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When she was a little girl, Joan Infantino longed to have a little Shirley Temple doll that she saw in Kraussman's Department store downtown.
But, her mother said 'no,' she needed a winter coat instead. So, Joan didn't get the doll back then.
But, these days, her Lewiston home is filled with dolls and two of them are Shirley Temple dolls.
"My husband laughed one day and said, 'I guess you showed her,'" smiled Infantino recently while showing a visitor her collections.
Joan Infantino is now a doll maker. It is a 25-year hobby that appears to be nearly an obsession, although she doesn't see it that way. Her basement is filled with doll parts, including trays of teeny porcelain arms and legs, and even a little plastic box of doll eyes.
It would be a fascinating place to visit for anyone who has ever loved dolls, or lace, or even perfectly sewn, tiny, hand-made clothing.
Beyond her Shirley Temple dolls and her collection of antique dolls and the many dolls she has made herself, there are at least a dozen award winners, including the doll that just recently won her first international honors at a show in Harrisburg.
The little Asian award winner was made in her workshop, and from its porcelain body to it's carefully styled black hair to its hand-painted eyes, it seems exquisite in detail, as noted by the judges at the show where she won the top award, a "Maggie," for the best "non-professional, modern, all-bisque, under-16-inches" doll.
Infantino first took up doll making the day she walked into a ceramics store on Webster Street in North Tonawanda about 25 years ago. Since then, she has acquired shelves of molds, two kilns and has created hundreds of dolls.
She is not a typical doll maker. Many hobbyists attend multiple, costly seminars and take continuous training to learn to make specific dolls. Joan purchased some molds and some kilns and gallons of porcelain and figured it out for herself in her basement workshop.
"I was told by a teacher not too long ago that I can't expect to win blue ribbons making dolls in my basement," she said. That teacher might be surprised at the many blue ribbon awards placed on her home where there are about a dozen award-winning dolls and doll displays, including two different "Alice in Wonderland" displays and a display of three dolls of Winken, Blinken and Nod, placed in a sailboat made from a real wooden shoe.
Infantino doesn't seem to do anything in a small way. She admits that "when I do something, I do it with my whole heart."
Before the doll making, she was wrapped up in cake decorating and Italian cooking, which she taught at Lewiston Porter's continuing education program.
But, now it's all dolls of all kinds, many in various stages of production in her basement workshop. As a member of the Western New York Doll Club, an affiliate of the United Federation of Doll Clubs and of For The Love of Dolls, Chapter II, her next goal is to win the biggest prize of all, the "Millie" given for antique doll reproductions. She has already started to replicate a French doll named Genevieve, designed with rosebud lips and long, dark, hand-painted eye lashes. Infantino has poured and fired eight different heads to get one that is perfect. "Once I win the Millie I won't care if I do it anymore," she laughed. In nearly the next breath, she described the doll she hopes to make after Genevieve, and showed a picture in a doll magazine of a little doll, circa 1890s, dark haired, dressed in a sweet, red dress. "I can't wait to pour her," she said with a laugh.
As for her husband, Phil, a retired chemical analyst at Dupont and one-time football player in high school, a house decorated by dolls is not so hard to take. "I like them. I think they're pretty," he said. "They make her happy, and that makes me happy."
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"At the Hockomock Y, we believe all kids deserve the opportunity to discover who they are and what they can achieve," said Melissa Emidy, Senior Director of School Age Child Care. "In our before and afterschool programs, youth are cultivating values, skills, and relationships and have an extra support system that encourages them to achieve success."
In addition to before and after school time, through this program, the Hockomock Area YMCA provides No School Fund Days during vacation weeks, early release days, and scheduled no-school days – including December Vacation Week. We offer a fun learning environment that week which includes theme days and field trips including bowling and ice skating. To learn more and download registration forms, visit our website at www.hockymca.org. Sign up for as many or as few days as meet your schedule.
Studies show participation in these programs helps boost school attendance and academic performance and reduces gaps in academic achievement among children from disadvantaged households.
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Roll up, but don't roll out - Lessons taught by staffing's M&A history
According to our research on staffing industry's most frequent acquirers, Adecco was the most acquisitive staffing firm in the time period between 2005 and 2009. The company completed 15 deals during this time, not including the MPS Group acquisition. MPS, of course, was not far behind with 14 acquisitions of its own. Manpower came in with eight purchases and Comsys also had a tally of eight deals during these five years.
M&A as a strategy to grow has worked out for quite a few staffing firms. But many M&A experts will tell you that a roll up strategy is not for everyone. Take for example, Resolve Staffing. Technically, Resolve was the biggest acquirer in the staffing industry between 2005 and 2006. A public company until January 2008, the company's lenders sold all of its assets to Koosharem Corp., the parent company of privately held Select Staffing. The deal did not include liabilities. In a filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, Resolve said it reached a deal with its bank to foreclose on loan collateral. The deal resulted in the sale of its assets.
Some of us may remember World Health Alternatives, a staffing firm based in Pittsburgh that entered the healthcare arena in 2003. The company acquired six firms in 2004 before its CEO resigned suddenly and some financial discrepancies and other issues came to light. World Health filed for bankruptcy and in 2006, Jackson Healthcare Staffing rescued World Health by acquiring all of its assets and certain liabilities.
So why does the same strategy work for some and not for others? Perhaps it's a matter of how you do it. As a staffing executive whose company was acquired by World Health summed up what went wrong in that roll-up:
"You got people who are not qualified to be in the roles they were in. Then they acquire companies, some of them were good and some may be they paid too much for. They never merged any of their transaction from a back office perspective. They didn't experience any synergies. They borrowed more than what they generated and they allowed that domino effect to swallow up their business integrity."


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The Ethical System Administrator
My editor asked me an embarrassingly difficult question a while back and I've been struggling for an answer. It forced me to consider questions of ethics as well as law. He asked, "What should a system administrator do when he discovers that others in his company are making illegal copies of licensed software?"
Under the laws of most states, nobody has a duty to be a good samaritan. You may remember the Biblical parable of the passerby who came to the aid of a Jew who had been robbed, beaten and left to die on the roadside. The kindness of the Samaritan was particularly admirable because Jews and Samaritans generally were enemies. Under the law, a good samaritan is someone who voluntarily renders aid to another in distress when under no duty to do so.
Since a system administrator doesn't have a legal duty to be a good samaritan, she owes no legal duty to the software vendor who supplied the software to do anything to stop the illegal copying.
Many companies have internal codes of conduct that obligate employees to report illegal conduct to their managers or company executives. If a system administrator fails to report illegal copying of software, she may be in violation of company policy and subject herself to possible termination. I always advise an employee to conduct herself according to the company's own published rules.
If a company doesn't have a published code of conduct, the system administrator should try to understand her company's implied code. Is open cheating tolerated within the company? Do senior managers condone or encourage illegal conduct? I once sued a company on behalf of an employee who was fired for refusing to dump toxic waste into the public sewer system leading to the San Francisco Bay. Unfortunately, as I came to discover, such behavior was sanctioned and encouraged by the most senior executives of the company. In such a company, reporting illegal behavior would be useless.
