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She has yet to write a word from Israel, but already the appointment of Jodi Rudoren to succeed Ethan Bronner as the Jerusalem bureau chief of the New York Times, is causing a buzz on the Internet. Reporters and bloggers are delving into her background and scrutinizing her every tweet.
She'd better get used to it.
Being the Jerusalem bureau chief of the Times is probably the most visible job in print journalism. Just ask Bronner. Two years into his time in Jerusalem, Bronner's son joined the Israel Defense Forces, a fact that was first exposed on a website called the Electronic Intifada. There were calls both inside and outside the paper for Bronner to be reassigned, but Bill Keller, until recently the executive editor, stood by him saying, "Ethan has proved himself to be the most scrupulous of reporters." Keller added: "We have the utmost confidence that his work will continue to meet the highest standards."
More recently, Bronner's connections with an Israeli speakers bureau were questioned. Few reporters get interrogated about their children and their speaking fees.
The website Politico broke the news of Bronner's leaving and connected it to the ethical dustups during his tenure. "Two years after the New York Times public editor recommended his reassignment, Ethan Bronner is being replaced as Jerusalem bureau chief," Politico wrote.
Bronner quickly corrected the record. "I have not been reassigned," he wrote to Politico. "I asked to return. It has been four years, my parents are in their 90s and I originally promised to stay only three years, both my sons are there, my wife wants to return to her psychoanalytic practice. So we are coming home. I told the paper I wanted to keep writing. The national legal beat was suggested. I happily agreed."
Rudoren, his replacement, got a small taste of this level of scrutiny when the new online newspaper, the Washington Free Beacon, accused her of writing "cozy" Twitter messages to Ali Abunimah, the editor of the Electronic Intifada. The Beacon, which is a project of the Center for American Freedom and, according to its website "[d]edicated to uncovering the stories that the professional left hopes will never see the light of day," also criticized Rudoren for tweeting an endorsement for Peter Beinart's forthcoming book, "The Crisis of Zionism." Reacting to the disclosures, a writer for Tablet said outright that, given the sensitivity of her new position, Rudoren should simply stop tweeting.
I sent an e-mail to Rudoren asking what she thought of all the buzz and found her refreshingly open and forthcoming. I asked her if she was surprised at the reaction to her appointment.
"I knew the job was under intense scrutiny," she wrote, "but didn't expect quite this much this quickly."
Would she stop tweeting? I asked.
"I think social media is a critical reporting tool and an important publishing platform today," she responded, "and I'm eager to be part of the conversation about the Middle East happening on Twitter. I hope I can figure out a way to do that productively and fairly. I'm sure going to try."
Rudoren lives in Brooklyn with her husband and their 4-year-old twins, a boy named Lev and a girl name Shayna. She told me that she will start her new job "after Passover" and intends to move the family to be with her in mid-June.
She was not shy about answering my questions about her Jewish connections. She grew up in Newton, Mass., where her parents are founding members of Shaarei Tefillah, a Modern Orthodox congregation. "In high school," he added, "I was very active in USY [the Conservative movement's youth group] and as a kid I went to Camp Yavneh [a pluralistic Jewish camp in New Hampshire], where I picked up a decent conversational Hebrew that I am now working to revive."
She and her husband were married by Rabbi Elliot Cosgrove, now the rabbi of Park Avenue Synagogue, a Conservative congregation on the Upper East Side. They belong to Congregation Beth Elohim [Reform] in Park Slope where, she wrote, "we're not terribly active, though for awhile we were stalwarts of the Shir L'Shabbat tots program."
As I tell my journalism students, everyone has baggage and most everyone has opinions. What is important is not the baggage but the work one produces. Ethan Bronner, who I consider a friend, did a terrific and often heroic work in his four years in Israel. That is how his tenure should be judged.
In an e-mail exchange with Bronner, I asked him what he would miss about the Israel job. "What will I miss? I will lose my front-row seat in one of the most fascinating and debated conflicts in the modern world. What I will miss least are all the irrational assumptions and accusations made about what is happening here (on both sides) and especially about my work and my motivations as a reporter."
Rudoren hasn't even begun, but the bloggers should stop analyzing her tweets and lineage and instead judge the quality, balance, fairness and nuance of her coverage. After all, that is the ultimate measure of a reporter.
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Anytime a reporter or a writer holds a high position that is read by millions of people there are going to be a lot of things said. And, her words will no doubt be taken out of context.
There is no reason to believe that support groups will be left alone if they write for the New York Times from Israel because there are so many who don't like the country.
What media critics should be doing is reviewing her stories over the past few years on her educational beat and see if she dealt with - and how - issues that might reflect on her future reporting. For example, the onslaught against Jewish students sympathetic to Israel. Of course, sending a reporter with, as far as I am aware, minimal experience in the areas of international politics, military affairs, Islam, oil economics and a few other items that are relevant to reporting from here, is at least questionable and in itself, something to be discussed - on blogs, over tweets and even in op-eds. But if the NYT wants to go with her, that's there decision.
This article is an absurd whitewash of the truth. First, the writer quotes Ms Rodoren's belief that social media is an important form of communication. Then he mocks those who have a problem with the anti-Israel tweets she initiated. Marc Tracy is at Tablet and he is a sharp critic of the Netanyahu administration. He,too, will probably commend the new Beinart book. What Ari Goldman glosses over what she chose to be her first comments as the new bureau chief. Her first posts were implicit support for those who advocate the boycott and divestment of Israel and another (favorably) about one who claims Israel is an apartheid state.
While Marc Tracy wrote as an observer note that he didn't have a problem with the content; he was supportive of her. Those who oppose the boycott, divestment campaigns against Israel and those who oppose the delegitimization campaign against Israel and its 5 million Jews have every right to be leery of one who takes such a prestigious position and at the very least, communicates in the media she admires, and falls on the side of evil.


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- Black card stock 8-1/2 inches by 5-1/2 inches folded in half
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- Place the red card in your tag punch leaving a border of approximately 3/8 inch from the bottom of the card and the same distance from the right-hand side and punch out tag. Turn the red card over and do the same, ending up with two red cut out tags at the bottom. Ink the cherry blossom branch image using the VersaMark pad and randomly stamp the red card. Heat set.
- Using a scrap of black cardstock, punch out a black tag. Trim one red tag (left from step one)approximately 1/8 inch on all sides. Ink the tiny cherry blossom image with VersaMark and stamp the red tag, emboss in gold, outline with leafing pen (heat set) and attach to the black tag; add the brad and gold cord. On a scrap of black card, stamp the fan using VersaMark and emboss in gold, cut out and set aside. Using your Brilliance gold pad, place the dry wall screen on a scrap of white paper and cover with ink and heat set.
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A colleague forwarded me this link below and it makes me crazy.
How can so-called expert doctors be mislead up to this point ?
It reminds me of my endocrinologist !
