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Amber mentioned in the "what are you reading" thread the idea of having a Pixel Scrapper book club. Is anyone interested? And if so:
1. What kind of book should we read.
2. What do you do in a book club, particularly one in an online forum setting.
Amber mentioned in the "what are you reading" thread the idea of having a Pixel Scrapper book club. Is anyone interested? And if so:
1. What kind of book should we read.
2. What do you do in a book club, particularly one in an online forum setting.
I think a book club would be a fantastic idea! I'm not really familiar with book clubs online or offline but I found a cool website for online book clubs that I'm sure would help (here). I'm not sure what we should read but I'm sure we could do a poll to figure that out!
Certainly the book thread has a lot of comments in the forum so there should be plenty of readers here! I'm not sure if I'd join - it might depend on the books chosen. I would prefer a system that you could opt in and out of each month depending on time/book choice. I am already in 1 local club and so far I have not particularly enjoyed any of the books. (though the chat and wine works very well afterwards LOL) The on-line ones I've seen pick a book and anyone who wants can read that book that month. There are then 2 sorts of threads - one where people are just commenting on their thoughts on the book and another where there are particular questions about the book and people leave their feelings/answers.
Don't like ready very much,except for the bible,i only have patience for that.LOL!!
Hope you girls have fun tho.
I would love to join a book club!
Maybe a rotating schedule of genre's? One month a classic, one month bio, one month paranormal etc
I've done an online book club before, via Goodreads. It was pretty similar to a regular book club, just online! We select a book via poll for each month and then by a certain date, a thread was opened to start a discussion on the book. I like Brandi's idea about rotating genres partially because that was one reason I left: I felt like the same kinds of books kept getting chosen over & over again, and they weren't particularly my cup of tea. I got tired of them.
Sounds like it could be fun.
Sounds interesting.
I would totally be interested and I read anything! But, I tend to go for mysteries, true crime, crime/mysteries the most! But like I said, I am open to reading anything!
I think we have lots of tastes. I also think we're all probably busy. What if we took turns rotating the leader, who picks a few books (say three) for the rest to vote on. This will ensure multiple genres without one or two people wracking their brains to please everyone. So we would need to set up a leader schedule, and perhaps have the book decided on a month in advance. A bit like how you do the collaboration kit?
Sounds good. I like the idea of being able to opt in and out depending on the book chosen. I also agree with Amber that we should post the book a month in advance so that we have time to get the book and get started reading it.
It makes sense to rotate genres. I guess we can put up a poll with a couple books to start, and then next time we can just exclude anything from that genre.
Anyone have book suggestions?
Wicked by Gregory Maguire
Super Sad True Love Story by Gary Shteyngart. Which I think falls under the slipstream genre. Trying to stay away from different genres each time might be difficult since some books are hard to classify, especially if the author has remained mum on it.
Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn
Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore by Robin Sloan
Good Enough to Eat by Stacey Ballis
I think this sounds like a lot of fun, but I read constantly to try to keep up with the current trends in Young Adult literature for my job, so I probably would not have time to participate. I love that we have so many readers in the group!
Penny, you and I could chat quite a bit, I want to focus on YA in my doctoral work
Amber, I just finished a master's thesis with YA! I've thought about doing PhD but for now am happy with the MA. What do you want to do with your doctoral work??
Maybe we can get a month where a YA book is chosen, so we can get our nerd on!
Ooooh! Yes! I will send you a PM, Phillippa, so I don't get the board too off topic
Amber, feel free to PM me. I feel much more at home, knowing you and Phillippa are both YA readers! And please let me know if they ever do select a YA book, hopefully it will be one on my extensive "To Be Read" list.
I also read a lot of YA books, but I´m affraid I don´t have that much to share, because I read lots of brazilian authors that haven´t been translated to Portuguese. I´m even friend of a fantastic brazilian author, and know some others...
I'm definitely in! Any progress on the book choice yet? Sharilynn, I liked the idea of
My Life in France (Julia Child)
The Fault in Our Stars
Am I right to assume most people have read the classics listed?
I'm always looking for something new and different and just finished an awesome YA-vibe mystery/comedy called The Rook (The Checquy Files#1)
by Daniel O'Malley. Very unique!
Do you have some suggestions for YA fiction? I recently read a review for Eleanor & Park which sounded interesting to me.
Sadly I haven't read many classics, which is why I listed them haha.
For YA I'd suggest:
-anything by John Green...i.e. The Fault in Our Stars, Looking for Alaska, An Abundance of Katherines, Paper Towns, Will Grayson Will Grayson...etc
-The Perks of Being A Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky
-The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
-Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson
-Divergent and Insurgent by Veronica Roth
-The Hunger Games Trilogy
-The Immortal Nicholas Flamel Series by Michael Scott
I can keep on going and going, my list is quite large.
Though Charlaine Harris isn't exactly YA, I've read ALL her books including all the mystery series so I highly recommend those to anyone into mystery, vampires and everything else she writes about!
For those of you on Goodreads, feel free to check me out here!
@Marisa, oh you have opened Pandora's Box for YA. I promise not to go crazy.
I second Sharilynn's suggestion about anything John Green. The Fault in Our Stars is his most recent, but he has a lot of great pieces; Looking for Alaska was hist first novel & won a Printz.
I just looked at Eleanor & Park, and it's actually highly recommended by John Green! ha! So, I'm sold.
I would also recommend
Jellicoe Road by Melina Marchetta
Bog Child by Siobhan Dowd
Please Ignore Vera Dietz by A.S. King
The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks by E. Lockhart (or The Boyfriend List)
Gosh, I could go on, but I tried to narrow it down to books I think could provide plenty of material for in-depth discussions.
@Bianca - I have read the classics listed, but I also know that it's probably because I have a degree in English Lit. lol I don't think it would be a bad idea to throw in classics occasionally! There's always one or two that somehow get overlooked, or might be fun to return to with fresh eyes. I read Gatsby in HS & didn't care for it; I wonder now if my attitude would change. So, it might be fun to have some motivation to pick those up! I know I have a handful that I'd like to dig into, so maybe one month we could have a theme of "classics you've always wanted to read but haven't motivated yourself to do so yet"
Hey guys, just to let you know that I'm getting ready to go to a family reunion, but I'll be back in the middle of July and then I'll put a poll up. Just so you know I am interested and we will start something. Keep leaving your ideas and I'll pick my favorites for the poll
I've never joined a book club before but I'd give it a go. It might be a good way to expand the kinds of books I read.
I've read a lot of the classics too but they are also the ones I most often re-read so I am happy to stick them in the pot. I read all sorts of things but my "comfortable place" is in sci/fi and fantasy or the classics.
I'd like to try but I'm busy as well! Hopefully, whatever book is chosen will be interesting enough to make me make time for it! Sounds fun!


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WASHINGTON � After the tumultuous days before the U.S. Supreme Court adjourned for the summer, you are probably asking yourself what on earth those justices were thinking.
They made it more difficult for millions of people to vote by gutting the 1965 Voting Rights Act. Then they overturned the 1996 so-called Defense of Marriage Act, saying gay and lesbian couples whose states permit same-sex marriages are entitled to the same federal benefits as heterosexual couples.
The high court is not about individual liberties or it wouldn�t tell states to go ahead and pass more restrictive voting laws. If the big issue were liberty, the justices would have told all states to permit same-sex marriage.
This divided 5-to-4 court seems far more interested in preserving states� rights than individual rights. On our most precious right as citizens � voting � the paramount issue for this court was to make sure that if a state wants to forbid same-day voting registration or change the location or hours of polling booths or force voters to jump through complicated hoops to vote, the state is permitted to do so.
