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The first open house is set for Jan. 16 at Cummings Elementary and South Elementary. A second open house will be held Jan. 23 at Century Park Learning Center and Grand View Elementary. A third open house featuring the Great Start Readiness Preschool is scheduled for Jan. 30 at Central Elementary. All open houses will run from 6:30—7:30 p.m.
Registrations will be taken the evenings of the open houses. Children can be a part of the tuition-based program, which cost $50 to enroll. The Great Start Readiness Program has no enrollment fee and is tuition free. Applications are required for the Great Start Readiness Program.
The district offers a four-day-a-week program for 4 year olds and a combined class of 3 and 4 year olds is offered three days per week. Three year olds must have their birthday by Sept. 1, 2014, and 4 year olds must have their birthday by Oct. 1, 2014.

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WASHINGTON -- With a quick and simple swearing-in ceremony at the White House, President Barack Obama ended his first term in office Sunday and embarked on another four years leading a nation hobbled by a weak economy and gripped by political division.
Raising his right hand a few minutes before noon, Obama swore to "faithfully execute the office" and "preserve, protect and defend" the Constitution. The ceremony lasted hardly a minute.
The president stood next to his wife, Michelle Obama, and their daughters, Sasha and Malia. Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. administered the 35-word oath, more smoothly than he did four years ago, in front of cameras and a small group of Obama family and friends just before noon in Blue Room on the first floor of the White House.
About a dozen other relatives, including the president's half-sister, Maya Soetoro-Ng, and Michelle Obama's mother, Marian Robinson, and brother, Craig Robinson, watched from across the room.
"I do solemnly swear that I will faithfully execute the office of president of the United States, and will to the best of my ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States, so help me God," Obama recited.
'The last four words are not in the Constitution, but have been added by presidents for over a century.
The intimate ceremony was a quirk of the calendar and an adherence to tradition. The 20th Amendment to the Constitution states that a president's term ends at noon on Jan. 20. When that date falls on a Sunday, presidents have delayed the public ceremony a day and were sworn in at the White House.
Obama is due to re-enact his oath-taking before hundreds of thousands at the U.S. Capitol today, the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday. Obama is slated to place his hand on two Bibles today, one owned by the slain civil rights leader and another owned by Abraham Lincoln.
That far grander affair will include the poetry and music of past inaugurals and be followed by a parade and a night of dancing at the balls.
But the final hours of Obama's first term were filled with quieter moments and personal reflection.
The president began his day at Arlington National Cemetery, where he and Vice President Joe Biden, fresh from his own swearing-in ceremony, laid a wreath at the Tomb of the Unknowns.
From there, the president and his wife, infrequent churchgoers, made a rare visit to a historically black church, Metropolitan African Methodist Episcopal, the oldest A.M.E church in the nation's capital. The first black president, who almost never discusses his own place in history, sat in the pews where 119 years ago congregants listened to Frederick Douglass' last speech, a call for racial and class equality.
"Put away your race prejudice. Banish the idea that one class must rule over another," the former slave said in 1894. "Based upon the eternal principles of truth, justice and humanity, and with no class having any cause of complaint or grievance, your Republic will stand and flourish forever."
On Sunday, Obama listened to a reading from Exodus -- the final passages of Moses leading the Israelites out of slavery and sending the Red Sea crashing down on the pursuing Egyptians.
In his sermon, the Rev. Ronald E. Braxton urged the president to overcome obstacles and continue "forward."
Obama's legislative agenda faces plenty of obstacles, most notably a Republican-led House of Representatives that for two years has tried to block Obama's attempts to use government spending to create jobs, and to raise taxes on the wealthy. Obama's second-term priorities -- an overhaul of the immigration system and gun control measures -- are facing similarly solid opposition.
Obama is expected to reach out to his rivals in his inaugural speech on Monday. But the event on Sunday was largely apolitical and personal. Only a small group of family members and friends attended the swearing-in, standing out of the camera's view.
Roberts and Obama proceeded carefully through the oath, the third time the duo have gone through it together. At Obama's first swearing-in in 2009, they tripped on the phrasing and mangled the wording of the oath during the inaugural ceremony. White House lawyers, out of an abundance of caution, summoned the chief justice to the White House to readminister the oath.
This time, the reading went off without a hitch. "I did it," the president said Sunday as he hugged his family afterward.
