A Tale of Two Romneys: Losing Changes Everything

When you think of the widespread Republican condemnation of Mitt Romney for saying President Obama beat him only because he gave "gifts" to young people and minorities, it helps to think of the former presidential candidate as two men: a man who was a potential Republican president and a failed Republican nominee.

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In September, when a secret video was released showed then potential winner saying 47 percent of Americans were voting for Obama because they received handouts, Romney was all potential and Mitt "47 Percent" Romney received a stirring defense from his fellow Republicans. Fast-forward two months and now that defeated Republican candidate Romney tells a conference call of his donors that Obama beat him with all those handouts, loser Mitt 'Gifts' Romney gets torn apart.

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This is particularly true in the case of famed Real Talker Chris Christie.?

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On 47 Percent Romney:?During the Republican National Convention, Christie's keynote address was all about how Romney wouldn't be politically correct. He would speak "hard truths," Christie promised four times. After the 47 percent video became public, Christie said Romney "misspoke," on?Face the Nation,?claiming Americans would look beyond it. Even talking about the comments showed media bias, Christie said. On Fox News, Christie defended the comments, saying Romney "believes that every American has to have skin in the game, has to have a stake... He doesn't want what the president wants, which is a bigger, more bloated government that's taking more people's money and being more oppressive in people's lives." He told a Virginia crowd in late October that Obama didn't respect the importance of work ethic: "If you belong to the government you don't have to worry about that. If you belong to the government, the government will take care of every one of your needs."

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On Gifts Romney: On Morning Joe?Friday, Christie rejected the very same theme. "You can't expect to be a leader of all the people and be divisive... You have to talk about themes, policies that unite people and play to their aspirations and their goals and their hopes for their family and their neighbors. And I always think this is scapegoating after elections. When you lose, you lost. Someone asked me, why did Mitt Romney lose? That's why."

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NY jobless rate dropped to 8.7 percent in Oct.

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) ? Officials say New York's unemployment rate dropped in October as 5,900 new private sector jobs were added to the economy.

The state labor department says 110,300 private sector jobs have been added this year and total employment in the state stands at 7,340,100.

The unemployment rate fell in October to 8.7 percent from 8.9 percent statewide and from 9.5 to 9.3 percent in New York City.

The numbers were released Thursday.

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New Technology Saves Old Dioramas [Slide Show]

Conservators, curators and taxidermists developed novel techniques to preserve the past with an eye to the future as they restored aging animal dioramas at the American Museum of Natural History

By Katherine Harmon

Good Stuff: Conservators developed advanced dyes and compounds to help restore fading dioramas to their original glory--and biological accuracy. Image: AMNH/D. Finnin

Before there was IMAX, before there was the Discovery Channel and even before there were color movies, there were dioramas. These lifelike, still-life scenes, when rendered accurately, can still overwhelm the viewer?and teach about habitat, anatomy and behavior.

The 43 dioramas in the Bernard Family Hall of North American Mammals at the American Museum of Natural History (AMNH) in New York City are considered to be among the best in the world. They feature grand American bison grazing with pronghorn antelope on the Great Plains, majestic moose fighting at close range and wolves that seem ready to pounce out of their moonlit enclosure.

Dioramas might seem old-fashioned, but they allow visitors "to walk right up to the glass to check out individual features in a way you would never be able to do in a TV documentary," says Ross MacPhee, a mammalogy curator at the museum. "You can walk around them, see them from different angles?and that gives these presentations of natural history continued life."

Because of their careful construction in the 1930s and '40s with real plants and animals and ture-to-life settings, these scenes have remained captivating and convincing. But the decades of continuous display had led to faded fur, dusty leaves and yellowed snow. These slow shifts had made the exhibit both less engaging and accurate?a major failing in the eyes of animal experts like MacPhee. Many of the animals, such as the American bison, "went from all of these rich, beautiful browns and blacks to blond?nothing against blond; they just didn't look real," MacPhee notes.

In 2011 the AMNH began the massive task of assessing and restoring the historic dioramas?without permanently altering them in a way that would hinder future restorations. The project involved staff from many of the museum's departments, including curators, conservationists, exhibition preparators. But they also outsourced the some of the expertise. "We really needed a taxidermist to accomplish the recoloring," says Lisa Elkin, who directs conservation at the museum. But common taxidermy techniques had to be reinvented, and novel, reversible dyes created. Additionally, they had to devise new lighting sources and repurpose new materials so fragile scenes, such as snow-covered mountainsides, could retain their luster for decades to come.

