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|We offer many programs, services, and educational programs for individuals with memory loss and their families as well as care partners and community members.
Click on the links below that best fit your needs.
24-Hour Information and Support
Kansas Dementia Bridge Project
Neuropsychiatric Symptoms of Dementia Guide
24-Hour Information and Support
The Alzheimer's Association Helpline operates 24 hours a day, seven days a week, in 140 languages. Our staff is highly trained and knowledgeable about all aspects of Alzheimer's disease. Call us if you have questions about:
- Alzheimer's disease or memory loss, medications and treatment options, brain health and care options
- How the Association can help you
- Caregiving tips and respite care options
- Services available in your community and referrals
You can also call us for emotional support –– as often as you need. We know that living with Alzheimer's can be overwhelming at times. Remember, we are here for you –– all day, every day.
E-mail help
If you prefer, send us a message at email@example.com. We check the e-mail box daily and will respond to your inquiry within 48 hours.
Care Consultation
Families and care partners have many questions and concerns about Alzheimer's disease and often need assistance finding and utilizing community resources. The Heart of America Chapter offers individual and family care planning. Our professional staff is dedicated to helping people navigate through the difficult decisions and uncertainties people with Alzheimer's and their families face at every stage of the disease. We can provide care consultation services to you by telephone, email or in person. These include:
- Assessment of needs
- Assistance with planning and problem solving
- Supportive listening
Find the Heart of America Chapter office nearest you.
Caregiver Support Groups
More than 30 Heart of America Chapter support groups provide a consistent and caring place for group members to discuss the challenges and joys of caregiving. Group members share their feelings and find emotional support as well as exchange information and educate themselves about Alzheimer's disease and other dementias. Support group members bring new ideas to the table, learn about local and Association resources, share new ways of coping, boost each other's energy, and help build confidence. If you are a caregiver for a person with dementia, join a support group; you will benefit and help others. Find a support group.
Breakfast Clubs
The Breakfast Clubs are hometown support experiences where people share food and gather in a safe environment to discuss their experiences. The Heart of America Breakfast Clubs are listed below.
Bourbon County, KS
Mercy Hospital - Xavier Room
401 Woodland Hills Blvd.
Fort Scott, KS 66701
Michelle Niedens
3rd Wednesday of the month at 9:00 a.m.
Crawford County, KS
1st United Methodist Church
415 N. Pine
Pittsburg, KS 66762
Michelle Niedens
3rd Thursday of the month at 9:00 a.m.
Kansas City, MO
Research Medical Center, Meeting Room 3
2316 E. Meyer Blvd
Kansas City, MO 64132
Trish Weatherspoon
2nd Saturday of the month at 9:30 a.m.
Labette County, KS
Four Square Church
98 Main Street
Parsons, KS 67357
Michelle Niedens
1st Thursday of the month at 9:00 a.m.
Neosho County, KS
First United Methodist Church
Fellowship Hall
202 S. Lincoln Avenue
Chanute, KS 66720
Michelle Niedens
1st Wednesday of the month at 9:00 a.m.
Grundy County, MO
Lakeview Restaurant
3307 E. 10th St.
Trenton, M
Brenda Gregg
1st Wednesday of the month at 9:00 a.m.
Kansas Dementia Bridge Project
The Kansas Dementia Bridge Project provides dementia crisis support to individuals with a dementia who are experiencing neuropsychiatric symptoms of dementia, such as: depression, wandering, resistance to daily care, sleep disturbance, physical aggression, etc. Our staff assist with dementia assessment, disease education, care plan recommendations, resource/treatment navigation, support, and follow-up. The Bridge Project serves individuals residing in any setting (hospitals, homes, facilities, etc.). The Kansas Bridge Project is a partnership between the Kansas Area Agencies on Aging and the Alzheimer's Association - Heart of America Chapter. For more information on the Kansas Bridge Project, contact Michelle Niedens at email@example.com or 800.272.3900.
Message Boards
The Alzheimer's Association message boards and chat rooms provide an online community for persons with Alzheimer's, caregivers and care providers. Our message boards have thousands of registered members from around the United States and thousands more who refer to the stories and information that is available 24 hours a day.
Join the Alzheimer's Association online community.
Memories in the Making©
This innovative art program provides persons with Alzheimer's disease with a means of creative expression. Experienced volunteer artists work weekly with groups in assisted living facilities, nursing homes and adult day programs. Read more about Memories in the Making©.
Memory Room
Approximately four times a year, the Heart of America Chapter partners with volunteer area artists, high school artists, and nursing home facilities to create a pleasing wall mural for late stage dementia patients who spend the majority of time in their rooms. The mural is typically based on some aspect of the person's life: a familiar scene, a countryside, or a special place where fond memories may reside. See Memory Room murals.
Caregiver Education Programs
The Heart of America Chapter offers regularly scheduled classes designed to provide needed information to families of those with Alzheimer's disease and other dementias including understanding disease process, coping strategies, legal and financial issues, and information to facilitate caregiving. Below is a list of educational offerings for caregivers. If you have any questions about caregiver education programs, contact Michelle Niedens at 913.831.3888 or firstname.lastname@example.com.
For meeting times and locations regarding the programs listed below, please call the Main Chapter office at 913.831.3888.
Building Caregiver Confidence
An opportunity for family caregivers and friends to increase their understanding of Alzheimer's disease and related dementias and to learn caregiving approaches.
Annual Defining Hope Conference: Becoming a Dementia-Friendly Community
An all-day conference, focusing on the possibilities to strengthen our inclusion of those among us with dementia at all levels of community life. What would an entire community look like if it were dementia-friendly? What would the businesses look like? Faith communities? Schools? Parks? Neighborhoods? Every part of the community?
Driving and Dementia
A discussion about having the conversation, planning ahead, and signs of unsafe driving.
Family Series
A 6-session course focusing on some of the most common topics around caring for someone with Alzheimer's disease or other dementias. Individuals are welcome to come for whichever topics are of concern.
Part I: "What can I expect?" - An overview of Alzheimer's disease including diagnosis, stages and family experiences.
Part II: "I don't need any help" - A discussion of managing activities of daily living including resistance, provision of care and other issues associated with bathing, toileting, dressing, taking medication and feeding.
Part 3: "He just sits around all day" - Explores the role of activities and structure for the person with Alzheimer's disease. Suggestions on activities and option to maximize strengths.
Part 4: "Is she on too many medications?" - The concerns and appropriate benefits of commonly prescribed medications in the care of the person with Alzheimer's disease.
Part 5: "I can't do this anymore" - the dilemma around the placement decision. Covers options, resources and the decision making process.
Part 6: "I should, I ought, I have to" - A video and discussion of the guilt that typically goes along with the role of the caregiver.
Finding Purpose in Advocacy
This 3-part education and support series looks at unique features of grief for families with an individual who has dementia, common areas where one can get stuck and exploring healthy ways to address those areas.
Getting Lost
A discussion on the prevalance of wandering, risk factors and reasons for wandering behavior, wandering risk reduction interventions, and what to do if someone is lost.
Legal Issues
This session explores the various legal concerns and needs that arise throughout the course of the disease. Issues include durable power of attorney, guardianship, conservatorship, patient rights, division of assets and living will.
Living with Alzheimer's
An opportunity to hear practical answers to the questions that arise in the early stage. Hear from those directly affected and learn what you can do to cope with the changes that come with an early-stage diagnosis.
The Basics
A program providing information on detection, causes and risk factors, stages of Alzheimer's, treatment, and much more. Alzheimer's disease is not a normal part of aging. If you or someone you love is affected by Alzheimer's disease or dementia, it's time to learn the facts.
The Training Room
An event designed for busy people who care for those with Alzheimer's disease. Training stations will provide information on a number of topics that address care issues. Attendees choose stations and hours of attendance.
The Library is located in the main office and open Monday through Friday from 8:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. to provide books, brochures, videos and other resources on Alzheimer's available for loan. All offices have access to these resources and also offer a variety of informative material at their locations. In addition to these resources, the Chapter offers individual Information Sheets (free of charge) on common topics of discussion. For access to downloadable pdf files of the individual Information Sheets, or a pdf of an Information Packet with the most requested Information Sheets, click on the links below.
