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Dozier to AAA, Florimon to the majors, a mini profile, and controversy?
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By now the latest transaction of the Minnesota Twins is about half a day old. SS Brian Dozier was optioned to the Twins AAA club and SS Pedro Florimon was recalled. Dozier was benched for 2 games after a critical error on Sunday and he has been at about replacement level with the bat and been strugging on the field on occasion. Typical rookie season. Even here, yesterday morning the possibility the the Twins might have given up on Dozier temporarily, was mentioned.
Also, it looks like this was not a unanimous decision by the Twins' management. In this article Joe Christensen suggests that the move has been debated for "weeks" among Twins' officials and reported that Ron Gardenhire didn't seem thrilled when it happened and he would not speak on the move. Rob Anthony answered all questions about the move. Clearly Gardhenhire has been of the loud Dozier supporters the past 2 seasons and it seems that he was against this decision. MLB.com Rhett Bollinger's piece does not have the Gardenhire information. Phil Mackey's ESPN 1500 story also suggests that there was a long discussion on the subject among the Twins brass and Mackey also adds that the particular play on Sunday and Dozier's reactions afterwards. could have been the decisive point in the demotion (the proverbial last piece of straw). Pioneer Press' Ben Goessling's article is also devoid of mentions of internal discussions and disagreements. Terry Ryan was at Rochester on Tuesday to watch the team and Pedro Florimon played SS; so the timing of his trip might be more than co-incidental. It will be interesting to see the cohesiveness of the Twins' management in what has been a clearly trying and frustrating season for the Minnesota Twins.
Pedro Florimon will wear uniform number 25. The last player who wore it was Erik Komatsu earlier this season and Jim Thome before him. Interesting enough, this was Alexi Casilla's number and Jim Thome had to buy it from him. So maybe this is passing of the batton in a way from one Dominican to another in the Twins' middle infield. The most notable Twin associated with number 25 is Randy Bush, member of both Twins' World Championship teams, who wore if from 1982 to 1993.
Pedro Florimon was born on December 10, 1986 in La Romana Dominican Rebublic and signed an amature free agent contract with the Baltimore Orioles organization in 2004 as a 17 year old. He came to the states as a 19 year old and played in Baltimore Appalachian League (Rookie) affiliate Bluefield Orioles and their Short Season A New York Penn League affiliate Aberdeen IronBirds. He ended the season hitting .293/.403/.369 with one HR, 13 RBI, 7 SB in 269 PAs. That was probably his best professional season in the Orioles system. His last season there was 2011, when he repeated AA Eastern League Bowie Baysox and hit .267/.344/.396 with 8 HR, 6 RBI and 15 SB. He was selected off Waivers by the Twins on December 5, 2011 at last off-season's winter meetings. Was invited at the MLB Spring Training camp last spring where he was one of the last cuts, and started his Twins' career with AA Eastern League New Britain Rock Cats and played 30 games before was promoted to Rochester. At New Britain he hit .283/.347/.372 2 HRs, 7 SB (improving his previous season performance in the same league) and for Rochester .251/.308/.344 in his first taste of AAA as a 25 year old.
When I gave a mini scouting report when he was claimed by the Twins last September, I mentioned:
Defensively, he has exceptional range and instincts, but he (more than occasionally) botches easy plays. In 602 games at SS, he has 174 errors but also turned 363 double plays. He has a strong arm and has some occasional gap power with the bat. All in all, he is very similar to a younger Alexi Casilla and would need some work with his concentration on the field. I think that the Twins signed him as organizational depth at this point, since there are no pure short stops in the higher levels of the organization. If he improves his error rate, he could possibly win a bench position with the Twins.
That was before he played a single inning in a Twins' uniform. Based on his Spring Training performance and his steadiness with the Rock Cats and Red Wings this season, I think that he did turn the corner on the field and could even potentially challenge for a starting job next season, depending who is still with the team. On a good competing team, unless he progresses further with the bat (he is still 25,) he could be a bench player. A note: I am calling him a bench vs. a utility player. All his career, Florimon has played only at short stop exept of a single game at center field (2011, Bowie BaySox) and 2 at second base (2011, Bowie Baysox and 2009, Delmarva Shorebirds) in the Baltimore Orioles' organization. So, unless he receives additional instruction and playing time at second and third next off-season and spring training, his utility future might be uncertain.


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Hurried motorists on 795 will soon pay for their speeding.
Maryland State Highway officials have set up speed cameras at the Interstate 695/Interstate 795 interchange while the roadway is resurfaced.
The warning period will be in effect until May 29, and citations will be issued starting on May 30, according to a Maryland State Highway Administration press release. The speed limit of 60 mph on I-795 will not be reduced in the enforcement area. Citations will be issued for those motorists going 12 or more miles per hour over the speed limit. The citations cost $40.
SHA is repairing and resurfacing pavement on I-795 between I-695 and Owings Mills Boulevard. The $9.2 million project also includes upgrading traffic barriers, repairing storm drains, installing new pavement marking and resurfacing ramps at the Owings Mills Boulevard interchange. The project should be complete in fall 2013, SHA said.

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CHARLOTTE, N.C. -- A high-ranking police officer is appealing a decision that he is to be fired after failing to notify the department about a woman who had showed up at his house and told him she was being abused.
Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police recommended Capt. Chuck Adkins be fired on Oct. 12. But officers can formally appeal a termination to the Charlotte Civil Service Board, a group of civilians that reviews discipline for police and firefighters.
The board, which can overturn or lessen punishments, was scheduled to take up Adkins' case on Wednesday, but the hearing has been postponed.
Police and an attorney for the civil service board declined to talk about Adkins' case, citing state personnel laws.
