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Tech Golf Pro Qualifies for Taylor Cup Matches, Oct. 18, 2001
SOCORRO, N.M., October 18, 2001-- Russell Moore, head golf professional at the New Mexico Tech Golf Course, has qualified this year as one of the top ten professional golfers from the Sun Country Professional Golfers Association who will compete next week in the Taylor Cup Matches at the Walking Stick Golf Course in Pueblo, Colo.
"It is truly an honor to represent the Sun Country section and New Mexico Tech in this event," Moore says.
Each year, the Taylor Cup Matches pit the best pro golfers in the Sun Country PGA, which encompasses all of New Mexico and El Paso, against the best the Colorado PGA has to offer in a three-day match play event.
The event is held at alternating venues in various Colorado and New Mexico golf courses and is named in honor of J.D. Taylor, a PGA professional who managed courses in Colorado and New Mexico for over 50 years and was known throughout the Southwest for his extraordinary abilities and skills on the golf course.
Moore relates that he has stepped up his practice sessions and has played the New Mexico Tech Golf Course twice in the past week in preparation for the Taylor Cup Matches.
"It also helps that I have participated in two prestigious tournaments within the last couple of weeks," Moore says. "Tournament participation allows you to improve your ball striking, and also keeps the mental side of your game sharp."
Professional golfers who are invited to play in the Taylor Cup Matches are selected on the basis of their posted scores averaged out over the past year's Sun Country PGA tournaments; total money won in Sun Country PGA events; participation in Sun Country PGA tournaments; participation in qualifiers for regional and national PGA tournaments; order of finish in Sun Country PGA stroke play and match play events; and order of finish in the New Mexico Open, Conrad Hilton Open, and Sun Country Classic golf tournaments.
"It means a lot to play in the Taylor Cup Matches, especially after you realize they are a reward for having a good year, at least as far as tournament play is concerned," Moore says. "Also, J.D. Taylor was one of my golfing heroes when I was growing up. I watched him play in many tournaments, and he always conducted himself as a gentleman."
Moore has been the head golf professional at New Mexico Tech for nearly 20 years. He grew up in the Las Vegas, N.M. area, and is graduate of New Mexico Highlands University.

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PowellsWood Storytelling Festival
July 24-25, 2015
PowellsWood: A Northwest Garden plays host to this annual 2-day festival of the art of storytelling.
The first day, internationally-renowned storytellers engage registered guests with workshops designed to turn everyday people into tellers of their own stories. Full-pass participants even get a chance at "Tea With the Tellers" on PowellsWood's fabled Garden Room Terrace.
The second day, it's all telling, all the time, with special secret spots in the 3-acre garden set up with tents featuring storytelling tracks for adults, families, and children.
For complete schedule information, visit powellswoodfestival.com
Phone (253) 529-1620
Price $5 – $20; family and full-festival packages available


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(cross-posted on La Porte County Genealogical Society blog)
In Court In La Porte is an every-name index to the first legal proceedings in La Porte County, Indiana, containing more than 800 distinct surnames. Compiled by Harold Henderson, it indexes every personal, business, and place name mentioned in Complete Record Book A (June 1833 to April 1837), Judgment Docket A (June 1833 to June 1838), and Minute Record A (June 1833 to October 1836). A very limited amount of relevant genealogical information is included, such as when an individual stood bail for someone else's payment or performance of a duty.
This book is a finding aid, not a substitute for the records themselves. The original handwritten books (with handwritten indexes of plaintiffs only) are in the office of the La Porte County Clerk and should be consulted for legal and genealogical information. Also in the clerk's office are microfilms of the "loose papers" for certain cases.
The legal proceedings offer glimpses of many aspects of life on the frontier more than 170 years ago: fights, liquor sales, gambling parties, road building, timber cutting, slander, divorce, death, murder, and – above all – debt and the repayment of debt. These proceedings may also provide unique information on the whereabouts of early settlers who do not appear in census or property records. It is hoped that this index will encourage genealogists to make court records a regular part of their research.
In Court In La Porte: An Every-Name Index to the First Legal Proceedings in La Porte County, Indiana (La Porte: compiler via blurb.com, 2011). 246 pages, soft cover, 5x8. $20, Indiana sales tax included; 25% donated to La Porte County Genealogical Society. Shipping & handling $5 if needed. Available from the compiler at firstname.lastname@example.com, or with slightly different pricing through blurb.com.
A professional writer since 1979 and professional genealogist since 2009, Harold Henderson has published genealogical articles in Indiana, Illinois, Ohio, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, Utah, and the National Genealogical Society Magazine. He maintains a blog, "Midwestern Microhistory." He serves on the boards of the La Porte County Genealogical Society and the Association of Professional Genealogists; moderates the Transitional Genealogists Forum on-line discussion list; and is the Indiana Genealogical Society county genealogist for La Porte.


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Welcome to the Prather Ranch – located under the shadow of the majestic Mt. Shasta in Northern California. Prather Ranch is a sustainable, 30,000-acre cattle, hay and farming operation situated in the pristine region where the air and water are pure. The ranch's reputation has been recognized nationally for its progressive and sustainable ranching philosophy and the establishment of a superior branded beef product.
Prather Ranch is best known for its premium dry-aged natural beef program. The philosophy that drives this operation is "a deep understanding of the importance of low stress cattle handling, responsible stewardship of the land and a desire to provide a stable and satisfying life for those who work on the ranch." This creates a "win-win-win" situation – the cattle live in an ideal environment, the ranch practices ecologically progressive and sustainable farming and ranching methods, and the customers are guaranteed they are receiving the most wholesome, sustainably raised beef available.
One of the most unique aspects of the ranch is its "Closed Herd" status as part of the standard operating procedures for the beef and pharmaceutical/bio-medical device bovine raw material side of the business. The beef is hand-cut in the state-of-the-art USDA federally inspected abattoir located on the ranch. Prather Ranch is committed to the most natural way to raise wholesome beef for customers; the ranch does not administer growth-stimulating hormones or feed antibiotics. The animals are raised on certified organic pastures. No animal sourced proteins are fed to the cattle at the Prather Ranch to ensure a safe and pure product for customers. Computer based detailed records are kept on each individual animal and they are individually tracked through their entire life span.
Of the utmost importance is the certification by Humane Farm Animal Care. This certification ensures low stress cattle handling, provides open pastures and expansive grazing land to reinforce natural animal behaviors. The ranch follows a respectful and humane harvest process to ensure the highest quality of life for the cattle.
Again, welcome! Please take a look at the ranch, the cattle and the people that call Prather Ranch home.


