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From Whom: Letters of recommendation should be obtained from former and current professors who can provide insight into the applicant's abilities and talents and can comment on the applicant's aptitude for graduate study. If already working in the field, the applicant may include letters from professional colleagues.
All applicants must present credentials that are the equivalent of the appropriate baccalaureate degree at Temple University.
A bachelor's degree in Psychology, Education, or a related field is preferred, but not required.
The Statement of Goals should be approximately 500-1,000 words in length and should demonstrate a strong interest—and experience—in Applied Behavior Analysis. The statement should also include the following elements: your specific interest in Temple's program; your research goals; your future career goals; and your academic and research achievements.
The GRE is required. It is expected that the scores will generally be at or above the 50th percentile.
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The M.S.Ed. program in Applied Behavioral Analysis
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Time Limit for Degree Completion: 4 years
Some elective courses are offered at the Ambler, Harrisburg, and Center City campuses.
Students are able to complete the degree program on a part-time basis (8 credit hours or less per semester) through classes offered after 4:30 p.m.
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Interdisciplinary study is fostered by the College of Education in collaboration with the Department of Psychology in the College of Liberal Arts.
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This degree program is accredited by the National Council for the Accreditation of Teacher Education (NCATE).
Non-matriculated students may take up to 9 credits of coursework before applying to the degree program.
Financing of the program is the student's responsibility. Those without the requisite funding may contact the Student Financial Services Office at www.temple.edu/sfs or 215-204–2244 for options.
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Article by Eric Wong, BSc, CSCS, Pictured Inside the Octagon Below:
Having been backstage with my fighters at UFC events and talking to both other athletes and coaches, I can tell you that I haven't met one that doesn't lift weights.
The guys who repeat this myth usually either have never trained MMA in their lives, or they just train MMA for fun, not professionally.
But weight training has come a long way since bodybuilding first introduced us to squats, bench presses, and body part splits.
Now, lifting weights is required to achieve an elite level in almost every sport, mixed martial arts being no exception.
But because weight training methods evolved from bodybuilding, many mixed-martial artists are still performing ineffective routines instead of specific MMA weight training workouts.
The goals of bodybuilding and weight training for MMA are very different – bodybuilding's focus is on size, while MMA weight training is mainly focused on development of strength, power, and efficient neuromuscular co-ordination, without gaining excessive mass.
While a bodybuilder can get away with training 4, 5, or even 6 days a week, these workouts don't work for a fighter as most can only dedicate 2-3 days per week to strength AND conditioning work.
This includes weight lifting and various means to develop cardio (which we'll talk about later).
Now the biggest key that I'd like to share with you, that will take your training to the next level, is that bodybuilding routines are focused on muscles, while MMA weight training is focused on movements.
Think about this for a second…
While a bodybuilder has different exercises and workouts planned for each body part, ie. chest, back, biceps, quads, etc, a fighter must focus on the major movement patterns that develop sport-specific functional fitness, not just big "mirror" muscles.
And because a fighter can only train 2-3 days per week, each workout must be based on this movement pattern system so that the entire body can be worked every week.
However, the beauty is that you don't need have to do exercise for each movement pattern in every workout to still work the full body.
For example, you could perform a Reverse lunge on Day 1, which works the entire lower body mainly focusing on the glutes, while on Day 2 you do the Squat, which mainly focuses on the quads.
Now even though you're working the the lower body in both Day 1 and Day 2, the emphasis is on different muscle groups and different movement patterns, which allows you to work the lower body twice a week without overtraining and leaving gas in the tank for your MMA training.
Even within the Push movement pattern, you could do a horizontal push on Day 1 (Bench press) and a vertical push on Day 2 (Overhead press).
This way, you'd work all of the push muscles each day, but with a different emphasis, decreasing the chance of overtraining and injury.
In the Ultimate MMA Strength and Conditioning Program, all of the workouts are designed based on movement patterns specifically for mixed martial arts, so that you never overtrain and gain sport specific strength, power and endurance.
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IRVINE, Calif. - The UC Santa Barbara men's track and field team traveled to Irvine Friday and Saturday to compete in the UCI Spring Break Classic and had some solid performances.
The Gaucho men made their first impression in the third heat of the 100-meter dash. Michael Aiken and James Pearlstone finished second and third, with times of 11.19 and 11.23 respectively. Freshman Dustin Holtz finished not far behind in fifth [11.36] to give UCSB three of the top five times for their heat.
Jacob Vowels [22.17], Nate Harvey [22.43], and Winton Ngyuen [22.36] all had good showings in the 200 meters, giving UCSB three athletes in the top 21 for the event.
The 400 meter turned out even better for the Gauchos, with Marquis Caldwell placing 2nd in the first heat [47.89], good for second overall in the event. Eric Severiano [49.24] and Winton Ngyuen [49.29] took second and third in the second heat, giving UCSB two more sprinters in the top 10.
Jordan Scott [1:53.43] won the second heat of the 800 meters, good for fourth place overall. Juan Paredes [1:55.52] also rounded out the top 10 overall with his performance.
The longer the distance, the better the performance, or so it seemed for the Gaucho men's team. Sean Vaziri [3:47.86] and Juan Paredes [3:49.06] took first and second in the 1500 meters, giving UCSB their first win of the day and their third top two showing. Not top be left out, Andrew Farkas [3:54.75], Bhavik Kanzaria [3:59.18], and Matt Bailey [4:00.20] all ran well in the second heat, giving UCSB 5 finishers in the top 14.
Young guns stepped up for the Gauchos in the 5000 meters, with sophomore Anthony Ortolan [14:53.53] and freshman Adam Avili [14:56.09] finishing fourth and fifth overall. Sean Johnson represented UCSB well in the 110 hurdles, placing fifth in his heat and fifth overall with his time of [14.78].
UCSB picked up their second win in the 3000 steeplechase, with Bryce Rausa's time of 9:07.68 good for the victory. Austin Goodheart [9:24.87] placed third, leading the rest of the pack after the top two broke away.
The 4x400 relay also was a huge success, with UCSB's team of Mikkael Powers, Jimmy Martin, Jordan Scott, and Marquis Caldwell coming away with the victory [3:10.88].
Mitchell Haag led the way for UCSB in the high jump, placing third with a score of 2.00m [6'6.75"]. Taylor Duncan placed 10th in the pole vault [4.60m, 15'1"], a solid showing in the field of 34.
In the throws, Albert Hughes placed fourth overall in the hammer competition with a distance of 55.52m.
The Gauchos will travel to San Diego next weekend for the Cal/Nevada Championship on March 29th.


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SOCORRO, N.M., June 10, 2009 – The Summer Science Program at New Mexico Tech presents a series of lectures on some of the new and exciting frontiers of science. Although the lectures are primarily aimed at the science-oriented high schoolers from around the country who attend the Program, the lectures are open to the public, and anyone may attend. The series is sponsored by Lockheed Martin and Sandia National Labs.
Each of the speakers is a top researchers in their fields. All of the events are in room 102 of Weir Hall, and there is no admission charge.
- "Caves: Exploring Life Underground from Earth to Mars and Beyond." 2:30 p.m. Monday, June 22. Dr. Penelope Boston, Director, Cave and Karst Studies at New Mexico Tech
- "Insect Societies, or: Ants, Bees and Termites, Oh My." 2:30 p.m. Friday, June 26. Dr. Diana E. Wheeler, professor of entomology at the University of Arizona.
- NOTE: DATE AND TIME HAVE CHANGED: "Battling the Superbugs: Antimicrobial Stewardship and Beyond!" 2:30 p.m., Friday, July 3. Paul Pottinger, M.D., assistant professor of medicine at the University of Washington Medical Center.
- "Titan's Methane Monsoon." 2:30 p.m. Tuesday, June 30. Dr. Henry Roe, assistant astronomer at Lowell Observatory.
