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Phone: (518) 885-2288
Fax: (518) 885-2226149 Ballston Ave.
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"Maplewood Manor is dedicated to providing superb physical care, while preserving the human dignity and meeting the total needs of every resident."
Maplewood Manor is a public, nonprofit 277 bed nursing home operated by Saratoga County. Maplewood is situated in the foothills of the Adirondacks in Ballston Spa. It is conveniently accessible to all residents of Saratoga County and surrounding areas.
Admission to Maplewood Manor is based on several factors. Preference is given to Saratoga County residents or loved ones of Saratoga County residents. It is the policy of Maplewood Manor to admit and treat all residents without regard to race, creed, color, national origin, sex, handicap, source of payment, age, marital status or sexual preference.
Referrals are accepted from hospitals, physicians, public health services and other nursing facilities. Once a referral is made to Maplewood Manor, our Admissions Coordinator will begin processing the referral for admission. We encourage potential residents, family members and friends to come and visit our facility.
Physical, occupational and speech therapies; nursing rehabilitation, social services and activities are among the services that we provide. In addition to the many indoor sitting and visiting areas located throughout the facility, there are numerous outdoor seating areas where residents enjoy the serene surroundings. Animals and plants are also important components of the facility. There are many horticulture club meetings and pet therapy visits. Most importantly, we have many compassionate employees who have dedicated their working lives to Maplewood Manor and the residents here.
For more information or to tour the facility, please contact Admissions, Monday through Friday, 8:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. @518-885-2233, for an appointment.
We would like to thank you for your interest and we look forward to assisting you in any way possible.
Volunteer Opportunities Available
Saratoga County Maplewood Manor has many volunteer opportunities available. Volunteer positions range from working with individual residents or assisting in resident group activities.
In addition, we also have the following:
Gift Shop Volunteers – We have a gift shop for our residents and visitors. Currently, it is open very limited hours due to the lack of volunteers. If you like to visit with people, helping in the gift shop might be the place for you.
Volunteering is very rewarding and you don't need to take a lot of time out of your busy schedule – even just a few hours a month would be helpful and what a great New Year's resolution to make by volunteering at Maplewood Manor.
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- Activity Calendar January 2015
- Activity Calendar December 2014
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Had a game with a couple of friends, including a "newbie".
Some issues came up about a couple of spells.
The card says: "You may evade any creature or character until the end of this turn."
The newbie friend had this and (most likely joked) about evading spells, events and strangers, but we disallowed this as we assumed it only applies to encounters.
Is this the case or was the newbie right?
The rulebook says: Characters sometime have the option to evade creatures and other characters, such as by casting an Immobility or Invisibility Spell."
However, the Immobility card says: "Cast at the start of a character's turn, before he moves. If cast on a character, he is immobilised (may do nothing apart from negating this Spell with Counterspell) for the duration of that turn."
My friend and I had a dispute about this as by the time his character landed on my space and attacked my character, he had already moved, event though the rulebook suggests Immobility can also be cast if attacked by another character.

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Claire purchased this cottage in 2003
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ADHD Recommendations
There are new guidelines out from the nations pediatricians and their recommendations for treating ADHD (Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder)
And the NEW recommendations are raising a lot of eyebrows....
Looks like the Doctors are going to EXPAND the age category for diagnosing ADHD. They USED to put that span of diagnosis between the ages of 6-12. BUT surprisingly the medical community will NOW include ages 4-18.
So WHY? Some folks say they just want to prescribe for PAY...ya know, make more money but pediatricians say NO...it's to get everyone together on this and include doctors, teachers, and parents. The idea is that IF we diagnosis kids earlier that everyone can intervene if there's a bigger issue.
But what about the money...will all kids end up on Ritalin? Right now it's a $3.4 Billion dollar industry and it will top $4 Billion by 2015.
By opening and widening the age group, pediatricians are hoping to intervene early and treat kids with behavioral therapy INSTEAD of drugs...
Currently 8% of kids HAVE ADHD. So, start looking for the signs as early as 4 years old.


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Gonna be a blizzard here for two days!!!!!yuck.....
I have been trying to fall asleep for hours with no luck..maybe I will take a shower and wash my hair..got a headace and having ny vision problems..
Had a nice gift left on the porch last night from sil....very pretty so got mt thank you written,'.....had hoped to make some cards but still too much pain to concentrate,,,,I will try to get picks up later today.
Morning ladies,
After reading the stories on the weather around the country with some areas going to -50 or more, my heart goes out to all of them. I lived in one of those decades where we got temps like that and they 'ain't fun'...so hoping everyone stays well through it all.
I should have said yesterday I got a walk in as I had to walk up to pay rent. Plus I am sure all the up and down bending taking down, putting away and then putting back out again of the regular knick knacks, got me a RLW too LOL
Off to a busy Saturday of playing "Susie Homemaker"
Happy Saturday!
Candice, how nice to get a surprise gift! That was thoughtful of her. Good luck resting today, too. Hopefully you won't be snowed in. We are almost at drought stage so far this season, and the west side of the state is already there. It will be a very dry summer at this rate. Normal snowfall is 23.1 inches to date, and we've only had 6.8 inches. Last year by now we had 24 inches by now.
Sue, glad you got a nice walk in, even if it was to the office. Taking down Christmas is on my list this morning while DH is at work.
Ive been productive so far, and Ryan is all clean and fluffy, much to his dismay. We need to run a couple things back to WM from Christmas. While I love my new bathrobe, I itch every time I wear it. Something in the synthetic fiber I suppose. I need to get going putting away all the Christmas stuff, too.
Have a great day everyone!
