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Do What You Can to Ease Side Effects of Treatment and Symptoms of Colorectal Cancer
Each treatment option has its own set of side effects. You should talk with your doctor about what to expect with your treatment. You can also ask for your doctor's help in dealing with side effects. In this section we discuss the most common side effects that people have while they are being treated for colorectal cancer. You will not likely have all of these side effects or symptoms. They are listed alphabetically to help you find information when you need it. These side effects are usually temporary and do not normally cause serious problems if they are addressed.
It's also important to remember that your cancer can have both a physical and a mental effect on you. Talk with your doctor about how your cancer is making you feel. There are things you and your health care team can do together to deal with issues such as pain, anxiety, and depression.
Anxiety and depression
Many people feel blue, anxious, or distressed after being told they have cancer. These feelings may continue or come back throughout treatment.
Taking these actions may ease your mental stress:
Talk to your family or friends.
Consider joining a cancer support group or finding a cancer "buddy" who can help you cope.
Ask your doctor about medications for depression and anxiety.
Ask your doctor for a referral to a social worker, psychologist, or psychiatrist.
Appetite loss
People who eat well during cancer treatment maintain their strength better and tend to be more active. When you're being treated for cancer, a diet high in calories and protein is best. The problem is that side effects of treatment can change or reduce your appetite. Chemotherapy can make you nauseated, change the way food tastes, or make you too tired to want to eat. Radiation can also cause nausea, which can reduce your appetite.
Ask your doctor for a referral to a registered dietitian if you are having trouble maintaining your desire to eat. Also, try these tips to stimulate your desire to eat:
If you can, eat foods high in protein several times a day. These foods include milk, cheese, cottage cheese, yogurt, meat, fish, eggs, beans, peanut butter, and nuts. Protein helps build and repair tissue, and cancer treatments cause you to use more protein than usual.
Ask your doctor, nurse, or dietitian about high-protein drinks that can help supplement your diet.
If you can, eat high-calorie foods to help you maintain your weight, such as margarine or butter, sugar, honey, jams, jellies, cream cheese, dried fruit, gravies or sauces, mayonnaise, and salad dressing.
Get plenty of fluids to help control your body temperature and improve bowel function. In addition to water, fruit juices, and other liquids, try these foods to increase fluids: gelatin, pudding, soups, Popsicles, and ice cream.
Eat small meals throughout the day instead of three large ones.
Keep snacks handy to eat when you are hungry.
Eat with friends or play your favorite music at mealtime to boost your appetite.
Eat your biggest meal in the morning. Many people getting treatment for cancer find that this is when their appetite is greatest.
If you can, increase your activity level. Doing so may stimulate your appetite.
On days you don't feel like eating at all, don't worry about it. Try again the next day. If you find your appetite doesn't improve in several days, talk with your doctor or nurse.
Bladder damage
Bladder damage is possible with radiation therapy. This could lead to bladder spasms and frequent, urgent, or burning urination. Your doctor can prescribe medication to help prevent spasms. Drinking more liquids during your treatment period will also help prevent these kinds of problems.
Bleeding or bruising
Throughout your treatment, your doctor will take small samples of your blood for testing. One thing he or she is checking is your number of platelets. Without enough platelets, your blood may have difficulty clotting. You may bleed or bruise easily. Although it is rare that a platelet count drops low enough to be dangerous, you should be aware of bleeding gums or nosebleeds and report them to your doctor. They could be signs that your platelet count is too low. If your doctor tells you that your platelet count is low, take these actions to avoid causing injuries that could lead to uncontrolled bleeding:
Protect your skin from cuts, scrapes, and sharp objects.
Shave with an electric razor. Take care when using fingernail or toenail cutters.
Use a soft toothbrush to prevent bleeding gums. Be gentle if using dental floss or toothpicks. Check with your doctor before you have any dental work done.
Take steps to prevent constipation, which can lead to rectal bleeding or hemorrhoids.
Avoid contact sports or situations where you might be injured.
Call your doctor if you develop a rash, bleeding, or bruising. This includes black, tarry stools; blood in urine or stools; or red pinpoint spots on your skin.
Check with your doctor before taking aspirin, ibuprofen, or other pain relievers; vitamin E; or any other drugs or dietary supplements. Some of these may increase your risk for bleeding.
Either radiation or chemotherapy can cause diarrhea. When you are having both treatments at once, the problem can be especially severe. The biggest danger when you have diarrhea is dehydration. It's important to drink plenty of water and other liquids to replace the fluids your body loses. You can also use these tips to help control your diarrhea:
Ask your doctor about medications that may help and take any medications as prescribed. Don't take over-the-counter medicines without first asking your doctor.
Avoid milk and milk products.
Eat smaller meals more frequently.
Choose foods that are low in fiber. This kind of diet is often called a low-residue diet. Foods such as bananas, rice, applesauce, and toast are good choices.
Increase your intake of fluids, such as broth. If the diarrhea is severe, your doctor may suggest an all-liquid diet for a few days to give your bowels a rest.
Fatigue is a very common symptom and a common side effect from chemotherapy and radiation treatments. You may feel only slightly tired, or you may suffer from extreme fatigue. Taking these actions may help increase your energy level. Fatigue can last several weeks after treatment ends:
Take short rests when you feel tired. Avoid long naps during the day so that you can sleep well at night.
Add mild exercise, such as walking, to your daily routine. Exercise changes your metabolism and makes it easier for you to rest.
Save your energy for important tasks.
Drink plenty of fluids.
Take action to treat a poor appetite because eating improperly can make you tired.
If your fatigue is severe or chronic, ask for help with routine tasks that can drain your energy, such as grocery shopping or housework. Some people reduce their hours at work.
Hair loss (alopecia)
Losing your hair can be upsetting because baldness is a visible reminder that you are being treated for cancer. Keep in mind that your hair will probably grow back after treatment. Try these coping tips:
Consider cutting your hair before treatment starts.
Think about getting a wig, hat, or scarf before your hair loss starts. That way, you can get a wig that matches your hair.
Because your scalp may be more sensitive to temperature and sun, protect it with sunscreen and hats or scarves.
Increased infections
Throughout your treatment, your doctor will take small samples of your blood for testing. One thing he or she is checking is your number of white blood cells. Both radiation and chemotherapy can cause a reduction in your white-blood-cell count. Without enough white blood cells, your body may find it hard to fight infection. If your doctor tells you that your white-blood-cell count is low, you'll need to be extra cautious about staying healthy:
Avoid crowds or people with colds or infections.
Avoid young children who have had recent vaccinations with live viruses.
Wash your hands often throughout the day to kill germs.
Be extra careful to avoid cuts and open sores that could become infected.
Call your doctor right away if you have any of these signs of infection: a temperature of 100.5° or higher; severe chills, a cough, pain, or a burning sensation during urination; or any sores or redness.
Mouth sores called stomatitis
Sores in and around the mouth are a common side effect with certain drugs that are used in chemotherapy, such as 5-FU. The best way to address this problem is by practicing good oral hygiene and choosing foods that do not irritate the sores. These steps can help prevent sores or lessen your discomfort:
See your dentist to have your teeth cleaned before treatment starts.
Brush your teeth often with a soft toothbrush.
Keep your mouth and lips clean and moist. Suck on sugar-free candies or fruit bars or chew sugar-free gum to increase moisture in your mouth and to help with changes in taste.
If you have dentures, make sure they fit well.
Eat soft foods, such as applesauce, cottage cheese, and scrambled eggs.
Avoid spicy, salty, or coarse foods and foods with acid such as tomatoes or orange juice.
Avoid alcohol and mouthwashes containing alcohol because they can irritate the sores.
Avoid tobacco.
Ask your doctor about medications you can put right on the sores to relieve the pain.
Nausea or vomiting
Nausea or vomiting from chemotherapy or radiation treatment may range from barely noticeable to severe. It may help you to understand the different types of nausea:
Acute-onset nausea and vomiting occurs within a few minutes to several hours after chemotherapy. The worst episodes tend to be 5 to 6 hours after treatment, and the symptoms end within the first 24 hours.
Delayed-onset vomiting develops more than 24 hours after treatment.
Anticipatory nausea and vomiting are learned from previous experiences with vomiting. As you prepare for the next dose of chemotherapy, you may anticipate that nausea and vomiting will occur as it did previously, which triggers the actual reflex.
Breakthrough vomiting occurs despite treatment to prevent it. It requires additional treatment.
Refractory vomiting occurs if you're no longer responding to antinausea treatments.
To prevent nausea, take these actions. Most nausea can be prevented:
Ask your doctor about getting a prescription medicine to control nausea and vomiting. Then make sure you take it as directed. If you are vomiting and cannot take the medicine, call your doctor or nurse.
If you have bothersome nausea and vomiting even though you are taking your medicine, call your doctor or nurse. Your medicine can be changed.
To help ease nausea or vomiting, try these tips:
Try eating foods and drinking beverages that were easy to take or made you feel better when you've had the flu or were nauseated from stress. These may be bland foods, sour candy, pickles, dry crackers, ginger ale, flat soda, or others.
Do not eat fatty or fried foods, very spicy foods, or very sweet foods.
Eat room-temperature or cold foods. The smells from hot foods may make your nausea worse.
Ask your doctor or nurse if he or she can help you learn a relaxation exercise. This may make you feel less anxious and more in control, and decrease your nausea.