Would it be useless to report that your company makes unauthorized copies of software? If you were a system administrator for such a company, would you want to continue working for them? Would you want to stay at a company that openly encouraged copyright infringement?
What about a system administrator who herself was making illegal copies of software? She cannot excuse her own illegal act by claiming that her employer told her to do so, because an employee cannot knowingly violate a law and blame her employer for it.
As a practical matter, of course, if there were a lawsuit or a criminal complaint about illegal copying, it probably would be the most senior company official responsible who would be punished, not the low-level employee who was merely following orders. But I would still advise the system administrator not to risk liability by committing an illegal act. It is safer simply to refuse to do so or to quit.
An employee who is asked to perform an illegal act and refuses to do so is protected from retaliation in many states. An employee who reports illegal acts to more senior management or to an appropriate government agency is often protected by "whistle-blower" laws. A company can be ordered to pay substantial damages, including back pay, for retaliating against whistle-blowers.
But what about the ethical dimension to the question posed by my editor? Why do we care if a company makes unauthorized copies of a proprietary vendor's computer software? We don't have a good samaritan duty to help them, so why should we bother ourselves with their problem? After all, one major objective for the Free and Open Source movement is to make software available that can be freely copied, modified and distributed. By definition (e.g., the Open Source Definition, www.opensource.org/docs/definition.php) it is never illegal for a company to make as many copies as it wants of free and open-source software.
If proprietary software companies don't share our ideals, that's their problem and not ours? Right? I'm not so sure that is ethical.
One reason the open-source software model works is that we can rely on the copyright law to enforce our licenses. When a company takes GPL-licensed code and converts it into proprietary software, for example, we can assert the copyright law and sue them for copyright infringement to prevent them from misusing the software. How, then, can we ignore that same law and make illegal copies of proprietary software? Is it ethical to rely on a law to protect our own interests and to violate that same law when it comes to someone else's?
This is one reason why I encourage everyone NOT to make illegal copies of proprietary software. I am willing to let the copyright laws work for me, even as large proprietary software companies use that same law to compete against me.
As an ethical attorney—or at least an attorney who strives to be ethical—I must advise everyone to obey the law. Don't make unauthorized copies of software, and don't just sit idly by when you see others in your company doing so.
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I believe you've missed a vital point.
Company ABC obtains a copy or copies of a software package for X amount of currency, safe in the knowledge that they may illicitly make Y copies.
If Y times X is more than ABC can afford, then it is reasonable to assume that had the company been law abiding a cheaper alternative would have been sourced.
A classic case is Photoshop. For all but the most demanding, the Gimp achieves what Photoshop does for free. Yet such is the availability of illicit copies of Photoshop that the Free alternative does not get considered.
Now I think of it, consider the relatively recent uptake of Linux at the expense of Windows XP, attributed in a large part to Product Activation. Is this because users are genuinely incensed about the invasion of their privacy or is it that it is now more difficult to make illicit use of the software?
Open and shut case IMO.
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The more strictly you enforce the licenses of proprietary software, the more incentive you give your company to go with a free alternative.
Adobe Photoshop doesn't have "product activation" or a dongle because they _want_ you to learn on an illegal copy so you will depend on it when you go to work at a place that keeps track of software licenses.
Blow away illegal copies and you break their best marketing tool and create an opening for GPL replecements.
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The Garden City Commission on Tuesday is expected to consider an offer by Garden City Arts to purchase the old American Legion Building, 125 Pine St., for $1.
The commission is scheduled to meet at 1 p.m. Tuesday at the City Administrative Center, 301 N. Eighth St.
Garden City Arts wants to turn the old Legion building into an art gallery.
Other items on the agenda include: ordinances establishing penalties for licensees whose employees or agents are convicted of selling or furnishing alcohol to a minor; an ordinance regulating building permits and site plans and amending associated zoning regulations; an ordinance to rezone property at 3285 E. Fulton St. from general commercial to light industrial; and an ordinance to rezone properties at 1706 and 1802 E. Spruce St. from general commercial to public facilities district.


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What are the thoughts on chiros?
Lot of guys talk about the impact of years of abuse on their backs and necks from lifting.
Some chiros will talk about how necks being misplaced can effect your nerve function in other areas of your body.
I've had neck and shoulder issues in the past stemming from the way I sleep combined with lifting as well as recently my collar bone was completely out of place lol.
For me, I do feel a pretty big difference after seeing a chiro, but was curious as to others experiences.
Those of you who don't like chiros what do you find is a helpful alternative for neck stuff or spine and shoulder stuff?
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I have pretty strong negative feelings in general towards Chiros- there are certainly some very good, very competent practitioners in the field who certainly can work wonders when it comes to assisting with certain lifting-related ailments.
However, the field itself is based on pure quackery- the entire notion of "chiropractic subluxation", where straight chiros believe that back issues can lead to visceral disorders, really calls a lot of their scientific rigor into question. In other words, if somebody, even in part, bases their treatment on that which cannot be true (and there is NO doubt in the medical community outside chiropractic that this isn't true, outside of a few whackos), then their conclusions could very well be fundamentally flawed.
Again, that said, there are plenty I know (in fact, the majority these days) who reject this idea and restrict their treatment to strictly spinal and localized neurological disorders, and prescribe known effective treatments outside of spinal manipulation where warranted. If you can find one of those, GREAT. But I'd rather trust an ortho and a massage therapist. Most spinal and bone misalignment issues cannot be treated by manipulation, they require actual postural and muscular therapy- again, something I would see a sports ortho specialist and physical therapist about instead (which I have in the past for both shoulder issues and chronic knee pain, which have not recurred in years thank god). Sure, popping things around might result in temporary relief, but the underlying causes require active therapy on your part, and shouldn't require multiple visits to simply treat the symptom, not the cause.
Yes, again, many chiros do believe in and prescribe similar treatments, but I can't help but prefer to place my trust in those whose practices are based on empirical evidence.
Just my $0.02. I'm also married to a physician, so this MIGHT affect my opinion on it.
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Very interesting Alex! You were one I thought of when I started this thread that I figured would have a good source of information.
What would your opinion be on ART therapy? Sometimes (for whatever reason) I notice a lot of the guys who are certified in this are also chiros?
I would honestly rather get some sort of muscular work done on my neck rather than manipulation, I just can't seem to find anything that works to release the tension I build up in there.
Other stuff I can find things that work, shoulder release, even the collarbone stuff I can usually manipulate myself with lacrosse ball and stretching, but the neck stuff I just can't get worked out. So I just end up getting it manipulated once a month or so.
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I was pretty skeptical about going to a chiro but I've been going to mine for over 2 years. He's very knowledgeable about heavy lifting as he's done all sorts of training from BB'ing to olympic stuff. Also trained with the chicago bulls and the ukraine skating team. He does adjustments followed by extensive stretching for the upper and lower body along with some muscle strip outs (rotator cuff etc) and then 15 minutes of icing down. I definitely get my co-pay's worth, lol.
