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Crystal Reports
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You Will Learn How To:
- Develop reports to transform data into meaningful information
- Create advanced graphical and crosstab reports
- Add calculations and program logic with the Formula Workshop
- Connect to data sources and extract data to meet reporting needs
- Deploy reports via HTML via Visual Basic and .NET
Truly Hands-On Experience: You are provided with an in-class computer dedicated for your sole use.
- Building reports from the ground up
- Connecting to data sources natively, via OLE DB and ODBC
- Designing a crosstab and drill-down report
- Developing a summary report with drill-down capabilities
- Simplifying information using charts and graphs
- Deploying your report to a web server for distribution
- Use of AdaptaLearn™ Exercises
About This Course: You gain extensive experience using Crystal Reports to connect to databases, retrieve raw data, format data, and create and present reports for widespread distribution. You return to your organization with a detailed process to help you connect to data sources and create useful reports.
Course Content
Crystal Reports
Hands-On Course 126 • 4 Days
Course 126 Content
Overview of Crystal Reports
- Formatting and summarizing data
- Filtering, sorting and grouping data
- Customizing reports with business logic
- Connecting to SQL Server, Oracle and Access databases
The Crystal Report Writer
Writing a basic report
- Selecting a format
- Adding text and fields
- Connecting to remote data sources
- Configuring the reporting environment
Formatting and styling
- Tailoring sections within a report
- Designing fields for quality presentations
- Highlighting data with Highlight Expert
Linking Crystal Reports to Data
Connecting to popular data sources
- SQL Server
- Oracle
- Access
- Web logs
- Reporting from stored procedures and views
Establishing data connections
- Creating a connectivity checklist
- Configuring ODBC and OLE DB
- Integrating SQL commands in a report
Interpreting Structures and Retrieving Data
Navigating complex data
- Deciphering data structures
- Identifying data relationships
Gathering the right data
- Merging data from multiple tables
- Building business queries
Combining Powerful Report Techniques
Organizing and summarizing reports
- Sorting user sort control and grouping
- Summary and Rolling Total fields
Building advanced reports
- Embedding linked and unlinked subreports into reports
- Creating crosstab and drill-down reports
- Designing dynamic and cascading prompts
- Hyperlinking Reports and Multilingual Reports
- Achieving reusability with templates
Visualizing complex data
- Simplifying data with charts and graphs
- Organizing fields into sections
- Adding, merging, suppressing sections
Programming Data Functionality
Coding in formula language
- Working with variables and operators
- Deciphering formula syntax
- Adding and modifying formulas
- Calling and working with functions
Writing effective formulas
- Building if/then/else statements
- Converting and comparing data
- Debugging the code
- Employing the Formula Workshop
Converting to Basic Syntax
- Writing formulas with Basic Syntax
- Laying a foundation for complex reporting logic
Deploying Reports to the Internet, Visual Basic and .NET
Deploying Crystal Reports
- Deciding among Push, Pull, Static and Dynamic reports
- Migrating to production by switching databases
Publishing reports to a website and integrating into custom applications
- Exploring development options
- Exporting reports to PDF, Excel, Word and HTML
- Adding Crystal Reports to a .NET application
Who Should AttendAnyone involved in creating reports from stored data who has experience using Windows and working with a spreadsheet.
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Crystal Reports
Hands-On Course 126 • 4 Days
What is this course about?
In this course, you learn how to develop sophisticated reports using Crystal Reports, an industry-leading report-writing tool. You learn to connect to various corporate data sources, such as SQL Server, Oracle, Microsoft Access and XML files. You navigate these data storage systems, learn to find the information you need, and extract the data to produce sophisticated reports.
You learn to publish these reports via the Internet and intranets. You also learn to integrate reports into custom applications. You return to your organization with a detailed checklist to help you connect to data sources and begin creating useful reports.
Who will benefit from this course?
This course is valuable for anyone involved in creating reports from stored data, including systems analysts, business analysts, data analysts, project managers who want custom reports, systems administrators who need to report on system logs, programmer analysts who need to integrate reports into custom applications, and Webmasters who want to publish reports to the Internet or intranets.
Those who are new to Crystal Reports will learn how to build and create reports while experienced users will be introduced more sophisticated reporting techniques that are not intuitive to the self-learner.
What background do I need?
While no formal background is required, you should be comfortable using Windows and working with a spreadsheet or word processor. Experience working with formulas in a spreadsheet program is also helpful.
The course starts off with a Crystal Reports introduction, and moves on to intermediate and advanced topics covering the gamut of the product. All backgrounds will benefit from taking this course.
What is Crystal Reports?
Crystal Reports is a widespread, industry-leading report writer. It has an easy-to-use interface that allows users to build reports quickly, yet has enough depth to produce complex reports to satisfy advanced reporting needs.
What if my organization is not using the latest version of Crystal Reports?
This course uses Crystal Reports 2013. Crystal Reports 2013 is the legacy report writer and not SAP Crystal Reports for Enterprise. This course covers Crystal Reports 2013 which is the same product as Crystal Reports 2011 and 2008 with bug fixes and minimal updates. Crystal Report Enterprise requires SAP Semantic layer and is not covered in this course. If you are using a prior version of Crystal Reports such as 2008, XI, 10, 9 or 8 within your organization, this course will still be applicable. If you use Crystal Reports 7 or an earlier version, you will notice a greater change with the user interface, but much of what you learn in this course will still apply.
What are some of the new features in Crystal Reports 2013?
Crystal Reports 2013 is an incremental update from Crystal Reports 2011, and includes service pack integration with Visual Studio 2012.
How is this course beneficial for power users?
As a power user, you will learn how to access data and improve your ability to communicate with database experts. Additionally, you will be introduced to sophisticated reporting techniques.
I am a systems administrator. Will this course be beneficial to me?
Yes. Crystal Reports allows you to connect to non-traditional data sources, such as blogs and XML files, so you benefit from the ability to report on systems data.
I am a programmer. How will this course benefit me?
Crystal Reports are popular reports to display in .NET applications. In this course, you learn how to display reports in a custom Web or desktop application via Visual Studio.
Your programming skills can also be used to work with formulas and queries in Crystal Reports.
Do I need to know about the databases I am working with before I take this course?
No. In this course, you learn to read, navigate and create reports from a variety of databases. This knowledge enables you to create effective reports to display database information.
How much time is devoted to each topic?
Content Hours Crystal Reports overview 0.5 Crystal Report Writer 8.0 Linking Crystal Reports to data 1.5 Interpreting structures and retrieving data 1.5 Combining powerful report techniques 3.0 Programming data functionality 4.0 Deploying reports to the Internet, intranets, Visual Basic and .NET 2.5
Times, including the workshops, are estimates; exact times may vary according to the needs of each class.
What kinds of hands-on exercises are included in the course?
