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Elspeth comes and goes through windows into another world. Her school of dance lies empty. The doctors say it's Alzheimer's. Elspeth and her daughter Lilly embark on a journey of frustration, humour and ultimately love as Lilly learns to dance with the person who is, not the mother who was. Inspired by the experiences of carers, Couldn't Care Less is a dark, surreal, funny and moving story of two women whose lives are disappearing. A co-production with Plutôt la Vie.


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text: We are excited to add some Haitian art to the Chicago scene. Jakmel Ekspresyon is the beneficiary of the Multiples Indie Crafts and Art Fair on October 17th, 18th and 19th. This means that every person that walks through the front door and donates will be helping JE push forward into the future with more funding. So tell all your Chicago friends to stop by! There are over a hundred vendors that include print media, arts, literature, a bicycle alley, local food, music and so much more. Multiples has also donated a booth so we can share the students Haitian art with you. Click here to check out the website for more information and see you at the show.


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By Willie T. Smith III
Connor Shaw is on a roll.
Following a mediocre first quarter against Georgia, the pieces to the puzzle appeared to come together for Connor Shaw.
After dropping in the pocket, but bailing out to run without giving his receivers time to complete their routes, the South Carolina junior quarterback did the exact opposite during the final three quarters in Athens, Ga.
While he still ran when the situation called for it, Shaw's passes were pinpoint accurate. Only a third quarter fumble marred his performance.
Buoyed by the performance, Shaw had a warning for his receivers prior to USC's Southeastern Conference game against Vanderbilt.
"I told the receivers I was going to let it fly," said Shaw.
Statistically the Flowery Branch, Ga. native's season is on par with his career stats as he entered the campaign having completed two/thirds of his passes. There is no question he is playing with even more confidence in his senior year.
"We thought he was a very good player," USC coach Steve Spurrier said of Shaw when the Gamecocks were recruiting him. "He's really an excellent passer. I think he can throw a little better than he's thrown thus far. We keep working on it all the time. He throws a beautiful spiral that is easy to catch."
"Obviously he can run, break out of the pocket…That's the kind of thing he has done very well."
Shaw's new-found confidence has been noticed by his teammates.
"Last year he would look at the first option and then run out," said junior wide receiver Bruce Ellington. "But, this year, he's taking his time. Coach is talking to him, who's open and who's not open. He's staying in the pocket and throwing the ball.
"He's just got that confidence. He's coming out to practice and being a leader. That's what it takes as a quarterback to control the offense and he's doing it."
Shaw has definitely been the team leader this season. In the Gamecocks first three games he has completed 48 of 74 passes for six touchdowns. That equals a 64.9 percentage rate. He has yet to thrown an interception.
He is also second in rushing with 202 yards.
"I feel like I'm playing well, probably better than I have in the past," said Shaw. "I'm playing smart and not forcing things and taking what the defense is giving me. That's what a quarterback has to do.
"One of the key things Coach talks about is protecting the ball and not giving the other team any chances. The main things are playing smart and taking care of the ball."
Following the Gamecocks win over Vanderbilt, Shaw drew high praise from Commodores coach James Franklin.
"Their quarterback played as good a first half as he could," said Franklin. That (touchdown) throw to Ellington over the shoulder was in perfect position. It was the best passing performance I've seen by a quarterback since I entered the league."
Shaw will again have to be on his game when USC takes on a high-flying Central Florida team in front of a national audience and sellout crowd in Orlando, Fla.
Considering what he has seen on film. UCF coach George O'Leary is impressed with what he has seen.


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Hot Flash for Women at Menopause: Try a Little Tofu
July 7, 2000 -- Worried that taking estrogen replacement medication may increase their risk of breast cancer, yet plagued by the hot flashes and other symptoms of menopause, more and more women are turning to "natural" solutions such as estrogen-like products derived from plants. One of these substances -- isoflavone -- may actually be helpful in warding off some health problems associated with aging, but it is too soon to recommend the use of supplements to control menopause symptoms. That's the take-home message from the North American Menopause Society, an organization representing physicians and other health professionals who treat middle-aged women.
The group asked an expert panel to study the use of soy products to determine if they are useful for treating some conditions associated with aging. Sadja Greenwood, MD, MPH, who led the expert panel, tells WebMD that the group agrees that physicians who treat menopausal women should consider recommending that these women add whole foods containing isoflavones, such as tofu, to their diets. Published scientific studies, she says, suggest that soy can actually help control cholesterol and thus may protect against heart attacks.
Greenwood tells WebMD that her group decided to issue the consensus statement because menopausal women are very interested in alternatives to hormone replacement therapy with estrogen. "Natural hormone substitutes" are heavily marketed to women, who in turn are questioning their physicians about the value of these products. Even though many women want to know if soy is a "safe alternative to estrogen, which has been associated with an increased risk for breast cancer," Greenwood says that right now too little is known to offer a definitive answer. Her group is calling for more studies to "once and for all answer the question," she says.
For now, Greenwood's group is stopping short of recommending supplements. "Adding whole foods is not a bad idea and is a healthy choice," she says. "We don't really have sufficient data on the safety or effectiveness of isoflavone supplements to make a recommendation about their use." A good way to add soy to the diet, she says, would be to "substitute calcium fortified soy milk for skim or 1% milk or to try a modified vegetarian diet where every few days one would substitute tofu for other protein sources."


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48 hours in: Stockholm
Published 14/06/2010
With long, bright days and next weekend's royal wedding creating a buzz around the chic city, Sweden's water-laced capital is at its very best. Sophie Lam prescribes a perfect trip
Why go now?
Days are long and love is in the air in the self-styled capital of Scandinavia. The city is half way through its fortnight of Love Stockholm celebrations (lovestockholm2010.se). Highlights include art tours for two, regal dressing-up for kids at the Skansen museum and royal-themed walking tours. Events build up to June 19 — the royal marriage of Crown Princess Victoria and the personal trainer, Daniel Westling.
Touch down
Arlanda Airport is served by SAS (0870 60 727 727; flysas.com) from Heathrow, Edinburgh and Manchester; British Airways (0844 493 0787; ba.com) from Heathrow; and Norwegian Air Shuttle (00 47 21 49 00 15; norwegian. com/en) from Gatwick and Edinburgh. The fastest route into town is the Arlanda Express (arlandaexpress.com), which whizzes to Central Station in 20 minutes for Sk460 (£41) return. More economically, the Flygbussarna (flygbussarna. se) bus takes 45 minutes to reach the same point for Sk219 (£19.30) return.
Ryanair (0871 246 0000; ryanair.com) flies from Stansted to Skavsta (88km south-east of the city) and Vasteras (96km east), and from Edinburgh and Liverpool to Skavsta. From Skavsta, Flygbussarna takes around 80 minutes to reach Central Station ; Sk249 (£22) return. From Vasteras, 75 minutes and Sk219 (£19.30) return.
For city-break packages, contact Visit Sweden (020-7108 6168; visitsweden.com/ citybreaks).
Get your bearings
Composed of a jigsaw of 14 islands where the Baltic Sea meets brackish Lake Malaren, Stockholm's geographical DNA is beguiling. The harbour city huddles around Gamla Stan, riven with narrow medieval streets. South is Sodermalm, or 'Soder', home to off-beat boutiques, bars and restaurants. East is the tiny museum island of Skeppsholmen and beyond, leafy Djurgarden, once the royal game park — farther still is the constellation of islands of the Stockholm archipelago. To the west is increasingly hip Kungsholmen, and north on the main island are Norrmalm, Vasastaden and Ostermalm, the main commercial and shopping districts.
The tourist office at 27 Hamngatan (00 46 8 50 82 85 08; stockholmtown.com) dispenses Stockholm Cards. These grant access to the underground, buses and trams as well as admission to 80 museums and attractions (Sk395/£35 for 24 hours, Sk525/£46 for 48 hrs and Sk625/£55 for 72 hrs).
