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L: James, you mentioned accountability. Creating a culture of accountability. What does that mean? Can you explain that and how, what it means to parents and kids.
J: First of all, when we start with accountability, one of the things that I talk to teachers and parents about is creating a culture of accountability. And that culture of accountability occurs between two people. So when we talk about what's on TV, what they're learning in the movies, what their video games is, that, that's fine. But the culture of accountability comes with, this is how I'm gonna talk to you and this is how you have to talk to me. This is what I'm gonna expect of you and this is what you can expect of me. That's very clearly learned out. That you're accountable for the way you talk to me and treat me. You're accountable for your responsibilities and you can expect me to take responsibility to be accountable for my responsibilities. I'm gonna pay the rent, I'm gonna have food on the table, I'm gonna make sure that we have a place to live. You have to talk to me appropriately, you have to do your schoolwork and you have to learn how to solve life's problems without hurting other people.
MG: I think it's important to note James that a culture of accountability isn't just a parent child thing. We even as adults need to be accountable; we are accountable every day to someone.
J: That's right, well, I don't think people are accountable to a culture. I think that that develops between people. Between individual people and groups. So even personal relationships and work relationships.
L: Work.
J: Work. I'm accountable to that job. I'm accountable to my role in that business. I'm accountable to that business. They're gonna pay me, that's what I expect of them, they expect me to do the role that they defined for me. They also expect me to do it with some quality and some efficiency.
MG: So as a parent, what you're setting your child up for by expecting him to be accountable to you is the whole mindset that you will always be accountable to someone. This is a coping skill. This is a problem solving skill you have to learn.
J: Absolutely. Look, when you hold your child accountable, when you develop that culture of accountability, you as a parent have a responsibility to teach that child to acquire the skills he's gonna need to be able to be accountable. People who can't be accountable for their homework disrespect other people. People who can't be accountable for their behavior turn it around and challenge you and act out. So when you're having a culture of accountability, there's a two–way thing. I expect you to do the right thing and you can expect me to teach you how to do the right thing.
MG: So my job as a parent then is to set specific standards, to set specific goals, to set attainable landmarks that a child can say, if I do this, I become accountable. If I do this, I'm behaving responsibly.
J: Yeah, it's not only setting goals. It's giving the skills to reach the goal. So let's say I'm a parent and my goal is that you're gonna sink five throws from the free throw line in basketball out of ten. Well I just can't put you up there with a ball and tell you do it, that's my goal. I've gotta show you how to do it. I've gotta show you how you place your feet, how you place your arms. How you propel the ball. I've gotta spend some time practicing with you. I've gotta show you how to do these things and I've gotta practice them. So it's not setting the goals, it's giving the kid the skills. Acquiring the skills yourself for an understanding of what it takes. Using the tools and using the skills.
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James Lehman had a very personal understanding of kids with behavior problems. He displayed severe oppositional, defiant behaviors as a child and teenager, and became a Behavioral Therapist specializing in helping troubled children, teens and their families for 30 years.
Janet Lehman has over three decades of clinical experience working with out–of–control children and teens and their parents. Working in group homes and residential treatment centers, Janet helped children with serious behavioral disorders learn to get their behavior under control.
Does your child's behavior make you feel out of control? Do you find yourself walking on eggshells so that you don't "set him off?" It might be your five year old who has tantrums and acts out, or perhaps it's your teenager who fights with you all the time. Your consequences mean nothing to him, and in fact seem to make him more defiant. Whatever the reason, you've got the kid who simply doesn't react to parenting the way you thought he would. Debbie Pincus, creator of the Calm Parent: AM & PM, explains how you can change the way your family interacts.
If you have a "problem" child, you are not alone. Many families struggle with difficult, acting-out kids who act like nothing matters to them, which in turn leaves you feeling baffled and lost. You lose sleep most nights wondering, "How did my family get here? What's going on and how can we change things so our lives aren't a battle zone?"
Related: How to parent calmly—even in the midst of a family battle zone.
While there are many helpful techniques parents can use with their kids—in fact, Empowering Parents is full of articles that will help you parent more effectively—I'd like to view this problem from a slightly different angle today. So let's step back and look at the big picture: What really happens when a kid acts out chronically in a family and the attention all goes to them? And how can parents turn this around?
The Big Picture
In order to turn things around with your child, I believe it's helpful to widen the lenses that we use to view our difficult kids. Let's say you're focused on your acting-out child—attempting to fix and change him—only to find that his behavior is worsening. (Or perhaps it changes, but only temporarily.) To a certain extent this happens because you're looking at your child as the "problem" rather than seeing the way the family operates as a whole. When you can see your family in this new way you'll recognize that your child is only part of this unit—a fragment of the whole.
What do I mean by this? Think of it this way: Each family member is only a part of the larger group. Children with problem behaviors are rarely the underlying problem, though some kids are more defiant and rebellious from the start, and therefore more difficult to parent. They may come this way, genetically predisposed to act out more and be rebellious. As a result of their difficult behavior, you naturally begin to focus on them. For the most part, kids who act out are symptoms of something much larger—often, it's an emotional or relationship problem. This does not lay the blame on anyone; it simply means every member of the family group is a contributor in some way. I believe that if you want to go about changing the problem, you need to get the focus off the "symptomatic" one and instead onto the relationship patterns in the family. I also want to add here that if this is going on in your family, it's not too late: it's possible to change your family's pattern no matter what stage you're in with your child.
