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University of Miami law graduates taking the February 2011 Bar Examinations across the nation achieved high pass rates well above average scores.
To enhance students' understanding of the challenges related to water resources and their effective management, Miami Law is offering a five-week graduate summer course taught in Vietnam and China starting this week. The eight participating University of Miami students are currently pursuing programs in the School of Law, Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science (RSMAS), and the College of Engineering. This international summer course will be led by Miami Law Adjunct Professor Daniel Suman.
The American Arbitration Association (AAA), the world's leading provider of conflict management and dispute resolution services, announced the election of Judith Freedberg, Director of Professional Programs at Miami Law where she coordinates the newly-established international arbitration program, to its Board of Directors.
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Frederick Hawkins, who graduated last Saturday from Miami Law, was selected as a 2011 Finalist for the federal Presidential Management Fellows (PMF) Program. Hawkins recently accepted a fellowship position as a Foreign Affairs Officer with the U.S. Department of State. He will work on immigration policy related to the administration of the State Department's Visa program and provide guidance to embassies on the issuance of immigrant and non-immigrant visas.
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It all started at 11:30 pm on Thursday night. I woke up throwing up and barely making it to the rest room for diahrea. I sat there with the most horrible cramping and sweating...although it felt like I was sitting outside in 0 degree weather naked and sweating. I was short of breath and it felt like I was seconds from passing out. I actually fell off the toilet to get closer to the floor. All the while my husband is asking what is wrong. I could not talk to him. I had to save all my energy to take breaths. I finially managed "get me to the hospital". Then "call an ambulance". The police officer got to our house before the ambulance. He and my husband helped me down stairs. They started an IV and drew blood in the ambulance. My BP was 143/82. I got to the hospital...feeling a little better. No more vomiting. No more diahrea. Just blood instead of stools! I started having contractions in the ER, they then sent me to L&D. I went there so that they could monitor the baby. The baby was fine, but mommy was not. I was then told that I needed to go back to the ER, because "this was not baby related". By this time I am mad as * and in pain! I asked a nurse in L&D to run a PE panel. She said I have "no symptoms of PE". My BP at this time was 151/94. Went back to the ER. My potassium and Sodium were low due to "blood loss and/or dehydration". I was sent home later with Immodium AD and NO diagnosis!
I called my OB at 9am. Sill nauseaus and pooping ALL bright red blood! She told me to get back to L&D so that she could run more tests! Did that, when I got there I was asked about 5 times if "I was sure she told me to come here, I should go to the ER". At this time I told them "she said to come here". I stayed all day Friday with headaches, STILL bloody poops, nausea and really weak! All the while my BP's are in the range of 120/60. I specifically asked the nurse if taking my BP meds would drop my BP too low, and she told me no. Was given that...within my BP was 100/43. I refused to take any more BP meds while there! My BP was low like that all day and into this morning on 200 mg ONE time! DH and I got home about an hour ago STILL with NO diagnosis! They called a GI Dr. in and he ran all the tests on the blood. He found nothing. He said that a hemrhoid would not cause the cramping like diahrea and nausea before having a bowel movememt (all blood). So this whole time the only stools were from the bout before my husband called the ambulance.:) He wants me to come into the office in one week if the blood does not stop.
My husband and I are totally confused about what is happening here. I was told it was not baby related. The baby performed beautifully throughout the periodically monitoring. I did eat Dairy Quees at 6pm before a candle party at my aunts. Was it food poisioning, ecoli? He dont know. No one can tell me anything. Other than "colon irritation". I feel alot better than I did, that is for sure. Still not up to my usual self. I requested a PE panel and to test for a kidney infection. All the while being told that I have no symptoms of these. I then asked if they dipped my urine for protein. She asked if I do that at home. (UGHHH!) I told her no. She then said no one had orders to do protein dips! I filled maybe 3/4 of the hat they give you for urine in a 24 hour period! I knew something was wrong! I was sooo dehydrated that they could not start an IV without chasing a vein for about 10 minutes!!!
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Across Borders, Talent Swaps Help Develop Skills and Careers
Multinational companies offer high-potential employees the chance to swap jobs, which can be more efficient than a traditional expatriate assignment.
May 19, 2015, Tuesday
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Less Noise but More Money in Data Science
The period of inflated expectations for big data is giving way to steady investment in technology and people, whose pay is rising.
April 28, 2015, Tuesday
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A Conversation With R. Byron Carlock Jr., Partner at PricewaterhouseCoopers
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April 22, 2015, Wednesday
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The Chinese affiliates of the firms failed to produce documents from their audits of Chinese companies under S.E.C. inquiry.
February 6, 2015, Friday
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February 5, 2015, Thursday
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More than a year after paying a steep penalty for doing business with Iran, one of the world's biggest banks is back in regulators' cross hairs.
November 18, 2014, Tuesday
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November 6, 2014, Thursday
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Freaks and geeks: Squidling Brothers brings new era of sideshow to Ottawa Tavern.Written by Jeff McGinnis | | firstname.lastname@example.com
"Magic is fake. Sideshow skills are real. When you have a fire-eater or a sword-swallower, what it looks like they're doing — they're really doing. When you eat fire, you really do get burned. … When you swallow a sword, you really do gag, and you really do choke, because you're sticking metal right down your throat. I tell you this, because when you watch a sideshow performer, you shouldn't think about how we're doing this. You should think about why."
