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The Sault Tribe Police Department will host the 12th annual Junior Police Academy from August 6 – 10 at Boedne Bay, Moran. The academy gives youth in our communities a taste of what law enforcement life is like while offering fun and educational activities. 

“The academy is a program we started in 2000 with the goal of giving our local children a look into what a career in the law enforcement field would be,” said Bob Marchand, Sault Tribe Chief of Police.  “with the rise of police and criminal investigative programs on TV, youth are curious to see what really takes place.  This camp shows them what they could do, what really happens, and shows them that they could have a career in the field if they work hard, stay in school, and stay out of trouble.”

Registration for the academy begins in early July.

The program is funded by past fund-raising efforts, revenues from renting out Boedne Bay to other entities, and tribal dollars. 

“We have been fortunate enough to provide the academy at no charge to participants in past years,” said Marchand. 

to keep this tradition, the group hosts fundraising events throughout the year.  Later this month, the Sault Tribe Police are hosting its second annual Golf Scramble Fundraiser on Saturday, June 23 at Tanglewood Marsh Golf Course.  all proceeds from this fundraiser will benefit the Sault Tribe Junior Police Academy.

“We have been privileged in past years to have demonstrations and presentations from a wide variety of agencies, including the U.S. Coast Guard, State Police Bomb Squad, Emergency Medical Services and fire personnel, K-9 units, Federal Bureau of Investigations, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and outdoor preparedness training,” said Marchand. 

At the camp, kids wake up every morning to Physical Training (PT), swim every day (weather permitting), and end most nights with a campfire. 

“It’s a fun experience for youth and our officers alike,” he said.

The Sault Tribe Law Enforcement Department currently has 23 sworn Police Officer positions, with a main office in Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan and satellite offices in Kincheloe, St. Ignace, and Manistique, Michigan. 

Tribal Law Enforcement officials serve the communities of: Sault Ste. Marie, Kincheloe, Hessel, St. Ignace, Newberry, Manistique, Wetmore, Escanaba, and Marquette. Conservation Enforcement takes place in Lake Superior, Lake Huron, Lake Michigan and the interior waters and lands within the 1836 Treaty area. 

please contact Sault Tribe Police Department at (906) 635-6065 for more information on the academy or the golf tournament.

The Sault Tribe Police Department will host the 12th annual Junior Police Academy from August 6 – 10 at Boedne Bay, Moran. The academy gives youth in our communities a taste of what law enforcement life is like while offering fun and educational activities. 

“The academy is a program we started in 2000 with the goal of giving our local children a look into what a career in the law enforcement field would be,” said Bob Marchand, Sault Tribe Chief of Police.  “with the rise of police and criminal investigative programs on TV, youth are curious to see what really takes place.  This camp shows them what they could do, what really happens, and shows them that they could have a career in the field if they work hard, stay in school, and stay out of trouble.”

Registration for the academy begins in early July.

The program is funded by past fund-raising efforts, revenues from renting out Boedne Bay to other entities, and tribal dollars. 

“We have been fortunate enough to provide the academy at no charge to participants in past years,” said Marchand. 

to keep this tradition, the group hosts fundraising events throughout the year.  Later this month, the Sault Tribe Police are hosting its second annual Golf Scramble Fundraiser on Saturday, June 23 at Tanglewood Marsh Golf Course.  all proceeds from this fundraiser will benefit the Sault Tribe Junior Police Academy.

“We have been privileged in past years to have demonstrations and presentations from a wide variety of agencies, including the U.S. Coast Guard, State Police Bomb Squad, Emergency Medical Services and fire personnel, K-9 units, Federal Bureau of Investigations, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and outdoor preparedness training,” said Marchand. 

At the camp, kids wake up every morning to Physical Training (PT), swim every day (weather permitting), and end most nights with a campfire. 

“It’s a fun experience for youth and our officers alike,” he said. The Sault Tribe Law Enforcement Department currently has 23 sworn Police Officer positions, with a main office in Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan and satellite offices in Kincheloe, St. Ignace, and Manistique, Michigan. 

