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Here is an affordable - not cheap - cabin where you can enjoy your vacation!
BEAR's VIEW is a very unique large two story cabin with one bedroom
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A second sleeper sofa is in the lobby just off the second floor
bedroom. (A great place for small children to be "near" yet not
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The spacious master bedroom has its own large deck. It is
furnished with two rocking chairs. Here you will "unwind" and
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Stunning panorama views with not another cabin in sight.
The main floor has a wrap-around deck, with the hot tub, for
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Complete kitchen for meals with the privay of eating a home.
Nice stacked stone gas log fireplace (even with a timer so
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Remember the hot tub on the tub for relaxing and enjoying a view
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The master bath has a corner jacuzzi -- not out in the bedroom.
LOCATION: We are about half way between Pigeon Forge and
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We are near the famous Glades Arts & Crafts community. This is a
wonderful place for lazy day shopping.
The little shops have unique and different items. It'll be fun
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activities and attractions in Gatlinburg Tennessee
Hiking (I call it walking as some of the trails are so easy.
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And take a light jacket. It can be cool in the mountains.)
Cades Cove is a must - a "driving around the loop" trip.
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River Sports - Near by are both calm river tubing or
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Horseback riding - Several stable are in the area.
Shopping - Pigeon Forge has the great outlet stores for EVERYTHING.
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Shows - Dixie Stampee, Comedy Barn, Mystery Dinner Theatre,
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Dollywood - amusement park for a full days activity.
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Our basic rate is $149 a night
Holiday rate is $185 a night.
The 7th night is always free.
Sometimes there are other unadvertised specials. Just ask.
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Here you can enjoy your stay!
Remember the old adage -- You get what you pay for.
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$75 pet charge per pet (if approved).
No F E E S ! We do NOT have any add-on fees such as cleaning fee,
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And lowest tax rate available. 9.75%
Because this cabin is not located
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We also now have larger cabins.
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Top things to do in Gatlinburg
- Go on short hikes
- Take a LONG HIKE in Smokies
- Stroll the Parkway and visit unique shops
- Dinner theaters
Top things to do on a budget
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"We do the full train ride, we do the gift bags, we do the memberships," Foster said. "And we do it to support a very nice thing, which is the children's zoo."
Boo at the Zoo has been at the Lincoln Children's Zoo since the 1970s. Ryan Gross of the zoo said this year, there are about 40 Lincoln organizations on hand handing out candy and coupons to the trick–or–treaters. He said he expects about 20,000 people to come through over the next five days.
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Explanation of these comments against PHP in a popular article?Jeff Atwood recently linked to a blog post named "PHP: a fractal of bad design".
I'm writing a summary of the stance of the author, in his own words. Then, I write my questions about each point. Most of the time, my question is, "am I thinking right?" - and in other times, "what is the problem?".
Please note that I'm not trying to support/defend PHP here, I'm trying to understand the problems better, rather than simply repeat them if/when I get asked.
- PHP is full of surprises: mysql_real_escape_string, E_ALL
- What surprises is the author referring to?
- mysql_real_escape_string() needs a DB connection before escaping is done. Yeah, I felt that's kind of stupid too, but I may be worried about the wrong thing...
- E_ALL is a subset of E_STRICT, but one would expect it to be a super-set from the name. Is it that?
- What surprises is the author referring to?
- PHP is inconsistent: strpos, str_rot13
- Underscore in one function and no underscore in the other..?
- PHP requires boilerplate: error-checking around C API calls, ===
- I didn't get the point about error-checking and C API Calls - is that the whole new Exception() routine is cumbersome? How do other languages make it easier?
- What is it about === and conciseness? Need of too many keystrokes?
- PHP is flaky: ==, foreach ($foo as &$bar)
- == : I think the objection is that devs think == does what === also (check type along with value), but I thought this differentiation was more flexible? Isn't this an advantage in a dynamically typed language?
- Prepending an ampersand makes the value change inside target array but not prepending it leaves the target array unchanged by the logic inside a foreach() - is this 'gotcha' the problem?
- PHP is opaque: no stack traces by default or for fatals, complex error reporting
- PHP is full of surprises: mysql_real_escape_string, E_ALL
Jul 15, 2012, 11:42 #2I don't think the author clarified this point well enough, but your guess sounds about right.A stack trace shows not just the error, but all the function calls that led to that error. For example, http://www.flickr.com/photos/pioupio...n/photostream/
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'foo' == 0 is true. Also, if $a == $b and $a == $c, then you'd expect $b == $c, but in PHP that may not be the case. The author gives several other examples that fall under the category of strange type coercion.
"First make it work. Then make it better."
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Thank you so much Jeff Mott! You cleared all my doubts in one epic swoop Thanks again! Very useful explanations.
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Winless and already three games out of first place in the AFC North, the Browns' odds to win Super Bowl XLV have risen to 500-1 at Lucky's Race and Sports Book in Nevada as of Wednesday. Cleveland has the same NFL title odds as struggling Buffalo, Detroit and Jacksonville, with all four teams the longest shots on the board.
As of odds set Sept. 22, the Browns were 200-1 to win the Super Bowl at Lucky's, but their odds were boosted by 150 percent this week. The Browns fell 24-17 at Baltimore on Sunday.
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Visitation will be from 6 to 9 p.m. today, Dec. 17, 2012, at Collins-Burke Funeral Home Parlor and from 1 to 2 p.m. on Tuesday, Dec. 18, 2012, at Patton Hill Baptist Church. Funeral services will be at 2 p.m. on Tuesday, Dec. 18, 2012, at Patton Hill Baptist Church. Burial will follow at Patton Hill Cemetery in Townley. Paul Busby will officiate.
He was preceded in death by his father, George Willcutt; mother, Bazzie Lee Dunn Willcutt; wife, Margie Sickles Willcutt; sister, Ila Mae Wyers (JD); brothers, Dee Willcutt (Gracie) and Lewis Willcutt; and nephew, David Wyers.
He is survived by his son, Anthony Willcutt (Sandra) of Townley; daughters, Barbara Fondren (Harold) and Anita Knight; grandchildren, Kandace Hicks (Chris), Ashley Spahn (Jeffrey) and Amanda Robinson (Anthony); and great-grandchildren, Jordan Hicks, Annalee Robinson, Aubrey Robinson, Zachary Spahn and Heather Spahn.
