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Nine girls from nine countries --Cambodia, Haiti, Nepal, Egypt, Ethiopia, India, Peru, Sierra Leone and Afghanistan - are represented in the recently released film "Girl Rising." Their stories are not the same, but the overall theme certainly is: Education is the engine of change for impoverished girls around the world. Narrated by actors and actresses including Cate Blanchett, Selena Gomez, Anne Hathaway, Salma Hayek, Alicia Keys, Liam Neeson, Freida Pinto and Meryl Streep, the film screens at the Vilar Performing Arts Center in Beaver Creek tonight as a benefit for the Vail Valley Foundation program Girl PowHER, which helps local middle and high school girls. Attendees at tonight's film screening will meet girls like Sokha, an orphan who rises from a life in the garbage dump in Phnom Penh, Cambodia to become a star student and an accomplished dancer; and Suma, who writes songs that help her endure forced servitude in Nepal and today crusades to free others.
The foundation is hosting the screening in "an effort to showcase the impact that education can have on girls' lives, both here in the community and around the globe," said John Dakin, the vice president of communications for the Vail Valley Foundation.
The film's director, the Academy Award nominated Richard E. Robbins, took the time to answer a few questions.
Vail Daily: The film is a hybrid of a documentary and narrative film. Can you explain what that means?
Richard Robbins: Well, my approach to filmmaking is as much about problem solving as about any kind of artistic vision. So when we decided that we wanted to tell the stories of these girls, and once we understood what those stories were really about, then we began to talk about the most effective ways to do that. We wanted to keep them very close to the reality, but we also wanted to control the material so that we can be very specific about the story we are telling. I like to think that we have the best of both worlds - the truth of documentary with the control and flexibility of fiction. And each chapter is different. Some involve actors. Some involve no actors. Some involve scripted dialogue, while others have no speaking at all. For us it was really about the best way to tell each story.
VD: You found an incredible group of women from around the world. How did you cast the girls?
RR: We probably met thousands of girls in the pre-production and research. In each of our countries we worked with our partners on the ground who deal with these girls every day - organizations that work directly on girls' education issues. They helped us meet girls. So we traveled a lot, doing dozens of interviews in each location.
But the final selection of each girl was made by the writer who helped tell her story. To us the whole idea was that we wanted our audience to hear a story from the girl's point of view - so the story needed to be crafted by someone who understood the girl's situation better than I could. Our writers are very accomplished women who come from the same country as the girl. These writers looked at the interviews and profiles we gathered in the field, and then chose a girl that she felt connected to. That emotional connection was really the most important thing, because we want to make the audience feel for the girls. Once the girls were chosen, then the writers and the girls spent some time together, and the stories emerged from that.
VD: The film is part of a larger cause led by the 10 X 10 Foundation, to educate girls around the world from impoverished countries. Can you talk about the overall goals and how the film contributes to them?
RR: We laid out three goals at the start. That's pretty unusual to begin with for a film project, but we felt it was important. We began to talk about them in three simple phrases: Change minds. Change lives. Change policy. The lives we want to change are for the millions of girls out there struggling to get an education. The policies are made by our government, and those around the world. Achieving those changes is the core of 10x10's mission. That is really channeling the money and energy we can generate into the right places.
But my job - the job of the film - is to change minds. If we can convince our audience that educating girls works, that girls matter, and that the situation out there in the developing world is one we really can affect - that's a huge step.
My job as the filmmaker is not just to make people understand that girls' education is important, but to make them believe that the change we need is possible. Those girls are just like our girls. Like girls everywhere. Smart, powerful, and eager to make the world better.
VD: What do you want the audience to take away from the film?
RR: I want the audience to care about these girls. To care about all girls - and I want them to care enough that they want to try and do something to help. Because they can help. It's that simple.
VD: What was the most memorable part of shooting?
RR: Every one of our journeys overseas was a life changing experience. We shot in some of the roughest circumstances I've ever encountered. Worse even than when working in war zones for ABC News. Shooting in Peru at 17,000 feet in the snow. Taking a steadicam through a tent camp in Haiti. Filming on an insanely crowded street in 105 degree heat in Calcutta. So there is a lot of memorable hardship that was involved in the making of this movie.
But without question the things I remember most are the interactions with the girls themselves. Every time our energy flagged or we had problems on the production, we only needed to glance over at the girl whose story we were telling and everything seemed possible. They never felt sorry for themselves. They have boundless energy and optimism. They work harder than me... and I work pretty hard.
Most of all, I loved sitting down with each girl and showing her the pictures of the other girls in the film. I'd get to talk about their stores and kind of introduce this little group to each other. They understood inherently that what we were doing wasn't just about them, it was about all girls. That was just incredible.
VD: What can viewers do to help the cause?
RR: Well, awareness counts for a lot. Understanding the issue. Talking about it. Reading about it. Tell your friends. Talk to your kids or your parents. Even before you act, just knowing and caring about these girls - that really matters to me, and I believe to the girls too.
But more directly, these girls need help. They are the most powerless inhabitants on the planet. They have the least money, the least protection, the least opportunity. And amazingly they have the most profound impact on changes we all want - less poverty, less injustice, less violence. So I would urge people to find a way to get involved with our partner organizations. These are people whose work we have seen first hand. They are doing incredible things out there in the world - we just need to help them do more of it.
VD: You have assembled an incredible group of female narrators and authors, including Meryl Streep, Anne Hathaway, Kerry Washington, and more. Can you talk about how you got them involved with the project?
RR: Well for me, the film is about giving a voice to these girls. We wanted the best voices we could find. Some of that was getting the writers to help with the words and the story structure. But another important piece was the literal voice. What these actresses can do with their voices - their ability to communicate complicated emotion solely through the sound they generate. That is a truly remarkable thing. Hearing Meryl Streep bring Maaza Mengiste's words to life was one the absolute high points on this whole project for me.
VD: How did you get involved with this project?
RR: For better or worse, this project was my idea. I was researching a project on a related subject when I stumbled onto some the new studies about the power of educating girls. It blew my mind. I had the reaction that I hope our audience will have - "This is amazing!" and "I have to do something to help!" For me, help became making this movie. I never dreamed it would grow to the scale it has, but there are a handful of subjects that ought to be given as big and ambitious a treatment as we can muster - and this is surely one of them.


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The City Council's Special Committee on SR-520 Project meets today with WSDOT's Community Design team. The goal of the meeting is for WSDOT to present feedback from this fall's public comment period and for councilmembers to review the design process. Here we go…
11:08: Public comments done. Always interesting…
CM Conlin: City budget funds studies of the Montlake Mess. Next meeting will be Jan 22nd at 2:30pm.
11:12 Julie Meredith and Kerry Pihlstrom presenting for WSDOT.
11:13 WSDOT: We are confident we can resolve pontoon construction issues.
11:15 WSDOT will host January open house of "Lake to Land Plan." This plan is consistent with construction phasing in EIS.
11:18 Recently reduced budget shortfall of $1.4 billion still includes all original project elements, including second bascule bridge.
11:22 CM Conlin requests more intuitive information access on WSDOT website. Yes.
11:27 WSDOT received significant feedback – 1,607 responses.
11:28 Bike and pedestrian access was a major topic of feedback.
11:30 We look forward to working with the Seattle Bike Master Plan.
11:31 Significant feedback for new 30-foot wide ped crossing over I-5 at Roanoke. –Yes, hello Eastlake!
11:33 Portage Bay Bridge Trail would require additional study of environmental impacts.
