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Thanksgiving disasters usually take the form of dried-out turkey or not enough mashed potatoes. But for the Peterkin family, proper Victorians all, Thanksgiving disaster strikes when their dinner simply disappears. In "The Peterkins' Thanksgiving," Elizabeth Spurr has adapted one of Lucretia Hale's charming stories about this hapless family into a picture book edition illustrated with cheerful whimsy by Wendy Anderson Halperin.
Oliver Olson's problem is over-protective parents. When his third grade teacher opens a space unit by asking, "How many of you would like to walk on the moon?", Oliver doesn't raise his hand. "Oliver's parents would never let him walk on the moon. The moon was too far away. It was too cold. It didn't have enough gravity. The rocket might explode." And when his teacher announces that the whole class is invited to a space sleepover at school, he knows he won't be allowed to go. Ever since Oliver was a sickly preschooler, his parents have worried about him too much.
If your children watched the "Baby Einstein" videos, but failed to turn into geniuses, you can get your money back. A recently settled suit against Disney, the owner of the popular series, asserts that the claim that the videos are educational is unfair and deceptive. Parents can get a refund of $15.99 for up to four of the videos.
Fortunately, at least one way to help your child to grow intellectually is free and widely available. You guessed it – reading to your child from books you can borrow from your local public library. Not only is it free, but numerous studies show the benefits of early read-aloud sessions. Just pick up one of our "Every Child Ready to Read" brochures, and plunge in!
A recent New York Times article on school reading has been making the rounds among librarians, teachers and parents. In "A New Assignment: Pick Books You Like," Motoko Rich reports on the "reading workshop" model of engaging middle school students in reading. Unlike the traditional assignments, where the whole class reads and analyzes a classic book together, this approach encourages kids to choose their own titles. "If your goal is simply to get them to read more, choice is the way to go," says one literacy professor.
At local middle schools, even kids with assigned reading can participate in a voluntary reading program. Café Book, a collaboration between the public library and eight middle schools in Fredericksburg, Stafford and Spotsylvania, encourages seventh and eighth graders to read from a list of twenty new books, discuss them during lunch periods, and vote on their favorites.
"I didn't have time to write you a short letter, so I wrote you a long one." This saying, attributed to Pascal, applies perfectly to books for beginning readers. Writing a seven-hundred-page novel is quite an accomplishment, but some writers might argue that writing a thirty-two page reader with limited vocabulary is even more challenging. Here are a few recent examples of the best.
One of the most popular displays in our children's rooms showcases children's books that have been made into movies. For every reader who complains, "the book was better!", there's another who delightedly discovers that a favorite movie was based on a good book.
Currently in theaters is "Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs," an animated movie based on the picture book of the same name by Judi Barrett. Translating a 32-page picture book into a 90-minute film means adding more characters and plot twists, but the critics seem to be positive about the results.
Lauren Thompson's story begins, "This is the pie, warm and sweet, that Papa baked." But how did Papa make the pie? Start with apples, "juicy and red," then the tree, "crooked and strong," and so on until we come to "the world, blooming with life, that spins with the sun, fiery and bright…"
Perfect for this time of year, "The Apple Pie That Papa Baked" is a rollicking picture book illustrated by Jonathan Bean in tones of cream, sepia, black and red, evoking classic illustrations by Virginia Lee Burton and Wanda Gag.
She's only four feet tall and 110 pounds, but little "Ardi" is causing a sensation among paleoanthropologists. Earlier this month, after fifteen years of research, scientists reported that they had identified Ardi's skeleton as the oldest hominid known to modern humans. Ardipithecus ramidus, as she is formally known, lived 4.4 million years ago in what is now Ethiopia. She's remarkable not just for her age, but for what she tells us about human evolution. Scientists are re-arranging the human family tree in light of this new research.
The next time you're in the library, take a look at some of the newest books to grace library shelves. Readers of all ages will be entranced with Jerry Pinkney's wordless edition of Aesop's "The Lion and the Mouse." The story of kindness rewarded has a simple plot filled with action, just right for a wordless treatment.
After more than twenty years of introducing children to great books, PBS's Reading Rainbow television series has come to an end. Over the course of 155 programs, host Levar Burton visited museums and pueblos, interviewed entrepreneurs and biologists, showed us how crayons are made and how oil spills are cleaned up, all the while linking the real world to the best in children's literature. Here's a look at a few favorite books Levar introduced over the years.


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My favorite thing is the ball machine in the lobby.
Transposition of the great arteries is a congenital heart defect caused when a child's heart develops incorrectly in the womb. This condition occurs when the heart's two most important blood vessels—the aorta and the pulmonary artery—are reversed.
In a healthy heart, the aorta pumps oxygen-rich blood to the body, and the pulmonary artery sends blood to the lungs (where the blood absorbs oxygen so that the oxygen-rich blood can then be pumped to the body). With this condition, not enough oxygen-rich blood circulates from the lungs to the body.
Transposition of the great arteries in infants is usually diagnosed shortly after birth, but some may have been diagnosed by fetal ultrasounds before birth. Babies with the condition often have a blue tint to their skin, a sign of cyanosis because oxygen-rich blood has no way to get to the body.
The most common form of transposition
Most infants with D-type transposition will have symptoms and be diagnosed shortly after birth. In this congenital abnormality, no oxygen-rich blood goes to the body and:

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hello, has that sky been fiddled with? I really like this, not least because it was my first (and only!) 4000m hill, and I suspect it's the same for a lot of people (the 'first' bit, not the 'only' bit), nicely emphasised by the groups winding their way up.
CJD - 05/Oct/07
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The evidence at the top corners suggests a touch too heavy a nudge of the saturation button. I have an S80 and it doesn't usually render colours so intense. Could be wrong of course, that sky could be a genuine colour.
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I did tweak the saturation (too much?) well spotted Cerulean! CJD, this was Aug 2006, are you in this shot?
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as it happens, I was there in Aug 06, but we were a three on our rope...
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Michael Vick (hamstring) will not play Sunday against the Cowboys. (AP)
As expected, Michael Vick is inactive for today's game against the Cowboys at the Linc.
Nick Foles, coming off his win in Tampa, will make his second start of the season and second career start against Dallas. Kickoff is at 1 p.m. He passed for 296 yards and three touchdowns against the Bucs.
Vick, who pulled his hamstring two Sundays ago in the first half against the Giants, said Thursday he wouldn't play against the Cowboys. Vick said he's still trying to work out the knot in his upper left leg that forced him out of the game at MetLife Stadium.
Also inactive are safety Patrick Chung, cornerback Shaun Prater, running back Chris Polk, offensive tackles Matt Tobin and Dennis Kelly and defensive end/tackle Damion Square. Polk and Chung are dealing with shoulder injuries. The others are healthy scratches.
Rookie safety Earl Wolff will continue to start in Chung's place. Rookie running back Matt Tucker, signed on Saturday from the practice squad, could make his NFL debut.
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Tuesday Dec. 30, 2008
HOUSTON (AP) -- The Houston Texans have fired defensive coordinator Richard Smith, secondary coach Jon Hoke and defensive line coach Jethro Franklin.
Team spokesman Tony Wyllie confirmed Tuesday's moves, which came after the Texans finished 8-8 for the second straight season. Houston's offense finished the year ranked third in the NFL, but the defense was 22nd, allowing more than 336 yards a game.
Only five teams allowed more points a game than the Texans' 24.6. Houston's defense improved late in the season but didn't live up to expectations for a unit with three first-round picks, including 2006's top pick Mario Williams.