Approximately 40 percent of class time is spent in hands-on exercises. The exercises you perform in class include:
- Developing a variety of reports
- Adding design and readability features
- Exploring data sources
- Establishing connections to databases
- Deploying reports to the Internet, intranets and custom applications
- Using formulas in a report
I'm attending this course from work using AnyWare-Learning Tree's web-based remote attendance platform. How will that impact what I learn?
You will participate fully in the course and acquire the same knowledge and skills as your classmates who participate in the classroom. You will have the same course materials, be able to easily communicate back and forth and ask questions of your instructors and peers, and you will control an in-classroom workstation dedicated entirely to you. Your instructor will be able to see exactly what you're doing and can interactively offer concrete help.
What can I do with the reports I create?
This course provides the knowledge and skills to deploy your report statically or dynamically in your environment. You learn how to deploy a reports statically to a Web server and export the report to various formats such as PDF, Word and Excel. You also learn the framework necessary to embed a Crystal Report into a custom .NET application.
What platform and software are used?
You use Windows 7 at your workstation. However, the course does not feature any specific operating system. The techniques learned in the course are applicable to any Windows platform.
Throughout the exercises, you connect to SQL Server, Oracle, Microsoft Access, and blogs to report on data that you retrieve from these data sources.
Will I learn to write formula language?
Yes. Crystal formula language is a core topic in this course. You learn how to write formulas to add custom business logic to your reports. This course covers Crystal Decisions formula syntax and its new Basic syntax.
What data sources can I report from using Crystal Reports?
You can use Crystal Reports with relational databases (e.g., SQL Server, Oracle, Access), text files, Lotus Notes and Domino, blog files, and system administration log files.
Does this course cover other Business Object (formerly Crystal Decisions) software products?
Yes, this course reviews the Crystal Reports Server (formally known as Crystal Enterprise) as a way of deploying reports.
How does this course relate to other Learning Tree courses?
If you would like to add reports to custom applications, you may be interested in Course 502, Programming with .NET Introduction.
If you would like to learn more about databases, you may be interested in these courses:
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Multiple sclerosis awareness matters
To the Editor:
March 11-17 is Multiple Sclerosis Awareness Week in California. During this important week, we'd like to reach out to the people of Tuolumne County to make them aware of Multiple Sclerosis and how it has an effect on many citizens in this community.
Affecting more than 100 individuals in Tuolumne County and 12,113 in Northern California, MS probably touches many more members in our community than we are aware of. Those numbers are only the individuals who are diagnosed and registered with their local MS Society chapter. The California chapter of the MS Society serves more than 84,000 people with services, education and resources.
Mothers/fathers, wives/husbands, sisters/brothers are challenged by MS' debilitating effects and its unpredictable future. Once active, vibrant people, they learn to explore and enhance new opportunities for daily living and recreation. In the past few years, children as young as 4 years old have been diagnosed with MS and pediatric MS has come to the forefront, with several Pediatric MS centers around the country. All these individuals have learned that life doesn't end with the words, "you have MS."
Please look for individuals wearing MS orange scarves, ties, T-shirts, etc. to commemorate MS Awareness Week.
Lauren G. Hoffman
Daylight savings: An asinine practice
To the Editor:
Hey, how do you like gaining an hour every morning, or did we lose an hour? Maybe I should use that extra hour (whenever it is) to reset my dozen or more clocks (and don't forget the car clock)! I ask you, what are we gaining by fooling with Mother Nature, or is it Father Time? So, we lose an hour in the morning to gain an hour in the evening, couldn't we just get up an hour earlier if desired?
California is sandwiched between two sensible states, Arizona and Hawaii, which don't change their clocks. If California also didn't change time, we would have a block which in time might expand to the whole country. Yaa!
Who is making the rules anyway — is it a bunch of crazy politicians that we elected? I thought they were supposed to represent U.S., and what we the majority want. I don't believe I know anyone who wants the time changed!
If enough of the 'anti-government' Conservatives (and the Progressives) told their representatives that they don't want the government changing time twice a year, then maybe they would put an end to this foolishness!
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At first it seemed like an architectural hallucination. A lighthouse in deepest Feltham, West London, about 120km from the nearest piece of coastline. But here, in a leftover piece of ground next to the A316 flyover that's been half-heartedly converted into a low-grade retail park, behind builders' merchant Wickes, as real as you like, was a lighthouse. A big lighthouse in a tarmac sea.
What was strange once soon became doubly odd. Driving through the suburbs of South London, somewhere near Ewell, beyond a roundabout, there was another identical lighthouse. But it didn't stop there. Next time I saw one, I was in the back of a car on the highway in the infrastructure-heavy outskirts of Rotterdam. There again, an identical lighthouse. This recurring motif loomed each time out the most inauspicious of suburban hinterlands. It was as though they were data glitches in a video game, anomalies in a database, or as if holes had opened in the space time continuum through which lighthouses were emerging into banal urban scenes.
Equally, there was a lingering fear that this architectural apparition might be a form of psychosis – a building induced by malfunctioning synapses or chemical imbalance – a psychological-architectural motif projected into built form. Perhaps this recurrent lighthouse might represent something – a kind of warning in the form of a building, designed to save you from driving yourself on to unseen rocks.
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Entire contents copyright © 2001 Video Hammer Productions LLC
What's a "Hatcam"?
A "hatcam" is essentially a miniature camera mounted on a hat with some means to transmit its video and audio signal to a recorder or monitor. The Ghost Safari Hatcam consists of a miniature IR camera with integrated microphone mounted on a ball cap. The video and audio signal of the camera is fed to a camcorder running in VTR mode stored in a "fanny pack" worn by the investigator.
Why a Hatcam?
There are a couple of very good reasons why an investigator would want to wear a hatcam:
- The hatcam records everything the investigator sees. This significantly increases the chances of catching an anomaly on video.
- The hatcam frees the investigators hands for other tasks, such as taking still photos, notes, taking EMF readings, etc. Once the hatcam is running, the investigator doesn't have to worry about running a video camera by hand.
In this picture, our team member Bill D. dons one of our hatcams:
The lights on the hat are the IR lights built into the camera. They are visible because this picture was taken with a Sony Nightshot camera. You can see the camera's umbilical dangling at the back of Bill's head. This runs down his back, around his side and into the front of the pack he's wearing around his waist. The fanny pack carries the camcorder that's running in VTR mode (to record the audio and video signal from the hatcam camera) and the battery that feeds power, via the umbilical, to the hatcam camera.
Hatcam Block Diagram
Here's a block diagram for the hatcam:
As you can see conceptually the hatcam is very simple. We're replacing the camcorder's CCD and lens with an external camera (the Miniature IR Camera). We're only using the camcorder as a recording device. Note that the camcorder could be replaced with an A/V transmitter to send the audio/video signal to a remote monitor/recorder setup.