Restoring the original coloring of these animals and their surroundings does not just provide a vivider visitor experience, it also preserves a moment in evolutionary time from the early 20th century. This enables researchers to track changes in coloring and habitat due to, for example, rapidly advancing climate change.

In October the Hall of North American Mammals reopened to the public after the yearlong renovation. Scientific American got a sneak preview of the exhibit beforehand. Here is how science helped the museum make this work possible.

View the slide show of the restored exhibits.

The real deal
In the 1930s the AMNH began work on perhaps the most ambitious real-life wildlife dioramas to date?and what would be some of the best ever accomplished.

The museum sent artists, curators and collectors out into the field across the continent?from the Grand Canyon to Mount Rainier to the Grand Tetons. For each scene teams chose an actual, existing place to re-create with plants, animals and scenery at the museum. Artists painted sketches, capturing the exact hills, streams, trees and rocks in specific spots. Collectors gathered plant samples to use and to re-create the snapshot back in New York; others killed the now-iconic animals that would be the centerpieces of these scenes.

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YOU can be a backstage VIP this year! - Tri-State BBQ Festival

The 8th annual Tri-State BBQ Festival is trying a new approach to funding the entertainment in 2013. In the past, we have solicited a main entertainment sponsor who would cover the costs of all the bands. However, many times that money would only cover one band, and we would have to rely on many ?volunteer? bands to come and play for free. We very much appreciate the generosity of these bands, but would like to be able to at least cover gas and food expenses for the bands this year.

So, what we?re going to try is finding an individual sponsor for each band we would like to employ for the festival. This means that we need your help in securing sponsorships for many of the bands! And, as a reward, any band sponsor will receive VIP backstage passes and have access to all the bands, as well as complementary snacks and drinks backstage. Some of the bands will cost very little, and should be affordable for any small business in the Wiregrass. Some other bands may cost more, but the sponsor will receive more advertising benefit with their investment.

THE ENTERTAINMENT LINE UP IS IN YOUR HANDS! If you think you know of a business, company, or person who will be willing to front the money for a particular band, please have them contact Kerry at (334) 699-1475 or kerry@themaineventweb.com

First band up that needs a sponsor is Southern Chain Gang. They recently performed at PorktoberQue and rocked the house!?SouthernChain Gang was formed back in 2009 by four guys who loved to entertain crowds of people. They strive to make each preformance better than the one before, playing a wide variety of music that is sure to please both country and rock fans alike. ? Their originals will get you up out of your seats and create a party atmosphere that is widely enjoyed. The band members include: Dan Powell / Guitarist and Vocalist, Brandon Shields / Bassist and Vocalist, Travis Powell / Lead Guitarist and Vocalist, and William Steverson / Drums and Vocalist.

If you would like to see Southern Chain Gang play, and would like to hang out backstage with these great guys, you or your company can sponsor them for $500. This will cover the cost of getting them here to perform on Friday April 12, 2013 and will allow us to stock the backstage area with some munchies and drinks. ?For your $500, you will be named the Southern Chain Gang band sponsor, will receive 5 exclusive VIP backstage passes good Friday night for all musical acts, you will have access to the backstage food and drinks, access tot he VIP lounge area, and will be included in any and all promotions for the Southern Chain Gang performance. Additionally, your company can have a 10? x 10? booth space at the festival to promote or sell your product or service, and will receive a blog listing on this web site ( ?www.tristatebbq.com ?) featuring your business.

WHAT A DEAL! If you want to see this band at the Tri-State BBQ Festival April 12, 2013 then give us a call at (334) 699-1475 and we?ll set you up!

Source: http://tristatebbq.com/2012/11/05/you-can-be-a-backstage-vip-this-year/

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Obama's closing case to voters recalls the past

President Barack Obama greets supporters at a campaign event at Cheyenne Sports Complex in Las Vegas, Thursday, Nov. 1, 2012. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

President Barack Obama greets supporters at a campaign event at Cheyenne Sports Complex in Las Vegas, Thursday, Nov. 1, 2012. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

A woman, right, is overcome with emotion after being greeted by President Barack Obama, left, at a campaign event at Cheyenne Sports Complex in Las Vegas, Thursday, Nov. 1, 2012. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

President Barack Obama speaks during a campaign event, Thursday, Nov. 1, 2012, at the Cheyenne Sports Complex in Las Vegas, before heading to Denver for more campaigning. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

NORTH LAS VEGAS, Nev. (AP) ? President Barack Obama has spent months urging Americans to move forward. Now he's asking them to look back.

