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SIKESTON -- City officials are hoping to see plenty of citizens at the next Sikeston VISION meeting Thursday.
"If they want to see our community grow, if they want to see something changed, they need to participate in our VISION process," said Linda Lowes, director of governmental services. "We need our citizens to participate so we have a roadmap for our community for the next 5, 10, 15 years."
Thursday's meeting is scheduled for 5:30 p.m. in the Sikeston Senior High School cafeteria. Meetings are being held there because it has room to seat 200 people at tables, Lowes explained, as well as having classrooms so they can break into smaller groups.
This is the second of eight meetings planned through March.
"During Thursday's meeting, attendees will be asked to complete a civic index survey. It will deal with residents' perceptions of the community, local government and business and education in Sikeston," Lowes said. "The main item is the civic index survey and a discussion of what people feel is important to them in the city."
The first Sikeston Vision meeting was June 26. "It was very well attended and a lot of good information came out of it," Lowes said. "We had more than 100 residents attend. We had our initial meeting and now we're going to get into the actual review process."
By using citizens to help identify Sikeston's "strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats," according to a city press release, "participants will establish long-term community goals and develop action plans for their implementation."
In the press release, VISION co-chairs Jim Schwaninger and Carolyn Harris described VISION as a continuation of planning initiatives established by the Sikeston 2000 Committee just over 20 years ago.
"In 1987, the Sikeston 2000 Committee, through the use of public meetings and community attitude surveys, identified the current and future priorities of Sikeston's residents," Lowes said. "We're doing the same thing now but in a different manner."
The press release available on the city's Web site at www.sikeston.org includes a long list of needs and goals that were identified and set following the release of the Sikeston 2000 Committee Report along with how they have been met and accomplished.
"I was both excited and delighted about the results," Lowes said, "and we continue to be progressive in working toward ways to make the city more efficient and responsive to the needs of our citizens."
This time, Lowes said, the city has a professional consultant, Derek Okubo of National Civic League. "He has done this all over the world," she said. "He has been working with local leaders since March to bring together residents from the whole community to identify our needs and identify ways to accomplish goals that have been established."
VISION meetings will continue to be held about every three or four weeks
A schedule can be found on the city's Website; in the Sikeston Scanner, the city's monthly electronic newsletter; and posted at City Hall.
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My twins will be born on Monday at 29 weeks
Mommy to Mateo, Dec.10.2004, and identical twins Santiago and Jerónimo, Feb.09.2009 (29 weekers currently in the NICU)
I had a 27 weeker who is now 17, 6 feet tall and perfectly fine. I also had a 30 weeker who had no problems related to his prematurity - in fact, with his genetic problems it was a miracle he survived at all, nevermind as a preemie.
Chances are 100% that I will have a preemie this time but I am not too worried. My doc says:
27 weeks has a 90% survival rate
33 weeks has a 99% survival rate
Everything else can be dealt with as it comes along. You will be great - you will learn as you go and be a preemie pro in no time. And we are always here for you!
Mother of 2 boys with a Girl EDD 7/11, Scheduled C-Section 6/25-she's here!
I've been a preemie mom for 2 weeks and you will get into the swing of things quick...good luck to you and your babies!
cloth diapering, college attending, SAHM to preemie Landyn (01/19/09 32 weeker) Kierney or Xander due Jan 22 2010
Wishing you happy thoughts on the birth of your baby boys.
FYI: I had a baby at 28 weeks 6 days, basically 29 weeks and he's doing awesome. He's 11 months old and will be one year old on the 24th.
Let us know when they make their arrival into the world
Mom to Isaic (2-24-08 at 28 weeks 6 days 2lbs 4oz)
Baby #2 is on the way. Due may 8, 2010!!! (Secretly hoping for PINK!!!
Congrats on the upcoming birth and prayers as you start your NICU journey.
It's funny, because just the other day dh and I were talking, and saying it was nice we didn't have much warning, instead of dealing with "what-ifs" for weeks. I don't know how you've managed your stress!
My dd was 28w2d and quite small for her gestational age (1lb 15oz), and so far she has done great (5 1/2mo actual). We did have an eight week NICU stay and she liked to keep her nasal cannula around--I swear she didn't need it at least 95% of the time and just acted up 5% of the time so she'd have something to play--she loved pulling it out, down into her mouth, and sucking on it, even at just a couple weeks old. Other than that, things have gone very well. Only time will tell now if she'll have lasting effects. Even if she does, we're sure glad to have her here and healthy and smiling at us, bringing joy to our whole family (has two older brothers).
Oh--one question for you: Did you ever clarify the NICU policy on when parents can be there?
Mary, SAHM to
Two handsome tween boys, and my miracle girl, now 2
DD was a 28 weeker, born weighing 1lb 15oz due to IUGR
Good luck to you and your LO's. The NICU can be scary at first but you will settle into a routine that works for you. Just remember to take care of you too!!!!!
Mommy to Natalie 4, my little Angel in heaven Camden 2/29/08 to 3/27/08 and the early girl Aspen now an Angel too, 12/29/08 to 3/04/09.
My youngest is a 29 weeker. I knew he was coming early for 7 weeks. I found out 3 hours before that he was coming on his Birthday. He did pretty well in the NICU, there were a few scares. I had the steroid shots at 24 weeks, and he did breath on his own at birth. He went on CPAP for a few hours then they had to intubate him for 8 hours (he stopped breathing due to exhaustion) he wasn't on O2 long 2.5 weeks. He was home after less than 6 weeks at 34 weeks. He did come home on an apnea monitor due to reflux but was off in 3 weeks (3 weeks before he was due)
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Congrats on your upcommng birth. I cant wait to hear all about your wonderfull baby boys! I will be thinking of you on monday and will say an extra prayer for you and your family.
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Just wanted to say good luck!! Remember to take care of your self, and take things one at a time. I hope that you post when you are able!
Wishing you all the best. I am on hospital bedrest for IUGR due to blood flow problem as well.
I pray everything goes well for you and your boys.
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BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) -- Meticulous work is under way in the basement of North Dakota's state museum to free a dinosaur from a 65-million-year-old rock tomb.
Unlike almost every other dinosaur fossil ever found, the Edmontosaurus named Dakota is covered by fossilized skin that is hard as iron.
Researchers say it's among just a few mummified dinosaurs in the world. They believe this one must have been buried quickly and in just the right environment for the skin to be preserved. Dakota was unearthed on a ranch in the Badlands in 1999.
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Franciscan perspective on the Incarnation
in Christ's image
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Four days ago, we celebrated the great mystery of Jesus birththe divine Word
becoming flesh among us. Some 2,000 years ago, God entered the family of creation as a
human being. We cannot overestimate the profound impact of this event on the core of our
being. Because of this event, our destiny and that of God's son are merged together.
Starting with St. Francis in the early 13th century, Franciscans have
developed a special view and a special spirituality regarding this mystery of Christ's
With the help of this newly composed introduction, my Christmas
musings continue now with excerpts drawn from my book Lights:
Revelations of God's Goodness (St. Anthony Messenger Press).
A Franciscan perspective on the Incarnation
A key point of the Franciscan view that is often surprising to some
is this: The Word of God did not become a creature, a human being, because Adam and Eve
sinned. Rather, the divine Word became flesh because from all eternity God wanted Christ
to be creation's most perfect work, the model and crown of creation and of humanitythe
glorious destination toward which all creation is straining. The Word would have been incarnated
in Christ even if the first man and woman had never sinned!
