagon and the Joint Chiefs endorsed the change, most Republicans said President Obama's policy was too big a risk.
In case anyone's forgotten, they were completely wrong.
One year [after the official end of the policy], the first academic study of the military's new open-service policy has found there have been no negative consequences whatsoever.
The study, published Monday by the Palm Center, a research branch of the Williams Institute at University of California Los Angeles Law School, found that there has been no overall negative impact on military readiness, unit cohesion, recruitment, retention or morale.
The authors of the study, who included professors at U.S. Military Academy, U.S. Naval Academy, U.S. Air Force Academy and U.S. Marine Corps War College, arrived at this conclusion after soliciting the views of 553 generals and admirals who predicted that repeal would undermine the military, as well as with expert opponents of DADT repeal, a number of watchdog organizations and more than 60 active-duty heterosexual, lesbian, gay and bisexual troops from every service branch.
Every prediction made by conservative critics turned out, not surprisingly, to be wrong (pdf). Across the board – readiness, unit cohesion, morale, recruitment – the right had the entire policy backwards.
To reiterate a point from May, I realize that the norms of our political discourse discourage accountability, but I'd love to know how someone like McCain, who fought tooth and nail to keep the discriminatory policy in place, explains how/why his predictions turned out to be so foolish. Maybe during one of his many, many Sunday show appearances, someone can ask him.
For that matter, it's also worth noting that the 2012 Republican platform, shaped in part by Mitt Romney aides, seems to suggest DADT should be brought back – the Republican document decries "social experimentation" in the military and condemns efforts to "undermine military priorities and mission readiness," which sounds like a position in support of the old policy.
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Carl's Jr.®
Carl's Jr. Brings Another Star to the Lonestar State
Sep 3, 2008
Six Units Slated to Open in San Antonio & Austin in 2008
CARPINTERIA, Calif. – Sept. 3, 2008 – There's a new star in the Lonestar State and his name is Happy Star™. The iconic logo of the Carl's Jr.® hamburger chain is shining in Texas as the first new restaurant in San Antonio opened Labor Day weekend. Six new units are slated to open in San Antonio and Austin by the end of 2008.
The smiling star logo has been associated with the Carl's Jr. brand for more than 65 years. Industry pioneer Carl N. Karcher and his wife, Margaret, using $15 in savings and borrowing $311 on their Plymouth automobile, purchased a single hot dog cart in 1941 in Los Angeles. The Karchers grew their small business to include four hotdog carts and opened Carl's Drive-In Barbeque in 1945. They eventually launched the first Carl's Jr. restaurant, so named because it was a smaller version of their sit-down restaurant, in 1956. From a lone hotdog cart, Carl's Jr. has grown to more than 1,100 units in 14 Western states.
"They say everything is bigger in Texas, so our big, juicy charbroiled burgers at Carl's Jr. should fit in just fine," said Andrew Puzder, President and CEO of parent company CKE Restaurants, Inc. "San Antonio and Austin are important markets in our ongoing development plans and we've made a long-term commitment to Texas. Carl's Jr. will undoubtedly continue to be known as the place to go for premium-quality burgers throughout the Western states."
Carl's Jr. burgers are charbroiled, never fried, giving them a more savory "grilled in your own backyard" flavor. A Carl's Jr. classic that is sure to become a Texas favorite, the Western Bacon Cheeseburger® features a charbroiled all-beef patty, topped with two slices of bacon, melted American cheese, two crispy onion rings and tangy barbeque sauce. The premium Six Dollar Burger line at Carl's Jr. starts with a 100 percent Black Angus beef patty and is topped with market-fresh produce including whole-leaf lettuce, red onions and bread-and-butter pickles. Choices include The Original Six Dollar Burger®, the Guacamole Bacon Six Dollar Burger™, and a Jalapeno-topped version. All sandwich offerings are available low-carb style, wrapped in lettuce instead of a bun.
Carl's Jr. Natural-Cut Fries are a cut above as well, sliced thicker with the skins left on similar to what you would find at a sit-down restaurant or steakhouse. In keeping with their commitment to premium-quality, Carl's Jr. is the only major brand to hand scoop hard-packed ice cream for its shakes and malts. Flavors include the traditional vanilla, chocolate and strawberry, as well as Oreo® cookie.
Featuring a tagline of "Breakfast As Big As Our Burgers™," Carl's Jr. breakfast offerings include the hearty Big Biscuit, baked fresh daily, as well as a selection of authentic Breakfast Burritos with fresh salsa, and premium Channel Islands Roasting Co. coffee.
The first Company-owned San Antonio unit, located at 6588 FM-78/Seguin Rd. at Rittman Rd., opened on Labor Day weekend, with the second at 13980 Nacogdoches Rd., slated to open later this month. The first new Austin-area Carl's Jr. is scheduled to open in November. Carl's Jr. currently has 15 franchised units in Texas, including eight in El Paso, five in the greater Dallas area, and one each in Laredo and San Antonio.
Carl's Jr. is a wholly owned subsidiary of CKE Restaurants, Inc. (NYSE: CKR) of Carpinteria, Calif. As of its fiscal 2009 first quarter ended May 19, 2008, CKE Restaurants, Inc. had a total of 3,101 franchised, licensed or company-operated restaurants in 42 states and in 13 countries, including 1,162 Carl's Jr. restaurants and 1,923 Hardee's restaurants. For more information, or to find a Carl's Jr. near you, go to www.carlsjr.com.
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More data needed on wind towers for Vermont project
WINDHAM, Vt. (AP) � A developer says it may take two to three years to collect enough data from several wind test towers to determine the future of a commercial project in Vermont.
The towers were built by Spanish Energy conglomerate Iberdrola Renewables, which just decided to abandon a proposal for a 23-turbine wind farm in central New Hampshire. Developers there cited an unfavorable political and regulatory climate in the state.
Vermont Public Radio reports (http://bit.ly/TTnqbO) the towers in the Vermont towns of Windham and Grafton were put up last spring. The developer, Meadowsend Timberland Limited of New London, New Hampshire, owns most of the land where Sheffield Wind was built in 2011.
Meadowsend co-owner Jamey French told residents it will likely take two or three years to make a final decision.
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Dreiser, Theodore
Theodore Dreiser (drī´sər, –zər), 1871–1945, American novelist, b. Terre Haute, Ind. A pioneer of naturalism in American literature, Dreiser wrote novels reflecting his mechanistic view of life, a concept that held humanity as the victim of such ungovernable forces as economics, biology, society, and even chance. In his works, conventional morality is unimportant, consciously virtuous behavior having little to do with material success and happiness. While his style and language tended to be clumsy and plodding, he played an important role in introducing a new realism and sexual candor into American fiction. Dreiser was born into a large and poor family. His education was irregular, but, with help from a sympathetic high school teacher, he spent the year 1889–90 at the Univ. of Indiana. After working as a journalist on several midwestern newspapers, in 1894 he went to New York City, where he began a career in publishing, eventually rising to the presidency of Butterick Publications.
