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Audio Recording Conference with direct Supervisor/Manager
Posted 06 February 2013 - 11:28 PM
I have a manager that is known to show disparate treatment among his subordinates. It so happened that this manager had a conference with me to address a misunderstanding to a communication between myself and another fellow co-worker. Suffice it to say, on managers request, I went ahead and spoke with fellow co-worker right after the conference with manager and cleared the misunderstanding where fellow co-worker agreed it was blown out of proportion. We exchanged apologies and fellow co-worker went in search of manager to advise him that we were both okay with the incident.
Since there have been other instance where manager and I have not seen eye to eye on the way treatment is disparate toward all subordinates, I have taken precautions to actively exercise my legal right under Texas Penal Code 16.02 where consent is required by only one party to a given conversation.
Needless to say, 15 minutes into the conversation/conference, manager asked me if the conversation was being recorded to which I respectfully replied that it shouldn't make a difference whether it was being recorded or not. Manager then stated that the conversation was not to be recorded without his consent to which I responded by citing him the penal code where it states that in Texas only one party to a conversation is required to give consent to have the conversation recorded. Manager quickly ended the conversation, stood up and left stating he would be setting up anther meeting further escalating the issue after he had mentioned everything was okay now and that he was not in there to address the issue as a disciplinary action.
My question is, since it seems/appears that manager will be escalating the matter further and perhaps seeking some sort of disciplinary action be taken against me up to and including dismissal based in part on him stating he did not give permission that I record him but yet I did, what legal course of action do I have against what is obviously now a power stance on his part after learning his statements may have all been caught on an audio recorder?
I can't help but feel harassed and in some way feel he is trying to use a form of intimidation tactic as he's used with other subordinates. Given the way he stoop up, said what he said and then stormed out of the conference room where we met, I can't help but feel he will try to retaliate in some way.
There is a lot of disparate treatment in the department/unit where other employees have shared they would voice out what they've witnessed if an administrative complaint triggers an investigation against said manager.
Posted 07 February 2013 - 01:36 AM
The question that must now be asked is: why? Why would anyone object to someone else recording them in a quasi-public place (Quasi-public, in this instance, may best describe a business location where most areas, if not the vast majority of the entire building's premises, are open and accessible to members of the public)? Correspondingly, why the need for you to record?
The answer may be, in two words, "privacy" and "civil rights." It must be noted that privacy and civil rights are often, as they ought be, central issues-of-concern. Is it not also unreasonable to assert that privacy, or aspects of privacy, as well as civil rights, and aspects of civil rights, project themselves into certain areas the public realm?
For example, let's suppose that you and your friend meet on a public sidewalk and begin a private discussion between the two of you. It is a public sidewalk, but you and your friend are the only ones consenting to participation in your private conversation. The topic(s) of your private conversation pertain(s) only to the two of you and does not involve and is not likely to involve lobbying Congress, public corruption, bribery, embezzlement or anything of that sort. In fact, neither of you is or has been a public official or has ever lobbied either Congress of your state or local legislators. Now, when your conversation began, you two were the only ones on the sidewalk. Let us further suppose that, a moment or two later, someone else, someone that neither of you knows, walks by and then stops to listen to your conversation. At what point would you, as any reasonable person might, object? Would it not be unreasonable for you to enquire why this person, this sudden sidewalk apparition that neither of you knows, is stopping on that same public sidewalk with the two of you to listen in on your private conversation? Perhaps your objection might have something more to do with the topic that you and your friend are discussing and less to do with the location of your discussion? It must be noted that you would probably find unusual, but not object, to that unknown person listening if your topic-of-discussion was the score of the latest sporting event. Simultaneously and concomitantly, you would, undoubtedly, vigorously object to any person listening to the two of you if your topic-of-discussion was any aspect of your personally identifying information including, but not necessarily limited to: your full name, address, date-of-birth, social security number, health information and bank account number. If your topic-of-conversation concerned the latter and undoubtedly personal information, would you not then object vigorously to the third-party listener?
Posted 07 February 2013 - 03:43 AM
• of your race, color religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or genetic test information under federal law (some states/localities add a few more categories like sexual orientation);
• you make certain kinds of reports about the employer to the government or in limited circumstances to specified persons in the employing company itself (known as whistle-blower protection laws);
• you participate in union organizing activities;
• you use a right or benefit the law guarantees you (e.g. using leave under FMLA);
• you filed a bankruptcy petition;
• your pay was garnished by a single creditor or by the IRS; and
• you took time off work to attend jury duty (in most states).
Here, you might have some protection if you can link the recording of the conversation as an effort to protect your rights against illegal discrimination — i.e. discrimination based on race, color religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or genetic test information under federal law. Retaliation for steps you take to protect your rights is prohibited. However, if the differing treatment you are referring to is based on something else other than one of these factors, you won't have any protection here.
Posted 07 February 2013 - 05:21 AM
I've seen this posted on several other topics relating to employment. What is the difference between a government agency vs. private employer with regard to legally firing you for any reason?
Adding to my post, my employer is a government agency.
Posted 07 February 2013 - 07:09 AM
What is the difference between a government agency vs. private employer with regard to legally firing you for any reason?
Adding to my post, my employer is a government agency.
There are several differences. First, the federal government and many states have civil service laws that provide greater protection for their employees than private sector employees get. Second, a lot more government employees are protected by union contracts than private company employees. Third, government employees get some additional protection from the federal and state constitutions because the rights that we have against government generally also protect government employees in dealing with their employer. For example, if a private employer doesn't like something that you say, you likely can be legally fired for it. But because of the First Amendment, the government is much more restricted in being able to fire employees for what they say. The Constitution's guarantees of equal protection and due process also restrict what government can do when firing or disciplining employees. Thus, you may have right to some form of appeal of a decision by your manager to fire you. Private employers don't have to offer any sort of appeal process prior to termination (unless required by a union contract or other employment contract).
Posted 07 February 2013 - 10:45 AM
This one is not going to last much longer.
