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Move over Michigan, you've got company.
Arkansas' home loss to Louisiana-Monroe on Saturday knocked the Razorbacks from No. 8 (11th on my ballot) to out of the top 25.
Only Michigan, which opened the 2007 season at No. 5 before losing to Appalachian State, has ever taken a bigger fall.
Arkansas' problems weren't totally unforeseeable, after all, it had to replace its head coach in April. Still, the SEC is represented well, starting with the top two teams — Alabama and LSU — who were both dominant again.
Southern Cal struggled some with the weather, jet lag and mostly a game Syracuse team but remains at No. 3.
Oregon and Oklahoma round out the top five, which did not change from a week ago.
Oklahoma State, Wisconsin, Nebraska and Missouri drop off my ballot after surprising road losses in the case of the first three and a lopsided home loss in the case of the Tigers, who got whacked by Georgia, 41-20, in their SEC debut.
I moved Florida (20), Oregon State (21), UCLA (23), Northwestern (24) and South Florida (25) in but the bottom of the poll promises to remain fluid.


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on Sep 19, 2008 at 5:36 pm
on Sep 20, 2008 at 8:00 am
on Sep 20, 2008 at 8:13 am
Did 5000 people show up at the joint workshop of the Planning Commission and City Council before this was voted upon? Or will we see another divisive petition drive?
on Sep 20, 2008 at 10:11 am
If our City Council cannot read the pulse of Pleasanton on growth they should all get voted out. Pleasanton wants less traffic, is concerned about the full schools, and thinks Dublin is ugly!
5000 people should not be required at every meeting for the council to remember this!
I watched this meeting and don't think this project was unreasonable. It is BARTS property and the revenue supports the whole BART project. But am very worried if this is the begining of what will happen to Hacienda.
on Sep 21, 2008 at 11:02 am
This article is misleading. It confused a workshop including the planning commission and the city council, which is the beginning of a discussion about Hacienda with a council meeting where a rental complex was approved near the mall. Two different meetings with two different outcomes.
The drawing depicted are not of the complex approved.
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BOSTON—The surviving Boston Marathon bombings suspect was released Friday from a civilian hospital and transferred to a federal medical detention center.
Image taken from surveillance video provided by the Boston Regional Intelligence Center shows Dzhokhar Tsarnaev at an ATM in Watertown, Mass., on April 18. Associated Press
The U.S. Marshals Service said Dzhokhar Tsarnaev left Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center overnight and was taken to the Federal Medical Center Devens about 40 miles west of Boston.
The U.S. Marshals Service said Friday Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, charged in the Boston Marathon bombing, had been moved from a Boston hospital to the federal medical center at Devens, pictured above on Dec. 5, 2011. Associated Press
The facility, on the decommissioned Fort Devens U.S. Army base, treats federal prisoners and detainees who require specialized long-term medical or mental-health care. The 19-year-old Mr. Tsarnaev is recovering from a gunshot wound to the throat and other injuries suffered during his attempted getaway.
The transfer cames a day after it was revealed that Mr. Tsarnaev and his brother had planned to go to New York's Times Square to blow up the rest of their explosives, authorities said. They portrayed a a chilling, spur-of-the-moment scheme that fell apart when the brothers realized the car they had hijacked was low on gas.
New York City Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly said Dzhokhar Tsarnaev told interrogators from his hospital bed that he and his older brother, Tamerlan, had decided spontaneously last week to drive to New York to launch an attack. In their stolen sport-utility vehicle, they had five pipe bombs and a pressure-cooker explosive like the ones that blew up at the marathon, Mr. Kelly said.
"New York City was next on their list of targets," Mayor Michael Bloomberg said.
The plan fell apart when the brothers got into a shootout just outside Boston that left Tamerlan Tsarnaev dead, Mr. Kelly said.
"We don't know if we would have been able to stop the terrorists had they arrived here from Boston," Mr. Bloomberg said. "We're just thankful that we didn't have to find out that answer."
Dzhokhar Tsarnaev is charged with carrying out the Boston Marathon bombing that killed three people and wounded more than 260, and he could get the death penalty.
Christina DiIorio-Sterling, a spokeswoman for U.S. Attorney Carmen Ortiz in Boston, wouldn't comment on whether authorities plan to add charges based on alleged plan to attack New York.
The Middlesex County district attorney's office also is building a murder case against the surviving Tsarnaev for the death of Massachusetts Institute of Technology police officer Sean Collier three days after the bombings, office spokeswoman Stephanie Guyotte said.
Investigators and lawmakers briefed by the Federal Bureau of Investigation have said that the Tsarnaev brothers—ethnic Chechens from Russia who had lived in the U.S. for about a decade—were motivated by anger over the U.S. wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Based on the younger man's interrogation and other evidence, authorities have said it appears so far that the Muslim brothers were radicalized via jihadi material on the Internet instead of by any direct contact with terrorist organizations, but they have said it is still an open question.
Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was interrogated in his hospital room over a period of 16 hours without being read his constitutional rights. He stopped talking after a magistrate judge and a representative from the U.S. attorney's office entered the room and advised him of his rights to keep quiet and seek a lawyer, according to a U.S. law-enforcement official and others briefed on the interrogation.
Tamerlan Tsarnaev had come under scrutiny from the FBI, the Central Intelligence Agency and Russian intelligence well before the Boston attack. The CIA had added Tamerlan's name to a terrorist database 18 months ago, after Russian intelligence flagged him as a possible Muslim radical, said officials close to the investigation.


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So, recently I had one of those super-awesome opportunities that are so prone to giving me impostor-syndrome: thanks to my ETC peeps I ended up helping the Indianapolis Repertory Theatre out by shooting their annual fund-raising Radio Show. I guess shooting it fell off their usual guy's radar, so, I was helping them out at as a last-minute fill-in. But really, given that the Radio Show is a fun little night of local celebrities and Indy big whigs, it was really them doing me a solid.
I knew going in I was going to have to grab a photo for a cast of 30, and in a hurry at that. Not an easy task under normal circumstances, and in an unfamiliar place and with a time-crunch I thought it was a good excuse to finally try the epic 86″ version of my beloved parabolic umbrella. The 64″ extreme silver I have has served me well for years now, and with a diffuser cap on it did an admirable job shooting the much smaller cast for ETC's "Shakespeare Wrote What?" last summer.
Since the medium PLM did such a good job with a small cast, I figured the larger version with the softer silver would probably be a good choice with a larger cast. So, I dragged it out to the IRT, and set-it up a good distance from the stage and about as high as I could get it:
And, sure enough, it didn't disappoint. Because of the rush I had it slightly off center, so, I had about a 1 stop gradient across the frame, but nothing LR couldn't handle in post. The shadows cast by the umbrella were, for the context, just perfect. Hard enough for definition, soft enough to be pleasant still.
It wasn't until the actual performance I learned who the cast was for the evening. The sudden realization that you just took a picture of the CEO of Lily and his wife, one half of the infamous Bob and Tom radio show, one of the newer member of the Colts, and a bunch of other People who are People To Know is a bit of a terrifying rush, let me just say.
But boy, a lot of people made it out to see them (and, you know, to help the IRT raise money for little things like underwriting tickets and transportation costs so students can see more live theatre).
