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Mayors in most major New York cities readily acknowledge that public education is the single-most important issue affecting the future of their communities – and they aren't afraid to get involved.
Syracuse Mayor Stephanie Miner interviewed the finalists when the school board there was looking for a new superintendent last year.
In Rochester two years ago, then-Mayor Robert Duffy pushed for mayoral control of the schools – an effort that stalled in the State Legislature – before he headed to Albany to serve as lieutenant governor.
Downstate, the Yonkers mayor this year introduced plans for an Education Redesign Team, calling education a top priority of his.
While mayors in other cities are among the most vocal advocates for improving education in their school districts – some to the point of irking others because they are so outspoken about their schools – Buffalo Mayor Byron W. Brown seems to go out of his way to avoid talking about education.
Case in point: Brown declined to comment for this story.
The Buffalo News made several interview requests over three weeks to the mayor's spokesman, Michael DeGeorge – one request in person, half a dozen via email and one via text message.
DeGeorge responded favorably to the initial in-person request and asked the reporter to follow up via text or email. He then responded to those various written requests by saying the mayor was too busy and already had interviews lined up with other reporters; promising – and failing – to email the following day to schedule an interview; and ignoring three other emails. He finally promised to "check tomorrow and let you know" – something he also did not do.
Although the mayor was too busy to talk about public education during the past three weeks, he did find time to talk with Buffalo News reporters about at least nine other issues. Among them: a city crossing guard's 60 years of service, the arrest of a shooting suspect, the prospects of a downtown casino, and the increase in business this summer at a waterfront restaurant.
Brown also had time in the past three weeks to participate in several photo ops, including attending the kickoff of Hispanic Heritage Month, standing next to the lieutenant governor at a news conference announcing new trails along Lake Erie, and appearing at a ribbon-cutting at the University at Buffalo.
In other cities, mayors frequently use their bully pulpit to lead the charge for a community effort to improve the schools.
In Albany, Mayor Jerry Jennings frequently points to education as the top issue affecting his city.
"I don't have time to run the schools, but I do think that it's important that any mayor in any city is part of what's going on in the schools," Jennings said recently in a video online. "I talk to mayors across the country, and their biggest challenge is, 'OK, well, how do we maintain or get a higher graduation rate for our kids?' "
In Buffalo, Brown briefly emerged from his characteristic silence about education about a year and a half ago, when the District Parent Coordinating Council organized a one-day boycott of the schools. The mayor attended more than one meeting of the parent group and promised to take his cue from the parents.
During a visit to Albany last year, Brown floated the idea of mayoral control of the schools, but that never translated into any legislative proposal. Under pressure from state officials, the business community and others, the mayor convened an education summit of local and state stakeholders. The group met twice, with no concrete outcomes.
Since then, Brown has generally slipped back into avoiding talking about the schools.
Some say his reluctance to talk about education is typical of many elected officials who are loath to say anything that might suggest they are responsible for the schools – urban education is a massive challenge, and they don't want to be blamed for any failure to improve schools.
Others say Brown's low profile on school issues isn't necessarily a bad thing.
"My take on it is that silence is good," said Georgia Asciutto, executive director of the Conference of Big Five School Districts, which lobbies for Buffalo and other major districts in the state. "I haven't seen too many mayors rallying around and calling press conferences to support their superintendents, other than Bloomberg. When they are vocal, it's negative. Perhaps being quiet does not mean you are not supportive – it means everything is working well."
Those familiar with the mayor's work say he regularly cites the "Reading Rules! Kids Summer Reading Challenge" as his signature contribution toward improving education in the city. Each student who reads seven or more age-appropriate books and writes a summary of each one receives prizes such as free passes to the zoo, books, T-shirts and boxes of cereal.
Superintendent Pamela C. Brown says she's had conversations with the mayor and has "every reason to believe our collaboration will be productive."
The major joint initiative to date, she said, has been the summer reading challenge.
"I was just in attendance a couple of weeks ago when we were celebrating the results of the summer reading challenge that his office sponsors every year," the superintendent said. "We want to support that on an even higher level going forward."
Brown launched the program in 2001, when he was a state senator. In 2010, more than 1,000 students completed the challenge, according to the mayor's re-election website. There are 32,000 students in the Buffalo Public Schools, and 7,000 city students enrolled in charter schools.
The superintendent said she hopes to partner with the mayor on several other initiatives. The one she specifically cited was her plan to launch a citywide campaign to increase student attendance, although she did not offer specifics on what the campaign would entail or what the mayor's involvement would be.
When Mayor Brown ran for re-election in 2009, he told a Buffalo News reporter in an interview about his contributions to education in the city. In addition to the summer reading program, he cited his efforts to clean up neighborhoods around the schools and his "stewardship" of the schools reconstruction project.
Brown also took much of the credit for increasing local aid to city schools by $2 million, to $70.8 million, during his first year in office. He said he did not advocate for more because he wanted to bring stability to city finances.
He added: "I absolutely believe we have to increase our commitment to public education." What he didn't mention was that during his second year in office, the city's contribution to the schools dropped by more than $400,000 and hasn't changed since.
In 2007, the State Legislature approved a measure requiring the state's largest cities to contribute at least as much to their school districts each year as they had the previous year. Since then, the city's contribution to schools has remained exactly the same every year.
In the meantime, the district's budget has increased $218 million, or more than 30 percent – meaning that the city's contribution accounts for an increasingly smaller share of the overall district budget.
School Board members over the past several months have expressed a desire to improve relations between the city and the district. Their efforts – which included an informal joint meeting of the Common Council and the School Board – came in response to Council members' complaints that the only time they heard from the district was at budget time.
Council members have consistently expressed their frustration over the request for more money in a district that spends about $23,000 per student, when the city has no say over how that money is spent.
The city gives the schools $70.3 million a year. That's about half of the city's overall budget – but a small percentage of the district's budget.
Last year, the city's contributions to the schools accounted for 8 percent of the district's budget, according to information provided by the Conference of Big Five School Districts.
In Syracuse and Rochester, each city's contribution accounted for about 16 percent of its district's budget. In Yonkers, the city's contribution represented 42 percent of the school budget.
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9 Brilliant Moments of Comedy Hiding on YouTube
The tragedy of YouTube is that there is just so much of it that some of the most brilliant gems go unnoticed. Last year, I showed you some amazing bits of comedy genius whose greatness was not reflected in their traffic, and you all rewarded those unsung comedy heroes with much deserved attention. Fortunately for us all, I never get tired of finding these ridiculous things, and neither do our forum members. So let's give a big-ass "fuck yeah" to some more true comedy gems, because knowing that there are people out there who find these as awesome and funny as I do is one of the things that keep my faith in humanity alive.
#9. Penguin Slap Fight
These are king penguins, also known as "the pussiest of all creatures." And when they fight, it is the greatest thing in the entire animal kingdom, because there is virtually no effort put into it at all. They just kind of stand around halfheartedly squawking at each other until one of them gets up the energy and motivation to swing a flipper. If it makes contact, so be it. It just bounces off with a soft, barely audible *pop*, while the other penguin looks on with a disinterested "How dare you?"
Pop, pop, pop, pop, pop.
The video is half a minute of that. Fins flopping all around, occasionally making contact. The soft pop of fin on chest, and then with exactly as much apathy, they all just decide that someone won and walk away. And if you really think about it, the world would be a much better place if all fights were conducted in this manner.
#8. Sulfur Hexafluoride Makes You Sound L- "BLUUUGH!"
This is quickly becoming one of my favorite videos of all time for a couple of reasons. First, I (and according to Twitter, everyone else in existence) am a science geek. I could sit through a verbatim reading of insider trading laws if you put the speaker in a lab coat and have him fucking with chemicals at the same time. Second, the speaker in this video is actually inhaling the gases as he's explaining them. Not only does that make molecular science funny, but you know there's bound to be some awkward shit coming up. And there totally is.
He starts off with helium, and we all know that the reason it makes your voice high-pitched is because the molecules are small and light. But then he switches to sulfur hexafluoride, and that's when shit gets hilarious. See, it's five times denser than air (35 times heavier than helium), so when you breathe it in, you can actually feel its thickness. It's so heavy, in fact, that it just sits in your lungs, because it's too dense to just rise out on its own.
"Oh, it should be fine. Let me just pump some of this into my lungs here ..."
The first time he inhales it, it has its intended effect, dropping his voice down several octaves, like slowing down the speed on a record player. It's pretty funny in itself because the guy talks kind of slow to begin with, so it instantly makes him sound like a complete dumbass. But then he decides to do it again, and this is where I will lose it every time (1:41 in the video). As soon as he breathes that shit in, he starts to talk, but instead of words coming out of his mouth, he's interrupted by a cartoonish, gagging "BLUUUUGH!"
"Run! He's gonna spew!"