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Posted 07 February 2013 - 09:21 PM
What is the reason behind your response? Can you elaborate further please?
Posted 07 February 2013 - 09:25 PM
I actually have started looking, even prior to the occurrence of this incident but somehow now feel I need to fight this through and hopefully put a stop to this type of behavior from this **** of a manager. I do have several leads on opportunities to go back to the company I worked for prior to where I currently am employed, but would like to see this through before I submit my resignation.
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From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler
by E.L. Konigsburg
From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler: Symbols Quiz
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On The Subject
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Subject: On the Subject of Jesus and the fig tree:
Date: Friday, February 20, 1998 9:58 AM
On the Subject of Jesus and the fig tree:
This story is not necessarily contradictory due to the fact that one account says the tree withered, and they noticed it then, and the next account says they saw it withered the next day. It may have been reaffirmed and marvelled over the next day as they again passed that way, or the withering may not have been totally complete before the next day.
As for the cursing of a tree that did not or did not as of the time bear figs, this illustrates perfectly the authority of the word of faith, not a temper tantrum. Jesus illustrates the works of faith continuously throughout the New Testament Scriptures. "For as many as believed on Him, to them gave He the power to become the children of God..." , certainly it is an admonishment to believers to rely on the power of prayer and faith, not self-righteousness or physical force. Ask, Believe, Receive ... key elements to successful prayer which were so important to the Lord that he chose to sacrifice the fig tree to illustrate the power available to those who believe. "Not by might, not by power, but by my Spirit says the Lord."
Cliff responds:
A much easier (and more natural) way to explain it is that the story is based on incidents which occurred in the autumn (i.e., during the Feast of Booths) and was transplanted by Gospel editors to take place in the springtime (Passover). This makes sense if the Gospel editors wanted to portray Jesus as the Passover Lamb. It also makes sense if they sought to avoid the (likely) notion that Jesus languished in prison for several months, and if they wanted to paint his execution as resulting from the demands of a fickle mob of Jews ("a party that got out of hand," as the late comic Lenny Bruce put it).
As for the temper tantrum, who do you know that would kill a tree for not bearing fruit when it is not in season to bear fruit?
Of what value is "faith" when it expects a tree to bear fruit out of season, especially given that the expectation of the faith did not come to pass? Does this kind of faith promote virtues such as patience, the work ethic, and trust in natural processes, humility, and thankfulness for what we have?
If we are to "ask, believe, and receive," then for what purpose are the the natural processes of biology? How is it that some should, through "faith," be able to reap where nothing was sown?
And, have you personally tested this claim ("ask, believe, and receive"), made by the Bible, on a fig tree during the springtime? Did it work? Did the fig tree bear fruit out of season?
As for demonstrating some "Power," why would a humble man of peace and understanding like myself be attracted to, or impressed by, a "Power" which seeks to destroy that which it does not like?
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by Samson and Delilah
Josh leads the Black Cats out against the Red Devils.
Six-year-old Junior Black Cat, Josh, was chosen to lead out the team when they took on Manchester United.
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Must Cook Chocolate
This week we stay in the Easter theme with the game : must cook chocolate. You will learn how to cook different chocolate cakes. You can take in note the recipes and try to make the same with Mom and Dad at home.
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Oct. 24, 2008
By Matt Winter
Shane Pahukoa was a force at the safety position. With a dangerous mix of power and speed, he patrolled the secondary, holding down the last line of a defense that ranked among the best seen in the Pac-10. Pahukoa's career was headlined with success (the team was 39-9 from 1989-92), due in large part to his play as he solidified himself as one of the most valuable defensive players in Husky history.
Out of Marysville-Pilchuck High School, Pahukoa didn't come to Washington as the most touted of recruits. Most of his success in high school came on the offensive side of the ball, earning all-state honors his senior year after running for more than 1,000 yards and 19 touchdowns. At 6-foot, 3-inches and 195 pounds, he ran the 40 in 4.5 seconds and possessed the athleticism that won him a slam dunk contest at a high school basketball tournament at Pepperdine University. He was recruited by a few schools, but chose Washington to follow in the footsteps of his older brother, Husky All- American offensive lineman Jeff Pahukoa.
"I knew wherever Jeff went, that's where I'd go," Shane said, "Coach [Jim] Lambright and [Don] James would be at my house recruiting my brother when I was a sophomore. As soon as they offered me a scholarship, I accepted it right away. I knew I didn't want to be anywhere else."
Pahukoa was one of only a few freshmen in 1989 that immediately saw playing time. His first action was on special teams in the season opener against Texas A&M.
"I'd never played in front of that many people before," he explains. "The speed was crazy. Running down the field was crazy."
Pahukoa saw more time during his sophomore year, splitting time at free safety with Tommie Smith. Playing with his brother had always been one of Shane's favorite parts about football, and in 1990 he witnessed Jeff blossom into an All-American.
"Jeff was always -- even in high school -- a guy I could go to for advice," Shane said. "Plus, it was always fun to come off the field and watch him play. It's like having your best friend out there."
Shane made the Pac-10 All-Academic team in his sophomore year, the first accolade of many. It was in his junior year in 1991 that he began to really make his mark, settling in as the everyday starter at free safety.
The defense was dominant that year, and Pahukoa attributes much of his individual success to his supporting cast on defense -- a group that included Steve Emtman, Dave Hoffmann, Donald Jones, and Dana Hall.
"It made our jobs in the secondary a lot easier because we only had to cover for a few seconds. We never had great stats because the front guys were so good," he explained. "It was helpful to know that if you messed up a coverage, there was someone to bail you out."
Despite what he says, Pahukoa's stats were significant. In 1991, he compiled 57 tackles and earned second team all Pac-10 honors. He saved one of his biggest performances for the final game -- the 1992 Rose Bowl against Michigan, where Pahukoa and the rest of the secondary had the mission of stopping the Wolverines' lightning-quick, Heisman Trophy-winning WR Desmond Howard.
