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I've talked before about what a disgusting real-life horror film babies are. And we've scared many women out of their dreams of motherhood with this article. Now, don't think I'm trying to talk you out of becoming a parent, because it's honestly been the single biggest driving factor in my own miraculous escape from Bullshit Cavern ... but I'm not letting you go into it uninformed. When people get hit with stuff like this unexpectedly and don't know how to handle it, that's where bad parents are incubated. So here's a heads up. Don't say I didn't warn you when you find out that ...
So let's skip right past the initial healing time required after the delivery of a child before jumping back on the horse -- the fuck horse -- and get to the part that most people aren't prepared to hear. The part where sex can become so painful, it isn't an option. And it can last for goddamn years. Feel free to comb through this site for examples, but I can sum it up with this quote (corrected for grammar):
"My baby boy is 16 months, and every time my husband mentions intercourse I get goosebumps all over. I guess it's just the thought of painful intercourse. I'd say, about 60 percent of time, I end up in tears."
Which isn't nearly as sexy as it sounds.
Sixteen months after giving birth. And that isn't even an extreme case. Read around in there -- just a few posts up is a woman who is still having painful sex after four years. If you're ballsy enough to type "painful sex after childbirth" into Google, you can find these stories everywhere.
But the really fucked up part is that the physical problems are only half of the issue. Women know that men are sexually needy. They've been spoon-fed that idea since before they were old enough to even understand that genitals do more than pee. So after a few months, it's only natural that a woman starts worrying that because she's not able to perform, is her husband going to find it elsewhere? Is he emotionally detaching because she's not able to physically connect? And how long can they keep this up? If she can't provide him with the physical part of their relationship, is she being selfish by trying to keep them together? Should she just let him go? Is she a rare case of some sexual freak accident? Is it fixable?
"Is he masturbating right now?"
In almost every case I've read, women are universally embarrassed about the issue and have a hard time bringing it up to their doctor. In just as many cases, their doctor tells them to "use more lube," which often doesn't work, which only makes the psychological issues stronger.
At the same time, pain aside, you often get two people with different feelings toward having another child. One says, "Hell no. Let's wait a few years," while the other is gung-ho about shooting life from their crotch. So inevitably, one person becomes hyper cautious about protected sex, while the other is much more loose with when and where they drop trou. Both of you start planning sex around ovulation, each coming up with different times for different reasons.
And then, of course, come the sex rules. Every couple does it after their first baby. They start out with "No sex while the baby is in the house. We'll get a sitter or something and just go out for the night." When that becomes a horrible, unrealistic pain in the ass, they modify the rule to "OK, but just not while he's awake. We'll wait until he goes to sleep, and then we'll slap around each other's hangy-down parts." Eventually, even that gets whittled down to something obvious, but still sounds like a rule: "Not when he's in the same room." And then the final amendment where you walk into the living room and say, "Here are some cartoons and some cookies. Sometimes a mommy and a daddy take showers together to save water."
"You think they're fuckin'?"
#4. Your Parents Think They Have a Say in Raising Your Child
Your entire life has been governed by a relationship that in any other non-work setting would be considered unhealthy, abusive and downright insane. "I command. You obey. Failure to do so will bring about undesirable consequences." And as grim as that sounds, it's necessary -- it's what teaches you to not stick a fork into a light socket or bite people who displease you. The problem is that once you move out on your own, the sense of authority attached to your parents takes a while to fade. For instance, I have several friends who, even in their 30s, hid their cigarettes when their mothers came to visit. On more than one occasion, when she made an unannounced appearance, I was blamed for the pack that they didn't have time to stash. Fully grown, completely independent adults.
That's not totally the fault of the kids, though you'd never hear me say that to their little wussy mama's boy faces. You don't ruin an opportunity to make fun of your friends -- you just don't. So it kind of pains me to say, knowing that they'll read this, that the blame rests just as much on the parents' shoulders. As hard as it is to look at your parents as "just another human like me" after a lifetime of viewing them as the real-as-dick, final word of law, it's just as hard for them to give up that power and step down from the throne.
"It's called a 'shroom.' Here, let me show you -- God knows your stupid father won't."
For that reason, when you settle down and have your own kids, the new grandparents' parental instincts kick in, and at every opportunity, they will jam their demands and advice in your face until you vomit self-help books. On a 70-degree day as your child opens the front door to go play, you'll hear, "Oh, make him put a coat on before going outside. It's cold out there." As he's putting bread in the toaster, "Here, let me get that for you. You don't need to be using a toaster. You'll burn yourself."
A precious few will escape it, but I'm telling you as straight up as I can, most of you will not. We are biological machines programmed to create new ones and fill them with data. It's a perpetual loop of creation and learning, designed specifically to out-think the generation before us. It's in our nature to carry out our genetic programming, and where grandparents are concerned, that idea is terrifying, because "Holy shit, I once saw my kid play with a cat turd. And now he has a child of his own." All older generations think that the newest generation is getting dumber, even though that has never been the case in all of human history. So they think they have to step in and offer their parenting services so you know the "correct" way to do it.
"I'm teaching him how to beg for change. You think you're too good for hoboing?"
What you have to make them understand is that they raised you. Everything they taught you was for this exact moment -- the time when you'd be passing along all you've learned to your own meat machine. So if they're trying to take over or interject themselves into your parenting duties, does it mean they don't trust you to raise a child on your own? They should, because you're using the information they provided. So if they raised you to be someone they don't trust with responsibilities of this magnitude, why are you allowing them to do the same thing to your own child?
