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President Obama announced that Stacey Plummer (Math) and Angela Gospodarek (Science) have been selected as the 2009 Presidential Award for Excellence in Mathematics and Science Teaching (PAEMST) recipients. The winners are selected by a panel of distinguished scientists, mathematicians, and educators following an initial selection process done at the state level. Each year the award alternates between mathematics and science teachers teaching Kindergarten through 6th grade, and those teaching 7th through 12th grades.
Winners of this Presidential honor receive a $10,000 award from the National Science Foundation to be used at their discretion. They also receive an expenses-paid trip to Washington, D.C. for an awards ceremony and several days of educational and celebratory events, including visits with members of Congress and science agency leaders. Ms. Plummer and Ms. Gospodarek will receive their awards in Washington, D.C. later this year.
The educators receiving these awards are recognized for significantly improving their students' understanding of mathematics and science, for exemplary teaching, and for demonstrating educational goals that help them maintain positions of professional leadership.
"New Hampshire is fortunate to be taking part in the Presidential Awards for Excellence in Mathematics and Science Teaching program. "These awards provide recognition to exceptional New Hampshire teachers who are furthering leadership in education," said Virginia M. Barry, Ph.D., Commissioner of Education. "The Department of Education hopes that by recognizing the state's many excellent educators, it will encourage more people to consider a career in education, and this award provides positive examples for pupils and peers alike."
The Presidential Awards program was established in 1983 to identify outstanding teachers who can serve as role models for their colleagues. The goal of the program is to encourage highly capable individuals to enter and remain in the teaching field.
Nominations for this award at the state level come from the teachers' colleagues, administrators, students, parents of students, and other community members. To be eligible, a teacher must spend half of his or her time or more in a public or private school, and have a minimum of five years teaching experience. Nominations for teachers of grades 7-12 will open in fall 2010.
The Department of Education administers and presents awards to recognize excellence in education with the goal of building a network that will enable others to use their expertise. For more information about other awards administered through the Department of Education, visit www.education.nh.gov/recognition/index.htm or contact Lori Temple, Public Information Officer (firstname.lastname@example.com).
Angela Gospodarek
Angela Gospodarek has taught seventh grade Life Science at Iber Holmes Gove Middle School in Raymond for seven years. Previously, following a dream to be a biologist, she spent a number of years as a marine scientist and regularly interacted with the public through outreach programs. She soon learned she was an effective communicator and loved to educate children, so she decided to change her career and bring her wonder and love of science to the classroom.
Angela is dedicated to a teaching style that encourages students to discover science through hands-on experience. Angela's classroom is a unique mix of "critter" tanks and technology. Students in her class thrive on diverse opportunities, such as wading through chest-high water to collect fish, caring for exotic lizards, dissecting specimens such as squid, and preparing presentations on interactive whiteboards.
In the animal adaptation PAEMST lesson Angela displayed a great example of teaching a process skill, using a scientific tool such as a dichotomous key, and mastering skills including hypothesis testing. The lab activity was very hands-on for the students and allowed them to use various science skills to identify, observe, compare and contrast the various animal pairs.
Angela shares her knowledge through after-school workshops that are attended by teachers throughout the district. She is a member of the Technology Committee and a grade-level leader.
Angela has a B.S. in Marine Biology with a minor in Chemistry from the University of North Carolina at Wilmington and an M.S. in Ecology from the University of Connecticut. She is certified in middle school and high school biology.
Stacey Plummer
Stacey Plummer has taught high school mathematics for 16 years and has spent the past 11 years teaching most of the courses offered by the Mathematics Department at Hollis Brookline High School at a variety of levels. She currently teaches Accelerated Geometry to 9th & 10th grade students and Consumer Math and College Calculus to12th grade students and she also taught a variety of math classes at Merrimack High School from 1994-1999.
As advisor to the state championship Math Team, Stacey has fostered students' passion for and curiosity about mathematics.
Stacey's PAEMST application video was focused on the difficult concept of teaching and strengthening problem solving skills in Geometry through the exploration of areas of polygons and solids. Stacey presented her students with a complex problem that needed to be solved and gave them time to discuss their ideas about what they were seeing and strategies that they could use to solve the problem of how much paint was needed to paint the odd-shaped barn. The students quickly identified the geometric classification of the barn and worked diligently to develop a dissection strategy to come up with the correct answer.
Stacey is also committed to developing innovative lessons focused on problem solving and using a variety of technologies. She offers workshops to her colleagues to help advance their technological skills, and she enjoys mentoring student teachers.
Stacey has served on many committees, including the principal's Faculty Council, charged with suggesting policy changes to the school administration, and the Instructional Practices Committee, charged with investigating best practices in school design.
Stacey is a member of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Network of Educators in Science and Technology, New Hampshire Teachers of Mathematics, and National Council of Teachers of Mathematics.
Stacey received a Bachelor of Arts degree in Mathematics from the University of Rochester and a Master of Science in Mathematics for Teachers degree from the University of New Hampshire – Durham. She is certified in secondary mathematics.


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Coffee is king in Costa Rica—and of the nearly 150,000 large and small coffee fincas (plantations) that dot the Costa Rican landscape (most in the Central Valley), Café Britt is the best place to learn about it. The property runs 1.5-hour tours with bilingual guides ($30 per person, including lunch) who take you through the farm and explain growing processes and the history of coffee production in Costa Rica. (An optional hour-long tour, which takes in the coffee processing plant, can be added on.) These excursions are a must for coffee aficionados, history buffs, and anyone interested in what makes this country tick.