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Alex summed the historical problems with Chiropractic fairly well, and subluxation based care does certainly still exist.
However many Chiropractors are now practicing in an evidence based manner and I think they deserve recognition for doing so. Most of the guys doing ART and Graston are mostly evidence based. I would seek out a "Sports Chiro" CCSP(?) and one that has training in one or both of the soft tissue techniques above.
There are also a fair number of physical therapists doing manual therapy now. Seeking out a Sports PT who is manual therapy based may be another great option. Physical Therapy is in a transition to direct access care, many people can now call the therapist office and set up an appointment directly depending on your insurance, state laws, ect.. PT's are aiming to be entirely direct access by 2020, thus the DPT degree.
Like a lot of medical professions, (including MD's and PTs) if you find a good one that does great manipulative and soft tissue work (and maybe some rehab) AND one that recognizes there limitations then you will be glad you found one.
However, a bad one is just a waste of money... just like a bad MD or PT. However, bad chiros are generally weird as hell and straight up wackos so they stand out a lot more than a bad MD or PT.
A lot of people don't realize that there is a huge divide in the chiropractic profession. Basically you have the "straights" who believe in Subluxations and nerve interference and all that whacky shit and then you have the "mixers" who are generally evidence based, know what they can and cannot help, and generally not batshit insane.
Personally I wouldn't go to a PT to get manipulated by the way. The amount of training they get in manipulative technique pales in comparison and after getting many many many many bad adjustments (students practice on each other first)... it isn't exactly fun to get whacked on by people who aren't any good lol.
I wrote a few posts on the subject of "finding a good chiro for lifters" here that might help. I make no money off of this blog or anything by the way so there should be no issues clicking: http://themindofshadow.wordpress.com/category/health/
A good general rule with a chiro is that if you don't get some sort of relief or improvement in 6-9 visits then something isn't right. Either the diagnosis is off or the treatment sucks or something. At that point, the chiro should take a step back and re-assess to see what he missed or straight up tell you he can't help you. If they dont... they will probably continue to suck you dry until you stop coming yourself.
That is the biggest problem with chiropractic... the wide range of education at the school and the lack of unity. It is the reason PTs will end up eradicating them unless the Eye of Sauron (aka MD's) turn on them with they get more and more direct access rights. Right now and for a long time now it has been strictly fixed on chiropractic.
I go to a chiro that's certified in ART and Graston. He works with a lot of athletes which is what I wanted. I go every 2 weeks and it makes a huge difference. My sessions are almost all ART and Graston and I get adjusted at the end. I don't think it'd be that useful to visit someone that's only a chiro.
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I see a sports dr and a pt who threw the hammer in college. Lots of people will say they can help a strength athlete, but not many can. The problem I have had with many chiros is that they always seem to want me to come back for a weekly visit.
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haha yeah the weekly visits don't seem to make sense do they.
Just makes sense that if you are fixing something you shouldn't have to re-fix it every week.
I think I'll try and see an ART guy sometime in the next week or two and see how that helps things.
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I gave up on my chiro guys. No matter what my ailment was the treatment never changed. I just didn't have access to a good one. I want to try ART THOUGH. No one in my area though.
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I am a firm believer in chiropractic and alternative medicine. Since I started seeing chiropractors, I don't go to MDs for lifting related issues. One time I pinched a nerve in my back doing seated cable rows and my family doc gave me a muscle relaxer and an NSAID to treat it. I would rather get adjusted than have to take prescription drugs.
I get chiropractic adjustments once a month for preventative measures.
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I have seen chiros and tried all sorts of things and none of them have ever really benefited me to any significant degree.
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I have a chiropractor I use regularly. She is more of a 'massage therapist" than the traditional "snap crackle pop" chiropractor though. She uses many of the techniques people like Kelly Starret utilize to increase mobility, which also impresses me.
I have been to a couple of others I consider first class quacks... One suddenly popped my neck while evalulating me and I point blank told him if he EVER Did anything like that again I was going to snap his scrawny f'!king neck like a tooth pick... needless to say he also asked me to never come back after that appointment.
The chiropractor I see sold me on her the first visit I saw her. I can't explain what she did medically, all I know is that it worked. I tore up my right elbow several years ago. I had had limited ROM in that elbow, with pain and discomfort of the forearm for a long time when I saw her. I also could not touch my thumb to my right deltoid. I told her about it, she palpated my arm, put it through full range of motion, then while putting traction on the arm, did something where I swear I felt the bones inside it move. Medically, that makes absolutely no sense but what she did felt that way. I also could immediately touch my deltoid and I've been able to do so ever since (this was a couple of years ago). There was no snap crackle pop crap with her, it was some other better working type of voodoo in my mind.
I also have a very close friend, someone I've known for years who is a chiropractor. She's beyond the weird part of youtube strange to me with what she does... for example she ate her last childs placenta to "boost immunity". I have an interest in alternative medicine and herbal drug applications, but quite frankly, that shit was just plain weird.
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Same deal for me. I've seen some real quackers and I currently see a very good chiro. She's the first I've seen that does ART, and I do feel that it makes a difference. I've been getting hurt a lot lately, and she gets me back on my feet quickly. You just have to be a smart consumer when it comes to chiropractors. Do your homework, talk to other athletes, etc. I also see a well-regarded sports medicine doctor who has served a number of U.S. track and field teams and he does some chiropractic adjustment as well.


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---- — On this, the weekend when most of our area's schools hold graduation exercises, "The Future" is traditionally the main subject of speeches by valedictorians and principals alike.
That is, of course, as it should be. After successfully navigating the rocky shoals of adolescence and focusing much of their energies on earning a high school diploma, this is a time for optimism and hope about the years ahead.
It is also a time when newspapers offer what they consider sage advice to graduating seniors about the world they will encounter in the years to come. Sage or not, this particular newspaper's advice is this:
Don't believe us or anyone else who tells you they know what you'll be facing in "The Future."
Because we don't know.
Just consider this fact: Facebook is only nine years old. It is such a prominent part of everyday life in 2013 that most of you could not imagine an existence without it. Twitter has only been around for seven years.
When your parents were wearing their caps and gowns in whatever high school gyms or auditoriums in which they were listening to speeches, they could not have imagined the society they inhabit today.
Back then, they had to know how to read a map, because they didn't have a Global Positioning System (GPS) device in their car. If they wanted to make a plane reservation, they had to call up an airline and talk to a human being instead doing it all – including paying for the trip – online.
They didn't have a cell phone, particularly one that could check their email (which has been around only 20 years), send and receive instant messages, take photos, respond to things they said out loud and hundreds of other applications ... in addition to making a phone call from anywhere.
While you are mastering the skill sets that countless innovations over the last decade or two require for you to earn a decent living, some of those skills are very likely going to be obsolete in 10 or 20 years because of whatever the next Facebook or Twitter will be.