Related: Want to change the unhealthy patterns in your family?
Let's consider how anxiety travels in a group of people. If Dad comes home from work upset about a deal that didn't go through, he may automatically take it out on Mom by criticizing her about the messy house. Mom may react to this by shutting down or defending herself, but either way the anxiety has moved to Mom. Next Jack, the two-year-old, seeing or feeling Mom's distress, starts crying. The anxiety has moved to him. Now Chloe, the six-year-old, experiences this emotional intensity and feels uncomfortable and upset. She runs to her room and starts yelling and acting out.
In this way, anxiety moves from person to person in a family unit. This is a natural and automatic response. Most of the time, rather than disturbing everybody in the family, anxiety seems to settle in one person—often a child. In the family just described, the original anxiety exchange was between the two parents. If they don't get it worked out over time, the six year old might continue to react to the intensity by acting out more and more—and the adults will begin to focus on her. Not realizing that their child's response is an expression of anxiety that came from the family unit, they may come to see her as the problem and begin worrying about her. The more she is fretted over, the more anxious and symptomatic she will become—and the more symptomatic she becomes, the more focused they will become on her. The cycle has now been set in motion.
When a child becomes the "anxiety sponge" for the family he or she will often develop some problems. If the adults put the focus on the child and not on themselves, they never get to resolve their own problems or ineffective patterns—instead, the over-focused child will develop problems. Take into account that when anxiety collects in a person, their brain and body chemistry becomes changed. As a result, the child may show hyperactivity, learning issues, or behavioral or social symptoms. Once a disorder develops, more and more intense focus is drawn to their problems at home and at school. It becomes a vicious cycle that's hard to stop.
Related: How to stop the "anxiety sponge" effect.
This snowball effect can start simply: Let's say every time a mother is upset, she offloads her stress by complaining loudly. The father shuts down and withdraws and then the child picks up on his distress. Kids are very tuned in. If you have a child who's particularly vulnerable to moods, he might absorb or take on the stress and become the sponge. You'll see him becoming anxious in some way; he'll be the one with the "symptoms." While there's no one to blame for this, it's ultimately our responsibility as parents to keep an eye out and not let our stuff spill onto our kids.
How to Stop the Cycle
If you see this cycle happening in your family, the first thing to do is recognize it for what it is. Stop it by taking the intense focus off your acting-out child and pay more attention to yourself and your relationship patterns. Ask yourself some hard questions, like the following: "By putting so much focus on my child, what do I get to avoid in myself and in my own adult relationships?" Consider what he might be expressing through his behavior. Are these expressions of tension in the family, or ineffective relationship patterns that need more attention paid to them?
Related: Stopping the family anxiety cycle—for good.
Remember that your family, not your child, is the emotional unit. This will help you see that you are a part of the problem, and also part of the solution. Work to change what is under your control instead of worrying, over-focusing and trying to control your child. If you begin to see that your child is the symptom-bearer of the family unit rather than a "problem child," you'll be more understanding and empathetic rather than angry and frustrated. Don't get me wrong, you still need to hold him accountable for his poor behavior. But now, instead of seeing him as "broken" or the problem, you'll hold him to higher expectations.
Don't get me wrong, when our kids are acting out, we need to hold them accountable rather than anxiously focus and fret about them. What's the difference between anxious parenting versus being parental? Being responsible and standing our ground is being parental, because we're doing what our child needs to guide him to a better place. Anxious parenting happens when our emotionality slips in and we start reacting to our child rather than responding to his behavior thoughtfully, and most of the time we don't even realize we're doing it.
Pause and ask yourself some important questions.
Most of the time we think we're being thoughtful in our responses to our acting-out kids but often we're actually being reactive, adding fuel to the already hot inferno.
Related: How to set limits and give consequences effectively.
What Can Parents Do?
Take care of yourself. Take care of yourself emotionally and physically, so your children don't end up with that job. Pay attention to and attend to your adult relationships. Instead of being irritable and upset, say what's on your mind. Resolve issues so that your unresolved anxieties don't get spilled on to your kids.
Observe. Observe yourself and your relationship patterns: your own thinking, feelings and behavior. See how your family's (both nuclear and extended) emotional pressures contribute in producing your child's negative behavior. Consider what's going on from wider lenses. See the whole family drama.
Set limits and give enforceable consequences. If your child is acting out, set limits and give him enforceable consequences. Take charge, not control. Be parental; don't parent with an "anxious focus" on your child.
Recognize your own contribution. Start with yourself and go from there. After all, you're the only one you really have control over in life. Look at what's in your hands, not what's not in your child's hands. Watch what you're doing and try to be as clear and direct as possible. You're not responsible for your child's outcome and you're not the cause of the problems. If you can look at your contribution then you can change that part of yourself that's adding to the cycle of anxiety and bad behavior. Try to parent from your principles, rather than from your deepest anxieties. By understanding how your family operates—and how anxiety operates in your family—you can use your principles to guide your thinking and responses. This will help to stop the reactivity that often gets moved from one family member to the next. Your principles, rather than your anxieties, will lead the way. And when you see your child as separate from you, you will also see yourself more clearly and more objectively.
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For more than 25 years, Debbie has offered compassionate and effective therapy and coaching, helping individuals, couples and parents to heal themselves and their relationships. Debbie is the creator of the Calm Parent AM & PM program and is also the author of numerous books for young people on interpersonal relations.
