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Homestead, FL (November 21, 2010) – Casey Mears and the GEICO Racing team arrived in Homestead looking to put GEICO in the field for their first ever NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race at the south Florida season finale. Mears and the Germain Racing team have proven themselves as a solid Top 25 team and looked to continue their run in Homestead.
On Friday, practice got off to a fast start and Mears would shoot to the top of the speed chart and run in the Top 20. As the practice came to a close, the #13 GEICO Camry dropped to 39th as the team prepared to head into Sprint Cup Series qualifying late Friday afternoon.
A year ago, the #13 GEICO Camry was sent home after narrowly missing the race, but Mears' qualifying lap of 30.948 seconds on Friday ensured that it would not happen twice. The #13 GEICO Camry would line up three spots ahead of Denny Hamlin who would later spend his afternoon attempting to notch his first Sprint Cup Series championship.
When the season finale got underway under bright, clear skies and temperatures in the 80's, Mears wasted little time moving forward. Starting 34th, he moved the #13 GEICO Camry into 29th by the close of the second lap.
When the event's first caution flag waved on Lap 18, Mears was running in the 30th position and radioed to crew chief Bootie Barker: "There's no front grip. The front grip is terrible." Barker assured Mears that the team would go to work on the #13 Camry upon his arrival on pit road under the caution flag.
The following lap, Mears brought the #13 GEICO Camry to the attention of the Germain Racing pit crew and they furnished him with four fresh Goodyear Racing tires, a tank of Sunoco racing fuel and the necessary adjustments to assist with the front grip. After coming down pit road in the 30th position, the Germain Racing pit crew returned Mears to the racing surface 27th, netting three positions on pit road.
Just two laps after going back under the green flag, Mears and the #13 GEICO Camry picked up three positions, moving into 24th before the caution flag reemerged when Denny Hamlin was sent for a spin through the infield grass. Mears stayed out and did not come down pit road, given he had just made a visit two laps earlier.
Mears reached the 23rd position by Lap 28 and Lap 53 found him telling Barker that his GEICO Camry 'feels tight in the center'.
Mears brought the #13 GEICO Camry down pit road on Lap 70 for a scheduled green flag pit stop. He took on four tires and fuel and returned to the race in the 37th position. Two laps later, Mears had picked up five positions and was sitting 32nd. A lap later, on Lap 73, he was 31st and he informed Barker that his car 'is a lot better in the center'.
Mears reached 30th before the caution flag was displayed on Lap 98. He visited pit road to receive four tires, fuel and adjustments, as he continued to battle an ill-handling racecar. After restarting 33rd on Lap 103, he radioed to Barker on Lap 103, "It's weird. I'm a little tighter, but I'm not any better."
Something must have gotten better because Mears began to move the #13 GEICO Camry through the field. He reached 30th by Lap 124 and then found himself in 28th when Marcos Ambrose went for a spin on Lap 135, once again bringing out the yellow.
After restarting 28th on Lap 140, Mears jumped to 27th before the caution flag waved just a lap later when Juan Pablo Montoya and Joey Logano found themselves tangled up.
Mears spent a short time down a lap, but quickly hustled to 26th position on Lap 146 and put himself in the Lucky Dog position – the first car a lap down. The racing gods showed mercy on Mears and the GEICO Racing team, as the caution flag was displayed on Lap 164, allowing Mears to return to the Lead Lap.
Although he was a lap down, Mears had been consistently faster than the cars in front of him, so returning to the Lead Lap offered the opportunity to start gaining positions. He wasted little time. After restarting 26th on Lap 169, Mears had the #13 GEICO Camry 25th on the subsequent lap. He then jumped to 24th on Lap 172, 23rd on Lap 181 and was running 21st when the cautionflag came out for debris on Lap 187.
With 75 laps to go, he was running in the 20th position.
After the caution came out on Lap 195 when Dave Blaney hit the wall, Mears came down pit road for four tires and fuel. Barker informed Mears that he would be short on fuel and that he would need to pit one more time prior to the conclusion of the race. 72 laps remained and the #13 GEICO Camry would be able to travel 53 laps on a full tank of fuel.
After restarting 28th on Lap 199, the caution flag came out once again just two laps later when Jeff Gordon's motor blew on the frontstretch. Mears took the opportunity to bring the #13 GEICO Camry down pit road to top off with fuel.
Mears restarted 29th on Lap 206 and began a run through the field. On Lap 214, he passed both Bill Elliott and Bobby Labonte to move back into the Top 25.
A week ago in Phoenix, Mears found himself stuck in fourth gear for the vast majority of the race beforehustling to a 24th place finish. Homestead saw the #13 GEICO Toyota Camry once again battling a gear issue as Sunday's race wound down.
While running 24th on Lap 233, Mears radioed to Barker that he felt like he lost the driveline and gears. Barker instructed him to take the #13 GEICO Camry directly to the garage. No one could have predicted what would happen next. Upon inspection of the racecar it was determined that the rear gear broke, something that rarely, if ever, happens in racing.
Mears was out of the race with just 34 laps remaining. After starting 34th, Mears and the GEICO team would be relegated to a 33rd place finish, a colossal disappointment considering they had run solidly in the Top 25 for much of the day and appeared destined for a Top 20 finish.
While Mears was visibly disappointed, he spoke with big picture vision.
"Something like this is tough because these things just don't happen; rear gears don't normally break," Mears said. "But it's racing and I'm sure we all think we've seen everything until we see the next crazy thing. I'm heartbroken for this team because we have worked so hard to get to the point where we are now as a solid Top 25 team. We have made tremendous improvement since August and I almost wish Daytona (2011) was next week because we keep improving and we feel we're better than a lot of the teams out there."
He continued, "When the season ends it means that Thanksgiving is around the corner and I always think of our troops serving in forward areas. What we do here at the racetrack each week is a sport, but what our troops do is life or death and they provide the blanket of freedom that we sleep under each night. Our troops and their families are in Trish (wife) and I's thoughts as we count our blessings this holiday season."
Since Mears took over driving duties of the #13 GEICO Camry in August, the team has missed just one race and has consistently finished in the Top 25 each week. The 2011 season will find GEICO as the primary sponsor for 18 races, leaving an exceptional opportunity for a company to come on-board and complete the season. The names 'Mears' and 'GEICO' are synonymous with greatness and a company looking to expand awareness would benefit from a relationship with both.
Less than three months remain before the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series arrives at Daytona International Speedway to get the 2011 season underway.
To learn more about the GEICO Racing program, please visit: www.geicogarage.com
You can also follow GEICO Racing on Twitter: www.twitter.com/geicoracing
Please visit the Casey Mears Facebook fan page: www.facebook.com/caseymearsracing
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At first look, the ZenFone 5 is tempting. Its simple, classic design, array of features and budget price tag are attractive. The device combines a spacious high resolution, high-definition (HD) display with a highly portable design. It has a 5-inch IPS panel that delivers pretty impressive high definition 1280 x 720-pixel resolutionand in an attractive design that tapers to just 5.5 mm at its thinnest edge. The phone retails for Rs 9,999 for a 8 GB variant. It is available in four coloursCharcoal Black, Pearl White, Cherry Red, and Champagne Gold.
Out of the box, the ZenFone 5 comes across as a stylish and sturdy phone with a pretty good build quality. From an ergonomics point of view, theres little to criticise about the design and handling of the ZenFone 5. It sports a slightly curved, soft-touch rear that feels great in the palm of our hands. Its matte texture also helps to give a better grip of the device, especially for consumers who find the 5-inch form factor a little too large to hold in one hand.
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LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Three television upstarts and a field of film stars could shake up the annual Primetime Emmy Awards on Monday in a validation of the television industry's move toward sophisticated, long-form storytelling.
Led by HBO's bayou crime mystery "True Detective," FX's snowy psychological miniseries "Fargo" and Netflix's online-delivered jailhouse comedy "Orange Is the New Black," a new breed of TV has headed to the top of the establishment class.
"We have a lot of sexy newcomers," said Tom O'Neil, the editor of awards handicapper Goldderby.com. "It's not just the same old slapstick comedy show with a new face."
Together, the three shows have picked up 42 nominations and reflect the growing clout of unorthodox storytelling – from Netflix giving audiences an entire season at once to "True Detective" and "Fargo" as anthologies with new casts and stories each season.