Followed by "Oh, boy. I almost threw up on that one!" But remember, he still has the gas in his lungs, so it's all low-pitched and slow, making him sound like a stereotypical movie version of a stoner. Giggling off his near-puke in front of what I can only assume is a class of middle school children? If that's not the case, don't tell me -- just let me keep believing that, because that's much funnier to me.
"Anybody got any Nutter Butters?"
But wait, he's not done! Remember how I said that sulfur hexafluoride is so heavy that it sits in your lungs? That means you can't just breathe it all out. In order to clear that shit out of your airway, you need to stand on your head. You can probably guess how that worked out.
"You know, you could just use the wall behind you to brace your- OK, just do it that way. You got this."
#7. Pets Dressed as Sharks Chase ... Just Watch the Video
Since I started writing this article, this video has picked up some pretty good steam on traffic, but I'm keeping it anyway because it's so goddamn surreal. And no matter what traffic it's already accrued, it's never going to be enough to satisfy my inner sense of justice and karma.
At first, it's two pets: a cat and a duck. The duck is walking all around the kitchen, like "Sup? I'm a duck. Just hangin' out and doing duck shit." Meanwhile, a cat dressed in an itty-bitty shark suit sits on a Roomba and rides around like it ain't no thang. And right off the bat, we get a sequence that looks like a robotic cat-shark is hunting its unsuspecting duck prey.
Duh dun ... duh dun ... duh dun duh dun duh dun ...
For a little over two and a half minutes, it's that. Just layer upon layer of surreal video. No narration. No teenager giggling behind the camera. No added animation or dumbass text laid over the video. Just a person who knew that they were filming pure, simple comedy gold -- someone who knew the video would speak for itself without any outside interference.
"Hey, is it my turn yet? Hey. Catshark. Hey. Is it my turn yet? Catshark?"
One of the best parts is that the cat doesn't give even the slightest shit about the vacuum it's sitting on. Normally, pets would jet away from one of those things like it was the devil, but not this cat. It just sits there, enjoying the ride. Even when it bumps into a wall and spins around to find a clear path, the cat still just sits, unfazed. And just when you think they've jammed all of the surreal they can get into one video ... wait, did a dog in a hammerhead shark costume just casually stroll in like it wears that thing all the time?
#6. Sandra Lee's Frame-by-Frame Meltdown
Sandra Lee, if you didn't already know, is a poor man's version of Martha Stewart. Which is to say she fancies herself a homemaker, except without any of the talent, skill, or vision required to be even remotely interesting or useful. Her only saving grace (and quite possibly the only reason she has any fame at all) is because she happens to be one of the worst "cooks" in the entire world. Virtually everything she does is a massive, hilarious disaster.
So in this particular video, she's made a bastardized concoction out of lemonade, heavy cream, and vodka. Hey, quick question: Does anyone know what happens when you mix citrus and/or alcohol with dairy? That's right, it curdles and instantly turns bad! And now Sandra Lee knows that.
"No, this is really, really good. My face sometimes does that when it's overwhelmed with good-tasting things."
As you well know by now, if the video had just showed her reaction, that wouldn't be good enough for this list. What it does is just as simple, but holy shit is it funny as fuck. He plays the clip like normal, starting with her saying, "And that ... is a delicious, sweet treat." Then, just as she puts the glass to her lips, he pauses it and starts advancing frame by frame.
One minute and eight seconds of a frame-by-frame descent into madness. Her face ever contorting, forever clenching in an involuntary grimace that threatens to envelop her entire head. Her whole face pinching in on itself like her nose was the singularity of an inescapable black hole of pure fucking stupid.
Each shot is more horrifying and hilarious than the last. Every time you think she hits the lowest point in her curdled valley of cocktail hell, the corners of her mouth twist and contort into an entity straight from the darkest recesses of Stephen King's mind ... finally landing on a face that is only appropriate in two situations: 1) drinking this abomination, or 2) the end of a particularly eventful blowjob.
"I call this drink the Devil's Semen."
#5. Cheetah Shits into a Sunroof
You're a zoologist tracking a cheetah and her cubs, because zoologists get bored a lot. You're right on top of the family of cats when the mother decides to jump up on your SUV. This is bad, because the windows are down and the sunroof is open, and any sudden movements could be mistaken for signs of aggression. Or worse: signs of you, her prey, making a run for it.
"Maybe if I turn on the wipers ..."
So you sit as quiet and still as possible to put off the vibe of "I pose no threat, and I taste like shit." Suddenly, she jumps to the very top of the sunroof and peers in. This is it -- you realize these are the last moments of your life. She hunches over like the deadly predator that she is, measuring you up ...
... and then coldly, methodically takes a shit right into your truck. The whole time staring directly at the cameramen as if to say, "Go fuck yourself. Leave my family alone, you lowlife paparazzi fuckholes."
The zoologist reaches for his toilet paper (he's basically on a safari, so of course he has toilet paper with him) and makes a brilliant save just as the first of the turds drops through his roof.
The cheetah finishes up and starts to walk away when it becomes apparent that the hairless ape who's been stalking her is not in fact covered in her feces. So she repositions herself, aims, and fires a stream of urine directly into his fucking eyes. No, that's not just speculation -- he actually turns to the camera after it's over and says, "I got that in the eye."
Close your mouth, dumbass!
I've never seen a grander "go fuck yourself" than that. In fact, from now on, when someone pisses me off on the highway, I'm not going to give them the finger. I'm going to follow them to the next stoplight and do exactly this.


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1/4 cup cornstarch
2 tablespoons olive oil
1/2 teaspoon minced ginger
2 cloves garlic, minced
3/4 cup soy sauce
3/4 cup water
3/4 cup brown sugar
1/2 cup shredded carrots
3 medium green onions, chopped
Spray slow cooker with non-stick cooking spray. Place cornstarch in a bowl. Coat each piece of steak in cornstarch and place in crock pot. Discard any remaining cornstarch. Combine remaining ingredients in a bowl and pour over beef in crock pot. Cook in crockpot on high for 2-3 hours or low for 4-5 hours. Serve over rice, topped with additional sliced green onions.
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Richard Littlemore | June 25, 2010
By Richard Littlemore • Friday, June 25, 2010 - 15:17
If the Viscount of Brenchley says it;
does that mean it HAS to be wrong?
Christopher Walter, the Third Viscount Monckton of Brenchley has been caught once again with his facts around his ankles.
Like others before him, Brigham Young University Professor Barry Bickmore has taken the time to check whether Monckton's pronouncements can pass any objective standard of accuracy and he has found, "SPOILER ALERT: The final result is classic Monckton" - a carefully constructed, but infuriating opaque veil of academic references, a loose mix of relatively accurate facts, and a conclusion that is precisely contrary to that drawn by the experts whom Monckton claims to quote.
If you read Bickmore's excellent and careful analysis, however, you get a reminder of why Monckton is successful in destroying people's understanding of climate science. Per his usual form, he makes a short, ridiculous assertion, dressed in the cloak of implied scientific research and dares you to disagree. Specifically, he said this to a committe of the U.S. Congress:
The "global warming" that ceased late in 2001 (since when there has been a global cooling trend for eight full years) had begun in 1695, towards the end of the Maunder Minimum, a period of 70 years from 1645-1715 when the Sun was less active than at any time in the past 11,400 years (Hathaway, 2004). Solar activity increased with a rapidity unprecedented in the Holocene, reaching a Grand Solar Maximum during a period of 70 years from 1925-1995 when the Sun was very nearly as active as it had been at any time in the past 11,400 years (Hathaway, 2004; Usoskin, 2003; Solanki, 2005).
It's a mere 105 words of not quite deathless prose and a fairly clear conclusion - but, as Bickmore discovered, not one that is justified by any of the sources he has quoted. Unfortunately, it probably took Bickmore a week's work to chase down all the references, to touch base with the experts in question and to report - in 3,500 words - the predictable result. Monckton has completely misrepresented his material - again.
All praise to Bickmore, though, for doing the work - for reconfirming that Monckton cannot be trusted. I'm also pleased to see that Bickmore has revived the link to the story in the Scotsman in which Monckton is admits that he lied about having to put his house on the market because he wanted to rustle up publicity for his latest puzzle. It's also worth reading Bickmore's own account of trying to sort out this event directly with Monckton (see the wonderfully titled post: Dance Monckey!)
It appears that once Bickmore had Monckton caught dead to rights in the lie, Monckton accused Bickmore of launching an ad hominem attack. The good professor was doing no such thing. He was calling Monckton a liar, which is entirely relevant to the underlying question. Monckton promotes himself as an expert (though he has no expertise). He suggests that his views on climate change are credible. Hence, his credibility is a perfectly reasonable issue to explore. And while it may sound like unParliamentary language to call Monckton a liar, Bickmore can claim the defence of truth (especially when Monckton himself has admitted lying). Besides, NOBODY would let Monckton into a Parliament in any case, though he has lied about that, as well.
Which makes me wonder: Just how much of a disingenuous twit must you be before the climate denial community stop inviting you 'round for dinners?