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Elena Jones works as an Associate professor of stem cell biology in the Leeds Institute of Rheumatic and Musculoskeletal Medicine, Leeds, UK. She graduated with a B.S. degree in immunology and obtained a Ph.D. degree in experimental oncology from the All-Union Cancer Research Centre, Russian Academy of Medical Sciences, Moscow, Russia. Her postdoctoral studies were performed in Leeds Molecular Medicine Unit and were dedicated to gene therapy with stem cells. Since joining the Academic Unit of Musculoskeletal Disease, her research interests are focused on the study of human mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) in health and disease and their use in regenerative medicine. In 2002 Jones described the phenotype of native/uncultured MSCs in bone marrow and in 2004 she discovered MSCs in synovial fluid. Her MSC isolation methodology based on the CD271 marker has been adopted by the industry, initially as research methodology and subsequently as a clinical-grade process. She has subsequently developed novel ideas on large-scale extraction of MSCs from soft tissues (synovium and joint fat) and from surgical by-products (reaming waste bags and fatty marrow). She is currently working towards the therapeutic use of minimally manipulated uncultured MSCs in bone repair applications including novel quality-control assays for cell manufacture. In relation to cartilage tissue regeneration her major interest lies in the use of endogenous synovial MSCs in combination with biomimetic scaffolds in patients with early osteoarthritis. Jones continues to explore the biology of synovial fluid MSCs including their homeostatic trafficking and therapeutic targeting to injured areas.
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Panama City – Former strongman Gen. Manuel Antonio Noriega, who was extradited from France, has started serving more than 60 years in prison in Panama, with officials assigning him to a common cell.
The 77-year-old Noriega, who was captured by the U.S. Army after the 1989 invasion of Panama by the United States, arrived in his homeland around 6:07 p.m. on Sunday aboard an Iberia Airlines flight.
Noriega was flown by helicopter to a heliport near El Renacer, a maximum-security prison located in a jungle area on the shores of the Panama Canal.
The former strongman was driven in an SUV to the prison gate, helped into a wheelchair and taken inside as various officials watched.
Officials had brought a person covered with a cloak into the prison a short time before, throwing off the dozens of Panamanian and foreign reporters, cameramen and photographers who had been awaiting the general's arrival.
The measure was taken to ensure Noriega's safety, Government Minister Roxana Mendez said.
Prison officials brought Noriega out briefly, but he was kept at a distance from reporters and the public.
President Ricardo Martinelli had said in a Twitter posting that he had given instructions that the former strongman be shown to the public.
Noriega was rolled out into the prison reception area in his wheelchair, chatted briefly with prison bureau director Angel Calderon and several other people, and was then taken inside the prison.
Calderon cited the recommendations of Noriega's doctor and the former strongman's long trip to justify the brief appearance.
"That is the closest we could go with him," Calderon told reporters.
Officials also wanted to respect the wishes of Noriega, who "did not want to be part of a media circus," Mendez said.
Noriega does not have 100 percent ability to function on his own, has difficulty getting around, had a cerebral hemorrhage and is not in condition to be shackled, Dr. Jorge Yerwood, who examined the former general on arrival at the prison, said.
Relatives of Noriega's victims staged a peaceful protest as he was being transported to the prison, located about 40 kilometers (25 miles) north of Panama City.
The area where the prison is located was controlled by the United States during Noriega's time in power from 1983 to 1989.
The former strongman arrived in Madrid at 9:50 a.m. Sunday on an Iberia flight from Paris with six Interpol agents and his personal physician.
The Iberia flight from Madrid to Panama City was delayed for nearly 80 minutes, but the carrier did not say why.
Noriega, according to Panamanian officials, must serve six sentences totaling 67 years.
The former strongman was found guilty of the murders of guerrilla physician Hugo Spadafora and Maj. Moises Giroldi, the Albrook massacre, depriving Maj. Humberto Macea of his freedom, corruption and embezzlement.
Noriega asked to be extradited to Panama to face the charges against him.
Under Panamanian law, prisoners age 70 or older can be allowed to serve their sentences under house arrest.
Noriega served 20 years in prison in the United States on drug trafficking charges before being extradited to France in 2010, where he was sentenced to seven years behind bars for money laundering.
The former strongman surrendered on Jan. 3, 1990, to the U.S. troops who had invaded Panama the previous month, ending the military dictatorship established in 1968 by Gen. Omar Torrijos (1929-1981).


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The Doctor Whose Real-Life Story Became the Hit Film Awakenings Tells How He Sparked a Medical Miracle That Turned into a Nightmare
These patients were the victims of an epidemic of sleeping sickness—encephalitis lethargica—that broke out after World War I. Between 1916 and 1927, 5 million people contracted the illness worldwide; a third of them died. And thousands who survived later found themselves being attacked by a progressive form of parkinsonism so severe that they became, in effect, "frozen"—catatonic, locked in grotesque postures. In 1969, Sacks began to give his patients the drug L-dopa (short for laevodihydroxy-phenylalanine), touted at the time as a miracle treatment for Parkinson's disease. The results were indeed miraculous, and almost instantaneous, as previously unreachable patients began talking and walking again.
But within months, the miracle faded. The patients were overwhelmed by tics and manic behavior—side effects of L-dopa, perhaps, or the result of some deeper imbalance between the newly awakened and the world they had awakened to. For most of the patients, when the L-dopa experiment ended, a new ice age began.
In 1973, Sacks published Awakenings, a compassionate collection of case histories. Today he writes and continues to work in hospitals, including—until two weeks ago—the Bronx Psychiatric Center. He was pink-slipped, along with 1,200 other New York State health-care workers, for budgetary reasons. ("The cost in human terms," he said, "will be incalculable.") Recently Sacks, a bachelor who lives on City Island in a little red house with a white picket fence, met with writer-reporter Sue Carswell in his Greenwich Village office to talk about the true story behind Awakenings.
I got to Beth Abraham in 1966 as a young doctor, a year out of residency. Beth Abraham is a chronic hospital, an asylum. When I got there, I saw a melancholy scene of patients in wheelchairs, amputees, people with cerebral palsy, multiple sclerosis and strokes—as one sees in any chronic hospital. But there also were these "frozen" people who would often be standing up in a trance. I found these the strangest patients I had ever seen.
There were 80 of these patients at Beth Abraham in 1966. Sometimes they would come alive briefly. Once a patient brought a dog to the hospital. The poodle jumped up on a woman who was always frozen, and suddenly she belted out that she loved animals. She started stroking the dog and laughing. When the animal went away, once again she was frozen.
There were different degrees of this frozen state. One woman, Rosalie, would be frozen for hours, her fingers seemingly stuck to the lenses of her glasses. But she was extremely musical and could play the piano beautifully. Miriam knew all of Dickens by heart. Those who couldn't read had at least some freedom of the imagination. But some couldn't even imagine—they were the ones who were completely frozen.
Leonard [who inspired the Robert De Niro character in the movie] taught me more about parkinsonism, post-encephalitic illness, suffering and human nature than all my other patients combined. He was a very superior, educated man. He had gone to Harvard but was not able to complete a postgraduate degree because he became too frozen. He had started to become ill during his adolescence when his right hand grew stiff. When he was 27, his mother brought him to Beth Abraham.