"They have not just extraordinary critical acclaim," O'Neil said. "They have enormously high cool factors, extraordinary critical buzz and high visibility."
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The Emmys are handed out by the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences in a televised ceremony from Los Angeles and will be hosted by comedian Seth Meyers.
With broadcast networks again shut out from the best drama series race, the night's top honor, AMC's drug tale "Breaking Bad" will defend its title against Netflix political thriller "House of Cards," AMC ad world portrait "Mad Men," PBS British period series "Downton Abbey," HBO's fantasy epic "Game of Thrones" and "True Detective."
The rookie shows also have the benefit of movie star chops as Matthew McConaughey and Woody Harrelson from "True Detective," and Billy Bob Thornton and Martin Freeman from "Fargo" vie for top acting awards.
"What you see now is 'True Detective' and 'Fargo' as the vanguard for where a lot of television storytelling is going," said Andy Greenwald, a staff writer at Grantland.com, who added that the miniseries format allows Hollywood talent to test the TV waters without complicating their big-screen career.
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Netflix shrewdly submitted "Orange Is the New Black," about a middle-class woman in jail on drug charges, as a comedy, avoiding a showdown against its own political thriller "House of Cards" in the drama series running.
The gamesmanship among networks – HBO has "True Detective" in the drama running while "Fargo" is expected to sweep the miniseries competition – reflects the value of an Emmy victory at a time when delayed and online viewing has rendered audience ratings more opaque to networks, Greenwald said.
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"Prestige and perception are really the new currency in the TV marketplace," he said.
Although it would be a rare feat for "True Detective," "Fargo" and "Orange Is the New Black" to sweep the top races, O'Neil said, their presence alone has given the Emmys a jolt.
"The Emmys are a conservative industry award that tends to be much like TV reruns themselves, rewarding the same-old, same-old year after year," O'Neil said. "These are three troublemakers in town that could cause a lot of disruption."
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Music | The digital revolution is helping to create a new age of Christian music
The strums of a guitar, the heartbeat of a kick drum fashioned out of a suitcase, and the intertwining harmony of husband-and-wife duo Jenny and Tyler Somers flood the living room in Simi Valley, Calif., where 35 people have gathered to hear them perform. During a lull in the music, indoor pet birds chirp in response and the room laughs. Tyler walks over to the kitchen for a glass of water, and Jenny talks to the crowd, asking for song recommendations and sharing stories of their 3-month-old baby.
They sing of their marriage, Jenny's one-eyed cat, the struggles of their Christian walk, and hymns like "See the Conqueror." Afterward the owners of the house invite everyone to mingle and enjoy cookies in their back porch.
This was just one of the 30 house concerts the duo Jenny & Tyler perform each year. Fans volunteer their homes and enjoy a dinner and concert with the musicians as attendees pay a $10 entrance fee.
It's a picture of a new age in Christian music. Artists are exploring different sounds, writing more honest lyrics, and discovering new ways of growing their fan bases thanks to the digital revolution. What was once the typical road to "making it"–getting signed to a major record label and relying on radio play to sell CDs–is being turned on its head with the emergence of iTunes and music sites like Spotify, Pandora, and YouTube.
For Christian artists, this means freedom from the set sound and content that has defined Christian Contemporary Music (CCM). From indie rock to electronica, country-folk to hip-hop, new bands are finding fans and speaking out about their faith. For some, success has come unexpectedly, as technology allows the rapid spread of songs written for Sunday morning services. Other artists become a jack-of-all-trades, producing and promoting their own music.
Critics haven't parsed words in describing CCM. Mark Driscoll of Seattle's Mars Hill Church calls it "prom songs for Jesus." Billy Corgan of Smashing Pumpkins said on CNN, "Hey Christian rock, if you want to be good, stop copying U2. U2 already did it." Dustin Kensrue, formerly of the rock band Thrice, said his biggest issue with CCM is its oftentimes sloppy, man-centered theology. "On top of all that, there's a cheesiness to a lot of it that comes out of a sound that's grown from the rest of culture," he said.
In the early 2000s, Christian radio tried an edgier format with Christian Hit Radio (CHR). In 2003, Seth "Tower" Hurd, then 19, started working at a Chicago CHR station, Shine.FM, thinking he'd found a career that he'd dedicate the next 20 years of his life to.
But over the next decade, things started to change. The rock and hip-hop-infused Christian music didn't jive with affluent donors. Christian radio, which is funded by donations rather than ad space, realized it couldn't make money off of the CHR format. At the same time, major secular corporations like Capitol Records bought out Christian labels, shifting the focus from missions to profits. "Artists were pushed to write songs specifically for the soccer mom or they were just dropped and had to find a new way to get music out there," is how Hurd, and others, put it. By the end of 2012, the CHR format officially died: Billboard stopped listing CHR charts, and Hurd was fired. Although he had been the station's most popular radio host, management said he wasn't what the audience wanted.
Christian radio today has reverted to its nonoffensive stance, which means not only a lack of swearing but also staying away from theological truths that could offend the wide variety of Christians who fill their coffers. Citizens, a worship band at Mars Hill Church, faced this issue when it tried getting its single "Made Alive" on the radio earlier this year. Kensrue, the head of the church's record label, Mars Hill Music, said that stations turned down the upbeat indie rock song because of lyrics like "I once was dead in sin, alone and hopeless / A child of wrath I walked, condemned in darkness."
Since then, a few stations like Air1 have picked up the song, and listeners have requested more play time. But for Citizens and the other bands at Mars Hill Music, radio play and selling albums were never their main goals. "We wrote the song 'Made Alive' because we have an 8 o'clock service and we wanted a song that's fun and dance-y and lets them just shout the gospel and the fact that by the grace of Jesus they've been saved," said band leader Zach Bolen.
Mars Hill Music, which partners with Tooth & Nail Records, is made up of the worship bands at the megachurch's 15 sites. They write songs for their church and later record them at a recording studio in the church office. From the redone hymns of King's Kaleidoscope to the roots-rock band Ghost Ship to Kensrue's solo alt-rock album, each band performs in its own artistic style. A Mars Hill pastor and Kensrue vet each song to ensure it is theologically sound. "Made Alive" is now sung at churches across the country, while Citizens' debut album reached No. 20 on Billboard's top Christian albums.
Acoustic-folk duo All Sons & Daughters also didn't see fame and fortune as their end goal. Instead, Leslie Anne Jordan and David Alan Leonard, the worship leaders at Journey Church in Franklin, Tenn., specifically didn't want to be part of a band that would take them away from their church family. They wanted to write songs for their church and what their church was going through: "They were songs of desperation, acknowledging of our need for God, allowing ourselves to talk about brokenness and ask questions," Leonard said.
As they started recording EPs for their congregation, a fellow church member invited them to join Integrity Music, a label that supplies worship music to other churches. Last year All Sons & Daughters released a trio of EPs, with The Longing hitting No. 5 on Billboard's top Christian albums, and Reason to Sing hitting No. 5 on the Top Heatseekers, which tracks new artists. All this without any radio play; instead fans found them through social media or hearing their songs like "All the Poor and Powerless" at church.
The two are surprised about the group's success but most excited that local worship leaders use their music. "We come from a community of honesty, so we're given the ability to say things others don't have the freedom to in all contexts," Jordan said. "We're excited to be able to be in this conversation in the churches."
For those without a church platform or radio and label backing, it takes more than good songs to make a living in the music industry. Hurd said this new digital age of music isn't necessarily an easy time for new artists, but "this is a good time for artists who want to learn how to be marketers also."
One of the first artists to explore this brave new world was Derek Webb, a former member of the Christian band Caedmon's Call. He left the band to start a solo career in 2001, and caught criticism by the CCM community for his controversial song topics.
Without the support of Christian radio, he built his fan base by playing house concerts, giving away music online, and offering special promos with his albums. He also helped start NoiseTrade, which allows listeners to download music from independent artists for free, because he found that giving away music pays off as new fans will buy tickets to concerts and future albums.
"Some of the new music business will train you to focus more on a smaller, really committed, supportive group of people rather than trying to get everyone on the planet to know about what you're doing," Webb told the online journal The Great Discontent. "That's the secret of the new business–if your ego can bear it, there's a great blue-collar living to be made as a professional musician."