Ask your doctor or nurse about using acupressure bands on your wrists, which may help decrease your nausea.
Numbness, tingling, or muscle weakness in your hands or feet (from peripheral neuropathy)
If you have numbness, tingling, or weakness in your hands and feet, you may have nerve damage. This is called peripheral neuropathy. Some types of chemotherapy can cause this. Other signs of this problem are ringing in your ears or feeling too hot or too cold. If you have symptoms such as these, take precautions to protect yourself:
Take extra care walking and moving so that you don't fall. Consider using a shower chair or railing to decrease your risk of falling while bathing.
Take care of your feet, and look at them often for signs of injuries or sores. Wear shoes when walking, even when at home.
To prevent burns, use warm, not hot, water for bathing and washing since you may not be able to sense temperature as well in damaged areas. Use a thermometer to check the temperature of the water. It may help to turn down the temperature of your hot water heater to help lower the risk of scalding.
If your daily activities become hard, ask your doctor for a referral to an occupational therapist or a physical therapist. They can help teach you new ways of doing things so that you can stay as active as possible.
Take extra care when driving since you may have trouble feeling the gas and brake pedals. Ask friends and family to drive you places.
If you have surgery, you will have pain from the incision. You may get pain medication in one of these ways:
Intravenously, given continuously through your vein. You may have control over how often to get this in a form called patient-controlled analgesia (PCA).
Intramuscularly, injected periodically into your muscle
In pill form, taken periodically
Don't be afraid to take pain medication. You won't overdose, if you are using a PCA, because the doses are set. And because of the way the machine is set up, you will not become addicted. It is important that you get up out of bed and move around as quickly as possible so that you lower your risk for pneumonia and clots in your legs and to help your bowel function return. And you will likely need pain medication to do this.
You can also try these tips to ease pain:
Take your pain medications regularly; don't wait for your pain to become severe. Ask your doctor how you can avoid constipation, a common side effect of pain medications.
Change your activity level. See if you feel better if you rest more or move around more--either may help.
Distract yourself with music, funny videos, or computer games. (Laughter can really make a difference.)
Use heat, cold, relaxation techniques (such as yoga or meditation), or guided imagery exercises. Ask your doctor or nurse where you can learn more about these techniques. Keep in mind that these complement, but do not replace, standard medical practices.
Sexuality changes
Colorectal cancer treatments can cause some long-term side effects related to sexuality. These can be serious, so you should discuss them with your doctor before treatment begins. For some problems, such as reduced sperm count, there are things you can do first to reduce the impact the side effect has on your life:
Early menopause. If you're a woman who has not gone through menopause, you may experience menopausal symptoms. Your period may stop, and you may become infertile. Talk with your doctor about the possibility of taking hormone replacement drugs to relieve these symptoms. If you're planning on having children, you may want to discuss options with your doctors prior to the start of therapy.
Vaginal dryness. Women may experience vaginal dryness and vaginal narrowing. Both conditions are permanent, but they can be treated with lubricants and by using a vaginal dilator or having sexual intercourse.
Decreased sperm count. Men may produce less ejaculate, and their semen may have a lower sperm count. If you're planning on having children, you may want to save your sperm in a sperm bank before having your radiation treatments.
Sexual dysfunction. You may have a reduced interest in and ability to have sex, especially if you have surgery for rectal cancer. Talk with your partner about changes in your desire or ability to have sex. Explore new ways to share affection and intimacy. See a counselor who specializes in sexual problems.
Skin irritation
Radiation treatment can cause dry or red skin in the area being treated:
Ask your doctor or nurse what kind of lotion you can use to moisturize and soothe your skin. Don't use any lotion, soap, deodorant, sunblock, perfume, cosmetics, or powder on your skin within two hours before and after treatment.
Wear loose, soft clothing over the treated area.
Don't scratch, rub, or scrub treated skin.
Don't bandage skin with tape. If you must bandage it, use paper tape and ask your nurse to help you place the dressings so that you can avoid irritation.
Don't apply heat or cold to the treated area. Bathe only with lukewarm water.
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|Women's hoops: 2012-13 in Review
If the 2012-13 Idaho women's basketball season were divided into three chapters, the first would be the story of a young and capable team that didn't yet know how to win. The second chapter would detail a team that made every effort to reach its potential, and the final chapter would be an uplifting success story that the program hadn't written in nearly 30 years.
Despite showing signs of excellence, the Vandals got off to a rough start in 2012-13. Idaho lost its first four games by an average of 16.3 points per game. The Vandals got their first win of the season with a buzzer-beating layup against Eastern Washington, but then lost their next two games to fall to 1-6 on the season.
Chapter two began when Idaho took a trip to Southern California to face UC Irvine and UC Riverside. The Vandals picked up a pair of double-digit victories and were beginning to learn what it took to win consistently. However, Idaho still had its setbacks, including three straight to eventual postseason participants Washington, Gonzaga and Seattle U. But Idaho had turned a corner, and showed it with a 17-point win over San Jose State and back-to-back road wins at Denver and New Mexico State that brought the season record to 6-10. After a home loss to Louisiana Tech in a game Idaho led by as many 20 points in the second half, the Vandals seemed to collectively take their game to another level for the rest of the season.
Idaho won six of its next seven games, including three out of four on the road, to establish itself as a Western Athletic Conference contender. The Vandals did lose three of their final five regular-season games, but each of those losses came by just two points, and served as fuel for their impending WAC tournament run.
Idaho earned the third seed in the WAC tournament after a 14-15 regular season and an 11-7 mark in conference play. Junior Alyssa Charlston earned first-team all-WAC honors for the second consecutive season, while sophomore Stacey Barr was a third-team all-WAC selection and Christina Salvatore was a WAC all-freshman team selection.
After a Krissy Karr buzzer-beater lifted Idaho over San Jose State and into the WAC semifinals, it was time for the Vandals to do what they hadn't done all season – beat Utah State and Seattle U. Led by sophomore Stacey Barr's career-high 26 points, the Vandals managed to out-score Utah State, despite a 37-point outing from USU's Devyn Christensen, in an 84-82 win that put the team against top-seeded Seattle U in the WAC championship game.
Again, the game came down to the wire, but after a pair of desperation 3-point heaves from Seattle fell off target in the closing seconds, the Vandals were WAC champions with a 67-64 victory. The conference championship was Idaho's first since 1985, as was the ensuing trip to the NCAA tournament. Stacey Barr, who averaged 19.7 points, 7.7 rebounds and 1.3 assists while shooting 60.6 percent from the field in the tournament, was named tournament MVP.
The Vandals were slated against eventual national champion Connecticut on UConn's home floor in the first round of the NCAA tournament, where they lost 105-37. Nonetheless, the talented team that just needed to learn how to win back in November had transformed itself into the program's first conference champion in 28 years through hard work and persistence. Idaho will lose just two seniors from the 2012-13 team and brings back all five of its starters in 2013-14.

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"Of the Siren and the Sky," which will open at the Utah Museum of Contemporary Art (UMOCA) in Salt Lake City on Dec. 7, is the first proper museum exhibition on the career of Siren Bliss, a Salt Lake City native who has made more than 80,000 artworks. Curated by Triple Candie, the presentation includes recreations of the artist's drawings and sculptures, posters containing statements by him, and photographs and objects related to his life story. An enigma to anyone but his closest associates, Siren Bliss has eschewed all involvement with the mainstream contemporary art world. In fact, his career choices could be viewed as a satirization of the art system and its star-making machinery. Following a brief collaboration with the artist Paul McCarthy in the late 1960s and a decade in Los Angeles, Bliss became a nomadic mystic who has operated under multiple identities, traded his art on the barter system, and operated his own itinerant museum. 1997, his work was in more corporate collections than any other artist. The Security and Exchange Commission (S.E.C.) estimated the value of this work in excess of $250 million. "In a world where expertise and talent can be a poker-faced mystery, to check out can lead to something greater, such as a parallel universe," said Aaron Moulton, senior curator at UMOCA. "Bliss brings us to a level of personal mythology that is an arcane Wagnerian epic cloaked in a familiar language.
The opening of "Of the Siren and the Sky" will open at the Utan Museum of Contemporary Art, 20 S. West Temple in Salt Lake City, on Dec. 7, from 8 p.m. until 10 p.m. The reception will include a DJ, food,and a cash bar. There will be a Q & A with the curators beginning at 7 p.m. For more information, visit www.utahmoca.org/.


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ZF-12046: Update Zend_Service_Amazon to continue to work with the Product Advertising API after 2012-02-21
Excerpt from https://affiliate-program.amazon.com/gp/… {quote} As part of our continued effort to ensure that Product Advertising API is an efficient and effective advertising tool, we've identified opportunities to streamline the API. Certain operations and response groups currently supported are infrequently used or are not aligned with the primary purpose of the Product Advertising API, which is to enable Associates to make money by advertising Amazon products in their websites and applications and sending traffic back to Amazon.
The changes, described below, will help us continue to provide you with relevant and useful features to advertise Amazon products. The following changes to the API will take effect on November 1, 2011: Associate Tag will be a required and verified input parameter in all requests to the API SellerLookup, SellerListingLookup and SellerListingSearch operations will no longer be supported by the API ItemPage parameter will be limited to a maximum of 10 pages for ItemSearch results MerchantId parameter will no longer be supported for filtering offers, variations and search results Merchants search index will no longer be supported Data returned by the Offers and ItemAttributes response groups will be limited to the most frequently used attributes The new Product Advertising API interface definition (WSDL) is now available. While your application may continue to operate after November 1, 2011 using older WSDLs, we will stop supporting all previous versions on February 21, 2012. Please upgrade to the latest WSDL before that date to ensure the continued operation of your application.