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The first series of The Flintstones came out in the early 1960s and still has a place in many people affections today. It's a classic, and will probably always be one of my all time favourite shows. I never tired from watching the antics of Fred and Barney, along with their poor wives Wilma and Betty who always endure the end results of their actions.
Not only is this series entertaining, it also one of the most influential. We wouldn't have the likes of The Simpsons if it hadn't been for Fred & Wilma Flintstone.
I highly suggest it to anyone who hasn't had a stone age experience yet. =)
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A 30-year-old Dallas police officer has been fired after an internal investigation revealed he sent nude photos of himself to a high school student.
Police Chief David Kunkle on Thursday fired Officer Bryan Crews. The officer's attorney says Crews will appeal and criticized the investigation.
According to the Dallas Morning News, the internal investigation started after Crews' wife gave authorities several items including his personal cell phone memory card. Crews' attorney says she handed police those items during divorce proceedings.
The investigation found Crews sent nude photos to a 17-year-old high school student, had many conversations with her and exchanged text messages. The details of their relationship was not clear.
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For people craving a colossal flat-screen TV who don't want a plasma or a projector, the 70-inch Sharp LC-70LE73U series LED-based LCD offers very good picture quality, especially in bright rooms.
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Available for Boost Mobile, the Aquos Crystal has a quad-core processor, an 8-megapixel camera, and a 5-inch edge-to-edge display.
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) -- Hold the phone -- a county clerk in Colorado is denying claims that his staff has stopped answering phones because of budget cuts.
Some officials in El Paso County had complained that the staff of the county's Clerk and Recorder's office had stopped answering calls. They said a recorded message referred all callers to their offices.
But County Clerk Bob Balink says nobody's been told to stop answering calls.
He says budget problems forced him to cut 26 positions last year, leaving everyone scrambling to keep up with calls. But he says everyone is still expected to answer the phones.
Balink says many callers reach his office by mistake while trying to reach another department.
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While everything might not have gone to plan, Columbus North boys basketball coach Jason Speer had to be pleased with his team's ability to adapt.
The Bull Dogs (11-2) raced past visiting Jennings County 91-52 on Saturday in a somewhat unconventional manner, at least for this particular team.
Although North started the game on a rush, racing to a 12-2 lead out of the gate by dominating with their big men, the Bull Dogs had to switch to some small ball by the second quarter.
Jennings County post players Brad Hunt (6-foot-9) and Richard McNamee (6-5) both had two fouls by the 2:34 mark of the opening quarter. It appeared with those two limited, the Bull Dogs would take advantage inside.
Instead, North bigs Josh Speidel and Elliott Welmer got themselves into foul trouble as well and landed on the bench.
North switched to a small lineup, spearheaded by junior guard Kooper Glick (20 points) and senior point guard Evan Henry (15 points), that built a 41-31 lead at halftime.
"That's probably the most we've gone that small for that long," Speer said. "Our perimeter guys did an excellent job and our bigs finished well."
Indeed, when Welmer and Speidel were back in the third quarter, the game turned into a nightmare for the Panthers (6-4). Hunt picked up his third and fourth fouls a minute and a half into the third quarter and the Panthers seemed lost from there.
North outscored Jennings County 23-7 in the third quarter to put the game away. Welmer finished with 16 points and Speidel had 14. Both were unstoppable inside in the second half.
Welmer converted the spectacular play of the game when junior guard Trent Larson set him up perfectly for a dunk on Hunt at the 6:21 mark of the fourth quarter. Hunt picked up his fifth foul and was done for the night, finishing with 10 points.
By that time, the game had long since been decided.
"It was the first time all year we lost our composure," said Jennings County coach Joe Hartwell. "When Brad got his fourth foul, that was it."
Hartwell was not pleased his team allowed 91 points.
"It's killing me right now," he said.
Glick's 20 points, which came on a variety of slashing moves and jumpers, had to be good news for the Bull Dogs. He sprained his ankle in the first game of the year but is finally starting to round into form.
"I'm not 100 percent," Glick said. "But my adrenaline gets going, and I'm ready to go."
Does that mean North has yet to see his best? "I guess you could say that," he said.
With Welmer and Speidel on the bench in the first half, the North bench stepped up. Players such as Christian Glass, Nick Littrell and Devin Mann turned in quality minutes.
"It's just next guy ready to step up," Glick said. "We knew we had to play more of a perimeter base. We knew that (Speidel and Welmer) weren't out there, but with all guards, we had to go to more of a transition game. It was good that we saw that in case it happens (in the future)."
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By HEGHNAR WATENPAUGH (UC Davis)
In a matter of days, "Taksim Square" has become a household name akin to Tahrir Square, shorthand for a youthful protest movement against the brutality of state power in the Middle East. What began last week as a peaceful sit-in to protest the uprooting of trees from Gezi Park, one of Istanbul's last open green spaces near Taksim Square, has morphed into a broader Occupy movement against the Turkish government, with massive demonstrations in many Turkish cities, as well as solidarity demonstrations throughout the world. The movement shows the deep discontent within a large cross section of Turkish society against the increasingly authoritarian government, and especially its prime minister, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, of the ruling Islamist AKP party. People have reacted with shock at the Turkish police's disproportionate, brutal repression of the protests, as well as Erdogan's and other government officials' apparent contempt for and vilification of the protestors, and their seeming indifference to their concerns. As the protest movement continues to unfold, there has been much analysis about the significance of the protests, the way they reflect class and identity divisions within Turkey and their possible repercussions, such as here, here and here.
The protests in Istanbul began with public dissatisfaction with urban planning: they reacted against the city's ambitious ongoing plans to remake the square and its surroundings, that proceeded last week with the attempted uprooting of trees in Gezi Park, one of the last remaining open spaces in bustling, sprawling Istanbul. These grand plans have unfolded with little consultation with the public or those who live and work in that area. Daniel Jost aptly and succinctly describes these plans as "awful," while Gokhan Karakus likens them to "a neo-Ottoman Las Vegas in [a] 6,000-year-old city."
The area of Taksim Square and Gezi Park have always been politically charged for the residents of Istanbul, who are now re-asserting their right to their city. Orhan Pamuk reminisces about the significance of Taksim square, tied to many social movements and demonstrations of the past (see here). In its present form, designed in the 40's by the French urban planner Henri Prost, the Taksim area is a vibrant section of the city and a symbol of modern Istanbul. When I lived nearby as a Ph.D. student, Taksim and its surroundings were endlessly fascinating and unexpected, where you encountered the wealthiest and poorest of the city, old cosmopolitan Istanbulites as well as immigrants from the Black Sea region, anarchist students and Islamist conservatives.
For an architectural historian, it is no accident that both the great plans to remake Taksim, as well as the way protestors' speeches and actions often invoke history and architectural memory to buttress their arguments in the present. Indeed, an interest in architectural history and the historical resonance of place is at the heart of the ambitious urban renewal plans as well the protests. The centerpiece of the municipality's ambitious new plans is a rather garish re-creation of the early 19th c Ottoman imperial military barracks (Topçu Kislasi) demolished in 1940 to make way for Prost's modern vision. The recreated barracks were to house commercial ventures. The interest in reviving Ottoman architecture fits with the sensibilities of what some call the neo-Ottoman Muslim elite, even if it is completely updated to suit contemporary needs of global capitalism and consumerism. A similar vision of history also informs the naming of the planned third bridge over the Bosphorus after Sultan Selim the Grim (r. 1512-1520).
In direct opposition, protestors are invoking counter-memories and counter-histories. Protestors object to the glorification of a sultan whom they remember for his persecution and massacres of the Alevis, a non-Sunni Muslim group. Back On Taksim square, protestors are invoking the Armenian cemetery expropriated to make way for that area's development in the early decades of the Turkish republic. Their slogan is: "you took our cemetery, you won't be able to take our park."