But the good news is that yours is a generation that has adapted beautifully to whatever has come along, and there's no reason to think you won't be up to learning whatever you need to succeed.
While nobody can predict the future, there are valuable lessons to be retained from the past. Your parents' and teachers' life experiences are hard-earned, valuable and well-worth your time.
Oh, and one thing that never changes: If you live your life with honor and integrity, you'll do just fine, no matter what challenges "The Future" may bring.


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Though Christmas comes just once a year, the spirit of the holiday stays with Mary McKinney year-round.
The fitness nutritionist, trainer and founder of Holy Yoga of Athens dedicates her time, talent and expertise to improving the physical and spiritual lives of her students while at the same time helping needy children.
She does this by offering yoga classes in exchange for small, new toy donations she gathers and uses to fill shoe boxes for Operation Christmas Child, a program spearheaded by Samaritan's Purse International Relief organization.
The toys are combined with supplies like toothbrushes and bar soap and given to toddlers through teens around the world to show them they are loved, McKinney explained. She also includes a Bible story coloring book and crayons with each box.
400-box prediction
McKinney, a mother of four and grandmother of two, became certified yoga instructor in 2009 and soon after started Holy Yoga of Athens. In 2011, she says she felt led to begin the service project. Since, she's seen class sizes grow and has even changed venues a few times to keep up with the demand. Currently there are five classes offered at Mars Hill Baptist Church that collectively draw in 50-60 students per week.
McKinney says she's received a lot of positive feedback about the program.
"In general, people want to reach out and help but don't know where to start," she said.
Holy Yoga offers that starting point. Many students choose to donate more than one toy --the suggested donation per class-- and also volunteer to stuff and wrap the shoe boxes.
Last year 162 shoe boxes were stuffed, far surpassing the goal of 50 McKinney had set. This year there are already 222 filled boxes and McKinney predicts the total will topple 400 by the end of October. However, each box must include $7 to cover the cost of shipping and so far enough cash has been raised to ship just 119 boxes.
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Several area wellness and fitness businesses are working together to help raise the additional funds needed to covering the shipping of all of the boxes.
Healthsource of Oconee has donated 150 certificates for a 1/2 hour massage and chiropractic consultation which are being sold for $10 each by Holy Yoga throughout the month of October. They may be purchased from McKinney by mail or through the office of Mars Hill Baptist Church, and 100 percent of the sales go toward the shoe box shipping costs. Email McKinney at email@example.com. for more information.
Additionally, HealthSource of Oconee will join Tribe Fitness and Holy Yoga at Iris Place on Oct. 13 for a "Fit-a-thon." The event, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., will feature free yoga and fitness classes, stretching and massage therapy. Iris Place is chipping in by providing a barbecue lunch. Toy donations are requested for the programs and meal.
McKinney said it's shaping up to be a fun-filled day to the benefit of many.
"They'll not only be helping us fill more shoe boxes, but help a small child who doesn't have much in [his/her] life," McKinney said.
Learn more
For a class schedule and more information about Holy Yoga of Athens, click here. Suggested items for shoe boxes and more details about Samaritan's Purse and Operation Christmas Child can be found at www.samaritanspurse.org/index.php/OCC/Pack_A_Shoe_Box/.
Holy Yoga will wrap up collections this year on the final day of October, then wrap shoe boxes in preparation to drop them off the week of Nov. 12 at Watkinsville First Baptist Church, one of the designated drop-off locations.
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Visit the Sisterhood of Survivorship page to read "Dena's Story" — by a vulvar cancer survivor who has shared her story and wise words, and channeled her energy into her National Race to End Women's Cancer team.
The CDC recently announced that fewer than half of American children are given the HPV vaccination.
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DEVCON5 : In Progress
Floor Plan
Tuesday, December 10, 2013
Tuesday - 12/10/13
Continental Breakfast
Tuesday - 12/10/13
Keynote Presentation
Want Your Users to LOVE You? Make Sure You Are Doing These Things
Margret Schmidt
Chief Design Officer, VP of Design & Engineering
Its not about being beautiful. It helps. Its not about cool technology. It helps too! It is about creating an amazing user experience. If you want users to be passionate about your product, you need to be passionate about designing it for them. Creating a great experience isnt that hard – but it does take thought and effort. Emmy®Award Winner Margret Schmidt, Chief Design Officer for TiVo, will share her passion for creating a great user experience, and what you need to be doing during the design, development, and release of your product to make sure your users will love and evangelize it.
Tuesday - 12/10/13
Keynote Presentation
Case Study - Next Generation Games
Nate Altschul
Director of Game Development
As Director, Game Development at Nickelodeon, Nate will share his experience and knowledge of HTML5 and cross platform game development. His session will cover HTML5 game development, game distribution, business models and strategies for gaming content.
Tuesday - 12/10/13
Coffee Break
Tuesday - 12/10/13
Advanced HTML5
Graphics Update The Good the Bad and the Ugly
Cory Hudson
Creative Director
John Percival
Manager of Design Technology
Learn about the strategy for building rich media advertising with HTML5 and hear insights on actual implementations. Percival and Hudson will explain why it's important to take notice of this growing industry, will dig into the specifics of building rich media ads for desktop, mobile, and tablet, cover industry specs from the IAB and the fragmented marketplace, dive into code, optimization, and testing across screens, and share some personal experiences in developing for all devices.
Basic HTML5
Developing High Performance Websites and Modern Apps with JavaScript and HTML5
Doris Chen
HTML5 Technology Evangelist
Creating high performance sites and apps is crucial for every developer. In this session, we will explore the best practices and performance tricks, including startup time, UI responsiveness, and memory efficiency to make your apps running faster and fluid. Hear the tips, tricks and tools for maximizing the performance of your sites and apps with JavaScript and HTML5.
Mobile Development
Hybrid Economics 101
Paul Trani
Adobe Developer Evangelist
Looking for a framework that helps you develop your app in a timely manner for all platforms? Hear how the world's leading HTML5 developers use hybrid development as the key to keeping projects on time and on budget. Hear how the web is the best starting point for app developers.
Tuesday - 12/10/13
Special Luncheon Presentation
10 Tips for High Performance Web Sites
Kent Alstad
Director of Acceleration Technologies
Join Kent Alstad as he opens up his web performance tuning toolkit and walks you through ten different techniques for improving web performance, rating each by difficulty, risk and reward. You'll learn about a variety of techniques for reducing payload size, latency, server and client compute times. Some techniques are easy, like utilizing compression, and some are more complex, like implementing effective image inlining. But each technique has the potential for improving the performance of your website Kent will talk about the cost of that performance as well as the benefit. Have you plucked all the low hanging performance tuning fruit on your website? Don't miss this session!