11:35 CM Licata: Are you moving forward on that study or waiting for additional feedback? WSDOT: Still looking at our options.
11:38 WSDOT: "PBBT would be a change. We want to hear from Council."
11:41 CM Licata: Conflicting goals for PBBridge: minimum width + ped/bike connectivity. WSDOT: We are open to adding PBBT. CM Conlin: WSDOT needs to hear from us on this issue.
11:45 CM Rasmussen: How tall would a cable stay bridge be across Portage Bay? WSDOT: 180 feet.
11:48 Over 1,000 public comments in support of trail on Portage Bay Bridge.
11:50 We haven't done our best with non-motorized connections on Montlake Blvd… tried to preserve Olmsted blvd.
11:54 CM Bagshaw: What are next steps to ensure this area is user friendly for bikes and pedestrians? WSDOT: We do our best when we collaborate with local departments.
11:55 West Approach Bridge construction begins in June 2014. — So folks, no floating bridge to nowhere…
11:58 CM Conlin: Thanks for working with us.
12:00 One more thing. CM Rasmussen: What do we have to do to transfer Ramp to Nowhere lands to the Arboretum? WSDOT: After construction is done, it's a possibility.

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Al Pacino, energized by a conversation that has inevitably turned to the intricacies of acting, is snapping his fingers.
"When you get me on the acting trail, I get on that train," he says, punctuating what he calls an improvised "thesis on time" with staccato snaps.
The 72-year-old may be gray-haired and a little worn, but he remains, like a dancer, always on his toes and still enamored of the "crazy, crazy, crazy thing" that is acting: "You're always looking for what's going to feed you, what's going to feed the spirit and get you going."
And Pacino is still getting going. Yet the subject of time -- how much is needed to find a character (years in some cases, he says) and how it dictates the parts he chooses now -- played a large role in a recent interview with the actor at the Waldorf Astoria in New York.
"Sometimes I'm tempted to say, 'Why am I doing this? Why am I still doing this?' " he says. "Then, after I don't do it for a while, I say: 'Oh, now I know why I still do it.' If I suddenly didn't want to do it anymore, that'd be fine, too. I'd probably be an usher again in a playhouse."
If Pacino is feeling reminiscent of his early days as a Bronx-born aspiring thespian knocking around in 1960s downtown New York theaters and cafes, it's partly because his recent work reflects on his beginnings. Not many know that Pacino started out as a comedian. He jokes that though he did a movie with Robin Williams ("Insomnia"), "he didn't know that I really wanted to be him."
Pacino, funny guy, has certainly been glimpsed before. But after a career better known for gangsters, crooks and Shakespearean villains, Pacino has lately been exercising his comedy chops. After finishing a revival run on Broadway of "Glengarry Glen Ross" in which he played up the laughs as the desperate, over-the-hill salesman Shelley, Pacino stars in the crime comedy "Stand Up Guys."
In it, he plays a former gangster, Val, released from prison after 28 years and taken around town to celebrate by his old friend, Doc (Christopher Walken), who does it remorsefully, knowing that their boss wants Val killed by sunup. Their pal Richard (Alan Arkin) joins in the romp.
As he showed in "Scent of a Woman," Pacino is good company for a last-hurrah. Part of his enduring appeal, after all, is his pulsating zest for life. Whether firing a machine gun at the hip ("Scarface"), pursuing a story ("The Insider") or whipping a crowd into an "Attica"-chanting protest ("Dog Day Afternoon"), Pacino is the great agitator of American movies. Critics will make claims of overacting, but no one ever slept through an Al Pacino performance.
"Some actors aren't connected and they don't invest," says "Stand Up Guys" director Fisher Stevens, a veteran New York actor and documentary producer. "Al is committed to everything he does, even if it's just playing poker. He does everything that way."
Stevens first met Pacino when he came to see him in a play two decades ago. It's the way many encounter Pacino; there are countless careers he's helped propel, from Kevin Spacey (whom he suggested for the 1992 film "Glengarry Glen Ross") to Jessica Chastain (whom he cast in his Los Angeles production of Oscar Wilde's "Salome"). Pacino made a film about the production, "Wilde Salome," but it -- like Pacino's beloved, largely unseen "The Local Stigmatic" -- remains unreleased.
"That's what Al does with his movies, he just holds on to them like he's keeping his kids," says Stevens.
Pacino and Walken hadn't worked together before (except for separate scenes in -- get ready for it -- the Ben Affleck, Jennifer Lopez film "Gigli"), but they've been friends for decades, going back to the Actors Studio, where the long-involved Pacino is currently co-president. Reading through the parts, the two decided to switch roles in "Stand Up Guys."
While Pacino's "Godfather, Part II" co-star and cinematic counterpart Robert De Niro has focused on comedy late in his career, Pacino has been more scattershot. His most notable work in recent years was playing Shylock in an acclaimed 2010 production of "The Merchant of Venice" and an Emmy-winning turn as Dr. Jack Kevorkian in the HBO film "You Don't Know Jack." (In March, Pacino will return to HBO in another high-profile biopic, this time on Phil Spector.)
His fondness for broad comedy, though, helps explain the most inscrutable credit in Pacino's filmography: the 2011 Adam Sandler film "Jack and Jill," in which he, among other things, rapped a pseudo Dunkin' Donuts ad as "Dunkaccino."
"What happened to me is in life, I started to get used to other things besides myself doing something funny or coming up with jokes, and I started to get into what is the playwright and what the playwrights say and that the play is the thing, like Hamlet says," says Pacino. "That's the reason I stayed in the profession because I fell in love with drama, whether it's comedy or tragedy. ... I became more or less sort of serious about things."


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PLEASANT HILL -- Lauren McCullough will celebrate her 21st birthday this month in style -- with a pink shot glass she bought to help usher her into adulthood.
After that, it will be the fight of her life to make it to 22.
McCullough, a former All-American swimmer who is a student at Diablo Valley College in Pleasant Hill, is in the middle of her second bout with Ewing sarcoma, a malignant cancer that preys on bone and soft tissue.
She thought she beat the disease earlier when she had 13 months of clean screenings after it attacked her left leg. It came back earlier this year, this time in her left lung, collapsing the lung but not her willingness to fight on.
"I've never really had bad things happen to me," McCullough said. "Before this I guess it had been a relatively boring life. Now that I have it again, there's no point in dwelling on it. You have to adapt."
McCullough was first diagnosed with the disease after she had been named athlete of the year at Laguna Creek High School in Elk Grove.
"I was probably the buffest girl on campus," McCullough said. "Who gets cancer at that age?"
When she looked into it and saw the staggering number of children and young adults afflicted by cancer, the answer prompted her to action even as she tried to fight off a possible death sentence. According to the American Cancer Society, the five-year survival rate for Ewing sarcoma is 15 to 30 percent.
"I decided I want people to be aware, really aware, of early childhood cancer," she said. "I'm making that the purpose of my being on this Earth. People think 'It will never happen to anyone I know.' I didn't know anyone who had until I got this the first time."
McCullough began writing a blog -- thenotdyinggirl.com -- about her experiences with chemotherapy and radiation treatment, chronicling her emotional ups and downs.
Word got out. Two athletic counselors at DVC, Jamie Bailey and Terry Armstrong, heard McCullough expressing hopes that she could expand awareness of Ewing sarcoma. Armstrong, the club adviser for Viking Lacrosse, brought it up to the team.
"Seriously, before I could even ask the question, they were saying we've got to do something," Armstrong said. "They were all for getting involved."