Vice President Biden took his second oath of office from Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotamayor during a private ceremony Sunday morning at the U.S. Naval Observatory, the vice president's residence.
On Saturday night, however, the 70-year-old Biden created a bit of a stir when he misspoke about his office.
At the Iowa State Society's inauguration ball -- one of scores of unofficial parties that blossom every four years in the shadows of the real things -- Biden told the crowd he was honored to be, yes, "president."
"I'm proud to be president of the United States," said Biden, who some speculated had made a classic Freudian mistake.
Biden corrected himself quickly, but the gaffe made many wonder if he was unconsciously telegraphing his intent to run for president in 2016.
Iowa, as we all know, is a traditionally pivotal primary state, and pundits note the first day of the next presidential race is the first day after a lame-duck president's inauguration.


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Baldwinsville batters hit four home runs two Bees' pitchers combined to limit Oswego to one run today in an 11-1 victory.
Josh Savacool, Jimmy Schmidt, Jacob Norton and Colin Conklin homered for the Bees, who improve to 13-1, 11-1 in the CNYCL National.
Baldwinsville finishes with a pair of tough games next week at West Genesee (12-4) on Monday and at league leader Cicero-North Syracuse (15-0, 13-0) on Wednesday.
Casey McAllister got the win for the Bees, going five innings and giving up just one run on six hits. He struck out six.
Conklin pitched two innings of one-hit relief. He also went 2-for-3 and drove in three runs.
Schmidt went 3-for-4 at the plate with four RBI.
Oswego falls to 9-6 overall, 7-4 in the CNYCL American.


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At the end of the school year at St. Theresa School, the middle school Respect Life Club, under the direction of teacher Lyn Kaufold, held a "Quarters for Kids" event. Students in the entire school were encouraged to bring quarters from home. They paid one quarter for each activity in which they chose to participate. Activities included face painting, ball toss, ring toss, Twister, jewelry-making, cookie-decorating, soccer, basketball and football toss. The Respect Life Club, made up of students in sixth through eighth grades, created the games and ran the booths for the daylong event, which raised $636 for the Boys and Girls Club of Harrisburg.
Private School Roundup includes news about East Shore and West Shore private schools.
Mary Ellen Grap of Palmyra, a class of 2014 graduate, has received The Gold Award Scholarship for $1,500 from the Girl Scouts in the Heart of Pennsylvania. She received her Gold Award at a ceremony on June 21. Mary Ellen was chosen for the scholarship in recognition for her high level of academic achievement and outstanding record as a Girl Scout. She has been a Girl Scout for 13 years and has been an active student in her high school. She was captain of the cross country and track and field teams, co-president of the Respect Life Club, and vice president of the National Honor Society. For her Gold Award project, "Kicking it with Camp Ladybug," she worked with special-needs children in her community to teach them how to eat and live healthy lifestyles. She created fun, daily activities for the children to do and games to play that reinforced her healthy lessons.
Preseason volleyball practice will begin on Aug. 11. Contact the school office for details.
Preseason soccer practice will begin on Aug. 18. Contact the school office for details.
Spartan Lacrosse Camp for students entering grades 4-9 will be held 5:30-8 p.m. July 28-31.
The following information meetings for Middle School parents will be held 5-6:30 p.m. in the meeting room: sixth-grade parents, July 22; seventh-grade parents, July 23; and eighth-grade parents, July 24. A second series will be hosted in August for those unable to attend a July meeting. For information contact Jim Newman.Back-to-School Forms for 2014-15 are available and can be downloaded and/or completed online. All forms are due back to the Academy by July 31. These completed documents are necessary for a child to start on the first day of school.
Members of the Academy community are invited to attend the 2014 Alumni Achievement Awards and Athletics Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony to be held at 1:30 p.m. Oct. 3, in McCormick Auditorium. RSVPs are requested, but not required. Nominations are being accepted for the 2014 Alumni Awards and Athletics Hall of Fame. Questions should be directed to Michael LaRue.
Harrisburg Academy is offering a fall session of SAT CONQUEST beginning in August. Direct questions to Louise Lauchlan.
Regular office hours resume and faculty returns, 7:45 a.m.-3:45 p.m., Monday through Friday, Aug. 11.
Middle school/upper school sports physicals will be held Aug. 11.
Middle school fall sports practice begins Aug. 18.
