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Beginnings and Endings. And Traveling in Between.
I love to travel. Love it. Seeing new places, eating new food, cramming clothes in a suitcase with plans in my head. For various reasons – namely money and real jobs – I am not as extensively traveled as some I know, but pre-Jude, Scott and I would take trips whenever we could, some not far from home, and some a little farther.
It's so hard to try and imagine how your life will change after having a child. I think it's actually pointless to predict it because parenting is something that, for me anyway, kind of evolves on its own. I expected to drop the baby off at Grandma's house often for a night out or a longer trip away. I expected to want "me" time really frequently. I expected to feel a little trapped and overwhelmed in this role. But life surprises you sometimes and things don't always progress the way you expect them to.
So when we first began to talk about a trip to celebrate my thirtieth birthday, I never even thought about leaving Jude at home. Not that couple time isn't a good thing, of course. But he's so young and so a part of us that I jumped in with both feet and dragged a toddler to Costa Rica.
I know everyone has varying opinions on this, but I love traveling with a baby. We took him to Seattle when he was nine months old, and things went well, so I wasn't really thinking about any reasons not to take him this time. That said, as I began to plan the trip and share details with others, some people told me in not-so-confusing terms that they thought I was crazy or even unfair to my child to drag him along. I did it any way, and I'm so glad I did.
My thirtieth birthday trip to Costa Rica was such a fun adventure. But I learned a few subtle lessons, too.
As we landed in Liberia and waited in line at customs, I saw two young couples arriving from the states as well. The women were complete from head to toe with beachwear on their backs, coordinated luggage, and glossy lipstick. Obviously four childless folks vacationing together with grand plans of piña coladas at the shore and deep tans to bring home as souvenirs. And as I looked at them with my toddler in the carrier on my back, I glanced at a shadow of my former self. One without worries of proper water safety and preserving the sacred nap time. One who remembered to wear lipstick and didn't find my bra hanging out of a stained shirt after a four-hour flight with a busy kid.
And those travel days with fewer worries and more time? They were lovely. I've cruised the Seine at night with Paris illuminated before me. I've strolled Nantucket's cobblestone streets with not a single concern in my mind. I've lingered far too long over a bottle of wine with friends in a restaurant that would never work with my child in tow. I've sipped tea leisurely in Grantchester Orchard with a stack of school books in my bag. I've walked the gulf sand with girlfriends and cold beer and silence punctuated with some of my life's best conversations. And all of those moments were just as perfect as they sound, lasting stamps in my mind.
But here we are at a new place with some pretty beautiful moments as well.
Was every second of the trip perfection? I'd be lying if I said so. There were no fewer than three tantrums on the plane ride there. There was a rushed dinner that felt far too long because we traded off toddler-duty, walking rounds to satisfy a tired and cranky boy. There was the constant need for a pacifier so that he'd stop eating random, potentially dangerous things. Relaxing poolside is impossible when he's vulnerable and can't swim, and admittedly I relished the glorious hour of naptime when I lounged and read alone under the hot sun. Traveling with a child is not for the faint of heart. But then again, neither is motherhood. Just when the newborn haze wears off, you get the hang of things, and then the mobility begins and you wonder how you got here. You find a way to make it work though. Now I just look for a playground in walking distance from my relaxing beachside margarita.
Our first day in Costa Rica, we were poolside next to an older couple from Indiana. They commented on Jude's cuteness, and we began talking. They spoke of grandchildren back home they missed, the ten-day tour of Costa Rica they were ending, and the beautiful sights they'd seen. And as we spoke, I realized something. Life moves on. And these stages, however easy or hard they may be, only last for a little while. Right now I have this wiggly daredevil who wants to run and scream and play, and it's fun but exhausting. Soon I will have an active swimmer who won't stress me out so much in the pool or make a scene in a restaurant, but I'm sure I'll miss chubby little hands and feet. And later still, I hope to travel with a teenager who can hold his own in a conversation with me and understand the historical significance of some of the world's greatest places. And much, much later, we'll have those childless trips again, wandering city streets and seeing sights without worrying about taking care of someone else.
So I guess if there's one thing I've learned in this few weeks of my thirtieth year it's that this might be the end of certain parts of my life, but it's only the beginning of a lot more. That and I love belonging to my little family, whether we are near or far.
Anna Nanavati permalinkApril 15, 2011 3:56 pm
Your post made me cry. It is so true. It is so easy to get caught in the moment that you miss the moments. Thanks for the reminder.
We have just been dreaming of a beach vacation and I can't fathom not taking our 2 year old. He would love the beach and being by a pool all day! Your son is lucky that you chose to bring him to Costa Rica. (Not saying couple time is bad at all!!!) What a cool adventure!
We recently took my son to India. His grandparents are there so there also was no option not to take him but he loved it. He still talks of it months later and I believe that even if he doesn't remember the trip, the sense of adventure will creap in to their spirit! Happy Late birthday and I'm so glad you had a great trip!!
Cathy permalinkApril 15, 2011 11:41 pm
I'm so glad it was such a lovely trip, Katie! Your pictures are making me want to go to Costa Rica (and I am not much of a traveler).
I love what you're saying here – I've often had to pause during these last few months and remind myself that Jack won't be 6 months old forever, so I should enjoy cuddling with him while I can.
I'm learning slowly too that I know what works for our little family, and so I'll do what I think is best in spite of the naysayers. I'm glad you guys had so much fun, and I'm sure Jude enjoyed it.
April 16, 2011 11:10 pm
Great post! We have taken our daughter on every trip we've ever made since she's been born. It's been wonderful and I wouldn't trade these experiences. Next month we're celebrating our 25th anniversary and we're taking a little trip without her. It is going to feel so weird! But soon she'll be in college and that will feel weirder yet.

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Time Period and Culture
Since one of Austen's favorite themes was satire on the time period in which she lived, it is important to have an understanding of some of the customs, achievements, social expectations, and manners of the Regency period. The Regency period lasted from 1811 until 1820, the time during which Jane Austen's novels were published, and so it is the period assigned to her writings. This period directly preceded the Victorian period, and it is similar in many ways, but it does have some unique characteristics that should not be ignored.
The British Empire had lost the United States, but was not quite ready to accept this loss. The result was the War of 1812, a war which resulted in yet another British defeat and no significant gains for either side. Alongside the pressure of Napoleon rising to power, the monarchy felt the pressure of trying to keep the people under control. Any attempt at giving the citizens of England more freedom was generally viewed as treason.
The subject of Jane Austen's stance on politics revealed through her literature is hotly debated and is the topic of several books. The general consensus, however, is that Austen commented on society rather than the government. Her books probably provided an entertaining escape for the people of the era.
Regency era society was marked by extreme excess in the upper classes and a wide gap between rich and poor. Austen's works tend to ignore the lower classes and focus almost totally on the upper-middle to upper classes.
Women had a difficult role in society; they were almost totally dependent on men. Women could not honorably work, except perhaps as governesses, tutors, and writers. As we see in Pride and Prejudice and Sense and Sensibility, women could not inherit property either. For financial security, the only option was to marry, and to marry well. In fact, this expectation is addressed in the famous opening sentence of Pride and Prejudice: "It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of good fortune must be in want of a wife." Austen is speaking ironically, of course. What she is saying is that a woman must be in want of a single man with a good fortune. In the novel, Mrs. Bennet, a mother of five girls, has no business so important as to get all of her daughters married, and she worries and frets over this matter constantly. Austen feels that women do have a choice, however; her heroines often reject those suitors who could support them financially but for whom they have no love.