Check in
Right now, the best place to be is by the water and Stockholm's newest hotel offers just such an opportunity. Hotel Skeppsholmen, 1 Grona Gangen (00 46 8 407 23 00; hotelskeppsholmen.com) is perched on the edge of leafy Skeppsholmen island. The design-driven rooms are housed in a pair of late 17th-century military buildings and start at Sk1,747 (£154), including breakfast. Just along — and on — the water is the af Chapman (00 46 8 463 2266; svenskaturistforeningen.se/afchapman), a ship-turned- youth-hostel. Dorm beds Sk280 (£25) per person, double cabins Sk580 (£51). Across the water is the Lydmar Hotel, 2 Blasieholmshamnen (00 46 8 22 31 60; lydmar.com) where stylish doubles start at Sk2,800 (£247), including breakfast.
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... through ancient Stockholm on Gamla Stan. The lofty yellow, red, pink and green buildings of the 'old town' lean in to each other, creating an atmospheric web of narrow streets. Concentrated on tiny Stadsholmen island, Gamla Stan is the point where Lake Malaren meets the Baltic Sea and is dominated by the Royal Palace (7) (00 46 8 402 6130; royalcourt.se; open daily 10am-5pm; adults Sk100/£8.80).
Start at the north face of the palace by Norbro bridge and admire the imposing Roman-baroque façade, then tuck right down pedestrianised Vasterlanggatan, the main drag where defensive walls once stood but where 19th-century shopfronts now mostly frame tourist trinkets and packed-out cafes.
As you negotiate the crowds, glance at the tiny cobbled alleys that siphon off either side. Then slip left up Kakbrinken to Stortorget, the oldest square in the city, lined with merchants' houses and the former stock exchange. Continue across the square and head down Kopmangatan, the 'merchants street' that brings you to Kopmantorget, a small square with a statue of St George and the Dragon. Take either of the cobbled slopes that lead off either side on to Osterlanggatan then continue left up the quiet street past the shuttered early 18th-century Den Gyldene Freden restaurant (00 46 8 24 9760; gyldenefreden.se) up to Slottsbacken and the Storkyrkan, the newly restored 14th-century brick cathedral that will host the royal wedding next Saturday.
Window shopping
Cross Skeppsbron bridge to Sodermalm, the home of the cool and the quirky. Forgo the branches of H&M and Levi's on Gotgatan, one of the city's longest streets, and dip into Weekday at number 21 (00 46 8 642 1772; weekday.se), which sells its own line of clothing (including Cheap Monday jeans) as well as independent labels; and Design Torget (13) at number 31 (00 46 8 644 1678; designtorget.se), a trove of innovative Scandinavian homeware and gifts. Things get cooler still in SoFo, eastern Sodermalm, with Grandpa, 21 Sodermannagatan (00 46 8 643 6080; grandpa.se) for designer and vintage finds and Coctail + Deluxe at 43 Bondegatan (00 46 8 642 0741; coctail.nu) for kitsch paraphernalia.
Lunch on the run
Testament to its success, there are now four branches of Vurma Cafe (00 46 8 669 0960; vurma.se) in Stockholm. Try the Soder outpost (16) at 31 Bergsunds Strand. Sandwiches are the order of the day — chicken with goat's cheese, roasted veg and apple syrup or grilled halloumi with pine nuts, rocket and balsamic, for example — served in a vintage setting of floral cushions, mismatched furniture and retro artefacts. Prices from Sk43 (£3.75) to Sk79 (£6.90).
Cultural afternoon
Travel through Sweden's history at Skansen, an enjoyable open-air museum on Djurgarden, laid out like a large village (00 46 8 442 8000; skansen.se). Repositioned examples of Swedish architecture, from 14th-century farmsteads to 1930s townhouses, are set amid gardens and interspersed with enclosures of Nordic animals, including moose, reindeer, wolves, lynx and brown bears. The park is brought to life by costumed 'residents', who might be baking bread at home or working in the apothecary. Currently open 10am-5pm daily (times vary throughout the year); Sk100 (£8.70).
An aperitif
Be simultaneously dazzled by the views across the water of the imposing Royal Palace and the chic, white interior of the Verandan Cocktail Bar at the Opera House, Karl XII's Torg (00 46 8 676 5800; eng.operakallaren. se). Cocktails such as apple cider martinis start at a regal Sk130 (£11.40).
Dining in style
Skeppsholmen was once a naval base and while most of its ochre-hued military buildings now house art museums, a former torpedo factory and naval laundry recently emerged as Hjerta Restaurant, 28 Slupskjulsvägen (00 46 8 611 4100; restauranghjerta. se). The bright warehouse interior opens on to a harbour-side terrace in summer. Food is fresh and rustic. Start with the skipper's bread — a pizza of sorts topped with cheese, walnuts, wafer-thin reindeer slices and mushrooms, goat's cheese and herbs or cod and chorizo (Sk135/£12). Mains include cod with a scallop and bouillabaisse reduction for Sk275 (£24), or poussin with asparagus and green beans for Sk215 (£19).
Sunday morning: go to church
Take your pick of churches, from small and colourful to grand and soaring. Low-rise Stockholm is punctuated with spires, the grandest of which is that of Riddarholmskyrkan on a little island annexe of Gamla Stan (00 46 8 402 6130; royalcourt.se). The burial place of Swedish monarchs is one of the city's oldest buildings, dating back in part to the 13th-century. Services are no longer held here, but step inside and admire the plaques that adorn the walls. Open May 15-September 15 daily, 10am-4pm (until 5pm June-September); Sk30 (£2.70).
Take a view ...
... from the new SkyView , a glass gondola that ascends 130m up the spherical Globe Arena, 2 Globentorget (globearenas.se). The journey takes around 20 minutes and offers a superior view of the water-laced city. Open 10am-7pm weekdays, until 5pm at weekends (later opening June-August); Sk130 (£11.30).
Take a ride
Stockholm is easily explored on foot, but with the sun sparkling seductively on the harbour at this time of year, there's even more incentive to get on the water. The Baltic archipelago east of the city is some 24,000-islands strong, but boats ply the waters frequently to reach those both nearby and farthest away.
The most popular stop is Vaxholm, an island of wooden houses, ice-cream kiosks and a 16th-century castle. Boats depart daily from Stromkajen and take around an hour; check at the counter outside the Grand Hotel for timetables. Sk150 (£13) return.
Out to brunch
Admire the work of Picasso, Matisse, Tinguely and Dali at the Moderna Museet on Skeppsholmen (00 46 8 5195 5200; modernamuseet.se; Sk80/ £7), then proceed to the glass-fronted restaurant for brunch with a harbour view. There are two sittings at weekends (11.30am and 2pm) for a smorgasbord of fresh salads, cheese, breads, eggs, gravlax, herrings, cured meats, sausages, desserts, tea, coffee and juice; Sk265 (£23) per person.
A walk in the park
East of Skansen, the museums and attractions on royal Djurgarden melt away into a section of Ekoparken, the world's first self-styled 'National City Park' (ekoparken.com). Stick to Djurgarden and you can meander along oak-lined trails past horses, cyclists, villas and the summer residence of Karl XIV Johan, the 1820s Rosendals Palace (00 46 8 402 6000; royalcourt.se).
Icing on the cake
The Grand Hotel at 8 Blasieholmshamnen, open since 1874, recently upped its grandeur with the opening of Raison d'Etre's flagship spa (00 46 8 679 3575; raisondetrespa.se). Inspired by Norse traditions, it features mosaics of bucolic Swedish scenes, saunas with ice-cold plunge pools, another pool surrounded by fire pits and cascades, suites with views of the Royal Palace and a gamut of treatments that start at Sk330 (£29).


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Watch any four year old running barefoot round a swimming pool and what you will see is natural movement: Upright posture (head over hips over feet), quick cadence (lots of small steps) and they are probably relaxed and having fun.
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The footwear industry is built on the assumption that you need shock absorption, motion control and lots of fancy technologies, promising all sorts of amazing benefits. The truth is the body and feet have all the natural shock absorbing and motion control technology you'll ever need (just ask any animal).
Unfortunately it's not as simple as putting on a pair of barefoot shoes and hoping the rest will take care of itself.
