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This paper looks into fostering academic resilience among secondary school students through a class-peer mentoring technique. The technique is based on motivating students to engage in learning programmes useful in complimenting areas of academic weakness and strength. Class-peer mentoring technique will enhance social skills, study habits, and academic interest, thereby fostering resiliency. Factors that influence academic resilience are highlighted, and recommendations are given to adolescents and youth mentors, educational stakeholders, teachers, counselors, non-governmental organizations, and private educational investors.
Underachievement, especially among students in Nigerian public schools, is abysmal. It has become a problem with no major basis or foundation for its existence. This is because it does not create a balance with the fact that in staffing, a lot of qualified teachers exist in Nigeria's public schools, as qualifications of these teachers range from the National College of Education Certificates (NCE), First degrees, Masters, and even Doctors of Philosophy (Ph.D).
In view of these qualifications, various questions arise. Why is it that examination records over time (especially Senior Secondary School Examinations) show a higher rate of underachievement among students in public schools unlike their peers in the privately owned schools? Aside from this, why is it that poor academic performances are mostly reported in specific core subjects, such as English language, Mathematics, Physics, and Chemistry for students in public schools?
To respond to these queries, many psycho-sociological factors need to be considered because the influence of psycho-sociological factors cannot be overemphasized in academic achievement and academic resilience (Caffo & Belaise, 2003; Olaogun, 2005; Adeyemo, 2007). For instance, the society, as a psycho-sociological factor, is like an umbrella factor determining the level of influence the other factors will have on a student. A society with an unstable socio-economic situation will leave a lot of families with consistent worries and fears of how best to survive and meet their daily needs.
The Nigerian society is greatly affected by this factor, and, in essence, academic resilience among students wanes among Nigerian students, leading to poor academic performance. This is resulting from the fact that more Nigerians than average battle with financial insecurity and unemployment, making a huge number of children beneficiary of public education. Unfortunately, the form of education received in such schools leaves a lot for concern as the schools are besieged with inadequate school infrastructures and teaching and learning resources.
As such, students have to make do with what is available and sometimes are tasked by the school to source for teaching and learning materials in order to facilitate learning. This, then, gives rise to another psycho-sociological factor, the family (Ceballo, Dahl, Aretakis, & Ramirez, 2001). The family is the main socializing agent of a child, and as stated earlier; a lot of students in public schools come from low-income homes or large families.
To this end, when the students are tasked to provide teaching and learning resources, a lot of parents are unable to provide them. This, in itself, is very discouraging for the student who is faced with the problem of being queried at school for not providing said resources and whose parents may either be aggressive or nonchalant when asked. For these students, emotional inadequacy and fear of possible academic failure sets in. This is why it has become germane to examine academic resilience in students and foster its development through class-peer mentoring among students in public schools.
Academic resilience is the drive that enables a student faced with educational challenges belief there is a possibility to overcome the difficulty. To cite Richardson (2002), academic resilience among students connotes strength, flexibility, a capacity for mastery, and resumption of normal functioning after excessive stresses that challenge individuals' coping skills. Also, it means "bouncing back" from difficult experiences (APA Health Center, 2004). There are lots of educational challenges which make the development of academic resilience very germane, including students' truancy, drop out, rebelliousness, delinquency, or absence of self-efficacy. It is with this understanding of challenges faced in public schools by students that this paper is essential in providing an understanding why fostering its development is essential.
To date, different strategies have been utilized to enhance students' academic performance, but limited strategies cater to fostering academic resilience in students. There are books and guides that examine and proffer solutions on improving academic performance. However, the majority of these books do not consider fostering academic resilience among students from low-income homes and with inadequate or no teaching and learning aids to motivate learning and improve academic performance. This, therefore, is a major reason why the class-peer mentoring technique is introduced in this paper to foster academic resilience among public school students.
The class-peer mentoring technique is based on students' classroom interaction. The goal and objective of this technique is to improve academic performance among students by encouraging their classmates to provide supports and assistance necessary in fostering academic resilience. In class-peer mentoring, each student involved makes an objective analysis of his/her area of academic deficiency and selects a class member who is performing greatly in the said area as a peer mentoring friend.
The processes under class-peer mentoring include instruction, mentoring, regulation, understanding, review, evaluation of learning, and performance. However, in class-peer mentoring, the situation is symbiotic as the person selected as a peer-mentoring friend should equally have an area of academic need to compliment the partner. This means that class-peer mentoring technique is a complimentary role for partners with the aim of fostering academic resilience and understanding and developing self-worth and efficacy, which are important in improving a student's academic performance.
Moreover, class-peer mentoring is an interpersonal process with the positive base of assisting students develop appropriate social skills and pro-social behaviour. This means that the technique gives students a sense of oneness and confidence that academic challenges can be overcome through consistent studying and academic diligence. Students who engage in class-peer mentoring will find it easy to interact with classmates and teachers during classroom teaching. The feeling that we are in this together and can share from one another's knowledge improves students' self-esteem, self-efficacy, and self-identity in the school community. Thus, classroom teaching is made easy for the teachers when students are ready and willing to go above board to succeed academically notwithstanding the various challenges they are exposed to and that can pose as hindrance.
Formation under Class-peer Mentoring
Homogeneity: Students to be paired together must be in same class or grade level, must be taking similar subjects and have similar syllabi for learning.
Interest: The students must be willing to spare and create time for studying and participating in the learning process in order to develop the needed academic resilience that would lead to improve academic performance. That is, peer-mentoring partners must both be active participants.
Knowledge: Students must be genuinely knowledgeable as to the importance of having a partner. They should view each other as having individual inadequacy with a full resolve of setting up partnership to build and develop a better base to overcome their weakness in a subject. Thus, the basis of class-peer mentoring technique is to build strength into each other's weakness.
Conclusion and Recommendations
Class-peer mentoring has been considered here as a technique for fostering academic resilience in public school students. The major crux of the technique is that students with academic resilience would be better able to handle academic challenges resulting from society and the family's socio-economic status. Having considered this, the following recommendations are raised.
Educational stakeholders and teachers should not see students in public schools as scapegoats to bear the brunt of their conflicts regarding poor budgeting and implementation of educational policies. Doing this will stretch the coping capabilities of students and lead to poor academic performance and disinterest in academic pursuits. Thus, it is of import for people interested in the educational pursuits of students as well as teachers to encourage class-peer mentoring technique among students to enable them engage in after school academic work practice.
Students, too, should realize that knowledge and understanding come with challenges, and the motivation to overcome such challenges is what grants success. In view of this, they should maintain good study habits, be willing to share and assist one another, be patient, be diligent in their academic work, and sometimes learn to make do with what is available and useful.