Good evening my friends,
It has been football, football, football Saturday around here! I didn't mind it for a while but it did spur me to give my kitchen a ceiling to floor cleaning! And, yes, the leak under the sink is fixed, praise the Lord and thanks to Ash's dad, Wesley. Wesley came to hang out with Ash for a while and heard Larry sawing away on the pipe under the sink and asked Ash what was going on. Of course, he could look in my kitchen and see pots stacked up and dirty dishes, glasses, etc. piled up and know something was wrong! Anyway, long story short, Wesley asked Larry what was wrong, went into his truck and took out a tool especially made for pipes, cut the pipe for Larry and repaired the leak!! HALLELUJAH!!! There was also a leak from the faucet, we didn't know we had, and he repaired with a new washer. He did all of this in about 30 minutes!!
Anyway, I have doing laundry and catching up the cleaning I planned for my kitchen yesterday and listening to my guys excitement watching football. I did watch off and on, when my back and hip were hurting and right now I'm having back spasms...no idea why...so am taking a break.
Carolyn, prayers continue on your behalf and for your family. Thank goodness you finally heard from the clinic. I can only imagine how much you want to get this surgery over with and all the chemo behind you. Larry asked about you yesterday so I know he is also praying for you. How is Michael's mom, [I can't remember her name] doing? I'll bet the holidays have been very hard and depressing for her. Keep us posted on your upcoming doctor visits.
Becky, now that's a bummer on the itchy robe! I'd be tempted to wash it to see if that would help but then I guess you couldn't return it to the store! Did you get all your Christmas decorations put away? My house seems so much larger and is much cleaner with the tree down, since the tinsel fell off it often and the loose snow on the snow village would fall when ever the kids would move the little people around. Kelsey has always loved the village the most and she still loves moving the 'characters' around...as she calls them! The only thing I have left to put up is the huge tub that has all the snow village stuff in it! Did DD2 finish her project?
Sue, I concur with you about the weather!! I can not imagine having such low temperatures. I freeze when it gets down into the 20's here and stay wrapped up in my big robe! It must have been sort of nice to get out and walk, if for no other reason than to see some different scenery. Does your complex decorate for Christmas?
Candice, I had to laugh when I saw Eliana's picture with the dog bone. I think it's so funny that she likes those so much. Hopefully, she doesn't share with the pooches, but one never knows with kids. Larry brought the fire pit back to Big A this morning before I woke up!! )o: I'd love to have seen my little man. Larry gave him a bottle and played with him for about an hour! He said Lori was so glad to see him as she was able to get some cleaning done while Larry was there.
Lori told Larry Big A is trying to sell their mobile home and already has someone coming by to look at it so I had to call her to see what was going on. I thought their plan was to wait until May to put it on the market. She said Big A is getting ahead of their plan and she was upset by it. If this person wants to buy then they will end up moving into an apartment, which is dumb!! She asked my opinion. I didn't want to step on anyone's toes but I told her maybe she and Big A should sit down today and talk about their time line again and set some things in stone! And maybe Big A can tell the guy they are not ready to sell yet. Maybe the family will come look and not like it or will love it and will be agreeable to waiting a few months to buy it!
Guess I'm going to have to take a muscle relaxer for my back as the spasm is getting worse. It feels like someone has come up and punched me and takes my breath away! The medication makes me lethargic, but not sleepy enough to actually put me to sleep.
Waving to Ginger.
GOD bless,
Rose, sorry about your back pains! I don't like taking sleepy meds, either. I think your advice to Lori was right on target. It would be helpful to be on the same page together. Sometimes I wonder if DH and I are even in the same library, much less on the same page, but we usually talk it out. DD2 got it almost done, which for her was close enough. She and DD are both good students, but her study habits are erratic at best some days. She waits till the last minute then wails most of the time. I'd be nuts if she were. Y DD full time! LOL! As far as the un-decorating goes, no we didn't get it all down, but I made a good dent in it and have the winter door wreath hanging up now. I bought the wreath and sparkly blue and silvery balls all on clearance one year and put them together. I have something for almost every season for my door now. February's wreath I think I made for under $2 one year, and March and October I sewed a small banner for each season, using our apple branch cuttings for the hanging rods.
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Walker recorded his fastest time of the season (25:51.5) for 37th place in a field of 189 runners. Ahmed was right behind in 38thm with a personal season's-best time of 25:52.6.
Victor Rotich and Camden Perez each improved their times by around one minute. Rotich crossed the finish line in 26:31.4 (55th) and Perez recorded a time of 27:37.0 for 91st.
Austin Stansky finished 103rd (27:48.9) and John Trollinger was 116th (28:26.3). Terris Elliott's time of 28:34.4 put him at 118th, while Justin Knuth stopped the clock at 29:55.9 (140th).
David Ricksecker of Liberty University posted a winning time of 24:07.6 and Liberty University placed runners in the top four spots and cruised to the team win. Western Carolina University was second and Spartanburg Methodist College was third.
In the women's 5K race, all seven of the Lady Flames recorded personal bests for the season to help the team finish 12th out of 25 teams.
Jessica Childers knocked nearly a minute off her previous best to pace the Lady Flames and placed 54th with a time of 18:58.3.
Cayce Bryan lowered her season-best time to 19:06.0 to finish 61st. The sophomore improved upon the 20:15.59 time she recorded at the Louisville Classic two weeks ago.
Alexis Hewitt's time of 20:18.8 was good for 109th. Rachel Waltz (20:35.7) was 120th and Storyie Miller (20:39.9) was 121st.
Emily Arnesen crossed the finish line in 21:36.2 (138th) and Emily Carden had a time of 22:07.3 (160th).
Duke University scored the team win. Davidson University was second and Florida State University rounded out the top three. SSAC foe Brenau University finished three spots behind Lee at 15th.