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hey rich, any articles coming up on desmog about the consensus of one? something about the IPCC chapter on the sun's influence. I am reading that the author agreed with herself so it was considered peer reviewed. could that be? the sun is so far away it probably wouldn't have any effect on temps anyway, right?
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Lockwood and Frohlich (2007)
Lockwood and Frohlich (2007) have refuted the idea that solar forcing is a main reason for the 20th Century temperature increase:
Meehl et al. (2004) also rejected solar as a significant forcing agent:
That research has already been done. Regarding the IPCC chapter and solar variations, page 682 of the following document has a chart which illustrates the non-factor of solar variation with respect to the recent warming: http://www.ipcc.ch/pdf/assessment-report/ar4/wg1/ar4-wg1-chapter9.pdf
BBC Panorama
The BBC broadcast a edition looking at climate change - with a brief view of Monckton railing at 'hitler youth'.
Many disappointing aspects to this Panorama with Lomborg being allowed to muddy the waters further and John Christy displaying classic cognitive dissonance and 'ignorance' of the proportion of skeptic scientists.
The BBC did not fairly portray the essence of climategate as being the work of contrarians building a case out of nothing and not providing the context of the echo chambered phrases.
Part of the programme here:
I'll look for the full episode tomorrow when with a bit of luck it will be accessible via the BBC iPlayer area.
BBC Panorama and "What's Up with the Weather?
As promised a link to the iPlayer version of the programme:
You may be able to download to watch as and when convenient.
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Is it just me or does Monckton look like Marty Feldman in that photo ?


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In order for life to function on Mars and other extreme environments, proteins need to possess certain characteristics, according to researchers at the University of Maryland School of Medicine. The team studied organisms that survive in the extreme environment of Antarctica. They found subtle but significant differences between the core proteins in ordinary organisms and Haloarchaea, organisms that can tolerate severe conditions such as high salinity, desiccation, and extreme temperatures. The research gives scientists a window into how life could possibly adapt to exist on Mars.
Haloarchaeal microbes contain proteins that are acidic, with their surface covered with negatively charged residues, the scientists discovered. Most ordinary organisms contain proteins that are neutral on average. The negative charges found in the unusual organisms keep proteins in solution and help to hold on tightly to water, reversing the effects of high salinity and desiccation, the team reports.
In the current study, the scientists identified additional subtle changes in the proteins of one Haloarchaeal species named Halorubrum lacusprofundi. These microbes were isolated from Deep Lake, a very salty lake in Antarctica. They sequenced this microbe and compared to 12 Haloarchaea from temperate climates by comparative genomics. Amino acid substitutions for 604 H. lacusprofundi proteins belonging to conserved haloarchaeal orthologous groups were determined and found to occur at 7.85% of positions invariant in proteins from mesophilic Haloarchaea.
The changes found in proteins from the halophilic organisms allow them to work in both cold and salty conditions, when temperatures may be well below the freezing point of pure water. Water stays in the liquid state under these conditions much like snow and ice melt on roads that have been salted in winter.
"In such cold temperatures, the packing of atoms in proteins must be loosened slightly, allowing them to be more flexible and functional when ordinary proteins would be locked into inactive conformations," says Shiladitya DasSarma, Ph.D., professor in the department of microbiology and immunology at the University of Maryland School of Medicine. "The surface of these proteins also have modifications that loosen the binding of the surrounding water molecules.
"These kinds of adaptations are likely to allow microorganisms like Halorubrum lacusprofundi to survive not only in Antarctica, but elsewhere in the universe," continues Dr. DasSarma. "For example, there have been recent reports of seasonal flows down the steep sides of craters on Mars, suggesting the presence of underground brine pools. Whether microorganisms actually exist in such environments is not yet known, but expeditions like NASA's Curiosity rover are currently looking for signs of life on Mars."
The study was published online yesterday in the journal PLoS One, in a paper titled "Amino Acid Substitutions in Cold-Adapted Proteins from Halorubrum lacusprofundi, an Extremely Halophilic Microbe from Antarctica".
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Brianne Boldrin (Cary, N.C.), Ashni Deschenes (Tampa, Fla.), Kaitlynn Landry (Marathon, Fla.), Paige Law (Sanibel, Fla.), Victoria Marsh (Pensacola, Fla.), Eduarda Pavao (Manaus, Brazil), Laurie Scott (Stuart, Fla.), and Alyssa Swett (Fort Myers, Fla.) will join 17 returners from last year's squad.
"While I haven't gotten the opportunity to work with or meet every one of our incoming freshmen, I have had the opportunity to speak to each of them extensively and get to know them as people," Khettry said. "I feel that they are the right kind of people we want in our program as we try to establish a new culture.
"I did get the chance to work with Paige, Alyssa, Eduarda, Laurie and Tori," Khettry continued. "I feel like these five players can add some positive elements to our team, and help us offensively as well as add some depth and competition defensively. While I haven't gotten the opportunity to work with Kaitlynn, Ashni or Brianne, I have heard great things about their potential and in some cases have seen a little video of them playing. While that doesn't constitute a thorough knowledge of their abilities, I am hopeful that this group will come into preseason fit and ready to help build on what we were able to add to the existing team and their mentality this spring season."
Brianne Boldrin
Height: 5-8
Position: Defender
Hometown: Cary, N.C.
High School: Athens Drive HS
Club Team: North Carolina Alliance
Club Coach: Pete Sadin
Parents: Bridget and Robert Boldrin
Boldrin comes to DeLand from Athens Drive High School in Raleigh, N.C. A National Honor Society member, she earned honorable mention all-conference honors in 2010. Boldrin was a member of the North Carolina ODP Team from 2009-11, winning the Regional Championship in 2010. With Triangle FC, she made it to the U20 Super-Y National Final Four in 2012. Also in 2012, with the N.C. Alliance, she placed third in Region III. Boldrin was also a three year qualifier for the state championships in cross country and indoor track while at Athens Drive. She earned a Trustee Scholarship.
Chose Stetson over: Lehigh, Charleston
Ashni Deschenes
Height: 5-5
Position: Midfielder
Hometown: Tampa, Fla.
High School: Wharton HS
Club Team: VSI Flames
Club Coach: Alan Berrios
Parents: Sachi and Robert Deschenes
After leading Wharton High School to a 14-10-1 record and the program's first ever district championship in 2010, Deschenes and Wharton finished 2011 with a 12-6-3 record and were nationally ranked. The new Hatter scored 52 goals and tallied 23 assists during her four seasons of high school play. Deschenes made the ODP Region Pool in 2010. She advanced to the State Cup Final Four with Fusion FC in 2010, and with the VSI Flames in 2013.
Chose Stetson over: Air Force
Kaitlynn Landry
Height: 5-8
Position: Midfield
Hometown: Marathon, Fla.
High School: Marathon HS
Club Team: Plantation FC
Club Coach: Billy Ramos/Johnny Ramos
Parents: Lynn and Lora Landry
A member of Plantation FC and Marathon High School Soccer, Landry was a multiple All-Monroe County honoree. She scored 38 goals and added 37 assists in just two seasons at Marathon, while leading the squad to the regional tournament. Landry was a member of the National Honor Society and the Student Government Association at Marathon. She made it to the final round of the State ODP tryouts in 2010.
Chose Stetson over: Troy, Florida, Louisiana, Kentucky, Miami
Paige Law
Height: 5-9
Position: Midfielder
Hometown: Sanibel, Fla.
High School: Bishop Verot Catholic HS
Club Team: Lee County Strikers
Club Coach: Mark Bost
Parents: Rodney and Wendy Law
Law, sister of current Hatters junior Amber Law, played soccer at Bishop Verot Catholic High School in Fort Myers, where she was an all-conference honoree. With 32 goals and 13 assists in 2009, Law was among the national leaders in scoring as a freshman. She also scored 19 goals and recorded 10 assists in 2010 with Bishop Verot.
Chose Stetson over: Florida, Miami, Florida Gulf Coast
Victoria Marsh
Height: 5-7
Position: Defender
Hometown: Pensacola, Fla.
High School: Pensacola HS
Club Team: Gulf Coast Texans
Club Coach: David Kemp
Parents: Melissa and Gary Marsh
Marsh, a central defender and midfielder, joins the Hatters after a career at Pensacola High School. During her four years there Marsh was named Freshman Rookie of the Year and an Area All-Star. In addition to leading Pensacola to a district championship, she also earned the Stetson Presidential Scholarship Award prior to arriving on campus. Marsh was also a member of the National Honor Society, a Furman Scholar, and was a Senior Scholar-Athlete at Pensacola. She scored seven goals and added four assists from a defensive position. Played club soccer for the Gulf Coast Texans, and helped the team win championships at the Gulf Coast College Showcase, the Jacksonville FC Labor Day Shootout, and the Blue Angel Classic.