The foremost champion of these viewsafter St. Paul, whose writings
first introduced themwas the Franciscan friar Blessed John Duns Scotus. Scotus was
born in Scotland in 1266, educated at England's Oxford University and ordained a
Franciscan priest in 1291. He taught theology at the University of Paris, died at 42, and
was buried in Cologne, Germany, in 1308. Though the approach of John Duns Scotus differs
from that of standard Catholic theology, it has never been labeled unacceptable by the
Church. And Franciscans, over the centuries, have generally imbibed Scotus's way
of looking at Christ.
If anything, Scotus's viewpoint has gained prominence in recent
times. It has been adopted by such notable Catholic thinkers as Gerard Manley Hopkins,
the Jesuit poet; Thomas Merton, the Trappist writer; and Teilhard de Chardin, the Jesuit
priest-anthropologist. Christ is not an afterthought in the divine plan, writes
de Chardin. He is the Alpha and the Omega, the beginning and the end of all things.
According to Scotus, God's first intentionfrom all eternitywas
that human nature be glorified by being united to the divine Word. And this was to happen regardless of
the first humans' innocence or sinfulness. To say that the Incarnation of Christ
was an afterthought of God, dependent on Adam's fall, would be to base the rich Christian
theology of incarnation on sin! Theologians could come up with something better than that,
and Duns Scotus did.
Of course, given humanity's sin, the way Christ eventually
came was in the form of a Savior whose great act of love and self-surrender set us free.
In Scotus's view, however, the God-man would have entered creation and human history
under any circumstances as the perfect model of the human being fully alive. It was not
Adam who provided the blueprint or pattern that God used in shaping the humanity of Christ.
It was the other way around, insists Scotus: Christ was the model in God's mind according
to which Adam and Eve, as as well as the rest of the human race, were created.
Created in Christ's image
Francis of Assisi, whose vision always centered on Christ, provided a
foundation upon which the later Franciscan vision or school of thought would be built. Be
conscious, O human being, Francis writes in his Admonitions, of the
wondrous state in which the Lord God has placed you, for he created you and formed you
to the image of his beloved Son.
But the Letters of St. Paul already contained a basis for seeing Christ
as the summit and pattern for all of creation. Paul tells the Ephesians:
[God] chose us in Christ
before the world was made
to be holy and faultless before him in love.
Such was his purpose and good pleasure,
to the praise of the glory of his grace,
his free gift to us in the Beloved
(1:4, 5, 6, New Jerusalem Bible).
[God] chose us in Christ
before the world was made
to be holy and faultless before him in love.
Such was his purpose and good pleasure,
to the praise of the glory of his grace,
his free gift to us in the Beloved
(1:4, 5, 6, New Jerusalem Bible).
Then, in Ephesians 1:10 (New Jerusalem Bible), comes Paul's
magnificent description of God's plan:
when the times had run their course:
that he would being everything together under Christ, as head
everything in the heavens and everything on earth.
when the times had run their course:
that he would being everything together under Christ, as head
everything in the heavens and everything on earth.
In Colossians we read Paul's most celebrated passage about what
many call the primacy of Christhis having first place and being the central
focus in God's plan for creation: [Christ] is the image of the invisible God,
the firstborn of all creation; for in him all things in heaven and on earth were created,
things visible and invisible...all things have been created through him and for him. He
himself is before all things, and in him all things hold together (1:15-17).
Franciscans and the primacy of Christ
Most Franciscans, I believe, have in one way or another embraced this
vision. Whether conscious of it or not, they tend to see all created things as pieces of
a beautiful puzzle that only make sense when fitted into the larger frameworkthe
image of Christ.
I have found in the writings of Pope John Paul II some hints that his
thinking resonated well with the primacy of Christ doctrine and other elements
of St. Paul's vision of creation. He certainly sees Christ as the primary key to
understanding the universe and as the model and measure against which human beings can
assess their own meaning, value and success. In short, Christ is the one who sheds light
on our meaning and the destiny of the universe.
In his encyclical Redeemer of the Human Race Pope John Paul II
proclaims: Jesus is the center of the universe and of history (#1). Later he
adds, Christ the Redeemer fully reveals human beings to themselves' and if
we wish to understand ourselves thoroughly,
we must draw near to Christ.
In Christ
and through Christ, human persons have acquired full awareness of their dignity, of the
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Low Testosterone Remedies: Cure ED and More
Jun 20, 2014
What is Low Testosterone?
Increasing numbers of men are coming to realize they suffer from low testosterone levels, but that doesn't mean they know what it means or how it affects life and health. Testosterone is the primary male hormone, responsible for our larger muscles, deeper voices, sexual development, and other sex characteristics. And it's natural enough that different men at different ages have differing amounts of testosterone running in their blood and organs; yet those who have particularly low levels of testosterone may suffer from erectile dysfunction (ED), reduced libido, and other sexual health and general health symptoms. Furthermore, low T levels are negatively correlated with premature death in older men, with depression, and with increased risk of diabetes; so remedies to improve your testosterone levels can provide overall health benefits.
Do you have low T? Symptoms of low testosterone include:
- Brain fog
- Dry skin
- Weak nails
- Fatigue
- Muscle loss
- Frequent urination
- Memory loss
- Weak libido
- Erectile Dysfunction
- Weight gain
- Insulin resistance
- Cholesterol/Lipid issues
- Emotional issues
- Infertility
Natural Treatment for Low Testosterone
In order to raise your testosterone levels, you can try a number of herbal remedies to increase the hormone's production or otherwise treat the side effects of low T. For erectile dysfunction, maca root(2) is generally the best respected herbal remedy for increase libido, though cayenne pepper and other home remedies to improve cardiovascular health are also a good bet. Additionally, Cordyceps sinensis supplements have shown some promise in raising testosterone levels.(3)
- Ted's Remedies for:Low Testosterone
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Remedies for Low Testosterone
General Feedback
I would like Ted's input on the issue of increasingly low testosterone levels affecting so many people. What part does excess estrogen intake (soy, pesticides, etc) play in this phenomenon? How do we counteract it?
EC: Great questions, thank you. Your post has been emailed to Ted for response.
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Calabasas, Ca
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Because L-carnitine participates in the metabolic activities, a few minimal, awkward happenings are very purely natural. A lot of people sense upset and even light headed throughout the earliest period of the consumption. Normally, these negative effects fade away as the body system is familiar with it.
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The health advantages of L-carnitine tend to be significantly more than the prospective dangers for your complete health and fitness. It truly is healthy and stays that way, provided that you use it in recommended levels. The likelihood of unwanted effects of L-carnitine appears only if you don't put it to use as instructed. As a result, rigorously adhere to the medication dosage instructions and also directions distributed by your doctor, to be able to obtain almost all the added benefits of L-carnitine safely and securely.
Posted by Melinda (Tucson, Arizona) on 01/09/2009
Firstly I want to say I love the site! My boyfriend was recently diagnosed with very low testosterone, and has been prescribed Testim, however I came here to see what natural alternatives he might be able to try, but cannot find anything on the subject. Please consider adding low testosterone to your list of ailments. My boyfriends Dr. was doing blood tests, but a testosterone test would have more than likely been skipped had I not mentioned he has zero sex drive, and is tired alot.
Thank you, Melinda
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Joelton, Tn
523 PostsHello Melinda,
First off a couple of questions. Does your boyfriend drink? Does he have white spots on his fingernails? People who drink much are usually low on zinc, thanks to the alcohol. White spots on the fingernails can be an indication of a zinc deficiency. He might try 25 to 50 mgm. zinc supplement daily to see if it helps increase his libido.
