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How to make students employable
To make students more employable, community colleges must engage with industry and take "a hard look at what the job market is telling them," writes James Jacobs, president of Macomb Community College in Michigan. He co-chaired the American Association of Community Colleges' Implementation Team 5, which worked on closing the nation's skills gap.
Community colleges should develop close ties with local industries, the team recommends. That includes researching industry trends, hiring "instructors from the industries — who can bring with them not just experience but also contacts — and maintaining ties with students who land jobs in these industries."
Many businesses "value credentials designed to indicate mastery of a particular skill or subject matter as much as or more than a formal degree," the team found.
At Michigan's Macomb Community College (MCC), where I serve as president, we feature a production operator program that provides students with a basic orientation to manufacturing work, teaching the skills they need to obtain a job in the field. After students complete our program and secure an entry-level position, they are invited back to MCC to take for-credit classes focused on specific skill sets, all of this dependent on the needs of their employer.
"The days of comprehensive community colleges that offer a vast number of options are drawing to a close," writes Jacobs. "Instead, community college should offer fewer options based on the needs of local and regional labor markets."
Manufacturers see skills gap
More than half a million skilled manufacturing jobs remain unfilled due to the labor skills gap in the U.S., according to one estimate.
Many job applicants lack the basic math and computer skills needed to train for high-tech manufacturing jobs, employers complain.
U.S. manufacturing employs more than 12 million workers. An estimated 600,000 skilled manufacturing jobs are unfilled, according to a 2012 Deloitte study. That could increase as more baby boomers retire.
"If we can't fill the skills gap, it's going to be very difficult to be competitive in the global market," said Ted Toth, vice president and managing director of manufacturing technologies at Rosenberger-Toth, which manufactures parts for satellites and cellphone towers.
. . . "To understand the skills gap, we have to understand how the public understands manufacturing," the head of the New Jersey-based company said. "They see it as a dark, dirty, dangerous industry."
Young people need to be told that manufacturing is a viable alternative to pursuing a bachelor's degree, said Toth. Employees are "blue tech" workers, he said. "They utilize technology such as computerized machines and robotics, and also in new and exciting careers in three to four times the minimum wage."
Business leaders in two western Ohio counties are working to interest high school students in skilled trades jobs. The Auglaize & Mercer County Business Education Alliance is raising money to hire an outreach coordinator who will visit local high schools.
Electrical contractor Jack Buschur wants to find high school graduates interested in training to be electricians. "We have lots of opportunities," Buschur says. "We'd like to keep our young people in the area and see them make a very good living."
Bring back shop classes, writes Josh Mandel, Ohio state treasurer, in a Wall Street Journal op-ed.Too many young people have four-year liberal-arts degrees, are thousands in debt and find themselves serving coffee at Starbucks or working part-time at the mall," he writes. "Many of them would have been better off with a two-year skilled-trade or technical education that provides the skills to secure a well-paying job."
Closing the skills gap
With nearly 11 million Americans out of work — and 4 million unfilled jobs — closing the skills gap is a priority write Jamie Dimon, president of JPMorgan Chase, and Marlene Seltzer, who runs Jobs for the Future, in Politico.
"Middle-skill" workers such as machinists, technicians and health care workers are in demand, they write. These jobs require job training and sometimes an associate degree, but not a bachelor's degree.
Dimon's company has launched New Skills at Work, which will analyze skills gaps in major U.S. cities — and in Europe. "These gap reports will then inform the allocation of $250 million in grants over five years to support non-profits like Jobs for the Future that have a track record of designing successful skill-development programs."
Career tech education is gaining momentum in high schools, reports Ed Week's CollegeBound.
The new Mississippi Scholars Tech Master program will recognize high school seniors who pass a career-certification test, maintain a 2.5 grade point average, score 18 of higher on the ACT, and complete 40 hours of community service. An existing program honors college-prep students.
Oregon will spend more on vocational programs in middle and high schools. The emphasis is on developing skills in STEM (science, technology, engineering, math) fields.
West Virginia Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin has proposed increased support for career and technical schools to train more STEM-skilled workers.
3 million jobs, but who's qualified?
There are 3 million open jobs in U.S. because workers lack skills, reports 60 Minutes.
With a solid basic education, people could learn vocational skills, writes Marc Tucker in Ed Week. Instead, people are leaving high school and college without the ability to " read complex material, write clear expository prose, analyze problems and solve them" and use high school-level math.
A Nevada company called Click Bond needs workers who can program computer-controlled machines, fix them and ensure fasteners are made to precise specifications.
They are having a very hard time finding people who "read, write, do math, problem solve," says Ryan Costella. "I can't tell you how many people even coming out of higher ed with degrees who can't put a sentence together without a major grammatical error…If you can't do the resume properly to get the job, you can't come work for us. We're in the business of making fasters that hold systems together that protect people in the air when they're flying. We're in the business of perfection."
. . . Click Bond, desperate for help, banded together with other employers to set up a program at the local community college. They took unemployed people—and Nevada has a very large supply of such people—tested them for aptitude, interviewed them for attitude, and then trained them for the work that was available. The students were taught to operate the computers, read blueprints, learn trigonometry to make precise measurements—all in sixteen weeks.
But it cost $60,000 to train 20 workers.
Education requirements are climbing, say many employers. In the future, an administrative assistant probably will need an associate degree.
A skills gap? Try paying more
Is there a skills gap? Or a bunch of cheapskate employers offering low wages for high-level skills? Skills Don't Pay the Bills writes Adam Davidson in the New York Times Magazine.
Earlier this month, hoping to understand the future of the moribund manufacturing job market, I visited the engineering technology program at Queensborough Community College in New York City. . . . As the instructor Joseph Goldenberg explained, today's skilled factory worker is really a hybrid of an old-school machinist and a computer programmer. Goldenberg's intro class starts with the basics of how to use cutting tools to shape a raw piece of metal. Then the real work begins: students learn to write the computer code that tells a machine how to do it much faster.
Computer-controlled machines have replaced low-skilled factory workers, writes Davidson. Manufacturers need "people who know how to run the computer that runs the machine."
Running these machines requires a basic understanding of metallurgy, physics, chemistry, pneumatics, electrical wiring and computer code. It also requires a worker with the ability to figure out what's going on when the machine isn't working properly.
Goldenberg's students will find jobs, the instructor says. Nationwide, manufacturers say there are 600,000 jobs available for skilled workers. Both President Obama and challenger Mitt Romney talked about the skills gap during the campaign.
But if employers really were desperate, they'd raise wages, argues Davidson. In most places, that hasn't happened.
Eric Isbister, the C.E.O. of GenMet, a metal-fabricating manufacturer outside Milwaukee, told me that he would hire as many skilled workers as show up at his door. Last year, he received 1,051 applications and found only 25 people who were qualified. He hired all of them, but soon had to fire 15. Part of Isbister's pickiness, he says, comes from an avoidance of workers with experience in a "union-type job." Isbister, after all, doesn't abide by strict work rules and $30-an-hour salaries. At GenMet, the starting pay is $10 an hour. Those with an associate degree can make $15, which can rise to $18 an hour after several years of good performance.
When manufacturers raise pay, they can find enoughskilled workers — except in a few cities where the oil industry is booming, according to a Boston Consulting Group city. "Trying to hire high-skilled workers at rock-bottom rates is not a skills gap," the study concludes.
Skills gap is small, but growing
The "skills gap" is no big deal now — but it could be in the future, if we don't take steps to train new workers, writes Harold Sirkin, a Boston Consulting Group partner, in Businessweek.
The shortage of skilled welders, machinists, and industrial machinery mechanics represents less than 1 percent of U.S. manufacturing workers, Sirkin estimates. Only seven states and five cities – Baton Rouge, Charlotte, Miami, San Antonio, and Wichita — have significant shortages.
However, that could change in the next 10 years as manufacturing grows and baby boomers retire. The average high-skilled manufacturing worker in the U.S. is 56 years old, according to government data.
Technical and community colleges are working with employers to train workers in some parts of the country, Sirkin writes.
In Georgia, for example, a program called Quick Start provides companies with customized workforce training and retraining, free of charge, in partnership with the state's technical colleges.
Here in Chicago, the Austin Polytechnical Academy teaches students all aspects of industry and has its own manufacturing training center.
"Most high-skill manufacturing jobs require only a high school education and on-the-job training," yet few companies recruit in high schools, Sirkin writes. And manufacturing doesn't appeal to young people seeking bachelor's degrees, even though half of recent college graduates are unemployed or underemployed.
The question we need to ask bright young people today is this: Would they be better off with a college degree in mass communication, "poli sci," or sociology that gets them a job as a retail clerk or waiting tables, or would they be better off with a real skill that qualifies them for a high-paying manufacturing job?
