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Medical officers know more about the FSU student who died yesterday from a suspected case of meningitis.
But more than 24 hours later, they still know very little about the strain of meningitis.
Reporter Ann Howard spoke to a woman who lived to tell what it's like to be infected with meningitis. We know now that student from FSU was a 23-year-old female in her senior year. We also know she was not living in the dorms, but in a townhouse off campus.
In addition to being potentially fatal, its extremely painful. Health officials at FSU are working overtime, answering questions from worried students about a disease most co-eds know very little about
Tracey Bryant, lived to tell what it feels like to be infected with meningitis. When she first learned she had the disease, she was told it should have been a death sentence, it took doctors four days to diagnose her.
Meningitis strikes about 3,000 people a year, and kills as many as 300. Between 100 to 125 cases happen on college campuses. Patients like Tracey Bryant, made a full recovery. Others can experience permanent brain damage, hearing loss, limb amputation, kidney failure, and even death.
This is one of the first weeks that Tracey has been back at work, and feeling more like herself. She said she occasionally has headaches, but is definitely back on track for a full recovery.
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Faucett Brothers Activity Center to open March 1
Residents can try out $8.4 million facility
Published: Wednesday, February 20, 2013 at 3:30 a.m.
Last Modified: Tuesday, February 19, 2013 at 11:33 p.m.
NORTHPORT | After months of delays, the new, $8.4 million Faucett Brothers Activity Center in Northport has an opening date.
The Tuscaloosa County Park and Recreation Authority said Tuesday that the center is set to open to the public on March 1.
And for its first 31 days, residents can try out the facility free of charge, officials said.
"We are excited to open this beautiful facility and invite everyone to try it out for free during the month of March," Gary Minor, PARA executive director, said in a news release. "The Faucett Brothers Center is a new model for PARA — it brings our facilities up a notch — and we trust you will like what you see."
Features of the nearly 60,000-square-foot building include cardiovascular, weight and spin rooms; an aerobics studio; an 18-foot climbing tower; a boulder wall and climbing boulders; therapeutic and recreational swimming pools; a walking track; a gymnasium and an outdoor archery range.
Situated on Eugenia Faucett Drive in Faucett Brothers Park, which opened in 2008, the facility was a joint effort between PARA, the Tuscaloosa County Commission and the city of Northport. The construction money was provided by the County Commission, which also approved an additional $997,800 for furnishings.
The city of Northport contributed $200,000 toward furnishings and provided $550,000 in utility infrastructure in the form of water and sewer lines.
"We are appreciative for the joint effort of the Tuscaloosa County Commission and the city of Northport coming together to build this facility," said Bobby Franks, chairman of the PARA board of directors, in the news release announcing the center's opening date. "PARA centers are located in different areas of the city and county of Tuscaloosa and this one in the Northport area has been eagerly awaited."
Northport residents have been waiting longer than expected, having watched the doors remain closed after more than two years of construction.
The most recent delay came in September, when PARA announced that it would raise membership fees in coordination with the Faucett Brothers center's Oct. 1 opening.
"Opening was delayed due to construction, and —in particular — custom ... windows, which help maximize energy efficiency," said Jay Strickland, PARA's director of park planning, development and operations, in the news release.
Strickland said the center has 680 windows and each one is custom sized.
"We still lack a few windows and trust everyone will be forgiving," Strickland said. "The windows are one of the nicest features of the center and provide natural light and scenic views of the park."
Incorporating the look of the park into the building was planned from the beginning, and constructing the facility to LEED — Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design — standards was part of the original design.
LEED is an internationally recognized, environmentally friendly building program that certifies facilities constructed to certain sustainability standards.
"The building was designed to blend with the park's tree lined surroundings," said project architect Keith Scott of WSV Architects in a news release. "Great effort was made to protect and preserve the site's natural surroundings."
Now that the center is, again, set to open, PARA is announcing a schedule of fitness and swimming classes and other information www.tcpara.org.
The Faucett Brothers center's operating hours will be 6 a.m.-9 p.m. Monday-Friday, 8 a.m.-8 p.m. on Saturday and 1-5 p.m. on Sunday.
The archery range, set to open March 19, will operate daily from dawn to dusk.
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BERKELEY -- UC Berkeley's College of Engineering will open a new institute for design innovation with a $20 million donation from the Paul and Stacy Jacobs Foundation.
The news came Thursday at the Clinton Global Initiative America conference in Chicago. The foundation's president, Paul Jacobs, is the chairman and CEO of Qualcomm Inc., a mobile technology company based in San Diego.
UC Berkeley says it will begin planning the new facility and curriculum, which will focus on rapid design and the creation of prototypes for manufacturing.
"As we see it, the proposed Jacobs Institute for Design Innovation will be a nexus for student innovators from throughout the college," said S. Shankar Sastry, dean of UC Berkeley's College of Engineering, in a news release. He added that the students "will also develop viable business and service models so that their inventions and ideas can deliver tangible benefits to the real world."
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West Coast premieres from Tony Kushner and the Kneehigh Theatre Company will highlight an adventurous 2013-2014 season at Berkeley Repertory Theatre.
The Pulitzer-winning Kushner, who has a long history with the Rep, remains best known for the epic "Angels in America," which was born at San Francisco's Eureka Theatre before it took the world by storm. The intensely witty and brainy playwright, who also wrote the script for the blockbuster film "Lincoln," invites you to peruse "The Intelligent Homosexual's Guide to Capitalism and Socialism with a Key to the Scriptures."
An epic take on family, politics, money and sex, this new play will be directed by Kushner's longtime collaborator Tony Taccone, who commissioned "Angels." The long-awaited local debut from the author of "Homebody/Kabul" and "Slavs!" runs May 16-July 7, 2014.
Britain's Kneehigh Theatre, who charmed Bay Area audiences with "The Wild Bride" and "Brief Encounter," returns with the legendary Cornish love legend "Tristan & Yseult." Adapted and directed by Emma Rice, this is another ingenious mix of music, fable, Wagner and unabashed playfulness from the multimedia troupe. This holiday production runs Nov. 22-Jan. 5.
Marcus Gardley, an Oakland native known for "And Jesus Moonwalks the Mississippi" and "Love is a Dream House in Lorin" presents the world premiere of "The House that Will Not Stand." A steamy day of interracial love in 1936 New Orleans, the play runs Jan. 24-March 9.
Nina Raine's resonant play about deafness "Tribes," directed by Jonathan Moscone (April 11-May 11, 2014), Dario Fo's outrageous masterpiece "Accidental Death of an Anarchist" starring Steven Epp (Feb. 21-April 6, 2014) and the World War II drama "The Pianist of Willesden Lane" (Oct. 25-Dec. 8) round out the rest of the seven show season.
One show remains to be announced.
All plays are performed at the Berkeley Rep theater complex, 2025 Addison Street, Berkeley. Subscriptions, ranging $65-$546, go on sale now. Single tickets go on sale in August. 510-647-2949. www.berkeleyrep.org.
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LG Electronics plans to launch a new flagship smartphone as early as May as it attempts to turn around its money-losing mobile business and compete better with bigger rivals such as Samsung Electronics and low-cost Chinese rivals.
According to an invitation letter sent out to the press this week, a launch event for the company's new smartphone—the LG G3—will be held over a two-day period starting May 27 in six different cities including San Francisco, Seoul and Istanbul. The scope of the launch event will be the company's most extensive for a mobile device. The predecessor of the G3 phone—the G2 and the Optimus G—have previously been held in second half of the year, at one or two selected cities.
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QHD screens have almost twice the number of pixels compared to full HD screens found in most high-end phones including Samsung's Galaxy S5. It is viewed as an interim level before the shift to ultra high-definition screens.
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LG's mobile unit has been mired in losses since the third quarter of last year.
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LG executives have let on on many occasions that the company is internally proud of the achievements it has made with its mobile products in the past year and a half, particularly with products like the G Pro smartphone-tablet hybrid. But those efforts haven't translated into an improvement in earnings.
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LG's smartphone market share has been slipping. After briefly ranking third in global smartphone shipments early last year, the company has fallen behind its key Chinese rivals.
LG shipped 12.3 million smartphones in the first quarter, but this falls short of the amount shipped by the sector's top four companies. Samsung and Apple shipped 89 million and 43.7 million units, respectively, with market shares of 31.2% and 15.3% during the same period, according to research firm Strategy Analytics. Huawei Technologies and Lenovo shipped 13.4 million and 13.3 million units, respectively, each accounting for a 4.7% global market share, according to the data.