For more information about available resources, please call 913.831.3888.
Safety Programs
MedicAlert+Safe Return
MedicAlert+Safe Return is a national patient registry for the memory impaired. This program was developed by the Alzheimer's Association to respond to the problem of wandering. The Safe Return program coordinates information on program participants, caregivers, and emergency personnel in order to provide a system to enable others to locate, identify and return missing persons with Alzheimer's disease and related disorders who wander and become lost. Enroll in Safe Return.
TrialMatch is a free service that makes it easy for individuals with Alzheimer's, caregivers, families and physicians to locate clinical trials based on personal criteria (diagnosis, stage of disease) and location. This is an exciting time for Alzheimer's research. More than 100 research studies pertaining to Alzheimer's disease and related dementias are underway and volunteers for these studies are needed. TrialMatch lets you search these trials quickly and easily. The following link takes you to the national website. To return to the Heart of America Chapter website, click the "In My Community" tab at the top of the national website. Learn More About TrialMatch
The Heart of America Chapter sends out a weekly e-news that includes local and national information about on-going and upcoming programs, educational opportunities, fundraising events, and research efforts. Weekly e-news signup is on the left navigation bar of all pages on our website. Sign up today!
Heart of America Chapter Neuropsychiatric Symptoms of Dementia Guide Now Available for Purchase
Neuropsychiatric Symptoms of Dementia: A Visual Guide to Response Considerations by Michelle Niedens, LSCSW. This user-friendly guide was developed by the Alzheimer's Association Heart of America Chapter Director of Education and Public Policy and has been reviewed by dementia experts around the country. In a decision tree format, it provides evidence-based intervention suggestions for a wide range of neuropsychiatric challenges, such as wandering, depression, and resistance to daily care.
The guide is designed to prop up in a table-tent fashion so that the user can flip from page to page.
The cost of the guide is $20. If you are interested in purchasing this guide, please contact Carol at the Main Chapter office, 913.831.3888.
Download a pdf version of this guide.
Multilingual Information
Alzheimer's disease is a GLOBAL EPIDEMIC. To serve this global population, as well as their families and caregivers, the Alzheimer's Association has translated its most popular and unique online resources and tools. You can access the link below to choose from more than 15 different languages.
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Artist: Dream Theater (http://www.dreamtheater.net)
Album: Train of Thought
Release Date: November 14, 2003
Label: Elektra
Rating: 8/10
Recommended Tracks: This Dying Soul, Honor Thy Father, In The Name of God
You may have clicked on this link thinking "Huh? Dream Theater? That nerdy keyboard and saxophone-solo prog rock band?", and you'd be absolutely right. However, this particular offering from the legendary band is without a doubt the heaviest offering in their storied career, and while it isn't that new anymore I still wanted to give it the recognition it deserves since a lot of you may have just dismissed it right off the bat since you aren't Dream Theater fans. There's a whole lot of metal going on in this disc, and hopefully you have enough sense to realize that there's more to metal than unintelligible screaming about leaking entrails from a dead body and who can hit a bass drum the hardest and fastest. Yeah, I listen to that side of the spectrum too, and still like it a lot, but when a band with the considerable talents of Dream Theater put their minds to making a through and through metal album, ALL fans of metal should stand up and take notice.
Prog rock is definitely an acquired taste, especially for the fringe bands in the genre who are often way out there in terms of sound and song structure. Dream Theater has long been known as one of the pillars of the scene, and are also well-known and respected in the metal community for their immense talent and occasional ball-busting foray into heavy metal on their albums. Just about every Dream Theater album has at least one good heavy crunchy metal work of art on it that is almost worth buying the cd for alone. Unfortunately, they also average about one or two sappy ballads per album that wouldn't sound out of place coming through the speakers of a waiting room in your dentist's office, which leaves you with the rest of the albums being filled with mid-tempo prog-rock gems.
On Train of Thought, however, it's all the business of metal, and business is very good. From the swirling, opening crunch of the first track "As I Am", it's very clear that this ain't your older brother's poofy-haired-dorks-in-a-crowded-studio-for-a-30-minute-jam-session Dream Theater. This album is chock full of smoking guitar solos, pounding double-bass drum fills, darker subject matter (much of the lyrical content of album deals with the effects that divorce and abuse have on children), and just an overall pervading sense of a concerted effort to make a heavier, darker sound. Every track on here except for one you can proudly blare out of your speakers for your gore-and-guts obsessed death-metal buddies to bang their heads to, without having to worry about them saying "Dude, you like Dream Theater?".
A good basis of comparison for this album is the newest Metallica album St. Agnes... er, I mean St. Anger. It's a good comparison not in terms of quality (the first minute of the track "Dying Soul" is better and heavier than anything Metallica has put out since ...And Justice For All), rather it's a good comparison of one band delivering on a promise to get heavier against one band who failed miserably. Everyone got semi-excited when it was announced that Metallica was supposedly returning to their roots and making a heavier album when all they did was drop another steaming turd into the toilet of metal, and left a lot of skid marks on the underwear of metal in the process. When I first heard Train of Thought, what kept creeping into my mind was "This is the album St. Anger should have been". Vocalist James LaBrie won't ever get mistaken for Metallica's more famous James on the street, but he can match him tone for tone, as when you hear LaBrie's snarling "yeeeeeeah" that he often wraps up verses with, you'll immediately think of James Hetfield's signature "yeeeeeeah". Dream Theater obviously don't try to match thrash for thrash with Metallica (though they have before... there is an amazing album in which Dream Theater covers the entire Master of Puppets album you should try to track down), but this album definitely is a delivered promise in the heaviness department.
There are a few times on the album where Dream Theater does stray away from their strengths though, as this is by no means a perfect album. LaBrie tends to go a bit too over the top with his vocal theatrics at times (though not nearly as bad as on previous DT albums), and he inexplicably sings a couple of verses on tracks 2 and 4 in a rap-rock sing-songy chorus style that is downright awful. And, of course, there's the pre-requisite sappy Dream Theater ballad included (track 5, entitled "Vacant"), but luckily it's only a little less than 3 minutes long so you don't have to suffer much. Speaking of pre-requisite Dream Theater, most of the songs could be trimmed by a good 2-3 minutes to just be lean, mean crunch fests, but the boys just have to show off how damned good they are with extended guitar and keyboard solos, rubbing it in your face that they are much, much better musicians than you could ever hope to be.
The overall quality of the album is more than enough to put up with those flaws though, as it's still more than heavy enough to satisfy the average metal fan and still Dream Theater enough to satisfy the average Dream Theater fan. This album takes the title of "Heaviest Dream Theater Album" away from 1994's Awake, and it does so in a first-round knockout. So for those of you who were disappointed with the new Metallica album (i.e., everyone reading this review above the age of 13), I highly suggest you take a ride on Train of Thought. Dream Theater has made a great album to bridge the gap between prog and metal, and in the process should win over a lot of new fans willing to take a chance on it. Hey, at least they didn't drop a Load on us, like some other bands have before.
- Greg
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PINCKNEY firstname.lastname@example.com_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2003-04-21 published
The soul of Canadian basketball
The coach who led national teams to Olympics, world championships, was a well-loved motivator on and off the court
By James CHRISTIE Monday, April 21, 2003 - Page R5
Jack DONOHUE knew how to win. His underdog Canadian basketball teams won games against National Basketball Association-bound superstars -- and Mr. DONOHUE won every heart he touched.
The former national basketball coach and famed motivator was arguably the most beloved figure in Canadian amateur and Olympic sport. Mr. DONOHUE died Wednesday in Ottawa after a battle with cancer. He was 71.
With his trademark New York Irish accent and gift for telling inspirational and humorous stories, Mr. DONOHUE was the soul of basketball in Canada for almost two decades and led the national team to three Olympic Games and three world championship tournaments.
His great players included a high schooler in New York named Lew ALCINDOR (later Kareem ABDUL- JABBAR;) Canadian centres Bill WENNINGTON and Mike SMREK, who went on to get National Basketball Association championship rings with Chicago and Los Angeles respectively Leo RAUTINS, a first-round draft pick of Philadelphia 76ers in 1983; guards Eli PASQUALE and Jay TRIANO, who is now assistant coach with the Toronto Raptors.
