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MISSION - Antonia Gloria Hernandez, 87, passed away on Tuesday, Sept. 17, 2013 at Rio Grande Regional Hospital in McAllen.
She was born in Mission and raised in La Joya.
Survivors include her sisters, Ninfa Gloria of La Joya, Olga Garcia of Buda, Elma Lopez of Palmview and Beatrice Gloria of Edinburg.
Visitation will be held on Friday, Sept. 20, from 1 to 9 p.m. with a 7 p.m. rosary at Ric Brown Family Funeral Home in Mission. The funeral mass will be held on Saturday, Sept. 21, at 10 a.m. at Our Lady Queen of Angels Catholic Church in La Joya. Burial will follow at La Joya City Cemetery.
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The Utah Supreme Court on Tuesday rejected an appeal from death row inmate Von Lester Taylor, who claims, among other arguments, that his trial two decades ago for a double murder was unfair because the jury was 75 percent Mormon.
The high court said Taylor "failed to establish that his claims could not have been raised in a prior proceeding."
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The decision brings an end to Taylor's appeals options in state court, but that doesn't mean the defendant will receive an execution date anytime soon.
Taylor has filed a federal habeas corpus petition in U.S. District Court, which was stayed by a judge pending the conclusion of Taylor's state action. Now that the Supreme Court has ruled on the state case, Taylor's appeals in federal court will move forward, said Assistant Utah Attorney General Erin Riley.
The Supreme Court decision comes following June arguments, where Brian M. Pomerantz, a deputy federal public defender from Los Angeles who is handling Taylor's appeal, argued Taylor didn't get a fair jury at his trial.
The arguments the high court heard in June marked the third time the justices have heard an appeal by the 46-year-old Taylor, a self-proclaimed devil worshipper, who is on death row for killing a woman and her mother in 1990 after breaking into the family's Summit County cabin.
"You have a right to have a fair cross-section of the community on your jury and Mr. Taylor was denied that right," Pomerantz argued. "You should not discriminate against jurors on the basis of religion," he said, calling the practice unconstitutional.
Pomerantz based his arguments on handwritten notes from prosecutors in the case that mysteriously became part of the public file from the trial court. The notes include what appears to be a "scoring system" in which prosecutors awarded points to jurors who were LDS during the selection process, Pomerantz argued.
He said that the original jury pool was deemed to be 50 percent LDS, but when the final 12 jurors were selected, that percentage rose to 75 percent. He cited the case of juror Holly Connor, whose answers when questioned during the jury selection matched the rest of the answers given by the jury panel, except that Connor gave her religion as Methodist.
Pomerantz also said four LDS jurors that were struck from the jury were done so after they stated they wouldn't vote for the death penalty or had "philosophical differences with the church."
Riley, in June, balked at the notion that prosecutors erroneously struck jurors based on religion.
"If it did occur, it's not clear that [striking jurors based on religion] is error," she said. She said jurors can be stricken for their beliefs, which includes religion.
She said in the case of Connor, the woman showed up late for jury duty, had a history in the court system and had knowledge of media coverage of the case of Taylor's co-defendants — all reasons that prosecutors would strike her from the jury.
Defense attorneys also contended, in addition to the jury issue and other claims, that Taylor's previous attorneys were incompetent. They also argued there is evidence that a key witness in the case against Taylor lied about Taylor's involvement.
Scott Manley testified against Taylor at his trial, but he recently gave a sworn declaration to Taylor's defense attorneys stating that he was coerced by parole agents, who threatened to send him back to prison unless Manley helped build a case against his acquaintance, Taylor.
Considered among the most influential testimony given to the jury, Manley's testimony "appears to have been largely manufactured," Pomerantz said.
The Utah Supreme Court in 2007 affirmed the trial judge's decision rejecting Taylor's challenge of his capital-murder conviction and death sentence. In a unanimous decision, the justices agreed that the attorneys who handled appeals for Taylor didn't miss any obvious legal claims that would have overturned his sentence.
Taylor alleged his lawyers should have conducted an investigation to identify mitigating factors that would have lessened his sentence; and, he said, they should have spoken to his siblings and looked into the possibility that he has brain damage.
Taylor received the death penalty for the two Dec. 22, 1990, murders in Summit County.
After escaping from a halfway house, Taylor and Edward Steven Deli broke into a cabin in Oakley, opened Christmas presents they found there and waited for the occupants to return. The first family members who arrived — Kaye Tiede, 51; her mother, Beth Harmon Tidwell Potts, 72; and her daughter, 20 — were tied up. The escapees then shot Tiede and Potts and ordered the daughter to pack a suitcase so she could leave with them.
As her mother and grandmother were being shot, the daughter began to pray. Taylor, who was on parole after serving a prison sentence for aggravated burglary, told her to stop because he was a "devil worshipper," according to court documents.Next Page >
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A 'giant rat' has been caught and killed by a man in the North East of England.
Grandad Brian Watson killed the large rodent with a piece of wood near Consett, County Durham.
It was first spotted by the boyfriend of Mr Watson's granddaughter, while he was out cutting grass on a tractor.
In an interview with Sky Tyne and Wear, Mr Watson said: "I heard him shouting there was a large rat.
"I came running round the corner. I managed to grab some wood on the way."
"It wasn't very fast. I managed to kill it there and then.
"I've never seen a rat as big in my life before."
One reason why it was so big and slow is that it may have been pregnant.
"It was that big... I think it was due to drop young ones," said Mr Watson.
Afterwards, he tried to pick up the creature with a paddle - but it was so heavy the paddle broke.
It was left where it was killed for several days, however when word spread of the find Mr Watson decided to destroy the rodent in a fire.
According to some observers the animal was a coypu, which are also known as river rats.
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Bandicoots are small furry Australian animals.
They eat plants, seeds, insects, spiders and berries.
They hold food in their front paws to eat.
