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Staff Picks: The Kid, 'Reading for My Life'
February 24, 2012 | by The Paris Review
I am so excited to visit this Djuna Barnes exhibition at the Brooklyn Museum: it's an archive of her New York journalistic work between 1913 and 1919, frequently illustrated by the budding modernist herself. —Sadie Stein
"John had many moving parts, exploding in as many directions as one of his sentences," writes Jen Nesselin in one of the rememberances that round out the new collection of John Leonard's writings, Reading for My Life. "But he was, above all, an enthusiast." Those ecstatic, exhaustive, amassing—enthusiastic!—sentences, nestled in the pages of The New York Review of Books or Harper's or The New York Times, were a delight to me for many years. I'm even more delighted to have so many of them in one place. —Deirdre Foley-Mendelssohn
Joseph Cornell, mostly known for his shadow boxes, also made surrealist films. UbuWeb carries some dozen of them, including the rightfully famous Rose Hobart, the only movie to screen publicly during his lifetime—it sent Salvador Dalí into fits of rage, which sent Cornell's cinema into hiding. Yet it's The Midnight Party that really charms and disturbs. —Josh Anderson
"They free me from the prison of contemporaneity: one should not live only in one's own time. A wall of books is a wall of windows." Leon Wieseltier's hymn to having shelf upon shelf of books perfectly conveys the reason I'll never stop bringing books home. —Nicole Rudick
Recently I found myself watching a lot of Israeli cinema. I began with Or, about a daughter struggling to support her mother and keep her out of prostitution, and moved on to Jaffa, about a secret affair between a Jewish woman and an Arab man—both brilliant films featuring the splendid Dana Ivgy. —Natalie Jacoby
For those fond of the scandalous and confessional, take a look at these diaries of the famous. A perfect reading list for the voyeuristic. —Elizabeth Nelson
Of all last week's tributes to the late, great Gary Carter, the one that choked me up most was an emotional Keith Hernandez, who, back in the day, used to mock the exuberant and clean-living catcher. I also love Left Field Cards's tribute to "The Kid," the proceeds of which go to the National Brain Tumor Society. —S.S.
Thomas Sayers Ellis's "Or,"
January 12, 2012 | by Robyn Creswell
Most of the poems stuck in my head are rap songs. Rap is the music I grew up listening to, and the lyrics from those days, the late eighties and early nineties, have stayed with me. I've forgotten most of the poems I had to memorize at school; of Keats's "To Autumn," I remember only the famous lines. On the other hand, Big Daddy Kane's "Smooth Operator," Rakim's "Mahogany," or Nas's "N.Y. State of Mind"—these are poems I know by heart, from beginning to end, and will probably never forget.
Some people don't believe raps are poems. They have a point. On the page, arranged into lines and stanzas, raps lose most of their appeal. I'm grateful to Bradley and DuBois's enormous Anthology of Rap, if only because I now know what Raekwon is saying on "Triumph" (which doesn't mean I understand it: "The swift chancellor, flex, the white-gold tarantula / Track truck diesel, play the weed, god, substantiala." Can I get a footnote?). But when raps are spelled out like this they lose their fluidity, their life in three dimensions. Rap is not monotonous, though it is almost always composed in couplets and four-four lines. But the good songs always surprise you, leave you wrong-footed, put the emphasis or rhyme where you don't expect it.
There is no doubt that Thomas Sayers Ellis's "Or," is a poem, but it is one of the few that feels to me like a rap—an especially good one. This is because of the way it establishes a pattern and then continually breaks away from it. The poem is based on the repetition of or, but as we read through it, what seemed like a formal constraint becomes a principle of transformation, a hinge that keeps flexing. The poem begins, as I read it, by riffing on the either/or logic of identity questionnaires ("You could get with this, or you could get with that," as Black Sheep once put it, in a different context). But it quickly ramifies into geography, history, poetics. Read it out loud a few times and you might find you already have it memorized: Read More »


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Nanny Pickle (my Mum) is a little nuts about reindeer.
If you went to her house around about now you'd find it full of reindeer of all kinds… dainty glass reindeer, knitted reindeer, light up reindeer, singing and dancing reindeer.. all kinds of beautiful and crazy reindeer!
So today's Christmas Printable is dedicated to my crazy reindeer loving Mum… and my kids kinda like it too!
Yep… print your own reindeer antlers!
As will all of my printable crowns and tiaras, these antlers fit on an A4 (letter sized) piece of paper. No need for buying big long sheets of paper, or sticking bits together.
Just download the pdf and print it out on some card or even photo paper. Cut out the head piece with the ears and the antlers, then just glue or tape your antlers onto the head piece. Punch holes in the ends of the head piece and attach some elastic or string and you're done! If your antlers aren't staying up as you'd like them attach a strip of thicker cardboard to the back to help keep them straight.
Of course we added a little red nose too… but Noah wasn't impressed with the idea of a red nose!
You can download the printable reindeer antlers here.
There will be more free Christmas printables in the lead up to Christmas. Check out my print and fold pillow boxes we shared on Saturday, and you can find all of last years Christmas printables here.

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State police find a meth lab and make an arrest in Bradford County.
It happened Friday evening in Terry Township.
Police executed a search warrant at the home of 47-year-old Walter Tech.
They found an inactive meth lab and took Tech into custody.
He was arraigned and charged with manufacturing a controlled substance.
He also faces charges of possession and having liquefied ammonia gas and chemicals.
Tech was sent to the Bradford County Jail.
His bail was set at 50 thousand dollars.


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CHICOPEE — Former Mayor Michael D. Bissonnette disputed allegations leveled by Mayor Richard J. Kos that he illegally deleted e-mails and recycled paper files and left Kos with no information about ongoing projects and city workings.
Bissonnette, speaking Thursday night, said he did clean out his office of eight years of paperwork and scrubbed the computers clean, but said all major documents are with department heads or the staff member who was in charge of the project. Important paper documents also were placed in binders and left in the law department conference room, he said.
Bissonnette said the city's computer network was set up years ago to be backed up not only to the city server but to a second remote one in case there is a serious problem.
"All material has been maintained electronically or there are hard files left with project managers," he said.
When Kos officially entered the office after the inauguration, he said he was shocked to find all file drawers empty and computers scrubbed of all information. He called for a state investigation into the possibly illegal deletion of public information.
But Bissonnette said the thousands of email messages deleted are mainly responses to comments on his Facebook page and other correspondence that is not of an official nature.
Bissonnette said when he took office after the indictment of former Mayor Richard Goyette, he walked into an office that was a mess, and he inherited a dirty car, so he wanted to leave the office empty and had the car detailed for Kos.
"I appreciate his concerns, but I think a single phone call in the last few months could have solved a lot of his concerns," Bissonnette said.
The following is the text of an email former Mayor Michael Bissonnette sent to Mayor Richard Kos and other city officials on Jan. 10:
Subject: Project Files
Please be advised that no requests for any materials pertaining to ongoing projects, municipal finances or other city matters were received from anyone on behalf of the Kos administration prior to November 7th.
As I indicated to the mayor-elect shortly after the election, I and my staff were prepared to cooperate fully in a smooth transition. An exchange of text messages further confirmed this willingness.
However no contact was made and no requests for documents or other materials was ever received. In fact no one was contacted by the transition team or anyone else on behalf of the mayor-elect. Further it was apparent that all contact concerning the transition was being made thru the departments as evidenced by Clerk Rattell's email to department heads announcing the transition process.
Therefore all documents would be found with the respective departments involved in the matter for which information is sought. I would have been happy to provide any and all information upon request prior to the inauguration. Regrettably no such request was made to my office nor was any contact concerning same initiated. As a result, most paper materials were recycled they the single stream collection system in City Hall as electronic copies exist elsewhere.
It was not until the Tuesday of New Years Eve that I heard from the mayor-elect requesting a meeting on Thursday afternoon. Unfortunately you and your colleagues were apparently delayed and were unable to meet at 2pm as planned. When you arrived at 2:45pm, a decision had been made to close City Hall due to weather conditions. At that time, no document requests were made and to my understanding none were made at any other time.
