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The Berea Arts Council presents a series of events in the month of September.
• The Berea Arts Council's current exhibit, "Kentucky Guild of Artists and Craftsmen," runs through Oct. 13. It is being held in conjunction with the fall KGAC Fair Oct. 12-13 at Indian Fort Theater. The BAC gallery is located at 116 Main St. Hours are Monday-Saturday 10 a.m.to 4. p.m.
• Intermediate Watercolor Class – This six-week class meets on Tuesdays from 6 to 8 p.m. starting Sept. 10. Gain a better understanding of the elements and principles of design, the contrasts of color schemes, selecting palettes, and more. For more details or to download the registration form, go to www.BereaArtsCouncil.org and click on the Workshop link.
• Calligraphy Class – This four-week class meets on Thursdays from 6 to 8 p.m. and starts on Sept. 12. You can expect to be able to write meaningful notes and letters, and do decorative lettering on your own ... perhaps designing your own greeting cards and notes. The main part of the study will be instruction in italics and cursive. For more details or to download the registration form, go to www.BereaArtsCouncil.org and click on the Workshop link.
• Berea poet Steve Rhodes and Chicago poet Susanna Lang will be reading from their new poetry collections 5:30 p.m. Friday, Sept. 20. Refreshments will be served.
Steve will be reading from "What Might Not Be," the sequel to his first collection. He will also be reading from "They Speak Your Language," his collection of children's animal poems illustrated by Berea native Amanda Chao. Some of Amanda's drawings will be available for viewing during the reading.
Susanna will be reading from her new poetry collection, "Tracing the Lines." The event is at the Berea Arts Council gallery, 116 Main St.
• The sixth annual Walk with the Arts for Madison County fourth-graders will be held Sept. 27 at Indian Fort Theater. Check with your local elementary school for participation details. Last year's event featured 20 artists and performers who demonstrated their craft for around 1,000 Madison County fourth-graders.


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The most glorious time for 4-H youths at the fair is when their animals receive a grand champion banner.
That means a lot of hard work, time and effort that went into a year of preparation has paid off, because that animal is the top one of its kind at the Lawrence County Fair.
The grand champions brought high financial yields to youths who showed the top market animals. Those were sold at the fair's annual Junior Livestock Auction on Saturday. The funds go back into paying sale-related expenses, and the youths keep the rest. Many of them invest it back into another animal, while others put the money into a college fund.
"Many people in the community do not realize the effort and energy that goes into this project," commented Alec Covelli, 17, who showed the grand champion steer this year.
"I would like to express my appreciation to the many people who guided me through this experience. Their encouragement and support made this accomplishment possible. I am looking forward to next year," he said.
Shelby Engleka, who showed goats for the first time this year, said, "I was shocked when I got first in showmanship and won grand champion."
The 14-year-old New Galilee resident said she didn't know anything about goats when she started the year.
"I can't wait 'til next year," she said.
The grand champion market animal winners and information about the sale of their animals is as follows:
Grand champion steer
Shown by Alec Covelli, 17, of Patterson Road. His parents are John Covelli and Lisa Jones, and his stepfather is David Jones.
Covelli is a junior at Laurel High School. He is a one-year member of Laurel's Future Farmers of America and has been in 4-H for seven years.
Covelli showed a Maine cross steer named Dallas, which was one year and five months old. The 1,414 pound animal sold for $3.50 per pound to Crane Room Grille owner Jeff Measel.
Grand champion hog
Shown by Ryan Martin, 21, of 402 Martin Lane, Volant. He is a son of Blaine and Lori Martin and is a senior at Penn State University, where he is majoring in agribusiness management.
Martin has been a member of the Wilmington Area School District's FFA for nine years, and this was his last year for showing.
His grand champion winner was a black crossbred gilt hog that was born and raised on his home farm. At the time of the sale it weighed 274 pounds and was bought by Richard Martin of Volant and Witmer's Feed & Grain of Columbiana, Ohio, at a price of $5.50 per pound.
Grand champion goat
Shown by 14-year-old Shelby Engleka, 14, of New Galilee. Engleka is a daughter of Sean and Cathy Engleka. She is a freshmen attending Mohawk High School.
Engleka is a member of the 4-H Neat Kids Goat Club and has been in 4-H for seven years for horse and for one year for goats.
Her grand champion, named Stella, was an 8-month-old Boer. The animal weighed 87 pounds and was sold at the livestock auction for $12 per pound to Apple Grove Veterinary Clinic.
Grand champion meat pen of rabbits
Shown by Brooke Lechner, 15, of Wampum. She is a daughter of Bryan and Tina Lechner.
Brooke is a sophomore at Shenango High School and has been a member of the 4-H Blue Ribbon Rabbit Club for three years.
Her meat pen of New Zealand white junior bucks, weighing a total of 15.63 pounds, sold for $27.50 per pound to James D. Bish and ESB Bank of Ellwood City.
Grand champion lamb
Shown by Dylan Martin, 20, of Volant. A son of Amy and Todd Martin, he is a junior attending Penn State University and majoring in animal science.
Martin has been in the Wilmington Area FFA for eight years.
His winning lamb, a Hampshire cross, weighed 140 pounds at the time of the auction and was purchased for $9 per pound by Brian L. Taylor of New Wilmington.
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This story is from the December 30th, 1976 issue of Rolling Stone.
This is the way the fairy tale begins: "Brother took his little sister by the hand and said, 'Since our mother died we have not had one happy hour. Stepmother beats us every day and when we want to come to her she kicks us away with her foot. Come, we will go out into the wide world together.' All day they walked over meadows, fields and stony paths and when it rained sister said, 'God and our hearts are weeping together.' In the evening they came into a great forest and were so tired from misery, hunger and the long journey that they sat down in a hollow tree and went to sleep." Bewitched by the evil stepmother, Little Brother is transformed into a deer, but Little Sister promises never to leave him. Untying her garter, she ties it around his neck and leads him deeper into the forest. "And when they had gone a long, long way, they came to a hut and the girl looked in and thought, here we can stay and spend our lives. And so she collected leaves and moss to make a soft bed for the deer, and every morning she went out and found roots and berries and nuts for herself, and for the deer she brought tender grasses which it ate out of her hand and it was happy and gamboled all around her. At night, when sister was tired and had said her prayers, she laid her head on the fawn's back and that was her pillow on which she fell gently asleep. And if only brother had his human form, it would have been a lovely life."