Two unattached runners claimed the top spots in the individual race with times of 17:16.7 and 17:23.6. Carly Thomas of Florida State was the top finisher representing a school with a third-place time of 17:38.1.
The two squads will see their next action when they head to Berea, Ky., and the Southeastern Classic on October 20 for a final tuneup before the SSAC Championships.


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Things to do in Amsterdam
Amsterdam is a pedestrian-friendly city, but it'd be a shame not to explore it as the locals do - by bicycle. Rent a bike from AmsterBike and pedal around yourself, or take a guided tour. (If you'd rather not bike, you can get a great overview of the city on a canal cruise). Here are some other classic things to do in Amsterdam:
Visit the Van Gogh Museum. Housing the art collection of Vincent Van Gogh's younger brother, Theo, this museum includes around 200 paintings and 500 drawings by Holland's native son, as well as by Van Gogh's friends and contemporaries. The paintings tell the story of Van Gogh's journey from Holland, where his work was dark and somber, to France, where he discovered vivid color.
Sightsee in the historic Begijnhof district. This classic example of Dutch architecture dates back to the 14th century. The neighborhood has a serene setting, with small houses and picturesque gardens surrounding tidy courtyards.
Stroll through Bijlmermeer. This neighborhood, once infamous for muggers and junkies, is now a booming area for innovative architecture, and is home to the shopping center Amsterdamse Poort.
Sunbathe in the Vondelpark. What to do in Amsterdam between museums and tours?This 120-acre park, located near the Rijksmuseum, has gorgeous lawns, paths, and an open-air theater, as well as a Picasso statue.
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I was at species meeting when one of the members casually mentioned he has a DI unit in line after the RO unit. The initial reaction was one of disbelief as it seem the ultimate in redundancy. Then 2 members spoke up who do the same thing, one of them a highly respected AOS judge who brings outstanding plants to these meetings.
On further discussion it was stated that the cost is minimal as he needs to get his unit recharged very rarely, 1 1/2 years or so on the average. The fully charged unit will absorb a certain amount of impurities before it needs to be recharged. If it is fed RO water it has very little work. On the flip side if after 1 1/2 years it ask for a recharge, it means is has absorbed a certain amount of impurities even though it was fed RO water. My ppm from the RO unit just reads less than 10, not 0. The person who brought it up grows great Sophronitis coccinea, Dend cuthbersonii and other cloud forest plants. The AOS judge grows none of these, she is mostly into Laelias, Catts and other less sensitive plants. She simply does it because in her opinion it gives her the best possible water at minimal cost. I don't think anyone present, including myself, was sold on the idea, I was just wondering if anyone is doing this or even has heard of someone doing it. Nick |
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I have an RO/DI unit from when I used to keep reef aquariums. The DI is important in that situation because reef invertebrates can be very sensitive to small amounts of copper, phosphorus, etc. I removed the DI when I took down my aquariums. My RO water runs about 4ppm TDS, and I believe that is plenty pure for any plant. I only use the RO water for my carnivorous plants, and for spraying down leaves to prevent mineral stains. The orchids get acidified tap water. If I grew any very sensitive orchids, they might get RO, but I think DI would just be overkill. Maybe it makes some people feel better, but IMO it's just an unnecessary expense. |
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I used to have a reef tank and I know exactly what you are talking about. I also feel it's an unnecessary expense and bother, I just wanted to see if anyone pipes up who uses it for orchids. Nick |
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Golden Gate Transit's "The Wave" — a free shuttle from the Ross Valley to the Larkspur Ferry Terminal — didn't create much of a splash during its Tuesday morning debut.
About a dozen passengers were spread over five trips, and the first three runs had a grand total of one passenger. The biggest haul was the last trip, which had eight people on board.
"It's a work in progress," said Mary Currie, spokeswoman for the Golden Gate Bridge District, which operates the service. "We are bringing back the shuttles after they were eliminated a few years back, so it will take some time to build some ridership."
The shuttle has five runs between 6:35 a.m. and 8:20 a.m. from downtown Fairfax. The shuttle returns to Fairfax from the Larkspur Terminal for the afternoon commute. Six trips are scheduled for between 4:05 p.m. and 6:55 p.m.
"I thought I'd take it, why not," said commuter Debbie Orgel, who had planned to take a bus to work in San Francisco when she saw the shuttle. "I'm glad it's back. It's another option for us in Marin. I hope it continues."
The Wave — designated as Route 25 — is free for Larkspur ferry customers. All other passengers are subject to local fares. The shuttle is a pilot project and will last through June 2014, when it will be assessed.
While prior shuttle service never caught on, ferry riders are likely to have an incentive to ride the shuttles in early 2014. That's when ferry officials are planning to begin charging between $2 and $5 to park at the terminal. Public hearings on the plan will be held later this year.
"If we do develop a fee it will likely make the free shuttle more attractive," Currie said. "But so far the handful who have come in are glad that it is here. The service will grow."
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"Reciprocity," by Mark Sijan, is one of several sculptures in "Face to Face." It depicts a young man giving a piggy back ride to an older man. The age spots, scaly patches and blue veins on the older man's skin in the resin sculpture are shockingly realistic. YAM Executive Director Robyn Peterson said at the recent opening reception, a board member let out a yelp when she saw the work because she thought it was real.
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- Created 7 October 2011; Published 14 October 2011Convocation: Pedro Noguera
Pedro Noguera is one of America's most important voices for healthy public education. As a leading urban sociologist, he examines how schools are influenced by social and economic conditions in the urban environment. What are the challenges they face in providing safe, academically rewarding environments? What is the state of race relations, racial inequality? What is the role of diversity? What is the impact of violence, parents, and school vouchers? What factors promote student achievement? Which detract from it? What is the impact of immigration and migration?
