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How I turned my passion into a second profession
AMBITION: Teacher and Author
PROBABLE DESTINATION: Authorizing excuse slips.
These two sentences from the year book of my senior year of high school must have found a permanent place somewhere in the depths of my psyche to have a silent but very effective voice in mapping out my career, and prove to myself that I could not only authorize excuse slips, but I could also autograph my own book.
Ever since I can remember, there were two things I loved doing the most: teaching and writing. My first passion revealed itself when I became my sisters' teacher at about the same time I started school myself. Whatever I learned during the day was repeated to my sisters who were still at home.
My love of writing manifested itself in the form of story-telling, creating make-believe worlds, using our limited number of toys as actors in improvised plays with my sisters. It was an oral form of creating, not captured in writing until I would become more sophisticated. Eventually, my love of teaching and my enjoyment of literature combined to beckon me towards what would become my call: Teacher of English literature.
It is rare in this age for anyone to spend 25 years of one's career with the same company or the same school board in the same office or school, doing more or less the same job. Yet in an age of mobility, change, reinvention as much as I loved what I was doing, I did spend a quarter century of my life within the same building, the same class rooms, traversing the same halls whose slow demise paralleled mine. When one grows older with a structure, one does notice these things. Every room I taught in, every cabinet or window sill I decorated with plants, each little window that allowed me a peek to the outside world still owns a part of me.
While I was earning my living by teaching my students how to write, my inner writer was not dormant. I wrote poetry, short stories, submitted to competitions, attended writing workshops, joined writing associations, and lived in an alternate world that caused me grow more and more estranged from the confinements of the classroom and the monotony of my vocation. After two decades of pouring my heart and soul into it, pedagogy did not interest me any longer as it did. I started longing for a work life not regulated by bells and five minute recesses. I wanted to fill invoices for writing I completed; not discipline forms for despicable misconduct. I longed to sign my name at the end of an article; not on an excuse slip authorizing a student's tardiness.
It was the turn of the century and a turning point in my life too. I took two years' leave of absence and went to Newfoundland, where my then husband worked. I hoped I would find employment there and quit my teaching back in Montreal, but we all know about the best laid plans of mice and men.
While I was applying for different positions advertised in the paper, I also kept busy by volunteering at the provincial museum of archeology and history. The museum's education program offered schools hands-on learning experiences on their province's heritage. My teaching background and bilingualism helped to qualify me for docent volunteer, and after a week's training I was ready. I never missed a session, three mornings a week teaching all of the three different programs. It was more fun for me, because I saw it as a learning opportunity for myself. My devotion and enthusiasm did not escape the eye of the educational programs coordinator. At the end of the school year, I was named the museum's "volunteer of the year", an honor I which still cherish.
My interest in photography and fascination by how children were involved in interactive learning led me to write a reflective piece about the program and its innovative impact on education. Then I sent a cold pitch to the editor of the provincial newspaper, The Telegram. He was interested! My piece was featured in the following week's Life Styles section. They paid extra if I provided the photos. That was in February, 2001. When I saw my name at the end of the front page long piece of the section with the words introducing me as "... a freelance writer who recently moved from Montreal.", I almost cried with joy. Actually, I did.
I didn't know how a freelancer worked, how often I could submit a piece, whether that one was a strike of luck, yet what I had instinctively learned was that if I wrote well and wrote interest pieces about the local personalities and history, I had a chance of being published again. That's what I did during my stay in Newfoundland. I looked for a story in everything and everyone I came upon. Sometimes I tried to tell stories through a Montrealler's point of view. Other times, I found a Newfoundland connection in other places. One of my features, "Newfoundland Hospitality in Nova Scotia", is about a historical B&B in Nova Scotia, run by a couple, originally from Newfoundland. Then I learned that the husband owns and flies his Tomahawk single engine plane. He took me on a thirty minute flight over Cape Breton, which gave rise to another piece, "Romancing Romeo", about him, his plane, and the couple's plan of flying it to Newfoundland after tourist season to visit their family.
When I had to return to Montreal to honor my teaching contract, my heart was no longer in teaching English. I changed my discipline to teaching Consumer and Home Economics – although I really wanted to be a full time writer. Thus I kept my connection with The Telegram by seeking stories that would interest Newfoundlanders. One of my students, a skater, turned out to be the grand niece of a former federal cabinet minister from Newfoundland. Her family lived in St John's but sent her to school in Montreal, because we had the program which accommodated skaters training for championships. "A Jewel in the Crown" was my first piece submitted from Montreal.
While I was teaching housing, design, nutrition, and needlepoint to young people, I was also noticing how much they lacked in food education and common sense, yet they had so much creativity with their hands. This gave rise to the creation of a new direction in the course and subject matter for me to write and tie to my Newfoundland experiences. Knowing I was limited in topics from a distance, I started thinking hard and came up with the idea that if I wrote about food, I may have a longer "shelf life" as a freelancer from afar. I wrote tempting pieces and shared recipes with photos I took, for the Food and Drink section. I sought the weekly arts, readings, book launches, and other events happening in St John's, and contacted artists, painters, entrepreneurs, specialists by phone to interview them and submit a piece to the paper. I worked as long distance freelance writer on the side, while I taught and dreamed of getting out of teaching.
In the Spring of 2004 when I enrolled in a workshop on how to promote oneself as a freelance writer, I knew it was in feature writing that I had found my voice. That workshop marks an important step in reinventing myself by learning about and joining the Professional Writers' Association of Canada. By then I had published enough articles in different venues to meet the criteria to be accepted as a media card-carrying professional member.
Having my name in PWAC's list of Canadian writers opened up other opportunities for me. I started getting offers by editors who wanted to know if I'd like to write for them. Trade magazines paid much better than newspapers. Most of the assignments I received were out of town which meant I worked from home, conducting long distance phone interviews and submitted my work electronically. Initially this was a step beyond my comfort zone, and as with everything else in my life, I was reluctant to tread on uncharted territory. Then I remembered the words of my father every time I hesitated before a new venture. "Success belongs to those who go after it."
Seeing my pieces on glossy magazine pages, accompanied by the work of professional photographers, brought another level of satisfaction. In 2007 after consulting PWAC site and seeing that "food writing" is one of my areas of specialty, the on-line editor from New York offered me a contract to develop and test five new recipes for WeightWatchers™ .
I never made money hand over fist by my writing; my bread and butter always came from teaching. Yet when I look back over the last ten years, I realize how far I have come in a self developed second career as a writer, with over a hundred features in my name. Freelance writing has given me the ultimate satisfaction by fulfilling my dream of writing for a readership and doing so mostly on my own terms. It has provided me with the balance that a restrictive teaching life imposed on me for many years. On the other hand, teaching not only provided me with the means to live a decent lifestyle, but also with valuable insights and experiences about people, which I incorporated into my writing. While my writing itself is not lucrative, my teaching has granted me a basic pension to live on.
My advice? If you think it is worthy of considering my advice, here are a few points which helped me in reinventing myself as a freelance writer and author. View every life experience as a possible story and consider how you can connect it to experiences with which people can identify or from which they can learn. Network with like-minded people and expand your experience base. Be inquisitive.
Don't shy away from working for free and volunteering until you establish yourself. Volunteering is a great way to get in touch with people, hear their stories, share one's own, make contacts and get a perspective on a community and its people.