His first novel, Sister Carrie (1900), the story of a country girl's rise to material success first as the mistress of a wealthy man and then as an actress, horrified its publisher, who gave it only limited circulation. Dreiser distributed it himself, but it was consistently attacked as immoral; it was reissued in 1982 with many passages from his revised typescript restored. Jennie Gerhardt (1911), again about a "fallen woman," met with a better response; its success allowed Dreiser to work as a writer full time. With these two works, Dreiser started his long battle for the right of the novelist to portray life as he sees it.
In The Financier (1912), he turned his attention more specifically to American social and economic institutions. This novel, the first of a trilogy that includes The Titan (1914) and The Stoic (1947), describes the rise to power of a ruthless industrialist. In both The Genius (1915) and in The Bulwark (1946), Dreiser explores the failings of an American artist. An American Tragedy (1925), often considered his greatest work, tells of a poor young man's futile effort to achieve social and financial success; the attempt ends in his execution for murder. In his later life Dreiser became interested in socialism, visiting the Soviet Union as a guest of the government and writing his perceptions: Dreiser Looks at Russia (1928) and Tragic America (1931). Among his other works are such collections of short stories as Free (1918), Chains (1927), and A Gallery of Women (1929).
See his memoirs, A Traveler at Forty (1913), A Book About Myself (1922; republished as Newspaper Days, 1931), and Dawn (1931); his letters, ed. by R. Elias (3 vol., 1959); biographies by W. A. Swanberg (1965) and R. Lingeman (2 vol., 1986–90); studies by E. Moers (1969), F. O. Matthiessen (1951, repr. 1973), J. Lundquist (1974), and L. E. Hussman (1983).


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Return to Sender: Shippers Expect Deluge of Gift Givebacks
Santa Claus may know a lot of things about holiday presents, but even his judgment can be off the mark. More than a third of Americans will return gifts this year, a new survey indicates. And they're increasingly choosing to ship gifts back instead of battling the crowds at the mall to return them in person.
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Of the 36 percent of Americans who expect to return gifts this season, more than half of them (57 percent) prefer to do so by shipping them back to the vendor, based on a survey of more than 1,000 U.S. adults sponsored by shipping giant FedEx.
The trend toward online shopping drove record-breaking volume in the FedEx Ground network between Thanksgiving and Christmas this year, the company said. That trend appears to be translating to returns as well. FedEx reports that returns to retailers in the days after Christmas surge more than 25 percent.
Free return shipping offers, in fact, are one of the key motivators for consumer online shopping. More than two-fifths of shoppers report being more likely to purchase something online when free return shipping is available, the FedEx survey showed.
Based on the frequency of gifts that are returned, the worst gift-givers are a spouse/partner (23 percent) followed closely by Mom (20 percent), the survey found.
The vast majority of those surveyed (73 percent) would rather receive a gift without thought involved in picking it out, such as cash or gift cards, than a thoughtful gift they may not like and will want to return.
Clothing is by far the most often-returned gift (45 percent), FedEx found, followed by electronics/gadgets (8 percent) and toys (also 8 percent).
Gift recipients who find the gifts wanting don't waste any time unloading them. Thirty-five percent will have all gifts returned before New Year's Day, and more than half (55 percent) say the return process will be completed before the end of January.
"Americans are increasingly streamlining their seasonal checklists thanks to the convenience of online shopping, a pattern that is now extending to the post-Christmas tradition of holiday returns," said T. Michael Glenn, executive vice president of market development at FedEx.
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Supergene Environments, Processes, and Products
This publication brings together 12 papers and 3 abstracts of talks presented at the SEG symposium, "Advances in the Understanding of Supergene Processes," convened by M.S. Enders and S. Titley in September 2007. Regions covered include many different settings and an eclectic range of topics.
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It's been a long weekend full of family step-drama, and subsequent planning for this winter and spring. These next few weeks will be bumpy, but I'm confident that it will turn out for the best. I'll share more when final decisions have been made. So, I'm exhausted and going to bed early. I want to get some good work in early in the week.
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"Do you have any rituals that you use to calm and center yourself when you are tired, frustrated or angry? What are they? If you don't have any rituals for yourself, take a few minutes and think about what kind of rituals could you allow yourself to enjoy and describe them."
After all these years, still the best way for me to totally disconnect is to take a long hot bath with a good book. No electronics. No distractions. Usually Nevermore or Isis comes to hang out (Nevermore as a loaf, Isis as a swirl).


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The prolific screenwriter-director also used the TCA platform to stress the authenticity of Roadies. Multiple times during the panel, he noted that several characters or plot points included in the series are based on true stories -- and legends -- that exist within the music industry. A story in the pilot about a pianist who flips out when there are fingerprints on his piano, he said, is based on Freddie Mercury, while co-star Peter Cambor's guitar tech is based on Elvis Costello.
The guitar tech character , based on Elvis , is called.....Milo.
http://www.salon.com/2016/06/26/cameron ... ello_song/
You have a fake British accent on the show that everyone seems to know is not real, which I'm sure they show will explore. Did you try to learn a good British accent?
When I auditioned for the part, the idea was that it would be the way people like Madonna have taken on a British accent in the past. Milo's backstory is that he had been on tour with Elvis Costello and is someone who has aspirations to be out there performing himself. He's a chameleon who takes on personas. For me, I had to really try, like "I'm British now." I really worked on it to try and make it as real as possible knowing that it would be just OK.
Tangential Elvis in 'Roadies' , new tv show
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So, I thought this was supposed to go up tomorrow. Shows you what happens when you don't keep an eye on things. But this is definitely one book you want to keep an eye on, and I mean really. I've read it. It is fantastic. Beyond the world fantastic, if you know what I mean. It's different and will possibly blow your mind.
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Seventeen-year-old Amy joins her parents as frozen cargo aboard the vast spaceship Godspeed and expects to awaken on a new planet, three hundred years in the future. Never could she have known that her frozen slumber would come to an end fifty years too soon and that she would be thrust into the brave new world of a spaceship that lives by its own rules.
Amy quickly realizes that her awakening was no mere computer malfunction. Someone-one of the few thousand inhabitants of the spaceship-tried to kill her. And if Amy doesn't do something soon, her parents will be next.
Now Amy must race to unlock Godspeed's hidden secrets. But out of her list of murder suspects, there's only one who matters: Elder, the future leader of the ship and the love she could never have seen coming.
