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MESWAKI SETTLEMENT, Iowa – Others beg to differ, but in Dina Keahna's mind, this is nothing extraordinary. The only time she ever really thinks about it is when forced to do so.
When a reporter asks to do a story, or right before a game, when opposing coaches come over to introduce themselves. It's usually assistants Todd Dale or Brian Murphy who get the first handshake.
There's no offense intended. It just never occurs to them she could be the person in charge.
"I think they're kind of surprised," Keahna said. "A few of the referees (have been) surprised, too. They'll still address the assistant coach first, kind of like saying 'You can't be the head coach.' Which is expected."
Make no mistake, everyone is getting to know about Keahna and her Meskwaki Settlement School Warriors. They are creating a story that is, whether she'll admit it or not, extraordinary.
It's not just that the 51-year-old is the only woman head boys' basketball coach in the state. That's big enough.
It's also that Meskwaki – which only has had an IHSAA-sanctioned program since 2009 – has such a good team, one that's 11-1 and ranked 10th by The Gazette/Iowa Prep Sports in Class 1A. Beat Waterloo Christian on Friday night and the Warriors already will set a school record for wins.
"It's just the skill that we have and the way Coach has been adding the fundamentals, making sure we make fewer mistakes and emphasizing defense," said starting forward Darrion Murray. "I don't want to say this is a surprise for me. For others, it might be. I've always wanted to be in a position like this."
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From most powerful Jew in Washington to most powerful Jew in Chicago?
I doubt Rahm Emanuel is trying to over-hype the upcoming announcement of his plans to run for mayor of Chicago. After all, Emanuel is no King James and the White House is certainly not Cleveland.
But, it's a likely possibility for the White House chief of staff, who is scheduled to make the official statement this Friday.
From Chicago Sun-Times:
Watch for Rahm Emanuel to hit the bricks running for Chicago's mayoral mantle this weekend after his formal announcement Friday he is leaving his job as White House chief of staff.
Read more at Sun-times.com.
Will he tweet? Will there be a public backlash? What will Michael Jordan say?
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When I spoke with WikiLeaks' founder Julian Assange earlier this month, he told me that in early 2011, the whistleblower site would release a "megaleak" regarding a major U.S. bank. That release, Assange said, would include tens of thousands of its documents that reveal some sort of unethical behavior. No details on the name or what sort of bad behavior would be exposed.
Now an eagle-eyed reader has sent me a link to a quote from a Computer World interview with Assange from October of 2009, which, if true, may contain a clue to that bank's identity:
"At the moment, for example, we are sitting on five gigabytes from Bank of America, one of the executive's hard drives," he said. "Now how do we present that? It's a difficult problem. We could just dump it all into one giant Zip file, but we know for a fact that has limited impact. To have impact, it needs to be easy for people to dive in and search it and get something out of it."
I've contacted WikiLeaks for confirmation but haven't immediately received a response–its staff is likely tied up by the fallout of its release of a quarter million diplomatic cables, and by the second of two cyberattacks to strike its website in the last few days. Bank Of America didn't respond to a request for comment either.
If Assange does plan to release the five gigabytes of data he referenced in the Computer World interview, it's very plausible that he's been sitting on it for more than a year. As he's quoted saying at the time, a full five gigabyte of documents was likely beyond the scope of WikiLeaks' resources at the time to filter, organize, and publish. Today, compared with the 392,000 Iraq war documents the site dumped in October and the millions of diplomatic documents that WikiLeaks has promised to eventually release, it would be fairly standard.
There's no telling what might be revealed in any Bank of America documents–if Assange does indeed have them–but it could be old news. By the time of publication, the documents would be more than 14 months old. And, as much as any bank on Wall Street, BoA has been scrutinized in recent years by everyone from plaintiffs' attorneys in class-action investor suits to the New York Attorney General's office.
And why would Assange hold onto the documents for so long before publishing them? He's said he simply has too much material.
Here's a key excerpt of our interview:
Assange: If you think about it, we have a publishing pipeline that's increasing linearly, and an exponential number of leaks, so we're in a position where we have to prioritize our resources so that the biggest impact stuff gets released first.
Me: So do you have very high impact corporate stuff to release then?
