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Houston, We Have a Problem, First 1000 Days Briefing Paper #1, (CT Dept. of Children and Families, June 2012)
Field Guide to Education in Connecticut 2012 (Connecticut Coalition for Achievement Now – CONNCAN, May 2012)
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Written by Tom Borrelli for Lacrosse Magazine
Professional indoor lacrosse as we know it came along just a little too late for Johnny Mouradian the player.
But the timing was perfect for Mouradian the architect.
Frank Lloyd Wright, eat your heart out. No one has built more National Lacrosse League championship teams than Mouradian, who will be inducted into the league's Hall of Fame on Feb. 28 in Philadelphia.
"I would have wanted to play, sure," said Mouradian, the president, general manager and governor of the San Jose Stealth. "But knowing the way I played, I would have probably had a very short career, because I'd have gotten killed. I was always getting hurt - elbows, knees, something. I'd have found myself on IR (injured reserve) a lot."
The 55-year-old Mouradian was indeed a standout midfielder. He's already been enshrined into the Ithaca (N.Y.) College Hall of Fame for his efforts as a Bomber, as well as into the Canadian National Lacrosse Hall of Fame. In 1978, he was a member of Team Canada, which pulled one of the greatest upsets in the history of sports.
Team USA defeated Canada, 28-4, in round-robin play at the International Lacrosse Federation (ILF) World Championships that year in Manchester, England, but the Canadians came back to shock Team USA, 17-16, in the championship game. Team USA didn't lose again in that competition until Canada pulled the trick again in 2006.
"That game was particularly pleasant, because we had just started field lacrosse in Canada," said Mouradian, who attended high school in St. Catharines, Ontario. "At first, we were basically playing box lacrosse outside. But by 1978, we had some quality people with field experience and we were able to put it all together."
Mouradian the architect has built NLL teams with a similar knack.
He has been the general manager of five NLL championship squads, more than any other man in the league's 22-year history.
Mouradian's involvement in the NLL began with the Pittsburgh Bulls in the early `90s, about five years after he'd put away his stick as a player. His best friend, current Philadelphia Wings executive vice president, owner and alternate governor and fellow NLL Hall of Famer Mike French, had spent one year as a player with the Wings before moving upstairs. Mouradian was also friends with Dave Evans, who was Philadelphia's head coach at the time.
"I was one of their (Pittsburgh's) scouts, and they had a lot of guys at that time who were new to the indoor game," said Mouradian, who was the NLL's GM of the Year in 2004, when the Stealth went 11-5 and made the playoffs. "I was basically giving them pointers to help the U.S. players in the transition to box lacrosse."
When the Buffalo Bandits were born in the fall of 1991, it was a match made in heaven for Mouradian, who spent much of his childhood right across the Niagara River in Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario.
He and coach Les Bartley, who Mouradian had been close with since their high school days, put together a squad of Bandits that won championships in 1992, '93 and '96.
"That game with Team Canada is right up there with our first championship in Buffalo," said Mouradian, referring to the Bandits' 11-10 overtime win at Philadelphia in the '92 championship game, secured on a picturesque behind-the-neck goal by John Tavares, then a 23-year-old rookie.
Buffalo won its final eight games in 2002, all 10 in a championship encore in '93 and the first four in '94. That 22-game winning streak hadn't been seriously threatened until the '07 champion Rochester Knighthawks won their last 15 plus their opener this season. It remains intact.
After Philadelphia's two year run of 1994-95, the Bandits reclaimed the title in '96. Buffalo qualified for the playoffs in all six of Mouradian's seasons with the Bandits.
But it wasn't long until another challenge awaited.
A Diamond in the Rock
When the NLL finally expanded into Canada in 1998, Mouradian and Bartley shuffled off from Buffalo and started another dynasty.
After one .500 season based in Hamilton's Copps Coliseum as the Ontario Raiders, the team moved down the Queen Elizabeth Way to Maple Leaf Gardens, and the Toronto Rock won the first of five championships in the next seven years.
