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How to report witnessed drug use
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|Fri, 10-19-2012 - 10:10am
Hello everyone, A friend of my child witnessed a kid doing drugs on school grounds. He also overheard him talking about how much money he made selling that day and giving other kids tips on how to sell it in the school. He is TERRIFIED to report this in ANY way because he thinks the kid saw him witnessing this, and he's very scared the kid or his friends will go after him. My child is in these classes as well, so I am very concerned. Any advice would be great...
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That's a tough spot to be ine. I would say to go to a trusted teacher or the guidance counselor at the school depending on how comfortable he feels about it. He may be able to make an anonymous somehow, but each school may have their own procedures set up for that type of thing.
|Fri, 10-19-2012 - 4:31pm
Schools have ways of protecting the anonymity of kids who report things, but it all depends on the culture and how competent the administration is. I know when there was a suspicion of drug dealing at our former middle and high school, they'd conduct locker searches, but they'd do all the lockers in the row where the suspected dealer's was located instead of just the one. That way, if they found someone's stash, it wasn't obvious that it had been reported by another student.
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In many schools a report of drug use or sale is enough to warrant a call to local police for a visit by the drug sniffing dog team. At my son's school these visits happen at least once a semester. The dogs sniff all the lockers , all students are told to put their backpacks outside their classrooms at a given time and they are sniffed also. They even search the locker room.
Your son should talk to a trusted teacher or guidance counselor, administration and police have ways to make these searches seem totally random.

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text: Acuvue 2 lenses are among the best lenses produced by Johnson & Johnson Vision. These versatile lenses can be worn daily (with removal at night) for up to two weeks or as extended wear contact lenses (24 hours a day) for up to seven days. Acuvue 2 lenses are so comfortable you'll swear you're not wearing contact lenses, and their powerful UV protection shields your eyes from damaging ultraviolet light. Acuvue 2 lenses are softly tinted for easier handling, but will not alter the color of your eyes. Lenses are packaged individually, six to a box.


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The North America photovoltaic market is forecast to grow 33% quarter-over-quarter and 101% year-over-year in the fourth quarter of 2011, according to NPD Solarbuzz.
The Canadian market is projected to increase 35% quarter-over-quarter and 33% year-over-year. The province's current feed-in tariff incentive program is projected to stimulate 16 MW of residential installation in the fourth quarter of 2011.
4Q North American demand by country:
• United States: 84%
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It seems like only yesterday Microsoft's Steve Ballmer was busy convincing the world that he was not interested in making a bid for Yahoo.
Now TechCrunch has an internal company email that explains why Microsoft today made an unsolicited bid for the company.
By combining the strengths of our companies, we can deliver an efficient and highly competitive offering for our customers. Our complementary assets will give us increased talent and scale to compete in the markets of search and online advertising, and pioneer new innovations in the areas of video, mobile services, online commerce, and social media.
…by joining with Yahoo!, we will take the next step toward becoming a major search destination and social platform for consumers. The combined reach of our content properties and combined breadth of our tools for advertisers will enable us to provide an online advertising platform at scale. Together, we'll create a company that is in a much better position to compete against an increasingly dominant player in this market.
What's interesting is that Ballmer's tone suggests Yahoo's already accepted the bid:
Leaders from both Microsoft and Yahoo! will work together closely on the integration process to ensure that we are thoughtful about the questions we ask and the decisions we make. As we move forward, we'll look carefully at how to bring our assets together to create the greatest value for customers, employees, and shareholders.
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Leap Year
1 ½ Waffles (Out of 4) - Yes, January is the time for movies with ridiculous premises that make you believe every studio exec in Hollywood is engaging in Amy Winehouse levels of drug use. Leap Year doesn't disappoint. It's a movie that makes you think you stepped back into 1950, which makes me wonder why anyone thought we would buy this premise in 2010.
Amy Adams stars as Anna - a stager who helps decorate and present homes and condos on the market in the best, most attractive way, which helps them sell faster. While she has been successful convincing homebuyers to take the leap, Anna has not had any luck getting her boyfriend of 4 years, Jeremy (Adam Scott), to take the leap into marriage. However, she has a plan only Lucy Ricardo would appreciate.
Anna's father ( John Lithgow) reminds her of an Irish tradition where a woman can propose to a man on February 29 during a Leap Year. Since Adam will conveniently be in Ireland on Leap Day, Anna decides she will make the trip to Dublin, drop to one knee and ask for his hand in holy matrimony. However, it all goes awry, she ends up stranded in a small little country town, and our hero is forced into convincing a hunky bar owner, Declan (Matthew Goode), to drive her (to Dublin).
Do you think they might fall in love along the way?
Will Anna make it to Dublin by Leap Day?
If you want to see an Oscar caliber film, run out to see Up In The Air or Precious. Leap Year is one of those movies that can cause nausea while you read the description, but Adams and Goode have enough charm to make sure you don't toss your popcorn. They can't save the movie, but they make it slightly bearable.
Written by Deborah Kaplan and Harry Elfont, Leap Year, as you probably expect, is full of every cliché you can imagine. Anna is subject to pratfall after pratfall as her trip to Dublin is delayed by every form of weather known to mankind. She's a snooty, uptight gal who wears six-inch stilettos as she makes her way across the muddy Irish countryside, while Declan is a salt of the earth commoner, so, of course, opposites will attract (it doesn't hurt that both are smokin' hotties, I have a feeling Anna wouldn't be falling for Ray Romano in similar circumstances). Golly gee, they might even be fighting like cats and dogs throughout most of the movie, until they realize their hate is just passion burning underneath the surface!
Yes, you have seen this movie before, but Adams and Goode make the most of it. Adams is super charming even with below average material, and Goode makes his Irishman more like Bono than the Lucky Charms Leprechaun, so you are willing to watch the forced dialogue and situations, even though part of you is a bit embarrassed for the two.
Leap Year is good for a lighthearted get away from the world, but not much else.
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WORDS - Mark Shinn
INTRO ? In his latest column, two-time world champion, Mark Shinn asks, 'What's with all the player haters?'
It's nothing short of amazing how much kiteboarding has developed over the past eight years. I don't think anyone who was involved in the sport in the late '90s would ever have anticipated we would come this far this fast. I didn't see it coming, for sure. What amazes me even more is the appetite of kiteboarders for change. Maybe it's the reason why many of us took up the sport in the first place, but is there any other sport in the world that can change like ours?
Let's take a look at surfing: for the past 15 years the three-fin thruster has been the only board of choice for any serious surfer. Then a few years ago a select few began experimenting with quad (4) fin boards and slowly but surely the word is getting out. Magazines are writing tests about them, shapers are explaining why they work better, riders are proclaiming their benefits. Now go to your local surf shop and try to find a quad fin board or a set of quad fins to buy and, unless you happen to have visited one of the biggest shops in the world, you'll be lucky to find anything 'off-the-shelf'.
