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The Waikato Institute of Technology (Wintec), one of New Zealand's leading institutes of technology, helps drive the development of a skilled workforce not only in New Zealand, but around the world.
Being a modern institute of technology, Wintec has a reputation for providing quality education. Graduates are work-ready and in-demand by employers.
To ensure Wintec meets the needs of the job market, the institute works closely with employers, industry and community organisations to understand and respond to the skills which are required. Through graduates, students and staff, Wintec contributes positively to the regional and national economy, and continues to play a role in its on-going prosperity. The institute is part of a national network of major institutes of technology and polytechnics (ITPs).
Students come from around New Zealand, and the world. Wintec is globally-connected through partnerships with international institutions and many of our programmes are delivered off-shore. We are committed to internationalisation.
Wintec's Centre for Health and Social Practice provides inter-professional learning, the teaching, research and external engagement opportunities results in innovative, leading edge position for Wintec in regard to the interface between education and health sectors. Wintec works in partnership with The Waikato Diabetes Service to provide formal programmes of education for nurses working with people with diabetes.
The Waikato Regional Diabetes Service is a specialist unit of the Waikato District Health Board. There are currently approximately 19,000 people with diabetes in this region which is a geographically large rural area surrounding Hamilton city. The Diabetes Service provides care and management at a secondary care level, Type 1 diabetes, pregnancy, specialist podiatry, Inpatient services at Waikato Hospital. In addition service supports primary care / general Practice with Nurse Specialists to mentor / coach staff as well as providing expert consultations for patients throughout the region.
Course description
Title of course: Advanced diabetes nursing practice
Programme duration
One Semester – 15 Weeks
The objective of this module is to enable Registered Nurses to advance their knowledge and skills in diabetes nursing practice. The module fosters an approach to learning that supports critical inquiry and clinical reasoning in the specialty practice of diabetes nursing in partnership with people and their whānau, families and communities. Students will explore issues in the clinical management of diabetes using theoretical and evidence-based perspectives, and develop specialty nursing care strategies to meet the challenges within the New Zealand health care environment.
Course outline
Clinical assessment (population):
Explore the socio-economic patterns of health and illness that contribute to diabetes.
• Clinical assessment (individual):
Nurse will demonstrate proficient/specialty nursing knowledge of assessment, continuing care and management plan, evaluation and referrals in diabetes care.
• Clinical (pathophysiology):
Critically examines pathophysiology, and advances in diabetes diagnostic and therapeutic approaches.
• Clinical (education):
Develop educational strategies with clients, families/whanau and communities promoting self-management of diabetes and healthy life style.
• Leadership and management (research/quality):
Explores evidence based research to inform diabetes nursing practice development.
• Leadership and management (ethics):
Critically examines legal, ethical and professional responsibilities in proficient/specialty Diabetes
Qualification gained on successful completion of the course:
New Zealand Qualification Authority (NZQA) Level 8, 30 credits as a Certificate of Proficiency or credited to a relevant Postgraduate qualification.
Eligibility criteria (if any)
Registered health professional employed for a minimum of 16 hours per week.
Current Practising Certificate
Additional activities
The programme, informed by the New Zealand National Diabetes Nursing Knowledge and Skills Framework (2009), provides the health professional with an increased blend of knowledge and skills required to competently and confidently plan care for a person with diabetes / cardiovascular disease and provide specialty care to people with high risk and socially complex needs. Health professionals will develop critical thinking to enable specialty practice through the exploration of problem-based learning, evidenced-based theory, and reflective and reflexive practice perspectives.
Snell, H. (2009). National diabetes nursing knowledge and skills framework. Palmerston North: Midcentral District Health Board.
Contact us
Link to the website http://www.wintec.ac.nz/courses/files/Post-Graduate-Health-and-Social-Practice-Brochure_WEB.pdf page 11
Centre for Health and Social Practice,
Tristram Street,
Private Bag 3036,
Waikato Mail Centre,
Hamilton 3240 New Zealand.
+64 7834 8800 ext 8459
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by Gwynne A. Young
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Proper perspective is in order.
Imagine a pie chart of the state of Florida's $69,896,485,549 budget. You practically need to squint and use a magnifying glass to see the judicial branch's tiny sliver — 0.6 percent —yes, just six-tenths of one percent.
Yet, the mission of the judiciary is huge. It is a vital, third co-equal branch of government that must administer justice in civil and criminal courts fairly, effectively, and efficiently, at the trial and appellate levels.
That's why The Florida Bar continues to make adequate court funding its top priority.
This year's State Court System's $474 million budget request for FY 2013-14 is only about $30 million more than last year's approved budget.
How does the court system want to spend that additional $30 million?
Rather than requesting substantial new resources, the emphasis is to "invest in the investment" the legislature has already made in the judicial branch.
This is the year to protect investments statewide at the trial and appellate levels — whether they are brick-and-mortar court buildings or flesh-and-blood employees.
Court employees have not had a raise since 2006, despite having to do more with less after 235 positions were eliminated. What's new this year is asking for a 3.5 percent competitive salary adjustment for all employees of the state courts system so that the judiciary can attract, hire, and retain highly qualified and competent employees.
"We have been asking our people to do more and more with less and less. And we are at the critical stage where if we don't invest in our personnel resources, we are going to continue to lose them. And that will have an adverse impact on the ability of the trial courts to keep cases moving to serve the people," said 20th Circuit Judge Margaret Steinbeck, chair of the Trial Court Budget Commission.
She is quick to say she doesn't want to sound ungrateful, and was relieved the legislature did not cut the courts' budget last year. There's no question the court stabilization funding plan hammered out a year ago — to make sure the court budget is no longer dependent on volatile court filing fees — is working.
While the plan is working, it's not enough to protect the courts' investments in its people. Court personnel have been expected to do more with less without a raise year after year after year after year after year after year. Yes, six long years and counting.
"We are losing some of our best and brightest to other government agencies," Judge Steinbeck said. "There is only so much loyalty and dedication that can carry you through. When you are facing the needs of your family, you face a tough decision: 'Am I going to choose working for the state courts, over my son's or daughter's needs?'"
Just at the Office of the State Courts Administrator, over the past three years, 16 employees — nearly 10 percent of the OSCA workforce — have moved to jobs in the executive branch, where they can earn an average of $6,800 more per year.
"This loss of key managers and other high performers, who had developed broad knowledge bases of critical judicial branch operations, has brought significant organizational challenges in already difficult times," according to the State Court System's budget request, filed with the legislature and Gov. Rick Scott.
We must do a better job of protecting our investment in our court employees, who are well-trained, ready, and willing to work for the judicial branch — if only they could afford to remain.
Trial courts have been hard hit by the pay gap. For example, base pay for federal court reporters in Miami is $77,641, compared to $47,569 for court reporters in the state system. Interpreters have a starting pay of $41,268 in state courts. They may begin in the federal courts at $71,384, however.