The Huskies were up to the challenge, to say the least. Washington came out on top 34-14 and clinched the 1991 National Championship, much in thanks to Pahukoa, who broke up multiple deep pass plays to Howard. What's more, the Huskies' safety sprained his shoulder on the first play.
"We didn't expect to shut him down like we did," Pahukoa admits of Howard, who was limited to one catch. "To hold him to one catch and for [Huskies' WR] Mario [Bailey] to outshine him, it was a big moment for our team. They tried to go deep on us a couple times and it wasn't happening."
In his senior year, Pahukoa was voted captain by his teammates and helped lead the Huskies to a 9-3 record and a third-straight Rose Bowl appearance (they lost to Michigan, 38-31). Despite wearing a cast the entire year due to an offseason broken hand, he finished fourth on the team with 58 tackles and was again voted second-team All-Pac-10. He was also voted a second team All-American by College and Pro Football Newsday.
Pahukoa went undrafted in the 1992 draft but was signed by the New Orleans Saints. He played three years in the NFL, his biggest game coming against New England and former Washington State QB Drew Bledsoe -- Pahukoa had 10 tackles and 2 interceptions in the game.
These days, Pahukoa lives in the Los Angeles where he and his wife, Kendra, design and manufacture furniture. They have three children -- daughters Keala and Maili, and son Kanoe.
"There's a great tradition -- and I'm still great friends with my teammates and coaches," Pahukoa said of what he takes most from his time as a Husky. "The network of friendships that I built is what I most remember."


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Soon after "Rocky" made a star of Sylvester Stallone, the actor recalls standing backstage at the People's Choice awards waiting to make his entrance, dressed in a wide-lapelled blue tuxedo, frilly shirt and big bow tie. (Hey, it was the '70s.) An older man walked into the greenroom. He was tall and broad-shouldered, by Stallone's recollection. He came over to him, took his hand and shook it.
"Hello, my name is John Wayne, and I want to welcome you to the business," Stallone recalls The Duke saying to him.
Stallone smiled and under his breath said to himself, "God ****!" Since then, the Oscar-winning actor and successful franchise generator ("Rocky," "Rambo" and now the "The Expendables") has always had a soft spot in his heart for welcoming up and coming actors to the business. With the third installation of "The Expendables," Stallone, who co-wrote the story as well as stars in the action-packed drama alongside action icons Arnold Schwarzenegger, Mel Gibson, Harrison Ford, Wesley Snipes, Dolph Lundgren, Jason Statham and Jet Li, the actor says he's just warming up. He welcomes several new younger performers to round out the cast including MMA fighter Ronda Rousey, "Legend of Hercules" star Kellan Lutz, "The Great Debaters" actor Glen Powell and boxer Victor Ortiz.
The 68-year old-quick-witted and often humble actor recently spoke about returning to the successful franchise and bringing on board legendary screen icons Ford, Snipes and Gibson and his thoughts on gun violence.
Q: Did you write Mel's dialogue and did he stay on script?
Stallone: I just wrote a guideline and then Mel came up with the idea. It had a reality to it. I think what gave it some heart was that he was actually saying something that had some truth. It was valid and he was committed to it. I don't believe he saw himself as the bad guy. Then you bring in the aspect of Cain and Abel, where two brothers also can become the worst enemies. Usually when you love something that much, you can also hate it even more because of that schism, that break-up. He just killed it. In the van, I had some dialogue back-and-forth with him and the more he did the scene, the more I realized I shouldn't speak. I just let him roll. He was convincing himself. He was convincing me. He was convincing the audience. He says, "What did you do today, Barney? Who'd you kill? What'd you blow-up? What makes you holier then thou?" So it was great.
Q: Is it true that Jackie Chan was invited to be a part of the movie?
Stallone: Absolutely. Jackie was on, but literally it became a scheduling problem. People are coming in for four or five days. It was critical timing. Everything stopped for them. Jackie is just so busy in his regular life, he has so many businesses and he's so loved over there in China, so in-demand that he literally couldn't cut those three or four days loose. We'll get him next time. Don't worry. He's a good friend.
Q: In an era of sensitivity to gun violence, does that change how you make a good old action film? What are the challenges of that?
Stallone: First of all, there's no blood (shown in the movie), and ours is so over the top that it isn't something that you would expect people to repeat, but I know exactly what you mean. It's a very sensitive thing that, unfortunately, we experienced on the second one. I really don't know the answer because it's part of the mythology, but it's also becoming part of a reality. I don't know what the answer is. We just try to make it so it looks as though it's a fantasy. It isn't real. Sometimes I think when you make a movie, some movies get so real, and then you can say, "Oh, I can do that." There are not a lot of people that can do what the Expendables do.


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Were you among the millions of people watching NFL football yesterday? The Denver-New England game was thrilling, and the Panthers are going to be formidable opponents for the Broncos. Children in the countries where we work also love playing games, especially football (aka soccer in the United States). Enjoy these pictures from Asia, the Americas and Africa. Goooooal!!!!
From our office in Mexico comes this picture of joyful children playing with balloons (a favorite toy around the globe) at ChildFund's local partner organization in Chiapas. Learn more about how play helps children develop physically, mentally and socially.
In August, we'll be focusing on play — here on the blog and on ChildFund's social media — and what it means to children's physical, mental and social development. We asked our staff in Asia, Africa and the Americas to share pictures and quotes from children about their favorite sports, games and toys. One thing that's striking is that some games are common to many children, regardless of age group, country and continent. As you'd expect, many of the children ChildFund works with are fans of soccer, but you'll also see them playing with marbles or jumping rope. Many make their own toys out of materials found around their homes and communities. It takes a lot to keep children from playing, even when they don't have toy stores around the corner.
Below is a slideshow of photos from Brazil, Ecuador and Ethiopia, all of girls jumping rope, a skill that requires good balance, stamina and high energy. Stay tuned throughout this month for more play!