"It was equally as satisfying," Mouradian said, when asked to compare the Toronto experience to his days in Buffalo. "Anytime you can win a championship, it's absolutely great. When Les and I were able to do it in Canada, that was a lot of fun and very, very challenging. Just like that first season in Buffalo, we saw the attendance rise with the team's success. Filling Maple Leaf Gardens seemed just like being in the old Aud (Buffalo's Memorial Auditorium, which closed in `96).
"It was really rewarding to be able to make such an impact in the Toronto market. It certainly wasn't all us. The lacrosse community really helped make it happen, really got aboard the Toronto Rock's bandwagon."
Mouradian's teams have gone 122-85 and made the playoffs in 11 of his 15 seasons as an NLL general manager. Once in the postseason, his squads have posted a 17-6 record.
Two of his Stealth teams have gone to the playoffs, including last season's unit that started 2-4 but won eight of its last 10 to qualify. San Jose finished 10-6 before upsetting the Colorado Mammoth, 15-14, on the road in overtime in the West Division semifinals.
On the West Coast, Mouradian said, the challenges are far different than the obstacles he met while battling the winter snowflakes in Ithaca, Buffalo and Toronto.
"This is another great chance to build a championship organization," said Mouradian, whose Stealth is 3-3 and currently in second place in the West. "We're very excited about our future and the future of lacrosse in the Bay Area."
Had Bartley not died of colon cancer at the age of 51 on May 15, 2005 - just hours after the Rock captured its most recent NLL championship - the two friends might have united again for a third kick at the Champion's Cup.
"Les had another year left on his contract in Toronto, and we had always talked about hooking up again," Mouradian said. "We had a spot ready for him here when he was willing and ready. I think it would have been a perfect opportunity for him to not worry about anything but winning lacrosse games and enjoying the great weather in a new market."
Mouradian, who will be presented by French at the induction ceremony, will always hold a special place in his heart for Bartley, who was part of the NLL's inaugural class of Hall of Famers in `06.
"What we accomplished, we accomplished together," said Mouradian. "I could never have achieved what I did without someone who could carry the load on the coaching staff. We worked so well together, our friendship was never put at stake over anything we did in lacrosse.
"I owe so much to Les."
Before the winningest coach in NLL history left us - far too soon - he made his opinions regarding Mouradian well-known.
And the feeling was definitely mutual.
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Rogers, a key player in Congress as chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, added that credit unions play a critical role in the nation's economy.
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Warrenville, IL—February X, 2014— "I was putting gas in my car when I realized I had not played my regular Quick Pick ticket for the next Mega Millions drawing," said Albert Overton after winning $1 million dollars. After fueling his car, the lucky Warrenville resident went back inside the BP station to buy a Mega Millions ticket that would match the first five numbers – 11 - 29 - 44 - 63 – 64- (3) - in the Friday, December 6 Mega Millions drawing, netting him a cool $ 1million. "I am so glad I remembered to get my ticket!"
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Drug attrition rates have increased in past years, resulting in growing costs for the pharmaceutical industry and consumers. The reasons for this include the lack of in vitro models that correlate with clinical results and poor preclinical toxicity screening assays. The in vitro production of human cardiac progenitor cells and cardiomyocytes from human pluripotent stem cells provides an amenable source of cells for applications in drug discovery, disease modeling, regenerative medicine, and cardiotoxicity screening. In addition, the ability to derive human-induced pluripotent stem cells from somatic tissues, combined with current high-throughput screening and pharmacogenomics, may help realize the use of these cells to fulfill the potential of personalized medicine. In this review, we discuss the use of pluripotent stem cell-derived cardiomyocytes for drug discovery and cardiotoxicity screening, as well as current hurdles that must be overcome for wider clinical applications of this promising approach.
