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Megan Fox Is Pregnant With Baby #2!
Congratulations are in order for Megan Fox and her husband Brian Austin Green! It has been revealed that Megan is expecting their second child together — and his third.
People magazine has the official confirmation from Megan's rep:
"I can confirm Megan is expecting her second child with her husband Brian," the actress' rep confirms to PEOPLE. "They are both very happy."
The couple welcomed their 10-month-old son, Noah Shannon, last September. Green, 40, is also dad to 11-year-old son Kassius Lijah from his prior relationship with Vanessa Marcil.
"All I wanted to do my whole, whole life was have a baby and, now, I've finally done it," the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles star, 27, said in March. "I just want to give Noah as much of myself as I can."
The new arrival has had quite the effect on the couple — especially Dad's sleep. "I really felt young for my age until my new son was born. I've never felt so 40 in my life," Green jokes.
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Collingswood's 10 wrestlers headed to the Region 7 tournament this week got their first look at first-round opponents.
The Trentonian published the full seedings for the Region 7 tournament. Several Collingswood wrestlers came out on the better side of the seeding versus their first opponent. Mike Campbell, who won a District 28 title this weekend, received a first-round bye.
Collingswood's seeds in the Region 7 tournament are:
120 pounds: No. 10 Donnie Daly (Collingswood) vs. No. 7 Sean Cahill (Shawnee)
126 pounds: No. 10 Zane Chunko (Collingswood) vs. No. 7 Tyler Beers (Hamilton East)
132 pounds: No. 14 Colin Lex (Collingswood) vs. No. 3 Aaron Lambert (Burlington Township)
138 pounds: No. 9 David Hessert (Haddonfield) vs. No. 8 Shawn Clark (Collingswood)
145 pounds: No. 13 Matt DeBernardinis (Shawnee) vs. No. 4 Alex Irwin (Collingswood)
152 pounds: No. 9 Ali Ayaz (Collingswood) vs. No. 8 Marvin Japa (Haddon Township)
160 pounds: No. 2 Mike Campbell (Collingswood) to wrestle winner of No. 10 Devin McGonangle (Audubon) vs. No. 7 Jared Meeks (Shawnee)
182 pounds: No. 15 Billy Crowley (Collingswood) vs. No. 2 Joey DiCristofaro (Highstown)
195 pounds: No. 9 Pat Miles (Collingswood) vs. No. 8 Jerry Peralta (Cherry Hill East)
220 pounds: No. 9 Edgar Castellanos (Sterling) vs. No. 8 John Deaner (Collingswood)
Regions start Feb. 27 at Robbinsville High School in Mercer County. The top three in each weight class move to state bouts, NJ.com reports.

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Excerpts from an interesting blog post by science fiction writer Charlie Stross:
American attitudes to crime and punishment are unspeakable; disturbing, mediaeval, and barbaric are some of the adjectives that spring to mind. But above all, the word that most thoroughly applies is merciless. The commission of a crime is taken as an excuse to unleash the demons of the subconscious, however dark, however disproportionate, upon the perpetrator. Once labeled a criminal, an individual's right to fair treatment is utterly expunged, and any violation or degradation, however grotesque, is seen as something that they brought on themselves.
The subjects vary — crime and penal policy, healthcare, don't get me started on foreign policy — but there is an ideological approach in America that is distinguished by one common characteristic: words and deeds utterly lacking in the quality of mercy.
There is a cancer in the collective American soul — a mercy deficit that has in recent years grown as alarmingly as the budget deficit. Nor is it as simple as a left/right thing: no political party has a monopoly on merciless behaviour. Rather, a creeping draconian absolutism has cast its penumbra across the entire arena of public discourse, tainting every debate, poisoning and hardening attitudes across the board.
Read the whole thing. (via MetaFilter)Tags: blog post, charles stross, mercy, morality, Politics, science fiction
Exterminate! Exterminate! Part Deux
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A little while back, my girlfriend's 9-year-old made a really neat lego Dalek. Since then, he's created a second, alternate one plus the TARDIS and the Doctor himself. Take a look after the jump.daleks, doctor who, k9, lego, Photography, science fiction, tardis, television
Exterminate! Exterminate!
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My girlfriend Brooke's 9-year-old recently got into Doctor Who, and he built this wonderful likeness of a Dalek out of Legos. Pretty neat!
UPDATE: Since this post, Rowan has done more Doctor Who/Lego stuff. Check it out here.Tags: dalek, doctor who, lego, Photography, science fiction
Goodbye Uncle Forry
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Charles Stross Interview
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Halfway through an exchange of emails with the science fiction writer Charles Stross - a virtual meeting in cyberspace which might have had something of the exotic as little as five years ago - it strikes me that our text-based communication feels almost archaic now.
It's a realisation that might have come straight from the pages of one of Stross's novels. These days, email tennis feels almost boringly routine, and the rapid normalisation of the technologies which are changing people's lives is a recurrent theme in his fiction. Despite their hard-edged technological focus, Stross's worlds are often as quotidian as they are fantastic.
Link! The only novel of Stross' I've read is Accelerando, but it was fantastic. Via Reddit.Tags: accelerando, charles stross, interview, Literature, science fiction
Whatever you're gonna do, do it fast!
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Scant details are available for this Aliens chess set, but it's wonderful. On the xenomorph side, chest bursters for pawns, with dual queens as the royalty, denoted in rank by whether or not their gelatinous egg sack has been ripped off. The human side is similarly ingenious: sentry guns for pawns, with a loader-armored Ripley as the king. Half of the board has even been bio-mechanically infected: all the black squares have been Gigerized. Checkmate = face hugged!
Link!Tags: alien, aliens, chess, games, hr giger, science fiction
Cyberspace: The Theatrical Experience
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If I were to tell you that a theatrical version of William Gibson's famous novel Neuromancer was going to be performed in a rural Missouri town, starring a radical leftist activist and members of an amateur theater troupe from a local Baptist church, what would you say? It probably wouldn't be: "Yeah, and wouldn't it be great if all the cyberspace scenes were done with cardboard cutouts that people move around on stage, accompanied by Indonesian Gamelan music?" And yet that's exactly what Brody Condon is going to do, next summer, with grant money from the Rhizome Foundation. I know it sounds insane, and that's precisely the point.
Oh my god. This sounds amazing. Read on.Tags: cyberpunk, neuromancer, science fiction, theatre, william gibson
Cargo Lifters <--> AT-ATs
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So, it turns out that the AT-ATs in The Empire Strikes Back were inspired by the
cargo lifters container cranes in the Port of Oakland. I see those things every day from the BART, and I've always thought they look like AT-ATs. And that they look awesome. Makes sense, I guess.
My God. It's full of stars.
Posted by Shannon
Tags: Arthur C. Clarke, death, science fiction
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Penny of Penny's Vintage Home updated her front porch to make it say Fall. Besides her black cat Boo, the two quilts help create a cozy, inviting scene. I spied this at the Grace at Home linky party hosted by Richella of Imparting Grace.
Image credit: Penny's Vintage Home
By Scarlett Burroughs
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Richella @ Imparting Grace on
October 8, 2012 10:29 am
What a great front porch scene! Love the way the quilt is such an integral part of this scene–don't you just want to curl up on that glider with a good book and maybe a nice crisp apple?
Thanks so much for visiting Grace at Home!
Scarlett on
October 8, 2012 11:56 am
I sure do Richella! –Scarlett


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British Journal of Midwifery, Vol. 15, Iss. 8, 01 Aug 2007, pp 480 - 484
Obedience research has shown that under situational pressures and within hierarchical relationships, people have a propensity towards submission to authority (Milgram, 1974). Once they have done so, their actions are no longer guided by their own values but by the desire to fulfill authoritys wishes (Meeus and Raaijmakers, 1995). When an authority figure gives direction, this may clash with a midwifes knowledge of a womans preferred choice. Hollins Martin and Bull (2005) showed the success that a senior midwife had at socially influencing decisions of more junior midwives, even when the outcome contravened their established views of best practice. Hollins Martin and Bull (2006) showed that choice provision for childbearing women was difficult to provide because of the imposition of hospital protocols, the hierarchy and fears of challenging senior people. Acknowledging these identified constraints this paper poses eight plausible solutions to facilitate midwives with providing the choice that is advocated in social policy documents (Department of Health, 1993; DH, 2003; DH, 2004).
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Looking to break 300 today.
Please vote for me at http://woobox.com/9g8gp2/vote/for/163910
Looking to break 300 today.