Back to the last Democratic president, who presided over a booming economy. Back to his Republican predecessor, whose policies he says GOP rival Mitt Romney would repeat. And back to 2008, when Obama ran as a champion of change who was willing to work across the political aisle.

That's how the president wants a divided, economically anxious nation to see him again now, as he makes his closing argument in the final days of his final political campaign.

"I know what real change looks like, because I fought for it," Obama told voters in Nevada on Thursday. "I've got the scars to prove it. You have, too. And after all that we've been through together, Nevada, we sure as heck can't give up now."

Of course, change is a harder sell after four years of economic woes and partisan gridlock in Washington. And polls show Obama locked in a tight contest with Romney as the presidential race nears the finale.

Obama spent blitzed Thursday from Wisconsin to Nevada to Colorado, where he wrapped up his day with a 10,000-person rally in Boulder.

The president acknowledged that many Americans may be "frustrated" that change hasn't come fast enough. To them, Obama offered a new definition of change that included passing the health care overhaul, bailing out the auto industry, ending the Iraq war and putting the U.S. military on a path to leave Afghanistan.

And he appealed for more time to overcome the "protectors of the status quo" that have stood in his way.

"Every time we've tried to make change, they've fought back with everything they've got," he told voters in Wisconsin. "Their strategy from the start was to engineer pure gridlock in Congress."

Obama returned to the campaign trail after a three-day hiatus to manage the federal response to Superstorm Sandy. He largely avoided overt politics during that stretch as he sought to project presidential leadership.

But Obama criticized Romney anew Thursday as he launched his closing appeal to voters.

The president cast the wealthy Romney as a protector of the rich. And he sought to discredit the Republican's attempts to claim the change mantle, saying the former businessman was simply rehashing policies that dragged the economy down during George W. Bush's tenure in office.

"Gov. Romney has been using all his talents as a salesman to dress up these very same policies," said Obama, decked out in his leather Air Force One flight jacket at a chilly outdoor rally in Green Bay.

"He is offering them up as change," he continued. "We know what change looks like. And what the governor is offering sure ain't change."

But the president sought to link his own policies to the past as well.

Obama tied his calls for raising taxes on higher-income earners and spending more on science and research with similar policies implemented under President Bill Clinton. Obama's message to voters was that if the economy thrived when Clinton took those steps, it would do the same again, under him, during a second term.

"We know the ideas that worked," Obama said. "We also know the ideas that don't work. Because in the eight years after Bill Clinton left office, his policies were reversed."

Obama's campaign has been crafting the president's closing argument for weeks. Aides had hoped to roll it out earlier this week, but were forced to push it back after the storm interrupted the president's travel plans.

Even though Obama drew contrasts with Romney throughout his remarks, his closing argument included less direct criticism of his GOP rival than his earlier campaign speeches. Gone was one of the president's most biting criticisms of Romney: his sarcastic diagnosis of "Romnesia," a term Obama coined to mean forgetting previously held positions.

The president opened his remarks Thursday by asking Americans to remember those affected by the flooding, snow and fires that have devastated some communities. In doing so, he harkened back to the past once again, echoing his call for national unity from the 2004 Democratic convention speech that made him a political star.

"There are no Democrats or Republicans during a storm," Obama said. "There are just fellow Americans."

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Nov. 1 Arts and Entertainment Briefs | Salisbury, NC - Salisbury Post

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Reserve your seats at Coopers for Motel Soap, made up of six familiar local musicians that play or have played in Midlife Crisis, The Brubakers and Fahrenheit.

Nov. 2-4 is the 22nd annual Fall Cyclone Twisters Shag Club Big Event in Mooresville.

The Rowan Arts Council announces the opening of the 2012 Student Autumn Exhibition by Rowan-Cabarrus Community College students. The free opening reception is tomorrow, Nov. 2, from 6-8 p.m. The exhibition is located in the Rail Walk Gallery, 409-413 N. Lee St.