Eduarda Pavao
Height: 5-5
Position: Forward
Hometown: Manaus, Brazil
High School: IMG Academy
Club Team: IMG Academy
Club Coach: Marcelo Carrera
Parents: Eduardo and Vania Pavao
A recent graduate of the prestigious IMG Academy in Bradenton, Pavao helped lead her team to a 58-5-3 record over the past two seasons. IMG placed second in the State Cup in 2012 and was the Club Directors League Champion in 2013. This past season she scored 19 goals. IMG also won the Raleigh Showcase, the Orange Classic, and the Savannah Showcase while Pavao was on the squad.
Chose Stetson over: Florida Atlantic, FGCU, Georgia Southern, UNLV
Laurie Scott
Height: 5-8
Position: Midfielder
Hometown: Stuart, Fla.
High School: South Fork HS
Club Team: FC Florida
Club Coach: Tom Power
Mother: Tanya Scott
Scott comes to DeLand after playing at South Fork High School and FC Florida. A captain, she led South Fork to a pair of district championships en route to earning All-Area First Team and Co-Player of the Year accolades. Scott scored 77 goals and added 54 assists while leading South Fork to a combined 58-15-8 record during her career. She was also a National Honor Society member, an AP Scholar, and an FHSAA Academic All-State Team nominee. Scott also made the South Florida ODP Region Pool three times. With FC Florida, she won the Super-Y Southeast Division Championship and the Score at the Shore Championship.
Alyssa Swett
Height: 5-8
Position: Midfielder
Hometown: Fort Myers, Fla.
High School: Fort Myers HS
Club Team: Lee County Strikers
Club Coach: Mark Bost
Parents: Howard Swett and Amira Fox
An all-conference and News-Press First Team selection, Swett helped lead Fort Myers High School to a 48-26-12 overall record during her prep career. An honor roll student, she scored seven goals and recorded 15 assists during her senior season. Swett was also named Team MVP and Team Defensive MVP while at Fort Myers. She played club soccer for the Lee County Strikers from 2006-13.
"I am certainly excited about this upcoming preseason and I hope this group can be a part of what we hope to accomplish this year and in the future," Khettry concluded.


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Miss USA is denying claims that she faked her residency for an easier road to the coveted crown.
Nia Sanchez, 24, represented Nevada when she took home the title last week – even though she worked at Disneyland and had unsuccessfully competed in Miss California USA competitions three times.
"I have lived in Nevada since fall of 2012 and it was an honor for me to represent the state at Miss USA," she said in a statement Monday. "I have traveled my entire life and lived all over the world, including Germany, Hong Kong and Abu Dhabi, in addition to Washington State, California, Nevada and now, as Miss USA, I live in New York for the first time in my life."
The controversy erupted when a source alleged to Fox News that Sanchez had left "some minimum paper trail" connecting her to Nevada while still living in California.
But in another statement, the Miss Universe Organization defended Sanchez's win.
"Nia Sanchez was issued a Nevada driver's license in January of 2013, a full year before she competed at the Miss Nevada USA pageant," the statement read. "The Miss Universe Organization has no reason to question her residency and we are thrilled to welcome her to the organization and look forward to working with her in the coming year."
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A Kansas City man was sentenced Thursday to 64 years in prison in connection with a shooting at Independence Center last year that injured two people.
Investigators said Eric D. Bratton, 25, went into the mall on Jan. 14, 2012, and shot a man and a woman, one in the thigh and one in the foot. The man who was shot said Bratton made comments about the woman's body as the victims walked into the mall, triggering a confrontation.
Judge James Kanatzar sentenced Bratton to 25 years on each count of armed criminal action and seven years each on two counts of assault. The sentences will run concurrently.


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Seems that additions (as of Sep 5) are:
- Men: Elladj Balde CAN
- Ladies: Polina Shelepen RUS
Revisions to Pairs:
- As noted in a different thread a while back, Davis/Ladwig USA were announced as replacements soon after Marley/Brubaker USA ended their partnership.
- Removed from the original entry list are: Katarina Gerboldt/Alexander Enbert RUS. (She has an injury, per AlexRus in the Russian Skaters thread.)
- Added to the original entry list are:
Daria Popova/Bruno Massot FRA
Stacey Kemp/David King GBR
No changes to Ice Dance entries.
(For reference, the original SCI entry lists can be seen here: http://skatebuzz.com/ViewNewsArticle...4-f65282f8768e)


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on October 10, 2012 - 4:50 PM
LOCKPORT – A John Street man already serving a year in jail on a burglary charge received a sentence of six more months and five years probation on a stabbing charge.
Johnny Q. Russell, 18, pleaded guilty to second-degree assault on Aug. 15 for stabbing 17-year-old Dartanian Hill in the leg and under the arm June 10 on Elmwood Avenue in Lockport.
According to police, Hill had intervened after Russell stole an iPod from another youth and a fight broke out.
Russell was jailed on June 12 for attempted third-degree burglary in connection with a Sept. 23 theft of a PlayStation game system from a home on Cleveland Place in Lockport.
State Supreme Court Justice Richard C. Kloch Sr., who imposed the additional jail time, said that while Russell is on probation he must submit to random substance abuse testing, adhere to a curfew and participate in anger management counseling.


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Reading by third-grade could become one of South Carolina's top education priorities under a new proposal.
By the numbers
State officials estimated 2,800 of the state's roughly 52,000 third-graders could be held back for failing to demonstrate grade-level reading proficiency.Grade-level reading proficiency is defined as the worst readers among those scoring "not met" on the state exam.The following are the total percentage of each school district's third- graders who scored "not met" in English/language arts in 2012.Berkeley 14.7%Charleston 18%Dorchester 2 12.1%Dorchester 4 17.7%Source: S.C. Education Oversight Committee, S.C. Dept. of Education
The Read to Succeed Act aims to strengthen the state's emphasis on reading in pre-kindergarten to 12th grades, and it requires third-graders to be held back if they're not reading on grade level.
What's in the bill
Third-graders would have to demonstrate reading proficiency by the end of that school year. Any students who scored in the bottom 10 percent on the Palmetto Assessment of State Standards in English/language arts would be retained the following year.Every district in the state would have to create a comprehensive annual reading proficiency plan for prekindergarten through 12th grades starting in 2014-15.Every student entering prekindergarten or kindergarten would take a readiness screening. Any prekindergarten through third-grade student having trouble reading grade-appropriate texts would be provided intensive in-class and supplemental reading intervention.At the end of prekindergarten, kindergarten, first grade or second grade, students identified as having significant problems reading grade-appropriate texts would be provided summer reading camps.Elementary and early childhood teachers would have to take the required five courses needed to obtain a literacy teacher add-on endorsement, and middle and high school teachers would have to take three of those courses.The state would have a new Read to Succeed Office and a Reading Proficiency Panel to help school districts and universities implement the law's requirements.Source: The Read to Succeed Act
State lawmakers and educators say the research is clear: One in six children who aren't reading proficiently by third grade don't graduate from high school on time.
"It's just common sense," said Senate Majority Leader Harvey Peeler, R-Gaffney, who is the bill's primary sponsor. "I can't believe we're not already doing this. Social promotion doesn't work."
The proposal seems likely to move forward. In addition to Peeler, its supporters include lawmakers on the Senate's education committees and the state Education Oversight Committee. Peeler called it "about as much (political) muscle as you can have."
He hopes to get the law passed this year, and an education subcommittee will discuss it Wednesday.
Cost and controversy
It's not clear how much the bill's requirements would cost, but Peeler said he doesn't want the law to be an unfunded mandate. The state has a pot of $136 million that goes to schools serving at-risk students, and some of that could be redirected to this initiative, he said.
"We need to concentrate in lower grades and identify problems at an earlier age," he said.
Read to Succeed is modeled after a Florida law that took effect in 2002 under former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush. Since then, 13 other states have required that students be proficient in reading before being promoted to fourth grade.
Still, some have criticized Florida's results, and research has shown retention alone doesn't solve students' academic deficiencies. Paul Thomas, an associate education professor at Furman University in Greenville, recently dedicated a blog post to why South Carolina should not follow Florida's example. He cited those reasons, and added a third: it would "ignore and replace credible literacy policy desperately needed in high-poverty states such as (South Carolina)."
In South Carolina, the plan has a number of components, such as creating a state office and panel to oversee the program, requiring additional training on reading for teachers, and providing reading intervention, such as summer reading camps.
Beginning in the 2015-16 school year, third-graders who scored in the bottom 10 percent of the "not met" category on the state's standardized exam, PASS, would be retained, and districts would have to give them at least 90 minutes of daily intensive reading instruction the following year.
Officials estimated about 2,800 of the state's roughly 52,000 third-graders would fall into that category, but the bill has a number of possible exemptions, such as some students with disabilities or students who are considered limited English proficient and have had less than two years of English instruction.
Peeler said he's had pushback on this piece of the bill because of the stigma retention puts on a child. But he said "a stigma for a year beats a stigma for a lifetime."
