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People buying guns in Colorado will have to continue waiting three extra days to take possession of their firearms, a judge ruled on Monday.
The three-day waiting period is required by a new state law, HB23-1219, that took effect on Oct. 1 of this year. A gun rights group sued, requesting that a federal judge suspend it immediately. Rocky Mountain Gun Owners and another plaintiff argued that the waiting period infringed on their Second Amendment rights.
But Senior U.S. District Judge John L. Kane Jr. on Monday refused the plaintiffs’ request for a preliminary injunction. He ruled that the waiting-period law should remain in effect while the larger court battle over its constitutionality plays out.
The decision represents an early victory in the lawsuit for Gov. Jared Polis and his administration as they try to defend the state’s new gun laws, which have come into question under the U.S. Supreme Court’s recent Bruen ruling on gun rights.
The Bruen decision created a new standard for judging gun laws, requiring that defenders identify historical precedents for them from around the time of the drafting of the Constitution.
Earlier this year, a different federal judge blocked a new 21-plus age requirement for rifle purchases in Colorado, finding it was likely to not survive the new Bruen test. But in Monday’s ruling, Judge Kane indicated that he agreed with many of the governor’s key points in defense of the waiting-period law.
The injunction decision suggests there’s little chance that Kane will ultimately strike down the law at the end of the case; Rocky Mountain Gun Owners is already planning to push the lawsuit to the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals. Kane was appointed by President Jimmy Carter, a Democrat.
In his Monday ruling, Kane wrote that the “evidence before me establishes that the Act is consistent with the Nation’s historical tradition of firearm regulation. Plaintiffs, therefore, have not carried their burden to show they are likely to succeed on the merits of their claims,” the judge wrote.
The plaintiffs had argued that the waiting period prevents them from “obtaining possession of their firearm that they have already acquired.” But Judge Kane instead reasoned that the Second Amendment never guaranteed instant delivery of guns.
Historical advertisements for guns “indicate that oftentimes a wait would be involved, for example, when guns were being imported and would arrive at irregular intervals, when firearms were being sold on a single date in the future, or a gunsmith was offering to fabricate firearms for purchasers,” he wrote.
Kane also considered the history of gun law in the U.S., noting that the first waiting period law wasn’t established until 1923. The Bruen decision says laws must have a precedent dating to the Founding Era, more than a century earlier.
But the judge reasoned that there was a reason for the lack of waiting period laws in the newly formed country: Guns were much less common and “impulsive gun homicides” were much less prevalent, so it was “logical” that no such laws existed at the time.
The judge also found that, even if the Founding Era didn’t have waiting periods, it did have “analogues,” or similar policies that legally justify the existence of waiting periods today. The Polis administration had pointed to numerous U.S. and colonial laws back to the 1600s that forbid people from using guns while drunk. Those laws had a similar goal to the waiting period laws, the judge concluded.
“I am not suggesting that all individuals who seek to purchase a firearm are a threat. But the Waiting-Period Act and the intoxication laws both work to prevent individuals in a temporary impulsive state from irresponsibly using a firearm,” Kane wrote.
In contrast, the plaintiffs had argued that “a law specifically targeted at an obviously dangerous situation is not analogous to a law that sweeps up everyone.”
The judge also found that early firearm licensing laws are a historical analogue for today’s waiting periods.
He concluded: “This is not a straightforward case – during the Founding Era and the century that followed, firearm access and technology, along with violent crime, was drastically different and a waiting period for firearm purchases would have been unnecessary. With that in mind, evaluation of the analogues presented is unsurprisingly difficult. Nonetheless, I find the Governor has provided a sufficient record to conclude that our Nation’s historical tradition of firearm regulation is consistent with the Waiting-Period Act.”
The plaintiffs had argued that they had already suffered specific harms for the law, with co-plaintiff Alicia Garcia, a firearms instructor, saying that she was unable to attend a shotgun shoot in Virginia because she couldn’t get a new shotgun in time.
But the judge found that because Garcia already owned “10 to twenty” firearms, there was no threat to her ability to defend herself during the waiting period, which he found was the main question.
Furthermore, the judge found that blocking the waiting-period law would put lives at stake, both from suicide and homicide. He cited evidence from the administration’s expert witnesses, writing: “[S]aving approximately one hundred people in Colorado this year outweighs the aggregate harm of minimal expenditures of time and sacrificed business opportunities.”
Rhodes, the executive director of RMGO, described the ruling as “a bump in the road,” and added that he’s instructed the group’s attorneys “to immediately appeal this decision and take it to a higher Court.”


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The Promised Messiah said that as time goes on people will accept his interpretation of Islam, regardless of whether they accept him as the Messiah and Mehdi or not.
In the last few weeks we have seen that the most orthodox Sunni leaders, religious and secular, have accepted the Ahmadi interpretations in two areas.
The first is divorce. The traditional Sunni view has been that a man was entitled to pronounce the word divorce thrice and he would be divorced, even if the wife was not aware of it. The Council for Islamic ideology in Pakistan announced in the last few weeks that it has recommended to the Pakistan government to make this practice unlawful and punishable. It is worth mentioning that first family law reform implemented by the Pakistan government in 1962 was drafted by Mr Nasir Ahmad Farqui, a prominent member of this jamaat.
The second reform is related to rape-law. Last year the religious court threw out a case involving rape where the evidence was on DNA and not eye witness testimony of four people. A khutba was delivered from our UK mosque which criticised this decision and showed that DNA evidence is admissible. The Pakistan parliament has now passed a law enabling DNA evidence to be used to prove rape.
These incident prove the truth of what Hazrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad said and quoted above.
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E-Vision, the cable subsidiary of Etisalat, says high-definition television service will "redefine television experience" in the Middle East.