And Jenny & Tyler are following that path. The two met in college and after getting married, moved to Nashville in 2006 to pursue their dreams of making music. At first they were concerned about being considered part of CCM, but "then we realized the songs we were led to write were more obviously about God," Jenny said. Part of it was a pride issue and not wanting to be put in a box, she said, but they soon realized that they loved their Christian fans.
For the first few years, the Somerses did everything on their own, writing and recording their own songs, producing their own music, designing their own website, and promoting themselves. They ran Facebook ads and gave out free songs to anyone who would give them their email addresses. They put their music up on NoiseTrade, Spotify, and Pandora. They asked 100 fans to join their launch team for a new record by promoting it on social media. In return, each fan gets an advance copy of the EP. While playing more than 100 shows each year around the country, they've been able to build relationships with their fans.
Those fans are attracted to their simple melodies and honest lyrics. "Christ has died to truly set us free: free from shame, and free to confess," Tyler said. "Confession translates to songwriting."
The quality of the music is translating into unexpected listeners for several of these artists. Kensrue's album The Water & The Blood received positive reviews from secular publications that are familiar with his music from Thrice. A few of Jenny & Tyler's songs were featured on the show Pretty Little Liars, including one about their experience first believing in Jesus.
Mars Hill Music's Ghost Ship noticed a site was sending lot of traffic to their song "The Revelation of Jesus Christ." It turns out an atheist feminist blogger had linked to their song. She said she didn't agree with the lyrics, but she couldn't stop listening to the song because she loved the music.
"It's a crystallization of what we're trying to do," Kensrue said. "[We're] making records that are musically excellent and the gospel is being heard by people who wouldn't listen to Christian radio."


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National | Maternity homes provide new choices for women in crisis pregnancy
"Home for life" Continued...
Julie, six months pregnant, cross-stitches a blanket for her child-to-be, but cheerfully pops up for an impromptu tour of her dorm room at the Gladney Center for Adoption in Ft. Worth, Texas. "It's pretty clean," the blonde 26-year-old says with a note of warning. Behind her, the two-story dormitory rises around an open living area dotted with potted shrubs. Near a white baby grand piano, six young women-each in a different stage of pregnancy-watch Tom Hanks in The Green Mile. On a plaque near the door to the kitchen is Gladney's motto: "It's nice to know that when you're not ready to be a mom, someone else is."
About 400 maternity homes across the country help women deal with crisis pregnancies in practical ways-without choosing abortion. Maternity homes traditionally provided housing, medical and prenatal care, financial assistance, education, and career training to women who wanted to be away from embarrassed families and finger-wagging hometowns. Today, some of those still exist, but some women choose small facilities closer to home.
"The pro-life movement has been caricatured with picketing, arguing, and yelling," says Beth Burton, director of operations for the Elizabeth Home, a Grapevine, Texas, maternity home. "The [pro-abortion] side says, 'Fine, but what are you going to do when girls choose life?' Maternity homes are the pro-life answer."
Gladney was Julie's answer to a pregnancy she didn't want to abort and a family she didn't want to embarrass. She dated her boyfriend for a year before "it" happened. "I bought a real expensive pregnancy test and a real cheap one. They were both positive. My parents were like, 'What are you going to do?'" She swings back the door to the room where she's lived for three months, swiping up a few stray clothes from the floor. Tacked above a twin bed: sonogram pictures of her unborn baby. "My father is very active in the community. We all decided that I needed to come down here to keep it confidential." No one in her hometown knows Julie's pregnant.
"It's different living with 30 pregnant women with raging hormones," she laughs. "But we're all going through the same thing."
Today the average stay in a maternity home is four to six months, and the average age of residents is 16. Girls come from all backgrounds and ethnicity. Many flee abuse, drugs, and poverty. Others just want to save face. Maternity homes sprouted during the 1800s to shelter "wayward" women whose families wanted a hush-hush solution to a risqu* problem. Few mothers chose single-parenting in a society critical of questionable pregnancies. So girls disappeared into large, out-of-state homes where babies were quietly adopted. But in the wake of the sexual revolution and the Roe vs. Wade decision of 1973, abortion offered a quick answer. Single parenthood also became another well-accepted option.
The 113-year-old Gladney Center has assisted more than 36,000 women in crisis pregnancy with counseling and referral services. The nonprofit also has placed more than 26,000 children into adoptive homes. Women who move into Gladney are assigned a caseworker, and each receives free prenatal care and delivery, as well as counseling and education. Residents may arrive anytime during their pregnancies, and can stay up to six weeks after delivery, 12 if they have a caesarean delivery. But all these services aren't cheap. With an annual budget of $5.7 million, Gladney spends about $32,000 per resident. Adoption fees offset costs, but Gladney still loses about $10,000 on every resident, money the center replaces through foundation grants and private support.
Most smaller maternity homes spend about $100,000 annually, largely from private contributions. Few, especially if they are faith-based, accept government funding. Anne Pierson, director of Loving and Caring, a national evangelical organization that has launched more than 100 small maternity homes, said government funding "has been a problem in the past because of the evangelistic thrust" of many homes. A recent national survey, Maternity Homes for Adolescents, found that the federal government is the least common source of funds for homes. Such homes also swing outside of the welfare loop since residents usually stick around for less than a year.
Still, maternity homes manage; some even boast innovative extras, like Gladney's auditorium, cafeteria, education building, counseling center, and three dormitories. There's even a swimming pool where girls in bright bikinis can tan rounded bellies on hot Texas afternoons. Sunday dinners out, a fitness center, pool- and ping-pong tables, volleyball courts, a greenhouse, and a computer lab help girls keep their minds off swelling ankles and homesickness.
This fall, Gladney will move across town to a new 11-acre, $14 million campus-a far cry from its humble beginnings as the last stop for the "orphan trains" of the late 1800s. The trains hauled orphans and abandoned children across America, stopping in towns along the rails to "put up" the children for adoption. Midwest farmers and ranchers usually chose the strong, healthy children, those who seemed fit to plant, harvest, or tend livestock. When the trains pulled in for their final stop in Fort Worth, Gladney took in the "leftovers." Today the home is the largest, most comprehensive maternity complex in the United States.
Sixteen-year-old Nikki loves Gladney's on-site, self-paced school. "I sleep till 8:15 a.m., grab breakfast, and they tell me to go to bed if I feel bad. You wouldn't find that in a regular school." Seven months ago, the former varsity cheerleader was shocked when a pregnancy test she took popped positive. "I began throwing up, but I still went to cheerleading camp," she smiles, sitting cross-legged on a business chair in Gladney's plush conference room. "When I got home, I still didn't have a period ... after two more positive tests, I was like, 'Ahhhh!'"
When Nikki broke the news, her mother told her to stop joking. "It was horrible. I cried for a week." And so the daughter of a banker left home to save face for her prominent family. "My parents never said, 'Go!'" she says. "But people shouldn't have to look at me, and then at my parents, and ask 'Why?' I think [my parents] feel more comfortable with me here, though they would never say that."
Nikki first visited a smaller home. Such homes, mostly faith-based and housing four to six residents, make up over three-fourths of all maternity homes in the United States. Some large homes that were arms of social service organizations such as Catholic Social Services, the Baptist Church, or the Salvation Army, closed up years ago as abortion took hold. Others found that more unwed mothers want convenience, lots of options, and homes close to their communities.
With unwed pregnancy less stigmatized, "there is no longer an incentive for girls to go away to a home in another state to keep the pregnancy confidential and place the baby for adoption," notes Peggy Hartshorn, president of Heartbeat International. "Women can find local, small homes in their own communities." Loving and Caring's Anne Pierson said larger homes have withered because "women don't like an institutionalized setting, and prefer a smaller, home family setting."
That's why Krystal, 18, chose Mercy House, a modest, white house set among shady oaks off a one-way street in Arlington, Texas, for her second pregnancy. Krystal, a tall, beautiful brunette, is now the proud mother of 10-week-old Marcus. At 13, she ran away from home and wound up in Dallas, stripping at a club and working for pimps. She became pregnant at 15 and lived at Gladney, where she placed her daughter for adoption. Krystal didn't care for the large-home setting: "It was like a college dorm, except worse. There were over 30 girls in our dorm and no age limit." But Krystal's main objection to Gladney was that she felt pressure to place her daughter for adoption, rather than parent.