In addition, parents should assist their children/wards in their educational pursuits constructively. They should encourage and allow them develop adequate study time to go over textbooks and class work in the home. Moreover, because most of the class-peer mentoring activities would be done in the home, parents should always try to monitor and supervise the students' work and equally give supports to reinforce the learning efforts.
The government at the federal, state, and local levels should appropriately and effectively implement educational policies, as this is the only way to build interest in the Nigerian educational sector among parents, teachers, and students. Appropriate budgeting should be given to the educational sector so that adequate infrastructure and facilities that can enhance teaching and learning can occur. In addition to this, effective implementation of government policies will facilitate improvement in quality of education and academic performance of students within schools.
Also, school counselors should develop strategic skills that will enhance good interpersonal relationship among counselors, the students, and other staff members within the school community. It is when this is in place that the counseling service can be fully utilized by people in the school community.
In the same vein, mentors, investors, and non-governmental organizations should see that scholarship giving extends to other students who are not in the "A" category. They should try to build a system that appreciates the efforts of academically resilient students even though they may not necessarily be the best students. This would reinforce the students' efforts to perform better. Moreover, it will enhance such students' self-esteem and self-efficacy and give them a sense of acceptance and belonging in the society.
Adeyemo, D.A. (2007). Moderating Influence of Emotional Intelligence on the link between self-efficacy and Achievement of University students. Psychology and Developing Society, 19(2), 199–213.
APA, Health Center. (2004). The road to resilience: Fostering resilience among children in difficult life circumstances. (Prepared by Yitzhak Berman).
Caffo, E., & Belaise, C. (2003, July) Psychological aspects of traumatic injury in children andadolescents. Child Adolesc Psychiatr Clinic, 12(3), 493-535.
Ceballo, Dahl, T., Arekakis, M., & Ramirez, C. (2001). Inner-city children's exposure to community violence: How much do parents know? Journal of Marriage and the Family, 63(4), 927–941.
Olaogun, O. (2005). Single parenthood as a predictor to adolescents academic achievement [Unpublished PGDE Research project]. Tai Solarin University of Education, Ijaagun.
Richardson, G.E. (2002). The metatheory of resilience and resiliency. Journal of Clinical Psychology, 58(3), 307 – 321.


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John Warren wrote: > I've been trying to figure out dialing rules. What I want to do is the > following. > > Assume the following: > Local Area code = 310 > Country code = 1 > International calling prefix = 011 > LD Dialing prefix = 1 > > Also assume that we're in a area with two area codes that are overlaid > so you must always dial the area code. > > 13105551212 no change > > 3105551212 change to 13105551212 (with the default rules the number is > left unchanged) > > 5551212 change to 13105551212 (with the default rules the number is > left unchanged) > > 14155551212 no change > > 4155551212 changed to 14155551212 > > 011445551212 no change > > Is there a way to do this with dialing rules? It seems to me it would > be a good thing since more and more areas are requiring full 10 digit > dialing in the US. The attached email from some time ago may point you in the right direction for what you want to do. > > John Warren > > Network Operations Administrator > Prudent Rx Inc. > > > > > > ____________________ HylaFAX(tm) Users Mailing List > _______________________ > To subscribe/unsubscribe, click > http://lists.hylafax.org/cgi-bin/lsg2.cgi > On UNIX: mail -s unsubscribe hylafax-users-request@xxxxxxxxxxx < > /dev/null > *To learn about commercial HylaFAX(tm) support, mail sales@xxxxxxxxx* > > >
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- Subject: Re: Dialrules, local exchange dialing.
- From: Lee Howard <faxguy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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- Date: Sat, 25 Mar 2006 20:14:00 -0800
Has anybody put together a database of dialrules that deals with the issues
of local vs long distance dialing by area code and exchange?
Yes many times for different areas.
Our local dialrules file is about 400 lines of mappings, some of which are
mapping exchanges that were in our 206 area code to new area codes, but
most of them are used to remove the ``1'' prefix from prefixes in other
area codes that are local calls, and the rest add the ``1'' to exchanges in
the 206 area code that are long distance calls.
Your clients are going to, if they don't typo, enter in either a 7-digit, a 10-digit, or an 11-digit number for domestic calls. (In areas like Seattle dialing with a 7-digit number is, in my opinion, unsafe unless you're absolutely sure what area code the line is in that will be used to place the call. But nonetheless clients will still send 7-digit numbers.) If, you don't want to make an assumption about an area code then you can reject calls with DestControls that don't have 10 digits:
^[+][0-9]{0,9}$ RejectNotice = "Number too Short, need at least 10 digits"
Otherwise, you can use dialrules to add the area code for you (see below).
First off, you want to learn to use dialtest in order to work through the fine-tuning of your dialrules.
dialtest -a 206 /var/spool/hylafax/etc/dialrules
Then start provide it possible numbers that clients may submit and see if dialrules accomplishes what you need. If not, then adjust dialrules and try again. So let's say that my area code is 206 and that my telco requires 10-digit dialing and that I am okay with assuming that 7-digit numbers refer to area code 206 and that the only exchanges that are local to me are 444 and 555 (yes, I know that this is an absurdly short local exchange list). Then the dialstring portion of my dialrules file may look like this:
DialString := [
[-${WS}.]+ = ! strip syntactic sugar
[abcABC] = 2 ! these convert alpha to numbers
[defDEF] = 3
[ghiGHI] = 4
[jklJKL] = 5
[mnoMNO] = 6
[prsPRS] = 7
[tuvTUV] = 8
[wxyWXY] = 9
^[0-9]{10}$ = ${Country}& ! add country code for 10-digit dialers
^[0-9]{7}$ = ${AreaCode}& ! add area code for 7-digit dialers
^[+]${Country}${AreaCode}444[0-9]{4}$ = ${AreaCode}444& ! local call, strip the +1
^[+]${Country}${AreaCode}555[0-9]{4}$ = ${AreaCode}555& ! local call, strip the +1
^[+]${Country} = ${LDPrefix} ! long distance call, replace country code with long distance code
^[+] = ${IDPrefix} ! international call
What this does is it does the usual whitespace stripping and alpha conversions. Then, if the number is 10-digits it adds a "1" to the beginning of it - because requiring people to know when to use a 1 and when not to use a 1 is silly - so everyone will dial 10-digits. If it happens to be a 206444 or 206555 number then it will get processed further, otherwise there will be no more processing of this number. Then if the number is 7-digits it adds the area code to the front of that. There is no further processing of that number. Now it takes all numbers that at this point say 1206444 or 1206555 and it strips off the 1. At that point it's essentially done - replacing the country code wit hthe long distance code probably means nothing in your situation. The last rule, international, probably is useless since nobody ever dials with canonical format.