Please vote for me at http://woobox.com/9g8gp2/vote/for/163910
Voted for 298. C'mon fellas!!
Thanks usual Ken !
306 votes. Way to go!
Thanks Tom, the support has been tremendious from my FB friends and family, Club Polk and even a few at work.
Hard to find any real reviews of the EAT KT88s. At their price point I would not be able to afford them so winning a quad would be awesome.
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Thank you George !
got ya covered!
You're up to 345 now. Almost as magical as 150. :smile:
NOTE TO SELF: write down FB username/password somewhere.
Thanks everyone !
Thanks Tom for putting the link up.
I want those tubes so bad I can taste it.
Looking to break 400 today.
Please vote for me at http://woobox.com/9g8gp2/vote/for/163910
Just voted #394.
Just voted, I show #387.
Was lurking for a while, trying to hit "400", but have some schtuff coming UPS and don't want to miss the truck.
Thanks guys
How is it that I just voted 392, mrbigbluelight voted 387 and Dawgfish voted hours before mrbigbluelight at 394?
I smell a rat.
Tom, you may be onto something because I show 393 as current votes counted.
Dawgfish, I think we have you on the hook.
Something fishy may be going on and its not dawgfish. A niece on FB said she voted and was 394. Unless she hit like instead of vote.
Weird, I am at 394.
Yeah, I know I voted because I can't vote again.......which means I already voted today.
I show 394 as well on my end as of one minute ago.
Thanks Tom, this contest is stressing me out.
March 31st is along way off.
Eh, let's just monitor the numbers for a stint. If there are obvious discrepancies beyond what has been noted tonight, notify whomever that you are aware of what is going on and that if they would like to save face? You won't point the members voting to this thread. I mean, come on. If they want to choose a winner by skewing the results, then why hold the contest to begin with?
BTW, I have the screws for the Anthem1. I'll get up with you on that later.
I've voted daily since you originally posted. Hope you win!
That is really strange. The thing is I voted before I even saw your post saying you were trying to get to 400 today. I'm pretty darn positive it said 394 when I voted. Something is not adding up.
Alright, back to bid'ness. Here's the link to vote guys...please mark the vote number when you vote and post here, if you would be so kind...
Still at 396. Keep voting fellas. Help a Polkie out...
Good luck; sorry, but I don't do Facebook. Hope you get your tubes though.


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By Sherine Tadros
We've all been warned to expect postal delays after the recent parcel bomb scare, but I'm not sure we can blame DHL for the delay in the so-called US 'letter of incentives' getting to Israel.
The letter is meant to formalise the offer communicated last Thursday by US secretary of state Hillary Clinton to Binyamin Netanyahu, Israel's prime minister.
Israel agrees to a 90-day freeze in settlement building in return for US jets and support at the UN. If we put aside the 20 fighter jets (now rumoured to be part of the normal yearly aid package to Israel and not scheduled to be delivered until 2015) and the promise from the US to block anti-Israeli resolutions at the UN (when have they ever not), it seems that it's the guarantees not the carrots that's delaying delivery of the letter.
An Israeli government source told me the disagreement is over whether the US will guarantee they won't ask for a further extension of the partial settlement freeze after the 90-day period is up. The US wants to keep this part fluid, making it dependent on whether progress is made on the border issue in those three months. Israel wants an unconditional guarantee that this is the last freeze. What's obvious from this disagreement is that neither have faith that anything will be achieved in 90 days.
Three months and counting ...
Israel argues, rightly, that you cannot separate the issue of borders from that of Jerusalem and security. These words have become empty to the outside world, but they are loaded in Israel and the occupied territories.
Ninety days to decide on where to draw the line to divide populations, 90 days to decide on the fate of half a million settlers, 90 days to deal with the explosive issue of who will control Judaism's and Islam's (and Christianity's for that matter) holiest sites.
True the sides are not starting from scratch – other 'peace processes' have come up with maps and drawn borders – but these processes have failed, so why is this one going to succeed (in 90 days ... including the holidays)?
Meanwhile, there could be serious consequences to the process breaking down at this point. Right wing settlers are up in arms (literally) about restrictions in past months on settlement construction, violence in Gaza is increasing with Israel carrying out two assassinations in a week and in the West Bank the Palestinian Authority's chief negotiator is threatening the collapse of the PA, if direct talks fail.
Although nobody had expectations when these talks were launched in September that a deal would be clinched, the stakes were raised the moment Israeli and Palestinian leaders set foot on US soil and shook hands.
If the US letter ever does arrive, it will serve to keep those stakes up a little while longer. But unless the Americans have an extraordinary trick up their sleeve, it will all come crashing down 90 days later.
Sherine Tadros reports from Israel and the Palestinian Territories.
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ALABAMA... Record: 8-5
... Best win:77-55 vs. Villanova
... Worst loss: 66-59 vs. Mercer
... Key player: G Trevor Releford (15.6 ppg, 2.8 apg)
... Comment: Hung in against then-No. 17 Cincinnati in a two-point loss, but a 3-point win over an awful Texas Tech is the long highlight since. Are 2-5 since a 6-0 start.
ARKANSAS... Record: 9-4
... Best win: 81-78 vs. Oklahoma
... Worst loss: 77-70 vs. Wisconsin
... Key player: G BJ Young (17.7 ppg, 4.3 apg)
... Comment: Young and Marshawn Powell (15.2 ppg, 5.6 rpg) spearhead the nations No. 6 team in scoring offense (82.9 ppg). Three of the four losses are against RPI top-50 teams.
AUBURN... Record: 6-7
... Best win: 78-72 vs. Florida State
... Worst loss: 74-67 vs. Winthrop
... Key player: G Frankie Sullivan (17.8 ppg, 3.4 apg)
... Comment: Auburns most impressive outing was a 2-point loss at Illinois on Dec. 29. Unfortunately, the Tigers also own three losses to sub-150 RPI teams.
FLORIDA... Record: 10-2
... Best win: 82-49 vs. Marquette
... Worst loss: 67-61 vs. then-No. 25 Kansas State
... Key player: G Kenny Boynton (13.8 ppg, 2.7 apg)
... Comment: The Gators have played one of the countrys most difficult, if not flashy, schedules despite Boynton playing out of position at the point. Hes back at the off-guard position for the most part now.
GEORGIA... Record: 6-7
... Best win: 64-56 vs. Southern Cal
... Worst loss: 68-56 vs. Youngstown State
... Key player: Kentavious Caldwell-Pope (17.5 ppg, 7.2 rpg)
... Comment: Caldwell-Pope has been one of the leagues top players to date for a team that is on a four-game winning streak. That said, Georgia is 305th nationally with 60.6 ppg.
KENTUCKY... Record: 9-4
... Best win: 72-69 vs. Maryland
... Worst loss: 64-55 vs. Baylor
... Key player: F Alex Poythress (14.0 ppg, 6.3 rpg)
... Comment: Even with the turnover in talent, its hard to imagine a Wildcat squad 0-4 against the RPI top 50. Maryland (54th) is the only school of note the Wildcats have dispatched to date.
LSU... Record: 9-2
... Best win: 72-69 vs. Seton Hall
... Worst loss: 89-70 at Boise State
... Key player: F Shavon Coleman (14.1 ppg, 8.6 rpg)
... Comment: Coleman has been a delightful junior college find for the Tigers, who have a solid win against Seton Hall and a competitive defeat at Marquette.
MISSOURI... Record: 11-2
... Best win: 82-73 vs. then-No. 10 Illinois
... Worst loss: 84-61 vs. then-No. 2 Louisville
... Key player: G Phil Pressey (13.8 ppg, 7.2 apg
... Comment: Missouri leads the country in rebounding (46.7 per game) and the 1-2 punch of Lawrence Bowers and Pressey (30.6 ppg combined) is among the best in the SEC. Only other loss came at UCLA in overtime (97-94).
MISSISSIPPI... Record: 11-2
... Best win: 85-78 vs. San Francisco
... Worst loss: 87-85 vs. Indiana State
... Key player: F Murphy Holloway (15.8 ppg, 10.9 rpg)
... Comment: Losing to Indiana State, picked to finish 7th in the Missouri Valley, highlights just how weak the Rebels slate has been. Irmos Holloway is having a standout senior season.
MISSISSIPPI STATE... Record: 5-7
... Best win: 78-58 vs. Florida Atlantic
... Worst loss: 59-57 vs. Alabama A&M
... Key player: F Roquez Johnson (12.4 ppg, 5.6 rpg)
... Comment: The runaway winner of the leagues worst start, the Bulldogs compiled their mark against a schedule strength that checks in at No. 271. Lost by 46 at North Carolina.