E-Vision launches first HD TV in Emirates
The Etisalat cable television subsidiary, E-Vision, Tuesday launched the Middle East's first commercial high-definition television service in the UAE. Following the announcement, several broadcasters including Showtime Arabia, Orbit and Abu Dhabi TV, revealed plans to launch their own high-definition satellite broadcasts in coming months. It is a significant step for the country's high-definition and pay-TV markets, which have traditionally lagged years behind more developed markets, mainly because of the dominance of free-to-air satellite television. Until recently, broadcasters and content providers were in a stand-off over who would make the first major investment in the more expensive format, which provides a picture quality commonly described as four times better than standard definition. Humaid Sahoo, the chief executive of E-Vision, said it had been a challenge for the cable company to convince content providers to switch to high definition. "It was hard," Mr Sahoo said. "We were ready two and a half years back, but somebody just has to do it. So we said 'let's launch it'. High definition is the future of TV." E-Vision's high-definition cable service, which became available Tuesday, offers content from Abu Dhabi TV HD, Luxe HD, Fashion TV HD, Showtime HD and Al Jazeera Sports HD, with plans to add more content providers during the year. E-Vision customers, who make up 60 per cent of the UAE's pay-TV market, can upgrade to high definition for an extra Dh30 (US$8.16) a month, plus a one-time fee of Dh999 for the set-top box. "We would like to see 30 per cent of our E-Vision subscribers sign up," Mr Sahoo said. "That's our objective. It all depends on the content. If we have the content, it's achievable." As well as launching its Showtime HD channel through E-Vision Tuesday, Showtime announced that its Premier Cable customers can also upgrade to high definition for an extra Dh45 a month. It also announced plans to roll out a high-definition, direct-to-home satellite service by the end of the year. "HD broadcast requires a substantial investment on the part of both the broadcaster and the receiver," said Marc-Antoine d'Halluin, the chief executive of Showtime Arabia. "We are making progress in this regard and anticipate availability of our DTH [direct-to-home] subscriber base before the year end, with our new generation of DTH set-top boxes. "Our preparation meant that when approached by E-Vision, who have already developed their own HD cable boxes, we were able to produce a channel for the delivery of this proposition to our mutual customers." Orbit, one of Showtime's pay-TV competitors in the region, is also planning a high-definition option this year. "We cannot say which channels yet, but that's where we are so far," said Maria Khoury, the corporate communications director at Orbit. In developed markets like the US, which has more than 60 per cent of the world's high-definition viewers, the growth of high definition has been helped by their high percentage of pay-TV subscribers. Pay-TV currently reaches more than 80 per cent of the US population. But in the Middle East, the low penetration of pay-TV has meant that high-definition TV has been slow to enter the market. "Regionally, there's been a real stagnation on high definition over the last couple of years, while the US and Europe have forged ahead," said Nick Grande, the managing director of Channel Sculptor in Dubai. Abu Dhabi TV, the subsidiary of Abu Dhabi Media Company (ADMC) that operates several free-to-air satellite channels, also plans to launch its own high-definition service soon. The company has already acquired the extra transponder space to accommodate the larger bandwidth requirements of high definition, according to Edward Borgerding, the chief executive of ADMC, which also owns The National. "It's a chicken-and-egg situation," Mr Borgerding said. "People aren't going to buy the boxes and hook them up unless there is something to see, but you're not going to launch something until you can monetise it and there's someone watching it. "We made the decision to lead the market and create the content because we are sure people will come. It's a superior system and once you watch it, it's hard to go back. When people have a choice between high definition or not, 100 per cent are going to watch high definition." firstname.lastname@example.org email@example.com

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Eat More Fish – Whelks in Spicy Oyster Sauce With Noodles
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Whelks are often misunderstood. Compared to snails and generally served either pickled or as rubbery as you like. We usually have our whelks steamed lightly in salted water or broth if we are serving them up at La Petite Bouchee
for a Fruit de Mer night or I love them picked and sliced very finely spritzed with lime, soy and mirin with a blob of wasabi. Perfect. Today we are keeping with the Asian theme and stir-frying our whelk meat in a spicy oyster sauce and serving it with noodles. So about the humble whelk?
Whelk is the name given to various kinds of sea snail, many of which have been used for centuries, are still used, by humans and other animals as food. Although many whelks are quite large and come from the family Buccinidae (the true whelks), the word whelk is also used for some other marine mollusc species within several families of sea snails that are not particularly closely related.
The common name “whelk” (also welk orwilks) comes from the German root “weluka”, which may in turn come from the Indo-European word “wel-“, meaning to turn or revolve. In the United States, whelks are several large edible species from the genera Busycon and Busycotypus, which are now classified in the family Buccinidae. These are sometimes called Busycon whelks. The unrelated invasive murex Rapana venosa, from the family Muricidae, is referred to as the Veined rapa whelk or Asian rapa whelk. In the British Isles, Belgium and the Netherlands, the word is used for a number of species in the family Buccinidae, especially Buccinum undatum, an edible European and Northern Atlantic species. To confuse matters, in the British Isles, the name “dog whelk” is used for Nucella lapillus (family Muricidae) and for Nassarius species (family Nassariidae) and in Scotland, the word “whelk” is also used to mean the periwinkle (Littorina littorea), family Littorinidae.
In the English-speaking islands of the West Indies, the word whelks or wilks (this word is both singular and plural) is applied to the large edible Cittarium pica, also known as the magpie or West Indian top shell, from the family Trochidae. In Japan, whelks are frequently used in sashimi and sushi. In Vietnam, they are served in a dish called Bún ốc – vermicelli with sea snails. And in Australia and New Zealand, species of the genus Cabestana (family Ranellidae) are called predatory whelks.
- A large glug of peanut oil
- 500 g cooked whelks, picked and thinly sliced
- 1 can of bamboo shoots, thinly sliced
- 1 courgettes, sliced into ribbons with a peeler
- 2 cloves garlic, minced
- 1 red chilli, finely sliced
- A finger of grated ginger
- A large splash of light soy sauce
- A tbsp oyster sauce ( don’t over do it or it becomes very salty)
- A drizzle of sesame oil
- 6 spring onions, finely sliced
- A large handful of coriander, finely chopped
- A pack of fresh thin egg noodles
- A large pinch of toasted sesame seeds
Heat the peanut oil in a wok until it is smoking. Add the whelks and bamboo shoot and stir-fry for about 2-3 minutes. Remove them from the wok and place to one-side whilst you stir fry the garlic, chilli and ginger. Add the soy and oyster sauce then return the whelks and bamboo shoots. Stir-fry for a couple of minutes. As the sauce starts to thicken add the 4 of the spring onions and the coriander. Make sure all the ingredients are combined equally. Set to one side. Add the noodles to a pan of boiling water for a couple of minutes, before draining them and adding a drizzle of sesame oil. Place the noodles on a plate and add the whelks sauce. Sprinkle with toasted sesame seeds.

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ND Women’s Golf: Irish open season in Tallahassee
Greg Hadley | Friday, February 15, 2013
After a successful fall campaign, the Irish women open their spring season this weekend in Tallahassee, Fla., at the Match-Up Invitational hosted by Florida State.
It’s been nearly four months since the Irish last competed in October, but the winter weather hasn’t stopped them from preparing. Instead, the team practiced indoors.
“We were able to get about three-and-a-half weeks of practice in,” Irish coach Susan Holt said. “We worked a lot in our indoor golf facility. It’s one of the best in the country. Also, a lot of the girls are from warmer climates, so they were able to practice over winter break in addition to the three weeks.”
Thus, Holt expects her squad’s very best this weekend.