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- A Review of Human Pluripotent Stem Cell-Derived Cardiomyocytes for High-Throughput Drug Discovery, Cardiotoxicity Screening, and Publication Standards
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Journal of Cardiovascular Translational Research
Volume 6, Issue 1 , pp 22-30
- Cover Date
- 2013-02-01
- 10.1007/s12265-012-9423-2
- Print ISSN
- 1937-5387
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- Joseph C. Wu (1) (2) (3)
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- 1. Department of Medicine (Division of Cardiology), Stanford University, 265 Campus Drive G1120B, Stanford, CA, 94305-5454, USA
- 2. Institute for Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine, Stanford University, 265 Campus Drive G1120B, Stanford, CA, 94305-5454, USA
- 3. Stanford Cardiovascular Institute, Stanford University, 265 Campus Drive G1120B, Stanford, CA, 94305-5454, USA


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Abolish the Texas Space Commission and Transfer Its Functions
The Texas Space Commission should be abolished and its functions transferred to the Texas Department of Commerce (or its successor agency).
The Texas Space Commission (TSC) was created by the 70th Legislature to serve as the foc al point for space industry commercialization by encouraging economic development through the fostering of industries. The commission is charged with analyzing space-related research conducted within Texas and is required to report to the Legislature no la ter than the 30th day of each regular session.
The commission is composed of nine members appointed by the governor with the advice and consent of the Senate. The commission members serve for staggered six year terms. They meet once a calendar-year quarter and may not receive compensation other than reimbursement for actual and necessary expenses incurred in performing functions as a member of the commission. Commission members may solicit public and privat e donations and hire necessary staff.
The 72nd Legislature authorized the issuance of TSC license plates. The plates are issued for $30, of which $25 goes into the operating budget of the commission and $5 goes to the Department of Transportation to defr ay administrative costs. The commission received a $10,000 appropriation in fiscal 1992 and 1993 from the General Revenue Fund. The Texas Department of Commerce (TDOC) provides administrative support to the commission and transferred $100,000 to the commis sion in fiscal 1992 to assist with space industry promotion. The license plate fee, direct appropriation and inter-agency contract have been in effect only during the 1992-93 biennium.
Small agencies are often not equipped with resources enabling them to function autonomously. Smaller, free-standing agencies often find it difficult to meet complex state requirements, and each staff member may perform multiple functions without the types of checks and balances that can be found in larger agencies. Experti se to handle the complexities of state, legal, budget, purchasing and accounting functions is often difficult to arrange with a limited budget in a small agency. In addition, it usually costs less to have these free-standing agencies merged with another ag ency that performs similar oversight functions. The functions and practices of the TSC were reviewed to determine whether an efficient and effective system of checks and balances exists within the current structure of the TSC and whether better options exi st for carrying out TSC s duties. This review uncovered several key concerns.
First, the review identified opportunities for improved travel practices. A review of fiscal 1992 expenditures indicated that travel costs by loaned executives from the private sector accounted for 29 percent of the entire TSC budget, while travel expenses for paid administrative staff comprised only 6 percent. These expenses exceeded those normally allowed to employees, board members and executive directors of other agencies, pa rticularly TDOC.
Instead of contracting with TDOC for printing services, TSC paid higher prices to have printing and design jobs done by private companies. According to the fiscal 1992 expenditure report, TSC spent close to $10,000 for design services, bu siness cards, letterhead memorandum, envelopes and brochures. TDOC maintains an in-house design and printing section. Costs for design could have been eliminated and the cost of brochures and letterheads would have been greatly reduced by using TDOC. For e xample, TSC spent $200 to have a business card designed, and on two separate occasions, $224 to have 2,000 cards reproduced. TDOC contracts with a private printer to produce business cards at $18.50 per 500, one-third of the cost. There were also instances of TSC paying state and local sales taxes on paid invoices for these services and products.
TSC will be faced with a substantial loss of funds beginning as early as September 1993, when the TDOC terminates the interagency contract. TSC recognized the need to secure funding beyond the 1992-93 biennium and requested an increase in their regular app ropriation from $10,000 to $110,000 to counter the anticipated loss of the interagency contract with TDOC. The request also indicates that TSC expects the sale of 1,000 license plates beginning in fiscal 1993 to generate $25,000 per year in operating funds. Based on the revenue generated from the sale of 59 license plates (only $1,475) in fiscal 1992, it is questionable whether this appropriation could be substanti ated.