- "Mad? Science!" 1 p.m. Saturday, July 4. Dr. Larry Sverdrup, senior scientist at Trex Enterprises.
- "Follow up and Characterization of Potentially Hazardous Asteroids using the MRO 2.4m Telescope." 2:30 p.m. Tuesday, July 7. Dr. Eileen V. Ryan, adjunct professor of physics at New Mexico Tech
- "Optics, Meteorology, and an Airline Crash." 2:30 pm Friday, July 10. Dr. Michael Dubson, senior instructor and associate chair at UC Berkeley.
- "Exploring the Formation and Bombardment History of the Moon." 7 p.m. Saturday, July 11. Dr. William Bottke, assistant director, Dept. of Space Studies, Southwest Research Institute
- July 13, 2:30 p.m., Weir 102. Mika McKinnon, science consultant on Stargate SG-1, speaks on "Disaster Science Fiction."
- "Espionage in New Mexico." Thursday, July 16, 2:30 p.m. E. Bruce Held, counterintelligence program manager at Sandia National Laboratories.
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DAVIS, Calif. - After splitting Friday's Big West Conference doubleheader at La Rue Field, UC Santa Barbara and UC Davis (26-27, 15-6) went into extra innings to decide Saturday's rubber game. The Gauchos came out on top, using a five-run eighth inning to defeat the league's winner, 7-2.
The series win marked the Gauchos' second of the season. UCSB finishes the year with a 15-37 overall mark and a 6-15 Big West record.
As has been the case throughout the series with Davis, the Gauchos struck first. At the top of the order in the first inning, Jessica Ziegler reached first with a bunt single. Two outs later, Ziegler stole second - marking her 21st steal of the season - before a single up the middle by Jessica Beristianos drove her home.
At the top of the fourth, Beristianos led off and reached first after being hit by a pitch. She was bunted over by Keilani Jennings' sacrifice hit. Priscilla Perez followed with an infield single and Beristianos was able to reach home after pitcher Alex Holmes committed a throwing error, giving UCSB a 2-0 advantage.
During the same inning, UCD was able to load the bases with one out before Marissa Araujo hit a fielder's choice driving Holmes home and cutting the Gaucho lead to just one run.
UCSB continued to lead until the bottom of the seventh when a solo home run by Araujo tied the game at 2-2. UCSB was able to escape without further damage and turned a double play to end the inning, bringing their school-record setting season total to 23 double plays.
Determined to end their season on a high note, the Gauchos opened the eighth inning on fire. Katie McWhirter led off with an infield single before Beristianos drew a walk. Another sacrifice bunt from Jennings pushed both runners into scoring position and a double from Perez drove pinch runner Brooke Putich home for what would prove to be the game-winning run. A single by Lainey DePompa to center field followed, sending Beristianos home.
The Aggie coaching staff then rotated Dana Waldusky back into the circle, but the pitching change did not slow down the Gauchos as Amanda Ziegler singled to center field pushing Perez home. One out later, Jessica Ziegler singled down the left field line, loading the bases and setting the table for Jamie Adishian, who ensued with a two-RBI single to left center field. When the Gaucho onslaught was over, UCSB had gained a 7-2 lead.
Holmes tripled with two outs in the bottom of the eighth and Sarah Axelson earned a walk but UCSB pitcher Krista Cobb got out of the inning unscathed, solidifying the win for the Gauchos.
Cobb improved to 8-13 on the season with the victory. She tossed two innings of relief and allowed just one hit and one walk. MeLinda Matsumoto started the game and allowed one earned run on three hits and one walk in 3.1 innings. Lindsey Correa tossed 2.2 innings and allowed one earned run on four hits with four strike outs.
At the plate, Jessica Ziegler went 3-for-4 with a run and a walk while Adishian went 2-for-4 with two RBI. Perez and Amanda Ziegler each also tallied two hits, a run and an RBI.
Holmes (16-9) took the loss for the Aggies after allowing six earned runs on nine hits in 7.1 innings of work. She walked three and struck out three. Waldusky tossed 0.2 innings and allowed one earned run on three hits while fanning one.
Sunday's game marked the final collegiate contest for Gaucho seniors Kelsey Anderson, Lindsey Correa, MeLinda Matsumoto, Priscilla Perez and Jessica Ziegler.


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As you are all aware, I love multi-function furniture. Although this piece is just for sitting, it can be used in several different ways making it multi-functional in my book.
I stumbled across this chair one night while looking at some other pieces by Annika Schmidt. I am entirely enamored with it — the colors, the textures, the whole presentation. I also enjoy lounging about on the floor with a pillow, and this chair looks like just my sort of seat.
The chair is made of various fabrics/materials including batting, felt and I think bent plywood. I love the idea of just flipping trough it to find the perfect height for you. Flat or against a wall, the possibilities are endless.


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by Jessica Newland, sports information student assistant
MILLEDGEVILLE, Ga. - Georgia College men's basketball is holding an open tryout for all high school seniors from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. March 19 in the Centennial Center.
The Bobcats finished up the 2010-11 season with a 16-10 overall record and a 10-7 Peach Belt Conference (PBC) record. Their last game was in the PBC Tournament where they fell to the University of Montevallo in the quarterfinals.
The Georgia College Department of Athletics, back-to-back winners of the PBC Commissioner's Cup, sponsors 10 varsity athletic programs at the NCAA Division II level. As a Division II program, Bobcat Athletics prides itself on balancing the life of the student-athlete, evidenced by the teams' multiple appearances in post-season competition as well as documented academic success and community-service involvement. Sign up at www.twitter.com/BobcatSports andwww.facebook.com/gcbobcats for up-to-the-minute reports, and visit www.GCBobcats.com for more information, and to nominate your favorite former Bobcats and Colonials to the GC Athletics Hall of Fame.


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Ways to Repurpose Your Party Outfits
Fringed skirts, crop tops, and lace dresses: the gang's all here. Click through for wardrobe tips illustrated by some of our favourite fashion bloggers, including Leandra Medine of Man Repeller, Blair Eadie of Atlantic-Pacific, and Lisa Dengler of Just Another Fashion Blog.
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Yes, you can wear your crop top to work. Simply layer a silk blouse under a loose-fit, abbreviated top, and pair the combo with tailored pants. We favour a darker colour combination, like this navy and black mix seen on Lisa Dengler of Just Another Fashion Blog.
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Sparkly Necklaces:
Temper the glitz by pairing your layered, sparkly necklaces with sharp menswear separates, like this oversized white button-down and plaid blazer on Leandra Medine of Man Repeller.
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This works for satin tuxedo jackets as well; simply toss over monochromatic jeans and a faded t-shirt, and pair with brogues or loafers. The relaxed androgyny counters the evening style with ease.
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You might have been proud of your gumption for wearing these to a party in the first place, but now you've earned your stripes and we think you're ready for the next challenge. Wear them in place of your favourite jeans—like Alex from Alex's Closet does here—with combat boots and layered sweaters. Extra points if you can get a dance party started at the grocery store.
Photo:Portable Package
The fringed skirt is surprisingly versatile. You can channel flapper by night, or riff on its swingy movement by wearing it with sporty sneakers for day. Pair your skirt with a bold bag to ensure the spotlight is shared, like Irina Lakicevic of A Portable Package does here.
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Your delicate, long-sleeved lace dress can see the light of day when layered under a nubby wool midi skirt. Make sure the cuts are similar, that the skirt hits at your true waist, and an inch or two of the lace dress peeks out from the bottom, so that it looks intentional.
Photo:Atlantic Pacific
It's not rocket science, but your spangly, printed, sky-high heels can be worn during the day, as long as you pair them with relaxed separates, like a flannel and bateau stripes. Take a tip from Atlantic-Pacific's Blair Eadie, and keep your bag in the same colour family to tie everything together.