Technique is everything and the key to healthy skillful movement is proprioception (sensory feedback from the feet to the brain).
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Food Allergies and Eczema
Can Food Allergies Cause Eczema?
No. Children are born with the tendency to have eczema, and many things can make their eczema worse. These are known as 'triggers' for the eczema. Foods can be a trigger for eczema in some cases but DO NOT CAUSE eczema. If food does trigger the eczema it is often only one or two food types, rather than many. Removal of these foods will sometimes result in a significant improvement, but will not cure the eczema.
The foods most commonly found in both delayed and immediate reactions are cows' milk, egg, wheat and peanuts.
There are two main ways a food allergy may make the eczema worse:
- Immediate reaction with redness and itching of the skin developing within 2 hours of eating the food. Children with these reactions will usually have a positive skin prick test or IgE antibody blood test. The reactions are thought to be due to the food reacting with the IgE antibody in most cases
- Delayed reaction in this case the eczema may gradually get worse (more redness and itch) over 24-48 hours after ingesting the food. These reactions are thought to be due to immune cells in the skin reacting against the food. They are not caused by IgE antibodies and therefore tests for these antibodies (skin prick test or blood test) are not very helpful in predicting the reactions
There are no good skin prick tests or blood tests to determine whether foods cause a delayed reaction. Your doctor will decide whether the history suggests a particular food might be involved, and if so may recommend trial of eliminating that food from the child's diet. If there is significant improvement the food should continue to be avoided. Often, the effect of removing a food is unclear and it may be necessary to re-challenge with the suspected food.
Why Not Just Remove all the Foods That Show Up on an Allergy Test?
Many children with a positive allergy test can eat that food without a problem. Removing many common foods such as wheat, milk, soy and egg from the diet may mean your child's diet is no longer adequate to meet their nutritional needs. Such a limited diet also is difficult to manage, particularly as the child grows older. In general, foods do not trigger eczema in older children, so it is important not to avoid a food indefinitely just on the basis of an allergy test unless there is a clear worsening of the eczema when the food is eaten.
There is another reason why it may not be a good idea to remove every food that shows up on an allergy test. We now know that removing a food from the diet of a child who regularly eats that food just because of a positive allergy test, can cause a severe allergic reaction when the child is subsequently re-exposed to that food. Thus, continuing to eat a food (so long as it does not trigger a reaction) – even if the allergy test is positive – might actually prevent a more severe allergy developing.
Many foods carry a warning on the label "may contain traces of ". This usually indicates that the food is made in a facility that also makes other foods which contain the listed food. Any possible trace or contamination would be so small that it is highly unlikely to make the eczema significantly worse. In general, foods labelled this way do not need to be avoided as part of an eczema diet. However, if your child has had a severe allergic reaction (anaphylaxis) to a food you should discuss what to do about these foods with your doctor.
Could Artificial Preservatives or Colourings or Natural Salicylates and Amines be Causing the Eczema or Making it Worse?
There is some suggestion that artificial colourings and preservatives may make eczema worse in a small proportion (< 3%) of children with eczema. There are no allergy tests for colourings and preservatives. There is no evidence that natural salicylates and amines should be avoided in children with eczema.
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A crash on I-80 East in Delaware Water Gap left three injured and a driver charged with following too closely.
Bryce Blackshear, 35, of Jamaica, N.Y., was driving a 2009 Dodge Journey east just before 2 a.m. Friday when he struck a 1989 Toyota Rav4, state police in Swiftwater said. The Rav4 traveled off the southern shoulder and overturned, landing on its roof. The Dodge Journey came to a controlled stop along the southern shoulder farther east.
Two passengers in the Rav4, Travis Burgher, 18, of East Stroudsburg, and Brianna Jackson, 19, of Washington, N.J., were transported to Pocono Medical Center for their injuries. Driver Roy Burgher Jr., 24, of East Stroudsburg, also sustained minor injuries in the crash.
Blackshear, who was charged in the incident, was not injured. Journey passengers Tashawn Blackshear, 32, Jerrmiha Blackshear, 5, and Jacob Blackshear, 3, all of Jamaica, N.Y., were also unharmed.
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Julius Schulhoff(22 August 1825 — 15 March 1898)
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Ankle sidelines Lidstrom for weekend
Unable to get skate on, Wings' captain to miss two games
Thursday, 03.1.2012 / 6:54 PM ET / News
By Bill Roose - DetroitRedWings.com
|Nicklas Lidstrom
Lidstrom hasn't skated since the injury occurred in the second period against Colorado, though he did finish the game against Avalanche.
"Doctors said he's out for the weekend and will be re-evaluated on Monday," Wings general manager Ken Holland told MLive.com.
The Wings' captain, who has rarely missed games or practices throughout his 20 NHL seasons, won't be available for home games against Minnesota on Friday and Chicago on Sunday. He sat out Tuesday's 5-2 win at Columbus and was replaced in the lineup by veteran Doug Janik, who was called-up from Grand Rapids earlier that day.
Lidstrom was sidelined just one other time this season, missing the Jan. 25 game at Montreal when he came down with the flu. If Lidstrom is sidelined for the next two games, he will have missed 38 out of a possible 1,850 regular-season and Stanley Cup playoff games during his illustrious career.
With three defensemen nursing injuries, the Wings did receive some good news Thursday morning when Kyle Quincey was back at practice for the first time since he injured a groin during the first period of Saturday's 4-3 loss to the Avalanche.
Jonathan Ericsson also suffered a fractured left wrist last Saturday when he was hit by a high-rising clearing attempt by Brad Stuart.
In Thursday's practice at Joe Louis Arena, the Wings' defensive corps paired Niklas Kronwall with Stuart, Janik with Ian White, and rookie Brendan Smith with Jakub Kindl.
But whether Quincey will play against the Wild will likely be a determined by the team's medical staff after the morning skate or he could be a game-time decision.
"I felt good today so if it keeps getting better I'm optimistic I can play Friday," Quincey said. "Today was a good day. If everything progresses I'll be in."
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It gets aggravating when you try to get your paper bill paid each month. I get my paper in the mail and go to look to see if my paper is there. Some days I get one or two and other times I don't get any for the whole week.
Call your post office. We deliver the mail newspapers to the Sikeston Post Office every day, Monday through Saturday.
I live in Morehouse. We had a house that burned last summer and it is still sitting here on Poplar Street. The owners apparently collected the insurance and dug a big 12-foot-deep hole in back of the house. They were going to bury the remains in that hole. The problem is, they have left the hole there and it could be dangerous. I have tried to call everybody I can and can't get any cooperation. I'm scared to death my grandchild or a dog or cat or someone will fall into this hole. Somebody in Morehouse needs to check this out.
To the city manager of Charleston, can you tell me why all the junk has been sitting on the side of Green Street for over a year? I'm not talking about a yard, it's next to the roadway, an old truck, old trailers and everything imaginable. A city employee told me the owner has a permit to do this. How do you get a permit for junk? If you're going to do your job, do it for everybody, not just for a few.
I want to thank the people in Morehouse for their kindness in passing out baskets with fruit and candy for the children and senior citizens. Thank you very much and God bless you all.
This is in response to "Quit complaining" from a so-called pathetic loser. There are many people who provide the taxpayer with many life-sustaining products. I will name two: the pharmacist who provides us with medication and the people who provide us with clean water. They work all year. I think the vast majority of people and many thousands of others, including myself, have never received a subsidy, welfare or any kind of handout, nor would we accept any if it were offered. It's called self-respect. Anyone in this land of plenty with sound mind and body who lives off someone else's labor is a parasite. You are so filled with greed that you are willing to live off the labor of others. So, does the farmer feed the taxpayer, or does the taxpayer feed the farmer?
To the person who thinks he's a weather forecaster, your December forecast wasn't even close.
Here's a direct quote from your Republican President, Mr. Bush, at a year-end conference the other day. He said he was preparing to send to Congress about "an integration policy that helps match any willing employer with any willing employee from Mexico." If you make more than $6 an hour, you can kiss your job, your house and your family goodbye. Thank you, Mr. Bush and thank you, Republicans, for such a fine job for middle-class America.