— Penn Jillette
"Why do we do what we do?" Jelly Boy the Clown said, repeating the question he had just been asked. He was sitting in a diner with his fellow performers during an interview for Toledo Free Press Star. Jelly Boy turned to the other current members of The Squidling Brothers Circus Sideshow — a group that included a contortionist, a fire dancer and a strongman — and asked all of them. "Hey guys, why do we do what we do?"
There was a pause. Jelly Boy — self-described "Living Cartoon and Natural-Born Weirdo" — came back on the line. "Because we can't not do it. And the audience can't unsee it. It's part of the compulsion, it's a lifestyle choice. We always want to be on the road, freaking new people out every town. And we do it for the kids, you know? We do it for the kids inside of you."
For the past few years, Jelly Boy and his brother Matterz Squidling have toured throughout the United States and Europe with their new vision of the classic traveling sideshow, featuring feats that stretch the limits of human abilities — not to mention turning some stomachs. Blending comedy with the classic squeamish thrills that seeing such old-school acts can bring, this latest Squidling Brothers tour will stop by Toledo at 10 p.m. Oct. 23 for a show at the Ottawa Tavern, 1817 Adams St.
"A Squidling Brothers show is a hilarious stunt show with freaks and show people doing amazing feats that boggle the mind," Matterz said. "We do sword-swallowing, beds of nails, broken glass. This time we're traveling with an Illustrated Strongman who drives spikes into boards, a natural born freak who stretches his skin and an amazing aerialist/fire artist."
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The sideshow — a secondary attraction promoted by a carnival barker who would encourage passersby to pony up a few coins to see extraordinary feats and people born with unusual deformities — has long since disappeared from the "family friendly" circuses and fairs that continue to be organized the world over. Changing societal attitudes and the advent of television made paying cash to see such acts less attractive to the casual audience.
In recent years, spurred on by the success of the Jim Rose Circus, which attained fame at 1992's Lollapalooza, the sideshow has seen a revival in popularity, with numerous outfits ready to scratch the itch of those wanting to witness such remarkable feats. What sets the Squidlings apart, Jelly Boy argued, is the sense of humor which they bring to the enterprise.
"A Squidling Brothers show is a surreal collection of characters. And I think it's our approach to comedy, along with the grotesque and the extreme," he said. "It's a bit of a light-hearted approach to some very hardcore acts."
"We like to add this comedy element to the show, and we like to push the limits of the different types of traditional stunts," Matterz added. "We're always trying to do new and strange things, taking the old ideas and making them new."
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Matterz and Jelly Boy are, indeed, legitimately brothers — though one is hard-pressed to believe "Jelly Boy the Clown" is his legal name. Though the rest of the cast differs for each tour, the two brothers are constant — no Squidling Brothers tour has ever performed without both brothers onstage. The pair has been training and participating in sideshow stunts together since 2004, though the specific gimmick they now bring to the stage didn't take shape until a few years later.
"The Squidling Brothers name, I think, we came up with in 2008," Matterz said. "We started touring in 2009, and we've been touring in the U.S. and Europe ever since."
"We have a rotating cast of characters," Jelly Boy said. "Because not everybody can just leave their life all the time and just go on the road. We do a lot of traveling, so we meet a lot of very interesting people all around the country — all around the world.
"And we try and bring those people with us whenever we can. So we have a kind of collection of very strange and unique friends that we pull from.
"And this particular tour, we have a new cast of characters. We have a strongman, Titano, from Milwaukee. We've got the Rubber Man — he's born with a condition that makes his skin stretch ridiculously, and his bones are also rubber, so he can bend back his hand all the way, and twist his arm more than 360 degrees around. And there's a lady traveling with us named Madeleine Belle, who's an aerialist and a great fire dancer."
The ever-shifting makeup of the show is key to its ongoing success, Jelly Boy noted. "We got to really try and change it up, because we hit a lot of the same spots, and we want to keep our show different so people keep coming back.
"We come up with new ideas as we go along, and we try different stunts out to try and fit the character of the group," he said. "For instance, there's one act we're working on right now where the strongman ties a mechanical claw to his testicles.
"And I have a remote control, and it's like one of those machines you see in Walmart where the mechanical claw is trying to pick up the stuffed animals."
Feast your eyes
Just the description of some of these acts is enough to make a listener slack-jawed with disbelief, maybe a little uneasy — but they can also put a wry smile on their face. There is the sense that they shouldn't look, but they can't look away. It's that basic instinct that both brothers say is key to the appeal of their work — and maybe, in some way, it's a bit therapeutic, as well.
"There's a long list of things that make people squirm, and everybody's different," Jelly Boy said. "We try to find every angle of every phobia that people might have, and just try to run, like, a psychotherapy session. And by the end of the show, a lot of people who were afraid of clowns, or a lot of people who were afraid of needles, or fire, giant guys with tattoos on their faces — they start to feel a little bit differently about it. And they actually confront their fears and laugh about it."
