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WEST UNION - An old time sock hop will be held at 7 p.m. Friday at Doddridge County Middle School. Admission is $3 per person or $5 per couple. The sock hop will kick off West Virginia's Family Arts Market, which will run Saturday and Sunday and feature an art display of regional artists.
For more information, call Karen at 304-462-5065.
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SHEPHERDSTOWN - The Shepherdstown Opera House will present the following movies:
"The Ghost Writer" - Adapted from Robert Harris' novel "The Ghost." Cast includes Olivia Williams, Kim Cattrall, Timothy Hutton, Tom Wilkinson and Eli Wallach. Showtimes are 8:15 p.m. Friday; 5:30 p.m. Saturday and Monday; and at 5 p.m. Sunday.
"The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo" - Based on the award-winning crime novel by the late Swedish author and journalist Stieg Larsson, the first in his "Millennium Trilogy." Showtimes are 5:30 p.m. Friday; 8:15 p.m. Saturday and Monday; and at 2 p.m. Sunday.
In addition, flat-picking legend Larry Keel and Yonder Mountain String Band guitarist Adam Aijala will perform at 9 p.m. Wednesday. Tickets are $20.
Coming attractions include "North Face," "Greenberg" and "Fish Tank."
For more information, visit the website www.OperaHouseMovies.com.
Ballroom dance
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MARTINSBURG - A ballroom dance will be held from 6:30 to 10 p.m. Saturday at the Extreme Sports Complex, 259 Monroe St. The dance includes ballroom, Latin, swing and a little country. Admission is $10 per person. Free refreshments are available. Participants also may bring snacks; however, no alcohol is permitted. Sneakers or tennis shoes also are not permitted.
For more information, call the studio at 304-262-0202 or 301-331-3616.
Goose Route Festival set for July
SHEPHERDSTOWN - The 10th annual Goose Route Dance Festival will be held July 16 to 25 at the War Memorial Building, 102 E. German St. Event will feature 10 innovative professional modern dance companies performing concerts, family shows, classes and more. All events for children are offered free of charge. Performances and master classes are offered at $10 to $15. Online ticket sales begin in May.
For more information, call 304-876-6751 or visit www.gooseroute.org.
Second annual
Spring Festival set
SUMMIT POINT - The Summit Point Raceway will host its second annual "Summit Point Spring Festival" Saturday and Sunday. The event will feature the Jefferson 500, driver education activities, concessions and more. Jefferson County residents enter for free.
For more information, call 304-725-8444 or visit www.jefferson500.org.
Museum ramble set for this weekend
HAGERSTOWN, Md. - Washington County's seventh annual "Museum Ramble" will be held Saturday and Sunday. Most of the participating museums are opening their doors free of charge, and many have special offerings planned for the weekend. Twenty museums are participating in the event.
For more information, visit museumramble.marylandmemories.org.
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INWOOD - The motorcycle ride, Life Run 2010, will leave at noon Saturday from New Life Community Church, 4102 Tabler Station Road. A family festival will begin at 12:30 p.m. The event will feature guest speaker Jim "Jammer" Marcus, door prizes, live music, food, kids games and more.
For more information, call 304-262-6522 or 304-229-0051 or visit www.nlccwv.org.
Strawberry Fest to be held in Md.
WILLIAMSPORT, Md. - Homewood at Williamsport's annual spring festival, "Strawberry Fest '10," will be held from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday. The event will feature more than 50 arts and crafts vendors, live entertainment, food and more.
For more information, call Shannon at 301-582-1628.
Apple Blossom Festival to be held
WINCHESTER, Va. - The 83rd Shenandoah Apple Blossom Festival will be held through Sunday throughout Winchester. Activities include parades, a carnival, a wine festival, concerts, a sports breakfast and more.
For more information, visit www.thebloom.com.
Truck pull set in Va.
BERRYVILLE, Va. - The Clarke County Young Farmers will sponsor the "Interstate Truck and Tractor Pull" at 7 p.m. May 7 at the Clarke County Ruritan Fairgrounds. Admission is $10 per adult, and children younger than 13 enter for free.
For more information, call 540-303-3336.
Book Fest 2010 is set for May 8
SHEPHERDSTOWN - The Common Ground International Book Fest 2010 will be held from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. May 8 at the Shepherd University Wellness Center. Event will feature international, national and regional featured authors, exhibitors and sponsors, including Scholastic.com and more. Also included will be musical performances and craft activities.
For more information, visit www.harambeeconference.com.
Heritage Day on tap
MARTINSBURG - Heritage Day will be held May 8. The event will feature tours of the Boydville Mansion, Belle Boyd House and the Adam Stephen House, music, book sales, refreshments and more.
For a complete list of activities and times, call 304-267-4713 or 304-267-4434.
Car show slated for May 8
WINCHESTER, Va. - The 52nd annual Apple Blossom Antique Car Show will be held from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. May 8 at Jim Barnett Memorial Park. The event is open to all antique cars, motorcycles and trucks, 25 years old and older. Spectators enter for free. The event will feature a flea market and antique calliope.
For more information or to register, call Linda at 304-267-6471.
Glass show to be held in Winchester
WINCHESTER, Va. - The Valley Glasshoppers will host its 21st annual Glass Show and Sale from 5 to 9 p.m. May 14 and from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. May 15 at the Family Life Center, 1309 Opequon Ave. The event will feature 20 dealers displaying over 100 tables of glassware, including depression glass, elegant glass, kitchen glass, art glass and many others. Admission is a $5 donation at the door.
For more information, call Chip Pullen at 540-535-1570.
Bottle convention to be held in Pa.
GRANTVILLE, Pa. - The National Association of Milk Bottle Collectors will hold its 30th annual convention June 3 to 5 at the Holiday Inn in Grantville, Pa. The special guest speaker will be Harry Rinker.
For more information, visit www.milkbottlecollectors.com.
Bike ride set
MARTINSBURG - The Operation God Bless America XX Motorcycle Ride will be held from 9:30 to 11:30 a.m. June 6. Registration will be held at the Travel Center on Interstate 81 at Greencastle, Pa. Departure is set for noon, with arrival at the Martinsburg VA Center at 1 p.m. The cost is $15 per person. A donation includes a "ride pin" to the first 2,500. Helmets are required for riders.
For more information, call 717-328-9238.
Book festival on tap
CHARLESTON - The 10th annual West Virginia Book Festival will be held Oct. 16 and 17 at the Charleston Civic Center. The event will feature a variety of authors, including Nicholas Sparks and Carmen Agra Deedy, participating in book signings, readings, workshops and panel discussions. Some activities for children include special programs and a section of the marketplace filled with children's activities. Admission to the festival is free.
For more information, call 304-343-4646, ext. 246 or visit www.wvbookfestival.org.
Civil War medicine exhibit will be open daily
FREDERICK, Md. - The National Museum of Civil War Medicine is open from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday through Saturday and from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Sunday. Admission is $5 for adults, $3 for children ages 10 to 17 and free for children 9 years old and younger. In addition, a family rate, which includes two adults with children, is offered for $15.
For more information or to register for training workshops, call 301-695-1864.
Washington County Museum of Fine Arts to feature exhibits
HAGERSTOWN, Md. -The Washington County Museum of Fine Arts will host the following exhibits:
To May 9: Valley Art Association Exhibition; and
To Nov. 7: "Tell Tale Hearts, Ravens and Black Cats:" an artistic tribute to Edgar Allan Poe.