Rather than asking for a significant increase in new positions, this year's budget request aims to take care of existing court employees, adding only eight new FTEs (full-time equivalents) to the current 4,322.5 FTEs.
Just as the budget must address the needs of court personnel, it must also address the maintenance needs of the court system's buildings. Deferred maintenance on the court system's buildings and facilities cannot wait any longer.
Whenever it rains, imagine having to pull out pots and pans to catch the drops that fall through your leaky roof and splash on your floor. If that were your house, you would want to call a roofer to repair the leaks right away, before the damage becomes worse.
Well, that's exactly what is happening at the Florida Supreme Court building in Tallahassee. Containers must be moved around to catch the rain falling through the leaky original 1948 roof.
This budget request includes a number of appeals for necessary repairs and maintenance issues at many court facilities.
I stress the word "necessary." None of this is pie-in-the-sky, wish-list dreaming. It is merely asking for a minimum amount to cover the basic necessities to maintain the third co-equal branch of government.
Other noteworthy items in the new budget request include:
• $4 million to continue the courts' efforts to reduce the backlog of mortgage foreclosure cases, now at 379,577 cases statewide.
(Totally separate from this budget request is a promise that $5 million be awarded to the courts for foreclosures, part of $300 million in foreclosure settlement money recovered for Floridians in a national mortgage settlement with Wells Fargo, JP Morgan Chase, Bank of America, Citigroup, and Ally Financial, after allegations surfaced that fraudulent documents were used to foreclose on homeowners. At the next meeting of the Legislative Budget Commission this month, Attorney General Pam Bondi, Senate President Don Gaetz, and House Speaker Will Weatherford will seek approval for budget amendments to disburse $60 million of those settlement funds sitting in escrow since April. Some of that money should go directly to The Florida Bar Foundation, which has the infrastructure to distribute funds to legal aid organizations helping homeowners facing foreclosures. State Courts Administrator Lisa Goodner says she has been promised $5 million for two purposes: to decrease the backlog of foreclosure cases and to help with technology required so judges will be able to work with an electronic court record, rather than paper, which helps move cases more efficiently.)
• $4.4 million to cover expenditures for criminal conflict cases paid in excess of the flat fees to cover an "unfunded mandate" beginning in July 2, 2012. Private attorneys take cases when the public defender and the criminal conflict and civil regional counsel have conflicts of interest, and may under certain circumstances earn fees more than the too-low flat fees prescribed in statute. Because of concerns about increasing costs, the state courts system and the legislature implemented cost-control measures. Although costs may stabilize as a result of the control measures, current-year funding is insufficient to meet projected expenditures.
• $5.5 million to continue eight drug court pilot programs — in Broward, Escambia, Hillsborough, Marion, Orange, Pinellas, Polk, and Volusia counties — targeted to a specific population at risk of ending up in prison. Federal funding of about $11 million expires on June 30, 2013. If the pilots do not continue, these offenders will likely end up in prison with higher rates of recidivism and higher costs. While a cell in prison costs $53.34 per day per inmate, the daily costs of the drug court is $20 for each participant. It is estimated that the expanded drug court initiative already has resulted in nearly $18 million in costs avoided for the State of Florida by diverting nonviolent offenders from prison.
Of course, many worthy programs will be at issue when the legislature convenes, and many lawmakers may be quick to say the economy has not fully recovered and the budget can only stretch so far without raising taxes.
But, the economy is improving. Consider this a call to arms to protect the judicial branch's investments. We cannot allow the third co-equal branch of government to lose ground and slip backwards into crisis mode again.
As we walk the halls of the Capitol in Tallahassee, or have opportunities to talk to elected lawmakers in our own communities, let our message be strong and clear: It is only fair to grant the courts' budget request that is only $30 million more than last year to repair our facilities and fairly compensate our dedicated personnel.
Anything less would be a gross injustice.
[Revised: 06-28-2013]

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I'm following Evan's FF method. We started FF Friday. I know I don't want him to go through it too fast. but he figured out how to turn the pressure off quick.
Friday-3rd fetch he grabbed for the stick (using a wooden dowel). We did it 4-5 more times. I'm doing this on the tailgate. Then I placed the stick on the tailgate opposite side from where he is sitting. He bit me but then saw the stick and dragged me to the stick. Even though I got bit, I counted it a success, because he figured out the only way to get the pressure off was to get that stick. We did it 4-5 more times.
Saturday Morning-We started on the tailgate again. He would try to break sit (and reach for the stick)as soon as I touched his ear. I began lowering the stick. On the 3rd time he was getting it off the tailgate. He had no problem getting it from across the tailgate. By the 3rd-4th time I was holding him back and making him drag me to the stick. I moved him to the ground and placed the stick about 10 feet away. He did fine.
Saturday evening- 3-4 times on the tailgate and then we moved to the ground. I used a paint roller this time. I put the roller on the ground about 12 feet away. Now he is very fidgity as I try to get his collar and ear positioned. Once, I was ready and commanded fetch he was digging his way to the roller. The second time he tried to fight me for a few seconds but quickly decided he'd get that roller. 3-4 more times and I quit.
Sunday Morning- I used a stool instead of the tailgate. He did just fine with 4-5 commands and the roller on the ground. So I did 3-4 with the roller about 12 feet away and me holding him back slightly. I quit calling it a great success.
Sunday Afternoon -I used a coke bottle. He knew exactly what he needed to do to get the pressure off. We did 4-5 times at 12 feet and then 1 at about 20 feet. I quit with that.
My question is: How long do I keep it up. He has learned much faster than I thought he would. I don't want to move on to quick, but I don't want to mess up by continuing for too long.


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The Monday Night Pickers gather once a week in a Cardinal Street garage filled with amplifiers and microphones.
On most Mondays, the audience of top-tapping, head-bobbing music fans outnumber the musicians, but not always.
"Sometimes, we have as many as 15 or 16 Pickers," said Tennie Winter, 59, a fixture at the weekly events.
There's no charge to listen, but people bring plenty of good food. A recent menu included barbecue sandwiches, slaw, potato salad, fruit slices and pineapple upside-down cake. Musicians and audience members filled their plates and plopped down wherever they could find a place to sit.
When the Monday Night Pickers meet, it's not exactly a concert and it's not exactly a supper club. The regulars wouldn't even call it a synthesis of the two.
"One thing about this group is it's a family. We try to take care of each other," said Russ Witt, a 65-year-old guitar player from Tupelo. "When one is down, we pick them up. It's a family support group. I don't know what I'd do without them. Of course, we fight like brothers and sisters, but I wouldn't trade them."
The cobbled-together family meets and eats at the home of George and Patsy Wilson, who are happy to be hosts each week.
"Somebody asked why we do it," Patsy Wilson, 66, said. "I said, 'George likes music and I like company, so we love it.'"