Adkins, who last served as a watch commander overseeing police operations on nights or weekends, told the Observer he doesn't believe his actions warranted termination.
Last fall, Adkins said, a 19-year-old woman approached him on a Thursday night as he tinkered around in his northeast Charlotte garage with his police cruiser parked outside. Adkins, who works an overnight shift, had taken a sleeping pill as he prepared to go on vacation to the beach and says he was groggy.
He said he invited the distressed woman inside his home and, as she talked, noticed she was bruised. In what Adkins described as a brief conversation, the woman said her boyfriend had beaten her at house nearby and she had fled. She then used the officer's cell phone to call a friend for a ride, Adkins said.
"Like I would with any domestic violence victim, I told her she deserved to be treated better than this," Adkins told the Observer.
He said he recommended that the woman report the crime. "I said you're really injured. You've got visible injuries. Then her ride pulled up, she ran down the driveway and she said 'I promise I'll call 911 as soon as I get where I'm going.' "
Adkins said he did not get the woman's name, the name of the man she accused of hitting her or the street address where the crime occurred.
The next day, his family took a trip to the beach. A day later, in the Observer, he said he saw a photo of the woman, whom he says had been reported missing.
Adkins said he then called the missing persons unit and told them he had been in contact with the woman. He told investigators she had used his cell phone to call for a ride. The investigator dialed that number and made contact with the woman, who was unharmed.
But a few days later, the department collected Adkins' police-issued equipment and suspended him. CMPD recommended Adkins be fired on Oct. 12, according to police Spokesman Rob Tufano.
Hearings before the civil service board are usually closed, but Adkins has requested an open hearing, which means anyone in the public can attend, according to Terrie Hagler-Gray, an attorney for the board. The hearing has not yet been rescheduled.
Adkins says he has nothing to hide.
"I don't think I did anything wrong," he said. "I think I could have helped her out a little bit more. I don't know that it would have made a difference. But…. I don't think it's worthy of termination. Everything I did in this case was to try to help her."
Adkins is a 21-year veteran of the department. He has served as a watch commander, the highest-ranking officer on duty at night and on the weekends. His salary was $92,189, according to the city's salary database.
Adkins previously worked for the communications division, which oversees the city's 911 program. He also has headed the internal affairs unit, which investigates officer misconduct.
He's also been involved in previous incidents that made headlines.
Adkins was a party in a neighborhood dispute a year ago, when a 16-year-old complained that Adkins had put dog feces in the family mailbox. The youth said Adkins blamed him for recent crimes in the neighborhood where the teen and Adkins lived.
There is no record of any action being taken by the department in that case.


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Sgt. Terry Mitchell withstood fire deep in the mountains of Vietnam and was exposed to Agent Orange. He survived that grisly war, but now, four decades later, his wife believes his life was cut short by delays in care at the Veterans Administration.
On August 8, 2012, a pathology report found that a growth on Mitchell's neck was "concerning" for cancer. The recommendation: "total excision," meaning surgical removal.
But Mitchell's tumor wasn't removed until October 22, more than 2½ months later.
Ten months after that, Mitchell was dead. He was 63.
The VA Medical Center in Dallas tells CNN that Mitchell's 75-day wait to have the cancer taken out of his body "meets the standard of care" at the VA.
That has a lot of people worried.
"I really don't think it's appropriate that our vets have to wait for months," said Dr. Karl Bilimoria, who worked at three VA medical centers and is now a cancer surgeon at Northwestern University.
"That's just the way the VA works, and it's sort of been this way for years."
In 2011, Bilimoria and his colleagues published the results from their study on wait times for eight common cancers at Veterans Administration medical centers.
The researchers found that waits from cancer diagnosis to surgery were longer at VA centers for all cancer types when compared with waits for the same cancers at community hospitals. For liver and colon cancers specifically, the VA surgery wait times were more than twice as long.
In a statement, the VA told CNN, "No Veteran should ever have to wait to receive the care they have earned through their service and sacrifice. We must work together to fix the unacceptable, systemic problems in accessing VA healthcare."
VA doctor: Timeliness not at the top of my list
For three years, Bilimoria and his team shared their results with leaders at the VA. Though many were outraged about the long waits, nothing seemed to change.
"We clearly haven't seen any major initiatives," Bilimoria said.
In October, one of Bilimoria's colleagues at Northwestern wrote an e-mail directly to the head of oncology for the VA nationwide.
Dr. Michael Kelley wrote back quickly, saying in part, "Timeliness of care is of interest, but would not be at the top of my list."
Kelley added that even if there are delays at the VA, "it does not appear to result in worse survival" for veterans.
In a statement to CNN, Kelley wrote, "No Veteran should have to wait for needed cancer care. It is not appropriate or acceptable for a Veteran to wait for months for cancer surgery. I strongly believe that timeliness in the delivery of care is a top priority, which is why I've been actively engaged in the improvement of VA's quality and timeliness of care."
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The official added that in 2007, the VA established a quality improvement program called Cancer Care Collaboratives. The official said the program made "demonstrable improvement in quality metrics, including timeliness," but declined to be specific about those improvements.