For more information, call 301-739-5727 or visit www.wcmfa.org.
Art show to be held
in Shepherdstown Friday
SHEPHERDSTOWN - Carissa Guyot's "Silent Permanence" will be shown from 7 to 10 p.m. Friday at the Shepherdstown Mens Club War Memorial Building. The show focuses on the fragmentation and distortion we apply to memories, as a result of perceptions learned through life.
Battle of Lewisburg Reenactment on tap
LEWISBURG -The Battle of Lewisburg Living History and Reenactment will present "The UnCivil War" May 21 to 23. The event will feature a dramatic conflict, medical reenactors, a ladies tea, a camp dance and more.
For more information, call 304-646-8555 or visit battleoflewisburg.org.
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Chiney Ogwumike posted her sixth consecutive double-double with a career-high 32 points and 18 rebounds to lead No. 4 Stanford to a 65-45 victory over Oregon State on Sunday in Corvallis, Ore.
"The best thing I can be is levelheaded, keep a smile on my face throughout the game and try to compete," Ogwumike said.
Amber Orrange and Bonnie Samuelson -- who hit four 3-pointers -- added 12 points apiece for the Cardinal (20-2, 9-1 Pac-12). Jamie Weisner had 13 points and Ali Gibson added 12 for the Beavers (9-13, 3-7).
Gibson opened the second half with a reverse layup to get Oregon State within 35-26, but Ogwumike, who fell one shy of her career high in rebounds, then scored six consecutive points to help Stanford regain control.
"She does everything for them," Oregon State coach Scott Rueck said. "That's why they're who they are."
Stanford shot 38.5 percent and Oregon State shot 35.8 percent in a matchup of the Pac-12's top two field-goal percentage defenses.
"I just thought our defense was working really hard," Stanford coach Tara VanDerveer said. "Some people weren't knocking down their shots like they usually do, but sometimes that happens."
Cal 72, Oregon 45: Layshia Clarendon scored 15 points, Gennifer Brandon and Talia Caldwell each had double-doubles, and the No. 6 Golden Bears (19-2, 9-1 Pac-12) cruised past the Ducks (3-19, 1-9) in Eugene, Ore.
Caldwell finished with 14 points and 14 rebounds, and Brandon had 14 points and 12 rebounds for the Bears, who maintained their tie with No. 4 Stanford atop the conference standings.
"I think this game looks the way it looks on the scoreboard because of the intensity and focus our players played with," said Cal coach Lindsay Gottlieb, who earned her 100th career win.
Cal took advantage of Oregon's poor shooting and turnover-prone offense to take a 38-19 lead at halftime.
After Oregon's Jordan Loera scored the opening basket, the Bears outscored the Ducks 30-4 over the next 13 minutes to take a 30-6 lead.
"I loved the way we started this game, and I think it started with our defense," Gottlieb said. "We made it really tough for them to score. We focused on shutting down their transition game, and I think we did that really well."
Duke 84, North Carolina 63: In Chapel Hill, N.C., Chloe Wells scored a career-high 18 points and the fifth-ranked Blue Devils (20-1, 10-0 Atlantic Coast Conference) defeated the No. 11 Tar Heels (20-3, 8-2).
Missouri 80, Tennessee 63: Morgan Eye scored 26 points and Bri Kulas added 20, and the Tigers (15-8, 4-5 Southeastern Conference) upset the No. 9 Lady Vols (17-5, 8-1) in Columbia, Mo.
Louisville 70, Marquette 51: Russ Smith scored 18 points, Peyton Siva added 14 and the 12th-ranked Cardinals (18-4, 6-3 Big East) shot 52 percent to run away from the No. 25 Golden Eagles (15-5, 6-2) in Louisville, Ky.


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The first Android game with the Unreal Engine powering the impressive graphics was Dungeon Defenders, but Gameloft's upcoming bloody battle game will be their best game yet. In what is surely going to be one of their most "Epic" games to date, here's the first teaser trailer:
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Thibodaux, La. - The Texas A&M-Corpus Christi volleyball team got another road victory over a Southland Conference opponent with a 3-0 (25-23, 25-19, 25-15) sweep of Nicholls on Saturday afternoon.
"It was a good weekend for us," said head coach Tony Graystone. "It was nice to see us play some good volleyball and get a couple of important road wins."
The Islanders are now 9-20 on the season and 2-12 in the Southland with the back-to-back wins on Friday and Saturday. The Colonels are now 11-17 on the year and 5-9 in Southland matches.
Emma Ridley led the Islanders with 18 kills on the day and moved into first in overall kills among Southland Conference players with 428, passing Carli Kolbe of Sam Houston State who now has 423. She is also ahead of Chloe Smith, who has 418 from the Southland Conference champion Central Arkansas.
"It is pretty impressive to be listed with that group of players," said Graystone. "There is no question that she has a great season."
The opening set began very similar to the previous night, as TAMUCC fell behind by a 5-1 score early on before coming back to tie the set at 10-10. It was the first of four points in-a-row to give them their first lead, one they would never relinquish. The Islanders would stretch the lead to as many as five at 16-11 and led 24-20 before three straight points brought it to within 24-23. Following a timeout by TAMUCC, the team forced an attack error to take the first set by a 25-23 final to go up 1-0 in the match.
Set two saw just four tie scores and no lead changes as the Islanders controlled the set from the start. The last tie score came at 10-10 when TAMUCC went on a 6-0 run behind two Courtney Wypiszynski service aces and a kill each from Ridley and Shannon Hullum to push it to 16-10. Nicholls got to within 23-19 before another Hullum kill and an attack error on the Colonels finished the score at 25-19.
The final set was close early before the Islanders turned it into a blowout. Tied at 8-8, TAMUCC went on a 10-3 run to take a commanding 18-11 lead. The Colonels scored the next three points to make it 18-14 but would score just one more as they were outscored 7-1 over the final eight points. Hullum topped off the scoring with a kill to clinch the match at 25-15.
In addition to Ridley's 18 kills, Jessica Korda collected 12 while Hullum just missed double digits with nine kills. Victoria Sookiasian led the team with 23 digs. Wypiszynski contributed 40 assists and 11 digs for her second double-double of the season. Tamara Wostal added six digs and Ridley, Hullum and Jessica Jennett contributed four each.
The Islanders now return home for the final two matches of the season next weekend. On Nov. 13, they host UT Arlington in a 4 PM match. On Saturday afternoon at 2 PM, TAMUCC will host Texas State in the final match of the season at the Dugan Wellness Center.
"With only two matches left in the season we are excited to be coming home off a good weekend," said Graystone. "Hopefully we can come in and close out the season on a very positive note."


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Very very sad end of our beautiful trip. We won't get to Panama. We are back in Europe.
Belize – a tiny country with more than 400 cayes. But what the hell are those cayes?
We don't just go from a place A to the place B. All the places on the way, where we sleep or cook – became memories itself.
Going south in Belize, the most far away from touristic crowds of the seaside and the islands. Far into the jungle, in Toledo district, very close to Guatemala but to get there you need to go around for 600 km.
Also during our trip they happen: those days of doing nothing. Or maybe just nothing spectacular, because we were busy all the time: with discovering the waves, stones in the sand and funny plants.