Two years ago a new style of kite entered the market that was radically different (the bow of course) and most shops already have shelves full of them. As a result, it would be almost impossible to find a rider that has never tried one. On the board front we've gone through, one, two, three, four, five, six and eight fin set-ups, probably more...that's almost one fin set-up per year - and still there are more appearing all the time.
I was riding in Tenerife with Ruben and Aaron recently for a project we're doing with Kiteworld and they showed me a kiteboarding forum that I'd never seen before. Frankly, I was shocked by the aggression and 'hating' from some of the contributors; their readiness to attack other riders' styles and equipment choices is astonishing. I can't understand why a sport that gives so much enjoyment should generate so much antagonism.
OK, what does this have to do with the speed that the sport has grown? Well, it just made me wonder how a sport that can be so open to change in the overall scene can contain elements that are so averse to change. It seems that for every step forward the main body of kiters take, they leave in their trail a small clique of riders that become very vocal in their disapproval of the 'new ways' and embark on a self-appointed crusade to show everyone else the error of their ways. It seems strange to me.
I had a great conversation recently with a friend of mine in Belgium. Allow me to fill you in on a little background info: Friend X is a successful businessman in his early 50s and after a lifetime working in the surf industry is more-or-less retired now, spending most of his time in Biarritz in southwest France, Costa Rica or Indonesia chasing perfect surf. Over the years I've known him, his time spent in Belgium has become less and less?until recently that is.
Friend X started kiteboarding in its early years, but after a serious accident gave up and returned to his surfing roots. Recently however, the move to full-depower kites has enticed him back. After a particularly good North Sea session a few weeks ago, he confided that he was considering canceling his next trip to Sumba, Indo as he could travel and surf all through the winter but would rather be in Belgium during the summer so that he could take advantage of the kiting there. He was so happy that after 35 years he had found a sport that he loved and didn't need to travel to enjoy. Here's a guy that can go anywhere and do anything he wants and yet chooses to stay home and kite in a country that, let's face it, is probably not at the top of many travelling kiteboarders' wish list!
We truly have a great sport and the huge range of conditions you can ride in combined with the massive range of styles that you can practice must make it one of the most diverse. For me, riding with friends like Mr X is one of the most pleasurable aspects of kiteboarding and I would have to give serious consideration as to whether I prefer a solo session in perfect conditions or a session with friends on an average day. I'm sure the members of a certain internet forum would be mortified by this kind of statement. Messing around in two-foot onshore waves isn't especially hardcore or radical, it's not life threatening, very difficult and certainly isn't pushing the boundaries of the sport anywhere new or revolutionary...but does any of that justify dissing it?
I started kiteboarding because it looked like fun and despite all that's happened between then and now I continue to kiteboard because I enjoy it. Maybe as a sport we need to judge a little less and enjoy a little more.
Well, time to get off the soap box for this month but let me leave you with this parting thought: I wonder if the true legends of the sport, like Robby Naish, Kelly Slater, Laird Hamilton, Tony Hawk, Matt Hoffman et al ever really stopped to consider whether what they were doing was cool or not? I suspect not. They simply pushed their personal limits and those of their sport in order to see what was possible.
'Ride more, talk less' doesn't seem like a bad philosophy to me!
Find more on Mark and his boards at: www.shinnworld.com
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The mayor's proposed ban on large sugary drinks would not curb obesity or diabetes, would alienate residents by restricting their beverage choices and would disproportionately affect small businesses and minority communities — those are the arguments being made by one area lawmaker and a citywide coalition formed to fight passage of the proposal.
City Councilman Leroy Comrie (D-St. Albans) and representatives of New Yorkers for Beverage Choices visited some small businesses in St. Albans on Tuesday to educate merchants about the drink ban plan and hear their thoughts on the proposal and how it would impact their sales.
The mayor's proposal would restrict the sale of sugary beverages over 16 ounces and would affect all food establishments graded by the city, such as restaurants, delis and concessions at movie theaters and stadiums. Food carts are also included. Exempt are businesses regulated by the state, such as 7-Eleven stores, which ironically carry the largest drinks.
NYFBC was only formed seven weeks ago, but it already has 100,000 individual members and 2,000 businesses from all across the city, according to the group's spokesman, Eliot Hoff.
"People are definitely fed up, and this could very well be a tipping point, because it has to do with people's livelihoods if you're a business, and lifestyle if you are an individual person," Hoff said. "The bottom line is that there is no evidence that this will have any impact on obesity."
Hoff noted that the ban is very arbitrary and has a greater impact on poorer communities, because, for example, well-known highly profitable restaurants can offer free drink refills, which would not be affected under the plan, as long as the cup size is under 16 ounces.
Families who often purchase a large beverage to share among several members because it is more cost effective would see that taken away. They could purchase several smaller drinks that would equal the same amount of beverage, but Comrie said that is unfair.
"I think it's going to wind up costing low-income families more money, because Yankee Stadium is never going to do a two-for-one deal," Comrie said. "The movie theaters are not going to do two-for-one deals and those are the places where you need to be portable and quick, especially if you're a single parent or have multiple kids."
Last year the lawmaker pushed McDonald's to lower the salt content in its food and offer healthier options in its Happy Meals. But the difference, Comrie said, is that that was a unilateral, voluntary change. He believes if the mayor really wants to curb sugar, he would encourage the manufacturers of the drinks to reduce the amount in their beverages and educate residents about healthier dietary choices.
Jeffrey Rogers, the executive chef at NuUrban Cafe on Linden Boulevard, said he opposes the sugary drinks ban even though his restaurant does not serve jumbo-sized beverages. "Once you lock us down where we can't serve a large drink, the next thing you know you will be telling me I can't serve a burger," Rogers said. "It doesn't make much sense."
Sherine Marshall, the owner of Spices Carribean Restaurant on Linden Boulevard, said she sells about 30 large sugary drinks a day. Since they are priced at 99 cents, it makes them popular among customers on a budget.
"I don't support the ban because it is not good for our business," Marshall said. "If he stops us from selling that, we will lose customers. It should be up to the person to decide what they want to drink."


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UTEP Track and Field Athletes Honored by Conference USA
UTEP's Risper Kimaiyo and Suji Adeniyan have been selected to the 2011 Conference USA Track and Field All-Academic teams voted by the league's sports information directors.
"This is a great honor for Risper (Kimaiyo) and Suji (Adeniyan)," head coach Mika Laaksonen said. "They are very deserving of their nominations being model citizens on the team by always taking care of their business on and off the field. You can never have too many student-athletes like these two individuals. We are extremely proud of them."
