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Franklin, Knutson, Kravchenko Named To U.S. Junior Select Team
COLORADO SPRINGS, CO -- USA Hockey has announced their 22-man roster for the 2013 World Junior A Challenge, November 2-10 in Yarmouth, Nova Scotia. The roster includes the Sioux Falls Stampede's top line of C.J. Franklin, Zeb Knutson and Dennis Kravchenko. The trio has combined for 30 points in the first seven games of the season. All 22 players on the roster play in the USHL.
Franklin is tied with Knutson for the team lead with 11 points and a plus-7 rating. The Maple Grove, MN native posted two goals, including the game winner, in last Saturday's 4-3 overtime win Lincoln. He has eight assists go along with his three goals on the season. Last year, Franklin led the team with 32 goals and a plus-30 rating and finished second the team in points with 60. He has already committed to play collegiate hockey at Minnesota State-Mankato next season.
Knutson also has 11 points on the season and turned heads around the league when tallied eight goals in his first three games to start the season. He became just the second ever Stampede player ever to record four goals in a game when the tallied four against the Indiana Ice in a 6-5 victory on September 27th. The Sioux Falls native posted 51 points (26g, 25a) in 61 games last season. He has also already committed to Minnesota State-Mankato for the 2014-15 season.
Kravchenko is the Stampede's top returning scorer for a season ago, recording 63 points (22g, 41a) in 56 games while also posting a plus-14 rating. The San Clemente, CA native has eight points (1g, 7a) and is a plus-4 through the first seven games of this season. The center is committed to the University of Massachusetts.
Team USA has taken home the gold medal in four of the last five years at the World Junior A Challenge and will be coached by Green Bay Gamblers head coach Derek Lalonde. The assistants are Anthony Noreen (head coach of the Youngstown Phantoms) and Mark Abalan (assistant coach at Sioux City).
Team USA faces Canada West in an exhibition game Nov. 2 at 7:00 p.m. ADT. Tournament play begins for the U.S. Nov. 5 vs. Russia at 8:00 p.m. AST. The complete schedule is listed below. All the games can be viewed online via www.fasthockey.com.
Nov. 2 Canada West (exhibition) 6 p.m. ET
Nov. 5 Russia 7 p.m. ET
Nov. 6 Canada East 7 p.m. ET
Nov. 7 Quarterfinals TBD
Nov. 8 Semifinals TBD
Nov. 9 5th/3rd place games TBD
Nov. 10 Championship game 1 p.m. ET
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Braun, Segura go down in costly win
Outfielder accidentally hits shortstop in the head with bat
MILWAUKEE -- The Brewers continue to play solid, winning baseball, but Saturday night's 5-3 victory over the Cubs was marred by a pair of injuries to their star players.
Ryan Braun left the game with an intercostal strain and is day to day. But the injury that really rattled the team occurred when Braun was swinging his weighted bat in the dugout and hit Jean Segura in the face in the middle of the first inning.
The Brewers shortstop fell to the ground bleeding and was helped into the locker room by three people. He suffered a gash that required stitches to close.
"I saw the whole thing, so obviously you never want to see a teammate get hurt, especially like that," Brewers starter Marco Estrada said. "It was pretty tough. Once I found out he was doing OK, I kind of focused back on the game. You still have to play."
Braun was swinging a bat on the top step, his usual routine before his first plate appearance, when his bat hit Segura.
"I know after being with him so long that when he's up there with a weight in his hand, you just move out of the way," Milwaukee manager Ron Roenicke said. He said Segura was trying to get into the on-deck circle "in a hurry" when he was hit by the bat.
"[Braun's] been doing it, that's why he goes up to the top step where he can try to get away from people," Roenicke said. "Everybody knows. It's just certain guys have different routines, and you hope everybody's aware of it."
Braun was remorseful when speaking in the locker room after the game.
"You never want to see something like that, you know?" Braun said. "It breaks your heart a little bit, and obviously it's never something that's done intentionally.
"Whenever you're involved in a situation like that, I think it puts life in perspective and you realize how insignificant baseball is," he said. "Thank God we heard he's OK. It could have been a lot worse or a lot worse places he could have been hit."
Roenicke said Segura likely would miss two or three games until the swelling subsides in his face, and he's also listed as day to day.
"It's always hard when you see one of your regulars go down like that," Roenicke said. "It bugged me all game. It's just one of those things you hope you can prevent."
Roenicke said he himself broke two ribs when a teammate struck him with a bat in the on-deck circle while he was in a Triple-A game during his playing career.
"Same thing, guy on deck and didn't see me and swung and cracked two ribs," he said. "It does happen."
The only damage allowed by Estrada (2-1) was a third-inning home run to Luis Valbuena and a two-run homer by Welington Castillo in the eighth.
"What made him really good ... he could throw his offspeed [pitches] when he was behind in the count," Castillo said. "He has a really good changeup."
The right-hander allowed the three runs while striking out nine and didn't walk a batter in 7 2/3 innings.
"That's the best I've felt so far since Spring Training," Estrada said. "I was feeling really good during Spring Training. The last couple games, I just haven't felt like myself, but today I did."
Khris Davis hit his third home run for Milwaukee, a solo shot in the sixth, to give the Brewers a 5-1 lead. Jeff Bianchi, who replaced Segura at shortstop, had two singles and two RBIs.
Francisco Rodriguez pitched the ninth inning for his 11th save in 11 chances. It was his 315th career save, moving him past Robb Nen into 18th place on the all-time saves list. It also topped a franchise record for saves in March/April, set by Francisco Cordero when he posted 10 saves in 2007.
The Brewers have won seven of their last eight games to maintain a Majors-best 18-6 record, while the Cubs have lost four consecutive games.
Milwaukee made it 1-0 in the first off Travis Wood (1-3), when Aramis Ramirez's sacrifice fly scored Carlos Gomez. Bianchi's single scored two more runs in the second to make it 3-0. Gomez had an RBI fielder's choice in the fourth to score Mark Reynolds and give the Brewers a 4-0 lead.

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Democrats and Republicans on Capitol Hill may need a few more days to resolve differences over a $1 trillion spending bill, a top Democratic lawmaker says, pushing passage by Congress up against a government shutdown deadline next week.
Senate Appropriations Chairwoman Barbara Mikulski told reporters Tuesday that her hope to unveil the bill funding thousands of government projects and programs on Wednesday was "a fading dream" amid the unresolved disputes.
After meeting with the top Republicans and Democrats on the Senate and House appropriations committees, she said the "omnibus" spending measure may take until the weekend to complete.
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That would allow little time to secure passage in the House and Senate by Jan. 15, when government funding runs out. Without a new spending bill or a stop-gap funding measure known as a continuing resolution, the government faces a potential repeat of the shutdown that hit federal agencies in October.
"Our first principle is that we get it done. We do not want a continuing resolution," Mikulski said.
The spending bill is needed to implement a two-year budget deal that was passed in December to ease some of the automatic "sequester" spending cuts by providing an additional $45 billion in fiscal 2014 spending on military and domestic programs.
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From missiles to head start
The omnibus measure combines all 12 of the normal spending bills, each covering different program areas, and the appropriations committees are negotiating over thousands of individual budget line-items—ranging from missile systems to the Head Start preschool programs for the poor.
While half of the spending bills are largely settled, negotiators are still trying to limit the number of policy provisions known as "riders" that are inserted into the bill.
Among these are Republican efforts to restrict abortions and prohibit the Environmental Protection Agency from regulating carbon emissions, according to congressional aides.
(Read more: Cantor: Budget deal 'maintain savings')
Mikulski, a Democrat from Maryland, said there were also unresolved issues surrounding the funding of financial regulatory efforts created by the Dodd-Frank financial reform law.
Republican efforts to deny funds to implement Obamacare reforms are also unresolved.
"I'm against Obamacare. We're trying to undo it and kill it— defund it and stop it in its tracks," said Sen. Thad Cochran, a Mississippi Republican on the Senate Appropriations Committee.
(Read more: Sick of all the Obamacare drama? Wait for 2014...)
Sen. Tom Harkin, an Iowa Democrat on the panel who chairs the subcommittee overseeing health and labor issues, said he believed negotiators were close to a solution that could provide additional funds for the health reforms, although less than the amount requested by the Obama administration.
