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Surgical robot advances to reduced gravity testing; Farritor earns NU IDEA honor with Oleynikov
Spring 2014 - Lincoln, NE
MME Professor Shane Farritor worked with UNMC surgeon Dmitry Oleynikov in developing miniature robotics to conduct emergency surgery on astronauts during extended space travel. The device will undergo reduced gravity testing according to reports from NASA 's Human Research Program Investigators' Workshop. MORE
SEE ALSO: Farritor and Oleynikov earn Innovation Development and Engagement Award (IDEA) from the University of Nebraska
NASA space suit redesign team includes UNL MME alumnus
Spring 2014 - Lincoln, NE
Dana Valish, who earned business and engineering degrees from UNL, is part of the EC5 Space Suit and Crew Survival Systems group, a Johnson Space Center team developing the Z-2, NASA's newest prototype spacesuit. MORE
Terry co-develops "third lung" with oxygen delivery via microbubbles
Winter 2014 - Lincoln, NE
The Jan. 15 edition of Biomaterials reports research by UNL's Ben Terry, assistant professor of mechanical and materials engineering, and Mark Borden, CU associate professor of mechanical engineering, on microbubbles that deliver oxygen and remove carbon dioxide through the body's peritoneal cavity. MORE
Alumnus on Forbes "30 under 30" list
Winter 2014 - Lincoln, NE
Lee Redden '09 MECH co- founded Blue River Technology, developing a robotic gardener for large-scale agriculture—to overcome labor shortages. Tested successfully in California's Central Valley, the "LettuceBot" (nicknamed Caesar) is a precision thinning device that recognizes specific plants to improve crop yields. His work is gaining attention—most recently from Forbes "30 under 30" list. MORE
Huang research with Stanford advances organic semiconductors
Winter 2014 - Lincoln, NE
Research by UNL MME's Jinsong Huang and Stanford engineering faculty significantly improved organic thin film transistors (OTFT) for electronics. In the Jan. 8 edition of Nature Communications, the team's "off-center spin coating method" enhanced charge effectiveness and device transparency for exciting new applications such as large-scale, flexible screens and more. MORE ...
Tan's research published in Advanced Materials
Autumn 2013 - Lincoln, NE
Research by UNL MME Asssociate Professor Li Tan and a team of international scientists was featured in the Nov. 13 edition of the journal Advanced Materials. Tan focused on metal–organic frameworks (MOFs), such as copper-based Cu (MOF)s, and applied lower temperatures to let the crystalline solids overcome their instability. Specifically, temperature altering of the materials' lattice structures yields more organized pores to trap small molecules of gases for energy storage or drug delivery. Tan found even at low temperature of -56 degrees Celsius these hard solids can still be patched at their defects, and the mended crystal structures then show significant improvement in strength and resilience. The reformed structures allow for dense packing that aids the toughness of the solid, facilitating multiple cycles of loading and unloading as carrier structures.
Huang's solar cell research enlightens Sunday Wtih A Scientist
Autumn 2013 - Lincoln, NE
The Sunday with a Scientist program at the University of Nebraska State Museum of Natural History featured the research of Jinsong Huang, assistant professor of mechanical and materials engineering, Nov. 18 at Morrill Hall. Huang's presentation included hands-on activities related to cutting-edge solar technology that could someday cover clothing or backpacks to power electronic devices. Visitors explored flexible solar panels and learned how a flexible solar cell is made. Huang displayed a solar cell that can be wrapped around a human hair, plus solar cells' use in charging a cell phone, laptop and toys.
Bobaru named to MURI team via AFOSR
Summer 2013 - Lincoln, NE
Associate Professor Florin Bobaru has been named to a group funded via the U.S. Air Force Office of Scientific Research. Bobaru's team, led by Dr. Erdogan Madenci, is the "MURI Center for Material Failure Prediction through Peridynamics" and includes participants from the University of Arizona, UNL, Pennsylvania State University, Arizona State University and the University of Texas at San Antonio. The highly competitive MURI program pursues carefully chosen topics identified for potential significant and sustained progress via collaborative research.
With research award, MME's Turner embarks on international collaboration
May 2013 - Lincoln, NEJoe Turner, Robert W. Brightfelt Professor with UNL Mechanical & Materials Engineering, will receive a Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Research Award from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation in Germany. Up to 25 of these awards annually promote international scientific cooperation. Turner's award, including 45,000 Euros (approx. $60,000), helps him conduct materials characterization research with his nominator, Prof. Konrad Samwer, at the University of Goettingen and with other German labs. MORE...
Huang team research is Advanced Optical Materials' cover story
December 2012 - Lincoln, NE
Research on "Photodetectors: Fullerene Photodetectors with a Linear Dynamic Range of 90 dB Enabled by a Cross-Linkable Buffer Layer" is the cover feature for Advanced Optical Materials' April 2013 edition. UNL MME Assistant Professor Jinsong Huang and colleagues report a low-noise, high-sensitivity, fullerene-based organic photo detector with a wide dynamic range. The enhanced dynamic range is achieved via an inserted cross-linkable buffer layer. The advance in light responsiveness is among the highest reported for any organic photodetector, and larger than those of inorganic photodetectors such as GaN and InGaAs.
Rehab device, co-developed by Nelson, wins daVinci award
April 2013 - Dearborn, MI
Carl Nelson, associate professor of Mechanical and Materials Engineering, collaborated for three years with researchers at Madonna Rehabilitation Hospital in Lincoln to develop the Intelligently Controlled Assistive Rehabilitation Elliptical Training System, or ICARE. It won the da Vinci award in the Recreation and Leisure category at an April 11 ceremony in Dearborn, Mich.
Dzenis and team create high-quality, low-cost nanofibers
December 2012 - Lincoln, NE
Carbon nanotubes, the super-strong building blocks of nanotechnology, hold the promise of reinforcing everything from golf clubs to airplane parts, but they're difficult and expensive to process into something useful. University of Nebraska-Lincoln engineers led by Yuris Dzenis, McBroom Professor of Mechanical and Materials Engineering, have demonstrated a promising new way to exploit their unusual structure and properties more easily and less expensively. MORE....
Huang research highlighted in Advanced Materials
December 2012 - Lincoln, NE
Work by UNL MME Assistant Professor Jinsong Huang and team on organic photovoltaics explores fullerene-based Schottky-junction devices that can output a much larger open-circuit voltage (~0.95 V) than most bulk heterojunction (BHJ) organic photovoltaic devices. The efficiencies of the fullerene based Schottky-junction devices are shown to be larger than those of the state-of-the-art BHJ devices under certain conditions. MORE...
Wortman gains prestigious UNL graduate award
Tyler Wortman, who studied with MME Prof. Shane Farritor and the UNL Robotics Lab, received the Lowe R. & Mavis M. Folsom Distinguished Master's Thesis Award from UNL's Office of Graduate Studies for his work, "Design, Analysis and Testing of In Vivo Surgical Robots." MORE...
UNL team designs robotic rover for RASC-AL Robo-Ops competition: June at NASA
March 2013 - Lincoln, NE
Nebraska Engineering was one of eight teams chosen to compete in the 2013 RASC-AL Exploration Robo-Ops Competition, sponsored by NASA and organized by the National Institute of Aerospace. The selected teams of undergraduate and graduate students build a planetary rover prototype to perform tasks in "the Rock Yard" at NASA's Johnson Space Center this June. The UNL Mechanical & Materials Engineering student team is advised by Professor Shane Farritor and works in an MME robotics lab. MORE...
