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Hi. My name is Krysten. And on Monday I was laid off from my job.
I don't want to go into details. I've been over them enough that they whirl and spin in my head and bring tears to my eyes. I will say that I think it's all very unfair and that it has to do with the friend that I lost on NYE.
And I'll say that I feel as if I've been broken up with. I have been with Caribou for four and a half years. We've had our ups and downs. Its been a rollercoaster. But for the most part Caribou has treated me well. And I'm having a hard time wrapping my head around the fact that now it's GONE. And I can't rely on it anymore.
Part of me is absolutely petrified. How do you find a job when you've been laid off from the job you've been with for YEARS? Even if someone looks at my application and gives me an interview how do I get past the words LAID OFF? And meanwhile, how will Dustin and I stay afloat? Things are going to be really, really tight. Really tight. I am scrambling to find ANY job just to have a paycheck. And on top of all that, I'm now out health and dental insurance. And the little voice in the back of my head is saying, "Krysten, you better not get sick. You better not need your wisdom teeth out. YOU HAD BETTER NOT GET PREGNANT." Oh my gosh. Last week life was nearly rosey. This week...
On the other hand, part of me is almost relieved. I know, what? Let me explain. Over the years with Caribou there have been a number of times that I've thought, "Ugh, I can't do this anymore. I need to move on." But I've always stayed. Partly because I didn't feel like dealing with a job hunt. Partly because I KNOW Caribou, I could do the job in my sleep. Partly because, like breaking up with that bad boyfriend, I can still pick out the GOOD things and sometimes they seem GOOD ENOUGH. And so although I wish that I had been able to quit and I wish that I had quit AFTER I already found another job... well, part of me is trying to look at this as a new adventure. Time to do something new. Time to do something scary. Time to move on.
Yes. This is why I've been so mopey and scared. This is why my Twitter and Facebook statuses are all negative. I keep telling myself that it really could be worse and that things will get better. But. I've always been a glass half empty kind of girl. So it's hard to see the good sometimes.
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Creighton Theology Professor Receives National Wisdom Research Grant
Michael Legaspi, Ph. D., assistant professor of theology at Creighton University has been named a 2008 Defining Wisdom grant award winner. Legaspi, one of 24 receiving this national honor, received more than $100,000 for his research project titled, Wisdom as Skillful Interpretation: Scriptural Appropriation and Hermeneutics of Recovery. Award winners were chosen because each showed promise of a distinctive contribution to wisdom research and the potential to help establish a new and rigorous field of research on the topic of wisdom.
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Thursday, February 6, 2014
The snow and ice couldnt slow down the North Augusta High School boys basketball team.
The Jackets needed to bounce back after a deflating loss to region foe Aiken in overtime. They got just that, with key wins over Dutch Fork and Lexington.
Led by junior Chandler Harrison, North Augusta (15-4, 5-1 Region 5-AAAA) dispatched the Silver Foxes at home on Friday night, 65-55. Harrison had 18 points, Christian Davis had 14, and both Malik Dunbar and Victor Johnson had 10 apiece. The team then turned around and went on the road to Lexington the next day, beating the Wildcats 50-44. Harrison led the way once again with 13, but Davis was right behind him in the score book with 12.
I thought our kids played well and played hard, Al Young, the teams head coach, said. They really seem to have been into the game mentally, and I was just so proud of their effort. They did well and had a real desire to win. I thought that they did for both. We just didnt make a lot of mistakes, though we did make some at the end of the Dutch Fork game. I thought we were able to hold on and finish the game.
The always-humble Harrison said it was a total team effort that allowed him to put up points.
My teammates help me get open a lot, he said. I just happened to be the one whos hot the past couple of games, so my teammates looked for me. The Aiken loss hurt a lot. Maybe we needed it though, because now were going even harder than before. We got to go hard from the tip until the end of the game, and we definitely cant and wont take a loss at home.
Young always speaks highly of Harrison, who is not only a talented player but also one that he said is very coachable.
He works hard in practice every day, and he goes through his drills hard, Young said. Hes just been so consistent in practice and in his development. He doesnt complain about anything; he doesnt complain about getting the ball, getting shots, not getting shots; hes just there. Hes a definite team player, and he is so focused. Hes one of those players thats willing to do whatever it takes to win. The big thing about him, I think, is, when you look at the score book and see hes the leading scorer, you wonder how. Its not obvious, and it doesnt jump out at you. When the game is over, though, and you look at the stat sheet, hes right up there at the top, and hes consistently there.
Coming up, the team will play White Knoll in a game that was to have happened on Tuesday night. The team will travel to South Aiken on Friday night as well.
Should North Augusta win those two games, it would set up a showdown with Aiken at home on Feb. 11. That is a game that could decide the region championship, just as it did last year.
Last year it depended on the difference in the score, and that was the tiebreaker last year, Young said. We talked about changing that, and Im not sure if it was changed or not. We just have to keep playing and keep winning. If we can do that, Id love for it to come down to a tiebreaker. My main focus is that we continue to play well and win.
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SAN ANTONIO — Now here's a wave worth catching. Marvel Entertainment has just released covers and preview art for "Silver Surfer" No. 1, a new comic book series starring everyone's favorite mopey sentinel of the spaceways. Only this time Norin Radd's bound to lighten up. You have "Superior Spider-Man" writer Dan Slott penning his adventures, […] [Read More]
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Marvel just released previews for The Mighty Thor No. 3 and X-Men: Schism No. 1 and yowza! do these issues look gorgeous. So gorgeous I might just have to add an X book to my pull list. (Mighty Thor is already there, so, uh, there.) Here's the story behind all that pretty: Mighty Thor No. […] [Read More]


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'Whip My Hair' Video Arrives, Willow Smith Remains Awesome
The video was directed by Ray Kay, who also helmed the sensational shoots for Lady Gaga's 'Poker Face' and Justin Bieber's 'Baby.'