Noguera holds faculty appointments in the departments of Teaching and Learning and Humanities and Social Sciences at the Steinhardt School of Culture, Education and Development, as well as in the Department of Sociology at New York University. He is also a part-time high school teacher, the author of several groundbreaking texts, and a regular guest on CNN and NPR. Recently, he helped launch A Broader, Bolder Approach to Education, a group of public policy experts in various fields (housing, education, civil rights), and from across the political spectrum, working to break a decades-long cycle of reform efforts that promised much and have achieved far too little. The group works in areas that research shows must be addressed if we are to keep our promises to all of America's children.
A dynamic speaker who translates social theory into concise, hip language with emotional impact and intellectual rigor, Noguera examines the hurdles faced in providing equal education to all – and then unveils the solutions that are already working to overcome them – in his presentation titled "Creating the Schools We Need: A Broader and Bolder Approach to School Reform."
- Created 6 May 2011; Published 11 May 2011Convocation: Arn Chorn-Pond
Arn Chorn-Pond was both a victim and survivor of the Cambodian genocide who grew to become an internationally recognized human rights leader. Subject of the Emmy-nominated documentary The Flute Player and a founder of Children of War, an international youth leadership organization for building community, activism and healing for teenagers, Chorn-Pond opens eyes and hearts as he helps to heal. The title of his presentation was "Child of War, Man of Peace."
- Created 29 April 2011; Published 2 May 2011Convocation: Joshua Aronson
Associate Professor of Applied Psychology at NYU's Steinhardt School of Culture, Education and Human Development, Joshua Aronson has been studying stereotypes, self-esteem, motivation, and attitudes for the past 13 years. His work seeks to understand and remediate race and gender gaps in educational achievement and standardized test performance. Often, the low performance of blacks in particular, but other minorities as well, gets casually chalked up to genetic or cultural differences that supposedly block acquisition of skills or values necessary for academic achievement. In sharp contrast, Aronson has uncovered some exciting and encouraging answers to these old questions by looking at the psychology of stigma—the way human beings respond to negative stereotypes about their racial or gender group. What he has found suggests that being targeted by well-known cultural stereotypes ("blacks are unintelligent", "girls can't do math", and so on) can be very threatening, a predicament that has been termed "Stereotype Threat."
- Created 18 February 2011; Published 9 March 2011Convocation: Sonia Shah
Investigating how science and politics collide in a lop-sided world, Sonia Shah is a critically acclaimed writer on science, human rights, and international politics. Shah was born in New York City to Indian immigrants. Growing up, she shuttled between the northeastern United States where her parents practiced medicine and Mumbai and Bangalore, India, where her extended working-class family lived, developing a life-long interest in inequality between and within societies. As an undergraduate at Oberlin College, she earned her BA in journalism, philosophy, and neuroscience. Her books have included Crude: The Story of Oil and her prize-winning drug industry exposé, The Body Hunters: Testing New Drugs on the World's Poorest Patients. In her latest book, The Fever: How Malaria Has Ruled Humankind for 500,000 Years, Shah reveals the amazing story of malaria, a disease that infects one-half billion people every year, killing nearly 1 million – despite the fact that we've known how to prevent and cure the disease for over one hundred years.
- Created 4 February 2011; Published 11 February 2011Convocation: R. L'Heureux Lewis
R. L'Heureux Lewis is an Assistant Professor of Sociology and Black Studies at the City College of New York – CUNY. His research concentrates on issues of educational inequality, the role of race in contemporary society, and mental health well-being. The changing national and international landscape necessitate deeper, more sustainable, and meaningful engagement conversations and research. Through his writing, speaking, and commentary his work analyzes some of the most pressing issues in the post-Civil Rights era. With specializations in race and ethnic relations, his research and activism grapple with the areas of education, youth culture, public policy, and mental health. As a scholar-activist, he is engaged in projects relating to the reformation of education, Hip-Hop culture activism, and race-conscious policies. His commentary has been featured in media outlets such as US World News Report, Diversity in Higher Education, National Public Radio, theRoot.com and the Detroit Free Press. The title of his presentation was "Stony the Road We Trod: The March Towards Educational Justice."
- Created 22 October 2010; Published 1 November 2010Convocation: Robert Bullard
Father of the environmental justice movement and human rights activist, Robert Bullard leads the fight to protect disempowered communities. He is the author of a multitude of books that address issues of sustainable development, environmental racism, urban land use, industrial facility siting, community reinvestment, housing, transportation, climate justice, emergency response, smart growth, and regional equity. Many of his books have become standard texts in the environmental justice field.
Currently serving as the Ware Distinguished Professor of Sociology and Director of the Environmental Justice Resource Center at Clark Atlanta University, Bullard is also one of the planners of the First and Second National People of Color Environmental Leadership Summit, and has also served on the U.S. EPA National Environment Justice Advisory Council where he chaired the Health and Research Subcommittee. The title of his presentation was "Environmental Justice for All."
- Created 1 October 2010; Published 6 October 2010Convocation: Rudolph Byrd
The Goodrich C. White Professor of American Studies at Emory University, Rudolph Byrd began his academic career at Carleton College where he was a member of the Department of English and Chair of the Program of African and African American Studies. He joined the faculty of Emory University in 1991 and is the founding director of the James Weldon Johnson Institute for Advanced Interdisciplinary Studies, established in 2007. Named for James Weldon Johnson, author, composer, educator, lawyer, diplomat, and pioneering leader in the modern civil rights movement, the Johnson Institute is the first institute at Emory University established to honor the achievements of an American of African descent. One of the premiere sites in the nation for the study of the modern civil rights movement, the work of the Johnson Institute is to offer a framework for understanding the history and legacy of civil rights, and to provide a context to explain the ways in which the civil rights movement continues to have relevance. The Johnson Institute is the home of the Alice Walker Literary Society, of which Byrd is the founding co-chair. An engaged scholar committed to service and scholarship at the local and national levels, Byrd is also a consultant to the United Negro College Fund/Andrew W. Mellon Programs. The title of his presentation was "Regarding James Weldon Johnson."