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NM Tech and NM State Sign Agreement on Playas Facility, Jan 27, 2005
by Jack Swickard, 505.317.1077
Right: Dr. Daniel Lopez (left), president of New Mexico Tech, and Dr. Michael Martin, president of New Mexico State University, signing the Memorandum of Agreement at the Office of Homeland Security in Santa Fe on Jan. 31, 2005.
SANTA FE, Jan. 27, 2005 -- Dr. Daniel H. López, president of New Mexico Tech, and Dr. Michael V. Martin, president of New Mexico State University, signed a Memorandum of Agreement (MOA) for the recently opened Playas Research and Training Center on Monday, January 31, at the Governor's Office of Homeland Security in Santa Fe.
Brigadier General Annette Sobel, state director of Homeland Security, hosted the signing ceremony.
Ranking officials from the executive and legislative branches of state government attended the ceremony.
New Mexico Tech opened the Playas Research and Training Center, which is located in the boot heel area of southwest New Mexico, on December 2, 2004. The Center is the site for national homeland security training and research programs.
At Playas, New Mexico State University will focus on agricultural and food supply security.


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Let's begin with a premise on which all civilized people should be able to agree: trafficking in human beings for the purposes of selling sex or forced labor is a disgusting abomination that should be illegal.
Thankfully, there are laws on the books in California and at the federal level that make both things illegal.
Proposition 35 on the November ballot would expand some of the definitions of human trafficking in those California laws and would increase the fines and penalties for engaging in such illegal conduct.
Given the thesis statement above, this should be an easy call. A no-brainer, if you will. After all, who could be against increasing penalties on pimps and human trafficking profiteers? Certainly no one on this editorial board is against that.
The part that gives us pause, however, is that the drafters of the proposition have reached very broadly in their quest to bring these creeps to justice. In so doing, we believe that in two cases they have come dangerously close to overreach.
The first troubling part of the proposition is that the definition of the crime has been expanded so broadly that, according to the Legislative Analyst's Office, it makes duplicating and selling obscene materials depicting minors a form of human trafficking. It is disgusting and wrong, but there are laws on the books against it, and to us it is not the same as human trafficking.
The second troubling aspect of the proposition is that it attempts to limit the defenses that can be used by attorneys representing those charged with human trafficking crimes. That strikes us as being of questionable constitutional merit and will likely be grounds for challenge.
But, as we have said before, in California these days legal challenge to a ballot proposition is nearly a given and voters should not be intimidated or dissuaded by that threat.
Even in light of our stated reservations, we still find ourselves moved to support Prop. 35. The proposition increases the penalties for human trafficking and it severely increases those penalties for repeat offenders.
The penalty for labor trafficking would increase from five years in prison to 12 years in prison. For forcible adult sex trafficking, the penalty would increase from the current five years to 20 years. For forced sex trafficking with a minor the penalty would increase from eight years to a life term.
The proposition also establishes a tough penalty for sex trafficking of minors without the use of force or coercion. Incredibly, there is not now a specific penalty for such action, but this proposition would set the penalty at 12 years. Much like the state's current statutory rape standard, the proposition establishes that it does not matter whether the perpetrator knew that the victim was under 18.
Prop. 35 also requires convicted human sex traffickers, i.e. pimps, to register as sex offenders. We find all of that entirely appropriate.
Human trafficking is morally wrong and is unacceptable in our free society. The people of California should make that clear by voting yes on Proposition 35.


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Right out of school, I wanted to do and be something different. I tried the job route…countless applications to famous marketing/advertising companies…believing that these places would be a haven for creativity, and a place where I could expand my mind. But I never got call or emails. In fact, the whole process made me feel worthless. It made me feel like everything I had worked so hard on my entire life, was not good enough for anyone. In the job world, you put your heart on the line, and people treat you exactly like they view you, an applicant #. The interviews I did go to…I did what had to be done…and it came down to a final decision. Take a job in the city, an incredibly good paying job…cold calling about an IT performance platform…or do something different. "What is your dream."
My dream, and you can find this in part of my About Me section, is to become an American novelist. To write for a living. But not to write about just anything…to write in a way that will inspire people to go after their dreams and fight through any obstacle that may arise on their journey to get there. To incite people to start their journey, even if they have close to no idea on how to get there. To create a community of people who support not only my dreams, but each others. And to take that initial culture…and infect everyone else. Because an idea is infectious. And we will contaminate the rest of everyone else around us with love, with passion, and with a never quitting attitude. Most of all, we will seep integrity…honesty…and the power of dreams.
12 days. 12 days until I take the biggest risk of my life. And it is the biggest risk so far…and it is seeing the realization of a goal…the largest goal I have ever set for myself. When I was 5, I knew I wanted to become a professional baseball player. I spent most of my life training and putting my heart into that, and I just fell short. But when that dream died…a new one was born. To take everything I had ever learned, and write about it in a way that could relate to people and help them accomplish their visions. I wanted to write. I wanted to speak. And I wanted to preach positive words…as a man who is looking to get better and stronger each and every day. Not as an infallible man…but as a human. As someone who is unafraid to tell the truth of his own shortcomings and failures, and as someone who celebrates the light as well as the darkness. But if there was one thing…as a man who authentically stands for others.
This book…is my heart and soul. In fact, there is a lot in there that you haven't seen. A whole world that hasn't been shown. It shows the beginning…when everything was clouded by the emotional tornado I speak of so often. It shows me…down to my core at the time. Right now, you see the result of years of blood, sweat, and tears…but back then…there was just a beginning. A decision to take that first step. That first step into a cave which was shrouded in darkness. There was no light at the end of the tunnel. There was just the lantern I was carrying in my hand. I had no idea what was in store for me, who I would meet and lose along the way, or what I would learn about myself. But the decision to walk into that cave was the best thing that ever happened to me…and I want you to go there with me…and take your own journey.
There is no end to this for me. I have ventured down into a place that I never want to ignore again. There are times when the oil in the lamp becomes low and the light becomes dim…and there are also times that light illuminates the whole room. But it will never end. The day that I can't write anymore…will be the day the journey ends…and that will be the day the light goes out.
So I make a promise…one backed by my word and my entire person. Night or day…I will stand for an idea. That with every ounce of my being, I will live to help people live powerful and impassioned lives. That is why I am here…and that is what I am meant to do. And I need your help. I need you to jump on the train with me…no matter how scared you are or nervous, and we will all do this together. This train is rolling, and in 12 days, the first piece of the track is being traveled. I would love everyone's support, because with your support, the next phase of my life and The Better Man Project is born.
All I can say is thank you,
Evan Sanders
Please Join My Dream https://www.facebook.com/BetterManProject


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Krematorium II (1)
This is a plaster
model of one of the two largest crematoria and gas chambers in the Nazi concentrationary
universe, Krematorium II. It operated from March 31, 1943 to November 27, 1944.
A wartime Allied aerial reconnaissance photo is at [link].
To the left
are the undressing rooms with numbered pegs with hooks on the wall and prisoners
told to remember them after the disinfecting shower.
After evacuation from the gas chamber the bodies were taken
by lift to the crematorium on the first floor.
Both Krematoria II, and III had the capacity to burn 1440 corpses a day.