My offer of cooperation continues in effect. However the official city files are not kept by the office of the Mayor and I believe whatever type of information is sought can easily be obtained from the project managers or involved departments. Please feel free to let me know if there are any difficulties in obtaining whatever materials are sought. I will be happy to provide whatever assistance I can to insure that Mayor Kos has the information he needs to fully understand the issues facing the city.
Best of luck in your new responsibilities.
Michael D. Bissonnette


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Statement by
Nicole Lurie, M.D., M.S.P.H.
Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)
Children and Disasters: A Progress Report on Addressing Needs
Committee on Homeland, Security and Governmental Affairs
Ad Hoc Subcommittee on Disaster Recovery
United States Senate
Thursday December 10, 2009
Good afternoon Madam Chairwoman Landrieu, Ranking Member Graham, and other distinguished Members of the Ad Hoc Subcommittee on Disaster Recovery. I am pleased to be here today on behalf of the U.S Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to provide you with an update on our disaster preparedness, response, and recovery activities related to children and families. Today I will talk to you about some of my Department's recent efforts, particularly those that relate to the recommendations of the interim report of the National Commission on Children and Disasters (NCCD, or "the Commission") in the areas of health, mental health, and overall coordination.
I want to begin by commending this Subcommittee for its attention to the needs of children. As Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response, I am mandated to address the needs of children. As a mother and a community physician, I know firsthand how critical that mandate is and I firmly support efforts to address the needs of children.
The Commission report makes several recommendations that focus on child physical health and trauma. Let me begin by talking about a few relevant activities aimed at enhancing the provision of healthcare services to children during a public health emergency or mass casualty event.
ASPR is undertaking several efforts to better assess healthcare system needs. Through our HavBed system, we have a tool to identify healthcare system stress and demand in the event of a public health emergency or mass casualty event. Currently we collect data weekly in response to the H1N1 flu outbreak. Data elements specific to pediatrics include:
- Available Pediatric Med/Surge beds and Pediatric ICU beds.
- Total number of full feature ventilators available to the facility that can support both adult and pediatric patients.
- Number of patients who are currently being managed on rescue therapies including the number of children birth to 12 years of age.
In addition to HavBed, ASPR has a web-based capability called MedMap that incorporates information from various sources into a single environment for enhanced awareness. MedMap can provide information about the locations of public schools, daycare facilities, pediatric intensive care units, and hospitals that provide pediatric services.
Another assessment effort currently underway is examining ventilators for pediatric patients, an issue of extreme importance during the H1N1 epidemic. ASPR recently initiated an inventory of mechanical ventilators owned by US acute care hospitals. Respondents represented 85 percent of US pediatric and neonatal ICU beds. The inventory identified thousands of full-feature ventilators, mechanical ventilators designed for select pediatric and neonatal populations, and more than 16,000 transport ventilators at US responding hospitals. While the number of ventilators was about 36 per 100,000 children under 18, staff expertise for ventilating pediatric patients may be limited. Therefore, ASPR has contracted with the Society of Critical Care Medicine (SCCM) to develop a critical care cross-training course. This web-based course will include pediatric modules and be available at no cost to US healthcare workers.
Beyond these activities, HHS utilizes epidemiological data and other data on system capacity to inform our work and anticipate future needs. This information feeds back to our Hospital Preparedness Program (HPP) grants and all our other activities. The HPP has already awarded grants focusing on pediatric issues and has elaborated on the need to integrate all "at-risk" groups into grant activities.
To enhance the National Disaster Medical System (NDMS) focus on pediatric issues, we recently hired a pediatrician as a Deputy Chief Medical Officer. This physician will be leading several initiatives aimed at improving our NDMS response capabilities with respect to our pediatric population and engaging in ongoing liaison with the American Academy of Pediatrics and pediatric hospital partners. He will also be assisting us with analyzing the findings of our recent workshop "Pediatric Preparedness and Response in Public Health Emergencies and Disasters." This workshop covered topics related to medical response and medical countermeasures for the pediatric population. Approximately 69 percent of NDMS clinicians have training in pediatric care, including nine percent who are pediatricians or pediatric specialists. The NDMS is currently evaluating its equipment caches to determine how they can be modified to meet the needs of children during responses.
ASPR is also working closely with the American Academy of Pediatrics and its Disaster Preparedness Committee. ASPR representatives attend the AAP Committee's quarterly meetings and AAP representatives have participated in ASPR pediatric conferences.
The Commission report also addresses the critical area of medical countermeasures. Our BioMedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA) actively considers the needs of the pediatric and other special populations in the community in the Chemical, Biological, Radiological, and Nuclear (CBRN) and Influenza Programs. The work of our Public Health Emergency Medical Countermeasures Enterprise (PHEMCE) Integrated Program Teams and other interagency and internal program task forces and teams review and set requirements in contract solicitations that include the special considerations and instructions within the scope of work addressing children and other special populations such as immunocompromised persons. Contract awards for countermeasure product development, acquisition, and clinical studies provide special instructions for pediatric and other special populations.
While we move forward in planning for the needs of children, we cannot forget the critical lessons learned during past events. In the aftermath of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, HHS' Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) worked to ensure the portability of Medicaid and the Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP) benefits for children and adults displaced by the disasters. Both Medicaid statute1 and regulation2 require State Medicaid agencies to have in place a mechanism for ensuring that Medicaid beneficiaries have access to care when they are out-of-state. Such State coordination typically happens in one of two ways:
1) A provider who furnishes services to a resident of another State temporarily enrolls in the Medicaid program of the individual's home State in order to receive reimbursement directly from the individual's home State, or
2) The host State provider can (pursuant to an interstate agreement) bill the host State as they would for any other Medicaid beneficiary, and then payments are later reconciled between the home State and the host State Medicaid programs.
Despite existing statutory and regulatory policies that accommodate the needs of Medicaid beneficiaries when away from home, the magnitude of devastation of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita posed unique problems for beneficiaries receiving out-of-state care. The Secretary signed a waiver, effective the day before Hurricane Katrina made landfall along the Gulf Coast that gave CMS the authority to waive normal rules and regulations to accommodate these special circumstances. CMS responded after Hurricane Katrina through a section 1115 demonstration project to ensure that displaced evacuees could receive services under Medicaid and CHIP in whatever State they were currently located.3 Through this process, evacuees enrolled for up to five months in host-State Medicaid or CHIP programs and allowed the host-State to bill CMS directly for the cost of services provided to evacuees. CMS provided templates for the States to use in requesting a section 1115 demonstration project, and it deemed such demonstrations to be budget-neutral, to streamline approval. CMS also assigned designated casework staff to work with all States hosting evacuees to ensure speedy access to Medicaid and CHIP benefits by those in need.
The work of CMS and of other HHS components on these portability concerns continues. In the Children's Health Insurance Program Reauthorization Act of 2009 (P.L. 111-3), Congress required the Secretary, through CMS, to develop a model process for the coordination of the enrollment, retention, and coverage under Medicaid and CHIP of children who frequently change their State of residency or otherwise are temporarily outside of their State of residency due to family migration, emergency evacuations, natural or other disasters, public health emergencies, or educational needs.4 CMS is currently consulting with State Medicaid and CHIP directors and other stakeholders to fulfill this requirement and will produce a Report to Congress describing additional steps or authority that may be needed to make further improvements to coordinate the enrollment, retention, and coverage under Medicaid and CHIP. We anticipate these consultation efforts will enhance CMS's knowledge about ways to help improve the coordination of care for displaced children.
In the area of mental health, HHS has some significant initiatives that benefit children in the response and recovery phases of disasters. Effective disaster preparedness and response are an essential part of HHS' Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) public health responsibility.