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The Relationship of the Bialystok Jews to the Russian Regime
Translated by Gloria Berkenstat Freund
During the entire time of their history under the rule of BRANICKI, Bialystok Jews were far from all of the external political movements and their influences because their only leader and protector was the liberal BRANICKI who had Bialystok in his possession. The political conditions for Bialystok Jews were in his hands. The Bialystok Jews had very little direct contact with the Polish regime; their representative in relation to it was Hetman [political title given to military commanders] BRANICKI.
During the short 12-year tyrannical regime of Prussia, the Bialystok Jews were degraded by its statutes to the level of the foreign, the enslaved, the subjugated; from then on they had to worry about their own means of existence. And naturally they were very distant from the state politics. As we saw, there was not one Jewish representative from the Bialystok department at the Kleszczewer meeting.
However, the Bialystok Jews breathed freely when Bialystok went over to the Russian state and Aleksander I assured the Bialystok population with his manifesto that the Bialystok residents would maintain their rights and privileges. [They felt] from that day on free subjects with all the remaining Russian Jews under the powerful, great, liberal Russian monarch who was considered a friend of the Jews by all of the Russian Jews. However, it immediately became clear that because they were included in the district of the Russian Empire, they lost the civil rights they had had as Jews in a Polish district and all laws and evil decrees were applied to them equally as to the Russian Jews. Their joy was deflated and dashed.
Meanwhile, Bialystok became the border city between Russia and Poland and it opened the gates of the richer Russian state for Bialystok Jewish merchants. And they began to carry out a large export business across both nearby Prussian borders Grajewo and Wincenta, near Kolna. Therefore, we found that several respected Jews then entered the executive division of the Russian government in Bialystok county as political agents.
There were two Jewish deputies during the years 1812-1813 in the main districts of the Russian Army that penetrated into Western Europe:
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Zindl ZANENBERG from Grodno and Eliezer DILON from Neswiz [Nesvizh, Ukraine]. It seems these community workers played a double role: Firstly, they were large contractors; secondly, they were Jewish intercessors who needed to be of help with the needs of Jews before the Kaiser and highly placed men of importance.[12] However, the Bialystok Jews were not contractors, nor Jewish intercessors, but they were Russian diplomatic agents. The names Zelig PERSZIC (apparently the grandfather of Skharye FREIDENTAL, the later well-known Jewish rich man and donor in Moscow, who was the father-in-law of Shoshona PERSZIC, the current well-known publisher of Amnot [Fine Arts] and great Tarbot worker in Eretz-Yisroel), and still others whose names are unknown are remembered as diplomatic agents of the Bialystok Jews. This is also presented in the archive[13] of that time that SZCZEDRININ, the leader of the Bialystok county, announced to the minister on the 29th of April and the 6th of May 1812 that he had sent abroad the Bialystok Jew, Dovid WALLACH, for state reasons.[14]
Hirsh HAJLPERIN, a Bialystok Jewish merchant, was then attracted to service in the Russian state by the former Senator and then leader of Bialystok named GELIS, who considered [HAJLPERN] to be a very capable government man and prevailed upon him to discard his businesses and devote himself to service to the Russian state.
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The Evil Cantonist Decree
Translated by Gloria Berkenstat Freund
When Nikolai I, Aleksander's brother, ascended the Czarist throne, a very bitter time for Jews in Russia began. The era of Nikolai I (1825-1855) belongs to the darkest in Jewish history, mainly because of the Cantonist Decree. On the 26th of August 1827, he issued the cruel recruiting law that had a very bad, actually a destructive effect, on the life of the individual and on the community at large. Jews were completely free of military service under the Polish regime. No general personal military duty existed in Poland. Military service was a privilege for the Polish nobility and compulsory for the peasantry, the property of the nobility. All Jews were considered as the merchant class and, therefore, were free from military service. For this the Jews had to pay 500 rubles for each recruit who would have been taken, according to the orders of September 1794 and January 1796.
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According to the state order that was promulgated on the 26th of August 1827 (5587), the Jewish kehile [organized community] had to fill the debt of military service with people, not with money. According to the 34th paragraph of military service and according to the supplement to the 37th, the kehile had the right to provide as a recruit each Jew at that time [punishable] for irregular payment of taxes, for roving (for being a vagrant), for not having a passport and for other disorders that the kehile did not have to tolerate. This statute was a terrible means in the hands of the influential people to provide whoever they wished for military service. And although according to the government law of 1827, the kehile was obliged to maintain books that showed the rank of the recruit, books in which all candidates for recruitment should be entered in a certain order, as a result of which there would have been a just division for military service among all of the classes, the kehile actually did not observe it in order to take care of the children of the rich and aristocratic families.
Since these recruit books were not in order, the government demanded of the Jews more recruits than were justified based on the size of the Jewish population. This caused the kehile in 1850 to begin to take all young men as recruits and even small children as well as old people and, in accordance with the law of 1853, even those from other communities. The rich would ransom themselves from military service with the recruit receipts, which cost 300 rubles.
Military service then amounted to 25 years, beginning at 25 years of age. The government would send away those young children who were caught to the Russian villages, to the peasants, to be raised and the older children were placed in, what were referred to as, Cantonist schools in order to convert them.
The most bitter of the cruel laws for Jews that Nikolai I issued and which places him in the ranks of the greatest enemies of the Jewish people was the ukase about military service for Jews that had a particularly hideous and ruthless purpose for them: conversion. The evil ukase was issued as a result of the report and the project of Nikolai's right hand, the leader of the secret police, Benckendorff, who had two purposes for taking the Jewish young for military service: first, decrease the number of Jews in general and secondly, force the Jews to convert. According to this ukase, Jews aged 12 to 25 should be taken as soldiers and child-recruits should be held in Cantonist institutions until their 18th year.
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The institutions for Cantonists had been founded in the year 1725, [in the time of] Peter the Great. Children who were born to soldiers were all considered as Cantonists. Cantonist battalions were in Novgorad, Smolensk, Woroniec, Troitsk, Uralsk, Omsk, Petrovsk, Tobolsk, Krasnoyarsk, Irkutsk and Semipalatinsk. If there was no place for them in the battalion, the children were given to the peasants or artisans to work. It was worse for them there than in the battalions.
The kehile was responsible for presenting the required number of recruits, declaring that denouncers who revealed the hidden young Jews would receive 100 rubles a head as a reward.
This terrible edict touched only the poor class of children. They were not taken from the wealthy and powerful. It stands the hair on end when one reads the descriptions of the cruel deeds that were done by the Jewish snatchers employed by the kehile who would steal away small, weak, trembling children from their mothers. In certain cases children of only 5-6 years of age. The children would be deported to the Siberian Cantonist battalions, where they would be forced to convert by frightening persecutions and torture. The children would die by the thousands on the way to Siberia or in the barracks for the young Cantonists. The edict was regularly strengthened; up to 36 decrees were issued until the year 1855. The most ruthless decrees concerned catching Jews without passports and taking double the number of recruits as a punishment for holding out recruits. The Jews had to provide double the number of recruits than the Christians. The heads of the kehilus also had the right to provide as soldiers everyone whom they found sinful and who did not find favor with them. They would also catch Jews from other kehilus to cover the number from their kehilus.
In 1856, Aleksander II repealed the edict permitting the taking of children up to 18 as soldiers, that is, the actual Cantonist edict. But the edicts concerning the responsibilities of the kehile for providing the demanded number of recruits remained in effect and because of this the sorrowful well known snatchers, denouncers and Sborshchikes [collectors] continued to rampage until the year 1874.
According to the figures that are known for the years 1833-1854, it is calculated that approximately 70,000 Jewish children fell as victims of the Cantonist edict.
The Jewish soldiers having served 25 years did not have the right in Nikolai's time to remain living in their places in deep Russia, but they were sent back to their birthplaces. But in Alek-
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sander II's time, in 1867, they were given this right. And later, almost all of the Jewish kehilus consisted of these veteran Nikolayver soldiers in the city of that area of Russia where Jews were prohibited to live.[27] In Poland, the Russian regime first brought in military service in 1844 with less harsh regulations.
Bialystok and the Evil Cantonist Decree
Translated by Gloria Berkenstat Freund
In Bialystok, military service created the greatest distress in the Jewish families. The Bialystok wives gave religious divorces to their husbands who were taken as recruits. The general-governor inquired about two such cases, asking whether such divorces were genuine. He asked the War Minister about it. The matter was forwarded for a decision by the Minister's Jewish Committee, which replied that if the rabbis acknowledge that the divorces are legal according to religious law, then they are lawful for the government and the divorced wives can be struck from the list of the battalion wives.