Pretty sweet, huh? And so here's the deal. Beth is hosting this mega contest over at her blog. Which is why yours truly is here. But she's hidden it behind a secret link with all kinds of awesome goodies behind it (super behind-the-scenes stuff that I absolutely love to find out about). If you're feeling lost and don't know where to find it, I would suggest some stargazing. That's where Amy and Elder are after all. Of course, you'll need to look through something to see them. ;)
But that's not all. She's also password encrypted it for the truly worthy. And that is where I come in. I'm supposed to give you a clue. A letter to help unscramble the passcode. But how to do it... Let's see... Tomorrow's the 11th (which was when I *thought* I was posting this). Huh. The eleventh day of the eleventh month. How curious. And the ohmygoodnessAMAZING Across the Universe by Beth Revis comes out the eleventh day of 2011. Weird.
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Decolonization is widely considered one of the foundational processes of the modern world—an old imperial order was swept away, and a new world of nations emerged to replace it. But is the modern era really a world of nations or largely the detritus of broken-down empires? Is a world of nations an attainable or even desirable situation?
John Darwin will address these questions in a lecture titled "Decolonization—a History of Failure?" at 4 p.m. on Wednesday, July 13, in room 119 of the Thomas Jefferson Building, 10 First St. S.E., Washington, D.C. The lecture is part of a decolonization seminar hosted by the Library of Congress John W. Kluge Center and sponsored by the National History Center, with funding by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. The lecture is free and open to the public; no tickets or reservations are needed. Darwin teaches imperial and global history at the University of Oxford, where he is a fellow of Nuffield College. His recent publications include "The Empire Project: the Rise and Fall of the British World System 1830-1970" (2009) and "After Tamerlane: the Global History of Empire" (2007). Through a generous endowment from John W. Kluge, the Library of Congress established the Kluge Center in 2000 to bring together the world's best thinkers to stimulate and energize one another, to distill wisdom from the Library's rich resources and to interact with policymakers in Washington. Further information on the Kluge Center is here.
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"Decolonization--A History of Failure," at the Kluge Center
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- Heyward Brockinton said...
FYI-- C-SPAN debuts its documentary, "The Library of Congress", on Monday, July 18th at 8pm and 11pm ET on C-SPAN. Here's the website for more information: www.c-span.org/loc
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- Heyward Brockinton said...
In case you missed it, here's the C-SPAN "Library of Congress" documentary we aired last night on C-SPAN. Link to video: http://www.c-span.org/loc/watch-Documentary-complete-Version/
- July 19, 2011 at 2:38:00 PM EDT
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Oh yeah, I forgot to mention that they didn't commit genocide.
Speaking of which, I doubt the Chinese came to the Americas unless everyone in the expedition crew was reviewed by doctors before setting off for the voyage. Otherwise the Native-Americans in both north and south continents would've been wiped out by Asian-born plagues.
I mean the Black Death killed off about what... 1/4 to 1/3 of the European population??? What chances do the Native-Americans, Aztecs, Mayans, Incas and etc. have against diseases like that?


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I am a writer living in the southeastern United States with three cats, more yarn than I can knit up in a lifetime, and a dear husband who doubles as my best friend.
My writing career started in the fourth grade when I was asked to read aloud a story I wrote. Since then, I've taken creative writing classes whenever possible, joined writing groups and literary guilds, and participated in readings. Still, in spite of the support I received from mentors and fellow writers, lack of self-confidence made it easy for me to give up on writing. Once I got a "real" job (in an office with a biweekly paycheck and benefits), it was hard to argue with anyone that I should or could expect to do better by writing.
I've made a lot of detours in the past thirty years, trying to become a Professional whatever (social worker, data analyst), trying to believe in careers and working in offices and 401k's. But now that I'm close to official retirement, I've woken up to the fact that those things–career, working in an office, going to meetings, conferences–has little value for me. My writing has picked up, as have my publications.
In my ideal world, I'm always dressed for yoga, writing until I'm empty of words, knitting down my stash, reading up my leaning tower of to-be-read books, and cuddling with my husband and kitties.
Thank you for coming by and I hope you visit me again!
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Ellespeth, so good to hear from you! Hurricane Matthew didn't come close to where I live, thank goodness ;). Florida, as a whole, was okay, but my heart breaks for Haiti and the Caribbean …
I know that queasy feeling you describe. Glad you're doing more of what you want to do; that seems to be a lifelong quest and my suspicion, to quote a singer I like a lot "we never get it right…but we can try." Find that truth in you and sing it, sister!
Bill Pearse
🙂 Thanks again, Bill! A mutual friend of ours (Kevin Brennan) has started prodding me along. I'm hoping by perhaps by my 60th birthday, I might have something to peddle. Cheers!
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i thought of you instantly
love, ellespeth
I found you when I visited HKAbell (helenahannbasquiat)'s blog. I am so glad I did. Keep writing. I love your "About" page.
This is really beautiful. You have a passion, you recognize it, and you're following your heart. You can't argue with that, and that's the most wonderful thing about it. Don't argue with yourself, just do it. I wish you well on that journey that has begun NOW. How exciting!
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Hi from Katie and the Druid. I too can remember writing little stories at a young age as I was a voracious reader. But, I didn't really start to write until I was 60 and published 5 books since then though probably the last one doesn't really count as it was for my new grandson. These days I concentrate on my blog(s) and the interaction with my followers/friends and it's a full time job.
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Hello! Thank you for coming by 🙂 I like that you published somewhat "late" in life. A friend recently posted on Facebook an article about a man who started writing and getting published in his 90s. It's the kind of news that makes me feel less like I've missed my opportunities and more like they lie just ahead of me 🙂 But, I agree with you on blogging: Writing for one's blog and following others is definitely a full-time job. But at least it's a fun one 😉 Hugs back to you!
I'm laughing at myself but I couldn't find where else to post this 😛 I see your novel now! I had to unfollow you and follow you again. Your posts aren't showing up in my reader. I hope this fixed it!
I'm taking some time off this week end and plan to read some of your novel then!
Ellspeth, that's so kind of of you! WordPress is weird … I've had the same issues with missing posts. Enjoy your time off 🙂
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That urge to put pen to paper is a wonderful one, isn't it, Marie?