Betsy Reidenbach, the director of Charleston schools' literacy-based learning division, said the exemptions would mean few of the district's third-graders would be retained.
Ahead of the curve
The Charleston County School Board made literacy its No. 1 priority in 2010, and it since has poured millions of dollars into efforts to help the district's worst readers.
Melanie Barton, executive director of the state Education Oversight Committee, said Charleston was leading the state on literacy, and the bill in many ways follows the district's example.
Local officials agreed, saying much of what the bill requires already is happening in Charleston.
"It sounds like it could've been something we wrote," Reidenbach said. "Whatever they do to help us would be to our advantage, but it's going to cost them a lot to put this together."
Charleston, for example, already requires additional training hours in reading for its K-2 teachers, and students who refuse the district's offer for extra help are retained. Still, Reidenbach said any money to expand services to prekindergarten would be helpful, and that's an area the district wants to address in 2013-14.
Supportive reactions
The General Assembly created the S.C. Reading Achievement Systemic Initiative two years ago to give recommendations on how the state could address illiteracy. Some of the bill comes directly from those suggestions, such as creating partnerships to increase the amount students read, and ensuring teachers have pre- and in-service training on effective reading instruction.
The state Education Oversight Committee has been pushing for a stronger focus on reading, and it gave input during the writing of the Read to Succeed bill.
"When you make reading a state priority, then everything you do, especially early childhood, flows into that," Barton said. "If we set this (third-grade) benchmark, it's going to transform the whole system from pre-K to third grade so that we identify struggling readers and we take initiative early on."
State Superintendent of Education Mick Zais has been an advocate of a statewide focus on reading, and he repeatedly said so when discussing students' test scores this past fall.
Jay W. Ragley, Zais' deputy superintendent for legislative and public affairs, said Zais is supportive of the bill's promotion gateway for third-graders, and he'd like to see another added for seventh-graders. Zais also agrees that intensive reading intervention should be given to retained students.
But most of the bill's other requirements, such as summer reading camps and a new state reading office, are too prescriptive, Ragley said. Zais wants to streamline the proposal and exclude those parts.
"That's been his philosophy — set a goal and tell district how it's measured, and leave the implementation and flexibility to local districts," he said.
Other state education groups aren't raising many red flags with the bill. Scott Price, attorney for the state School Boards Association, said he's behind the bill but questions how it would be funded.
"We just hope they develop an accurate assessment of how much it's going to cost and that they put the resources there," he said. "We're not very good about doing that in South Carolina with new programs."
The state PTA hasn't taken a position on the proposal, but Clifford Fulmore, the incoming president of the state PTA and parent of a freshman in Charleston County schools, said the focus on literacy and retention of third-graders seemed like a good idea.
"We would be doing a disservice to the children by allowing them to move on," he said. "If we can take a look at different measures to help, I would support that."
Reach Diette Courrégé Casey at @Diette on Twitter or 937-5546.
Pinckney Elementary School associate reading teacher Khrystin Harshaw works with third-graders on their reading and comprehension Monday morning.×


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Christina Geiger is the Director of Fine Books and Manuscripts at Bonhams in New York. She joined Bonhams in 2006 to inaugurate regular sales in Fine Books and Manuscripts on the East Coast.
She has worked in the auction business since graduating from Williams College in 1996. She began her career at an international auction house, where she became its Manager of Images, overseeing its worldwide photography archive.
She developed an interest in fine books and manuscripts by completing coursework in medieval manuscripts at Columbia University, and in descriptive bibliography at the Rare Books School at the University of Virginia. She took on a Specialist role at the auction house in the Books and Manuscripts department in 2001. In 2003, she moved to San Francisco where she worked at a gallery, both as a Specialist and an Auctioneer.
During her tenure at Bonhams, Geiger has led auctions including property from the Estate of Hilde Shania Wittgenstein, the archives of the Leighton Wilkie Foundation, the Estate of Oliver Barrett and the Presidential autograph Collection of Alfred L. Baker. She was also the Principal Specialist for The American Experience: 1630-1890 auction in 2010, which totaled more than $4 million.
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Someone mentioned TV Teka on the other board. If Cnopt2 has the GP, Europeans, and Worlds, again, it would be worth it. That would allow me to get every major international event except the 4cs, and Russian TV would obviously not be carrying the 4cs, since Russia does not compete there. So I guess only Dish and DirecTV subscribers will have access to the 4cs.
Does anyone know whether or not Cnopt2 will have the GP events again this season? TVTeka has CnopT1 and CnopT2, while WebTV has NTV. Does anyone know which Russian sports network will have it, so I know which Russian TV service to subscribe toi?
I have found out that TV Tekka has all the Russian sports channels likely to carry skating (NTV, Cnopt channels, Poccna 2) and costing way less than WebTV. I can get a whole year for just $120, which will let me watch a lot of sports. This will let me get every major skating event except 4cs and US Nationals. And if you want to watch GP events live, without having to use a less than reliable VPN to do so, this may be your only option.
According to the statement on the TV program Grand Prix will broadcast channel SPORTS - not Sport1 or 2, but only SPORT :-)
Unfortunately, I could not find it on the WEB TV or TVTEKA. It is possible to watch it online somewhere outside Russia? Payment?
One the one service where I have to use a VPN to access, that also carries the Cnopt channels, according to their schedule, Skate America will be on Cnopt (formerly Cnopt2) at 6:00 AM Moscow time on Saturday. Depending on the time difference, and DST changes in Russia, it will be on at either 10PM or 11PM US Eastern Time on Friday. The schedule shows the pairs short at 6:00 AM Moscow time, and the mens short at 7:40 AM Moscow time. They don't have the next day's schedule up yet. TVTeka does not have a schedule announced yet, but this one other service (only accessible via VPN outside of Russia) does.
It also shows the Short dance scheduled for broadast 1:15 AM Moscow time Sunday (either 5:15 PM or 6:15PM US Eastern time). The schedules show nothing for the ladies short. Of course, the Russian sport channels all broadcast English Premier League soccer on Saturdays, so maybe the CnopT channels are chacking the SA ladies short program for that, like NTV did when they had the GP series.
Hopefuly someone, somewhere, will have a pbp thread on here for the ladies short on Saturday.
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Even today, I've found nothing on TVteka (SPORT) But perhaps badly looking for ... transfer them somewhere?
It's somewhere in Europe to follow the whole competition Skate America?
YES!!! So apparently we can watch GP here:
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If you are using TvTeka, you may want to turn off your anti-virus software. I have found that problems with rebuffering on Tvteka are not as bad with my anti-virus turned off. WebTV also had this same problem with I used them to watch GP events.
For AVG and Ad-Aware antivirus, you can merly set the services in Windows to disabled, and then restart the machine. The procedure may be differnet with out antivirus software. To re-enable your anti-virus, just change the services back to Automatic, and then re-start the machine to re-enable your virus scans.
If you use WebTV to watch Russian nationals, AVG and Ad-Aware both do not like WebTv and refuse to let it run. You will have to disable either antivirus software using the procedure mentioned above so that WebTV will work.
Can anyone tell me step by step how to subscribe to TV Teka? Even with the Google translator I seem to be going in circles. I know.....not always the most tech savvy! But....I love to watch skating!
I DID it! Even managed it on the iPad. Can't wait for this weekend!
Lets just hope that Universal does not go the way that Music Choice has. Not only do you have to have a cable subscription that includes MC, you now have to also be a subscriber to your cable company's internet service as well. if and when Universal does come to Comcast, I hope the Universal does not require that people also be on Comcast's internet service as well. I like my DSL service becuase I don't have to worry about being a bandwidth hog. But that could be the next step, I fear, being that Music Choice requires that now to be able to stream their channels over the internet. Universal is sure to follow.
The ISU Junior Grand Prix Final will be available on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/user/ISUJGP2011
The ISU Grand Prix Final of Figure Skating will be available on the ISU Skating Channel (due to television right restrictions, the event will not be available in Europe, Canada, USA, Japan, China and Korea): http://livemanager.eurovision.edgesu...ite/index.html
FYI, the YouTube JGP URL above is not a typo. This one also reaches the same page: http://www.youtube.com/ISUJuniorGrandPrix


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In 1985 Ermenegildo Zegna launched High Performance, a new way of wearing wool that altered the way in which the business suit was perceived.Now, a generation later, Ermenegildo Zegna has taken the High Performance concept that it pioneered with fabrics and applied it to the wristwatch, resulting in a new range of timepieces, purposeful in their styling and as robust and resilient as their namesake fabric.
Crafted from black ceramic and equipped with ergonomic rubber coated pushpieces and winding crown, the High Performance Chronograph benefits from a 42 mm case diameter, with at-a-glance legibility of the dial and subdials further enhanced by the use of high contrast Arabic and baton hour markers. Every detail in the design has been carefully considered from the tachymetric scale etched directly into the ceramic bezel, to the matching colour specificity of the hands and numerals, to the brushed steel folding buckle on the robust rubber strap.