The diaphanous slip dress seems like it belongs in the boudoir, but since you debuted it at that cocktail party under a blazer, why not let it see some sunshine as well? Choose a chunky knit—turtleneck and crewneck styles work equally well—and keep the colours somber like Anne-Laure of Adenorah.
Photo:Arty Filles
We know you looked like Erin Wasson in that leather mini dress, but when it comes time to re-wear it, why not skew more Alexa Chung and try it with a Peter Pan collar shirt underneath?
Photo:Atlantic Pacific
The bold pendant on a long chain that instantly jazzed up your party dress can be re-worn with a backless top or dress by simply flipping it backwards. Make sure to slide the clasp down to where the pendant falls so it doesn't announce itself at the front of your neck.


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Tons of new!!! A new Papercrafting Kit (and an exciting announcement about our new digital cuts)! . . .
I love how the colors still honor Summer, but invite Fall to start to show it's colors. . .
Betsy shows the kit's more mild side here. . .
While Dina rocks the included vintage yellow lined paper and the kit's exclusive stencil. . .
The Antiquarian Add-On has some great offerings with cool graphics (like these vintage science notebook pages) . . .
and vintage broom label. . .
The Artisan Add-On has more color and accessories to take your layouts to the next level. . .
This month's Mini Album Kit was designed by Corrie and is made mostly from glassine envelopes and tags. . .
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Briana's take on the kit. . .
And of course we will have some new additions to the "This Month's Finds" in the Flea Market including these old General Store receipt holders (these are the real deal)!!. . .
Old film holders once used with large cameras (I see them as photo holders). . .
And another vintage toy typewriter (this one in JBS colors!) . . .
These are just a few of the finds waiting for you at midnight. . .
And, in the Limited Edition Kit section you will find 3 of my class kits for sale from my retiring 2012 classes. If you missed me on the road, here's your chance to make the projects at home. They come complete with full color instructions.
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NU Online News Service, April 9, 12:00 p.m. EDT
After five years of helping to reinvigorate Aon Corp., Ted Devine, a senior executive, left the firm in 2009 to pursue his dream of helping inner city youths become better citizens. Recently, he stepped back into the insurance industry in the role of chief executive officer of Dallas-based Insureon, an online-insurance agency for small business.
NU: How did you start out in the business?
Devine: I spent 12 years at McKinsey & Co. where I was one of the leaders in the insurance practice, reaching senior partner level. During that time I got to know [Aon chief executive] Greg Case. When Greg went over to Aon, he asked me to join him and I was among the first people to help him put the change at Aon together.
In five years I was head of strategy and led some major initiatives there. One was called the implementation of the revenue engine, which was Aon's approach on how to drive growth. I also led the initiative on how to improve the firm on the balance sheet from a profit-and-loss perspective. That led to $100 million in cost savings and the sale of the underwriting assets, Combined and the warranty group.
My last role with Aon was pulling together all the retail-risk services into one big profit-and-loss and led that for a year as we pulled that all together under one integrated strategy.
NU: At what point did you want to make a change and why?
D: I am a hockey coach and I have coached youth athletics for almost a decade. I've also done a ton of volunteering in the inner city ofChicago for almost 20 years. Part of my life's passion has been giving back and I was doing that informally.
After a lot of thought, I felt that if I was going to have an impact on the community that I wanted to have, I needed to have some time to do that. I asked Greg to help me take some time and start 1World Sport more than two-and-a-half years ago. I spent that time building it prior to my new role.
Today, 1World Sport helps over 5,000 inner city kids inChicago. We're beginning to do events inNew YorkandDallasthis year. We work with at-risk kids in housing authorities or schools to learn the life lessons of sports and we partner with local professional sport teams to do that.
The gist of the charity is that a lot of kids love to play the game, but don't take the time to learn the life lessons from the sport, like the link between academics and practice, like studying for a test or a game; nutrition; what it means to be a good sport or a teammate or compete the right way.
1World Sports is all about teaching these life lessons to the hundreds of kids we've worked with.
NU: How does this tie into your change from Aon to Insureon?
D: It's interesting. One of the things I love at 1World is working with individuals and making a difference. That is the focus of Insureon.
We are the largest platform for individual entrepreneurs to get insurance. Every single day, 250 people come to our site and they are all small-business people looking for insurance to help their company or help themselves start a company or to get the insurance that they need to protect their family. All of our clients [have fewer] than 20 employees, [and] most of them have only five employees.
We have about 20,000 clients and we're growing at about 1,000 a month.
I'm chatting to people who just got laid off, or are starting their own consulting firm, and they've been told they need a certificate of insurance and they don't know what that is, but they know they have to have one to get their job.
NU: What are the products you market?
D: We sell the BOP [businessowners policy], workers' compensation and liability.
NU: What is your relationship to the customer?
D: We are the agent to the customer. There are 40 million businesses in theUnited States with less than five employees, and it is growing at a rate where it is projected that by 2019, 40 percent of all businesses will be in this micro-segment. There's a lot of growth there.
These people are not being adequately served by traditional channels because the premium is too small. They are also going online to find insurance. Today, we are the leading online platform.
We had 71,000 hits to our website last month. We deliver our insurance cover either through an online platform or getting them on the phone with our licensed insurance professional. In most cases, we can get them a bindable, real time quote so they can make their insurance decision right away.
We're not a shopping service; we're not a price shopper or an aggregator. We work with a few select carriers to make sure our clients get the coverage they need and makes the most sense.
NU: This is a pretty dramatic switch, going from a dynamic global company to a smaller concern. What drove you to make the change?
D: What I loved about Aon was not that it was big, but that we were trying to change the firm and be the best in the industry. We were trying to grow. When I got to Aon the stock was trading at $19, when I left it was trading at $42.
I feel the same way about Insureon. This is a tremendous platform from where to build and grow a business in a company that has 20,000 clients; we think we can have 100,000 clients in three to four years.
For me that's the charge; the energy. It's not about big. It's not about global. It's about being able to grow a business and have impact.
NU: Do you feel that you will have more of a sense of accomplishment working at a smaller, more personal organization?
D: I feel that I can make a difference and we can make a difference as a team. The thing I loved about Aon was the culture that Pat Ryan [Aon's founder] had built around driving sales and making sure we aligned to help the producers sell. That's the culture I want to build at Insureon along with the culture Greg built, which was a focus on information and insight and strategic alignment that has made Greg so successful.
I hope I can learn the lessons from those two great leaders and pull it all together into a firm that is truly distinctive and unique.


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(Reuters) - At least 12 fans and one driver were injured after a wreck at the Daytona Speedway on Saturday when car debris flew into the crowd near the end of the Nationwide NASCAR race.
A hospital official at Halifax Health Medical Center in Daytona Beach, Florida, told the Daytona News Journal that 11 spectators were being treated in the emergency room, with two of them critically injured.
Four of the fans were on trauma alert and five were being treated as non-trauma cases, the newspaper reported.
Florida Hospital Memorial Medical Center in Daytona Beach had one patient from the crash and was expecting three more, spokeswoman Lindsay Rew said.
Debris from the 10-car crash flew into the spectator area and some fans were taken away on stretchers.
The crash sent driver Kyle Larson's car airborne, although he climbed out of the wreckage afterward, the ESPN sports network said.
Driver Michael Annett of the Richard Petty Motorsports team was being treated at the Halifax Health Medical Center and would be kept for observation, the team said in a statement.
Annett was transported to the hospital after complaining of pain in his chest and sternum and was treated for bruising on his chest and underwent a CT Scan.
The Nationwide race is an event before Sunday's prestigious Daytona 500 race. Tony Stewart won the race.
NASCAR President Mike Helton told ESPN, "Our prayers and thoughts are with everybody they (the emergency responders) are working on."
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What is Sap?
