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Can the afterglow of San Francisco's successful run with its paid sick leave ordinance radiate throughout the state? Assembly member Fiona Ma (D-San Francisco) -- who recently introduced a statewide bill (AB 400) mandating paid sick days for employees -- hopes the third time is the charm.
AB 400 would require employers to provide employees not covered by a collective bargaining agreement with paid sick leave accrued at a rate of no less than one hour for every 30 days worked. Ma introduced similar bills in 2008 and 2009.
San Francisco's ordinance, implemented in 2007, is similar to Ma's bill -- one hour of sick leave for every 30 hours worked. Employees in firms with fewer than 10 employees (after being on the job 90 days) can accrue a maximum of five sick days per year, while workers at larger firms can earn a maximum of nine days per year. Employees may carry over paid sick days from year to year.
A new report, "Paid Sick Leave Ordinance: Outcomes for Employers and Employees," from the Institute for Women's Policy Research concludes that the San Francisco ordinance is working. Researchers surveyed more than 700 employers and nearly 1,200 employees in the private sector between July 2009 and December 2009.
Among the report's highlights:
'A Change in Culture'
Robert Drago -- co-author of the report and a director at the research institute -- was surprised that only 17% of employers introduced a new policy after the ordinance passed, yet more than half of covered employees reported receiving a benefit from the ordinance -- mainly in the form of increased employer support. "But that still seems pretty impressive," he said, adding, "The new ordinance has brought a change in culture -- a more caring employer."
The report also found that employees are not abusing the ordinance. Despite a five- or nine-day allowance under the ordinance, a typical worker reported using three sick days the previous year, and about 25% of employees used zero days.
Drago said the low utilization rates suggest employees consider paid leave a form of insurance -- something they will use when they are really sick. The number of sick days taken by San Francisco employees is on par with the rest of the country, he said.
Overall Benefits of Paid Sick Leave
When workers are prevented from staying home when sick, disease is more likely to spread, increasing health care costs and causing needless economic losses, Drago said. "We saw this during the 2009 H1N1 influenza pandemic when workers without paid sick days were more likely to go to work while infected with the flu. It becomes a public health issue," he said.
A Institute for Women's Policy Research study following the flu pandemic suggested that more than one-quarter of private sector employees who contracted the virus did so because of others coming to work while sick.
The benefits of paid sick leave filter down, researchers said. Parents with paid sick days were 20% less likely to send a child with a contagious illness to school than those without days off.
Statistics showing that paid sick days result in healthier workers and increased public health in general are supporters' strongest rebuttals to opponents of the bill.
"Supporters of the bill say it's a no-win situation when employees come to work sick," said Nick Hardeman, capitol director in Ma's office.
Will It Pass?
"This is a common sense policy," said Brandy Davis, policy coordinator of the Labor Project for Working Families.
That's not exactly how the California Chamber of Commerce sees it. Although it has not announced a position on AB 400, Jennifer Barrera, policy advocate for the organization, said chamber officials are wary.
"The combination of paid family leave with the myriad other protected employee leave programs that only California requires creates a significant administrative burden on employers, increases costs and minimizes the ability of companies to expand hiring and create new jobs," Barrera said.
"The California chamber is concerned with the uncertainty created for businesses with each new effort to expand protected leaves of absences for employees in our state and the detrimental impact it will have on our economy and job creation," she continued.
The California Assembly Republican Caucus echoes the chamber's response. "In an economy with 12% unemployment in the state, it is irresponsible for California to add another layer of regulations hindering job creation," said Darrel Ng, spokesperson for the caucus.
Despite the opposition of Republicans, Hardeman anticipates that AB 400 will land on Gov. Jerry Brown's (D) desk in six to nine months.
David Landis -- president of Landis Communications, a San Francisco-based public relations firm with 11 employees -- isn't so sure a statewide ordinance will pass. "Business generally takes a stance against regulation that mandates how it should conduct itself," he said.
John Kabateck -- executive director of the California branch of the National Federation of Independent Business based in Sacramento -- is concerned that AB 400 will force his 20,000 members in the state to make tough choices -- resulting in lower wages, fewer benefits and hours and even lay offs -- especially in this economy. He's also not too happy about the bill's cookie-cutter approach to mandating paid sick days.
The bill would promote unintended consequences for small business in offering an unnecessary and costly disincentive to both employers and employees, he said. Instead, he recommends flexible work weeks, tax incentives and flexibility in rest breaks for employees.
Drago questioned Kabateck's prediction, saying the paid sick day policy is a better alternative to laying off workers. Drago said paid sick days generate more stability at an affordable price once administrative costs are offset.
Employers Speak Out
At its inception in 1990, Landis Communications provided employees with five paid sick days per year, along with two weeks of vacation time. But when one of Landis' employees called in sick 17 consecutive Mondays, although she wasn't paid for more than five, Landis said her absence put a crimp in productivity at the then three-employee business. Landis polled his peers to check out their sick day policies; standard form was five days per year with a note from a physician -- not too different from what he was already doing.
"Then I had a change of heart ... and questioned why unhealthy employees should get preferential treatment at the expense of healthy ones," he said. The result was a new policy, in compliance with the 2007 law: three weeks of paid personal time off to be used as each employee sees fit. "The generous benefit enables me to attract good employees, and I know that is one of the reasons people want to work at Landis Communications," he said.
Landis said his company's personal time-off benefit has paid for itself in recruiting more efficient, higher level employees. And it hasn't stymied his company's growth -- up 5% last year.
Krystin Rubin -- co-owner of Mission Pie, a bakery café in San Francisco with 17 employees -- said the paid sick day policy is "abundantly fair." Having started her business four years ago, she married into the already existing law. She allows employees to accrue 10 days of paid sick leave annually.
"The sick days are part of incentives to keep employees healthy, well and strong, and to avoid turn-over," she said. "I want them to enjoy working here and to positively represent our restaurant. Less generous benefits bring out employees' bad habits."
Virginia Donohue, owner of Pet Camp in San Francisco, provides sick leave to her 25 employees as a result of the law. She said she is concerned that with so many policies, San Francisco is becoming too involved in mandating employee benefits that bump heads with flexibility. She has been in business since 1997.
To meet the needs of her work force and comply with the law, she provides the required number of paid days but stipulates that they can be used for illness or vacation. "The arrangement offers me more predictability from my employees -- that is needed in a service business. And they can use the days strictly for pleasure," Donohue added.
Conforming to the paid sick day policy has added to her costs, she admitted, which forces her to raise fees for pet sitting services. The Institute for Women's Policy Research report found service businesses were more likely than other businesses not to provide the benefit before the law was approved and that their profits were most affected by the law.

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Acne Glossary
Your acne vocabulary cheat sheet.
A skin disease characterized by one or more types of lesions like whiteheads, blackheads (comedones) and red pimples (papules and pustules). In more severe forms there can be deeper lumps (nodules and cysts). Acne occurs in the sebaceous glands and its attached hair follicles. Acne mostly appears in body regions where these glands and follicles are more prominent: face (most frequent), chest, back, neck, shoulders, and upper arm. Acne usually starts at puberty and can continue for several years. Adult acne is also possible.
In acne, it refers to a product that helps to constrict/shrink the pores (also called toner)
Benzoyl peroxide
It is an effective skin care treatment for helping get rid of mild to moderate acne. It's an ingredient that has antimicrobial properties that works by killing the bacteria (P. acnes) involved in acne, thus improving acne lesions (pimples). It's particularly effective on papules and pustules.