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Kay told Rap-Up of the video: "I'm really happy to be involved with a project that has such a positive message as this one, and I'm certain people that are watching the video will feel inspired to develop their own individuality and freedom and express their own art after seeing Willow in this video."
In the month since the song hit the airwaves, 'Whip My Hair' has been adopted as an unofficial anthem for pre-teen girls across the country. Almost right out of the gate, several extremely talented kids began devising choreography for the song and uploaded their wizardry to the web. And over the weekend, one enterprising video editor took a feel-good song about hair on 'Sesame Street' and turned it into an on-point mashup of the hit song.
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- Monday 18 OctoberBy Patty Roldan
This video is really cute and I think she is very talented. Your parents can have all the money in the world but it takes talent to make it. Will and Jada have raised some great kids and I love this video. It is for pre teen girls and they need something innocent like this. My granddaughters love. You go Willow.
- Monday 18 OctoberBy sheridanLowest Rank Vote downVote upReport this
your kids must have low standards the way a dbag like u would talk to them
- Saturday 23 OctoberBy Kelly
Not my type of music, but it is a lot better than some of her older-aged counterparts. But really, how young is too young too work? I've had this discussion several times with people. But I just don't know. I think there are more cons than pros.
- Monday 18 OctoberBy jeff
What did will smith ever do that was so great. Yeah i know he was fresh prince of bel aire and had some hit movies but why is that of so much value? Oh i forgot i live in a dumbed down society
- Monday 18 OctoberBy Tom McCarthy
Just plain fun and terrific. Kids having fun.
- Monday 18 OctoberBy R
cute song & vid, I won't be buying her album anytime soon but she appears talented & is acting age appropriate so I can't hate.
- Monday 18 OctoberBy Lavender
Is that her singing?
- Monday 18 OctoberBy nunya
I whip my weave back and forth
- Monday 18 OctoberBy Ebony
It's cute for teenagers :-)
- Monday 18 OctoberBy jeffHigh Rank Vote downVote upReport this
to you people who think her voice is golden. Are you that damn stupid? You actually think a 9 year old sounds like that?
- Monday 18 October
I have to admit it took me a minute to catch on and when it clicked, the market for this song, lyrics and meaning is much deeper than most understand. Perfection!
- Monday 18 OctoberBy Marky MarkHigh Rank Vote downVote upReport this
Not knocking her for doing this video .. it was cute .. loved the hair flip causing the color to appear ... HOWEVER ... This to me is not singing nor (c)rap. Its just a bunch of words blurred together with alot of remixed music ... This was honestly NOT her doing... this was more likely Dad's doing and all she had to do was bop around and be cute. I think MANY KIDS her age could have done this equally well with the same parents.
- Monday 18 OctoberBy Laura
What I see is a child having a BLAST & showing her great talents...
as my husband always says..."a parent is only successful in life, if their child is more successful then they have been"... ( not sure if I quoted it right, but... anyway..)
Will & Jada... Keep up the good work!! You've done it right & you are a tough act to follow!! :)
- Tuesday 19 OctoberBy stacey
Interesting video, some good moves. Very stupid song though, nothing bad about Willow however. Just a stupid song, LOL.
- Monday 18 OctoberBy shnook
OMG Shes so much better than Justin BEEBER omg is he gay? not that there anything wrong with that. I thought he was a 6 year old girl first time I saw him!!! seriously I cant believe people listen to him! and he thinks he cool an all dat! omg Its laughable!!! All the SMITH family is pure talent!! GO GIRL!
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omg no one is ever happy with anything anyone does these days! It's either too this or too that. Who cares that she is a kid? Who says that singing and dancing and having fun is not being a kid? My 10 year old daughter loves this and she loves singing and dancing too and there is NOTHING wrong with that, it's freaking fun! I think the video was very cute and age appropriate. She's 9 leave her alone. Wow what a sad world we live in for GROWN folks to bash a little girl. I sure hope you don't have kids (the haters)!
- Monday 18 OctoberBy Jay
- Monday 18 OctoberBy SimplySchely
I liked the video overall; I thought it had a great beat, the lyrics were cute, the dancing was good, it just makes me sad to see a 9-year-old in the middle of it all. There are many adults who can't handle the stress of the music industry and here's a child. Otherwise it was great.
- Monday 18 OctoberBy Rick
Decent. The transitions are smooth and the concept is interesting to watch as the song unfolds. The auto-tune music culture is a little overplayed amongst artists these days, but she is cute and talented and has potential. If she can find her own musical niche instead of relying heavily on Rhianna, then she could have a very successful musical future. 4 out of 5 stars.
- Tuesday 19 OctoberBy Wldcrow
I think its a good song but most of all im glad she is dressed her age! I hate seeing girls dressed in inapropriate clothing. With the parents she has I am sure she will stay do just fine. I don't want to see another Miley Cyrus.
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Lindsey Vonn Boards Tiger Woods's Private Jet Following Ski Crash — New Couple Alert?
Is Tiger Woods getting Lindsey Vonn in an upright locked position?
Olympic skier Lindsey Vonn was photographed boarding Tiger Woods's private jet in Austria on February 8, according to TMZ.
Lindsey badly injured her knee in a skiing accident earlier this week, and so Tiger sent his aircraft to Salzburg, Austria, to pick Lindsey up. What a gentleman!
This certainly adds (jet) fuel to the fire of romance rumors that have been circulating about these two.