Tuesday - 12/10/13
Advanced HTML5
Getting Started with HTML5 Animation
Cory Hudson
Creative Director
John Percival
Manager of Design Technology
Join HTML5 industry experts John Percival, senior creative technologist at PointRoll and author of HTML5 Advertising, and Cory Hudson, Creative Director at AOL and the IAB chair for HTML5, to learn more about the strategy for building rich media advertising with HTML5, and hear insights on the actual implementation. During this presentation, Percival and Hudson will: Explain why its important to take notice of this growing industry while reviewing statistics and previous campaigns Dig into the specifics of building rich media ads for desktop, mobile, and tablet Cover industry specs from the IAB and the fragmented marketplace Dive into code, optimization, and testing across screens Share some personal experiences in developing for all devices.
Basic HTML5
HTML5 Hacks
Jesse Cravens
Principal Web Engineer
HTML5 Hacks introduces the audience to the umbrella of HTML5 specifications that will have you rethinking the possibilities of browser based applications.Join Jesse Cravens, author of OReillys best selling HTML5 Hacks, as he demonstrates intriguing uses of HTML5related technologies. In each hack, he provides a complete code example for specifications that include Canvas, SVG, CSS3, multimedia, data storage, web workers, WebSocket, Web Components and geolocation.
Mobile Development
Memory Management for Smooth Infinite-scrolling Scenarios
Sumit Amar
Director of Engineering
Electronic Arts
Matt Spencer
UI and Browser Marketing Manager, Media Processing Division
Your apps can look dull if you don't pay attention to the device limitations. Data Structures and Scrolling large lists can lead to bad reviews and customer dissatisfaction. This panel looks at optimizing applications from the perspective of memory consumption and batter life. In other words, what you can do the meet the need for speed via software tricks that reduce the repainting of screens.
Tuesday - 12/10/13
Refreshment Break
Tuesday - 12/10/13
Advanced HTML5
Designing with CSS
Terry Ryan
Worldwide Developer Evangelist
CSS is easy in isolated cases setting a singular color, or laying out a single item. But where CSS get daunting is when you are handed a comp and told Make that work on the web. This session will start with interfaces you are familiar with iOS,Facebook, etc, will analyze them, show how to break them up into manageable pieces and make them live in the browser.
Basic HTML5
JQuery Mobile
Ralph Whitbeck
VP of Training
jQuery Mobile is one of the easiest ways to create a mobile site today. Mobile development brings performance to the forefront and that is no different even when working with jQuery Mobile. We'll explore a few ways to get the most out of jQuery Mobile and your site. We'll look at how these tips were used in building the conference mobile site for devLink Conference http://m.devlink.net in Chattanooga, TN. The devLink mobile site was built with performance in mind. jQuery Mobile has a reputation for being slow. But it's only true if you aren't aware of how to make a jQuery Mobile site as fast as possible. We will show you how to make a jQuery Mobile site fast on any device.
Mobile Development
Building Modern Web Applications with Ember.js and Rails
Jesse Cravens
Principal Web Engineer
Architected by Yehuda Katz core Ruby on Rails contributor and Tom Dale, Ember.js is a JavaScript MVC framework which evolved from Sproutcore 2.0. Seen as an alternative to other popular client MVC solutions like Backbone.js and Angular.js, Ember.js differs in that it provides Railslike defaults by convention to common coding patterns, intelligent memory management, builtin integration testing, and numerous, next generation client side persistence solutions.Join OReilly author, Jesse Cravens, as he present information from his new book: OReillys Building Modern Web Applications with Ember.js and Rails 4. He takes the audience through the construction of a demo application: setting up client side models and exploring the use of various persistence solutions, using data bindings to live update the UI in response to data changes, showing how Ember's router manages application state, SPA authentication, and more.Attendees should leave this session with an understanding of how to build and deploy Ember.js applications using various server side web frameworks and the latest in clientside build, package management, and workflow.
Tuesday - 12/10/13
Advanced HTML5
Video Calling: WebRTC
Peter Dunkley
Technical Director
Is Content yearning to be free? Have you heard about WebRTC? Does Digital Right Management have a role in the future of video? Will all video be streaming on the web on the future? How interactive will video be in the future? What is WebVTT and how will be used?
Basic HTML5
HTML5 Video in a Flash World: When can Flash Go Away?
Pablo Schklowsky
Technical Lead
We all know that HTML5 includes support for highquality video playback, but why is Flash still the dominant platform for video playback? Learn how the makers of the JW Player, the webs most popular video player, attempt to strike the right balance in todays changing environment.
Mobile Development
When to Go Native
Joey Janisheck
Hybrid solutions with HTML5 had have different breakpoints in different device OS'es. Are the distinctions based on rendering, processing and performance? Who are the experts that can help us discern what tools makes sense and when?
Tuesday - 12/10/13
Networking Reception - Vendor Tables Open
Wednesday, December 11, 2013
Wednesday - 12/11/13
Continental Breakfast
Wednesday - 12/11/13
General Session
Firefox Marketplace: Breaking the Stranglehold of App Stores
Bill Walker
Senior Manager
Mozilla Labs
This summer, Mozilla launched Firefox OS for mobile phones along with an Apps ecosystem based on the open web. The ecosystem includes a a payments mechanism that offers direct carrier billing for web apps, a crossplatform solution that provides a native app experience on every supported device, and the Firefox Marketplace for discovering and purchasing Apps.The Firefox Marketplace is an app on every Firefox OS phone. More than that, it is a community of developers, reviewers, curators, and consumers and a suite of web services made available to the whole ecosystem. The power of these communities and services creates an unfair advantage with which this ecosystem will transform the mobile Web.
Wednesday - 12/11/13
Basic HTML5
The Evolving Threat Landscape: Emerging Security Trends
Ted Harrington
Executive Partner
Independent Security Evaluators
As attacks against digital systems evolve, so too are security approaches undergoing several notable paradigm shifts in their defense of the tremendously highvalue assets stored in and accessed by these systems. Studies show that as many as 89% of CIOs express confidence in the effectiveness of their security practices, yet those practices often fail to account for evolved, modern adversaries. This proposed mainprogram presentation will analyze the trends, provide industry context, and outline trending best practices to defend against modern attackers.
Wednesday - 12/11/13
Coffee Break
Wednesday - 12/11/13
Advanced HTML5
Hattan Shobokshi
Senior Software Engineer - Consultant Vice President
AngularJS is a JavaScript framework for building rich, complex and maintainable web applications. It is fully extensible and works well with other libraries. AngularJS has support for client side routing, data binding, RESTful sever communication and more. AngularJS also lets you extend HTML vocabulary for your applications. The resulting environment is extraordinarily expressive, readable, and quick to develop. In this presentation, we'll introduce you to AngularJS. We'll start with a new web application and build a sample app to highlight some of the features in AngularJS. We will build a RESTful endpoint using NodeJS to easily persist data. This will be a code heavy talk with lots of examples. We'll look at various features of the framework including support for data binding, client side routing, services, filters and dependency injection.This presentation will give you an introduction to AngularJS and some tips for creating complex and maintainable frontend web applications.