By Meg Carter, ChildFund Sponsorship Communication Specialist
Long before recorded history, children played. From the beginning, their play took three outward forms: conflict, imitation and chance. Play as conflict appears in games of skill and competitive sports. We associate imitation with cooperative games, such as role playing and creative or imaginative play. Games of chance — most familiar to us in cards and dice — often involve sticks, stones, shells, beads, or bones in developing countries.
We also know now that play is critical to children's development, and many who live in developing countries do not have the time and opportunity to play with their peers, to lay down their worries for a moment and just be children.
Today is Universal Children's Day, an event that aims for greater understanding of and among children of all nations. Its roots are in a 1954 United Nations conference when officials recommended that each country set aside a day for children. Nov. 20 has special meaning as the date on which the U.N. General Assembly adopted the Declaration of the Rights of the Child in 1959 and, 30 years later, the Convention on the Rights of the Child.
Educators describe play as the young child's work. It's more than self-expression. Unstructured play teaches children about the natural world, themselves and society. Through play, children develop motor and cognitive skills, learn cultural values and mature in emotional intelligence. Strategic thinking, pattern matching, problem solving, math mastery, negotiation, sensitivity to others and conflict resolution are just the beginning of play's hidden benefits.
If child's play is the foundation of our intellectual, social, physical and emotional development, then play is education. And if education is human development, then development truly begins when each young child plays.
Last year, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon launched Global Education First (GEFI), a new initiative raising the political profile of education. Its premise is that education leads to gender equality, economic opportunity, health and environmental sustainability. GEFI aims to put every child in school, provide them all with quality education and, ultimately, transform children into global citizens.
ChildFund also seeks to improve educational opportunities and learning environments in every community where we work.
Having taught both here in the United States and in Africa, I know there's more to education than schools, equipment, materials and instructors, essential as they are. The Declaration of the Rights of the Child reminds us: "The child shall have full opportunity for play and recreation."
Play is universal; it comes naturally. Kids everywhere turn anything into a game. Think of hide-and-seek, kick-the-can, string games, Simon Says, clapping rhymes, rope skipping and hopscotch. You find them in Virginia, Eastern Europe, Southern Asia, Latin America and West Africa. In ChildFund International's lobby, we have toys created by children in the countries we serve, playthings that demonstrate resourcefulness and creativity.
In developing countries, children play with scrap materials. A stick turns a wheel rim into a perpetual motion machine. Gathering up discarded plastic shopping bags, village boys weave them into soccer balls. Empty aluminum cans and bottle caps morph into toy animals or race cars. In a girl's hands, a bit of cloth, some string and a corn husk become a doll.
Here in the United States, we're blessed with leisure and money to spend on play dates, soccer lessons and computer games. But when play becomes our babysitter, we tend to forget its true value in children's lives.
Kristina, a tutor at an Early Childhood Development center in Indonesia, often makes toys from available resources, including recycled materials, that teach her children about shapes and numbers. "With these resources, they get to play with a range of different educational toys, and we know that they are learning while enjoying being a child," she says. "I wish I had these when I was a child."
by Cynthia Price, ChildFund Director of Communications
'Tis the season for thinking about toys.
But what if there is no toy store? What if there is no money for toys?
In developing countries, children have shown an amazing amount of creativity when it comes to fashioning toys for play. Some children have taken broken flip-flops, scrap plastic bags, twigs and string and made a toy sailboat.
Other children have created soccer balls using discarded plastic bags and heavy twine. They've made kites using paper, string and bamboo.
Many of these innovative toys are on view as part of ChildFund's traveling exhibit, The Power to Play: From Trash to Treasure. This holiday the exhibit is on display at the Idaho State Historical Museum through Feb. 5, 2011.
"The Idaho Historical Museum acts as a resource for Idaho history as well as a cultural center to expose Idaho citizens to the people of the world," says Kurt Zwolfer, education specialist for the museum. "By viewing the creativity and resourcefulness exhibited by the children who made these toys, we hope our visitors will have a better understanding of the universal language of play."
"It's the perfect holiday display," says Anne Schorzman, events coordinator for the museum. "We think it will inspire many when they come to see the exhibit."
In addition to the collection of toys, the museum also created interactive pieces, ideal for children visiting the museum. Children can bowl, make beaded snakes and play instruments from everyday items.
ChildFund International has long recognized play as essential to childhood development. Anne Lynam Goddard, president and CEO says, "We are sharing this toy collection as a visible demonstration of how the power to play helps children thrive and become leaders of enduring change in their communities and the world."
The toy collection has traveled across the United States with stops at museums and venues in Boston, Washington, D.C., Los Angeles, Denver and New York.
by Cynthia Price, Director of Communications
Toys made by children from around the world took center stage last night in New York City.
ChildFund's toy exhibit "The Power to Play" opened last night at New World Stages, 340 West 50th St.
Time Out New York and NTDTV covered the opening reception. Donors from the New York area previewed the toys before the exhibit officially opened to the public.
Anne Lynam Goddard, president and CEO of ChildFund, told the audience, "Every show has a star, and the real stars tonight are the children who made the toys.
"The toys they made offer dramatic proof that – through it all – children can retain their sense of wonder, their desire to play, their indomitable spirit, and their ability to imagine and create…if they are given the support they need," she continued.
Many of the toys on display tell compelling stories of the particular social, economic or political conditions present in the children's home countries, while others reflect similarities across regions in type of play and crafting technique. Some children use twigs, plastic bags and string to make kites, cut open soda cans to fashion toy cars and bind dried banana leaves to bring dolls to life.
Among the guests at the opening reception was Dayton Carr, a long-time ChildFund supporter who sponsors two children and has funded a playground in Liberia and a program for disabled children in Belarus.
Mick Foley and his wife Collette attended. Mick, a former wrestler and now author and philanthropist, has funded eight schools in Sierra Leone and community centers in the Philippines and Mexico. He is currently funding a program to help former girl soldiers in Sierra Leone. He sponsors seven children.
ChildFund's former board chairman Bill Leahey and his wife Chris also were in attendance. They sponsor four children and have funded a library in Ethiopia.
