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That's right, the jQuery Conference is no longer a coastal affair. And where else could we go after Portland besides Austin? Help us discover what amazing things come from mixing jQuery with awesome food and sun (and bats!). We hope you'll attend to find out which city did it before it was cool.
We'll be at the Convention Center in downtown Austin. We have room blocks at the nearby Hyatt Place and Radisson Hotels. To receive our rate and join our room block in either hotel, use the links below to book your hotel room.
jQuery is one of the most widely-used tools on the Open Web, and its users have broad exposure across the discipline of front-end development. The goal of jQuery Conference is to bring together experts from across our field to bring you up to speed on the latest in jQuery, jQuery UI, jQuery Mobile, and a whole lot more. With subjects ranging from emerging browser technologies like push notifications, web components, and responsive design to test and build automation to software development workflow, jQuery Austin is a great opportunity to become a more well-rounded web application developer and get to know colleagues and peers from around the world.
jQuery continues to evolve to meet the needs of web developers. House cleaning in jQuery Core 1.9 and 2.0 has whittled away the fat and cruft from the API, plus the ability to create custom builds means you don't need to load what you don't use. When performance problems arise, however, it's important to understand how your use of jQuery can affect performance. We'll bust a few myths about what makes web pages slow and use some readily available tools to identify the real performance killers.
Dave Methvin is President of the jQuery Foundation and the team leader for jQuery Core. He also provides independent consulting focused on client-side web technologies and web site performance. Past positions include Chief Technology Officer at PC Pitstop, Executive Editor at Windows Magazine, and more than two decades of experience as a freelance technology writer. Unlike the former CEO of Yahoo, Dave can prove that he has Computer Science degrees--a Master's and Bachelor's from the University of Virginia.
You're putting your application together, but now you're getting some sort of weird errors, and you're not exactly sure where the heck to start looking. Did you mess something up, or are you bringing in some plugin that might be broken in a weird way that only you've hit?
Having spent the last few years debugging code that he didn't write, Brian will show you how to dig into code using the latest developer tools in today's browsers in order to find and fix (or at least isolate) what's broken. We'll be using the console along with DOM inspection and source viewing to resolve all the things, including some tips and tricks for working with and debugging AMD modules!
Brian Arnold is a Senior Software Engineer at BazaarVoice. Prior to that, he was the Lead Support Engineer at SitePen, where he spent years digging through and fixing code for a wide variety of clients.
There's more to jQuery UI Widget development than just calling
$.widget. This talk will discuss techniques that will help you get more of jQuery UI Widget Factory-based widgets, especially in mixed front-end environments, including:
Richard Lindsey is a Front End Architect at The Advisory Board Company in Austin, TX. He is responsible for maintaining and expanding upon their internal UI widget library that's used across all of their products.
With an ever widening pipeline of web capable devices, the previously clear line of mobile vs. desktop platforms is blurring. Touch screens can now be found not only on smartphones and tablets, but also on laptops, desktops, and even smart TVs. And thus, web developers are left with a difficult task of building pages that look good and function well on all platforms.
In this talk, I will share my experience in using jQuery Mobile to try and create pages that provide the best user experience regardless of the device. I will focus on:
While the examples utilize jQuery Mobile, the general ideas could be easily applied to creating pages with other frameworks.
Scientist. Programmer. Web Developer. Open Science and Open Source Enthusiast. Asta works at the National Center for Biotechnology Information (part of National Library of Medicine of National Institutes of Health) building scientific analysis resources available online to the public around the world. She has been programming in various languages for more than ten years and using jQuery extensively for the past three. When not busy coding, Asta enjoys board games and a good glass of wine.
The ACC is right in the middle of downtown Austin, deep in the heart of Texas, which mean that the sheer deliciousness of the options surrounding us for lunch is simply too much for us to make a call on what'll best suit your fancy. We've opted to give you a nice healthy chunk of time to have a nice
unhealthy meal at any one of the many Austin-tatious restaurants within a few blocks' walk.
We've compiled a small list of some of our local favorites. If you care for our two cents, the hot dogs at Frank are can't-miss
(especially if you've never had one) and Ironworks offers classic Texas BBQ and does not even require crossing the street.
Gourmet Hot Dogs, Cocktails and Coffee
Upscale American (Burgers, Steaks, etc.)
Falafel Food Truck
Mexican, Cocktails
Award-winning Burgers
Bake Shop and Beer Garden
Mexican, Margaritas (15% off with coupon)
Mexican, Margaritas (Free Appetizer with coupon)
Irish Pub Fare, Beer
With 100 minutes allotted for lunch, there ought to be enough time for you to get in and out of (and amble to and from) most of these or any of the many other fine choices that await you. Use your best judgment and if you find yourself on a very long line, you may want to postpone your trip until dinner or the day after! The Austin Convention and Visitor's Bureau has put together this created this Downtown Austin Restaurant Cheat Sheet (PDF) if you're looking for food information in a more ...digestible format!
Grunt lets you automate anything. Whatever you're trying to do, there's a Grunt task for that. But sometimes it's less obvious how to combine grunt tasks to do things like run a development server with connect or integrate with TravisCI for continuous integration. This talk will take you beyond defining a simple grunt file and open your eyes to new possibilities.
I am a 27 year old software developer living in Austin, Texas, and I work at Waterfall Mobile. Besides family, friends, and tacos, the internet is pretty much my favorite thing, so I became a web developer. It wasn't always like that though, at one time in a previous life I was a Marine, and after a few beers I'd be happy to tell you the funny stories that wouldn't be appropriate for a speaker bio.
Push notifications are an important part of application development. The question is, why don't we have them on the web? This talk will do a quick review of the current W3C draft of the Push API spec, then we'll talk about Mozilla's SimplePush API implementation, why it's awesome and how my team and I are working to hopefully help get this API implemented across browsers.
Kris is a Senior Software Engineer and the JavaScript lead on the AeroGear team at Red Hat where their goal is to help JBoss, and non-JBoss users alike, bring enterprise level web, hybrid and native applications to mobile devices. Kris is also a member of the jQuery Foundation Board of Directors, a committer on the jQuery UI project and has been dabbling in open source projects for years.
voxel.js is a collection of projects that make it easier than ever to create 3D voxel games and visualizations all in the browser.
This talk will explore the similarities of voxel.js and jQuery projects. Such as the plugin ecosystem, API, ease of use and more. It will also feature examples of using jQuery and Three.js to help build your 3D project with voxel.js.
Vlad Filippov is part of the Identity team at Mozilla, hacking on various identity-attached services. He has also been deeply immersed in software development since last century. His work has roamed widely: from desktop web development (client and server), to mobile, Android and 3D games. In the brief moments he is not coding, Vlad enjoys music and British comedy.
As Stack Overflow fills up with questions like "Why would I use 'em' instead of 'px'?" or "Why would I use a 'for' loop instead of a 'while' loop?", it's become more and more apparent that the foundations of learning (and mastering) basic HTML, CSS, and JS can unfortunately be overlooked during the learning process. This can lead to even bigger problems down the road in a developer's career. Teaching people is hard though, and effectively teaching them the answer to "why?" is sometimes even harder.
In this talk, we'll look at some tips that can assist in teaching new front-end developers what they need to know to successfully become awesome, while simultaneously providing them with the answers to some whys to help them understand the sometimes abstract concepts that are introduced during the learning process.
Dan Gribbin is a Front-End Engineer at Brand Networks in Rochester, NY. He has taught a series on Web Development from beginner to advanced levels at the Rochester Brainery, an organization for affordable learning, as well as run informal introductory front-end classes at BN. When not learning, he obsesses over the perfect cup of coffee, takes photos, and spins records.
