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All Star Games
News about All Star Games, including commentary and archival articles published in The New York Times.
Chronology of Coverage
Apr. 16, 2016
NBA owners decide league can still host 2017 All-Star Game in Charlotte, NC, despite state law blocking transgender people from using public bathrooms, but may reassess option at later date; also vote to allow teams to put small advertising logos on jerseys. MORE
Feb. 1, 2016
Minor league hockey player John Scott is voted captain of Pacific Division team for 2016 NHL All-Star Game and subsequently most valuable player of tournament. MORE
Nov. 28, 2015
NHL All-Star Game will be played in three-on-three format, which has been implemented in overtime during regular season and is popular with fans. MORE
Jul. 7, 2015
New York Yankees third baseman Alex Rodriguez does not make American League All-Star team, despite turning in solid season. MORE
Jul. 5, 2015
Tyler Kepner Extra Bases column examines players who could make 2015 All-Star teams. MORE
Jun. 30, 2015
New York Yankees will likely be shut out of starting line up in All-Star Game for first time since 1992; no Yankees player is currently higher than fourth at his position as deadline for fan balloting approaches. MORE
Jun. 23, 2015
Tyler Kepner On Baseball column observes that currently seven of nine players on the American League All-Star team come from the Kansas City Royals, including Omar Infante, who has had objectively sub-par season; contends that outcome shows how popular balloting, and outpouring of effort from fans of a particular team, can result in All-Star game that does not feature best players. MORE
Feb. 16, 2015
Harvey Araton On Pro Basketball column holds that New York Knicks power forward Carmelo Anthony was completely overshadowed by basketball greats invited to All-Star brunch he hosted at Javits Center. MORE
Feb. 15, 2015
NBA's All-Star weekend, taking place in New York City for first time since 1998, offers such a multitude of social and business events for players that All-Star Game itself seems to have taken on an air of nonchalance; former NBA players recall far more competitive All-Star Game, with East and West teams each racking up more points than the average for regular-season games. MORE
Feb. 15, 2015
NBA Roundup; Minnesota Timberwolves' Zach LaVine wins 2015 NBA slam dunk contest at Barclays Center in Brooklyn, earning two perfect scores. MORE
Feb. 15, 2015
NBA Roundup; Portland Trail Blazers' LaMarcus Aldridge will replace injured Anthony Davis in All-Star Game for Western Conference. MORE
Feb. 15, 2015
NBA Roundup; Houston Rockets' Patrick Beverley claims title at NBA's overhauled skills competition. MORE
Feb. 14, 2015
NBA's taller players may be underdogs at All-Star slam dunk contest, as annual competition is more often won by slightly smaller players. MORE
Feb. 14, 2015
Major League Baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred announces that National League and American League will alternate batting last each year in All-Star Game regardless of where it is played. MORE
Feb. 13, 2015
NBA All-Star Game and promotional events surrounding it have become increasingly exclusive over years; tickets for game will be distributed to marketing and broadcast partners and individual teams and, for fifth straight year, will not be sold directly to public. MORE
Feb. 13, 2015
New York Knicks and Brooklyn Nets are co-hosts of NBA All-Star weekend but team owners Mikhail D Prokhorov and James L Dolan will not be present at many events. MORE
Feb. 13, 2015
New York Knicks forward Carmelo Anthony says he will most likely skip NBA All-Star Game as well as remainder of season due to knee injury. MORE
Feb. 8, 2015
NBA fans are excited for upcoming All-Star Game, which is returning to Madison Square Garden for first time since 1998. MORE
Jul. 17, 2014
Richard Sandomir TV Sports column holds that Derek Jeter's looming retirement helped increase MLB All-Star Game's viewership; notes that game drew average of 11.34 million viewers, up from almost 11 million for 2013 All-Star Game at Citi Field. MORE
Jul. 17, 2014
St Louis Cardinals pitcher Adam Wainwright told reporters he grooved pitch for New York Yankees shortstop Derek Jeter in his last All-Star Game, but later said he was joking; if Jeter did receive such a favor, it is not the first; in 1968, Mickey Mantle accepted offer from Denny McLain to throw an easy pitch, and in 1963 Don Drysdale supposedly tipped a pitch to his former teammate Duke Snider, who hit it out of the park. MORE
Jul. 16, 2014
American League defeats National League, 5-3, in All-Star Game; pitcher Adam Wainright favors Derek Jeter, playing 14th and final All-Star game of his career, allowing him to finish his All-Star career with .481 average. MORE
Jul. 16, 2014
St Louis Cardinals relief pitcher Pat Neshek has, nearly two years after losing his firstborn son to unexplained illness, won roster spot with St Louis and become father again, as well as first time All-Star. MORE
Jul. 15, 2014
Baseball Roundup; New York Yankees shortstop Derek Jeter, who is making his 14th and final appearance as an All-Star, draws one of the largest media crowds as well as praise from other players, during the American League batting practice; other news noted. MORE
Jul. 7, 2014
New York Yankees shortstop Derek Jeter is chosen to be on American League All-Star team for 14th time. MORE
Feb. 17, 2014
East defeats West, 163-155, in NBA All-Star Game; Cleveland Cavaliers point guard Kyrie Irving has 31 points and 14 assists to earn Most Valuable Player honors. MORE
Oct. 1, 2013
NBA All-Star Game will be in Toronto for the first time in 2016. MORE
Sep. 26, 2013
NBA's All-Star weekend in 2015 will be hosted by New York Knicks and Brooklyn Nets; All-Star Game will be held at Madison Square Garden, while Barclays Center will host dunk contest, 3-point shooting contest and skills challenge. MORE
Jul. 18, 2013
Benjamin Hoffman Keeping Score column asserts that baseball's midsummer classic is the most competitive and low-scoring of the major sports' All-Star Games, and home-field advantage in the World Series is no small prize. MORE
Jul. 17, 2013
New York Mets' Matt Harvey makes his All-Star debut before hometown crowd, but it is Mariano Rivera of the New York Yankees, playing in his 13th and final All-Star Game, who seals the 3-0 win for the American League and steals the spotlight. MORE
Jul. 17, 2013
New York Mets' young ace Matt Harvey settles down after hitting New York Yankees' Robinson Cano with a pitch at 84th All-Star Game, who was not injured; after slip-up, Harvey reverts to his dominant self, throwing 32 pitches in all, and receives standing ovation from the crowd. MORE
Jul. 17, 2013
New York Mets' Hall of Fame pitcher Tom Seaver throws the first pitch at the 2013 All-Star Game, garnering a standing ovation. MORE
Jul. 17, 2013
Tyler Kepner On Baseball column holds that if there is an unexpected takeaway from the All-Star Game it would be that the night went just about perfectly for New York Mets and the Wilpons family's dream ballpark, Citi Field. MORE
Jul. 16, 2013