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I still need to add pictures and accessories and haven't shopped my junk pile yet. If you want to see more at my blog if you want to click on the link. |
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- Posted by shades_of_idaho (My Page) on Mon, May 31, 10 at 11:24
OH it is lovely and I would love to see more but can not find the link to click?? Chris |
Wow, you did such a great job with your bathroom. There is such a huge difference between the cabinet colors. And that floor! Did you say that was a tile border above the beadboard? |
Oops, sorry, I forgot to put a link to it. My blog I guess I wasn't clear on that border. No, it's not tile. We were going to do that when we tiled the counter, but when we scrapped that plan, it just never got done. I had some chair rail with the cut out to fit over paneling, and I bought some more trim that was really similar in style but was flat to the wall. Then I found a fancy piece of trim that just fit the space between them so it was all the same size as the backsplace, and then stained it all to match the cabinets. |
- Posted by moccasinlanding (My Page) on Mon, May 31, 10 at 20:19
Neat, Marti! You never know where a simple project will take you. One thing leads to another and another and..... You were fortunate to keep it all in your bathroom. Your remark about getting used to the toilet in the bedroom, I totally know what you mean! Up north, DH had the 17 long boxes of Bellawood in the corner of the family room getting adjusted to the atmosphere--I forget what he called it--for TWO YEARS before he finally started laying the floor. I just decorated and cleaned around it. And I moved it several times too. Right now, my back bedroom/future master, has the contents of the two closets I tore out when I demoed the old bathroom....plus every closet in the house. sigh....and now I can go no further until the contractor decides to show up. My beloved new clawfoot tub sits in the back yard where countless afternoon thunderstorms are collapsing its protective shipping crate. I may have to drag it indoors all by myself very soon. I know I could walk around it just as well as I could around all these plastic totes. Back to watching the HOARDERS marathon on A&E... :) |
- Posted by shades_of_idaho (My Page) on Tue, Jun 1, 10 at 0:14
OH Marti your bath and blog are great!! I really like the look you creates.. Looks so calm in there. I really like the tile on an angle on the floor. I think that was a really good call. Chris |
Thank you all. ML, don't even think of moving that tub by yourself. Get some help or you'll be in traction. We've had boxes of tile stacked in the kitchen for 10+ years before I finally decided we were never going to do the addition and I moved it to the garage. Now it finally looks like we are going to do the addition. I put a table cloth over it and acted like it was normal for a long time. lol I was just thinking of that tv show Hoarders last night when I was giving myself a pep talk about going to mom's. She's got cable, I'll see if I can get her to watch it. |
marti8a, the bathroom came out great! I need to redo mine too, but I think that is way above my head, I don't want to mess with plumbing! |
- Posted by moccasinlanding (My Page) on Tue, Jun 1, 10 at 15:22
Marti, A&E had a HOARDERS MARATHON yesterday, ending with a new episode at the normal program time last night. But I was maxxed out before that hour, and watched Mike Holmes HOLMES ON HOMES who was correcting problems for a homeowner in a place which reminds me of SHADES OF IDAHO's property, only they had more neighbors. That was HGTV of course. Then I ended the day with a couple of hours browsing through the IKEA printed KITCHEN CATALOG for 2009. I spend more time in my redone bedroom since it looks better and thus more comfortable. This back bedroom where the computer sits is a disaster area, and not inspirational at all. Marti, put a star beside your name! Your finished bathroom is a credit to your persistance. And of course to your homemaking skill as well. Love it, and your blog too. |
- Posted by mama_goose (My Page) on Tue, Jun 1, 10 at 18:35
Hi, Marti8a, your bathroom looks great. I love the beadboard and trim. I've had boxes of tile sitting in our master bathroom for a year. Looks as if it's going to be there another year... Oh, love the Hoarders show--makes me feel better about myself. :) |
- Posted by prairie-girl (My Page) on Tue, Jun 1, 10 at 21:22
O, very nice job Marti! I had to LOL at this ... ~ Missy |
- Posted by trancegemini_wa (My Page) on Tue, Jun 1, 10 at 23:22
marti your bathroom looks great! the new vanity top and tiles look so nice compared to what was there and I love the wood framed mirror! all those little details (as time consuming as they are) make all the difference. It's really brought the bathroom together. |
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New museum exhibit explores history, culture of Cuba
Visitors to the Sonoma Valley Museum of Art will find themselves transported to Cuba, with a new exhibit showcasing the Sarah and Darius Anderson collection.
"Revolutionary Island: Tales of Cuban History and Culture" opens with a members' preview at 5 p.m. Friday, Jan. 18. The public can view the exhibit from Saturday, Jan. 19, through March 24, with several special programs planned.
"Nothing in Cuba is what it appears," says Darius Anderson, who has made numerous visits to the island during the past 25-plus years.
"Its history includes stories of great riches, heartbreaking poverty, battling ideologies, respect and love of the arts," he says. "Most importantly, it is a history that is steeped in sugar, rum, tobacco and baseball – all my favorite vices."
The exhibit includes paintings, sculptures, humidors and more. It features the work of such notable Cuban artists as Rene Francisco, Esterio Segura and Ruben Alpizar, and musician Carlos Valera.
The following are among the special events planned during the exhibition:
"Revolutionary Island Artist Roundtable" at 2 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 19, with some of today's most significant Cuban artists discussing the art, people and culture of their country with collector Darius Anderson. The fee is $20.
"Art, Baseball, Rum, Tobacco and other Vices" at 2 p.m. Jan. 26, with Sarah and Darius Anderson sharing their passion for all things Cuban. They'll discuss their life as art collectors in a conversation with Kate Eilertsen, the museum's executive director. The fee is $12.
"An Afternoon with Teofilo Ruiz" at 2 p.m. March 23. Ruiz, a Cuban UCLA history professor and recent recipient of the National Humanities Medal, will discuss his involvement in the Cuban Revolution, his imprisonment and subsequent release after the Bay of Pigs invasion and his journey to Miami. The fee is $20.
The museum is located at 551 Broadway, one block south of Sonoma Plaza. Hours are 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Wednesday-Sunday.
Admission is $5 general, free to museum members and students 18 and younger. Admission is free on Wednesdays.
For more information, visit svma.org or call 939-7862.


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SALT LAKE CITY (AP) - Authorities in southern Utah say they averted a potential deadly road trip after arresting a bus driver for DUI just before he was to take a group of recent high school graduates to Disneyland.
Brandon Gillman was booked into the Iron County Jail Thursday night on suspicion of possession of a controlled substance and driving under the influence. He remained jailed Friday. No telephone number was listed for the 30-year-old, and it wasn't immediately clear if he had an attorney.
Cedar City police Lt. Darin Adams says the officer went to the scene to screen students' bags for drugs when the K-9 alerted on Gillman's backpack. Adams says they found prescription pills and what is believed to be cocaine.
The roughly 100 students set off to Disneyland later with a new driver.
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Cantata No. 44 'Sie werden euch in den Bann tun' : Work information
- Composers
- Johann Sebastian Bach ( Music, Images,)
- Performed by
- Bach-Collegium Stuttgart, Helmuth Rilling (Conductor)
This work
- Work name
- Cantata No. 44 'Sie werden euch in den Bann tun'
- Work number
- Key
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- Genre
- Composed
- 1724-01-01 02:00:00
This recording
- Label
- Hänssler
- Producer
- Richard Hauck
- Engineer
- Richard Hauck
- Recording date
- 1979-02-01 01:00:00
The Composers
Johann Sebastian Bach
One of the greatest composers in history, Johann Sebastian Bach (father of C.P.E, J. C. and W. F. Bach) was by far the most significant member of the Bach dynasty of musicians.
He outshone his forebears and contemporaries, but did not always receive the respect he deserved in his own lifetime. After a brief engagement as a violinist in the court of Weimar, Bach became organist at the Neukirche in Arnstadt. In June 1707 he moved to St. Blasius, Mühlhausen, and married his cousin Maria Barbara Bach. In 1708 he was appointed court organist in Weimar where he composed most of his works for organ. In 1717, he was appointed Court Kapellmeister to the young Prince Leopold at Cöthen, but was refused permission to leave Weimar. The Duke only allowed Bach to go after holding him prisoner for nearly a month.
While at Weimar, Bach wrote his violin concertos and the six Brandenburg Concertos, as well as several suites, sonatas and keyboard works, including several, such as the Inventions and Book I of the 48 Preludes and Fugues (The Well-tempered Clavier). In 1720 Maria Barbara died, and the next year Bach married Anna Magdalena Wilcke. Bach resigned the post in Weimar in 1723 to become cantor at St. Thomas' School in Leipzig where he was responsible for music in the four main churches of the city. Here he wrote the Magnificat and the St. John and St. Matthew Passions, as well as a large quantity of other church music. In Leipzig he eventually took charge of the University "Collegium Musicum" and occupied himself with the collection and publication of many of his earlier compositions.