- Created 7 May 2010; Published 24 May 2010Convocation: Oliver Wang
Oliver Wang writes on pop music, culture, and politics for a variety of publications and outlets including: NPR, Vibe, Wax Poetics, LA Times,Oakland Tribune, Village Voice, SF Bay Guardian, URB, LA Weekly, Scratch, SJ Metro and Minneapolis City Pages, amongst others. He also maintains a separate site, Chasing Chan, for his writing on Asian American cinema. In 2003, he edited and co-authored the book, Classic Material: The Hip-Hop Album Guide. Wang has a PhD in Ethnic Studies from UC Berkeley. His dissertation, a social history of the Filipino American mobile DJ community in the Bay Area, has since been turned into a community research project called "Legions of Boom" and currently being adapted into a manuscript to be published by Duke University Press. As Assistant Professor of Sociology at CSU-Long Beach, Wang teaches courses in popular culture, social issues and race/class/gender. The title of his presentation was "Something Borrowed, Something New: Asian American Popular Culture."
- Created 9 April 2010; Published 12 April 2010Convocation: Norma Ramos
Norma Ramos is a longstanding public interest attorney and social justice activist. She currently serves as the Co-Executive Director of the Coalition Against Trafficking in Women, which is the first organization to fight against human trafficking internationally, now in its twenty-first year. She writes and speaks extensively about the sexual exploitation of women and girls as a core global injustice. An eco-feminist, Ramos links the worldwide inequality and destruction of women to the destruction of the environment. The title of her presentation was "Ending Human Trafficking in Our Lifetime."
- Created 26 February 2010; Published 5 March 2010Convocation: Patrice Gaines
Patrice Gaines is an award winning journalist and former Washington Post reporter who has proven that you cannot judge a book by its cover. She grew up a self-hating young woman, entering one abusive relationship after another. She became a heroin user, went to prison for possession of the drug and was raped and beaten before she began her long contemplative journey to change. She later began her journalism career at the Miami News, and worked for sixteen years as a reporter with the Washington Post, where she carved a niche for herself focusing on human-interest stories that reflected current issues. During this time she spent six years researching a notorious Washington, D.C. murder for which eight young men remain incarcerated. Her work on the story raised serious doubts about the guilt of the youths and showed readers the absolute power wielded by police and prosecutors. This story plus her own experience with the judicial and penal systems sparked her to begin speaking on the states of those systems today, including the high rate of incarceration among minorities and the poor, questionable police practices, prosecutors with too much power, and the weeding out of bad lawyers. She also offers an engaging look at the power of the press, told from an insider point of view. The title of her presentation was "How We Can All Be Free: Prison Reform in the 21st Century."
- Created 1 May 2009; Published 5 May 2009Convocation: Kip Fulbeck
Kip Fulbeck is an award-winning artist, slam poet and filmmaker. He is the author of Permanence: Tattoo Portraits, Part Asian, 100% Hapa, and Paper Bullets: A Fictional Autobiography, as well as the director of a dozen short films including Banana Split and Lilo & Me. Fulbeck has been featured on CNN, MTV, and PBS, and has performed and exhibited in over 20 countries. He speaks nationwide on identity, multiraciality and pop culture, mixing together spoken word, stand-up comedy, political activism and personal stories. A challenging and inspirational teacher, Fulbeck is a professor of art at the University of California, Santa Barbara, where he has been named an Outstanding Faculty Member four times. He is also an avid surfer, guitar player, motorcycle rider, ocean lifeguard, and pug enthusiast. A complete overachiever despite being only half Chinese, Kip is also a nationally-ranked Masters swimmer. The title of his presentation was "What Are You? The Changing Face of America."
- Created 10 April 2009; Published 15 April 2009Convocation: Daryl Davis
Daryl Davis, a Grammy Award winning blues and R&B pianist, took an extraordinary journey into the heart of one of America's most fanatical institutions – the Ku Klux Klan. Driven by the need to understand those who, without ever having met him, hated him because of the color of his skin, Daryl decided to seek out the roots of racism. Davis met Roger Kelly, Imperial Wizard of the Invincible Empire Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, and began to explore the Klan, gaining real insight into its workings and members' minds. This quest into the heart of ignorance and hatred gave Davis a ray of hope for harmony between races. Davis believes that after decades of violence and hatred, racism can be overcome as we get to know one another on a social basis, not under a cover of darkness. The author of the acclaimed book Klan-Destine Relationships, Davis seeks to empower others to confront their own prejudices and overcome their fears, establishing a common ground to help forge peace even with the most unlikely adversaries. The title of his presentation was "A Black Man's Odyssey into the Ku Klux Klan."
- Created 6 February 2004; Published 15 March 2004Convocation: Ellis CoseEllis Cose was a Chicago newspaper columnist before he was old enough to vote, and from that brilliant beginning has gone on to build successful careers in three related fields. A respected journalist, Cose has worked as reporter and columnist for several major newspapers; he is the author of a number of well-received books; and he has also served with government and university think tanks as an expert in journalism and the politics of energy. The title of his lecture is 'Beyond Expectations: Black Men and American Society'.
- Created 16 January 2004; Published 3 February 2004Convocation: Dick GregoryOn the frontline in the 1960s during the Civil Rights era, today Dick Gregory continues to be a drum major for justice and equality. Gregory is an African American comedian and civil rights activist whose social satire changed the way white Americans perceived African American comedians. The title of his lecture is "Keeping the Dream Alive."