Armstrong's son, Mathias, is a part of Viking Lacrosse, and he did much of the legwork for a Nov. 25 benefit lacrosse match against Santa Rosa Junior College, at which McCullough was the featured guest. The event yielded $1,219 in donations for the American Cancer Society.
Two days after the lacrosse benefit, McCullough was back in the hospital for her next round of chemotherapy. Between the chemo and two days of hydration, she was there 100 hours. She's home again, but with an unwelcome visitor. She has what she calls a "numb spot" on her left side.
"It makes me look like I have half a set of love handles," McCullough said. "The doctors don't know what it is. I feel good, but this gives me more worries. I can deal with the known. It's the unknown I have a problem with."
Brenda Smart, one of McCullough's club and high school swim coaches, said the swimmer is approaching the battle with cancer the way she'd approach any athletic challenge.
"I've known her probably 10 years, and that's just the way she is," Smart said. "She's very competitive, very race-driven. She will do anything she can to win. That part of her personality has always been there.
"The competition is her against the cancer."
McCullough's first bout with Ewing sarcoma came a week after she'd graduated high school. She went to Hawaii for a week, but by the time she came home, her left leg had swollen to the point where she could barely walk. Two weeks later she had her first chemotherapy. Nine months later the cancer in her leg was gone.
Twelve months later, her parents, Deanne and John, family and friends gathered with her as she celebrated one year being cancer-free, but month 13 would quash that elation. She was able to swim well enough in the conference meet that she qualified for the state meet. But as the April 25 meet closed in, so did nasty pain in her chest.
"During the conference meet, I had no clue, no pain,'' McCullough said. "But the day before we left for the state meet in Huntington Beach, it came suddenly. It was incredibly hard to breathe. I knew it wasn't worth the risk (to swim). It turned out my left lung had collapsed. You work hard to get `swimmer lungs.' I'm fortunate as a swimmer that my right lung is really strong."
McCullough, who also wrestled in high school, credits her athleticism with getting her through the first battle with Ewing sarcoma and is counting on it to do the same in Round 2, although the long-term prognosis is such that she's been told to "get my bucket list things done." Part of that is a trip to Las Vegas with friends and family just after Christmas to celebrate her 21st birthday, which is when the shot glass will get a little use.
"They haven't given me any time parameters, and while it could be a whole lot better, things could be worse. I'm mobile and I can kind of do things I want. If I go through the hard treatment and get through it, I think they'll find something to cure me and other kids.
"We haven't done anything to bring it on, we don't smoke or drink and we haven't damaged our livers. I've seen babies with cancer, though, and that is heartbreaking. We need a chance to have a life and not just spend life in a hospital.''
Name: Lauren McCullough
Age: 20 (turns 21 on Dec. 11)
Hometown: Elk Grove
Quote: "We need a chance to have a life and not just spend life in a hospital."


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Flat Five Swing Band's music is a take on Django Reinhardt's and Stephane Grappelli's Quintette du Hot Club de France, featuring guitarists Michael Hodgin and Bryan Miller, violinist Linda Powers and double bassist Bryon Harris. The groups performs at 8 p.m. Friday, March 29, at The Playwright Public House, 258 A St. The cover costs $5.
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Published: Monday, October 21, 2013 at 12:15 p.m.
Last Modified: Monday, October 21, 2013 at 12:15 p.m.
APOPKA - A 6-foot alligator made an unwelcome appearance at the front door of the Apopka Walmart.
The incident happened Sunday morning. The gator stopped in the entryway, causing the automatic doors to open and close until employees locked them.
Orlando television station WKMG (http://bit.ly/19W3Z49) reports Apopka police officers tried to lure the gator away as customers gathered to watch and snap pictures.
The gator took off toward the nearby woods. Officers scoured the area but couldn't find him.
No one was injured.
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CAMPBELL -- A 72-year-old man was left heartbroken and bankrupt after a "sweetheart scam" run by a younger woman who was arrested this week at her Elk Grove home, prosecutors said.
The victim told investigators that in April 2009 he was contacted by Samantha Huongthi Pham, 30, a real estate broker who wanted to talk to him about refinancing the Campbell home that he owned.
"As far as we can tell it was a cold call," said Cherie Bourlard, a prosecutor with the Elder Fraud Unit of the Santa Clara County District Attorney's Office. "She may have looked at public records and saw that he owned his home free and clear, and the equity in the house was something worth going after."
Bourlard said that upon meeting the victim, Pham flirted with him to the extent that he gave her a diamond ring that once belonged to his ex-wife.
The scam grew from there, Bourlard said. The victim was convinced to put his house up for collateral and use $200,000 of the money to invest in a financial company Pham wanted to start. He also put money down on a $73,000 Lexus that Pham was supposed to make payments on, and maxed out his credit card buying furniture for an office that was later found empty and abandoned.
Once the victim could no longer pay his bills, Pham convinced him to sell his $500,000 house, which entitled her to a $7,000 referral fee.
About five months after first being contacted by Pham, the victim was out of assets and she broke all contact with him, Bourlard said. He later filed for bankruptcy and notified police.
"Ms. Pham criminally took advantage of a lonely, elderly man," she said, adding that the grift is so pervasive that it is known as "the sweetheart scam."
"It is unconscionable," Bourlard said.
When Pham was arrested by Campbell police on Wednesday, she was still in possession of the Lexus, although she had never made a payment, Bourlard said.
She said the repo man who arrived to get the car reported that he'd been to the home several months before to collect a $100,000 BMW.
"Elk Grove police found that she got it from a man she'd met on (online dating service) Match.com," Bourlard said.
According to the district attorney's office, Campbell investigators also found a large quantity of designer Louis Vuitton purses at the home, and records showed that between 2009 and 2012 Pham had lost more than $1 million gambling at Red Hawk Casino in Placerville. She also wired $50,000 of the victim's money to Nevada to pay restitution in a criminal case there. Prosecutors had no further information about that matter.
Bourlard said Pham may have bilked more people they don't know about.
"Luckily, the victim in this case came forward," she said. "Often the victims in these types of crimes are embarrassed and they go unreported."
She urged anyone who believes they or someone they know has been bilked in a "sweetheart scam" or anything similar contact local law enforcement authorities or adult protective services.
Pham, who was arraigned Friday on a felony charge of theft from an elder, faces up to six years in prison if convicted. She remains at the women's facility of the Santa Clara County Jail, with a court date on Jan. 25.
Santa Clara County's 24-hour hotline to report elder abuse can be reached at 408-755-7690 or 1-800-414-2002.
Contact Eric Kurhi at 408-920-5852. Follow him at Twitter.com/erickurhi.


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Paul Krugman NAILS IT:
Conservatives seem, in particular, to believe that freedom�s just another word for not enough to eat.
Hence the war on food stamps, which House Republicans have just voted to cut sharply even while voting to increase farm subsidies.
In a way, you can see why the food stamp program � or, to use its proper name, the Supplemental Nutritional Assistance Program (SNAP) � has become a target. Conservatives are deeply committed to the view that the size of government has exploded under President Obama but face the awkward fact that public employment is down sharply, ...
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Seventy-year-old Pat Cavataio has still got game. When he steps onto the basketball court, younger players often make foolish assumptions about their silver-haired opponent. Once Cavataio sinks a few 3-pointers with nothing but net, their doubt turns to respect. "Then it's game on," Cavataio says with a grin.
At area pickup games, Cavataio is famous for his pump fake and fade-away jump shot. "The game has become more physical," he explains. "The athletes are bigger and stronger, but if I couldn't be competitive I wouldn't be out there."
