Embracing Our Differences 2010

NATION
Classified . . 10C Obituaries . 6B
Comics .. . . 8B Opinion . . . 8A
Lo tery . . 2A People . . .
7B
Movie Log . 7B Sports . . 1C
OUR 85TH YEAR
NUMBER 91 4 SECTIONS
STAFF PHOTO /
E. SKYLAR
LITHERLAND
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Definitions
From page 5
1. Racism – A belief or
doctrine that inherent differences
among the various human races
determine cultural or individual
achievement, usually involving the
idea that one’s own race is superior
and has the right to rule others.
2. Hatred – The feeling of
one who hates; intense dislike or
extreme aversion or hostility.
3. Bigotry – Stubborn and
complete intolerance of any creed,
belief or opinion that differs from
one’s own.
4. Intolerance – Lack
of toleration; unwillingness or
refusal to tolerate or respect contrary
opinions or beliefs, persons of
different races or backgrounds, etc.
5. Diversity – The state
or fact of being diverse; difference;
unlikeness.
6. Discrimination –
Treatment or consideration of, or
making a distinction in favor of or
against, a person or thing based
on the group, class or category to
which that person or thing belongs
rather than on individual merit.
7. Civility – Courtesy;
politeness.
8. Pacifism – Opposition
to war or violence of any kind.
9. Stigma – A mark of
disgrace or infamy; a stain or reproach,
as on one’s reputation.
10. Altruism – The principle
or practice of unselfish concern for or
devotion to the welfare of others.
Source: www.dictionary.com
“Human diversity makes tolerance
more than a virtue; it makes
it a requirement for survival.”
– Rene Dubos
“If you approach each new person you meet
in a spirit of adventure, you will find
yourself endlessly fascinated by the new
channels of thought and experience and
personality that you encounter.”
– Eleanor Roosevelt (Oct. 11, 1884 - Nov. 7, 1962)
American First Lady (1933-1945), Activist, UN Diplomat
“The love of one’s country is
a natural thing. But why should
love stop at the border? ”
– Pablo Casals (Dec. 29, 1876 - Oct. 22, 1973)
Spanish Cellist & Conductor
READING
BETWEEN
THE LINES
Being publicly discriminatory
may be against
the law but it doesn’t stop
school bullies or street
gangs from engaging in it.
The stories pop up in the
crime section of newspapers
every day. Flip through the
pages of the Herald-Tribune
for stories about groups
that are enduring discrimination.
Read the movie
listings in Thursday’s Ticket
section and find films that
tackle topics like racism
and bigotry. Go to heraldtribune.com
and surf the
headlines for world news
“Peaceable Kingdom
of the North”
by Warren Godfrey,
Nutley, N.J.
I have always been impressed by the message of
Edward Hicks in his “Peaceable Kingdom” paintings.
The beauty of the animals and his message
of inclusion of all in the early days of our country
influenced me to crate a different “Peaceable
Kingdom” – one far to the North where the world
is cold and snowy, yet it embraces the harmony of
living together. Wherever man, nature and beast
co-exist in this world, our goal should be the same
– to live in a “Peaceable Kingdom.”
Bills
target
runaway
children
LAWMAKERS: Ideas are
meant to ensure that
police respond quickly
By IAN URBINA
The New York Times
WASHINGTON — State
and federal lawmakers from
around the country are pressing
a variety of new laws that
would make sweeping changes
in the way runaways and prostituted
children are treated by
police and social workers.
In Congress, Democratic
leaders in the House and Senate
are moving several bills
that would improve how runaways
are tracked by police, increase
spending to provide
them with social services and
promote methods for earlier intervention.
The Government Accountability
Office, an auditing arm
of Congress, began an investigation
in December at the request
of the Senate majority
leader, Harry Reid, D-Nev.,
and Charles E. Schumer,
D-N.Y., into whether police departments
are handling runaways
properly.
Lawmakers in at least 10
states have proposed or passed
bills in recent months that focus
on runaways by extending
outreach efforts and shelter options
and changing state reporting
requirements so that youth
shelters have enough time to
win trust and provide services
before they need to report the
runaways to the police.
Police departments are already
required by federal law
to enter missing-person reports
into a database called the
National Crime Information
Center, or NCIC, within two
hours of receiving them. When
local police fail to do this, law
See RUNAWAYS on 2A
INSIDE
RUSTLERS’ PARADISE
Thieves are at work in the vast
Great Basin, where $1 mi lion
worth of cattle has vanished. 2A
ROVER STUCK
IN MARS SAND
Scientists say if they
can’t get Spirit to
move, they’ l
mine data
from where it
sits. 3A
SEARCHABLE LISTINGS
Search for bank ratings, golf
courses, restaurant listings
and more online.