As you are aware SAMHSA has an interagency agreement with the Federal Emergency Management Administration (FEMA). Under the agreement, FEMA provides funds for Crisis Counseling Training and Assistance Program (CCP) and SAMHSA manages those funds and monitors their use. For over thirty years, the CCP has supported short-term, solutions-focused interventions with individuals and groups experiencing psychological and behavioral problems associated with large scale disasters. These interventions help disaster survivors understand their situation and reactions, mitigate against additional stress, help survivors review their options, promote mental health using specific evidence-based coping strategies, provide emotional support, and encourage links with other individuals and agencies able to help survivors recover to their pre-disaster level of functioning. As with many of SAMHSA's disaster related programs, these funds are geared to help States address the immediate needs of the affected communities until the State is capable of addressing the needs of its citizens.
In addition to the CCP, with which you are familiar, there are several other programs which help address ongoing mental health needs in local communities.
The Children's Mental Health Initiative provides funding to local communities to establish systems of care for children with serious emotional distress. The Children and Violence Initiative, carried out in conjunction with the Department of Education, provides funding to local education agencies to promote mental health and reduce violence in schools. The Garrett Lee Smith State and Tribal Grants provide funding to States to prevent youth suicides. The accompanying Garrett Lee Smith Campus Grants are available to colleges and universities to address suicide. For several years we have funded efforts across the United States, including Louisiana, to address the effects of trauma on children through the National Children's Trauma Service Initiative. LAUNCH is a new program that promotes mental health among children under 8 years old. SAMHSA also funds Homeless Programs that support mental health services for adults and children who are or expect to be homeless, including supportive housing. Such grants are available from both the Center for Mental Health Services and the Center for Substance Abuse Treatment. The Community Mental Health Service Block Grant provides financial support to States to address the needs of adults for a serious mental illness and children with a serious emotional disturbance. And finally, the Projects of Assistance in Transitioning from Homelessness funds are available to States to provide mental health services to homeless individuals. More information on SAMHSA programs relative to disasters is included as an appendix to this testimony.
In a final note on mental health, my staff recently met with the staff of the NCCD to plan a coordinated response to the Commission's Interim Recommendations and the Disaster Mental Health Recommendations of the National Biodefense Science Board (NBSB). There is a great deal of synergy between the recommendations of the Commission and those of the NBSB on mental health issues. Close collaboration will be extremely beneficial to the implementation of strategies that better address the needs of children throughout each phase of disaster.
None of these efforts will have any impact without coordination between various involved agencies. ASPR has continued its commitment to take into account the needs of children in its plans for preparedness, response, and recovery through a number of coordination meetings and listening sessions with various federal and non-federal partners, including the American Academy of Pediatrics.
HHS' Administration for Children and Families (ACF) is fully committed to making children a priority at the highest level of response before, during, and after catastrophic disasters and emergency events. The agency is focused on promoting the recovery of children and their families affected by disasters and emergency events. As a whole, HHS disaster response and recovery efforts emphasize meeting the needs of children, one of our most vulnerable populations in times of crisis and emergency.
During disasters, ACF gathers information about the Head Start and child care programs, which serve children across the age range. ACF maintains contact with State human services and emergency management agencies to determine if there are any other issues that affect children. ACF has conducted shelter assessments revealing unmet human services needs for children, particularly a lack of and/or inappropriate child care in some shelters. ACF also has developed a disaster case management model with FEMA. Finally, ACF provides operational support to the NCCD and has initiated programs and policies on a number of issues to ensure that children are given the attention they deserve before, during and after a disaster.
Throughout its Interim Report, the NCCD states that children are given less attention than necessary when disaster plans are written and exercised and that children must be considered and planned for as children. HHS recognizes that the needs of children are different when planning for disasters, and that they require different resources to assist them in recovering from disasters because they are far more than just "small adults." As part of HHS' commitment to the Commission's Interim recommendations, the agency has taken steps to help ensure that child care is addressed in both emergency preparedness planning, as well as disaster recovery and response efforts. However, much more needs to be done.
HHS supports the Commission's recommendations to require disaster planning capabilities for child care providers, and improve capacity to provide child care services in the immediate aftermath of and recovery from a disaster. Child care provides critical support in helping families in the event of a disaster. For children, early childhood programs support healthy growth and development, which is especially important in an emergency. Parents need to know that their children are safe and supervised as they take steps to rebuild their lives.
For the Subcommittee's information, my statement today is appended with additional material specific to the Commission's recommendations that relate to ACF programs.
In closing, I would like to thank you again for providing the opportunity for me to talk with you today about the Department's many efforts to address the needs of children affected by disasters and public health emergencies. We have made significant strides and we anticipate continuing this momentum in the future.
The Commission's report brings attention to the importance of children and offers many laudable recommendations. We recognize the continual need to improve our efforts and we look forward to working with the Subcommittee, the Commission, and other partners to do so. I would be happy to answer any questions.
Appendix 1
Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration
Disaster Related Programs
Effective disaster preparedness and response are an essential part of SAMHSA's public health responsibility. SAMHSA was on the ground in Louisiana and elsewhere in the Gulf region within days of Hurricane Katrina. SAMHSA's practice and expectation is that it will be first to respond to a natural disaster with all available assistance it can provide. SAMHSA is concerned about adults and children who, at the time of a disaster, has a pre-existing mental health problem with no access to care or medications; those who may have developed a serious mental health problem as a result of the disaster; and those dealing with the depression of having lost family, friends, neighbors, neighborhoods, work and other familiarities of everyday life.
SAMHSA's disaster related programs are geared to help States address the immediate needs of the affected communities until the State is capable of addressing the needs of its citizens. Three programs specifically available to help individuals affected by natural disasters are described below.
- Crisis Counseling Training and Assistance Program (CCP): When it comes to disaster mental health services, SAMHSA's support comes primarily through an Interagency Agreement with Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) which funds the SAMHSA-implemented and monitored Crisis Counseling Training and Assistance Program (CCP), a program authorized under Section 416 of the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act of 1974.
For over thirty years, the CCP has supported short-term, solutions-focused interventions with individuals and groups experiencing psychological and behavioral problems associated with large scale disasters. These interventions help disaster survivors understand their situation and reactions, mitigate against additional stress, help survivors review their options, promote mental health using specific evidence-based coping strategies, provide emotional support, and encourage links with other individuals and agencies able to help survivors recover to their pre-disaster level of functioning. The Crisis Counseling Program uses an outreach model that includes, individual crisis counseling, group crisis counseling, public education, community networking and assessment and referral to reach those affected in a federally declared disaster area. The program includes both short-term (60 day) and long-term (9 month) grant funding. At the end of that period, the State becomes responsible for ongoing services. In some major cases that period is extended, but it is still the expectation that the State will right itself and serve those who are in need
- SAMHSA Emergency Response Center (SERC): The SAMHSA Emergency Response Center, or SERC, was established to coordinate the overall Federal response for mental health and substance abuse issues around Katrina. In the days, weeks, and months immediately following Katrina, the SERC operated 12 hours a day, seven days a week at the height of the disaster.
- National Suicide Prevention Lifeline:When faced with the effects of a natural disaster, many become depressed and unfortunately too often think about or even try to commit suicide to avoid the pain. SAMHSA runs a Suicide Prevention national hotline that is connected to over 140 crisis centers to address the needs of individuals and to connect them with services.
Appendix 2
National Commission on Children and Disasters Recommendations
Relative to the HHS Administration for Children and Families.
The Commission's recommendations specifically relate to the following ACF program areas:
1) Child Care;
2) Disaster Case Management; and
3) Child Welfare.
Child Care
The Commission's interim recommendations related to child care require States to develop comprehensive disaster plans for child care to ensure coordination with key stakeholders, including public health and child care resource and referral agencies. The ACF Child Care Bureau (CCB) has already taken some initial steps by providing technical assistance on emergency planning and asking States to report on disaster preparedness efforts in their State Plans for the Child Care and Development Fund (CCDF) program. In addition, ACF supports the Commission's recommendations to require disaster planning capabilities for child care providers, and improve capacity to provide child care services in the immediate aftermath of and recovery from a disaster. The CCB also developed the Child Care Resources for Disasters and Emergencies Web site. The site is available at http://nccic.acf.hhs.gov/emergency. The site includes a wide range of information and resources about emergency preparedness, disaster and emergency response efforts, recovery resources, and lessons learned.