Assange: Yes, but maybe not as high impact…I mean, it could take down a bank or two.
Me: That sounds like high impact.
Assange: But not as big an impact as the history of a whole war. But it depends on how you measure these things.
To be clear, there's no clear confirmation that the upcoming release will focus on Bank of America. Assange told me that he had unpublished, potentially damaging documents on multiple finance firms, beyond the bank "megaleak" that we discussed. I'll provide an update if I can learn more.
Update: Scott Silvestri, a Bank of America spokesman, told the New York Times Dealbook blog in a statement: "More than a year ago WikiLeaks claimed to have the computer hard drive of a Bank of America executive. Aside from the claims themselves we have no evidence that supports this assertion. We are unaware of any new claims by WikiLeaks that pertain specifically to Bank of America."


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KUNSHAN, China – Incoming Cal freshman Emma Wright scored a goal to help Canada defeat Russia 14-12 on Thursday on the final day of group play at the FINA Women's Water Polo World League Super Final.
Wright's goal was part of an offensive flurry for the Canadians, who scored five goals in the final period to erase a 10-9 deficit. It was the third goal of the tournament for Wright, who will join Cal's program after her obligations with the Canadian National Team are completed.
Meanwhile, Cal sophomore Roser Tarrago scored her first goal of the tournament for her native Spain, but it wasn't enough as her country was defeated 8-5 by the United States. Spain led 5-4 at halftime but was shut out in the second half.
Bracket play begins Friday, with Canada taking on Australia and Spain meeting China. Spain won the World Championships last summer and took the Silver Medal at the 2012 Olympics. Tarrago played on both of those teams.


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Park is from Greene County and her father was a federal magistrate and her mother an English professor. Ironically, Park made it big in the Empty Nest sitcom as a slow-talking redneck nurse with a Southern drawl so thick you could cut it with a knife. Locals remember when she led the fight to make a national story out of the pollution of the Pigeon River back when Champion International tried to get a variance for its North Carolina mill that didn't require any effort to reduce blown effluent.
It should be an interesting race. At a rally in Nashville, Park mimed a telephone receiver with her thumb, fist, and little finger, and said: "Call me Bob." It was a mocking reference to an attack ad in Corker's first campaign in which a blonde pretended to be asking his opponent, Harold Ford Jr., to give her a call.


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WASHINGTON, May 15, 2004 President Bush used his weekly national radio address to applaud the efforts of service members on Armed Forces Day.
The president credited the U.S. military with keeping terrorists across the world on the run, helping the people of Afghanistan and Iraq to build democratic societies, and making America more secure during his address today.
"By their example, the people of those countries and of the countries around the world are coming to know that freedom is the answer to hopelessness and terror," he said. "Our servicemen and women are defending America with unselfish courage, and their achievements have brought pride and credit to this nation."
Bush commented again on the Iraqi detainee abuse issue, noting that "all Americans know that the actions of a few do not reflect the true character of the United States armed forces."
"Our country has great respect for the Iraqi people, and we are determined to expose and punish the abuse of Iraqi detainees."
He pointed out that court-martial charges have been filed against seven soldiers involved in the Abu Ghraib abuse incident. He said the first trial is set to begin next week, and that his administration and the military are determined that such abuses never happen again.
Bush said that he was sickened by the public execution of American civilian Nick Berg in Iraq. A May 11 video posted on a Web site showed Berg, described as a 26-year-old independent contractor from West Chester, Pa., being decapitated. His killers claimed to be acting in revenge for the abuse of Iraqis at the Abu Ghraib prison in Baghdad.
Bush earlier in the week had called the grisly, videotaped execution reportedly by Abu Musab al-Zarqawi an unjustified act on "an innocent civilian who was in Iraq to help build a free Iraq." Zarqawi, with ties to al Qaeda, is the leader of an Islamic terrorist group that has claimed responsibility for attacks on coalition forces in Iraq.
"The savage execution of this innocent man reminds us of the true nature of our terrorist enemy, and of the stakes in this struggle," the president said today.
And for that reason, Bush told listeners there is only one way to deal with terror: "We must confront the enemy and stay on the offensive until these killers are defeated," he said. "And this is precisely what our armed forces, and the forces of our coalition, are doing."