I hope you have a long and happy retirement but in the meantime, enjoy your life. 🙂
Thank you, Jo. I am indeed trying to make the most of my life. There's no reason not to be writing now, but one full-time job is enough for me. So I write as I can. I'm hoping retirement will give me more time and (hopefully) more opportunity 🙂 Wish you well, Marie
What a great reason to blog – I think it's wonderful you're happy in your job but even more wonderful that you're looking forward to the writing that will come after and approaching it this way… I myself have tried to change careers and I've started up a freelance editing business, but I still have my day job as an accountant as I build it up…. and I'd also 'rather be writing' than anything else 🙂
Hello, Sara, thank you for coming by and commenting! I wish you the best of success in your editing business. At least with editing, you're working with words 🙂
Hi. Sounds like you and I have a bit in common. I have also returned to writing after a very long break. My children are growing up, 18, and 14 years old, time for me to explore a bit of me time, and what better way to do that than to write and blog about it. Oh and I love cats too but sadly don't own one, my husband is allergic, i just make do with a visiting one, who stops by from time to time.
I thought I would stop by and say hey. Your name keeps cropping up in the comment section on a number of blog posts I visit. Sounds like you are in much the same place I am in. And if I do no other writing, I am proud to call myself blogger.
Hi, Don! Thanks for coming by and commenting. Yup, I think there's quite a few of us out here in the same situation. Thank goodness for blogging. It's a wonderful outlet 🙂
I relate to your situation as I also have a "decent" job, but alas, I aspire to write and that is where my true passion lies along side with drawing. And it's hard to justify to your family after a full week of work that I need this weekend to myself to write, you won't be seeing me, which I really don't have the heart to do a whole lot. Hubby is a full time artist himself so he understands the demands of the creative process to a degree from his own point of view, so we do an annual vacation away from each other, when I can just concentrate on writing. And it works.
On the feeling of time running out… I'm still quite young, but I do get the shivers thinking with each year time is becoming less and less of a friend on the road to becoming a published author, and perhaps earning the chance of becoming a full time writer. Which would truly be a dream come true. But I keep at it! And so should you 🙂
I am painfully aware that life is blind, when she tosses a pair of dice, unexpected things happen, so waiting for tomorrow is something I am trying my best to stop doing, including waiting on for the perfect time to write, which is now.
Laura, thank you so much for visiting and commenting. I've spent a lifetime putting things off, not writing, but trying to publish. The upside is my writing now is much better than it was 20 years ago 🙂 I like the idea of your and your husband's separate annual vacations. My best writing experience was when my husband and I went to New Orleans for a few days. He was working so I could stay in the hotel room and write all day. In the evening I could take my break with him and tour the city. It was fun for us and productive for me 🙂
I love your about page. But don't wait until retirement to start writing, if the itch is there, well, you have to scratch it!
Best wishes, from another writer past the middle stage in life. 😉
Thank you! I have been writing. It's the publishing part I'm hesitant about. Plus all my drafts need much work (editing, revising, etc.) so I'm eager to get to retirement when I can have more time to do both: write AND publish 🙂
What a great blog you have here. I too worry that I may never seen my dream come true but as long as I keep moving forward I'm happy.
Hi, Paula, thanks for coming by and reading. You have the right attitude: just keep moving forward and someday you will realize your dream 🙂
I am so looking forward to doing a deep dive on your blog, your narrative of why you write is empowering especially in lieu that I echo many of your sentiments.
Oh, my. The "Woman's Skirt Award"? Thank you very much and now I better find out what this award is about!
I have nominate you for The Versatile Blogger Award. I am not sure if you accept awards, but if you do you can find the rules of the nomination here-
Seems like a lot of us come to writing after a variety other thing. The truth wins out in the end. Now we've got the life experiences to write about. So brew another pot of tea and put those knitting needles down!
Life is funny like that … or just the need to earn a living wage 🙂 For the rest of the month, the only time I'll be knitting is after I've fulfilled my quote of words 🙂
Hi Marie, I have nominated you for this award. Hope you can accept it and have some fun with it! Take care, Jade.
Oh! I lost my comment to you and then I see it way up there where I clicked reply 😛 Ah well…*raspberries*…
Just dropped by to say I'm thinking of you right now, Marie, and hoping all is well.
Thank you, Ellespeth. We are visiting family right now. It was my mom's 90th birthday. We had a big bash for her 🙂
Hello Marie! Just to let you know that I nominated you for an Award. Here is the link
Take care, Jade x
Thank you so much for joining us on wePoets, it's much appreciated, and we'd be happy to showcase your writing should you want to share. 🙂
What a lovely welcome! Thank you for coming here and commenting. I'll definitely look into sharing my writing 🙂
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Hi Marie-
Love your blog! Also, your "about" section is very engaging and well-written! A great read for sure.
Can't wait to follow! Much continued success!
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I don't know how I bypassed following you… must be lost in my thoughts then. I'm looking forward to reading your blog posts.
Have a good time!
Cool. I might actually have four now … I found a stray last night and need to get her check out by our vet today. It will make for an interesting post once we know what we're doing 😉
I've just discovered your lovely blog. Thanks. Writing has always been a huge part of my life too, even if career and family took over for many years.
Thank you so much for commenting. I really appreciate it. By the way, I found your comment in my Spam folder. Just want you to know. I have a number of friends whose comments are being treated as Spam. I don't know what is going on with WordPress but I hope they fix it! Thanks again!
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Thanks for the follow!! Looking forward to reading more about you! I too have more yarn than I'll ever be able to crochet up and I'm a cat magnet only because I'm allergice to them, but I still enjoy them, with a couple of benedryl in me. 🙂 Gina
Bless your heart to be willing to take drugs in order to enjoy your kitties! Thanks for coming by and commenting 🙂
Sweet! We've had a kitten only once. All our other cats came to us fully grown! Thanks for coming by and leaving your comment 🙂
"But then life happened", love it.
And yes, I'm in my PJs writing this.
You stopped by my blog……….. I'm not sure how you got there but you 'liked' one of my personal favourite stories so I thought I'd find out who this person with 'impecable taste' was.
I hope you achieve your dream…….. why wouldn't you?
Be well.
Thank you, Terry. Yes, I also consider myself has having impeccable taste so, of course, I would follow your blog 🙂 Thanks for coming by mine!
Thank you! I thought your comment was kind of funny 🙂 I had a similar reaction when I decided how to end it.
It was nice reading about you! I hope you write lots and lots and lots for us all to read! 🙂
Nominated you an Award! http://petitemagique.wordpress.com/2013/06/17/150-followers-and-more-awards/
Lots of love to you
Thanks for chiming in about science over on my blog. I love your blog and that you too are a stray cat magnet!
We have walked a very similar path. Let me give you some encouragement.
If you still have that latent desire to write, it means it is your true passion.
Start now. Just like you are doing. I suspect you have ideas jotted down on things like envelopes, sticky notes, napkins, etc. Start playing with them and let them run.
Write every spare second you have. Don't wait for retirement.
You're smart to have dusted off this blog.
You can work and create a book at the same time. I've done it twice. You can do it too!
Hope this gives more fuel to your passion! Looking forward to reading your blogs!
