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NEW ORLEANS – Laura Roesler was named the 2014 USTFCCCA Outdoor Track Scholar-Athlete of the Year while Edward Cheserek picked up the honor of Indoor Track Scholar-Athlete, Tuesday, leading a flock of 19 Ducks to earn USTFCCCA All-Academic honors.
Roesler, a senior psychology major with a 3.54 cumulative GPA, earned the outdoor track award for the first time in her career, joining former teammate Jordan Hasay as the only Oregon women to have been named Scholar Athlete of the Year in track & field. The Fargo, N.D., native won the 800 meters national title at the NCAA Outdoor Championships and ran a leg of the third-place 4×400. She is a Finalist for The Bowerman Trophy, collegiate track & field's highest individual honor.
Cheserek, a freshman business major with a 3.33 cumulative GPA, is the first men's Scholar Athlete of the Year from Oregon since Galen Rupp swept the indoor and outdoor awards in 2009. In just his first collegiate season, Cheserek won both the 3000 and 5000 meters titles at the NCAA Indoor Championships, boosting him into contention for The Bowerman Trophy – which Rupp won in 2009 – as one of three Finalists.
Scholar Athlete of the Year Awards are determined from among those who earned All-Academic status and placed highest in individual events at the NCAA Championships. Those who earn multiple individual championship titles rank higher in the tie-breaking process, and cumulative GPA is weighed as the final tiebreaker to establish a winner.
The Women of Oregon had the third-most student-athletes represented on the all-academic list, with 12. Joining Roesler on the list is Mel Newbery (4.00 GPA), Alli Cash (3.91), Annie Leblanc (3.73), Maggie Schmaedick (3.62), Megan Patrignelli (3.58), Jenna Prandinie (3.58), Molly Grabill (3.51), Lauren Crockett (3.50), Rachel Sherrell (3.31), Therese Haiss (3.30), and Frida Berge (3.27).
Joining Cheserek on the men's side is Sam Prakel (3.96), Tanguy Pepio (3.87), Bradley Laubacher (3.61), Matt Melancon (3.58), Marcus Chambers (3.55), and Tim Costin (3.54).


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We continue to watch and wait for the first hatching. The female seems to be a bit fidgety over the last day or so, checking and rearranging the eggs frequently. Our initial estimate of April 21st for a hatch date was obviously a bit early. Incubation of this clutch began later in the hatching cycle, resulting in a later hatch date.
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March 14, 2005
Im won the Southern Highlands Collegiate Championship with scores of 66-75-68--209 (-7), his first collegiate victory, in a playoff against South Carolina's Mark Anderson. Im's score of 66 (-6) in the first round was a collegiate best and tied for the best individual score on the team this season. His round was highlighted by an eagle three on the 13th hole. He made eight birdies in the final round after a double-bogey on his second hole. Among the ranked players he beat in the field were #1 Ryan Moore (UNLV, defending U.S. Amateur champion), #2 Spencer Levin (New Mexico, low amateur at the 2004 U.S. Open), #4 Pablo Martin (Oklahoma State, 2004 Fall Preview winner) and #25 Alejandro Canizares (ASU, 2003 NCAA champion, two-time All-American). Im is averaging 73.4 in 20 rounds this season with two Top 10 finishes, five rounds under par and four rounds under 70.
This is Im's first UCLA/MET-Rx Student-Athlete of the Week honor of the season and of his career.
Also nominated: Craig Everhart, M. Track & Field; Emily Feher, W. Water Polo; Dennis Gonzalez, M. Volleyball; Dawn Harper, W. Track & Field; Ben Kohlloeffel, M. Tennis; Riza Zalameda, W. Tennis.


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About the Author
Denise Leto is a poet, writer, and Senior Editor at the University of California, Berkeley. Her work is forthcoming in Puerto del Sol and the anthology Beauty Is a Verb: The New Poetry of Disability (Cinco Puntos Press, Fall 2011) and has appeared in Wildhorses on Fire: Other Letters, The Wolf Magazine: Arts Council of England, AUFGABE, 26, and Xantippe. She was a Fellow for the University of Michigan's Research/Practice Symposium on Movement, Somatics & Writing and is a past Honorary Fellow and Artist in Residence at Djerassi Resident Artist Program. She recently presented her work at the multi-media art event, "Breaking Ranks: Human/Nature," at the Headlands Center for the Arts.


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Gateshead 2-0 Stockport County
Two goals in three minutes just past the hour saw Gateshead record their first home win in the league for three months against lowly Stockport County.
It was the Tynesiders first double of the season and it kept Ian Bogie's men within two points of the play-offs with a six-pointer at home to Kidderminster Harriers on Tuesday.
"The blustery conditions made it difficult to play good football but I was delighted with the performance and the result," said Bogie.
"We started very well and had early chances but didn't take them which allowed Stockport to get a foothold in the game.
"The two goals in quick succession against the wind settled the game and we defended very well after that to keep another clean sheet.
"Craig Baxter had a fine game at right back while central defenders Ben Clark and James Curtis also did well.
"Penalties have gone against us recently so it was nice to get one and Jon Shaw dispatched it with some style.
"The second goal took the sting out of the game. It was a much needed home win and we're still well placed for the play-offs."
The Heed almost took the lead with just three minutes on the clock when Micky Cummins' bullet header from Josh Gillies corner was blocked on the line by Matt Glennon.
The Hatters keeper then had to claw Ryan Fraughan's sliced clearance onto the inside of the post.
Euan Holden hacked clear with Gateshead claims that the ball had crossed the line turned down.
A great ball out of defence from Shaw then released strike partner Yemi Odubade who squared the ball to the unmarked Moore.
It was a golden chance for the winger but with the goal at his mercy his side-footed effort was blocked by Glennon.
Moore had another shot deflected wide and Sam Rents curled past the far angle in the 23rd minute, County at this stage yet to show their hand offensively.
On loan Derby County winger Aaron Cole, however, flashed a dangerous ball across the six-yard area on the half hour.
Shaw's volley from Rents' cross was held by Glennon before Stockport had the chance to take a shock lead.
Danny O'Donnell's header from Fraughan's corner fell invitingly for defensive partner Carl Piergianni at the back post.
Piergianni, lacking a striker's instinct, failed to react and the chance went begging.
Joe Connor then volleyed wide from 25 yards after Curtis had headed clear a Fraughan cross, Fraughan then chipping over from a similar distance.
Gateshead's bright start had evaporated and it was County who dominated the opening 15 minutes of the second half.
Martin Gritton's header from debutant Danny Rowe's cross was ruled out for offside and, after Odubade shot high into the side netting, County had a great chance to take the lead.
Gritton flicked on Sam Sheridan's pass near halfway to send the midfielder racing clear with only goalkeeper Tim Deasy to beat.
But as Clark came in to apply pressure Sheridan shot wide of the far post - it was a miss that was to immediately prove costly.
Andy Halls was judged to have held back Shaw inside the box as the striker looked to get on the end of a Moore cross.
Shaw found the corner of the net with a clinical spot kick and then returned the compliment for Moore to make it two with a rocket into the far corner from the far right of the box.
A Connor shot from distance was parried by Deasy - County's only shot on target - while Gillies shot wide of the near post from Cummins' drag back.
Sheridan curled over from outside the box five minutes from time but by then Gateshead had the game won.
Gateshead: Deasy, Baxter, Rents, Gillies, Curtis, Clark, Moore, Turnbull, Shaw, Odubade (Marwood 67), Cummins
Subs (not used): Wilson (gk), Brittain, Odhiambo, Nix
Goals: Shaw (pen 61), Moore (64)
Bookings: None
Stockport County: Glennon, Holden (DM Rowe 68), O'Donnell, DL.Rowe (Elliott 68), Gritton, Fraughan, Sheridan, Halls, Piergianni (McCann 68), Cole, Connor
Subs (not used): Ormson (gk), Chu-Say
Bookings: None
Referee: Richard Wigglesworth (Doncaster)
Attendance: 846
Man of the Match Craig Baxter makes his 250th appearance for Gateshead
Yemi Odubade makes his first start since coming back from injury
Phil Turnbull pulls the strings in midfield
Jon Shaw scores from the penalty spot
Gateshead celebrate Jon Shaw's goal. Photos by Martin Avery and Steven White www.imagesbysw.com.