"I love doing the sideshow and thrilling people every night. It's definitely about the crowd response," Matterz said. "I can't really think of anything else I'd rather do. I just enjoy the thrill of being on the road, going to different places and … finding places to go to where people may have never seen a sideshow, or heard of a sideshow and had never seen it before."
The act of performance proved healing for Jelly Boy, as well. Two years ago, he was staying at a friend's place prior to a show in New York City. He awoke to find the apartment in flames. Saved by the FDNY, he was in intensive care for weeks with severe burns all over his body and lungs. But within two months, the Clown was back on the road with his family — his real-life brother, and his brothers and sisters in performance.
"It was really therapeutic for me, because I wasn't done healing completely when I got back on the road. I ended up healing a lot on the road. Because I'd rather be out there doing something than sitting at home in a hospital bed, feeling sorry for myself. And we condition ourselves to deal with a lot of pain or to look at pain differently, and just to live, function with it. And it definitely helped me to go out and really forget about my troubles."
Tell your friends
This latest version of the Squidlings' extravaganza has only been on the road a few weeks. It's still growing and coming into its own, as all their shows do during the early days. But Matterz noted how this tour is also, in many ways, a return to basics for the brothers.
"It's actually kind of back to one of our original formats that we had, with a strongman and a natural-born and a female performer with Jelly and I. With this particular tour, as I just said, it's just a really amazing dynamic with the personalities. Everyone is just really, really funny — not just onstage but offstage."
Asked what attendees can expect at the Tavern on Oct. 23, Jelly Boy paused once more. When he spoke, you could hear the grin in his voice.
"They can expect to leave with a very strange smile on their face, and have a lot of stories to tell their friends."
Tickets to the performance are $5.
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PHOENIX - Raindrops on roses, whiskers on kittens and Carrie Underwood as Maria?
On Friday, NBC announced its plans to air a live broadcast of "The Sound of Music," starring Underwood as Maria, based on the original musical.
The three-hour telecast is expected to air sometime during the 2013 holiday season.
"Speaking for everyone at NBC, we couldn't be happier to have the gifted Carrie Underwood take up the mantle of the great Maria von Trapp," NBC Entertainment Chairman Robert Greenblatt said in a press release. "She was an iconic woman who will now be played by an iconic artist."
Grammy Award-winning Underwood follows in the footsteps of actress Julie Andrews, who played the role of Maria in the iconic 1965 film.
"To have a star like Carrie Underwood perform Maria in 'The Sound of Music' - and in such a very special and unique production - is exciting beyond words," Rodgers & Hammerstein President Ted Chapin said in a press release.


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That's too funny!! I can just imagine what he was thinking when you nonchalantly mentioned getting "treated"! Hahahaha!!
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jj ~ i agree with carrie that you are not obligated to give that woman anything you need or want for your own baby. only give her things you don't need back. especially with someone who has such an unstable life, i wouldn't expect to get anything back. what happens if her BF shows back up and steals all of your stuff, too?
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Thanks guys. It's hard, because I have such a bleeding heart, and I want to give her things, but I also feel selfish because I don't want to give up things for -our- baby and risk them not coming back. I ended up giving her a stash of sheets and bedding that I had been trying to sell (though with no luck, so bonus that they're out of our house), a bottle warmer (ditto), the high chair (which we only paid $10 for), and a bath seat (you know, the illegal ones, with the suction cups on the bottom) that we got for free. I told her I want the high chair and the bath seat back by April, but even if they're not, it's not the end of the world. I found out a bit more about her living situation, and it looks like she's staying here in the city, living with her grandmother. Her ex is three provinces away, so there's not much fear of him taking the things, just hoping that when we get them back, they're in the same condition as when I gave them to her.
I got a peek at what all my sister bought and feel even worse for her though. She bought a crib, a mattress, a crib bedding set, a mobile, as well as three shopping bags of misc food, formula, washclothes, some clothes, etc. So probably close to $300. That's a lot for my sister. Hopefully she'll get the crib and stuff back when it's time for her to have children (a couple years down the road still yet).
In good news-- look at how cute the closet looks with all baby girl's stuff sorted out--
Between the hanging, and the stuff in the bins, that's all her stuff up to the 3+M stage. The rest of it will fit into rubbermaids in the bottom of the closet until it's time for use. I just have to clear the rest of the crap out of the closet so that I can also put in the blankets, the diapers, and the bins of misc socks/hats/bibs and bath type stuff. It's making me anxious now to get the room cleared out and 'set up', which is silly because right now if I cleared it out, the only thing I would have would be the crib to set up. The only other things to go into the room at a shelf DH hasn't built yet, and a glider, footstool, and a table for beside it-- which we also don't have yet. No point in the room being empty when we need the space!
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oh, not a bath that you fill with water, but the ones that are just a seat, and you put into the big bathtub with the holes for the legs... those ones are illegal due to drowning concerns... all because some stupid parents can't get the whole "watch your baby while in the bathtub" thing through their heads.