Now in its seventh year, the partnership between the local arts council and the community college is now one of the biggest annual events of the RCCC Art Department and this year will exhibit artwork created by 62 students. Professional artist Christine Kirouac will judge the show.

Students will display work in all media: painting, photography, drawing, sculpture, pottery, and new media. Most art will be for sale, with proceeds going directly to the student. The exhibition is sponsored by the Rowan Arts Council, F&M Bank, the Rail Walk Artists, and the Rowan County Convention and Visitors Bureau. Exhibition dates are Nov. 2-17. Gallery hours are Thursday-Saturday 11 a.m.-4 p.m. Admission is free. For more info, go to www.rowanarts.org.

Paleface art at LGAC

Looking Glass Artists Center, 405 N. Lee St., presents Paleface: In the Time of Music: "musical pop art and folk paintings amped with raw rock and roll energy." The opening reception is tonight, Nov. 1 from 5-8 p.m. Admission is free.

The exhibit will be on display throughout the month of Nov. at LGAC Tuesdays noon-6 p.m.; Wednesdays 10 a.m.-3 p.m.; Thursdays noon-6 p.m.; Fridays noon-6 p.m.; Saturdays noon-3 p.m.. Paintings will also be on view during evening events at the center in November. The grand finale to the exhibit will be Dec. 1 when LGAC will present Paleface in concert along with their Ramseur Records label-mates, the band Bombadil. The music will start at 8 p.m. Anyone who purchases a Paleface painting during the month of November gets a free ticket to the performance. Call 704-245-2302 for information.

Cauble Creek Invitational

The Cauble Creek Vineyard 2012 Artist Invitational begins tomorrow, Nov. 2 and goes through Nov. 11. The invitational features artists from throughout the North Carolina Piedmont. It is free and open to the public. A portion of the proceeds from the sale of artwork will benefit Rowan Regional Medical Center. The exhibit is open Friday and Saturday 10 a.m.-6 p.m. and Sunday 1-6 p.m.

The exhibit reception is at 6:30 tomorrow, with artist Adelle Goodman on hand to autograph limited editions of the vineyard's new wine, "Adelle." The reception is free and open to the public.

Cauble Creek Vineyard is located at 700 Cauble Farm Road in Salisbury. Call 704-633-1137.

SWAG writing workshop

The Salisbury Writers and Artists Guild, Inc. (SWAG) announces its first writing workshop, Take TEN! A Workshop for Writing the 10-Minute Play, to be held Wednesday, Nov. 14, from 6-7 p.m. at the Literary Bookpost, with writers Jenny Hubbard and Katie Scarvey.

Lee Street Theatre is requesting submissions for their 5th Annual 10-Minute Play Festival, comically themed "Hotel 6," and this playwrighting workshop is designed to generate material, while covering the structure and methods of the short form of the ten-minute play. Participants will leave the workshop with a viable template to write their 10-minute play and prepare it for submission to Lee Street Theatre.

Advance registration is required and is $15 for writers or $5 for high school and college students. Seating is limited. To register, email Tara Van Geons at info@swagnc.org and submit your payment via mail or by dropping your payment off at the Literary Bookpost, 110 S. Main Street, Salisbury. Please make checks payable to the Salisbury Writers and Artists Guild, Inc. (SWAG).

For more information about the Salisbury Writers and Artists Guild, Inc. visit www.SWAGNC.org or their Facebook page at www.FaceBook.com/swagNorthCarolina.

Motel Soap at Cooper's

Motel Soap will be playing on Saturday, Nov. 3 at Cooper's, The Gathering Place, 122 E Fisher St.at 9 p.m. Dinner reservations are required. Call 704-637-6047.

'Littlest Angel' in Concord

CONCORD -CabCo Pretenders children's theater brings "The Littlest Angel" to the stage at Old Courthouse Theatre next weekend, Nov. 9 at 7:30 p.m. and Nov. 10-11 at 2:30 p.m. Written by Patricia Gray and directed by Becky Porter, it is rated G, the perfect family entertainment. Tickets are $10 for adults and $5 for children 5 and younger. Call 704-788-2405 or email info@oldcourthousetheatre.org

OCT is located at 49 Spring St. NW, 704 788-2405, www.oldcourthousetheatre.org

'Sign of the Times'

"Sign of the Times, A Socially Conscious Comedy from the mind of Leroy F. Bennett,' a stage play featuring The Down Home Players, will be performed next weekend, Nov. 9-10 at the J.C. Price American Legion Post.