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Although I am hesitant to say with certainty that it was a UFO, I can attest to the fact that I have yet to see an aircraft - passenger, corporate or military - that looked anything like the object I witnessed tonight. The very large size and bright light radiating from this object gave me the impression that it was an extraordinary air transport vehicle, to be sure. My son had just come home after eating at a local restaurant with friends -- it was approximately 11:11 pm (July 29, 2014; Tuesday). Once inside he urged me to go outside to our front lawn and to look high above the fields approximately �� to one mile southwest. I dashed out to the front lawn of our home and searched the dark, nubilus sky. Indeed, the spectacle above could hardly go unnoticed, not with the long, radiant spears of light projecting from the craft���s entire circumference, giving it a classic ���star��� shape. I did not count the number of star-like projectiles surrounding the craft. The whole object appeared silver or chrome-colored. The UFO remained stationary. I did not see any airplanes in the sky during the ten seconds or so that I observed this spectacle. Witnessing yet another UFO-type occurrence in Bucks County left me awestruck and anxious to summon both of my sons so that we could later compare our individual observations of the event and perhaps take photos. My older son wasted no time. My other son was in the bathroom and told me he would be outside to join us in a minute. By the time my older son and I made our hasty retreat from the house to the same spot on the front lawn where I had stood only several seconds earlier, the space machine had vanished. My son and I scanned the skies hoping to find its new spot in the heavens but we were unable to locate it in any overhead direction. Approximately one minute or so later what looked to be a commercial passenger plane flew overhead, destined most likely for the Mercer County (NJ) airport, about 20 miles east of Newtown, Bucks County (Pa.), which is in or near the area where this star-shaped craft was seen in the sky. The aforementioned airplane flying in such proximity to the location where this "foreign" craft had been a minute or more earlier did not seem odd or coincidental to me, since airplanes routinely use those designated fly/sky lanes enroute to or departing the Airport. Footnote: Bucks County, incidentally, as you know, is no stranger to astral interlopers. Approx. five or six years ago my daughter and I saw the now ���infamous��� orange-colored crafts in the western sky above Bucks County Community College or thereabouts. These ���softly pointed��� triangular shaped craft traveled in a trio and seemed intent on perfecting their formation in the skies before literally and instantaneously disappearing to a destination we could not see. Like the spaceships or flying saucers depicted in comic strips, I imagined a bubble containing the word, ���POOF!��� because surely no other word could describe the three orange crafts supersonic, extraordinary speed during their departure. But that���s another report for another day���.
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The Afghan journalist who filmed and photographed the July 12 execution of two women by the Taliban says he was detained and held for two days by authorities in Afghanistan for suspected ties to terrorists.
The footage and photographs of the executions were distributed by the Associated Press and widely circulated on the Internet, giving rise to suspicions that the photographer, Rahmatullah Naikzad, was connected with the Taliban.
In an exclusive telephone interview, Naikzad told FOXNews.com that he turned himself in to Afghan authorities early this week and was held in custody and investigated for 48 hours. He said officials "asked me why I went to the Taliban at night — how come they didn't harm me."
Naikzad said he has no ties with the Taliban, and he gave the following account of why and how he became witness to the executions.
He said the Taliban issued a press statement calling all media outlets in the province of Ghazni, which has a large Taliban presence, to cover them "carrying out the Shariah" on a few burglars in their custody. Naikzad said he believed the Taliban would be cutting off the limbs of their prisoners, according to strict Islamic law.
He said he and other journalists were reluctant to go because of security concerns, but that an unknown person who identified himself as a member of the Taliban contacted him directly on his cell phone and assured him of his safety.
"We talked for about five minutes on the phone, and he said my safety was absolutely guaranteed," Naikzad explained.
He said he checked with the Kabul office of the Associated Press, for which he works as a stringer, and then set off around sunset on his motorbike to a village on the outskirts of Ghazni City, only to find that no other journalist was there.
That, he said, was when he learned it was two women — and not burglars — whom the Taliban had arrested, and that they had been charged with running a prostitution ring for coalition soldiers and local men.
Naikzad interviewed and filmed the Taliban, who said on tape that the two women "took the pure girls and women" and "indulged them in immoral acts."
After the interview, he said, the Taliban picked up the two burqa-clad women from a house, put them in a white Toyota Corolla and drove off to a different location.
Naikzad said he followed the Corolla on his bike, with a Taliban car following him.
About a half-hour later, he said, they stopped near Arzo village, close to the Ghazni-Paktika highway, on the outskirts of the province.
The women — one of whom appeared to be carrying a shopping bag — were then taken out of the car and told they would be executed.
Naikzad said he tried to persuade the Taliban not to carry out the executions.
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When his pleas went unheeded, he said, he asked the Taliban if he could film the execution.
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James Daignault, 54, who police had reported missing last month, was found deceased Monday night, police said.
Officers said they responded to a car off the road near the intersection of Route 125 and Steam Mill Road around 9 p.m. Monday in Ripton.
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The Legacy of St. Katharine Drexel
Peter Finney, Jr.
St. Anthony Messenger magazine
Saturday, March 3, 2012
A student walks past an image of St. Katharine Drexel at St. Michael Indian School in St. Michaels, Ariz., Oct. 24.
Joseph F. Skye, a Native American who attended St. Paul's Indian Mission High School in Marty, South Dakota, in the early 1950s, never met Blessed Katharine Drexel. But this San Antonio real-estate agent says he owes his life to one of the most remarkable women in American history.
In class each day, Skye learned about Mother Katharine, courtesy of Sister Marie Celine Enright, an Irish-born Sister of the Blessed Sacrament. Sister Marie Celine had regaled her Native American students with stories about the Philadelphia heiress and how she had devoted her life and her multimillion-dollar fortune to educating and seeking justice for Indians and African-Americans.
Sister Marie Celine told her teenagers about the woman in the "black robe" who had befriended Sioux Chief Red Cloud, about the slight but energetic nun who had overcome the hostility and indifference of society and the Church to establish an amazing network of schools, churches and missions specifically for blacks and Native Americans, about the zealous visionary who was almost a century before her time in demanding civil rights for all.
"I knew all about her through Sister Celine," says Skye, who in 1957 became the first Native American graduate of Xavier University in New Orleans, there on a special scholarship secured by Sister Marie Celine. Xavier University is the only Catholic institution of higher learning established exclusively for African-Americans in the Western Hemisphere and the crowning jewel of St. Katharine's educational system. "Sister Marie Celine told us she was a millionairess, the daughter of an investment banker named Francis Drexel. I was very impressed because she was somebody who could do anything or be anything, and she gave it all up to work with minorities."
In October 2000, Pope John Paul II canonized the woman who many believe started the Catholic Church in America on the road toward racial integration. Katharine Drexel became only the second American-born saint. (St. Elizabeth Ann Seton was the first in 1975.)
Drexel's story is rich, overflowing and, quite frankly, mind-boggling. Her story goes far beyond the millions of dollars she invested in establishing and supporting 65 schools, churches and centers in 21 states through her religious order, the Sisters of the Blessed Sacrament. But in an age in which Americans obsess over million-dollar game shows, Powerball lotteries and the stock market, the money Katharine Drexel gave away is a powerful and countercultural sign that, indeed, she was someone on a very different, spiritual mission.
Consider this: When her father, Francis Drexel, died in 1885, the high-powered banker left behind a $15.5 million estate that was divided among his three daughters—Elizabeth, Catherine (Katharine's birth name) and Louise. About $1.5 million went to several charities, leaving the girls to share in the income produced by $14 million—about $1,000 a day for each woman. In current dollars, the estate would be worth about $250 million.