Kimaiyo is a two-time Conference USA Commissioner's Honor Roll recipient majoring in nursing with a 3.68 cumulative GPA. The four-time U.S. Track and Field and Cross Country Coaches Association All-American finished seventh in the 5k at the 2011 NCAA Indoor Track and Field Championships. She set a new school record in the 5k this season clocking in at 15:48.14 at the Payton Jordan Invitational. She took silver in the event at the C-USA Outdoor Championships and fifth in the 1,500m. Kimaiyo claimed the indoor 5k league title and finished second in the mile and third in the 3,000-meter steeplechase.
Adeniyan is part of the 4x100m and 4x400m relay squads that will head to Des Moines, Iowa, for the 2011 NCAA Outdoor Track and Field Championships. The two-time C-USA Commissioner's Honor Roll selection is a geology major. He is a two-time Conference USA outdoor champion as part of the relays while finishing second in the 100m and eighth in the 200m.


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Ever married to their "Job Creators" mantra, Republicans gave their national convention the theme "We Built This."
The phrase comes in response to a speech President Obama gave earlier this summer, in which he (much like Senate candidate Elizabeth Warren a few months back) suggested that, regardless of how smart, hardworking and industrious any financially successful person is, he or she has been aided by the security provided by our police departments, the transportation facilitated by our nation's highways, and many other societal investments made by our government.
Apparently unwilling to divorce themselves from the cherished myth of the self-made man, Republicans took the offensive for their convention at the Tampa Bay Times Forum this summer, christening their slightly-less-than-week-long celebration of all things GOP with the motto "We Built This."
The problem is, they didn't.
"The Tampa Bay Times Forum," Adam Peck writes for ThinkProgress, "was built in 1996 for $139 million, 62 percent of which was provided by the taxpayers of Florida."
"It serves to underscore the point that President Obama was trying to make," Peck continues, "that private companies—from professional sports franchises to small businesses alike—rely on government spending to succeed. Businesses don't buy roads or police departments or even stadiums, at least not without government help."
Especially stadiums. Not in this current era of publicly financed sports venues.
We are living in a time when billionaire owners use the threat of moving beloved franchises to new cities unless the local citizenry, whether fans of the teams or not, agree to spend their tax dollars on new, privately owned sporting arenas. It's a scene that has been played out over and over again in the last quarter-century.
"In the past twenty-five years," notes Dave Zirin in his book Bad Sports: How Owners Are Ruining The Games We Love, "more than $30 billion of the public's money has been spent for stadium construction and upkeep from coast to coast ... $500 million welfare hotels for America's billionaires built with funds that could have been spent more wisely on just about anything else."
As we continue to endure the current economic recession, it's hard to imagine any city that wouldn't welcome re-allocated tax dollars to fund the reopening of schools and libraries, let alone the upkeep of highway bypasses, roads, bridges and levees. But membership does indeed have its privileges. And sports owners have made a habit of taking theirs to the bank.
"It's going to be seen ... as one of the real crimes of American government," suggests former major league baseball all-star Jim Bouton, a crusader in the fight to save Pittsfield's Wahconah Park, "to allow the funneling of people's money directly into the pockets of a handful of very wealthy individuals who could build these stadiums on their own if it made financial sense. If they don't make financial sense, then they shouldn't be building them."
So much for fiscal responsibility.
"Public funding for sports stadiums has been found, in dozens of studies over several decades, to fall short of its promised benefits and to cost taxpayers more than expected," write the editors of Bloomberg.
Yet again and again, year after year, wealthy sports franchise owners continue to demand publicly funded stadiums.
"Robert A. Baade of the Heartland Institute, a research group in Chicago that promotes free markets, examined 48 cities over a 30-year period and found 'no factual basis' for the argument that professional sports stadiums and teams have a significant impact on economic growth," the Bloomberg editors continue. "A study by Judith Grant Long, an associate professor of urban planning at Harvard University, found that public subsidies for stadiums are typically 40 percent more expensive for taxpayers than initially advertised."
It's like a horrific paraphrase of the famous line from Field of Dreams: if you don't build it, they will leave, and if you do build it, you're stuck with the bill—oftentimes, long after the stadium construction is done.
"From the Kingdome in Seattle to the Astrodome in Houston to the old Giants Stadium in New Jersey," note the Bloomberg editors, "today's taxpayers are on the hook for tens of millions of dollars in debt for stadiums that are no longer in use or no longer even exist."
Indiana's taxpayers won't fully pay off the old Hoosier Dome, which was demolished in 2008 to make way for the swanky new $720 million Lucas Oil Stadium, current home of the Indianapolis Colts and venue for last season's Super Bowl, until the year 2021.
The Tampa Bay Times Forum, site of this year's RNC, is regularly home to the NHL's Tampa Bay Lightning, who are owned by Jeff Vinik. Vinik, like most wealthy sports owners, not only votes Republican, but also donates large amounts of cash to the GOP: $30,000 and counting to the Romney campaign for this election year so far.
Of course, it's easy to write campaign checks for tens of thousands of dollars when your privately owned franchise is riding a welfare wave of tens of millions of taxpayer dollars.


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A very merry giveaway!
We have a very special holiday giveaway today; my friend and talented jewelry designer Katie Bartels is giving away one of her sparkly creations from her holiday collection to one lucky reader! With sparkly metallic beads and rich velvet ribbons, these pieces are perfect for dressing up a classic little black dress to wear to holiday parties!
- Just visit Katie's website and leave a comment below telling me which velvet ribbon color you would choose for your gold Shira necklace.
- For an extra entry follow @DomestiKateBlog and @knbsparkle on twitter and leave another comment below.
- This giveaway will end at 5:00 PM EST on Friday, November 30th and is open to US residents only. Good Luck!
35 responses to "A very merry giveaway!"
Megan November 27, 2012 at 9:12 am
I loveb the black one! It's a classic.
Maureen November 27, 2012 at 10:41 am
These are gorgeous and I love the forest green color.
Abigail November 27, 2012 at 11:58 am
I would love this in red — A pop of grounding color!
Abigail November 27, 2012 at 11:58 am
Also, I already follow you and added Katie on Twitter! =)
amanda player November 27, 2012 at 4:45 pm
i lovelovelove the red!
Kelsey O November 27, 2012 at 4:55 pm
I like the blue one – Dillon Panthers blue.
Leah November 27, 2012 at 6:50 pm
I am loving the blue! Soo soo pretty!
Lonni November 27, 2012 at 8:29 pm
I like the red! Very festive and beautiful!
