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Maarat al-Noaman was taken by Syrian rebels a week ago, but their glory was short-lived. The scene of the airstrike Thursday. Credit Bulent Kilic/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images

The town of Maarat al-Noaman in northern Syria was just last week the scene of a major victory for the insurgents, who drove government forces from checkpoints at a crucial crossroads on a major highway, apprehended scores of soldiers, celebrated atop captured armored vehicles and declared the town “liberated.”

On Thursday, jubilation turned to horror as government airstrikes sent fountains of dust and rubble skyward and crushed several dozen people who had returned to what they thought was a new haven in a country mired in civil war, according to reporters on the scene for a Western news agency, and antigovernment fighters and activists who backed up their accounts with videos posted online.

Men stumbled over rubble, carrying single bones nearly shorn of flesh and shredded body parts barely identifiable as human. Amid a swirling crowd of rescuers, two young men embraced and wept. A man in a baseball cap pointed out crumpled buildings that, he said, crushed women, children and elderly people sheltering there. An infant in a pink shirt lay motionless, then opened its eyes. “God is great,” said a rescuer, cradling the baby in his arms.

Maarat al-Noaman’s reversal of fortune highlights the dark turn that Syria’s civil war has taken in recent months, as fighting intensifies and the government and insurgents remain locked in an increasingly bloody stalemate, Syrian residents and military analysts said.

When rebels declare a town liberated, President Bashar al-Assad’s government no longer makes much effort to retake territory, they said. Now, it sends overwhelming force with one objective — to destroy and level all that is left behind.

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Regaining and maintaining control requires resources the government, stretched on many fronts by the 19-month conflict, cannot afford, said Emile Hokayem, a Middle East-based analyst at the International Institute for Strategic Studies. “So,” he added, “they actually have no problem completely destroying it.”

The town’s capture was a big gain for the rebels. On Thursday, however, they were pulling the dead from the rubble. Credit Bulent Kilic/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images

Gutting and abandoning towns rather than trying to govern them shifts responsibility for reconstruction and relief onto the shoulders of the underequipped rebels, breeding frustration, Mr. Hokayem said, a tactic that suggests the government has given up on winning the trust of its people.

“They’re not after regaining the hearts of the population,” he said. “The calculation is that what’s needed is for the population to start resenting the rebels, not to start liking the Assad regime again.”

That dynamic — rebel gains, army crackdowns and ensuing resentment against rebels as well as the government — has played out again and again in recent months, most recently in Aleppo, Syria’s largest city. Rebels last month began what they said would be an all-out offensive there. But the result was to spread fighting into previously peaceful neighborhoods and damage the city’s beloved historic center, leaving many residents as angry at the rebels for bringing the fight there as at the government for its harsh response.

In Maarat al-Noaman over the past week, rebels attempted to provide some services. They tried to distribute bread after the government shelled bakeries, activists said, a tactic used in several cities, according to a recent Human Rights Watch report. But some of those efforts appeared ad hoc and rudimentary: an antigovernment video showed boys, girls and adults lining up as men handed out bread from the trunk of a small white sedan.

Abu Ahmed, the commander of a group of fighters from the nearby village of Sinbol, said in a Skype interview on Thursday that kerosene supplies had sunk so low in the town that rebels had to form a committee to keep people from cutting down olive trees for fuel.

An even thornier problem arose that one rebel commander said had left his brigade “seriously confused”: how to manage the scores of government soldiers captured in the rebel offensive.

Syrian youths on Thursday after the government bombed the town of Maarat al-Noaman, destroying buildings and killing dozens of people. Insurgent forces had taken the town a week ago. Credit Bulent Kilic/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images

“We don’t know what we’re going do with them,” the commander, who asked that his name not be used and claimed to be holding 600 prisoners, said in a Skype interview on Tuesday. Even feeding them “one loaf, tomato or potato” a day would be too expensive, he said. “We don’t have food even to feed our families.”

But if the prisoners were released, he said, they might rejoin the army or pro-government militias. He said he was beginning to wish they had died in the fighting.

Yet the battle exposed weaknesses and strengths on both sides.

While the destruction on Thursday renewed questions about the rebels’ tactic of seizing territory, their earlier victory showed their growing capability and the strain on government forces. Rebels claimed they had been able to seize for a time all the checkpoints between Maarat al-Noaman and Khan Sheikhoun, 10 miles to the south along the north-south highway that is the main artery between Damascus and Aleppo.

Lt. Ahmad Haleeb, a rebel officer, said in an interview that he had fought with more than 150 troops and that they had killed 65 soldiers and captured seven in a fight for a checkpoint. In one government-held building, a cultural center, rebels shot video of a dozen dead, shirtless men they said had been security detainees apparently executed as troops fled.

Several units worked together, one attacking government reinforcements en route to the battle, activists and fighters said last week. Videos described as having been made during the battle showed rebels shooting down a helicopter, using small-arms fire in coordinated squads, firing rocket-propelled grenades and heavy-caliber weapons mounted on flatbed trucks, and even appearing to commandeer an armored vehicle.

They surrounded an army base at Wadi al-Deif, near Maarat al-Noaman, where on Thursday, activists and fighters said, government soldiers were still trapped without access to supplies amid new shelling by rebels.

Maarat al-Noaman is strategically located along the Damascus-Aleppo highway that connects Syria’s two largest cities. Credit The New York Times

“At a purely tactical level that was a defeat for the regime,” Mr. Hokayem said of Maarat al-Noaman.

On Thursday, the government said it was pushing rebels out of the town. SANA, the Syrian state news agency, reported that the army was “cleaning” the area and had “killed a large number of terrorists.” It said the army had uncovered caves and tunnels storing weapons, and had destroyed heavy weapons as well as 60 bombs weighing hundreds of pounds each.

But Abu Ahmed, the commander, said that rebels still controlled one side of town and aimed to control routes to Aleppo and north to Saraqib, Idlib and Turkey.