When I saw him in 1966, he was 46 years old, a very stiff, motionless man. Despite his frozenness, he had very bright, mobile, mischievous eyes that really gave me a sign of intelligence. He was in charge of the hospital's library. He would read very slowly, but with great concentration and memory. His mother, who was with him 12 hours a day, would turn the pages. He would express himself by slowly using his index finger to tap on a letter board.
It didn't seem as though anything could be done for these patients. But when I had been at the hospital for six months, a famous paper by Dr. George Cotzias came out on the use of L-dopa for patients with Parkinson's. I had to think what L-dopa might be like for patients like mine. Their situation was much more complicated. Many of them had histories of having been "hyper," compulsive and volcanic in the past—I had to wonder what might leap out from within. And they had been dislocated from the world for so long.
I hesitated for two years because of these doubts. Then I decided I would start to use L-dopa. Leonard was the first patient I put on the drug. When he "awakened," his eyes became brighter, the stiffness melted, and he started to speak up. His voice became louder and louder. Things started to move inside for him. He kept talking about how he felt as if this was a resurrection. He was so lyrically happy. He would say, "If people felt as good as I did, nobody would make wars."
Leonard's mother's reaction was more complicated. At first she was delighted with the L-dopa. But then she became upset, especially when he said to her, "Why don't you take off to Florida for a while? I can manage alone." She would say to me, "You've taken away my baby with your darn 'L-dopey.' "
There were 80 patients who were awakened between March and July 1969. These vivid, idiosyncratic lives were sprouting. Some of the patients could be seen dancing together in the wards. But things started to go badly in July. For Leonard, physical things became tremendously accelerated. He had all sorts of tics. Reading became more and more difficult—his eyes would rush on ahead. He would repeat words. He wrote his autobiography during this time. This was a sizable thing—50,000 words. He wrote it in 10 days. As soon as he stopped typing, he would be ticcing frantically again. But it was when the book was completed that I think he didn't have anything left to hold him together.
Tensions started to come. Some of these began with a sort of falling in love that became too urgent. At first Leonard was mildly flirtatious. He liked exchanging kisses with the nurses. Then the erotic fantasies became more extreme. He wanted a brothel service to be set up. When he got rebuffed, he would start masturbating, getting angry, and then grandiose feelings appeared. He was the Messiah and other people were in the darkness. He wanted to go out and preach the gospel according to L-dopa. [Leonard was periodically administered L-dopa without any lasting success for another 12 years. He died in 1981.]
I think my patient Rose was perhaps the strangest and saddest of them all. When she came to, she had obsolete mannerisms and speech patterns—she was somewhat like a flapper come back to life. She would talk about Gershwin and other people who had been around back then as though they were still here. She said, "I know I'm 64, but I feel as though I'm 21. I know it's 1969, but I feel it's 1926." She had once been a vivacious woman in the swirl of things. Suddenly she found herself an aging woman, somewhat crippled, living in a hospital. She didn't like it. She said to me, "I don't like your Television Age. It's trash." Ten days later she went back into the trancelike stage. Nothing we could do would ever change this.
This had become a heaven-and-hell experience. But the patients would just have died without having even a glimpse of that life had they not been given L-dopa. What I did regret, and what many of the patients did as well, was that this was not available 10 or 20 years before, when they had not lost so many of their connections to the world. Maybe they would have had a better chance of coming to for a long time.
I think this film has been done rather eloquently. I spent a lot of time taking the actors to patients and showing them footage from 1969. Bob [De Niro] is a very deep observer. Nothing is real to him until he can feel it in his body and represent it. If he couldn't act it, then it couldn't be acted. I spent a lot of time with Robin. We hung out together and saw patients. I think he's a man of great curiosity and moral seriousness under his clowning.
Out of the original patients, only Lillian is still living. At 65, she's been on a modest dose of L-dopa for 21 years. [Her intellect remains sharp, but her motor functions have continued to deteriorate.] She was brought to the movie set one day. The actors just wanted to touch her in this purely magical way. In one scene, a frozen Leonard is being read to. Lillian herself was in one of these trancelike postures when Bob was brought in in a wheelchair. He took up that posture, and she shot a quick glance of approval at him. "He's got it," she was saying. "He understands us. It's okay."
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City staff takes survey
by Andrew Walgamott
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WOODINVILLE--City of Woodinville employees filled out a 144-question survey last week that asked how they felt about their job, management and the City Council. Called a "timely opportunity" by the city manager, the survey was offered for free to the city by Dr. Nicholas Lovrich of the Program for Local Government Education at Washington State University.
Woodinville's results will be compared with twelve other cities across the state, as well as state and federal norms. Staffers were asked to rank how they felt about the work environment, quality of the leadership and how satisfied they were with pay and recognition. Also, they were asked for essays on what is good and bad about working for Woodinville.
According to city officials, 100 percent of full and part time staff took the survey. Contract employees weren't surveyed. Jason Foster, a research assistant for Lovrich, said the real value for Woodinville would be to take the assessment again in a few years to measure how things have changed. The survey was developed by the federal government and made available to Fortune 500 companies who used it to develop benchmark data for employee development and customer service efforts, according to Lovrich.
Woodinville will be compared with large, small, new and old cities including Tacoma, University Place, Mount Vernon and Lakewood among others. Results will be compiled as surveys come back and will be made available to the city by the end of the summer, Foster said. He expected 2,000 surveys in all to be returned. "I think we will be shocked by the results," said City Manager Roy Rainey.
The city jumped on the chance to survey its staff, partly because the first ten cities to apply received it at no cost and also because of nagging questions about morale at City Hall. Previously, the council had considered taking an "attitude" survey of staffers after a number left the city, but the responsibility was handed back to the Executive's office.


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The town of Titisee is one of those ideal resort towns. The only things to "do" are to enjoy the spectacular setting, and relax, having a spa treatment at one of the hotels, strolling the pedestrian-only waterfront promenade, shopping on the Seestraße (often referenced as the best shopping street in the southern Black Forest), and hanging out on the shores of the lake.
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SALEM - The day after the last Salem-West Branch football game, both teams start preparing for the next one.
"It's a year-long rivalry," Salem coach Ron Johnson said. "Every sport takes it seriously."
"It's always talked about," West Branch coach D.J. Dota said. "Our kids talk more about that and Louisville. It's a good rivalry."
The backyard rivals will close out the 2013 regular season with their 42nd meeting tonight at Reilly Stadium.
"It's important to everybody who is a senior," Salem linebacker Logan Taylor said. "It is at home against our biggest rival, so everybody is going to want to get that one."
"It is special because Salem always brings their A game to the West Branch game," West Branch senior lineman Logan Sharp said.
Johnson, in his second year at Salem, counts down the days to the next West Branch games like he did for Massillon during his four years as head coach at Canton McKinley.
"That one is in a class by itself, but I have had some other good ones," Johnson said. "This one is right up there with those - because it is a 365-day through process with us and always at the forefront."
The rivalry started soon after West Branch school district was formed in 1960. The Warriors played their home games at Reilly Stadium for 11 years until moving onto their own field in 1971.
The teams played every year from 1964 to 1986 until the series was discontinued after a fight.
"I hear about that fight all the time," Dota said.