SOUTH CAROLINA... Record: 10-3
... Best win: 74-62 vs. UALR
... Worst loss: 64-55 vs. Clemson
... Key player: Lakeem Jackson (10.2 ppg, 7.6 rpg)
... Comment: The guard-heavy Gamecocks have no wins against the RPI top 150 but will look to the returns of Bruce Ellington and Michael Carrera to spark them in SEC play.
TENNESSEE... Record: 8-4
... Best win: 69-60 vs. then-No. 23 Wichita State
... Worst loss: 46-38 at Virginia
... Key player: G Trae Golden (11.6 ppg, 4.3 apg)
... Comment: Cuonzo Martins team struggles to put points on the board, as evidenced by their weird loss at Virginia, but they ugly up their opponents as well. Held Xavier to 47 points.
TEXAS A&M... Record: 10-3
... Best win: 70-58 at Houston
... Worst loss: 53-51 vs. Southern
... Key player: F Ray Turner (12.0 ppg, 6.6 rpg)
... Comment: The loss to Southern, who was 4-6 at the time, was one of the leagues worst losses. The Aggies also rank below 230th in points and rebounds per game.
VANDERBILT... Record: 6-6
... Best win: 73-49 at UTEP
... Worst loss: 50-33 vs. Marist
... Key player: G Kedren Johnson (16.6 ppg, 2.7 apg)
... Comment: The loss to Marist was the Commodores lowest point total in 30 years and highlighted their primary issue: the graduation of their top six scorers from a season ago.


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DOROTHY M. BASSETT, 93, of Grayling passed away on Thursday July 25, 2013.
Visitation will be held from 2 to 4 and 6 to 8 p.m., Friday, July 26, at Sorenson-Lockwood Funeral Home. Services will be held at 11 a.m., on Saturday July 27, at Mt. Hope Lutheran Church in Grayling.
CHERYL ANN GREEN, age 57 of Manistee, died Monday July 22, 2013 at Munson Medical Center in Traverse City.
A Memorial Mass from the Order of Christian Funerals will be celebrated at 11 a.m., Friday, July 26, at St. Mary of Mount Carmel Shrine with Father Chet Collins, Celebrant. Final interment will be in Mount Carmel Cemetery. Cremation has taken place.
The family has entrusted funeral arrangements to Oak Grove Funeral Home & Cremation Center in Manistee.
COLLEEN MARIE HERON, 62, of Traverse City died July 21, 2013 at home. No services are planned at this time.
TOBIAS C. HOCHSTETLER (Toby), 41, of rural Manton, passed away from this life by drowning on July 24, 2013.
Funeral services will be held at 9 a.m., Saturday, July 27, at the Amish Meeting House in Manton with Bishop John Allgyer officiating. Burial will follow at Amish Cemetery. Viewing all day Friday at the family home at 4401 N. 35 Road, Manton. The family is being served by Jowett Family Funeral Homes, Benzonia & Frankfort.
FLOYD WARREN PHILLIPS, age 93 of Manistee, died Tuesday July 23, 2013 at the Manistee County Medical Care Facility. Cremation has taken place and no services are scheduled at this time. The family has entrusted funeral arrangements to Oak Grove Funeral Home & Cremation Center of Manistee.
CLAYTON RUSSELL WOLFE, 91, of Fort Wayne, Ind. and Kaleva, died July 10, 2013 in Kaleva. A memorial service will be held at 2 p.m., Saturday, August 3, at the First Congregational Church in Thompsonville with Pastor Dan Henke officiating. Final interment will be Brethren Cemetery.
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BBDO SF continues it's great work for the SF SPCA.
BBDO SF has been doing some great work for a great cure - the SF SPCA. Now they're out with an anti-puppy mill PSA that's visually very cool and has a message hopefully we all take to heart.
San Francisco SPCA from Jullien Brothers on Vimeo.
There shouldn't be an apostrophe in "it's" in the headline for this post.
Your so useful - we should hire you?
I assume you are being cheeky by using "your" instead of "you're," Chester Cheetah. I was just trying to be helpful. Is it my fault that I was cursed at birth by a haggard Gypsy woman to be compulsively anal-retentive?
Yeah. The apostrophe is making me nuts, too. I saw one on a billboard at 6th and Kalamath with the wrong use of the possessive its as well. Here's the thing, Ccheetah - we work in a business founded on art and words. The number of copywriters working today who don't know there from their and its from it's is appalling. It's the death of the King's English.
Yeah. They are fucking morons who clearly don't know grammar!!!
Or, you know, it could just be an oversight.
Calm down folks.
Perhaps you are the one who needs to calm down a bit, Anon. In an attempt to be helpful, I simply pointed out that there was -- and still is -- a typo in the headline. That's all. I wasn't being snarky or insulting or condescending. I try to do a good turn and you and Ccheetah get your knickers all in a twist. Go figure.
OK, daddy, I will...!


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In the few final hours of bidding in the West Heating Plant auction, four anonymous bidders drove the bid price from a measley $501,000 to more than $5.2 million as of 4 p.m. Tuesday.
GSA determined that the West Heating Plant site, a 2-acre lot with a 20,000 s.f. building, was excess property. After going through a disposal process, which included opportunities for community feedback, GSA approved an eBay-style auction so the property at 29th and K Streets, NW would go to the highest bidder.
The General Services Administration (GSA) opened the auction Jan. 18, the first bid arrived Feb. 14 and the soft close was 5 p.m. Tuesday.
On Tuesday alone there were 13 bids, each increasing by at least the minimum increment of $200,000.
The soft close does not necessarily mean the close of the auction entirely. According to Mafara Hobson, press secretary for the GSA, the auction does not end until "24 hours of inactivity after the soft closing." So until the bidders stop competing, the auction continues.
After 24 hours without any new bids, the auction will close and GSA will proceed to award the property to the highest bidder and will release the name of the winning bidder once the auction closes.
While the bidders are anonymous, an industry meeting brought out some 100 firms interested in the West Heating Plant.
The four currrent bidders might be among a GSA-provided list of just a few of the developers who signed in at the industry meeting:
1) EastBanc
2) Hines
3) Akridge
4) Property Group Partners
5) MRP Realty
6) Toll Brothers
7) Clark Realty
8) Level 2 Development
9) Metropolitan Partnership
10) Carr Hospitality
11) Gables Residential
12) Roadside Development
Patch asked Hobson if she could provide any similar auctions for comparison with the going price on the Georgetown site.
Though Hobson said "there is nothing really comparable" to the West Heating Plant, she provided Patch with a list of three former Coast Guard properties in Montgomery County, Md. that GSA auctioned in 2011.
Each property was a former Coast Guard residence:
- A three-bedroom, two-story brick front home at 6601 Kennedy Drive in Bethesda, Md sold in 2011 for $1.7 million. The starting bid had been $1.5 million.
- A five-bedroom Rockville home (8203 Snug Hill Ln, Rockville, Md.) sold for $845,000 in 2011 after a starting bid of $775,000.
- A custom-built, three-bedroom, Bethesda home (5324 Goldsboro Rd, Bethesda, Md.) sold for $ 1.4 million, after a starting bid of $1 million.
Once a private entity takes over ownership of the property, the long process of developing the site can begin.
The winning bidder must follow a planned unit development (PUD) process through the Office of Planning to develop the property. The PUD process will allow for extensive community input.
Community members, including Ward 2 Councilman Jack Evans, have already been working behind the scenes to make sure their vision for the property is taken into consideration by its future owner.
Immediate neighbors would like to limit any future development to the existing building footprint and the Friends of the Georgetown Waterfront Park hope the remaining acreage could be green space with public access.
Read more:
- Bids Roll in for West Heating Plant
- West Heating Plant Auction Begins Today
- NPS Seeks Conservation Easement for Portion of West Heating Plant Site


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Career Highlights - Track & Field
After her past year of overwhelming success in track & field, Tatyana McFadden has become a well-known athlete both within the Paralympic family and beyond. McFadden was adopted from St. Petersburg, Russia, at age six by Deborah McFadden. Born with spina bifida that left her paralyzed below the waist, McFadden walked on her hands at her orphanage and did not use a wheelchair until after her adoption. Once in her new hometown of Clarksville, Md., McFadden played many sports in her youth, including wheelchair basketball, sled hockey, swimming, gymnastics and track & field. McFadden continued her athletic success at the University of Illinois, where she joined the Fighting Illini's wheelchair basketball and wheelchair track teams.