Maarat al-Noaman drew attention because of its strategic location, the rebels’ unusually well-documented gains and the vivid photographs and reporting by Agence France-Presse journalists who were also present during the airstrike on Thursday.

The town, with a prewar population of about 120,000, was an obscure provincial enclave known mainly for the Alma Arra museum, a 16th-century former traders’ inn housing a collection of Byzantine mosaics and pre-Islamic pottery — and, on the entryway floor, a mosaic portrait of Mr. Assad and his father and predecessor, Hafez al-Assad.

But Maarat al-Noaman has broader significance as an archetype of Syria’s neglected midsize towns. The country’s hinterland is dotted with more than 120 towns with populations of more than 20,000, and battles have ravaged many that poverty and resentment made hotbeds of rebellion.

In his effort to win over Syria’s elite with new economic freedoms early in his rule, before the uprising, Mr. Assad courted Damascus at the expense of the periphery that had long been the base of his Baath Party.

“He won Damascus,” said Mr. Hokayem, the strategic studies institute analyst, “but he lost Syria.”

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BOULDER, Colo. — On a sunny Wednesday, with a faint haze hanging over the Rockies, Noah Fierer eyed the field site from the back of his colleague’s Ford Explorer. Two blocks east of a strip mall in Longmont, one of the world’s last underexplored ecosystems had come into view: a sandstone-colored ranch house, code-named Q. A pair of dogs barked in the backyard.

Dr. Fierer, 39, a microbiologist at the University of Colorado Boulder and self-described “natural historian of cooties,” walked across the front lawn and into the house, joining a team of researchers inside. One swabbed surfaces with sterile cotton swabs. Others logged the findings from two humming air samplers: clothing fibers, dog hair, skin flakes, particulate matter and microbial life.

Ecologists like Dr. Fierer have begun peering into an intimate, overlooked world that barely existed 100,000 years ago: the great indoors. They want to know what lives in our homes with us and how we “colonize” spaces with other species — viruses, bacteria, microbes. Homes, they’ve found, contain identifiable ecological signatures of their human inhabitants. Even dogs exert a significant influence on the tiny life-forms living on our pillows and television screens. Once ecologists have more thoroughly identified indoor species, they hope to come up with strategies to scientifically manage homes, by eliminating harmful taxa and fostering species beneficial to our health.

But the first step is simply to take a census of what’s already living with us, said Dr. Fierer; only then can scientists start making sense of their effects. “We need to know what’s out there first. If you don’t know that, you’re wandering blind in the wilderness.”

Here’s an undeniable fact: We are an indoor species. We spend close to 90 percent of our lives in drywalled caves. Yet traditionally, ecologists ventured outdoors to observe nature’s biodiversity, in the Amazon jungles, the hot springs of Yellowstone or the subglacial lakes of Antarctica. (“When you train as an ecologist, you imagine yourself tromping around in the forest,” Dr. Fierer said. “You don’t imagine yourself swabbing a toilet seat.”)

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But as humdrum as a home might first appear, it is a veritable wonderland. Ecology does not stop at the front door; a home to you is also home to an incredible array of wildlife.

Besides the charismatic fauna commonly observed in North American homes — dogs, cats, the occasional freshwater fish — ants and roaches, crickets and carpet bugs, mites and millions upon millions of microbes, including hundreds of multicellular species and thousands of unicellular species, also thrive in them. The “built environment” doubles as a complex ecosystem that evolves under the selective pressure of its inhabitants, their behavior and the building materials. As microbial ecologists swab DNA from our homes, they’re creating an atlas of life much as 19th-century naturalists like Alfred Russel Wallace once logged flora and fauna on the Malay Archipelago.

Take an average kitchen. In a study published in February in the journal Environmental Microbiology, Dr. Fierer’s lab examined 82 surfaces in four Boulder kitchens. Predictable patterns emerged. Bacterial species associated with human skin, like Staphylococcaceae or Corynebacteriaceae, predominated. Evidence of soil showed up on the floor, and species associated with raw produce (Enterobacteriaceae, for example) appeared on countertops. Microbes common in moist areas — including sphingomonads, some strains infamous for their ability to survive in the most toxic sites — splashed in a kind of jungle above the faucet.

A hot spot of unrivaled biodiversity was discovered on the stove exhaust vent, probably the result of forced air and settling. The counter and refrigerator, places seemingly as disparate as temperate and alpine grasslands, shared a similar assemblage of microbial species — probably less because of temperature and more a consequence of cleaning. Dr. Fierer’s lab also found a few potential pathogens, like Campylobacter, lurking on the cupboards. There was evidence of the bacterium on a microwave panel, too, presumably a microbial “fingerprint” left by a cook handling raw chicken.

A fungal spore, top, from an outer door frame and a bacterium from an inner door frame, sampled for The Wild of Our Home project. At each home those and seven other sites were swabbed: cutting board, kitchen counter, refrigerator, TV screen, door handle, toilet seat and pillowcase. Credit Noah Fierer

If a kitchen represents a temperate forest, few of its plants would be poison ivy. Most of the inhabitants are relatively benign. In any event, eradicating them is neither possible nor desirable. Dr. Fierer wants to make visible this intrinsic, if unseen, aspect of everyday life. “For a lot of the general public, they don’t care what’s in soil,” he said. “People care more about what’s on their pillowcase.” (Spoiler alert: The microbes living on your pillowcase are not all that different from those living on your toilet seat. Both surfaces come in regular contact with exposed skin.)

Dr. Fierer has teamed up with Rob Dunn, a biologist at North Carolina State University, to sample the microbial wildlife in 1,400 homes across the United States. The project — known as The Wild Life of Our Home — relies on volunteers who swab pillowcases, cutting boards and doorjambs, then send samples in for analysis. (Full disclosure: I am a volunteer participant in the study, sending in swabs from my home.) Dr. Dunn hopes that the project will begin to unravel the consequences of moving from caves to creating environments around us in a haphazard way.

“For the entire history of humanity, we have created environments around us, in our daily lives, in a very unintentional way. The control that we’ve exerted is predominantly one in which we kill the ones that might be bad,” Dr. Dunn said. “That’s saved a lot of lives. It’s also favored this whole suite of species that we know very, very little about.”