Tiger and Lindsey are said to have been dating for the past few months, although they have yet to confirm that.
If only internationally famous athletes would send private jets to pick us up, as we're not big fans of tiny bags of pretzels.
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Months after the 2011-12 fall marching band season had ended, Westfield High School Band Director Stephen Panoff ordered students into parade lines to run drills on roll-stepping and keeping straight lines and good postures while playing their instruments.
The wet, cold and windy nights of March often made the after-school drills an extra burden on students, who already were in the spring-time (indoor) concert band mode.
But Panoff hoped for a big payoff — one which he got.
During Westfield�s marching band football halftime show Sept. 28, a loudspeaker announcement told students the band would march in the 125th Rose Bowl Parade, part of the Tournament of Roses in Pasadena, Calif.
�We went crazy when the guy announced it on the speaker,� said Westfield junior trombonist Chandler Comer, 16. �People were running into each other, hugging.�
�It�s a really big honor. There are not that many bands that get to go to the Rose Bowl Parade. I watch it every year on TV. But I won�t in 2014 because I�ll be there,� said Glenn Turner, 16, a Westfield junior trumpeter.
To put the big honor in perspective, Westfield only is the third Virginia public high school to march in prestigious parade staged prior to college football�s Rose Bowl. Richmond�s Hermitage High School marched in 1993 and Prince George High School was part of the parade back in the 1960s.
The application process alone took Panoff and a handful of dedicated parents six months to complete. The school marching band is one of about a dozen accepted to the Rose Bowl of about 125 that applied, Panoff said.
�You have to apply 18 months in advance,� Panoff said, adding the gap is used to allow schools to fundraise. He estimates the trip will cost $400,000, with about half coming from the 200-plus students in the band. �We�re in dire need of corporate sponsors.�
For the application, Westfield had to produce judges� notes and results from its past 10 competitions, band numbers — including instrumentation — Panoff�s resume as a director and essays on what made the band unique and entertaining. There also was a two-minute video of students marching parade-style in uniform and another two-minute video of students marching a field show, as well as photos of students in uniforms or in auxiliary costumes.
�The toughest part of this is you have to show the famous 90 degree turn that you�d have to do during the parade,� Panoff said of the application.
The Rose Bowl Parade is a 6-mile hike.
�There�s a very famous turn in the Rose Bowl Parade at the very beginning where the band has to make this very sharp turn [off of Orange Grove right on to Colorado Avenue]. It�s where the broadcasters are. Worked on that for six weeks.�
The famous Nickerson turn — named after an Ohio State University marching band member who crafted the method — was included in the audition material sent by Westfield and involves part of the band marking time, while the other half skirts alongside, evenly to face the turn.
The band also was required to include national-level letters of recommendation.
�The Westfield Marching Band has historically proven itself to be comprised of talented performers,� wrote Virginia Gov. Robert F. McDonnell (R) in his letter of recommendation. �[Westfield�s band program] is a truly remarkable program that has enjoyed a decade of success and highly regarded performances.�
U.S. Sen. Mark Warner (D) also loaned his pen to Westfield�s efforts. Panoff jokes the band received bipartisan support during an election year.
Tennessee Tech University Director of Bands Joseph W. Hermann, who judged Westfield during a competition in Florida, ranked the band among the top 5 percent of high school bands in the nation.
�The Westfield High School Band is one of America�s truly great programs,� Hermann wrote. �The marching band of over 200 members has been an audience favorite year after year. I believe with all sincerity that the Westfield High School Band is a most deserving ensemble for the honor of being selected as a Rose Bowl Band.�
As a result of their work, on Jan. 1, 2014, students will march in front of a live audience of about 1 million people, be seen by a U.S. television audience of about 50 million and a worldwide audience of about 100 million in 220 countries. The parade is broadcast in 25 languages, according to parade organizers.
Rose Bowl Tournament spokeswoman Leslie Unger said parade organizers do not comment on the selection of specific bands, but that groups are selected based on musicianship, marching skills, uniqueness and entertainment value.
From now until Jan. 1, 2014, Westfield�s marching band needs to fundraise, practice marching and prepare the music it will perform during the parade. California composer Key Poulan has volunteered to write music for the band for free. The band previously has performed his works during marching shows.
Panoff also will be deciding who will march the Rose Bowl Parade.
�We have seniors and kids that are now freshmen in college [who put together the application],� he said. �It�s difficult because we only have so many uniforms.�
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Catholic Health Partners, the parent company to Mercy, is strengthening its Preferred Provider Organization (PPO) of Northwest Ohio, Physician Health Collaborative.
As part of proactive efforts to address anticipated changes in the national health care system, HealthSpan, Catholic Health Partners' Cincinnati-based PPO, will expand its territory to Northwest Ohio.
HealthSpan will replace Physicians Health Collaborative PPO network. The transition should not affect members, customers, or partners as the current staff and office will be maintained under the HealthSpan umbrella.
"The biggest benefit to Northwest Ohio is our expertise. We have a track record of getting good discounts on behalf of our clients," said Dawn Woods, director of marketing and public relations HealthSpan.
HealthSpan started in 1992 and serves more than 110,000 in southwest Ohio and parts of northern Kentucky.
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Aid to Africa: who's counting?
Is Britain's aid money well spent? One expert working in Ghana raised doubts - and was sacked. Rosie
Is Britain's aid money well spent? One expert working in Ghana raised doubts - and was sacked. Rosie
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Howard Horsley is an idealist, committed to overseas aid. Over the years he has worked as a volunteer, a paid teacher and a VSO field officer in Africa. Then, in 1999, at the age of 54 and with a successful career as a headteacher in England behind him, he applied for a job with the Department for International Development (DfID). "I was thrilled by the expansion of the overseas aid programme under the newly elected Labour government and keen to make my expertise available," he recalls.