Disaster Case Management
ACF's approach to disaster case management seeks to assist States in rapidly connecting children, families, the elderly, and persons with disabilities with critical services that can restore them to a pre-disaster level of self-sufficiency that maintains clients' human dignity. The ACF model is based on five principles: self-determination, self-sufficiency, Federalism, flexibility and speed, and support to the States. The Commission recommended establishment of a holistic federal disaster case management program with an emphasis on achieving tangible positive outcomes for all children and families within a Presidentially-declared disaster area. ACF agrees, and on December 1, 2009 ACF and FEMA signed an Interagency Agreement to allow for implementation of the ACF Disaster Case Management Program after a future major disaster has been declared by the President. We believe this program is fully consistent with the Commission's recommendation.
Child Welfare
Although State welfare agencies are required to have disaster plans, the Commission recommends that guidance, technical assistance, and model plans be provided to assist State and local child welfare agencies in meeting currently applicable disaster planning requirements and further require collaboration with State and local emergency management, courts and other key stakeholders.
Toward the goals of this recommendation, ACF's Children's Bureau (CB) Training and Technical Assistance Network proactively addresses disaster preparedness, response and recovery by providing onsite technical assistance and by developing a variety of materials, disseminated through the National Resource Centers' newsletters, websites, web casts, list serves and technical assistance. A link to the Children's Bureau Training and Technical Assistance Network can be found at http://www.acf.hhs.gov/programs/cb/tta/index.htm.
The client population served by the CB programs includes children who are particularly vulnerable and at risk due to abuse and neglect. Many of these children are already separated from birth parents or family members and may be in the custody of the State child welfare agency and placed in temporary foster homes. The Children's Bureau has worked with ACF Regional Offices and the State child welfare agencies and courts to build disaster preparedness, response and recovery plans. After the 2005 hurricanes, the CB National Resource Centers received additional funding to help States address their training and technical assistance needs and to promote disaster preparedness by State child welfare agencies.
Other initiatives and activities developed and implemented by ACF related to children and disasters include:
Office of Head Start
The Office of Head Start (OHS) has printed and will disseminate the Head Start Emergency Preparedness Manual this month. The manual will also be available for download on the Early Childhood Learning and Knowledge Center website. The manual focuses on planning for emergencies and offers grantees a wide variety of tools for assessing risks, identifying resources, and developing action plans. The manual was reviewed by the ACF Office of Emergency Preparedness.
On December 3, 2009, OHS conducted a webcast on Emergency Preparedness. The webcast featured information about the phases of emergency preparedness, including: 1) Impact: How Head Start and Early Head Start programs across the country cope with disaster while it is occurring; 2) Relief and Recovery: How Head Start and Early Head Start programs resume services and help children and families get back on their feet; and 3) Planning and Practice: How you can plan and practice your strategy to respond to a variety of potential crises that may impact Head Start programs. The website was viewed by approximately 1,400 sites across the country.
Family and Youth Services Bureau
The Family and Youth Services Bureau (FYSB) developed a disaster planning guidance document for the Runaway and Homeless Youth program. FYSB has taken the "P's and R's" approach to planning (Prevention and Preparedness, Response and Recovery). The document is called Ready for Anything: A Disaster Planning Manual for Runaway and Homeless Youth Programs
1 1902(a)(16) of the Social Security Act.
3 CMS State Medicaid and CHIP Directors Letter, September 16, 2005, SHO # 05-001, http://www.cms.hhs.gov/smdl/downloads/SHO091605.pdf.
4 Children's Health Insurance Program Reauthorization Act of 2009, Section 213.
Last revised: June 18, 2013


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It didn't take very long Saturday morning for Tom Johnson, of Centerville, to get the first bird species checked off his list during the Webster County segment of the annual Audubon Christmas Bird Count.
He spotted a flock of snow buntings just outside of Otho on the way to Dolliver Memorial Park from the group's pre-dawn meeting at the Tom Thumb restaurant on U.S. Highway 169.
Of course, to get a good look at them, you need to stop and since the road ditches are full of snow anyway, after parking for a few seconds on the road, he moved on and the buntings flew away.
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Breck Johnson, of Fort Dodge, left, watches as Tom Johnson, of Centerville, works to get his tape recording of owl calls working right early Saturday morning in Dolliver Memorial Park while they participate in the Audubon Christmas Bird Count.
The next spot, in Dolliver, had a place to pull off the road.
Second species off the list there.
"There's our eagle," he said as a large specimen flew north along the Des Moines River, "right on schedule."
Of the dozen volunteers who joined the count this year, three of them made the trek from Paton - Evans McWilliam, a longtime bird watcher; Adam Taylor, who's been active for about eight years; and Dave Crandell, who was out counting for the first time.
Crandell said he attending because Taylor asked him,
"Why not?" he said. "I have the time."
Of course, such an explanation cannot go without some ribbing.
"Your wife asked me to lose you in the woods," Taylor said.
Their presence on the bird count might leave home a bit sparse.
"With the three of us here," Taylor joked, "it's half the town gone."
McWilliam and Taylor said they attend counts in other areas too; it allows them to see that much more.
"It's nice to switch," Taylor said.
The veteran bird counters, such as Tom Johnson, get to see the longterm trends.
"Southern birds are moving north," he said. "We're going for roadrunners today."
He's also seen some species losing numbers.
"There's been a loss of partridge, quail and pheasant," he said.
In addition, new species are invading. For example, he said, the Eurasian collared dove was released in Florida about 15 years ago.
"It's spread through most of the country," he said. "They displace the mourning dove."
Following their time in the field, the volunteers met at the Prairie Resource Center at Brushy Creek State Recreation Area to tabulate the results and enjoy some of co-organizer Jennifer Johnson's chili.
Breck Johnson, co-organizer, said that as of noon, the number of species counted was lower than expected: 34 had been spotted.
"Forty is normal," he said."The record is 48."
Most of what was seen is normal for the area and time of year.
"Nothing incredibly rare," he said.
Several common species had not been spotted yet.
"We're still looking for house finches and purple finches," he said. "Hopefully, we'll get some off the feeder counts."
He wasn't going to give up, some of the volunteers and himself were going back out.
"I foresee 40 by the end of the day," he said.
For more information about the annual Christmas Bird Count, visit www.audubon.org.


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By Jueseppi B.
Is Cornel West Right Or Has He Lost His Mind?
Submitted by Chris J The Genius on May 19, 2011 Of Dr. Jays.com
Perhaps the single most influential and most celebrated member of the black intelligentsia, Dr. Cornel West, is under fire for some highly controversial remarks he made concerning President Barack Obama. Here's what he said.
"I think my dear brother Barack Obama has a certain fear of free black men. It's understandable. As a young brother who grows up in a white context, brilliant African father, he's always had to fear being a white man with black skin. All he has known culturally is white. He is just as human as I am, but that is his cultural formation. When he meets an independent black brother, it is frightening. And that's true for a white brother."
First of all, what so many of us, as well as our African-American leaders forget is that President Obama is the president of the entire country. He was NOT elected President of Black America only. In fact, he didn't even really begin to gain the support of African-American voters until he had begun to prove himself as a viable candidate due to his popularity among White voters in the early primaries.
Name a POTUS (even Bill Clinton, who we claimed as the first Black president based mainly on stereotypical behavior such as smoking marijuana, playing the sax, and sleeping around—a post for another day) who was able to really focus on the types of issues we're asking our current president to deal with, including a grossly race-biased justice system, the strength of the Black dollar, lack of jobs and education.
The rest of this article can be found at Dr. Jays.com
I vote for West has lost him mind. Jealousy is a bitch called envy.
Lets get into this latest issue among Black America…..chin deep:
Cornel West: MSNBC's Black Hosts 'Sold Their Souls' For Obama Access
By Jack Mirkinson Posted: 11/13/2012
Cornel West took aim at MSNBC's black anchors in an appearance on "Democracy Now" on Friday.