Replied by Melinda
Tucson, Arizona
01/24/2009Low testosterone-Hello Joyce, thank you for your response. Actually he cut down on his drinking when he met me :), he only drinks maybe once a week now. He did try zinc and magnesium a few weeks before they did the blood tests and found his low testosterone, because we read somewhere that it and magnesium might help. Have not looked to see if he has white spots on his nails, will do that. He has noticed a slight improvement from the testosterone medication Testim that his Dr. prescribed, but has also been on it only two weeks.
Replied by Sierra
London, UK
01/24/2009Melinda, does your boyfriend exercise? If not, or doesn't do much of it, this might be part of the problem. On the other hand if he cycles a lot (either stationary or other), that might also effect his testosterone levels. Studies have shown cycling can adversely effects sperm count, so maybe too testosterone levels (anyone know?) Also to be considered - if he keeps a laptop on his lap for many hours a day. Many factors could play into it. Please let us know what you find out!
Replied by Ralph
RGV, Texas
04/26/2009In regards to the subject of low testosterone, things that I've found in reading other sites are as follows:
Possible Causes:
1. Too high an intake of estrogen-promoting foods (fenugreek, soy, soyproducts)
2. Plastic- bottled drink consumption (there were some news reports that during transport, certain types of plastic bottles were exposed to higher-than-room temprature, causing a molecular break-down of the plastic chemiclas that the human body would absorb and treat like the estrogens in 'the pill')
3. Like mentioned earlier, essential mineral deficiencies (zinc, calcium, magnesium, potassium
4. Vitamine deficiencies (vitamins a,c,e,d, b3 or niacin)
5. An inability to digest certain protiens causing amino acid deficiencies (amino acids are the building blocks for hormones. In testosterone's case, most notable are L-arginine, and L-carnitine.)
6. Other undiagnosed medical problems such as ednocrinological disorders (affect hormone production), diabetes, fibromialgia, auto-immune disorders, ect.
Replied by John
Los Angeles, California
11/30/2010The supplement Acetyl-L-Carnitine appears to help with low testosterone issues.
From WebMd:
"Treating symptoms of age-related testosterone deficiency ("male menopause"). Taking acetyl-L-carnitine by mouth along with propionyl-L-carnitine seems to help symptoms related to declining male hormone levels. This combination taken for 6 months seems to improve sexual dysfunction, depression, and fatigue in much the same way the male hormone testosterone does."
Source: http://www.webmd.com/vitamins-supplements/ingredientmono-834-ACETYL-L-CARNITINE.aspx?activeIngredientId=834&activeIngredientName=ACETYL-L-CARNITINE
Replied by Sandra M
Los Angeles, Ca
01/06/2014Great list of possible causes! I wanted to add that your #2 should be expanded to most heated single-use plastics, not just water bottles. Lots of people put these in their dishwashers or heat their food in them in the microwave, and this is a regular source of exposure to these estrogen-mimicking chemicals.
Low Testosterone Remedies
Posted by Luis (Cali, Colombia) on 05/20/2009
Guys, if you want to increase the testosterone level take Chrysin (better with Bioperine), Muira Puama, Maca and Tribulus Terrestris. Desirable 7 Keto.
Check your blood free testosterone if you are over 50 years old. A level below minimum normal rank, o near, is dangerous for your heart health
Replied by Curious
Dallas, Tx
06/21/2012Hey Luis from Cali, I researched the supplements you recommended for low testosterone. All of them have been proven that they do not raise testosterone hormones in the body. Only the sex drive. Not sure what the difference is lol. Have you taken these supplements and had a blood test? More info would be appreciated. Thx
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Skunk Oil and Other Old-School Cold Remedies
There is still, alas, no cure for the common cold, and our current remedies — tea with lemon, say — can seem antiquated. That was enough to send Washington Post columnist Sally Squires looking for very old-school approaches. They were enough to make us grateful for tea with lemon.
In 1835, "The American Frugal Housewife" recommended a few drops of skunk oil on the chest, various topical concoctions involving turpentine, and something called a "mustard plaster," that involves powdered mustard and a cloth placed on the chest.
In 1904, the "Complete Housekeeper," recommended Indian turnip root ("hotter than fire, but healing") eaten straight for urgent cases, added to maple syrup and brandy for more routine coughs. Squires notes that something similar persisted into her childhood: a mix of bourbon, honey and a little lemon. (She notes that kids under 2 shouldn't have honey because of botulism risk.)
She notes that honey coats the throat, and cites a Penn State study that found honey superior to dextromethorphan, a common cough suppressant, in controlling coughing in children.
She rattles through a few other remedies (pear congee, anyone?) before closing with an irresistible aphorism: "Treat a cold and it lasts seven days. Leave it alone and it's gone in a week."
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Low Moves Towards TexasUPDATED 6:27 PM CDT Aug 27, 2014
The Low the National Hurricane Center is watching is moving towards Texas and will move onshore Thursday with a very slight chance for development. We are watching tropical moisture in the South Gulf that will move our way for the weekend. That means our rain chances are going up!Video Transcript
Center says there is a 20% chance tropical development within 48 hours and 20% in 3-5 days. Recon flight is in there now and did not find a well defined circulation. The system is dealing with dry air aloft. It is over warm water. Water temperatures here are in the mid to upper 80s. Looking at our Exact Live Radar, I am not seeing a closed low level circulation, but I am seeing an upper low at about 6 thousand feet. It is forecast to move towards the lower Texas Coast. We are also watching a lot of tropical moisture in the South Gulf. This is going to move our way going into Friday and the Weekend. Our rain chances will go up. Right now it looks like a 40% rain chance Friday to a 60-70% chance Saturday. We are also tracking Cristobal which is west of Bermuda. It has 75 mph winds and is moving NNE 15 mph. It will move between the U.S. and Bermuda then north of Bermuda and out into the Atlantic. We're also watching a tropical wave east of the Lesser Antilles. There is a 10% chance development within 3-5 days. There is some potential that in time it could move into the West Caribbean or maybe the south Gulf and develop. Will keep you posted. There is a major wave moving off the coast of Africa. It could become a storm or even a hurricane, but it would be a fish storm. Right now there is a 40% chance development for 3-5 days out. Showers and some storms are popping moving west. Temperatures are mostly in the low to the upper 80s. Thanks to the showers some of the temperatures have dropped. Houma got up to 91 then dropped to 75 in rain, and now they are back up to 84. Bogalusa hit 96, but is now down to 81 ...thanks to the rain. Discussion: The weak low in the Gulf is moving slowly southwest towards the Texas Coast. Some showers and storms are on the north side of this system and moving along the coast. We have an onshore flow sending in moisture. Daytime heating fired up some rain. 30-40% rain chances Thursday with highs near to the low 90s, but rain chances go up Friday into the weekend as tropical moisture moves our way from the South Gulf. Say it isn't so, but 50% rain Friday. 60-70% Saturday and 50% Sunday. Rain chances go down for Labor Day to a 30-40% chance down for Labor Day to a 30-40% chance TO SYRIA... AFTER
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Sponsors sought for talent show benefit for arts, scholarships at La Jolla schools
By Diana Polyak
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Sponsors are still being solicited for the Friday, Jan. 28 "Stars in Our Eyes" performing and visual arts showcase at Parker Auditorium featuring students from The Bishop's School, La Jolla High, La Jolla Country Day and Preuss School's dramatic arts and music departments.
Proceeds from the event, hosted by the La Jolla Rotary Club, support the arts curriculum at each of the education facilities with specifically substantial grants, while the remaining funds are added to the Rotary's combined scholarship funds that are then individually awarded to students after their applications are received and personal interviews are evaluated each May.