Basic HTML5
Future of HTML5
Matthew McClure
Developer Evangelist
What is left to do at the W3C? What needs to be improved? Do we still need work arounds to make the mobile web and the desktop web seamless?
Mobile Development
Intelligent Mobile Imaging
Michael Strange
Chief Technology Officer
Mitek Systems
Intelligent mobile imaging is growing in popularity, due to the convenience of snapping a picture on a mobile device to conduct your daily business. Millions of banking customers in the US now have access to mobile deposit. And the next series of use cases will be equally compelling. Mobile web is an important platform, which is highly valuable, particularly when exploring products or enrolling in new services.
Wednesday - 12/11/13
General Session
Luncheon Case Study - Cloud Service Platforms for Mobile Application Development
Bill Appleton
DreamFactory Software
Bill will discuss the architectural advantages of cloud service platforms for mobile application development in the enterprise. He will demonstrate how to install the open source DreamFactory Services Platform on popular cloud computers from Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, and Rackspace. This platform delivers a comprehensive REST API with JSON or XML documents for HTML5 or native application development. Powerful external services such as S3, Salesforce, DynamoDB, and MongoDB can be used with the REST API in a secure manner. Integration with popular client frameworks such as Sencha Touch, jQuery Mobile, and AngularJS will be highlighted.
Wednesday - 12/11/13
Advanced HTML5
Using Responsive and Adaptive Techniques
Jonathan Baker
Director, Developer Relations
SAP, Inc.
Developing solutions for a continuum of devices using disparate web platforms is challenging. This session will cover usage of responsive web design and adaptive techniques that leverage HTML5 and CSS3 to develop web solutions that can support multiple devices. Topics will include best practices, available open source libraries and frameworks, implications for native apps, browser support, and the current state of web specifications related to this topic.
The Promise of the Mobile Marketplace
Michael Stevens
Senior Vice President, Marketing and Innovation
As mobile payments and mobile marketing activities begin to intersect, developers have a unique opportunity to create both consumer and merchantfacing applications that bridge the current chasm. This session would describe the fundamental requirements necessary for creating mobile commerce solutions in terms of standardized architecture, interoperability, user behavior, and security and compliance requirements. The session would also describe potential strategies that would expedite gotomarket activities. Delivering this vendorneutral presentation would be Michael Stevens, executive vice president of Spindle, Inc. and creator of Spindle's MeNetwork application.
Mobile Development
Personalization 2.0
Terry Ribb
If you have been noticing ads that match your recent searches, then you are seeing the start of personalization 2.0. The web is becoming more contextual. Learn how to develop strategies based on this evolution.
Wednesday - 12/11/13
Refreshment Break
Wednesday - 12/11/13
Advanced HTML5
WebGL From Chips to 3D
Leonard Daly
Daly Realism
Ryan Paul
Developer Relations
Montage JS
Fabrice Robinet
Engineering Manager
How can you efficiently integrate 3D content into your web applications? This showandtell presentation includes catchy 3D demos, followed by a technical discussion of a MontageJSbased solution that allows you to import and interact with 3D content. It also explores how to optimize your workflow using Node.js, WebGL, COLLADA and the glTF Khronos initiative.
Basic HTML5
Security Leaks: HTTPS and Caching Issues
Justin JD Nir
Associate Security Consultant
It seems that we either feast or famine. Either a developer restricts HTTPS to the point where the protocol is not taking advantage of the local storage, or they enable local storage to the point where HTTPS has a time to live independent of the application. This Security session shows the way to optimize for the BYOD world and at the same time maintain Security.Most web browsers, historically, were cautious about caching content delivered over an HTTPS connection to disk—to a greater degree than required by the HTTP standard. In recent years, in response to the increased use of HTTPS for nonsensitive data, and the proliferation of bandwidthhungry AJAX and Web 2.0 sites, some browsers have been changed to strictly follow the standard, and cache HTTPS content far more aggressively than before. HTTPS web servers must explicitly include a response header to block standardscompliant browsers from caching the response to disk—and not all web developers have caught up to the new browser behavior. ISE identified 21 70% of sites tested financial, healthcare, insurance and utility account sites that failed to forbid browsers from storing cached content on disk, and as a result, after visiting these sites, unencrypted sensitive content is left behind on endusers machines.
Mobile Development
Consumer/Enterprise Identity Realities in a Cloud/Mobile World
Andy Zmolek
Director of Technology Partnerships
The rise of consumerdriven identity across web and mobile apps has made Google and Facebook the defacto identity providers for choice, not just for personal apps but increasingly for enterprise apps as well, because the cost and complexity of traditional enterprise identity approaches are struggling to remain relevant in a world where SaaS services and mobile apps value the speed and simplicity of these new identity models. In addition to consumerization, bring your own device trends mean enterprise mobile devices themselves are increasingly employeeowned with a mix of identities that are mostly under the control of the employee. This session will explore the implications for the app developer, the identity provider, the consumer/employee, and the enterprise. Well also look at the longterm ecosystem impacts that evolving identity models will have on how organizations and applications will interact with management, policy, and provisioning systems for applications and devices as identity moves deeper into both the cloud itself and the mobile devices we depend on.
Wednesday - 12/11/13
Advanced HTML5
Big Data Databases
Brandon Black
Software Engineer, Developer Advocate
MongoDB, Inc.
Big Data is the story of the web these days and databases like Mongo db are giving clear answers from the fuzzy data in the cloud. This panel talks about alternative database strategies, how the community is using these solutions and what options are available.
Basic HTML5
Security Risks on The Web
Alex Heid
HackMiami / Information Security Services
The web is getting better but security is getting harder. Our friends in OWASP guide us as to the threats on the web. They look at how HTML5 hardens some of the security risks. What risks are still known and if new threats are on the horizon.
Mobile Development
Mobilizing Data Capture for the Enterprise
Christopher Pezza
Junior Marketing Manager
We will give an overview on how smartphone and mobile automatic identification and data captureAIDC technology can be combined to revolutionize business processes across the entire enterprise.After a review of relevant AIDC use cases and the relevant technologies, we will demonstrate howmobile AIDC technologies such as mobile barcode scanning, credit card scanning and mobile OCRdeployed to employees mobile devices can automate and optimize internal and consumerfocusedbusiness processes alike. We will present realworld case studies and demonstrate examples of the latestinnovations in mobile data capture.


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CHEERS to Peninsula High School freshman Younglife students, leaders and parents for the spaghetti dinner fundraiser to help with my medical bills. To Harbor View fellowship for allowing us to us the church. To the stores and the Harvester Restaurant for donations. More than $8,000 was raised. My family and I felt like George Bailey in "It's a Wonderful Life."
CHEERS to Peninsula High School for organizing the first Go Green 5-kilometer run and 2-mile walk to raise money for the school.
CHEERS to the wonderful customer at Kohl's who turned in the cell phone I had left in my shopping cart. Your kindness will definitely be paid forward.


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Welcome to Trinidad, Tom McVey.