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text: Honda's new CBR250R looks a lot like a VFR that's been hot-cycled in the clothes dryer, especially in the red-and-silver color scheme. All-black is the other color choice. Honda's new CBR250R looks a lot like a VFR that's been hot-cycled in the clothes dryer, es Where recent Honda releases like the over-engineered, over-priced DN-01 and auto-shifting VFR1200F have seemed out of touch with reality, Big Red's first new-for-2011 model, the ultra-accessible CBR250R, seems right on the mark for America's post-recession economy. Cheap, efficient and eminently practical, the quarter-liter CBR seems to suit the needs of both entry-level riders and frugal-yet-fashionable commuters. Unlike its primary competition, Kawasaki's carbureted, parallel-twin Ninja 250R, the CBR250R features a fuel-injected, single-cylinder powerplant. The all-new, liquid-cooled, 249cc engine is influenced by Honda's four-stroke motocross machines and uses a modern, four-valve, DOHC head and a counterbalancer to reduce vibration. American Honda didn't disclose horsepower or torque projections, but European distributors are claiming peak output of 26 bhp and 17 lb.-ft. of torque, which puts it in the ballpark with the Ninjette's 25.6 bhp and 13.1 lb.-ft. as measured on our rear-wheel dyno. Curb weight, claimed to be 368 lbs. with ABS and 359 lbs. without, should likewise be comparable to the Ninja 250R's measured 377 lbs. You read that correctly: Honda's Combined ABS is optional, a first on a bike this small. A simple tubular frame forms a solid foundation, tied to a box-section steel swingarm by Honda's Pro-Link rising-rate suspension linkage. The 37mm fork is non-adjustable, though the single shock offers five preload settings. The sporty bodywork borrows liberally from Honda's full-sized CBRs, as well as the flagship VFR1200F. Honda hasn't announced an MSRP yet, but expect it to be close if not equal to the Kawasaki's $3999 price tag. Manufacturing in Honda's Thailand facility will reduce production costs. Such favorable specifications suggest that the CBR250R has all the makings of a sales success. The smaller CBR125 is consistently one of the best-selling bikes of any displacement in Europe-in fact, it's the best selling bike in the UK-and Kawasaki's Ninja 250 was one of the very few bikes that continued to post decent sales in America through the recent economic downturn. Here's hoping this new entrant blows the quarter-liter sportbike class wide-open in America, and we'll have the option to buy a Suzuki GSX-R250 and Yamaha YZF-R2.5 next. By Aaron Frank Enjoyed this Post? Subscribe to our RSS Feed, or use your favorite social media to recommend us to friends and colleagues!


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by Jessica Dahlberg, Capital News Service
As the 2013 legislative session ended, the Virginia General Assembly approved amendments to the state's two-year budget Saturday that included expanding Medicaid and spending more money on education.
The amendments were passed by both the House (on an 83-17 vote) and the Senate (31-8) after tense discussions over Medicaid, which provides medical care for low-income residents. Legislators agreed to expand the program if certain reforms are made.
Del. Barbara Comstock (R-McLean) was the only Vienna-area legislator to vote against the budget.
See vote tally below.
The reforms will make Medicaid look similar to non-government health insurance policies, according to legislators. Under the reforms, Medicaid will provide long-term care for more Virginians and more waivers for families with children who have special needs. The state will also standardize the way it calculates the income of Medicaid applicants under the federal Affordable Care Act.
"Virginia currently ranks 47th in the nation in Medicaid coverage," Sen. Mark Herring (D-Leesburg) said. "The expansion will cover over 300,000 uninsured Virginians and infuse tens of billions of dollars into our state's economy."
To implement the reforms, the state Department of Medical Assistance and Services, which manages Medicaid in Virginia, will need permission from the federal government.
A Virginia legislative commission will also have to review and approve the reforms before they can be adopted. If the commission approves the changes, they would be effective July 1, 2014, when the federal Medicaid eligibility standards are set to expand under the Affordable Care Act.
The education initiatives included in the budget agreement were a top priority for Virginia, said House Speaker William Howell (R-Stafford).
The K-12 public education system will get $70.2 million for a 2 percent increase in salaries for teachers and school support employees. The schools will also get $30 million, over a period of five years, to make security upgrades.
The higher education system will receive $3.4 million to add 1,700 in-state undergraduate seats at the College of William and Mary, Virginia Tech, James Madison University and the University of Virginia. Additionally, $8.6 million is being set aside for in-state undergraduate financial aid.
"College affordability has become a significant barrier to higher education in recent years," Gov. Bob McDonnell said. "This year, we put in excess of $47 million toward higher education."
A total of $4.1 million will be provided to the schools for research and economic development. Virginia Commonwealth University and the University of Virginia will each receive $1 million for cancer research.
Another priority was putting money into Virginia's savings accounts, Howell said. The final budget puts $125 million into these accounts: $95 million will go to the "rainy day fund" for contingencies and $30 million will be set aside in case the looming federal cuts harm Virginia's economy.
Other provisions included in the budget agreement are:
- A 2 percent raise for state employees. They will also receive $65 for every year of service to help balance the salaries of employees that have been with the state a long time. The $65 increase is limited to employees with five years of service and will stop after 30 years to be capped at $1,950.
- 200 additional intellectual disability waivers and 50 developmental disability waivers have been added for fiscal year 2014. These waivers provide Medicaid assistance especially for children who have special needs.
- $6.9 million for public higher education faculty salary increases up to 3 percent.
- $1.3 million for grants to hire school resource officers and school security officers to work in elementary, middle and high schools.
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Floor: 02/23/13 House: VOTE: ADOPTION (83-Y 17-N)
YEAS – Albo, Anderson, BaCote, Bell, Richard P., Brink, Bulova, Carr, Cosgrove, Cox, M.K., Crockett-Stark, Dance, Edmunds, Farrell, Filler-Corn, Greason, Habeeb, Head, Helsel, Herring, Hester, Hodges, Hope, Howell, A.T., Hugo, Iaquinto, Ingram, James, Joannou, Johnson, Jones, Keam, Kilgore, Knight, Kory, Krupicka, Landes, Lewis, Lopez, Loupassi, Marshall, D.W., Massie, May, McClellan, McQuinn, Merricks, Miller, Minchew, Morris, Morrissey, O'Bannon, O'Quinn, Orrock, Peace, Plum, Poindexter, Purkey, Putney, Robinson, Rush, Rust, Scott, E.T., Scott, J.M., Sherwood, Sickles, Spruill, Stolle, Surovell, Tata, Torian, Toscano, Tyler, Villanueva, Ward, Ware, O., Ware, R.L., Watson, Watts, Webert, Wilt, Wright, Yancey, Yost, Mr. Speaker – 83.