Gladney only houses adoption-minded residents, and if a girl decides during her stay to parent, Gladney helps her find another home. "We are set up to be an adoption agency," explains Gladney representative Paige McCoy Smith. "We are not interested in abandoning her if she chooses to parent. But our primary objective is to facilitate adoption for women, and we want to be able to keep our services available for women making this choice."
Still, at Gladney Krystal felt "institutionalized," a feeling she doesn't get from Bev and Jack Strang, the senior couple that runs Mercy House. "They don't treat you like an institution," Krystal says. "You're not a patient, but a regular person that needs help.... It's like living with my grandparents, except that you're all pregnant at the same time!"
Mrs. Strang, 63, floats across the carpeted living room, following a baby's wail. "Somebody's not haaap-py," she sings. Jack Strang, 65, reclines in a La-Z-Boy with white-socked feet hiked up on the footrest. "It's important [for the girls] to have a father and mother figure," he says, hands folded comfortably across his striped shirt. "We provide them with parental guidance, tell them to put things away when they're done, advise them, encourage them, and," he adds, grinning, "irritate them at times."
Mercy House can accommodate four women in crisis pregnancy, but right now three call the place home, along with another permanent resident-a dog named Annie. Annie's paws click across the kitchen floor to greet 15-year-old Belinda, who smiles shyly, lugging books from her alternative high school.
"I cried when I came because I missed my family," she said later. "I thought it would be a big house of nuns slapping us with rulers. But it's just like a home." Belinda's red T-shirt barely reveals her seven-month pregnancy. "[Mercy House is] OK sometimes, but I wish we wouldn't have chores," she grins. "We get in big trouble if we don't get them done, even when I'm tired from school." Belinda plans to get her master's in psychology and to become a high-school counselor. She is the only Mercy Home resident choosing adoption. "It's not that I want to give my child away," she argues earnestly. "I do want to have a kid, but I'm only 15. What am I going to do? I can't even drive yet." Where would Belinda be without Mercy House? "Probably with some guy dropping out of school, halfway on the streets," she shrugs.
Susan Hulet, a midwife who founded Mercy House nearly three years ago, believes in small maternity homes. "A home setting with house parents and a small [number] of girls gives a modeling of a normal home and family. Girls have close interpersonal relationships with house parents. They do chores, go to the grocery store, prepare meals, and conduct family devotions every evening."
Door of Hope Church donated the facility for Mercy House, and the home runs on $50,000 annually. Mercy House volunteers throw a baby shower for every mother, and local families "adopt" residents. The home's location is kept confidential, says Ms. Hulet, to guard residents from anyone "irate or abusive who wants to find a girl, usually the boyfriend."
In one of the Mercy House bedrooms, Angela, 22, cradles her 17-day-old son Jonathan while a tape player whispers soft music. "My life was going well, and then the next minute it was falling apart," she said, patting her son's back. After her boyfriend "left me standing," Angela obtained a list of homes from a hospital, but "everyone said, 'You can't come here unless you give your baby up.' I said, 'No, that's not an option.'" A white lacy bassinet sits a few feet from Angela's bed. "Its not like you're here only until you have your baby. They help you get your life back together." Had she considered a larger home? "Uh-uh!" she says emphatically, revealing that she herself grew up in a children's home: "It's like you're a number instead of an individual. I like the family setting."
Back in the Mercy House kitchen, Krystal explains how she wound up in crisis pregnancy twice. After her probation time at Gladney ran out, she says she returned to the only thing she knew: working for escort services and clubs. "I was underage, but they didn't ask any questions." Eventually, Krystal fled back to her parents' home. But at 17, a crisis pregnancy center told her she was going to have another child. "I went into denial for a month," she says. "I got really sick and I ate like a cow. I was showing, and still saying no." When Krystal's parents found out, she feared the worst: "I thought [my mom] would be mad and kill me. But she wanted to help, and didn't know why I didn't tell her. That's when my dad went researching through crisis pregnancy lines. He came home from work one day with Mercy House's number. And here I am."
Krystal smiles over the tile kitchen table where the girls take turns preparing meals. "When I first came here, everyone was together making lunch. Angela was putting dishes away in the dishwasher. I thought it was a show because I was coming. I thought they would change. But they didn't."
Krystal earned her GED at Mercy House and plans to attend the University of Texas in the spring. Like other 18-year-olds, she is considering a career. "Maybe a sonogram technician in a crisis pregnancy center," she muses. "I want to talk to girls who are abortion-minded."


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Usually after big outdoor performances there are complaints that a performer might have lip-synched their songs. But this time, it's a group being called out for finger-synching.
The Red Hot Chili Peppers acknowledge that they pretended to play along to a track they had recorded in advance of their Super Bowl halftime show with Bruno Mars.
The group had said it decided a long time ago they would never do that — but the group's bass player 'fessed up to the play-along after some fans watching on TV noted that the band's instruments weren't plugged in.
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Flea says they played along to a special track of "Give It Away" while lead singer Anthony Kiedis sang live.
Flea says the NFL asked them to record the track beforehand to avoid any possible sound problems.
It's unclear whether Bruno Mars had similar tracks backing him up when he performed at the show — Flea didn't put Mars out there, though he does say Mars knew the track the Peppers did had already been recorded.
In an open letter to fans on the band's website, he writes, "When we were asked by the NFL (National Football League) and Bruno to play our song "Give It Away" at the Super Bowl, it was made clear to us that the vocals would be live, but the bass, drums, and guitar would be pre-recorded. I understand the NFL's stance on this, given they only have a few minutes to set up the stage, there a zillion things that could go wrong and ruin the sound for the folks watching in the stadium and the T.V. viewers.
"There was not any room for argument on this, the NFL does not want to risk their show being botched by bad sound, period.
"The Red Hot Chili Peppers stance on any sort of miming has been that we will absolutely not do it. The last time we did it (or tried to) was in the late 80s, we were thrown off of 'The Top Of the Pops' television program in the U.K. during rehearsals because we refused to mime properly… and we basically had a wrestling match onstage, making a mockery of the idea that it was a real live performance.
"We mimed on one or two weird MTV shows before that and it always was a drag. We take our music playing seriously, it is a sacred thing for us…
"So, when this Super Bowl gig concept came up, there was a lot of confusion amongst us as whether or not we should do it, but we eventually decided, it was a surreal-like, once in a life time crazy thing to do and we would just have fun and do it… I spoke with many musician friends for whom I have the utmost respect, and they all said they would do it if asked, that it was a wild trippy thing to do, what the hell.
"We decided that, with Anthony singing live, that we could still bring the spirit and freedom of what we do into the performance, and of course we played every note in the recording specially for the gig. I met and spoke with Bruno, who was a beautiful dude, a real talented musician, and we worked out something that seemed like it would be fun.
"We recorded a track for the day, just banged one out from our hearts that was very like in spirit to the versions we have been playing live the last few years with our beloved Josh on guitar. For the actual performance, Josh, Chad, and I were playing along with the pre recorded track so there was no need to plug in our guitars, so we did not. Could we have plugged them in and avoided bumming people out who have expressed disappointment that the instrumental track was pre recorded? Of course easily we could have and this would be a non-issue. We thought it better to not pretend. It seemed like the realest thing to do in the circumstance."
He adds, "It was like making a music video in front of a gazillion people, except with live vocals, and only one chance to rock it. Our only thought was to bring the spirit of who we are to the people. I am grateful to the NFL for having us. And I am grateful to Bruno, who is a super talented young man for inviting us to be a part of his gig. I would do it all the same way again."


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I have almost 2 years commercial experience in web development. Yet every time I apply for a job I get a call back "Sorry you don't have enough commercial experience for this position."
The last 6 months have run like this:
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Could Mary Carillo finally be coming to her fashion senses?
According to the Preppy Princess the tennis commentator, who has this unfortunate fondness for Hillary Clinton-style pant suits and turtlenecks (sometimes even worn together - doh!), will be kicking it up a notch and sporting a little special something for her Olympics gig:
I can't tell from this line sketch whether the outfit, designed by Ports 1961, is something closer to a white tie-waist potato sack paired with leggings or maternity wear.
In any case, it's better than the aforementioned suits...and the helmet hair is spot on.
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FASHION FIX: Mary Carillo steps up style game - could the pant suit be history?
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Why is Carillo getting a custom designed outfit, anyway?ReplyDelete
But I LOVE Ports 1961 - it's going to look good for sure. But I can't picture Mary in heels. . .
true - mary in heels? i guess she'll be sitting most of the time but i'd like to see if she can walk in them.ReplyDelete
i believe Ports 1961 is dressing the on-air personalities, including mary.