Tribal Law Enforcement officials serve the communities of: Sault Ste. Marie, Kincheloe, Hessel, St. Ignace, Newberry, Manistique, Wetmore, Escanaba, and Marquette. Conservation Enforcement takes place in Lake Superior, Lake Huron, Lake Michigan and the interior waters and lands within the 1836 Treaty area. 

please contact Sault Tribe Police Department at (906) 635-6065 for more information on the academy or the golf tournament.

RICHMOND, VA (WWBT) –

More than a dozen people are without a home tonight after a nasty fire ripped through a South Side trailer park.

This happened at the Rudd Trailer Park off Jeff Davis Highway in Richmond.

Firefighters are calling this an electrical fire. they say it looks like the family living inside the trailer where this started overloaded a circuit by plugging in several appliances into each other.

Investigators say that's a common mistake during hot summer days like today.

The trailer where this fire started is a total loss. It's hard to recognize anything left inside the charred shell that used to be home for nine people.

Now the Red Cross is taking care of them as well as the seven people that lived in this trailer next door. It too was damaged.

Neighbors say the family that lives here wasn't home when this fire broke out around 8 o'clock Sunday morning. Fortunately firefighters say no one was injured.

Clinton Woody lives right next door to the trailer that caught fire.

“The smoke was coming out the whole trailer,” said Woody.

He says his wife was panicking. She was afraid the fire could spread to their home.

“My wife was crying,” he said.  “The good Lord was there. The good Lord was there. I think a strong wind might have pushed it that way.”

Lt. Robbie Hagaman of the Richmond Fire Department says fires like this become all too common in the summer. He says many people do what's called “daisy chaining”.

“That's just basically plugging one thing into another, into another, into another to get current to more than one appliance,” said Hagaman.  “That's absolutely not allowed. Not only is it not allowed, it's just not safe.”

The trailers in this park are densely packed. many people say they're thankful more homes weren't destroyed.

“I'm glad it's over with,” Woody said.  “I'm glad nothing happen to nobody.”

Firefighters say you should never plug a power strip into another power strip. you should only use one appliance per outlet.

Copyright 2012 WWBT NBC12.  All rights reserved.

Fire investigators have determined a fire at south side house trailer was electrical in nature, possibly due to an overloaded outlet or circuit.

Just after 8:00 a.m. Sunday, firefighters were called to the 2900 block of Jefferson Davis Highway. Lt. Robert Hagaman with Richmond Fire tells us the trailer was fully engulfed when crews arrived on scene.

The fire took about 20 minutes to get under control. We're told everyone inside managed to escape and no one was injured, but there was some damage to an adjacent trailer.

The Greater Richmond Chapter of the American Red Cross is now assisting 5 adults and 11 children, displaced by the fire. We're told 9 of those people were in the home that caught fire, while 7 others were in the adjacent trailer.

Copyright 2012 WWBT NBC12. All rights reserved.

Holley Jones-Bewert, 7, Imogen Falzon, 8, and Anna Norton, 8, on Bopalong Buddies at a Toy and Game Expo in Homebush. Picture: Craig Greenhill Source: The Daily Telegraph

IT'S enough to make parents blush – and many have no one to blame but themselves.

Nearly 60 per cent of children swear and 42 per cent pick up bad language by age three, a Daily Telegraph poll has revealed.

And by kindergarten, more than 90 per cent of children have said a rude word.Even though the overwhelming majority of parents – 78.4 per cent – actively discourage swearing, more than half admit their children heard their first curse word at home. The next most common places for children to pick up obscenities are in the playground (48.2 per cent) and TV (31 per cent).

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Sitting in the car is another good place for kids to learn foul language (15 per cent), with nearly 10 per cent of parents admitting stressful driving situations had caused them to use bad language.

The most common first "naughty word" is a tie between shit and f … – 28 per cent for each.

Linguistics expert Professor Kate Burridge said it is not surprising children experiment with swearing as "lively language is very much part of our vernacular".

"they soon learn they get maximum attention with a curse word," Prof Burridge, of Monash University, said.

"Later they learn discretion with words and repress them when necessary."

Most parents – 70 per cent – say schools and parents should do more to crack down on profanity and 40 per cent admit to being in shock on first hearing their child swear.