After an hour or so running around through two packed floors of guests and cast mingling (shot with a Fong Cloudsphere, love those things), it was back into the main theatre to catch the Radio Show on the One America Main Stage. It was a delightful "parody" of Downton Abbey ("Downtown Abbey"), with lots of good cracks at Indianapolis foibles and follies. Fun was had, and quite a deal of money was raised very quickly to help underwrite those student tickets. I was glad to be there for it, and glad to see how strong the theatre patronage in Indy really is.
And, boy, am I glad with work like this I made the jump those years ago to a D700. Everyone assumes the problem with working in theatres like this is the dark, but you know, very rarely did I have to go above ISO 3200 (thanks in part to the awesome new Tamron 70-200mm f2.8 VC I was giving a spin). The real problem with theatres is actually the light in the dark, if that makes sense. It's the stage lights, which aren't by themselves technically bright, but they are much, much brighter than the dark without them, creating a pretty big EV range to try to capture. And the dirty secret of high ISO too few people think about is that as ISO increases, dynamic range decreases. So, the trick of shooting these conditions isn't to just ramp up the ISO and call it a day. If you do that, you end up either only having the highlights exposed and just massive stretches of pure black blah, or else you get the shadows but your highlights are too blown to recover. The D700 has much better headroom for highlights in RAW than my E-3 ever did, and that's made shooting like this possible. I usually try to split the difference these days, where the shadows are a bit dark and the highlights slightly blown then I fix them in post to have something that looks more, well, natural than a pure "in the camera" process could ever give me.
Shooting theatre is fun, but it's definitely got its own flow. Most of your attention has to be on the performance itself, trying to watch the actors, how they behave, who does interesting things, and trying to predict where the action is going to move on you. So, you don't have a lot of time for focusing on the technical. Which, thanks to the decreased DR of the higher ISOs you need but the expanded range of the actual scene thanks to the stage lights means you have to take a lot of shortcuts. The big one is that I only use stabilized lenses, both tele and wide/standard, when I shoot like this. Sure, stabilization doesn't compensate for actors moving, but at slower speeds like 1/50 it sure does take out a lot of the slop my own shakey hands would otherwise be introducing to the mix. Speak of 1/50, that's about as slow as I care to go shooting theatre. Slower than that and you get too much blur too often. It's nice to go faster when you can, but, once it requires raising the ISO the lack of blur is compromised by further compressed dynamic range, so, I prefer to err on the side of motion blur. So, what little time I do have to devote to the technical mostly goes to constantly fiddling the shutter up and down a few stops to compensate for the rapidly changing (and meter-baffling) stage lights.
All-in-all, I shot well over a thousand frames at the Radio Show. Mostly because, heck, I was having fun. It was a cool event, and one I was glad to be present for–even if I was technically working it. And, hey, the gal handling the audience cue cards totally rocked it with the best dress in the house and green hair. Take that, things.


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By BRIONNA FRIEDRICH
The Daily World (Aberdeen, Wash.)
ABERDEEN, Wash. — More than a week after they were discovered in a shallow creek in New Albany, it's unclear whether Jaime Clutter and her children will be coming back to Aberdeen or will be laid to rest in what was their new home.
Memorials are in the works for the 35-year-old woman and her children, Brandon, 10, and Katelyn, 6 months, in Washington state and New Albany, where they moved about three months ago. Jaime Clutter's father, Bill Pink, said earlier this week that he and her mother would likely attend an Indiana funeral service tentatively set for Saturday.
"As soon as that gets concrete, I think we'll probably do a memorial over here," Pink told The Daily World.
His daughter and grandchildren lived in Aberdeen all their lives, he said, connected to a large group of extended family and friends.
Pink said the cost involved might prevent the family from bringing them home for burial.
"The cost is really pretty high to do all that," Pink said.
The family's church, The World of Praise United Pentecostal Church in Hoquiam, Wash., has set up a donation page to help the family with the various expenses. Joyce Smith, wife of the Rev. Ronald Smith, said the family would never ask for such help, but the congregation wanted to do something to lighten the burden of memorials, air travel and other expenses that may come up.
"They're all family people. Their family is very close, they're very faithful people. They've been faithful to the church, and they're faithful to each other," she said.
"This family is just so unique, they are above reproach. They are the finest people I've ever met," Ronald Smith said. "On a scale of 1 to 10, they're above 10."
Jaime Clutter and the children attended the church nearly all their lives until their move to Indiana in late December. Her father was assistant pastor for 25 years and was promoted to pastor last August.
Ronald Smith said the church has been inundated with calls from people all over the state offering to help.
"You don't have to ask anybody, they volunteer, they call, [asking] 'What can I do?' " he said.
Jaime Clutter and her children were discovered by a passer-by in Falling Run Creek which runs through Binford Park on March 13, not far from the Sheffield Square apartment where they lived. The Clutters moved when Jaime's husband, Mike, found work.
Police have not said what they think may have happened, but at a press conference March 15, Floyd County Prosecutor Keith Henderson said, "I have no reason to believe we have an individual on the loose, if you will, that would cause the public alarm or harm."
The preliminary cause of death for the children is drowning. A cause of death for Jaime Clutter is pending toxicology results.
"They are working on some things, and it's a whole lot more involved than what we thought and they thought. I guess I'm glad to hear there are some things they're working on," Pink said.
Members of the church have been devastated by the loss, Joyce Smith said.
"They're really shocked, and they're really reaching out to the family. Actually, it has really brought the church together," she said.
The Clutters lived in Aberdeen for about a decade, moving from Indiana, where Mike Clutter has family. They spent the first three years of their marriage in Indiana and Brandon was born there.
"They thought, 'Well it's time to come home and spend some time at this end of the world,'" Pink said.
Mike Clutter found a job at Westport Shipyard, and the Pinks helped them find a house, paint it and prepare it for their young family.
The Pinks got to spend a lot of time with their outgoing young grandson and their eldest daughter.
"She's always been a very involved person, and of course at home with the family. She home-schooled Brandon, and they had dedicated one whole room of the house just for his school room," he said. "It was just packed with everything. She made a huge investment in his education, and he was just sharp as a tack. Home-schooling doesn't work out for everyone, but she made it work."
The last few months of her pregnancy with Katelyn, Jaime Clutter was on bed rest, so the Pinks had Brandon with them for much of last summer, traveling to Disneyland and enjoying quality time.
"We had a great summer together, and then of course they were here for the holidays," he said.
The Clutters' furniture went to Indiana before they did, so they moved in with the Pinks for a few weeks.
"That was a lot of fun. We have a lot of great memories," Pink said.
He remembered saying goodbye when the family moved as very difficult, and "that's a normal feeling, but Mike needed a job so that was … the positive thing about it."
He said Jaime spoke with her mother three to four times a week, and he would talk with her at least once or twice a week.
"In that short time [they had lived there], everything has worked out really well, it sounded like," he said.
He remembered his grandson as a boy who often made friends while standing in line at the store.
"That's the kind of kid he was. Very talkative, very much a people person," Pink said.
He said Mike Clutter is holding up as well as can be expected.
"He's doing better today, he's been through a lot," Pink said Tuesday. "He's worked very tirelessly with the detectives and the police department."