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Central Pennsylvania (CPA) Alumni Club
1st Annual Theater Outing (Open Stage of Harrisburg) and Pre-Event Gathering
Harrisburg, PA and Mechanicsburg, PA
November 12, 2005
Click here to view pictures of the event
The Central Pennsylvania (CPA) Alumni Club spent a wonderful
evening together on Saturday, November 12th as Dan '64 and Sheila O'Sullivan
opened their home in Mechanicsburg, PA, for a reception, which was followed
by a performance at the Open Stage of Harrisburg. A total of 27 of the
29 who came out for the event made it to the home of the Sullivans for
delicious food - including dessert - (pre-pared by Sheila and Dan) and
great conversations. Tickets for the show were handed out at the reception
and Open Stage Founder and Artistic Director Donald Alsedek came to the
pre-event social as well.
The First Annual CPA Theater Outing had the group seeing "Stones In His Pocket" by Marie Jones. The two-person, two-act play had plenty of humor, but delivered a serious message as well. To read a summary of the story, please click here. Everyone in attendance enjoyed the show and will be looking forward to the Second Annual CPA Theater Outing.
The decades of the 1930s, 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, 1980s and 1990s were all represented by Juniata graduates, including Bob '39 and M.E. '39 Harris, who attended the reception that evening.
A special thank you goes out to Dan and Sheila for helping to organize the event for the CPA Club and for serving as excellent hosts for the performance and the reception.
If you are interested in helping to organize an event, or if you have ideas for other alumni events in your area, please contact David Meadows '98 in the alumni relations office at firstname.lastname@example.com.
If you want to reconnect with Juniata and your fellow alumni, check out our Volunteer Opportunities and upcoming events on the Alumni Calendar of Events.
Thank you to everyone who attended this wonderful event. Let us know what you thought of it by filling out our on-line Post Event Evaluation.


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On Tuesday, Donald Castilblanco-Hernandez, 27, pleaded guilty in a federal court to transporting a woman across state lines for prostitution. The Nicaraguan national, who is in the country illegally, admitted to the U.S. Attorney's Office that in January, he traveled to Georgia to pick up a woman and returned her to Alabama to work for him as a prostitute.
According to court documents, ICE agents entered the illegal alien's Northport residence on Jan. 15 and found the woman and a man who told the agents he paid money to have sex with her. Castilblanco-Hernandez was arrested as he approached the house.
Castilblanco-Hernandez faces up to ten years in prison, after which he will presumably be deported.
This case is only the latest example of human trafficking and forced prostitution, being fostered by illegal immigration.
The following is a list of other such cases:
-In March 2010, Mario Alberto Laguna-Guerrero, 25, was arrested by deputies with the Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office in Florida, on sexual battery charges, after he allegedly forced one mentally disabled girl into prostitution and raped another.
According to the affidavit, the Mexican national told investigators that he had been "dating" the 17-year-old girl, who has an IQ of 58, and asked her to become a prostitute for him. He also admitted that he took the girl to so-called migrant labor camps where she performed sex acts with men for a fee of $25.
The girl told ICE agents that she would be with up to nine "johns" a night.
Laguna-Guerrero told detectives that he asked the 17-year-old to recruit her classmates into prostitution as well.
The girl said she tried to recruit a mentally disabled 16-year-old on her school bus. According to her mother, the 16-year-old has the mental capacity of a second-grader.
When the young woman refused to become a prostitute, an angry Laguna-Guerrero allegedly raped her in front of the other girl.
The U.S. Attorney's Office charged the illegal alien with sex trafficking of a minor, if convicted, he faces a maximum sentence of life in prison.
Laguna-Guerrero has been in the country illegally since 2002.
-In January 2010, three illegal aliens were arrested in Philadelphia and charged with running two brothels in a South Philadelphia neighborhood.
According to the federal indictment, Jose Claudio Corona Cotonieto, 27, Raymond Gonzalez Salazar, 31, and Nicolas Gonzalez Salazar, 22, were trafficking Hispanic women from New York, New Jersey and Delaware to work in the brothel for a week at a time.
Investigators say the Mexican nationals had been running the brothels since August 2009, making about $9,000 per week.
In a press release, Immigrations and Customs Enforcement issued the following statement on the case: "As part of the ongoing criminal investigation and in addition to the criminal arrests, ICE special agents identified and administratively arrested 50 individuals believed to be in the U.S. illegally. Those arrested include 39 males from Mexico, nine males from Honduras, and two females from Mexico. Those administratively arrested will be placed into removal proceedings and their cases will be adjudicated in immigration court."
A neighbor living near one of the brothels told Fox News Channel 29: "Two brothels – two of them? And they're getting $9,000 in one week. OK."
Grateful for the arrests, she continued: "I think that's great because that would bring a lot of crime and, to me, it isn't safe at all."
-In July 2009, illegal alien and convicted felon Emma Tlacoxolal-Perez was sentenced in U.S. District Court to 33 months in prison for running brothels in eastern Virginia, in Chesapeake, Newport News, James City County and Williamsburg.
The Mexican national was the head of a prostitution ring which employed women smuggled into this country from Mexico, and only catered to other illegal aliens.
Tlaccoxablal-Perez, along with co-conspirator Felipe Vargas-Ortega, passed out business cards to advertise for the brothel known as El Nopal (The Prickly Pear).
Two more alleged co-conspirators, Francisco Sanchez-Martinez and Juan Carlos Vargas-Ortega, were also prosecuted.
Tlacoxolal-Perez, 37, who has operated brothels in Virginia since 2004, was actually deported in 2006, but easily found her way back across the largely unprotected border.
Customers paid $30 for 15 minutes with one of the prostitutes, the ring leaders kept half of it.
The Newport News location was in a suburban neighborhood and Mexican men typically went through the neighborhood at all hours, often knocking on neighbors' doors looking for the brothel.
Managing Assistant U.S. Attorney Howard J. Zlotnick told the court: "The poor people living on Eastwood Drive," had to live with "strange men knocking on their doors looking for girls."
All of those involved were illegal aliens from Mexico, El Salvador, and Ecuador.
-In February 2009, local police and federal agents raided a brothel run by Mexican nationals in Glen Burnie, MD
-In September 2008, police in Baltimore, MD shut down a Mexican brothel and arrested Carlos Silot, who ran the operation, along with two prostitutes, all were illegal aliens. Court documents show that at this particular brothel, the women would work for seven days and then sent back to North Carolina, and exchanged for new prostitutes.
-In June 2007, police in San Antonio arrested a mother and her two daughters for smuggling two minors out of Mexico to use them as prostitutes. Once in the U.S., the girls ages 15 and 17, were told they would have to work as prostitutes for five years to pay off their smuggling fees of $3,000. They were threatened at gunpoint and told that if they did run away, that their families back in Mexico would be killed.
Isabel Ochoa, 60, received time served. Consuelo Ochoa, 34, was sentenced to 18 months for sex-trafficking and an additional 39 months for a separate drug case. Maria Ochoa, 32, was sentenced to 12 months and one day.
-In March 2007, police in Madison, TN raided a Mexican brothel in a residential area and arrested Mexican nationals Santos Perez and Jose Garcia who ran the operation, along with two Mexican prostitutes.
Again, the brothel charged $30 per customer. The women were forced to have sex with dozens of men every day.
A Madison Police detective told News Channel 5: "It's pretty terrible. I don't think these girls want to be there. These girls don't want to be forced to do 30 customers a day."
At the time of the raid, police told reporters that they were investigating at least 10 Mexican brothels in the Nashville area.
-In January 2006, police in Charlotte, NC raided two brothels run by Mexican nationals, both were crowded with women smuggled into this country and held against their will.
The Charlotte Observer reported that the leaders of these prostitution rings bring Mexican and Central American women in and out of Charlotte, exchanging them for women in Raleigh and Greensboro. One of these women could typically be sold between the pimps for $130 each.