After years of high unemployment and rising college costs, students are wising up about borrowing for a degree in what we used to call "fuzzy studies." But advanced manufacturing — and other technical careers — may not be open to students with weak math and science skills.
Tell students there's a 3rd track to success
A high school diploma isn't enough to qualify for a decent job, but that doesn't mean everyone needs a bachelor's degree to earn a living, writes Thomas Snyder, president of Indiana's Ivy Tech Community College. Students need to know there's a third track to job opportunities: Earn a vocational certificate or associate degree at a low-cost community college.
In 2010-11, entry-level workers with an associate degree earned more than those with a recent bachelor's degree in 38 of 92 Indiana counties, he writes. (That's because associate degrees in nursing and other health fields pay quite well immediately.)
Community colleges, affordable and open to all, offer "our best chance of improving the skills of a critical mass of U.S. workers," Snyder writes. Young people need to understand their full range of options.
A more diverse population will see higher education as within their reach. More employment candidates will emerge, leading to greater economic growth. Our economy will benefit further from lower levels of student debt and higher earnings. Best of all, we will give middle class families hope for a brighter future even when the four-year residential college experience is impractical or out of their reach.
"Two-track vision" isn't enough to close the skills gap, Snyder concludes.
Opportunity denied: No community college in town
Build a community college to revive the local economy, a consultant told Erie, Pennsylvania. But it didn't happen, writes Mandy Zatynski, an Erie native, in an Education Sector report. Opportunity Denied: How One County Fought For, and Lost, a Community College explains what happened.
Erie has four-year colleges and for-profit technical schools, but "neither provided the affordability and flexibility that many local residents needed," Zatynski writes.
. . . more than any other factor, the college fell victim to outdated ideas about higher education and public reluctance to make short-term investments for longer term economic gain. The college was also damaged by the anti-tax mindset that gripped the nation at the height of the tea party movement, a conservative base that rallied against tax increases and government spending, no matter what the cause.
Once, International Paper would hire new workers out of high school, train them and enable them to earn a middle-class wage, Zatynski writes. The paper mill closed in 2001. Now Erie's remaining employers want skilled workers with strong science, math, and analytical skills. A high school diploma is not enough.
"We need a higher level of technical expertise," said Ralph Pontillo, president of the Manufacturer and Business Association in Erie. "You don't run the machines anymore; you run the computers that run the machines."
While healthcare and education are increasingly big employers in Erie, manufacturing remains the second-largest sector thanks in part to a large General Electric locomotive plant, which employs about 5,500. County planners predict that manufacturing jobs will grow by 2 percent between 2010 and 2040. But Pontillo says manufacturing shops are also facing an immediate demand: they need skilled workers now to replace longtime, retiring machinists. And despite the region's 7.8 percent unemployment rate, they can't find them. "The disconnect," Pontillo says, "is that [workers] are not prepared to take on these positions, even the most basic positions."
Erie County has 7,500 unfilled jobs because of the skills gap, leaders estimate.
High school graduation rates are higher than the state average in Erie and its suburbs, but fewer adults have completed a bachelor's degree. "We have a high graduation rate and (a low) rate of people who attend postsecondary education. What does that tell you?" asks Erie County Executive Barry Grossman. "It's the absence of a community college."
The skills gap
Despite high unemployment, some employers can't find skilled workers, AP reports.
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — John Russo's chemical lab in North Kingstown has been growing in recent years, even despite a deflated economy, and he expects to add another 15 to 20 positions to his 49 employees over the next year.
But the president of Ultra Scientific Analytical Solutions has found himself in a vexing spot, struggling to fill openings that require specialized training in a state where the jobless rate is close to 11 percent, the third-highest in the nation.
"It's very difficult to find the right person, and there's all walks of life trying to find jobs. I honestly think there's a large swath of unemployable," said Russo, whose firm manufactures and supplies analytical standards. "They don't have any skills at all."
The skills gap is a national issue.
Several states have created "lifelong learning accounts" to help workers save for education and training. Michigan's "No Worker Left Behind" initiative offers up to $10,000 for unemployed or low-wage workers to train for jobs at community colleges.
Rhode Island is trying to move from low-tech, low-skill manufacturing and service jobs to a "knowledge" economy centered on IT and life sciences, AP reports. Downtown Providence's Jewelry District has been rebranded the "Knowledge District." But it doesn't have knowledge-intensive jobs or well-educated workers.
For every 100 Rhode Islanders who start high school, 73 will graduate, a hair over the national average. Of those 73, 40 will enter college and 21 will earn a degree. Community College of Rhode Island's on-time graduation is only 9.8 percent; the vast majority of new students require remedial courses.
"If we don't address this skills problem, American businesses will lack the world-class work force needed to compete at a global level, and many Americans will remain out of work, instead of accessing the high quality jobs of today and tomorrow," said Penny Pritzker, a Chicago business executive who is advisory board chair of the Aspen Institute's skills gap campaign.
Ultra Scientific finally found someone to operate a machine that performs high-pressure liquid chromatography. Russo hired a Ph.D. from Thermo Fisher Scientific, which is shuttering its manufacturing facility in east Providence.


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Why Are DWTS Fans Voting For Bristol Palin? Mark Ballas Says "She's Relatable" (VIDEO)
Before last night's Dancing With the Stars All-Stars Week 2: Results Show, Bristol Palin and Mark Ballas sounded resigned to the idea of going home. They had fun with their country Quickstep and didn't care that it got the lowest score of the week.
But then they didn't leave. In the first shocking elimination of Season 15 (that didn't take long), Joey Fatone & Kym Johnson were eliminated — and Bristol and Mark weren't even in the bottom two.
"I'm so thankful to be on the next week," Bristol told On the Red Carpet after the Results Show. "I know we had the lowest scores, but thankfully we had the fans' votes and they got us through this week."
So who are these fans and why are they voting to support Bristol?
"I think it's because she's relatable," Mark said. "She's improved a lot. I think she's dancing to a much higher standard than she did last time and I think a lot of people — normal folks — find that appealing." She doesn't have an entertainment background, he said, so people can relate to what she's trying to do.
Bristol does seem to be a different person, even though circumstance are repeating themselves from DWTS Season 11. This time she is older, more mature, and more confident in her dancing — especially during her Week 1 Cha-Cha-Cha, which was markedly better than most of what she did two years ago. She wasn't at her best on Week 2, but maybe Mark is right and some viewers are supporting her attempts to break out of her shell and improve.
Are you Team Bristol?
Catch a new episode of Dancing With the Stars Season 15: All-Stars on Monday, October 8 at 8 p.m. ET/PT on ABC.
Source: On the Red Carpet
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Author D.E. Phoeni's FALLEN: The Blasphemy of Astrial Belthromoto Aims for Dante's Inferno
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Freelance writer and poet D.E. Phoenix releases Revelations of the Fallen: The Blasphemy of Astrial Belthromoto, a stimulating piece similar to works like "Inferno", the first part of Dante Alighieri's 14th-century epic poem "Divine Comedy", and with elements of the English poet John Milton's "Paradise Lost". Here, he introduces the readers to Astrial, the fallen angel, who unravels the tragedy and fate of life and humanity-and brings more revelations to stun everyone.
In this book, Astrial starts his revelation at the end and the resolution of human existence. He will lead the readers to the source and the four eternal beings that manipulate the existence and life. The introductions also include the major heralds of each of the beings followed by the presentation of other beings that have influenced the destiny of humanity. The angel will take the readers on a remarkable journey from the origin of evil and to the beginnings of the devil. Astrial will bring clarity to the true ancestors of man and god. He will lead them step by step in the events of the universe from its birth to the divine creations behind things. He will lead them through his revelation of the Earth from its beginnings, to the dinosaurs and eventually to mankind.
Revelations of the Fallen revolves around tragedy and the fate of life and humanity. It travels through various religions until it gets to a point where Astrial himself must be washed from this existence. Throughout the book, readers will find vivid descriptions of battle and of love that was lost. It is about ambition, love, pain, and power. It shows humanity's struggle in existence and the gods they are connected-and bringing the message that everyone's time will come and death comes to all.
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The Study of Ethnomusicology
Thirty-One Issues and Concepts
A landmark in ethnomusicology, expanded and revised
The first edition of this book, The Study of Ethnomusicology: Twenty-Nine Issues and Concepts, has become a classic in the field. This revised edition, written twenty-two years after the original, continues the tradition of providing engagingly written analysis that offers the most comprehensive discussion of the field available anywhere.
This book looks at the field of ethnomusicology--defined as the study of the world's musics from a comparative perspective, and the study of all music from an anthropological perspective--as a field of research. Nettl selects thirty-one concepts and issues that have been the subjects of continuing debate by ethnomusicologists, and he adds four entirely new chapters and thoroughly updates the text to reflect new developments and concerns in the field.