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James Hester, Ph.D., Chair of the Board of Advisors
James Hester is the Director of the Health Care Reform Commission for the Vermont State Legislature. The commission is charged with overseeing the implementation of the comprehensive package of health reform legislation passed in 2006 and recommending the long term strategy to ensure that all Vermonter's have access to affordable, quality health care. Dr. Hester has 35 years experience in the health care field, and has held senior management positions with MVP Healthcare in Vermont, ChoiceCare in Cincinnati, Pilgrim Health Care in Boston, and Tufts-New England Medical Center in Boston. He began his managed care career as Director of Applied Research for the Kaiser Permanente Medical Care Program in Los Angeles, California. Dr. Hester earned his Ph.D. in urban studies, and his M.S. and B.S. degrees in Aeronautics and Astronautics, all from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He also holds a Masters of Education degree from St Michael's College. He has a continuing interest in health services research and teaching, and has held faculty appointments at the University of Vermont, University of Cincinnati, Harvard School of Public Health and the University of Massachusetts. He has served on the boards of Vermont Information Technology Leaders (VITL), the Vermont Program for Quality Health Care, UVM's College of Nursing and Health Science, the Lake Champlain Chamber of Commerce, and the Green Mountain Council of the Boy Scouts of America and is a former member of the Vermont Business Roundtable. He and his family live in Jericho, Vermont where he pursues his hobbies of backpacking, photography and cross country skiing.
Nancy Graham, Public Health Nursing & Admin, Emerita Faculty, Columbia University School of Nursing
Nancy Graham and her husband retired and moved to Vermont from New York City at the end of 2000 to be near family. She had been a Vice President at two NewYork City Hospitals for about 18 years as well as a member of the faculty at Columbia University School of Nursing and School Public Health. Nancy's education included a BS and RN from Columbia as well as a Master and Doctorate of Public Health also from Columbia, in addition to a MA from New York University. She has written three textbooks regarding research methodologies and other issues in evaluating the cost and quality in healthcare. In retirement, Nancy has been involved in a number of organizations such as a member of the Advisory Board for Nursing and Health Sciences at UVM, President of the Women of UVM for four years. She is now getting involved with the Vermont Refugee Resettlement Program. Nancy's other interests include her grandchildren, friends, reading, hiking and piano.
Brian Harwood, Alumni, English, News Director - WDEV
Brian Harwood is a seventh generation Vermonter. In 2003 he retired from more than fifty years in advertising and media, but still produces a daily classical music program on a station in Burlington. He was founder of three successive ad agencies in Stowe and owner of two radio stations. Brian is active in social and civic groups. He is a trustee and former chair of the Northfield Savings Bank. He is currently vice chair of Vermont Public Television, co-vice chair of the Vermont Symphony Orchestra and chair of Central Vermont Home Health and Hospice. He was Administrative Aide to former U.S. Representative Richard Mallary in the early 70's. He and his wife Janet are in the 48th year of a marriage which produced three daughters, each of whom gave them a grandson. They live in Waterbury, Vermont, near the Ben and Jerry ice cream factory.
Martha Houghton, Audiologist, Emerita Faculty, University of Vermont
Martha (Marty) Houghton is emerita faculty from UVM's Department of Communication Science. She did her undergraduate work at UVM and graduate work at Boston University. She has 32 years experience as a clinical audiologist, teacher and statewide consultant for children with hearing loss and their families. Following her retirement from UVM in 1995, she continued her statewide consulting, teaching and work with interdisciplinary faculty at UVM. She was instrumental in developing grants through the University that eventually led to a statewide program for deaf and hard of hearing infants, children and their families. More recently, she is enjoying being a new grandparent, supporting a family business and dividing her time between Vermont and Maine with her husband.
Jane Kaufman, PT, M.Ed, BCIA-PMDB
Jane Kaufman has been a practicing physical therapist for more than thirty years. She is a graduate of the Ithaca College Physical Therapy program and earned her Master's degree at the University of Vermont. In 2005, Jane became certified in the use of biofeedback for pelvic floor muscle dysfunction. Jane is President of Phoenix Physical Therapy, PLC with offices in South Burlington, VT, at the Health Center in Plainfield, VT, and at Vermont Women's Wellness in Williston, VT. Jane's career has included practice at Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center in New York City, Brattleboro Memorial Hospital in Vermont, and at the former Medical Center Hospital of Vermont where she supervised the Department of Physical Therapy. She has also worked with and managed Burlington area physical therapy practices. Jane has been an adjunct faculty member in the University of Vermont's Department of Physical Therapy for more than thirty years. She has served on many professional boards and committees and her most recent focus is as a member of the Advisory Board for UVM's College of Nursing and Health Sciences and the Regional Board for the University of Vermont. In recent years Jane has focused on men's and women's health issues which are positively resolved through appropriate physical therapy treatment using surface EMG biofeedback as part of her treatment. Jane has also been the "consummate volunteer" in the community, serving on various South Burlington public school committees, youth hockey team parent, and the University of Vermont Parent's Council, to name just a few.
Marcelle Leahy, Professional Nursing
Charlotte MacLeay, Retired Nurse, Public Health, Maternal-Child Health, Health Education
An eighth generation Vermonter and Montpelier resident for the past 33 years, Charlotte MacLeay is a graduate of the College of Nursing, Class of '71, who worked in public health and maternal-child health nursing and health education prior to becoming a school library-media specialist. Now retired, Charlotte is a volunteer with her local home health agency and a tour guide at the Vermont State House. Along with husband, Tom, she spends much of her leisure time golfing, skiing and on Long Pond in Maine with her grandkids.
Angel Means, RN, MS, Director of End-of-Life Care Services, Visiting Nurse Association
Angel Means is the Director of End-of-Life Care Services at the Visiting Nurse Association of Chittenden and Grand Isle Counties and Adjunct Faculty for the College of Nursing and Health Sciences at the University of Vermont. Ms. Means has been working in health care since 1983. She completed her MS degree in Nursing at the University of Vermont in 1998 and has focused her nursing career on end-of-life care and nursing administration. She has extensive experience in Hospice and palliative care in both the acute care and home care settings.
Patty Motch, former Director of Development & Community Relations, Visiting Nurse Association
Patty Motch's most recent career was with The Visiting Nurse Association (VNA) of Chittenden and Grand Isle Counties as Director of Development and Community Relations (1991-2002). Current volunteer service includes The Vermont Community Foundation (Director) and Wake Robin Continuous Care Retirement Community (Director). She was a council member and chair, The Vermont Women's Fund; and board member, The Stern Center for Language and Learning, VNA of Cleveland, Hathaway Brown School (Cleveland), and The Benjamin Rose Institute (Cleveland). A native Vermonter, she studied nursing and psychology at Duke University, graduating with a major in psychology, and received her M.Ed. in guidance and counseling from John Carroll University in Cleveland.
Judy S. Peterson, Former President & CEO, Central Vermont Home Health
Judy Peterson, MS, BSN, is the President/CEO of the Central Vermont Home Health and Hospice in Barre, VT. Judy has served on numerous Boards over the years, including the VT State Board of Nursing, VT Professional Standards Review Organization, Project Independence, Cerebral Palsy Association, Washington County Drug and Alcohol Council, Woodridge Nursing Home and the Mid-State Business and Professional Women's Organization. Judy received her Bachelor's and Master's degrees from the University of Vermont.
Mary Steiger, Physical Therapist
Mary Steiger graduated from St. Michael's College with a Bachelor's Degree in biology. She then received her graduate degree in physical therapy from the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey. Mary has 27 years experience in the practice of physical therapy and management. She worked as the Chief of a Physical Therapy department at St. Mary's Hospital in New Jersey. In addition, Mary also owned and worked at Alpha Physical Therapy, a private practice for 16 years. She has been an APTA member for 27 years and a member of the Advisory Board at the University of Vermont College of Nursing and Health Sciences for five years. Mary was the Director of the Physical Therapy Center of Vermont. Mary is a member of VERG (Vermont Elder Resource Group) and is on the community assessment team for the Blueprint for Health.
Anne Sullivan, Emerita Faculty, University of Vermont
As emerita faculty from UVM's Medical Laboratory and Radiation Sciences department, Anne Sullivan advises students and alumni who express an interest in pursuing careers in health care. Working in career services offers her the opportunity to counsel and guide committed individuals as they seek to find meaningful direction for their work in a medical or dental setting. She encourages and supports clients to challenge themselves academically and explore and seek out experiences which will help unfold their ambitions and provide guidance in their quest. Ms. Sullivan's background in the health sciences provides a platform for this work. Outside of work she enjoys golfing, paddling with Dragonheart Vermont, and gardening.