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It is 4 a.m. and Nicola Formichetti is having a jet-lagged morning run around the Shinjuku district of Tokyo—at the same time as being interviewed on the phone. "It is very Blade Runner here and I'm running," he confirms, when asked why he is mysteriously panting. This is the normal sort of schedule the stylist faces these days. The day before, Formichetti had been filmed alongside the Japanese actress Kiko Mizuhara, the face of Uniqlo's womenswear, for the brand's latest TV commercial. It appears that Formichetti is now the face of the menswear in Japan, as well as being Uniqlo's creative fashion director. "It will really mean a lot to my mum and my grandma," he explains of this particular string to his bow. "In Japan everybody wears Uniqlo, from tiny babies to the elderly. It is really like nothing else and has a response like nothing else."
Such is the place that Nicola Formichetti now occupies in the fashion industry. The half Italian, half Japanese stylist—although that is a very limiting description of what he does—could have almost been grown in a lab to be the first test-tube baby of "global fashion now." He helms a major brand (Mugler), directs the fashion choices of a major star (Lady Gaga), and is the founder, alongside his brother, of his own brand, Nicopanda (left), whose e-commerce Web site is set to launch November 19. Yet now he is going back to his roots, by being the guest editor of a special issue of Dazed and Confused—the U.K. magazine where he made his name—called "Fantasia." It is an issue to celebrate all things Asian—including Nicola himself. Continue Reading "Nicola Formichetti: Asia And Fantasia" »


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The National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) has started 2013 with a bang. On 4 January 2013, it announced that it had imposed sanctions of close to $56 million on six liquid crystal display (LCD) makers from Korea and Taiwan, accusing the companies of illegal price-fixing.
These sanctions set an absolute record for antitrust offenses in China. NDRC's decision is also significant in that it is the first that exclusively sanctions "foreign" companies—firms from outside Mainland China.
LCD panels are the main components of flat TV and computer monitors. China's many TV and computer makers are buyers of LCD panels, and hence were the direct victims of the price-fixing activities.
The companies punished by NDRC are Samsung and LG from South Korea, and Chimei, AU Optronics, Chunghwa Picture Tubes, and HannStar from Taiwan. With the exception of LG, these companies were also fined by the European Commission for the same cartel activities in 2010, and some of them were also targeted in investigations by the US Department of Justice and/or sued in private litigation in the United States.
Some details of the NDRC decision can be found in a press release and a question-and-answer session between an NDRC official and a journalist (Q&A) posted on NDRC's website, as well as in statements made by NDRC officials to the Chinese press.
Still, overall, the underlying facts, procedures and NDRC's legal reasoning are only outlined in these materials.
In terms of the illegal conduct, the press release states that the six defendants had manipulated prices for LCD panels from 2001 to 2006, to the detriment of TV makers and end consumers. The decision also mentions exchanges of information on market conditions and consultation on prices between the six companies.
The Q&A states that NDRC's decision is based on the Price Law, not the Anti-Monopoly Law (AML). The reason given was that the AML only entered into force in 2008 and has no retroactive effect. Given that the objectionable events occurred from 2001 to 2006, the AML was found not to apply.
NDRC imposed heavy sanctions on each of the six participants in the cartel. In total, the amount of the sanctions was RMB 353 million (around $56 million). With around RMB 118, RMB 101 and RMB 94 million (approximately $19, $16 and $15 million) respectively, LG, Samsung and Chimei received the highest penalties.
Reports in the Chinese press suggest that AU Optronics acted as the whistle-blower and voluntarily approached NDRC to self-report. The official materials on NDRC's website do not confirm this point explicitly, but the Q&A notes that the six defendants all "turned themselves in," receiving different degrees of mitigation in the sanctions imposed. However, the press release also contains information on the volume of LCD panel sales in China for each of the six companies, and AU Optronics' share of the total amount of sanctions is below what its sales volume would imply. What is clear is that AU Optronics was not granted immunity and still had to pay a penalty of around $3.5 million.
Interestingly, NDRC said that the sanctions imposed on the companies consisted of two elements: the "unlawful gains" which the perpetrators realised through the anti-competitive conduct (RMB 208 million) and the fines themselves (RMB 144 million). In addition, the sanctions imposed in relation to the unlawful gains were also split into two parts: the "price overcharge" (RMB 172 million) and the "confiscation" (RMB 36.75 million).
For the price overcharge, the six defendants were required to refund the overcharged amount directly to the Chinese TV makers, and the press release notes that re-payment has already been made. As for the other element of the unlawful gains, the official NDRC materials are not clear. But, reading between the lines, it may be that it was simply not possible to attribute all the gains realised by the perpetrators to specific buyers, and perhaps this amount was confiscated and ended up in NDRC's coffers.
The refunding of the price overcharge to the buyers of the cartelized products has its basis in a provision of the Price Law, but this option would not, in principle, be available under the AML. This refund system has interesting features: it may remove the need for the aggrieved customers of the members of the cartel to bring follow-on suits to seek compensation for the damages suffered. Even for the defendants in the NDRC procedure, the refund system could be beneficial if it were to expressly preclude such follow-on litigation and allow them to turn the page and move on with their business. But that tactic would not necessarily be water-tight, as a TV maker could argue that it has suffered damages other than being overcharged and still bring a case seeking damages against the panel maker.
According to the NDRC press release, the "action items" for the six cartelists were not limited to paying the monetary sanctions. The companies also had to commit to "using their best efforts to provide the Chinese TV companies with fair supplies, and to offer the opportunity to all customers to buy equivalent high-end products and new technology products." Furthermore, the six defendants had to commit to extending the warranty period for LCD panels from 18 to 36 months, at no charge, to all Chinese TV makers.
The press release and the Q&A on the NDRC website do not provide further explanations on the rationale behind these two commitments. The Q&A notes that, according to estimates of the Chinese industry association, this extension of the warranty period could lead to savings of RMB 395 million (around $63 million).
In contrast, some reports in the Chinese press suggest that the domestic TV makers had actually complained about not getting access to the latest LCD technology, and that they felt discriminated against as to the warranty period, without however providing any further details to the point.
Without additional information on these "latest technology" and "warranty" issues, it is difficult to assess their relevance from a legal perspective. If the six defendants were shown to have conspired to refuse to provide the LCD panels made with the most up-to-date technology and to limit the warranty period to 18 months, then the commitments could be viewed as specific remedies to address the effects of the cartel conduct. If, on the contrary, the decisions as to the maturity of the technology used for the LCD panels and the duration of the warranty period were made unilaterally by each of the six defendants in isolation from each other, then it would be more difficult to find a proper rationale based on antitrust grounds for the imposition of these two commitments.