- Created 16 May 2003; Published 22 May 2003Convocation: Maxine Hong KingstonAward-winning author Maxine Hong Kingston presents an historical overview of Chinese immigration to the United States and assimilation into American life and culture. Kingston has received numerous fellowships and other honors for her work, ranging from being named as a Living Treasure of Hawaii to winning an American Academy and Institute Award in Literature.


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This house is THE place to come to check out Havre De Grace and surrounding towns. It's within walking distance (and we mean walking, not dog tired hiking!) of all that Havre De Grace has to offer including the marina, parks, museums, the Vandiver Inn (best place to get married or have an event - we know - we did it:), restaurants and the bay are literally two blocks away.
The house is Victorian but with a country cozy feel. The beds are all new and very comfy. It's furnished to handle a large family with pets (we love 'em) and offers everything you could possibly need to eat, drink, and be merry:).
There is terrific shopping, ample antiquing opportunities (and we mean AMPLE), and all the places you'd ever want to stop, have a bite, and regroup!
It's becoming the new 'artist colony' of the area and offers many galleries and a fabulous art supply store to check out. Havre De Grace is 'small fishing village' meets 'vacation get-away'.
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This weekend, I was running errands in my neighborhood when I bumped into someone I slept with in the last year. (Narrows it down, doesn't it? Ha!) Immediately, I felt overwhelmingly flustered. In fact, I may have spoken some form of gibberish. After exchanging pleasantries — his sensical, mine, not so much — we went our separate ways, but I found myself weirdly shaken up. It was the sort of thing that I would have previously associated as a sign that I had romantic feelings for that person; my shaky hands an indicator of nervous sexual energy, and the vague nausea in my stomach would have been called "butterflies." I would have relished that feeling, called it "thrilling." Wondered when I would see that person in a naked capacity again and, Oh! Did he feel it too? Ah, the mystery. Isn't that what makes romance so exciting?
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—Finally, The Wall Street Journal has a insightful take on the big money issues facing college sports in an era of shrinking public funding for universities as well as shrinking advertising revenues for sports networks.
Like dynastic rulers desperate to protect their holdings, the two sides have engineered an alliance. The schools have offered up their most marketable asset, college football. The networks have agreed to marry the sport to the most important segment of their audience: the millions of viewers across the country who can still be counted on to drop whatever they are doing to watch live sports.
As a dowry, TV has agreed to pump about $25.5 billion in rights fees into college conferences and their member schools over the next 15 years. That includes a recent deal for ESPN to televise major-college football's first playoff—a four-team bracket launching in 2014—that is valued at $5.6 billion over 12 years. The schools, meanwhile, are doing whatever is needed to maximize what they can command from TV: playing more games, jumping to new conferences, abandoning long-standing rivalries, dismantling the old system of postseason bowl games and, last June, approving that first-ever playoff.
The piece provides plenty of more reasons to believe that the current setup is unsustainable.


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Stacy: Kathy Griffin's below the belt comedy displays cracks in the culture
There's just not an appropriate way to describe Kathy Griffin's behavior with CNN's Anderson Cooper on New Years Eve. To put it simply, she kissed Cooper's crotch repeatedly. Cooper tried to restrain her but she never missed a beat; completely derailing an already tragic appearance.
Admittedly, I haven't watched the broadcast since the very first one she co- hosted, as she disgusts me. Her comedy is of such a poor quality, lacking morals or any semblance of preparation that there really wasn't any reason to waste time on the show once she joined. Still, I was surprised to see the news reports of this behavior. Where is the decency? What is the reason that the network didn't cut away and admonish her to stop?
My instincts tell me that she doesn't have to behave on CNN because they don't want her to. CNN"s executives simply do not care who is offended by Griffin, because their ratings go up when she brandishes her low brow brand of crazy. Yet, that doesn't even begin to fully explain the lack of reprisal. This is an example of how little our society values chaste proper decorum, how debased our society has become.
Notably, CNN has been in the news of late for their low ratings. So offending even more Americans than their left wing, unabashedly biased reporting already has seems idiotic. But it isn't in their case, because they simply have no level by which to judge behaviors. CNN permits this because they see nothing wrong with it, and no one is complaining.
This is a symptom of a cracked Culture. Lax sexual behavior is brazenly displayed and the public doesn't rise up to rebuke it, because the public has already been desensitized to a level that permits even further degradation.
Apparently we need a men's organization equivalent to the National Organization for Women to hold press conferences and sue female TV hosts for sexually harassing their male co- hosts to get the proper response here.
As preposterous as that sounds, if it would stop Griffin, I would be all for it.
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Who in the world thinks she's funny? I would be amazed if their New Year's Eve show had even one viewer.
She is so crude. She is not a lady!
Apparently, women now have the right to treat men as badly as we used to accuse them of treating us.
I can hear the other side already – "Whaddaya mean? This is nothing! It was all in fun! It was a joke! Get over it! She was just playin'!"
It's sad that we've fallen this far into the gutter – half of us don't even recognize "nasty" or "vile" when we see it, any more.
If the rolls were reversed and he had kissed her crotch, they would've panned away, taken him off the air, fired him and then sued him.
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In the run up to the Shepherd Center of Chesterfield's Senior Idol contest, volunteers from the center held another fund raiser; hosting a ladies tea party. "Hats" was the theme for the party. Many of the ladies came prepared to be judged for their hats. Each were judged in four categories; Most Beautiful, Most Zany, Most Creative and Most Shabby Chic. After finger sandwiches, tea cakes and breads, dessert cakes and several pots of tea served by the gentlemen from the Handyman program of the center and the youth group of Grace Lutheran Church, the winners were announced.