The rivalry reached its heighth in the early 1980s as the Quakers and Warriors played in their traditional season finale.
Salem pulled off a stunning 17-7 upset in 1985 to stop West Branch's bid for the school's first unbeaten season. Emotions overflowed the next year during West Branch's 21-0 win as the Warriors became the first area team to advance to the state playoffs.
"It's a big deal every year," Sharp said. "I know when my father (Rodger Sharp) played there was a big brawl that happened. They actually canceled the rivalry and weren't allowed to play for a while."
After a cooling off period, the teams resumed the rivalry with the 1993 season opener. In 1994, West Branch pulled out a 28-21 overtime win on the way to the Division III state championship.
"Since then there hasn't been any big fights," Sharp said. "There's been some trash talk on the field, that's been about it."
The teams have played every year since 1993, except for 2000 due to a scheduling conflict. West Branch holds a 24-17 advantage in the series.
The game has taken on more importance since Salem joined West Branch in the Northeastern Buckeye Conference in 2011.
Last year, West Branch came into the game trying to wrap up sole possession of its first NBC title in 11 years.
"It was a close game last year," Taylor said. "It was a one touchdown game and it could have went either way."
Salem - which hasn't won a game since beating West Branch, 27-7, in the 2011 season finale - gave the Warriors all they could handle. West Branch pulled out a 21-13 win at Heacock Stadium.
"Last year, they were 0-9 and came into our house and we ended up winning the NBC championship by a touchdown," Sharp said. "You just never know what they're going to do against West Branch."
Salem is 2-7 on the season and has lost its last seven games, while West Branch is 1-8.
"It doesn't matter what the records are, you've got to be ready for a physically demanding game," Dota said.
Win or lose, the game is fun for all.
"It's a great game to have," Dota said.


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HARPERS FERRY - As a child, Ed Burns learned valuable lessons - from his parents, as well as the decisions they made for him - that helped make him the man he is today.
Even though he wasn't happy about being sent away from his Maryland home to a military boarding school, Burns now realizes that was a major step toward his becoming a strong, fiercely independent individual.
"I hated it and I hated my parents for sending me there but in the long run, the older I got, the more benefits I saw from it, especially in terms of my self-confidence," said Burns, who attended Cardinal Farley Military Academy in Ryan Cliff, N.Y., from the fifth grade through high school.
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Those qualities would later serve him well when he enlisted in the Army, as well as the more than two decades he spent working for the federal government - often in positions that required high levels of security clearance - and traveling abroad extensively in those jobs.
"As a result of those early experiences, I understood right off the bat when I got off the bus at boot camp that the man with the stripes was the man in charge, and nobody else mattered," Burns said, still vividly able to recall how he and his fellow fifth-graders had been taught about guns using wooden rifles.
Although Burns never imagined he'd have any other military experience, his civil engineering course work at Tri-State College in Angola, Ind., was soon interrupted because of the Vietnam War, he said.
"That's when the draft was full force and I could tell by the way things were happening that my number was going to be coming up pretty quick. But I always thought it was better to have a choice than to be told what to do, so I looked around, applied and was accepted to the (U.S. Army's) warrant officer flight candidate school," Burns said.
While he was accepted, a slight medical condition - bilateral carpal tunnel syndrome - made that choice impossible, he said.
"It was disappointing, but it's probably the reason I'm here today because helicopter pilots often didn't make it back," Burns said as he sat beside his wife Ros on the deck of their Blue Ridge Mountain home in Jefferson County.
That rejection didn't prevent Burns from making another Army training choice, he said.
"By a stroke of luck, I happened to be at a hospital having some tests when I saw a fellow working on a piece of equipment and asked about the training. He said you had to have some electrical knowledge, which I did," Burns said, adding that within two weeks he'd received orders to go to Colorado to medical equipment repair school and also advanced training in Denver.
When it came time to pick a duty station based on where the Army needed his expertise, Burns chose to go to the Walter Reed Army Medical Center.
While working there, in both its pathology and research sections, Burns repaired and calibrated scientific equipment that "required extremely high security clearance," he said.
While in the Army (he spent a total of three years, nine months and six days), Burns also got to see some combat zones up close and in person.
"During my tour, I was assigned several times to go on temporary duty assignments to Vietnam during the war. A couple of times, while I was over there in that capacity, I was in combat situations where they were trying to overrun some posts that I was at. ... So I saw some limited combat situations over there and it wasn't pretty," he said.
Based on his experiences, Burns believes today's troops are "far better equipped and trained" and that "they also seem to be far more aware of what they are getting into prior to their arriving in country than we were."
However, he would like to see today's soldiers and their loved ones receive more help for post-traumatic stress disorder, Burns said.
After leaving the military and graduating from Bradley University in Peoria, Ill., Burns spent 12 years as a police officer and 10 years with a manufacturing company before deciding to come home to help with his aging parents.
At that point, he followed his father's example - a veteran federal employee who served as the Interstate Commerce Commission director - and began looking for a federal position, he said.
Ironically, he ended up back at Walter Reed before also spending time at the National Institute of Health. Then, when he "wanted a change of atmosphere," he went to the State Department where he was responsible for - and traveled to - embassies in 23 countries around the world, Burns said.
He retired from the federal government in 2006 with 22 years of experience.
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Come and find out about the UHM Study Abroad Center's new program to Delhi, India for Fall 2013.
On the program you will take courses to fulfill your degree requirements, live with a host family in India, learn about a different culture, make new friends, and have the experience of a lifetime!
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Baden-Powell: Chief Scout of the Worldby Wyatt Blassingame
BADEN-POWELL: CHIEF SCOUT OF THE WORLD is the inspiring story of a man who loved life and the out-of-doors. A hero of the Boer War and one of Britain's best army officers, B-P had learned early the importance of physical fitness, self-reliance, and being alert. Realizing the importance of instilling these qualities in young people, B-P founded the Boy Scouts. He gave up a career in the army to devote his life to teaching Scouts. Today, brother Scouts around the world try to live up to the ideals of their founder and to their motto, "Be Prepared." Other books by this author are available in this library.!
Bowleg Bill, Seagoing Cowboyby Wyatt Blassingame
If Bowleg Bill hadn't fallen asleep on the ship, we might never have known how this cowboy became a sailor. Other tall tales by Wyatt Blassingame are available in this library.
Combat Nurses of World War IIby Wyatt Blassingame
During the second World War, the army and Navy needed help to care for the many injured troops. So, they turned to nurses. And these are some of the nurses' stories.
Dan Beard, Scoutmaster of Americaby Wyatt Blassingame
Dan Beard was happiest when he was out-of-doors. As a boy, he spent much time hiking, fishing, and rafting. He became a map maker so that he could work outside. He started the Sons of Daniel Boone so that boys could learn to love nature. Then, his group merged with several other groups to become Boy Scouts of America.
Ernest Thompson Seton: Scout and Naturalistby Wyatt Blassingame
This naturalist and artist learned much from the Indians, and he wanted to share his knowledge with boys, so that they would love and protect wildlife. Other books by this author are available in this library.
Jake Gaither, Winning Coachby Wyatt Blassingame
He always did his best. This is an inspiring biography of a man who worked hard, excelled at sports, and survived brain cancer.