NAYS – Bell, Robert B., Byron, Cline, Cole, Comstock, Cox, J.A., Dudenhefer, Fariss, Garrett, Gilbert, LeMunyon, Lingamfelter, Marshall, R.G., Morefield, Pogge, Ramadan, Ransone – 17.
YEAS – Alexander, Barker, Blevins, Carrico, Colgan, Deeds, Ebbin, Favola, Hanger, Herring, Howell, Locke, Lucas, Marsden, Marsh, McDougle, McEachin, McWaters, Miller, Newman, Norment, Northam, Petersen, Puckett, Puller, Ruff, Saslaw, Stosch, Vogel, Wagner, Watkins – 31.
NAYS – Black, Garrett, Martin, Obenshain, Reeves, Smith, Stanley, Stuart – 8.


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Last week I wrote about the need to get comfortable with our issues, because they're here to stay. That put me in mind of one of my favorite fairy tales: "Beauty and the Beast."
Most all of us are familiar with this tale, which is told in several variations. For this posting, let's go with a very abridged summary: There is a beautiful young woman who volunteers to be imprisoned with a terrible beast in order to save her father. The beast looks horrible, and Beauty shuns him, fears him, and longs to escape from him. Each night the Beast asks her to marry him; each night she refuses.
We the readers know that the Beast is something Beauty must learn to love without any coaxing or inside information. Beauty must learn to see the beauty in the Beast.
At first there are only glimmers of something different, something in the eyes or the behavior in the Beast that clue her into a dawning realization that this Beast is not so terrible. We're rooting for her to see what we already know: she must learn to love this Beast.
I'll skip to the punch line for reasons of brevity: eventually she does fall in love with the Beast, and she kisses him. The moment she does, he is transformed into a handsome prince. In my favorite version of the story, she is so in love with the Beast that as soon as he's transformed she cries in dismay: "Where's my Beast? I want my Beast back."
Now think of some part of you or your life that you don't like, can't accept, wish were otherwise, think of in only negative terms. Some aspect of yourself or your circumstances that has you feeling trapped, that you hate, that you want to go away or to escape from. According to this tale -- and I believe the reason it holds such sway over us for so many centuries is because it is describing something true for all of us -- you must learn to love this very thing you currently hate. Not in order to get a handsome prince in the end -- that kind of artifice wouldn't work for Beauty and it won't work for you -- but because behind every mask of ugliness there lies something of value, something you must learn to treasure and to love. Until you do, you are trapped in this prison cell of not accepting yourself or your life as it is. It is only through this kind of self acceptance, genuine and complete, that we come to appreciate our issues and challenges as the gifts they are. That is when we can unite with this previously unacceptable feature of our lives and live happily ever after. This is when that which we despise is transformed into something beautiful.
At this point some of you are nodding your heads in agreement and some of you are thinking "Yes, but." I want to suggest that we can all do both. We can nod our head in agreement when we recall times when we have experienced this transformation of a Beast into a prince in our lives. And those areas where we are still shackled, where we are thinking "Yes, but" -- well, maybe this is the exception to this rule?
I don't believe so. While in the last post I bemoaned the heroic consciousness that makes us strive so, here is where I think the true value of heroic consciousness lies: to challenge ourselves to find the beauty in the beasts in our lives.
Next week: on the nature of victimization.
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Certainly, we don't know everything there is to know about Natural Allies. A couple of questions I have thought of is whether or not the Ruler of the side Natural Allies are allied with can disband those Natural Allies. Do Natural Allies themselves have an Overlord? They almost certainly have warlords, otherwise, the Gobwins were dooming themselves to neutrality when the took over Gobwin Knob. Besides, someone has to make the decision of Breaking Alliance.
Now, the issue of becoming a Neutral is particularly interesting. In Parson's 12th Klog, Parson mentions that when a side's Ruler croaks without an heir, their field units disband and all units within cities can no longer take initiative. What is interesting is that Natural Allies are not the Ruler's units. They are simply allied. So would Natural Allies still be able to take the initiative? Would they keep their field units? Or would they be stuck in the same situation as long as they are still allied? The most likely two resolutions to this Neutral conundrum is that either they lose initiative as long as they stay allied or it is not possible to be allied to Neutrals and their alliance automatically breaks. Anyways, these are my thoughts.


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The Golden Gate Bridge is the most recognizable Bay Area landmark and (for a time) a modern wonder of the world. Everyone in the Bay Area (including Zazzle) loves the Bridge. In honor of the Bridge's 75 years of glory I thought I'd share some of my favorite Golden Gate Bridge posters on Zazzle and one Bridge memory.
My first memory of the Golden Gate Bridge was from an elementary school trip. It was cold and incredibly windy (FYI, it's always cold in SF) day, which meant that walking the bridge was a chore I didn't want to do. I wasn't alone. As a class, we protested the walk across the bridge, but our teacher insisted and we lost. So we slowly marched out of the parking lot and towards the orange bridge. As I watched the bridge become larger with each step towards it, my attitude shifted and my pace quickened with excitement. It was like a super-sized version of my tinker toys at home. The massive scale of the bridge – every cable, bolt, and steel beam fascinated me. At the end of the walk all I could think about what when I could go back (even though my face was completely frozen). To this day, I can walk the bridge and still be in awe of the beauty and the people that constructed such a wonderful landmark. What's your first memory of the Golden Gate Bridge? Share in the comments.Follow @zazzle


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The Washington Ballet will perform "Cinderella" at the Kennedy Center this week. WTOP Living caught up with the director to talk about the story behind the ballet.