Be creative and try fitting occasions to your purpose without being overbearing. If you want to write a piece and pitch to an editor to consider for publication, ask yourself these questions:
A) What's my purpose in writing this? B) Why now? C) What's my message?
If your answers are relevant to the times and satisfy you beyond doubt, then you have something to share with readers. Next work on a hook, an angle to your piece - that's how you'll try to catch your editor.
Will of my Own - a Memoir, which I wrote and self-published in 2009 answers these three questions. Had making a fortune been my quest, I would not considerate it successful. I'm happy, however, from all the feedback I have received to date that my book has been a better success than I ever expected.
I used to be fascinated by women who "reinvented themselves" in their fifties and told their success stories on talk shows. I never thought one day I'd see myself in a similar situation - and I do not in all honesty. Still, when I look back at a career I chose years ago, I'm happy and fulfilled that the path I chose allowed me not only to authorize hundreds of excuse slips, but also to author many featured pieces as well as a book to tell my story. It took much hard work and determination to get here, but it was a passion well worth pursuing.
And that's what I, modestly, call my brilliant second career.
Füsun Atalay ~ Copyright © Will of my Own - 2011
This was very inspiring and sending hugs
Having just fallen out of the trees -- losing a job I happened to have loved ... i find myself in tune with your advice.
"Then I remembered the words of my father every time I hesitated before a new venture. "Success belongs to those who go after it." "
What a wise man your father is. Thank you for writing this; you are gorgeous, both inside and out.
Lovely. your organization and tone are mellifluous.
I love your ending photo with your memoir! Lovely smile- its in the eyes.
Makes me want to go to Canada and Newfoundland, too.
Congratulations on a well-deserved EP. I find myself deeply inspired by this piece. It is fascinating to know more about your story and your influences. You give me much to think about in this piece.
And your writing. I don't know how a free-lancer works, enjoyed reading your thoughts, and how you went about it...I have wondered about you writers and how do you have folks find you. You go find them, I now see. : )
I love your father's quote: "Success belongs to those who go after it."
How true. It sounds like you.
@Fernsy: Thanks, dear friend!
@ Seer: Your observations are spot on, and even the most creative teachers can go so far within the confines of what they're allowed in the system. Thanks for your visit and comments.
@Boanerges: Thank you very much. I'm aware of your experience in journalism.
@ Miguela: Trust me, I longed for the gypsy life while I taught. I still cannot believe I stayed in one place for 25 years!
@ Linda: There's much satisfaction in doing what one loves. Receiving remuneration for it is icing on the cake. Great to see you here!
@ Vivian, with your resourcefulness, I don't doubt you'll land back on a nice branch of a lovely tree again. Thanks for your kind comments.
@ Margaret: I wish you the best in your ventures and thank you for letting me know that my post was helpful.
@ Spike: Spoken like a sage. We should consider ourselves lucky, shouldn't we? Thanks for crossing into my yard.
@ Jonathan: Thank you, my friend.
@ Sheila: Life is a journey. We learn by sharing with each other. Thanks for sharing yours.
@ Owl: Thank you.
@ Janice: Wonderful that you are getting published. Eventually you may get paid for your work, once you prove your skill and worth. Good luck to you.
@ Mango: Go with your heart. You probably need a brake after teaching for quarter of a century. :o) Writing for leisure is a great thing.
@ Rei: Thanks for your comments. Nice to see you here.
@ Paul, my esteemed Colleague: I don't think I have much influence on anything per se. I simply shared my modest story in the hope that it may help someone. I appreciate your visit and finding food for thought here.
@ Divorcedpauline & Joan E. : Your writings are just as inspiring and I thank you for your visit.
@ Oryoki: Whatever you decide on for a third career - if you want to go for it - I'm sure with your intelligence, intuition, and skills you will succeed, without a doubt.
@ JR: If I didn't see for myself what a generous and genuine person you are, I would've thought that you were trying to hi-jack my blog with kindness. Thank you for being great a support through a difficult time, and for being open to suggestions and ideas.
@ Cathy: There are those far more accomplished than I, but thank you for your kind words just the same. U R a sweet ♥
@ Christine: Good to see you. Thank you.
@ Thoth: Good to see you, my friend. Thank you for noticing Seer's insight.
@ Lorraine: Thank you for passing by and dropping a kind comment.
@ Felicia: Nice to see you, it's been a while. Thanks for dropping in.
@ Just Thinking: I'm glad you enjoyed the read. Ten years ago, I didn't know much about what I do now either.
@: Susie - how sweet of you! I'm sure someone else will be more deserving.
@: Alysa: Thank you so much for your kind thoughts expressed so warmly.
@: Mary Ann, Trilogy, Scarlett - Thank you ladies!
He's right of course ... your father ... success does belong to those who go after it. To those who have a dream and work hard to achieve it. It also belongs more so to those who, having achieved their dream, continue to inspire, share and teach others,
You do that, dear Fusun. Thank you.
And your father's admonition? Success belongs to those who go after it.
The best piece of fatherly advice about making your mark I think I have ever heard. Thanks for noticing me and providing a friendly hand when I first got to posting here.
Me, I'm still working on my first brilliant career. And wondering where the "brilliance" comes in. =o\
Like you, I got committed to writing not too long ago. Reading this has made me more determined to work hard for the success that I know will come if I persevere.
@ Kate: Thank you, Kate. And you inspire us with your beautiful poetry.
@ Natalie: Your accomplishments are very impressive too. You're an excellent writer and documentary film maker.
@ Abrawang: Thank you. I'm glad if I've been instrumental in any minute way, buy you already write so well.
@ scanner: If I had a class full of students like you, I'd probably still be teaching. I learn from you a lot too.
@ bikepsychobabble: You're most welcome.
@ Erica: Thank you, dear Erica. Good to see you.
@ Dunn'Owl: Thank you for your positive response to suggestions and your kind comments.
@ FTMidwest: Thanks, Gary. You should write about your brilliant second career. :o)
@ Miguela: I also have learned much from you. Thank you, equally.
@ Sarah: How kind you are! That photo was taken at the launching of the book.
@ Lezlie: I love your writing so much that I selfishly wish you never grow up. :o)
@ Chiller Pop: Thank you for 'pop'ing in. I hope your wish comes true soon as well and you let us know.
@ snarkychaser: I'm glad you found this inspiring. Don't be a stranger; it's nice seeing you.
@ sweetfeet: I sincerely hope your dreams come true. Best to you!
@ Wren Dancer: Go for it. I think that's the age when you have a lot of experience from which you can draw.
@ Bellwether: Yes, 'follow your heart' and don't give up. You understand well. Thank you for dropping by.
@ rita: Thank you, dear lady. When shall we see your volume of all that beautiful poetry?
@ Shiral: You are brilliant at whatever you do. I've seen enough of that here in your art work and different genres of writing.
@ Robert Steibel: Thank you, Robert. I enjoy your cartoons very much.
@ Jali: Take it easy on that chocolate!
@ Kathy: Thanks very much for your kind comments.
@ Pilgrim: Always the astute observer and wise commentator. Thank you, Sir.
@ Reflecting On History: I'm glad you found my experience helpful. I found your second career piece fascinating.