AngularJS is a fascinating framework for web developers. It's really a completely different way to build applications. There is no DOM selection and mutation, there are only Directives.
What is a directive? How do they work? What is transclusion? Why are all of these words so big? These questions and more will be answered in this session based on my article of the same title on ADC, as well as my work on the open source project, Angular Kendo UI.
Burke Holland is a web developer who hangs out in Nashville, TN even though he doesn't really care for country music. He is a recovering Adobe Flex developer and current JavaScript / HTML5 fanatic working as a Developer Advocate For Kendo UI. You can find him blogging for Kendo UI and on his personal blog A Shiny New Me. He hangs out on twitter as @burkeholland and avoids Facebook altogether. He has an obsession with Instagram and once updated everyone's last name in the corporate ERP database to "Holland". He is not a fan of SQL.
Web development is not just for making websites! Code has become a whole other medium for making art, and it's so easy to do nowadays thanks to jQuery, HTML, and CSS.
I'm going to show how you - yes you! - can draw, edit images, and facilitate the creative process using code and your imagination.
Jenn Schiffer is a senior front-end web developer at the NBA and teaches web tools and tech fluency at Montclair State University in northern New Jersey. She has done research in education assessment and semantic web technologies, worked for an extended period of time in the hyperlocal news industry, and enjoys building open source and art-related applications.
We hope you'll join us at Buffalo Billiards from 7-10pm on Tuesday for a fun night of pool, darts, ping-pong, shuffleboard, music, light appetizers, an open bar, and great company.
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Austin, TX 78701
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Big changes are coming to jQuery UI and jQuery Mobile this year as the projects start to merge. We'll take a look at why we've undertaken this effort, what's changing, and how we're going to make integration with both projects easier for developers.
Scott González is a web application developer living in York, Pennsylvania. He has been contributing to jQuery since 2007 and is currently the project lead for jQuery UI, jQuery's official user interface library. Scott also writes tutorials about jQuery and jQuery UI on nemikor.com and is a co-author of the 'jQuery Cookbook' from O'Reilly.
Front-end developers must create complex solutions with limited available tooling in browser environments in order to modularize their applications and produce reusable code.
With new specs like web components, developers are now able to leverage existing knowledge to build widgets and components that can be reused easily.
In this talk, I will explore the current state of modular browser components and discuss newly available libraries and frameworks to provide attendees with the tools to move towards optimized modularization.
Juan Pablo is a pharmaceutical chemist turned front-end developer currently working for Onswipe as VP of Engineering. His passion for open source transcends online collaboration as the organizer of BogotaConf, a developer conference in Colombia, and the curator of JSConf Colombia for its first 2013 installment.
As a core contributor to AuraJS in conjunction with his involvement in client-side architecture at Onswipe, Juan Pablo's current focus is scalability and design of client-side applications and the use of third-party libraries as components.
jQuery Core and AMD have teamed up to create the most modular source to ever be present in the jQuery repo. I will explain these changes, as well as the philosophy behind them, and provide some ideas on how you might be able to take advantage of this modularity in your own code.
Timmy is a jQuery Core Team member and Lead Front-End Operations Engineer at Quickcue. He spends most of his time in the web, but also dabbles in iOS. Timmy is responsible for the Sizzle rewrite(s) in jQuery 1.8 and helped bring AMD to jQuery Core in 1.11/2.1.
It'll soon be 3 years since Deferreds were introduced in jQuery. Even still, not enough jQuery developers are using them to get a handle on the asynchronous nature of their applications. If you don't mind a heavy French accent, Julian will lay out the basics of Deferreds and then show you how awesomely helpful they can be "in the wild."
Julian is a member of the jQuery Core Team living in Brussels. He's also a co-editor of the XHR specification at the W3C. While not working on jQuery, XHR or other open-source endeavors, Julian creates web sites and gives JavaScript and jQuery trainings for Creative-Area.
Same plan as the day before. Try someplace new, or go back for seconds!
Deadlines, conceptual changes, miscommunication! When caught in the typical urgency of development timelines, how can developers innovate and implement new ideas? Conferences are inspiring, but it can be difficult for us to leverage new concepts without some fundamental, yet simple tweaks in our approach to projects and in our relationships with designers and clients.
Drawing on practical examples from client work at Jet Cooper, a Toronto-based UX and development agency, this talk will describe the building of a collaborative process that addresses these common developer concerns. By involving developers from the beginning of a project, building in time for learning and prototyping, and strengthening cross-team collaboration, we can not only improve project workflows, but also build a more developer-friendly culture. As a result, we can push technical boundaries, increase the quality of our applications, and help us keep our sanity!
Monika Piotrowicz is a front-end developer at Jet Cooper, a Toronto-based user experience and development agency. Focusing on the HTML/CSS/JS side of things since 2009, she's enjoyed working on a variety of projects with clients ranging from startups to enterprises, and is a vocal advocate for closer collaboration between designers and developers. When she's not busy working, you can find her testing out new recipes and playing rec-league dodegeball.
Performance is a major concern on mobile platforms. jQuery Mobile 1.4 adds a number of performance related options and features to help you speed up your mobile site along with a new theme designed to make your site render as fast as possible. Learn Tips and tricks to make your site as fast as it can. Covered in this talk will be not only framework optimizations but server side tricks to minimize transfer but page initialization times.
Topics covered will include:
Alex Schmitz is a Portland, Maine based web developer and jQuery Mobile team member. He has been a web developer for over 16 years and is passionate about the future of the mobile web and is currently working on the merge of the jQuery Mobile and jQuery UI projects.
It is no secret the benefits that jQuery has to offer the web community. Its easy-to-use event management, DOM traversal and manipulation have completely changed the way we write Javascript and has also had a pivotal role in Javascript's recent transition into a first class programming language. What most people don't realize, however, is that it can also be used in conjunction with other exciting Javascript technologies to create powerful web automation tools.
So let's make some awesomesauce by combining three of the most exciting Javascript technologies together!
Travis Tidwell started his professional career in software development over a decade ago architecting embedded software for marine and agricultural GPS navigation products for Fortune 100 companies. It was during this time, when Travis found his true calling when he developed and founded the MediaFront project, which became widely popular within the Open Source web technology communities. His passion for Open Source quickly became the driving force behind his career path which quickly led him to become the Lead Developer for AllPlayers.com whose business model is a direct reflection of Open Source ideologies. Travis is both a seasoned Developer and Leader who is typically found presenting on Technology and Open Source Business Models at camps and conferences across the nation.
In this talk, I will present my journey from my discovery of jQuery Mobile and being a simple user of the framework, to becoming a contributor and joining the mobile and content teams. You will find out how one can contribute to the jQuery project, the benefits that contributors get from doing so, as well as what lies behind the role of "team member". Some aspects of how the team members interact and work together will also be covered.
Anne-Gaelle Colom is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Westminster in London, UK. She is passionate about the use of technology in Higher Education as well as the Web and Mobile world. Anne-Gaelle joined the jQuery Mobile team in October 2011 to become the documentation lead a few months later.
A computer that can talk to us has been part of science fiction for a long time. For a number of people it has been a reality for quite a while: Those with limited or no sight at all, usually referred to as blind computer users.
Making web sites and applications work for people that rely on a screenreader poses many interesting challenges. Usually there is no budget for accessiblity, as the number of users affected is small - exceptions apply wherever websites have to conform to regulations like Section 508 (aka Section 508 Amendment to the Rehabilitation Act of 1973). Even when there's a budget, or just a rogue developer who cares, there a barriers in specifications, tools and testing, that make it hard for the average developer to improve the overall result.