Once at the edge of Istanbul's urban conglomeration, the area was home to the Saint James Armenian cemetery, established in the 16th century, (in Turkish: Surp Agop Ermeni Mezarligi), and the 19th century church of St. Gregory the Illuminator. By the early 20th century, the area was becoming one of the most valuable sections of real estate in the city. As detailed here and here through a series of highly contested lawsuits, the municipality managed to appropriate the cemetery from the Armenian community. This process illustrates the relentless power of the state to dispossess a minority community that had survived the Genocide of the Ottoman Armenians in 1915-1922, and unfolds like a series of acts of cruelty and humiliation. As this map shows, the cemetery once stood in the area occupied today by sections of Gezi Park, and surrounding properties, including the TRT Istanbul Radio building and major hotels like the Skidmore, Owings & Merrill-designed Istanbul Hilton (built in 1954). Marble headstones from the cemetery were used to build Gezi Park's fountains and stairs. As Kerem Öktem clarifies (see here), further appropriations of property in this urban area, principally from non-Muslim (Armenian, Greek and Jewish) citizens continued to unfold over the 50s and 60s, producing the urban ensemble that stands today. (for more historical background on the area's urbanism, see here)
Some protestors are memorializing this history of erasure, state power, and the growth of big business by renaming a street in the park after Hrant Dink, the iconic Turkish-Armenian journalist and human rights activist whose 2007 assassination so shook Turkish society (see here).
These are some of the many stories that are unfolding in Taksim, as the overwhelmingly youthful protestors seem to represent many different political viewspoints, from right-wing supporters of Kemalism to leftists, "Muslim ant-capitalists," LGBT groups, even soccer fans. Gezi Park has now become a spontaneous community, a"festive village" in Michael Kimmelman's words, that includes a kitchen, clinic, and even a museum of the protest movement.
Beyond a commentary against neoliberal urbanism, however, the protests have another crucial dimension: that of concern for environmental degradation and unsustainable urban policies, perhaps especially apparent in the debates surrounding the adverse impact of the planned bridge and canal on the ecosystem of the Marmara sea.
Where the protest movement in Turkey will go, and what it will or will not achieve remains to be seen. So far, we have been reminded once again, of the resonance of urban history, and the powerful role that public spaces and spatial memories can play in political mobilization.
Lady in a red dress. Protestor Ceyda Sungur was pepper sprayed at the start of the protests (Osman Orsal/Reuters); Protest Sign at Gezi Park (Nor Zartonk Istanbul)
HEGHNAR WATENPAUGH is a historian of art and architecture of the Middle East at the University of California Davis. She is interested in cultural heritage, gender, and space.
Jager was a Slovenian born in Carniola, Austria in 1871. He graduated from the Vienna Polytechnicum in 1899 (the height of the Vienna Secession), and immediately went to work on city plan for the earthquake-ravaged Ljubljana. Jager was interested in the idea of a Slovenian national style in architecture, and his work was heavily influenced by Slovenian folk art and architecture. In 1901 as a captain in the Imperial Royal Government Service of Austria, he led the rebuilding of the Austro-Hungarian Legation which had been destroyed during the Boxer Rebellion. During his time in China, he developed a fascination with Asian culture, and he began his extensive collection of Japanese handicrafts, with a focus on metalwork, textiles, and wood-block printing (not unlike the similar passion of Frank Lloyd Wright).
Jager immigrated to the United States in 1902, where he married Selma Erhovnic, a Slovenian artist he knew from Austria. Soon after his arrival, Jager published a booklet on church architecture, hoping to gain clients. Jager designed the Church of St. Bernard in St. Paul, and the Church of St. Stephen, in Brockway Township, Minnesota (both NRHP properties). St. Bernard's was one of the first reinforced concrete buildings in Minnesota. The structure is a unique with its Art Nouveau detailing, and is frequently referenced as an icon in a working-class district. The church at St. Stephen was designed for a Slovenian community from Carniola, and Jager devoted endless hours to managing every detail of the design and construction of the church and its interior.
In 1904 Jager built his home at 6 Red Cedar Lane, Minneapolis. Jager, with assistance from Purcell, designed Red Cedar Lane as a subtle but definitively landscaped street above Minnehaha Falls. He personally planned and maintained the eponymous red cedars, and he carefully chose a mix of conifers and deciduous trees that insured Red Cedar Lane was always green. Jager founded the Hiawatha Heights Improvement Association and encouraged all architecture in the area to achieve a harmony between structure and nature. In his design Jager was insistent that the neighborhood would preserve and enhance the natural beauty of the area, even to the point of presreving the natural contours of the land. Historian Larry Millett has said, "It would be hard to find a more beautiful street in the Twin Cities."
Following World War I, Jager went to Yugoslavia as a representative of the American Red Cross agricultural commission from Minnesota. The commission was headed by his brother, Major Frances Jager, who was a Catholic priest and a respected authority on bees. John Jager later received the Yugoslav Crown First Class as an award from Yugoslavian government. The Western Architect (of which Jager was an editorial assistant), described his intended work in words that so well capture the Prairie Architecture ideal we may suspect Jager himself wrote them (1918):
"Mr. Jager. whose professional abilities are varied and of a high order, will engage in a work unique in architectural accomplishment. Going from a country where the people as a rule think that any carpenter can "design" a cottage and therefore are satisfied with the "free plans" furnished by lumber dealers . . . he will demonstrate that a wide architectural knowledge fittingly applied can improve the livable qualities of even fifteen-dollar mudhuts."
Upon his return, Jager enjoyed a period of relative prosperity working for the conservative architectural firm of Hewitt and Brown, who has recently completed the Minneapolis Institute of Art as a staid Classical Revival structure . While working at Hewitt and Brown, Jager also was assisting Purcell and Elmslie in their work, largely out of his love of the progressive architecture designed by the firm. Jager refused, however, to take credit for the work he did at either. During these years, Jager formed a close friendship with William Purcell, and their voluminous correspondence reveals a dedication to Prairie School architecture and progressive ideals that continued strong well into the 1950s.
While Jager's friendship with Purcell would last, his architectural career faltered. In 1928, however, Jager was laid off from Hewitt and Brown, and the crash of 1929 devastated his personal finances. Jager, under great financial distress, was forced to sell much of his personal art collection to his old employer and fellow Asian-art enthusiast Edwin Hewitt. The fate of his collection is an excellent example of how his own zeal for anonymity combined with misfortune led to his being forgotten. Upon his death, Hewitt himself donated his collection to the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, including Jager's unmatched collection of 1700 tsuba (sword guards). Subsequently the Hewitt collection has been on display, and formed the basis of special exhibits. Largely forgotten is that Jager personally was responsible for the quality and scope of much of the collection.
From the 1930s onward, Jager was never fully employed or able to exercise his skills and knowledge in a professional capacity. From 1933 to 1942 he served as the Superintendent of Public Works under the CWA and WPA programs. How he supported himself on the small salary of that job and through the years of underemployment remains unclear, although he received frequent and ongoing financial support from Purcell, whose family fortunes weathered the depression.
Jager occupied his time by participation in the intellectual community of Minneapolis, intense studies of linguistics, and as an editorial associate of the Northwest Architect. From the 1930s until his death at the age of 88 in 1959, Jager spent innumerable hours organizing the papers of Purcell and Elmslie. His near-obsessive attention to detail, matched by Purcell's similar organization of his papers, resulted in the spectacular Purcell collections of the Northwest Architectural Archive at the University of Minnesota. The bulk of Jager's creative energies, however, went into the design of the cabin, trails and landscape of Wolf Island, where he spent each summer alone.