One of the most prominent features of the time period was the propriety expected between members of the opposite sex. This was the beginning of the social restrictions that were one of the defining characteristics of the Victorian period, which directly followed the Regency period. A young unmarried women should not be alone with a man without a chaperone; likewise, women were never to travel unescorted. Extended correspondence between two members of the opposite sex was seen as a sure sign of engagement. This explains why many of the letters in Austen's works go unanswered. It would be improper for an unmarried man and woman to write many letters back and forth. A double standard was in place, however, when it came to purity and chastity; a woman who was discovered to have had an extramarital affair was shunned and considered unmarriageable. If the woman was already married, infidelity was grounds for divorce. However, in the men's case, an affair was overlooked and hardly even a blot on his reputation. Jane Austen's writings are quite proper for the time period; no explicit love scenes, not even a kiss, are included in her novels. However, a few incidents occur, such as elopement and affairs, but they are never more than hinted at, and the reader must be very alert to note that these events take place.
Jane's novels must be looked at through the lens of the times, or behavior of their characters may not make sense to the modern reader. It is not enough to read her stories as mere romances; to truly appreciate the satire and caricature, one must know what Jane is making light of from the era.
British Regency. (2008, June 24). In Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Retrieved 20:57, August 10, 2008, from http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=British_Regency&oldid=221512173
Calvin, June (2003, May 15). Definition of the Regency. Retrieved August 10, 2008, from June Calvin's Regency World Web site: http://home.telepath.com/~jlwc/definition.htm
Dean, Jenny (1999, June 13). Jane Austen and the female condition. Retrieved August 10, 2008, from University of Alabama in Huntsville Web site: http://www.uah.edu/colleges/liberal/education/S1998/jennyd.html
Robens, Myretta (2004). Notes on Pride and Prejudice. Retrieved August 9, 2008, from The Republic of Pemberly Web site: http://www.pemberley.com/janeinfo/pptopics.html
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Adios amigo, adios my friend
The road we have travelled has come to an end
When two love the same love, one love has to lose
And it's you who she longs for, it's you she will choose
Adios compadre, what must be must be
Remember to name one muchacho for me
I ride to the rio where my life i must spend
Adios amigo, adios my friend
Adios compadre, let us shed no tears
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away from these memories my life i must spend
adios amigo adios my friend.
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The Politics of Wealthy Americans
Perspectives on Politics has published an important RSF-funded paper entitled "Democracy and the Policy Preferences of Wealthy Americans." Written by Benjamin Page, Larry Bartels and Jason Seawright, the study reports findings from a groundbreaking effort to provide "systematic evidence on the policy preferences of really wealthy Americans." Here is the abstract:
It is important to know what wealthy Americans seek from politics and how (if at all) their policy preferences differ from those of other citizens. There can be little doubt that the wealthy exert more political influence than the less affluent do. If they tend to get their way in some areas of public policy, and if they have policy preferences that differ significantly from those of most Americans, the results could be troubling for democratic policy making. Recent evidence indicates that "affluent" Americans in the top fifth of the income distribution are socially more liberal but economically more conservative than others. But until now there has been little systematic evidence about the truly wealthy, such as the top 1 percent. We report the results of a pilot study of the political views and activities of the top 1 percent or so of US wealth-holders. We find that they are extremely active politically and that they are much more conservative than the American public as a whole with respect to important policies concerning taxation, economic regulation, and especially social welfare programs. Variation within this wealthy group suggests that the top one-tenth of 1 percent of wealth-holders (people with $40 million or more in net worth) may tend to hold still more conservative views that are even more distinct from those of the general public. We suggest that these distinctive policy preferences may help account for why certain public policies in the United States appear to deviate from what the majority of US citizens wants the government to do. If this is so, it raises serious issues for democratic theory.
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Lord of the Goats, as the English title might be known, seems to be a multi-player version of Burkhardt's Kupferkessel & Co.. Players create a gameboard by mixing up to 18 different types of goats (with each type having tiles worth 1-5), then laying out tiles in a 7x7 square (or 6x6 square with two players). Each player places her large goat at a starting location around the grid that varies depending on the number of players. Players also have two goat tiles in hand.
On a turn, a player lays down one tile, then moves her big goat around the edge of the display a number of spaces equal to the number on the tile. She then claims one of the tiles in that row and adds it to her hand, replacing it with a tile from those not used in the initial grid. If a player now has eight points of a certain type of goat lying in front of her, she uses her small goats to claim the remaining goats of that type in the grid. (If some tiles are in the stack, she can claim them when they come on the board later.) If four tiles of a goat type have been played without a single player having eight points, then the player with the most points will be able to claim the final tile. In both scoring situations, players on the losing end of the goat-type calculation throw any tiles of that type in the box and score nothing for them.
Two other types of tiles are dogs and milk jugs. Play a milk jug (worth 1 or 2), and you move your large goat like normal and take a new tile; at game's end, the player with the most milk jugs scores points equal to the total of her milk points, while the players with the second most milk scores half his total. Play a dog, and you get to swap one of your small goats (and the tile it's on) with another tile on the board; any tiles that you've claimed that are next to your stall (or chained to your stall by other goats belonging to you) are worth twice as many points. Players tally their points at the end of the game, and whoever has the most is the new lord of the goats!
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Gunter Burkhardt
Year: 2008
Players: 2 - 5
Time: 40 minutes
Ages: 8 and up
Weight: 735 grams
Language Requirements: Game components are language-independent. An English translation of the rules is provided.
- 90 goat cards (5 cards each of 18 types of goat, values 1-5)
- 15 dog cards
- 16 milk cards
- 5 large wooden goats (per 1 player in 5 colors)
- 50 smaller wooden goats (10 each player in the 5 colors)
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Introduced in early September 2008 at CEDIA, the VAIO VGC-LV150LV is the middle model in the VAIO LV Series from Sony. Aimed at enthusiasts and those who want the latest technology in a stylish all-in-one enclosure, the Sony VAIO VGC-LV150 includes all that is required for fast computing, content creation, watching high definition media and even light gaming.
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Gordon Murray's new company Murrion Software has a blog called Murmurs.
Arguing on the Internet. A guide.
Good List of speakers so far for 3D Camp in Limerick. On June 9th.
Via David: New website for parents of kids with Autism living in West Cork.
New blog: At least to me – Superboreen.
Offset 2009 in Dublin. Designy goodness. This looks great.
Yer man Hurley from Lost has a blog. Talks about food a lot. Now now.
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About Flowserve
Flowserve participates in the 25th Edition Gastech Conference and Exhibition
Flowserve to participate in the 25th Edition Gastech Conference and Exhibition, scheduled March 21-24, 2011, at the Amsterdam RAI in the Netherlands.
The 25th Edition Gastech Conference and Exhibition, sponsored by Shell, will be attended by the full spectrum of the global gas community to discuss business trends and learn more about the latest commercial and technological developments in the industry. Centers of Technical Excellence (CoTE) on the exhibition floor will showcase focused sessions featuring case studies and technical innovations on various groundbreaking topics.
Mr. Ian Robbins, Director of Technology Advantage at Flowserve, will give a presentation about Online Assurance™ programs for advanced condition monitoring of critical service cryogenic pumps and liquid expanders on March 22, 2011, in the Cryogenics Center of Technical Excellence in Theater B. Attendees will hear best practices for increasing the uptime of critical plant assets through the application of leading-edge predictive monitoring and diagnostic tools with custom-designed algorithms that predict failure and life expectancy. They will learn how the integration of these technologies with advanced visualization tools allows experts to collaborate in real-time on asset performance, thereby enhancing system reliability and increasing plant reliability.