John P. Tampas, Executive Secretary of the UVM Medical Alumni Association
A native of Burlington, John Tampas was educated and trained at UVM and MCHV. Since 1962 he has continuously served as an attending in radiology at FAHC. He was appointed Professor of Radiology in 1970 and served as Chair of Radiology from 1970 to 1996. He continues to practice and teach on a per diem arrangement and presently is Executive Secretary of the UVM Medical Alumni Association. Nationally, he has served as President of the American College of Radiology, the American Roentgen Ray Society and Radology Centenniel. He has been honored to receive the Gold Medal of the ACR and the ARRS and was twice elected Teacher of the Year at UVM's College of Medicine. He is an active member of the Greek Orthodox Church and presently is President of the Parish Council. He is past President of Lyric Theatre and serves on the Governing Board of the Vermont Symphony Orchestra. Weather permitting, he enjoys cycling on the bike path in Burlington and boating on the lake. He loves spending time with his eight grandchildren.
Edward S. Tucker, Neurologist
Ed Tucker, MD, has practiced neurology in Essex, Ct. for over 30 years. He has a degree in biology from Stanford, an MD degree from Tulane and has completed a residency in neurology and psychiatry at Yale. Between Tulane and Yale, Ed was a Submarine and Diving medical officer in the US Navy. This included a tour of duty in general medicine at the US Navy Hospital, Oakland, CA. during the Vietnam War. Serving aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln, SSBN 602, Ed made two patrols underwater in the North Atlantic off the coast of Russia for 2 months at a time. For the last 30 years, to balance his day, Ed trains and races in triathlons including two finishes in the Hawaiian Ironman. Ike Tucker, his son, is a freshman at UVM and has raced cross-country skiing at a national and international level while living in France. Jeanne-Yvonne, his wife, is a medical software specialist and world class triathlete.
Kate Webb, Clinical Assistant Professor, University of Vermont
Kate Webb received her BS and MS degrees from UVM and is a Clinical Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders. She is a licensed Speech Language Pathologist with a Certificate of Clinical Competence (SLP-CCC). She was elected to the Vermont House of Representatives for the 2009-2010 term representing Chittenden 5-1, Shelburne and served on the Fish, Wildlife and Water Resources Committee. Kate also currently works for the Williston School District in the SLP Preschool Program EEE as a supervisor.


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Relax, Renew, Recharge, Reclaim
...A cozy, quaint studio available as your own private sanctuary.
RENEW During your treatment it's time to slough off the negative! We're not just talking about Lisa exfoliating dead skin cells during your revitalizing facial! And, if you're receiving a massage, tune in to releasing any negative thoughts, (and knots). Feel your mind melt away with each of Teresa's expert strokes as your body begins to radiate with positive energy. Don't forget to BREATHE.
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RECLAIM Walk away from Face Value feeling invigorated and inspired! Maybe you've freshened up your appearance, had a facial to reveal beautiful, healthy new skin or treated yourself to a massage, relieving stress, ridding tension and reviving your body. We're touched you trusted Face Value to pamper yourself…being touched by one of our therapists has hopefully encouraged you to get back in touch with your youthfulness, reconnect you with wellness and awaken your vigor. LIVE! And don't forget to take good care of yourself!


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Did you know that Green Toys save energy? Green Toys Inc products are all made out of recycled plastic from milk jugs and other environmentally friendly materials that in turn save energy when compared to products made from non-recycled plastic.
According to their site, on average every pound of recycled milk jugs used in the making of green toys:
- Saves energy equal to 3,000 AAA Batteries
- Saves enough electricity to power a tv set for 3 weeks
- Saves enough electricity to keep a laptop computer running for a month
Another way Green Toys Inc saves energy is by having a short trip into consumers hands in Baltimore! Being produced in California, a state known for strict toy safety and environmental laws, is just one of the perks of it being a USA made product. The more locally a product is made, the less travel required, the less energy required and less greenhouse gasses emitted. It takes a whole lot less travel to get here from California than from overseas factories!
They even keep their packaging minimal by packaging them using as little materials as possible in recycled corrugated boxes with no plastics, cellophane or twist-ties. The packaging is 100% recyclable itself which saves even more energy, not to mention it makes it easier to get the toys out and ready to play with in no time!
View the slide show below to check out some of their toys. See their entire line and get more information at GreenToys.com
Want more ideas for celebrating Earth Day in Baltimore? After the slide show head over to the Green Living category!


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Jack Davenport Movies and Career Information
Mar 01, 1973
London Borough of Merton
Mar 01, 1973
London Borough of Merton
Jack Arthur Davenport is an English actor, best known for his roles in the television series This Life and Coupling, and as James Norrington in the Pirates of the Caribbean series. He has also appeared in many other Hollywood films such as The Talented Mr. Ripley. More recently, Davenport was part of the ensemble cast in the drama series FlashForward and Smash, and took the lead role in the 2013 ITV drama series Breathless.
- Jack Davenport Movies before 2015
- Pirate Radio 2009
- Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End 2007
- Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest 2006
- Wedding Date 2005
- Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of The Black Pearl 2003
- Wyvern Mystery 2000
- Wisdom of Crocodiles 2000
- Ultraviolet (1998) 1998
- Fierce Creatures 1997
- Something Borrowed (2003)
- Eroica (2003)
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7 comments: on "Selling Common Items on the Auction House"
Anonymous said... August 11, 2011 at 10:00 AM
Camping? Are you serious? That's horrible advice, auctioneering is best done as a fire-and-forget type of thing. You should base your decision on the length of the auction, on the deposit cost, the likelyhood that you will get undercut, the day of the week and many more factors.
BigDaddy said... August 11, 2011 at 11:21 AM
Cancelling and reposting four or five times a night?
Talk about a waste of time and gold.
This article has no business being on the front page of any website.
Beyond n00bish, and frankly poor advice.
Anonymous said... August 11, 2011 at 12:19 PM
I can't believe this was posted on JMTC.
Chuck said... August 11, 2011 at 7:44 PM
Good post Leo. I have no idea who the other commementators are but they seem to be nothing but trolls. I am an auction house goblin with almost 400k in gold. The advice given in this post is accurate. Read the post and do what it says and you'll be on your way to gold cap. Ignore the trolls!
Masa said... August 12, 2011 at 12:52 AM
Hehe, goblin with only 400k :D
AH camping is maybe the most boring and unefficient way to gain money in WOW.
What you really should do is learn your opponents, know what to post and WHEN to do it.
Auctionator is ok, but when you advance in serious AH business, you should get something like ZeroAuctions, altoholic and inventorium.
Create huge pile of macros to automate EVERYTHING you do and organise your toons and banks to support your trading.. I could write you a detailed guide how I become a millionaire, but it's better if everyone just finds their own ways to achieve that.. Use the JMTC forumsand ifnore the blog, it sucks monkeyballs nowdays.
Anonymous said... August 12, 2011 at 3:00 PM
Some items are just so competitive you will never sell them if you use a fire and forget approach. Why sell 5 gems a week if u can sell five a day by reposing ?
Ghargalarmy said... September 1, 2011 at 3:56 AM
Great advice for new auctioneers. I seriously can't figure out how on earth you would make gold from gems any other way. Great advice for people who are selling COMMON items with lots of competition as the post originally says. I check my AH and repost after every random dungeon, once I have completed my FL dailies, during the 5 min bio break raiding and in between PVP session. Cancel, repost and rake in the gold.
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Nancy Long had plenty of nice things – a sports car, a house, and a good job – proof enough to her and those around her that her drug and alcohol use hadn't spiraled out of control. Or so she thought.
By 40, Long was using Oxycontin, a powerful prescription painkiller. Though she visited crack houses with some regularity she says, "I could maintain life and keep a job and I could work. That was part of the secrecy that came with it."
But Long wasn't hiding her addiction as well as she thought. At the end of a prayer retreat, friends confronted her. "They said, 'You need help,'" Long recalls. "I was like, 'OK, where do I go?'"
Long's experience is far from unique. Once thought to be the domain of those in their teens and 20s, the face of addiction is aging. Some 4 million people – most between the ages of 30 and 50 – are addicted to prescription drugs, while 47 percent of all alcoholics are in their 30s and 40s. Health care providers report a rapidly growing number of women in their 30s and 40s seeking treatment for eating disorders. And those most likely to die of a drug overdose are between 35 and 54 years old.
Overdosing is where Long thought she might end up, so she checked into a detox facility to begin the long process of rehab. By the time she completed treatment, Long was on staff, helping others get clean.
Though she now runs a rehab in Virginia devoted to helping others overcome their addictions, Long still carries the scars. She won't go into a place that serves alcohol because the pull of drinking is too great. And a dirty needle yielded hepatitis C. "It's one of those sins I'll pay for for the rest of my life," Long says.
