This hunting dog needs better training.
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From the monthly archives:
September 2011
The reflection of Watch Tower and Pingora Peak in the Cirque of the Towers, a mountain range of the Rocky Mountains in western Wyoming, photographed by Jack Brauer
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The sun rises behind Huron Peak, in in the Sawatch Range, near Vail and Leadville in Colorado, photographed by Jack Brauer
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Photographer Jack Brauer’s favorite viewpoint is the Baita Segantini and the Pale di San Martino group, near San Martino di Castrozza in Dolomites, Italy
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Mitchell Wilson, who had muscular dystrophy, became scared to go out
The boy suffocated himself just months after the assault
(Daily Mail By MARK DUELL) — An 11-year-old boy with muscular dystrophy committed suicide by suffocating himself months after being bullied and robbed of an iPhone.
Mitchell Wilson, of Pickering in Ontario, Canada, was out walking when his face and teeth were smashed into the pavement by a boy from his school.
A 12-year-old was arrested and removed from the school, but Mitchell’s father said his disabled boy was ‘never the same’ after the attack.
Mitchell was attacked last November for the Apple iPhone he had borrowed from his father Craig Wilson, reported the Huffington Post.
He was scared of bullies who picked on him because of his disability and the attack made him even more stressed and anxious, Mr Wilson said.
‘Subsequent to the beating that he took, he just lost that spark you see in a kid’s eye,’ Mr Wilson told CTV Canada AM.
‘He had huge anxiety attacks about going outside and going for his walks and going to school by himself.’
Mitchell lost his mother three years ago to skin cancer – and he was diagnosed with muscular dystrophy last year, reported the National Post.
Doctors had told Mitchell his muscular dystrophy could be helped by walking outside, but he was scared of doing this after the attack.
Mitchell committed suicide and was found dead in his bedroom earlier this month on the day he was due to start a new school year.
It was also one day after he received a subpoena to testify against his alleged attacker, who cannot be identified for legal reasons.
Mr Wilson said his son was embarrassed and apologized to him because he could not stop the attacker beating him up.
The 12-year-old was due to appear in court on Wednesday, but prosecutors said it was too soon after the suicide.
Now there appears to be nobody to testify at the trial and the charge of assault could be dropped. A new trial date has been set for November 21.
Mitchell’s grandmother Pam Wilson said his family ‘don’t want to be a lynch squad’ and are only trying to help the attacker have a better life.
The 11-year-old’s death is the latest in a string of suicides which came after accusations of bullying.
Just last week gay 14-year-old Jamey Rodemeyer killed himself after being subjected to vile treatment over his homosexuality.
Ann Haas, senior project specialist at the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention, cautioned against a phenomenon known as contagion, in which suicides among people in similar circumstances can increase after a very public death.
‘Suicide is not a heroic act or something to be emulated or admired,’ she said.
‘If we portray it as something that is admirable and very sympathetic, vulnerable youth may hear that as, “Look at the attention this case is getting and everyone is feeling sorry and praising this individual,” and it can form a narrative that can be compelling.’
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‘I’d been playing the whole day and he was baiting me and baiting me and just would not shut up. He went on and on and I just lost it’
Boy’s mother: ‘If you can’t handle losing to a child then you shouldn’t be playing games’
(Daily Mail By CHRIS PARSONS) – A middle-aged man charged round to the house of a schoolboy and throttled him after his online character was killed during a game of Call Of Duty, a court heard.
Mark Bradford, 46, was furious when he was gunned down in the war simulation by the 13-year-old, and ‘lost it’ when the youngster goaded him over his online death.
Unemployed father of three Bradford stormed from his bedsit in Plymouth, Devon, and confronted the youngster at the boy’s friend’s house by placing his hands round the schoolboy’s neck.
The pair had been playing Call Of Duty: Black Ops against each other online and talking using microphones.
The attack ended when the teenager’s horrified mother pulled Bradford off the boy, who was left scratched and with reddening to the neck.
Plymouth Magistrates heard that Bradford then simply walked away without saying a word.
The boy, who cannot be identified, said: ‘I was just sat playing. We’d had a bit of a joke and then he stormed in and grabbed me.
‘I didn’t know what was going on.’
Gareth Warden, prosecuting, said the teenager was playing the game at a friend’s house when he called Bradford a name after he ‘killed’ him.
He added that Bradford went to a nearby house where the boy was playing, walked into the front room and grabbed him around the throat with both hands.
The teenager’s mother, 33, said: ‘It’s pathetic that a grown man would attack a defenseless child like this.
‘If you can’t handle losing to a child then you shouldn’t be playing games.’
Tracey Baker, mitigating, said Bradford, who had mental health issues, ‘just lost it’. He told the court the attack was not planned and was provoked by the name-calling.
Magistrates ordered a probation officer to prepare a full report on his background before he is sentenced.
Bradford was released on unconditional bail to return to court on October 24.
‘Call Of Duty’ features a variety of war scenes and carries an 18 guidance certificate.