"For all he's done for basketball in this country -- not just with the national team, but with clinics and all his public speaking he should get the Order of Canada," Mr. TRIANO said.
Under Mr. DONOHUE, Canadian teams stayed among the top six in the world for 18 years. Canada finished fourth at the 1976 Montreal and 1984 Los Angeles Olympics and claimed gold at the 1983 World University Games in Edmonton. In the process they beat a team of U.S. college talents that included future National Basketball Association stars Charles BARKLEY, Karl MALONE, Kevin WILLIS, Ed PINCKNEY and Johnny DAWKINS. The monumental win over the United States came in the semi-final. The gold medal match was just as much a stunner, as Canada beat a Yugoslavian team built with members of the world championship squad.
Globe and Mail columnist Trent FRAYNE recorded how the loquacious Mr. DONOHUE had steered the Canucks to the improbable triumph, making them believe in themselves:
"You've got to appreciate how much talent you have," Jack would say, hunkering down beside a centre or a guard or, every now and then, an unwary newshound (Jack is ready for anybody). "You are unique. Think about that: there's nobody else in the world like you. If you want to be happy, try to make other people happy. Hey, if you want to be loved, you must love others. The way to improve is to do something you have never done. Don't be afraid of your emotions. Let 'em all hang out. Emotions are your generator. The intellect is the governor...."
And now, in the seventh month of July, it has all come about just as Jack promised. On Saturday night in Edmonton, his players, Jack's Guys, hoisted him upon their shoulders, and, for once, Jack's jaw was still. Blue eyes blinking rapidly behind silver-rimmed spectacles, white hair tousled, Jack put the scissors to that final strand and held the net aloft.
Coaching was a passion, not so much for the trophies, but for the human victories, personal challenges and little triumphs.
"I remember my father coming home tired and dirty every night. That's not for me. I love what I'm doing, so it doesn't seem like work and never will," he said.
Since retiring as national coach in 1988, Mr. DONOHUE has been the darling of the motivational speakers' circuit. In that regard, Mr. DONOHUE never quit being The Coach. He urged captains of industry to get the most out of themselves and build teamwork among employees as he did his players.
Often, Mr. DONOHUE told them to find opportunity even in the midst of problems: "It's all a matter of attitude. A guy leaves the house wearing his new, expensive suit for the first time, trips and falls in a puddle. He can get up and curse; or he can get up and check his pockets to see if he caught any fish, " he said in an interview with The Globe and Mail before the Los Angeles Olympics.
Mr. DONOHUE, who was born June 4, 1931, received a bachelor's degree in economics at New York's Fordham University and a master of arts in health education before serving with the U.S. Army in the Korean War. He began teaching in American high schools in 1954 and eventually wound up at New York's Power Memorial Academy, where he coached Mr. ABDUL- JABBAR and amassed a 163-30 record.
He later moved up to Holy Cross College in Worcester, Massachusetts., before taking the reins of the Canadian program -- at first coaching both the men's and women's teams. Mr. DONOHUE was inducted into the Canadian Basketball Hall of Fame in 1992. He is also in the New York City Basketball Hall of Fame, and was awarded a Canada 125 medal by the Governor-General.
When the National Basketball Association expanded north into Canada in 1995, Mr. DONOHUE became director of international public relations and director of Canadian player development for the Vancouver Grizzlies.
One of Mr. DONOHUE's proudest times in basketball came when Mr. TRIANO followed in his path as a national coach. At the 2000 Olympics, Canada -- with Steve NASH and Todd MacCULLOCH -- finished with a 5-2 record, defeating mighty Yugoslavia once again, as it had in 1983.
"We talked about everything from how to guard guys on the perimeter to dying. I think he's at peace with it," Mr. TRIANO said of his mentor at a recent Raptor practice.
"He taught with humour," Mr. TRIANO said of Mr. DONOHUE's coaching style. "We learned a lot because we were laughing all the time."
A colourful broadcaster, naming names -- at least pronouncing them correctly -- wasn't one of Mr. DONOHUE's many strengths. He didn't earn the nickname "Jack Dontknowho" for no reason, Mr. TRIANO said. "It was always, 'that guy,' or 'you over there,'" he said. "I've seen him struggle to introduce his kids because he couldn't remember their names. He always told me he liked doing colour for the European teams, because no one knew if he wasn't saying their names right."
He travelled the world, but the dearest sight for Mr. DONOHUE was always his own front door, in Kanata, Ontario, where he spent his last days. Behind that door were wife Mary Jane, his six kids and his grandchildren.
"We're asking you to hug your families, extra special, and we're asking you to enjoy life, because we sure did and we still are," Mary Jane DONOHUE said this week.
Somewhere, the busy coach found time for all he needed to do. He used to keep a block on his desk reminding him that there are 86,400 seconds in a day, time enough if he organized himself. Family was a priority. At least five minutes of Mr. DONOHUE's day had to be reserved for hugging his kids. He was a believer in family and in human contact. In his coaching years, when he returned from a road journey, there would be a lineup awaiting him at home, the kids taking their turns to make up for the lost minutes of hugging during his absence.
"I met him at a dance he didn't go to," Mary Jane DONOHUE said in the pre-Los Angeles Games article. "My girlfriend and I went and he had several Friends who were very up on it. But Jack said he'd rather go to a movie and would meet them later. He came through the door as my girlfriend and I were walking out.
"He asked why we were leaving so soon, and said there were two gentlemen he wanted us to meet. He introduced my friend to one of his, then I asked who the other gentleman was supposed to be. Guess who?"
Mary Jane DONOHUE felt trust instantly. "I could have gone across the country with him that night and felt safe. If he's for you, he's for you all the way."
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PINNINGTON firstname.lastname@example.com_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2003-10-31 published
Robert Herdman PECK
By Lyn PINNINGTON, Friday, October 31, 2003 - Page A20
Innovator, agricultural pioneer, conservationist, husband, father. Born October 17, 1914, in Sandwich West, Ontario Died June 10, in Blyth, Ontario, of natural causes, aged 88.
Robert PECK was born at his parents' farm, outside of Windsor, Ontario, the eldest of three children, into a world where farming meant horse-drawn implements, threshing bees and self-sufficiency.
He attended a one-room country school and the three PECK children (Robert, his sister Evelyn and his younger brother Donald), must have set some kind of record for whizzing through grade school. They were all in high school by the age of 11. And it was in high school, at the age of 11, that Robert participated in a science project that determined the course of his life. He was given some soybean seeds and asked if he thought he could grow them. At the time, it was generally thought that Canadian summers were too short and too cool to grow soybeans. His half-acre test plot succeeded, thus began a long and distinguished career in which he is credited with being one of the first to grow soybeans commercially in Canada.
After graduating from high school at the age of 16, he began his farming career in earnest. He wanted to grow the best soybeans in all of North America. In 1936, at the age of 22, he took second prize for soybeans at the Royal Winter Fair and the next year, he won first prize at the Chicago Grain and Hay Show. Other prizes followed, including the World Championship at the Royal and the first winner of the Victory Mills Trophy, both in 1947. In the same year, he became the only Canadian director of the American Soybean Association board.
In 1948, he married Lilah June QUILTER and they had three children: Brenda, Jim and Ruth. He continued his career as a registered seed grower. This is different from raising regular crops. It meant continuous collaboration with the Federal Department of Agriculture through its research station at Harrow, regular inspections of the fields, which had to be pristine (no weeds at all, which meant lots of hoeing), and cleaning and bagging seed by hand. In all, he had 45 years of active service with the Canadian Seed Growers' Association and in recognition of his accomplishments, he was inducted into the Essex County Agricultural Hall of Fame in 1995.
In the 1970s, Robert decided to retire to a new life and a new type of farming. Having changed farming in Essex County, he decided to change the landscape of Huron County. He purchased 100 acres near Blyth, Ontario, and planted 30,000 white pine, plus walnut and spruce trees, which he lovingly tended and pruned for almost three decades.