Over the years that followed, Bach's interest in composing church music declined somewhat, and he took to writing more keyboard music and cantatas. As his eyesight began to fail, he underwent operations to try and correct the problem, and these may have weakened him in his old age. He died at age 65, having fathered a total of 20 children with his two wives. Despite widespread neglect for almost a century after his death, Bach is now regarded as one of the greatest of all composers and is still an inexhaustible source of inspiration for musicians. Bach's compositions are catalogued by means of the prefix BWV (Bach-Werke-Verzeichnis) and a numbering system which is generally accepted for convenience of reference.
Related Composers: Pachelbel, Telemann, Handel, Couperin
Also influenced: Mendelssohn, Brahms, Stravinsky, Hindemith
Track listing
- Duet: 'Sie werden euch in den Bann tun' 2:24 min
- Chorus: 'Es kömmt aber die Zeit' 2:02 min
- Aria: 'Christen müssen auf der Erden' 4:16 min
- Chorale: 'Ach Gott, wie manches Herzeleid' 1:35 min
- Recit: 'Es sucht der Antichrist' 0:58 min
- Aria: 'Es ist und bleibt der Christen Trost' 5:01 min
- Chorale: 'So sei nun, Seele, deine' 1:03 min


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Well, I have good news and bad news.
Let's get the bad news out of the way first...My first batch of lactofermented, salt-brined pickles was a fail. Boooo!
I suspected from the start that the pickles might be a little, um, unusual. Dill, the requisite herb for cucumber pickles, wasn't in the pantry, so I ended up using a hodge-podgy assortment of other herbs and spices instead. I also didn't have any tannin-rich leaves (grape, oak, horseradish, etc), which are they key, I've read, to keeping brined pickles crisp. I was not off to the most auspicious start - but I did have a pile of fresh kirby cukes and an overly exuberant urge to get started on the pickle making, so I decided to make a go of it anyway.
I checked the pickles each day, made sure they were completely submerged in the brine, and skimmed off any foam that formed on the surface. On day 5, I tasted them. They were slightly sour - getting there maybe? - but they were just blah. Their crunch was gone, and they were lacking flavor. Probably could have let them go a few more days to see if additional fermentation would have improved the flavor, but really, I thought by then I would have two jars of pickled mush on the counter. So I chucked the pickles, taking comfort in Sandorkraut's admission that his first batch of sour pickles didn't yield stellar results, either, and decided to try again another time.
On to the good news: I've had pickle success with a much-more-cooperative vinegared refrigerator pickle recipe. And I now have two pints of totally addictive, crisp, sweet and tangy pattypan squash pickles in the fridge, ready at any moment to toss into a salad, nibble beside a burger, or eat straight out of the jar.
On to the good news: I've had pickle success with a much-more-cooperative vinegared refrigerator pickle recipe. And I now have two pints of totally addictive, crisp, sweet and tangy pattypan squash pickles in the fridge, ready at any moment to toss into a salad, nibble beside a burger, or eat straight out of the jar.
Pattypan squash has been one of my favorite greenmarket treats this summer -- I don't think a week has gone by when I don't return home with some of these little guys in my bag. I've been getting my fix from Lani's Farm, in Bordentown, NJ -- their pattypans are hands-down the best I've ever tasted. Harvested small, they are firm-fleshed, dense, and crisp when raw, with a scant amount of tiny, tender seeds -- the epitome of summer squash perfection. Mostly I've been slicing them thinly and caramelizing them in a blend of butter and olive oil in a cast-iron skillet, along with leeks, sweet corn, baby eggplants, and any other summery things I happen to have around. They hold up well in the pan, becoming tender but retaining some of their firmness, delicately flavored and sweet.
When I spotted the recipe for zucchini pickles in my newly acquired copy of The Zuni Cafe Cookbook, by Judy Rodgers (I know, I know, I'm about 8 years behind on this one - but better late than never!), I knew just what to do with my latest bunch of pattypans. (And I think these scrumptious-looking zucchini pickles also inspired me!) The technique for Zuni's pickles is simple as can be: while thinly sliced zucchini and onions soak in an ice-cold brine, simmer up a pickling liquid with apple cider vinegar, sugar, dry mustard and mustard seeds, and turmeric. Drain the vegetables, combine them with the cooled vinegar mixture, and refrigerate. In about a day you'll have delicious, crisp, and vibrantly golden-hued pickles. Pretty no-fail. They'll keep for a long time, too.
And not to worry - my love for these vinegar pickles has not dissuaded me from experimenting with the powers of wild fermentation. In fact, I've already started a couple of new batches: two jars of brined cukes with dill, mustard seeds, garlic, and fresh jalapeno, and another jar with the same mixture plus an oak leaf. (Until my search for oak leaves began, I never noticed how high up the branches start on an oak tree's trunk! K and I foraged some in Central Park on Saturday, when we finally found a tree with reachable leaves. He picked a few perfect specimens for me. It was an exciting moment.) The no-oak-leaf pickles are on day 5, the with-oak-leaf pickles are on day 3. I'll be reporting on these later this week. Fingers crossed!
I'm also making lactofermented ketchup. In fact, with all the pickle and ketchup jars lined up on my kitchen counter right now, it's starting to look like I'm opening a a mickie D's for fermentation fetishists....
sweet and tangy pattypan pickles, from The Zuni Cafe Cookbook
Makes about 2 pints
1 pound pattypan squash (or other variety of summer squash)
1 small onion
2 Tbsp sea salt (if using kosher salt, use a little more than 2 Tbsp)
2 cups apple cider vinegar
1 cup sugar (I used turbinado)
1-1/2 tsp ground yellow (dry) mustard
1-1/2 tsp yellow or brown mustard seeds, lightly crushed
1 tsp turmeric
- Thinly slice the squash using a knife or mandolin. In order to keep the pretty scalloped edges of the pattypans, I halved the pattypans lengthwise (along the stem-to-stem axis), then sliced very thinly with crosswise cuts (at a right angle from the stem-to-stem axis). Judy says the slices should be about 1/16th of an inch - some of mine were a bit thicker than that.
- Halve the onion and slice thinly (I made saute slices - first cut lengthwise along the root-to-stem axis, then thinly slice each half making cuts that are parallel to that axis).
- Combine the squash and onion slices in a large, shallow bowl. Add salt and toss to combine. Then add cold water, just to cover the vegetables, and a few ice cubes. Allow to sit for about an hour, until the squash is firm-tender and pleasantly salty.
- While the squash and onion soak, combine the vinegar, sugar, ground mustard and mustard seeds in a saucepan. Bring to a boil, reduce heat, and simmer for 3 to 5 minutes. Cool the liquid until it's just slightly warm before pouring it over the vegetables (if hot it will cook them and make them flabby).
- Drain the squash and onions, drying them well with paper towels or spinning them, a few handfuls at a time, in a salad spinner. Return them to the bowl and pour the just-warm pickling liquid over them, and stir to combine.
- Transfer pickles to a glass jar (or jars) and pour the brine over them, making sure the pickles are completely covered and leaving about 1 inch of space betwen the brine and the top of the jar. (I used 2 pint-sized Ball jars with "shoulders" to help keep the pickles submerged in the liquid). Cover tightly and refrigerate, allowing to marinate for about a day before eating. According to Judy, they'll keep indefinitely in the fridge.


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106 Commonwealth Government to Lord Caldecote, U.K. Secretary of State for Dominion Affairs
Cablegram 4717 September 1940,
We have given consideration to position in the Middle East and possible developments in the Mediterranean area.