Whatever the facts or ultimate rationale behind these commitments, the NDRC decision in the LCD panels case is yet another example of what is becoming a litany of antitrust decisions in relation to high technology markets. Often, the explicit (or underlying) issue is the dependence—or perceived dependence—of Chinese industry on foreign technology. Examples of such decisions abound in the merger area—the ARM/Giesecke & Devrient/Gemalto joint venture, Google's acquisition of Motorola Mobility and the two hard disk drive cases are just some of the most recent decisions where the Chinese merger control authority has imposed conditions on its approval which appear to be aimed at reducing dependence on foreign technology.
NDRC's decision in the LCD panels case suggests that anti-cartel enforcement is set to increase in China, perhaps quite rapidly. So far, NDRC had mainly prosecuted domestic cartels, rather than international cartels with foreign participants. But that "honeymoon" period may now be over. It would be reasonable to expect international cartels to become a focus of NDRC's investigations.
Despite the facts that the objectionable conduct dates back to 2001-2006 and the statute of limitation in Chinese administrative law is in principle two years, NDRC still sanctioned the LCD makers (presumably based on the theory that a complaint filed with it by the Chinese TV manufacturing industry in 2006 interrupted the running of the limitation period). Hence, companies that have been punished for anti-competitive practices elsewhere in particular need to keep a close eye on developments in the area of Chinese anti-cartel enforcement.
As mentioned, the LCD panels decision was made under the Price Law. In the Q&A on its website, NDRC defended itself against arguments that the level of fines imposed on the LCD panel makers was too low. The authority responded: "If the fines had been imposed pursuant to the Anti-Monopoly Law, then the basis for the amount of the fines would have been the sales revenues of these companies, and the fines would definitely have been much higher." The warning signal for companies could not be clearer.
Adrian Emch is a partner in the Bejing, China, office of Hogan Lovells International LLP. He has completed an internship with the Directorate-General of Competition at the European Commission and has been in private practice in Brussels and Beijing. His experience covers merger control, multi-jurisdictional merger filings, cartel investigations, and antitrust counselling.
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The Vampire Diaries 3.16 "1912"A tv review article by: Shawn Hill
The recent murders in Mystic Falls remind Damon of a similar string of killings one hundred years ago. Through flashbacks to 1912, Damon remembers a beautiful vampire named Sage, from whom he learned a whole new lifestyle. Sheriff Forbes warns Damon not to get involved in the murder investigation, but Damon thoroughly believes that the sheriff is pursuing the wrong suspect. Elena and Matt have to break the law as they seek evidence that will help them prove that Dr. Fell is the killer. For reasons known only to her, Rebekah tries to find one of Mystic Falls' oldest landmarks. Elena comes to a new understanding of the path her life has taken, and Damon makes an emotional confession to Stefan.
The Vampire Diaries airs Thursday nights at 8:00 on the CW.
This episode was curiously disjointed. There was way too much going on. It was definitely a "1st installment after Winter Break" sort of affair, with lots of chess-piece shifting and reminding us of who all the players are and what they've been up to. There were sepia-toned flashbacks (thus the title); there was a new character introduction (Sage, whom Rebekah finds kind of trashy, but who is old enough to have had a fling with Finn, senior sibling of all the Originals); there was a lot of Salvatore Bro-bonding, mostly consisting of Damon emoting and Stefan pretending not to emote; there were a few deaths, and there was a fair amount of Sherriff Forbes and Matt (our resident humans) being exasperated with all the undead shenanigans. That's a lot to cram into an hour, and I'm tempted to dip below the dreaded 3-star average … except there were a few moments deep enough, important enough on an arc-level, to keep the momentum of the season going, if in fits and starts. The engine was a bit rickety this week, but they just don't build 'em like they used to.
Elena's gets reality checks wherever she goes this episode, and thankfully not from nemesis Rebekah, who's back to following Damon around (a trick that never works for any of his girlfriends). First the new schizophrenic doc (who is either trying to save Alaric or destroy him) calls her an idiot for dating vampires and for accepting loose cannon bad boy Alaric into her immediate family. You really can't tell why Meredith is so annoyed with Elena in this scene, I mean, it's before she catches Elena and Matt having broken into her apartment to figure out she's evil (at which point she turns them into Sherriff Forbes, who's had just about enough of her humans getting into more trouble than the vamps today).
Let's stop and consider Sherriff Forbes for a moment. Caroline's mom, Bill's ex-wife, Damon's ally even after he stopped compelling her … she's a complex character with an unusual role in this town, and Marguerite Macintyre always makes her tough as nails without losing her motherly, caretaking vibe. She's appealing, even when she's doing the wrong thing, and lately she's been doing the right things, most of the time. She covers for Matt and Elena when they could really be in big trouble.
Elena next stumbles onto Damon helping Stefan feed on an innocent victim, with extra blood just drooling from his mouth, which is pretty awful for all involved (not least the girl whose night is ruined, though Damon does bother to save her life) and another way of letting Matt witness what Elena has gotten herself into. Matt later nearly admits he still loves Elena, but his loyal concern leads her to see that her attraction to Stefan had something to do with the fact that he's immortal (unlike her parents, and most of the rest of her imperiled family).
And later, while reading the Gilbert diary they took from Meredith's hidden room (which they new she'd have, because, Founder), Elena begins to realize what's been going on with Alaric and the serial killings that took Caroline's father, the medical examiner, and almost Alaric himself: seems the revival ring he wears that can reverse supernatural death … also drives the wearer crazy with repeated use. Oops. How many times has Alaric died already?
The new character, Sage, is played by Cassidy Freeman, who almost made being a member of the Luthor clan sexy on Smallville (uphill battle there, considering how sniveling Luthors usually are), and while she gets a nice showcase beating on men in the Suffragette era in sepia tones, apparently she'll get a better showcase next week when she shows up in color. This show doesn't have a habit of keeping interesting female vamps (other than the unkillable Katherine) around as long as we might like, but the casting is a positive sign in this case.
In other news, Rebekah is the only Original still hanging around (which is fine since she's by far the most interesting one), but Damon had better stop screwing with her affections, as her bite is much definitely far worse than her bark. But that's also a story for next week's episode, "Break on Through." As it's been written by the author of two of the previous high points of the season ("Our Town" and "Ghost World"), Rebecca Sonnenshine, I have high hopes for a return to glory in my scoring.
Shawn Hill knows two things: comics and art history. Find his art at http://cornekopia.net.


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Jacksonville Jaguars running back Rashad Jennings went down with an injury in the second quarter of the team's game on Sunday against the Buffalo Bills.
Jennings was off to an uneventful start to the game for the Jaguars before injuring his head. He is out for the game, according to Ryan O'Hallaran. Jenning had eight rushes for 20 yards before the injury. He had just ripped off a 12 yard gain on the play that knocked him out of the game.