Each chapter looks at its subject historically and goes on to make its points with case studies, many taken from Nettl's own field experience. Drawing extensively on his field research in the Middle East, Western urban settings, and North American Indian societies, as well as on a critical survey of the available literature, Nettl advances our understanding of both the diversity and universality of the world's music. This revised edition's four new chapters deal with the doing and writing of musical ethnography, the scholarly study of instruments, aspects of women's music and women in music, and the ethnomusicologist's study of his or her own culture.
"In 1983 Nettl set a standard for a readable, conversation-style discussion of scholarly issues, and this version continues in the same vein. The reading is dense but not pedantic. In fact, the style verges on the colloquial without losing vigor, and the book is all the more enjoyable and valuable for that style. Highly recommended."--Choice
"Presenting a complete history of the field of ethnomusicology, this updated edition represents a tremendous accomplishment. It does a wonderful, even heroic job of highlighting the major issues in the field, then tracing them over time to reflect their development and interrelatedness."--Ellen Koskoff, professor of ethnomusicology at the Eastman School of Music and past president of the Society for Ethnomusicology
"This revised version of The Study of Ethnomusicology is an astounding achievement by a scholar who has shaped the field more than anyone else. I can think of no one else who could have achieved this breadth with such authoritativeness. The updated material is worked seamlessly into the text, and the new chapters are a tour de force."--Anthony Seeger
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Now, I have seen all of the Chaplin films, as mentioned when I saw City Lights, but I still walked into Modern Times thinking it was the one where Chaplin plays Hitler. Of course, that one is The Great Dictator, but somehow I missed that fairly obvious title and watched a good several minutes thinking, "Wait a minute, where's Hynkle?"
No, Modern Times is about what the title says (again, how I missed this, I haven't the foggiest), industrialization, factories, and the little people struggling to retain their humanity amongst all this machinery and might. Sounds hilarious, don't it? Well, it is, but it also has a lot going on in it that speaks to today as strongly as it did to 1936.
This is a very very late silent film, though it does have some spoken elements, they mostly are in the modern sections. Charlie works in a gigantic factory where the boss watches them on TV sets everywhere, including the bathroom (this predates 1984 by almost a decade) and yells at them to get back to work. Also, some people bring in an eating machine in order to make the feeding of the workers more efficient, and they put on a record that explains how the machine works as they stand there silently.
Charlie really was resisting the whole talkie technology, I remember that he thought that having the Little Tramp talk would ruin the character, so he held off as long as possible. Which meant that he made films with spectacular visual and slapstick moments when everyone was all about the words. In Modern Times, however, we do hear his voice! He becomes a singing waiter, though he protests that he cannot sing, and when he gestures too enthusiastically he loses the lyrics that he wrote on his cuffs, and has to improvise the song with gestures and gibberish–in a song that I have a weird feeling that Joel Grey must have seen before creating his character in Cabaret, because my goodness me does it remind me of the Emcee!
his whole character is much less innocent in this picture, he has a scene where he has been tightening bolts on the assembly line so long that when he gets off it, he's still automatically tightening everything he sees, especially buttons on a woman's skirt, or on another woman's chest, very Harpo Marx stylee! There is another scene where he accidentally does a bunch of cocaine, not something modern audiences realize might occur in a pre-WWII film.
This is a wild comedy, with Charlie working in the factory, fired from the factory, arrested for leading a Communist march that he just happened to be walking down the street in front of, loves jail so much that when he is realised for good behaviour, he tries everything to be arrested again, to no avail. He meets Paulette Goddard, overacting charmingly as The Gamine, stealing bread, he tries to take the blame, she escapes and takes him with her, they try to make a life together with all odds against them.
This is a terrific film, interesting to see in comparison to The Gold Rush as it was made eleven years later, and he had grown a great deal as a filmmaker, not to mention he looks so much older that he had to move on from playing the complete innocent, although still most of what happens to him is outside of his control.


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Bharat (India) Soka Gakkai Hosts Family Festivals at Soka Bodhi Tree Garden
On February 6, 20 and 27, Bharat (India) Soka Gakkai (BSG) held family festivals at the Soka Bodhi Tree Garden located in a suburb of New Delhi. Some 6,000 members of BSG New Delhi and their families gathered at the garden to enjoy an outdoor scenic picnic, and to strengthen family bonds. Representatives presented songs and puppet show. BSG Chair Gopi Menon expressed deep appreciation to all the family members who support BSG members' activities.


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This local restaurant serves breakfast, lunch, and dinner. If you are in Rockaway, there are few restaurants to choose from. This is a relaxed spot on the bay. The food is good and relatively inexpensive. You will feel like you are from the city, yet the view of NYC is priceless. Always a nice place for a relaxing meal.
Make no mistake, the view offerred by Wharf Bar & Grill cannot be replicated elsewhere in Queens. Unfortunately nearly every other Queens restaurant enjoys better management. On the night of our visit, they had run out of: lobster, martini glasses, non-alcoholic beer and silverware (no really). The 90 minute wait for fairly simple entrees (fish tacos where just the fish...
Wharf Inc was founded in 1994, and is located at 416 Beach 116th St in Rockaway Park.


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That's Cosmic!
Monday 07 September 2009
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What makes up the universe? Lots of tiny particles with strange names: bosons, leptons, quarks and neutrinos. But physicists think there are more members to be discovered in this particle zoo.
From strange particles to dark matter to vibrating strings, find out why you have to think small to understand the physics of the universe.
Plus, other cosmic connections: is SETI a religion?
- Murray Gell-Mann – Physics Nobel Laureate, Professor Emeritus – California Institute of Technology, Distinguished Fellow at the Santa Fe Institute, Santa Fe, New Mexico
- Brian Greene – Mathematician and physicist, Columbia University, author of The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory and, most recently, Icarus at the Edge of Time
- Lisa Randall – Physicist, Harvard University, author of Warped Passages: Unraveling the Mysteries of the Universe's Hidden Dimensions
- David Wilkinson – Theologian, University of Durham, U.K.
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Royal Nova Scotia International Tattoo
From: 2015.07.01 To: 2015.07.08
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Don't expect to get a new cool pattern on your undeniably muscular body - Royal Nova Scotia International Tattoo is a spectacle devoted to the acoustic aspect of military service. Held in downtown Halifax in the first week of July every year, Royal Nova Scotia International Tattoo employs over 2,000 world-class Canadian and international military and civilian performers who help bring about the largest annual indoor show in the world. Hear and see the pipes and drums, military and civilian bands, historic re-enactments, dancers, acrobats, choirs, military displays and competitions, drama, comedy, and much more at this fast-paced family show. First staged in 1979, with Queen Elizabeth opening the original Nova Scotia Tattoo, the show received a special recognition in 2006, when Her Majesty the Queen added the Royal prefix to the event's title. If you ever wish to leave the show, you can still enjoy a series of free noon-time concerts, parades and performances in various spots around the city, as well as the complementary workshops held by the groups taking part in the Tattoo.
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The humanitarian gesture is sponsored by UNICEF Cameroon's Local Staff Association.
It was all smiles on the faces of the young residents at the Bepanda Social Welfare Centre on Wednesday January 30 afternoon. The joyful atmosphere was stirred by a humanitarian visit from the personnel of the United Nations Children's Education Fund (UNICEF) Cameroon, for an award of gifts ceremony. The donation, comprised of clothes, toys, foodstuff and basic medical needs is geared towards ameliorating the children's stay in the centre, pending their consequent reinsertion into their various communities, explained UNICEF's representative, Geoff Wiffin. Worth FCFA two million, the gesture sponsored by UNICEF's Local Staff Association, aimed at extending a hand of solidarity to needy and under privileged children; being one of UNICEF's priorities.
The centre was created in 1952 by Canadian Missionaries and handed to the state in 1972, under the Ministry of Social Affairs. It accommodates male minors aged between eight and 14, offers educational, professional and medical services, with a 120 boarding facility. Its raison d'être is to combat the phenomenon of abandoned and street children, as well as juvenile delinquency by creating a home for the vulnerable, explained the Littoral Regional Delegate of Social Affairs, Jean Pierre Edjoa.