Long-time supporter Irene Sanz and ChildFund board member Maureen Massey and her husband Ivor spent some time reminiscing about their recent ChildFund study tour to Kenya.
Integrated Media Solutions, which sponsors 60 children, hosted the evening's reception.
As part of the reception, guests were asked to contribute to the building of playgrounds in Afghanistan. An anonymous gift of $10,000 and several additional donations will be used to equip the playgrounds.
The toy exhibit continues through Sept. 6. Hours are 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Monday through Friday.
With previous stops in Los Angeles, Washington, D.C., Boston and Atlanta, the toy collection will next head to Idaho in October.
by Stephanie Phillips, ChildFund special assistant
It's always inspiring to hear from ChildFund's long-term supporters. At ChildFund's Power to Play toy exhibit at the Denver Press Club, we were reminded once again of the rewards of child sponsorship.
Long-time donor Jean O'Toole from Fort Collins, Colo., has sponsored 19 children through ChildFund for more than 40 years. She summed up what she thought being a supporter was all about: "I am everybody who sponsors a child. I am a small brick in the bottom row of the foundation of ChildFund International. Without the bottom row you couldn't have the top of the pyramid," O'Toole said.
She also shared photo albums and scrapbooks from her years of sponsoring children around the world. O'Toole has kept every letter and picture she has received from her sponsored children—including the original ad that sparked her interest in the organization 40 years ago.
Eric Seversen, another long-time sponsor from Boulder, performed his song, "Power to Play," which he wrote to complement ChildFund's Power to Play video featuring children constructing toys for the exhibit.
Seversen's song is written as if though the eyes of the children who made the toys: All I have known is poverty and fear, but I could be a pilot, or a teacher or engineer! The power to play…
As Seversen's song ended, all eyes glanced over at the toys on the exhibit tables. Everyone knew that the children who had made the toys face the hardship of poverty every day. Children used their resilience and creativity to make toys to entertain themselves, develop their skills and persevere through life.
The Power of Play exhibit acknowledges children's struggle and celebrates their achievements.
by Stephanie Phillips, ChildFund special assistant
The dim evening light filters through the windows of the Denver Press Club spotlighting the tables of toys. These aren't ordinary toys found in local toy shops—these are unique toys constructed of recycled materials, made by the hands of children from around the world.
ChildFund International's traveling toy exhibit, the Power to Play, made a stop at the Denver press club last week. The exhibit was not only an opportunity for donors in the Denver area to view the toys but also to gather and celebrate their commitment to ChildFund. Many of the donors attending the reception have been sponsoring children for more than 30 years.
As attendees walked around the room, they marveled not only at the ingenuity and creativity the children used to craft the toys but also at the materials they used. All of the toys in the Power to Play exhibit are made from materials people throw away on a daily basis—plastic bags, tin cans, scrap wood and empty containers.
"We want as many people as possible to see this exhibit, because it is not an ordinary exhibit—it is extraordinary because kids have made these toys with their own hands. I call them the original environmentalists," said ChildFund International President and CEO Anne Lynam Goddard, who greeted donors at the event.
Athena Boulgarides, Regional Development Officer for ChildFund, explained how play helps children's development. "Play is an astonishing gift that children give themselves," she said. "Through play they solve problems and test new ideas. Play is the key to the future of their psychosocial development, emotional development—and honoring that is a gift."
by Eric Severson
Eric Severson is the author and performer of the song "The Power to Play," which he wrote to accompany ChildFund's video and innovative program of the same name.
I have been donating to ChildFund International since I was in college, which is long enough to have seen several of my sponsored children grow up and be replaced with a new set of wonderful and deserving kids.
Through the years, I've always been extremely impressed by ChildFund's sincerity, passion and highly efficient operation. In an age when humanitarian resources too often have been misused, ChildFund has always kept its fundraising and administrative costs extremely low, allowing the children to receive a maximum amount of help. I know it also makes a huge difference to these children to have a real human being providing their support – with a name and face they know – not just a nameless, faceless "donor" in the background.
I am now absolutely thrilled to be able to contribute another side of me – my songwriting and music – to help this wonderful cause. Though most of my songs have focused on humanitarian subjects, it was only this year that I thought to use these efforts directly to benefit ChildFund. What a wonderful insight that was!
Earlier this year, I had written a song called "Children of the World," which I officially dedicated to ChildFund International. As the words of the song's chorus indicate, it was all about our tendency toward apathy and indecision in responding to charitable causes:
Children of the world, when will we see
That you are more than just a photograph, or ads on our TV?
Children of the world, will we find a way?
Tomorrow may not come for you, you need our help today.
My favorite part of the song, however, is the "bridge" section, which I see as the essence of what ChildFund International does so well in fostering personal relationships between donors and their sponsored children:
If I could only see these kids, as if they all were my own kids,
I would not hesitate to right this wrong.
I'd reach out to them with my all, hug them tightly close to me,
And wonder why I waited for so long.
This song got the attention of Athena Boulgarides, my regional ChildFund development officer, and we began to talk about what else I might do to help in a more central and impactful way. When Athena explained the "Power to Play" program – and I watched the video of kids building toys – I was absolutely awestruck by the power of this vision and by its obvious results on the children. With encouragement from Athena, I decided to take on the project of writing the music to go along with this powerful video.
The project presented two major challenges. First, though I wanted the music to be hopeful and inspiring – not sad – I didn't want to gloss over the heartbreaking existence these kids were coming from. It had to be music that made you smile and feel good – but while tears were falling from your eyes at the same time. The music went through a number of iterations before I finally found something that I liked – and there were one or two points in the process where I became so discouraged I wondered if I'd ever find that delicate and elusive balance of emotions.
Second, since the video was not made with my music in mind, I had to work hard to match the lyrics and themes in the song as closely as I could to the actual timing of the video. For this purpose I made a chart of the exact timings of each scene and transition in the video, and wrote the words and music at each point to align as closely as I could with what was on the screen. Because songs need to have predictable structure of verses and choruses and so forth, this was an inexact exercise at best – but with a bit of poetic license, I was able to come closer than I originally thought I could.