In May that year he took up a post managing the education field office (EFO) in Ghana, administering a British aid programme worth £50m over five years. He liked Accra, the capital, and made plans for his wife to join him, but within a few weeks he began to notice things at work that he didn't like. As months passed, he grew more and more concerned about what he describes as "lax financial controls, unchecked powers of patronage and the potential for mismanagement and corruption". He reported these concerns to DfID in London in e-mails, memos and telephone conversations. Yet, instead of seeing them investigated, Horsley was summarily sacked and denied a reference.
It was a personal calamity. For the past five years, this former head of a tough Grimsby comprehensive, who has a glowing Ofsted report on his record, has been unable to find work. With the vigorous support of the MP Austin Mitchell, who describes his treatment as "monstrous", Horsley has fought to have his case reviewed and his complaints investigated. Now he has decided to tell his story.
It is a story that raises important questions about DfID's control over aid spending - at a time when the G8 summit has just agreed to double aid to Africa by 2010, and when our government is assuring us that our aid money is not seeping away through corruption and poor management. And, while the government insists it has done nothing wrong, uncertainty remains about its past procedures and about the fate of no less than £18m in aid. More worrying still, it is now clear that Horsley was not the first British aid official in Accra to raise doubts about financial control.
At the time he went to Accra, Britain's policy for distributing aid had shifted from big projects to local programmes administered through the Ghana Education Service, with staff at the British education field office working alongside officials in the Ghanaian education ministry. Horsley soon heard complaints from other aid agencies, and from the Ghanaian minister and his officials, about the way money was spent and contracts awarded without adequate accounting or monitoring by DfID. Incidents included a request to authorise spending of £32,000 on office furniture, when the furniture had already been bought; the failure of DfID to provide the Ghanaian education minister with a full statement of how education aid was being spent, and the potential use of aid as, in Horsley's words, "a means of dispensing personal favours".
The most mysterious incident came after Horsley was told by the Ghanaian deputy education minister in August 1999 that Clare Short, the then secretary of state for international development, had pledged an extra £18m in aid. When none of this money turned up, Horsley made inquiries with the Ghanaian accountant general - who, he says, confirmed in September 1999 that it had been received by the government.
The money, however, did not find its way into the usual education aid channels, so Horsley, alarmed about the fate of such a sum and about the other problems he had found, wrote to London requesting a formal, independent investigation of the conduct of DfID affairs in Ghana.
Soon afterwards, on a working trip to northern Ghana, he caught typhoid and returned to Britain to recuperate. On his recovery he was called to a meeting at DfID headquarters on 6 January 2000. He thought this was to discuss the investigation he had requested and also to complete his midterm performance review, but he arrived to find that it was a disciplinary hearing. It didn't last long. Blamed for a breakdown in communication and a lack of coherence in the presentation of policy, he was sacked with immediate effect.
Horsley strenuously denied the charges and received strong support from international colleagues, but, when he returned to Ghana to assemble evidence for his appeal, he found that his filing cabinets had been emptied and his computer files professionally wiped. DfID then withdrew his formal right of appeal and threatened him with the Official Secrets Act if he spoke out.
Claiming protection as a whistle-blower under the Public Interest Disclosure Act, Horsley sought to have his dismissal investigated first by DfID itself and then at an employment tribunal. The tribunal said it had no jurisdiction because he had not been employed for long enough and had not lodged his Public Interest Disclosure Act claim soon enough. The civil service commissioners brushed him off, too, saying they could not investigate as DfID claimed he was employed on contract, not as a civil servant.
The case has outraged Austin Mitchell, who raised it in the House of Commons and has written to Hilary Benn, the current Secretary of State of International Development, asking for an independent inquiry. Mitchell told the New Statesman: "As a result of his attempt to blow the whistle on financial inadequacies and possible maladministration, this man has been out of a job for nearly six years and that's a monstrous way for DfID to behave. They made Howard a sacrificial victim. He was an embarrassment in raising these concerns. The proper procedure should have been to investigate complaints and tighten up procedures. They didn't do that."
One body that has investigated DfID aid to Ghana is the National Audit Office (NAO), which reported in a letter to Mitchell: "At no point . . . has any evidence emerged to suggest that financial impropriety or mismanagement occurred within DfID." But the letter added that "investigations revealed areas where the department might usefully tighten up its procedures and controls, which they are doing".
As for the mysterious £18m, the audit office initially said that DfID claimed no such amount had been paid to Ghana in 1999. Then, in May 2003, the NAO admitted that £18m had been paid, in 2000, as "budgetary support". It explained: "It follows that for payments of budgetary support it is not possible directly to answer the questions 'What was it for?' or 'How was it spent?', except to say that it added to the resources available to the government of Ghana." This is a remarkable admission: put bluntly, it means that neither DfID nor the NAO could say what became of £18m of British taxpayers' money.
Since that investigation, the NAO has tightened up accounting procedures for aid spending in general and for "budgetary support" in particular. Howard Horsley is entitled to some credit for this, though he has had no thanks for his efforts.
DfID maintains that any weaknesses in its financial procedures have been addressed and that Horsley's dismissal was "wholly related to his performance, which did not meet the requirements of the job". It says: "All parties across Whitehall have been satisfied that DfID acted correctly in relation to Mr Horsley's dismissal and found no evidence of financial impropriety."
Horsley authorised DfID to release documents to the New Statesman to clarify the grounds for dismissal. He says they prove that DfID never carried out the investigation he requested weeks before his dismissal and also that it ignored its own disciplinary procedures in sacking him.