"It's a great tragedy, and I'm sure he's still in shock to some degree. Somehow or other, we all agree that God is the only one who can take a tragedy and something evil and turn it around to something good," Ronald Smith said.
Donations to the family may be made on the church's website, theworldofpraise.com, under the link "Clutter Memorial Fund." Checks may also be mailed to the church at 601 Karr Ave., Hoquiam, WA, 98550.


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By Kathleen Gest, Local columnist
---- — Even though there are challenges with aging, there are also opportunities.
The senior population is a wonderful resource, giving communities an opportunity to take advantage of their knowledge and experience. Thus, we need to dispense with the stereotypes of what it is to be old and value the interaction seniors can have in their communities.
Established in 2000, the National Cherry Festival Distinguished Senior Citizen award recognizes that individual, 65 and over, for his/her self-sacrifice, hard work and dedication to their community, as well as representing positive aging.
"The Distinguished Senior award is a reinforcement and a recognition that aging is good," said Patti DeAgostino, coordinator of the event. "It is something we all have to deal with, whether we like it or not, and the best way to age is by getting out into the community and helping others."
The award honors that special individual with experience and the wisdom to share with others — that senior who is willing to step up to the plate and say, "I can help."
Previous National Cherry Festival Distinguished Senior Citizens are Peg Simmons, Margaret Dunn, Mary Jean Brick, Clara McManus, Joe Lada, Virginia Olds, Jim Rowlett, Bea Houghton, Rev. Edwin Thome, Sandy Svec and Hettie Molvang.
Last year's honoree, Molvang, was born and educated in London. Her grandmother died in a World War II German bombing blitz. She married an American soldier, Maurice Kunkel, and came to the United States in 1947. A few years later she became a naturalized citizen.
"I think seniors have a lot to give, but I never expected anything like the Distinguished Senior award in my life," Molvang said. "I do what I do "¦ I do what I have a passion about. Certainly, I have a passion for veterans with Parkinson's. I was in World War II in Great Britain, during the bombing of London, so I know what war is about."
Holding a master of arts degree and a master of science degree, Molvang worked as a nurse at Cadillac Mercy Hospital until 1962, when she moved to Traverse City with her second husband, Eric Molvang, to teach advocacy theory and clinical nursing for Northwestern Michigan College. In 1986, she was only the second woman to receive the NMC Imogene Wise award for Excellence in Teaching. She was the director of the honors program and head of the faculty council for several years.
Currently, Molvang is a facilitator for the area's Parkinson's support group and a state coordinator for the Parkinson's Action Network, which lobbies in Washington, D.C., for coverage of U.S veterans and returning servicemen exposed to the defoliant Agent Orange and other neurotoxins. As a result of PAN's work, some 90,000 Vietnam veterans are now receiving benefits.
"The Distinguished Senior for the National Cherry Festival is a very fine award. Certainly, at the time you get it, you think, wow, I must have done something right," Molvang said.
This year's honoree will be named Monday, July 9, at a special breakfast, beginning at 9 a.m. at the TC Elks Lodge (the cost $5). Nominees are Ralph Soffredine, Bob Wilhelm, Bill Crossman, Peter Monahan and Walter Finkbeiner.
"Through the years, the range of service has gone from the conservancies to the History Center to the Pavilions to the cancer society to nonprofits to government," DeAgostino said. "They touch all of the resources we have in the city. I think to give them recognition for what they do, is something we need to do. We owe it to them."
This year, the breakfast and the week of senior activities at the National Cherry Festival are dedicated to Mel Gee. For more information and to register for the breakfast or other senior events, call the Senior Center Network at 922-4911.
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DETROIT -- A few Sabres are on hand for an optional skate at Joe Lous Arena and I've just been informed that winger Mark Mancari has been loaned back to Portland. Certainly not a reflection of Mancari's play, which has been pretty good this week.
Post-practice update: Gaustad will be back tonight. Mancari was on emergency recall when Drew Stafford was injured and had to be returned when Gaustad was available. Mancari had a goal and an assist in his three games. No way to tell who skates in Mancari's place with Roy and Vanek since few players were on hand.
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When Vickers was asked about the ordeal, he said "I was stretching and then by the time I got to the special teams period, which is a couple of periods after, I guess they worked their way all the way in there, and once they got to where they wanted to be. They just started stinging."
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Dozens of Lyons area residents showed up at Town Hall last Thursday evening, August 29 to voice their feelings about their desire for an upgrade to the old Depot Library, or a new facility entirely. It was a historic meeting with both the Boulder and Larimer County Commissions in attendance to listen to the residents. Commissioners Lew Gaiter II, Steve Johnson, and Tom Donnelly from Larimer
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By Joseph Lekarczyk
In the interest of full disclosure, let it be known that the author of this article is married to the Mayor.
The Lyons Board of Trustees (BOT) had a light agenda Tuesday night (they met on Tuesday because Monday was Labor Day), but they made up for it with a ninety minute workshop on the wastewater treatment plant upgrade. The Trustees heard progress reports from the Wastewater Treatment Facility Task Force, an ad hoc committee made up of Utility & Engineer Board, Sustainable Futures Commission members Town of Lyons staff, and Honeywell Engineering. Things are apparently
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Dear Lyons Community,
Everyone is entitled to their own opinion about whether or not to support a new library facility for Lyons, but I was disappointed to recently read unfair and inaccurate criticism leveled at the Library Steering Committee.
Creating a 21st century multi-media library in Lyons has long been a community goal. In 2008, the Economic Development Council prioritized a better library as one of its key economic development strategies based on empirical evidence of the links between a good library and downtown economic
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On Saturday, July 20, at the Boulder Reservoir a number of people approached an adult gull who sat unmoving on the shore as they stood very near to him. He seemed vulnerable and ill. Before long, the lethargic gull was transported to Greenwood Wildlife Center, one of only a small handful of professional wildlife rehabilitation centers in Colorado that care for water birds. The gull received a
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Dear Editor:
Next week, the County Commissions will vote on whether to form a new library district in the greater Lyons area. If the district is formed, the existence of the Library Steering Committee (LSC), which has lead the effort to create a new library/resource center in Lyons, will end. With this (hopeful) transition in mind, let's take a moment to consider what the LSC has accomplished.
Let's begin with what the LSC was designed to do, and not do. Composed entirely of volunteers, but with no budget or bank account, the LSC's purpose was to gather community input, study possible sites, determine costs and library features, and get a library district formed. The new
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A great football team deserves the support of a great town. Two big events are coming up in September surrounding our first two home football games. The first is the annual Lyons Community Barbecue, before the first home football game on Friday, September 6. The second is a Lyons Homecoming Parade, on Friday, September 20.
The 17th Annual Lyons Community Barbecue will take place on Friday, September 6, from 4 to 7 p.m., just before kick-off of the first home game against
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Two heads are supposed to be better than one, but is the same thing true for County Commissions? Lyons area residents will have the chance to see for themselves on Thursday, August 29, when the Boulder and Larimer County Commissions will hold a rare joint public hearing at Lyons Town Hall. The hearing is set for 5 p.m., with a short tour by the Commissioners of the current Depot Library (likely to occur just prior to the hearing).