Heels? Heels? OMG no, anything but the heels! You know, Rich, you make a good point about the sitting. It needs to be sitting tho', because the walking thing could be very scary. Very.ReplyDelete
I was thinking perhaps Ana or Maria could simply use the top portion of the outfit as a dress...? Maybe? Better than some of the wretched things we've seen recently on the ladies? Not to mention the orange and black bag bomb Mr. Federer had on the court recently. What *was* that? (Besides hideous?)
Okay, we've been mean and nasty long enough; clearly the Bad Princess has somehow gotten out of her cage this evening. Whoops!
yes it happens sometimes TP - cage door is open!ReplyDelete


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Parks in Naples
The green zones of Naples occupy an area of approximately three hundred hectares of town property and take on a vitally important role from both cultural and panoramic points of view.
The long public garden that separates the Riviera di Chiaia from the sea is the "Villa Comunale", commissioned to Vanvitelli in 1778 by King Ferdinand of Bourbon, who took inspiration from the Parisian "Tuilieres".
The King desired a "Royal Walk" for the Neapolitan nobility.
In the park, the Neoclassical statues, small temples and fountains are surrounded by holm-oaks, pines and eucalypts.
There is also the Press Club and the oldest Aquarium in Europe.
Opposite the park is the "Villa Pignatelli", a Neoclassical residence which houses the "Diego Aragona Pignatelli Cortes" Museum and Picture Gallery.
Of great charm are the rooms with Neapolitan art from the 16th to early 20th centuries, and the English garden with the camellias, palm trees and magnificent magnolia grandiflora.
The Royal Palace residence from 1600 of the Vieceroys of Spain, Austria and the Bourbon and Savoy Royal families, has a splendid park which faces onto Piazza Plebiscito.
Many of the rooms in the Palace can be visited including the Flemihs room, the Chapel, the Historical Apartments and its Museum.
In the park of the Palace there is the "Italy Garden" with leafy camellias and the statue by Liberti, the small "Romantic Garden" and the Italian style roof garden in the courtyard of the Belvedere which is filled with trees and exotic species of flowers.
In Vomero, nestles in the greenery, there is the Charterhouse of San Martino.
Built to the orders of Charles d'Anjou, it houses important collections from the National Archaeological Museum including the "Tavola Strozzi" (Strozzi Table) from the 15th century, the first map of the city and the Nativity Scene by "Cuciniello".
The Gothic Church with 17th century frescoes by Caracciolo, marble busts by Vaccaro and 16th century reading stand is charming.
A splendid example of 15th century Neapolitan art is found in trhe Grand Cloister, characterised by the Doric-Tuscan order of columns and the small Cemetery of the Charterhouse Monks with their white marble balusters topped by sculpted skulls.
Still in Vomero, there is the park of the "Villa Floridiana", built in 1816 as a gift from King Ferdinand I to his wife, the Duchess of Florida.
The Neoclassical villa houses the National Museum of Ceramics (with over 6,000 European and Oriental pieces) while the park is made up of panoramic avenues and gardens with over 150 species of flora, and the Teatrino della Verzura, an example of garden architecture.
On the Posillipo hill there is the "Virgilian Park", built in the Fascist era, from which one can admire the breathtaking views of the Gulfs of Naples and Pozzuoli.
Holm-oaks, olive trees, oaks, typical species of the mediterranean macchia such as myrtle and rosemary, flower beds and playground for children, make the park and relaxing oasis in the city.
From the same historical period there is the "Virgilian Park in Piedigrotta", where there are three items if interest: The Tomb of Giacomo Leopardi, constructed in 1934 in keeping with the typology of the Roman funerary cippus, the "Neapolitan Crypt" which was constructed by Cocceio in Ancient Roman times to connect Neapolis to the Plegraean area, and Mausoleum Tomb supposed to be of Virgil which is a Roman columbarium of the Augustan era.
The nature reserve of the "Astroni Crater" is splendid.
This WWF oasis, which covers 250 hectarer, includes a whole crater of the Phlegraean Fields.
The presence of numerous species of animals is characteristic of this reserve, as in the inversion of the vegetation, with a dense wood at the bottom of the crater, and Mediterranean vegetation at the top.
Again at the bottom of an ancient volcanic crater, visitors can admire the remains of the "Terme di Agnano" thermal spa baths, and the surrounding park with its rich variety of flowers, bushes and trees.
The "Stufe di San Germano" are famous natural caves with a dry microclimate that is ideal for dermatological, respiratory and cardiovascular problems.
The "Camaldoli Park" is names after the 14th century Camaldolese hermitage where monks prepared medical remedies using natural products.
The park's aim is to preserve of the character of the wood with its chestnut trees, Holm-oaks and other typical examples of the Mediterranean macchia, such as broom and erica arborea.
On the Capodimonte hilltop there is the "Capodimonte Park", which holds over 400 species of flora with centuries old trees, areas of lawn and exotic plants.
The park began as a hunting reserve for Charles III of Bourbon and it surrounds the Capodimonte Royal Palace whose picture gallery hosts the Farnese Collection and the collection of Capodimonte porcelain.
At the time of the park's conception, the species of trees were chosen according to the types of game that were to inhabit it.
At the foot of the hill there are the "Botanical Gardens".
Established in 1807, they are among the most important in Italy for their large size and calibre of the collections.
On twelve hectares of land, they house approximately 25,000 exemplars of 10,000 species of flora with water system and greenhouses that artificially recreate the required conditions of the plant's natural habitats.
Of particular interest is the experimental section of officinal plants, as well as the Museum of Palaeobotany and Ethnologic Botany housed in the 17th century Castle.
Not far from Capodimonte, the establishment of the "Parco del Poggio" (Poggio Park) has permitted the restoration of the garden of Queen Isabella Villa.
Within its 4 hectares, the garden has terraces of broom and olive trees, a lake with bamboo and strelizia, a small botanical garden and a play area and a theatre.
Then there is the "Troisi Park", inaugurated in 1994, and previously known as the "Taverna del Ferro Park", after the street in which it is found.
A pond and artificial hill are surrounded by pine trees and Mediterranean species such as tamaricaceae and poplar trees, and are species such as "Taxidium Distichum", a bald cypress from Florida.
There are just a few of the green wonders of the city which, combined with the historical and cultural charms of these places, make Naples an extraordinary destination for tourists from all over the world. (Carmen Grieco)
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Hatteras 100 Raised PilothouseBy Capt. Bill Pike
Heavy Hitter
Elegance? Comfort? Power? Yeah, but there are two more qualities that make this 100-foot beauty a true performer—technology and craftsmanship.
Wind whipping smartly through the palm trees outside my hotel window was what woke me up that morning. The plan we'd all discussed the evening before had been simple enough, albeit just a tad agricultural, by which I mean we'd all agreed to meet onboard the Hatteras 100 Raised Pilothouse at a very early, let's-head-down-to-the-barn-and-milk-the-cows hour. I glanced at my Reactor watch in the dark, its numerals glowing faintly.
About four o'clock. I popped the Weather Channel icon on the ol' iPhone. It prophesied wind speeds of 20-plus knots, which meant at least 25 knots offshore, maybe more. Rain spattered the window, as I drew back the curtain on a stormy, decidedly unpromising scene.
Jeeeesh, I observed to myself, letting the curtain fall back. "A photo shoot? In this? Right!"
Weather-wise, Turnberry Isle Marina & Yacht Club, on the northern edge of Miami, is a very protected spot, thanks mostly to all the high-rises around it. So as I walked briskly along the face dock there, heading for the 100 snugly berthed starboard-side-to, I noticed little more than a faint breeze wafting about, a condition that would no doubt expedite our departure for the wild blue yonder in an hour or so.
"Hey Bill," said Capt. Greg Maduros, standing at the top of the gangway, his hand extended. Because it was December and colder than a wharf rat's heart we went inside immediately. And because we were both on the scene well before our planned ETD, we took the opportunity to tour the 100's engine room, a spot Maduros was very proud of.