Now, you probably can take that as-is but replace the two exchange examples with the hundred or so exchanges that are local to you.
This wouldn't be a problem if the telco's switches were programmed to dial local numbers with a ``1'' prefix, stripping it for calls local to the exchange.
In my experience telcos very rarely support dialing long distance without the 1 or dialing local with the 1. That's there way of making sure that you're aware that you're gonna get charged for the call.
I haven't even been able to find anybody in our telco that could
give me documentation on what's long distance, and what's local from our
Getting that list is an absolute MUST. When I was up in King County I found most of this list from the front of the big thick tree-killer that they called a phone book. However, if you want to include (you probably don't as they're not likely to be fax) wireless numbers you're probably going to have to get this by requesting it by phoning them over and over and over until you get in touch with someone that can get it to you. Sometimes it takes me days of phone calls at various times in order to locate an employee competent enough to get that to me. Usually the numbers in the front of the phone book are enough to get you going.
Getting the dialrules file right has always been one of the biggest issues
when installing hylafax at a new location.
It's not fun, no. I'm not sure that there's a better way, though.
I've thought it would be nice to have xmlrpc server(s) which would return the proper prefix when passed the local and destination area codes and exchanges.
Another option might be to have the hylafax send program call an external program, specified in the config file, that would take the called number as an argument, and return the proper dial string.
In any case you still have to obtain a list of exchanges. I'm not sure that coding in dialrules is any harder than coding in shell or whatever.
Hope that helps,
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I don't like cheating on Chase but Walgreens by Eastern had at least 3 of them maybe more when I was there.
I saw a red one.... "I'm just here for gatorade and water"
I saw a bright orange one..... "Damn I like orange"
I saw the pink one.... "GD Walgreen's I buy nearing any disc in hot pink. So easy to find so allergic to poison ivy"


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2008: Saw action in a career-high 10 games for Stony Brook ... finished as the team's second leading receiver in both receptions and yards ... pair of catches in the season opener vs. Colgate (8/30), including a career-long 49-yarder ... had another 49-yard play the next week vs. Elon (9/6) that was good for a score ... four catches in back-to-back games at Maine (9/13) and at Brown (9/20) ... matched his season-high with another four grabs vs. Gardner-Webb (11/1) ... 27-yard touchdown catch vs. VMI (11/15).
2007: Played in eight games as a sophomore for the Seawolves ... three catches for 87 yards ... all came in the final game of the season at Elon (11/17) ... in the second game of the season at Bucknell (9/8) he blocked a kick and returned a punt for 13 yards.
2006: Got into four games as a true freshman as a back up receiver.
High School: A 2006 graduate of St. Mary's High School in Rutherford, New Jersey ... three-time letterwinner as a receiver for the Gaels ... first team all-league, second team all-county and third team all-state ... also lettered in basketball and track.
Personal: Born Donald R. Lee on August 16, 1988 in Clifton, New Jersey ... son of Sandra Zwier.


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Kilby History
The History of Kilby
Kilby is a small village of some 100 households situated in a valley off the A 5119, often refereed to as The Turnpick about seven miles south of Leicester.
The Old Village as recorded in the Domesday Book, originally formed around the parish Church of St Mary Magdalene, which now stands some quarter of a mile from the main village.
In the 19th century much of the village was part of the Wistow estate although there were some private landowners.
Until the second world war Kilby was self-sufficient, having its own butchers, baker, carpenter, blacksmith, post office shop and two public houses, The Black Swan and the Dog and Gun. Many of the people worked on the land or were in domestic service, but almost as many worked in the knitting industry some on their own frames at home, but many travelling in factories in Fleckney and Wigston.
Electricity was brought to the village about 1937 and that perhaps more than anything else made life easier for the womenfolk, and a Women's Institute was formed. Earlier in 1934, the offer of a water supply was turned down because it would be too expensive and one of Kilby's oldest inhabitants said he could never remember the village pump being short. It was about ten years later after the war that the water supply finally arrived.
The Post Office and shop are gone but the Arriva Bus Company runs an hourly service through the day, which is a lifeline for those without cars.
Kilby, once so humble, is now a "Sought After Village".
- Listed Buildings
- St. Mary Magdalen Church
- Effects of 2 World Wars
- United Reformed Church
- Kilby Church of England School
- Copy of Wm. White Directory 1862
- Oral History
This page contains recorded memories of people from the village.
- Family History
This page provides resources for people researching their family tree in the village and includes a useful guide specially created by the Record Office.
- Local History
This page provides resources for discovering more about the history of your village. It is available for people in the community to add historical photos and information about the village.
Useful Information
- Local and Family History Discussion
This special forum is monitored by the Record Office. You can browse all previous questions but if you submit a history query you will receive a response from a member of the Record Office staff within 3 working days.
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Thursday May 23, 2013
Augusta, Ga--If you're looking for a hobby that's fun and will give you a surprisingly intense workout, maybe checkout the sport of fencing. I know, it'll force you to step out of your element. Doctor Rudy Volkmann is the head of the Augusta Fencing Club and will put you through the paces to show you just how intense it can get.
If you ever plan to fench with someone who's placed at the world championships, maybe don't make that be your fencing debut. We'll call that Jake Young's first mistake.
The domination didn't come until later. First, it was a run through the basics.
"It's taking all of my mind power right now."
"You're doing fine. Let's take a short break, find you a jacket, and let's try this." said Rudy Volkmann
"Sounds good." "Good."
Before the humbling experience, let's get a short lesson in equipment.
"All of these things are used in a way that lets them be both offensive and defensive weapons." added Volkmann
It breaks down to your weapon, the foil, a jacket, a glove and of course a mask. Then the moment we've all been waiting for.
"Touche." "There you go. Nicely done. Then we salute. And then we shake hands. Nicely done sir." said Volkmann
I've attacked, I've hit, I've missed, and after taking a stab at fencing I've realized I'm way too out of shape for this. added Jake Young.
You're in luck too, the fencing club just opened a new home downtown and their next round of classes starts june 6th. augustafencers.com for more information and to sign up.


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West End Elementary has been studying for several weeks about community helpers, people who do good things that help the rest of us.
Several community helpers spent time with students Friday, talking about what they do at work every day.
"It lets them know why school is important," said Marsha Smith of West End. "The helpers tell them that they started off young and, if they listen, that they can one day be a dentist or doctor or policeman."
Students learned about making candy and also the proper way to brush their teeth.