A non-inflammatory (not red) lesion (also called open comedo). It can be flat or slightly raised and skin-colored, except for the center that is darker. It consists of a clogged pore (filled and dilated by sebum, bacteria, and dead skin cells) whose surface remains open to the outside environment. The surface turns black because of melanin or because of a chemical reaction of the plug content with air. If it becomes inflamed, it will develop into a red pimple.
Closed comedo
Also known as a whitehead.
It is the non-inflammatory (not red) type of acne lesions, consisting of a clogged pore. It can appear as a skin-colored little bump (whitehead) or as a skin-colored round, flat or slightly raised, pore containing dark material (blackhead).
A severe acne lesion that consists of a nodule containing pus. It could become infected and painful. In the long run, it could cause scarring.
Dead skin cells
The epidermis renews itself constantly. These cells are the most superficial ones and shed naturally at the end of their journey from the bottom of the epidermis to its outer surface. Inside the pores, they are involved in the formation of plugs (clogged pores).
A doctor who is a specialist in the diagnosis and treatment of skin conditions and diseases.
The deeper of the two layers of skin (epidermis and dermis). It supports the epidermis and contains many components like giving strength and elasticity to the skin. It's involved in many important skin functions, including wound healing.
The outermost of two skin layers (epidermis and dermis), made up mostly of skin cells. The skin cells continually renew themselves, moving from the bottom up to the surface of the skin where they shed. It has various functions, the most important of which is to act as the body barrier against the environment.
The process of removing dead skin cells from the skin surface. It can be done chemically (certain topical skincare medications, chemical peels) or mechanically (scrubs, medical instruments).
Indicates forced removal
Hair follicle
The small canal in the skin where hair grows (sometimes very tiny) and it opens up in a surface pore. It contains sebum from the attached sebaceous gland, dead cells, and bacteria. In unclogged follicles, the sebum flows freely to the skin surface.
Chemical substances in the body that regulate cell/body functions.
An increase in color (darkening). In acne, it often appears at the site of a pimple, after this is gone (also call post-inflammatory), and discoloration can last a long time.
Inflammatory lesion
It is a reddish, inflamed lesion also known as pimple (papules and pustules are examples of these). A pustule differs visually from the papule because it shows a white/yellow head (pus) in the center of the lesion. It is small (usually less than a pencil eraser) and slightly raised, and can be tender to the touch.
An abnormal formation in your pore.
A flat, limited lesion with a different color from the surrounding skin (e.g. hyperpigmented macules resulting from disappeared acne lesions).
They are visible signs on the skin, leaving a discoloration. They may be left from pimples (acne lesions.)
A color produced by specific cells in the skin. It is responsible for hair and skin color. When you get a tan, melanin is responsible for your skin darkening.
An inflamed deep, hard, reddish bump, slightly raised, and larger than a papule or pustule. It tends to be painful and it can often lead to scarring. It is a lesion typical of severe acne.
Nodulocystic acne
A severe type of acne characterized by the presence of several nodules/cysts. These lesions are inflamed, painful, reddish, large, and contain pus; they may often produce scarring.
Non-inflammatory lesion
A lesion that is not red, indicating it is not inflamed. Blackheads and whiteheads are examples of these.
Open comedo
(plural: open comedones). See blackhead
It's is a reddish, inflamed lesion also known as pimple. It is small (usually less than a pencil eraser) and slightly raised, and can be tender to the touch.
see papule and pustule
It's is a reddish, inflamed lesion also known as pimple. It differs visually from the papule because it shows a white/yellow head (pus) in the center of the lesion. It is small (usually less than a pencil eraser) and slightly raised, and can be tender to the touch
Salicylic acid
A common ingredient found in many over-the-counter skin care products, mostly indicated for mild to moderate acne. In this case, it works to break apart dead cells inside hair follicles, which is a fancy way of saying unclogging pores. It can also help prevent new clogged pores from forming.
Sebaceous glands
Skin glands that produce oil called sebum. They are usually attached to the hair follicles, into which they empty the sebum. They are most prominent on the face, back, chest, neck, shoulders, and upper arms.
The oily material produced by the sebaceous glands and it reaches the skin surface through the pores
Elimination of dead skin cells. It's what happens when you exfoliate
Spot treatment
Skin care medications to be used on individual lesions (pimples).
see astringent
A non-inflammatory (not red) lesion (also called closed comedo.) It is a slightly raised skin-colored little bump. It consists of a pore clogged by dead skin cells and oil, and whose surface remains covered by a layer of skin; therefore the plug content is not exposed to air and does not turn black (as in blackheads).


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Intangibles make Jeannette grad Cortazzo stand out for Gannon softball
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There's no denying the tangible, on-field contributions that Kirstie Cortazzo gives to the Gannon University softball team. A mere glance at the stat sheet reveals that.
But for Cortazzo, a Jeannette High School graduate and Gannon's senior shortstop, her intangible contributions are just as significant, said head coach Tom Jakubowski.
"She's the leader of our team," he said. "She's our rock. She's the person I go to."
Seniors are generally expected to be team leaders, but the fact that Gannon is an especially young team this year has made that role even more crucial for Cortazzo.
"She's the kind of player that every coach wants to play for him," said Jakubowski. "I asked her to lead by example and she does that. She is the leader of this team. If everyone on this team put in as much effort as she does, we would be very difficult to beat."
Cortazzo embraces that role.
"Softball is my life," she said. "I love this game. I am passionate about this game. When I play, I play hard all the time and I don't know how to not play hard. I love my teammates, so (if they look up to me), I enjoy that."
Cortazzo has been out of the lineup for the past week but is expected to return soon. She leads the team with a .707 slugging percentage and is in the top five in runs (10), hits (22), RBIs (14) and batting average (.379).
Gannon is 14-12 overall and 7-5 in the NCAA Division II Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference (PSAC). Games against IUP and Clarion were scheduled for early this week, but results were not available at press time.
The team hosts double-headers against California and Mercyhurst this Friday and Saturday, respectively.
Weightman produces
Brian Weightman, a senior on the Division I St. Bonaventure baseball team, continues to be one of the squad's most productive players this season. In a 12-7 win over Niagara last Wednesday, Weightman had two singles, an RBI a stolen base and a run scored. The Jeannette grad had three hits in an 8-3 loss to George Mason on Friday. He added another hit in an 8-6 win over George Mason Saturday.
The senior outfielder is third on the team with a .306 batting average to go with a .435 slugging percentage and a .404 on-base percentage. He has two home runs, 10 RBIs and nine walks.
St. Bonaventure is 8-20 overall and 2-8 in the Division I Atlantic 10 Conference. The Bonnies host Fordham in a three-game series this weekend.
Ault gets two RBIs
Jeannette grad Jordan Ault caught two games as Bethany College was swept two double headers over the weekend. Ault, a senior, had a single and two RBIs in a 5-3 loss to Geneva on Saturday; he was also behind the plate in a 10-6 loss to Case Western on Sunday.
Ault has appeared in 11 games, starting 10, and has a .296 batting average. He has eight hits, nine RBIs, a .333 slugging percentage and a .412 on-base percentage.
Bethany entered the week 12-9 overall and 7-4 in the NCAA Division III Presidents' Athletic Conference (PAC).
The team is scheduled to host Waynesburg today then visit the Yellow Jackets Saturday.
Cortazzo runs
Jeannette grad Delaney Cortazzo continues to be used as a pinch-running specialist in this, her freshman year on the Division II Fairmont State softball team.