This is wonderful encouragement, especially the part about not waiting for retirement :). Thanks so much!
I'm about a year and a half into blogging and it has changed my life. As an educator who would really rather be out there full time as a paranormal researcher/investigator, I very much relate to what you are saying above. Before blogging, writing never really interested me, and I don't really consider myself a writer… but of course now I'm confused and continue to wonder if I'm supposed to be doing more of it. 🙂
Thanks for coming by blog and commenting. I'm looking forward to reading yours. Blogging is writing and you are a writer if you write about what you love 😉
I came across this site after clicking on a link over on saraletourneau's blog; I'm glad that I did. I look forward to following your progress.
Thank you for stopping and liking a post today. Similar to yourself, I returned to writing and rediscovered creativity and voice in the process. It beats the bureaucracy of the education system; however the children are important. I look forward to following your blog and enjoying your voice through writing.
Take care and happy blogging.
Thank you, Ivon! I'm so happy to meet more people like me 🙂 Seriously, it was getting kind of lonely feeling like such a late bloomer. I've discovered a great community here. I'm looking forward to reading more of your writing as well. ~Marie
You are welcome Marie. The writing is always in our hearts and we only need to let it out. Us late bloomers do just that.
Cheers for the follow, I'm returning the kind gesture. I look forward to seeing your posts.
Good luck with your newly launch blog and with your writing. It's hard to fit it into a busy life but you don't have much choice – you've got the writing bug and you have to write…
There you go! That's exactly how I feel :). Thank you for coming by and for your comment.
Thanks for sharing your story – it was a very inspirational read. I admire your honest, wise tone and strong resolve. My philosophy is that anyone any age anywhere can write so it's great to have someone like you on board! Writers are usually in the same boat: I've always been uncertain about my 'writing talents', haha. I'd love to follow you on your writing endeavours 🙂 Write on!
Thank you so much for commenting. I am learning to not regret my detours and periods of uncertainty. I told my husband yesterday that my "return" to writing is "better late than never" :). Thanks again. I look forward to reading your writing as well.
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The professor is honored that you are honored! (The crazy professorish mind!) Nice to be here.
OK, then I will definitely do it. Have you read this one from The Community Storyboard: http://neverendingstorydepository.wordpress.com/2013/06/05/a-room-of-his-own-a-true-story-of-one-cat/. Joshua was our first cat when we moved here.
Hi 1WriteWay,
I like your words above, because… of how they show your true desires. Yup. That's it.
To say what you do in life is one thing, and to share your vision of how you desire your life to be is something quite enticing. I love that your direction changed from editing to writing!
In liking this in a comment instead of only pressing the Like button, I have discovered I must change my own direction, and pay attention to my own true desires.
Thank you for sharing! And thank you for encouraging me to express what I like about your words.
Anasera. (WilderSoul)
Thank you so much, Anasera, for your kind words. I've definitely been more honest about who am I and what I want than I was in the earlier phase of my blog, and I've been validated by a wonderful WP community.
I love your blog and what you are doing with your work!
Honesty is a deep work in progress 🙂
Wonderful WP community!
Thanks too, for your kind words… <3
Your story is mighty familiar! Really hits home with me, since I'm in the same, ahem, age bracket, let's say. It's awfully nice to know we're not alone, ain't it?
Indeed! I've had quite a few bloggers tell me that our stories are very similar. It does make me feel less like an outlier ;). Thanks for following my blog.
Hello! I nominated you for the Sunshine award here at my blog: http://spilledxink.wordpress.com/2013/05/11/sunshine-award/
Wow. I feel like I can copy and paste your description above with only a few minor edits to make it my own. Nice to know there are others who have traveled similar paths. Looking forward to reading more of your blog.
Dave, thanks for coming by. I'm finding a few other writers who have walked paths similar to ours … Makes it much less lonely :). I'm looking forward to reading your blog too.
I'm so glad you visited my blog so I could find yours–wow, we have a lot in common, especially the parts about never thinking your writing was good enough and the whole "time is running out" thing. I can't wait to read more of your work!
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On Sunday we heard whispers that there was a raccoon running loose in Paul Brown Stadium as the Bengals hosted the Cowboys. Well, now we have video. Some brave soul scooped up the masked critter and helpfully escorted him out of the section.
According to the YouTube comments the gentleman had to undergo rabies treatment because he was bitten in the line of duty. And, probably burying the lede here, the raccoon was not the only special appearance at Paul Brown Stadium that day.
generalryne23 22 hours ago
He played Turtleman today. I (Santa) was there to witness this.
h/t Drew H.


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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Thomas O'Malley, the U.S. refinery magnate with a history of squeezing profits from forsaken facilities, is using a rare shipping maneuver to bolster margins, bringing imported Saudi crude from the Gulf of Mexico to his East Coast plants.
A Reuters data analysis shows that in the past five months at least 11 oil tankers have loaded — or "lightered" — crude off of super-tankers parked off the Gulf Coast, outside of U.S. waters, and delivered it to PBF Energy's Delaware City and Paulsboro, New Jersey, refineries.
For O'Malley, the aim is to cut costs on PBF's growing imports of Saudi crude, which in the past was shipped across the Atlantic from a pipeline terminal in Egypt.
But the moves may also embolden opponents of the Jones Act, a decades-old law that bars foreign-built, -owned or -flagged ships from carrying goods between U.S. ports.
Although PBF's shipments are not subject to the Jones Act because they involve transferring foreign oil from one ship to another outside of U.S. waters, many other companies would like to run a similar route in order to deliver a swelling surplus of discounted domestic crude from Texas to the East Coast.
A growing number of critics say the decades-old Jones Act is antiquated, and the law was briefly suspended recently to alleviate gasoline shortages after Superstorm Sandy devastated the U.S. East Coast. But it is still on the books, and has support from U.S. shippers and other interest groups.
Because most U.S. ports can't accommodate the biggest oceangoing supertankers, lightering crude in the Gulf is an everyday activity, but the oil is usually bound only for local Gulf Coast refineries, not those further afield.
Only around 20 such crude shipments were sent to East Coast ports between 2004 and this year, according to the analysis of data from shipping intelligence firm PIERS, which aggregates cargo manifest details from customs data.
Traffic on the route has surged since July, with PBF importing more than 5.5 million barrels, all of it on foreign-flagged vessels, the data show.
The switch also coincides with a pick-up in PBF's consumption of Saudi crude, which has doubled at one plant.
A PBF spokesman declined to comment for this story, citing a "quiet period" ahead of the company's initial public offering. He also said the company considers logistics and operations information to be "business confidential".
