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A CARERS support group has celebrated a Pounds 3,800 funding boost with a garden party.

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Fifty Plus Carers Support Group, based at Virginia House in Bretonside, held the social event in Efford.

The charity recently received the grant from the government's Grassroots scheme.

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Chairman Chris Coombe said: "We've been running for about four years and now have about 65 members. The idea is to support each other and run trips and events, giving people a chance to socialise where they may otherwise become isolated."

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During the garden party, there was also a garage and car boot sale to help raise further money for the charity.

For more details, call the group at Virginia House on 01752 204369.

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The latest example is three separate incidents of fire crews being pelted with stones as they answered emergency calls.

Newcastle's most senior fire officer believes fires are being started deliberately to lure firefighters to an ambush.

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There is also a good chance that eventually the service will answer such a call at a time when a real emergency is received.

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The fire service is vowing to prosecute anyone caught attacking or abusing its staff.

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Court revives Crystal City sme

Opponents of an iron ore smelter in Crystal City haven't lost yet.

On Tuesday, the Missouri Court of Appeals in St. Louis reinstated the lawsuit Concerned Citizens for Crystal City and five people filed against the city of Crystal City.

Judge Benjamin F. Lewis, a circuit judge from Cape Girardeau appointed to preside over the lawsuit, dismissed the entire suit last November as a sanction against all of the plaintiffs because one plaintiff failed to produce certain documents during discovery and two plaintiffs didn't fully answer specific interrogatories asked by Wings Enterprises Inc., which proposed to build the smelter.

The Court of Appeals said the discovery request was "overbroad" and that sanctioning the plaintiffs by dismissing all of their claims is "unjust and an abuse of the trial court's discretion."

Kathleen Green Henry, the president and a lawyer for Great Rivers Environmental Law Center, welcomed the appellate court's decision.

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"The plaintiffs filed a Sunshine Law suit, and we think the trial court should rule on the Sunshine Law case on the basis of the notices, agenda and minutes of the closed meetings the City Council had," she said.

David P. Senkel, of Thurman, Howald, Weber, Senkel & Norrick in Hillsboro, represented Crystal City, and Jeffrey D. Sigmund, of Husch Blackwell in St. Louis, represented Wings. Neither lawyer returned telephone messages by press time.

The lawsuit alleges the City Council held closed meetings with James Kennedy, president of Wings, to negotiate the building of a coal-fired iron ore smelter on the old Pittsburgh Plate Glass Co. property. The council met without notice to the public, the lawsuit says.

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The City Council passed an ordinance to allow the mayor to buy the 242 acres from PPG for $2.2 million and lease it to Wings for the same amount, the suit alleges.

Wings, which intervened in the lawsuit, asked for the identities of every person who posted to a forum on a website William "Jack" Ginnever created to discuss local government happenings and businesses interested in developing property in and around Crystal City. Much of the discussion on the forum was about the proposed smelter. Ginnever ran unsuccessfully for the position of mayor of Crystal City in April.

In June 2009, the trial judge ordered Ginnever to produce "a full and complete copy, in native format, of all information in his possession or control, that has been posted on the domain http:// ." Lewis also ordered Ginnever and defendant Pamela Portell to answer specific questions about the identities of forum posters.

Ginnever produced electronic copies of all the information that was posted on the forum, but withheld the IP addresses of anonymous posters to the forum and the private messages.

"We think this is irrelevant to the Sunshine Law suit," Henry said.

Wings didn't appear to try to restrict their request for information about people posting comments to the forum to "possibly relevant material," Judge Clifford H. Ahrens wrote for the unanimous panel.

"Armed with the comments or postings, it would be possible to identify those individual postings that indicate possible discoverable witnesses or information relevant to Defendants' defenses, if any, to the claims asserted in Plaintiffs' petition. It would also be possible to request postings made by any of the parties to the present litigation
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Are illegal immigrants voting in Washington state? They could be. And thats a strong enough answer for us to once again call for Washington to do the right thing, join 47 other states and require proof of citizenship or legal residency to obtain a drivers license.

The 47 states with such a requirement include Oregon, where Gov. Ted Kulongoski in 2008 ordered state officials to stop granting drivers licenses to illegal immigrants. The three unreasonably lenient states are Washington, New Mexico and Utah. (In Utah, an illegal immigrant may obtain a drivers license but cannot use it as a form of identification to board an airplane, get a job or buy alcohol, for example.)

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An Associated Press story published in Saturdays Columbian noted that applications for drivers licenses in these three states have surged this year, especially since Arizona passed its controversial immigration law that remains in legal dispute. The natural correlation is that those surges increase the chances for illegal immigrants voting.

In a follow-up story on Tuesday by The Columbians Stephanie Rice, Clark County Auditor Greg Kimsey said its possible residents who are not U.S. citizens are voting in our state, perhaps even in Tuesdays primary. To do so would be illegal, because state law requires voter registration applicants to swear they are citizens of the United States. Lying about that matter is a Class C felony, which Kimsey says is enough to dissuade illegal immigrants from voting: If you are a noncitizen do you really want to get your name on a list (of registered voters)? Kimsey asked.

David Ammons, spokesman for the Washington Secretary of State Sam Reed, added: The last thing (illegal immigrants) are going to do is vote and get hooked up with a government agency. If juicy couture tracksuits you are undocumented, you just arent going to raise your head. If you become naturalized, then voting is one of the things you are happy to do. These, though, are only presumptions. The freedom to vote (and the privilege of driving) should not be granted based on presumptions.

Requiring legal residency for a drivers license has been pushed in the Legislature more than once, most recently by state Sen. Joe Zarelli, R-Ridgefield. But the proposal keeps getting shot down by the majority Democrats, supported by Gov. Chris Gregoire. Their argument is based on three points, all weak in our view, as we editorialized last year.