So little is known of what’s in the home that a small sample can reveal something new. In their first study of 40 homes around Raleigh-Durham, N.C., published last week in the journal PLoS One, they found that humans rapidly “infect” the spaces in which they live. We leave bacteria by touching surfaces with our exposed skin, and at room temperature, a healthy human kicks up a “convective plume” of about 37 million bacteria per minute that disperse throughout the home and can survive for extended periods.

Species living outdoors find their way indoors, Dr. Fierer and Dr. Dunn found. Outdoor microbes are more frequent in homes with dogs, where fur-associated bacteria were found adhering to TV screens and pillowcases. “My expectation is that the effect of dogs on allergies is similar to the effect of getting your kid playing in the dirt,” Dr. Dunn said. “They end up being a surrogate for dirty nature in some ways, one dirty paw at a time.”

The data from the 1,400 homes are still being analyzed, but the team expects to learn how building materials, ventilation rates and cleaning habits affect the microbial map. “If you’re a vegetarian, do you have different microbes in your house than if you’re an omnivore?” Dr. Fierer said. “If you live in a forest, do you have different microbes than if you live in a desert? These are the types of questions that we don’t actually know the answer to. Yet.”

The effort to catalog the creatures of the great indoors began in earnest in 2004, when Paula J. Olsiewski, a program director at the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation in New York, sent out a call to examine buildings as a first line of defense against bioterrorism. “If there’s a biological threat,” she said, “you’re probably looking for a needle in a haystack — but what’s the haystack? What’s going on in a building?” No one knows what the natural microbial life of a building should be.

The foundation has put up $28 million for projects to date, including continuing explorations into the microbial ecology of older two-story homes in the Northeast, train ticket kiosks in Boston, and the opening of a new hospital wing in Chicago. The Hospital Microbiome Project, led by Jack Gilbert of the University of Chicago, began sampling microbes in patients’ noses, armpits, hands and feces in February, along with those taking up residence in the newly constructed nursing stations and 10 patient rooms — a total of 12,000 swabs.

The yearlong investigation will tackle a pressing concern: One in every 20 patients acquires infections in a hospital, to the tune of an estimated 1.7 million infections and 60,000 deaths annually, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Dr. Gilbert said, “The whole reason for doing this study is to stop people from dying.”

The Jungle Indoors

Researchers are just beginning to understand the sheer number and type of organisms that live inside the home with us.

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His preliminary findings suggest that the longer a patient stays in a given room, the more likely it is to acquire his or her unique microbial signature. The new hospital is being infected by its inhabitants. “You start to be colonized by bacteria from your mother in the amniotic sac,” Dr. Gilbert said. “If you use that as an analogue, we’re looking at the birth of a hospital.”

Another study, published in 2012 in The ISME Journal, found that hospital patients were more likely to encounter potential pathogens in mechanically ventilated rooms than in ones with access to fresh air from outside. Jessica L. Green, the study’s author, a theoretical ecologist at the University of Oregon and director of its Biology and Built Environment Center, said she expected buildings to eventually be redesigned with a view toward managing their microbial impact on human health.

Architects and engineers also could try to cultivate benign or beneficial species, favoring certain conditions and altering our chronic, long-term exposure. One 2012 study in Finland, for example, found that plant diversity outside was linked to a greater variety of bacteria on human skin inside homes; moreover, teenagers with this increased biodiversity were at lower risk for allergies.

We are outliers among species, like leaf-cutter ants or termites, that garden beneficial organisms for their own benefit. “We keep beautiful forests far, far away. Crops that we can eat are far, far away,” Dr. Dunn said, adding that our cities are full of waste treatment plants. “An ant would never do that.”

The future of indoor ecology, now in its infancy, hinges on answering questions about what we should intentionally surround ourselves with. “Right now, we don’t understand how buildings work” as ecosystems, said Jordan Peccia, an environmental engineer at Yale.

Dr. Peccia is examining the link between increased fungal diversity indoors and reduced rates of asthma. Someday, he said, managing indoor biodiversity will run up against traditional concerns about building cost and energy efficiency.

“We’ve seen it as an improvement to make homes more insulated, but maybe that’s a mistake from the standpoint of ecological diversity,” he said. “We’re far from making a quantitative analysis of the trade-off. And once it’s shown, it’s another huge step to convince architects and engineers that this is important enough.”

We do not have a choice about whether to share our homes with microbes, then, but soon we may have an opportunity to open them up to better company.

Back in Colorado, Dr. Fierer talked with Amanda Phillips, 61, who lives at Home Q with her husband, Chester, 67, and their dogs Hunter and Chase. Ms. Phillips admitted she did some extra cleaning before the team’s arrival.

As she got up to leave, she said she was wary about the effort. “I don’t know if I really want to know what you’re finding,” she said. “But I’m excited to learn.”

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The Zach Feuer gallery exhibits “Diamond Crossing,” a network of intersecting railroad tracks arranged by Marianne Vitale. Credit Zach Feuer Gallery

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The gallery system is like a competitive athletic field on which a show is a move by a player. Scores are determined by how daring, surprising or powerful a given move appears relative to the moves and positions of other players on the field. Scoring is subjective, but there are many judges. As one of them, I would give Marianne Vitale’s exhibition something approaching a near-perfect 10.

The show consists of a single room-filling objet trouvé titled “Diamond Crossing.” The object is an intersection of steel railroad tracks, minus the ties, acquired from a salvage yard in Pennsylvania. From a molded diamond-shaped center, parallel rails extend diagonally to each of the room’s four corners. Weighing in at five tons, the whole construction is slightly elevated on wooden two-by-four blocks so that it seems to float slightly off the floor.