When I receive The Total Transformation Program, I am sure things will make sense. This article is just touching on the things that we all hope to learn and use to help our children
Comment By : Pat
my partner died 2 years ago, i have 3 children, my 16 year old son refuses to go to counciling, he's developed a temper,lashs out alot,has no intrest in school, hanging around with the wrong crowd and as alone parent i do not know wat to do i try talking to him but he gets annoyed all the time im so worried
Comment By : pamela
Wow. A completely new way of looking at the 'problem child' issue. It takes courage and short term pain, as emphasized here. Thank you.
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Comment By : radadams
This all sounds good and I can see how this could happen in terms of becoming an anxiety sponge. But, if the child is ODD and genetically predispositioned to create anxiety, there's no answer in this article. We have one child that responds negatively to anything that is not exactly what she wants, she is hateful to her siblings, and the house is full of anxiety when she is in it, and nearly anxiety free when she is out of it. As parents, we communicate regularly and openly, we have looked to ourselves and tried to make changes where we need to, we have done our best to be consitent with consequences are meaningful and constructive, basically followed most of what you suggest, and have also tried counseling. Nothing makes a difference with her. At this point, we are just focusing our energies on surviving until she is 18 and minimizing her negative effects on the other kids.
Comment By : Eugene
Excellent article. So important to show love as much as you can. This helps to build a bank of positive feeling to buffer the anxious or acting-up times.
Comment By : AJ
Wow, I wish there was information that could help a teacher negotiate some of these great points.
Comment By : ProudUnc
This simply stated article does a great job explaining "anxiety sponge" theory. It is easy for me to understand after my "emotionality slip." However, it is difficult to realize what is going on in tention filled times. Some children have behavioral issues due to a trama they may have suffered. It could be a death of a significant person in their life; a separation from family members; or some other sad senario that you may not even want to think about your own-self; Thus being in denial, which I learned hurt us more than it ever helped. And, now that I know what the issue was or rather is, I no longer neglect to acknowledge the reality and i am working on controlling my "anxious" self so I can better help my child get through okay.
Comment By : Single Parent
I have gained more helpful information from "Empowering Parents", than I have from YEARS and thousands of dollars in therapy.......I think this "common sense" approach should be mandatory course work for anyone considering going into a mental health profession. I am tired of being "strung along" by mental health providers and their psycho-babble, only to walk out of their offices feeling frustrated and financially depleted.
Comment By : CJ
I have sympathy for Eugene's comment. I have definitely felt the same with my daughter. She has turned it around these past two weeks and is such a joy. So, hang in there and have hope. One thing that was helpful in that turn around was being loving and not showing my dislike for her. Debbie has a good article on that.
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* Dear Eugene: I can understand how frustrating it is when youre doing all the right things as a parent, but as you said, Nothing makes a difference with your ODD daughter. It is very difficult with a child with ODD. Sounds like you have determined what you can and will do and that you are managing the anxiety in the house as well as possible. Not easy, but from what you have written, sounds as though you have not let her behavior determine how you will parent. Continuing to stay focused on communicating authentically, looking at yourselves and making necessary changes, being consistent with meaningful consequences and showing up day after day is what you are doing to be the responsible, loving parents that you want to be. Remember, we don't do this in order to try and change our acting out childrenif we do, it probably won't be effectivewe do this as part of our own self-definition and as a preservation of our own integrity. It sounds like you shifted your focus from your daughter to yourselves and what comes with that will be more stamina. I love how you say you are now focused on your own and your familys welfare rather than focusing on "changing" heroften this shift comes when we are at the end of our ropes. By doing what you are doing, you are actually nurturing her growth without perhaps realizing it. Our children's growth has more of a chance of happening when we get out of their way while at the same time preventing them from overtaking us. By behaving like grown-ups, you yourselves are helping her to grow up. Best of luck and thanks for your comments.
Comment By : Debbie Pincus, MS LMHC
My family situation is very similar to Eugene's. My 14 year old son is definitely the "emotional sponge" of the family in both households(1wk at dads,1wk w/me). He picks up on everyone's feelings and emotions and his emotional outbursts are so out of control sometimes, that no one can even talk to him. When he is at my house even for one day, the whole household is in an uproar from the moment he walks in til the moment he leaves slamming the door screaming at everyone. My 11 year old daughter doesn't even want to be around him, ever. That breaks my heart, they use to be best buddies, but now all they do is fight and bicker! No one can stand it. I have done everything in your articles, we focus on our own behavior, we try not to yell, the consequences we set for bad actions are directly related and we discuss what the kids did that got them in trouble in the 1st place. (my daughter even said, 'well when I am at your house you always talk to me after you send me to my room and tell me why!') I was shocked that she noticed and that it mattered so much to her- in a good way. My son only sees negativity in everything, and it seems that he only knows how to communicate to anyone by fighting/bickering. I am at a loss, he is back in counseling, but the counselor doesn't want the parents there...this frustrates me b/c we have issues we would like her to bring up with my son to see how he responds. This has been a long road,(7 yrs since separation) his father pretty much (hates) me and my partner and that makes everything worse. The kids like their "step-dad" but hear awful things about him and me so often, that their views are tainted. We have a mess on our hands. But like you have said, we can only change,focus, on ourselves. So that is what my partner and I do on a daily basis and set a good example for my kids. I can only hope that with time my son will see that his behavior is unacceptable, that it is not welcome in our home and that he can change like we have. Any advice for a drowning mom?