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Ask MiLB.com: Is Bush OK?
Minor League fans have questions; we've got some answers
By MiLB.com Staff | August 5, 2010 6:00 AM
Have a question? Shoot us an email at email@example.com
Hi, what is Matt Bush's status with Class A Advanced Charlotte? Is it a season-ending injury? Career threatening? Thanks. -- "Mr. Pico"
Matt Bush is currently active and playing on a rehab assignment with the Gulf Coast Rays. He played his first rehab game on July 29, starting and recording two outs against the Twins. Bush was selected first overall by the Padres in the 2004 Draft.
I would like to know who holds the all time MiLB single-season home run record? -- "Petesgren"
Joe Bauman hit 72 home runs in 1954 for Class C Roswell of the defunct Longhorn League.
What does OBP stand for on the stats, and where does it come from? Another question that I have is when a player has 000 on the board for batting average, when and where does the average start? Thanks. -- Mark B.
OBP is the abbreviation for on-base percentage, which calculates how often a batter reaches base (by hit, walk or hit-by-pitch). If a batter's average is .000, it means he has not recorded any hits so far. Once he gets a hit, his average will increase accordingly.
Is there a complete listing of games available on MiLB.TV? My son was recently promoted from Rancho Cucamonga to the Arkansas Travelers. I can't seem to find any listings for either league. We would like to buy a subscription, but it seems unlikely that he will be promoted to Triple-A this year. Thanks in advance. --John G.
Is there a reason why not all the Triple-A games are not on MiLB.TV? -- Jeremy S.
Not all teams participate in MiLB.TV. Click on "View Calendar" on the MiLB.TV page and select any date(s) you'd like to see scheduled broadcasts. It's $6.95 a month, and you can watch archived games on-demand as well. Good luck to your son, John!
I'm a big fan of Minor League Baseball. To me, It's the "real baseball." They work hard for a chance to make it to the Majors, and they are loyal to their fans. You feel like you are part of the team. My question is, can you send items to the Minor League stadiums and have the ballplayers sign the item? When I visit the ballpark and I ask someone in the office this question, no one seems to have an answer. I like to get players autographs before they make the "Big League." -- Gary S.
Not sure there is a yes or no answer to that question -- if a team's front office receives a request like that, it's their decision whether to deliver the item to the player(s). Most team staff members love to make connections with fans, though, so you might want address it to one person specifically and see if they'll help you out, ask them to pass it on to the clubhouse manager. Good luck!
If I sign up for the MiLB.TV starting today, how long will a one-month subscription last? -- Bill M.
I want to order one month only of MiLB.TV. How do I cancel the subscription if I don't want it to go through October? Also, is one month 30 days or is it just until the end of July? --"Deblyn"
For all MiLB.TV subscription questions, please send an e-mail to firstname.lastname@example.com or call 1-866-644-2687.
While there have already been a number of no-hitters thrown in the Minors system this season, Reynosa's Azael Alvarez tossed the only no-no during the regular season in the Mexican League. Saltillo's Hector Daniel Rodriguez made it two [on July 25] by blanking Mexico City Red Devils, 7-0, in a game the defending champions had to win to hold off elimination in the first round of the LMB playoffs. I wonder why MiLB.com's not mentioning anything about this great achievement at its central site. Best regards! -- Alejandro A.
You're right, there have been a lot of no-hitters this year, both in the Minors and the Majors. We don't really have the manpower or resources, especially with the language barrier, to provide daily editorial coverage of the Mexican League. We do, though, have a Mexican League site dedicated to those teams, stats for all players and live Gameday box scores for all LMB games. We've tried to aim the chunk of MiLB.com's editorial coverage to what the largest amount of baseball fans might be interested in: top Major League prospects, Draft picks, unique club promotions and interesting news. Also, Mexican Leaguers are not affiliated with Major League organizations.
I would like to purchase Oaxaca Guerreros merchandise, and I cannot find any shopping links on the site. -- Pat M.
The team sells apparel from their website.
I have bookmarked about 10 players on the MiLB site but I have no idea how to access all my bookmarked players on one page. --Jason C.
There's a "Player Bookmarks" link on the bottom right corner of the MiLB.com homepage.
Sorry to anyone who got a weird message from me with a link attached. Someone must have hacked my e-mail and sent messages to many of you in my address book! --Megan E.
It's OK -- we still like you.
I am curious what it means when I see the "Short Season" notation next to the team name. Also, how can I find out what the abbreviations mean at the tops of columns on the "stats" page? I know some, but I am baffled by others. I appreciate your help. -- Andy L.
"Short-Season" teams are part of leagues that begin play in mid-June following the First-Year Player Draft, like the New York-Penn, Appalachian, Pioneer and Northwest Leagues, to name a few. These leagues are geared toward younger players and recent Draft picks making their debuts. Let us know which stat categories you're unfamiliar with.
My grandson is playing on the Kingsport Mets, and I very much want to listen to the game. I need to know how to follow his progress. Please give me some direction. --Pat D.
The K-Mets currently do not offer home radio broadcasts, but you can follow along when they're on the road -- check out free Gameday Audio.
I was interested in receiving information about the MiLB. I wanted to know if there is an open tryout schedule that you may be able to provide me. -- Craig R.
We covered the topic of tryouts previously, including a tryout schedule. take a look and best of luck!
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Please join me in congratulating our winners of our Stella Says Sketch Challenge #216 Challenge!
Again some awesome projects!
Thanks so much for playing along!
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Thanks again for playing along I hope to see you again very soon!
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The Reluctant Fundamentalist
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Student demonstrations are raging in Lahore, as young Pakistani professor Changez Khan and a journalist, Bobby Lincoln, share a cup of tea and conversation. Princeton-educated Changez tells Lincoln of his past as a brilliant business analyst on Wall Street. He talks of the glittering future that lay before him and the beautiful and sophisticated Erica whom he was set to share that future with. But then 9/11 changes everything. Attitudes shift dramatically - his very name and face rendering him suspect. Returning to his homeland and the family to whom he is very close, he takes up a post as lecturer at the local university, a hotbed of radicalism and the new militant academia. The collegial pretense of the meeting in a Lahore teahouse, between Lincoln and Changez, slowly gives way to why the unlikely pair has gathered on a summer day --- another professor has been kidnapped by extremists, and the clock is ticking toward a deadline for his execution. Changez's family is being harassed and is in real danger. Bobby is there to listen, with an agenda of his own. As it is revealed that Lincoln is in the lions' den with the CIA, we also learn that he has a personal stake in the immediate crisis at hand. Taking us through the culturally rich and beguiling worlds of New York, Lahore and Istanbul The Reluctant Fundamentalist is an exploration of prejudice and the phenomenon of globalization that is both exhilirating and deeply unsettling.


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Overview:Hitachi delivers its highest-performing Hard Drive with the introduction of the Ultrastar 15K300. With average seek times as fast as 3.7 ms average latency of 2 ms and as much as 33 percent more in I/Os per second enterprise customers can access their data more quickly and efficiently. These performance characteristics of the Ultrastar 15K300 make it the ideal solution for mission-critical enterprise computing environments like online transaction processing data analysis and other multi-user applications.