They live where there are low bushes.
Newborn babies move into the mother's pouch to grow.
There are about twenty kinds of bandicoot, including the Northern Brown, Long-nosed, Southern Brown, Eastern Barred and Western Barred bandicoots. The Western Barred bandicoot is now only found on a few islands in Shark Bay, Western Australia. The Eastern Barred bandicoot is now found only in Tasmania and in a few places in Victoria. The bilby is also called a rabbit-eared bandicoot.
Physical features
Bandicoots are mostly solitary animals, which means they are generally on their own. They are marsupials about the size of a cat. They have a pointy snout, humped back and a thin tail. A female bandicoot has a backward facing pouch. This is so that when she is digging, she doesn't fill her pouch with soil.
Bandicoots live on the ground in areas where there are low-growing plants. In some parts of Australia, they even visit people's gardens.
They search on the ground looking for insects,spiders, seeds, berries and other similar food. When looking for food they dig in the soil and rummage in the fallen leaves on the ground. They hold their food in their front paws to eat it.
Bandicoots are mostly active at night and in the day they generally shelter in nests that are piles of leaf litter scratched together. When moving fast they bound and gallop.
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Marsupials are not pregnant for very long, so that when the young are born, they are very tiny and hardly developed at all. They move into their mother's pouch to complete their development. Unusually for marsupials, bandicoots in the womb are attached to it by cords, and after they are born, the young climb the cords to reach the mother's pouch. The young of the Northern Brown bandicoot and the Long-nosed bandicoot are in the womb for only twelve and a half days, the shortest time of any marsupial. Inside the pouch, the young drink milk from teats, as they grow and develop.
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Some desert species of bandicoot are extinct and the remaining species are vulnerable. If their habitats change, they will become endangered. They are also killed by introduced species such as foxes and feral cats.
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Civilization Revolution (PS3)
Why update a classic? Why fix what's not broke? Why not just leave well enough alone? Civilization started out as a perfect game 17 years ago, and all that time later remains a perfect game -- one simply frosted with different flavors from time to time to attract new fans.
Looking back at the history of Civilization, all one can do is marvel about how unlikely it was in the first place. If a turn-based strategy game based on developing a civilization -- wildly mixing historical fact and fiction, famous names and impossible timelines -- seemed like a good concept, then making it so complex that it needed an in-game encyclopedia must surely have been a wrong turn. And who would play a game in which you could win by building cultural institutions, and part of the fun was deciding whether or not to send your citizens into the forest to harvest lumber or into the hills to mine for minerals? The mind boggled. It still does.
But in the good old days of gaming, no matter how bad the idea, a few dedicated and perhaps slightly nutty guys could bring it to life. What might have made the list of "worst videogame ideas ever" has instead become an elemental design that's often copied by other games, but never distilled from its original, purest form.
If you're a fan of any of the past four major Civ versions, expansions and spin-offs, Civilization Revolution -- the latest Civilization game and the first serious effort to retool the game for the console -- stands out like light beer in a biker bar. Sure, it's Civ, but what have they done to it? Trimmed-down to fit the control and display limitations of the console, it looks like designer Sid Meier and company have evaporated their stout classic into a mere wisp of its former self -- Civ Lite, Civ for Dummies, Diet Civ.
Determined to give the game a shot, loyal series fan that you are, you load it up on the Xbox 360 or PlayStation 3 (the games are basically identical across the two platforms), ready to give it a fair shake. But really, you're just going through the motions to cement your derision of the thing -- this mini-van of the Civ world, made generic and stripped of style and class to appeal to the "mainstream."
You fire up the tutorial level as Abe Lincoln, supreme ruler of the Americans. After you have workers collecting resources and a military unit exploring the fog surrounding your first city, a cartoon battle filled with yells and clanging swords ensues when you stumble across a barbarian tribe. After you walk away with some gold and a few angry comments from the local warlord about losing his village, you flip through the well-organized in-game Civopedia and plot out a strategy for military dominance, starting with researching pottery. Dorky 3-D advisors bob onto the screen to cheer your decision with contextual hints as they jabber away in a language that sounds an awful lot like The Sims' "Simlish." Nonetheless, with visions of world domination growing, you crank out more troops, start expanding your borders, generate streams of settlers to found the fledgling cities that will fuel your war machine, and start the slow, inevitable march toward your global victory.
The peace treaty you just made with the Germans looks to placate them long enough to you continue your push to the south of the continent, right through Napoleon's flimsy defenses. At this point you realize, goddammit, you're just playing Civilization.
The endless list of new features in Civilization Revolution that take away a favorite a play tactic or a tried-and-true strategy don't matter as much as the raw appeal of steadily building up your civilization and trying to outrun everyone else in the world to the finish line. Revolution, whatever else the box says, is just Civ.
Sure, you'll miss the world map. It makes exploring more difficult, since you can't easily see the large swaths of fog that are surely hiding all kinds of goodies. (You get used to scrolling around the world with the thumbstick to look for things.) Online play works, but the turn-based formula grinds a little slowly for the console twitch culture. And certainly, the most hardcore fans will lament the lack of editors -- long a staple of nerds who happily learned Python so they could write their own game scripts.
As experienced Civ players might have worried, simplifying combat and resource management make the game easier to play while also taking away those clever strategies you've used over the years. Before, if you met a world leader who liked to fortify their cities and wait out the battle, you could use your units to tear up his roads and farms and slowly starve him into compliance. Now, it's fight or nothing. You can still tweak your city production toward a specific goal, but in most of the game's levels of difficulty, you won't have a reason to play city manager.
A consequence of this user-friendly, streamlined style of play is that Revolution seems to favor military conquest over the more high-minded economic, technological or cultural victories. Civ's always argued a "peace through superior firepower" idea -- forcing even the most pacifistic premiers to build up a heavy defensive force -- and Rev takes it a step further. In too many ways, it's easier to blow your neighbors up than to negotiate with them.