How to Build the Hatcam
To build a hatcam like we use, here's what you need:
- A miniature IR camera (security camera)
- A ball cap
- A roll of 1½ " Velcro (sew-on and self-stick kind)
- Some cardboard (small sheet)
- A hot glue gun
- A couple of double-side, ½" Velcro (wire ties)
- A camcorder that can run and record in VTR (Video Tape Recorder) mode
- A Radio Shack 9.6V remote-controlled car battery
- A fanny pack large enough to hold the camcorder
- Soldering iron and solder
- A couple of connectors to adapt the 9.6V battery to the hatcam umbilical
- Wire stripper
- Heat shrink tubing or electrical tape
Our instructions for building the hatcam will not be a blueprint, but rather the rough steps. It's assumed you know how to solder, use an ohmmeter to check connections and pick out suitable connectors at Radio Shack.
First, you need a miniature camera. We got ours at Sam's upon advice of a gentleman we ran into at Radio Shack! He happened to overhear me looking for a camera we could power by one of the radio-controlled NiLi batteries Radio Shack sells, and he just happened to work for a company that uses the little cams to inspect pipes! Talk about serendipity! Anyway, here's the security camera set you can buy at Sam's for around $90 or so:
The kit comes with a monitor, two cameras and two, 60 foot cables. You'll only need one camera and one of the 60 foot cables (which you'll chop off to around 6 feet or so!).
The camera looks something like this:
The little tabs at the bottom interleave with the wall mount. Cut these off with a hacksaw (go ahead, do it!). Cut and attach a piece of "male" self-stick Velcro to the back of the camera large enough to cover the back.
Now, attach a band of "female" Velcro to the entire outside periphery of the hat. You can sew this or use hot glue. We used hot glue.
You could now attach the camera to the front of the hat, but you'll find that the viewing angle would be all wrong. We found that we needed to construct a small, trapezoidal-shaped box out of cardboard, then cover the front with "female" Velcro and the back with a piece of "male" Velcro. This makes a little angled platform from which to attach the camera to the hat.
Before attaching the camera, cut short lengths of double-sided Velcro strips and wrap them, male side out, around the umbilical. This will allow you to attach the umbilical feed to the hat.
Once you attach the camera to the hat, it should look something like this:
At this point, the hat portion of the hatcam is complete. Now, the hard part.
Take the 60 foot extension and cut off about a 3-foot portion from both ends. Discard the excess 54 feet of cable!
Now, strip and solder together the two remaining pieces to make a short version of the original cable. Basicly, we're just shortening the cable because the one that comes with the security camera is WAY too long! This new, short cable will be the lifeline that feeds power, video and audio to and from the fanny pack camcorder and battery.
The "hard" part is adapting the 9.6V battery to the camera's power input (red, RCA connector). There's now magic here – you just have to buy the correct adapters from Radio Shack and solder away!
Take heart, we're almost finished. All we have to do now is attach the video and audio (mono) of the camera to our camcorder. To do this, we just need two male-to-male RCA couplers, once again, available from Radio Shack:
The dangling red connector in this picture is the right audio feed to our stereo Sony TRV230 camcorder. This will remain dangling, since the hatcam camera is mono, rather than stereo. You can also purchase a mono-stereo splitter if you want to record to both stereo channels at once.
Now, we can place the battery, cable adapter assembly and the camcorder in the fanny pack:
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Jagr Rumors TRUE
According to TSN.ca, those Ranger Jagr rumors weren't exactly false. Jaromir Jagr says he expected to open training camp in New York this fall, rather than Washington.
Jagr confirmed on Thursday that the Capitals were close to dealing him to the New York Rangers this off-season.
"It was not just rumors, it was pretty close to happening and then it didn't happen," Jagr said on the opening day of training camp.
Jagr harbours no ill-feelings towards the Capitals, acknowledging that its all part of the business of hockey.
Well, that's weird. Especially after the two clubs clearly specified otherwise.


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Postcards of the Week: Uniforms #FriFotos
This week's #Frifotos theme over on Twitter is uniforms. At left is a tourist cop in Negril, Jamaica–back in 2009, when they were first introduced on the island.
On the right: A Rastafarian who caught my eye with his "cultural uniform" at the annual Peter Tosh celebration in Belmont, Jamaica.
Postcard of the Week: Back from New Zealand (#FriFotos)
Postcard: Motion at dawn on Lake Rotorua, North Island, New Zealand (#FriFotos)
It's hard to believe that a trip I looked forward to for months is now over!
I was in New Zealand for two glorious weeks, attending Travel Classics–an annual travel writers' conference. It was my first and the perfect time in my writing journey to sign up. Unlike most conferences, writers have to apply by submitting recent clips. Once accepted, they meet with travel editors from top publications–including, this round, National Geographic Traveler, Travel + Leisure, Sierra and more–and have one-on-one consultations. There are also daily workshops, lunches and dinners with editors and peers.
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Inspired by past Jewish stars, champion skater Max Aaron eyes Sochi Olympics
With a national championship already in his pocket, Arizona native Max Aaron hopes to qualify for a spot on the U.S. Olympic Team at the World Figure Skating Championships — and then visit Israel. JTA's Chavie Lieber reports. More ▸


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In this course you will continue a study of data structures and object oriented design. The class will include analysis of algorithms (ie complexity) and an in-depth look at a variety of tree structures, graphs, sorting and searching. Quizes (If you miss the quiz you cannot make it up) will hopefully be given most Tuesdays over previous weeks work or requested readings from the text. Projects will involve the simulation/implementation/empirical analysis of selected data structures. A few small projects called Baby App's (past ACM programming contest problems) will also be given and submitted to a website that tests the program.
The material which constitutes this course will include lectures, software tutorials, films, and projects. Students are responsible for all material regardless of class attendance. The class will meet in BSH 320 . The OS that we will do most of our windows. We may Linux for some problems.
Prerequisite: College Algebra and discrete math
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This course is project intensive and expect up to 4 or 5 programs to be given during the course. Each project is to be turned in within an envelope with your name and project number printed on the outside. Include a printout of your source and associated output, if appropriate, together with a CD or Jump drive containing the programs .exe, .cpp and other necessary files such as data or necessary libraries. Make sure that your program runs off the media before turning it in.
This course will cover a lot of material that you will have never seen. It is very important to attend every class. Attendance every day is therefore required! If you miss a day you must come by my office when you get back and ask for your makeup work. I will count off for any class not made up as well as for excessive absences.


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Jeff Dean of Salisbury uses a leaf blower to clear debris from a mile-long section of new trail. Members and volunteers of the Eastern Shore International Mountain Bike Association are developing the trail to connect nine miles of trail in the Hudson tract with nine miles of trail in the Tarr tract of Shad Landing State Park.
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The new seven-day-a-week paper will be known as the Los Angeles Register, Freedom Communications CEO Aaron Kushner told The Associated Press on Thursday night, a few hours after announcing the move to his staff in the Orange County Register's newsroom.
In addition, Kushner said the Register would open an unspecified number of Los Angeles community weeklies.
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George Lucas Breaks Down The Essence Of "Star Wars" In This Collection Of Images
George Lucas and company pored over the Star Wars films to distill the story into its visual essence and packaged the resulting images in the new book, Frames.