I hope the result speaks for itself, and that I have managed to produce something that will make a big difference to ChildFund and its ability to capture the hearts and imaginations of potential donors and sponsors. This is such an amazing and important program, and I feel truly blessed to be a part of it.


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Residence- Houma, Louisiana, Terrebonne Parish.
If a couple are not married when a child is born but both are on the birth certificate, when separated neither party filed for custody of the child. Does the custody automatically go to the mother? Or do neither of them have custody of the child until custody is filed for? If neither has sole custody of the child, can the mother keep the child from the father whenever she wants to?


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National Post ·
PITTSBURGH -It is hardly a coincidence that the Philadelphia Flyers finally gained some traction in their Eastern Conference final against the Pittsburgh Penguins in the angriest, most penalty-filled game of the series.
Turning up the intimidation level when nothing else is working is Pavlovian to the Flyers, the beatin' path they have taken opponents down since the days of The Spectrum and the old Philly flu.
So it works that former Flyer Dave Brown, once the most feared heavyweight in hockey, has come home as Philadelphia's director of player personnel, his 1,998 career penalty minutes barely trumping the 1,879 minutes general manager Paul Holmgren piled up during his days with the Broad Street Bullies. Today, the two preside over an up-and-coming roster that has plenty of skill and speed to go along with the obvious ancillary skills that butter the bread for Flyers fans.
"Paul Holmgren gets the credit," Brown said yesterday, with his Flyers having scratched out a Game 4 win in a series they trail 3-1. "He's our leader. He's the guy who puts everything together. I'm only one of those guys he'll ask for an opinion on certain things. I can't take a whole lot credit for what's been done here."
Humble and plain spoken, Brown is that fearsome heavyweight who is anything but in real life. Like so many of his brethren, he has spent a career bending over backwards not to fulfill the perception of what his role was as a player.
He has gone from an applicant who faxed every NHL team with his intentions to stay in the game some way, somehow, to a New York Rangers scout, to directing the entire pro scouting operation for Holmgren.
Moving forward in his personal life has not been nearly as easy however, after his wife Karen tragically passed on Oct. 3, 2004, taken suddenly at age 42 by an aneurysm.
"It's still hard. She doesn't leave my mind for very long," Brown, 46, admitted yesterday before taking a drive with his dogs to the shore on an off day, the series shifting back to Pittsburgh for tomorrow's Game 5. "It's hard not to miss her. At times like this, or just any time really, everything reminds me of her."
Nearly four years later, one of the toughest men who ever pulled an NHL uniform over his head has trimmed down from his playing weight. He looks razor sharp in a suit now, and possesses by all accounts a keen eye for a player. And, of course, he works like an oxen at his duties.
"You know within yourself, you have a job to do, and you feel like you're letting everyone else down if you don't do it," he said. "You don't want to be guy where everyone is saying, 'He doesn't do his job.'"
So Brown goes about his job, broken heart be damned.
He was sitting across the table from Karen when the aneurysm burst. She also suffered a heart attack, and her organs shut down before doctors could save her.
"Sometimes you still wonder if it happened, if it's just a dream," he said. "I was right there when it all happened. It still hurts, just to talk about it."
But he keeps talking anyway. It's cathartic, he'll later say, though it's hard to tell if he's not just making sure you don't feel guilty for having asked. That's the kind of guy Dave Brown is.
"It never really leaves you, and you deal with it every day, when you're with somebody for 20 years, as long as we were. Not quite married for 15, together for five before that. You become accustomed to having her there. It's hard. Just trying to deal with it."
Through 13 years in the NHL -- including 606 games as a Flyer -- Brown did more listening than talking. He observed what it took to build the two Stanley Cup finalists he played on in Philadelphia, and the winner he joined in Edmonton in 1990.
"Being a fourth-line player, let's face it, I didn't get a lot of ice time. I basically did a job where I knew I was a small piece of a team," Brown said. "I saw all the other pieces around me-- skill guys, checkers, goalies, defencemen, penalty killers, power-play guys -- and I was basically looking at them from the bottom up. I saw a lot of things from the bench, watching.
"I probably had a 13-year apprenticeship as a scout when I was sitting on the end of bench."
And when he left the ice, he did so with the respect of many. Even Stu Grimson, whose career Brown nearly ended one night in Calgary in a hellacious rematch, after Grimson had beaten Brown in a fight in Edmonton two nights before.
"I always tell people, beating Dave Brown the first time I fought him was both the single greatest achievement of my career, and the single biggest mistake," Grimson said yesterday. "He's a good guy, a hard worker, and has a real humble disposition. A good man."
A tough man, also. Turns out the Flyers' chief scout is the precise model what they're looking for in a hockey player.
Away from the game, this Flyer's transition is moving along slowly as well.
"You know, she would have wanted me to move on, enjoy my life, and I'm doing that," he said.
"I have a girlfriend now, who I've been seeing. It'll be a year in August, and she helps a lot. She's very respectful of Karen. She knows it's hard to deal with.
"It will hurt forever. You try to find a way to not think about it. But you can't, really."


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CERN Courier
Jun 8, 2004
SweGrid gets set for future challenges
SweGrid, the first national Grid test-bed in Sweden, was inaugurated on 18 March in Uppsala. The Grid nodes, each consisting of a cluster of 100 PCs and 2 Tbyte of disk storage, are located at the six national computer centres in Umeå, Uppsala, Stockholm, Linköping, Göteborg and Lund, and are linked together through the 10 Gbit/s national network SUNET. An additional 60 Tbyte disk storage will be delivered in May and eventually the test-bed will comprise 120 Tbyte disk storage plus 120 Tbyte robotic tape storage in total.
The initiative for this national Grid has come from the Swedish high-energy physics community and was driven by the future requirements for large computing capacity to analyse data from the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). One-third of SweGrid's full computer resources are currently being used for the execution of the "ATLAS Data Challenge 2" in May and June 2004. In addition, many other applications in other branches of science, such as genome research, climate research, solid-state physics, quantum chemistry and space science, are also being launched on SweGrid.