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Is there a chance, this will make it into the offical branch or do I need to patch ZF by myself?
Anyone alive? 11 days until apps using ZF to communicate with Amazon will stop to work!
Norbert - can you provide a patch that also updates the test suite? If so, I'll apply, and we'll include in our next release (not sure if that will be a 1.11 release or 1.12.0 at this time).
As far as I see, the functionality used by ZF has not changed and the existing tests pass.
In at least the offline tests, the URL used is part of the assertions; as such, the tests need to be updated to ensure these pass.
If I execute runtests.sh, they pass. Both offline and online.
The patch above solved the problem for me.
Matthew: I checked the Zend_Service_Amazon test suite, and the only place I found mention of the URLs identified in the patch were in the XML files. I've corrected them in the attached patch.
The patch above solved the problem for me as well.
Fixed in trunk (1.12.0): r24780 r24782
Could someone with access to the Product Advertising API please run the online tests against trunk to ensure they still work as expected?
ZF2 Pull Request: https://github.com/zendframework/zf2/pull/1176


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|Dalton claims WAC weekly honor
DENVER - The Western Athletic Conference announced on Tuesday that Idaho junior Josh Dalton earned the Verizon Wireless Track Athlete of the Week award for the week of Mar. 22-28.
Dalton (Deary, Idaho/Deary HS) ran a conference-leading time of 1:51.67 in the 800m at the Stanford Invitational on Saturday to place 15th out of 49 competitors in the event. The time is also the second-fastest of his outdoor career.
The reigning WAC outdoor 800m champion is now ranked 20th in the West Region and 38th in the NCAA in the event. The honor is the first of Dalton's career. It is the first of the outdoor season for the Vandals and the sixth overall this year for Idaho track and field athletes.
Dalton and the rest of the Vandal track and field team will be in action this weekend at the Texas Relays (Austin, Texas) and Sam Adams Classic (Spokane, Wash.).


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I have recently decided to try to home smoke fresh salmon (FYI using a half-size school locker). Once I have the product, though, I am not sure how to slice it thinly, as it is commonly sold commercially.
I have a half-baked idea that I could freeze it, then run it through a slicer, but I am afraid the freezing (not to mention the cutting) might damage the flesh.
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WHAT: The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum will host An Evening with Kevin Dettmar, editor of the recent Cambridge Companion to Bob Dylan.
WHEN: Wednesday, April 29, 2009 at 7 p.m.
WHERE: Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum, 4th Floor Theater
TO RSVP: This event is FREE with a reservation. Please email email@example.com to RSVP. If you do not have access to email, please call (216) 515-8426.
MORE: Dettmar will give a lecture about his career as literary scholar and music critic. Following the lecture, Dettmar will greet the public and sign copies of the recent Cambridge Companion to Bob Dylan, which he edited.
For more information about this and other Rock Hall educational programs, visit http://www.rockhall.com.
About Kevin Dettmar
Kevin J. H. Dettmar is W. M. Keck Professor and Chair of the Department of English at Pomona College. With a PhD in modern British literature from UCLA, he taught at Loyola Marymount University, Clemson University, Columbia University, and Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, before transferring to Pomona in 2008.
While a literary scholar by training, Dettmar has become a popular music critic by avocation. In 1999, he edited Reading Rock & Roll: Authenticity, Appropriation, Aesthetics with William Richey. Is Rock Dead? followed in 2006 and most recently, he edited the Cambridge Companion to Bob Dylan (2009). He has served on the Executive Committee of the International Association for the Study of Popular Music, U.S. Branch (IASPM-US), and is the Editor-in-Chief of the Association's Journal of Popular Music Studies.
About the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum
The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum is the nonprofit organization that exists to educate visitors, fans and scholars from around the world about the history and continuing significance of rock and roll music. It carries out this mission both through its operation of a world-class museum that collects, preserves, exhibits and interprets this art form and through its library and archives as well as its educational programs.
The Museum is open seven days a week from 10 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. On Wednesdays, the Museum is open until 9 p.m. Museum admission is $22 for adults, $17 for seniors (65+), $13 for youth (9-12), $18 for adult residents of Greater Cleveland. Children under 8 and Museum members are free. The Museum is generously funded by Cuyahoga County residents through Cuyahoga Arts and Culture. When you become a member of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum, the world of rock and roll becomes yours to explore. Call 216.515.1939 for information on becoming a member. For general inquiries, please call 216.781.ROCK or visit http://www.rockhall.com.


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March 3, 1998
PULLMAN, Wash. - The WSU women's swim team had its best meet in the history of Cougar swimming at the Pac-10 Championships held on Feb. 26-28 in Long Beach, Calif. The Cougars eclipsed a phenomenal 12 school records at the Belmont Plaza Olympic Pool.
WSU coach Rocco Aceto believes the Cougars came into the conference meet like "an El Nino storm" matching up against caliber teams like Stanford and defending national champions Southern Cal. Every Cougar swimmer broke their own personal best times in events. The Cougars' continuous success in heats made the WSU program very visible over the course of the three-day meet, Aceto said.
As a team, the Cougars placed eighth with 293 points. WSU paced ninth place Oregon State by 78 points, while just being 38 points shy of rival Washington, which finished in seventh.
The Cougars await a Thursday announcement of the selections for the NCAA Championships in Minneapolis, Minn. on Mar. 19-21. Junior Katie Keller (Seattle, Wash.) and sophomore Erin Eldridge (Kirkland, Wash.) swam NCAA optional times at the Pac-10's. Keller captured an NCAA optional time in the 100-yard freestyle and Eldridge in both the 100 and 200 breaststroke events. Both swimmers could be the Cougars' first ever NCAA qualifier.


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As a physical educator and ADHD coach, I am very aware of the difficulty in making behavior changes. Many of my students and clients struggle for many months and even years to change a single behavior. I'm no different from them. This past spring I made a decision to change two behaviors — one is a behavior that I've intended to change for at least 20 years, and the other is a modification to the type of exercise I was doing.
The first behavior had to do with exercise. I've taught physical education for 32 years and have been dedicated to exercise on my own at least six days a week for most of those 32 years. However, as I've gotten older I realize that long, slow cardio exercise (which I've always done) will not be as beneficial for weight loss as high intensity interval training (HIIT). So my first behavior change was to purchase Insanity®, a series of DVDs that are described as "max interval training."
The second behavior, and the one that has persisted for so many years, was to become more disciplined in monitoring my caloric intake. So I signed up for Weight Watchers® and began attending meetings. The point system associated with Weight Watchers is very simple, and I monitor and track my points on my iPhone. I have known about Weight Watchers for many years, but I just thought I could monitor calories on my own. Finally after so many years I realized that I need the discipline of a program and the support that I get from attending WW meetings!
I felt compelled to write this short story because I know that many women my age struggle with attempting to maintain some balance in their lives. We have so much to do and so little time, and often exercise and eating right are two things that we don't take time to do. I find that with this exercise I get a great workout, and it's only about 40 minutes long and that with WW I can track my points quickly on my phone.
It's taken a while to get to the point where I just made a decision to change my behaviors. I was influenced somewhat by some students of mine who talked about Insanity and also by a friend who was going to Weight Watchers. I mention this because I realize that when the student is ready the teacher(s) will show up. Then it's up to me to decide to change!


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Four of our global offices will be participating in the event, with the Palo Alto event hosting a content hub, the AOL Ventures space in NY hosting a panel discussion, and the London and Toronto offices contributing speakers to panels in their cities:
- On February 14, the AOL Ventures space at 670 Broadway in New York City will host a panel called "How Sweet It Is to Be Liked By You" featuring a discussion of how social media contributes to the evolution of a new technology company's brand, product development, and community at 5:30pm local time.
- From our AOL Europe office in London, the managing director of GoViral, Mads Holmen, is leading a workshop called "Content or Distribution - Who is King?" on Thursday, February 16th at 3:00p local time.
- From our Toronto office, Kenny Yum, managing editor of AOL / Huffington Post Canada will be joining CaseCamp, a case study-based, peer-to-peer learning unconference, starting at 9:00am local time on February 16th.
- The AOL Palo Alto office is hosting the Social Media Week San Francisco "Social Lifestyle" hub, which focuses on the impact of social technologies on fashion, travel, retail, health and wellness. The office will showcase 6 sessions starting at 9:00am local time on February 16th.
All events are space available and require registration, but most events are free. Visit socialmediaweek.org to view the full worldwide schedule of events.
Stay tuned for more updates over the course of Social Media Week on the blog, and follow AOL Canada PR & Marketing at @aolca and AOL Europe at @aoleurope on Twitter for livetweets from their events.
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Corporate Governance System
Clarion places importance on corporate governance and has developed a system that embodies that awareness. Further, through our efforts to develop a risk management system and redevelop internal controls, Clarion is striving to ensure management transparency at all times.