He became involved in the Blyth community with the same enthusiasm that he put into his first career. He was a board member and treasurer of the Blyth Centre for the Arts, and treasurer of the "Wilderness to Wawanosh" project for the 125th anniversary of East Wawanosh township. He served as an elder at the United Church in Blyth. In 1997, he was awarded a Landscape Naturalization Award by the Huron Stewardship Council.
He was a hard worker all his life. He started early in the morning and worked until dusk or later. But he also firmly believed that Sunday was a day of rest.
He was very generous and quietly supported several charitable organizations, and gave helping hands to those in need. When his daughter Ruth died of lupus at the age of 26, he donated a sizable sum to Lupus Research.
He was a quiet, unassuming man who let his work speak for him in many ways. Whenever we drive down a country road and see a field of soybeans, we will remember an 11-year-old boy who changed Canadian farming forever.
Lyn PINNINGTON is Robert PECK's niece.
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Robert Marven SYER
Born February 19, 1912 at Thamesville, Ontario, died May 15, 2003 at Oakville, Ontario, late of Oakville (Bronte) and lastly of Burlington Ontario; predeceased by parents Frank Morgan SYER (1923) and Maud Lillian SYER (n�e) (1969,) and by brother Ralph Evans SYER (1932;) survived by his wife of 63 years, Frances Teresa SYER (n�e,) and seven children: Robert Marven (Marg HEEMSKERK) of Toronto, David Dirk (Mimi CHAMPAGNE) of Shelburne Nova Scotia, Susan Frances (Brian RIKLEY) of Hudson Qu�bec, Michael Stanley of Oakville, Timothy William (Marilyn MacGREGOR) of Milton Ontario, Deborah Anne (Barry BALL) of Brampton Ontario and Dani Elizabeth (Brian FINNEY) of Orlando Florida; and by fifteen grandchildren: Sheri Lynne SYER (Michael PINNOCK) of San Jose California, Wendy Frances SYER (Kevin OUGH) of Peterborough Ontario and Julia Helen SYER (Pat PELLEGRINI) of Ajax Ontario; David Dirk SYER (Doris HOO) of Whitby Ontario and Judith Gail SUSLA (Joe SUSLA) of Oakville Brian Joseph Rikley (Eva GJERSTAD) and Toni Lauren RIKLEY (Dave KRINDLE) of Hudson; Cassidy Anne SYER (Danny PIETRONIRO) of Montr�al, Michael Timothy SYER of Victoria, British Columbia and Robert Christopher SYER of London Ontario; Thomas William SYER and Douglas Donald SYER of Milton; and Hayley Elizabeth FINNEY, Brian James FINNEY and Kyle James FINNEY of Orlando; and by nine great-grandchildren: Skylar Syer OUGH of Peterborough and Julian Robert Domenico PELLEGRINI of Ajax; Robert Marven SYER, James Michael SYER and David Dirk SYER of Whitby and Erin Nicole SUSLA of Oakville; and Austin Tyler RIKLEY- KRINDLE, David Shane RIKLEY- KRINDLE and Joseph Cody RIKLEY- KRINDLE of Hudson; also, by nephew Richard Frank SYER of Lake Placid Florida, grand-nephew Michael Charles SYER of Ann Arbor Michigan and by brother-in-law Dr. Patrick Gaynor LYNES of Brampton and his family. An Anglican graveside service was held at St. Jude's Cemetery in Oakville on May 22, 2003. Expressions of respect may be sent to the family at 2455 Milltower Court Mississauga, Ontario L5N 5Z6 or by eMail to RMS@The RMSGroup.net gifts may be made to a charity of choice. A child is sleeping: An old man gone. James Joyce
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By Joshua Saleem, AFSC St. Louis Peace Education Director
With the red light of the police officer's taser aimed at his chest, Brian* had no choice but to sit down and listen. This would be a Valentine's Day he'll never forget.
I've heard about the School-to-Prison Pipeline before. The ACLU defines the pipeline as "the policies and practices that move our youth, especially youth of color, along a track out of the classroom and into the juvenile and criminal justice system." I know the statistics as it relates to young African American men. How one in nine of us between the ages of 20-34 are incarcerated. That one in three of us will spend some time in prison during our lifetime.
It's one thing to know these things in your head and another to see it unfold before your eyes. On Valentine's Day of this year, I witnessed firsthand those policies and practices that put a young man back in the School-to-Prison Pipeline.
Brian had just been in a fight with another student. The fight was quickly broken up and his social worker tried to calm him down. She encouraged him to recall the example that he was setting for his younger brother and to think about how his actions in these next few minutes would impact his plans for the future.
When the second of two School Resource Officers (SROs) arrived, things escalated. It was like adding lighter fluid to a fire. Instead of being calmed down, Brian's anger was refueled and he attempted to leave the room shoving me and the SROs who stood in his way. This went on for 20 to 30 minutes until the police arrived.
Three uniformed police officers entered the room, one of them with a taser aimed at Brian's chest, a red dot on his school uniform indicating where those barbs would connect if he resisted. He didn't.
Over the next 45 minutes multiple officers entered, exited, and re-entered the classroom that was turning into an interrogation room/ holding cell/courtroom. At one point there were six uniformed officers in the room. Two more arrived later from the Gang Unit because Brian expressed gang affiliation during the fight. In the end, the police issued him a ticket for public disturbance. He was also expelled from school.
Unfortunately, this story is not unique. According to the American Youth Policy Forum, every nine seconds in America a student drops out or is pushed out of school. By the time you've finished reading this paragraph, another young person has disconnected from a school somewhere in the U.S. The School-to-Prison Pipeline plays a huge factor in why this is happening.
In addition to providing youth alternatives to violence, AFSC St. Louis is working to provide schools alternatives to punitive and harsh zero-tolerance policies -- policies that contribute to pushing more youth like Brian out of school. Bringing restorative practices into the school building is a key to keeping youth in schools and dismantling the School-to-Prison Pipeline.
AFSC St. Louis continues to work with Brian even though he is now out of school. We've connected him to a local Job Development Program where he is currently enrolled.
*Brian is a pseudonym.
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VANCOUVER, British Columbia — Even as rookie defenseman Jason Demers was earning 10 points in his first 15 NHL games, Sharks coach Todd McLellan would note that his defense still needed work.
Saturday, the coaching staff decided the next phase of that work will take place in Worcester. Demers, who had cooled off with three points in his past 12 games, was reassigned to the Sharks' development team.
The Sharks, expecting to have forward Devin Setoguchi back, also sent rookie Benn Ferriero to Worcester.
McLellan said Rob Blake's return tonight against the Vancouver Canucks meant either Demers or fellow rookie Derek Joslin would be sent down.
"We felt that Derek had won out over the last week to 10 days with his play," McLellan said. "It won't hurt Jason to go there and work on some things."
McLellan would not define what aspects of Demers' game needed improvement, but the coach was critical after a recent game of the 21-year-old's decision to jump into the play at one point.
Blake, who has missed 11 games because of a shoulder-area injury, said he and several other players talked with Demers before he left.
"The best thing he can do is go down and play real hard, play big minutes there, play the power play," said Blake, who will be reunited with Marc-Edouard Vlasic on the blue line. "And then he'll be back here. It's a learning curve. It takes time. These things happen, and you have to be able to deal with it."
McLellan indicated Setoguchi, who has missed four games because of a leg injury, should be ready, but a decision had not been made.
If Setoguchi plays, he will be on a line with roommate Torrey Mitchell for the first time. "Two years ago, we both kind of made the team, but he sprained his ankle and got sent down," Mitchell said. "That game was in Edmonton, and we were supposed to be on the same line."
"What a rush to be out there, even if I didn't play that much," he said. "It was great."
Mitchell got one shot on net in the first period, and his aggressive play in front of the Edmonton net drew a cross-checking penalty against Oilers defenseman Sheldon Souray. Mitchell showed rust in the faceoff circle, losing four of six draws.
"I thought he did some things real well," McLellan said of Mitchell. "He read the play, he drove the net. Considering he hasn't played for a long, long time, I thought he looked quick. He kept his shifts short, so he obviously thought about that."