Matt Harvey will become the third Mets pitcher to start an All-Star Game, following in the steps of Tom Sever and Dwight Gooden, aces to whom he has been compared. MORE
Jul. 16, 2013
Oakland Athletics pitcher Grant Balfour will be in the bullpen at the All-Star Game for the first time in his career; other MLB news noted. MORE
Jul. 16, 2013
Oakland Athletics outfielder Yoenis Cespedes wins the All-Star Home Run Derby with a total of 32 homers, beating Washington Nationals outfielder Bryce Harper in the final, 9-8. MORE
Jul. 15, 2013
Tyler Kepner On Baseball column notes that major league teams, finding it increasingly hard to turn up elite baseball players, are giving more opportunities to younger athletes to make an impact; nineteen players from 2012 Futures Game have made major league rosters this season, including three appearing in 2013 All-Star Game. MORE
Jul. 14, 2013
New York Mets continue to dangle All-Star Game tickets in front of fans as a way to get them to belatedly buy season-ticket plans for 2013; main financial lift for the host club, such as the Mets, is to use the All-Star Game to help push ticket sales to every other game on the schedule. MORE
Jul. 14, 2013
Baseball's regular season is taking a break for the All-Star Game, allowing the sport's stars to take center stage for several days and everyone else to have a welcome breather; charts highlight some of baseball's best and worst through first half of 2013 season. MORE
Jul. 13, 2013
Players recall 1964 All-Star Game at Shea Stadium, which was last to be hosted by New York Mets; game's roster included 18 future Hall of Famers. MORE
Jul. 12, 2013
Baseball Roundup; Atlanta Braves first baseman Freddie Freeman wins fan voting for last spot on National League All-Star roster, meaning Los Angeles Dodgers rookie sensation Yasiel Puig will not get to play in July 16 game at Citi Field unless he is added as injury replacement; baseball scores noted. MORE
Jul. 12, 2013
New York Mets have struggled since Citi Field opened in 2009, and MLB's 2013 All-Star Game will bring the ballpark major national exposure for the first time. MORE
Jul. 7, 2013
Tyler Kepner Extra Bases column holds that MLB tries hard to convince fans that the All-Star Game is all about effort, but mainly players come to enjoy the spectacle and revel in their status as the best of the best; 2013 National and American League All-Star rosters noted. MORE
Feb. 18, 2013
West defeats East, 143-138, in NBA All-Star game; other basketball items noted. MORE
Oct. 25, 2012
NBA, bowing to new realities in a multi-positional era, eliminates 'center' from its All-Star ballots for the 2012-2013 season; instead, fans will vote for three frontcourt players and two guards. MORE
Jul. 11, 2012
National League pummels American League, 8-0, to win the 83rd MLB All-Star Game and earn home-field advantage in the World Series. MORE
Jul. 10, 2012
Tyler Kepner On Baseball column asserts that Washington Nationals outfielder Bryce Harper and Los Angeles Angels outfielder Mike Trout, two of the five rookies playing in the All-Star Game, are baseball's next big stars. MORE
Jul. 9, 2012
Kansas City Royals, still trying to recover from the 1993 death of their founding owner Ewing M Kauffman, have not made the postseason since winning the World Series in 1985, but a group of promising young players has fans hopeful as the city prepares to host the All-Star Game. MORE
Mar. 15, 2012
Negro Leagues Baseball Museum and American Jazz Museum in Kansas City, Missouri, are hoping to attract more visitors when the city hosts baseball's annual All Star Game in summer 2012. MORE
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League Will Allow Ads on Jerseys and May Reassess All-Star Game Site
Commissioner Adam Silver said legislation in North Carolina regarding transgender people was problematic, but there was not currently any discussion among the owners to move the game from Charlotte.
April 16, 2016, Saturday
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Coming In From the Cold: John Scott Is Joining the Canadiens
The story of Scott, an exiled 33-year-old journeyman and the All-Star Game M.V.P., took another twist over the weekend when he was called up by Montreal.
April 5, 2016, Tuesday
MORE ON ALL STAR GAMES AND: Hockey, Ice , Scott, John (1982- ) , All Star Games , St John's IceCaps , Arizona Coyotes , Montreal Canadiens
Kobe Bryant, in His Final Lap, Is Happy to Surrender the Midseason Stage
Bryant said before the All-Star Game, a 196-173 victory by the West, that he was relishing an opportunity to "relax and soak it in."
February 15, 2016, Monday
MORE ON ALL STAR GAMES AND: Basketball , Bryant, Kobe , All Star Games
Kristaps Porzingis Quick to Make a Believer of Team World's Coach
Ettore Messina, who had limited exposure to the Knicks rookie Kristaps Porzingis, got a front-row seat to witness his talent during Friday's Rising Stars Challenge.
February 14, 2016, Sunday
MORE ON ALL STAR GAMES AND: Basketball , All Star Games , Porzingis, Kristaps (1995- )
Adam Silver Aims to Reduce Excessive Fouling
The strategy of fouling poor free-throw shooters to slow offenses has prolonged games and exasperated fans. Commissioner Silver said that there appears to be a growing sense that the fouling ought to be curbed.
February 14, 2016, Sunday
MORE ON ALL STAR GAMES AND: Basketball , Silver, Adam (1962- ) , National Basketball Assn , All Star Games
Another Season Gone Awry Hangs Over Carmelo Anthony, the All-Star
The N.B.A. All-Star weekend seems to mean more to Anthony than it does to most, largely because the Knicks torpedoed their slim playoff hopes by losing 10 of their last 11 games.
February 13, 2016, Saturday
MORE ON ALL STAR GAMES AND: Basketball , All Star Games , Anthony, Carmelo , New York Knicks
In Little-Man Era, Four Big Men Will Test Their Skills
This N.B.A. All-Star weekend, Anthony Davis, Draymond Green and two others will compete in the Skills Challenge, a head-to-head obstacle course that tests skills traditionally belonging to guards.
February 13, 2016, Saturday
MORE ON ALL STAR GAMES AND: Basketball , All Star Games , Green, Draymond , Towns, Karl-Anthony , Cousins, DeMarcus , Davis, Anthony (1993- )
Diminutive All-Star Isaiah Thomas Finds Shoulders to Stand On
Thomas acknowledged a debt to the undersize men who played before him, like Muggsy Bogues, who has become a mentor and sounding board for Thomas.
February 3, 2016, Wednesday
MORE ON ALL STAR GAMES AND: Basketball , Height (Stature) , Thomas, Isaiah (1989- ) , All Star Games , Boston Celtics
John Scott, an Unlikely N.H.L. All-Star, Becomes the Game's Equally Unlikely M.V.P.
Fans named Scott the most valuable player after he led the Pacific Division to a 1-0 win over the Atlantic Division in the championship game of the event, which had a new format.
February 1, 2016, Monday
MORE ON ALL STAR GAMES AND: Hockey, Ice , Scott, John (1982- ) , National Hockey League , All Star Games
Detroit Rookie Dylan Larkin Shines in the Skills Competition
Red Wings center Dylan Larkin, 19, won the title as the N.H.L.'s fastest skater and broke the record for the fastest lap around the rink that was set in 1996.