At the same time, although the targeted group of users is relatively small, it's this group that often benefits the most from a web service, since it can give them a form of independence they might not have in their day to day life, often more than able-bodied users do.
This talk will provide:
A half hour talk won't make you an instant expert, but you should get enough of a boost to make a difference on your next project.
Jörn is a freelance web developer, consultant and trainer, based in Cologne, Germany. Jörn evolved jQuery's testsuite into QUnit, a JavaScript unit testing framework, and maintains it. He created and maintains a number of popular plugins. As a jQuery UI development lead, he focuses on the development of new plugins, widgets and utilities.
The open web doesn't stop at our desktop. Smart phones and tablets not only contain more computing power and better browsers than the computers that started the Internet economy, they have better displays.
In this session presented, we will work through tips and tricks to develop future friendly images in our sites and apps:
...and much more!
Christopher Schmitt is the founder of Heatvision.com, Inc., an Austin-based new media publishing and design firm, and co-founder of Environments for Humans, a leader in web and mobile conferences.
An award-winning web designer who has been working in the medium for twenty years, Christopher interned for both David Siegel and Lynda Weinman as an undergraduate at Florida State University.
He has a Masters in Communication for Interactive and New Communication Technologies, and is the author of six books, Including Designing Web & Mobile Graphics and CSS Cookbook, the latter was named Best Web Design Book of 2006.
Whether you're just starting or have been using jQuery for years, this class is a great fit for those with questions about core jQuery concepts. You should be comfortable looking at jQuery and JavaScript code, and experience using the command line is also beneficial. Registration begins at 8:00 AM. Training sessions run from 9:30 AM until 6:00 PM, with a break for lunch, which will be provided on-site.
We'll cover topics such as:
You'll have opportunities to try what you're learning with take-home exercises. By the end of the day, you'll be ready to tackle front-end development challenges with a better understanding of both JavaScript and the jQuery library.
Dan Heberden is a Senior Developer at Bocoup and the Director of Technology at the jQuery Foundation. He's an expert on deployment and the author of Gith, an open-source tool for deployment.
Bocoup is an Open Web technology consulting and training company building and supporting tomorrow's Open Web technologies and helping our customers adopt them. Bocoup makes significant contributions to the jQuery core library informed by real-world implementation experience. Bocoup also works on connected jQuery Foundation technologies, infrastructure projects, documentation and getting-started guides as well as numerous other Open Web JavaScript libraries, frameworks and learning materials.
Refunds are available until Aug 10, 2013, 11:59pm EST, for price paid minus the processing fees paid at time of purchase. After that, tickets can only be transferred. The deadline for ticket transfers is Aug 31, 2013 at 11:59pm EST. Email the events team with any questions or to arrange transfers.


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I just can't rag on the Gators if we're doing similar SEC tactics, I'm not really hurt or care that much, since my 'Canes always have a tough schedule as you have pointed out–but I don't want to see us scheduling Jacksonville or Florida School for the Blind in November. It's not happening yet, but avoiding LSU screams a slippery slope.
Either way the BCS is on it's way out and a playoff imminent–putting value back on competitive scheduling might not make much difference for the 1-2 undefeated teams vying for the number one and two slot but for differing between 8 10-2 teams which one is the best there isn't much other option.
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While in Tinseltown for the Democratic convention, President Clinton got to test-drive a new hotel. The St. Regis-Los Angeles, which was scheduled to open Oct. 1, put out the welcome mat early for the presidential party—as well as for Christopher Reeve, who was there as a guest of the White House. Although the hotel reserved its finest rooms—the three-bedroom Reagan Presidential Suite—for the Clintons, Chelsea chose to stay-in a separate room.
Kirstie Alley's kids William True, 7, and Lillie Price, 6, may be too young to see an R-rated movie in the U.S., but their age proved no problem in Paris recently when they accompanied their mom to a risqué, tops-optional cabaret at the famed Moulin Rouge nightclub.
Robert Downey Jr., just out of prison, already has a full work schedule lined up. After accepting a recurring role on Ally McBeal—I hear that he'll be playing a character all too familiar to him in real life, a lawyer—he is sifting through offers for his next gig. Downey is being courted for a new Robert Altman film, an ensemble piece to be shot in London in February. "I know he'll do it if he's not got some big gig that he's starring in at the time," says Altman. Maybe Downey could play a bodybuilder. Altman, who directed Downey in 1993's Short Cuts and 1998's The Gingerbread Man, says that the actor, who spent a lot of time exercising while in prison, "is like a rock. He's a perfect specimen."
When it comes to parking, Oscar winner James Coburn apparently thinks it's valet or no way. Coburn last week pulled up to a North Hollywood theater where Noah Wyle, Stockard Channing, Kelly Preston, Suzanne Somers and other stars had turned out to see Sally Kellerman's autobiographical one-woman show, which the actress cowrote. Coburn circled the block four times in search of parking, then waved goodbye to those outside. Kellerman, who played "Hot Lips" Houlihan in the 1970 film version of M*A*S*H, performed for two nights and hopes to take her act to Broadway.
Fast takes: L.A. Lakers star Kobe Bryant, accompanied by fiancée Vanessa Laine, was overheard speaking fluent Italian to maître d' Gigi Delmaestro of Palm in West Hollywood. Both Bryant and Delmaestro were raised in Italy....
I hear Kirsten Dunst is dating Ben Foster (Liberty Heights), her costar in Getting Over Allison, a romantic comedy that will hit theaters in 2001. Dunst's publicist says the pair are "just good friends."...
R & B crooner Brian McKnight was dropped from the list of scheduled performers at a Democratic convention fund-raiser after he sang for the Republicans at their confab in Philadelphia....
Steven Spielberg and wife Kate Cap-shaw dined with Haley Joel Osment and Jude Law at Nick & Toni's in East Hampton, N.Y. Spielberg is directing Osment and Law in next summer's sci-fi flick A.I.
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Erie believers reflect on spirituality and religion
This week, Christians will gather for the holiest week on their church calendar. Jews ready themselves for Passover, which starts Monday evening. Outside, swelling tree buds, green shoots, melting snow and bird songs can put pep in anyone's step.
You could call it a new chance for spiritual rebirth, no matter your belief system.
For tens of millions of people, those systems are changing. Traditional faiths and their spiritual underpinnings are reeling from half a century of questions and scandals, religious wars and the rise of individualism.
The changes are measurable and undeniable.
According to a 2012 survey by the Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life involving roughly 35,000 Americans, 73 percent identify as Christians, while nearly 20 percent call themselves "unaffiliated." These include atheists and agnostics.
In 2007, those numbers stood at 78 percent Christians and 16 percent unaffiliated.
The report summary said the number of Americans who do not identify with any religion continues to grow at a rapid pace. One-fifth of the U.S. public -- and a third of adults younger than 30 -- are religiously unaffiliated today, the highest percentage ever in the Pew Research Center poll.
"People moving into the unaffiliated category outnumber those moving out of the unaffiliated group by more than a three-to-one margin," the report said.
That doesn't mean, however, that God is dead, or even dying.
Many of the country's 46 million unaffiliated adults say they are religious or spiritual in some way, and more than a third of those say they're "spiritual" but not "religious," the survey found.
What's going on?
Penny Guelcher attends Catholic Mass every morning before heading to work at St. Martin Center.
"It is time for Jesus and me to bond," she said. "Days are really busy, and sometimes it's hard to take the time to make that connection."
But she sees what's happening.
"When I think of 'religious,' it conjures up pictures of nuns and priests and old ladies who go with their rosaries to church every day," Guelcher said. "'Spiritual' seems like you are exploring your connection with a higher power."