The idea for a combined public hearing arose at prior separate Commission meetings concerning the Lyons Library Project Steering Committee's requests to establish a new regional library district, and approve a tax mill levy ballot measure to fund the district. The Commissioners themselves
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My son was devastated to find out he was seated between two girls in his new second grade classroom.
"It's not fair! Why can't I sit next to my friends?"
It may not be clear to him, but it's perfectly clear to me. He is a boy's boy. He is a good student, but would much rather be running, tackling, wrestling, throwing, catching, jumping, riding or any other physical activity available.
"Buddy, get used to it. You will be sitting next to girls for the rest of your school career."
Rolled eyes back at me.
"Trust me, someday it won't seem so terrible."
In my son's particular case, sitting in the middle of two girls who pay attention and follow the rules directly results in better behavior. The teachers are obviously on to him.
My third grade daughter is in the opposite position. She is seated on the end next to a boy.
"I'm sitting next to a boy again!"
It happens to her every year. It seems that she's resigned to the fact that this will be her seating chart fate. She doesn't love it but has accepted it.
It makes perfect sense to me that teachers intersperse the boys and girls to maintain some sort of order in the classroom.
What doesn't make sense to me is the way that classroom desks are arranged these days. It's so different than when I was in elementary school (back in the dark ages). We sat in single rows, with one student in front and another in back. Perhaps four or five rows of four or five students in each.
Now, my kids' desks are always arranged in a "U" shape with the desks touching or they are paired next to one other student with their desks touching. Always with the desks touching. What's that all about?
My husband, who is an admitted "germ-o-phobe", can't stand it.
"I could never sit like that. Doesn't that spread more germs? Doesn't the kid next to you touch all of your stuff? Doesn't it make it more tempting to copy the other kid's work?"
Yes, yes and yes. There must be a reason. I just don't know what it is.
For the record, my fifth grader was very happy with her seating assignment and declared on Saturday morning that she would actually prefer to be at school versus at home having to deal with her little brother.
And so we are off and running with the new school year. Here's hoping for a good one.


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FRIDAY, MARCH 23 - 10:33 AM - (from Calvin Hughes) - The long, arduous journey into Cuba was grueling, but expected. We were warned to anticipate long delays and searches at the airport. I thought this process would take maybe one or two hours. Turns out, retrieving our luggage took three times as long as our flight from Miami which lasted less than an hour. At Jose Marti International Airport in Havana, I was able to take in the moment. Listening and looking around at Cuban families and tourists who couldn't wait to see their families patiently standing in front of the airport. They were three to four rows deep. The reunions were filled with such raw emotion. Everyone cried, hugged and cried some more.
There is a lot more to say but I'm being summoned to a meeting with Cuban officials to inform us about our journalistic "boundaries." Stay tuned.
THURSDAY, MARCH 22 - 3:27 PM - (from producer Michelle Lacamoire) - The reality of travels to Cuba: It takes 45 minutes from the moment the plane's wheels lift off the ground at MIA and land in Havana, but it takes the entire day to make it happen. Checking in takes four hours. You have to wrap what you take and then form the long line to check in. Then there's the long security checkpoint and then the wait for the plane and the crew. Our flight is delayed. That is nothing new for flights to Cuba. We were supposed to leave at 3pm but it's 3:20pm and the crew has yet to arrive. With all our equipment, I envision us in Havana's airport for a while too. Again, 45 minutes to fly there... an entire day to make it happen.
THURSDAY, MARCH 22 - 2:35 PM - Calvin sent in this video blog before the Local 10 plane took off for Cuba.
THURSDAY, MARCH 22 - 2:03 PM - (from Calvin Hughes) - It's hard to believe the day has arrived. The Local 10 news crew including Rudy, Bill, WPLG News Director Bill Pohovey, Jen and I are hours away from landing in Havana, Cuba to cover the Papal visit. We will be the only local news crew from South Florida to cover this historic event! We understand an entire community will be clinging to our every word. And, within that same community, we will have those who will disagree. Their voices will not be ignored. Unlike Cuba, South Florida exiles are free to express themselves with various outlets. I look forward to reading and hearing their opinions. However in their native land speaking freely comes with a high price so I'll have to read between the lines for the next several days. Listen to what's not being said. And relay the images many in South Florida can't see, smell or touch. What a challenge.
THURSDAY, MARCH 22 - 1:54 PM - (From Jen Herrera) - Sitting at the gate now its finally sinking in that this is happening, we are going to Cuba. This is so exciting professionally, despite the fact that I was in tears this morning kissing my girls good bye.
It's also exciting because I'm going back to the place where my family is from. My father was born in Cuba and came to the United States in 1953, but he went back every summer until 1960. Up until now I have known very little about my father's side of the family. Now I know my grandfather made a huge sacrifice when he left everything he had ever known to give his wife and children a better life in the US. I hear the home where my dad spent many summers is still just outside of Havana... I can't wait to find out!
THURSDAY, MARCH 22 - 1:07 PM - (from Jen Herrera) - Check-in complete. $316 baggage charge, not nearly as bad as we expected considering all of the equipment Can't wait to see how bad it is on the other end. Interesting tidbit; like so many things in Cuba, they don't change the clocks the same time as the rest of us. It's an hour earlier in Cuba until they "spring forward" in a few weeks.
THURSDAY, MARCH 22 - 12:08 PM - As she and the Local 10 crew prepare to leave for Cuba, Jen Herrera put together this special "Behind the Curtain" video to show what a task it is to leave the country
THURSDAY, MARCH 22 - 11:53 AM - (from Jen Herrera) - And so the journey begins. Our crew arrived at Miami International Airport the required four hours before the flight to Cuba. It's always amazing to see the lines of people checking in for the flights to Cuba. So many people traveling for so many reasons. We've met people going to see the Pope. We've met people going for vacation, but mostly we met people going to see family. And they don't go empty-handed. The four-hour check-in is due to the massive amounts of luggage people take to Cuba. Everything is wrapped in green plastic to ensure everything inside the bags on this end makes it to Cuba. We've seen plasma TVs in the luggage. You name it, someone is bringing it for a family member. The long duffel bags loaded with supplies are so common they are called gusanos, or worms, in English. Anything over 44 pounds costs extra. Prices depend on whether it's food or medicine which is cheaper. Gift and clothes cost more. We have 100 pounds of TV equipment and are just waiting to see how much we will be required to spend, but it won't be cheap! More to come.
THURSDAY, MARCH 22 - 11:30 AM - The Local 10 crew travelling to Cuba is now at the airport, waiting to board their plane. There is a lot of anticipation ahead of the trip and the crew sent these photos before they fly off.


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I write from the left on politics and policy.
It turns out that being a good corporate citizen is as important to selling pizzas as the thinness of the crust or the quality of the cheese.
If you don't believe it, just ask Papa John CEO, John Schnatter.
As covered—and criticized—in this column in great detail, Mr. Schnatter decided to mix his politics with his pepperoni when suggesting that he would be cutting the work hours for Papa John employees in order to bring them below the 30 hour per week threshold that would require Schnatter to provide his employees with healthcare benefits.
It turns out, the pizza eating public did not approve.