While recognising that under no considerations [1] should the defences of the British Isles themselves be depleted and that the first consideration must be to ensure impregnability of homeland, nevertheless we feel strongly that whole Empire position would be endangered should our forces be driven from Middle East and control lost in Mediterranean.
The loss of Egypt and Palestine would destroy our prestige and imperil our diplomatic bargaining powers. It would also counteract results already achieved in defeating German thrusts at the United Kingdom.
In addition it would probably necessitate withdrawal of the fleet from the Eastern Mediterranean and would reduce the Western blockade to a point of ineffectiveness.
The door would be open for the enemy to attack Kenya and in fact the whole of Africa and they would have access to the oil fields of Iraq and Iran.
The implications of such a success would stimulate the activities of the anti-British parties in Japan and encourage them in any fresh adventure.
While we recognise the Italian advance in Somaliland has been counterbalanced by British Defence of United Kingdom and in particular of R.A.F. successes both in defence and offence, we feel that our favourable position could not be sustained if any severe blow was inflicted in Middle East. We cannot stress too strongly the importance we attach to the holding of this area and urge that a maximum effort should be made there compatible with the safety of the United Kingdom. [2]


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For 2013, the NE Board's Youth and Junior Development Workgroup will support a regional team to compete in the Tour of Wales 24th August to 26th August 2013. For more info see website
This is a challenging and prestigious event requiring support, team structure and the very highest of commitment and current ability from the selected riders. To be considered for this, riders should fit the following criteria:
All riders considered for selection must be Juniors and hold a valid British Cycling racing licence which registers the rider in the North East. Riders will be considered against the following results, in order:
Financial support for the team will be decided by the 24th June and advised to riders shortly thereafter.
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Final poster for 'The Amazing Spider-Man' knows its audience
All you need to pull in the crowd is an iconic image.
Is it just me or between the hype of excellent looking summer films like The Avengers, Prometheus and Dark Knight Rises, The Amazing Spider-Man just doesn't look as appealing anymore? I mean sure, the new trailer looked good and it's a darker take on the property but that doesn't change the fact that it's a rehash of the first film and fails to offer any novelty when so many other summer films are a first of their kind or sequels to films we actually want to see sequels for. But Sony knows how to sell their goods and here's the final poster for the film which does more than enough to convince the audience to buy the ticket.
It's a slick looking poster for sure and puts Spider-Man dead in the center looking grittier than the more colorful posters of the Sam Raimi film. The gash doesn't look realistic at all but I guess it goes to re-inforce the grit even more. But at the same time, it almost feels like a poster that could have been from the Sam Raimi movies. Nothing much that differentiates it from the previous films, but then again how different can you make what is essentially a different re-telling of the same Spider-Man story?
Imagining this on billboards and outside cinemas makes me believe it'll do wonders to pull in the audience though.
What do you think?
Director: Marc Webb
Genre: Action, Adventure, Fantasy
Language: English
Certification: PG13


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A Charming Hamptons Makeover
A designer's house in the Hamptons is as easy as it is chic
By David Colman
"This place has a certain sense of intimacy, which is one of the things I like about it," he says. "It's very manageable, and I tried to keep it that way." He put up ceiling moldings to echo the baseboards and stained all the floors a deep, dark brown. He painted the living and dining rooms pale pink, one bedroom green, one blue, and a third—his own—a moody lavender-gray. In the kitchen, he painted the floor as a big checkerboard, kept the beadboard cabinets and travertine counters, and painted the walls his own ideal white (a cocktail perfected on countless jobs). And, in keeping with his Mission: Possible goal, the charming mix of furnishings is very similar to that in his Manhattan apartment. Twentieth-century artworks and furniture (a suite of Harvey Probber chairs, a Lucite table by Plexi-Craft Whealon designed) are juxtaposed with a Victorian mirrored console, Bridgewater sofas, and a suite of Giuseppe Penone botanical prints. And a surprising number of summery basics, such as the chaise longues around the pool, came from good old Restoration Hardware. Probably the easiest part of decorating was merely emptying his storage unit, which was full of carpets, artworks, and furniture—a pair of chests in the living room, the kilims in the bedrooms—ready and waiting. (That's not cheating—it's thinking ahead.)
Speaking of shortcuts, to get a jump start on the garden, he brought in landscape designer Vickie Cardaro, who planted a hedge of privet and raised beds of flowers and vegetables, ideal for Whealon to vent his weekend-gardener urges upon. And it's in the garden, whether alone with a book or sharing a bottle of rosé with friends, that Whealon enjoys the place best. "I don't really go to the Hamptons to socialize. I like to sit outside and not think about anything," he says. "Just appreciate the ocean light and the air."
All of it so easy to get to, deal with, and care for—if that isn't a dream house, what is?
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I can't believe I haven't read more about Alli on this forum. My DH asked me to buy this for him because he wants to "get serious" about losing 30-40lbs.
I am going to get it for him at Costco buy I am a little bit afraid. I don't think he has a very good knowledge of nutrition and fat content so I hope this does not back fire on him! He really lacks willpower and he thinks this will really keep him in line with eating. |
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- Posted by kellyleeann (My Page) on Tue, Mar 4, 08 at 10:38
Although this has worked for many people, I would encourage you to talk to someone face to face about the real side effects of this drug, if you have not done so. I took the pill back when it was perscribed by a MD and let me tell you that even though I followed a very low fat diet and stuck with a plan I could not deal with the side effects. Its not pretty and if you can get past that Im sure you will see great results. But be warned if you stray from your low fat diet (even slightly) you will be remined very quickly. I think the reason there is not alot of talk about this weight loss route is plain and simple. The side effects are not worth it, to me they are not. IMHO Good luck with your weight loss journey! |
- Posted by groomingal (My Page) on Tue, Mar 4, 08 at 23:10
kellyleeann- you are so right. When this first came out as a prescription a friend of mine tried it- I will never forget what she had to say about it.."Yeah it works- you build up a fear of eating out of fear of messing your pants in public places." Needless to say she didn't stay with it and I had no desire to try it. |
- Posted by milkdud_2007 (My Page) on Wed, Mar 5, 08 at 9:17
I've used it, and it's as bad as reported above. It also doesn't help that much either. The risks just aren't worth it. |
Well, not to worry. It is still sitting unopened since I bought it for DH. I guess he is all talk, no action. |
- Posted by scarlett2001 (My Page) on Fri, May 9, 08 at 13:36
Just another overly expensive and pretty much worthless diet gimmick. If you look at the studies, people who used this faithfully did not lose serious weight anyway. There is no magic bullet, much as we all wish... |
A friend of mine went to some kind of weight guru who put her on the prescription strength Alli and an appetite suppressant. It seemed to give her the motivation to kick start a healthier lifestyle, but I haven't talked to her in a while, so I don't know how she's doing now. I asked my doctor about it, because I have gained a good bit of weight, and he refused to prescribe it to me. He said that it is a temporary fix (with those nasty side effects) and that any weight loss was guaranteed to come back. Like Scarlett and my doctor said, there is no magic bullet.....darn it. |
- Posted by ruthieg__tx (My Page) on Sun, May 18, 08 at 8:58
If you follow a low fat, healthy diet, you won't have any side effects...but if you do low fat and healthy, the pills are totally worthless because you don't need them. I bought one bottle...used everyone of them and never had one side effect but I never ever came anywhere close to over eating my fat allowance...I am always mindful of the fat because I have cholesterol issues...I feel like I just threw away all that money... |
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Meet your 2012 Denver #WebAwards winners
In this stark and jarring video, director Dillon Novak perfectly captures the ragged energy of the Epilogues. Everything is here: a damsel in distress, blood, shadowy figures -- even an abandoned house. Shots of the band playing wildly are paralleled with a scary-movie chase scene, culminating in an ending that looks as though it could lead to a sequel. Fingers crossed.