TSC did not always handle its donations from the public/private sector in the correct manner. The TSC statute stipulates that all donations and grants are to be deposited in the State Treasury to the credit of the TSC account. However, at least one instance is known where donated funds ($2,500 from a chamber of commerce) were deposited into an account other than the State Treasury. Improper handling of this type may indicate inaccurate accounting procedures.
The review found that TSC s location in Houston is not essential for carrying out the state s role with regard to encouraging economic development of space industries. In fact, its location, near existing space-related industry, could place the agency in the position of being accused of having a regional focus. If the goal of the state is to promote space and aerospace industry in Texas, a location near other economic development activities would be advantageous.
Both TSC and TDOC are charged with promoting job growth and job retention in Texas. TDOC has expertise and resources that TSC cannot reasonably be expected to maintain. There are a myriad of duplicative administrative functions that could more effectively be absorbed by TDOC. These include, but are not limited to, in-house printing and d esign services, travel management and reporting, the ordering and procuring of consumables, oversight of financial reporting and accounting and mailroom services. The mere size of TSC implies that certain critical functions do not exist and could be essent ial to the organization in the foreseeable future. These functions include internal audit, internal accounting and budgeting and legal services.
Current TSC staffing is inadequate for the needs of an agency. In its recent Legislative Appropriations Request, TSC asserts the need to secure additional staff to handle the myriad of routine administrative tasks necessary to operate a state agency. 1 TDOC has stated that they can handle the administrative needs of the commission if it were a part of the department rather than a separate agency, without additional full-time employees. 2
TDOC has a successful history of overseeing advisory boards and councils; it currently oversees five such entities: the Texas-Mexico Authority, the International Trade Commissio n, Texas Partnership for Economic Development Governing Board, the State Job Training Coordinating Council and the Policy Board. By virtue of their interagency contract, TDOC and TSC have worked closely together. TDOC is familiar with the needs and the mis sion of TSC and could readily absorb TSC s administrative functions. Still, as a private-public partnership TSC could remain a valuable resource to the state.
A. The current Texas Space Commission should be abolished and all of its funct ions and property should be transferred to the Texas Department of Commerce or its successor agency. (A separate proposal in this report recommends creation of a Commission on Commerce and Labor). TDOC should discontinue the $100,000 interagency contract w ith TSC and the $10,000 annual appropriation should be eliminated. The Legislature should not provide the commission with its requested $110,000 General Revenue Appropriation for fiscal 1994-95.
TSC should become an advisory body and its name should be changed to the Advisory Committee on the Promotion of Aerospace Industries, to better reflect the promotion and retention of aerospace industries. Another recommendation in this report would transfer TDOC s functions to a new commerce and labor agency. TSC s functions could also be a part of this new agency if the recommendation to create the new agency is adopted. TDOC s board (or that of the new commerce and labor agency) will appoint members to the committee, however, the board may choose to retain some or all of the current TSC staff as advisory members to ensure continuity of the commission s work. This transfer will preclude the need for TSC to hire administrative staff to perform duties, and will require that all properties and functions be accounted for under TDOC jurisdiction. Another recommendation in this report would move other functions within TDOC toward a fee-for-service or self-funding approach. This change would be consistent with other recommendations in this report.
B. Section 482.003 of the Government Code should be amended to include the commercialization of aerospace industries as one of the duties of the advisory board.
This change represents the need to transcend regional boundaries and broaden the focus and relationship of both space and aerospace industries. TSC has already begun to redirect their goals to address the relationship between the space technology and aero space, and aviation and defense arenas. The recent interagency contract with TDOC has already called for the inclusion of aerospace industries as one of the existing commission s charges. The new advisory committee would not be burdened with additional responsibilities.
C. State law should require that the advisory board s functions be self-supporting through license plate fees and private contributions except for administrative support provided by TDOC as authorized by the Appropriations Act. The Legislature should not appropriate general revenue for any portion of this committee s activity.
A statewide endeavor would be undertaken to develop and foster job growth, retention of jobs and the possible conversion of defense industries in the aerospace arena. This must be accomplished in an efficient and effective manner without unnecessarily duplicating functions or expenditures. A public/private partnership should be nurtured to obtain funds, services and expertise from the private sector. The advisory body should continue to promote the sale of license plates at $30 each.