"Stay tuned. We're working this issue in a way that will be acceptable to both sides," Harkin said.
A Senate Democratic aide said the spending bills that are largely completed include those covering defense, military construction, the Veterans Administration, commerce, justice and science agencies, the legislative branch of government, transportation and housing.
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These measures are traditionally less controversial than some others.
That leaves the more difficult bills, including labor, health and human services, the State Department and foreign operations, energy and water, the interior and the environment.
Mikulski said she believed the bill was 90 percent completed but it would be difficult to reach consensus on the remaining 10 percent.
"An omnibus is big. It's a trillion dollars, 134 riders and it carries the priorities of the nation," she said.
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Jim Boeheim cannot win praise from his detractors, regardless of what he does. You would think Syracuse was mired in an underperforming season with a record of 20-10 instead of being 33-2, ranked #2 in the country with a #1 seed in the NCAA tournament. Fans love to second guess head coaches, and Syracuse fans are no different.
Historically Boeheim has gone only 7-8 players deep on his roster, preferring to keep his top talent on the court as much as possible. This season, he has gone 10 players deep most of the season and yet he still gets criticized for not giving some players more playing time.
I like Brandon Triche's game a lot. He is likely the team's best three point shooter and clearly their best free throw shooter. He is the best rebounding guard on the team, and while not flashy, he is a solid point guard, and he is a three year starter with tons of experience. Yet he sits a lot, and that is quite reasonable considering the best offensive talent on this team is the backcourt players. You have to find time for Scoop Jardine and for Dion Waiters; Boeheim does an excellent job of getting them all playing time.
A faction of the fan base criticize Boeheim because he does not play Michael Carter-Williams more. MCW plays in most games, about 3-7 minutes of time. Considering there are three talented guards ahead of him in terms of experience, and current talent level, I think it says a world about how good Boeheim thinks he is by getting him that time. He is getting some seasoning and experience, and being handled well by being put into situations he can succeed, and being held from situations where he can fail. I think it will be invaluable for him come next season; and if the need arose this season, he would play more. My guess is MCW will be a start for Syracuse and in the NBA someday. Right now, that is not his role.
Other fans question why Boeheim doesn't play to his strength and run a three guard offense. That is looking at only half the picture. A three guard offense would definitely help the offense; there is no doubt about it. However, what is the greatest strength of this team? It's zone defense, a defense so good that a lot of fans in forums call it the best Syracuse defense they have ever seen. Syracuse cannot play that zone with three guards; that would require Triche or Waiters to play the wing and guard a forward, which could be disastrous. Do you really want to take away the best asset of the team, their zone defense, in order to get more playing time for a guard? And going to man-to-man is not the solution; the team does not practice that well enough to effectively use it and Boeheim and his staff recruit players ideal for zone defense, not for man-to-man.
I have seen many fans question why Trevor Cooney was redshirted, when the team could clearly use his three point shooting. Boeheim cannot currently find enough time for a talented Michael Carter-Williams on the court, and you want him to find time for Cooney? Furthermore, we do not even know how good Cooney is with defense or ball handling at this point in his career. I do not know how you would find reasonable playing time for him, and having him lose a season as the fifth guard makes no sense.
Rakeem Christmas is the interesting player in the mix. I know some fans are looking at Christmas' Kansas State effort of 11 rebounds and 3 blocked shots as evidence that Boeheim should have played him a lot more. Those numbers are huge, and should not be taken lightly. I do think Christmas is far more comfortable at center than forward. I also think Christmas is a better rebounder than Melo, in fact, much better, and likely a better offensive player. Christmas has been playing organized basketball for years, where as Melo only a few season, and I think Christmas is more comfortable with the ball in his hands. He is by no means an offensive juggernaut. Christmas is okay at defense in the center position, but does not have the dominating shot blocking, the body size, nor the zone understanding that Melo does. So there is a loss of defense without Melo, which would be expected as Melo was the Big East Defensive Player of the Year.
I think Boeheim and his staff want Christmas to develop into a power forward, a role Christmas is not comfortable with now. I think Christmas is likely failing his defensive assignments as a forward, and is not the offensive threat that Joseph, Fair or Southerland is, so he is the fourth forward behind three other veteran forwards. I would like to see a couple more minutes out of Christmas each game, and he does have a very quick hook from Boeheim. However, in a best case scenario, Christmas was not going to get too many more playing minutes at the forward position.
Southerland needed the playing time to open up the Syracuse perimeter game, and he has developed his rebounding and defensive skills. Fans love C.J. Fair, and Fair usually brings that spark to the table, along with adding in all the statistics stuffing needing to help the team. Kris Joseph is the best scoring forward on the team, and the most experienced player on the team.
You could have played Christmas instead of Baye Keita at center, but remember they want to develop Christmas a forward which will help him in his pursuit of a professional career, and Keita can only play center. Keita needs to develop too, and Syracuse needed Melo on the court as much as they could.
I think minor changes could have been made at various points in the season, but they would have been minor, and with no impact on the season results. Remember, Syracuse is 33-2.
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Rakeem Christmas has now started five games at center, and he has had rebound totals of 9, 1, 7, 7 and 11. Fab Melo averages only 5.8 rebounds a game. Of course, shot blockers are often out of rebounding position, so you trade off one ability for another.
James Southerland has scored 43 points in the four post season games, shooting 8 of 17 from three point range, and chipping in 24 rebounds, and 8 blocks.
Where as C.J. Fair disappeared to? The man was a stat sheet stuffer all season. In the postseason run, Fair is 2-17 from the field, including misses from point blank range, and open 10 foot jumpers. He has 17 rebounds, but 11 came against UNC Asheville; only 6 in the other three games combined. This has coincided with him starting, but that cannot be the reason as he did not suffer when he started three games during Melo's first suspension.
Triche found his shooting touch as the regular season ended, but he has struggled in the post season. He is 1 of 10 from three point range, and surprisingly 4 of 10 from the free throw line.
Dion Waiters struggled for much of the season at the free throw line, but has shot 16 of 18 from the charity stripe in the post season. He has also made 25 of 45 shots during that time frame, and has had only three turnovers.
Scoop Jardine has made seven of his eight free throw attempts in the post season, and has 17 assists the past three games. However, he has also had 14 turnovers the past three games, which has to stop.
Kris Joseph, who has logged more playing time than any other Syracuse player this post season, has continued his month long shooting problems. Joseph is 8 for 31 in the post season from the field, including 2 for 13 from three point range. He was held reboundless against Cincinnati and had only one rebound against Kansas State yesterday.


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Blues Sign Forward Andrew Murrayby Staff Writer / St. Louis Blues
ST. LOUIS – St. Louis Blues Executive Vice President and General Manager Doug Armstrong announced Friday the club has signed forward Andrew Murray to a one-year, two-way contract.
Murray, 30, dressed in 39 games for the San Jose Sharks last season, recording 4 points (1 goal, 3 assists) and 4 penalty minutes. He also appeared in 10 games for their American Hockey League (AHL) affiliate, the Worcester Sharks, tallying 3 points (2 goals, 1 assist).
Overall, the 6-foot-2, 218-pound forward has appeared in five National Hockey League (NHL) seasons (2007-2012) totaling 40 points (24 goals, 16 assists) and 36 penalty minutes in 220 games between San Jose and the Columbus Blue Jackets.
The Selkirk, Manitoba native was originally drafted by Columbus in the eighth round, 242nd overall, of the 2001 Entry Draft.


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"The Dalai Lama lost spiritual leadership in his own country, but now exercises it around the world. Like all good teachers, he comes to learn. He found that what Buddhism lacked in his country was a fruitful interchange with reason and modern science. Here he fosters that exchange, at a time when some Christians have turned their backs on science and the Enlightenment. We are losing what he has gained."