Heat and air
The story started about five years ago in Verona, where a collection of musicians met to play at the Old City Hall building. The location fit the needs of the 10 to 12 original members of the Pickers, but there were drawbacks.
"We had no heat and no air conditioning in the building, and no bathroom," said Larry Marshall, 68, a Picker from Carr Vista.
People sometimes stopped by to listen in Verona, but there was nothing approaching the high-quality spread of food available at the Wilson house these days.
George Wilson, 69, plays bass, and he heard about the Verona group. Before anyone could say, "Where's the bathroom?" the Monday Night Pickers became a fixture on Cardinal Street.
That was about three years ago, so the Wilson's neighbors have gotten used to seeing cars lining the street on Mondays.
"We checked with them to make sure they didn't mind," George Wilson said. "We talked to the police, too. They said as long as we didn't block the street or cause problems, they'd leave us alone."
Country is cool
The Monday Night Pickers focus on country music from the '50s, '60s and '70s, but the players slip in rock 'n' roll or gospel numbers at times.
"We just have a circle and it goes around the room," Marshall said. "Each person gets the chance to sing as it goes around. Everybody has their chance. It works that way."
Tommy Clark, 45, from Mooreville, makes the scene whenever his work schedule allows. He's a mostly self-taught piano player.
"I like to say that I studied Jerry Lee Lewis," Clark said. "I can play just about everything he put down."
When he started playing and singing "Whole Lotta Shakin' Going On," head bobbing and toe tapping wasn't enough for the audience. Several had to get up and dance.
Christy Francis, 61, of Tupelo, wasn't in the garage. She was looking after the kitchen and cleaning up after everybody.
But the door into the garage connects to the pantry, which connects to the kitchen. Francis hears everything from her self-appointed post, and she, too, had to shake, rattle and roll when Clark channeled "The Killer."
"I can still do it at 61 years old," she said, with a big smile and a clap of her hands.
Songs by Hank Williams, Merle Haggard, Gene Watson and other greats are covered. A rendition of Johnny Cash's "Ghost Riders in the Sky" resulted in a spontaneous sing-along with the audience during the "Yippie yi ohhhhh, Yippie yi yaaaaay" part.
"You see how much fun we have on Monday nights," said Winter, still breathing hard after dancing to "Whole Lotta Shakin' Going On."
Help from friends
David Gillentine, 65, of Saltillo, knows how to play the drums, but he's committed himself to learning the bass. It's been a challenge.
"George (Wilson) is very helpful to give me pointers," he said. "Everybody has been very helpful with people who are learning. The audience is always encouraging, too, and they always applaud for every song."
Josh Matthews is a 16-year-old from Tupelo, and he's learning guitar. He's been stopping by on Monday nights for the past few months.
"They're really good teachers," he said. "Each person has their own way of doing things."
He's learning those old country songs, but he's also a fan of hard rock and heavy metal.
"I won't do a metal song here," he said, shaking his head. "I have to fit in."
The helpfulness goes beyond music. When people get sick, other members check on them. There are past members who aren't physically able to attend on Monday nights anymore, so volunteers fix plates of food and deliver them.
"A lot of people have come and gone," Patsy Wilson said, "but they keep coming and keep going. There's always someone new."
The Pickers have monthly birthday celebrations, and the group once hosted a wedding reception. Around Christmas and Thanksgiving, everyone pitches in for sit-down meals that feed 45 or so hungry musicians and music fans.
Alcohol isn't allowed, and there's no profanity or dirty jokes. Music nights are family nights, as kids and grandkids tag along with their elders.
For the audience, Monday nights are a chance to socialize with friends and enjoy free entertainment.
"It's just a good group of people," Patsy Wilson said.
For the musicians, Mondays mean they get to eat well and play together in a climate-controlled environment with ready access to restrooms.
"There are a lot of guys like myself that know three chords and the truth. That's what they say country songs are," Marshall said. "There are very few venues for people to play. Most people end up playing at home by themselves. This gives old men like me a chance to play together, and we all look forward to it."


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I'm sure atlanta will take him in the first round.
I rather draft fauria and build him into the most dominating NFL TE red zone threat for years to come. I think he has that kind of natural ability, and the love for ertz and eifert is overhyped IMO.
Tyler Eifert doesn't have the YAC potential of Gronk or Hernandez or Vernon Davis or Antonio Gates. But he is an absolute first down machine. Might have the strongest hands i've ever seen on a tight end...maybe the strongest hands i've ever seen on an offensive player in college. If the ball placement is right, it's a completion. If we get receivers who open up the field (mike wallace) and he is able to operate in open space...the chains would move and move and move.
And in the end zone, whose beating this guy for a jump ball?
And while I agree that I don't think either will be there at 42 it's not out of the realm of possibilities. Tight Ends fall a lot more further than they should The ones that go high are either coming in with unreal hype (Kellen Winslow and Jeremy Shockey) or destroy the combine (Vernon Davis and Gonzo).
I've seen good tight ends fall a lot further than they should. Heath Miller going 29th was a steal for Pittsburgh and anybody who watched him play that year, knew he was better than that. Same with Zach Miller while he was at Arizona State.
For anyone to say Ertz is a better pass catcher than Eifert is incorrect and must not have watched any tape of the two. Watch Eifert get in and out of his breaks especially when he is lined up in the slot or out wide. In addition there is no comparison to body control, it's Eifert hands down.
Does anyone on this board watch full game tape of these prospects rather than a 30 sec YouTube video?
As of today Ertz might be the more complete TE, although not by much, but if you are wanting a receiving TE Eifert has more ability, just watch the tape and you will see.
looking at Fauria's frame I worry that he will be Agnew 2.0
I havent come across a mock yet where he falls past 30 to the falcons.
Eifert has amazing body control and bend. His receiving window is ridiculously wide because he can reach back for a lot of balls thrown behind him.. With that said, I like Ertz catching the short 5 yd pass and driving for the extra 5 yards. Both players are very good but I like Eifert slightly more. Tight Ends usually are mocked too high around 18-20 and get drafted int he late 20s or early 30s. With so many QBs going last year the TEs got pushed back somewhat. I think this is a good crop and quite a few teams desperately need one. I do same many teams really need one every year though and they dont get overdrafted.
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I've got the Packers taking Ertz and the Falcons taking Eifert. Either way the only way to get either one is to trade down. There is no way either is available in round 2. I'm rooting for a TE via free agency.
Dolphins are going to have to trade up to get one of them.
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The church congregation in Georgia that faced down giants has turned its attention away from football and toward firemen in the save-your-marriage-or-die-trying film Fireproof.
Capt. Caleb Holt is a veteran firefighter in the Albany, Ga., fire dept. According to him, everybody thinks he's a hero except his own wife. "How is it that I get respect everywhere I go except in my own house?" he complains. Catherine Holt will have none of that, though. She's had it up to here with Caleb's thoughtlessness and selfishness, and besides, there's a pretty cute doc who's just caught her eye at the hospital she works at. Their years-old marital promises are the furthest thing from either one of their minds, and the idea of divorce has suddenly reared its ugly head.