Comment By : punksmom
* To 'punksmom': It sounds like you are in a difficult situation, and you are doing everything within your power to be parental as Debbie mentions in the article. You cannot control what your son does, but you can and are holding him accountable for his acting out behavior. By continuing to be consistent in this approach, your son will learn that fighting with family members, screaming and slamming doors is not effective for him. Its tough that your sons counselor does not want you present during the sessions. One thing that might be helpful for you to consider is family counseling rather than, or in addition to, individual therapy. Family counseling would focus on the family as a unit, as mentioned in the article, rather than just on your son. If you and your family are not currently working with anyone to get support in your local community, a good place to start is www.211.org. 211 is an informational service that can help to connect you with resources in your area. You can also reach them by calling 1 (800) 273-6222. Good luck to you and your family as you continue to work through this. We know this isnt easy.
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May 26th 2008 2:39PM Did I say two weeks for EJ to kill KT? I should l2math.
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May 26th 2008 2:36PM #14, it would help to know whether you're one of those people who lives in-game, or whether you limit yourself.
EJ states it took them ~12 hours to down KT. That's an entire two weeks of effort for one of the world's leading WoW guilds; I suppose it'd be more for normal guilds. The site of the guild you're smirking at states they raid 2x/week.
My guild raids 2-3/week, and if someone told us we should spend an entire 3-4 weeks of our hobby on one guild-breaker of a fight just to impress nerd-snobs, it'd be a difficult choice between laughing and ignoring him.

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When I interviewed Christie Miller and Kenneth Avery-Clark last year, the American Musical Theatre Academy was still at the planning stage. Meeting Miller, AMTA principal, last week for an update I find that 17 students are now over half way through the one-year, full-time course and have just returned from a successful training trip to New York which is part of the package.
Based in studios in Shoreditch, AMTA offers a one-year course in musical theatre. "We neither market it nor see it as a foundation course," says Miller. "It is meant to take you straight out to work and most of our students, the eldest of whom is 26, have already done higher education at university or specialist training institutions. We find many of them are very strong in dance but need to top up acting and singing skills, for example."
Miller and AMTA creative director, Avery-Clark (an actor who has just come out of Sweet Charity), who both come from Canada, take the view that Britain is rightly famed for its drama training but that Musical Theatre is an American invention. "That's why we take the students to Broadway for two weeks and cost that in with the fees as an integral part of the training," says Miller.
While in New York, the group trained in workshops led by local American professionals each day from 10.00 to 2.00 pm, then enjoyed some free time to explore the city before seeing a Broadway show in the evening. 'They were given lots of punchy audition advice and told that rather than taking bar or call centre work when jobs aren't forthcoming they should continuously showcase their own talents by busking, setting up their own companies and generally get themselves noticed by doing what they're good at,' recalls Miller, who was delighted with the way the trip went, even down to student attitude and behaviour.
The course ends in July and AMTA is already bringing in directors and others who might identify someone they'd like to see again. "We prefer that way of working to the traditional showcase," Miller says.
AMTA also offers other courses, including summer schools, and is planning to offer some short free workshops for would-be performers needing help with self-presentation.
Meanwhile auditions for the 2011/12 one-year course are underway and Miller is delighted that enquiries are coming in from all over the developed world - including from Bermuda, Canada, Greece and a surprising number from Mexico.
Last year 19 students began the course. Two have dropped out - one for personal reasons and financial problems led to the other postponing the course for a year. Ten applicants were rejected.
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The Galaxy version of the GTX 470 fixes the two biggest issues we have with the model; the heat and the noise. The noise is clearly at a respectable level while the heat is almost there. It still runs a little warm, but nothing like the reference version. You have to wonder, though, why did NVIDIA opt for the cooler they did on this model and not try and get something that could cool the card better.
As for overall performance, there's a nice little bump. In saying that, though, it would've been nice to see Galaxy do a little bit more with the overclock. Hopefully in the future they'll release a more aggressively clocked version of the card, because when looking at the temps and noise levels we can't see why they couldn't get more out of the model.
On the bundle front it's a little light. Actually, it's very light, but the fact that you're paying the same price as a reference GTX 470 with better cooling, quieter operation and faster performance, who are we to complain?
We have to wonder what would've happened if NVIDIA spent just another few weeks on the model before releasing it. You can see that not long after launch Galaxy has been able to do a bit with the model and made it a more serious contender in the market.
The other good news is that Galaxy has uploaded the latest version of Xtreme Tuner HD to their website which is supposed to give us the ability to adjust the core voltage. Having already downloaded it, I'll be attacking the card very soon with it. Off the reference GTX 470 we saw some good performance gains when it came to overclocking, but heat and noise were still an issue. I'm hoping that with the heatsink/fan redesign we can get even more out of this particular model.
Sticking to the $349.99 price tag is probably one of the best things that Galaxy has done. This is a great version of the card and the R&D team are quick and responsive. Galaxy has shown us that they're ready to rock and roll with the new GTX 400 line-up. We really can't wait to see what the company does with the GTX 480 and the new mainstream GTX 465 that is due in the coming weeks.