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Trotman's Trials
The Ford chief's reorganization is sputtering, and he needs a successor
These are trying times for Alexander J. Trotman. The Ford Motor Co. chairman's year-old sweeping global reorganization is getting an overhaul, causing widespread confusion and anger among employees and suppliers. Sales of the redesigned Taurus remain lackluster, even with a $600 rebate. Then there's the vexing question of what to do about Mazda, the troubled Japanese auto maker in which Ford has a 25% stake. Now, Trotman has something else to worry about: finding a successor.
As Trotman struggles to entice price-wary buyers and jump-start his reorganization, sources close to the board say he is under growing pressure from directors on the succession question. The issue has become so hot that one Ford senior executive even recently risked the ire of the often-authoritarian Trotman, who turns 63 in July, by giving him a nudge. A source close to Ford says the exec told Trotman: "Alex, you've only got two years left. Every month you wait is 5% less time you'll have to train a successor."
Trotman's No.2 executive, Edward E. Hagenlocker, 56, is out of the running. Sources close to the board say Hagenlocker is destined for the vice-chairman's job, a position Ford traditionally uses to ease senior executives into retirement. Trotman's path to the top was cleared in 1992 when his chief rival, Allan D. Gilmour, was named Ford vice-chairman. Gilmour ultimately took early retirement after Trotman became chairman and CEO on Nov. 1, 1993. Hagenlocker is taking the blame for the rocky implementation of Trotman's Ford 2000 global reorganization. In any case, Ford's board has never viewed Hagenlocker, a shy intellectual, as dynamic enough to be CEO. A Ford spokesman declined to comment on Hagenlocker's future.
CONTENDERS. Group Vice-President Jacques A. Nasser, 48, appears to be the fastest climber among Ford's senior executives. Insiders see him as odds-on favorite to eventually succeed Trotman. CFO John M. Devine, 51, is also considered a candidate. Nasser, a blunt-talking Australian who loves fast cars and fine clothes, is a favorite of Trotman and the board. He also won over Wall Street analysts with a recent all-day session in Dearborn, Mich., where he promised his new global product-development organization, a linchpin of the Ford 2000 global reorganization, will slash $11 billion in costs over the next five years.
Nasser has managed to escape blame for Ford 2000's problems partly because he was not an architect of the original plan. Hagenlocker may be taking a fall because he was. After moving 15,000 employees into five worldwide product-development centers last year, Ford is reversing itself and returning to a setup similar to its original one. By this summer, insiders say, Trotman will pare the product-development unit down to three centers. Having too many centers, Ford found, led to duplicated work and turf battles. "Our organization needs to evolve...to achieve our ambitious goals," says Nasser.
The reorganization of Ford 2000 has left employees bitter. "People are wondering who they work for," says a consultant to Ford. "There's a widespread perception that things are out of control." Uncertainty is heightened by layoff fears, since Ford says it plans to thin its engineering ranks by 21% by the end of next year, mostly by axing outside contractors. And suppliers complain that they don't know who to call on at Ford as it reorganizes its reorganization. "You can't find anybody anymore," grouses one. "All you ever get is voice mail."
Despite the turmoil, Trotman's future, for now, seems secure. He has managed to stay out of deep trouble with the board and the Ford family, sources close to the situation say, largely because he prepared them to expect transition problems with Ford 2000. The family remains concerned about how the company will adapt to Trotman's changes but seems willing to give him room to prove himself. "The Ford family is fully supportive of Alex Trotman," says Edsel B. Ford II, a board member and president of Ford Motor Credit Co. "We are very pleased with the progress of Ford 2000."
It doesn't hurt that Ford's stock price has climbed to around 34, from 28 in January. It will take longer--six months, at least--for profits to spring back to life. Analysts figure earnings will fall 75% in the first quarter, to $327 million, as Ford struggles with the cost of launching new models and offering extensive rebates. There is little chance the company can abandon the incentives, given Taurus' slow sales. And there are other signs the rebates aren't working as well as expected, including the worrisome news that a generous $1,000 giveback on Ford's Windstar isn't drawing many customers from Chrysler Corp.'s minivans.
MARKETING MAN. Meanwhile, Trotman has other problems, chief among them Mazda. Under Ford 2000, Mazda is losing its important role of developing small cars for Ford. That job, which many viewed as the essential glue in the Ford-Mazda partnership, is being taken over by Ford's European product-development center. Finding a buyer for Ford's stake in Mazda would be tough: It lost more than $1.1 billion in its past two fiscal years and hopes only to break even in the fiscal year ending Mar. 31.
Trotman pledges to stick with his Japanese partner. "We've had a close relationship over the past 20 years, and we'll have more of the same," he says. Exactly how that relationship will evolve, Ford and Mazda aren't saying. But industry analysts speculate that Ford will take a firmer hand in reshaping Mazda into a maker of mass-appeal models and less a purveyor of trendy niche cars such as the Miata sports car. Some even say Ford's top executive working inside Mazda, Henry D.G. Wallace, could become Mazda's CEO.
Back home, Trotman is doing plenty of management shuffling. He moved to boost sales in the sagging Lincoln-Mercury Div. on Mar. 25 when he promoted James G. O'Connor to vice-president in charge of the unit. The glib O'Connor, 53, just finished overseeing Ford's big push into the hot Brazilian market and is expected to bring fresh marketing flair to Lincoln-Mercury's faded brands, which suffered a 9.2% sales decline last year. Ford sent O'Connor's predecessor, Keith C. Magee, 49, to Europe as vice-president for sales and marketing there.
But it will take more than a management shakeup to get Ford's house in order. Trotman has to keep his reorganization on track. If he doesn't, the board could speed up the search for his replacement.


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The Washington County Sheriff's Office wants to work with local high schools to develop a leadership program that is beneficial to both students and law enforcement.
The program would put deputies in touch with formal and informal student leaders to help them build up leadership skills while learning how to help steer their peers away from drugs, violence and bullying, said sheriff's Capt. Troy Hawkins. In addition to students earning a certificate they could include with resumes and college applications, there are advantages for the deputies, he said.
"One, it'll give a little more deputy presence in the schools," Hawkins said. "It helps us identify more exact, more precise problems from within an individual school from getting feedback from that student body."
Increasing law enforcement's presence in schools has been an area of focus since the December mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary in Newton, Conn. Deputies have access to office space at Warren High School and periodically touch base with other schools.
Hawkins has already been in talks with Warren High School Principal Ben Cunningham about the program. Cunningham said specifics are still being ironed out, but he likes the concept.
"Having positive relationships with law enforcement, the opportunity for students to gain and demonstrate leadership skills ... it's a win-win situation," he said.
Hawkins also plans to reach out to Fort Frye, Frontier and Waterford high schools. The program could eventually expand to include Belpre and Marietta as well.
The format will vary on a school-by-school basis, Hawkins said. In some cases there may be in-school activities; in others, after school could work best.
"It's still in the development stages," he said.
Hawkins envisions students meeting certain goals to earn their certificate, such as speaking to school groups or new students about subjects like dealing with peer pressure to use drugs or alcohol. He also expects to discuss newer drugs like bath salts with them and strategies for recognizing and dealing with bullying.
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There is your kiss. Now if you don't get another, you won't be too disappointed.
The pics today are from my archives. A snowy winter last year gave me some good photo ops! Although it is snowing now, we
don't expect much accumulation.
Crossing my fingers anyway ;) because I scored a red coat with
rabbit fur around it's hood for five dollars and want to do a photo
shoot with somebody using it. The label said it was made in Russia!
I don't think I've ever had anything with a label from there.
And now you've gotten flowers!
Print them out and tuck them in the corner
of your bathroom mirror where you'll see them
and feel loved.
My nephew used to have a note on his mirror
that reminded him to put on deodorant,
in the days before it had become a solid
habit for him.