But Caleb and Catherine don't think the prospect is that ugly. Ugly to them would be staying together and continuing the ongoing skirmish that has become their lives. She pulls the trigger and gets a divorce attorney, and Caleb's ready to let the bullet hit him. But then his father decides to do a little compassionate meddling. He gives Caleb a handwritten journal of sorts that chronicles how 40 days of "trying" in just the right way might change everything.
Dad calls it the "Love Dare," and Caleb reluctantly decides he's got nothing to lose. So he starts with Day 1. ...
Positive Elements
Which prompts him to say nothing negative to his wife. Day 2) Do something unexpected as an act of kindness. 3) Buy something that tells her you're thinking of her. 4) Call to check if she needs anything. 16) Pray for her. 17) Listen to her. 18) Study her again. And on it goes.
Lending a hand are the morsels of homespun wisdom that have a habit of popping out of his friend and colleague Michael's mouth. An example: "A woman's like a rose. If you treat her right, she'll bloom. If you don't, she'll wilt." Also, "When most people promise 'for better or for worse,' they only mean for the better." Invoking the movie's title, he says, "Fireproof doesn't mean that a fire will never come, but that when it comes, you'll be able to withstand it."
Gently chiding his friend for not working hard enough to save his marriage, Michael says, "You'll run into a burning building to save people you don't even know, but you're going to let your own marriage burn to the ground?" Later, he confesses to Caleb that his first marriage ended in divorce because he fell out of love while "following his heart." It's not the right thing to do, he insists, "Don't just follow your heart, man, because your heart can be deceived."
[Spoiler Warning] Caleb himself comes up with perhaps the film's richest nugget: "I have learned that you never leave your partner—especially in a fire." And I'll note here in this spoiler paragraph that Caleb doggedly sticks to his 40-day Love Dare, and it utterly reshapes his attitudes and actions toward Catherine. "I am sorry," he ultimately tells her. "I have trampled on you with my words and my actions." The movie ends with the once-again happy couple renewing wedding vows and a preacher talking about the difference between a legal marriage contract and a heavenly minded marriage covenant.
Props are appropriately given to couples seeking counseling instead of just calling it quits when they're on the rocks. And Michael has a quick scene in which he lets his wife know he's going to always be right there for their kids.
Catherine's friends give her some bad advice about how to handle Caleb. But the film clearly shows that it is bad advice. Good advice comes from a co-worker who warns Catherine that a man (the doctor) who will woo her while she's married may be prone to also stray from her after he's succeeded.
A subplot involving Caleb's comrades at the fire station illustrates the difference between having healthy self-confidence and being a braggart. Catherine is shown giving care to her ailing mom.
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Asked whether he's afraid of dying on the job, Michael responds, "No. 'Cause I know where I'm goin'." He adds, "I just don't want to get there 'cause I got hit by a train!"
Much more specific and instructional about matters of eternal destiny are conversations between Caleb and his dad, John. John lets us know that he found Christ late in life, and that in doing so, everything about his life was changed. "The Lord did a work in us," he says, including his wife. "[And] He's been at work all around you, you just haven't realized it." God cares about your life, he tells his son, and he talks about Jesus dying on the cross to create a way for us to meet Him.
The gist of his ongoing spiritual coaching is that while marriage is certainly worth fighting to preserve even without God in the picture, you need Jesus to make any kind of a real go at it. When Caleb proffers the idea that he doesn't need Jesus because he's been a pretty good guy and he helps others in his job, John responds, "His standards are so high He considers hatred to be murder and lust to be adultery." We all need God's forgiveness and salvation, he continues.
An especially poignant moment arrives when Caleb wails, "How am I supposed to show love for somebody who over and over and over constantly rejects me?" As the camera swings around to include a crude wooden cross in the frame, John quietly responds, "That's a good question."
[Spoiler Warning] When Caleb tells his dad that the Love Dare changed his life, John corrects him, "God changed your life. Love Dare was just a tool He used." And, indeed, Caleb has accepted Christ as his Lord.
John quotes James 1:19. The film also references Genesis 2:24, Romans 5:8 and Romans 10:9. Gospel- and worship-themed songs run throughout in the soundtrack.
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Day 23 is all about watching out for parasites, or addictions. This is one of the areas that Caleb most struggles with. Internet pornography has its hooks in him, and it has contributed considerably to the problems he and Catherine have. "When you're alone, that's what you default to," Catherine accuses him, "and there is nothing honorable about it." Weeks later, we watch Caleb take a baseball bat to his computer, symbolically ending its control over him.
Of note here is the fact that the film not only calls pornography what it is, an addiction and a sin, but it does so while handling this sexual subject with delicate decorum. We're never shown anything salacious on Caleb's screen, and conversations stop at "pleasuring yourself" and Catherine's flat-out refusal to "compete with that."
Catherine's big temptation, meanwhile, is the kind physician who keeps popping into her world at work. They fraternize and flirt, sharing lunches and longing glances.
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Caleb never lays a hand on Catherine, but one of their disputes turns quite tense when he looms over her, yelling and wagging his finger in her face. He similarly brandishes a threateningly clenched fist when confronting Catherine's doctor friend, warning him to keep his distance from his wife.
Fighting hard to prevent his temper from coaxing him to do something he'll really regret, Caleb attacks his trash can, throwing bags at his garage door and whacking at the plastic bin. As mentioned, he also takes a bat to his computer, destroying it.
After a car wreck, the driver is seen screaming in terror as a train bears down on her already mangled vehicle which rests on the tracks. Blood drips from her nose, and a friend in the passenger seat is unconscious. The scenes that show her rescue and, later, the extraction of a little girl from a burning house are nerve-racking and perilous. The train almost strikes Michael. And Caleb barely makes it to safety, crawling through flames and debris.
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Just one stray comment about a man thinking he's aging like a fine wine.
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We see teens drag racing. (They get into that serious accident.)
Writer/director Alex Kendrick and his writer/producer brother, Stephen, aren't under any illusions that this small-budget movie will turn Hollywood on its head. Stephen told Plugged In Online, "When people butcher our films on Rotten Tomatoes and say, 'This isn't Oscar-winning material,' we say, 'We know!' We're just people who are working with what we have at a small church in Georgia. It's truly a loaves and fishes story."
What they do want is for their earnest project to turn your marriage upside down.
You might notice that some of the lines in Fireproof feel a little wooden. And you might notice that the script indulges more dialogue (most of it spiritual) than you're used to hearing in movies about firemen. But the honest truth is that you don't really care by the time the credits roll, because you're too busy feeling your own feelings and thinking your own thoughts about your own relationships. This is the kind of movie that succeeds, sometimes despite itself, because it does a superlative job of digging into serious issues that so deeply affect so many of us every day.
