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Bernie's Paris: How Linda Spalla wrote a love story of hope and light as she followed her Frenchman to Paris
I actually never meant to go to Paris.
After numerous world travels spanning many years, Paris was the one city I had never visited.
It was not intentional, just by chance. The closest I had come was a jaunt to the Riviera in the late 90's with a girlfriend.
I never knew about its architectural beauty, the allure of the Seine, the tiny rues that beckoned with so much history, the aromas of baking bread, the show-stopping patisseries, the sidewalk cafes which corralled a joy of living, or best of all, how the well-chosen scarf could pop an outfit.
I had no idea.
In 2002 where this story begins, people in the USA were abuzz about not drinking French champagne or eating "French" fries because of the disagreement over the Iraq war.
Let's just say the French-loving sentiment was at an all-time low, and going to Paris was not high on my priority list.
Parisians were tagged as being rude to Americans, snooty, aloof, and too damn liberal.
I was a conservative, Republican, church-going, Southern gal with a knotty life composed of two divorces, mounds of discord, disillusionment, loneliness, depression and drama.
I fell off the happily ever-after wagon at age twenty-one when a first husband delivered a crushing blow of reality that quickly taught me how unfair and painful adult life could be.
However, fortune blessed me with a fantastic career which culminated as CEO of a CBS television station in my progressive city of Huntsville, Alabama.
Voted most likely to succeed in high school, I had fulfilled that prophecy certainly on the exterior but had carefully hidden away a broken and scared inside.
At age 58, I had all but given up on finding an authentic relationship. My kids were grown and doing well; I had retired; my goal was to play golf in every state in the Union, and I wanted to try my hand at writing.
My sweet mother had passed away after months in a caregiving maze.
I was a survivor- strong, stalwart but never very far from feeling that happiness was about to pass me by.
I was definitely overdue and had no idea that a whirlwind of unexpected fun was soon to flood my life.
That's when I met Bernie. He was not my dream guy; he was not rich; he was not a GQ hunk; he was not tall, dark and handsome.
He was not like anyone I had ever dated!
I failed to catch the significance of that at first and snubbed my nose at the very prospect of continuing to see him.
Introduced by a mutual friend, we started very slowly, at least for me.
No fireworks, no sizzle, no whistling tea kettle, just a steady movement day by day of watching, scrutinizing, finding reasons not to stay, at least on my side.
Bernie fell hard for me, with tenderness, attention, kindness and devotion.
Imagine that - a playbook that was foreign to me.
He was a military guy, 22 years' worth, culminating in lieutenant colonel followed by 20 more years in the defense business.
Happily married for 31 years to a violinist, he had known great love followed by great devastation when she died at the young age of 52 from breast cancer. His world tumbled and a deep yearning to return to his hometown of Paris took on a gnawing persistence.
Bernie's parents were both French, his mother born in Paris and his father in Alsace. When they divorced during WWII, Bernie was thrust from Paris to Kansas (!) at the tender age of 10.
He was basically miserable as he was put into an American school where he could not speak a word of English. Over many years, this little French kid acclimated to American culture but his heart never left Paris! There was a wistful longing for his French roots, for his biological father, and for his native language!
So the stage was set.
Bernie was lonely; I was lonely.
He was looking for something to fill his emptiness. I was looking for my dose of stingy happiness which life had thus far withheld.
After dating only a few months, Bernie popped the question.
No, not that question. He asked me after dinner on a cool October evening if I would go to Paris with him in the spring.
I was shocked, confused, but also a little giddy. Paris!
I'd never been, and I could go with a native who spoke the language. What could possibly be wrong with that? I thought about it for maybe 60 seconds, pounded him with questions...
How? Where? How much? and finally, after some inane babbling, I just said yes, an affirmative answer that would change my life.
Fast forward to 2016.
Our Paris trips are now twelve in number, going mostly during the summertime for two divine months each year.
I've evolved from a complete novice to a seasoned, French-speaking devotee, but it was a slow process.
From hotel to apartment living, from scared to confident, I've learned to love small spaces, cozy bathrooms with no shower curtain, evening espressos after dinner, and strolling.
I've became a Métro expert, a daily shopper, and a blogger.
I love ile flottante and foie gras. I love our neighbors in Le Marais and play the all-knowing tour guide when visitors come to stay with us. I'm at home in Paris and always sad to leave as we say goodbye on Pont Marie.
Paris has brought me more memories than anyone could ever hope to garner, and I will forever be grateful.
As a way to stay connected in a culture where the nuances were strange and the language difficult, I decided in about year three to start putting our daily adventures down in emails accompanied by attachments of Bernie's fantastic photographs (He has over 10,000!). His $1000 camera has every bell and whistle, and he is amazing with it. He waits for the picture to develop instead of forcing it and captures some stunning shots.
I found that people loved reading about our escapades enhanced by Bernie's pictures. Eventually, I transitioned from using email to a nicely-designed website which became the platform for my blogging.
There was no thought of a book in the earlier years, but more and more followers mentioned doing "something" with all the information.
I had published two books already and sidelined that thought as just too much work.
But, not surprisingly, those blogs over roughly ten years became the heart and soul of our book, "Bernie's Paris...Travel Stories with Love."
They were filled with luscious details I could have never retrieved from the cobwebs of my feeble brain. The deluge of content was the biggest struggle in developing the book: how to arrange it, what to include, what to omit, how to put heart into it so that it became more than a travel guide.
How honest should I be?
How much of the male-female dynamic should I include? How real? How distant? How could I wrap it into a love story?
I allowed Bernie some editorial input when a manuscript began to develop but I must say that he (being politely French) was very put off by details that rubbed too close, that revealed too much.
For example, he wanted me to ditch the chapter on arguing which I thought was one that people would love.
I was right.
He was also offended if I portrayed the slightest negative about the city, the French people, the government, etc.
I firmly held my ground and fought to include the more authentic side of Paris, both good and bad, and of us as a couple.
I walked a thin line between keeping him reasonably happy and telling a believable story.
The most intimate section was the introduction, constructed at the very end. The hope was to immediately make us into interesting characters and leave the reader begging for more. It's the shortest chapter but commanded the most effort! Every word had to be precise, perfect and penetrating.
To this day, I'm not sure that Bernie has read it, and when he does I'm fairly certain he will not like it!
My greatest satisfaction about the book is the inclusion of 40 of Bernie's photographs in color.
Yes, it escalated cost and complicated production with the publisher BUT it also made sure that Bernie had his rightful place in a book that really was all about him.
I changed the title toward the end from "Bernie and Me...A Paris Love Story" to its present form "Bernie's Paris."
It was, after all, his Paris that I fell so in love with - through his eyes, his heart, his voice, his impact.
My biggest regret about the book is that I could not finish it in Paris.
I wanted to sit in the quaint green spaces like Hotel Sully or the little park beside St. Julien de Pauvre and bring the manuscript to its rightful conclusion.
I wanted to breathe Paris air, listen to those damn sirens or the bells from Notre Dame as I was editing, revising, remembering a better story.
Instead, I was in Alabama determined to finish, determined to push through to a published work. And I did but what a thrill to have culminated it in Paris, a city for writers through the ages.
Alas, maybe next time.
Bernie will be 77 this year though he looks 65!
It has to be all the red wine and the good French genes. Though he's blessed with good health, my heart is never very far from wrenching when I realize that anything could happen.
I wanted the book in hand as a tribute to him while he was able to fully enjoy it.
I wanted him to know from my words what his presence in my life has meant.
I wanted him to know that he touched a light inside me which has brought happiness, satisfaction and fulfillment where there had been such emptiness before.
I wanted him to grasp how glad I was that he had taught me to fall in love with his hometown.