At Lincoln High School in San Jose, Cavataio was a triple threat in baseball, basketball and football. While stationed in Stuttgart, Germany, Cavataio excelled at all three for the Army, earning a European basketball championship in 1962. Back home, he played baseball and football at San Jose City College, where he experienced one of his less triumphant gridiron moments. "I played defensive safety and spent a game trying to tackle O.J. Simpson at San Francisco City College. He scored six touchdowns and we lost 48-6."
In 1967 Cavataio signed a baseball contract with the Philadelphia Phillies as a catcher assigned to Class-A Spartanburg, S.C. At the age of 24, with a batting average of .333, Cavataio was hit by a pitch and broke his temple bone. "I had to have surgery and was out six weeks," he recalls. "When I came back, I requested a helmet with ear flaps, the only one in the minors, but I wasn't the same hitter. I bailed on the pitches. I was invited back to spring training, but decided to go to school instead."
It was a critical turning point with lessons for all young athletes. "Athletes need to have a backup plan," Cavataio advises. "A small minority will never make it to the big leagues. Even if you sign a professional contract, an education or vocational program is critical. I thought I was going to be a major leaguer, but I got injured. I was lucky I ever got to play."
Cavataio earned his doctorate from the University of Northern Colorado and spent three decades teaching junior high and high school. He is well-known for leading college planning workshops at Santa Cruz High, helping students pursue their own dreams. But Cavataio never hung up his basketball shoes. Along with playing, he officiated at high schools and junior colleges, and even spent two years as an NCAA referee for the Pac 8.
Today Cavataio is grateful for his continued success on the hardwood. "I enjoy playing with the younger guys," he says. "I love that it's intergenerational."
And that fade-away jump shot doesn't hurt.
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Pat Cavataio
Born: 1942 in San Jose
Education: Bachelor of Arts (1969) and Master of Science (1973) from San Jose State University, doctorate (1976) from the University of Northern Colorado
Family: Wife Georganne Schroth-Cavataio, a semi-retired teacher currently working as a mentor with the New Teacher Project
Santa Cruz connection: Cavataio moved to Santa Cruz in 1977 after years of family visits. 'I loved to come to Santa Cruz as a child. We would fish off the wharf and for a nickel we would stay in the fun house for hours at a time.'
Memorabilia: Among Cavataio's plentiful sports photos, clippings and mementos, is his original contract with the Phillies as well as a signed baseball card contract with Topps Chewing Gum.
What's cooking: 'My parents owned the Bungalow Bakery at Ninth and William in San Jose, where I learned how to cook and bake. I make a mean cheesecake and a fabulous cioppino with lobster, scallops, prawns and crab.'
Most admired person ('in addition to my wife'): 'I have tremendous admiration for John Daugherty. He has served as a commissioner on the Santa Cruz County Commission on Disabilities for many years. He's an advocate for making Santa Cruz more accessible to people of all ages and abilities.'
A shout-out: 'Community colleges have faced financial uncertainly for several years. I'd like to give thanks to local businesses, including Toyota of Santa Cruz, Ocean Honda, Mollie's Country Café, and B&B Small Engine Repair for their ongoing support of the Cabrillo College men's basketball program.'
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On Fat Tuesday, we opened the doors to our store for the krewes Houmas and Kajuns parades for friends and our church family to enjoy a day of parades and fellowship.
And that was what we had up until the toasting of the king.
Much to our displeasure, we had the Lake Providence marching band stop and spend that time in front of us.
I suspect one would have to go to Bourbon Street and visit one of the sleazier establishments there to witness a dance performance anywhere near as distasteful and obscene.
One has to wonder how a parent would allow a daughter to put on that kind of exhibition in private, much less in public. And what kind of teacher or band director would allow it?
My fervent hope is in the future no one asks this band back.
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Mayor de Blasio Appears on Stephen Colbert's Show
Mayor Bill de Blasio, New York City's first Democratic chief executive in 20 years, faced a faux grilling Wednesday from a TV host who plays a conservative political pundit.
"I hope you're ready, Sir, because the free ride is over," Stephen Colbert told the left-leaning mayor at the top of an interview on Comedy Central's "The Colbert Report." "This ain't the Upper West Side. Ok, this is the Colbert Nation."
Mr. de Blasio, his teeth clenched in mock frustration, appeared to brace himself for an onslaught of questions from the comedian who plays a satirical conservative character on the show.
"You want to bring us back to the '80s, the bad days of the squeegee men and the rampant crime and leg warmers — that's what you want," said Mr. Colbert as he asked the mayor to explain his vision for the nation's largest city.
"The leg warmers weren't so bad," Mr. de Blasio admitted in his first appearance on the show. "But it's a progressive vision, it's an inclusive vision, it's creating a city of opportunity."
"You mean socialist? Progressive means socialist," Mr. Colbert interjected. "You're a socialist."
"Progressive means creating opportunity," the mayor said, his voice nearly drowned out as the comedian continued, calling Mr. de Blasio a communist.
"You know, Stephen, in this country today, with vast income inequality and growing income inequality, we actually have to change our course."
"Why do we have to change course?" Mr. Colbert responded. "Those of us who have the income do not wish you to change our course."
"That doesn't surprise me," the mayor said with a smile.
A number of other issues surfaced in the interview, including a discussion about Mr. de Blasio's predecessor, Michael Bloomberg, and the new mayor's plan to provide free, full-day prekindergarten to every 4-year-old citywide.
On pre-K, Mr. Colbert questioned the mayor on why he wanted to raise taxes on the rich to hand out nap times and juice boxes to "freeloading miscreants."


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The Vilar Performing Arts Center in Beaver Creek on Friday announced its 16th winter season, continuing its tradition of best-in-class entertainment including concerts, Broadway musicals, dance, classical/opera, comedy and family shows.
Among this year's highlights, the Vilar Center will kick things off with a variety of holiday programming to include classical traditions such as Nebraska Theater Caravan's "A Christmas Carol" and A Christmas Celebration featuring Handel's "Messiah" with the Boulder Philharmonic and Chorus. The venue will also welcome one of popular music's most successful and honored songwriters — Burt Bacharach — and Grammy-winning pianist George Winston.
Other big concert names on the series include: U2 tribute band Under a Blood Red Sky, Colorado favorite Keller Williams and top-selling jazz instrumentalist Chris Botti. VPACE also is bringing back some of its most popular performers, including An Acoustic Evening with Keb' Mo', Rick Springfield "Stripped Down," Los Lonely Boys, The Wailers and Boz Scaggs.
"Announcing the series is an exciting time of year for us, and 2013-14 is no exception," said Kris Sabel, VPAC's executive director. "We have a lot of great shows lined up for this season, from now through early April and in every category of entertainment. We look forward to welcoming familiar faces as well as some new ones this winter up in Beaver Creek."
This season, VPAC will host Cirque with Cirque Mechanics in December, followed by Mike Super's Magic and Illusion Show and Andy Gross' "Mindboggling Variety Show." The center also will welcome comedians Wanda Sykes, Jim Gaffigan and Colin Mochrie and Brad Sherwood.
"Ticket cost is a challenge that some of our local fans have mentioned in the past, and we have therefore decided to introduce a new pricing structure this season," Sabel said. "Given the level of performers we book and the fact that we only have a little over 500 seats, it can be difficult to get our prices low, even to break even. However, we're introducing a significantly lower price for a limited number of seats to our higher-ticketed shows that will be available on a first-come, first-served basis. It's a way for us to reward our local fans who act quickly and buy their seats early. We hope the community responds positively and takes advantage of this great opportunity."