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Examples of artworks by Impressionists Camille Pissarro (French, 1830-1903), Edouard Manet (French, 1832-1883), Edgar Degas (French, 1834-1917), Paul Cézanne (French, 1839-1906), and Alfred Sisley (French, 1839-1899):
Camille Pissarro (French, 1830-1903), The Red Roofs, 1877, oil on canvas, 21 1/2 x 25 3/4 inches (54.5 x 65.6 cm), Musée d'Orsay, Paris. Also see the WebMuseum.
Camille Pissarro, The Beet Harvest, 1881, gouache over graphite, on linen mounted on wove paper, 10 1/8 x 14 7/8 inches, Minneapolis Institute of Arts.
Camille Pissarro, Haymakers Resting, 1891, oil on canvas, 25 3/4 x 32 inches (65.4 x 81.3 cm), McNay Art Institute, San Antonio, TX.
Camille Pissaro, Place du Theatre Francais: Rain Effect, 1898, oil on canvas, Minneapolis Institute of Arts.
Camille Pissarro, The Fair in Dieppe, Sunny Morning (La Foire a Dieppe, matin, soleil), 1901, oil on canvas, 25 3/4 x 32 inches (65.3 x 81.5 cm), No. 3KP 525. Formerly collection Otto Krebs, Holzdorf. And, a detail.
Camille Pissarro, Self-Portrait, 1903, oil on canvas, 41.0 x 33.3 cm, Tate Gallery, London. Pissaro painted this the year he died. He was 73. See self-portrait.
Édouard Manet (French, 1832-1883), Luncheon on the Grass (Le Déjeuner sur l'herbe), 1863, oil on canvas, 81 x 101 cm, Musée d'Orsay. See after, gaze, Realism, and Salon des Refusés. Manet's work formed a bridge to Impressionism.
Édouard Manet, Olympia, 1863, oil on canvas, 51 3/8 x 74 3/4 inches (130.5 x 190 cm) Musée d'Orsay, Paris. See odalisque.
Édouard Manet, The Railroad (Le Chemin de Fer), 1872-1873, oil on canvas, 36 1/2 x 45 inches (93 x 114 cm), National Gallery of Art, Washington.
Édouard Manet, Boating, 1874, oil on canvas, 38 1/4 x 51 1/4 inches (97.2 x 130.2 cm), Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY. (On the Met's page, you can enlarge any detail.) This picture was painted "en plein air."
Édouard Manet, Monet Painting in His Floating Studio, 1874, Bayerische Staatsgemaldesammlungen, Munich.
Édouard Manet, In the Conservatory, 1879, oil on canvas, 115 x 150 cm, Nationalgalerie, Berlin.
Édouard Manet, The Bar at the Folies-Bergère, 1881-1882, Courtauld Institute Galleries, London.
Hilaire Germain Edgar Degas (French, 1834-1917), Self-Portrait, about 1857-1858, oil on paper, laid down on canvas, 8 1/8 x 6 1/2 inches (20.6 x 15.9 cm), J. Paul Getty Museum, Malibu, CA. See Impressionism and self-portrait.
Edgar Degas, Édouard Manet, Seated, 1866-68, portrait of Édouard Manet (French, 1832-1883), black chalk on off-white wove paper; sheet: 13 1/16 x 9 1/16 inches (33.1 x 23 cm), Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY.
Edgar Degas, Dance Class at the Opéra [detail, 9/10], 1872, oil on canvas, entire: 33 1/2 x 29 1/2 inches (85 x 75 cm), Musée d'Orsay, Paris. Also see the WebMuseum.
Hilaire-Germain-Edgar Degas, The Dance Class, probably 1874, oil on canvas, 32 3/4 x 30 1/4 inches (83.2 x 76.8 cm), Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY. (On the Met's page, you can enlarge any detail.) See dance.
Edgar Degas, Ballet Rehearsal, 1875, gouache and pastel on canvas, 21 3/4 x 27inches, George G. Frelinghuysen Collection, NY.
Edgar Degas, Place de la Concorde, 1875, oil on canvas, 30 7/8 x 46 1/4 inches (78.4 x 117.5 cm), No. 3K 1399. Formerly collection Gerstenberg/Scharf, Berlin; Hermitage, St. Petersburg.
Edgar Degas, Portrait of Paul Valpinçon, 1875-1899, oil on canvas, 24 x 20 3/8 inches, Minneapolis Institute of Arts.
Edgar Degas, La Lecon de Danse (The Dancing Lesson), c. 1877, pastel over monoprint on paper, 23 x 28 5/8 inches, Portland Art Museum, ME.
Edgar Degas, Singer with a Glove, c. 1878, pastel and liquid medium on canvas, 20 3/4 x 16 inches (52.8 x 41.1 cm), Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA.
Edgar Degas, Miss Lala at the Cirque Fernando, 1879, pastel on paper, 61.0 x 47.6 cm, Tate Gallery, London.
Edgar Degas, Bed-Time (Le Coucher), c. 1880-1885, pastel over monoprint on paper, 22.9 x 44.5 cm, Tate Gallery, London.
Edgar Degas, Woman in a Tub (Femme au tub), c. 1883, pastel on paper, 70.0 x 70.0 cm, Tate Gallery, London. See gaze.
Edgar Degas, Women Ironing (Les repasseuses), also known as "The Laundresses", 1884, oil on canvas, 30 x 32 inches (76 x 81 cm), Musée d'Orsay, Paris.
Edgar Degas, Race Horses, 1885-1888, pastel on panel, 11 7/8 x 16 inches, Philadelphia Museum of Art.
Edgar Degas, Grande Arabesque, c. 1885-90, posthumous cast, bronze, 40.0 x 50.8 x 34.3 cm, Tate Gallery, London.
Edgar Degas, Woman at her Toilet, c. 1894, charcoal and pastel on paper, 95.6 x 109.9 cm, Tate Gallery, London.
Edgar Degas, Dancers, c. 1896, pastel on paper, Cleveland Museum of Art.
Edgar Degas, Three Ballet Dancers, One with Dark Crimson Waist, 1899, pastel on paper, 23 1/4 x 19 1/4 inches, Barnes Foundation.
Edgar Degas, Dancer Looking at the Sole of her Right Foot, c. 1910-11, posthumous cast, bronze, 47.6 x 26.7 x 21.6 cm, Tate Gallery, London.
Paul Cézanne (French, 1839-1906), Portrait of the Artist's Father, c. 1866, oil on canvas, 78 1/8 x 47 inches (198.5 x 119.3 cm), National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC. Also see Post-Impressionism, and Cézanne's page at the WebMuseum.