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That $44 billion NHT 'contribution'
Bruce Golding, Contributor
The government's decision to expropriate $44 billion from the National Housing Trust (NHT) must be seen in the context of the rock and hard place between which it finds itself and the imperative of reducing the fiscal deficit to satisfy the requirements of an International Monetary Fund (IMF) programme. The alternative would be drastic cuts in public expenditure that it finds unpalatable and/or heavier tax increases that are not only just as unpalatable, but unrealisable. It is to be noted that, despite some $45 billion in new taxes imposed over the last five years (not including the recent $16-billion package), revenue collections have increased by less than 30 per cent while inflation (already built into most taxes) has been around 50 per cent. It is clear that the economy has little or no capacity left to cough up more taxes, the inefficiencies in tax collection notwithstanding.
However, this extraction of funds from the NHT must also be seen in the context not only of the NHT Act on which the courts are now being asked to pronounce and which the Minister of Finance has declared his preparedness to have Parliament amend if necessary, but also of the moral obligations implicit in the management of NHT funds.
The NHT, as its name asserts, is a trust fund. Every cent of contributions that flows into the Trust is made by or on behalf of a person with a name and a unique number. Its purpose is to offer housing benefits for those named and uniquely numbered persons. The Government's role, exercised through the board of directors it appoints, is to manage those funds in an efficient way to ensure the maximum benefits to those named and uniquely numbered persons.
Some have posited that the income earned from investments made by the NHT constitutes a "surplus" that the Trust, i.e., the Government, is free to disburse as it chooses. I adamantly disagree. This income belongs proportionately to the named and uniquely numbered persons whose monies were so invested. It is no different from income earned from investments made by a company that properly belong to its shareholders and is not a "surplus" to be dispensed by its managers at will.
The Government insists that the extraction of these funds will not affect the NHT's ability to provide houses and mortgages to its named and uniquely numbered contributors. That is nonsense! The $44 billion that is to be paid over to the Government is money that would otherwise be available to provide houses and mortgages to its named and uniquely numbered contributors. At an average cost of $4 million per housing solution, it means that 11,000 families that could have received benefits over the next four years will not now do so. The thousands of jobs that the provision of these housing solutions would have created will not now be created.
This is not the first time that a government has raided the NHT for funds. Five billion dollars was extracted in 2005 to fund the Education Transformation Programme. Other funds were extracted to finance the Inner City Housing Programme, to provide houses for persons in dire need, but the majority of whom had never contributed a cent to the trust fund and were, therefore, not among the named and uniquely numbered contributors. Repayment of the mortgage loans in this programme has been a predictable disaster. I am on record as being in opposition to the use of NHT funds in both instances.
It is grossly unfair to the named and uniquely numbered NHT contributors who see these NHT deductions recorded on their pay slips every week, fortnight or month, but who, despite repeated applications, have never been able to secure a benefit from the NHT. Many are told that they don't qualify. How then does the Government qualify?
Having said all that, we must return to the fiscal dilemma confronting the Government, the implications of which could have bizarre consequences for everyone, including the named and uniquely numbered NHT contributors. The NHT represents an attractive store of cash. It receives $21 billion in annual contributions and earns an additional $10 billion from investments (including mortgage collections). Despite its obligations to refund employees' contributions after seven years ($3 billion annually), it is cash rich. A government faced with a fiscal crisis will inevitably look to this cache of funds to bail itself out.
There are ways in which this can be done without violating the fundamental moral obligations the Government has towards the NHT. One way would be for the NHT to provide a loan to the Government. This would be repayable with interest and the NHT would then book it as an income-earning investment, thus not affecting its balance sheet. It is understandable that the Government would not be able to accommodate this option as it would simply add to its debt stock - a no-no for the IMF agreement.
Land bank
There is another way that would have been painless. The NHT is in the business of providing housing which requires land. It would have been a much better way for the Government to provide land in exchange for the $44 billion. The NHT maintains a land bank to facilitate its house-building programmes. There are fast-growing urban centres across Jamaica (e.g Spanish Town, Old Harbour, May Pen, Christiana, Spaldings, Santa Cruz, Savana-la-Mar, Montego Bay, Ocho Rios) with large numbers of NHT contributors who are and will increasingly be in need of housing. In most of these areas, there are large tracts of unutilised government-owned lands that could be transferred to the NHT at market or even discounted value, in exchange for the $44 billion.
There are other non-housing related government-owned assets that could make up any shortfall and be treated by the NHT as investment assets. This approach would still reduce the ability of the NHT to provide benefits in the four-year period, but these benefits would be available in the future, the Government's cash need would have been met, the NHT balance sheet would not have been affected, and the trust implicit in the operation of the NHT would not have been violated. This is the method that was used to allow the NHT to fund the building of new barracks for the Jamaica Defence Force. It is a template that could have been used to find a more appropriate solution to the current fiscal crisis.
An inescapable concern that this action evokes is whether, over time, the NHT will be treated more and more as a supplementary Consolidated Fund. And how long will it be before the NIS Fund is brought within the same grasp? What implications does this have for pension reform where we are contemplating a segregated fund into which public-sector workers will be required to make payroll contributions to finance their pensions, but which fund will be within Government's reach to address fiscal crises that will arise from time to time?
The Honourable Bruce Golding is a former prime minister and leader of the Jamaica Labour Party.


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Megastar Amitabh Bachchan says he feels jealous whenever he watches wonderful films like 'Raanjhanaa', which he is not part of.
The 70-year-old veteran saw the Dhanush and Sonam Kapoor-starrer in celebration of India's victory at the Champions Trophy on Sunday night.
"It was a delight. I get so envious after seeing all these wonderful films, and lament and regret that I am not in them, even in a small capacity, for I love the immense talent and finesse that today's cinema with its young brigade brings to the world," Big B posted on his blog.
The actor also has a few movies in his "to-watch" list.
"I shall be seeing some other unreleased films given to me by Anurag Kashyap, by some talented directors and actors ... a joy always," he wrote.
On the big screen, Amitabh will soon be seen in Prakash Jha's Satyagraha.
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Jets agree to terms with Maxime Macenauerby Staff Writer / Winnipeg Jets
The Winnipeg Jets are pleased to announce they have agreed to terms with forward Maxime Macenauer on a new contract. As per club policy, terms of the agreement were not disclosed.
Macenauer, 23, played in nine games with the St. John's IceCaps last season where he recorded one assist. He also suited up for 10 Calder Cup Playoff games with the IceCaps where he scored one goal. He began the season with the Syracuse Crunch where he played 13 games for six points (4G, 2A) and two penalty minutes.
The Laval, PQ native also played in 29 games last season with the Anaheim Ducks where he recorded four points (1G, 3A) and 18 penalty minutes. He has played in 101 career AHL games between Syracuse and St. John's where he has recorded 39 points (17G, 22A) and 69 penalty minutes.
He was originally drafted by the Anaheim Ducks in the third round, 63rd overall, in the 2007 NHL Draft.


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Thursday, May 20, 2010
Have You Heard?
here. Even the invitations to the launch party are the cutest things ever:
Hmm... maybe I can get the fiance to take me on the pretense of "checking on the boat"...
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Welcome! Started out of a love for fashion, Fashionable Interiors began with the idea that fashion contributes a great deal to the design world, most notably, interior design. Here is where those commonalties are shared. Andrea Folino, the founder, bases much of her interior design work on what her clients have in their closet through her interior decorating company, Tendenza Fashion & Interiors. She also is a real estate agent and works with her husband's home building company, Folino Homes, Inc. When she's not designing rooms, selling houses, or shopping the latest trends, Andrea loves spending time with her little Pomeranian Luigi. As the writer of Fashionable Interiors, I hope to inspire your rooms and outfits as much as I can. Thanks for stopping by!


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Cynthia Hays
I am a marine evolutionary ecologist and a teacher. My goal is (1) to conduct research that provides meaningful insight into how populations function and evolve in variable environments (see below), and (2) to use this work as a platform for teaching undergraduates about experimental ecology and the scientific method. At Keene State, I have the pleasure and privilege of teaching courses directly within my area of interest and expertise: BIO 210 'Ecology', BIO 111 'Evolution', both introductory courses in the major, as well as upper level electives including 'Experimental Marine Ecology', 'Phycology', and 'Quantitative Conservation Biology'. I also teach an ISP course called 'Conservation in the Sea' for non-biology majors.