Best DJ or Producer on Social Media: Ben Samples
Between traveling to play gigs at some of the country's most notable venues and hanging out around Denver on random nights to see the talent that comes through, Ben Samples doesn't shut up on the Twitter tip. Through social observations, backstage self-portraits, reports of late-night hijinks and other humorous anecdotes and quips, Samples lets you know what he's thinking when he's thinking it. And his response to followers' random questions and commentary keeps the conversation consistent and interesting. As far as we know, he's also the first person on the Internet to use "Lindsay Lohan" as a verb.
Best Booze Blog: Fermentedly Challenged
Colorado's craft beer scene has exploded in the past five years -- not just with new breweries, but also with people who write about beer. It wasn't like that in 2007, though, when Dave Butler, a work-from-home IT engineer, started reviewing beers, listing beer festivals and covering the industry. Since that time, Fermentedly Challenged has grown in the size and scope of its coverage, as well as in the world of social media, where brewers have found a receptive audience. Although Butler lives in Greeley, his news and reviews, his musings and his passion criss-cross the entire suds-soaked state.
Best Food Blog: GraceFullPlate.com
The blogosphere is full of food writers, some of whom, like Grace Boyle -- a Boulder-based blogger whose expressive food-induced documentations cover everything from culinary excursions and restaurant reviews to recipes and top-ten lists -- make you want to mouse-click through just about every charm-filled post. Empty of excess calories, Boyle's blog is approachable and easy to digest, and she's good with the camera, too, shooting a smorgasbord of photos that tell the story of her experiences. She calls food her "first love," and her blog gracefully chronicles that passion.
Best Restaurant Website: TAG
TAG's website is everything a restaurant show page should be. Splashed with a gallery of stunning photos that highlight chef-owner Troy Guard's equally exquisite Asian cuisine, it includes contact information that's not buried in the hinterlands, a consistently updated menu with current pricing, and a blog that focuses on different features, including wine and Guard's rooftop garden. Best of all, it's a breeze to navigate and includes a comprehensive month-by-month guide of the restaurant's events.
Best Eater on Twitter : Sarah Gore
Foodnik-around-town Sarah Gore has that tweet thing down to a super-savvy science, keystroking 140 characters multiple times a day. With 20,406 tweets to her name, she's a restaurant cheerleader, a chef's dream customer, a consumer advocate of manners and etiquette, an in-the-know, and a go-to source for insider gossip. Even better, she almost always posts a food-porn photo (or two) to go with her words. And while tweeting isn't her day job, she always manages to find the time to re-tweet the restaurant world's most salient stories, and she's not shy about dispensing kudos to her growing legion of followers.
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Dream Team transfer window
AS the rest of the country struggles against the recession, the Premier League clubs have flexed their financial muscle by smashing the January transfer window record, spending £160m between them.
Even Monsieur Wenger has loosened his purse strings to splash the cash, bringing in a new face to the Premier League in the shape of Russia's Euro 2008 hero Andrey Arshavin (Ars £4.5m). Seems like a small creative player is exactly what the doctor ordered for the Gunners¿ or maybe not¿ but the lad's a class act and will expect to really shine in Wenger's classy set-up, as well as hopefully weighing in with more than his fair share of goals to help them wrestle that coveted fourth place spot back from Aston Villa.


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At Big Papa's, there's no grizzled old papa standing watch over a hickory fire in the back parking lot, tending to his pit with a poking stick and trusting only his innate sense of when done is done. Although both the East Evans location, which is nearly a year old, and the new kid in Ken Caryl are little storefront outfits, they run more like fast-food factories, keeping things moving quickly, almost cafeteria style, with rarely more than ten minutes going by from the moment you order to the moment you begin eating. With barbecue, this speed is made possible only by the intelligent application of technology and mass-production methods. As you stand at the counter, you can see the big stainless-steel smokers in the back, can see guys loading and pulling trays of meat all day, every day. The ribs, the brisket, the chicken and turkey breasts and link sausage get ten, twelve, fourteen hours of straight hickory smoke before they're done, wrapped and packed away in the coolers.
By then, though, the line runs deep. I'd put a rack of Big Papa's modern, strip-mall baby-backs -- dry-rubbed, slow-smoked and technologically porkerific -- up against a traditional pit smoker's best any day. I don't believe they'd win all the time, but neither would Big Papa's embarrass itself.
Big Papa's further separates itself from the scrum of competing barbecue enterprises with its sauces, each an attempt to re-create a mop associated with one of the four centers of the American barbecue universe. There's a sweet, sticky, dark and molasses-rich Kansas City sauce that overwhelms everything it touches; a pale, South Carolina-Georgia mustard base, stingingly tart and faithful to the biting, fast-hit sharpness preferred by those eating in the middle North of the barbecue belt. The Deep South sauce is something of a cop-out, compromising regional integrity by offering a little spice, a little vinegar and a little molasses without allowing any of the elements to step forward boldly. But the tomato-and-brown-sugar Memphis mop is a dance-hall standard, all jazz and rock and roll, perfectly tuned to bring the peppery spice and tough-love sweetness into balance with the hickory smoke and natural flavors of any meat it touches. This is an artisan sauce, a beautiful blending of old Memphis sweet and new Memphis heat, and if I had access to some hospital supplies, I'd hang a bag of it from an IV rack and haul it around with me everywhere I went, dosing everything from my morning Wheaties to my midnight snacks.
6265 E. Evans Ave.
Denver, CO 80222
Category: Restaurant > Barbecue
Region: Southeast Denver
12652 W. Ken Caryl Ave.
Littleton, CO 80127
Category: Restaurant > Barbecue
Region: Southwest Denver Suburbs
5151 S. Federal Blvd.
Littleton, CO 80123
Category: Restaurant > Barbecue
Region: Southwest Denver Suburbs
Brisket po�boy: $5.99
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The one important sauce that Big Papa's is missing (and a vital provincial offshoot of traditional barbecue culture that's underrepresented everywhere outside its home, not just in Papa's kitchen) is the eastern North Carolina tidewater sauce -- the vicious vinegar-and-red-pepper concoction that makes for the greatest pork sandwiches in the world. In choosing to go with the more acceptable and universally palatable Southern mustard base as the exclusive Carolina representative of the barbecue spectrum, I think Big Papa's skipped a chance to do something truly original. And I believe that sucks.
Sauce aside, I believe that the best barbecue sandwiches come on slices of pasty-white Wonder Bread with pickles on the side, so I was concerned when Big Papa's kitchen went all froufrou on me, putting my brisket po'boy on French bread. But then I tasted it, getting a mouthful of fatty, smoky, perfectly done beef, neither too dry nor too damp nor too anything except wonderful, and fell in love. I still like my white-bread sandwiches, but now I believe that sometimes change is okay.