Just as Star Wars fans got news of the far, far away release date of the new installment from J.J. Abrams (Episode VII will debut December 2015), George Lucas is offering a walk down memory lane by cherry-picking 1,416 of his favorite images from the first six movies. In the mammoth two-book Star Wars: Frames collection (Abrams), Lucas distills the entire saga down to its visual essence.
Lucasfilms executive editor J.W. Rinzler says "In a way, you get to see each film through George Lucas's eyes. For anyone who's studying how to make movies, I'd think that would be a wonderfully useful thing."
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The two-year image selection process began shortly after Lucas completed Revenge of the Sith in 2005. First up: Phantom Menace. In a Skywalker Ranch basement editing suite, Lucas, Rinzler and post production supervisor Mike Blanchard watched the movie on a 42-inch Plasma screen and gradually whittled it down from 184,196 frames to 236 keeper shots.
Rinzler recalls "We'd sit there for hours at a time every Friday and go through each film, two or three frames per second. If George saw something he liked, he'd say, 'Stop, go back' or 'Go forward.' We'd toggle back and forth until George found the exact frame he wanted."
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By isolating single shots, Rinzler explains, "George wanted to take cinema and slow it down to a standstill so people could look at the compositions, the costume design, the cinematography, all the disciplines that go into make a movie."
The assembly of still photographs also allows each reader to leaf through the story at his or her own pace, says Rinzler. "In the prequels, sometimes there was so much happening in a single frame, there was no way for the [movie] viewer to take it all in."
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Lucas and company scrutinized the Star Wars films with the sound turned off. To enliven the silent movie sessions, Rinzler says, "Sometimes George got a little loose and started making up voices for some of the characters where we'd all ad lib what they could be saying. It's not like we all went reverential."
Check out the Star Wars gallery featuring 12 key images hand-picked by George Lucas.
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Don't remind people about the prequels, George, especially next to the originals.
"In a way, you get to see each film through George Lucas's eyes."
Didn't we get to see each film through George Luca's eyes by... watching the films?
Who else thinks it would have been cooler if George Lucas would have cherry-picked 1138 of his favorite images instead of 1416 of them?
Beautiful shots from great films. However, some of the gallery captions are incorrect. Image #2 is NOT C-3PO. Image #6 is from The Phantom Menace (not Revenge of the Sith). Image #11 is from Star Wars: A New Hope (not Return of the Jedi).


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MANSFIELD, Ohio - Three cats are dead and eight missing after a Mansfield animal shelter caught fire Friday evening.
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Larry Phifer does not seem like the type to pen a successful children's picture book.
Most of the time, he is busy juggling paperwork and documents as the general counsel for River Oaks Properties, one of the largest managers and owners of commercial real estate in El Paso.
Phifer, 36, recently self-published "World On A String," a simple story about a boy who befriends a red balloon he finds, only to lose it later -- forever.
"World On A String," an instant hit among El Paso schoolchildren, is also being praised across the United States as a heartfelt story appropriate for teaching young readers how to cope with loss.
Phifer grew up in El Paso, where he acquired a passion for writing as a boy.
In 2009, he decided to perfect some of the children's stories he had written over the years. He enlisted Danny Popovici of Portland, Ore., to illustrate "World on a String."
Phifer also created Storytime Works, his own small publishing company, and raised a little over $15,000 online as a Kickstarter project to print and distribute the book.
"World On A String" has received positive reviews on Internet outlets such as GoodReads and NetGalley. Phifer said he may join a national promotional tour in the fall.
Armando Loera, the librarian at Herrera Elementary School, suggests children should also experience the book in its digitized format because "the book comes to life with the riveting narration of Luke Rosenberg and the music of Justin R. Durban."
"Larry Phifer has created an awesome (and I feel award-winning book) experience with 'World on A String,' " Loera said in an email. "The simple, yet heart-felt story of loss, combined with Danny Popovici's illustrations, create an engrossing read for children of all ages."
Anthony Tomasheski, principal at Schuster Elementary School, also gives "World On A String" a thumbs up. Phifer also presented his book to Schuster students.
"It's a great learning tool to help children deal with any type of loss on a level that they can understand," Tomasheski said.
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PRINCESS ANNE, Md. - The UMES Volleyball Team will begin a new era in 2013 under first-year head coach Millicent Van Norden. Van Norden will look to continue a tradition of success at UMES, leading the two-time defending Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference champion in hopes of a three-peat.
They start the title defense this weekend in Peoria, Ill. playing in the CEFCU Classic, hosted by Bradley University. The Hawks will play three matches, one on Friday against the University of Tennessee-Martin at 4:00 p.m. and then a pair of matches on Saturday playing the host Braves at 1:30 p.m. and then Western Illinois at 6:00 p.m. All matches will have live stats and live video with the latter on a pay-to-view basis.
"We just hope to develop some chemistry on the court and get a feel for who does what well. We have practiced well in the pre-season but nothing prepares you for game action and with so many new players it's important we use this event as a learning experience," said Coach Van Norden.
In 2012 the Hawks had their most successful season in school history, going 28-6 with three in-season invitational championships and winning their second MEAC title in a row, earning a berth into the NCAA Tournament. This year's team will have to reload the talent, after the departure of all-conference players Ndidi Ibe and Jessie Vicic and all-tournament players Saitaua Iosia and Victoria Williams, with just one returner and a solid incoming class that brings in 11 newcomers.
Transferring from Winthrop University, sophomore Diara Lewis (Columbia, S.C.) will join the UMES ranks this season. Playing sparingly for the Eagles last year, Lewis is a former member of the USA Junior National Team on 2009 and 2010.
Another four-year transfer will be Ashley Smith who comes in after playing one season at DII Kentucky Wesleyan College. As a true freshman, Smith was second on the team in kills and attacks and third in hitting percentage. She earned All-Tournament honors in the season as well.
Odessa Junior College transfer Lauren Berry (Bloomington, Ill.) also comes to UMES for her first season. A two-sport athlete at Odessa in volleyball and basketball, Berry hit .262 for the Wranglers last season, earning 252 kills and 43 blocks.
After the Hawks lost a pair of California hitters, freshman Moriah Brookins (Cypress, Calif.) will look to fill the void. The team captain of Cypress High led the Centurions to a regular season title in the CSS Empire Division last year.
Coming in from Scottsdale Community College, junior Amanda Hanson (Phoenix, Ariz.) was the top offensive player for the Fighting Artichokes. Hanson earned a squad-best 237 kills and 21 service aces, hitting .279 with 45 total blocks and 166 digs.
Freshman Haley Robinson (Honolulu, Hawaii) joins the ranks from Hawaii after playing on one of the best high school squads in the country. Robinson earned all-league honors with the `Iolani School, ranked 88th in the country in 2012.
Brookins can also compete as a middle blocker as well as on the outside.
A pair of freshmen will look for time on defense. Precious Manu (Carson, Calif.) from, Carson High School along with Allison Woods (Magnolia, Texas), an all-district player that helped Magnolia High go undefeated in league play last year, will look for time on the defense.