Huang research highlighted in Advanced Materials
December 2012 - Lincoln, NE
Work by UNL MME Assistant Professor Jinsong Huang and team on organic photovoltaics explores fullerene-based Schottky-junction devices that can output a much larger open-circuit voltage (~0.95 V) than most bulk heterojunction (BHJ) organic photovoltaic devices. The efficiencies of the fullerene based Schottky-junction devices are shown to be larger than those of the state-of-the-art BHJ devices under certain conditions. MORE...
MME grad student Frederick wins $1,000 Quick Pitch prize
December 2012 - Lincoln, NE
Tom Frederick of Omaha was chosen as a top Four-Year College Student in the 3-2-1 Quick Pitch Competition 2012. The contest, organized by the UNL College of Business Administration Center for Entrepreneurship, was November 29 at UNL Memorial Stadium's skyboxes. MORE...
NSF CAREER Award helps Huang improve organic polymers as semiconductors in solar cells
December 2012 - Lincoln, NE
Today's silicon-based solar cells are efficient, but expensive to produce and limited in their applications. Jinsong Huang, assistant professor of Mechanical & Materials Engineering, works to improve organic polymers' efficiency as a semiconductor. Though less expensive, the challenge with polymer solar cells is to make them as efficient as silicon solar cells.
Nature Nanotechnology features Huang's use of nanocomposites to improve photodetectors
November 2012 - Lincoln, NE
Research by Assistant Professor Jinsong Huang is featured in the Nov. 11 edition of Nature Nanotechnology. Huang's paper, "A nanocomposite ultraviolet photodetector based on interfacial trap-controlled charge injection" details a way to detect light at a much longer distance than is currently possible--to benefit security efforts in radiation sensing, food inspection, water treatment and more.
Cho Wing To named ASME Fellow
October 2012 - Lincoln, NE
Professor Cho Wing "Solomon" To was named a Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers in 2012. Distinction as an ASME Fellow is the highest elected grade of ASME membership, recognizing exceptional engineering achievements and contributions to the engineering profession.
MME student track spike innovation advances
October 2012 - Lincoln, NE
Alex Adams and fellow MME student Walter Bircher are part of Blue Inventor LLC: engineering a way to make shoe spikes easier to change for track athletes. The innovation developed with entrepreneurial resources from the College of Engineering and NUtech Ventures. MORE ...
Team wins ASME graduate robotics competition
September 2012 - Lincoln, NE
A UNL MME Surgical Robotics Lab team won the American Society of Mechanical Engineers' 2012 Student Mechanism & Robot Design Competition, Graduate Student Robotics category, with their project: Miniature In Vivo Surgical Robot for Single-Incision Surgery. MORE...
Trauma Mechanics featured in September issue of Popular Science
August 2012 - Lincoln, NE
"The Labs That Go Boom:" the September issue of Popular Science magazine features MME research focusing on the impact of shock waves from improvised explosive devices on the body and brain. READ MORE (PDF)...
MME research selected for cover story of Energy and Environmental Science journal
July 2012 - Lincoln, NE
Research by a UNL team including MME Assistant Professor Jinsong Huang was selected as the cover story for the journal Energy and Environmental Science
Nastasi earns grant to develop nuclear reactor metal-ceramic composite
July 2012 - Lincoln, NE
The U.S. Department of Energy announced funding for projects to improve nuclear industry and reactor safety, performance and cost competitiveness—including $979,978 to UNL for a reactor materials collaboration, with partners MIT and Texas A&M.. More...
Nelson's work on ICARE: device enters international sales
June 2012 - Lincoln, NE
Lincoln's Madonna Rehabilitation Hospital and partners begin international sales of the ICARE assistive device. MME Associate Professor Carl Nelson worked on the team that developed the equipment, which can help some people with disabilities regain their ability to walk. More ...
Nebraska finishes in top five at Oregon competition
May 2012 - Lincoln, NE
UNL's Baja SAE team finished fourth among 79 collegiate teams at the 2012 Baja SAE Oregon competition in May—the highest finish yet achieved by the Nebraska Engineering team at this major competition. More... Also: View video of Nebraska at the event.
- MME'S Wright wins NCAA national discus title
Chad Wright, a sophomore Mechanical Engineering major from Kingston, Jamaica, earned the NCAA title in the men's discus during the first day of competition at the 2012 NCAA Outdoor Track and Field Championships in Des Moines, Iowa. He made Husker history with his winning throw of 206-0 (62.79), setting a personal best and moving to second all-time in the Husker record books. More at Huskers.com.
- MME students earn NSF Graduate Research Fellowships
Zach Connell, Eric Markvicka and Nate Otten were among five Nebraska Engineering students or recent graduates who earned Graduate Research Fellowships this year from the National Science Foundation. More...
- MME mourns Hewit
William "Bill" Hewit died Dec. 31, 2011 at age 88. He earned his B.S. in mechanical engineering at UNL in 1950 and became an independent oil producer. In 1994, Hewit and his wife, Betty-Ruth (also a UNL graduate), endowed the James K. Ludwickson Professorship in the Department of Mechanical Engineering to honor a favorite faculty member who was especially devoted to student development.
- Science Art Competition recognition
Several MME students were recognized at the Nebraska Center for Materials and Nanoscience Spring 2012 Science Art competition. Students' original artwork featured a static visual image representing a nanoscience structure or phenomenon. More...
- Nebraska Engineering student team to work with NASA
Nebraska Engineering students are floating on news from NASA that their team was selected for the space agency's 2012 Microgravity University (UNL's fifth consecutive year with the program). Among the 20 students on the UNL team, 16 are from the Department of Mechanical & Materials Engineering. The UNL team's project is Flame Behavior of a MEMS-GC Detector. Learn more on their team page. More...
2011 News & Kudos
MME welcomes Los Alamos' Nastasi, new director of UNL's Nebraska Center for Energy Sciences Research
December 2011 - Lincoln, NE
Materials scientist Mike Nastasi became director of UNL's Nebraska Center for Energy Sciences Research on Jan. 3. Nastasi is also a professor of mechanical and materials engineering and holds the Elmer Koch Professorship.
Nastasi came to UNL from Los Alamos National Laboratory where he was a longtime researcher and, since 2009, director of the U.S. Department of Energy's Energy Frontier Research Center on Materials at Irradiation of Mechanical Extremes. More...
- Alumna McMullen-Gunn wins SWE's national "Distinguished New Engineer" Award
The Society of Women Engineers (SWE) announced 52 award winners at its 2011 national conference, October 13-15 in Chicago. Nebraska's Angel McMullen-Gunn, who earned her B.S. in Mechanical Engineering (2003) and her MEng (2007) at UNL, was one of five winners nationwide for SWE's 2011 Distinguished New Engineer Award. McMullen-Gunn is a manufacturing business manager and senior mechanical engineer at Hamilton Sundstrand, an aerospace mechanical operations facility, in York, Neb. She and her husband, Darrin, live in Seward with their young son, Lucian. McMullen-Gunn was cited for her career achievements spanning several engineering realms and her significant involvement in SWE as an officer and role model. The Distinguished New Engineer Award honors women engineers who have demonstrated outstanding technical performance, as well as leadership in SWE and other professional organizations and the community, in the first 10 years of their careers.