Cortazzo was used as a pinch runner in the first game of a double header against Charleston on Saturday and the first game of a double header against West Virginia State on Sunday.
She also saw time in right field in game two of Sunday's double header. The impact she has on the base paths is evident in the fact that Cortazzo has seven runs scored despite not starting a game this season.
She also has two hits in six at-bats.
The Fighting Falcons entered the week 19-13 overall and 10-8 in the Division II Mountain East Conference (MEC) hit the road for double headers against West Virginia Wesleyan on Saturday and Glenville State on Sunday.
Brian Knavish is a contributing writer.
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43rd Convocation
Wednesday, September 18, 2002
A very warm welcome to each of you at this formal opening of the 43rd academic year of Eckerd College.
The Eckerd College Convocation calls together the whole community for the ritual launching of the academic year, and the convocation address provides the president an opportunity to give voice to a sense of where we are and where we expect to go together this year. Over time, the Eckerd Convocation address has assumed its own conventions: It should be a combination of assessment, expectation and ambition; it should be accessible both to learned faculty and to the faithful attendees from the baseball team regretting their neckties and dreaming of athletic glory; and it should, perhaps above all, be brief.
Last year was one of great change and excitement for many of us, particularly for me. We spent a lot of time getting to know each other. Faculty, individually and in groups, gave me frequent and informal seminars on the College and its issues. The founding faculty treated me to dinner and a roundtable discussion about the original vision and values of this College and provided an immensely useful and memorable review of the early history of Florida Presbyterian College and of their continuing hopes for it. Trustees have spent hours with me reviewing both pleasant and painful memories of the College's brief -- but colorful -- history. Alumni have regaled me with tales of life among the palmettos, sandspurs, and fiddler crabs -- and with stories of mentors who informed and changed their lives. Donors have shared with me their hopes and dreams for this special place. The executive staff, collegial chairs, and Faculty Coordinating Committee have all given me superb lessons in institutional memory and aspiration. Students expressed the wish to be treated like the adults they are in their residential environment, and we agreed and programmed accordingly. We opened Triton's Pub in December and had an energetic social season on campus, which will be even richer this year. Bill Covert and ECSAR staff and students taught me how to operate a boat and to navigate the challenging waters of Tampa Bay. I am all too well aware that the extraordinary young men and women of ECSAR lie in wait for that amusing day when they must rescue me, red-faced, from a sandbar somewhere.
I am grateful for all these moments that have informed and enriched my understanding of this special place, and I will continue my "Eckerd education" in a variety of ways this year, including having luncheon discussions with the entire faculty in small groups, visiting dorms for small group discussions with students, and meeting with a newly reorganized board of trustees. What are the primary lessons of my freshman year at Eckerd? I believe that, for me at least, they include these five:
1. Our Trustees have distinguished themselves by their commitment to this College when the chips were down. Their resolve and support have been heroic. In particular, I want to thank Chairman Miles Collier and Vice Chairman Grover Wrenn, for their exceptionally thoughtful and unstinting leadership.
2. Our superior academic program changes the lives of fine, young and not-so-young people every day. Its quality is fundamental to the meaning and purpose of Eckerd College.
3. Alumni care about the College more than they show and more than many of them know. One of my major priorities this year is to connect personally with increasing numbers of our alumni and to encourage them to increase their participation in our work and in their financial support of the College.
4. We are a different kind of church-related college, where matters of religion, spirit and faith are greeted not with embarrassed silence but embraced as essential to the human condition, and discussed and debated and explained as a major feature of the landscape of art, culture and politics. Our object is not conversion but education, though one may beget the other, and our subject is the spiritual life of the world--a topic that has been on particularly lurid display over the past year.
5. Finally, and perhaps most importantly, this College is tough! It can take a hit -- and has, in fact, taken body blows that would have destroyed a place with fewer strengths, fewer committed trustees and alumni, and fewer faculty with deep commitment to the world-class quality of its programs and its teaching. Together we are strong, and together we have a great future.
This past year we made significant progress on five major projects: We reorganized the governance structure of the Board of Trustees; we created a physical master plan that evolved from conversations with all sectors of the community and that will over the coming years transform our campus into a model of environmental thoughtfulness; we developed a plan for the new library, also with broad campus involvement; and we began to employ a whole new approach to student life, based on treating students as adults and expecting them to act accordingly.
The appearance of the campus has also been a major focus and is showing great results. Our food service folks have become media stars, featured in a front-page story in The Triton, as the quality of food and service at the Pub and the cafeteria continue to improve and earn the compliments of customers.
This fall, just in time for the beginning of the semester, we completed work on the renovated and enlarged student workout facility. And we will break ground on December 5th for our technologically cutting-edge library that will provide new dimensions for intellectual life at Eckerd.
We have also begun a sophisticated study of the image and positioning of the College that will provide us with critical information as we move toward developing new marketing, recruiting and strategic plans.
But perhaps our greatest accomplishment over the past year has been to come closer together as a community, following a tough time for our College and during a dark time for our nation: The coming together of this community -- faculty, secretaries, accounting clerks, groundskeepers, cooks, housekeepers, administrators, students, ASPEC members and all others -- has been essential to the success of this college, and has been a great personal and professional experience for me as your president and colleague.
We are engaged in a great enterprise at Eckerd College, one that requires not only vision but dual vision (not to be confused with double vision). This dual vision requires us to keep one eye on survival -- always a great challenge for young liberal arts colleges, even those that seem secure beyond measure, behind their fat endowments and reputations. The other eye, however, if we are to remain true to our founding vision, must remain focused on becoming and being recognized as one of the great liberal arts colleges in the country -- still an achievable ambition, and one in which this college has made extraordinary progress in its four quick decades of institutional life.
We will do that by remaining focused on our core values, which I described at our Opening Convocation last year as residential, global, spiritual, environmental and personal.
- Residential: Our Dean of Students and his staff have made great progress in elevating the physical facilities and programming for residential life on campus. Long-range planning for developing a new generation of student facilities will begin this fall.
- Global: Our students now come from an unprecedented 68 countries, and our curriculum is not shy about requiring engagement with not only the Koran, but with the sacred texts of all the world's great religions. Unlike too many officials and institutions in contemporary America, this College believes that one important way to combat terrorism and religious fanatics is through discussion and debate open to all ideas and persuasions.
- Spiritual: We embrace our connection to the Presbyterian Church because we believe that, in the words of William Evans, President of Augsburg College, "faith is a form of knowing, not an alternative to it, and that it is [often] through the faith side of cognition rather than the reason side that the beckoning voice of [a true] vocation comes." The 160 freshmen who followed Brian MacHarg "Into the Streets" during Autumn Term have begun to experience the richness of spiritual life at Eckerd.
- Environmental: Beth Forys, Peter Meylan and David Scholnick have worked with me to recover more than half of Palm Hammock from the College Landings Development Plan. They know, as I do, that the fragile paradise of coastal Florida requires educated, as well as passionate, planners and defenders. They helped set the stage for a campus master plan that respects and uses the native environment as a classroom. Our location and our marine and environmental programs provide us not only with a dramatic strategic opportunity, but also with a sacred educational duty.
- Personal: No value is more vital to a liberal arts college than affirming the fierce individuality of each student as he or she seeks understanding, fulfillment and character. No member of the Eckerd community has done more to develop and display our College's uniquely personal standard of attention to and support for students and their parents than our Dean of Admissions and Financial Aid, who today would have attended his 34th, and last, convocation as a dean of the College if he were not on jury duty. Please join me in saluting one of the heroes of this College, a man whose character and dedication are an inspiration and model to us all: Dean Dick Hallin.
