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All steamed up again Brass Screw events to return to PT locations BY CHARLIE BERMANT PENINSULA DAILY NEWS
PORT TOWNSEND — In preparation for next weekend’s second annual Brass Screw Confederacy, a celebration of the emerging steampunk trend, Lorilee Houston got herself a tattoo. “I visited [tattoo artist] Gary [Laxon] and told him that I would get a tattoo if he’d become a sponsor, thinking that he would never do it,” Houston said. “When he agreed, I said, ‘What do I do now?’” Houston last month got the tattoo: a copy of the festival’s official logo of the nymph on the Galatea Fountain decked out in steampunk garb. The “60-something” Houston doesn’t have any other tattoos, but she identifies enough with the Victorian-meets-sci-fi aesthetic of steampunk enough to dedicate a section of her arm to the idea. The festival, which is intended to build upon the suc-
Baby boomer suicides rise on Peninsula Clallam rate tops state; Jefferson 9th
Suicides now outnumber car deaths BY TARA PARKER-POPE
BY PAUL GOTTLIEB
THE NEW YORK TIMES
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Lorilee Houston shows the steampunk tattoo she acquired in honor of the second annual Brass Screw Confederacy, which takes place next weekend. cess of last year’s inaugural event, takes place Friday through Sunday, June 9, in various locations around Port Townsend. Steampunk is a nebulously defined activity that is intended to combine beautiful 19th-century architecture and eccentricity with a healthy splash of whimsy.
Organizer Nathan Barnett said the event is a part of a national movement that celebrates the ingenuity and inventiveness of the Victorian era and combines that with elements of science fiction and fantasy to create a perception of those times. TURN
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Suicide rates among middle-aged Americans have risen sharply in the past decade, prompting concern that a generation of baby boomers who have faced years of economic worry and easy access to prescription painkillers may be particularly vulnerable to self-inflicted harm. More people now die of suicide than in car wrecks, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention of Atlanta, which reported that in 2010, there were 33,687 deaths from motor vehicle crashes and 38,364 suicides. Suicide typically has been viewed as a problem of teenagers and the elderly, and the surge in suicide rates among middle-aged Americans is surprising. From 1999 to 2010, the suicide rate among Americans ages 35 to 64 rose by nearly 30 percent, to 17.6 deaths per 100,000 people, up from 13.7.
Clallam County leads the state in suicides among baby boomers, while Jefferson County is ninth in the age group. Those statistics are included in a new nationwide Centers for Disease Control and Prevention report on self-inflicted deaths. The CDC listed 53 self-inflicted deaths in Clallam County for the 1999-2010 study period. The per capita rate in Clallam was 32 deaths per 100,000 in the time period for the 55-and-older age group among the 26 counties that reported. That compares with the study period’s 48 suicides in Yakima County, another rural county. In Yakima County, the rate is half of Clallam’s, while the population of 247,141 is more than three times greater.
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In this scene from last year’s first steampunk festival, Brass Screw Confederacy, Robert Downing plays a flaming violin.
A quarter of Clallam’s population of 71,838 is 65 and older, more than double Yakima County’s percentage of the same age group. There were 13 self-inflicted deaths alone in Clallam County among the 55-and-older population in 2010, the same number as Yakima County-size Thurston County and more than one-quarter of Clallam County’s total for the 11-year period. Suicide rates tend to be higher in isolated rural areas than in high-population centers, said Kelly Schwab, program manager for Crisis Clinic of the Peninsulas. The agency answers crisis calls from Clallam, Jefferson and Kitsap counties. “A connection to human beings is the biggest buffer” to conditions that lead to suicide, Schwab said.
PT fest, PDN team for film contest PENINSULA DAILY NEWS
Whether you are a seasoned film veteran, an amateur or a filmmaking team who is just getting started, if you know how to create a three-minute video, we invite you to enter the 2013 PDNPDQ Film Competition. Sponsored by the Port Townsend Film Institute and Peninsula Daily News, this contest is for “pretty darn quick” films of
three minutes or less taken on your video camera or cellphone. And you have until Aug. 31 to make your film, polish it and enter the contest. A panel of film-loving judges will select three winners. The winning films will be screened outdoors on Taylor Street during the Sept. 20-22 Port Townsend Film Festival, www. ptfilmfest.com. In addition, each of the three winners will receive a FourPass,
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an $85 value (this pass will get you into four films during the film festival), a one-year membership to the Port Townsend Film Institute and use of the film institute’s film library. In addition, 20 percent off bread at Pane d’Amore in Port Townsend and $1 off First Tuesday salon tickets at Port Townsend’s Rose Theatre are also among the prizes. TURN
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Jefferson County’s suicide rate for the 55-and-older population of 21.6 per 100,000 from 1999-2010 compares with 16.7 per 100,000 for Kitsap, he noted. The per-100,000 per capita rate was not calculated for Clallam for 2010 because it was fewer than 20 and considered “unreliable,” according to the report, and a similar figure for 2010 for Jefferson County was not listed in the study. TURN
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Our popular Business, Politics and Environment section — formerly Section D of Sunday’s PDN — has moved. It’s now part of Section A every Sunday. You’ll find its special stories on Pages A10-A15 today. IN ADDITION . . . Peninsula Profile, formerly part of Section C, is a four-page stand-alone section in today’s PDN that can be found packaged with TV Week magazine and the Classified Advertising section.
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