All the best to you.
@ A. Walrond: I'm so glad. I hope that you will achieve the success you work for. Best wishes to you.
@ Rita: Thank you very much. I'm so glad that you're back, I missed your beautiful poetry.
@ Rodney: Thank you, my friend. I agree. I hope all those dreams may find fruition too.
@ Fay: You never fail to inspire and instruct either. It's a pleasure to know you and read you here. Thank you.
@ mhold: I love your words and your ability to work with them so uniquely. Thank you ♥
@ Anne Camille: Thanks for reading!
@ tg within: Pleasure to see you, thanks for your kind remarks.
@ Geraint: Most welcome, to another excellent writer and person.
@ Chrissie: That's the best thing I could hear, Chrissie. Thank you. I find inspiration in others here too. I'm glad to have met you through Christine.


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The goal of the Cass Clay Food System Initiative (CCFSI) is to increase access to safe, nutritious, and affordable food for our residents by strengthening all aspects of the local food system. The local food system includes producers, processors, distributors, sales, and consumers.
CCFSI was started in early 2011 by members of the University of Minnesota Extension Service, North Dakota State University and Cass County Extension Service, Fargo Cass Public Health, and Clay County Public Health. A planning committee with representatives from all sectors of the food system was brought together to set the direction of the initiative, develop a framework and identify task force areas within the initiative.
In an effort to engage the broader community, CCFSI is hosting a kick-off event "Discovering Local Food Solutions" on September 28, 2011. The event is free and open to anyone with an interest in improving our local food system. Representatives from various sectors of the food system as well as interested citizens will have the opportunity to serve on task force groups within CCFSI including food infrastructure, urban agriculture, economic development, outreach and education, and food access.

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Welcome to the Official Website of the STRIDE Hawai'i Mentoring Project. The STRIDE research project is funded by a grant from the United States Department of Education, Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services, Rehabilitation Services Administration (Grant Number H235S040121).
STRIDE Hawai'i is actively recruiting mentors. If you want to make a difference in the life of a youth with a disability then please volunteer. We are seeking people with and without disabilities to become mentors. So, if you want to volunteer please drop us a line! We need YOU! You can contact us at: STRIDE Contact Information. If you want to apply to become a mentor you can print out and fill the Mentor Application Forms and bring them to a mentor orientation. You can also download the STRIDE Hawai'i Brochure.
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Participation Gaps for Youth with Disabilities:
• 35% are
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• 22% fail to complete high school, compared to 9% without disabilities
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• 28% postpone health care because they can't afford it, compared to 12% without
• 41% voted in the 2000 presidential election, compared to 51% of those without
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• Increased interest in continuing education and the knowledge of how to do so
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A Little Princess (1995 film)
A Little Princess | |
Theatrical release poster
Directed by | Alfonso Cuarón |
Produced by | Alan C. Blomquist Dalisa Cohen Amy Ephron Mark Johnson |
Screenplay by | Richard LaGravenese Elizabeth Chandler |
Based on | A Little Princess by Frances Hodgson Burnett |
Starring | Liesel Matthews Eleanor Bron Liam Cunningham Vanessa Lee Chester |
Music by | Patrick Doyle |
Cinematography | Emmanuel Lubezki |
Edited by | Steven Weisberg |
company |
Distributed by | Warner Bros. Family Entertainment |
Release dates
Running time
97 minutes [1] |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Budget | $17 million |
Box office | $10,015,449[2] |
A Little Princess is a 1995 drama film directed by Alfonso Cuarón, starring Liesel Matthews, Eleanor Bron, Liam Cunningham, and Vanessa Lee Chester. Set during World War I, it focuses on a young girl who is relegated to a life of servitude in a New York City boarding school by the headmistress after receiving news that her father was killed in combat. Loosely based upon the novel A Little Princess by Frances Hodgson Burnett, this adaptation was heavily influenced by the 1939 cinematic version and takes creative liberties with the original story.
Due to poor promotion by Warner Bros.,[3][4] the film hardly made back half its budget. However, the film was critically acclaimed[5] and given various awards, such as two Academy Award nominations [6] for its significant achievements in art direction and cinematography, among other aspects of its production.
Sara Crewe has to leave her beloved childhood home in India when her wealthy father enlists to fight for the British in World War I. He enrolls her at Miss Minchin's Seminary for Girls in New York, and spares no expense to make sure his daughter will be comfortable while he is gone. Though she finds the strict rules and harsh attitude of the headmistress stifling, Sara quickly becomes popular among the girls, including the African-American servant girl Becky, for her kindness and strong sense of imagination.
Due to a body being misidentified, Captain Crewe is declared dead and has his assets seized by the British government, leaving Sara penniless. With no money and no known living relatives, she has no choice but to earn her keep at the boarding house by becoming a servant. All her possessions are confiscated from her and she's moved to the attic with Becky.
Meanwhile, the elderly neighbor Charles Randolph has recently received word his son John is missing in action. He is asked to identify a soldier suffering from amnesia, but is disappointed to discover it is not John. His Indian assistant Ram Dass encourages him to take in the man anyway, reminding him that he may know what happened to his son.
Though her life is bleak, Sara remains kind to others and continues to hold onto her belief that all girls are princesses. When her friends sneak up to see her and are caught by Miss Minchin, she protects them by saying she invited them. As punishment, Miss Minchin locks Becky into her room and assigns Sara to perform both Becky's and her own chores for the next day, without anything to eat for both of them. To distract them from their hunger, they imagine a huge banquet. The next morning they wake to find their dream has come true, having secretly been left there by Ram Dass.
When Miss Minchin discovers all the finery in their rooms, she assumes they somehow stole it and summons the police. Sara narrowly avoids arrest by perilously climbing over to the Randolph house. While hiding from the police searching the house, she comes across the soldier and realizes it is her father. Though Miss Minchin recognizes him, she refuses to identify the man, allowing Sara to be taken away. Just as the girls are about to be hauled away by the police, Captain Crewe's memories return, saving them.
The Crewes' fortunes are restored to them, and they adopt Becky. The Captain tells Mr. Randolph his son died in a gas attack, giving the man closure. The boarding school is removed from Miss Minchin's care and given to Mr. Randolph, becoming a much happier place. After saying goodbye to all the girls, Sara leaves with her family to return to India. Miss Minchin is later seen reduced to a chimney sweeper working for a boy she previously mistreated.
- Liesel Matthews as Sara Crewe. She is sent to live in a boarding school while her father goes off to fight in the war. She becomes known as a storyteller and a princess.
- Eleanor Bron as Miss Minchin, a cruel and selfish woman who forces Sara to work as a servant and tries to encourage her that she is no longer a princess but she is later seen reduced to a Chimney Sweeper. She is Amelia's older sister.
- Liam Cunningham as Captain Crewe/Prince Rama
- Vanessa Lee Chester as Becky, Miss Minchin's servant.
- Rusty Schwimmer as Amelia, Miss Minchin's long suffering sister. She later falls in love with the milkman and escapes with him.