Remarkably, though, you never really feel like you are playing Civ Jr. The Civilization games always have offered you plenty of choices, but never made you think about too much about too many things. If you wanted to focus on that naval strategy, or really work on your economy, you could do that without a lot of fuss. Things could certainly go wrong, and you'd have to buy off the French or battle the Japanese -- but most of the time, you could just focus on deciding whether you wanted a new city to crank out more soldiers or settlers on the way to your next objective. The fact that you had 80,000 possible options never really mattered, as long as you had two good choices in front of you.
Meier has been famously quoted as claiming that "A game is series of interesting choices." With Revolution he seems to have figured out what fancy restaurants have known forever -- people really only want to choose from chicken, steak, pork, fish or vegetarian. They don't need Denny's encyclopedic menu of eggs prepared four dozen different ways to enjoy a meal. The cultured palette only wants to make a few strong choices and let the chef made them worthwhile.
That's what makes Revolution work. It's the choices the game offers, rather than those that it takes away, that stand center stage. As a result, it's easy to learn for the newcomer and it's masterfully prepared for the old-timer. Rev isn't a really a revolution -- it's well-balanced, nuanced and layered with extra helpings of the humor and toy-like goofiness (Come on, my tanks are the size of my cities!) that have always marked the series. Rather, it's another wonder in the Civilization empire.
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Just between you and your sports bra.... Take a deep breath, close your eyes and focus carefully as you wiggle and move your arms and torso to put a little stress on the bra. Direct your full sensory attention to every square inch of it against your skin, scanning for these check points:
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It's funny how so many of those Colorado teachers union deadlines fall at inconvenient times. Want to sign up for one of the Colorado Education Association's local affiliates? You can do it any time. Want to opt out of union membership, perhaps to choose a different membership option? Well, finding the exact dates you can opt out depends on which school district you work in.
For so many, though, it comes at the beginning of the school year as classrooms are being decorated, lesson plans developed, routines established, and so much more. But September 15 passes before you can get down to the local union office — say, in Jeffco, Commerce City, Englewood, Longmont, or Canon City — and you have to wait another 350 days to stop the automatic union dues deduction. That's about what happened to Denver Public Schools teacher Ronda Reinhardt, who finally was able to take advantage of the two-week November opt-out window after waiting nearly a full year.
But what about the teacher who wants to stick with the $750 or more in NEA/CEA dues per year but maybe doesn't like the union's sometimes unseemly political spending habits? Getting the $39, or even $63 (in some locations), back from the Every Member Option means submitting the request just before the
Christmas er, winter break at the December 15 deadline.
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A term first coined by the gay Afro-American community to describe the most desired point of entry for the gay black male, the anus, unlike the straights who first seek out the vagina. Boogina is a marrying of the two words "booty" and "vagina" just like the Mangina to describe the aforementioned. However, today the term Boogina is not limited in use by 42nd st. Queens and the like. A recent upswing in ass play among those outside of the gay enclaves, perhaps influenced by various rap songs like E40's "You and Dat Booty," has brought Boogina out from exclusivity and into America's mainsream lexicon.
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Expect higher food prices this year
USDA predicts an increase of 2% to 3%. But we're already seeing much higher prices on some items, including meat and dairy.
Have you noticed grocery prices rising?
Expect that trend to continue. The U.S. Department of Agriculture told consumers this week they can expect prices of food both at home and in restaurants, as measured by the Consumer Price Index, to rise 2% to 3% this year. Already, McDonald's has announced a price increase.
Many shoppers say they're already seeing higher grocery prices, some of them larger than the USDA's prediction for the entire year.
The Tennessean newspaper in Nashville found that the prices for a grocery basket of staples had risen 12.5% since November 2009.
Expect to pay even more this year, especially for dairy products, pork, beef, fruits and vegetables. Post continues after video.
Shoppers are feeling the pinch. Barbara Powell, 64, who with her husband survives on disability and Social Security payments, told the Orlando Sentinel:
Things you would see for 10 cents less last Monday are 10 cents more this Monday. People on fixed incomes like I am, it's hard for us. We just have to close our eyes and get it. But it's expensive.
The rising price of gas can eat up the savings from shopping at less expensive stores farther from home.
USDA economist Ephraim Leibtag told The Tennessean that the rise in food prices is actually a "return to normal" and a sign of economic recovery. Over the last 20 years, the price of food has increased by an average of 2.5% to 3% a year.
Of course, if your salary isn't increasing that much -- and cuts in wages, hours and outright unemployment are still common -- even a 2% increase in prices can hurt.
The USDA reported these increases from December 2009 to December 2010:
- Beef: up 6.1%.
- Pork: up 11.2%.
- Poultry: up 1.3%.
- Eggs: up 6.1%.
- Cheese: up 4.3%.
- Butter: up 21.9%.
- Fresh fruit: up 3.1%, with citrus up 9.1%.
- Fresh vegetables: up 1.2%, with potatoes up 5.4%. On the bright side, lettuce was down 7.4% and tomatoes were down 10.5%. Prices of other fresh vegetables were up 6.9%.
- Bread: up 1.1%.
Jason at Frugal Dad is feeling the effects:
Whatever the reason, increased food prices are putting a major dent in our household budget. Since we can't do much about the prices, we have to look for other ways to reduce (or at least keep even) our overall food expense.
He offers nine ways to reduce your grocery budget, including shopping less often, avoiding junk food, and freezing leftovers for future meals.
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ALLEGAN (WKZO) -- The Media has gotten their first look at the new Allegan County Jail, which is really an old furniture factory that has been remodeled with pods for the jail portion, and to provide new facililties for the County Sheriff's Department as well.
It will double their capacity and puts all the department's facilities under one roof.