"Stars in Our Eyes" is the largest single contributor to the Rotary's scholarship program, which grants more than $150,000 per year in financial aid to students of need and merit. Over the past five years, La Jolla Rotary has awarded more than $2 million to more than 500 qualified area high school students.
Stars program sponsorship sales director Susan Farrell is looking for donations from people who understand the value of a performing arts presence in schools and who have not participated in the past.
"Running an ad in the Stars slickly produced printed program could be someone who has a new business or someone with a long-established business that may not be getting the attention it merits," she said. "This program is very targeted marketing – it goes directly to parents, families and friends of students, and is perfect to help underscore that sponsors are players in the community — people who are trying to help make things better.
"Additionally, it's a great opportunity for Rotary members to share their good wishes, perhaps featuring their families, grandchildren or businesses." Farrell can be reached at email@example.com.
In 2003, Rotarians Zeke Knight, a former Bishop's School development director, along with La Jolla investor and club past president Dick Woltman, created "Stars in Our Eyes" to supplement the performing arts programs at the four La Jolla schools whose departments were then taking hits by the slashing of school district budgets, and continues today with more cuts being considered by the district.
For the past five years, "Stars in Our Eyes" has been chaired by Rotary Club members Patricia Lynch and Russell King. Their work on the show starts in September. In November, the producers begin auditions. The program is finalized in late December and, this year, produced in late January.
Drama and art teachers from the schools, realizing the importance of this one-of-a-kind fundraiser, devote many hours of time and support preparing their students and helping organizers coordinate the show. Students serve as the technical crew working under the direction of La Jolla High School drama teacher Ann Boutelle.
It was decided at the beginning of the Stars production process that a poster art competition between the participating schools' art departments would be launched with the vote-getting winner's art department being awarded a cash prize and the selected piece used as the cover of the performance program.
This year's $1,000 winner is Shauna Jellison of La Jolla High. The second place $750 prize went to Nick Augustine of La Jolla Country Day, and Amy Cao added $500 to La Jolla High School art department fund with her third place win.
All entries can be seen before and after the performance in the La Jolla High School cafeteria along with a student art exhibit of paintings, sculptures and other creative objects. Refreshments will be served.
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7 p.m. Friday, Jan. 28
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10 Essential Yoga Poses: How-To + Video with Rodney Yee
Get up to speed on 10 basic yoga poses with these how-to video clips and detailed instructions. Rodney Yee teams up with his friend Mariel Hemingway, the actress and longtime yogi, to demonstrate and explain each pose in detail.
With this guide, you'll get a good feel for how to do each pose, or asana, correctly. We've also included some insider tips from Rodney Yee and Mariel Hemingway to help you start exploring and being playful in each pose — something Rodney highly recommends to every yoga student. You'll also learn the Sanskrit name for each pose, shown in parentheses after its English name.
In the video clips, Mariel performs each pose as Rodney points out alignment tips and explains exactly where to put your hands, feet, hips, etc., and how to move into and out of each pose. It's the next best thing to having yoga expert Rodney Yee right in your living room, showing you the ropes.
Once you've mastered these yoga poses, find out what your favorite pose says about you!
Mountain Pose (Tadasana)
How to: Begin with your feet hip-width apart and parallel. Your heels should be under your sit bones. Spread your toes wide and feel grounded in your stance. Don't lock your knees, and keep your weight balanced on the four corners of your feet. Keep your shoulders down and your elbows straight. In his book Yoga: The Poetry of the Body, Rodney says, "Imagine a basket of sweet, ripe mangoes is on your head, and balance it sensuously as you extend up into it. Sense the plumb line of your body, down from the center of your head through the center of your heart, pelvis, heels. Then play with your balance ..." Rodney offers more tips on Mountain Pose in the Rodney Yee blog.
Benefits: Rooting your legs to the earth helps the body and mind understand how to move and be still simultaneously. This is a wonderful pose to do in the morning to help calm you and balance your energy. Also promotes postural awareness.
Downward Facing Dog (Adho Mukha Svanasana)
How to: Starting on your hands and knees, turn your toes under and straighten your legs as you raise the hips and straighten the arms. Shift your weight to the back of your legs, pressing down on the heels. Once you've mastered the basics, try celebrity yoga instructor Mandy Ingber's toning variation.
Benefits: Opens the shoulders and stretches the hamstrings and calves. Improves the health of the spine. Increases blood flow to the brain which calms the mind.
Warrior I (Virabhadrasana I)
How to: From a standing position, jump your feet apart about three or four feet, then turn your hips to one side. Turn your back foot at a 45-degree angle with your weight pressing into your heel, and extend your front leg so your foot is pointed straight ahead. Inhale as you bring your arms overhead. Exhale. Bend your front knee in lunge style until your front thigh is parallel to the floor. Keep your back leg fully extended. Lift up through your core; don't collapse your chest. Breathe and hold the pose for several breaths.
Lower your arms, turn back to center, jump your feet together and repeat on the other side.
Benefits: Tones the legs, hips, buttocks and thighs. Lengthens and tones the spine, opens the chest and shoulders.
Warrior II (Virabhadrasana II)
How to: Begin in Mountain Pose. Step your feet about three to four feet apart. Turn your right foot and knee outward from the top of your thigh. Your middle toe, ankle, kneecap, and center hip should be in a straight line. Turn your left foot in at a 45-degree angle.
Raise your arms to shoulder height, keeping your shoulders down, your spine extended, and your legs strong. Bend your right knee at a 90-degree angle, centering it over your middle toe. Keep your hipbones level, your spine long, and your weight evenly distributed between your legs. Don't lean forward over your bent knee. Press into your forward heel and lengthen your spine up from your pelvis. Keep your shoulders down (don't hunch them).Breathe for 5 to 10 evenly paced breaths.
Inhale and straighten your right leg. Turn your left toes out and your right toes in and repeat the pose on the opposite side.
Need help? Try using a chair for extra balance and support.
Benefits: This is a strong, heat-building yoga pose that develops strength, endurance and discipline in the body and the mind.
Warrior III (Virabhadrasana III)
Stand in Mountain Pose, exhale and step your left foot back into a high lunge, and place your forward knee at a right angle. Fold your torso down over your right thigh and bring your hands to your right knee; hold it firmly and lift your torso off your thigh. Exhale.
Stretch your arms forward, parallel to the floor and straight out in front of you, palms facing. Exhale and press the heel actively into the floor. Lift your back leg straight out behind you. Don't rotate the hip of your back leg upward; let it release slightly toward the floor so your two hip joints are even and parallel to the floor. Breathe deeply and hold the pose for several breaths.
Benefits: Strengthens legs and ankles, shoulders and back; tones abs and core; improves balance and posture.
Cobra Pose (Bhujangasana)
How to: Lying on your belly, draw your legs together "like the powerful tail of a reptile," says Rodney, as you lengthen your legs vigorously from your pelvis to the tips of your toes. With your palms face-down next to the center of your ribcage and your elbows kept close to your sides, push down evenly with your hands and lift your chest, then belly, then pelvis off the floor. Keep your shoulders down away from your ears. Your hands and the lower part of your legs, from your lower thighs down to the tops of your feet should be the only parts of your body touching the floor. Arc your head back and look up toward the sky as you consciously lift your chest.
Focus on lengthening and opening up your spine. Most of the movement is from the chest, with the back and legs supporting the arching of your spine. "Don't force it," Rodney adds. "Be willing to spend time searching for the ease and articulation of your spine."
Benefits: Strengthens back muscles and tones glutes; stretches chest, shoulders and abs; helps relieve stress. May also help soothe sciatica.