Harrisburg Academy is hosting free 2014-15 sports physicals on Aug. 11, administered by OSS Health, the Academy's athletics trainer from NovaCare, and the school nurse. Student-athletes participating in all Academy sponsored sports and PIAA Cooperative Sponsorship Agreement sports should have a sports physical. Complete all of the appropriate PIAA forms prior to your appointment.
Academy athletes are invited to attend soccer open fields this summer, on John Crain Kunkel lower field 6-8 p.m. every Sunday through Aug. 3, and on the upper field 4-6 p.m. every Wednesday through Aug. 6.
The Parents Association is hosting a Box Tops for Education drive this summer. Each of the divisions, early childhood, lower, middle, and upper school, will have separate collections, and the winning grade from each division will receive an ice cream party at the start of the 2014-15 academic year. The drive runs through Sept. 5. Box Tops can be dropped off at the main office throughout the summer. Direct questions to Jen Coyl or Jean Foschi.
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I've must have spent at least a gabazillion dollars on useless PHP (and other programming) books in recent months. NOT ONE of them has the ability to:
1. Explain things clearly and understandably to all, and/or
2. Present their material without being FILLED with errors that essentially render their books totally useless.
Unlike EVERY OTHER BOOK I've now read on the subject, this one is a GEM!! Run out and BUY IT, NOW. If you are new to PHP you should NOT even consider anything else first. I've just spent TWO WASTED WEEKS with another book (allegedly the "latest and greatest") that was just released on this topic - I'm now about to give up on that one simply because the pubisher has ignored the horrendous errors in that book and won't publish an errata sheet. This book, even though I've covered half of it, just this evening (really), has taken me well beyond where I had gone with the last one, in just a FRACTION of the time. Even better, I actually UNDERSTAND what the author is trying to say and his code actually works! PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE write more!
Perhaps my only "complaint" is that this book is now "dated" and should be revised. By that I mean that most examples refer to PHP ver. 3 and some of the HTML should also be updated to reflect the change to XHTML. These little matters are easily overcome though and do not present a significant problem.
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Syracuse, N.Y. - Award-winning author Jacqueline Woodson – in town this week for the Gifford Lecture Series – Tuesday met with students at Danforth Middle School in Syracuse.
Woodson's resume includes more than two dozen titles, most of which are children's books and young adult novels. She may be best known for "Miracle's Boys, " the story of three brothers coping with the death of their mother, which was adapted into a mini-series directed by Spike Lee, LeVar Burton and others.
In an auditorium filled up with seventh and eighth graders, Woodson read from some of her books and the noisy room grew quiet. The auditorium got especially quiet when she read from "After Tupac and D Foster," a book where young adolescents learn of life's hard realities when a friend is taken away by her mother and famed rapper Tupac Shakur dies.
The students also got to ask Woodson many questions from what is the name of your cat and dog to when did you write your first book.
Woodson told the students she wrote her first book when she was 7 years old. She said she put it in her back pocket and her grandmother washed the pants and the book was no more.
Asked which of the books she wrote is her favorite, she said whatever book she is writing at the moment is her is the one she likes the best.
After answering questions, Woodson said she was going to read again. The students begged her to read more from the "Tupac" book. Instead, she read from "Features," a book about a high school boy who is deaf and a girl who wanted to talk to him. The students grew quiet again, listening to her read.
As the program came to an end, names were pulled from a box. Students won books by Woodson and got to meet the author as she signed them.


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FAIRMONT - Kandice Petschke's art students are on the cutting edge - of a vinyl cutter, that is.
The upperclassmen at Fairmont Area High School are learning how to imagine designs and transfer the images to vinyl, which can be used for a variety of things, including careers.
"Art in general is a great resource for kids to take," Petschke said. "It requires a higher level of thinking where there's never one right answer," she said, noting that 2 plus 2 always adds up to 4, "but yellow and blue don't always make the same shade of green. It's a challenge and something always comes up that needs some kind of creative solution."
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Lisa Brito De La Cruz, a senior at Fairmont Area High School, carefully squeegees a vinyl image she designed in Kandice Petschke's art class. Petschke hopes to expand the students' abilities with the material.
Petschke started the kids off with a Cardinal head, and now has them working with their own design, highlighted with their initial.