Just as illegal aliens have spread throughout the United States, an epidemic of human trafficking to supply the brothels catering to them has spread to every corner of this nation.
Most of these women are confined in locked rooms with nothing but the clothes on their backs, and are often beaten. Of course, even if they are able to do so, the women who are kept in these prostitution rings are afraid to escape. They are told that if they leave, their families back home will be murdered.
Thanks to an unprotected border, we now have large-scale prostitution rings engaging in kidnapping and human trafficking in U.S. neighborhoods.
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These scum are turning our country into the same shithole(s) that they came from.
Get the fuck out.
We owe you nothing.
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Aw, couldn't be, he's just here to earn a few dollars doing jobs Americans won't, cause their on the welfare teat. He's just looking to funnel a few dollars home to his family in Mexico.
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what a surprise
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I think the russians have a jump on this, and those are some hot blonds
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He sure is going the get some loving in jail
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Who's doing the raping?
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FREMONT -- Trying to transform its image from an overlooked bedroom community to a Silicon Valley player, the city is focusing on a swath of undeveloped land at its southern edge as a site for new housing and tech jobs.
To fulfill that ambitious vision, Fremont leaders must forge a creative partnership with transit agencies, businesses and state and federal officials -- which is why those disparate groups gathered Thursday at the Fremont Legislative Brunch.
"If anyone wants to get something done in the city of Fremont, this room would be the place," Mayor Bill Harrison quipped, kicking off the two-hour event at Tesla's Warm Springs district campus.
Fremont has several projects it wants to get done. Topping that list is developing 850 acres of commercial, retail and residential uses around Tesla, the electric car manufacturer, and next to the Warm Springs/South Fremont BART station, which is expected to open in 2015. The city hopes to add about 3,000 housing units and 12,000 jobs to the area, building on Fremont's growing reputation as a biotech and cleantech hub.
"We're going to leverage the heck out of this transit-oriented development in Warm Springs," said Kelly Kline, Fremont's economic development director.
The project is expected to be built in several phases over the next 25 to 30 years. It is still in its infancy, but progress slowly is being made, the event's speakers said.
Union Pacific Railroad has sold 22 acres to Thermo Fisher Scientific, a biotech company that is expected to open its office in the area next year. Union Pacific also plans to sell 109 acres north of the plant. Brochures soon will be sent to local real estate agents branding that undeveloped area as "Innovation Village," an attempt to make it synonymous with the entrepreneurial creativity for which Silicon Valley is famous.
City officials said they aim to market south Fremont better, noting that it already is home of Tesla, 80 biotech companies and 30 cleantech and solar-energy companies such as Soraa and Solaria.
Some of those efforts are already paying off, Kline said. In October, Fremont will host the Western Region Cleantech Open, in which dozens of companies and entrepreneurs submit their environmentally friendly tech ideas in a competition for cash prizes. It was held in Dublin last year, she said.
"We want to have more innovation-centered events and workshops," Kline said before the brunch. "That doesn't happen a whole lot now, but we're trying to change that."
Kline said Fremont also wants to regain manufacturing jobs that the state has lost overseas in recent decades. U.S. Reps. Mike Honda and Eric Swalwell -- each of whom represent part of Fremont -- said manufacturing jobs would bolster the state's dwindling middle class. Swalwell praised Fremont officials for doggedly lobbying federal representatives for funds to be spent on the Warm Springs development.
One of its first public works projects would be the construction of a bridge that would connect the BART station's west entrance to the rest of the development. Early estimates say the bridge would cost about $30 million, but that is subject to change, said Jim Pierson, Fremont's public works director.
Environmental reports and design work have not been started, Pierson said. But it's never too early to start identifying government funding and grants, which explains the city's recent lobbying of Congress.
"I'm impressed with Fremont's federal advocacy program," Swalwell said. "It's been a full, robust program to put Fremont's issues on our burner in Washington, D.C."
Contact Chris De Benedetti at 510-353-7011. Follow him at Twitter.com/cdebenedetti.


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The 16 WAPT Boo Burger was crowned the winner during Tuesday's competition, beating out other media teams.
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Automated machines set to become part of tech giant's roster
Google has fingers in plenty of pies, but the latest news from Palo Alto is that one of those fingers might be made of cold stainless steel.
The New York Times had a chat with former Android chief Andy Rubin, who's now been put in charge of Google's robotic activities. Rubin has a history with robotics, having worked on manufacturing projects with the likes of Carl Zeiss. To that end, it would seem that Google's intentions are for robots to be hidden away inside factories rather than being walking, talking metal men (or drones) made to carry your shopping.
The piece also states that Google has bought seven technology companies with the intention of developing robots.
Nonetheless, it's an interesting development for a firm that currently doesn't have a particularly huge stake in the manufacturing and retail sectors – which both benefit hugely from robotics – and has only recently started offering home delivery for retail.
Of course, Google has a little bit of experience with creating autonomous machines, with its driverless car making headlines around the world and scaring regular users of zebra crossings to boot.
Rubin, who took Android from a fringe mobile OS to a dominant force in the smartphone space, says he has a "a history of making my hobbies into a career". In other words, he has a track record of getting things right, which probably made his task of convincing Google founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin to get on board a little easier.
It's interesting that this news should come during the same week as Amazon's teasing look at its automated delivery drones. It rather seems like there's a bit of one-upmanship going on in the tech world, with major firms looking to steal headlines as the year comes to a close.
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remarkable chain
of events led her to
become a Death Row
counselor. Now
Sister Helen's story
is playing on movie
screens throughout
the world in one of
the most acclaimed
films of the year.
By John Bookser Feister
Sister Helen's cross was a gift from a condemned, now dead, man.
He sold his blood plasma to buy it for her.
You could call
her the Mother Teresa of Death Row. She would argue the point.
"I kind of speed a lot and get tickets," Sister Helen
admits, and she is an outspoken critic of politicians and the
legal system. She likes to argue. She cracks jokes. She doesn't
wear a habit. But she has a heart big enough for everyone: She
counsels and prays the rosary with victims' families. She looks
after the needs of convicts' families. And she never knew what
she was getting into when she made a simple decision, in her 40's,
to dedicate her life to the poor.
When Sister Helen
wrote her life experiences into a book a few years ago, she could
scarcely imagine that it would be nominated for a Pulitzer Prize
and become the basis of a major motion picture. But now Dead
Man Walking: An Eyewitness Account of the Death Penalty in the
United States has risen to number one on The New York Times
Best-Seller List and is being translated into other languages.
Dead Man Walking, the film starring Susan Sarandon and
Sean Penn, is a contender at the Academy Awards. As this issue
went to press, it was nominated for Oscars in four categories:
best leading actor (Penn), best leading actress (Sarandon), best
directing (Tim Robbins) and best original song ("Dead Man
Walking," written and performed by Bruce Springsteen). Songs
from the soundtrack are reaching the record charts.
"It's a miracle
of God!" Sister Helen exclaims as she walks into the editorial
offices of St. Anthony Messenger. She has flown to Cincinnati
for an advance showing of the film to benefit her congregation.
The day before in Chicago she taped an appearance--with Susan
Sarandon and producer Tim Robbins--on The Oprah Winfrey Show.
That night her prerecorded interview from Louisiana's death chamber
would appear on ABC's Prime Time Live. ABC's Good Morning
America viewers would see her the next morning.
As she settles
in for this interview, she jokingly exhales an expression that
only a real Sister would use. When asked, "How are you?"
she replies, "I'm riding the kairos." That Greek
word from the New Testament (see Ephesians 1:10) means "the
right time," the time when God's saving acts are breaking
into history. She can scarcely believe what is happening, but
Sister Helen is relishing the moment.
Longtime readers of this magazine
might remember Sister Helen's May 1991 submission, "Murderers
and Victims: A Rosary Reflection." She was writing her book
at the time and felt drawn to write an essay about her praying
the rosary each month with Lloyd LeBlanc, father of a young murder
victim. Sister Helen had been spiritual adviser to the man convicted
of the murder. She witnessed his execution. Sister Helen and a
victim's father praying together became the closing scene in Dead
Man Walking. The real Sister Helen still drives across Louisiana's
swampland on the first Friday of each month to pray with LeBlanc.