Let�s be honest. Republican-led states have been passing restrictive voting laws and gerrymandering districts because they do not want more black and Hispanic voters to vote Democratic, as they tend to do. They do not want immigration laws changed to permit more Hispanics to become citizens and vote because Hispanics have tended to vote Democratic.
The justices seem to think that because Barack Obama is president, racism in America is long gone. But why did thousands of Americans have to stand in line for hours to vote last year? Why did new voter-suppression laws make it more difficult to vote after work hours or register to vote? As Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg said in her dissent, doing away with the heavily used voter rights law is equivalent to dispensing with an umbrella during a rainstorm because you have been dry underneath it.
The Supreme Court told Congress to draw up a new map of states that need monitoring by the Justice Department because of past voter discrimination against minorities. Absolutely nobody thinks that will happen.
How ironic that as the great Nelson Mandela, the most famous foe of apartheid, lies dying, judges in the United States are getting rid of voting rights protection, and the nation is agog over the tribulations of former Food Network star Paula Deen, ensnared in a controversy over her use of racial epithets, and the trial of George Zimmerman, accused of killing an unarmed black teenager.
This Supreme Court did not tell California to drop its ban on same-sex marriage because such a ban is morally reprehensible discrimination, but because of a technicality. The court said the parties taking the case to them did not have legal standing. In other words, they were not specifically or personally harmed in any way.
In some states, women have easy access to birth control and the right to consider abortion. In other states, women have very limited access and very limited choices, as a number of states restrict the time frame for getting an abortion or make it more difficult for clinics to continue to function, under the guise of making them more �safe.�
States are not always wise. A decade ago, some states made homosexual acts between consenting adults illegal. Not too long ago, interracial marriage was illegal.
In 13 states, gays and lesbian couples can be legally married. If they choose to marry but subsequently move to another state, their marriage may not be legally binding in that state.
Even though we pride ourselves on our individual liberties, we are engaging in considerable self-delusion. The Patriot Act took away a lot of our civil rights. This term, the court has made it harder for many people to vote, sue an employer, sue as part of a group or refuse to provide DNA.
Life is getting more complicated, even unfair, in these United States, thanks in no small measure to the current Supreme Court.
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Football and more football, and the World Series. I love fall.
After the gym, errands and some beach time last weekend � wasn't it glorious? � it was time to hunker down and watch some ball. As I imagine a lot of folks did, I switched the channels back and forth between watching the Tide roll and the Garnet and Gold win. Wow, do both have stellar teams this season! The baseball � that proved to be a little more touch and go, but worth the watch.
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Whoever said prison is no fun? Okay, probably a lot of people, but clearly prisoners have their moments once in awhile as a group of inmates in Bangkok, Thailand did when they went "Gangnam Style" in honor of singer Psy's visit to Thailand.
According to ABC, it was his first show in Asia outside South Korea, and the country was clearly psy-ched -- including those behind bars. About 70 inmates from the Bangkok Remand prison participated, as the guards looked on and grooved to the tune as well. They're on board with inmates devoting time to the dancing because they say it provides them with exercise and helps them relieve stress, and probably because they're pretty fun to watch too. Watch after the jump.
It's amazing just how far and wide this song has spread so fast. Just this past weekend Psy bumped Justin Bieber down and took the crown for the all-time YouTube most-viewed record. The song has racked up about 826 million views, with an average of 7 to 10 million watching it a day.
So yeah, it's not like a little barbed wire can get in the way of that. We've seen plenty of other reenactments of the song from Navy hunks to babies; there are even "Gangnam" Christmas lights. But there's just something about prisoners that makes it even more gawk-worthy.
As odd as it may be, this isn't the first the group of prisoners that have gone "Gangman." Last month we saw a group of 1,000 from a prison in the Philippines doing a similar routine. So maybe it's becoming kind of a thing?
It's also fitting that I feel like I'm IN prison as I'm trapped in minivan with my children who demand I play the damn song over and over and over ... Oppan!
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An interesting press release from Freight Wing crossed my desk yesterday, concerning the impending implementation of trailer aerodynamic device mandates crafted by the California Air Resources Board (CARB) a while back.
Those mandates – due to go "live" on Jan. 1, 2013 – require truckers pulling 53-foot or longer dry van or refrigerated trailers within the confines of the Golden State to be equipped SmartWay verified aerodynamic devices such as side skirts or boat tail fairings, ostensibly to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from big rigs.
While 2003 to 2009 reefer trailer models are on what CARB calls a "delayed compliance schedule," and thus will be exempted for a time from the aerodynamic rules, the agency is not being bashful in the slightest in terms of trumpeting its plans to take an aggressive stance on enforcing its trailer GHG rules.
"The clock is ticking for compliance," noted Randy Rhondeau, a CARB air pollution specialist. "Fleets and owner operators who travel into California must have aerodynamic devices [on their trailers] unless they registered with CARB on a phase-in option.
He stressed that if pulled over for non-compliance, the owner of the tractor/trailer can be cited $1,000 per day. "The driver of the tractor-trailer is not off the hook either," Rhondeau warned. "That person can be fined $1,000 a day as well. Fines can increase to $10,000 per day for egregious repeat offenders."
Rhondeau emphasized that "ignorance is not bliss," as owners, drivers, fleet operators, California-based brokers, California-based shippers and motor carriers should be fully aware of all the rules.
CARB said it will allow a one-time per fleet per year per tractor-trailer exemption into California for a trucking company or owner operator, but the request must be to the agency via an email or in writing request and then approved before crossing the Golden State's borders.
That's definitely not something that conforms to the just-in-time deadlines of the freight world by any means, I think.
In addition, if registered with CARB, local haul 53-foot trailers are exempt from the aerodynamic requirements of the rule – but they must not go beyond 100 miles from their home base. Empty trailers are also exempt, as well as while short haul tractors and their trailers. However, those short haulers must be entered into CARB's data base and tractor mileage must be 50,000 miles or lower per year, the agency warned.
"Information has been out there for quite some time, so if someone comes in and pleads ignorance, it's not going to hold water," Rhondeau emphasized. "If we catch violators, they're getting a citation."
I talked to FreightWing's President, Sean Graham (seen at right), yesterday by phone about the impact of CARB's trailer rules on trucking, and he's of the opinion that most large national fleets, along with California-based carriers and their brethren located in nearby states (like Nevada), are either already compliant or have filed plans with CARB detailing their compliance timeline.
The truckers he's getting calls from – and there's been a growing volume of them – are mostly small fleets and independent operators located in the Midwest or on the East Coast who infrequently haul shipments to California.
"These are the folks who are getting surprised by CARB's rules," Graham told me. "Larger fleets obviously have the resources to dedicate personnel to compliance issues like those generated by CARB. They are on top of it. But the smaller operators that lack those resources, who have been consumed by day-to-day business issues, are the ones being caught by surprise."
For fleets behind the eight-ball and needing numerous trailers outfitted before the deadline, Graham said Freight Wing has put together mobile installation teams to help.
"We've found that it's a great service to fleets that don't have the manpower to self install," he explained. "For the do-it-your-selfer, it takes four-to-five man hours for an installation. But, like with anything, the more you do it, the faster they can be mounted and our teams can efficiently help fleets with the process."
He also said Freight Wing's partnerships with trailer dealership chains – such as Great Dane – offer another way fleets can gain compliance with CARB's trailer rules without too much hassle.
Graham also noted that CARB's rules don't just mandate the use of trailer aerodynamic devices: they also require a 4% to 5% fuel economy benefit for the tractor-trailer as a complete unit. That's because reducing GHG or carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions is directly linked to fuel consumption – meaning the less fuel one burns, less CO2 is produced.