HA! Solid!
Get it? As in, not a gel?
(I'll be here all weekend :/
Tumblers...now there is something you rarely hear of
anyone collecting.
These are my mother's. I haven't been able to sneak
them out.
Yeah, I'd break them anyway, right?
Now you will all tell me how you know ten
people with huge collections of them...go ahead...
they are so pretty, especially when light comes through them.
Here is your question for conversation today...or
as Monica Lewinsky would say, "talking points".
This is all I have in common with her as far as I know...although
her eyebrows are really incredible and I wouldn't mind
sharing that trait too.
The question!
Would you rather collect these glass tumblers,
majolica... or flow blue plates?
I don't want to hear a word about your dusty
shelves either.
I am so allergic.


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This month's feature paper comes from PhD student Michael Mitchell, Allan Curtis, and Penny Davidson, entitled Evaluating the process of triple bottom line reporting: Increasing the potential for change. Contact Michael for a copy of this article or view it at the link below.AbstractThis paper presents an evaluation framework that aims to improve the outcomes of triple bottom line (TBL) reporting. Currently, most assessments of TBL reporting focus on report content. Our view is that effective evaluation of TBL reporting should go beyond reports as the outputs of a process and focus on what is being learned through the process, the capacity- and relationship-building that might eventuate, and how this impacts on the development of sustainability. To enable more effective reflection of TBL reporting processes, we developed a set of evaluation criteria focused on the process of reporting. These criteria were identified from case studies of social, environmental and/or sustainability reporting processes documented in the literature. A large number of potential criteria were synthesised into three desired outcomes of TBL reporting and 10 prompts for discussion and reflection during evaluation. This evaluation framework should assist those dedicated to challenging assumptions that inhibit progress towards a sustainable future for society. Mitchell, M., Curtis, A., and Davidson, P. (2008). Evaluating the process of triple bottom line reporting: Increasing the potential for change. Local Environment, 13(2), 67-80.
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Erdos: Creature preacher gets the lowdown on sharks and snails
Perhaps you recall reading this headline in last week's U-T:
I've heard stories of alligators skulking around the links, and I recall an incident where a bobcat was once spotted on the fairway.
But sharks? Falling out of the sky?
This is why I don't play golf.
But the story was factual, complete with photos. Turns out some sort of giant bird was carrying the fish aloft when it dropped it on a golf course in San Juan Capistrano.
Employees discovered the 2-foot-long leopard shark flopping around on the 12th tee, so they quickly put it in a bucket of water. But then, one of the more astute workers figured out it's an ocean-dwelling creature, so he quickly added salt to the water. That leads to the question of whether he was really trying to save the shark or attempting to make bouillabaisse.
The latter theory takes on even greater credibility when we learn that the employee, in addition to putting salt in the water, also added carrots, onions, and diced tomatoes.
OK, I made that last part up. In truth, I'm sure they were really trying to save the shark since they did rush it to the ocean, where, according to the article, it swam off safely.
I guess accolades are in order for those thoughtful employees who went to such extreme lengths to save that innocent creature, the same creature that's on sale through Wednesday at Vons for $5.99 a pound.
While we're on the subject of creature stories, another one that caught my attention was the informative article in Wednesday's U-T cautioning readers about a serious menace:
"Officials warn residents to carefully inspect citrus trees for Huanglongbing," the article states.
This is why I question why I moved to California. Earthquakes, fires, sharks on the golf course, and now Huanglongbing.
The story explains that Huanglongbing is a serious citrus disease and offers the telephone number of the Department of Food & Agriculture with the suggestion they be called in the event anyone spots it. Unfortunately, the article never described what Huanglongbing looks like.
So when I noticed a rather ominous looking creature on one of my oranges, I decided to err on the side of safety and give the agricultural folks a ring.
"I believe I may have Huanglongbing disease," I said to the young lady answering the phone.
"Are you allergic to penicillin?" she replied.
OK, I made that up too. She never asked me about penicillin, but she did say the creature I mentioned was not Huanglongbing, since I was apparently describing a garden snail.
"We're Huanglongbing-free," I said to my wife.
"Orange you glad?" she answered.
(No, I didn't make that part up.)
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Right after the birth of our first child and during my final year of fellowship, I was diagnosed with an extremely rare and aggressive cancer. I could write many things about this: the difficulty of going from full-time physician to full-time patient and the loss of professional identity that comes with that. Knowing enough about what's going on medically to be terrified, but not enough to be able to sort through the data on my own. Dealing with insurance companies from the other end. How my views about aggressive treatment, for what I know is an abysmal prognosis, suddenly changed when I pictured my child growing up without her mother. And the emotional discomfort I know I cause some of my clinicians, because they cannot help but see themselves in me. But these are hard realities of life, not things that can be "fixed" by my medical colleagues. Instead, I want to focus on an incredibly frustrating thing that the medical community can do something about: the "lack of data" regarding rare diseases, which now defines my life and care.
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Thirty-eight years after Neil Armstrong took his "one small step for a man" on the Moon, Sunita Williams is getting ready to take several thousand much quicker steps for womankind while orbiting the Earth.
A week tomorrow, Williams, a 41-year-old US Navy commander and Nasa astronaut, will be running the 42km distance of a marathon aboard the International Space Station. She will be performing her remarkable feat 240km above the Earth and as competitor No 14,000 in the Boston Marathon.
When Williams is strapped on to the treadmill on the International Space Station, with her race number pinned to her vest, she will be taking sport to the outer limits.
The Boston Marathon is the world's oldest annual marathon - it started in 1897 - and it has strict entry standards for its 24,000 participants. Having qualified for this year's race with a time of 3h 29m 57s in last year's Houston Marathon, Williams was not going to let a space flight stop her taking her place.
When she was chosen as one of the three-person crew for ISS Expedition 14 - a six-month tour that started in December - she asked the Boston Athletic Association, if she could compete as a long-distant entrant. It agreed, sending her race number by email to the International Space Station.
"I consider it a huge honour to qualify, and I didn't want my qualification to expire without giving it a shot," Williams said.
The International Space Station, flying at a speed of more than 28,000km/h will orbit the Earth at least twice while Williams pounds out her marathon on the treadmill, to which she will be tethered by a harness to overcome the lack of gravity.
"Running on the treadmill is a little tough," she said. The first time I got on it, I couldn't run a mile [1.6km] and my legs were wobbling. Now I've got up to about 15 miles on it."
"We have the treadmill because we need to exercise a lot to stop losing bone mass and muscle mass. You can't run as fast on it, so it's going to take me longer than it did when I ran my qualifying time."
Still, if she lasts the distance, Williams will have another record to add to her list - the fastest marathon out of this world.
She holds the records for the most space walks by a woman (four) and most time spent on space walks by a woman (29h, 17m). By the end of her present tour she will also hold the Nasa record for the longest time spent in space by an astronaut of either sex.


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Heart Praise scholarships to 6 St Thomas students
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Members of Healthy Music Group, who have been positively impacting the lives of St Thomas residents, have made good on their promise to use proceeds from this year's staging of the annual Heart Praise Worship Fest to provide scholarships for some Grade Six Achievement Test (GSAT) students.
Six students will, this week, be presented with the two-year Heart Praise Great Start scholarships valued at $30,000 each to cover tuition and books.
The St Thomas-based group, comprising young Christian men and women, wanted to give scholarships to 10 students. However, that number had to be revised because the projected amount was not realised.
Gospel recording artiste and founder of Healthy Music Group Rondell Allen, who goes by the stage name Rondell Positive, told the Jamaica Observer North East that this year, scholarship recipients were drawn from Morant Bay, Yallahs, Airy Castle, Trinityville, and Golden Grove primary schools. Five of them gained places at Morant Bay High while one student will be going to Yallahs High.