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Seachem Flourish Excel
|Seachem Flourish Excel is a source of bioavailable organic carbon. All plants require a source of carbon. This is typically obtained from CO2, but, may also be derived from simple organic compounds (such as photosynthetic intermediates). Provides aquarium plants with a source of essential carbon Great for use alone or in conjunction with CO2 injection Iron reducing properties to promote ferrous state of iron One can derive a substantial benefit with the use of Flourish Excel either alone or in conjunction with CO2 injection. Flourish Excel also has iron reducing properties which promote the ferrous state of iron (Fe+2), which is more easily utilized by plants than ferric iron (Fe+3).Seachem Flourish Excel is an integral component of Seachem's plant products and is recommended for use with the entire Flourish line as well as our Flourite and Onyx Sand substrates. Contains no phosphate or nitrate.Directions: On initial use or after a major (> 40%) water change, use 1 capful (5 mL) for every 40 L (10 gallons). Thereafter use 1 capful for every 200 L (50 gallons) daily or every other day. Dosing may be slowly increased in high-growth aquariums. For smaller dosing please note that each cap thread is approximately 1 mL.
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|Flourish Iron is a highly concentrated (10,000 mg/L) ferrous iron (Fe+2) gluconate supplement. Plants are able to much more easily derive a benefit from Flourish Iron than from EDTA-iron sources because all EDTA iron is in the ferric (Fe+3) state. Iron supplement for the planted aquarium Plants can much more easily derive benefit from Flourish Iron than from EDTA-iron sources Contains no phosphate or nitrate It should be used in those cases where the iron requirements exceed that which can be delivered by Flourish at the recommended dose or signs of iron deficiency appear (such as short and slender stems or yellowing between veins). Since plants require iron in the ferrous state, additional physiological energy must be expended in order to extract the ferric iron from EDTA-iron and then convert it to the ferrous form. Contains no phosphate or nitrate.DIRECTIONS: Use 1 capful (5 mL) for each 200 L (50 gallons*) or as required to maintain about 0.10 mg/L iron. For smaller doses please note that each cap thread is about 1 mL. Use MultiTest: Iron test kit to monitor iron concentrations. Use as needed to combat signs of iron deficiency (usually seen in new growth) which include: chlorosis (yellowing) of tissue between veins and short and slender stems.


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Oman Liveaboards
Mirbat & Salalah
Discover the extensive reefs of southern Oman and the Hallaniyat Islands! Departing from Mirbat's small harbour, the itinerary will be exploratory in nature, for divers comfortable in a relatively remote location. The experienced Egyptian crew, in tandem with Oman based dive guides already familiar with many of Mirbat and Salalah's exciting dive sites, join you in discovering the enormous wealth of sites on offer.
Hallaniyat Islands
Sitting in the waters straddling the north Indian Ocean and the Arabian Sea, the Hallaniyat Islands comprise five islands lying in an east to west string in the south-eastern waters of Oman's Dhofar district; Al Hasikiyah, As Sawdah, Al Hallaniyah, Shinays & Al Qibiliyah. (The islands may also be referred to as the Khuriya Muriya Islands.)
The largest island is Al Hallaniyah at 56 km², the others being relatively small, but this remote string of islands offers a wealth of dive sites to be discovered.
Al Hallaniyah has a village community of around 150 people, but there are currently moves to develop the island for its strategic shipping location, with plans for a substantial harbour port by 2013. The geography is typical of the rugged desert like peaks typical to Oman, with its highest point at approximately 465 meters.
City of Winchester wreck
Sitting in 28 - 30 metres of water, this historic 150m long vessel holds the spurious title of the first British ship to be sunk in an act of war by Germany in WWI. Read this interesting article penned by Steve Dover in April 1999 and published in Diver magazine >
Rumours also abound of other wrecks from the famous fleets of Vasco da Gama. Are you ready to make your first discovery?
Please note: During the 2015 season, the City of Winchester wreck may be subject to temporary closure.
Humpbacks, if you are lucky!
Reliable, relatively frequent reports of humpback sightings are known, along with some of their smaller cetacean friends; the dolphin. A good chance of manta rays, large grouper and superb coral on relatively shallow reefs will enthral divers.
Please note that water visibility can be changeable in this area of the ocean, averaging around 20 metres. Divers should each travel with their own surface signalling devices and observe conservative dive profiles due to the location of the itinerary.
The Daymaniyat Islands
The Daymaniyat Islands helped place Oman on the world dive map. This string of offshore islands north of Muscat has been placed under the protection of UNESCO and provides divers with pristine coral gardens, walls, leopard sharks and abundant fish life. The best diving conditions are found in the area from April to October due to the wind direction and better clarity in the water, plus, June to September are the best months to have the chance to encounter whale sharks. Water temperature varies due to the thermoclines by drops and rises of +/- 8 centigrade from surface to depth.
Fahal Islands
The Fahal Islands towards the north boasts an incredible variety of coral species. There are two small wrecks, which draw a large amount of marine life, including the occasional black tip reef shark, various rays and turtles.
Bandar Khairan
Bandar Khairan is an area of outstanding beauty, boasting rocky outcrops, deserted beaches and small islands such as Ras Abu Dawud that are only accessible by boat. The underwater scenery is similarly dramatic with picturesque walls and reefs festooned with healthy finger and fan corals in purples and green, teeming with marine life. The shallow, sheltered dives of Bandar Jussa, which are great to dive in all conditions, afford lovely, simple night diving experiences. Bhandar Khairan is an area where turtles breed so turtles can be seen on nearly every dive.
Al Munassir Wreck
In 2003 the Al Munassir, a 3000 tonne vessel, was sunk at Bandar Khairan and is beginning to develop into a beautiful artificial reef dive. Although relatively new, this wreck is already smothered in corals and home to plenty of marine life. Easily accessible, the Al Munassir lies at 26m with her top at just 8m.
The Musandam peninsula is separated from the rest of Oman by the United Arab Emirates. Geographically, the area is characterised by large sawtooth mountains, which fall dramatically into the sea.
The coastline itself is carved into countless fjords, bays and islands. The stunning scenery above the surface is reflected underwater by impressive drop offs and an incredible diversity of healthy corals and strong currents.
Reefs and Diving
The waters surrounding Musandam and the Straights of Hormuz provide very fine coral reef diving. Plankton rich waters attract over 900 species of fish, ranging from cleaner wrasse through to whale sharks. There are over 25 established dive sites within 60 minutes boat ride, subject to local conditions. As the region is remote and commercial fishing is not permitted, the volume of marine life is very noticeable and leaves a lasting impression on divers.
The dive sites themselves range in character from walls to extensive coral gardens. The diving here is almost exclusively drift diving. The combination of plankton and strong local currents attract a great range of pelagic species, which includes both manta and eagle rays, along with whale sharks. Boats are often accompanied by dolphins, which like the calm waters of Musandam's fjords. Numerous shark species can also be encountered, as well as most species of turtle.
The trade off for the high concentrations of larger marine life is underwater visibility, which typically lies in a range from 12 and 20 metres.
The dive sites of Musandam deliver world class adventurous drift diving to experienced divers. Although the area is remote, access is via a non-stop seven hour flight into Dubai from a variety of British airports.
Mirbat & Salalah MV Saman Explorer Sample Itinerary >
Musandam MV Saman Explorer Sample Itinerary >
Flight Information
Into Muscat & Salalah: Flights with Oman Air direct into Muscat from London Heathrow. Connecting flights to Salalah from Muscat.
Into Dubai: Flights with Emirates into Dubai non-stop from London Gatwick, Heathrow, Manchester, Birmingham, Glasgow and Newcastle (conditions may apply on certain regional departures).
Flights with Emirates via Dubai from London Gatwick, Heathrow, Manchester, Birmingham, Glasgow and Newcastle (conditions may apply on certain regional departures) - Supplement will apply.
Flight Duration: Approx. 7 - 8.5 hours
Departure tax: N/A
Passports & Visas
Please always check your own entry requirements regardless of your nationality. Your passport should always have at least 6 months validity on date of return travel.
Always check for last minute changes in entry requirements. Nationalities other than British citizens should check with their own consular office.
All UK nationals require a visa, which can be obtained on arrival.
- Stays of 1 to 10 days: OMR 5 (est. USD $13)
- Stays of 10 days to 1 month: OMR 20 (est. USD $52)
Travelling into Dubai, for Musandam: On arrival in Dubai, UAE, British passport holders will be issued with a tourist visa free of charge.
Clients departing from Al Dibba may not need an Omani visa. However, regulations change so this may be a requirement.
There is also a exit fee of 25 Emirati Dirham.
Travelling into Muscat or Salalah: British passport holders may purchase an Oman tourist visa on arrival.
Twin centres between Musandam, Muscat and Salalah: Route dependant if you are travelling by land, sea or air.
Vaccination requirements are subject to change and should be confirmed before departure. For the most up to date advice please consult your travel clinic or GP. Further information regarding vaccinations for travel to this country can be found at www.fitfortravel.nhs.uk and from your local healthcare provider. There are no compulsory vaccinations for travel to Oman, but we recommend protection against typhoid, tetanus, hepatitis A and polio.