The central theme of my research program is to explore how population genetic processes (things like gene flow, inbreeding, and local adaptation) influence how a species is distributed across the landscape, especially at the 'edges' or the limits to the distribution. This issue is particularly relevant in the context of ongoing environmental change. For example, under what conditions will evolution 'rescue' populations at the edges of a species' range, such that they are able to adapt to changing conditions and persist where they are? Under what conditions do we expect the geographic range to shift or to contract? To answer these questions, I use a variety of different tools, including molecular genetics and demographic modeling as well as experiments in the field, so undergraduates who work in my lab have the opportunity to learn a range of new skills.
Most of my past research has been in nearshore marine systems, and I have several ongoing projects in my lab using marine macroalgae and seagrasses as model systems. I am also starting a new project in collaboration with Dr. Dan Doak (U. Colorado), Dr. Bill Morris (Duke U.) and Dr. Katrina Dlugosch (U. Arizona), examining the same fundamental questions about demography and distribution, but focusing on a terrestrial alpine plant, moss campion.


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It's a sunny summer Tuesday, and in the waters off La Jolla Cove, kayakers paddle toward underwater caves and swimmers dot the surface. At Children's Pool, a sliver of beach sheltered by a 300-foot-long crescent-shaped wall, the sand is white, the water is a shimmery blue-green, and the smell – well, the smell is terrible.
The air is thick with the stench of seal poop – a scent as sour as the years-long battle for this tiny piece of shoreline. For over a decade, it's been the pinnipeds vs. the people in a fight for control, with activists on both sides using everything from heckling and restraining orders to lawsuits and a stun gun to draw and redraw their respective lines in the sand.
Seals have been gathering here since the 1990s, gradually making Children's Pool – created as a place for families and children – a seal rookery, a place for the animals to have babies, rest, and relieve themselves. These days, given the water's bacteria levels, it's no longer considered safe for humans to swim.
Until very recently, the city was asking visitors to stay behind a rope barrier that protected seals lounging at the water's edge. But in 2005, a California Superior Court ordered the city to take down the rope, remove the seals, and clean up the pool. Animal-rights activists appealed the decision, but last month, a US Appeals Court refused to hear their case. The California Supreme Court has also declined to hear it. The city has already begun the permitting process to clear the way for dredging, says Stacey LoMedico, San Diego's Parks and Recreation director. But that process will probably take years, and in the meantime, the battle rages on.
Today is quiet: About 50 brown and gray seals rest on the beach. Several signs warn that seals are protected by federal law; other signs, posted by animal-rights activists, beg visitors to "Respect The Seals and Other Seal Watchers By Not Going On The Beach." On this perfect beach day, Children's Pool sits unused, at least by humans.
But on weekends, Children's Pool becomes a war zone, the site of an ongoing showdown between animal-rights activists and the divers and swimmers who don't want their beach access trumped by pinnipeds. Over the July 4 holiday weekend, pro-public-access activists used a bullhorn to encourage visitors to use the beach. One pup died after reportedly being stepped on; SeaWorld rescued another.
"It's pretty wild," says Tom Sauer, a retired attorney and longtime La Jolla resident who believes the beach should be returned to the people. On weekends, "People stand here yelling at each other," he says. "I don't come down here then. I don't like the vibe."
Children's Pool is one of the only urban beaches in the country where harbor seals congregate – this, despite attention from tens of thousands of tourists each month.
"This is a rare thing," says Bryan Pease, founder and general counsel of the San Diego-based Animal Protection and Rescue League. "This is a place to see seals behaving naturally in their natural environment."
But how natural is it for seals to give birth a stone's throw from pricey boutiques, four-star restaurants, and luxury hotels?
"It's just the evolution of the coastline," says Mr. Pease. "No one predicted this 80 years ago, when they built the sea wall."
That 300-foot-long stone wall was the gift of philanthropist Ellen Browning Scripps, who hoped to make the beach a safe place for children to play and swim. In 1931 the state deeded the land to the city of San Diego with a few conditions, including its exclusive use as a public park and children's pool. But the same wall that made this sandy nook tranquil enough for children has, over time, made it attractive to seals.
Advocates of the seals' presence point out that the deed doesn't say seals can't use the beach. And the seals, after all, have been in this area for thousands of years. "Expecting them not to use the beach when it's a prime haul-out [resting] area is asking too much," says Vicky Cornish, vice president for marine-wildlife conservation at Ocean Conservancy in Washington D.C.
As for humans and seals sharing the beach, Mr. Sauer says simply, "It doesn't work." Even what to call the area is a point of contention. Pro-seal activists call it Casa Beach; pro-public-access activists call it Children's Pool.
Sauer, walking along the coastline, points out the route he swims nearly every day. When he gets to Children's Pool, the beach is empty except for a few seals.
"This is what shared use looks like," he says. Pro-seal activists man an information table and hand out brochures. Several times each week, they videotape pro-public-access advocates who walk or run close to seals on their way into Children's Pool. Those swims – tainted water and all – are part of the opposite side's effort to flush seals back into the water and make a point about public access.
If human beachcombers are rare, that may be because it's not entirely clear what they're allowed to do. While some signs warn people to leave seals alone, others read: "There is no law against using this public beach." The rules are confusing, the signs and the activists sometimes intimidating. Most people keep to the top of the stone wall and to walkways above the beach – a sight that continually frustrates Sauer.
"This beach belongs to the public ... for full recreational use," he says. "Seals don't need the level of protection where we tell people, 'You can't swim on this beach, you can't walk on this beach.' Look, I love the seals; my wife loves the seals. But they can go to the other side of the beach, to the reefs.... We have a colony here of 200 – they won't be gone."
Experts say Sauer is probably right. Seals are found widely in the North Pacific, from Alaska to Baja California. Pam Yochem, a marine biologist at San Diego's Hubbs-SeaWorld Research Institute, estimates that there are about 1,000 seal haul-out sites in California, with four in southern California.
These days a security guard spends weekends on the beach, charged with keeping the place accessible to people and keeping the people from harassing the seals.
On a recent Saturday, a group of cyclists from Oceanside, Calif., stand on a walkway overlooking Children's Pool. "It's a lot more fun watching seals than watching kids," says one.
A man from Amsterdam photographs a pup and says, "There are other spots to swim, but only one spot for the animals."
Matt Hough, a San Diegan, sits enjoying the view. The mere mention of the ongoing tug-of-war irritates him. "The city should just take down the wall," he says. "If the seals stay, they stay. There's tons of shoreline here. Really, there are safer places to take kids to swim."
The next day, I take my own kids to Children's Pool, and the controversy becomes a family debate. About 50 seals are on the beach, and a few pups flop-hop around. My daughter, who is 12, snaps photos and finds it "weird" that we're reluctant to go down the steps. "I think it should be for the kids. It's such a special place for swimming," she says.
My son believes the seals should stay. "You can't control nature. It does whatever it's going to do," he says, sounding awfully contemplative for a 9-year-old. "And they are really cute."


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Although still at least a year away from launch, Chrysler's published this first official "spy photo" of a development mule for the next generation 2013 Dodge Viper as it goes testing in the snow. Except it's really not the 2013 Dodge Viper. So what is it?
This prototype mule's chassis — and obviously, its skin too — is based on the now old-and-busted 2010 Viper discontinued this past summer.
This very tongue-in-cheek photo is really just the last Dodge Viper fitted with stability control — a requirement mandated by the feds for every vehicle by 2012.
So, sorry Car and Driver, the news that the new Viper would be out for the 2013 model year and require stability control, is not breaking news. Dodge gave the "available in 2012 for the 2013 model year" quote almost a year ago. This is something even Top Gear USA knew and mentioned in their first episode.
Basically, this is just a photo of SRT engineers hooning about in a Dodge Viper with ESC in the snow.
Oh, those cheeky Mopar-mad engineering folk. God we love them.


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McDonald's, USD 490 and the YMCA are teaming up to promote healthy lifestyles and fitness for families.
McDonald's, USD 490 and the YMCA are teaming up to promote healthy lifestyles and fitness for families.
They will be holding the first 490 For Fitness event on Saturday.
The event began with a sub-committee of the USD 490 Wellness Committee.
"We have wellness goals throughout the district we try to meet," said Grandview Principal and committee member Kim McCune. "We hadn't been able to do a district-wide event before, so we wanted to try to do that."