Beyond concerts, comedy and family entertainment, VPAC continues its classical and dance tradition with international opera star Joyce DiDonato and the internationally renowned Haifa Symphony Orchestra, direct from Israel. In addition to its more traditional dance shows, with Alonzo King LINES Ballet and Parsons Dance, VPAC brings to its stage this season Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo, an all-male drag ballet company as technically talented as they are hilarious and entertaining.
In addition to the limited number of tickets available at higher priced shows this season, there are several additional shows priced below $50 this season. Details on these and all other performances are available online at www.vilarpac.org, by phone at (970) 845-TIXS or in person at the Vilar Center Box Office in Beaver Creek.


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HAYWARD -- As I sat in a corner of a small, dark watering hole one recent weeknight, I glanced around and realized why it had become one of my favorite hangouts.
Groups of people -- even strangers -- were actually, you know, striking up conversations and showing no edge or attitude while talking to each other.
In 21st-century Bay Area, that's cause for a parade. It's also the subversive charm of The Dirty Bird Lounge, a low-slung tavern on a forlorn stretch of Mission Boulevard.
The bar's weathered exterior, featuring a noirish neon sign, conceals its true nature -- a warm, inviting place where customers can meet new friends. If "Cheers" was where everyone already knew your name, The Dirty Bird is where it's just a matter of time.
And here's the kicker: It's all by design.
Bar owner Aric Yeverino bills the joint as "Hayward's favorite dive bar," but that sells it short. He has taken a dive's basic ingredients -- pool tables and a jukebox in a dark modest building in a remote location -- and added a few subtle, smart touches. The end result? That happy rarity: a thinking man's dive bar, giving patrons a dash of wit at nearly every turn, as they down drinks in a 40-something-year-old booze hut.
I've always believed a true dive bar should make you a little uneasy. It should double as a "Boulevard of Bad Decisions," where regrettable choices either are hatched with beer-fueled enthusiasm or reflected upon in a sullen, boozy fog.
Fortunately, The Dirty Bird refuses to play by my rigid and quite arbitrary rules, offering a much more welcoming version.
The bar's moniker stems from a nickname co-workers gave Yeverino for his blue sense of humor while bartending years ago in Oakland. He enjoys the name, but doesn't take it literally.
"Not all dive bars have to be sketchy and filthy," said Yeverino, a Hayward resident. "I'd rather that you feel comfortable in your own skin when you come in."
The tavern's drink list offers the best example of Yeverino's stylings. It features cocktails with offbeat names such as "Tequila Mockingbird," "Hands Olive Her" and several other provocative puns we can't print in a newspaper.
"Sometimes a stupid little cocktail name gets people giggling, and then talking," Yeverino said. "We try to be more tongue-in-cheek."
A quote on the drink list from literary libertine, Oscar Wilde, suggests the bar's philosophy: "I can resist anything but temptation."
Another nice touch: the music. Bartenders almost always dial up an online station playing "A Tribe Called Quest" -- a 1990s hip hop group that boasted clever, witty lyrics and inventive beats. Plus, the speaker volume is low, allowing customers to bob their heads to the beat or talk over it, or both.
The decor, dominated by the color red, also stands out. Red lighting bathes the entire room and both restrooms, setting the mood somewhere between a Harlem jazz club and an Old West brothel. Red also covers sofas, bartops and two pool tables.
Drawings depicting a wide range of themes -- body tattoos, Day of the Dead skeletons and two Banksy prints among them -- hang on the walls.
The C-shaped bar features friendly bartenders who chat up customers, joining their tavern debates on everything from the A's bullpen woes to legalizing marijuana. They also don't mind cutting customers a friendly break.
"No problem," one bartender said to a regular, who was 50 cents short on his bill one recent night. "Get me next time."
Perhaps its less-than-glamorous location explains its big heart.
It adjoins a welding shop, an auto mechanic, a biker club, and an empty lot long covered by a pile of gravel. Among them, The Dirty Bird beckons like a neon oasis in south Hayward's commercial desert.
It attracts a clientele as eclectic as Alameda County, said Yeverino. "We get students from Cal State East Bay, but also tech workers and blue-collar guys," he said. "Hayward is a melting pot; you're not going to see one group dominate the bar."
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Mobile Home Lot Rents
Published: Friday, February 22, 2013 at 12:28 a.m.
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There is a fairness issue that was missed in The Ledger's article regarding lot rents in manufactured home parks ["Seniors Seek Bill to Limit Mobile-Home Park Rent Hikes," Feb. 13]. People who live in these parks have a reasonable right to expect that the equity invested in their homes ought to have some value to them, if they need to sell.
The value of these parks was created when retirees, not corporations, used their own money to place these homes onsite. I recognize that it might have been a naive leap of faith by many of us, but, at the time, the idea of paying lot rent, not property taxes, seemed reasonable.
Currently, the way the system is structured, most homes for resale are virtually worthless. The reason for this conundrum is that, even if the owner is able sell the unit, the management company ups the lot rent to an unreasonable level to the new owner.
Residents are walking away and turning over the keys to the management to avoid the drip, drip, drip of lot rent as they are forced by necessity to seek different living arrangements.
This reality creates a double whammy for those leaving and others who stay. Those who leave are forced to swallow hard and accept the reality of the financial loss when they can least afford it.
For those who stay, they are forced to accept the reality that anything they do to improve their homes is just a waste of money, and, as a result, the overall living conditions in the park slip to unacceptable levels.
If this is to remain a viable industry and a nurturing senior environment, there must be some way to assure fairness for all involved.
The Florida Legislature needs to act in a meaningful way to protect homeowners and the industry.
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Emergence was not explicitly a book about politics or social movements, but I wanted to end it with a hint of those possibilities. And so the final pages included a description of the Seattle anti-WTO protests that, reading them today, could just as easily have been a description of Occupy Wall Street:
It's almost impossible to think of another political movement that generated as much public attention without producing a genuine leader—a Jesse Jackson or Cesar Chavez—if only for the benefit of the television cameras. The images that we associate with the protests are never those of an adoring crowd raising its fists in solidarity with an impassioned speaker on a podium. That is the iconography of an earlier model of protest. What we see again and again with the new wave are images of disparate groups: satirical puppets, black-clad anarchists, sit-ins and performance art—but no leaders. To old-school progressives, the protesters appeared to be headless, out of control, a swarm of small causes with no organizing principle—and to a certain extent they're right in their assessment. What they fail to recognize is that there can be power and intelligence in a swarm, and if you're trying to do battle against a distributed network like global capitalism, you're better off becoming a distributed network yourself.In the months and years that followed the publication of Emergence, a number of readers took these political undertones and amplified them. (This is one of the beautiful things about writing books, particularly idea books: your readers are free to take your ideas and push them in all sorts of directions you never anticipated.) First Joi Ito—now, wonderfully, the head of MIT's Media Lab—published some online musings on what he called "emergent democracy"-- asking a series of probing questions about how these principles could be applied to civic life. In Brazil, a number of city leaders used the book to refine the already innovative systems of participatory budgeting that they had pioneered a decade before. Emergence inspired some of the early crowdfunding strategies employed by the Howard Dean campaign in 2004.