As soon as I entered via the watertight door in the forward bulkhead of the crew's quarters, I saw why. For starters, the place was flat-out immense, with over seven feet of headroom, a walkway between the mains that was darn near six-feet wide, and access to both Caterpillar C32 ACERTs that was wide-open, both inboard and outboard. The new owner of the 100, Maduros explained, had already possessed five Hatteras yachts and several other vessels over a long and salty lifetime and he was well versed in all things marine, whether that meant dealing with dirty fuel in dicey circumstances or specifying clearly labeled ball-valve handles. No bobbing and weaving around exhaust trunks or squeezing between hot diesels for him!
Then there was the commercial-grade way Hatteras had laid out and installed the auxiliary equipment. The port and starboard Mastervolt battery isolators, for example, although of modest importance to the overall mission of the vessel, were nevertheless mounted on the forward firewall with aesthetically pleasing precision (i.e., dead level, absolutely upright, and uniformly distanced from other components) and, to facilitate removal should replacement ever be necessary, snap-on-snap-off stainless-steel retainer clips. Additionally, the color-coded and clearly labeled electrical cables interconnecting the units with the vessel's big Mastervolt battery chargers and battery banks were secured in crisp, schematic patterns with cushioned cable clamps (on 5-inch centers approximately) and, in between, crisply applied, uniformly spaced cable ties.
"Beautiful work," I noted, while closely inspecting the rubber boots covering the connector studs on each isolator. There were cable ties tightly seized around the bases of each, a small detail perhaps, but one that doubled the security of the little friction-fit devices, and virtually guaranteed protection against electrical shock. "Belt and suspenders," I commented.
The fuel system was top-shelf too. It included a daytank mounted beneath the central walkway that both simplified the manipulation of fuel loads among the other four fuel tanks onboard and, by ensuring that all the fuel that was burned in the engines and gensets came from a single source, made keeping track of total consumption on long trips easier and more accurate. And talk about filtration! Not only were the mains outfitted with large, triplex 791000MAV Racors, so was the fuel-transfer pump. And get this! Draft marks had been installed at the stern—a commercial-grade feature if ever there was one—so the owner and crew could precisely gauge changes in draft due to fuel transfers from tank to tank. Can three inches, plus or minus, really be important? Over in the Bahamas? Or in some other skinny-water place? Yeah, buddy!
"Wow—a dirty-oil tank onboard too," I noted while kneeling down to examine a polished-stainless oil-change manifold system, as clearly labeled as everything else I'd seen thus far. Dirty-oil tanks nix having to carry jumbles of empty, oily five-gallon buckets around between oil changes. They're great!
I was able to appraise and appreciate only a few more examples of niftiness before Maduros and I had to call it quits. The highlights included a set of long, welded-aluminum stowage boxes (for Racor elements, first-aid supplies, gasket kits, rags, etc.) each installed well above a main; polished stainless stanchions on either side of the central walkway, each serving as both an overhead support and a rough-water handhold; an air-intake system set up to automatically govern air pressure inside the ER, thus obviating the suction that sometimes makes engine-room doors tough to open at speed; and, last but not least, an ample tool chest secured along the forward firewall, with an adjoining workbench.
The sky was lightening when we got back topside. And in short order, with our photo-shoot models drowsily kicked back in the saloon and the mains nicely warmed up, I watched as Maduros worked his charge smoothly off the dock, an exercise that was so obviously enjoyable and delicately controllable that I was sorely tempted to break one of my big-time boat-test rules: Never maneuver a sold vessel unless the owner's onboard and gives his permission.
Man! Oh man! At the behest of the ABT bow and stern thrusters only, the 100 slid sideways, away from her berth, like she was on ice. And then, once we were well off, Maduros used the mains, one ahead and the other astern (consecutively, not simultaneously), to rotate into the fairway. I noted virtually no vibration or low-end rumble at all during the process. And I could viscerally feel the torque the Caterpillars were putting into the water—clicking a stick into gear for even a second made the boat react.
And yes, there were reasons for all this sweetness and light. Our 54-inch by 80-inch Michigan Wheel props not only had lots of diameter and pitch, they also had a total of eight, high-skew blades apiece, a setup that when teamed with our super-deep transmission ratio of 4.727:1, was cutting vibration big-time and concomitantly boosting torque. And there was something else, too—almost 30 percent of each prop's diameter was tightly housed within a tunnel. No wonder the boat moved sideways so darn smoothly.
"Gotta be fun," I observed enviously, as Maduros finished with the control station on the starboard wing of the flying bridge and eased on over to the cushy Stidd behind the helm console.
Sea conditions well offshore were what the ol' iPhone had prophesied. Wave heights were averaging about six feet and the wind was gusting to at least 25 knots, and maybe 30 knots occasionally. There was a bit of good news, though—as luck would have it, the rains had stopped and the sun was up and at 'em.
What a shoot, though! Walloping shots of spray assailed the flying bridge repeatedly, particularly when we headed straight up-sea into the worst of it, an orientation our helicopter-borne photographer seemed to particularly like. But hey, the ride the 100 handed us was nevertheless purest, rocking-chair comfort, thanks partly to the aforementioned aspects of propulsion and partly to the boat's whopping 270,000-pound displacement.
"You can't beat a deep gear ratio in a big ol' heavy boat," I told Maduros, harking back to sea trials of other Hatteras motoryachts where very deep gear ratios were employed to maximize the operating efficiencies of relatively hefty, albeit very seakindly, vessels.
Driving details were equally sanguine. At the upper helm, sightlines were virtually unobstructed, all the way around. At the lower helm, the steep slant of the windshield, the thickness of the windshield mullions, and the comparative lowness of the overhead gave the area a claustrophobic feel. Sound levels were fairly low here, though, and, at both the upper and lower stations, the power-assisted steering seemed smooth and produced a comparatively broad turning radius, as befits a big boat with straight-shaft propulsion. The average top hop (which I measured closer to the shoreline in lesser seas) was respectable at 22 knots.
While the layout drawings and photography shown here give a fair enough representation of the sumptuousness of the 100's four-stateroom-five head interior (with two-stateroom crew accommodations astern), there are a couple of standout features that bear mentioning. First of all, the galley, located all the way forward on the main deck, is as seriously residential and smart as it is homey. Couple a platoon of full-sized Jenn-Air appliances with wraparound cabinetry, an oak-planked deck, a large stool-surrounded island in the middle of things, and a couple of skylights overhead (with remote-controlled sun shading), and you've got a country kitchen that's as fine as any you'll encounter ashore.
And then there's the strikingly large lounge area abaft the helm station on the flying bridge—it's about as inviting as a veranda with palm trees and magnolias. Under the part that's shaded by the hartop, there's a bar area to port (with matching barstools) and an ample, top-loading freezer and big L-shaped lounge to starboard. All the furniture here is mix-and-match modular and made of fiberglass, with top-shelf baseball-stitched upholstery. Further aft, beyond the hardtop, and thus open to the sky unless the canvas fly (stowed under one of the lounge seats) is deployed, is a heavily built teak table with a set of comfy teak chairs. Thick undergirding teak decks add a warm, classical touch to the ambiance.
"So you're off to the Ocean Reef Club this evening?" I asked Maduros, after we'd finished with the photo shoot, disembarked the models, and returned to Turnberry to await the arrival of the 100's owner. Maduros was leaning against the highly stylized railing that sidelines the stairway between the main deck and the raised pilothouse. He'd explained earlier that the railing had been precisely water-jet cut from a single sheet of ⅜-inch stainless and then welded and polished to a fare-the-well, a job that had required literally days of skilled labor.
"Yeah, for Vintage Weekend," he replied, "Our owner loves to look at the antique yachts and stuff."
Which didn't surprise me in the least.
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What You Should Eat During Your Pregnancy
Choose from the six food groups every day:
Meat and protein foods(such as lean beef, chicken, fish, eggs, beans, tofu, nuts)
3-4 servings a day
Protein builds muscles and blood.
Whole grains(such as bread, oatmeal, pasta, tortillas, rice)
6-11 servings a day
Grains help provide energy, vitamins, and minerals.
Vegetables3-5 servings a day
Vegetables provide important vitamins and minerals, as well as the extra fiber you'll need for regularity.
Fruits2-4 servings a day
Fruits contain vitamins, minerals, and fiber, and are also quick sources of energy.
Milk and milk products(like cheese and yogurt)
3-4 servings a day
Calcium helps bones, teeth, and muscles develop. (If you can't digest milk, you can drink lactose-reduced milk like Lactaid.)
Fats, oils, and sweetsUse sparingly.