When she was working
with screenwriter, director and producer Tim Robbins on the script
for the movie, Sister Helen had her doubts about how well the
praying scene would work in a secular movie. "How are you
going to do that without it looking hokey?" she asked Robbins,
whose recent credits include the highly acclaimed films Shawshank
Redemption and The Player. "He says, 'You're the
nun and you're telling me we can't end this thing with prayer?'"
Robbins won, she adds, "and you see the characters moving
to another level where the reconciliation and peace is going to
lie. It is so powerful. It is so powerful!" The scene
is one of her favorites.
But that's getting
ahead of the story. The road to the Oscars began when actress
Susan Sarandon read Sister Helen's book and saw herself playing
the role (see sidebar below). In recent years Sarandon has received
three Best Actress Academy Award nominations for Thelma and
Louise, Lorenzo's Oil and The Client. She gave
a copy of the book to Tim Robbins and persuaded him to create
a film--if Sister Helen would allow it.
"We were up
against tremendous obstacles," says Sister Helen. After her
1993 book proved a critical success her congregation signed a
film option, but no film was forthcoming. That producer had given
up hope after being rejected by major Hollywood distributors whose
money would be essential.
Sister Helen and
the Sisters of St. Joseph of Medaille were leery of allowing just
anyone to do this movie, too, considering Hollywood's track record
with nuns. "We've had the flying nun, the singing nun--it's
either the flaky stuff or nuns who are leaving," she complains.
She and her congregation wanted a realistic portrayal of a contemporary
Sister in ministry.
Robbins and Sarandon
convinced her that the film would be true to the book--although
it would be necessary to create some composite characters to simplify
the story enough for a two-hour movie. Sister Helen met with Sarandon
and liked her. "I had to be absolutely sure these people
were trustworthy," she says. "Meeting Susan, I knew
that she was. And as I began to learn about her life, what she
stood up for, I knew that she stuck her neck out for things that
she believed in.
"I sent Tim
a book, Jesus Before Christianity by Albert Nolan, and
we talked about it. I said, 'Good sign! He reads! And he reflects!'
I didn't know whether or not he was a good filmmaker, but I liked
his values."
As they discussed
their vision for what the film could be, Sister Helen knew she
had found kindred spirits. "He started talking like, 'How
can we do a film about this thing that people are going to come
to? How can we frame this thing in such a way that we can probe
Christianity without being preachy?' I liked that," she says.
But the most telling
moment came in a conversation with Robbins and his agent. The
agent suggested that the film would make a great "made-for-TV
movie," says Sister Helen. Robbins interrupted him, complaining
that commercials would spoil the moment. Sister Helen remembers,
"He said, 'But a feature film will bring them into a darkened
place where they can have a sustained meditation'--I like this
person! He's deep and he has spiritual values, he's smart and
compassionate. He wants to do films about things that really matter.
I said, 'Tim, you got it! Let's go!'"
In the filmmaking
agreement, Sister Helen was given script approval. Her community
received $150,000 for film rights. That was in late 1994. By the
turn of the year, Robbins had found partners who would invest
the $12 million necessary to make the film--a low budget by Hollywood
standards. He began signing up actors and crew to work for reduced
rates. (Months later, he sent a rough edit of the film and a copy
of the book to his favorite well-known songwriters hoping a few
of them would be inspired to write music for a soundtrack. Twelve
original songs came back--one of which is an Oscar nominee.)
The next breakthrough came when
Robbins successfully recruited bad-guy Sean Penn to play Matthew
Poncelet, a character based on two of the men Sister Helen had
counseled on Death Row. To test the moral question of execution,
Robbins wanted to portray the most unredeemable character possible.
Many people who
might reject the death penalty support it for the worst criminals,
says Sister Helen. Robbins wanted Sean Penn from the beginning,
says Helen--"and Sean Penn is just masterful, perfect"--because
Penn can portray an unsympathetic character.
Robbins didn't
want a propaganda piece, she says, but a balanced look at a controversial
issue. The Hollywood approach, for dramatic reasons, might create
a character unjustly condemned, or who was an obvious victim of
circumstances. In Dead Man Walking, Robbins wanted to focus,
Sister Helen says, on the real story: "a nun who gets in
over her head, who gets involved with the poor, and gets ratcheted
into a relationship with a very, very difficult kind of person
to love." In fact, she says, the deepest theme of the film
is unconditional love and redemption. That theme is sounded early
in the film. As the prison metal detector buzzes, the camera closes
in on Sister Helen's crucifix.
Sister Helen worked
closely with Robbins on the script to be sure it was right, she
explains. It took five drafts, but there is nothing in the film
she is uncomfortable with. In the film, and in real life, for
example, Sister Helen was confronted at Louisiana State Penitentiary
by an elderly priest-chaplain who challenged her for not wearing
a habit. In the first script the Sister Helen character went out
to her car and got a habit out of the trunk.
"I told Tim,
'No way!'" exclaims Sister Helen. "We don't wear habits,
and I had to explain to him the reasons for that." (The Sisters
of St. Joseph, founded in France in 1650, were never intended
to wear habits, but to blend in among the people they serve.)
"I teased
him. I said, 'Boy, you better get the nuns right in this! We haven't
had a good film about nuns since The Bells of St. Mary's!'"
A product of Catholic schools himself (as is Sarandon), Robbins
jokingly cowered before Sister Helen's mock wrath, she recalls
with a hearty laugh.
Sister Helen talked
with Robbins shortly after he learned that the film received financing.
"Tim gets on the phone and says, 'Helen, we've got the money
and now we've really got a problem.' I said, 'What?' He said,
'Now we've got to do the picture. I'm scared!' I was glad that
he was scared. Then we got started and in nine weeks he shot a
half million feet--100 miles--of film." Five of those weeks
were onsite in Louisiana, four weeks were on a constructed set
in New York.
Her Sisters are
"overjoyed" with the final product, Sister Helen reports--and
with her celebrity status. But her ex-novicemistress is watching
out for her: "She asked me, 'Now Helen, you're staying humble,
right? Feet on the ground?' And I said, 'Yes, Sister, I am,' because
there's so much pain in it--to let any of this go to your head
just doesn't make any sense."
Straightforward dedication and
prayer drive Sister Helen, say those who know her well. She got
these inner qualities from her upbringing in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
Her father was a lawyer who taught her persuasive speaking, she
recalls. And she had a "good, loving Southern mama"
(a nurse). The family (she has a brother and sister, too) prayed
the rosary together every night.
The long road trips
they took together were a training ground for her current life-style,
she jokes: She learned how to sleep in a moving vehicle. But more
important, the close quarters caused the family to find ways to
be together: "We sang songs and learned how to tell stories,"
the consummate storyteller recalls.
At the all-girl
St. Joseph Academy in Baton Rouge, she learned public speaking,
leadership and "how to punctuate a sentence....I'm realizing
now the gifts I'm using. I had an excellent education," she
gratefully says. Her election as student body president was an
indicator of things to come.
This big-hearted
woman has a simple explanation for how she became compassionate:
"I was hosed down with love by my parents. I was poured over
with love and affirmation. If I don't give that back, then I'm
really seriously defective. I see it as a matter of justice, not
of charity. I've got to do this or--I'll explode or something."
Her desire to love
widely led her to become "a child bride of Christ at age
18," she humorously observes. "When I hit religious
life," in 1957, "it was like you bit the turf. You were
silent--and that was good for me, too. It interiorized me."
Knowing that her tendency is to reach out constantly to others,
she strives for balance: "If you don't have communication
with God in your life, there's not that dynamic relationship between
drawing in and reaching out. I realize now that I really have
that combination within me. When I finish this work and I get
on a plane, that plane is like my little cloister. I'm back to
silence, back to my center, and I'm comfortable being quiet."
When she's at the
right place at the right time, she's aware of God's presence,
she says. "That was very intense in the deathhouse,"
she recalls. In her book she described it as a "circle of
light" that encompassed her and the man about to be executed.