Ours is not a sappy, syrupy love story but a tale of rich tapestry, knitted from heartache and broken dreams gestating into deep and abiding friendship, trust, loyalty, and devotion.
It's a love for the ages certainly, a love to be envied but also one to be copied, a love not found on Twitter but in the soul sanctums of our hearts.
It's a love that young couples need to understand.
I never knew intense love for a city before. I had never fallen in love with the sound of a language or the flow of a river as it cut its way into a city's soul.
I had never embraced church bells as my clock which heralded the day's routine or gasped at rays of twilight as they carved a majestic punctuation in an otherwise ordinary structure.
I never knew that museums could have so much character, so much variety; that restaurants were an experience instead of a place.
I never knew young children could be rapt by history and art from a teacher or a grandmother, or that old was centuries instead of decades.
I wanted this book to be our story but also to be a spark that ignited other love stories.
I wanted it to be an open invitation for others to fall in love with Paris.
So far, as I hear from readers, that message has fallen on receptive ears. People cherish their memories of Paris; they want to cultivate more or they want to visit for the very first time.
This book is a means to that end.
I dedicated it to my four grandchildren, ages 13, 10, 8 and 3.
If just one of them someday sees Paris through my eyes with his or her lover, I will be ecstatic. If this little book finds itself tucked into their suitcase, I will have all the reward I need.
I did not set out to write this book anymore than I meant to go to Paris, but both happened because they were supposed to happen.
In conclusion, here are my words on what Paris has meant to me from the closing chapter called "Reflections."
"I have learned that Paris is my healer of decisions made poorly, of romances gone wrong, of my broken spirit, my broken heart, and my loss of hope. Paris was meant for me at exactly this time in my life with exactly this man in my life. It has been the yeast for a life that was flat, the tempo for music gone silent, the spice for a chemistry that had become dormant. I owe Paris my life!"
About the Author
Linda is a retired NYT television executive who has found a second life as an author. She is a golfer, a grandmother and comes to Paris yearly. Her second book on caregiving called Catch Your Breath was featured in O Magazine's November issue. And now her newest book is out "Bernie's Paris" which is a love story/travelogue with all the charm that Paris has to offer.
Grab your copy here.
Image Sources: Pixabay, LindaSpalla, Gil Brady
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Beilein shrugs off retirement talk
ANN ARBOR, Mich. (AP) -- Michigan coach John Beilein's new contract will keep him with the Wolverines through the 2018-19 season. Whether retirement awaits after that, he isn't ready to say.
The 60-year-old coach will make $2.45 million in annual compensation under the new deal. The three-year extension replaced his previous contract, which was to end after the 2015-16. His first contract, which paid $1.3 million plus incentives, made him the highest paid basketball coach in school history.
And now he is set through the 2018-19 season.
"At least," he said Tuesday. "When I first got here, I at least wanted to coach that contract. Who knows right now where that all goes, but I love the faith the university has in me to at least redo my contract to that extension."
He said there was no sense of urgency to get a deal done, but added it felt good knowing he could make incoming high school juniors a promise he'd be there if they signed with Michigan.
"It would be good to get it as we began recruiting," he said. "My plan was to coach at least six more years and put that so the 2015 class knew."
The Wolverines fell to Louisville in the NCAA title game, the school's first trip there since the early 1990s. Beilein said the cache that comes with reaching the final game of the season only has helped on the recruiting trail. He remembered one of his earliest recruits here asking him if Michigan ever was any good in basketball.
"When we ask them if they watched the championship game they say, `Of course,'" he said. "When we ask them if they're interested in Michigan, they say, `Of course.' That's very positive."
Beilein has guided the Wolverines to four NCAA Tournament appearances and the team shared its first Big Ten title last year for the first time since 1986.
Guards Trey Burke and Tim Hardaway Jr., key players in the championship-game run, left early and were taken in the first round of the NBA draft. Sophomore forwards Mitch McGary and Glenn Robinson III will be the likely nucleus of the coming season's team.
Michigan hired Beilein in 2007 after he led West Virginia to an NIT title. He's also had stops at Richmond, Canisius, LeMoyne, Nazareth and Erie (N.Y.) Community College. His career record as a head coach is 673-403.
The new contract is a far cry from his first college paycheck. Erie paid him $12,000 a year when became its head coach in 1978.

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"Africa is, indeed, coming into fashion." - Horace Walpole (1774)
Thanks for indulging me yesterday. France is the first overseas country I ever visited, and I do have a certain affinity for our cultured allies. And their stuff.
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Allusion le 7eme: Je dormira a l'isle dans un lac au sujet qu'il est un chason des Animaniacs.
Aujourd'hui, c'est le Jour de la Bastille! Je pense que c'est donc necessaire de ecriver en Francais! Hoh-hoh-hoh-hoh-hoh! Vive la revolution! Vive la France!
Facebook is a funny thing, in that it lets you reconnect with people you haven't talked to in 15 years. Like, say, for example, the older sister of one of your camp cabinmates who was a counselor in the next cabin over in the summer of '94. Anyway, the point of this post is that she's a mom of three, and has an absolutely perfect thing she says to her children:
Hint #6: I'll be visiting a canyon that is twice the depth of the Grand Canyon.
Ah, the cold hard reality that Barack Obama is a politician hits the kids. Personally, I'm pretty pleased that he's tacking to the center, because it gives an easy example for explaining the Median Voter Theorem to my students.
Hint #4: I will be sea kayaking for two days in the middle of the trip.
Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir will charged with war crimes by a prosecutor at the International Criminal Court for his government's role in the Darfur genocide. It won't have an immediate effect, and it may screw up the already poorly-equipped and mandated UN mission there. But at least someone's taking action. Finally. After 5+ years of "never again." Way to go, international community.
Sacha Baron Cohen is at it again. This time in Arkansas. In a cage.
We showed The Unforseen for the Camp CLC kids today, then had a dialogue with filmmaker Laura Dunn, who's awesome. It was so good for the students to hear her story of how she ended up with a vocation she never expected, and I enjoyed chatting afterwards with her about our experiences of the bizarre, uncomfortable privilege of having attended Yale.
They are giving me a TA for the fall. And a class that's over twice the size of my current one, at a time that may make it impossible for me to work the second job. But they're giving me a TA for the fall.
Hint #2: The trip involves six airports, but is (mercifully) only one overnight flight away.
The last on Jesse Helms, for awhile, anyway:
The great thing about Camp CLC is the kids who come to our institute. This year, for the first time, most of our kids are not from the D/FW-Austin-San Antonio-Houston population centers. Instead, they're from West Texas and small towns and Nacodoches.
Assuming that I survive this week's grueling schedule, my vacation starts one week from today. Since I'm going somewhere interesting and fun, I thought we'd play a little game, which I will fondly title, "Where in the World is Texas in Africa Going?" Each day for the next week, I'll give a hint about where I'm going and you can try to guess. (No cheating for those of you who know me in real life and already know the answer to this question!)
I was just teaching the students this morning that public policies often have unintended consequences. Not sure I'll be using this as an example, though...
My friend Regina is looking for a good way for kids to learn the U.S. states and capitals. Of course, my first thought was the Animaniacs song. Which led to me remembering how much I loved this song back in the day...
Shaun has a great post up for the 40 Day Fast about raising kids who are aware of a world in need around them, as does Polly, on the blessings that our hands can be to others.
Anyway, nobody was gored in Pamplona today.
Poor, poor Jean-Pierre Bemba. Seems the facilities for prisoners at the International Criminal Court aren't quite up to the first-class standards to which he's used. I wonder what conditions were like for the hundreds of thousands of Congolese who suffered from war crimes committed by troops under Bemba's command?