He noted, too, that Freight Wing's SAE fuel tests show that the company's side fairings can boost fuel savings anywhere from 4% to 7%, depending on application, so they meet CARB's standards.
Graham also pointed out that while SmartWay-verified low rolling resistance tires can help boost improve trailer fuel efficiency, they can't be used to help meet the 4% to 5% percent requirement – even though they typically offer an additional 3% fuel efficiency improvement for both the tractor and trailer.
He stressed, though, that SmartWay verified tires will eventually be required on dry van and refrigerated 53-foot trailers in California – mandated for 2010 and older model "box" trailers starting in January 2017.
The real questions to be answered in all of this revolve around broader "ripple effects" in California's freight markets. Will some truckers just walk away from California freight in the future? Will freight rates for California-bound cargo climb as truckers seek to recoup the additional investment mandated for their trailers? Will tonnage shift to intermodal if trucking capacity to the Gold State shrivels up?
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Olivia Wilde & Ashley Greene: 'Butter' Premiere Pals!
Olivia Wilde flashes her pearly whites at the premiere of Butter held at the Roy Thomson Hall on Tuesday (September 13) in Toronto, Canada.
The 27-year-old actress, who wore Marchesa, was joined on the red carpet by her co-star Ashley Greene, 24, who wore Oscar de la Renta.
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Also in attendance at the premiere was Jennifer Garner, who dazzled in a pink Valentino dress.
Butter has been receiving positive reviews! "I was so pleased – pleased doesn't begin to describe – relieved, grateful, surprised, shocked when we got the first big laugh," Jennifer said to USA Today.
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Meaning: The season of Hanukkah is the Jewish Festival of Lights. It celebrates the victory of the Maccabees over the Seleucid Greeks of Syria, who had captured Jerusalem, and the rededication of the second Temple of Jerusalem (164 BC). The Syrian Greeks had defiled the Temple and left only one bottle of holy oil. That oil, however, miraculously lasted for eight days. So, Hanukkah is celebrated for eight days by lighting one candle in the menorah (a nine-branched candelabrum) each evening.
Notes: Today's Good Word is also spelled Chanukah (among other ways) but, however you spell it, you can find out more about it by clicking here.
In Play: This year Hanukkah begins and ends before Christmas, but we can still wish our Jewish friends, "Happy Hanukkah!" as we wish our Christian friends, "Merry Christmas". Remember, Hanukkah is not a day but an 8-day season. In 2017 it extends from December 12 to December 20.
Word History: Today's very Good Word is the English rendition of Hebrew khanukkah "consecration" from hanakh "he trained, dedicated". This verb comes from the noun hekh "palate", which gave the verb the original meaning of "he rubbed the palate of a child with chewed dates", something that was done long ago during the instruction of children. The past participle, hanoch "dedicated", was also used as a name, Hanoch, which the Greeks and Romans interpreted as Enoch. (We hope all our Jewish friends are enjoying the happiest of Hanukkah seasons, especially those in Israel, where we hope the Festival of the Lights illuminates a brighter and more peaceful future.)


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"Blogger" n. Someone with nothing to say writing for someone with nothing to do. This is the blog of Eric Swanson containing the developing thoughts and reflections on the externally focused church, the kingdom of God and what I see God doing in the world, in my life and the life of my family and friends. I also occassionally throw in a little commentary on good restaurants I like along with a few pictures.


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Rite Aid (NYSE:RAD) reported a 54% decline in first-quarter profit on Thursday as higher drug costs offset an increase in filled prescriptions.
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The Camp Hill, Pa.-based pharmacy chain reported net income of $41.4 million, or 4 cents a share, compared with a year-earlier profit of $89.7 million, or 9 cents.
While four cents a share matches the current median estimate in a Thomson Reuters poll of analysts, the consensus view earlier this month was eight cents. It was reduced in half after Rite Aid issued a profit warning on June 5.
CEO John Standley blamed the quarterly profit decline on higher-than-expected drug costs and reimbursement rates. Earlier this month, the company warned that a delay in the expected reduction in prices of generic medicines would weigh on margins.
Revenue for the three-month period nevertheless rose 2.7% to $6.5 billion from $6.3 billion a year ago last quarter, topping the Street's view of $6.43 billion, as an overall increase in pharmacy demand helped to offset flat front-store revenue. Same-store, a key growth metric of sales at stores open longer than a year, increased 3.1%.
While it filled 2.3% more prescriptions last quarter at its more established stores, Rite Aid said pharmacy sales were impacted by the introduction of new generic drugs.
The third largest pharmacy behind Walgreen (NYSE:WAG) and CVS (NYSE:CVS) backed its already reduced earnings outlook of 30 cents to 40 cents and said it continues to forecast full-year sales between $26 billion and $26.5 billion.
Analysts on average are calling for in-line earnings of 35 cents on sales of $26.19 billion.
Its shares fell 3.2% to $7.20 in recent trade.


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Harpist's Legacy: Ann Hobson Pilot and the Sound Change
Harpist's Legacy: Ann Hobson Pilot and the Sound Change Previous Broadcasts
KQED World: Sat, Nov 3, 2018 -- 6:30 PM
This documentary profiles the inspirational life and distinguished career of the revered harpist. It follows Ann Hobson Pilot's trailblazing journey as the first black female principal player in a major symphony orchestra and also as an international soloist, teacher, mentor and driving force behind music-education programs for underserved minorities. The program uses her professional journey to explore the increasing racial diversity and shift in attitudes toward musicians of color in the classical music world.
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Lehtonen stops 24 shots for 2nd shutout in 3 games as Stars beat Penguins 3-0NHL.com @NHLdotcom
DALLAS - After winning the last three games by a 14-1 margin, Dallas coach Lindy Ruff and goalie Kari Lehtonen believe the Stars' latest win was their best this season.
Lehtonen made 24 saves for his second shutout in three games to lead the Stars to a 3-0 victory over the Pittsburgh Penguins on Saturday night.
"The last three games have all been excellent in all three zones," Ruff said. "This one against a highly skilled team and taking care of special teams probably knocks the other two down a little bit."
Sergei Gonchar, Jamie Benn and Rich Peverley had Dallas' goals, and Lehtonen also had an assist for the second consecutive game.
"This is up there," Lehtonen said. "That team's really good. We were able to play a lot better than them. We dominated the power play and the penalty kill. Overall, it was a great effort."
The Metropolitan Division-leading Penguins have lost two games in six days by a combined 8-1 to Dallas and Florida, teams fighting to get into playoff contention.
Gonchar had a power-play goal, his second score this season, with just under 5 minutes remaining in the first period against his former team. Dallas has scored with a man advantage in seven consecutive games.
Alex Goligoski, another former Penguins player, had an assist when Benn scored to make it 2-0 at 3:14 of the second. Peverley closed the scoring a little more than 7 minutes later.
"This is desperation for (the Stars) and we saw that in their last two games. We saw it again tonight," Pittsburgh coach Dan Bylsma said. "This was a desperate team, played hard. We have to be able to match that regardless of where our position is or what the standings look like."
Lehtonen faced only 12 shots during the first two periods, before the Penguins doubled their attempts in the third.
"There were a couple of good (saves) in the second period when it was 2-0," Lehtonen said. "After that, we were able to score to make it 3-0. After that, it was quite relaxing. If I let one in, there would still be a two-goal lead."
He stopped Pittsburgh's Evgeni Malkin point-blank 9 1/2 minutes into the third.
"With the team in front of him for the first 40 minutes, you couldn't find more than one or two good chance," Ruff said. "In the third period when he really needed them, he stood tall."
Dallas' line of Cody Eakin, Antoine Roussel and Ryan Garbutt neutralized the line centred by Penguins scoring leader Sidney Crosby.