The Jaguars are now down to their fourth-string running back. With Maurice Jones-Drew sidelined by a foot injury, Jennings' head injury and Jalen Parmele's season-ending groin injury, Montell Owens is the last man standing in the Jacksonville backfield.
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Two Southwest Louisiana teens are among the 2013 Louisiana Young Heroes, as recently announced by Louisiana Public Broadcasting.The eight winners were honored April 17 in Baton Rouge.The two SWLA teens -- Carissa Fruge, 18, a senior from Jennings who attends Hathaway High School, and Hunner Monceaux, 18, a senior at South Beauregard High School in Longville -- are being featured on LPB.According to a news release from LPB, Fruge has a 4.0 GPA at Hathaway High despite a wide range of physical ailments over the last four years that have included Swine Flu, a nerve injury that left her unable to walk without extreme pain, an autoimmune disease, Reynaud's Syndrome and fluid around her heart.
The release states that after recovering from a cancerous tumor in his shoulder, Monceaux got the bad news a year later that he had a large tumor in his lung that would require the removal of the lung. Monceaux recovered and is back playing with the South Beauregard Golden Knights' basketball team, inspiring everyone around him.Now in their 18th year, the LPB awards honor students in grades 7-12 who have excelled in the classroom, served their communities, overcome adversity and inspired everyone around them.Other winners include:• Hollie Fields, 18, a senior from Oil City who attends North Caddo Magnet High School;• Henry Futch, 14, an 8th grader from Arcadia who attends Cedar Creek School in Ruston;• Aamina Green, 18, a senior from New Iberia who attends Teurlings Catholic High School in Lafayette;• Madison Martin, 12, a seventh grader at Southside Junior High in Denham Springs;• Rachel Patteson, 17, a senior Northwood High School in Shreveport; and• Maggie Tortorich, 13, an eighth grade at Central Middle School in Gonzales.To read all of the winners' stories, click HERE. You can also watch video vignettes of each winner.
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Spay incontinence
Old age
Kidney issues
Urinary tract infection (UTI).
The easiest to deal with is the UTI. Once you clear it up the incontinence should stop.
The other causes can be more difficult and there are drugs on the market such as Proin, but they can have side effects.
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Soy milk at about 1/2 cup per day
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OSU/PAST Forensic Science & Anthropology Field School 2014
Dates: May 5 − May 30
Credit Hours: 3.0 (ANTHROP 5686)
Cost: OSU Tuition & Fees − Ohio Resident = $1,262.10; Non-Ohio Resident = $3,227.10
Lab Fee = $775.00
OSU students enrolled full-time during Spring semester will have their tuition waived for this program.
Program Description
The Forensic Science and Anthropology Field School is an intensive, four-week course. Students participate in, from the perspective of multiple disciplines, the resolution of a mock medicolegal death investigation from crime scene discovery to courtroom testimony. Students process an indoor crime scene where foul play is suspected to have happened. Evidence then leads them to an outdoor scene where they search for and recover buried human remains. Back in the lab, they examine evidence from both scenes and attempt to identify individuals by analyzing skeletal remains and matching them against missing person files. Participants synthesize multiple lines of evidence to reconstruct what occurred at the crimes scenes. Finally, students testify as a scientific expert witness in a real courtroom in front of an actual judge under direct and cross-examination by practicing attorneys. Throughout the process, students receive hands-on training in the classroom, lab, and field by law enforcement agents, legal professionals, and forensic scientists.
Upon completion of this course students are able to employ the scientific method to answer questions related to crime scene reconstruction and individual identification, distinguish between forensic science as portrayed in popular media versus the reality of forensic science as practiced by professionals, develop interpersonal professional and public presentation skills, and appreciate the important role of an Anthropologist in medicolegal death investigations.
Program Schedule
Morning (8:30-12:30) Afternoon (1:30-5:30)
Week 1 5/5 Distance Learning Distance Learning
5/6 Orientation Team Building/Orienteering
5/7 The Legal System Crime Scene Management
5/8 Photography Photogrammetry
5/9 Osteology Osteology
Week 2 5/12 Biological Profile Biological Profile
5/13 Taphonomic Profile State Crime Lab Tour
5/14 Forensic Archeology/Mapping Forensic Entomology
5/15 Indoor Crime Scene Indoor Crime Scene
5/16 Coroner's Office Tour Process Evidence
Week 3 5/19 Outdoor Crime Scene – Search Outdoor Scene – Crime Search
K-9 Searches Geophysical Remote Sensing
5/20 Outdoor Crime Scene – Excavation Outdoor Crime Scene – Excavation
5/21 Outdoor Crime Scene – Excavation Outdoor Crime Scene – Excavation
5/22 Process Evidence Missing Person Files
5/23 Facial Reconstruction Facial Reconstruction
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5/28 Testimony Preparation Testimony Preparation
5/29 Distance Learning Distance Learning
5/30 Courtroom Testimony Courtroom Testimony
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1. Complete the online application https://www.formstack.com/forms/?1660516-oYh4M3Zx8n
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1.2. Places in the program are available on a first come, first served basis. Apply as soon as possible to be considered for a spot.
1.3. Your application, personal statement, and letter will be reviewed and you will be informed as to your acceptance status no later than one week after all materials have been submitted.
2. Enroll for 3.0 semester credit hours of ANTHROP 5686 and pay OSU tuition.*
2.1. Permission to enroll will be granted by the Director.
3. Pay $775 lab fee.
3.1. Once your enrollment and tuition payment has been verified you will be sent a link to pay the fee online.
Completion of the previous steps secures your spot in the program. The program is capped at 16 students. Once all 16 spots have been filled applicants will be placed on a waitlist. Students traveling from out-of-state may secure on-campus room and board by contacting University Housing at (https://housing.osu.edu/, 614-292-8266).
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According to a new policy in the Willingboro, NJ school district, students who don't have enough money to pay for lunch must go hungry, and their meals are tossed in the trash.
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. A Maine vacation you can afford. $600.00 per week plus tax.
Sorry no pets and no smoking ,..
New beautifully furnished second story retreat in a tranquil setting
with 220 feet of semi-private shoreline. Great view of the pond while
enjoying your meals. You have two private outside decks and a
private dock. No One on the first floor to bother you.
Great swimming in crystal-clear water with sandy bottom.
Nice Bass Fishing.
Maines New Oxford Casino only 2 miles away.
Two Grocery stores 5 miles down the road.
Golf at Poland Springs, Norway Country Club, or Paris Hill all within
minutes from here.
Hiking Trails nearby.
Oxford Plains Speedway 5 miles away for race fans.