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The Home of the Next Decade: Interconnected Displays Everywhere
My favorite thing about this future-forward view into the next 5-10 years according to Microsoft is the technology to accomplish the vision is already available (but just awaiting for costs to drop and execution to be refined): large touch displays, voice control, bump to transfer data, device to device networking, object identification by camera.I especially noted the possibility of being able to hold up an item for identification, in this case a red pepper, and be provided information of what it is and how to use it (home cooks are probably salivating at the idea of this future coming to fruition). But I wonder if an entire home of screen displays everywhere is what we really need, considering our lives are increasingly becoming more focused upon what's on a display, rather than what is sometimes right there in front of us.
(Images/video: Microsoft)
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National Institute of Speech & Hearing
Accredited as Excellent Institution by RCI | ISO 9001:2015 Certified | Accredited by NAAC with A Grade
Counseling is provision of assistance and guidance in resolving personal, social, or psychological problems to children with disabilities and their family members. It is professional guidance of the individual by utilizing their maximum abilities.
Counseling denotes a professional relationship between a trained counselor and a client. This relationship is usually person-to-person, although it may sometimes involve more than two people. It is designed to help clients to understand and clarify their views of their life space, and to learn to reach their self-determined goals through meaningful, well-informed choices and through resolution of problems of an emotional or interpersonal nature.


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This is in the "Stupid Hate Crime" category, via Michelle Malkin:
Police said a 22-year-old man was charged with filing a false report about a hate crime.
Floyd Elliott, of Independence, told police that on Dec. 14, two subjects attacked him in the parking lot of his apartment complex. He said the attackers cut him in the stomach, branded him with a hot knife, and attempted to carve the word "Fag" on his forehead.
Investigators were suspicious about the report because the head carving was backwards, as if done while looking into a mirror.
Later, Elliott admitted to police that the injuries were self-inflicted. He said he falsely reported the attack to increase the police presence in his neighborhood.


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Adjunct Faculty - Social Work
Aurora University is an independent, comprehensive institution founded in 1893 offering bachelor's, master's, and doctoral degrees. Our two campuses are located in Aurora, Illinois and on the shores of Geneva Lake in Wisconsin. Additionally, we have an Educational Center in Woodstock, Illinois. We seek people passionately involved in the educational process who will help us realize our vision.
The School of Social Work is seeking qualified adjunct instructors to teach in both the BSW and MSW programs. Qualified individuals must possess an MSW from a CSWE accredited program. The areas of teaching are Generalist and Advanced Practice, Human Development and Social Policy courses for our undergraduate and graduate programs.
Please email resume or curriculum vitae, plus cover letter stating the specific areas you are interested in teaching to:
Aurora University is an Equal Opportunity Employer.


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Cobey Potter
Excellent article. I have been using the attribute selectors rather extensively in the last few projects we've been doing and have extolled around DC a bit about their awesome power (mini-REGEX).
Glad to see you did a speed test as well and came to some good conclusions.
One thing people should be aware of is when you write:
[class*="pod"] it will choose both .pod-heading as well as .podium. Basically, you need to be pretty sharp on your naming conventions. To combat this, I've started namespacing using something like: [class*="pod—"] (two dashes) to ensure it only picks up the right namespace.
Thanks for the article!