Perhaps it is only in childhood," Graham Greene has said, "that books have any deep influence on our lives." But it is important to realize that it is exactly in those books that children have adopted as their own that our deepest wishes and fantasies are most simply expressed.
One of the most haunting of these fantasies concerns the Two Forsaken Children who, as these archetypal siblings are beautifully described by the poet H.D. in her meditative Tribute to Freud, form a "little group, a desig?, an image at the crossroads." One child, H.D. tells us, is sometimes the shadow of the other, as in Greek tragedies. Often one is lost and seeks the other, as in the oldest fairy tale of the twin brother and sister of the Nile Valley. Sometimes they are both boys, like Castor and Pollux, finding their corresponding shape in the stars. In the 19th century we discover them in the story written by Edmond Goncourt about two acrobats (actually foils for himself and his beloved brother Jules) who "joined their nervous systems to master an impossible trick," as well as in the unsurpassed visionary tales of George MacDonald. But they are most deeply imprinted in our minds in the Grimms' "Little Brother, Little Sister."
When Maurice Sendak was six years old, he and his 11-year-old brother Jack collaborated on a story called They Were Inseparable, about a brother and sister who, Maurice says, "had a hankering for each other – it was a very naive and funny book. We both idolized our sister, she was the eldest and by far the prettiest, and we thought she was the crown jewel of the family. So because we idolized her, we made the book about a brother and a sister. And at the very end of the story, as I recall, an accident occurs: the brother's in the hospital, they don't think he's going to recover, the sister comes rushing in, and they just grab each other – like at the conclusion of Tosca – and exclaim: we are inseparable! Everybody rushes in to separate them as they jump out the hospital window...Yes, you see, we did know dimly that there was something wrong, we were punishing them unconsciously.
"I imagine that all siblings have such feelings," Maurice continues. "The learning process makes children become aware that there's a taboo with regard to these feelings, but before you learn that, you do what comes naturally. My parents weren't well-to-do, and we had only two beds – my brother and I slept in one, my sister Natalie in the other, and often we'd all sleep in the same bed. My parents would come in – sometimes with my uncle and aunt – and they'd say: 'Look, see how much they like each other.' I loved my brother, and I didn't know that that could be this, and this that... kids find that out later."
Three years ago Sendak illustrated "Little Brother, Little Sister" in The Juniper Tree, a collection of 27 tales by the Brothers Grimm – with accompanying Dürer-like drawings by Sendak – in the brilliant, unadorned translations of Lore Segal and Randall Jarrell. "A story like 'Little Brother, Little Sister' says everything in metaphor," Maurice comments, "so that it isn't upsetting to anybody. It's something we've always known about fairy tales – they talk about incest, the Oedipus complex, about psychotic mothers, like those of Snow White and Hansel and Gretel, who throw their children out. They tell things about life which children know instinctively, and the pleasure and relief lie in finding these things expressed in language that children can live with. You can't eradicate these feelings – they exist and they're a great source of creative inspiration."
This is, of course, what the child psychologist and writer Bruno Bettelheim has pointed out in his recently acclaimed The Uses of Enchantmentca strong, humanistic/ psychological defense against the always continuing attempts to bowdlerize and palliate fairy tales. But Bettelheim has certainly made an about-face since the time he admonished parents not to buy Sendak's immensely popular Where the Wild Things Are, warning them that little Max's dreamlike foray into the world of befangled and beclawed monsters would scare children, and that Max's rebellion against adult authority was psychologically harmful.
Sendak himself has answered these and other criticisms (my favorite comes from the Journal of Nursery Education's review of Wild Things: "We should not like to have it left about where a sensitive child might find it to pore over in the twilight".) in the acceptance speech he gave upon receiving the 1964 Caldecott Medal:
"[There are] games children must conjure up to combat an awful fact of childhood: the fact of their vulnerability to fear, anger, hate, frustration – all the emotions that are an ordinary part of their lives and that they can perceive only as ungovernable and dangerous forces. To master these forces, children turn to fantasy: that imagined world where disturbing emotional situations are solved to their satisfaction. Through fantasy, Max, the hero of my book, discharges his anger against his mother, and returns to the real world sleepy, hungry and at peace with himself.
"Certainly we want to protect our children from new and painful experiences that are beyond their emotional comprehension and that intensify anxiety; and to a point we can prevent premature exposure to such experiences.
That is obvious. But what is just as obvious – and what is too often overlooked – is the fact that from their earliest years children live on familiar terms with disrupting emotions, that fear and anxiety are an intrinsic part of their everyday lives, that they continually cope with frustration as best they can. And it is through fantasy that children achieve catharsis. It is the best means they have for taming Wild Things.
"It is my involvement with this inescapable fact of childhood – the awful vulnerability of children and their struggle to make themselves King of All Wild Things – that gives my work whatever truth and passion it may have."
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Here are the inescapable facts of Maurice Sendak's childhood. Born in Brooklyn in 1928, he was the youngest of three children of Philip and Sarah Sendak, both of whom came to America before World War I from Jewish shtetls outside Warsaw.
One of Maurice's earliest memories dates from the age of three or four. "I was convalescing after a long, serious illness. I was sitting on my grandmother's lap, and I remember the feeling of pleasant drowsiness. It was winter. We sat in front of a window, and my grandmother pulled the shade up and down to amuse me. Every time the shade went up, I was thrilled by the sudden reappearance of the backyard, the falling snow, and my brother and sister busy constructing a sooty snowman. Down came the shade – I waited. Up went the shade – the children had moved, the snowman had grown eyes. I don't remember a single sound."
Perhaps Sendak's later interest in animated toys and transformation books begins here. His love of wonder tales certainly derives from the stories his father told him as a child. Philip Sendak was apparently an inspiring improviser of stories, and would embroider and extend a tale over a period of nights. Maurice recalls one of the more memorable of these in an illuminating New Yorker profile written in 1966 by Nat Hentoff:
"It was about a child taking a walk with his father and mother. He becomes separated from them. Snow begins to fall, and the child shivers in the cold. He huddles under a tree, sobbing in terror. An enormous figure hovers over him and says, as he draws the boy up, 'I'm Abraham, your father.' His fear gone, the child looks up and also sees Sarah. He is no longer lost. When his parents find him, the child is dead. Those stories had something of the character of William Blake's poems. The myths in them didn't seem at all factitious. And they fused Jewish lore with my father's particular way of shaping memory and desire. That one, for instance, was based on the power of Abraham in Jewish tradition as the father who was always there – a reassuring father even when he was Death. But the story was also about how tremendously my father missed his parents. Not all his tales were somber though. My father could be very witty, even if the humor was always on the darker side of irony."