- Arthur Malet as Charles Randolph
- Errol Sitahal as Ram Dass
- Taylor Fry as Lavinia
- Heather DeLoach as Ermengarde
- Peggy Miley as Mabel
- Darcie Bradford as Jesse
- Rachael Bella as Betsy
- Alexandra Rea-Baum as Gertrude
- Camilla Belle as Jane
- Lauren Blumenfeld as Rosemary
- Kelsey Mulrooney as Lottie
- Kaitlin Cullum as Ruth
- Jonás Cuarón as Chimney-Sweep (uncredited)
A Little Princess | ||||
Film score by Patrick Doyle | ||||
Released | May 9, 1995 | |||
Length | 49:57 | |||
Label | Varèse Sarabande | |||
Patrick Doyle chronology | ||||
All of the tracks were composed by Patrick Doyle. Three of the tracks feature soloists. The "String Quintet in C major Perger 108, MH 187" by Michael Haydn is also used in the film. The film also features the New London Children's Choir.
- "Ramayana: A Morning Raga" (2:03)
- "Children Running" (0:53)
- "Cristina Elisa Waltz" (3:03)
- "The Miss Minchin School for Girls" (1:40)
- "Knowing You by Heart" (2:32)
- "Breakfast" (0:55)
- "Letter to Papa" (1:38)
- "Angel Wings" (1:07)
- "False Hope" (2:05)
- "The Trenches" (1:00)
- "Crewe and the Soldier" (1:22)
- "Alone" (1:19)
- "The Attic" (2:00)
- "On Another's Sorrow" — Catherine Hopper (1:16)
- "The Shawl" (0:54)
- "Tyger Tyger" (0:32)
- "Compassion" (0:37)
- "For the Princess" (1:38)
- "Kindle My Heart" — Abigail Doyle (the daughter of the composer) (3:00)
- "The Locket Hunt" (3:02)
- "Midnight Tiptoe" (1:13)
- "I Am a Princess" (1:14)
- "Just Make Believe" (1:33)
- "Touched by an Angel" (1:43)
- "Emilia Elopes" (1:38)
- "The Escape" (2:58)
- "Papa!" (2:32)
- "Kindle My Heart" — Liesel Matthews (4:19)
A Little Princess holds a 97% 'Fresh' rating on Rotten Tomatoes based on 32 reviews with the critics consensus, "Alfonso Cuarón adapts Frances Hodgson Burnett's novel with a keen sense of magic realism, vividly recreating the world of childhood as seen through the characters."[5]
Janet Maslin called the film "a bright, beautiful and enchantingly childlike vision", one that "draw[s] its audience into the wittily heightened reality of a fairy tale" and "takes enough liberties to re-invent rather than embalm Miss Burnett's assiduously beloved story." She concludes:[7]
"From the huge head of an Indian deity, used as a place where stories are told and children play, to the agile way a tear drips from Sara's eye to a letter read by her father in the rain, A Little Princess has been conceived, staged and edited with special grace. Less an actors' film than a series of elaborate tableaux, it has a visual eloquence that extends well beyond the limits of its story. To see Sara whirling ecstatically in her attic room on a snowy night, exulting in the feelings summoned by an evocative sight in a nearby window, is to know just how stirringly lovely a children's film can be."
Rita Kempley of The Washington Post called the film Cuarón's "dazzling North American debut" and wrote it "exquisitely re-creates the ephemeral world of childhood, an enchanted kingdom where everything, even make-believe, seems possible....Unlike most distaff mythology, the film does not concern the heroine's sexual awakening; it's more like the typical hero's journey described by scholar Joseph Campbell. Sarah, the adored and pampered child of a wealthy British widower, must pass a series of tests, thereby discovering her inner strengths."[8]
Awards | |||
Year | Award | Category | Result |
1995 | Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award | Best Music Best Production Design Best Picture (2nd place) New Generation Award (Alfonso Cuarón) |
Won |
1996 | Academy Award | Best Art Direction and Set Decoration | Nominated |
Academy Award | Best Cinematography | Nominated | |
Young Artist Award | Best Family Feature - Drama Best Young Leading Actress - Feature Film (Vanessa Lee Chester) Best Young Leading Actress - Feature Film (Liesel Matthews) |
Nominated |
Home video release[edit]
A Little Princess was first released to home video in August 1995. In 2004 it was released on DVD.
See also[edit]
- List of book-based war films (1898–1926 wars)
- Sarah... Ang Munting Prinsesa - a 1995 Filipino film adaptation of A Little Princess.
- ^ "A LITTLE PRINCESS (U)". British Board of Film Classification. 1995-09-14. Retrieved 2012-08-12.
- ^ A Little Princess at Box Office Mojo
- ^ http://articles.latimes.com/1995-08-10/entertainment/ca-33583_1_warner-bros
- ^ http://articles.latimes.com/1995-07-23/entertainment/ca-26824_1_warner-bros
- ^ a b A Little Princess at Rotten Tomatoes
- ^ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0113670/awards
- ^ Maslin, Janet (May 10, 1995). "Fairy Tale Doing a Child's Job: Reveling in Exuberant Play". The New York Times. Retrieved 2012-03-01.
- ^ Kempley, Rita (May 19, 1995). "'A Little Princess' (G)". The Washington Post. Retrieved 2012-03-01.
External links[edit]
- A Little Princess at the Internet Movie Database
- A Little Princess at AllMovie
- A Little Princess at Box Office Mojo
- A Little Princess at Rotten Tomatoes
- A Little Princess at Metacritic


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North Cedar Before & After School Care Program Corp. Staff!
Debbie Lannon- ProprietorHello Everyone!
I started this company in 93/94 at North Cedar Elementary, then I expanded to Chase River and Pauline Haarer, and continued to expand through out District 68. Now (almost 20 years later) with a total of five centers, close to twenty staff, and 120 children in care, the business is far from where it started. This business and the people in it are all family to me and one another. My educational background consists of a human services degree, community support worker, along with many other Childcare related certificates. However, in the near future I plan to continue my learning in Health and Nutrition. I am very passionate about being green! I love gardening and learning about natural medications and herbs. When I am not reading a book, or learning something new, I am spending time with my family, and my animals. We hope you enjoy us and who we are and we look forward to meeting you and your families! |
Erin Volen-AdministrationA BIG warm HELLO!
My Name is Erin Volen. I have worked with children from 4 months old to 12 years old for 18 years. I have a deepened passion for playing; being creative, inspiring youth to be all they can be and teaching through play! What can I say other than: I am "the inner kid". My experience has primarily been with school aged children, all courses taken through local organizations to support my community! I have an extensive list of certificates and creditials pertaining to child care. I also have 4 children in my home! Phew! I thoroughly enjoy working with children and will always have a place for many of them in life! "It's never too late to have a happy childhood." |
Cilaire Before & After School Staff
Lisa Dunstan- Manager My name is Lisa Dunstan.I am a mother of two and a grandma! I have been in childcare for about 14 years. I started out in my home when my daughter was 6yrs of age then carried on taking care of children in my home. I have also been a foster parent, and caregiver to special needs children. I have been working for
Debbie Lannon now for almost 5 years. I have always had a desire to work with children. In my spare time I enjoy: baking, walking my dogs, gardening, as well as quality time with my family. |
Park Avenue Before & After School Staff
Yvonne Rafter- Manager I have worked in District 68 for twenty years, during this time I also took in a few children to care for in my own home. I joined Debbie's team three years ago, and love it still. Children have always been a joy in my life! Their uniqueness and growing personalities, no matter how bad your day is, always puts a smile on your face!