One element in the show’s high score is the wow factor: the piece occupies the space with awesome implacability. It also gets points for art-historical sophistication, as a young artist’s knowing rejoinder to works of industrial metal by textbook-certified sculptors like Richard Serra and Mark DiSuvero. It has poetic resonance, too, as it evokes a history of railroading from the transcontinental tracks of North America to the death-bound routes of Nazi Germany. As an image of intersection, it prompts rumination on the crossings of different trains of thought. It may or may not be a great work of art, but it is certainly an impressive move.

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End of Watch: Wednesday, June 8, 1892

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McLennan County operated a convict farm (work camps) for prisoners convicted of misdemeanors. These farms were correctional facilities. Some operated under the county sheriff and some operated under the direction of a county agency answering to the County Judge and Commissioners’ Court. Many of the work camps for the state and counties leased out the convicts to work for private lessees.

On Wednesday, June 8, 1892, a gang of convicts were chopping cotton on the Steiner farm about 12 miles downriver of Waco, McLennan County, Texas, near the Brazos River. The river was swollen from flooding and the current was swift. One of the convicts, Sam Johnson, made a break for freedom and started swimming across the river. County Guard William H. (Will) Camp and the lessee, George Oglesby, were on horseback and started following the escapee in the river. Oglesby and Camp’s horses became tangled in debris and started struggling. Oglesby managed to make it back to the bank, but was too injured and exhausted to go back into the river to save Camp. Camp had his pistol in one hand and never released it as he struggled in the current. Oglesby offered to pay any of the convicts who would attempt to rescue Camp. Andy Wash went into the river in an effort to save Camp, but both Camp and Wash perished. Their bodies were found two days later floating near each other. The escapee, Sam Johnson, made it to the other side, but seeing the tragedy he had caused, swam back across the river and returned to the convict gang.

No personal information was discovered about Will Camp. The newspaper stated he was well known. His place of burial is unknown. Hopefully, future research will uncover more about this officer.

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NORFOLK, Va. - The 11th episode of the ODU Football Show will air Friday night at 10:45 p.m. on Fox 43 TV.

Old Dominion Head Coach Bobby Wilder and host Bruce Rader will take a look at this week's opponent.  The show will feature highlights and interviews of the Monarchs' football team.

The Monarchs travel to UNC on Saturday to take on the Tar Heels at noon.  The game will be broadcast by ACC RSN and can be seen in the Hampton Roads area on ComCast SportsNet.

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Obama Ignores Senators, Set To Sign United Nations Arms Control Treaty

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President Obama will sign a controversial United Nations arms control treaty that might lead to restrictions on gun sales in the United States. At least that’s what Secretary of State John Kerry announced on June 2, 2013.

It isn’t clear how the Arms Trade Treaty, which was approved by the UN General Assembly on April 3, 2013, would affect gun owners or the sale of weapons or ammunition in the United States. The purpose of the treaty is to require that weapons and ammunition that are shipped across borders comply with “international standards.”

Standards Are Not Determined

The problem is that the standards have not been determined. That means it isn’t known what weapons would be affected by the treaty or how it would be implemented or enforced. It also means Secretary Kerry is right when he says the treaty won’t affect the Second Amendment rights of individual Americans to own arms.

The standards applied are likely to be stringent because the treaty is strongly supported by nations with a long history of strict gun control laws. That includes the United Kingdom, Australia, and Mexico, which have been highly critical of the gun trade in the United States.

Nor has the method of enforcement for the standards been determined. Would they be enforced by customs inspectors at the border or inside countries? Would a gun shop in Texas that might be patronized by Mexican citizens have to comply with the standards? These questions haven’t been answered.

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Even supporters admit that the treaty is vague and open to interpretation. On the surface, it simply bans the sale of weapons to war criminals and to countries that violate human rights. Among other things, it would require arms dealers to state where weapons are being shipped.

However, gun rights advocates have been critical of the treaty because it covers small arms and light weapons, which would include rifles and pistols. Another provision bans the export of conventional weapons if they could be used to attack civilians—and since any weapon could conceivably be used to attack civilians, that could bar the export of any weapon.

How Could It Affect Average Americans?

So could the treaty affect average Americans that own guns? The answer is we don’t know because it is so vague. Some critics claim the law would force the US to create a national registry of gun owners and dealers. That obviously wouldn’t be popular, and it would be difficult to set up and enforce since Congress would have to approve such a registry and finance it.

The treaty would presumably affect the ability of Americans to buy foreign manufactured guns or ammunition because it could restrict the sales of those items, particularly if it were applied to military-style weapons, which could include automatic rifles and pistols. The treaty might make it difficult to sell weapons to foreign nationals or to purchase weapons from outside the country.

An interesting prospect would be that the Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco and Firearms would enforce the treaty in the US. One has to wonder if the Bureau would have the authority to inspect or audit gun-related businesses for compliance with the treaty: for example, to come into gun shops or gun shows and ask dealers if they are shipping weapons to Africa.

The relationship of the treaty to the Second Amendment is vague and would have to be determined by the courts. The Supreme Court’s track record on gun control issues is mixed. In 2008 it ruled that the Second Amendment protected individuals, but it didn’t rule on how the Amendment affects businesses. This decision seems to be the basis of Kerry’s assertion that the treaty wouldn’t affect Americans’ ability to own guns.

We also don’t know how newer liberal justices that President Obama has appointed to the court would rule. A strong possibility is that the court would rule that Congress has the ability to regulate the arms business just like any other business and leave it at that. In other words, it would pass the buck back to Congress much like it did in the Obamacare ruling.

Won’t Be Ratified by Senate Anytime Soon

Gun owners shouldn’t lose any sleep over the Treaty because it won’t pass the U.S. Senate any time soon. A two thirds majority is required to pass the treaty, and that isn’t going to happen. In fact, 53 Senators supported a measure that urged Obama not to sign the treaty.

At the end of the day Obama’s support is a symbolic action designed to please peace groups, gun control advocates, and other left-wing supporters. Obama signed the treaty knowing good and well that it will not pass. He will look like a hero to Europeans and gun control advocates for championing the enlightened measure when the Senate votes it down.