From those discussions, Jennifer and Bob Lane, owners of the El Dorado McDonald's, wanted to partner with them to do something.
"Jennifer and I and two other members of the committee got together and began to brainstorm what we thought we could do," McCune said. "The first thought was along the line of a Relay For Life type event to get everyone to the stadium doing fun things and it just snowballed from there."
The YMCA also got involved because it fit with their goals of reaching out to a broader community.
"What we wanted to do was just provide a few hours in the day where kids, parents and families could come and do fun activities that gets them outside and gets them moving and doing physical activity," McCune said. "We thought, what's going to get them there?"
The event will be held from 9 a.m. to noon Saturday at the BG Products Veterans Sports Complex, with the slogan "Together we can build a strong community and healthy hearts."
"We have already had a lot of community support," McCune said.
490 For Fitness will host several activities including Zumba, kickboxing, stationary bike classes, a 1-mile & 3-mile run/walk, several track events, plus many other fun ways to become active.
The city will be providing bottled water with a reuse symbol on it promoting refilling water bottles rather than throwing them away. To help do that, there will be two big coolers of water so people can refill their bottles at the event.
There also will be free t-shirts given out, sponsored by McDonald's, along with other businesses in town.
McDonald's and USD 490 held a contest to design the 490 For Fitness T-shirt. The contest had two categories: one design for youth T-shirts and the other for the adult T-shirts. The youth T-shirts contest winner was Sierra Thomas a first grader from Skelly Elementary. The adult T-shirts contest winner was Libby Moore from El Dorado Middle School.
In addition, McDonald's will hand out apple dippers and information on healthy activities. Ronald McDonald will also be there to support the kids of USD 490 and healthy living.
"McDonald's El Dorado wanted to do this because it is so important to our youth to promote healthy and active lifestyles," said Jennifer Lane. "In today's world it is so easy to get caught up in our busy lives and forget about taking care of ourselves.
"We have had a long-time commitment to area children starting many years ago, by sponsoring little league teams, helping build our local YMCA and as of late helping to build the BG Products Veterans Sports Clinic."
They already have more than 400 people pre-registered, which guarantees them a t-shirt. People don't have to be pre-registered to attend, but it is limited to those who have a connection to USD 490, including younger siblings, although parents have to be in attendance with them.
The activities will be run by sponsors, coaches and their players.
"We wanted to show them some fun activities where they could get outside and move," McCune said.
"You did not have to register early to participate, so we hope to see everyone there from grade school all the way to high school students," Jennifer said.
For more information about 490 For Fitness, contact Jennifer Lane at 321-3310 or jennifer.lane @partners.mcd.com or Kim McCune at 322-4830 or firstname.lastname@example.com.


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Tuesday, April 6, 2010
Triple Bypass
When I wrote my last post about the doctor who made a tasteless joke about my husband taking a second wife in my presence, little did I know what would happen in our lives in the coming days. When Adnan complained to me that he had been having difficulty breathing at the slightest physical exertion, like climbing a flight of stairs, I insisted that he go in to a doctor to have it checked out. The news wasn't good. We got two opinions, both of whom recommended an angiogram. This came as quite a surprise to both my husband and me - Adnan has always been very health conscious about eating and isn't overweight.
Adnan applied for approval to have the procedure done at a government hospital, where it would have been done for free. We personally don't have health insurance here (like many people here), but there are government hospitals that offer free quality care as well as private pay hospitals. But after about a week, Adnan finally decided to go in and paid to see a heart specialist, who was so concerned at what he saw that he insisted that Adnan be at the hospital the following morning for an angiogram and a likely angioplasty.
The doctor wanted to put in 4 stents, however the blockages were so extensive that he was unable to complete the procedure and couldn't even put in the first stent in the largest vein. Adnan was kept in the hospital for observation until open heart surgery – a triple bypass - could be performed a few days later. The operation was successful.
I spent the entire ten days at the hospital in his room on the surgical floor, even while he spent three days down in ICU after his operation. If it hadn't been for the circumstances, I would have felt like we were staying in a lovely hotel. I have never felt more comfortable in a hospital before, but of course, I wasn't a patient either. There was a small fold out couch that opened up into a very comfortable single bed that I slept on. As my husband's guest, I was also provided with three nourishing and delicious meals a day.
The room we stayed in is called an Executive Suite. It's made to accommodate two patients, but there was just one hospital bed and where the second patient bed would have been was a large comfortable sitting area. When you first enter the room, there was also a smaller separate sitting area, where visiting women could sit when there were other men visiting. Our son was also able to stay with us for part of the time, although it wasn't really that comfortable to sleep in either of the sitting areas, unless you were maybe the size of a little person like in the Wizard of Oz. There were two large windows that looked out over a beautiful park which many people utilize towards late afternoon.
International Medical Center (IMC), an affiliate of the world renowned Cleveland Clinic, was many years in the making from the idea for its original conception back in 1993, through its design and construction until its opening in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, in late 2005. IMC is a gorgeous 300-bed facility, utilizing different shades of marble in its main lobby and other common areas and highlights distinct Middle Eastern and Islamic design elements throughout the entire building, inside and out. The building was designed by famed local architect Dr. Sami Angawi, one of the most well known Islamic architects in the region and whose unique modern but traditional home I have had the pleasure of visiting.
There was a beautifully landscaped inner courtyard, as well as an enormous park adjacent to the facility, where people by the dozens gathered at dusk to just sit and enjoy the spring air or to walk the track around its perimeter. At one end of the park was a field of palm trees with paths and benches interspersed among the trees, and at the other end was a large open grassy area where children played or families picnicked. It was a wonderful layout and we had a fantastic view of it from our fifth floor room. It was really nice to see so many people enjoying the outdoors here because in the part of Jeddah where we live, there's nothing like it and I just don't get to see people outside at leisure that much.
My husband's doctors were top notch and professional and were from Saudi Arabia and the Sudan – I had complete faith in their expertise and recommendations, and I knew Adnan was in the best and most capable hands. The staff, comprised of about 80% Filipino and the rest mostly from Middle Eastern countries, was amazingly helpful and genuinely concerned in making our stay there as pleasant and comfortable as possible - from the nurses to the kitchen staff to the cleaning crew to the guards.
I got the feeling that my husband and I were somewhat of a unique and curious attraction during our stay, since I was not Saudi; but I cannot say enough nice things about the hospital and its wonderful staff for making our entire experience while we were there a pleasant one. I am truly grateful for their kindness and professionalism in creating such a nurturing environment for its patients.
Adnan and I have been home now for three days and already I can see a little progress and less pain for him every day. He's also starting to get back his sense of humor a bit too, which is a great sign. I hope to share more about some of my particular experiences, impressions and adventures I had at IMC – so stay tuned.
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So happy to hear your husband's procedure went well, and that his care and your comfort were well-addressed. I imagine it's been a stressful period, and that you're immensely relieved at the outcome!ReplyDelete
I have to ask (and I imagine the thought may have crossed your mind in the thick of things)...
Is your son now old enough to act on your behalf (I can't remember the correct term for that) if your husband had been incapacitated? If anything happened to your husband, could your son have given permission for you to leave KSA, for example? As an American woman, the thought of not having that freedom of movement seems so scary!
On an unrelated topic, my job involves a lot of travel in the extreme southeastern corner of AZ and I often stay in Bisbee, Douglas, Sierra Vista, Nogales, etc. I've often wondered which "little town on the Mexican border" you're from...because I've probably spent some time there! :-)
Again, so glad to hear things had a positive outcome!
Hi Michelle - My husband has talked to his brother about my leaving the kingdom in case something were to happen to him. My son is now 17, and I've heard that he would be my mahram at 21 if my husband were incapacitated. My only reason for being here in KSA is my husband, and his family knows that. I'm not worried about getting stuck here.ReplyDelete
I grew up in Douglas - small world! Even though I haven't really lived there since the mid 1970s, I still consider myself a Douglas girl. I was just there in October for my class reunion.
I am glad to hear that your husband is home and doing better. Triple bypass is not exactly a walk in the park.ReplyDelete
The hospital looks amazing! Thank goodness the care was just as amazing.