In my spare time I enjoy being with my family, my husband and two kids, and friends. I love to walking, boating, gardening, baking. cooking, and, of course, Sunshine! |
Christy Hunt- LeaderHi Everyone!
I started caring for children in 1993 as a relief worker for others, for a few months, knowing that I could take my own child with me. I then realized how much I enjoyed working with children. I then moved to a rental home where it was possible for me to open my own daycare. From 1994 to 2011 I ran my own family daycare. Once my children had grown up past the daycare age, I still wanted to work with kids, and thought that a new experience out of my home would be different, but with the same passion. That is when I started with North Cedar Before and After School Care Program, in September 2011. I have thoroughly enjoyed working with the family like staff and the incredible families! One of my long term goals would be to complete my Early Childhood Education diploma and continue to work with children, for they have been a big part of my life for so long! |
Frank J Ney Before & After School Staff
Sheena Dixon- Manager Before June 2012 I was an Education and Geography student at VIU. It gave me the opportunity to work and learn from many wonderful educators from both departments along with educators from SD68 and SD71. I worked very hard and conjured up approx 600+ hrs of practicum experience teaching K-3.
Currently, I've been working with NCBASCP since the beginning of Sept 2012 and I'm really enjoying it. Our focus at this site is on physical activity, interactive play, and healthy food choices. This includes multiple organized games with or without equipment in the gym and Harry Whipper Field (weather permitting), art activities and experimenting with multiple materials creating 2d and 3d images and lastly, during down time the kids enjoy some throw back games like Twister, Hungry Hungry Hippos, Connect 4, and Uno to mention only a few. When I'm not at Frank J. Ney Elementary I'm enjoying outdoor activities such as fishing, hunting, boating, hiking, archery, camping, and indoor activities like movies, books, and time with friends and family. |
Connie Haynes- LeaderHello Everyone!
My name is Connie Hanyes and the care of children has always been my #1 interest,even before I had my own 2. I feel it is important to give children a safe and happy environment to be in. I have been doing childcare in my own home for over 10 years, and have been with NCBASP for 12yrs. I have hosted international students for 8 years, and I have been a Girl Guide Leader and a Cabin leader at Moorecroft Camp. My interest are my family & pets, and when I have some other spare time I love gardening, reading & baking. |
Departure Bay School Before & After School Staff
Rhonda Thompson- Manager When my children were small I wanted to be able to stay at home with them all the time. So I began a small daycare in my home, which I ran for the next 9 years. Once my children began school full time, in Departure Bay School, I started working as the manager of the Before and After School Care there that was started by Debbie Lannon. Over the last seven years I have come to know and love so many of the kids and their families. I have also attended many childcare related workshops, and have been a regular volunteer at Departure Bay School!
When I am not at my center I am still always with children (my own two amazing kids)! We enjoy many outdoor activities together such as: Fishing, camping, kayaking, and beachcombing. I also have a passion for photography, and enjoy taking professional photos of children and families! |
Katie Curwood- Leader I started looking after children when I was eleven. I would babysit for all my neighbours. I attended and volunteered with scouting from age five to fourteen. When I moved to the island at fifteen I started to get involved with the united church, and I ended up being the preschool Sunday school teacher with my church for four years. In the summer after I graduated high school I started working and volunteering with Morrecroft camp. I loved being a cabin leader. In college I worked hard for two diplomas. One in Resident Care and the other as a Community Support Worker.
I started working for NCBASP at 18 well in college and loved it! When I graduated from school I started working with the Child Development Center, I attended classes and seminars with them and learned about challenging behaviours and child development. I worked with them as a support worker and a sub for the preschool till 2009 and in November of 09 I came back to NCBASCP. I really like our care team and feel like I'm with family. I look forward to coming to work everyday and believe I have the best job on earth! |
Pauline Harrier School Before & After School Staff
Kairis Gingerysty- Manager/Administration Hi Everyone!
My name is Kairis Gingerysty, and I have worked with children since I can remember! I was always that kid in the neighborhood to babysit or coordinate all the games in the backyard! I continued this drive to help children through secondary school with a hand washing program and peer tutoring studies. Out of secondary school I worked with the Boys and Girls Club of Central Vancouver Island for over 4 years, where I was provided with High Five Training, and was eventually promoted to Licensed Program Supervisor. During this time I was studying at Vancouver Island University, where I graduated with a Bachelor of Arts Degree. I love to travel and have been to many different countries around the world! I also love to play rugby, instruments, act, sing, and I have a silly imagination. But overall my greatest passion is children, whether it be helping them learn new skills or just playing around! |


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Deutsche Bank's Top 7 European Stock Picks for 2012
(Adds Standard & Poor's possible downgrade of Germany and France.)
BOSTON ( TheStreet) -- Deutsche Bank's (DB) securities unit says Europe will likely fall into a recession soon and shares on the Continent will lag behind those in the U.S.
Still, Germany's largest bank cites a range of European stocks that do business all over the world, helping them weather the turmoil in fine shape. They include a trendy watch maker, a firm that makes ball bearings, and one of the world's largest oil companies.
Standard & Poor's said it may cut Germany's and France's AAA credit ratings as the agency put 15 euro nations on review for a downgrade. The eurozone's six AAA-rated countries are among those to be placed on a negative outlook. Their credit ratings may be lowered depending on the result of a European Union summit Friday, Standard & Poor's said. Deutsche Bank's analysts' thesis is that even if the eurozone economy goes to hell until it gets its sovereign debt in order, the firms it picked aren't going away because of their solid fundamentals, niche markets, brand strength and, most of all, broad international exposure. "Our preference overall is for the right kind of globally exposed stocks where the enterprise value and free cash flow has fallen to levels that look attractive," Deutsche Bank said in a report. "Keeping an eye on cash flow is obviously advisable in this environment." And it is obviously a tough year for European stocks, with the benchmark Stoxx Europe 600 Index down 12%. The S&P 500 Index of the largest U.S. stocks is about break even on the year. Here are seven of Deutsche Bank's top European stock picks that trade on U.S. exchanges as American Depositary Receipts (ADRs):
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Dickey's Barbecue Pit opens in Issaquah
July 2, 2013
Texas-based Dickey's Barbecue Pit opened a franchise in Issaquah June 27 at 5704 E. Lake Sammamish Parkway, directly behind Bartell Drugs.
The new restaurant is owned and operated by mother-and-son duo Sarah and Alex Forest.
Dickey's serves beef brisket, pulled pork, ham, polish sausage, turkey breast and chicken, with an extensive array of home-style sides from jalapeno beans to macaroni and cheese. Buttery rolls are served with every meal along with complimentary ice cream and dill pickles.
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Designed for both contractors and freelancers who may be looking for a solution to simplify the process of tracking time in relation to the projects they're responsible for, PRJCT is a brand new app that features a minimal interface for calculating a project's cost based on a user-predefined hourly rate.
Opening PRJCT for the first time will see the user greeted with the app's home screen. Separating ongoing projects into two menus – "Projects" and "Tasks" – the contractor first adds their project by tapping the Projects menu. To add a new project to the app the user is required to simply pull down on the free space shown. By doing this, the app then creates a new blank item which can be renamed instantly.