Triangle Pose (Trikonasana)
How to: Begin in Mountain Pose. Step your feet three to four feet apart. Turn your right foot and knee outward from the top of your thigh. Turn your left foot in at a 45-degree angle and distribute your weight evenly across both legs. Inhale and raise your arms to shoulder height. Keep your shoulders down and stretch out from your core into your fingertips.
Exhale and extend your side body out over your right leg as you move your hips toward your back foot. Place your right hand on the floor next to your right foot, or on a yoga brick. Keep your back leg strongly rooted to the earth. Straighten your left arm overhead and look up toward your left hand. Breathe for 5 to 10 long, evenly paced breaths.
Inhale and come up. Turn your left toes out and your right foot inn at a 45-degree angle. Repeat the pose on the other side.
Benefits: Strengthens and tones the legs, hips and abs; relieves stiffness in the spine.
Tree Pose (Vrksasana)
How to: From Mountain Pose, shift your weight to your left leg and draw your right heel up to your left inner thigh with the bottom of your foot against your inner thigh. Your body will look like the number four. Place your palms together in namaste, or prayer position. Lift up through your core. Let your bent leg feel like a heavy tree branch releasing out from your hip. Breathe deeply and hold for several breaths. Allow yourself to sway. Mariel says to "see the humor in wobbling ... it is no big deal if you don't 'stick it.'"
Explore the pose a little more by extending your hands straight up above your head and looking up toward your hands. And get more tips on Tree Pose in the Rodney Yee blog.
Benefits: Strengthens legs and back; stretches inner thighs, chest and shoulders; improves balance; can help relieve symptoms of sciatica.
Fish Pose (Matsyasana)
How to: Lie on your back on the floor with your knees bent, feet flat on the floor. Inhale, lift your pelvis slightly off the floor, and slide your hands, palms down, underneath your glutes. Let your glutes lower down onto the backs of your hands; don't lift your hips up off your hands as you proceed into the rest of the pose. Keep your forearms and elbows tucked closely in to your sides.
Inhale and press your forearms down into the floor. Press your scapulas up and into your back. Inhale and lift your upper torso and head away from the floor. Then release your head back onto the floor. Either the back of your head or the crown of your head will rest on the floor. Let it rest there gently; don't press too much of your weight down through your head.
Keep your knees bent, or you can straighten your legs flat onto the floor but keep your thigh muscles engaged and press down through your heels.
Hold the post for several deep breaths. Exhale and lower your torso and head to the floor. Draw your legs up into your abdomen and squeeze.
Benefits: Stretches hip flexors, abs and neck; strengthens upper back and back of the neck; improves posture.
Pushup Pose (Chaturanga Dandasana)
How to: Start in Downward-Facing Dog. Then move into Plank Pose — bring your shoulders forward so they're directly above your hands. Keep your body in a straight line parallel to the floor, from your torso through your legs. Look forward and feel the strength of your arms, legs and core.
Bend at the elbows and lower your body down toward the floor as far as you can go without touching your body to the floor. Keep your elbows hugging to your torso and aiming straight back, not angling out to the sides. Hover here and breathe deeply for several breaths. With regular practice you'll build up your strength in this pose very quickly. "Yes, really," says Rodney.
Benefits: Strengthens arms, chest, core. Can help you build confidence by challenging you physically and mentally.
For more from Rodney Yee check out the Rodney Yee blog, Rodney Yee yoga DVDs and the Gaiam Yoga Studio. Or, work out with Rodney Yee at home on GaiamTV.com!
I think that all Yoga is just simply fantastic for the release of stress of the day. I would like to thank Rodney Yee for this teaching it (in my view) is well done infact it is VARY WELL DONE! Thank you!
In 20 minutes, Rodney Yee taught me more about how to do these ten poses correctly than I have learned on my own, as a novice reading books and watching other videos. I recommend this article to anyone who is either just beginning their yoga training or anyone who wants to review their postures.
Re. Fish pose: I need to strengthen my thoracic spine and neck, both of which have been injured in several auto accidents, but I have not tried this pose for more than a decade because I fear for my neck. Is it safe for someone like me? Thanks for your comments!
Wanted to point out that the Sanskrit name listed for Cobra Pose, Baddha Konasana, is actually the Sanskrit name for Cobbler's Pose/Bound Angle. Cobra is Bhujangasana in Sanskrit.
Does this pose require to be performed in a sequence and they all have to be performed?
No Dorothy, it does not required to be performed all at one time
I have to give a big huge thanks to Rodney Yee because of him and Gaiam I have yoga in my life. I just wish it would have been there many years ago! I got so busy that I didn't have time for a few months to do my yoga, but does it ever relax me!
We here at Gaiam are Rodney Yee fans, too! So happy to hear you find yoga so relaxing and are able to make time for it in your day. It makes such a difference, doesn't it?


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Bundesliga champions Bayern Munich will start their quest for a 25th league title with a home game against Wolfsburg.
Pep Guardiola's men claimed the championship in record-breaking fashion last term, winning the league on March 25, the earliest a team has achieved the feat in the competition's history.
And they will be favourites to start the defence of their crown with a win, although Wolfsburg should provide the Bavarians with a stern test after finishing fifth in 2013-14.
The pick of the opening round of fixtures, which start on the weekend commencing August 22, sees Borussia Dortmund host Bayer Leverkusen at Signal Iduna Park.
Jurgen Klopp's side finished second in the last campaign but have work to do in order to overhaul Bayern after finishing 19 points behind them.
Dortmund will need to be on top form if they are to start with a win against Leverkusen, who head into the season under the guidance of new coach Roger Schmidt.
Schalke begin their season at Hannover before welcoming Bayern to the Veltins Arena, while newly promoted Cologne and Paderborn host Hamburg and Mainz respectively.


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by Suzanne Collins
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Quote #10
"Why don't they just kill him?" I ask Peeta.
"You know why," he says, and pulls me closer to him.
And I do. No viewer could turn away from the show now. From the Gamemakers' point of view, this is the final word in entertainment. (25.42-44)
Peeta and Katniss listen to the agony of the dying Cato. They long for his suffering to end, but for the Gamemakers and the audience at the Capitol, death is just something for sport.
Quote #11
Caesar Flickerman makes a few more jokes, and it's time for the show. This will last exactly three hours and is required viewing for all of Panem. As the lights dim and the seal appears on the screen, I realize I'm unprepared for this. I do not want to watch my twenty-two fellow tributes die. I saw enough of them die the first time. (27.4)
During the post-Games reunion show, Katniss is forced to watch an edited version of the Hunger Games with the audience at home. How is this experience different from living the Games? How does it make her feel?


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So we've seen this mixture before, even if all the ingredients aren't always exactly the same. Take one dose of outrage, throw in some major media coverage, add an apology to the offended and presto — you've got the makings of a controversy. This week's bruhaha, of course, is centered on a panel from Captain America #602, where an anti-tax protester had a sign that said "Tea Bag The Libs Before They Tea Bag YOU!"
It's been picked up by everyone from the New York Times and Washington Times to political and comics bloggers. Even MSNBC's Keith Olbermann got in on the act on his show last night, quoting CBR's interview with Joe Quesada even though he didn't mention the source.