The first time I saw this film I was alone in a cramped and cold projection booth, scribbling notes as fast as my fingers would fly. The second time, though, I was with my bride of 14 years, and I was in no mood to write a movie review. All I wanted to do was hold her hand. And when the last scene faded from the screen, I could do nothing less than turn to her and whisper, "If you ever wanted to leave me, I would try to make it so hard for you! I would do everything he just did and so much more to keep you by my side." She breathed in response, "I would never leave you." I spent the rest of the day thanking God that I was so fortunate as to never have to doubt her.
Others who are right now in the middle of ugly emotions driven by marital neglect, apathy and want, will surely be compelled by Fireproof to skip such emotional promises and tender bonding and instead break out the survival gear right away, putting into practice some of the principles they've just seen brought to life. That, I believe, would make the Kendrick brothers far happier than any golden statue ever could. It'd make our Savior happier, too.
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This week, we have a tale of three high schools for you, but it's a trip down memory lane when 50 years ago one of the nation's most prominent news magazine's was naming them the best place to be educated in America.
First, let's get you back to 1957. Elvis was on WHB. The A's had just finished their second season in Kansas City. Newsweek was worried about Sputnik and Time was obsessed over Prince Phillip. And when people got a little deeper into those October 21st issues they saw this; the first ever list of the best high schools in America.
There were only 38 of them. And three of them from this area made the cut.
KCPT's Special Correspondent Sam Zeff takes us back to that pivotal year when Time was placing Southwest High, Topeka High and Shawnee Mission High (only one of them back then) in the top 38 schools in the country.
How did schools make the list? A school board president in Illinois was overseeing the building of a new high school and he wanted to know what makes a great one, so he made a list of high schools with the most National Merit Scholar finalists.
What a wonderful trip down memory lane. I graduated from Southwest High School in 1964. I just wished that this video story had included some of the truly magnificent things that high schools do not have today such as the swimming pool, huge auditorium, wonderful library, wide and tall staircases with wooden banisters, superb architecture, etc. Your video article was correct in that we, and the Kansas City Metro Area, had teachers with some of the brightest minds of the era. As your story ends, in the '60s, Southwest High School was truly the grooviest.


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I'd try to find a decent pet dog class. The trick is to find a fairly good one. Anyone can hold classes. Try googling for an obedience training club in your area. If they don't offer classes, their members can often steer you towards a good instructor or away from the bad ones. Ideally, try to find a class that doesn't have the dogs packed like sardines. I'd strongly suggest the dogs be in different classes.
Books are another great resource for learning basic dog ownership skills. Read three or four of them.
Good luck. And remember that a physically and mentally tired dog is a good dog. If you can get your rear out of bed early enough to take them for a good walk in the morning and set aside time in the evening for another walk, a play session, and a short obedience session, you might be surprised at how many problems magically disappear.
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Django Unchained has generated a lot of controversy. Spike Lee has called for a boycott of the film. Others have trashed it for portraying Black people as clowns, for its violence and for the many times the N-word is heard. These folk think this movie is terrible.
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This damned flu is killing me. My throat and sinuses are all swollen and on fire, although apparently this is a good thing, since it means that I'm getting the last of this evil bug's symptoms. Popping a codeine occasionally makes me feel something resembling normal but given it's less-desireable side-effects, I'd better go easy.
I'm told that the strains of influenza going around this year weren't the same as the ones innoculated-against in the 'flu shots being sold. Regardless of whether or not I had my act together enough to get my shots, I'd still be Shit Out of Luck.
The Unstoppable Shift of IT Workers Overseas
I really doubt, during the boom, that anybody honestly thought that the good times would last forever. Now that jobs everywhere are vanishing overseas permanently, it might give your typical IT worker a taste of what reality is like for your average accountant. After a three year degree and two years of on-the-job probation, they can earn their CPA (Certified Practicing Accountant) and start on a salary of something like $28,000 a year. Your average accountant working for a sweatshop like Accenture works his or her arse off, having time billed in 6 minute units. If he/she works hard enough and demonstrate loyalty long enough (like decades), they might have a shot at being made partner.
I wonder if things will get nearly as bad for IT people and if (or when) it happens, whether IT specialists will consider taking membership of a professional societies more seriously.
The biggest hurdle to this, I think, even if salaries, conditions and hiring practices get really bad, is an ideological one. If Slashdot is any indicator, your average IT worker would have to be screwed pretty hard before considering joining a union. Collective bargaining only really works if the majority of workers are being represented by the entity doing the bargaining. I could just imagine the econo-fundies screaming blue murder at the mere suggestion that the Government make membership of the ACS (ACM, etc) mandatory for IT grads.
The last thing I heard in public (about making membership of a professional society for IT specialists mandatory) was from a speech I attended by Alan Underwood, a past president of the Australian Computer Society (back when the boom was still happening). He claimed that such efforts were going nowhere, because governments and big businesses were fighting it every step of the way. When things get considerably worse, we'll see how long IT types will maintain their distain for collective bargaining and setting of minimum standards. I'm not holding my breath though.


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Thread: Help Discus not eating??
I agree with the PraziPro and, IMO, all fish should be treated for internal worms. It's so mild that's there's no reason not to use it ...especially in new fish. I have read that garlic food may help prevent worms but not get rid of existing worms. Not sure if that is accurate or not but it kinda makes sense to me.
Mountain Discus, a breeder that sells on the internet, also recommends Omega One fish flakes for their Discus. It's made of real salmon. They feel fish pellets are not as good for them due to their flat stomachs.
Do you think perhaps this fish may be bullied and the others not allowing him to eat?
I would not use the melafix. Gosh, King Fisher is right on. Turn those lights off. They need not be on over 8 hours a day.
Okay will do 8 hours lights off. and prazi pro should i mix this with aquaruim salt and water conditioner??
No, you just pour it in the tank water and leave it for a few days and then do a water change. It doesn't hurt the bacteria in the filter, injury the fish, and if they do not have worms, it just cleans them out and they will poop a bit more. If there are any signs of worms, repeat the medication in 5 days and do this again.
READ the directions. You add the medication very slowly to the edges of the tank and let the filters blend it into the water.
I see no reason to even use salt myself. If he had a wound or Ick then yes but I can't see a reason for it in this case. (Just my opinion.) Plants also do not like salt.
16 hours of lights on is still a long time period. Most of us keep lights on a timer and generally from 8-10 hours during the hours we are home to view the fish.
I'd be curious to know the ammonia, nitrite and nitrate levels? Also what size tank you have your Discus in.
OH MY. I just found your other thread and pretty easy to see what is going on.
You have a 4 foot tank with 7 Discus, 2-Bristle-nose, a Ryukin goldfish and a Stringray. This is a losing proposition. Stringrays need to be in much larger tanks than you have. Goldfish are coldwater fish and Discus warm water fish. No more than 5 Discus should be in your tank with those 2-Bristlenose. No more than that.
