Of the two for the first stage transportation is the most critical. Well we are talking about what we have to do if we had t leave in a hurry, if you had 15 minutes to grab you stuff and go. There won’t be time to check the car or what ever you plan on using. You just have time to get in and go. So you must do PM (Preventative Maintenance) on your vehicle. You need to check your tires regularly, fluids need to stay changed and topped off. Check belts and hoses every time you change the oil. Keep it greased. Not only will you be under stress if you have to leave early but your car will be also. Most likely everyone else will be on the road with you, so it will be slow going if it is summer time, that will put a tremendous strain on the cooling system of the car. Keep it maintained. Keep the vehicle full at all times. It is important for a number of reasons, first if you are trying to leave in a hurry you don’t want to be in line behind the other 20 people waiting at the pumps for fuel. Another reason it is better for the car, and fuel filters and pump. How about maps to where you want to go to, are the recent? Are they readable?
Have you given any thought in how you will pack the vehicle? If you pack the car is there room for the people?
I would say a minimum would be a gallon of water per person and a gallon for the vehicle. At least a days worth of food and a days worth of snacks. A first aid kit, repair tools for the car, make sure that the spare tire is full and holding air. Extra fluids, oil, power steering, brake coolant. A few 12-volt appliances; If you have kids I would make sure I had a 12-volt DVD player and at least one 12-volt fan. A 12-volt air compressor. If you have a baby I would have a 12-volt refrigerator to keep milk cool.
This week we will stay with thoughts on communication that would be beneficial in having to leave in a hurry. Communications are important, you need to know about what made you leave your home, what the traffic is like, which direction is safe to go, and keep up on the dangers in front of you. Radio in the vehicle is very important. If you are convoying, how about hand held radios so you can talk to each other? FRS or Murs are good choices, the old faithful CB don’t forget that as an option. Truckers on the CB should be a good source of info. Having a plan is important, if you are convoying talk out a plan with an alternate route with everyone in the group. Have a meet up place if you all get separated. But purpose before you start not to leave anyone behind.
I think this great, this Country for all the things it has done right, it has raise several generations of rebellious brats and useless kids. This is something that should be made mandatory. If a parent does not do it to their child they are the ones that should be arrested for child abuse. Let me qualify the statement, i'm not talking about abusing your child, i'm talking about spanking them. The Bible speaks to this in many places.
Pro 13:24 He that spareth his rod hateth his son: but he that loveth him chasteneth him betimes.
Pro 29:15 The rod and reproof give wisdom: but a child left to himself bringeth his mother to shame.
Pro 22:15 Foolishness is bound in the heart of a child; but the rod of correction shall drive it far from him.
Pro 19:18 Chasten thy son while there is hope, and let not thy soul spare for his crying.
Pro 23:13 Withhold not correction from the child: for if thou beatest him with the rod, he shall not die.
Study finds minorities more likely to be paddled August 20, 2008 - 5:57am
Map shows number of students receiving corporal punishment, by state, school year 2006-2007.
By LIBBY QUAID AP Education Writer
WASHINGTON (AP) - Paddlings, swats, licks. A quarter of a million schoolchildren got them last year _ and blacks, American Indians and kids with disabilities got a disproportionate share of the punishment, according to a study by a human rights group.
Even little kids can be paddled. Heather Porter, who lives in Crockett, Texas, was startled to hear her little boy, then 3, say he'd been spanked at school. Porter was never told, despite a policy at the public preschool that parents be notified.
"We were pretty ticked off, to say the least. The reason he got paddled was because he was untying his shoes and playing with the air conditioner thermostat," Porter said. "He was being a 3-year-old."
For the study, which was being released Wednesday, Human Rights Watch and the American Civil Liberties Union used Education Department data to show that, while paddling has been declining, racial disparity persists. Researchers also interviewed students, parents and school personnel in Texas and Mississippi, states that account for 40 percent of the 223,190 kids who were paddled at least once in the 2006-2007 school year.
Porter could have filled out a form telling the school not to paddle her son, if only she had realized he might be paddled.
Yet many parents find that such forms are ignored, the study said.
Widespread paddling can make it unlikely that forms will be checked. A teacher interviewed by Human Rights Watch, Tiffany Bartlett, said that when she taught in the Mississippi Delta, the policy was to lock the classroom doors when the bell rang, leaving stragglers to be paddled by an administrator patrolling the hallways. Bartlett now is a school teacher in Austin, Texas.
And even if schools make a mistake, they are unlikely to face lawsuits. In places where corporal punishment is allowed, teachers and principals generally have legal immunity from assault laws, the study said.
"One of the things we've seen over and over again is that parents have difficulty getting redress, if a child is paddled and severely injured, or paddled in violation of parents' wishes," said Alice Farmer, the study's author.
A majority of states have outlawed it, but corporal punishment remains widespread across the South. Behind Texas and Mississippi were Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Tennessee, Oklahoma, Louisiana, Florida and Missouri.
African American students are more than twice as likely to be paddled. The disparity persists even in places with large black populations, the study found. Similarly, Native Americans were more than twice as likely to be paddled, the study found.
The study also found:
_In states where paddling is most common, black girls were paddled more than twice as often as white girls.
_Boys are three times as likely to be paddled as girls.
_Special education kids were more likely to be paddled.
More than 100 countries worldwide have banned paddling in schools, including all of Europe, Farmer said. "International human rights law puts a pretty strong prohibition on corporal punishment," she said.
In rural Drew, Miss., Nickolaus Luckett still remembers the paddlings he got in fifth and seventh grades. One happened when he called a teacher by her first name, the other when a classmate said, wrongly, that he threw a spitball.