Sap is a water solution that moves through the tree, carrying dissolved substances from place to place. Sap travels in the sapwood, the most recently formed wood, which is just beneath the bark. Its water comes from the soil,and it contains dissolved soil minerals which are translocated into the parts of the tree where they are needed for metabolic purposes. This is often called xylem sap (xylem=wood). It is the water in xylem sap that is transpired from leaves into the atmosphere. Phloem sap travels in the inner bark or phloem of the tree. It consists mainly of water "borrowed" from the xylem sap, containing dissolved sugars that were formed by photosynthesis in the leaves. It generally moves down the tree, and the sugar solution is shunted into the numerous parts of the tree where it is needed for structural or metabolic purposes. Both types of sap can also carry dissolved gases, hormones, vitamins, and amino acids. Sap is indeed the life-blood of the tree. It should not be confused with resins or gums, that are manufactured in the tree as defensive compounds, and which are generally aromatic and sticky.
This site is devoted to trees. Among naturalists, biologists, environmentalists, and others trees get lots of lip service but mighty little respect. Everybody admits to liking trees, but few bother to really learn much about them -- and true respect demands a reasonable level of knowledge. Why is this? Maybe because botanically inclined people spend most of their field time looking down, while to see trees you have to look up. A sniff of wildflowers takes just a quick crouch, but to inhale the spirits of a tall forest tree you are going to have to climb and shimmy, and most of us are decidedly not up to that. Maybe it's because trees are so big, and so much of their interesting parts and activities are found beyond our reach, way up there in those crowns. Or perhaps it is simply because our own faulty anatomy has dictated weak little necks that start to hurt almost immediately we turn our heads up to see what that little bird is finding in that oversized tree. As they say -- whatever. But my years of chasing down firs, sticking pins in pine shoots, putting bags on acacias and larches, and snipping off foliage of potential hybrid pines persuades me that getting the average nature freak to learn something authentic about a tree is simply much harder than doing so with the world's minor plants.
Therefore I offer this site to focus on trees in a way that departs from my many years of teaching university forestry students. This will be a personal approach. I will post on it information about my tree books -- there are six so far-- and I'll offer them for sale. If space permits, I'll also offer for sale books from my collection and duplicates. And I may also offer old prints of trees: lithographs, etchings, engravings, etc., distinctive enough to warrant hanging in your office or den.
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'Vampire Diaries' Recap: 'Good' Stefan Returns & Elena Tells Damon To 'Get Over It'
There was a major shift in power on this week's episode — and I'm not just talking about those wacky Originals!
I'm glad Damon (Ian Somerhalder) had his fun with Rebekah (Claire Holt) last week, because their little romp in the sack — while it was, no doubt, super hot — had some serious repercussions on the Feb. 16 episode of The Vampire Diaries. For starters, Elena (Nina Dobrev) literally watched Rebekah do her walk of shame, and even though Damon claimed the hookup had "nothing to do with" Elena, I think we can all agree he just needs to cut the crap.
Stefan (Paul Wesley) certainly agrees, as he also confronted Damon — again — about his feelings for Mystic Falls' most eligible doppelganger. "She's better off without me," Stefan told his broody bro. "And she's sure as hell better off without you." Granted, that was all said before Damon realized that Stefan hasn't had human blood since the night he threatened to drive Elena off the same bridge where her parents died. So, hey, maybe Stefan's back in the game after all!
But beyond the usual romantic angst, there was also some serious vampire drama going down this week. While Bonnie (Kat Graham) and Abby (Persia White) agreed to help Esther (Alice Evans) with her spell to kill all of her children — seriously, she's worse than that lady who drowned her kids in a car — the rest of the Originals threatened to kill Elena if Damon and his crew didn't help them stop her.
And because Elena is permanently in the way of everyone, a new plan was devised to stop Esther's spell. And it involved Damon snapping Bonnie's mom's neck and — you guessed it — turning her into a vampire. It's a shame Bill Forbes (Jack Coleman) is dead now, because he and Abby could have had some fun with compulsion at the next Mystic Falls High School PTA meeting.
Meanwhile, Klaus (Joseph Morgan) moved forward with Operation Get-In-Caroline's-Pants this week — and, believe it or not, it almost worked. He managed to woo Caroline (Candice Accola) with his thick accent and fancy British lingo (only the finest of gentleman can get away with calling a girl "love"), but it all fell apart when he caught wind of Damon's little plan to dagger all of the Originals at once.
And then there's Elijah (Daniel Gillies). Esther may have accused him of not being noble, but screw that. He's the most noble vampire this show has ever introduced us to. He even left Elena a touching goodbye note before splitting town at the end of the episode! Speaking of Elena, those two actually seem to have some burgeoning chemistry. If he didn't look so much older than her, I'd say they should pull a Damon-and-Rebekah.
Oh, did I forget to mention that Meredith (Torrey DeVitto) totally shot Alaric (Matt Davis) at the end of the episode? Because she totally shot Alaric at the end of the episode. I love Torrey, but she is doomed to play a gun-toting psycho for the rest of her career. Good thing she does it so well!
OK, let's talk about what went down this week: Are you excited for the return of "good" Stefan? Do you still want to see Klaus and Caroline get together? And on a scale of 1 to 10, how worried are you about Alaric? See you in the comments section!


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Mbonisi Ndimande went 25-8 in singles play, playing primarily in the #3 spot...Compiled a 17-13 record in doubles...Ndimande was part of a doubles team with Forget that was named First Team All-Big West...Named second team all-league.
Seminole State Community College
Competed in two Junior Grandslam Events... Represented Zimbabwe in Davis Cup Team in 2009...
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Attended Clapham High School in Pretoria, South Africa... Won 2 Wayne Ferreira Team Championships... Was ranked No. 1 tennis team in the nation for 2 years in a row.
Reached highest ranking of No. 52 in ITF... Ranked No. 1 in JUCO Singles in fall of 2010 and No. 1 JUCO doubles in fall 2009... Made it to first round of the Junior Olympic Wimbledon Championships... Went to the first round of Australian Open Junior Championships... Attended the International Tennis Federation Training Centre... Coached by Dermot Sweeney...
Son of Bheka and Sarah Ndimande... Was born in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe... Academic achievements include an Immigrant Prize for the highest academic results, was named the Best Immigrant Student in High School, and was an Honors Blazer in 2007... Favorite sports teams are the Miami Heat and Arsenal Football Team... He listed his favorite athletes as Roger Federer and Lebron James... Speaks Ndebele and English... Most memorable sports moment is playing the Wimbledon Championships.


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This inspiring tale reminds us that no one can be truly at peace unless all beings have a chance for peace, freedom, and happiness. The Banyan Deer is a wonderful, heart-warming gift for anyone who loves a great story. This beautiful hardcover edition will delight both adults and children alike.


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WASHINGTON — Even with its health insurance marketplace floundering for the fourth week, the Obama administration is resisting what some Democratic allies contend is the most logical response to the problem: giving consumers more time to sign up.
According to insurers and the White house, delaying the deadline could undermine efforts to lure a broad, young and healthy mix of consumers to the market. That would end up costing insurers, and possibly taxpayers, money.
The case against delay was outlined in a memo circulated to lawmakers by the insurance lobby last week. The document from America's Health Insurance Plans warned that delay could have a "destabilizing effect on insurance markets, resulting in higher premiums and coverage disruptions for individuals and families."
For now, the administration is sticking with the insurers. Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius on Wednesday called delaying the tax penalties for those who miss the deadline premature. Testifying before a House committee, Sebelius said she was confident the site would be running smoothly by the end of November, giving consumers four months to enroll easily online before the deadline of March 31.
President Obama made the case in Boston, where he argued that the model for his healthcare law — the 2006 Massachusetts law that then-Gov. Mitt Romney pushed through — experienced a similarly slow rollout and went on to success.
