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Pedro Feliciano, the rubber-armed left-handed reliever, officially switched his home address from Queens to The Bronx today, as the Yankees announced his signature on a two-year contract with a club option for 2013.
Feliciano agreed to terms with the Yankees a week before Christmas, but the deal wasn't officially announced until today.
Since 2006, Feliciano served a vital role in the Mets bullpen. He led the National League in appearances the past three seasons. In his career, Feliciano has held left-handed hitters to a .580 OPS against him. Last season, he went 3-6 with a 3.30 ERA in a career-high 92 appearances.
The lefty will be relied on heavily against the Red Sox, who acquired left-handed hitters Carl Crawford and Adrian Gonzalez during the offseason.
The Yankees remain in the market for a right-handed reliever to set up for Mariano Rivera. Rafael Soriano, who starred as Tampa Bay's closer in 2010, is still available.
According to multiple reports, the Yankees expect a decision from starter Andy Pettitte in the coming days.

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PULLMAN, Wash. -- Oregon senior Trevor Ferguson leaped a season-best 24 feet, 9 3/4 inches to place second in the long jump in the Pac-12 Track & Field Championships at Mooberry Track & Field Complex.
Cal's Hammed Suleman won the event with a best mark of 25-0 1/4.
UO decathlete Alec Fellows finished sixth.
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- Redefine all "indecent assaults" - which carry a relatively lenient sentence - as "sexual assaults".
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- Make provision for rape victims to receive treatment at selected state institutions within 72 hours to help prevent transmission of HIV/Aids.
- Prohibit any form of exposure of sexual activities to children.
- Declare all children and victims of sexual offences as "vulnerable witnesses," to ensure that they are given the protection they need to help them lay charges and give evidence.
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Editor's note: This story by former Kalamazoo Gazette staff writer (and current freelance writer) Paul Morgan was originally published June 8, 1995 shortly after Derek Jeter was called up to the majors by the New York Yankees. Morgan traveled to New York for the Gazette to cover Jeter.
NEW YORK — As each game melts into another, Kalamazoo's Derek Jeter is looking more and more like a major league shortstop.
Now, if he can just stay up here.
Jeter had another good night in the field and added a single and a walk in the New York Yankees' 6-1 victory over Oakland on Wednesday night. The fourth inning single upped his average to .242.
He's still living by a thread, though, as starting shortstop Tony Fernandez can come off the disabled list anytime. Then the Yankees must decide whether to keep two shortstops or send Jeter back to Columbus.
``I had a pretty good game, but I need to get some more hits, '' Jeter said. ``We really needed the win.''
The Yankees, mired in last place in the American League East, had lost seven of their last eight games before beating the A's.
In the field, Jeter was as solid as he's been since he got off the plane on May 29. He handled all six fielding chances flawlessly. Jeter has now started all nine games since his call-up and has yet to make an error.
He almost had his first major league stolen base. Jeter got two good jumps on Oakland reliever Todd Van Poppel, but both pitches were fouled off by Luis Polonia. The inning ended when Polonia grounded out to third.
The Yankees wind up the series with Oakland tonight, then host Seattle for three games. They then hit the road for four straight night games in Detroit, starting on Monday.


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By M K Bhadrakumar
The needle of suspicion points to the involvement of Islamist organizations in the savage acts of terrorism in Mumbai on Tuesday. But no matter the pan-Islamist links of these organizations, the inescapable reality is that political Islam can only thrive on fertile native soil. The specter of political Islam haunting India is no exception.
A starting point, therefore, will be an attempt to define "Islamism" or "political Islam". Islamism, like other ideologies in modern history intensely focuses on the issues and problems of contemporary governance, society and politics. Islamists draw meaning out of Islam and transmute their interpretations into an ideology that underpins their political and social activism.
This is an important distinction between Islamism on the one
hand and Wahhabism and the Taliban regime in Afghanistan. Wahhabis are preservers of the status quo; they are, paradoxically, apolitical. The Taliban, in a sense, were closer to the Islamists in so far as they sought political change, but they too were essentially traditionalists.
Islamists, in comparison, are urbane. They relate Islam to modern concepts, principles and institutions. They are "politicians" first and foremost. The factors that provide a "breeding ground" to Islamism may be identified as: acute social and economic conditions; incompetence, corruption and lack of sensitivity of regimes toward popular aspirations; authoritarianism; close circulation with Western powers; Arab-Israeli conflict; Western domination in economic and political life; and certain manifestations of globalization, especially the perceived cultural domination by the West.
But Islamism is not monolithic. Broadly, it has more or less settled into three general trends. First, the al-Qaeda-style terror warriors. In relative strength of popular support, this trend of Islamism is the smallest. The second group comprises Iran and its predominantly allied Shi'ite groups in the region.
They form the forces of revolutionary Shi'ism. They dominate Iran, Iraq, Lebanon and Bahrain. They focus on self-empowerment and are resisting the hegemonic aims of the United States and Israel. The third group comprises predominantly Sunni mainstream Islamists - Hamas (Palestine), Hezbollah (Lebanon-Shi'ite), Muslim Brotherhood (Egypt), Justice and Development Party (Turkey), and so on.
Beyond these three broad trends, there is a wide variety of Islamists with different goals and tactics, usually inspired by local angst. They are an evolving phenomenon (rather than static movement), largely reacting to domestic and external stimuli. Their motivations may overlap, but their operational and strategic goals often differ. The elements involved in this week's train bombings that left about 200 dead in Mumbai would in all probability belong to this category.
The Islamists part ways in their methods and tactics. Al-Qaeda simply blows up its targets. The Iranian and Shi'ite groups, on the other hand, concentrate on political resistance and defiance couched in highly inflammatory rhetoric. In comparison, Sunni mainstreamers resist through military means when appropriate, though more often these days, they concentrate on playing and winning the political game on the strength of their impressive organization.
In terms of the above parameters, it is possible to say that Islamism as such has not taken root in India. But Islamist groups have begun appearing here and there - responding to local stimuli. They are a considerable way from assuming a national character, though.
The heart of the matter is that the Indian situation is fundamentally different from that in the Muslim world. Muslims comprise a minority community of less than 15% of India's population. The vocabulary of Islamic culture is not the mainstream vehicle of political discourse. Thus, the primary agenda of Islamism in the Muslim world, namely, "capturing" political power, is not relevant to the Indian situation.
In the Muslim world, Islamism is "objectively progressive", to use Marxist idiom. It is in the vanguard of reform and change; it argues for human rights and democracy. But the issues in the Indian context are primarily of the accommodation of Muslim community's interests in the national life and the preservation of space for maintaining the community's profound cultural identity.
India's political system based on democratic pluralism theoretically provides space for all ethnic groups and sub-nationalities. But, in actuality, there have been severe deficiencies in the way it functions. Suffice it to say, political empowerment of the people is still far from complete - even after six decades of independence.
Equally, there is a visible alienation among significant sections of India's population regarding the opportunity for fulfilling their socio-economic aspirations within the framework of democratic pluralism. In something like 200 districts in India, the state machinery has been rendered virtually dysfunctional.
The socio-economic problems facing Muslims in India are certainly acute. The Muslim community is beset by poverty and illiteracy. The Indian intelligentsia is not ready for an honest, transparent national debate about it. If the general literacy rate stands at 63%, the corresponding figure amongst the Indian Muslims stands at 42.2%.
Roughly 21% of Muslim women are estimated to be literate, while the national average of female literacy stands at about 41%. Muslims hold only 2% of government jobs. This includes even regions of India where Muslims form a substantial percentage of population such as in the provinces of Uttar Pradesh (20%), Bihar (17%), Madhya Pradesh (14%), Karnataka (14%), Himachal Pradesh (11%) and Gujarat (16%).