As we struggle to build a first-rate college and a caring community on this sandy soil populated by palmetto and sand spurs, and students and scholars mostly from somewhere else, it is hard not to be instructed and moved by the famous words of the great professor and theologian, Reinhold Niebuhr, who, in fact, taught some of our Eckerd colleagues:
Nothing that is worth doing can be achieved in our lifetime; therefore, we must be saved by hope. Nothing which is true or beautiful or good makes complete sense in any immediate context of history; therefore we must be saved by faith. Nothing we do, however virtuous, can be accomplished alone; therefore, we are saved by love.
As many of you know, the best colleges embrace what is called "shared governance," which means that trustees, faculty, administrators, staff, and students all participate in running the place. You may also know that the Greek root of the word governance is ku•ber•nay -- meaning, "to steer," as the helmsman with his hand on the tiller steers a boat or a ship. I am ever aware that, as your President, I hold the position of helmsman in trust, ever dependent on the personal and institutional support of the Board of Trustees, and in the service of faculty, staff, and students. May each of you find fulfillment and success and community in our work together this year. Thank you.


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Teachers' lobbyist Paul Hubbert won a fight with Gov. Bob Riley's administration over earmarking some money from the $1.2 billion tax package to be used to prevent future cuts to the education budget.
The House Education Finance and Appropriations Committee changed a proposed constitutional amendment to designate a percentage of the increases from the tax package to go to the education budget in slow economic years.
Riley has requested that all new money from the package, which raises income and property taxes, go into an Alabama Excellence Initiative Fund and not be earmarked for specific purposes.
Riley's finance director, Drayton Nabers, said the change could endanger Riley's tax package, which is expected to raise enough money to fill a $675 million hole in the state's budgets next year and provide additional money for future years.
Nabers declined to elaborate when asked if Riley might withdraw his entire package if the change remains.
The income tax and property tax bills, as well as the constitutional amendment, moved to the House floor Friday.
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Joined this one 20 August 1968 at Chatham naval dockyard. It was a doddle of a job. I had never been isssued with so much gear. We used to transport items from naval dockyard to naval dockyard. Many times it would be just 1 crate, don't know why it couldn't have gone by van. Public money I guess so didn't matter.
Whenever we were in Devonport I used the the same watering hole just outside the dock gate. It was run by an elderly couple who treated me like a long lost son. I celebrated my 21st there, mum (as I called the Landlady) cooked me a huge cornish pasty for lunch, and in the evening they organised a party and she had baked me a cake. A realy nice couple I did visit them a couple of times over the years and was always received with elation.
We used to dock in Chatham quite often so was able to do flying visits home as well.
My faourite port was pompey we used to berth next to "HMS Victory" and could always find a girl among the visitors that would like to dally with a sailor. Yes a splendid port on all levels. Boredom set in in May 1969 so I signed off and returned to Folkestone.


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The life of Alana Branstetter was celebrated at a dedication of the Tri-Valley High School soccer field in her honor Saturday.
Alana, who died Nov. 13, 2006, of leukemia, was a passionate and dedicated soccer athlete.
"She was the toughest person I know, until the very end," said Alainna Durfee, who helped organize the dedication. "She was a superstar, and years later, it still shows." ...


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Republican lawmakers such as Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif., want to eventually get rid of future federal employees' FERS pensions. (Mark Wilson / Getty Images)
The Federal Employees Retirement System held a projected $12.2 billion surplus at the end of fiscal 2010, its first surplus in four years.
And the Civil Service Retirement System's unfunded liability shrank from $663.4 billion at the end of fiscal 2009 to $634.5 billion at the end of fiscal 2010, according to the government's latest report on the fiscal health of its pension systems.
The Office of Personnel Management released the Civil Service Retirement and Disability Fund annual report for fiscal 2011 at Federal Times' request.
Republican lawmakers such as Rep. Darrell Issa of California and Rep. Dennis Ross of Florida want to eventually get rid of future federal employees' FERS pensions, saying such defined benefit plans are expensive and unsustainable and are rapidly disappearing in the private sector.
Issa in October promised to "end the fiscally irresponsible practice of accumulating large unfunded liabilities for retiree pensions" when he proposed doing away with FERS for new employees.
But the latest numbers continue to show that the unfunded liability problem facing federal pensions is entirely due to CSRS' poor design, which Congress sought to fix in 1986 when it created FERS and began to wind down CSRS.
The more-generous CSRS plan requires both federal employees and the government to each contribute 7 percent of an employee's paycheck toward the CSRS pension, and did not allow the government to regularly adjust those rates. Because the 14 percent of CSRS payroll that went to fund pensions was not nearly enough to cover the system's future costs, a massive shortfall grew. This means the government has to contribute additional payments which reached a record $33.2 billion in fiscal 2010 each year to cover part of that shortfall.
The FERS law, however, requires federal employees to contribute 0.8 percent of their paychecks toward their pensions, and requires the government to cover the rest of the cost to avoid the accumulation of unfunded liabilities. That is why the government in fiscal 2011 hiked the amount it contributes to FERS pensions from 11.2 percent to 11.7 percent, and in October increased it further to 11.9 percent.
That means that if the FERS pension went away today, as Issa and Ross have called for, it would actually worsen the federal pension system's total unfunded liability, which was $622.3 billion at the end of fiscal 2010. FERS ran deficits of $1 billion in fiscal 2007, $900 million in fiscal 2008 and $9.7 billion in fiscal 2009.
Between fiscal 1994 and 2006, however, FERS ran projected annual surpluses of up to $14.9 billion. FERS ran projected deficits of between $1.8 billion and $6.1 billion between fiscal 1987 and fiscal 1993, when the plan was in its infancy.
OPM said last October that the two-year federal pay freeze lowered the expected cost of future pension payments, and helped FERS return to the black. The government's increase to FERS contribution rates also likely helped create that projected surplus.
President Obama has proposed increasing the amount FERS employees contribute toward their pensions from 0.8 percent of each paycheck to 2 percent, and CSRS employees' contributions from 7 percent to 8.2 percent. Obama expects that would raise $21 billion over a decade, which he would use to reduce CSRS' massive unfunded liability.
Issa's and Ross' offices did not respond to a request for comment from Federal Times. An OPM official was unavailable for an interview.
FERS employees also contribute 6.2 percent of each paycheck to Social Security. CSRS employees neither pay into, nor receive payments from Social Security.
OPM said data on surpluses and unfunded liabilities at the end of fiscal 2011 is not yet available.


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Kiley Blackman of Yonkers said in a statement the meeting at the county parks department "will be an exchange of ideas and an avenue for positive change for geese residents in Westchester County."
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To reach Moore County Animal Center:
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Printable list of ADOPTABLE PETS
The Animal Center provides temporary shelter for Moore County's unwanted and stray companion animals; promotes placement programs and public education, and enforces state and county animal laws.
The Animal Center provides homeless animals with the opportunity for a new life. Adoption Hours are Monday-Friday 10:00 am-4:45 pm and Saturday 10:00 am-3:45 pm. View animals available for adoption or lost and found pets at www.animalcentermoorecounty.com and the following web sites:
These sites are updated frequently with detailed information about the pets we have for adoption.
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Please consider becoming a VOLUNTEER or FOSTER. Volunteers are vital to the success of our shelter. Whatever your talent, you can make a difference in the lives of these deserving animals.