Paul Cézanne, A Modern Olympia, c. 1873-1874, oil on canvas, 18 x 21 3/4 inches (46 x 55.5 cm), Musée d'Orsay, Paris.
Paul Cézanne, Hortense Fiquet in a Striped Skirt, 1877-1878, oil on canvas, 28 1/2 x 22 inches (72.5 x 56 cm), Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Venturi no. 292. Also see Post-Impressionism.
Paul Cézanne, Houses Along a Road (Maisons au bord d'une route), c. 1881, oil on canvas, 23 5/8 x 28 7/8 inches (60 x 73.5 cm), Hermitage, St. Petersburg, No. 3KP 502. Formerly collection Otto Krebs, Holzdorf. Also see Post-Impressionism.
Alfred Sisley (French, 1839-1899), Bridge at Villeneuve-la-Garenne, 1872, oil on canvas, 49.5 x 65.4 cm, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. See Sisley in the WebMuseum.
Alfred Sisley, Boat in the Flood at Port-Marly, 1876, oil on canvas, 20 x 24 inches (50.5 x 61 cm), Musée d'Orsay, Paris.
Alfred Sisley, Moret-sur-Loing, 1891, oil on canvas, 65 x 92 cm, Galerie H. Odermatt-Ph. Cazeau, Paris.
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The U.S. Cultural & Heritage Tourism Marketing Council (USCHT) is an exciting new initiative to drive cultural and heritage tourism to and within the USA by developing "dynamic" cultural and heritage tour packages that offer unique and innovative cultural and heritage experiences to visitors.
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10. Affiliation with Industry LeadersPartners include the leading U.S. Tourism Destinations, Attractions and Travel Partners dedicated to marketing U.S. Cultural and Heritage Tourism.Sheila Armstrong has served on U.S. Secretary of Commerce Gary Locke's Travel and Tourism Advisory Board and the U.S. Travel Association Board of Directors.Rosemary McCormick has served on the U.S. Travel Association Board, the Executive Committee and the Members Connect Committee. She also served on the Destination & Foundation Board of Directors. Armstrong and McCormick also serve on the Board of Women in Travel and Tourism International.
The Cultural Traveler Tour Packages are a fun, new way to "catch some culture"!
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Who are the Most Productive Cultural Travelers in generate ROI? (Ref. The Cultural Traveler Market Research)
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The USCHT is an LLC that develops and markets cultural and heritage tour package for our partners. Our partners are cultural and heritage organizations and destinations engaged in cultural and heritage travel marketing. USCHT works in affiliation with Shop America Alliance who serves as the facilitator and program manager of these packages, bringing their expertise as a leading tour operator with years of experience in developing and marketing more than 200 diverse package tours.
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Carver High School Principal Ron Travis talks to reporters Monday. Behind him are Superintendent Beverly Emory and police Chief Barry Rountree.
Here are photos from the scene outside Carver High School on Friday. (Photo by WXII's Michael Brock)
Winston-Salem police are still investigating the Friday afternoon shooting at Carver High School.
It involved two students -- the victim and alleged shooter -- and one person is in custody, police said at a Friday evening news conference.
No life-threatening injuries have been reported. One person is being treated at Baptist Hospital.
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Richardson faces several charges that include assault with a deadly weapon inflicting serious injury.
The shooting happened about 2:45 p.m. The school was placed on lock down, but police said students were safe.
Carver High School is located on Carver School Road. About 700 students are enrolled at Carver.
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I'm a relatively inexperienced knitter, and am attempting to knit a simple cotton shopping bag. The pattern calls for circular needles, so that's what I started it on. Once the bottom is knit in a square, stitched are picked up all around to begin the body, followed by a round of K1, YO. No trouble so far, but then... the body pattern is (Row 1) K2T, YO and (Row 2) YO, K2T. I got the first row done, but found that moving the stitches around the circular needle (and this is on 13's) got them all tied up. I'm now laboriously pulling the stitches up onto the left needle one by one, because I can't just get into the rhythm and knit around. Have to stop about every 5-6 stitches and carefully "skritch" more stitches onto the needle.
I have no idea why this is happening - but if anyone has a suggestion or solution before I frog the darn thing, I'd sure appreciate it!
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This is a discussion on [Solution] Resize linux partition with partition magic corrupts GRUB - Help ; I recently find myself lacking space on the linux partition so I decided to resize the windows xp partition to give 3 gbs more to linux (Suse 9.1 pro if you care). The primary hdd gemoetry is something like: Windows ...
I recently find myself lacking space on the linux partition so I decided to
resize the windows xp partition to give 3 gbs more to linux (Suse 9.1 pro
if you care).
The primary hdd gemoetry is something like:
Windows : Linux : Linux swap
The operation went smooth with partition magic 8.0 but the problem is that
grub bootloader did not work anymore (the configuration was GRUB in the
MBR with /boot on the Linux partition): when I startup the computer I got
stuck with GRUB doing and displaying anything.
It displayed only "GRUB _" where the underscore is the cursor: no errors at
I figured out it was GRUB problem so decided to get to Grub configuration
files in some way but how? I had no linux working system anymore to access
the linux partition! But I was lucky (very luckey!) to have a fresh Knoppix
CD (3.6 if you care).
I started up knoppix and I was able to see that everything was ok with all
the partitions properly mounted so it had to be a GRUB problem! what a
what I did was to backup menu.lst on linux partition (I actually sent it my
email...) and then try to reconfigure GRUB.
reconfiguring GRUB was actually quite simple but as a precaution umount
every partition and in particular the linux partition.
from console you type:
su root
grub (it probably starts knoppix own GRUB since I had the partition )
root (hd0,1) (WARNING: hd0 is the first drive and 1 is the SECOND partition
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setup (hd0,1) (with the same hd as root of course)
In fact GRUB detected the old stage1 stage2 (GRUB boot image I think) and
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I checked menu.lst and I don't know if GRUB touched it but what I know is
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New Delhi: Ashiana Housing Ltd today announced its results for the financial year ended 31st March, 2012. The company reported a healthy increase of 61% in its revenues (sales & other income) of 2011-12 from the year 2010-11. The board of directors of the company also recommended a dividend of Rs 2.25 per share for the year 2011-12.
Ashiana achieved bookings of 17.83 lakh sq. ft. for the fiscal year 2012 as compared to 13.50 lakh sq. ft. booked in 2010-11, an increase of 32%. The construction figures have also surpassed the targets with an area of 14.62 lakh square feet constructed during the year, up by 36% from last year.


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Connections to Civics and History through a family story. Strong Equity theme.