Good luck to you both... here's to a speedy recovery! :-)
Sorry to hear about the surgery and all, I hope he gets better soon, and glad all went well with the operation and the hospital experience.ReplyDelete
Oh Susie - that seems like quite the scare! But I am so happy that your husband is doing well now and that you had a great stay at the hospital. I know what it feels like to be in a bad hospital, and also what it's like to be in a hospital where you feel loved and cared for, so I definitely understand where you are coming from. It's so important to have a good experience in a time of need, and I'm so happy that you had that!ReplyDelete
What a wonderful hospital that fosters healing through esthetics, and garden walks, along with high quality professional care. I am glad things are going well for Adnan, and hope he has a swift and uncomplicated recovery.ReplyDelete
Looking forward to your further postings on your experience and on IMC.
Susie...what a surprise. I am so glad that things worked out well. Never have I seen such a magnificent hospital! Hopefully Adnan will have a speedy recovery. I wish you well.ReplyDelete
Hi, Susie.ReplyDelete
First off, praise God for your hubby's successful surgery and promising convalescence. I pray he will be back on his feet soon.
Thank you also for sharing pictures of the beautiful palace of a hospital that is IMC. :) Gosh, I wouldn't mind working there myself! It looks like a five-star hotel! I imagine the unconventional architecture and design of the hospital took some of the anxiety out of your hospital stay.
My heart skipped a beat when I read the symptoms your husband exhibited. My dad also gets tired easily. His angiogram did not show any problems with his heart, but he is scheduled for a chemical stress test early in the morning tomorrow anyway.
Again, it is a relief to hear that all went well with your husband.
As always, warm greetings from Florida. :)
Hope he's feeling better now, and I had the same concern as Michelle. Thanks for answering that. I wish him speedy recoveries.ReplyDelete
And this is probably not a good time to mention this, but the pictures are gorgeous. That is indeed a beautiful building!ReplyDelete
I am so glad the operation was successful and your husband is on the mend! Sounds like the hospital stay was very pleasant--at least as pleasant as it can be! Hope you are well and not too worn out from all of that.ReplyDelete
Take care and Happy Spring!
What an amazing facility, glad you were both taken care of so well. Also happy to hear Adnan is feeling better already, a good sense of humor is a sure sign. Remember to take care of yourself also.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousApr 6, 2010, 7:13:00 AM
Susie, I am so glad your stay at the hospital was a pleasant one and that you had faith in your husband's doctors. I hope he continues to improve. That hospital is nothing like what I have seen in California, Thailand, New York, and Hawaii. So elegant and ornate.ReplyDelete
Alhamdulillah your husband went to the Dr. before having a heart attack and alhamdulillah the surgery was successful. in sha' Allah he'll have a quick recovery and be back to his life soon.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousApr 6, 2010, 9:44:00 AM
Allahi chafik. Amazing, i have never see an hospital like that!ReplyDelete
May God bless you and your family.
Hi Susie: so glad to hear that your husband's procedure has been successful. Must have been very scary for all of you. I was very interested in your description of the IMC as that is where we would go in the event of an illness or an emergency and it's great to hear that they took such good care of Adnan there. My best wishes for a speedy recovery to Adnan and some rest for you and your son.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousApr 6, 2010, 2:50:00 PM
Hello Susie,ReplyDelete
I am glad to hear that Adnan is recovering well from his surgery. I have heard that heart surgery can be very challenging on an emotional level, as well as the obvious physical aspects of getting through major surgery.
I hope you also have people supporting you through this period, as I'm sure it must be very stressful.
Take care! Best wishes from Australia!
I'm very glad that everything turned out ok for him. Had they ever really checked his cholesterol levels? You can eat right and exercise and take great care of yourself but still have dangerously high cholesterol levels that need meds to control.ReplyDelete
I've got to say that I nearly spit out my coffee when I read 'He's also starting to get back his sense of humor a bit too, which is a great sign' LOL after your last post!
Nice that he discussed your leaving the kingdom if anything were to happen to him. Did he also happen to mention making sure that you also take all the marital assets with you? It would certainly concern me if I didn't have any knowledge of or access to the bank accounts (as I believe you have mentioned before)
Speedy recovery Adnan! He's very fortunate not to have had a heart attack first. That makes the recovery from bypass so much more difficult.
Great that it's all over and Adnan is on the mend. It's good to hear how good the hospital and staff were and very nice that you could stay there with him.ReplyDelete
I'm glad to hear that everything went well. Wow, that happened quite fast.ReplyDelete
The hospital is quite stunning, glad you were both taken care of.
Speedy recovery to your hubby, and hugs for you.
Oh my dear dear Susie! How scary! I am glad he is home and that he is doing much better. That must have been such a frightening ordeal. Wishing you and your beloved husband the best.ReplyDelete
That is one incredible hospital. I hope your husband is feeling much better very soon. Your blog is absolutely fascinating.ReplyDelete
What a relief you went to the doctor in time: thanks God!ReplyDelete
I hope the things will get better very soon, and life restarts to go on as happy as before.
I wish you all so many beautiful things.
- AnonymousApr 7, 2010, 3:55:00 AM
Susie, so very glad your husband mentioned his discomfort and YOU took action. Sending you hugs, loves and prayers for speed recovery. LawanaReplyDelete
Susie,OMG oh my gosh!!! I am so glad to hear that Adnan is doing well, what a scarey adventure for all of you.ReplyDelete
Please send Adnan our love and that we wish him all the best in his recovery.
Tell the girl from Sierra Vista AZ says now I am from Phoenix LOL...
Take care all my friends, Love, Pam
- AnnMarieApr 7, 2010, 5:02:00 AM
Glad to hear the operation was a success and the hospital looks amazing. Like you said it looks just like a hotel. Ham Dilah Salami for you and your family. I hope you husband has a speedy recovery.ReplyDelete
So glad to hear all went well - may Adnan have a complete & speedy recovery, inshallah! Thanks for describing the hospital & posting the lovely pictures!ReplyDelete
What a scary time for both of you!I am glad to hear he is recovering well ; much better days will come for sure.The hospital looks like a 5 star hotel like you say,and the care you and your husband received sounds just perfect.Let's just hope that everybody gets that kind of treatment over here!all the bestReplyDelete
Greetings from sunny Arizona ... and I am so glad Adnan is okay ... Love ... BeaReplyDelete
Hey Suz -ReplyDelete
Glad to hear Adnan's surgery went well and all is ok. What a stressful surprise!!!
Hey SuzReplyDelete
Glad to hear Adnan's surgery went well and all is ok. What a stressful surprise!!!
I hope Adnan is good as new. What a great hospital!ReplyDelete
Susie, glad to hear your husband is doing good. Hope you are doing well too. I keep reading your blog since I find it interesting.ReplyDelete
My saludos to you and your family. Stay well.
I am so glad that your husband is recovering well and will soon have all his strength and "scents of humor" back. Keep us posted on his progress and you take care of yourself too and don't run yourself down.
- Denise & FamilyApr 7, 2010, 1:49:00 PM
Oh Susie! I am so glad Adnan is okay. That's scary stuff! We wish him a speedy recovery!ReplyDelete
Glad to hear that things went well during the operation. We wish you both all the luck you need.ReplyDelete
Love - Vivian and Jim
Oh susie (long time reader here) so pleased he came through the surgery well. What a shock! Rest carefully now.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousApr 7, 2010, 5:11:00 PM
Hi Susie!ReplyDelete
So glad that Adnan's surgery went well, we've been saying our prayers for you both. Take care and tell him to we are happy the worst is behind him.
- AnonymousApr 7, 2010, 7:36:00 PM
If, as the Queen suggested, Adnan needs cholesterol medication, please make sure his liver functions are monitored. Those adverse side effects can be just as deadly as the high cholesterol.ReplyDelete
Salaam Susie,ReplyDelete
Whew!! I am very happy to hear that Adnan is recovering from such an operation!! And the whole facility and it's staff sound very wonderful!! When I was at a local hospital, I experienced the same kindness from the nurses that you described -- it made what I was going through easier...
Anyways, can't wait to read your next post!!
Luv, Aalia
- JessieApr 7, 2010, 8:16:00 PM
So glad to hear that all went well for Adnan. We wish him the very best. What an amazing looking hospital. Are best to you all.