Various reasons may be attributed to this deplorable state of affairs - lack of political leadership, presence of self-seeking political middlemen and power-brokers, the politics of "vote bank", influence of obscurantist clerics, and so on. But the plain truth is that protest is rare. There are several factors at work, some historical.
First, the plight of Muslim masses was not any better substantially in the centuries of British rule preceding India's independence - arguably, even in the period prior to the British conquest of India. Thus, the distressing realities of today have constituted a fact of life for the Indian Muslims through the centuries.
Second, the Muslim community shares this plight with the majority of Hindu society who also suffer from prejudice or repression as a result of the inequities of the caste structure. This point is particularly important in so far as Muslims were converted into Islam from the "low" Hindu castes or the Dalits.
Muslims of India, therefore, are inheritors of a historical consciousness where social and economic prejudices, and repression thereof, have been part and parcel of their life. They shared the apathy and stoicism of the "low" castes and "untouchables" in the highly stratified Hindu society.
Third, Islamism is not the primary vehicle for the advancement of change. Muslims of India have realized that through appropriate political vehicles it is possible to gain real empowerment. They see that despite frequent backlashes from the entrenched upper castes, socially and economically deprived sections of Hindu society have been steadily asserting their rights.
Indeed, the present phase in Indian politics is transitory in so far as regional political parties claiming to represent the class interests of the "low" castes lack authenticity. But that does not detract from its historic significance.
It is in this otherwise "hopeful" scenario that militant Islam is appearing in India. Why is this happening? The fact of the matter is that certain political conditions have arisen in India in the past decade or two. Hindu fundamentalism has been on the rise due to right-wing political forces represented by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) unabashedly exploiting religious sentiments for electoral purposes - with remarkable success.
Something as horrendous as the Gujarat riots of 2002 had no parallel in India's modern history. Even more fearsome is the reality that the BJP-led government in Gujarat connived in the mindless violence let loose against the Muslim community in the form of organized pogroms. Needless to say, Muslim community's response to these "stimuli" has assumed militant features.
The forces of Hindu fundamentalism and the weakened Indian state organs are creating a breeding ground for militancy. The recurrence of anti-Muslim pogroms in Gujarat two months ago has once again shown that the BJP government, with the forthcoming provincial assembly elections in view, is stoking the fires of religion.
Extreme conditions of "anti-Muslimism" (to use an expression by international relations expert Fred Halliday) and destructive governance combined with a sense of siege are producing frustration and anger that are pushing people toward political Islam as a form of resistance.
In the "ghettoization" of the Muslim community that followed the Gujarat riots, Islamists are bound to be the real victors. This is because they come to represent the grassroots; they are close to the neighborhoods; they are closely attuned to local interests. Islamists are often far more responsive than the state to the social needs in the neighborhood. They are also modern in their heavy emphasis on grassroots organization.
The danger is that incrementally they may drive all challengers out of politics. There is every reason to believe that this week's violence in Mumbai has been in the nature of a riposte to the pogroms in Gujarat.
In other words, Islamism in India, which could have been a mainstream social movement ("post-Islamism", as Olivier Roy who wrote
The Failure of Political Islam
would describe), is careering away in a retrogressive direction that is more and more political with less and less societal emphasis. This portends grave dangers. India could be torn apart by cycles of violence - violence begetting more violence.
There is doubtless an international dimension to the crisis facing India. While it is possible to generalize that Indian Muslims have not pandered to "pan-Islamic" tendencies historically, the fact is they have not been impervious to the happenings in the wider Muslim world either. The Khilafat movement of the early 20th century (in support of the Ottoman Sultan, who was also the caliph) must be singled out. That is to say Muslims in India indeed share the "angst" over the Western dominance of the political, economic and cultural life of the Islamic world.
These sentiments have assumed a "pan-Islamic" character following the American invasion of Afghanistan and Iraq. It is from this perspective that New Delhi should guard against the almost inevitable temptation to view the violence in Mumbai through the prism of the "war on terror".
M K Bhadrakumar
served as a career diplomat in the Indian Foreign Service for over 29 years, with postings including India's ambassador to Uzbekistan (1995-1998) and to Turkey (1998-2001).
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STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- A woman was rushed to Staten Island University Hospital, Ocean Breeze, with life-threatening injuries after she was struck by a vehicle in Grant City this evening, law enforcement sources said.
The accident occurred at the intersection of Richmond Road and Lincoln Avenue at approximately 6 p.m.
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Poillon has the league's second-best goals against average (7.70) and save percentage (.595). He is 9-2 this season and 23-5 for his career with Lehigh, the regular-season champion and league tournament host this weekend. He was joined on the first team by senior defender Mike Noone.
Lehigh junior defender Ty Souders of Emmaus was selected to the second team along with teammates Patrick Corbett, a sophomore midfielder, Brian Hess, a senior midfielder, and Ryan Snyder, a senior faceoff specialist.
Senior attack Garrett Thul of Hunterdon Central was one of four Army players on the first team. Thul leads the league with 37 goals.
Army's John Glesener and Brendan Buckley were named the Offensive and Defensive Players of the Year, respectively. Bucknell attackman Sean Doyle was named the Rookie of the Year, and Jim Morrissey of Holy Cross was the Coach of the Year.


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Pocket-sized "Nashville" star Hayden Panettiere and her towering boxer boyfriend Wladimir Klitschko are engaged, she revealed this morning on "Live With Kelly and Michael."
Here's to a life of wedded bliss and neck cricks.
Kelly Ripa noticed a diamond ring on Panettiere's finger, and Panettiere confirmed she was engaged, but said no wedding date is set.
Panettiere, 24, who shot to fame as the indestructible cheerleader on "Heroes," met the Ukrainian heavyweight boxing champion, 37, in 2009. They split up two years later, blaming distance — not the height, but their work schedule — and reunited earlier this year.
Panettiere does like older men: She previously dated her "Heroes" co-star Milo Ventimiglia, who was 12 years older than the then-19-year-old actress.
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The FSH Society is a nonprofit, patient-driven organization supporting research and education for facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy (FSHD), one of the most prevalent forms of muscular dystrophy. Progress on FSHD could benefit a wide range of other areas of medicine, from cancer and diabetes to muscle regeneration and repair.
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What We Have Accomplished
We established an FSHD research program at a time when none existed, by recruiting scientists and advocating for FSHD research. The Society has funded over $6.85 million in research grants, which have been leveraged to over $94 million in funding from the National Institutes of Health and other organizations. See the grants we have funded.
Our efforts have resulted in:
- passage of the MD-CARE Act mandating federal action on all muscular dystrophies
- the discovery of the genetic causes of FSHD
- understanding of how the genetic defects lead to expression of a toxic gene
- high-throughput drug screening to identify potential treatments
- the development of FSHD animal models
- induced pluripotent stem cell lines for drug screening and gene therapy
- applications of genomic engineering aimed at blocking the genetic defect in FSHD
- the development of biomarkers, imaging markers and clinical trial endpoints
- publication in 2015 of the first evidence-based FSHD care guideline.
Breakthroughs Are Happening
In 2010, research initiated by the FSH Society led to the discovery of a specific genetic "package" called DUX4 associated with FSHD. In November 2012, an international team discovered a second gene, SMCHD1, that causes FSHD Type 2. These landmark findings are launching us into the era of drug discovery.