The transfer of TSC would res ult in the consolidation of administrative services such as mailing, accounting, data processing, fiscal support, legal services, copying and printing of letters and forms and procurement. These functions would be absorbed by TDOC and additional staff woul d not be necessary to support the newly created advisory body. TDOC also has available space in their Austin headquarters.
Since TSC would no longer exist as a separate agency and its board would become advisory, the interagency contract with TDOC would become void because all of the related support functions are already handled in TDOC.
This transfer would require the advisory board to reduce their current expenditures by $24,406 or to increase license plate sales and raise private donations in order to be self-supporting as stated in Recommendation C.
Fiscal Impact
By making the advisory board self-supporting, the $110,000 currently funded out of general revenue and requested in the 1994-95 appropriation would be eliminated.
Through the following efficiencies, a savings of $60,594 per year would be achieved. Improved accountability of purchases would result in more appropriate expenditures necessary to fulfill the advisory commission s goals. Closing the Houston/Clearlake office location would result in a yearly savings of $47,649 which includes the cost of the lease and 0.5 FTE for an administrative person who currently runs the office. This person earned over $26,000 in fiscal 1992 for a part-time position. Assuming that the current rate of travel wo uld continue, total travel expenses by the loaned executives would be reduced by 25 percent through adherence to TDOC travel guidelines, resulting in yearly savings of $7,984. Printing costs would be reduced by 50 percent, resulting in yearly savings of $4 ,961. In addition, the state could avoid the costs of full-time employees as requested in the TSC Legislative Appropriations Request.
Based on the above calculations, if the advisory board desired to continue its current level of activity, it would have t o achieve revenues of $25,000 in license plate sales as currently projected and make up for about $24,406 in appropriations through donations. The alternative would be for the advisory board to cut back on its current activity, such as the number of trips taken, to be able to operate within available revenues.
Additional cost savings should occur in freight, delivery, postage, telecommunications, magazine and journal subscriptions, seminars and conferences and consumable office supplies, which will be either eliminated, reduced or absorbed by TDOC.
Indirect costs, such as the staff hours used by the Comptroller of Public Accounts and the General Services Commission to approve and track agency payments and receipts, and by the Legislative Budget Board in processing and reviewing a separate appropriati ons request for a small agency would be eliminated.
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Year Fund 001 FTEs
1994 $110,000 - 0.5
1995 110,000 - 0.5
1996 110,000 - 0.5
1997 110,000 - 0.5
1998 110,000 - 0.5
1 Legislative Budget Board, Requests for Legislative Appropriations for Fiscal Years 1994 and 1995 by the Texas Space Commission (Austin, Texas, August 31, 1992), p. 11.
2 Interview with Mike Regan, CPA, Chief Financial Officer, Texas Department of Commerce, Austin, Texas, November 23, 1992.


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Boston Celtics president Danny Ainge says he's watched every BYU basketball game live or on tape this season and that the biggest on campus phenom since... Ainge himself won't be waiting past pick number 30 on NBA Draft night.
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The Knights controlled the game for much of the first half, leading by as many as eight points before a run by the Johnnies helped them take a 34-33 lead heading into the break. Galen Holzhueter paced MLC with ten points and six rebounds in the half, while they Knights also dominated the glass with a 24-16 rebounding edge.
After the teams traded the lead back and forth to start the second half, the Knights took command of the game with a 14-2 run to break a 45-45 tie. Holzhueter scored seven of his game-high 29 points during that stretch of nearly five minutes, while the MLC defense clamped down as it allowed just one field goal.
SJU was able to cut the MLC lead down to seven on several occasions in the final eight minutes, but never closer as the Knights took care of the ball and made enough free throws down the stretch to ice the game away.
Holzhueter's 29 points tied a season high, which he set in Saturday's game against Bethel. He also led the Knights with 11 rebounds, helping MLC finish the game with a 47-37 edge on the glass.