The first case involved a certain Yankl Gelbart from Bialystok, who was taken as a recruit. His wife, Dwoyra, at first agreed and went with him. But in Grodno, she had regrets and received a religious divorce from him at the Grodno beis-din [religious court] and came back and married a certain Leib Roczan in Bialystok. The Bialystok kehile was afraid to erase the divorced wife from the list of the military wives on its own responsibility, until it received permission from the general-governor.
Another case took place in Bialystok with a second woman who did not want to follow her husband, a recruit, to the city where his regiment was stationed. Bialystok police turned to the general-governor with a question, asking if the woman could be sent, despite her opposition, to her husband along with a procession of convicts. The matter was sent to Constantyn Pawlowitch (Nikolai's brother) and he answered that because of her hostility, the woman could not be sent.[28]
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The veteran Nikolai soldiers as well as the small number of Cantonists who remained Jews and returned to Bialystok were not treated with respect. They received the respect that was coming to them as Jews who resisted the greatest temptations and remained Jews. They sacrificed for the glory of God with this, but living for so many years among gentiles, separated entirely from Jews and Yidishkeit [Jewish way of life], they became very ignorant. They could not even speak Yiddish well.[29] Consequently, a Nikolai soldier was a curse word among Bialystok Jews. They had absolutely no esteem in the prayer houses and minyonim [10 men required for prayer].
Therefore they came together and themselves created their own soldier's minyon with the name Mesilat Yesharim [Path of the Just]. There they would study between Minkhah and Maariv [afternoon and evening prayers] every day and Shabbos and holidays with a rabbi. The minyon still exists today with their children on Koluszinka (Yeshiva) Street number 26 in the small private residence of a friend.
They have a Pinkes [book of records or register], Registry of Military Men and Map of Where They Lived in Bialystok, 5631 (1871). There is a beautiful drawing on the title page of a golden crown supported by guns and a lion with other animals. There are also many precepts whose purpose was to motivate the members to go in the way of rectitude (righteousness) and would uphold the Jewish religion, innocence and honesty. They should also have love of friends, they should not come to quarrels, should support each other with interest-free loans and visit and care for sick members. The aliyahs [the act of being called up for the reading of a section of the Torah] for the weekly Torah portions Beshalach and Chukat belong to the members. Each member is obligated to give five guldn weekly to the group treasury. The language of the Pinkes is a very beautiful Hebrew, but it is a shame that the author of the Pinkes did not provide something about its history instead of florid language. As I was told by a member, there were several Cantonists among the members his father was also a Cantonist.
Military service was despised among the Jews in Russia because of this. For a certain time one could be freed [from service] during the era of Aleksander with money. All of the rich children were freed with [the payment of] money. And for others, rabbis collected money for the ransom of prisoners and also to free poor, genteel children. Other remedies were used, also not legal. Even
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causing oneself to be crippled, so as not to serve. They would bribe members of the conscription commission because one was not obliged to serve a state in which Jews did not receive any rights as citizens and persecuted them with various restrictions; according to Jewish law it was a predatory regime. However, there were Jewish denouncers who would reveal all of this to the authorities if the kehile or those freed did not give them hush money. These denouncers were a plague on the Bialystok Jews.
The rabbis and community workers of that time groundlessly blamed the heads of the kehile for not standing against the Cantonist edicts, the snatchers and the denouncers. This was an impossibility, as with the Spanish Jews who in their time could not oppose a Torquemada. Nikolai I was a similar type a tyrant, a foe of the Jewish people and a sadist. Converting Jews was a task of a lifetime for him, an idée fixe. The Russian Jews did everything possible to turn aside the edict, with taxes of great sums for all of their confidants ministers, senators, high officials. One senator received 20,000 ducats and Count Mordvinov, 100,000 rubles, just for staying quiet. But nothing helped, the tyrannical czar personally employed all means to convert the Jewish Cantonists.
It is worthwhile to present a case of Kiddish-haShem [Sanctification of God's name martyrdom] exhibited by the secret practitioners of Judaism. Several hundred Jewish child Cantonists were led out to the Volga [River] during a military parade before Nikolai in Kazakh [Kazakhstan], and spirituality in full parade awaited the Czar at the conversion ceremony. When he arrived, the Czar told the children to enter the river to immerse themselves to change their names. The children fulfilled his order. But according to an earlier agreed upon decision they all drowned themselves. Nikolai reached for his head with terror.
The rabbis could do nothing against the snatchers, the influential people, the leaders of the kehile; if they [the rabbis] had been pointed out as at troublemakers they would have felt the czar's ukase and they would all have been sent to Siberia for hard labor (see further Reb Lipele's biography). Still, many rabbis showed self-sacrifice by rescuing poor Jewish children from their hands, such as Reb Elihu Drecziner, Reb Yankele Boysker, Reb Elinke Lider, Reb Yakov Berlin[30] and Reb Lipele in Keidan. They would sentence informers to death according the law in The Breastplate of Judgment and this judgment on them was carried out, as was shown in the story of The New-Uszicer Judgment that for killing two Jewish informers, 70 esteemed Jews were sentenced to penal servitude, lashes with a riding crop and losing their possessions, among them rabbis (among them, the Ruzshiner Rebbe, who then escaped to Austria).[31]
Yankl Dawidowicz WALLACH is also remembered among the esteemed Jews of Bialystok who made a special payment for being able to wear a yarmulke [skull cap] and Jewish clothing, that he was the diplomatic emissary of generous men abroad. His grandsons, whom I knew here, among them the Ruzhanoyer Rabbi, Reb Shabsil WALLACH, who was considered a Talmudic sage, were traditional Jews but it appears that Dovid WALLACH was a very capable person as was his grandson Meir WALLACH-LITVINOV and here was fulfilled: haTorah mekhazeres al akhsanya shelah [The Torah returns to be hereditary in the family.]. Return
Yankl Dawidowicz WALLACH is also remembered among the esteemed Jews of Bialystok who made a special payment for being able to wear a yarmulke [skull cap] and Jewish clothing, that he was the diplomatic emissary of generous men abroad. His grandsons, whom I knew here, among them the Ruzhanoyer Rabbi, Reb Shabsil WALLACH, who was considered a Talmudic sage, were traditional Jews but it appears that Dovid WALLACH was a very capable person as was his grandson Meir WALLACH-LITVINOV and here was fulfilled: haTorah mekhazeres al akhsanya shelah [The Torah returns to be hereditary in the family.]. Return
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By American Forces Press ServiceDecember 22, 2006
WASHINGTON, (Army News Service, Dec. 22, 2006) -- Elmo and the characters of Sesame Street are going to give Americans a chance to see what military families go through when their loved ones deploy to war zones.
Sesame Street will air "When Parents Are Deployed" on most Public Broadcasting System stations Dec. 27. Armed Forces Network stations will air the special in January.
"The special focuses on giving people an understanding of the sacrifices servicemembers' families make in a deployment," said Barbara Goodno, a senior program analyst with the Pentagon's Office of Family Policy.
Elmo, the fuzzy red puppet who is perpetually three years old, is the star of the program. Viewers see the deployment through his eyes.
"When Parents Are Deployed" may have puppets, but it's a program parents and older siblings can watch, too, said Leslye Arsht, under secretary for military community and family policy. "Elmo is someone with whom people of all ages can relate."
Arsht said the producers listened to family and expert feedback to ensure the program meets families' needs.
The special is an outgrowth of a DVD entitled "Talk, Listen, Connect: Helping Families Cope with Military Deployment." Sesame Street released that DVD in July, and it is available in both English and Spanish versions.
In that program, Elmo's father has to be away from home for a while, and the whole family needs to find ways to adjust during his absence. Wal-Mart and other sponsors provided the funding to distribute the DVD and an accompanying booklet to schools, childcare centers and military family support centers.
The DVD set and television program capture the many emotions associated with deployments-the fears and worries before departure, the loneliness and concern while a loved one is away and the anxiety often associated with reunion, Arsht said.
The Defense Department has made tremendous strides in providing resources for military families, Arsht said.
"DoD has many support systems to support good physical, emotional, spiritual, educational and social health," she said.
On installations, these services center around family support centers. These centers provide a network for families and offer information and education programs to assist with tasks of daily living, Arsht said.
DoD conducted research that shows the key elements to coping with deployment stresses are communication, outreach, information resources and access to unit leadership, Arsht said.
One of the most popular resources available for families is Military OneSource. Troops and families can get help or information by visiting the Military OneSource Web site or calling, toll free, 1-800-342-9647.
Military OneSource provides counseling or information to servicemembers and families at no charge, and it runs the gamut from child care to personal finances to emotional support during deployments. It also provides relocation advice or helps set up resources for special circumstances. It is open 24-7.
Access to this type of support is particularly important for family members of deployed reserve component personnel, Arsht said.