But the story does not end there, for, in the course of his campaign, Horsley discovered he was not alone in raising concerns about aid to Ghana. His predecessor there had raised similar doubts about an "absence of checks and balances". Howard Tyers, who now works at Westminster University, has confirmed to the New Statesman that in his time at the Accra EFO he made "a number of complaints" about payments for an expensive office and also for Land Cruisers of an unnecessarily high specification, purchased without the usual tendering process.
Worryingly, after these complaints Tyers's tenure in Ghana also ended strangely. His contract ended in March 1999, but he asked for a three-month extension because he had to remain resident in Ghana, as his daughter was completing her A-levels. This request was rejected in London, and it was only after an appeal by the Ghanaian education ministry that he was allowed to stay. However, he was sidelined to a research project and denied access to the EFO. And, like Horsley, he found his computer files wiped.
The experiences of Horsley and his predecessor raise questions that should worry anyone who cares about aid. Does DfID respond properly to concerns about financial management? Does it ensure that new aid is spent wisely, with transparency and adequate financial controls? DfID says yes, but unless whistle-blowers are encouraged and protected, how can we be sure?
How does Horsley feel? "Angry that DfID has still held no one accountable for what was going on in Ghana; that no one has been held accountable for my entirely unjustified dismissal; that there has been no hearing, anywhere, on the merits of my case. And appalled that DfID can demand good governance in other countries and still fail to meet the most basic standards of good governance in its own internal practices." He is angry, too, at the waste of years of his career. Despite the emotional and financial costs, he remains determined not to let the matter drop.
Transparency International, which campaigns against corruption in aid and trade, would not comment on the case, but its executive director, Chandrashekhar Krishnan, was clear about one thing: "Any development organisation should have a policy of encouraging whistle-blowers and of ensuring that, if someone has suspicions to report, there is a mechanism to allow that person to express those concerns in a way which will not attract recriminations." The Horsley case does not seem to match that standard and it will deter, not encourage, future whistle-blowers.


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Here's a video from a recent BAT session with a dog-reactive Aussie. For more information about how Behavior Adjustment Training works, read our other blog post.
There are lots of different ways to do BAT, but the main idea is to use what the dog is already working for to pay for a new behavior.
In this case, the dog would bark/lunge at other dogs she doesn't know in order to increase the distance between her and the other dog. So we do the session far enough away that she can be calmer* and we use 'permission to walk away' as the treat for soft eyes, blinks, head turns, etc. We mostly focus on head turns for this session, as that is a nice default behavior.
When you are doing BAT for fear or aggression, you can either change the stimulus (how close is the other dog, what are they doing, etc.) or you can change your behavioral criteria (what the dog needs to do before you reward).
If you are at the edge of your dog's comfort zone, don't make both of those harder at the same time. For this session, we pretty much took the same behavior each time (on the continuum of looking away) and changed only the stimulus (approached closer and closer to the other dog, had other dog move or not move).
We will still need to work toward variety in another session, so that if Cassie does a head turn and it doesn't make the other dog go away, she will have other tricks up her doggie sleeve.
*Keep in mind, some dogs need to start really far away, so that the other dog is just a speck on the horizon. Starting too far and quickly moving the approach line forward is better than starting out too close.
Session Transcript
Set-up is that the decoy dog is kitty-corner on public street (across the street, opposite corner, 50+ feet away from the 'client' dog. There are two handlers (Lori Stevens and Adriane Villanueva) and a camera person (Grisha Stewart). All three are professional dog trainers. Lori and Cassie are the 'clients' and Adriane is handling her dog, Penny, as the decoy.
The session was about 35 minutes. This is an edited version of the session. I no longer have the raw footage, so I will just call these trials 1-20 rather than what they really are, a sample of 15 of the the 60 (or so) trials.
In the initial set-up, Cassie had a double-ended leash attached to a harness in the rear and a Gentle Leader in the front. We changed this after it began to feel like the head collar was not giving Cassie enough freedom of movement (and it was distracting her).
The primary alternative behavior we rewarded during this session was a head turn, and most of them were toward the handler. In session 2, we began pushing for different behaviors, but we were working on getting one solid behavior down first, so we didn't ignore head turns in an attempt to get variety during this session.
Both dogs approaching mark, Cassie leaving as reward. When leaving, Cassie was cued verbally to walk away, sometimes guided by the leash. The ideal is that the retreat is verbally/visually cued.
Trial 1: Alternate behavior rewarded: head turn away from decoy toward handler (0:13). She also opted for a sit when Lori stopped. Slight prompting from Lori as she leaned away from Cassie after they stopped.
Trial 2: Alternate behavior: head turn toward Lori, offered after long look at Penny while walking toward mark (0:32). Just before the head turn toward the handler, at 0:31, there was also a look away to the other side. That could have been rewarded instead.
Trial 3: Alternate behavior: head turn away from decoy toward handler (0:49). On this trial, Lori waited until we were back at the mark, just praising some other good head turns without retreating. If we always took the first rewardable behavior, we'd never make it to the mark! Not rewarding every acceptable alternative behavior also helps make this good behavior harder to extinguish later.
(We started making the break between trials a little longer. Cassie likes to move and is a hard worker, so if we wanted a longer break, we could also do something during those, like tricks or other training.)
Trial 4: Alternate behavior: head turn away from decoy toward handler (1:24). Tail was a bit higher for this trial. Head turn was prompted by Lori very lightly touching her finger to the leash, just a tiny flutter to help keep Cassie from 'going limbic'.
(We took a slightly longer break and decided not to go as far forward the next round, to make success more likely. We were just getting started, so that mark was probably too close to the decoy).