Creating a new task for a project follows the same process. Tapping the project a user is looking to create a new task for will spur PRJCT to create a new item related to that project. Upon adding each subsequent new task, the user is also be given the option to set a chosen hourly rate for the project being carried out. This setting controls how fast the cost of the project will accrue, and in real-life situations will likely differ considerably depending on the project.
When a user actually commences on a project, they are given the option to hit play in each item's settings to begin an hourly timer. PRJCT then intelligently calculates the final cost of the active project, and thus what users are owed for completing it, by using the hourly rate originally set when the user first setup the project item – also showing the elapsed time. It's important to remember that creating a Project is not the same as creating a Task. Creating a new project acts as the top of the hierarchy, while any tasks that are required to complete the project are then added to it, and later form the lower layers of the hierarchy.
For those who don't operate in U.S dollars, there's also the option to change this in PRJCT's settings. Here a user can choose from a number of other options; such as hiding the iPhone status bar, changing their default hourly rate, turning the app's sounds off, adding a task count badge to PRJCT's home screen icon, and more.
While I would agree that PRJCT all but excels in its want to provide freelancers with a clean and simple solution to effectively keep track of their time, it should also be noted that the app currently takes advantage of a few touch navigation gestures which may not be immediately clear to the user. For example, to return to the Projects view when buried in a single Task, a user has to double-tap the app's top bar. Instinctively, this should probably require a single tap. Perhaps the addition of a small in-app gestures tutorial would be helpful here?
PRJCT would seem to be suited to its main purpose, but could benefit from just a little more refinement.
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quote:i loved MM and SG, but holy crap how much more professional does Mett to OBJ/Landry look?
quote:That Booty play still pisses me off. 2 guys to throw to, one defender and half an endzone and he throws it to the one place we have no chance to catch it
quote:will never top Mauck to Green in my mind.
quote:I also noticed in that 1987 game in Athens we had yard markings on the field every 5 yards. I know that's kind of LSU's "thing", when did yall start? I wonder if UGA (and other schools I'm sure) liked it and did it for a while, then changed their mind and went back to every 10.
quote:I could watch that Mauck to Green pass over and over.
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Members of Ghost B.C. Keep Identities Secret Through Bribes
Swedish metal band confess during Reddit AMA
Ghost B.C. gave a sermon on Reddit Monday (April 15), pulling back the curtain on their pomp and circumstance during an Ask Me Anything session. No, the notoriously secretive Swedish metal group — made up of frontman Papa Emeritus II and his backing band of Nameless Ghouls — didn't reveal their actual identities, but the six-piece did share some of the methods used to keep their names and faces hidden in an increasingly privacy-averse world. Papa Emeritus II signed onto Reddit but remained silent; instead, one of the Nameless Ghouls came forward for a brief (and belated) Q&A with fans. Find the highlights below:
How do the Nameless Ghouls sign autographs? "We actually have our own individual stamps that we use for signing records and stuff like that. Papa signs with his autograph though."
It must be tough to hang onto that anonymity — how do the Nameless Ghouls do it? "We hand out a lot of bribes. Where do you think that whole advance went?"
Why not have the entire band be faceless? "For us, and therefore everybody else, [to be] able to "understand" the concept of the band — it needed a face. First we wanted it to be completely faceless, but the human psyche needs a focal point. So we got our own [version of Iron Maiden's] Eddie, singing."
Is it tough to know who's who while performing? "After 120+ shows together we've gotten to recognize whatever little body language there is.. Several of us were friends before the band, so we knew each others' individual moving patterns."
Do the members of Ghost B.C. ever break character while on tour? If so, do tourmates just agree not to share their true identities? "We rely on them not to expose us. If we would stay in character all the time, we would go COMPLETELY insane."
Do the Nameless Ghouls symbolize anything in particular? "They represent the four elements (wind, fire, water, earth) and the fifth (ether)."
Where is Ghost B.C.'s church located? "In the deepest crypts of Linkoeping, Sweden."
What came first: the concept for Ghost B.C. or the songs? "The concept came to shape pretty early after the first songs came together. The material spoke in overtly satanic manner, painting a picture of the theatrical concepts of what was to become Ghost."
Ghost B.C.'s upcoming LP, Infestissumam (out April 16) sounds "less metal" to this Reddit user's ears — was that change intentional or did it happen more organically? "The idea of Ghost, musically, has always been to be playful and not be too conscious about what genre this or that riff would be from. Of course there are some dos or don'ts, but we try to be open minded. This modus operandi was the same on the two albums, but I think that 'getting away' with a lot of the shit we pulled (from a metal underground mind set) on the first album, gave us the courage to take it one step further on the new one."


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The Road to Roota | March 14 2012
Did you catch the OpEd in the New York Times this morning? If not here it is…
Why I Am Leaving Goldman Sachs
What most people are focusing on are these passages:
"I can honestly say that the environment now is as toxic and destructive as I have ever seen it."
"Execute on the firm's "axes," which is Goldman-speak for persuading your clients to invest in the stocks or other products that we are trying to get rid of because they are not seen as having a lot of potential profit."
"Over the last 12 months I have seen five different managing directors refer to their own clients as "muppets," sometimes over internal e-mail."
All of these are important revelations to hit the mainstream press but nothing that we didn't know.
What is VERY important about this article is the person who is quitting – Greg Smith.
"Greg Smith is resigning today as a Goldman Sachs executive director and head of the firm's United States equity derivatives business in Europe, the Middle East and Africa."
Holy Cow Batman! It's the HEAD of European Derivatives for one of the biggest CDS players in the world, Goldman Sachs! He's running for the hills just days before the settlement of the largest CDS payout in the history of the industry! Lay this fact on top of the retirement of the CEO of the CME and the removal of the CME as a European Derivative Clearing Organization and you have one toxic brew.
I've been doing some research into the settlement process of CDS's for the Friday Road Trip and from what I can surmise they call it the "Big Bang Protocol" for a reason! What a Cluster #!@*! When the DTCC came out and said this was only a $3.2B issue they totally left out all the Greek CDS's that are not purchased to cover any specific bond investments…which is most of the Greek CDS market!
More in the Road Trip.
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David Nickels '01: Understanding Many Faiths
David A. Nickels '01 says that living oversees for four years in two very different countries, India and Thailand, changed him at the core.
After graduating from LC with a double major in philosophy and political science, David attended Asbury Theological Seminary because of his interest in the Christian faith, an interest which began in his senior year. As a student, David says he was particularly influenced by the Lynchburg College Symposium Readings (LCSR) and discussions required in Senior Symposium. Favorites were Upton Sinclair's The Jungle and Herman Melville's Billy Budd.
Following seminary, David ministered for two years as associate pastor at Heritage United Methodist Church in Lynchburg. David said the best part of the job was "being with families in moments of happiness, times of sadness and uncertainty, weddings, funerals, graduations, babies being born. But I most enjoyed teaching." He taught his congregants about different religions to broaden their perspectives.
David and his wife, Ruda, currently live in central Thailand, where David teaches English to 900 students in a government-run public school. The students are generally low-income and come from villages as much as an hour away from the school. At times, there are not enough desks in the classroom to accommodate the kids, and there is no fixed curriculum. To keep the students motivated, he makes his classes fun, focusing on music, food, and movies.