Another important resource is Military Homefront. This official DoD Web site offers reliable quality of life information tailored for three specific groups: servicemembers and families, leaders and service providers.


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About the Book
Martial arts, magic, demons and science
The forces of Hell are poised to strike . . .
When Emma's relatives come to visit her, they are totally freaked out by what they learn . . . Emma's beloved, John Chen, is a 3,000-year-old Chinese god. Not only that, John is becoming weaker by the day. Demons pursue him relentlessly, hoping to use Emma and his child, Simone, as bargaining tools against him.
Emma battles to defend Simone as John's energy is drained by the effort of both living in the mortal world and protecting them. While Emma is nagged by doubts about her own nature, she must find the courage to go on . . .
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Critical Praise
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"The third book of the trilogy delivers the same dialogue-driven action as the first two books... The showdown at the end of the book is not to be missed." — Library Thing
"[The Dark Heavens trilogy] is impossible to put down... you're missing out if you don't rush out and get them." — Lunch.com
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NEW YORK -- Matt Duffy spent Thursday morning doing the same thing most baseball fans were doing, but with a twist. Duffy and Jarrett Parker had been told not to get on Double-A Richmond's bus to Altoona, Pa., and both thought they were getting traded. After a few hours of reading trade rumors on Twitter, Duffy gave up.
"I got tired of thinking about it and took a nap," he said, smiling.
Shortly after the trade deadline, assistant general manager Bobby Evans called Duffy and Parker separately to tell them they had not been traded. Both were headed to the big leagues after the Giants decided Dan Uggla and Tyler Colvin would be designated for assignment.
"It was a huge shock," Parker said. "But I'm super-excited. My dad didn't understand what I was telling him. He thought I was getting traded."
Parker's mom was with him Thursday and both Virginia-based parents are now at Citi Field. Duffy's parents, sister and uncle flew to New York from Long Beach and arrived in time to see the second baseman penciled into the second spot in the Giants lineup.
Manager Bruce Bochy said Duffy would platoon with Joe Panik at second base and back up Brandon Crawford and Pablo Sandoval. Parker can play all three outfield positions but will primarily be used as a left-handed power bat off the bench until Angel Pagan and Brandon Belt return to the lineup.
Duffy has moved quickly, going from Low-A Augusta to the big leagues in just over a year. Parker has been slowed by strikeout issues, but is red hot and remains an intriguing prospect. General manager Brian Sabean said this isn't a sign that the Giants are already thinking about the future. They just needed fresh blood after a 1-5 homestand and a trade deadline that failed to bring the right deal.
"If you can't do anything from the outside, you have to turn internally, and that's exactly what we're doing," Sabean said. "There are times you try to win and develop at the same time."
Duffy, 23, hit .332 in the pitcher-friendly Eastern League. Sabean said the slender infielder has a "base-hit bat."
"There are not many guys in any organization who can hit .330 in the Eastern League," Sabean said.
Duffy said he was held up in the low minors because he spent too much time thinking about mechanics. Now it's "see the ball, hit it hard," he said. That strategy and a discerning eye at the plate have him up in the big leagues far sooner than he expected.
"If you would have told me last year that I would be here, I wouldn't have believed you," he said. "I definitely worked hard, but I wasn't expecting this to happen this fast. There were a lot of scenarios (going through my head yesterday), whether I'd be traded or if Parker and I would have to drive to Altoona. A lot of things crossed my mind, but this was not one of them."
Duffy had two at-bats in big league camp this spring but didn't get a chance make much of an impression. Parker did, hitting a monstrous grand slam on the final day of Cactus League play. The 25-year-old earned a promotion by hitting .330 in July with five homers, five doubles and 16 RBIs.
"He's got the tools," Sabean said. "He's a borderline five-tool player."
While Parker was surprised that the call came Thursday, he's not surprised by his recent success. He said he has worked hard to limit his strikeouts and improve his focus and mental toughness at the plate.
"I've always been a late bloomer," he said. "I'm just trying to drive the baseball and win games every time I go out there."
"There" is now the big leagues for both young position players. That means they're spending the weekend at a swanky Manhattan hotel.
"It's not the Super 8 in Altoona," Parker said.
When told that Parker wasn't a big fan of that particular stop on the Double-A schedule, Duffy cringed and nodded his head.
"It smells like a casino," he said. "It's rough."
For more on the Giants, see Alex Pavlovic's Giants Extra blog at blogs.mercurynews.com/Giants. Follow him on Twitter at twitter.com/AlexPavlovic.


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Officer recovering after subduing Vt. prisoner
Prisoner kicked out window of transport
A Rutland County Sheriff's deputy is recovering from injuries suffered while subduing a prisoner attempting to escape.
Sheriff Stephen Bernard says Lt. Frank Wilk will be out of work for several weeks after suffering badly bruised ribs.
The Rutland Herald reports Wilk had just arrived at the Rutland jail Monday with four prisoners in a transport van when one of them kicked out a window and tried to run for it.
Wilk caught up with 21-year-old Kelley Staples Jr., whose hands and feet were shackled. Bernard said Staples may have slipped one of his hands out of the restraints before he escaped.
Staples was arrested on 10 outstanding warrant for charges ranging from arson to possession of stolen items.
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Omar Infante (shin) is not in the Tigers' lineup Saturday.
Miguel Cabrera went 4-for-5 with a home run and two RBI to lead the Tigers to a 9-4 victory over the Twins on Wednesday.
Manny Machado went 4-for-6 with a homer and four total RBI to lead the Orioles over the Nationals 10-8 on Wednesday.
Daniel Murphy went 3-for-5 with a grand slam and five RBI against the Orioles on Wednesday.
Matt Shoemaker didn't have his strikeout stuff working but managed to cobble together six shutout innings in the Angels' 8-2 victory over the Blue Jays.
Andrew Benintendi will undergo an MRI on his left leg Thursday.
Marlins acquired OF Jeff Francoeur from the Braves as part of a three-team trade.
Marlins manager Don Mattingly said that Jose Fernandez suffered a cramp in Wednesday's game against the Royals.
Jay Bruce was lifted from Wednesday's game against the Cardinals due to a right calf cramp.
Gary Sanchez went 2-for-4 with a solo home run in Wednesday's 5-0 win over the Mariners.
Nelson Cruz left Wednesday's game against the Yankees due to back spasms.
Masahiro Tanaka delivered seven shutout innings Wednesday in the Yankees' 5-0 blanking of the Mariners.


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As tea party candidates lost to more mainstream Republicans in states from Georgia to Kentucky to Oregon in recent weeks, a critical question has emerged regarding the California GOP.
Will it resist this wave of moderation?
Most polls in California -- among the truest blue states -- have shown tea party favorite Tim Donnelly ahead of more-moderate and better-funded Republican Neel Kashkari in the runup to Tuesday's primary. The winner will take on Democratic Gov. Jerry Brown, who undoubtedly will place No. 1 in the "top-two" primary, in November's general election.
Donnelly's red-meat credentials are clear: He's a former Minuteman anti-illegal-immigration activist, staunch gun-rights supporter and self-described "patriot, not politician" who made a name for himself in the Assembly by rising -- often alone -- to speak against most Democratic bills.
Kashkari, a former U.S. Treasury Department official campaigning as a fiscal conservative but demonstrably more moderate on issues such as gun rights, abortion and same-sex marriage, talks in his stump speech about wanting to be the face of a stronger, more inclusive GOP. But while his recent ad blitz, funded largely with $2 million of his own money, has pushed him closer, only the very latest poll, released Sunday by the L.A. Times, has showed him surpassing Donnelly -- and even then his five-point lead was within the poll's margin of error.
Their battle has divided even the traditionally more moderate Republicans of the Bay Area, with each camp believing their candidate puts the party's best foot forward. And thatcould be a bad omen for a California Republican resurgence, said Larry Sabato, director of the University of Virginia Center for Politics.
"In some states the learning curve for Republicans is flat, and California may be one of them," he said, adding that even picking Kashkari over Donnelly "is barely a nudge in the direction of what they have to do" to become truly competitive again.
"They have to repudiate large parts of the national platform" on issues from immigration to gay marriage, Sabato said. "They cannot run on those positions any more and even expect to get out of the starting gate. ... If you want to win elections, you have to reflect the electorate whether you like it or not. You cannot insult people and expect them to vote for you."
California Republican Party Chairman Jim Brulte said as much at the party's convention in March in Burlingame. "This is a party that, whether we like it or not, has been in decline for two decades in this state," he said, adding that it's time to get back to basics by "grinding it out on the ground" in local races, where elections are won by candidates who look and sound most like -- and share the values and experiences of -- local voters. "We have to get outside our comfort zones and go talk to people who aren't on our team right now."