For more on the Sharks, see David Pollak's Working the Corners blog at blogs.mercurynews.com/sharks.


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The 49ers and Seahawks appear to be engaged in an arms race, but both coaches are denying that their moves are being influenced by the other team.
Chasing each other? Nah! why would anyone think that? Trying to be the best in the NFC West, so making the moves that match up to favor that? of course! That's it. Totally different <-- do you sense the sarcasm?
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There's a lot of Epic Bible movies releasing in 2014.
Noah - (Russel Crowe/Anthony Hopkins/Emma Watson) A 150 million dollar budget is going into this film!
The Exodus - (A movie about Moses) starring Christian Bale & Sigourney Weaver ( Ridley Scott is directing this)
God & Kings - (A movie about Moses) directed by Stephen Spielberg
Mary Mother of Christ - The movie facebook page bills the movie as "The True Prequel to the Passion of the Christ" It's from the writer of the Passion of the Christ. (Ben Kingley is in this one)
Son of God - (Mark Burnett) It's based on The Bible mini series and made into a movie. (The film will feature selections of the miniseries as well as deleted scenes not featured during the telecast.)
The tables have turned. We now live in a world where Christians (at least occasionally…be honest! ; ) look for reasons to avoid going to church. And where those who believe there is no God look for reasons to start churches.
Popping up in cites around the U.S. and U.K.: Atheist Churches. They're structured perhaps a lot like your own church services. Singing. Teaching. Offerings.
I've been reading a book called BUILT from Benny Perez and it's about beating the odds, escaping average and keeping your fire and passion for the long term so you don't burn out.
He says, "We can spiritually drink soda and that may satisfy us for the moment, but eventually we must have the water of God's presence. We speak from the overflow of our heart. Our purpose as leaders cannot ever truly be fulfilled apart from Jesus. As we are regularly exposed to God's heavenly perspective, our vision stays clear."
King Solomon shared this in the book of Proverbs and I think it's a great reminder as we start a new year! I hope this encourages you to reframe the way you look at wisdom. I hope you'll ask God to pour out his wosdom in your life this year!
"Let love and faithfulness never leave you; bind them around your neck, write them on the tablet of your heart.Then you will win favor and a good name in the sight of God and man.
Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways submit to God and he will make your paths straight.
Chef Phillip Dell talks about "entertaining" vs real "hospitality". He also shares easy cooking ideas for all our holiday leftovers!
This is who picks the music on SOS Radio :) Gavin is 3 yrs old and Naomi is 4 years old.
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Actress/Author Lisa Whelchel talks helping our kids connect with the real meaning of Christmas & she shares about her new movie Madea Christmas!
Jonny Diaz talks about selfishness and selflessness. How working to better ourselves isn't really a pride thing. He also talks about how scars are evidence of our journey & they open up our future. He also performs live in our podcast!
The Christmas season is upon us. Are you ready? Have you planned out what you will do to stay on track? By Chef Phillip Dell
Almost everyone I know is confronted with temptations all through the holiday season. Be it Christmas treats, work parties and potlucks or gifts from vendors or clients. We are all tempted to falter during the holidays.
I want to remind you that we are seeking the fruit of self-control here.
Proverbs 25:28 says: "Like a city whose walls are broken down is a man who lacks self-control."
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Kathy Garver
|Kathy Garver
Garver at WonderCon 2009
|Kathleen Marie Garver
December 13, 1945
Long Beach, California, U.S.
|Alma mater
|University of California, Los Angeles
|Actress, producer, author
|Years active
|David Travis (1981-present)
Kathleen Marie "Kathy" Garver (born December 13, 1945) is an American stage, film, television, and voice-over actress most remembered for having portrayed the teenage niece, Catherine "Cissy" Davis, to series character Uncle Bill Davis, played by Brian Keith, on the popular 1960s CBS sitcom, Family Affair. Before that, she was cast as a slave in The Ten Commandments. Garver authored The Family Affair Cookbook and is a television host (Backstage with Barry and Kathy).
Early life[edit]
Garver was born in Long Beach, California, the daughter of Rosemary Schmoker and Hayes Gilbert Garver.[1][2] She was raised Roman Catholic and attended a Catholic primary school.[3] When she was nine, she tried her hand at acting and was cast in I'll Cry Tomorrow, but her most famous movie role was that of one of the young slaves in The Ten Commandments.
Between the mid-1950s and mid-1960s, the young actress worked with, in addition to her association with Brian Keith, such actors as Marvin Miller, Chuck Connors, Peter Graves, Scott Forbes, Dan O'Herlihy, Kurt Russell, Fess Parker, Vince Edwards, Richard Chamberlain, Patty Duke, Anne Lockhart, and James Franciscus.
Garver later moved to San Bernardino, California, where she entered Pacific High School in 1960 and remained there until graduation in 1964. After high school, she entered UCLA, majoring in speech and drama, until her graduation in 1968. Garver was a member of Pi Beta Phi Fraternity for Women at UCLA.
In 1965, Garver played a youthful Isadora Duncan, with June Lockhart as librarian Ina Coolbrith, the first poet laureate of California, and Sean McClory as the poet Joaquin Miller, in the episode "Magic Locket" of the syndicated western television series, Death Valley Days, hosted by Ronald Reagan. In the story line, Coolbrith develops a tenuous friendship with the teen-aged free spirit, "Dorita Duncan". The two have identical portions of a broken locket.[4]
In 1966, while studying at UCLA, she auditioned for, and won, the role of "Cissy" Davis, the eldest of the three siblings on Family Affair. Garver had been a fan of Keith since she was ten years old and had guest-starred on his earlier CBS series about the Cold War, Crusader. Family Affair lasted for five seasons and Garver would play the role of "Cissy" until the show was cancelled in 1971. She and Johnny Whitaker are the last two surviving cast members from the series (and also share the same birth date of December 13).
Garver provided the voice of Firestar on the Saturday morning cartoon Spider-Man and His Amazing Friends. She voiced Storm, as well as other female guest characters. In the 1990s Spider-Man cartoon series, she played the voice of Miss America.[5][6]
Garver was the voice of Alice Mitchell in the Dennis the Menace cartoon special Mayday for Mother and Pepper in Chuck Norris: Karate Kommandos. Her other voice roles included the television series Fonz and the Happy Days Gang, The Tom & Jerry Kids Show, Droopy, Master Detective, The New Yogi Bear Show, The Richie Rich/Scooby-Doo Show and The All-New Super Friends Hour, the cartoon special Marvin: Baby of the Year and the anime film JoJo's Bizarre Adventure. In addition to her television work, Garver has lent her voice talents to numerous commercials, toys, and audiobooks.
Garver has produced, narrated, and written lyrics and composed the music for eight audio Beatrix Potter tales and eight Mother Goose based audiotapes for Smarty Pants, Inc. Her Beatrix Potter tapes have sold over two million copies and have won numerous awards. She has recorded books for Brilliance Audio, Dove, Listen and Live. Her voice has been heard in the films Apollo 13, Ransom, and Backdraft which were all directed by Ron Howard, and Jingle All the Way directed by Brian Levant. She appeared as a cable car tourist in the film, The Princess Diaries.
She lives in Hillsborough, California, with her husband, David Travis, and son, Reid.[7] Garver kept in touch or visited her Family Affair co-star Brian Keith until his death on June 24, 1997 and attended his funeral. Garver and her surviving co-star from the original version of Family Affair, Johnny Whitaker appeared in the Christmas episode of the later revival of Family Affair. On June 26, 2008, she attended the Hollywood Walk of Fame ceremony when Brian Keith was awarded a star posthumously; Garver gave a speech in his behalf.[8] Garver made a guest appearance at the 21st annual "Festival of the West" in Scottsdale, Arizona, on March 19, 2011, promoting her best-selling book, The Family Affair Cookbook.[9]
On September 15, 2015 her autobiography, Surviving Cissy: My Family Affair Of Life In Hollywood, was published.[10]
Awards and honors[edit]
In 1995, a Golden Palm Star on the Palm Springs, California Walk of Stars was dedicated to her.[11] Garver has won two Audie Awards, one for her narration of The World's Shortest Stories, the other in 2004 for her direction of Amy Tan in The Opposite of Fate read by the author. In 2010, Garver was honored by the Young Artist Foundation with its Former Child Star "Lifetime Achievement" Award for her role in Family Affair.[12]
- ^ "Kathy Garver Biography (1947-)". Filmreference.com. n.d. Archived from the original on April 20, 2013.