Quick Fix, Long Recovery
Addiction – whether it's to something society uniformly agrees is bad, such as cocaine, or to something more socially acceptable like Internet gaming – largely plays out in the same way.
It becomes a dominant force that drags a person into a secret life, where he is either participating in or thinking about his addiction almost constantly.
"Addiction issues are very complex to deal with," Corey D. Schliep, a licensed clinical marriage and family therapist explains. And an addiction rarely acts alone. "There is more than likely an over-arching addictive personality or temperament within the individual making them susceptible from going from one addiction to another," Schliep says.
Ron Watson was addicted to sex, pornography, alcohol, and drugs. "[It was] an escape for wounds that have never healed – rejection and abuse, both verbal and physical," he shares. "It got my mind off the pain."
After becoming a Christian in 1990, Watson tried to put aside his addictions. But after a failed marriage, drugs became his salve once again. Watson went into rehab, but upon leaving he landed in a damaging relationship. When that relationship ended in 2006, Watson used flex time at his job to stay high or drunk for two solid weeks. That's when he realized he had a serious problem he couldn't handle on his own.
"You get to a point where you go, 'I'm tired, I can't fix myself,'" Watson says. "I literally could see myself crawling to the Lord. I said, 'I've tried to fix myself. Everything I've done isn't working.' That's when I started going to a church and people talked to me about the grace of God and the love of Christ. It's the most awesome thing I've ever experienced. What once was my desire, that I thought I'd never change, is changing."
Now 35 and off drugs for more than a year, Watson continues to think about them. "Sometimes it's a thought, a feeling, an emotion," he shares. "The strength that develops minute by minute, it's not mine, but the Lord's. I know there are people the Lord has delivered instantaneously, but mine is more of a walking out process. … I'm able to say, 'Look where I was a year ago, and look where I am today.'"
Mike Ellis, pastor at Geneva Park Baptist Church and executive director of Victory Home rehabilitation program in Chesapeake, Va., says there's really very little difference between someone with a long history of drug use and someone who spends too much money shopping or too much time on the Internet.
"The thing that we choose to bring us pleasure outside of Christ, when that thing is unable to bring us happiness anymore, that's when we need help," Ellis says.
An Addiction You Can't Quit
While all addictions are difficult, food addiction can be a little trickier. A body can live without taking drugs, drinking alcohol, or looking at pornography, but all bodies require food.
For Lisa Avery the cycle of binging and dieting began in college while she studied to become a nurse. "I had a difficult semester and became rigid around food and my schedule and study and sleep and I was exercising a lot," Avery recalls. "The next semester, I couldn't keep that control up and I started to crack. I would find myself eating alone in my dorm room instead of going to the cafeteria with people. I remember the first time I ate until I was sick. I felt awful and said, 'I'll never do it again.'"
But she did do it again, and what once was an every-couple-of-weeks problem became more frequent. "As time went by, it started to destroy my life," she shares. Avery found herself waiting for a milestone to make a change. "I kept saying, 'If I can just graduate, I'll be a new person.' 'When I move, I'll make a change.'"
But those life events never made the difference Avery hoped for. "I wasn't able to function in my job. I didn't want to get out of bed. I wasn't suicidal in that I didn't have a plan, but I wanted to go to sleep and not wake up," she remembers. "[Eating] was my drug. I had to be constantly doing that in order not to feel, to escape the reality of what my life had become."
In 2005, Avery entered a 60-day inpatient treatment program for eating disorders. She emerged determined not to binge again. But she swung too far in the other direction, and her weight dropped to a perilous low.
As Avery began to let go of the rigid control, she began binging again and re-entered another treatment facility, this time for a 90-day stint. It was a different approach than her previous rehab.
"I had therapists who would tell me, 'You're going to do it again.' That helped me know that it wasn't the end of the world," Avery says. "I didn't have this picture that I was cured anymore."
Armed with information, Avery made lifestyle changes upon emerging. The inconsistency of work in a hospital was a recipe for her to struggle, so she changed jobs to work in an office with a more set schedule. However eating remains a struggle for her. "I just try to keep looking in the right direction, even if I'm not moving as quickly as I'd like," Avery shares.
Facing It Alone
No matter the poison, dealing with addictions can be especially difficult for singles. Schliep believes that singles may be more vulnerable to stronger addictions because often times, "no one has constant access to their life."
Dawn Sutton, a registered therapist who offers online therapy sessions (sun risecounselling.com), believes "all addicts need some sort of support system as well as accountability relationships. Singles have to rely more on their friends and relatives and their church family rather than a spouse for support and accountability."
Just as her friends lovingly initiated her road to rehabilitation, Long believes helping an addict be accountable is something everyone can do. "When they don't come to church, check on them. Call them. That accountability is really important," she says.
And don't give up if a recovering addict slips. "Relapse is a natural and almost predictable part of the process," Schliep says. "We all experience relapse in some way in our life's journey and therefore we, as a church body, choose to view addictive relapses in the same manner as all other relapses, and work to assist individuals and families in their journey back toward God.
Christ Church on Greenland road has an excellent and well established Celebrate recovery program that is a faith based program and works at dealing with the underlying issues that lead one to want a reprieve from reality by substance abuse. They also offer codependency study groups and groups from multiple addictions not only drugs and alcohol. If you would like more information you can contact them at http://www.ccontheweb.com/ and they will assist you in find a celebrate recovery program in the jacksonville area.
There are also Alcoholics Anonymous(AA) and Narcotics Anonymous (NA)groups in the Jacksonville for support and encouragement in you journey either a person suffering from addiction or a person living with someone who is addicted. Both of the programs offer Al Anon for the family members of a person suffering from addiction.
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Armed With Thinking Skills,
Our Kids Need Fear No Charlatan
From: "Sherman"
To: "Positive Atheism" <email@example.com>
Sent: January 28, 2004 7:35 AM
Subject: let my kid be an atheist
Dear editor,
My brother in law and his wife are very religious people and they have been kept teaching their ideas to my five-year-old kid. To try to help my boy to get another point of view, I tried to look for some books for kids about evolution but I could not find any. I was wondering if I can get some suggestions from you. Have you ever seen any publications about atheists, human evolution?
Thank you very much for your help.
From: "Positive Atheism Magazine" <email@example.com>
To: "Sherman"
Subject: Re: let my kid be an atheist
Date: January 28, 2004 1:28 PM
As we all learned in the Newdow case, the law, in regards to schools, is very strict in stating that you, the parents, are the only ones who have the right to give your children their religious education. Upholding this principle may just cost us our Pledge of Allegiance. If you do not want another person to influence your child's religious upbringing, and if that individual continues to do so anyway, against your will and perhaps even behind your back, I would suggest that such a person is committing child abuse. A hundred-dollar visit to an attorney might give you some very stern language to place in your quiver in case you find yourself really needing a full dose of it someday. Meanwhile, you'll have what you need in the interim to systematically "lay down the law," building your case in small increments. After all, the most effective way to introduce a new idea is slowly, over a period of time.
The law says what it does because it makes good moral sense. Surely they would not stand still while a neighbor or relative taught their children a religion that they felt teaches false doctrines or worse, demoralizes them with explicit rock or rap music, and violence-based television, or adult-oriented sexually provocative comic books.
If push comes to shove, I have been quietly developing the theme of just how immoral the basic teachings of the Christian doctrine of redemption happen to be, if you're willing to face up to what they really teach. Interestingly, I am getting a lot of good material for this position by studying the Victorian Era agnostics and secularists! Other web sites emphasize the sexual debauchery of the Bible and still others show what a whining, self-indulgent adolescent the biblical deity would be if he only existed. This line of reasoning will get you nowhere real fast if dished out in full measure, but it can be helpful to stow a few darts for when the discussion becomes heated to the right degree of fury.
Understand, though, that your relatives sincerely believe that they are obligated to give to this child what you refuse to give him: the keys to forgiveness, fellowship with God, and ultimately, eternal life in the form of a real-life version of the "Get Out Of Hell, Free" card.
As for resources for the youngsters, Madalyn Murray O'Hair had some good books for the kids, and I think the Freedom From Religion Foundation also has some. The Counsel for Secular Humanism (Paul Kurtz) which sponsors the Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal has a whole program for children, with a children's version of their "Skeptical Inquirer" that's been in publication for years. I believe Michael Shermer's Skeptics Society might have some things going on for kids, but he's working hardest to help shore up our education system, so I don't know what kinds of resources he offers directly to children. Finally, our Web Guide, under Science, features the "learning aid" mark, which indicates an Internet tool that we think the kids might get something out of.