Trial 5: Half-way to old mark. Alternate behavior: head turn away from decoy toward handler (2:02). By the time they left, Cassie's head had turned back, so she did feel the Gentle Leader guiding her away. Ideally she wouldn't feel any leash on the retreat, but that was just a little timing issue.
Trial 6: Alternate behavior: head turn away from decoy (2:34). On the approach, there was also ground sniffing that we could have rewarded
Trial 7: Alternate behavior: head turn away from decoy toward handler (2:57).
(time gap and then decoy was moved to same side of street, across the intersection)
Trial 8: Alternate behavior: head turn away from decoy (3:03)
Trial 9: Alternate behavior: head turn away from decoy (3;17)
(Time gap – more trials and gear was switched to harness only with both front and rear attachment)
Trial 10: Alternate behavior: head turn away from decoy toward handler (3:33)
Trial 11: Alternate behavior: head turn away from decoy toward handler (3:51)
(time gap – Penny moved to same side of street, no longer moving)
Trial 12: Alternate behavior: head turn away from decoy toward handler (4:04). Penny barked an Aussie hello at Cassie and she barked back. She was not super-aroused, so Lori waited for an acceptable behavior before leaving.
(We got another bark after a few more trials, so we mixed things up by adding click/treat plus retreat. The barking seemed like frustration rather than aggression. The click/treat/retreat bit was much easier and more familiar to Cassie. We could also just have increased our distance again, or worked in between trials. We clicked, retreated, then treated on the retreat. That way, the retreat stood out.
Trial 13: Alternate behavior: ground sniff on approach (4:41).
(time gap)
Trial 14: Alternate behavior: head turn away from decoy toward handler (4:54). As they retreated, Cassie began to bark at Penny, but handler correctly continued retreating. (Penny had just seen a cat and was stiff during that trial.)
Trial 13: Half-way to mark. Alternate behavior: ground sniff on approach (5:06)
Trial 14: Alternate behavior: head turn away from decoy toward handler (5:20)
Trial 15: Alternate behavior: several head turns away from decoy toward handler (5:44). Actual click ended up being a look at the decoy, better would've been for a look away.Written by Grisha Stewart, Ahimsa Dog Training, Seattle Tweet This Post!


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Pittsburgh, PA (Sports Network) - Jon Niese pitched into the eighth inning, David Wright hit an RBI double and the Mets defeated the Pirates, 3-1, on Wednesday in the finale of a three-game series.
Niese (3-2) allowed one run on five hits over a season-high 7 2/3 innings to earn the win. He walked two and struck out five. Frank Francisco faced the minimum in the ninth for his 12th save of the season.
Kirk Nieuwenhuis went 2-for-3 with an RBI and a run scored for New York, which has won three of its last four, including the last two games of this series.
Charlie Morton (2-5) was charged with three runs on eight hits over seven innings in the loss. Andrew McCutchen had an RBI single for the Pirates, but struck out with runners on second and third to end the eighth inning.
"I think it was a solid outing," said Morton, who has lost four of his last five starts. "Good and bad. You take the positives and you learn from the negatives."
In his previous start, Niese allowed a career high-tying eight runs and gave up four homers in a loss to the Blue Jays. He bounced back on Wednesday, retiring nine straight batters at one point and holding the Pirates scoreless until the sixth inning, when McCutchen grounded an RBI single through the left side.
The center fielder's base hit came on the heels of Josh Harrison's leadoff double, but the Mets had already pushed across three runs by that point.
"I knew that wasn't my best, that last outing," said Niese. "I just wanted to put it behind me and concentrate on fixing what I needed to fix and I thought I did that today."
In the first inning, Nieuwenhuis reached with a one-out single and moved to second on a wild pitch. He advanced to third on a fly out and scored on Lucas Duda's line drive single to right for a 1-0 lead.
Nieuwenhuis added an RBI sac fly in the fifth and Wright followed with a double off the high wall in right to make it 3-0. The inning began with singles by Rob Johnson and Mike Baxter, which placed runners at the corners with one out.
Clint Barmes led off the eighth with a single and Gorkys Hernandez worked a two-out walk. Both runners advanced on catcher Rob Johnson's pickoff attempt, which first baseman Ike Davis failed to catch, but Bobby Parnell struck out McCutchen to end the threat.
Francisco has retired nine straight batters and has converted his last four save opportunities...The Mets now return to Citi Field for their longest homestand of the season (11 games), starting Thursday against San Diego...Harrison extended his hit streak to nine games...The Pirates removed pitcher Jason Grilli from the bereavement list on Wednesday and optioned pitcher Jeff Locke to Triple-A Indianapolis.


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Friday, May 30, 2014
In a democracy, government is based on the consent of the governed.
In a democracy, the people are sovereign they are the highest form of political authority. Elected representatives at the national and local levels should listen to the people and respond to their needs and suggestions.
Sadly, all too often, our elected officials at all levels seem to forget they represent the people, not their political party.
Last week, we saw democracy work.
What appeared to have begun as government doing what it saw as best, culminated with government listening to the needs of the people.
And the West End of the City of Georgetown got its gym back.
Both the community of the West End and the County Council members on the County Health, Education and Leisure Committee are to be commended.
The community came together angrily when it learned it was losing its gym and basketball court in the Howard Center. But a few wise and level leaders convinced the community it would get much farther by marshalling its forces, appointing spokespeople, remaining calm and respectful.
The community held meetings and council representatives came and listened. Then the community went to the committee meeting, and told the county what it wanted, what it needed.
And the county listened. In the end, the committee voted unanimously to recommend to the full County Council that the renovation plans be changed to include the gymnasium.