January 31, 2016, Sunday
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You'll see Frans ("…is different") preparing to go on vacation, a cycling vacation to the Belgian Ardennes, 400 km south from his hometown. Man Bites Dog recorded his preparations and saw him off. One week later the show caught up with him in Belgium. Obviously, it's all in Dutch, but the imagery will speak for itself, as it's universal…uhm, maybe not…Frans is Frisian-Dutch, which is a combination that entails something that most people won't be able to relate to very well…enjoy :).
Part 1: 'On a journey'
Part 2: 'Tasting mud'
Frans was such a (cult) hit that they took him to NYC (NY400), which had a big 'Crocodile Dundee' ring to it…:)

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|Running Time: 106 mins.
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Global logistics: UPS marks one-year anniversary of Shenzhen Asia Pacific hub
May 26, 2011 - LM Editorial
Earlier this week, UPS marked the one-year anniversary of its Shenzhen Asia Pacific hub, which serves the company's entire intra-Asian network.
UPS also announced that in June it is rolling out a new direct weekly flight from Guam to Hong Kong, which connects Guam to the rest of the world.
Company officials said that since this hub has been open for business it has made improvements to more than 100 intra-Asian lane pairs since May 2010, which are comprised of faster transit times on key lanes between India and the rest of Asia and between South Korea and other Asian destinations.
The hub was previously located in Clark, Philippines. UPS has had control of its international express operations in China since 2005. The $180 million facility connects all major Asian points for the transport of intra-Asia volume, according to company officials.
"With the Shenzhen Asia Pacific Air Hub, our biggest winners here are our customers," said Derek Woodward, president of UPS Asia Pacific Region, in an interview. "Their goods can either arrive earlier or they can enjoy later pick-up times to accommodate last-minute orders.
Woodward said that with China being seen as the "world's manufacturer," the Shenzhen Asia Pacific Air Hub, strategically located at Shenzhen Baoan International Airport in China's Pearl River Delta, offers a new level of service to the manufacturing region located just north of Shenzhen with service enhancements adding routes and capacity to drive volume.
And in its first year of operation, Woodward said the hub has made multiple service enhancements possible for Asia-Pacific customers, including:
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It was all Green and Gold as the Yellow Jackets dominated the fields at the Dakota Athletic Conference Championships held in Dickinson, ND. From the gun, Allen Wood (Maple Valley, WA), Cody Bordewyk (Livermore, CO), and Trent Waage (Aberdeen, SD) led the way for the Yellow Jacket running the entire 8K race side by side. The three of them went on to cross the finish line together in a winning time of 24:58 for the 8,000 meter race. With just under a mile to go, Mike Nekuda (Hot Springs, SD) passed Chris Heezen of Dakota State to give Black Hills State the top four finishers. Tyrone White (Eagle Butte, SD) was the final scorer for the Yellow Jackets when he finished in the 9th position giving Black Hills State the lowest Conference score ever for the Yellow Jackets with 19 points. Overall, the Yellow Jacket men had 8 All-Conference performers. Other All-Conference finishers in the top 15 included, Birch Haraden (Billing, MT) 11th, KC Fiedler (George, IA) 13th, and Jon Antar (Honolulu, HA) 15th.
In the women's race it was a three-way battle for the individual title between Black Hills State's Kerry Washburn (Cheyenne, WY) and Wendy O'Lexey (Rock Springs, WY) along with Dickinson States Rose Jepkirui. With less than one mile to go, Jepkirui looked like she was in control of the race as she established a ten meter lead on the field, but at the last uphill straight away, Washburn made one final move to give herself the conference title, winning the 5,000 meter race in a time of 18:13. The Lady Yellow Jackets compiled a list of All-Conference performers themselves as they had six of their top seven runners in the top 15. O'Lexey finished the race in 18:27 to give her a 3rd place finish, followed by teammates Alicia Verhulst (Ralph, SD) in 4th, Shelli Scheffler (Lovell, WY) 6th, Katie Cook (Cheyenne, WY) 11th, and Kayla Ferguson (Eaton, CO) 15th. The Lady Yellow Jackets took the DAC title with a team score of 25 points, followed by Dickinson State with 61 points, and Jamestown College with 87 points.
Next up, the Yellow Jackets will be competing a small group of runners at the Yellow Jacket Invitational in Billings, MT this Saturday, October 27th. The rest of the team will have a week off from competition before they run at the Regional Meet in Sioux Falls, SD on November 3rd.


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The tipping point ... and more macro photo images.
The tipping point, originally uploaded by sweetmarias.
Adding more images to our library of macro shots of coffee. Here I photographed coffee flowers, the leaf, leaf buds, some defects in green coffee and roasted coffee, and ...what the heck ... some bubbles. -Tom
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Full City++ roast, originally uploaded by sweetmarias.
This coffee has entered 2nd crack, and the increased porosity is evident, as well as pockets of migrating oils. This and many more interesting macro shots I have taken of green and roasted coffee, as well as coffee cherry, are now posted on the SM site and Flickr. -Tom
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It might seem silly, but I am really excited about this kettle, the PINO Digital Kettle Pro. I need a lot of hot water for cupping and brewing so having a kettle that works as well as this does makes a big difference in my day-to-day life. I have the bad habit of forgetting that I am heating water. On the stove, I will evaporate a full pan of water before I remember I had it on the burner ... which led me to use the Bodum Ibis kettle. It's a fine kettle, but I also forget about it, and then my water is cool and I need to heat it again. So here is the pretty sleek the Pino Digital Kettle Pro, an electric kettle that will heat water to a temperature that I preset, and hold it there until I am ready for it, or remember it, whichever comes first. It has a 50 oz (~1.5 Liter capacity), and the electric base is separate from the kettle top. It is 1000 watts, a bit lower than some other electric kettles, but will heat a full 1.5 liters from tap temperature to 205 in 9 minutes, and will heat 16 ounces of water in 2 minutes. It is pricey, but this paired with a Clever Coffee Dripper makes a great brewing set-up.
New arrivals - Nicaragua Limoncillo Pacamara DP, Colombia Finca Buenavista Imbachi, Costa Rica Tarrazu Montes de Oro, Espresso Workshop 7 La Tessitura, Thumbs Down Panama DP
We're adding four new coffees today: Nicaragua Limoncillo Pacamara Dry-Process with fruits flavors and a profile not unlike Ethiopia DP or Yemen. Check out Tom's review!... Next is the Colombia Finca Buenavista -Carlos Imbachi Microlot - the return of an all-around favorite farm, this is a sweet coffee with guava and strawberry tones. Takes a wide range of roasts and is on the brighter side, being Huila-grown. We are adding the Costa Rica Tarrazu -Montes de Oro, a versatile coffee with graham cracker and lemon with chocolate at a darker roast. We've also blended up the new Espresso Workshop #7 - La Tessitura, ... another tongue-twisted name choice with fruits and a bright finish. Maybe the analogy to choral music is a bit much but once you try it, you'll be singing about the great cup along with us! Check out the full review for more. Stay tuned for news about a new electric water kettle on the way.