Maurice's sister Natalie gave him his first book, The Prince and the Pauper. "A ritual began with that book," Sendak once told Virginia Haviland, "which I recall very clearly. The first thing was to set it up on the tablel and stare at it for a long time. Not because I was impressed with Mark Twain; it was just such a beautiful object. Then came the smelling of it... it was printed on particularly fine paper, unlike the Disney books I had gotten previous to that. The Prince and the Paper – Pauper – smelled good and it also had a shiny laminated cover. I flipped over that. I remember trying to bite into it, which I don't imagine is what my sister intended when she bought the book for me. But the last thing I did with the book was to read it. It was all right. But I think it started then, my passion for books and bookmaking. There's so much more to a book than just the reading. I've seen children touch books, fondle books, smell books, and it's all the reason in the world why books should be beautifully produced."
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I specialize in Russian economics and demographics.
David Satter's analysis at National Review Online is a pretty adequate fill-in for the way most media outlets view the prosecution of the punk rock group Pussy Riot:
The opening of the trial of a Russian female punk band for an unsanctioned performance in Moscow's Christ the Savior Cathedral in which they called on the Virgin Mary to drive away Putin is more than a travesty of justice. It is also an ominous hint that Putin now faces real political opposition in Russia, and may seek to defend himself with the help of a new authoritarian ideology…
As Russian observers have pointed out, they appealed to the Virgin, not to Satan, and although their song was unusual and not in keeping with the solemn setting, there was nothing about it that was prohibited. In fact, the message that the band was trying to convey was a fundamentally important one — that there is something anti-religious about the Russian Orthodox hierarchy's subservience to Putin
This all sounds plausible enough. After all, it's not hard to imagine why people would support the young, female rock musicians in their struggle against a brutal, corrupt, cynical, and increasing unpopular system. But what do Russians themselves think about Pussy Riot? Do they think their persecution is a "travesty of justice?" Do they see the young women of the punk rock art collective as blameless victims of a rapacious authoritarianism?
Well, thankfully, the Levada Center just released a new poll on Russians' opinions of Pussy Riot, and it has some very interesting findings. First of all Russians do seem to genuinely think that the proposed punishment of anywhere between 2 and 7 years in prison is excessive and unfair. In July of 2012 only 33% of respondents said that this punishment was "adequate," a figure significantly lower than the previous figures of 47% in April and 46% in March.
But thinking that punishment is "excessive" is very different from thinking that Pussy Riot shouldn't be punished at all. What do Russians think should happen to the members of Pussy Riot? What do they think is appropriate punishment for the "punk prayer" that they delivered in the Cathedral of Christ the Savior? Well, the answer might disappoint you:
5%(!) of Russians think that the members of Pussy Riot don't deserve any punishment at all. Five percent! The plurality of Russians apprently think that the appropriate punishment is forced labor. Forced labor! Does that sound like a society that is united in its support of the beleaguered punk rockers and that is greatly outraged over the Kremlin's trampling on freedom of speech?
Now please don't blame me for drawing attention to it, but doesn't the information above seriously complicate the emerging narrative that the prosecution of Pussy Riot isn't only a travesty of justice (it would seem quite obvious that it is a travesty of justice) but that it is deeply unpopular? Doesn't the fact that Russians overwhelmingly support some kind of draconian punishment for the members of Pussy Riot do a lot to explain why the trial is, in fact, continuing?
Additionally, while it might seem plausible that the Orthodox Church has a PR nightmare on its hands, most Russians don't appear to be particularly perturbed by its actions:
I personally find the Pussy Riot prosecution to be appalling and unjustifiable, but the world at large doesn't appear particularly troubled about my personal opinion on this (or any other) issue. What really matters, what will determine the trial's impact on Russia and its future development, is what Russians themselves think. And when you glance at the polling data, the Pussy Riot trial isn't nearly as insane and self-defeating a decision as it might appear at first glance. Can Putin and his ilk overplay their hand? Absolutely. If they push for the maximum possible punishment, this could very easily blow up in their faces. But based on polling evidence, the court could force the members of Pussy Riot to do mandatory labor and the public would see this as a satisfying outcome.
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Boycott Russian vodka until Pussy Riot is free!!
This is pretty much the worst response possible. Some infamous "Russian" vodka is bottled in Latvia actually. But if it makes it feel like your helping, go ahead and boycott something you know nothing about.
I sound like an idiot earlier saying your instead of you're, but looking at your FB page you are advocating a boycott on Latvian made vodka and
Well what's wrong with my commenting today. I don't have FB account but just wanted to say that Stoli is Latvian made. Russian grain and style perhaps, but distilled and bottled in Latvia. Has been since early Soviet days. This kind of boycott is typical of people who think they want to help a situation, but really deep down just want to hurt ordinary Russians. Because of their own ignorance and intolerance they don't even understand they are just hurting Americans and Europeans, and Russia will never care. It's very much reflective much western policy towards Russia, and it's sad and sick.
You need a better translator. What you call "forced labor" is, in fact, known in English as "community service". Those 29% are the people who think that swearing in a cathedral is not a good thing, but does not merit much more than a severe frown and slap on a wrist. Not all Russians are religious fanatics.
And 1967 Rolling Stones trial? Really? Did you just compare a political performance with recreational drug use? Those girls tried to make a difference, however misguided their methods.
Part of the problem is that that question in the original survey is rather unfortunately worded – legally speaking, обязательные работы are indeed along the lines of "picking up a few pieces of litter from the Garden Ring," while "принудительные работы" are a significantly harsher punishment, the kind of compulsory labor that can take you away from your home and job (but does not include confinement from society – I think there is a Gaidai short where the main character is doing this sort of labor, if you're familiar). Of course, what the average Russian thinks of when s/he hears these two phrases is more important for the survey than legal meanings. Unfortunately, I'm not a native speaker (are you?), and I don't know the answer to that. Speculatively, I'd guess that that 29% of people in favor of forced labor have a pretty broad spectrum of labor in mind.