“We’re excited to get the chance to get out and play,” Holt said. “We’re not making any excuses because we’re from the north. That’s what our facilities are for. It’s time to compete.”
The Irish have lots of momentum to build on. Their fall season was one of the most successful in program history, culminating in six victories over top-25 opponents and a No. 14 midseason ranking. However, Holt doesn’t want to dwell on that success but instead focus on continuing it.
“We had some pretty lofty goals at the beginning of the year,” she said. “The fall season set us up well to follow through and accomplish most of our goals this spring.”
A key to realizing those goals will be freshman Lindsey Weaver, who was ranked first in the nation at the midseason break, and has yet to lose to a top-50 opponent.
“Lindsey is a very solid all-around golfer,” Holt said. “She’s very dedicated. I just want her to keep on working and practicing hard and to stay as steady as she’s been all season.”
Looking ahead to this weekend, the Irish will go up against top teams, including No. 6 Oklahoma and No. 21 Texas A&M. Holt thinks that this invitational will give her team valuable experience for later on in the year.
“The girls are very excited,” she said. “This invite has the top competition to prepare us for tournaments later in the year, like the Big East or NCAAs.”
The Irish golfers open their spring season this Friday through Sunday at the Match-Up Invitational hosted by Florida State at the Southwood Golf Club in Tallahassee, Fla.
Contact Greg Hadley at [email protected]


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House Bill 507: Homeschooler Access to State Testing and Diplomas
Representative Paul J. P. Loscocco
House Bill 507 grants homeschooled students the right to voluntarily participate in the statewide achievement tests given to students in grades 4, 8, and 10. The bill also requires public high schools to issue diplomas to homeschooled students who satisfy the requirements of a competency test.
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WASHINGTON The private student lending industry and its allies in Congress are maneuvering to thwart a plan by President Obama to end a subsidized loan program and redirect billions of dollars in bank profits to scholarships for needy students.
The plan is the main money-saving component of Mr. Obama’s education agenda, which includes a sweeping overhaul of financial aid programs. The Congressional Budget Office says replacing subsidized loans made by private banks with direct government lending would save $94 billion over the next decade, money that Mr. Obama would use to expand Pell grants for the poorest students.
But the proposal has ignited one of the most fractious policy fights this year.
Because it would make spending on Pell grants mandatory, limiting Congressional control, powerful appropriators are balking at it. Republicans say the plan is proof that Mr. Obama is trying to vastly expand government. Democrats are divided, with lawmakers from districts where lenders are big employers already drawing battle lines.
At the same time, the private loan industry, which would have collapsed without a government rescue last year, has begun lobbying aggressively to save a program that has generated giant profits with very little risk.
“The administration has decided that it wants to capture the profits of federal student loans,” said Kevin Bruns, executive director of America’s Student Loan Providers, a trade group that is fighting Mr. Obama’s plan.
To press its case, the nation’s largest student lender, Sallie Mae, has hired two prominent lobbyists, Tony Podesta, whose brother, John, led the Obama transition, and Jamie S. Gorelick, a former deputy attorney general in the Clinton administration.
For lenders, the stakes are huge. Just last week, Sallie Mae reported that despite losing $213 million in 2008, it paid its chief executive more than $4.6 million in cash and stock and its vice chairman more than $13.2 million in cash and stock, including the use of a company plane. The company, which did not receive money under the $700 billion financial system bailout and is not subject to pay restrictions, also disbursed cash bonuses of up to $600,000 to other executives.
Sallie Mae said that executive compensation was lower in 2008 than 2007 and that the stock awards were worthless in the current market.
Critics of the subsidized loan system, called the Federal Family Education Loan Program, say private lenders have collected hefty fees for decades on loans that are risk-free because the government guarantees repayment up to 97 percent. With the government directly or indirectly financing virtually all federal student loans because of the financial crisis, the critics say there is no reason to continue a program that was intended to inject private capital into the education lending system.
Under the subsidized loan program, the government pays lenders like Citigroup, Bank of America and Sallie Mae, with both the subsidy and the maximum interest rate for borrowers set by Congress. Students are steered to the government’s direct program or to outside lenders, depending on their school’s preference.
Private lenders say they still provide valuable service, marketing, customer relations, billing, default prevention and collection of delinquent loans. The lenders say the budget savings could be achieved without ending their role and are pushing to keep the system in place, including an arrangement approved by Congress last year by which they are paid to originate loans but can resell them to the government.
Martha Holler, a spokeswoman for Sallie Mae, said the company wanted a compromise. “To be clear, there are those who are fighting to preserve the historic financing structure for federal student loans,” she wrote in an e-mail message following up on a telephone interview. “Sallie Mae is not among them. In fact, we support constructive alternatives that would generate a similar level of taxpayer savings to achieve the administration’s important goals.”
Lenders are also emphasizing the jobs they provide.
Sallie Mae’s chief executive, Albert L. Lord, held a town-hall-style meeting last week at the company’s loan center in Wilkes-Barre, Pa., with two Democrats, Senator Bob Casey and Representative Paul E. Kanjorski, to announce the return of 2,000 jobs that were sent overseas in 2007.
Mr. Lord, in his opening speech, insisted that Mr. Obama’s proposal offered new opportunities, but he said he would fight to keep the current system mostly intact.
“We can either meet or beat the budget savings that are in the president’s budget with the exact same system that we have got working now with maybe a few tweaks,” he said.
But to preserve a profitable role for private lenders and still achieve Mr. Obama’s savings seems extremely difficult if not impossible; initial projections put forward by Sallie Mae could reach only 82 percent of the president’s goal over five years.
Last year, to keep education financing from drying up, Congress expanded the government’s role, including the repurchase of loans, which Sallie Mae and some other lenders say should be mandatory going forward.
“When you add that all up, a very legitimate question to ask is why do we even need private lenders,” said Representative Timothy H. Bishop, Democrat of New York and a former provost of Southampton College.
For Mr. Bishop and many other education advocates, Mr. Obama’s plan to expand the existing direct loan program used by more than 1,500 schools is obvious and long overdue.
But the administration has a fight on its hands.
“The president’s proposal,” Representative Allen Boyd, Democrat of Florida, said in a floor speech, “could be detrimental to thousands of employees who serve in the current student loan industry throughout this country, 650 of which are located in Panama City, Florida.”
In some states, student loans are administered by quasi-governmental agencies that benefit the same as private lenders. To appeal to these states, the administration has proposed $500 million a year for financial literacy programs and other services the agencies provide.
Political opposition may be harder to overcome.
Representative Howard P. McKeon of California, the senior Republican on the education committee, said Democrats should not cut out lenders. “A government-run, one-size-fits-all program is not the answer,” he said.