"What I teach is relevant to them. Now they can have a conversation with a foreigner and say 'what type of Thai food do you like?' When I teach, I try to be positive, and try to encourage my students to be confident while speaking English."
Before moving to Thailand, David and Ruda lived for three years in India, where they became involved with further academic studies. David was made an adjunct lecturer at a seminary and taught Greek and Hebrew to aspiring Christian pastors. He also served in social projects, including New Ark Mission, a shelter for the destitute of Bangalore.
While David grew up in a Christian nation, he found that learning to value other cultural belief systems is vital to surviving and thriving in a new country. "I grew up in a private all-boys Episcopal school in Richmond, received a great education, went to LC in Lynchburg, and then seminary. But now in Thailand I am not around Christians or the church much, and it forces me to think differently and come out of my comfort zone. It is not that I blindly accept everything, but I see the devout faith in the people I interact with daily."
He is finishing work on his PhD with the South Asian Institute of Advanced Christian Studies. His research focuses on the Gospel of John, specifically on the use of the term "Jews" in that gospel, and on the meaning of religion, ethnicity, and interpretation. He also continues with the tradition of the LCSR program he began at LC, and is currently reading Moby Dick.


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Clearing the Browser Tabs – Cyber Monday Edition
Don't forget, friends, if you grab any of those sweet Cyber Monday Amazon deals today, get to the site through the Amazon links of your favorite blog. I'm honestly surprised more folks don't do this pretty much as a matter of course. It takes one extra click from you and can put, at minimum, 4 percent of your purchase price in the pocket of the blogger you love to read. Can't beat that!
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- Ed Driscoll finds that it doesn't take much for progressives to turn puritanical.
- Lance Burri brings you the week in automotivators.
- If Thomas Friedman ever writes a thoughtful column full of insight and free of bumper-sticker platitudes and cloying adoration of the brutes in Beijing, it'll be his first.
- Stephen Green makes a point about the incoming GOP majority in the House I've made here before. They're going to need to tread very lightly with investigations lest they be tarred by the MSM the way they were during the Clinton years.
- Irony Alert: The very law enforcement efforts the city of Portland smugly rejected when George W. Bush was President saved an awful lot of lives there. No one's complaining, though, because Barack Obama's in charge now.
- The Two Quadrillionth Bit of Pi: The Yahoo cloud computing team might have set a world record. Cool stuff there, if you can grok the math.
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Separated shoulder | |
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A Separated Shoulder XRay modified to easily show bones. Notice the separation between the end of the collarbone and the scapula. | |
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Separated shoulder | |
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A Separated Shoulder XRay modified to easily show bones. Notice the separation between the end of the collarbone and the scapula. | |
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A separated shoulder (also known as acromioclavicular separation, AC joint separation, AC separation), is a common injury to the acromioclavicular joint. This is not to be confused with shoulder dislocation which occurs when the humerus separates from the scapula at the glenohumeral joint. The AC joint is located at the distal end of the clavicle, known as the acromial end, and attaches to the acromion of the scapula. Although this is part of the shoulder, a dislocation and a separation are completely different. Acromioclavicular separation occurs as a result of a downward force being applied to the superior part of the acromion, either by something striking the top of the acromion or by falling directly on it. The injury is more likely to occur if the shoulder is struck with the hand outstretched. Despite the scapula pulling on the clavicle during impact, the clavicle remains in its general fixed position because of the sternoclavicular joint ligaments.
The trauma to the shoulder affects the ligaments holding the two bones—the scapula and the clavicle—together. This injury does not always involve bone fractures; however if the impact to the shoulder is severe, fractures may occur.
There are four types of soft tissue disruptions that may cause acromioclavicular separation:
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Separated shoulders often occur in people who participate in sports such as football, soccer, horseback riding, hockey, parkour, combat sports, rowing, rugby, snowboarding, skateboarding, crack the whip, cycling, roller derby and wrestling. The separation is classified into 6 types, with 1 through 3 increasing in severity, and 4 through 6 being the most severe. The most common mechanism of injury is a fall on the tip of the shoulder or also a fall on an outstretched hand. In falls where the force is transmitted indirectly, often only the acromioclavular ligament is affected, and the coracoclavicular ligaments remain unharmed.[1] In ice hockey, the separation is sometimes due to a lateral force, as when one gets forcefully checked into the side of the rink.[2]
The acromion of the scapula is connected to the clavicle by the superior acromioclavicular ligament. The coracoclavicular ligaments connect the clavicle to the coracoid process. The two ligaments that form the coracoclavicular ligaments are the trapezoid and conoid ligaments. These three ligaments add support to the shoulder joint.
Diagnosis is based on physical examination and an x-ray. A separated shoulder occurs because of a direct blow to the AC joint or a fall on the elbow that forces the head of the humerus into the AC joint. Furthermore, AC separation can be identified point tenderness, pain at the AC joint with cross-arm adduction, and pain relief with an injection of a local anesthetic. The cross-arm adduction will produce pain specifically at the AC joint and will be done by elevating the arm to a 90° angle, flexing the elbow to a 90° angle, and adducting the arm across the chest. The pain in the shoulder is hard to pinpoint of the innervation of the AC joint and the glenohumeral joint. An injury to the AC joint will result in pain over the AC joint, in the anterolateral neck and in the region in the anterolateral deltoid.
A Type I AC separation involves direct trauma to the shoulder causing the injury to ligaments that form the joint, but no severe tearing or fracture. It is commonly referred to as a sprain.[3]
A Type II AC separation involves complete tearing of the acromioclavicular ligament, as well as a partial tear of the coracoclavicular ligaments. This often causes a noticeable bump on the shoulder.[4] This bump is permanent. The clavicle is unstable to direct stress examination. On radiographs, the lateral end of the clavicle may be slightly elevated by pressing on the sternal aspect of the clavicle forcing the acromial end down, and by releasing, it may pop back up eliciting a piano key sign due to the tearing of the AC. Severe pain and loss of movement are common.
In a Type III AC separation both acromioclavicular and coracoclavicular ligaments are torn without significant disruption of the deltoid or trapezial fascia.[4] A significant bump, resulting in some shoulder deformity, is formed by the lateral end of the clavicle. This bump, caused by the clavicle's dislocation, is permanent. The clavicle can be moved in and out of place on the shoulder. A radiographic examination, will show the results as abnormal. Pain with motion can be severe.
This is a type III injury with avulsion of the coracoclavicular ligament from the clavicle, with the distal clavicle displaced posteriorly into or through the trapezius and may tent the posterior skin.[4] A displaced clavicle is easily seen on a radiograph. It is important to evaluate the sternoclavicular joint also, because there can be an anterior dislocation of the sternoclavicular joint and posterior dislocation of the AC joint. This injury is generally acknowledged to require surgery.
This is a more severe form of a type III injury, with the trapezial and deltoid fascia stripped off of the acromion as well as the clavicle. This is type III but with exaggeration of the vertical displacement of the clavicle from the scapula. Type V is manifested by a 2- to 3-fold increase in the coracoclavicular distance.[4] The shoulder manifests as a severe droop, secondary to downward displacement of the scapula and humerus due to loss of the clavicular strut.[4] This injury generally requires surgery.