The breadth and depth of this intensely private man's activities will, however, never be fully known. His eclectic library, as well as his own voluminous writings have largely disappeared (another factor in his relative anonymity). His widow Selma Jager tried to do some sorting, but in the end, most of his papers were burned on Selma's instructions. His remaining papers as well as a collection folk arts and crafts are curated at the Slovene Academy of Sciences and Arts.
Acknowledgment: Barbara Bezat (Northwest Architectural Archives), Richard Kronick and Mark Hammons provided much need assistance in navigating the voluminous William GrayPurcell papers as well as direction in understanding Jager and Purcell. Dr. Maja Lozar Štamcar, Senior Curator at the National Museum of Slovenia, has shared information about Jager's work in
Ljubljana. PHOTO CREDITS:
Fig. 1. John Jager (1918), William Gray Purcell Papers (N3), Correspondence - John Jager, Northwest Architectural Archives, University of Minnesota Libraries
Fig. 2. Church of St Stephen, St. Stephen, MN (ChipCity/Wikimedia Commons/CC-BY-SA-3.0)
Fig. 3. Church of St Bernard, St. Paul, MN (McGiever/Wikimedia Commons/CC-BY-SA-3.0)
Fig. 4. William Purcell (left) and John Jager (1928), William Gray Purcell Papers (N3), Correspondence - John Jager, Northwest Architectural Archives, University of Minnesota Libraries


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Naruto: Gekitō Ninja Taisen! 4
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|Naruto: Gekitō Ninja Taisen! 4
| (ナルト-激闘忍者大戦! 4, Naruto: Gekitō Ninja Taisen! 4)
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Naruto: Gekitō Ninja Taisen! 4 is the fourth installment of the Gekitō Ninja Taisen series.
It covers the events from the Search for Tsunade Arc to the Sasuke Retreival Arc. The game fleshes out the tag team mode from the last game, referred to as 3-man cell, which allows groups of characters to fight each other in turn. Most of it remains the same, only Gekitō Ninja Taisen! 4 enable certain combinations of team members having special attack combinations (done with forward+special). The 3-man cell mode also enables either 1 on 1, 2 on 2, 3 on 3, 3 on 1, 3 on 2 or 2 on 1, all in one tag mode. The Crisis Special system is also less apparent, as character's health bars no longer glow or show any indication of some sort when crisis mode is play.
The Crisis Specials themselves are also remapped, and this is the first Gekitō Ninja Taisen / Clash of Ninja game to feature backward specials (back+special button) (Naruto Shippuden: Clash of Ninja Revolution 3 reuses this concept)
Most noticeably, the game does away with the shop feature, and unlockables are now acquired by simply meeting certain criteria in the game's new Mission mode. Mission mode forces the player to fight increasingly stronger opponents under specific circumstances and with different methods of winning in order to complete each mission. It is the last Naruto game for the Gamecube.
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- Naruto Uzumaki (Playable in a One-Tailed form) (Nine-Tails form)
- Sasuke Uchiha (Playable in a Level 2 Cursed form) (Sharingan)
- Sakura Haruno
- Kakashi Hatake (Sharingan)
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COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) -- South Carolina men's basketball assistant Matt Figger has been promoted to associate head coach.
Head coach Frank Martin announced the move Wednesday. Figger had been the team's recruiting coordinator and will remain in that role. He moves into the spot vacated by Brad Underwood, who became Stephen F. Austin's head coach this past spring.
Martin said it was an easy decision promoting Figger, who has been assistant under Martin for the past six seasons at Kansas State and at South Carolina.
Figger also has spent time on the coaching staffs at Arkansas and South Alabama.
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Q: I'm so mad at all them media for making fun of the Miss America pageant. I been watching it for a real long time and I sure do like the good, clean, family entertainment, especially that part where the girls come out half-naked in their bathing suits.
A: The pageant has had a long run and reign, dating from a time when Miss America had to crank-start her Model T before driving off with that fabulous tiara. In fact, the annual tribute to women who were born pretty has become such an anachronism that her handlers decided the only way to avoid its inevitable extinction was to retool the show with state-of-the-art production values. Or, as the press release puts it: "Even grannies will be groovin' when they experience Miss America's new 'club-style' set design and this year's slammin' Miss America soundtrack."
Q: Wow, that sounds pretty contemporary.
A: Not only that, they're trying to live down their cheesecake image by skipping the promenade past the judges in favor of a "fast-paced production number reminiscent of the annual event's beachside history."
Q: But they're still wearing those hot-looking bathing suits, right?
A: Right. But instead of the parade of states at the top of the show, the camera "discovers each young woman on-screen framed by web page background."
Q: Hey, isn't that the beginning of Monday night football?
A: Yes, but with more padding. And then each contestant's voice will be "digitized" as she announces her state, college, and name.
Q: They want to make sure she gets it right?
A: Exactly. And then, get this: "It's every contestant for herself during the new behind-the-scenes segments that will air live following each commercial break. The backstage camera will capture contestants' reactions and opinions about the show and the other contestants.... Move over Survivor."
Q: Survivor! Does that mean one them will walk around naked like that Richard guy?
A: No. In fact, a big rule they want you to know about is no thongs allowed.
Q: They probably want to keep everything dignified. Is that because so many former Miss Americas go on to solve the world's problems?
A: That's it. Like Miss America 1999 Nicole Johnson, whose latest feat was being "engaged Easter weekend to [investment banker] Conn Jackson, whom she met through blind date last fall."
Q: Good for her. Will TV viewers miss anything important this year?
A: Friday night's festivities, in which the 51 contestants "show us their shoes in the most creative and imaginative ways possible!"
Q: Their shoes?
A: Right. In fact, Donald Trump's pastry chef will be creating a "spectacular chocolate display with the classic 'Show Me Your Shoes' theme."
Q: I'd sure like to be a judge at this historic event.
A: You're in luck. This year, "a member of the American public will serve as a Miss America judge on Saturday night as part of the 'Instant Celebrity Judge' contest. This regular Joe or Jane will be chosen prior to the telecast based on an interview-round question he or she had submitted."
Q: Oooh, I've got a good question. How come the one who wins always cries?
A: The shoes are real tight.
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Thoroughbred Race Horses
Handicapping, betting on horse racing, or picking horses, is as much an art as it is a science. No one method is better than others and a good handicapper is always learning. Any great handicapper will tell you that he is constantly changing and adapting his methods, always learning, and always on the lookout for another angle.
Winning at the racetrack requires uses an ever changing mix of strategies to pick horses. Each race is a different puzzle, and finding the solution to that puzzle requires experience, patience, and of course a little luck.
Becoming a good handicapper requires years of study, and we will only highlight a few of the basic methods used to pick horses. Become familiar with these strategies, find the ones that work best for you, then refine them and learn more about them as you develop your handicapping skills. For a quick start guide to horse betting consider a Horse Betting System, or take some advice from experts and sign up for picks from the Donerail Project - they use a sophisticated computer simulation to find lonshots, and undervalued horses to bet on. If you want to use a simple, yet very powerful computer program to help you pick horses take a look at the Free Horse Race provided every day at Betmix.com. All of the methods discussed below can be used to pick horses there with the aid of computer software.