MV Saman Explorer
Musandam - full of surprises
"We took a trip on Saman Explorer during the first week in September. Having dived in many of the world's hotspots, we were not expecting much, given the lack of publicity of this area, but were very pleasantly surprised indeed! Firstly, the journey is relatively painless, a direct flight to Dubai and a road transfer thereafter saving both time and money on multiple flights, the transfers were efficient and comfortable.
Secondly, we have no complaints about the boat at all. The catering is fairly basic but perfectly edible. If you are a coffee and English tea connoisseur, take some supplies with you!
The topside scenery in this area is nothing short of spectacular. Raw, barren and awe-inspiring. The underwater scenery is magnificent, incredibly beautiful and colourful soft coral covering acres of walls and mounts, with hard coral gardens in the shallows.
There are plenty of fish and a fair amount of macro. Highlights for us were whalesharks on two dives, torpedo and other rays, mobula and eagle rays, huge Spanish dancers at large during the day, other nudi's both very large and very small, 40cm pipefish and an abundance of trunkfish, McCosker's wrasse males displaying. Every dive seemed to produce something of interest to even the most experienced of divers.
A few of the dives were a little lively current-wise, some divers aborted a couple after ten mins. because they couldn't cope, so perhaps don't go here with under 100 dives or some good experience in current. But most dives were fairly calm and relaxed.
All in all a great trip, will do the same next year if the boat goes up there again."
Jane Knobel - Cyprus | 18 September 2014
MV Saman Explorer
Diving from Saman Explorer
"Had some good diving, the boat was good, there were only nine divers on a boat built for 22. The crew were excellent and the was food. I will keep Regal in mind for other trips.
The first dive was a test in Mirbat (1&1/2 hour drive from Salalah) where we picked up the boat. The visibility was only 10-15m and not a great deal of life so we were a little apprehensive, but after we travelled to the islands overnight (200km steam) the diving there was far better with vis of 30m+ and lots of fish.
The bottom tends to be rocky with sand interspersed between these outcrops, the coral was good in the shallow gardens and the fish were plentiful, loads of smaller fish shoals sweet lips etc. Other sightings included: big Morays (some free swimming in the day), bigger Parrot Fish and Trigger Fish, large Stingrays, Green Turtle, Lemon Shark, big Groupers (a number of varieties) plus Squid and Cuttlefish at night. Plus, two wrecks pretty flattened but teeming with fish!
Compared to say the Maldives the coral is not quite as good but very presentable because of the slightly reduced visibility, in comparison smaller fish the same but has other medium sized comparable fish that are larger (Parrot Fish, Trigger Fish, Lion Fish) than the Maldives showing there are more mature fish (maybe fishing hasn't had as much impact on them) but it doesn't have the big fish such as Manta, Shark, Whale Shark. The turtles here were larger and usually in cave. Would suggest a torch is useful to appreciate the full colour and investigate the crevices in the rocks..."
P. Howarth - UK | 14 April 2015
MV Saman Explorer
Saman Explorer
"Just back from an excellent trip on the Saman Explorer around the Hallaniyat islands.
This is a well appointed liveaboard (NB Complimentary 15L cylinders if desired). The staff and food were excellent. Andy Travis, the enthusiastic dive guide, established a safe and relaxed approach to the diving. This is a remote area with limited support if anything goes wrong but the diving is not very deep. Many of the sites hadn't been dived before and thus was a real adventure - sometimes real gems, others unlikely to be repeated. As the brochure notes, the vis is not comparable to many diving destinations but there is an incredible abundance of life to look at. We missed out on the whales but saw many mantas and a leopard shark. It was great to land on and explore some of the islands.
If you have the time, consider taking the Mountain, Desert and Beaches extension. Oman is a fascinating country and this is a quick way to get a flavour of this amazing country.
Graham Illing - UK | 19 June 2015
MV Saman Explorer
Great time on Saman Explorer
"A really easy week of liveaboard.
Apart from the City of Winchester wreck at 28m, a shallow week of laid back diving suitable for both relative beginners, and for those looking for a change from the Red Sea. No humpback whales on my trip unfortunately, but an awesome dive with a pod of dolphins! Plenty of Rays, and even Leopard Sharks. Lots of interesting life about.
A refreshing change of scenery to Egypt. Great stuff!
Bryce Ford - UK | 26 June 2015
Oman Facts
- Area: 212, 500 sq. km
- Population: 2.9 million
- Language: Arabic, English, Farsi, Baluchi, Urdu
- Time: GMT + 4
- Electricity: 220 / 240v, 50Hz, British style 3 pin plug
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Featured Blu-ray: Peter Pan
February 3rd, 2013
Peter Pan is 60 years old this year, so it makes complete sense that it would be released on Blu-ray this week. When the film was first released in theaters, it was an immediate hit becoming the highest grossing film of 1953, and it was also (mostly) beloved by critics. (It was based on a play and there were some changes made, not all of which pleased critics at the time.) Today, it is still seen as a classic, mostly. (There is controversy surrounding the stereotypical portrayal of the Indian, with good reason.) Can it overcome these issues and still be enjoyed? Or is it too much a product of its time?
The Movie
The film begins, not in Never Land, but in the real world. We first meet the Darlings, George and Mary, as they prepare for a party. George has lost his cuff links, or to be more accurate, his two boys, John and Michael, have taken them to use as pirate treasure. They even used his shirt front as a treasure map. These delays cause George to get quite cross and tells Wendy to stop filling the boys heads with silly stories. He tells her that it's time to grow up and be practical, and to do that she needs a room of her own.
So it's the last night for Wendy in the nursery, but that night they have a visitor, two of them: Peter Pan and Tinker Bell. It seems a previous night he had come to listen to Wendy's stories, but Nana, the Darling's dog, got his shadow. He's come to get it back. The pair make enough of a racket that Wendy wakes up. When she explains how this will be the last night in the nursery and that means no more stories for Peter Pan to listen to. That won't do, so Peter Pan decides to take Wendy back with him to Never Land, much to the horror of Tinker Bell. When Michael and John wake up, Wendy decides they should all go to Never Land. They'll need to fly there, and to do that, they'll need some happy thoughts and pixie dust.
Once in Never Land, we meet Captain Hook, his first mate Smee, and the rest of his pirates. The crew is quite angry that they haven't left Never Land. They want to pillage and get some pirate loot. Captain Hook, on the other hand, wants revenge for Peter Pan cutting off his hand and feeding it to a crocodile. The crocodile now wants the rest of him. Captain Hook has a new plan. He will kidnap Tiger Lily, the daughter of the Indian chief. With a little persuasion, she will tell him where Peter Pan's hideout is.
Never Land turns out to be a dangerous place, especially for Wendy. First, Tink tricks The Lost Boys into attacking her and gets banished as a result. Then while Peter Pan takes her to the Mermaid Lagoon, John, Michael, and the Lost Boys are captured by the Indians. Normally this wouldn't matter, because it's just a game the two play. However, the Indian chief thinks Peter Pan was responsible for kidnapping Tiger Lily. If he doesn't give her back, he will burn the kids alive. Fortunately, after the mermaids try to drown Wendy, Peter Pan spots Captain Hook and Smee taking Tiger Lily. Peter Pan humiliates Captain Hook yet again and rescues Tiger Lily.
While recovering aboard his ship, Captain Hook learns of the split between Peter Pan and Tinker Bell and decides this is the perfect opportunity to get his revenge. He will capture Tinker Bell and use her jealousy over Wendy to get her to reveal Peter Pan's secret hiding place. Will it work?
As I mentioned in my review of Cinderella, films can be classics and still have deep flaws that are a sign of the times. This is very much true for Peter Pan. There are parts of this movie that are regrettable. Cinderella had an unwritten female lead whose only desire was to be rescued, which makes it feel old-fashioned in a negative way. Peter Pan has a negative view of most of its female characters as well. Wendy comes off the best, as she is by far the most mature character we see in Never Land, but even she is driven by jealousy when she sees Peter Pan react to Tiger Lily. The only character trait we get from the mermaids is jealousy. And Tinker Bell is so jealous, she is driven to attempted murder. Although, if I were forced to live with Peter Pan and the Lost Boys, I would have been driven to murder long ago. Being the only adult dealing with those kids day in and day out would drive me to madness. And to be fair to her, she does redeem herself in the end nearly sacrificing herself to save Peter Pan. As far as the Indians are concerned, let's just admit casual racism was a lot more acceptable back then and just be happy that's not nearly as true today.
There are some elements of the film that to stand up just as well today as they did when it first came out, and some that have aged better. Most people today haven't seen the original play, so that's not an issue. Also, there are several good songs in Peter Pan, especially "Your Mother and Mine". There is also a lot more action in this movie than in most other animated films of the era. This is one of the reasons the film was made a decade later than Walt Disney originally wanted it to be made.