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Branch-Line Coupler
Application ID: 11727
A Branch Line Coupler (Quadrature 90° Hybrid) is a four-port network device with a 90° phase difference between two coupled ports. The device can be used for a single antenna Transmitter/Receiver system or an I/Q signal splitter/combiner. The objective of this model is to compute the S-parameters and to observe the matching, isolation, and coupling around the operating frequency.


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Chicago, IL (Sports Network) - Mike Trout singled home the go-ahead run in the
seventh inning as the LA Angels of Anaheim edged the Chicago White Sox, 7-5,
in the opener of a three-game set at U.S. Cellular Field.
Trout finished the game 2-for-5 and also scored a run. Albert Pujols, Mark
Trumbo, Brendan Harris and J.B Shuck each drove in one run a piece for the
Angels, who have won back-to-back games for the first time since winning three
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I looked into the TLS error, and it sent me back to the slapd.conf file to make sure the certificates were listed, and that they existed. My slapd.conf file looks like this:Code:Nov 29 09:55:09 mail slapd[25170]: @(#) $OpenLDAP: slapd 2.2.28 (Nov 9 2005 12:02:16) $ firstname.lastname@example.com:/home/build/p4/main/ThirdParty/openldap/openldap-2.2.28/servers/slapd Nov 29 09:55:09 mail slapd[25170]: bdb_db_init: Initializing BDB database Nov 29 09:55:09 mail slapd[25170]: main: TLS init def ctx failed: -1 Nov 29 09:55:09 mail slapd[25170]: slapd stopped. Nov 29 09:55:09 mail slapd[25170]: connections_destroy: nothing to destroy.
If I look in the /opt/zimbra/conf directory however, none of the files exist. I assume they should be there, but since they aren't, what should I do?Code:TLSCertificateFile /opt/zimbra/conf/slapd.crt TLSCertificateKeyFile /opt/zimbra/conf/slapd.key TLSVerifyClient never TLSCACertificateFile /opt/zimbra/conf/ca/ca.pem
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When Josh Sommer was a freshman at Duke University, he was diagnosed with chordoma, a rare bone cancer for which there was a 30% cure rate, no approved drugs, little research and a seven year average survival. "Frankly, being 18 years old and having a lot to look forward to I didn't want to accept those statistics." So he joined the only federally-funded chordoma research lab (coincidentally also at Duke) in the country, and spent two years hunting for new drugs. But the lab didn't have the money or materials needed to make real progress: tumor tissue, cell lines and animal models. He dropped out of school to found the Chordoma Foundation, which to date has raised $2.5 million, funding research in 11 labs. His advice to people diagnosed with a potentially fatal disease? "You have a lot of power."
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That dark patch may be a red flag
KINGWOOD, W.Va. -- When Aubrey Duckworth was 10 years old, West Virginia University's CARDIAC screeners came to Preston County's Kingwood Elementary. They checked fifth-graders' blood pressure, cholesterol, height and weight.
They also checked the back of each child's neck. They were looking for a dark patch of skin, a signal that the child is at risk of type 2 diabetes.
A week or so later, Aubrey's mother, Gwen, got a letter from CARDIAC saying they had found an AN marker, a dark linear patch, on Aubrey's neck. "They said to show the letter to her doctor," Gwen said.
She took Aubrey to the family doctor. "He looked at the back of her neck and said, 'We need to keep an eye on that.'"
"An AN marker is a warning signal to check for type 2 diabetes," said pediatrician Dr. Pamela Murray, chief of the Division of General Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine at WVU Medical Center.
West Virginia is facing a diabetes epidemic that threatens to swamp the state health-care system, Murray said. One in 3 Americans will be diabetic by 2050 if preventative measures are not taken, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention predicts.
"If we can catch it now in children, we absolutely should," Murray said.
Thousands of West Virginia children -- 1 in 20 -- have the diabetes-linked marker, according to the CARDIAC project, which screens statewide.
"The fancy name is acanthosis nigricans," Murray said. It translates "dark area."
"Lots of times, it looks like a smudge or dirt," she said. "It used to be only adults, but now, as kids get type 2 diabetes too, it turns up on children too."
In the past 11 years, CARDIAC screeners have checked 78,751 West Virginia fifth-graders' necks. On average, 5.2 percent had a marker. That's 762 children in the fifth grade alone.
When insulin behaves abnormally in the body, AN markers may appear as brown-to-black velvety areas encircling the back of the neck, under the arms or in the crook of the elbow or knee, Murray said. "The bad thing is, many parents don't know what it is," she said.
Many teachers don't recognize it either, said Kelli Caseman, director of the West Virginia School-Based Health Assembly. Teachers sometimes refer children to the health center for hygiene issues, she said, "only to find that the dirt on the back of students' necks was AN."
Murray emphasizes that:
"It's usually easier to identify on darker-skinned individuals, but in West Virginia, it's frequent and more visible on white children," Murray said. Nationwide, black children develop AN -- and diabetes -- at a higher rate than white children do.
AN markers often fade away if people bring their blood sugar into normal range, she said.
Aubrey Duckworth's marker didn't fade, but she did gain weight. By age 13, she was 6-foot-1 and weighed 287 pounds. Her family doctor referred her to Morgantown.
Murray -- who specializes in childhood diabetes and obesity -- ordered blood tests. They showed that Aubrey has type 2 diabetes.
"The good news is, we caught it early enough to prevent serious damage," Murray said. Exercise and eat right, she told Aubrey, and you may eventually be able to manage it without medication.
Now Aubrey and her mother do Zumba four times a week. "It's great her mother does it with her," Murray said. The whole family improved their diet, Gwen Duckworth said. "We're all in this with her," she said.
Aubrey has lost 35 pounds so far, more than 10 percent of her weight. Her three-month blood sugar level dropped 32 percent, into normal range. Her AN marker has disappeared. "If you lose 10 percent and exercise, your numbers should drop," Murray said.
This semester, Aubrey's in the marching band, and she has physical education every day, "so she's active every day," her mother said. But West Virginia high school students take only one semester of P.E. in four years. "That's going to be a problem," her mother said.
Once a person has diabetes, it doesn't go away. On a recent band trip, Aubrey almost passed out while marching. Now she carries high-protein foods like peanut butter. "If I don't like the school lunch, I can still eat," she said.
"At 14, she's not ready to do this on her own," her mother said. "We're trying to help her develop lifelong habits that will let her manage this disease. We're very grateful this was caught early."
'Can't we check all kids for this?'
Aubrey's story is an excellent argument for screening children for the marker, Murray said.
"It's important that every parent, teacher, doctor and school nurse be familiar with it. There is a huge amount of diabetes in West Virginia, and this is one way to catch many children early."
"Even if it doesn't catch everybody," thousands could be prevented from getting diabetes, said Jamie Jeffrey, director of the Children's Medicine Center at Charleston Area Medical Center. "Can't we figure out how to check all kids for this?"
Few people disagree. But discussion often bogs down on the question: Who should screen?
"School nurses do other screenings, don't they?" Murray said. "Why not just check the neck too?"