Speed Handicapping
The fastest horse always wins the race. Right? Not really. There are books upon books devoted to calculating how fast a horse ran in a particular race and giving that speed a numerical value. The most famous number available is the Beyer Speed figure. Developed by Andrew Beyer and featured in the Daily Racing Form's past performances, the Beyer Speed figure represents how fast the horse ran and takes into account track bias and other factors, so that in theory a horse that ran an 80 speed figure at Churchill Downs would be comparable to a horse that ran an 80 speed figure at Belmont Park. Comparing the recent speed figures of horses in a race is a good starting point for separating the contenders from the pretenders. A horse that has earned figures in the 60's in his last few starts would probably be in tough with a group of horses earning speed figures in the 80's. Throw him out with confidence. When giving weight to speed figures it is important to consider the track bias - are most races won by horses on the lead, or are closers winning more often. Some tracks are "fair", some have a speed bias and some change from day to day. Using speed figures as your only handicapping method will not produce consistent profits, use it as part of your overall handicapping strategy - but mainly as a way to throw out some obvious non-contenders. MORE ON BEYER SPEED FIGURES
Pace Handicapping
Pace makes the race. Pace handicapping involves predicting how the race will unfold once the horses leave the gate. Which horses are speed horses, which ones are closers, who can make that dramatic middle move? Looking at the running lines in the past performances will give you an idea of how a particular horse usually runs a race. One of the most profitable angles in handicapping is finding a lone speed horse in a race full of closers, he can dictate the pace up front and when they turn for home its all over. Not having been pressured early the lone speed horse has plenty left in the tank to finish the race. Throw a few other speed horses in that race and there is a good chance they will burn each other up in the beginning of the race setting it up for a closer to pass the tired speed horses down the stretch. If you have started handicapping a race and have thrown out a few horses based on their speed figures from the above example, don't forget to consider if they will impact the pace of the race. Although they may be in over their heads in this race, they might be able to run fast enough at the start to cause some problems for your early speed horses.


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The need of fast, safe and reliable backups of data has been a demand of any computing environment. The most common method of backing up large amounts of data has been the use of tape or disk systems that stream images of the source data to a remote or removable media device. The key problems with this is that with the large amounts of data that need to be backed up the backup can take many hours to run and in most cases will take over double that time to do a restore. Recent advancements in SANs and NAS disk systems have given users the ability to backup data at any time at a low economic and time cost. This presentation will compare this new technology with old backup methods and will describe details on how this new backup and storage method works.
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A primer for The Battle of Algiers.
A column in the Washington Post reported yesterday that the Pentagon's special operations chiefs have decided to screen The Battle of Algiers, Gillo Pontecorvo's 1965 classic film of urban terrorist insurgency, for Pentagon employees on Aug. 27. The decision to show Algiers, David Ignatius writes, is "one hopeful sign that the military is thinking creatively and unconventionally about Iraq." He even quotes from a Pentagon flier about the movie:
How to win a battle against terrorism and lose the war of ideas. ... Children shoot soldiers at point blank range. Women plant bombs in cafes. Soon the entire Arab population builds to a mad fervor. Sound familiar? The French have a plan. It succeeds tactically, but fails strategically. To understand why, come to a rare showing of this film.
It's welcome news that the military is thinking creatively about the American role in Iraq, but the lessons and pleasures of The Battle of Algiers are a lot more ambiguous than this Pentagon blurb implies. To praise the film for its strategic insights is to buy into the 1960s revolutionary mystique that it celebrates; it is the collapse of that very mystique that has contributed to the film's current obscurity and made screenings "rare."
Even so, The Battle of Algiers remains a fascinating artifact of its time. But when the film came out, viewers required a lot of context to understand it properly. Here's a primer about this famous and controversial film, and about how the ever-shifting moral of its story relates to the Battle of Baghdad.
What is The Battle of Algiers?
The Battle of Algiers was the premier political film of the 1960s. It was studied by the campus left for its lessons in revolutionary-cell organization and was obligatory viewing for Black Panthers.
The first part of the film depicts the campaign of terror launched by the National Liberation Front (FLN, called "the organization" in the film) against French colonial rule in 1956. * The story is built around a criminal-turned-revolutionary known as Ali La Pointe, and it details his political epiphany and his terrorist career. The movie's second half concerns the reaction by the French military, which consists primarily of a campaign of torture and murder, and focuses on the leader in charge of that campaign, "Col. Mathieu." Mathieu is by far the best-realized character in the film; his is the only role filled by a professional actor.
From its first release, the film was extremely controversial: When the film was finally shown in France, theaters were bombed. In Italy, viewers were attacked.
Is the movie accurate?
Within broad limits. Ali was indeed the hero of the Casbah, the Muslim section of Algiers; as the film suggests, his death marked the end of the real battle for the city. The French did torture and murder their way to tactical victory. Mathieu, for his part, is based mostly on the real-life Gen. Jacques Massu, who devised the counterterrorist strategy. Many sequences are meticulously accurate, such as the famous one referred to by the Pentagon in its flier, in which Algerian women put on Western clothes and makeup and then plant bombs at civilian French targets. Unsurprisingly, many characters are composites, and numerous details are fudged, made up, or altered. Among them is Ali's powerful last line in the film, directed at the French: "I do not negotiate with them." The line is actually appropriated from a speech by then-Interior Minister François Mitterrand, who had directed it at the insurgents.
Is there anything important that the film leaves out?
The film leaves out the insurrection that was taking place in the rest of Algeria, which makes it impossible for viewers to judge how the FLN finally succeeded in driving out the French, much less what was wrong with French military strategy. (Even now, some blame defeat not on the military but on Charles de Gaulle.) The movie also omits the struggle between the FLN and other anti-French factions for control of the revolution. It took an Algerian filmmaker, not a European, to tell the story of insurgents killing each other (Okacha Touita's 1982 film, The Sacrificed).
Instead of offering an explanation for the ultimate triumph of the FLN, Pontecorvo offers a poetic picture of Algeria's revolutionary resilience. "Even though some rivers seem to disappear," he once told an interviewer, "they run underground instead and always reach the sea." That's an appealing metaphor, but it's neither politically nor militarily instructive.


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In the run-up to the U.S. presidential election, Washington's regional allies were convinced that the Obama administration's lack of a Syria policy was due to the US president's preoccupation with securing a second term. Once the elections were over, the thinking went, priorities would change and the U.S. would pursue a more robust policy.
There was such desperation for American leadership and a clear U.S. policy that some in the Saudi press were counting days and hours to the election. For instance, Tariq al-Homayed, editor of al-Sharq al-Awsat, waxed hopeful in late September that in 40 days, "all options will be on the table." On the eve of the election, Homayed again wrote that the region "has been in a coma for more than a month because of the US elections... If Obama wins things will be different... In 24 hours, there will be movement and action."
Now that President Obama has been reelected, this hopeful view of a dramatic shift in U.S. policy has resurfaced. The recent formation in Doha of the Syrian National Coalition of Opposition and Revolutionary Forces, and the news of Turkey holding talks with NATO over deploying Patriot missile batteries on its border with Syria, have spurred speculation that the U.S. has finally changed its posture and has adopted a more aggressive Syria policy.
However, this reading is overly hopeful. What's more, it confuses the attempts by Washington's allies to spur it into action with the actual policy thinking of the Obama administration.
When the Turks deliberately leaked the news of their discussions with NATO about the Patriot batteries, the story was seen as a Turkish gambit to establish a de facto no-fly zone in northern Syria. There remains, however, much to be answered about this plan -- assuming it will even come to pass, as Ankara has not yet made an official request.
First off, on the eve of the election, the Turks were told about the continued U.S. unwillingness to pursue the safe haven option. Then last week, the State Department placed the potential deployment of Patriot batteries within a strictly defensive framework, against a possible Syrian attack on Turkey, perhaps with chemical weapons. In fact, the State Department spokesperson, Victoria Nuland, dismissed the prospect of using the Patriot interceptors to set up a no-fly zone on the cheap as mixing "apples and oranges."