Mama's Boy and Andira are blogging for the 40 Day Fast today.
I was sleeping in this morning when my phone buzzed with a text message from the Lobbyist for the Dark Side: "Your old boss died."
I, gentle readers, will already be in holiday weekend mode by the time you read this. There are a few posts (mostly on the 40 Day Fast) lined up for the weekend (thank goodness for future publishing!), but as of now, this is it, because I plan to take full advantage of one of the only federal holidays recognized by the University.
If you ever think a small donation to charity doesn't help people to improve their lives, please remember that Beatrice Biira (the famed owner of that goat) graduated from college. And she's headed to graduate school.
Today's 40 Day Fast bloggers are Steven, who writes about homelessness, and Sarah, whose subject is modern-day martyrs.
This post is part of the 40 Day Fast, a collaborative effort by 80 bloggers to draw attention to the world's great needs hosted by Inspired to Action. Be sure to also check out Beth's blog today; she is writing about Compassion International.
Nothing prepared me for Elise*. Taken from her family at age 11 to be a sexual slave to rebel soldiers in the forest, pregnant at 12, and now in a hospital where she was receiving treatment for the wounds those soldiers had inflicted on her broken body, Elise sat expressionless, telling her story to the camera without emotion. The only way for her body to survive the massive physical and emotional trauma, explained my friend Esther, who showed me her story in hopes of getting me to understand, was for her mind to shut down.
My dissertation research in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, one of the world's least stable regions, has taken me to many unexpected places, but the hospitals that serve victims of the country's rape epidemic shocked me to the core. Working with very limited resources, Heal Africa hospital in Goma and the Panzi Hospital of Bukavu do their best to treat the bodies, minds, and spirits of some of the hundreds of thousands of women and girls who have experienced the worst that human beings can do to one another.
The situation in the eastern Congo is complicated; after 12+ years of civil and international war, no one (including the national government) is strong enough to control the region, so the countryside experiences chronic insecurity. Up to 5.2 million people have died since 1996; that's the proportional equivalent of losing every citizen of Texas in ten years. Poverty is on a scale that's difficult to believe, even by African standards. In one city in which I work, it's very common for individuals to only eat one meal every 48 hours. Children and adults rotate eating one day to the next.
Periodic outbreaks of violence force hundreds of thousands of Congolese to flee their homes and crops, which contributes to chronic food insecurity and the spread of disease in refugee camps. Meanwhile, in rural areas various rebel groups compete with one another and the national army to control territory, from which they then extract whatever natural resources are available, loot villages for food and money, and rape women and girls on an unprecedented scale. The national army is no help; in fact, they're often responsible for just as many human rights violations as are the rebels.
Estimates are that as many as 2 of every 3 women have been raped in some areas of the east.
Chantal. Marie. Sarah. Claire. Marta. Annette. Chloe.
They all have names and faces and stories. They are all people, just like you and me. They are someone's sister, someone's daughter, someone's mother, someone's aunt, someone's niece, someone's wife, someone's sweetheart, someone's friend.
Imagine what it would be like in the U.S. if 2/3 of the women in, say, California or North Carolina or Alabama were being raped. Imagine how we would respond if their attackers were completely indiscriminate - if they went after elderly grandmothers and innocent young girls, some as young as 3 and 4.
Imagine if those rapes were as incredibly violent as they are in the Congo. Rape there is usually gang rape, often with the deliberate intent of destroying a woman's body without killing her. Frequently, soldiers are certain to have an HIV+ soldier participate in order to infect their victim. Even more frequently, the husbands, fathers, brothers, and sons who try to stop the perpetrators are forced to watch and then killed in front of their wives and mothers.
Moreover, when the soldiers are finished with their crimes, they often fire a weapon or insert foreign objects like glass or tree branches into the women's bodies, creating a tear in the vaginal wall called a fistula. A woman or girl with a fistula becomes incontinent, leaking a constant stream of urine and excrement from her body. They are rejected by their families, cast out by their husbands, and often live in terrible pain. Their tormentors, meanwhile, almost always get away with their crimes. The country's judicial system is barely functional, and the police don't even have vehicles.
What if this were happening here?
We wouldn't stand for it, that's what. We would demand action, put a stop to it, and do all we could to help the victims. So why are we willing to sit by while hundreds of thousands of women and girls live in pain and fear on the other side of the world?
But there are those who care and those who work to help. The doctors at Heal Africa and Panzi hospitals perform restorative surgeries on fistula victims, while other programs help these women and girls to heal emotionally and spiritually, and to develop means of supporting their families. They treat victims of HIV and malnutrition, and work to be spaces of sanity and safety under very difficult conditions. They bring hope and healing to those who have little reason to believe that anyone cares for them anymore.
It doesn't take much to help a Congolese woman to rebuild her life, and you can be part of doing so. At Heal Africa, $10 will buy shoes for five women. $50 will put a child in school for a full year. If you can spare $300, that will cover surgery to repair one woman's fistula. You can donate to Heal Africa here.
Whether you choose to give financially or not, please keep the women and girls of the eastern DR Congo in your prayers. Pray for girls like Elise, and for the women whose faces you see on this post, all of whom have suffered traumatic fistulas as a result of violent rape. Pray for the teenage mothers who have to learn to love the babies they conceived through no choice of their own, because the orphanages are full, and there's no international adoption system for the Congo. Pray that God will bring peace to the region, that there will be justice for those who commit such atrocious crimes, and that God will heal the bodies and spirits of those who suffer so much.
To learn more about the conflict in the eastern Congo, check out the Enough Project's resource page.For other suggestions on ways to help women and girls who are victims of rape in the eastern Congo, check out this article I wrote on the subject.
Longtime readers of Texas in Africa know that I don't "do" Christian music. (Chalk it up to living in Franklin, where members of the youth choir became CCM superstars and we all learned that CCM is a business before it's a ministry. When my friend J came back from tour with our classmate R, she could mimic R's hand motions of "worship" exactly in time with every song while R was on stage. That tends to disillusion you a little bit.) As I've shared in the past, so much Christian music is just really, really cheesy and lacking in innovation. It's not me.
More on Obama's efforts to get evangelical voters on his side is here. My take is that he'll probably pull in about 40-45% of young evangelicals, especially first-time voters, but that among the over-40 crowd, he'll mostly just get those that John Kerry got. Unless McCain can mount a vigorous campaign centered around judicial appointments, I think most right-wing evanglical voters are going to stay home this year, and those that don't will eventually back McCain.
Barack Obama is set to endorse the use of federal funds by faith-based social service agencies later today. Moreover, the candidate will also say that he supports, at least to some extent, allowing these agencies to hire and fire candidates on the basis of their religious belief.


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Medal Count: 7 total (2 gold, 3 silver, 2 bronze)
Luke Vang: 2nd Beginner Male Adult Contemporary Longfist (Chang quan), 1st Beginner Male Adult Contemporary Straight Sword (Jian shu)
Brinna Keillor: 3rd Intermediate Female Adult Contemporary Other Weapon (Fan)
Michelle Tran: 2nd Advanced Female Contemporary Longfist (Chang quan)
Michael Nilson: 2nd Intermediate Male Adult Other Weapon (Fan)
Heather Cameron: 3rd Intermediate Female Adult Contemporary Longfist (Chang quan)
Tom Diamond: 2nd Advanced Male Adult Taiji Chen
Additionally, UO alumnus, former coach and National A Team member Brandon Sugiyama took part in the Masters Demo during the tournament's opening ceremony.
Phillip Dang (former coach): 1st Advanced Male Contemporary Spear (Qian shu)
Phil and his brother Peter, who also medaled in a number of his events, opened the doors to their new school in February. Summit Wushu Academy – based in Clackamas, Oregon – has hosted two seminars for current UO Wushu team members and alumni since opening, and the team is extremely grateful for the opportunity to train with them.