Over the course of 60 years—up to her death in 1955 at age 96—Mother Katharine spent about $20 million in support of her work, building schools and churches and paying the salaries of teachers in rural schools for blacks and Indians. Louise Drexel Morell, her younger sister, contributed millions more to similar causes. Elizabeth, the eldest sister, died in 1890 in premature childbirth, one year before Catherine formed the Sisters of the Blessed Sacrament for Indians and Negroes, in Bensalem, Pennsylvania, just outside Philadelphia.
Francis Drexel crafted his will carefully. His daughters controlled the income from the estate, and upon their deaths, the Drexel inheritance would flow to their children. Drexel did this to prevent his unmarried daughters from falling prey to "fortune hunters." Neither Elizabeth nor Louise, however, had children, and the will stipulated that if that were to happen, upon his daughters' deaths, the money would be distributed to several religious orders and charities—the Society of Jesus, the Christian Brothers, the Religious of the Sacred Heart, a Lutheran hospital and others.
Drexel, of course, had no way of knowing that his "Kate" would enter religious life in 1889 and two years later found her order. Thus, after 1955, the Sisters of the Blessed Sacrament no longer had the Drexel fortune available to support their ministries. Dr. Norman Francis, president of Xavier University in New Orleans, considers Mother Katharine's longevity, especially in light of a serious heart attack she suffered in 1935, to be another miracle.
"There were any number of miracles that the Lord provided through her, and we've always called Xavier a miracle," says Francis, whose university sends more African-American graduates to medical school than any other university in the country. "Xavier is a miracle not just for all that it has done but for the mere fact that it has survived and thrived. Under normal circumstances, that shouldn't have been the case. If she had died at the normal age of 70, which at the time would have been a big age, Xavier would have struggled. [But] God allowed her to live until she was 96, and we had that interest available for many more years. It's still a struggle every day, but people know we have a meaning."
Many believe Kate's stepmother, Emma Bouvier, planted the seeds for her religious vocation. Drexel married Bouvier a few years after the death of his first wife, Hannah, who had died after giving birth to Kate in 1858. Twice a week, the Drexels distributed food, clothing and rent assistance from their family home at 1503 Walnut Street in Philadelphia. When widows or lonely single women were too proud to come to the Drexels for assistance, the family sought them out, but always quietly. As Emma Drexel taught her daughters, "Kindness may be unkind if it leaves a sting behind."
Kate made her social debut in Philadelphia in 1879, but her stepmother contracted cancer a short time later. Kate nursed her for the final three years of her life and came to realize that not even the Drexels' immense fortune could do anything to prevent Emma's death. Kate began to consider a religious vocation.
Her family's wealth also allowed Kate a firsthand opportunity to travel and see the disgraceful treatment of Native Americans. In 1868 a federal treaty had promised the Indians one teacher and one classroom for every 30 children of school age. Like so many other treaties, it was a hollow promise. In a trip with her father to the U.S. northwest territories in 1884, Kate saw Indians living in squalor and despair. After her father's death in 1885, she and her sisters contributed money to help the St. Francis Mission on South Dakota's Rosebud Reservation.
For many years Kate took spiritual direction from a longtime family friend, Father James O'Connor, a Philadelphia priest who later was appointed vicar apostolic of Nebraska. When Kate wrote him of her desire to join a contemplative order, Bishop O'Connor suggested, "Wait a while longer. Wait and pray."
Kate still was reeling from the death of her father when she and her sisters went to Europe in 1886, with the hope of her regaining some physical vigor. The vacation climaxed in Rome in January 1887 when Pope Leo XIII received the Drexel sisters in a private audience. Kate told the pope about her inward pull toward the contemplative life, but she also described the plight of the Indians in North America.
"It has seemed to me more than once, Your Holiness, that I ought to aid them by my personal work among them as well, and if I enter an enclosed congregation, I might be abandoning those whom God wants me to help," she told the pope. "Perhaps Your Holiness will designate a congregation that would give all its time and effort to the Indian missions."
Pope Leo XIII replied with a question: "But why not be a missionary yourself, my child?"
Reaching the anteroom after the meeting, Kate broke down in tears, knowing she no longer had to wait. Bishop O'Connor counseled her to start her own order to work among Native Americans and African-Americans because if she were to join an existing order, she "may be assigned to other work, and that must not happen."
Kate's uncle, Anthony Drexel, tried to dissuade her from entering religious life, pleading with her to "stay with us who love you." But she had made up her mind. She arrived at the Sisters of Mercy Convent in Pittsburgh in May 1889 to begin her six-month postulancy.
Her decision rocked Philadelphia social circles.
The Philadelphia Public Ledger
carried a banner headline: "Miss Drexel Enters a Catholic Convent—Gives Up Seven Million."
A reporter seeking an interview showed up at the Mercy convent the day after she entered. Word was sent downstairs—there really was no news to report.
In November 1889, Kate took the religious name
Sister Mary Katharine
upon the suggestion of the superior general of Mercy Sisters. She professed her vows to Philadelphia Archbishop Patrick Ryan, who had become another important spiritual adviser. In addition to the vows of poverty, chastity and obedience, she added a fourth: "To be the mother and servant of the Indian and Negro races."
In his homily, Archbishop Ryan asked if Sister Katharine's desire for religious life required ambition. "Yes, in a way," Ryan said, answering his own question. "Ambition to work among the poor and neglected, to work in obscurity. An even truer answer is that God calls some souls to a higher life than others. How beautiful the mission of this child who comes to devote her life, her heart, her future, to the suffering races, as when Jesus said to the rich young man, 'Sell all thou hast and give it to the poor, and follow me.'"
Sister Katharine pronounced final vows on February 12, 1891, and a few months later, Archbishop Ryan blessed the cornerstone of the new motherhouse under construction in Bensalem. In the first of many incidents that indicated her convictions for social justice were not shared by others, a stick of dynamite was discovered near the site.
The Sisters of the Blessed Sacrament were founded 28 years after the Emancipation Proclamation which freed the slaves, but the reality of a good life for blacks in the South was bleak. The country was still 70 years from any widespread notion of civil rights. In 1913, the Georgia Legislature, hoping to stop the Blessed Sacrament Sisters from teaching at a Macon school, tried to pass a law that would have prohibited white teachers from teaching black students. In 1915, when Mother Katharine purchased an abandoned university building to open Xavier Preparatory School in New Orleans, vandals smashed every window.
In 1922 in Beaumont, Texas, a sign was posted by local Klansmen on the door of a church where the Sisters of the Blessed Sacrament had opened a school. "We want an end of services here," the note read. "We will not stand by while white priests consort with nigger wenches in the face of our families. Suppress it in one week or flogging with tar and feathers will follow." A few days later, a violent thunderstorm ripped through Beaumont, destroying a building that served as the Klan's headquarters.
In the late 1920s, when Mother Katharine found property in New Orleans for expanding Xavier University, she used a third party as a purchasing agent to keep the transaction from falling through. When the handsome campus was dedicated in October 1932, a priest gazed upon the expensive Indiana limestone buildings and remarked in Latin: "What a waste!"
Blessed Katharine never heard the remark. The woman who had spent $656,000 for the land and new buildings watched the dedication ceremony from a third-floor window, far from the dignitaries' platform.