West made headlines when, during the interview with Amy Goodman, he called President Obama a "Rockefeller Republican in black-face." But he also reserved very harsh words for Al Sharpton, Melissa Harris-Perry and frequent MSNBC guest host Michael Eric Dyson. Goodman played a clip of Dyson defending Obama's record, and asked West and fellow guest Tavis Smiley to comment. (Jump to 11:35 in the video below)
Tavis Smiley & Cornel West on Election, Why Calling Obama Progressive Ignores His Record 1/2
Published on Nov 9, 2012
Visit http://www.democracynow.org to watch more reports on Democracy Now!, an independent, global news hour that airs weekdays on 1,100+ TV and radio stations.
As the most expensive presidential election in U.S. history comes to an end, broadcaster Tavis Smiley and professor, activist Dr. Cornel West join us to discuss President Obama's re-election and their hopes for a national political agenda in and outside of the White House during Obama's second term. At a time when one in six Americans is poor, the price tag for combined spending by federal candidates — along with their parties and outside groups like super PACs — totaled more than $6 billion. Together, West and Smiley have written the new book, "The Rich and the Rest of Us: A Poverty Manifesto."
Tavis Smiley & Cornel West on Election, Why Calling Obama Progressive Ignores His Record 2/2
Both Tavis and Smiley single out prominent progressives whom they accuse of overlooking Obama's actual record. "We believe if [Obama] is not pushed, he is going to be a transactional president and not a transformational president," Smiley says. "We believe the time is now for action and no longer accommodation… To be the most progressive means you've taken some serious risk. And I just don't see the example of that." West says that some prominent supporters of Obama "want to turn their back to poor and working people. It's a sad thing to see them as apologists for the Obama administration in that way.
West has clashed heatedly with both Sharpton and Harris-Perry before. He and Sharpton had a legendarily hostile encounter about the Obama administration's record on MSNBC in 2011. In February 2012, he calledHarris-Perry a "fake and a fraud," which may have had something to do with a 2011 column she wrote calling him a "self-aggrandizing" man who "offers thin criticism of President Obama and stunning insight into the delicate ego of the self-appointed black leadership class that has been largely supplanted in recent years."
For this entire article, visit The Huffington Post
Melissa Harris-Perry
Professor Cornel West is President Obama's silenced, disregarded, disrespected moral conscience, according to Chris Hedge's recent column, "The Obama Deception: Why Cornel West went Ballistic." In an self-aggrandizing, victimology sermon deceptively wrapped in the discourse of prophetic witness, Professor West offers thin criticism of President Obama and stunning insight into the delicate ego of the self-appointed black leadership class that has been largely supplanted in recent years.
West begins with a bit of historical revision. West suggests that the President discarded him without provocation after he offered the Obama for America campaign his loyal service and prayers. But anyone with a casual knowledge of this rift knows it began during the Democratic primary not after the election. It began, not with a puffed up President, but when Cornel West's "dear brother" Tavis Smiley threw a public tantrum because Senator Obama refused to attend Smiley's annual State of Black America. Smiley repeatedly suggested that his forum was the necessary black vetting space for the Democratic nominees.
He needed to ask Obama and Clinton tough questions so that black America could get the answers it needed. But black America was doing a fine job making up its own mind in the primaries and didn't need Smiley's blessing to determine their own electoral preferences. Indeed, when Smiley got a chance to hold candidate Clinton "accountable" he spent more time fawning over her than probing about her symbolic or substantive policy stances that impacted black communities.
Fiercely loyal to his friend, Professor West chose sides and began to undermine candidate Obama is small and large ways. Candidate Obama ceased calling West back because he was in the middle of a fierce campaign and West's loyalties were, at best, divided. I suspect candidate Obama did not trust his "dear brother" to keep the campaign secrets and strategies. I also suspect he was not inaccurate in his hesitancy.
Furthermore, West's sense of betrayal is clearly more personal than ideological. In Hedges' article West claims that a true progressive would always put love of the people above concern with the elite and privileged. Then he complains, "I couldn't get a ticket to the inauguration with my mother and my brother. I said this is very strange. We drive into the hotel and the guy who picks up my bags from the hotel has a ticket to the inauguration… We had to watch the thing in the hotel."Let me get this straight–the tenured, Princeton professor who collects five figures for public lectures was relegated to a hotel television while an anonymous hotel worker got tickets to the inauguration! What kind of crazy, mixed up class politics are these? Wait a minute…
As tenured professors Cornel West and I are not meaningfully accountable, no matter what our love, commitment, or self-delusions tell us. President Obama, as an elected official, can, in fact, be voted out of his job. We can't. That is a difference that matters. As West derides the President's economic policies he remains silent on his friend Tavis Smiley's relationship with Wal-Mart, Wells Fargo, and McDonald's–all corporations whose invasive and predatory actions in poor and black communities have been the target of progressive organizing for decades.
I have never heard him take Tavis Smiley to task for helping convince black Americans to enter into predatory mortgages. I've never heard him ask whether Tavis' decision to publish R. Kelley's memoirs might be a less than progressive decision. He doesn't hold Tavis accountable because Tavis is his friend and he is loyal. I respect that, but I also know that if he were in elected office the could not get off so easily.
Opposition research would point out the hypocrisy in his public positions in a way that would make him vulnerable come election time. As a media personality and professor he is safely ensconced in a system that can never vote him off the island. I think an honest critique of Obama has to begin by acknowledging his own privileges.
This entire article can be found at The Nation
From The Grio
Al Sharpton defends Melissa Harris Perry from Cornel West's 'arrogant' and 'disingenuous' attacks
by Zerlina Maxwell | February 8, 2012
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In a recent interview with Diverse magazine, Professor Cornel West attacked his former Princeton colleague and newly minted MSNBC host Professor Melissa Harris-Perry.
West called Harris-Perry a "liar" and said that, "she's become the momentary darling of liberals, but I pray for her because she's in over her head. She's a fake and a fraud. I was so surprised how treacherous the sister was."
West and Harris-Perry have disagreed publicly before in their varying assessments of President Barack Obama. West and talk show host Tavis Smiley have consistently been harsh on Obama and what they see as his lack of concern for the black community and the poor.
West sees Harris-Perry, and her MSNBC colleague Reverend Al Sharpton, as conciliators to the administration. He also wonders why a civil rights activist like Sharpton wouldn't be more harsh in his critique of Obama, questioning why he is so close to the administration.
In an interview with the Grio, Rev. Sharpton responded sternly to the assertion that he and Dr. Harris-Perry were somehow rewarded for their support of the Obama administration with shows on MSNBC. "Rewarded by who?," Sharpton says. "I don't know if having access to the Obama administration means that one is rewarded… All of these conspiracy theorists need to check facts more clearly."
Sharpton also posed this rhetorical question, "[w]ho rewarded Tavis Smiley with his show?… Tavis can have a show [and] that's fine. But if Dr. [Harris] Perry [and] I have a show all of a sudden it's some kind of a conspiracy theory?… black people are not that stupid."
Sharpton added that many prominent civil rights leaders of the past have had access to presidents:
This whole thing that I'm too close to the White House for a civil rights leader. Frederick Douglass had access to Abe Lincoln. Booker T. Washington had access to Teddy Roosevelt and Martin Luther King had access to John Kennedy to the degree that Kennedy told him the FBI was trying to do some things to Bayard Rustin and Jack Odell's reputation. Andrew Young worked as the ambassador for Jimmy Carter. Jesse Jackson worked as an envoy for Bill Clinton. They need to study civil rights history. I don't work for Obama. And every president has had civil rights leaders with access so now we get to the black president and there is a different set of rules. He shouldn't have civil rights leaders he relates to. I think it's surprising that scholars are not doing their scholarly inquiry here.
Sharpton also finds West's scathing critique of President Obama "personal."