If they still don't get the point, you just have to grow a fucking pair and tell them with face-punch seriousness, "This is my child. You can give me opinions and advice all you want, and I will absolutely respect that, because I kind of like the way I turned out. Serious props on that whole Me thing. But where this child is concerned, you are under my rules now. Not the other way around. If you can't respect those rules and back off, I start governing and monitoring the time you spend with my kid."
"What did I tell you about using homophobic and racial slurs around my kids?"
Then walk away without flinching while something explodes behind you.
#3. Everyone Will Give You Advice (Whether You Want It or Not)
Sometimes, a parent just needs to vent. Your kid has been an unbearable asshole for two solid days, and you're nearing your breaking point. If he were a grown man, you'd fight him. The work you used to hate has now become your escape from the stress. Stay-at-home parents grow to love small things that they never considered before, like a trip to the grocery store alone. So you finally find someone who will listen, and you just dump that shit like a Dave Matthews tour bus sewage tank.
You know your kid is just going through a completely normal bad spell, and it'll pass. You just needed to get it off your chest. But the person you're talking to doesn't understand that, so they start handing out advice like a cocaine-fueled Dr. Phil, and it's taking everything you can muster to keep your eyes from rolling completely out of your head.
"No, that's excellent advice. In fact, I'm doing it right now. What? Of course I'm not just saying that."
The thing is, when it comes from other parents, it's at least semi-bearable. You know they've been through it, and there's a chance that what they're saying could actually help your situation. They have solid, hardcore evidence that their method worked, and it cannot be refuted. The problem is that most of them just assume that because it worked for them, their method will work for everyone. "I just calmly explained to my 7-year-old that he was behaving irrationally, and he immediately cleaned his room and then gave me 20 dollars in restitution for the mental anguish he caused." Dude, my kid is shitting in the bathtub and then playing "submarine" with it. "Irrational" isn't exactly a concept he's familiar with.
But the advice you'll grow to hate on day one of being a parent is the shit that comes from single people without children of their own. I talked about that in this article a few months back, and parents can already guess the type of response it drew: messages from single, childless people, defending their legitimacy on giving parenting advice. We know it because we used to be that person with those same views and that same attitude. And after a year or so of living life as Mom or Dad, we looked back on that and just laughed until we caught on fire from the friction in our lungs' lining.
"And then she said, 'I've taken Child Psychology.' I nearly lost it right there!"
Now, that's not saying that people without kids can't give good advice. Some of the best advice I've ever gotten has come from my best friend who has no kids and never plans on having them. But put him side-by-side with someone who's lived the life and dealt with the inescapable howling of a child with a 103 degree fever, and everything he's saying is guesswork. Theory. The parents win every time, because when asked, they can provide a solid yes or no answer to the question, "Did it work?"
It's only when you become a parent yourself that you stop at some point and ask your friends, "Wow -- how did you sit and politely nod while I just talked completely out of my ass like that?"
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Putting police officers in schools is good idea
Since 9/11, virtually all government buildings are protected by elaborate security, including armed guards. Even at the National Institutes of Health and Arlington Cemetery, previously open to the public, you will encounter armed guards, ID checks and vehicles searched and swabbed for bomb residue. We spend billions protecting politicians and government workers. So why is it so ridiculous to suggest armed security in our schools?
New York City schools are secured by the Police Department's School Safety Division. This division has approximately 5,000 school safety agents and 200 police officers with the status of a New York State peace officer who has the ability to make arrests and use physical and deadly force. Most large cities, including Buffalo, employ police/security officers to "maintain the peace" in their schools. Unfortunately, the vast majority of suburban/rural schools do not have full-time police presence. All schools are "advertised" as gun-free zones and thus easy targets. None of the school mass killings has occurred in secured city schools, rather in unarmed suburban/rural schools.
Increased restrictions on guns owned by law-abiding citizens will result in a dangerous false sense of security. Also, considering the vast majority of mass killings have ended with the shooter committing suicide, increased penalties for having a gun on school property will not be a deterrent. Yes, we need to start somewhere. We must secure our schools. We must keep firearms out of the hands of the mentally unstable. If virtually all guns were confiscated from law-abiding citizens, there would still be many ways a determined terrorist could attack unsecured schools. We spend billions to protect government workers from such threats, why not schools?
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SANTA MONICA, Calif. � Claire Thomas is by the window, photographing the strawberries for her food blog, The Kitchy Kitchen. Hers is a site that should serve as a template to all those who would like to use the Internet as a springboard for a next-career move. Kitchy Kitchen isn�t one of the most widely read places to catch up on recipes or food reviews, but in its short existence, it has been seen by the right people.
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The commercial production company Green Dot Films liked her take on food videos so much it hired her to direct a staff of 40 for a McDonald�s TV commercial in 2011, a gig that has since expanded with spots for General Mills, Del Taco and others.
Litton, the production company behind ABC�s Food for Thought Saturday-morning cooking show, found her online videos so charming it plucked her to host the show.
Publishing powerhouse Simon & Schuster just signed Thomas to write her first cookbook, for publication in 2014.
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She said she�s �floored� by having so many good things happen so fast: �I�m so lucky.�
Darren Foldes, an executive producer with Green Dot Films, said Thomas is an �inspiration� in the office. She�s a rarity, he said, turning a blog �into a TV-directing and TV-hosting career.�
It was Foldes who after seeing her online food videos thought of pitching her for commercial work.