"She was so selfless and so sacrificing and so considerate," says Sister of the Blessed Sacrament Ruth Catherine Spain, who helped document her cause for canonization. "Way back in 1891, she was a pioneer for the most downtrodden and the poorest of the poor. She didn't have a prejudiced molecule in her body, never mind a bone. She believed that everyone was a child of God."
In Charlotte, North Carolina, Blessed Katharine contributed $4,000 to finish construction of two churches with the stipulation that several rows of pews be set aside for use by black parishioners. In Wilmington, she funded construction of a new St. Mary Church, which was to replace an old church and be used by both blacks and whites. But when a priest, a transplant from Blessed Katharine's home state of Pennsylvania, objected to the plan, African-Americans got the old church and whites the new one.
"It's just painful to see things like that and to see a priest so involved," says Benedictine Father Paschal Baumann, archivist at Belmont Abbey in North Carolina. "We do Katharine Drexel a disservice if we view her only in terms of her money. She had a real social policy to go with it. She was working for the advancement of integration, and she made that so clearly a mission of the Church, not just a social policy. ...
"I wonder sometimes what America and what the Catholic Church might have been in respect to minorities had she not come along," added Francis. "She saved the Church from embarrassment in terms of social justice."
Even though she was raised in opulence, St. Katharine took seriously her vow of poverty. She used pencils until they were nubs, wrote return correspondence on the blank side of the letters she received and opened up the flaps of envelopes for notepaper. When her shoelaces snapped, she sewed them back together rather than buy a new pair. She frequently encountered the ire of train conductors on her many visits to her schools and missions because she spent as much time as possible in the day coach, which was a cheaper fare, before retiring for a few hours in the sleeper car. The savings were used to increase her tips to the black porters.
After surviving a heart attack in 1935, St. Katharine refused to purchase a wheelchair. Instead, she was reluctantly persuaded to allow workers to affix wheels on a wooden chair from the motherhouse's auditorium.
Her charitable ways so impressed Congress in the 1920s that she successfully lobbied for an amendment to the federal tax code that would allow an organization that gave at least 90 percent of its income to charity an exemption from income taxes. In 1923 alone, she had trust income of $217,426.98 and was forced to pay $74,390.32 in taxes, a 34-percent bite. The law became known as "The Philadelphia Nun Loophole."
St. Katharine changed lives, one at a time. Knowing that rural schools for blacks in south Louisiana needed qualified teachers to survive, she trained men and women at Xavier for education degrees and then convinced their parents to allow them to leave home to teach. Bertha Thomas Antonio, one of the first graduates to respond to the call for teachers, told Sister of the Blessed Sacrament Patricia Lynch that her mother said, "If we won't help our own people, who will?" Mrs. Thomas sent three daughters to teach in the rural schools.
Katharine Drexel's legacy lives through the children whose lives she has touched directly and through her sisters.
Her order, the Sisters of the Blessed Sacrament, today has members who are pursuing their original apostolate of working with African-Americans and Native Americans in 21 states and Haiti, the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere.
"It humbles you to hear how many professional men and women say, 'I am where I am today because of what the Sisters of the Blessed Sacrament did for me,'" says Sister Beatrice Jeffries. "There is a wonderful statement in the motherhouse chapel: 'I look up and wonder at all of God's wonderful ways and I think to myself, 'What would happen to a desire that God implants on the heart if we listen and act on that desire?' That colors everything we do."
Peter Finney Jr., is the editor and general manager of the
Clarion Herald
, the Catholic newspaper of the Archdiocese of New Orleans. He is a former sportswriter for the
New York Post
and the
New York Daily News
Mother Katharine and the Cincinnati Friars
by Pat McCloskey, O.F.M.
In 1897, the friars of St. John the Baptist Province in Cincinnati, Ohio, agreed to Mother Katharine Drexel's request that they begin a mission among the Navajos in Arizona and New Mexico. She had purchased a 160-acre tract of land two years earlier and sought other religious communities to staff it but without success. She contacted the Cincinnati friars through Msgr. Joseph Stephan, director of the Bureau of Catholic Indian Missions, and his friend, Father Godfrey Schilling, O.F.M.
Fathers Juvenal Schnorbus and Anselm Weber and Brother Placidus Buerger arrived at St. Michaels Mission in northeast Arizona on October 7, 1898. Father Berard Haile, O.F.M., who came in 1900, described Mother Katharine Drexel's 1902 visit for the opening of St. Michaels School:
"Mother Katharine we found to be a very agreeable woman. In fact, she seemed to be simply a sister among her sisters, and she had to be pointed out to us as the superior of the community. We admired her because she readily made friends with the Indians who had come down to St. Michaels from this great distance of the Lukachukai Range to bring their children to her school....
"She never impressed me as the daughter of a wealthy banker of Philadelphia. No, she did the same work as the other sisters and she was happy and jolly with them all the time, and the sisters were always in good humor, and you couldn't do anything else but admire the good spirit among those sisters.
"Very often I met the Mother Superior on her knees scrubbing the porch and sweeping the rooms, the dining rooms and wherever the children went" (
Tales of an Endishodi: Father Berard Haile and the Navajos
, 1900-1961, transcribed and edited by Murray Bodo, O.F.M., University of New Mexico Press, 1998).
Mother Katharine Drexel made a very good impression on the Navajo parents and students whom she met. In 1910, she financed the printing of 500 copies of
A Navaho-English Catechism of Christian Doctrine for the Use of Navaho Children
, written by Fathers Anselm, Juvenal, Berard and Leopold Osterman. Her contributions to the friars' work among the Navajos were extensive. Father Anselm once said of her, "She pays for everything, even for horses and saddles and Mass wine."
Mother Katharine Drexel stretched the Cincinnati friars apostolically since most of them previously had worked in predominantly German-American parishes. A few years later, she also helped finance the work of the friars among the Pueblo Native Americans in New Mexico. The friars later began ministering to Hispanics and Anglos.
About a hundred friars from St. John the Baptist Province started Our Lady of Guadalupe Province in 1985. Headquartered in Albuquerque, New Mexico, that province currently has 17 friars working on the Navajo reservation with the Sisters of the Blessed Sacrament. Ten friars now work full-time with the Pueblo Native Americans.
Mother Katharine also assisted the Cincinnati-based friars in their work at African-American parishes in Louisville and Kansas City (Missouri) and on the Louisiana Delta.
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Billy Beane, general manager of MLB's Oakland A's and protagonist of Michael Lewis's Moneyball, had a problem: how to win in the Major Leagues with a budget that's smaller than that of nearly every other team. Conventional wisdom long held that big name, highly athletic hitters and young pitchers with rocket arms were the ticket to success. But Beane and his staff, buoyed by massive amounts of carefully interpreted statistical data, believed that wins could be had by more affordable methods such as hitters with high on-base percentage and pitchers who get lots of ground outs. Given this information and a tight budget, Beane defied tradition and his own scouting department to build winning teams of young affordable players and inexpensive castoff veterans.