The play is the story of Ivy Rivers, a widow raising her two teenage children who is challenged to keep her family together.

Leroy F. Bennett is founder and creative director for Updaway Productions and the Down Home Players. He was most recently in the PPT production of 'The Color Purple.'

Tickets are $8 in advance and $10 at the door, at the J.C. Price American Legion Post 107, 1433 Old Wilkesboro Road. Show times are 7:30 p.m. Nov. 9 and 2:30 p.m. on Nov 10. For more information, call 704-638-0160 or 704-245-3614.

Loudon Wainwright III

WINGATE - Loudon Wainwright III will be in concert at the Batte Center at Wingate University, 403 N. Camden Road, on Friday, Nov. 9 at 7:30 p.m. Tickets are $25 at www.carolinatix.org or 704-372-1000.

Shag event in Mooresville

MOORESVILLE - "The Shag Club Event of The Year," as dubbed by the Carolina Beach Music Awards organization each of the last four years, is scheduled for Nov. 2-4, in Mooresville. Twisters Shag Club will host the 22nd annual fall Cyclone Twisters Shag Club Big Event at the Amvets building on Rte. 21. More than 600 dancers, veterans and new recruits, are expected and will include such notables as Hall of Famer Ellen Taylor. Deejays are Eddie Anderson, Kyle Beam, Betty Brown, Jessie Griffin, Dana Grubb, Robert Holcomb, Joanne Johnson, Butch Metcalf, Norman Mills, Frank Price, Clyde Waller and Farrell Watts. Included in the ticket fee are dance and shag dance workshops, meals, munchies, beverages, chances to win raffle prizes, and - for the first time - a Sunday morning Gospel Hour complete with dance music.

Friday, Nov. 2, 7 p.m. 1 a.m.; Saturday 10 a.m.-1 a.m. (workshops at 10:30 a.m., 11 a.m. and 12:15 p.m.); Sunday 9 a.m.-2 p.m. A 3-day ticket $75. One-day pass for Saturday or Sunday is $40. Preregistration recommended. www.GoShagging.com, 704-892-9044 or Cyclone22@GoShagging.com

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Gingrich: Akin win could rebuke GOP establishment

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) ? Former presidential hopeful Newt Gingrich said Wednesday that Missouri voters can send a powerful signal to "the moneyed Republican establishment" by electing congressman Todd Akin over Democratic Sen. Claire McCaskill.

Gingrich joined Akin for a rally at Kansas City's historic Union Station that drew about 100 supporters and nearly as many protesters, many carrying signs referencing Akin's remark about "legitimate rape" that prompted top national Republicans to abandon his campaign. McCaskill was to campaign later Wednesday in St. Louis ? her first events since her mother died Monday.

Cheers mixed with jeers as Gingrich and Akin spoke in Kansas City, highlighting the intensity of a campaign that has remained in the national spotlight and could help determine party control of the U.S. Senate. Republicans need a net gain of four Senate seats in Tuesday's election ? or just three, if Republican Mitt Romney defeats President Barack Obama and gives a GOP vice president the power to break tie votes in the Senate ? to retake the chamber's majority from Democrats.

"No single Senate race in the country will send a more powerful signal than the election of Todd Akin," Gingrich said at the rally, first noting the potential for Republican control of the chamber. But Gingrich said there was an equally strong point to be made within the GOP.

"There is no other race in the country that will send a bigger signal to the moneyed Republican establishment that it is votes that matter and citizens that matter," Gingrich said to his most enthusiastic applause. "When people of a state make a choice, they deserve to be respected for their right to choose the candidate they want, not the candidate Washington dictates."

Akin won a closely contested GOP primary Aug. 7. But Romney and other top Republicans urged him to quit the Senate race after he remarked in a TV interview that aired Aug. 19 that women's bodies have ways of avoiding pregnancy in "legitimate rape." Akin apologized and instead forged ahead with his campaign ? even as some deep-pocketed groups that aid Republicans dropped plans to spend millions of dollars on advertising in Missouri. McCaskill has significantly outspent Akin, though Akin plans a $1 million TV ad push in attempt to nearly match McCaskill ads during the final week before the election.

Akin's campaign theme has highlighted McCaskill's support for Obama's policies on health care and government spending while noting that low-income housing firms affiliated with McCaskill's husband, Joseph Shepard, have received tens of millions of dollars of federal subsidies. That's "your taxpayer dollars that are going to her family business," Akin said Wednesday.