Notable FSH Society-Funded Research
FSH Society seed grants launched the international effort that culminated in the discovery of the complex genetic mechanism by which D4Z4 contractions on chromosome 4 result in expression of the DUX4 gene in FSHD Type 1. FSH Society grants also contributed to the discovery of SMCHD1's role in FSHD Type 2 and as a disease modifier in FSHD Type 1.
In the area of therapy/treatment, we launched two groundbreaking nutritional research projects covering creatine, MRI/MRS, and better biomarkers and techniques to measure clinical trial outcomes and endpoints.
Respiratory insufficiency is a serious complication that can happen with FSHD. The FSH Society is assembling a knowledge base and guidelines, and disseminating information on respiratory insufficiency and care in FSHD.
The Society helped advise, network, and consult with clinicians, patients, and Wyeth Pharmaceuticals to bring about the clinical trial of the myostatin inhibitor myo-029.
The Society met with Acceleron Pharma to make the case for FSHD as a candidate disease for their myostatin inhibitor ace-031.
In 2014, the FSH Society worked with aTyr Pharma to recruit volunteers for biomarker studies in association with aTyr's launch of a Phase I clinical trial of a novel therapeutic compound for FSHD.
Also see Breaking News for notable FSH Society-funded research.
Our Promise
As long as we are here, no patient need ever face this disease alone. And with generous donations from patients, families, friends, major donors, and sponsors, the FSH Society will keep working to accelerate research leading to treatments.
Read in Japanese, Chinese (traditional), Chinese (simplified), and Korean. We are deeply grateful to Dr. Kohei Hamanaka and his laboratory for translating this page.


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Dordt College News
Children invited to audition for Dordt's production of 'The Secret Garden'
August 4, 2010
The musical "The Secret Garden" will be presented by the Dordt College Theatre Arts Department this fall.
Children ages 8-12 with singing and acting skills are invited to audition for parts in this extraordinary production. Auditions will be held Thursday, Aug. 19, from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. in Dordt's choir room, located on the south end of the B. J. Haan Auditorium.
At the auditions, children will be asked to learn and perform a few measures of music from the show, sing a well-known children's song, read a few lines from the script, and perform a few dance steps. Auditions will be conducted by April Hubbard, director and theatre arts professor at Dordt, and Dr. Benjamin Kornelis, musical director and professor of music at Dordt.
"The Secret Garden" is based on the beloved children's novel by Frances Hodgson Burnett. It is the journey of a young orphan, Mary Lenox, who experiences healing, hope, and renewal while tending a forgotten garden. The book and lyrics are by Pulitzer Prize winner Marsha Norman and music is by Lucy Simon.
The show will be presented at the Te Paske Theatre on October 14, 16, and Oct. 20-23, with each performance beginning at 7:30 p.m. A matinee will be offered Saturday, Oct. 16, at 1 p.m.
Ticket prices are $10 for adults and $5 for students and children. Tickets can be purchased online after September 20 at www.dordttickets.com
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WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Republican John Katko will meet with the public in a series of "listening sessions" as he ramps up his campaign against Rep. Dan Maffei for the 24th Congressional District seat, his campaign team said Friday.
Katko's first public meeting will be 7 p.m. Thursday in Liverpool at American Legion Post 188, 205 Cypress St.
"I want to take this opportunity to introduce myself to the Central New York community and to hear directly from the residents and families of the 24th Congressional District about the specific issues impacting their day-to-day lives," Katko said in a statement.
He added, "The best way to understand and represent the personal concerns of Central New York in Congress is to have an open conversation with the people who live here."
Katko's campaign said it will announce in the coming weeks the locations and dates of the other public meetings he plans to hold in the district. The 24th District covers all of Onondaga, Cayuga and Wayne counties and the western half of Oswego County.
Katko, 51, of Camillus, is a former federal prosecutor in Syracuse making his first run for public office. He has the Republican, Conservative and Independence Party lines on the ballot.
Maffei, D-Syracuse, is seeking his third term in Congress. He will appear on the Democratic and Working Families Party lines on the November ballot.
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Competition watchdog's ruling ends three-year bid to restore guidelines
MEDICAL fee guidelines for doctors are out because they are anti-competitive, the Competition Commission of Singapore (CCS) has ruled.
The guidelines set by the Singapore Medical Association (SMA), on how much doctors in the private sector should charge for their services, had been voluntarily dropped by the SMA earlier, on advice that it could infringe the Competition Act.
During its three-year bid to restore the guidelines, the SMA had approached not just the CCS but also the Ministry of Trade and Industry.
The CCS formally notified the SMA of its stand yesterday, following a 1 1/2 year-long review.
In explaining its decision, CCS' chief executive Teo Eng Cheong said price recommendations by trade or professional associations posed an anti-competitive risk.
Mr Teo said it was hard to set a price that can be considered at a "right or reasonable level", and that price guidelines tend to cause a clustering effect among suppliers in the industry.
"If it's set at $5, all the suppliers will supply this thing at $5. People who can cut their cost and supply at a lower cost will have no incentive to do so, because everybody is charging $5," he said.
Coming in at close to 100 pages, SMA's Guideline on Fees recommended pricing for some 1,500 services and procedures, such as consultation, medicine, prescription, medical reports, surgical procedures, and court appearances.
From the start, the SMA has argued that it provided transparency for patients in a market where information is heavily skewed towards the provider.
But a market study commissioned by the CCS over the past year has shown that private doctors can reduce their prices without the guidelines.
Since they were removed, professional fees in the private sector have come down slightly, by 2.6 per cent, after accounting for medical inflation.
The number of complaints received by the SMA on overcharging by doctors has also decreased: There were 26 complaints in 2007, 10 in 2008, and 14 in 2009.
Mr Teo noted there were a number of measures in place to provide safeguards for patients.
For example, restructured hospitals, which cater to eight out of 10 patients, supply real-life bills which are published online and provide a true benchmark for pricing (http://www.moh.gov.sg/mohcorp/billsize.aspx?id=302).
SMA voluntarily scrapped its guidelines in April 2007 so as not to contravene the Competition Act, which had come into effect the previous year.
In 2008, it appealed to the Ministry of Trade and Industry to exclude its guidelines from the Act. That appeal was turned down in June, with the ministry saying that the fees guide risked anti-competitive behaviour and would do little to keep health-care costs down.
The SMA also submitted a separate application in February last year to the CCS to decide if the guidelines would infringe the Competition Act. The CCS said it would take no further action now since no new guidelines have been issued by the SMA since 2007.
SMA president Chong Yeh Woei told The Straits Times he respected the CCS' decision, which he said has brought closure to a "long-drawn" affair.
When asked why the SMA had continued to fight to keep the guidelines, Dr Chong said: "We believed that the guidelines worked very well. Our case to CCS was that it helped to reduce chances of overcharging, and it kept fees down below inflation."
He added: "It is obvious that the Guidelines on Fees has seen its day... it has outlived its usefulness." Going forward, Dr Chong said he hoped the Government would continue to use its regulatory powers to increase price transparency in the medical sector.
As for the 20 per cent who use private sector hospital care, and medical tourists, he said: "If we don't protect them... we may erode trust between the profession and the patient."
SMA will have two months to appeal against the CCS' decision.
Dr Chong confirmed it would consult its legal advisers, but added: "In all probability, we will not appeal because the odds are stacked against us."
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A small wooden sculpture by artist Alfred Singer took home the best in show prize at the Lacombe Art Guild's recent juried art show. Entitled "Area 51," the sculpture resembles a space ship. A handle – made from a thin strip of black wood – attached to the lid lifts to reveal a tiny bowl inside.
"The simplicity of it is breathtaking," the show's judge Frederick Guess said. Guess, an artist, has owned his gallery, Frederick Guess Studio, on Royal Street for the past 17 years.