Overall, the strengths of Peter Pan overcome its weaknesses by a large degree. However, if it were made today, there would have to be changes.
The Extras
The old extras are ported over from the DVD (audio commentary track, Backstage Disney, Music & More). In total, it's nearly an hour and a half of old extras ported over. New extras begin with an introduction by Diane Disney-Miller, while there is also DisneyView, which fills in black bars on the side of the screen. Also, if you pause the movie, you get Pirate Training, where you can try to decipher smoke signals, play games, extra. Growing Up with Nine Old Men is a 41-minute long interview featurette on growing up as one of the kids of the Nine Old Men, the core group of animators. There are two deleted scenes and two deleted songs.
You can also buy the movie with a storybook app. Unfortunately, I don't have any apple product to try out this feature.
The technical presentation is great. In fact, some are complaining that the film looks too good. Seriously, there's a discussion about whether or not the studio removed too much grain in the restoration process. The problem with removing grain in most movies, is that it can also remove too many fine details, especially in people's faces, and this makes them look plastic. That is not an issue here. There's still all the fine detail from before, just without the grain. The audio is also excellent. The film was originally in mono, but has been redone for a 7.1 surround sound track. (The original mono is also present.) It's not a super active track, but it does a lot with the limited source material.
The Verdict
Peter Pan is one of Disney's classics from a time when they were releasing classic after classic. It hasn't aged as well as some of the other films from that time, but it is still a very good film and worth owning. The Blu-ray looks and sounds great and there are plenty of new and old extras. I'm not sure I would pay the $5 more for the Blu-ray Combo Pack with Storybook App, even if I had an Apple product to use it on.
- Submitted by: C.S.Strowbridge
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Menlo College freshman Arielle Peraza had six saves and two shutouts in the Oaks' 2-0 week and was selected as the California Pacific Conference Women's Soccer Defensive Player of the Week for the dates of September 19th through 25th, 2011.
The West Covina, California native had six saves and had two shutouts for the Oaks in their 2-0 week. On Friday, Menlo beat Arizona Christian University 7-0 in Atherton and beat Simpson University in their California Pacific Conference opener 2-0 on Saturday.
Menlo College has two matches this week. On Tuesday, they will have a California Pacific Conference match versus William Jessup University in Rocklin and then will have a neutral site match versus Embry Riddle Aeronautical University (AZ) at Marymount College in Palos Verdes.
Other Nominee: Kayla Kaleiohi of Holy Names, Morgan Kinyon of William Jessup


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Medicaid Expansion is a Good Decision – And Michigan Agrees!
As part of Obamacare, all states have the option to expand Medicaid with the federal government financing almost all of the costs of covering newly eligible individuals. If the states accept those federal funds, they will not have to pay anything for the first three years, and even after that, they will pay only a fraction of the costs to cover hardworking families.
If all states accept this money, an additional 7 million women will be able to get critical women's health care, such as: birth control, checkups, well-woman exams, and prenatal care at no cost. Unfortunately, despite these immense benefits to women and families in their states, some anti-women's health politicians are turning down the expansion and denying their residents health care. In fact, according to a recent article in Think Progress, states that refuse to expand Medicaid may "widen the gulf between urban and rural America."
Right now, more than half of the urban residents who could become eligible for Medicaid coverage under Obamacare are living in states that are expanding. Meanwhile, more than half of the rural residents who could gain coverage are living in states that have refused federal funds to expand Medicaid. By rejecting federal funds, these states are exacerbating the health disparities that already exist in this country by denying individuals better access to comprehensive health care. In essence, these politicians are making it even clearer that your health care depends on your zip code.
But in spite of all this, there is good news. Slowly, some states are coming around to the idea that accepting federal funds will mean that a state can cover more hardworking people and their families — ultimately saving taxpayer dollars that are currently spent to treat uninsured individuals. The Republican-led Michigan House approved a bill to expand the Medicaid program as part of the health care law. They will send the bill to Governor Rick Snyder, who has already come out in favor of the expansion citing the taxpayer savings and improvement in quality of life for those residents who are not already covered.
It's great news for the additional 400,000 people who could be covered (according to a Senate Fiscal Agency analysis), as a result of this decision. Way to go, Michigan!
Stories from People who have already benefited from Obamacare in Michigan
Janet S., Milford, MI
For the first time in years, my mammogram was covered. Now I will not have to put off my annual test. I am also able to keep my adult college student on my insurance plan. Thank You Obamacare!
Autumn Blohm., Muskegon, MI
I have had health insurance for the last 19 years, but until last year, it had been at least 7 years since I had had a wellness checkup or mammogram because I couldn't afford it.
Since it is now mandatory for the insurance to cover these costs I have been able to have those tests without additional cost to me. Thank you President Obama. Also the fact that the insurance companies now have a cap on their profits is a bonus.
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Jennifer Picarsic, MD
Assistant Professor of Pathology
Dr. Picarsic joined the group after completing her training in Anatomic and Clinical Pathology in 2011 at UPMC and her Pediatric Pathology Fellowship at Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh in 2012. Dr. Picarsic's academic interests are in the fields of heart transplant pathology, molecular pathology, and histocytic disorders.
Office Location:
Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh
One Children's Hospital Drive
4401 Penn Ave.
Pittsburgh, PA 15224
Contact Information:
Office Telephone: 412-692-5650
Fax: 412-692-6550
Email: email@example.com
- MD - University of Pittsburgh, 2007
- BS - Dickinson College, summa cum laude, 2003
- Diplomat of the American Board of Pathology
- American Board of Pathology, Combined Anatomic and Clinical Pathology
- American Board of Pediatric Pathology
- Pediatric Pathology
Awards and Honors
- Phi Beta Kappa
- UPSOM, American Society of Clinical Pathology Award for Academic Excellence
- UPSOM, Robert E. Lee Award for Excellence in Anatomic Pathology
Clicnical ExpertiesAs a pediatric pathologist, my clinical experience is wide-ranging, encompassing transplant pathology, benign and malignant neoplastic disease, congenital malformations, and autopsy pathology. As the pathology liaison for the heart and lung transplant team, I am developing a special focus in pediatric heart and lung transplant pathology.
Research ExpertiesDr. Jennifer Picarsic's academic interests are sprouting in the fields of heart and lung transplant pathology, molecular pathology, and histocytic disorders. Current publications include work on post-transplant Burkitt lymphoma as distinct form of post-transplant lymphoproliferative disorder and a book chapter on the Molecular Diagnostics of Pediatric Tumors.
Selected PublicationsView Dr. Picarsic's publications on PubMed
Georgievskaya Z, Nowalk AJ, Randhawa P, Picarsic J. Bartonella henselae Endocarditis and Glomerulonephritis with Dominant C3 Deposition in a 21-year old Male with a Melody® Transcatheter Pulmonary Valve: Case Report and Review of the Literature. Pediatr Dev Pathol. 2014 Jun 4. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID:24896298.
Picarsic J, and Reyes-Múgica M. Post-transplant Pediatric Burkitt lymphoma. Pathology Case Reviews. 2011;16(6):251-255.
Picarsic J, Jaffe R, Mazariegos G, Webber SA, Ellis D, Green MD, Reyes-Múgica M. Post-transplant Burkitt lymphoma is a more aggressive and distinct form of post-transplant lymphoproliferative disorder. Cancer. 2011;117:4540-4550. PMID: 21446044.
Picarsic J, Raval JS, Macpherson. United States Medical Licensing Exam Step 1 two-digit score-a correlation with the American Board of Pathology first-time taker pass/fail rate at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Arch Pathol Lab Med. 2011:135(10):1349-52. PMID: 21970491.
J Picarsic, N Glynn, S Studenski, A Newman. Self-Reported Napping and Duration and Quality of Sleep in the Lifestyle Interventions and Independence for Elders Pilot Study. J Am Geriatr Soc. 2008;56(9):1674-1680. PMID: 18662202.


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Okay, put your diapers on, HERE IT IS.
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Christmas in March!? haha
I hope this comes through. It sounds epic! Keep us posted santa. =)
I hope this comes through. It sounds epic! Keep us posted santa. =)
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Wow! i was closer than i expected.
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Posted 04 March 2012 - 07:42 AM
Outstanding news, Rocky! Now that I've read the news article, I feel daft for not getting the HINT IN YOU LEFT FOR US IN ALL CAPITAL LETTERS.
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Steven Drown is already feeling the sting of the shutdown. He owns The Diner, just outside the Fort Rucker gates in Daleville. Just one day after the Fort Rucker furloughs he's already lost fifty percent of his customers. "It's a definite drop in business. You can tell by just the amount of people coming in the doors and plates we're cooking on the grill," said Drown.