Kellie Rose Wilson November 27, 2012 at 11:52 pm
Beautiful necklaces! I love the black! :)
Dana Rodriguez November 28, 2012 at 9:01 am
Gorgeous!!! I also prefer the black because it goes with anything~Thanks for the chance :)
Dana Rodriguez November 28, 2012 at 9:06 am
I follow you both and tweeted https://twitter.com/tatzgrrly/status/273789625636642816
Anna November 28, 2012 at 10:55 am
cobalt blue! it compliments the colors of the season–plus goes nicely with my wardrobe:)
jessica w November 28, 2012 at 11:13 am
I would get it in the cobalt!
jessica w November 28, 2012 at 11:13 am
I follow @DomestiKateBlog and @knbsparkle on twitter
Meg Owen November 28, 2012 at 11:34 am
LOVE the black!
Dariel November 28, 2012 at 2:48 pm
The red is a lovely pop of color for the holiday season!
Stephanie November 28, 2012 at 7:59 pm
great giveaway! i would pick the cobalt blue ribbon : )
krista November 28, 2012 at 8:34 pm
red! it fits with the holiday season and i almost never wear red! picturing wearing it with a cute black dress already :)
Lindsay November 29, 2012 at 12:35 am
I'd go for the hunter green! Love it!
Do I get an extra entry for calling it by the correct name?! haha
Lindsay November 29, 2012 at 12:36 am
I also follow both of you on twitter! thanks!
Nicole November 29, 2012 at 6:55 am
Ohhh, it would be tough to decide between the red & the blue. I love the punchy red, but the blue is so beautiful. I'd love to have to make the decision, though :)
LindsB November 29, 2012 at 11:34 am
What a pretty necklace, the Hunter Green one would be perfect for the holidays! I really love everything on her site and would love to have one of each in my closet :)
I wish I could come to the blogger event on Tuesday, but I have class that night. So sad I'll be missing out on all the fun :(
Christina November 29, 2012 at 1:17 pm
Oooh love it! I all ready follow you on twitter :)
And I'd have to go with red ribbon!!
Kara November 29, 2012 at 2:34 pm
Definitely the blue one! Would be prefect for a little pop of color this winter.
Kara November 29, 2012 at 2:34 pm
Followed both twitter accounts from @karahoisi!
Courtney W November 30, 2012 at 9:38 am
I would pick the black one, very versatile!


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In the first lecture, Steiner shows how in the Lemurian epoch Luciferic
beings intervened in human evolution, making possible freedom, material
desires, and evil-doing, while in Atlantean times, Ahrimanic beings made
possible "conscious sin"; and in our own epoch, Asuric beings
will intervene. The deed of Christ alone now makes possible humanity's
return to the spiritual. The second lecture deals with "Mephistopheles
and Earthquakes."
The original German texts of these lectures are entitled,
Spiritual-Scientific Anthropology/Knowledge of Man.
The original German texts of these lectures can be found in the
Collected Edition of Rudolf Steiner's works under the title:
"Geisteswissenschaftliche Menschenkunde,"
No. 107 in the Bibliographical Survey, 1961.
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of the Rudolf Steiner Nachlassverwaltung, Dornach, Switzerland.
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Baby talk: 8 easy and fun ways to improve your baby's language skills
My baby is four months old. She loves life and coos with delight when she is happy or sees something she wants. I know it will be a while before she says her first word, but are there ways I can encourage her verbal communication skills while playing with her?Question:
You are absolutely right that even the youngest babies are learning language. Long before they learn to speak, babies get sold on communication. The more you listen and respond to your daughter, the better she will become at communicating with you.
Already, you have learned to interpret your daughter's various sounds of delight or desire. You probably have also begun to decode her many cries. As you listen, watch and learn from your past experience with her, you will get better and better at reading her verbal and non-verbal communication.
Baby reaction time is slower than that of adults, however. Listening to her means that you may need to slow down and wait for her communication. If you can't understand everything your baby "says," don't worry. No parent can understand every cry and coo their baby makes. However, two things happen when you listen attentively and try to figure out your baby's message. First, your baby has the experience of someone being interested in her ideas and feelings. Secondly, through listening over time and trial and error, you eventually do figure out most of children's cues.
Here are some other things you can do to support your child's language development:
1. Respond to your baby's cries. Babies also learn about communication through crying. In the first year, crying is a central part of their communication system. When we respond to their cries, our babies learn that they will be listened to and that the world is a safe place where their needs will be met.
2. Have "conversations" with your baby. Young babies begin the skills of conversing by "taking turns." They coo, look at you and wait. You coo and they coo back. In that simple interaction, they practice the structure of conversation and they learn that they will be responded to when they reach out to communicate.
3. Talk naturally with your baby throughout your time with her. Babies learn receptive language skills long before they learn expressive ones. Your daughter will understand what you are saying to her well before she is able to speak many words. When babies grow up in a language- rich environment, they naturally learn to speak. When you regularly talk to your daughter and listen to her, she will readily learn language. Modeling language is your best teaching tool. Babies and children don't have to be "made" to speak correctly. When you model correct language, they will gradually learn proper grammar.
4. Extend her language and describe what you see her doing. This is something parents instinctively do with children. When your baby reaches for your nose, cooing, you can say, "That's my nose. Are you going to grab it with your little hand?" When she turns toward the sound of the door opening, you can say, "You heard the door opening. Is that your sister coming in?" When the cat approaches and she starts gurgling and kicking her feet, you can say, "Ohhh, you see Tiger coming. You look excited to see your fuzzy cat," or "Hi Tiger cat. Lisa is excited to see you coming."
5. Talk to your baby about what you are doing with her. It can feel awkward to talk to a baby who doesn't understand you, but she needs the repeated experience of hearing you talk in order to understand your language. Before you pick her up, you can reach your hands towards her and say, "I'm going to pick you." In this way she learns language in the rich context of experience. During diapering you can say, "Here is your dry diaper. I'm lifting up your bottom so I put it on you." This not only helps her learn language, it also helps her learn to expect what will come next and participate more actively in the process.
6. Talk about your own actions as well. Engaging in self-talk around your baby teaches her language and helps her make sense of the world. Describe what you're doing as you do it: "I'm steaming these carrots for your lunch. Then, I'll grind them up and you can eat them." "I'm going into the other room to get your blanket." "I'm getting dressed and then I'm going to change you." "I'm going to go to work. Dad will stay with you today."
7. Sing songs or tell her stories. Songs and stories are an important part of learning language. Because they are repeated, children have a chance to learn them over time. Songs, finger plays or movement activities teach children words that have physical clues attached. When a baby has learned a clapping song, she can ask for it by clapping her hands, even before she knows how to say, "I want to sing the clapping song!"