Moore County Animal Emergency assistance Evacuation/Sheltering information is available through Department of Public Safety in Carthage (910) 947-6317
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LITTLE ROCK, Ark. -- Homeowners rebuilding after the spring storms and floods, or those planning for future emergencies, can receive valuable information from specialists with the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) at seven Arkansas locations beginning June 30.
FEMA's mitigation specialists will be available to answer questions about protecting homes from future disaster damage, and to offer other home improvement tips and techniques. Topics will include mold and mildew cleanup and prevention, flood- and wind-resistant building methods, wind straps and other measures to make homes stronger and safer. Free publications on these topics will also be available.
The events are free and open to the public at the following locations, dates and times:
Benton County
June 30
Home Depot
1701 S. 46th St.
Rogers, AR 72756
9 a.m. - 6 p.m.
Clay County
June 30 - July 2
Cox Lumber
139 S. Thornton Ave.
Piggott, AR 72454
8 a.m. - 5 p.m.; Sat. 8 a.m. - noon
Randolph County
June 30 - July 2
Barton's Lumber
2405 Highway 67 S.
Pocahontas, AR 72455
8 a.m. - 5 p.m.; Sat. 8 a.m. - noon
Madison County
July 6
Huntsville Lumber
302 Harris St.
Huntsville, AR 72740
8 a.m. - 5 p.m.
St. Francis County
July 6-7
Vaccaro Lumber
327 Front St.
Forrest City, AR 72335
8 a.m. - 5 p.m.
Washington County
July 1-2
4233 W. Sunset Ave.
Springdale, AR 72762
9 a.m. - 6 p.m.
Clay County
July 6-7
Black Building Center
409 Vine St.
Corning, AR. 72422
8 a.m. - 5 p.m.
Follow FEMA tweets about the Arkansas disaster at www.twitter.com/femaregion6. Other online resources include blog.fema.gov, www.facebook.com/fema and www.youtube.com/fema.
Disaster recovery assistance is available without regard to race, color, religion, nationality, sex, age, disability, English proficiency or economic status. If you or someone you know has been discriminated against, call FEMA toll-free at 800-621-FEMA (3362). For TTY call 800-462-7585.
The Arkansas Department of Emergency Management (ADEM) is the state's homeland security and preparedness agency. The agency works to identify and lessen the effects of emergencies, disasters and threats to Arkansas by developing effective prevention, preparedness, mitigation, response and recovery actions for all disasters and emergencies. For additional information, contact ADEM at (501) 683-6700 or visit the website at www.adem.arkansas.gov.
FEMA's mission is to support our citizens and first responders to ensure that as a nation we work together to build, sustain, and improve our capability to prepare for, protect against, respond to, recover from, and mitigate all hazards.


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Chamber of Art and Curiosities, Ambras Castle
The Chamber of Art and Curiosities is a cabinet of curiosities created by Ferdinand II, Archduke of Austria in the 16th century. Representing an excellent example of a late Renaissance encyclopedic collection of its genre, it continues to be displayed at Ambras Castle near Innsbruck, the same setting since its inception.[1] Ferdinand II, like many other rulers of the Renaissance, was interested in promoting the arts and sciences. He spent considerable time and money on his unique collection and converted the medieval Ambras Castle into a contemporary palace to display his possessions. Beside the chamber of arts and curiosities the castle is home to a collection of medieval and early modern weapons and the "Habsburg Portrait Gallery". The collection also contains paintings by Hans von Aachen. Today, these collections at Ambras are administered by the Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna.
The Collection[edit]
A variety of uncommon objects are on display, including a woodcarving of "Death" by Hans Leinberger, goblets, coral collections and artifacts, glass figures, centerpieces, mechanical toys, clocks and various instruments.[1] Also, Asiatica of the period are included with a suit of samurai armor, a Ryukyu bowl, and a silk painting from China.[1]
The Ambras collection contains a number of unique portraits, and some of the subjects were perceived at the time as miracles of nature.[2] The painters are not known. Giants and dwarfs, people with hirsutism and others, are shown, including:
Vlad Ţepeş[edit]
Vlad III the Impaler's depiction was painted about one century after his reign and represents one of his earliest portraits. It is intended not only to show him as a ruler but also to be a "psychogram of evil".[2]
Petrus Gonsalvus[edit]
The collection has a painting of Pedro Gonzalez (Petrus Gonsalvus) as well as other people who display an extreme form of hirsutism, also called Ambras syndrome in 1933 in reference to its depiction at this collection.[2] The life of Pedro Gonzalez has been well chronicled as he became famous during his lifetime on account of his condition. Born in 1537 in Tenerife, he first came to the court of Henry II, King of France, who sent him to the court of Margaret of Parma, regent of the Netherlands. He got married there and some of his children were also afflicted with hypertrichosis universalis and painted. His family became an object of medical inquiry by Ulisse Aldrovandi among others. Gonzalez eventually settled in Italy.
A man with disabilities[edit]
This is an unusual and unique late 16th-century painting of a man with a physical disability. In typical portrait-style he gazes at the viewer, while the top of his head is covered by a hat. A fashionable neck piece separates his head from his naked body, which lies chest-down on a dark green sheet. His limbs appear withered and useless. Originally the portrait was partially obscured by a sheet of red paper, which the observer would lift to reveal the subject's body. Observers indicated that they were shocked. The man was probably a jester at a court.[3] An extensive analysis of the painting has been published (see external links).
Gregor Baci[edit]
This portrait represents a Hungarian hussar, by tradition Gregor Baci, who apparently survived a piercing injury with a lance to the right side of his face.[1] The injury may have occurred during a jousting tournament or while fighting the Ottoman Turks. The painting was created by an unknown artist in the 16th century and first listed in 1622.
- ^ a b c d Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna. "Ambras Collection". Retrieved June 29, 2009.
- ^ a b c Erche B (August 2008). "Der schlimmste Boesewicht der Walachei" (PDF). Weltkunst (in German): 7. Retrieved June 30, 2009.
- ^ Schönwiese V, Flieger P. "The Painting of a Disabled Man from the 16th century - a participatory action research project" (PDF). Retrieved 2009-06-29.[dead link]
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Tuesday, April 10, 2012
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PITTSBURGH — Sidney Crosby and Evgeni Malkin spent last spring watching their Pittsburgh Penguins teammates try to carry on without the injured stars, a burden that became too much during a seven-game loss to upstart Tampa Bay in the opening round.
A year later, the helpless feeling of trudging around in a suit while the franchise they expected to carry to a Stanley Cup floundered on the ice below them remains fresh.
The memory of the long ride down the elevator from the press box to the quiet dressing room following a listless 1-0 defeat in Game 7 is why Crosby never considered shutting it down this season despite a 15-month battle with concussion-like symptoms and Malkin became arguably the best player in the world while playing on a completely rebuilt knee.
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WHO: Philadelphia Flyers at Pittsburgh Penguins.
WHAT: NHL playoffs, Eastern Conference opener for both teams.
WHEN: 7:30 p.m. today.
WHERE: Pittsburgh.
TV: NBC Sports Network.
It's also why neither player is eager to engage in a war of words with rival Philadelphia in the run-up to Pittsburgh's first-round meeting with the Flyers starting today.
The opponent is almost immaterial to two players used to writing "playoffs" on their calendar every season in ink, not pencil.
"I think, if anything, you just appreciate being in the playoffs even more," Crosby said. "It's not an automatic thing."
Neither is getting past the first round for the NHL's most potent team.
Pittsburgh enters the postseason with the league's best record since Jan. 1 and a roster eager to bookend the Stanley Cup the Penguins won in 2009.