Mini Golf and Go Cart Track 5 miles
This peaceful holiday cabin is centrally located in Oxford, Me.
only 40 miles from Portland and offers multiple day trip
destinations. See the original LL Bean Store. Go outlet shopping in
North Conway, NH. Take in a lobster bake on Cabbage Island.
In the fall you can see some of the nicest Fall Foliage in New
England or take in a county fair.
Come with your own plans or ask the retired owners who live next
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Full kitchen with electric stove, refrigerator, microwave, toaster,
coffeemaker, TV and VCR player.
Very nice private bedroom with queen bed.
Queen size sleep sofa in the living room.
NEW: Two sets of sheets, 4 towels and wash clothes will be provided so you no longer have to pack these items.
Kitchen Island with two bar stools and bistro table with two chairs
that provide excellent water view.
Private deck with picnic table, weber grill and adirondeck chairs to
relax in. A second private deck with excellent water views.
Free use of a canoe and paddle boat. Bring your life jackets, fishing poles, and golf clubs.
activities and attractions in Oxford Maine
Excellent swimming in very clean clear pond with sandy bottom.
Good fishing.
Canoe or paddle boat around the pond. No power boats or ski jets on
the pond.
Several golf courses in the area.
5 miles to Oxford Plains Speedway for exciting racing.
Sea Dogs Semi-pro baseball under an hours drive away.
Portland Mall 45 minutes.
Lots of hiking trails nearby.
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$600.00 per week plus Maine lodging Tax to be paid by cash or check only;
Reservations require a $250.00 deposit.
The balance is due at check in along with a $100.00 security deposit which
you will receive back within 30 days of your departure provided there is no damage.
Week runs Sat 3pm to 10am the following Saturday
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Many Universities Playing Fast & Loose With Admissions Data: NBC News
NBC News recently publish a report claiming that universities throughout the country have been caught manipulating data. Much of this data has to do with graduates' job placement rates and average debt of graduates. This news comes as no surprise - competition amongst universities and colleges has intensified as the bidding war for top students and their parents' money continues. While fudging SAT scores and freshman retention rates to climb college rankings such as US News and World Report is certainly unethical, the integrity of such a list is equally questionable in the first place. The reliance on college rankings such as US News is out of hand and fools prospective students and counselors into comparing colleges on the basis of obviously dubious statistics.
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The 5th annual Michigan Fun Fest presented by St. Mary's Orthodox Church in Livonia is happening May 30-June 2, 2013. The festival is located at Bryant Park, 18000 Merriman Rd. in Livonia.
The St. Mary's Michigan Fun Fest was created to bring the Detroit community together to raise awareness for and funds to build the Mariam Outreach Center, which fosters youth and family enrichment. The two-story, 30,000-square-foot building's construction is slated to be complete in 2017.
La Palma Chicken and Beef Shawarma
Chicken marinade
1 cup garlic paste
1.25 oz salt 1 Tsp white pepper
1 Tbls dried oregano
1/2 oz sumac
2 bay leaves
1/4 cup lemon juice
1.5 oz white vinegar
1/4 cup veg oil
1 Tsp ginger
Whisk together all ingredients until well coined
Meat shawarma marinade
3 oz red wine vinegar
3 oz diced onions
3 oz diced tomatoes
3 slices fresh lemons
2 bay leaves
1 oz shawarma spice
Blend all ingredients until well combined
Chicken shawarma
Chicken breast de boned
3 lbs
Chicken thighs de boned 3 lbs
Combine one cup of chicken marinade with all chicken &
refrigerate overnight
Meat shawarma
3 lbs of top sirloin meat
Combine beef & meat marinade & refrigerate overnight
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Youth results
Channel Islands Figure Skating Club
Southwest Pacific
Regional Championships results
Oct. 12-17, at Peoria, Ariz.
Shelby Wright — Pre-Preliminary Group B — 1st place.
Noelle Basta — Pre-Preliminary Group D — 3rd.
Robbie Drake — Preliminary — 2nd.
Sophia Drake — Pre-Juvenile Group C — 8th.
Danielle Ash — Open Juvenile Group A — 5th.
Anneliesa Tung — Open Juvenile Group B — 9th.
Afton Gustafson — Juvenile Group A — 6th.
Christy Nordskog — Intermediate Group C — 10th.
Casey Joy Labrenz — Intermediate Group B — 7th.
Ruiz wins bronze medal
Camarillo Wrestling Club's Jacob Ruiz earned a bronze medal Saturday at the Cerritos College Halloween Open Tournament. Ruiz of Simi Valley competes in the 83-pound division for 13-14-year-olds.
At 6 p.m.: Marmonte League JV championship playoffs.
At 4 p.m.: San Marcos at Ventura, Camarillo at Rio Mesa, Hueneme at Channel Islands, Oxnard at Pacifica, Carpinteria at Oak Park, Santa Paula at Nordhoff, Saturday
At 11 a.m.: Marmonte League freshman championship playoffs.
At 11 a.m.: Santa Clara at Malibu.
Bantam North
North Oxnard Red 14, North Oxnard Gray 0; Simi Blue 30, Thousand Oaks White 8; North Oxnard Black 24, North Oxnard White 22; Newbury Park Gold 22, Ventura Orange 6.
Bantam South
Valley Black 50, Highland Eagles 6; SCV Redskins 38, Palmdale 22; Burbank Green 36, SCV Seminoles 14; Lancaster 12, Highland Bulldogs 8.
Junior North
North Oxnard Red 36, Thousand Oaks Black 6; Ventura White 28, Newbury Park 12; North Oxnard Black 39, Thousand Oaks White 36; Calabasas 36, Simi Valley 14;
Junior South
Valley 46, Highland Bulldogs 14; Burbank Green 36, Lancaster 14; SCV Warriors 46, West Valley 16; SCV Chiefs 44, Burbank Black 10.
Midget North
Camarillo Blue 38, Calabasas Black 6; Ventura Black def. Agoura; Thousand Oaks Black 38, Calabasas Silver 16; North Oxnard Black def. Newbury Park.
Midget South
Lancaster 36, Canyon Gold 0; West Valley 42, SCV Warriors 0; Burbank Green 48, SCV Aztecs 18.
Peewee North
North Oxnard Black def. Ventura Black; Camarillo 30, Thousand Oaks 20; Newbury Park 42, Moorpark 6; Ventura White 36, North Oxnard Red 6.
Peewee South
Valley Black 42, West Valley 12; Palmdale 28, Canyon 0; SCV Chiefs 20, Lancaster 14; Highland Eagles 50, Burbank 6;
Senior North
North Oxnard Black 45, Simi 8; Agoura 33, Camarillo Blue 18; Newbury Park 49, Oxnard 30; Ventura White 34, North Oxnard White 9.