�There were no old-school tricks of the trade, like fake smoke and lots of gloss,� he said of her online work. �The videos ... just showed a real passion and love for food.�
Unlike online videos that can be produced for hundreds of dollars (after the initial equipment is purchased), TV ads can cost from tens of thousands to hundreds of thousands of dollars. At home, it�s just her and a friend making the online food videos, using a Canon 5D Mark II camera and two lenses. On the set, she�s working with a crew of 40, and a big expensive $60,000 Alexa video camera.
�Commercial production is a collaborative experience,� she said. �I�m more hands-on with my online videos.�
Thomas grew up in Los Angeles, graduated from Claremont McKenna College in California and began working as a hostess for a restaurant chain after school. She soon began blogging on the side and learning about food photography.
She still churns out about one or two new food videos monthly for the blog, (which draws visits of between 40,000 and 60,000, Thomas said) and has been busy photographing dishes for her upcoming cookbook.
She works out of her home here, where the kitchen is her studio. She specializes in �natural light� food photography, which means no lighting � just what shines through the window, accentuated with a reflector to shape the light.
The key to her videos is making them short.
�I operate in a 30-second format,� she said. �I thought how much fun it would be to take a recipe and show it in 30 seconds ... just the broad strokes. The videos became popular because of the instant accessibility.�
Her advice to bloggers who want to quit their day jobs and forge a new career: �You need to be OK with working for free for a very long time, and just stick with it. The Web can open so many doors.�
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Today, Oct. 31, is the day most children love and many parents hate…because the latter have to deal with youngsters flying high on all the sugar they ingest with those Halloween treats.
It's also a night for scary movies and nightmares. But have we lost the real meaning of death and the dead? We tend to avoid the topic except around this time of year, when All Hallows Eve is followed by All Saints Day, All Souls Day, and a whole month dedicated to the holy souls. British Jesuit John McDade, writing for "Thinking Faith," has some reflections on the reality of All Hallows Eve, death and Purgatory. You might find them very interesting and enlightening.
If you read Fr. McDade, you'll also see his reference to cracks in the cosmos. We of Celtic background have another phrase to describe this phenomenon: thin places. It's said that if you chance on one of these thin places, you can hear the voices of those who have gone to the next life. You don't hear them only on All Hallows Eve and they are not out to get you. But they know you are there.
Let me tell you a story from my Irish cousin Michael, who was a very staid businessman with a lovely family when he told it to me. On our old family farm in the west of Ireland, there was a spa well (it had a mineral vein), which was said to be a thin place. When Michael was a teenager, he didn't believe a word of this. However, he reasoned, fear of voices at the spa well might be a way to get close to a pretty girl. So he'd bring the girl to the well, tell her tales, scare her to death, and then put a protective arm around her. You can figure out the rest.
Well, our Michael had great success with this gambit until late one night, when he was coming home alone on his bicycle. There was no moon and the rain was pelting down in sheets. Just as he passed the deserted spa well, the chain on his bicycle broke and he went sprawling into the mud. As he untangled himself from the bike, wiped the mud from his face and tried to get to his feet, he heard gales of laughter.
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Recently, two NGOs - Sahabat Alam Malaysia and Consumers Association of Penang - both led by veteran activist SM Mohamed Idris had questioned the "transparency and openness" of the state government, claiming it lacked public consultation on planned infrastructure projects.
To be fair to SM Mohamed Idris, his complaint is reasonable and important. The NGOs had merely asked the state government to hold back the announcement of these huge infrastructure projects until the Transport Master Plan is being tabled. Like it or not, Penang's traffic congestion has been one of the major turnoffs to residents and visitors.
Previously in the Opposition, some Dap leaders had been critical of major highway projects such as PORR. The construction of these projects will not only burden motorists with unnecessary toll charges but also an anti-thesis to the efforts to find viable and permanent solutions to Penang's public transport woes.
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Government Turns Bailout Profit Despite GM Loss
Five years after the U.S. government started injecting hundreds of billions of dollars into auto makers, financial institutions and the housing sector, American taxpayers can expect a small profit from an era of historic federal bailouts.
The U.S. Treasury, which pumped out $421.6 billion for its financial-crisis rescues, will have recouped more than $432 billion from bailout recipients once it unloads its remaining General Motors stock. The Treasury Department, which announced the final steps Thursday, expects to sell the government's position in GM by the end of the year.
The GM bailout itself hasn't been profitable and is currently on track to lose more than $10 billion.
The overall profit of more than $10 billion is far better than many lawmakers expected in the depths the crisis, which pushed insurance giant American International Group to the brink of collapse and led two of America's three major domestic auto companies to file for bankruptcy. The bailouts, drawn from the $700 billion Troubled Asset Relief Program, were designed to halt a financial panic and prevent a deeper economic downturn.
The return of little more than 2% after five years fails to keep up with the rate of inflation. The return also doesn't account for the intangible costs, such as the "moral hazard" effect that could lead some firms and their investors to expect government bailouts down the road.
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This post from Thinking Faith, the British Jesuits' website, is very timely and not just because our Jesuit pope took the name of St. Francis of Assisi. You may already know that Ignatius of Loyola esteemed Francis of Assisi. Father James Hanvy, S.J., explains that affinity through his examination of the philosophies of these two great saints and the communities they established. I hope you enjoy this as much as I did.