You have added salt, melafix, methylene blue......for what reason? Methylene Blue is for ick. With all medications, an air stone needs to be added and also with warm temps. Oxygen gets deleted with is why your fish was probably gulping.
You said you added another medication called Colony nitrifying bacteria. That is not a medication, but a bacteria.
If you really want to have Discus, I would suggest getting rid of everything but the BN and 5 of those Discus.
I would start doing 50% water changes each day to get all that junk out of the water you added, turn the temps down to 84-85 and after a week, add the PraziPro. But the fish might improve if you get all that stuff out of the water.
Last edited by Lady Hobbs; 12-19-2012 at 06:21 PM.
Yeah. Where to start?
LH has hit this on the head fairly well.
The goldfish absolutely must go like now.
The other stuff and tank size has issues. You have to sort these out, by overloading a discus tank you get serious problems, over loading any type of tank can cause this internal digestive related problem but in Discus it amplifies fast.
You have to go back to what the Discus is and from where it comes.
In it's natural environment it has a low acidic PH level. This low PH acts as an immune system agent. Low Ph kills off many types of parasites, internal worms, bacterial maladies etc. A discus gets much of it's digestive gut bacteria from it's diet in nature. It eats items that have beneficial internal bacteria and this aids it's digestive processes. It is designed by nature to live within it's natural habitat quite well.
And then....we come along.
We want to think that we can manipulate these fish to our own designs. To a point we may. The problem becomes that we tend to not be able to get the fish to accept the type of abuse we dish out in our aquariums. There is no bacteria in their environment but what they eat. There are no worms or parasites because the PH level kills all of them. So now we put them in our tank and we do not keep the PH low, the water pristine, the diet full of beneficial digestive bacteria and soon the fish break down.
We need to worm them regularly using a direct application feed that will have levamisole in it. To use Prazi all of the time just lets the ones that live through the prazi get tougher, you need to rotate your applications and you need to directly feed the agents into the gut, most are either photo reactive or dissipate very quickly. We need to rotate feed fenbendazole feeds into the diet so as to not let any invasives live and become resistant to this medication. We need to perform these applications 4 times per year. We then need to perform a general intestinal cleansing twice per year with a metronidazole based feed to keep the digestive tract clear of hexamita. Angels plus has these feeds. Research them and why they exist.
Any high levels of any form of any type of pollution in the waters of a Discus will affect the hydration of the internal organs and intestinal tract, it will either hydrate or dehydrate the intestines. This creates a disfunction in the ability of the intestines to flow detritus (poo) out of the fish. This stagnation of (poo) invites the colonization of all of the above stuff.
Most likely you have hexamita. Hexamita can be brought under control most affectively by raising the temperature above 92F and applying metronidazole as the particular form describes. This is a lot of work. As was noted the treatment can stress the fish further. Very few times have I ever had any luck with salt on a Disc because it affects the intestines and this also affects the flow of (poo). It seems to just turn them dark which indicates a hydration situation to me.
I have treated and cured these fish of many a thing using the concept of returning them to natural waters. A ph of sub 4.7, a total dissolved hardness of 50 PPM or less and heat in the range of 92 to 94F. This however was an extremely advanced way of curing problems and it requires a lot of preparation, work, equipments and time.
In reality keeping rays and Discus together in a home aquarium and having the Disc do well long term is very difficult.
You also have an issue with the rays as they are not going to survive long if you keep putting metallic salts in their waters. They have a very simple liver and kidneys, a bit of copper or any other type of metallic will cause organ failure and they will die. Any soft boned form of fish should not be exposed to metallic salts.
I would hunt for info on Discus and hunt for info on rays. See how they can interact in a closed system.
Good luck.
Yes, the issue of the rays and other fish were covered and I assumed that they had dealt with these issues'; if not, little we offer will aid them at this point.
Lowing pH to 4.7? Wow, that is extremely low, and I'd think few, if anyone here, could do that (chemicals? How can that pH be achieved/maintained?) and the process would take a long time for fish that for most of us, are kept in a pH of near/about 7.0; Of course, any pH below 6.0 will kill off all filter bacteria; I assume you do near 100% water changes every day (I know many discus keepers do) and anyone with a pH below 6.3 should consider this level of WC.
I agree with some of what you say (one point: discus that have been breed in tanks for many generations and are not like wilds and will differ a bit; they must still be similar but pH and harder water are often their normal environment that they grew up in/hatched as well as their parents and so on - still, as a species their gills evoved to handle softer, low pH water and this might be a good idea for these fish. Just not changing while they are still ill, however.)
You need to reference many of your statements (the issue of gut bacteria, or pollution effects (which I feel is spot on but still needs referencing) and your treatment methods (where did you get this information? I'd like to read more.)
As for salt - I got this from a top, extremely well known breeder and have had great success and never had the result you had but then, some treatments, even standard ones, fail for some people/fish all the time; however, while a salt treatment is referenced in the classic Discus book this treatment is NOT a natural treatment and I am sure some fish will not do well with it - just all discus I have own have recovered nicely with this treatment as has the breeder's as others I have known - does not prove the treatment but we are not researchers here.
Temps above 92F are tolerated but I have no idea for how long or what the upper limit is (read that 100F has been seen but only in the wild and the results?) - I'd like your opinion on duration and limit since I have no source.
Last edited by Cermet; 12-19-2012 at 09:47 PM.Knowledge is fun(damental)
A 75 gal with eight Discus, fake plants, and a lot of wood also with sand substrate. Clean up crew is down to just two Sterba's Corys. Filters: continuous new water flow; canister w/UV, in-tank algae scrubber!! Finally, junked the nitrate removal unit from hell.
For Fishless cycling:http://www.aquaticcommunity.com/aqua...ead.php?t=5640
I missed most of his information because he wrote it in a different thread and left out all his information in this thread regarding his stock.
Not having his own test kit and only have 3-Aqua Clear 50's is also an issue. IMO, he needs to return the fish I mentioned above, stop buying others and invest his money into a test kit and better filtration.
His other thread says he changes 30% every few days and in this thread he writes he changes 50% every few days. He also wrote a Big Al's employee told him to add methylene blue "because it's good for the bacteria". huh?
IMO, the problems with this tank are multiple. I don't know as simply worming this fish is even an issue with all these other problems. The problem might simply be overcrowding, wrong stock, or any number of things.
Interesting posting on the internal worms, Indian Angel. Thanks
In the early 90's I had a shop and became involved with many types of Discus. I think the essential thing to keeping Discus is to respect that they are very different in their sensitivity from source to source. Some can do fairly well in tap water so long as it is low in TDS and not too high in PH. Some require an extreme amount of pampering.
The Discus I became most interested in was the Tefe Green. A very sensitive type. At this time in the hobby we had a lesser understanding of the affects of low ph and less understanding of the worms, ameobas and various microscopic invasives than we do today. We would nail the tank with potassium permanganate hard and hope for the best, which was really like chemotherapy on the poor fish, it killed them as much as it cured them.