"I think it's a new experience; it's something people normally don't do," said Sarah Ostlie, a junior. "I like the designing and being creative. My favorite part is using Adobe Illustrator because you can create anything."
"I've done this before in other classes," said senior Tadd Abel. "I think it's a lot of fun. On my vehicle, I actually have a Cardinal head and Luigi decal I've made in these classes. It's fun to express yourself."
The process begins with learning how to operate Adobe Illlustrator and the basics of working with vinyl.
"We talk about what makes a good graphic," Petschke said.
The students saved their creations to a flash drive, and Petschke sent it through the vinyl cutter. What comes out is a thin sheet with each student's design measuring about 6 by 6 inches.
On Thursday, the teens undertook the tricky part: "weeding" or peeling the extra vinyl away from the image, sometimes with the help of an X-acto blade.
"This tiny intricate stuff isn't fun to weed," Petschke said.
Most of the kids did what is called a standard weed, taking out the background and leaving the image, but some did a reverse weed, taking out the original design and leaving a reverse image.
Transfer tape is placed on top and squeegeed; the transfer tape is peeled off, then the image is placed on a permanent surface like foamboard and squeegeed again.
Petschke has the kids working with smaller images and a single color, but the vinyl can be used in very large, complicated color projects.
"I'm getting them used to the process of how to do it," she said. "If we'd go into a large project, it's overwhelming and they don't know how to do it and we go through an incredible amount of vinyl."
This is the first class that's really gotten to work with the vinyl cutter, which arrived in the spring.
The students have designed covers for the Community Education and Recreation brochure and the student planner, images for T-shirts, signage and decals.
"Eventually, I'm hoping to have these students do other work for the district," Petschke said.
Her plan includes the kids doing signage, posters, decals and other work for businesses and people in the community.
"I want it to become self-funded," she said.
It could be a springboard for their life's work.
Knowing how to work with vinyl can be the basis for a home-based business, with clients coming to you, Petschke said.
"You'll get clients that want signage, door numbers, decorative things," she said. "A lot of home decorating things (on walls) - "Home is where the family is" - that's vinyl. It's fairly easy to do if you have the vinyl and the cutter."
Bigger businesses can produce window signage, graphics for the sides of cars, boat decals and license numbers, to name a few.
Ostlie isn't sure if she wants to make it her career.
"If anything, a side career, a hobby," she said. "It's fun to play around with."
"I've actually looked into an art institute and doing graphic design and advertising," Abel said. "Not sure what I want to do yet, but it is an interest of mine and I can see myself doing it in a job some day."
Petschke is glad the students are considering the possibilities.
"Vinyl is limitless, you can do a lot of things with it," she said.


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Published on June 09, 2014
Firefighters had to act fast to put out a fire in the cab of a truck whose trailer was loaded with propane
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The burned out remnants of a transport truck cab after a fire at a propane facility in Cornwall Monday morning.
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Kenmac Energy propane facility in Cornwall, P.E.I.
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North River Fire Department says no threat of explosion during propane facility fire Monday
At least one resident of Cornwall would like to have a propane storage facility moved a good piece from his town.
A fire early Monday morning only added to his ongoing angst.
"It's a huge bomb waiting to go off,'' says Ed Prebinski.
"It can't be in a town. We can't grow around that area.''
However, North River Fire Department Chief Kirby Wakelin says there was no potential for the tank, which was filled with 50,000 litres of propane, to explode.
The tank, in fact, would have posed a greater threat of exploding if it was only partially full or empty due to the presence of vapours.
Firefighters did not know immediately upon arrival whether the tank was full. The North River Fire Department and the Queens District RCMP were dispatched at about 3:10 a.m. to the facility on W.B. MacPhail Drive.
A passserby called 911 to report he saw flames on the property.
Wakelin said when firefighters arrived the cab of a tractor-trailer appeared to have been burning for some time. A large cylinder trailer containing propane was attached to the truck.
Firefighters reacted promptly in getting the fire under control and extinguished. About 20 firefighters responded to the call, spending up to 90 minutes at the scene.
The provincial fire marshal is conducting an investigation into the fire.
Prebinski calls the decision to allow the propane storage facility in the Cornwall Business Park the "worst ever'' made by the town council at the time.
"It's a huge bomb waiting to go off." Ed Prebinski
The business park has been in place since the late 1990s and its propane tenant has been there since at least 2008.