8. Read books. There are wonderful baby books available. Look for books with photos or aesthetically-pleasing pictures. Children don't need cartoons as their only pictures. Also, look for books with rich, varied or poetic language. Some babies will lie on their backs with you on the floor looking up at a book for several minutes at a time. Others will wiggle and squirm. There is no magic age to begin reading to children. It should be as soon as they can enjoy it. Try it periodically to see if your baby is interested.
You can also make books for your child, using photos of familiar objects and people, mount them on little cardboard (poster board) pages and put them together with string or loose leaf rings. You can cover them with plastic (sticky cover or plastic sleeves) to protect them from drool and teeth.
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I've been following Ruby on Rails for a short time and even started playing with Ruby a bit myself. So far, I think Ruby is neat but I find some of the syntax arcane or esoteric compared to Python. PHP's popularity speaks for itself and I think it is the most prevalent web scripting language for good reason. Although, I have to say that it really surprises me that Python has never really captured that close-second spotlight that Ruby now enjoys thanks to Rails. Maybe projects like Django will change that.
Most of the Rails soapboxing claims that Ruby is more productive because the language allows you to write code they describe with adjectives like "terse" and "beautiful". They show slides of "code beauty" and more often than not, they specifically target the PHP language as the opposite of this, almost always without comparisons.
Today, I ran across this post. I couldn't help but think to myself, "That's sort of nice looking but wow, for such a little thing, how much overkill is that?" Here's the same thing in PHP, minus the database fetch (add it in two lines).
$from = $to = array('Paul', 'Matthew', 'Daniel', 'Andi', 'Chuck'); for (;;) { shuffle($to); foreach ($from as $i => $f) if ($to[$i] == $f) continue 2; break; } print_r(array_combine($from, $to));
That's less than half the code. I think this is a fair comparison because it directly compares PHP to Ruby, without any "frameworks" in between. Which one do you think is extremely simple?
I think that Rails is a phenomenal tool, but it's tooling — not a language. I am sure that great tools will come for PHP as well, and that PHP itself will always be a language that is both highly productive and high performance. Do you Yahoo!?
Update: I wrote this post back in 2005. Not long after writing it, I decided to give Ruby a more serious look and attended the first Silicon Valley Ruby Conference. In the years since, I've done a great deal of work with both Ruby and Rails, and my feelings on this have changed quite a bit. That experience, and the urging of some PHP friends, led me to coauthor a book called Rails for PHP Developers.
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comment by 16 Dec 05
FWIW I'm a php coder so I understand the php example better than the ruby version. Still, looking at the two samples I can't help but feel the ruby one is a little more expressive and a little less hacky. This could be partially fixed by replacing "for(;;)" by "while(true)" in the php version but still the "continue 2″ and break calls always seem only a step or two above gotos to me.
Partly aesthetics I guess, which makes it a bit subjective. I've not done anything in ruby, but I do envy the more expressive nature both ruby and python code seem to have over php… Oh yeah and I'm interested in turbo gears over django as far as the web frameworks for python goes…
comment by 16 Dec 05
i'm cheering for django as well. Its a great package, cool community and they're constantly improving it. Plus it powers some fantastic sites.
comment by 16 Dec 05
to = ["Paul", "Matthew", …]
from = to.dup
from.sort_by { rand }
from.each_with_index do |i, index|
puts "#{i} => #{to[index]}"
That's 75% of the code… and it's almost as ugly as the php version.
comment by 16 Dec 05
It might be 75% of the code, but it doesn't solve the problem at all. You can't give a gift to yourself. The equivalent PHP code for your program is below.
$from = $to = array('Paul', 'Matthew', 'Daniel', 'Andi', 'Chuck');
print_r(array_combine($from, $to));
comment by 17 Dec 05
Ah, quite right. Let me try this at 10AM instead of 2 AM:
to = %w(Paul Matthew Daniel)
loop do
from = to.sort_by { rand }
pairs = to.zip(from)
next if pairs.any? { |t, f| t == f }
pp pairs
That's pretty much line for line the same. But I should really *comment* instead of just writing lame code.
"I think this is a fair comparison because it directly compares PHP to Ruby, without any "frameworks†or other middleware in between."
As we see above, you can get the same amount of code in Ruby. So your comparison is shot. I could go on to say "The comparison is really between doing a quick hack of something that is ugly but functional, and doing a cleaner version that has some possiblity for maintainence." But I won't.
comment by 17 Dec 05
That's a nice example. I think that is a much better, apples-to-apples comparison. I could send the bloated PHP 5 version to match the Ruby version from earlier if you'd think that would be more manageable than eight simple lines of code, although that's probably not necessary. This is a much more appropriate amount of code for doing such an everyday silly task, and our two examples show a real comparison nicely. For this example, it looks about even.
It is refreshing to finally see a direct comparison of some PHP and Ruby code, and more of this is sorely needed in place of all this hype comparing only a language (PHP) to an entire framework (Rails). More of this is needed in the future.
I would perhaps be more interested in seeing examples comparing Ruby to Python as well; I only chose PHP as that seems to be the favorite target of your camp. That's understandable, it is the elephant.
Thanks for your comments.
comment by 17 Dec 05
These comparisons are fruitless. It's not about doing it in x% of the code. For that matter:
x = %w(Paul Matthew Daniel).sort_by { rand }
pp x.zip((z = x.dup).unshift(z.pop))
Whoopdy doo.
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Feeding the Tree
Do you struggle with feeding your tree? It has always been a struggle for me. I would try a big water pitcher but it wouldn't fit, so then I'd use water bottles but I'd have to refill - all while climbing under the tree. When Ben and I were at the tree lot we saw a tool for sale that would make feeding the tree a whole lot easier, and of course we agreed that we could make that!
Monday, December 8, 2014
Our Family Thanksgivings and a Special Birthday 2014
This was a very special Thanksgiving for my family this year. My Grandfather turned 90 years old the day before, so we threw him a big party with the whole family.
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Thursday, November 27, 2014
Happy Thanksgiving
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It's beginning to look like fall around Southern California and I wanted to stop by and wish you all a very Happy Thanksgiving! We'll be spending time with both of our families. First stop is my side where we'll also be celebrating my grandfather's 90th birthday, wowzers 90 years is a lot of years! He's a great man and I'm so blessed to have him in my life! Then we'll be off to visit Ben's mom and brothers! On Tuesday we had our annual Friendsgiving with my yarn group - we made almost the whole meal vegan! I feel so blessed to have such awesome friends in my life. Hope you have a great day no matter where you go, may you find love and joy in those around you!