Almost 27 per cent confess they laughed while 25.4 per cent managed to hide their reaction. just over 16 per cent of parents were angry their child had learnt bad language.

Parents use different strategies to curb their children’s cussing, with some ignoring the bad language, others explaining why the word is inappropriate and others instigating iPad bans.

Friends Holley Jones-Bewert, 7, Imogen Falzon, 8, and Anna Norton, 8, all admitted they had dropped a "naughty word".

Wentworthville mum Helen Falzon said her daughter’s first curse was probably "shut up" or "stupid" – and they still had their mouths washed out with soap if they swore. "they will pick up things from older siblings and they will pick up a lot from school," she said.

Even baby-kissing politicians have been caught out by salty preschoolers.

Premier Barry OFarrell was interrupted by a boy shouting "penis" as he tried to read The very Hungry Caterpillar at a preschool visit during the election campaign.

Professor Burridge advises parents not to panic if their child swears: "it is probably best to treat these as ordinary words, because they are."

Concerted efforts to control diarrhea and pneumonia, the biggest killers of children under the age of five, could save the lives of up to 2 million of the world’s poorest children each year, the United Nations Children’s Fund said on Friday.

The lives saved would be largely in Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia, according to a new study from the Fund.

“Scaling up simple interventions could overcome two of the biggest obstacles to increasing child survival (and) help give every child a fair chance to grow and thrive,” said Anthony Lake, executive director of the Fund, known as UNICEF.

The study called for coherent and reliable distribution plans for new vaccines against the major causes of pneumonia and diarrhea – including the influenza virus, rotavirus and pneumococcal bacteria.

It noted that one of the simplest and most effective ways to protect babies from disease is exclusive breastfeeding during the first six months of life, although fewer than 40 percent of infants receive such protection.

“Infants not breastfed are 15 times more likely to die due to pneumonia than are exclusively breastfed children,” it noted.

Pneumonia and diarrhea, which often occur simultaneously, account for 29 percent of deaths among children under five worldwide – or more than 2 million a year. Nearly 90 percent of the children who die from the two diseases live in sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia, the report said.

It noted that about half of those deaths occur in just five mostly poor and populous countries: India, Nigeria, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Pakistan and Ethiopia.

Current care for children with pneumonia is haphazard in the 75 countries with the highest mortality rate, it added, with fewer than one-third of affected children receiving antibiotics.

Child health experts to confer

Likewise, the study said inexpensive but potentially life-saving oral rehydration salts are used by only one third of the children with diarrhea in developing countries.

“Child deaths due to pneumonia in these countries could fall 30 percent, and child deaths due to diarrhea could fall 60 percent,” the report said, if interventions among poor children were raised to the level seen in the richest 20 percent of households in the same countries.

In that event, deaths of children from all causes could be reduced about 13 percent in those 75 countries by 2015, it said.

Adequate nutrition, hand washing with soap, safe drinking water and basic sanitation are also deemed vital safeguards against pneumonia and diarrhea, but are largely absent in impoverished regions.

“This report is a call to action” against the two childhood scourges, UNICEF said, adding that a global action plan will be released next year and set out a “clear and integrated vision” of how to proceed.

The UNICEF report was issued ahead of a planned meeting next week in Washington convened by the governments of Ethiopia, India and the United States on child-survival objectives. some 700 experts from government and the private sector are expected to attend.

UNICEF, a U.N. agency, works for children’s rights, their health, development and protection from violence, exploitation and abuse, according to the www.unicef.org Web site.

Perhaps French children go to bed too easily, so French parents are on the lookout for ways to keep them awake longer. these stories probably do the trick…

The Weight of Sorrow

My first Nightmare

Where Is Mama?

Dark Rooms

Clown Emergency

The Lady and the Little Boy

Revenge of the Rabbits

Lily’s Thief

The Visit from Little Death

Teeth Trolls

The silent Child

The Day Papa Killed his old Aunt

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6 June 2012 Last updated at 03:18 ET Share this page Clive Kemp said when talking in schools about D-Day, often children did not know what he was talking about

A war veteran believes many children do not understand the importance of D-Day.

Clive Kemp visits Jersey schools to tell young people about the Normandy campaign and said often the children did not know what he was talking about.