Your best bet, I think, is to interest him in science and history, in that order. The Deists who built this country's government were all scientists in addition to whatever their vocation happened to be. You have a golden opportunity to build this foundational assumption in your child, that every responsible person studies science and becomes fluent in its philosophical bases regardless of whatever else they might do in life. This was before Darwin came along and legitimized atheism with a realistic answer to the Argument from Design: until then, the intelligent among us were creationists because it sure looks as if we have been designed -- at first glance, anyway. Read the Introduction to Richard Dawkins' The Blind Watchmaker, where he says,
An atheist before Darwin could have said, following Hume: "I have no explanation for complex biological design. All I know is that God isn't a good explanation, so we must wait and hope that somebody comes up with a better one." I can't help feeling that such a position, though logically sound, would have left one feeling pretty unsatisfied, and that although atheism might have been logically tenable before Darwin, Darwin made it possible to be an intellectually fulfilled atheist.
He then goes on to show natural selection to be the creative design process that it is, working in hindsight, of course, but "patiently" building organisms that fulfil the genetic goal of survival through procreation. You do well to learn a very simple explanation of Liberal Scientific Method that you can give to him, and this can be found in Chapters Two and Three of Jonathan Rauch's wonderfully brief book about political correctness run amok, Kindly Inquisitors: The New Attacks on Free Thought.
In it, he introduces (or reintroduces) the reader to what he sees as the "third pillar" of liberal society, along with capitalism and democracy. This essential but forgotten leg of the tripod that upholds freedom, he argues, is the "liberal science" of developing knowledge by choosing between conflicting views. Then warns against attacks on this institution by fundamentalists. These enemies of freedom are not the regular crew of religious fundamentalists, mind you, but by a two-front attack waged, on the one side, by intellectual egalitarians who claim that everyone's opinion has equal weight and on the other by humanitarians who don't want anyone to say anything bad about anyone.
His explanation of liberal scientific method was such a revelation that it prompted me to change not only my essential outlook on reality but (surprisingly) my moral system as well. This is because scientific method is a moral system! Yes, in liberal science there are two main moral points. First, nobody holds the keys to knowledge; that is, nobody is the final arbiter of what we as a society call the truth of any matter. "Everybody's ass is up for grabs," as comic and social critic Lenny Bruce might put it.
The second moral point is that anybody is qualified to overturn anything that we have called a truth. I like to say that a humble patent clerk would have been just as qualified as Albert Einstein to overturn the science of physics as we knew it: all you'd need is the best evidence and the soundest arguments, all of which you then submit to your peers specifically for the purpose of asking them to try to disprove your ideas.
Hey, wait a minute! Albert Einstein was a patent clerk when he published his paper on special relativity! That's how he was working his way through school at the time! Graduate student Joycelyn Bell was the first to identify the pulsar, which continues to mystify astronomers by revealing some new quirk that fractures and disintegrates what we thought we knew about matter-energy!
The true value of scientific method (and the great joy, I might add), comes from a firm grounding in the basics of the method itself. This includes first the way in which scientists first agree to pursue truth wherever she may lead (even if that's a place they don't want to go). It then accentuates way in which scientists take their ideas and submit them to their fellows, who then put those ideas under the most rigorous scrutiny they have thus far been able to develop. Having learned (and appreciated) the strict standards to which scientists hold themselves and one another, one can only roll one's eyes at the various pseudoscientific claims made by religionists and others propagating what my scientist friends call "woo-woo science."
Speaking of which, you'll also want to become intimately familiar with the ways in which charlatans and hucksters use trickery to fool their audience. I sat down and spread out on my table seven or eight books, chapters, and articles on logical and rhetorical fallacy. With this, I spent several evenings assimilating the information before me (and shooing eight kittens and cats off the books). Then I put together the third section of our "Introduction to Activistic Atheism."
My father was constantly asking me, "Do you believe that?" whenever we'd watch TV and the ads would come on. Occasionally he'd give me an answer or walk me through it, but most of the time he just let me hang there with the question. This at least gave me the ability to handle not knowing the answers, if nothing else.
Another thing that my folks and several others did was to teach me the principles of agnosticism. You do well to find Robert Anton Wilson's book, "Quantum Psychology" and just grit your teeth during the occult portions. Apart from that, he is a genius at showing that we really don't know.
Finally, keep in mind that an atheist is anybody who is not a theist: we need not know for a fact that the Christian god-claim is falsehood in order to be an atheist. This matters little to your kid, but it is important for you to think and speak in terms of the Christians' claim that a god-exists, rather than saying things like "I don't believe in God." This subtly validates their god-claim as well as sending the message that the Christian god-claim is the only one, that the question is binary: "Is there a god or is there not a god?" This is wrong. The question is, "Which, if any, of the 5,000 or so different god-claims are worthy of our assent?"
One final book recommendation: any biographies of any great men and women!
Cliff Walker
Positive Atheism Magazine
Eight years of service to people
with no reason to believe
From: "Sherman"
To: "Positive Atheism Magazine" <firstname.lastname@example.com>
Subject: Re: let my kid be an atheist
Date: January 29, 2004 7:15 AM
Dear Editor,
Thank you so much for your reply.
I hope I can work hard on these studies. For now, I told my boy to doubt the input from anybody, including myself, asking, "How do you know?" I tell him things like, "Scientists work very hard to study so they can work even harder in search of the answers to every question. But those believers just sit there, interlocking their fingers and closing their eyes, in search of an answer. Which way do you think will make things work?" But I still think that our side needs a lot more children's books so we might better educate our kids.
As I mentioned in the last e-mail, my boy came to me and said, "Dad, I know how people come from."
I asked him, "How?"
He replied,"Uncle Abel said that God made us from sand."
I don't think it is useful if all we can say is, "Uncle Abel could be, and most likely is, mistaken about this. The scientists I spoke to you about would say that his answer is wrong." To speak like this is not good enough because I don't have anything to support my idea, I don't even have a way to give my child a basic understanding of how science works.
So the next day I went to a bookstore to look for some children's books about human evolution. Guess what! They put My First Bible in the Nature section!! There was nothing about evolution in the children's book section!
I sincerely hope somebody would put effort in this field, that somebody who knows how to do this would enable the rest of us to support their efforts to bring this knowledge to the children. If they don't teach it in the schools any more, at least we need to know where we can obtain resources so we can teach the kids ourselves, like you said your mother did for you. It is so easy to let other people place religious ideas to our kids' heads, but we do not have anything that we can fight back with!
From: "Positive Atheism Magazine" <email@example.com>
To: "Sherman"
Subject: Re: let my kid be an atheist
Date: January 29, 2004 2:56 PM
Some sneaky customer put that My First Bible in the science section! This is precisely the dishonest "morality" that I'd be struggling night and day to keep from influencing my kids (if I had any children)!
If a store employee did this, then she or he needs to be sternly reprimanded, if not fired: even most Christians would agree. If the owner did this, then you need to go back outside and take another look at the sign in front of the store: make sure you didn't mistakenly go to a store whose sign says something like,
Evangelical Bibles
Or something along those lines!
The evolution books might have been removed due to pressure from Evangelical preachers leading their congregations to picket or write letters.
It could be that parents who want their kids to learn creationism know that they wage an uphill battle and must work harder, knowing their children will be taught evolution in school. (They may be wrong about that, however: many teachers are tired of fielding complaints from Evangelical Christians whenever they so much as say the word evolution in a classroom setting!)
In either case, I have a word for the folks on our side of this wholly unwanted "holy culture war":
We need to "get our hands dirty" whether we like it or not!
Below, I have identified several books. You might want to reward the companies with online ordering contrivances who are not afraid to carry such books -- or -- you could use this opportunity to make a statement by marching down to your local bookseller and boldly asking them to special order the books for you!
In any event, surely more than one bookseller has set up shop in your neck of the woods!
I already mentioned that it is highly illegal for a schoolteacher to teach any religious values whatsoever to a kid without the parent's knowledge and consent. (This is what Mike Newdow's case is all about: the parents have the exclusive right to control their child's religious instruction, and no others may interfere; atheism is included in the definition of the legal term even though atheism is not a religion in the philosophical sense or by the philosophical definition of religion.) Surely it is morally wrong for a relative or a friend of the family to do likewise. You may want to keep this in mind, making sure to mention it at least once to anybody who has ever breached your jurisdiction as a parent in this regard: only you have the right to control or even influence your child's religious education!