More importantly, even should Turkey and NATO go through with this deployment, the rules of engagement, as well as the details of who would man the batteries and who would hold command over them, are all unclear. However, it's safe to say that the White House, which has resisted all attempts by its regional allies to drag it into more involvement, is not likely about to offer the Turks the ability to force its hand on intervention in Syria.
The consistent statements by administration officials, before and after the election, support this conclusion. At best, the U.S. and NATO might deploy the Patriot batteries as a show of commitment to Turkey's security. But Washington will resist any attempt to alter the purpose of this deployment. This way the administration will have appeared to have done something bold, but in reality, the ground rules will have remained unchanged.
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Keira's charity dressKeira Knightley has donated her Oscar dress to charity.
The British beauty - who was nominated for an Academy Award for 'Pride and Prejudice' - has given the wine-coloured Vera Wang gown to Oxfam to help raise money for relief work in Africa.
The frock - which was custom-made for Keira - will be auctioned on eBay later this month.
The 21-year-old said in a statement: "This is such an amazing dress and I am really pleased to be able to donate it to Oxfam.
"I have seen the TV reports on the horrendous drought in East Africa and I know how desperate things have become, so I am happy to be able to do something to help."
Designer Wang said she's thrilled her creation will help raise funds for a good cause.
She is quoted as saying: "Keira represents the essence of youth, intelligence and beauty. She is a young woman with a conscience."
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Teachers may bring their car in to any Waterway Carwash every Wednesday in May for a FREE car wash and discounted gasoline.
In the spirit of community partnership, Waterway would like to thank the educators of St. Louis by providing all teachers a FREE Express car wash, 10-cents off every gallon of gasoline and a FREE fountain soda every Wednesday in May. All teachers need to do is present their school ID to a Waterway cashier.
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In addition to Teacher Appreciation Month, Waterway encourages all students and educators to sign up for the free Perk program. All year long, students and educators with a Waterway Perk card receive 10-cents off every gallon of gasoline, $2 off any car wash and monthly e-mail special offers.
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Talk of the Nation becomes Talk of the World on Thursday, Jan. 22, from 2-3 p.m. EST. As a new administration moves into Washington, D.C., should the U.S. be a world policeman, or a world partner? And we hope to hear from you, our worldwide listeners.
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I recently worked with an investor who bought several homes in the Real Estate crash of the 80's and rented them out until the market recovered. He then remodeled them and sold them for a fortune in equity, that is what he is doing yet again because of the crash. Yes we are in a recession and a very down market which in turn means GREAT BUYS for the future. If you have ever thought of "flipping" houses like the famous TLC show sparked "Flip this House", then now is your window of opportunity...opportunity is KNOCKING seriously.
Another customer husband and wife team bought an investment home from me recently saying they had lost almost all there stock money and were convinced that Real Estate was the only thing they were going to invest in from now on - smart folks!
Home prices being reduced daily that were only three years ago worth thousands more, will come back up in value. Think about it, homes are a necessity, and Houston is the number city for job growth and we live in the Energy Capital. There will always be a need for homes and the best time to buy is when there is a slump, right? Or would rather wait until the market recovers in a few years and pay way more for the same house - doesn't make sense. Real Estate is the only investment you can make that is at least risk like the stock market.
When I started my career in Real Estate 13 years ago, interest rates where 9%!!!!!!!!!!! TODAY THEY ARE hovering around 4%!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! HELLO???
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I can't seem to get a straight answer and I'm sure I won't get one here either, but wondering if anyone due around 2/22 can share when they think they conceived! I have a 22 month old to chase around and working FT so trying to remember a month or two back is almost impossible
I have irregular periods (anywhere from 30-40 days) with first day of last period at 5/9, but after my ultrasound today, looks like I'm just "7 weeks, 0 days". Is there a good calculator out there?


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Sorry for the late, we are kinda busy, but we are trying to keep up the best we can! ~
Thanks for everyone, who voted on the previously monthly theme poll. It was really helpful to us, cause we also heard interesting ideas from you. It's really nice to see, some of you are interested in.
This link for those, who don't have a single idea, what the hell I'm talking about:
Soooo, I guess, it's time to announce our winner.
"Popular artwork adaptations"
I have already explained in the poll, what does this mean, but I tell it again:
In this challenge, we're going to choose a famous artwork, and our members have to make a good adaptation from it.
And our chosen artwork: www.bestpriceart.com/shop-onli…
Pierre-Auguste Renoir was an impressionist painter from France. He had a good relationsip with Claude Monet, and this picture portraits him actually.
I hope this is not a hard picture. Just remember, adaptation doesn't mean a copy! I mean, for example, you don't have to paint like Renoir did, ( though, if you think this is your goal, you can try, of course! ;D) The only main point is, that it has to be related with Hetalia!
Helpful starting points:
Which Hetalia character pops out from your head, when you're looking at this picture?
What do you think, what kind of athmosphere he sits in? Thinking it trough and draw this place! So expand his area! Or change the viewing angle!
You can also play with the techniques, the tools etc.
So everything is accepted, - you know, as long as it fits with the rules! (:
Also, suggested a Hallooween theme, since it's an actual celebration. With this, she made me thinking that it's actually totally logic and such, and Im like wow, why do I have to complicate stuff, lolhaha, so how about this:
Every "celebrateful" month there will be a second little, not so official theme thingie. So until november, we're going to accept halloween themed pictures as well. ( I think, october and november is ok for halloween? )
Of course halloween doesn't count only to America. Scary national folktales, national traditions, (cause not everyone going to party in the halloween season right? ) are welcoming as well.
(And then of course, December is the month of Christmas! )
So in the end a little summary, just to make sure every date and such:
- Artwork adaptation theme runs only in October.
- The second celebration theme runs until November.
- These are not a contest, just an inspirational thingie fo' fun. If you totally don't want to draw anything, you can submit regular stuff, we listed in the club's rules.
Oook, I think that's all. ( Lol am I talking too much? ) I think, the next month, - since I saw people were really interested on that too - gonna be "Comics and countries" so hang on!
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Democratic Republic of Congo
The conflict in the Democratic Republic of Congo has claimed more than five million lives - making it the planet's deadliest conflict since World War II.
But despite the horrific levels of sexual violence and millions of people displaced from their homes and schools, it remains Africa's forgotten war and rarely makes the headlines of the world's media.
Although the conflict has officially finished, much of the country remains desperately poor and the continuing fighting and widespread sexual violence in the eastern regions make it one of the most dangerous places on earth to be a woman.
What we're doing
Night Ambulance and Drop-In Centre
In Kinshasa we're providing vital medical and emotional care to street children in one of the city's most deprived districts. We run a Night Ambulance that tours the streets and alleys of Tshangu – looking for vulnerable young people in need of care. As well as the medical help, the social workers on the Ambulance can refer young women to our Drop-In Centre – a sanctuary from the dangers of the streets where the girls can begin to build a safer, independent life away from the streets.
Take a ride on the ambulance and find out more about the Drop In Centre here.
Child Helplines
Our telephone helplines are a lifeline for children who are being abused or mistreated. The free service puts them in touch with trained counsellors and social workers who can refer them to proper care providers, or in emergency cases, arrange for the children to be taken into protective care if they are in danger.
Vocational Training
We're providing training for the young women in Kinshasa who attend our Drop-In Centre. By teaching them skills in professions like hairdressing and tailoring, we can help them live independently and earn a sustainable income.
Challenging Attitudes & Changing Behaviours
We're tackling the root cause of some of the problems by trying to change the way that local people and institutions treat the children. Many are unaware of what rights children have, and how they are often violated. We're training the police, army, religious leaders and teachers about issues like corporal punishment or sexual violence against girls.