Rebecca King, who directs the state's school nurse program, says school nurses are already overwhelmed and are not the right people for the job. Most counties have only one or two nurses, she said.
Doctors should do any AN screening, she recommends. However, the state Department of Education does not require that doctors check for the marker in the well-child exams children must get for school.
Many children do not have regular doctors, Murray said. "Urgent Care is about the closest they get.
"I do think there needs to be a medical conversation on this subject, and soon," she said.
DOE officials want families to have a regular doctor for each child, King said, "so screening would be more appropriately done in the child's medical home."
"The reality is, we have many kids who never see a doctor any time, except in the ER or an occasional well-child check," said Kelli Caseman of the School-Based Health Center Assembly.
"There may be other ways of doing this that don't add a lot to people's duties," said Sharon Carte, Children's Health Insurance Program director. "For instance, phys-ed teachers check children at the beginning of school. Maybe they could do it."
"AN screening of children is relatively new, so it's still controversial," King argued. As evidence, she points to a 2001 CDC posting that discouraged AN screening, saying insufficient research supports the connection with diabetes.
That posting is now marked "archived for historical purposes."
In June 2012, the Journal of School Nursing summarized recent AN research, most published since 2001 and concluded that "the AN screening tool is easy to use and reliable for use with elementary school-age children of various ethnic groups." Sixteen of 19 studies concluded there is an AN-diabetes association, the Journal said.
"The bottom line is, a lot of kids are developing pre-diabetes who could fairly easily be helped with little expense," Jeffrey said. "Surely we can be creative and find a way to do this."
"Glucose and insulin tests for all children are expensive, but this is a cost-effective screening tool," said Lesley Cottrell, vice chairman of pediatric research at WVU.
The School-Based Health Center Assembly recently created a roundtable to identify areas where children are falling between the cracks, Caseman said.
"We want to look at who's covering what, what needs to be done, and where children fall in the gap," she said. "This an excellent case in point."
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"The Shape We're In" has been partially funded by a Dennis A. Hunt Fund for Health Journalism fellowship, administered by the California Endowment Health Journalism Fellowships at the University of Southern California's Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism.


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NEW YORK -- As more shoppers shift their spending online, FedEx is expecting to see a record volume of shipments over the holiday season.
FedEx estimates it will ship 280 million packages, or a 13 percent increase over last year, between Thanksgiving and Christmas.
And Dec. 10, a day that is sometimes called "Green Monday" by retailers, could shape up to be the busiest day in FedEx's history, the company said. "Green Monday" is a highly profitable day for retailers, and often kicks off the busiest online shopping day of the year.
FedEx expects it will move about 19 million packages through its ground, express, and freight networks on "Green Monday," or about 10 percent more than it did last year on the second Monday of December.
Mirroring the increase in online shopping, FedEx has continued to see big gains in the volume on its busiest day of the year. This year's estimate is nearly double its volume in 2005.
Despite the record volume, FedEx said it plans to hire 20,000 seasonal workers, or about the same as last year, to deal with the boost in volume. However, the company has been hiring staff throughout 2012, especially at its Ground and SmartPost division, which will handle the bulk of the holiday volume.
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Almost $1 out of every $10 of consumer discretionary spending is now done online, according to ComScore.
Although the National Retail Federation, the retail industry's trade group, expects holiday sales growth to moderate and rise only 4.1 percent this year, online spending is expected to maintain its robust pace. EMarketer estimates online holiday sales, excluding travel, will be up 16.8 percent from last year to as much as $54.5 billion.
The growth reflects the fact that a record number of shoppers are expected to buy gifts online. According to a NRF survey, some 51.8 percent of all consumers plan to buy some gifts and holiday items online, up from 46.7 percent last year.
Also, the average person expects to buy a greater portion of their gifts online. Shoppers expect to complete about 38.8 percent of their shopping online, another high in the history of the NRF survey.
UPS, the largest packaged delivery company, hasn't weighed in on its outlook for the Christmas holiday season yet. But the company reports its earnings on Tuesday, and it may comment on its seasonal hiring plans at that time. Last year, UPS added 55,000 workers during the holidays, or 10 percent more than it hired in 2010.


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There is a difference between keeping a compost pile and actually knowing how to compost.
I am a person who was dong the former. Realizing I was going on luck and random tips culled over the years, I took the opportunity to attend a composting class put on by the Calgary Horticultural Society 10 days ago. (As for why it has taken me this long to tell you about it, see previous post re: puppy.)
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Speak of Rio Grande do Sul - Brazil, recently changed jobs, and the new company that I work, we use Zimbra, until then I did not know him, but I see that is a very robust system and run on Linux, it shows even more stable.
I found it very good indeed, but staff at the other company, we used the Exchange, and this allowed us to set up as soon as the e-mail of the person the manager email exchange, pull the contact list when the person was writing a new email by clicking on "to", but here in the company some users use e-mail manager, Windows Live mail, and other Outlook Express and other Microsoft Outlook, webmail and different Zimbra he pulls the list contacts that pulls webmail, I could implement this somehow?
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When it comes to giving back, Edelbrock knows how to do it right! Since 1938, Edelbrock has been building classic performance parts the right way. They have established themselves as a leader in the car industry, but one thing you may not know is that Edelbrock has also established themselves as a leader in the community. On May 1, 2011, Edelbrock hosted the Rev-ved Up 4 Kids Car Show, located at Vic's Garage in Torrance, CA. It was a full day of family fun filled with hot rods, engine building competitions (where local high school kids competed to move forward in a national competition), great food, and entertainment for the whole family (my 4-year-old son's favorite was the huge inflated slide and jumpy.) This charity fund-raising event benefited The Center for Learning Unlimited, which is a specialized, non-public school that provides comprehensive educational and social-emotional interventions to high functioning students who have complex learning differences, as well as ongoing support and solutions for the entire family.
"Supporting America's youth throughout the country and the community is something that we are very passionate about," states Christi Edelbrock. "It's so amazing to me what we can do together to make the dreams come true for young individuals. Given the right opportunities, America's youth can contribute so much to our society. My goal is to provide opportunities to learn, scholarships and job placement in the workplace. We have national support for these initiatives and this is only the beginning." I think we can all agree with Christi how important it is to provide the next generation with the right opportunities to learn, plus adding the love of cars and trucks in the mix. CT
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Anyway, I wonder how my sexy Serbian is doing in her match? (Not well Nando.)
I hope Anando wasn't too much of a distraction for us this off-season. Hehe! "Anando"...that's funny. I'm kinda famous now.
Oh yeah. Eyes on the ball..."
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What?Fernando said that?Like you quoted him?What was the question?Really he said how's my sexy Serbian doing?!?...hmmm....Well,he obviously follows the media is what we've learned.ReplyDelete
I usually really like Fern's controversial hairdo, but this is just wrong. It's like he can't decide if he still wants the faux-hawk. You need to make a decision and fix something STAT.ReplyDelete
This guy seriously needs a proper haircut.ReplyDelete
I guess Fernando likes too much hair gel or hair wax, or make it bees wax, it holds stiffer!!!!!!