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The ND District is one of the few in the Synod where high school students elect peers to serve on a youth ministry leadership team. Here is the DYC Nomination form for students to complete to be considered for president-elect, secretary, treasurer, Christian Growth, assistant editor/historian or zone representative positions!!! We are looking for a representative from EVERY ZONE to serve on the DYC. 2013 will be a year filled with opportunities for those who have a heart for serve other students in our District. If a student is not able to attend the July Gathering, they can still submit a Nomination Form and be considered for selection.
Please share the DYC Nomination form with high school students in your congregation and encourage them to serve!
We are the North Dakota (ND) District Lutheran Church Missouri Synod (LCMS) Youth Ministry Task Force and Lutheran Youth Fellowship (LYF). The District Youth Ministry Task Force (adults & District LYF president) and elected leaders of the District LYF (District Youth Committee-DYC) work together to offer resources and events that empower middle school and high school age youth to grow their relationship with Jesus Christ and each other.
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The biggest holiday party in Manteca is being planned by Manteca Soroptimists for their upcoming 30th Annual Holiday Affair.
Manteca Historical Society and Museum will be hosting its annual Holiday Open House from 7 to 9 p.m., Thursday, Dec. 10 at the museum, 600 W. Yosemite Ave. On display will be 17 Christmas trees, some trimmed with vintage ornaments. Animated figures, some life-size, adorn the Memorial Building front window. Traditional Christmas carols will be sung and holiday background music will be provided by Keri Stewart. A drawing will be held offering a gift basket and items from the gift shop. A wide array of refreshments will be served and admission is free.
RIPON - The Ripon Chamber of Commerce is holding their 48th Annual Almond Blossom Kick Off and Tribute Dinner on Thursday, Jan. 14, at the Ripon Community Center, 334 Fourth Street at 6 p.m.
Every wonder what attracts people to visit Manteca?
The Manteca Unified Student Trust, or MUST, will be conducting its team basketball clinic this Saturday at Manteca High's Winter Gymnasium.
McKinley Avenue could one day define the outer reaches of southwest Manteca and how that part of the community develops.
Valley commuters on their way to work in the Bay Area early Monday morning were treated to a rare visual treat in the Altamont: white chocolate hills that turned the normally brown and green vista into a winter wonderland magic.
LATHROP – It may not turn out to be as expensive and as laboriously long as the City of Lathrop's Matt Browne case, but a personnel issue involving the demotion of a 15-year fire captain with the Lathrop-Manteca Fire District is also being reviewed by an administrative law judge.
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Sue Teunissen at this point wouldn't mind at all if the community was able to come forward with just enough money to put hams on the tables of struggling families in Manteca, Lathrop, and Ripon this Christmas.
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CFS's 'best practice' not good enough
Oh, those CFS employees and their rules. They love them. They call them "best practice." They swear they follow them zealously unless they're really, really overworked, or devolution is making a hash of their files, or they forget they're not supposed to take their notes home and destroy them. That sometimes happens, but that is not best practice.
The inquiry into the circumstances surrounding Phoenix Sinclair's life and death heard about one such diligent CFS employee on Thursday. She was working the phones at the Winnipeg CFS after-hours unit on March 5, 2005, when a woman called with information that five-year-old Phoenix might be in danger.
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The caller, who cannot be identified under a publication ban, is also a CFS employee and a licensed foster mother. She was calling at the request of her adult foster daughter, a friend of Samantha Kematch. The foster daughter told her she was afraid Phoenix was being locked in a bedroom and left alone, and that she'd heard what sounded like whimpering. She was afraid the child might be sexually abused.
The foster daughter wanted her to make the call because she thought they'd listen to the older woman. She didn't know CFS had rules about that, too. The foster mother called immediately. It was the only time the girl had asked her to do anything like that, she said, and "I trusted her judgment on it completely." But the after-hours worker didn't want to hear it.
"I started to tell the woman on the phone the concerns that had been related to me. I was told, 'I can't accept this information because it is third-hand,' " she testified.
The caller wasn't backing down. "I got pretty angry with her. I told her she would have to accept the information from me because it was valid and important information."
When the after-hours worker said she needed an accurate address for Kematch, the foster mom snapped.
You should have a file on her "a mile long or a metre deep," she said.
They did, of course.
She had one parting comment for the telephone operator. "I told her if anything happened to that child, I would hold her personally responsible."
The foster daughter was afraid of Kematch. She testified she was with another friend of Kematch's when that young woman called CFS and related their concerns. She claimed she told her own long-term social worker, Della Fines, about her worries.
Fines threw her under the bus when she testified Thursday. She said the young woman never discussed Samantha Kematch or Phoenix with her. She characterized the young woman as someone who pointed fingers at other people to deflect blame.
"She would express to me she was a good mom and other people around her were doing a worse job than her," Fines said. "She didn't want to deal with the fact that there were issues in her home. She wanted to deflect, to move the conversation away from her.
"She wanted me to know attention should go to other people in the community."
No specifics, just general, ongoing whining, Fines seemed to say, and all of it intended to get the heat off her. The problem is that even a broken clock is right twice a day and the young woman was dead right about the danger posed by Kematch and McKay.
The young woman testified she was worried because Phoenix was spending a lot of time with McKay, having toilet accidents and touching herself inappropriately. She said she shared her concerns with Fines. The social worker didn't remember any of this.
"I believe that this information never came to me as a social worker. I believe that she never gave me this information or reported concerns to me."