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Lugene Hudson
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When Croton Pre-Kindergarten Center students recess for summer vacation next month, "Mr. Pete" will walk out the door with them.
And it will be for the last time.
The affectionate nickname was given to Pete Squillo years ago. He has been on the custodial staff of the New Castle Area School District for 35 years, and it's there and in community service that Squillo makes a difference.
For the last 22 years, he has been responsible for the district's administrative offices and the pre-Kindergarten Center. On June 7, he retires.
Through the years, Squillo has acquired memory after memory based on working with the children and staff.
Every morning as kids get off the bus, he is there to greet them and listens to sounds of "Mr. Pete, Mr. Pete."
"I can't remember when they didn't call me that," he reminisced, adding through the years, he has met a lot of children and seen many changes.
One youngster never goes to class at 8:45 a.m. unless Squillo takes his hand and walks him down the hallway.
And throughout the school day, he is known for doling out a high five salute.
It's more than just a job. He has cultivated friendships and developed another family away from home.
"People call me an institution there."
Grey D. Berrier II described his friend as offering compassionate, selfless service, and looks forward to attending Squillo's Sunday school class at First Assembly of God each week. The always-on-the-go Squillo is an ordained minister who has performed weddings for school district employees and is a church elder. He and his wife, Darlene, also conduct a prison ministry in Mercer.
The Hickory Township resident, 56, viewed the selection of Difference Maker as a tremendous honor.
"I really don't think about what it involves, or awards or recognition," he said. "It's just my mode of operation day to day."
Squillo, who has an associate degree in letters, arts and sciences from Penn State, Shenango Campus, is so much more than a custodian, said Terry Meehan, principal of Croton Pre-K.
"A lot of kids don't have a stable father so Pete is like an uncle figure," Meehan said. "They just light up when they see Mr. Pete."
Caring about the kids comes naturally to Squillo.
"I believe the kids have a right to come into a building that has a pleasant environment, is clean, well-lit and safe," he pointed out. "That's where I've made a difference; I'm always interested in the kids."
Even after retirement, he intends to keep making a difference with his ministries and "helping people wherever I can.
"I'm grateful and thankful for these 35 years. It's been my life's work and a wonderful experience. Everything has its time and it's time to move on to the next step of my life."
Meehan best summarizes what Squillo is all about.
"His genuineness is so evident that even a four-year-old can pick up on it. His presence and caring is vibrant, he is very loyal and dedicated, and it's rare to find those qualities."
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Why Marriage?
Isn't the bottom line that it's all about love? You meet someone, you fall in love, at some point you know you want to spend the rest of your life with this person, and then you want to share that with the other important people in your life. You want to make a statement regarding how you feel about each other - you want your family and friends to share in that - you want your community to recognize what the two of you mean to each other and to recognize the commitment you've made to each other.
However, in additon to the love and commitment, marriage offers many legal benefits and responsibilities that protect couple relationships and families. Marriage also confers a certain social status upon a relationshhip - marriage is something we are familiar with, it is something we understand. When one person is "married" to another we know what that means.
Below we discuss the difference between actual civil marriage and "marriage-lite" (civil unions and domestic partnerships). We also list a fraction of the practical reasons why marriage matters to couples who choose to marry.
Marriage Equality USA is working for full civil marriage at both the state and federal levals, for the people in every state in the country. One of the first things that became abuntantly clear following the Supreme Court of the United States ruling in United States v. Windsor, the DOMA case, was that civil unions and domestic partnerships are unequivocally not equal to/the same as marriage. OPM Says Same-Sex Civil Unions Will 'Remain Ineligible For Most Federal Benefits' - courtesy of Towle Road, 9 July 2013. We thank Gay & Lesbian Advocates & Defenders (GLAD) for their fact sheet Civil Marriage v. Civil Unions, What's the difference? (Updated January 2013).
Marriage offers 1,138 Federal benefits and responsibilities, not including hundreds more offered by every state.
- In times of crisis, spouses have hospital visitation rights and can make medical decisions in event of illness or disability of their spouse.
- Employers offer spouses sick leave, bereavement leave, access to health insurance and pension
- The law provides certain automatic rights to a person's spouse regardless of whether or not a will exists.
- Married couples in elderly care facilities are generally not separated unless one spouse's health dictates hospitalization or special care.
- The dissolution of a marriage requires a determination of property distribution, award of child custody and support and spousal support. Absent divorce, there is no uniform system for sorting out the ending of a relationship.
Financial issues are complex and challenging, no matter the couple. When home ownership, kids and other assets are a part of the equation, planning for the present and especially the future is even more critical for greater security.
- Married couples are permitted to give an unlimited amount of gifts to each other without being taxed.
- The law presumes that a married couple with both names on the title to their home owns the property as "tenants by the entirety."
- A married couple, by statute, has creditor protection of their marital home.
- Many married people are entitled to financial benefits relating to their spouses, such as disability, pension and social security benefits.
- With marriage, a couple has the right to be treated as an economic unit and to file joint tax returns (and pay the marriage penalty), and obtain joint health, home and auto insurance policies.
- When a spouse dies, there is no need to prove ownership of every item in the household for taxable purposes.
Protecting Children
- A child who grows up with married parents benefits from the fact that his or her parents' relationship is recognized by law and receives legal protections.
- Spouses are generally entitled to joint child custody and visitation upon divorce (and bear an obligation to pay child support).
- The mark of a strong family and healthy children is having parents who are nurturing, caring, and loving. Parents should be judged on their ability to parent, not by their age, race, religion, gender, disability, sexual orientation or gender identity.