John Henry and Paul Bunyan Play Baseballby Wyatt Blassingame
Paul Bunyan was a mighty fine hitter, but no one would throw to him. John Henry was a fabulous pitcher, but no one would catch for him. So, what were the baseball managers to do? Let them play each other, of course! Who wins, you want to know? Ah, you must read the book! I can tell you this, though; I bet you've never, ever seen a game like this one! Other books by Wyatt Blassingame are available in this library.
Medical Corps Heroes of World War IIby Wyatt Blassingame
They wore red crosses on their sleeves and helmets, they carried no weapons, they stayed right by the soldiers and treated their wounds as best they could.
Paul Bunyan Fights the Monster Plantsby Wyatt Blassingame
In this tall tale, green beans grow in seconds, watermelons explode, Paul looses his ax, and Babe almost doesn't get the job done! If you enjoy this story, you might want to read other books by Wyatt Blassingame, and many are available in this library.
Pecos Bill and the Wonderful Clothesline Snakeby Wyatt Blassingame
What Sue wants, she will get, but not without hilarious adventures along the way. Other books by Wyatt Blassingame are available in this library.
Pecos Bill Catches a Hidebehindby Wyatt Blassingame
Pecos Bill and his pretty wife, Sue, live on a ranch with some most interesting animals. When the zoo manager asks for their help, they saddle their horses and go hunting. Maybe Hidebehinds shouldn't be kept in zoos. A delightful tall tale written for beginning readers. Other books about Pecos Bill are available in this library.
Pecos Bill Rides a Tornadoby Wyatt Blassingame
From the back cover: He jumped so high that Bill's hat was left hanging on the moon. He spun like a top, backflipped, and went sidewinding up hills and down valleys, but he couldn't throw Pecos Bill. Finally Widow-Maker stopped bucking. He became as peaceful as a lamb and as tame as a lapdog. He became Bill's favorite horse. After that everybody knew that Pecos Bill was the best cowboy in all the West. "Bill can ride anything with four hoofs and a hide," the other cowboys said, but nobody ever thought that Bill would have to ride a tornado.
Thor Heyerdahl, Viking Scientistby Wyatt Blassingame
Meet Thor Heyerdahl! As a young boy, he could not learn to swim. As a high school student, he opened a museum. As a man, he sailed Balsa wood and papyrus reed boats. He became a respected scientist, and a protector of oceans.
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In a field one summer's day, a Grasshopper was hopping about, chirping and singing to its heart's content. An Ant passed by, bearing along with great toil an ear of corn he was taking to the nest. "Why not come and chat with me," said the Grasshopper, "instead of toiling and moiling in that way?"
"I am helping to lay up food for the winter," said the Ant, "and recommend you to do the same."
"Why bother about winter?" said the Grasshopper; we have got plenty of food at present." But the Ant went on its way and continued its toil.
When the winter came, the Grasshopper had no food and found itself dying of hunger, while it saw the ants distributing, every day, corn from the stores they had collected in the summer.
Then the Grasshopper knew:
It is best to prepare for the days of necessity.
Wouldn't you rather be happy for six months than merely surviving for a year?
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State Police seized $1 million worth of heroin and arrested five suspects after a traffic stop led to a Paterson apartment where troopers found three men processing the drug, authorities said today.
The investigation began when troopers stopped a car Tuesday that was driving erratically on Interstate 280 near Orange, State Police said. The troopers soon grew suspicious when the driver, 34-year-old Ramon Hernandez-Baez, of Paterson, did not have a license and made conflicting statements, State Police said.
The suspicion prompted troopers to search the car, where they found $100,000 worth of heroin in the trunk that was stamped "PEANUT BUTTER" and "ICE CREAM," State Police said. They placed Hernandez-Baez under arrest and went with backup to the Paterson apartment where car was registered.
When troopers and officers from the Drug Enforcement Agency, state Division of Criminal Justice and several Passaic County agencies arrived, they found the owner of the car, 33-year-old Paula Calderin, standing outside, authorities said.
Calderin attempted to create a scene to warn people inside, but detectives quickly entered the apartment where they found the three men packaging heroin, State Police said. While searching the apartment, police found eight pounds of heroin in various stages of packaging, authorities said.
In addition to Hernandez-Baez and Calderin, State Police arrested Iliann Garcia, 27 of New York City; Andres Herman, 59 of the Bronx, and Ramon Mercado, 40 of New York City. All five face charges of manufacturing, possession and intending to distribute heroin, police said.


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The Lanvin Ballerina flat shoe is a perennial fashion-favourite. Crafted in luxury leather and available in an array of sensational styles, including snakeskin toecaps, leopard print and Swarovski-embellished, Lanvin Ballerina flats have garnered many an A-list fan, such as Reese Witherspoon, Kirsten Dunst and Victoria Beckham.


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Lineup and Game Notes (May 4, 2011)
Tonight's Rattlers Lineup:
Nick Shaw – 2B
TJ Mittelstaedt – LF
Cody Hawn – 1B
Mike Walker – 3B
Chris Dennis – DH
Franklin Romero – RF
Tyler Roberts – C
Carlos George – SS
Reggie Keen – CF
Tonight's Starting Pitcher:
Matt Miller
Tonight's Game Notes: RattlersGameNotesMay4
Oh, and the Pitching matchups for this series:
WED: RHP Matt Miller (1-2, 4.43) v. RHP Adrian Salcedo (1-1, 2.78) 6:30pm
THU: LHP Del Howell (0-3, 4.34) v. LHP Andrei Lobanov (0-1, 6.75) 11:00am
FRI: RHP Jimmy Nelson (0-2, 4.74) v. RHP Manuel Soliman (0-0, 5.19) 6:30pm
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Wow, so that's Pohlman field huh? Eeeesssh. Fair to say it's the least impressive facility in the MWL?
Maybe that photo doesn't do it justice but it looks like Warner Park (Madison Mallards) blows Pohlman away before they (Madison) made their renovations for this season.
Is that why they're on the never ending quest (story) for a new ball park?
Still, it's the closest MWL team and i've got to get to a road game one of these years…


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Latest update
The 2011 "All Figures" Competition will be held July 30-July 31, 2011 at the Lloyd Center Ice rink in Portland, OR. It will consist of individual events for each figure (or group of similar figures) as well as individual events for the "New Moves" that resemble figures such as twizzles, loops and OI8s from the MITF structure. This competition is open to all competitors regardless of test level and is open to eligible USFS and Canadian competitors.
Click on the links below to download more information.
For an announcement and entry form: 2011 All Figures Competition Announcement (pdf)
For basic figure rules: U.S. Figure Skating Figure Rules (pdf)
For move patterns: U. S. Figure Skating Moves (pdf)
For a tentative schedule (when available): Tentative All Figures Schedule (pdf)


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DuPont, the global chemicals giant, has decided to focus on solar energy as one of the major areas of growth.
Based on continued strong demand in solar, DuPont is targeting sales of $2 billion by 2014. The company reached $1.4 billion in sales in the photovoltaic market last year. Industry experts forecast 20% growth is expected in the global installations of solar energy systems over the next five years.