Brulte gets it, as do national GOP leaders, Sabato said last week, before the L.A. Times poll was released.
"But either the base doesn't get it at all, or they get it but don't care," he said, adding that it comes down to a choice of "be pure and lose, or compromise and win."
And if you want to know where the former path leads, Sabato said, you could ask a member of the Whig party -- had they not gone the way of the dodo, their party torn apart in the 1850s by dissension over whether to support slavery.
For Nina Pellegrini, it's about basic conservative values. The 70-year-old Cuban immigrant and tea party member said she's "all for liberty and freedom that I think is lacking in this country and especially in California."
Donnelly, she said, "is honest, and that's what I'm looking for" -- so much so that she hosted him for a fundraiser Saturday at her family's Montara home.
"He talks to us directly with no subterfuge," she said, adding that Kashkari seems more politically motivated. "We don't feel he (Donnelly) is doing it just because he wants to get elected."
But Sue Caro, chairwoman of the Alameda County Republican Party, said she'd rather take her chances with Kashkari as a path toward the GOP's future.
"In our hearts a lot of conservatives agree with what Donnelly says," said Caro, 65, of Oakland, but many can't reconcile that with his actions, from shrugging off his 2012 conviction for trying to carry a loaded gun through Ontario Airport security -- for which he's still on probation -- to his insinuations trying to link Kashkari to Islamic Sharia law.
"If he gets the nomination, other Republicans all over the state are going to have to not be seen with him," Caro said. "He's throwing a monkey wrench into the works, as far as I'm concerned."
Donnelly's popularity is also an indication that the tea party is not completely fading on a national level. The movement's favored candidates fared well in Texas' GOP primaries for several statewide offices, including lieutenant governor and attorney general. Another beat 91-year-old Rep. Ralph Hall, R-Texas, who after 17 terms is the oldest-ever member of the House.
Jack Pitney, a Claremont McKenna College professor and political expert, noted that no Democrat is even in the race for Hall's seat -- the only choices are conservative and even more conservative. So Texas voters know they're picking a Republican winner, where their California counterparts are often choosing a preferred sacrificial lamb.
Republicans voting in California's statewide races "get to express their passion without worrying they'll blow an otherwise winnable election because it's not winnable to begin with," Pitney said.
"Most voters just don't think in terms of long-term political strategy," he said, adding that the only way to break the cycle is to "build up the party at the grass roots. Eventually you get a better farm club, and four years from now you might have better candidates seeking the governorship."
Josh Richman covers politics. Contact him at 510-208-6428. Follow him at Twitter.com/josh_richman. Read the Political Blotter at IBAbuzz.com/politics.


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Analysis Paralysis: How the Mobile Industry Makes Us Choose Nothing
There are some products — a Big Mac, an Apple MacBook — where the price is exactly what it says on the sticker, and you won't find much variation by shopping around or looking for an online discount. Then there are others, like flights or hotel rooms, where the price is a murky moving target, but online comparison systems let you choose between the best offers.
And then there are wireless plans, which seem to contain the worst of both worlds. Between the big four cellular operators, there are hundreds of possible plans and price points, and it's virtually impossible to get a clear, simple comparison of all of them.
Erin Riordan, a mother of five in Naperville, Ill., who pays a total of $495 a month at AT&T for her family's mobile plans, summed the process up nicely in a WSJ story this week: "I consider myself to be pretty educated, but it makes me want to stick a fork in my eye."
If we can avert just one incident of cutlery plunging into eyeballs, consider our journalistic mission accomplished. The WSJ has spent the last few months putting together a tool that lets customers compare plans from the big four carriers, based on four simple steps: How many lines you need, how many voice calls and text messages per month, and how much mobile internet data you're likely to consume.
The result: The WSJ's Wireless Savings Calculator, which does exactly what you hope it would. Once you've had a play with it, see below — Corporate Intelligence spoke with Scott Austin, the WSJ editor who led the effort in putting it together.
This took a long time to put together — why was that?
We started working on the project about three months ago. It took much longer than we expected because of the number of permutations on all the plans. We were startled to find about 700 combinations of smartphone plans from the four top carriers, AT&T, Sprint, T-Mobile and Verizon. Then we had take all those combinations and compare them all, writing the logic so that our calculator would only show the cheapest plans from each carrier based on your preferences.
During process, Sprint added a whole new set of plans, many of which are now cheaper than its previous options. That set us back some more.
Originally we tried to include feature phone plans and prepaid plans, but that would have taken us many more months, and the majority of people now use smartphones. If you want to make it simple to understand, you have to stop somewhere.
So we stopped at only the big national plans — we have left out deals from regional operators. And we left out the prepaid plans, and the offers that come with feature phones, because those are dying out. We stuck to smartphones.
Why do you think there are so many different plans, and it's so hard to compare them?
It's confusing by design. If everything was so transparent, people would more easily switch between carriers. When things are so complicated, people feel trapped. These carriers want to keep their customers for as long as possible, they don't want them leaving.
My Verizon phone contract expired a few months ago, and I went through my own personal hell trying to figure out what I would do next. None of the plans match across carriers, and in the end I stuck with Verizon partly because I didn't want to spend the time to figure it out.
And it works, right? Not a lot of people end up switching.
Exactly. Even with all of the competition out there, only about 1% of customers leave AT&T and Verizon each month, and about 2% at Sprint and T-Mobile. While you see a lot of advertising, it's a small pool of customers who are ready to actually change over.
There's an idea that too many choices lead to analysis paralysis. Choice is supposed to be good, it's the root of a free market. But as [Columbia Business School Professor] Sheena Iyegar said in a TED Talk, when presented with too many choices, "We choose not to choose even if it goes against our self interest."
See also:
WSJ's Wireless Savings Calculator
Inside the Phone-Plan Pricing Puzzle – WSJ
Good Luck Leaving Your Wireless Phone Plan – WSJ
Are Wireless Prepaid Plans Best? - WSJ


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CORPUS CHRISTI – The Texas A&M - Corpus Christi Women's Cross Country team moved up two spots in the NCAA South Central Regional poll today to break into the top 10. The men's team maintained its spot in sixth place and second in the Southland behind Lamar, who the Islanders will face Friday at the Rice Invitational.
"The Rice meet will be a very good one with most of the top 10 men's teams there as well as over half of the women's top 10 teams," Head Coach Shawn Flanagan said. "So while I think the rankings are well deserved we will be put to the test on Friday to make sure they are deserved."
Both Islanders squads had the weekend off from competition but the women's team moved up two spots to No. 9 from last week's ranking. The Islanders hold the top spot in the Southland with Stephen F. Austin (No. 10), Sam Houston State (No. 11) and Lamar (No. 12) all sitting behind the Islanders in the regional poll.
The men's team stayed strong, holding the sixth spot in the South Central Regional poll and sit in second place in the Southland. The Islanders are behind six-time Southland Conference champion Lamar (No. 4), but sit ahead of McNeese State (No. 7) and Stephen F. Austin (No. 9).
In the Islanders first meet of the season on Fri., Aug. 31, both teams swept the top spots for the second straight year at the Rio Grande Valley Classic. The Islanders men's team sealed the top four spots while the women's team took the top three against Texas - Pan American.
The Islanders will next be in action on Fri., Sept. 14, in Houston, Texas, at the Rice Invite.
For the latest information, follow Islanders Cross Country on Twitter (@IslandersTFXC) and Facebook (Texas A&M Corpus Christi Track & Field/Cross Country).
Women's USTFCCCA South Central Regional Rankings:
1. Arkansas, 2. Texas, 3. Texas A&M, 4. Baylor, 5. SMU, 6. UTSA, 7. TCU, 8. Rice, 9. Texas A&M - Corpus Christi, 10. Stephen F. Austin, 11. Sam Houston State, 12. Lamar, 13. Arkansas State, 14. UT Arlington, 15. Ark.-Little Rock
Men's USTFCCCA South Central Regional Rankings:
1. Texas, 2. Texas A&M, 3. Arkansas, 4. Lamar, 5. Rice, 6. Texas A&M - Corpus Christi, 7. McNeese State, 8. UTSA, 9. Stephen F. Austin, 10. Houston, 11. Ark.-Little Rock, 12. UTPA, 13. Baylor, 14. LSU, 15. Houston Baptist


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News 12 at 11 o'clock / Friday, April 26, 2013
COLUMBIA COUNTY, Ga. (WRDW) -- More than 60,000 children are treated in emergency rooms each year for accidental medication poisoning. That's why two groups are coming together Saturday to help you throw away expired or unused medicine. A retired local pharmacist says we should have been doing this years ago.
"Oh, everyone called you doc back in those days," that's how Dr. Haddon remembers the early days of his career.