And so, over time, a book I had written about social insects and video games and software algorithms started to feel more and more like a book about politics that happened to employ an extended metaphor of social insects and video games and software algorithms. And the more I looked, the more examples I found of this new view of social change in the world, and not just in the decentralized protest movements of Occupy and Arab Spring. All around me, it seemed, people were using decentralized peer networks to solve problems -- and not just express their outrage -- sometimes using software and computer networks, and sometimes not. You could see it at work in New York's 311 service; in Kickstarter; in the prize-backed challenges of the Obama administration; in Beth Noveck's peer-to-patent system; in the growing adoption of participatory budgeting around the world; in new forms of corporate organization that were less hierarchical in nature.
The funny thing about this new movement was that it didn't readily fit the categories of either political party in the US. Because it favored decentralized, bottom-up solutions, it broke with the statist, Big Government solutions of the Left, and yet it looked nothing like the free market religion of the libertarian Right. And it wasn't the moderate's safe middle ground between those two poles. It was something altogether new. And more that that, it was a political worldview with a real track record of practical success. In an age of great disillusionment with current institutions, I thought, here were individuals and groups that could inspire us, in part because they had attached themselves to a new kind of institution, more network than hierarchy--more like the Internet itself than the older models of Big Capital or Big Government.
And so I wrote a book about that movement, a book that hopefully conveys some of the promise and possibility—and even outright optimism—that these new ideas carry. It's called Future Perfect: The Case For Progress In A Networked Age. In the U.S., it will be released September 18th; in the UK, October 4th. (Other foreign editions will roll out next year.) I hope you'll check it out, and, like the readers of Emergence so many years ago, you'll take the ideas and run with them—as long as I can follow along.


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There are scores of Bay Area artists scheduled to perform at this year's South by Southwest (SXSW), which runs March 11-16 in lovely Austin, Texas.
This strong showing -- at an event that draws both top headliners and up-and-coming acts from around the globe -- is a definite sign that the Bay Area music scene is alive and well in 2014.
In preview of the event, we are doing a series of stories on some of the best Bay Area acts set to perform at the 2014 SXSW.
We'll kick things off by spotlighting Oakland hip-hop star G-Eazy and San Francisco R&B crooner 8th Grader.
G-Eazy -- The buzz is deafening. Everyone seems to be talking about this Oakland rapper, whose career is absolutely skyrocketing right now. He's already popular enough to sell out San Francisco's mighty Fillmore, where he performs on Wednesday night. Yet, his fan base could increase exponentially over the next few months. Fortunately, his talent is every bit as big as the buzz.
Stream this: "Marilyn"
Website: www.g-eazy.com
8th Grader -- Jayson Martinovich (aka, 8th Grader) is blessed with a memorable, breathy tenor, which he uses to put a fresh spin on neo-soul and R&B. The San Francisco singer-songwriter should appeal to fans of Frank Ocean and, especially, Prince. He's particularly handy with a slow jam, so put him on the playlist for your next date night.
Stream this: "All the Sweetness"
Website: www.8thgradermusic.com/
For more information about South by Southwest, or to find showcase times for the artists mentioned, visit www.sxsw.com.
Listen to our playlist of Bay Area acts performing at SXSW here.
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This exists: the Snazzy Napper, a "sleep and privacy shield" that "blocks out light." The extra large version even doubles as a blanket! In reality, though, it's possibly the stupidest product we've ever seen advertised. Inside, the secondhand embarrassment-inducing commercial.
Is there really anything else to say? Of course there is! Which is why I'd like everyone to mention their favorite part of the ad (read: the part that made you facepalm the hardest) in the comments.


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New York State Police are looking for two people suspected of stealing thousands of dollars' worth of electronics from the Wal-Mart Supercenter in Plattsburgh.
Police said the suspects, a white male and a white female, walked into the store just after midnight and took $8,000 worth of electronics including laptops, camcorders and digital cameras. The suspects were seen leaving the area in a vehicle headed toward Ampersand Drive.
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The Club Crawl meets every Friday and Saturday at bar St. Felix- 1602 N. Cahuenga, where we start the night with $4 shots and $4 beers. As a group, we then move on to several more clubs - no cover charges no waiting in lines, the whole night - $20!
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The Air Max 95 is iconic to say the least. It was Nike's first running shoe to have major success, outside the track and field arena, and breakthrough the ranks of popular culture. This unique pair of running shoes has transcended as Nike has dropped a number of retros to great success. The AM 95 is the Air Jordan of Nike running and almost twenty years later these iconic kicks still garner attention.
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Volume 7 Number 15 Tribal Election Voters for this year's Tribal Council elections are going to have a wide variety of candidates to choose from. As of 12:00 noon, November 30, there were 25 candidates signed up. They are as follows: ELMO: Patrick H. Lefthand, and Lawrence Kenmille. POLSON: Roger McClure, Rosemary Fiorentino, Frank Lefthand, E. W. 'Bill' Morigeau, Ralph C. Du-charme. RONAN: Lytle Gillin, Lester Paro, Joe McDonald, Phillip Paul, Fred R. Cordier, Joseph Santos, Sr. ARLEE: 2 year vacancy term -Charles Morigeau, Ida Sorrell Curley, Fred Whitworth, David L. Gardipe, Louis Buchard. 4 year term: - Louis Adams VEND DX)RIEy^§^ND^gpTEN/ F ull Moon of Continuous Snow Candidates December 1, 1977 St. IGNATIUS: Thomas 'Bearhead' Swaney, Baptist 'Bap' Pichette, George E. Mitchell, James Morigeau, Harold Mitchell, Jr., James H. McLeod. Filing date is December 2, 1977. Elections will be held on Saturday, December 17, 1977. Polling places will be posted in the December 15 issue of the Char-Koosta. In addition to the candidates for Council, the following people have applied for the positions of Tribal Secretary, Treasurer and Sargent of Arms. These are appointed positions by the Tribal Council on January 6, 1978. Cut off date for filing an application is December 16, 1977. Tribal Secretary: Rhonda Camel, Bud Moran, and Art Barber. Tribal Treasurer: Rhonda Camel. Sgt. at Arms: Ralph 'Dib' Espinoza. X - Mas Per Capita The Tribal Council has voted for a dividend per-capita payment of $200 for each tribal member. The payment is to be mailed on December 16, and should reach the members before the Christmas holiday. All members who were enrolled by November 18, 1977, will receive a check in the mail. The total amount of the December payment comes to $1,187,200 divided among 5,936, and is derived from tribal resource income,( Kerr Dam, Timber sales, etc.) Payments will be withheld from those members who have pledged and forfeited their per-capita, or who have tribal court judgements against them, or who have delinquent payments owed to the tribal credit office, etc. Hiway Project Meeting Reconstruction of seven miles of Montana Highway 200 between Dixon and Ravalli will be discussed at a public hearing Wednesday, December 7 at 7:30 p.m. in the Dixon High School. The project begins at the west edge of Dixon and extends east through the Flathead Indian Reservation for about 7.3 miles, ending at Ravalli. It will consist of a new two-lane roadway following the existing alignment, with improvement of curves and grades. The public hearing will give engineers the opportunity to explain the proposed location and major design features of the project. The tentative schedule for right-of-way acquisition and construction, and relocation assistance programs will be discussed. The public is invited to present written or verbal arguments for or against the proposed project. Written statements also will be accepted for ten days following the hearing by the Department of Highways in Helena. Information Unit Department of Highways Helena, Mt 59601 November 23, 1977 For further information Phone 449-2415
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Tiger Mom Amy Chua Responds to Tiger Baby
It's a sign of just how deep tensions are around parenting today that, over two years after Amy Chua's "Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother" was published, its combination of shocking revelation, serious reflection and tongue-in-cheek exaggeration still sends T. Rex-scale ripples skittering across the surface of our sociocultural Dixie cups.