Healthy Advantage
Studies show that people who are married tend to live longer and lead healthier lives.
- For adults, a stable, happy marriage is the best protector against illness and premature death. Decades of research have clearly established these links. (Burman & Margolin, 1992; Dawson, 1991; Verbrugge, 1979).
- Studies on marriages have found that married people live longer, have higher incomes and wealth, engage less in risky behaviors, eat more healthily, and have fewer psychological problems than unmarried people. (Waite, Linda J. "Why Marriage Matters." Strengthening Marriage Roundtable. Washington, DC, June 1997)
- Research shows that unmarried couples have lower levels of happiness and well-being than married couples. (Popenoe, David and Dafoe Whitehead, Barbara, USA Today, July, 2000) A recent study shows that denying same-sex couples the right to marry has a negative impact on their mental health.
- I Do, But I can't: The impact of marriage denial on the mental health and sexual citizenship of lesbians and gay men in the United States (Herdt, G. & Kertzner, R. 2006).


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Rich Karlgaard, Forbes Staff
I celebrate innovation and growth.
Sometimes it's the stuff they don't say that rings loudest.
Lance Armstrong has always said he won his seven Tours as a squeaky clean athlete. He claimed he did not use cheater gambits like red blood cell transfusion, EPO, human growth hormone, testosterone, steroids, or any of the banned performance enhancing drugs rife in professional cycling. Armstrong also said he was tested more than any other athlete in the world — more than 500 times. (Maybe not: There has never been any independent verification of Armstrong's "500 times" tested claim. The source of that unrealistic number — once a week for 10 years? Really? — was always Armstrong, just Armstrong.)
Yesterday, Armstrong didn't say any of that. No claims that he never doped. No claims of being the most tested athlete in history.
Armstrong used different words yesterday. He said he used no "unfair advantage" during his career.
Wow — huge shift, that. Armstrong knew the hammer was about to fall on him hard. If he had chosen to arbitrate the charges against him put forward by the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency, the evidence against him would have come out. The strongest of that evidence is the eyewitness testimony from more than 10 ex-teammates and employees.
Let's pause. Some will protest that eyewitness testimony is hearsay, vendetta, not real evidence. Sorry, it is hard evidence when it is given under oath. Eyewitness testimony under oath is enough to convict someone of murder. The pervert Jerry Sandusky is in prison because of eyewitness testimony, not DNA or other "facts." Let us remember that false testimony is called perjury, a felony. Jail time. Most people won't perjure themselves for a vendetta. Do you seriously believe that 10 people who worked closely with Armstrong would perjure themselves and risk jail out of mere jealousy towards Armstrong? That is Armstrong's claim, but it makes no sense.
Armstrong was going down hard and he knew it. He quit his fight with the USADA to keep the evidence — that testimony from ex-teammates and employees — from seeing the light of day. More on this in a minute.
In claiming he had no "unfair advantage" Armstrong has opened the door, a wee bit, to a full doping admission. Yes, Armstrong doped. Everyone with an IQ higher than a tomato knows it. Moreover, Armstrong knows that everyone knows. He is therefore, starting yesterday, laying down the foundation for a new narrative that he hopes will cast him in a positive light. It goes like this: Yes I doped. But they all doped. Fact is, I still worked harder and smarter than any pro cyclist. I won on a level playing field.
If that was the sum of Armstrong's doping confession — I doped, but so did everyone; I won on a level playing field — he might have a point. Armstrong didn't start the age of super bio doping — mostly this is blood boosting that gives cyclists a 5% to 7% performance edge in mountain climbs, but it is also human growth hormone, artificial testosterone and the like. This bad stuff started in the early 1990s. It was not Armstrong's fault that his peak years as an athlete coincided with cycling's peak doping years. Bad luck for him.
That creates some sympathy for Armstrong's doping. He knows it — Armstrong is extremely savvy about marketing and PR — and he is trying to prepare his fans for larger confessions with his "no unfair advantage" comment.
Here I think of the movie, The Sting. Paul Newman and Robert Redford were the good guys. Why? They cheated the cheater. Beat him at his own game. Armstrong, with Thursday's statement, is positioning his fans to believe that he only cheated the cheaters — the rotten Germans, Italians, Spaniards, whatever. Armstrong thus becomes a bad-ass American folk hero, a Robin Hood in stars and stripes, if you like.
Will this ploy work? It might if that is the whole story. But the story does not end there. It's a fact that Armstrong donated hundreds of thousands of dollars to the anti-doping efforts of cycling's governing body, the Union Cycliste Internationale, during his pro years. Armstrong was the only cyclist to do so. He's the only pro athlete of any sport to donate money to a regulating body. The conflict of interest is both stunning and appalling. It begs discussion at least.
Your looking for dirt where there isn't any. Maybe you should try reading the official statement before you make ridiculous allegations such as
"Armstrong used different words yesterday. He said he used no "unfair advantage" during his career.
Wow — huge shift, that. Armstrong knew the hammer was about to fall on him hard. If he had chosen to arbitrate the charges against him put forward by the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency, the evidence against him would have come out. The strongest of that evidence is the eyewitness testimony from more than 10 ex-teammates and employees."
Have you ever heard of the Term paraphrasing?
USADA has no jurisdiction to strip his titles, that would come from France. Karlgaard, you are so out of line with this talk, have any proof that he was dirty, how come no dirty sample in all these years, and a one sided "trial' This is truly a witch hunt, along with the yellow journalism that goes along with it. somebody call Dexter morgan, i have a new dirtbag for him to eliminate :)
Wasn't expecting an article like this on Forbes website. Very Idiotic.