What were you on when you read this? I re-read it, and STILL didn't see anything about the Rolling Stones….
Excuse me, Mark Adomanis, but you know nothing about Russia's criminal justice system. Absolutely vicious and merciless ? Really ? Where did you get that ?
If we compare the punishments meted out by USA and Russia, you will notice a big difference:
Simple murder
Death penalty, 25 to 50 years
15-20 years
3-20 years
2-10 years
1-20 years
1-10 years
So which criminal justice system is more merciless. The russian criminal system is a vestige of Soviet Union one when the society actually believed that everyone deserved the 2d chance.
And don´t tell me, please, about gulags which had been abolished after Stalin´s death in 1953 and condemned by the proper successor of Stalin.
And in the case of Pusy Riots´s trial, they debate about the 6-month-in-jail punishment, not 7 years, which equally is very harsh in my opinion.
But the thing is Pusy Riots wouldn´t be prosecuted at all if they wouldn´t have crossed the area destined for priests.
Russia´s orthodox church is very conservative one. Many of its rules are dictated by the Old Testament, they are more close to Judaism than to the Catholicism. And if you check the Old Testamen, the prist area where the first priest Aaron performed his rituals was prohibited for simple folk. The punishment for crossing it would be immediate death. So what Pusy Riots did is considered very grave religious offence.
I am agnostic myself, but I studied Bible, so I know something about the orthodox christianity. It doesn´t mean I am agree with this, but this is what millions of people believe and you must respect it. If you would do what Pusy Riots did in Israel in some temple, I very doubt that you would get out in one piece from that.
PS. I am Russian but working abroad, so I am not brain-washed by Putin.


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1) Eagerly supporting/funding study for the commuter train from McMinnville to Portland that did not have any chance of happening.
2) Funding the Newberg-Dundee bypass at a level greater than Newberg and Dundee combined even though there would be a shortfall in funding McMinnville street maintenance.
3) Never in the last three decades taking a stand against the mismanagement of PERS and now wanting money to cover PERS costs.
Really? I guess the question is - how is that any different than what has been happening for the last 30 years?
However, people like to think they can have their cake and eat it too. They like to think if they just root out all of the supposed waste, there will be lots of money left to meet their personal priorities. So we feel compelled to remind them of reality.
Nearly every level of government ( or public-funded entity) will claim slim, but the truth does not coincide with that assessment.
The article states the city has raised fees (or licenses) and cutting staff. So the reality these days is we are already paying more and getting less. Not much more room to wiggle, don't you think?
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Last night I saw an interview with Notre Dame linebacker Manti Te'O. If you're unaware of the situation, Te'O got catfished. What does being catfished mean exactly? Well the urban dictionary definition is, "someone who pretends to be someone they're not using Facebook or other social media to create false identities, particularly to purse deceptive online romances."
The sad thing is - so many of the people critizing Te'O for his embarrassing secret, don't understand the depths of online romance. (Nor do I for that matter, but I feel like I can sympthasize and understand maybe why he pursued someone online).
The architect of this elaborate hoax was Ronaiah Tuiasosopo. There is discussion that he used his cousin to speak as the female Te'O thought he was in a relationship with over the telephone but Tuiasosopo's lawyer claims Ronaiah had been the voice in over 1,000 hours of phone conversations.
In my opinion, people are too quick to judge this boy. He thought he was really talking to a female online and thought he was even in a relationship with her. What people should really be taking from this situation is the danger that can stem from fake online profiles and the hurt it can cause.


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Niagara Gazette — A member of the Falls City Council is proposing merging city departments to deal with current budget woes.
Councilwoman Kristen Grandinetti is proposing the Community and Economic development departments be merged to create a streamlined approach for city development.
Last week, the council made several cuts to 2013 Economic Development budget, including the elimination of the Economic Development director, Business Development director, and Economic Development professional positions, and did not overturn Mayor Paul Dyster's elimination of the tourism marketing manager.
Grandinetti, in a release, noted the staff cuts, in addition to the ongoing dispute between New York state and the Seneca Nation of Indians over casino revenues are negatively impacting the city's future economic strategy.
"These are hard times, and all the more reason to have a clear strategy for business attraction, housing development, and tax base growth," she said. "We need to do more with less, so let's start right now."
Under Grandinetti's plan, both departments would merge under Seth Piccirillo, current director of Community Development, at a zero salary increase. The staff would be located at the Carnegie Building to serve as a "one-stop shop" for everything from small business loan requests to residential home renovation projects.
The change would reduce administrative costs, maximize the use of the Carnegie Building, justify going after grants funds to repair and preserve the historic building, and reduce city hall utility and maintenance costs for Room 17, Grandinetti said.
Most importantly, she added, the new approach creates a single effort including partnerships with the Niagara County Center for Economic Development, New York state, and allows the city to make future personnel decisions to meet cross-functional needs and save money in the process. Other cities, including Syracuse, New York and Seattle, Washington, have adopted similar models.
"In today's government, shared service is the way to efficiently save money. Gov. Andrew Cuomo has made consolidation a top priority and it makes financial sense across the board. When we have an opportunity to be innovative, we should take it," Grandinetti said. "Despite our current difficulties, I think all of the council members understand the financial importance of economic growth. We need to get through the 2013 budget and develop a solid strategy for bringing in more development at the same time. This new department will help us, and this idea should be executed right away."


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Airport project scheduled for summerBy Gordon Dritschilo
Staff Writer | February 07,2013Work around the runway at the Rutland airport is slated for the summer.
The proposed FY 2014 budget includes $5,360,000 for the expansion of the runway safety area and associated relocation of Airport Road. The project will provide more flat terrain surrounding the runway.
"If a plane lands long — or short — this level turf provides a safe area for the plane to come to a rest with minimal structure damage," said Jason Owen, project manager for the Vermont Agency of Transportation.
The change brings the airport closer to FAA design standards, Owen said, and should help upgrade the airport's safety rating from "fair" to "excellent."
"In a perfect world, in airports like Rutland, they would like 1,000 feet," he said. "That's not practical, but we're going to double what's there. Right now, it's about 300 feet and we're going to make it 600 feet."