There is more than policy keeping the administration from pursuing what some contend is a simple fix. House Republicans have long pushed to delay the mandate. Any concession on the point would hand another "I told you so" moment to the GOP only weeks after the White House and Democrats watched the government shut down rather than agree to Republicans' demands to suspend the mandate for a year.
Still, the politics of the issue could change quickly as Democrats face pressure to show they are responding to public frustration with the website. Ten Democratic senators have signed a letter asking the White House to extend the date beyond March 31 — six of those are up for reelection in 2014.
Sen. Jeanne Shaheen (D-N.H.) said an extended enrollment was merely a fair way to make up for a website rollout she labeled a "disaster." Millions of people have been shut out of the site intended to link consumers with private health plans. "That is unacceptable; consumers should not pay a penalty because a website did not work," Shaheen wrote in an op-ed published Wednesday in USA Today.
Advocates for the extension note that the administration has already pushed back the date by six weeks in an attempt to align mismatched deadlines outlined during the rule-making process. Another limited extension is unlikely to change consumer behavior much, some experts opposed to a delay concede.
"To change sends a message: Don't worry about signing up quickly. So there is an impact, but it depends a lot on how long an extension it is," said Linda Blumberg, a health policy expert at the Urban Institute.
Blumberg said it was too soon to know whether an extension was necessary. Any decision should come only after insurers know who is signing up and whether they are seeing too many sick customers to deliver on the premiums they've promised. There are two major provisions already built into the law to help insurers adjust for risk pools, she said.
Obama advisors made similar arguments. Extending the enrollment period by a few months or a year increases the possibility that people won't sign up until they're too sick, increasing the costs for everyone else, said Chris Jennings, a former advisor to President Clinton now working on Obamacare implementation.
Enforcing the requirements for insurers without enforcing those for individuals would compound the destabilizing effect, Jennings said.
"No one will sell you house insurance when your house is on fire," he said. "If you want to ban discrimination against people with preexisting conditions, then you have to have everyone in the pool. That's why you need the individual responsibility requirement."
Critics of the president's law are reviving the push to undo the mandate. Romney issued a statement Wednesday suggesting a number of changes, including "carefully phasing it in to avoid the type of disruptions we are seeing nationally."
In support of the Obama plan, some former Romney advisors have stepped forward to counsel patience through what they suggest is just a rocky beginning.
The law ramped up slowly in Massachusetts, said Jonathan Gruber, an MIT economist who has advised Romney and Obama on healthcare reform.
In the first month of enrollment in 2006, he said, only 123 enrollees from the premium-paying population — comparable to the group using the marketplaces created by the Affordable Care Act — signed up. That represented fewer than 1% of those who eventually signed up within the enrollment period.
"The fact that people aren't signed up now for a policy they can't even get until January, and which they're not mandated to have until March, is not at all interesting or important," Gruber said on a White House conference call held as Obama prepared to travel to Boston. "What matters is the fact that it will ramp up, and it will ramp up over time."
The arc of enrollment in Massachusetts suggests that the deadline itself plays an important role, he said.
As the program neared the deadline, he said, "you saw an enormous increase in healthy people signing up."
In their push on Capitol Hill, insurers are arguing that the March 31 date is crucial to the assumptions they used in developing the premiums they are offering at healthcare.gov.
According to America's Health Insurance Plans, the industry group, changing these "vital enrollment incentives" would mean the premiums that health plans filed for next year would have to increase to account for fewer young and healthy people signing up for coverage. Insurers must determine the premiums for 2015 in April, a deadline that would be hard to meet without knowing who had signed up in 2014.
"Extending the open enrollment period would also drive up the 2015 premium rates," the group's document says, "as health plans would have to start submitting premiums to regulators before knowing who is enrolled in their insurance plans."
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Slightly more than one year ago—just before the utter collapse of the economy—John McCain stood on a podium at Wright State University, in Dayton, Ohio, to announce that his vice-presidential running mate would be Sarah Palin. Three days later, as many Americans were returning home from their Labor Day barbecues and picnics, McCain's campaign announced that Palin's unwed 17-year-old daughter, Bristol, was five months pregnant. In a statement released by the campaign, Sarah Palin and her husband, Todd, said that Bristol was planning to marry the child's father, her boyfriend of two and a half years, an 18-year-old former hockey star from her hometown of Wasilla. "Bristol and the young man she will marry are going to realize very quickly the difficulties of raising a child," the statement read, "which is why they will have the love and support of our entire family."
That young man, Levi Johnston, made his one and only campaign appearance later that week at the Republican National Convention in St. Paul. But Johnston would remain with the Palin family throughout the campaign and eventually live full-time in their house, from the end of November until late January, when he and Bristol ended their relationship.
As both a frequent visitor to and temporary inhabitant of the Palin home, Johnston witnessed never-before-reported behavior from the woman who almost became vice president of the United States of America. In this account, as told to editors at Vanity Fair, Johnston paints a vivid portrait of his time with the Palins. He debunks commonly held notions about the closeness of their family; Sarah's relationship with her husband, Todd; the "special love" she showed her special-needs infant, Trig; and even her self-professed prowess as a hunter and commitment as a hockey mom.
This is Levi's story.
I had been hunting sheep with my father and uncle for almost two weeks up in Delta Junction, about a six-hour drive from Wasilla. When the hunt was over we got on our four-wheelers and began driving through the woods, mud, and swamp, for five hours, back to the highway for the trip home. When we reached our truck, I looked at my cell phone—there's no reception in the mountains—and saw that I had about 100 missed calls from my girlfriend, Bristol Palin. She was five months pregnant and I was wondering what the hell was going on. "You've got to come down here," she said when I called her. "Hurry up. Mom wants you to pack your bags. The plane will be waiting to pick you up. Mom's running for vice president."
"I don't know if I want to go on this trip," I told her. I'm a country guy and I didn't want to be involved with anything that would put me in front of thousands of people. But after about five minutes of arguing this with Bristol, she handed the phone to her mom.
"Levi, you're coming down here," Sarah Palin said, "even if I have to pick you up."
Sarah's got a way of getting her way. And at the time she was going to be my mother-in-law. She wouldn't give up, and I headed back to Wasilla.
The whole ride home I didn't know what to think. The Sarah I knew could carry her own and she was a hardworking lady. She was the governor. But was this really happening? I thought, Was this woman—who, at home, would literally say things that did not make sense—really running for vice president?
The Palin house was much different from what many people expect of a normal family, even before she was nominated for vice president. There wasn't much parenting in that house. Sarah doesn't cook, Todd doesn't cook—the kids would do it all themselves: cook, clean, do the laundry, and get ready for school. Most of the time Bristol, now 18, would help her youngest sister, Piper, 8, with her homework, and I'd barbecue chicken or steak on the grill. I only saw Sarah help Piper—the youngest before Trig—with homework a few times, and I've only seen her read a book to her once. I actually never saw Sarah reading much at all—once in a blue moon, I'd see her reading a book, and I've never seen her read a newspaper. The Frontiersman and the Anchorage Daily News were always there in the morning, but the only one who looked through them was Todd.
The Palins didn't have dinner together and they didn't talk much as a family. Throughout the years I spent with them, when Sarah got home from her office—almost never later than five and sometimes as early as noon—she usually walked in the door, said hello, and then disappeared into her bedroom, where she would hang out. Sometimes she'd take an hour-long bath. Other times she sat on the living-room couch in her two-piece pajama set from Walmart—she had all the colors—with her hair down, watching house shows and wedding shows on TV. She always wanted things and she wanted other people to get them for her. If she wanted a movie, Bristol and I would go to the video store; if she wanted food, we'd get her something to eat, like a Crunchwrap Supreme from Taco Bell. She'd try to bribe everyone to clean the house, or give us guilt trips. She used to make Bristol feel bad by telling her that she did everything for her. This was unfair because, even before the campaign, Bristol was already the mom in the house, and she got tired of having to take care of her siblings. She and her mom fought a lot. "I hate her" definitely came out of Bristol's mouth about Sarah, but that may have just been because she was mad at her mother. Those two definitely didn't get along much, especially after the campaign, when the cameras wouldn't leave Bristol alone and her family wasn't there for her.