Participants combat each other online in real time and can communicate with each other throughout the war game scenarios.
Bradford admitted the attack was ‘moment of madness’ as the child ‘would not shut up’.
He said: ‘I’d been playing the whole day and he was baiting me and baiting me and just would not shut up.
‘He went on and on and I just lost it. I hold my hands up, I lost the plot. In a moment of madness I went round to his house. I didn’t know what I was going to do.
‘It wasn’t malice. I just grabbed him. I’ve seen him since and apologized. We’ve played online too. He’s actually a decent kid.’
Bradford admitted one count of assault by beating at Plymouth Magistrate’s Court on Wednesday.
Bradford is thought to be a loosely-connected friend of the boy’s family
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Residents in Ohio will now be permitted to carry a firearm into their local drinking establishment following the revision of the state’s gun law.
The new regulations, now in effect, allows those with gun licenses to carry a weapon to restaurants, nightclubs, shopping centers, hotels and museums – so long as the firearm remains concealed.
(Daily Mail By DAVID GERGES) — Bill Seitz, a member of the Ohio Senate, who advocated for the change said: ‘An undischarged concealed weapon never hurt anybody in history. And using a gun is not allowed under this bill.’
‘All we’re saying is they can have a piece of equipment on their body.’
The new law will also benefit drivers who are no longer required to keep their guns in a holster, case or in plain sight while at the wheel.
However, those licensed to hold a fire arm are under a strict ‘no drinking’ policy and must keep from businesses that display a gun-free premise signpost.
The new law has divided opinion, with some bar owners admitting to making no special dispensation.
Bar manager Paul Goebel insisted his tavern is continuing with its ‘business-as-usual’ approach.
He said: ‘We’ve made no plans for it.’
However, Steve Minnielli, owner of Rick’s Tavern and Grill, insisted he won’t allow guns into his own bar and believes other establishments will follow suit.
Minnielli said: ‘I would think that everyone would follow suit, I really would.’
‘Because it is just going to take that one time, just one guy, one girl pulling out their gun shooting it in the air and they are going to wonder what the world have we done.’
Senator Seitz pointed to the implementation of the law in other states that has not ‘unleash(ed) a new era of wild, wild West violence,’ as one of the reasons behind the change in the Midwestern state.
Yet the Ohio Restaurant Association is adamant that many eateries will continue to enforce the ban.
Jarrod Clabaugh, association spokesman revealed that more than 2,400 members who operate more than 5,000 restaurants in the state, had opposed the change in law after expressing a grave concern that ‘alcohol and guns do not mix.’
However, Todd Heimann, a manager at a gun store and indoor shooting range, believes the stringent rules in place in order to obtain a license, serve as a deterrent for most citizens.
He said: ‘If I go through the hassle and trouble of getting a permit, I’m not the person you have to worry about. You have to be pretty squeaky clean in order to get one.’
In order to be granted an Ohio gun license, a person must be at least 21 years old, with no previous criminal convictions.
Further, they must complete at least 12 hours of training, including two hours on a firing range, pass a criminal background check and pay various fees.
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Ethiopian Girl, 13, Found Naked and Dead Following Years of Abuse and Starvation by Adoptive Parents
A Washington couple has been charged with homicide by abuse in the death of their 13-year-old daughter who was adopted from Ethiopia.
Prosecutors say the girl, Hana Williams, lived in a closet and was denied meals for days at a time.
(By DAILY MAIL) – Larry and Carri Williams, of Sedro-Woolley, were arrested on Thursday and jailed on $500,000 bond. The Skagit Valley Herald reports Carri Williams called 911 early May 12 and reported Hana was not breathing.
Williams said the girl was being ‘rebellious’ and that she had seen her daughter falling down and staggering in the backyard, and that the girl had taken all her clothes off. She said Hana had refused to come into the house before she was found face down down in the backyard with mud in her mouth.
She was taken to the hospital, where she died of hypothermia at 1:30am.
However, an autopsy found malnutrition and a stomach infection were contributing factors.
In July, seven remaining children were removed from the Williams home and placed in foster care.
Larry and Carri Williams were also charged with first-degree child assault due to the regular physical abuse of Hana’s 10-year-old brother, who was adopted with her in 2008.
Both children were treated differently from the couple’s six biological children, who ranged in age from seven to 17, according to an affidavit from the Skagit County sheriff’s office.
The document alleges the Williams repeatedly denied Hana food, locked her in a dark closet and beat her with a long plastic tube.
They also made her sleep in a barn, shower outside with a garden hose and even sit outside while the family celebrated Christmas inside.
She had allegedly lost 30lbs in the two years leading up to her death, leading the coroner’s office to report her body was unable to maintain enough heat when the temperature dropped to 42 degrees the evening she died.
The couple is being held on bail at Skagit County Jail, according to country prosecutor Rich Weyrich.
Weyrich said couple is expected to be arraigned next week. If convicted, the Williamses face potential life sentences.
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