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I have been trying to search for a mens shirt pattern that has more of an athletic fit, but havn't been able to find any! All the mens shirt patterns I come across are very baggy, true to what you would find in store. Does any one know of any suggestions? I am not that great at alterations, so I don't trust myself to edit a pattern without a guide. :-/
Check out Burda patterns.
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I thought I might have the most luck with Burda, but the pictures of the shirts all look very similar to the standard cut. My husband has a 42 inch chest, and a 32 inch waist - so standard cuts look a little silly on him.
Even though you say you aren't great with alterations this would be quite easy to do. I just had a book on making shirts by David? Coffin from our library that had everything you ever needed to know about making men's or women's shirts. I think you would only need to start with his shoulder/chest size and trim it down at the waist. If he's very "buff" you may need to add circumfrence to the upper sleeve. Guys aren't as bumpy as women and so much easier to fit. OOh! I've seen some lovely Italian men's shirting fabric in our area. Good luck!
"I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work." Thomas Edison
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First, it's impossible to judge a pattern's fit by what the pattern photo looks like. To get a real idea of the fit of a man's shirt, you need to look at the line drawings and look for what' s called 'finished measurements' as well as written descriptions like "fitted" or "close-fitting," as opposed to "loose" or "drop-shouldered," and so on.
Second, Burda patterns for men do tend to be somewhat closer fitting than those of the Big Four, though more shirts of this type can be found in their magazines, I think. Lately, if you look closely at Kwik Sew, they have introduced a couple of shirts that are described as more fitted. You can search for reviews of Kwik Sew men's shirts using the 'Advanced Search' feature at the upper leftish of this screen.
Third, men's shirts hang from the neck and shoulder. To fit your guy properly, all you have to do is get these areas right and then it's a simple matter to bring the pattern in at the waist and hips to match his slender dimensions there.
You might want to look at vintage patterns, like those from the 1970s. Peter here at pr favors a close to the body look and has found a number of body-conscious shirts of this type.
My husband has requested more fitted shirts -but there is only so much shaping one can do with side seams. Darts would not look right. I saw a nicely fitted shirt on a male coworker recently that had a yoke, then two vertical seams down the back (so back was divided into three pieces). That seems like a great opportunity for shaping so I'm going to try extra seams front and back.
This slim-fitting men's shirt is fitted purely by side seam shaping, as are most such shirts in the U.S. I've made a couple of fitted Burda shirts and one Simplicity for my slender son that employed only curved side seams below the yoke. Guys don't have the complicated contour issues that women do, so simple fitting measures work fine for them.
However, French and Italian men's shirts are often fitted closely via darts and they look very, very nice indeed.
Oh my, there was a day when I could have worn a fitted shirt like
that,,, oh well.
I want to second the fitting techniques found in David Coffin's shirt
book. It is one of those "well worth the dough" books.
BTW, his pants book is very good also.
He shows several ways to go. Pattern, copy a shirt and draping.
Use one or combine to find the way that works for you.
Just like FFRP is a great helper for sewing something for that
special gal ( and they are all special ), Coffin's book will school you on
making the lines right for that shirtless man.
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A good fitting book is worthwhile having in the sewing room.
FFRP (as we call it here at PR) by Palmer/Pletsch is one of the best for a good price. A lot of the principals can be applied to mens fitting.
Classic Tailoring Techniques for Men's Wear is another book every man might want in his resource library. The book has some basic fitting tips in the front, but it's mostly about constructing jackets & pants.
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Williams led 6-1, 0-1 Monday when Ivanovic called it quits.
Ivanovic took a 10-minute break during the first game of the second set to have her left thigh taped by a trainer. She returned for two more points, but after hitting a service winner to take the game, she began crying as she walked to her chair and told the umpire she was retiring.
Williams, seeking her sixth Wimbledon title, took a 5-0 lead before Ivanovic won a game 27 minutes into the match. Former No. 1 Ivanovic hasn't reached a Grand Slam quarterfinal since winning the 2008 French Open.
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The injury bug snuck up and took a bite out of Arkansas on Friday, though if there's any silver lining, the Razorbacks did not lose a starter. Senior running back Broderick Green tore the ACL in his left knee and will miss the entire 2011 season.
"Broderick had been doing a great job this spring and had been working extremely hard," Arkansas' Bobby Petrino said in a statement released on Friday. "Although this is unfortunate for him, I know Broderick will focus during the recovery process. Our trainers and medical staff are among the best in the country and will assist him in overcoming the injury."
Green suffered the injury in practice on Wednesday as the team prepared for it's spring game this weekend.
Green came to Arkansas after transferring from USC in 2009, and started five games for the Razorbacks. Serving as a backup to Knile Davis in 2010, Green ran for 365 yards and 3 touchdowns on 104 carries. Still, while the presence of Knile Davis means that this injury won't be a devastating blow to the Arkansas offense, and it likely won't prove problematic for the team's depth at running back.
Ronnie Wingo Jr, who rushed for 253 yards and a touchdown last season will likely move up the depth chart to become Davis' backup, with Dennis Johnson picking up some carries as well. Johnson only had 9 carries in 2010, but the rising senior rushed for 562 yards during his first two seasons in Fayetteville.


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The Birth of Venus consists of an assemblage of two previously existing figures. The Sphinx, dating from the 1880s, was used by Rodin on several occasions. In this case the figures kneels, inclined slightly backwards, before a female figure whose torso can be recognised as one which exists in several versions in the Musée Rodin. The torso itself is completed by the head and arms of The Kneeling Man, which was also used in the group Fugit Amor.
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Typical twistys babe...Petrfect
her name's melisa !!
i cummed while watchin this
Melisa is so hoooooot !! Beautiful, sensual and that smile.....I love her.
Theres perfect and then theres that. I jizzed in my pants.
I bet she earns more than a bank manager and tax-free
Her name?
Very hot
my dick is so hard and i wanna eat ur pussy !
wow i waznt planning on jerking off to just a girl stripping... but something in that quiet beauty ... oohhhhh and those high heels... and perfect legs and gorgeous face.... Here comes the cum baby!!!!!
hihi a vagina
Punch! Oh why did u do that?! *LVL UP*
This girl is amazing
The camera work sucked ass.
whats her name .. fucking hot
I wanna eat her allll night long
she is soo hot. i would fuck her in a second and waste no time
Wow! She has a perfect body. Who is this girl?
will u merry me?
dam that girl is boner material! had to wack my fat cock as i watched
I'd happily fill her up with my jizz.
thats melisa A -> she is so hot !
Her name is Carrie Du Four and she's Czech
Luv the tease. A real cute girl with all the tools.


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Hearst's Skiff to publish e-books for iPhone, tablets
updated 10:30 am EST, Fri December 4, 2009
Skiff to offer multi-platform digital publishing
Hearst today provided details of a new digital publishing system it hopes will make digital text more widespread. Skiff will have a store as well as an underlying gateway that lets Hearst and other firms both collect ad revenue from all their sources as well as adapt the same book, magazine or newspaper to a variety of formats. A single work could be reformatted to work with an iPhone, dedicated e-book readers or even tablet devices.