We trust the full County Council will, in turn, listen to the recommendation of its committee.
When the big box stores wanted to build in the Waccamaw Neck in 2005 and 2012, the people spoke and the county listened. And democracy worked.
Has democracy now failed the Waccamaw Neck?
Once again, the county has the opportunity to facilitate democracy. It needs to push pause on the SCDOT and listen to the voices of the U.S. Highway 17 median debate. All the voices.
Sen. Raymond Cleary says its not too late.
But if it is, then, sadly, democracy has failed the Neck.
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By Master Sgt. Stephen Barrett, USAAmerican Forces Press Service
WASHINGTON, June 12, 1996 President Clinton nominated Adm. Jay L. Johnson to become the 26th chief of naval operations. Upon Senate confirmation, Johnson would succeed Adm. Jeremy M. Boorda, who died May 16.
Clinton said Johnson brings a dynamic vision of the Navy's future, a wealth of operational experience, a decisive leadership style and a deep regard for America's sailors. "With Adm. Johnson at the helm, I am confident that our Navy will continue to protect and advance our nation's freedom and security," said Clinton.
The same praise came from Defense Secretary William Perry, who said Johnson combines the advantages of youth with great experience, particularly operational experience. "He has been the vice CNO and is intimately familiar with the process of running naval operations," said Perry.
Johnson arrived in Washington in March after serving as commander of the U.S. Second Fleet, based in Norfolk, Va. During his tour, the fleet conducted operations rescuing Cubans and Haitians attempting to sail to the United States.
He also supervised fleet operations for Operation Uphold Democracy in Haiti. Clinton said that operation saw new use of joint forces, including the deployment of Army helicopters and special forces troops aboard the aircraft carrier USS Dwight D. Eisenhower.
Johnson commanded the USS Theodore Roosevelt battle group from 1993 to 1994, during which time, the group provided initial Navy support to Operation Deny Flight in Bosnia. The battle group also supported Operation Southern Watch over Iraq while operating in the Red Sea.
A native of West Salem, Wis., Johnson is a 1968 graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy. A career Navy pilot, Johnson's first sea duty tour was aboard the USS Oriskany. There, he served on two combat cruises in Vietnam, flying the F-8 Crusader. He also has commanded an F-14 fighter squadron and a carrier air wing.
Johnson's shore assignments include three tours with the Bureau of Naval Personnel in Arlington, Va. From 1990 to 1992, he was assistant chief of naval personnel, managing Navy career development and worldwide assignment of all Navy personnel.
His decorations include the Defense Distinguished Service Medal, Defense Superior Service Medal, four awards of the Legion of Merit, the Defense Meritorious Service Medal, Meritorious Service Medal, and eight Air Medals. Johnson is married to the former Garland Hawthorne of Colorado Springs, Colo. The couple has a daughter, Cullen.


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The 20-year-old striker was forced to undergo a hernia operation, but should be fit to return for the December 15 clash at Napoli.
A statement from Inter read: "Icardi underwent successful keyhole surgery on a sports hernia on Monday afternoon."
The Argentinian striker has scored two goals in six league appearances for Inter Milan this season.


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SAHM, military wife, momma to DSD 2004, 2007, DS 2008, DD 2011
I used Michelle for my last birth, and I absolutely love her and think her care is phenomenal. So, I'd absolutely recommend her if you're in the area that she covers and if she's got the space. Best of luck!!
Banana, doula wife to Papa Banana and mother to Banana One, Banana Two, Banana Three, Banana Four...
OH! There's also one near syracuse, I think? Eta... yep... this one: http://www.facebook.com/pages/George...25564397494035
Jenna ~ mommy to Sophia Elise (1/06), Oliver Matthew (7/07) and Avery Michael (3/10)
Wading slowly and nervously into this homeschooling thing.
I'm sure all of these are too far to travel to you - Michelle's service radius is about an hour in any direction from Troy; the Susans in Gardiner turned me down because I'm too far from them, and I'm just outside the town of Catskill - and Jenna Houston is on sabbatical, opening a clinic in Haiti with her husband, who is an OB/GYN. I'm due in January and working with Michelle Doyle, who is FANTASTIC. She is totally linked in with the network of MW across NY state, especially upstate, and I would recommend getting in touch with her through her website and asking if she has any recommendations for MW in your area.
Good luck!!!
SAHM, military wife, momma to DSD 2004, 2007, DS 2008, DD 2011
There is one in Theresa, one in Georgetown that was willing to come to Pulaski. The lady in Canton will work in Watertown but that is it, but she might be full for Jan.
here is the facebook for the one in Georgetown, she has a website but I don't have that right now
I will have to look up the others info again. The one in Theresa does births at her place though which didn't work for me and the one from Caton wouldn't come down here. Then I ended up with issue and so not going to have a homebirth at all
Wife to my hero, mom to 7 damsels, 1 lad, 1 pooches, 1 mousers, 5 hens
thanks... meredith is willing to do my homebirth but i'd need to find an ob to agree to have a collabrative (sp?) relationship in case of transfer and was told by the group of midwives i am currently seeing that their ob will not do it.
SAHM, military wife, momma to DSD 2004, 2007, DS 2008, DD 2011
Do you know the information for the Midwife in Canton who will travel to watertown? I have looked up her number online and the only number I can find is disconnected. Praying she is still around because I have been looking for a midwife who does hb's for a while, and I haven't had any luck :(
did you already ask merideth?