The players change but the mindset in Philadelphia does not. The Flyers are still aggressive, both on the ice and in front of a microphone.
Laviolette didn't hesitate to call Pittsburgh's Dan Bylsma "gutless" for sending out a checking line in the late stages of a 6-4 Philadelphia win on April 1, a move that led to a brawl following Joe Vitale's punishing — if clean — hit on Philadelphia's Danny Briere. Laviolette grew so incensed he smashed a stick over the boards and began trading barbs with Pittsburgh assistant Tony Granato.
The Penguins have tried to take it in stride, brushing aside all the chatter as gamesmanship.
Perhaps, but the Flyers have a way of getting underneath the skin of an opponent. Forward Scott Hartnell embraces the villain role better than any player in the league. He talked openly about wanting to punch Malkin, Crosby and defenseman Kris Letang in the face if given the opportunity and has predicted the series will turn into a "bloodbath."
There are no such issues with the Penguins, where the core has been intact for several years. Yet the dynasty that looked almost inevitable after the club made the Cup finals in 2008 then won it the next year has not materialized.
It's been three long years since Crosby hoisted sport's most venerable trophy over his head in triumph. The road back begins in earnest today.
"We should be confident and knowing what our game looks like," Crosby said. "I think the rewarding part is going out there and working hard and trying to earn it."
More like this story
- NHL PLAYOFF ROUND: Stanley Cup champ No. 1 seed Penguins shocked in Game 7 by No. 8 Canadiens; Flyers force Game 7 vs. Bruins ( May 12, 2010 )
- Thrashers' playoff hopes take another hit after losing to Pens in OT ( April 3, 2010 )
- Streak ends for Thrashers in 3-2 loss to Penguins ( December 2, 2010 )
- Crosby vs. Ovechkin in next Winter Classic? ( March 30, 2010 )
- STANLEY CUP: Flyers steal Game 3 in OT from Blackhawks ( June 2, 2010 )


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On Friday, President Obama tried to quell the uproar over his ongoing effort to force Catholics (and everyone else) to pay for contraceptives, sterilization, and pharmaceutical abortions. Unfortunately, the non-compromise he floated does not reduce by one penny the amount of money he would force Catholics to spend on those items. Worse, this mandate is just one manifestation of how the president's health care law will grind up the freedom of every American.
Even though the contraceptives mandate exempts parish priests and the Church hierarchy, it still violates Catholics' religious liberty in at least four ways.
First, the mandate fines Catholic institutions like Notre Dame and the Eternal World Television Network that adhere to the Church's teaching that contraception "is an offense against the law of God and of nature, and those who indulge in such are branded with the guilt of a grave sin." In order not to sin against their God, these employers must now pay tribute to Caesar.
[T]his mandate is just one manifestation of how the president's health care law will grind up the freedom of every American.
Second, it takes away the freedom of Catholics to donate to institutions that uphold their religious views. There is a reason my parents donate to Catholic institutions rather than Planned Parenthood: they don't want to fund contraception. The mandate takes away that choice.
Third, it violates the freedom of Catholic business owners. How is it that the First Amendment protects the religious liberty of the employers who sit on the altar, but not the equally devout employers who sit in the pews?
Fourth, it violates the freedom of Catholic workers by forcing nearly every individual American to purchase contraceptive coverage. How is it that the First Amendment protects a devout Catholic if she works as a secretary for her local parish, but not if she works as a scientist at an environmental consulting firm?
The administration's defense of the mandate — that a majority of self-identified Catholics use contraception and that some Catholic institutions already cover it — likewise has at least four flaws.
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Home Sale Hindsight
Home Sale Hindsight
Tara-Nicholle Nelson
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Q: I sent a short-sale contract termination notice to the seller's attorney because the home was sold as a sheriff's foreclosure and is now listed as an REO. The listing agent will not return my earnest money deposit unless the seller signs the cancellation rider. But, now the seller has left the country and cannot be contacted anymore! So how can I get my earnest money back? Was there anything that could have been done to prevent this from happening? --Mitch, Illinois
A: Ultimately, the specific instructions in your purchase agreement will control the circumstances under which the earnest money can be released back to you on cancellation of the transaction. Given that the home no longer even belongs to the seller, I can imagine that some brokers would simply give you the deposit back, while others would -- exercising a not-inappropriate abundance of caution -- stick with the letter of the contract.
You might want to ask your agent's broker/manager to contact the broker/manager of the listing agent to see if they would consider exercising their discretion in your situation -- because the seller can no longer legally perform the contract, in any event. Not only is the seller out of the country and out of reach, he doesn't even own the place anymore.
In fact, it might not be a bad strategy -- discuss this with your agent and a local real estate attorney -- to issue a notice to perform that will effectively cancel the contract on those grounds, without requiring the seller's signature.
The listing office may still hold onto the deposit, given the strange factual twists and turns of the situation, until it is ordered by a court to return it. But there is also a chance that the notice to perform and resulting cancellation may bolster the i-dotting, t-crossing paper trail sufficiently to persuade the listing broker that she has the legal right, or obligation, to return it without forcing you to take the matter to court.
If the listing broker refuses (which is certainly within her rights to do), unfortunately, under most real estate sales contracts you'll have to go to court and obtain a court order for the earnest money deposit to be released.
But let's talk hindsight really quickly here. There are many, many events and occurrences that can and often do prevent short sales from closing, including the somewhat predictable circumstance that the bank may foreclose on the property before the short sale closes. As a result, many buyer's brokers/agents suggest their short-sale buyers sign an addendum/clause under which the earnest money deposit will remain uncashed and with the buyer's broker unless and until the seller's bank approves the short sale.
The bank generally won't approve a short sale when the sheriff's foreclosure sale date is looming that near, unless the bank is also willing to postpone the foreclosure to allow the short sale to close. In fact, this clause is a standard line item in most states' short-sale addenda forms.
Depending on how much your deposit was, you may be able to go to small claims court and get a court order for the return of your deposit money fairly quickly and with a relatively small amount of effort and cost. In your state, Illinois, you can bring a small claims lawsuit against the seller for your earnest money deposit, so long as you are seeking $10,000 or less.
Small claims trials are very quick, and you don't need an attorney to bring a case. If the seller has left the country, chances are good that he will simply not respond or show up to the lawsuit.
If you follow the proper procedures for serving the seller with the notification of the case, you may be able to obtain a default judgment against the seller fairly quickly -- along with a court order for your deposit money to be returned.
Tara-Nicholle Nelson is author of "The Savvy Woman's Homebuying Handbook" and "Trillion Dollar Women: Use Your Power to Make Buying and Remodeling Decisions." Tara is also the Consumer Ambassador and Educator for real estate listings search site Trulia.com. Ask her a real estate question online or visit her website, www.rethinkrealestate.com.
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A 20-year-old man was arrested Friday, Sept. 7, and charged with strangling his mother and then setting her body on fire in her St. Paul home.
According a criminal complaint filed in Ramsey County District Court, the body of Lorine Mary Johnson, 49, was found at her Summit-University home at 969 Carroll Ave. after neighbors reported the house on fire at 2:34 a.m. Thursday.
Johnson's severely burned body was found in a first-floor bedroom and her car was missing, the complaint said.
So was the woman's son, according to her stepson, Nate Johnson.
The complaint said when investigators contacted the woman's boyfriend, he responded, "I knew I shouldn't have left her alone with him.
The boyfriend was referring to Johnson's son, Michael Ray Caldwell, just released from a mental institution in Kansas City, Mo., according to the complaint.