"We were sharp, quick and crispy, and it worked out for us," Eakin said.
Dallas dominated the first period, with 10 shots on goal to Pittsburgh's 4, and scored first.
Gonchar took a pass at the top of the slot from Ray Whitney on the right wing boards, and fired a high shot over Penguins goalie Marc-Andre Fleury. Lehtonen also received an assist on the score.
The Penguins' Kris Letang went off for roughing at 1:14 of the second period. One second before the penalty expired, Benn took a pass from Goligoski in the right faceoff circle and shot over Fleury's shoulder to make it 2-0.
The two power-play goals came against Pittsburgh's league-leading unit, which entered the game with a streak of 11 successful penalty kills.
"They capitalized on their power plays. We didn't," Crosby said. "We didn't execute when we got chances. They carried the play for the first two periods."
Bylsma added: "I think momentum changed, we turn over the puck in the neutral zone. That led back to a chance against and then we took a penalty. That got their first power-play goal and in this game, we're minus-2 in the special teams battle. That was a big part of the story tonight."
Midway through the second period, Shawn Horcoff stole the puck in the neutral zone and passed to Peverley, who skated into the right circle and shot into the upper right corner of the net with 9:40 remaining.
The Stars again outshot Pittsburgh in the second, 12-8.
NOTES: Lehtonen leads NHL goalies with four assists this season. He has 31 in his career, with a high of six in 2010-11. ... Goligoski has five assists in his last three games. ... The Stars' power-play streak is their longest since a seven-game run Dec. 11-23, 2010. They have improved from 29th in the league this season to 24th. ... Dallas' penalty killers have succeeded on their last 15 opportunities, including four Saturday. ... Pittsburgh had won seven of the previous eight games against the Stars, dating back to 2003-04. ... Fleury had entered the game 6-0 with a 1.95 goals against average vs. Dallas. . Defenceman Matt Niskanen's career-high six-game point streak ended for Pittsburgh. ... Benn has nine points in the past seven games.


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by Ken Horner
As the Third Annual Chestnut Hill Book Festival draws nearer, the Local would like to spotlight a few of the authors with ties to Chestnut Hill and other areas of Philadelphia who will be appearing at the event:
Arthur Caplan, Ph.D. – Currently the Emmanuel and Robert Hart Director of the Center for Bioethics and the Sydney D. Caplan Professor of Bioethics at the University of Pennsylvania, Caplan has been a resident of Philadelphia since he arrived at Penn in 1994.
Specializing in transplantation research ethics, genetics, reproductive technologies, health policy and general bioethics, Caplan has written or edited 29 books and more than 500 articles that have been published in well-known medical journals. His most recent books include "The Penn Guide to Bioethics" in 2009 and "Smart Mice, Not-So-Smart People" in 2007.
In addition to the plethora of works Caplan has had published, he has also served on numerous national and international committees too long to list here.
Caplan is a regular columnist for MSNBC.com and also has a list of awards as long as the one previously mentioned.
His trophy collection includes the title of "Person of the Year 2001" from USA Today, a designation as one of the ten most influential people in science by Discover magazine in 2008 and the honor of being named one of the 50 most influential people in American health care by Modern Health Care magazine, among others.
Caplan will be appearing at Stagecrafters Theater, 8130 Germantown Ave., between 1 and 2 p.m. Saturday, July 9.
S. A. Williams – After a successful career in radio and network television, including the founding of a media-buying company in Philadelphia, S. A. Williams will be appearing at the festival a year after the publication of her first novel, "Anna's Secret Legacy."
A World War II love story, Williams' novel follows a female scientist who unravels a molecular formula that could save her sister's life. Vowing to keep the formula out of the wrong hands, she becomes the secret weapon everyone wants as the Nazis begin invading Europe.
Besides the success of her novel, Williams has also been honored by Billboard Magazine for the voice-over talent she lent to both radio and TV commercials. She was a keynote speaker at the American Bankers Association convention on "The Changing Landscape of Media."
Williams will be featured alongside authors Cordelia Biddle and Simone Zelitch in a panel on historical fiction between 3:15 and 4:15 p.m. Saturday, July 9, at Roller's Restaurant at the Flying Fish, 8142 Germantown Ave.
Emilie Harting – Harting is best known for her work as a freelance writer and as a professor of English at the Community College of Philadelphia.
Harting has written literary guides to both the British Isles and New England, both of which were translated into Japanese. Currently, her work focuses on ecotourism, hiking vacations and local culture.
Her travel articles have appeared in publications such as Ladies' Home Journal, The New York Times, The Washington Post, Los Angeles Times and The Philadelphia Inquirer.
Harting is scheduled to appear alongside fellow travel writers Joann Greco and Reid Bramblett from 1 until 2 p.m. Sunday, July 10, at Roller's Restaurant at the Flying Fish.
Elijah Anderson – After a storied stint at the University of Pennsylvania that began in 1975, Anderson, one of the nation's leading urban ethnographers, was awarded the William K. Lanman, Jr. Professorship in Sociology at Yale University where he now teaches and directs the Urban Ethnography Project.
Anderson has written and edited numerous books, articles and scholarly reports on race in American cities.
His most popular works include "Code of the Street: Decency, Violence, and the Moral Life of the Inner City" (1999), "Streetwise: Race, Class, and Change in an Urban Community" (1990) and "A Place on the Corner: A Study of Black Street Corner Men" (2003).
Anderson's many accolades include winning the Lindback Award for Distinguished Teaching at the University of Pennsylvania, serving on the board of directors of the American Academy of Political and Social Science and as vice-president of the American Sociological Association, and acting as a consultant to a variety of government agencies, including the White House, the United States Congress and the National Science Foundation.
Additionally, Anderson has worked for a wide range of professional journals, including the American Journal of Sociology, American Sociological Review, City & Community and the International Journal of Urban and Regional Research.
Anderson can be found at Stagecrafters Theater between 3:15 and 4:15 p.m. Sunday, July 10.
Iain Pollock – Chestnut Hill Academy's own middle school English teacher, Pollock was the recipient of the Cave Canem Poetry Prize, an award dedicated to the discovery of exceptional manuscripts by African American poets, for his book of poetry "Spit Back a Boy."
An alumnus of the Creative Writing Program at Syracuse University, Pollock's poems have appeared in publications such as American Poetry Review, Boston Review and Callaloo.
Pollack will be appearing at Roller's Restaurant at the Flying Fish between 4:30 and 5:30 p.m. on Saturday, July 9.


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Atlantic City Police Arrest Two With Weapons
Wednesday night, Atlantic City Police were dispatched to the area of New Jersey and Arctic Avenues in reference to a male running with a gun.
Two ACPD officers responded to the area and approached a group in the 100 block of New Jersey Avenue; as they were approaching the group, an officer observed one of the males in the group put a handgun into his waistband. The officers quickly took the male, later identified as Tremayne Brickhouse, into custody and recovered the handgun. As an officer was placing Brickhouse into a patrol vehicle, the group was yelling that a male leaving the area was also in possession of a weapon. The male, who was later identified as Terrell Anderson, began to flee on foot toward Connecticut Avenue. Several officers eventually caught-up to Anderson at the intersection of Connecticut and Arctic Avenues where he was placed in custody but he was not in possession of a weapon. Reports indicate the officers followed the only footprints in the snow which led to the discovery of a rifle in the rear of a nearby residence. Anderson was found to be in possession of narcotics and had outstanding warrants for his arrest.