We are not arguing about issues here, we're arguing about personality. I supported President Obama in 2008. And I support him now not because I got some reward but because we won the election. That's what I supported him to do. He's doing many of the things that I supported him for. Some of the things he can't do because of being blocked. So how do you support somebody in the election, they win, and all of a sudden you're against them? It's almost like they have this psychological positioning that they have to always be outsiders rather than saying that the goals are to be achieved whether you do it outside, inside, or a combination… I'm oriented toward achieving goals for the people, not worrying about how I'm positioned.
In a defense of Cornel West, Dr. Boyce Watkins wrote for News One, "Since Harris-Perry and her friends had no legitimate defense to the critiques of Dr. West, they presumed that it would be easier to simply discredit him. You see, if you kill the messenger, you never have to deal with the message itself… Harris-Perry allowed herself to be used by the liberal establishment and their media channels to paint Professor West as irrelevant, petty, and ignorant in his critiques."
Sharpton responded to Watkins' comment by saying, "Cornel has a right to disagree with the president, but why does he have to go out and disparage everyone who disagrees with him? Boyce Watkins has the right to support Cornel, but why does everybody that disagrees with him have to be all of these other things?"
Melissa Harris-Perry has declined to comment in response to the remarks from West and Watkins.
This entire article can be read at The Grio
Lastly there's this from the Daily Kos……
There is much more. Read the whole blog post, which I have renamed Melissa Harris-Perry Tears Cornel West a New One Right on, Sister!
Updated by The Plainsman at Tue May 17, 2011 at 09:01 PM PDT
Thanks for the rec list. I get tired of elite black folks like Cornel West, who I have a lot of respect for, and Tavis Smiley, who I have no respect for, acting like "crabs in a bucket" as my late father used to say.
I have been a long time admirer and fan of Ms. Harris-Perry, and anyone who knows me can testify that I dislike both Mr. Smiley & Dr. West for their shucking, jiving and profiteering motives.
Both men have forgotten that simple creed of being Black….once you make it, help others make it.
Instead of criticizing The President for their much imagined faults of Barack Hussein Obama as President, why not donate every red cent from their joint book…"The Rich and the Rest of Us: A Poverty Manifesto", to the Black community, that they profess to care so much about?
To Dr. Cornell West & Mr. Tavis Smiley: You can talk the talk all day….but at the end of that day, can you walk the walk?
President Barack Hussein Obama walks the walk every day of his life.
AND don't forget, Sistah Melissa Harris-Perry ain't no punk. Boys.
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I've tracked U.S. Rep. Frank LoBiondo's votes recently and, as a constituent, I believe he has made quite a few questionable ones.
LoBiondo, R-2nd Dist., voted against women in the "Lilly Ledbetter" bill, which removed a loophole that benefited corporations that underpay women. He voted against the jobs and economic recovery act of 2009. He voted against the bill that expanded government-supported health coverage for kids.
All of those were pretty much party-line votes that help to explain the condition of the Republican Party -- and, reading recent letters, ideological rigidity seems to be a Republican Party requirement.
So, amazingly, when LoBiondo voted for the extremely watered- down Waxman-Markey cap-and- trade (climate) bill, I thought meager congratulations were in order.
Then I read Christine Leeds Armstrong's July 2 letter, "Will LoBiondo explain climate change vote?" That narrow-minded view of LoBiondo's thoughtful, informed, non-partisan vote was reinforced by Stephen Atkinson's July 8 letter, "Thank LoBiondo for economic ruin."
I can tell Armstrong who LoBiondo was serving with his "yes" vote. He was serving my children and grandchildren, and yours, and all of mankind.
Contrary to what many have been led to believe, scientific evidence tells us that global warming is upon us. The deniers may not like it, but to solve this problem is not going to be easy or cheap.
China, communist China, has been mandated to have 3 percent of its electricity from renewable sources by 2010 and 8 percent by 2020. We are the laggards -- and China has the ability to manufacture its own equipment. Us? Not so much, but we mobilized for World War II, and we can do it again for a different kind of struggle and improved economy.
So what is the downside of LoBiondo possibly being wrong on his acceptance of global warming as a fact? In the short term, marginally higher energy prices. If he's right, we'll realize new industries and jobs, and cleaner technologies. We'll reduce our dependence on imported petroleum products that can come from objectionable countries and, in the process, reduce the trade deficit.
Plus, terrorist networks that rely on "petrodollars" that cascade in when demand is high will be devastated. Pollution will be reduced.
Those are some good benefits. Will partisan shortsightedness prevail? But the question that really needs to be answered is, what if Atkinson and Armstrong are wrong -- and we do nothing? The planet will continue to roll through the universe no matter what we do, but will our species survive?
Maybe it's time to make some long-term calculations about the future of civilization. It's our choice. Future generations are counting on us to make the right choice.
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The Virtual Water Project is aimed at helping consumers understand the amount of fresh water used to grow and process different kinds of food and food products. The iPhone app is essentially an interactive infographic. Using a minimalistic design style, the information is easy to digest and easy on the eyes. The app provides the water used per kilogram of product.
I currently have the app on my phone. I find it incredibly easy to use and quite informative. Unfortunately, as a chocolate lover, one of the worst offenders on the list is chocolate at 1458 gallons of water per 8 oz of chocolate. Learn more about the project a the Virtual Water Project website and to download the app visit the iTunes app store here.
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PASCAGOULA, Mississippi -- After a week-long trial and nearly nine hours of intense deliberations Thursday and Friday, jurors found Adrian Orville Moore guilty of murder and aggravated assault.
Moore, 27, was found guilty of shooting Pascagoula residents and half-brothers Hardy Parker Jr., 51, and Alfred Durden Jr., now 47, as they walked along Convent Avenue in the early morning hours of Jan. 20, 2013.
The jury was deadlocked 10-2 when members left the courtroom after 6 p.m. Thursday. They returned at 9 a.m. Friday and deliberated two and a half more hours before returning their verdicts.
Moore was charged with murder related to Parker's death and aggravated assault related to Durden's injury.
Parker was shot three times and died at Singing River Hospital the same day, testimony revealed, and Durden was shot once and was treated and released from the hospital.
During the trial, jurors heard three and a half days worth of testimony.
On Wednesday, forensic experts said Parker's blood was found on the back of a pair of Moore's jeans.
Experts also said that particles were found on Moore's denim jacket that could be "indicative" of gunshot residue.
On Tuesday, the defense called Durden's testimony into question because he admitted to smoking spice on the day of the shooting and forensic pathologist Dr. Paul McGarry described Parker's three gunshot wounds.
McGarry said one shot entered above Parker's left eyebrow -- breaking multiple bones as it moved across his face -- and exited various spots around his right eye and cheek.
The fatal shot entered the center of his forehead, McGarry said, and a third shot entered his upper left back and came out of the top of his shoulder.
On the first day of the trial, Durden described how he played dead after being shot at by Moore and how he saw his brother get shot multiple times.
Check below for live updates from the courtroom on Friday.
11:54 a.m. -- Lawrence: The Pascagoula Police Department "did an amazing job" after arriving at the "very horrendous crime scene." The work they put in, the time they put in and their commitment to professionalism "should be commended and remembered."
11:53 a.m. -- Jackie Davis, who was previously shot by Moore in a separate case, also made a statement. "I feel like just justice was served for all three victims. Mr. Moore is just reaping what he has sown," The sentence is well-deserved, he said, and Moore should remain in prison for the duration of his life sentence.
11:52 a.m. District Attorney Tony Lawrence: "I'm just glad that justice was served. The jury obviously took their time and considered the extensive and overwhelming evidence that was presented in this case. The results reached today made the streets safer for the city of Pascagoula."
11:51 a.m. -- For all the things Moore did to people in the neighborhood, Durden said, "don't nobody have to worry no more. He's gone."
11:50 a.m. -- "He was a person that stayed to himself," Durden said of Parker. "He didn't bother nobody. He didn't mind helping nobody at all."
11:49 a.m. -- Through tears, Durden said all his brother, Hardy Parker Jr., ever wanted was a chance. "Now, he's resting in peace."