Charles Haddon or "Buddy," as his friends call him, began his career in 1954 as a pharmacist in Atlanta. However, soon after he made the move to McDuffie County.
"Thompson -- 55 years," is how long Haddon said he lived there.
Haddon owned a pharmacy in Thomson until he retired, but he did experience something there he would never forget.
"In Thompson a policeman left out some aspirin and his child got a hold of it and died," Haddon told News 12.
That's how the Kohl's parking lot comes into play. On Saturday, April 27, the Columbia County Sheriff's office is partnering up for Operation Pill Drop.
They are asking parents, students and community members to come out and drop off expired or prescription pills they are not using anymore.
That's something Haddon wished they had back in his day. He told News 12 that people, "threw it down the toilet."
Even though he smiled as he said that, he says that's a pretty dangerous thing to do.
"It would get into the water system--streams--maybe the Savannah River even. It would dissolve and then re-circulate--hurt people that would take up the water," Haddon told News12.
That's something he definitely wouldn't recommend these days, but he does say it's good to check your medicine cabinet frequently.
"Every two or three months is good," Haddon said.
There are three different locations for you to use on Saturday:
For additional information or to find out other locations and dates, visit grhealth.org/safe.kids.


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Learn about what snow creates the best powder, what animal is leaving those tracks between the slopes and history of the area - all for free, during a day of skiing. Friends of the Dillon Ranger District is debuting its Ski with a Ranger program that kicks off today with free tours at Keystone Resort, Copper Mountain and Breckenridge Ski Resort.
The fleet of 12 volunteer rangers distributed at participating ski areas have special training in local ecology and will lead free tours through March 30.
Rangers take guests on one groomed, blue intermediate run while making stops at various educational stations along the way. There are six stops from the top of the run to the bottom that touch on topics like the White River National Forest, watersheds, wildlife and history.
Tours take place at 11 a.m. every Friday at Keystone and Breckenridge and Fridays and Saturdays at Copper Mountain. Tours at Copper were so popular that another day was added, said Sarah Slaton, program manager for Friends of the Dillon Ranger District.
The program is now in its fifth season, and the participation increases every year, Slaton said.
"We offer this tour for free because it so rewarding and educational - our mission statement is to educate and promote stewardship in the national forest and there's no more direct way to accomplish that than to connect with it in this way: Learn about it, see it, be in it and appreciate it," Slaton said. "This is as one-with-nature a person could be."
It's easy to participate, as no sign-up is required. Guests meet rangers at designated areas: At Keystone, visitors should meet at the top of the River Run Gondola; Breckenridge guests meet the rangers at the base of Peak 7, and Copper guests meet rangers at the top of the Timberline Lift.
Guests should have proper equipment, lift tickets and intermediate ability level.
The volunteer rangers are required to go through an all-day training session in which they learn about local history, ecology and snow science. They are trained to promote stewardship opportunities and engage the community at-large in the White River National Forest.
After the training, rangers pair up for outings and trade off leading the tours. For each resort, the tour is tailored to the unique history of each area.
Dan Schroder, a Colorado State University Extension agent and director, is a volunteer for the program. He is in his second season and got involved to become more engaged in educational outreach and to bolster the efforts of the Colorado State University Extension in Summit County.
"I found a lull in my winter and decided I could better serve my community if I was out engaging with recreators," he said.
At Breckenridge Ski Resort, where Schroder is a ranger, the tour explores how people came through the Blue River Valley as trappers and later as miners. The tour progresses, Schroder said, to the present day with a discussion on the emergence of the ski industry.
"The very first chairs at Breckenridge were one lift and one T-bar and that was the extent of it," he said.
Schroder said he enjoys promoting stewardship.
"I love where I live," he said. "I've been in the county for 12 years and I love what the area has to offer - this is a way to give back to that and ensure that our area stays pristine."
Schroder said being in nature brings an "innocence across the ages."
"The tour helps people slow down - I often try to engage all five senses," Schroder said. "I always tell people to just go for it and lick a tree."
And they do - most of the time, Schroder said.
"Why not? What the heck," he said. "That's my youthful approach to this tour."
"The amazing thing is the barriers and constraints that people live with every day are shaken off at the bottom of the hill when they put on their skis or snowboards," Schroder added. " "They're free of all of those things."


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Mariana Monteagudo's fake idols:
This is the beginning of a new stage in my work. I'm starting to investigate new materials such as hard latex and other synthetic derivatives, in a search that will certainly enrich my work and provide new languages or means of expression to my 10 years + career.
The work has been slowly unfolding a different spirit, more industrial, more hybrid, taking references from the memory of our generation.
Little heroes, versions of action figures, cartoon characters and Barbie dolls are the sources of inspiration. A look from the distance to the icons of our society, trying not to take them for granted, but showing a different side, sometimes dark and frightening.
The idea is that the viewer would be able to construct a sort of mental collage of associations derived from distinct territories and that he or she could feel familiar to as well as estranged by these images….Visual Arts2011
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Mariana Monteagudos´ solo Show
Narcissus´ Mirror
Being fragile and powerful, adopting zoomorphic variants, physical disabilities, and absolutely free styles and dressings, all these legions of beings seem to be loudly expressing a sentence. All of them summarize a mutability of character and destiny which is proportional to the mutability that defines contemporary society; at the same time that they seem to challenge mystery or place themselves ahead of an unknown or menacing circumstance, they lie unarmed and frightened….
…The freedom of choice in order to develop her own search leaded her to look through the unconscious, to be in search of her inner self, arriving at the end to a re-encounter with the toy figurine. Since that time, she has comfortably experimented and studied in depth the building of a personal language, that can be appreciated in the pieces that are exhibited.
The semantics, the meaning of each character´s dressing allows to decode a symbolism of archetypes that is confronted with standardized lines of faces and bodies, which are hieratic and vertical, resembling a column that supports big cheek faces, faces showing an exaggerated roundness and completely expressionless eyes without membranes. ¿Idols from an exiled olimpo? ¿Which is the essence of their ambiguities? ¿Could it be the symbolic representation of the dark emerging to the light?
Only the artist herself has given form to these beings; within their autonomy, they represent her production strategy. When she suggests some clues to decode them, she proposes us, too, to see beyond the realm of the inanimate world, and to glimpse an emotive expression in her need of showing herself, of recognizing herself in her creation. This narcissist impulse of being reflected, mirrored in her work, and of making clear its projections, is a "game" that clears up the conscious and the unconscious. This can be appreciated in the metaphor of the luminous and somber features of the characters. We could say that, in search of her own aspects at the artistic level, Mariana Monteagudo finds the certainties of a personal, precise and careful language, which is dense and structured. A Narcissus´ Mirror as work method.
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The Michael Margulies Artist Agency is pleased to present the group show "Local Crit," an analytical survey of multiple artists from the South Florida area.
Opening Reception: November 27th 2013
6pm - 10pm ( Show runs - January 21st 2014)
After opening viewing by appointment only
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Artists: Francie Bischop Good, Jen Stark, Jesse Laino, Carol Prusa, Jill Hotchkiss, Natalia Reparaz, Jessy Nite, Shelia Elias, Nicole Burko and Mariana Monteagudo.
Location: 300 SW 1st Ave Suite 1300 - Fort Lauderdale, FL 33301
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This time I wanted to make an interpretation of the power of beauty and femininity over others.
These goddesses, queens and princesses are at the top of their society.
They look over their shoulders and watch us from another dimension. They are powerful, magnetic, proud, coquette, dominant and they know how to cast their spell..
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Soho Studios
at The Wynwood Convention Center
2136 NW 1st Avenue
Miami, FL 33127 USA
6 – 9 December 2012
Open to the public: Thursday 6 from 14 to 20h.
Friday 7, Saturday 8 from 12 to 20h.
Sunday 9 from 12 to 19h.
Mariana Monteagudo is a Miami based Venezuelan artist who has been working her series of doll sculptures over the last decade. Her latex, ceramic and mixed-media dolls are intriguing and fascinating. Her artwork shows interest in a wide range of expressions , from the pre-Columbian aesthetics, to fashion , tv pop culture, Japanese manga and mass-market toys.
Muñecas (Dolls) is the generic term Monteagudo uses to describe her creations since 1998. With them, the artist has received important awards and exposure, and her pieces have been featured in solo and group shows and fairs in Madrid, Miami, Chicago, Aruba, Caracas, New York, Sao Paulo, and other venues. Her unusual characters have attracted the attention of many critics and her work is part of the MOLAA Museum in California, Everson Museum, NY, Cesar Gaviria Trujillo Collection, Colombia, among other contemporary art collectiions.