Because if she had, Fines would have followed up on those concerns. CFS has rules about that, too.
All this took place as the storm clouds of devolution gathered. Fines was seconded to an aboriginal agency. She remembers 2005 as "a very stressful time, the emotion surrounding the devolution and what was happening with us and our careers."
Still, if she'd been told about Phoenix, she would have written it down and reported it. She assured the inquiry that even under emotional stress, "I believe I continued to meet the standards."
God knows even as warning bells were clanging, as they did for all Phoenix's short life, those paid to keep her safe claim they were observing best practice.
Republished from the Winnipeg Free Press print edition January 11, 2013 A6
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National Newspaper Award winner Lindor Reynolds began work at the Free Press as a 17-year-old proofreader. It was a rough introduction to the news business.
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Italian Born 27 Jul 1781 Died 08 May 1829Mauro Giuliani was an Italian guitarist and composer of duets, quartets, concertos, sonatas, and etudes for guitar.
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The lease agreement for Ralph Wilson Stadium lasts through 2023, and it includes a multi-million dollar penalty for relocating. When that lease was signed in 2013, Governor Cuomo promised to start looking into other options. If new ownership takes over, they could ask for a new location.
According to the Buffalo News, the five people in the Governor's "New Stadium Working Group" include Lieutenant Governor Bob Duffy, the Mayor of Buffalo and team representatives.
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I am a Software Engineer at The Climate Corporation, where I work on climate modeling. Before that, I commuted all the way down to Mountain View to work at Google. Before that, I got my Ph.D. in Computer Science graduate student at UC Berkeley, where I studied Artificial Intelligence. I worked with Jerome Feldman to represent complex real-world actions with a combination of probabilistic models (specifically, an extension of Bayes Nets called Probabilistic Relational Models) and process models (based on Petri Nets, which are fancy finite state machines). I demonstrated their use on simulated robotic soccer players. Here's a link to my dissertation.
I got my undergraduate degree from Washington University in St. Louis; before that, I lived in north-east Tennessee with my family. Now, my siblings have spread out, going as far as Austin and Irvine (soon to be Portland).
I am a member of the Berkeley Hang Gliding Club, with a Hang 3 rating. I can also be found blues dancing; opportunities for that are plentiful here in the Bay Area. Why, I've even started DJing at Beat the Blues, a Wednesday night venue in Berkeley.
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There has been some silliness on the message boards about an unbreakable radar program that Mythic cant detect. Last week we demonstrated that this was pure fantasy on the part of the cheaters. We permanently banned the accounts of 107 radar users, and gave out 167 suspensions. Look for plenty of new I, uh, I quit! Yeah! posts on a message board near you!
Read on for the rest of the announcement:Based on data gathered from in-game appeals (players reporting cheaters), observation, and our toolset, we know weve acted against the vast majority of cheaters. Some will slip through, unfortunately, but we have no ethical choice but to err on the side of caution. Those we identified, but could not prove were cheating will remain on our watch list, and we will eventually get them.
Also, its with great happiness that we declare this round to be the last of the second chances. At one point, the perception had been expressed on the part of some of our players that one had to have radar to be competitive. As the steady decline in the number of radar users has shown, the reality is that this is no longer an issue. What IS an issue now is the perception that lots of other people cheat, although the data simply doesnt support that perception. Therefore, since there shouldnt be anyone left who believes that they just have to have radar, we now proudly return to the original policy of one strike, youre out.
Secondly, Blizzard Entertainment has closed 500 user accounts for using third-party programs to exploit the game. Here you have the details:
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New Starke County Jail nears final approval
By Terry Turner Post-Tribune correspondent December 1, 2012 11:12PM
Updated: January 3, 2013 6:15AM
The Starke County Board of Commissioners voted 2-1 to purchase a 10-acre site at the intersection of Indiana 8 and County Road 550E, east of Knox, where the county will build a new jail.
The current jail, built in the 1970s, is the second oldest jail in the state. It is located in downtown Knox, just east of the County Courthouse.
Though the County Council must still approve a resolution to build the approximately $12 million jail, the council is expected to vote pass the measure at its meeting on Monday.
Construction is expected to begin in late winter or early spring start and take approximately 15-18 months. The county will pay approximately $550,000 for the property.
The commissioners, who went through a lengthy evaluation process, which included tours of other Indiana jails, a trip to a Colorado jail symposium, jail committee meetings and three public hearings, decided the so-called Bailey property best suited the needs of the county.
The property already has access to sewer and water, and includes a 10,000-square-foot building, which was originally part of the former General Woodworkers manufacturing facilities.
The building would be renovated for Sheriff's Department offices and be added onto for emergency dispatch services. There is also room for a possible courtroom to be added later.
The preliminary plans for the jail, which would be connected to the Bailey building, include approximately 20,000 square feet with 108 beds, and an option of adding an additional 32 beds if necessary.
Last week, a commissioners meeting saw a large crowd of mostly residents of the area express concerns about public safety, traffic and decreasing property values, some of which the commissioners addressed before making their decision.


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Grand Chief Murray Clearsky of the Southern Chiefs Organization, Grand Chief Derek Nepinak of the Assembly of Manitoba Chiefs, and Aboriginal elder Ernie Daniels talk to reporters on Parliament Hill in Ottawa, January 18, 2013.