Allegan Board Vice Chair Jim Story says it was done this way after voters rejected more expensive proposals.
Because they only used a portion of the old Haworth factory, if they ever need to expand it can be done by simply adding more pods.
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Seventh Annual Barbara L. and Norman C. Tanner Center for Nonviolent Human Rights Advocacy Forum
Religion, Conflict and Peacemaking
February 20-21, 2013
Following the 9-11 events, the relationship between religion, conflict, and violence became the center of debate among journalists, scholars, politicians, and others. For some time, religion, terrorism, and violence were almost synonymous; if religion could be eradicated, violence would disappear. Such discourse facilitated the need for Western society to rethink its relationship to Islam and the need for Christianity to re-read its past in light of a long history of religious violence.
Another positive, less publicized effect of the post-9/11 discussion emphasizes the role of religion in peacebuilding. Scholars and practitioners are concerned: how can one utilize religious principles as a positive force? How can peacebuilding processes collaborate with religious communities? The University has recently developed two new programs in Religious studies and Peace and Conflict studies and is therefore in an excellent position to address the intricate relationship between Religion and Conflict as well as Religion and Peacemaking.
Opening Keynote Address
February 20, 2013
Salt Lake City Main Library
6:30- 9:00pm
Mohammed Abu-Nimer:Interfaith Dialogue in Israel-Palestine: Possibilities and Obstacles
Mohammed Abu-Nimer: Associate professor at the American University's School of
International Service in International Peace and Conflict Resolution in Washington, DC, and
Director of the Peacebuilding and Development Institute. . An expert on conflict resolution and
dialogue for peace, Prof. Abu-Nimer has conducted research on conflict resolution in the Israeli-
Palestinian conflict; more generally, his work addresses issues around interreligious conflict
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Karzai, who described the images as "inhumane and provocative," said "the only way to put an end to such painful experiences" was to end the presence of foreign forces in Afghanistan.
U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta has also condemned the photos, reportedly taken in 2010 and published Wednesday by the Los Angeles Times, saying they depict behavior that "absolutely violates" U.S. regulations and values.
A military investigation is under way.
The row is the latest strain on tense U.S.-Afghan relations following a string of incidents that have plagued the U.S. military in Afghanistan this year.
A massacre of villagers in March, allegedly by a U.S. soldier, led Karzai to demand that foreign troops withdraw from Afghan villages and return to their larger bases.
In a statement Thursday, the Taliban said what the photos show is typical of what the United States stands for.
"In the last 11 years since the Americans invaded Afghanistan, they have repeatedly done inhumane things which are not acceptable to anyone in the world," the Taliban said.
NATO Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen said Wednesday the images "don't in anyway represent the principles and values that are the basis for our mission in Afghanistan." He added that he considers the photos "an isolated event."
The two photos published by the paper are among 18 provided by a U.S. soldier who wanted "to draw attention to the safety risk of a breakdown in leadership and discipline," the Los Angeles Times reported.
One shows a member of the U.S. military in front of what appears to be the body of an insurgent. The photo shows the insurgent's head, with his eyes open and what may be his hand on the American soldier's shoulder. Another soldier appears to be looking down at the body, reaching his hand into the blanket covering it.
The second photo shows a group of people, including some American soldiers, standing with what appear to be legs from a corpse. One U.S. soldier is smiling and giving a double thumbs-up, and another is also smiling at the camera. There appear to be Afghan police in that photo as well.
CNN has not authenticated the images.
The photos' release is the latest in U.S. military setbacks this year in Afghanistan.
In January, a video posted on a website showed four U.S. Marines urinating on enemy corpses.
A month later, International Security Assistance Force personnel at Bagram Air Base improperly disposed of Islamic religious materials, including Qurans, by burning them in what U.S. officials described as an unintentional error.
In the March attack, Army Staff Sgt. Robert Bales allegedly left a remote outpost in Kandahar province's Panjwai district and went house to house, gunning down villagers. He has been charged with 17 counts of murder in the shooting rampage.
The attack intensified a debate about whether to pull American troops ahead of their planned 2014 withdrawal.


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Thanks, peta2, for contacting Urban Decay and demanding answers following last week's announcement that L'Oréal had bought the beloved cruelty-free cosmetics company. Peta2 reports that Urban Decay has "assured PETA in writing that its animal testing policy will not change."
Are you relieved? I am really relieved. Also super-happy to have an excuse to post a photo of happy bunnies. Cosmetic animal testing is for the jerkiest jerks.
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- Lizanne Hennessey
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How can we talk to kids?
How many of us have (albeit inadvertently) asked a child, "What are you going to be when you grow up"? Admittedly, I have caught myself doing this.
It's a bizarre way of making small-talk with a child, isn't it?
"Having fun in the sandbox? That's a cool sandcastle... so tell me, kid, what is your ultimate goal in life?" This isn't an easy question for anyone to answer, let alone a 5-year-old.
To me, this question reinforces the way our system is put together - which is designed to mold children into consumers, so they will be instrumental in our economic growth. At the same time, it is a question that can help us understand what drives our kids, what they are passionate about, what their dreams are...
In this article, Jennifer Fulwiler proposes that we should altogether stop asking kids this question, as it "reinforces the idea that the way to find identity and value is through career" and "undermines the concept of vocation":
How can we talk with kids, encourage them to explore who they are, and get them excited about who they will become, without asking such a weighty question? How can we allow them to expand their imaginations, and let them know they are taken seriously at the same time? How can we differentiate things like a purpose in life, as opposed to a career, in a way that children can focus on and hopefully achieve their passions?
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Jun 25 2013: Lizanne, I read a joke last week: Child: Dad, where do babies come from. Dad: Total shock and silance. Child: Its ok Dad if you don't know the answer just say so.