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Duane Sigsbury has landed that elusive Super Bowl championship. The Cathedral High School head football coach, and former Manchester Essex boys basketball coach, took home the hardware on Saturday at Gillette Stadium as Cathedral came away with a 22-20 win over Madison Park in the Division 4A Super Bowl.
Cathedral, who finished the season with a record of 11-2, was led by quarterback Kejonte Hickman. The sophomore carried the ball 46 times for 249 yards.
The win for Cathedral comes a year after being robbed in the Division 4A Super Bowl against Blue Hills in 2011 when a Cathedral player was whistled for an unsportsmanlike penalty for pumping his fist after breaking free for what he thought was the game winning touchdown.
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The NEC/CAL had a solid showing in the 2012 MIAA football playoffs with four teams posting a 3-3 record.
Tier 2 winner Beverly was the big winner taking home a Division 2A Super Bowl title, Tier 4 Lynnfield made the Super Bowl after knocking off Tier 3 champ Amesbury in the playoffs. Lynnfield lost to Bishop Feehan in the Division 3A Super Bowl Saturday.
Masconomet also ran into an eventual champ in the playoffs falling to Everett in Division 1A.
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MIT is well accustomed to being No. 1. Most of its science-related majors are among the best if not the best in the nation.
But No. 1 in men's basketball? Yes, according to the latest NCAA Division 3 rankings.
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The media continues to embarrass itself with these leaps of faith on performance enhancing drugs. You often hear ... "We can safely assume Curt Schilling never took ..." Or, "I'd be stunned if Rob Ninkovich ever..."
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Curse of the "X-Men"
I'll *finally* be seeing "X-Men: First Class" this afternoon, a mere 11 hours before it's released in midnight showings in some markets. (Watch the trailer below.)
Although this is past the newspaper's deadline for Friday's Cue section @Tapmilwaukee never sleeps and a review will run on line later today (aka, as soon as I finish it).
I saw the last "X-Men" film at the Cannes Film Festival, of all places, in 2006, where that film's director Brett Ratner had promised that the franchise had come to an end.
But if fans can accept the idea of an alternate universe populated by mutant superheroes, then accepting an alternate reality inside that universe - in which new actors play young versions of the original characters in the origins story that is the new film's conceit - will be be no stretch.
But let me inject a cautionary note for actress Jennifer Lawrence. Was playing blue skinned mutant Raven, played by Rebecca Romijn in the last film, really the best choice you could make after being nominated, deservedly, for an Oscar in the gloomy indie film "Winter's Bone?"
Witness Halle Berry, who went from her Oscar win for the similarly downbeat "Monster's Ball," into a series of forgettable roles in "Catwoman," "Die Another Day," and "X-2,' in which she played the platinum haired Storm (the character does not appear in the new film) - and whose downward trajectory continues today.
Lawrence, the only Oscar nominee in "First Class" is in good company. Fantasy films are rich with Oscar talent, whose acting process is designed to lend gravitas to the films' absurd concepts.
Nominees Ian McKellen and Ellen Page and winner Anna Pacquin were in the last "X-Men," film, and this summer alone Oscar winner Kenneth Branagh directed "Thor," which co-starred Oscar winner Natalie Portman, and "Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides," co-starred Oscar winners Penelope Cruz and Geoffrey Rush (and a cameo by fellow winner Judi Dench) and three time nominee Johnny Depp.
All have had successful careers. And so should Lawrence.
Unless, like Berry, she doesn't.
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— Pending obituaries, as published May 19 in The Herald Bulletin:
Terry D. Breeden
ANDERSON — Terry D. Breeden, 75, died May 14, 2013, at St. Vincent Heart Hospital in Carmel. Arrangements are pending at ARN Cremation Services, Zionsville, Ind.
Jack P. Casstevens
MIDDLETOWN — Jack P. Casstevens, 82, died May 18, 2013, following an extended illness. Arrangements are pending at Ballard and Sons Funeral Home, Middletown.
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NAPLES, Fla. — The Rev. Charles Dexter Westhafer, former Anderson resident, died May 17, 2013, at Avow Hospice Care in Naples, Fla., following a lengthy illness. Arrangements are pending at Robert Loose Funeral Homes and Crematory, Anderson.
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The Tonawanda News
Tonawanda News — I've been a sports fan all my life, but these days it seems like pro sports leagues are doing everything in their power to turn me off to their games.
The latest thing to tick me off? The NFL's petty and cheap battle with its referees.
The NFL makes billions in revenue and has captivated Americans for decades. We give over one-seventh of the days in a week to this one enterprise. Sunday mornings people go to church. After that they worship football.
At its best, sports bring people together and provide a common bond with neighbors and strangers alike in communities across America. Football makes for barroom banter, newspaper fodder, weekend parties and a ready excuse to eat multiple kinds of dip as a meal. Cholesterol levels not withstanding, these are good things.
Then these replacement referees so badly bungled the end of Monday Night Football it makes us all admit we're investing far too much energy in what is really just a game — and a pretty stupid game at that.
For you non-football types, here, in plain English, is what happened to end the game between the Green Bay Packers and Seattle Seahawks.
Both teams stunk up the joint for a large portion of the game. With precisely one touchdown scored for most of it, Green Bay held the lead on the game's final drive. The Seahawks needed a touchdown to win and on the final play, threw a Hail Mary pass into the end zone.
What happens next defies logic, much less plain English.
First, a Seahawks wide receiver shoves a Packers defender out of the way when trying to catch the ball. This is against the rules. At least it's supposed to be. But players jostle for the ball all the time and it is never called. Still, everyone agrees the refs should have thrown a flag making this next part — wherein we are required to debate what it means, both literally and existentially, to catch a ball — moot.
So with one defender dispatched after that vicious shove, the Seahawks receiver jumps up, as do about five other guys. One of them, a Green Bay defender, appears to get his hands on the ball. As he falls to the ground, the Seahawks receiver attempts to grab the ball away from him. They both tumble to the ground and wrestle for control.
The two officials standing watch mere feet away both make a signal — except one calls it a touchdown and one calls it an interception. Chaos ensues. We go to the video replay, which everyone who has ever caught a ball or seen someone else catch a ball can agree shows the Packers player caught the ball, thereby ending the game and sealing his team's victory. If you haven't seen the replay a thousand times already trust me, a man who has watched all manner of sport where other men catch things. The Packers player caught the ball.