Allen explained that the criteria for selecting the students were based on their financial needs as well as academic performances.
The recommendations, he said, were made by the guidance counsellors of the respective schools who have first-hand knowledge of the students' needs.
One of the scholarships was split between two boys from Morant Bay Primary as the decision to choose just one was a challenge in itself.
"Both boys had similar averages and they fell in the same needy situation," said Allen, who is also a teacher at Morant Bay Primary.
Although another criterion is for the recipients to exhibit good behaviour, Allen said the Jamaica Observer's recent inspirational story of St Thomas native Dr Peter Nelson, who gained a doctorate in chemistry at age 25 despite not having been the best behaving student at primary school, has caused them to review that decision. As a result, one of this year's recipient was selected more on academic achievement than behaviour.
"We think we can give a child with some behavioural issue a chance to transform himself," he said.
Meanwhile, Allen said they will certainly be pushing to increase the number of scholarships for next year.
"There were several students who would have qualified for the scholarships, and so, some schools had such a drastic decision to make, so much so that they were asking us to select the child through an essay writing competition," he said.
And based on the feedback on the concert within the parish, Allen said the group is confident that it will be able to make enough from the next staging to give at least 10 scholarships for next year. They are also hoping to get sponsorship for the annual event.
"Right now, most of the money to do this comes from our pockets, and so the intention is to get corporate Jamaica to be more involved," he said.
The Healthy Music Group comprises 24 members from several religious denominations in the parish, who came together because of their involvement in different aspects of working with youth.
Group member and guidance counsellor at Morant Bay High Lesa James-Richardson said their aim is to ensure that the parish they reside in will be a better place.
"As long as I live in St Thomas it must be better. Can you imagine if every person would say as long as I live here it must be better?" she said.
"I believe we all should take the attitude to say these children are all ours, and if we say let's 'adopt' a child, our country would be on a positive path to ensure our children are educated and well cared for," she said.
Another project the group plans on funding from the proceeds of Heart Praise Worship Fest is an initiative dubbed Care A Hair to offer haircuts to young boys.
Allen said he got the idea after he paid for a disruptive student to get a haircut and immediately saw the difference it made in the child's behaviour.
He noted that they have already identified the boys to benefit from the Care A Hair initiative come September.
"We have more than 100 boys who need this assistance with haircuts at least every two weeks... many of them don't get a haircut in four months because their parents cannot afford to send them to the barber," he explained.
According to Allen, a main aim of the group is to organise a charity to address many of these needs in the parish.
"We will get Eastern Jamaica to the place where it ought to be because we can't wait on politicians," he said.
Allen said the group members' children also actively participate in the projects as a deliberate move to expose them to a greater appreciation of the need to help others.
"We know that when they get older they will continue to assist," Allen said.
The group's focus is also being extended beyond just helping children to improving families. As such, Allen said they are currently planning to host a marriage seminar for people who are married, contemplating marriage, or are afraid of getting married.
"The aim is to deal with all marriages, not just Christian marriages, because there is a stigma that marriages don't work but that is not true," said Allen.
Plans are also on the table to stage a paediatric run or walk in St Thomas as the group said they are aiming to raise $3 million for the paediatric ward at Princess Margaret Hospital in the parish.
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When those affected by the September 2004 flood born out of the last vestiges of Hurricane Ivan begin to talk about those dark days five years ago, they recall the shock, the devastation and the frustration.
But usually, they can also find something to smile about.
For Ellen McVicar, a first-grade teacher at Marietta's Harmar Elementary School, that smile comes when thinking about her late aunt, a retired teacher living at that time in the Westerville area. When she heard her niece's classroom, located in the basement of the west side school, had been filled with nearly two feet of water, she and a friend, Pam, got together a group to help.
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Harmar Elementary first-grade teacher Jean Caldwell, left, talks to a student Friday in her basement classroom. Five years ago, the room's wall was damaged by nearly two feet of water in the building, resulting in the lower portion being removed. Until it was replaced, Caldwell covered the opening with paper to keep her students from being distracted by their peers passing in the hallway.
"Pam and my aunt Ann came down with this van-load of supplies," McVicar said.
Floodwaters entered the building through backed-up drains and came up to the bottoms of the first-graders' desks. The water sloshed into the compartments, soaking and ruining supplies like crayons, paper and painting shirts.
"The kids didn't realize we had lost everything," McVicar said. "They were reaching into their desks and there's nothing there."
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The worst flood in 40 years
Five years ago Saturday, a good portion of downtown Marietta was under water.
Businesses and homes from Belpre to Macksburg were inundated by the worst flooding in 40 years. Matters were made worse by the fact that many of those hit hardest went to bed two nights earlier thinking there would be little, if any, problems.
The impact of the September 2004 flood can still be seen today - whether it's the "Ivan was here" markers on Front Street or the nearly empty town of Elba.
This edition of The Marietta Times looks back on those days and the community's efforts to rebuild and recover.
Anatomy of a disaster
More than a week earlier, the remnants of Hurricane Frances dropped nearly 4 inches of rain on the region. In Frances' wake came Hurricane Ivan, once again battering the southeastern United States.
As early as Sept. 14, the National Weather Service began issuing flood watches for the Ohio River as Ivan moved across the Gulf of Mexico.
What was left of the storm reached the Mid-Ohio Valley three days later, dumping almost 5 inches of rain. The National Weather Service predicted the Ohio River at Marietta would crest just above the 35-foot flood stage.
That afternoon, however, the forecast called for the water to crest more than a foot below flood stage. Many people breathed a sigh of relief, thinking the area had dodged a bullet.
It was 10 p.m. when the weather service issued a new forecast, this one predicting a crest at 41.5 feet.
On the morning of Sept. 18, the rain had passed, but the water kept rising, fueled by heavy rains to the north.
Water spilled over the banks of the Ohio, the strong current tearing away riverbank sediment and depositing it in homes and businesses. Nearly 1,000 structures in Washington County alone were affected, with Monroe, Morgan and Noble counties and Wood and Pleasants counties in West Virginia also battered by flooding.
When the river finally crested on Sept. 19, it reached 44.97 feet. It was the worst flooding in Marietta in 40 years.
And that was only the beginning of the story.
For a couple of days, the students shared supplies. But then McVicar's aunt and her friend arrived, bringing enough items to supply both first-grade classes and stock the school's supply room. A group from the Barlow-Vincent area also donated books, some of which McVicar still has in her classroom today.
"That's what people should do in a tragedy," McVicar said. "It would have been a real hardship for some of the families to purchase those supplies again."
The donors' actions also provided an opportunity to teach the students, McVicar said.
"I think it was a lesson learned that way too, that people were very giving toward us," she said.
Home and work
Belpre resident Barbara Griener can also see positives when she thinks back to five years ago.
She and her husband, Doug, received a "double whammy" as water filled the basement of their Blennerhassett Avenue condo and their business Turqoise Spirit, on Front Steet in Marietta.
Then it kept going.
"The river basically was coming in the front door and flowing out our back door," Griener said of the scene at Turqoise Spirit.
The shop was closed for six weeks as carpet, tile and drywall were replaced.
"We had loads of wonderful people helping us," Griener said, citing friends, family, customers and fellow church members. "We couldn't've done it by ourselves. And they also helped with our house, too."
Through that time, she said, they never thought about not reopening.
Sticking it out
Tonya Robey, co-owner of Mad Hen Primitives in Marietta, admits she did consider throwing in the towel a couple of times, and not just because of the September flood.
The building had been struck by a fire in November 2003 at its Pike Street location. A flood followed in January 2004.