Other companies are angling to ship a surge of light, sweet crude oil produced from the Permian Basin and the Eagle Ford shale oil fields in Texas to thirsty East Coast refiners. But they are faced with a limited supply of U.S.-flagged vessels.
Only one Jones Act-compliant medium-range crude oil tanker is currently available in the market, according to MJLF & Associates, a leading broker that deals in U.S.-flagged tankers. Most others are locked up in long-term charters.
But tanker supply isn't a problem for PBF, which can take advantage of global freight rates that are near their lowest in a decade since the lightering occurs in international waters.
"This just shows how antiquated the Jones Act is," says Ed Morse, global head of commodities research at Citigroup and a former energy expert at the State Department.
Although the act has long been considered untouchable due to its strong backing by U.S. shipbuilders, owners and unions, President Barack Obama has twice in the past two years granted waivers to ease the flow of fuel, most recently after Sandy.
Morse noted these waivers had caused only a muted outcry among the U.S. shipping industry, partly because the surge in shale output and rapid growth in U.S. gasoline and diesel exports from the Gulf is making the Jones Act harder to defend.
Some now see the Jones Act as an "impediment to lower crude oil and fuel costs for U.S. consumers," he said.
O'Malley returned to the U.S. refining industry two years ago, with plans to revive his refineries on the East Coast, a region some big energy companies had written due to its outdated plants dependent upon costly European crude.
Part of his latest plan to boost margins is to rejig PBF's crude supply arrangements at the 180,000 bpd Paulsboro refinery, bringing in more domestic and Canadian crude by rail and terminating a supply agreement with Statoil next March, according to an SEC filing last month.
In the filing, PBF also said it has been buying "up to approximately 100,000 bpd" of Saudi crude for Paulsboro alone, nearly twice what it was buying a year ago, according to government data. Delaware City, once owned by the Saudi state oil firm, is also consuming more of the kingdom's crude. (Graphic on Saudi imports: link.reuters.com/fyf54t )
Before this summer, PBF had been loading two or three Saudi cargoes a month from Egypt, the end point of the Sumed pipeline used by Gulf producers to bypass the Suez Canal. But those shipments now appear to have diminished. No such cargoes appear in the PIERS data for September and October.
By loading its crude in the Gulf of Mexico instead, PBF avoids trans-Atlantic freight rates, while state oil firm Saudi Aramco avoids paying pipeline tariffs. But it is a longer overall journey as supertankers from Saudi Arabia must round the Cape of Africa to reach the United States.
Because the new route is so rare, freight brokers said it was all but impossible to calculate how it may cut costs. (Map of new ship flows: link.reuters.com/dyg54t )
AET, a major global oil freight firm owned by Malaysia's state-run shipping giant MISC MISC.LK, has hauled more than half of the 500,000-barrel cargoes, according to the PIERS data.
Asked about the shipments, an AET spokesman said the company is a "leading provider" of lightering services in the Gulf with 30 Aframax tankers and a fleet of support vessels. AET has not detected a "discernible change" to its operating pattern in recent months, the spokesman said.
PBF is not the first refiner to ship lightered crude from the Gulf Coast up the East Coast.
In 2009 and 2010, Royal Dutch Shell (RDSa.L) moved several cargoes of Nigerian and Iraqi crude from the Gulf Lightering Zone to Portland, from where it could be pumped to Shell's 130,000 refinery in Montreal. Shell announced the closure of the over 75-year-old plant in early June 2010; the last such shipment from the Gulf of Mexico to Maine landed days later.
Shell did not respond to questions about the shipments.
Saudi crude has long been a staple at Delaware City, which was owned by the kingdom's U.S. joint-venture refining arm from 1989 until 2004, when O'Malley's Premcor bought it. Valero bought Premcor a year later. PBF bought it back in 2010.
But the plant rarely took Saudi crude since PBF restarted it just over a year ago, buying only 1.6 million barrels in October 2011 prior to July's batch, according to government data.
Reporting By Jonathan Leff; data analysis by Siddharth Shenoy and Cezary Podkul; Editing by David Gregorio


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Read this take on the Favre situation (if you can stomach any more Favre situation talk) by one of the best writers out there – Gregg Easterbrook. Makes some sense to me, and echoes Steve's post re this now being Ted Thompson's team.
Also, wanted to add that I am still waiting for the "upcoming firestorm" from Favre and company for which the Packers apparently hired Ari Fleischer. Much of the reason I wanted to hold out on completely bashing Favre for his behavior during this episode was based on my firm belief that something bigger happened that the public just hasn't been told about yet. While I acknowledge there was some justification for Favre feeling unwanted based on things we do know (especially if McGinn's claim is true that TT didn't want Favre back dating back well into last year), if this is all the info we have, I can't help but be more bothered by Favre's handling of this than the team's handling of this. Perhaps we'll hear more as time rolls on, who knows.
In the meantime, I'm focused on the Packers this year and really pulling for Rodgers. We still have a pretty good team I believe if the D-Line can come together. I will also though, be keeping an eye on how Favre does in NY. Maybe in some sense, it is fitting for Favre, who has played his entire career in the NFL's smallest city, to go to its biggest city for a rousing send off. We'll see.


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The horrifically tragic Newtown, CT elementary school shooting has brought forth a barrage of 'ban the guns' emotional responses from the media and politicos. CNN's Piers Morgan let loose with "How many more kids have to die, before you guys say, 'we want less guns, not more", here.
In America the 2nd Amendment is considered a sacred constitutional right because the right to defend yourself and your family against deadly force is an absolute natural right. Folks aren't dying in America because of our gun rights. They are dying because gun rights have been substantially weakened in many states and unarmed folks have no defense against armed lunatics on the loose. Banning firearms will never result in less armed lunatics but it will definitely result the decreased ability of law abiding citizens to defend themselves when confronted with deadly force.
Let's talk about Kennesaw, GA because the media was stroking out over Kennesaw passing a law in 1982 requiring that at least one member of every household be armed and firearms proficient. Before 1982, Kennesaw had experienced soaring crime rates so it passed a law with the goal of crime reduction. The crime rate plummeted. While the media castigated Kennesaw and dubbed it 'Guntown USA' and predicted that Kennesaw would become a Wild West styled shootout town full of gun violence, the truth is much different. The crime rate plummeted and at one point in 2007, Kennesaw was deemed a murder free down for 25 years.
25 years murder-free in 'Gun Town USA'
In a column titled "Gun Town USA," Art Buchwald suggested Kennesaw would soon become a place where routine disagreements between neighbors would be settled in shootouts. Reuters, the European news service, today revisited the Kennesaw controversy following the Virginia Tech Massacre. Police Lt. Craig Graydon said: "When the Kennesaw law was passed in 1982 there was a substantial drop in crime … and we have maintained a really low crime rate since then. We are sure it is one of the lowest (crime) towns in the metro area." Kennesaw is just north of Atlanta.Does gun ownership reduce gun violence? According to a legal blog, volokh.com, the answer is yes.