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Fast & Flexible Log Cabin Quilts taught by Nancy Smith
You may think you know everything about the log cabin quilt, but you'll be amazed at what you can do! Take a brand-new look at this classic block and make creative quilts in traditional to modern styles.
Other projects made as part of this class:
QuiltingScrappy log cabin
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No pension? No health care? No retirement?
For everybody who isn't asleep, it's obvious that American employers intend to destroy all hope of "golden years" retirement. They intend to work us until we die. The latest nail being driven into our collective coffin is the announcements by IBM and Verizon that they will "freeze" employee pension plans and substitute 401(k) programs. Current employees are to accrue no more benefits, future employees will get none, and everybody who already has a pension is likely having trouble sleeping at night.
In remembrance: Women who died from illegal and unsafe abortions
Jan. 23 was the 33rd anniversary of the Supreme Court Roe v. Wade decision, which "recognized and guaranteed women's constitutional right to control their own bodies," as Kim Gandy, president of the National Organization for Women, put it. We invite our readers to reflect on what's at stake in the current battle to preserve that right.
To take back Congress, take a page from Karl Rove
It's all too coincidental. The former vice president of the United States of America draws considerable media coverage when he charges the current president is a threat to the republic and calls for a special, independent investigator to probe spying and other possible crimes against the American people.
Defeat anti-immigrant HR 4437
Last December, the House of Representatives passed anti-immigrant HR 4437, introduced by GOP Rep. James Sensenbrenner (Wis.). It is another way of diminishing the democratic rights of the people in our country.
The looting of Iraq
A just released audit reveals vast new allegations of fraud and incompetence in the channeling of millions of dollars intended for reconstruction of Iraq in 2003 and 2004.
Take 10 to stop Alito
Block out 10 minutes. Call your senator. Tell her/him to reject Judge Samuel Alito. Then call your family, friends and co-workers and ask they do the same. It is a patriotic duty. It is urgent. It is effective
Bush official: Mine safety not my priority
President Bush's Mine Safety and Health chief David Dye shocked senators from both parties when he got up and left in the middle of a Jan. 23 Senate hearing on the West Virginia mining disaster. The message his action sent was clear: mine safety is not his priority. C-SPAN caught the scene for all Americans to see.


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Part 2: The assigned case study, from our textbook, is Case 21: "A Rash of Rashes: Alerting clothing customers to potential skin irritation," located in Part 3, Chapter 9, on page 276. Write the announcement, as directed in the "Your Task" section of Case 21. Use the appropriate formatting for this business message
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Free Colombian political prisoner David Ravelo!
September 14 was the end of David Ravelo Crispo's first year in jail and a time of renewed solidarity for this human rights activist imprisoned in Colombia.
British trade unionists come out for Cuba and the Cuban Five
From the vantage point of Cuban solidarity activists in the U.S., U.K. trade unionists deserve special credit because they've taken the lead in speaking out for the Cuba Five in Britain.
Mexican electrical workers score victory after Independence Day standoff
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Miguel wrote:
> Does anyone know how to install and set either of these up under Fedora 8?
> Ordinarily I have no problem figuring this stuff out but I can't seem to be able
> to find either of these in any of the repos. Assuming that there just are NOT
> any RPM's out there, where exactly do you find the sources for the compile? If
> you do compile from source will I need to re-compile every time there is a
> kernel update?
> I have found loads of articles about AUFS and Unionfs by searching Google, but
> all of them start off with the assumption that these things are already
> available on your machine? What I need is a howto on getting it installed in
> the first place!
> Miguel
Never done or used either, but this seems to have a pretty good
'step-by-step' for AUFS - http://aufs.sourceforge.net/. I did not see
any RPM's for it, but doesn't mean there aren't any.
UnionFS appears to be included in Andrew Mortons -mm tree as of Jan
9/2007 as seen here: http://www.filesystems.org/project-unionfs.html so
check what version kernel you are using maybe it already is included -
or you have to recompile with it enabled.
Good luck!
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MOBILE, Alabama -- Some workers at ThyssenKrupp Stainless USA said they are frustrated at delays in a union vote at the Calvert facility, an issue that could be further clouded by an impending sale of the company.
Essen, Germany-based ThyssenKrupp AG reached an agreement to sell its global stainless unit to Outokumpu OYJ of Finland on Tuesday. The sale includes a stainless operation in Calvert that employs 550 people.
Pittsburgh-based United Steelworkers is trying to organize workers there, and a vote had been scheduled Dec. 13 and 14.
About a week before the vote, the union filed charges with the National Labor Relations Board in New Orleans, alleging coercive actions and statements, and denial of access.
A ThyssenKrupp Stainless spokeswoman has said that the charges effectively blocked the vote.
United Steelworkers also filed charges of unfair labor practices against ThyssenKrupp in 2010. At that time, the NLRB rejected many of the complaints, and the company resolved others by making concessions such as allowing pro- or anti-union stickers to be placed on lunch pails. The new case remains open, according to NLRB documents.
Rex Cummins, a maintenance worker who has been employed with ThyssenKrupp Stainless since May, said Wednesday that he and several other workers believe the union is delaying the election because it knows it will lose.
"It seems pretty strange that every time a vote comes up, they come up with a new set of charges," he said.
According to Cummins, about 375 workers at the stainless operation are eligible for United Steelworkers representation. About 275 of them have signed a petition asking the union to let the vote proceed.
"The USW not only refused, it did not even acknowledge the employees' request," Cummins said in a written statement.
A Steelworkers spokesman declined to comment on Cummins' allegations.
The stainless operation at ThyssenKrupp's Calvert plant is the smaller of two within the $5 billion complex. Workers at the larger carbon steel facility are not covered in the union organizing effort.
The statement from the stainless employees points out that when the Steelworkers filed a petition on May 17, 2010, seeking to organize the hourly workers at the plant, the company had only 75 employees in the bargaining unit defined by the union. Consequently, under NLRB requirements, just 23 approvals were needed to force an election.
The current 375 production and maintenance employees in the proposed bargaining unit makes the approval hurdle much higher.
Further muddying the waters is the pending sale, which still requires regulatory approval. Company officials have said that they hope it is complete by the end of 2012.
Outokumpu has other facilities in the U.S., and at least some of them have workers represented by United Steelworkers, according to the union's website.
The announcement of the sale "creates more uncertainty for the workers at Calvert," said Benjamin Davis, director of international affairs for the Steelworkers. "There is no guarantee that Calvert will continue to be operated by Outukumpu or that employment levels will remain stable."
Officials with both companies have said the plans for the Calvert plant -- which include building a melt shop and eventually increasing employment to 900 -- remain unchanged.
Winning a vote at ThyssenKrupp, even to represent a portion of workers, would be a milestone for the Steelworkers.
Unions have struggled to establish footholds at foreign-owned plants in the South. For example, the United Auto Workers have thus far failed to persuade workers at any foreign-owned auto plants in the South to unionize. In Mobile, the Sheet Metal Workers International Association union has failed in three separate elections to win over workers at Austal USA's shipyard.