The replacement referees confer and cast away all manner of logic, holding that the touchdown counts, the Seahawks win and we're all left howling about the terrible officiating.
In the wake of the controversy, the league issued a statement agreeing the shove should have been called a penalty, but that the officials correctly determined the Seahawks player caught the ball.
As is always the case in such instances, the league unearthed a heretofore unknown portion of the rulebook about what is sure to be the next sports rulebook euphemism, a simultaneous catch.
I refuse to dignify such a stupid idea as a simultaneous catch with an attempt to explain to you the NFL's explanation of the play. It's pointless.
And it is at this point that I completely sympathize with these two poor refs — who never asked to be put on national TV and had no idea what they were doing. If you can tell me what the heck a "simultaneous catch" is, let alone what should happen after, you're watching way too much Sportscenter.
I've suffered through some pretty upsetting officiating in my years as a Buffalo sports fan. The Bills lost a playoff game when no one could agree whether a ball that wasn't thrown backward actually went forward. I've sat and watched as a foot in the goal crease in triple overtime of a decisive Stanley Cup game cost my beloved Sabres a shot at our first title.
I'm used to this kind of thing. Bad calls are a part of being a fan. But when your sport in large part entails throwing and catching a ball and you can't tell me what constitutes a "catch" there's something seriously wrong.
Sort of makes you think when it comes to football we're all wasting our time, doesn't it?Eric DuVall is the managing editor of the Tonawanda News. His column appears Wednesdays and Sundays. Contact him at firstname.lastname@example.com.


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Public Service Recognition Week May 5-11
Across the country and in communities like New Albany, federal employees protect and serve our nation. To honor these workers and their service, May 5-11 has been designated as Public Service Recognition Week.
With the exception of astronauts and the SEAL team that caught Osama bin Laden, there aren't many federal employees whose work is heralded in newspaper headlines.
Whether it's our role to inspect food and water, open new international trade routes for U.S. companies to sell their products, patrol America's borders, protect our freedoms, take criminals off the streets and keep them behind bars, acquire the best equipment for our soldiers, or provide the intelligence needed to thwart terrorism, a federal employee's satisfaction comes from the knowledge that America is safer and stronger because we did our jobs.
There are many federal workers in your communities and surrounding areas. They sound the alarm when a bad storm is coming; postal employees deliver the mail; air traffic controllers make the skies safer; the Census Bureau provides vital statistics to businesses; the V.A. Medical Center provides health care to veterans; the Corps of Engineers secure our dams and prevent floods in our communities; Social Security provides your grandmother's monthly check; Medicare pays her medical bills; and the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission makes your children's toys safe, etc.
Unfortunately, many politicians and congressional members target federal workers for cuts in pay and earned benefits as measures in a continuing fight over the federal budget. Federal employees' salaries have been frozen for nearly three years, contributing almost $114 billion toward deficit reduction. No other workers in the private sector have been singled out for shared sacrifice or similar measures.
As you encounter these federal workers in our community, I encourage you to let them know you appreciate the work they do in your behalf. We are honored to serve you.
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Organizer offers thanks to clean up volunteers
On Saturday, April 27, spring cleaning and beautification for New Albany was possible because of about 75 volunteers who were willing to get their hands dirty and make a difference in the community. We are so grateful they gave up their Saturday morning to clean, weed, plant, mulch, fill planters, and in general, beautify downtown New Albany. This was an initiative of Keep New Albany Clean and Green in partnership with Develop New Albany, and it was inspiring to see the community come together to make this happen.
Here are the accomplishments by the by the numbers: 530 petunias, 120 sweet potato vines, 60 geraniums, 30 lantana and 12 roses were all planted. Two hundred bags of mulch were spread. Thousands of weeds we pulled. Sixty planters were filled with flowers around the downtown area. They look great. Thanks to the Community Foundation of Southern Indiana, Horseshoe Foundation and Samtec for providing the necessary funds to do this. Thank you MainSource Bank for donuts, coffee and water to support the volunteers and sincere appreciation goes to the many volunteers who worked so hard to make it happen. Thanks to Girl Scout Daisy Troop #1329 from the first grade at Floyds Knobs Elementary and their parents for helping beautify the Veterans Memorial on Market Street. Also to County Commissioner Mark Seabrook and City Council members Diane Benedetti and Shirley Baird, thanks for their hard work and leadership.
The city has come such a long way in the past few years but there is still so much more that can be done to make New Albany even better. Working together for the common good is critical for a great community. Thanks for those who are willing to make a difference!
— Jerry Finn, Board Vice President, Keep New Albany Clean and Green


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---- — PERU — Jordan Bushey, who will be entering his junior year at Peru Central School in the fall, took home All-American honors recently for his outstanding performance at the Greco-Roman and Freestyle Nationals in Fargo, North Dakota.
The top eight in each wrestling class become All-Americans and Bushey placed seventh in the Cadet Freestyle at 145 pounds.
Bushey, who also had a 2-2 record in Greco-Roman, finished with a 6-2 mark in Freestyle.
"There were 80 wrestlers from throughout the country in Jordan's weight class and it's quite an accomplishment for him," Peru wrestling coach Mike Hogan said. "It's nice to know our local wrestlers can compete on a national level."
Bushey recorded five victories in a row — a 7-3 decision over Illinois' Devon Simpson, a 10-0 win over Oregon's Cohen Merritt, an 11-0 victory over Minnesota's Jacob Johnson, a pin in 1:25 over Wisconsin's Ross Siegenthaler and a 10-0 decision over Ohio's Ben Hooff.
He then dropped two matches, both 13-2 decisions, to Pennsylvania's D.J. Hollingshead and to Illinois' Larry Early.
Bushey then won by injury default over New York's Jakob Restrepo to finish seventh.
Bushey is also a two-time Section VII champion, a two-time member of the New York State national team, a 2012 state champion in Greco-Roman and a 2013 state runner-up in Greco-Roman.
A number of Section VII wrestlers took part in the national event and Peru's Troy Seymour, competing at 160 pounds in the Junior division, barely missed out on All-American honors.