McFadden competed in her first Paralympic Games in 2004, where she earned a silver and a bronze medal in track & field. She has competed in every summer Paralympic Games since then and is now a ten-time Paralympic medalist, including three gold. In July 2013, McFadden became the first woman to earn six titles at a single International Paralympic Committee Athletics World Championship. Additionally, she became the first athlete to win four major world marathons in a single year after taking victory in the women's wheelchair division of the 2013 London, Boston, Chicago and New York City Marathons. McFadden's sister Hannah also competed at the London 2012 Paralympic Games in the 100m, marking the first time siblings have competed together in a Paralympic Games.
With the encouragement of two-sport Paralympian Alana Nichols, McFadden was encouraged to try Nordic skiing for the first time last year. It didn't take her long to pick up the sport, as she earned a national title at her first U.S. Adaptive Nordic Skiing National Championship in January 2013. She is currently a member of the 2013-14 U.S. Paralympics Nordic Skiing National Team, having already earned five top-10 finishes in the first three world cups of her Nordic career.
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AppleTrak Opening ActThanks for this info. I just picked up the Stage Kit at Gamestop for $19.99. It was the actual sticker price. They said the price was slashed because it hadn't sold well. The Gamestop I was in checked and this was the last one they had in stock. They also looked it up and found the Stage Kit had been discontinued. So, if you have any thoughts on picking up the Rock Band Stage Kit, and haven't done so yet....hurry before they are all gone. It's dirt cheap.
Bront20 The Writing's on the WallTBRB doesn't have lighting effects in the dreamscapes. I don't expect it to work with GDRB either, but it might if they use stage effects like they do in RB2.
It's also possible it's an engine thing, which means RB3 might not support them, but it's WAY too early to speculate about that.


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Covering the intersection of new things and mass markets.
Digital devices keep getting smaller. Yet technology reviews keep getting longer. I've fixed that. I'm publishing the last paragraph from Tuesday's reviews of the Nokia Lumia 900, which becomes available April 8. The verdict: the Lumia 900 might be the best Windows handset yet, but it won't break Apple and Android's grip on the smartphone market.
Bottom line: If you're looking for a $100, high-end smartphone, or are a Windows Phone fan who has been waiting for better hardware, the Lumia 900 is worth considering. But the phone had just too many drawbacks in my tests to best its chief competitors.
Against the iPhone and Android, Nokia faces formidable competition. But with an attractive price, refreshing operating system and a growing supply of apps, Nokia may be well on the way to crafting a compelling comeback story.
If your last phone was an Android handset, going to Windows Phone might be a difficult switch to make. But if you're not a big fan of Google products, if you already use Bing or SkyDrive, or if you just want to try something new, you'll be delighted with the Lumia 900. Plus, you can't beat the price. Nokia has done its job, and now it is up to Microsoft and AT&T to win over customers–before it is too late.
Although the Lumia 800 was a better realization of the Nokia-Microsoft alliance, the Lumia 900 comes close to the mark with its striking design, and it brings some of its own perks such as a front-facing camera, LTE support, and a low price with a two-year AT&T contract. It's the most noteworthy Windows Phone yet. As far as comebacks go, that's a start.
With its large, beautiful display, handy controls, and nimble camera, the Nokia Lumia 900 (available on April 8 for $100 with a two-year contract) looks like an excellent choice for tapping into the increasingly compelling experience of the Windows Phone operating system. It will only get better when (or if) Microsoft fixes some minor but annoying limitations in its OS.
I wonder if Walt Mossberg is paid by Apple???? This man never misses a chance 2 tell us how MSFT never comes close and neither does anyone else 2 Apple. I will look back and see if I can find a time he has bad mouthed Apple on anything. His review of any product is held in high reguard and Apple has his eye. I will keep a closer look out for his thoughts in the future but have noticed his opinions of the past seem 2 lean a little toward the Apple Trees.
Walt Mossberg has a long history and a well-established reputation for being right. LW123 does not. That's why Walt Mossberg is oft cited in news articles and lw123 is not.
Walt Mossberg works for Apple. He has a reputation for being an Apple stooge. Absolutely nobody takes him seriously as an honest journalist. They make fun of him and David Pogue regularly on TWIT for example. The tech industry does not respect Walt Mossberg.
If someone appears on FOX news channel then I am closing my ears and Walt does it every week. Fox is not even a news channel.
What the hell are you guys talking about, I have an I phone and I really hate it, I have been waiting long for the Nokia to come out with this phone and I can not wait to buy 3 of them for my family and after that I will tell to the guys at apple take you stupid phone and products and shove it.
and for the rest of you morons ask yourselves this question, why do you like I phone?
with today's web application been mostly based on flash programs and PDF files, your I phone is a useless piece of junk. and for you dummies that like I phone so much, you don't need a smart phone, hell you don't need a cell phone at all.
You have an "I phone" and can't even spell it correctly? You are one trustworthy source of information. I don't think your parents should buy you three phones for your tenth birthday. Get a coupon for anger management, or proper written communication classes instead.
I agree… I've had the iphone and 2 android phones. I bought a Titan a couple months ago and I really love the Windows Phone metro ui. I can't wait for the Nokia Lumia 900!!!
Note to readers: not everybody who posts comments on news articles is a real person posting their own opinion from their own experience. Some of the people posting here are paid to bash everything but the product of their sponsor. Some of them have never even seen the products they're bashing or supporting. Others just have medical issues.
It bites, but many of the most unpleasant people you've ever met have broadband and a keyboard. A great many others are depressingly poor and will type anything they're told to for food and a comfortable place to sleep.
The Internet is an odd place, and to get value from it you have to engage a personal credibility filter.
"Some of the people posting here are paid to bash everything but the product of their sponsor. "
Is that an admission from you? It would explain your ridiculous post below.
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Hauling 60 guitars out into the freezing cold is worth it when it's Nigel Pickering's fine collection. Fuelled by biscuits and hot chocolate, Lars Mullen sets to work
Although a Stratocaster fanatic, Nigel isn't, in fact, a keen Hendrix follower. 'He didn't really do it for me,' he sighs. 'I always thought he was out of tune!'
'The body had completely split in two pieces, but with the help of some woodworking glue I managed to get it back in pretty good working order.
'I've got four guitars with Lace Sensors,' he says. 'There's an Eric Clapton signature model finished in pewter, a seafoam green Strat Plus with a Jeff Beck spec, and a Strat Plus with a mocha brown finish – all of these have Gold Lace Sensors.
Both have gold hardware and Levinson's own single coils. The third one is white with a mirror guard and a maple neck, and it's fitted with a humbucker at the bridge.
Finally, I bought this Blade bass – and the late '70s 15W Fender Musicmaster amp behind it – from Steve "Dobby" Dawson from Saxon, the inspiration for Spinal Tap's Derek Smalls.'
The Schecter Omen Extreme was built in the Far East and it's a fair guitar for the pennies, with all the coil tap facilities. It's definitely one to take if there's a bit of a dodgy gig up ahead.'
Sure, they don't feel the same, but I have my doubts about some people who say they can hear the difference… a bit like players who say they can tell the difference in sound between a black and a chrome Floyd Rose!


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A light-hearted moment. Back on a summer evening in 2001, I was at a fundraiser for State Sen. Stephen Lynch (D-Boston) that my brother and his wife were hosting outdoors on the patio behind their home on Partridge Way down in North Easton Village. It was an event to raise money for
Lynch's campaign in a special election for a seat in the U.S. House of Representatives.
(It has to be noted that the seat for which Sen. Lynch was running had been held for close to 30 years by Joe Moakley, a saint of a man, who had served with extraordinary passion and hard work for the people of Massachusetts, and our nation. Rep. Moakley passed away on May 28, 2001 from a blood disease; he was 74 years old.)
Now, for sure, this section of town where my brother and his wife and their family live is not heavily wooded like other areas in Easton, but the homes down there do have strips of woods and trees and streams and marshy patches and other untouched nature behind and along them.
So, that night, there is Sen. Lynch about to address the attendees of the fundraiser, and he smiles, takes note of the loud cacophony of natural sound all around him – the chattering of crickets and belching of bullfrogs and maybe the tweeting of some birds, and who knows what else. It was loud.
Yes, Sen. Lynch took all the noise in and then told the assembled that earlier in the night he had been in Boston, and out here in the sticks in Easton it was louder than in the city.
Sounds and Easton. Yep, that is the subject of this column.
How about ringing bells?
Check out Ben Paulin's wonderful Easton Patch article, ": Easton's David Varella recalls memories of his father and other workers," which was published on Oct. 5, 2010.