Father Hanvy's article has a particular relevance for me because of a place where I was yesterday. I wish you could have been there.
I've just returned from a wonderful experience at Mt. Alvernia in Wappingers Falls, N.Y. This spirituality center, situated south of Poughkeepsie, is a ministry of the Franciscan Friars of the New York Province of the Immaculate Conception and offers a range of retreats and other spiritual experiences in the Franciscan tradition. The retreats are primarily for Catholics but those of other beliefs are warmly welcomed.
While I was at Mt. Alvernia, I had the pleasure of spending the day with my colleagues and with Fr. Roch, the retreat director, who led us through Francis' Canticle of the Sun. It really opened my mind to Francis and how his relationships with his brothers and with Clare, with all of creation actually, enriched his life and ministry. I began to see the origins of the Ignatian call to find God in all things. The more Fr. Roch spoke of Francis, the more I understood why Ignatius was drawn to him and why our new Bishop of Rome chose his name.
I had to leave early and could not stay another day but when I returned home, I checked the Mt. Alvernia website. I suggest you take some time and do likewise. There are retreats upon retreats. Some are overnights. Some are one-day experiences. There is an experience for almost every need, all delivered with the matchless Franciscan hospitality. As the Franciscans say, peace and good.


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Hoard's Dairyman: Caring for calves an expensive business
Caring for calves an expensive business
by Tina Kohlman, Scott Gunderson, Pat Hoffman, and Annette Zwald
The authors are Sheboygan and Manitowoc County UW-Extension dairy and livestock agents, UW-Extension dairy heifer management specialist, and a James Crowley dairy management intern, respectively.
It's a big expense. In fact, the cost of raising calves and replacement heifers is second only to feed costs on dairy farm expense ledgers. While it is a major component in making a dairy operation profitable, it sometimes is neglected as a profit center since no direct income is generated by the replacement herd.
In 1998, members of the UW-Extension Dairy Team surveyed 62 Wisconsin operations to determine the costs and to benchmark labor efficiencies associated with raising calves and heifers. Due to inflation and the changing economic dynamics, county-based extension educators conducted a similar field survey in 2007.
This article is the first in a six-part series designed to highlight:
• calf costs
• heifer costs
• labor efficiencies
• differences between operations
• comparing 1998 to 2007
• how does your operation compare
Studied 49 farms . . .
During the summer of 2007, feeding, management, housing, and labor information was collected by 21 county-based extension agents on 49 Wisconsin operations. Due to variation from farm to farm, several assumptions were made to standardize certain inputs including: calf value, labor and management pay, and building replacement values (Table 1). All other values associated with the calf and heifer enterprises were farm specific.
Please note that our team placed a $500 value on each calf, compared to $100 in the 1998 study. Labor and management values rose from $7 and $12 per hour, respectively, in 1998 to $12 and $20, respectively, in 2007.
The 49 operations were divided into three groups:
• herds which utilize a tie stall barn as the milking center (tie stall)
• herds which utilize a parlor as the milking center (free stall)
• custom calf and/or heifer growers (custom grower)
The groups were then further divided into calf and heifer enterprises. In this first article, we will explain the calf enterprises, while the next article will delve into heifer expenses.
Nearly 80 percent raise calves . . .
Of the 49 operations surveyed, 40 had a calf enterprise: 15 tie stall operations, 21 free stall operations, and 4 custom calf growers. Information collected indicated the cost of raising a calf from birth to the time she moved to group housing (average of 61.4 days) was $326 or $5.31 per calf per day. The operation with the lowest cost could raise a calf for approximately $76, while the operation with the highest cost raised a calf for $686.
When comparing calf rearing costs by operations, it was found that custom calf growers could raise a calf for an average of $3.16 per day. This was determined to be 45.4 percent lower than tie stall dairy operators at $5.78 per calf per day and 43.5 percent lower than free stall dairy operators with a cost of $5.59 per calf per day.
Four cost centers studied . . .
Calf-rearing costs were broken down into four management areas: labor and management, feed cost, variable cost, and fixed cost (Figure 1). Labor and management accounted for nearly half of the cost. In this study, it cost, on average, approximately $153 or $2.49 per calf per day in labor and management. Both paid and unpaid (labor not directly paid for by the operation) were accounted for in the field study.
Comparing operations, labor and management was most efficient on custom calf grower operations. The labor and management cost was the highest cost center for raising calves with tie stall and free stall operators ($2.93 and $2.51 per head per day, respectively). Even though it was the second highest cost in raising a calf for custom calf growers, custom calf growers were three times higher in labor efficiency at $0.98 per calf per day in labor (Figure 2).
Clearly, labor and management costs have a significant effect on calf-raising costs. A future article in this series will describe the differences between operations.
Feed costs next big ticket . . .
Not surprisingly, feed cost was the second highest area (except for custom calf growers) in raising calves, contributing over one-third of the total cost. Feed cost which included liquid feed (milk replacer or pasteurized waste milk), starter, and forages averaged $112 per calf. This equates to $1.83 per calf per day. Feed cost ranged from $16 to $312 per calf or $0.26 to $5.08 per calf per day.
This extreme variation in feed costs can be contributed to the average weaning age, number of days on feed, source of liquid feed (milk replacer versus pasteurized waste milk), and the use of forages in the calf diet.