She doesn't condemn anyone who makes a distinction between religion and spirituality.
"I think someone who is spiritual is actually making the effort to understand and apply their faith, regardless of what it is," she said. "To me, 'religious' isn't always 'honest,' but more of a surface description."
College professors who teach religious studies see the changes firsthand.
"People are disenchanted with traditional Christianity," said Stephen J. Sullivan, assistant professor of philosophy at Edinboro University of Pennsylvania. "They see Christianity as intolerant and hateful, anti-gay and obsessed with abortion."
Tom Forsthoefel, chairman of the department of religious studies at Mercyhurst University, thinks about this a lot.
"They see the controlling impulses in the clergy, the hierarchical dynamics that some people feel oppressed by, and sexism. Worse, you can see criminal abuse and cover-up," he said.
Forsthoefel added that he doesn't mean to single out any particular religion.
"Any traditional religion grapples with the struggles of the modern world, and perhaps religion doesn't meet the contemporary needs of a modern person."
Generation gap
Nowhere is the trend away from organized religion more obvious than among people aged 18 to 29, a third of whom claim no religious affiliation.
Megan Briggs, a 20-year-old Mercyhurst junior, and one of Forsthoefel's students, said she was raised Catholic.
"I went to church every week, worked with the church and was in the youth group," she said.
Now, a somewhat disillusioned Catholic and religion studies major, she recently took a class devoted to Buddhism.
"My favorite part was the mindfulness," Briggs said. "It offers a simple meditative or prayer technique that calms you down almost instantaneously."
This kind of discovery puts Briggs squarely in the middle of a larger trend toward cafeteria-style spirituality.
"When people say 'I'm spiritual, not religious,' what they're saying is, 'I'm not going to identify myself with a traditional, institutional religious form,'" Forsthoefel said. "So they borrow or derive some benefit from various practices."
Briggs' classmate Hunter McCabe, 20, is studying philosophy. His father is a nondenominational pastor at a church near Pittsburgh, but McCabe said his parents accept his spiritual exploration.
"There seems to be so much negativity in the church, because they segregate themselves in a bubble," he said. "My goal is to step outside that bubble and see what the rest of the world holds."
He doesn't think that puts him at odds with his family's teaching.
"Spirituality gives people the opportunity to discover something beyond themselves, but not be trapped in an organized religion," McCabe said.
He does think some religious institutions are getting a bad rap.
"Atheists say they don't like Christians because they've killed people," he said. "If you ask people why they don't like Islam, it's because they have terrorists.
"Those are extremely reductive views of religion, but that's what people want," he said. "They don't delve into the situation, but they make judgments based on it."
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Briggs said she is turned off by the rigidity of Catholicism.
"It makes you think you can't be a Catholic unless you follow all the rules," she said. "This makes a big separation between younger groups and religious people in the churches.
"If there was not that divide, if there was inclusiveness, openness and dialogue between age groups or institutions, that would help a lot."
Sullivan said part of what's happening with young people is perennial.
"Everybody gets more liberal in their late teens," he said. "It's part of growing up."
But he thinks this generation, and even some of their parents, are making fundamental changes to what they see as God's role in American culture.
"Many are openly impatient with what they find to be retrograde, narrow-mindedness and obsessed thinking from the church," Sullivan said.
"I think that's cool. The domination of American life by religion per se is diminishing. I'm happier than I can say about that."
That's not to say Sullivan doesn't believe in a higher power or that he thinks less of people who do.
"Almost everyone wants a sense of the meaning of life," he said.
In defense
Jane-Ellen Nickell, chaplain at Allegheny College, said all is not lost.
"Even those who are involved in organized religion may say they are spiritual and religious, to indicate that their faith goes beyond empty or blind adherence," she said.
"This has led some people to think they can help bring a sense of renewal to the church."
Many preachers find themselves trying to keep up with the changes.
"There are negative connotations" to the word "religion," said the Rev. John Jacquel, pastor of St. John the Baptist and Holy Rosary Catholic churches. "Abuses and scandals have caused that, and a power play that has happened, sadly, which is not what the true religion is all about."
The Rev. David Oyler, general presbyter of the Presbytery of Lake Erie, said he is trying to embrace the phenomenon.
"I think there is great truth and passion in what people are saying," Oyler said. "There is uneasiness about institutional churches, but people still often feel a great sense of connection with spiritual matters."
He said those who leave the church are missing the support of community and opportunity for structured spiritual growth.
The Rev. Dan Owen, of Asbury United Methodist Church, said church is what you make of it.
"If you think of church as a human invention, then that's fine. It's like leaving a club," Owen said. "But if you look at the church as a body invented by God and if you care about God's will, then you care about being part of the body."
He pointed to weaknesses in those religious bodies that aren't helping.
"Boredom is one," he said. "I go to a lot of churches on vacation, and so many are just so dull.
"There's also unfriendliness and internal political conflict and preaching that doesn't connect the Bible to real life issues."
Tension with other churches doesn't help.
"I think, for a long time, people within different Christian traditions felt that their way is the only way and the best way, so they self-divided themselves from other forms of Christianity."
But, he said, a church can be so much more.
"God's will is for us to live within a community with other people," he said, adding that church provides "accountability, and challenges to live by the ideals of Christ."
Reaching out
The Rev. Frank Gore, of Good Shepherd Lutheran Church in Conneaut, Ohio, said he makes sure his messages from the pulpit remain positive and inclusive.
"The Christian faith is supposed to bring people closer together and bring them into a sense of community, not a division within that community," he said.
He said it's valuable for him to work with and accept believers of other religions.
"When we're working with other clergy," he said, "we try to be accepting of each other's differences."
Gore said he wishes people could understand the benefits of an official church.
"If you're not connected in the organization of the church, then you're not going to grow spiritually," he said. "It takes you to a greater understanding when you're not doing it on your own. That strengthens people."
Gore isn't picky about where that happens.
"That can be done within the church, a mosque, a temple, or it can be done in an organization that cares for people," he said. "Even hospice has some sort of spirituality to it."
Some pastors have no patience for individual and spiritual exploration. The Rev. Fred Ayers, of Walnut Creek Baptist Church, is one.
"We go back to what the Bible says," he said. "It's not a cultural or world trend."
He attributes the rise in nonreligious spirituality to the cultural tumult of the 1960s.
"It's from Eastern mysticism and its influx into our culture," Ayers said. He blames "the media" for creating "lots of confusion about what the Bible says."
He said in his church God's word is "pretty clear."
"It's not a mystery or thing that you need to go into a room and do Gregorian chants for a month to understand."
He decried what he called Biblical illiteracy.
"I read these things and wonder, 'Where do these people get this from?' They think there are things in the Bible that just aren't there."
Ayers drew a clear line between his teaching and those who search for spirituality.
"Spiritualists make it up as they go along," he said. "There's no baseline or standard for what they believe.
"That's scary. Any wacko can come along and lead them in whatever direction they want. That's how you get cults," he said. "People who aren't familiar with the Bible fall for it."
The other side of the fence
The Rev. Steve Aschmann speaks carefully as he describes the mission of the Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Erie.
"In this congregation, we have people who follow many different spiritual paths, but don't necessarily believe in a deity," he said. "And yet are very concerned about ethics and morality."
Members strive for social justice, inclusivity, tolerance and acceptance, he said
Aschmann's business card shows symbols denoting nine religions, including Christian, Jewish, Taoist, Islamist, Native American, Buddhist, Hinduist, Wiccan, and Unitarian Universalism.
"We're more concerned about the here and now than the hereafter," Aschmann said.