So let's see what folks around the comics blogosphere are saying about it. A lot of the discussion seems to be centered on Marvel's apology, so let's start with Brendan McGuirk's post on ComicsAlliance, titled "Why Marvel Owes No Apologies for Captain America's 'Tea Party'":
It shouldn't be entirely surprising that Marvel, now a multi-billion dollar subsidiary of Disney, would kowtow to the media behemoth that is Fox News. Marvel Comics are for people of all stripes and creeds, of course, and no one should be made to feel unwelcome for leaning one way or another politically. Brubaker, however, has established himself as the preeminent Captain America writer by deftly weaving modern real-world allegory with bombastic superheroics to powerful effect, and so there was something rather disingenuous about Marvel's recant, as it seems to be missing the point; sure, you can remove the "Tea Bag the Libs Before They Tea Bag You," sign, but are you really saying this story isn't about the Tea Party movement? Isn't that what makes the story so interesting?
The intermingling of real-world concerns with colorful theatrics has been huge factor in the success of Ed Brubaker's Captain America run. From its earliest installments, there have been seeds of the real world planted throughout this celebrated tenure, and that has been the lens through which we understand who Captain America is, and how he functions as a national hero.
Tom Spurgeon says that good art challenges people's self-conception:
Marvel shouldn't be pressed to apologize for inadvertently pissing people off — it's art. Art isn't there to support anyone's self-conception, and a lot of the better art out there challenges that kind of thing every chance it gets. Everyone should learn to live with it. Not only should Ed and Joe and Marvel be believed when they offer an explanation, they shouldn't have to offer one. They shouldn't have to see their explanation interpreted as a broader apology, either, which is doubly unfair. In the end, they should feel free to have Captain America fight The Teabagger if that's what they want. Or the evil twins Hope and Change. Whatever. I promise you the republic will survive. Also, it struck me as super creepy that Ed Brubaker's tweets were dug up in this Fox News article not just as the interesting sidelight they're portrayed as being but as a kind of broad implication that maybe he shouldn't be believed when he says this specific thing was unintentional. How do you answer that? I suppose no one expects an answer. While someone out there will certainly suggest this proves comics' relevance, I don't think there's any victory to be had in becoming the latest pile of chum feeding the snapping leviathans of American political churn. What a stupid story.
Johanna Draper Carlson also questions the need for saying they're sorry:
Captain America (the comic) is doing a storyline where Captain America (the character) infiltrates a racist bunch of political extremists. This is exactly the kind of thing the comic should do to keep the character relevant — have him represent the best of the country's ideals.
Well, another group of wacked-out political extremists, the Tea Baggers, found out and got upset. Instead of respectfully acknowledging the right to have a different opinion, editor-in-chief Joe Quesada and writer Ed Brubaker started casting around to throw blame somewhere else. Brubaker said it was added in production, and Quesada said the letterer just picked something up randomly from online.
Most ridiculous is that they are planning to change it when the story is reprinted. How silly, to kowtow to a bunch of ignorant loudmouths! What happened to the Marvel that used to chase controversy as free publicity? Or do those guts only apply when they're tweaking their competition?
And Jennifer Smith at Fantastic Fangirls summarizes some of the things Marvel hasn't apologized for in recent years:
What makes me angriest about this whole situation, however, is how starkly it contrasts with the list of all the things Joe Quesada and Marvel writers have REFUSED to apologize for in recent years – all the people whose legitimate complaints have been brushed aside derisively in the name of art or the almighty dollar. Let's start with Jonathan Hickman's use of the offensive slur "retard" in a recent issue of Fantastic Four, defended in the letter column as necessary to his art because "that's what a three-year-old would say." Let's talk about how editors spent months defending the Chameleon raping Peter Parker's roommate in Spider-Man without repercussions or even acknowledgment that it had been rape. What about all the times people have brought up the sexism or racism in certain comics and been brushed aside as crazy entitled fans, as if they were banging on the doors of the Marvel offices demanding the return of Deathlok? Marvel does not make a habit of apologizing, even when it probably should.
And if you're looking for a bit of humor in this whole thing, over at ComicsAlliance Chris Sims imagines what else the protesters might have been protesting:
Now there's a protest I think everyone on both sides of this debate can get behind.
Wow, politics in your country really has been f""ked by Murdoch, hasn't it? And when someone from Northern Ireland pities the poor state of political discourse in your country, it means it really is banjaxed.
True, Mark, sadly true…
Joey Q shouldn't have apologized for this one. Certainly not when OMD was far more offensive!
The Cap story was about the Tea Baggers, or at least another whacko group of mentally challenged zealots just like them. It's taken from today's headlines, and Bru's done a wonderful job mixing real world politics into his run writing Cap.
BTW, I think it's hilarious that they call themselves "Tea Baggers"… There's another meaning to that term, and that one seems to apply to them too.
For me, I think the worst thing about all of this is that Cap just hasn't been able to catch a break for whatever reason since Reborn started.
1. The whole "Reborn is ripping off Lost!" nonsensical BS that was happening during the beginning.
2. The ending of Reborn was 'spoiled' in about 3 other books (but then again, it was called REBORN, so it leaves little to the imagination).
3. Delays leading to the epilogue coming before the 'proper' last issue (which is what happens when you have Bryan Hitch doing anything really)
4. And then the people complaining about the book coming back and being $4 (despite every Captain America-related book being at that price since #50, with #600 being the exception at $5)
5. along with the Nomad backup strip (which is stupid to complain about since a) it likely wouldn't have affected the price much, if at all and b) it's the most fun you can legally have with a teenage girl)
So now we're left with THIS mess. I remember reading this issue with elation, because it seemed to be a return to form. But now it's all bickering about a poster, of all things, in the background. Give me a break.
People rarely apologize for using the slur retard. You can say you're just copying how a three year old would talk but let's face it, the three year old had to have heard that word somewhere. Sad how it's not until a person with special needs enters your family that you truly get how offensive that word is.
More remarks from people who are way off bat. And I would love to have someone explain to me how a group of citizens who oppose insane government spending and speak out about it are 'extremist' and 'wackos' I seem to remember people saying it was Patriotic to oppose the government…
Just happened upon this. I've not cared about Joe Q's opinion since he made his list of "promises". I don't know how many of you remember or even paid attention, but the big one of those for me was the 170 new titles Marvel planned on launching in the 12 months after Joe's rise to EIC. To date, more than three-quarters of those titles have come out. Marvel hasn't been about quality or caring for the reader in *years*. They show it through situations like this one. They show it through situations like Wolverine not smoking because it sets a bad influence on children, but it's okay for Spider-Man to make a deal with the devil. They show it through continuity errors and miss-ships. Their website has at least one title a week that doesn't ship, leaving Diamond to accurately tell you what Marvel book is coming out each week. The list goes on. As a company, Marvel's operations are deeply, sadly, flawed. Fortunately, some of the artists and writers they employ are top notch. Writers like Aaron; artists like Perkins and Pelletier. If Marvel could get their operations cleaner, these creator-saviors could actually make Marvel money – so they wouldn't have to rely on licensing to pay their bills.
BTW, I think it's hilarious that they call themselves "Tea Baggers"… There's another meaning to that term, and that one seems to apply to them too.
They don't call themselves "Tea Baggers". They refer to themselves as being in the "Tea Party Movement."
@Mark Kardwell
Wow, politics in your country really has been f""ked by Murdoch, hasn't it? And when someone from Northern Ireland pities the poor state of political discourse in your country, it means it really is banjaxed.
No mark, because of FOX news there is more debate now then there was 15 years ago. .
No mark, because of FOX news there is more debate now then there was 15 years ago.
keep drinking the koolaid mate. Murdoch has been the absolute worst thing to happen to our great country and reasoned political debate in this country happens in SPITE of FOX news.