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Lewis (Liar's Poker; The New New Thing) examines how in 2002 the Oakland Athletics achieved a spectacular winning record while having the smallest player payroll of any major league baseball team. Given the heavily publicized salaries of players for teams like the Boston Red Sox or New York Yankees, baseball insiders and fans assume that the biggest talents deserve and get the biggest salaries. However, argues Lewis, little-known numbers and statistics matter more. Lewis discusses Bill James and his annual stats newsletter, Baseball Abstract, along with other mathematical analysis of the game. Surprisingly, though, most managers have not paid attention to this research, except for Billy Beane, general manager of the A's and a former player; according to Lewis, "[B]y the beginning of the 2002 season, the Oakland A's, by winning so much with so little, had become something of an embarrassment to Bud Selig and, by extension, Major League Baseball." The team's success is actually a shrewd combination of luck, careful player choices and Beane's first-rate negotiating skills. Beane knows which players are likely to be traded by other teams, and he manages to involve himself even when the trade is unconnected to the A's. " `Trawling' is what he called this activity," writes Lewis. "His constant chatter was a way of keeping tabs on the body of information critical to his trading success." Lewis chronicles Beane's life, focusing on his uncanny ability to find and sign the right players. His descriptive writing allows Beane and the others in the lively cast of baseball characters to come alive.
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When trying to strike one of its biggest acquisitions ever, a deal that would transform its business and send its shares climbing Gannett & Co.'s CEO Gracia Martore succeeded by relying largely on women.
Gannett's deal to buy broadcasting company Belo for $1.5 billion was, in fact, a deal full of women, a rare occurrence in corporate America and on Wall Street.
Martore's counterpart at Belo was also a female, CEO Dunia Shive. So to were Martore's fellow Gannett leaders, Chairman Marjorie Magner and CFO Victoria Harker.
Meanwhile, the media company turned to its long-time banker at J.P. Morgan, Jennifer Nason, global chairman of technology, media & telecom investment banking. She had at her side Patricia Devine, a managing director who has worked with Gannett since she was an associate, and Jessica Kearns, a managing director in J.P. Morgan's debt unit. The bank also had a male MD on the deal, Marco Caggiano.
Nason, a J.P. Morgan veteran, has been the banker for Gannett for more than a dozen years. She told MoneyBeat that working with a group mostly of women did instill a different feel than the traditional deal.
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Nason largely credited her client for that drive, saying Martore set the tone. Martore had said Thursday the deal had "a lot less drama" in reaching the agreement and pointed to her own relationship with Shive. Both executives said there wasn't an auction for Belo, but that they had been talking for years.
Nason said she probably knows Martore "better than any other CEO client that I have." Their relationship proved important when trying to reach a deal that would be Gannett's second-biggest acquisition and continue Martore's push to transform Gannett into a "super group."
"In transactions like this, where you are looking for a win-win for everybody, those long-standing relationships can really drive the deal," Nason said. "Trust matters a lot in a transaction like this and I've probably never felt that element in a deal as strongly as I did here."
Nason said women still need more opportunities, particularly on Wall Street. She said more pressure is needed to make a deal like this a regular occurrence. She said she works inside J.P. Morgan to mentor and support women and said the bank is broadly thinking about the issue.
But she said the big problem is the lack of women already there, which isn't easy to fix.
"There's still a lot of backroom deals, still a lot of weekends on the golf course, there are a lot of opportunities to build relationships that women miss out," she said. "We are all struggling to figure out ways to get the numbers higher. There's no one fix, there's no one book that can be written, it's a campaign on many fronts."


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- Overview
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- Reviewing the box model
- Calculating em and percentage values
- Controlling how elements display
- Creating fixed, fluid, and responsive layouts
- Structuring content with HTML5
- Floating elements
- Using relative, absolute, or fixed positioning
- Defining column spacing
- Creating grid-based assets and layouts
- Considering mobile-design-specific issues
- Working with multi-column text
- Enhancing page design CSS Sprites
Skill Level Beginner
For this chapter's lab, I want to do something a little different. Instead of opening one of my partially completed sites and then finishing it, I want you to create a fixed-width layout from scratch. Well, almost from scratch. There's a little bit of a catch here. I actually want to find one of your favorite layouts and then re-create it. By examining an existing layout and then breaking down its grid, you'll gain a greater insight into the planning and structuring that goes into creating sites. Just as the way of showing you kind of the workflow that I want you to do for this lab, I have the lynda.com site open here.
Pick one of your favorite layouts; it could be any site you want, or just a layout that you like. If it's a site that you can get into and kind of look through the CSS, that's even better. So in the case of lynda.com site, sometimes it's kind of hard to pick out exactly which CSS file I should be looking at. So you might want to try to find one that is a little bit easier to go into and look into the appropriate CSS, but that's not critical for what we are doing here. You don't absolutely have to be able to know what's going on with their CSS. So when you go to one of your favorite sites, just go ahead and take a screenshot of that.
Now I have taken the screenshot of the lynda site, and I'm dropped this in to an Illustrator document. And I know, I am in Illustrator again, right, but it does not matter which page- layout program you're using here. You can even print out a copy of the site that you're working with and then just sort of draw the things that I'm talking about on the screen. So the first thing you should do is find out what the underlying grid is for this particular site, and the way that I did this here was just place guidelines on the page, where it's obvious that a column or a gridline is.
I am looking and making sure that these columns are equal width so I can really determine what the grid structure of the page is, and once I do that, I then come in and overlay shapes where I think of the page regions. So obviously this is a two-column layout from the standpoint of the fact that I have a right column over here and left column over here, but the left column itself is broken into three separate columns as well. I needed to sort to know sort of the spacing requirements for those. So at this point, I would go in, I'd start taking some measurements, I'd start thinking about the initial structure of this page, and then I'll have what I need to create the initial HTML and CSS.
Don't get me wrong. I'm not asking you to re-create these layouts pixel perfect; I'm asking you to recreate the structure of these layouts and then place your own content inside of them. To that end, if you go into the exercise files, if you look in the 05_07 folder, I have a bunch of images that you can use. You can resize those images any way that you want to fit within your layout. Again, just make sure they adhere to the grid that you have established for that layout. And then I have a couple of text files. As a matter of fact, these are all Mark Twain's, A Dog's Tale.
There is a lot of text there that you can copy and paste and use for dummy text. I can't stand using Loren Ipsum text, so I am just giving you some old copyright-free, I might add, Mark Twain text, it's fun to read as well. So pay attention to the grid, what the grid is based on. You want to go ahead and establish a target resolution, which doesn't necessarily have to match the layout that you are kind of basing your site off of. And then when you get into placing assets in that, really concentrate on making the typography fit with that layout grid as well. Now when you're finished, go back to the site.
If you can, find its CSS. Compare your layout styles to theirs. Again, on more complex sites like this one, they might be a little hard to find the CSS. Coming through the styles and isolate and layout might be a little difficult, but you should be able to at least compare the basic structure and styles. In fact, you may want to do that stage before you get started, just to make sure that comparing styles is possible once you're done. Just don't evaluate the styles too much before you begin. The whole point of this lab is to see how closely you can match the desired styles. Keep in mind that you are only comparing styles just to compare and evaluate your approach to layout.
The overall goal of this lab is to gain experience in planning and executing desired layouts, not making sure that you're matching somebody else's files exactly. I know this is a big, broad, open-ended lab. Go have fun with it.


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CSDL Home IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis & Machine Intelligence 2004 vol.26 Issue No.09 - September
Issue No.09 - September (2004 vol.26)
pp: 1239-1242
Koichi Hashimoto , IEEE
DOI Bookmark: http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/TPAMI.2004.56
A simple technique for estimating the camera displacement from point correspondences in eye-in-hand visual servoing is presented. The idea for providing more accurate results than existing methods consists of taking into account that the point correspondences used during the camera motion correspond to stationary spatial points, hence exploiting additional information. This is done by first estimating the object Euclidean structure and then estimating the camera displacement from this estimate.