Wednesday, November 12, 2014
Trafalgar Day Picnic 2014
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Tuesday, November 4, 2014
An Elegant Tea Party Baby Shower
My dear friend Cece is expecting a precious little girl. In her honor her mother in law gave her the most lovely tea party for her baby shower.
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Tuesday, October 28, 2014
Double Birthday at the LA Arboretum
I've mentioned this before, but in case you didn't know it Ben and I have the same birthday - just three years apart. This year as something special we planned to visit the LA Arboretum with Ben's mom and S-Dad Brian. The clouds threatened rain, but we're nice enough not to rain on our birthday!
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Monday, October 13, 2014
Audrey's 1st Birthday - Under the Big Top
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Monday, October 6, 2014
My 1st Women's Retreat
I felt so blessed to be invited to attend Women's Retreat with my church this year. I've always looked forward to the day I would be considered adult enough to get to participate. I know my mother has had the best times going on retreat with the women from my childhood church, in fact she loves them so much that even though we've moved away she still goes on retreat every year with them!
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Thursday, October 2, 2014
My New Classroom Decorated for Autumn & Fall Leaf Writing Template
I mentioned earlier that I have a new job, I'm working as a Temp. Specialist in a local school. It's a step up from being a substitute and I couldn't be more excited! I'm treated as a real staff member and even have my own classroom! (of course I'm still paid like a sub and am not even eligible for BITSA- a teacher induction program I need desperately!) But onto the good stuff, my new room!
Monday, September 29, 2014
Bean Planting
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Friday, September 26, 2014
Fall Favorites Printable
After viewing all the beautiful fall subway art printables I decided my fall decorating would not be complete until I had one in our home too. This began the quest to find the perfect one. Unfortunately it did not yet exist. Thank goodness I'm married to an awesome graphic designer, because in just a few minutes he whipped this up for me!
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Wednesday, September 24, 2014
Organizing the Tea Cupboard
Apparently I have a lot of tea, and my boxes were getting out of control. Now I know it's hidden behind closed cupboard doors, but opening up a chaotic cupboard can have an affect on your mood. I'd go in looking for something and it would be frustrating to have to dig to find it. Now I don't have to do that!
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Two Tall Ships Festivals - San Diego and Dana Point 2014
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Wednesday, September 10, 2014
Tea-riffic Cups Gift
Recently I was teaching a long-term substitute assignment in preschool with some awesome ladies. When my time was up I wanted to give them each a gift to let the know how I felt, so I came up with these fun cups for them.
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Thursday, September 4, 2014
Catching Up
Wow it has been a while since I've posted here! I've been kept busy, which is why I've been such a bad blogger lately.
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Wednesday, August 20, 2014
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Dog Tales - The Rat Hunt
Hi I'm Teddy! It's my turn to write a blog entry and today I'm going to tell you a tale about my great Rat Hunt!
Friday, August 8, 2014
Simple Garden Sprout Tubes
Want an easy & cheap way to plant seeds and then transfer your little sprouts to the garden bed? Look no further! I'm experimenting with these easy to make little sprout tubes; made from, get this, toilet paper tubes!
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Monday, July 28, 2014
Old Fort MacArthur Days 2014
It's that time of year again, our big reenactment event with the public time! Old For MacArthur Days was Ben and my 1st reenactment 5 years ago, so I guess you could say it was our reenacting anniversary!
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Wednesday, July 23, 2014
Home Tour Summer 2014
Welcome to our summer house tour! In the last house tour we were barely settling in, now we're nice and cozy in our new home! Come on in!
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Veterans Service to open Ferris office
FERRIS – Ellis County Veterans Services will open a fifth office in the City of Ferris to assist veterans and widows of veterans in filing for any benefits to which they are entitled.
The office will be located at 100 Town Plaza in Ferris.
"Please join us for our Grand Opening at 9 a.m. on Aug. 13 at Ferris City Hall in the council chambers," said James Wilhoite, VSO Ellis County.
Initial plans are for the Ferris office to be open on the second Wednesday of each month, from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m.
No appointment is necessary for a visit to the office.
Presently, there is no phone available at the Ferris office but calls are accepted at the Waxahachie office Mondays and Tuesdays from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. at 972-825-5099, or the Ennis office on Thursdays and Fridays during the same hours at 972-875-4531.


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Christmas Cookie Decorating Activity
Is your child hoping to decorate some holiday cookies, but you just haven't had the time to make any? This coloring page provides a great alternative! Print out this sheet, and your child will get to decorate as many cookies as he wants, any way he wants! Even better, there's no mess to clean up when he's done!
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The story of German writer and poet Heinrich von Kleist and his relationship with Henriette Vogel.
A ratbag producer has an epiphany and considers the real-life impact of reality TV.
Documentarian Claude Lanzmann sheds light on the origins of the Final Solution.
The third film in the trilogy based on the life of Empress Elisabeth of Austria.
A Jewish concentration camp prisoner takes a job as a counterfeiter with the Nazis.


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Past Presidents
The president of the Alumni Association presides over all meetings of the Alumni Council and over all meetings of the executive committee. The current president also serves as a member of the College's Board of Trustees during his or her tenure.
Under the current bylaws, presidents serve a two-year term, up to two terms, and may remain on the Council as an ex-officio member for one year after stepping down from their role as president.
Mary E. Revell Wathen, 1917, Deceased, Class of 1885HS
Annie Elizabeth Thomas Lilburn, 1927, Deceased, Class of 1877HS
Mary E. Revell Wathen, 1932-34, Deceased, Class of 1885HS
Kathryn Coad Dallam, 1934-35, Deceased, Class of 1923HS
Henrietta Coston Lockner, 1935, Deceased, Class of 1892HS
Frances Gill, Acting President, 1935, Deceased, Class of 1928HS
Helen Decorse McArthur, 1936-37 , Deceased, Class of 1921HS
Elise Hilda Hoke Thrasher , 1937-4 Class of 1934HS
Rachel duBois Early, 1944-45, Deceased, Class of 1921HS
Jean Tenney Gray, 1945-47, Deceased, Class of 1934JC
Helen Decorse McArthur, 1947-49, Deceased, Class of 1921HS
Betty Dixon Evander, 1949-51, Deceased, Class of 1925HS
Betty Jane Howard-Jasper, 1951-53 Class of 1947JC
R. Eugenia Walters, 1953-55, Deceased, Class of 1937JC
Georgianna Longest Kiefer, 1955-56 , Deceased, Class of 1946JC
Bessie Dent Gedda , 1957-60 , Deceased, Class of 1918HS
Mildred Spedden McDorman , 1961-63 , Deceased, Class of 1914HS
Katherine Clemson Turner, 1963-67 Class of 1942JC
Mary Alice Waesche Benson, 1967-71 Class of 1950JC
John F. Slade, III, 1971-73 Class of 1964JC
Mary Alice Waesche Benson, 1973-77 Class of 1950JC
Fraser D. Bishop, 1977-79 Class of 1972
Deborah Sheffer McClellan, 1979-81 Class of 1971
James A. Wood, 1981-83 Class of 1961JC
Paul S. Pyles, 1983-85 Class of 1976
Janet Montgomery Densmore, 1985-87 Class of 1961JC
David Cribbs, 1987-89 Class of 1974
E. Wayne Gordon, III, 1989-91 Class of 1971
Charles Ray Cameron, 1991-93 Class of 1968JC
Sherrie Robinson Bailey, 1993-97 Class of 1981
Thomas "T.K." H. Kingston, 1997-2001 Class of 1986
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Welcome To Three Rivers Quilters
Welcome to the Three Rivers Quilters Website. We are a very active group who are always looking for more enthusiastic members to promote the art of quilting. Our programs and meetings each month are presented by top notch instructors and we often present nationally known artists. Please stop by and spend an evening with us. I guarantee you will feel welcome and inspired!