"Giving up is one of the first things that goes through your head," Robey said.
The September flood helped the owners of Mad Hen decide to move to their current Front Street address.
Then the January flood hit.
Since they hadn't finished moving into their new space, a loss of inventory wasn't a problem, Robey said.
"But we did have another cleanup to go through," she said.
The support of friends and customers helped Mad Hen keep going.
"They're always right here at the door waiting to help us," Robey said.
Churches pitch in
With the water rising, churches swung into action, including First United Methodist Church in Williamstown.
"We fed a lot of people," said church secretary Kianna Anderson. "Three meals a day at the church were available."
The food, provided mainly by families from that church, as well as First Baptist and First Presbyterian in Williamstown, was also taken out to people working on the cleanup.
Anderson recalled one young family who lived near the Ohio River and lost everything. The church provided them transportation to stay with relatives in Parkersburg and other forms of support.
"We had entertainment for the kids and a safe place for them to be while other people were trying to clean and find what they could to salvage," Anderson said.
That was another key function of the church, she said - to provide a place for people "to get out of all the mud and the muck" and be able to relax, if only for a little while.
"It was such a horrible experience, but I think the community came together to make sure everyone was taken care of," Anderson said.
Back to school
Harmar Elementary also had plenty of help in getting things back at least closer to normal in the wake of the flood.
On Monday, Sept. 20, Cheryl Cook saw the school, where she had been principal since 1982, standing on "an island of green" in the receding floodwaters. Inside, she found the 23 1/2 inches of water standing in the basement.
"I just wanted to sit down and cry," Cook said. "But I didn't. I started calling."
The silver lining in that day's clouds was the response from the community, the principal said.
"The fire department from Devola came with a pump and then AEP came with a gigantic pump and workers," she said.
The Marietta City school district divided its maintenance workers between Harmar and Phillips, the other school hit by flooding.
Although most staff was kept away for health concerns, Cook insisted on helping with the cleanup. She was joined by fifth-grade teacher Todd Caltrider, who, with his wife, owns Simply Regal Cleaning Service. The Caltriders donated their time to the effort.
"The most devastating thing was thinking about all the kids' desks and all of the things you'd lost," said Caltrider as he recalled throwing away wet and muddy papers and tests students had taken. "It was heartbreaking."
Marietta schools were closed for the entire week after the flood. They reopened the next Monday.
"It was a major cooperative effort so that the following week we were clean and ready to begin," Cook said.
More work to do
Even so, repairs at Harmar went on for more than a year. Insurance money covered most of it, although there were some challenges along the way.
The lower portion of the wall between first-grade teacher Jean Caldwell's classroom and the hallway was so damaged by water it had to be replaced.
"For several months, I taught with only the top part of the wall" in place, she said.
Caldwell's students were quite curious about the legs they saw walking by their room. Often, students on the outside were none too shy about stooping to take a peak into the classroom.
So Caldwell had to improvise, using a large roll of purple paper.
"I took paper off of the roll and made a paper wall for the months that it took to get it repaired," she said.
Eventually, Caldwell's wall was replaced and the school's library, also located in the basement, was remodeled. A custodian had stacked many of the books in the library on tables before the flood, sparing many of them from the muddy waters.
Five years later
Schools reopened in a week. Most businesses reopened within a month or two. Many people were able to return to their homes eventually.
Others decided to move on, either after the September flood or when the follow-up came in January. At least then, the water didn't rise quite as high and the lessons learned four months earlier - as well as better advance warning - helped head off some problems.
Today, McVicar still uses the same desk she had in 2004. The change in its coloration about halfway up provides a physical mark of how high the water was in their classroom.
For most of her students, it's the only reminder of something that happened just a year or so after they were born.
"That's something that's kind of hard for them to fathom," McVicar said.


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Hey crafty people. Today is day 4 and the last day of previews for the new Gina K Design sets that will be available Thursday evening at 10:00 p.m. The project I selected for tonight is a sympathy card – those cards that we all need from time to time, but don't really enjoy making because they represent sadness, although their purpose is to offer support and loving empathy.
I created this card using some wonderful new digital paper created by Nina Brackett called Vintage Basics which matched wonderfully with some old cardstock I had. I stamped the wonderful Labels 14 image using cream pigment ink and embossing it with cream embossing powder. I stamped the image again onto ivory cardstock and cut it out, adhering it to the first image using mini pop dots.
I used the fancy photo corner punch to decorate the panel and used brads to attach them through the double stitch ribbon.
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- Tera *our Center Stage Spotlight Designer*
I, along with the entire team, would like to cordially invite you to our release party tomorrow night (Thursday September 30.) There will be contest questions, challenges, chatter, and many more samples using the new stamp sets to share during the party. Please make plans to join us from 7-10 central on StampTV!
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John Tibbetts and Stargazing
December 9, 2013
For nearly a quarter of a century, journalist/educator John C. Tibbetts spent most of his weekends hobnobbing with actors and filmmakers on Hollywood junkets.
As a broadcast movie critic — over the years he has appeared on KSHB-TV, KCTV5, KXTR-FM, and KCUR-FM — he would be flown to a location (usually Los Angeles or New York) to view a new film and interview its stars and behind-the-camera creators.
But Tibbetts, who now teaches film at the University of Kansas, did something extra on these trips. With ink and watercolors he created portraits of the famous folk he interviewed. What's more, his subjects invariably autographed his finished work.
Tibbetts has produced hundreds of these portraits, a selection of which make up the exhibit Stargazing, running through January 31, 2014 at the Central Library, 14 W. 10th St.
Though known mostly as a movie reviewer, educator, and author of books on a variety of subjects, Tibbetts' original love was art. He received his undergraduate degree in in design and has long been obsessed with portraiture: "I just have this itch to draw faces, famous or not. My hand just gravitates toward paper and brushes."
The first of his celebrity portraits was drawn 48 years ago when the native of Lansing, Kansas, was a sophomore at KU. "I drew a picture of author Ray Bradbury – my way of thanking him for the pleasure his work had given me – and mailed it to him. Quite unexpectedly, he returned it to me with a really nice comment and signature."
In the early 1980s, when he began reviewing films for Kansas City TV and radio stations, Tibbetts found himself regularly doing face-to-face interviews with famous actors (also directors, musicians, writers, and others). That was when his portrait painting kicked into high gear.
Most of his artwork was created in hotel rooms the night before a junket, after Tibbetts learned which actors and filmmakers he'd be interviewing.
"I always travel with paper, brush, ink, and gouache, and after seeing the next day's schedule I'll order room service and stay up late drawing."
Usually he worked from photos in the movie's press kit but occasionally — as with portraits of Tom Selleck and Sissy Spacek — he has drawn from life. He counts those efforts as his most satisfying.
Often the portraits were still damp when their subjects signed them.
"Lots of the subjects wanted me to send them a copy of the artwork – which, by the way, is the best way ever to get the home addresses of movie stars," he says.
Over the years the publicists for the Hollywood studios came to appreciate and encourage Tibbett's unique approach to interviewing. Some stars — like Arnold Schwarzenegger and Michael Douglas — began looking forward to seeing Tibbetts' latest portrait of them.
"I'd like to think they love my work," Tibbetts says. "Or maybe they were just being strategically polite."
But Tibbetts also carried weight as the only member of the press corps with a Ph.D. in film studies. His subjects knew they could hold an informed and intelligent conversation with him — about movies or just about anything else.
In fact, Tibbetts says, movie stars are among the least interesting people he interviews.
"Cinematographers are the best," he says. "They're rarely made available for interviews, but for insights into moviemaking they can't be beat. They're always on the set and they become experts on everything from story construction to acting, set design … every aspect of the process."