Computer vision, visual servoing, camera displacement estimation.
Graziano Chesi, Koichi Hashimoto, "A Simple Technique for Improving Camera Displacement Estimation in Eye-in-Hand Visual Servoing", IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis & Machine Intelligence, vol.26, no. 9, pp. 1239-1242, September 2004, doi:10.1109/TPAMI.2004.56


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Internet: http://www.twp.newtown.pa.us
Minutes of the meeting held on January 20, 2009
Present: Sue Beasley, Peggy Driscoll, Allen Fidler, Fred Olivari, Jim Ott, Jay Sensibaugh, Robert Whartenby and Brandon Wind, members. Also in attendance were: Michele Fountain, Township Engineer, John Boyle, Assistant Township Manager, Tom Jirele, Supervisor Liaison and Mike Galla, Interim Codes Officer.
Call to Order: The meeting was called to order at 7:30 PM. Prior to reorganization, the Planning Commission members introduced themselves and new members were welcomed. Mr. Fidler said that he would arrange for the Township Planner to host some training sessions in the coming weeks, to be held 30 minutes prior to the start of regular meetings. Planning Commission members and Supervisors are encouraged to attend.
Reorganization: Mr. Ott nominated Mr. Fidler to serve as chairman. Mr. Sensibaugh seconded and the motion passed 8-0.
Mrs. Beasley nominated Mr. Ott to serve as vice-chairman. Mr. Sensibaugh seconded and the motion passed 8-0.
Mr. Wind nominated Mrs. Driscoll to serve as secretary/treasurer. Mrs. Beasley seconded and the motion passed 8-0.
Mr. Fidler noted that it has been the Planning Commission's tradition that officers attend the Joint Zoning Council representing Newtown Township.
Approval of Minutes: Mr. Sensibaugh moved to accept the minutes of December 16, 2008. Mr. Ott seconded and the motion passed 5-0-3, with Mrs. Beasley and Messrs. Olivari and Whartenby abstaining.
Zoning Hearing Board Applications
Lockheed Martin – Newtown Yardley Road: Mr. Fidler explained for the benefit of new members that the Planning Commission discusses applications to the Zoning Hearing Board in order to make recommendations to the Board of Supervisors to support or oppose an application. In many instances the Commission passes applications to the Board without comment.
Mr. Whartenby disclosed that he and his former employer had been involved in the original construction at the Lockheed site. He is no longer with that firm and was not involved in the current expansion.
The Commission reviewed this application for variances for relief for a height of 60 feet where 50 feet is the maximum and setback of 133.54 feet where 150 feet is required.
Ms. Fountain said that Township staff and consultants have met with the applicant's attorney. The addition is needed for Lockheed to do work for a new contract with the Federal Government. The existing facility has already been granted a height variance for 60 feet, but the attorney for the applicant felt a new variance is needed for the new construction.
Mr. Ott said that since there is already a structure with a height of 60 feet and the property does not back to residential uses, he would suggest passing the application to the Supervisors without comment.
Mr. Fidler said that he would like the Township to support the application because the expanded facility will bring additional employees and will contribute to the Township's tax base.
Mr. Sensibaugh said that he has worked on similar facilities in New Jersey and confirmed that the height is necessary for the type of work to be done. He agreed that the application should be supported.
Mrs. Driscoll said that this expansion could bring as many as one hundred new employees and she agreed that the application should be supported.
Mr. Wind noted that this is a self imposed hardship. While he is not opposed to the application, he did not think the Board should actively support it at the Zoning Hearing Board. He would prefer to pass it to the Supervisors without comment.
Mr. Jirele and Mr. Galla confirmed that work done at the site would require the 60 foot height.
Mr. Fidler said that rather than take of vote on this application, he would report to the Supervisors the opinions of the members. He asked that the minutes reflect this discussion.
Liaison Reports and Assignments
Board of Supervisors: Mr. Jirele reported that in the coming year the Jointure would be discussing the drafting of appropriate ordinances to address alternative energy sources, including wind turbines, wood burning stoves and solar panels. The Jointure will be forming a panel to review current highway classifications. He and Mr. Fidler would serve on this panel.
Mr. Jirele said that looking ahead, he would like the Commission to include discussion of planning for the future of Sycamore Street in upcoming agendas. The Jointure had at one time considered a change in zoning of certain lots in the Sycamore Street area. The changes that had been part of that draft ordinance had included most of the north end of Sycamore Street. Other areas to be considered for future planning are at the southern part of Sycamore Street near McBride's Chrysler. In the next few years there is a possibility that many changes could be coming and it would be good to look ahead and plan.
Newtown Area Regional Planning Commission : Mr. Sensibaugh said that the Regional Planning Commission would be looking at some of the same concerns as the Joint Zoning Council. The meetings are on the third Thursday. Mr. Sensibaugh and Mr. Ott agreed to serve as liaisons.
Joint Zoning Council: Mr. Fidler said that he would continue as liaison.
Historic Architectural Review Board: This Board meets during the afternoon. Mrs. Beasley and Mrs. Driscoll agreed to share liaison duties.
Park and Recreation Board: Mr. Wind and Mr. Whartenby agreed to share this liaison duty.
Environmental Advisory Council: Mr. Fidler said that he had spoken to Mr. Fisher, who has agreed to remain as liaison.
Open Space Subcommittee: Mr. Sensibaugh and Mrs. Driscoll agreed to continue to serve on this committee. Mr. Sensibaugh reported that all of the preliminary work on the updated open space comprehensive plan has been forwarded to the Bucks County Planning Commission. Once a response is received from BCPC, a presentation will be made to the Board of Supervisors.
Other Business: The Commission briefly discussed matters that will be of concern in the Jointure in the coming year, including ordinances to address alternative energy such as windmills, solar panels and wood burning stoves.
Mr. Fidler said that the Jointure is working on a draft ordinance to govern preservation of historic structures that are not located in the historic district. There has been some concern about demolition by neglect on properties that have not yet been subject to redevelopment. Newtown Township does have an ordinance and this is being used as a template.
Mrs. Beasley said that perhaps the Jointure should consider whether to include historic or at least very old or rare specimens of trees and shrubs in the new ordinance.
Mr. Fidler said that input from the Commission would be sought during the year as the Joint Zoning Council considers highway classifications. When the new comprehensive plan was completed it was noticed that some roads are inconsistently or inappropriately classified by PennDOT.
Mr. Jirele again talked about a vision for the future of Sycamore Street. He said that the Board would be looking for some planning input for the currently proposed plan for the Acme site as well as for the entire business district.
Mr. Sensibaugh suggested that the Commission include in its discussion some of the current zoning regulations along the street. He noted for example that at the Acme site an apartment house would be permitted but not condominiums. This zoning had been created to address what had existed on Sycamore Street at the time the Ordinance was drafted, but might no longer be appropriate.
Mr. Jirele said that the Commission and the Jointure could consider reviewing the various commercial uses permitted throughout the Jointure. He said that the Board intends to plan meetings with each of the advisory committees, boards and commissions this year to help set priorities. He would like to arrange for that joint meeting with the Planning Commission very soon, perhaps at the February work session.
Mr. Fidler moved to adjourn at 8:45 PM. Mr. Sensibaugh seconded and the motion passed 8-0.