2. I really enjoyed this book and thought it taught a powerful lesson. One thing I really enjoyed about this book was the illustrations. I enjyed how the pictures took up the entire page with words on top of that. For example, the one page where it was an outdoor scene and the words of the story were placed on the trees in the background, it really made the pictures come to life and helped picture the story more clearly. I also really enjoyed the characters in this book. The little girl Hope and her aunt were such good assets to the story. I enjoyed how the aunt was such a strong influence on the niece and how she helped her niece realize that being "mixed" is something to be proud of. When the aunt said to respond to anyone that asks her if she is mixed with, "Yes I am generations of faith mixed with lots of love! I am Hope!" I really thought that was such a strong and powerful thing to tell a little girl that did not understand what mixed meant. It made me like the characters in the book a lot. I think the message of this story is that being mixed should not be looked at upon as different or strange, but it should be viewed as unique and one should be proud of that. Although people are all different colors, they should still be proud of who they are because that makes them unique.
I liked this book because it described the love of a child for a favorite Aunt. Hope described her Aunt as having all the Love of the world inside her and it twinkled in her eyes. I loved the storyline, how Hope went to the market with her Aunt and they ran into other family members and she heard her uncles booming voice like a train whistle. I loved the descriptiveness. I also liked how it took an intended slight and turned it into a wonderful thing. When Aunt Violate questioned if Hope was "mixed" her beloved Aunt Poogee explained how Hope got her name. It was the hope of many generations for a better life and the hope of her parents for her to be a child of the human race.
I liked this book because I feel that it offered a smooth transition into explaining the bigger issue of the judgement faced by students of interracial families. In the book, Hope feels ashamed when her aunt's friend asks if she is mixed. Her aunt helps to explain that being "mixed" is something to be proud of when people ask that question she should answer yes, "I am generations of faith mixed with lots of love! This could be a good mentor text for a narrative writing unit. We would talk about the different feelings Hope had. She felt sad, embarrassed, ashamed, then proud, happy, and hopeful. We would discuss what a narrative is and I would prompt them by saying,"Write about a time when you had one of the same feelings as Hope."
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The genre of this book is realistic fiction. It is realistic fiction because the characters in this book are not real live people, but they could be since there is nothing different about them. The girl, Hope, is just like any other girl, and the circumstances she goes through with prejudice could be real as well.
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Definition of trophy child in English:
trophy child
A child whose birth or achievements are paraded to enhance the parents' status.
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- The moment Henry began to say something, Laura interrupted him, snarling, 'In case you've forgotten, Father: the trophy child in this family has been dead for eight years, and I am not resuming her pathetic role… Good day, Father.'
- They have huge white-leather sofas, a wall-to-wall aquarium of tropical fish, gizmos and gadgets, three gorgeous trophy children, and an au pair to keep them out of sight and out of mind.
- And parents of trophy children are unusually focused on outcomes and the belief that they can control them.
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Britain 'On the Brink' of Energy Crisis, Warns Regulator
From The Telegraph
By Rowena Mason
The country would become more reliant on foreign gas to generate electricity as European Union pollution laws meant the dirtiest coal-fired stations had to shut, said Alistair Buchanan, the regulator's outgoing head.
He pointed out that gas was already 60 per cent more expensive in countries such as Japan that relied on imports. It was impossible to predict how high bills could go for British households, he said.
Ministers admitted that Britain faced a "looming energy gap" but blamed the previous government for agreeing to shut coal plants too quickly.
Nick Clegg, the Deputy Prime Minister, admitted that consumers could feel a "pinch" starting within two years. The Government was fighting to "keep the lights on", he insisted.
Mr Buchanan warned that the "near-crisis" would occur between 2015 and 2018, pushing up bills. Blackouts were "not likely" but there would be a "double squeeze" on energy prices.
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Definition of gesneriad in English:
A tropical plant of a family that includes African violets, gloxinias, and their relatives.
- Family Gesneriaceae.
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- Volunteer guides roam the greenhouses ready to answer questions about rooms filled with rain forest tropical plants, blooming orchids, aroids and gesneriads.
- Their catalogue lists more than 100 streptocarpus, around 40 named saintpaulias, a host of other gesneriads, coleus and 60 begonias grown mainly for foliage.
Mid 19th century: from modern Latin Gesneria (genus name), from the name of Conrad von Gesner (1516–65), Swiss naturalist, + -ad1.
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Location: Cool and Cold Water Aquaculture Research
2010 Annual Report
1: Conduct selective breeding and determine, under field and laboratory conditions, whether rainbow trout bred for bacterial cold water disease resistance exhibit superior performance traits. • 1.a. Evaluate and selectively breed NCCCWA rainbow trout for increased disease resistance and quantify improvement due to selection. • 1.b. Compare improved and reference lines of NCCCWA rainbow trout under farm conditions.
2: Characterize virulence determinants involved in the emergence of vaccine-resistant Yersinia ruckeri strains and develop novel therapeutics to treat or prevent disease. • 2.a. Elucidate the genetic basis of the biotype 2 phenotype. • 2.b. Evaluate the role of flagellar secretion in the function of the traditional ERM immersion vaccine and vaccine failure. • 2.c. Develop novel phage therapeutics for control of ERM and BCWD.
3: Identify genes and non-genetic factors in rainbow trout critical to innate and acquired immunity. • 3.a. Determine if heritable differences in spleen structure and function account for the superior BCWD survival and clearance traits of resistant fish. • 3.b. Determine whether orally-delivered immunostimulants modulate the gut immune system and whether variation exists between resistant and susceptible lines of rainbow trout. • 3.c. Initiate development of a rainbow trout immune-pathway database that is integrated with pathogen genomic information.
Implementation of breeding programs is limited by an incomplete understanding of the immunogenetics of host resistance and correlated traits. Previously a family-based, phenotypic correlation between rainbow trout spleen somatic-index (SI) and family survival following F. psychrophilum challenge was observed. This year the genetic correlation between SI and BCWD were calculated from two independent trout lines evaluated over five year-classes. Spleen index was highly heritable and there was a positive genetic correlation with BCWD survival. In collaboration with Project # 1930-31000-009, the genetic architecture influencing spleen index was examined. Suggestive QTL for spleen weight and spleen index were identified on several chromosomes.
Methods were developed and optimized for isolation of leukocytes from gill and gut tissues of rainbow trout. Flow cytometry analyses demonstrate few IgM positive cells in the gut tissue of rainbow trout under normal conditions. Several immune related genes were modulated in the gut following bacterial challenge.