As parents we agreed to answer all question in the most honest means possable. We did not set out to destroy Santa Claus or the Easter Bunny ... but a serious question should be delt with in the same manner .. serious. It is easier to use a correct medical term than to start the cutsie name game ... this does not mean to be blunt and uncaring ...
It is my opinion that the kids have enough friends ... they need parents that are honest and can be trusted. When one of the children comes to talk ... stop what you are doing and look at them and reply as best you can.
Kids do not come with a operations manual. Do the best we can and supply them with love, respect, and honesty.
I wish you well. Bob.
Jun 25 2013: Good one Robert!
That reminds me of a story with my daughter when she was about 2-3 years old! She was playing in the yard with her friend, when she came running in the house asking.....mom.....where did I come from?
I always tried to answer their questions with age appropriate honestly. As I was pondering how to simply and honestly explain the reproductive system, she got impatient with me and said.....mom.....my friend is from Burlington.....where did I come from? She wanted the name of a town/city.....not the reproductive story!!! LOL:>)
Jun 26 2013: Wonderful, Robert!
When my kids started asking me 'THE' question, I pulled out Lennart Nillson's 'Miracle of Birth' DVD. We got (age-appropriate) books from the library, I told them all about how they were born, the weeks before, the days before, the minutes before... and look at them now!
You mentioned Santa and the Easter Bunny. My daughter has wiggly teeth, so we're getting frequent visits from the Tooth Fairy these days. She told me, that a friend in her class told her that the Tooth Fairy isn't real, and that Mama and Papa take the tooth away. She asked me, if that is true? So, I asked her, "What do you think?", knowing I was throwing the ball in her court. She grinned from ear to ear, and said "No! The Tooth Fairy IS real!"
When she is done believing in fairies, she'll let me know. Till then, we've got fairies galore.
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The film will be introduced by Boston Athenæum member and Emerson College screenwriting professor DIANE LAKE. Lake had a previous career as a political consultant in Iowa and has been a working screenwriter since 1993, writing screenplays for Columbia, Disney, Miramax, and Paramount.
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Career & Graduate School Fair
Employers are invited to attend USD's Career & Graduate School Fair on Thursday, October 23, 2014, from 11 a.m. - 3 p.m. The fair will be held on USD's campus in Vermillion, SD in the Muenster University Center. USD has a comprehensive liberal arts curriculum with Over 100 Academic Programs. The fair is an opportunity to connect with outstanding USD students who are searching for full-time and summer jobs and internships.
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Live Q&A with Sherry Turkle: How has digital technology changed the kind of communications you have with your friends, family & co-workers?
This Live conversation with TED speaker Sherry Turkle will open on April 12th, 2pm EDT.
How has digital technology changed the kind of communications you have with your friends, family & co-workers?
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This has been a wonderful experience for me. I get to see how many people view my talk, but not what they are thinking. So hearing what you are thinking was great! And it sounds like a lot of people are struggling to balance conversation with connection and actually becoming better at sensing the difference. I'm optimistic. And I like it that people are actively thinking about how to create real spaces at home and work to pay more attention to each other, to really listen to each other. Thank you.
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Apr 12 2012: I find it interesting how online and offline persona can be so different that I cannot deal with some of my offline friends online (maybe because they spam me with game requests on Facebook, but mostly because they have a way of writing that I interpret in a way or that sounds so odd that I take offense when reading it). Or the other way round - I had an online friend years ago and his dialect is so strange that I have to resort to written language to understand him.
And on the same line, it also helps when talking to friends that speak a different language and have a strong accent - both sides have more time to parse what the person said and nobody has to feel ashamed for mispronouncing things. This works well with some of my international coworkers, and/or also friends.
Apr 12 2012: Dear Judith,
When we go online, it is often the case that we experiment with identity -- online life can be a kind of "identity workshop." This is one of they things that first fascinated me about the online world. We can play with identity and bring what we learn to live better and fuller lives in the real -- at least hopefully.
But one thing that can happen is that people sometimes create an idealized self in the virtual and they lose track of themselves. Their online life can become alienating not helpful. This is of course different for different people and can even change over time.
The story you tell of being able to talk online with people of different nationalities is of course very moving . . . one of the positive uses of messaging rather than talking, I suppose!
Apr 12 2012: Hello Sherry! Thanks for the reply!
I agree this can be very moving, but even those people would probably prefer a real life conversation. After having had so and so many online discussions, arguments, debates, brainstorming sessions or whatever, for certain types of conversation, nothing beats seeing the reaction in people's faces.
It's sad how it is hard to get those reactions though because people are withdrawing, since faking a communication is so much easier than actually having one, it doesn't involve, well, "involvement". You can just close the tab. Especially when it comes to something that goes further than exchanging facts, actually debating, having insights, inspiring each other, and speaking to people's hearts I suppose. Thanks for your talk by the way, I much enjoyed it and sent it to all my friends. :)
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Pork With Pineapple-Pimiento Salsa
1 (8-ounce) can pineapple tidbits (undrained)
8 ounces pre-diced fresh tomatoes (1 1/4 cups)
1 (8-ounce) can Spanish tomato sauce
1 (7-ounce) jar diced pimientos (3/4 cup; drained)
1/2 cup pre-diced red onions
1/4 teaspoon kosher salt
1/4 teaspoon ground allspice
4 boneless pork chops (about 1 1/2 lb)
1 teaspoon Complete seasoning
1 tablespoon extra-virgin olive oil
8–10 sprigs fresh cilantro (rinsed)
1. Combine in medium bowl, pineapple, tomatoes, tomato sauce, pimientos, onions, salt, and allspice; set aside.
2. Preheat large sauté pan on medium-high 2–3 minutes. Sprinkle both sides of pork chops with Complete seasoning (wash hands).