"It was that deep center: 'You're here and I'm here and this
is really hard, but it's going to be O.K.'"
But that's getting
ahead of the story again. There was little indication from her
early career that she would become such an outspoken justice advocate.
During the first decades of Sisterhood, she had been teacher,
novicemistress and parish religious educator. Then, in 1981, her
congregation took a long look at its mission.
Jean Pierre Medaille
had founded a community of Sisters to minister to urgent social
needs. Where were the poor today? As she considered the challenge
of the gospel, Sister Helen's comfortable, private spirituality
was shaken to the core. Within a year she had moved in with Sisters
who were serving in the St. Thomas Housing Project in New Orleans.
It was there that
she naively agreed to become pen pal to a man on Death Row. When
he asked her to come visit, she went and visited. Her eyes were
opened to the process by which the state executes the condemned--which
she abhors as patently cruel and unfair. She had to tell her story
to anyone who would hear. "Witnessing his death [April 5,
1984] was a second Baptism for me," she wrote last year.
"I couldn't watch someone being killed and walk away. Like
a sacrament, the execution left an indelible mark on my soul."
Along the way,
though, as the book and film portray so well, she encountered
the devastated families of murder victims. They called her to
task for caring more about the murderers than about the victims'
families. She used her organizing skills to found Survive, a victims'
family support group in New Orleans. "To me the image for
the Church is to be on both arms of the cross," she told
St. Anthony Messenger in 1991, "with the ones being
executed and with the victims' families."
Sister Helen's
balanced approach is captured by the film. In naming Dead Man
Walking one of the top 10 films of the year, reviewers Siskel
and Ebert said it is "more than a film that simply questions
the need for the death penalty. It also generates empathy for
the 'life penalty' that victims' families suffer too."
The film indeed walks a fine
line on a delicate issue. It is Sister Helen's contention that
state executions are carried out in the middle of the night in
secret for a reason: If people knew the truth about executions,
they would oppose them. She openly opposes the death penalty in
her book. "It's government imitating the very violence that
it says we can't have in our society," she says. "Twelve
people in the middle of the night, hired by the state, kill for
the state." Unlike the book, the film draws no conclusions,
yet reveals the secret goings-on for public consideration.
(The title of film
and book comes from the words that guards at San Quentin Prison
are said to have yelled when a death-row inmate was let out of
his cell: "Dead man walking!")
Although Sister
Helen had witnessed electrocutions in Louisiana, she and Robbins
agreed that lethal injection would be the killing device in the
film. In spite of the recently publicized firing squad in Utah
and hanging elsewhere, most states are turning to lethal injection
as a more humane way to execute. Robbins wanted his viewers to
consider the morality of the most humane death the system offers.
"We don't want to give them a way out," says Sister
The killing devices--including
the crucifix-like table from which an elevated Sean Penn says
his final words--are exact replicas of execution gear from Louisiana
and Missouri.
There are currently
over 3,000 people awaiting execution in the United States. Although
the United States is the only Western democracy that executes
people, well over 70 percent of Americans favor execution. Catholics,
in spite of Church teaching that the death penalty is almost never
morally acceptable in modern society, support it more than others.
But Sister Helen
is confident that abolition will come: "You've got to realize
there was a time in this country when over 70 percent of people
supported slavery. Who would have ever thought that we would change
Having served as
chairwoman of the National Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty,
she can recite every argument and statistic against state execution:
It's immoral; it costs more than life imprisonment; it doesn't
really work as a deterrent; it's reserved for the poor; it's racially
selective; it's a political decoy; we're out of step with other
nations. "Basically it's an act of despair," she says.
"It's society saying we don't know what to do with some people--and
when you don't know what to do with some people, it's O.K. to
kill them." She notes that public support drops dramatically
when there is an alternative like life in prison without parole.
But this feisty
nun also realizes that people are afraid: "People have this
instinctive feeling that if we don't execute them they are going
to get out in a few years and kill again." Yet, she observes,
there has been dramatic legal reform during the past 10 years
which has tightened up sentencing for first-degree murder. "No
one is getting out after a few short years," she says. "Either
it's life without parole or it's mandatory long-term--30 or 40
years before they can even be considered."
Her special mission
now is to get a copy of the film to Pope John Paul II and convince
him to speak out for a United Nations resolution for worldwide
abolition of state execution. That resolution failed by only eight
votes last year. "Mother Teresa visited Death Row, but he
never has," observes Sister Helen. "He's so strong in
his pro-life encyclical. I just have a feeling that it's going
to happen."
People often ask Sister Helen
what it is like to be played by Susan Sarandon. As script consultant,
Sister Helen had the opportunity to see the results of daily filming
as the movie was being shot. "Susan was a window," says
Sister Helen. "She wasn't a mirror. The window just brought
me right back into that scene with those people. It was a constant
reliving of what had happened," she adds. Her reverie was
continually interrupted with the work of moviemaking: adjusting
lights, setting things up, shooting scenes time and time again.
When she was on
the set, she and Sarandon took turns using the folding chair that
said "Sister Helen" on the back. Sister Helen observed
that Sarandon never watched the "dailies"--the showing
of the day's filming at the end of each day on the set.
She realized later
that Sarandon was taking a professional gamble at her age (49)
playing a role that called for "a bad haircut" (Sarandon's
words) and no makeup. "I heard that Susan cried when she
saw herself. I realized then that this was costly for her."
("Nuns, by the way, don't spend a lot of money on their hair,"
Sister Helen quips.)
Sister Helen enjoyed
collaborating with Tim Robbins. "Sometimes we'd get stuck
in a scene. We'd work it out and just kind of shape it together.
We did it all together. Some scenes in it I wrote." She pushed
constantly for humor: "I said to him, 'I know this is heavy,
but what is life and faith without humor?'" The humorous
speeding ticket episode in the film actually happened to Sister
Helen during the shooting. It was immediately written into the
script and shot only a few days later.
For film trivia
buffs, the real Sister Helen makes a cameo appearance in the film
leading a prayer vigil outside the penitentiary on the night of
the execution. She's the woman holding the candle.
Her most treasured
moment during the filming was also the most painful for her: watching
the dailies of the "heart of the film." It is the scene
where Penn is blaming everyone and Sarandon challenges him to
face the truth. She sings to him through the cell bars the well-known
hymn "Be Not Afraid" (in real life, Sister Helen had
played a tape during a prayer service). "I watched that and
I cried. And cried and cried," says Sister Helen. "I
watched seven takes of that. Susan and Sean did this intensely
emotional scene. I guess in a way it was also this great release
for me to see it, to be back from it. Because it was the moment
of redemption and transformation. Afterwards I just went and I
hugged Tim. And he said, up to the screen, 'Thank you' (to Susan
and Sean) 'for giving us the heart of the film.'"
In the wake of the film's December
28 release Sister Helen's days have been filled with a barrage
of media and speaking requests. Her housemate, Sister Margaret,
has become her manager, at least for the time being. But Sister
Helen doesn't seem to mind. "When you're in over your head,
it kind of leeches out of you abilities that you just didn't know
you had. I've got to write. I've got to speak. Because nobody
knows it the way I know it," she says.
God's providence
works, she believes, through the people sent into your life: "God
sends you the people that you need." She considers Susan
Sarandon and Tim Robbins godsends in her life.
Film credits aside,
she still considers herself a teacher. After all, teaching is
about "sharing as you go, communicating, drawing people into
what you've been through, learning as you go," she says.
And go she does.
A final story illustrates why McCall's named her one of
America's 50 most-confident women: After taping the Oprah Winfrey
Show she encountered airport delays. She would be late for
a benefit appearance in Missouri. "I believe you have to
take action to help things happen or you just accept the status
quo," she says, without a trace of Sisterly humility.
She called the
flight attendant over. "I'm going to make an unusual request.
Can you talk to the captain? If he could gun it a little bit more--if
I could get five minutes, I can make it, because a car will be
waiting for me...." When the plane landed 10 minutes earlier
than promised, she knew she would be on time for her appearance,
but she wasn't sure if her message had ever gotten to the pilot.