While some pastors are concerned about an exodus from physical sanctuaries, Aschmann said his congregation embraces the individualism that's driving it.
He himself took an unlikely journey from college to the pulpit at the Unitarian Universalist Church. He started his college studies in 1966 at conservative Bob Jones University in Greenville, S.C.
"I lasted one semester before they kicked me out," he said with a laugh. "I asked too many questions about the race issue. I wanted to start an integrated church.
"They told me they just don't do that."
Aschmann said he couldn't accept the idea that Christians would pick and choose their followers, or assert their brand of religion on other people.
"I thought if the story about Jesus was true, it needed to be true for everybody," he said. Now he performs weddings for gay people, hosts yoga classes and gatherings for immigrants from all over the globe. Many in the congregation include humanists.
"This is a very permeable building," he said, waving his arm around the circular sanctuary.
He said many of the congregants come to his church to find their own spiritual path.
"Sometimes people come here on their way to something else," he said. "We don't impose doctrine on them."
Whatever you do, don't call his church nondenominational. "Unitarian Universalism is a belief system with centuries of its own history and teachings," Aschmann said. "We welcome everyone who welcomes everyone else."
Speaking of long-term
Sona Hernandez, a yoga instructor, wholistic health practitioner and operations manager of City Center Arts, says yoga has been practiced as a spiritual journey in Asian cultures for 5,000 years, and it's much more than an exercise routine.
"The word 'yoga' simply means to 'yoke mind, body and spirit,'" she said. "Yoga postures are just one of 'the eight limbs of yoga.'"
The point, she said, is to prepare the body for peaceful meditation.
"I think you can find spirituality in a church, in a yoga studio, even in the woods," she said.
"Some people call that God, or Brahman, or Allah, or quantum physics. It's just an acknowledgment that there's something greater that we are connected to than the individual self or ego that we as humans are born with."
She harbors no ill will toward her naysayers. "I know certain religions don't accept yoga," she said. "They think it's dangerous or evil or bad for you.
"Even if somebody in a religion sees that what I do as negative, that's OK. Especially if they're able to connect with their own spirituality on their own avenues."
Jacquel said there is little conflict between truly spiritual people.
"If there's one God expressed in different manners," he said. "And we're adhering to the life God has given us, we have more in common than what separates us."
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MARTINSBURG - A local social worker just keeps winning.
Billy Coleman, of Martinsburg, has been winning national contests through restaurant chain Buffalo Wild Wings for the past three years. The most recent contest will land Coleman and a guest in Arizona from Dec. 27 to Jan. 1 to visit the Grand Canyon and attend the 25th annual Buffalo Wild Wings Bowl game between the Michigan Wolverines and the Kansas State Wildcats at Sun Devil Stadium in Tempe.
"I've gone to a few Shepherd (University) games," he said. "And I've been to a few (West Virginia University) games, but nothing on this scale."
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Multiple-time Buffalo Wild Wings national contest winner Billy Coleman, of Martinsburg, is pictured outside the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, Calif., where he played flag football with Pro Football Hall of Famers Jerry Rice and Deion Sanders as one of his prizes in 2010. He will attend the Buffalo Wild Wings Bowl on Dec. 28 after winning another contest from the restaurant.
In September, Coleman entered a promotion called the Coca-Cola Zero Big Kick Challenge. Participants downloaded an application to a mobile device, according to the Buffalo Wild Wings' website. They visited a participating restaurant location and launched the app, according to game rules. The players aimed their mobile device at an insert in a table caddy and swiped the screen to virtually simulate kicking a football through goal posts on a field, according to the restaurant's website.
The promotion rules stated once the player registered through the app, they received a weekly score, which accumulated over two six-week periods. According to Coleman, he was the grand prize winner because he earned the highest score in the nation for the first period. He said he was in second place in the next period but stopped once he found out he was ineligible to win both periods.
The Shepherd University grad will receive a complimentary three-day, two-night trip with airfare, a two-night hotel stay, $1,000 in spending money, two bowl game tickets. a prize pack and two tickets to a pregame tailgating party. The approximate retail value of all of the prizes is $45,000.
He said he plans to take his girlfriend, and he is most excited about visiting the Grand Canyon and a bowl game for the first time.
Coleman said he is a regular at the Foxcroft Avenue location and has become the subject of a joke with the staff because of his luck. He said the staff is no longer surprised when they find out he won something.
"Just walk in there and say my name, and they'll say, 'Oh, the guy that wins everything,'" he said.
Franchisee Jenny Beaudoin, of Stephens City, Va., said the company has at least one contest a month, depending on the sports season. Beaudoin said she and her team at the restaurant are happy for Coleman.
"We're very excited for him and for this opportunity," she said. "Especially since our operation is a smaller one in the system."
Coleman said that in 2012, a restaurant employee told him about a radio station trivia contest. The 10th caller to correctly answer a question about Buffalo Wild Wings would win a grill for Father's Day, he said.
The next day, when he got into his car, he turned on the radio as the announcer was telling listeners to call in to answer the trivia question, Coleman said. He said he called and happened to be the correct caller. The announcer asked Coleman to name seven Buffalo Wild Wings flavors, Coleman answered correctly and moved onto the next round, he said.
Coleman said he had to compete with six other contestants in several rounds in which they tasted wings and tried to identify their flavors while blindfolded. He was the last man standing and won a $500 stainless steel gas grill, he said.
"It was pretty exciting because I had my two daughters with me and it was Father's Day," he said.
The father of Claire, 7, and Allison, 4, has been a social worker for the Board of Child Care, an organization in Martinsburg that serves troubled youths and their families, for more than six years, according to Coleman.
"It's not the most high-paying job," he said, "But it's one of the most rewarding because we help kids."
He said he has been involved in social work for 16 years and decided to enter the field after tough experiences that made him want to help other people.
In 2010, Coleman won the grand prize in the Buffalo Wild Wings Pick 'Em challenge. Each week of the regular National Football League season, contestants predicted the winner of each game. There were different weekly winners, and Coleman won week 15 by correctly guessing the outcomes of all the games.
The winners and their guests won a trip to California to play in a flag football game with professional football Hall of Famers Jerry Rice and Deion Sanders. Their coaches were Mike Golic and Mike Greenberg, hosts of Mike and Mike, an ESPN sports talk show. Everyone split into two teams, and Rice and Sanders were the captains.
Coleman said he was on Rice's team, and although his team lost by a touchdown, the experience was priceless. He said he caught a touchdown pass from Rice and intercepted a pass from Sanders.
The free trip package also included free travel, a stay at a hotel, a tour of the Rose Bowl and other gifts.
He said everyone asks him what brings him good luck.
"I'd like to think it's because I'm a good person," he said. "I think that I have a job that I do well, and maybe I'm getting rewarded for it."
He said he wins so much because he is persistent.
"If you wanted to win, you had to go there every day," he said. "If I wouldn't have gone a few days, I probably wouldn't have gotten first place."
He said a lot of people are discouraged by major contests, because they do not think they will win, but he stays positive and wins.
He suggested that everyone enter contests, especially when they are free. He said he is not a big gambler and does not play the lottery, but his friends always ask to take him to Las Vegas in hopes of winning at the casinos.
When asked what advice he would give to anyone considering entering a contest, he joked, "If I'm in it, don't enter it."
He said some people are jealous, but they do not realize the downfall to winning prizes with cash value - taxes. He said he will have to add the value of this month's trip to the tax returns he will file with the Internal Revenue Service.
"They kill me on taxes," he said. "But that's a trade-off I'll do any day. ... This will be the trip of a lifetime."