During his address the president updated what the U.S. military is doing in Iraq. He noted that in and around Fallujah, U.S. Marines are conducting joint patrols with local Iraqis to "take back the city from Saddam loyalists and foreign fighters and other militants."
"In nearby towns, Marines are conducting raids to disrupt enemy attacks on supply routes and to root out anti-coalition fighters," Bush said.
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Jim Hendry gets the dreaded vote of confidence
Jun 16, 2011, 12:30 PM EDT
Hey Tom Rickketts! What do you think of the general manager who put together this abomination of a Cubs roster?
Ricketts said he has "100 percent confidence" in Jim Hendry, though he didn't quite guarantee that the general manager will finish out the final year of his contract through the 2012 season. "We'll see what the offseason looks (like)," Ricketts said. "(But) I'm pretty happy (and) I'm comfortable with Jim. I'm confident in his ability to keep us moving forward."
You can see video of his comments and a more in-depth story about the situation facing Hendry and the Cubs by Patrick Mooney over at CSN Chicago.
At some point storylines are inevitable that there's not much worth saying about them. All I will offer at this point is that, based on how these things usually go, Hendry is probably a dead man walking.
- halladaysbicepts - Jun 16, 2011 at 12:37 PM
Well, I hear that Ed Wade is also a dead man walking with the Astros as well and will probably be available in 2012. Wade would make a good GM for the Cubs (ahhmm..I mean Phillies).
- cur68 - Jun 16, 2011 at 12:43 PM
Craig you pretty much can't overuse your Logan's Run material with this sort of thing. The light is definitely blinking on that collar.
- paperlions - Jun 16, 2011 at 12:55 PM
There are only a few possibilities when Ricketts says he has 100% confidence in Hendry.
1) He's lying.
2) He knows so little about baseball that he doesn't understand how bad Hendry is at being a GM.
3) He has some type of Rickettsia and the fever is affecting his judgement.
- WhenMattStairsIsKing - Jun 16, 2011 at 5:18 PM
Or he takes the approach of "I'm not going to tell my GM he's basically going to get fired to the media."
- Mr. Jason "El Bravo" Heyward - Jun 16, 2011 at 1:12 PM
"All I will offer at this point is that, based on how these things usually go, Hendry is probably a dead man walking."
Based on how things usually go where? Cleveland? Florida? Mars? Certainly you do not mean how they usually go in the North Side of Chicago! I believe Ricketts "confidence" and I fully expect them to keep Hendry through is contract (and perhaps more). There is no real will to win from this ownership and Hendry sitting at the helm as GM to this day proves that. He's had the biggest hand in digging the Cubs organization into this hole over the last decade, yet he lives on. The new ownership hasn't looked very new either. This will not change, but I hope I'm wrong for the Cubs' sake (and for my sake b/c I'd like to watch good baseball on the North Side again within the next five years).
- kopy - Jun 16, 2011 at 1:22 PM
Maybe Ricketts is really smart and has decided that losing teams are good business! I mean, people are enthralled with the Cubs because they're the lovable losers. If they won, the novelty of not winning the World Series in 102 years would go away!
Don't ask me if I'm serious, because I'm not sure yet.
- Mr. Jason "El Bravo" Heyward - Jun 16, 2011 at 1:35 PM
I'm not a Cubs fan, but I root for them (as I do the White Sox), being a Chicagoan and all. I can't stand it. They suck and sell it like they don't year in and year out. They haven't won a playoff game since the game before the Bartman incident (i.e. Game 5 vs. Feesh). That's 0-8 in the playoffs over 8 stinkin' years since. They make such craptastic moves in the off-season and sell them as big deals. They make storylines like the Kerry Wood saga. The dude is not a storyline type of guy.
Meanwhile the Saaax make good moves, but have been under-performing and unlucky. They're pulling back to normal and I still believe will make a run for the division. Pulling Dunn and Konerko together was magic and it will turn around for Dunnscout.
It's like night and day when looking at management from the North vs. South Side.