Anderson has been charged with unlawful possession of a weapon, possession of a weapon for an unlawful purpose, possession of a prohibited device (sawed off weapon), possession of a weapon by a convicted felon, aggravated assault, possession of a controlled dangerous substance (cocaine), and contempt. Brickhouse has been charged with unlawful possession of a weapon, possession of a weapon by a convicted felon, possession of a prohibited device (hollow point bullets), and receiving stolen property. Both males remanded to the Atlantic County Justice Facility in Mays Landing.


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Invisible Venue collaborates with artists to present art in unexpected settings. It is a one-person organization that supports artist's ideas and explores alternative locations for the presentation of contemporary art, outside of conventional gallery and institutional settings. Often in speaking about Invisible Venue my language switches back and forth between "I" and "we." Though Invisible Venue encompasses my independent curatorial practice and research, the work itself is collaborative and has been dependent upon a number of generous collaborators, including the artist Aaron Stienstra who should be recognized here for his extensive support. Additionally, I would like to recognize all of the artists who have collaborated with Invisible Venue and who have brought tremendous brio to the task of making something from nothing—complete documentation of each project and details about all of the artists are available on www.invisiblevenue.com.
I created Invisible Venue in 2005 in response to these questions: Is it possible to show something (artwork) that is also nothing (conceptual, digital, ephemeral), everywhere (public spaces) and nowhere (online)? As a curator and cultural producer, I wanted to collaborate with artists to explore their ideas and through this collaboration interrogate the relationship between contemporary art and daily life. Intrinsic to my objectives was finding a way to work both independently and publicly—to what extent could I interject the work of artists into the public realm through the force of personal autonomy? What kinds of opportunities exist in between the margins of regulations and special permissions? What, in short, are the alternatives to the institution?
Invisible Venue originated as a website to present new media projects in the widely accessible public forum of the world wide web, an unregulated public space that allowed for complete creative freedom1. The first project, titled You Don't Know San Francisco (2005), featured eleven videos by Bay Area artists2. The website launched a week prior to Frieze Art Fair, an international showcase for contemporary art that takes place annually in London. I distributed cards with the web address throughout the fair and in public spaces around London and arranged a public screening by borrowing a flat, a laptop, and a projector to project directly from the website3. More than 100 people attended the all-night event. It was my first realization that I could independently create the circumstances to present art publicly in alternative locations. In 2008 Invisible Venue won an Alternative Exposure Grant, awarded by San Francisco nonprofit Southern Exposure in conjunction with The Andy Warhol Foundation, to support independent initiatives in contemporary art. In addition to a vote of confidence, this grant provided small budgets for 11 projects last year; otherwise Invisible Venue operates as a do-it-yourself venture, with all of the self-directed autonomy and limited financial means implied therein. Since the inception of Invisible Venue, I have collaborated with more than 30 artists to present projects in a variety of unconventional spaces4. Projects have included digital media online and on the telephone, guerilla billboard interventions, ephemeral performance, site-specific temporary installations, public events, happenings, and accidental encounters.
Public art agencies ArtAngel, Creative Time, Dia Foundation, and Public Art Fund have been valuable educational resources in the development of Invisible Venue. My work is significantly influenced by their work. Most frequently I am interested in the temporary, site-specific, and conceptual artworks that exist for a limited time before being absorbed into public memory or not. Key also to my interests is artwork with the power to engage accidental and art-initiated audiences alike. One important example that I discovered through research is Michael Bramwell's Building Sweeps (1995-6), a yearlong site-specific art action sponsored by Creative Time that involved the artist's mopping, sweeping and cleaning the public areas of a city-owned Harlem tenement building, unannounced and uninvited. Though the community response to this work was contentious and its success, even by the standards of its sponsors, is unclear, it is the DIY spirit of this project, absent of permits, which gives me permission to trespass into private and public spaces. As does Chris Doyle's Commutable (1996), a temporarily gilded staircase on an otherwise unremarkable Manhattan pedestrian walkway produced by Public Art Fund. Finally, Janet Cardiff's The Missing Voice (1999) an audio walk that navigated the neighborhood surrounding London's Whitechapel Public Library taught me that the work does not have to have a material presence to continue to appear in your mind's eye5. Further I am captivated by art that is surreptitiously integrated into the fabric of everyday life, such as Walter De Maria's Earthroom (1977), situated in a discreet location and yet right in the middle of Soho in Manhattan.
Inspired by public artworks that engage domestic spaces, I decided to curate and produce artist projects in and around a four bedroom flat in July 2007. Over the next two years Invisible Venue commissioned eleven projects for this location, or rather project space, in West Oakland. The neighborhood was both central and remote; it was a two-minute walk from the first train stop outside of San Francisco, in a partially industrial neighborhood in a forgotten part of town. The space of the main entry, the stairwell and landing, and the two front rooms—literally half of the 101-year-old Victorian era flat—was dedicated to Invisible Venue. I lived with my family in the back half of the building, separate from the project space, with our own entrance and living areas. Artists were invited to use the project space however they wanted and consequently projects spilled into our living areas, the yard, the billboard on the side of the building, and the empty lot across the street. It is important to stipulate this was not a gallery for commercial endeavors or for showing pre-existing two-dimensional work. All the work that I commissioned investigated the inherent politics of the location as a public platform—in every instance, the space itself was intrinsic to the ideas. Investigations included the physical building and its architecture, but also macro-level considerations of the past and present politics of the neighborhood, the historical and social concerns of Oakland, the location in the vicinity of an important industrial port, and the micro-level considerations of the space as both public and domestic, interior and exterior.
For one of the first projects in this space, Invisible Venue collaborated with Jonn Herschend to present The Man Who Disappeared into His Own Clothes Pile (2007). A self-navigable installation representative of The Man's living quarters prior to his disappearance was installed in the project space. A deadpan documentary in which Herschend interviewed those who knew The Man simultaneously played in my living room, as if the television had been left on. Visitors were brought in the street entrance and directed to go through The Man's personal affects in the project space, including a journal and drawings. Visitors were told to take as much time as they needed, then make their way to the living room to watch the documentary for more information. The documentary was filmed on site and featured various neighbors from the building. As visitors moved through the house, I continued to work in the kitchen, doing dishes or something equally banal, further blurring the lines between the artwork and quotidian domestic life. The work combined the voyeuristic experience of reality television with the live action of eavesdropping or peeping, placing the viewer in an uncomfortable position to fully explore the dynamic tensions of a public project in a private space.
Concurrent with this project, Helena Keeffe collaborated with Invisible Venue to present Talking to Neighbors: Jim in West Oakland (2007). This social sculpture, to use the artist's term, and audio piece consisted of a recorded and edited interview between the West Oakland-based artist and Jim Edgar, a local resident of nearly 70 years. The interview was transferred to an answering machine hooked up to a landline and installed on the landing, as if it was the house telephone. A disused telephone booth, located at the other end of the block, was cleaned and painted for the application of a vinyl sign that advertized the telephone number to access the interview. Additionally the information was distributed on www.invisiblevenue.com, over email and in blanket text messages. As a freely accessible recurring experience this work challenged the assumed materiality of public art.
In December 2008, Michael Damm projected a series of videos onto windows in the project space, as well as the living area because they offered the best vantage points from the street and the passing trains. The videos ran for 10 consecutive nights, during the darkest time of the year, from about 5pm to 9pm, overlapping with the heaviest commute hours. Consisting of images from various locations in Oakland, the work reflected the visually rich experience of navigating the city, when one is only half aware of their environment and is en route to somewhere else. incidental films for an accidental audience (2008) played upon the visibility of the building and its windows from a distance; the videos were visible to passing trains, from the train platform itself, to passing cars and neighborhood pedestrians. This accessibility reflected on the nomadic features of contemporary communities as the work was visible to West Oakland residents and to everyone in transit. It also interrogated the public and private aspects of the space by co-opting the windows for use as an alternative venue, projecting outward when windows are typically covered for privacy and inviting attention to the building from every direction.