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2015 Show Quilt
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Please enjoy the new TRQ website. Use the menu at the top of each page and the links scattered throughout to navigate through the site. Read all about our guild by taking advantage of the information provided by the new features and innovations, and keep up to date on the happenings of our guild by referring regularly to the calendar of events. We invite you to join us at a meeting in the near future.


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DSLR shutters, flash sync speeds and the second curtain
One thing I didn't know much about when I got started with my DSLR was the concept of flash sync speed (also known as x-sync speed). I also didn't understand what high-speed sync was and where exactly the second curtain was found inside my camera. And finally, I couldn't figure out why my camera would use a slow shutter speed even when my flash was ready to fire.
Luckily I figured it all out so I thought I'd share these tid bits with you in this post.
There is already plenty of help out there if you know where to look. There is a video I've linked to before which is the Adorama TV Digital Photography 1 on 1 series. See episode 17 on flash sync speed and flash duration. Another resource I just found is this blog post by Dan Edwards (has some useful illustrations).
Photo credit: Derek Miller and Canon
The important things to know are…
- Your camera has two shutters, not one.
- The first shutter is called the first curtain and it lets light reach the image sensor.
- The second shutter is called the second curtain and it blocks light from the sensor.
- At fast shutter speeds, the second shutter follows the first one so quickly that the entire sensor is not exposed at once. It's just a sliver of light travelling across the sensor from top to bottom.
- Your flash fires VERY quickly (e.g. 1/10000th of second) which is faster than your shutter. This means you only have a very brief moment to expose the entire sensor.
- If the second shutter closes before the first one is fully open, your sensor can't get evenly exposed to the light blast produced by your flash. You end up with a dark band at the bottom of your photo (think of it as the first shutter's shadow).
- A relatively slow shutter speed is required for the sensor to be fully exposed, this is called the flash sync speed. While using a flash, your camera usually won't let you set a faster shutter speed. That speed varies per camera. For the Canon 60D and 7D it's 1/250th of a second, for the Canon T2i it's 1/200th of a second.
If you need your flash while using a faster shutter speed (e.g. fill flash while outdoors on a bright day), you must enable the high-speed sync setting on your flash unit. It effectively slows down the flash burst so the light is on while the shutter exposes the sensor quickly but progressively. The trade off is that the flash power is significantly decreased.
If instead you will want a long exposure, you can have the flash fire immediately after the sensor is exposed (this is normal) or just before the sensor is about to get covered up again. Doing the latter requires you to choose an option called second-curtain flash. It allows the scene to get exposed as if you were not going to use a flash and then, bang, the flash hits at the very end. See this example of second curtain flash. If the flash was fired at the beginning of the exposure, the playing card would have been seen at the top of the frame, not the bottom.
Got all that? If not, just refer to the video and blog post I linked above.
Flash Sync Speed in Aperture Priority Mode
Once I did get my head around all this, I had one more issue to solve with my camera. I'd put the flash on, choose aperture priority (Av) mode and then shoot. My camera was left to pick the right shutter speed but it kept selecting very slow shutter speeds when I was in a dimly lit room. The shutter was way to slow to freeze any action, even with a tripod. I thought to myself, "I have the flash on, doesn't it know I want freeze the action?". It made me think something was wrong with my camera or the flash unit.
It tuns out that in Canon cameras (perhaps Nikon as well) are setup to treat aperture priority mode differently than other modes. If you put it in aperture priority mode, the camera doesn't bother to take into account that the flash is on. Instead, it sets the shutter speed to expose the scene as if the flash is always off. This "feature" ensures the ambient light in the scene gets exposed perfectly but the what you end up with us unusable, blurry photos.
One solution is to use Manual mode on your camera and set both the aperture and shutter values. This is the quickest solution. If you plan to hand hold your camera, set the shutter to 1/60th of a second to start. If you get some blur, make it a bit faster.
If you still want to use aperture priority mode, I found a custom function that's available in Canon cameras which instructs the camera to shoot no slower than 1/60th of a second while in aperture priority mode with the flash enabled. For the Canon 60D and 7D it's in "Custom Function I: Exposure" and is setting number 7: "Flash sync. speed in Av mode". On the T2i, it's Custom Function 1-3 instead of 1-7. See below.
The default setting for the custom function is "0: Auto". This allows the shutter speed to be very slow or very fast. Setting "1: 1/250 – 1/60sec. auto" is perhaps the most useful option. It will ensure the slowest speed is 1/60th. The downside here is it also limits the top speed to 1/250th. If you want to use high-speed sync now, you'll probably need to undo this selection.
To avoid all these custom function hassles, I simply recommend you don't use aperture priority mode and your flash together while in a dim room. Simply switch to manual mode and set both the aperture and shutter values in one step. Your ISO value can be set as well but it can remain on auto. Don't worry, you'll still get a good exposure in most cases as the flash can adequately compensate by varying the amount of flash power used (your flash effectively replaces the shutter speed since you're using TTL flash, it's still like being on automatic).
Give it a try as it takes practice to get these concepts cemented in your mind. I still have lots of experimentation to do. For more information on custom functions, see this useful guide that describes the Canon 7D custom functions in detail.
Have you got any tips or resources to share on this topic?


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They've battered the competition.
Papa's Barn fish and chip restaurant in London Road, Ditton, took on similar establishments across the country and was named the third best nationally.
The business, owned by brothers Theo and Michael Papa-Adams, came away with the accolade from the 2014 Independent Takeaway Fish and Chip Shop of the Year Awards, held at London's Lancaster Hotel this week.