- dumpjimhendry - Jun 17, 2011 at 10:47 AM
I'm praying to all that is holy that Ricketts is just playing a nice spin game and he's got plans for Hendry's exit. As a baseball guy, I don't know, but I know Ricketts is a good solid businessman, and why why why would he make himself look so stupid? He's got PR strategists helping him out on message, notice how he's been so absent (while his PR peeps work on the perfect message) and then he's out to deliver that message…. and poof… gone again. There are a bunch of us on Facebook beating the drum, "Fire Jim Hendry" – and if the blogger who owns this blog will allow me, I will reply later with the links. The more the merrier. I don't want to hijack his blog, though, so I'll await reply from him.
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A federal judge (Nicholas Garaufis) recently ruled that multiple choice written exams "discriminate against black applicants" and charged the City of New York with "deliberate discrimination" for continuing to use such time-tested exams. That charge of "deliberate discrimination" sprang from the fact that "other remedies" (like replacing written exams with oral interviews) were suggested to the city after the racial quotas ("1 in 3") were used on the 1971 entrance exam.
As insulting and racially defamatory as the view that blackness is somehow a "learning disability" is, there's still more!
How that one set of disparities is "actionable," while others remain immune from such "remedies" is an interesting dilemma, in and of itself.
The primary reason seems to be political.
According to the attorney for the New Haven 20 (Karen Torre) the feds picked Fire Departments because "they believed firefighters wouldn't fight back," given their track record of 'sucking it up' and dealing with things as they come.
The main reason given for such law suits and the remedies they result in is that "Our institutions should look more like the communities that they serve." Certainly the primary reason behind this current lawsuit against the FDNY, as in all the previous ones has been over the vaunted "racial and gender disparity in its makeup." The charge has log been that "the FDNY should look a lot more like New York City."
What's really odd about this is that the FDNY is far from the most "racially out of balance" Department in the City of NY!
According to current demographics (SEE: http://www.wordiq.com/definition/New_York_City), whites are appx. 45% of the city's population and 77% of the FDNY's make-up, that's a 1.67/1 ratio, or less than a 2 to 1 representation of whites within that population. Even if one takes that 77% figure and throws out the "far more diverse" office staff and takes into account only the in-field uniformed workforce, said to be appx. 90% white (with 3% black, 6% Hispanic and 1% other) that's still a 2 to 1 ratio of whites relative to their numbers in NYC's population!
By comparison, while blacks comprise appx. 27% of NYC's population, they comprise 65% of the Dept of Corrections personnel, a 2.4/1 ratio, or nearly 2½X the black representation of their numbers within the city...and the Department of Juvenile Justice, which is 78% black is a staggering 2.92/1 ratio, or a nearly 3 to 1 representation of blacks relative to their numbers within the city!
Why aren't those, even greater racial anomalies as large a concern as the FDNY's much smaller racial disparity?
Is it simply because far more College educated whites take the exams for Emergency Services jobs, virtually assuring a disparate outcome on those exams? That's certainly one possibility.
If so, then why aren't the Dept of Justice's and Nicholas Garaufis' agendas not being viewed through a similar racial prism?
To do the math yourself, you'll need two sets of statistics; (1) The racial makeup of New York city is 44.66% White, 26.59% Black or African American, 0.52% Native American, 9.83% Asian, 0.07% Pacific Islander, 13.42% from other races, and 4.92% from two or more races. 26.98% of the population are Hispanic or Latino of any race.
SEE: http://www.wordiq.com/definition/New_York_City and (2) the Demographics of City Agencies: http://www.citylimits.org/multimedia/257/new-york-city-s-agencies-by-race-ethnic-breakdown
There are two agencies in New York City that have over 1.5X the number of whites as there are in New York City's population. They are the FDNY and the Landmark's Commission, which actually has FEWER blacks and Hispanics than the FDNY does! There is only one other New York City agency in which whites comprise 60% of its workforce and that is the Office of Emergency Management (OEM).
There is even ONE New York City agency that records 0% Hispanics - the Office of Actuary! And that's in a city that is 27% Hispanic. Moreover, there are at least TWELVE New York City agencies in which Asians are 1/2 or LESS their numbers in New York City's population, including TWO agencies (The Civil Service Commission and, ironically enough, AGAIN, The Equal Employment Practices Commission) with 0% Asian employees and ONE agency with just 1% Asian employees in a city in which Asians comprise appx 10% of the population!