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Produced by ETA since 1996, 2894 is an automatic winding, 37 jewel movement, 28 mm diameter, 6.1 mm height, 42 h power reserve and houses a swiss lever escapement with Incabloc™ antishock system beating at 28'800 vibrations per hour. The movement is personalized with a Zegna-branded oscillating weight.
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Frequency: 28,800 vib/h (4 Hz)
Jewels: 37
Calibre: 12 ½'''
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Just as the High Performance fabrics come in a variety of colourways, so the watches too are available in a number of colour combinations that enhance legibility and allow greater scope for personal expression. Every timepiece is furnished with two interchangeable black and coloured watch bands.
Black ceramic case, with engraved tachymeter on the bezel and rubber coated pushers and crown
Diameter: 42.00 mm
Height: 14.30 mm
Case-back: stainless steel
Water resistance: 3 ATM
Automatic, ETA 2894
Power reserve: 42 hours
Functions: hour, minute, small second, date and chronograph
Straps & Buckle
Materials: rubber strap + 2 additional fabric straps
Buckles: steel folding buckle with "EZ" engraving + steel pin buckle for the fabric strap


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On paper, being a doctor seems pretty great. The money is good, it makes everyone around you feel inferior, and you get a diploma that literally gives you permission to play God.
But being a doctor isn't just about lots of sex and cocaine parties -- in fact, it's mostly not about that at all.
#5. Doctors Hate You, and They Hate Their Lives
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On average, one doctor a day kills himself. Despite what you hear about lawyers, doctors actually have the highest suicide rate, according to the Journal of the American Medical Association. It's even worse among female doctors. You think they like looking at you with your clothes off? You're disgusting. How dare you. How dare you. The suicide rate among female doctors is 2.3 times the national average, and the suicide rate of male doctors is 1.4 times higher.
Plus, with proper medical training they're not going to screw up things like proper OD dosage or how to cut.
Dr. Charles Reynolds, a professor of psychiatry at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine and, statistically speaking, a likely suicide waiting to happen, says, "Undiagnosed and untreated depression is the culprit here." No one is diagnosing the depression? In doctors? Do we need to create an additional breed of doctor that only doctors other doctors, or will this new super-doctor then be more likely to kill himself even harder because of all of his undiagnosed depression? How many different kinds of mega-doctors do we need to add to the doctor hierarchy until we get this suicide situation under control? And why all the suicide? Why can't they just drink their problems away, like normal people?
#4. Your Doctor Might Be Drunk
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Oh shit. In a study done on the American College of Surgeons, 15 percent of male surgeons and 26 percent of female surgeons suffered from alcohol abuse and dependence. That might not seem super high, but it is higher than the national average. What's more alarming is that a significant portion reported having errors during surgery in the prior three months because of their dependence. The stress of being a doctor and being responsible for saving lives drove these doctors to drink, which, in turn, contributed to mistakes made in surgery. Which likely drove them to even MORE drinking, and now we're on an infinity loop of drunk doctors cutting noses off and leaving their scalpels in butts before going off to drink away their stress.
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The actual reason for the mask is so you can't smell their "Breakfast-Martini."
Doctors are also more likely to abuse "prescribed opioids and benzodiazepines," which I've never heard of but can only assume are future sci-fi drugs that only doctors know about. And you take them in weird future sci-fi, like you get high by looking at them. You smile at a pill and suddenly "OH SHIT I'M ON ACID."
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"Hope this guy doesn't fuck up ... Wait, that's you ... Wait, who said that? We did."
If you want to be safe, it turns out, be operated on by someone who is male, who has children, and who specializes in operating on veterans. For some reason, these are the people least likely to be drunk while operating on you.
#3. The Deaths -- Oh Loooord the Deaths
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People make mistakes, and we're not going to vilify doctors because they're human; most of our best friends are human. That said, 98,000 people die every year from mistakes doctors make.
98,000. No wonder they're so depressed.
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And even if they do everything right, they have deal with patients dying from superbugs they can't stop.
A mistake is defined as a death that could have been preventable. Either a mistake in surgery or a mistake in a prescription or some other weird mistake (scalpel butt). One study showed that if you randomly pull 100 medical charts, 40 will contain evidence of doctor errors. To put that into perspective, imagine if your job was to make cars, and 40 times out of 100, instead of designing a car with functioning doors and a working steering wheel, you killed people to death.
The death can come in surprising forms, too. You know how the doctor prescribes this weird thing to you, you look at the chicken scratches on the prescription pad, and you think, "How can anyone read that?" But for some reason you trust that your pharmacist has this supernatural power to read doctor's handwriting? Well ... he doesn't.
According to a study done by the National Academies of Science Institutes of Medicine, more than 7,000 deaths occur each year because the pharmacist couldn't decipher the prescription and gave you an overdose of some weird chemotherapy pill instead of Viagra.
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"He wants to know if his dick is supposed to glow like that."
A good rule of thumb: If you can't read it, then your pharmacist can't read it.


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COLUMBIANA - Elizabeth R. Gilchrist died December 5, 2012.
She was born December 14, 1915 in Butler Pennsylvania, daughter of John and Catherine Schmidt Nowakoski.
Mrs. Gilchrist owned and operated a beauty shop in Youngstown. She was a home maker, enjoyed reading, knitting and gardening.
Her husband, whom she married October 28,1938, passed away October 29,1994.
She is survived by two sons, Albert of Poland Township and John (Joyce) of Columbiana; three granddaughters, Cheryl (Ronnie) Stanley of Columbiana, Rebecca (Paul) Marcum of Columbiana, and Rachel (Scott) Bubar of North Ridgeville; six great-grandchildren, Mark Stanley,
Kathryn Stanley, Jared Bubar, Lydia Bubar, Nathan Bubar, and Aaron Marcum; and brother from Butler, Pennsylvania.
The family would like to thank the staff at Greenbriar North for the concern and care they gave Elizabeth during the time she resided there.
Funeral services will be Saturday at 10:30AM at the Cunningham-Becker Funeral Home, Poland.
Interment will follow at Poland Riverside Cemetery.
Friends and family will be received Friday from 6-8PM at the funeral home.
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Rock the Dome
A Night Out for Adult Kids to Expand Your Consciousness! Our New Digital Show Featuring Awesome Classic Rock Music and Dazzling Imagery Continues throughout Spring and Summer at Reuben H. Fleet Science Center Heikoff Dome Theater
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San Diego, May 1, 2012 – Take a trip as we ROCK THE DOME ~ get whirled on animated flights through space and fantasy landscapes, immersed in spinning abstract art and transported through never-ending tunnels and passageways, all synched to awesome classic rock music. ROCK THE DOME is a dazzling digital concert featuring some of the greatest bands of all time. Pulsating graphics fill the screen while the Dome's state-of-the-art sound system play your favorites like you've never heard them before. Sit back and relax as you become completely immersed in a 360-degree swirl of mesmerizing retro graphics and full-dome CG in a flashback to another era – classic rock pumped through our 16,000-watt digital surround sound system in 32 million pixels on a 76-foot dome!
Each show features a selection from our library of classic rock's greatest hits. Will you hear the Beatles? Rolling Stones? Pink Floyd? Aerosmith's "Sweet Emotion" or U2's "Where the Streets Have No Name? Every performance is unique – a hand-picked playlist of hits from the late '60s through the early '90s. Other artists on the roster include Led Zeppelin, Jimi Hendrix, Van Halen, The Kinks, Emerson, Lake and Palmer, AC/DC, Rush, Midnight Oil, Creedence Clearwater Revival and The Doors. The Beatles or Rolling Stones? Led Zeppelin or Metallica? U2 or Pink Floyd? It's much more than a soundtrack, featuring interludes and vignettes of the sights and sounds that symbolized the evolution of rock history - a one-of-a-kind musical experience you won't want to miss – come see what all the excitement is about!
ROCK THE DOME at the Reuben H. Fleet Science Center Heikoff Dome Theater began performances in March, joining our regular roster of IMAX® films and digital shows. Tickets are $8 for members, $10 for general public. See our website for performance dates and times.
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Song Choices/Music Rights/Trivia -- info for your reference, please don't give it all away!
Emerson, Lake & Palmer – "Karn Evil 9, 1st Impression pt. 2" (ASCAP/1973)
Tells the story of a futuristic world from which "all manner of evil and decadence had been banished."
The Beatles – "Back in the USSR" (ASCAP/1968)
PAUL on drums, not Ringo!
Rolling Stones – "Start Me Up" (ASCAP/1981)
Motorcycle racing or sex? You decide...
The Doors – "Break On Through" (ASCAP/1967)
Censors objected to drug use implied by the line "she gets high", so the line was repeated as "She gets...".
Creedence Clearwater Revival – "Bad Moon Rising" (BMI/1969)
Fogerty claims the song is about "the apocalypse that was going to be visited upon us."
Jimi Hendrix – "Purple Haze" (ASCAP/1967)
A dream Jimi had where he was walking under the sea.