After being selected as finalists, the pair had to pitch presentations to a panel of industry judges in a Dragon's Den-style event.
They lost out to Quayside in Whitby and Frankie's Fish and Chips in Brae, Shetland.
Theo said: "As this is the first year we entered the awards, we are ecstatic to be ranked so highly."
The contest was organised by Seafish. Chief executive Paul Williams said: "Papa's Barn stood out for their commitment and determination throughout the entire judging process, and we'd like to congratulate them in taking third place."
The restaurant re-opened in August 2011, after it was rebuilt following a fire in January 2010.
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Adorable and engaging this fun Wild West bench seat with hidden storage features a western town design including sheriff's star finials, good guy & bad guy on horseback and toy store doors that open and close. The sliding barn door opens to store toys, books and more. The slow-closing metal safety hinge protects little fingers from getting pinched.
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On April 12, 1937, the express train to New York roared across the New Jersey countryside. The train, a Pennsy Railroad electric locomotive the color of bull's blood, usually passed through the station at Elizabeth at about 50 miles per hour. On this particular morning, it came to an unanticipated stop. As the express rounded the curve, my great-grandfather jumped down from the platform, where witnesses reported he had been pacing for 10 minutes, and lay down across the tracks.
When the engineer was finally able to halt the train 100 feet past the platform, Roy Humphrey had disappeared beneath its wheels. His last act: raising his head to look at the oncoming train.
Roy was one of at least 40,000 Americans who took their own lives that year and the next, the two-year span that suicide rate spiked to its highest recorded level ever: more than 150 per 1 million annually. They are forgotten people, mostly men, and mostly brushed out of existence by a generation preoccupied by World War II and the post-war boom. Three-quarters of a century after Roy's death, I sat across from an old family friend, a woman in her 90s, who was eager to share stories of that monumental past – except when it came to my great-grandfather. When I finally asked her point blank if she had known him, her blue eyes focused.
"He killed himself, didn't he?" she asked, but it was more of a statement than a question. "Every family had a story like that. We never spoke of them. Why would we?"
My family had not only refused to speak of Roy, they rewrote the story of his death. Within hours, they closed ranks. A second cousin, a local policeman, told the newspaper Roy was subject to fainting spells. His mother said he died of a heart attack in a parking garage; according to another family story, he'd fallen in front of a train. Eventually, the lie became the truth. I flipped through the journals his mother wrote in 1950s. She mentioned Roy once, when a passerby reminded her of him. Then she went back later and whited out his name.
I didn't grow up knowing that Roy had killed himself, but I knew a shroud of mystery surrounded him. In 2008, just as the nation slipped into the Great Recession, the inconsistencies in the family story sent me in search of my great-grandfather.
I was working part-time at home and taking care of my two girls, 2 and 6. That part-time work turned out to be vulnerable in the economic collapse: My job was cut back. I had time on my hands. On a rainy Sunday in late September, I ignored the headlines about Lehman Bros. and looked up Roy's name in the New York Times archives, instead.
Former Lawyer and Customs Inspector Lies Down on Track
Elizabeth, N.J., April 12.
Roy L. Humphrey, 41 years old, a former Washington, D.C., lawyer and for the last five years an inspector in the United States Customs Service, stationed at the Barge Office in Manhattan, was killed instantly when struck by a Philadelphia-New York express train at the Pennsylvania Railroad station here today. The accident delayed service on the east-bound tracks for about ten minutes.
Witnesses, according to police, said Mr. Humphrey stepped from the station platform and lay down on the tracks as the express approached the depot.
The victim was born in Washington and attended Georgetown University. He was a graduate of the National Law School in Washington and practiced in that city for some time. Surviving are his mother, Mrs. Katherine K. Humphrey, his widow, Mrs. Frances Humphrey, and a daughter, Nancy T. Humphrey.
I attached the clipping to an email I sent to Roy's grandchildren and great-grandchildren, 13 people in all. What kind of anger could lead to an act by which he had forced someone else – the train engineer – to be complicit in his death?
As I began to look deeper into the story, I carried a couple of assumptions with me. First, I assumed there were likely to have been previous suicide attempts. Second, that Roy's suicide was linked to the economy. Neither assumption is correct enough, as I learned by talking to Alan Berman, the executive director of the American Association of Suicidology. People see being suicidal as a long-term state of mind, but most people who survive a suicide attempt do not later die by suicide. Being suicidal is better understood not as a permanent state but as an acute mental crisis. In the cases of public suicides the people committing the act are probably in the grip of magical thinking.
"They think, 'I will get attention in a world where I am feeling not attended'. What becomes magical is that they are dead; they will never feel attended," Berman said.
An article I read brought this point home. The handful of people who survived the leap from the Golden Gate Bridge told interviewers that as soon as their feet left the bridge, they regretted the act.
My second assumption, that "the economy," had somehow triggered Roy's act, was not specific or concrete enough. When it comes to understanding suicide (or maybe anything), specificity is important. "If we can figure out that which five or six pathways lead to suicide, we can interrupt the pathway," explained Berman.
Detailed studies of individual cases, or "psychological autopsies," might help researchers draw conclusions about causes, but autopsies have not been done in large enough volume. So correlations are the best we can do, but they need to be as specific as possible. Suicide is not strongly correlated to the economy, but to unemployment. In the modern era, for every 1 percent increase in the unemployment rate, there has typically been an increase of about 1 percent in the number of suicides, according to Steve Stack, a professor at Wayne State University.
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Still not got the HP Fibre Module, the mrs is getting a bit grumpy not having her crimbo present, ah well.
Received my copy of Modern Warfare 3. Thanks a lot! Haven't had time to play it over the Christmas period but shortly I will! Happy New Year!
Still not got the HP Fibre Module, the mrs is getting a bit grumpy not having her crimbo present, ah well.
Not recieved anything - any chance CP LTD could inbox me to confirm postal address
I'm waiting for my mystery box...a boat is a boat but the mystery box could be anything, even a boat!
lol...well anything is better than nothing!! lol
Good afternoon,
The remaining prizes should all be with you this week.......please contain your excitement!
@nephilim and @mac_shinobi could you PM your FULL postal address as we were sadly lacking this first time around.
@teejay - Yours will be with you by Friday this week.
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Yes mine has arrived I'm sure the IDE Cable, sata power converter cable and the SATA cable will come in very handy
I got a Ram stick earlier! Cheers although not mentioned above?
Wow! Got in this morning to find a lovely mysterious parcel on my desk .... opened it up to find pens, a memory stick and a box of chocs. Thank you very much, and I will attempt to rein in my excitement about the mini-Sharpie pen, which has made my day!
I forgot about this... I still haven't got anything.
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