But some lawmakers have no sympathy for an industry now kept afloat by taxpayers.
“If the banks complain that they are getting cut out,” said Representative Barney Frank, Democrat of Massachusetts, “too bad.”
At the Wilkes-Barre event, Mr. Lord of Sallie Mae acknowledged his industry’s reliance on the government. “I don’t see private capital financing student loans, certainly any time soon,” he said.
Even as lenders fight the president’s plan, Sallie Mae and others are bidding for work that will remain if it is adopted contracts for loan servicing and other back office operations.
The president’s plan would use the money from direct lending to help increase Pell grants and make them mandatory, with annual increases tied to inflation, providing a much-needed measure of certainty for students. That would limit Congressional control over the grants, an idea appropriators are not keen on, but the White House and Congressional leaders say they are open to negotiation.
Anticipating a ferocious legislative battle, Representative George Miller, Democrat of California and chairman of the education committee, is weighing all options.
“Chairman Miller’s priority is to make our federal student loan programs as reliable, sustainable and efficient as possible for students, families and taxpayers,” his spokeswoman, Rachel Racusen, said.


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State Sen. Kerry Donovan told RealVail.com that she’s hopeful her Public Lands Day bill will finally cross the goal line after contentious House wrangling over its language was resolved last week.
A bill that’s largely symbolic but has been a political football this legislative session once again got booted back to the Colorado Senate on Friday after House Democrats successfully stripped out previous GOP amendments asserting greater state control over the one third of the state that’s owned and managed by the federal government.
Vail Democrat Donovan’s SB21 (pdf), which would establish a Public Lands Day to officially “celebrate all the ways that public lands contribute to Coloradans’ well-being,” passed on second reading (special order) with amendments in the House and now heads back to the Senate for concurrence.
Democrats on Friday accepted a couple of Republican amendments but then had to block an attempt by Rep. J. Paul Brown, R-Durango, to reinsert controversial amendments added by Republicans when the Senate first approved the bill. Brown is embroiled in a contentious re-election campaign in his Southwest Colorado district.
“Coloradans would be well-served by a reform and greater legislative oversight of the current federal regulatory process, wherein the diverse vital interests of Coloradans are too often not adequately represented in the adjudication and settlement of federal regulatory issues, resulting too often in ‘sweetheart’ consent decrees between plaintiffs and federal agencies,” the original Senate amendment read.
The Democratic majority on the House State, Veterans & Military Affairs Committee stripped out the Senate amendments and substituted an endorsement of “cooperative and collaborative involvement of local governments in federal land management decision-making processes” – language taken from a previous bipartisan bill.
“Local governments routinely work in cooperation with the federal agencies,” said Rep. Diane Mitsch Bush, the Steamboat Springs Democrat who sponsored the bill in the House and represents Eagle and Routt counties. “Let’s keep it that way and not get into a completely unnecessary and unwinnable argument over who’s in charge.”
Donovan is hopeful that with the more bipartisan language inserted by the Democrat-controlled House the bill will ultimately pass as amended when it heads back to the Republican-controlled Senate.
“It could get interesting [in the Senate] but there seems to be broad support for the establishment of the day,” Donovan said. “We’re just debating the language that describes the day. It’s an important discussion that happens because it does reveal different approaches to how the parties perceive public lands in some areas.
“But I’m still confident we’re going to get public lands day established, because that idea is something that everyone can stand behind and we’re just really debating the big language that surrounds the concept, so that shouldn’t kill the bill because it’s not the substance of the bill.”


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Treasury Secretary Bentsen briefed reporters on the secret service’s investigation into the shooting that took place Saturday at the White House. The man accused of doing the shooting is Francisco Duran of Colorado Springs.
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EUGENE, Ore. (AP) — An 80-year-old man on trial for murder has told jurors he killed his landlady in self-defense.
The Register-Guard reports Howard Stull took the stand Wednesday and said 59-year-old Kathy Braun confronted him with a large knife, forcing him to act.
He said the incident likely stemmed from a months-long feud he had with Braun’s boyfriend.
Stull’s testimony came one day after the jury heard an audio recording of the altercation that happened July 23, 2015.
The incident was captured on a digital recorder police found in Braun’s bedroom. In the recording, a woman’s prolonged shrieks can be heard.
A medical examiner testified last week that Braun suffered more than 50 stab and slash wounds.


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|Publication number||US6629701 B1|
|Application number||US 09/005,670|
|Publication date||Oct 7, 2003|
|Filing date||Jan 12, 1998|
|Priority date||Jan 12, 1998|
|Publication number||005670, 09005670, US 6629701 B1, US 6629701B1, US-B1-6629701, US6629701 B1, US6629701B1|
|Inventors||Floyd A. Colibert|
|Original Assignee||Colibert Enterprises|
|Export Citation||BiBTeX, EndNote, RefMan|
|Patent Citations (60), Referenced by (28), Classifications (11), Legal Events (8)|
|External Links: USPTO, USPTO Assignment, Espacenet|
1. Field of the Invention
This invention relates to hitch systems for trailers. More specifically, this invention relates to hitch systems for ball-type couplers, which provide for load leveling, weight distribution, tilt angle ball adjustment, a new and improved means for installing and removing the spring bar components of the invention as well as a new and improved device for lifting and securing the spring bar components of the invention.
2. Description of the Related Art
A variety of hitch assemblies for evenly distributing the tongue weight of a trailer are well known in the art. Commonly such hitch assemblies include a hitch head, spring bars, bar restraining sockets, and lift units. The head provides the ball mount, the towing vehicle attachment and spring bar attachments. Typical such hitch assemblies use substantially L-shaped spring bars, or use substantially rectangular sockets. Also, if ball pivot adjustment is provided, it requires that the user unbolt, remove and relocate the hitch head. Such existing load leveling or weight distributing hitches are generally mechanically complex with a large number of bolt and nut attachment to fix the hitch together. Mechanical complexity has the disadvantage of being generally less reliable. Also, a disadvantage of the prior weight distributing hitches is that it is relatively difficult for the user to attach the spring bars to the hitch head or for the user to remove the spring bars from the hitch head. This problem makes it significantly more difficult for the user to attach a trailer to a towing vehicle using load leveling hitches. Prior load leveling hitches provide limited or no tension adjustment capability.