- Team pursues rare earth magnets' development with ARPA-E grant from DOE
Jeff Shield, MME department chair and professor, is part of a research team that was awarded an Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy grant from the Department of Energy. The grant is for $3.4 million overall for three years, seeking Multiscale Development of L10 Materials for Rare-Earth-Free Permanent Magnets. The team, led by Laura Lewis of Northeastern University, is developing a process to create bulk quantities of iron and nickel in a unique crystal structure with powerful magnetic properties. This iron-nickel crystal structure is found naturally in meteorites and the team will apply advanced synthesis to artificially create this magnetic material structure. The work will stabilize this desired structure by adding other elements, to achieve properties which previously developed over millions of years with meteorites formed in space. Based on this structure, powerful new magnets could be developed with properties exceeding those of scarce and costly rare earth magnets. The goal of this project is to demonstrate bulk magnetic properties with subsequently scalable fabrication processes.
- Hallbeck, Rousek gain honorable mention in Human Factors Prize
With more than 40 health care ergonomics entries in its 2011 Human Factors Prize, the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society announced five winners whose papers will be published in the December 2011 issue of its journal, Human Factors. "Improving Medication Management through the Redesign of the Hospital Code Cart Medication Drawer," by UNL graduate student Justin B. Rousek and Professor M. Susan Hallbeck, was one of four runners-up in the competition.
- Manufacturers collaborate with UNL engineers
A group of Lincoln-based manufacturers had a field trip to Nebraska Engineering labs to see what can happen when some industrial research money, academic curiosity, local manufacturing help, engineering expertise and the high cost of farming get together. George Gogos, professor of mechanical engineering, showed them a flamer/cultivator that offers farmers a new version of an old and less expensive method of controlling weeds.
- Nebraska Engineering grad students earn NSF fellowships
In April, the National Science Foundation awarded Graduate Research Fellowships to an elite selection of recipients nationwide; four students at the UNL College of Engineering were honored, including two in the Department of Mechanical Engineering: Thomas Frederick and Tyler Wortman. According to NSF, these fellowships provide three years of support for the graduate education of individuals who have demonstrated their potential for significant achievements in science and engineering research. The NSF Graduate Fellowship benefits include: $30,000 annual stipend; $10,500 cost-of-education allowance; international research and professional development opportunities; and TeraGrid Supercomputer access.
- Huang's work featured in Feb. 13 edition of Nature Materials
Jinsong Huang, assistant professor of mechanical engineering, applied ferroelectric polymer layers in the structure of organic solar cells, to make energy harvesting more efficient and with less expensive materials. The innovation was reported by the prominent scientific journal Nature Materials in its Feb. 13 online edition.
- UNL Parents Association honors mechanical engineering faculty
The UNL Parents Association solicits nominations by parents on the faculty or staff employee/s who made a significant difference in their student's life. Among several College of Engineering honorees in 2010-11, several members of the Department of Mechanical Engineering faculty were recognized: Associate Professor Kevin Cole (his third year nominated), and Assistant Professor Linxia Gu (her second year nominated).
- Bircher honored with National Security Language Initiative for Youth (NSLI-Y) Scholarship
Walter Bircher, a UNL freshman from Omaha who majors in mechanical engineering, was awarded one of 650 NSLI-Y Scholarships for 2010-11. The merit-based scholarship covers all program costs that enabled Bircher to study the Turkish language in Turkey for a summer. Funded by the U.S. State Department and administered by non-profit organizations, NSLI-Y seeks to increase Americans' capacity to engage with native speakers of critical languages and promote mutual understanding through educational and cultural activities. (Applications for future NSLI-Y opportunities are available at http://www.nsliforyouth.org.)
- Huang awarded DOD honor
Mechanical engineering assistant professor Jinsong Huang gained a 2010 Young Investor Program award with a $200,000 grant from the Department of Defense's Threat Reduction Agency for his project: "A Novel High Quantum Efficiency Mechanism in Organic Photodetector for Sensing the Radiation from Weapons of Mass Destruction."
- Szdlowski receives teaching award
Wieslaw Szdlowski, associate professor of mechanical engineering, received a Distinguished Teaching Award at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln's annual All University Honors Convocation in April.
- Engineering faculty chosen for research fellows program
Fourteen UNL faculty members were selected for the 2010 Research Development Fellows Program, an initiative to help pre-tenure faculty successfully compete for grants. Among the 14 assistant professors selected as research fellows were seven faculty members from the College of Engineering, including Jinsong Huang, Mechanical Engineering.
- Faculty gain promotions, tenure
UNL regents approved 75 UNL faculty to receive tenure or promotion in April. MECH's Shane Farritor was promoted to professor, and Carl Nelson received tenure and was promoted to associate professor.


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When the Oakdale High football team kicks off the 2009 season in early September it will likely be five or six thousand people filling the stadium making noise to support their squad, yet the official kick-off to the season will be Aug. 3 when the team hosts 'The First Annual Oakdale High School Football Grid Iron Greats Golf Classic' at the Oakdale Golf and Country Club.
Day two was weak.
The 2009 Modesto Sunrise Rotary Baseball Classic was the final time graduated Oakdale High studs Vince Helms and Justin Jones could take the field as Mustangs and the two shined brightly in the 20th Annual Stanislaus County All-Star Baseball game at John Thurman Field in Modesto.
Although no one from Oakdale High School is going to the CIF state track meet this year, the school was well represented in the Sac-Joaquin Section Masters Meet on May 28 and 29.
When Justin Jones closed out his second consecutive Valley Oak League season without a defeat, league coaches were left with little to discuss when it came to naming Jones as the VOL's Most Valuable Player for the second straight season.
After putting together a quality career for the Oakdale Lady Mustang softball program, the Valley Oak League coaches recognized her efforts in selecting Oakdale senior Monique Galvan for the league's Defensive Player of the Year honors.
The chances of Oakdale High not repeating as the Sac-Joaquin Section Division IV baseball champions seemed ultra-slim during the Mustangs' impressive run throughout the 2009 season, but those chances became reality as Oakdale was upset 4-3 for the second time by Placer High on May 20, eliminating the Mustangs from playoff contention.
Oakdale High knew that it had one of the top programs heading into the Sac-Joaquin Section Division III Track and Field Finals at Modesto Junior College and the squad's top-10 finish in both the boys and girls division was seemingly proof enough.
Oakdale has continued its recent emergence onto the local high school swimming scene with a solid showing during the Sac-Joaquin Section Swim Championships at Tokay High May 14-16.
Every workout, every practice, every team meeting, every fundraiser, every inning and every game has been simplified into a must win double-header for the Oakdale Mustangs against Placer High in the Sac-Joaquin Section Division IV Baseball Championship.
Heading into the Sac-Joaquin Section Division IV Softball Championships the Oakdale High varsity softball team knew that they would make a lengthy run, yet its run came up a little short in a title game loss to Bear River High on May 16 at Arnaiz Stadium in Stockton.