"I looked for things that spoke to me," Guess said. "I looked for good colors and composition and love it when they break the rules."
The two-day show at the Louisiana Heart Hospital in Lacombe Sept. 21 and 22, featured 100 paintings, drawings, 3-D sculptures and ceramic pieces from some of the Art Guild's 85 members.
Guests at the show's reception Sept. 21 were entertained by the jazz ensemble, Peace of Cake, while dining on hors d'oeuvres and soaking in the bright colors of the art work. Winners were announced in four categories: photography, 3-dimensional works, art not under glass, and art under glass.
In the photography category, Lana Gramlich won first place for "Misty Morning Marsh"; Georgia Dussoy, second place, "Calm Before the Storm"; and André Maddell, third place, "Mist in the Bayou."
In the 3-D category, Patrick "Kelly" Kielkucki won first place for "Cruising the Coast"; Michael Reed, second place, "The Minotaur"; and Kelly Lamb, third place, for "Sun Bear."
In the art-not-under-glass category, Lan Heatherly won first place for his painting "Haw Ya Mama"; Carolyn Finnell, second place, "Living It Up"; and Charlene Forester, third place, "All Together Now."
In the art-under-glass category, Claire Pescay won first place for "Repair Time"; Jan Wilken, second place, "Jamaican Fisherman"; and Bob Viosca, third place, "Mallorca Harbour."
"We have a lot of talent," said Patrick Hotard, Lacombe Art Guild's president.
For more information on the Lacombe Art Guild, contact Hotard at 985.951.0728.
Sarah Bonnette is a freelance writer on Louisiana arts and culture. She may be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com.


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I use LSA. Brilliant stuff !
I use LSA. Brilliant stuff !
"never let the truth get in the way of a good story "
...small steps....
breadcrumbs are just filler in meatballs, we've never used them when we make any kind of ball, patty, etc.
for sauces. . . i don't make sauces. LOL
I think LSA is too expensive to waste as a thickener in meatballs! I find they don't need it anyway, as long as there is an egg to bind them together.
Sauces, yes I have this difficulty too. I understand the solution is to cook them down until they have reduced and thickened by evaporation, but I haven't had much success yet, don't think I'm patient enough.
I have tried cornflour to thicken gravy, it is not primal but at least it's gluten free and it did work.
i have used tapioca flour to thicken sauces, make cheese sauce with etc. you need to be careful as it can go rubbery if you overdo it so experiment.
annieh you can have my chocolate if you would like =) i spent so long being a vege that i still will take the steak any day lol
my clubbells are here btw! very exciting. i've just got back from whitebaiting so have been barbarian squatting in the living room in my wetsuit, vibrams and my hunting jacket still whilst running a hot bath. definitely another training method to have that feels like it is gonna be good.
Argue not with idiots, lest they drag you down to their level and beat you with experience.
it is annoying that almost all the organic chocs have soy lecithin in them. it's something we all conveniently ignore ( myself included ), like the fact bacon usually has sugar in the curing process. i'm on a VLC thing at the moment so i need to convince myself i dont need chocolate, even if i could manage a few squares and still be there
I love either G&B or Lindt Choc, actually the mint flavoured lindt choc is my absolute favourite, closely followed by the lindt coconut flavoured one - I dare not read the ingredient list in case it has things I should not be having! Figured I have given up so much sugar laden stuff the chocolate can remain for awhile at least. As for wine, I love the sweet whites - riesling etc. I am just trying to have less of it, which I should be doing anyway with the new medication I'm on.
Bought DH chocolate yesterday. Best I could find was 85 %, but I got a selection of B and G, Lindt and whittakers. Added some nuts and dried fruit. Of course I couldn't help myself !!!!!!First chocolate and dried fruit that I have had in 5 months !!!!!
Very yummy. Hopefully he will enjoy it and we can put some weigt back on him !!!!! whilst reducing mine !!!
"never let the truth get in the way of a good story "
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May Meeting Minutes: 5/6/14, 7pm
Officers: Jeremy/VP, Louie/Treasurer, Toni Rae/Sec
Members present: Rick Cramer, Thad Murgadisc, Justin Lawson
501c3 status
•Hilltop is a 501c3 status already. ADGA does not have years of history of necessary bookkeeping to obtain the federal non-profit necessary by next year. Hilltop has agreed to be involved with accessing the sponsorship because Hilltop already has a 501c3 status.
•Adam K., Jeremy B, Rick C, Andrew D. should plan to continue these discussions as team, contact them if you have anything to contribute
•What would this look like?
State nonprofit
•misunderstanding about current state nonprofit status; state does not yet recognize the ADGA nonprofit status and currently reports 'inactive'
•most current documents were filled out in 2009 and (re)authorized in 2011.
•Toni Rae: find out what needs to be done, then do it, be in touch with anyone else as necessary
•Board discussed on 3/4/14 raising annual dues
•currently $25 to be member, $20 to renew
•these are original dues established 11 years ago
•currently get a disc
•costs of operation have gone up
•insurance premium is going up (again)
•permits for parks have increased in last 11 years too
•inflation happens in the world and it's time to keep up
•recommended increase: $40new member/$30renewal
•would receive getting a disc and a mini
•start date: January 1, 2015
ADGA $ (May)
•2 Wednesday events
•4/2: 22 people
•4/9: 12 people
•$34 from members
•3 new members
•$75 (3 x $25)
•5 renewals
•$100 (5 x $20)
•Louie: contact Dale for spreadsheet support
•Spent: $314
•$300 for league finale
•$14.95 for website (monthly due)
•follow up on bank card: no changes in name
•Paypal account: can only be connected to ADGA account with an EIN number
•current state nonprofit status needed
•Members in the know: Current Paypal accounts used for tournament registrations are linked to the TD's personal accounts (presumably)
States: Fri-Sun, 1 round per day at Kincaid
•Thad emailed Louie to request funding for permit
•Officer mtg 3/4: board elected to contribute $1250
•suggesting $250/day for park permit, $500 added cash
•Adam (was to) process $ available with Thad
•Adam: clear up with Thad: is this ADGA event or Moose Pretzel
•who is getting reimbursed?
•Member questions: Is there a Rec division for States? Familiar people want to play!
•Player's package, prices for divisions: all details on DG Scene
•Getting ready: Thaddeus-What needs to happen locally to prepare for states? Course maintenance? Should there be scheduled times or signups? time to delegate!
Skinny Raven
•sponsored last year's tourney for 50 discs, ADGA asked for a little more
•They agreed to front 100 discs, with reimbursement expected for 50
•This means their level of support is essentially the same
•register online now for any upcoming event at Hilltop! www.hilltopskiarea.org
•accepted sponsorship from Play it Again Sports
•Lots and lots and lots of work done here throughout the month of april
•9 new holes! Expected to be near final at end of May/beginning of June
•Bag tags for sale now!! $15
•support building more holes in Anchorage!!
•Weekly leagues anticipated: Tuesday single leagues (PDGA sanctioned), Ladies single league the same night.
•Time and start to be announced
•Thank you Thad Murgadisc and Justin Lawson, John Thien, Will Harrison, Jeremy Boyd, Adam Klein, Joe Schact! Thank you Thank you Thank you for all your effort! It is recognized!
•Lots of new ideas coming from here! Get involved, participate, and be in the know!
Double Trouble
•June 7-8
•reg, food, stuff all available!
•Collector series G-star Destroyers number 1-50: help fundraise!
•register online now! www.hilltopskiarea.org
Website update
•Andrew DiRoma and Lou Dogg continue discussions about update
Alert! Changes!