Corporate Governance System
Corporate Governance System (As of June 19, 2015)
Clarion is a company with an Audit & Supervisory Board, with 9 Directors (2 outside Directors) and 3 Audit & Supervisory Board Members (2 outside Audit & Supervisory Board Members). The Board of Directors is responsible for deciding basic management policies for the whole Group as well as for supervising its business administration. Each member of Audit & Supervisory Board objectively monitors and scrutinizes Board of Directors in the execution of its duties. The Company has introduced a "Corporate Officer System" and "Corporate Management Meetings", composed of both members of Board of Directors and Corporate Advisory Board, serve to assist Board of Directors as a consultative body. Furthermore, the management policies and management strategies of the Clarion group are developed by the Chairman of the Board of Directors who also serves as CEO. The top executive who executes the strategies according to the business plan is the President, and also serves as the COO. With this organization structure, we are strengthening our global governance system.
Internal Audit department conducts regular internal audits of all Addressing Internal Control Structures individual departments of the Company and Group companies to verify effectiveness, legal compliance and observance of internal regulations. It reports the audit results directly to the Representative Director.
In this way, Clarion seeks to enhance its Corporate Governance System and to ensure transparent and sound management.
Addressing Internal Control Structures
Qualitative Improvement of Internal Control
Clarion endeavors to redevelop internal controls as enhancement of corporate governance since 2006.
As the Corporate Law came into effect in fiscal 2006, we have been rebuilding internal control structure across the company and implementing management assessment every year based on "Basic Policies for Internal Control System" laid out upon resolution of Board of Directors. Since Fiscal 2007, as a member of the Hitachi Group, we are rebuilding internal control structure with respect to financial reporting which subjects all domestic and overseas Group companies and are reporting its status assessment to Hitachi, Ltd. Since Fiscal 2008, we implemented internal control and assessment based on the Japanese Financial Instruments Exchange Act (J-SOX Act) as the Group and the reports are made to the Financial Services Agency.
There has been no case of material deficiencies discovered in annual assessments subject to disclosures with respect to internal control regulations. Through prompt corrective actions for deficiencies found during assessments, qualitative improvement of internal control system has been achieved. We continue further to improve management quality of the Group through efforts extending from internal control required by laws and regulations.


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Freshman Cain Atkinson from Evanston High School in Wyoming was recently named Newcomer of the Year in the Dakota Athletic Conference for the 2007-2008 season. This is the first time that a true freshman has ever won the award since the Dakota Athletic Conference was put together. On the season Cain averaged 16 points a game shooting 41% from the three-point line. He also shot 159 free throws at an 87% clip. For his efforts he was also named 2nd Team All DAC. Sophomore Parker Emerson, who transfered at Christmas time played in 13 of the 16 league games and was named 3rd-team All DAC. Parker averaged 15 points per game along with 4 rebounds. Parker is from Colorado and is a transfer from Portland University. Congratulations to both athletes on their seasons.
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Eye of the Leopard takes us on an enthralling journey deep into the rarely seen lives of leopards. Award-winning filmmakers Dereck and Beverly Joubert capture a remarkably intimate and gripping story of a leopard's survival in wild, unspoiled Africa over a period of three years.
It's a journey of birth, life and death as a mother leopard and her first surviving cub fight off marauding baboons and elude scavenging hyenas in a constant struggle for survival. Through tragedy and triumph, the Jouberts are there to document it all. Narrated by Jeremy Irons.
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Dereck and Beverly Joubert, recently named National Geographic Explorers-in-Residence, are internationally acclaimed naturalists and cinematographers. Their many years with african wildlife, particularly lions, have yielded not only books like Hunting with the Moon, but such highly praised documentary films as Eternal Enemies: Lions and Hyenas; Reflections on Elephants; and Lions of Darknessan outstanding body of work that has won four Emmys, two Chris awards, and a George Foster Peabody award.
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I watched and watched the daughter taking care of the baby baboon, I could not help but wonder how these wild animals have such motherly instinct even when so young.
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This is by far, the best animal documentary I have ever seen! The Joubert's are the absolute best when it comes to wildlife films. Legadema's story, of a cub growing up against all odds to be the queen that she is will thoroughly captivate you. Do yourself a favour, and buy this DVD NOW!
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This Video is one of the best Wildlife Documentaries I have viewed. I have watched it at least 3 times in the last couple of years and I still get emotional each time I see it.It is a beautiful, sensitive and well documented story of one particular Leopard's life from infancy to adulthood. A must see for all big cat fans...
The best big cat documentary ever?
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This is quite possibly the best conceived, filmed, written, edited & narrated big cat documentary ever. Dereck & Beverly Joubert did an amazing job following this female leopard for three+ years, accumulating an abundance of spectacular footage. Jeremy Irons narrates. Even the BBC would be proud to call this one their own.The only thing keeping me from buying it is the lack of a blu-ray version. The HD presentation on my DVR will have to do until someone at NatGeo rectifies the situation.


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Mr. Quenton A. "Dick" Miller died, July 15, 2013 at Desoto Health Care. Visitation will be 6:00-8:00 p.m. Wednesday, July 17, 2013 at Ray Funeral Home. Funeral Mass will be 10:00 a.m. Thursday, July 18, 2013 at Our Lady of Victories in Cleveland. Interment will be in New Cleveland Cemetery.
Mr. Miller was born on October 20, 1927 to Quenton Armond Miller Sr. and Christine Johnson Miller. He graduated from Merigold High School in 1945 and joined the Navy during WWII. He served in the Pacific Theatre on the Destroyer USS Brush. He also served during the Korean War aboard the USS Bradford. He married Louise Rizzo on March 18, 1950. He retired as Chief Plant Operator at MP&L after 37 years. He was a member of the IBEW, Charter Member of the Knights of Columbus Council in Cleveland, VFW and served as the Post Commander and as Quarter Master, American Legion and the 40&8, and was also a member of Our Lady of Victories.
He is preceded in death by his parents, Quenton Armond Miller and Christine Johnson Miller; wife, Louise R. Miller; and brother, John Michie Miller.
He is survived by son, Ronnie Miller (Jeannie); daughter, Debbie Leftwich (Porter); daughter, Lisa Miller; sisters, Mary "Sis" Woods, and Therese "Reecy" Whitehead; 3 grandchildren, Erin Leftwich Peters, Cassie Miller, Davis Alford; and two great-grandchildren.


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The Quincy Dodgers baseball game in the Georgia/Florida/Alabama Baseball League was postponed Sunday due to illness. The Miccouskee team informed the Dodgers about an hour before the game that they would not be coming to Dodger Field.
Quincy still leads the league with a 7-1 record. They will play Isuway this Sunday.
The site of the game was not known at press time.
In other play, things tightened up in the Big Bend Adult Baseball League of Florida Sunday.
There will be a Faceville School reunion June 13 at Faceville Methodist Church. Registration is at 10 a.m., and attendees are asked to bring a lunch to share.
The 44th annual reunion of the descendants of Otis and Rebecca Smith will be held June 14 at noon at Sylvania Methodist Church in Faceville, Ga. Please bring covered dishes for your immediate family.
• First Baptist Church in Quincy holds Sunday School each week at 9:45 a.m., followed by worship at 10:55. Sunday evening worship begins at 6 p.m. Sunday morning worship services are broadcast on Sunday events at 6 p.m. on 93.3 FM.
• Church services at Mt. Pilgrim Primitive Baptist Church are held the first, second and fourth Sundays at 11 a.m., and at 8 a.m. on the third Sunday of each month. Church school begins at 9:45 a.m. each Sunday morning.
Sharon McCray Bradley and Kelvin E. Williams will be married June 20 at 4 p.m. at Mt. Zion PB Church in Quincy.
The bride-elect is the daughter of the late Arthur and Williease McCray of Quincy.
The groom-elect is the son of Katie B. Williams and the late S. H. Williams of Dothan, Ala.
No formal invitations will be sent, and all family and friends are invited.
Monica Brinson and Carlton McWhite were married April 18 at Arnett Chapel. The bride is the daughter of Marcia Thompkins and the granddaughter of Katrine Thompkins.
A Gadsden County jury found Curtis Norris guilty of felony battery in the death of Billy Williams on Dec. 24, 2006 at the River Junction Work Camp in Chattahoochee. Norris was charged with second-degree murder after he and Williams argued and got into a physical altercation on Christmas Eve 2006.
The future of the Quincy-Gadsden Municipal Airport Authority is bright, according to a report given by Peter Green, consultant with the airport consulting firm of URS based in Tampa.
"We're ahead of the curve in generating more activity than the state predicted. We have 50 aircraft based here, which opens up all kinds of opportunities for us because that's what the (Florida) Department of Transportation and the Federal Aviation Administration look at when deciding how to allocate funds," Green said.
The city of Gretna will celebrate its 100th anniversary this month and the centennial committee has pulled out all the stops for a celebration June 6-9.
"The mayor, centennial committee and the citizens are excited about this week and we invited the entire Gadsden County community to come and help us celebrate," said Antonio Jefferson, city manager.
The Quincy Police Department was denied permission to begin the accreditation process using the Commission for Florida Law Enforcement Accreditation as its monitoring agency. The commission works with police departments statewide to update policies, procedures and practices to make the departments professionally recognized agencies.
Gadsden County School District Superintendent Reginald James is not psychic – but he's already making predictions for the next academic year.
James said Monday he is pleased with the progress that's being made in the elementary schools, and he believes the district is providing students with a "much stronger foundation.