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The NHL has begun its own investigation into Flyers center Jeremy Roenick's admission that he paid for gambling tips and bet on football.
A Florida law-enforcement official who worked with the FBI said in Sunday's Inquirer that Roenick spent more than $100,000 for the services of a sports gambling operation in Fort Myers.
"We are following up on the facts reported in the [Inquirer]," Bill Daly, the NHL's executive vice president and chief legal officer, said yesterday. "If they are as reported, then there is nothing Jeremy Roenick did that was in violation of the league's policy."


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There's a big difference between blowing up a planet and imploding it into a black hole. Yeah, totally different plot device ...
What I want to know is who thought it was a good idea to have a ship with a freaking 5' diameter sphere full of liquid that can cause the destruction of a sun or a planet, with just one drop.
Did they ever explain what Spock was doing with enough "red matter" to extinguish a galaxy, carted around on a dinky personal ship? I forget.
Anyway, I know what you mean. The first four iterations of Star Trek were a series of morality plays, even if Voyager sucked at it. Enterprise, and this new reboot series of movies are space opera. Totally different format.
Maybe it's me, but the last one seemed too much like Star Wars to me and while a couple of trailers of the new movie coming out seems like it might be good, there are a couple that have the feel of Star Wars to me. I never was a Star Wars fan. The problem with the last one is they blew up Vulcan and in Star Wars, they blew up a planet too. I guess I will always be a TOS, TNG, DS9 and VOY fan. I didn't see ENT as Star Trek either. At times, it had a modern feel to it and other times it seemed close to now, with a few Vulcans and other aliens thrown in just so they could call it Star Trek. I must say though, I did like the Southern Boy and Vulcan touch, but was very angry about the racism concerning them being together and all.
How does Nimoy get himself out of check and checkmate Quinto at the same time?
Technically, he could have moved a piece to block the check, allowing a piece that had previously been blocked by the piece he moved to put the other king into check and mate. In reality, that's very unlikely in normal chess, in a game between skilled players, although I don't know the rules of Vulcan chess.
Yeah, I really enjoy games like the Grand Theft Auto series. There are lots of gay jokes, but they're usually not really anti-gay jokes, mostly just mocking our culture's recent fascination with gay people. Florian Kravic is ... very flaming, but he's a fun character, and Nico Bellic (the protagonist) is surprised at the changes, including the homosexuality, but he takes it all in stride and is non-judgemental.
Plus, the storyline of the second expansion, The Ballad of Gay Tony, revolves around this gay club owner and his right-hand man, Luis. Yeah, Gay Tony is a messed up coke-head, but most of the main characters in the series are more than a little messed up.
There are several characters who do all sorts of gay-bashing ... generally the people who you're supposed to hate, particularly the guy who you end up killing in the last mission. Luis (the person you play as) takes a lot of shit from his friends about working for a gay guy, but they're a bunch of uneducated, drug-dealing reprobates from the hood who you're not supposed to want to emulate.
The writers of the series do a decent job of walking a line, I think. If you stay fully PC, you can't do very interesting stuff.
How does Nimoy get himself out of check and checkmate Quinto at the same time?
Zachary Quinto vs. Leonard Nimoy: "The Challenge"
Yes, I would agree Joseph. : )
I'm not for full-on political correctness, necessarily. Orson Scott Card just tends to be one of the more flagrant examples for which a little cleanup is necessary, because ... well, he's a bigoted asshole.
I think they did alter Ender's Game to remove those problems Joseph. It is now politically Correct I would imagine. I would have to see the movie though to know for certain.
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By Sandra Sanchez
AFSC Iowa Immigrants Voice Program Director
Martha Sahagún de Fox, former First Lady of Mexico, delighted a group of about 80 women and a few men this Wednesday, March 28, during a speech sponsored by Nexus, a networking group for women leaders in Des Moines. I had the unusual opportunity to talk to Mrs. Fox for a few minutes. After her keynote speech, I asked her if she would address Mexican immigrants and her thoughts on immigration. She graciously accepted my request.
"First I want to send my warmest salute to all of them," she said. "They are amazing people whose commitment to their families has forced them to migrate in order to support them. Furthermore, I would like for people here to recognize that many of them may not even want to be here, yet they are here because of extreme poverty and lack of opportunities in our dear but troubled Mexico."
I was a little surprised by the candor of Mrs. Fox!
"The disparity between the haves and the have-nots unfortunately keeps growing in both countries," she continued, "and we all have a responsibility to those more vulnerable in our midst. That's why Vicente and I opened the Centro Fox and the Follow Me Foundation in an effort to effect change among Mexico's poorest.
"We receive an average of 500 children from poor communities every day, and we also have a few cabins to host dozens of them if they want to stay for a few days. Our main purpose is to instill in them a sense of self-esteem and self-value which they often lack at home and at school. One child's response left a deep impression.
"The worker at the center near to me asked him, 'What do you want to be when you grow up?' and he said, 'I want to be a drug dealer.' My assistant gave me a significant look but I advised her to say nothing. At the end of the day we asked the same child, 'What do you want to be when you are a grown up?' and his answer was, 'I want to be president.' That's the impact we are seeking to have in these children. You too are helping and mentoring other people. We all can do more.
"But getting back to immigration, I truly believe that it is a mismanaged resource and both countries could benefit immensely if those who are unauthorized could have the opportunity to get a legal status. Then, both countries could tap onto the resourcefulness and entrepreneurship of this hard-working population.
"We also ought to keep and cherish our shared family values instead of breaking families apart. I really hope that the issue of a path to legalize unauthorized immigrants can be at the forefront of the political arena once more. Immigrants deserve it, and our countries will undoubtedly benefit from it."
I thought that Mrs. Fox would shy away from such a controversial issue; but far from it she spoke with candor and a shared sense of responsibility, and for that I am thankful. Now at least 80 more business and political leaders of Des Moines have a different perspective on the issue, one that comes from a respected woman they see as a fellow leader.


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Friday is perhaps the busiest day yet in preparation for the Syracuse Crunch's outdoor game Feb. 20 at the State Fairgrounds.
- The two chillers arrived and are being hooked up. Nothing can happen without this piece of the puzzle. The chillers are what make the ice. If they break or don't work well, there is no game.
- The bleacher section on the side opposite the grandstand is nestled into place. The view from these seats, with a hockey game right in front of you and 15,000 fans going nuts on the far side, will be an unbelievable sight.
- The Zamboni tent is up and almost ready for business.
- Carpeting and matting will be put down in the locker room areas.
- The goals were scheduled to be brought over.
- Monday, the dasher boards go up. If that remains on schedule, ice can be made on Tuesday.
- Thursday, Crunch VP Jim Sarosy have a site tour to Binghamton head coach Don Nachbaur and owner Tom Mitchell.
Mitchell praised the preparation in an interview with the Binghamton Press & Sun-Bulletin newspaper.
"I was pretty impressed," Mitchell said. "They've obviously put a lot of time and a lot of thought into this thing. And the logistics, it looks like they have them pretty well in place. Now we just hope the weather cooperates. I think the fans are in for something really different."