Praying for Adnan and you too. You and yours are in my thoughts.ReplyDelete
Beautiful hospital :)
- AnonymousApr 8, 2010, 12:06:00 AM
I join your friends in wishing Adnan a speedy recovery. What a wonderful hospital in which to have the treatment. Thank you for sharing this family story.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousApr 8, 2010, 3:32:00 AM
Susie, I am so glad that Adnan is okay. It sounds like this hospital did everything in its power to fix the problem and relieve the stress associated with a very anxiety provoking situation.ReplyDelete
I have visited the King AbdulAziz University Hospital in Jeddah and was very impressed. But it was nothing like this one!
- Patti & Kenny SeitzmanApr 8, 2010, 4:14:00 AM
Hi, Susie--ReplyDelete
Kenny and I were sorry to hear about Adnan's surgery. Kenny had the same experience when he went for an angiogram, and ended up with a double bypass, but that was almost 2 1/2 years ago, and he's proof that you can get past it and do very well! Regards to Adnan and Adam. Please wish Adnan a speedy recovery. Let us know when you're in town again.
Patti and Kenny
Oh Susie I'm so happy for you both - your hubby's at home and you can take care of him - he'll be better and better every day I'm sure...ReplyDelete
Greetings from sunny Casablanca, Morocco!
Take care!
I'm sorry to read that Adnan had to have surgery Susie, but I am really glad to read that he's on the road to recovery. At least he's starting to smile, and that's the main thing, and I wish him a speedy recovery (and you the patience to deal with him!)ReplyDelete
I'm glad to hear that your husband has made it through the surgery and is healing well. I'm sure that the next challenging part will be getting him through the emotional part (many people do have depression after this type of surgery). In addition, some friends of mine who have had this surgery more than once indicated that they felt their ability to remember things afterward was impacted. One of my father's friends had to be really coaxed back to work a year after surgery (dispression again). But the first issue is to get him physically well first and that sounds like it is going fine. Thank you so much for blogging about the hotel. You mentioned it was private. Did you end up having to pay for both the doctor and the hospital - or was some of that covered under government health care? Take care of yourself and your son too - I know it's a strain on both of you as well.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousApr 9, 2010, 10:25:00 PM
Hi Susie,ReplyDelete
So glad that all is well and that you're both back home safe and sound.
I've heard many nice things about IMC from others as well.
What an amazing husband you have, Susie. I pray things continue well for you all, and he mends very well.ReplyDelete
That hospital looks like it's straight out of a fairy tale.
Interesting Blog about a World I really don't know.ReplyDelete
Thank you for sharing.
My best wishes to your Husband.
Wish Adnan all the best of health.ReplyDelete
Susie, now days post-op and at home-how are you three feeling? How does the doctor see Adnan at his post-op visit?ReplyDelete
Our prayers are with you all. May this be a quiet time of feeling for your spaces and needs that need attending to.
A big warm hug all the way from NYC.
Best wishes for your husband's recovery!ReplyDelete
Wow, that must have been a scary time for you and your husband. I'm glad the operation went well and he is doing well.ReplyDelete
Just found out! Wishing your husband a speedy recovery which I am sure will happen as he is a heathy man and this looks to me like just a bump in the road; my dad that a quintuple bypass a few years ago; he is doing fine and is eighty now. This hospital looks grand! how lucky to have the operation in such a setting!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousApr 12, 2010, 10:37:00 PM
Sending best wishes to you & your husband & family!ReplyDelete
Love you blog--life is very surreal sometimes (even in the U.S.!), & you are an inspiration for trying to make sense of it gracefully & with courage.
Best wishes to your husband for a speedy recovery! You take care too.ReplyDelete
I know you haven't had much time to blog, but just hoping that everything is still going well for your husband, son, and you. All of you do have all of our best wishes and thoughts.ReplyDelete
I found this article by following a link from one of your other messages...ReplyDelete
It was about misyar marriages and was particularly interesting because it talked about the curse of spinsterhood. It's only a curse if you can't do what you want, go where you want, etc., without a man around. I find the whole thing about needing a male relative available to be so binding for both men and women.
Anyway, thanks so much, Susie, for the link that led me to this article also - it was certainly a different perspective.
My prayers are with you and your husband. Thanks for sharing about your experience and I am glad that your husband's care was so good.ReplyDelete
Hi Susie!ReplyDelete
I am glad that your husband's operation was successful..I wish him full recovery...
Thanks for the pics of the hospital...the owner of the hospital is one of many Saudi men who are making a great difference in our lives...
- arbgrlusaMay 11, 2010, 2:28:00 AM
Dear Susie,ReplyDelete
I wonder if we have met?? I have been to Sami Angawi's "salons" many times. you should ask to interview him for your blog. I always thought it strange that he has two wives.
Best wishes to your husband. I am glad he got such good care.
Arbgrlusa--please shoot me an email to chiaraazlinquestion AT yahoo.com. Thanks! :)ReplyDelete
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I was visiting my Friends in England and was up late watching telly as I sat there It suddenly felt like I wasn´t alone in the room.
I felt like I was being watched and I thought to myself its only my imagination playing tricks on me again, then the feeling got stronger and stronger it sort of escalated... I thought this apparition would manifest itself infront of me or whatever it was.
It scared the crap out of me I thought to myself it´s time to go to bed then suddenly the cd player next to me turned on and started to play. I could see the cd spinning and funny enough an Elvis tune started to play " for I cant help falling in love with you..." It felt like this apparition was trying to tell me not to be afraid and that it ment no harm that it "was warm kind loving spirit." anyway I turned off the stereo and went to bed. In the morning when I came down the stairs my friend asked me why I didn´t turn off the stereo before I whent to bed, I then told her I did and asked her if she had any Elvis cd´s she replied no.
I have felt the feeling of being watched before this happened and that some person has been in my bedroom watching me haha I sometimes think i must be paranoid or something but then again the mind is a terrible thing to taste.
What do you think this was? did I really encounter some sort of apparition? or spirit?
My first encounter of an apparition?
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Interesting for sure but I can't what I think it would be.
Right this way to my haunted space.
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Of all the announcements made at last months's Comic-Con in San Diego, perhaps nothing shocked the show floor harder than when Marvel blew the roof off of the convention center and revealed their complete acquisition to the full publishing rights of Marvelman. A character whose legal history rivals the most intense dramatics on display in even the most well written comics. To anyone unfamiliar, this may seem like a head scratcher. Just who is this "Marvelman" and why should I care? Well, I can answer that question with a name: Alan Moore.
Years before Moore made the jump across the pond to American comics and began his complete alteration of the comic book landscape with his work on titles like Swamp Thing and a little known 12 issue series called Watchmen, there was a British magazine called Warrior . An anthology comic publication comprised of several serialized strips where the bearded one began to cut his teeth at redefining what the medium was capable of. Marvelman was one of the main features of the book which also included V for Vendetta. While the character himself dates back to the fifties as essentially a rip off of Captain Marvel, family and all (A secret word turns an ordinary person into a super hero with powers beyond those of mortal men, blah, blah, blah), it wouldn't be until Moore wrapped his hands around the title before the book would truly take flight and become something incredibly unique and beyond compelling.
Warrior eventually went under and the rights to Marvelman were picked up by Eclipse comics (switching the name to Miracleman to avoid any entanglements with the house of ideas) who collected the initial strips into a more "proper" comic book format while allowing Moore to finish his story with the help of a laundry list of high profile artistic collaborators including Rick Veitch, Alan Davis, and John Totleben. After finishing 16 issues of completely deconstructing the basic concept of a super-hero, the writing reigns were handed over to some guy named Neil Gaiman who penned several issues before the book fell casualty to Eclipse going under.
In the wake of bankruptcy, famous comic artist Todd Mcfarlane stepped in and snatched up Eclipse's publishing rights to the character with the intent of introducing Miracleman into the Image universe – even going so far as to actually have Mike Moran (MM's alter-ego) make an appearance in Hellspawn as well as releasing a limited edition statue and an action figure (now bearing a re-designed costume). This despite the fact that Gaiman along with several others were still co-owners of the rights to the character. The resulting legal battle would continue for years with seemingly no end in sight. All of which makes Marvel's announcement even more impressive and shocking.