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Thanks for a Great Women's Health Event
We gave nearly 60 free breast and cervical cancer screenings to women from around the community. Oh, and there were plenty of free gifts. Continue reading
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Ricky Andrew Shaw
Position: LB
Height: 6-4 Weight: 240 lbs.
Born: July 28, 1965 in Mount Vernon, NY
High School: Douglas Byrd
College: Oklahoma St. (school history)
Drafted by the New York Giants in the 4th round (92nd overall) of the 1988 NFL Draft.
Weighted Career AV (100-95-...): 4 (9949th overall since 1950)
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Clive Davis was born
Clive Davis' attendance at the Monterey Pop Festival results in his first signings to Columbia Records
At Bill Graham's suggestion, Clive Davis checks out Santana, whom he brings to Columbia.
Clive Davis signs Billy Joel and Aerosmith to Columbia, where they quickly become cornerstone artists. That same year, Davis is fired from Columbia Records in a controversy over alleged mismanagement of funds.
Clive Davis launches a new label, Arista Records.
Patti Smith signs to Arista. Her influential debut album, Horses, is released at the end of the year.
The Grateful Dead sign to Arista after the demise of their own label; a month later, they release Terrapin Station, their first album for the label.
After seeing her perform at a New York showcase, Clive Davis signs Whitney Houston. Her first album for Arista, released in 1985, hits #1 for 14 weeks and sells more than 12 million copies.
Producers L.A. Reid and Babyface sign a deal with Clive Davis to develop LaFace Records, an Atlanta-based label that becomes an Arista affiliate. It yields such top-selling artists as TLC and Toni Braxton. This same year, Canadian singer-songwriter Sarah McLachlan releases her first album on Arista.
Arista partners with Sean "Puffy" Combs' Bad Boy Entertainment, whose artist roster includes The Notorious B.I.G. and Ma$e.
Prince signs a distribution deal with Arista, his first involvement with a major label since 1996. Arista celebrates its 25th anniversary after having enjoyed its most successful year, which yielded $425 million in sales and 69 gold or platinum discs.
Clive Davis is inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame at the fifteenth annual induction dinner. Patti Smith is his presenter.


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May 29, 2013
Eight standout UCLA athletes, including three-time NCAA champion and three-time All-American Yvonne Gutierrez, will be inducted into the UCLA Athletics Hall of Fame, UCLA Athletic Director Dan Guerrero announced today.
The members of the Class of 2013 are: Mohini Bhardwaj (gymnastics), Carlos Bocanegra (men's soccer), Fred Bohna (wrestling), Eric Byrnes (baseball), Yvonne Gutierrez (softball), Don Johnson (men's basketball), Maylana Martin Douglas (women's basketball) and Nandi Pryce (women's soccer).
Invitation-only ceremonies will be held on Friday, Oct. 11 at Covel Commons, and UCLA Athletics will also recognize the entire class at halftime of the football game vs. California on Saturday, Oct. 12.
Following are biographies on the 2013 UCLA Hall of Fame inductees:
Yvonne Gutierrez (Softball, 1989-92)
Outfielder Yvonne Gutierrez was a part of three NCAA Championship squads (1989, 1990, 1992) and earned first-team All-America honors in each of her final three seasons. Gutierrez appeared in 240 games in her career, posting a .370 average with 19 homers, 149 runs batted in and 128 runs scored. She is ranked in the UCLA Top 10 in six statistical categories - tied for third with 17 triples, tied for sixth in games played, ninth in hits (261), and tied for 10th in batting average, on-base percentage (.436) and stolen bases (29). Gutierrez led the Bruins in batting average in each of her last three seasons, including winning the team triple crown as a senior in 1992, posting a .406 average, 11 homers and 58 RBI. The 11 homers also led the nation. She was named to the Women's College World Series All-Tournament Team in each of her final three years and was a four-time All-Pac-10 honoree. Gutierrez joined the LA City Fire Department, where she now serves as an engineer.
Mohini Bhardwaj (Gymnastics, 1998-2001)
Mohini Bhardwaj finished her career at UCLA as a two-time NCAA team champion, two-time NCAA individual champion, 11-time All-American and the 2001 Honda Award winner for gymnastics. Bhardwaj set numerous scoring records at UCLA, including scoring the second-highest all-around total in NCAA history, 39.975, in 2001. She led UCLA to NCAA team titles in 2000 and 2001 and won the uneven bars in 2000 and floor exercise in 2001. Along with winning the Honda Award in 2001, she was also the Pac-10 and West Region Gymnast of the Year and the AAI Award-winner as the nation's top senior gymnast. Bhardwaj continued her gymnastics career after graduation, winning the 2001 U.S. National Championship on vault and helping the U.S. win a bronze medal at the 2001 World Championships. In 2004, she resurrected her career and earned a spot on the U.S. Olympic Team, where she served as team captain and led the U.S. to a silver medal. She also qualified for event finals on floor exercise, where she placed sixth.
Carlos Bocanegra (Men's Soccer, 1997-2000)
An impact player from day one, Carlos Bocanegra helped lead UCLA to the 1997 NCAA Championship and 1999 College Cup. He earned All-MPSF first-team honors three straight years, was selected one of 11 Soccer America Collegiate MVPs in 1998, and was an All-American and Player of the Year candidate in 1999. Bocanegra turned pro after his junior year and was selected the No. 4 overall pick in the MLS SuperDraft. He was the MLS Rookie of the Year in 2000 and a two-time MLS Defender of the Year. He moved on to a successful career overseas, playing for Fulham in the English Premier League from 2003-08, Rennes and Saint-Etienne in the French Ligue 1 and Rangers FC in the Scottish Premier League. He currently plays for Racing de Santander in Spain. A fixture on the U.S. National Team and the U.S. team captain since 2007, Bocanegra was a key member of two World Cup teams, starting two games in the 2006 and playing every minute for the U.S. in the 2010 World Cup. He earned his 100th international cap in 2011.
Fred Bohna (Wrestling, 1976-79)
Fred Bohna is UCLA's only national collegiate wrestling champion. He went undefeated his senior year, was selected the Pac-10 Wrestler of the Year and won the Pac-10 and 1979 NCAA Wrestling Championship in the heavyweight division. As a freshman, Bohna was 20-9-1 at 190 lbs, and as a sophomore, he placed second in the conference. During Bohna's senior year, heavyweight became an "unlimited" class. Despite being outweighed by 90 pounds, the 228-pound Bohna defeated his 318-pound opponent David Klemm to win the NCAA title. Bohna continued to compete internationally following his UCLA career, winning a gold medal in the 1979 Pan American Games. He retired after the 1984 Olympic Games. Bohna passed away on July 9, 2010 after a long battle with cancer.
Eric Byrnes (Baseball, 1995-98)
UCLA's all-time leader in hits (326), at-bats (984), runs scored (235) and doubles (75), Eric Byrnes is considered to be one of the finest players to put on a UCLA uniform. His career totals include a .331 batting average, 48 home runs, 81 stolen bases, a .956 fielding rating and a .410 on-base percentage. He was a first-team Freshman All-American in 1995 and a three-time All-Pac-10 honoree. A double major in History and Economics, Byrnes was equally successful in the classroom, earning the UCLA Baseball Academic Award for three consecutive years. Byrnes made his Major League debut in 2000 for the Oakland A's, where he played from 2000-05. He had his best professional season in 2007, hitting 21 home runs while stealing 50 bases to help lead the Arizona Diamondbacks to the National League Championship Series. Byrnes has also made a name for himself in television, working as an analyst for ESPN's Baseball Tonight show. He was in the ESPN booth for the 2010 College World Series and is now a contributor to the MLB Network and to the KNBR radio station in Northern California.
Don Johnson (Men's Basketball, 1951-52)
Playing under Coach John Wooden, Don Johnson was a consensus All-American and an all-conference honoree as a senior in 1952. During his career, Johnson averaged 9.8 points and 5.6 rebounds and helped lead the Bruins to the 1951 PCC Southern Division Title and the 1952 PCC Championships. He led the Bruins in rebounding both seasons, and in 1952 was selected the winner of the Caddy Works Award for competitive spirit, inspiration, and unselfish contribution. After graduating from UCLA, Johnson went into coaching and was the long-time successful head coach of Cypress College. At Cypress, Johnson guided the team to two state titles ('77,'80) and seven conference titles. He also coached and is credited with developing big men Swen Nater and Mark Eaton, who both went on to successful NBA careers. Johnson is the all-time winningest coach in California Community College men's basketball history, with a record of 588-259. For his efforts, Cypress College dedicated its court in 2008 "Don Johnson Court". He is an inductee in the Orange County Sports Hall of Fame.
Maylana Martin Douglas (Women's Basketball, 1997-2000)
Maylana Martin helped lead UCLA to three-straight NCAA Tournament appearances, including an all-time best finish at the Elite Eight in 1999. Martin earned first-team Kodak All-America honors and was the Pac-10 Player of the Year in 1999. She led the Pac-10 in scoring as a junior (18.2 average) and in rebounding as a senior (8.7 average). She was named the 1997 Pac-10 Freshman of the Year and went on to become just the fourth player to be selected All-Pac-10 for four-straight seasons. Martin ranks second on the UCLA women's basketball all-time scoring list and fourth overall for Bruin men and women with 2,101 career points. She still ranks fourth on the all-time school list for career rebounds (935), blocks (96) and field goal percentage (.545). She is one of only two Bruin women to record over 2,000 points for her career, and she ended her career ranked sixth on the all-time Pac-10 Conference scoring list and eighth on the rebounding list. In 2000, she was picked 10th in the first round of the WNBA Draft by the Minnesota Lynx. She played in the WNBA for two years before retiring due to a severe back injury. Martin also served as a UCLA assistant coach under Kathy Olivier for four seasons and was an assistant coach at Pepperdine University for two seasons.