Selected solo and group Exhibitions:
2012 HUMANOID , Galería El Museo, Bogotá
2010 NARCISSUS MIRROR solo show, Galería el Museo,Bogota
2008 ARTEAMERICAS ART FAIR, Miami, USA
2008 CIRCA Art Fair 08, Puerto Rico, U.S.A.
2007 CIRCA Art Fair 07, Puerto Rico, U.S.A.
2007 ARTEAMERICAS ART FAIR, Miami, U.S.A.
2006 SELF PORTRAITS Galería el Museo, Bogotá.
2005 RECENT WORK AccessArt Gallery, Aruba.
2004 POP Dubhe Carreño Gallery, Chicago, U.S.A.
2004 SOLO SHOW, Galería Fernando Pradilla Madrid Spain
2002 SOLO SHOW, Galería el Museo, Bogotá, Colombia.
2002 ICONS IDOLS Sala Mendoza, Caracas.
2001 CREATURES Galería Fernando Pradilla Madrid, Spain.
Group Exhibitions
2012 SP arte / SAO PAULO ART FAIR, Sao Paulo, Brazil
2011 MEMORIA 10th anniversary exhibition, Galeria Fernando Pradilla, Madrid, Spain.
2010 Polimorfos Perversos, Galeria fernando Pardilla, Madrid, Spain.
210 Ellas Crean, Galeria Fernando Pradilla, Madrid, Spain
2009 ARTBO, art fair, Bogotá, Colombia
2008 SCOPE Art Fair Hamptons, New York, U.S.A.
2008 ART Rotterdam 08 Witzenhausen Gallery, Rotterdam Netherlands.
2005 ARCO art Fair, Gallery FernandoPradilla, Madrid, Spain
2004 TBA ART CHICAGO, Chicago Illinois, USA.
2004 ARCO ART FAIR 2004, Madrid Spain.
2003 8 TH HAVANNABIENALE 2003, la Habana, Cuba
2003 TBA ART CHICAGO, Chicago, Illinois, U.S.A.
2003 FERIA ARCO, Madrid, Spain.
Selected collections:
MOLAA Museum of Latin American Art, California, USA
Everson Museum Syracuse, New York, U.S.A.
Robert Loder Collection, Chairman of the Triangle Arts Trust, London England.
Pedro Muñoz Marín Collection, Puerto Rico, U.S.A.
César Gaviria Trujillo Collection , Colombia.
Magaly Cannizzaro de Capriles Collection, Caracas Venezuela.
Banco Mercantil, Caracas, Venezuela.
Colección Luís Gutiérrez Puerto Rico, USA.
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There is a historic home up Brush Creek Road near Sylvan Lake State Park Visitor Center that represents the past and future.
The house was built in 1936 and was ahead of its time for the area in terms of its design. With help from the Energy Smart program, it might soon be ahead of its time once again.
Energy Smart Colorado is aimed at stimulating jobs and the economy through energy savings. The program is funded by a $4.9 million federal grant and covers Eagle, Pitkin and Gunnison counties. It officially wrapped up its first year with a report that came out March 2.
"We may be on our one-year anniversary but we were working on it 24 months," said Yuri Kostick, a home energy advisor for Eagle County's Energy Smart team.
According to the numbers in the report, the program is accomplishing its goal.
Through Energy Smart, home energy assessments currently cost $50, but the price may soon increase.
"The market value for that is around $500," Kostick said.
Those assessments help people find how they can upgrade their homes to be safer and more energy efficient. Not only that, but when applicable, they come with direct installments of items such as programmable thermostats, 10 energy efficient light bulbs and more.
"According to the Department of Energy, just installing a programmable thermostat and 10 efficient light bulbs can have an annual energy savings of 10 percent if they are used correctly," Kostick said. "That's significant."
The light bulbs themselves cost about $3.50 at retail, Kostick said. Energy Smart gets them at cost.
The hope is that the assessments will lead to home energy improvements, which translates into more jobs for specially certified contractors such as Rusty Buick, who assessed the old house on Brush Creek last week. Even the assessments add up to more jobs.
Buick was a general contractor in the valley for 15 years before becoming certified as a Building Performance Institute (BPI) Energy Analyst and Residential Energy Services Network (RESNET) Energy Rater.
"Things slowed down in 2008, so I looked for additional ways to stay busy," he said. "I was certified about a year before Smart Energy started. The program increased my business 200 to 300 percent."
In addition to making home assessments more accessible and affordable, Smart Energy helps homeowners get in touch with BPI- and RESNET-certified contractors for making home improvements. More importantly, the program offers rebates up to $1,000 as further incentive.
The rebates are made possible by the grant and through partnerships with such entities as Holy Cross Energy and Source Gas.
There is also tuition assistance for contractors looking to become certified for these jobs. Colorado Mountain College and Western State College help with most of that assistance.
Eagle County's Energy Resource Center (ERC) started with five energy raters and signed on six more.
The bottom line is that the program is accomplishing its goal of making a positive economic impact all across the board.
In Energy Smart's yearly report, $258,780 was spent on assessments and direct installments; $776,910 was spent on home improvements; and annual energy cost savings amounted to $171,565. The total economic impact is $1,207,255.
The process for a home energy assessment begins when a homeowner signs up by visiting the website at http://energysmartcolorado.com or calling (970) 328-8777. An analyst calls within three days to schedule an appointment.
Buick said an assessment starts with safety checks for any combustion appliance.
"A lot of gas systems are not operating properly," he said. "People will run their furnace for 15 years without giving it much thought, so a home assessment is an opportunity to check it out."
Next is an inspection of the mechanical room, checking for proper pressurization. Without that, dangerous byproducts such as carbon monoxide could leak back into the house.
After the utility checks, the house is sealed, with all windows and outside doors closed. A fan is installed in one doorway to suck air out of the house. The amount of air going out of the house is equivalent to amount going into the house. That's when a person can literally feel air coming through the walls.
In the old Brush Creek home, air leaked in at corners where ceilings met the walls, through recessed lighting fixtures and all kinds of places that appeared to be sealed but weren't. So much air was coming up through the basement that it was hard to close the door, as if pushing it closed against a strong wind. Interestingly, the original windows from 1936 leaked less than windows made in the 1970s and '80s.
"It's crazy that a home of this quality would be in the middle of Eagle (in the 1930s)," Kostick said.
While the fan is sucking air out of the home (which in effect sucks air into the home through its "leaks"), a manometer is used to measure in cubic feet per minute how much the house leaks. An infrared camera is also used to observe and document where cold air is coming in.
On camera, the cold air appears in shades of blue and purple. It can be seen infiltrating the home from all directions: blue streaks moving in like ghostly snakes.
Calculating how well the house is sealed - it's good to have a certain amount of air leaks for proper ventilation - and where the leaks are, a report and recommendation are given by the assessor.
"This information helps a homeowner address how to fix it and how to fix it cost effectively," Kostick said.
For example, adding more insulation to an attic won't necessarily do the trick if it's not the right kind of insulation for the job and if it's not installed properly. That's why work eligible for rebates must be done by certified contractors.
The report and the recommendation is the time in an assessment when any direct installations is done. That is also the time when potential rebates are determined.
If a homeowner decides to follow up with a home improvement, Smart Energy can help him or her get in touch with a certified contractor from a registered directory. Some contractors like Buick do assessments and improvements while others only do one or the other.
Eagle County's ERC conducted 385 home energy assessments last year and a total of 219 home energy improvements were made. Of those, 209 of those resulted from the assessments and 10 from the rebates. That amounts to an assessment-to-job conversion rate of more than 54 percent.
A goal of the program is to demonstrate a 15 percent energy savings in participating homes in at least 10 percent of the existing houses through the three-year term of the grant. That translates as 4,100 units out of a total of 41,000 in all three counties.
Scott Shlosser, whose family now owns the Brush Creek home, said they considered scrapping it at first.
"Everybody said to tear it down," he said. "When we looked into the history, we decided it would be a bad thing to do."
The home was built by Al Boynton, who opened the first gas station and sporting goods store in Eagle. The property includes one of the first small hydro-electric units in the area, which Shlosser's family also wants to restore.
"The question is how to balance the historical aspect with upgrades," said Shlosser, who owns a building in Eagle that he recently upgraded for energy efficiency.
"The heat loss was tremendous and the improvements made a huge difference," he said.
The Energy Smart program is economically driven but the environment benefits as well.
If people are saving more money on energy bills, they are more likely to spend the extra dollars in their communities, and that's a byproduct of the money going into added jobs for contractors who might be out of work otherwise. And of course, energy efficiency is better for the environment.
"For every dollar you save on energy, you're also saving energy," Kostick said.