Rick, I can congratulate you on writing a very poor article. It is so one-sided and biased, it's not even funny. The fact of the matter is that the way to catch a rider for doping is through tests, which armstrong passed with flying colours. Tests are a far better measure than people's statements, because at the end of the day people can lie – but tests can't.
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So your saying that Lance Armstrong was never tested. Your also saying that they have evidence that proves he used used Enhancemet drugs. But refer to Lance Armstrong was never tested how do they have evidence. Unless your saying that he was reported to use steriods by eyewitnesses. Sorry this all sounds like a witch hunt. Even if he did or did not use steriods this USDA sounds like they are out to get Lance Armstrong. Frankly I don't care. But maybe this agency should be investigated.
Rich,I am wondering why this is such a crusade for you, to personally use your time to construct a post, I for one think your provocations should be aimed at a different question [ see below].
You write:
"Everyone with an IQ higher than a tomato knows it. Moreover, Armstrong knows that everyone knows."
Please refrain from blanket statements bereft of fact. Produce a test that shows he was doping and I will gladly change my mind.
Also the crass reference to the manner which Sandusky a convicted child molester was caught, is certainly not worthy of even a blog post metaphor….you should work harder. Perhaps as publisher, instead of focusing on athletes, take a tactic that one of your peers recently published letters
Bankstas in the Age of Money by Graydon Carter, editor of Vanity Fair
Forbes has a responsibility to business, when, as a member of the fourth estate, will I read that real criminals of the economic world were convicted due in part by the efforts of the publisher of Forbes. Granted that is a much higher bar than you currently aspire to, but I would read the hell out of an article like that and so would many other people who , like me, find Forbes to be interesting and provocative
It is incredibly ironic Lance Armstrong's stellar career came crashing down to earth on the eve of the death of another Armstrong – Neil Armstrong – the first man to set foot on the moon. One is the greatest cyclist in history, the other an astronaut who made history. If only government agencies responsible for policing our financial system exercised the same tenacity as the USDA, perhaps the financial crisis could have been averted.


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A mammal is a vertebrate animal with hair and glands to produce milk for feeding its young. Their middle ears include three bones--two of these were jaw bones in their reptilian ancestors. Mammals are also warm-blooded and have a four-chambered heart, but these traits are shared with unrelated animals (birds and theropods). The ancestors of modern mammals lived in the Triassic Period, in the early stages of the Age of Reptiles.


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The sound of laughter filled the air at the Cherokee Heritage Center Ancient Village Thursday, as students from all over Northeast Oklahoma competed in stickball, chunkey and marbles.
The Heritage Center's Ancient Cherokee Days, held Oct. 4-5, is one of two cultural education events the organization hosts each year.
Inside the Ancient Village, Bixby eighth-graders were learning to pinch pots, shoot blowguns and play stickball.
"This is our favorite trip of the year," said Bixby eighth-grade social studies teacher Catherine Woods. "It's just the best. This is the third year I've brought students, and I can say playing stickball is their favorite, by far."
According to CHC Education Director Tonia Weavel, over 450 students visited Thursday, and an additional 800 were expected today.
"We have two educational events per year, one in the spring and one in the fall," said Weavel. "In the fall, we host Ancient Cherokee Days, and in the spring it's Indian Territory Days. We adjust activities to meet the historic timeframes."
Weavel said both events require participation from all staff at the Cherokee Heritage Center, along with a number of volunteers.
"We have wonderful volunteers," said Weavel. "We also receive great cooperation from Cherokee Nation Business, Cherokee Nation and for years, Job Corps students – members of their leadership classes – have volunteered. They are a big help, as many have been raised in the culture, so it's good for them to share their experiences."
Weavel said that last year, the fall program drew over 1,800 youth from all over the state, which required adding educational stations and volunteers.
"Ideally, we're set up to accommodate 700 to 800," said Weavel. "That way, everyone can enjoy themselves. We had to add a third day last year."
This year, 15 Cherokee cultural learning stations were available throughout the Ancient Village ground, featuring chunkey, marbles, stickball, blowguns, language pottery, basketry, bows/weapons, netting, twining, flat-weaving and two storytelling posts.
"By far, the most popular among the kids are stickball and blowguns," said Weavel. "This year, though, we have two very enthralling storytellers – Gayle Ross and Robert Lewis. We're very lucky to have them. They are both well-known among the Cherokee and have very different styles."
Weavel said all but one of the stations include hands-on activities.
"We don't let the kids use the bows and weapons, so it's demonstration only," said Weavel.
"But they can pinch pots, play stickball, weave baskets and learn to play Cherokee marbles, which is probably the oldest game in the culture. They can also play chunkey, which was never revived after the 1800s, but archaeologists have found chunkey yards in almost every dig site."
All Heritage Center attractions were open to students, including the Ancient Village which depicts Cherokee life in the 1700s, Adams Corner Rural Village and the museum, which features the Trail of Tears exhibit.
"We also have the Cherokee Homecoming Art Show on display, which will give students an idea about modern Cherokee art," said Weavel.
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The unabridged, downloadable audiobook edition of Laura Moriarty's The Chaperone, read by the actress Elizabeth McGovern, best-known for her role as Cora, Countess of Grantham, in the hit TV series Downton Abbey.
On a summer's day in 1922, Cora Carlisle boards a train from Wichita, Kansas, to New York City, leaving behind a marriage that's not as perfect as it seems and a past that she buried long ago.
She is charged with the care of a stunning young girl with a jet-black fringe and eyes wild and wise beyond her 15 years. This girl is hungry for stardom, and Cora is hungry for something she doesn't yet know.