In 2012, developer Kevin Connors raised concerns about the propane storage facility being located near residential lots.
Fellow developer Tim Banks shot back that no residential lots exist anywhere close to the facility. He even provided The Guardian with an aerial photo of the area to back his claim.
Yet Prebinski, who holds a certificate as a disaster management consultant, says the facility is too close to some housing. He lives about three kilometres from the site.
Wakelin said Kenmac Energy, which owns the propane facility, is very aware of potential dangers. He said training at Kenmac, and all other propane companies in the province, is top notch.
The Guardian was unable to get a comment from Kenmac Energy.
Cornwall town Coun. Irene Dawson told the newspaper Monday the facility meets all requirements and guidelines. She said residents don't seem to be concerned over the facility being in its current location.
"I don't think it is an issue,'' she said. "I really don't.''


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Chocolate-Dipped Coffee Ice Cream Glazed Doughnut Sandwiches from Tastespotting
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According to some theories of art history, it takes a while for a new art form to be perfected, but each mode of expression has eventually has its golden age, and its apotheosis. Theater peaked in Elizabethan England, with its brightest star in Shakespeare; the realist novel hit its stride in the 19th century, and found its be-all and end-all in Flaubert. At this point, the glazed-doughnut-as-bun concept has been kicking around since at least 2003, and has been part of the popular imagination since Paula Deen's infamous Lady's Brunch Burger episode in 2008 (and there's even a whole food truck dedicated to the genre). We are now in the golden age of the doughnut bun.
And these Chocolate-Dipped Coffee Ice Cream Glazed Doughnut Sandwiches from Tastespotting are the Flauberts of the form. No one really wants a burger between two glazed doughnuts–what we want is ice cream. And not just any ice cream, but coffee ice cream (the best kind of ice cream). And we don't want to just eat that doughnut-ice cream sandwich as is. We want half of it dipped in chocolate.
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But I have become a die-hard devotee of detours, the most recent of which led to a wonderful piece of Massachusetts history 50 miles west of Jacksonville, Florida.
Olustee Battlefield Historic State Park near Lake City preserves the site of a Confederate victory, on February 20, 1864, in the largest Civil War battle in Florida. The park is also a repository for details of one episode in the saga of the 54th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment, "The Glory Brigade," which stood proud and tall here against Confederate forces.
It is a story of courage in the face of overwhelming odds and an exhibition of brute strength.
The black regiment from the Bay State was sent to Florida to take part in the effort by Union forces to sever Confederate supply lines. In the waning years of the Civil War, Florida had become the Confederacy's main source of beef, pork and salt. Union commanders hoped to capture shipments of cotton, turpentine and timber, recruit more blacks to serve in the Union army and encourage residents of east Florida to organize a state government loyal to the Union.
The battlefield today is a peaceful place with tall, straight pines shading this hallowed ground at the edge of Ocean Pond. Wildflowers, scrub brush and saw palmetto plants cover the forest floor. It is a place in which scenes for Civil War movies, including the 1989 movie "Glory," were filmed during re-enactments of the battle.
The field, of course, appears quite different today than it did the day of the battle, according to Benjamin Faure, manager of a group of state parks near Lake City. The area is dotted with what are known as "exotic" plants, the seeds of which were likely tracked in on the shoes of visitors or carried by animals and birds over the years.
Visitors can relax in the picnic area or take a one-mile stroll along a broad nature trail; interpretive signs describe scenes of the battle.
Union Col. Joseph Hawley wrote that the engagement "was a fair, square, stand-up fight in pine woods […] one of the sideshows of the great war. […] I suppose it did help to whittle away the great rebellion."
Said to be the last Union troops to quit the battlefield, members of the 54th Massachusetts were told by an officer: "Well boys, we must hold this line; we must fix bayonets and stay in our tracks." The men responded, shouting, "We can do it."
Maj. John W.M. Appleton recalled that soldiers of the 54th would yell and "cheer so that the rebels thought it was a trap and fell back."
Luis F. Emilio, an officer of the 54th, wrote: "Our companies were enduring increased musketry fire from front and flank. Sharpshooters were observed perched in the trees, but a few volleys brought them down. We were sustaining casualties every moment."
When ammunition ran low, and it became clear that Confederate forces would be victorious, Union commanders ordered retreat. Along with the 35th United States Colored Troops, the 54th entered the fight late in the day and helped prevent a rout.