I believe that good barbecue requires no decor, and that the best barbecue exists despite its trappings. Which is fortunate, because there's not much to say for the dining room at the original Big Papa's. A few black-and-white prints on the walls, some framed awards, plain tables and a counter. That's it. I believe that well-tended and plainly presented 'cue could make a tin-roof shack with pine-box tables and milk-carton chairs feel like a palace, and that too much fuss makes the barbecue gods pissy.
I believe that paper plates are okay in a barbecue joint. And paper napkins. And plastic silverware. I believe that the fact that Big Papa's uses real plates (cheap and plain white, but more china than Chinet) and serves sit-down orders on plastic cafeteria trays comes dangerously close to putting on airs.
I believe that good barbecue needs sides the way good blues need rhythm, but that the sides are almost ancillary to the experience. There's only one rule: Whatever you serve, make it fresh. Have someone's mama in the back doing the 'taters and hush puppies and sweet tea, because Mama will know what she's doing -- or at least know better than some assembly-line worker bagging up potatoes for Sysco.
Big Papa's stumbles here. There's no cornbread on the menu, and what's barbecue without cornbread? Instead, I tried sweet-potato casserole that wasn't a casserole at all, but rather puréed sweet potatoes jacked up with brown sugar and served like mashers. The mashed potatoes were forgettable, the steak fries just a step up from frozen, and the hush puppies not a step up from anything -- just small, hard and as unappetizing as fried golf balls. The mac-and-cheese was fine and gooey and smoky, though, and the fried okra done as right as the hush puppies were wrong. And the barbecued beans? Made in-house from sauce and scrap and leftovers, they were so deeply down-home and wonderful, I could still taste them days later.


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Transgender Rights
Through our Transgender Rights Project, GLAD puts our legislative, litigation, and educational assets to work in a focused way to establish clear, affirmative protections for the transgender community.
Transgender Health Insurance Road Map
Steps to take when trying to get health insurance coverage for treatment of gender dysphoria.
Transgender Shelter Access
Everyone, of any gender identity or expression, has the right to be treated with respect and dignity when accessing shelter services. Read more here.
Transgender Resources
A list of resources that can help to address issues concerning transgender individuals.
Transgender Legal Issues in New England
Discusses a myriad of legal issues that may arise for transgender persons in the New England area.
- Massachusetts Birth Certificate Gender Marker Tool Kit
- Rhode Island Birth Certificate Gender Marker Tool Kit
Gender Identity Non-Discrimination Model Policy for Homeless Shelters
GLAD worked with the Lynn Emergency Shelter in Massachusetts on the following policy, which can serve as a model for other shelters in ensuring fair, equal and respectful access for transgender people.
Insurance Coverage for Transgender People in Massachusetts
Most public and private health insurance policies in Massachusetts now provide coverage for transgender-related health care, including surgery.
GLAD's Work: Covering Gender Transition-related Care for Transgender People
Ensuring access to medical care for transgender people is one of the most dynamic areas of GLAD's Transgender Right's Project's work. Having spent many years laying the necessary foundation to highlight the discriminatory nature of health insurance exclusions, the transgender community is finally reaping the rewards of that hard work. GLAD has been working throughout the New England region as well as in Washington, DC to reverse longstanding and deeply entrenched policies and laws that have resulted in the denial of insurance coverage.
Transgender Students' Use of Bathrooms and Locker Rooms
A brief discussion of the right of transgender students to use bathrooms that match their gender identity in school.
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Massachusetts' Transgender Rights Law
What you need to know about Massachusetts' transgender non-discrimination law.
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O'Donnabhain Win
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Regional Medical Center Bayonet Point Breast Cancer Support Group to Meet
November 10, 2011
Hudson, FL – Regional Medical Center Bayonet Point has announced that it will hold its regularly scheduled breast cancer support group meeting on December 6, 2011 at 6:30 pm at Regional Medical Center Bayonet Point Shoreline Café conference room - 14000 Fivay Road, Hudson, Florida 34667.
RMCBP breast cancer support group meets on the first Tuesday of every month at 6:30in the Shoreline Café conference room. This month's guest speaker is Kristine Algerre, Physical Therapist for Lymphedema at Community Hospital.
Seating is limited and reservations are advised. For more information, call Diane Gosnell at 727-378-5647.
About Regional Medical Center Bayonet Point
Regional Medical Center Bayonet has been serving the community since 1981. We are a 290-bed acute care facility located in Hudson, FL and home of the nationally acclaimed Heart Institute. We have over 350 physicians, 900 employees and 500 volunteers who comprise our integrated healthcare delivery team.
Regional Medical Center Bayonet Point has achieved distinction in the following areas:
- Certified Advanced Heart Failure - Joint Commission (1st in the State of Florida - 1/2010)
- Certified Advance Primary Stroke Center - Joint Commission
- American Heart Association 2010 Get With the Guidelines Triple Performance Award Winner
- Gold Award in Coronary Artery Disease
- Gold Plus Award in Heart Failure
- Gold Plus Award in Stroke
- American Heart Association's 2009 Stroke Silver Plus Performance Award Winner (1st in State of Florida)
- Heart & Stroke Champions Award Winner 1998 – 2010
- Wound Care and Accredited Hyperbaric Medicine
- MRI, CT, Ultrasound, and Nuclear Medicine Accredited - American College of Radiology
- Approved, with Commendation, Community Cancer Program - American College of Surgeons.
- Accredited Chest Pain Center, with PCI - Society of Chest Pain Centers.
- Designated a 100 Top Hospital seven years by Thomson Reuters
- Named twice (1999 & 2002) by U.S. News & World Report as one of America's Best Hospitals in Heart and Heart Surgery.
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Heirloom Garden
Gardener extraordinaire Amy Goldman, an aficionada of heirloom fruits and vegetables, grows more than a hundred mouthwatering varieties in her half-acre Hudson Valley plot.
By Peter Hellman
Amy Goldman was trained as a clinical psychologist, but the edible heirloom garden is her true calling. Every year, her globally gathered array of fruits and vegetables comes into its glory in two gardens on her 200-acre farm, which is nestled in the rolling uplands of New York's Hudson Valley. There's a oneacre garden, where in recent summers Goldman grew an astonishing 500 tomato varieties in preparation for her book The Heirloom Tomato (Bloomsbury, 2008). Her other garden (seen here) is more compact, at just under half an acre, but it's also more diverse in plantings. It is located just steps away from her modest 18thcentury Dutch farmhouse. Each spring, Goldman plants up to 100 different edibles in this garden, few of which will ever be found in supermarkets. Without heirloom varieties like these and the gardeners who collect their seeds for the next spring's plantings, our gardens would be sadly duller places.
Goldman is always alert to new heirloom finds. She's been known to squeeze seeds out of a special tomato in a restaurant salad into her napkin. Other seeds have come home with her from melon festivals in French villages and from squash patches in New Zealand. Apart from her own seed finds, Goldman exchanges seeds with a network of like-minded gardeners who sustain heirloom varieties ignored by big seed companies in favor of standardized hybrids. She's a director of Seed Savers Exchange, the Iowa-based repository for thousands of heirloom treasures that might otherwise have vanished.


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GIGABYTE offers a large, almost life-sized image of the Osmium on the front with things like the USB 3.0 port, the 45 grams of activation pressure of the keys, the anti-ghosting capability and the LED backlit illumination.