We're also helping to educate the local street boys in Kinshasa too, as they are often the perpetrators of violence against girls and each other. Most have had no formal education and an extremely tough and often violent upbringing so it's often the first solution to their problems.
Strengthening the Capacity of The Congolese Child Protection System
We're mapping out all the agencies and institutions that provide services to young people in Kinshasa and Goma. This helps us identify any gaps where the social services, schools or community organisations aren't providing a safety net to identify and protect vulnerable children. We can provide emergency assistance in the short term, but in the long term we're training the local authorities to build a more comprehensive child protection system.
Providing an Emergency Response to the crisis in eastern Congo
The conflict between government forces and the M23 rebel group has forced hundreds of thousands of people to flee their homes since mid-2012. The fighting flares up at very short notice and the front-lines are rapidly changing. We provided some child-friendly spaces in the Kanyaruchinya camp that sprung up to accommodate 60,000 displaced people, and our partner organisation's compound became a safe haven for tens of thousands of local people when the M23 rebels seized control of Goma.
We also built two 'Child Friendly Spaces' in rural areas of eastern Congo that provided counselling, education, and family reunification for almost 10,000 children who had fled their homes or had to leave school because of the conflict.
Your cash is vital in helping us provide urgent responses like these to children when a conflict crisis strikes. The 'rapid response' institutional funding (from the UN, DFID etc) can take weeks kick in, but the first 72 hours are crucial. By having a reserve of emergency funding set aside, we can set up vital Child Friendly spaces like these as an immediate priority. Watch our CEO Rob's TED talk about emergency humanitarian funding.
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PHO provides expert scientific and technical support relating to infection prevention and control; surveillance and epidemiology; health promotion, chronic disease and injury prevention; environmental and occupational health; health emergency preparedness; and public health laboratory services to support health providers, the public health system and partner ministries in making informed decisions and taking informed action to improve the health and security of Ontarians. For more information about OAHPP, visit www.oahpp.ca.
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Position Title: Manager, Tuberculosis/Mycology/Parasitology
Department: Toronto Public Health Laboratory
Duration: Permanent
Location: 81 Resources Road, Toronto PHL
Job ID: 13-0067
Posting Date: June 27, 2013
Closing Date: July 12, 2013
Position Summary:
The Public Health Ontario Laboratories (PHOL) are looking for talented individuals to join our dynamic team as we prepare for the move of our Toronto lab to our new home in the MaRS Discovery District. Located in the heart of Toronto, the new state of the art facility will house some of the world's most advanced microbiology laboratories and foremost infectious disease experts. Proven leaders are needed to help PHOL transition into this new era of public health medical laboratory science service in Ontario. Successful applicants will work from the current laboratory location at 81 Resources Road in Etobicoke prior to the laboratory's relocation in 2014.
Reporting to the Manager, Clinical and Environmental Bacteriology Department, the Manager, Tuberculosis/ Mycology/Parasitology will manage the day to day operations of the Mycobacteriology, Mycology and Parasitology Laboratories at our Toronto lab.
Key Responsibilities
Key Responsibilities:
• Provides technical oversight and leads day to day operations to deliver a variety of public health laboratory services. e.g. diagnostic testing, reference testing, quality assurance, customer service and outreach, non-clinical support services etc.
• Identifies and manages laboratory responses on matters of public health importance such as potential and actual outbreaks, unusual urgent and critical situations.
• Ensures implementation and compliance to all technical, regulatory, safety and accreditation requirements (e.g. OLA, CALA), policies, processes and procedures and that all staff are trained appropriately.
• Performs a variety of HR functions including recruitment, disciplinary, performance management, and coaches and develops staff and fosters a positive employee relations environment. Monitors work and performance of staff to ensure compliance with regulatory, safety and accreditation standards.
• Manages and implements annual operating and capital budgets to meet program delivery goals.
• Provides input into operational planning and policy development in relation to system wide public health laboratory issues.
• Responsible for continuous quality improvement as a member of PHOL Quality Management team and participates in the development, implementation and monitoring of quality assurance and performance measures.
• Works with contract managers to prepare appropriate procurement documentation for RFX processes for procurement of equipment, goods and services e.g. courier, preventative maintenance etc. Provides oversight for the evaluation and participates in vendor debrief sessions.
• Provides and supports outreach and customer service/client management to partners, clients, members of the public and stakeholders, e.g. public health units, hospitals, LTC facilities, physicians, laboratories, clinics, academic partners, etc. to promote and maintain high quality reliable laboratory services.
• Analyses and comments on administrative and statistical reports on lab operations (e.g. Workload report to inform resource planning and allocation.
• Provides input into monthly financial variance report. Draws conclusions and forecasts future budgetary requirements.
• Participates on appropriate committees and work teams to advance PHOL activities and foster broad stakeholder input and participation, where appropriate (e.g. public health units, LTC facilities, physicians, laboratories, clinics).
Knowledge and Skills
• Knowledge of principles and practices of Microbiology or Laboratory Disciplines/Services in a public health laboratory setting to provide technical oversight and lead day to day operations to deliver a variety of public health laboratory services.
• Knowledge of Public Health Laboratory programs, standards, policies, applicable legislation, and current issues affecting operations to recommend policies and improvements, and contribute to long/short term planning.
• Knowledge of the measurement indicators and collection tools and quality management tools needed to ensure that the testing program or service is operating efficiently and effectively.
• Leadership, team building and client relations management skills to develop and fosters a positive employee relations and client/stakeholder partnerships.
• Organization skills including priority setting and workload management to manage multiple concurrent issues and projects and provides direction to the reporting staff.
• Computer skills and good understanding of software including word-processing, database, spreadsheet, project management, presentation, e-mail, and Internet applications in order to analyze information, prepare reports, and establish/utilize tools which support the analysis and monitoring of operations.
Education and Experience
• This position requires registration with the CMLTO and in good standing with a certificate listed as: practicing.
• 3-5 years of management experience.
• Microbiology as specialty will be an asset.
• Clinical laboratory management experience within a union environment will be an asset.
• Experience with quality tools such as lean principles and six sigma will be an asset.
Your cover letter and resume must clearly indicate how you meet the qualifications and competencies of the position.
To Apply: If you are interested in applying to this position, please go to www.oahpp.ca/careers and click on the job title.
Thank you for your interest in this position, however, only qualified candidates will be contacted for an interview. Please continue to view our website for new career opportunities with the Public Health Ontario.
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Will Downing (b. 1963, Brooklyn, New York), is an American singer-songwriter and producer. Downing is known in the contemporary jazz and R&B music genres for his rich baritone vocals and his interpretations of R&B and pop classics that stretch back to the early 1980s. In 1988 Downing signed a recording contract with 4th & Broadway Records, and his first solo album, "Will Downing," was released that same year. The critics singled out Downing's version of the John Coltrane classic jazz piece "A Love Supreme" as one of its highlights. It reached No. 4 on the Billboard Charts. Downing stayed with 4th & Broadway for just one album and switched to Island Records for his second release, "Come Together As One," in 1989. Like his first album, "Come Together As One" was a pop and dance oriented collection of R&B songs that also reflected Downing's love of jazz. Switching labels to Mercury Records for his fourth outing, 1993's "Love's the Place to Be," Downing scored his best-selling album to date with over 235,000 copies sold in the United States and over 300,000 copies in Great Britain. He remained with Mercury for two more albums, "Moods" in 1995 and "Invitation Only" in 1997, both of which sold well to Downing's core fan base. The album "All the Man You Need" received a Grammy Award nomination for Best Traditional R&B Album in 2000. In 2002 he received the International Association of African-American Music Diamond Award. His latest album "After Tonight" - his first for Peak Records and thirteenth overall - is his fastest selling to date since its October 2007 release. Downing released his most recent album "Lust, Love and Lies" in September 2010. He previously released "Classique" in June 2009.