The service is intended to bring back control of publications to those that create them. At present, publishers are often forced to separately develop for existing formats and give up much of their control to device makers or stores that can dictate the terms for pricing. While stores like iTunes are comparatively mild and collect a fixed 30 percent of revenue from each item sold on the store, Amazon can ask for as much as 70 percent of the revenue from a Kindle subscription without giving the option of ads to help subsidize the price.
Hearst has added that it plans to launch its own e-book reader with Skiff in mind and will use Sprint to power the device's 3G connection. The service and likely the reader itself aren't due until 2010, but rumors claim Hearst, Cond� Nast, Meredith and Time will unveil an independent standard for formats and stores next week. [via WSJ]


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Thursday 15th of December 2011 09:19 AM
By Kim L. Fritzemeier
KFRM Central Kansas Reporter
Farm Wife along the Stafford/Reno County Line
Even saying the word has a certain "weight" to it, doesn't it? It forces us to take a deep breath and try to slow the tick, tick, ticking of an anxious heart. It asks us to still the thoughts that tumble helter-skelter as we skitter along to the next task, the next big thing on the all-important to-do list.
I wait for the right words to come.
I wait for the list to be done. (I'm still waiting!)
I wait for this event.
I wait for that event.
As I was driving home from a doctor's appointment in Hutchinson last evening, I watched the sun's fireball slip underneath the mantle of the earth. My mind immediately kicked into high gear. I kept looking for a good place to pull over so I could take a photo. I kept my eyes open and scanning along the horizon, watching and waiting.
I knew there was a windmill along 4th Street Road, but would I get there before the inky darkness covered all traces of light?
Yes. But while the photo shows a glimpse of the slide show I watched as I raced westward, it doesn't tell the whole story. It doesn't show the incremental changes in the western sky. It doesn't show the pink fingers of light that insistently reached into the eastern sky, the vista that didn't feature the main attraction but was still enriched with its remnants.
This is the season of waiting. It is the season of expectation.
But last night's sunset was a reminder to savor the journey. Would I have truly seen the sun's reflection in the field's shallow puddles if we hadn't experienced a summer of drought? Would it have made the same impression if it didn't come after several cloudy days when day turned into night with little fanfare?
Never lose an opportunity for seeing anything that is beautiful,
for beauty is God's handwriting, a wayside sacrament.
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Hi there – Madonna has graciously joined thousands of others from around the world to be part of our #LoveConquersHate campaign – standing in solidarity with LGBT people in Russia.
Her inspiring note is below. If you're looking for a way to provide badly needed support for the LGBT community in Russia, please consider purchasing the Russian version of our iconic Love Conquers Hate t-shirt. All net proceeds support LGBT advocates in Russia.
– Chad Griffin, President of HRC
Dear fellow equality supporter,
"Love conquers hate." It's an iconic message that the Human Rights Campaign's members and supporters have spread to millions around the United States.
But right now in Russia, LGBT people and our allies who support basic fairness and dignity face a different reality. They are being targeted by hateful new laws that outlaw support for LGBT equality. Even with the 2014 Sochi Olympics just a few months away, fair-minded Russians are facing fines, harassment, and violence at the hands of thugs.
At this dangerous moment in Russian history, we as advocates have a responsibility to speak up and take our hopeful message global. That's why I'm joining HRC's Love Conquers Hate campaign, in hopes that more and more fair-minded people around the world will stand up and fight against the Russian government's campaign of hate.
Right now, you can send that message directly to the Russian people and provide much-needed support to LGBT advocates in Russia by purchasing the Russian-language Love Conquers Hate t-shirt. And once you have your t-shirt, share a picture of yourself wearing it on social media using #LoveConquersHate. With your help, we can make this simple message go global.
Make no mistake about it: the goal of these hateful laws is to leave LGBT Russians feeling isolated. Worthless. Completely alone.
Together, we can send a message to LGBT Russians that the world is on their side, and that those who seek to support them aren't alone in this fundamental fight for fairness.
It's time for love to conquer hate everywhere, for everyone. I hope you'll stand with me in this fight.
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- Posted September 11, 2008 by
- jpzgosh
NASHVILLE, Tennessee
This iReport is part of an assignment:
Black in America
The Six Black U.S. Presidents
If elected, would Barack Obama, be the first black president of the United States?
What determines if a person is black or of African descent? In the 19th and 20th centuries, the standard for determining one's race was, one drop of black blood, made you black, socially and in the eyes of the law. So by that standard, it would appear some U.S. presidents would have been considered black or mullatto.
Mulatto (-noun 1. the offspring of one white parent and one black parent: not in technical use. 2. a person whose ancestry is a mixture of Negro and Caucasian. adjective 3. of a light-brown color.
In February of 2004, an article was written by C. Stone Brown, titled "Who Were the 5 Black Presidents?" for
DiversityInc magazine. The article was based on a book by Dr. Leroy Vaughn an opthalmogist titled "Black *
People and Their Place in History". The following text is a collaboration of his theories and other known historians and authors.<
Thomas Jefferson the third elected president, who served two terms between 1801 and 1809 was described as the "son of a half-breed Indian squaw and a Virginia mulatto father," as stated in Vaughn's findings. Jefferson also was said to have destroyed all documentation attached to his mother, even going to extremes to seize letters writtenby his mother to other people.
Only in recent years did the family of Thomas Jefferson acknowledged he was the father of the (5 or 6) children born to a slave on his plantation, Sally Hemmings.
President Andrew Jackson, the nation's seventh president, was in office between 1829 and 1837. A renowned African-American<
historian J. A. Rogers, author of the "Five Black Presidents" wrote that Andrew Jackson Sr. died before his son, President Andrew JacksonJr., was born. The president's mother then went to live on the Crawford farm, where there were Negro slaves and one of these men was Andrew Jr.'s father, Rogers wrote.
Vaughn cites an article written in The Virginia Magazine of History that Jackson was the son of an Irish woman who married a black man.
The magazine also stated that Jackson's oldest brother had been sold as a slave.
Abraham Lincoln, the nation's 16th president, served between 1861 and 1865. Author Vaughn, states
Lincoln had very dark skin and coarse hair and his mother allegedly came from an Ethiopian tribe. His heritage fueled so much controversy that Lincoln was nicknamed "Abraham Africanus the First" by his presidential opponents and cartoons were drawn depicting him as a Negro.
In a book, titled "The Hidden
Lincoln" written by William Herndon, Lincoln's law-office partner, said that Lincoln's father of record, Thomas Lincoln, could not have been Lincoln's father because he was sterile from childhood mumps and later was castrated.
President Warren Harding, the 29th president, in office between 1921 and 1923, apparently never denied his ancestry. According to Vaughn, William Chancellor, a professor of economics and politics at Wooster College in Ohio, wrote a book on the Harding family genealogy. Evidently, Harding had black ancestors between both sets
of parents. Chancellor also said that
Harding attended Iberia College, a school founded to educate fugitive slaves. Professor Chancellor says the Justice Department agents
allegedly bought and destroyed all copies of this book.