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This will also enhance Obama’s popularity in Europe and his appeal on the lecture circuit after he leaves office in 2017. He’ll be able to charge a lot of money for speeches about ignorant Americans in foreign countries. It could be that the whole thing is highly symbolic and largely meaningless.

What about Imported Guns?

The only real changes Americans might see because of the treaty is difficulty buying some foreign-made guns and ammunition. That could occur anyway because some of those weapons are made in foreign countries like Germany that have signed the treaty.

The largest maker of foreign-made weapons sold in the US, China, has not signed the treaty; nor has Russia, which also makes a lot of weapons. China and Russia abstained from voting on the treaty in the UN, largely because they fear it would harm their profitable arms export businesses. It is doubtful either of those nations will sign anytime soon.

The main effect might be to make it harder to buy some European manufactured weapons and ammunition in the US. Gun buyers will have to purchase American- or Chinese-made weapons.

Long-Term Danger to Second Amendment Rights

The only real danger to Second Amendment rights from the treaty will be long term. Even though the Senate won’t ratify it, the Arms Trade Treaty will not go away anytime soon. 154 members of the UN, including the United States, voted for it. It was backed by some major powers, including Britain, and by politically influential left-wing organizations that included Amnesty International.

That means there will be strong pressure on the US to ratify and enforce the treaty. Even though the Senate might not ratify it now, gun control backers can keep bringing it back.

Sometime in the future they might be able to sneak it through the Senate if nobody is watching and they can find enough votes. That might happen if the Democrats pick up just a few more Senate seats in 2014 or 2016.

The international community led by Europe has embarked upon a concerted effort to force strict gun control on all nations in the name of human rights. These efforts are well organized and well financed. That means we should expect constant pressure and efforts to force some sort of international gun control regime on the US for the foreseeable future.

Even though the treaty isn’t law in the U.S., it is clearly the shape of things to come. A United Nations gun control effort is here, and it will continue whether we want it or not.

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At a glance: Suffered Achilles injury during 2010 fall practice and missed the 2011 season ... played shortstop in high school at nearby Dublin Scioto ... utility/outfielder for the Buckeyes ... her quickness and agility makes her a threat on base and in the outfield for the Scarlet and Gray.

2011 (Junior Season): Did not compete for the Buckeyes ... Big Ten Distinguished Scholar ... Academic All-Big Ten honoree ... OSU Scholar-Athlete.

2010 (Sophomore Season): Appeared in 37 games for the Buckeyes ... scored 16 runs ... a valuable pitch runner ... went 9-for-10 in stolen base attempts, which was second-best on the team ... Academic All-Big Ten honoree ... OSU Scholar-Athlete

2009 (Freshman Season): Played in 44 games, proving to be an asset as a pinch runner ... recorded 10 steals, second highest on the team ... scored 19 runs, including one against Brigham Young for the win in the NCAA Regional (May 15).

Prior to Ohio State: Lettered four years at Dublin Scioto under head coach Todd Bright ... posted a .404 career batting average in high school with 11 triples, seven home runs, 99 stolen bases and 44 runs batted in ... Named first team All-Ohio after senior season and was a two-time all-district and four-time All-Ohio Capital Conference selection ... ... also lettered three years in field hockey and one in track ... was a two-time All-OCC honoree in field hockey ... also member of National Honor Society and French Honor Society ... recipient of the OHSAA Archie Griffin Sportsmanship Award in 2004 and 2008.

Personal: Daughter of Rick and Donna Simonton ... has two brothers, Kyle (23) and Kris (17) ... hopes to become an elementary school teacher in the area after graduation ... enjoys playing outdoors, reading, watching television and hanging out with family and friends in her spare time ... uncles David and Dennis Bell ran cross country and track at Notre Dame and Western Michigan, respectively ... cousin, Summer Bell, swam at Florida State ... lists her greatest sports thrill as meeting former Cleveland Indians shortstop Omar Vizquel.


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Who Stole The Sea! 26th August

Hest Bank to a bit further on

Mick walked up the way to see if there were any spaces further up with a bit more sunshine. There was so we decided to chance getting into the side a bit further up. Our first attempt didn’t go well as the bottom was very visible, but the second gap came up trumps, we were in to the side and level! Here our solar panel would gain some quality rays whilst we had a trip out.

P1120104smP1120114smWhen we reached the bus stop we were three quarters of an hour early for the next bus, so we decided to walk to Morecambe. Down the hill until the road met the sea. Except there was something amiss, the sea! Ahead of us across the bay there was next to no water, maybe the hurricane in the States had stolen it all. What a vast difference from yesterday, sand banks right across the twelve miles to Ulverston. Low tide had passed and the tide was on it’s way in, not that we could tell at this point at all. Boats lay on the mud flats, birds padded around avoiding the quick sand.

The sun had come out and it was a lovely day to walk along the shoreline. The sea wall here has recently been replaced. The new sea reflection wall measures 1m high. All the openings have names and carvings associated with local things. Most are fairly ordinary but the pair of glasses could only have belonged to one person, but more of him later. Everywhere felt clean and with the mounds of rocks down to the sand/mud it had an antipodean feeling about it. Coming from Scarborough we are used to hills surrounding our seaside resorts, but here as in Blackpool the land is flat, so is the bay, but in the hazy distance the fells of the Lake District give some interest.

P1120124smP1120139smAs we walked we suddenly became aware that the tide was now coming in at a rate of knots. An area in front of us where there was a sandbank had a swirl of white gradually crossing it. We could actually see the sea surround the bank cutting it off and then gradually engulf it all within a matter of minutes. The speed was quite scary. Water rose around the boats ahead of us, almost as soon as one boat was level and floating again it sped upstream along the channel of one of the rivers, beaching itself for a short while.

P1120154smP1120158smP1120166smP1120171smP1120172smBy the time we had reached the shops and Winter Gardens we were in need of some refreshment. Becky had given me a tip off for chilled medication here, so we headed inside to see what flavours took our fancy. Storm had never had a Knickerbocker Glory, so decided today he would change that. The rest of us opted for three flavours. No tea was required. Brucciani’s first opened in 1939, the local paper feared that it might not be good for the sedate Victorian image of Morecambe and that its presence could be positively harmful to young people. It is now a Grade 2 listed building, with it’s simple pale oak high street deco interior it is worth a visit anyway, add in the chilled medication and it is a must. The tables are not big, but then who needs it when you are concentrating on your three scoops.