Indeed, so serious was the reaction that Schnatter was forced to publish an op-ed piece where he sought to convince us that he never really intended to cut back worker hours but had simply been speculating on what he might do in response to the legislation.
According to YouGov BrandIndex, a leading marketing survey that measures brand perception in the marketplace (called "Buzz"), Papa John's had good reason for concern as the pizza chain's brand identity has plummeted from a high of 32 on election day, to a remarkably low score of 4 among adults who have eaten at causal dining restaurants during the past month.
Papa John is not alone in his anti-Obamacare misery.
Fast food server, Applebee's, possessed a healthy Buzz score of 35 before Zane Terkel, CEO of one of the company's largest franchisees, appeared on television to complain about the law and to announce that he would not be building more restaurants or hiring any more workers in response to his objections to Obamacare.
Applebee's "pre-Terkel" Buzz score of 35 now sits at a pathetic 5.
I don't imagine Mr. Terkel will be getting many Christmas cards this year from other Applebee's franchise owners.
While these corporate complainers have sought to explain away the hit they are experiencing at the hands of the public's perception, one such company is facing the music straight on. Darden Restaurants, Inc.— owner of Olive Garden, Red Lobster and LongHorn Steakhouse—has lowered its profit projections for the quarter ending November 25th, acknowledging that its bad numbers are the result of poorly performing promotions, Superstorm Sandy and…wait for it…the poor publicity it engendered by its decision to test out a plan to cut back on healthcare costs by putting more workers on part-time schedules.
Check out these rather epic declines:
Hopefully, other businesses seeking to avoid their responsibilities under the healthcare law—such as Walmart who intends to cut back employee hours in the effort to push workers onto Medicaid rolls rather than take responsibility for their employees' health care—will get the message.
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I'm talking about this issue. Stick to the subject. Electoral College, for better or worse, was put in place to better reflect the will of the Majority, and/or protection of the minority.
Thanks for agreeing with me while pretending to disagree. That's cool.
Or because of the bad food they serve ..people would still use them if they had a good product.
You're right about that. And the Senate was originally elected by state governments in order to prevent the central government from harming states' interests… what we today know as "unfunded mandates".
Actually, I think you all should read the Constitution to discover that it doesn't say anything about the motivation for the Electoral College. If you want some insight on the motivation, read Federalist No. 68.
"It was equally desirable, that the immediate election should be made by men most capable of analyzing the qualities adapted to the station, and acting under circumstances favorable to deliberation, and to a judicious combination of all the reasons and inducements which were proper to govern their choice. A small number of persons, selected by their fellow-citizens from the general mass, will be most likely to possess the information and discernment requisite to such complicated investigations."
In addition to the people's perceived lack of knowledge necessary for the decision, they were also deemed to be too prone to "violent movements" in their opinions based on "the little arts of popularity" and less likely than other elected officials and the voters themselves to "prostitute" their votes.
The number/apportionment of electors was a result of the Connecticut Compromise, which protected both the smaller and larger states by allocating numbers differently in the two legislative bodies (and electors, because electors' numbers are determined the same way).
The founders may have adopted the British system, but they didn't do so in deference to the British. They had a keen understanding of what the effects of splitting power in this way would be.
There is an aspect of the Senate designed to balance out the "wilder nature" of the populace — the 6 year terms and split election cycles, which we still have. And that still subdues the vagaries of swaying popular opinion even with a popular vote, so it doesn't explain the election mechanism.
Election by state governments was more feasible before modern voting technology and also gave the state governments veto power over proposed federal laws. And I'm sure the founders were aware of and intended this. Whether the writers of the 17th Amendment considered that, I don't know. May have been part of the movement to increase federal power and diminsh the states (which was of course the main issue of the Civil War, abolition being one of the exercises of that power).
Rick Ungar, you're splitting hairs on the Electoral College. Do you even have a college degree? That is not the way educated men respond to other's comments.
I want to know is why, Soldiers, Vets and those that have Retired are getting bills from Tricare for Health Insurance. And dont tell me its cause the system cant afford it. This didnt start till this bill became a law. Tricare for Life is what a Retiree is entitled too. WE have earned it. Why does this administration and the Democrats want those of us who put our life on the line, willing to die for all of you, want the wounded to pay for their healthcare, yea its out there. Its in the build.
I also want to know why, if I sell my house, and buy a smaller one, and save some of my investment, that I have to now Pay a Capital Gains Health Care Tax.
I am on page 1500 of 2000, and I am finding things that make me sick. I am so tired of them taking my Money and giving it to those that will not work for it.


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HOUSTON – A wild police chase that went through downtown Houston, eastside neighborhoods and a rail yard lasted over an hour Thursday afternoon.
The chase started around 3 p.m. near Almeda and West Airport in southwest Houston.
Officers threw out some spike strips at one intersection, but that didn't slow the grey SUV down.
The suspect jumped on Highway 288, but coudn't lose the HPD patrol cars that were following him.
He took 288 to the 59 feeder road and sped past Minute Maid Park before heading to I-10 Eastbound.
He nearly crashed into a stalled black pickup truck and a school bus during the chase.
The suspect drove through a rail park and on top of railroad tracks for several minutes before abandoning the vehicle.
Around 4 p.m. the suspect finally pulled over and and ran into a residential neighborhood just east of Lockwood. A police officer chased the suspect and used a stun gun to stop him.
The suspect told officers he ran because of outstanding tickets.


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Friends who knew Neal Dillard in high school might be surprised to know he's a pastor today.
In his younger days, Dillard was a poor public speaker.
"When I had to give a speech in class, I'd open my mouth and my legs would shake so bad nothing would come out," he said.
In 1988, he answered the call to serve God. Today, he is pastor of Etta General Baptist, after serving as pastor at Dry Creek Baptist, near Caney Ridge, for 24 years.
"My family said, 'he must be called of God, because he couldn't do it on his own,'" Dillard said. "And they're right, I can't do it on my own. God has to do it."
The Lord called me, Dillard explained.
"It may seem strange to some people, but I was sitting in church and knew God was speaking to me," he said. "I was what you call a miserable Christian. I realized there were things I was putting first before God."
When people called needing help, he would make excuses.
"God showed me what kind of Christian I was, and I started putting the Lord first, being faithful and going when people called," Dillard said. "After I began to put him first in my life, it changed."
Dillard began having dreams of preaching, waking himself up spreading the gospel. He realized then God was calling him. Dillard said God also showed him the first church in which he would preach – Hickory Flat in Knob Hill, Ark. A friend invited him to a service, and Dillard shared that he'd been called to preach.
"I was invited by a youth to come back the following Sunday and preach at their youth service," he said.
Then the Baptist Association asked him to come preach to their youth at Camp Robertson in the summer.
"On the third night of the camp, I gave an invitation and 43 kids came to the alter and were saved," he said. "That's when God told me, 'that's what I kept you all these years for.'"
Neal grew up in Stilwell, and his wife, Billie, is from Welling. They married in 1977 and will celebrate their 35th anniversary in November. They've always enjoying singing gospel together. Billie sings and Neal is the musician.
The Dillards have performed with their daughter, Deanna, who plays the piano, and Arnold Briggs, who plays lead guitar, for 18 years. Their "adopted daughter" Leslie Dallis, who grew up with their daughter, still performs with the group occasionally.