FluidsDrink 8-10 glasses of water or other non-caffeinated, unsweetened liquids each day.
SaltSalt your food to taste. There is no need to restrict your salt intake unless your health care provider tells you to do so for medical reasons.
It's never too late to improve your eating habits.
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Trial starts in case of slain Bowie State student
A witness has testified about a fight between college roommates that led to the stabbing death of one woman.
Alexis Simpson is standing trial in Prince George's County in the September 2011 slaying of Dominique Frazier, her roommate at Bowie State University.
Authorities say Simpson stabbed Frazier during an argument over loud music that Frazier was playing as the women and other students prepared for a school-sponsored comedy show.
WJLA reports that in court Tuesday, one of Fraizer's friends said Simpson was the aggressor. But under cross-examination, she said Frazier also had a knife.
Defense lawyers have argued that Simpson acted in self-defense.
Simpson is charged with murder and also faces a charge of carrying a deadly weapon.
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BETHESDA, Md., (WUSA) -- The Green Gear Cycling company is recalling 3800 tikit folding bikes.
Riders can be injured when the handlebar stems break.
The company reports two people received scrapes, bruises and cuts to the head that required stitches.
And, the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission hopes to receive more incident or injury reports that are directly related to this product recall.
CPSC tikit Folding Bicycles Recall Notice
You should stop riding the bike immediately and contact the company to schedule a free repair.


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Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders
The Department of Communication Sciences & Disorders is pleased to announce that we are located at 1515 Broad Street in Bloomfield, approximately 2 miles from the main campus. This beautiful new 40,000 square foot facility houses our faculty and staff offices, ten classrooms and seminar rooms and ten research laboratories for faculty and students in the audiology doctoral and speech-language pathology masters programs.
In addition, there is the state-of-the-art Montclair State University Center for Audiology & Speech-Language Pathology. The center includes two sound suites for diagnostic audiology testing as well as rooms dedicated to evoked potentials testing, vestibular testing and fitting of hearing aids and other assistive devices. There are also ten individual rooms for speech and language therapy and four group therapy rooms equipped with streaming digital video to capture each session and enable clinical staff to observe therapy remotely.
We invite you to visit us in our new home and take advantage of our academic programs and clinical services.


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Herd closes drills on up note
HUNTINGTON, W.Va. - Marshall's up-tempo offense scored, the retooling defense put up a respectable fight, fans showed up and a fraction of the band played at Joan C. Edwards Stadium.
But the most important thing about the Green-White Game, according to Thundering Herd coach Doc Holliday, is that the spring season has ended. As a bonus, it ended with most of his players remaining upright and healthy.
"To be honest with you, I don't like spring games," Holliday said. "I thought we had an excellent spring; I thought those guys did some excellent things out there today. We didn't play some of those guys for a reason - we know what [Rakeem] Cato can do, we know what [Tommy] Shuler can do, Jeremiah Taylor and a couple of those guys."
For the record, the offense won 53-38 in that crazy spring-game scoring system, used for the first time since the Mark Snyder era. Alternating the first and second strings, the offense scored touchdowns in half of its 10 possessions.
There were several concessions made. Cato was pulled early, as expected, allowing backup quarterbacks Blake Frohnapfel and Gunnar Holcombe extra work. Shuler, the 110-catch slot receiver of a year ago, and defensive end Taylor were healthy scratches.
Two 15-minute quarters were played for points, with a running clocked used in the second quarter. Some unscored scrimmaging was conducted after a five-minute intermission, largely to give No. 4 quarterback Kevin Anderson some work.
The show was neatly packaged into 75 to 80 minutes, with a 30-minute autograph session afterward.
"We want to take a look at some of the younger guys, and I think they'll play," Holliday said. "The problem we have a little bit is we go so fast on offense, we want to run a certain number of plays. And if you run two full quarters, you run 250 plays, and you don't want that in the spring game."
Indeed, there were 84 plays run, with the offense gaining 435 total yards. That works out to 5.17 yards per play, which was the norm in the Herd's two previous scrimmages and about 2 yards lower than the MU defense's 2012 average.
Steward Butler dashed up the middle for a 20-yard touchdown and Cato pulled off an 8-yard score on a read-option keeper. Cato threw a 20-yard touchdown to Craig Wilkins and Frohnapfel fired a 32-yard shot to brother Eric in the back of the end zone.
The latter play probably triggered the most reaction from the 5,115 at Joan C. Edwards Stadium.
"That play usually does not go to [the tight end]," said the 6-foot-6 Eric Frohnapfel. "A two-by-two 'go' concept, so we're usually the distraction guy. But it just worked out with the way the defense was playing - they were just sitting on me and flat-footing me, so I broke open and I was hoping Blake would see me and he made a great read to look over to me and make the throw."
Blake Frohnapfel went 10 of 17 for 155 yards, playing with both the second and first units. Butler gained 60 yards on 11 carries, and Dameon Garrett gained 72 yards on four receptions.
Defensively, linebacker Stefan Houston led with seven tackles, and had one of the unit's nine pass breakups. There were five tag "sacks" and 11 tackles for loss, with linebacker Jermaine Holmes getting two.
Defensive end Armonze Daniel forced the only turnover of the day, a Kevin Rodriguez fumble that Chris Yamoah recovered. Yamoah, a walk-on safety who has received many contact reps this spring because of injuries to A.J. Leggett and Shawn Samuels, had five tackles, one for loss.
The single turnover continued a theme of the spring. Except for the four interceptions in the second scrimmage a week earlier, the offense has protected the ball very well.
"Knock on wood. You know what I mean?" said offensive coordinator Bill Legg. "That's been a huge emphasis. From 2011 to 2012, we cut eight turnovers, it might have been seven [it was, from 27 down to 20], and this year we want to take an equivalent step."
On the other side, the Herd defense wants to increase its slim total of 18 takeaways.
"Never had a great answer for that over the years," said defensive coordinator Chuck Heater. "It's unbelievable, but guys have got to make great plays. Catch the ball when it's thrown to you, get pressure on the quarterback and all those things.
"But those will come when the guys take coaching, get where they're supposed to get, operate the way they're supposed to operate. I believe we have good enough players."
Reach Doug Smock at 304-348-5130, email@example.com or follow him at twitter.com/dougsmock.
Green-White statistics
Cato 8 run
Wilkins 20 pass from Cato
Taliaferro 19 pass from B. Frohnapfel
Butler 20 run
E. Frohnapfel 32 pass from B. Frohnapfel


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What Was Wall St. Thinking Last Week?
It's not just Steve Jobs leaving Apple: The iEverything company is ending 99 cent TV rentals from iTunes, just when Netflix is poised to implement its controversial price hike. Apple's spurning of couch potatoes wasn't last week's only business head-scratcher. Here are some other surprises, blunders, and just flat-out boneheaded moves.


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The quotas they list are tentative and subject to change. Wardens & biologists have lots of input and are in the field and if they think herd numbers are down, I am sure they get quotas changed...after the application period is over!!
Did you have any points for your party?


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'Road Map' details Navy bribery scheme
In June 2011, Donald Vangundy sat down at his home computer and began to type out an extraordinary, eight-page document.
A civilian worker for the Navy for more than three decades, Vangundy called it a "A Road Map."
In rambling sentences and lengthy paragraphs, the document outlined his version of how he was able to get away with a near decade-long bribery scheme, where he raked in more than $400,000 worth of bribes from North County defense contractors who were supplying parts and equipment for a military aircraft maintenance program at North Island Naval Air Station in Coronado.
The "map" is one of a handful of previously undisclosed documents that piece together how a midlevel worker like Vangundy was able to orchestrate a fraud and bribery scheme that robbed U.S. taxpayers of millions of dollars.
How did it happen?
Court records and trial testimony show government safeguards that should have been in place were not, so for years no one caught on. The main defense contracts that Vangundy and his co-defendants exploited were written to be intentionally vague and to circumvent normal procedures for procuring materials.
Vangundy helped write those contracts and administer them. The contracts did not call for yearly audits, which are normally required.
They also did not call for a crucial fail-safe: a contracting officers representative, someone specifically designated to monitor how a government contract is being administered.
The scheme started small, with cash payments or a bottle of liquor to Vangundy from defense contractor Jesse Denome. And then it grew: expensive remote-controlled airplanes, a 42-inch flat screen TV, tires and rims for his wife's Mini Cooper. The number of people involved grew, as did the bribes handed out.