Nandi Pryce (Women's Soccer, 2000-03)
One of the most successful players in UCLA women's soccer history, Nandi Pryce was a two-time NSCAA/adidas All-American and two-time semifinalist for the M.A.C. Hermann Trophy, given to the top player in collegiate soccer. Pryce was a three-time All-Pac-10 selection and the 2003 Pac-10 Co-Player of the Year. UCLA played in the NCAA Tournament all four years of Pryce's career, reaching the NCAA College Cup in 2000 and 2003. The Bruins advanced to the NCAA Final during her freshman season in 2000. During her four years playing defense, UCLA teams compiled 56 shutouts, an average of 14 per season. Pryce was a fixture on several U.S. National Teams before and during her UCLA career. She was a member of the Under-21 U.S. team in 2003, starting every match as the team captured the Nordic Cup. She also helped the U-21s to Nordic Cup titles in 2000 and as captain in 2002. An alternate on the 2000 U.S. Olympic Team, Pryce earned her first National Team cap in 2000.
For a complete list of members of the UCLA Athletics Hall of Fame, click here.


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ZF-8609: Zend_Date::MONTH_NAME_SHORT is longer than 3 digits for locale fr
The documentation for Zend_Locale describes Zend_Date::MONTH_NAME_SHORT constant as "Month (Name of the month, localized, abbreviated, three digit) " but in locale "fr" the months are 3 to 5 digits long.
This is a bug either in the documentation or in the locale date.
Note that MONTH_NAME_SHORT is a localized format. It is not manually created but fixed.
Some locales have 2 letters, others 5. For the english manual and the english language the 3 letters are correct.
I understand but there are many more languages than english. ;)
I think that a note saying that should be added in the documentation to clarify things.
I didn't understand that I have also this value to translate :(
I think that the manual (English or not) should integrate all possibilities.
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May 18 Calendar
Published: Saturday, May 18, 2013 at 12:30 a.m.
Last Modified: Friday, May 17, 2013 at 12:32 p.m.
Bring Calendar information to 30 E. First Ave., email it to email@example.com, or mail it to The Calendar, The Dispatch, P.O. Box 908, Lexington, 27293 so it is at The Dispatch one week prior to its publication date. Include an address for the event. Events listed below are in Lexington, unless otherwise noted. For publication of church and nonprofit yard sales, please call classified advertising at 249-1637.
The Lexington Police Department  will be holding its monthly Community Watch meeting at 7 p.m. Monday at Calvary Family Worship Center.
The Davidson County NAACP will have its monthly meeting at 7 p.m. Monday at the Acacia Lodge No. 66, Cotton Grove Road
The Pink Ladyz will be hosting a Day of Hope at Elizabeth's Pizza, 1587 Liberty Drive, Thomasville, from 10:30 a.m. – 10 p.m. Tuesday. Proceeds from this event will benefit Relay For Life of Davidson County.
Meadowview Presbyterian will host a bloodmobile from 2 to 6:30 p.m. Tuesday in the worship center. Appointments are required and can be made by contacting the church office at 249-2860 or emailing email@example.com from now until the morning of the drive. Donors who arrive without an appointment will be given the next open time slot, if any remain available. Donors are taken in the order they appear on the appointment sheet, not in the order of arrival. Please arrive five minutes early to check in; earlier than that just increases your wait time.
There will be a poor boy's supper 4:30 – 7 p.m. Tuesday at Friendship United Methodist Church, 2840 Friendship Church Road. Cost is $7 for adults and $3 for a child. Any questions you can call church office at 787-4040.
First United Methodist Church, 310 S. Main St., will have a blood drive in honor of Earl Hester from 2 to 6 p.m. Tuesday . Call 248-2886 for an appointment.
Beulah United Church of Christ, 2828 Arnold Road, will host a Red Cross Blood Drive from 2:30 to 7 p.m. May 28. Hot dogs and Krispy Kreme doughnuts will be served. Call Rita Lanier 764-2439 or 239-5758; or Judy Owen 731-7951 or 247-2974 for an appointment.
Former Duracell employees please come to breakfast at Southern Lunch at 8 a.m. May 28.
Panther summer basketball camp will take place at Ledford High School Gym June 17-19 for boys and girls in first through eighth grades. Cost is $60 if you pre-register by June 1; $75 if you register at the door. Contact Jonathan Leonard at firstname.lastname@example.com or 769-9671.
Governments and Groups
The Lexington Rotary Club meets from 12:15 to 1:15 p.m. every Tuesday at the J. Smith Young YMCA. For further information, visit the website at www.lexingtonrotary.com or contact Rusty Hunt at 224-4650.
Preschoolers story time takes place at the Davidson County Public Library Lexington branch for 3-, 4- and 5-year-olds from 10:30 to 11 a.m. each Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday. Toddlers meet from 10 to 10:30 a.m. Bedtime story hour is held from 7 to 7:30 p.m. Mondays. Bookventures, and afterschool program for children in kindergarten through fifth grade takes place from 3:30 to 4:30 p.m. each Thursday. Call 242-2040 for more information.
The Davidson County Republican Women would like to send an open invitation to all county Republican women to its monthly meeting. The meeting is held the third Tuesday at Tricia's Catering, 408 Piedmont Drive. Dinner at 6 p.m. and meeting to start at 7 p.m.
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Lottery ticket bought in Wilmington wins $175k
Published: Friday, September 21, 2012 at 3:01 p.m.
Last Modified: Friday, September 21, 2012 at 3:01 p.m.
A retired manufacturing worker recently won $175,707 after purchasing a lottery ticket at a Wilmington gas station.
NOTE: This is an updated version of this story. An earlier version said Bob Jones was from the wrong N.C. city.
The N.C. Education Lottery announced on Friday that Bob Jones, a Wilmington retiree, bought the winning ticket at the Gas Center on North College Road.
Jones told lottery officials that he plans on using the winnings, worth $119,481 after taxes, to take a vacation and pay bills.
Jones won by matching all five numbers in the Carolina Cash 5 game, beating odds of 1 in 575,757. The drawing was held on Sept. 16. Jones was at home when learned about the win.
New Hanover County education programs have received more than $32.6 million as a result of the state lottery. Law requires that those funds pay for teachers' salaries in grades K-3, school construction, prekindergarten programs for at-risk four-year-olds, college scholarships and financial aid.
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ZF-2527: HtmlList escape works only for one dimension
In Zend_View_Helper_HtmlList fourth parameter $escape is not given when later called for multidimensional purposes inside itself. The same goes for $attribs parameter. Also $escape is missing documentation.
Easy fix. I was thinking of the implications of attributes going to child elements, but came to the conclusion that it developer must be aware of this. Making attributes only work for certain dimensions requires another approach or hardcoded parameters.
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Caregiving is often physically and emotionally stressful. In an effort to provide the best care possible, you might put your loved one's needs before your own. In turn, you could develop feelings of sadness, anger and loneliness. Sometimes, these emotions can trigger caregiver depression.
Everyone has a bad day sometimes. However, to be diagnosed with depression — also called major depression — you must have five or more of the following symptoms over a two-week period. At least one of the symptoms must be either a depressed mood or a loss of interest or pleasure. Symptoms include:
If you're experiencing signs or symptoms of caregiver depression, consult your doctor or a mental health provider. Depression isn't something you can simply "snap out" of — and left untreated, depression can lead to various emotional and physical problems. It can also affect the quality of care you're able to provide for your loved one. However, most people who have depression feel better with the help of medication, psychological counseling or other treatment.
You can take active steps to prevent caregiver depression. For example:
Remember, if you think you're depressed, seek help. Proper treatment can help you feel your best.
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How satisfied are you with your life? The results of our survey are! Find out what women told us about their lives.
In September 2009, Marcus Buckingham—a motivational speaker and trainer who now claims the improbable job title of "the world's leading expert in personal strengths"—rolled out Find Your Strongest Life: What the Happiest and Most Successful Women Do Differently. His headline? Women have become less happy in the past 40 years. Unstated but clear: What happened 40 years ago is that feminism reappeared on the scene.
Buckingham's announcement immediately stirred a press sensation. His findings were featured on the home page of the Huffington Post and worried over by Maureen Dowd on the op-ed page of the New York Times. Blogs, newsmagazines and daytime talk shows all agonized over the notion that feminism—all that freedom, all those choices!—was making women sadder. The data seemed to touch that ever-sensitive nerve: Could feminism be, at its essence, bad—not just for men, but for women themselves?
If, like me, you are over 40, you've seen this very same media firestorm a couple of times now in your adult life. Remember the giant 1986 feeding frenzy when Newsweek misread data and warned that an educated woman of a certain age was more likely to be killed by a terrorist than to get married? An entire book—Susan Faludi's Backlash—was devoted to showing the holes in that interpretation of the research, and to shooting down the various urban legends that were cropping up at the time to "prove" that emancipation made women into lonely, downbeat losers.