Sometimes he evangelizes, visiting other churches.
"We celebrate birthdays quarterly with a luncheon after church," he said. "We don't have Sunday evening church, and that leaves me free to go to other churches to sing and preach."
Billie is more than his singing partner, he said.
"You've got to have a good wife to go as much as she and I go," he said. "I put God first and I have to do what God has called me to do."
Salvation is the message he shares through music. No one is born a Christian.
"You must be born again and you're led to Christ through the spirit," Dillard said.
"So you're saved; you get born again. The Bible says all have sinned. God kept me until I got back in his grace. I'm thankful for that. Jesus said 'no one comes to the Father but by me.' So, Jesus leads us by the Holy Spirit, like myself, or any who've been born again, when they hear the message and the spirit calls to them."
The biggest thing as a pastor and preacher is to preach the word, Dillard said.
"As a preacher, you have to have compassion for people and want to see people saved," he said. "I rely on what the Holy Spirit feeds me, and I study a lot."
Many times, he's gotten up to speak and God gives him a message, or he'll change the message.
'And he always gives me the scripture to back it up," he said.
The church meets Sunday mornings at 10 a.m. for Sunday School, and 11 a.m. and 6 p.m. for church. Bible study Wednesday evenings is open for everyone to share their thoughts, Dillard said.
"I ask for testimonies. I like to hear what God has done for people," he said.
"A lot of times, God has blessed somebody and they're just waiting to share about miracles of healing, how God kept them safe from something bad or an accident, how God supernaturally stepped in and helped them physically or financially."
Dillard believes there are two kinds of preachers.
"[There are] those who God has called, and those who appoint themselves," said Dillard. "I'm the kind God has called."
His favorite story in the Bible is about a woman who had an issue with her health.
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I comment on China business, economy, politics and culture. No MSG.
New research confirms something that some of us have known all along: Chinese parents lie.
We're not talking about little white lies—harmless and tactful untruths to make kids feel better about themselves—like when a child accidentally drops a dish: "It's not your fault the plate broke. It broke because it was too old."
We're talking about scar-you-for-life whoppers like "Finish all your food or you'll grow up to be short," "If you don't follow me, a kidnapper will come to kidnap you while I'm gone" or "If you don't behave, I will call the police."
According to a new study published in the International Journal of Psychology, 98 percent of Chinese parents admit to telling their children lies just like these.
Far from fibs, Chinese parents go beyond wild exaggerations to blatant manipulative fabrications designed to get kids to do what they (the parents) want. And if that means scaring the bejesus out of their kids, so be it.
One Chinese parent from the study justified lying by saying, "When teaching children, it is okay to use well-intentioned lies. It can promote positive development and prevent your child from going astray."
To be sure, American parents lie as well. But not anywhere near the extent of their Chinese counterparts.
Sixty-eight percent of Chinese parents reported having told the lie about being kidnapped, but only 18 percent of American parents did, according to the study.
Another lie that far more Chinese parents than American parents (61 percent versus 10 percent) reported telling their kids was, "Finish all your food or you'll grow up to be short."
Forty-eight percent of Chinese parents versus 14 percent of American parents pulled the "If you don't behave, I will call the police" line.
The study examined the lying patterns of 114 American parents and 85 Chinese parents who had at least one child three years old or older.
How all this might translate to day-to-day business dealings with Chinese businessmen is anyone's guess—most of them are parents after all. Just know that, from a Chinese perspective, "lying" to either save or give face is not viewed as a lie.
Please allow me to do a brief philanthropic analysis of this article as it may apply to me and others who have grown up "FOB"- Chinese or not.
"If you don't behave, I will call the police." <– this is infamous of anyone growing up with parents who are formerly from a communist/socialist country. China, ex-yugo, ex-USSR and I'm sure probably others in South America as well. It's because the military police were/are the most feared by everyone and could detain, intimidate and imprison anyone without justifying reason. My father used this on me a month ago. I'm 27 years old and it was because he thought Alice in Chains was "aggressive music".
"Finish all your food or you'll grow up to be short," <– totally classic. Esp where I'm from because the average Croatian is 7'2. This also relates to the food supply in a socialist/communist country but most of all being even remotely 'below average' in stature. Being short meant creating a poor reflection of their parenting and genetics but also that you would be undesirable, physically, to marry, get a job or be socially accepted within the community, thus creating a burden for your family. Luckily, moving to the states stunted my growth only a few inches so now I tower over a mere 60% of my peers like Lurch from The Adam's Family.
"If you don't follow me, a kidnapper will come to kidnap you while I'm gone"- this isn't a normal threat or lie parents tell all over the world? I was surprised at the reported percentage of American parents who told this lie, especially considering the rate of child related crime and kidnapping in this country. Ironically, what was once a lie has probably become a truthful warning as its probable, in today's world, that someone could take your child if they found him/her lost. Maybe our crazy parents were onto something with that one.
Overall, I think these lies were not as traumatizing as they were beneficial to growing up with self-awareness and utilitarian values in a world where you had didn't get second and third chance to create a life for yourself. Maybe that's why we statistically dominate in school and other arenas. Growing up "FOB", as I always refer jokingly to, is definitely an experience unlike any other in regards to childhood memories. I still thank my crazy parents for keeping my ass in line, while driving me to rethink following the standardized 'path' of life. That's probably why I'm a skeptic and always question everything ;)
The rate of child abduction by a stranger in the U.S. is actually quite low. It is probably much lower than the rates of child abduction in South Asia. It only seems high, because it receives a great deal of media attention when it happens.
I will admit that my parents are par for the course and 3 for 3 of the "whoppers" you quoted. However, Mr. Kwong, I take issue with what your conclusion may be implying, i.e.
"How all this might translate to day-to-day business dealings with Chinese businessmen is anyone's guess—most of them are parents after all. Just know that, from a Chinese perspective, "lying" to either save or give face is not viewed as a lie."
To be perfectly honest, a lie is a lie, regardless of ethnicity. Saving/Gaining face" is no justification to lie and neither does it diminish the falsehood of a lie.
Your commentary also takes the study by Heyman, et al. out of context (for whatever reason). The study doesn't find there to be a huge discrepancy between North American parents vs. Chinese parents when it comes to lying. The study reveals far more similarities than differences when it comes to lying. If anything, "…Chinese parents made more negative evaluations of children's lies" (Heyman, et al. 2012).
Nothing in my own experience or of my peers (of diverse cultural upbringing; with and without children) suggests that any of us believe lying is convenient or morally acceptable. My immigrant parents inculcated me with honesty, honour and integrity BECAUSE they are Chinese, not in spite of it. I am a tremendously proud Canadian and I am also damn proud of my Chinese cultural, moral and linguistic heritage.
Let's keep judgement of businessmen to a case-by-case basis and not jump to conclusions simply based on ethnicity or a "Chinese perspective".
A warning with good intention must not be construed as a lie.
A statement can be a lie to someone, but an advise or a warning to others. Statement that does not harm/hurt anyone or enable the speaker to gain advantage needs not constitute a lie.