Harding suffered nervous breakdowns at the age of 24 and had to spend some time in a sanitarium. Between 1889 and 1901, Harding
paid five "protracted" visits to the J.P. Kellogg sanitarium in Battle Creek, Michigan "to recover from fatigue, overstrain, and nervous illnesses."
Some speculate his illness was due to the pressure of not fully disclosing his black heritage and living as"white".
Calvin Coolidge, the nation's 30th president, served between 1923 and 1929 and supposedly was proud of his heritage. He claimed his mother was dark because of mixed Indian
ancestry. This notion was disputed by Auset Bakhufu, author of "The Six Black Presidents" who said in her book that by the 1800s, the New
England Indians hardly were pure Indian, because they had mixed so often with blacks. Coolidge's mother's maiden name was "Moor"
and in Europe the name "Moor" was given to all blacks just as "Negro" was used in America. It later was concluded that Coolidge was part black.
The last elected "black" president was Dwight David Eisenhower who served from 1953 to 1961, the 34th president. Eisenhower's mother, Ida Elizabeth Stover was a mullato woman making Eisenhower part black.
Eisenhower as president moved military integration from a law to reality. He battered Arkansas Gov.Orval Faubus with federal force to
desegregate Little Rock's Central High School. He was the first President to elevate an African-
American to an executive position in the White House. He established the first regulations to prohibit racial discrimination in the federal workforce. He was the first President since Reconstruction to meet with Civil Rights leaders in the White House. He helped turn Washington,
D.C., into an integrated city.


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|Different secreted phosphatase activities in Leishmania amazonensis.
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|Leishmania has strong acid phosphatase activity both on the external surface of the plasma membrane and secreted into the extracellular milieu. Secreted acid phosphatase (sAcP), which is the most abundant secreted protein of Leishmania, is also a virulence factor that plays a role in vertebrate infection and survival in sand flies. In the present study, we characterized the secreted phosphatase activities in L. amazonensis. Both acidic and alkaline secreted phosphatase activities were observed with β-glycerophosphate and p-nitrophenyl phosphate (p-NPP) hydrolysis and were inhibited with sodium tartrate and sodium orthovanadate. Cytochemical labeling revealed a significant difference in the localization of the electron-dense precipitates depending on the substrate. β-glycerophosphate electron-dense precipitates were concentrated on both the cell surface and flagellar pocket, whereas p-NPP labeling occurred primarily within intracellular organelles. Orthovanadate-treated metacyclic promastigotes were less infective and were confined to a tight parasitophorous vacuole (PV), which is not characteristic of this Leishmania species. Based on the results, we characterized the presence of different secreted phosphatase activities in Leishmania amazonensis, the influence of the substrate in cytochemical labeling and the potential involvement of secreted phosphatase activity in both PV maturation and amastigote survival. © 2013 Federation of European Microbiological Societies. Published by Blackwell Publishing Ltd. All rights reserved.
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November 30, 2015
A Dothan police officer fired for an off-duty DUI accident asked for his termination to be overturned by the city's personnel board Thursday.
But he'll have to wait a little longer for a decision.
In early January, Officer Richard Odom was hospitalized after he hit a curb, lost control of his motorcycle and then crashed.
After an investigation, Odom was charged with DUI then fired.
During Thursday's personnel board hearing, officers that responded to the call served as witnesses.
The media was not allowed inside to hear testimony, but News 4 learned that the personnel board decided not to make an immediate decision.
They are waiting for a transcript of Odom's termination hearing. Once they get that transcript, officials say they'll proceed.
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Artist Profile: Lynne Parks
Lynne Parks is a Baltimore-based photographer and visual artist who gravitates to stark urban landscapes, finding beauty in unexpected places, such as trash heaps and salvage yards. Diagnosed as a teenager with a rare disease that causes aggressive tumors, she says her artwork reflects what she sees in the mirror: discarded fragments and reassembled disparate parts.
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In Urban Composition: Developing Community through Design, Professor Mark C. Childs, who teaches architecture at the University of New Mexico, declares that "settlements are not just the sums of their parts; their poetry and vitality comes from their collective composition – the interactions among multiple designs." In other words, it's the way multiple individually-designed pieces work together that leads to the overall success of a place. These pieces include buildings, parks, streets, and works of public art. Each of these components is individually crafted by an architect, landscape architect, or artist.
Childs argues that good urban design occurs through a concinnity of these components. He defines concinnity as "the skillful and harmonious adaptation or fitting together of parts to craft a whole." He writes "great places emerge from the concinnity of incremental acts of design. Existing work frames new projects, which in turn inspire future works." Each designed element should innovate while…
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In addition to providing information pertaining to our organization, KID provides brief updates on current children's product safety information and events. For more frequent news, visit KID's blog.
Contents of this Issue
- KID Issues Travel Advisory for Unsafe Children's Products
- KID Embarks On Test It Now!
- Recalled children's products pose risk of fire and burns to children
- Missouri and Rhode Island Pass Children's Product Safety Act Legislation
- Kids In Danger Joins CPSC's Call for Retrieving Dangerous Recalled Children's Products
- President Bush sends nomination for CPSC Chairman to the U.S. Senate
- Half Of All Product Recalls In 2001 Were Products Intended For Children
- Why are so many children killed or injured by unsafe products?
KID Issues Travel Advisory for Unsafe Children's Products
December 12 2002 Don't let Grandpa drag that old crib down from the attic during your visit this holiday season, warned Kids In Danger in a Holiday Travel Advisory released on December 11, 2002. "Parents have to be vigilant not only about the safety of the products their child uses at home and in childcare, but while traveling or visiting friends and family as well," stated Nancy Cowles, executive director of KID. "Older model cribs, damaged car seats, or recalled products of any type pose a risk to children on the road as well as at home. Parents and other caregivers should be cautious to avoid injury over the holiday travel season. Contrary to what most parents believe, most children's products are not required to be tested for safety prior to sale, so a brand name or trusted product is no guarantee of safety." See the complete release for more tips on keeping children safe from dangerous products while traveling. For a sample list of recalled juvenile products that may be used during holiday visits or travels, please click here.
KID Embarks On Test It Now!
November 25 2002 Earlier this fall, KID launched Test It Now! A Grassroots Awareness Campaign for Children's Product Safety. Test It Now's goal is to create a groundswell of support for safer children's products, leading to needed changes.
The objectives are:
- To bring the minefield of dangerous children's products to the public's attention;
- To encourage policymakers to take note of the lopsided children's product system and correct it;
- And to challenge the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission to get more actively involved in stopping dangerous products from reaching the marketplace.
KID executive director Nancy Cowles will be in Seattle on December 2 and 3 to speak with the Washington State SAFE KIDS Coalition about KID, product safety, and pre-market testing of children's products. Our thanks to Katharine Fitzgerald at Children's Hospital and Regional Medical Center and the Washington State Department of Health for their help in coordinating this visit.