Led Zeppelin – "Good Times Bad Times" (ASCAP/1969)
Guitar solo through a Leslie speaker.
Aerosmith – "Sweet Emotion" (BMI/1975)
Tension between the band and Joe Perry's wife.
AC/DC – "Back In Black" (ASCAP/1980)
The band is mourning for the death of their singer, Bon Scott, of alcohol poisoning
Rush – "Tom Sawyer" (ASCAP/1981)
A portrait of a modern day rebel, a free-spirited individualist striding through the world
wide-eyed and purposeful.
Pink Floyd – "Another Brick in the Wall pt. 2" (BMI/1979)
A protest song against rigid schooling in general and boarding schools in particular.
Pink Floyd – "One Of These Days" (ASCAP/1971)
One of these days (I'm going to slice you up into little pieces) - A threat against a babbling DJ.
Midnight Oil – "Beds Are Burning" (BMI/1987)
A political song about giving native Australian lands back to the Pintupi, who were among the
very last people to come in from the desert.
U2 – "Where the Streets Have No Name" (ASCAP/1987)
A message of hope for a world that does not divided by class or race.
Metallica – "Enter Sandman" (ASCAP/1991)
The song is about "nightmares and all that come with them."
Pink Floyd – "Run Like Hell" (BMI/1979)
Pink sends his followers to attack those he thinks "ought to be shot".
Van Halen – "You Really Got Me" (1984)
Kinks song covered by Van Halen
The Dome Was Built To Rock
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The Reuben H. Fleet Science Center (the Fleet) is home to Southern California's only Giant Dome Theater and 100+ hands-on science exhibits for all ages. Watch immersive giant-screen films in the Eugene Heikoff and Marilyn Jacobs Heikoff Giant Dome Theater, which reopened in 2012 after extensive renovations. Our theater is extraordinary in many ways. It is the world's first IMAX® Dome Theater, the world's first NanoSeam™ Dome screen in an IMAX theater, and it offers two unique experiences in one space: IMAX films and planetarium shows. The Heikoff Giant Dome Theater boasts a 76-foot tilted Dome screen and a 16,000-watt digital surround sound system, providing a stunning visual and audio experience. Experience eight galleries of fun, interactive exhibits, including major traveling exhibitions. A hurricane simulator thrills visitors with gusts of wind up to 80 miles per hour. Enjoy sandwiches, salads and healthy treats in Galileo's Café. Find unique educational toys and games, books, IMAX DVDs and more in the North Star Science Store. Located at 1875 El Prado, two blocks south of the San Diego Zoo on Park Blvd., the Fleet Science Center is a nonprofit organization dedicated to furthering the public understanding and enjoyment of science and technology. For information regarding current admission prices, please call (619) 238-1233 or visit our website at www.rhfleet.org.


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The Teacher Education Programs are accredited by the Teacher Education Accreditation Council. Successful completion of the Bachelor of Arts in Elementary Education or Special Education; or completion of requirements for Secondary Licensure leads to satisfaction of the requirement for the Utah Level I Teaching License.
The School offers Bachelor of Arts degrees in Elementary Education and Special Education, as well as preparation for Secondary Teaching Licensure, to accompany a variety of teaching minors.
The college offers programs that lead to a state endorsement in Special Education of students with severe or mild to moderate disabilities, and English as a Second Language instruction. Students may enroll in these programs for an endorsement-only undergraduate minor or as part of the Master of Education (MED) or Master of Arts in Teaching programs.
(See Graduate Academic Catalog for detailed information on graduate programs.)
The Master of Education Program has an instructional focus and is offered for licensed teachers in a public or private school or those who teach adults. Students may earn an endorsement in Reading (Basic or Advanced), English as a Second Language, Special Education, or Distance Learning, or an Adult Learning Certificate. Students may complete the portfolio for the National Board of Professional Teacher Standards as a part of any of the MED program options. Students may also earn a Montessori Teaching Certificate as part of the M.Ed. program or as a non-degree credential program with no college credit. The Montessori teacher education program is accredited by the Montessori Accreditation Council on Teacher Education (MACTE) and affiliated with the American Montessori Society (AMS).
The Master of Arts in Community Leadership program is designed to prepare students for leadership roles in non-profit and community organizations. The program prepares graduates in three key areas: management and leadership, community organizing and advocacy, and communications.
The Master of Arts in Teaching (MAT) program is designed for students who have a bachelor's degree and wish to earn a teaching license in elementary education, secondary education, or special education. The MAT program is accredited by the Council for the Accreditation of Educator Preparation (CAEP). This program is specifically designed to prepare teacher candidates to serve the diverse populations of students in culturally rich schools. Individuals must be interested in pursuing an advanced degree that is demanding in its focus upon teacher preparation; in exploring issues of cultural diversity; in learning applications of technology for teaching; and in research into their own professional practices. Commitment to professional growth is a prerequisite.
The college offers programs that lead to a state endorsement in Basic Reading, Advanced Reading, , Special Education of students with mild to moderate disabilities, Special Education of students with severe disabilities, and English as a Second Language instruction. Students may enroll in these programs for an endorsement-only undergraduate minor or as part of the Master of Education or Master of Arts in Teaching programs.
Heather Batchelor, Assistant Professor, Director of Secondary MAT program
Margaret (Peggy) Cain, Professor, Director of MED and MACL Programs
Timothy Carr, Assistant Professor, Director of Elementary MAT program
Marilee Coles-Ritchie, Associate Professor
Janet Dynak, ProfessorKalani Eggington, Assistant Professor
Peter Ingle, Associate Professor, Interim Dean
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Artist Jonathan Green will show new works at the College of Charleston's Avery Research Center for African American History and Culture, 125 Bull St., beginning Thursday.
The series is called "Unenslaved: Rice Culture Painting by Jonathan Green," and will remain on view in the Cox Gallery through Dec. 15. An opening reception is planned for 7 p.m. Thursday.
"Unenslaved" features 25 original works of acrylic on paper that measure 11 by 14 inches. The series has long been brewing in Green's mind, he said.
"Most pictures of African-Americans in the South don't have a sense of culture or history, because it's intentionally stripped away," Green said.
So what he did was an exercise in productive fantasy. He said he created a "what if" scenario and painted scenes of people in the rice fields who choose to be there, for they are free.
It's "a positive visual depiction" that presents the perspective of blacks, but also a combination of West African, Caribbean and European cultural influences.
"It's part of the imagination of the artist, but it's also an actual reality," Green said. For when blacks are free to express their cultural inheritance, as they are today, they may do so with pride and even flamboyance.
Green's work always has alluded to the history of slavery and rice cultivation in the Lowcountry, but this series is his first extensive, concentrated exploration of the ways in which the rice economy influenced regional culture and society.
It is a direct consequence of his involvement in the Lowcountry Rice Culture Project, an initiative that aims "to discover and revive the significance of rice cultivation and its legacies, and to use this history as a launching off point for broad discussions of race, class, art, trade, history and economics — in short, the various aspects of culture in the Southeast."
The artist has long argued that rice is at the root of everything that the Lowcountry has become.
The labor of slaves generated great wealth for slaveowners, wealth that helped build the city of Charleston. Rice has influenced our diet, our coastal agricultural systems, race relations and the arc of history.
A symposium organized by the Rice Culture Project, scheduled for Sept. 12-14, will present these ideas at public events.
For more information, visit www.lowcountryriceculture.org.
This is not the first time rice has been the subject of a series of paintings. "A Carolina Rice Plantation of the Fifties," an extraordinary set of 29 watercolors made in the 1930s by Charleston's Alice Ravenel Huger Smith, exercised its influence over Green.
Smith's work idealizes plantation life during the 1850s, portraying happy slaves and gorgeous landscapes. They are not so much an honest documentation of the period as a nostalgia-filled glance backward to a simpler time.
"They are beautiful, but they ignore the real story of the antebellum plantation," said Gibbes Museum curator Sara Arnold.
In a sense, Green's series also romanticizes Lowcountry life, but this time the perspective has changed, and the subjects are willing participants.
Mostly, Green wants young people to gain a new appreciation of their cultural inheritance when they look as these images, he said.
"I want young kids to be able to look at African-American people and see the culture based on history, and see them from the perspective of not being enslaved," he said.
It is important to make a distinction between forced hard labor with no recompense and voluntary labor that enriches all people and reveals something of the multiculturalism that's unique to the United States, Green said, noting his own genetic mix that includes, African, European and Native American elements.
"I am the perfect byproduct of ... America," he said.
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quote: I've ridden every day for the past 6 years, and can say, that without a doubt, loud pipes HAVE saved my life. People don't look for bikes, so at least they can hear me. Talk to a few bikers who have had friends killed by ignorant drivers before dishing out crap about a baby getting woken up while sleeping outside.
quote: Oncoming traffic and motorists at side streets don't hear you until AFTER you've gone past them because your exhaust noise is directed behind you.