Sarah was always in a bad mood and she was stressed out a lot. Sometimes she would wonder why she took the job as governor. It was too hard, she said; there was so much going on. Todd was always out in the garage working on his snow machines and drinking beer or screwing off. (Eighty percent of the time he's in the garage. Once winter is here, he's out riding every other day.) He's not supposed to have beer, because Sarah doesn't like him drinking. (She only goes to church four or five times a year—mostly on holidays—but Sarah doesn't drink or cuss much.) So Todd will hide his beer, go out there, and work on his sleds.
I think all Todd cares about is winning races. Normally, guys go up to the North Slope for "two-and-twos"—that means two weeks of work and two weeks off. I went four weeks on, three days off, which is how you make money. Todd is obviously a lot more senior up there than I am, but for the last couple of years, sometimes it seemed like he would go up to the Slope as an oil-field production operator for about three days and come back home for a month. Todd obviously didn't need the money. The attention Sarah got helped him with his racing sponsors.
After the nomination, Sarah and Todd wouldn't go anywhere together unless the cameras were out. They're good on television, but once the cameras would leave they didn't talk to each other. In all the time Bristol and I were together, I've never seen them sleep in the same bedroom. (I don't know how she got pregnant.) Even during the Republican National Convention they slept in different bedrooms at opposite ends of her suite. Todd slept in the living room, on his little black recliner, with the TV going in the background—usually with the news or an Ultimate Fighting Championship match on—wearing clothes he wore that same day. (Since I used to sleep on the couch until Bristol got pregnant, I know he doesn't snore, so that's not why he wasn't in bed.) At four a.m., he was gone, off doing something. Sarah would wake up around five, then go to Kaladi Brothers Coffee soon after.
If Sarah and Todd did talk—they really don't communicate at all—they were fighting. Todd is short-fused, and if you get him fired up, he flips out. He often got mad that Sarah wasn't looking after the kids, and I'm sure she was mad he was riding all the time—but they really just weren't clicking half the time.
There was a lot of talk of divorce in that house, and there were times when Sarah and Todd would mention it and sound pretty serious. Sarah would say something, and I don't know how it would make Todd mad, but his anger would elevate so fast. Todd would say, "All right, do you want a divorce? Is that what you want? Let's do it! Sign the papers!" They'd either stop and be fine or Sarah would go to her room. That's just how it was with them. But Sarah wore the pants in the family and she was definitely the dominant parent in the house. She would tell Todd to mow the grass, hang things up, and clean the house. And Todd would listen to her when she spoke. If she told Todd to do something, he'd do it.
The Palins didn't take family vacations or weekend trips, since Sarah and Todd pretty much led separate lives. Todd would go to their two-bedroom cabin—about a two-hour drive away in Petersville—which was 20 yards from his racing partner's cabin. He would go there at least twice a week, sometimes for a couple days or even just a couple hours. Piper would often go along with him because she's Todd's little baby and a snow-machiner herself. Willow, 15, was getting old enough where she didn't want to be with her parents; Bristol wanted to be with me on the weekends; and Track, 20, didn't want anything to do with any of it. (Track enlisted in the army on September 11, 2007, when he was 18.)
When they did go on a family vacation, to Hawaii, in the summer of 2007—the only trip I remember them taking—Bristol called me after Todd and Sarah got into a huge fight. Sarah then decided to fly back to Alaska, after only three days, while Todd stayed with the kids, taking them to the beach and to go parasailing. I remember when Bristol called to tell me, she acted like she didn't care. She may have been being defensive, but they're all daddy's girls.
Bristol thought the rumor of her mother's having an affair with a friend of Todd's, named Brad, was ridiculous. (I could see that more than I could see Todd cheating on Sarah.) But Bristol thought that Todd was having an affair with a friend of the family. At one point, Bristol heard that Todd tried to separate his bank account from Sarah's, and she told Sarah.
Sarah Palin has said she's a hockey mom and a hunter, but that's really not the case. She pays no attention to her kids when the cameras aren't around. Track and I grew up playing hockey together, and I only saw her at about 15 percent of his games. People think that Sarah likes hunting, fishing, and camping, but she doesn't. She says she goes hunting and lives off animal meat—I've never seen it. I've never seen her touch a fishing pole. She had a gun in her bedroom and one day she asked me to show her how to shoot it. I asked her what kind of gun it was, and she said she didn't know, because it was in a box under her bed.
People would send Sarah big painted portraits of herself. Most of them went in the garage, but she once asked me to help her put one up in the house. So I put the little tab in the back and she told me she could handle it from there. But when I came back, it was sideways. About the only thing she knows now is Gucci and Prada.
On the chartered plane ride to Minnesota for the Republican National Convention, I sat next to Bristol. We had first met through Track at a hockey rink, and I thought she was cute so we started talking. We were friends for a couple years, and then we began going on dates. (My house was an eight-minute drive from hers.) Bristol was like me—when her mom was governor, she didn't even see her that way. But when Sarah ran for vice president, that's really when the cameras hit us.
Five months pregnant with Tripp, Bristol wasn't feeling too good. Everyone else on the plane was happy and excited—hanging out and having a good time. When we landed, we saw all the cars lined up, and there were cop cars everywhere. There were Secret Service guys, snipers on rooftops, and dog-sniffing people with big AKs. It was nuts. "This is crazy," I said to Bristol. She agreed. It was all new for us.
The first thing Sarah said to me at the hotel was "You gotta cut your hair." I told her I didn't want to—I had a mullet at the time—but she finally got me to do it. And she got me to shave. There was even talk about me having to get a spray tan, but thank God I didn't. (There isn't a whole lot of sun in Alaska, so women go to the tanning salon quite a bit. Sarah had a booth in the governor's mansion that Willow would use a lot.) Sarah ordered me to smile all the time, wave, and not talk to the media or the cameras. If I had any questions, I needed to bring them up to McCain's team.
Sarah told us to just wait and see the free clothes we were going to get, and the food whenever we wanted it. We didn't even have to do our own hair, she said. She just couldn't believe the free clothes, the free room service, the private jets, and being escorted by cops. We had every room on our floor of the hotel, with one room for hair and makeup, one for fitting, and another for wardrobe. They did all the shopping for us, and all our clothes were already there. I was given two Burberry suits and one Armani suit, Prada shoes, and a cashmere sweater. Back home I'd wear Carhartts and flannels and cowboy boots. Putting those clothes on, I felt totally out of my world. When I went to get sized up for the suits, I remember thinking, How could this get any worse? But they were nice suits and I took them home with me. The campaign asked me to give them back a few weeks after they lost, and I did. Sarah and the girls were pissed off about this and they had to give most of their clothes back, but I still saw some of it around the house after the campaign.
In Minnesota, the girls were stoked. They were getting Gucci shoes and loving it. Sarah would have a new getup every day, sometimes twice a day, all steamed and pressed. Sarah was all smiles and giggles. She loved the lifestyle and the fact that she impressed everybody. "Isn't this nice, all this?" she would say, pointing around her suite, with its conference table, flat-screen TV, wrap couch, trays of fruits—there aren't that many different kinds of fruit in Alaska—sandwiches, and huge wardrobe. Sarah got a lot of clothes. She'd never worn anything so expensive.
Sarah didn't want me and Bristol to share a room at the hotel, so I stayed in Track's room. Track was like me—he felt that if he had to go through this, he wanted to do it and get it over with. Bristol didn't like it at first, either.