Doozy of the day... I was at my sister's bday party today, and made the comment "It's crazy how much she's moved this week. All of a sudden my uterus is sitting so much higher up, and my stomach and lungs feel crowded." My aunt right away jumped in with "OH! baby dropped! Early labor!! Early labor!!" I should add she's a retired nurse. I just kind of looked at her dumbfounded and said "mmm no, actually the baby is sitting higher... since you know, my stomach is higher than my uterus..." And I mean besides... the baby dropping at 30ish weeks (she doesn't know how far along I am, just that I'm due sometime in December) does not mean labor is coming anytime soon!
This again sums up the reasons for not telling people the due date. Why does everyone always seem to excited and insistent that a baby will come early? I hate that because of the amount of inductions, the world has it in their head that the due date is an expiry, and like somehow you should/ it's better to have the baby out before then.
You can see the baby seat I'm talking about in this photo- on the right hand side, there's the one that is the full bath, and then the one that is sitting inside the bath that is all blue-- that's the one I'm talking about. I didn't give her our actual bath, both because we'll need it sooner, and I think her baby should be too big for it by now.
Doula mama, medic daddy and Tenley Harper born naturally 11/29/11
If anyone is awake, send some labor vibes my way: I've been having some decent contractions for probably about 3 hours on and off. But more regular this last hour. Hoping this is it! Either way, I will keep y'all posted.
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Annie wife v2.0 to DH and joyfully parenting DSS 20 , DSD 17 , DSD 16 , DSS 14, heart hero DD 4 and DS due 6/2015 . 8/2010
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kat ~ sending you ELVs (now that i know what that means). oooooh, i hope this is it. we're ready for another baby in this group. it's been awhile.
hmmmm...last post 12:47 am. it's now 9:30 am with no update.
JJ ~ you had me worried still about the bath thingies b/c i have a seat, too, that i can't wait to use. it makes bath time so easy b/c i can put baby in the shower with me once he's sitting up. it's not like the one you have there, though.the one i have is much thicker, has much smaller leg holes and thicker partitions or sides.
here it is: http://www.amazon.com/Safety-1st-Tubside-Bath-Seat/dp/B0000D9SR8 do you think that one is ok? obviously, i would be right there with D whether giving him a bath or having him in the shower with me. plus, i haven't been able to keep K out of the tub while bathing D.
SAHM to 3 boys and 1 man; 22 , 9, 5 and now 1 year old!
need some more! I went to bed to rest and they have kind of petered out. still get something once in a while, but they aren't regular like they were. Went for a walk this morning (already, I know!) and all it did I think was make me a bit crampy. So, I'm working for now and trying to think what I can do help things along a bit . . .
Hasn't helped that DS has been majorly clingy the last 12 hours either.
How was everyone's weekend?
Katrina - Mama to Gabriel 11/20/2009 and Norah 10/11/2011 and Theo03/11/2013- married to Wayne -
Here's the new thread for October!
Oh man! C'mon Norah!! Mama is soooo ready to meet you! I think that once you rest a bit more, Kat, something will happen. It can't be much longer now!!
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It's difficult to comprehend a tragedy like Friday's massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary in Newtown, Ct.
No single impetus carries all the blame.
Similar shootings or attempts at malls raise the same question: Why does this happen?
Some examine the perceived ease of obtaining firearms and push for gun law reform.
Others say the country's sinful ways have invited God's wrath.
Desensitization from violence in video games, films and TV factor in, some say.
So do mental health problems.
Perhaps all these pieces form the tapestry of a problem.
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If gunswere harder to obtain, fewer guns could end up in the wrong hands — in a perfect world.
Such a scenario could backfire, critics say, as criminals typically wouldn't honor permit laws. Outlaws can find guns elsewhere, making law-abiding citizens particularly vulnerable.
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Few want to believe a good and just deity would allow innocents' bloodshed. But I think it's more complex than God punishing wayward people.
Chaos happens when community weakens.
If you truly know and respect your neighbor, you're less likely to hurt him or her, right?
However, with increasingly selfish lifestyles — the Internet makes everyone a celebrity; countless slogans or services say "I AM (blank)" or "My (blank)," suggesting god complexes (the former) or tailoring to each individual's VIP preferences (the latter) — people's egos inflate.
Especially in a culture where teachers and parents, with good intentions, insist everyone is "a winner," setting children up for rude awakenings, shattered glass and even poorer self-concepts later in life.
Under Christianity, people are grains of sand, here today and gone tomorrow, who should "die of self" to serve others. It isn't the sole belief system that decreases vanity, but regardless of your chosen altruism, the mass media's constant bombardment of "me" mentality messages drowns all else.
Movies make sin look fun, carefree, sexy and glamorous. But when we use someone as a means to an end — whether for violence or sex — where's the mutual respect?
How many times have we heard, "To earn respect, you must give respect?"
Commit acts that serve selfish needs and what do you get?
No community — just hurt feelings, distrust and division.
Preachers should cut to the heart of the matter — promiscuity, pornography, human trafficking, rape and other societal ills — rather than present God, ironically, as a bogeyman.