On Wednesday, booths were empty and so was the bar area in the restaurant. Drown said just a day ago you couldn't get a seat. "If we do not sell the food that means we're losing money and then we will have to make some decisions. That may mean we have to release people or we have to rotate days off. Like they say about furloughs, we may have some furloughs ourselves. "
The Diner isn't alone, other business have also been impacted. The McDonald's in Daleville usually has a line that stretches to the street, but on Wednesday there were only a few cars in the drive-thru. Other businesses also had nearly empty parking lots. Down the road in Enterprise, Mayor Kenneth Boswell is bracing for what could be more days of a government shutdown. "We're still heavily dependent on Fort Rucker and those off shoots of jobs, whether it is directly or indirectly related to Fort Rucker and that helps support our retail stores here. So there will be an impact," said Boswell.
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By Annette Hinkle
Though the New York Islanders will soon abandon Nassau Coliseum in favor of the Barclays Center in hipster Brooklyn, in the 1970s the team grew to be a hockey powerhouse and the pride of Long Island, culminating with the Islanders first Stanley Cup win in 1979-80. That same year the unsung US Olympic hockey team bested the USSR in a legendary Cold War match up.
And in the Long Island suburb of East Northport, a group of boys was paying close attention … and they were inspired.
This was back in the day when kids made their own fun. On empty lots and at the end of cul-de sacs they organized games, broke up fights and clarified rules. Parental involvement came only at dusk when mothers raised their voices to announce that dinner was served.
The first time he strapped on a pair of roller skates, Michael Brunone (a.k.a. Bruno) was 10-years-old. They were the teeth jarring, metal-wheeled variety with clamps that squeezed over your sneakers and he took to the streets to play hockey with the other boys in the neighborhood.
"They were probably my sister's," admits Brunone. "It started with eight or 10 of us in front of the house. When the ball went under a car, you had to stop play. You also had to move the nets for cars."
But as the players grew and skills progressed, so did the equipment and the venues. The disco era ushered in skates with polyurethane wheels and the game moved to a tennis court and finally, a basketball court on Bellerose Avenue in East Northport.
"When we were kids we played several days a week," recalls Russ Bernier who made his own skates by putting polyurethane wheels on his sneakers.
They called themselves "Pellas," a melding of the words "pals" and "fellas," and held rivalry-based games — Islanders fans vs. Rangers fans for example, or Italian vs. Irish (reflecting the makeup of the neighborhood's two predominant ethnic groups). Along the way, there were also hardships — most notably bitter winter weather and the unyielding basketball posts that ringed the perimeter of the court like waiting land mines.
"We'd play in sub-zero temperatures," says Bobby Taglich, "and even on New Year's Eve."
The Pellas played through their teens and into college. Then adulthood intervened and they drifted off to careers, wives and lives far from the old neighborhood, largely putting roller hockey behind them.
Or so they thought.
Two years ago those boys, now in their late '40s, revived the Pellas RHL (Roller Hockey League) with a single commemorative match-up on their home turf. Along the way, a strange thing happened — these grown men with real jobs, graying (and in some cases, long lost) hair and family commitments also discovered their long lost youth.
And they haven't stopped playing since.
"We had forgotten how much fun it was to be competitive. This is the most fun you can have with another guy," says Sag Harbor's Mike Taglich, Bobby's big brother and his fiercest rival. "There's that great thrill, when you still have the same moves you had when you were 20. It gives you a feeling like no other."
"There's birth, school, work and death — now you have roller hockey in between," he adds.
Every Sunday from late October through April, the Pellas — with the average player pushing 50 — meet up for a weekly game. They have real jerseys now and younger players have been recruited to keep things competitive.
But it turns out one of the newest recruits is actually the oldest player in the RHL. As a kid, East Hampton's Adam Flax, 52, played street hockey in suburban New Jersey and has reclaimed his childhood position of goalie. It's the most difficult position to fill, due to the need for full pads and the pressure inherent in potentially being responsible for letting up goals.
On an outing to the East Hampton Skatepark with his daughter a couple years ago, Mike Taglich caught sight of Flax on the empty rink defending the net from some kids who were shooting at the goal.
"He had the circa 1978 hockey pads in their original box," recalls Taglich who knew immediately he had found his man.
And his instincts were right. Flax fit right in and has even become one of the organizers of the league.
"As a goalie, I've learned their game," says Flax. "I went from being rusty and achy to having quicker reflexes, which I thought were long gone. Their skating picked up with time and they improved their game too. We all got in better shape."
Make no mistake, despite its origins, this is no kids' game. The competition and the endurance are both serious.
"We don't often have subs so we play for an hour and a half straight," says Mike Taglich. "Unlike real hockey where it's three minutes on and three minutes off, we're playing and playing. We take a couple breaks, but you're skating for 20 minutes straight. We play to the point of exhaustion and it's an incredible workout."
"It's exciting to have your body go through that endurance and not have a heart attack," he adds. "I'm going to keep playing until things break."
With players living from Nassau County to East Hampton, a second venue has been added — the roller hockey rink at Red Creek Park in Hampton Bays, complete with boards, big nets and lights for night games.
"The Hampton Bays rink is the first real one we've played on," says Bernier. "Four of the guys are young and their game dominates there. On the smaller court, we may not be as fast, but playing all those years they don't dominate against us."
"On a little rink, I can bang them," adds Mike Taglich. "People are in much tighter proximity and you're going as fast as you can."
Which may explain the injuries.
"A lot of guys in the last few years can't play anymore," says Bernier. "A 56-year-old broke his ankle last year, but he swears he's coming back. Another guy threw his back out a couple years ago, now he's out."
Bernier once got hit in the eye and when Brunone fell on his head, he had to go to the hospital to get an MRI (like the NHL in the '70s, most of these players still refuse to wear helmets).
But the threat of bodily harm alone is not enough to dissuade this crew, especially given the long-dormant hostilities which surface regularly during play in the form of trash talk and the occasional dust-up.
"It started with cheap shots when we were 10-years-old and it continued when we were 47-years-old," says Bernier. "As much as you consider someone a best friend, when you get hit with a cheap shot you hate that person for the moment."
"We've known each other for 40 years," says Mike Taglich. "That's more than adequate time to develop grudges."
"We do purposely organize a lot of games to have grudge matches," confesses Bernier. "If a guy did something to tweak someone 35 years ago, he's still doing it."
Grudges also happen between siblings, as evidenced when the Taglich brothers (who co-own a private equity firm) dropped the gloves last season after one heated play.
"I checked him," says Bobby Taglich. "He went down and started accusing me of being a cheap shot. But he's the most physical player out there."
"We can't get in a fist fight in the office," counters Mike Taglich. "But we can on the court."
Though in the end no punches were actually thrown, witnesses say it was close.
"The reality is, when there are a few minutes left in the game and it's a tie, all bets are off," explains Bobby Taglich. "Mike's got his own rules. He wears full padding on the field, yet he's the guy hitting everyone."
"I'm a cheap player," Mike Taglich freely admits. "I've always been despised."
Adding considerable fuel to the fire is the weekly email, a form of communication employed not only to figure out who's playing the next week, but also as a device to recap the personal highs and lows of the most recent game.
"When we were younger you'd just stew about it," says Bernier. "Now we're shooting each other emails — it can be 20 in a day and they're so in your face. You can't wait to redeem yourself. You forgot how that felt."
And ultimately, that's what keeps these guys coming back. It's a powerful motivator that restores the lost glory of a simpler time and one that can't be dampened by injury or the demands of modern living.
"You're still a kid. That part of you has been wildly repressed and the cares and worries in our lives have ground it down," says Mike Taglich. "But it's somehow surprisingly still there and it explodes in full vigor."
"When that shot goes in or you execute a great play, it's just like it was in junior high," he adds. "When you're 48 and can savor that again, it's great."
"Just because you're an adult doesn't mean you can't still act childish," he says. "And for two hours every Sunday morning, we're 11 again."


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January 28, 2013
President Obama has begun to wield the power of the executive to press forward with a second-term agenda that delights the left and terrifies the right.
When he said "we must act" in his inaugural address last week, liberals cheered him on and conservatives saw that the electoral earthquake of November is likely to be followed by a tsunami of executive orders and regulations.
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After a number of tires and rims atleast 50 flat tires from 2007 a week after purchasing car it all began i had atleast a couple every month. Eventually getting a new set of tires thinking problems solved after countless more flat tires and countless blowouts resulted in a cracked rim and 2 bent rims . So we purchased a set of 17" rims and had the blown tire replaces well after replacing 4 blown out tires and rims they eventually quit sellin that rim since it went discontinued. I have now upgraded to 18" wheels however I am running a 235/50/r18 tire to allow for possible road hazards that our lil cars crack a rim like girls crack nails. However even after 3 years of crazy incidents im still a happy eclipse owner lol
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Memory of September 11, 2001
Never forgotten will be the 343
New York City Firefighters, 23
New York City Police Officers, and 37
Port Authority Officers
killed in the line of duty saving others on 9/11.