He said the program and incentives encourage spending on energy improvements at a time when people are inclined to hold onto their money.
"There's cash on the table for a limited time right now," Kostick said. "It's only available as long as it's available."


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Published: Wednesday, June 19, 2013 at 4:30 a.m.
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State lawmakers should fund worthy rural projects, such as a $300,000 grant to extend city water lines to Dana residents who have tainted well water, regardless of what they decide to do with the troubled N.C. Rural Economic Development Center.
Already targeted by budget-cutters in the N.C. Senate, the center came under new fire after the News & Observer of Raleigh on Saturday released an investigation into its activities. The report found the center has been wasting tax dollars and exaggerating its effectiveness.
The newspaper found that the center used millions in taxpayer money to help build fast-food restaurants, golf resorts and big-box retailers including Wal-Mart, while in some cases inflating estimates of jobs created by its activities. The report also said the center has accumulated more than $69 million that has gone unspent because of delayed projects or deals that went bust.
No wonder Republican Senate leaders have been seeking to zero out the states $16.6 million appropriation to the center and reorganize rural economic development efforts under the N.C. Department of Commerce.
Billy Ray Hall, director of the center, says the organization used state money to create 19,911 jobs in the past five years, claims he says can be proven through employment payroll records. But the News & Observers review found more than 950 jobs included in his count were from projects that havent yet begun.
The newspaper also found the center made a number of questionable loans with taxpayer funds. It spent $85,000 to help an electronic sweepstakes software company outfit a building in Greenville after lawmakers tried to shut the sweepstakes industry down. It granted $350,000 for water wells in La Grange, about an hour southeast of Raleigh, saying the infrastructure would generate 35 full-time jobs at a new restaurant. It turned out the restaurant was a Bojangles that had already hired workers and opened its doors the next week; the wells were drilled six years later to solve a major water-capacity problem in the town.
This all sounds like a bad joke, but these are the sorts of boondoggles GOP lawmakers railed against during the years when state government was under Democratic control. Now that Republicans control both houses and the governorship, their challenge is to cut waste without cutting funding for badly needed projects.
The $300,000 grant the Rural Center had planned to help extend city water lines to the Dana community is one such critical need. Two dozen families who live along Academy Road and Meadow Woods Drive are unable to drink their water due to chemicals from pesticides once used in the area that got into groundwater. The city of Hendersonville was counting on the state grant and other grants to fund an estimated $600,000 water-line extension.
The state House, Senate and governor must decide whether it makes sense to eliminate funding for the Rural Center and replace it with a new effort. Regardless, the state should fulfill the commitment to get clean water to Dana.
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- San Jose: Woman arrested, accused of trying to sneak poisoned OJ into Starbucks fridge
SAN JOSE -- A San Jose chemist who had been arrested on suspicion of attempted murder after allegedly trying to plant tainted orange juice at a Starbucks was released from jail without being charged Thursday.
Ramineh Behbehanian, 50, had been considered dangerous enough to be held without bail since her arrest Monday night, based on police reports. But the Santa Clara County District Attorney's Office is still investigating what was in the juice, if anything.
"We don't know what's contained in the orange juice, and we're doing a wide spectrum of tests,'' said Assistant District Attorney Karyn Sinunu-Towery. "We have to be careful with what we charge, and we can't go ahead without knowing what was it was.''
Prosecutors had until Thursday to formally charge her, but charges could come at a later time.
Outside her home Thursday night, she moved quickly from her attorney's BMW into her house without offering any comment to reporters camped outside.
But her lawyer, Dennis Lempert, said, "I am gratified that the DA is taking its time in analyzing the material found. There are no charges against her right now and with any luck there won't be.
"If it is in fact a poisonous drink, I am a little surprised that lab criminologists have not been able to analyze that in three days."
Witnesses claimed they saw Behbehanian trying to sneak two bottles filled with rubbing alcohol and orange juice into a display case at the Snell Avenue cafe.
A key issue in the case is exactly what was in those bottles and how lethal the mixture is. If the substance is not lethal, Behbehanian could be charged with a misdemeanor count of adultering food rather than felony attempted murder.
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The case has drawn national attention, partly because it involves the international coffee chain and because it touches on the vulnerability of the public to poisoning.
Behbehanian's background also is unusual. She's an experienced corporate chemist and pharmacist from South San Jose who at the time of her arrest was working at Janssen, a pharmaceutical subsidiary of Johnson & Johnson. Her LinkedIn page states that she worked as a scientist, engineer or project manager for a string of high-profile corporations including Pfizer and Boston Scientific.
For an attempted murder conviction, prosecutors would have to prove two things -- that Behbehanian took a direct step to kill someone and would have been successful if an outside factor hadn't intervened, and that she intended not merely to maim or injure, but to kill.
Police haven't revealed whom, if anyone, might have been targeted. But they arrested Behbehanian on suspicion of attempted murder after the ploy was sniffed out by a customer and a sharp-eyed employee who took note of her car's license plate number as she made a hasty exit.
Initial tests of the bottles revealed them to have a potentially lethal amount of rubbing alcohol.
Police had said they didn't know why she allegedly put the tainted juice bottles -- which no one drank -- into the refrigerated display case at the Snell Avenue shop.
Alert employees
Police say a coffee-shop regular was standing behind Behbehanian about 3:45 p.m. and allegedly saw her pull two bottles out of her green Starbucks bag and place them in the open-air fridge.
The customer immediately alerted a store manager, said police spokesman Jason Dwyer, apparently spooking Behbehanian into leaving, but not before an employee got a glimpse of her license plate.
Employees immediately grabbed the bottles, said Dwyer, and realized the seals had been broken and they smelled "something toxic."
They called 911, summoning San Jose police and the San Jose Fire Department, which brought its hazardous materials team. After clearing out the store, the hazardous materials technicians took samples of the liquid and ran it through a portable mass spectrometer that confirmed it was isopropyl alcohol, a common household solvent.
"It was significant enough to be seriously harmful. I can't say it will cause death, but it's a possibility," said Capt. Cleo Doss, a fire department spokesman. "It depends on how much you consume. They could have a sip and stop, or someone who couldn't smell it, maybe had a cold, might drink more."
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SAN JOSE -- It took four games, and it wasn't time wasted because of the offensive contributions that Raffi Torres made along the way.
But in their entertaining 5-3 victory over the Pittsburgh Penguins, the Sharks finally saw the physical side of a player they were missing with Torres out of the lineup for the first 59 games of the season.
"You can be a veteran all you want, but until you get a sense of timing and what's going on around you and a feel for the game again, it's hard to play," Sharks coach Todd McLellan said after his team's optional practice Friday. "Raffi is rapidly gaining confidence, he's gaining a sense of timing and probably conditioning as well."
In his first three games after returning from knee surgery, Torres scored three times as a reminder that he does have good hands around the net. But he was credited with only one hit in each of those three games.
"I haven't started getting physical," he acknowledged before the Pittsburgh game Thursday.
Against the Penguins, Torres had a season-high 13:02 in ice time, and he responded with a four-hit performance that seemed to jump-start his teammates. And it wasn't as if Torres had the most hits of any Shark -- Brent Burns had five -- or even the one with the most impact, as Jason Demers leveled Penguins forward Chris Kunitz.
But Demers was quick to credit Torres for setting the tone.
"Raffi brings a whole different element to our team, and it's kind of the fear factor," Demers said of Torres, who has been trying to overcome his reputation as a dirty hitter with hard but legal shots such as the ones on Penguins' Marcel Goc and Rob Scuderi just seven seconds apart when San Jose was trailing 2-0.
Those hits, Demers said, turned the game around.
"The fans like it, and obviously other teams for sure are aware of him, looking over their shoulder," said Demers, who recalled doing the same before Torres came to the Sharks. "It pumps us up."
Torres said after the game that the game dictated the need to play more physically.
"I got a second wind there on that shift, got a couple bangs in, and I think the key is you follow that up with another good shift," he said. "That's what you need, that momentum change to get things going."
McLellan acknowledged that facing the two Canadian representatives in the Original Six still made the games a little special, then cited associate coach Larry Robinson as a reason the Sharks might have a little added incentive Saturday night.
"The fact we have a Hall of Fame defenseman that played for the Habs is a big thing for our hockey club," McLellan said. "I'm sure our guys want to be fired up so they can make Larry proud, and that'll be a real good thing."
"He made some really good saves when it was 2-0 to keep it there," McLellan said. "If it gets to three, we're in big trouble, but he kept it two and allowed his teammates to work their way back into the game."
For more on the Sharks, see David Pollak's Working the Corners blog at blogs.mercurynews.com/sharks. Follow him on Twitter at twitter.com/PollakOnSharks.
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