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Iceland's Financial Crisis
Description: On November 19, 2008, Iceland and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) finalized an agreement on a $6 billion economic stabilization program supported by a $2.1 billion loan from the IMF. Iceland's banking system had collapsed as a culmination of a series of decisions the banks made that left them highly exposed to disruptions in financial markets. The collapse of the banks also raises questions for U.S. leaders and others about supervising banks that operate across national borders, especially as it becomes increasingly difficult to distinguish the limits of domestic financial markets.
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So I've been an atheist for about six years now and it's only in the few weeks or so that I've come to realize how badly Christianity screwed me up in the relationship department. My husband was very polyamorous before we met, but went monogomous for me when we started our relationship. I know that sounds bad, but he's told me that he knew what he was getting into and was ok with it. That was in the last few weeks when I came to a better realization of where I was in the mental health department. Honestly, I never thought I was screwed up until recently. I, on the other hand, didn't know any other way than monogomy and had bought into the brainwashing that if you husband sleeps with other people, he doesn't love you anymore. Hell, I was told if he goes to a strip joint he doesn't love you anymore. Anyway, I had some mental health wrenching experiences regarding sex before I met my husband that made and continued to make my hang ups and insecurities that much worse. I no longer think this is healthy. I no longer think that my husband bringing up polyamory was him just trying to get more tail on the side. But I was so indoctrinated with the idea that sleeping with or having intimate emotional relationships with people other than him (or by him with people other than me) would permanently wreck our relationship, I am having a damnably hard time undoing this mindset. So I have some questions for the actively polyamorous community.
1. If you have a relationship with someone other than your spouse and it fullfills your emotional and physical needs, does that devalue your relationship with your spouse since you don't "need" them now, you can just go over to this other relationship and have needs met.
2. Is there any literature that would help to heal my brain in this department?
I am somewhat curious, and I think this is something I may very well try in the future, but I am scared to death (a red flag in and of itself) that I will have a reaction of overwelming jealousy even though I have no desire to react that way. I am completely ignorant of how to handle the jealousy dimension at this point. Is it based in some realistic need that I perceive as not being met? Is it just fear of losing my husband to a relationship with someone else? That second question doesn't sound right to me. I feel as if by the nature of polyamory, having a relationship with someone else doesn't nullify his relationship with me. So what am I scared of? I'm not even sure at this point. This is all very new to me as far as being a viable option and I don't want to rush into something I'm not ready for and I love my husband to death and don't want to do something I'm going to regret. Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
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I'm probably not the best person to reply here, but, your photo looks like a Tuscaloosa "A", so I'm going for it:) I've only been on the ethical non-monogamy trail for a couple of years, and it's been a slow and, I would say, spiritual process with many difficult realizations and conversations. I'm having an easier time of it than my wife, however, and realizing that we all have our own ways of dealing with emotions as deeply-seeded within us as jealousy, and one way is often to simply not deal with it (which isn't always bad, though you do eventually have to deal with it at some level).
What I've come to believe (or realize that I probably have always believed) is that love is not a two-way street, it's a complex of interconnecting highways. The more we love, the more we can love, the struggle is always in the logistics. Sometimes we love someone quickly and painlessly, one night, fun, dancing, drunk perhaps and that's it, a nice memory and sometimes we find that we can't live without another person in our lives for a long time. A beautiful day for me was when I realized that I still loved all of my Xes, and that they are important to me, though, I told a few of them and that was a little awkward:)
Monogamy is a false promise at best if taken the way our society tells us to take it, that is, "we enter into a relationship with someone who completes us." I think that we as individuals are the only ones who complete us, and that there are many people in our lives who reflect the beauty of our own completion from themselves back to us, and these are the people that we are drawn. To tell ourselves that there is only one of those people is to deny that we are in love with ourselves first, and that fucks the whole system. And, if you want to mine back into your Christian upbringing, this notion is biblical, as Jesus was the biggest egomaniac to ever live, and with positive result, look at all the people who surrounded him with love:)
Jenny Block's book "Open" is a delightful and quick read, published two years ago. I've read a couple of others and you can surf the web for some. There are some great links to other websites on this website that are helpful too.
Happy surfing! And, as Woody Allen hears in "Manhattan," "relax, the worst that can happen is that you'll learn something about yourself."
I think that much jealousy is insecurity, fear of losing what you have or not getting what you feel is your due. You fear your husband won't need you anymore. But I think The Nerd hit the nail on the head with the replacement of "need" with "want" in the equation.
I think you point with clarity to the major questions involved not only in ethical non-monogamy, but at some point, in life.
monogamy can be a possessive thing, as can almost anything. I've been married 14 years and we are in the midst of trying to figure out how to be there for one another without either being possessive or, perhaps worse, being in one another's way when we need to grow. It's all quite tricky though, b/c we are humans and social creatures and we have a risk/rewards way of approaching life.
And certainly there are times when we need/want one another and the other isn't there. That happens without other partners involved (e.g. the other night, I was in one frame of mind and she the other and we couldn't be together, neither was there for the other. To me, that's as strong a condition as had one of us been out with someone else).
To me, the vulnerability is always worth the return. Putting myself into a situation where I don't know the outcome is something I try to do every day, as a philosophy. Why, then, would I not risk the things most important to me for the potential gain that they may prove all the more rewarding for having been open to what else they can be? Change occurs daily, and you and your husband are not the same people you were 5 years ago and won't be yet 5 days from now. The question, I guess, that one must ask themselves is whether you are more interested in having certain lines of stability that, regardless of other desires, you uphold, or whether you are interested in exploring potential other desires with the understanding that you are committed primarily to someone who will be your confidant through that vulnerability.
Ultimately, though, whatever you choose to engage in, you should feel good about it. Life isn't easy no matter how you slice it, so you may as well feel like you know where a few of your footsteps are going to land.
Good luck!
Great post and questions. First, your husband loves you a hell of a lot if he was poly before you met and still wanted to commit to him. At the same time, once poly, probably always poly. He probably has a strong desire for other relationships and there is nothing wrong with that if the two of you manage it together. Read my book Sex and God to get some perspective, but also read Tristan Taromino's book, Opening Up. Both will give you a new grounding. Working through this will leave you stronger and more mentally healthy and he will be more satisfied. I have been poly for 13 years after trying monogamy through two marriages for a total of 24 year. Poly has been the most llberating thing I have done, with the exception of declaring my atheism. My significant other is poly herself and I dare say, she would not stay with me if I tried to "tie her down" to monogamy. There is nothing wrong with monogamy, but it is NOT what most people practice in reality. Anyone who has divorced and remarried is not monogamous by the main definition - one mate for life.. By the religious definition, it is one sex partner for life. Both are totally unreasonable expectations. Men and women like variety. You would not eat nothing but carrots every meal, why would you want the same sex for a lifetime. It is good to see you asking these questions. I hope you find the answers and build an even better relationship with your husband. I will say that the reason I love my SO so much, is that she does not try to lock me into an exclusive relationship. We communicate and let each other know what is going on, but no one tries to impede or control the other. We have been together 6 years and I don't know why we could not be for the rest of our lives. It is a wonderful way to love and be loved. To love is to let go. If they stay, it is love, if they leave, wish them the best but don't try to coerce, that always backfires. Keep up the good work.
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Looking to get some tennis in N St Pete maybe Northwest Rec,,,3 to 3.5. during the week Tues & Thur 6- 8pm. New to the area 954-234-9554. (Largo/ Pinellas park/N St Pete)
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Sometimes it takes contacting other players directly. I know in the beginning it takes some effort. But there's nothing like having 3 or 4 regular hitting partners. Good Luck!
Actually met up yesterday evening with someone from here @ NW and it worked out for both us...need to get my rust off. Thanks Justin for your follow up!
Elvin, how about 7pm northwest rec...i am 3.0...let me know thomas. 561-674-6896
i will be meeting up with Chris who we met on this site last week around 8pm at NW today...if you wanted to meet up a lil earlier 7:15pm that way we can maybe mixed up occasionally?
i could be there by 7pm...good idea to mix up...lets do it?
Okay should be there around 7pm will text you.
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Sunday, January 6, 2008
"Grow up, Mom"...
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- Mommy to those Special Ks said...
So this is what I have to look forward to... thanks for the warning! LOL
- January 6, 2008 at 8:23 PM
- Christina said...
LOL...My friend Renee(Mommy to those Special K's) showed me this post...I LOVE this post!!!! I look forward to checking out the rest of your blog!
- January 6, 2008 at 8:27 PM
- Deb in OPKS said...
Oh, in my house that is just ASKING to be harrassed with these taboo words! My oldest is starting to give me the snub in public. Can't hold her hand anymore :(
- January 6, 2008 at 8:38 PM
- Dawn said...
LOL! Oh I would SO be calling after them, as I drop them off to school tomorrow, "Buh-bye Sweetie-pie! Come here and give Mommy a kiss! Muah muah muah! :)
- January 6, 2008 at 9:12 PM
- Just-Me-Jen said...
LOL- boy, those kids are harsh!
Although, scary as it is, it really is time to think about having "the talk" with your son... You'd be horrified to know just what some of the middle schoolers I work with already know, or don't know, and are doing!
- January 7, 2008 at 4:19 AM
- Tracy said...
I couldn't agree with you more here. I was just thinking this the other day when I asked Caroline if she needed help tying her shoes. She rolled her eyes at me and said "Moooommmmmm, I just turned eight. I think I can handle it from now on. And besides, I think I'm too old to have my Mommy tie my shoes."
Well excuse me missy. I didn't get the frippin memo!
- January 7, 2008 at 8:15 AM
- Tracy said...
I couldn't agree with you more here. I was just thinking this the other day when I asked Caroline if she needed help tying her shoes. She rolled her eyes at me and said "Moooommmmmm, I just turned eight. I think I can handle it from now on. And besides, I think I'm too old to have my Mommy tie my shoes."
Well excuse me missy. I didn't get the frippin memo!
- January 7, 2008 at 8:15 AM
- Tracey said...
Bwaaahaaaa!!! I am laughing with you, my friend, for I see my future and it ain't pretty... I still have a 2 yr and 5 yr old so I am allowed to use SOME baby words, right?
And have the talk with your son. Better now than later. I know that you probably hate that, but I am of the thinking that sex is ONE issue where they need information BEFORE they have questions...
- January 7, 2008 at 8:43 AM
- Grandmother Goddess of the Garden said...
What I'm wondering was did the two of them get together and set the rules for you, or did it just sort of evolve out of something that was happening? Only one of my three went through that and it lasted about a week...she's 25 now and very much her mamas girl! Just stick out your tongue and tell them you can do what you want 'cause you're the mommy! Followed by a big hug. At least you have the baby to cuddle!
- January 7, 2008 at 9:00 AM
- Melek said...
how old are they?
- January 7, 2008 at 9:56 AM
- Shellie said...
Oh, it happens so fast and there is MORE TO COME! Ignorance is bliss so I won't tell you more.
- January 7, 2008 at 10:38 AM
- nickernoodle said...
That is so funny! I haven't reached that stage yet. My daughter still gives me a kiss goodbye in front of her friends before school and Cooper still loves to "nuggle" with me before bed. They are just 7 and 3 but soon they will be too cool for me.
- January 7, 2008 at 11:14 AM
- Patty said...
ROFLMAO because we have had this happen at our house, and then a few months later I found out I was pregnant with my now 3 year old, and I have been allowed to revert.
- January 7, 2008 at 1:46 PM
- cyn said...
This (much too close to home) post was written in such a fun way. Thanks for sharing. My kids have not shared all of this...yet. I know it is around the corner. And I dread it.
- January 7, 2008 at 2:56 PM
- Heather said...
Oh my gosh....Priceless! Here's how our conversation on the way to "big boy" school i.e.Mother's Day Out! We're at a stop light. Luke: Mommy Go. Me: Can't Luke the car's in front of me are stopped. See their red lights on the back shining? Luke: Go Red car, please! Car's start to move forward, as do I. Luke: Thank You car, thank you SO much. You're a good listener, good job! I laughed so hard. I guess he hears that often, go figure! Aren't kids just hilarious? I love the fact that you're are being so PC.
- January 7, 2008 at 9:52 PM
- realworldmartha said...
I have an 11 and 6 year old so I can relate. How can something be so cute and not at the same time?
Debbie aka The Real World Martha
- January 8, 2008 at 1:20 PM
- Pam said...
Oh the joy yet to come for me! Already? at 9 and 10? oh my! you deserve a drink!
- January 8, 2008 at 5:11 PM
- Zoe said...
apparently age 6 is the age of emancipation here at the love shack. i was told monday i am NOT to kiss him goodbye, or hold his hand or touch him at all when dropping him off at school. he also wants to look for a job and a wife...but they plan to live with me. great.
- January 8, 2008 at 7:11 PM