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Some regional ramblings as three Trumbull County basketball teams turn their attention from celebrating district titles to the next step and perhaps a trip to Columbus:
Harding won its second consecutive district championship with a 52-42 victory over Cleveland St. Ignatius on Saturday afternoon at Warrensville Heights High School. Several hours later, Lakewood St. Edward secured a spot as the Raiders' regional semifinal opponent by beating Parma, 54-51, in a district final at Brecksville.
And so they will meet again, just over a year after the Eagles used a blown call to force overtime and eventually beat the Raiders, 77-75, in a regional final at Cleveland State University's Wolstein Center.
Harding-St. Edward II will take place at 8 p.m. on Wednesday night in the same building in which the Raiders were denied a regional championship after a bad call of epic proportions. It is only fitting Harding, which has adopted the motto, ''Unfinished business,'' gets another shot at St. Edward.
If the Raiders beat the Eagles, they could face a familiar opponent in the regional final CSU. Mentor and North Ridgeville will meet in the other semifinal Wednesday night.
Harding beat visiting Mentor, 74-72, in its regular-season finale on Feb. 28. The Cardinals are led by former Girard coach Bob Krizancic.
The third-seeded Vikings were big underdogs to the top-seeded Tigers, based in large part on two regular-season losses to Newton Falls, which entered tournament play 18-2.
LaBrae was an up-and-down 12-8 after the regular season. The Tigers crushed the Vikings, 75-42, at Newton Falls on Jan. 9, but LaBrae played much better in the teams' second meeting, on Feb. 13 in Leavittsburg. The Tigers came from behind to win, 66-51, but the Vikings came away convinced they could not only match up against their backyard rivals, but win a potential third meeting.
''We knew we could beat them if we got to play them again,'' LaBrae sophomore Jacob Jaros said.
Their chance came Friday night.
Kiser had said it would be impossible to stop both 6-foot-11 Marcus Fowler in the paint and cool off Newton Falls' perimeter shooters, but LaBrae did just that.
Fowler had a double-double with 11 points and 10 rebounds and he blocked five shots, but it still wasn't his typical game. The Tigers shot poorly as a group, going 17-of-52 from the floor, including 5-of-21 from 3-point range.
Even so, they led at the end of each of the first three quarters. But when LaBrae used an 8-0 fourth-quarter run to seize control, Newton Falls was unable to answer.
The Vikings had an athletic edge against the Tigers, but they'll have no such advantage against Cleveland Central Catholic at 6:15 p.m. on Wednesday at the Canton Fieldhouse. Kiser said the Ironmen are athletic and extremely quick.
Despite a more-than-solid season, John F. Kennedy coach Bruce Timko has been the target of criticism, even as the Eagles were making their way through the Division IV tournament at Harding.
Now that the Eagles have ended Windham's five-year run of district titles, it might be time for those with nothing better to do than rip people from the safety of their parents' basements to find a new hobby.
JFK will meet Youngstown Christian in a regional semifinal at 6:15 p.m. on Tuesday night at the Canton Fieldhouse. Timko's team lost to Youngstown Christian, 81-67, on Feb. 7, but JFK has gone 8-2 since then, losing only to Harding and Newton Falls.
And as LaBrae showed, regular-season results aren't always indicative of what may be to come in March. If Youngstown Christian allows Nick Brown to take over that game and Brown's teammates provide the necessary complementary contributions, a JFK victory is not out of the realm of possibility.


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After a harrowing couple of days, Fantasia Barrino is on the mend – and out of the hospital.
The American Idol season 3 champ was hospitalized in Charlotte, N.C., Monday for an overdose of aspirin and a sleep aid, but she was released from the hospital late Wednesday, says her manager Brian Dickens.
"She has been lifted up by the outpouring of love and support from her fans," Dickens said. "She is more committed than ever to her daughter and her work because they are her heart, her soul and inspiration."
The medical scare came just after Barrino, 26, was named in a court filing alleging that she was having an affair with a married man. The singer denied she was responsible for breaking up the marriage of Paula and Cook. However, on Tuesday admitted having dated Cook "off and on for 11 months."
Barrino says she believed Cook and his wife were separated, and is now "heartbroken and is sorry for any pain she may have caused."
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If you want to run a successful business, then you should make sure that your employees are satisfied. An unmotivated (or worse—a disgruntled) employee can harm a company's productivity as well as customer relationships with a company. Even though employee motivation may seem easy, it involves diligence and maintenance and cannot be accomplished overnight. Many motivation strategies exist but not every employee will respond to the same methods; you'll need to engage a variety of strategies on a regular basis in order to effectively motivate each of your employees.
Employee Motivation Tip #1: DON'T BE AFRAID OF FUN
"Fun" shouldn't be a dirty word! Organize company parties once a month or celebrate office birthdays when they occur—just avoid making the same party mistakes that notoriously-ignorant boss Michael Scott makes on The Office. You don't need to spend a ton of money to have a good time; a delicious cake from the corner grocery store can go a long way to break up the monotony of an occasional work day. If your company doesn't have the extra cash to spend on cakes or treats each time, then most employees probably won't mind donating a dollar or two to help supply the sweets!
Employees also enjoy shedding those stuffy suits or restricting uniforms once in awhile, so initiating "Casual Fridays" can boost morale as well. Jeans and t-shirts may not be appropriate for every workplace, but even allowing employees to wear a pair of khakis and a company polo shirt on Fridays would be a welcome change. In fact, any activity that temporarily removes employees from their work environment is a strong implementation of fun; company picnics, optional outings, and contests all have the power to motivate employees and to encourage them to enjoy themselves.
Weekly, bi-weekly, or monthly potlucks also give employees the opportunity to have fun at work. Each staff member could sign up to bring a different food item for a buffet-style spread in the company kitchen—a potluck would not only provide employees with healthy lunches but also encourage them to socialize with one another.
Employee Motivation Tip #2: USE INCENTIVES AND REWARDS
Employee incentives and rewards can range from pricier prizes like restaurant gift cards to inexpensive gifts like business-related promotional items. You may choose to reward staff members who meet specific performance goals or you may decide to hold a companywide contest, but either way has potential to motivate. Even a simple incentive like a designated parking space or the opportunity to leave an hour earlier on Friday can drive employees to do their best. Just remember that your staff members will likely appreciate your efforts to thank them more than they'll appreciate the actual gift itself—there's nothing like receiving a good pat on the back when you've worked hard!
Employee Motivation Tip #3: SCHEDULE REVIEWS
Not all reviews are worthy of dread! Quarterly or yearly reviews can be excellent motivation tools if they are correctly executed. To conduct a productive review, distribute a self-evaluation sheet to each employee prior to the review and ask them to come prepared to discuss their responses (in addition to your responses). This strategy can help to identify each employee's strengths and weaknesses, to discuss improvement methods, and to note specific accomplishments. Be careful how you organize the review process, though, because most employees get nervous when they're put on the spot! Highlight employee strengths to their fullest, and kindly suggest methods for improvement in the areas that lack.
Employee Motivation Tip #4: POSITIVE REINFORCEMENT OVER NEGATIVE
We've all read about the "Stick vs. Carrot" analogy: the stick exemplifies negative reinforcement and the carrot exemplifies positive reinforcement. Just as the carrot is a reward for desirable behavior, the stick is a punishment for unsatisfactory behavior. Even though most employees are better motivated by the carrot strategy, there are some employees who will only respond to the stick strategy. If this is the case with one of your employees, then you must devise a punitive measure for undesirable behavior in order to motivate him/her to change for the better. However, punishment should only be used as a last resort and you should always attempt to coax an uninspired employee with positive reinforcement first! It is actually much more effective to encourage employees with incentives than it is to punish them.