This is type III with inferior dislocation of the of distal end of the clavicle below the coracoid. This injury is associated with severe trauma and frequently accompanied by multiple other injuries.[4]The mechanism is thought to be severe hyperabduction and external rotation of the arm, combined with retraction of the scapula. The distal clavicle is found in 2 orientations, either subacromial or subcoracoid. With the subcoracoid dislocation, the clavicle becomes lodged behind the intact conjoined tendon. The posterior superior AC ligaments, which often remains attached to the acromion, get displaced into the AC interval, making anatomic reduction difficult. The tissue needs to be surgically cleared and then reattached after reduction. Most patients with type VI injuries have paresthesia that resolves after relocation of the clavicle [4] It is extremely rare and generally only involved with motor vehicle collisions. This requires surgery.
Treatment of a separated shoulder depends on the severity of the injury. When beginning treatment some of the things one should do first, is control the inflammation, rest the joint, and ice the joint. Take an anti-inflammatory such as Advil or Motrin to help minimize the pain and inflammation. Rest the joint which will also help minimize painful symptoms and allow the healing to begin. When icing, it should be done every four hours for 15 minutes at a time. One can wear a sling until the pain subsides; then some simple exercises can be started.
Type I and type II shoulder separation are the most common types of separated and rarely need surgery. However, the risk of arthritis with type II separations is greatly increased. If it becomes severe, the Mumford procedure or distal clavicle excision can be performed.
Most non-surgical treatment options include physical therapy to build up the muscles and help stabilize the joint. Literature regarding long-term follow-up after surgical repair of type III injuries is scarce, and those treated nonoperatively generally do quite well. There may also be the potential that surgical repair may be less painful in the long run.
Once the pain has eased, range-of-motion exercises can be started followed by a strength training program. The strength training will include strengthening of the rotator cuff, and shoulder blade muscles. With most cases the pain goes away after three weeks. Although full recovery can take up to six weeks for type II and up to twelve weeks for type III.
Those who do have a separated shoulder will most often return to having full function, although some may have continued pain in the area of the AC joint. With the continued pain there are some things that maybe causing it. It may be due to an abnormal contact between the bone ends when the joint is in motion, the development of arthritis, or an injury to a piece of the cushioning cartilage that is found between the bone ends of this joint.[5]
Type IV, V, and VI shoulder separations are very uncommon but always require surgery. There is some debate among orthopedic surgeons, however, about the treatment of type III shoulder separation. Many with type III shoulder separation who do not undergo surgical treatment recover just as well as those who do receive it, and avoid the added risks that surgery may present. Those who opt out of surgery also have faster recovery times and are able to return to work or sports sooner. Some studies suggest early surgical treatment of type III separation may benefit laborers and athletes who perform overhead motions. The potential benefit of surgical treatment for type III remains unproven.[6] Studies have been done that those who did have the surgery or not will need some kind of operation later down the road. The injured joint degenerates a lot faster than normal and over time it can become arthritic and painful.
There have been many surgeries described to fix complete acromioclavicular separations, including recently arthroscopic. There is no consensus on which surgery is best. Several surgeries have been described with pins or hooks. Another surgery performs muscle transfer.
A common surgery is some form of Modified Weaver-Dunn procedure, which involves cutting off the end of the clavicle portion, partially sacrificing the coracoacromial ligament and suturing the displaced acromial end to the lateral aspect of the clavicle for stabilization, then often some form of additional support is introduced to replace the coracoclavicular ligament(s). Variations of this support includes grafting of tendons from the leg. Other surgeries have used a Rockwood screw that is inserted initially and then removed after 12 weeks. Physical therapy is always recommended after surgery, and most patients get flexibility back, although possibly somewhat limited.
After one does have surgery, a sling should be worn to support and protect the shoulder for a few days. For the first couple physical therapy visits, the treatment will focus on controlling the pain and swelling. Type of treatment can include, ice and electrical stimulation, massage, or other hand on treatment to help ease the pain and muscle spasm.
After about four weeks range of motion exercises can be started.Passive exercises are done which the shoulder joint is moved but the muscles stay relaxed. After about six to eight weeks active therapy is started. Such exercises can include isometric strengthening which works the muscles without straining the healing of the joint. After about three months, more active strengthening will be incorporated which focus on improving the strength and control of the rotator cuff muscles and the muscles around the shoulder blade. The exercises that the therapist gives the patient to be done at home should be done to be able to get a better recovery in the long run.[7]
Some physical therapy exercises that can be performed to help rehab the shoulder are: While standing and using a theraband you can perform Y, T, and W's, Internal shoulder rotation, External shoulder rotation, Shoulder extensions,and Scapula squeezes While laying on your side you can perform internal rotation and external rotation with a light weight. The light weight can be any type of object such as a 1-5 lb dumbbell weight, or a soup can. Also you can foam roll the pectorals. With the foam roller you can also lay on your back on top of it and do snow angels. [8]
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The car has 136000 miles racked up and i expect it to use some black stuff but lately he had to top up over about a month and used about a gallon while covering about a 1000 miles.
Over easter we took the car away with us and covered another 800 miles within 10 days with no oil usage at all.
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As part of the Senior Learning Community, Wagner College seniors carry out a major experiential learning project. For students studying in the Music Department, this is often a senior recital, but others choose to write original compositions, participate in internships, or carry out other projects. Students in the Dual Major in Music and Childhood Education carry out student teaching.
The links below will take you to short descriptions (abstracts) of senior projects by some of our recent graduates. Many of these contain pictures, audio clips, and links to external sites that will give you some idea of the exciting opportunities pursued by Wagner music majors!
2014 Graduates
Katherine Liu: violin recital
Kaitlyn Pinkos: vocal recital
2012 Graduates
Joe Muglia: guitar recital
Ashley Primavera: vocal recital
2011 Graduates
Aneta Kielkucki: guitar recital
2010 Graduates
Sally Kaelber: vocal recital
2009 Graduates
Anthony Babino: vocal recital
Yiselle Blum: vocal recital
Katherine Burns: vocal recital
Mae Deevy: vocal recital
Christine Vient: vocal recital
2008 Graduates
Kimberly Botsko: vocal recital
2007 Graduates
Katherine (Katie) Flannery: vocal recital
Adam Jacobs: student teaching
Angela (Annie) Labriola: internship, Broadcast Music Marketing
Lauren Patsos: vocal recital
Laura Woodruff (double major, Music and Arts Administration): piano/vocal/composition recital
2006 Graduates
Leketrise (Lee-Lee) Blunt: vocal recital
Victoria Opthof: horn recital
Carolyn (Carrie) Ryans: vocal recital
Mitch Sims: two concerts of trumpet music
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New statistics recently revealed there are more children living with autism in the U.S. than researchers thought. While some of that spike may be due to better methods for detecting the disorder, experts say there could be environmental factors at play.
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A new study of 1,000 mothers and their children finds women who are obese during pregnancy are 60-percent more likely to have a child with autism -- and two times more likely to have a child with a developmental delay.
Having Type 2 Diabetes, a condition often linked to obesity, also increases the risk.
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The researchers say conditions that cause a spike in insulin can starve a mothers' tissues of oxygen, lowering the oxygen supply to their unborn child and potentially affecting its brain development.
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