McCaskill has countered by portraying Akin as extreme, citing not only his "legitimate rape" remark but his opposition to the federal government's role in issuing student loans and setting a minimum wage, among other things.

Among the protesters at Wednesday's rally in Kansas City was Neil Harris, a retired college teacher and McCaskill supporter who held a sign saying, "Todd and Newt (equals) Hypocritical Mass." Harris referred to Akin as "an idiot."

"His 13th century doctrine on women shutting down the possibility of pregnancy after rape seems to be far from reality," Harris said.

Akin supporter Kiley Chaney, a union bricklayer who drove an hour from rural Garden City to attend the rally, acknowledged that Akin had "made some blunders in the campaign." But Chaney said he was more concerned with McCaskill's ties to Obama and the large national debt.

"She's going to be a yes woman for Obama," said Chaney, later adding: "It's not fashionable to be for Akin, but I'm going to vote against McCaskill."

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/gingrich-akin-win-could-rebuke-gop-establishment-150424690--election.html

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Today's Wayback Top Tenner: Nov. 1, 1967 ? The Full Moxie ...

This will shock some of you who know me? but I was a pretty melodramatic kid (shut it). And I blame that drama, in part, on my overactive imagination lack of medication ardent love of the music of the late 60?s. Seriously. My 9-year-old self heard Roy Orbison sing ?Crying? one time and though I?d never had even a crush on any one, I KNEW HIS PAIN.

The number 1 song from this week in 1967 is a top 10 lifetime favorite. ?How can anyone hear this song and not feel intense sincerity and only the highest regard for Sidney Poitier? HOW?

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Doc clears return to work? Disability unlikely ? Business ...

When an employee has a life-threatening and acute illness, he may need time off to recover. That?s a legitimate use of FMLA leave.

But what if the employee fully recovers and comes back to work with a clean bill of health from his doctors, yet still feels weaker, more fatigued and not quite back to full health? He?s not entitled to ADA reasonable accommodations.

Recovering completely doesn?t necessarily mean the employee will be in the exact same condition he was before he got sick, but neither does his ?new normal? necessarily mean he?s disabled under the ADA.

To prove disability, he?ll have to show that a major life activity is impaired. That?s nearly impossible following a medical clearance to return to work.

Recent case: John worked for the Philadelphia Police Department as a homicide investigator for nearly 30 years. He came down with a bad case of spinal meningitis, an acute illness that left him unable to work for almost four months. But when he did come back, his doctors certified that he was cleared for full duty.

John saw it differently and requested a transfer to a less hectic division. He claimed he was still affected by meningitis and could no longer do the sort of things he did before illness struck, like staying awake for 24 hours or more.

The department refused and John sued, alleging failure to accommodate.

His case was quickly dismissed when the court concluded he wasn?t disabled. He could perform his job (which had never required him to work more than 10 hours per shift) and his doctors said he was well enough to do the job with no limitations. (Rossiter v. Costello, et al., No. 11-1183, ED PA, 2012)

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Gunman kills 1 at rally for new Quebec premier

MONTREAL (AP) ? A masked gunman opened fire during a midnight victory rally for Quebec's new premier, killing one person and wounding another. The new premier, Pauline Marois of the separatist Parti Quebecois, was whisked off the stage by guards while giving her speech and uninjured.

It was not clear if the gunman was trying to shoot Marois, whose party favors separation for the French-speaking province from Canada.

Montreal police Cmdr. Ian Lafreniere identified the gunman only as a 50-year-old man and said he opened fire in the back of the hall while Marois was giving her victory speech to hundreds of supporters at the Metropolis auditorium. She had just declared her firm conviction that Quebec needs to be a sovereign country before she was pulled off the stage.

"What's going on?" Marois told her security detail as they grabbed her arms and took her off the stage during the celebration of her party's victory in Tuesday's provincial election.

The gunman then fled outside where he set a small fire before he was captured, police said.

Police said they didn't know the gunman's motive. As the suspect was being dragged toward the police cruiser, he was heard shouting in French, "The English are waking up!"

Marois returned to the stage after the shooting and asked the crowd to peacefully disperse and then seemed to finish her speech. She left the hall amid a tight cordon of provincial police bodyguards.