Comparing feed cost among the three different types of operations, custom calf growers had the lowest feed cost (Figure 2). Even though they were most efficient, feed cost was the highest cost center for the custom calf grower instead of labor and management. Custom calf growers were able to feed a calf for $1.39 per day as compared to the tie stall and free stall operators at $1.79 and $2.05 per calf per day, respectively.
Other variable costs, including bedding, veterinary, death loss, and interest (assumption of 8 percent interest on all operations) averaged nearly $49 per calf, or $0.80 per calf per day. Variable costs were similar between the tie stall and free stall operators at $0.88 and $0.86 per calf per day. Custom calf growers had less than half the variable costs, averaging $0.40 per calf per day, as compared to tie stall and free stall operations.
Fixed costs associated with calf raising averaged just over $12 per calf or $0.20 per calf per day. Tie stall and free stall operators had similar fixed costs to the overall average at $0.19 and $0.17 per calf per day, respectively (Figure 2). However, based on the field study, custom calf growers appear to have invested more than twice as much on equipment and housing, investing $0.41 per calf per day.
In the next article, we will detail costs associated with the heifer enterprise. We hope you look forward to the other articles in this real herds, real heifers series.


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Marjorie L. DeMay, 88, of Atkinson, passed away Wednesday, Jan. 2, 2013, at Hillcrest Home, Geneseo.
A Mass of Christian burial will be at 10 a.m. Monday, Jan. 7, at St. Anthony's Catholic Church in Atkinson. The Rev. R. Anthony Lee will officiate. Burial will follow in St. Anthony's Cemetery, Atkinson. Visitation will be from 3-5 p.m. Sunday at the Atkinson Chapel of Vandemore Funeral Home and Cremation Services, with a prayer service at 2:45 p.m. Memorials may be left to Hillcrest Home.
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Evelyn M. Kleinau, 92, Geneseo, died Saturday, Feb. 9, 2013, at Hammond-Henry Hospital, Long Term Care Unit. A funeral Mass celebrating her life was held Thursday, Feb. 14 at St. Malachy Catholic Church, Geneseo. The Rev. Michael Pakula officiated. Burial followed in Oakwood Cemetery. A visitation was held one hour prior to services at the church. Memorials may be left to the National Alliance on Mental Health or the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund. Vandemore Funeral Homes and Cremation Services Ltd., Geneseo assisted the family with arrangements.
She was born on Aug. 22, 1920, in rural Atkinson, the daughter of Edward and Lillian (Veire) Engels. She married Leslie W. Kleinau on Feb. 5, 1947, in Geneseo. He died in 1987. She had been a custodian at Geneseo High School and also did house cleaning for several Geneseo families. She was a member of St. Malachy Catholic Church, Geneseo and Altar and Rosary Society Circle 13 of the church. She also belonged to the Gold Star Mothers' Organization of the Nations Fallen Soldiers. She enjoyed watching the Chicago Cubs, participating in several activities, collecting information on family and friends via newspaper articles since 1935.
Survivors include one son, James "Shorty" (Deborah) Kleinau of Manhattan, Kan.; seven nieces and seven nephews. She was preceded in death by her parents; her husband; a son, SP.4 Carl E. Kleinau (Dec. 2, 1947 to April 30, 1969) when he was killed in Lai Khe, Vietnam from wounds received while on duty; one brother, Alvin Engels and one sister, Eunice McLane.
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Randa (1,406 metres above sea level) is the third-highest municipality in the Mattertal valley and is situated between Visp and Zermatt, which is about 9 km away. The lowest point in the municipality is situated around 1,270 metres above sea level and is close to the border with the municipality of St. Niklaus. The highest point is the summit of the highest mountain in Switzerland, the Dom, which stands at 4,545 metres above sea level.
The village of Randa has often been struck by natural disasters over the course of the centuries. In the early morning of 18 April 1991, huge boulders plunged into the valley. Three weeks later on 9 May, huge rocks plummeted into the hamlet of Lerch, the road linking Zermatt and the Brig-Zermatt Railway. Some 30 million cubic metres of rock tumbled down from the mountains within a period of three weeks.
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Before reading the May 6 edition of The Lancaster News, I didn't know anything about Bob Cook. I thought that was strange since I've lived here all my life and know most everybody.
I've since found out that Bob Cook, who grew up here and graduated from Andrew Jackson High School, is a lawyer. He moved back to Lancaster and opened an office in Kershaw after practicing law in Charleston. That explains why I have never heard of him.
I intend to vote for Sheriff Barry Faile for re-election. His devotion to Lancaster County is plain to see. His job performance is excellent.
The background and experience of law enforcement that he exhibits is what we need. His father, Williford Faile, can be proud of his son's dedication to Lancaster as each of us should be.
To the people who have negative comments about Lancaster – we may not be perfect, but then what town is. I love Lancaster and there is no better place.
I would like to respond to Jim King's letter "We need some changes made in the county," in the April 29 edition of The Lancaster News. I have known Barry Faile for a long time. He is one of the best sheriffs we have ever had, including his dad, Williford, and Nae Parks. Barry Faile will try to help you in any way he can, but he will not break the law.
I am a longtime Lancaster County resident and I support Barry Faile for sheriff. He has done a great job for us as sheriff. He has put more officers on the street, busted gangs and infiltrated a lot of the drug trade.
I want Faile re-elected because we need him in Lancaster County. I don't think I am alone in my thinking. Republicans and Democrats alike appreciate and support Faile.