A passenger train ran through Easton until 1959, with stops at the North Easton Railroad Station – and a freight train ran through town into the mid 1970s. Those rolling trains emitted a clatter and metallic hum of steel wheels spinning over rails, and the loud and shrill and intermittent screech of a warning whistle.
Let's go back to those Saturday afternoon football games when they were still played at . Tiger football players walked from OAHS to the park, and as they walked their metal tipped cleats cracked and ground against the pavement emitting a distinctive sound that stays solidly with anyone who ever heard it.
If you were inside Frothingham Park, or anywhere along the route the players walked, you heard the cleats. You also heard the OA players whooping and hollering and bellowing and getting psyched for the impending gridiron strife.
A sound that carried even further, and this was all a component of the pageantry and ceremony of the OA football games at the park, was the music that the Tiger marching band made while en route to the park, when inside of the park, and en route back to the high school after the game.
Now you don't think, not for a second, that I am going to neglect to mention the voice of OA football announcer, Putt Santos, which he sent forth from the public address speakers affixed to the big green press box at Frothingham Park. Putt's voice would carry over and throughout North Easton Village.
Among Putt Santo's signature lines was one he uttered when there was a break in the action because a penalty had been called on the field. So as to help the fans get a sense of what was going on with the call, he would say into the microphone, "Watch the gentleman in the white hat," and your gaze would be directed to the official with the white hat.
Also, when a swarm of OA defenders had tackled a ball carrier, Putt would exclaim, "Stopped by a host of Tigers."
It is only right and appropriate that the press box at the stadium at OA is named for Putt Santos.
We haven't heard any of those cosmic and sonorous fire station air horns since the practice stopped in the mid 1980s. But for decades prior – it all started in the late 1940s – when there was a fire in town, the air horns at the Sullivan Avenue fire station (built in 1905) and at the Depot Street fire station (built in 1934) would emit coded honks so loud that they could be heard across Easton, and the volunteer firefighters would know where to go.
A little explanation. The codes of honks corresponded with the number on the fire alarm boxes, the handles on which a person would pull to sound a fire alarm.
For example - and Easton town historian, Ed Hands, former chair of the OA history department, explained this to me the other night - a fire alarm box on Pond Street had the number 42, and if that box was pulled then the horns would sound four honks, then there would be a break, and then two honks would sound. This series would be repeated a few times.
In 1956, a small fire station was built up on Foundry Street/Rte. 106 on the same side of the road and not far from Belcher Malleable Iron. When that station was up and running, Easton had three fire stations with horns – although for several years the Foundry Street station horn was an air raid siren that couldn't be coordinated to sound the codes. This station eventually became equipped with the right air horns.
In 1969, when the "new" fire station opened on Lothrop Street, and the Sullivan Ave. station was converted to a civil defense post, horns ceased honking down in North Easton Village, and they started up in the new spot.
I was on the phone on Tuesday night with former Easton fire chief, Tom Stone, of dedicated service to our community. Chief Stone was filling me on the history of the horns and fire stations.
As Chief Stone explained, and I was a bit surprised that the technology he described was so sophisticated, when the fire alarm handle was pulled and activated, a connection of electricity and air synched with the horn at the fire station and automatically the horn sounded the proper series of honks.
Or, at least that is how I understood what was told to me.
If what I described is not accurate, then it is my fault not Chief Stone's.
Also, for years – and this too ended in the mid 1980s – when classes at the junior high school and high school were cancelled because of snow or something other reason, at 6:30 in the morning the horns at the fire station would let out two honks … and there would be then a break … and then the two honks would be repeated. If school had been called off for the elementary grades, the same honks would sound at 7:30.
Talking about a sound that made you smile, makes you smile, and which never leaves you – that is the sound of the banging of the cow bell by a member of "The Section" at an OA basketball game during the mid to late 1970s.
Memorial Day and Veterans Day, every year, the solemn and most special and most noble and most important ceremonies in Easton. Veterans firing the parade rifles – the unsettling bang, and the clang of the cartridges being discharged. I remember the sound.
There are more sounds I will discuss in a future column. Please weigh in with your memories and thoughts on sounds from Easton's past and present.


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Nathan West has been sentenced to 20 years for murdering Dale Cheney.
The man who murdered a 17-year-old stranger in an uncontrollable, jealous rage because he was staying at his girlfriend's family home has been jailed for 20 years.
Supreme Court Justice Elizabeth Curtain said Nathan West, 21, had cruelly ended the young life of teenager Dale Cheney in "a senseless, self indulgent act" because he feared losing his girlfriend.
West, of Sunbury, stabbed Dale once in the back with a 33cm kitchen knife on the night of Sunday, September 30 last year.
Murdered: Dale Cheney
"This was as pointless and senseless a death as one could imagine," Justice Curtain said.
"This was truly a gratuitous act of extreme violence."
The judge said Dale had only been 17 years old, was looking forward to getting his driver's licence and was on the threshold of his life when he was killed.
West, who had had mental health issues since he was 16, had been involved in a volatile, on-again, off-again relationship with Melanie Johns for three years when he killed Mr Cheney. He had never met Mr Cheney before killing him.
Justice Curtain said the relationship between West and Ms Johns was marked by jealousy and immaturity on both sides.
The judge said it was concerning that West still believed he would be able to continue to have a relationship with Ms Johns when behind bars. She had been visiting him in prison before being banned by court order.
The couple had not seen each other for several weeks before Dale's death but had been in constant contact on the phone.
On September 22 last year, Ms Johns' father went interstate on holiday and left Ms Johns, now aged 20, to look after their Banksia Court, Sunbury home.
Ms Johns had several friends staying with her while her father was away, including Corey Semmens and Dale.
West became extraordinarily jealous when he found out that Corey and Dale were staying with Ms Johns.
Mr Semmens, after being threatened by West, told him he was having sex with Ms Johns.
West told friends he was going to stab Mr Semmens.
Having possibly taken both cannabis and ice, West drove his mother's car to Ms Johns' home at 8.45pm on September 30 and sent her 20 text messages and called her six times asking her to come outside to talk to him.
Ms Johns and Dale eventually walked out to the car and told West to leave.
When West returned a short time later, Dale was outside in the driveway near his car before he was stabbed.
West drove off as Dale fell on to his back and died a short time later.
West told friends later that night how he had stabbed Dale and "the knife went in so easy".
"I didn't expect it to go right through. I'm going to jail for sure. He's dead. I've definitely killed him." West said.
West told a psychologist after his arrest how he still believed that one day he and Ms Johns would get married.
He was jailed for 20 years with a non-parole period of 16 years.
As Justice Curtain announced the sentence, West's mother collapsed in court and began sobbing.
West told her, "I love you so much mum," as he was being led away.


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Derby Hippodrome
Located on the corner of Macklin Street and Green Lane is the huge former Hippodrome Theatre latterly known as Walkers Bingo.
First a bit of history
The Derby Hippodrome was a purpose built theatre and Variety house and had a 2,300 capacity. It was converted in 1930 into an 1,800 seat cinema, becoming a theatre once more for only 9 years until 1959. Three years later the theatre was purchased by Mecca Group who converted the theatre into a Bingo Social Club.
Opening in 1914 as the Derby Hippodrome, Music Hall and Palace of Varieties. The architects were Marshall and Tweedy of Newcastle upon Tyne. The opening show on 20 July 1914. was 'September Morn' and was well received by a packed auditorium
Built on the corner of Green Lane and Macklin Street it was on the site of Derby's first private lunatic asylum and close to the slums of Trafalgar Street and Waterloo Street in the Little City area of the town. The more comfortable houses in Compton and Wilson Streets were set to house costumiers and theatre staff as well as offering accommodation to visiting stars.
The theatre was described as "palatial" with an elaborate first floor foyer and comfortable lounges where lady attendants served dainties to the better off clientele. The dress circle balcony was especially rich in decoration and the novelty of ladies and gentleman's toilets on each floor was popular.
Over the next 45 years the theatre was to produce 1,158 live programmes in two periods from 1914-1930 and 1950 -1959, in the intervening years it was converted into a cinema but on the 28th October 1950 the Hippodrome closed as a cinema and live theatre was restored once more on 23 December 1950.
However in 1956 ITV hit the Midlands and people could now see regular screening of their idols for the price of a hire purchase agreement. Live entertainment at the Hippodrome died almost overnight. The exploitation of "girlie" shows hastened the demise as families boycotted these acts. The theatre started to close for long summer recesses.