One observer recalled that members of the 54th marched into the fray yelling, "Three cheers for Massachusetts and seven dollars a month." Until the Battle of Olustee, black enlisted soldiers cleared $7 a month – $3 a month less than white counterparts. After the battle at Olustee, pay was equalized.
But before members of the 54th joined the retreat, they put on an exhibition of bravery and pure brute strength.
Soldiers wounded in battle had been placed on flatbed railroad cars for evacuation. When the steam engine broke down, men of the 54th pulled the locomotive and four cars five miles down the tracks to get the wounded a safe distance from pursuing rebels.
Union casualties at Olustee ran to 1,861 killed, wounded, captured or missing, among the highest percentage of Union casualties in any battle of the Civil War. Confederates admitted to 946 casualties.
Union forces returned to Jacksonville and occupied the city until the end of the war 14 months later. Members of the 54th were sent back into battle at Honey Hill, Boykin's Mill and Charleston, all in South Carolina, and in Savannah, Georgia.
Organized in Boston in March 1863, the 54th Massachusetts was led by Col. Robert Gould Shaw, 26, a member of a prominent abolitionist family in Boston. The 54th trained at Camp Meigs in Readville, now part of Boston. The regiment gained fame – and glory – on July 18, 1863, when it spearheaded an assault on Fort Wagner, a rebel battery on Morris Island, South Carolina. Shaw and 116 of his men died. 156 were wounded or captured.
The regiment was mustered out in August 1865. But it was reactivated in November 2008 as a unit of the Massachusetts National Guard. Now known as the 54th Massachusetts Volunteer Regiment, members serve as an honor guard at state functions and at funeral services for veterans. Members of the reorganized and redesignated regiment marched, along with a group of Civil War re-enactors from Boston – the 54th Massachusetts Glory Brigade – in Barack Obama's presidential inaugural parade in Washington, D.C.


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Making a traditional American Thanksgiving in Beijing
One way to reflect on Thanksgiving is the amazing unison with which almost every American sits down and feasts on the fourth Thursday of the month. Sure, there are family and regional variations, but the table always stars a big turkey, cranberry sauce, mashed potatoes, stuffing, side dishes and multiple desserts.
The communality of that day, shared with your fellow Americans, is just as important as remembering what you are truly grateful for. Our family of five, now living in Beijing, wanted that sense of kinship with Americans more than usual and craved the traditional American feast.
The big question was how to conjure up this traditional Thanksgiving in China. The Beijing chat group of nearly 2,000 expats whizzed back and forth with questions: where to find lard for pie crusts? Are cranberries sold in China — what are the Chinese characters? The Thanksgiving shopping trip is not filling a cart at QFC but a two-week long scavenger trip, hunting down elusive ingredients and Chinese equivalents. The hunt is exasperating in that Chinese supermarkets are not all-inclusive, and the same supermarket chain can carry a different range of goods from its sister stores. Some ingredients aren't in China at all, even at stores geared toward expats; graham crackers for cheesecake crusts are simply not imported. I resorted to crushing Teddy Graham cookies with chocolate chips. Some ingredients are available, but I turned down the Philly cream cheese three years past its expiration date.
Turkeys are not common at all in China. Turkeys are considered tasteless and thus are not in demand and are quite pricey. I think the Chinese eat for any/all of three reasons: 1) cheap, 2) tasty or 3) medicinal. Turkey fails on all accounts. Thus, the hunt for the big bird will turn up turkeys which are frozen and flown in from the United States. At a couple of expat-oriented stores, I found them for 620 RMB! ($91!) At the San Yuan Li market — open booths selling where all appears available — they were selling for 200 RMB ($29). Have they been frozen, thawed and refrozen? That's a question I skipped asking.
After a preliminary hunt for key ingredients, I returned home and stared at my oven. At home on Mercer Island, I had a double oven with two racks each. Here, one small oven with one rack. Decision made. I turned my pursuit to restaurants. In the expat magazines, five to eight restaurants — almost all in the big-name Western hotels — offered Thanksgiving buffets for 200-500 RMB per person ($29-71). This seemed pricey and inconvenient after a day of work and school, so I was delighted to find that a Sequoia Café catered the whole nine-yard dinner. I ordered the dinner — my choice of turkey and four sides/desserts — and sent the driver off with a deposit.