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In Short…
You won't get anywhere with your employees if you constantly force them to work long hours, refuse to approve personal days or sick days, communicate only their faults, and/or fail to encourage them on a regular basis. Those actions break spirits and won't motivate your employees to work any harder—you must do your part to motivate them with fun, with rewards, and with positive reinforcement. There is a massive difference between goofing off during work hours and implementing an enjoyable experience every now and then. You shouldn't have to worry about employees abusing the occasional slack as long as you don't permit them to act crazily while they participate in fun activities! The four tips in this article, when correctly used, should give you enough fuel to effectively motivate your employees and increase productivity.
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Background: Two young men working at a nylon flocking plant in Rhode Island developed interstitial lung disease of unknown cause. Similar clusters at the same company's Canadian plant were reported previously.
Objective: To define the extent, clinicopathologic features, and potential causes of the apparent disease outbreak.
Design: Case-finding survey and retrospective cohort study.
Setting: Academic occupational medicine program.
Patients: All workers employed at the Rhode Island plant on or after 15 June 1990.
Measurements: Symptomatic employees had chest radiography, pulmonary function tests, high-resolution computed tomography, and serologic testing. Those with unexplained radiographic or pulmonary function abnormalities underwent bronchoalveolar lavage, lung biopsy, or both. The case definition of "flock worker's lung" required histologic evidence of interstitial lung disease (or lavage evidence of lung inflammation) not explained by another condition.
Results: Eight cases of flock worker's lung were identified at the Rhode Island plant. Three cases were characterized by a high proportion of eosinophils (25% to 40%) in lavage fluid. Six of the seven patients who had biopsy had histologic findings of nonspecific interstitial pneumonia, and the seventh had bronchiolitis obliterans organizing pneumonia. All seven of these patients had peribronchovascular interstitial lymphoid nodules, usually with germinal centers, and most had lymphocytic bronchiolitis and interstitial fibrosis. All improved after leaving work. Review of the Canadian tissue specimens showed many similar histologic findings. Among the 165-member study cohort, a 48-fold or greater increase was seen in the sex-adjusted incidence rate of all interstitial lung disease.
Conclusions: Work in the nylon flocking industry poses substantial risk for a previously unrecognized occupational interstitial lung disease. Nylon fiber is the suspected cause of this condition.
Two additional former employees who were not members of the cohort were also clinically evaluated.
A. High-resolution computed tomographic scan showing micronodularity and patchy areas of mild ground-glass opacity. B. Open-lung biopsy specimen showing nodules of lymphocytes ( ) in inflamed and consolidated parenchyma (hematoxylin-eosin stain; original magnification, x96).
A. High-resolution computed tomographic scan showing patchy areas of subtle ground-glass opacity. B. Transbronchial biopsy specimen showing lymphocytic infiltration of a bronchiole and a germinal center ( ) (hematoxylin-eosin stain; original magnification, x83).
A. High-resolution computed tomographic scan showing patchy areas of consolidation and ground-glass opacity. B. Open-lung biopsy specimen showing organizing fibrous tissue within alveoli (thick arrows) and widespread lymphocytic infiltrates with perivascular lymphoid nodules (thin arrows) (hematoxylin-eosin stain; original magnification, x96).
A. High-resolution computed tomographic scan showing diffuse reticular densities and honeycombing consistent with interstitial fibrosis. B. Open-lung biopsy specimen showing a longitudinally sectioned bronchiole with severe lymphocytic bronchiolitis and parenchymal infiltrates (lower right) (hematoxylin-eosin stain; original magnification, x38). C. Higher magnification of a region similar to the lower right portion of panel B, showing lymphocytic infiltration of alveolar walls ( ) and intra-alveolar macrophages and multinucleated giant cells (hematoxylin-eosin stain; original magnification, x380).
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Unpacking Settler Colonialism's Urban Strategies: Indigenous Peoples in Victoria, British Columbia, and the Transition to a Settler-Colonial City, by Penelope Edmonds
"Toronto Has No History!" Indigeneity, Settler Colonialism, and Historical Memory in Canada's Largest City, by Victoria Freeman
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Bunions - Hallux valgus
A bunion is a deformity that usually occurs at the head of one of the five long bones (the metatarsal bones) that extend from the arch of the foot and connect to the toes. A bunion typically develops in the following way:
- Most often it occurs in the first metatarsal bone (the one that attaches to the big toe). A bunion may also develop in the bone that joins the little toe to the foot (the fifth metatarsal bone), in which case it is known as either a bunionette or a tailor's bunion.
- A bunion begins to form when the big or little toe is forced in toward the rest of the toes, causing the head of the metatarsal bone to jut out and rub against the side of the shoe.
- The underlying tissue becomes inflamed, and a painful bump forms.
- As this bony growth develops, a bunion is formed as the big toe is forced to grow at an increasing angle toward the rest of the toes. One important bunion deformity, hallux valgus, causes the bone and joint of the big toe to shift and grow inward, so that the second toe crosses over it.
People born with abnormal bones in their feet are more likely to form a bunion. In addition, wearing narrow-toed, high-heeled shoes, which put enormous pressure on the front of the foot, may also lead to a bunion formation. The condition may become painful as extra bone and a fluid-filled sac grow at the base of the big toe.
Flat feet, gout, arthritis, and occupations (such as ballet) that place undue stress on the feet can also increase the risk for bunions.
Shoes and Protective Pads. Pressure and pain from bunions and bunionettes can be relieved by wearing appropriate shoes, such as the following:
- Soft, wide, low-heeled leather shoes that lace up
- Athletic shoes with soft toe boxes
- Open shoes or sandals with straps that don't touch the irritated area
A thick doughnut-shaped, moleskin pad can protect the protrusion. In some cases, an orthotic can help redistribute weight and take pressure off the bunion. Nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) or corticosteroid injections may offer some pain relief.
Surgery. If discomfort persists, surgery may be necessary, particularly for more serious conditions, such as hallux valgus. There are more than 100 surgical variations, ranging from removing the bump to realigning the toes.
The most common surgery, an office procedure known as bunionectomy, involves shaving down the bone of the big toe joint. In one procedure the surgeon uses a very small incision, through which the bone-shaving drill is inserted. The physician shaves off the bone, guided by feel or x-ray. This technique is not a cure, but patient satisfaction is high and results are long-lasting.
More extensive surgeries may be required to realign the toe joint. Although there are variations of each, they generally involve one or more of the following:
- Osteotomy (cutting and realigning the joint). Long-term studies on osteotomies report that 90% of patients are satisfied with the procedure.
- Exostetectomy (removal of the large bony growth). This technique is only useful when there is no shift in the toe bone itself.
- Arthrodesis (removal of damaged portion of the joint, followed by implantation of screws, wires, or plates to hold the bones together until they heal). This is the gold standard procedure for very severe cases or when previous procedures have failed. Most patients report good results.
- Arthroplasty (removal of damaged portion of the joint with the goal of achieving a flexible scar). This technique offers symptom relief and faster rehabilitation than arthrodesis, but it can cause deformity and some foot weakness. Arthroplasty tends to be used in older patients. Biological or synthetic implants for supporting the toes are showing promise as part of this procedure.
- Tendon and Ligament Repair. If tendons and ligaments have become too loose, the surgeon may tighten them.
In severe cases, surgeons are testing bone grafts to restore bone length in patients who have had previous bunion surgeries or damage from osteoarthritis.