The research quoted seems dubious, the article superficial. (btt1943, vzc1943)
I am Indonesian born Chinese and this is exactly what my ayi and agu told me when i was little
One of my most vivid memories growing up was working with a good friend in the family's Chinese grocery store in Phoenix. They were quite an intense, driven, highly competitive family and my friend had a wonderful sense of humor about all the pressure that was placed on him to excel at pretty much everything. They would regularly lie to him (and me) that if we didn't get at least 1,000 flyers out every week to customers the store would go out of business. We were sent door-to-door, handing out flyers as part of our work. One day we got smart and went over to Arizona State University and stood outside of the Student Union. It is amazing how fast 1,000 flyers can move when there is a sale on Top Ramon – the essential food of many students there at the time! We went back to the store and the parents were shocked at all the college students descending on the place. From that moment on all we did was go to college campuses and get the 1,000 flyers out within hours, it was great.
It is not just Chinese. Fear & lies is a good way to discipline people. That's what the bible is — highly exaggerated stories made up to stop young minds from committing sins.
I don't think those are lies though. Aside from hormones and genetics, malnourishment is an attributing factor for stature. The kidnapper coming after you phrase is more of an exaggeration or worst case scenario of what can happen, doesn't really mean it will. Behaving or else the police will be notified sounds more like probable cause and effect, blackmail at most, which essentially prepares children for when they grow up. If they act up around less tolerant people they could face police involvement. "American" parents lie less? Really? SANTA CLAUS? EASTER BUNNY? TOOTH FAIRY? Someone needs to ask the right questions about lies, re-survey people, and rewrite the article.
as much as i love the 2nd generation asian american backlash of the east/west clash…i find this article a little ridiculous. especially post amy chua's poignant "tiger mom" essay…and as the asian culture comes to the forefront of the world…i like where this topic is headed, accurate but taken out of context. please continue your study and string in the bigger picture of cultural differences. publicizing a negative headline of asian parents "lying" is an inaccurate portrayal of asian family values to the world….
i could totally give a first hand account as to how "if you eat another bowl of rice you won't be able to fit through the door" has affected my mental capacity into my adult life in a positive and negative way…
Here's a question: what if American Parents are bigger liars and they lied in this poll? Whereas Chinese Parents are more truthful and actually admit to lying to their kids. It's easy to make a sweeping statement that says, "Chinese Parents lie more often" and just leave it at that. But my question is, are American Parents less likely to own up to their less-appealing parenting habits? There is a much greater pressure in American Parenting to put on a show as if the parents are doing very little for their child to listen. But in Asian Cultures, most parents acknowledge the difficulties in raising a child and so they don't judge their peers as much.
I didn't know Forbes is a tabloid now.
These particular lies "a kidnapper will grab you" or "you'll be short if you don't eat your food" aren't particular common in the West. I think this is all the study is proving. If you were to ask Chinese parents whether they tell their children "if you sit too close to the TV you'll hurt your eyes," you'd probably find less Chinese parents tell their kids this than Americans.
The results of this study are inconclusive, if not useless, due to many serious flaws, not the least of which was the non-random sampling of participants. The U.S. sample of parents were more likely to be college grads (91 vs 77%), female (80 vs 48%), have almost twice as many children (2.2 to 1.2), and consists of a more diverse ethnic background (Chinese, Hispanic, Caucasian, African American) than the Chinese parents (100% Han). (Interestingly, the larger subgroup of US sample was Chinese (15.8%) and no comparison of their lying was made with that of other US subgroups or more interestingly, with the China sample) Moreover, there are few subanalysis to see if result differ for boys and girls, for fathers versus mothers, education level, to cite a few.
Looking at all the tweeted comments, I must be part of the 1% of Chinese kids whose parents never told me these things. This article was 100% new news for me.
In 1986 we knew a Japanese foreign exchange college student who sometimes babysat our two year old daughter. Reiko told me that she admired that I explained why our daughter needed to behave differently when her behavior wasn't good. Reiko said that all the parents she had ever known in Japan, governed their children's behavior by referring to an outside authority figure, such as saying the police would come, the bus driver would be angry with the child, etc. I'm wondering if that is common in other Asian countries besides China and Japan? I also wonder if it is due to those countries' histories of unquestioning submission to authoritarian governments?
Not surprised. "Chinese are Liars" is a fact of life. Telling lies is simply not considered wrong in Chinese society. Also, when you consider the prevalence of lies in China, from the government right down to your mom and pops, is it no wonder China has a "trust deficit"?
Anyway, I wrote about this awhile back. Look here: http://www.kalanstar.com/blog/2012/06/20/chinese-are-liars/
My mom once told me that if I kept playing under an umbrella while indoors, I'd get lice. Scarred me for life.
That sounds more like your mom believes in some urban legends, much like American believe opening an umbrella indoor brings you bad luck.
from a Chinese perspective, "lying" to either save or give face is not viewed as a lie. Is there a research to support this? It sounds like stereotype. BTW. the Chinese do not tell their children to believe that Santa is real.
Thank you.
And how often Chinese parents are blamed to be too blunt for telling a kid that they are overweight? When Americans lie, they are kind. When Chinese parents try to be gracious, they are "lying".
I suspect that the so-called white lie "it is not your fault that you broke the plate" given in the article is more damaging to kid that the so-called "chinese parents" lies. It pretty much teaches the kid to find excuse for their own mistake.
I don't see the big deal about this so-called lies Chinese parents told. The "call police" threat is pretty much telling the kid that if they do bad thing, they will end up in jail. Granted, what is considered a bad thing is up to interpretation. But kid doesn't listen to authority tend to grow up not caring too much about the law.
If you have ever traveled to Asia, you will know how crowded it is every where and how easy a child can get lost. The "kidnapper" threat is exaggerated but it can happen.
And yes, Asian parents worry about their kid being short. While genetic is more important than nutrition when it comes to contributing to a person's height, one have no control on genetic, it is pretty much designed at birth. But they can do your best with nutrition.
American parents don't lie? Thing Santa Clause.
Interesting stuff, a different culture a different world. China is an emerging country that has had some massive Western changes in a very short space of time. What would be really interesting to see would be a comparison between these " lies" and the " lies" that may have been told to children 60 years or so ago in the West. Having traveled and done business in the Far East for a great many years, most of the lies I encountered in business wildly inaccurate delivery projections !
Quantity of lies aside, American parents & culture tell the single worst lie you could ever tell to a child: That you are special simply because.
Color me unsurprised, then. This strikes me as a major hallmark of tiger-style parenting – you will do whatever you can in any way you can do it to ensure that your children will absolutely, 100% obey you and stuff themselves into your neat little rice paper box without any questions asked. And it works. Good lord, does it ever work in making extremely productive children.
But at what cost to the child:
It comes as no surprise to me that the children of tiger parents, while academically productive, often suffer from major social setbacks and impairments, leaving many of them completely socially handicapped as a result. Why? Because this parenting style often leaves little to no room for social growth and interaction, hammering children with the idea that you have to get a good education, then a good job, then a good car, then a good house, and then you can marry… by which time many of them are in their thirties and have absolutely no idea how to talk to the opposite sex.
I am not surprised, look at what they do when their daughters want to marry foreign men:


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"'I don't need to be running a day care. I've got money,'" McAndrews said Tata told him.