A half dozen televisions, Apple computers, top-grade kitchen appliances all went to the bribery ring.
"There's no way to account for where everything that was paid for under these contracts went," said Assistant U.S. Attorney Robert Huie, who prosecuted the case. "We had a very difficult time tracking that."
The trial
A federal jury last week convicted the owners of two Poway defense contracting firms of bribing Vangundy and his cohorts. Robert Ehnow, owner of L & N Industrial Tool & Supply, and Joanne Loehr, owner of Centerline Industrial Inc., were found guilty of conspiracy, bribery and wire fraud. Prosecutors said they received $4.5 million between them in government work under the scheme.
A third contractor, Michael Graven of X & D Supply in Carlsbad, got $2 million in government work. He is serving an 18-month sentence after pleading guilty; Ehnow and Loehr face years in prison when sentenced in May.
Vangundy was a witness at the trial of Ehnow and Loehr — the only two of the 11 defendants charged in the bribery case who didn't plead guilty.
In his "road map," Vangundy blamed a culture at the base that pressured workers to get the materials needed quickly to repair aircraft being used to fight the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. Getting tools, equipment and supplies through normal channels can take time and require several different levels of approval.
Vangundy suggested drawing up a type of contract that lists items routinely purchased but does not specify amounts or delivery times. It also requires far less paperwork or documentation.
That makes the procurement process faster, but with one very large pitfall. The way the contracts were written made it "much easier to provide himself cover," Vangundy told investigators in February 2011, after they had searched the base.
He made the declaration in a confidential memo that was the result of a "proffer" session, where subjects of investigations meet with federal authorities and tell them all they know but with the understanding it won't be used against them in court.


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2,000 gather to remember Maya Angelou
Oprah, First Lady, Bill Clinton attend event
WINSTON-SALEM, North Carolina - Eighty-six years of creativity, audacity and perseverance were acknowledged in two and a half hours of joy Saturday morning, as 2,000 people came to Wake Forest University to celebrate the life of Maya Angelou.
First lady Michelle Obama, former president Bill Clinton, Oprah Winfrey and members of Angelou's literal and extended family -- by blood, by scholarship, by the influence she left on them -- flocked to hear speakers share anecdotes and singers raise the rafters of Wait Chapel.
Grandson Colin Ashanti Johnson reminded us of her simple motto: "When you learn, teach. When you get, give." That theme ran through every speech in honor of the poet/autobiographer, who was on the Wake Forest faculty for 32 years until her death May 28.
Clinton recalled reading "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings," the first volume of Angelou's life narrative, as a law student. He realized it had been written by a woman who grew up black and poor in a town near his Arkansas birthplace, and it spoke to him personally.
He compared her to a firefly, "which suddenly makes you see something in front of your nose that you would have missed."
Obama remembered how Angelou empowered not only "black women but women everywhere and ALL human beings -- including a white woman from Kansas who named her daughter Maya, and who raised a son who grew up to be the first black president of the United States."
Winfrey, who helped put this tribute together, said, "The loss I feel, I cannot describe. It's like nothing I've ever felt before. She was my spiritual queen mother and everything that describes."
But it fell to Serenus Churn, Angelou's pastor at Mount Zion Baptist Church, to see the poet off with poetry.
He quoted Walt Whitman, William Cullen Bryant and finally invoked Shakespeare at the end of "Hamlet": "Good night, sweet princess. And author. And teacher. And friend, and mother and grandmother ... and flights of angels sing thee to thy rest."


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Ohio's new concealed-carry law will take effect tomorrow, allowing Second Amendment lovers the opportunity to reach into their pocket and feel the cold, smooth feel of safety while enjoying a non-alcoholic beverage at a bar or restaurant in Ohio. Seriously, y'all better not be drinking or the liberals will tell on you before you can get buzzed enough to go outside and fire a couple of funny shots up into the air.
A group of state lawmakers will hold a Town Hall-style meeting Thursday to discuss issues affecting African-American residents in Greater Cincinnati.
The Ohio Legislative Black Caucus is sponsoring the event, called The State of African Americans in Ohio. Among those attending are State Sen. Eric Kearney (D-North Avondale), State Rep. Dale Mallory (D-West End) and State Rep. Alicia Reece (D-Bond Hill).
By now anyone who's interested in Cincinnati politics probably has heard about the insensitive and over-the-top comment posted Sept. 11 on Twitter by a leader of an anti-streetcar group.
Mark Miller, treasurer for the Coalition Opposed to Additional Spending and Taxes (COAST), posted the following:
3% of FDNY died 10 yrs ago by terrorism. Today Cincinnati lost 17.5% of fire companies by brownout to pay for a streetcar. Which is worse?
A prominent, nonpartisan group today announced its opposition to Issue 48, the proposed amendment to Cincinnati's charter that would block the creation of a streetcar system for at least a decade.
The League of Women Voters of the Cincinnati Area issued a press release today stating it opposes the amendment because the wording is so broadly written that it would prevent the development of any passenger rail system including light rail or commuter rail.
It appears there will be 22 candidates on the ballot in November vying for the nine open seats on Cincinnati City Council.
As of today's 4 p.m. filing deadline at the Board of Elections, that's the number of people who had submitted petitions with enough voter signatures. At least five of those candidates, however, haven't yet had the signatures verified by Elections Board staffers because they only filed their final petitions today.
The state-level political turmoil caused by the Tea Party and its financial backers, the Koch brothers, got its start in Wisconsin under rookie Gov. Scott Walker. Today, Wisconsin voters have the opportunity to oust six Republican state senators in unprecedented recall elections.
Follow the action via a live blog set up by Isthmus, the alt weekly paper in Madison, Wisc. Polls are open until 8 p.m. Central time, so there won't be a lot of action until later.
Catherine Smith Mills, a new Republican candidate for Cincinnati City Council, is raising eyebrows with her campaigning.
Mills held a fundraiser April 8 that featured former Police Chief Thomas Streicher Jr. as the keynote speaker. In a press release touting the event, Mills is quoted as saying, "As a first time candidate, I am so lucky to have the support and mentorship of Republican leaders in Cincinnati like Tom Streicher."
Local Democrats are counting on a planned statewide referendum on Senate Bill No. 5 to boost Democratic voter turnout this fall, and help restore the party's majority on Cincinnati City Council.
That was the message preached Thursday night by party leaders — along with Mayor Mark Mallory and three of the four Democratic incumbents — during a meeting of the Cincinnati Democratic Committee (CDC).
Precinct executives with the local Democratic Party will meet Thursday evening to decide on the party's slate of candidates for Cincinnati City Council.
The Cincinnati Democratic Committee will meet at 7 p.m. at the Hampton Inn, 3024 Vine St., near Martin Luther King Drive, in Corryville.
As Laketa Cole prepares to leave Cincinnati City Council for a state government job, sources say she's settled on Wendell Young as her replacement.
Multiple sources at City Hall and within the Democratic Party are talking about Young's apparent selection and expressing surprise because he has ran unsuccessfully in three City Council elections and finished in 14th place in 2009's balloting for the nine council seats, behind fellow Democrats Greg Harris (10th) and Bernadette Watson (11th).


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Economic opportunity
To build a brighter economic future, we know that young people around the world need education, resources and support. Watch the video above to learn how we're empowering young people in Africa to go after their dreams, start their own businesses, and succeed — no matter what challenges they may face.
Markets, whether large or small, keep communities thriving. But conflicts, disasters and a lack of infrastructure can prevent people from conducting the daily transactions on which all growth and progress depend. Around the world, Mercy Corps discovers why commerce is stuck.
In some places, manufacturers need loans to purchase equipment and young people desire job skills. In others, key transportation routes to market must be rebuilt or farmers require better storage to keep their inventory fresh until sold.
Our economic development projects provide financing, equipment, training or technical support. These projects help people find jobs, build their businesses, supply their communities with the goods they need —and improve their lives.
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Discussions at the World Economic Forum's annual meeting this week will focus on how to better prepare for and minimize disasters of the future. In Haiti, we've been investing in communities to do just that.
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Since the January 2010 earthquake, Mercy Corps has reached more than 1.6 million people with lifesaving assistance. Now, we're investing in youth, small business owners and rural communities to build back stronger.
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