He said if it were not for D-Day, the turning point of World War II when British forces pushed the Germans out of France, Jersey could still be under Nazi rule.

He said he remembered 6 June 1944 like it was yesterday.

Mr Kemp said: "it is as vivid now as on D-Day, it is something nobody will ever forget if they were involved in it.

"it was noisy, frightening and very wet for some of us."

Jersey veterans will gather later at the Cenotaph in St Helier to remember their fallen comrades.

Jersey's Bailiff and the Chief Minister will also attend the service at 11:00 BST.

Facebook is developing technology that would allow children younger than 13 years old to use the social-networking site under parental supervision, a step that could help the company tap a new pool of users for revenue but also inflame privacy concerns.

Mechanisms being tested include connecting children’s accounts to their parents’ and controls that would allow parents to decide whom their kids can “friend” and what applications they can use, people who have spoken with Facebook executives about the technology said. the under-13 features could enable Facebook and its partners to charge parents for games and other entertainment accessed by their children, the people said.

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I FELT sad on reading “be sensitive to children’s feelings” (The Star, June 4). Children’s lifestyle nowadays is totally different from that of our days and we as parents should not compare living our sweet old days with our children’s.

I still remember the words expressed by my father on the very first day he sent me to school. he told the teacher: “Do whatever necessary, and make him study.”

The words are like licence to my teacher to punish my friends and me with their old hard method when correcting our mistakes.

Yes, that was good enough for those days because we didn’t even know what child psychology was then.

Now, student psychology has became part of the curriculum in teacher’s training colleges. Teachers are urged by the Education Ministry to use psychology to overcome children’s problems in school rather than using disciplinary action.

As the writer said, suicide is a preventable “illness” and sometimes the cure can be a simple solution if only we can understand the child’s problem and find a suitable solution to help him.

I would also say parental guidance is vital to curbing such grievous incidents from threatening society.

Parents in our time placed emphasis on religious values, taking their children to the temple, church or mosque. Children learned the importance of religious values in life.

In those days, even though parents sometimes had to use the hard way to correct our mistakes, the next moment, by their actions, they would show care and love.

Our grandparents, too, from time to time, stressed the importance of cultural values and nurtured these in the young children’s hearts so that the next generation would not lose them.

Everything has now changed and more and more pressure is put by parents on their children to excel academically, to improve their career prospects.

But what is most important is to teach our kids to become more stable in their psychological make-up. Giving them a luxurious life is not a good way to build inner strength. Parents should spend more time with their children. they still need us to build their identity.

Give them every opportunity to build a good character. Talk with them and give them a way to express and share their problems in their daily life.

We as parents shouldn’t let them solve their problems their own way because they are still not mature enough to properly weigh their problems or they may have difficulty in solving them.

Let’s play our part to instil strong and good character traits in our children, and not leave this job to the teachers.

Academically, teachers may know our kids better but we parents know their hearts better.

Yes, we, the parents are the first teacher, the first facilitator and first counsellor to our kids. if we can play our role effectively, we can build a very strong young generation capable of facing the future bravely and confidently.

Let’s move from now to guide and teach our kids to become strong and brave.

SELVAM NARAYANASAMY,

Shah Alam.

The Irish Times – Tuesday, June 5, 2012

Q&A: Could I gift €3,000 a year to each of my children by allocating this amount to them within my stock market investment portfolio?

No immediate transfer would take place but the children would be informed in writing that they could access the cumulative gifts at any time. I appreciate that no CAT should be incurred but, obviously, I might incur CGT when realising cash within the portfolio in order to pay over the gift once requested by a child.

If instead of giving cash, I simply transferred shares worth €3,000 to a child, would I be liable to CGT on the shares transferred?

The small gift exemption – the €3,000 amount that can be given annually without incurring capital acquisitions tax (CAT) – is a provision designed to ensure that people receiving relatively small sums do not have to worry about taxation. it is applicable both to cash amounts or to other assets of that value or less.

However, I think you will struggle to persuade Revenue that you are making such a gift from your share portfolio if the assets remain in your name.