Feeling a bit revived and maybe a little bit high on ice cream we then carried on along the front towards The Midland Hotel and the Stone Jetty. Originally the jetty formed the harbours western wall, built around 1853 by the Little North Western Railway Company as a wharf and rail terminal for both cargo and passengers. It was rebuilt and extended in 1994/95 as part of the coastal defence work and now has games that you can play and many bird sculptures along it’s length. It had only taken our break for chilled medication for all the sand banks to disappear under the water. The sea had returned!

P1120229smP1120195smThen we turned to appreciate the Midland Hotel in full, sparkling in the days sunshine. People were on the terrace enjoying a beer, others were starting to enjoy afternoon tea inside. We’d thought about this, but at £21 each we couldn’t justify it. One day we may save up for a night here, B&B would set you back anywhere between £125 for a Classic room to £270 for a Luxury Sea View room. However the rooms have all been reimagined, which means that there are few if any original features left.

A Streamline Modern building, built by the London, Midland and Scottish Railway (LMS), in 1933, to the designs of Oliver Hill, with sculpture by Eric Gill, and murals by Eric Ravilious. It was built as the railway companies showcase hotel, following the curve of the promenade and making the most of the spectacular views across the bay. Seven years, later during the war, it was requisitioned and it became a hospital. In it’s first year it had treated 3700 patients, 1000 airmen were fitted with spectacles. After years of neglect along with the fall in popularity of Morecambe it closed it’s doors in 1998 and was left to the mercy of the sea. Urban Splash in 2003 came forward wanting to return the Midland Hotel back to it’s 1930’s glory. It reopened in 2008.

P1120241smOne thing left to do and that was to find Eric. So we back tracked along the promenade. As he faces away from the sea, we’d missed him high above us as we’d been busy looking at pavement decorations and looking forward to our medication. Born in 1926 John Eric Bartholomew took his stage name from his home town, Morecambe. Little really needs to be said about the man who has made us all laugh out loud. His statue by Graham Ibbeson (who also did the scupture of Laurel and Hardy in Ulverston), was unveiled by the Queen in 1999.

P1120237smP1120248smP1120246smP1120250smEric’s pose is a familiar one from the end of Morecambe and Wise. Down the steps are the lyrics from ‘Bring Me Sunshine’, their parting song. A list of stars who appeared on the show with them circle around on the floor in front of him along with every catch phrase. Each one so familiar, bringing a smile to your face. A lovely tribute to the man.

P1120259smOnce we’d found a paper shop we caught the bus back to Hest Bank, the walk back would have been a bit too much!

P1120175smDSCF7114sm0 locks, 0.14 miles, 2 attempts at mooring, 5.5 miles walked, 1 glorious seaside day, 0 sea, 12 miles across, 3 x 3 scoups, 1st knickerbocker glory, 30’s deco everywhere, 1 curlew joke, 2 many cormorants, 1 very fast tide, £21 a bit too much, 3s in abundance, +4s, 1 pair binoculars, 1 very funny man, 2 papers, 33 Bare Circular, 1 bus ride, 2 hours now 6 and counting!

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Ole Miss outscored Mississippi State 43-22 in the second half, as the Rebels rallied for the 78-66 win in the second round of the SEC Tournament Thursday night in Atlanta. With the win, Ole Miss advances to play No. 3 seed Georgia in Friday night's quarterfinals.

Mississippi State took a 44-35 lead into halftime behind 58 percent shooting, including 6-of-11 from 3-point range. In the second half, Ole Miss flipped the script.

The Rebels shot 45 percent, while they held the Bulldogs to 17 percent from the floor, and it translated to the both teams' energy on both ends of the court.

"When you make shots, it's amazing how much energy you have," head coach Andy Kennedy said. "When you miss shots, that energy goes away quickly. In the first half, they were making shots and they were hopping all around the gym. We couldn't make one. We were just trying to stay in the game. The script got flipped in the second half. In the second half, we started making them, and they were struggling a little bit."

"Something kicks into gear with about 10 minutes left to go in the second half," said senior guard Marshall Henderson, who finished with a game-high 21 points. "For whatever reason, our sense of urgency goes up a lot more, and the focus become more effective."

Down one, 56-55, Henderson drew a charge with 8:39 left, and on the next possession, the Rebels took their first lead, 57-56, on a lay-up from junior guard LaDarius White. From there, Mississippi State would lead just once the rest of the way, as Ole Miss finished on a 40-15 run over the last 16:42 of the game.

"I'm just trying to make a big play somewhere else," Henderson said. "That's what coach emphasized. Coach (Kennedy) always says players made plays. A lot of times we get to thinking that it's only on the offensive end, and he always tries to reiterate to us that you can make a big play on defense, if you want to."

After going 3-for-12 from the field, including 3-from-10 from 3-point range in the first half, the shots started to fall for Henderson in the second half, as he was 4-of-9 from the field -- all from 3-point range -- in the second half. It included back-to-back 3-pointers after a 3-pointer from junior guard Jarvis Summers, who also finished with a game-high 21 points, to stretch a 62-60 lead to 71-60 and put the game out of reach with 2:42 left.

"I was feeling it there in the first half," Henderson said. "There three or four of them that rolled in and out. It was the most roll in-and-outs I have ever had, but they were there. Then, it got to crunch time, and shots had to be made."

"They were struggling missing shots, and they could feel the momentum start to turn," Kennedy said. "They were in control for about 30 of the 40 minutes, but we kept coming and we kept coming. You look up, and we go from being up two, to being up eight, to being up 12, and that's when they got a little bit slower and Marshall had an opportunity to put down a couple of daggers, and he did."