Immunostimulants and immunomodulators are emerging areas of interests in animal production to improve animal health and decrease antibiotic use. A standard rainbow trout diet was supplemented with chicken egg powder containing an anti-PLA2 antibody and observed improvement in weight gain compared to fish fed standard diet supplemented with control chicken egg powder. Initial studies indicate an 11% improvement in total weight gain over controls and approximately 21 fewer days to reach market weight. No significant differences in immune related mRNA expression were detected in the gut of treated rainbow trout. There was no difference in survival between anti-PLA2 and control fed fish following challenge with Yersinia ruckeri or Flavobacterium psychrophilium.
Bacteriophages have potential as a means for pathogen biocontrol. A model system was developed for quantifying the fish-to-fish transmission of Yersinia ruckeri, a salmonid pathogen. The development of a model is a critical first step for future studies designed to assess and optimize the use of bacteriophage to minimize pathogen transmission in the aquaculture environment.
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Evenhuis, J., Lapatra, S.E., Verner-Jefferys, D.W., Dalsgaard, I., Welch, T.J. 2009. Identification of flagellar motility genes in Yersinia ruckeri by transposon mutagenesis. Applied and Environmental Microbiology. 75(20):6630-6633.
Lindsey, R.L., Frye, J.G., Cray, P.J., Welch, T.J., Meinersmann, R.J. 2010. An oligonucleotide microarray to characterize multidrug resistant plasmids. Journal of Microbiological Methods. 81(2):96-100.
Lafrentz, B.R., Lapatra, S.E., Call, D.R., Wiens, G.D., Cain, K.D. 2009. Proteomic analysis of Flavobacterium psychrophilum cultured in vivo and in iron-limited media. Diseases of Aquatic Organisms. 87:171-182.
Wiens, G.D. 2009. Microbial Genomics of Aquaculture Pathogens. In: Overturf, K., editor. Current Status of Molecular Techniques in Aquaculture. Hobolen, NJ: Wiley, John & Sons, Inc. p. 315-335.
Moulana, M., Evenhuis, J., Kountikov, E.I., Wilson, M., Bengten, E., Miller, N.W., Mcconnell, T. 2008. Characterization of anti-channel catfish MHC class II monoclonal antibodies. Veterinary Immunology and Immunopathology. 126:120-130.
Wiens, G.D., Vallejo, R.L. 2010. Temporal and pathogen-load dependent changes in rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss) immune response traits following challenge with biotype 2 Yersinia ruckeri. Fish and Shellfish Immunology. doi:10.1016/j.fsi.2010.06.010 29:639-647.
Haig, S., Davies, R.L., Welch, T.J., Reese, A.R., Verner-Jefferies, D. 2010. Comparative susceptibility of Atlantic salmon and rainbow trout to Yersinia ruckeri: relationship to O antigen serotype and resistance to serum killing. Veterinary Microbiology. doi:10.1016/j.vetmic.2010.06.022
Verner-Jefferies, D., Welch, T.J., Schwarz, T., Pond, M.J., Woodward, M.J., Haig, S.J., Rimmer, G.S., Roberts, E., Morrison, V., Baker-Austin, C. 2009. High prevalence of multidrug-tolerant bacteria and associated antimicrobial resistance genes isolated from ornamental fish and their carriage water. PLoS One. 4(12):1-9.


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After premiering 'Twenty Eight' yesterday, The Weeknd decides to release another bonus record today. Here is the full version of 'Valerie', which appears on his debut album "Trilogy" dropping November 13th.
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ANTIOCH — A 22-month-old baby boy fell from a third-story window of an Antioch apartment building Sunday but does not appear to have life-threatening injuries.
Contra Costa firefighters responded to the 600 block of Wilbur Avenue shortly before noon and found a baby had fallen onto concrete and a bed of rocks.
"He was alert, and he was crying," Contra Costa Fire Lt. Charles Thomas said. "With a baby, you can't tell if they're crying because they're afraid or in pain, so we took the necessary precautions."
Officials transported the baby to Children's Hospital Oakland. He has an abrasion on his abdomen, a bump on his head and a bruised lung, Thomas said. Hospital staff are optimistic about the baby's condition, he said. He did not appear to have major injuries, said Antioch police Lt. Scott Willerford, and the hospital is keeping the child for observation.
The baby's mother was in the kitchen at the time the child fell, Willerford said. He appeared to have climbed onto a table near an open window and pushed against the window screen. The fall does not seem to be the result of any neglect, police say.
In addition to being careful about having climbable furniture near windows, Willerford said, parents can buy locking mechanisms for their windows that allow the window to open about 6 inches.


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The Flames have acquired Brandon Bollig from the Chicago Blackhawks
PHILADELPHIA, PA -- The Calgary Flames have traded the 83rd overall pick in the 2014 NHL Draft to the Chicago Blackhawks in exchange for forward Brandon Bollig.
Bollig accrued seven goals, 14 points and 92 penalty minutes in 82 regular season games with the Chicago Blackhawks in the 2013-14 season. He suited up for 15 postseason games this past season, notching one assist and picking up 16 penalty minutes.


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Cat's Cradle
by Kurt Vonnegut
Cat's Cradle Chapter 101 Summary
Like My Predecessors, I Outlaw Bokonon
- John writes his speech, finding it "impossible not to lean on God" (101.3).
- Realizing he'll need the people's help, he invites the previously uninvited Castles since they know San Lorenzo better than him.
- John momentarily considers asking Bokonon to join his government but decides against it. Good and evil must remain separate, for the entertainment of the people.
- The guests begin to arrive, and John climbs a battlement to look down on all that's his.


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Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer opposes Obamacare but said that not accepting expanded Medicaid is "cutting off your nose to spite your face." That is exactly what Gov. (Robert) Bentley is doing.
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Abortion Rights FAQs
Below are frequently asked questions concerning abortion. For specific abortion rights information, see your state's abortion laws.
Is abortion legal in the United States?
At this point, abortion in the United States is legal. Ever since the 1973 case of Roe v. Wade, women have a right to choose whether to have an abortion during the early stages of her pregnancy. After the first trimester, however, states may regulate certain aspects of abortion, such as imposing waiting periods, counseling, and other mandates -- and during the third trimester there is virtually little or no legal way to have an abortion (except if your life is in danger.)
Do fetuses have rights?
The Constitution only guarantees rights to "humans" and the Court has determined that embryos or fetuses have no particular rights, that is, until they have reached "personhood". The question then because "when is a fetus a person?" Courts and legislative bodies have struggled with the exact moment a fetus becomes human, but most of the answer relies on when the fetus can live outside the mother's womb. Until that time, fetuses do not have human rights.