But here we are again, as the media swallow whole a new set of data points asserting that something fundamental about feminism is making women—fill in the blank: crazy, solitary or, this time around, simply miserable.
Did women in fact tell the researchers that they are sadder, gloomier, less happy? Not exactly. One of the studies Buckingham cites—the General Social Survey, which has tracked American trends since 1972—does ask "How happy are you?" But Buckingham's conclusions are also based on answers to more specific questions in the GSS that ask women about satisfaction, which is quite different. The wording of one, for example, was "How satisfied are you"—with your job, your marriage, your children.
Now, if 40 years of the women's movement have done anything definite, they have taught women to be less "satisfied," if what that means is less complacent.
For you can be very happy with various aspects of your life and still say to a voice on the phone that you are "not satisfied." You can be happy with your beloved partner and still seek better sex, smoother communication, or a higher, finer mutuality and parity. You can adore your kids and still seek broader horizons for them, or want their schools to better attend to their unique needs and talents. You can love your work and still imagine parlaying a middle-management job into an attention-grabbing start-up with one fantastic idea. Is that bad? Most of us would say that those kinds of "dissatisfaction" are good.
But even if Buckingham's sources did not unequivocally bear out the "women are unhappy" hype, he is on to something, as are the commentators who took up the discussion.
Not Hip to be Happy
Consider this typical exchange among successful, affluent, educated women in Manhattan, where I live. These are the women who have everything that feminism, Western culture and consumer society define as highly valuable: income; choices; stylishness; fascinating, high-status work; rich and equitable, if demanding, family lives. Yet among themselves the question "How are you?" is almost never followed by "Great."
In fact, if someone in this realm asks me how I am and I smile and say, "Everything's good, thank heavens! Kids are healthy, partner's great, work is going well," people gaze at me blankly for a beat, as if I have just gotten off the bus from a small town in a forgotten agricultural region. For them, it is more socially acceptable to answer the question with a list of complaints: too busy, too tired, workload too heavy, contractors on the new addition taking forever. If you are closer friends, you can add teenagers acting out and college applications too demanding.
Does this habit of seeing and talking about what's wrong—at the expense of noticing, let alone being grateful for, what's right—mean that modern Western women would want to return to their mothers' more limited, prefeminist lives? Of course not. Nor does it mean that feminism made women unhappy. It does mean, though, that there are certain contemporary pressures working against women's contentment and those are worth paying attention to.
In the 1950s, women were admonished to be content with their lot, whatever it was. Did feminism teach women to be dissatisfied? Yes, it did, and I say that proudly. Women's first "click" moments, as Ms. magazine famously described those early-1970s sparks of insight, were about what was wrong. The first activity of feminism's Second Wave—Betty Friedan's era—did not consist of chaining oneself to the gates of Parliament or Congress, as feminists had done 60 years before. It consisted of complaining about one's life. Numberless American women realized that all was not well in the pink-collar ghetto called the typing pool—or in comfy suburban tract houses, either. In consciousness raising (CR) groups, they sat in a circle with other women, not thanking goodness for the roofs over their heads, but giving themselves and one another permission at last to drop the façade of perfection; permission to articulate what was not, in fact, OK.
Once they started, they were on a roll: CR groups identified what was wrong again and again—from limited career horizons and the assumption that you were incompetent to do a job when you became pregnant to the expectation that every woman should be able to have an orgasm every time from intercourse alone.
One could say that the history of the past 40 years of Western feminism has been a history of women learning what they can—and should—identify as a problem to correct or as a ceiling to push against. The outcome? Female "satisfaction" was rebranded as tacky, complacent, couch-potatoey, even kind of low-rent. If you were satisfied, you were either not very bright or not trying hard enough. Was the Melanie Griffith character in Working Girl "satisfied" with her status? If so, she'd have stayed forever as secretary to the evil Sigourney Weaver yuppie. Was Erin Brockovich "satisfied"? Ditto, re: toxic waste in the drinking water. Was Hillary Clinton "satisfied" with the demanding and rewarding job of first lady? I rest my case.
Think of the heroine of the recent hit film Precious, a young, sexually abused, pregnant, HIV-positive, obese, emotionally tormented heroine who refuses to continue suffering from others' cruel self-absorption. How appealing would she be if her character tried to adapt to her circumstances and find the silver lining?
Feminism has defined a smart woman as one who is questing and aspirational. Satisfaction with the status quo is for saps.
The Mothers of Our Discontent
First Wave feminists, such as the suffragettes, were hardworking and frustrated, but their letters do not show them unusually dissatisfied in their personal lives. Their movement was about justice, equal opportunity and the larger ways to contribute to society. They were dissatisfied with the world.
But Second Wave feminism descends from a much more individualistic intellectual mother, and that has actually wreaked some havoc on our well-being. Simone de Beauvoir is the ancestress of the ideals of the Second Wave, because her 1949 tome The Second Sex (newly rereleased in a fresh translation) was the philosophical framework that Betty Friedan drew upon—some would say cribbed from—in 1963 for her aspirational blockbuster, The Feminine Mystique. Now, French existentialism is, in some ways, a weird philosophy through which to articulate women's deepest experiences and values. Born out of the ravages of the world's worst war, it is a deeply cynical, secular school of thought that posits the self and personal choice as being the source of life's meaning. It is about the self in isolation from the whole world of families, social roles, mutual obligations, concerns for the future of one's children. As the vehicle of women's self-definition, it is not, I'd say, a natural fit. But it was the fierce individualism of this philosophy that led de Beauvoir to her notion—radical for the post–World War II society she lived in—that women too possessed selves that were not defined by others. Still, existentialism's very focus on personal choice at the expense of everything also set us on a perilous path.
Betty Friedan took this stark world view and popularized it for the burgeoning market of postwar educated American women who were desperately trying to apply their master's degrees in poetry to the details of multiple loads of laundry. Women were questioning their prescribed roles, Friedan believed, and in her book she put their angst into words: "Each suburban wife struggled with it alone. As she made the beds, shopped for groceries . . . she was afraid to ask even of herself the silent question—'Is this all?' "
Friedan termed this The Problem that Has No Name, and for women desiring to challenge and upend their prescribed roles in order to find their true selves, a softened version of de Beauvoir's existentialism was certainly a handy instrument. And so, from two accidents of intellectual history—that one of the key women writers to have explored female consciousness was an existentialist, and that Betty Friedan, the great popularizer, happened to choose her to crib from—our version of feminism was reborn. The fact that our civilization was experiencing a postwar boom anyway, a materialistic wave that would sweep up men as well as women, simply meant that both genders had freedom defined for them as "self's choices first of all"—but for women this transformation was also relabeled "feminism."
So Second Wave Western feminism was articulated as being about the choices of the individual—the personal is political—rather than the First Wave feminists' impersonal goal of transcendent justice. And the rest is history. Western women became really good at identifying what was crying out in their souls and kicking away hindrances to that self's being fulfilled. Unfortunately, this message of self-assertion at all costs mingled with other messages of consumer capitalism. To those millions of newly self-asserting, newly enfranchised women—who increasingly had their own money to spend—market forces started to whisper messages about the value of consuming in certain ways. In the 1970s and 1980s, our culture told both genders that one's "individuality" was paramount—but also that it could be expressed not only by choosing an interesting career and mate, but by choosing the right handbag, the right vacation, the right gourmet kitchenware or personal trainer or perfect highlighting.
So how surprising is it, with these messages having merged and blurred for four decades, that Western women would start to look around and think again, "Is this all?" Perhaps, 40 years on, American women have become dissatisfied with being dissatisfied.
Finding a New Harmony
I mentioned how affluent women are often puzzled—almost pitying—when I express appreciation for my life. You don't get it, they think; you fool, you don't have to be satisfied! In New Delhi, I was also pitied by women, but for a very different reason.
I was giving a speech about Western feminism to a group of India's emerging movers and shakers, an audience of the most progressive women and men in the nation. On a panel with me was another divorced single parent, a charismatic, accomplished, charming Indian guy who lives in the U.S. and is a total winner by American standards. Together we described the division of domestic labor between women and men in this country (and chattered away about our respective custody schedules). The questions that followed, from both women and men, about how the genders sort out their roles in the West, revealed their sorrow for us both. No one was hostile. They understood that Western men and women had negotiated a different set of expectations and that our priorities were freedom, equality and so on. But the unspoken question was: How could you do that? How could you harm or even utterly transform the most important thing of all—the family?
Later, a lively, beautiful and bright young journalist confirmed and explained what I'd sensed in the audience. She said that Indian women know that Western feminism is coming, and that while they are thrilled at certain aspects of it—such as greater scope in their professional lives—they are terrified by what they see as the loss of the deepest personal attachments. She said they want to find a way to take the best of Western feminism but be spared what appears to them to be the brutal transformation of roles and general damage to relationships.
That trip, and others like it, shook me up. Feminists in the developing world have lessons to teach us, because their movement did not begin with French existentialism. Their version of equality is not usually that of a self-asserting, solitary individual; rather, it is rooted in a world view in which the individual's needs and expectations are just one of a set of larger needs—those of family, of community, even of spirit—that should be, ideally, in harmony.
But if true happiness requires a state of harmony, well, Western women just may find it unattainable. Our corporate model seems designed to create maximum stress and misery in women.