- ^ "Kathleen Marie Garver, Born 12/13/1945 in California | CaliforniaBirthIndex.org". www.californiabirthindex.org. Retrieved 2016-06-15.
- ^ Parker, Melissa (February 4, 2009). "Exclusive Interview with Kathy Garver of Family Affair". Archived from the original on February 28, 2014.
I went to a Catholic school until the sixth grade and then my mother put us all in public school so we could find out real world was like. But, we remained religious and spiritual since then.
- ^ "Magic Locket on Death Valley Days". Internet Movie Data Base. March 17, 1965. Retrieved August 22, 2015.
- ^ "Kathy Garver". GalaxyFest. 2014. Archived from the original on February 27, 2014.
- ^ Markstein, Don (2010). "Miss America". Don Markstein's Toonopedia. Archived from the original on June 5, 2014.
[Miss America] made an appearance in a 1997 episode of Spider-Man's animated TV show...There, her voice was done by Kathy Garver.
- ^ "Kathy Garver". People. November 28, 1994. Archived from the original on February 27, 2014.
- ^ Larsen, Jennifer (July 31, 2008). "Brian Keith's star added to Hollywood's Walk of Fame". Ritzville.com. Archived from the original on February 27, 2014.
- ^ Bruegger, Cathy (March 19, 2011). "Festival of the West 2011". AZcentral.com.
- ^ "Surviving Cissy: My Family Affair of Life in Hollywood: Amazon Books". Amazon.com. Retrieved 2015-10-22.
- ^ "Palm Springs Walk of Stars by date dedicated" (PDF). Palm Springs Walk of Stars. 2012.
- ^ "31st Annual Young Artist Awards". YoungArtistAwards.org. April 11, 2010. Archived from the original on October 12, 2013. Retrieved March 31, 2011.
External links[edit]
- Garver's official website
- Kathy Garver interview at Classic Film & TV Cafe
- Kathy Garver at the Internet Movie Database
Further reading[edit]
- Garver, Kathy and Mark, Geoffrey, The Family Affair Cookbook, 204 pages, BearManor Media, 2009. ISBN 978-1593934583
- 1945 births
- 20th-century American actresses
- 21st-century American actresses
- Actresses from Long Beach, California
- American child actresses
- American film actresses
- American television actresses
- American voice actresses
- Living people
- People from San Leandro, California
- University of California, Los Angeles alumni


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This trade awareness campaign for Viacom International Media Networks rolled out a new identity using the voice and personality of iconic shows to establish VIMN as a fresh, dynamic brand.
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- Your MTV Business Card This website enables MTV staffers to create their very own version of the brand's iconic "M" using provided or their own uploaded images, then walking them through simple steps to create a business card that expresses both their job and their personality.
- Oxygen Notebook This Notebook allows users to customize the cover using stickers found on the inside. This fun and simple interactive experience creates a variety of covers expressing Oxygen's brand personality. 2014 Art Direction, Branding, Graphic Design
- MTV Europe Music Awards Invitation This invitation for business partner executives combines multiple elements in a unique mash-up of old world Portugal and contemporary youth culture.
- Viacom Benefits Calendar Distributed to thousands of employees nationwide, this calendar highlights the scope, utility and value of Viacom's benefits package while promoting the theme of wellness.
- NCTA Trade Show Exhibit Created to draw cable affiliates at an immense industry tradeshow and reinforce the positioning as must-have properties on every platform, this booth created immersive areas for individual channels within a larger, cohesive environment, attracting hundreds of visitors and generating huge buzz at the event.
- Oxygen.com Oxygen's new website allows young woman to follow their favorite shows online. It was designed to coexist on desktop and mobile environments. 2014 Creative Direction, Graphic Design, Web Design
- MTV VMA Encyclopedia Moving 20 years of MTV Video Music Awards information and statistics from dusty binders to the Web, this site became an indispensable tool for MTV to answer press and internal queries.
- Music is Everything Ad Campaign This affiliate ad campaign targeted business partners to promote MTV Networks' music brands and remind everyone that the company was still the ultimate source for music and music-culture programming.
- Noggin and The N Holiday Card When is a holiday card more than a holiday card? When it's customized wrapping paper! Created for Noggin and The N as a mailer for clients and partners, this piece delivered a holiday message with a fresh, brand-appropriate twist.
- Horizon Media 360U Poster Horizon Media wanted to celebrate their employees. For this campaign, photo booths were set up throughout the building. The photos were then placed in posters seen throughout the company. 2014 Creative Direction, Graphic Design
- Rock the Vote Campaign MTV partnered with Rock The Vote to mobilize young people to engage in the election process. This program for their fundraising event melds youth culture sensitivity with unabashed patriotism to get the message across. 2012 Branding, Creative Direction, Graphic Design
- Comedy Central Star-Gazers Guide When Comedy Central first launched nobody knew anything about their programming, so we created a show guide/3-D experience that both delivered the info and conveyed the irreverent sensibility of the brand. 2012 Branding, Creative Direction, Graphic Design
- Oxygen Stationery This playful identity system reflects the new brand personality establishing Oxygen as a dynamic young woman's brand. 2014 Branding, Creative Direction, Graphic Design
- Noggin Art Kit Mailed to affiliates shortly after Noggin launched, this piece delivered info on the fledgling channel in the form of a children's art project, immersing recipients in the fun-meets-educational experience of the brand. 2012 Branding, Creative Direction, Graphic Design
- MTV Networks International MIPCOM Exhibit MIPCOM is one of the industry's largest conventions, where program buyers from around the globe come to find hit shows to air in their own respective regions. This campaign kept MTVNI's talent and brands front and center both inside and outside the event.
- Viacommunity Annual Report This book targeted decision-makers in government, corporate partners and other important allies, highlighting Viacom's many pro-social efforts– along with its brands – as dynamic, action-oriented and always focused on its audiences. 2012 Branding, Creative Direction, Graphic Design
- Food For Thought This website of free instructional and educational courses for employees had to be fun and engaging in order to reach a hip, media company audience and to reinforce a creative corporate culture.
- Oxygen Digital Promotion One Sheets These digital show one sheets maximize Oxygen's 360 sponsorship opportunities. 2014 Creative Direction, Graphic Design
- Spike Holiday Card This mailer for Spike's affiliate and business partners conveys a seasonal message while driving home the brand's testosterone-driven attitude.
- Global Inclusion Website This internal Web site promotes the company's inclusion and diversity initiative, communicating to employees MTVN's commitment to inclusion and being a place where diverse talents can reach their full potential.
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AUGUSTA, Ga---The nets are gone at Christenberry Fieldhouse and in the hands of the home team. The Augusta State men advance to the Division II Elite Eight in Springfield, Massachusetts with an 89-72 win against Clayton State in the South Atlantic Regional final Tuesday night.
The Jaguars used a rally at the end of the first half that cintinued on into the second half to take control on their home court. ASU was led by senior AJ Bowman with 27 points, 18 coming in the second half. Bowman was also named the regional's most outstanding player. Sophomore Ben Madgen and Junior Garrett Siler join Bowman on the all-tournament team. Madgen was second on the team in scoring Tuesday night with 24 points, including 16 in the first half.
"I can't explain it, if i wasn't on TV right now I might cry. It was so good to do it in my last home game, in this gym and give everybody something to remember." said All American AJ Bowman
"It was just like we knew we had to come out and play" said Junior Garret Siler. " We played against Clayton four times and we just knew how they play and we just had to come out there and man up and play some defense and we did."
"Oh it's amazing!" said Sophomore Ben Madgen. "Words can't describe how happy we are. We worked so hard for it and it finally paid off."