"I didn't get any bruises, but they still hurt, and from that point on, I told myself and my parents I wasn't going to take any more paddlings," said Luckett, who is about to be a sophomore at the University of Mississippi.
It's not an easy choice. In many schools, kids can avoid a paddling if they accept suspension or detention, or for younger kids, if they skip recess. But often, a child opts for the short-term sting of the paddle.
And sometimes teachers don't have the option of after-school detention, because there are no buses to take kids home later.
During the three years Evan Couzo taught in the Mississippi Delta, he refused to paddle kids, offering detention instead. But others _ teachers, parents, even kids _ were accustomed to paddling.
"Just about everyone at the beginning of the year said, `If he or she gives you any trouble, you can paddle them. You can send them home, and I'll paddle them. Or you can have me come out to the school, and we can both paddle them.'
"It's really just a part of the culture of the school environment there," Couzo said.
There is scant research on whether paddling is effective in the classroom. But many studies have shown it doesn't work at home, said Elizabeth Gershoff, a University of Michigan assistant professor of social work.
"The use of corporal punishment is associated almost overwhelmingly with negative effects, and that it increases children's problem behavior over time," Gershoff said.
Children may learn to solve problems using aggression, and a sense of resentment might make them act out more, Gershoff said.
The practice is banned in 29 states, most recently in Delaware and Pennsylvania. While some education groups haven't taken a position on the issue, the national PTA believes paddling should be banned everywhere.
"We teach our children that violence is wrong, yet corporal punishment teaches children that violence is a way to solve problems," said Jan Harp Domene, the group's president. "It perpetuates a cycle of child abuse. It teaches children to hit someone smaller and weaker when angry."
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On the Net:
Human Rights Watch: http://www.hrw.org/.
You want a picture of inflation here it is
NY restaurant uses 1933 prices; Steaks: 90 cents August 20, 2008 - 7:07am
NEW YORK (AP) - An Italian restaurant in Harlem that once counted Frank Sinatra and Tony Bennett as regulars has turned back the clock 75 years.
Patsy's Restaurant in East Harlem celebrated its 75th anniversary Tuesday with 1933 prices, including a 12-ounce New York cut steak and grilled salmon for 90 cents and a slice of pizza for 60 cents. Most beverages cost 10 cents.
Experts don't see return to cheap food soon Dan Looker Successful Farming magazine Business Editor 8/19/2008, 1:18 PM CDT Economists, farmers and food industry experts told a Senate Agriculture Committee hearing in Omaha Monday that demand for corn and soybeans for biofuels will continue to drive food costs higher, even though rising energy costs in general are the main cause of food price inflation. "Up until the last two years, energy prices affected agriculture primarily by influencing production costs: Particularly fertilizer and diesel prices. But now that we have linked energy and commodity markets, both production costs and crop demand are influenced by energy prices," said Bruce Babcock, an agricultural economist who heads the Center for Agricultural and Rural Development at Iowa State University. Babcock told the field hearing run by Committee Chairman Tom Harkin (D-IA) and Senator Ben Nelson (D-NE) that increasing ethanol mandates mean corn farmers will have built-in demand for between 25% and 30% of their crops. He expects corn prices to stay above $3.50 to $4 a bushel for the next five years. If crude oil prices stay above $100 a barrel and good weather drives corn prices below $4 a bushel, Babcock expects ethanol to look so profitable that more investment in ethanol could occur, even beyond government mandates. Babcock sees livestock prices increasing over the next year or two to cover these higher feed costs, mainly because of a likely cutback in production in the U.S. and in countries exporting to the U.S. Dave Moody, president of the Iowa Pork Producers Association, said that even with record cattle and hog prices this summer, some livestock production businesses have not been profitable. Moody said that hog producers may benefit from a new technology, corn fractionation that separates oil and the germ before dry mill ethanol production. That could improve the feed quality of ethanol co-products, eventually benefiting producers. Moody called for more federal support for research on that technology. Jim Jenkins, a cattle rancher and restaurant owner who is chairman of the Nebraska Ethanol Board, acknowledged the hard feelings among crop and livestock producers over the expansion of ethanol. "There's lot of emotion. People have lined up and drawn a line in the sand," he said. Jenkins said the marketplace should be allowed to adjust to higher grain prices and he questioned whether a return to federally subsidized cheap food is really better than continuing economic incentives for biofuel production "With $2 grain, we faced an overfattening of cattle," Jenkins said. Restaurant operators have long complained of having to trim excess fat from beef, he said. Jenkins cited university researchers who argue that corn use in feeding cattle could be cut up to 40%. And, he said, there is ample forage to replace some of that corn with better pasture and rangeland management. Nebraska is about 50% grass, he said, yet less than a tenth of the state's ranches are fully using more intensive grazing methods. And more corn stalks could be grazed in winter, he said. Jenkins acknowledged that producers of nonruminant animals such as hogs face bigger challenges with rising feed costs. Food manufacturers are being forced to pass rising commodity prices on to consumers, said Bill Lapp of Advanced Economic Solutions in Omaha. Until two years ago, food price inflation was running a little over two percent per year and when weather caused short-term price spikes, food companies absorbed the cost to maintain market share. But in 2007, food inflation in the U.S. was 4.9%. So far in 2008 it's been 7.6%, he said. He expects an average rate of food price inflation of nine percent between 2008 and 2012. http://www.agriculture.com/ag/story.jhtml;jsessionid=RKRKNCLOBDYBNQFIBQ4SBHQ?storyid=/templatedata/ag/story/data/1219170056212.xml
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