Three different pitchers hurled complete games, combining for a total of 43 strikeouts, as Oakdale High's junior varsity softball team finished out the season with a trio of victories. The Lady Colts finished the season with 27 wins and no losses and won a seventh-straight Valley Oak League title for junior varsity softball.
Oakdale High School's track and field program has already put together an impressive 2009 season, yet the squad seems to be just kicking into gear after a dominating performance during the Valley Oak League Track and Field Championships on May 9 at The Corral.
There are several goals that a coach sets when opening the first weeks of a high school baseball season, but finishing without a loss usually is not on anyone's checklist.
The last hurdle is always the most difficult to clear and that proved to be true for the Oakdale High varsity baseball program. The squad's hope of completing a perfect Valley Oak League season came to an abrupt halt when the team took a forfeit loss against Sonora in the season finale for using an ineligible player over the game's final inning.
With a host of wrestlers still competing on Oakdale High's state-bound football team, the Mustang program is missing some serious depth.
The last non-pigskin selection for the Oakdale Leader Athlete of the Week this fall belongs to Oakdale High's varsity volleyball team. The girls bested Pioneer in four games to advance to the second round of the postseason, adding prestige to a terrific season that included a co-Valley Oak League championship.
Chasing a five-goal deficit in the fourth and final period of the Sac-Joaquin Section Division II championships water polo finals, Katie Vanderburg and Emily Stolken connected with stunning scores within a one-minute span to open the door for a possible Oakdale High comeback.
Some postseason magic carried eighth seeded Oakdale High to a spirited 3-1 rout of No. 9 seed Pioneer in the first round of the Sac-Joaquin Section Division III playoffs on Nov. 6, but happy thoughts couldn't do the trick in a 3-0 loss to No. 1 seed Oakmont two days later.
The first round of the Sac-Joaquin Section Division II girls water polo playoffs wasn't particularly kind to Capital Valley Conference No. 3 seed Del Campo, who fell 17-7 to Valley Oak League champion Oakdale on Saturday, Nov. 3 at Whitney High.
If Oakdale High's varsity boys soccer team had any questions on the type of game to expect from a Central Valley team in search of its third trip to the Sac-Joaquin Section finals in four seasons, they certainly had them answered quickly on Oct. 30.
Despite the tiebreaker that forced the Lady Mustangs to enter the 2012 Sac-Joaquin Section Division II playoffs with the lowest possible seed, Oakdale's girls tennis team didn't go down without a fight. They ended their season with a 5-4 loss to Whitney on Monday, Oct. 29 in the opening round of the postseason.

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Tonawanda News — AMHERST — The day after Congress voted to end the government shutdown, Rep. Brian Higgins addressed the Ken-Ton Chamber of Commerce and called the past three weeks "highly discouraging" for the country.
"We as a country have more potential than what we are seeing in D.C.," he said. "To shut down the government ... to try to deflect blame ... is a disgrace."
After 16 days of shutdown, President Barack Obama signed a bill to reopen the federal government and lift the debt ceiling in the early hours of Thursday. The deal, which sent 800,000 furloughed employees back to work, made no changes in the president's health care law, which Republicans previously demanded.
The bill extends government funding through Jan. 15 and raises the debt limit until Feb. 7.
Higgins, D-Buffalo, said Friday that the issue centered around a continuing resolution that would have instated current funding levels until a new bill was passed.
"We had plenty of votes in both houses to approve that," he said. "But John Boehner allowed 30 or 40 extremist Republicans to dictate the situation."
One luncheon attendee asked Higgins how the two parties can work together — specifically, in three months when the issue is likely to come up again.
"There seems to be a more reasonable way to resolve this," the questioner said, likely echoing the thoughts of many Americans who dealt with the effects of the shutdown.
"I'm hoping that rationality will prevail in the coming weeks, and that in the end, common sense will prevail," Higgins responded.
Much of the discussion in the recent weeks centered on raising the debt limit, a move some Republicans opposed in an effort to limit spending. Failure to do so would have resulted in a first-ever defaulting on U.S. debt and likely would have triggered a significant economic downturn.


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War Story
Director Mark Jackson's drama is a chilly study in grief starring Catherine Keener as a war-zone photographer shattered by her experiences in Libya.
Director Mark Jackson's drama is a chilly study in grief starring Catherine Keener as a war-zone photographer shattered by her experiences in Libya.
Dwayne Johnson tries, but he's surrounded by poor CGI and a terrible adaptation of yet another comic book. Ian McShane steals what little movie there…
"The Ballad of Narayama" is a Japanese film of great beauty and elegant artifice, telling a story of startling cruelty. What a space it opens…
Patrice Leconte's "Monsieur Hire" is a tragedy about loneliness and erotomania, told about two solitary people who have nothing else in common. It involves a…
A report on Comic-Con 2014 and "Danny Elfman's Music from the Films of Tim Burton."
"Life Itself" screens at The Virginia Theatre in Champaign-Urbana from July 28th to August 1st.
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An appreciation of James Shigeta, best known for playing Joseph "Joe" Takagi in the original "Die Hard."
A report on a film about the saga of Batkid.
The Table of Contents for our 4-part series.
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Actors often are advised to meditate on the characters they play, to get inside their skins and understand what makes them the way they are. "Young Guns II" presents the strange spectacle of actors who have apparently done more of that than the filmmakers have - so that we sense there's more to these people than meets the eye. The screenplay feels unfinished, the direction is ambling, but the performances are interesting.
The movie opens, circa 1950, with a lawyer making a rendezvous with a bearded old man by the side of a Southwestern highway. The geezer says that he's Billy the Kid, and that he wants to arrange a meeting with the governor of the state; he wants to be pardoned on charges that he killed 21 men. (When the lawyer demurs, the old-timer threatens to shoot him and "make it 22," which would seem to hint that a pardon is not exactly deserved.) Is this old man really the Kid? The lawyer demands proof - he wants to see scars. The old man has scars, all right, many of them psychic ones, and we see them for the next 90 minutes in a flashback.
"Young Guns II" is yet another revisionist version of the Billy the Kid legend, which has taken on mythic qualities in such films as "Gunfight at the O.K. Corral," "The Left-Handed Gun" and "Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid," not to mention an opera by Aaron Copland.
The angle this time seems to be that Billy was an unformed and unthinking young man, a good shot who stumbled into fame and was not equal to the responsibilities of leading a gang.
There are moments when he hardly looks old enough to vote. As played by Emilio Estevez, Billy is a fresh-faced innocent who looks youthful even in the company of his fellow gang members, who include Kiefer Sutherland, Lou Diamond Phillips and Christian Slater. Pat Garrett is played by William L. Petersen, who looks somewhat older and more weatherworn, but if they'd put a real cowboy into the picture - a younger Robert Mitchum or Kirk Douglas or Burt Lancaster - the movie would have been revealed as what it really is, a bunch of kids playing with guns.
Not many Westerns are made these days, and the success of the original "Young Guns" - no doubt because of, not despite, the young matinee idols in its cast - made a sequel necessary. You have the feeling here, though, that the screenplay by John Fusco was put together out of various standard Western elements - the night in the whorehouse, the ambush in the hills - without any clear idea of where the movie was headed, or why. Certainly the final shootout, when Garrett and his men surround the gang, is a disappointment. An event immortalized in other films is trivialized in this one.