Christine Lee furthered this exploration between interior and exterior space with Order and Ornamentation (2009), a site-specific installation and concurrent intervention that existed both in the project space and in an undeveloped publicly accessible lot across the street from the building. In the project space, Lee installed living sod, cut in lengths and arranged to mimic the pattern of the original century-old hardwood floors. In the lot, Lee installed a collection of reclaimed carpet remnants, cut and assembled in a historic floral pattern that evoked the original interiors of the surrounding Victorian neighborhood. This unconventionally "woven" rug bisected a pre-existing "desire path" worn into the lot by pedestrian footfall. The term desire path was coined by Gaston Bachelard in his 1958 book The Poetics of Space, an analysis that privileges a lived experience of architecture over the abstract rhetoric of theory. Both the installation and the intervention explored the lived experience of West Oakland and its complicated history as an old family neighborhood with once beautiful architecture in contrast with its present state.
Though we regarded the project space as a public site, there were of course concerns about safety due to the fact that we lived in the building. Whenever we projected videos out of the windows to the street, we wondered if we would invite vandalism, but we never experienced a single incident. Projects are and have always been listed on numerous public event listings online, as well as postings on Facebook and Twitter. Press releases are sent to all of the most prominent local critics, newspapers and publications, and the announcement list includes hundreds of strangers. Anyone who emails about being added to our list is added. Anyone who asks to see projects by appointment is scheduled an appointment. Sometimes the doorbell would ring from the Invisible Venue entrance because someone on the street wanted to know more about the flickering projections. Other times I would walk up to a person outside puzzling over an intervention and chat with them about the work. We did not attempt to prescript encounters with the work—like much public art, it was left to the viewer to wonder at its existence. We continue in this same vain. Though every project has information online and there are project descriptions available upon request, by and large, we leave the accidental audience members alone to interpret or ignore the work as they choose.
Attendance is difficult to quantify for the projects that have taken place in public spaces because the works are left unattended. Projects that took place in the West Oakland project space had varied attendance at launch events—with some events seeing attendance of more than 100 people in a single day. Despite operating slightly under the mainstream radar and being a unusual organizational model, Invisible Venue projects have received a fair amount of critical attention in a variety of publications including SFGate.com, Examiner.com, International Arts Magazine, ArtSlant, San Francisco Bay Guardian, San Francisco Chronicle, Artillery Magazine, and SF Camerawork Journal, in addition to numerous blogs.
Since relinquishing the West Oakland space in August of 2009, Invisible Venue has transformed again to produce projects in exclusively public environments. (Meant to be) Lost and Found (2009) recently featured work by Charles Gute, Anthony Discenza, Jonn Herschend and Jamie Hilder. Predicated on the private/public nature of displaced personal correspondence, the participating artists created artworks that resembled official letters, business memos and handwritten notes. 100 inkjet prints of the "letters" were printed on the reverse with "This is public art. www.invisiblevenue.com." The letters were left in public spaces throughout Manhattan and Brooklyn over four days in October 20096. Locations included restaurants, cabs, elevators, lobbies, the subway, baskets on bicycles, stores, and front porches, among many other places—all locations were chosen at random to mediate chance encounters with an unquantifiable public audience. Here printed correspondence provided a metaphor to ask questions about public art, as both printed correspondence and permanent public art appear to be diminishing products of a bygone era in favor of increasing digitization, the passive call and no- response of social networking and temporary spectacle. The range of audience engagement was anticipated to mimic that of formally recognized "public art" and likely also incited any number of positive and negative responses: indifference, derision, contemplation, or enjoyment. The production of this project challenged the market-driven budgets and architectural scale of much recent contemporary public art and deployed the recessionary conventions of revolutionist movements—including interventionist tactics, low-budget production methods and portability.
Site-specificity is still at the core of Invisible Venue investigations, except now the site is once again transient with projects taking place in all manner of public spaces rather than limited to a specific location. Based on these experiences, I have discovered it is possible to present something that is also nothing, everywhere and nowhere when one considers every possible site an invisible venue.
Invisible Venue(s): Alternatives to the Institution by Christian L. Frock. Originally presented in "Site Variations: The Shifting Grounds of Public Art," College Art Association 98th Annual Conference, Chicago 2010; also edited and republished in Art Practical, Issue 9
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Saturday, April 2, 2016 from 9:30 AM to 12:15 PM (EDT)
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Mindfulness for Health runs evidence-based 8-week Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT) programs at least 3 times per year. If you have coverage for Occupational Therapy or Social Work, you can be reimbursed for the cost of the program under extended healthcare benefits. Angie co-facilitates the MBCT programs in Mississauga with Gaye Gould MSW RSW, on Saturday mornings. We also offer monthly Mindfulness Classes for Graduates, which takes place at the home studio in Milton, as well as silent retreats a couple times per year.
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Baby carriers are extremely popular among new mothers.
A carrier is typically part of a portable car seat system, which also includes a car seat base and stroller base. The carrier snaps into both base systems. They are quite convenient, as a new mother can buckle her baby into the carrier, walk out to the car, snap the carrier into the car seat base, drive to the park, remove the carrier, snap it into the stroller base, and take baby for a walk. But think about what this baby has missed out on!
Typically her mother would have held baby in her arms and carried her to the car. She would have placed baby in the car seat, then removed her and put her in the stroller. All the while, baby is enjoying mother's loving touch and using muscles in her trunk and neck while being held.
The portability and convenience of the carrier are appealing to busy parents, but as you can see, there are good reasons to limit the use of carriers. When in a carrier, many babies tilt their head to one side, which is not good for the neck and spine and can put pressure on one area of baby's head, possibly leading to a flat spot. Of course, brief periods in a carrier are not a problem, but if baby has a lot of travel time in her schedule, it's important to give her occasional breaks from the seat and to limit the amount of time she spends in other types of baby gear for the remainder of the day.
Many parents attach toys from the handle of a baby carrier so they dangle down, hanging several inches from the baby's eyes. Babies can easily get too much visual stimulation, especially newborns. Unfortunately, parents may assume that baby is content and happy and continue to leave her there overstimulated. This can be very frustrating for baby!
It is also important to remember that toys should never be attached to a car seat while in a moving vehicle because this poses a safety hazard. Consider removing the dangling toys every so often, and if you are sitting with your baby, watch her carefully. After she plays with the toys for a while, if she turns her head to the side or shut her eyes, that may be her way of telling you, "I'm all finished here!"
Mothers should note that baby carriers can weigh up to 10 pounds, so when combined with the weight of a newborn, this can put a lot of strain on your back, shoulders, and arms. When possible, carry your baby rather than risking injury to yourself. Also, don't get into the habit of holding your baby on one side only. Rather, alternate arms to avoid placing undue stress on one side of your body.


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Delany at Dartmouth: The Dirt
The student newspaper has published a fairly accurate report of the event. Being a newspaper that does not seek to scandalize its audience, The Dartmouth was not able to include some much of what Delany said. Since I had a notebook with me, and am perfectly happy to scandalize just about any audience, I will now add a couple of quotes to the otherwise adequate report. You have been warned.
One of the main points Delany reiterated is that, in his view, most studies of AIDS are based more on hearsay than evidence. This was his central thesis, and he tried to illustrate ways that hearsay is both attractive and misleading. He acknowledged that we let hearsay rule our lives most of the time (Most of our critical judgments, he said, are based on hearsay, most consumerism, and "the entire field of politics"), but it is a mistake to confuse hearsay with empirical knowledge. Evidence is science, and it is the sort of thing that allows planes to fly and lightbulbs to work. When we fall out of the grid of knowledge, hearsay takes over.