If they really need a patsy, video games and mass media can fit the bill.
Children are rewarded with points for each kill in video games, which are more realistic than ever thanks to advances in graphics and high definition television. In fact, Dec. 12, NBCnews.com's technology page reported that more than 3 billion digital people were assassinated in "Assassin's Creed III," a popular video game we saw on several local children's Christmas lists. (See our selections in "Letters to Santa," Page A6 in the Dec. 19 News Bulletin.)
Constantly consuming ultra-realistic, highly graphic violent entertainment, especially in high doses, could it become difficult to separate reality from virtual reality, right from wrong?
Numerous studies suggest no evidence for mass media's influence on behaviors, but why would advertisers pay millions of dollars for airtime, often employing deceptive methods — like selling mayonnaise with sex — if there's no sway?
Most people want the violence to stop, and we held our breath Monday when rumors circulated that Northwood Elementary was on lockdown due to a potential gun threat. The rumors weren't exactly true, but sadly, readers said they wouldn't have been surprised if they were.
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The story of a fateful winter day in the life of a European woman who has fled to England during WW II.
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For nearly three decades, children have opened their eyes to science, engineering and mathematics while getting slimed, playing astronaut and getting a their hands a little dirty.
From 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. today, area children are invited to celebrate innovations in science, technology, engineering and mathematics at the Ruth Patrick Science Education Center and other sites on the USC Aiken campus.
More than 3,000 adults and children are expected to participate in the 27th Annual Science Education Enrichment Day that will include more than 60 hands-on activities from companies, nonprofits and other organization, said John Hutchens, director of special programs at the Ruth Patrick Science Education Center.
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SEED is presented by the Ruth Patrick Science Education Center on the campus of USCA in conjunction with Aiken County Public Schools.
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Two girls pick the first strawberries of the season, a boy exclaims over the size of a red onion and another group works together to dig up a particularly stubborn dandelion.
This is a typical morning in the garden at KidsPeace's Temple, Pa., campus, where students have a chance to get their hands dirty, learn life skills and forget some of their troubles for a short time.
The garden plot, which has expanded every season since the first bed was created six years ago, is packed with organized sections of produce. Carrots, beets, spinach, lettuce, herbs, onions, garlic, broccoli and blueberries are planted in neat rows. Trellises surround cucumbers, pumpkins and gourds, and a bright patch of sunflowers and marigolds will soon line one side of the garden. See more garden photos.
Nearby compost bins stocked with worms – to speed the process of breaking down waste – turn food scraps and paper into nourishment for the garden. Strategically stacked piles of cinderblocks, wood and dirt scattered around the garden serve as houses for toads. Since the garden is organic, it's important to utilize toads and other natural forms of pest control.
"It's all kid-driven," said Fred Indenbaum, a master's level therapist who leads the garden project.
The advantages for the children who work in the garden are countless, Indenbaum says. Impulse control, self-esteem building, a sense of connectedness in a digital age, an appreciation for aesthetics, conflict resolution, problem solving and a commitment to hard work all go into the project. But the biggest part, he says, is how gardening teaches the children to look outside of themselves and consider the needs of others, a key element of healthy child development.
"For me, the empathy is probably the central part of this whole thing," he said. "A lot of our kids lack that."
The children are learning to care for another living thing, and they realize quickly the consequences of not giving it their all.
"They learn that when they put in, they get something back," he said. "It's an immense feeling of accomplishment."
They also get paid in produce. The children on the Berks County campus are there for day treatment, as part of either an acute partial or educational program. When they go home in the evenings, they often take produce or flowers with them, eagerly sharing the fruits of their hard labor with their families. Much of what is grown in the garden also gets used in the cafeteria on campus.
Indenbaum asks the young gardeners for their ideas to give them the opportunity to own both successes and mistakes along the way.
"It helps to re-frame failure. It will be flawed. I want it to be flawed," he said. "It's important to see the whole process. Life doesn't magically appear fully formed."
Indenbaum points out the garden can give the children perspective into their own troubles too.
"Your mom abandoned you, your dad's incarcerated. What do you do?" he asked.
"The garden is not a metaphor for life. It is life," he said. "They get a lot of messages here that aren't necessarily spoken, but are given."
On May 11, the Kiwanis Club of Indianapolis recognized six sets of foster parents at the Kiwanis Faith, Hope & Love Award Luncheon.
Two of the recipients the club honored for their contributions to their community were KidsPeace foster parents Juan Ballesteros and Amy Smallman.
The couple has fostered children of many races and ages by taking the necessary trainings to care for these children with specific needs. In the past four years, they have fostered 14 children who were emotionally and physically impaired. They cared for these children by showing them what it meant to be a part of a family.
An application submitted to nominate Juan and Amy lauds them for being team players who have always had positive relationships with case managers, agency staff and birth parents. They have constant communications with school staff to ensure the children's educational needs are being met. In addition they provide support at all of the foster children's court hearings and meetings and input on the best interests of the children.
Juan and Amy have also committed their time by getting involved with other foster parents and groups. They mentor new foster parents by providing them support when it comes to addressing certain behavioral issues. This goes to show that they are always willing to help out anyone in need.