The attack shocked Canadians who are not used to such violence at political events.

The suspect was a heavy-set man wearing a black ski or balaclava mask and a blue bathrobe over black clothes. Police didn't identify what weapons he had but camera footage showed a pistol and a rifle at the scene. Police said there is no reason to believe there are other suspects.

Police said a 45-year-old man was pronounced dead at the scene and a second man in his 30s was wounded. A third man was treated for shock. Police didn't identify the victims so it was not clear if any of them were party officials. The crowd was apparently unaware of what happened when Marois was whisked off the stage.

Marois said her thoughts were?with the family of the victim in a statement issued early Wednesday.

"Following this tragedy all Quebecois are mourning today before?such a?gratuitous act of violence," she said. "Never will a society such as ours let violence dictate its collective choices."

The separatist party won Tuesday's provincial election, but failed to win a majority of legislative seats. Though the Parti Quebecois wants the province to break away from Canada, its victory is unlikely to signal a new push for independence. Opinion polls show little appetite for a separatist referendum. Previous referendums on separatism had been rejected by voters in 1980 and 1995.?

Marois herself has left much uncertainty about if and when a referendum would be held. But her party will push for more autonomy from the federal government.

The attack took place just after Marois began speaking in English ? a rare occurrence in a speech at a partisan PQ event. She had promised English-speaking Quebecers that their rights would be protected, following an emotionally charged campaign that saw her party focus on language-and-identity issues. Earlier in the evening, people in the crowd booed when they heard outgoing Liberal Premier Jean Charest speak English in his concession speech, ending nearly 10 years in power. Analysts said the PQ victory had more to do with weariness with the Liberals after three terms.

More autonomy for Quebec is high on the agenda for the PQ, which has said it would seek a transfer of powers from the federal government in areas like employment insurance and immigration policy. If those measures are rejected, the party believes it would have a stronger case for independence.

Without a majority in the Quebec Assembly, however, the PQ will need to work with other parties to pass legislation, and the results will undermine efforts to quickly hold a referendum on separation.

The PQ had just under 31 percent of the vote and 54 seats in the provincial legislature, falling short of a majority in the assembly. The Liberals had about 31 percent and 50 seats.

A new party, Coalition Avenir Quebec, followed with 27 percent and 19 seats. The separatist Quebec Solidaire party won 2 seats.

A party needs to obtain 63 of the 125 seats to form a majority.

Before the shooting incident, Charest, who lost his own assembly seat, had congratulated Marois for becoming Quebec's first woman premier. He noted that she would be leading a minority government and said the results speak "to the fact that the future of Quebec lies within Canada." He did not indicate whether he intended to step down as Liberal leader after the defeat.

Earlier, Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper congratulated Marois on her victory but said he did not believe the results meant most Quebecers favor separation.

"We do not believe that Quebecers wish to revisit the old constitutional battles of the past," Harper said in a statement.

Harper's office had no immediate reaction to the shooting at the Parti Quebecois rally.

Although a number of candidates from the smaller parties are separatists, a minority government means "the more radical things in the party platform are going to be dead on arrival," said Bruce Hicks, a political science professor at Concordia University in Montreal.

Charest called the election more than a year before he had to, citing unrest in the streets due to this spring's student protests over tuition hikes. The most sustained student protests ever to take place in Canada began in February, resulting in about 2,500 arrests.

Marois, 63, was first elected to Quebec's National Assembly in 1981. She retired in 2006 but returned to become PQ leader a year later after her predecessor lost to Charest in an election that landed the PQ in third place. She in turn lost to Charest in 2008 but the 54-year-old Liberal leader seems to have lost his bet when he called early elections in August seeking a fourth mandate.

It's not the first time there has been political violence in Quebec related to tensions between the French and English. In the 1970s Canadian soldiers were deployed to the streets of Quebec because of a spate of terrorism by a group demanding independence from Canada. In 1970, the shadowy militant FLQ demanded "total independence" from Canada. Its members kidnapped and killed Quebec's labor minister and later abducted, then freed, a British diplomat.

The subsequent "October Crisis" was considered one of the darkest periods in modern Canadian history. Canadian troops patrolled the streets of Quebec and jailed alleged FLQ sympathizers, most of whom were later found innocent of having any FLQ ties.

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Gillies reported from Toronto

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/gunman-kills-1-rally-quebec-premier-060908664.html

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