Complications, though uncommon in even the most complex procedures, can include:
- Continued pain
- Infection
- Possible numbness
- Irritation from implants used to support the bone
- An excessively shortened metatarsal bone
Recovery from more invasive procedures, such as arthrodesis or osteotomy, may take 6 - 8 weeks, and it can be that long before a patient can put full weight on the foot. In such cases, the patient will need to wear a cast or use crutches. Elderly patients may need wheelchairs.
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FROM THE OFFICE OF THE CHIEF ORGANIZER Prof. Allen Andrews
We at ICO sends our warn greetings to our entire members worldwide. And with great enthusiasm, we wish to invite groups, youths and youth focused organization to be part of our forthcoming combined international conference on child labour, abuse and neglect taking place in the United States and the Spain. The combined conferences are of two segments.
Firstly, one shall commence in Andalusia, Alabama USA on the 19th till the 22nd of August, 2008. The venue is blue lake auditorium, 8569 Oakwood lane, Andalusia, Alabama 36241, USA. The second segment shall take place in Valencia as from 25th till 28th August, 2008 at Europa plaza, Linden Wall Street 44 2051 VL, Valencia, Spain.
1. To discuss the root causes of child labour, abuse and neglect in order to help in eradicating these social ills.
2. To re-educate and enlighten the youths and adults about these social vices and also promote community organizing as a tool to re-connect people to each other with a common goal of building safe, supportive and good communities.
3. To create spaces for the youths of the world to acquire the power of collective action, critical dialogue and community organizing to undermine child labour, abuse and neglect.
4. To equip the youth and adult participants with vital tools and know-how. This will aid them in conducting such workshops amongst youths in their various countries.
Board of Management
We have noticed that this is an incredible means of interacting with different organizations of the world on a particular issue as it affects youths and adults. Moreover, funding may be provided for individuals from qualifying organizations. Provisions have been made for all delegates to this event, all round tickets, feeding and accommodation in USA by our sponsors. All delegates will take care of their feeding and accommodation in Spain as our resources do not cover that.
Mode of application:
Interested organizations should forward the following information about their organization.
1. Aims and objectives of their organization.
2. Organization profile.
3. Achievements so far.
Only groups with delegates between the numbers of five and ten selected members would be allowed to participate from each of the selected countries. Individuals who do not belong to any of the organizations but are interested to participate should form a group of at least five. All participants MUST be part of the two segments or their forms will not be processed.
Direct your response to the secretary organizing committee through the below contact: firstname.lastname@example.com Send applications now.


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People have phenomenal capacity.
"What Obama would say at the State of the Union if he were being brutally honest": They do it because that's how the game works. They do it because the rules are you line up in front of the other team and then you hit them as hard as you can. They do it because, for one side to win, the other has to lose. And they do it because, if they don't do it, they're off the team. Football has no place for conscientious objectors. [more inside]
Now they are the same thing
The Color Of His Presidency
A few weeks ago, the liberal comedian Bill Maher and conservative strategist and pundit Bill Kristol had a brief spat on Maher's HBO show, putatively over what instigated the tea party but ultimately over the psychic wound that has divided red America and blue America in the Obama years. The rise of the tea party, explained Maher in a let's-get-real moment, closing his eyes for a second the way one does when saying something everybody knows but nobody wants to say, "was about a black president." Both Maher and Kristol carry themselves with a weary cynicism that allows them to jovially spar with ideological rivals, but all of a sudden they both grew earnest and angry. Kristol interjected, shouting, "That's bullshit! That is total bullshit!" After momentarily sputtering, Kristol recovered his calm, but his rare indignation remained, and there was no trace of the smirk he usually wears to distance himself slightly from his talking points. He almost pleaded to Maher, "Even you don't believe that!" "I totally believe that," Maher responded, which is no doubt true, because every Obama supporter believes deep down, or sometimes right on the surface, that the furious opposition marshaled against the first black president is a reaction to his race. Likewise, every Obama opponent believes with equal fervor that this is not only false but a smear concocted willfully to silence them.[more inside]
...never believing the people who think they have you figured out.
"It's his charm. It's his gift. It's his political liability, and it's part of an American conundrum. We beg for authenticity, and then when we get it, oh man, it's hilarious. [Vice President Joe] Biden can be fantastic when he's on his game. At the 2012 Democratic National Convention, his speech got higher Nielsen ratings than either Bill Clinton's or Obama's. He killed the debate against Ryan, pumped air back into a campaign deflated after Obama's miserable first performance against Romney. Watching those performances, it's almost impossible to see him as a person once crippled by speech."
The Definitive Guide to the Medicare Debate
Jonathan Cohn compares the effects on Medicare from the Affordable Care Act with the proposals being promoted by Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan.
Off The Rails
"Let's just say it. The Republicans are the problem." [more inside]
Guantanamo: An Oral History
Obama goes to China
Obama proposes Social Security cuts. Amid ongoing debt talks wherein the Democrats are seeking to raise the debt ceiling to prevent the default of Federal debt, "entitlement reform" has been a hot topic. This morning, Obama has taken the unusual step of proposing even larger spending cuts than Republicans have asked for, mystifying many. Has the Grand Bargain arrived?
"If not now, when? If not us, who?"
Kabuki Democracy: Why a Progressive Presidency Is Impossible, for Now. And what we should do about it. (one-page link)
A rational conservative solution for health care reform
Final Days
"On the weekends, he favors two-hour bicycle rides at a Secret Service training facility outside Washington, where he sometimes asks companions and agents to ride behind him so that he can have the illusion of riding alone." With all the focus on the upcoming election, what of George W. Bush?
A West Wing Writer Imagines a Deadlocked Democratic Convention
The Battle to Control Obama's Myspace
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Tuesday, January 22, 2013
In addition to a multitude of boats, this year's Charleston Boat Show will include hillbillies, a wing-eating contest and lots of activities for the kids.
The 33rd Annual Charleston Boat Show launches Jan. 25 – 27 at the Charleston Area Convention Center. Sponsored by Mercury, the 2013 event is being billed as the Lowcountry's largest boat show and sale.
The region's leading dealers will be on site to showcase a multitude of boats including: sport cruisers, motor and express yachts, sport fishing boats, center console fishing boats, bass boats, bow riders, deck and aluminum boats, runabouts, bay boats, shallow water flat skiffs, jet skis and family cruisers.
Show hours are from noon until 6 p.m. Jan. 25, from 10 a.m. until 6 p.m. Jan. 26 and from 11 a.m. until 5 p.m. Jan. 27. Tickets are $9 for adults ($5 on Jan. 25), $5 for those with military ID and $4 for kids age 4-12. Parking is free.
The 2013 Charleston Boat Show will offer attendees traditionally favorite features and some exciting new ones:
· Skipper Bivins and Trent Jackson, hosts of Animal Planet's hit show, Hillbilly Handfishin', will teach everyday folks how to catch massive catfish with their hands and feet.
· Wild Wing Cafe and radio station, Q104.5 will team up for this year's Wing Eating Contest with a grand prize of a Yeti Cooler valued at $500!
· Local archery sensation, Ella Kokinda is scheduled Sunday to demonstrate her talents. Featured on ESPN and Inside Edition, this Goose Creek teen is the State Champ and second ranked female in the National Archery in the Schools program nationwide.
· The Coastal Fishing Expo will provide fishing seminars, demonstrations and one-on-one discussion with local experts. These educational seminars are educational and informative for fishermen of all levels.
· Adults and kids will have the chance to test their skills at the Fishing Simulator presented by the South Carolina Department of Natural Recourses.
· Wild Wing Café 'will be on hand to satisfy the hungriest of appetites, serving up their delicious wings, nuggets, BBQ sandwiches, tater tots and house chips.
· The kids will be entertained with popular features such as face painting, Loco Lazer Tag and Bouncy Houses.
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