•Jailhouse Roc dates may be changed! Undecided yet, do not put it on your final calendar as of now!!
To Do
•Toni Rae: Finalize/update our state nonprofit status
•Lou Dogg: in touch with Andrew about website, Dale about spreadsheet
•Adam: continue fundraising details
•Adam, Jeremy, Rick, Andrew: group up and make a plan for establishing federal nonprofit
•what will this take
•Brian: finish permitting and be in touch with other officers or TDs about anything related
Next Mtg: First Tuesday of June/6-3-14, 7pm at Hilltop Ski Area
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Thank you to the board for your hard work and thanks Toni for taking great meeting minutes . The only edit I see is that my last name is Murgatroyd and not the cool new nick name Murgadisc lol
haha, I couldn't remember for sure and that's what I thought it just didn't sound right at the time, and I didn't want to be wrong lol


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You will notice that sun and shade patterns change during the day. The western side of a house may even be shady due to shadows cast by large trees or a structure from an adjacent property. If you have just bought a new home or just beginning to garden in your older home, take time to map sun and shade throughout the day. You will get a more accurate feel for your site's true light conditions. Conditions : Types of Pruning Types of pruning include: pinching, thinning, shearing and rejuvenating.
Pinching is removing the stem tips of a young plant to promote branching. Doing this avoids the need for more severe pruning later on.
Thinning involves removing whole branches back to the trunk. This may be done to open up the interior of a plant to let more light in and to increase air circulation that can cut down on plant disease. The best way to begin thinning is to begin by removing dead or diseased wood.
Shearing is leveling the surface of a shrub using hand or electric shears. This is done to maintain the desired shape of a hedge or topiary.
Rejuvenating is removal of old branches or the overall reduction of the size of a shrub to restore its original form and size. It is recommended that you do not remove more than one third of a plant at a time. Remember to remove branches from the inside of the plant as well as the outside. When rejuvenating plants with canes, such as nandina, cut back canes at various heights so that plant will have a more natural look. Conditions : Full Sun Full Sun is defined as exposure to more than 6 hours of continuous, direct sun per day.
* The key to watering is water deeply and less frequently. When watering, water
well, i.e. provide enough water to thoroughly saturate the root ball. With
in-ground plants, this means thoroughly soaking the soil until water has
penetrated to a depth of 6 to 7 inches (1' being better). With container grown plants, apply enough water to allow water to flow through the drainage holes.
* Try to water plants early in the day or later in the afternoon to conserve
water and cut down on plant stress. Do water early enough so that water has
had a chance to dry from plant leaves prior to night fall. This is paramount
if you have had fungus problems.
* Don't wait to water until plants wilt. Although some plants will recover from this,
all plants will die if they wilt too much (when they reach the permanent
wilting point).
* Consider water conservation methods such as drip irrigation, mulching, and
xeriscaping. Drip systems which slowly drip moisture directly on the root
system can be purchased at your local home and garden center. Mulches can significantly cool the root zone
and conserve moisture.
* Consider adding water-saving gels to the root zone which will hold a reserve
of water for the plant. These can make a world of difference especially under
stressful conditions. Be certain to follow label directions for their use.
Conditions : Normal Watering for Outdoor Plants Normal watering means that soil should be kept evenly moist and watered regularly, as conditions require. Most plants like 1 inch of water a week during the growing season, but take care not to over water. The first two years after a plant is installed, regular watering is important for establishment. The first year is critical. It is better to water once a week and water deeply, than to water frequently for a few minutes.
Pruning deciduous shrubs can be divided into 4 groups: Those that
require minimal pruning (take out only dead, diseased, damaged, or
crossed branches, can be done in early spring.); spring pruning
(encourages vigorous, new growth which produces summer flowers - in other words,
flowers appear on new wood); summer pruning after flower (after
flowering, cut back shoots, and take out some of the old growth, down to the
ground); suckering habit pruning (flowers appear on wood from previous
year. Cut back flowered stems by 1/2, to strong growing new shoots and remove
1/2 of the flowered stems a couple of inches from the ground) Always remove dead, damaged or diseased wood first, no matter what type of pruning you are doing.
Examples: Minimal: Amelanchier, Aronia, Chimonanthus, Clethra, Cornus alternifolia, Daphne, Fothergilla, Hamamelis, Poncirus, Viburnum. Spring: Abelia, Buddleia, Datura, Fuchsia, Hibiscus, Hypericum, Perovskia, Spirea douglasii/japonica, Tamarix. Summer after flower: Buddleia alternifolia, Calycanthus, Chaenomeles, Corylus, Cotoneaster, Deutzia, Forsythia, Magnolia x soulangeana/stellata, Philadelphus, Rhododendron sp., Ribes, Spirea x arguta/prunifolia/thunbergii, Syringa, Weigela. Suckering: Kerria How-to : Planting Shrubs Dig a hole twice the size of the root ball and deep enough to plant at the
same level the shrub was in the container. If soil is poor, dig hole even wider
and fill with a mixture half original soil and half compost or soil
Carefully remove shrub from container and gently separate roots. Position in center of hole, best side facing forward. Fill in with original soil or an amended mixture if needed as described above. For larger shrubs, build a water well. Finish by mulching and watering well.
If the plant is balled-and-burlapped, remove fasteners and fold back the top of natural burlap, tucking it down into hole, after you've positioned shrub. Make sure that all burlap is buried so that it won't wick water away from rootball during hot, dry periods. If synthetic burlap, remove if possible. If not possible, cut away or make slits to allow for roots to develop into the new soil. For larger shrubs, build a water well.
Finish by mulching and watering well.
If shrub is bare-root, look for a discoloration somewhere near the base; this mark is likely where the soil line was. If soil is too sandy or too clayey, add organic matter. This will help with both drainage and water holding capacity. Fill soil, firming just enough to support shrub. Finish by mulching and watering well.
Prevention and Control: Plant resistant varieties and space plants properly so they receive adequate light and air circulation. Always water from below, keeping water off the foliage. This is paramount for roses. Go easy on the nitrogen fertilizer. Apply fungicides according to label directions before problem becomes severe and follow directions exactly, not missing any required treatments. Sanitation is a must - clean up and remove all leaves, flowers, or debris in the fall and destroy.
Although many people believe that cooler temperatures are responsible for the color change, the weather has nothing to do with it at all. As the days grow shorter and the nights longer, a chemical clock inside the trees starts up, releasing a hormone which restricts the flow of sap to each leaf. As fall progresses, the sap flow slows and chlorophyll, the chemical that gives the leaves their green color in the spring and summer, disappears. The residual sap becomes more concentrated as it dries, creating the colors of fall. Glossary : Evergreen Evergreen refers to plants that hold onto their leaves or needles for more than one growing season, shedding them over time. Some plants such as live oaks are evergreen, but commonly shed the majority of their older leaves around the end of January. Glossary : pH pH, means the potential of Hydrogen, is the measure of alkalinity or acidity. In horticulture, pH refers to the pH of soil. The scale measures from 0, most acid, to 14, most alkaline. Seven is neutral. Most plants prefer a range between 5.5 and about 6.7, an acid range, but there are plenty of other plants that like soil more alkaline, or above 7. A pH of 7 is where the plant can most easily absorb the most nutrients in the soil. Some plants prefer more or less of certain nutrients, and therefore do better at a certain pH. Glossary : Flower Characteristics Flower characteristics can vary greatly and may help you decide on a ""look or
feel"" for your garden. If you're looking for fragrance or large, showy flowers,
click these boxes and possibilities that fit your cultural conditions will be
shown. If you have no preference, leave boxes unchecked to return a greater
number of possibilities. Glossary : Foliage Characteristics By searching foliage characteristics, you will have the opportunity to look
for foliage with distinguishable features such as variegated leaves, aromatic
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St. Paul accountability chief Matt Mohs isn't sold yet on the new Minnesota system designed to identify schools that are succeeding and failing.