3. Place oil in pan; swirl to coat. Add pork chops (wash hands); cook 2–3 minutes on each side or until browned.
4. Pour tomato mixture over pork chops. Reduce heat to medium; cover and cook 5–7 minutes, stirring sauce occasionally and turning pork once, or until internal temperature reaches 160°F (for medium). Use a meat thermometer to accurately ensure doneness. While pork chops cook, chop cilantro coarsely.
5. Sprinkle cilantro over pork chops and serve.
CALORIES (per 1/4 recipe) 310kcal; FAT 12g; CHOL 80mg;
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3–5 sprigs fresh cilantro (rinsed)
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2. Cook 3–4 minutes, stirring occasionally, or until heated. Meanwhile, chop cilantro coarsely.
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PHILADELPHIA (Reuters) - Philadelphia Police Commissioner Charles Ramsey is in discussions about becoming the new police chief in Chicago, where Ramsey worked on the police force for nearly 30 years, a spokesman for the Philadelphia mayor said on Thursday.
Mayor-elect Rahm Emanuel, who is to be sworn in as mayor of Chicago on May 15, is courting Ramsey to be Chicago's police superintendent, spokesman Mark McDonald said.
Ramsey is a native of Chicago, where he was on the police force for nearly 30 years before going to Washington, D.C., where he became police chief.
Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter has had several conversations with Ramsey to persuade him to remain in Philadelphia, where he has served as commissioner since 2008, spokesman Mark McDonald said.
Ramsey, 60, is highly sought for managing to cut the crime rate despite a shrinking police force in a bad economy, McDonald said.
Asked about moving to Chicago in a local television interview, Ramsey said: "I like Philadelphia."
"This is a very, very good department," he said, later adding that a decision to move was "not easy."
Philadelphia's police force is comprised of 7,400 officers and civilian employees in a city of 1.5 million residents.
Chicago's force is nearly twice as big -- some 13,000 officers and civilians -- in a city of 2.8 million people.
According to city statistics, violent crime has dropped in Philadelphia by 14 percent during Ramsey's tenure, and the rate of homicide cases that are solved stands at 70 percent.
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Statistical Strength in Numbers: International Clinical Trials for Rare Cancers
Altogether, rare cancers account for about one-third of all cancer cases. Researchers believe this proportion will likely grow as molecular characterization reveals that even common cancers have rare subtypes, strengthening the public health rationale for finding safe and effective therapies for these tumors. For some rare cancers, however, the only practical way to carry out a meaningful clinical trial is for investigators around the world to work together, because no single country has access to a sufficient number of patients with a given tumor type.
—Dr. Jack Welch
"International trials for rare cancers offer many advantages over separate trials done in different countries or regions," explained Dr. Jack Welch of the Clinical Investigations Branch in NCI's Cancer Therapy Evaluation Program (CTEP). "By bringing patients together, international trials can accrue faster, and they offer lower collective administrative costs, shared infrastructure, centralized resources, and use of existing networks."
On December 10, NCI and the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) convened a meeting of international stakeholders to explore ways to collaborate across borders on clinical trials for rare cancers. Nearly 100 representatives from 75 institutions participated in the day-long meeting, which was supported by CTEP, NIH's Office of Rare Diseases Research (ORDR), NCI's Office of Advocacy Relations (OAR), and ASCO. In addition to representatives from NIH, the FDA, the HHS Office for Human Research Protections, and NCI's Clinical Trials Cooperative Group Program, attendees included investigators from Canada, France, Italy, Japan, Korea, the United Kingdom, the European Organisation for Research and Treatment of Cancer, and representatives of patient advocacy organizations and the pharmaceutical industry.
Building on previous meetings that examined international collaboration in clinical trials and how to design trials for rare cancers, this meeting focused on circumstances that make it impractical to perform a phase II or phase III trial solely in North America. Participants heard presentations on research on rare cancers in the international setting, leveraging patient advocacy for rare cancer trials, human subject and data privacy considerations, and other regulatory and administrative barriers. They also attended breakout sessions that explored five previously identified priority research areas: rare pediatric cancers, adult brain cancers, sarcoma, cholangiocarcinoma, and rare gynecologic malignancies.
"The potential rewards of international trials are great, in terms of generating results that will help doctors and patients make informed decisions about treatment options for rare cancers," said Dr. Welch. "But, there are significant challenges to overcome." Among the barriers discussed by meeting participants were varying regulatory requirements, duplicative layers of study review, intellectual property concerns of pharmaceutical companies, restrictive agreements between academic investigators and pharmaceutical concerns, lack of recognition for team science, and the need to harmonize administrative operations between clinical trial organizations performing these studies.
"Many of these challenges, however, can be overcome with early planning, frequent communication, and flexibility," stressed Dr. Ted Trimble, also of CTEP's Clinical Investigations Branch.
When it comes to conducting small-population trials, there are some important gaps that need to be addressed, explained Dr. Samir Khleif, head of the Cancer Vaccine Section in NCI's Center for Cancer Research. "We need to explore new statistical models that might allow a higher error rate in one area, in order to accomplish the study with fewer patients," he said.
At the meeting, participants learned how patient advocacy groups can help recruit participants for trials and serve as conduits of information between researchers and patient communities. Some charities and foundations sponsor research activities, and some even support research infrastructure.
International collaboration is as much art as it is science, explained NCI's Dr. Jorge Gomez in a recent editorial on health diplomacy in the NCI Cancer Bulletin. Dr. Gomez pointed out that successful collaborations must also strengthen relationships among countries, increase research capacity for all collaborators, and serve as a model for others to follow. Although working across international borders poses some challenges, he noted, planning, communication, and collaboration is the key to overcoming those challenges.
"This meeting brought together a catalytic group spanning various domains that can continue to plan and communicate with the goal of getting new trials under way in the next 3 to 5 years," said Dr. Welch. "A series of teleconferences and face-to-face meetings will be convened to explore available resources and prioritize next steps."
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Part of the Washington Examiner's weeklong commentary series on labor unions. To see the entire series, click here.