By 1959 it was all over. The management declared that the theatre was not viable and closed after the Christmas pantomime. Derby was horrified, but the theatre remained idle until bought by Mecca in 1962 and refurbished as a Bingo hall.
Owned by Walker's Bingo until 2007 the Bingo type of entertainment lasted longer than any other and it is a tribute to these companies that the fabric of this grade II listed building is - however tenuously - still preserved*. (More of this later)
Unfortunately on Friday the of February this year a small fire broke out under the stage behind the orchestra pit. This is a part of the report in the 'STAGE' Newspaper from Thursday the 14th Feb:
Around 30 firefighters spent most of last Friday night tackling the fire. It is believed it was started in the orchestra pit, but did not spread because it was behind the fire curtain. No structural damage was caused.
The Grade II listed building, formerly a theatre and more recently a bingo hall, is currently not in use. But owner Christopher Anthony, who bought the venue last year, is thought to have told Derby City Council that he wants to knock it down.
Mhora Samuel of The Theatres Trust said: âIâm devastated by news of the fire. This vacant theatre was clearly very vulnerable and the owner should now take responsibility to make it safe and ensure that further damage doesnât occur.
âThe Theatres Trust will be working closely with Derby City Council to try and secure the theatre. First of all we have to find out the full extent of the damage.â
I've walked past this old theatre numerous time during the past few years and seen it go from Bingo to closure. Last weekend the opportunity to see inside presented itself : After seeing pictures on this site http://derbyhippodrome.co.uk/ it looked like would be a great explore and as the theatre had closed just over a year ago it would be mint inside.
After Walkers Bingo closed a Mr Christopher Antony bought the theatre for the development opportunity of its land, However the theatre is listed grade II.
I know there had been a small fire but this was confined to the understage area. So there would be little damage in the main auditorium, how wrong I was...
After looking at the listing schedule http://www.culture.gov.uk/Reference_...case_68286.htm damage other than fire has destroyed nearly all those parts specified in the schedule.
Thanks for reading this far, I just wanted to give you some background. You will draw your own conclusions regarding the damage and how it occurred. According to the Derby Evening Telegraph both the local council and the local newspaper have tried to contact Mr Antony regarding the building and it's re-use, but he's been uncontactable....
The former Stalls
Stage left box
Circle front removed! with builders hazard tape. Didn't think vandals used this :
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Lobby ceiling plasterwork
View from the circle
Across the front of the circle
Stage left proscenium box and 'missing' plaster work
Top of the proscenium
Rear circle lobby
Up to the circle
Top of the staircase
Circle bar
Gods bar
Up in the gods. A window is open and blowing the light fittings about.
This is a bit grainy but it the only picture I've got of the ceiling in the auditorium.
Back down again to the front of the stalls.
The controls for the 'iron' (safety curtain).
After expecting so much it was a really upsetting to see this theatre in such a bad way. This is what happens when a listed building comes into the hands of someone who doesn't care....
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By JESSICA SIMS
WILLOW PARK – Trinity Christian Academy in Willow Park is pleased to announce open enrollment dates to the public for the 2014-15 school year.
Pre-kindergarten enrollment opens Feb. 3, and enrollment for students entering kindergarten through 12th grade begins Feb. 10.
"Each year, I look forward to this exciting time when our school opens its arms to new partnerships with area families as we all look forward to another great school year," TCA Head of School Michael Skaggs said.
Pre-kindergarten classes are available to children turning four years old by Sept. 1, 2014. Two five-day (Monday through Friday) classes will be offered. Pre-K classes begin at 8:20 a.m. and end at 12:30 p.m. An afternoon "Stay-and-Grow" program is offered for families desiring continued programing for their pre-K child from 12:30 p.m. to 3:05 p.m.
The TCA kindergarten program offers two full-day classes from 8:20 a.m. to 3:05 p.m.
"Teachers enrich pre-K student learning, and the students grow in their social skills and Bible knowledge. I love to be a part of an elementary school that truly teaches the whole child: mind, body and spirit," elementary principal Lyricia Squyres said.
Currently, TCA offers two classes per grade.
"It is rewarding to see TCA's enrollment continue to climb, especially in the high school grades," Skaggs said.
A new secondary building with a 10,000-square-foot competition gym was completed in 2011 to accommodate recent growth. The original campus has also undergone renovation and houses elementary grades along with enrichment classrooms for music, computer, art, library and Spanish.
Several exciting changes have come to the TCA secondary campus over the past few years. One noteworthy transition is the addition of Ken Nobles as secondary principal in 2013.
"I feel blessed to be a part of Trinity Christian Academy," Nobles said. "We have excellent teachers who care for each and every student they teach. Enrollment is always an exciting and encouraging time of year simply because I believe in the mission of this school and the people who make it such a special place. It's a pleasure to introduce new families into such an environment."
TCA is dedicated to enriching students' lives by offering small class sizes and a college-preparatory curriculum presented from a biblical worldview.
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Dr. Aesha John was honored with the 2013 Robert K. Ratzlaff Outstanding Faculty Award by the Student Government Association from student nominees of faculty that demonstrate excellence in instruction and service to students on campus.
Education and Certifications
Ph.D. Oklahoma State University, 2011
Human Development and Family Science
M.S.W Maharaja Sayajirao University, 1995
Social Work
B.A. St. Xavier's College, Gujarat University, 1993
Courses Taught
Social work with children and families
Social processes and policy
Human behavior in the social environment (Individuals and Families)
Human behavior in the social environment (Community)
Research methods
Please visit the parenting advice blog maintained by my Human Behavior students. We welcome your comments and questions.
Interests, Publications and Presentations
Research Interests:
Parent-child interaction, parental adaptation and family well-being among families of children with developmental disabilities in India and the United States
Mother-child and father-child attachment
Mixed method (Quantitative, Qualitative, and Q-Methodology) approaches to explore parental and family variables in cross-cultural context.
I am currently working with three undergraduate students on a mixed-methods study focused on experiences of South Asian immigrant families in the United States raising a child with an intellectual disability. Please see flier for more information about the study.
Publications: (Reprint of journal article **Not peer-reviewed)
John, A., & Halliburton, A.L. (2010). Q methodology to assess father–child attachment. Early Child Development and Care, 180(1).
**John, A. (January, 2012). Lessons learnt during my academic job search. Students and Early Career Professionals Special Interest Group Newsletter.
*John, A., & Halliburton, A.L. (2010). Q methodology to assess father–child attachment. In L.A. Newland, H.S. Freeman, & D.D. Coyl (Eds.), Emerging Topics on Father Attachment: Considerations in Theory, Context and Development. London: Routledge.
**John, A. (2011). Institutional Review Board application for international research. SRCD Developments Newsletter, 54(1).
John, A. & Montgomery, D (2011). Socialization Goals of First Generation Immigrant Indian Parents: A Q-Methodological Study. Asian American Journal of Psychology.
John, A., Morris, A.S., & Halliburton, A. (2012). Looking beyond Maternal Sensitivity: Mother-Child Correlates of Attachment Security among Children with Intellectual Disabilities in Urban India. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disabilities.
John, A. (2012) Stress among Mothers of Children with Intellectual Disabilities in Urban India: Role of Gender and Maternal Coping. Journal of Applied Research in Intellectual Disabilities.
John, A., Halliburton, A. & Humphrey, J. (Invited paper, under review) Child-mother and child-father play interaction patterns with preschoolers. Early Child Development and Care (Special Issue).
Morris, A.S., John, A., Halliburton, A., Robinson, L., Myers, S., Aucoin, K.J., Keyes, A.W., & Terranova, A. (under review) Effortful Control, Behavior Problems and Peer Relations: What Predicts Academic Adjustment in Kindergarteners from Low-income Families? Early Education and Development.
John, A., Halliburton, A. & Montgomery, D. (under preparation). Using Q sort methodology in conducting research with young children. Invited book chapter for inclusion in Handbook of Research Methods in Early Childhood Education. Edited by Olivia Saracho, Ph.D.


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Goble, Tarryn Anne (2009) Investigation of entomopathogenic fungi for control of false codling moth, Thaumatotibia leucotrata, Mediterranean fruit fly, Ceratitis capitata and Natal fruit fly, C. rosa in South African citrus. Masters thesis, Rhodes University.