Luke Rothe and Justin Eternick joined Holzhueter in double figures with 14 and 11 points, respectively, and also combined for 13 rebounds. Kaleb Buch added a strong floor game from his point guard spot, finishing with seven points, eight rebounds, six assists, three steals and just one turnover in 33 minutes of action.
The Knights finished the game shooting 45 percent from the field, and held SJU to 36.4 percent shooting overall and 19.0 percent from beyond the three-point arc.
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Coming off the passion of Hilary and Jackie and the lighter romance of Among Giants, Griffiths manages to infuse her role of single journalist Pamela Drury with giddy freshness, as if she's just tottered out of the shower onto the set. Entering her 30s, and beset by standard-issue biological and domestic concerns that seem, to her, terribly surprising, Pamela is otherwise a model of relative success, a cosmopolitan professional with her own fixer-upper loft in Sydney, Australia. There's only one problem: She ain't got no loverman, and the nights get cold. If only she hadn't turned down old flame Robert Dixon (David Roberts) when he proposed 13 years earlier. Sigh.
Given the do-or-die priority of absolute autonomy in Pamela's life -- foreshadowed in the opening credits, during which Aussie schoolgirls predict their future careers, which include bass player, philosopher, and skydiving instructor -- it's not surprising that she's stuck in something of a spiritual rut. Her home is a mess of halfhearted Martha Stewart attempts, she can't be bothered to cook, and her bathroom is a shrine of tacky meditational adages. Thus, she loves and approves of herself, she is one with all life, she deserves and accepts the best...and her emotions are about as balanced as the national budget. Tellingly, one of those little girls in the opening montage describes a poor, desperate auntie, who let loving wait too long. Pamela sees that this luge run to hell awaits her unless she shifts track soon.
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An office birthday party with a svelte stripper wiggling his crotch in her face (set, naturally, to "I Believe in Miracles," the stripping anthem of both hemispheres, one must assume) fans Pamela's flame and lands her an awful date through the personal ads. "It's not like we're freaks, it's not like we're social retards," opines her schlumpy dinner partner, but it swiftly dawns that she'll definitely spiral into freakland unless she gets on the case, and soon. Supposing she should be happily married with two kids by this stage, she's shocked each day anew to learn that she isn't. Shocked enough, even, to loiter in the mud and rain outside the home of sexy guidance counselor Ben (Sandy Winton), whom she meets, and likes, entirely by coincidence. Despair only returns when Ben is revealed to be more attached than he previously let on...at least in this reality.
Me Myself I is a romantic comedy, of course, so only a modicum of misery is allowed, but one early scene seems to capture its essence perfectly. Alone with her soy milk and some porn, Pamela sits on the floor, discarding photographs of lovers past, regarding each with palpable scorn. "Bastard," she spits as they are destroyed. "Coward, misogynist, commitmentphobe." Given this bottled-up venom, it's almost a relief when, soon after, an ornery Bible thumper provokes her into traffic, where she is nailed by a car and wakes up, literally, beside herself. Now there are two Pamelas (both played by Griffiths), and the slightly calmer and wearier one transports the tense and coolly coiffed one home...to the suburban home the married Pamela inhabits. When the children arrive home from school, the second Pamela bolts, leaving the first to manage a house -- rightly her house, despite its alien atmosphere -- without so much as an instruction manual.
In case you're wondering, the answer is yes, this is basically a variation on The Double Life of Sliding Freaky Friday Doors, stir in a little Mrs. Mom, and struggle to forget Drew Barrymore's Doppelganger. However, despite sharing a lack of plausible explanation with those split ego flicks (fair enough), Me Myself I isn't balanced in its concern with both sides of the equation. Once Pamela Two is gone, it's entirely up to Pamela One to make sense of the situation, no mean feat considering that she's got three rambunctious kids who know her despite her not knowing them. Really, what does one say to a little girl when she asks "Mom, if you haven't got your period yet, do you have to use a condom when you have sex?" Especially when you don't really know the little girl, and she calls you "Mom."