The boyfriend told police he and Johnson flew to Kansas City on Wednesday to get Caldwell out of a mental health facility against the advice of a doctor, according to the complaint.
Caldwell had been arrested in Kansas City after he was previously reported as a missing person when kicked off a bus that was to take him to a school in Langston, Okla., about two weeks ago, according to the complaint.
The three returned to the Twin Cities, but on the car ride back from the airport, Caldwell behaved oddly and asked Johnson's boyfriend "where he could get a gun because he said people were after him," according to the complaint.
The boyfriend said "it appeared as if Caldwell had clearly lost his mind," the complaint said.
Later that night, Johnson called her boyfriend to tell him that Caldwell said he had been sexually abused in the mental institution, the complaint said. The boyfriend asked Johnson to call him later, but he never heard from her again, the complaint said.
He told police he was aware of two incidents in which Caldwell assaulted his mother, stepping on her toes, pushing her down and pinning her against a wall, the complaint said.
On Friday, police found Johnson's missing car blocking an alley at 480 Lawson Ave., the complaint said. Then police got a call from an emergency room social worker at United Hospital, who wanted to report that a patient had confessed to murdering someone at 969 Carroll Ave., the complaint said.
When police went to the hospital, the staff initially refused to let officers see or identify Caldwell, who had gone to the hospital for a psychological evaluation, according to the complaint.
Hospital spokeswoman Teri Dresen said the hospital was following a required legal protocol to complete a medical assessment of a patient before police could intervene.
The complaint said the hospital staff agreed to provide a photo that police used to identify the patient as Caldwell. The complaint said police eventually were allowed to enter Caldwell's room and arrest him.
Caldwell talked to police and appeared coherent, according to the complaint. He said he argued with his mother about insurance money, and he admitted he killed Johnson and knew it was wrong, the complaint said. He said he strangled his mother with his hands and used lighter fluid to set the fire, according to the complaint.
"She was a real loving and caring person," Johnson's stepson, Nate Johnson, said shortly after the woman's body was found. "She was always there for me and the kids. She was my stepmom, but she was my second mom."
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This mama had 7 bunnies, plus I added a foster bun from a bad mama that was letting her babies freeze. Nice big litter of healthy, hoppy buns!
This is not a baby. He is in fact one of our three big ol' bucks. His job in life is to sit around and wait for us to stick a lady rabbit into his cage. Then he immediately (and I mean immediately!) begins helping to create new baby bunnies. He's a good buck- always cuddling and grooming his ladies, never ever scratching or biting them like some others have done (the worst offenders get put in a stew pot asap).
Look at this mama's mini-me right behind her. :)
And one more baby. :) This is me today, at 24 weeks.
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Architype scoops planning for UEA Enterprise Centre
Architype has won planning for a £15.9 million building for the University of East Anglia in Norwich
The Enterprise Centre scheme will be built from renewable and locally-sourced materials and hopes to achieve both BREEAM Outstanding and Passivhaus certification.
Half of the building will provide lettable floor space for SME start up businesses including offices, meeting rooms and hot desks, with the rest housing teaching and learning facilities for the university.
The building will feature prefabricated thatch cladding panels created by local thatchers, and a rammed chalk wall.
Construction on the scheme is expected to start this summer, with the project due to complete in January 2015.
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Apple Picking in Connecticut Guide
Jun 29 2015
The only consolation for summer ending (in my book) is that we are about to enter glorious Autumn here in Connecticut. Taking the kids to one of CT's beautiful orchards to pick their own apples right off the tree is a right of passage in this part of New England. Many orchards also host cool kids' attractions, like hay rides, corn mazes, petting zoos, bouncy houses, and home-baked treats such as cider-doughnuts, homemade pies and fresh-pressed cider. You'll find orchards in each region of the state here in our apple picking guide. Might be a good time to make some apple sauce with the kids?


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The School of Theatre at Florida State presents "The Monster Under the Bed" as its annual and very popular offering of Theatre for Young Audiences, Nov. 15-18 in the Fallon Theatre, on the corner of Call and Copeland streets.
"The Monster Under the Bed," written by Kevin Dyer and directed by performance faculty George McConnell, is the story of Ben who has a big problem.
His mum is grumpy, and his best friend Vince stole his binoculars, a prize possession given to him by his Dad just before he left for military duty. ...


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Man charged in stabbing
A Clay County man is charged with stabbing another man.
Clay County Sheriff's Office deputies said it happened in 4300 block of Peppergrass Street at 11:20 p.m. Saturday.
Police said Mark Davis was riding his bike when he saw his wife talking with another man.
Police said Davis yelled at his wife, and told her to go to their car.
Police said Davis and a group of men then got into an argument, and one man ran out the home and tried kicking Davis, but fell.
Police said Davis then stabbed the man with a pocket knife in the back and side.
The victim was taken to Orange Park Medical Center. His condition was not released.
Davis was charged with aggravated assault with a deadly weapon.
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Advanced Perl Programming
Reviewed by Donald Bryson
Advanced Perl Programming
By Sriram Srinivasan
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Technical Level: computing -- experienced, subject -- experienced
Have you ever read a book with the uneasy feeling that the author had a hidden agenda? That's the feeling that I had with Advanced Perl Programming. Halfway through the second read it hit me -- Srinivasan is trying to trick us into being efficient.
Well, trick isn't exactly fair. He actually states in the preface, ``... it would be most gratifying, or totally tubular, as the local kids are wont to say, if the design patterns and lessons learned in this book help you even if you were to choose other languages.'' So, he does give fair warning that he is teaching methodology, not mere gee-whiz kludges.
His methodology consists of four recurring themes:
This isn't a book for casual reading. You must think about what Srinivasan is actually saying and use his advice with common sense in the context of your own goals, experience, and methodology.
It's too easy a jump from dissecting Perl to making a hypothesis about some black box. Srinivasan's methodology is not assume-and-code; Srinivasan's methodology is know-and-code. The Perl interpreter is like a glass box because the source code is freely available. Make a clear distinction in your mind between a glass box look-and-leap approach and a black box program-and-pray one.
Assumptions are always dangerous. For example, I created a C library for Xbase files several years ago. The format of the header record of a DBF file isn't a published standard. I guessed on some of the fields in the header. Some programs could read my files and others couldn't. Why? How should I know? Remember, assumptions are always dangerous.
I have reservations about looking too closely into any box -- black or glass. Contrary to my normal policy of never discussing a book review with author prior to its publication, I contacted Srinivasan for clarification of his views on interfaces and implementations. He distilled his glass box methodology via mail, which is reproduced here:
That's a reasonable methodology. It's one that mimics what we do in the physical world. However, in my opinion, examining the mechanics inside any glass box still has risks with the benefits.
For instance, His approach results in coupling, where coupling is a program's dependency on the box's implementation instead of its documentation. The Perl source code is its implementation. The lexicon of the language is its documentation. Coding based on the implementation could cause you problems with later releases of any box. For example, an algorithm might change inside the interpreter that makes your trick blowup.
Programmers generally do coupling to some degree. Would you write a script that created 1,000 temporary files in the /tmp directory? No, of course not. File system efficiency is directly related to the number of files in a particular directory. That's coupling but it's also practical.
You must temper your need for a coupling optimization with common sense. All optimizations are not the same. The trick is weighing the benefits with the risks. Compare these two examples:
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This is an excellent book -- it's full of useful information, well written, beautifully set, and technically accurate. The section on Perl/Tk is especially strong. The examples are easily understood and easily modified to your own application.