LOVE KEEPS THEM WARM
The coldest day of the season
couldn’t keep this bride from
her barefoot beach wedding.
NATIONAL JOURNAL
HERALDTRIBUNE.COM/DATAMINE
SNN LOCAL NEWS 6
COMMERCIAL
QUAGMIRE
Banks have gotten
stingy with loans,
vacancies are up, values
and rent are down and
the key to a solution –
jobs – could be years
away. Business Weekly
Date Page number
A FRIGID WEEK AHEAD
Kimberly Deskins and James Stephens sit a the Salvation Army in Sarasota while waiting to be assigned a place to sleep Sunday evening. Stephens,
who usua ly sleeps in a camp in the woods, said it was too cold to be outside overnight. STAFF PHOTO / DAN WAGNER
THREAT TO CITRUS
lowest since 2003.
“The clouds, among other things,
The cold snap, which began Saturday,
threatened to break an overton,
a forecaster with the National
act as a blanket,” said Charlie Paxnight
low of 31 degrees set Jan. 4, Weather Service in Ruskin.
1979. Forecasters are calling for According to the weather service,
cold, dry air will move in
overnight lows in the mid-30s
throughout the workweek. through the first half of the week
Cloud cover over the weekend and likely linger.
Near freezing temperatures descended
on the region overnight, fromrising.But,asthosecloudsdissi-
60 transients came to the Salvation
kept the frost at bay and warmer air As temperatures dropped, about
following a Sunday when the daytime
high of 47 in Sarasota was the tions — especia ly
pate,forecastersforesawfrostcondi-
Army’s Center of Hope in Sarasota
inland.
WEATHER: Shelters see more
clients as frosty air settles
over the Sarasota area
By JOHN DAVIS
john.davis@heraldtribune.com
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expose all of
their weaknesses
in their last
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Citrus growers are paying
special a tention to the
28-degree mark, the point at
which the fruit begins to
sustain damage. Too long at
tha temperature and the crop
is ruined. Ron Hamel, of the
Gulf Citrus Growers Association,
says $300 mi lion worth of
produce is sti l on the trees. 6A
Weather map, 10B
Use portable heaters carefully
Help avoid blackouts Protect your plants
Reviving your plants
Make sure portable heaters are free of dust or grease Use appliances sparingly to Bring in po ted plants. Wait several days before
before being turned on. Keep heaters several feet away avoid power surges and Outdoor plants can be pruning cold-damaged plants
from other objects, especia ly flammable materials such as blackouts. Electric utilities covered with burlap or other to see if they recover. See if
bed linens and curtains. Do not use older heaters that do suggest keeping the
cloth. Do not use plastic the buds are sti l green.
not automatica ly shut off if tipped over.
thermostat at 68 degrees and because it saps heat from
Keep children away from space heaters and turn them o f
Protect your pets
lowering i to 65 degrees plants. Before a freeze, water
before you leave the room.
Bring pets inside. If you
when you go to bed or are plants during the day but not
cannot, make sure your pet
Use of kerosene heaters, especially in small rooms with away from home. The heating after sunset.
has a shelter out of the cold
poor ventilation, can cause carbon monoxide poisoning. unit wi l work more e ficiently
and wind.
Never use charcoal gri ls for heat inside.
if the air filter is clean.
Vincent
Dessberg
stands at his
rooftop
hydroponic farm
near downtown
Sarasota, where
he is growing
fruits and
vegetables. His
lettuce is selling
at the Sarasota
Downtown
Farmer’s
Market. With
about 6,000
plants, this new
sma l farm is by
far the most
urban in the
county.
How one farm got off the ground
cleaners launder draperies and sota Downtown Farmer’s Market.
Vincent Dessberg grows crops on Other fruits and vegetables — cauliflower,
okra, goji berries — are
the roof of his old glass shop.