I did prepare the desserts, as my children have their favorites. Baking is excruciating here. First, Chinese sugar is made of castor oil or sugar cut with beets and thus does not bake well. No problem; my husband brought sugar back from his earlier business trip. Butter sticks are expensive and come in non-standardized sizes. And my oven, with its oxymoronic temperature control, has the meanest temperament. To start the oven, I dial and push in the starter and count for 45 seconds. It may or may not catch, in which case I start again. I watch the oven as it usually has a few false starts and dies after five minutes. The temperature rises, passes the intended temperature and slumps down. I adjust it and bring it back roughly to the desired temperature. Twenty-five minutes into baking, it quits and I must start it once again. For my second dessert, I pulled a chair next to the oven and kept my finger on the dial for the last 20 minutes.
Finally, the big day arrived. It did not feel like a big day because it was not a lazy one filled with the Macy's NYC parade, the trickling in of relatives, the long hours talking and cooking in the kitchen. Instead, the kids had 7.5 hours of school, and my husband worked a full day at the office. Off to Sequoia Café, I went to pick up my big dinner, which was pleasantly very well prepared as promised. It was a surprise — a bit of a link to home — to learn that the chef was Canadian and the manager was from Bellevue. Back at home, everyone arrived home tired, but had a second wind to have such an American feast. Not to sound trite, but we truly felt grateful, and after so much Chinese food for the last four months, relished every mouthful of our traditional feast.
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As a broker during the tech bubble and subsequent bust, I saw a lot of inexperienced investors. For many, the pain of losses in stocks like Intel (Nasdaq: INTC ) , Cisco (Nasdaq: CSCO ) , and Amazon.com (Nasdaq: AMZN ) blinded them to a long-term opportunity to cut taxes. Now, it looks like we're in a similar situation again.
Back then, the Roth IRA was still relatively new. Yet even today, investors still struggle with the choice of converting existing IRAs to a Roth.
One former client of mine had about $80,000 in a traditional IRA. That was 2002, though; a mere three years earlier, the account had been worth a lot more.
He liked the idea of tax-free distributions, even though that was still years down the road. What he didn't like was the hefty tax bill from converting -- about $24,000 if he converted to a Roth IRA. To avoid penalties, he would have had to find the money to pay that tax from somewhere else.
That was too much for my client, who decided not to convert at the time. But I keep thinking about the opportunity he missed.
Cost of waiting
For $24,000 up front, he would never have had to pay another cent of taxes on that account, which likely doubled along with the S&P in the bull market that followed. Instead, he'll pay more taxes on a much higher balance when he retires -- and probably at a higher rate as well.
Now in general, deciding to convert is complicated. If my client had invested that $24,000 as well, it also would've grown substantially. But because this client was the sort who had his non-IRA money invested conservatively, I'm sure that $24,000 didn't grow nearly as much as his IRA did.
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With the recent bear market, conversion is getting cheaper again. As IRA balances drop, the taxes due on conversion fall. If you have cash on the sidelines anyway, converting lets you use your cash to buy tax savings for the rest of your life.
If losing stocks like Fannie Mae (NYSE: FNM ) and Toll Brothers (NYSE: TOL ) have pulled your IRA balances down, it's worth talking to your accountant about whether a Roth conversion makes sense for you. Although paying taxes sooner than later usually doesn't make sense, the combination of depressed stocks and historically low tax rates may make now an exception to the general rule.


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Icelandic singer Bjork says she has had successful surgery to remove a vocal cord polyp.
The eccentric 47-year-old singer says on her official website that she had been trying to tackle the problem with exercises and diets since doctors first discovered the polyp, a benign growth on either one or both of the vocal cords, several years ago.
Bjork said that she decided to undergo laser surgery and it has worked, though she had to stay quiet for three weeks.
She wrote: "Surgery rocks! ... It's been very satisfying to sing all them clear notes again."
The singer apologized for cancelling various shows earlier this year, and that she looked forward to singing for her fans next year.
Last year Adele had minor surgery to remove a benign polyp.
"Puck" of "Real World" fame goes to prison for stalking woman
David "Puck" Rainey -- the "Real World" cast member many thought should have been locked up for his unhygienic way with a jar of peanut butter -- is now behind bars in California, TMZ reports.