11:48 a.m. -- Alfred Durden: "I'm glad it came all out the right way. I'm glad it came out for the good. I want to thank the DA's office, the assistants (and) everybody who worked on the case. I knew I had to be strong and, just like I was told, the truth never changes."
11:42 a.m. -- Crosby said he "absolutely" plans to appeal the verdict. The judge did not allow Crosby to discuss the jury's note. The note, Crosby said, "violated the sanctity of the court."
11:35 a.m. -- Moore is sentenced to life in prison on the murder charge and 20 years on the aggravated assault charge, to run consecutively.
11:33 a.m. -- The jury found Moore guilty of murder and guilty of aggravated assault.
11:32 a.m. -- Krebs is asking the jury if they avoided all media coverage of the trial at home yesterday. They all said yes.
11:31 a.m. -- The jury is being brought in.
11:30 a.m. -- Krebs: I will make the note a part of the record but will not read it. The jurors were subjected to lots of evidence and long closing arguments from both sides.
11:28 a.m. -- Crosby to Krebs: We heard there was a very detailed note sent out to the court about the two jurors who were holding out. We feel like the note was an attempt to gang up on the two jurors.
11:27 a.m. -- Judge: "We have a verdict." The jury is still out.
11:25 a.m. -- Moore had been brought back in. We're hearing we have a decision.
11:24 a.m. -- We're being called back into the courtroom.
10:54 a.m. -- The jury is still out.
10:40 a.m. -- Durden told police in the video that this man sent people to try to shoot him previously. Crosby wanted the video shown to jurors to prove someone else had motive for the shooting.
10:39 a.m. -- In the video, Durden explains an altercation between himself and another neighborhood resident (not Moore) over aluminum cans that were being collected for money.
10:37 a.m. -- The defense was not allowed to show the video to the jury during the trial.
10:23 a.m. -- As the family waits for a verdict, they're reviewing a videotaped interview that took place at the hospital between Pascagoula police and Alfred Durden.
9:35 a.m. -- The jury is still out.
9:14 a.m. -- The state can choose to retry the case, Crosby said, but historically there are cases where the state chose not to retry.
9:12 a.m. -- Defense attorney Michael Crosby is hanging outside the courtroom and said if we end with a hung jury, it essentially puts Moore back at square one.
9:01 a.m. -- Judge Krebs assembled the jury and sent them back out for deliberations.


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First, Roger Federer spanked arch-nemesis Rafael Nadal 6-3, 6-0, ending Rafa's three match winning streak over the Swiss great. Then David Ferrer shocked the world with a just-as-easy 6-3, 6-1 thwomping of Novak Djokovic. Federer, Ferrer, Tomas Berdych and Jo-Willy Tsonga moved into the semifinals, while Rafa and Novak, who combined have won the past seven major championships, went home early.
What are we to make of this?
The knee-jerk reaction is that the season is too long, and so Nadal and Djokovic are struggling with injuries and fatigue, blah, blah, blah. That certainly was the spin Rafa and Nole put on it as they headed out of town.
Now let's get to the real reason: indoor tennis is a different animal.
Ferrer is neck and neck with Nikolay Davydenko as the most underrated player of his generation. (The 29-year-old's generation is full of underrated players, because all-timer Federer and all-timer and early starter Nadal held them all back from winning their share of majors and masters titles.) Ferrer, with his quiet, hopping, bring-it-on attitude, is a tough cookie indoors. He reached the final of the year-end championship in 2007, and was runner-up to Andy Murray in Shanghai earlier this fall.
Tsonga and Berdych are both major-tournament finalists, and big hitters who've proved they can take out anybody on a good day.
As for Federer, who won the year-end championship for a record sixth time yesterday? He was made for indoor hardcourt tennis. If Arthur Ashe Stadium had a lid on it, he just might be the eight-time defending champion at the U.S. Open. The lower, truer bounce means there simply is no weakness for his opponents to exploit. If he's focused and fit, he's going to win. (The same could be said for Pete Sampras, which he proved a couple of years ago when the retired American star gave Federer a run for his money in a series of indoor exhibitions.)
The year-end championship is sometimes called the most prestigious tennis tournament outside of the four majors. This is how the ATP would like it to be viewed, and it's how it deserves to be viewed. But it's a tournament that has been in search of an identity and a purpose ever since its inception in 1970. And it's been undermined in its quest for universal acceptance as the fifth most important title in tennis because every time a player ranked number one or two loses at the WTF, he rolls out the excuses.
The season's too long, my shoulder hurts, I'm tired ...
On top of that, the tournament's history is full of oddities, such as Ilie Nastase winning it four times and claycourt monster Guillermo Vilas winning it on grass.
There's not much that can be done about excuse-making top players. That's what top players do when they lose. (Even Federer sometimes -- see the 2009 Wimbledon.) But the oddities: They actually have good explanations.
Nastase was the best player in the world for the first half of the 1970s -- that's not debatable. He may even have been the most talented of the 90-year-long wood-racket era. He only won two majors in his career (one French Open and one U.S. Open) because two weeks was too long to expect the nutty, fun-loving Romanian to concentrate on a single task. He would get distracted by pretty women in the stands, by his plans for dinner and the disco that night, by his own navel and, of course, by bad line calls, real or imagined. The year-end tourney was perfect for him: one week, a more insular setting, and a round-robin format that allowed him to drift into la-la land once in a while and still survive. And Vilas winning on grass in 1974? The turf was slower down in Melbourne than it was in Wimbledon, and he was quite comfortable on it. (He would go on to win a couple of Australian Open titles on grass, albeit against diminished competition.)
The exception that proves the rule is 1998, when Alex Corretja won the year-end title. That one is a head-scratcher.
So, is the World Tour Finals an important tournament? You bet. Is it the unofficial fifth major? No, and it never will be. After all, it's a playoff for a professional sport that does not value its regular season. The tournaments that precede each of the majors are inevitably called "warm-up" events, even though some of them have history and tradition and fan support that deserve a much stronger descriptor. Casual fans simply don't care who the top eight players in the world are. The only things they know about are the four majors; the rest of the season is a void. This is a failure of the ATP and the ITF, and shame on them.
But this year's WTF has been instructive despite these entrenched drawbacks. One, it put to rest the notion that Novak Djokovic has had the best season since Rod Laver in 1969. Three times Federer has won three majors in a season and still had enough in the tank to finish strong with a year-end title. Each of those years he won more matches than Djokovic did this year. Even just last year, Rafa won three majors and reached the final of the WTF, falling to Federer. Djokovic was 1-2 in round-robin play, this after declaring himself fit and ready coming into the tournament.
So Djokovic had an amazing year; I'm not trying to diminish it. He was fantastic -- absolutely unbeatable for long stretches. But Federer and Nadal have been quietly saying that his level couldn't last, and it turns out they were right.
This bodes well for an exciting Melbourne, just six weeks away. Djokovic, the defending champion, will be the deserved favorite, but Federer -- ending the 2011 season with 17 straight wins -- will be feeling good about his chances. So will, to a lesser extent, Tsonga and Berdych and maybe even Murray and Ferrer.
The odd man out of this chest-thumping parade is, of course, Nadal. Maybe he'll have that old strut back in time to defend his crown in Paris.


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You know the drill: Various Christian organizations and conservative broadcasters raise holy hell, aimed at major retailers who don't use "Christmas" in their store signs, newspaper ads, circulars or websites. Imagine the lowly clerk or salesperson who unwittingly greets a customer on "war alert" with a cheery "Happy holidays." That could be enough to spark a store boycott.
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A docu-drama about discrimination experienced by two women from different backgrounds, and their bid to resolve their problems through the Anti-Discrimination Board. The first story concerns Jessica, the first female photographer on a metropolitan newspaper, whose promotion causes resentment among her colleagues and triggers a campaign of harassment. The other story is about Leticia, a Filipino nurse whose qualifications are disregarded by her employers. Despite her dedication and professionalism, some patients also object to being cared for "by an Asian".
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Maddy Frank netted eight of 12 points, includiing two big three-point baskets, in the fourth quarter to lead undefeated Jamesville-DeWitt to a 48-41 victory over Nottingham in a girls non-league basketball game on Friday.