For general background material, the reader is directed to U.S. Pat. Nos. 3,645,560, 3,649,046, 3,679,231, 3,690,699, 3,692,331, 3,700,261, 3,700,262, 3,730,554, 3,731,746, 3,731,950, 3,778,088, 3,779,407, 3,825,132, 3,847,228, 3,871,686, 3,910,604, 3,964,768, 3,948,567, 3,989,269, 4,023,863, 4,025,085, 4,049,288, 4,053,174, 4,165,885, 4,198,073, 4,211,427, 4,213,627, 4,275,897, 4,312,516, 4,411,444, 4,637,770, 4,687,219, 4,711,106, 4,714,265, 4,722,542, 4,815,752, 5,184,839, 5,284,038, 5,363,924, 5,375,867, 5,421,599, 5,451,088, 5,454,550, 5,465,991, 5,489,111, 5,536,131, 5,562,298, 5,575,492, 5,580,076, 5,615,813, 5,628,525, 5,647,603, each of which is hereby incorporated by reference in its entirety for the material disclosed therein.
It is desirable to provide a load leveling weight distributing hitch system for use in towing trailers where the attachment and removal of the spring bars is facilitated and can be accomplished by hand. Moreover, it is desirable to provide a load leveling weight distributing hitch system which provides the capability of spring bar tension adjustment. It is also desirable to provide a load leveling weight distributing hitch system which provides a thumb screw adjustment of the ball hitch pitch.
Accordingly, it is an object of this invention to provide a load leveling weight distributing hitch system which provides a quick connect, quick disconnect for the spring bars.
It is another object of this invention to provide a load leveling weight distributing hitch system which provides the capability of adjusting the tension of the spring bars.
A further object of this invention is to provide a load leveling weight distributing hitch system which provides a thumb screw adjustment for the pitch of the ball hitch.
It is a still further object of this invention to provide a load leveling weight distributing hitch system with enhanced strength.
Another object of this invention is to provide a load leveling weight distributing hitch system with enhanced reliability by minimizing the use of attachment bolts.
These and other objects of this invention, which are readily apparent to those of ordinary skill in the art upon review of the following specification, drawings and claims, are achieved by a device which is described in the specific embodiment of this invention. Specifically, a hitch head is provided with a ball hitch attachment point, a towing vehicle attachment, two T-socket posts, two T-sockets, two spring bars having attachment points for stabilizer chains, and two lift units for imposing tension on the spring bars. Innovations in this design include a quick connect/disconnect for the spring bars, a tension adjustment system, and a thumb screw device for adjusting the pitch of the ball hitch.
FIG. 1 is a system drawing showing two view of the load leveling weight distributing hitch system being used to connect a towing vehicle to a trailer.
FIG. 2 is a detail drawing showing five views of the preferred embodiment of the hitch head component of the invention.
FIG. 3 is a detail drawing showing three views of the preferred embodiment of the post component of the invention.
FIG. 4 is a detail drawing showing two views of the preferred embodiment of the T-socket component of the invention.
FIG. 5 is a detail drawing showing two views of the preferred embodiment of the spring bar component of the invention.
FIG. 6 is a detail drawing showing three views of the preferred embodiment of the spring bar lift component of the invention.
FIG. 7 is a detail drawing showing two views of the preferred embodiment of the spring bar lift lock component of the invention.
This invention is a load leveling weight distribution hitch which uses a quick connect, quick disconnect spring bar attachment, a thumb screw ball hitch pitch adjustment, a spring bar lift having the ability to adjust the tension imposed on the spring bar, and spring bar lift lock, to provide a new hitch design which provides enhanced strength, reliability, ease of use and adjustments over weight distributing hitches in prior use.
FIG. 1a and 1 b depict the load leveling and weight distributing system showing the hitch being used to connect a towing vehicle to a trailer. FIG. 1a is a view from above the system of the invention. FIG. 1b is a side view showing the left side of the invention. The towing vehicle 105 has a standard hitch receiver 106 which is attached to an adjustable shank 110 which is fixed by bolts 112, 113 to the hitch head 101 of the invention, which in turn has two “T” sockets 102 a, 102 b. Each “T” socket 102 a, 102 b is shown having received the spring bars 103 a, 103 b. Each spring bar 103 a, 103 b has a chain 111 attached to its trailer end 114. The chain 111 is provided to control trailer sway. The chain 111 is connected to the trailer tongue 107 via a spring bar lift 104 a, 104 b. The spring bar lift 104 a, 104 b, has a sway control bracket 115 which is provided to keep the chain 111 fixed in place, thereby controlling the trailer sway. The trailer tongue 107 is connect to the hitch head 101 by a standard ball 108 and socket 109 connection. In the preferred embodiment of the invention, the component parts of the invention are composed of steel, although alternative materials, including synthetics may be used without departing from the concept of the invention.
FIGS. 2a, 2 b, 2 c, 2 d, and 2 e show the detail drawing of five view of the preferred embodiment of the hitch head 101 component of the invention. FIG. 2a shows a top down view of the hitch head 101. FIG. 2b shows a section view along the line A—A of the hitch head 101. FIG. 2c shows the side view of the hitch head 101. FIG. 2d shows the rear view of the hitch head 101. And FIG. 2e shows the front view of the hitch head 101. The preferred hitch head 101 has a top surface 204 in which three openings are provided, a ball hitch attachment opening 202, which receives the ball stem 116, two T-socket post holes 201 a,b, two shank mount plates 203 a, 203 b, each of which has two bolt openings 208, 209 for fixing the hitch head 101 to the adjustable shank 110. It can be seen that the top bolt opening 208 is provided as a slot which provides the user/installer with the capability of adjusting the pitch of the hitch head 101. Ball hitch 108 adjustment is provided by a thumb screw 206 having a drive end and a thumb head end which is installed through a threaded opening 209 and which by being turned by the user/installer the relative pitch of the ball can be adjusted. This ball hitch 108 adjustment is presently preferably accomplished by turning the thumb head end 213 of the thumb screw 206 thereby pressing the drive end 212 a of the thumb screw 206 against to interact with the bolt opening 208 in order to provide adjustment to the pitch of the hitch head 101. In one preferred embodiment of this invention, a sway control adjustment plate 210 is provided, fixed to the bottom of the hitch head 101 by bolts 215 provided through bolt openings 212 and fixed to the bottoms of the T-socket posts by bolts 214 provided through bolt openings 211. A variety of hitch head sizes can be employed depending on the ball hitch, trailer tongue and desired spring bar pitch and tension, without departing from the concept of this invention.