One Day in September
On September 11, 2001, two jetliners deliberately crashed
into the World Trade Center Twin Towers in what is now
known as the biggest terrorist attack on United States
In the ensuing aftermath, true heroes, the men and woman
of the New York Fire Department, New York Police
Department, and Port Authority Police Department bravely
ventured into the chaos, calamity, and danger while
citizens ran for their lives.
In the end, 343 New York
Firefighters, 23 New York Police
Officers, and 37 Port Authority Police Officers lost their
lives helping others that fateful day.
What I Seen & Heard That Day
One the morning of 9/11, I was in the final
stages of editing my book, "Inside the World of Police
Scanners". While working, I would always have my TV on CNN
News with the volume low and I would periodically look up at
the TV to see what was being discussed.
That morning, I recall
typing and then hearing "This just in...we have
unconfirmed reports this morning that a plane has crashed into
one of the towers of the World Trade Center". I remember
looking up at the TV screen and seeing "Breaking News – World Trade Center Disaster" across the bottom screen and one of
the twin towers smoking heavily. I immediately turned up the
volume. At the time, I had a habit of videotaping major
breaking news stories and this was no different so I popped in
a VCR tape and hit record. (I still have about 80 hours of
news coverage on VCR tape)
After I began recording, I went to a list of live
scanner feed I had bookmarked and went to a live New
York City fire department feed to listen to rescue operations.
I had been listening for about 5-minutes when
out of nowhere the second plane hit the second tower. I
remember saying to myself "OH SH*T!"
- this is intentional. As events unfolded, I sat with the TV volume
low listening to rescue operations on the live scanner feed
and then watched in horror as the first tower collapsed, then
later, the second tower.
In my 28+ years of listening to
police and fire communications, I have heard many things that
would make the average person cringe, but *nothing* compares
to what I heard live over the air that day as I simultaneously
watched it unfold on TV and what the firefighters and police
officers went through following the collapse of the first
tower, then the second.
The Towers
After the first tower collapsed, there were
many calls for help from trapped firefighters and other
fire-rescue units responding to those calls for help. After
the second tower collapsed, there was just silence and the
dispatcher trying to raise someone on the air, but there was no one
left to respond - it was very chilling to hear and then not
hear anything.
The one transmission that I will never forget
was from someone who identified himself as a fire chief over
the air yelling for help and that he was trapped under a fire
engine with a police sergeant and that both were badly injured
and could barely breathe. After several minutes of the
dispatcher trying to get his location to get help to him, the
radio went quiet on the other end. It was then that I knew
that he did not make it.
On another channel, I heard a civilian also
get on the air panicked and yelling for help and that he was
inside a fire truck - the dispatcher telling him that help was
on the way and to clear the radio traffic for emergency personnel.
Throughout the day and in the days and months
following 9/11, police and fire traffic here is Southern California
was on high alert with all sorts of activity from bomb threats
to a sighting of Osama
Bin Laden at a Walgreens in Redlands, CA. (Click
here to listen to the actual dispatch recording.)
9/11 Audio
Recordings As It Happened
I have put this page together not only as a
tribute to the police officers and firefighters that lost
their lives that day, but also so that you can experience what
I heard that day. Below are official radio transmissions from
the New York fire Department and New York Port Authority Police as they
occurred that morning.
The audio recordings are 10-minutes each and
cover the time frame from 8:46am to 9:34am ET and from 9:34am
to 10:22am ET (after first tower collapse). Note: Some of the
voices you will hear are from some of the fallen firefighters.
Special thanks to Dave46563's YouTube
Channel for making these available. See below for a link to
Dave46563's Channel that has full news coverage videos from
CNN, NBC, Fox News, ABC, BBC and other news networks as it
9/11 Full
News Coverage Videos
As mentioned above, I was watching CNN when
coverage started. Below is the actual news coverage that I was
watching as it happened. (Note: footage of 9/11 starts at 1:31
of the video)
To view more full coverage new footage, visit the
following YouTube channel:
YouTube Channel: September 11, 2001 - As It Happened
Full coverage news videos from September 11, 2001 from BBC, ABC, NBC, CNN and others.
9/11 Police
& Firefighter Video Tributes
Below are links to video tributes that were put up on YouTube. Very moving
Tribute: 343
New York City Firefighters
Tribute: 23
New York City Police Officers
Tribute: 37
Port Authority Police Officers
Also be sure to visit our "Tribute
to First Responders"
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The celebrity sleuths over at The National Enquirer have an exclusive story on "one of Hollywood's most shocking fights ever" (guess someone hasn't seen the Carter Brothers Battle Royal?) between Grey's Anatomy co-stars Isaiah "Love Jones" Washington and Patrick "McDreamy" Dempsey, whose heated disagreement escalated into a no-holds-barred on-set deathmatch culminating in a "chokehold", "shoving" and someone being called "a bitch". Ah, how frightening it can be when two highly paid pretty boy TV stars throw down in a slapfight of kindergarten playground proportions! Luckily, the violence and bloodshed was finally diffused when Washington "stormed off to his trailer to cool off" whilst Dempsey stood silently in utter "disbelief". But don't sigh relief yet, as "insiders" are reporting that "the feud is far from over". What could these gladiators possibly have in store for round 2 of their raging rumble? Only time will tell, but if peace-keeping efforts aren't made soon, someone's agent could end up getting a choicely-worded letter.
There's been a lot of talk about Barbara Streisand lately — and not just surrounding her oddly come-hither rack. During her record 47th Farewell Tour, Babs attempts some SNL-worthy humor by bringing out a George W. Bush impersonator and a whole lot of political angst. Yentl then had the moxy to tell one heckler to "Shut the f*** up." Wonder what all the controversy is about? Take a look at some of the cutting edge comedy happening in your parents' world. We're still waiting to see Celine Dion riding a tandem bicycle with Condoleeza Rice while singing "Power of Love".
Memo to the NY Post: If you're going to include this picture of Scarlett Johansson from Allure magazine in your newspaper, please give the reader fair warning. Something along the lines of "Alert: When you turn the page you're going to see a semi-nude photograph of the sexiest woman alive (who also happens to be a role model for sexual health. Make sure you're not eating or drinking anything, for you'll surely choke, and if you're a man on the subway, make sure you're not standing too close to anybody. For obvious reasons."
We haven't seen this photo anywhere else online today, so you're just going to have to enjoy this low-res scanned image. Or you can go buy The Post. It'll probably be the best $.25 you spend today. Just make sure you're prepared. You've been warned.
Dear PETA,
While you're busy splashing fur-bedecked magazine editors with red paint and insisting that chickens each be handed a plush studio-cage, there are live animals – LIVE – who are being tortured out in the open, for all the world to see, and you guys don't intervene. Look at this pug held by Paris Hilton, clearly being squeezed to death both physically and intellectually. Either this lil' guy has Graves' disease, or it's exhibiting classic "warning signs" in the realm of "I only have a few more hours to live."
For God's sake, the pup even tries to slap her himself — and fails.
Please, unzip your bloodstained cow costumes, take a long look in the mirror, and hotfoot it to LA where hundreds of toy animals are experiencing this torture on a daily basis.
The World Including, But Not Limited To, Blind People
When you woke up Monday morning to discover that North Korea is testing real working nuclear weapons, your mind might have been sent reeling with all the fears and questions such a scenario presents. Well, if there's one person who understands the nuances of global military conflict and diplomacy, it's the man who brought us Airplane!, Top Secret!, The Naked Gun! and the last 3 Scary Movies(!). Yes, screwball film director David Zucker made a campaign ad outlining all the vaudvillian, slapstick ways in which the Democrats (namely, Madeleine Albright in drag) have single-handedly allowed evil to thrive in the world. For some reason, the Republicans never chose to run the ads, but thanks to the wonders of YouTube, we can all enjoy it here to today. You'll laugh, you'll cry, and you just might learn something. But mostly you'll cry.
It's Best Night Ever for Tuesday, October 10th! Dan Hopper is here to walk you through the best of Tuesday night tv, including Dancing with The Stars, Law & Order and Nip/Tuck!
The most disgusting sentence, and accompanying mental image, we've seen all day has to come from this Page Six item, describing the puppy love between director Quentin Tarantino and his newfound paramour, "Hot Young Asian Woman":
At the after-party at the Hollywood Roosevelt, the woman "tripped and fell flat on her face." She later sucked Tarantino's fingers while he ate sliders.
The word you're looking for isn't actually a word – it's the sound of you hurling tiny hamburgers all over the keyboard in front of you. That's why a certain Reservoir Horn-Dog is today's Daily Douche.