I remember as a child people (adult friends and relatives) telling me this or that about religion. We are an atheistic family (still, to this day -- we are atheistic, anyway) and my Mother would gently say things like,
Some people believe that way, but we don't believe it. They're all good people, just like we are! There's nothing wrong with them, and there's nothing wrong with being religious. It only means that some families believe certain things, and when this happens, the whole family believes that way. We don't believe that way. My parents and grandparents didn't think that way and neither did your father's family.
We just don't think it's true. But it's wrong for us to try to change them just as it would be wrong for them to try to change us. If you want to be religious, you may do so and we will still love you just the same.
She may as well have explained to me that many families require the children to learn religion if they are to be accepted as good members of the family. But she didn't do this. I'll bet she thought of doing it, but realized that she had already instilled into me the concepts of unconditional love and infinite human worth. (Personal aside: My life today would be so much better if my family would remember even a little bit about what they taught me in this respect!)
You may want to check out the Science section of our Web Guide, and familiarize yourself with where each link even remotely having to do with evolution takes you. Many of those links will take you to societies whose goal is to support the teaching of evolution in schools; others will take you to major scientific societies themselves, such as America's prestigious National Academy of Sciences= who sponsors a web page called Science and Creationism. Also listed is the equivalent society in the UK, The Royal Society. But don't stop at these two: in-between are dozens of other pro-science and pro-evolution groups, most of which at least know where to get children's teaching materials if they do not themselves make such materials available. And each of these web sites has its own list of "recommended links" and the like. One could easily make a career of this one pursuit, especially a retired person who wants to start making a real difference now that the personal nest-egg is secure (or to continue where she or he left off in retirement if fortunate enough to have worked in a position of great influence)!
Inquire of such organization and ask them where you can get books and other learning materials for your child. Tell them your problem: I'm sure they want to know about how tough it is even staying aware of what's happening, much less finding the proper teaching materials for your child. We who deal with this day-in-and-day-out often forget what it's like for the "Regular Joe" who is very busy just trying to put food in their tummies and shoes on their feet, who is exhausted after a day's work and comes home to the discovery that religious exploiters have been tinkering with your child's religious education!
Many of the groups I tell you about will know much better than you or I as to where the proper teaching aids can be found. The rest is up to you: you can stop at simply purchasing a few items for your child or you can get busy and form a local organization dedicated to helping parents in your same situation find and obtain what they need to supplement their child's science and history educations! The latter is where true change will occur, but it takes the dedicated and sacrificial work of several people in order to pull it off.
First off, if we don't have much luck finding current material, then at least I know of some excellent science books and workbooks in the children's sections of used bookstores. Plenty of children's science books were published in the early 1960s, after President Kennedy goaded the Americans to place a strong emphasis on science education. This was the result of the Cold War and our having lost the initial forays into the so-called Space Race. The embarrassing part of all this was that we had just distinguished our nation from the Soviet Union by ordering the words "In God We Trust" be printed on our currency and stamped onto our coins (this was ordered during the McCarthy Era of the 1950s but wasn't put into action until 1964. Meanwhile, any time the Soviets launched a cosmonaut into orbit, he made sure to announce to the World, while in orbit (and in English, of course), something along the lines of: "I don't see any gods up here> The only problem of trying to find older books is the prospect of getting taken by the high price of "antiques" and "collectibles."
I know this is true because I had lots of evolution books when I was a child -- amongst the other science books and projects that I had! I can even remember building a little telescope from a kit that had a bust of Galileo and a little book of his life, a working telegraph kit with a bust and book of Samuel F. B. Morse, and mock electric lamp with a bust and book of Thomas Edison. This was a "famous inventors" series, and several of my playmates (and myself) wanted to become inventors when we grew up! Surely stuff like this still exists! If not, let's go pound on the doors of a few investors and marketers and get the ball rolling again. Projects like this (producing educational materials) would certainly qualify for any number of grants and would easily fall under a nonprofit tax-exempt status, while still allowing enough income for the venture's own growth.
Despite my wild imagination, here, my point is that if they had these books and kits en masse during the times when evolution education was not controversial, then you can bet they have even better ones today, now that the need is so much greater, now that there is so much more at stake. They might be harder to find because the Evangelicals have pressured a few of the stores to stop carrying this or that. (And all a store needs is one Evangelical in an influential position and such pressure will change everything.)
The market will have become substantially smaller, too, because the Evangelicals have enticed many families away from real science so they can more easily market Genesis Tale trinkets and Noah's Ark action figures. There were no "creationists" to speak of when I was a child. We'd never heard of such a thing until the late 1970s -- even as an Evangelical Christian in the early 1970s, I had never heard of Christian Creationism! We didn't have a problem with it. If evolution was how God created us, then that was fine with us!
At age five through twelve I was doing much more than just working with the children's books and kits. In fact, I got my start by looking at the pictures in books and magazines whose text was college level and reading my parents' (and other kids' parents') nature magazines, college textbooks, trade publications, and even investment portfolios. If it had pictures, I was reading it. Occasionally even the photos can go over a kid's head, but this is rare: photos and drawings are what you need to expose the child to at this stage in life; text comes later. A staple in just about every home was at least a partial collection of the ubiquitous Time-Life series books, which can be appreciated by just about any age level because of the genius with which the photos and diagrams were made to augment the text (which, of course, never exceeded the sixth-grade level in reading skill, though it always dealt with high school- and college-level material).
I live in Portland, Oregon, which is easily the place with the highest per-capita of nonreligious people. Our big attraction is Powell's City of Books. I have a link to them in the Web Guide. They have their entire inventory online now (my friend Jeff, whom I am almost sure is an atheist, wrote their database program: I say "almost sure" because atheism is no big deal to me and I don't ask folks I meet if they are atheists or not).
I typed "evolution children" into their search and these are the two good-looking ones that I found:
Here is a third one that came up, which you'll want to check out yourself, as I'm not sure about any book which claim that it "presents both sides." Very seldom are they neutral, and you'll want to know in which direction they lean! I do like the sound of that last sentence, though, as these are the bottom line issues: the nature of science and its relationship to morality (its intimate role as a form of morality). Science is not evolution and gravity and chemistry: those things are part of the history of scientific discovery; science itself is the liberal scientific method I discussed yesterday.
This is what I came up with on just one book store's web site. Granted, Powell's is the largest store west of the Mississippi, and perhaps in the entire Universe, but there are many, many others. My favorite online source for seeking out used books is the American Book Exchange (ABE):
Here's one from the UK, and then I'll stop tinkering with the search engines (I promise!):
One group that was indispensable to our family when we were growing up is Edmund Scientifics. Simply, they sell science-related gifts, ranging from telescopes to chemistry sets to weird "magical" tricks that are simply strange scientific anomalies that are completely explainable, such as "The Famous Drinking Bird," which I'm sure you've seen at any museum gift shop! (I came up empty when I searched for "evolution" by the way.)
Speaking of which, check out the museums in your area: evolution is usually under Natural History, but is also covered under anthropological museums, who have names such as "The Museum of Man" and the like. I grew up in San Diego, and a family could make a whole week's vacation just out of the museums which lie within a few miles of the San Diego Zoo! Many museums have gift shops, and most of those have books for kids.
Here's a computer game for kids: I don't know if Edmund carrys this one, but Amazon does: it's Zoombinis Logical Journey by The Learning Company.
I am pointing out these books and toys designed to enhance thinking skills because I am convinced no parent needs to fear that some charlatan will exploit a kid who goes out into the world armed with an arsenal of thinking skills and a solid grounding of scientific method (Jonathan Rauch's book, again).
Write me back periodically and keep me abreast as to how it goes with you. Your story could inspire hundreds of others in your situation. What you learn and how you apply what you discover during this journey will be an invaluable tool for the rest of us.
Again, thanks for writing!
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Trial watchers that have been glued to the television and news reporting screens since the verdict that convicted Jodi Arias of first degree murder have been waiting with breath that is baited for this grueling trial to come to an end. The two most recent updates in the Jodi Arias trial include a motion granted for investigators to revisit the crime scene according to HLN Aug. 30. Additionally, we have learned that Jodi Arias is also experiencing some of the wrinkles that occur when choosing to self-represent, as prosecutor Juan Martinez has filed motions on Aug. 29 for Jodi Arias to be sanctioned.
The family members and loved ones of the victim that Jodi Arias murdered, Travis Alexander, are perhaps the ones that are wishing most for a speedy and just resolution to the trial that seems to never end. In the May 2013 conclusion of the Jodi Arias trial, Jodi Arias was convicted of first degree murder with an element of aggravated cruelty that made her eligible for the death penalty after stabbing Travis Alexander over 25 times, slitting his throat and almost decapitating him, and then shooting him in the head. The May 2013 jury was unanimous in a guilty verdict during the guilt phase, however they became deadlocked when it came to deciding whether Jodi should receive life or the death penalty for the brutal slaying of Travis Alexander.