@Eric & Mark
You've no idea what you're talking about "mate." If you'd break away, for one second, from watching the pitiful mainstream media that you're so obviously watching, you'd actually get a glimpse of what's being portrayed by FOX News or Conservative talk radio and you might actually learn something new, as opposed to the same old drivel that's presented by some of the most liberally biased "journalists" on television.
I've never seen so much obvious bias, arrogance and corruption in my entire life.
Drinking the koolaid would have me believing in global warming… and wait, wasn't that just proven to be a lie? Yeah, I think so…
Time to try some new sources for the "news," because I knew that was a hoax for over a year… I mean, aside from common sense.
I still think everybody's missing the mark. It's the people of Boise, Idaho, who've been misrepresented as the sort who would tolerate a racist, anti-government militia camping out in the foothills they've elected to preserve, who deserve an apology.
Oh, and Boise isn't rural or lily-white. But what do I know? I only lived there for 15 years.
@ Mark Kardwell
Don't worry, Mark. Not all Americans buy into the "truthiness" that Fox and Murdoch's other alleged "news" outlets peddle.
Just stumbled onto this article now, but what a biased cesspool this is. The Tea Party movement never referred to themselves as "teabaggers", that was a vulgar term the left wing blogs cooked up to slander the movement and giggled about like little schoolgirls on MSNBC, the mouthpiece for the left. The Tea Party movement is concerned with tax and budget issues and Brubaker sought to portray them as militant racists as most left wing blogs were desperately trying to do at the time. It's funny how Brubaker's Captain America stood against the government during Civil War when Bush was President, but suddenly stands against anti-government protests when Obama is President. His synpathies couldn't be more transparent.
The quotes you posted and the comments to this article are one sided B.S. Brubaker was using Captain America, a patriotic icon he has pissed all over like the rest of the left because of their insecurities with boyscout patriotism, as a tool to slander a real life group of Americans expressing political dissent he disagreed with. He was trying to be relevant, you need the facts and objectivity to be relevant, he was slandering those he disagreed with. All the people here attacking Fox News here are the ultimate hypocrites as they can't accept ONE alternative voice in all of news media, it is the ultimate in intellectual intolerance.
What I will never understand is why left wing writers who find the idea of patriotism so dated and even dangerous, insist on molesting patriotic characters such as Captain America or Superman. Seriously, create your own U.N. Culture Club of heroes where everyone fights for Statism, One World Government, Redistribution of Wealth, Abolishment of Religion and Climate Change hysteria.
I suppose even more venom and hate will be spewed from this site though now that Obama was soundly rejected in the 2010 midterms and especially if he is ousted from office in 2012. If Obama loses in 2012, Brubaker will have Captain "America" bring in Black Bolt to scream in rage at the entire United States to level it completely and permanently. He had to destroy it, to save it, and his transformation to Captain U.N. will be complete.


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KOLKATA: The owners of Wills , ITC Limited has acquired `Wills' brand. This is not a riddle. ITC has had to buy-out the Wills brand in the US, before it takes Wills merchandise to America.
Talking to newspersons here today, Mr Y C Deveshwar, ITC chairman, said, "in US there was one Mrs Wills who owned the Wills brand and was selling clothes under this brand. We have bought over the brand from her as we want to take our ready-made garments to the US in future."


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Issue No.06 - June (2002 vol.35)
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Sometimes the real lessons of an undergraduate education are not the ones intended by the erstwhile instructors. No, I don't mean the wild parties?I was an engineering undergrad, so I missed all those. Well, most of them. When the real world intervenes on well-planned experiments, the lessons you learn will stick with you when all of the math has dissipated from your memory.

Bob Colwell, "Engineering Follies", Computer, vol.35, no. 6, pp. 10-12, June 2002, doi:10.1109/MC.2002.1009157


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"Bigger Than Life: A Murder, a Memoir," by Dinah Lenney (University of Nebraska Press, $24.95)For the past 10 years, Dinah Lenney, author of the memoir, "Bigger Than Life," has lived with the memory of the murder of her father, a prominent New Jersey businessman and onetime senatorial candidate who was knifed to death by three teens in Manhattan.
Lenney says that she is a "spiritually challenged" person. Still, as she wrote, she once contemplated the possibility that a wounded white pigeon that had adopted her backyard as its home might be her father. When reminded of this during a visit to her Los Angeles home, the author smiles and jokes that Sully, her barking dog, might be her father. If so, he is a cheerful, rambunctious spirit.
That is not so far from the man Lenney describes in her book. Although her father could be a scoundrel -- he served six months in federal prison for campaign fraud and always made her know how important his golf game was, even when he visited Lenney and her children -- he nonetheless was, she said, "incredibly charismatic."
A tall, burly real estate tycoon, Nelson Gross had always been able to control anyone and anything. He delivered Bergen County in northern New Jersey for Nixon in 1968, served as assistant secretary of state in the Nixon administration, and even conferred in the Oval Office with the president and John Ehrlichman.
To his young daughter, Gross seemed all the more omnipotent and exotic because he was rarely around. He and Lenney's mother divorced when Lenney was a toddler, and growing up with her mother and stepfather she was "brainwashed," as she put it, to think of her father as a "bad guy."
Inside Lenney's Echo Park living room, books are piled everywhere -- stacked on the floor, tiered up on a shelf and placed inside a glass bookcase. There's also a photo of her father inside that bookcase, a dark-haired, handsome man standing by a squash court at what looks to be a private club. Even at the time of the photo, when Gross was probably in his 60s, he looks daunting and muscular, 6-foot-2, 225 pounds, with biceps palpable under his sleeve and a strong torso.
It still boggles Lenney that three "punks," not one of them taller than 5-foot-8, could have overcome such a powerful figure.
One of the ironies of Lenney's life, as she reveals in the book, is that she was more fearful of facing her own family than the killers when she appeared in the courtroom at their sentencing. The book indeed deals more with this toxic brew of upper-class Jews than it does with the three Latino felons.
Lenney, who is tall and dark-haired like her father, is a longtime TV actor who teaches acting at UCLA. She also has a background as a writer, having received an MFA in creative writing from Bennington College. Last year she published her first book, titled, "Acting for Young Actors: The Ultimate Teen Guide."
"Bigger Than Life" gives her more of an opportunity to display her literary chops.
Consider her description of the cast of characters in her family to whom her husband, then boyfriend, Fred, was introduced one Christmas: "Iris ... a renowned archaeologist who wore the family kilts with a crested dagger in her sock ... Audrey, Noel's mother, whose hair shone shoe-polish black and whose skin stretched like an old flesh-colored bathing cap across her narrow skull. She was in her nineties with toothpick arms, and she trembled when she spoke, beautifully, with a mid-Atlantic lilt. Her escort ... was a man in his sixties, slim, coiffed, and affable, like something out of a Noel Coward play."
Lenney said she had several premonitory nightmares about her father in the days when he was missing, nearly all of them involving death. In the book, she dramatizes her "conjecture" about the final moments of her father's life, the dialogue and action that may have transpired between him and the three punks, one of whom is named Christian.
In the dramatization, she depicts her father as a mensch even in the face of his impending death, as he defends his son, Neil, whom she speculates may have been involved in drugs.
"Listen," he says, "you leave Neil alone. You don't deal with my son. Ever. Just deal with me. I'll take care of you."
Unfortunately, punks of the 1990s and 2000s, nihilistic Generation Y-ers, are not like the punks of Gross' youth in the 1940s and 1950s, who might have cut your face with a knife and left you with a mark but probably would not have killed you.