Why do we go to Westerns, anyway - those few of us who still do, or would if they still made them? Years ago, when Westerns were racist and unthinking, we went to see the cowboys shoot the Indians.
Then we began to discover too much about the genocide of Indians to take anything but pain from such a scene. So the Western turned inward, to examine the personality problems of its heroes. Where once there was the glorious spectacle of a man bursting with self-confidence - a John Wayne, a Gary Cooper - we now got twisted portraits of men whose guns were compensating for something.
In "Young Guns II," I didn't even feel those Freudian scars; the bad guys in this movie are simply misunderstood, or took a wrong turn, or might benefit from counseling. There is no sense that they are desperate for a reason, that they like committing crimes, that they reject society for any better reason than that it rejects them. There's a lot of bold string music in the film, wide-open-spaces compositions, and a lot of horses and dust and gunfire, and even the obligatory shot where the hero gets a bath from the prostitute who understands him, but there isn't really a Western here. There are moments when the actors themselves seem to be on to something, but the screenplay doesn't give them the material to let us know what it is. The old-timer narrates the film from time to time, in a wheezy, ancient voice, recalling dim events from far ago. The events themselves have about as much energy.
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The first part in a four-part series on what film can teach us about the relationship between Israel and Palestine.
Scott Jordan Harris argues that disabled characters should not be played by able-bodied actors.
A report from SDCC on the Kickstarter "Star Trek" film, "Prelude to Axanar."


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Cause: Incandescent bulbs give off more heat than light, so they must be warming up the house.
Effect: It is hard to see this logic as anything but a weak excuse for holding on to the Edison bulbs rather than switching to CFL and LED lighting. In fact, one German entrepreneur is marketing incandescent bulbs as "heat balls" to skirt EU laws against the old-style bulbs. However, I doubt he is keeping cozy this winter simply by sleeping with the lights on.
Source: http://www.networx.com/article/10-mistakes-people-make-with-heat


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Japan's most successful PSP® title, Monster Hunter Portable 2G, is heading to the US. Renamed Monster Hunter Freedom Unite, this latest installment in the epic Monster Hunter series delivers over 500 hours of gameplay spanning some 400 missions. Added with previously unreleased monsters, weapons and missions and you have the biggest Monster Hunter game to date.
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Dodgers prospect right-hander Chris Withrow has permanently switched from being a starting pitcher to a reliever.
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Brent Bonvillain and John DeArmond of New Orleans combined for a no-hitter in the Louisiana squad's 12-0 victory over Philadelphia in seven innings Monday at Fichtner field.
Bonvillain and Dearmond joined a rather exclusive AAABA club.
They are only the second twosome in the tournament's 67-year history to throw a no-hitter, joining Joe Kerrigan and Charles Porter of Baltimore, who had a 20-0 win over Newark in 1973.
Bonvillain pitched the first six innings, allowing just three baserunners – two on walks and one on an error – while striking out eight.
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Bonvillain needed just 77 pitches to mow through Philadelphia's lineup 21/3 times.
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Despite the low pitch count and the possibility for a no-hitter, Bonvillain said he had no problem turning the game over to DeArmond for the final inning.
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Delweld's Drew Shaulis had been the most recent pitcher to throw a no-hitter. He did it in 2009 in a 4-1 victory over Martella's Pharmacy, the first time in the AAABA Tournament that a no-hitter was pitched while giving up a run.
The other no-hitters include: Bob Grossman of Washington (8-0 over Maryland State in 1969); Howie Stethers of Washington (8-0 over Baltimore in 1960); Arnold Umbach of Birmingham (5-0 over Johnstown Hahn Packing in 1960); and Hugh Waln of Washington (1-0 over Johnstown Lincoln Street Garage in 1950).
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When D&D 4E first appeared, skill challenges were a new concept to everyone, including those who write adventures for Dungeon magazine. We all learned together what this new approach could and couldn't do, and we're still exploring its potential.
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CLEMSON, S.C.-- Both Florida State men's doubles tennis teams were eliminated in the first round of the Atlantic Coast Coonference Coaches Indoor Tennis Tournament Thursday at the Hoake Sloan Tennis Center.
Freshmen Gerald Casas and Chad Mooney fell 8-3 to Billy Gluck and Johan Hansen from Wake Forest. The team of sophomore Jay Travis and junior Davidson Kozlowski lost to David Britt and Eric Saunders of North Carolina 8-3.
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• The Vikings have gotten a chance to evaluate OG Chris DeGeare the past few games with Steve Hutchinson on the shelf, and they have seen that the rookie clearly needs to progress during the offseason. He hasn't played with enough power, but the team still believes that DeGeare has enough promise to compete for a starting spot at some point down the line.
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Phase Four of the development is on the east side of McKnight Road between Duncan Avenue and Cumberland Road.
It includes five restaurants, three of which have already signed, 50 townhomes, and a 12 screen Cinemark Movie Theater for starters.
The Town of McCandless and developer, AdVenture Development, is also hoping to lure a very popular specialty grocery store.
"We'd love to have Trader Joe's, but that's not a definite, they haven't signed," said Bruce Betty, town of McCandless land use administrator. But perhaps for good luck, the Trader's Joe name is on the current aerial sketch of McCandless Crossing.
Long a specialty food staple in California, Trader Joe's has expanded to 350 stores in 25 states, gradually extending into the eastern United States and generating a cult following with its mix of unique culinary finds served up by Hawaiian shirt-clad crew members, the Pittsburgh Business Times reported.
Trader Joe's, for the most part, sells its own private label assortment of specialty foods, including meats and cheese and fresh produce.
Residents in several northern suburbs have expressed a desire for a Trader Joe's.
on Route 19, almost overwhelmingly, readers said they'd like to see Trader Joe's move into the spot.
When asked for ideas about the site of a former pizza shop overlooking Route 19 in the Streets of Cranberry shopping plaza, the answer was the same, it seemed everyone wanted a Trader Joe's.
Right now, the closest Trader Joe's are in Pittsburgh's East end at 6343 Penn Avenue and 1630 Washington Road in Upper St. Clair.
Is Betty concerned that the new owners of the Northway Mall might try to snag Trader Joe's?
"We have an approved concept here and it's a nice concept and a unique concept, it's all pedestrian friendly, we have a nice mix of things. I don't know what their plans are, how they're going to manage the traffic, storm water management, those kinds of things," said Betty. "Here, that's all done, so we've got quite a bit of a jump on it."
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Gwinnett Reads Author Natasha Trethewey to Appear at Gwinnett County Public Library's Fall Into the Arts Event
The 2012 Gwinnett Reads author for Gwinnett County Public Library's Fall Into the Arts is Pulitzer Prize winner and the Poet Laureate of the United States, Natasha Trethewey
Her work combines free verse with more traditional forms like the sonnet and the villanelle to explore memory and the racial legacy of America. She will be speaking about her work on October 7 at 5pm at the Georgia Gwinnett College, Student Center. Light refreshments will be served and music will be provided by Joyce Parks, director of the B.J. Chorale.
Events are free and open to the public; seats are available on a first come, first serve basis.


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By Times Staff
Gloucester Daily Times
---- — LAWRENCE — State Education Commissioner Mitchell D. Chester said today that the Gloucester Community Arts Charter School will likely carry through the rest of the current school year.