In October, a year after his state had adopted a right-to-work law, Michigan Education Association President Steve Cook announced that his union had retained 99 percent of its members.
That was a surprise. Right-to-work laws are associated with unions losing members. That is the not-so-secret reason why many businesses and conservative groups favor them and why Big Labor and liberals oppose them.
"After the other side set up websites, held seminars and town halls, and sent tens of thousands of emails directly to members, 99 percent of the MEA membership said, 'No, thank you,' " Cook crowed.
Out of Touch With America: Are Unions Obsolete?
A five-chapter special report by the Washington Examiner.
- Chapter 1: Big Labor's identity crisis
- » Big Labor's identity crisis
- » The decline of the labor union
- » Diana Furchtgott-Roth: Public employees unions help boost state debt crisis
- Chapter 2: Unions and the Democratic Party
- » Democrats know better than to bite the Big Labor hand that feeds them
- » Steven Malanga: When unions use non-member dues to finance political activities
- Chapter 3: Right to work vs. Card Check: Unions face challenges
- » Despite repeated failures, Card Check still top Big Labor priority
- » Right-to- work surge is reviving America's Rust Belt
- » Unions in right-to-work states make opting out nearly impossible
- » Q&A: Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker
- » Q&A: Indiana Gov. Mike Pence
- Chapter 4: Forced unionism: The SEIU and Illinois home health care workers
- » Illinois politicians forced home care workers into union that donates heavily to them
- » Forced unionization turned Illinois homemaker into Supreme Court plaintiff in Harris v. Quinn case
- Chapter 5: Employee Rights Act defines efforts to reinvent the union
- » Big Labor turns left even as workers, lawmakers form new union models for the future
- » James Sherk: Want to help workers? Reinvent the union
- » Richard Berman: Employee Rights Act would make unions accountable to members
- » Q&A: Utah Sen. Orrin Hatch
- » Q&A: Georgia Rep. Tom Price
What he didn't say was that eight teachers had filed suit with the Michigan Employment Relations Commission accusing the union of refusing to let them quit. They had reportedly failed to file their decisions to opt out during August, the only month the union accepted them.
"Funny [MEA] should make it August, since we are not in school at the time," high school teacher and coach William "Ray" Arthur told the Washington Examiner. As a consequence, the teachers were stuck paying another year's worth of dues.
In March, MEA backed down and dropped its objections to letting Arthur and Miriam Chanski quit. Another teacher dropped the case. The cases of five others remain unresolved.
The case highlights a notable problem with right-to-work laws: Administering them is essentially left up to the unions themselves — and they don't make it easy for the workers.
Complaints similar to the one against MEA have been filed against the United Food and Commercial Workers and the Communications Workers of America in Indiana, which also adopted right-to-work legislation in 2012.
Still, the MEA's 99 percent retention rate indicates most wanted to stay, right? Maybe not. In testimony before the MERC on March 10, MEA Executive Director Gretchen Dziadosz admitted that 8,000 people — about 5 percent of the union's 112,000 active members — had not actually filed paperwork to have their dues automatically deducted from their paychecks. That suggests that far more than 1 percent wanted to get out.
Patrick Wright, director of the Mackinac Center Legal Foundation, which is representing Arthur, Chanski and others, suspects that many other MEA members want to leave but were unaware of the August deadline until it was too late.
"We think a lot of people are gritting their teeth and waiting until next year," Wright said.
The time frame is MEA's own invention. It's not in the state law. The union's website does not make the information easy to find, either. Searches for "right to work" mainly turn up posts attacking the law.
"I feel they withheld the information of the August window on purpose," Chanksi told a local television station after the complaint was filed.
When Arthur submitted his withdrawal notice late, he was informed that he not only owed another year's worth of dues, but that the union would send a collection agency after him if he didn't pay. He then phoned MEA to demand to know why he wasn't informed of this beforehand. "They said they were not legally required to tell us about [it]," Arthur said.
Unions are quite unabashed about punishing would-be ex-members. In an email to the Washington Examiner last year, then-spokesman Doug Pratt explained: "MEA believes in the sanctity of contracts -- whether they are with a school district or an individual -- and the democratic process."
In a Michigan Senate hearing in December, Pratt stated bluntly: "Why would any membership organization seek to tell someone how to get out?"
At least MEA members got one month to decide. Some union opt-out windows are as short as two weeks.
Kroger worker Julie Huffman found this out when she tried to resign in May 2012. Her union said she had filed at the wrong time. This forced her to pay for another year's worth of dues. She tried again the following year and was again told she had missed the window — this time by just two days.
Liberal critics have long denounced voter ID laws as "voter suppression" tactics for simply requiring people to provide the same level of proof required for a gym membership.
Would any of those critics be willing to spare some similar outrage for tactics clearly designed to undermine state laws and deny individual rights — rights that the perpetrators have a financial motive to undermine?


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Praise for Devil's Sword
"The Cure will keep you turning the pages all night
--Douglas Preston, New York Times #1 bestselling author of Impact
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Psychopaths cause untold misery. If you found the cure for this condition, just how far would you go to use it?
Erin Palmer had a devastating encounter with a psychopath as a child. Now a grad student and scientist, she's devoting her life to studying these monsters. When her research catches the attention of Hugh Raborn, a brilliant neuroscientist who claims to have isolated the genes responsible for psychopathic behavior, Erin realizes it may be possible to reverse the condition, restoring souls to psychopaths. But to do so, she'll not only have to operate outside the law, but violate her most cherished ethical principles.
As Erin becomes further involved with Raborn, she begins to suspect that he harbors dark secrets. Is he working for the good of society? Or is he intent on bringing humanity to its knees?
Hunted by powerful, shadowy forces, Erin teams up with another mysterious man, Kyle Hansen, to uncover the truth. The pair soon find themselves pawns in a global conspiracy--one capable of destroying everything Erin holds dear. And forever altering the course of human history . . .