However, there are no less than 11 New York City agencies in which blacks are more than 1.5X their numbers in New York City's population!
* The Department of Aging is 42% black. (1.6X their numbers in NYC's population)
* The Department of Youth and Community Services is 43% black. (1.6X their numbers in NYC's population)
* The Department of Housing Preservation and Development is
45% black. (1.7X their numbers in NYC's population)
* NYC Parks Department is 49% black. (1.82X their numbers in NYC's population)
There are at least 7 New York City agencies in which there are more than double the number of black employees than their numbers in NYC's population.
* The Human Resources Administration is 61% black. (2.2X their numbers in NYC's population)
* The Equal Employment Practices Commission is 63% black (2.3X their numbers in NYC's population - there's an irony!)
* The Department of Homeless Services is 64% black (2.3X their numbers in NYC's population)
* The Department of Probation is 65% black (almost 2.5X their numbers in NYC's population)
* The Department of Corrections is 65% black (also nearly 2.5X their numbers in NYC's population)
* The Administration for Children's Services is 67% black (over 2.5X their numbers in NYC's population)
* and the REAL "singular embarrassment", as far as "looking like the population of New York City goes to the Department of Juvenile Justice at 78% black (nearly 3X their numbers in NYC's population).
So, if written and physical standards aren't appropriate barometers for Municipal employment (and if they aren't, what good are such "services"?) and the primary goal in such hiring is to have such agencies "look like New York City", then why are there still agencies with 0% of some very visible ethnic groups and why are there so many more New York City agencies that are far MORE "racially unbalanced" than the FDNY?!
If "looking like New York City" is key here, than there are dozens of New York City agencies that SHOULD HAVE been spending millions on recruitment decades ago!


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Thu September 27, 2012
Florida Police Arrest Inebriated Horse Rider
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Good morning. I'm David Greene. After a few drinks, Charles Cowart decided to relieve himself in public. Police were called, and Cowart fled, galloping through a Florida town, snarling traffic and forcing a train to be stopped when he ventured onto the railroad tracks. Why was it so hard for the cops to catch up with him? Well, he was on horseback. Cowart's mounted escapade ended when back-up arrived. His dad. His father knocked him off the horse and police took him into custody. You're listening to MORNING EDITION. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright National Public Radio.


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Arsenic levels detected in young chickens measured up to four times greater than previously recognized, according to research from the National Institutes of Health, published in the journal Environmental Health Perspectives. Arsenic is added to animal feed to control intestinal parasites. In humans, chronic arsenic exposure is linked to skin, respiratory, and bladder cancers. Chicken consumption has increased steadily from 32 pounds per person in 1966 to 81 pounds per person in 2000.
Lasky T, Sun W, Kadry A, Hoffman MK. Mean total arsenic concentrations in chicken 1989-2000 and estimated exposures for consumers of chicken. Environ Health Perspect. 2004;112:18-21.
Skip the Fish; Make It Vegetarian
Farm-raised salmon, marketed as a "healthy" option, actually contains more cancer-causing pollutants than wild salmon, according to a study in the journal Science. A sampling of 700 salmon bought around the world found the most polluted fish in Northern Europe, followed by North America and Chile—the sources of most U.S. salmon. Farm-raised salmon had significantly higher concentrations of 13 out of 14 organochlorine pollutants tested, including PCBs, dioxins, toxaphene, and dieldrin.
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Satia-Abouta J, Galanko JA, Potter JD, Ammerman A, Martin CF, Sandler RS. Associations of total energy and macronutrients with colon cancer risk in African Americans and whites: results from the North Carolina Colon Cancer Study. Am J Epidemiol 2003;158:951-62.
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Incidence of breast cancer was 30 percent greater in smokers compared to non-smokers, according to a study in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute. The prospective study looked at 116,544 women enrolled in the California Teachers Study beginning in 1995. Risk was highest for women who started smoking at a young age, began smoking at least five years before their first pregnancy, or had longer, more intensive smoking histories.