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On December 2, there were a bunch of transactions like this one:
RHP Kris Medlen elected free agency.
The thing is, Kris Medlen didn't really have much of a choice in this "election." The Braves paid the 29-year-old pitcher $5.8 million in 2014. He was eligible for arbitration this year. However, he missed the entire season after undergoing his second Tommy John surgery (his first procedure was in August 2010). In financial terms, they could have tendered, or offered, him a contract for 2015, but they chose not to: They non-tendered him. Players who are non-tendered immediately become free agents. There were 32 players non-tendered by the midnight, December 2 deadline; here's a list. Most will sign contracts, others may be done.

The most circuitous case thus far is Justin Smoak. The Mariners waived the first baseman after the season ended and the Blue Jays picked him up on October 28. Smoak had a contract that would pay him $3.65 million in 2015, but it had a $150,000 buyout, which the Jays exercised. To that point, they had claimed Smoak only to pay him $150,000 to make him go away. The day after the non-tender deadline, though, they signed him to a $1 million contract. So netting it all together, Toronto's paying $1.15 million to Smoak in order save $2.5 million. None of this was underhanded or unexpected:

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Party bus owner William Prigmore says his industry helps keep drunk drivers off the road.

Party bus owner William Prigmore says his industry helps keep drunk drivers off the road.

Austin Jenkins, Northwest News Network

These days an old fashioned stretch limo can look a bit stodgy. The new rage is party buses.

They carry more people and you can even stand up, dance and drink as you cruise down the road. But these parties on wheels can come at a price. Nationwide there’ve been nearly two dozen fatalities on these buses – including one here in the Northwest.

Now regulators in Washington state are getting ready to crack down on the industry.

Vehicle of choice for nights on the town

If you’ve never been on a party bus before, William Prigmore will give you a tour of his.

It’s a converted 1998 Ford shuttle bus complete with neon lights, wrap-around leather seats and the center aisle converted into a narrow, wood dance floor.

Prigmore points out “a nice stereo system with a PlayStation II, 37-inch flat screen TV, exotic pole.”

Yes, this bus even has a brass pole – and no, it’s not for holding onto around corners.

So what is the point of a party bus?

“The general concept is that people are paying a driver to drive them around so they can get intoxicated,” says Prigmore.

Sometimes the clients are going clubbing or it’s an event like a bachelorette party. And then there are the kids.

“We do proms and graduations. Of course those kids don’t drink ” Prigmore says with a smile.

But Prigmore says he has cancelled a trip before because of underage drinking. But there’s also a saying in this business: what happens on the party bus, stays on the party bus.

Prigmore says these parties on wheels have replaced the limo as the vehicle of choice for nights on the town. But as the industry gains popularity, regulators are scrambling to catch up.

“I’m not convinced they’re safe

“You’ve got a mix of alcohol, strobe lights, thumping party music, smoke machines, four tons of metal going down the road at 60 miles per hour,” says Dave Danner, chairman of Washington’s Utilities and Transportation Commission — the state agency regulates in-state bus companies.

“That’s a cocktail for problems.”

Danner says there’s no way he would allow his own teenage daughter to ride a party bus.

“I would say ‘no.’ I don’t want her on a party bus … because I’m not convinced they’re safe.”

Danner notes the term “party bus company” doesn’t even appear in Washington law. And there are loopholes companies can exploit to avoid regulation.

“The fact of the matter is we don’t know the universe of operators out there.”

21 fatalities

So far, Washington has been spared the types of party bus tragedies that have happened elsewhere in the country.

Washington’s Utilities and Transportation Commission reports that over the past four years, there have been 21 fatalities nationwide.

CJ Saraceno from Watertown, Connecticut was one of those fatalities. The graduate of Tufts University died in Los Angeles while celebrating a friend’s birthday. According to police reports, CJ was standing up in the front of the bus when it suddenly shifted. He fell against the passenger door, it opened and he tumbled out.

“He was holding on for dear life as he’s being dragged down the road in a jackknifed position hanging out the door,” says CJ’s father, Christopher Saraceno. “And the next thing you know he got sucked under the tires and you know the rest of the story. I’d rather not think of it.”

An investigation found the door wasn’t working properly and the bus shouldn’t have even been on the road that night.

Another of those 21 deaths hit closer to home. Eleven-year-old Angie Hernandez from Portland died when an emergency exit window popped open.

“Angie Hernandez fell out of the bus and was run over by the rear wheels of the bus,” says Frank Langfitt, a Portland attorney who represented the Hernandez family.

He says the investigation found the bus was in poor mechanical condition and the driver and the bus company were not properly licensed.

“There’s a desperate need for regulation to protect the public especially if you’re going to have children on these buses,” says Langfitt.

Patchwork enforcement

The city of Portland did step up enforcement and inspections of party buses following the death of Angie Hernandez.

But Portland is unique. Officials in Seattle and Boise told us party bus regulation is up to the state, not the city. Even at the state level, enforcement is a patchwork.

For instance, Washington’s Utilities and Exchange Commission conducts biennial inspections of registered intrastate buses. But the Oregon Department of Transportation does not do this even though it issues permits to operate.

Both states do require carriers to follow federal safety rules. Those rules cover the driver and the vehicle and include requirements for drug and alcohol testing and a limit on the number of hours a driver is behind the wheel.

California appears to be the only state with a specific party bus statute.

Jim Hall, former chair of the National Transportation Safety Board, says regulators nationwide need to pay attention to this growing industry.

“There’s been enough accidents and fatalities especially to young people that there’s plenty of grounds for local and state government to take appropriate action.”

In Washington state, the Utilities and Transportation Commission just produced a 17-page report on party bus safety. The recommendations include a ban on double-decker party buses and to require that paid chaperones supervise any party bus with riders under 21.

“Keeping a lot of drunk drivers off the road”

William Prigmore expresses dismay his industry is getting a bad rap.

“This is keeping a lot of drunk drivers off the road. These party buses. This is something very positive.”

Ultimately Prigmore believes customers have to take some responsibility too: first to check they’re booking a properly licensed party bus. And to behave in a safe manner once they’re on board.