In my adventures I would end up with fish that had almost complete immune crash. They would not eat, were black as coal, were sloughing body film, just terrible. At some points I could have several thousand dollars in fish that were in deep trouble. Most of this was due to a series of viral epidemics such as angel discus virus. Almost all fish would perish to this.
I was introduced to the idea of a drip introduction of straight RO combined with a drip of muriatic acid. The PH had to be monitored with a meter as well as the hardness and conductivity. The acid would increase the conductivity. A temperature of 92 F to 96 F was maintained. Several bags of peat moss were placed into the tank within flow through bags. The initial drip dosage of acid was required to be rather severe. The base water had to get down to a PH level of sub 5. The total affect of a sub 5 PH is that ammonia is rendered non toxic, it must be kept in mind however that non toxic does not mean it is not there. This is very important to remember as you bring the fish back up to a more manageable PH of 5.5 to 6.5. To be sure this was complex to administer and any small mistake could cause death, yet the act of not trying was failure by default. I feel any Discus keeper must have the equipment such as a high quality PH meter, a conductivity meter, a digital temp meter, a state of the art water quality testing kit and a quality TDS device. You simply can not guess on your water conditions.
At a PH of 4.7 to 5 ammonia is rendered non toxic. All invasives that could harm the fish are killed off. All bacteria is neutralized. It becomes just the fish and the waters. The high temperature kills of the hexamita. Even fish pooping white strands or clear fluids can be saved.
With the acid drip the waters TDS or conductivity level will rise. It is hard to control but it should be kept below 200ppm on the meter. As the existing water is replaced by RO the amount of acid required to bind the minerals in the water decreases. The amount of acid needed is less and the amount of acid may be reduced, this lowers the TDS level in time. In several days the water can become 4.7 PH TDS of 50 in a 90 gallon aquarium. Stay above 4.7, at 4.5 and below the fish start to go into a zone where they can go into shock. Below 4.2 you may start losing them. The entire time RO is dripped at a fair rate of as much as 15 to 20 gallons per day. You must use a food supplement to replace vitamins and minerals as you can. Within several days the fish will change dramatically and become well.
Now for the bad part.
Water at a PH of 4.7 to 5 Ph and a TDS is actually corrosive to the fish. The duration of this treatment must be as minimal as possible. We would like to be ending it at the 20 day time frame. We want to very cautiously raise the PH to 5.5 hardness of 75 and pause for 10 days and then go to 6PH and TDS of 90 for 10 days. We must read the ammonia several times per day a we approach the toxic thresh hold. It may suddenly appear or it may not. If the tank is pristinely kept it may not. We must also have primed filters to add to the tank to reestablish Bio at the thresh hold. We might need to place in several sources and have them lost as we get to the thresh hold.
The reason we can not keep them this low is because they will lose critical calcium to the waters acidity. They lose the minerals to keep them strong and they suffer brain damage from lack of calcium at 60 to 90 days depending upon the size of the fish. In nature they migrate into and out of extremely low PH low TDS environments, they do not remain for long durations.
This works on low PH angels, altums and upper interior amazon sub species possibly. It does not work on domestic scalares. Domestic scalares perish at 5.5 to 6 PH and a TDS of 75 on average.
Most of this was done as research due to necessity. It can work if done patiently. None of it was ever much fun.
Most of this information can be researched under the topic of treatments for the discus plague or angelfish virus.
The several sources I found describing the gut bacterium were from German importers of Discus and Altum angels.
Thanks for the details; wow, that is a treatment! but for many wilds, a pH of 5.5 is normal! and the water some wilds live in has a softness that closely approaches R/O (but still, there are essential trace minerals so 100% R/O can never be used - this, I know you know, but I like to reinforce this point to readers who are just learning about discus.)
The issue of virus's are THE NUMBER ONE reason discus are really a species ONLY fish; and angels can be a disaster (since these fish are so closely related and such illnesses will jump species.) I trust Sterba' Cories only because they are a very different species AND handle the high temps.
Their past wild roots really does mean that having a pH below 7 and soft water can only help these fish; and that said, many tank breed do well (but forget breeding) above 7.0 and with hard water; as for temperatures, I fully agree that NO ONE has ever agreed upon a good temperature range.
But after looking at a map of the discus range I feel comfortable holding mine in the 84-86 range and the young at 88 F (really does speed up their growth.) This does NOT mean that 80-82 is wrong but I've seen bad results at these temps so I avoid it. That said, they do need to get below this for short time periods to induce spawning (the best, most sure method that was demonstrated under laboratory conditions by scientist studying this species.)Knowledge is fun(damental)
A 75 gal with eight Discus, fake plants, and a lot of wood also with sand substrate. Clean up crew is down to just two Sterba's Corys. Filters: continuous new water flow; canister w/UV, in-tank algae scrubber!! Finally, junked the nitrate removal unit from hell.
For Fishless cycling:http://www.aquaticcommunity.com/aqua...ead.php?t=5640
I have actually seen comet goldfish in a tank with discus and a plethora of other common tropicals at one of my LFS... and the heaters were not even turned on for half of the day. I tried talking to the owner but he insisted he knew what he was doing. Needless to say that setup didn't last long... I felt so bad for the discus.
They are smart, sensitive fish who must be treated as such. If you want them to survive you absolutely must get rid of everything in that tank that will not survive in the exact conditions that your discus need.


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If Ardi was living in woodlands, weighed about as much as a chimp, was about as tall as a chimp, and had arms and legs and hands and feet like a chimp's, why was she not a chimpanzee? Let me count the ways.
First, she doesn't have apelike teeth. She has humanlike teeth, with small canines that barely project beyond the level of the tooth row.
Second, her dental proportions are wrong. In chimps, the front teeth—incisors and canines—dominate the dentition; in humans, the opposite is true. Ardi's teeth lie somewhere in the middle of the two.
Third, the Ardipithecus remains known so far indicate that there is little sexual dimorphism in the species in canine or body size. This is one of the oddest features about Ardipithecus. Strong sexual dimorphism is common among living Old World monkeys and apes, among fossil primates older than Ardipithecus (such as Proconsul), and among hominins in the genus Australopithecus that are more recent than Ardi. If something Proconsul-like evolved into Ardi, and later into Australopithecus, sexual dimorphism was first lost and then regained.
Fourth, although her arms and fingers are long like a chimp's, Ardi's wrists and hands have no adaptations for brachiating branch to branch like a young chimpanzee or for knuckle-walking on the ground like an adult chimp. Ardi walked quadrupedally in the trees, placing her hands palm-down on branches and grasping with her big toes. Because she was relatively large, Ardi was probably a slow and careful climber on large branches much of the time.