The biology of key citrus pests Thaumatotibia leucotreta Meyrick (Lepidoptera: Tortricidae), Ceratitis capitata Wiedemann (Diptera: Tephritidae) and Ceratitis rosa Karsch (Diptera: Tephritidae) includes their dropping from host plants to pupate in the soil below citrus trees. Since most EP fungi are soil-borne microorganisms, the development and formulation of alternative control strategies using these fungi as subterranean control agents, targeted at larvae and pupae in the soil, can potentially benefit existing IPM management of citrus in South Africa. Thus, a survey of occurrence of entomopathogenic fungi was undertaken on soils from citrus orchards and natural vegetation (refugia) on conventionally and organically managed farms in the Eastern Cape Province in South Africa. A method for baiting soil samples with citrus pest T. leucotreta and C. capitata larvae, as well as with the standard bait insect, Galleria mellonella Linnaeus (Lepidoptera: Pyralidae), was implemented. Sixty-two potentially useful entomopathogenic fungal isolates belonging to four genera were collected from 288 soil samples, an occurrence frequency of 21.53%. The most frequently isolated entomopathogenic fungal species was Beauveria bassiana (Balsamo) Vuillemin (15.63%), followed by Metarhizium anisopliae var. anisopliae (Metschnikoff) Sorokin (3.82%). Galleria mellonella was the most effective insect used to isolate fungal species (χ2=40.13, df=2, P≤ 0.005), with a total of 45 isolates obtained, followed by C. capitata with 11 isolates, and T. leucotreta with six isolates recovered. There was a significantly (χ2=11.65, df=1, P≤ 0.005) higher occurrence of entomopathogenic fungi in soil samples taken from refugia compared to cultivated orchards of both organically and conventionally managed farms. No significant differences were observed in the recovery of fungal isolates when soil samples from both farming systems were compared. The physiological effects and host range of 21 indigenous fungal isolates obtained in the Eastern Cape were investigated in the laboratory to establish whether these isolates could be effectively used as biological control agents against the subterranean life stages of C. rosa, C. capitata and T. leucotreta. When these pests were treated with a fungal concentration of 1 x 107 conidia ml-1, the percentage of T. leucotreta adults which emerged in fungal treated sand ranged from 5 to 60% (F=33.295; df=21; P=0.0001) depending on fungal isolate and the percentage of pupae with visible signs of mycosis ranged from 21 to 93% (F= 96.436; df=21; P=0.0001). Based on fungal isolates, the percentage adult survival in C. rosa and C. capitata ranged from 30 to 90% and 55 to 86% respectively. The percentage of C. rosa and C. capitata puparia with visible signs of mycosis ranged from 1 to 14% and 1 to 11% respectively. Deferred mortality due to mycosis in C. rosa and C. capitata adult flies ranged from 1 to 58% and 1 to 33% respectively, depending on fungal isolate. Entomopathogenic fungal isolates had a significantly greater effect on the adults of C. rosa and C. capitata than they did on the puparia of these two fruit fly species. Further, C. rosa and C. capitata did not differ significantly in their response to entomopathogenic fungi when adult survival or adult and pupal mycosis were considered. The relative potency of the four most virulent Beauveria isolates as well as the commercially available Beauveria bassiana product, Bb Plus® (Biological Control Products, South Africa), were compared against one another as log-probit regressions of mortality against C. rosa, C. capitata and T. leucotreta which all exhibited a dose-dependent response. Against fruit flies the estimated LC50 values of all five Beauveria isolates ranged from 5.5 x 1011 to 2.8 x 1012 conidia/ml-1. There were no significant differences between the relative potencies of these five fungal isolates. When T. leucotreta was considered, isolates: G Moss R10 and G 14 2 B5 and Bb Plus® were significantly more pathogenic than G B Ar 23 B3 and FCM 10 13 L1. The estimated LC50 values of the three most pathogenic isolates ranged from 6.8 x 105 to 2.1 x 106 conidia/ml-1, while those of the least pathogenic ranged from 1.6 x 107 to 3.7 x 107 conidia/ml-1. Thaumatotibia leucotreta final instar larvae were exposed to two conidial concentrations, at four different exposure times (12, 48, 72 and 96 hrs) and showed an exposure time-dependant relationship (F=5.43; df=3; P=0.001). At 1 x 107conidia/ml-1 two Beauveria isolates: G Moss R10 and G 14 2 B5 were able to elicit a response in 50% of test insects at 72 hrs (3 days) exposure. Although a limited amount of mycosis was observed in the puparia of both fruit fly species, deferred adult mortality due to mycosis was high. The increased incidence of adult mortality suggests that post emergence mycosis in adult fruit flies may play a more significant role in field suppression than the control of fruit flies at the pupal stage. The increased incidence of pupal mortality, as well as the relatively low concentrations of conidia required to elicit meaningful responses in T. leucotreta pupae may suggest that pre-emergent control of false codling moth will play a more significant role in field suppression than the control of adult life stages using indigenous isolates of entomopathogenic fungi. Various entomopathogenic fungal application techniques targeted at key insect pests within integrated pest management (IPM) systems of citrus are discussed.
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The Valdosta-Lowndes County Martin Luther King, Jr. Commemoration Association held its 28th Anniversary Founders Banquet Saturday night at the James H. Rainwater Conference Center.
Commemorating the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and remembering the founding roots of the association that started 28 years ago in the home of Ruth Council, the evening was celebrated through the honoring of noble leaders.
One of those celebrated leaders was Valdosta City councilman Joseph "Sonny" Vickers, who was honored as this year's recipient of the Candle in the Dark award, which was established to pay tribute to someone who is a giant in their field or in their community.
"Dr. King said 'Take the first step in faith, you don't have to see the whole staircase,'" said Valdosta City manager Larry Hanson. "Sonny Vickers has taken many first steps."
Vickers was elected to the Valdosta City Council for a one year term in 1985 and re-elected for a four year term in 1986, and has served more than 22 years as the councilman for District 3.
In 2011, Vickers was appointed Mayor by the Valdosta City Council, making him the first African-American mayor in the city's history.
"Sonny Vickers was appointed mayor because of the content of his character," said Hanson, after quoting King's dream for men to be judged not by the color of his skin, but by his character.
Some of Vickers' proudest accomplishments as a local elected official are facilitating the paving of more than 26 miles of dirt streets and spearheading the efforts to establish a housing program in the city of Valdosta. He has remained faithful to his family, his church — the River Street Church of Christ — and community while leading four decades of service in numerous organizations.
While Vickers has many accomplishments to his name, he is soft-spoken, not boastful, and according to Hanson, doing most of his work behind the scenes putting people over politics and practicing the very ideals that all public servants should aspire to.
"Always the candle in the dark," said Hanson.
Even as Vickers accepted his award and received applause, his first words were to thank others.
"I just owe so many individuals," said Vickers.
While maybe not consciously, Vickers was embodying the very leader the night honored, as it was King who once said "humility is the greatest quality of great leaders."
Another celebrated leader of the evening was keynote speaker Rev. Dr. Perry Simmons, Jr. Born in Cairo, Simmons has ministered in Moultrie, Valdosta, Hahira, Quitman, and now Newark, N.J. where he has resided as the pastor of the Abyssinian Baptist Church for 30 years. He is the author of "Have You Got Good Religion?", "The Importance of Establishing a Black Christian Family," and "Black Man, Where Art Thou?" along with over 2,000 sermons and papers.
Simmons spoke on the importance of music.
"Song was an important part of the civil rights movement," said Simmons.
"Life Every Voice and Sing" and "We Shall Overcome" were used to solicit courage, calm nerves and provide inspiration.
Joan Baez was the first to sing the morning that more than 250,000 people marched in Washington, D.C. with King.
Bob Dylan once sang "Only A Pawn in Their Game" and Peter, Paul and Mary sang "If I Had A Hammer".
"The people that sang for civil rights knew that music helped make people strong," said Simmons.
Simmons relayed King as a prophet to the people and spoke of the challenges of the Ku Klux Klan, the white liberal church and even Pres. Lyndon B. Johnson, who refused to let King speak at the Baptist National Convention.
While Simmons talked about the sting of racism that once was, he also spoke of the racism that still exists today.
"How far have we really come?" Simmons posed.
While public places are desegregated and courts, according to Simmons, are "more than less fair, racism still exists. The sting of racism still follows us today."
Simmons pointed to the wealth gap that has grown, the fact that one in 30 white men are in prison while one in nine black men are incarcerated, many neighborhoods are still segregated, but most of all, churches still worship separately.
"Churches still seem to be the most segregated institutions in this country," said Simmons.
Simmons questioned how all churches and members seem to be serving one God, with one Heaven and one Hell and yet, races still seem to worship separately.
Simmons pointed to the schools and history books re-writing history, writing out slavery and racism.