I'm under the age of 18, do I need my parent's consent to have an abortion?
The requirement that minors get parental consent before having an abortion varies by state. Some states actively require parental consent for women under the age of 18 with exceptions for abuse, incest or neglect. This typically includes the involvement of one parent, although a few states require parental consent of both parents. Other states have parental consent laws on the books that are currently not being enforced. Finally, a handful of states have no parental consent requirements, although physicians often use their discretion whether to notify parents of a planned abortion.
Is there a mandatory waiting period between seeing a counselor and having an abortion?
In many states, a woman can schedule an abortion for the following day. Several other states have waiting periods, typically 24 hours before one can have the procedure. These waiting periods are meant to provide information about abortion procedures and health risks. In a few select states, counselors are required to give women over 20-weeks gestation information on the ability of the fetus to feel pain.
My boyfriend wants me to have an abortion, but I want to keep the baby. Does he have any say in the matter?
Legally, men do not have a right to determine whether a woman may or may not seek an abortion. While men have equal human rights as women, they do not have legal rights to abortion because they are not "similarly situated" as women. Moreover, the Court believes it would be too burdensome for women to have to ask "permission" from their partners, which arguably may even lead to psychological or physical abuse on the part of the husband.
What is the abortion pill? Is it available in the U.S.?
The term "abortion pill" refers to a pill called Mifepristone (or RU-486) - a prescription drug created by a French doctor in the 1980's that ends unwanted pregnancies up to 49 days gestation. The drug was approved in the U.S. by the Food and Drug Administration in 2000 and is legal and available in all 50 states directly from a physician, clinic, or hospital.
What are "partial-birth" abortions? Are they legal?
"Partial-birth" abortions refer to a controversial procedure that ends a pregnancy through a method which partially delivers an intact fetus before aborting it. The federal government has banned the use of this method in most cases (according to Gonzales v. Carhard (2007)). More than a dozen states have also banned partial-birth abortions, with a few of these states banning this procedure only after viability.


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Surveillance video showing Milpitas City Councilwoman Debbie Giordano taking a mailbox from the home where she and her ex-husband used to live together was played before hundreds of people in Milpitas City Hall last week, just weeks before she will face six challengers in the November Presidential General Election. Since the video's airing, Giordano has told her supporters no crime was committed and that she was simply restoring it for one of her daughters to have.
During the council's public forum Oct. 2, gadfly Isaac Hughes played video footage of the theft that, according to a digital time stamp, occurred June 6 at 10:13 a.m. at 1995 Old Calaveras Road, which is within Santa Clara County.
"I hope everybody can watch this very closely. This is the property of Mr. Mike Giordano, the ex-husband of Debbie Giordano," said Hughes at the meeting, where hundreds of residents and scores of uniformed and plain clothes Milpitas Police Department officers attended to decry plans to potentially outsource the city's police force. "This is the video that is supposed to be showing where she drives up ... and rips her ex-husband's mailbox off the post."
The surveillance video shows the councilwoman driving up to the residence, getting out of her sport-utility vehicle and placing paperwork into the row of mailboxes fronting her ex-husband's house. The video then shows Giordano removing an end mailbox off its post before she takes it back toward her SUV.
"There it goes, she just stole a mailbox, look at her go," Hughes said.
Many watching the video inside the council chambers applauded and cheered after witnessing the footage.
Councilwoman Giordano, who is endorsed by the local police union and San Jose Mayor Chuck Reed, then asked Hughes to return to the podium and answer her questions.
"Where'd he go?" Giordano asked. Hughes did not return. "He and I are good at this, we do this every campaign season."
She then said Hughes was working on behalf of her ex-husband to effectively tarnish her 2012 re-election campaign.
"So my question to the city attorney (is) does that not violate a lobbyist law?" Giordano asked. "Is he not supposed to register as a lobbyist and report who is funding his performance or the things he is doing in front of this council?"
Milpitas City Attorney Mike Ogaz responded that if Hughes fit what the city's ordinance defines as a lobbyist then he is required to file as such.
"I am not a lobbyist!" Hughes shouted from the back of the council chambers.
She replied, "OK, that's all of the answer I need to hear, you're done."
On Saturday, the councilwoman sent an e-mail to supporters stating that no illegal theft was involved.
"Many of you have heard about or seen the video of me removing the mailbox from my former home I lived in when I was married," the e-mail reads. "The mailbox (was) a hand painted mailbox and a gift from my mother to me when I was living there. I considered it a family heirloom. The mailbox was now rusting and looking bad. I took it, gave it to Harriett McGuire to restore and returned it in about a week. I did it as a gift to my daughter to restore the mailbox that came from her grandmother."
Giordano noted a report was made to the Santa Clara County Sheriff's Office about the incident.
"When the deputy showed up at my door at 5:45 a.m. on a Friday morning about three days after I got the mailbox, I explained everything to the deputy and gave him a copy of the e-mail I had sent to Harriett asking her what the timeline was for restoration. After seeing it, the deputy said he understood and left," the e-mail reads. "The following Monday or Tuesday, I shipped the mailbox to my daughter. At the same time, I mailed a picture of the restored mailbox, a copy of the mailing receipt, and a request for a copy of the report. I have never heard back from the deputy.
"The fact that it is now being reported that the case regarding a $12 mailbox is still open about four months later does not surprise me because of the close relationship between some of my political opponents and the sheriff's department. And it is reported my ex is trying to have them file criminal charges," the e-mail reads.
Michael Giordano told the Milpitas Post this week he has filed charges against his ex-wife and added her assertion about taking the mailbox to restore for one of their daughters was untrue.
"The video says it all," Michael Giordano said, confirming he gave copies of the footage to Hughes to show at the council meeting. "She stole my mailbox; she says it's her mother's mailbox, she's a liar. She had no permission to take my mailbox. ... She got caught and she came up with a story."
But the Santa Clara County District Attorney's Office on Tuesday notified the Milpitas City Attorney's Office that it declined to authorize the filing of criminal charges against Giordano. Assistant District Attorney David G. Howe told Ogaz that the decision was made on Aug. 20.
Councilwoman Althea Polanski, who has locked horns with Giordano on many occasions, said she has agendized an item for the council's Oct. 16 meeting, the second to last council meeting before Election Day, Nov. 6 to consider a formal reprimand.
"It's about the video that showed a council member putting mail in mailboxes without postage and stealing a mailbox," Polanski said. "I just think that there needs to be an understanding among council members about how we are role models for the community."
The council meeting will begin at 7 p.m. inside Milpitas City Hall's Council Chambers, 455 E. Calaveras Blvd.
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