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-Benjamin Franklin
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Rick and the Gun
A bit after the Sandy Hook shootings (2012) a friend, Rick Holm MD, was working on an article that could do a rational job of describing the challenges of coming up with a good, effective gun control policy. The following is an email conversation that occurred over several weeks, with Rick’s questions in bold italics, Read more
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I’ve Been Assimilated- And So Have You
Among my native students, occasionally I’d hear the comment “I’ve been assimilated” when another student would point out behavior that seemed inconsistent with the tribal background. The phrase got me wondering – just how much did the American Indian assimilate the European immigrants who moved to the New World in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Read more
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The Finest Teacher
If I ever thought I was a great teacher, the years I worked with Connie Malyevac showed me that I wasn’t. We worked in the Academic Reinforcement Center at Libby’s branch of FVCC – and, in general, Connie knocked my socks off. Probably her training had something to do with it. Connie went to Gonzaga, Read more
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Ballistics By the Inch
Forty-odd years ago, I was tasked with developing a computer class for gunsmithing students. The gunnies weren’t dumb – but the traditional methods of teaching computer applications didn’t arouse much interest. Fortunately the library at TSJC was probably the best library in the nation – possibly the world – when it came to gunsmithing and Read more
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Rethinking repression − why memory researchers reject the idea of recovered memories of trauma
Gabrielle Principe, College of Charleston In 1990, George Franklin was convicted of murder and sentenced to life in prison based on the testimony of his 28-year-old daughter Eileen. She described seeing him rape her best friend and then smash her skull with a rock. When Eileen testified at her father’s trial, her memory of the Read more
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Seasons on the Farm
The Eureka Community Players undertook the challenge of writing plays and is presenting their new play on Sunday, March 23rd. Done in an anthology format, “Seasons on the Farm” – An Afternoon of 10-minutes Scenes Written by Local Writers, begins at 3:00 p.m. at the Timbers Event Center. This is the second year that the Read more
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