You are effectively promising to pay a sum at some time in the future by liquidating part of your portfolio at that stage. quite apart from anything else, as recent experience with Irish bank shares, that is effectively a conditional offer, regardless of the current status of your portfolio.

On that basis, I have no doubt, the Revenue would assess the gift as being its value at the time of the eventual transfer.

You are right in your presumption that selling shares to raise money to meet any such commitments to your children would also trigger a capital gains tax (CGT) issue. you would face CGT on any gain in the value of your shareholding in excess of your annual CGT exemption limit of €1,270.

Transferring shares to the current value of €3,000 into the name of your children would certainly be a way of getting around any concern that Revenue would have about the fact that a gift has taken place. However, it would not address the capital gains issue. you would still be liable for any capital again accruing during the period of your ownership of the shares being transferred.

Without getting into it in detail here, you will be able to mitigate capital gains for the effect of inflation through an indexation multiple but this is relevant only if you owned the shares being transferred before 2003.

The applicable rates for both gift tax (CAT) and capital gains tax are currently 30 per cent.

Gift tax versus capital gains tax 

In relation to a recent query about gifting a property to a large family recently, you mentioned capital gains tax. I didn’t realise that a gift incurs capital gains tax as the house will not be sold to the family concern and I will not be making any profit or gains on it.

On the matters raised by your response to that query, is there a small gift exemption of €3,000 per person as well as the €16,750 per person making a total of €19,750 each?

Does stamp duty arise if given while alive? All in all, it seems that leaving it in a will would be the more sensible option?

Your initial query on gift tax has sparked a series of letters from people on different aspects of the legislation governing the tax. Certainly the small gift exemption has attracted a lot on interest.

In relation to the specifics of your questions, there are in effect two transactions going on here if you transfer this property to the family involved. First there is the disposal by you of an investment property – as you stated originally that this was not your family home, or principal private residence to use the Revenue jargon.

Whether you are formally selling it or just gifting it, the fact remains that you acquired the property at value X and that, assuming it was bought far enough ahead of the property crash, it will now be worth more than that.

Under tax law relating to investment property, disposal triggers a capital gains tax assessment point. The fact that you are choosing to gift the property will not alter this. of course, if the property is willed after your death, CGT will not arise as any gain in the property value is deemed to have been addressed with your passing.

On the second matter you mention, it is true that the small gift exemption applies before addressing the individual category aggregated exemption of €16,750 which applies to gift and bequests between strangers.

So you are right in presuming that the each member of this family to whom you are considering gifting the property could receive a gift or bequest from you worth up to €19,750 before capital acquisitions tax (CAT) kicks in – assuming they have received no other gifts or bequests from Category C “strangers” – ie people with whom you do not have a close blood relationship.

Finally, you are correct that a transfer of property during your lifetime is likely to trigger a liability to stamp duty. The stamp duty regime was recently amended to simplify it and duty on property transfers/sales is not 1 per cent if the value of the property is below € 1 million.

Consanguinity relief, which applied to transfers within families, has also been abolished.

Naturally, stamp duty will not arise on any transfer after your death.

As you say, all in all, it does appear that gifting this property to the family concerned will be less complicated through your will rather than in your lifetime.

This column is a reader service and is not intended to replace professional advice. please send your questions to QA, c/o Dominic Coyle, The Irish Times, 24-28 Tara Street, Dublin 2, or to dcoyle@irishtimes.com. no personal correspondence will be entered into. 

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Two church bombings in northern Nigeria killed at least 15 people and wounded 38 others Sunday morning, the Red Cross said.

Six children are among the wounded, Red Cross spokesman Andronicus Adeyemo said.

One attack took place at the Living Faith church as the congregation was leaving the Sunday service in the Yelwatudu area of Bauchi state, about 12 km (7 miles) from the state capital.

The other took place at the Church of Christ, in the same area.

There are no suspects and no one has claimed responsibility, said Muhammad Inuwa Bello, chairman of the state emergency operation team.

The militant Islamist group Boko Haram has carried out previous attacks, including at churches in the country.

The group also refers to itself as “Nigerian Taliban,” and seeks to overthrow the government and replace it with a regime based on Islamic law, according to the U.S. National Counterterrorism Center.

“Boko Haram” means “Western education is forbidden.”