- Crunch coach Ross Yates said forward Chris Higgins will not play tonight at Wilkes-Barre/Scranton, but he would not reveal his other scratches.
- Syracuse is on a four-game winning streak and has put up a 9-4-0-1 mark in its last 14 outings...Crunch forward Derek MacKenzie has tallied a goal in seven of his last eight games and has a point in nine straight overall (7-7-14)...The Crunch is 6-1 in their last seven on the road.
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I had the privilege of attending some of the Regional Food Security Conference this past weekend at CUH, and wanted to share what I learned…
The plenary session Sunday morning was a joint effort by 3 presenters who each provided unique perspectives into successful small scale regional farming projects happening around the world. The one that stood out for me was presented by Travis English, a UW MA candidate, who spoke of the Tumaini Women's Group in Kenya whose members are comprised of 20+ elderly widows. The youngest of these women farmers is Florence at 72 years old. The HIV/AIDS epidemic so prevalent in much of Africa not only claimed these women's husbands, but many of their children as well leaving them to care for 70+ orphaned grandchildren. Yet despite these hardships, with the help of a progressive organization named Grow BioIntensive Agricultural Centre of Kenya, or GBIACK, these women have been able to lift themselves up out of poverty and become completely self-reliant. It was an inspiring story that makes the obstacles of creating our own sustainable regional food system seem trivial and easily overcome.
The conference proceeded to split up into smaller groups to focus on a variety of food security related topics. I set up shop in Douglas Classroom where our very own Katie Murphy kicked things off to a standing-room only crowd. I was familiar with Katie's research from a public speaking class we had together almost 2 years ago. Katie, in addition to running the Herbarium, has spent these past two years taking a simple idea and shaping it into a full blown cutting edge research project that takes a hard look at an often over-looked gardening spot, the parking strip. We drive past them and walk over them every day, but could these mundane omnipresent features of our urban environment be better used to grow food? A lot of Seattleites think so and are already growing vegetable gardens in these places, but should they be? Who knows where these soils have been or what heavy metals they may have been hanging out with for the last 100 years? These are the questions that Katie's research aims to answer through careful and thorough scientific investigation. You'll have to wait for Katie's finished paper to get the whole story, but at least from her preliminary results, there is about 190 acres of prime real estate in northwest Seattle ripe for an urban agricultural revival.
The next speaker to present was Steve Jones a plant breeder and the director of The Northwestern Washington Research and Extension Center of WSU. Steve is a wheat guy who has been researching and growing wheat for 30+ years. While the first 2/3 of his career was spent testing and growing wheat varieties for use in conventional farming, he's spent the last 10 years advocating the value and viability of decentralized wheat growing systems. His shift in values seemed based on what to him is a stupefying reality – that the price of wheat is determined not by farmers, bakers or buyers but by traders, lenders and bureaucrats, people who wear ties & suits not coveralls & boots. Most of the wheat that we grow in this country is consumed in China, and most of it is grown from the exact same kind of proprietised genetically modified seed. States like Maine and Vermont and Iowa that once boasted thriving wheat harvests now grow nary a chafe.
But Steve was hopeful because of a recent resurgence of the small wheat farmer and a budding cottage industry based on artisan breads and beers made from local wheat varieties with unique characteristics. One thing that Steve said that stuck with me was his description of the people who make up this movement and the audiences of wheat growing workshops. These people are young, they are interested and they are interesting. It was refreshing to see this same demographic description reflected in the attendees of this food security conference, and indeed in the presenters themselves…
Andrew Corbin also of WSU, was the final presenter in Douglas before lunch, and to look at him and hear him speak he would seem just as natural strumming a six-string around a campfire on the beach as standing in front of a classroom lecturing, maybe more so. Andrew and his colleagues have recently been examining the age old farming question, "to till or not to till". Since the invention of the iron plow some 2500 years ago, the answer has been "till". But conventional farming's methods and industrial efficiency has taken it's toll on our planets breadbaskets and resulted in increasingly stratified soil profiles that make life hard for root systems. Over time, the soil layer immediately below the reach of the plow becomes an impenetrable hardpan. Steve's research has shown the advantages of planting cover crops and then crimping them rather than turning them under. This rather low-tech method not only produces higher yields while fixing nitrogen but works as a weed barrier, earthworm haven and lid to keep CO2 from entering the atmosphere. Steve's trials use a tractor powered crimper, but I have a small-scale farmer friend in CA who does it with simple hand tools…an approach easily adapted for the baker growing his/her specialty wheat in their parking strip.
For more on the conference: http://depts.washington.edu/uwbg/news/food-security/
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-A guide where all PokeWalker courses' unlock criteria
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and claiming it as yours is prohibited. Also, since I am in Korea,
this guide's quotes are all translated, so the quotes may not be all
accurate, so please try to make the best of it.
Table of Contents (Wow, must be a huge table!):
1. PokeWalker Features
2. PokeWalker Courses
3. Additional Info
Part 1. PokeWalker Features:
1. PokeWalker PokeRadar
Feature Name: PokeRadar
Feature Use Cost: 10W
Feature Limit: Up to 3 Pokemon can be caught
Feature Details:
To play, you need at least 10W. Once you play, there will be 4 patches
of grass. When at least 1 " ! " appears, then click "O" on the patch
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- " ! " once means group C.
- " ! " twice means group C or group B.
- " !! " means group B or group A.
- " !!! " means always group A whatsoever.
Attack / Capture / Evade
Left (<-) / Middle (O) / Right (->)
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_________'s attack!" means your attack missed. Evading, again, as the
name tells you, can evade your opponent's attack. This, unlike the
Attack part, cannot fail unless it says "Both Pokemon stared at each
other!" which means that the foe also tried to evade. If you evade too
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Like the game, the lower the foe's HP, the easier. If you fail, the foe will flee.
2. PokeWalker Dowsing MCHN
Feature Name: Dowsing
Feature Cost: 3W
Feature Limit: Up to 3 items
Feature Details:
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3. Communication
Feature Name: Connect
Feature Cost: 0W (Free)
Feature Limit: Up to 1 time with same person per day; DS is unlimited
Feature Details:
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4. Trainer Card
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Feature Cost: 0W (Free)
Feature Limit: Unlimited
Feature Details:
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5. Pokemon and Items
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Feature Limit: Unlimited
Feature Details:
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Refreshing Field: Unlocked at first
Noisy Forest: Unlocked at first
Rugged Road: 50W
Beautiful Beach: 200W
Suburban Area: 500W
Dim Cave: 1000W
Blue Lake: 2000W
Town Outskirts: 3000W
Hoenn Field: 5000W
Warm Beach: 7500W
Volcano Path: 10000W
Treehouse: 15000W
Scary Cave: 20000W
Sinnoh Field: 25000W
Icy Mountain Road: 30000W
Big Forest: 40000W
White Lake: 50000W
Stormy Beach: 65000W
Resort: 80000W
Quiet Cave: 100000W
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Night Sky's Edge: Trade event Jirachi to HGSS
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Rally: Event
Sightseeing: Event
Winner's Path: Wifi Event
Amity Meadow: Event
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