One night, there was a party for Meghan McCain's book. Track, his friend, and his girlfriend went, but Sarah told me I wasn't allowed to go. She told me she couldn't have me going out there, because I was supposed to look good for Bristol. And because you had to be 21, even though Track, his friend, and his girlfriend weren't at the time. So I hung out with Bristol. That's all we did when we were down there. We hung out all day and did absolutely nothing because we weren't allowed to go anywhere until we had an event—usually around four p.m. It was boring. Sarah would leave and have her meetings in the conference room or go upstairs and meet with McCain (his family was on a floor above us).
The night Sarah made her speech, Willow and I were in the hair room. One of the hairdressers was working on Willow's hair, and the other was doing mine, when Meghan McCain walked in and asked if someone could do hers. "I have a show," she said. One hairdresser told her she would do her hair as soon as she was done and Meghan just lost it. "You're going to do her hair before you do mine?" She got riled up and started dropping cusswords. "How are you going to do her hair when I have a show in 20 minutes? You guys are supposed to be working for my dad," she said. "You're not doing my fucking hair? Maybe you need to get some more people." Then she left. [A representative for Meghan McCain called Levi's account a "naïve mischaracterization."]
We went back to Sarah's room after the speech. All of her people and some of McCain's people came over and cracked champagne bottles. Everybody on the floor was there. We hugged her and told her, "Good job," and then we left because Bristol wasn't feeling so good. We lay down and turned on a movie while they were having a big ol' party in there. It was loud, with tons of people talking. A lot of stuff was going through my mind. Hours before, I had walked on the convention stage and lined up—we all had specific spots—looking over thousands of people. Sarah was holding Trig close since all the cameras were on. I had a taste of what it was all going to be like if she won, and I thought she might actually get elected.
It takes a lot to make Sarah Palin cry, but I've seen her cry a few times—once was when Bristol and I told her that we were pregnant, on May 4, 2008, the day after my 18th birthday. When Bristol had told me she was pregnant four days earlier, I immediately ran upstairs and told my mom, Sherry, and then I called my younger sister, Sadie, 17, on her cell phone. They were both excited.
Coincidentally, there had been a big rumor going around Wasilla that Bristol was pregnant even before she actually was, and Sarah had recently denied it was true. When we told Sarah the news, the first thing that came out of her mouth was "I just told everyone on TV that you weren't pregnant. So how are you pregnant now?"
Then Sarah started laughing because she didn't believe us. Finally, Bristol's friend, who was breaking the news with us, said, "She's being serious." So Sarah said she was going to get Todd, who walked in looking like he was going to rip my head off. I was ready for an ass whooping.
Bristol, her friend, and I sat down on one of the suede couches in their living room, Todd sat on his recliner, and Sarah was on another suede couch. "You guys gotta get married now," said Todd. "Yeah, you gotta get married," said Sarah. She started crying a bit, but it was more pissed-off crying than anything else. She just kept shaking her head. Sarah let Todd give us the spiel on raising kids. Bristol said that she understood, since she'd been taking care of Piper since she was little. But she said it respectfully. Then Bristol and I got up and left.
I proposed to Bristol in July and gave her a ring I had bought at Zales. She knew it was coming and she said yes right away. In early August, before I went hunting and Sarah was picked, Bristol and I were at a tattoo parlor in Wasilla—I was getting her name tattooed on my ring finger—when Sarah called with a plan. Bristol didn't speak; she just handed the phone to me and said, "You've got to listen to what my mom just said." Sarah told me she had a great idea: we would keep it a secret—nobody would know that Bristol was pregnant. She told me that once Bristol had the baby she and Todd would adopt him. That way, she said, Bristol and I didn't have to worry about anything.
Sarah kept mentioning this plan. She was nagging—she wouldn't give up. She would say, "So, are you gonna let me adopt him?" We both kept telling her we were definitely not going to let her adopt the baby. I think Sarah wanted to make Bristol look good, and she didn't want people to know that her 17-year-old daughter was going to have a kid.
It shouldn't have been a surprise that she wanted to keep it a secret. Sarah hadn't told us she was pregnant with Trig until about a day or two before she announced it to the media, when she was already seven months pregnant. We saw her getting a little bigger, but she tried to hide it. When we asked her, "You're pregnant, aren't you?" she denied it. Finally, one day Willow was going through things in Sarah's room and stumbled across a pregnancy test and said, "Mom, what's this?" Sarah finally came out and said she was pregnant. I was at the hospital when Sarah had the baby at a little after six a.m. on April 18, 2008, two weeks before we told her we were pregnant. He was given the name Trig Paxson Van Palin because Paxson was Todd's favorite place to snow-machine in Alaska, and because of the rock band Van Halen.
The big change that I saw in Sarah Palin occurred when she went from being the governor of Alaska to being a candidate for vice president. Her family and I had come back to Alaska right after the convention while Sarah went off to campaign. She came back to Alaska about one month after the convention, and you could tell that she'd gotten used to people steaming her clothes, doing her hair and makeup, and ordering her food for her. Everybody knew it.
She was always putting on an act in front of the camera. We all knew that she didn't know what to say on TV, and that when she was reading a script she was a phony. I'd be sitting with the family in front of the TV and we'd be disgusted watching her. Her family never said anything terrible, but they shook their heads with disappointment. And there were times where we'd sit there and pretty much laugh at things she said. I laughed every time I saw Tina Fey imitate her. She sounded just like her. I think the kids thought it was funny, too. There were also times when Sarah would be at home and watch herself on the screen and say she did very bad.
Sarah had always treated me very well, sometimes saying, "I love you, son" to me. I was surprised when Bristol told me after the convention that her mother didn't like me. She and Todd had never wanted her to be with me. I had been a so-called hotshot hockey player and all the older kids had tried to pick fights with me to get me in trouble—and sometimes they did. I also admit I came home a little drunk from a few parties with Track when I was younger. But when Sarah became governor and had to move to Juneau, she tried to get Bristol to go, too. Bristol tried to stay in Wasilla with Todd—who wasn't moving—so she could see me. But Todd told Bristol that she was going with Sarah. When the next school year began, her parents tried to get her to go back to Juneau, but she told them she wouldn't do it. She told them that, if they made her move there, she was going to elope and move in with me. So, instead, they made her go live with Sarah's sister Heather, in Anchorage. Every day Bristol would drive 45 minutes to my house or I'd go meet her at Heather's. Heather didn't mind.
During the campaign, Cindy McCain told Sarah that if they won the family wanted me and Bristol to get married at the White House. Sarah was really excited, and Bristol, of course, loved it. Before that we were planning a small wedding in their backyard with pink and orange roses. Todd, who has a pilot's license, was going to fly Bristol on his little airplane to the dock behind their house. After it was all over and they lost, the Palins weren't pushing the wedding anymore.
The night of the presidential election I was at the Ford dealership in Wasilla buying a truck as a surprise for Bristol. I think the family was optimistic, but they knew they didn't have a good run at it. Bristol called me from Arizona after it was announced that McCain had lost. The family was upset, Bristol said, but she was fine. At the beginning of the campaign she hadn't wanted her mom to win, since Sarah wasn't around at all. Though toward the end I think she started to like the attention and the treatment. But neither of us wanted to move to Washington. We didn't want Secret Service around; we just wanted to be left alone.
Sarah was sad for a while. She walked around the house pouting. I had assumed she was going to go back to her job as governor, but a week or two after she got back she started talking about how nice it would be to quit and write a book or do a show and make "triple the money." It was, to her, "not as hard." She would blatantly say, "I want to just take this money and quit being governor." She started to say it frequently, but she didn't know how to do it. When she came home from work, it seemed like she was more and more stressed out. It seemed like she couldn't handle the job anymore. I think that she was just through with it all or that she'd become used to getting everything she wanted handed to her. She'd rather take the money and keep that kind of lifestyle. When a magazine offered six figures to be at the hospital when Bristol gave birth, she said yes at first but then told us not to do it.