Also represented in Stargazing are his portraits of musicians, composers, and famous authors.
Tibbetts is an associate professor in the Department of Film and Media Studies at the University of Kansas, where he teaches courses in film history, media studies, and film theory and aesthetics. He has written and illustrated 10 books, among them The Gothic Imagination, Composers in the Movies: Studies in Musical Biography, Schumann: A Chorus of Voices, and the three-volume American Classic Screen. He is currently working on a book about the celebrated Australian film director Peter Weir. His radio series The World of Robert Schumann and Piano Portraits have been aired worldwide on the WFMT Radio Network. An accomplished pianist, he has often provided musical accompaniment for screenings of silent films.
About the Author
Robert W. Butler is a lifelong Kansas City area resident, a graduate of Shawnee Mission East High School and the William Allen White School of Journalism at the University of Kansas. For several decades he was the movie editor of the Kansas City Star; he now writes a movie-themed blog at butlerscinemascene.com. He joined the Library's Public Affairs team in 2012.


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Prosecutor: Murder charge will be filed
SIKESTON -- An infant seriously abused by his mother's boyfriend has died.
Eight-month-old Jamieon Q. Mosby died around 8:28 p.m. Wednesday at Children's Mercy Hospital in St. Louis, according to Scott Amick, Scott County coroner. An autopsy is set to be conducted today in Farmington, said Amick.
Following that, charges against Kevin Cortez Dixon, 18, accused of abusing the child, are expected to be upgraded to first degree murder, according to Paul Boyd, Scott County prosecuting attorney.
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A Live-Action Movie based off the popular comic strip ''ComicStrip/{{Garfield}}''. It was released in 2004 by TwentiethCenturyFox. It starred Creator/BillMurray as Garfield, [[RoadTrip Breckin Meyer]] as Jon, and Creator/JenniferLoveHewitt as Liz. It was directed by Pete Hewitt.
The plot deals with Garfield, as lazy and fat as ever, being the extreme {{Jerkass}} and DeadpanSnarker he is. Jon Arbuckle buys a dog named Odie because his extreme crush, Liz Wilson told him to. Needless to say, Garfield doesn't like this, but then Odie gets kidnapped by a [[BigBad villain]] named "Happy Chapman" (Stephen Tobolowsky). Garfield sets out on an adventure to rescue Odie...and get back to his beloved chair!
The movie was followed with a sequel in 2006, called ''Garfield: A Tail Of Two Kitties''. In it, Liz goes to England to make a speech, and while she, Jon, and Garfield are there, Garfield [[PrinceAndPauper gets his life mixed up with that of an English cat]]. But the dastardly Lord Dargis (BillyConnolly) wants the cat out of the picture so he can inherit Carliyle castle
There were also three [[AllCGICartoon CGI]] DirectToVideo {{Non Serial Movie}}s from 2007, 2008, and 2009: ''Garfield Gets Real'', about Garfield getting sick of his job as a comic strip character and going to the real world, ''Garfield's Fun Fest'', about Garfield trying to get Arlene back from a cat named "Ramone", and ''Garfield's Pet Force'', a spin off showing the characters as superheroes.
After Fox's film rights to the character expired, it was announced in 2016 that ''Garfield'' would have its film franchise rebooted at Alcon Entertainment. The new franchise will consist entirely of CGI-animation, rather than the live-action/CGI hybrid style of the Fox film series. Jim Davis, who had no involvement in Fox's franchise, will be executive producer of that series.
!!The live-action movies contain examples of:
* AdaptationalPersonalityChange: Nermal went from "the cutest cat in the world" who rubs it in on Garfield's face to his best friend [[CaptainObvious who points out the obvious]].
* BadNewsIrrelevantNews: Used at one point in ''A Tail Of Two Kitties'':
--> '''Ferret''': Okay everyone, I've got good news and bad news. Which do you want first?
--> '''Everyone''': Bad news.
--> '''Ferret''': Okay, the bad news is that Prince is floating away in the river.
--> '''Bulldog''': Then what's the good news?
--> '''Ferret''': He was in a lovely picnic basket!
* CarCushion: Doubly subverted in the first movie. He's so heavy he falls straight through the ceiling of the truck. [[TrademarkFavoriteFood Into lasagna.]]
* [[DepravedKidsShowHost Depraved Pet Show Host]]: Happy Chapman. While he may ''look'' like he lives up to his name, in reality he is very arrogant, allergic to cats, and wants a dog to star in his show to overshadow his more successful twin brother newscaster Walter.
-->'''Happy Chapman''': Oh please what a Know-it all! And everybody always said I was the handsome one, I was the smart one, and I was born first. But there you are "Live from the Hague". And here I am working with this sack of dander on a dead-end regional morning show.
* DisasterDominoes: Garfield's destruction of Jon's living room in the first movie. At the end, a large shelf falls and perfectly misses Garfield.
* TheDogBitesBack: Or rather, the Cat bites back, Persnikitty (real name Sir Roland) [[TheCavalry led the escaped animals from the pound to attack Happy Chapman]].
* GroinAttack: Dargis is subjected to one in the second film. From a ''Rottweiler'', no less.
* HumanFocusedAdaptation: The first movie came out at a time when in the comic, Liz looked down on Jon, when somehow she's madly in love with him in the movie. The comic would later follow suit.
** Mostly averted, as the film seem to focus more on Garfield, especially in his efforts to rescue Odie.
* HypocriticalHeartwarming: Garfield treats Odie horribly throughout the film, but when [[JerkAss Happy Chapman]] [[KickTheDog tortures Odie with a]] ShockCollar, Garfield is visibly disgusted by Chapman's actions.
--> '''Garfield''': Hey, nobody gets to mistreat my dog like that except me!
* LargeHam: Bill Murray as Garfield. Oh, so much.
* LetsSeeYOUDoBetter: A CollectorsEdition {{DVD}} of the first movie has a tool for making your own ''Garfield'' strips.
* LiveActionAdaptation
* MirrorRoutine: In ''A Tale of Two Kitties'', Garfield and Prince do this when they finally meet, over a hedge arch. They desynchronize once Garfield tries some wicked dance moves, but he's so focused on said dance moves that he doesn't realize, and it's only once he breathes in Prince's face, causing him to faint, that the routine falls apart.
-->'''Garfield:''' Ha! I knew you weren't me!
* NoExceptYes: In the second film, when Jon explains the mix-up between Garfield and Prince to Smithy:
-->'''Smithy:''' Are you saying you have a cat that's Prince's doppelganger?
-->'''Jon:''' No, I'm saying they look exactly alike, and there's a chance they may have gotten mixed up.
* NotGoodWithRejection: Happy Chapman when Jon declines his TV promotion for Odie after he wins the dog show--though Chapman does ''pretend'' to be good with rejection.
* NotTheFallThatKillsYou: In the first movie, Garfield stumbles out the window of a tall building, and survives by landing in a lasagna truck. Ignore that fact that he hit the solid metal top of it first, which would be a solid floor with an impact equal to having hit the ground, if not more so. (Justified, as he is a cat.)
* PlotHole: At the climax of the second film, when Dargis finally realizes there are two identical cats, Garfield [[BreakingTheFourthWall breaks the fourth wall]] and says, "For those of you keeping score at home, that's ''eighteen'' lives". However, Garfield had stated earlier in the film that he had already lost a few of his nine lives, so it wouldn't total eighteen.
* PrinceAndPauper: The main idea of ''A Tail Of Two Kitties''.
** The UK version was even called ''[[PunbasedTitle The Prince and the Paw-per]]''.
* RealSongThemeTune: In the first ''Garfield'' movie, Garfield turns on the TV and the song called "Hey Mama" by the Music/BlackEyedPeas plays in its music video, which makes Odie dance. The song would repeat again in the contest, this time from the radio.