Frank sank her first three-pointer that gave J-D a 30-29 lead with just over six minutes left in the game.
But it was her second three point basket, with 40 seconds remaining, that gave the Red Rams a 45-41 lead and helped secure the victory.
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For much of the late winter, spring and summer when John Mara was in his office, he was mostly working on bridging the gap between the owners and players in the NFL's labor dispute.
Save for a few interruptions from Tom Coughlin, who was hammering out contingency plans for if, and when, the lockout would end.
"I saw more schedules than I've ever seen in my life," Mara, the Giants' president/CEO and a key, respected presence in the negotiations during the lockout, said the other day. "He'd come in and say, 'How's it going? You know, if we have it settled by next Tuesday, we could still get some of the OTAs in.' It was a constant thing with him. It got to be humorous after a while.
"But that's what I want him to do. That's what football coaches do — particularly this football coach."
This may have been the longest, most difficult offseason of Coughlin's 43-year coaching career.
For a disciplinarian who — literally — schedules his days down to the second, the idea of ripping up plan after plan and being at the mercy of talks in which he wasn't partaking is certainly not his preferred method. Nor would he like to enter a season after only five weeks' preparation. And the new collective bargaining agreement's limiting camp practices to one per day? Let's just say Coughlin wasn't consulted on that one.
But here's the thing: it all might have served to loosen Coughlin up a bit.
The CBA and its effects became a punch line, Hurricane Irene was "nobody's fault" and the rash of injuries the team has suffered hasn't bogged him down as they might have in the past.
As the Giants' 2011 season kicks off today against the Washington Redskins — ready or not — the players and front office are confident the man in charge is as calm and level-headed as he was during the team's Super Bowl run four years ago.
"His phrase is 'midstream adjust' where we don't know what's headed our way, but whatever is thrown our way, we'll adjust to it. This year, he's getting back in that mode a little bit," defensive captain Justin Tuck said. "You know as well as I know, he can be a control freak at times. And this situation, he can't control it.
"We've had injuries, and he can't control that. But I feel as though he's kind of letting go a little bit and just allowing things to take care of themselves."
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Who is this man in the blue Giants cap and jacket, throwing an uppercut into the air, his knee nearly touching the ground as he exaggerates the swing? It's supposedly a shot to the solar plexus of those responsible for the new restrictions on coaches, but it's more like a playful jab.
Coming from, of all people, Coughlin.
"You can't fight it, yeah, so I just tried to have a little fun with it. And whenever I would get a chance," Coughlin says, now in full windup, "I would stick it in there with the CBA.
"I'd be conducting a meeting and I'd say" — cue the sarcastic sing-songy voice — " 'The CBA won't let us do this.' And they'd all laugh. Because they don't know the rules. They didn't know what was going on with the CBA either."
Nobody did.
The Giants set up a free-agent visit with Plaxico Burress, only to be told it wasn't allowed until a few days later, per the quirky rules of this offseason. So if Mara didn't know what was permitted, who did?
Coughlin didn't. Not everything, anyway. That means the man who sets some of the strictest rules in the league — he expects his players to arrive five minutes early, white socks aren't allowed on road trips, legs can't be crossed or hats worn in meetings, yadda, yadda, yadda — didn't know the ones under which he was operating. And with the way the players union kept scoring victories during negotiating sessions to limit offseason workouts, camp practices and contact in general, Mara was surely worried about his coach's reaction.
But he found a rather understanding Coughlin instead.
"I think he accepted the fact it was beyond his control at some point," Mara said. "I even called him a couple of times to talk about the work rules that were being discussed in the negotiations, and he was very good about that, too. His basic thing at the end of the day was, 'Whatever it is, we'll work it out.'"
Even the end of two-a-days.
"Yeah, I had somebody else tell him that," a laughing Mara said.
Much as Coughlin didn't like it, the players did. And still do.
"I've never felt so good coming out of training camp," guard Chris Snee said, echoing the sentiments of Brandon Jacobs. "The past couple of years, I left Albany with two swollen knees. Now, they feel great."
That's because Coughlin, unable to work the players' bodies to the fullest extent, instead focused on their minds.
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David Diehl knows the players were antsy for the lockout to end.
"All of us were going crazy," the Giants' guard said, "so I can't imagine Coach Coughlin upstairs that whole time, pacing back and forth."
Each unfruitful meeting between the league and the union meant another handful of missed practices and workouts, another lost opportunity for veterans to find their rhythm and another chance to get free agents and rookies acclimated to the new system gone.
When July rolled around and there still wasn't a deal, Coughlin realized there would be a lot less time, and about seven fewer practices, on account of no two-a-days, to get ready for the season.
But he was able to conduct two walk-through sessions — one for "installation" and one for "corrections" — each day in camp.
"All I really was trying to do was make sure we were maximizing our time, utilizing it to the best of our ability and challenging them intellectually," Coughlin said, "because there was going to be at least 2-to-1 mind power over being on the field and physically doing it because of the regulations we were under."
Mental preparation has always been an emphasis for Coughlin. That didn't change and, given the short period of preparation this year, the players believe they'll be more ready to play on account of their coach.
"When we go into Sundays, there's not a situation that occurs that we haven't gone through," Diehl said. "That's something he's always on top of. And for the young guys, I'm sure in the beginning it was a whirlwind for them because they didn't have mini-camp and all the extra time they normally have. Those guys came around well."
As has Coughlin, the person. Again.
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By now, Tuck knows when Coughlin is loose.
"When he's not necessarily talking about football," Tuck said. "When he starts talking about the Yankees or anything."
That's been the Coughlin the players have seen lately. And heck, even reporters have seen it.
"Haven't you read the new CBA, my dear?" Coughlin said in his sarcastic voice when asked early in camp about a CBA-mandated day off only three days into camp.
About said day off, Coughlin joked to reporters, "I don't think it has ever been done in the history of football."
Last month, during a fan celebration in which it was announced that a Snoopy trophy would be awarded to the annual winner of the Giants-Jets preseason game, Coughlin joked it might be a violation of the CBA.
Perhaps all of this lightheartedness led to a shrug of the shoulders when Hurricane Irene pushed back the game against the Jets and forced Coughlin to sit his starters in the preseason finale.
"Yeah, yeah. Quite frankly, it did, because nobody cares," Coughlin said. "Nobody gives a darn what your problems are."
Not even injuries.
"Well, I have my moments. But I come back," Coughlin said of the loss of seven key players since the start of camp. "I try to come roaring back, and I try to get the players to come roaring back."
Sometimes, roaring with laughter.
Tuck says he hasn't seen Coughlin this loose since '07. He says Coughlin was much harder on the players the following two seasons but has lightened up a bit once again.
None of this is to say the Giants are going to win another Super Bowl. Or that Coughlin, whose contract runs through the 2012 season, will dodge the axe if the season meets another disappointing end. It's just that he's dealing with adversity much better than many believed he would.
"This year, he's firm in discipline but more lenient in personality," Tuck said, referring to Coughlin's willingness to engage the players in non-football conversations. "I give Coach Coughlin credit. He does a great job of going back and looking at not only looking at players and plays and remembering that, but he also does a good job of evaluating himself."
Except there was little self-evaluating this past week. It was a game week.
Finally, after months of ripped-up schedules and torn ACLs, it was back to normal for Coughlin.
"Well, it feels good," he said, making his way to the door of the team's indoor facility, thus signaling the end of a 3-minute interview. "It's a full-speed week and it feels good."
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An emotional Amanda Knox said in an exclusive interview with "Good Morning America" Friday that she "couldn't believe what I was hearing" as she watched the Italian court declare her guilty of murder and sentence her to more than 28 years in prison.
"I will never go willingly back to the place where … I'm going to fight this to the very end. It's not right and it's not fair," she said.
"It really hit me like a train," she told GMA anchor Robin Roberts. "I did not expect this to happen. I really expected so much better from the Italian justice system. They found me innocent once before."


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