FIGS. 3a, 3 b, 3 c and 3 d are detail drawings of the preferred embodiment of the post component of the invention. FIG. 3a shows a side view of the T-socket post 301, showing the T-socket rotation slot 302, which is a slot cut into the periphery of the T-socket post 301 and extending generally half way around the T-socket post 301, to provide an engagement with a T-socket pin 409, which is installed through a pin opening 403 in the T-socket 102, to allow the T-socket 102 to pivot approximately 180 degrees about the t-socket post 301. FIG. 3b shows the top down view of the preferred T-socket post 301. FIG. 3c shows a section view of the post 301 along the A—A section. FIG. 3d shows a side view of the T-socket post 301 which shows the T-socket installation slot 304. The post 301 is provided with a tapered end 305 which is press fitted into the post opening 201 of the hitch head 101. Once press fitted in, the post 301 is welded securely into place. A bolt hole opening 303 is provided in the event the sway control plate 210 is used. When installed each T-socket 102 is provided with a pin which passes through an opening in the T-socket to the T-socket rotation slot 302. This combination of the T-socket pin and the T-socket rotation slot provides the capability of rotating the spring bars 103 away from the trailer, thereby aiding in the installation and removal of the spring bars 103. The T-socket installation slot 304 is provided in order to allow the T-socket 102 to be installed on the post 301. Preferably, the post 301 is made from polished high strength steel. Alternative materials could be used without departing from the scope of this invention.
FIGS. 4a and 4 b provide detail drawings showing two views of the preferred embodiment of the T-socket 102 component of the invention. FIG. 4a shows a top down view of the T-socket 102, while FIG. 4b shows a section view along the A—A line. A tube opening 401 is provided, which is installed over the post 301. A spring bar opening 402 is provided to receive the first end of the preferred spring bar 103. The pin opening 403 is provided to interact with the T-socket pin 409 and the T-socket rotation slot 302 to permit the t-socket 102 to rotate about the post 301. A set screw opening 404 is provide to fix the T-socket pin 409 in place. Also, provided in the T-socket is a retainer pin opening 405. The use of a retainer pin 406 which is held in place by a spring 408 pinned 407 to the T-socket, provides the quick connect/quick disconnect feature of this invention. This is accomplished in combination with the retainer pin slot 502 of the spring bar 103. When the spring bar 103 is installed in the T-socket 102 it is pushed straight in forcing the retainer pin 406 up and then down into the retainer pin slot 502. The retainer pin 406 being sprung to allow movement only on the insert of the spring bar 103 fixes the spring bar 103 in the T-socket. To remove the spring bar 103, it is rotated in either direction. Rotation of the spring bar 103 causes the retainer pin slot 502 to force the retaining pin 406 upwards, thereby releasing the spring bar 103. In the preferred embodiment of the invention the T-socket is pitched downward to induce tension in the spring bar 103. The preferred T-socket is composed of cast steel, although alternative materials could also be used without departing from the scope of this invention.
FIGS. 5a and 5 b provide detailed drawing of the preferred embodiment of the spring bar component 103 of the invention. FIG. 5a show the top down view of the preferred embodiment of the spring bar component 103 of the invention. FIG. 5b shows the side view of the spring bar 103. The retainer pin slot 502 is shown for use as described above. A taper 505 is provided on the first end 501 of the spring bar 103. This taper 505 provides the means whereby the retainer pin 406 is forced upwards, allowing the spring bar 103 to be inserted and locked in place within the T-socket 102. The second end 503 of the spring bar 103 has two holes 504 a, 504 b which provide an access for attaching a tension chain 111. In the preferred embodiment of the invention, the spring bar 103 is made of steel, although alternative materials could be used without departing from the concept of this invention.
FIG. 6 is a detail drawing showing three views of the preferred embodiment of the spring bar lift component of the invention. FIG. 6a shows a top down view. FIG. 6b shows a front view and FIG. 6c shows a side view. The spring bar lift 104 is an improved version of commonly known spring bar lift type devices. The purpose is to receive one or more chain links into the opening 601 and then to leverage the lift upwards, by inserting a bar or other equivalent means, into the concave opening in the chain latch 606 to thereby lock the chain to the lift in a fixed position. Two important improvements to previously known spring bar lifts are provided in this invention. First, a chain retention loop 602 which is a generally oval loop, fastened typically by a weld, although other fastening means could be employed in alternative embodiments, to the inverted U-shaped element 605, within which chain 111 can be inserted to reduce chain 111 movement, is provided to maintain chain tension in a sway. Second, an improved lift lock 603 is provided. Additional detail on the improved lift lock 603 is provided below. Other features of the spring bar lift 104 include: a clamp devices 604 for fixing the lift 104 to the trailer tongue 107; an inverted U-shaped element 605 adapted to fit over the trailer tongue 107; and a pivotable chain latch 606 which pivots about a pivot point 607. The preferred pivotable chain latch 606 is a three piece structure having two side portions 609 a, 609 b and a center portion 610, the center portion 610 having within it the chain opening 601 and each side portion 609 a, 609 b being attached to a brace member 608 a, 608 b by a pivot point 607. The preferred pivotable chain latch 606 is a three piece structure having two side portions 609 a, 609 b and a center portion 610, the center portion 610 having within it the chain opening 601 and each side portion 609 a, 609 b being attached to a brace member 608 a, 608 b by a pivot point 607.
FIGS. 7a and 7 b are detail drawings of the preferred embodiment of the lift lock component 603 of the invention. FIG. 7a is a side view and FIG. 7b is a section view cut along the A—A axis. The preferred embodiment of the lift lock has an exterior body 701 within which is installed a pivot pin 703 which in turn is held in a normally locked position by an internal spring 706 inserted within the exterior body 701, with one end 708 of the spring 706 against an interior wall 709 on tapered end 705 of the lift lock 603, and the other end 710 of spring against a piston 707 by pressure imposed on a piston 707 affixed to the locking post 702. In the normally locked position, the locking post end 702 engages an opening 608 in the pivotable chain latch 606. However, when the post 704 is rotated by the user along the tapered section 705 of the body 701 of the lift lock 603, the locking post 702 is withdrawn from the opening 608, thereby releasing the pivotable chain latch 606, and relaxing the tension on the chain.
The described embodiments of the invention are to be considered in all respects as illustrative only and not as restrictive. Although the embodiments shown here describe materials and specific interrelationships, these are to be considered only as descriptive of the current best mode of the invention as known to the inventors at the time the patent application is filed. The scope of this invention is, therefore, indicated by the appended claims rather than by the foregoing description. All changes which come within the meaning and equivalency of the claims are to be embraced within their scope.
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OPP seeks help to identify male pedestrian killed on highway north of Toronto
Sgt. Kerry Schmidt says the fatal crash occurred on Highway 48 at Davis Drive close to midnight
Ontario Provincial Police are appealing to the public for help to identify a man who was killed overnight while pushing a bicycle on a highway in York Region.
Sgt. Kerry Schmidt, spokesperson for the OPP's Highway Safety Division, said the OPP received a call about the fatal pedestrian crash on Highway 48 near Davis Drive around midnight on Sunday.