Though not religious, Lenney says that she respects most of all what one rabbi told her, that what happened to her father was "simply evil" and that there is no such thing as an afterlife. She said, however, that "I carry my father in my genes -- he's bound to turn up here and there, in this one's smile, that one's reticence, this one's athletic ability, that one's lack of sentiment...."
At the end of her memoir, Lenney writes about how in a summer stock production of "Peter Pan" the director came up with the idea of having "a shadow, a stagehand dressed in black," help each performer simulate flying through the air. Then she writes about how her own shadow appears more confident now when she goes for a walk in Elysian Park, near her home.
It leaves open the possibility that that shadow may be a spirit of a sort, like the wounded pigeon that healed and flew away, and the dolphin who leaped by a boulder out at sea after Lenney tossed her father's ashes into the Pacific, and Sully the dog who is no longer barking.
Like the Ghost of Hamlet's father at the end of Shakespeare's tragedy, Nelson Gross may finally be at rest.
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Lal Jose introducing another new face
His next celluloid venture is entitled Elsamma Enna Aankutty. The film stars Indrajith and Kunchacko Boban in the lead roles. Jose would launch, Ann, who happens to be the daughter of popular character actor Augustine. Co-incidentally, Ann is the first heroine of Lal Jose who has a film industry background.
The film also has a host of other popular stars. Elsamma Enna Aankutty also includes Nedumudi Venu, Janardhanan, Manianpillai Raju, Jagathy Sreekumar, Sooraj Venjaranmoodu, Vijayaraghavan and K.P.A.C. Lalitha in many supporting roles.
Ex-journalist Sindhu Raj, is the scriptwriter for the movie. He earlier had scripted Lal Jose"s Mulla. The film"s producer is M. Ranjith and the music is composed by Rajamani.


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Nokia Lifts Itself Out of the Doldrums
Nokia Corp's shares traded higher Thursday, rebounding from sharp losses so far this year, after the mobile phone maker posted consensus-beating first-quarter earnings and said it now has a final deal in place to start building devices based on Microsoft Corp's Windows platform.
While healthy sales development helped Nokia post stronger-than-expected profits for the first quarter, the finalized Microsoft agreement should also reduce some of investors' uncertainty about the company's future.
Nokia's shares have slumped almost 30% since the Finnish handset maker first announced its strategic tie-up with Microsoft in February this year in a move to win back market share in the profitable high-end smartphone segment, where it has lost ground to iPhone-maker Apple Inc and devices based on Google Inc's fast-spreading Android operating system.
Over the past few years, consumers have increasingly opted for Android phones from vendors like Samsung and HTC rather than devices based on Nokia's old Symbian platform, and research firm Gartner expects Android to replace Symbian as the world's most widely-used smartphone platform this year, with a global market share of 38.5% against 19.2% for Symbian.
Many market watchers think it may well make sense in the long run for Nokia to replace Symbian with Microsoft's newer Windows Phone operating system.
Nokia will be able to significantly cut operating costs through the tie-up, and it also believes it can build a particularly strong "ecosystem" around the new Windows phones by combining assets like its own navigation software and Microsoft's search service Bing.
And while the Finnish company will need to pay Microsoft royalties for using the Windows platform, it will itself get "billions of dollars" of payments for the content it provides in the cooperation agreement.
Still, even if Nokia's move proves successful further on, analysts have been concerned that the transition to Windows may be long and tough. The handset maker expects to start shipping significant volumes of Windows-based smartphones in 2012, but until then its high-end market share may well continue falling.
In the first quarter, Nokia's estimated share of the global smartphone market fell to 26% from 41% a year earlier, and analysts believe the company may lose further ground to its rivals in the near future, even as it continues to support Symbian through software upgrades and new launches, including the recently announced Nokia E6 and Nokia X7 which are aimed respectively at business people and entertainment enthusiasts.
Nokia itself expects the second quarter of this year to be more challenging than the first, due in part to supply disruptions from the recent Japanese earthquake, but also because of "competitive industry dynamics" and the fact that it doesn't plan to launch many new products until the second half of the year.
Even so, with the final Microsoft deal now in place, there is less uncertainty for investors about the company's future prospects.
"The inked deal with Microsoft on Windows phones clears a hurdle and allows Nokia to focus on execution in bringing their new Windows smartphones to market as quickly as possible," said analyst Geoff Blaber at research firm CCS Insight, though he added that the company will "continue to suffer from a lack of competitiveness at the top end before we see those devices appear."


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American Gangster: Pride comes before the fallFrank's stronzo scene in American Gangster comes about halfway through the movie when he shows up to an Ali-Frazier fight in a ridiculous full-length Chinchilla coat and hat, both presents from his wife. He looks more like Iceberg Slim than the sober businessman we've come to know. Perhaps he begins to relish the power he's gained and the spectacle he is now capable of creating, which ends up being the downfall of many gangsters before him. He even gets better seats than mob boss Dominic Cattano, and the legitimate cops are finally able to identify the man who now controls the entire NY heroin market. This moment is seen as the start of Lucas' unraveling, as he begins to stray from his trusted instincts. When he realizes his mistake, he rushes home and burns the coat, but the damage has already been done. Nobody likes braggers, and trying to act like a celebrity when you're a mobster is asking to get busted.
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I read your column every week. I really enjoy reading the articles you write. My question is, how does a Mafioso guy pick up girls? How would you hit on a girl?
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Thanks for your question. Too many guys make too big a deal out of talking to a girl. Girls, like anyone else, can sense when a man is nervous. Many guys get nervous and think they have to have some smooth line. The reality is, girls feel uncomfortable because you're nervous, and it's that fine line that makes you look like an ass in their eyes. It's simple: If you see a girl you like, ask her if she is single. If she isn't single, why continue? If she is single, introduce yourself and ask her out. End of story. If you're calm and confident, most of the time she will agree. Don't try to be smooth, and don't get nervous; it's just a woman.
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Ontario goalie Chris Carrozzi bit on Shawn Weller's deke, and Weller followed with a backhanded goal in the fifth round of the shootout to lift the Stockton Thunder to a 3-2 win over the host Ontario Reign on Saturday in front of 9,616 at Citizens Business Bank Arena.
The shootout win was the first this season on the road for the Thunder (30-22-9), and it came against the Pacific Division-leading Reign (39-14-6).
"It's important to find a way to get points," Thunder coach Matt Thomas said. "It's so tight. We're fighting for the home ice, and Las Vegas and Colorado are hot on our heels. It's big to find a way to win those games."
Stockton is fourth in the Western Conference with 69 points, Las Vegas (63) is fifth and Colorado (59) is sixth. The top eight teams advance to the playoffs, with the top four earning home ice advantage in the first round. The Thunder has already secured a playoff spot.
Ryan Hayes, acquired in a trade for future considerations from the South Carolina Stingrays on Friday, had an assist and scored in the shootout.
"It's nice when you get a new guy to give you a spark in some areas," Thomas said. "He had a good game."
Continuing his impressive start with the Thunder, defenseman Brandon Davidson gave Stockton a 1-0 lead just 3 minutes, 16 seconds into the game, taking a lead pass from Matt Bergland that set up the breakaway. Davidson has five goals and eight points in eight games with the Thunder in his return from testicular cancer.
"He's played really well," Thomas said. "He's playing with confidence. With what he's been through it's great to see him contribute the way he has."
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Preschool Teacher
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Working as a preschool teacher doesn't have to be the top rung of your early childhood education career. The field is constantly growing with new developments in teaching and research. The more you know about emerging curriculum, the stronger you will be as a respected childcare professional. You can become the director of a childcare center, or you can work (somewhat) independently as a Special Ed provider (who makes about $53k a year).