So far so good. But this is where he got personal, and stated that between 1982 and 1988 he had about 300-500 oral encounters a year, and that the numbers have fluctuated since then, depending on where he lived, but he estimated he's had roughly 5,000-7,000 moments of oral sex since 1982. He remains HIV negative. Then he told the story of meeting a porn star/prostitute who was sure that he'd gotten AIDS from oral sex. He said they'd talked for a while, that the other man was well informed, but that he (Delany) should have asked him a question he thought of shortly afterward. He should have asked, he said, whether before the man seroconverted if he had been in an orgy situation where someone who had come in his mouth had then licked his ass (Delany's terminology). "This is not the sort of question," he said, "that straight researchers think to ask."
He then said something like, "I have myself recently begun barebacking again with a fuckbuddy in upstate New York. While this may seem insane, it does need to be factored in."
Behind me, a fairly well-known American/Cultural Studies scholar burst into some of the wildest laughter I have ever heard from him (and having taking a course with him, I've heard plenty).
"I enjoy a certain kind of pleasure," Delany said, "and I gamble on getting it." We do not know enough about AIDS, he maintained, because the right sorts of tests are so seldom conducted, and the amount of true evidence, rather than hearsay, is so small, and drawn from such small samples of people. This is particularly the case in terms of women, where the lack of information and testing is, he said, "genocidal".
Then came questions. At first, nobody spoke, but soon enough there were some strong challenges. Delany vehemently denied that he was suggesting oral sex can't lead to AIDS -- he said his point is that there is hearsay evidence of multiple sorts, but there haven't been enough studies to say definitively one way or another, which is why he said his own behaviors are a gamble. Someone else said that he sounded like the tobacco company CEOs who deny that there is enough evidence that cigarettes cause cancer. Delany seemed to say that he believed there was good evidence there -- my notes are incomplete -- and then said, "We do know that oral sex doesn't cause cancer. That's one of the things it's got going for it."
The woman who introduced Delany, Susan Ackerman (of the Department of Religion), had said that he wrote 9 novels by the age of 25. Delany laid out an average day in his life at that time, saying that in between making breakfast and dinner for his wife (Marilyn Hacker) and writing his books, he would have sex with about 20 people on a normal day, and that he could never have been as productive a writer if he hadn't had that outlet. (At this point, someone near me whispered, "He's a superman!") "Sex is an appetite," he said. "If you don't have gourmet food, you eat out of the garbage can."
A student said she found his candor and frank terminology refreshing, and wondered if he thought more people should talk that openly about sex. He said he didn't want to tell anybody else how to talk about sex, but that we should talk about it however we are comfortable talking about it, using whatever words we are comfortable with.
Finally, a student suggested that his remarks could be used against gay people as proof that gay men are promiscuous, that they are just asking for AIDS, that they deserve to be marginalized and oppressed. Delany said he did not want to be taken as a representative example. "I'm not going to play the role of the Good Gay Man," he said. "I'm not the Good Gay Man. Maybe I'm the Bad Gay Man. Other people will be other things and say other things. Other people can speak for other ways of living. A whole range of things need to be said, and we need to work together." [some of that was paraphrased, because I can't write quite as fast as he talked]


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Speakers at the 2010 Agricultural Outlook Forum will include the co-president of Whole Foods, the recently retired CEO of Sysco Corporation and the CEO of Bon Appétit Management Company.
The 2010 Outlook Forum will be held Feb. 18-19 at the Crystal Gateway Marriott Hotel in Arlington, Va.
Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack will keynote the forum titled "Sustainable Agriculture: The Key to Health & Prosperity."
Deputy Secretary Kathleen Merrigan will open the annual forum on Feb. 18 at 8 a.m.
A panel, which features Whole Foods Market Co-President Walter Robb, recently retired Sysco Corporation CEO Richard Schnieders, Bon Appétit Management Company CEO Fedele Bauccio, and Science and Technology Advisor to the U.S. Secretary of State Nina Fedoroff, is titled "Sustainability, Stakeholders and Customers: Achieving a Healthier 21st Century."
USDA's Under Secretary Jim Miller will present the foreign trade outlook and Chief Economist Joseph Glauber will deliver the domestic agricultural economic outlook.
It will focus on a broad range of topical issues related to rural communities, nutrition, sustainable agriculture, conservation, and food safety and security. The forum also will feature traditional USDA commodity supply and demand and food price outlooks.
USDA will Web cast the entire morning plenary speeches.
USDA has hosted the Outlook Forum since 1923 to provide farmers and ranchers, government, and agribusinesses with sound information for decision-making. Attendees are expected to include members of farm organizations, food and fiber firms, academia, foreign governments, and the news media.
The program and registration information is at: Ag Outlook Forum.
Registration is $350 until Jan. 15, and $375 thereafter.
Plenary speeches will be Web cast after 3:30 p.m. EST on Feb. 18, and breakout session speech and PowerPoint presentations will be posted online after 5 p.m., Feb. 19.


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by Katie Parker, sports information graduate assistant
MILLEDGEVILLE, Ga. - Junior Jessica Binkowski (Cumming, Ga.) and senior Jamie Nevin (Grovetown, Ga.) of the Georgia College & State University soccer team (9-5-5, 5-1-4 PBC) were named to the ESPN The Magazine/CoSIDA Academic All-District first and second teams, respectively, the organization announced recently.
Binkowski and Nevin become the fifth and sixth Academic All-District selections in program history. The All-Academic teams are voted on by Sports Information Directors across the five-state district.
Binkowski moved up to the first team after being a third team pick last year as a sophomore. The defender earned her spot on this year's squad with a 3.94 GPA majoring in biology. As an All-District First Team pick, Binkowski automatically gains a spot on the national ballot, in hopes of being named an Academic All-American. In 2007, former Bobcat Beth Coughlin became the first Academic All-American in program history.
Majoring in mathematics with a 3.93 GPA, this is Nevin's second All-District nomination. In 2007, Nevin was also named to the district's second team as a sophomore.
Nevin and Binkowski, along with the rest of the Bobcats are back in action tomorrow (Nov. 3) hosting the first round of the Peach Belt Conference (PBC) Tournament taking on North Georgia at 7 p.m.
The GCSU Department of Athletics, winners of the 2008-09 PBC Commissioner's Cup, sponsors 10 varsity athletic programs at the NCAA Division II level. As a Division II program, GCSU prides itself on balancing the life of the student-athlete, evidenced by the Bobcats' multiple appearances in post-season competition as well as documented academic success and community-service involvement. Sign up at Twitter.com username GCSUSID for up-to-the-minute reports, and visit www.GCSUBobcats.com to nominate your favorite former Bobcats and Colonials to the GCSU Athletics Hall of Fame.


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Peace is what we seek—in the world, sure, but I would settle for a little more peace in the living room first. That's our latest goal at home. With four squabbling siblings, two exasperated adults and two canine child-distraction units running about, the Clarke household can be a loud and unruly place.
But it's not really the volume we are attempting to restrain; it's the negativity. A lot of the noise proceeds directly from angry shouting, verbal violence: sibling versus sibling, parent against child and, yes, sometimes even in direct spouse-to-spouse combat. My wife has instituted a new regime aimed at transforming the Clarkes from loud and horrible to peaceful and lovely. After establishing a schedule of chores and corresponding payments, she has prominently displayed a "Peace" jar in the kitchen. Outbursts of unpleasantness, whether that be hitting or screaming at a sib, talking back to a parent and yes, even yelling in a most undignified manner at a child, will be penalized with a fine: $1 for children; $5 for adults. At the end of the month we'll do something fun with the money. At the rate we are going, that may mean a trip to Disneyland or a new Ferrari. (Who knew we could afford it?)