I don't know how will Ana react with this hair?
He looks even worse on the ATP's home. Phaura, she probably lost because the shock and horror were too great to recover from lol. Seriously though, I'm glad that Amelie is back.ReplyDelete
The only positive thing I can take from that photo is the awesome shade of blue.
otherwise, that hair has taken on a life of its own!


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May 10, 2006 -
Since 1913, ADL has worked to expose and counter anti-Semitism, and all forms of bigotry. We are grateful to the Helsinki Commission for holding this briefing and for its diligent and ongoing efforts to keep this issue on the front burner in Washington and in the capitals of all the OSCE Participating States. We are honored that ADL has been part of this Commission's efforts against anti-Semitism in the OSCE region for many years.
Current Trends and Data
While, in many of the countries where data on anti-Semitic incidents are available, last year saw a decline in varying degrees, the violence has continued at high levels.
Here in the US, the number of anti-Semitic the ADL documented a total of 1,757 anti-Semitic incidents in 2005, a 3 percent decline from 2004. But as was the case in other countries, recorded acts of anti-Semitism in 2004 were alarmingly high. In our own monitoring, 2004 was a nine year high. A link to this year's data and a graph showing data over the last 20 years can be viewed at:
The Tel Aviv University's Stephen Roth Institute, which publishes an annual survey of anti-Semitism worldwide, reported a drop in overall incidents worldwide of approximately 20 percent. The UK and Canada saw a slight decline with a more marked decline in incidents in France. According to the Community Security Trust (CST) in Britain, incidents declined from 532 in 2004 to 455 in 2005, but the CST noted the number was the second highest on record. The League for Human Rights of B'nai Brith Canada documented 829 anti-Semitic incidents reported to their anti-hate hot line and offices in 2005. A 3.3 percent decline from the record high of 857 documented in 2004. The French Ministry of Interior date showed a decrease from 974 incidents in 2004 to 504 incidents in 2005. The Representative Council of Jewish Institutions in France, known as CRIF, still emphasize that violence against Jews is still ten times what it was in the 1990s and remain very concerned.
Any decline in incidents is certainly encouraging, but it should be underlined that, compared with pre-2000 levels, they remain worryingly high. Moreover, data alone are only one indicator of the level of anti-Semitism in a society. Other trends and factors - particularly in Russia, where racist and anti-Semitic attacks have reached epidemic proportions, with seven racist murders recorded in April this year alone - paint a more bleak picture across the OSCE region. Here are just three examples:
- In Ukraine, beyond the increase in acts of violence and vandalism against Jews, there have been attempts to ban everything from Jewish organizations to Jewish holy texts. The Interregional Academy for Personnel Management (MAUP) – accredited by Ukraine's Ministry of Education, with more than 50,000 students enrolled, actively promotes anti-Semitism of the most vicious kind. Ukraine's President Viktor Yushchenko has issued an important statement against anti-Semitism, and, more recently, the Ministers of Foreign Affairs and Education and Science have criticized MAUP but we have yet to see government action to follow up.
- In January of this year, the Swedish Chancellor of Justice, Goran Lambertz, halted an investigation into Stockholm's Grand Mosque, where tapes of despicable anti-Semitic sermons were on sale. He noted that the content of the sermons called Jews the "brothers of apes and pigs" and aspiring jihadis were urged to kill them. Yet Mr. Lambertz chose not to invoke Sweden's anti-incitement laws. Instead, he said the calls to murder Jews "should be judged differently, and be considered allowed, because they are used by one side in a continuing profound conflict, where battle cries and invectives are part of everyday occurrences in the rhetoric that surround the Middle East conflict." In other words, these anti-Semitic speeches and calls for violence against Jews are simply an outgrowth of the Palestinian Israeli conflict.
- In Poland, we are gravely concerned that Prime Minister Kazimierz Marcinkiewicz included in the ruling coalition government the Self-Defense Party and the League of Polish Families. Leaders of both parties have made statements suggesting sympathy for racist and anti-Semitic views. The leader of the Self-Defense party, Andrzej Lepper, has made statements supportive of the French neo-fascist leader Jean-Marie Le Pen and has spoken approvingly of the economic policies of the Nazis. In the recent past, leaders of the League of Polish Families have spoken of "Judeo-communist" plots and made other anti-Semitic statements. The party maintains close links with Radio Maryja, a conservative Polish Catholic radio station notorious for its anti-Semitic broadcasts.
matic Response
OSCE Ministerial Decisions and Declarations addressing anti-Semitism and intolerance at conferences in Berlin, and Brussels in 2004 and in Cordoba in 2005 have underlined a central message: "the primary responsibility for addressing acts of intolerance and discrimination rests with the Participating States" and highlights their central role in implementing programs in the area of law enforcement and education. Most recently in Ljubljana, last December, Ministers urged Participating States to implement their commitments with a strong focus on law enforcement training, public and education on the Holocaust and anti-Semitism, including and very importantly, contemporary forms of anti-Semitism.
Putting those important words and commitments into action across such a large region seems a daunting task and surveys and conferences conducted by OSCE have shown that Participating States have done far too little to implement them. But a strength of the OSCE conferences and programs has been their ability to showcase the impressive resources available to states, and to offer states assistance to expand them one nation at a time, one city at a time, one school at a time. You heard from the first panel about the array of excellent programs the OSCE's Office of Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) has identified and helped develop for Participating States to put into practice. There is no shortage of other programs across this region or the experts to adapt and develop them for new countries.
What is lacking is the political will on the part of many states to take advantage of these initiatives. The commitments by Participating States are impressive. States have at their disposal the expertise and assistance of the ODIHR and a world of talented non-governmental experts. But the burden is on governments to open their doors to these programs and help expand their reach and impact.
Even the valuable programs of ODIHR, many of which rely on extra-budgetary contributions by states, have had the support of just a handful of governments. The US has been an important supporter and we hope you will ensure that the US continues to play its part. Members of the Helsinki Commission and all Members of Congress also can play a vital role in getting more states to step up to the plate.
I will highlight just a few initiatives in the area of education and law enforcement training that we have identified as useful in a number of OSCE Participating States that could readily be expanded and adapted to even more countries.
US Government Training and Education Models
A foundation of the OSCE commitments related to anti-Semitism and tolerance rests on legislation which provides the framework for, data collection and analysis, law enforcement training and victim assistance. The U.S. government has played a central role in funding program development in this area and promoting awareness of initiatives that work and a number of US models bear mentioning as promising practices that could be adopted by other Participating States.
There is growing awareness of the need to complement tough laws and vigorous enforcement -- which can deter and redress violence motivated by bigotry -- with education and training initiatives designed to reduce prejudice. The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) developed and has circulated widely training materials on how to identify, report, and respond to hate crime. These resources are available online at:
and at:
In 1992, Congress approved several new hate crime and prejudice?reduction initiatives as part of the four?year Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act reauthorization. The Act included a requirement that each state's juvenile delinquency prevention plan include a component designed to combat hate crimes and a requirement that the Justice Department's Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP) conduct a national assessment of youths who commit hate crimes, their motives, their victims, and the penalties received for the crimes.