Do Civilians Armed With Guns Ever Capture, Kill, or Otherwise Stop Mass Shooters?
1. In Pearl, Mississippi in 1997, 16-year-old Luke Woodham stabbed and bludgeoned to death his mother at home, then killed two students and injured seven at his high school. As he was leaving the school, he was stopped by Assistant Principal Joel Myrick, who had gone out to get a handgun from his car. I have seen sources that state that Woodham was on the way to Pearl Junior High School to continue shooting, though I couldn't find any contemporaneous news articles that so state.When we attempt to understand random gun violence that is typically committed by a mentally unstable individual, the greater question should be: If more folks were armed, would these deranged shooters have succeeded in killing as many folks as they did?
2. In Edinboro, Pennsylvania in 1996, 14-year-old Andrew Wurst shot and killed a teacher at a school dance, and shot and injured several other students. He had just left the dance hall, carrying his gun — possibly to attack more people, though the stories that I've seen are unclear — when he was confronted by the dance hall owner James Strand, who lived next door and kept a shotgun at home. It's not clear whether Wurst was planning to kill others, would have gotten into a gun battle with the police, or would have otherwise killed more people had Strand not stopped him.
3. In Winnemucca, Nevada in 2008, Ernesto Villagomez killed two people and wounded two others in a bar filled with three hundred people. He was then shot and killed by a patron who was carrying a gun (and had a concealed carry license). It's not clear whether Villagomez would have killed more people; the killings were apparently the result of a family feud, and I could see no information on whether Villagomez had more names on his list, nor could one tell whether he would have killed more people in trying to evade capture.
4. In Colorado Springs in 2007, Matthew Murray killed four people at a church. He was then shot several times by Jeanne Assam, a church member, volunteer security guard, and former police officer (she had been dismissed by a police department 10 years before, and to my knowledge hadn't worked as a police officer since). Murray, knocked down and badly wounded, killed himself; it is again not clear whether he would have killed more people had he not been wounded, but my guess is that he would have.
So it appears that civilians armed with guns are sometimes willing to intervene to stop someone who had just committed a mass shooting in public. In what fraction of mass shootings would such interventions happen, if gun possession were allowed in the places where the shootings happen? We don't know.
Anti-gun groups love to rate the states according to how draconian their gun laws are because they seek a 100% gun free America. The anti-gun Brady Campaign rated Connecticut the 5th best state when it comes to having tough gun laws.
Gun Laws: California Is Tops; Connecticut 5th Best
Oathkeepers.org is an organization that endorses the constitution, its specific enumerated powers and the responsibility of local sheriffs to honor the constitution by upholding their oath to defend the constitution. Oath Keepers offered a highly critical view of the anti 2nd amendment folks, here.
This shooting is yet another tragic example of the failed, grotesque insistence on helpless victim zones where any crazed gunman can be assured of a large number of disarmed, undefended, helpless victims, all crammed into one place, where he can kill many children before an armed defender arrives from elsewhere. It is disturbing and sick that the federal government so hates the right of the American people to bear arms, and so hates their natural right to self defense, that the government insists on making them helpless, disarmed victims for anyone who cares to kill them. And in this case, all of the teachers and staff were willfully disarmed by the Federal Government, by force of law and threat of prison, to ensure that they would be disarmed and incapable of saving the lives of the children entrusted to their care.The above points are indeed powerful. Any society that fails to protect its most helpless and vulnerable members, the children, is a big fail. Firearms do indeed save lives and countless lives could have been saved in school shootings and other public shootings had responsible citizens with firearms training been allowed to carry firearms.
That makes the Federal Government complicit in the deaths of these children, and in fact an accessory to their mass murder, by forcibly disarming (with the very real threat of prison) all the teachers, all the staff, and any parent who may have been on school property. That stupid law guaranteed the shooters would meet no immediate armed resistance, which is exactly what is needed to stop such an attack.
In such a shooting (as in every criminal attack), seconds count, and the people best positioned to stop the attack are the people on the scene – the intended victims and/or their care-takers. In this case, that would mean the teachers and staff of the school who were responsible for the well-being of those children, and also the parents, who should have the ability to save the lives of their own children as they take them to and from school.
The police cannot, and do not arrive in time to stop such shooters from killing large numbers of people. They are a slow reactive force compared to an armed citizen on the scene. This should be common sense, as it is obvious that in the immediacy of a criminal attack, it is the intended victims (or their immediate care-takers) who are there, in position to put a stop to the attack, if they are capable. And being capable means being armed, trained, willing, and able to use deadly force, right then, right there. Anything less leads to what we saw here.
But no doubt the rabid anti-gun government supremacists will use this to further their agenda to disarm the American people, totally ignoring that obvious, plain-as-day truth. Anti-gun nuts trust the government with guns, but not the people, and insist that the lowly citizen must be disarmed and helpless in the face of murderous assault, and must wait on slow responding armed government employees, who will not be there when the attack starts, and most often can only really clean up the horrendous crime scene afterwards and maybe, just maybe apprehend a shooter who has chosen not to kill himself (as they usually do).
The bottom line is that these teachers and staff at the Sandy Hook Elementary School were incapable of keeping these children safe, and incapable of defending them. And one of the biggest reasons they were so incapable and unprepared to save the lives of the children entrusted to their care is because the anti-gun nuts and their fellow travelers in government insisted on disarming every adult in the vicinity, by threatening them with prison time – EXCEPT the gunmen, who don't care about the law and thus were not disarmed. laws against carrying weapons in schools don't stop evil men with murderous intent. Such laws only disarm the law abiding and virtuous, who are now rendered incompetent to defend the precious children in their care.
This is disgusting.
To deny responsible and trained citizens the right to carry firearms is the equivalent of emphatically stating "you have a duty to die because I hate guns". Increasingly, the courts are taking tough stands on folks who kill in an act of self defense regardless of the weapon.
In one of the worst miscarriages of justice ever, a Philadelphia judge found a man guilty of killing a man who struck him with a metal pole, knocked him to the ground and was attempting to strangle him in the commission of a robbery. The victim was facing 12.5 to 25 years in prison for the crime of defending himself against a deadly predator.
It all started when Jonathan Lowe, 57, a retired marine who had recently survived a heart attack and multiple strokes, was returning home from dinner with a friend. As Lowe was walking home, he was attacked by 3 thugs. Although Lowe attempted to get away, they followed him and one of the assailants, Loren Manning, age 51, hit Lowe with a metal pole, knocking him to the ground and then proceeded to choke him. With Manning's hands around his neck and strangling him, Lowe managed to retrieve a pocket knife and started stabbing Manning. Manning died. Lowe was charged with unlawfully killing him and the judge rejected legitimate self-defense as a defense.