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The AFN, which operates as an umbrella advocacy organization, reiterated its request for a joint meeting in a letter on Saturday.
It is unclear if the AFN will hear back on the proposal.
In the note, the AFN executive asks Harper and Gov. Gen. David Johnston to attend a meeting "on the preferred date" of Jan. 24, and specified the need to follow up on the Jan. 11 meeting with some chiefs, including AFN National Chief Shawn Atleo.
The Prime Minister's Office confirmed it received the letter Monday but made no suggestion plans are in the works for a meeting Thursday -- the one-year anniversary of last January's Crown-First Nations gathering.
Talks between Harper, Atleo and other aboriginal leaders on Jan. 11 were opposed by chiefs from Manitoba, Saskatchewan, the Northwest Territories and Ontario because Johnston did not attend.
There were also concerns about the number of chiefs allowed to participate in the closed-door discussions. More than 600 chiefs make up the framework of the AFN.
Following the Jan. 11 discussions, Harper committed to a high level of dialogue on aboriginal affairs and vowed to meet with Atleo again in coming weeks.
Atleo has been on sick leave since Jan. 14.
In recent weeks, Idle No More protesters have held nationwide demonstrations to raise awareness about plights facing aboriginals including poverty and gaps in education.


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[1707] β-Catenin and Novel Associated Proteins in Nasopharyngeal Angiofibromas.
Stephen L Cook, Robin D LeGallo, Stacey E Mills, Edward B Stelow. University of Virginia, Charlottesville
Background: Nasopharyngeal angiofibromas occur at an increased frequency in patients with familial adenomatous polyposis. Furthermore, a majority of sporadic nasopharyngeal angiofibromas has been shown to have nuclear accumulation of β-catenin and have mutations in the β-catenin gene. These results suggest that the Wnt-signaling pathway is important in the pathogenesis of both sporadic and syndrome-associated tumors. End-binding protein 1 (EB1) is an adenomatous polyposis coli (APC)-binding protein which associates with growing ends of microtubules and has been reported to be overexpressed in some carcinomas. Cyclin D1 is a transcriptional target of β-catenin which promotes cell cycle progression. While WT1 functions in transcription regulation, it is now speculated that it also plays a role as a tumor suppressor of the Wnt-signaling pathway. Here, we examine the expression patterns of β-catenin, EB1, cyclin D1, and WT1 in a series of nasopharyngeal angiofibromas.
Design: The study examined 14 nasopharyngeal angiofibromas resected from 14 males ranging in age from 10 to 23 years and found within the surgical pathology files of a single institution. Immunohistochemistry was performed for β-catenin, EB1, cyclin D1, and WT1. Staining pattern and characteristics and the percentage of cells staining were recorded.
Results: All fourteen nasopharyngeal angiofibromas showed prominent nuclear accumulation of β-catenin. In addition, 13 of 13 showed strong, granular cytoplasmic accumulation of EB1. Cyclin D1 showed nuclear staining in a minority of cells (<10% of cells) in 9 of 14 cases. All fourteen tumors showed cytoplasmic staining with WT1. In 7 of 14 (50%) of cases, cytoplasmic WT1 was present in 20 to 50% of cells, while the remaining 7 cases had staining in 70 to 90% of cells.
Conclusions: We confirm the strong and diffuse nuclear accumulation of β-catenin in nasopharyngeal angiofibromas previously noted by others. Cyclin D1 staining supports the functional status of the activated β-catenin. Interestingly, the expression of the novel protein EB1 suggests a role for APC in these tumors. Also, the expression of WT1 in these tumors known to have β-catenin accumulation provides further evidence of its role as a potential tumor suppressor of the Wnt-signaling pathway. Aside from providing information regarding the pathobiology of these tumors, these results also suggest a possible use for these immunostains in the diagnosis of these tumors.
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SILVER SPRING, Md, May 11, 2013 – Are You My Mother? By P.D. Eastman ISBN: 9780394800189
This is a classic that many people will remember having been read to them when they were little. The story follows a little bird on a journey to find his mother. He hatches out of his egg to find that he is all alone and decides to set out to find his mother. But when he tries to fly out of his nest, he falls to the ground.
Not easily discouraged, the little bird sets out on foot, asking everything he comes into contact with if it is his mother. The kitten is not his mother. Neither is the hen, the dog or the cow. He moves farther from his nest and encounters an old car, a plane, and a boat. None of those are his mother either. Finally, he comes across a steam shovel. When he gets too close, it scoops him up and dumps the little bird back in his nest. The little bird is relieved to be home, and just as he gets comfortable, his mother comes back and says, "Do you know who I am?"
The little bird knows she is not all of the things he met one his journey, and realizes that she is a bird, and must be his mother.
With simple writing this book is good for very young children, who can relate to the little bird who yells "I want my mother!" This is a great book to give as a gift at a baby shower or as a Mother's Day gift to a new mother.
A protégé of Dr. Seuss, P.D. Eastman is a well-known children's book author and illustrator, responsible for many childhood classics like Go, Dog, Go! and Big Dog, Little Dog. The artwork in Are You My Mother is his same familiar style that children love.
Originally published in 1960, this book has been republished multiple times, and is currently available through Random House as a hardcover, an ebook, a boardbook, and an abridged fabric book. There is also a Spanish/English bilingual edition available.