Videos of all UO competitors forms may be found on the YouTube channel (also linked to in the sidebar), and videos of non-UO friends may be found on Dana's channel. Good job everyone, and onward to Collegiates!!!!!!!


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Sandy coverage may cause PTSD in anxious children
The current media coverage on natural disasters like superstorm Sandy can show some devastating and frightening images, especially for young children. A new study shows that children who have anxiety may be more susceptible to developing post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) just by watching disaster coverage on TV.
Previous research has suggested that there is a link between watching traumatic events on TV like 9/11 or Hurricane Katrina and PTSD. PTSD symptoms can include hyperarousal, feeling tense, anxious worrying that the significant event will happen again, re-experiencing the event and being "keyed-up" tense. Emotional "numbing" or having a lack of interest in everyday things can also occur. The anxiety disorder normally happens to individuals who have experienced or seen the something that threatened their safety or caused death. Treatment involves "desensitization" through having the patient remember the traumatic event, support groups and some medications that can help reduce anxiety.
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Carl Weems , a professor of psychology at the University of New Orleans, and his team followed 141 children who had lived in areas hit hard by Hurricane Katrina, looking at their PTSD symptoms 24 and 30 months after the event. They followed up with the kids one month after a different Hurricane, Gustav, made landfall on Aug. 31, 2008 and asked them about how much TV they had watched about the hurricane.
Though Gustav was nowhere near as devastating as Katrina, it did prompt the evacuation of almost 3 million people that live in the storm's path, including many Louisiana residents.
About one-fourth of the children said they had watched "a lot" of the Gustav coverage on TV, while 31 percent said they watched "a whole lot."
The main factor that researchers found determined who was more likely to experience PTSD from watching Gustav coverage was whether or not the child had symptoms of the anxiety disorder prior to Gustav. For children who displayed PTSD symptoms before the storm, the more Gustav coverage they watched, the more they were to experience PTSD again.
While all these kids had experienced the devastating effects of a hurricane before, Weems said that the experiment showed that kids who have a history of anxiety may be more likely to experience PTSD just by witnessing the event, even on TV.
"The study shows us who we should be targeting," Weems explained to CBSNews.com. "Maybe these kids shouldn't watch too much coverage, and we should really monitor the TV watching with them."
Weems said as with all disaster coverage, parents should talk to their kids and not let their kids watch too much.
"Don't be glued to the TV, but don't hide your kids from it either," he said.
The U.S. Department of Health & Human Services said this week that caregivers of children who lived through a disaster should create a safe place, provide comfort, create predictable routines and talk about what happened and will be happening with age-appropriate words. Avoiding repetitive media coverage can also help a child heal from a traumatic event.
Weems added that for kids, even those who are just watching TV, listening to their fears and reassuring them of their safety helps. The most important thing is to help the child realize that their family has a plan to keep them safe, he said.
"Use it as a time to talk about the family's own plan in case of an emergency," he suggested.
However, not talking about it and ignoring it is something that families should not do.
"The take-home message shouldn't be we should avoid the things that we fear," Weems explained. "We should ultimately try to face our fears. Helping kids face their fears is good, but with guidance."
The research appears in the Nov. 2012 issue of Psychological Science.


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David Brat's Writings: Hitler's Rise 'Could All Happen Again'
David Brat, the Virginia Republican who shocked House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R., Va.) Tuesday, wrote in 2011 that Hitler's rise "could all happen again, quite easily."
Mr. Brat's remarks, in a 2011 issue of Interpretation: A Journal of Bible and Theology, came three years before he defeated the only Jewish Republican in Congress.
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In his 13-page essay titled "God and Advanced Mammon — Can Theological Types Handle Usury and Capitalism?" Mr. Brat, an economics professor at Randolph-Macon College in Ashland, Va., near Richmond, calls both conservatives and liberals hypocritical and wrote that "the government holds a monopoly on violence" because it enforces the law.
But it is the reference to Hitler's Germany that is likely to turn heads during Mr. Brat's first full day as a tea party star.
The full context of his second Holocaust prognostication comes in a section about how if Christian people "had the guts to spread the word," government would not need to "backstop every action we take."
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Capitalism is here to stay, and we need a church model that corresponds to that reality. Read Nietzsche. Nietzsche's diagnosis of the weak modern Christian democratic man was spot on. Jesus was a great man. Jesus said he was the Son of God. Jesus made things happen. Jesus had faith. Jesus actually made people better. Then came the Christians. What happened? What went wrong? We appear to be a bit passive. Hitler came along, and he did not meet with unified resistance. I have the sinking feeling that it could all happen again, quite easily. The church should rise up higher than Nietzsche could see and prove him wrong. We should love our neighbor so much that we actually believe in right and wrong, and do something about it. If we all did the right thing and had the guts to spread the word, we would not need the government to backstop every action we take.
Mr. Brat also criticizes both ends of the political spectrum for inconsistencies. He blasts conservatives for the pursuit of individual liberty while pushing laws restricting abortion, gay marriage and gambling. He writes:
Can Christians force others to follow their ethical teachings on social issues? Note that consistency is lacking on all sides of this issue. The political Right likes to champion individual rights and individual liberty, but it has also worked to enforce morality in relation to abortion, gambling, and homosexuality. The Left likes to think of itself as the bulwark of progressive liberal individualism, and yet it seeks to progressively coerce others to fund every social program under the sun via majority rule. Houston, we have a problem. Coercion is on the rise. What is the root word for liberalism? (Answer: Liberty)
And then Mr. Brat implied there is no reason to entrust either conservatives or liberals with the government that he said "holds a monopoly on violence." He writes:
It does not mean that the State alone uses violence, but it does mean that when push comes to shove, the State will win in a battle of wills. If you refuse to pay your taxes, you will lose. You will go to jail, and if you fight, you will lose. The government holds a monopoly on violence. Any law that we vote for is ultimately backed by the full force of our government and military. Do we trust institutions of the government to ensure justice? Is that what history teaches us about the State? Or do we live in particularly lucky and fortunate times where the State can be trusted to do minimal justice? The State's budget is currently about $3 trillion a year. Do you trust that power to the political Right? Do you trust it to the Left? If you answered "no" to either question, you may have a major problem in the future.
Mr. Brat's academic CV lists a doctorate in economics from American University and a master's in divinity from Princeton Theological Seminary along with dozens of writings about theology and politics. His first test in the spotlight will be how he holds up under the scrutiny of his past writings.
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When the phone call offering Darryl Sutter the opportunity to coach the Los Angeles Kings was first made, he made a rather quick decision.
He turned the job down.
"Probably the first thing I told him (Dean Lombardi) was, you've got a good coach," said Sutter.
But Lombardi fired that coach, Terry Murray, replaced him with John Stevens on an interim basis, and ended up convincing Sutter to make his fourth NHL stop, the one that has changed him — and that he has changed — forever.
Whether it's Wednesday or Friday night or whatever date, Sutter is about to win his second Stanley Cup as coach with the Los Angeles Kings. His second in four seasons. Probably should have been his third.
And those numbers by themselves are staggering.
But nowhere near as staggering as the Sutter family numbers that continue to astound more than three decades later.
A member of the Sutter family — one of the six hockey playing brothers — has played in or coached in 7,543 NHL games. That is truly unbelievable.
And that doesn't count the years Duane was an assistant coach.
"And that doesn't take into account the number of games we've taken as scouts, the number of games Duane, Richie and I have been involved in for player development," said younger brother, Ron, who played for Darryl in San Jose.