This is not the first such effort at household harmony, and it will probably not be the last. I've discovered that parenting is something like the job of a Star Trek Enterprise security officer confronting Borg intruders. As the mindlessly malevolent Borg adapt to each defensive action, one has to recalibrate phaser frequencies to remain effective.
Naturally the best way to teach children to be peaceful is to be peaceful oneself. Alas, I have frequently failed in this ambition, surrendering to my anger, even giving it full voice. There is no parental pang more painful than hearing one of your children speak angrily to another and recognizing the cadence, tone and, naturally, the words. Your words. Yes, it's your own awfulness. It's what you taught them.
I will not advise you to resist wallowing in self-loathing when such a moment arrives. Go ahead. Luxuriate in it. You've earned it. But don't lose heart; don't give in to despair. I don't know any perfect parents, but I know some who have given up. You will fail, sometimes spectacularly, but you have to get up the next morning, recalibrate your phaser and start over. Forget perfection, but find hope in progress and remain obstinately set on your goal: offspring who are slightly less damaged and less damaging than you are. Maybe instead of infant caricatures of my worst moments I will one day get to see the better parts of my nature likewise replicated by my children.
So, like my wife and the peace jar, I run through a number of techniques to keep anger at bay, to be the model of peace I want to be. I have stomped out of rooms and walked around the house; closed myself off in the bedroom for sanity breaks; but most often I reach for the prayer of St. Francis, repeated sometimes with rising urgency, "Lord, make me an instrument of your peace."
As part of our peace offensive, at a recent bedtime I attempt to teach my two oldest boys this little trick. El Segundo hoots derisively after I recite the prayer. "That makes no sense," he says, beaming diabolically. "Make me a what? A instrument?! What's 'instrument' got to do with it?" He's rolling on the bed now, cackling at the absurdity of it all.
"Well, it's a different kind of instrument," I begin, calmly, before El Primero interrupts.
"No, Aidan," he says, drawing out his brother's name in exasperation, "It's not like a violin. It's like if I go to a village and wipe it out with bombs and machine guns, I'm like an instrument of destruction."
See now. There's progress. He knows what instrument means.


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Following a public hearing Thursday evening, the El Dorado Planning Commission approved an amendment to allow a transitional housing land use classification to be added to the city's zoning regulations.
Following a public hearing Thursday evening, the El Dorado Planning Commission approved an amendment to allow a transitional housing land use classification to be added to the city's zoning regulations.
The motion carried 4-3 with Commissioners Fred Britain, Tim Engels, Scott Leason and Van Pooler in favor and Commissioners David Stewart, Steve Funk and Gregg Lewis opposed.
The Planning Commission's recommendation to approve the amendment will be passed along to the City Commission.
During the public hearing, Butler Homeless Initiative (BHI) president Melody Gault was the first to speak.
"Thank you for your support in the past," she said. "It has been a bit of a process. September 2011 was the first time we came before you."
She went on to review the timeline of what has happened in the process so far.
"We are happy with the definition before you and endorse the proposed definition," she said.
At the direction of the El Dorado City Commission, a Transitional Housing Task Force was formed in July 2012 to address the issue of establishing a transitional home in El Dorado. A task force of more than 20 citizens met once per month from August through December 2012.
The definition Gault referenced is from that task force and reads as follows: A facility, occupied by not more than 30 residents, with staff members as needed, which provides transitional housing for the purpose of facilitating the movement of homeless individuals and families to permanent housing, and which may also include providing ancillary services such as employment counseling, vocational training, dining and food preparation, and individual or group behavioral health interventions.
A building used for transitional housing would need a special use permit and would only be allowed in the R-3, C-1 or O-1 zoning districts. R-3 allows high density residences, including apartments, C-1 is general retail areas and O-1 contains the business park.
"It's staff's recommendation to not allow it in the business park," said Assistant City Engineer Scott Rickard.
The original definition limited the number of people at the shelter to 12, and the commissioners wanted to know why the number was changed to 30.
According to Krystal Wallace, the reason for the change is the increase in the number of families seeking shelter. She reasoned if a couple of families, or mothers with children, as well as several individuals, all needed help, the number could easily exceed 12.
She was also asked whether or not homeless people from other communities will be transported to El Dorado for shelter.
"The majority of homeless in Butler County are in El Dorado," she said, "and the city refers people to us."
However, she said she could not rule out an occasional trip to another community within Butler County to help someone who had nowhere else to go.
"We are a county-wide organization," she said. "We do intend to have a van that is to serve our residents. It's not intended specifically to bring more people into El Dorado."
Stan Stewart also addressed the commissioners during the public hearing.
"Part of what I want to remind you is this is a land use issue," he said.
He said the three zones in which transitional housing could be allowed are relatively restrictive and will make finding a building challenging.
Britain, who was the Planning Commission's representative on the task force that came up with the transitional housing definition, said discussions were held with various community members and organizations, including the school district, Butler Community College and the El Dorado Police Department.
"Everybody's had to give a little bit," he said. "That's why it's changed so much. This definition gives BHI the chance to actually look at a site now. This lets them get going on a definition everybody can agree on."
BHI does not yet have a location for a shelter, but this definition will allow them to look in the designated zoning areas.
"It is a genuine concern of many people," Funk said of the shelter. "It is something that should be a careful consideration as we are making this decision to allow transitional housing."
Gault responded that she is always willing to have an open dialogue with homeowners.
As the discussion came to a close, David Stewart reminded his fellow commissioners they aren't the ones who have the final say on transitional housing.
"Ultimately we're an advisory board," he said. "Our decision goes to the City Commission."
"That doesn't lessen our responsibility that it goes forward," replied Funk.
"Tonight we're just approving the definition," said Britain. "We can add regulations to that site via the special use. Their hands are kind of tied right now."
Ultimately, the commission approved the definition with several supplementary regulations including:
• Allow only one transitional home in each zoning district; (BHI representatives noted they have no plans for more than one shelter at this time).
• No transitional home use in the Business Park;
• Management Plan addressing the following: Operations of the home from intake to lights out; Development of the lot, including screening and parking; Staffing; Safety procedures in cases of emergency; Loitering control; Transportation of residents without transportation themselves.


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"The boat on the hill – that's the Knight Campus as it sails across the landscape overlooking Route 95. And a boat is an appropriate metaphor for CCRI, although there are surely those who view the institution as securely anchored in Rhode Island. Yes, CCRI has built a tradition and it has provided the foundation to a better life for many Rhode Islanders. But, for me, it's the flexibility of the institution and its people that are its greatest assets. CCRI is always on the move. CCRI responds to the needs of the time … The college has rightfully earned the reputation of listening to its community and appropriately answering with courses that enable young people to pursue the careers of their choice and displaced workers to find new jobs. CCRI is bringing people to places they want to be. A ship is also the appropriate analogy for those who turn to CCRI to learn new skills, just for the sake of learning. For them the college offers a cruise of discoveries."
John I. Howell, Jr., former president of the Community College of Rhode Island Foundation, has been a staunch supporter of the education and the community college since 1984. As newspaper publisher and president of Southern Rhode Island Publications, which includes the Warwick Beacon and Cranston Herald, he has been the voice of the community for more than 35 years and has used his position time and again to promote sound educational goals and policy.
Before moving to Rhode Island, Howell worked in newspapers and political campaigns. He is a founder and past president of the Rhode Island Academic Decathlon, which conducts an annual academic contest at CCRI for the state's 60 high schools. He also was founding president of the Warwick Chamber Education Foundation.
Howell holds a bachelor's degree in Political Science from American University and has studied at LaSorbonne, Paris and Whitman College, Walla Walla, Wash.
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