Waiting for the passenger door to open, she got her answer. "The
pilot opened the cockpit door and said, 'Did we make it, Sister?'
I said, 'We made it!'" With a thumbs-up, she raced off to
her next challenge.
Susan Sarandon found someone refreshingly different when she met
Sister Helen Prejean. "She was the antithesis of most of
the nuns I knew when I was growing up," 49-year-old Sarandon
told St. Anthony Messenger during a recent interview. The
actress, raised in New Jersey and educated in Catholic schools
all the way through college at Catholic University of America,
was impressed by Sister Helen's approach to life. She wanted to
play the role of Sister Helen because "Helen was so full
of life, such a great storyteller, so life-embracing. It was clear
to me that her faith was a practical one." Sarandon saw in
Sister Helen a woman functioning "in the real world with
real problems....We were on some kind of common ground from the
Sister Helen was
invaluable during filming of Dead Man Walking, says Sarandon,
"in all the specifics...little details here and there of
what happened with these guys or with the families." An actor's
job is to be as specific as possible, observes Sarandon. "The
plus side of playing someone who is alive and accessible is that
you have a wealth of specifics in front of you."
But Sister Helen
and Susan Sarandon moved beyond professional interest in making
the film. "She brought her light and her love into our lives,"
says Sarandon. Sister Helen played a supportive role with Sarandon's
family as they set up a home away from home during filming (Sarandon
and actor-producer Tim Robbins are raising three children). Once
the Sisters brought over a "great chicken dish" for
dinner. "She's great with the kids," says Sarandon.
She remembers Sister Helen captivating her young son with fun
activities for hours once. When they returned her son was laughing,
hysterically, she says. The Sister plays "a really good handball,"
too, comments Sarandon. Now Sister Helen stays at Sarandon's and
Robbins's house when she goes to New York.
Sarandon is perhaps
most impressed by Sister Helen'sgenuine humility. "She is
a human being who worked hard to have faith and who made a lot
of mistakes," says the actress. Sister Helen's example invites
a moviegoing audience to understand that they, too, can deal with
moral questions like poverty and capital punishment, comments
Sarandon. Sister Helen's life, she says, is a sign that, "You,
too, have the responsibility and the opportunity of finding your
life, finding your faith and applying it to the world around you."
John Bookser Feister is an assistant editor of this publication
and managing editor of Catholic Update. He has an M.A.
in humanities from Xavier University, Cincinnati.


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PITTSBURGH -- George Kontos turned 28 on Wednesday, but this is one birthday the right-hander will want to forget.
Kontos was optioned to Triple-A Fresno in the afternoon and replaced by Sandy Rosario.
As he headed for the minors, Kontos found out that he had been suspended three games and fined an undisclosed amount for beaning Pittsburgh's Andrew McCutchen on Tuesday night. Kontos will serve his suspension whenever he returns to the majors.
Manager Bruce Bochy was also suspended one game and will sit out Wednesday's game against the Pirates. Bench coach Ron Wotus will manage in Bochy's place.
Kontos had a 5.76 ERA for the Giants and gave up three runs Tuesday before being ejected. He took the demotion well, saying he would gain confidence in Fresno and be back soon. Kontos insisted that he is healthy and has not succumbed to mechanical problems.
"I think this can be a quick fix," Kontos said. "I'll go down there and get right."
Despite the demotion, suspension and fine, Wednesday wasn't even Kontos' worst birthday. He tore an elbow ligament on his 24th birthday and had to have Tommy John surgery.
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ILION, N.Y.�� The wait is over.
Three weeks of preseason preparation is complete and the 2013 scholastic football season kicks off tonight in the Mohawk Valley.
In Ilion, that means the first chance to see the Central Valley Academy Thunder hit the field. The former Ilion Golden Bombers and Mohawk Mohicans meet Mexico at Diss Memorial Field at 7 p.m. as they begin their first season of Class B East competition, a step up for Ilion�s returning players and two for the former Mohicans.
The Central Valley Academy game is one of three on local schedule for Friday night. Mt. Markham�s Mustangs pay a visit to neighboring Sauquoit Valley for a non-league game and Frankfort-Schuyler is home for a Class C East contest against Utica�s Notre Dame Jugglers.
The rest of the area�s teams begin the regular season Saturday with a pair of 2012 league champions taking center stage. Herkimer, a two-time Section III champion in Class C � outright in 2011 and Class C-2 last fall � makes its move into Class D East where West Canada Valley is coming off a perfect regular season. Herkimer�s Magicians travel up Route 28 for a 2 p.m. game against the Indians. West Canada Valley finished an 8-1 season with a loss to Westmoreland in the sectional semifinals. Herkimer was beaten by Skaneateles in the overall Class C game and finished 8-2.
Saturday�s other games send the combined Morrisville-Eaton/Hamilton squad to Dolgeville and Little Falls to Sherburne-Earlville. In Dolgeville, the Blue Devils begin their first season with Dan Zilkowski as the head coach. The Little Falls game is the only Section III contest under Saturday night�s lights.
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What Do content Farms Do?
Like most websites, content farms have a main goal, which is to generate revenue, and some do it with advertisements. So a content farm, is a company that employs large numbers of often freelance writers to generate large amounts of textual content which is specifically designed to satisfy algorithms for maximal retrieval by automated search engines.
The articles in content farms often get information from other sources, which can lead to copyright disputes over copyright infringement. They are written people who are not specialists in the area. On the other hand the advocates of the content farms claim that from a business perspective, it is better to look for some expertise, which can be developed one article at a time. Traditional journalism, they claim is inefficient because stories are chosen by a small group of people that frequently have similar experiences and outlooks. (That in fact is the claim by most conservative commentators, that the mainstream media is too narrowly focused with the same ideas and perspectives.)
Content farms often commission their writers' work based on analysis of search engine queries that proponents represent as "true market demand", a feature that traditional journalism lacks.
Google's Shift
Google launched a big algorithmic improvement to ranking, which will impact just under 12 percent of queries. Google raised the awareness level with this change. Because, according to Google, this update is "designed to reduce rankings for low-quality sites–sites which are low-value add for users, copy content from other websites or sites that are just not very useful. At the same time, it will provide better rankings for high-quality sites–sites with original content and information such as research, in-depth reports, thoughtful analysis and so on."
The end result is that splashy articles, that don't have sufficient content will not appear at the top of the rankings.
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Southern or full sun
A south-facing window can support the widest herb selection. It has bright light all day with intense sunshine around midday. The one drawback is that all this light can make the window area hot. Plants dry out, and leaves can burn if the heat becomes too intense. Monitor the herbs closely in summer and move them back from the window if they show signs of heat stress (wilting or burnt leaves). The farther away from the window they're placed, the less intense the light and heat.
Grow any of these sun-loving herbs: aloe, chives, dill, lavender, nasturtium, sweet marjoram, oregano, rosemary, sage, savory, scented geraniums, tarragon and thyme.
You also can grow shade-tolerant herbs several feet away from the windowpane or on the kitchen counter. Try chervil, lemon balm, mint and sweet woodruff.
Eastern or full/partial sun
An east-facing window receives full sun for a few hours in the morning and bright light the rest of the day. You generally don't have to worry about heat, so you can place the herbs right up against the windowpane.
Try basil, bay, burnet, parsley, lemon balm, mint and pineapple sage.
Western or full/partial sun
A west-facing window receives bright light in the morning and a few hours of full sun in the afternoon. Intense afternoon sunlight can make the window area hot in summer. Move the herbs back from the glass if they look stressed.
Try aloe, basil, parsley, rosemary, scented geraniums, tarragon and thyme.
Northern or low light
Planting an herb garden in a north-facing window can be a challenge, but it's not impossible. Most herbs prefer full sun and, unfortunately, you have little direct light in a northern window. The trick is to stick with herbs that prefer partial sun but can tolerate shade.
Try bay, chervil, lemon balm, mint, lovage, parsley and sweet woodruff.
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