Brent Sutter, with 1,111 games played, leads all Sutters in NHL games played. Ron follows with 1,093 games. Darryl leads in games coached, with 1,039, nine more than older brother, Brian.
Duane leads in Stanley Cups with four as part of the dynastic New York Islanders. Brent won two Cups. Darryl made it a seventh family Cup two years ago coaching the Kings. This year will bring the family number to eight.
It was always different for Darryl. He wasn't a high draft pick like his brothers, he was taken in Round 11. He didn't play long. His career was cut short by injury. He has coached the most and played the least, even though he once scored 40 goals. Brian leads all family members with 46 goals in a season; Brent leads with most points, 102.
"I'm so proud of those guys," Darryl said.
And the feeling, in this case, is mutual.
"They all played longer than I did," said a surprisingly retrospective Sutter. "I was forced into it at 29 years old. That's what I did in order to stay in the game. I couldn't play any more.
"I was the only one of my brothers who went up through the system, meaning coaching in the minors, coaching in the organization, advancing, being an assistant coach, being a head coach. That is still the way to be a coach for a long time and be a top coach."
And that is what he has become.
The right coach for the right team at the right time. No one mentions him in the same breath as Mike Babcock, but maybe he should be mentioned.
He has been in Los Angeles three years; the Kings will play their 63rd playoff game for him Wednesday night. His country bumkin act may make for good television, but he's nobody's fool.
And while a segment of the hockey population tunes in to Don Cherry for entertainment, the Kings' players watch the post-game Sutter press conferences for their own amusement.
"Darryl Sutter has the sharpest hockey mind of anyone I've been around," said Jamie McLennan, the former NHL goalie who has played, coached and commentated on the game, offering a view not often heard on Sutter. "He has a sense of everything that's going on. He sees things other people don't see in a game.
"I was on the bench in Calgary when he was upstairs (and he was GM) and he would be on the headset to me, telling me things as they were happening. Sometimes I was amazed by his observations. I haven't come across anyone who sees the game and all that's going on the way he does."
This is a terrific Los Angeles team. It has the championship pedigree with an all-world goaltender, Jonathan Quick; an all-world defencemen, Drew Doughty; an all-world pair of centres in Anze Kopitar and Jeff Carter. But the attitude of the organization begins with Lombardi and is orchestrated by Sutter.
"The thing with Darryl is, every single player on the team is important," said McLennan. "He doesn't treat the six-minute player any differently than he treats the 24-minute player. If he believes Kyle Clifford is a fourth liner, he's going to make sure he's the best fourth liner he can be. And he challenges his best players to be better than the best players on the other teams.
"He used to do it with (Jarome) Iginla or (Miikka) Kiprusoff in Calgary. They were the stars and he pushed them harder than anyone else we had. Believe me, he will be as hard on Drew Doughty as he is on Kyle Clifford."
And yet there is inside Sutter a certain humility, an understanding of the good fortune of coaching this team. He needed to coach in Chicago, San Jose and Calgary before he could win here. He needed to grow. He needed, more than anything, to understand defeat.
"Most players, coaches, trainers never get any chance, zero (at a Stanley Cup)," Sutter said.
His brother Brian played and coached in more than 1,800 NHL games, he never close to winning.
"So when you get the opportunity and I've been fortunate to be in quite a few of them, it's always a testament to the group you have and to understand how tough it is.
"That's why ... it's hard to take on the whole challenge of what it is to win and the price you've got to pay and the sacrifice you've got to make. It's something everybody wants to talk to you about. You got to the seventh game of the Stanley Cup and you get beat 2-1. The best and worst part of winning is until you've won it, you don't really understand what this is. Then when you lose, you're pretty close to understanding it.
"Anybody that's never been in either of those positions, they'll never understand it, never. That's why (some teams) are happy to make the playoffs because they don't understand the big goal part of it."
Sutter understands. The resilience of the Kings, the ability to deal with anyone, comes from both players and coach.
"You can say one without the other, but Darryl has as good a feel for the pulse of the hockey team as anybody I've been around," said brother, Ron. "He puts in the structure, but then it becomes the players' game. He allows the players to play the game. And he has the right kind of leaders to be able to do it.
"When you look at what he's done, though, it's pretty special. Pretty special for him. Pretty special for our family."
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The long-awaited update for a Snapchat video-messaging app for Android was available briefly last night.
Snapchat announced last night that it would allow people to download its private beta Android application. However, the application was only made available for a few hours and can no longer be downloaded from the company's site. Those who were able to access the program needed to force their Android handsets to install non-market apps.
Snapchat currently offers an Android and iOS application. However, the program only allows for the sharing of photos. The Snapchat update for Android lets people send video clips to each other. After a short, set time, those video clips will self-destruct.
Over the last year, Snapchat has made a huge splash in the startup community. The application has been criticized by some for facilitating sexting, but the company has argued that it frees people from perfection and delivers the "allure of fleeting messages" by forcing images to self-destruct after a set time.
Last week, The New York Times reported that Snapchat raised $13.5 million in venture funding led by Benchmark Capital. The cash infusion values Snapchat at around $60 million.
Facebook reportedly met with the Snapchat team in December. Not long after, Facebook launched its own Snapchat competitor called Poke. Despite the increased competition, Snapchat has been performing quite well -- 60 million messages are being sent via Snapchat each day, according to the Times.
Snapchat hasn't said when its updated Android application will officially launch in the Google Play marketplace.
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Deported Workers Didn't Get Approval for Strike
Singapore deported 29 mainland Chinese bus drivers for protesting against their living conditions and wages. The WSJ's Chun Han Wong talks about working conditions for foreigners in the country.
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text: Job Discussion Forums :: View topic - Work for an American???? Get TEFL Certified & Start Your Adventure Today! Job Discussion Forums"The Internet's Meeting Place for ESL/EFL Students and Teachers from Around the World!" FAQ Search Memberlist Usergroups Register Profile Log in to check your private messages Log in Work for an American???? Job Discussion Forums Forum Index -> Romania View previous topic :: View next topic Author Message KirkpatrickJoined: 27 Feb 2008Posts: 205Location: China Posted: Tue May 04, 2010 7:15 am Post subject: Work for an American???? I am an American EFL teacher with a B.S. Degree and a TESOL certificate.I am in Bucharest at the moment. Is there any chance of finding work here teaching or otherwise? I interviewed with a company and they said I had to have the work permit. EU passport holders only..Are the schools also like this? I might have to go back to Turkey for the summer or head to the Ukraine. I don't know what to do funds are limited and there seems to be no jobs in sight anywhere till September. Back to top KirkpatrickJoined: 27 Feb 2008Posts: 205Location: China Posted: Tue May 04, 2010 7:28 am Post subject: added note. I am staying a Girls house. Been here about 5 days. She just informed me that she dumped her boyfriend. I met her while hitch hiking out of Constniza.Actually she picked me up of the side of the road and gave me a ride back to Bucharest. Back to top Mike_2007Joined: 24 Apr 2007Posts: 349Location: Bucharest, Romania Posted: Tue May 04, 2010 4:10 pm Post subject: She's most probably just keeping her options open. No need to be paranoid, but I've lost count of the times I've heard that one, so just keep your wits about you. Regarding teaching, you might find something if you approach some of the schools which particularly focus on American style learning or claim to be American High Schools. On the whole, language schools don't hire many native speakers, or if they do it's on a cash and/or pro-rata basis. Schools which want to hire someone legally will, of course, want you to have a work permit. Few will go to the hassle of getting one for you when they have plenty of EU citizens looking for positions. If they need someone quickly, and as you're in the country, you might get lucky even at some of the British schools. You might be able to find some private lessons for cash if you go on the offensive with the adverts (hit all the free classified sites) but it would still take you a while to get things up to a liveable income. If you haven't already tried contacting them, give some of these places a call: http://www.aisb.ro/ http://marktwainschool.ro/ http://www.cambridgeschool.ro/ http://www.britishschool.ro/ http://www.ibsb.ro/ http://www.isbi.com/istd-viewschool/3352-American_School_of_Bucharest.html Best of luck, Mike Back to top Display posts from previous: All Posts1 Day7 Days2 Weeks1 Month3 Months6 Months1 Year Oldest FirstNewest First Job Discussion Forums Forum Index -> Romania All times are GMT Page 1 of 1 Jump to: Select a forum Where to Begin----------------General DiscussionNewbie ForumCurrent Events ForumTechnology ForumOnline Teaching Forum Africa Forums----------------General Africa Forum Asia Forums----------------CambodiaChina (Job-related Posts Only)China (Off-Topic)Hong KongIndiaIndonesiaJapanMalaysiaPhilippinesSingaporeTaiwanThailandGeneral Asia ForumVietnam Caribbean Forums----------------General Caribbean Forum Europe Forums----------------Czech RepublicFranceGermanyGreeceItalyMacedonia and the BalkansPolandRomaniaRussia & C.I.S.SpainTurkeyUkraineUnited KingdomGeneral Europe Forum Latin America Forums----------------ArgentinaBrazilChileColombiaCosta RicaMexicoMexico (off-topic)PeruGeneral Latin America Forum The Middle East Forums----------------BahrainEgyptIsraelKuwaitOmanQatarSaudi ArabiaUnited Arab EmiratesGeneral Middle East Forum North America Forums----------------General North America Forum Oceania----------------Australia/New Zealand You cannot post new topics in this forumYou cannot reply to topics in this forumYou cannot edit your posts in this forumYou cannot delete your posts in this forumYou cannot vote in polls in this forum This page is maintained by the one and only Dave Sperling. Contact Dave's ESL Cafe Copyright © 2018 Dave Sperling. All Rights Reserved. Powered by phpBB © 2001, 2002 phpBB Group Teaching Jobs in China


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Today is Wednesday, Jan. 1, the first day of 2014. There are 364 days left in the year.