Schmidt said a female driver of an SUV was northbound on Highway 48, north of Whitchurch-Stouffville, when she saw the man on the road in the northbound lane. She tried but was unable to avoid hitting him, according to Schmidt.
The driver remained at the scene of the collision and spoke to police.
'We don't know who he is'
The man was rushed to hospital where he died of his injuries.
"We are appealing for any witnesses or anyone with information to help us identify this male," he said. "We don't know who he is" or how old he was.
Anyone with information is urged to contact the Aurora OPP detachment.
Fatal pedestrian collision:#Hwy48 near Davis Drive. Collision occurred around midnight between an SUV and an adult male. The pedestrian remains unidentified.
Anyone with information call 905-841-5777—@OPP_HSD


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Well, it's April 1st here. Yes, I know, I should be playing a practical joke on you all right now, but I couldn't think of a decent one.
April is Script Frenzy time, but I don't think I'll participate this year... I think I need to get my novels finished before my movie script.
Plus I've got Uni stuff to do.
So share your goals, tell us what you've done, however small, and let's kick some creative butt!
*mental note: find out what makes a butt creative*

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ASSETS HELD FOR SALE are those assets, primarily long-term assets, that an entity wishes to dispose of or liquidate through sale to others.
NASD is National Association of Securities Dealers.
BED and BREAKFAST was an overnight UK tax related maneuver intended to establish a tax loss benefit. Now no longer allowed.
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A halogen is any of a group of chemically related, highly reactive, nonmetallic elements (see nonmetal) that fall in group VIIA of the periodic table. The halogens are:
The typical compounds of the halogens are the halides (containing negative ions of the type F- (fluoride) and Cl- (chloride)), with oxidation number -1; compounds with positive oxidation numbers (usually 1, 3, 5, and 7) are also formed, with increasing stability down the group. The halogens react vigorously with almost all other elements and with organic compounds because they require only one electron to achieve a stable noble gas configuration; for this reason they always occur combined in nature. The name "halogen" means "salt-producer."
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BMF Melbourne saw how peoples hearts bleed when they can simply retweet a message of support, and knowing the core of every Amnesty International ad is "signatures can change the world", they set about creating a digital signature.
They've been tech savvy and willing to explore for a while now, what with the ipad ad "noswipe", and the event no bars at Stureplan, where signatures released prisoners right before the signers eyes. Like the Red Cross, who took peoples avatar apart just to put it back together again, this is strictly a twitter-matter, harnessing the goodwill & helping that people like to show on social media to spread the word of their pet cause.
Twignature launches this week as part of the global Write For Rights campaign. The first Twignature campaign, which is being run out of Amnesty International Switzerland, is petitioning the Brazilian Government to protect environmental activist Laisa Santos Sampaio.
David Klein, Executive Creative Director of BMF Melbourne, said, “Twignature doesn’t just give Amnesty International an easier way to create a petition, it means it’s even easier for us to show our support. We believe Twignature will help in their efforts to protect human rights across the globe.”
In the end though, it's just yet another petition, online.
Paul Tschurtschenthaler, Marketing & Fundraising Director of Amnesty International Swiss Section, said, “Amnesty International exists as a worldwide movement for human rights. Mobilising people to take effective action in the way of signing a petition for the release of prisoners of conscience or for the protection of human rights defenders, which are threatened, is a way to support our campaigning efforts.”
“Twignature has come up with a very promising way how this can be done via Twitter. Just retweet and sign automatically. We liked the idea and look forward to explore the possibilities even more for the future,” Tschurtschenthaler said.
Agency: BMF Melbourne
Client: Amnesty International


Sunny Acres: The documentary
July 16, 2010
Dan DeVaul has been getting all sorts of media attention lately. Now he’s apparently going Hollywood. A pair of documentary filmmakers have been shadowing DeVaul and will soon release a documentary about the whole controversy.
Here’s the trailer:
Video from YouTube user PCPROMEDIA


text: We investigated the oxidative modifications of lipids, proteins and DNA, three potential molecular targets of oxidative stress, in 30 patients with angiographically defined coronary artery disease (CAD) and 30 healthy control subjects. In addition, we examined relationships between these oxidative modifications and the severity of vascular lesions in patients with CAD. Malondialdehyde (MDA) and protein carbonyl (PC) levels, as well as ferric reducing antioxidant power (FRAP), were measured in the plasma. DNA damage was evaluated as single strand breaks (SSBs), formamidopyrimidine glycosylase (Fpg) and endonuclease III (E-III)-sensitive sites by the cornet assay in DNA isolated from lymphocytes. MDA and PC levels increased, but FRAP values decreased, in patients as compared to controls. However, these values did not vary with the number of affected coronary vessels and were not correlated with Duke score, a parameter of the severity of vascular lesions in patients with CAD. We also found that lymphocyte DNA damage (SSBs, Fpg and E-III sites) were increased in patients. Although there were no significant differences in SSBs values ill patients grouped according to affected vessel number, Fpg and E-III sites increased. We also detected significant correlations between Duke scores and SSBs and Fpg sites. Serum cholesterol, triglyceride and LDL-cholesterol levels were found to increase, but HDL-cholesterol levels decreased in CAD patients, but these lipids were not correlated with Duke scores. The results of this Study reinforce the presence of increased combined oxidative modifications in lipid, protein and DNA in patients with CAD. However, lymphocyte DNA damage seems to be a more reliable assay than MDA and PC determinations to detect the severity of vascular lesions in patients. (C) 2005 The Canadian Society of Clinical Chemists. All rights reserved.


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Bach & Friends is a monument to the genius of Bach. The film is a labour of love by filmmaker Michael Lawrence who started the project in 2007. He has interviewed a wide range of world class composers and musicians representing a broad spectrum of today's musical world. These interviews and a host of integral musical examples have been assembled into a unique film which explores the genius of Johann Sebastian Bach. Through these personal reflections, the film profoundly illustrates why this uniquely influential composer is relevant and meaningful today, 260 years after his death. The first DVD consists of the 2-hour Documentary Film itself, and the second DVD contains the full set of performances which are used as excerpts to illustate the film.
The film starts off appropriately with the organ, which was an important instrument in Bach's career. A church organ is a complicated machine, and the organists of Bach's day didn't just require to know musical technique, but they needed the technical expertise to be able to maintain and if necessary repair their instrument. The documentary considers the importance of improvisation during Bach's time, noting that many of his Organ works probably originated as improvisations which were later written down. Bobby McFerrin gives some anecdotes about improvisation, and we are treated to a marvellous duel between two improvising pianists.