New neuroscience increasingly reveals that the male and female brains are not identical. Male neurobiology, from millennia spent on the hunt, is wired to focus on a task to the exclusion of human dependencies. Women evolved to survey the environment, gather, produce goods and food, and raise small children in an entrepreneurial, flexible context in which every element is part of the greater whole. Women for the most part are not happy being compartmentalized in a bleak man-made workspace, isolated from family and social life, and alienated from their larger context. (Men aren't that happy either, but the new brain science—see Michael Gurian's What Could He Be Thinking?—suggests that they may tolerate it somewhat better.) The most fulfilled women I have ever met, in a career context, are those who produce their work the way our evolutionary model suggests we are meant to: in flexible, family-friendly environments, in which work hours can wrap around the ebbs and flows of the dramas of parenting, and in which a strong, respected community of other women understands these seemingly disparate forms of accomplishment and cheer each other on. After 40 years of women trying to fit into a postindustrial Western "male" model for work, we've seen that women can achieve in it just fine, and often they even outperform men—but that doesn't mean it is the right model for most women's deepest satisfaction.
Freud said fulfillment lay in the twin poles of work and love, so let's look also at love—and lovemaking. The women's movement helped to liberate female libido, and a landmark moment was when researcher Shere Hite presented data in 1976 showing that most women need more than simple penetration in order to reach orgasm. This immediately put men on notice that they needed to ramp up their sexual game. That was, we can all agree, a really good thing. However, young women I hear from today are not, for the most part, relaxed and simply enjoying their sexuality; they are worrying about their presentation. The 1976 goal of a nice orgasm or two—or five—morphed, thanks to the multibillion-dollar pornography industry, into a new sexual script for women, one that requires a highly theatrical, no-holds-barred performance, not to mention perfect abs.
To this pressure for sexual hyper-achievement, add the heightened desire for consumer goods. In Deluxe, the best-selling book about luxury-goods marketing, Dana Thomas writes that the past 40 years have seen an ever-expanding army of luxury products and advertisements for them colonizing more and more women further and further down the socioeconomic ladder. Men too are targeted—but the bulk of the luxury ad dollar "buy" is in women's media. Where once there was a tiny coterie of the financially elite buying Louis Vuitton luggage and Chanel handbags, now anyone with a credit card can do so. Luxury manufacturers have evolved from being hole-in-the-wall, Italian-suburb family enterprises to being vast multinational corporations, focused on creating a totally inaccessible layer of goods at the top—but creating a doorway to "the dream" for the masses with an affordable scarf, sunglasses or perfume. Given all this, are we surprised that contentment is hard to find? Your mom may well have been happy with her vacation in the Poconos, but you probably don't feel the same about the water park; maybe you need the Costa Esmeralda, because you saw the fabulous ad and how can it be beyond you when your neighbors went last year?
Western feminism may have given women economic independence, but that does not necessarily translate into economic wisdom. The recent financial bubble—with its implications of overextended credit cards, home equity debt and busted McMansions—reveals that, for women, too, "satisfaction" got conflated in the past few decades with material goods. And for the first time in human history, women had their own money with which to make their own financial mistakes.
So where does all this stoking of feminine discontent leave us? In a great place to learn about real contentment. All of this could be an opportunity for us to be not just freer (a value cherished by all waves of feminism) but also wiser. It would be salutary for women (and men, for that matter) in the West to grow out of their 40-year adolescence—their long, eye-rolling whine—and to actually take the next step toward true maturity.
First, let's rethink the definition of happiness. Most people quote the Declaration of Independence's phrase "life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness" as if it means that being personally fulfilled is the promise of America. But personal gratification is not what happiness meant in the eighteenth century. It had much more of a connotation of the fortunate condition of using one's fullest capacities in the service of a larger good. Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin and even Jane Austen all use happiness in this sense, rather than in the sense of personal gratification. That is a nice place to start redefining.
The truth is that women did get elements of "happiness" from feminism, if you define happiness as self-possession, self-knowledge and the right to have problems of one's own choosing and to possess your own destiny.
But we can learn from the mistaken definitions of the past 40 years. We could decide, for example, that happiness, as it is now defined, is overrated. If happiness means pure pleasure, no hassle, well, that is a 14-year-old's idea of fun. Maybe the point of a free woman's life isn't having nonstop personal fun 24/7.
Should we, rather, consider that there are gifts we have—such as our kids, our parents, our partners—who are often problematic and often imperfect, but whose very challenges to us, whose very demands that we stretch to sustain love and care for them, are gifts to us in themselves? Should we consider that the very burdens of our freedom—our having problems of our own choosing—are gifts as well? Should we see that defining a credit card as perhaps the easiest route to happiness may have hidden costs? Should we outgrow the oppression of the very idea of "perfect"?
Maybe true female contentment is to be found in the journey and even in the journey's struggles, rather than in some trite fantasy destination that is inherently unreachable anyway. Maybe you find it in spite of, not because of, cultural "happiness" scripts. Especially if, this time around, we are finally willing to ask ourselves the right set of questions.
Naomi Wolf is the best-selling author of The Beauty Myth and The End of America: Letter of Warning to a Young Patriot.
How satisfied are you with your life? The results of our survey are! Find out what women told us about their lives.
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Dmitry Shostakovich composed his Ninth Symphony in 1945, glorifying the Russian victory over Nazi Germany. In contrast to the dark drama of his earlier symphonies, this one stands out for its transparency, clarity and liveliness. We encounter the same cheerfulness in his Second Piano Concerto, composed more than twelve years later, which has always remained one of his most popular works. A completely different atmosphere is to be found in the work of Benjamin Britten: in the midst of the Second World War, he composed his Serenade for Tenor, Horn and Strings, a cycle of songs focusing on the theme of the night. It is with these three major 20th-century works that Teodor Currentzis and the Mahler Chamber Orchestra are launching The Shostakovich Trilogy. The solo parts are performed by world-class musicians: the pianist Alexander Melnikov and the tenor Ian Bostridge.
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Lewis W. Hallenbeck
Hallenbeck, Lewis W. SLINGERLANDS Lewis W. Hallenbeck was born in Albany but spent much of his childhood in a farmhouse on the banks of the Mohawk River at Hoffman's Ferry with his parents, Margaret (Lewis) and Johnson Potter Hallen beck, and brother, Robert and sister, Mary. As a child he developed a strong interest in baseball, playing in the local church leagues (Emmanuel Presbyterians) while in high school (Amsterdam High) and college, and pitching for Headquarters against the Cooks and Bakers while stationed on South Pacific Islands during
World War II
. He was an ardent Yankees fan his whole life. Lewis graduated from Union College with a BSCE in 1940 and then went on to work with the Army Corps of Engineers, assisting in the design of fortifications to protect New York harbor and Long Island while earning his master's in civil engineering, studying at night at
New York University
. As World War II escalated he joined the
United States Navy
in 1942 and served in the South Pacific with the storied Naval Construction Battalion (Sea Bees), the 18th Special, until after the end of the war. Upon being discharged as a lieutenant commander he returned to civilian life, working again with the Army Corps of Engineers on large flood control projects in Pennsylvania and New York. Lewis married his wife of 65 years, Coreen Pryor on July 4, 1947 in Hornell, N.Y. and began a long and significant career (32 1/2 years) with the New York State Department of Transportation (NYSDOT) where he was instrumental in the development of the Interstate Highway System in western New York as director of Region 6. Promoted to chief engineer in 1977, Mr. Hallenbeck oversaw the growth of the NYSDOT into a multimodal transportation provider, integrating waterways, railroads and transit systems into the department's mission. He also led the Department of Transportation's transition into the modern technological era with the incorporation of computers and new innovative communication devices into the workplace. He retired in December 1981 and he and Coreen began their second careers as genealogists. Lew Hallenbeck was always a force in any community in which he lived, participating in the American Legion (a 63 year member of Post 440), Moose Lodge,
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, Little League Baseball, Boys Scouts of America, member of the Hornell Planning Commission, St. James Mercy Hospital Board, the Southern Tier Library Board, Hornell Public Library Board, etc. He was a Life member of the National Society of Professional Engineers. In retirement he continued to contribute to his community by his participation in the Albany Institute, University Club and Dutch Settlers Association. He and his wife Coreen raised a family of six children, and he had a lifetime of close involvement with his children and grandchildren, ever the devoted and loving father. Lewis W. Hallenbeck is survived by his wife, Coreen; six children, Julie (Mohammed) of Skillman, N.J., Patrick (Carole) of Montreal, Quebec, Margaret of Philadelphia, John (Mary Ann) of Rochester, N.Y., Brenda (Gerard) of Framingham, Mass. and Tom (Kelly) of Bishop, Calif.; his sister, Mary; 11 grandchildren, Rebecca, Charles, Jennifer, Jessica, Gregory, Gaelen, Timothy, Christopher, Allison, Andrew, and Jacob and six great-grandchildren. Funeral services Friday, December 7, 2012 at 3 p.m. in the McVeigh Funeral Home, 208 North Allen St., Albany. Relatives and friends are invited, and may call Friday after 1 p.m. in the funeral home. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to the Hallenbeck Family Endowed Scholarship Fund at Union College, or the Hornell Public Library. To leave the family a special message on their guest book, obtain a prayer card or directions, please visit www.McveighFuneralHome.com
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