Respectfully Submitted:
Mary Donaldson, Recording Secretary


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So where are we headed in Iraq? The fawning over General Petraeus by the most of the politicians and the media was so sickeningly sweet that diabetics were in danger of a coma. Petraeus was relatively low key and pulled off the pretense that his remarks were crafted without the input or coordination of the White House. The earnest school boy mien of Petraeus defused MoveOn.org's clumsy attempt at painting the General as a traitor. But the error of MoveOn does not mean that Petraeus is a reincarnation of General Douglas MacArthur, at least militarily. Many would agree that, in terms of ego, he shares common bonds with MacArthur, but in terms of his actual record the hype does not match the actual performance. Brent Budowsky's piece published on this blog last week presents chapter and verse on Petraeus' so-called illustrious career.But Petraeus is the side show. Where are we headed in Iraq and how do we get out? Pat Lang weighs in with the following:
After listening to the president I think that those in Congress and among the presidential candidates who oppose the Jacobin neocon view of America's destiny in the Middle East should adopt something like the following program:
There will be those who will say that having such a program is futile because of Dick Cheney. I disagree. Without a program you have no unified goal and path.
- There should be no treaty, agreement, SOFA or any other instrument that commits the United States to the defense of Iraq. The Congress should insist on its prerogative in such matters. Agreements of that kind would preclude a complete American withdrawal from Iraq.There should be no permanent American bases of any kind in Iraq. The president's obduracy in insisting on what can only be seen as a commitment to a permanent American presence makes the public adoption of a policy of "no bases" inevitable. Permanent bases in Iraq will mean conventional or counterinsurgency war involving the US so long as the bases are there. Congress should insist that the "surge" force be completely withdrawn on the basis that Petraeus recommended and that the March, 2008 review should produce a schedule of withdrawal that will remove all US combat forces from Iraq by the mid-term election of 2010 with the following exception.Congress and the candidates should have in mind that if there remains any relationship to an Iraqi state after 2010, that relationship may require an ongoing training commitment to the forces of that government. Such a force of trainers will inevitably have to be fed, housed, transported, provided medical support and protected. A commitment of that kind would require a continuing presence for a few years, but the end point should be fixed. For the length of its existence such a presence might well consist of 30,000 people. On the other hand, if there is no continuing relationship, than all forces should be withdrawn by November, 2010.None of this should be seen as precluding a continuing effort at counter-terrorist operations or support of friendly elements in Iraq from outside Iraq.
- This program of withdrawal should be matched with a determined, aggressive diplomatic effort intended to reduce the "temperature" in the Middle East. (See my article "Toward a Concert of the Middle East."
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Pat's approach makes the most sense, but I do not believe the Bush Administration will embrace it or implement it. Iran remains the wild card with respect to the future of Iraq. Here are the factors that will influence the future:
- The belief that Iran is killing U.S. soldiers. There
is evidence that individuals with ties to Iran are active in Iraq and
have provided support for attacks on U.S. soldiers. So far there is no
convincing smoking gun. But if support to insurgents/terrorists was the
criteria for defining our enemies then Saudi Arabia and Pakistan would
quickly eclipse Iran. (That's assuming we were basing our decisions on
facts as opposed to our own twisted national security fantasies). Once
there is sufficient evidence to point an accusing finger at Iran for
specific attacks then we are likely to bomb Iran. If there is no such
case then the possibility of war with Iran will lessen.
- Iran's role in Iraq.
Imagine that Mexico was embroiled in an insurgent war being waged by
radical Islamists with close ties to Bin Laden. Imagine that Canada has
been invaded by Iran, who is supporting a government controlled by
Protestants, who are battling Catholic reactionaries. And imagine that
our country, smack in the middle, is controlled by Protestants. Would
we be sitting calmly by twiddling our thumbs and ignoring the chaos on
our borders? Hell no! Well, welcome to Iran's world. When it comes to
Iraq the primary goal of Iran is to ensure that whatever governmental
authority exists that it does not pose a threat to Iran. So far Iran
appears to have focused most of its efforts on building up intelligence
networks, supporting Shia clerics, training and equipping militia, and
taking an occasional poke at the United States. If the United States
moves to weaken the control of Shia sympathetic to Iran then Iran will
move to protect its interests. If the United State attacks Iran, Iran
will defend itself using every resource at its disposal. And it is on
this count that they can deliver some serious blows to the U.S.
military and the U.S. economy.
- The perception that the U.S. is siding with the Sunnis raises suspicions with Iran.
All of the political spin in the United States about the so-called
success in Al Anbar feeds distrust of U.S. intentions among the Shia
and the Persians. Ignore the reality that the U.S. surge had absolutely
nothing to do with the retaliation of Sunni tribes against Islamic
extremists identified as Al Qaeda. Our claim that we are backing this
effort is being interpreted by many Shia officials as a new double
cross. Remember, they have not forgotten the call to arms issued by
George Hebert Walker Bush in 1991 and our subsequent failure to back
the Shia uprising when it came. We let Saddam slaughter their
relatives. New entreaties to the old Sunni crowd, whether perceived or
real, at a minimum will awaken distrust. It also could lead to
something worse.
- U.S. military disengagement. If the United States continues the current level of military action; including attacks on suspected insurgent strongholds, the insurgency will continue to grow and evolve. This year alone we have reportedly locked up over 60,000 suspected insurgents. Most of those individuals will probably be released in the next year simply because we do not have enough prisons to hold them and stay out of trouble with the Red Crescent/Red Cross. When they return to their hometowns most will be keen on seeking revenge against the "Crusader". Alternatively the U.S. could decide to turn over most of these operations to Iraqi forces. That means most of the violence will be sectarian (85%of the police are Shia) but at least the United States will not be in the public eye leading the charge. If we are we will get the blame. If we are out of sight we are in a position to start disengaging.
In fact, the imposition of this kind of order in ethnically cleansed areas in Iraq will be perceived as further evidence that the Bush plan is working miracles. Do not be surprised if by spring, as Pat pointed out above, we will be looking at significant withdrawals of U.S. forces because "peace" is breaking out. Of course, this assumes we don't do something stupid in Iran.
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27.05.2013 - A survey of European clinical geneticists show that a vast majority reject direct-to-consumer (DTC) genetic testing without prior face-to-face counselling.
According to the survey, carried out by Heidi Carmen Howard from French INSERM and Pascal Borry from KU Leuven among 131 EU geneticists, DCT testing for monogenetic and complex diseases is more widespread than thought before. 44% of patients who asked their doctor for genetic counselling, had previously already undertaken a DCT test (Genome Medicine). However, the respondents seem concerned about the DCT test offers. 84% of them disagreed with replacing face-to-face supervision by a medical doctor with supervision via telephone, which is offered by some DTC testing firms. Over 85% of respondents said that they would offer genetic counselling to patients who asked for a consultation after having undergone DTC genetic testing
A majority of clinical geneticists also found it unacceptable to provide non-face-to-face medical supervision for: a pre-symptomatic test for a condition with very high penetrance; a predictive test for a condition that has a "medium" penetrance of 50 to 60%; and for carrier testing. For conditions that are neither treatable nor preventable and for disorders with serious health consequences, clinical geneticists were almost unanimous in expressing the unacceptability of offering such genetic tests outside of the traditional health care setting, without an established physician-patient relationship and without face-to-face medical supervision.
Recently, the German Ethics Council tabled recommendations on genetic diagnosis to the government asking for international rules for DCT testing and a duty to have face-to-face counselling before any of those tests. According to the survey, patients need qualified information on clinical significance, medical relevance and validity of such tests.
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