Carl "Skip" and Ann Rice have been bringing foster teens into their home for 24 years.
They started their foster care journey when some of their children were still in high school. They weren't initially with KidsPeace, but when we opened a foster care office in their hometown of Danville, Pa., they started working with our organization. They were among a group of foster parents honored Friday at the KidsPeace Foster Care and Community Programs' 21st annual foster parent recognition banquet.
"KidsPeace is a good company," Ann said, adding that they have received tremendous support over the years from their caseworkers. "They care about their kids."
The Rices, who have two sons and a daughter of their own, prefer to take in teenage boys, although they admit with a laugh most people don't understand why. But in talking with the couple, it's evident they love the children and treat them as their own. Ann points out that she never refers to them as her foster children, but calls them "my boys."
"Some of them come in so tough, so heartbroken," Ann said. "They don't even know they are."
But with the Rices' gentle guidance and strict rules, the teens learn to trust them, open up and find a place they can call home, if only for a short time. The two boys who now live with them came into their home about two years ago. This is fairly typical, as most of the foster teens stay with the Rices for two to three years. In that time, they are encouraged to go to church and graduate from high school. Many keep in touch after they leave.
Ann started to tear up when she recalled one foster teen who had lived with them and became very good friends with their daughter. Shortly after the girl went back to live with her biological mother, she was killed in a car crash. Still, despite that particular tragedy and the many challenges that come with helping to raise foster children, the Rices say they will continue to be foster parents as long as they can.
"Sometimes I think keeping the kids around helps you stay younger," Skip said, although he joked that the toughest part about fostering teens is "keeping your hair."
His wife gave a more serious take on the challenge of taking in a vulnerable population.
"To see them go, I think that's the toughest part," she said.
It wasn't until Mindy Honey became a mom that she realized the impact her foster families had on her.
Honey, 32, entered the foster care system at 18 months old in Belfast, Maine, and bounced around until she was 7. Two years later, the Pennsylvania couple who had brought her into their home adopted her.
"I really appreciate how much they did for me," she said.
She shared her story Friday night at the KidsPeace Foster Care and Community Programs' 21st annual foster parent recognition banquet in Danville, Pa. May is National Foster Care Awareness Month.
Honey said after she was adopted, she had a normal childhood until her father unexpectedly died when she was 15. Still, she turned that hardship into a positive, working diligently to put herself through school so she could become an ICU nurse. She now works for Geisinger Medical Center and has two children of her own, who make her realize every day how much she has to be grateful for in her life.
Recently, a foster sibling from a family that had given her a temporary home when she was small reached out to her via Facebook, asking if she was the person who had lived in their house. Honey was touched to be able to say thank you to people who had helped to shape her early years, and she hopes other foster parents who guided her would be proud of where she is today and what she has accomplished.
She told the foster parents in attendance that even if they feel sometimes as though they're unappreciated, they are making an enormous difference in the lives of children.
Ann and Carl "Skip" Rice have been fostering teenagers for more than two decades. Check back to read their story.
John and Joanne Dworsky raised a son and are expecting their first grandchild, but they continue to open their hearts and home to children through KidsPeace's foster care program.
Since the Lehighton area couple became foster parents in 1997, they have had six long-term placements and a handful of respite cases. Three children got adopted from their care, and many still keep in touch. Joanne said she always wanted to be a foster mom, but when she broached the subject with her son when he was growing up, he wasn't receptive to the idea.
Once he was in graduate school, the Dworskys took in their first child. Since they had one child of their own, they've found they do well with longer-term placements of one child at a time. But they have accepted some respite cases, where children stay for up to about a month to give other foster families a break. Though they have traditionally taken in teenagers, Joanne laughed when she recalled the time they got two 2-year-olds for a couple of weeks and she and John scrambled to keep up with them.
They have seen children from a variety of backgrounds – some have been abused, others have parents in jail, many have never been taught basic hygiene or study skills. But there is one thing the Dworskys have found all children need – structure.
John said many of the children were told for years that they were stupid or would never amount to anything, so he and his wife make it their mission to encourage each child to live up to his or her true potential.
"You can be anything you want to be as long as you're willing to work at it," he tells them.
While the children are in their care, the Dworskys make them feel like a part of the family. This may take the form of interacting with their teachers, taking them on outdoor adventures, doling out chores or making sure they have proper clothing.
"Most of them come with a plastic bag full of stuff, and half of it doesn't fit," John said. "They don't have much of their own identity."
Joanne has found that every child, no matter the age or gender, loves helping her in the kitchen.
"I think they just like anything that's one-on-one," she said. "When they think they're doing something good, they just light up."
John says the toughest part is often dealing with biological parents who don't show up for arranged visits. Joanne acknowledges it can also be difficult to remember the children are with them on a temporary basis. She makes sure to never show her emotions when it's time for a child to leave them.
"The whole idea for us was to treat them the way we treat our own child. So when you bring them in, they deserve everything you can give them," she said. "The most meaningful thing I get out of it is that when the kids leave here, they've experienced a happy, safe home and they see they deserve it. I've planted a seed and somewhere down the road, they'll see that."