Among the highlights of the film, Ward Swingle tells us about the origins of the Swingle Singers with their vocal interpretations of Bach's music, while we hear a performance of the composer's Badinerie from the Orchestra Suite No. 2. Neurological studies which scan the brain during improvisation have helped to unravel what actually happens in the brain of someone who is improvising. Compared to normal piano playing, it is no surprise that the improvising brain show increased activity in those parts related to self-expression. But other parts of the brain reduce activity, as if wanting to minimise aspects of normal consciousness which might otherwise interfere with the flow.
One of the great inventions of Bach's day was equal temperament, which inspired the Well-Tempered Clavier, and allowed Bach to experiment with works giving greater prominence to all the 12 notes of the scale. Clarinetist Richard Stoltzman illustrates this with Bach's Chromatic Fantasy. Philip Glass talks about the mental processes of artists and scientists, and speculates about Bach's compositional process. Other technological uses of Bach's music is the recreation of Glenn Gould's interpretations using computer software to calculate and reproduce minute changes in timing and finger pressure, while "CPU Bach" is computer software which can create a stream of Bach-like music.
Bach often recycled music by taking ideas from some pieces and rearranging them for different instruments and combinations of instruments. This flexibility later allowed Wendy Carlos to play Bach on a Moog Synthesiser, and different musicians illustrate the technical challenges and the artistic journeys they have each experienced while adapting Bach's music for instruments as diverse as the mandolin, the double bass, the guitar, glass harmonica, ukelele and banjo. This might seem sacrilegious to some but perhaps Bach would have approved, just as he himself greatly extended the generally-accepted role of the cello in his day.
Pianist Mike Hawley considers the personal aspects of the composer's life. His parents died while he was young and he became an orphan looked after by an older brother. His first wife and a number of his children died when he was a young man. These personal events, not to mention the normal ups and downs of a musical career and the fact that he even spent a month in jail, must surely have had a profound effect on the composer. While the mathematical precision of his music is immediately evident, the emotional aspects in some works lie a little deeper. But who can doubt the emotional intent of the composer during Joshua Bell's performance of Bach's famous Chaconne.
This brief overview has only touched on some of the topics explored in this film. "Bach and Friends" paints a picture of a composer who is long gone, but whose creations thrive among today's musicians. That legacy is unsurpassed, and I have no doubt that this film will inspire yet more musicians.
The following complete performances are included on DVD2, and the quality of the recordings is immaculate:

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April 19th will be Nomination Day for the by-election which will take place in Barbuda on April 30th.
The Barbuda Local Government Act, Cap 44, makes provisions for Nomination papers to be delivered by the candidate or his proposer or seconder to the Returning Officer at the Office of Council between the hours of 10:00 am and 1:00pm on Nomination Day.
Mrs. Vernest Mack has been designated as the Returning Officer who will oversee the entire process.
The by-election is being held to fill the seat left vacant by the Hon. Trevor Walker, who resigned on March 27th, following his victory at the March 21st polls.
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Last week I was in Vegas. And the sunshine, warm (er) weather than Chicago, palm trees and lack of any small people to manage made it an amazing couple of days. I shopped, I gambled just a little and I read. It was a good couple of days to tackle my TBR stack, but now I am up to my eyeballs in reviews I need to write!
I guess that’s a good problem to have. So last week I read I’ll Be Gone in the Dark by the late Michelle MacNamara, Everything is Horrible and Wonderful by Stephanie Wittels Wachs, Baby Teeth by Zoje Stage and I See You by Claire MacIntosh.
It was a very good week. I’m super excited to share my thoughts on each and every one of them with you. First I’m going with Everything is Horrible and Wonderful by Stephanie Wittels Wachs. This one stood out for me. It’s a very poignant memoir and I thoroughly enjoyed getting to know the late Harris Wittels through the eyes of his doting sister.
From the Publisher:
The space between life and death is a moment.
But it will remain alive in me for hundreds of thousands of future moments.
One phone call. That’s all it took to change Stephanie Wittels Wachs’ life forever..
Her younger brother Harris, a star in the comedy world known for his work on shows like Parks and Recreation, had died of a heroin overdose. How do you make sense of such a tragic end to a life of so much hilarious brilliance?
In beautiful, unsentimental, and surprisingly funny prose, Stephanie Wittels Wachs alternates between her brother’s struggle with addiction, which she learned about three days before her wedding, and the first year after his death, in all its emotional devastation. This compelling portrait of a comedic genius and a profound exploration of the love between siblings is A Year of Magical Thinking for a new generation of readers.
A heartbreaking but hopeful memoir of addiction, grief, and family, Everything is Horrible and Wonderful will make you laugh, cry, and wonder if that possum on the fence is really your brother’s spirit animal.
I vividly remember watching the last episode of Parks and Recreation and at the very end, there is a dedication to Harris Wittels. It was a black screen with white letters that said, “We Love You, Harris.” Such a simple nod and I remember wondering who Harris was at the time. I think my husband knew what had happened and told me and I remember thinking, how tragic.
So when I picked up Everything is Horrible and Wonderful, and I realized that this is the story of THAT Harris, it felt familiar to me. And that’s really how this entire book read. It read like Stephanie is my friend and that Harris was my friend and I laughed and cried along with them, and felt the searing loss of Harris. Because tragic things happen everyday, but I think that people as gifted and unique as Harris only come along once in a great while.
Tragicomic is defined by Webster’s Dictionary as, “manifesting both tragic and comic aspects.” And while there is nothing funny about Harris’ addiction and subsequent overdose, just hearing the stories of who he was and the jokes he made and what he wrote when he was alive breathed such a comic and lightheartedness into what would otherwise be a heavy and sad memoir.
And I love that because it rings so true. Because things are never just sad or just happy. Life is and can be a horrible and wonderful experience every day, every minute and every second. I can’t begin to understand the loss that Stephanie and Harris’ friends and family feel every day. But I do feel that this book was an amazing tribute to him and their relationship as brother and sister.
There’s one point in the book when Stephanie shares that for her mother, it was easier to have had a son die of a heroin overdose only because he was a successful and functioning addict. That made it less embarrassing or shameful than if he was much worse off. And there is a lot of truth in that. And it’s ugly and we don’t want to qualify things like that, but we do.
But that’s the truth in this book. That Harris was an amazing comedy writer, on the cusp of his career blowing up and he lost it all. To drugs. And it could really happen to anyone.
Thank you to Sourcebooks and Netgalley for an e-galley of Everything Is Horrible and Wonderful. It’s an amazing read and released February 26, so you can run right out and get your copy!
This book sounds so sad but a lovely tribute too! I overlooked it at first but the reviews have made it sound so worthwhile. Great review!
Thanks! It was a really good read. You should definitely check it out.
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