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Allow me to recommend an audio CD. "The Present Moment: A Retreat on the Practice of Mindfulness" was originally recorded at a weeklong retreat, and then edited down—to seven hours. Thich Nhat Hanh is the well-known expatriate Vietnamese Buddhist monk, teacher, author, poet and peace activist. Martin Luther King, Jr. nominated him for the Nobel Peace Prize in 1967 for his efforts to reconcile North and South Vietnam during the Vietnam War. A brief description from the publisher:
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A Falls man died Sunday morning after being shot outside his home early Sunday morning on the 1300 block of Ashland Avenue.
Police were called to the area about 4:52 a.m. and found Joseph Medley Sr., 37, laying on the the ground in front of his home. He had suffered a gunshot wound to his upper body and was pronounced dead at Niagara Falls Memorial Medical Center a short time later.
Detectives were investigating the matter Sunday morning and had no further information on a motive or suspects.
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Wednesday, January 26, 2005
VALPARAISO (11-7, 5-2 Mid-Con) at SOUTHERN UTAH (8-9, 4-2 Mid-Con)
WHEN: Saturday, January 29, 2005, 6:15 p.m. CST.
WHERE: The Centrum (5,300), Cedar City, Utah.
RADIO: WVUR (95.1-FM) and on the internet at www.valpo.edu/athletics. Andrew Stem and Baron Brendel will call all of the action.
TV: None.
THE COACHES: Valparaiso is led by Keith Freeman, who is in his 17th season of coaching, and 11th with the Crusaders. He is 315-172 overall and 186-125 at Valpo. Southern Utah is led by Joe Hillock, who is 114-121 in his 9th season overall and with the Thunderbirds.
SERIES RECORD: Valparaiso leads the all-time series with Southern Utah 9-5 dating back to the 1997-1998 season. The Thunderbirds do hold the advantage in Cedar City though, by a 4-3 margin. Southern Utah has won three of the last four at home.
LAST SEASON: The two schools split a pair of meetings last season, with each defending its own home court. On January 24, Valpo was a 73-63 victor at the ARC behind 26 points by Jenna Stangler. Casey Cooke led Southern Utah with 16 points. In the rematch in Cedar City on February 21, the Thunderbirds posted a 66-52 win. Cooke scored 14 in the win, while Mayella Kuikhoven led Valpo with 15 points.
Valparaiso will look to finish the first half of the Mid-Continent Conference season with back-to-back wins as the Crusaders travel to Southern Utah on Saturday to battle the Thunderbirds. Valpo is coming off of a convincing 69-36 win over IUPUI on Monday night.
PLAYING DEFENSE IN LEAGUE PLAY: Valpo is allowing just 51.6 points per game during Mid-Continent Conference play. Opponents are shooting just 36.5% from the floor against the Crusaders in league play and are committing 16.7 turnovers per game.
CRUSADERS AMONG NATION'S BEST: The Crusaders' 13.6 turnovers per game through January 24 ranked as the sixth fewest in the country. Valpo is also 13th in fewest personal fouls committed at 13.8 per contest. Individually, Tamra Braun's 2.1 blocks per contest rank her 39th in rejections, while Jenna Stangler is 49th in free throw shooting, making 84.3% of her attempts from the line.
MIXING UP THE LINE-UP: Valparaiso has had eight different players draw starting assignments this season, and not one player has started all 18 games due to various injuries throughout the season. The Crusaders have had nine different starting combinations thus far this season.
KEEPING THEM OFF THE SCOREBOARD: Valpo just missed holding IUPUI to a record-low on the scoreboard January 24. The Jaguars scored 36 points, two more than the Crusader record of 34 set against Manchester back on November 22, 1985.
UNABLE TO MISS: Valpo shot 62.2% from the floor against IUPUI, the second best shooting night in school history. The Crusaders were a blistering 77.3% from the field in the second half.
GETTING PRODUCTION FROM THE BENCH: Valpo's bench contributed 29 points on Monday night in the win over IUPUI. All 11 players dressed scored in the game, and the bench connected on 12-of-17 (70.6%) from the field. Krystal Taylor scored a season-high six points for Valpo.
SOUTHERN UTAH NOTES: Southern Utah has won four of its last five contests following a 70-61 victory at Centenary on Monday night. The Thunderbirds are 5-3 at home this season overall, and a perfect 2-0 in Mid-Continent Conference action.
Janis Beal is the only Thunderbird averaging in double-figures in the scoring column, tallying 10.6 points per contest. The senior has scored 11.2 points per Mid-Con game this season and led Southern Utah with 16 points against Centenary.
Sarah Hutton adds 9.6 points per night, while grabbing a team-leading 6.2 rebounds per contest. Cassie Warburton (9.5 points) and Kristin Pierce (9.0 points) are the other Thunderbird scoring threats.
As a team, the Thunderbirds ranks second in the Mid-Con averaging 10.59 steals per game. Southern Utah averages 5.94 three-pointers per contest, also second best in the league.
Southern Utah hosts Western Illinois on Monday night.
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At the Forge - Working with Facebook
Web sites have become increasingly sophisticated during the past few years, providing a wide variety of applications to the public at large. Many popular sites now offer a variety of APIs, making it possible to interact with the sites, or just retrieve data, from within a program other than an interactive Web browser.
One of the most sophisticated and popular APIs to be unveiled in recent months is from Facebook. Facebook, as you probably have heard, was started by Mark Zuckerberg when he was a student at Harvard. He has since dropped out of college and has led Facebook to be one of the largest and best-known social-networking Web sites, offering people a chance to find and connect with friends and individuals with similar interests.
Facebook has become enormously popular in the last few years, particularly among US university students. But in mid-2007, Facebook unveiled an API that was far beyond what most other sites were doing. This API did not make it particularly easy to retrieve data from Facebook or to perform searches against its extremely large database. Rather, it was designed to let individual developers create new applications that could fit into Facebook's existing site.
If the first few months are any indication, Facebook's application platform has been a wild success. According to a report published by O'Reilly Radar in October 2007, more than 4,000 applications for Facebook have been released since the platform was first unveiled. Some applications have become staggeringly popular; the report estimates that these applications get more than 30 million page views per day, which works out to more than 2% of all Facebook page views.
Other social-networking sites have realized that they must respond in kind. Both LinkedIn and MySpace are (at the time of this writing) working on APIs of their own. But, it remains to be seen if their APIs will provide the deep integration that Facebook is offering. Granted, not every Facebook application is good, and many of them are getting far fewer than the millions of users enjoyed by the top tier.