But a decision regarding the school's long-term future will be forthcoming in December, he added, reiterating he has deep concerns regarding the school's "viability," and suggesting his recommendation could include "revocation" of its charter.
Chester's comments came during a meeting of the state's Board of Elementary and Secondary Education, and came on the heels of a damning site visit report from a Department of Education team that visited the Gloucester charter school last month.
"It's not just the report on conditions that is alarming me," Chester said. "they are struggling in virtually all aspects. At this point in their development level, they are at a place in their third year that we might expect to see in a first-year school.
"Revocation," he said, "is very clearly in my realm of possibilities for my recommendation."
The state's BESE is next slated to meet Dec. 18, though it was not certain the Gloucester decision will be made at that session.
Chester's comments also came after state Rep. Ann-Margaret Ferrante this morning called upon the state's elementary and secondary ed board to take steps toward closing down Gloucester'e charter school, which opened in September 2010 after founders were granted a charter in February 2009. School officials, said they believe they can still move the school and its programs forward.
Ferrante, addressing the board during the public comment period of this morning's special and extended board meeting, cited word of the $75,000 loan extended to the charter without any signoff from the school's Board of Trustees as one more problem showing the flawed operation of the school, and the financial impact it is having on the Gloucester Public School District.
As the Times reported today, then-charter school Executive Director Tony Blackman accepted a $75,000, three-week loan extended personally in September 2011 by Diana Lam, who is head of school at the Conservatory Lab Charter School in Boston. In exchange, Lam netted a $2,500 loan fee. GCACS trustees' chairman James Caviston told the Times that, while the board had no say or ever signed off on the loan, the trustees had given Blackman the authority to carry out such an action. But the loan has spurred questions about the loan's legality, and about Lam's profitting from it, and charter critics have also cited a conflict of interest considering that Lam was also part of a site visit group that reported last month on programs and conditions at the Gloucester school.
"Generally we look at a five-year period to give a charter school an opportunity to come into its fruition and to come into its being," Ferrante said. "However ... I don't know the remainder of the balance of the five years is realistic for this charter school to overcome its challenges. I'm not even sure that an additional five years would allow the board of this charter school the opportunity to fulfill its obligations. I want so much more for the students in my district."
Officials with the school told the board they're confident the GCACS can still succeed.
"We have made plans to ensure the school's viability and success (since the October site review)," said GCACS Board of Trustees Chairman James Caviston.
Beth DelForge, the school's director of education who has taken the reins from Blackman after he cut his own executive director's job this fall amid a renewed budget crisis, said she and the staff are focused on firming up the curriculum and boosting MCAS scores.
"To get there, we have a lot to do, though we have begun," she said.,
Ira J. Yavner, a member of the charter school's Board of Trustees, said simply, "I just hope they give us a chance to continue."
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The Bluefield boys took two matches from Independence High on Monday at Bluefield City Courts, by scores of 6-1 and 5-1. The second match ended due to darkness.
Justin Freund and Jose Tarin won at No. 1 doubles in both matches for the Bluefield boys (7-0).
The Bluefield girls (6-0) took six of seven games in their completed match, including a close No. 1 doubles win by Zoe Nicewander and Alex Lewis by a 9-7 score.
The girls also began a doubleheader match, which was suspended after doubles competition late in the evening with Bluefield ahead 2-1.
The Bluefield boys and girls host Man today at 4 p.m. On Wednesday Bluefield is at Princeton, followed by two home matches on Thursday and Friday against Huntington St. Joe and Wyoming East.
At Bluefield City Courts
Girls singles — Molly Lovern (BHS) def. Hannah Bowman 8-5. Krista Harris (IHS) def. Alex Lewis 8-4. Sarah Brady (BHS) def. Stephanie Fletcher 8-2. Claire Bailey (BHS) def. Jessica Black 8-5.
Girls doubles — Zoe Nicewander-Lewis (BHS) def. Bowman-Lewis 9-7. Bailey-Lovern (BHS) def. Fletcher-Alex Perkins 8-1. Brady-Brooke Cundiff (BHS) def. Black-Chelsea Hicks 8-3.
Girls exhibitions — Camilla Deeb-Emma Cole (BHS) def. Karlee Hendrick-Erica Taylor 8-0. Deeb (BHS) def. Hendrick 8-2.
Boys singles, first match — Justin Freund (BHS) def. Tyler Gordon 8-0. Jose Tarin (BHS) def. Josh Borelli 8-2. Paul Hoffmann (BHS) def. Caleb Powell 8-0. Austin Tyree (BHS) def. Adam Tolliver 8-6.
Boys doubles, first match — Freund-Tarin (BHS) def. Gordon-Tolliver 8-0. Borelli-Caleb Pell (IHS) def. Tyree-Jordan Volmar 8-8 (7-3). Hoffmann-Tyler Myers (BHS) def. Caleb Miller-Will Whittaker 8-2.
Boys singles, second match — Freund def. Gordon 8-1. Tarin def. Borelli 8-1. Hoffmann def. Pell 8-2. Caleb Myers up 5-4, game called.
Boys doubles, second match — Freund-Tarin def. Gordon-Tolliver 8-0. Borelli-Pell def. Horrman-Myers 9-7. Volmar-Tyree def. Michael Trotter-Caleb Miller 8-2.
Boys Soccer
Graham 9, Narrows 1
NARROWS, Va. — The Graham G-Men took a 6-1 halftime lead and added three more goals to round out the match.
Jake Ballard scored for Narrows on a penalty kick in the first half.
The Green Wave started Jamie Scott in goal. He had three saves in 10 minutes of action. Frankie Kantsious replaced him and made 14 saves.
Narrows (0-6) plays Thursday at Fort Chiswell.
Richlands 5, Carroll County 1
RICHLANDS, Va. — Logan Forrest scored four goals to lead the Blue Tornado to a Southwest District win last weekend over the Cavaliers.
John Stanton added a goal and two assists in the win.


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Sometimes history provides a great subplot.
At others, it comes nowhere close.
This year's NCAA lacrosse tournament doesn't offer up too many nuggets courtesy of series history, at least in the first round. But that doesn't mean it's not worth looking:
No. 1 VIRGINIA vs. VILLANOVA
Series: Virginia leads 1-0
NCAA series: First meeting
Last meeting: Virginia won 21-6 on Feb. 28, 1993
Here's an interesting bit of trivia. The Cavaliers' only game ever against Villanova was coach Dom Starsia's first game in Charlottesville. That was the first of 197 (and counting) victories for the Hall of Famer, and a win in the first round would put Starsia on the precipice of career victory No. 300.
No. 2 SYRACUSE vs. SIENA
Series: First meeting
It's interesting that the Cuse plays Army, Albany, Binghamton, Colgate, Cornell and Hobart, but the Saints are one of the few upstate teams that don't regularly dot the schedule (Canisius and Marist are two others). OK, not that interesting, since this is Siena's first NCAA appearance and there isn't much to be gained from playing a middling program. But the Saints are one of the best teams to emerge from the MAAC, which means this won't necessarily be the last time these teams are paired in the NCAA tournament.