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Romney spoke to workers at Jet Machine in Cincinnati as he tried to woo the last of the undecided voters before the Nov. 6 balloting. Romney hit familiar themes: repealing the Affordable Care Act, jobs and the budget deficit as he picked up endorsements from The Wall Street Journal and The Detroit News.
Romney attended a rally at Defiance High School in Defiance with country music singers John Rich and Randy Owen.
"We're going to finally tackle the problems politicians have spoken about for years but haven't been willing to deal with. We're going to finally get America strong again with an economy to compete with anyone in the world," Romney said in an appearance at Worthington Industries in Worthington, Ohio. "We're going to help America get good jobs and rising take-home pay."
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text: For 10 years, NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope has been helping scientists on Earth learn more about the mysterious objects hiding in our star-studded skies. On August 25, 2003, the telescope -- carrying a relatively small, 0.85-meter beryllium mirror -- launched from Cape Canaveral, FL. Since then, it's been trailing the Earth on its orbit around the sun, like NASA's Kepler spacecraft. Spitzer stares at the heavens in infrared wavelengths, revealing the cold, distant, and dusty realms of the universe, normally invisible to eyes on Earth. In this gallery, ribbons of dust wind around massive stars, the cavities carved by hot, young stars open up like bottomless caverns, and the spiraling tendrils of a distant galaxy glisten behind a foreground nebula. Spitzer's first years in operation were spent studying the sky in the longest infrared wavelengths, a task that required cooling the instruments to within a few degrees of absolute zero. When the liquid helium coolant ran out -- long after the mission's minimal 2.5-year duration -- the telescope switched to a "warm" phase, where it studies objects nearer the Earth at shorter wavelength. During its time in space, Spitzer has seen, for the first time, an exoplanet's glimmering light, discovered the largest ring around Saturn, and stared at the center of the Milky Way. Instead of celebrating with a traditional 10-year anniversary gift of tin or aluminum (because let's face it, that's lame), we thought we'd share some of the extraordinary images produced by this telescope. We thought we'd pick one for each year, but it was impossibly hard to choose from among the many transfixing spacescapes crossing our screens. So, after much agonizing, we finally picked these 16 beauties. Above: Helix Nebula What looks like an even more terrifying version of the Eye of Sauron is actually the Helix Nebula, about 700 light-years away in the constellation Aquarius. Here, the white dwarf star (visible in the very center), is the dead remnant of what was once a star like the sun. The bright red glow immediately around it is probably the dust kicked up by colliding comets that survived the death of their stellar host. Image: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Univ.of Ariz.Fiery Space Flower What looks like a flaming peony is actually the Large Magellanic Cloud, one of the Milky Way's satellite dwarf galaxies, located about 163,000 light-years from Earth. The fiery ribbons in the image are giant ripples of dust spanning many light-years, and wrap around several centers of active star formation. This image is a composite of observations from the European Space Agency's Herschel Space Observatory and Spitzer. Image: ESA/NASA/JPL-Caltech/STScISombrero Galaxy What appears to be one gorgeous galaxy is actually two: A thin disk galaxy (in red), embedded within a large elliptical galaxy (in blue), about 28 million light-years away in the constellation Virgo. Infrared images from Spitzer revealed the Sombrero galaxy's hidden double nature; previously, astronomers thought it was just a flat and lonely disk galaxy. Image: NASA/JPL-CaltechNewborn Stars Newborn stars peer out from beneath a blanket of dust in the Rho Ophiuchi dark cloud, located near the constellations Scorpius and Ophiuchus, about 407 light-years away from Earth. Image and Caption: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Harvard-Smithsonian CfATycho's Supernova Remnant What looks like a cell floating in a starry petri dish is the remnant of a supernova that exploded in 1572, and was witnessed by Danish astronomer Tycho Brahe (who not only had a gold-and-silver replacement nose, but a pet elk who liked to drink beer). This image is a composite of data from the Chandra X-Ray Observatory and Spitzer. Image and Caption: MPIA/NASAThe Wing of the Small Magellanic Cloud We love this image because it looks as though a cosmic pair of T. rex jaws are about to gobble up some unsuspecting young stars. In reality, this is a region known as the "Wing" of the Small Magellanic Cloud, one of the Milky Way's satellite dwarf galaxies. Here, Chandra X-Ray Observatory data are in purple, optical data from the Hubble Space Telescope are shown in red, green and blue, and infrared data from the Spitzer Space Telescope are shown in red. Image: X-ray: NASA/CXC/Univ.Potsdam/L.Oskinova et al; Optical: NASA/STScI; Infrared: NASA/JPL-CaltechM81 Messier 81, a relatively nearby galaxy that's just 12 million light-years distant, is a gorgeous spiral located the northern sky, in Ursa Major. Image: NASA/JPL-Caltech/S. Willner (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics)Milky Way The plane of the Milky Way glows in multiple colors as Spitzer stares straight into the heart of our galaxy. The bright, central star cluster looks like a ball of flaming beads and dominates the image, which spans 2,400 light-years. Image: NASA/JPL-CaltechSculptor Galaxy The Sculptor Galaxy, 11.4 million light-years away, is seen in these three Spitzer images. The largest is a composite of the two smaller images, each observed during Spitzer's early "cold" mission. Visible in the southern sky, the galaxy is known as a starburst galaxy because its nucleus contains a region of profuse star formation. Image: NASA/JPL-CaltechZeta Ophiuchi A giant star zooming through space at 54,000 miles per hour creates a bowshock, ripples that are the result of billowing stellar winds colliding with the dust ahead of it. About 370 light-years away, Zeta Ophiuchi is 80,000 times brighter than the sun; it would be one of the brightest stars in the sky, but it's invisible from Earth, obscured by dust and clouds. Image: NASA/JPL-CaltechGlobular Cluster Glittering like a cosmic gemstone, this globular cluster, called Omega Centauri, hovers in the southern sky nearly 17,000 light-years from Earth. Globular clusters are among the oldest objects in the universe and contain millions of stars. Image: NASA/JPL-Caltech/M.Boyer (University of Minnesota)Orion A colony of hot, young stars lives in the Orion nebula, about 1,450-light years from Earth. This image was captured shortly after Spitzer's warm mission phase began. Image and caption: NASA/JPL-Caltech/J. Stauffer (SSC/Caltech)Coiled Galaxy This is a galaxy coiled like a two-tailed snake surrounding a giant eye (which is really a supermassive black hole ringed by a bunch of risk-taking stars). It's also known as NGC 1097, and lives 50 million light-years away in the constellation Fornax. On the left, the glowing blue dot is a companion that appears to be wedged between the snake's tails like an extragalactic egg. Image and caption: NASA/JPL-Caltech/The SINGS Team (SSC/Caltech)Bright Superbubble Massive stars grow quickly and die young, exploding in radiant supernovae. A large cluster of these hot, young stars will generate stellar winds and shock waves that carve superbubbles into the fabric of their nurseries, like the ones seen here, about 160,000 light-years away in NGC 1929. Image and caption: X-ray: NASA/CXC/U.Mich./S.Oey, IR: NASA/JPL, Optical: ESO/WFI/2.2-mGalactic Merger The cores of two merging galaxies form what appear to be giant blue eyes, peering out from behind a swirling red mask. Galaxies NGC 2207 and IC 2163, located about 140 million light-years from Earth, began merging relatively recently -- about 40 million years ago. Eventually, the pair will form a giant cycloptic eye. Image: NASA, ESA/JPL-Caltech/STScI/D. Elmegreen (Vassar)Eta Carinae Eta Carinae is a relatively nearby star, 10,000 light-years away, that is 100 times more massive than the sun. The star is blindingly bright, and blows violent amounts of energy into the dust around it. The Eta Carinae nebula normally looks like a dumbbell -- except in the infrared, where the effects of the whipping stellar winds are evident in the ragged and beaten-up clouds around the star. Image and caption: NASA/JPL-Caltech