Dessberg used to fuse glass into bound for dinner plates at some of
colorfulwindows.Butaftertheeconomic
downturn he turned from With about 6,000 plants, this
the city’s best restaurants.
the kiln, seeing better opportunity new small farm is by far the most
on his 3,000 square-foot roof. urban in the county. Crops grow
SARASOTA — In an industrial “Nobody needs glass. Everybody
needs to eat,” he said. ers that stand about six feet tall.
vertica ly in 180 hydroponic plant-
park about a mile from Main
Street, mechanics repair cars, His lettuce is selling at the Sara-
ROOFTOP AGRICULTURE:
Vegetables are grown at a
former Sarasota glass shop
By KATE SPINNER
kate.spinner@heraldtribune.com
MONDAY, JANUARY 4, 2010 ❘ 75¢
Bills
target
runaway
children
LAWMAKERS: Ideas are
meant to ensure that
police respond quickly
By IAN URBINA
The New York Times
WASHINGTON — State
and federal lawmakers from
around the country are pressing
a variety of new laws that
would make sweeping changes
in the way runaways and prostituted
children are treated by
police and social workers.
In Congress, Democratic
leaders in the House and Senate
are moving several bills
that would improve how runaways
are tracked by police, increase
spending to provide
them with social services and
promote methods for earlier intervention.
The Government Accountability
Office, an auditing arm
of Congress, began an investigation
in December at the request
of the Senate majority
leader, Harry Reid, D-Nev.,
and Charles E. Schumer,
D-N.Y., into whether police departments
are handling runaways
properly.
Lawmakers in at least 10
states have proposed or passed
bills in recent months that focus
on runaways by extending
outreach efforts and shelter options
and changing state reporting
requirements so that youth
shelters have enough time to
win trust and provide services
before they need to report the
runaways to the police.
Police departments are already
required by federal law
to enter missing-person reports
into a database called the
National Crime Information
Center, or NCIC, within two
hours of receiving them. When
local police fail to do this, law
INSIDE
NATIONAL JOURNAL
NATION
ROVER STUCK
IN MARS SAND
Scientists say if they
can’t get Spirit to
move, they’ll
mine data
from where it
sits. 3A
HERALDTRIBUNE.COM/DATAMINE
SEARCHABLE LISTINGS
Search for bank ratings, golf
courses, restaurant listings
and more online.
SNN LOCAL NEWS 6
See RUNAWAYS on 2A
RUSTLERS’ PARADISE
Thieves are at work in the vast
Great Basin, where $1 million
worth of cattle has vanished. 2A
LOVE KEEPS THEM WARM
The coldest day of the season
couldn’t keep this bride from
her barefoot beach wedding.
Classified ......
10C
Comics .............
8B
Lottery .............
2A
Movie Log .......
7B
Obituaries ........
6B
Opinion ...........
8A
People ..............
7B
Sports ..............
1C
OUR 85TH YEAR
NUMBER 91 4 SECTIONS
COMMERCIAL
QUAGMIRE
See ROOF on 6A
Banks have gotten
stingy with loans,
vacancies are up, values
and rent are down and
the key to a solution –
jobs – could be years
away. Business Weekly
A FR
WEATHER: Shelters
– Sta f writer Dale White
Terror case
handling
defended
By KAREN DEYOUNG
The Washington Post
WASHINGTON— President
Obama’s chief counterterrorism
adviser on Sunday defended the
administration’s decision to
charge the a leged Christmas
Day airline bomber in federal
court, and indicated the suspect
would be offered a plea agreemen
to persuade him to reveal
what he knows about al-Qaida
operations in Yemen.
NigerianUmarFaroukAbdulmuta
lab, 23, charged with the
failed attempt to blow up the
Amsterdam-Detroit flight, was
initia ly “talking to people who
detained him,” but now has a
public defender and “doesn’t
have to,” John Brennan said on
“Fox News Sunday.”
“Wehavedifferentwaysofobtaininginformationfromindividuals”
within the criminal process,
Brennan said on NBC’s
See TERROR on 3A
SECURITY THREAT: U.S. and
U.K. close embassies in Yemen. 6A
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By JOHN DAVIS
john.davis@heraldtribune.
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following a Sunday w
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A COLD SNAP GUID
Use portable heaters
Make sure portable he
before being turned o
from other objects, es
bed linens and curtain
not automatically shu
Keep children away fr
before you leave the
Use of kerosene heat
poor ventilation, can
Never use charcoal g
Vincent
Dessberg
stands at his
rooftop
hydroponic farm
near downtown
Sarasota, where
he is growing
fruits and
vegetables. His
lettuce is selling
at the Sarasota
Downtown
Farmer’s
Market. With
about 6,000
plants, this new
small farm is by
far the most
urban in the
county.
STAFF PHOTO /
E. SKYLAR
LITHERLAND
tur
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eta
be
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How o
ROOFTOP AGRICU
Vegetables are
former Saraso
By KATE SPINNER
kate.spinner@herald
SARASOTA —
park about a m
Street, mechani
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