Two weeks ago, novelist Kim Wong Keltner's "Tiger Babies Strike Back" was published — her nonfiction account of growing up under the paw of her authoritarian Tiger parents. Last week, the web was abuzz over the release of UT Austin psychology prof Su Yeong Kim's longitudinal study tracking the parenting styles and social outcomes of over 400 Chinese American families in the Bay Area, which seemed to show that children of Tiger Parents had both poorer emotional health and lower GPAs than those of parents who embraced warmer and fuzzier child-rearing strategies.
Up until now, Chua herself has assiduously stayed out of the fray. "I really didn't want to get into the middle of this," she told me by phone from New Haven. "People keep trying to pit me against Kim Wong Keltner, or to ask me to comment on that parenting study, and I keep telling them 'Look, all I did was write my personal family story. I'm not a social scientist, I'm not a parenting expert. So all this is like asking apples to comment on oranges.'" (Keltner isn't keen on being positioned as the Anti-Chua either: "I really see my book as an alternative, not a rebuke to 'Battle Hymn,'" she says. "And frankly, [Chua] seems like she's smart and funny and highly accomplished and very beautiful, and we'd probably have a great time hanging out.")
In fact, Chua says she's especially confused by those who see "Tiger Babies Strike Back" as a rebuttal of something she advocates. "I read her excerpt and Keltner strikes me as a really funny person, with a poignant and important perspective," she says. "And anyone who actually reads my whole book would understand that what she has to say is completely consistent with where I ended up. I talk about my father in the last few chapters, and about how he was the outlaw in his own family, how he hated his own Chinese mother and was totally rebellious against his oppressive parents. And what I said was that when this kind of parenting succeeds it succeeds, but when it doesn't, it really doesn't. By the time my father came of age, his parents were basically dead to him. That's something no parent wants to see happen."
It's certainly something she didn't want to see with her younger daughter Lulu, whose defiance in the face of her mother's onslaught ultimately led Chua to rethink her Tiger ways.
"I ultimately chose to go the other way with Lulu," she says. "I didn't want her to break off from our family, which is something that Keltner and others ended up doing at some point in their lives."
But, given seeming evidence to the contrary, like the Kim study, does Chua still think Tiger Parenting works? That's a question that generates — not ambivalence, exactly, but certainly more nuance than is seen in many of the commentaries around "Battle Hymn," both pro and con.
"Well, my first thought is that I'm glad people like Kim are doing these studies!" she says. "I think 'traditional' Asian parenting often is too harsh and oppressive in a nonproductive way, and it's important to highlight the costs. But then again, if it's true that Chinese parents are just like Western ones — and if tiger parenting leads to lower grades — then why are Chinese Americans so wildly over-represented at Stuyvesant and Bronx Science and in the best U.S. conservatories and in the Ivy Leagues? I don't believe that Asians are 'naturally smarter,' or that they're inherently more self-motivated."
There are certainly a few clear issues with Kim's data, which she herself acknowledges: It is a study that focuses on Chinese Americans of a certain background (mostly Hong Kong and Cantonese immigrants) in a particular region, the Bay Area, where Chinese Americans are a plurality and very nearly a majority.
And though her sample is representative of the area and context from which it was drawn, the median income and education levels of the parents in question were significantly lower than the U.S. norm for Chinese Americans, much less Asian Americans.
Kim notes that they controlled for income and socioeconomic status in order to eliminate variables that might impact their analysis of parenting-style distribution — and ultimately found that the basic proportions of Harsh, Tiger, Supportive and Easygoing parents was consistent despite those factors. But in doing so, they also made it impossible to clearly see the impact of those variables on student outcomes.
Class and education clearly play a role in the effectiveness of "Tiger"-style parenting — at least as far as academic achievement. My parents were strict, and had high expectations for my achievement, but they also did much more than just encourage and enforce: They spent hours working with me, answering questions, teaching workarounds, patiently (and sometimes impatiently) putting as much effort into my education as I did. Would that be true of parents who don't speak English, or didn't graduate from high school, or who work 80-hour weeks at a restaurant and come home exhausted? You could make a case that for parents whose backgrounds and cultural context don't allow them to roll up their sleeves and help, being Supportive could certainly produce better results than being Harsh or Tiger.
I generally describe my parenting style as some weird mix of Tiger and Panda (Tinda? Pager?). I'll do whatever's necessary to help my kids achieve their goals — but the goals have to be theirs.
If they want to be championship ballroom dancers or bowhunters or street mimes, more power to them. I'll sew sequins on unitards, I'll set up bullseyes in the backyard. I'll even learn how to press berets and apply pancake makeup. But I'll also expect them to commit to putting in their best effort, and not giving up on their dream just because, you know, it's hard. And at least they'll know I'm in the trenches with them, though — walking against the same high wind, trapped inside the same invisible box, and hopefully finding ways to make the hard parts fun.
And both Chua and Keltner would likely agree.
"That's what I really like about Keltner's book, from what I've seen of it," says Chua. "You can tell it's warm. It's funny. You may be super strict or really lax — and as long as your family has love, warmth and a sense of humor, the kids will be all right."


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Man charged with leaving four young children alone in a car
Published: Saturday, March 2, 2013 at 9:39 p.m.
Last Modified: Saturday, March 2, 2013 at 9:39 p.m.
An Una man is charged with neglect of a child after police officers say he left four children younger than age 6 alone in a car for more than 40 minutes Thursday evening.
According to a report from the Spartanburg Public Safety Department, someone called 911 dispatchers after observing four young children in a parked GMC Yukon at the Dorman Center. Officers found the vehicle parked in a handicapped spot with a 6-year-old, 5-year-old, 2-year-old and 14-month-old inside.
According to the report, the children were crying and afraid, and all the doors were unlocked. The responding officer said it was 38 degrees outside, and the temperature was falling. The children were not dressed appropriately for the weather and no heat was made available, according to the report.
The officer waited with the children for 40 minutes before another officer went into the Game Stop and found Xavier Wynn, 24, of 178 Arcadia St., the father of three of the four children. The other child belonged to his wife's sister. That child was supposed to be babysitting while the women were getting their nails done and shopping.
The mothers were called and the children were released into their custody. Wynn was taken to the Spartanburg County Jail. The incident also was reported to the Department of Social Services.
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Once upon a time I did an operating system upgrade, a minor one that should do no harm, but just get me up to date by fixing any bugs in the version I had been using. It seemed like a good idea.
All seemed to be fine. I use a package provided by an external vendor and not the one produced by the operating system provider as this vendor provides a newer version of the package and I need that. The vendor has to make his package fit in the os environment his package is built for and normally does a pretty good job.
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We are in December and for this month i suggest to keep an eye on the site: http://sysadvent.blogspot.com
This site it's a sysadmin relative of the Perl Advent Calendar: One article for each day of December, ending on the 25th article. With the goals of of sharing, openness, and mentoring, the authors aim to provide great articles about systems administration topics written by fellow sysadmins.
Today i present to you one of their articles of the last year
This article was written by Jordan Sissel (@jordansissel)
In past sysadvents, I've talked about babysitting services and showed how to use supervisord to achieve it. This year, Ubuntu started shipping its release with a new init system called Upstart that has babysitting built in, so let's talk about that. I'll be doing all of these examples on Ubuntu 10.04, but any upstart-using system should work.
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CONCORD -- For the second time in the last two months, a BART train derailed along central Contra Costa County tracks, this time after a train operator attempted to maneuver the train from a side track onto a mainline track without approval, the BART board president said Friday.