The equipment for SweGrid has been financed by the Wallenberg Foundation in Sweden. The personnel costs for seven SweGrid technicians and three doctoral students are being covered by the Swedish Research Council through its Swedish National Infrastructure for Computing (SNIC). The Strategic Technical Advisory Committee in SNIC, composed of the directors of Sweden's six national computer centres, is acting as SweGrid's executive board.
A Nordic Grid development project, NorduGrid, began in 2000 as a collaboration between high-energy physicists. It set up the first small Nordic Grid test-bed in 2001 and used this to develop the NorduGrid middleware, which has become one of the first Grid middlewares to be used in production internationally, as during the "ATLAS Data Challenge 1" in 2003.
Stimulated by this progress, the Nordic Science Research Councils (NOS-N) took a common initiative to study how the computer resources in the Nordic countries could be organized in a common Grid facility, called the Nordic Data Grid Facility (NDGF). SweGrid constitutes a Swedish contribution to this common effort. The NDGF study group is scheduled to forward a detailed proposal for such a facility to the NOS-N committee within a year from now.
Several interesting presentations were given at the SweGrid inauguration seminar. Mario Campolargo, head of the Information Society Research Infrastructure Unit of the European Commission, described the pan-European GEANT computer network and the potential this represents for Grid development in Europe. He also discussed the significance of the current European Grid development initiatives sponsored by the EC 6th Framework Programme, such as Enabling Grids for e-Science in Europe, a CERN-led initiative in which Sweden has an active role.
Erik Elmroth from the Swedish National Computer Center in Umeå discussed current activities for making Grid services more accessible, such as developing tools for resource brokering and Grid-wide accounting, and establishing Grid portals as common easy-to-use interfaces to the Grid. Niclas Andersson, the leader of the six technicians who have set up and are now running SweGrid, described the deployment and operations of the test-bed and presented its technical specifications.
John Ellis from CERN gave an overview of the physics at the LHC and illustrated the large computer resources required if the new physics phenomena were to be discovered at the LHC. He demonstrated that finding a heavy particle of mass 1 TeV/c2 at the LHC would be the equivalent of finding a needle in all of Sweden's haystacks, which he estimated to be 100 m3 each in volume and to total 100,000. Gilbert Poulard, also from CERN, described the reconstruction and analysis of events in ATLAS and how the software and access to data will be exercised with Grid tools during the forthcoming Data Challenge 2.
There were also reports on Grid applications in other disciplines. Gunnar Norstedt from the Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm described the use of SweGrid for the analysis of gene promoters; a gene promoter is a portion of DNA that regulates the genes and their expression. A general computer code for such analysis has been set up and will be made available at SweGrid through a Grid portal. Roland Lindh from the quantum chemistry group at Lund University described MOLCAS, which is a code for electronic structure calculations in large molecules and which will be accessible on SweGrid.
The final part of the ceremony was conducted by Anders Ynnerman, the leader of SNIC. After Janne Carlsson from the Wallenberg Foundation and Jan Martinsson from the Swedish Research Council had expressed their great satisfaction with the project, Sverker Holmgren, head of the Uppsala National Computer Center, gave a successful first demonstration of how to operate SweGrid.


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SEATTLE - Last weekend, it was undefeated Stanford staying in three tight ends and goal-line formations to run, run and run some more power offense.
This week it's air-it-out Arizona, with a 3,000-yard passer and a huge, record-seeking wide receiver.
It's enough to make Nick Holt grin - and bear it.
"Isn't that beautiful?" the Huskies defensive coordinator said with a smile Tuesday night after his unit's latest preparations for Arizona (2-5, 1-4 Pac-12), the homecoming opponent Saturday at 7:30 p.m. for Washington (5-2, 3-1).
"That's the beauty of our conference. That makes it fun," an upbeat Holt said with a devilish chuckle. "Yeah, that's fun.
"It keeps you up at night. And then next week you've got a whole different set of problems (against once-beaten, supersonic Oregon). It's just this conference. It's a fantastic conference with great offenses and great offensive coaches. It keeps us on our toes."
Sure beats "being on our heels," which is what Holt said he thought his Huskies were last weekend early at Stanford.
The Cardinal had 198 yards rushing in the first quarter. The huge gains began on the game's first play. Washington pursued hard to its right to defend what the Huskies thought was a sweep. It became a reverse, with wide receiver Chris Owusu running around the opposite end for 45 yards to the UW 31.
And the Cardinal kept running while building a 38-14 halftime lead in an eventual, 65-21 win. It was the most points UW had allowed since Nov. 24, 2001, at Miami.
It spawned inevitable criticism from outside the program.
Holt has been a head coach at Idaho and a Rose Bowl-winning defensive coordinator at USC. So he knows criticism comes with his job - not that he's necessarily hearing it on sports-talk radio or what have you.
"I rarely listen to the radio as it is," he said. "Unless it's country western or talk radio, NPR. I will listen to that - unfortunately.
"I read the paper. I want to read about other stuff, other than ourselves. I guess you've got to have thick skin. Really.
"I know you guys love us. I know you do. And we want to do well. We're more disappointed than you guys, trust me.
"Trust me, we get really (ticked) off," Holt added with a wicked smile. Desmond Trufant can vouch for that. The junior cornerback and leader in the Huskies secondary said "the coaches got on us" this week.
"And rightly so," Trufant said. "We have high standards and expectations around here. We just want to get better."
Holt says definitive judgment should come after the season, when he expects first-time starters such as John Timu and Princeton Fuimaono at outside linebacker, Sean Parker at safety, Josh Shirley at defensive end and Greg Ducre at cornerback to have improved even more than they have since the opener Sept. 3.
"Wait till the end of the year, then let's look at the numbers," Holt said. "We are 5-2, and we haven't been 5-2 in our three years, either. We've been playing some good offenses, you know, but the wins and losses are the most important."