Right now, the Dworksys are serving as foster grandparents once a month for a 13-year-old girl whose grandparents live on the West Coast. Both laud their KidsPeace caseworkers and say they'll continue taking in foster children as long as they're able.
"For me, foster parenting has just given me a lot of joy," Joanne said.
KidsPeace is celebrating a major milestone this year -- 130 years of giving hope, help and healing to children, families and the communities we serve.
We are proud of this long history of making a difference and intend to celebrate in style. Today is the kickoff for a 130-day celebration. From now until our birthday party on the Orchard Hills campus in Orefield, Pa., on Sept. 12, we have fun events planned at all of our locations in 10 states and Washington DC.
Each day, visit our Facebook page at www.facebook.com/kidspeace.org, where we'll be sharing little-known facts about the organization and offering some chances to win prizes.
Do you have a personal connection to KidsPeace? Post a comment here or on our Facebook page to share how the organization touched your life or helped someone you know.
Denis Asselin is on a journey to raise awareness of brain disorders and the traumatic effect they have not only on patients, but on those who care for and love them.
One year ago, Asselin, of Cheyney, Pa., lost his only son, Nathaniel, to suicide after a 13-year struggle with Body Dysmorphic Disorder (BDD), a disease on the Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) spectrum. Now, Asselin has embarked on a 500-mile pilgrimage from his Chester County home to Boston in an effort to talk to people about the disease and stop at places his son visited during his short life.
One of those places is KidsPeace, where Nathaniel was hospitalized when he was 11 years old. Asselin calls it the first chapter in the lengthy saga of his son's illness. Asselin, who has been walking since April 24 and has logged about 130 miles, arrived at the Children's Hospital today and met with members of the hospital team to share his story.
Right after his son died, he and his wife, Judy, and daughter, Carrie, walked the ancient pilgrimage route of Camino de Santiago in Spain. He described that as a deeply spiritual experience that helped him work through some of his overwhelming grief.
"I needed to ground my feelings from having lost Nathaniel," he said.
His initial plan was to return to Europe to walk again in his son's memory, but it didn't feel natural. Instead, he said, he wanted to set out from his home, as a true pilgrim. And so the idea of stopping at places that were both highlights and times of immense sadness in his son's life – the hospital where he was born, an elementary school, his psychiatrist's office, various hospitals – was born.
He has had some company along the way from people who have met him along his path. Anyone who is interested can track his progress in a blog on http://walkingwithnathaniel.org. His wife, Judy, is going to walk the Bethlehem to Easton leg of the journey with him this weekend.
While the walk, which he coined Camino de Nathaniel, brings him a measure of peace in the midst of his grief, Asselin's greatest goal is to "bring brain disorders out of the closet." As he walks, he carries with him a scallop seashell, which symbolizes that "there are many paths to one place." The shell also adorns the cover of a pilgrimage passport his wife designed for him that he's using to collect signatures of people he talks to along his journey.
BDD, which affects males and females equally, is often referred to as "broken mirror disorder," Asselin said. Sufferers will fixate on their image, studying perceived flaws such as facial symmetry or blemishes that no one else would see. Nathaniel's illness progressed to the point where his family had to remove all mirrors from their home. But when Nathaniel first got sick, the Asselins didn't know their son was struggling with BDD. He was running compulsively, not eating as much and had lost a lot of weight.
"The whole idea was to get his body weight up and to find a medication that would quiet the messages he was hearing," Asselin said.
It was years until professionals could pinpoint that Nathaniel was fighting BDD. Asselin got emotional as he described leaving his son at KidsPeace for that first hospitalization. He calls it the end of his son's childhood.
"He was 11 years old. He was scared, and we were scared. As parents who love their children, you'd do anything to take that illness away from them," he said. "As a parent, you live in the arena of that disorder. I had para-BDD."
Nathaniel was put on medication that helped him for a few years, but it also came with side effects. He would tell his parents, "'Sometimes I feel like I'm moving through gauze,'" Asselin said.
The hardest part is that other people couldn't see his illness. When they looked at Nathaniel, Asselin said, they saw a tall, handsome, intelligent young man. This is what Asselin wants to convey – that mental disorders need as much attention and are just as real as physical ailments.
And he said parents and caregivers need to be allowed to be involved in their children's care. He and his wife often felt they were pushed aside by medical professionals who had more book knowledge of the disease, even though they lived with its manifestation every day.
He said his son, like others with mental illness, gave everything he had in the fight against BDD.
"He was a warrior," he said. "There's such integrity in a person's mental illness. It's not as if they're not trying hard. He was always giving it all he had, but it wasn't sustainable."
He described it as a series of advances and backslides, but every time Nathaniel started to make progress, that just meant he had that much further to fall when the disease got the best of him.
Dr. Andrew Clark, the hospital's medical director, said hearing Asselin's story reinforces the work he does every day. He echoed Asselin's sentiments that the public needs to appreciate the struggles of young people with mental illness.
"It's the most vulnerable field, taking care of the most vulnerable patients," he said.