Cora will be many things in her lifetime - an orphan, a mother, a wife, a mistress - but in New York she is a chaperone and her life is about to change. It is here, under the bright lights of Broadway, in a time when prohibition reigns and speakeasies with their forbidden whispers behind closed doors thrive, that Cora finds what she has been searching for. It is here, in a time when illicit thrills and daring glamour sizzle beneath the laws of propriety that her life truly begins. It is here that Cora and her charge, Louise Brooks, take their first steps towards their dreams.
©2012 Laura Moriarty (P)2012 Penguin Books Ltd
Was not sure about this as I started to listen. But in the end I was drawn in. A very unusual theme, that played out not in a way I was expecting. A good listen.
No. Several sessions,
Would recommend this for a different read.
I don't know, as I haven't read it.
The private moments between Cora and Joseph are so carefully and sensitively portrayed. Understated, but laiden with love and understanding.
No, but I will seek them out. Her reading is exquisite
Riveting listening, I hated having to put my ipod down.
"America 1926 Louise Brooks early years in New York"
Fictional account of
Louise Brooks escape from the mid west to New York to train for the stage as a dancer.
Told by the middle aged chaperone who accompanies her to escape her unhappy marriage, she discovers love for the first time with a German immigrant who she dislikes on sight while revisiting the convent she was left in as an orphan.
Louise is determined to succeed and never return home and the chaperone does not want to either. She is on a mission to discover her origins from the convent and leaves happier with her new lover and lives happily ? ever after. . .in a new frame of mind with a freer attitude learned from Louise whose love of life, intelligence and energy sparkle; gives the chaperone courage to make demands at home and live her life the way she wants, instead of conforming to the narrow confines of housewifery and non sex life with her homosexual husband.
Fast, jazz hot, sweltering New York leaps off the page as does the slow pace of small town America where everyone knows your business. The book delves into black segregation on
Broadway and immigrant poverty, middle class hypocrisy, alcoholism, unhappy marriage and church.
I absolutely loved it.
"Frothy nostalgic fun"
This is excellently read by Elizabeth McGovern, immediately recognisable from Downton Abbey, whose warm southern cadences are easy to engage with. The story brings tobgether an eclectic cast of characters and doesn't fare well under too close examination in terms of plot credibility, but it is light-hearted fun and in the end a good yarn to entertain you whilst you drive, walk the dog or hang out the washing!
"Interesting story, beautifully told"
I could hardly bear to hit the pause button when listening to The Chaperone. The story was gripping, the characters absorbing and Elizabeth McGovern's narration just perfect. The changing attitudes towards gender, sexuality and morality are wonderfully portrayed during Cora's long and truly fascinating life. It's a wonderful book and highly recommended!
"Enjoyable read!"
This story has some good surprises and gives you a real feeling of the period the first half of the book is set in. I enjoyed the narration, each character really came to life. The only reason this isn't 5 out of 5 is because towards the end of the story it feels as if the author is rushing to an end.
"Narration a Disappointment"
An interesting book, but unfortunately I feel the narration let it down. Although I like Elizabeth McGovern in Downtown Abbey, I felt her reading was awkward and that they story and characters would have been improved by a more natural cadence.
A really good story. I couldn't put it down. Elizabeth McGovern narrated it really well. Recommended.
Lovely story. There were a couple of events in this book that I really wasn't expecting as I thought it would just be an easy book to listen to but there are a few surprises (good). I loved the main character and really didn't want this to end.
Loving my audible books which have allowed me to take up my love of reading again!!!
"A good read"
I would certainly recommend this book. Spans over several years and is set in a different era, showing the generational differences of times gone by. The narration was good. I enjoyed this interesting story. Quite short, but good for an end of month 'filler'. Overall I would recommend this.
"Every little breeze seems to whisper "Louise"..."
Most of the audiobooks I listen to tend to be classics or things I have already read; since I often listen while doing housework, I find it helpful to know the story, and like to know I will enjoy listening to it before buying. Unusually for me, I bought Laura Moriarty's "The Chaperone" on spec, mainly because I have liked the narrator, Elizabeth McGovern, as an actress for many years, and because, having read a biography of the film star Louise Brooks, one of the main characters, I was intrigued by the idea of a fictional treatment of her life. In fact, Louise is a largely tangential character; the novel, which is a solid written piece of what might be termed "women's fiction", is really about the "chaperone" of the title, a 36 year old married woman called Cora Carlisle, who accompanies the teenaged Louise to New York when she goes there to study dancing, and whose own life is unexpectedly changed in the process.
The real life Louise Brooks seems to have been a brittle, damaged woman, whose great beauty, talent and enormous intelligence tapped right into the zeitgeist of the 1920s and catapulted her into a brief but meteoric career as a movie star. Laura Moriarty captures this difficult personality well when writing about the teenaged Louise, and one can relate to the unfortunate Cora's frustration with her wayward charge. But Cora, an intelligent, kind, but rather uptight woman, has come to New York with an agenda of her own, and when she returns to the orphanage where she grew up in search of her origins, she finds herself learning far more about herself than she has expected. While some of her subsequent life choices seem a little startling (and frankly hard to believe considering how conventional the character is at the start), the author is commendably even-handed and compassionate towards her characters. It would be easy, for example for her to have made villains of Cora's husband, who married her under false pretences and betrayed her, or the nuns who ran the orphanage from whence Cora was adopted (in a time when stories about adoption so often focus on cruelty towards the relinquishing mothers, the author's measured descriptions of the whys and wherefores of the adoption policies of the early 20th century are thankfully spot on). Even Louise's narcissistic, neglectful mother, surely the most unsympathetic character in the entire book, gets a fair hearing, which it seems doubtful she deserves.
Elizabeth McGovern gives an insensitive and intelligent reading of this imaginitive and unusual novel, and is a delight to listen to. I am happy to recommend this book, and hope others enjoy it as much as I did.
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