It is indeed unfortunate that Myrtle Porter "resents these Northern transplants who are changing everything."
Many of us transplants are not only responsible for this, but also for our many and varied efforts to improve the lives of the less fortunate in our area.
It's people like Myrtle who appreciate those efforts in one breath and then resent us in the next.
Myrtle and her ilk also need a short history lesson.
The Indian Land Middle School PTA would like to extend a sincere thank you to everyone who donated to the annual Teacher Appreciation Week.
Special thanks to Carolina Bistro, Wing King of Fort Mill, Jersey Mike's, Showmars, McDonald's and Founders Federal Credit Union, as well as several parents and community members.
The teachers and staff have been so appreciative of the special treats all week long.
To everyone who has supported our school, thank you!
A letter to the editor, "HOPE appreciates support," in the Wednesday, May 16, edition of The Lancaster News identified the person arrested for forgery and theft from HOPE in Lancaster Inc. The original press release did not contain the name of the person arrested. When editing the release, The Lancaster News added the person's name because she had been identified by the State Law Enforcement Division in the newspaper's prior stories.
Christy Leann Ellis of Lancaster was recently arrested and charged with forgery and theft estimated at more than $60,000 from HOPE in Lancaster Inc. Hope is a 501(c)(3,) non-profit organization that provides assistance with food and utility bills to area families.
After becoming aware of the forgery, Hope immediately notified the S.C. Law Enforcement Division (SLED) and Ellis' arrest was the result of SLED's swift actions. Eillis will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.
Vince Coakley, the host of a popular Charlotte radio program, was the guest speaker at the recent TEA party meeting several weeks ago.
Coakley, who hosts the program each day on WBT, gave an interesting speech to about 80 people at the meeting.
He is an excellent speaker. The father of four shared many insightful experiences. He is knowledgeable in many areas of public concern.
He is a strong supporter of the Constitution and free enterprise. He is a delightful man, both humorous and serious. It sounds like God has given him a lot of wisdom.
I read the guest column from Phil Noble, "Republican corruption, taxes and our children," in the May 9 edition of The Lancaster News and I have to give Democrats credit for being consistent.
Whether it is President Barack Obama at the federal level or Democrats at the state and County Council level, the message is the same: Raise taxes.
Can you imagine the impact to a state that is at more than 9 percent unemployment rate taking another billion dollars out of the economy?
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In 1971, I went to work for a Johnson & Johnson company that made reagents for hospital testing and human injectable medicines derived from human blood serum. At this company, I had an opportunity to learn all about human antibodies and tests like Serum Protein Electrophoresis, which are now used for monitoring myeloma patients. In 1981, I went to work as Vice-President of Operations at Ricca Chemical Company in Arlington, TX. I was in charge of all of the technical parts of the company including manufacturing, packaging, quality control, quality assurance, research & development, and regulatory affairs.
In 1984, at work I spilled on my toes a chemical solution that contained an organic amine carcinogen that will absorb directly through the skin in its pure liquid form. Organic amines are often carcinogenic since they tend to bind tightly to DNA inside cells. Other acid ingredients in the solution formed chemical burn blisters on my toes requiring medical attention. My doctor documented my exposure to a carcinogen (o-Toluidine) at the time of the accident. While no one can prove one way or another if this event was the "smoking gun" that resulted in my Monoclonal Gammopathy of Undetermined Significance (MGUS), my oncologist says that this length of time is consistent with how high my abnormal monoclonal antibody concentration has risen to. This is an indirect measure of how many genetically abnormal plasma cells (that make abnormal monoclonal antibodies) remain alive in my bone marrow.
My MGUS was found as a fluke during an annual physical in May, 1993. My total serum protein was slightly above the top of the normal range for that test and soon went back to normal. Otherwise, I still would not know that I have MGUS since I am still symptom free. A serum protein electrophoresis test found an abnormal protein band (M-spike) during the test. This led to additional tests, including a bone marrow biopsy that produced the MGUS diagnosis with abnormal IgG Kappa light chain antibodies being produced. The IgG M-spike and quantitative IgG immunoglobulin monitoring test results have slowly but steadily increased: my M-spike was 0.8 g/dL in June, 1993, and has increased to 2.3 g/dL by February, 2005. My normal IgA and IgM antibody concentrations have been slowly depressed to about 18% of where they were in 1993. No bone lesions have been found so far in full skeletal x-ray, MRI, or radioactive bone scans.
I have had very few previous health concerns. I have always had as healthy a diet as anyone else I know and have never smoked. I have always gotten regular exercise and annual physical exams. My father lived to almost 91. My mother is still alive at 93. The only previous cancer in my family was my sister's cervical cancer, which is cured. Growing up, my family always had a couple of acres of vegetable gardens on the farm so I acquired a joy for growing things. Ever since, I have had my own vegetable garden but I never use any pesticides except for fire ant powder in the lawn areas. We do not use any pesticides in our house.
At the February 2005 IMF Patient & Family Interactive Seminar in Dallas, it was stated that about 1% per year of MGUS patients progress to active myeloma. So, after 12 years, an MGUS patient has about a 12% chance of developing active myeloma. But, in the Spring of 2004, my oncologist said that I had moved into the Smoldering Myeloma stage and he was ready to start my first treatment with thalidomide and dexamethasone. Based on information I had learned, I told my doctor that my test results indicated that I was still in the MGUS category and shouldn't yet be treated with anything. I wanted a second opinion. My doctor consulted with Dr. Raymond Alexanian (his mentor) at M.D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, Texas, and with Dr. Bart Barlogie (a former classmate) at Myeloma Institute for Research and Therapy in Little Rock, Arkansas. They both agreed that I was still at the MGUS stage and I should not yet be treated.