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Crews from the Department of Natural Resources are set to begin prescribed fires in habitats across Illinois for the next several weeks.Natural resources officials say the annual burns control invasive plant species and stimulate the growth of native vegetation. The spring burn season typically runs until mid-April.Fires can only be conducted when conditions are just right in the spring. That means the temperature, humidity and wind speed must be appropriate to conduct a burn. The managers who lead the crews must also be trained by federal standards and certified according to state law.Officials say most of the state's habitats are adapted to periodic fires. They say this form of management is a cost-effective way to keep Illinois woodlands and prairies in a healthy condition.
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New from Twin Six for 2012 is The Masher, a new cycling jersey tailored with premium sublimated graphics that makes the garment very stylish. Its amazing green, black and grey color scheme makes for nice aesthetics, which is matched with a unique construction.
As Twin Six puts it, just like each garment produced by this brand, The Masher is designed with a labor of love. Major features of the cycling jersey include a 16in hidden zipper, 100% soft polyester microfiber material, anti-microbial treatment, square collars, Raglan sleeves, and three large rear pockets.
Riders who love to be in style will definitely love the 2012 Twin Six The Masher Cycling Jersey. Not only is this cycling jersey a fashion item, it's a comfortable cycling article that meets the requirements of many hardcore cyclists. No wonder why it is very popular on the market today.


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For traditional recipes from the Mysore region and food from all over, with ramblings about life and kids thrown in the mix.
Sunday, September 21, 2008
Sia's Menthe Chutney for T&T
Tried & Tasted ia an event hosted by Zlamushka, who's blog is a one-stop-shop for recipes from all over the world. Each month she features a blog that she invites everybody to try & taste dishes from. This month happens to be my friend, Sia's. Sia is an artist who creates wonderful dishes and showcases them in pictures that are to-die-for. I've tried a few of her recipes and they have all been wonderful. For this event, I tried her Menthe Chutney, which was delicious with plain rice & ghee. I even used is as a spead in a sandwich and it was so good! Thanks for the wonderful recipe, Sup and thanks Zlamushka, for hosting this wonderful event!
I'm on a mission to update my old posts with newer pictures that are non-blurry, better focused and definitely more interesting! Here's my latest update - carrot & beans palya. Recipe can be found here.
26 comments:
- Jayashree said...
I liked this chutney on Sia's blog too.
How's little M doing?
- September 22, 2008 at 10:14:00 AM EDT
- Usha said...
This chutney looks delicious...and your carrot and beans curry looks colorful and yummy :)
- September 22, 2008 at 10:27:00 AM EDT
- indosungod said...
Vani, chutney does look delicious. The beans and carrot palya makes its appearance often in our house too.
- September 22, 2008 at 2:52:00 PM EDT
- VEGETABLE PLATTER said...
Menthe chutney looks really yum .. Goes great with Dosas N idlis ..
- September 22, 2008 at 3:19:00 PM EDT
- raaji said...
never heard of this chutney...looks real yummy.wanna try....
- September 22, 2008 at 3:47:00 PM EDT
- Sia said...
that's my fav chutney which my ajji used to make quite often. and i usally eat it with steaming rice and big dollop of thuppa on top of it. just yumm :)
thanks dearie for ur kind words abt me and my blog:) i am seriously blushing;)
- September 23, 2008 at 6:36:00 AM EDT
- Sunshinemom said...
Menthe chutney looks good! Good move to change old pics:)
- September 23, 2008 at 9:28:00 AM EDT
- SriLekha said...
wow! looks yum!
- September 24, 2008 at 12:35:00 AM EDT
- Vani said...
Jayashree- It was really good, J! Do try it. M is doing well. She has a residual cough/cold which started off as a stomach bug. But she's getting much better each day.
Usha- thanks :)
ISG - yes it was delicious! Carrot & beans palya makes it's appearacne in manay forms in our house too. It's such a good combi, isn;t it? Sometimes add potatoes too.
Vegetable Platter - it was very tasty! Kinda sweetish with the jaggery/brownsugar. But it should go well with dosas & idlies as well.
- September 24, 2008 at 4:26:00 PM EDT
- Vani said...
Raaji- do try it. It's simple enough & yummy too :)
Sup - That's exactly how I had it -hot steaming rice & thuppa. I made tons of it & had some leftover - made bendekayi gojju out of it! :) Thanks for the lovely recipe, Sup!
Sunshinemom- thanks and yeah, the move to newer pics are much required! Some of the old ones really need good tweaking! :)
Srilekha- thanks and it was :)
- September 24, 2008 at 4:26:00 PM EDT
- aparna said...
Looks so delicious. There is something special waiting for you in my blog.
- September 27, 2008 at 10:37:00 PM EDT
- Vani said...
Aparna- thanks for sharing your "good job" award with me :)
- September 28, 2008 at 7:42:00 PM EDT
- Divya said...
Older posts with newer pics always welcome. Would love to see all the oldies but goodies.
- September 28, 2008 at 10:39:00 PM EDT
- Nidhi said...
Vani, Menthe chutney looks delicious. Sia has a wonderful collection of recipes on her blog.
You have indeed got a nice click of the Palya :)
- September 28, 2008 at 11:34:00 PM EDT
- Jaishree said...
Vani, Menthe chutney looks delicious.you r having wonderful collection of recepies.. Thanks for visiting my blog:)
- September 28, 2008 at 11:59:00 PM EDT
- Purva Desai said...
This chutney looks really Inviting..
- September 29, 2008 at 11:42:00 AM EDT
- n33ma said...
Thats a good recipe andt he photo looks inviting
- September 29, 2008 at 3:18:00 PM EDT
- Jeevita said...
I love carrot palya. Never thought of adding beans to it before though... must try!
- October 1, 2008 at 12:43:00 AM EDT
- Sireesha said...
Menthe chutney looks divine....
- October 6, 2008 at 5:05:00 AM EDT
- lothi said...
Chutney luks awesome n yummy..Tried ur carrot n beans palya....came out so gud..
- October 9, 2008 at 1:17:00 PM EDT
- mitr_bayarea said...
Chutney looks so good.
- October 10, 2008 at 2:24:00 PM EDT
- Vani said...
Divya- I agree. Re-visitng old posts can be good, esp when updated with new pix! :)
Nidhi- yeah, she does have a good collection of recipes. And fabulous photos too :)
Jaishree- thanks for stopping by :)
Purva- thanks :)
- October 11, 2008 at 6:49:00 PM EDT
- Vani said...
Neema - thank you for stopping by and your nice comment :)
Jeevita - beans adds a nice flavor & lovely color to palyas :)
Sireesha - thanks :)
Lothi - thanks for trying the palya & letting me know. Glad you liked it :)
mitr-bayarea- thanks :)
- October 11, 2008 at 6:52:00 PM EDT
- Sujatha said...
Menthe chutney looks delicious! I remember seeing this in Sia's blog and had already bookmarked it... Will have to try this soon.. :)
- October 14, 2008 at 11:31:00 AM EDT
- Vani said...
Sujatha- yes, it sure was yum. Do try it for sure :)
- October 19, 2008 at 11:37:00 AM EDT
- zlamushka said...
Fantastic chutney. Looks so yummy, I love the smell of roasted fenugreek seeds. Almost like nuts.
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Mito, the Aging Process & Other Diseases
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There is more and more research connecting mitochondrial dysfunction with many other major diseases and illnesses – including autism, parkinson's, alzheimer's, and even some forms of cancer. The link between the mitochondria and other diseases, as well as aging in general, is in its infancy and needs much more research! Not only will this research help us understand many other conditions, but it may also lead to treatments and cures – for mitochondrial disease as well.
Vamsi Mootha, MD, PhD at Harvard speaks on behalf of Mitoaction.org about the impact of the mitochondria on many common diseases and the aging process in this video. Definitely interesting!


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The Los Cabos region of Mexico lies at the very southern tip of Baja California and is surrounded on three sides by bright blue seas, warm beaches, and iconic rock formations. It is home to the cities of San Jos� del Cabo and Cabo San Lucas. These two towns are only about a half hour apart making it easy for visitors to enjoy one, the other, and everything in between.
Soak up the sun on placid Lover's Beach, just east side of the Land's End arch. Remember to explore its counterpart, Divorce Beach, a short walk away on the Pacific. Snorkel with the fishes - and maybe even some sea turtles - at Chileno Beach. Arrive early and stake your claim under a palm leaf palapa hut. Meander through San Jos� del Cabo's art scene and historic downtown on a Thursday art walk. View the intricate and delicate mosaics and stained glass windows at Mission of San Jose del Cabo church.
Whet your appetite with a tour of the organic gardens at Los Tamarindos farm. Then, sit down to a deliciously healthful meal at their restaurant or cook your own with a hands-on cooking class. Feel like family when you stop by the husband-and-wife owned Las Cazuelas del Don and try their delicious tortilla soup and hearty tortas.