In 1992, for the first time, Congress acted to incorporate anti?prejudice initiatives into the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA), the principal Federal funding mechanism for the public schools. Title IV of the Act, Safe and Drug?Free Schools and Communities, also included a specific hate crimes prevention initiative -- promoting curriculum development and training and development for teachers and administrators on the cause, effects, and resolutions of hate crimes or hate?based conflicts. The enactment of these Federal initiatives represented an important advance in efforts to institutionalize prejudice reduction as a component of violence prevention programming.
The Department's Office of Civil Rights, in association with the National Association of Attorneys General, has provided excellent counsel and programming for schools in a publication entitled, "
Protecting Students from Harassment and Hate Crimes: A Guide for Schools
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Model Resources
Even absent a well-crafted hate crimes law, Participating States could provide training and information or promulgate guidelines on how to report and how to respond to a hate crime. For example, the International Association of Chiefs of Police (IACP) has prepared very useful and accessible resources to help improve law enforcement preparation and response to hate violence. IACP held a Summit on hate crimes in June, 1999. The Summit report is available online here:
In addition, funded by a grant from the Justice Department, the IACP prepared a guide to hate crimes for first responding police officers in the field. This guidebook is online here:
Here are additional examples of thoughtful hate crime victim assistance/community action guides: one from the Organization for Chinese Americans, another from Sikh Media Watch, others from the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office.
. (This well-crafted and inclusive annual report is a model for how local jurisdictions can raise awareness about this problem.)
Programs of the Anti-Defamation League
The League has been recognized as a leading resource on effective responses to violent bigotry, including our annual Audit of Anti-Semitic Incidents, and the design and delivery of anti-bias, anti-Semitism and Holocaust education programs. ADL has drafted model hate crime statutes for state legislatures, and serves as a principal resource for the FBI in developing training and outreach materials for the Hate Crime Statistics Act (HCSA), which requires the Justice Department to collect statistics on hate violence from law enforcement officials across the country.
ADL's law enforcement training is Peace Officer Standard Training certified and uses interactive technology with scenarios and case studies -- some of which have already been adapted for use outside the US.
For example, in Austria: ADL and a team of over 50 of both civilian and law enforcement trainers work with the Austrian Ministry of Interior, to conduct anti-bias training for every professional and new recruit in the country. These trainings are compulsory and encompass anti-bias and hate crime training. In the last 5 years, this training has reached over 10 percent of Austria's law enforcement professionals. The Austrian Ministry of Education has also implemented our signature anti-bias program A Classroom of Difference™ in select schools across the country.
Law Enforcement Resources
LEARN (Law Enforcement Agency Resource Network) Website
In addition to a law enforcement bulletin distributed to over 10,000 law enforcement officers nationwide—ADL has a Website specifically designed for law enforcement to provide training and educational information for law enforcement personnel on extremist groups and individuals, terrorism, hate crimes, and other issues of interest to the law enforcement community.
- Hate Crimes Training
Building on ADL's expertise in monitoring and exposing the activities of organized hate groups and in crafting legal and legislative responses to hate crime, ADL has developed a hate crimes training program for law enforcement professionals.
ADL training seminars offer instruction on the special nature of hate crime, the legal and constitutional framework in which federal and state hate crime statues operate, and how to perform investigative and enforcement duties in a way that reassures the victims and helps alleviate community tensions and fear.
Anti-Bias Training
The unique role of law enforcement officials in any community makes cross-cultural understanding imperative. In addition to the need to ensure officer-to-officer sensitivity, to accurately represent its constituents, law enforcement officials need understanding, respect, and a willingness to communicate with all segments of the population. If members of the community feel that their own concerns are not understood, their confidence in law enforcement personnel to meet these needs may be severely diminished. Unfortunately, this can adversely impact cooperation for reporting crimes and providing information vital to solving crimes. To assist law enforcement professionals in meeting these challenges, ADL has created a specialized training program. Designed by human relations specialists with extensive training experience, the program helps civilian and law enforcement personnel to examine stereotypes and confront prejudice and learn diversity skills that will directly affect their work. ADL professionals have delivered anti-bias workshops for the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA), the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department, New York State Police, the Houston Police Department and many other local police departments across the United States.
- Training to Address Extremism
Building on ADL's expertise in monitoring and exposing the activities of organized hate groups, ADL has developed an extremism training program for law enforcement professionals. Seminars about extremist ideologies and effective investigation, solving and prosecuting techniques have been conducted by ADL throughout the country. Imagine the value added when a police officer who sees a tattoo or marking at a crime scene – and is able to connect that to an extremist group, an ideology or a conspiracy theory. Tools like the ADL hate symbols database and printed pocket guide of these symbols and the ongoing relationship with experts in their communities can boost an officers effectiveness in dealing with anti-Semitism, extremism and hate crime.
Anti Bias Education in Schools – and New Online Training Institute
Experience has shown that hate is learned. And just as it is learned, so it can be un-learned. Successful programs are as varied as the target audiences and the countries in which they are offered. Our own programs, reaching approximately 15 countries today, range from anti-bias initiatives to teach, for example, even a toddler to appreciate physical differences -- to equipping college students to face the collateral damage of hate rallies on their campuses – to training teachers and student leaders to get involved in things like name-calling before they escalate.
Changing social and political dynamics force educators to continually take stock and refine their tools. Our experience has shown, and ODIHR's recent study on
Education about the Holocaust and Anti-Semitism
found this as well – educational programs must be relevant to students and must provide both students and teachers tools to cope with the current events.
The ADL has had positive experience with a number of its programs that are targeted toward cutting through the stereotypes and myths that operate in today's classroom and have demonstrated results and transferability to the pedagogical model and context of a number of OSCE Participating States.
The ADL A WORLD OF DIFFERENCE® Institute has trained approximately 420,000 teachers in the U.S., impacting over 37 million students, training them in how to confront their own biases as well as how to use specially designed curricular materials. The programs have been evaluated by independent researchers and institutions including Yale University, the University of Pennsylvania's Graduate School of Education and Teacher's College of Columbia University. This program has been adapted in eight OSCE Participating States, as well as to Argentina, Japan, states of the Former Soviet Union and Israel. The Institute's Peer Training program is currently in use across the US as well as in Austria, Belgium (in French and in Flemish), France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Luxembourg, The Netherlands, Portugal, Spain and The United Kingdom.
We have just previewed to the public this month an exciting initiative to take the A WORLD OF DIFFERENCE® training online in a first of its kind online web-based training program to reach into schools, homes, corporations, law enforcement agencies and elsewhere.
Making Diversity Count
, the inaugural training course, an interacting and engaging professional development online training program for secondary school educators will go live in January 2007.
A New Generation of Holocaust Education
- Schools.