As the head of academics and Title I programs for St. Paul Public Schools, his concerns revolve around peculiarities in equations, wonky details that only a real insider would catch, but ones that impact whether or not schools are recognized for true successes and true failures.
This article is part of a series, Testing: Who wins, who loses with high stakes, standardized testing in Minnesota schools
His biggest and wonkiest concern is that the correlation between school demographics and Minnesota's new Multiple Measurement Ranking (MMR) system is a little too predictable. He worries that the new school accountability system just might be better at identifying challenging demographics than it is at recognizing high-functioning schools.
But he's not sure yet. This is the first year that Minnesota schools are functioning under the state's No Child Left Behind waiver. So far, the new system is proving to be a strange animal and one that education leaders say still needs time to be house-broken.
"You don't want to trade one bad system for another bad system, and I'm not saying that the MMR system is bad, but it's just too early to tell," Mohs said. ""We have to be careful not to over-interpret it."
A system too simple traded for a system too complex?
In rejecting the obviously flawed AYP system [see sidebar], Minnesota welcomed a new scoring system so complex that a non-expert would have a hard time determining what a score says about a school.
Its complexity is part of what many pundits are celebrating.
No Child Left Behind's Adequate Yearly Progress system was so simple it was stupid, because it defined school success based solely on high test scores.
St. Paul's Maxfield Elementary school principal Nancy Stachel said the old system failed to recognize students at her school who started the year more than two years behind and finished only half a year behind. Low test scores masked high growth.
The new scores equally count student growth, test scores, the school's contribution to the state achievement gap and, at high schools, graduation rates. The system ranks schools based on their composite score. The top-scoring 25 percent of Title I schools are labeled "reward" or "celebration" schools and the bottom 15 percent are labeled "priority" or "focus."
Scores fluctuate wildly
In May, the Minnesota Department of Education released the first batch of MMR results, from the 2010-2011 school year.
The results so far? MMR labels 213 Minnesota schools as underperforming, compared to more than 1,000 under the AYP system. Urban, high poverty and non-white schools still scored lowest.
Strangely, the second batch of numbers, released in August for 2011-2012, looked much different from the first batch. Many schools saw jumps or drops in their MMR score of 10, 20 even 40 percent. Many of the score fluctuations in the Twin Cities erred downwards.
It's unlikely that student performance at all those schools changed dramatically between the two years. According to Mohs, the fluctuations may have had to do more with the mechanisms of the calculations.
Where MMR came from
The new system came thanks to Congress's failure to reauthorize or reform No Child Left Behind, the federal legislation that required states to punish schools not making Adequate Yearly Progress or AYP.
Under No Child Left Behind, schools where kids scored low on tests had to set aside funding for unproven tutoring programs and for buses that would transport kids who chose to switch to a different school. If a school continued to score low for several years, the school would have to fire and rehire staff, change into a charter school, close or undergo some other harsh restructuring.
This was all in an effort to move towards the mathematically impossible goal of every single student scoring proficient in math and reading by 2014.
The system was nearly universally reviled.
As a compromise to states impatient with Congress's inaction, President Barack Obama introduced No Child Left Behind waivers, which would free schools from some of the legislation's most onerous requirements.
Minnesota applied for and won a waiver last year.
The waiver did away with the impossible 2014 goal, and replaced it with a goal of cutting the state's achievement gap in half in six years. It eliminated the restructure requirements, giving struggling schools more flexibility to create turnaround plans. And it introduced a new school scoring system called MMR.
It also required states to evaluate teachers at least partly based on student test scores. A state working group is still developing that evaluation.
The Wonky Stuff
Mohs worries that the MMR depends too heavily on peer-to-peer comparisons. It grades on a predictable curve.
A third of an elementary school's score still depends on test proficiency.
The system divides each school's kids into subgroups determined by ethnicity, language learner status, qualification for free or reduced lunch, and special education status. A subgroup must have 20 students to be counted.
For a school to get a high proficiency score, a targeted proportion of each subgroup has to pass the test.
The thing is, about half of Minnesota schools get all their proficiency points in part because they don't have many subgroups — they're not very diverse.
That skews the curve against the other half of Minnesota schools, which get their scores chopped up into subgroups that are examined individually. If one 20-person subgroup in a school does poorly, the school can end up with a low MMR score.
Mohs worries that there's potential for schools to be disproportionately penalized for the test scores of one group of kids. The system might not be sensitive enough to recognize schools like Maxfield that he said are doing impressive work.
A skewed curve
The system might be telling us what we already know.
It's undeniably more challenging to effectively educate students who are experiencing stress related to poverty, who have a disability, or who are learning English. Schools with those groups start off at a testing disadvantage when compared to schools with a less challenging student body.
It's predictable that the most affluent, least diverse schools would sit at the front end of the testing curve and the poorest, most diverse would sit at the back end, and it doesn't necessarily indicate high performing and low performing schools.
"I definitely think the makeup of a student body will have an impact on a score," said Minnesota Department of Education spokesman Keith Hovis. He said that's why it's so important that the new system provides more flexibility for schools to cater turnaround plans to their particular circumstances.
To get off that predictable curve, Twin Cities schools would have to produce more than a year's growth in students who start out behind.
That's why so many people are celebrating the fact that a third or a fourth of the MMR score is based on student growth. But that measure is imperfect, too.
Growth, graduation and the gap
The growth measure is calculated by looking at a student's score the previous year. If they earned a 50 last year, their score this year would be compared to all students in the state who also earned a 50 last year. They either have above average or below average growth.
The growth measure puts students learning English, alongside students who had a bad day, alongside students who have developmental and cognitive disabilities. Slow growth for one student might be impressive growth for another, but the scores are unable to reveal that.
The growth measure only counts kids who attend a school for a full year and kids who have Minnesota test scores from the previous year. At Maxfield, that means a large proportion of the student body doesn't get counted.
The achievement gap measure is tied to the growth measure. Schools are scored based on how much students in their lower-achieving subgroups grow in a year. Their growth is compared to their opposite.
Language learners are compared to English speakers. Low-income students are compared to higher-income students. To get a high achievement gap score, schools with a large population of students in special education would have to show more growth in their students who have disabilites than students without disabilites show statewide.
The MMR score assumes that on-time graduation is always the right thing for a student, but many students with disabilities benefit from district transition programs, where they work on life skills as well as academics. In order to qualify for the programs, students forego graduation, even though they may have enough credits to earn a diploma.
A change in the test, a snowy day, a fight in the hallway, test anxiety — all can influence how well a student does on the test.
More from Mohs
"Unfortunately the law still is in place, so we weren't able to make a clean break from the entire system and come up with a Minnesota system," Mohs said. "States were left with trying to come up with a new system that would get them closer to what they want, while still meeting the requirements that are essentially in No Child Left Behind."
"There were some instances where schools actually improved from the previous calculation of MMR in 2010-2011 to the 2012 results, but wound up having their MMR go down. It's one of those things where you have to look at the context and the details," Mohs said. "That's where the policymakers are going to have to determine with their system, is whether or not they want to live with an accountability system that has a certain amount of ambiguity."
"Quantitative measures in some ways are a lot easier to grab ahold of and talk about than the qualitative. We tend to see quantitative as objective and qualitative as not objective," Mohs said. "There's a lot of human work that goes into the development of standardized tests, and any human action is not objective."