Senior South
Burbank Green 41, Canyon Green 6; Highland Eagles 36, Lancaster 6; Valley 42, Canyon Gold 20; SCV Warriors 42, Burbank Gold 6.
Bantam North
Simi Blue at North Oxnard Red, 10:15 a.m. North Oxnard Black at Newnury Park Gold, 2p.m.
Bantam South
SCV Redskins at Valley Black, 12:30 p.m. Granada Hills; Bubank Green at Lancaster, TBD.
Junior North
Ventura White at North Oxnard Red, 2:45 p.m. North Oxnard Black vs. Calabasas, 6 p.m., El Camino High.
Junior South
Burbank at Valley, 2;45 p.m. SCV Chiefs at SCV Warriors, 11:15 a.m., Valencia.
Midget North
Ventura Black at Camarillo Blue, 11:15 a.m. Thousand Oaks Black at North Oxnard Black, 12:30 p.m.
Midget South
Palmdale at Lancer, TDB, West Valley at Burbank Green, 3:45 p.m.
Peewee North
Camarillo at North Oxnard Black, 10 a.m. Newbury Park at Ventura White, 9 a.m.
Peewee South
Palmdale at Valley Black, 8 a.m. SCV Chiefs at Highland Eagles, TBD.
Senior North
Agoura at North Oxnard Black, 5 p.m. Newbury Park at Ventura White, 11:15a.m.
Senior South
Highland at Burbank Green, 7:15 p.m. Valley at SCV Warriors, 3:45 p.m.
Bantam Division American
Agoura White 38, Canyon Gold 28; Burbank Black 32, Ventura Black 6; SCV Apaches 36, Camarillo Blue 22; Calabasas 15, Valley Orange 0.
Bantam Division National
SCV Chiefs 16, Agoura Blue 12; West Valley 20, Valley White 8; Thousand Oaks Green 16, Oxnard 14; Camarillo Black 21, Simi Red 12.
Junior Division
Camarillo 26, SCV Indians 8; Oxnard 16, Canyon Gold 14; Canyon Green 14, Palmdale 12; Ventura Black 36, Moorpark 20.
Midget Division
Simi 23, Thousand Oaks Green 0; Valley 14, Highland Bulldogs 6; Camarillo White 36, North Oxnard Red 8; SCV Seminoles 22, Ventura Orange 0.
Peewee Division
Valley Orange 42, Oxnard 8; SCV Warriors 36, Highland Bulldogs 14.
Senior Division
Thousand Oaks 24, SCV Blackhawks 6; Ventura Black 34, Calabasas Black 12; SCV Apaches 35, West Valley 6.
Saturday's games
Bantam Division American
Agoura White at Burbank Black, 5 p.m. Calabasas at SCV Apaches, 5 p.m.
Bantam Division National
West Valley at SCV Chiefs, 11:15 a.m., Hart. Camarillo Black at Thousand Oaks Green, 10 a.m.
Junior Division
Oxnard at Camarillo, 9 a.m. Ventura Black at Canyon Gold, 11 a.m.
Midget Division
Valley at Simi, 10 a.m. Camarillo White at SCV Seminoles, 1:30 p.m., Hart.
Peewee Division
Valley Orange at SCV Warriors, 9 a.m., Hart. Ventura Black at Calabasas, 3:45 p.m., El Camino.
Senior Division
Thousand Oaks at Palmdale, 12:15 p.m. Ventura Black at SCV Apaches, 1:30 p.m., Valencia.
Mac Tournament
The Simi Havoc defeated Los Torteros to claim the championship on Sunday. This was the second title for the Havoc in the past eight weeks. Los Torteros has finished second in five consecutive tournaments.
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Just the Facts:
Deidre Ann Hall
Date of Birth:
October 31, 1947
Birth Place:
Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Astrological Sign:
Marlena Evans Black (1976 to 1987; 1991 to 2009; 2011 to present)
Acting Roles:
Herself, Never Says Never: The Deidre Hall Story (1993)
Quinn, Woman on the Ledge (1993)
Mrs. O'Neil, For the Very First Time (1991)
Muff, And the Sea Will Tell (1991)
Claudia, Murder, She Wrote (1990)
Dian, Columbo (1974-1990)
Linda, Perry Mason: The Case of the All-Star Assassin (1989)
Claudia, Wiseguy (1989)
Nell, Take My Daughters, Please (1988)
Jessie, Our House (1986-1988)
Delores, A Reason to Live (1985)
Maggie, Hotel (1984)
Barbara, The Million Dollar Face (1981)
Sarah of Nazareth, Pray TV (1980)
Electra Woman/Lori, Electra Woman and Dyna Girl (1976-1977)
Gloria, Special Deliver (1976)
Electra Woman/Lori, The Krofft Supershow (1976-1977)
Diane, S.W.A.T. (1975)
Luisa, Kung Fu (1975)
Janet, Karen (1975)
Barbara, The Young and the Restless (1973-1975)
Nurse Sally, Emergency! (1972-1973)
Bank Teller, The Streets of San Francisco (1972)
Nurse, Adam-12 (1972)
Ivy, Adventures of Nick Carter (1972)
Blonde, Rod Serling's Night Gallery (1971)
● Was elected Junior Orange Bowl Queen at age 12.
● Won five Best Actress Awards (1982-85 and 1995) from Soap Opera Digest.
● Has graced the covers of People, Woman, Woman's Own, TV Guide, Woman's World, McCall's and Family Circle magazines.
● Was the spokesperson for Hallmark's "To Kids with Love" card line and Dexatrim diet pills.
● Won the prestigious American Women in Radio and Television award in 1994.
Born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Deidre was raised in Lake Worth, Florida. Upon graduating from high school in 1965, she began studying psychology at Palm Beach Junior College; that is, until she eventually sidetracked into acting.
The career turn happened when Deidre traveled to Los Angeles one summer and began landing modeling jobs and commercials via an agent. Soon, she began appearing in television shows and realized she was headed in a new direction.
Deidre landed her first daytime gig in 1973, when she was cast as Barbara on The Young and the Restless. In 1976, she was cast as Electra Woman/Lori in the Sid and Marty Krofft children's show, ElectraWoman and DynaGirl in 2011.
It was joining Days of Our Lives as Dr. Marlena Evans in 1976, however, that catapulted her to daytime fame. The character grew so popular, in fact, that when it looked like she was being murdered by the Salem Strangler in 1979, fans protested outside the show's NBC studios. As it turned out, it wasn't Marlena who was being killing off the show, but rather her twin sister, Samantha.