Seven-year-old Grace Zoller took the prize for the Most Creative. The Most Beautiful Hat was worn by Cindy McNally. Cindy Timberman was wearing the Most Shabby Chic and Frankie Smith, with a stuff skunk on top of her head, took the Most Zany honors.
Becky Brock, chairman of the Hospitality Committee for the Shepherd Center organized the tea. Scott Fisher served as emcee. The ladies had an enjoyable time spending the afternoon with friends. Several door prizes were given away, as well as a raffle for an original watercolor. Each of the tables had a hostess that decorated the table with her favorite tea pots, cups, plates and centerpieces.
The Shepherd's Center of Chesterfield's next event will be the Second Annual Senior Idol contest. Scheduled Friday, May 18, at 7 p.m., at the Victory Tabernacle Church of God, located at 11700 Genito Rd.
linda, thank you so much for the wonderful article,on the shepherd center,tea. it was a
very nice article ,indeed. and i enjoyed having you @ my table.it really was a nice afternoon,spent happily with friends. thanks again, for the article on the tea
and the nice advertisement for the idol. see you there. janie


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Mark Anthony Jackson is a college student living in Harrison County. He says he's waiting for a check to come in, but now he needs help from the food pantry. With supplies dwindling, though, the United Churches of Marshall Food Pantry is having a tougher time helping people like Jackson.
Sharee Stevens has been the president of the food bank since 2000. She says she's never seen the shelves this empty. "It's frustrating because you can't give them everything they need because we're out of some things." That includes fresh meat, milk and mac-and-cheese.
The pantry is operated in part by the East Texas Food Bank. It depends entirely on donations, and in the summer months, Stevens says, there are fewer coming in. That's a problem though, since summertime is when more children are home during the day--and when more food is needed.
If you would like to contribute to the food pantry, Stevens says the best way is a monetary donation, since the pantry can purchase food less expensively from its supplier than you could buy at the local grocery store. However, they do accept canned items, which will stay good for longer and can help feed more people.
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Pressure on 'No Campaign' to accept key commission recommendation.
The Scottish National Party has warmly welcomed the recommendation of the Electoral Commission urging the Scottish and UK governments to agree a "joint position" before the referendum, "so that voters have access to
agreed information about what would follow the referendum", whether it is a Yes or No.
This Commission recommendation fully supports the call by the Deputy First Minister Nicola Sturgeon for pre-referendum discussions between the two governments about the issues which would require to be negotiated after a Yes vote – and therefore directly contradicts the stance of the UK Government, which has rejected such talks.
SNP MSP Bruce Crawford – who chairs the Referendum Bill Committee – said:
"This is a landmark recommendation by the Electoral Commission – which they base on the Edinburgh Agreement – and one which the UK Government must immediately commit to. The Tory-led government at Westminster and the No campaign have said time and again that the Electoral Commission recommendations must be implemented in full – therefore they must abandon their obstructionist stance of rejecting pre-referendum talks to prepare for a possible Yes result, in line with the Commission's recommendation at paragraph 5.43.
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Was walking back to Wren from Carmichael when it was snowing, when I heard a squirrel repeatedly making a racket on a tree.
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Although we have only had 2 classes of Intro to Japanese culture, it seems that the main topics to be studied in depth (Evanescence and Form), have been touched upon by Professor Inouye. Through my interest in Buddhism, I have become accustomed to hearing that everything is subject to change, or "brief, fleeting, every changing…" (Inouye, 1). However, what sparked my curiosity was the idea that there some to be an overarching way in which things change, that "change occurs according to a fixed pattern" (Inouye, 1), and that this is the concept of "form". Thats somethingI had not considered. Its not the contradiction that bothers me, its the idea that something 'fixed' exists, something that gives shape to the ever changing. Although I have not been able to conciliate this idea of form quite just yet, one thing i noticed was that my view on the cicada as simply an insect has changed incredibly. The idea of a 'cicada-husk life' (Inouye, 23) from a poem in the Man'yoshu makes me think of people who aren't really living, but just appear to be, as if they have nothing beneath that fragile cicada shell. Intrigued for what pops up next in class, seems kind of unpredictable.


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The Chrysler 300 is great, and the SRT version is even better. Although the 300 is essentially a Dodge Charger with different sheetmetal, the more elegant exterior design makes it appealing to a larger audience than the ostentatious Charger. Adding a 6.4-liter Hemi V-8 and subtle design changes makes the car even more appealing to me. There's still not enough refinement in the 300 package to seriously challenge the German juggernauts (despite the platform descending from the E-class during the DaimlerChrysler era), but you can get a very fast, very spacious car for $50k.
I wouldn't rush out and buy a 2013 300 SRT8, though. Jeep just introduced the 2014 Grand Cherokee SRT and it benefits from an eight-speed automatic transmission. The 300 will certainly get the eight-speed within a few months, so a wise shopper would hold off until that happens. The eight-speed gearbox won't magically make the SRT8 a fuel sipper, but every mpg makes a difference when you're feeding 6.4 liters of fury.
Phil Floraday, Senior Web Editor
The Hemi in all its forms is a deliciously vocal and addictively powerful engine that transforms every vehicle into which it's fitted into a better, more entertaining version of itself. The 300 SRT8 is no different. Then again, it also helps that the 300 is so good to begin with. To their credit, the folks at SRT have beefed up the steering, brakes, and chassis rather than just dropping in a big engine and calling it a day. What's most likable about the 300 SRT8 is that it's very Mercedes AMG-like-not-un-ironically since it's distantly based on a Mercedes-Benz-in its ability to be both a smoky-burnout hooligan and an effortless and rewarding grand tourer.