When she came back to Alaska, Sarah said the campaign had been a great experience. But when she began to hear McCain's people accusing her of being the reason they lost, she decided to retaliate. At home, she would say that she couldn't believe they had backstabbed her. She couldn't believe they were saying she lost the election for McCain. She would say things like "I brought everything to the table" and "The majority of people were out there voting because of me!" She definitely thought she was running for president.
Tripp Easton Mitchell Johnston was born a month later, on December 27 at 5:43 a.m. ("Mitchell" is Todd's middle name and "Easton" is for my favorite hockey-equipment company.) Tripp came out and we put him on Bristol's stomach. It was the happiest day of my life, but it was also terrible because my family couldn't be there. I didn't think Sarah wanted my mom around all the cameras because she had been arrested for selling prescription medication a week and a half earlier.
After Tripp was born, Sarah would pay more attention to our son than she would to her own baby, Trig. Sarah has a weird sense of humor. When she came home from work, Bristol and I would be holding Trig and Tripp. Sarah would call Trig—who was born with Down syndrome—"my little Down's baby." But I couldn't believe it when she would come over to us and sometimes say, playing around, "No, I don't want the retarded baby—I want the other one," and pick up Tripp. That was just her—even her kids were used to it.
Sarah didn't pay a whole lot of attention to Trig. The special-needs baby got special love from Bristol, the rest of the kids, me, and Todd, who was always playing with Trig when he could. Sarah had people coming over to do his physical therapy, but when she came home from work, she'd tell Bristol she was too tired to take care of him. She'd walk in the door, give him a kiss, and act happy for 10 seconds before hibernating in her room until the next day started. Bristol and I would have Trig until 11 p.m., when we'd put him in his crib. Sarah went to bed between 9 and 10 p.m. Once the election started, they had a lady there taking care of Trig the whole time. From being with Bristol when she watched Trig, I became quite familiar with babies before I had mine.
About 10 days before Tripp was born, I had been driving back from Anchorage with Bristol when I got a phone call from Sadie. "Mom just got arrested," she said. She didn't know the details and began crying. Bristol said my mom was an idiot, so I dropped her off and drove to the Palmer police station.
In February—just after Bristol and I broke up and I moved back to my mom's house—I went to the courthouse for my mom's hearing. As we walked out, I started talking to Rex Butler, the lawyer who had taken on her case, and Tank Jones, a private investigator who worked with him. They were both huge African-American men, wearing tailor-made suits with their names on the cuffs of their shirts. My mom asked them to help me with the press, and they told me that if I ever wanted to talk, I should just give them a call. They were really nice people, and since I've met them they've always had me cracking up. Even though I instantly liked them, I didn't want to talk to the media.
After about two weeks, the pressure from the media didn't stop. More offers than ever were coming in for movies and modeling jobs, and so I asked my mom for the number for Rex and Tank. I called them and they invited me to their office in Anchorage to sit down and talk. (Tank has an office at Rex's law firm, Rex Lamont Butler & Associates.) I gave them the business cards of all the people who had given them to me. We decided that no one could talk to me anymore—they had to speak to them. They said not everybody has a chance to be a celebrity. We decided to see what happens.
I didn't want to take things on I couldn't handle. You can't just do a movie—I'm sure it's harder than it looks. But it's weird going to the airport and having people run up to you and ask for your autograph. I wouldn't say that I like it, but, at the same time, it's kind of cool. There are people saying good things and bad things about me, but Rex, Tank, and I have learned to block all those things out. Some people have said that Rex and Tank are capitalizing on me. They're not—but even if they were, then that's my fault, not anybody else's.
I don't ever want to be a deadbeat dad. I love Tripp, and my goal is to take care of my family. I could go out and do movies, maybe one day even end up as a celebrity. But I'm not going to get a big old mansion and drive around in a Bentley. If it doesn't work out, I'll just go back to being a licensed electrician like everyone else in my family. That's still a lot of fun to me.


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Jets cornerback Darrelle Revis has started running on a treadmill, a big step forward in his recovery from a torn ACL.
His camp would like to see his soap opera with the Jets take a big step forward as well. Rich Cimini of ESPNNewYork.com reports that Revis' camp wants a resolution on Revis' status, i.e. a resolution on whether or not he'll be traded, as soon as possible. Revis and company fear that the cornerback market could dry up as free agents like Sean Smith and Aqib Talib land new contracts, so they would like to see something happen sooner rather than later.
Cimini thinks the Jets might see that as an advantage if they still hold out hope of signing him to a new deal on terms friendly to the team, although any course of action that involves holding onto Revis into the summer and/or next season also ratchets up the risk of losing him with no compensation after the 2013 season.
Teams who do wind up spending big money on cornerbacks once free agency opens are going to be unlikely landing spots for Revis in a trade this offseason, although continued progress in his rehabilitation should ensure that there's enough interest to keep the trade fires burning even after Smith, Talib and others get paid.


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Explore 11th century England with National Archives UK new Domesday map. You can search by placename or postal code, or browse the map to find out whether your town had a place in the earliest surviving public record.
The new Domesday tool shows a map with those places mentioned in William the Conqueror's survey of England in 1086.
Visitors to the site can also download photographs from the early 20th century.
I gave this a try since my maternal grandparents were both born in England their lineage is solidly English. Some of the towns where my ancestors lived were Ramsgate, Chilham, Lenham, Pluckley, and more.
The search area for the maps was extremely slow to load but hopefully this is due to visitor interest and not the website itself. Using IE8, the map never loaded and did not display. A search for "Ramsgate" in IE8 had still not provided text results after 4 minutes, so I switched to Firefox.
Using Firefox the map displayed very quickly and a search for "Lenham" brought text results in 2 minutes. But searching for "Pluckley" hadn't displayed results even after 4 minutes of waiting.
I will try again and hope that the site is just busy this morning.


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Supreme Court Approves Gathering of DNA, South Dakota Attorney General Agrees
On Monday, the U.S. Supreme Court handed down a 5-4 decision in favor of police organizations gathering DNA samples upon arrest. The case originated from a Maryland man who was arrested for assault in 2009. After taking a DNA sample from Alonzo Jay King, the results were linked to evidence from an unsolved rape in 2003.
South Dakota Attorney General Marty Jackley says the Maryland law that allowed for the collection of DNA upon arrest is very similar to South Dakota statute. Thus, Jackley along with other Attorneys General across the nation were in support of the Maryland law. Jackley says the law does not cross into invasion of privacy and there are reasonable safeguards in place.
Jackley Says The Maryland And South Dakota DNA Collection Laws Similar
Furthermore, the DNA law in South Dakota was limited in scope by the Legislature. If someone is arrested for a violent or sex offense then collection can commence. Petty offenses or misdemeanors do not meet the threshold of DNA collection. Plus DNA cannot be collected for medicinal or genetic purposes and can be expunged upon request. To date the law which was enacted in 2003 and revised in 2005 has helped solve 260 cases including a murder.
Jackley Reveals That DNA Collection Has Helped Catch Criminals
Jackley also intimates that the cost of processing and storing samples would preclude taking a swab from arrests involving minor offenses.


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August 30, 2011
American actress, Drew Barrymore, in her capacity as Ambassador of the UN's World Food Programme (WFP), visited a Grundfos LIFELINK unit in Kiltamany in the Samburu district in Kenya.
A Grundfos LIFELINK unit is a sustainable water supply installation, based on state-of-the-art technology and developed particularly for developing countries. A unit consists of a pump and a solar panel as well as a payment system at which the users pay a symbolic amount of money by means of cell phones to ensure enough money will be available for maintenance.
"Incredible", Ms Barrymore called the technology in a video, while being shown how the village people use their cell phones for getting the water flow from the tap.
- Before, the women had to walk for seven kilometres to get water in small amounts and that made life beyond difficult, she said.