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Slight to Moderate Risk of Severe Weather Today [UPDATE 4:00 a.m.]
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The National Weather Service has issued a significant weather advisory in effect until 4:30 a.m. for Smith, Franklin, Titus, Wood and Camp Counties. Mothball size hail and winds in excess of 35 to 40 mph are expected with these storms.
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A stronger line of storms will move through tomorrow (Tuesday) morning around 7 a.m. and will bring the greatest threat for wind damage and tornadoes. Golfball to baseball size hail is also possible with these storms.
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The National Weather Service is putting all of East Texas under a slight risk for severe weather today. The northwest half of East Texas is under a moderate risk. The main threat will be heavy rainfall, lightning, hail, and strong winds along with the threat of tornadoes. There is the possibility of upwards of 4" to 6" of rain between now and tomorrow across a good portion of East Texas. A flash flood watch has been issued for the northern portions of East Texas. The southern counties are expected to be added to the watch later today.
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SCARBOROUGH — Stephen C. Mitton, a former Scarborough and Cape Elizabeth school bus driver, faces a March 14 court date in Cumberland County Unified Criminal Docket in Portland on charges of sex crimes against a minor.
Police said Mitton, 47, of 665 Saco St., Westbrook, was charged with Class B sexual exploitation of a minor and Class D unlawful touching as a result of an ongoing investigation. He turned himself into Westbrook police Tuesday without incident.
Before turning himself in, Mitton tendered his resignation as a Scarborough school bus driver, Scarborough School Superintendent George Entwistle III said.
Entwistle said his knowledge of the allegations against Mitton show no Scarborough students were involved, and background checks made recently and when he was hired show clear criminal and driving records.
"There are no complaints pending or otherwise about Mitton," Entwistle said. "There is no cause for concern related to his connection of employment in Scarborough."
According to the Scarborough School Department website, Mitton drove bus #31, although there is no listing of any specific route he drove or schools he served. Entwistle said Mitton gave his resignation at the transportation department.
Before he was hired in Scarborough, Mitton was a temporary bus driver for the Cape Elizabeth School Department, Superintendent Meredith Nadeau said. Mitton drove buses from February through June 2011, and also on race days for the TD Bank Beach to Beacon 10K in 2011 and 2012.
Entwistle said the Scarborough School Department did not plan on sending letters to parents regarding Mitton's arrest. Nadeau said Wednesday she had not decided what steps her department might take.
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Michele Levesque, 42, of Sedgwick, asked her 4-year-old son, Jasper, who his favorite teacher is.
"All of them," he replied.
Jasper attends the Peninsula Early Care & Education Center in the Hancock County town of Sedgwick. The educators at the Head Start center are teaching him the alphabet, how to write, what a calendar is, how to interact with other children and many other things.
"I think the program is wonderful. I totally appreciate that we have access to the program," said Levesque, who is a local school board member. She and her husband run the Mexican restaurant El El Frijoles in Sargentville. The quality child care service (it received the state's top rating) allows her time to work and is giving her son a jump on kindergarten, she said.
But despite the fact that it's the only program of its kind on the peninsula — it's open from 7:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m., five days per week, year-round — it was one of many centers that had to absorb funding cuts when the Maine Legislature voted last spring to reduce by half the state's contribution toward Head Start. Though a majority of funding comes from the federal government, the state cuts mean the Sedgwick program will close during the summer months.
Levesque said she believes the disruption in services will end up costing more in the long run, in part because children will have to relearn what they were previously taught. Also, summer is when parents need child care the most, particularly on the peninsula when residents are working multiple jobs and longer hours to try to earn as much as possible before winter comes again.
She will find other child care services, and her mother will likely watch Jasper a lot, she said, but she knows the options for Maine's youngest could be much better.
If Maine and the country want a first-class workforce, they must make sure children enter kindergarten ready to learn. Otherwise achievement gaps only widen over time. The Nobel-prize-winning economist James Heckman, for example, has shown that dollars spent on quality early childhood education result in a 7-percent to 10-percent return on investment when program participants start contributing to the economy. The best programs don't just focus on academics. They emphasize nutrition, emotional development and family involvement.
Yet where has Maine cut funding? From its children — especially those who most need the services.
Child and Family Opportunities oversees 11 centers for Early Head Start and Head Start in Washington and Hancock counties, serving about 350 children each day. Because of the Legislature-approved cuts, the agency's state funding was reduced 82 percent: from $393,000 in 2011-12 to $71,000 in 2012-13, according to executive director Doug Orville.
Orville opted not to eliminate an entire Head Start center but decided rather to close classrooms at centers in Bucksport and Ellsworth, lay off some of the staff there and turn the Sedgwick center into a part-year program.
Both Orville and Don Buckingham decry the fact that early education isn't prioritized more. Buckingham is both the principal and 7th and 8th grade math teacher of Sedgwick Elementary School, out of which the Head Start program operates. He has seen the program's results. Children who have gone through two years of preschool are better able to follow directions, listen and learn, he said.
The center started in the first place because the local community recognized the need. About five years ago, St. Francis by the Sea Episcopal Church, in Blue Hill, decided to devote some of the capital campaign funds it had raised to enlarge the church to focus on early childhood needs. Child and Family Opportunities, Sedgwick Elementary School, the school board and selectmen all agreed they would welcome a program devoted to their youngest, said Pam Siewers, of Sedgwick, who is a senior warden at St. Francis.
So the Peninsula Early Care & Education Center was born. It has provided services to more than 70 children from Blue Hill, Brooklin, Brooksville, Penobscot, Sedgwick, Sargentville, Harborside, Deer Isle, Ellsworth and Bucksport.
For many reasons, it is the type of program that should be expanded, not cut.
We all have such hope for newborns and recognize their great potential. Then over time it becomes harder and harder for children, especially those who live in poverty, to have a fair shot. Expanding early childhood education isn't going to solve all of Maine's economic problems, but, if done responsibly, it will certainly help. And it will do right by some of the little ones we care about the most.