Under the front, on the long skinny side of the box, you find five features that are repeated down the entire length of the box in 14 total languages.
This is what you find on the smaller left side panel. This covers the company information and where is it located along with the product information for the Osmium I was sent.
The back is where you get to see a lot about the Osmium. Here the switches, ports, lighting, connections, Macro keys, scroll wheels, wrist rest, the feet, profile button, software and the keycaps are all defined and explained here.
The right side panel offers three features listed on the left with a basic specification chart to the right.
The other long panel, this one being at the top, shows the Aivia name on the left (not pictured) with the Osmium name and Mechanical Gaming Keyboard hidden with a play on flat and shiny packaging.
I have never seen a keyboard packaged so well for shipping. GIGABYTE chose to use high density foam with snug compartments for the keyboard and extra pieces found on the right. With this sort of packaging it would really take the delivery truck running over the box to cause damage, this thing can easily survive a four foot fall.


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A Mesa tire store was robbed at gunpoint at noon Monday, police said.
At least two men entered the Llantera Tire Business, 19 E. Broadway Road, and started to load unpaid merchandise into a vehicle. Several employees confronted the suspects and were met with a handgun. The robbers then fled southbound on Center.
Police said just a few minutes later one of the stolen rims was sold at Arizona Recycling Corp., 12 W. Southern Ave.
Police are looking for a dark grey Chrysler 300 with a loosely attached license plate in the back.
The suspect with the handgun is described as a bald, Hispanic male, between 25 and 37 years old. He is around 6-feet tall and weighs 280 to 310 pounds. He was wearing a grey or brown T-shirt and grey sweatpants.
The second suspect is described as a bald, 20 to 30-year-old Hispanic male, about 5-feet 7-inches tall, weighing 150 to 180 pounds. He has letter tattoos above and below his left eye.
He was wearing a grey or red T-shirt, blue shorts, with a yellow ASU lanyard hanging from the back pocket and a green lanyard hanging from his neck.


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2000 East Red Bridge Road, Post Office Box 219055
Kansas City, MO 64121
Accredited Charity
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- Did Not Disclose
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Standards For Charity Accountability
Board Oversight
Oversight of Operations and Staff: Standard 1
Organizations shall have a board of directors that provides adequate oversight of the charity's operations and its staff. Indication of adequate oversight includes, but is not limited to, regularly scheduled appraisals of the CEO's performance, evidence of disbursement controls such as board approval of the budget, fund raising practices, establishment of a conflict of interest policy, and establishment of accounting procedures sufficient to safeguard charity finances.The organization meets this standard.
Board Size
Number of Board Members: Standard 2
Soliciting organizations shall have a board of directors with a minimum of five voting members.The organization meets this standard.
Board Meetings
Frequency and Attendance of Board Meetings: Standard 3
An organization shall have a minimum of three evenly spaced meetings per year of the full governing body with a majority in attendance, with face-to-face participation. A conference call of the full board can substitute for one of the three meetings of the governing body. For all meetings, alternative modes of participation are acceptable for those with physical disabilities.The organization meets this standard.
Board Compensation
Compensated Board Members: Standard 4
Not more than one or 10% (whichever is greater) directly or indirectly compensated person(s) serving as voting member(s) of the board. Compensated members shall not serve as the board's chair or treasurer.The organization meets this standard.
Conflict of Interest
Conflict of Interest: Standard 5
No transaction(s) in which any board or staff members have material conflicting interests with the charity resulting from any relationship or business affiliation. Factors that will be considered when concluding whether or not a related party transaction constitutes a conflict of interest and if such a conflict is material, include, but are not limited to: any arm's length procedures established by the charity; the size of the transaction relative to like expenses of the charity; whether the interested party participated in the board vote on the transaction; if competitive bids were sought and whether the transaction is one-time, recurring or ongoing.The organization meets this standard.
Measuring Effectiveness
Effectiveness Policy
Board Policy on Effectiveness: Standard 6
Have a board policy of assessing, no less than every two years, the organization's performance and effectiveness and of determining future actions required to achieve its mission.The organization meets this standard.
Effectiveness Report
Board Approval of Written Report on Effectiveness: Standard 7
Submit to the organization's governing body, for its approval, a written report that outlines the results of the aforementioned performance and effectiveness assessment and recommendations for future actions.The organization meets this standard.
Program Expenses
Program Service Expense Ratio: Standard 8
Spend at least 65% of its total expenses on program activities.The organization meets this standard.
Fund Raising Expenses
Fund Raising Expense Ratio: Standard 9
Spending should be no more than 35% of related contributions on fund raising. Related contributions include donations, legacies, and other gifts received as a result of fund raising efforts.The organization meets this standard.
Accumulating Funds
Ending Net Assets: Standard 10
Avoid accumulating funds that could be used for current program activities. To meet this standard, the charity's unrestricted net assets available for use should not be more than three times the size of the past year's expenses or three times the size of the current year's budget, whichever is higher.The organization meets this standard.
Audit Report
Financial Statements: Standard 11
Make available to all, on request, complete annual financial statements prepared in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles. When total annual gross income exceeds $500,000, these statements should be audited in accordance with generally accepted auditing standards. For charities whose annual gross income is less than $500,000, a review by a certified public accountant is sufficient to meet this standard. For charities whose annual gross income is less than $250,000, an internally produced, complete financial statement is sufficient to meet this standard.The organization meets this standard.
Detailed Expense Breakdown
Detailed Functional Breakdown of Expenses: Standard 12
Include in the financial statements a breakdown of expenses (e.g., salaries, travel, postage, etc.) that shows what portion of these expenses was allocated to program, fund raising, and administrative activities. If the charity has more than one major program category, the schedule should provide a breakdown for each category.The organization meets this standard.
Accurate Expense Reporting
Accuracy of Expenses in Financial Statements: Standard 13
Accurately report the charity's expenses, including any joint cost allocations, in its financial statements. For example, audited or unaudited statements which inaccurately claim zero fund raising expenses or otherwise understate the amount a charity spends on fund raising, and/or overstate the amount it spends on programs will not meet this standard.The organization meets this standard.
Budget Plan
Budget: Standard 14
Have a board-approved annual budget for its current fiscal year, outlining projected expenses for major program activities, fund raising, and administration.The organization meets this standard.
Fund Raising & Info
Truthful Materials
Misleading Appeals: Standard 15
Have solicitations and informational materials, distributed by any means, that are accurate, truthful and not misleading, both in whole and in part. Appeals that omit a clear description of program(s) for which contributions are sought will not meet this standard. A charity should also be able to substantiate that the timing and nature of its expenditures are in accordance with what is stated, expressed, or implied in the charity's solicitations.The organization meets this standard.
Annual Report
Annual Report: Standard 16
Have an annual report available to all, on request, that includes: (a) the organization's mission statement, (b) a summary of the past year's program service accomplishments, (c) a roster of the officers and members of the board of directors, (d) financial information that includes (i) total income in the past fiscal year, (ii) expenses in the same program, fund raising and administrative categories as in the financial statements, and (iii) ending net assets.The organization meets this standard.
Website Disclosures
Web Site Disclosures: Standard 17
Include on any charity websites that solicit contributions, the same information that is recommended for annual reports, as well as the mailing address of the charity and electronic access to its most recent IRS Form 990.The organization meets this standard.