For 2013, the adaptive damping system has been made more customizable. I played with it a bit and felt a slight difference among the three available modes but was hoping for a bit more compliance from the comfort setting. The fact that the system is accessible only in Uconnect is disappointing, too. I'd much rather see a switch mounted on the dash where it could be easily accessed and put to use more often.
Jennifer Misaros, Managing Editor, Digital Platforms
Aside from the fairly tacky carbon-fiber trim marring the interior, I'm pretty much in love with this car, as I knew I'd be from previous experience in SRT-modified Mopar sedans. I'm pretty angry with Mother Nture and the press-car gods, however, because I got only one night behind the wheel of the 300 SRT8, and it was raining hard and/or foggy the entire time I had the keys. You think it's easy to spin the tires on dry pavement...
Rusty Blackwell, Copy Editor
I tweeted that the Chrysler 300 SRT8 is my guiltiest pleasure. SRT picked up on that and responded with, "Enjoy guilt-free cruising with Fuel Saving Technology." Yeah, that's definitely not what I meant. Maybe this would've been better: "If I could stop loving the Chrysler 300 SRT8, I would." Its slick looks and brutish powertrain are seductive, but it lacks the polish of the German sedans it's priced to compete with. The 300 is my favorite American four-door and the SRT8 is the best version of it, but it needs an interior that leans more toward luxurious rather than sporty.
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Cardiff University researchers are exploring how waste heat from car exhausts could provide a new greener power supply for vehicles.
Professor Mike Rowe's long term research interest at the Cardiff School of Engineering has been in thermoelectric generation - employing thermocouples to convert heat into electricity. The conversion technology is used in everyday applications such as controlling the central heating system or refrigerator temperature. Now Professor Rowe aims to use this technology to generate electricity from the waste heat in vehicles.
Professor Mike Rowe, OBE School of Engineering said: "The main interest in cars is to decrease the petrol consumption and reduce CO2 emissions. If you can utilise the exhaust heat you could replace the alternator. This would provide a 5 per cent saving in fuel straightaway."
Vehicle manufacturers in the United States are already investing in exploring this technology, however Professor Rowe has found the UK's interest in the technology to be slower.
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Thomas Mann, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, and Norman Ornstein, a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, are savvy political scientists who know Washington politics well. And they have been regarded as middle-of-the-road guys, centrists, for a number of years in DC. That is why their book, It's Even Worse Than It Looks, published by Basic Books in May, has startled some media types with its thesis, which argues, in a nutshell, that the core of Washington's political dysfunction lies with the Republican Party. As they put it in The Washington Post:
The GOP has become an insurgent outlier in American politics. It is ideologically extreme; scornful of compromise; unmoved by conventional understanding of facts, evidence, and science; and dismissive of the legitimacy of its political opposition.
Along with their criticism of the GOP, Ornstein and Mann had some harsh words for the press. As they wrote in their book:
Because of the partisan nature of much of the media and the reflexive tendency of many in the mainstream press to use false equivalence to explain outcomes, it becomes much easier for a minority, in this case the Republicans, to use filibusters, holds, and other techniques to obstruct.
CJR's Trudy Lieberman sat down with Mann to explore where he and his co-author think the media have gone awry. First the politics, then the press:
The Politics
Why is the GOP to blame for political stalemate you describe in your book?
They are now the primary source of the stalemate. At the very beginning of the Obama administration, they made an explicit decision—now well documented—to eschew any policy negotiations with the newly elected president and Democrats in Congress. It's a strategy of total political opposition—to avoid sharing any responsibility for the performance of the economy and to do nothing that might improve its performance, because that would boost the electoral prospects of President Obama and Congressional Democrats. Their motivation goes beyond differences on the issues. It's an aggressive, non-negotiable stance, illustrated by the no-new-tax pledge of Grover Norquist, that makes any real constructive policy making impossible.
What's in it for Republicans?
The worse the economy is, the better their chances of gaining control of the White House and both Houses of Congress and putting in place a radical view of policy that goes well beyond anything Republicans have proposed in the past.
As you see it, is this driven by ideology or the goal to control government?
It's both. The ultimate objective is ideological, but the means to achieve that objective are very strategic.
Explain a little more about the strategy.
It involves abandoning and denigrating policy proposals you once supported as soon as the other party embraces them; denying the efficacy of governmental actions to deal with the economic crisis; threatening a public default, by holding the need to raise the debt ceiling hostage to non-negotiable demands to cut domestic spending, in the midst of a weak economy; using the Senate filibuster routinely and ruthlessly to deny sizeable majorities an opportunity to put its program into place; delaying or denying the confirmation of presidential nominations even when you approve of the nominee. The list goes on. You do everything you can to inflict political damage on your political adversary.
Are you saying the Republican Party has changed?
The result of all this is the transformation of the Republican Party into a radical party—not really a conservative party—that no Republican president in the modern era would have felt comfortable being a part of.
It's a democracy—Isn't it okay for one party to do this?
Of course, it is perfectly legitimate for a party to propose a radical change of policy course. But it is essential that the public have some grasp of what that party is proposing and what its likely consequences would be. Public opinion research suggests that citizens have little knowledge or understanding of either the source of our dysfunctional politics or the nature of the Republican policy ambitions.
In your book, you say that democracy's ultimate weapon—the ability to throw the bums out—has proved wholly inadequate. Why?
The public can certainly get upset with the status quo and throw incumbent officeholders and parties out of power. Obama was the beneficiary of that in '08. The trick is figuring out whom to hold responsible for unsatisfactory conditions in the country. The most common target is the president and his party in Congress. But what if that president's program has been weakened or subverted by the minority party in Congress? And who does one blame under divided party government, as we have in the 112th Congress?


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