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Alex Jones: Father Knows Best, Updated for the Apocalypse
The times have created this man, this nexus of patriotism and fear. Depending on who you talk to, he is a plague on or a tonic to our discourse, and we should all be horrified or grateful.
on August 20, 2013As much as Jones likes to talk, the one thing he doesn't like to talk about is his childhood. He squirms, he groans, he gets visibly embarrassed. But he's too polite not to give it a shot.
"My parents weren't big TV watchers, and my mom and my dad liked reading history books. So I went to the library a lot, and I read a lot of history. And when you read history"
He's at his fan's restaurant now, drinking a glass of homemade ginger ale while the owner watches. "Damn, it's strong."
"But good?"
Instead of answering, Jones asks how they make it. The man explains and Jones takes it in, a sounding board for humanity. But eventually he goes away and Jones must return to his uncomfortable task.
"So when you read history, the truth is condensed for you the subterfuge, the manipulations, the setups."
Already he's back to his beloved themes. Days go by before he dribbles out the story, but one thing that comes through loud and clear is that Jones was primed for his worldview by virtue of place. Born into an old Texas family that fought in all the wars of independence and raised by a father who blended the long-haired antiwar government-hating sentiments of his college years in the 1960s with the more traditional government-hating sentiments of southern populism, Jones learned his hatred of the East Coast elites in his sandbox. The lessons his father passed on included, for example, a warning not to check the organ-donor box on his driver's license or risk having his organs harvested. By fourteen, Jones was reading everything from science fiction to Hemingway to Graham Greene's The Quiet American, the classic left-wing novel about a CIA agent who creates a puppet government in Vietnam by staging a terror attack. He loved Byron's Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, the poem that introduced the Byronic hero (brilliant, alienated, irresistible to women) to the world. But his most influential read was None Dare Call It Conspiracy, a book he found on his father's shelf when he was about twelve or thirteen. Written by the PR man for the John Birch Society, it claims that a conspiracy of international bankers financed the communist revolution in Russia as part of a long-term plan to control the world through big government, false flags, gun control, social-welfare programs, and central banking. The world was like one of those children's paintings that seems like one thing to the zombified people who buy the official story, but reveals the hidden truth to those who look more closely. Published in 1972, the book sold five million copies.
For a fertile and suspicious imagination, None Dare Call It Conspiracy was rocket fuel, and it's little surprise that Jones grew into a defiant and embattled teenager. Beset by "bullies with mustaches" but eternally unwilling to back down, Jones got into fight after fight and fought back with gusto. The way he tells the story, worried that he sounds "like I'm trying to say I was James Dean or something," he put one bigger kid in a hospital with a cracked skull, nailed another guy in the trachea, and earned his limp when he drove the wrong girl home and five guys jumped up and down on his leg. "I was probably in the hospital five or six times," he says.
The story only gets more Jones-esque from there, as our young hero says he discovered that the local DARE cops were actually dealing drugs on the side. "I would be at the pool, twelve years old, watching the guy sell drugs to some housewife, and I'd see some of the very same people coming to school and they'd have drug dogs and they'd say we may start drug-testing you, we're gonna search the lockers." Of course he couldn't help shooting off his mouth You're gonna sit here and lecture us when you're a drug dealer? and of course the cops responded by arresting him over and over. "I would be at a bonfire and the cops would show up and be like, 'All right, you're publicly intoxicated,' and I hadn't even drank a beer yet. It was just boom, arrest me, arrest me." Finally some good ol' boy called his dad and told him, "Look, they're gonna kill your son. You need to move outta town."
It's hard to say how much of this is true. Like the blues singer who went to the crossroads to trade his soul for guitar chops, Jones has the performer's tendency to sincere exaggeration. But it's certain that the Jones family moved to Austin, where the liberal culture meant fewer bullies and more art programs. Instead of fighting, Jones began to paint.
Before long, he was a hardcore Ron Paul libertarian with a zesty tang of the famous Austin weirdness, the final ingredient that makes Jones his unique crossover self, the Mao and Muhammad of the emerging political style called "fusion paranoia." After a brief stint at Austin Community College, he dropped out and started thinking of ways to make an honest living. Artist? Park ranger? He always had a knack for imitating the voices on the TV maybe he could do voice-overs? He began listening to talk-radio hosts like Rush Limbaugh, who were just beginning their spectacular rise to power.
Then he picked up a book by Carroll Quigley, a pivotal figure in the conspiracy world who was once professor to insert theramin music here Bill Clinton himself. He raced on to Heinz Höhne's The Order of the Death's Head, an exposé of the secret plots and subterfuge practiced by Hitler's SS. That connected with the things he'd been learning about Defense Department black ops like Operation Northwoods, a fiendish plan to justify an invasion of Cuba by sinking a boatload of Cuban refugees and never mind that Northwoods was never put into action or that Quigley repudiated the theories attributed to him. The stars lined up and Jones had glimpsed the outlines of gods. Soon he felt an overwhelming urge to get on the radio and spread this hidden knowledge to the world.
Now it's time to go, but the restaurant owner refuses to give him a check.
"I'm going to pay you guys," Jones insists.
No way, the owner responds. "Believe it or not, you've done more for me than you could ever know."
Jones seems almost embarrassed. "Oh, you're too nice, man."
But what he would like, the owner adds shyly, is a photo with the great Alex Jones. And he knows just where he wants to take the shot in front of the giant poster of Willie Nelson in a gas mask.
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