Today's Highlight in History:
On Jan. 1, 1863, President Abraham Lincoln signed and issued the Emancipation Proclamation, declaring that slaves in rebel states shall be "forever free."
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In 1660, Englishman Samuel Pepys (peeps) wrote the first entry of his famous diary.
In 1785, The Daily Universal Register -- which later became the Times of London -- published its first issue.
In 1892, the Ellis Island Immigrant Station in New York formally opened.
In 1913, the U.S. Parcel Post system went into operation.
In 1939, the technology company Hewlett-Packard was founded by Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard in a garage in Palo Alto, Calif.
In 1942, 26 countries, including the United States, signed the Declaration of the United Nations, pledging "not to make a separate armistice or peace" with members of the Axis.
In 1953, country singer Hank Williams Sr., 29, was discovered dead in the back seat of his car during a stop in Oak Hill, W.Va., while he was being driven to a concert date in Canton, Ohio.
In 1954, NBC broadcast the first coast-to-coast color TV program as it presented live coverage of the Tournament of Roses Parade in Pasadena, Calif.
In 1959, Fidel Castro and his revolutionaries overthrew Cuban leader Fulgencio Batista, who fled to the Dominican Republic.
In 1972, Kurt Waldheim became secretary-general of the United Nations.
In 1984, the breakup of AT&T took place as the telecommunications giant was divested of its 22 Bell System companies under terms of an antitrust agreement.
In 1994, the North American Free Trade Agreement went into effect.
Ten years ago: Gen. Pervez Musharraf, the military ruler of Pakistan, won a vote of confidence from both houses of parliament and the country's four provincial assemblies validating his five-year term as president. The University of Southern California defeated the University of Michigan, 28-14, in the Rose Bowl.
Five years ago: An Israeli warplane dropped a 2,000-pound bomb on the home of one of Hamas' top five decision-makers, instantly killing him and 18 others. The U.S. formally transferred control of the Green Zone to Iraqi authorities in a pair of ceremonies that also handed back Saddam Hussein's former palace. Russia made good on its threat to cut off all natural gas supplies to Ukraine. Six-term Rhode Island Sen. Claiborne Pell died at age 90. The Detroit Red Wings beat the Chicago Blackhawks 6-4 in the Winter Classic at chilly Wrigley Field. No. 5 Southern California defeated No. 6 Penn State 38-24 in the 95th Rose Bowl.
One year ago: The Senate approved a compromise in the small hours to avert the "fiscal cliff" and sent it to the House, which approved it in a late-night vote. In Maryland, same-sex marriage became legal in the first state south of the Mason-Dixon Line. In Pakistan, gunmen on motorcycles sprayed a van carrying employees from a community center with bullets, killing five female teachers and two aid workers. A New Year's stampede in Abidjan, Ivory Coast, claimed 64 lives. No. 8 Stanford held off Wisconsin 20-14 in the 99th Rose Bowl. Singer Patti Page, 85, died in Encinitas, Calif.
Today's Birthdays: Former Sen. Ernest Hollings, D-S.C., is 92. Actor Ty Hardin is 84. Documentary maker Frederick Wiseman is 84. Actor Frank Langella is 76. Rock singer-musician Country Joe McDonald is 72. Writer-comedian Don Novello is 71. Actor Rick Hurst is 68. Country singer Steve Ripley (The Tractors) is 64. Sen. Robert Menendez, D-N.J., is 60. Rapper Grandmaster Flash is 56. Actress Ren Woods is 56. Actress Dedee Pfeiffer is 50.
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The 2014 AT&T MLS All-Star game will have a World Cup feel to it, and it's not just because Bayern Munich are coming to town.
Major League Soccer released the Fan XI for this year's showcase in Portland (Aug. 6, 9 pm ET | ESPN2, UniMas in the US; TSN/RDS in Canada), and eight of the 11 players chosen come from the United States men's national team's 2014 World Cup squad, while the other three have all been to the world's biggest show and share eight World Cup participations between them.
Clint Dempsey and DeAndre Yedlin (Seattle Sounders), Matt Besler and Graham Zusi (Sporting Kansas City), Kyle Beckerman and Nick Rimando (Real Salt Lake), Omar Gonzalez (LA Galaxy), and Michael Bradley (Toronto FC) all represented the United States in Brazil, while Gonzalez's Galaxy teammate, Landon Donovan, appeared for the USMNT in the 2002, 2006, 2010 World Cups and has more goals than any other American in World Cup play.
Rounding out the field and giving the Sounders the highest representation with three players in the Fan XI is Obafemi Martins, who represented Nigeria in the 2010 World Cup, and Thierry Henry of the New York Red Bulls, who was a World Cup winner in 1998, and a participant in 2002, 2006 and 2010 with France.
On the other side, Bayern Munich field seven players in Germany's World Cup-winning team, and a total of 14 players who represented their respective country at the 2014 World Cup.
The top teams in MLS are heavily represented in the selection, with the Supporters' Shield-leading Sounders, 2013 MLS Cup finalists RSL and Sporting, and 2011 and 2012 MLS Cup winners LA Galaxy all sending multiple players.
Ten of the Fan XI received the most votes at their respective positions from combined fan voting online at MLSsoccer.com and via Twitter, from a ballot of 152 players nominated by media members. One forward, Martins, was selected via the AT&T/EA SPORTS™ "More than a Vote" Challenge, where the MLS forward with the most goals scored by EA SPORTS FIFA 14 players earned a spot on the Fan XI.