SAHM, military wife, momma to DSD 2004, 2007, DS 2008, DD 2011
If you are talking about Meredith in Georgetown, yes, I have talked with her. Overall, I feel that I am located too far from her. She is about 2 1/2 hours away from where I am at, and I don't know if we could afford the travel AND paying her AND a new baby all at once lol. Trust me, if we were closer, it would have been a done deal. I am praying that I don't have to do a hospital birth, I dont like the feeling of being out of control of the situation, and I trust myself more than most doctors. I would go unassisted, but this is my first child, and I am afraid my mind will uncontrollably turn on me with thoughts of bad things happening, so the support of a midwife would be ideal for me right now.
I don't know anyone else I'm sorry! if you can't find someone you could always stay home as long as you feel comfortable (and if thats the whole time great lol). Good luck with everything and congrats on baby!
SAHM, military wife, momma to DSD 2004, 2007, DS 2008, DD 2011
Sorry I didn't see this sooner. Have you tried contacting Regina Willette? Here is her HealthGrades contact link: http://www.healthgrades.com/provider/regina-willette-x7k5d
Regina is great; maybe she can help. Wish we were closer.
K.Michelle Doyle, CNM, NYS LM
Midwife specializing in homebirth
Troy, NY 12180
May all babies be born into loving hands
Anyone know of any others? Maybe that will work between Watertown and Syracuse, Pulaski area?
Wife to my hero, mom to 7 damsels, 1 lad, 1 pooches, 1 mousers, 5 hens
Merideth is the only one I've heard of doing births in the Watertown area.
Midwife (CPM, LDM) and homeschooling mama to:
14yo ds 11yo dd 9yo ds and 7yo ds and 2yo ds
From my conversation with her she isn't working in the area at lest not for the time frame in question.
Wife to my hero, mom to 7 damsels, 1 lad, 1 pooches, 1 mousers, 5 hens
Just wanted to keep this thread updated.
I just spoke with Merideth (Georgetown, NY) today and she does not travel up near Watertown any longer. She did for a short while when she first started her private practice b/c she had the bandwidth but now has too many local clients to make that feasible.
She also verified that Regina Willette (Canton, NY) has recently made it very very clear to her that she will no longer travel to Watertown anymore either.
If anyone knows of any other Watertown/Ft.Drum/Jefferson cnty homebirth options, then please do update! :)
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Formulated with baking powder to penetrate and cleanse deep within pores to remove makeup and residues. Ideal for BB cream removal.
How to use: Apply to wet face and lather. Massage thoroughly and rinse with warm water.
The cleansing foam is a white, shimmering foam without any significant scent. Sometimes I feel like I smell citrus out of it, but maybe I am paranoid and it's gone as soon as I try to focus on it. Only after trying to grasp this scent I have read that it is actually really supposed to be the scent of lemons. This is a scent well done. It doesn't seem artificial at all.
There is also a Etude House Baking Powder Cleansing Foam available, in difference to the Etude House Baking Powder BB Deep Cleansing Foam (confusing, right?) and as far as I understand the BB one is extra suitable for removing BB Cream and just has more cleansing power. Please correct me if I am wrong or you have more infos about this.


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Try North Carolina-style BBQ, authentic Mexican fare, or German brews this weekend.
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The annual Macaron Day NYC kicked off with a bang Thursday.
Macaron Day NYC, an annual event organized by Chef Francois Payard, will take place on March 20th.
Danny Simmons' "Noisy in the Next Room" opens on Sunday.
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Kids feeling the heat? Bed-Stuy playgrounds can help cool them off.
Recently opened Brooklyn restaurants serve up unique plates.
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A full day at a new charter school in Bedford-Stuyvesant will go until 5:30 p.m., administrators said.
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IN the wake of a power crisis, Sen. Juan Miguel Zubiri challenged private companies to develop sources of renewabel energy.
He said the Philippines had many options? geothermal power, solar power , biomass, small scale hydropower, wind and tidal ocean wave energy.
Zubiri spoke at the opening of the two-day Go Green Fair at Shangri-La's Mactan Resort and Spa in Lapu-Lapu City.
Cebu has two potential sources, he said, ocean waves and the wind.
?Believe it or not here in southern Cebu and Negros are one of the best wind gradients in the country. It produces a lot of wind. And how nice would it be to actually see windmills of the southern portion of Cebu and the southern portion of Negros. It would be a new tourism site, I promise you that,? Zubiri said.
He said Cebu, surrounded by the sea, could also tap tidal wave energy.
?This is good for Cebu even in the Mactan channel. In Europe ganito na po ang kanilang energy provider. This is the new wave of technology,? Zubiri said.
Zubiri said local governments should consider investing in these projects.
While these are thrice more expensive than coal-fired power plants Zubiri said it can be argued that they make sense in the long run and saves the environment.
?It is very expensive to put up a renewable energy project but if you give the people the companies the right incentives they will build,? Zubiri said.
Republic Act 9513 also known as Renewable Energy Act of 2008, provides fiscal incentives to companies that invest in renewable energy like tax exemptions and tax holidays.
?The Cebuanos are the cutting edge of technology in the Visayas and Mindanao even in the Philippines. Your Mactan plants and the eco-zones, you can build the windmills. Why do you have to buy solar panels in India or China when we can build it right here in Cebu? ?
He said under the new law, imported materials can be brought in tax free.
Zubiri cited the ill effects of climate change, including coal-fired power plants, which he said cause respiratory diseases.
He said the national government has 50 pending project proposal sfrom all over the country to develop renewable energy.
Jose Ma. Lorenzo Tan of the World Wildlife Foundation ? Philippines said planning to mitigate climate change should start at the local level.
?We are caught in a climate sandwich and we can start here in Cebu and we can stop this. We are not helpless if we choose to be indecisive and we are helpless if we just talk and talk,? Tan said.