Asselin left KidsPeace this morning, heading for Mt. Sinai Hospital in New York, where he has an appointment on May 13. His final stop is a June 7 rally in Boston, which is sponsored by the OCD Foundation.
Since Asselin has set out on his journey, he has found that when he shares his story, others often open up to him in return.
"It's as if I've given them permission to say what's on their heart. And if I've done that, I think I've already been successful," he said. "I think Nathaniel would be proud of what I'm doing. He's leading me."
Photo Courtesy of Denis Asselin/These shells mark the path of Camino de Santiago.


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Uncontrolled or slow movement is a problem with muscle tone, usually in large muscle groups. The problem leads to slow, uncontrollable, jerky movements of the head, limbs, trunk, or neck.
Dystonia; Involuntary slow and twisting movements; Choreoathetosis; Leg and arm movements - uncontrollable; Arm and leg movements - uncontrollable; Slow involuntary movements of large muscle groups; Athetoid movements
The abnormal movement may be reduced or disappear during sleep. Emotional stress makes it worse.
Abnormal and sometimes strange postures may occur because of these movements.
The slow twisting movements of muscles (athetosis) or jerky muscle contractions (dystonia) may be caused by one of many conditions, including:
Sometimes two conditions (such as a brain injury and medication) interact to cause the abnormal movements when neither one alone would cause a problem.
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Geeks love to insert themselves into the zeitgeist as much as anyone, and tech-inflected parodies of popular songs have become a staple of Silicon Valley folks who–let's face it–struggle to live normal lives while working around the clock.
No surprise that they're particularly popular in the arcane world of advertising technology firms, which have the additional problem that nobody knows what the heck they do. So today, we have a parody video of–what else?–Gangnam Style.
This time, ad tech leader BlueKai did up a pretty good
marketing ploy parody based on South Korean singer PSY's runaway YouTube hit. Most of it still appears to be in Korean, so I can't vouch for whether the PSY stand-in is mouthing the words that appear in English subtitles. But the signature opening line clearly subs in "Oppan ad tech style," and from there you have to depend on the subtitles to get the very inside jokes.
Amid shots of people dancing in server farms and bland Silicon Valley offices, plus cameos by ad tech figures such as Luma Partners' Terry Kawaja, the video pokes fun at the industry's infamous acronym epidemic. "Activate… with the DMP! … Optimize, verify, and inform those buys! … HEEEEEY, Sexy data!"
Like I said, it's inside stuff, so half of you might be amused and the other half won't know what on Earth they're talking about. But it's ad tech, so what else is new? And who thinks Gangnam Style's popularity was based on humdrum things like words?
Actually, this isn't even the first Gangnam Style parody from Silicon Valley. A couple of months ago, there was a startup-oriented one starring a bunch of Valley entrepreneurial luminaries. Watch that one, and you don't need to watch any more of Bravo's lamentable Start-Ups: Silicon Valley reality show.


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The Southern West Virginia Action For Youth Center, located on Liberty Street in Williamson, received the prestigious Martin Luther King, Jr. "Living the Dream" Service Organization Award.
Director, Mentola Jackson accepted the award on behalf of the youth center.
The awards luncheon was held in the Culture Center of the State Capitol Complex in Charleston.
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Stavley is charged with one count of burglary in the first degree and one count of attempted murder.
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OK, so there are quite a few people using Java these days. But as the language nears two decades of age, it isn't exactly the coolest option out there. Many of us are excited about dynamic languages with some functional features like Ruby or Python, even though we spend our days using Java.
So why is it that the adoption of Groovy has been so slow? It seems that Groovy offers much of the benefits of Ruby and Python, but it is far easier to transition a Java shop to Groovy. Even if performance were the concern, it seems that many would want to use Groovy for testing the production Java code. Or use Groovy/Grails for internal apps in which performance concerns are minimal. Or for writing one-off scripts to generate code.
Yet Groovy languishes outside of Tiobe's top 50 languages, for reasons that are unclear to me.
I have been using Groovy and Grails professionally for about four months, and it has been an excellent experience, such that I hate to think about going back to the Java/Spring/Hibernate model.
Does anyone have any sense on why we are not seeing more significant migration from Java to Groovy?
Note that I'm not asking why Java developers are still using Java for new projects. My question is: Why is it that most Java Developers are still not using Groovy at all.
Edit: I am assuming that all good developers see the utility of dynamic typing and higher order functions for some programming tasks. (Even if it is deemed inappropriate for production code.)


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If you're an active reader here, try to think about how many times you've heard (and even agreed) when someone here has told someone else to start looking for a new job. Personally, I've seen it a lot more than I expected: it's almost starting to sound cliche.
I get that there are bound to be a number of companies that are bad at developing software or managing a software project, but it almost seems like it's getting worse and more frequent, maybe we're just hearing from them and not all of the places that have decent work atmospheres/conditions.
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In your experience, and through your developer friends do you find that it is common that companies have bad development environments and if so:
- Why do you think it's common?
- What do you think could be done to fix it as a developer, as a manager, as an industry?
- Do you think it's improving?