McVey, the Trojans' first-year head coach, began his tenure with a 57-0 drubbing of Bynum Friday night at Trojan Field. The game was ended via the 45-point mercy rule.
The Trojans – who have been in the playoffs 11 of the past 12 seasons and 18 times over the past 22 years – will look to continue their hot start on the road next week at Greenville Christian. Last season, the Trojans beat Greenville Christian, 98-55, a week after scoring 102 points in a win over Bynum. Trinidad opened last season with three consecutive victories.


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As part of the SMART Move initiative, motor vehicle department in Kerala has put all the vehicle details and driving license details online. You can access it here. The online facilities include driving license test scheduling details, details about your license application, fancy number availability and registration details of a given vehicle number. These facilities are sure to bring more transparency to all motor vehicle procedures.
SMART-MOVE is a proprietary software developed by the Kerala State Division of National Informatics Center(NIC). SMART-MOVE is a comprehensive package which automates all the citizen centric procedures and eliminates manual records. In future registration records, tax collection registers, permit registers etc. will be accessible online.


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Who are your favorite designers?
These might be obvious answers but Hussein Chalayan, Stella McCartney, Karl Lagerfeld, and Marc Jacobs are designers that consistently interest me.
What are your favorite hometown stores?
My favorite clothing stores to shop at are True Value Vintage, Goon Pack, One of A Few, The Block and Used (which also has an amazing selection of vintage jewelry).
Who are your personal style icons?
Anna Karina, Patti Smith and Mary Kate Olsen.
What are your favorite new trends for fall?
I love that grey is so popular for fall and also all the lovely knits.
What trend are you totally over?
WEDGES! I never liked them in the first place. I think they look tacky.
Do you have any beauty tips?
I LOVE Kiehl's! I use only their products on my face. I would never use anything else. I also never wear foundation. I like a fresh clean look, so I wear minimal makeup.
Right now, every girl needs a ... ?
Great pair of boots. I usually stick to flat, suede boots and think a vintage pair would be ideal. TheyÂ're just more attractive to me than new ones.
Where are your favorite places to go out?
Hoko's for karaoke. The Railway Club is the best old bar in the city, itÂ's a great venue and place to hang out, plus it still has a smoking room. The Royal Unicorn in Chinatown is a good dance party on Wednesdays and Saturdays. Also, Shine on Mondays has a 50's sockhop night. I love eating out and I love wine. Salt, Chambar, Lolita's, Habit, Parkside, CaponeÂ's, and Cassis are my favorites in Vancouver. I go to a lot of movies and wander aimlessly around the city.
WhatÂ's on your iPod right now?
Sonic Youth, Black Mountain, The Modern Lovers, Ratatat, Will Oldham, The Make-Up, Neil Young, The Ponys, Television, and LCD Soundsystem.
What are your essential monthly magazines?
Hobo, I-D, Gourmet, Film Comment, Uncut
What piece in your wardrobe/jewelry box do you wear the most?
My boyfriend recently bought me this simple yet stunning silver ring from Tiffany. I wear it every day.
If you could raid anyone's closet, who would it be and why?
Lou Doillon, for sure. I think her style is so perfect.
Where do you go to stock up on great, inexpensive items?
The West End Community Centre has a monthly flea market that is the best for unique, cheap jewelryÂ--I love it! (604.257.8333, 870 Denman Street)
If you had $1000 to blow on one item for fall what would it be?
Probably the Marc by Marc Jacobs Delancey Bag in Bordeaux ($698, eLuxury.com)
What item of your wardrobe do you rely on during the fall?
Scarves! I am obsessed with long ones, preferably in a solid color. The Balenciaga scarves this fall are totally up my alley too. [We like Free PeopleÂ's Tie Die Scarf! ($38, freepeople.com)]
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True Value Vintage: 604.685.5403, 710 Robson Street
Goon Pack: 604.602.8119, 109 West Cordova Street, goonpack.ca
One Of A Few: 604.605.0685, 354 Water Street, oneofafew.com
The Block: 604.685.8855, 350 Cordova Street
USED Vintage Clothing: 604.694.0322, 831 Granville Street
Hoko Karoke Bar: 604.685.4656, 362 Powell Street, myspace.com/hokos
The Railway Club, 604.681.1625, 579 Dunsmuir Street, therailwayclub.com
Royal Unicorn Cabaret: 604.961.5122, 147 East Pender Street
Shine: 360 Water Street, shinenightclub.com
Salt Tasting Room, salttastingroom.com
Chambar Belgian Restaurant, chambar.com
LolitaÂ's South of the Border Cantina, lolitasrestaurant.com
Habit Lounge, habitlounge.ca
Parkside, parksiderestaurant.ca
CaponeÂ's Restaurant & Live Jazz Club, caponesrestaurant.net
Cassis Bistro, cassisvancouver.com
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text: I don't subscribe to the whole minimalist-running thing. I weigh 200 pounds, and even though I try to be light on my feet, I'm still a bit of a pounder, so I like padding underfoot. I had pretty much thrown in the towel on the whole running thing, then I discovered the Hoka One One Bondi B2, which I wrote about here. I loved those so much I ran them to shreds, so I've graduated to these Conquests. I love how light and precise they feel on my feet, even with all of that cushion, and the rockered toe eats up rough terrain just like a rockered ski does. And the best part is that they don't aggravate the two herniated discs in my lower back the way my old minimalist shoes did. [$170; HokaOneOne.com] —Sam Bass, editor


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A childs journey to health has inspired her new family to form a new running club designed to help foster children build confidence and a sense of belonging.
When Niya came to live with her foster family, she was 3 1/2 months old and weighed less than eight pounds. A victim of severe neglect, she faced a seemingly endless list of negative medical labels: failure to thrive, malnourishment, torticollis from being left in a crib for too long.
At age 3, Niya was diagnosed with cerebral palsy. An MRI showed so many dead areas in her brain that her neurologist said she shouldnt even be able to walk.
But she does walk. And now at age 4, she can also swim the butterfly stroke, ride a bike without training wheels and read. Walking is the least of her concerns; now Niya can run.
Niyas journey has inspired her new family to form a new running club designed to help foster children build confidence and a sense of belonging. Sunday afternoon training runs begin in September.
Niya has overcome many of the obstacles caused by the neglect she endured during her first few weeks of life. Speech, occupational and physical therapists have helped tremendously, but much of her progress is due to the dedication of her foster family.
Brian and Sue Golbus of Irmo have fostered Niya since the beginning and are now in the process of adopting her. Along with their children Alexa, 15; Ashley, 15; Megan, 13, and Tyler, 10 they have worked tirelessly to help Niya reach important developmental milestones.
When she began to drag her left leg as she learned to walk, her brother and sisters helped teach her how to correct the problem.
It was amazing to watch Alexa, Ashley, Megan and Tyler constantly working with her, Sue Golbus said. Whether it was reading to her, or helping her move her left leg when she crawled or walked. It was amazing to watch their determination to make this child who she is today.