Asked if he felt his defense is better than it was when he and the rest of Steve Sarkisian's staff got to UW in January 2009, Holt said, "Oh, absolutely. Yeah, I do.
"We're 5-2 third year. We went to a bowl game our second year. It's on course. Obviously we'd love to be 7-0 right now. But we get to come home, get a chance to play Arizona, a great offensive team (with) a great quarterback. Great skill. So we have to play our butts off to get to 6-2.
"We're just still young at a lot of key positions. We've just got to keep coaching them."
Arizona throws it quickly, often and accurately. Nick Foles leads the Pac-12 with 2,541 yards passing - an average of 363 yards per game - with 18 touchdowns and five interceptions. He is second in the nation averaging 32.4 completions per game and has been good on 70.9 percent of his passes, on pace for an Arizona record for a season.
Holt likens Arizona's system to Hawaii's. The Wildcats also throw the ball quickly out of spread formations - so quickly a pass rush has difficulty reaching the quarterback before he throws.
"They are pretty similar," Holt said of Arizona and Hawaii, which completed 31 of 45 passes for 333 yards but just one touchdown in the Huskies' 40-32 win in Week 2. "This guy (Foles) is a lot bigger. He's probably not as mobile as the guy from Hawaii (Bryant Moniz), but he's got a stronger arm and he sees (the field). Boy, he's really accurate, too."
Holt says it will help the Huskies "a little" to have faced the spread and quick-passing offenses of Hawai'i and Eastern Washington, "but these guys' skill is better than those two schools. They are bigger, just big guys."
The biggest, and best, of Arizona's receivers is 6-foot-4, 215-pound Juron Criner, who is three receiving touchdowns from Theopolis Bell's school career record.
Holt says Washington must disrupt Criner and fellow Arizona receivers at the line of scrimmage. The Huskies are likely to double cover Criner and give Foles different looks so the quarterback isn't able to repeatedly target the defenses in the same way.
No real secrets there. Arizona sees those defensive looks each week.
It's just a matter of Washington executing better on defense.
"It's going to come down to us making more plays than them," said Trufant, who intercepted Foles to seal a 36-33 Huskies victory on Arizona's last trip to Seattle in 2009.
"We want to approach every game the same. But after that last game we definitely want to come out and perform better -- obviously.
"We are just going to keep that mindset of `Keep climbing,' keep striving to improve."
QUICK HITS: Saturday's game will feature two of the nation's active career receiving touchdown leaders. UW's Jermaine Kearse has 28, two short of Mario Bailey's school record from 1988-91. Criner has 27 at Arizona. ... Trufant is wowed that he has only two games left in Husky Stadium. Though only a junior, Trufant will play Nov. 26's Apple Cup and his senior season of 2012 at the Seattle Seahawks' CenturyLink Field while Husky Stadium gets renovated. "It's crazy to think about that. All the history and all the great things that have happened here, to think there are only two games left," Trufant said. "Hopefully we finish strong."


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Knechtle, Beat; Wirth, Andrea; Knechtle, Patrizia; Rüst, Christoph Alexander; Rosemann, Thomas; Lepers, Romuald (2012). No improvement in race performance by naps in male ultra-endurance cyclists in a 600-km ultra-cycling race. Chinese Journal of Physiology, 55(2):125-133.
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Ultra-endurance performance is of increasing popularity. We investigated the associations between anthropometry, training and support during racing, with race performance in 67 male recreational ultra-endurance cyclists participating in the 'Swiss Cycling Marathon' over 600 kilometres, an official qualifier for the cycling ultra-marathon 'Paris-Brest-Paris'. The 54 finishers showed no differences in anthropometry and did not train differently compared to the 13 non-finishers. During the race, the finishers were significantly more frequently racing alone than being followed by a support crew. After bivariate analysis, percent body fat (r = 0.43), the cycling distance per training unit (r = -0.36), the duration per training unit (r = -0.31) and the sleep time during the race (r = 0.50) were related to overall race time. The 23 non-sleepers in the finisher group completed the race within (mean and IQR) 1,567 (1,453-1,606) min, highly significantly faster than the 31 sleepers with 1,934 (1,615-2,033) min (P = 0.0003). No variable of support during the race was associated with race time. After multivariate analysis, percent body fat (P = 0.026) and duration per training unit (P = 0.005) remained predictor variables for race time. To summarize, for a successful finish in a cycling ultra-marathon over 600 kilometres such as the 'Swiss Cycling Marathon', percent body fat and duration per training unit were related to race time whereas equipment and support during the race showed no association. Athletes with naps were highly significantly slower than athletes without naps.
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Although it is well-known that the American people love their canines, it is ridiculous to think that having too many could make someone happy. Take for instance the 100 Chihuahuas discovered in a home in Grand Cane, Louisiana. The outstanding number of dogs goes beyond canine love to an extreme hoarding issue and sickness.
Thank goodness that there are national organizations such as the Guardians of Rescue (GoR) that will do whatever they can, whenever they can in situations like this one. Knowing of the great work that GoR does, with the help of public contributions, Animal Control Officer, Harold Renfro, reached out to the group simply due to the sheer volume of dogs at the residence. A small town animal control agency would be overwhelmed by the voracity of that type of situation!
The Guardians were quick to jump at the opportunity to help. The plan is for them to transport 11 Chihuahuas and three Terrier mixes from Louisiana to Port Jefferson Station, New York to an organization called Save-A-Pet Animal Rescue.
Meanwhile, local publicists did their duty and reached out as far as possible to potential adopters about the 28 animals that were taken to the DeSoto Animal Shelter. So far, though, only 11 Chihuahuas have yet to be adopted. Just like with other adoptions, the 11 dogs will be spayed or neutered, receive any special care that they need and receive socialization classes as necessary.
"The Chihuahuas left are extremely nervous, fearful and do not show well to the public, we have to treat this situation delicately," said Dori Scofield, vice president of Guardians of Rescue. "The shelter is full and these are the dogs that needed us most. It was not necessary for us to take the easily adoptable ones. We help the underdogs of the world."
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