This article is part of a series on testing in Minnesota schools. The articles in the series, published during the week of December 10, 2012, are:
When tests tell teachers nothing: Special needs not met by standardized tests
At St. Paul's Maxfield Elementary, low ranking masks real transformation
Winner or loser? Test scores for Minneapolis's Kenny elementary school say both at the same time
Wonk time: An insider's critique of new Minnesota school rating system
St. Paul teacher: Too much testing hurts kids who need help most


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Tommie Yarls has a kitchen table and chairs. That's good, because there's no sofa or anywhere else to sit in his one-bedroom apartment at Peace Lake Towers, a HUD-subsidized senior citizens complex at 9025 Chef Menteur Highway in eastern New Orleans. Yarls' living room furniture consists of suitcases and boxes lined up against the wall.
"I don't have too many visitors," said Yarls, who is 72. "If you don't have it, you have to live without it."
Lamont Jackson, 58, was homeless before he arrived last summer.
"Currently, I have an air mattress in the bedroom," Jackson said. "I don't have anything in the kitchen. I really wasn't trying to accumulate a whole lot, but I could use something in the bedroom. I'm looking for work. Right now I'm just doing community service with a stipend from AARP.
"It would be nice to sit down at a dinner table," Jackson said. "It would be nice to sleep in a bed."
Another neighbor, who didn't want his name used, is 6 feet tall. He still looks like the trucker he was before he retired. But he sleeps on a mattress barely larger than a twin size.
"The Lord says to help the less fortunate," said Paul Mosley Sr., whose own small quarters are neatly furnished with a sofa, loveseat and glass coffee table topped with artificial flowers. Mosley has been on a campaign to persuade businesses to donate serviceable beds, sofas and kitchen sets to residents of the 130-unit complex who need them. He's already an expert at finding discarded second-hand items, which he matches with a handwritten list of his neighbors and what they lack.
The residents are also looking for amenities for the building's common areas, which are clean but nearly empty. When I visited recently, Frank Chapman, James Cannon and Jackson were making plans for a game of cards around the single plastic table in the recreation area. They could use exercise equipment, a computer, books for the little library, even pictures, plants and games.
Senior citizens are known for making do with what they have. But it would be nice if all the seniors at Peace Lake had comfortable beds and chairs, at least. If you can help, call Mosley at 504.319.7714.
Annette Sisco is community news editor. She can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com or 504.826.3310.


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Nola On the Square will be open for business again starting July 15, the owners of the downtown restaurant said Tuesday.
Perle, a neighboring champagne and tapas bar, will also reopen on the same date, according to the email announcement.
A fire on the afternoon of Feb. 24 damaged both of those businesses in Market Square, as well as a Bruegger's Bagels restaurant on the ground level below Perle.


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Helping Hailey Night set for June 1
YORKVILLE – Diagnosed with cerebral palsy at birth, Hailey M. Ullom, 18, is scheduled today to undergo spinal reconstruction surgery – a procedure aimed at preventing future damage to her heart and lungs.
Hailey's mother, Missy Ullom of Yorkville, said the surgery is potentially life-threatening, but without it, in the next five years Hailey's organs will become severely damaged because her spine is growing toward them.
This particular surgery, which includes reconstruction of her spine using tricalcium phosphate, will take place at the Cleveland Clinic and has only been performed a handful of times.
"I guess it's between her and God now," Missy said.
To help offset the cost of the surgery and travel expenses, along with a hotel for Missy because the Cleveland Ronald McDonald House is under renovation, family friend John Simmons is organizing a fundraiser. The Helping Hailey Night at the Races is slated for 6 p.m. June 1 at the Italian American Club on Sycamore Avenue in Elm Grove.
Tickets include food and draft beer. There will also be a 50-50 drawing, door prizes and poker.
Simmons, a Wheeling resident, said the Night at the Races is based on old films of horse races and involves people or companies sponsoring horses. On the night of the race, people can choose a horse on which to bet.
"On the night of the event, you bet on a horse and watch video of the races. It's a really good time. Everybody's hooting and hollering like it's a real race," Simmons said.
Those who would like to sponsor a race can call Simmons at (304) 905-3286.
Missy said Hailey's surgery is expected to last 12 hours and her hospital stay, at least three weeks. In preparation for the surgery, Missy said Hailey is not permitted to take any more pain medication, leaving her in "excruciating pain." Hailey uses a wheelchair and cannot talk or walk.
"I'm Hailey's only voice and I'm using it well," Missy said.


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Inspirational cats
January 31, 2012 - Nikki Younk
I'm not one for inspirational stories. I read one, I scoff, I roll my eyes. I'm a perpetual eye-roller.
...the inspirational story involves cats.
I regularly read blog updates for Tabby's Place, a cat sanctuary in New Jersey. The sanctuary prides itself on helping cats in hopeless situations, including disease, deformity, abandonment, etc., etc. Not even the inability to walk excludes a cat from Tabby's Place. In fact, some of Tabby's Place's most endearing residents have been the paraplegics — Bagheera, Tashi, Gabrielle, and now little Dot.
The recent news of Tashi and Gabrielle's adoption, and the open slot it created for Dot's admission to the sanctuary, is the inspirational story I was referring to. Seriously, it had this perpetual eye-roller bawling like a baby.
I've included the links to the story (and to an unrelated but adorable video of Tashi) on the right side of this page. Warning: Read at your own risk. You will be exposed to near-fatal levels of cuteness.
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In a sort of 21st century version of Radio Free Europe, the US State Department has sponsored a project that develops suitcase-sized kits that set up cell-phone based mesh networks. These private networks are to be deployed in countries that have totalitarian governments (with anti-American sentiment).
So wait.. on the one hand we develop unstoppable internet in suitcases.
Sascha Meinrath, who is leading the "Internet in a suitcase" project as director of the Open Technology Initiative at the New America Foundation said: "We're going to build a separate infrastructure where the technology is nearly impossible to shut down, to control, to surveil,"
While on the other hand countries are building a "kill-switch" for the internet.
The Internet "kill switch" debate that has swirled around proposed legislation is back — but now the senators whose bill first prompted the use of the term are warning that it is President Barack Obama's plan that includes it.
How does that make sense? It also raises the EU and UN concerns regarding who owns the 13 internet servers which make the domain accesss work..
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Sunday, April 20, 2014
Albany Devils to face St. John's in first round of Calder Cup playoffs (full schedule included)
The Albany Devils wrapped up their regular season today with a 5-2 victory over Springfield to finish with a 40-23-5-8 record for 93 points. The 40 wins in the 76-game schedule are the most the Devils' AHL team has had since the Albany River Rats won 46 games (46-26-6-2) in 80 games in 1998-99.
With Wilkes-Barre/Scranton losing 2-0 to Utica tonight, Albany moved up to finish as the fifth seed in the Eastern Conference. That sets up a match-up with the fourth-seeded St. John's IceCaps (Winnipeg's AHL affiliate) in the first round of the Calder Cup playoffs.
The Albany Devils and St. John's IceCaps (46-23-2-5, 99 points) did not face each other during the 2013-14 regular season. The best-of-five Eastern Conference quarterfinal series will open Friday night at Times Union Center. Here is the full schedule:
Friday, April 25: St. John's at Albany, 7 p.m.
Saturday, April 26 : St. John's at Albany, 7 p.m.
Wednesday, April 30: Albany at St. John's, 6 p.m.
*Friday, May 2: Albany at St. John's, 6 p.m.
*Saturday, May 3: Albany at St. John's, 6 p.m.