Players who were close to the leading vote-getters at their positions, but finished outside the Fan XI include, in alphabetical order by last name: Steven Beitashour (Vancouver Whitecaps FC), Júlio César (Toronto FC), Tim Cahill (New York Red Bulls), Aurelien Collin (Sporting Kansas City), Jermain Defoe (Toronto FC) and Benny Feilhaber (Sporting Kansas City).
There aren't yet any Portland Timbers players on this year's group, but All-Star and Timbers head coach Caleb Porter could well send some when he names the rest of his All-Star game-day roster, to be revealed on July 19 during halftime of the ESPN2 broadcast of the Sporting Kansas City-LA Galaxy game (6 pm ET).
The Fan XI will not necessarily be the starting lineup against Bayern Munich, though. The 20-man game-day roster will be decided from among the Fan XI, Commissioner Don Garber's two All-Star picks, and players that received at least two votes from their fellow players, all based on player availability and tactical considerations.
From there, MLS players will determine the remainder of the 32 All-Stars named annually per the collective bargaining agreement, otherwise known as the "inactive roster." The final list of 32 All-Stars (4 goalkeepers, 8 defenders, 13 midfielders, 7 forwards) will be announced on MLSsoccer.com on Aug. 6.
2014 MLS All-Star Fan XI:
Goalkeeper: Nick Rimando (Real Salt Lake)
Defenders: Matt Besler (Sporting Kansas City), Omar Gonzalez (LA Galaxy), DeAndre Yedlin (Seattle Sounders)
Midfielders: Clint Dempsey (Seattle Sounders), Michael Bradley (Toronto FC), Kyle Beckerman (Real Salt Lake), Graham Zusi (Sporting Kansas City)
Forwards: Landon Donovan (LA Galaxy), Thierry Henry (New York Red Bulls), Obafemi Martins (Seattle Sounders)


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No matter where you live, walled city or not, there is no Tahanun or LaMenatzeah on either day, you aren't allowed to fast on either day, and you can even fulfill Matanoth LaEvyonim on either day (according to some opinions, and subject to certain restrictions).
Clearly, both days are significant days to all of Klal Yisrael. Why, then, don't we all say 'Al HaNisim on both days?


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You know what they say. All these dumb NBA players go to college to play basketball, not to learn; it's a farce. No one gets a degree. Things used to be much better in the 1960s before John Calipari and all his fancy sneakers came to town.
Yeah, people who say that are silly:
Nelson, the NBA's winningest coach, will graduate from the University of Iowa and receive his diploma from UI President Sally Mason 50 years after leaving the school. It was a lifelong goal for Nelson to graduate, and Saturday he achieves it.
Nelson, 71, left Iowa in 1962 just 10 credits shy of his degree in physical education. He needed eight hours of a foreign language and took six hours of correspondence work. He then completed four more hours while he was in Spain. But there was one problem.
"I called them, 'I've got my language now what do I need?' Nelson said. "And they said, 'Well, you need practice teaching.' 'I'm working full-time, I'm not going to have time to go to school and practice teach,' So I forgot about it."
Nelson didn't wind up doing any practice teaching, but the university gave him credit for his coaching. Good for Nellie. Now he can do what every other college graduate will do in the next week: move back in with his parents and seethe at episodes of Girls.
NBA legend Don Nelson's 50-year quest for Iowa diploma ends Saturday [The Gazette]


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"The Filipino Phenom" will have to wait to follow up on his scintillating UFC 145 win over Mark Hominick.
While Eddie Yagin (16-5-1 MMA, 1-1 UFC) was scheduled to fight Dennis Siver at December's UFC on FOX 5
event, according to his manager, the 33-year-old Hawaiian
will no longer be able to compete at the event.
Iridium Sports Agency's Jason House today confirmed with MMA Fighting that Yagin is currently hospitalized due to an apparent brain injury suffered in a weekend sparring session.
"He suffered it in sparring on Saturday," House told MMA Fighting. "The injury was not the result of a certain strike or exchange. [He] came home, had a headache, started to vomit whatever liquids he drank and then decided to go to the ER the next day."
Featuring a headliner between UFC lightweight champion Benson Henderson and top challenger Nate Diaz, UFC on FOX 5 takes place Dec. 8 at KeyArena in Seattle. The Siver vs. Yagin fight had been expected to take place on the evening's preliminary card. It was originally scheduled for September's planned UFC 151 event, which was ultimately scrapped.
UFC executives have yet to officially announce Yagin's withdrawal, and it's unknown if a replacement opponent will be secured for Siver.
The cause for the swelling on Yagin's brain isn't currently known, but MMAjunkie.com (www.mmajunkie.com) confirmed that surgery doesn't currently appear necessary. However, a timetable for Yagin's return to competition has yet to be established.
Yagin was hoping to follow up on a UFC 145 win over Hominick. The victory, which was certainly the biggest win of Yagin's career to date, was also awarded the evening's "Fight of the Night" bonus.
News of Yagin's injury was first reported by MMAWeekly.com.
With the change, the UFC on FOX 5 card now includes:
MAIN CARD (FOX, 8 p.m. ET)
- Champ Benson Henderson vs. Nate Diaz (for lightweight title)
- Alexander Gustafsson vs. Mauricio "Shogun" Rua
- Rory MacDonald vs. B.J. Penn
- Matt Brown vs. Mike Swick
- Lavar Johnson vs. Brendan Schaub
- Mike Chiesa vs. Marcus LeVesseur
- Dennis Siver vs. TBA*
- Bryan Caraway vs. Mike Easton
- Ramsey Nijem vs. Joe Proctor
- Daron Cruickshank vs. Henry Martinez
- John Albert vs. Scott Jorgensen
- Tim Means vs. Abel Trujillo
- John Cholish vs. Yves Edwards
For more on UFC on FOX 5, stay tuned to the UFC Rumors section of the site.
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Playhouse Nashville to present new play by APSU professor
CLARKSVILLE, Tenn. – As a boy, Darren Michael often heard strange stories about the town of Smackover, Arkansas. He had family still living in that small community, and they talked about how an oil boom in the 1920s and 1930s brought in thousands of fortune-seekers from across the county. When the oil wells dried up, most of the new residents moved away, leaving the town in shambles.
The old stories of corruption and greed fascinated Michael, an Austin Peay State University associate professor of theatre, inspiring him to write his new full-length play, "Scarecrows Will Never See the Sunset: The Legends of Smackover." Playhouse Nashville will present the work at 7:30 p.m., Aug. 16-24, with no performance on Aug. 18, at the Street Theatre Company at 1933 Elm Hill Pike in Nashville.
Michael has spent the last few months revising and tightening his play. The Playhouse Nashville performance is a continuation of this workshop process, allowing him to see what works in front of a live audience.
"As a playwright, you always love to have really great actors speaking your words," he said in a recent Tennessean article. "It's great to say, 'Hey, they worked,' or to have those actors find things in the lines you never could. Even though this is being workshopped, it will be a full production at the end. We have worked hard to shape the play, taking it from 170 pages to 110, distilling it down to an exciting drama."
Reserved tickets are $20. On Aug. 20, admission is only $10 for students with a valid ID. For more information on the play or to purchase tickets, contact Playhouse Nashville at www.playhousenashville.com or 615-669-5792.


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Report: How to Grow a Farm Team for Principals
When a pitcher gets hurt and hampers a team's starting rotation, Major League baseball managers have robust minor league rosters to tap for a well-prepared replacement.
What would it take for school districts to cultivate a similar bench of talent to draw from when they need new principals—especially principals to lead the most challenged public schools?
Bain & Company, the global management-consulting firm based in Boston, takes on those questions and more in a new report on school leadership released last week. Written by members of Bain's education consulting division, the report outlines common barriers to grooming more high-quality school leaders and strategies for how districts and charter-management organizations can think and operate more like professional sports managers when it comes to developing principal talent.