Manning was a career criminal with 40 arrests, 18 convictions and was currently awaiting trial for knocking out a woman's teeth while robbing her.
Lowe was not a career criminal.
Although a judge who ultimately sentenced Jonathan Lowe for the crime of manslaughter said in court that this was "a lot closer to self-defense" than murder, Lowe was still sentenced to 11 to 23 months in prison, here, which wasn't nearly as bad as the 12.5 -25 he could have received.
Still, it's a case where legitimate self defense was rejected and for the 'crime' of defending himself against a violent career criminal thug, Lowe is now the criminal and Manning the victim.
Such attitudes only reinforce the perception that criminals indeed have more rights than victims and that victims have a duty to die because the rights of dangerous criminals trump the absolute right of victims to defend themselves against deadly violence.
Unfortunately, it's this attitude that permeates the issue when the the media, politicos and judicial system all jump on board the train to nullify and outlaw legitimate self defense.


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I still can hardly believe that we are two weeks away from Christmas. My last blog post was in July which is still hard for me to believe. Well there has been many wonderful things going that I would love to share with you all. I've finished up another photography class, met some wonderful new clients, and have been editing for days. Here tonight I wanna share some of which I've been working on. =)
This is one of the 4 projects I did for my photo sequence class. It's one picture divided up. To me I feel like I'm looking through a window at this magnificent view. God shows us beauty all the time. We just have to stop and see it.
A sister is a forever friend. ~Author Unknown
I got to be part of an awesome little man's 2nd birthday party. Angie he is so precious and thanks again for letting me capture those birthday memories for you. =)
This little girl is such a ham! She is so precious and knows it! She does so well getting her picture taken and big thanks to mom for bringing her back. =)
Miss Britney... Senior...
Miss Britney came to get her senior pictures done and we had a great session.
Miss Britney is a sweet girl and best of luck to you in the future! =)
Well I don't want to give you complete picture overload so enough for now but I will defiantly post more tomorrow. Thanks so much for your support! You all are appreciate more then you know. =)
Peace and Love,


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Architects: Reiach and Hall Architects
Location: Dundee, Scotland
Structural Engineer: Buro Happold
Main Contractor: Bovis Lend Lease
Project Year: 2011
Project Area: 12,500 sqm (Gross Internal Floor Area)
Photographs: Dave Morris, Paul Zane, Reiach and Hall Architects
This is not an ordinary office building. It is Dundee City Councils headquarters and is the primary location where the citizens of Dundee will meet their council officers. As well as containing the councils spatial needs the building has an important civic role to play re-using and reinvigorating a protected derelict industrial building, which is located in a slightly forgotten part of the city the new building has begun the process of revitalising this area.
The function of the building is to enable the provision of the council's office services. The building will contain approximately 900 staff and has a floor area of 12,500 sqm. A component of the brief is to stimulate departmental interactions, so all communal facilities are co-located outside the departments.
The functional requirements, when considered with the civic nature of the proposals informed the external expression. The historic building is retained. The new offices are placed to the west, rising above their neighbours in three towers, signalling the Council to the city, a linear core is placed between the old and new, working with the existing linear site emphasis and providing intuitive navigation of the large floor plates. The existing building is re-roofed with a contemporary attic.
The building adopts highly sustainable principles with natural ventilation and exposed thermal mass and was BREEAM assessed as excellent.


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As most of us take the day off work and tuck into mounds of mashed potatoes, gallons of gravy and tons of turkey, our minds — at least for a few hours — can take a rest.
There never seems to be a shortage of major crises in our own lives, as well as the world at large to help us maintain a seemingly endless tension headache. It's nice to let our blood pressure rise naturally — through fatty foods — instead.
With the paper slated to hit the newsstands on Turkey Day, we thought it apropos to offer up a list of things for which we're thankful.
First and foremost, we're thrilled that the election is over. No more attack ads, at least for a while. We can stop caring about Ohio again and the airwaves are finally returning to indispensable kitchen appliances, greatest hits collections and exercise machines destined for cobwebbed corners of the basement.
On a more serious note, while negative campaign tactics were rampant this election season both nationally and statewide, trips to the polls locally indicated a much more civil tone, downright convivial.
Also, keep in mind that the Homeless Center is full and other homeless people in cars and tents are sometimes encountered by police officers. Meanwhile, home foreclosures in Rochester in the first nine months of this year hit a record high number — and over the last seven years, more than 700 properties have been foreclosed on in the Lilac City.
Give thanks if you are not among these unhappy statistics, just like safety nets like the Homeless Center, the Salvational Army, Gerry's Pantry and others give thanks for the continued generous support of donors and volunteers.
Let us also give thanks, at a time when New Hampshire's manufacturing jobs continue to trickle away — there are now around 65,000, which is 1,000 fewer than last year — that Safran has chosen to locate in Rochester, with the promise of up to 500 new positions, and that a training center is set to open in the spring of 2013 at the Lilac Mall, to prepare people for these new slots.
Let us give thanks that we live in or near a city that has rallied remarkably to the cause known as Howie's Field of Dreams, which has attracted hundreds of thousands of dollars to build a facility that will allow Buddy Ball to be enjoyed by youngsters with physical or mental challenges that impede them from taking part in regular youth activities at Roger Allen Park. We're thankful that we live in a community that chooses to honor Howie Seckendorf, who passed away at far too young an age, by completing the field, in his absence.
We're thankful to live in a community that puts so much emphasis on helping others, from our firefighters sprouting whiskers for cancer awareness to the Journey Church which sponsors our Fourth of July celebration every year, to the Lights of Love, to the various organizations that comprise the Veterans' Council.
Oh yeah, and we're thankful for gravy, one of the greatest culinary inventions of all time. It's not a terrible time to be alive.
A time to be thankful
As most of us take the day off work and tuck into mounds of mashed potatoes, gallons of gravy and tons of turkey, our minds — at least for a few hours — can take a rest.


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Hi everyone...
My question is related to deleting some unwanted words in a sentence like is,am,are,has,have,had,should,would and many more like these. Basically when user inputs a sentence in search box in order to search something, then program also shows the search related to above mentioned helping verbs and resultantly shows more results. So I want to delete all these words from a sentence to keep my search fast and accurate. If I use if-else or switch then I have to mention all helping verbs, which looks very odd in program and how many words I would have to handle. Is there any good and efficient way to handle this situation?
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User inputs a sentence in search box "Is there any example of delete query"
There are only 3 keywords in the sentence i.e example, delete and query.