Echoes and Reflections
is a new multimedia curriculum on the Holocaust -- is the result of a partnership, combining the national outreach network of the Anti-Defamation League (ADL), the unmatched visual history resources of the Shoah Foundation, and the historical expertise of Yad Vashem. The pedagogical experience of the three organizations produced the most comprehensive curriculum on the Holocaust available to date. This unprecedented, rich, primary-source-based program -- with the visual testimonies of the Shoah Foundation, the staggering data of Yad Vashem and the expertise of ADL -- significantly enhances and vastly enriches educational tools for learning about the Holocaust.
Echoes and Reflections
helps students make connections between the Holocaust and its context to their own personal lives. The use of survivor testimony video draws the students into a more personal relationship between them and the material.
- Law Enforcement. The Holocaust is also a meaningful education tool for law enforcement. Working with the US Holocaust Memorial Museum, ADL's Law Enforcement and Society: Lessons of the Holocaust program challenges law enforcement professionals to examine their partnership with the communities they serve. It uses the history of the Holocaust to explore issues of their role as protectors of individual rights, checks and balances, and to examine the personal responsibility of officers 60 years ago and today. Officers have said this examination of the Holocaust has helped them gain a deeper perspective on the critical role they play in society and a greater understanding of the values and code of ethics of their profession. This program has touched tens of thousands of federal, state and local law enforcement professionals. It is also a required part of the training for all new FBI agents.
- Interfaith Programming. In the US, ADL's Bearing Witness Program for Catholic School Educators helps teachers examine anti-Semitism and the Holocaust as a starting point for addressing issues of diversity in contemporary society. Its goal is to successfully implement Holocaust education in religious schools. In order to do this effectively, teachers work to confront and to acknowledge the history of the Holocaust including the role of the Catholic Church and other religious institutions. This program is a collaborative effort between ADL, the Archdiocese, and the US Holocaust Memorial Museum. Initially offered only in Washington, DC, the program has now expanded and will be offered in five US cities this summer.
Youth Hate Violence Prevention
Partners Against Hate
initiative draws on the experience, networks, and resources of its three cooperating national organizations -- the Anti-Defamation League (ADL), the Leadership Conference Education Fund (LCEF), and the Center for the Prevention of Hate Violence (Center). The
Partners' Web site
, serves as a comprehensive clearinghouse of hate crime-related information, including resources developed through the grant, as well as other promising programs from across the country. In addition, the Web site includes access to the finest database of hate crime laws that form the basis of criminal enforcement in the states, and counteraction tools.
It is worth highlighting that so many of the programs we are discussing today are available at a relatively minimal cost. We heard today about excellent materials that can already be downloaded in different languages. They require only support for printing costs to put them in the hands of many more teachers and students. A number of the ADL programs are provided at minimal cost or no cost wherever possible – what we ask is for a government or ministry to open their doors and facilitate their implementation.
We look forward to working with Members of the Helsinki Commission and Members of Congress to help governments mobilize the courage to tap the most indispensable resource, the will to let these programs make a difference.
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2013 Annual Blue Knight Golf Scramble
The 2013 Blue Knight Golf Scramble took place on Friday, July 19 at the Woodland Golf Club. In spite of temperatures in the mid-90's, the golfers had an amazing day on the links. Four-person teams competed in a best ball scramble, with opportunities to win prizes for side games like closest to the pin and longest drive.
During the outing, participants enjoyed a catered lunch from Rudy's Smokehouse and special complimentary 2014 UU Athletics Calendar on behalf of the Athletic Department.
Once play concluded for the day, participants gathered at the Woodland Clubhouse for an awards ceremony. This year's event winners were Frank Doyle, Pat Beausejour, Vik Ramjee and Jonathan Doyle. They finished 17 strokes under par with a 54. It's the third win in the last four years for Team Doyle. The second place team was one shot off the pace and featured current UU golf coach Jerome Armstrong, current UU golfer Adam Mitchley, former UU golfer Ross O'Neal and Brock Donay. Heather Taynor and Beausejour won free rounds of golf at Woodland for winning the longest drive competition.
Donor support of the Blue Knight Golf Scramble provides the Athletic Department with financial assistance to support its vision of providing a competitive playing experience, modern facilities, personal growth, and community involvement for all student athletes.
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|Comedy takes HHS stage
|Written by Holyoke Enterprise
Prepare to laugh out loud as Holyoke High School Drama Department takes the stage this weekend for "Just Another High School Play."
Directed by Eric Conklin, the annual fall play is Friday, Nov. 16 and Saturday, Nov. 17 at 8 p.m. both nights in the HHS auditorium.
Here is a comedy that covers nearly every angle of a typical high school play with a dose of history and improvisation thrown in for good measure.
A group of actors, who have apparently been abandoned by their drama teacher, have to fend for themselves opening night in front of a live audience. Their teacher has left them hanging because no one has been showing up to rehearsals, and no one is quite sure what they're supposed to do.
Members of the HHS 2012 fall play cast are pictured from left, front row, Anastasia Conklin, Dani Brandt and Josilyn Lutze; second row, Alexandria McCallum, Alyssa Livermore, Kelsey Kramer and Brittney Prottsman; third row, Elli Ahro, Zach Roll, A.J. Brandt, Jacinda Krueger and Brandon Struckmeyer; and back row, Troy Brown, Ben Martinez, Ryan Parker, Molly Brandt, José Jaquez and Jacob Vasa. Not pictured are Maddie King and Peyton Dittmer.
—Enterprise photo
The student assistant director and the stage manager step in, find a box of scripts, which they pass out to the cast, and try to throw something together.
What follows is a rollicking show full of physical comedy, gags and satirical rewriting of several plays.
Cast members are Molly Brandt as the stage manager; Ben Martinez as the assistant director; Jacob Vasa as Tiny Tim, Marlowe, male Meg and Tom; José Jaquez as Romeo, Scrooge and a male thespian; Brittney Prottsman as Carrie.
Brandon Struckmeyer as the narrator, male Beth and George; Kelsey Kramer as Juliet, a female thespian and the bar keep; Ryan Parker as male Jo and Logan; Zach Roll as Shakespeare, a ghost and male Amy; Jacinda Krueger as Teena and Beth.
Alexandria McCallum as Noel; Josilyn Lutze as Amy and Emily; Maddie King as a grad student; Alyssa Livermore as a puppeteer and Meg; A.J. Brandt as the announcer; Anastasia Conklin as a melodrama extra and Hamlet.
Peyton Dittmer as Jo and plant #3; Elli Ahro as a female lead and plant #2; Dani Brandt as an actress and plant #1; and Troy Brown as a stage hand and Tom Jones.
Helping out with lights are Nick Ortner and Alex Becerra, and the HHS TV production crew will assist with sound.
Dinner theater Saturday
Before seeing "Just Another High School Play" Saturday night, the community is invited to FCCLA's three-course dinner theater.
Dinner will be served beginning at 6 p.m. in the HHS commons area. Menu items include salad, FCCLA bread, parmesan chicken with alfredo or marinara, green beans and peach cobbler.
Tickets for the dinner theater must be purchased by Friday, Nov. 16 and are available from FCCLA members or by calling 854-3421.
Holyoke Enterprise November 15, 2012