No one was injured and preliminary reports show only minor damage to the out-of-service BART train and tracks after it went off the rails around 5 p.m. Thursday, according to police and a BART official.
"To enter the 'revenue tracks' you have to have authorization," said BART board President Joel Keller of Brentwood.
The train, which was not carrying passengers, had been parked on a side track near the North Concord station and was heading back to the Concord shop, which is between the Concord and Pleasant Hill stations, for regular maintenance, Keller said. The train manually attempted to enter the main tracks where trains operate in automatic and are largely controlled by computer, but did not have authorization, Keller said.
"I've been told the switch did its job," said Keller, saying the equipment kept the train from entering the unpermitted area, but caused it to derail. A California Public Utilities Commission spokeswoman said her agency is investigating the incident.
On Feb. 21, a train at the Concord station derailed as it was also heading to a yard, leaving cars strewn across both the westbound and eastbound main tracks and the train's lead car hanging off the edge of the elevated rails. State and BART officials say that investigation is ongoing, but BART officials have said two damaged cars were not repairable and other fixes would cost a "considerable amount of money."
Thursday's derailment happened hours after Cal-OSHA investigators cited the transit agency with three "willful, serious" safety violations and fined them $210,000 for the deaths of two track workers in October.
Keller said he was glad the agency had abated all three violations already, but he said no decision has been made on whether to appeal the fines.
"Hopefully, we won't see anything like that happen again," he said. "It was awful, just awful."
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The Armortec 700 Limited Edition 2008 (3U) has the Armortec 900 Power mixed dark red and black colors with stripes that looks like a dragon scale. On the shaft, an image of a white/silver dragon with fires surrounding the text Armortec 700 Limited. The cover has the printing of dragon and Armortec in gold. Very nice authentic design and use of red, black, and gold(fire) colors. Only 400 pieces are available for the US market.
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STOCKTON – A 38-year-old man stopped at a stoplight at Lafayette and Filbert Streets around 4:45 p.m. Sunday and was carjacked, police said.
Two men approached his car, one from each side, and pointed handguns at him while demanding he relinquish the car. He complied, and they drove off.
Police Community Response Team officers later found the unoccupied car and retrieved it.
One suspect is described as a black man, 20-25 years old, 5 feet 9 inches tall, weighing 170 pounds, wearing a black hooded sweatshirt and black pants. The second is described as a black male, 18 to 23 years old, 5 feet 7 inches tall with black short hair, last ween wearing a gray hooded sweatshirt and dark colored jeans.
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Delaware Valley School District is informally polling the community for feedback on three calendar options for its 2013-14 school year.
The district has posted three calendar options on its website — dvsd.org — and has invited the public to vote for one and leave a comment.
"I thought it was a good time to take the pulse of the community," Superintendent John Bell said.
In one proposed option, the school year starts after Labor Day.
Eliminating the overlap of the official end of the summer tourism season and the start of the school year is something the tourism industry has requested for years.
Often students returning to school end their summer job early, leaving employers short-staffed on one of the busiest weekends of the summer.
But early poll results suggest the public is not leaning toward a post-Labor Day start.
Two other options, both with August starts, were ahead in the polling as of Monday.
"One issue we are studying is what kind of attendance we have on Easter week," Bell said. "We are crunching the numbers right now."
The calendar Delaware Valley has followed for years has a short spring break, starting on the Thursday before Easter and running through the Monday after Easter.
Many parents pull kids out of school for vacation the entire week before or after Easter.
Bell believes that if attendance is lower during both weeks, it may make sense to pick a full week and give parents enough notice so vacations can be planned well in advance. This could increase attendance overall at that time.
Bell asks the public to offer feedback by Friday. He hopes to make a recommendation and possibly see a vote on the calendar at the Dec. 13 school board meeting.
Here are highlights of the proposed calendars:
Option A: Traditional Delaware Valley calendar with school starting before Labor Day. This calendar allows for 10 emergency weather-closing days.
Spring break starts on Thursday, April 17 and runs through Monday April 21.
Students start school on Aug. 26 and end the year on June 13.
Option B: School starts before Labor Day and has a full week of spring break.
This calendar allows for eight emergency weather-closing days. Spring break would be a full week, April 14-18.
Students start school on Aug. 26 and end on June 13.
Option C: School starts after Labor Day and ends a week later in June.
This calendar allows for nine emergency weather-closing days. Spring break starts on Thursday, April 17 and runs through Monday April 21.
Students start school on Sept. 3 and end on June 20.
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Medicaid: Let's try to fix what we have
Published: Thursday, February 7, 2013 at 4:30 a.m.
Last Modified: Wednesday, February 6, 2013 at 1:40 p.m.
A broke guy walks into a car dealership and is immediately hounded by a salesman. "Can I put you in one of our nice used vehicles?" the salesman asks.
Apodaca represents District 48 in the N.C. Senate and is chairman of the Senate Rules Committee.
"No, I'm looking for something a little faster," the man responds. "I've been down on my luck for a good while. I lost my job. I lost my house. I couldn't keep my lights on. But I really think that something in the six-figure range will help me turn my life around."
"How about a Ferrari?" the salesman asks. "We're running a great program where you won't have to put any money down or pay a single dime for the entire first month!"
"A whole month!" the man exclaims. "What a deal! Where do I sign?"
This has never, nor will it ever, happen. Why? Because no self-respecting businessman would ever be so foolish to offer financing to a person who cannot pay his bills. And yet this is what the federal government is promising us in an expansion of Medicaid. Why? Because that's how they do business in Washington. (Remember the housing crisis, anyone?)
Despite a just-released audit of our state's Medicaid program that highlights its inability to control costs, adhere to a budget or even follow the law, the federal government is offering us a lot of taxpayer money to expand the program.
Some say we would be crazy to pass up this opportunity for "free" cash. But I for one haven't seen a tree that grows dollar bills. Even if I had, I'd need to see a lot of them to come close to covering the costs of Medicaid expansion in North Carolina.
The state's Department of Health and Human Services estimates that Obamacare's changes to our Medicaid program could cost the state $1 billion through 2019. But even that figure is misleading. The federal government is hoping to bribe states to buy into this monstrosity by agreeing to foot 100 percent of the costs for newly eligible Medicaid recipients for the first three years.
The real costs don't come until 2020, when the federal government's support shrinks. That leaves North Carolina holding the bag for more than $100 million each year — potentially a lot more if it ever occurs to Washington lawmakers to reduce our deficit. Given the current fiscal realities, not even the most stubborn of liberals can delay that day of reckoning much longer. The federal government will soon be forced to get real about its spending habits. And when that happens, you can bet it will push more of the Medicaid burden to us.
Unlike the big spenders in Congress, our state's General Assembly is required to balance its budget. And we're also trying our best to get Medicaid costs under control. This should not be rocket science. Every one of us knows what happens when you live beyond your means.
And yet, because of the failure of previous state leaders, Medicaid has been an utter disaster, racking up huge deficits and sucking money from other state priorities like our schools and universities, bridges and roads, and public safety.
Just last year, we were forced to fill a $500 million hole in the state Medicaid budget. That wasn't just a one-time occasion. It's become an annual exercise in banging our heads against the wall.
And now we're talking about expanding it?
One lesson I learned early on is the first rule when you're in a hole is to stop digging. So let's put down the shovel. Rather than gamble with taxpayer money to double down on failure, let's focus on fixing what we already have. The Ferrari can wait.
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