To date, regulators in Washington have shut down two party bus companies and identified five others that were operating without a permit.

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The days before the opening, the galleries were buzzing. Three technicians painstakingly raised a fourteen-foot canvas to its wall mount, someone else positioned a ceramic piece on its stand. Workmen came in and out hauling away packing material.

As you walk around, you start to see the incredible story of how Oregon’s creative scene has developed over a decade-and-a-half. Chris Haberman is the curator and artist who hatched this show.  “Yeah,” he told us, taking a quick break from hanging the show. “It’s a lot of stuff, for sure. It’s not just 2-D. Close to half the show is sculpture. We’ve got 400-pound sculptures in here.”

A kinetic sculpture by David Butts, of Mad Dog Garage.

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The years have been very kind to some of the names Art Beat has covered. Looking back at who was in the very first episode, Portland band Pink Martini is thriving. Boosted by a busy domestic and foreign touring schedule, and lucrative music licensing deals, the band just recorded its eighth studio album.

Some others have had a harder time. Oregon Ballet Theatre has a new artistic director, and performances going on this weekend. But the group’s been without an administrative leader for a long time - it’ll be two years in July.

There are artists in the anniversary exhibition who don’t live here anymore. Some of them show outside the Northwest.
And for a few, it’s been a great fifteen years.

In 2000, painter James Lavadour was very well-known and respected around the Northwest -  a natural for Art Beat’s premier. But in 2013, his career shot up to the next level. Lavadour was invited to show at the Venice Biennale. At the time, he told OPB he’s loving just having time to stay in his studio and paint. “Painting is a progressive state.” Lavadour said. “It doesn’t recede. It only goes forward. My best things are happening right now. Painting’s going very well, but time is fast.”

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Between 2000 - Art Beat’s debut year - and today, Oregon’s population hopped up 12% according to US Census data and state estimates. And while not every one of those new people are painters, bass players, novelists, or set designers, it’s plain to see how population growth has affected the arts.

Brian Vegter can remember when there was only one art gallery in Baker City. “At this point,” Vegter says, “there are seven places in Baker City that are full-time art establishments.” Brian Vegter, and his wife Corinne  - Art Beat Season 11 alums - moved to Oregon from New York City back in 2006. Brian was a TV videographer and editor, Corinne worked in the fashion industry. They’re part of the changing creative demographic. Brian is now a painter who is also heavily involved in a local short film festival, and mentors high school students in their filmmaking club. Corinne is a ceramicist, and works on her art full-time. They’ve seen so much change, from the growth in galleries to the recent formation of a city arts commission.

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One of Corinne Vegter’s signature ceramic RVs.

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“There’s been younger artists moving in,” Corinne says, “some older as well. I think artists aren’t afraid to come here and stay here.”

But the past fifteen years haven’t only made opportunities for transplants.

Painter Darren Orange was born in the Northwest. He left only briefly for a stint at a bronze foundry in New Mexico. He’s been living in Astoria mostly, since 2000.“I think it’s very possible to have enough patronage and collectors in the greater Northwest to support a living,” Orange said. “I think with good representation and a good network, that’s very possible.” He paints, and also has worked in photography and bronze. He’s shown in galleries throughout the Northwest and L.A. He’s mostly full time with his art work, but sometimes picks up contracting jobs, to make ends meet.

Darren Orange, "Orange Blue Rip"

Darren Orange, “Orange Blue Rip”

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“It’s becoming more competitive. There’s a big influence of artists coming from Brooklyn or the Interior to Portland to explore what PDX has to offer. So there’s a lot of artists and there aren’t a whole lot of galleries to represent them.”

One of the gallerists who donated space for the Oregon Art Beat Exhibition says there’s a parallel trend that’s influenced the market over 15 years. Mark Woolley says the percentage of artists moving here is definitely high. “The challenge for dealers like me,” he continued “and even the nonprofit spaces, is the collector base. I don’t think the collector base has increased numerically as has the artist population. You’re dealing with a static number of collectors.”

That said, he looks around the room, and marvels at everything that’s out there. “We tried to organize the show where there’d be sub-themes or sub groupings of work,” he says, gesturing, “This wall is Charles Froelich’s gallery: Catherine Ace, Sarah Horowitz, Tom Prochaska, Rick Bartow, Susan Suebert, Matthew Dennison, and Laura Ross-Paul…”

You can see them, along with works by James Lavadour, the Vegters and Darren Orange at Oregon Art Beat’s 15th anniversary exhibition. It’s on view in Portland through June 15th at People’s Art Gallery and Mark Woolley Gallery in Portland, on the upper story at Pioneer Place. Over the life of the show, you can take tours with area curators, and see live performances by bands and writers Art Beat has talked with.

Be sure to download the free App for the show. It’s available for both iPhones and Androids. It will provide the full schedule of events and tell you more about each artist.

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An Open Letter to Microsoft

In the already infamous "Halloween Document", you laid out a strategy for competing with the Open Source movement. You say:

"OSS projects have been able to gain a foothold in many server applications because of the wide utility of highly commoditized, simple protocols. By extending these protocols and developing new protocols, we can deny OSS projects entry into the market."

The point that you seem to miss is that it is these simple, commoditized protocols and a culture of building freely on the work of others that brought us the explosion of innovation known as the Internet. And while the Internet has opened new areas of competition for Microsoft, it has also opened up enormous opportunities.

I'm not just talking about new information businesses like Expedia. You have only to look at your two major breadwinners, the Windows operating system and the Office application suite, to see the positive impact of Open Source on your bottom line. Internet-enabling Windows and Office has been the major source of new features that make it worthwhile for customers to buy new systems or upgrade their applications. Lacking the Internet, you would have had to rely on such dubious innovations as Microsoft Bob to drive upgrade revenue. And now you want to undermine Open Source? Try to be serious!

The collaborative, massively distributed development process behind the Internet and Open Source projects is not your enemy. It is your friend, the source of basic research that you can turn into your next generation of products.

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