It does, however, demand a lot from the reader. It requires a basic knowledge of Perl, C, and programming methods. More importantly, it requires the experience to know when and when not to use the advocated methodologies.
Advanced Perl Programming discusses three main subjects: Perl syntax, the interpreter itself, and how Perl relates to selected technologies.
Language Syntax
This section of the book does not rehash the reference section of Larry Wall's Programming Perl book. It does, however, rehash hash of hashes. :-) True to its title, it discusses only advanced topics.
Here are a few gems from the syntax section:
The Perl Interpreter
Srinivasan discusses three topics relating to the interpreter: creating dynamically loadable C libraries to extend Perl, embedding the interpreter into a C program, and a nitty-gritty discussion of the internal workings of the interpreter.
Here are a few gems from the interpreter section:
Technology Areas
Srinivasan discusses using various technologies with Perl. He discusses user interfaces using Perl/Tk, databases, and networks.
Srinivasan discusses databases in two chapters. He discusses various database options with Perl such as DBI and Win32::ODBC. The network section includes discussions of RPC, FTP, and POP3.
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Man Dies After Tractor Falls On Top of Him
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The Tanaoli are one of the several mountain ethnic groups living along the lines of communication that connect Pakistan, Afghanistan, Tajikistan, China, and India. These groups have an unusual and ancient culture, and live in beautiful surroundings. Their social structures emphasize the strength of blood ties. Their communal life is ruled by fairly strict rules of honor and arbitration by authorities. The Tanaoli live in the central pre-Himalayan mountains to the north of the Punjab.
Ministry Obstacles
The Tanaoli live in an area that is difficult to enter, because of the terrain and because of the political and religious situation.
Outreach Ideas
Much prayer is needed for the Tanaoli, to prepare them to understand and believe the good news of Christ when it comes to them.
Pray for the Followers of Christ
There are probably no followers of Jesus among the Tanaoli today, but pray for the ones that the Lord will soon draw to himself. Pray they will have Scripture available, as well as other study materials. Pray they will be without any kind of impurity, or greed.
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Pray for peace and stable conditions for the Tanaoli people, and for the ability to care adequately for their families.
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A spate of 100-plus temperatures over the summer should have been sufficient proof that we were passing through the dog days. But, ever the skeptic, I refused to believe it until I saw the Matisse show at the Museum of Modern Art. For unless it is my imagination, it certainly seems as though a Matisse show comes to MoMA every summer, for the same reason that a Hopper show opens at the Whitney (though actually the latest installment of that artist will open October 28). In other words, museums want all the tourists they can corral, and when summer comes around, they play to their strengths with tested blockbusters.
All right, perhaps I exaggerate. But it is a legitimate question why MoMA seems to have so many Matisse shows, and whether anything still needs to be said about this monarch of the Paris art scene in the days of its long-vanished supremacy. This latest exhibition, Matisse: Radical Invention 1913-1917, was in a sense about little or nothing. There was a chronological and formal coherence to his years in Morocco, which ended with his return to Paris in 1913, and a similar coherence to his period in Nice, whither he traveled in 1917, at the end of the years now under consideration. Both of those periods have benefited from shows at the Modern. But the years in between, the subject of the present exhibition, are an oddly interstitial period of Matisse's career in which he seemed to be experimenting relentlessly—which is a nice way of saying that there was little real coherence to his art at this time. But the curators, John Elderfield of the Museum of Modern Art, and Stephanie D'Alessandro of the Art Institute of Chicago, have made lemonade out of those lemons.
I have always been impressed by the public's fervent embrace of Henri Matisse, whose vast and deep popularity is ultimately the reason behind the present exhibition. And yet, despite that popularity, he remains a challenging painter whose commitment to the cause of Modernism induced him to undertake all sorts of detours into formal and chromatic experimentation. To the public at large, Matisse incarnates the charm, the formal freedom, the unbridled newness of the Modern movement in a way that Picasso, his only rival in the public's esteem, does not. Matisse once made a comment about wanting to paint for the bourgeois in his armchair, an aspiration that has hardly endeared the artist to the avant garde. Accordingly, the image of human existence that transpires through his art, taken together, is one of sunlit views of the French Riviera, of pretty flowers in variegated vases, of naked women, their hands linked, dancing the dance of life in a state of primordial joy.
When the crowds reached the galleries of the present exhibition, however, they found less of that joy than they have come to expect from Matisse. Surely this show was fully in keeping with the Modern's standards, exhibiting as it did an abundance of paintings, drawings, prints, and sculptures of the very choicest quality. Yet the two curators appeared to have a loftier purpose: They exhibited an almost hierophantic seriousness in charting the artist's twists and turns during a period when he undertook to penetrate, in his own words, "the mysteries of modern construction."
The art of Matisse, properly understood, remains as challenging today as it was a century ago. It remains challenging long after we have accepted the fundamental and sequential ruptures of observable reality that were brought about by Cézanne and Picasso, by Kandinsky and Pollock. However radical their artistic mission, these painters were conspicuous masters of the admittedly individualistic styles that they pioneered. In Matisse, by contrast, that mastery is rarely achieved, because it is never sought and because, whenever it is approached, it is rejected and denied.
At least that is the case throughout most of the artist's later career. In certain early works, such as "Roofs of Coullioure," and the portrait of his wife from 1905, Matisse can achieve a perfection of sorts that is a consequence of his mastering the Fauvist style he had only lately unleashed upon the world.
But these works, in themselves, are probably insufficient to account for his great popularity today. I would guess that the compelling, all-conquering charm of the man consists, above anything else, in his use of color. It is only slightly an exaggeration to say that, with the vigorous awakening of Matisse's palette in the early years of the 20th century, Western art reclaimed what it had forgotten or never known: that color was everywhere, and not just any color but primary colors whose saturated brilliance became, for the first time, the pure point of painting. Matisse's colors ravished the rods and cones of viewers even before the subject matter could be reconstructed and interpreted in the brain.
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Here's where it gets interesting and funny. BattieCakes insists God has a perfect plan. But then insists God's perfect plan isn't possible because of free will.<quoted text>
Sexual activity is only one of several transmission vectors for HIV, Patricia. Sharing needles for drug usage with an infected person is another way. Receiving transfusions of or drugs made from tainted blood is another. In utero transmission is yet another. Accidental exposure to tainted bodily fluids from an infected person is yet another.
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Monogamous couples can still contract HIV, Patricia, through other risky behaviors or in some cases, through no fault of their own. You religious belief about "God's perfect plan" doesn't stopp all transmission vectors for HIV.
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IPerhaps we should think of you as a disease, then, huh Patricia? Because YOU surely aren't "right" and your very existence produces a negative effect on the world around you.
Sort of screws the whole perfect plan idea if you ask me.
It's funny watching these christians who insist God has a plan turn around and admit God isn't as powerful as they claim.


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Detectives are looking for two women suspected of stealing more than $1,000 from a Walmart customer's wallet in a shopping cart.
The Clay County Sheriff's Office said the theft happened at a Walmart store on Branan Field Road in Middleburg.
Detectives are asking for the public's help in identifying two black women seen in Walmart surveillance footage.
According to a police report, the victim left his wallet in the store by accident on Sept. 2. When he returned to the store to look for it the next day, an employee reviewed security footage and saw one of the suspects approaching a shopping cart and grabbing a wallet.
The victim told police that he had four credit cards, two identification cards and about $1,170 in cash inside the stolen wallet.
Authorities said the women left in a grey vehicle.