* {{Retcon}}: Jon buys Odie from a pet shop in the first movie, despite the fact that in the strip, Jon's former roommate Lyman gave him to him.
* RiskyBusinessDance: The first movie's trailer.
* RousingSpeech: Garfield gives one to the Carlisle Castle animals in the second film to encourage them to... make a perfect lasagne. This ''is'' Garfield we're talking about, after all.
* ShoutOut: The first movie has ones to ''Film/ApocalypseNow'', ''Film/CapeFear'', ''Disney/TheLionKing'', ''Film/JerryMaguire'', ''Film/{{Apollo 13}}'', and ''VideoGame/Rayman3HoodlumHavoc''.
** Also, Garfield watches TV at one point in the first movie, and watches a bit of ''CheaperByTheDozen'', ''{{Lassie}}'', ''Film/OldYeller'', ''Benji'', ''Oh Heavenly Dog'', ''Far From Home: The Adventures of Yellow Dog'', and ''The Best *** Sports Show Period''. Also, ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'', and ''Film/AnAffairToRemember'' are on the TV at other points in the movie.
** ''Tail of Two Kitties'' has [[UpToEleven even MORE]], to ''Film/TheMalteseFalcon'', ''Literature/TheUglyAmerican'', ''Born Free'', ''Fists of Fury'', ''Film/TheJeffersons'', ''Film/HistoryOfTheWorldPartI'', ''Breakin' 2: Electric Boogaloo'', ''TheSilenceOfTheLambs'', ''Film/FreeWilly'', ''Series/FearFactor'', and ''Literature/OliverTwist''.
* SingleWomanSeeksGoodMan: In the first movie. Liz says the reason why she has a crush on Jon since high school because he has always been nicer than the other boys.
-->'''Jon''': Liz, I have a confession... It's not really a confession, it's more of an admission. It's a, you know it's like a declaration. I have a....
-->'''Liz''': I love it when you do that!
-->'''Jon''': Do what?
-->'''Liz''': Y'know, trip over yourself. It's cute... It's one of the reasons why I had a crush on you in high-school.
-->'''Jon''': You had a crush on me?
-->'''Liz''': Yeah.... I thought you were really cute, decent, not like all those other jerks.
* SphereEyes: Garfield only. Which is slightly creepy to some, even for a CGI talking animal in a live action movie.
* StarringSpecialEffects
* TheTropeFormerlyKnownAsX: "Obviously that cat is not Prince." "He's not even the cat formerly known as Prince."
!!The CGI movies contain examples of:
* ChuckCunninghamSyndrome: Shecky (a cat from the Real World who was brought into the Cartoon World at the end of ''Garfield Gets Real'') only cameos in ''Fun Fest'' afterward.
* DancePartyEnding: ''Garfield Gets Real''
* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: At one point in ''Garfield Gets Real'', [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4UhclY-nMgA#t=34s Garfield and Odie hide behind a poster of themselves with a black-and-white comic as the background.]] The comic is a grayscale version of [[http://i.imgur.com/nO6aQ.gif this edited strip]]. Most of the time, it's too blurry to read the text, but [[http://i56.tinypic.com/szjser.png when Garfield and Odie react to Hale and Hardy's introduction, the text that isn't blocked is fully visible]]. That's right, '''they canonized Jon dropping the F-bomb.''' (The movie ''is'' unrated, but it's still pretty shocking that they let that slip by.)
* SpinOff: ''Pet Force''.


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COLUMBIA -- For the last three games, the Sikeston Bulldogs baseball team has faced arguably three of the toughest pitchers in the state.
They may have faced the best pitcher yet in Friday's Class 3A semifinal game against St. Mary's of St. Louis at Taylor Stadium in Columbia.
Junior hurler Ron Martin, a 6-foot-4 southpaw, shut down the Bulldog offense through the first five innings, and came back in for relief in the seventh to hold off Sikeston 8-4 to advance to the 3A championship game.
The Bulldogs (21-3) played Ozark in the third place game on Saturday. Results from that game will be in Monday's edition.
Martin threw 5 2/3 innings to pick up the win. He allowed one unearned run off six hits while striking out five and walking one.
"He was a little better than advertised -- film didn't do him justice," said Sikeston head coach Kevin Self. "He threw the ball well and he's another left-hander. You'd think we could hit left-handers but they've given us trouble pretty much all year. This kid was good and he gave us trouble."
Martin struck out 19 batters in St. Mary's 3-0 quarterfinal win against St. Charles West, so keeping Sikeston's bats quiet was no surprise to St. Mary's head coach Joe Wessels.
"He can dominate -- he throws the ball 87 to 88 miles per hour," said Wessels. "I thought the last couple of innings he was losing his stuff. Early on in the game he was dominating. Sikeston's got a bunch of nice hitters -- they have real quick bats. We could tell right off the bat that Ron was going to have to mix it up and not just try to throw fastballs."
St. Mary's (19-5) tagged Sikeston starter Chris Cota for four runs in the first inning. Josh Morgan put the Dragons on top with a 3-run home run over the left centerfield wall to make it 3-0. After Martin doubled, Kevin Trott had an RBI-single to make it 4-0, knocking Cota out of the game.
Sophomore Blake DeWitt came in to try to keep the damage to a minimum, but the Dragons put together a two-out rally in the second inning to blow the game open. With five singles and a hit batter, St. Mary's built an 8-0 lead to chase DeWitt from the hill.
"Even more important than scoring those four in the first inning, was we had two outs with nobody on in the second inning and we came back with four runs before they got that final out," said Wessels. "That turned out to be what turned the tide."
Self brought in Lance Rhodes in relief for DeWitt and the sophomore right-hander shut the Dragons out for the final 4 1/3 innings.
"They hit the ball well, I have to give them credit," said Self. "Blake threw good pitches and they still hit him. Even some of the balls they hit off Lance were hit hard, but we made some diving catches. They can just hit, period."
Trailing 8-0, Sikeston put together one final rally in the top of the seventh inning off 6-foot-7 reliever Nick Badalamenti, who was pitching in an effort to save innings for Martin in the championship.
Badalamenti walked a batter and hit two others to load the bases. Adam Garrett then singled up the middle to plate Nathan Eaves and Brad Deere to cut the lead to 8-2, prompting Wessels to bring back Martin to finish the game.
Martin got DeWitt to hit into a fielder's choice, but he then surrendered a two-run triple to Jacob Priday to make it 8-4. After Jamie Puckett walked, Drew Lawrence came to bat with the tying run on deck.
But after Lawrence fouled off several pitches, Martin got him to fly out to right field to end the game.
"We battled and we didn't quit -- that's what I'm most impressed with right now," said Self. "We made them earn it and they had to bring (Martin) back another inning after he was trying to save him."
Morgan finished the game 2-for-4 with four RBIs and two runs. Trott and Joe Wiese each had three hits. Trott also had three RBIs.
Rhodes allowed three hits and struck out three to keep the Dragons from enforcing the 10-run rule.
"You have to give some credit to that third guy," said Wessels of Rhodes. "He was throwing the ball outside, throwing little curveballs and keeping it away from the hitters instead of challenging them. We were hitting the ball still -- we had opportunities but they made some plays. We didn't really slow down -- they caught themselves with their third pitcher."
Priday and Garrett each had two hits and two RBIs for the Bulldogs. Cota took the loss in just a 1/3 of an inning. This was St. Mary's first championship game appearance since 1956. Sikeston, which took second in the state last year, will play in the third place game for the first time. Third place games began in 1985.


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