The challenge is just beginning at this point, because Pamela quickly learns that motherhood often has little to do with delicacy, elegance, and romance. The children (Yael Stone, Shaun Loseby, and Trent Sullivan, all convincing and appropriately obnoxious) are only part of her challenge. In addition, her own mother has become a believer in this alternate universe. Topping the bill, the man she turned down years earlier shows up, and Pamela discovers, to her initial horror and increasing horniness, that Robert Dickson is now her husband. The integration of his stodgy predictability and her previously unbridled spirit makes for some of the most heartfelt domestic comedy since Men Don't Leave (if you want to call that a comedy). It's also one of the frankest and bawdiest date movies in recent memory, with no indiscretion left unexamined, no pelvic function unexplored.
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C++: Getting the "error C2065: 'pst' : undeclared identifier" while using pstsdk?
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error C3859: virtual memory range for PCH exceeded; please recompile with a command line option of '-Zm111' or greater
error C1076: compiler limit : internal heap limit reached; use /Zm to specify a higher limit
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Same-sex marriage approval undermines families, New York bishops say
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ALBANY, N.Y. (CNS) -- Following passage of legislation to allow same-sex marriage in the state, the Catholic bishops of New York expressed concern "that both marriage and family will be undermined by this tragic presumption of government."
In a June 24 statement, the heads of the state's eight Catholic dioceses said they were "deeply disappointed and troubled" at approval of a bill that will "alter radically and forever humanity's historic understanding of marriage."
The state Senate passed the measure 33-29 in an evening vote June 24, and New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, a Democrat and a Catholic, signed it into law later that night. Unless it is delayed by legal challenges, it will take effect in late July.
New York would then become the sixth state to permit same-sex marriage. It currently is allowed in Connecticut, Iowa, Massachusetts, New Hampshire and Vermont, in addition to the District of Columbia.
The bishops said the true definition of marriage as the union of one man and one woman "cannot change, though we realize that our beliefs about the nature of marriage will continue to be ridiculed, and that some will even now attempt to enact government sanctions against churches and religious organizations that preach these timeless truths."
The statement was signed by Archbishop Timothy M. Dolan of New York and Bishops Howard J. Hubbard of Albany, Nicholas DiMarzio of Brooklyn, Edward U. Kmiec of Buffalo, Terry R. LaValley of Ogdensburg, Matthew H. Clark of Rochester, William F. Murphy of Rockville Centre and Robert J. Cunningham of Syracuse.
But in a separate statement, Bishop DiMarzio said both Republicans and Democrats had "succumbed to powerful political elites" with their votes, and Cuomo had "opened a new front in the culture wars that are tearing at the fabric of our nation."
He directed Catholic schools in his diocese "to refuse any distinction or honors" bestowed by Cuomo or by any legislator that voted for same-sex marriage and told pastors and principals "not to invite any state legislator to speak or be present at any parish or school celebration."
Bishop DiMarzio said the request was intended "as a protest of the corrupt political process in New York state."
"More than half of all New Yorkers oppose this legislation," he said. "Yet the governor and the state Legislature have demonized people of faith, whether they be Muslims, Jews or Christians, and identified them as bigots and prejudiced" if they opposed changing the fundamental definition of marriage, he added.
A last-minute amendment to the legislation exempts any clergy members who decline to perform same-sex weddings and protects any employee "being managed, directed or supervised by or in conjunction with a religious corporation, benevolent order or a not-for-profit corporation."
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Bishop DiMarzio said the amendment showed that "our political leaders do not believe their own rhetoric."
"If they did, how in good conscience could they carve out any exemption for institutions that would be proponents of bigotry and prejudice?" he asked.
In a June 28 statement about the New York action, the chairman of the U.S. bishops' Subcommittee for the Promotion and Defense of Marriage expressed "grave disappointment with the Legislature's abandonment of the common good" but praised the legislators and citizens who worked against passage of the law for "their inspiring witness."
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Over 400 veterans, volunteers, and friends of Stars and Stripes Honor Flight will walk the red carpet Thursday, Nov. 29 as the North Shore Cinema screens the documentary "Honor Flight".
Stars and Stripes Honor Flight is a local chapter of the Honor Flight Network, a nation-wide group of volunteers, organizers, and donors who ensure that World War II veterans are able to visit the Washington D.C. WWII memorial.
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