Being informed about my disease has saved me starting treatment that would begin development of treatment resistance prematurely. Sometimes, prior treatments disqualify you from some clinical trials, and even some treatment options. By not starting unnecessary treatment prematurely, I kept all of my future treatment and possible clinical trial options open. I feel very fortunate to be able to monitor my condition, stay up with new developments and treatments, and to have plenty of time in a non-crisis environment to develop an optimum treatment strategy, if and when the time comes to begin treatments. The IMF and the North Texas Myeloma Support Group (NTMSG) have been a big educational help and a new social outlet for me. Both organizations are noted for their strong emphasis on education. I already knew a lot from my own efforts, but there was a lot of extremely valuable information that I learned from other myeloma patients' actual experiences.
Marcia Sawyer, one of the NTMSG leaders, found an American Heart Association website that allows patients to organize their test results for Cholesterol, Blood Pressure, and Glucose. Marcia remembered that I already had my own system for charting my test results and suggested that we try to develop a similar tracking tool for myeloma patients' use. Yelak Biru, NTMSG's technical guru, volunteered to collaborate on this project. We wanted to create a test tracking system that was easy to use by people that are not particularly familiar with using computers, generalized enough to cover nearly all of the laboratory tests with numerical values done for myeloma patients, and to make the important test history trends more easily visible for all potential users. We presented a preliminary tracking tool design to our support group members and asked for feedback during a two-month trial period. We incorporated one suggestion in the final design. The final tracking tool has now been in use by local support group members for several months with no problems being reported.
The NTMSG Testing History Template is designed to help myeloma patients organize and record test results. This tool then creates trend line charts to make the test trends for the myeloma monitoring tests more visible and obvious. Often times, the trends for myeloma monitoring tests and response to treatments are more important than the absolute numerical values of those tests. The charts included in the NTMSG tracking tool make the trends for each significant myeloma monitoring test easy to visualize for patients and caregivers. Because many physicians do not have the luxury to spend extended time with each patient, I have found this tool to be a very efficient way to communicate with my doctor. It refreshes his memory about details of my case, saves him time in going back through my test records, and makes the test trends very easy to follow so that optimum decision-making is more likely to result. My oncologist liked this tool well enough that he plans to customize and use this tool to monitor all of his myeloma patients. I am happy to share the availability of this tracking tool with myeloma patients who are not already "tracking their numbers."
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To view the NTMSG tracking tool online, please visit http://northtexas.myeloma.org, click on Myeloma Resources, and then on Testing History Template. To utilize this tool, save the template to your computer. (Your data will be stored on your computer so no one else has access to it.) Fill in your laboratory test results on the Test Data Entry worksheet. Other significant details may also be recorded at the bottom of the worksheet. Then the most significant laboratory test data is displayed on four Test History Charts. Charts 1 and 2 display the trends for the tests used in the Durie-Salmon Staging System and the International Prognostic Index. Chart 3 displays some of the Prognostic Indicator Tests. Chart 4 displays Additional Tests For Myeloma Monitoring. Directions For Use describe how to customize these tools to better fit each patient. MT
NOTE: Questions, suggestions, and problems related to this tracking tool should be emailed to Dennis McClure at email@example.com.


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TRUCKEE, Calif. - Ben Wendel and Dan Tepfer have a lot in common. Both of their mothers are opera singers. Both were born outside of the United States, but now reside in New York City. Both share a lifelong dedication to jazz music in all its forms."Jazz is just sort of this word at this point that covers a huge span of time and music that's been created," Wendel said. "At this point it's branched out into this world phenomenon that's really hard to define. You can go to Brazil and hear Brazilian-infused jazz. You can go to China, I mean you can go anywhere and it's happening. It's all different, but the thing that keeps it the same, I think, is that there's this spirit of freedom and spontaneity and creativity. To me, that's something that I think is really important to hold on to, in the world in general."Embarking on a tour in promotion of their first collaborative album, Wendel and Tepfer will play at Moody's Bistro in Truckee on Friday, March 1. Born in Vancouver, Wendel is a multi-instrumentalist, favoring a variety of wind instruments. A pianist, Tepfer was born in Paris to American parents. Both have composed and recorded extensively, and worked with a variety of artists spanning many genres.The duo holed up last year in a Yamaha studio in midtown Manhattan with a wide range of instruments at their disposal. The end result is "Small Constructions," to be released by Sunnyside Records on March 12."We had this great opportunity. Dan is an endorsed Yamaha piano artist, and in Manhattan they have this completely beautiful showroom in their headquarters, which actually is perfectly acoustic as a studio," Wendel said. "They basically just gave it to us for three days, and we brought in our own recording gear. With that much time on our hands we were able to just try a bunch of stuff and throw a bunch of stuff up against the wall basically, and see what stuck and what was really exciting to us musically. The album probably represents half of what we actually recorded.""We got in there and just started experimenting with stuff, we really had no agenda," Tepfer said. "It's kind of interesting because it's a pretty eclectic record but I feel like on the whole it really holds together."The recording sessions produced a considerable amount of material, but Wendel and Tepfer both wanted to release an album relatively limited in length."The whole album is around 50 minutes," Wendel said. "One of the things we love about