No. 3 DUKE vs. NAVY
Series: Navy leads 24-9
NCAA series: First meeting
Last meeting: Duke won 9-4 on March 21, 1999
Duke and Navy met in all but one season from 1946 to 1966, and again from 1989 to 1999. The Blue Devils took the last six meetings, then were dropped from Navy's schedule when the Mids joined the ECAC (Rutgers took Duke's mid-March spot). Navy plays Maryland and North Carolina and regularly scrimmages Virginia. This is the one ACC team the Mids aren't fully familiar with.
No. 4 PRINCETON vs. MASSACHUSETTS
Series: Princeton leads 2-0
NCAA series: Princeton leads 2-0 (1995, 1997)
Last meeting: Princeton won 11-9 in 1997 NCAA quarterfinals
It's genuinely odd these two teams don't have more history; both have long-established programs, and both have popped up in plenty of postseasons in the last 20 years. The 1995 game was a first-round matchup at Princeton.
No. 5 CORNELL vs. HOFSTRA
Series: Cornell leads 5-1
NCAA series: First meeting
Last meeting: Cornell won 14-12 in its 2004 season opener
How about a couple more schools with some geographic proximity that are relative strangers. They had a single game in 1972, then played from 1990 to 1992 and again on Long Island in 2003 and 2004.
No. 6 NORTH CAROLINA vs. UMBC
Series: North Carolina leads 17-6
NCAA series: First meeting
Last meeting: North Carolina won 11-5 in 2005
The Tar Heels and Retrievers had a home-and-home from 1998 to 2005, and tripped up the dormant ACC power three times in Catonsville. This has dangerous game written all over it, especially if UMBC can match its level of play from the America East final. It's the third straight NCAA trip to an ACC school for the Retrievers; they beat Maryland in 2007 and lost narrowly at Virginia last year.
No. 7 NOTRE DAME vs. MARYLAND
Series: Maryland leads 3-0
NCAA series: Maryland leads 1-0 (1995)
Last meeting: Maryland won 9-8 in double-overtime on May 1, 2004
The subplot in this particular game is mind-numbingly easy. Former Fighting Irish attackman (and football player) Will Yeatman has a chance to come back and haunt his former team. Wonder if anyone else will catch on to that fact and write about it this week.
No. 8 JOHNS HOPKINS vs. BROWN
Series: Hopkins leads 9-1
NCAA series: First meeting
Last meeting: Hopkins won 16-11 on April 1, 1980
No great threads spring to mind at this hour, so this is a fine time to wrap up and point out the only way any player on any team in the tournament could be facing a familiar opponent is if UMBC or North Carolina had a fifth-year senior. In fact, the only repeat coaching matchup from the last four years is UMBC's Don Zimmerman and North Carolina's (and, previously, Ohio State's) Joe Breschi.
So, no, the history is a bit bare. But that just adds to the intrigue of some curious first-round games.


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Smart girl! HOWEVER...it IS colder at altitude because temperature ultimately measures the motion of air molecules. Warm air means lots of colliding air molecules. It's what we call high kinetic energy. Cold air, on the other hand, means fewer colliding air molecules. At higher altitudes, such as the area you were hiking...the air is less dense...and there are fewer molecules available to collide. That's why temperatures are colder...usually. (The exception would be if a temperature inversion was present). Finally, cold air does sink. Your 9 year old is correct about that. But as that cold air sinks, it compresses or squeezes. The increasing pressure leads to increasing temperature (more colliding air molecules) and that's what keeps the temperatures warmer close to the ground. Some valleys can trap cold air overnight, leading to very cold temperatures. But that's an exception. By the way, you can demonstrate the effect we spoke of to your daughter by showing her what's called the 'ideal gas law'.


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True costume frustration is pushing, pulling and otherwise manipulating thick, fluffy fleece through a sewing machine at 11 p.m. on Oct. 30, trying to make all that fabric look like a bunny. Not the Playboy type, smarty pants. Im talking floppy ears and big feet, childs size 4. Plus a bear suit in size 6.
But thats what makes Halloween fun, right? Last-minute inventiveness and the unexpected, spiced up with the plaintive cry, Mom, I need 35 cupcakes in 10 minutes! and the compulsion to sledge-hammer an idiotic, motion-activated witch that cackles Ha-a-a-appy Halllllloooooowwwwweeeeen!! every time anybody walks by.
I miss it. Halloweens just not the same without kids in the house.
Our offspring are adults now. Since weve lived in this house (on a steep hill with no street lights), weve had exactly one trick-or-treater: A raccoon that traipsed back and forth on our roof one Halloween night. He was all trick, no treat.
To fill the gap, some community leaders, Facebook friends, family members and co-workers shared memories of costumes past, including fairy princesses, hobos, a very inventive Martian, Madame Pompadour, witches a la Wicked, gypsies and dinosaurs.
Genie Curti-Ruddle of Waikoloa, Hawaii (formerly of Cayucos), was 28 when she costumed as a flaming red cockroach complete with proboscis (gas mask). My friend went as a giant can of Raid. In the Halloween costume contest, the duo won first place and a free vacation in Kauai.
Laura Ruthemeyer (now of Washington state), wore this costume to work at what was then the Telegram-Tribune in the mid-1990s: I cut a circle out of cardboard, got a paper table cloth, some plastic plates, cutlery and a plastic wine glass (that I swirled red nail polish in to look like wine). I glued it all to the table, cut a head hole and voila! The most awkward costume ever!! Luckily, I didn't try and wear it on the way to work.
Julia Hickey and Sarah Linn, Tribune co-workers now, first met at a Halloween party when both were dressed as Mexican artist Frida Kahlo (unibrow and all).
Nick Franco, a State Park district superintendent, wrote that his strongest (sweetest) memory of being a young pirate is the amount of time my mom spent sewing a costume together that met my 6-year-old specifications, plus the time my Dad spent handcrafting a wooden sword and painting beard stubble, wrinkles and scars on my face and arms.
Lisa Stromsoe of Templeton said she once was kind of a Lady Godiva thing/person, with a really cool wig to my ankles. She didnt say if she was wearing anything else. I didnt ask.
Linda Foster Finley of Cambria morphed into good witch Glinda after finding this very fancy, foofy dress at a second-hand store, borrowing a VERY large-cup bra and stuffing it with a bunch of shoulder pads. She made a glittery-star wand and, presto! I was Glinda with big cleavage.
Cambria Community Services District directors split along gender lines: The guys couldnt remember any outstanding costumes; Gail Robinette dressed up one year as my black tuxedo cat, Foxy, and another time as one half of the Doublemint Twins; and Amanda Rice, who often sports trendy clothes and bright hair colors that are far from natural, said, I dress up 364 days a year. On Halloween, I wear brown hair and a suit.
County Supervisor Bruce Gibson quipped that I think I did the costume thing only to get to the sugar And as an adult (chronologically, at least), I haven't really done costumes being a supervisor is apparently scary enough.
The Tanner family used lots of boxes for costuming. Son Sean became a human rural-route mailbox that didnt fit in any of our cars. Grandson Dylan was an excellent radio, according to sister Kelsey, who trick-or-treated as a box of Rice Krispies.
At 2 a.m. on our first Halloween in Cambria, I finished sewing the aforementioned warm, fleecy costume-pajamas for my quite young sons. Adorable!
That afternoon, however, as often has been the case on Cambria Halloweens, the thermometer topped out in the low 80s. The sun was so hot during the mid-day grammar school parade through East Village that we almost had medium-rare bunny and bear.