In 1986, Deidre began juggling her daytime role with a primetime one, when she was cast as Jesse Witherspoon on the family drama, Our House. When the double duty became too difficult, Hall opted to leave Days of Our Lives in 1987.
Upon Our House's cancellation in 1988, Deidre began making guest appearances on a variety of primetime shows. Then, in 1991, to the delight of daytime fans, she returned to Days of Our Lives.
During her second stint with the soap, Deidre continued to pursue nighttime television. She starred in the mini-series And the Sea Will Tell with Richard Crenna and Rachel Ward as well as the NBC TV movie, For the Very First Time, Take My Daughters, Please, and Woman On The Ledge. She also executive produced and starred in Never Say Never: The Deidre Hall Story, an ABC TV movie based on her real life struggle to start a family and ultimate decision to use a surrogate.
Throughout it all, Deidre remained with Days of Our Lives; that is, until she was let go in January 2009 due to budget cuts. After leaving the show, she guest hosted Clout, a talk radio program syndicated through Air America Media. She also wrote two books with longtime friend Lynne Bowman, Deidre Hall's Kitchen Closeup and Deidre Hall's How Does She Do It, before triumphantly returning to Days in 2011..
The divorced actress spends her free time doing charity work, cooking, and occasionally cutting and coloring her family and friends' hair. "I've always had a passion for hairdressing," Deidre confesses. She currently lives in Los Angeles with her two sons, David Atticus and Tully Chapin.


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by Norman Allen, guest contributor
For my father's memorial service, my sister suggested that I stand before the congregation and say, "We'd like to share with you exactly what it was like to live with our father. So let's have a moment of silence."
It's not that Dad didn't speak, it's that he didn't speak about the personal. He could rant against George McGovern and lift Richard Nixon up as a god, but remain entirely silent about my sister's adolescent breakdown. A few years later, he declared my hero Jimmy Carter the "greatest embarrassment the White House has ever seen," but didn't say a word about my recent emergence from the closet.
Dad built his life on the foundations of a suburban existence: retirement plans, company loyalty, and a close-knit family that gathered to wave him down the street each morning and waited each night for his return. True to his class and time, he made himself a Manhattan before dinner and smoked incessantly. No one was going to change that.
But behind this rigid façade lay a man tragically eager to please. As kids we could always talk him into a double-scoop cone, if we could just get him away from Mom. As an adult, I learned that this tendency went much deeper.
Dad went to medical school because his parents told him to. Failing that, he accepted their second choice and became a mechanical engineer. In a rare moment of intimacy, on a father-son camping trip to the High Sierra, he confessed that his dream was to be a park ranger. I wonder what his life would have been if he'd had the courage to follow that ambition. Perhaps he would have found his voice leading nature hikes and campfire programs.
Dad never broke the habit of trying to please his parents, but he made sure that we didn't suffer the same fate. He applauded my high school theatricals and provided financial support for a creative college major. On my weekly calls home, he always made sure that I was writing, though he never inquired about the specifics.
True to his nature, he remained silent and stoic through my mother's seven-year battle with cancer, and continued so when he was diagnosed himself two years after her death. During Dad's final months, I bathed him, mopped up his bodily fluids, and listened for changes in his breathing. The only concern he voiced was for the future of his dog, an oversized Sheltie who watches as I write.
It was Dad's Lutheran pastor who put his silence into context. Older congregants, he said, had expressed a need for guidance as they considered death's approach. My father provided the model they were seeking. Church members who visited in his final weeks all returned with the same tale: Dad was quiet, uncomplaining, unafraid.
In the end, we didn't ask for a moment of silence at Dad's memorial service. Instead I shared a story about Saint Francis sending his brothers out to spread the Gospel and telling them, "If necessary, use words." When one of Dad's elderly neighbors caught my eye and smiled her appreciation, I knew we'd made the right choice.
Dad was a quiet man, but he renounced his parents' prejudices, encouraged his children's ambitions, overcame his own homophobia to welcome new family members, and remained a steady presence through his wife's long illness. If St. Francis is right, and our actions speak louder than our words, you might say the man never shut up.
Norman Allen is a playwright living in Washington, DC. His plays include In The Garden (Charles MacArthur Award), Nijinsky's Last Dance (Helen Hayes Award), and The House Halfway, to be produced at this summer's Source Theatre Festival in Washington, DC.
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by Preeti Kaur, guest contributor
Preeti Kaur, her mother, her brothers (one wearing a patka) and sister.
In the Sikh faith, the role of the nurturer is one, among many, of the celebrated roles of all Sikhs, regardless of gender. My own father often reminisces to me of how his mother would nurture his growth and curiosity by imparting Sikh teachings to him while he was growing up in Dharamsala, India as a post-Partition refugee family. Everyday when he returned from school, his mother recited the Janam Saakhis, a collection of "birth stories" based on the life and lessons of the first Sikh guru, Nanak Dev Ji. He remembers this nurturing time as his favorite time of the day.
I recently saw a video of Harneel Singh, an extraordinarily eloquent young American man, describing his painful experience growing up as a Sikh boy wearing a patka (a Sikh mini-turban) in school, where he was often taunted and bullied. He speaks very freely that his experience is something familiar to many young people.
The patka is worn by children in preparation for wearing a full turban as a grown Sikh. Many young Sikh boys wear patkas throughout the world, including in America, where Sikhs have lived for over one hundred years. As adults, many Sikh men (and some Sikh women) wear a full turban, or dastaar, as a display of their commitment to accepting their body as it has grown and to distinguish themselves as physically committed to a path of justice. The global political climate of recent years, where turbans are inaccurately portrayed as the garb of global terror, has increased suspicion and violence against turban-wearing Sikhs especially in the form of hate crimes, down to the youngest members of our society in the form of school bullying.
Harneel Singh shares the tender points of his story because he has been nurtured to a point of strength — perhaps through his mother or father, or perhaps through his friends, or the adults in his life, or perhaps even by nurturing his own self, giving birth to a reflective young man.
