Show Home Features Editor: 625-427- 0 wwwstandardnet Standard-Examine- 0 cr Family r : Saturday January 26 2002 m Don1 1 throw j - Highfalutin lawyers got nothing over this Mormon UJ s if we all needed yet another It reason to despise lawyers here’s one anyway JL JL The United States Supreme Court announced this week it will hear Utah’s challenge to census figures that denied the state a fourth representative in Congress giving the seat to North Carolina instead That’s extremely good news except A AA Snow blowers have big advantage over shovels - but safety’s a concern By TANNA BARRY Standard-Examin- for the fact that the lawyer the state hired in the case has somehow already used up the $600000 allocated and now wants more of the taxpayers’ time g The machines are especially popular during an winter like this one has been Clyde O’Connor with the Ogden Home Depot says his store has sold out of snow blowers twice so far this year A snow blower he says definitely has an advantage over the traditional method “It saves your back” he said “It can even save a heart attack Shoveling snow is one of the greatest causes of heart attacks because you get all hot and sweaty It gets especially bad with wet d snow-throwin- shovel-and-thro- even request the brief recess But most of all I know what it means when the music swells dramatically in the courtroom: The witness on die stand is just about to crack and confess to everything So I say we stop paying some suit who’s merely “practicing” law and get someone who doesn’t need the practice Someone who’s ready to tear North Carolina a new one right here and now Someone high-price- But health concerns are not the only reason O’Connor favors snow blowers “You can clean a lot more area with a snow blower than a shovel” O’Connor said A driveway is usually about 16 feet wide and it can take between 1 12 and two hours to shovel A snow blower can do the job in less than half an hour like me I’ll gladly defend the state in the census case and I’ll do it for a lot less video-rent- One- - Standard-Examin- After a recent heavy snowstorm Grant Olsen Clearfield home reasonable I was simply conducting research for the census suit nothing more nothing less Besides I don’t really gamble anyway and (MUSIC SWELLS DRAMATICALLY) OK! I admit it I went to Wendover to gamble I’m morally weak and I dropped two rolls of nickels in the slot machines and I bet a dollar on black at the roulette wheel and I played a keno game although I never did turn in the card but just marked down the numbers to see if I would have won which I didn’t Oh and I even bet some buffet five guy at the bucks that I could put away more shrimp than him But listen bishop I saw Mormons out there Lots of them And for an offer of spiritual immunity I’ll give them up I can identify some I’ll even testify against them And hey unlike me many of them won money Lots of money And you know what that means t They owe tithing Need a personal injury lawyer? You 2 or can reach Mark Saal at msaalstandardnet i V photo uses a snowblower to clear the sidewalk in front of his e two-stag- le ge Always stop the engine if repairs or adjustments are to be made or if the discharge chute or auger needs to be unclogged Remove snow with a stick or similar instrument not with your hands f Always keep hands and feet away from all moving parts f Never leave the machine unattended if the engine is operating shut down the engine if you leave the machine for any length of time Add fuel to the tank outdoors before starting the machine don’t add gasoline to a running or hot engine If you have an electric-powere- d snow thrower be aware of where the power cord is at all times Check over the snow thrower each time you need to use it over the winter - Consumer Product Safety Commission two-stag- Driveway technique Regardless of the type of snow thrower you use O’Connor said it is best to move down the center of the driveway first then to finish one side and then the other See BLOW2C Russell Crowe’s ‘Beautiful Mind’ brings awareness Ron Howard film Director about schizophrenia the first to get it right Ron Howard (right) Standard-Examine- wire services r As talks to Russell Crowe on the set of Princeton University professor John Russell Crowe a tormented genius who eventually triumphs over schizophrenia through medication and sheer determination to maintain a truce with the demons who haunted him as a younger man To a public whose curriculum on schizophrenia has been limited to Hollywood’s comedies or thrillers “A Beautiful Mind” may seem like a fairy tale But to many mental health workers academics and others familiar with the disease the Ron HoWard film is the first to get it right “A Beautiful Mind” presents a rarely seen but common outcome of the disease: recovery or at least management of its symptomatic delusions and high-lev- 625-427- file Safety tips one-thir- explanation two-stag- Snow throwers come in two different e e or types: A single-stag- e snow blower that has a engine will blow snow out of the veins as you move Because this type has less power O’Connor said it is best to use on porches steps and small sidewalks This type of snow thrower can move snow only between 4 and 8 feet if the snow is wet considerably farther if it is dry snow thrower the front In a stage-tw- o of the machine augers the snow into the second stage which is a propeller that blows the snow out of the shoot snow thrower can only The one-stabe adjusted to throw snow to the right or e can throw left however the snow right left or straight ahead two-cyc- yay-hoo- - that there is a perfectly and one-stag- al weekend They’re all in Wendover Judging from the number of Utah license plates in the casino parking lots there it’s a safe bet that at any given d of the entire time a good population of this state is just over the border in Nevada That’s a statistical anomaly I’m guessing the census-taker- s never took into account And let me just state for the benefit of my bishop - and any other ecclesiastical leaders who may be ' wondering What I was doing in this w snow” d than the the current lawyer is charging (All I ask: Trade Karl Malone and pay off my late fees) s What’s more unlike these running the show now I’ll even win the case for the state - and do it faster than an Enron executive can say “Shred these documents” What makes me so positive? I mean besides all the antidepressants? Because I happen to know where thousands upon thousands of Utahns are hiding Utahns who went uncounted in this latest census Utahns who are numerous enough that - once the federal government realizes the sheer numbers overlooked in their calculations - they will earn us not one byt perhaps even two more congressional seats I know this because my wife and I ran into every one of these people last correspondent people are abandoning shovels for snow which can do the work in Some money To which I leap to my feet and strenuously shout: “I object!” As you can tell from the preceding sentence I know a little something about the law Between the “Perry Mason” “LA Law” “The Practice” and even “Ed” episodes I’ve watched over the years I think I know my way around a courtroom Hey I know my habeas from my corpus I know how to badger a witness move to strike and hard-earne- Classifieds 1 el ‘A Beautiful Mind” AdgerW Cowans photo The film the experts say is a welcome departure from mainstream depictions of the mentally ill that cast people with schizo- - -phrenia as either oddballs with “split personalities” - think Jim Carrey in “Me Myself & Irene” -or dangerous paranoids such as Edward Norton in “Fight Club” Almost as bad they say the disease has always been portrayed as a degenerative lifelong illness “And that was never true” said Sylvia Nasar whose 1998 National Book Critics Circle Award-winnin- g biography of Nash became the basis for “A Beautiful Mind” “The news of that hasn’t gotten out in a big way Partly because the only time we read about someone with schizophrenia is if a couple of Capitol Hill officers are shot or someone is pushed in front of a train “The amazing thing about the John Nash story is that it’s making people aware It’s giving them an entirely new view of who these people are who suffer from these illnesses and what the prospects are” What is schizophrenia? While the film has been criticized for either eliminating or fictionalizing parts of Nash’s life mental health experts praise its truthful portrait of his schizophre- nia Depictions of schizophrenia in popular culture have consistently perpetuated damaging misconceptions about the disease - for example that schizophrenia causes per- sonalities to cleave and multiply In reality the most common symptoms of schizophrenia are audible hallucinations - hearing voices Schizophrenia is a neurological disorder most often treated with a combination of drugs and therapy Akiva Goldsman who wrote the screenplay realized how little he knew about the disease when he read Nasar ’s book “I was stunned to learn about cases of schizophrenia that were in See MIND2C |