Whether Facebook turns out to prevail in the social-networking wars is an interesting topic to debate, and it is being discussed at length by business reporters and those interested in what's known as Web 2.0. What's more interesting to us, as Web/database developers, is the fact that Facebook has provided programmers with an enormous opportunity, making it possible for us to add our own applications to their site.
Last month, we created a simple "Hello, world" application that lived on our own server and was powered by Ruby on Rails. But, this application wasn't designed to be served up on its own. Rather, it is meant to be invoked via Facebook. When people go to the URL http://apps.facebook.com/rmlljatf, they will stay on Facebook, with the look and feel of the page remaining that of Facebook. But the contents of that page—currently, nothing more than "Hello from Facebook"—are generated dynamically by a Rails application sitting on my server, atf.lerner.co.il. Think of Facebook as a giant, smart proxy server, transparently passing certain HTTP requests to my server whenever someone tries my application.
This month, I explain how Facebook lets us do much more than display "Hello, world" messages. I show how we can retrieve and display information from Facebook and take an initial look at how we can use Facebook's FBML markup languages.
I also continue to develop the application I created last month—named rmlljatf—which I created using the Ruby on Rails framework in general and the RFacebook plugin for Rails in particular. See Resources for information on where to obtain this software.
Last month, we saw how we could create a very simple "Hello, world" application using Ruby on Rails and RFacebook. However, it's not that exciting to produce such output. For example, how do we know that the person is really logged in to Facebook? (Beyond the fact that the page is rendered under the apps.facebook.com hostname and has the look and feel of the Facebook page, that is.) And, where are all the nifty, cool Facebook features we have come to expect, which we would expect to use from within a Facebook application?
If this were a normal Web/database application, we simply would create an SQL query, retrieve information about the current user from the database and display it. For example, if we were interested in retrieving a list of the current user's friends, we would write something like this:
SELECT F.friend_two_id, P.first_name, P.last_name FROM Friends F, People P WHERE F.friend_one_id = 123 AND F.friend_two_id = P.id
The above, of course, assumes that we have two tables. The first table is named People, in which each person has an ID, a first name and a last name. The second table is named Friends, and it indicates who is friends with whom; each friendship is indicated with the friend_one_id and friend_two_id columns, each of which is a foreign key to People.id. Modeling friends in this way requires two rows for each friendship. This might not be the best way to keep track of links, but it reduces the complexity of the logic in SQL queries.
If we were using a straight Rails application, we could eliminate the SQL altogether, relying on the automatic way in which Rails retrieves such data. For example, we could say:
@friends = @person.friends
This automatically would fire off an SQL query not unlike the one we saw above, albeit behind the scenes. The advantage is not only that we get to write (and read and debug) less code, but also that we can think at a higher level of abstraction, looking at our users in terms of people and links, rather than rows, columns and tables.
Either of these techniques would work fine with Facebook, except for one little problem: we don't have access to the database. Rather, we have to ask Facebook for data, authenticating ourselves as a particular user within a particular application. Only after we have told Facebook who we are can we gain access to the data. Moreover, Facebook makes it easy for users to share only particular pieces of information with third-party applications (and other users), so you cannot be sure you will have access to everything.
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Parents: Stop Hovering Over Your College-Bound Kids
Parents who tend to micromanage their children are advised to stop.
As a child, Peter wasn't allowed to go to the mall or take karate lessons, for fear he'd get hurt. His mother micromanaged his education, selecting all classes, vetting all papers, and watching like a hawk to make sure homework got done on time. When Peter entered the University of Evansville, he did fine academically but struggled to make decisions, speak up in class, and form relationships with faculty members and classmates.
"It got to the point where because I had been so enclosed, I didn't know how to talk to people," says Peter, who requested that his last name not be published. "I was depressed. I had to learn how to break out of that shell."
College administrators say they're coping with a growing crop of Peters, freshmen suffering the aftereffects of having been raised by overinvolved parents. These moms and dads may see their tendency to hover and help at every step as loving and protective. But the urge to ensure a child's success by calling teachers to complain about assignments or grades, selecting all activities, and even completing tough homework assignments is apt to lead to failure once independence is required.
"These children don't have the confidence they need," says Robert Neuman, a retired associate dean for student academic development at Marquette University and author of the book Are You Really Ready For College? "They're immature. It's a real scourge."
The phenomenon can be explained in part by stressed-out working couples' safety concerns and lack of time; it's much more efficient to just act than to be a coach. It also has to do with getting into college. As admission to more selective schools has become increasingly competitive, parents have felt driven to overschedule and manage even very young children with an eye toward creating the perfect résumé.
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Technology has armed them with the tools to constantly monitor their children's progress and behavior by E-mail and text message, even GPS. And the burden of tuition in a struggling economy has made ensuring academic success even more critical.
"It's the perfect storm in terms of parenting," says Maureen Tillman, a psychotherapist whose College With Confidence counseling service prepares parents and students for the transition to college life. That competitive environment, she says, "has fueled the need for parents to connect and control in a new way."
To prep kids to thrive in college rather than struggle, parents should begin to break their overprotective habits long before it's time to think about the SAT. Tillman recommends that young teens devise their own schedules, figuring out how to fit in all their classes, activities, and chores; children need to learn early how to take charge of themselves and complete tasks that they don't want to do.
The key is to help kids solve problems rather than doing it for them. After Elizabeth Stoltz finished her sophomore year of high school, she told her parents, John and Kim, that she wanted to spend her summer organizing a walk to raise money for hungry children in Ethiopia. They advised her on setting up a nonprofit corporation and listed themselves as president and treasurer—but only because, by law, she needed people over 18 to fill those roles.
"We supported her, but left it up to her to make it work," John says. When it came time for Elizabeth to apply to college, he helped her set up comparison charts on the computer, but she figured out the pros and cons of each school. Both parents accompanied her on her college visits, but she asked the questions and handled the interviews alone. "They help us make decisions, but I never feel they're making choices for us," Elizabeth says of her parents, herself, and her brother.
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Parents, if those science fair projects and French reports have tended to bear your fingerprints, force yourself to stay clear the minute your child hits high school. "Know what courses your child is taking, find out what's on [the] reading list, and talk about a book at the dinner table," says Katherine Cohen, founder of IvyWise, a college admissions counseling company.


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