First, its better to have illegal immigrants pass a driving test required for a drivers license. But if public safety is the priority, how safe is it for illegal immigrants to use a drivers license as a form of ID, perhaps even a person from some anti- American country, to board an airplane? Second, Democrats argue that its more humanitarian to provide illegal immigrants with drivers licenses, just as we do public medical services. Our response: Driving is a privilege, while providing health care promotes public health overall. Third, drivers license personnel should not be forced to work as immigration agents. Our rebuttal: Why not? Public school registrars are required to determine residency within a school district. Why cant drivers license officials do the same thing?

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Can we all get along?

The words are, of course, Rodney King's, spoken 18 years ago as rioters burned the city of Los Angeles in his name. "Can we all get along?" he asked in a breaking voice as he pleaded for the violence to stop.

The nation seemed to find the question unbearably earnest, like when a child stumps you with an imponderable so guileless and true that you duck it because there's no way to answer honestly and leave her innocence intact.

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So King's words quickly bypassed serious consideration. They became national punch line and catch phrase, wielded always with ironic detachment and post-modern emotional remove. It was not a question you wanted to allow in too close, much less one you sought to grapple honestly. You feared what the answer might be.

Can we all get along?

Eighteen years later, as a grueling election caps a long national temper tantrum, King's question feels freshly poignant. We have seen windows smashed, assault weapons at presidential speeches, shouting matches at town hall meetings, death threats against the president's kids, outbursts in the very halls of Congress and brother can you spare a dime, 'cause jobs are hard to find. Meanwhile, the chattering heads on a certain cable news outlet chanted a litany of fears like some perverse echo of Dorothy on the road to Oz -- Mexicans, Muslims and gays, oh my!

Sometimes it feels as if the whole country is on an express train to Crazy Town.

Can we all get along?

On Saturday, political satirists Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert held a rally on the National Mall in Washington. Stewart, habitually disingenuous as comics tend to be when you impute serious motives to their shtick, repeatedly deflected the notion that he was out for more than laughs.

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But he was. Indeed, in both its comedy bits and its musical interludes, the Rally To Restore Sanity And/Or Fear (that last a nod to Colbert's TV persona as an overbearing conservative blowhard) scarcely missed an opportunity to drive home its points. Namely, that political dialogue in this country is out of control, stoked to fever pitch by politicians and media figures who've found a formula for elective, fiscal and ratings success in exploiting the nation's legitimate fears and philosophical differences.

With a callous disregard that belies their periodic professions of country love, they have sold twin lies: that political identity matters more than national identity and that the louder and more insistently you say a thing, the truer it becomes.

Stewart fell back on an analogy he has used before, that of drivers merging from nine lanes down to two in order to enter one of the tunnels carrying traffic in and out of Manhattan. That simple act of disparate strangers taking turns so that everybody gets home safely represented, said Stewart, the "little reasonable compromises we all make." It was, he argued, the truest picture of who we really are, as opposed to the shouting matches between political extremes we've been led to regard as representative of us.

Squeezing through the mass of people who had flooded the Mall, you had to believe Stewart had tapped a nerve, identified a constituency heretofore ignored. And their message is simple: Sane people speaking sane thoughts sanely may not make for true religion jeans good television. That doesn't mean they don't exist.

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EXPORTING HOMOPHOBIA

American far-right conservative churches establish influence on anti-gay policy in Africa

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Peter Yiga is a Ugandan born-again Christian with a degree in computer engineering. He is the father of a young child and is also a known gay activist in a country that is on a witch hunt.

In February, Yiga attended a human rights conference in the capital city of Kampala.

"I saw a member of parliament who attended, talking very bitter and vowing to kill everyone - including their sons and daughters - if they were proved homosexuals," he told B W by Internet video conference from Uganda.

Yiga described how he and his friends are psychologically tortured and forced to endure daily warnings and promises of being hunted down and killed.

"The church and other leaders have done a lot to brainwash people, and all the community now is readily spitting fire against homosexuality. They are planning to kill or panga [machete] us. We have been running from house to house because when a neighborhood learns about your orientation, then you should expect mob justice anytime," he said.

Although homosexuality has been illegal in Uganda since the colonial era, there has been an unprecedented escalation of hatred fueled by Uganda's pending Anti-Homosexuality Bill of 2009. If passed in its present form, the wide-ranging legislation calls for the death penalty for gays and lesbians who engage in sex and are HIV positive, have committed the offense of homosexuality more than once, have been under the influence of drugs or alcohol during a sexual encounter or one partner has a disability. For other, less "aggravated" offenses, they face life in prison.

The bill also affects heterosexuals. Nongovernmental organizations including human rights, advocacy or aid organizations will be prosecuted if any material or advocacy support is provided to or on behalf of LGBT people. This includes family members, friends, medical professionals and clergy. christian audigier wholesale There will be nowhere to run for Yiga or his friends.

While the issues facing Yiga and other homosexuals in Uganda seem a world away, the situation has direct ties to the United States through a combination of social pressures and monetary funding from a select group of powerful conservative Christian groups.

In the midst of the controversy, some have gone so far as to say the American groups had a direct hand in drafting the Ugandan legislation and lent the anti-gay movement a mainstream appearance.

Big names like Kenneth Starr, former White House investigator and president of Baylor University; Pastor Rick Warren of Saddleback Church; Mark Tooley, president of the Institute on Religion and Democracy; and Stephen Noll of the American Anglican Council and vice chancellor of Ugandan Christian University, have all played a role on the African stage.

Victor Mukasa, a Ugandan in selfimposed exile in South Africa working with the International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission, told BW there were struggles for LGBT people in Uganda before, but it was not until American evangelicals came to Uganda that things took a turn for the worse.

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