Happy Halloween memories, folks!
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Emily Willingham, Subscriber
I write about the science they're selling you.
What's the latest "science" they're trying to sell you to treat autism? Infrared sauna therapy. Yep, you read that right. According to a recent wire story, a company that peddles saunas has teamed up with Generation Rescue–Jenny McCarthy's Generation Rescue–to "bring awareness to the therapeutic benefits of infrared saunas to the autism community." The company is kindly offering "half-size" saunas to accommodate sweating out the half-pint autistic child in your life. From what I can tell, these things are not cheap. Quoth the article:
Studies have shown that sauna therapy is a valuable clinical tool for treating autoimmune, toxicant-induced and other chronic health problems. Far infrared sauna therapy offers a component of depuration and offers a variety of health benefits to regular users including the removal of toxins in the body leading to increased health and brain function. More …
Odd that. The three articles they cite to support their assertions show no such thing. The first paper they offer isn't a study, it's a review. That means it contains no original data. It appears to be a general discussion of the use of saunas, a la Scandinavians, for treating chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, pain, and "addiction." A second paper they cite is also a review of other studies and thus also contains no original data. Worth noting, this review paper says the following about saunas:
Despite much attention given to saunas with heaters emitting at specific electromagnetic frequencies, research to date suggests that there is no difference in toxicant excretion rates between perspiration that occurs through infrared sauna, dry or wet regular saunas, or exercise.
In other words, according to their own citation, Generation Rescue has teamed up with this sauna company
to sell you to make you "aware" of something with effects you could achieve … by simply exercising.
Their third and final citation is this one. It does contain original data, but not about the effectiveness of saunas for autism. No. It's a survey of naturopaths about the techniques they use for "detoxification therapies." To add to this featherweight accumulation of evidence, on its Website, the sauna company offers up the expert opinion of one Dutch physician … who died in 1738. His apparent legacy to later generations was the advice that keeping your head cool and your feet warm would keep the doctor away. Daily apples, cold heads, warm feet. Got it.
Infrared sauna therapy might have some benefits for some health conditions (although I'd not recommend trying it for the autoimmune disease known as multiple sclerosis). But nothing in the lone study or in the two reviews cited specifically supports effectiveness of infrared sauna for autism. That might be in part because there's not an evidence base for asserting that autism is a condition that necessitates "detoxification," although there certainly is a cottage industry built up around selling this idea–and treatments for it–to concerned families. And it's not the first time Jenny McCarthy and Generation Rescue have been associated with such interventions. We've had hyperbaric oxygen therapy, chelation, Lupron (essentially chemical castration), and industrial strength bleach used against children with autism in pursuit of this heavy metal phantom. Is it any surprise that if it's OK to subject children to confinement in HBOT chambers, injections, and bleach enemas, forced sweating could so easily be added to the list?
I've done my research. My son who died eight years ago was born with a rare genetic disorder with autistic-like behaviors.
I have advocated for children and adults born with developmental disabilities for 36 years and I am especially aware of parents who try to *treat/cure/recover* their autistic kids with dangerous, sometimes deadly, treatments such as chemical castration, IV chelation and chemical bleach solutions via oral doses and via enemas.
Parents who resort to these totally bogus *treatment/cures/recovery* tactics are child abusers…no different than perverts who grab children and get their pleasure from inflicting pain on innocent children.
I am also a recently retired public health nurse/epidemiologist who investigated individual cases and outbreaks of vaccine-preventable diseases for my County department of health. Websites such as Age of Autism, Generation Rescue and others, which promote pseudoscience and the now thoroughly discredited link between childhood vaccines and autism, are responsible for many of those outbreaks. They also have an allegiance to the disgraced former doctor Andrew Wakefield and the Lupron-castrating Mark Geier.
Generation Rescue/Autism One's 2012 conference featured the snake-oil purveyor of MMS industrial bleach and one of the AoA *journalists* blogged about MMS industrial bleach solutions for oral dosing and enema solutions.
So yes, I have done the research. Have you?
Number one, I unfortunately posses binders and binders of information and lab reports regarding oxidative stress, mitochondrial disease and enchephalopathy and know more about it than I ever wanted to.
Yea so? We know about the dubious tests charlatan doctors use to "diagnose" metal toxicity. What medical records do you have from a certified toxicologist, neurologist and mito specialist that your child has all of these things?
Number two, the point of my comment was that this opinion piece was very one sided. I would expect fairer coverage from a mainstream source such as Forbes. She could have at least presented the reasons a person would consider this therapy THEN responded with her eye-rolling-look-at-these-stupid-parents-who'll-try-anything opinion.
It was far more fair than it should be. Dr. Willingham presented the 'evidence' being used to taut saunas as an autism treatment, read the studies herself and reported on the actual findings which do not support the claim at all. She also made it clear why someone would pursue such a ridiculous and unproven treatment. But it's just that, unproven.
Again I ask why your lot perform the excrutiating mental gymnastics and cognitive dissonance when it comes to studies that don't support your vaccinesdidit belief but blithely subject your children to untested and dangerous treatments that have no basis in science.
During my tenure as a public health nurse/epidemiologist, I also monitored laboratory test results for children who actually had elevated blood lead levels.
Children are monitored for elevated blood lead levels and all elevated blood lead levels are reported to the local health department for "intervention" and possibly for monitoring of chelation treatments:
I am asking again, what laboratory tests are ordered by DAN! doctors to determine that an autistic child has elevated heavy metal blood levels.
I'm reminded of a particular annoying troll that posts on Age of Autism and other blogs, who *claims* her child was injured by the birth dose of Hepatitis B vaccine that resulted in "vaccine-induced-encephalitis. When queried about which doctor made that diagnosis and what treatment her child required in a hospital ICU for "encephalitis"….she just *disappears*.
No, it's a condescending and dismissive piece slamming parents who look into not just this, but any therapy that doesn't fit your narrow criteria of what's acceptable. You are truly misinformed if you believe that no bio-medical treatment has ever helped a child with autism and I find it perplexing that having a Phd does not shed some light on this for you.
Mary Kay,
If you read back you'll find Emily's article is concerned about those who advocate, promote or peddle these types of "remedies" (e.g. Jenny McCarthy and Generation Rescue).
Perhaps you can show us where in her article Emily refers to parents in the way you say? To my reading she doesn't even mention parents at all.
Come to think about it there's no evidence of anything 'forced" … good point.
No, it's a condescending and dismissive piece slamming parents who look into not just this, but any therapy that doesn't fit your narrow criteria of what's acceptable.
What's acceptable is something based in solid evidence, odd you should find that offensive.
You are truly misinformed if you believe that no bio-medical treatment has ever helped a child with autism and I find it perplexing that having a Phd does not shed some light on this for you.
If your so-called treatments work then you should have no difficulty finding published studies with sufficient sample sizes, control groups and have been replicated. That's the light of a PhD.
"How likely is being placed in a sauna by one's parents to sweat out 'toxins' to be voluntary or requested?"
Just "as likely" as an autistic child would volunteer or request bleach enemas, intrathecal IV *stem cell* treatments, oral and IV chelation…and whatever new and innovative *treatments/cures* that pseudoscience practitioners hawk to credulous parents, Dr. Willingham.