Then there is the most surprising and unchimplike feature of all. According to team member C. Owen Lovejoy of Kent State University, Ardi had a pelvis like no other primate known to science. The upper part of the pelvis in humans forms a large bowl—consisting of the short, curving iliac blades—that cradles the viscera. In a chimp, the flat, long and narrow iliac blades lie behind (or dorsal to) the viscera. In humans, muscles attached to the broad iliac blades balance the body weight over a single pivot leg during bipedal walking. These muscles are differently aligned in apes and cannot serve this function, which is why chimps stagger from side to side when they walk bipedally. Ardi's upper pelvis was a primary adaptation to bipedal walking on the ground, much closer in shape to Lucy's pelvis than to a chimp's. Paradoxically, the lower part of Ardi's pelvis is very apelike, which is important in climbing vertical trunks with long arms wrapped around the trunk, like an ape or a telephone lineman.
"Ardi isn't a transitional biped," says Lovejoy. "She's a biped from a species that's going to keep its grasping toe and climbing thigh musculature, thank you very much." He views Ardi's locomotion and anatomy as mosaics of those in living species.
Ardi was clearly not chimp, nor Lucy nor human. Paleoartist Jay Matternes reconstructed her as having fur everywhere but on the center of her face, which protruded more than expected for a hominin. The fur, the long arms and the divergent big toe give Ardi the gestalt of an odd chimp, but that bipedal gait transforms Ardi back into a hominin.
The lasting messages from this tour-de-force analysis are complex, but the most important lesson of all is simple. Studying the behavior and anatomy of living animals provides us with an understanding of how anatomy links form and function. Genetic comparisons reveal the branching patterns that occurred in evolution and how one living species is related to another. Only the fossils really show us the past.
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Andrea Grody's senior thesis, an original musical titled "Strange Faces" about families dealing with Asperger's syndrome, satisfies the requirements for her major in the Department of Music and her certificate in the Program in Theater. Grody, who wrote "Strange Faces" and is directing the production, has been involved in the campus theater community in all four of her years at Princeton.
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Inspired by learning experiences both in and out of the classroom -- around campus and across the globe -- all Princeton undergraduates tackle a monumental academic challenge by completing a senior thesis.
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As a girl dancing in her living room along to the cast recording of the show "My Fair Lady," Andrea Grody dreamed of the Broadway stage. Now, as a Princeton senior, Grody has written her own musical -- on Asperger's syndrome -- that will be performed this spring on campus.
Grody wrote the story and dialogue -- known in musical theater as "the book" -- along with the lyrics and music for "Strange Faces" to satisfy the thesis requirements for both her major in the Department of Music and her certificate in the Program in Theater. She grew interested in Asperger's, a condition related to autism that is characterized by significant difficulties with social interactions, through knowing someone who was diagnosed with the disorder.
Grody (left), who created and is directing "Strange Faces," works with two cast members, freshman Tadesh Inagaki (center) and junior Matt Prast (right), during a recent rehearsal. Grody has music directed or conducted about a dozen shows at Princeton, as well as serving as an actor and stage manager.
"It's an extremely ambitious project," said Stacy Wolf, an associate professor of theater in the Lewis Center for the Arts who has worked with Grody on the musical. "Princeton's Program in Theater is unique in our commitment to supporting the creation, production and performance of original, student-written and student-directed work. This kind of opportunity is typically one that doesn't happen until a student is in graduate school or in the professional musical theater world -- if then. Students here can truly expand as artists in every aspect of theater-making."
For Grody, who also is directing "Strange Faces," her four years at Princeton prepared her to pursue such a challenging undertaking. She directed her first show at the University her freshman year, a musical review performed by the student-run Princeton University Players, for which she later served as president. Getting that opportunity is one reason Grody, who is from West Hartford, Conn., is glad she chose to come to Princeton to study music, rather than attend a conservatory.
"At most conservatories freshmen don't get to even be in shows, much less direct," she said. At Princeton, she has music directed or conducted about a dozen shows, served as an actor and stage manager, and written for Princeton's oldest musical-comedy troupe, the Triangle Club.
"She knocked each and every one of these opportunities out of the park," said Tim Vasen, a lecturer and acting director of the Program in Theater, who advised Grody on her thesis. "So when she came to us with the idea of writing the book and score and directing a musical about Asperger's syndrome, we didn't blink, largely because she has shown, over and over, that she has the talent, technique and determination to pull something this ambitious off."
Sophomore Carolyn Vasko is one of seven cast members in "Strange Faces."
The experience of creating and putting on the show is invaluable for the future, said Grody, who hopes to one day have a career as a music director on Broadway. "The fact that this is my thesis is one of the best opportunities I could have," she said. "The faculty love letting people take chances on things that are risky for the sake of learning."
The music Grody composed for "Strange Faces" has parts for cello, clarinet, piano and violin.
Freshman Sean Drohan portrays one of the characters in "Strange Faces," which depicts the childhoods of people with Asperger's, as well as the spectrum of the severity of cases.
In addition to classes in musical theater, opera and medieval music, Grody has taken several psychology courses. Her scholarly work informed her approach to writing "Strange Faces," as she based her method on the work of the Civilians, an acclaimed investigative theater company that performs shows developed using extensive research. Grody studied the group's work last year, when she took a course through the Princeton Atelier at the Lewis Center co-taught by Steve Cosson and Michael Friedman, who helped found the Civilians.
"Strange Faces" tells the story of three families, each with a member who has Asperger's. Grody interviewed children with Asperger's, as well as parents and siblings of those who have the condition. She also read memoirs and scholarly works on the topic. She wanted the musical to capture the childhoods of people with the condition, as well as the spectrum of the severity of cases of Asperger's. A cast of seven students will give five performances of the show (see below).
"People know what Asperger's is, but they don't really know how it affects people's lives," Grody said. "I hope the play teaches the audience something, but not in a preachy way."
The subject is well suited to a musical, Grody explained. "People with Asperger's want to connect with people the way others do," she said. "Music often can do that when words cannot."
Thesis productions to be staged in April
"Strange Faces," senior Andrea Grody's thesis production, will be performed Friday and Saturday, April 1-2, and Friday through Sunday, April 7-9. In addition, two other senior thesis productions will be performed as part of the Program in Theater's New Play Festival: "Make Belief," a comedy written by senior Mara Nelson-Greenberg and directed by lecturer Suzanne Agins, on Thursday, April 21, Saturday, April 23, Tuesday, April 26, and Thursday, April 28; and "Due Unto Others," a play written by senior M. Cristina Luzarraga and directed by senior Sarah Pease-Kerr, on Friday, April 22, Sunday, April 24, Wednesday, April 27, and Friday, April 29. All performances will be at 8 p.m. in the Matthews Acting Studio, 185 Nassau St. Tickets are $12 for general admission, and $10 for students and seniors.
The "Strange Faces" cast includes (from left) Drohan, junior Matt Prast, sophomore Holly Linneman, freshman Tadesh Inagaki, sophomore Bradley Wilson, junior Miyuki Miyagi and Vasko.


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