A retrial of the sentencing phase was set, and Jodi Arias has been using every stall tactic and delay she can find to avoid the inevitable, her sentencing. Now, one year later, the wheels of justice are about to turn again with the latest stunt by Jodi Arias being that she has chosen to self-represent. With jury selection expected to begin on September 29, updates are occurring weekly in preparation of the retrial of the sentencing phase of the Jodi Arias trial.
For the average trial watcher, it is very easy to get confused about what stage of the process Jodi Arias is at when it comes to facing sentencing for the brutal slaying of Travis Alexander. With so many delays and stall tactics on the court dockets, it almost looks like the entire trial is going to get repeated. This is not the case, and it seems almost as though even Jodi Arias is confused by this.
The phase that is about to begin in the Jodi Arias trial is merely a retrial of the sentencing phase. However with Jodi Arias choosing to self-represent in her defense, the steps she is taking in that preparation give the impression that she thinks this is an all new opportunity to explore whether or not she is innocent in this case. Indeed she is not.
Jodi Arias is a convicted felon, who is currently serving time for first degree murder while she awaits sentencing to determine just how long she will serve. Her sentence will be either life in prison with no parole, life in prison with a possibility of parole, or the death penalty. Either way, as soon as this trial is over she is heading over to Perryville State Prison to ride out the remainder of her life.
The retrial of the sentencing phase in the Jodi Arias trial is a retrial to determine just that, how long will her sentence be? It is not a new investigation, a new trial, or a new determination of her innocence or guilt. Jodi Arias is a convicted felon, and has been found guilty of first degree murder with the required elements that make her eligible for the death penalty. This will not change.
Even so, it appears that Jodi Arias has taken this retrial as a new opportunity to try and save herself, and is taking every chance she can get to treat this trial as a new chance to portray what she believes is her innocence. The latest stunt following her motion to self represent includes the hiring of a private investigator to re-investigate abuse allegations, as previously reported by the Toronto Relationships Examiner.
The next step in Jodi's preparation includes a revisit to the crime scene, according to HLN Aug. 30. This is a very disturbing turn of events for many, because Jodi's innocence is no longer in question. Why would a revisit to the crime scene help her in her efforts to avoid the death penalty?
This remains to be seen, and this latest development in the case is a development that disturbs Arizona residents, the family and loved ones of the victim Travis Alexander, and also the people that are currently living in the home where Jodi Arias killed Travis Alexander.
HLN reports that a Maricopa County Superior Court minute order filed last week has requested the courts to grant an investigator for Jodi Arias access back into this home. The minute order shows that this motion was granted, and that prosecutor Juan Martinez is to allow this investigator access into Travis's former home "no later than this week."
The former home of Travis Alexander is seen in the video footage here, where a trial watcher and citizen documented the neighborhood of Travis Alexander just two days after the first degree murder conviction of Jodi Arias. Along the street are seen blue ribbons tied to trees, with blue being known as Travis's favorite color, and often seen on wristbands and lapel ribbons by Travis Alexander supporters.
As is plainly seen in the video, the presence of blue ribbons on almost every tree illustrates that even five years later, the entire neighborhood formerly loved by Travis Alexander clearly supports the man whose murder has been the subject of this trial. The home, located on East Queensborough, is located inside a beuatiful subdivision in Mesa, Arizona.
Along with the blue ribbons decking almost every yard, one neighbor even has a sign on the front lawn reading, "Justice for Travis."
This is the same neighborhood that after six long years will be subjected to the same scrutiny experienced then, as the preparations for the retrial of the sentencing phase for Jodi Arias ensues. This round of scrutiny that involves a private investigator entering the former home of Travis Alexander is not expected to last past this week, according to the minutes of the motion entered in the Maricopa County Superior Courts.
Even so, that this motion was even granted is something that Mesa, Arizona, residents, and supporters of Travis Alexander and his family simply do not understand, or even approve of. Nancy Bowen a resident of the state recently shared her thoughts on this with Arizona Family, thoughts that many in the area seem to concur with. She said,
"I think it's ridiculous. Why carry this on any further than you need to? There's people living in that home."
Arizona Family reports there are some neighbors who believe this may be an optimistic turn of events for those seeking expeditious closure in this case.
How does the family that is now living in this home feel? Probably violated. If the same family lives there now, that spoke with CNN last year about this case, this is a family with children that has experienced privacy intrusion almost since they moved in.
After the death of Travis Alexander, his home that was previously valued at $250,000 went into foreclosure. One year after his murder, the family that lives in it now purchased it in foreclosure for approximately $200,000. The owner of the home who does not wish to disclose her identity for obvious reasons told CNN last year,
"It's a very loving home, it's got a…a very sweet spirit in it."
She also discussed the state of the home when they first looked at it before agreeing to put in an offer. She said things were missing, like faucets, showers, even carpet. Crime scene photos taken immediately after the murder, and prior to the sale of the home, reveal that sections had been removed from the home for forensic analysis.
One such section was a sizable section of carpet outside the master bedroom closet where Juan Martinez believes Travis Alexander bled out after having been stabbed multiple times. This section is noted in crime scene and floor plan diagrams entered as evidence in the trial as a standard floor plan, with a large red circle noting the pool of blood Travis Alexander left as a result of Jodi Arias's brutal stabbing. Another section, almost directly across from or adjacent to this section is a section of the wall where drywall had to be removed. In this section a bloody handprint that placed Jodi Arias at the scene was removed for forensic analysis.
The new owner of the home stated to CNN last year these details were evident when they took their first viewing. The evidence that a crime had been committed was clear, but the new owners to be had no idea what had really happened in that home until much later. Initially she said,
"We thought the home had been vandalized."
Even with so much missing from the home, the new owners put in an offer and have moved their family into the home. The new owners assured CNN that everything is new, it looks nothing like it did when the home of Travis Alexander was being documented as a crime scene.
"Everything is new in the home. The shower is new, the carpet is new, everything is new."
She also told CNN what it is like to live in a home that has become one of the most famous crime scenes in America.
"We've had people pull in our driveway and stop and park and get their cell phones out and take pictures of the house."
The family had hoped, like the family of Travis Alexander, that peace would come last year with sentencing. Instead, Jodi Arias has created victims of yet another family, by having them wait through the duress of being subjected to this privacy violation over, and over again. Does it bother her?
Absolutely, says the new homeowner. She has children who live in the home, and she wants this entire situation to be over as soon as possible so that they too can go on with their lives. These statements were made over one year ago when the sentencing of Jodi Arias during the Jodi Arias trial was in sight.
This family is just one of the many families then that has become another victim of Jodi Arias. Will their own violations and suffering be complete by the end of 2014? Time will tell. In the meantime, the new owner of the former home of Travis Alexander makes her position on the case clear to CNN,
"I very much love Travis, I love Juan Martinez, and I love Detective Flores. I am hoping that once this trial is over, this can kind of become our home, instead of Jodi Arias' home or Travis Alexander's."
And, as most trial watchers familiar with Jodi Arias stunts know, this is not the only update or even the latest stunt on the Jodi Arias trial. Those expecting Jodi Arias to try to be able to get away with as much as she can, should take comfort in the fact that Prosecutor for the State of Arizona, Juan Martinez is keeping a very close eye on Jodi as her own lawyer and isn't afraid to file motions for sanctions against her if she slips up.
As of Friday Aug. 29, he's already proven he is on the ball, and has already filed his first motion to sanction Jodi Arias. It appears from the motion filed with the Maricopa County courts on the afternoon of Aug. 29 that Juan Martinez is having problems getting required information from Jodi Arias.
Jodi Arias has not only not submitted her list of witnesses and their contact information as she is required to do, but by the looks of it, she is refusing to do so. In a motion filed to sanction Jodi Arias, Juan Martinez says that not only has he not been given the information she is legally obligated to provide, but that she is refusing to do so.
The State asserts in their motion,
"The State of Arizona by the undersigned Deputy County Attorney, requests that the court order defendant to disclose the address of witnesses she intends to call for trial as required by Rule 15.2 © (1), Ariz. R. Crim. Pro. On August 20, 2014, the court ordered defendant to provide the State with a mechanism allowing the State to contact witnesses noticed by the defendant, whether it be a telephone number or address. Advisory counsel Jennifer Willmott refused to provide any of the required information and instead indicated that the issue would have to be addressed directly with the defendant in court."