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Award-winning Girl Scouts from around the country made a special trip to Capital Hill in Washington, D.C., on Feb. 28 to unveil the first U.S. Mint Girl Scouts of the USA Centennial Silver Dollar coin.
Anna Maria Chavez, CEO of Girl Scouts of the USA (GSUSA), said that she was joined by "incredible" young women.
"Last week, I was privileged to be joined in our nation's capitol by more than 20 Girl Scout Gold Award recipients and their council CEOs from across the United States," Chavez wrote in her column in The Huffington Post on March 5. Congress reauthorized the Violence Against Women Act (S. 47) the on same day as the breakfast.
Nearly one in two adult women in the United States has at some point in their life been a member of Girl Scouts, according to a study from GSUSA. GSUSA was founded on March 12, 1912, by Juliette Gordon Low in Savannah, Ga., and today there are 3.2 million Girl Scouts across the country, according to the Girl Scout fact sheet.
Among the attendees at Capitol Hill was Rep. Jack Kingston (R-Ga.), who remembers his sister's Girl Scouts meetings when he was kid. He said that from those meetings he learned "how to cook a pancake on a potato pan," according to The Hill. Kingston encouraged his own daughters to join the Brownies—the division for girls in the second and third grades.
Troop Capitol Hill, the Honorary Congressional Girl Scout Troop established by the Public Policy and Advocacy office, is a bipartisan delegation of women in Congress who advocate for issues affecting girls and young women. The troop is led by Reps. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-Fla.) and Kay Granger (R-Texas) and Sens. Barbara Mikulski (D-M.D.) and Susan Collins (R-Maine).
According to Chavez, fewer than 6 percent of Girl Scouts each year are awarded the Gold Award. The award takes at least 1 to 2 years to earn, and it gives the recipient exclusive scholarships or advanced ranking in the U.S. Armed Forces.
Courtney Shelton, a Girl Scouts Gold Award winner, attended the event and wrote on her blog, called Define Perfect, that winning the gold "requires identifying an issue, building a team, and conducting a project that takes 80 hours and has a sustainable impact on your community."
"At just 16 or 17 years of age, these young women have already done things that most adults could not conceive of and accomplished things few would have the courage to even try," according to Chavez.
Chavez also wrote that some of the young ladies "have overcome unbelievable hardships in their personal lives, rising above challenges that may have crippled someone without the iron will of a Girl Scout."
Shelton's blog project, which she debuted in December 2012, is a "positive-image boosting internet movement," according to the Girl Scout Blog.
"The problem that I want to tackle in the world? People who feel the need to fit molds created for them by society, the people they associate with, or themselves," wrote Shelton, according to the Girl Scout Blog.
Shelton encourages people via the Internet to reflect on what "perfect" is, and in the meantime, she encourages people to mention positive qualities in others.
"Every single person has some positive quality worth mentioning. So why wait to do it?" Shelton wrote on her blog. The idea is that if you see the good in others, then you will see it in yourself.
Five Outstanding Guests
At the breakfast on Capitol Hill, five of the Gold Award-winning Girl Scouts designated "National Young Women of Distinction" were in attendance.
Chavez wrote that it is a special honor.
If a Girl Scout Gold Award recipient's final project shows "extraordinary leadership, had a measurable and sustainable impact and addressed a local challenge that related to a national and/or global issue," then they are awarded 1 of the 10 spots as a National Women of Distinction.
This year's National Women of Distinction, announced in early January, honored girls that worked on supplying water to a village in Africa and others that successfully advocated lawmakers to pass a bill that requires safe-dating education in school, among others.
"It was awesome hearing about the other projects of some of the girls from all over the country and being able to show something for the organization besides Thin Mints and Tagalongs (notice those don't need an explanation)," wrote Shelton.
National Women of Distinction and What They Accomplished
Katie from Greater Iowa discovered that bats were annoying people in her community, but also that they play an important part in the ecosystem. She built bat houses for the Warren County Conservation Board. The houses can collectively hold about 6,000 bats.
Briana from Nebraska designed and created a puppet theater together with her friends and family that she donated to a nonprofit organization called Completely KIDS. She wrote 10 different scripts, sponsored 30 puppets, and led a donation drive to collect costumes for the children.