*if necessary
It will be the Devils' AHL team's first playoff series since 2009-10 when Lowell lost in five games to Worcester in the first round.
The Albany Devils finished the regular season with five consecutive victories. David Wohlberg, Scott Timmins, Joe Whitney, Brandon Burlon and Harri Pesonen scored the goals today. Scott Wedgewood made 20 saves to earn his 16th win of the season (16-14-3)
Individual tickets for the playoff games at Times Union Center will go on sale Monday at 10 a.m. They can be purchased at the Times Union Center box office or at any Ticketmaster outlet. Fans can also buy tickets via charge-by-phone at 1-800-745-3000 or online at ticketmaster.com.
Fans who have renewed or purchased/will purchase season tickets for 2014-15 can take advantage of the "Pay as we Play" ticket option. By committing to all home playoff games, individuals will not have to pay for their first round tickets and will receive the same ticket price throughout the postseason.
Additionally, "Devils Playoff Packages" come in sets of four or eight. Fans will receive vouchers to use in any quantity for all home games during the first and second rounds. Any voucher(s) not used can be returned to the Devils executive office for credit towards ticket packages for the third and fourth rounds or for the 2014-15 season.
Fans can begin reserving ticket packages for the postseason by calling (518) 433-8457 or by visiting the team's executive office located at Times Union Center during regular business hours: 8:30 am – 5 pm, Monday through Friday.


text: I'm a member of a club with a range less than a mile from my house where the local LE folks shoot their annual qualification. Since it usually sounds like a war is going on when they qualify so I know when this occurs, I reload for several handgun calabres and I have a key to the range, I manage to pick up several thousand rounds of brass every year. I usually clean the brass, separate it by calabre & headstamp, & reload it for my frequent trips to the range. The problem is that now that I've been doing this for several years I'm finding I have much more brass than I'll ever be able to reload. I haven't really paid a lot of attention to which brass seems to work best in my press, although I've discovered some brands are more difficult to prime than others. My question is : Which brands of brass would be best to keep for reloading? This year, the most common brass left behind was Winchester and Federal, Remington, Speer & S&B. I seem to remember some problems priming S&B in the past, so I probably won't keep those, but am wondering which brands of brass seem to reload the best for folks on this board?


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A vacant stare, an expressionless face -- it's the look seen often Monday as University of Southern Mississippi students and Hattiesburg residents get their first look at the extensive damage caused by a massive tornado which rampaged through central Hattiesburg Sunday night.
Ryan Raziano, a graduate assistant in the USM Fine Arts department, had that look. One hour before the tornado struck, he was in a building known as the Jazz Station, an old firehouse converted to a campus dance studio, before he wisely decided to take shelter in the basement of an adjacent building.
Monday morning, he was sifting through the rubble of what was left of the Jazz Station, where he taught classes.
"I was glad to be alive," he said. "I was one decision from being here in this building. I've stayed here during storms before."
Graziano rode out the storm in the basement of the Performing Arts Center. He didn't hear the roar so often associated with a tornado, but he wasn't completely isolated from what was happening outside.
"The lights flickered and the building shook," Graziano said. "Tiles were falling on the floor above me and there was dust falling."
USM student Jessica King of Ridgeland had the look, too.
A resident assistant in one of the USM residence halls, she rode out the storm with other students in the dormitory, following campus procedures.
"For us, it's procedure for us to get the residents out of their rooms and into the first-floor hallway and that's what we did," King said. "Looking out the window one minute, it looked really bad, but the next minute it was just black."
She was making her first trip to the south side of the campus this morning, where the vast majority of the damage occurred.
"It's hard to look at," she said. "All these old oak trees just ripped out of the ground -- and the Ogletree House. It's been here 100 years and now it's nearly destroyed.
"It's just hard."
The Mississippi Press will have further updates and photos as the day progresses.


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DETROIT — When the verdict came down, Kwame Kilpatrick's father, Bernard Kilpatrick, shed tears.
Those tears, it seems, were for his son.
He walked around the back of the defense table and embraced his son, Detroit's ex-Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick who faces an extensive prison sentence after being found guilty of 24 federal crimes by a 12-member jury Monday.
The jury found Bernard Kilpatrick guilty of only filing a false tax return. They didn't reach consensus on his racketeering charge and found him not guilty of attempted extortion and another count of filing a false tax return.
Bernard Kilpatrick faces up to three years in prison. If sentenced to the fullest extent allowed under law, the father may never see his son a free man in his life again.
"Bernard is very emotional," said his attorney, John R. Minock. "It was pretty tearful."Kwame Kilpatrick and his high school friend and city contractor Bobby Ferguson face up to 20 years for violating the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act, a crime that carries up to 20 years in prison.
The law was originally used to bring down top-level Mafia bosses in the 1970s.
Kwame Kilpatrick already has two felony convictions for obstruction of justice related to perjury charges filed against him by Wayne County Prosecutor Kym Worthy in 2008.
The rest of Kilpatrick's family, his mother Carolyn Cheeks Kilpatrick, wife Carlita Kilpatrick and his three sons, did not attend the verdict reading and have not been seen in the courthouse.
After Kwame Kilpatrick and Ferguson left the courthouse after the verdict reading, Bernard was seen alone at the north entrance awaiting a ride. He said, "there she is," and ran out to a waiting car.
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Standing on the sideline Sunday at the Essex County Tournament semifinals, I had a couple people approach me and marvel over Kate Schwindel.
The Livingston junior has a tendency do elicit such reaction. Her bursts of speed, splashes of imagination and authoratative shot all draw accolades and have helped make her an attract blue-chip recruit.
After Livingston absorbed a 3-1 loss to Millburn in the ECT semis, Schwindel revived Livingston today in a 3-0 decision over Nutley.
The forward converted a penalty kick in the 3rd minute and deposited a 20-yard direct kick before halftime. Schwindel capped her day by setting up Clara Scher for a second-half goal.
Schwindel has 19 goals for the season, including six multiple-goal outings. See photos as well as a slideshow from today's Nutley-Livingston game.
Speaking of authoratative shots, has anyone else noticed that there is a different sound when the ball comes off the foot of Montclair's Meagan Morris as opposed to others? She unloaded about 6 to 8 shots on Sunday in the ECT semis that sound like a sonic boom.
And, I can't emphasize enough the brilliance of her 40-yard run that resulted in her game-tying goal. Allie Straim ended matters with a golden goal in the second OT to send Montclair to a 2-1 victory over Caldwell.
No. 4 East Brunswick got a goal from Shannon Nulty in the 56th minute to score a 1-0 victory over GMC Red Division rival Old Bridge.
Remember, keep up to date with what's going on at Star-Ledger/NJ.com Girls Soccer on Facebook.


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TSN and the Canadian Press report that the NHLPA's 700-plus members will receive their escrow money back in full:
October 10, Canadian Press: Anyone who played in the NHL last season can expect to receive a nice little bonus by the end of the month, as each player will be given back all of the money they paid into escrow last season.
Each NHLer had 9.5 per cent of his paycheque put into the fund in 2007-08. Teams will issue cheques to players in October with that money - plus interest - and an additional .48 per cent because the players were paid less than the 56.7 per cent share of league revenues they were due.
A percentage of player salaries is held back under the current collective bargaining agreement because it's impossible to predict exact league revenues and total player compensation in advance.
Some players will receive fairly sizable cheques.
For example, Daniel Briere and Scott Gomez each earned US$10 million last season. They'll both get back the $950,000 they paid into escrow plus interest and an additional $48,000 or so to cover the shortfall in overall salary payments.