A full copy of the motion for sanctions can be seen in the slideshow. The motion for sanction further requests that the court order the immediate disclosure of this information, or, alternatively, requests that the court preclude these witnesses from testifying at trial if the information is not forthcoming from the Jodi Arias team prior to trial.
Jodi Arias is expected to appear in court September 2 to answer to these allegations. Whether or not she will be sanctioned, or lose the opportunity to have these witnesses testify, remains to be seen.
In the legal arena, motions for sanctions are made for a variety of reasons, in both civil and criminal matters, when court rules and procedures are not accurately followed. When court rules and procedures are not followed, the court can even consider this misconduct. The party that objects to the behavior or action files the motion, and if the court agrees, a sanction will apply.
Although rules will vary state by state, in most court matters, civil or criminal, whether one is suing someone for $50 or facing the death penalty, the handing over of witness information is always required. This is a fairly straightforward court rule for most Americans. Why would Jodi not hand over this information?
Is this just another example of how special Jodi thinks she is? It appears that Juan Martinez is on it.
According to US Legal,
"Sanctions are a financial or other penalties imposed by a judge on a party or attorney for violation of a court rule, for receiving a special waiver of a rule, or as a fine for contempt of court. The sanction may be paid to the court or to the opposing party to compensate the other side for inconvenience or extra legal work."
Whether or not the State is seeking monetary penalties from Jodi Arias at this time remains to be seen. In the motion to sanction Jodi Arias, the State asks that if she is not compelled to provide the information requested, that her witnesses not be allowed to testify. Depending on the strength of her witnesses, this could likely hurt her case, it would likely be bad news for her if she lost the chance to have those witnesses testify. Clearly she believes they are important enough to hide their identities, having them struck from the list of witnesses then would likely be a blow for her.
It would of course be in Jodi's best interest to supply the information, but to many this is being seen as just another one of her games. America knows that Jodi loves the spotlight. Many have speculated since she was granted the opportunity to self-represent that cameras would soon be allowed back in the courtroom. A source has told the Toronto Relationships Examiner that motions of that nature are in the works which is also a surprising, but not so surprising, turn of events in the Jodi Arias trial.
This rumor however has been swirling since Judge Sherry Stephens ruled that cameras would not be allowed. Now that Jodi has been granted the access to be the star of her own show, what do you think the likelihood of that happening is?
It may be a very short retrial of the sentencing phase of the Jodi Arias trial if she is not permitted to show her witnesses. The sooner she provides that information, and complies with all of the same rules and protocols that everyone else in America has to comply with, the sooner this case can continue, and close, in as speedy a manner as possible for Travis Alexander and his loved ones.
Do you think the Jodi Arias team should have access to the former home of Travis Alexander again? Why or why not? Do you think Jodi Arias is in over her head with self-representing? What is the deal with her secrecy around her own witnesses? What do you think the chances are that we will see a new ruling on cameras in the courtroom in the very near future?
Suggested Links
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Hawks and Eagles (Accipitridae)
Common Black Hawk (Buteogallus anthracinus) - HBW 2, p. 173
French: Buse noire
German: Krabbenbussard
Spanish: Busardo negro Norteño
Other common names: (Lesser) Black Hawk; Cuban Black Hawk (gundlachii)
Taxonomy: Falco anthracinus Deppe, 1830, Veracruz, Mexico.
Taxonomy controversial: sometimes considered to include B. subtilis; race gundlachii may be valid species; races gundlachii and especially utilensis sometimes included in nominate; populations of St Vincent (Lesser Antilles) and SW USA sometimes awarded separate races, respectively cancrivora and micronyx. Forms superspecies with B. subtilis. Three subspecies currently recognized.
Subspecies and Distribution:
- anthracinus (Deppe, 1830) - SW & S USA (S Utah and Arizona to Texas) through Central America to Panama and N Colombia, then along Caribbean coast to NW Guyana, Trinidad and St Vincent (Lesser Antilles); penetrates inland to Huila, Colombia.
- gundlachii (Cabanis, 1855) - Cuba and I of Pines.
- utilensis Twomey, 1956 - Cancún I and Cozumel I, off Yucatán; Utila I and Guanaja I, in Gulf of Honduras; and perhaps other adjacent islands.
- Least Concern Enlarge map
VideosSee all 26 videos
A bird flying and picking up a dead fish from the river and bringing it to a tree while calling. Locality Rio Lagartos, Yucatán State, Yucatán Peninsula, Mexico (Southern) (ssp anthracinus)
Pieter de Groot Boersma 27 July 2005 9 years ago 25 sec 4.8
A bird perched in a tree on a single foot. Locality Zapata Peninsula, Matanzas Province, Cuba (ssp gundlachii)
Josep del Hoyo 1 August 2004 11 years ago 44 sec 4.8
A bird catching a fish in the river and perching in a neaby tree before flying away Locality Rio Lagartos, Yucatán State, Yucatán Peninsula, Mexico (Southern) (ssp anthracinus)
Josep del Hoyo 29 September 2006 8 years ago 44 sec 4.8
A bird perched in a tree. Locality Zapata Peninsula, Matanzas Province, Cuba (ssp gundlachii)
Josep del Hoyo 1 August 2004 11 years ago 26 sec 4.5
adult perching in Gallery forest at the Santa Catalina River Locality Orinoco River, Delta Amacuro State, Venezuela
Thore Noernberg 13 April 2014 2 years ago 26 sec 4.4
Bird in small tree calling Locality Cayo Guillermo, Cuba (ssp gundlachii)
Desmond Allen 7 March 2013 3 years ago 44 sec 4.4
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Juvenile perched on a palm
Locality Azuero Peninsula, Panama
Josef Widmer 10 June 2014 1 year ago 4.7
in flight
Locality La Ensenada National Wildlife Refuge, Gulf of Nicoya, Puntarenas Province, Costa Rica
fredrik salin 18 January 2014 1 year ago 4.7
Adult Cuban black Hawk calling
Locality Cayo Coco, Ciego de Avila Province, Cuba (ssp gundlachii)
Dubi Shapiro 8 December 2014 29 weeks ago 4.6
Adult bird on a snag, near a mangrove
Locality Paraíso, Tabasco State, Mexico (Southern)
rchavezdm 2 years ago 4.6
Common Black Hawk
Locality Cayo Guillermo, Cuba (ssp gundlachii)
Ron Harwood 10 February 2014 1 year ago 4.4
bird perching beside the ocean early in the morning at Playa Medina
Locality Península de Paria, Sucre State, Venezuela (ssp anthracinus)
Thore Noernberg 10 January 2012 3 years ago 4.2
Sounds2 recordings
Long call Locality Unare Lagoon, Anzoátegui State, Venezuela
Peter Boesman 4 August 2002 2 years ago 3.5
One ind calling at dusk near the beach in El Almejal Ecolodge, El Valle, Bahia Solano, Choco Department. Locality Colombia
(ssp anthracinus)
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Stalin's Ghosts
Gothic Themes in Early Soviet Literature
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Stalin's Ghosts examines the impact of the Gothic-fantastic on Russian literature in the period 1920-1940. It shows how early Soviet-era authors, from well-known names including Fedor Gladkov, Mikhail Bulgakov, Andrei Platonov and Evgenii Zamiatin, to niche figures such as Sigizmund Krzhizhanovskii and Aleksandr Beliaev, exploited traditional archetypes of this genre: the haunted castle, the deformed body, vampires, villains, madness and unnatural death. Complementing recent studies of Soviet culture by Eric Naiman and Lilya Kaganovsky, this book argues that Gothic-fantastic tropes functioned variously as a response to the traumas produced by revolution and civil war, as a vehicle for propaganda, and as a subtle mode of unwriting the cultural monolith of Socialist Realism.
Contents: What is Soviet Gothic? – Gothic Castles – Gothic Bodies – Gothic Death – Gothic Monsters – Gothic Returns.
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Muireann Maguire is Career Development Fellow in Russian Literature and Culture at Wadham College, Oxford. Her research interests include Gothic aspects of Soviet literature, Russian émigré prose, and the representation of science and scientists in Russian literary and cinematic culture since 1850. Red Spectres, her translated selection of twentieth-century Russian Gothic tales, was published in 2012.
«As a standalone text, this book constitutes a valuable contribution to Soviet studies, introducing us to many lesser-known stories and writers and to new sides of more commonly studied texts. Most important, it reveals the dark underside of Soviet culture in the period from 1920 to 1940, the ghosts and vampires that haunted the dark corners of brightly-lit Socialist Realism.» (Eric Laursen, The Russian Review 72, 2013/4)
Russian Transformations: Literature, Thought, Culture. Vol. 4
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