Finally, after nearly 30 years, this book will be reprinted allowing all of those readers who have been left out this entire time to decide for themselves whether or not the book is actually worth the fuss.
Having spent a lot of time (and money) to get my hands on the Eclipse issues years ago, I can say with complete confidence that anyone interested is in for a serious treat. While overall it may lack the polish and fully realized structure of his later works, Alan Moore's run on Miracle/Marvelman is, in my opinion, his most passionate, dark and dangerous work to date- and is not only my favorite, but arguably
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In a debate last week in the hotly contested Sixth Congressional District race, Republican challenger Richard Tisei branded US Representative John F. Tierney a do-nothing lawmaker.
"You've been in Congress for 16 years. You're the only member of the Massachusetts congressional delegation who's never sponsored a bill that's been signed into law," Tisei said, encouraging the audience to search C-Span's online archives for bills sponsored by Tierney.
Tierney said Tisei fundamentally misunderstood how Congress works. "Richard, if we did laws the way you think, where everybody has to have it named after themselves to count, it would be sort of strange," said Tierney, citing "a number of substantial bills that I've drafted and that I've worked with others on."
Tisei's reading was statistically accurate — Tierney's campaign could point to no bill that became law that he had filed as lead sponsor — but independent observers and Tierney supporters said it is not a worthwhile measure, missing the anonymous work that shapes major legislation while giving credit to members of Congress who sponsor bills to rename post offices or celebrate local history.
"Whether or not your name is on legislation or you've sponsored or been a lead sponsor is absolutely not a measure of legislative effectiveness," said David King, who teaches at Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government and chairs its training program for new members of Congress. "I'm no fan of Tierney. . . . However, on this one, Tierney's right."
King said it is not Tierney's legislative record that has left him politically imperiled, with polls showing the veteran Democrat trailing his challenger in the North Shore district.
Instead, he said, it reflects the consternation swirling around Tierney's insistence that he knew nothing about an illegal gambling ring run by his brothers-in-law. His wife, Patrice, served a month in prison and five months of house arrest last year after pleading guilty to helping one of her brothers falsify his tax filings, admitting "willful blindness" in not reporting his offshore gambling operation.
US Representative George Miller, a California Democrat who serves on the House Committee on Education and the Workforce with Tierney, dismissed Tisei's assertion that Tierney is ineffective on Capitol Hill simply because legislation does not carry his name.
"It's a clever game if you're not in the Congress to make a charge like his opponent's made, but it just doesn't reflect effectiveness," said Miller, former chairman and now ranking Democrat on the House education and workforce committee.
Miller said he considers Tierney a "go-to guy" among the 17 Democrats on the committee, ticking off the names of three other top deputies. Tierney digs into policy on higher education and job training bills and, as a lawyer, is a dogged interrogator, Miller said. "If you get into a fight with him, you better bring your lunch," the West Coast lawmaker said.
Tierney works largely behind the scenes, a Democrat of mid-level seniority invested in oversight hearings and the rewriting of bills at the committee level, Miller said.
After defeating Republican incumbent Peter Torkildsen in a 1996 race so close the recount stretched for weeks, Tierney has cruised to reelection every two years since, until now.
The gambling scandal and Tisei's reputation as a fiscally conservative, socially moderate Republican who served 26 years in the State House have propelled Tisei to a fund-raising lead this year and boosted the former Wakefield state senator in the polls.
Tierney's campaign, while defending his wife, has focused less on the congressman's own record than on trying to paint Tisei as a Tea Party pawn.
Miller credited Tierney for a number of legislative measures that do not carry his name. He cited a provision in the federal health care overhaul requiring insurers to spend at least 80 percent of premium payments on medical costs, giving consumers a rebate if they overspend on administration or marketing. He also named a requirement that the states maintain at least their 2006 level of higher-education support to avoid forfeiting some federal aid.
Tierney's campaign has recently claimed that the 80-20 provision in the Affordable Care Act is called the "Tierney Rule," though there is scant evidence that anyone used that phrase when the bill was drafted in 2009 and 2010.
But Miller said Tierney advocated singlehandedly for that clause within the committee, one of three House committees drafting the health care legislation.
"It would not have been in the legislation except that he pushed for it," said Miller, in a phone interview from California. The first rebates this summer totaled $1.1 billion, according to the AARP. Tierney is working on a similar measure to ensure college funds are spent in the classroom, Miller said.
Tierney also sits on the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, specializing in national and homeland security and foreign affairs. Before Democrats lost their House majority, he was chairman of the homeland security and foreign affairs subcommittee.
In that capacity, Tierney held 65 hearings and led multiple trips to the Middle East and South Asia, helping expose billions of dollars in wasteful US contracts in Iraq and Afghanistan, and encouraging the transformation of the Walter Reed medical center in the aftermath of Washington Post stories revealing patient neglect, according to his campaign.
Stephen E. Flynn, codirector of Northeastern University's Kostas Research Institute for Homeland Security, said Tierney took seriously work that is important to the country, if not tracked closely by voters.
Flynn, who testified often before Congress as a senior fellow with the Council on Foreign Relations, found Tierney receptive to his argument that the government needed to rethink continuing to spend many times more on ballistic missile defense than on port security and cargo inspection, a generation after the Cold War. They co-wrote an op-ed on the subject in 2008.
"I've done a lot with members of Congress, and these are not necessarily the kinds of issues they engage in. There's not a whole lot of pork in them, and there's not a lot of constituents who are fully engaged in them," Flynn said.
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THE BRAZEN CAREERIST- Making meaning: 20somethings happy to switch jobs
The majority of job hunters are younger than 35. In fact, among 18- to 24-year-olds, 60 percent are looking for work. But they're not looking for more money. They're looking for more interesting work and a better personal life.
Rob Larity, for example, works at Delphi Health Systems, a software company. Though he doesn't mind working, in effect, for his dad, Delphi's chief executive, the younger Larity is looking for a new job because he wants to live closer to Boston.
"It would be more fun," he says, casually using a word that young workers of earlier generations would have seen as audacious. Younger workers have fewer qualms about frequent job changes, because they have no illusions about job security in this day and age.
What matters to these workers is a meaningful job experience. Continual learning, challenging projects, collegial atmosphere, solid mentoring: this is the checklist for the newest workers, and if they don't get what they want, they'll leave.
Few young people have conventional corporate climbing in mind, and changing jobs frequently is actually an efficient way to meet their career goals.
"If someone is going to work for a big company, they want to be there a few years to learn and then start their own company," says Jason Harris, cofounder of a San Francisco ad agency.
"They do want to conquer the world," Harrison says, "but they don't want to own the world. They want to carve out their own niche doing what they want to do and make a business out of it."
What can you do to make sure you get a job that will encourage new experiences at work and at home? Ask a lot of questions in the interview. Older people might tell you that many questions are off-limits in an interview. For example, "Can I leave every Wednesdays at 5 to go bike riding with my friends?"
But this sort of question is quite common from younger workers. Young workers are very savvy when it comes to knowing corporate life.
For those hunting for a new job that will provide meaningful experiences, concentrate energy on finding the right manager as opposed to the right position. There's no reason to be limited by the job description– you can always pick up extra work that gains experience and exposure.
But a checked-out manager can limit you. So seek managers who will look out for you and make sure you get good projects. Since joining the workforce, baby boomers have been screaming about how annoying micromanagers are. But hands-on management is making a comeback due to the demands of people in their 20s.
A benevolent form of micromanagement is good. So ask potential employers about their management training programs. And don't rely completely on what your prospective manager says. Listen to how he or she says it. People's speech patterns reveal their management style.
Someone who progresses through a conversation step by step, methodically giving details, will manage you carefully and with great interest.
Larity receives good mentoring and guidance, not only from his dad, but from a few vice presidents in the company. When looking for a good manager, he recommends looking for "what everyone wants from a boss: someone who sees you as an equal; someone who is not too uptight about titles and the formal aspects of the employer-employee relationship."
An organization of equals. Sane hours. Devoted mentors. These are the demands of a new generation of job hunters. In fact, maybe the constant job changes are a sign of impressive motivation to gain experience.
"I'm not a slacker," said Larity. "I'm driven by the things I'm interested in."