"This is our country that has racism in its history," said Simmons.
Simmons talked about the biases against each other, not just in race, but in political affiliations such as democrats and republicans.
"My brothers and my sisters, we are to be a light unto each other," Simmons urged.
Issues of unemployment, the poverty gap, under-education and more are signs that though we have come far, we still have far to go.
"Being black in America is trying to smile, when you really want to cry," said Simmons.
Simmons speech went from message, to sermon, to song and led the audience to, one by one, lift out of their seats. Some praised with their hands in the air and others gave moans and nods of agreement, but all watched and all listened as Simmons preached the legacy of King while relaying the realities of our current generation.


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A battered government has some good news to cheer this week. First, rating agency Moody's kept the country's rating outlook at stable, providing a breather after two other global firms downgraded it to negative.
Goldman Sachs on Thursday upgraded Indian equities to 'overweight' from 'market-weight'. The Wall Street investment bank has cited a recovery in growth and inflation moderation going ahead as reasons for its upgrade. It has set an end-2013 end target for the Nifty at 6,600 points, a 14 percent upside from current levels.
And there's some more good news. Goldman said that economic growth is likely to accelerate to 6.5 percent in 2013 backed by favourable external sector demand outlook and a pick-up in domestic reforms.
All this is boosting sentiment on the street. The Sensex crossed 19,000 in trade on Thursday.
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What about John Lennon? Like you, he wrote frankly in his songs about his life and lifestyle.
He wrote a song called "Mother" that I thought was a really good song. "Jealous Guy." I liked his stuff away from the Beatles. Just my own taste. But the kind of phrasing that knocks me out is Dylan's. For language, Dylan kills me to this day.
Bruce Springsteen.
I like him in concert. He's a great live performer. What I really like is the little skits with Clarence and everything, these great spoken introductions.
How did he come to recite those lines on "Street Hassle"?
Because if I'd done them, they'd have come out funny. And when he did it, it sounded real. He was at the same studio, the Record Plant. It wasn't making it with me doing it So the engineer said, "Why don't you ask Bruce to do it? He could really do that" So we asked Bruce to do it, and he rewrote it a little.
The ending of his passage is a clever take-off on "Born to Run" – "There are tramps like us/Who were born to pay." Was that his contribution?
No, that was mine. It had been written with him in mind, but he wasn't there. I was just playing off the title.
As someone who was part of the Warhol celebrity circus at its height, what do you think of the "celebutante" party scene in New York now?
I'm not familiar with it. I don't go to clubs, I don't go to concerts. See, after being with Andy, if I never went to another one of those things, it would be too soon. And I still feel that way. I don't go to the China Club, I don't go to M.K., I don't go to the Tunnel. I get cards from all these places, but I don't go. Not interested. I'm kind of dull, huh?
Is there any pop music out there now that interests you at all?
I haven't heard enough. I don't listen to the radio. I don't know what's out there. I know my wife, Sylvia, is really mad about the Waterboys. So we listen a lot to the Waterboys. But of course, I'm really interested in the lyrics. There are few and far between, someone who can really do that.
After you got out of college, did you ever seriously pursue writing – that is, poetry or prose, as opposed to songwriting?
I won a poetry award. While I was at the Factory, Gerard Malanga [a Warhol associate and Velvets biographer] submitted one of my poems to a little magazine. I was getting published in these little magazines. Eugene McCarthy gave me the award, something like "one of the five best new poets in a small literary magazine." I was actually mad at Gerard for submitting it, because I hated the poem. I didn't care if someone else thought it was good. I knew it was terrible. I thought my song lyric was way better than that particular poem.
You've always contended that your records are your version of the Great American Novel.
Yeah, when you play it all in a row. If you have the patience to follow it.
Do you think your "novel" would have made it as poetry or prose, rather than rock & roll?
It wouldn't have had a drum. It wouldn't have had guitars. So you wouldn't have gotten that physicality from it That's kind of what I like about it.
Ironically, given the country's increasingly conservative disposition, your work seems more drastic, more potent, than it did ten, fifteen, even twenty years ago.
I think the cover-up of Kennedy's assassination, then the pardoning of Nixon finished it for a lot of people. They said, "Well, we didn't know it was bullshit before. We certainly know it's bullshit now. So fuck it. Every man for himself." No one gives a shit. They know they're getting fucked. No time to take care of anything else.
But 'New York' is very much your way of saying you do give a shit.
It is. It's also about the use of language. That's why I say maybe we shouldn't think of me making rock & roll records. I'm in this for the long haul. I feel I've just started to get a grip on it, what I can do with it, what I want to do with it. And who I'd like to take with me when I do it.
It's really easy, in a sense, because the people who like it will go with me. And the people who don't will say I'm full of shit. And more power to them. They don't want me, and I'm not interested in them, either. That's okay. [Smiles] I have no problem with that.
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A Mexican national who was indicted along with twenty-five other individuals and charged with being a member of a large cocaine distribution organization, was sentenced in United States District Court in East St. Louis on March 30, 2012, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, Stephen R. Wigginton, announced today. Nineteen others have previously been sentenced to prison terms. The remainder are awaiting sentencing.
Daniel Ortiz, 28, a citizen of Mexico, who most recently resided in Granite City, Illinois, and who had previously entered a plea of guilty on December 14, 2011, to one count of Conspiracy to Distribute and Possess With the Intent to Distribute Cocaine; and one count of Distribution of Cocaine , was sentenced to144 months in prison followed by five years of supervised release. Ortiz was ordered to pay a fine of $750 and a special assessment of $200. He was also ordered to forfeit $413,070 to the United States.
In addition, to the sentence imposed, the Court entered a Judicial Orders of Removal, which will require Ortiz to be deported from the United States following his release from prison.
Evidence in support of the indictment was obtained in an investigation which was conducted under the auspices of the Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Force (OCDETF). The OCDETF initiative is designed to bring federal, state, and local law enforcement agencies and resources together to identify, target and dismantle large national and international drug trafficking organizations. Participating agencies include the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), Internal Revenue Service, Criminal Investigations, the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Office of Homeland Security Investigations (ICE HSI), Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF), U.S. Marshal Service, the Granite City Police Department, Fairmont City Police Department, Collinsville Police Department, Fairview Heights Police Department, Caseyville Police Department, Pontoon Beach Police Department, Park Hills (Missouri) Police Department, the St. Clair County Sheriff's Department, and the Illinois State Police. This case is assigned to Assistant United States Attorney Randy G. Massey.


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In political Washington, we see ourselves as the grand strategists, thinking great thoughts that others should/must carry out while we conserve our strength in order to be able to think even greater thoughts.
The largest, most expensive and important object at the disposal of the pols is the federal government. So, like lots of other American workers, feds wonder what's next for them.
As yesterday's column pointed out, strange and unexpected things can be proposed for feds when a new president takes over after inheriting a deep recession.
Feds do have a number of job-related things to worry about, but in most instances they are better off than many, if not most, of their private sector neighbors. A lot of them (the neighbors) would be happy to know they will still have a job, pensions and health care next year. Or next week.
We won't know what, if any, sacrifices rank-and-file feds will be called on to make. That was the subject of yesterday's column. We got a lot of e-mail and some great comments which we'll run soon.
Meantime, here are some issues you can think about:
Thanks to the most recent federal pay raise, a growing number of GS 15 employees are up against the executive pay cap. As a result they got little or no raise, compared to what their lower-ranking colleagues received. Right now the cap on GS 15 pay is $153,200. Many people in and out of government would like to have that problem, but it is a problem.
Career Tune Up
This morning at 10 a.m. Carol Bonosaro, president of the Senior Executives Association, will talk about the GS 15 cap, executive pay issues and the good, bad and ugly of life in the Senior Executive Service. She'll also explain safeguards that career SES personnel have as they get new political bosses. And finally she'll look into her crystal ball to see what might happen to feds over the next couple of years. She'll be on our Your Turn with Mike Causey radio show. You can listen live at 10 a.m. EST, or it will be archived here on the website so you can listen later.
But Wait! There's More!
At 10:30 a.m. on Your Turn benefits expert John Elliott talks about ways to tweak your benefits to make life much better when you do retire. He's also got a tip about ways both regular feds, and those in law enforcement jobs, can save lots of money on benefits, and how to get the most out of your health plan. Listen at www.federalnewsradio.com worldwide and at AM 1500 in the DC area.
Nearly Useless Factoid
According to Uncle John's Bathroom Reader, you share your birthday with at least nine million other people around the world. Sure, but when the day comes, I'm still not sharing my cake.
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