Donor Privacy
Privacy for Written Appeals & Internet Privacy: Standard 18
Address privacy concerns of donors by (a) providing in written appeals, at least annually, a means (e.g., such as a check off box) for both new and continuing donors to inform the charity if they do not want their name and address shared outside the organization, (b) providing a clear, prominent and easily accessible privacy policy on any of its websites that tells visitors (i) what information, if any, is being collected about them by the charity and how this information will be used, (ii) how to contact the charity to review personal information collected and request corrections, (iii) how to inform the charity (e.g., a check off box) that the visitor does not wish his/her personal information to be shared outside the organization, and (iv) what security measures the charity has in place to protect personal information.The organization meets this standard.
Cause Marketing Disclosures
Cause Related Marketing: Standard 19
Clearly disclose how the charity benefits from the sale of products or services (i.e., cause-related marketing) that state or imply that a charity will benefit from a consumer sale or transaction. Such promotions should disclose, at the point of solicitation: (a) the actual or anticipated portion of the purchase price that will benefit the charity (e.g., 5 cents will be contributed to abc charity for every xyz company product sold), (b) the duration of the campaign (e.g., the month of October), (c) any maximum or guaranteed minimum contribution amount (e.g., up to a maximum of $200,000).The organization meets this standard.
Complaints: Standard 20
Respond promptly to and act on complaints brought to its attention by the BBB Wise Giving Alliance and/or local Better Business Bureaus about fund raising practices, privacy policy violations and/or other issues.The organization meets this standard.
Children International meets the 20 Standards for Charity Accountability.
Child Sponsorship
According to CI, once a child is assigned to a sponsor, a current photo and a family record is mailed to the sponsor. CI's field projects collect, verify and maintain information on sponsored children in Family Records. These records, updated annually, are submitted to the Kansas City Headquarters and contain vital statistics about the child being sponsored, the child's family members and the construction of the child's home. Additionally, CI Field Projects file quarterly reports that summarize benefits the children receive using documents such as health records, nutritional status reports and signed benefit registers.
CI reports that the funds collected are used to provide goods and services for sponsored children and their families. The need for these goods and services are jointly evaluated by the Kansas City headquarters staff and field staff. Every year each Field Project develops a work plan that outlines program activities and services and material benefits that will be provided to the children over the course of the year.
To ensure efficiency and accountability, regional program staff and program officers from CI conduct annual on-site evaluations to verify that work plans are followed and that benefit programs are administered and delivered effectively. These evaluations include interviews with sponsored families, community represenatives and field staff.
Sponsor's contributions help pay for the benefits that each child receives, and are used to support programs and provide benefits primarily in the areas of health and education. Benefits, which can vary from child to child, include: annual health exams, access to medical care when ill, nutrition education and counseling, school supplies and fees, clothing, and items for the home.
Each Field Project prepares an annual budget and regular financial reports are prepared quarterly and sent to CI's headquarters for analysis and follow-up. Independent CPA firms in-country perform semi-annual financial audits on each Field Project. CI internal auditors conduct financial audits annually in each field office to ensure that the office is following all accounting procedures as established in the CI Field Project Financial Manual.
In addition to the monthly sponsorship donation CI solicits for special gifts for sponsored children. Specifically, CI requests a voluntary donation for birthdays, Christmas, Easter and Special Hug Day. Policies regarding additional gifts and correspondence between sponsors and children are outlined in CI's "Sponsorship Guidebook."
Year, State Incorporated
1951, Missouri
Stated Purpose
"to bring real and lasting change to children living in poverty."
CI aims to ease the burdens of poverty on children. Through child sponsorship, the organization reports that it delivers benefits and services that ease the difficulties of day-to-day life while preparing children to grow up more confident, self-sufficient and in possession of the skills needed to leave poverty behind. CI's programs include healthcare, education assistance, nutritional support, youth programs, community improvements, and family aid. The organization reports that it currently serves over 335,000 in 11 different countries, including Chile, Colombia, the Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Guatemala, Honduras, India, Mexico, the Philippines, the United States and Zambia.
Worldwide program services | 128,277,232 |
Total Program Expenses: | $128,277,232 |
Governance & Staff
Chief Executive
James R. Cook, President and CEO
Chair of the Board
Larry Lee
Chair's Profession / Business Affiliation
Board Size
Paid Staff Size
*October 1, 2010 - September 30, 2011 compensation includes annual salary and, if applicable, benefit plans, expense accounts, and other allowances.
Fund Raising
Method(s) Used:
Direct mail, telemarketing, television, grant proposals, Internet appeals, door to door, planned giving, and face-to-face apeals.
Fund raising costs were 11% of related contributions. (Related contributions, which totaled $156,422,279, are donations received as a result of fund raising activities.)
Tax Status
This organization is tax-exempt under section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code. It is eligible to receive contributions deductible as charitable donations for federal income tax purposes.
The following information is based on CI's audited financial statements for the fiscal year ended September 30, 2011.
Source of Funds | |
Sponsorships and contributions | 95,613,700 |
Corporate gifts and commodities | 58,889,658 |
Legacies and bequests | 1,544,433 |
Grants and other income | 374,488 |
Total Income | $156,422,279 |
- Programs: 83%
- Fundraising: 11%
- Administrative: 6%
Total Income | $156,422,279 |
Program expenses | 128,277,232 |
Fundraising expenses | $17,306,990 |
Administrative expenses | $9,545,092 |
Other expenses | $0 |
Total expenses: | $155,129,314 |
Income in Excess of Expenses | 1,292,965 |
Beginning Net Assets | 44,071,452 |
Other Changes In Net Assets | -538,167 |
Ending Net Assets | 44,826,250 |
Total Liabilities | 15,282,877 |
Total Assets | 60,109,127 |
Note 1: In the above financial section, "other changes in net assets represents net realized, unrealized loss on investments, decrease in actuarial liability for gift annuities, and decrease in value of deliverable and non-deliverable forward contracts. Note 2: For the year ended September 30, 2011 CI reported in-kind income of $58,889,658 for education supplies ($53,228,323), clothing and other ($2,905,986), and medical supplies ($2,755,349).
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Section 1 generally introduces the Act to the people.
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In a study that the Journal of Investigative Dermatology published in its October 2009 edition, Whitfield's team reports a closer connection between a gene profile for the profibrotic pathway TGF-beta and a tendency in some scleroderma sufferers to develop lung problems.
Jennifer Sargent, who recently earned her PhD in molecular and cellular biology from DMS, is lead author of the study, which analyzed the previously-identified TGF-beta pathway signature in skin biopsies from patients and healthy control subjects from around the country. "The finding that a gene signature expressed in skin is associated with the occurrence of lung disease is surprising and to our knowledge is previously unreported," the report says. "ILD [interstitial lung disease] is the leading cause of death among patients with dSSc [diffuse systemic sclerosis] ... Recent work has developed tools and methods for diagnosis, staging, and characterization of ILD in dSSc patients; however, biomarkers that reliably predict who will develop lung complications before they become symptomatic would be beneficial."
In collaboration with M. Kari Connolly, a professor of dermatology at the University of California-San Francisco, Whitfield, an associate professor of genetics at DMS, and his researchers began creating a map of skin to profile the molecular behavior of genes in scleroderma in 2001. For the current study, he received support from the Scleroderma Research Foundation, as well as a biomedical research award to Dartmouth from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute.


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