Please contact Nancy if you would like her to meet with you or your organization when she is in town. To sign on as a supporter of Test It Now!, please fill out and return by fax or mail our Sign On Sheet. We will be planning similar outreach efforts in Washington D.C. and Boston soon.
Recalled children's products pose risk of fire and burns to children
August 14 2002 KID released a new report today highlighting the fire, burn and electric shock dangers to children from recalled juvenile products. "Forty-two children's product recalls, covering over 16 million individual items were issued over the past decade because of the risk of fire and burn injuries," stated Nancy Cowles, KID executive director. "Given recall effectiveness, this means that over 10 million products may still be in use that can potentially start a fire or severely burn children."
A Burning Threat: Fire and Burn Hazards of Children's Product Recalls 1992 to 2002 showed that almost half of children's products recalled for fire, burn or electric shock hazards were toys. Thirty-six percent of recalled products violated the federal Flammable Fabrics Act. Visit our publications page for a copy of the report and a related fact sheet.
Click here to read the fire report press release.
Missouri and Rhode Island Pass Children's Product Safety Act Legislation
July 9 2002 Missouri's SB 923, containing a prohibition on using recalled or dangerous children's products in licensed childcare facilities was signed by Governor Holden, on July 2, 2002. Compliance will be required starting July 2003. Send an email to thank Senator Dougherty through this web page or Governor Bob Holden.
Rhode Island's Children's Product Safety Act became effective on June 28, 2002 and compliance is required by January 2004. Senator Catherine Graziano was the sponsor of the legislation. Please send an email to thank Senator Catherine Graziano for sponsoring this legislation.
Kids In Danger Joins CPSC's Call for Retrieving Dangerous Recalled Children's Products
April 17 2002 The CPSC is urging Americans to join its "recall round-up" of 12 hazardous products, including the Playskool Travel-Lite portable crib that killed Danny Keysar, the son of KID founders Linda Ginzel and Boaz Keysar, still found in millions of homes. Most of these have been involved in children's deaths. The goal of this recall round-up is to convince consumers to throw away, repair or replace these product hazards. Despite recall notices and public warnings, many products with the potential to seriously injure or kill are still being used by consumers.
"Kids In Danger urges parents and caregivers to heed the warning in CPSC's Recall Round-up and search their homes and facilities for recalled, deadly children's products, " said Nancy Cowles, Executive Director of Kids In Danger (KID) in a statement released today.
For full descriptions of the hazardous products, please visit the CPSC press release. For the KID Press Release click here.
President Bush sends nomination for CPSC Chairman to the U.S. Senate
March 13 2002 Earlier this month, President Bush sent his nomination for CPSC Chairman to the Senate for consideration. Bush has nominated Harold D. Stratton for the position, after his first choice for the office, current Commissioner Mary Sheila Gall, was defeated when consumers raised concerns about her willingness to take strong and swift action to protect consumers.
Stratton is a lawyer and former Attorney General of New Mexico. While he has no record on product safety, consumers have raised concerns over his past anti-regulatory stances. Someone who has expressed distaste for government regulation seems an odd choice to head the regulatory agency for consumer products.
Hearing dates have not been scheduled. While there is too little information on Mr. Stratton's position on product safety to oppose the nomination at this point, KID will be urging the Senate Energy and Commerce Committee to ask questions that will bring those positions to light before the nomination is confirmed.
Half Of All Product Recalls In 2001 Were Products Intended For Children
February 11 2002 KID released a new report today highlighting the dangers to children from recalled products. "Even though children's products account for a small fraction of the more than 15,000 products regulated by the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission," stated Nancy Cowles, KID executive director, "they make up more than half of the products recalled last year." Clear and Present Dangers: Children's Product Recalls in 2001 showed that 118 of the 225 recalls issued by the CPSC in 2001 were for items intended for use by children or for the care of children. In 2001, as in previous years, CPSC recalled an average of two children's products a week. Read More.
Why are so many children killed or injured by unsafe products?
February 1 2002 Chicago Parent Magazine feature article about children's product safety and Kids In Danger. Read More.
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By KATY PETIFORD
The Evening Sun
As Hanover Public School District employees retire, board members are left debating whether to hire replacements for the 2013-14 school year.
After approving eight retirements last week as a result of the district's early-retirement incentive plan, members discussed if they should seek potential candidates to fill the soon-to-be-open maintenance supervisor post, scale down its responsibilities or eliminate the position altogether.
School board member Darlene Funk said she needed time to think about the issue before district officials move forward. During the discussion, she questioned the position's relevancy given changes that might occur next year within the district.
According to the job description as of the March 25 meeting, the newly titled 'facilities manager' would be responsible for overseeing construction projects throughout the district, as well as members of the custodial staff, Funk said. However, there aren't any major renovation projects planned in the near future, she said, and board members are considering outsourcing a janitorial staff for 2013-14 due to budgetary limitations.
If these responsibilities are not included in job's description, the suggested salary would no longer be appropriate, she said. Instead, the board should allocate the extra funds toward teaching initiatives.
"Educating our youths is the most important thing we do here," Funk said.
Yet, members who believe the position is imperative said district officials should begin to advertise as soon as possible.
"Time is of the essence as far as getting a replacement," Rick Engle said.
Others mentioned concerns about the long-term consequences of significantly changing the job description or allowing the position to remain unfilled.
Member Karen Daubert questioned what district officials would do if, five years from now, someone was needed to oversee a large construction project.
The board did not come to a conclusion during the meeting, but many agreed the topic warranted further discussion.
The facilities manager is one of many newly vacant positions in the Hanover district. In an effort to help manage the district's budget, school officials offered employees an early retirement incentive and eight took advantage of the opportunity.
Employees who had 33 years or more of experience, based on Public School Employees' Retirement System years, would have their medical insurance paid in full for two years after their retirement and employees with 28 to 32 years of experience were offered three years.
Employees must have had 28 years of experience to be eligible for the early retirement incentive plan and the offer was closed as of March 25.
The board hoped to have six employees take advantage of the early incentive with at least four of them being teachers, board President Lindy Lingg said.
Although Lingg and the other board members recognize the financial benefits to the district of the early retirement incentive, many are sad to see members of the Nighthawk community retire.
"It is a loss of a lot of experienced staff," Lingg said. "I think we will miss all the employees that will be retiring."
Employees who will retire as part of the plan include Sara Little, a high-school art teacher for more than 38 years, Emily Emig, special-education teacher for more than 35 years, Carol Forbes, a elementary librarian with more than 28 years of service, Deborah Herring, a elementary teacher for 28 years and David Cataldo, a social studies teacher with more than 28 years of service. Also retiring effective June 6 is Tony Grimes, a maintenance supervisor with more than 39 years of service to the district, Stacey Yost, a payroll clerk for more than 33 years service and Deborah Hare, head custodian with almost 29 years of service.