Mandy from Texas designed an aquarium and a three-day curriculum for fifth graders on the ocean's health and environmental threats to the ecosystem.
Jamila from Florida raised awareness about the youth in war-torn Northern Uganda.
Miranda from Michigan developed and implemented a comprehensive volunteer service program using social media and a Ning website to match service-based organizations with the 2,000 high school students who reside in a local school district.
Addison from Wisconsin started a club called "Break the Silence" at her school designed to be an alliance for those suffering with mental illness. After her cousin's suicide, she began to feel depressed and anxious. She wanted to change the stigma around mental illness.
Zoe from Atlanta created the W.I.S.H. (Women in Science and Health) Careers Network for High School Girls, which aims to increase the knowledge and interest of high school girls towards STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) careers.
Katherine of Florida created a library at a local family learning center. Her goal was to help children of migrant workers. She is a survivor of human trafficking in the United States and understands the hardships of learning English as a second language. At a young age, she relied heavily on books in her quest to learn English. She created a website to raise awareness about her project and raise funds. Students at the family learning center reported to have improved reading grades within the first year.
Nicole from New Jersey ran a program at her middle school on dating abuse and violence in the media. She advocated for legislation that requires safe-dating education be provided to middle and high school students as part of their health curriculum. The law passed. She then took the new legislation and created a club at her school that hosts performances and events. They made an informational DVD for other schools on healthy relationships and the media.
Sricharana from California created an African culture-awareness show. Over 500 people attended, and the proceeds were used so that she could travel to Tanzania. In Africa, she constructed a water retention system and goat pen for a cooperative of 10 women and their families.
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CINCINNATI—Magician and stage illusionist James Partington found magic and inspiration in classical Chinese dance on Thursday, as he took in Shen Yun Performing Arts at the Aronoff Center.
James Partington, who performs under the name Magic Donovan, has practiced magic on stages around the world for the past 40 years. He was at the Feb. 7 evening Shen Yun performance with his stage assistant Nina, and said the experience was wonderful.
"[The show was] amazing, the colors, the costumes and the routines were just awesome," he said.
"It was just breathtaking, it was gorgeous," added Nina. "It was one of the most creative things I have ever seen."
Mr. Partington was particularly captivated by Shen Yun's digitally animated backdrops, which add context and color to each story-based dance, and are perfectly timed with the dancers to appear as if they can jump in and out of the screen.
"I thought that was awesome, it was a nice concept and [I want to] figure out how to use that in my shows," he said.
"I thought that was a really nice touch, the artwork shows up on the screen and how it was animated—I like that a lot, that was one of my favorite parts."
Nina added the split-second timing it took for the performers to create the illusion of jumping into the digital screen was impeccable.
"That was unbelievable—I was just blown away by it, it gave me chills," she said, adding she appreciated learning about traditional Chinese culture through dance.
"I like that artistic form and the traditional dance."
New York-based Shen Yun is a world-renowned classical Chinese dance and music company, with a mission to revivie 5,000 years of traditional Chinese culture. Formed in 2006, by overseas Chinese artists, the company has grown to include three dance companies and three orchestras, totaling some 300 artists. Every year the performance tours to around 20 countries and 100 cities.
Though it travels to nearly every corner of the world, Shen Yun cannot be seen in mainland China today, where traditional culture and art forms remain suppressed. A dance that tells a story of good versus evil in today's China—the communist regime's persecution of Falun Gong, a spiritual practice.
"I like that reality touch of the show," said Mr. Partington. "It makes you think a little about it, what struggles other countries were going through and still going through so, it's a good wake up call for everybody to look at—we need to do something about it."
Nina adored the hundreds of handmade costumes featured in Shen Yun.
"They're vibrant, I thought they were breathtaking—the way the costumes move with their movements," she said.
"I just like the way the whole thing flows and how everything came together," added Mr. Partington.
Mr. Partington said Shen Yun is entertaining for everyone.
"I highly recommend it, if anyone has the chance to check it out they should," he said.
"Absolutely, it's spectacular," added Nina.
Reporting by Charlie Lu and Justina Wheale.
New York-based Shen Yun Performing Arts has three touring companies that perform simultaneously around the world. For more information, visit ShenYunPerformingArts.org
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