"First, we don't have enough people who want to [be principals]," said Chris Bierly, the head of Bain's education practice and a coauthor of the report. "And then the roles that people are in that should be steppingstones to becoming principals aren't developmentally rich enough to give them the skills they need."
Appeal Lacking
Bain, which conducted surveys of teachers, teacher-leaders, assistant principals, and principals working in seven districts and in five charter-management organizations for its report, found that most teachers and teacher-leaders who responded have no interest in becoming school leaders. And even among the assistant principals surveyed—positions that should be obvious steppingstones to running a school—more than one-third said they didn't want the top job.
Mr. Bierly said the survey also exposed a divide between how principals and teachers view school leadership positions. Most principals reported high satisfaction with their work and said they had been placed in a position where they could be successful. But when teachers were asked about the appeal of the principal's job, they saw it as a much less attractive option.
"If you as a school system aren't actively promoting the benefits and the appeal of moving down a leadership pathway, and your school leaders themselves aren't the spokespeople for those jobs, you are leaving something very important on the table," Mr. Bierly said.
Andrés A. Alonso, a professor at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, agreed that many school systems haven't set up a "deliberate system" of developing school leaders and that much of the conversation about the work of principals is how hard it is rather than how fulfilling it can be.
"There is clearly a need to balance that narrative," said Mr. Alonso, who was the chief executive officer of the Baltimore schools for six years, a position he left last spring.
But, he said, there needs to be more acknowledgement that successful principals now have to be political, managerial, and instructional leaders.
"To help leaders be all of those things requires much more purposeful and rigorous systems to get them there," he said.
He also cautioned against an overreliance on the "heroic principal."
"Leadership matters tremendously, but districts and schools need to think about developing leadership teams in every building and supporting all of them," he said.
The Bain report makes the case that school districts can start building up an in-house cadre of talent to draw on through several steps that include filling more positions, such as those for assistant principals and teacher leaders, with people who have strong potential to become principals.
Mr. Bierly said he's been sharing the report with "any superintendent who will listen."
Bain's education team works with numerous school districts, charter-management organizations, and other groups such as Teach For America and StudentsFirst, former District of Columbia Schools Chancellor Michelle Rhee's advocacy group. Mr. Bierly said the team does much of its education work pro bono, and gives away roughly $30 million in consulting services to the education sector annually.
This report, he said, is meant to be in that same vein.
"We did not do this to make a buck," he said. "We want to be in a position to provide additional counsel on a pro bono basis for people who want to go to the next level on this important issue."
Vol. 33, Issue 14, Page 7Published in Print: December 11, 2013, as Report Shares Strategies for Growing Principals
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Yeah, eventually I'll get sick of posting pics of cuttlefish car stickers in the wild, but it won't be for some time. This time, it's Ctenotrish who has sent me the pic. (I expect mine in the mail soon, perhaps even today.) Pic after yon jumpage:
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No. 21 Missouri manhandles Ole Miss 98-79
Alex Oriakhi has career-high 22 points
Alex Oriakhi had a career-high 22 points to go with 18 rebounds, three blocks and a central role in a second-half fracas of No. 21 Missouri's easy 98-79 victory over Mississippi on Saturday.
Phil Pressey had four assists to break Anthony Peeler's career school record and had 22 points for Missouri (17-6, 6-4 Southeastern Conference), which bounced back nicely from its latest discouraging road loss, a 1-point setback at Texas A&M on Thursday. The Tigers are 14-0 at home and 0-5 on the road.
Marshall Henderson had 16 points on 4-for-15 shooting for Mississippi (18-5, 7-3), which was on the verge of cracking the Top 25 last week but has lost three of four. Jarvis Summers also had 16 points while Murphy Holloway, coming off a career-best 24 points, was held to seven in 30 minutes.
Ole Miss whipped then-No. 10 Missouri 64-49 at home on Jan. 12, but gave up 50 points in the first half of the rematch and was outrebounded 50-32.
The game got testy with about 7 1-2 minutes to go when Reginald Buckner apparently was tripped by Oriakhi after the Tigers scored to make it 80-58 and came up swinging with a couple of wild punches that missed Laurence Bowers as Oriakhi danced away.
Buckner was ejected, leaving the court with a towel draped over his right shoulder and then tossing the towel into the stands after finishing with nine points and four rebounds. Oriakhi was called for a flagrant foul, plus Brown, Bowers and Holloway were whistled for technicals.
Missouri matched its season best with 12 3-pointers, four by Pressey and three each by Keion Bell and Jabari Brown. Bell added 21 points and Brown had 14.
Pressey, a junior, has 498 assists in three seasons, one more than Peeler totaled from 1988-92. He leads the SEC at 7.1 assists per game and finished with four assists and one turnover, one game after committing seven turnovers and missing a potential game-winning shot at Texas A&M.
The 50-point first half was a season best for Missouri, which led by as many as 23 points and had a 16-point halftime lead. After Brown's 3-pointer with 7:07 to go in the half, Missouri was up 38-18 and had more 3-pointers (7) than Mississippi had baskets (6). Pressey was just 4 for 13 overall, but hit his first three 3-pointers to fuel the fast start.
Mississippi shot itself out of the game, at 38 percent overall and 2 for 9 from 3-point range. Coming off a career-best 24-point game against Mississippi State, Holloway was scoreless until 6½ minutes to go and totaled two points in the half.


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John Sgombick had 14 points to lead S.S. Seward ...
John Sgombick had 14 points to lead S.S. Seward to a non-league win in Rhinebeck.
Jake Kinley added 12 points for Seward (11-3). Paul Henke had 13 points for Rhinebeck (4-8).
Sebastian DeLaCruz scored 12 points to lead Port Jervis to a non-league road win.
Bobby Rukaj had 10 points for Port Jervis (3-9).
Quinn Jackson scored 15 points for Liberty (2-9).
Alex Fallon had 10 points to help Wawarsing Christian Academy to a victory in the first round of the Mid-Hudson Christian Athletic League tournament in Kerhonkson.
Jordan Mahany had nine points for Wawarsing, which advances to the second round against Faith Christian Academy on Tuesday. Scott Hedderton had eight points and Mitch Miceli had seven rebounds for Harmony.
Vincenzo Morrone recorded 22 points and six steals to lead Harmony Christian to a Metro Christian Athletic League road win.
Matt Kleinman had 17 points and Kareem Myers posted 12 assists and seven steals for Harmony (8-3, 7-3 MCAL).


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A week ago today I climbed up into the loft of the barn thinking it would be great to capture a few pictures of our gardens. I had no idea what would follow this picture taking escapade. The above garden was mostly planted by Maine Man And Country Boy, we call it our vine garden. (squash, pumpkins, and cukes)
The garden above and below are the two I planted and tended so far. Behind the garden is portable shelter MM made for the meat birds.
MM did most of the gardening until last year when his cup runneth over . So this is only my second year growing gardens independently and I've been damn proud of my thriving beds of greens. We have harvested so far this season: dill, cilantro, spinach, kale, bok choy, beet greens, radish, lettuce, garlic, and zucchini.
For pest control I've been fairly lucky so far covering my affected crops with row crop covers temporarily. I swear by that method!
This is the last picture I took of the boys out back haying before the ladder kicked out on me as I was coming down from the loft. Tried to catch myself on a beam, hung for a bit shredding the labrum and whatever else in my right shoulder. So needless to say I have not applied make-up in a week, can't wear anything that doesn't have an elastic waist, have mastered doing dishes with my left hand, can't put my hair up, and Tuesday cannot come quick enough as I have an appointment with a surgeon….my how life changes in an instant!