"A lot of hard work" added head coach Dip Metress "A lot of putting up with me because I ain't easy to put up with and some of these guys have put up with it for four years so its tough and they just hung in there. We started the year with such high expecations, people kind of lost faith in us but in the back of my mind I knew if we could get to this game, we were going to be in great shape."
The Jaguars now head to the MassMutual Center in Springfield, Massachusetts for the Elite 8 next week. ASU will play Central Oklahoma next Wednesday at noon.


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How we cite our quotes: (Act.Scene.Line)
Quote #1
Note me this, good friend;
Your most grave belly was deliberate,
Not rash like his accusers, and thus answered: (1.1.134-136)
Menenius is one of the few politicians that the plebeians actually like, because he really has their best interests at heart. Ha! Not really. They like him because he's a great story teller and entertainer. Here, he tells the angry plebeians a story (the fable of the belly) in order to get them to stop rioting on the streets of Rome. And it totally works! The plebeians are so mesmerized by Menenius and his ability to tell a good story with a political message that they forget why they're so angry. Moral: if you want to be a politician who is as successful as Menenius, you have to be a good entertainer who is willing and able to out on a good performance for your audience. We'll start planning our campaign now.
Quote #2
It then remains
That you do speak to the people.
I do beseech you,
Let me o'erleap that custom, for I cannot
Put on the gown, stand naked, and entreat them
For my wounds' sake, to give their suffrage:. Please
That I may pass this doing. (2.3.156-163)
We know that Menenius is comfortable being a performer slash politician but what about Coriolanus? Not so much. When Coriolanus decides to run for political office, he's advised to wear a "gown" of humility (a special toga that's pretty much a costume at this point) and go before the public to ask for votes. Coriolanus is not too into this idea. In fact, he says that he'd feel "naked" if he had to do this.


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D4 Green tint
I hear the latest moan about the D4 is the greenish tint displayed on the LCD monitor compared to the D3s.Any of you guys noticed this?
Nikon's response is that the colour correction is more accurate on the D4 and D800 screens.Some Pro was going to jump ship and switch to Canon over the green tint, saying that he couldn't get the white balance- needs to shoot RAW then. Obviously more money than sense.
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#2. "RE: D4 Green tint " | In response to Reply # 0PaulOcchialini Registered since 16th May 2012Mon 23-Jul-12 12:10 AM
I didn't really notice until I saw that video, personally I don't really care or expect perfection on a 3.2 inch screen. I mean its like expecting a cinematic experience watching a movie on an iPhone. Its just not going to happen.
I would also expect a true professional to be able to compensate for this with just a little bit of time working with his/her camera. I for one don't really even look at the screen all to much other than occasionally looking at composition or if I'm looking at the histogram. But then again, I'm just an enthusiast.
#3. "RE: D4 Green tint " | In response to Reply # 2Ned_L Charter MemberMon 23-Jul-12 12:41 AM
I've seen the focus problem on my D4, but I'm hoping the report I saw on Nikon Rumors is correct, that they have solved the D800 left focus problem via a software update, and I then conclude that they will solve the D4 the same way, but I haven't seen the green tint problem on my D4.
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#4. "RE: D4 Green tint " | In response to Reply # 0
Hi Pete,
One of the D4 firmware updates A 1.02 or B 1.02 was suppose to solve the green tint problem for Adobe RGB choosen as color space for jpegs.
Did you install those yet?
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#5. "RE: D4 Green tint " | In response to Reply # 4Ned_L Charter MemberMon 23-Jul-12 07:26 PM
Dmitry, Pete, I've checked the issues addressed by the updates to the D4 firmware and found the update A/B 1.02 addresses the following issue:
"Gamut for Adobe RGB images displayed in the camera's monitor has been changed. This enables more vivid display of images."
Of course, in Nikon's own inimitable style, Nikon has said the D4 LCD displays are more accurate and set to have a better color reproduction than previous DSLR models. They also said that the display color temperatures in the older D3s/D700 models were slightly higher which made the images to appear somewhat bluish. In other words, Nikon is claiming the green tint problem for the monitor isn't and wasn't there. And of course, they still may have addressed it in the update.
I've never noticed the problem, but then I normally don't really look at the color rendering of images in the monitor as an accurate depiction of reality. I look for it to be off in a gross way which would indicate my white balance is off. I'm shooting in RAW, and I therefore address the color rendering in the photo in post processing anyway.
For the purposes of this thread, (I have A/B 1.02 installed) I looked critically at the monitor and I personally see no green tint problem in my monitor (or my photos for that matter).
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#6. "RE: D4 Green tint " | In response to Reply # 5no1yak Nikonian since 22nd Aug 2006Tue 24-Jul-12 04:55 AM
It does seem a shame that a £5000 + camera has had it's problems form the launch. I'm going to give it a couple months before I pull the trigger on one.Hopefully any bugs would have been sorted by then. I don't remember the D3 or D3s having issues when they first came out, but my memory isn't as good as it use to be, I'm sure someone will correct me if I'm wrong.
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Appreciate seeing letters in last issue
I normally don't write to newspapers, but I felt so good about the two letters you published that I just have to.
It is obvious that the two letters ("Honda playing blame game doesn't help" and "Drive-through decision swayed by the 'mob,'" April 26) have a "conservative bend," measured according to the political spectrum. This is why it is particularly refreshing to read them in the newspapers, most of which are dominated by liberal media.
It is sickening to me to see the San Jose Mercury News publishing letters after letters from liberals or low-information voters day after day, to the point that I don't bother to read them as soon as I detect the bias from reading the letter headlines.
I want to express my heartfelt appreciation to you for choosing or "daring" to publish such letters in the lion's den that is Silicon Valley. I thoroughly enjoyed reading them, and please keep publishing such "common sense" letters to provide us common-sense folks (aka conservatives) an outlet to inject our views and to keep us sane.
David Wang
Letter's author deserves medal for Honda piece
You would all be well served to heed the message in this piece.
Mr. Maune ("Honda playing blame game doesn't help," April 26) spells it out as to how California has arrived at its current state. Mr. Honda and his ilk have "hoodwinked" this state into bankruptcy. The people of this state have helped by re-electing these dishonest candidates every time for who knows what reason.
Mr. Maune deserves a Medal of Honor for standing alone against these thieves who have stolen and raped our fair state into bankruptcy.
How can the Dems blame the Repubs for any of these problems, when there aren't any Repubs left to vote?
Mike Honda has never voted against a tax increase or for a tax decrease at any time in my nine years in this state. Also, he hasn't missed a meal in all his years in office.
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Now when smartphone consumers access NFLShop.com, the site will detect the phones and automatically transfer the consumers to the mobile site. The new site works only with smartphones; tablets still go to the traditional site.
The new mobile shop features a grid layout with clickable team logos. Graphic size and visibility keeps mobile in mind. Users can easily navigate into their team's section to find merchandise categories and narrow down their selection. Filters allow fans to shop by player, choose their price range or look for customizable products.
Smartphone traffic to NFLShop.com has seen a rapid increase since 2011, when only 15 percent of visitors came from those devices, generating less than 2 percent of the site's overall revenue. Those numbers have since skyrocketed, with smartphones accounting for more than 42 percent of traffic to the shop and 13 percent of the revenue in 2013 (see chart.)
With the upgrade to the mobile site, purchase conversions are expected to increase due to ease of navigation and layout.
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The new mobile site should answer the call of smartphone shoppers, making their experience simpler and faster. The NFL will conduct a customer survey in the coming weeks to make sure their fans agree.