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How can I get my daughter to clean her room?
My 5-year-old daughter refuses to pick up her room. I've tried keeping her in it until it's clean, helping her organize it, tossing out toys she doesn't pick up, and even grounding her -- nothing works. She tells me that she's 'just a little girl' and can't do it. Any ideas on how I can get her to clean her room? I'm at my wits' end.
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My 5 year old son was so defiant about cleaning up his room and also never wanted to do things for himself that we knew he could do. What finally worked like magic was a reward chart. I made him a chore poster and hung it in his room. On it I drew cheerful illustrations of the things I expect him to do for himself daily - "Wash Hands", "Brush Teeth" (I check them and touch them up), "Get Dressed", "Be Happy" (that really means to cooperate with me) and "Clean Room". We started what we call the 3-toy rule - no more than 3 toys out at a time (We're still working on this one!). Every evening before bed we look at the poster and discuss all the things he did that day. If he managed them all, he gets a sticker on his chart. Whenever he finishes a row of stickers (7 per row in our case) he earns a "sticker prize", which could be a trip to the dollar store, something at the grocery store, a trip to a special place, whatever he wants within reason(I usually never spend more than $5). This has worked wonders not only in keeping his room clean, but in improving his general behavior. He never asks for toys in stores anymore because he knows he has to earn enough stickers to get them (although he likes to "window shop" for things he might want to get), and when he does earn a prize he is so proud of himself! This technique has proven to him that he can do so many things for himself. I found that it really helped to have the visual chart which makes all those rules so much more concrete for him. Also, to keep down clutter, occasionally we go through his room and put old toys in a box which we take to a local charity. This has helped him see that not everyone is as fortunate as we are.posted 03/08/2007 by prwtt
When my daughter refuses to clean her room, I just ask her if there is something else she would rather do. Like the laundry or the dishes. This shows her that I have responsibilities and have to clean up as well. This was she knows Im not trying to be a mean old mommy. She actually choose the laundry once. She thought that because her clothes were already in the basket it would be a peice of cake. After she got the the washer and realized she had no idea what she was doing (she's 6 btw) she opted to clean her room instead. It made her realize that cleaning her room really isn't that hard. She doesn't give me a fuss about it anymore, and it usually only takes her 5 minutes to get the whole thing cleaned with the bed made.posted 04/16/2007 by luna_
Our daughter will be four in May. For the longest time, room cleaning was a huge ordeal for us, now she does it happily and without complaint (and usually without being asked) For me, it went beyond just having a clean room. It was about teaching responsibility and that, even though you may not want to do something, you sometimes have to do it because it is the right thing to do. I think that's an important lesson that goes beyond just room cleaning. So if she was having a particularly difficult time cleaning her room, then I might point out something to her that I'm doing that I don't necessarily want to do and use it as a teaching tool. This seemed to have the biggest impact, over time, but there are also a couple of other things we did that really helped. We took out ALL the toys that she didn't play with, and all the toys that have many small pieces (like puzzles, crayons, etc.) are stored elsewhere, and she has to ask for them individually to play with them. We spent a long time teaching her that you put a toy back right away when you're donw tih it, before you can get another one out. This mostly applies to toys she brings into other parts of the house. If she's having a hard time cleaning, then we give some direction (put your balls in the closet, put your stuffed animals on the shelf, etc.) We're not too picky in terms of which drawer something goes into or which shelf the books are on on the bookshelf, but if she puts something away where it doesn't belong (i.e. her ponies piled up in the floor of her closet instead of in a drawer where they won't get lost of stepped on), it gets removed from her closet and placed on her bed to be put away properly. We do clean-up time twice a day, before preschool and before dinner. This way, the mess never gets too bad and it isn't overwhelming, it's just 5mins 2 times a day. Finally, we give her the option of not cleaning her room sometimes, or of waiting until morning. It's her room and she needs to be given some control over it.posted 04/13/2006 by a BabyCenter Member
To keep toy pick up low, we tell our five year old to put away one toy before she plays with another. This makes the room less messy. Children this age have a difficult time making decicions. Most likely, there is so much stuff on your daughter's bedroom floor that she can't figure out what she should do first. What you can do is say, "Right now you can pick up all the books. I'll come check on you in three minutes." Telling her what to pick up will make the task easier for her, and if she knows there's a time limit, she's more likely to do it than dilly dally. To make the time limit work, however, there must be a consequence if she does not complete teh task on time. With my daughter, for example, if she doesn't pick up her things in a reasonanble amuont of time, we take that thing away for a while. I hope this helps!posted 10/15/2005 by calapitters
Something that worked for my daughter was giving her allowance at the end of every day (at first) and eventually at the end of every week in which she successfully cleaned her room. I started at $.25 per day and then gave $1.00 per week to clean her room. It worked because at the end of every week she was able to go to the $1 store and buy herself some lotion or some nail polish or a little toy or something.posted 10/10/2005 by a BabyCenter Member
My 6 yr. old refused to keep her room clean for over a month. We tried everything too - she was stuck all weekend in her room & didn't lift a finger. We warned her that it was her last chance to clean it before she lost everything. She thought we were bluffing. She came home from school with nothing in her room but books, clothes & her bed. She's earned back a little at a time, and as she gets her things back, when she's done with them, we remind her of what will happen if she doesn't put them away! It has worked great!posted 05/21/2007 by MYTMOM1
My daughter HATES to pick up her room. So I started making bets with her. I would say things like I bet you can't clean up your toys hopping on one foot. It worked. She loves to be challanged. She even tries to make bets with me.lol. I also made a Happy Chart. Where every time she picked up after herself she would get a sticker. When she got 10 stickers she would be able to pick a little, cheep toy from a store.posted 10/24/2011 by taylorjblair1
That's a great idea. I have a four year old and I go through the same thing. Thanks for the tip.posted 10/11/2005 by ktca5822
I have the same problem with my 5yr.old daughter. Thanks for the allowance tip. My daughter loves to collect money in her "money box". That sounds like a good idea to give her a little reward. Thanks!! I will try it!posted 10/10/2005 by a BabyCenter Member
What I did to get my 5 year old daughter to clean up her room was to make her think it was something "a big girl" does. I reinforce her good behaviour by praising her for "being such a big girl" when she does clean up her room and give her lots of positive reinforcement. I might even tell my husband how she did a good job cleaning her room and how impressed I was when I know my daughter can hear. When she doesn't want to clean up I don't make a huge deal out of it because that makes it more attractive to not do it, reinforces the complaining and ends up in a fight. I might try to have a race to see if she can clean her room before I do something. Another trick is to break down the cleaning up into smaller tasks. Tell her specifically to put all the blocks away first, then put your clothes in the hamper and so on. Breaking it down into small tasks seems to help sometimes and make it more manageable. You could also make it fun by asking her to put away all the red things, or all the round things etc. until everything is put away. Make cleaning up a game (don't call it cleaning up) so they don't know they are cleaning up.posted 10/13/2005 by raynor22
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The Los Angeles Daily News is LA's smaller and slightly more conservative paper and bases its readership in The Valley and other suburban areas.
The supporters of the ban, which include several faith-based organizations and churches, see this as a movement toward societal acceptance of a group that they don't think ought to exist. Under the U.S. Constitution, they have a right to think that. But it doesn't allow them to deny equal rights to anyone.
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