old LPs is that they're just not that long. There's something about that that's really great, it makes you want to keep coming back to the album because it doesn't drain you, you know? It's like a perfect little meal."While "Small Constructions" is the pair's first duo record, they have played together frequently over their brief history."We've worked quite a bit together," Wendel said. "We've played in L.A., New York, Paris, Missoula, Montana, of all places."The musicians first connected three years ago, although not at the first opportunity. A mutual friend of their mothers' had been trying to get the two artists to meet one another, to the general reluctance of each."This happens to both of us fairly often, and usually we're not that excited about following up," Tepfer said.The two met in New York City through some musician friends."It was kind of like, 'Oh, wait a minute, you're that guy that my mom was trying to set me up with,'" Tepfer said.They hit it off together, developing a friendship based on their common love of jazz music, a musical bond that underscores both "Small Constructions" and the duo's live shows."I think for both of us there's a huge focus on wanting to present a balanced show, a show where you feel like you go a lot of places and it has three dimensions to it," Wendel said. "What that means for us is that on certain pieces there's sort of an unspoken agreement that they're going to be very free and that they're going to be different every night that we play them and then other pieces will have more of a set agenda and form. That way, you get points that sort of ground the concert."A common feature of jazz music, improvisation is a crucial part of the duo's musical expression. "One of the people I've played with a lot is Lee Konitz. What he puts, before everything else, is improv," Tepfer said. "If we're going to be jazz musicians, if we're going to do this with integrity, essentially we have to really commit to improvising. Because otherwise we should really just write everything out and plan it all ahead. Ben and I really get on board with that philosophy."This focus on spontaneity demands both dedicated practice and onstage flexibility."There's a lot of preparation in the sense of just being able to be so free with the material that you can do whatever you want, 'cause that takes some work," Tepfer said. "But then there's also little preparation in terms of what's actually going to happen. That we really want to leave up to the moment, so it can really be different every night." "That's the thing about this music," Wendel said. "It's the only music where you can make a mistake and then the mistake can lead to the best thing ever."
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Barbershop quartets bring out music in its truest form.
It�s classic and beautiful in its simplicity; perhaps not as brutally honest as a murder ballad or broken love song, but there is some devout genuine content within the lyrical quirkiness. With no instruments to hide behind, the listener gets voices that are the instruments. There are no tricks, no effects and what you hear is what you get.
It�s an art form that spans American history. Barbershops were community centers where the men would kill time harmonizing while waiting for a haircut, and Durango was and is no different. The Durango Barbershoppers meet weekly for practice at Christ the King Lutheran Church; Saturday will be their annual fundraiser. It�s a night of barbershop music titled �Grandpa�s Attic� at the Smiley Auditorium featuring local groups The Durango Narrow Gaugers, Women�s Prerogative, Durango A Capella and First Class Delivery, along with The Crew from Denver. The Denver group is the reigning Rocky Mountain District Champion Quartet.
Carrol �Pete� Peterson, a life-long singer who performs with First Class Delivery and The Durango Narrow Gaugers, has been involved with the Durango Barbershoppers since they formed in 1968. As a kid and even into teenage and young adult years, he remained a singer and performer. Then life, family and work got in the way of singing, until he came to Southwest Colorado.
�We moved to Durango, and I saw a note in the paper that said somebody was trying to organize a barbershop group,� Peterson said. �I went and I was hooked after that. I�m the only charter member that�s left now.�
Despite a few highs and even more lows in the popularity of barbershop, it remains a style of music, and a tradition, proudly carried on by its performers.
�It�s ebbed in popularity. The whole boomer generation was out of touch with the music I grew up with. Rock �n� roll was becoming popular, and that�s a long way from traditional barbershop music,� Peterson said. �Although a lot of barbershop groups sing music from the rock �n� roll era, especially doo-wop. That�s what doo-wop is, somebody singing melody while other people back him up. That�s what barbershop quartet singing is, a lead section with three other parts backing him up.�
Saturday�s performance will dip into the classic American songbook, as well as the not-so-classic. Listeners may recognize barbershop versions of �50s rock and a cut by the Fab Four mixed into the set lists.
Peterson breaks down his love of barbershop to two things, music and friends.
�I love the close harmonies, that a capella harmony, you can�t equal anywhere else. You can sing it in a choir, but there are too many people and it�s often accompanied by a piano or orchestra or something like that. It doesn�t have that pure harmonic sound,� he said. �The other thing is the good fellowship and companionship. I know people well whom I never would have met otherwise. I cemented fellowship and relations with lots of people from this hobby.�
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WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. - Senior Diana Bukajeva proved she is a seriously tough out on Saturday. She won two matches to advance to the finals of the B Bracket at the Wake Forest Invitational.
Bukajeva defeated Nell Gaigher of Campbell 7-5, 5-7, 6-0 in her first match of the day. She then topped Nataliya Bredikhina of Maryland by a score of 6-4, 6-4. Bukajeva will play Courtney Earnest of Ball State in the championship.
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I've tried to tolerate MIL for a long time, she has made fun of my dress sense by saying that my clothes are too ugly and she will never let me attend a family gathering dressed like that. She even insults the shoes that I wear. She told DH that he needs to "teach" his wife how to dress better instead of wearing slippers all the time (I wore sandals when I visited her at her place.)
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