Another neighbor, Cynthia Poursartip, said that Tata admitted to her that she wasn't home when the fire stated. When she asked why, Poursartip said Tata told her, "I will tell them that when I testify."
Firefighter Billy Harris told the jury that Tata also told him that she was in the house when the fire started. He said he asked Tata why her clothes were so clean. He said Tata told him that she tried to lead the kids out of the fire but they kept running in circles.
"I told her there was no way she could have been inside," Harris testified.
Harris said Tata did not have a response to that statement.
Tata did make a call to 911 when she saw the fire, officials said.
"They're dying. I can't see anything. I can't even go in there and get them," Tata told the 911 operator. "The kids are dying."
Four minutes before the fire started, security cameras caught Tata shopping at a nearby Target store. The video was shown to jurors.
Tata has been charged with four counts of murder, three counts of abandoning a child and two counts of reckless injury to a child.
Prosecutors said Tata put the children in harm's way by leaving them alone and going shopping. While she was at Target, a fire broke out in the kitchen when oil in a frying pan on a stovetop burner ignited. Three children were also seriously injured in the blaze.
Tata's attorneys said she didn't intend to hurt the children. Defense attorneys said murder charges are excessive and that when the fire broke out, she tried to save the children, who ranged in age from 16 months to 3 years old.
After the fire, Tata fled to Nigeria but was captured after about a month, returned to the U.S. in March 2011 and has remained jailed. She was born in the U.S. but has Nigerian citizenship.
Shomari Dickerson, 3, Elizabeth Kojah, 20 months, Kendyll Stradford, 20 months, and Elias Castillo, 16 months, died in the fire at Jackie's Child Care on Crest Park at Waypark Drive shortly before 1:30 p.m. on Feb. 24, 2011. Three other children were injured. Tata is standing trial for felony murder first for the youngest of the victims -- Elias Castillo.


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Singing is one of Angela Austin's greatest joys, and one of her favorite of ways to volunteer.
This past weekend, she performed with the choir for the First Baptist Church Christmas music celebration, "Born Is The King."
She's been singing with this choir for the past seven years.
"I've done some volunteer work for the church, too," Austin said. "The rewards of volunteering with the choir are wonderful. I have made new friends and gone to several appreciation dinners."
She and her husband, Ron, have also volunteered teaching archery at the United Methodist Children's Home, along with helping autistic children who attend Camp Gray Squirrel.
"Volunteers can be merry, because no one orders them to be more than they can be," Austin said. "I would advise everyone who can spare the time to volunteer. You will make new friends, keep old friends and get experience doing new things."
Qualities important in being a volunteer include being on time, having a neat appearance, a willingness to learn something new, and a desire to share experience.
"It's also important to have the love of God in your heart and the joy of the Lord in your soul," she said. "Don't expect to be rewarded, smile as often as possible, and be friendly and inquisitive."
Volunteering began early for Austin.
"I got started volunteering at home as a child," she said.
She washed dishes, made the beds, baby-sat her siblings, shopped for groceries, cooked the meals and did laundry.
"My mother always lavished praise on me when I did a good job," Austin recalls.
Helping her grandfather with the farm was also time she enjoyed.
"I fed the chickens, planted and sowed the garden, fed he pigs and washed and sold eggs," she said.
As a young mother, she volunteered as a Girl Scout leader for two years when her daughters were in Head Start and kindergarten.
In December 2003, she moved to Tahlequah from Stigler at the encouragement of her daughter, Lilly Glenn Velotta.
"I love Northeastern State University and the Illinois River camp sites and float places," she said. "I love to swim at NSU with my husband Ron Austin."
Austin transferred college credits from Los Angeles City College in Business Administration and music to Northeastern State University.
"My daughter graduated from NSU, and told me there were more job opportunities here," Austin said. "I'm still planning to finish my degree."
Austin has three grown daughters, Holly, Lilly, and Gloria, born in Los Angeles. She met her first husband, Oscar Glenn, in 1979 in an adult education choir class held at Hollywood High School. He died in 1988.
"When I was married to Oscar Glenn, I was an unpaid mother and housewife, or rather, a volunteer," she said. "The rewards have been immeasurable."
She's been married to Ron Austin about six years. She has several grandchildren from both marriages.
Austin also knows the value of volunteers who have contributed to the well-being of her and her family.
"I admire and appreciate all that our Sunday School teachers have done for my children and me, and our kitchen crew who cook up such delicious meals, and our choir directors, Andy Latta and Ellis Stout," she said. "I admire and appreciate the Girl Scouts for teaching me how to sell cookies and lead the girls."
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You claimed to love me
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Born in the West, far from the land of palms
I said to it, "How like me you are, far away and in exile!
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–Abd al-Rahman (??? ?????? ??????), The Palm Tree (770 CE)(transl. D. F. Ruggles, Gardens, Landscape, and Vision in the Palaces of Islamic Spain (Pennsylvania State University Press, 1999))
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OTTUMWA — "Lights, camera, auction!"
The Ottumwa YMCA's Strong Kids Campaign dinner and auction brought out a crowd to the Indian Hills campus Friday night.
The Y's goal, said executive director Tom Sisler, is to be accessible to everyone no matter their ability to pay. The annual auction brought out around 200 people who opened their wallets to give Ottumwa's youth opportunities they wouldn't otherwise be able to afford.
"It's amazing to see the community come together like this," Sisler said.
Last year's Strong Kids Campaign helped the Y give more than $125,000 in financial assistance and subsidies to more than 900 children, teenagers, adults and seniors. The summer food service program provided more than 9,800 hot meals to local children free of charge.
During the Y's lifetime wellness program, 47 children lost an average of 2 to 4 percent body fat and 3 to 5 inches from their waistline.
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The new PROWD program also helped 75 special-needs adults lose an average of 8 pounds and 8 inches.
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Acting to end a rumor that began in the world that is Twitter, Sabres forward Derek Roy and coach Lindy Ruff denied today that a welt under Tim Connolly's eye came from a Roy punch Sunday night at Ryan Miller's "Catwalk for Charity."
"I didn't do anything to him," Roy said. "Trust me. I would not hit a teammate at a charity event, that's for sure. I'm the last guy in this dressing room, if you ask anybody, who would do anything like that.
"I heard it about it this morning. I'm just upset about it because I didn't do anything. I don't know who would smear my name like that. I didn't do anything.
"Nothing happened. It was obviously a rumor. I don't know who would make that stuff up. If you want to know what happened, ask him."
Connolly, who also has a groin injury, was not at practice today in HSBC Arena.
"Derek did not touch Tim Connolly," Ruff said. "What happened was [Connolly] had an incident that was related to something that he was going to perform at the charity event. It's fairly funny. If he wants to tell you, he can go ahead. It has nothing to do with fighting. It has something to do with what he was trying to practice for part of the program, and he wasn't very good at it, obviously."
The Roy-Connolly story began Monday night with "rumors all over Twitter." After putting on hip waders, rubber gloves, a gas mask and taking an anti-vomit pill, I ventured to the God-forsaken site and discovered what I expected to discover: One person posted the rumor, and a lot of other people copied and/or linked to the one comment, making it look like more than one person actually had an original thought.
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