Niya likes trying to keep up with her athletic siblings. When she saw her brother Tyler was a swimmer, she wanted to swim. When she saw her sisters were runners, she wanted to run. And she did.
It was after seeing the way she beamed with confidence after running five kilometers for the first time that her siblings realized running wasnt just good for Niyas physical fitness, it also was good for her self-esteem.
The older Golbus children began to wonder if the pride Niya had felt after training to run a 5K could help other foster children as well. Thats when they came up with the idea for a running club.
We wanted to teach children that by meeting the goals they have set in running that they can use the same positive mindset to overcome obstacles in their lives, Alexa said.
Megan came up with a name: Run for a Change.
The goal of our organization is to help foster children build their self-esteem, self-confidence and self-worth, said Ashley.
Participants will set goals for themselves, then gather once a week at Riverfront Park to work toward meeting them. The kids have lined up sponsors, including Starbucks, Earth Fare and Panera Bread, to provide snacks and drinks at each meeting. Fleet Feet in Irmo has agreed to donate new and used shoes to participants who need them.
Run for a Change will meet from 3-4:30 p.m. on Sundays beginning Sept. 1 at the entrance to Riverfront Park, 312 Laurel St. The club is free and open to all foster children and their foster families. Licensed foster parents will be present to supervise.
The Golbus family says theyve noticed a positive change in Niya since she began running, and theyre hopeful that what inspired her will inspire other foster children as well.
She has become more confident in herself, Alexa said. It carries over to other parts of her life.


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The Drawing Projects: book review12 08 2011
I recently just finished Drawing Projects: An Exploration of the Language of Drawing. I have a lot of art books that I buy with the best intentions, but often, they collect dust on the bookshelf after a quick initial browse. I find this one a little different as it explores the fundamentals and meaning of drawing with 15 drawing activities that may interest students a bit more, as well as including work by some contemporary artists where you see the concepts in action. It's not really a tutorial book but may help some to view drawing and expressing line and shape in a different light. Simply, the act of mark making instead of attempting to draw photo-realistically.
In the book, the authors recommend beginners avoid drawing symmetrical man-made objects as more often than not, students will fail to master the precise symmetry. I must say, as a teacher, I am guilty of giving my students bottles the second week of drawing class. I may now change this. One of my favourite activities offered was superimposed drawings (poor quality picture below). Students are to redraw the same subject five times seen from different points of view and superimpose/overlap each drawing. A lot of the activities should help students to get away from drawing with those small hair-like lines that they all start off with (and that drive me crazy) and begin to express themselves and their subject matter more.
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Josh Mittledorf watches for the Grim Reaper more closely than most of us. The 64-year-old Philadelphia resident has a Ph.D. in astrophysics from the University of Pennsylvania and is admittedly consumed with extending his time here on Earth for as long as possible. On his blog ( http://joshmitteldorf.scienceblog.com) he writes about health, aging and why you should really skip dessert.
Q: You've named your blog "Playing the Game for a Longer Life." What does that mean?
In the mid-'90s I read an article by Richard Weindruch about how many animal species had been found to live longer when they were close to starvation. This got me thinking that if animals live longer when they're challenged by a lack of food, that means that they're living shorter by choice. So aging must be programmed into our genes.
Q: Why do you think that is?
Humanity was in balance with the ecosphere for hundreds of thousands of years. It was just in the 19th century that humans started lowering the death rate. The result has been wonderful for humanity and a disaster for the world's ecosystem. There's a global extinction going on with so many species, and it's all because of humanity. We reproduce as fast as possible and live as long as possible and exploit everything in sight. Aging exists so there is a steady, controllable death rate that helps keep the ecosystem in balance.
Q: How does that tie in with animals living longer when they eat less?
On my blog I focus on how to live a long time. It's amazing what evolution has done to aging. When there's plenty of food around and no one is starving, age still maintains the death rate – when you're fat and happy, you age very fast. When a famine hits, there are plenty of individuals who are dying of starvation so we don't need aging to keep the death rate up – it takes a vacation.
Q: Did you change your own lifestyle after you had this epiphany in the mid-'90s?
I became obsessed with challenging myself physically and pushing my limits. I exercise prodigiously. I fast every week from Wednesday night to Friday morning. The older I get the better I take care of myself. I watch people my age whose bodies are falling apart and tears come to my eyes. But I have to work really hard.
Q: How long do you hope to live?
The world is changing in a number of really dramatic ways. It's all so fascinating. I want to be around for as long as I can to see it.


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Panda Express serves nasty foods. you want to know what Panda eats ... go there.
I enjoy Panda Express. Bamboo is not even on the menu.
3 shrimp in small container. Rice or Noodles Xtra. OK
Panda Express is better than MCDonalds but worse than Subway
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I'm just going to win that bacon giveaway, pig out then hibernate till late spring.
does it come with some tumbs and gravity compost paper? if you eat from panda your gonna need both.
that's so true. hadtoxps
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The late John Murtha is being honored for his work to improve health care opportunities for members of the armed services and their families.
On Monday, the multidisciplinary cancer treatment program centered in the new Walter Reed National Military Medical Center outside Washington will be dedicated as the John P. Murtha Cancer Center.
Murtha served as this region's congressman from 1974 until his death in February 2010.
The center's first director recognizes the significance of Murtha's legacy.
"I had the privilege of knowing Mr. Murtha when he was working with the Defense Department to get some of these programs put in place," Col. Craig Shriver said. "He saved many lives through the funding he provided."
Shriver is familiar to many in this area as one of the driving forces behind Windber Research Institute and its partnership with Walter Reed through the Shriver-led Clinical Breast Care Project. Shriver has been interim director of the new Walter Reed cancer center throughout its development.
"It is a great honor for me," Shriver said. "Throughout this process, we have had some of the most highly trained cancer experts in all areas working with us. It is my privilege to be in a leadership position to move the cancer center forward for the patients and the larger community."
Although centered in the new Walter Reed's Bethesda, Md., campus, the Murtha Cancer Center includes a wide network of treatment and research programs, Shriver said last week during a teleconference.
It is the designated Center of Excellence for cancer care by the Defense Department, offering a multidisciplinary approach to treatment by integrating services such as nutrition, psychosocial, genetic and social work, along with counseling and support groups.
Research laboratories included in the Murtha Cancer Center are located in northern Virginia, Maryland and at Windber Research Institute.
Windber has been given an expanded role operating the tissue banking program for all cancer research in the Walter Reed program. The tissue banking freezers at Windber were first set up to collect and store breast cancer specimens as part of the Clinical Breast Care Project.
More types of tissue have been added through the years.
Shriver will be at Windber Research Institute on Dec. 18 to mark the 15,000th tissue specimen added to the bank.
Windber's reputation for quality work and thorough documentation got leadership's attention. In an international study to map the complete gene sequence for breast cancers, Windber's specimens provided about 25 percent of the specimens – with acceptance rates well above larger university research programs.
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