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In Memory of Akbar Mohammadi, Student Leader, Pro-Democracy Activist and a True National Heropublished on Friday, July 30, 2010
Four years ago today, Akbar Mohammadi, a well known student leader died under very suspicious circumstances in the notorious Evin Prison. Mr. Mohammadi had been arrested during the July 9th 1999 pro-democracy student demonstrations that shook Iran and struck fear in the heart of the Islamic Regime.
Mr. Mohammadi was charged with being one of leaders of the July 9th student uprising and was originally sentenced to death, however under international pressure his sentence was reduced to 15 years.
Unfortunately I never had the opportunity to meet Akbar Mohammadi personally or speak to him; however I followed his work very closely. I've always considered him a true hero, because he remained defiant against the Regime even under the most brutal circumstances. I had the pleasure of reading his memoir where he described not giving in to the Regime and their requests, even though he knew he would face immediate torture and flogging.
Akbar Mohammadi remained defiant throughout the seven years he spent in the Islamic Regime prisons, standing up for his own rights, rights of other political prisoners and the rights of the Iranian people. In July of 2006 he went on a hunger strike and died under very suspicious circumstances. Many including myself believe that he was murdered by the Regime while in prison, because he refused to cooperate with them.
Today while many other prominent "student activists" who were arrested with him are free, living in Los Angeles of Washington and working with VOA, Akbar Mohammadi is gone… His memory however remains with us as someone who fought for what he believed in, and did not falter even in the face of intolerable hardships.
In his memory and the memory of thousands of other freedom fighters who have lost their lives for a free and democratic Iran.
Down with the Islamic Regime in Iran
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As the College celebrates its 175th anniversary, the Mount Holyoke Board of Trustees has voted for the second year in a row to not raise charges for tuition, room and board for the 2013-2014 academic year, effectively holding those costs to 2011-2012 rates.
Last year's tuition freeze was the College's first since 1968. This year's decision to maintain the same rates reflects MHC's commitment to contain the cost of a college education, coupled with the belief that the current higher education model of increasing tuition in excess of inflation is unsustainable.
"Mount Holyoke remains committed to attracting and supporting academically talented students from all socioeconomic backgrounds in the United States and around the world," said President Lynn Pasquerella. "Many colleges make that commitment; Mount Holyoke continues to lead the way."
In the past, Mount Holyoke, along with other colleges, increased tuition, room, and board annually at rates that consistently outpaced inflation and growth in household income.
"The College accompanied those past price increases with significant increases in financial aid, trying as far as possible, and with a growing percentage of its annual budget, to support the exceptional student body we have and continue to seek," explained Pasquerella. "That model is not sustainable for higher education, and it is not sustainable for students and families in the current economic environment."
The tuition announcement comes in the same week the College celebrates the 175th anniversary of its opening. Founder Mary Lyon opened the doors of what was then Mount Holyoke Female Seminary to 80 young women on November 8, 1837 for the express purpose of providing educational excellence and access for women of all socioeconomic backgrounds. The first of the Seven Sisters, Mount Holyoke has since led the way in educating women for purposeful engagement in the world, and Mary Lyon's mission remains central to the College today.
The Board of Trustees' vote keeps tuition at $41,270 for next year. There will also be no increase in the cost of room and board. More than 70 percent of MHC students currently receive some type of financial aid to offset the cost of attendance.


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A great entry of 44 larks turned out for the 2011 Lark winter championships at Northampton Sailing Club. The 2011 event will probably remembered more for the legendary social than the sailing though. Unfortunately the wind Gods did not play ball!
Unbeknown to the competitors the winter championship was to become a one race shoot out. A triangle sausage course was set providing the fleet with a long first beat in a decreasing force 2. The decision about which end of the start line to go for didnt prove to be as simple as picking the bias end. The starboard end was bias but starting at this end limited options due to the long starboard tack up the first beat. There also appeared to be more wind on the left side of the course. The fleet got away under the second time of asking under a black flag.
The fleet started with an even spread of boats across the line. Mike Senior and Connie Hicklin from South Staffs SC choose the port pin and worked the left side of the beat. Ross Kearney and Alison Dart were looking good on the right hand side up the first half of the beat, but it was the left and the port lay line that eventually paid.
Mike and Connie rounded first with Matthew Stearn and Adam Owens second. These two boats then extended from the fleet, but were never comfortable in the dying breeze. On the final lap Mike and Connie ran out of wind on the second downwind leg and the breeze began to fill from behind. Harry Pynn and Gemma Cook and the Hydons took full advantage to close gap. Harry and Gemma managed to undertake Matthew and Adam and came close to taking the lead, but with a shift to the South and a tightening second reach, Mike and Connie managed to hold on and take the win. Harry and Gemma finished second with Matthew and Adam securing third.
With the wind dying even further, racing was abandoned for the day met by cheers and a swift entry to the bar and the beginning of the Larks annual black tie social. Sunday dawned with the usual sore heads, but unfortunately conditions hadnt improved from Saturday and racing was sadly abandoned.
The Lark fleet now turn their attentions to 2012 and most notably the national championships to be held over the Jubilee bank holiday weekend at Plymouth.