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Highlands bank 'misses' TARP repayment
SEBRING - Highlands Independent Bank is one of seven Florida banks delinquent on the repayment of its TARP dividends. Those seven Florida banks owe the U.S. Treasury $101 million in principal and have "missed $16.8 million in divided and interest payments," according to the July report of the Special Inspector General to the Troubled Asset Relief Program update Congress. The banks received federal bailout funds during the recession. As of June 30, 20 percent of the 707 U.S. banks that took money had not repaid the interest; 25 banks failed; TARP's investments in other banks were auctioned at a discount. Chrysler, GM, AIG, JP Morgan Chase and Bank of America were among companies that took funds under several TARP programs. Eighty percent of the 80 banks have repaid the principal."According to Treasury, as of June 30, 2013, 236 TARP recipients (224 banks and credit unions, two auto companies and AIG had paid back all of their principal or repurchased shares, although Chrysler and AIG did so at a loss to Treasury," the SIG report said. John Shoop, president of the Sebring bank, said $6.7 million was taken four years ago when HIB was considering expansion into other communities. The federal government took preferred stock in HIB, Shoop said. "When we had applied and received those funds, they were not strictly for bailout. Under the economic stimulus plan, they were for business expansion too," Shoop said. "We were looking at expanding in the surrounding communities." However, the bank didn't expand during the Great Recession. The main bank at 2600 U.S. 27 has five branches: downtown Sebring, south Sebring, Sun N' Lake, Avon Park and Lake Placid. Shoop said the bank has accrued the dividend money on a monthly basis to reimburse TARP, but banks with less than 8 percent in tier 1 capital are prevented from doing so by the Federal Reserve. Page 97 of the SIG report says HIB has missed 10 dividend and interest payments totaling $912,875. "The money is there. We can pay it. It's an accounting issue," Shoop said. "Once we're allowed to pay the payments, we will." The other six Florida banks are U.S. Century Bank in Doral, Florida Bank Group of Tampa, Marine Bank & Trust of Vero Beach, GulfSouth Private Bank of Destin and Alarion Financial of Ocala. Bauer Financial Ratings has lowered HIB's status to one star. For comparison purposes, the same service rates TD Bank with four stars and Wauchula State Bank with 3.5 stars. Other companies rate banks, but Bauer is the main service, Shoop acknowledged. On its website, Bauer stated that every institution it rates is considered financially sound and is operating well above its regulatory capital requirements. Banks are either profitable or had only an insignificant loss for the reporting quarter. "This rating system strictly looks at some key numbers and does not formally investigate internal processes that have a great effect on how a bank operates and its condition," Shoop wrote in a separate email. "We disagree with this rating due to the underlying strength of the bank and the improving conditions. "These ratings can change from quarter to quarter, and have in the past," Shoop wrote. "We have been as high as a five star, and at every level in between." "We've gone through pretty much what our community has," Shoop said. "We feel the same pain as guy down the street that has been struggling with this crisis." "Highlands Independent Bancshares Inc., the bank's holding company, applied for and received funds through the TARP program in March of 2009," Shoop wrote in a separate email. "Funds were made available for various purposes as part of the government's economic stimulus program. The TARP funds are not a 'bailout' program as, at some point in time, in that they have to be repaid. "At the time funds were received, the initial purpose of these funds was for expansion into our surrounding counties. Shortly thereafter, from the collapse of the economic conditions of the country, the company altered its plans and did not pursue expansion but chose to preserve its capital position," Shoop wrote. "The impact of the severe decline in real estate values throughout Florida had affected banks throughout the state, and we were no exception. Dramatically declining asset valuations have strained the resources of bank customers on both the business and consumer sides. "As bankers for these customers, we see the impact on our own financial statements," Shoop wrote. "The scenario has been unfolding in Florida for five full years and the ripple effect has been significant. "The money from TARP is held under the United States Treasury in the form of a preferred stock and is an obligation of the holding company, not with the bank itself," Shoop wrote. "All dividend payments under the agreement were made until the holding company was informed by the Federal Reserve that any institution having a Tier 1 capital ratio under their desired ratio of 8 percent was to suspend any future dividend payments. "Regulatory guidelines maintain that an institution that has in excess of 5 percent capital is well capitalized. Our holding company ratio is at 5.5 percent. The bank is also at that level," Shoop wrote. "The holding company continues to accrue and expense the dividends payments each month and when it is allowed, the holding company will resume paying them. At such time when able, TARP will be repaid in full. The repayment of TARP does not have any impact on the bank." "To be very clear, TARP in no way affects the abilities of the bank to serve the financial needs of its loan and deposit customers," Shoop wrote. "As an FDIC-insured bank, all customer deposits are fully insured to the highest limits set by the FDIC, which is $250,000 per depositor. Depositors may qualify for even more coverage, if they have funds in different ownership categories. "Highlands Independent Bank has a very strong underlying base. We have a very good liquidity position, very strong core deposits and very strong positive core earnings. We have a dedicated staff and board of directors, along with a very loyal customer base (that) has been with us in this through thick and thin," Shoop wrote. "The bank has been a part of the Highlands County community for 28 years and we plan to be here for many more. 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As an adoptive mother aka single mother of an energetic, affectionate and all around cool three-year old, I am guilty of that which the NWNW mission favors. I am an advocate for single motherhood. Far from being anti-marriage, I am simply pro-children in need of a loving home.
The state of black-on-black love is an abomination. That's not news or newsworthy. What should, however, be a hot topic is what to do with the tens of thousands of Black babies either languishing in the system or being adopted by other races. If we, single or otherwise, don't go and get those kids, who will? Though the NWNW's missions is mum on this subject, I refuse to believe that Black people who claim to love Black people are so short-sighted as to suggest that it's better for children to remain in foster care than be raised by a single mother. I don't believe it. Not for a second.
Ask an adoptee if given the choice between growing up in a loving, stable home with a single mother or growing up in a group home or on the street which would they prefer. I know what I would choose. No doubt that a stable, healthy two-parent household is optimum. (I look forward to joining those ranks myself!) The reality though is that our families are in dire straits. Our children need us and to advise against being a mother until a man puts a ring on it is selfish, for "the hottest places in hell are reserved for those who in times of great moral crisis maintain their neutrality."
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SCOTT CITY -- Heaven's golden bells were ringing on Friday, August 15, 2008 as the newest angel, Tessie Mae Thompson, age 77, arrived. She passed away after a courageous battle at her Scott City home.
Tessie was born in Decatur County, Tennessee, on June 9, 1931, daughter of Ondine Turner Mays. She was the granddaughter of Jess Mays, son of Ruben Mays of Waterford, Ireland; and Charles and Sarah Turner.
Tessie married the man that walked in her soul, Richard Lanois Thompson, on September 17, 1950, in Corinth, Mississippi. They had 48 wonderful years together before his death on June 19, 1998.
She was an active member of the Church of Christ, recently at West End Church of Christ in Cape Girardeau. She made the world a better place in so many ways including helping to raise four generations of children; and even at work, as a supervisor for a Frito Lay cookie plant that gave the countryside 24 hours of fragrant cookies baking.
Tessie was a gracious loving wife, mother, grandmother and great-grandmother. She saw the best in everyone. She is still loved by all and words cannot express how much she will be missed.
Tessie is survived by a daughter and son-in-law; Angela Fay and Larry Joe Holtzhouser; a grandson and granddaughter-in-law; Richard Kevin and Johnna Kaye Potter; two great -grandchildren; Ellie, her purple angel, and Nolan, her good boy, all of Scott City; a granddaughter, Robin Holtzhouser of Little Rock, Arkansas; five brothers, Herbert and Christine Mays of Lilbourn, Missouri, Edgar and Tonya Mays, Richard Eugene and Sherry Mays, and Edward Mays all of Portageville, Missouri, and Doug and Susan Mays of St. Peters, Missouri, one sister Dorothy and Lynn Wagner of Lockport, Illinois, a sister-in-law, Emma Lou Shutt of Saltillo, Tennessee and a host of family members and friends.
She was preceded in death by her husband and three nephews, Dwight Mays, Ronald Shutt and Richard David Shutt.
Visitation will be from 4:30 p.m. to 8 p.m. Saturday at Amick Burnett Funeral Chapel in Scott City. The funeral will be at 1:30 p.m. at West End Church of Christ in Cape Girardeau with Bro. Bob Housby officiating. Burial will follow at Mounds Cemetery in Lilbourn, Missouri.
Pallbearers will be Herbert Mays, Edgar Mays, Doug Mays, Eugene Mays, Brian Mays and John Stegman.
Honorary pallbearers will be Edward Mays, Richard Allen Mays, Lloyd Mays, Dennis Mays, Lance Sipes, John Fourthman and Greg Johnson.
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