At a time when society seems to be facing an epidemic of
psychopathic monsters, The Cure explores this condition, and the surprisingly
thorny ethical and moral dilemmas surrounding it, within an explosive,
thought-provoking, roller-coaster-ride of a thriller that will have readers
turning pages deep into the night.
"Recalls the best of Michael Crichton." -- Boyd Morrison, bestselling author of The Loch Ness Legacy, on Richards's New York Times & USA Today bestselling novel, WIRED
Douglas E. Richards has been widely praised for his ability to weave action, suspense, and science into riveting novels that straddle the thriller and science fiction genres. He is the New York Times and USA
Today bestselling author of WIRED, its sequel, AMPED, THE CURE, and six critically acclaimed middle-grade adventures enjoyed by kids and adults alike.
A former biotech executive, Richards earned a BS in microbiology from the Ohio State University, a master's degree in genetic engineering from the University of Wisconsin (where he engineered mutant viruses now named after him), and an MBA from the University of Chicago.
In recognition of his work, Richards was selected to be a "special guest" at San Diego Comic-Con International, along with such icons as Stan Lee and Ray Bradbury. He has written numerous feature articles for the award-winning magazine, National Geographic KIDS -- some having appeared in a dozen languages in as many as sixteen countries -- as well as essays for the BBC, The Australian Broadcasting Corporation, Earth & Sky, Today's Parent, and many others.
The author currently lives in San Diego, California, with his wife, two children, and two dogs.
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Kira Miller is a brilliant scientist who discovers how to temporarily boost human IQ to dizzying levels. But this transcendent intelligence brings with it a ruthless megalomania. Determined to use her discovery to propel human civilization to a higher plane, despite this side effect, Kira and ex-special forces operative David Desh recruit a small group of accomplished scientists, all of whom are safely off the grid. Or so they think . . .
Soon Kira and her team are in a desperate battle for their lives. And to make matters even worse, while on the run and being relentlessly attacked from all quarters, Kira comes across evidence of savage acts that the enhanced version of Desh kept hidden, even from himself. Now both she and Desh must question everything they think they know. Can they trust each other? Can they even trust themselves?
And all the while, the greatest threat of all may be coming from an entirely unexpected direction. A threat that could lead to devastation on a global scale. And time is quickly running out . . .
Like its predecessor, AMPED is a smart thriller crammed with
breakneck action, unexpected twists, mind-blowing science, and philosophical and
ethical concepts readers will be contemplating long after they've read the last
Douglas E. Richards is the author of WIRED, a New York Times and USA Today bestseller, and the #1 bestselling Kindle book for all of 2011 in two major categories: technothriller and science fiction. In addition, Douglas has written five books for kids, including THE PROMETHEUS PROJECT series: fast-paced science fiction thrillers praised by kids, parents, educators, and science fiction enthusiasts alike. He has also written extensively for the award-winning magazine, National Geographic KIDS, with several of his articles appearing in a dozen languages in as many as sixteen countries.
While today's kids have plenty of fantasy to choose from, there is very little hard science fiction available for young readers. Douglas is trying to do his part to remedy this situation. While kids report being glued to the pages of his books (boys, girls, reluctant and advanced readers alike), numerous adults have reported enjoying them almost as much as their kids.
Finally, Douglas is the author of the middle grade/young adult fencing thriller THE DEVIL'S SWORD, and his latest, ETHAN PRITCHER, BODY SWITCHER.
NEW! For ages 8 and up.
Ethan Pritcher is a normal kid who just happens to switch bodies with other people every once in a while. After trading identities with a muscle-bound movie star, Ethan finds himself in a big trouble. When he learns that a hired killer is after him, just staying alive will be a big challenge. But his sister, Madison, may have the toughest job of all. She'll have to find a way to keep the movie star, now inhabiting Ethan's body, from getting her brother kicked out of sixth grade. . .
Kira Miller and David Desh return in AMPED, the
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NARRATOR: One day, while traveling first class on an ocean liner, the photographer Alfred Stieglitz went for a stroll. He found himself looking down at the low class deck, called The Steerage. It was full of immigrants.ALFRED STIEGLITZ: There were men and women and children on the lower deck of the steerage. I longed to escape from my surroundings and join them. The round straw hat, the funnel leaning left, the stairway leaning right, round shapes of iron machinery. I saw a picture of shapes and underlying that, the feeling I had about life.NARRATOR: This famous picture has become an icon, representing the poignancy and hardships of the immigration experience. Your eye is tempted to pick out people in the crowd. For instance the woman in a shawl in the lower right-hand corner and then wonder who they were and what would become of them in the new world. Ironically, Stieglitz's ship was not heading for Ellis Island. It was actually going to Germany and the immigrants were leaving the US, not arriving. For one reason or another they had failed to make a life in America. The literal truth of this photograph is the opposite of the meaning we usually read into it.


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Everyone else has told Elizabeth Smart's story. Now she will tell it herself in a memoir.
The New York Times reports that the publisher St. Martin's Press has bought the rights to Smart's memoir, which will tell of the Salt Lake City woman's kidnapping at age 14 in 2002 and her months of captivity at the hands of Brian David Mitchell.
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The book is scheduled to be released on Sept. 13, 2013, the Times reported.
In a statement, the now-married Smart said she waited until after testifying at Mitchell's trial to tell the whole story. "Because of the legal proceedings, I couldn't provide the broader context necessary to truly understand what occurred," she said.
Smart will be writing the book with Chris Stewart, the author of books such as The Great and the Terrible series and co-writer of Seven Miracles That Saved America. Stewart may be busy, though, having been elected to Congress in Utah's 2nd District earlier this month. (But, hey, if Orrin Hatch can write songs while being a senator, anything's possible.)
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