The following poem, written for the young men who wear turbans in my life, is to honor all steps in the process of nurturing. This includes the process of negative experiences entering our lives — where it is cold, where it is dark — which provide us an opportunity to nurture others and ourselves.
where ever it is dark
after school i tell my mummy
i don't want to go back tomorrow
she asks me why
i tell her today in the playground
kids push me punch me kick me
shout POTATO HEAD! RAG HEAD! ALLADIN! OSAMA BIN LADIN!
everything i am not
i throw fists back call them ugly
things too i imagine the bullies
as yellow toothed neon green eyed gorillas
like the ones in my closet at night
my cheeks burn my heart thumps
i am MAD i didn't start this! i am just one
no one listens when i yell STOP IT! LEAVE ME ALONE!
i want to hide in a tent made of my sky blue bed sheets
i wish for a galactic force field
but no hands shield my head
when the bullies rip my
patka off my head
there is no superman
on this playground not even pretend
not sammy who i swing with
everyday on the monkey-bars
or alberto who swaps strawberry jelly sandwiches
with me in the cafeteria
not jenny who i tell knock-knock jokes with on the bus
not even the adults who patrol the playground
with whistles and detention slips to the principal's office
so everyone might follow the rules
after bloody noses bruises scratches
after we are trees pulled out of the ground
a pile of mud surrounding us
our teacher mrs. jones sits us down
why did you punch back she asks
the teacher pulls me out of the ground some more
inside i am not a tree
inside i am a match
like the ones my daddy warns me not to play with
an orange blue fire on a stick of arms and legs
which grows short in two seconds
burning my insides too fast
i go home and cry and cry
i tell my mummy everything
mummy wraps her arms around my shoulders tells
me she loves me with her eyes
she unwraps my joora lets loose
my long hair runs her fingers through
mummy whispers your hair
is the night sky your hair
is the universe she combs
my kes with a kanga
twists my hair firm on top of my head
a galaxy you carry high mummy says
she takes the square patka
angles the cloth like a diamond
sets the patka on my scalp
ties it tight
mummy tells me this patka crowns you
one day you will wear a turban
cloth as long as the seven oceans
the full span of the earth
will rest on your head
be brave young prince
like Sahibzaadas Zorawar Singh Fateh Singh
when bullies big as kings
threaten them for carrying the universe on their heads
when bullies locked them
three nights in the cold in the dark
they raised their chins high no tears
they turned their fists to hearts
practiced the ways of the lion prince
with questions and conversation
mummy kisses
my cheeks i kiss her back
i tell her i will go back
to school tomorrow i will be
a shooting star prince
bright and brave
where ever it is cold
where ever it is dark
This Mother's Day, I celebrate my own mother and I celebrate the nurturing spirit which we can each inculcate by sharing the stories of our lives, our own janam sakhis, our own birth stories.
Preeti Kaur is an American of the Sikh faith living in San Joaquin Valley, California. You can read more of her poetry at The World I Stitch.
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What shall we do about the elderly dying with dementia, losing who they are — how do we help them "die well"?
My mom is at the end stage. She is losing her abilities to speak, to eat. How do I help her? Is it okay to talk about dying with her? I do read to her, I tell her I love her, I see her as often as I can at her long-term care home. But as she declines, I am not sure how to help her "die well."
I have had a great sense of healing in my time with her in this stage of life, but as I see her becoming less and less connected I am not sure what to do. How can I help her at this stage? Perhaps just being there, holding her hand, reading, I am not sure. How do we address her dying? Is it okay to talk about it? I don't want her to die without being at peace about it.
by Barbara A. Stachowski, guest contributor
Grace Lee Boggs speaks at Hull-House in Chicago. (photo: David Schalliol)
This past summer, I drove to Chicago with Grace Boggs and Myrtle Thompson of Feedom Freedom Growers for some book-signing events and radio interviews. During the four- to five-hour drive from Detroit, Myrtle and I shared stories about raising our children. Grace didn't say much.
But, in her speech the next day at the Jane Addams Hull-House Museum, she told a very responsive audience that Mom solutions are at the heart of the next American revolution. What comes naturally to Moms in raising our children, she said, is an example of what all of us can be doing in our communities to make our country a force for good in the world.
Visionary Buckminster Fuller once observed that "Geniuses are just people who had good mothers." These geniuses are everywhere in our communities.
Moms are the ones who can grow the souls of our children. Moms are the ones who can provide them with the spiritually safe environments so that they can make the choices that help them discover their talents, passions, and values. Moms are the ones who empower them to go beyond being mere cogs in the capitalist system to become creators of what Dr. King called the beloved community. Moms are the ones who nurture emotionally intelligent global citizens. Moms are the leaders we've been looking for.
Vandana Shiva, the internationally acclaimed physicist/feminist/activist, recalls that at age 13 she asked her mother for a nylon dress so that she could keep up with her friends' fashion trends. Her mother, who had supported Gandhi's struggle against British colonialism and wore clothing of homespun cotton, replied, "If that is what you want, you can have it. But remember, your nylon frock will help a rich man buy a bigger car while the cotton dress you wear will buy a poor family at least one meal."
"Of course, I did not get the frock," Shiva recalls. "I kept thinking of some poor family starving because of my dress. My mother had given me the information necessary for me to make a socially just decision by thinking for myself and at the same time thinking of the global community."
Loving our children unconditionally does not mean enabling them to act out self-serving behavior. We must commit to the consistency and constancy necessary to grow compassionate souls. We acknowledge our young people when they do well, but we are also there for their mistakes and disappointments. We are there to say, "I love you. It's okay. Let's try again."
This maternal labor of love is a lifelong struggle — the kind of protracted struggle that Hegel called "the labor, patience and suffering of the negative." Linda Wooten explains, "Being a mother is learning about strengths you didn't know you had, and dealing with fears you didn't know existed."
Moms are true bodhisattvas, nurturing without watching the clock, not expecting compensation, not putting our needs before the needs of those we compassionately love into authentic existence.
Our Mom skills seem so simple. Unconditional love, compassion, patience, and listening. But having acquired these skills in raising my children, I find myself using them with the souls I encounter in my daily life and in my community organizing: with family members, neighbors, comrades, mayors, chiefs of police, refugees and victims of violence. We all want and need to be nurtured.
My Mom memories of holding my children when they were sick with fever bring home to me the fragility of our precious work.
During the drive, Myrtle recalled how fragile she felt during those early days of mothering her children. Embracing our own fragility is transformative because it reminds us of the wondrous girl-child inside ourselves that must be birthed along the way of revolution.
This maternal instinct is not restricted to biological mothers. All women (and men) who nurture are modeling sustainable activism in the 21st century.
Barbara Stachowski is a social justice consultant and member of the Board of the Boggs Center to Nurture Community Leadership. She lives in Clinton Township, Michigan.
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|Library sets Halloween party
|Wednesday, October 16, 2013 12:09 AM
Sign up will begin Thursday for an "Old-Fashioned Halloween Party" at the Delphos Public Library.
The party will take place from 4-5 p.m. Oct. 29 in the First Edition Building. It is open to children 5-10 years of age.
Children are encouraged to wear their Halloween costumes as they will parade through the library at the end of the activity hour. Activities will include creepy crafts, startling stories and gruesome grub.
The program is limited to 30 children. Call the library at 419-695-4015 to register.