Rainey was convicted of stalking a woman earlier this year. TMZ says the details are unclear, but the crime occurred Feb. 22 and he pleaded no contest in April. In September, he was sentenced to two years in prison, turning himself in to Wasco State Prison on Nov. 8. Rainey was given 401 days credit for time served, so he has about 300 to go.
Rainey, 44, made headlines back in 1994 as part of one of the original seasons of MTV's "The Real World," this one set in San Francisco and also starring HIV-positive AIDS educator Pedro Zamora. Rainey's hygiene — or lack thereof — was a constant source of friction in the house, with the bike messenger famously feuding with Zamora when Rainey used a finger that had previously resided in his nose to scoop peanut butter out of a jar.
Something tells us those in the know about his reality stint will try to keep Rainey off of kitchen duty.
Grammy-winning bassist injured in Swiss bus crash
Grammy-winning jazz bassist Marcus Miller and several members of his band were injured when their bus overturned Sunday on a busy highway in Switzerland, killing the driver, police said.
The German-registered private bus tipped over as it drove into a bend on the A2 highway in central Switzerland and came to a rest on its side, police in the canton (state) of Uri said. The bus was carrying 13 people -- two drivers and 11 members of the Marcus Miller Band, including Miller.
Over his career, the bassist has worked with jazz greats such as Miles Davis, Dizzy Gillespie and Wayne Shorter, according to his website. He won two Grammys, his first coming in 1991 for Best Rhythm & Blues Song ("Power of Love") along with Luther Vandross and Teddy Vann, and the second came in 2001 for Best Contemporary Jazz Album ("M2").
The band was on its way from Monte Carlo to the Dutch town of Hengelo, the next stop on the American band's tour, where it was due to perform today.
The driver who was at the wheel at the time of the accident suffered fatal injuries. Police spokesman Karl Egli said the 12 passengers were injured and taken to hospitals, but none had life-threatening injuries.
Miller was discharged from the hospital later Sunday, as were fellow band members Alex Han and Kris Bowers, but some other band and crew members were being kept in hospitals overnight, according to a post on Miller's official Facebook page.
The cause of the accident was not immediately clear. Police believe no other vehicles were involved.
"Sesame Street" director Emily Squires dies at 71
A longtime "Sesame Street" director who also worked on soap operas including "The Guiding Light" and "As the World Turns" has died. Emily Squires was 71.
She died Wednesday at New York's Mount Sinai Hospital. Squires' husband, Len Belzer, said Friday that the cause of death hasn't been determined.
Squires directed the "Sesame Street" children's television series from 1982 to 2007 while also writing for the program. She directed several "Sesame Street" TV specials as well as other children's programs such as the PBS show "Between the Lions," which promoted reading.
She also was a scriptwriter for soap operas including "The Guiding Light," "Search for Tomorrow," "The Secret Storm" and "As the World Turns." Squires later directed documentaries including "Visions of Perfect Worlds," a conversation with the Dalai Lama.
Today's birthdays: Impressionist Rich Little is 74. Singer Tina Turner is 73. Singer Jean Terrell (replaced Diana Ross in the Supremes) is 68. Bassist John McVie of Fleetwood Mac is 67. Actress Jamie Rose ("Falcon Crest," "St. Elsewhere") is 53. Country singer Linda Davis is 50. Actor Peter Facinelli is 39. Actress Maia Campbell ("In the House") is 36. Country singer Joe Nichols is 36. Actress Jessica Bowman ("Dr. Quinn: Medicine Woman") is 32. Singer Natasha Bedingfield is 31. Singer-guitarist Mike Gossin of Gloriana is 28. Drummer Ben Wysocki of The Fray is 28. Singer Lil Fizz of B2K is 27. Singer Aubrey Collins (Trick Pony) is 25.
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I've read many pieces, on Kveller as well as other places, by mothers who voiced misgivings about circumcising their sons. They were unsure about the procedure, or nervous about possibly causing their children pain. But having had two sons myself, I can say that I was unequivocally, unreservedly proud to circumcise them as Jews.
And now the American Academy of Pediatrics has just come out with a statement that the health benefits of newborn male circumcision outweigh its risks, and the decision to circumcise or not "should still be left to parents to make in the context of their religious, ethical and cultural beliefs."
Hear, hear.
Standing as a new mother at each bris for each of my sons, before mohels whom I trusted implicitly, I felt that I was consecrating the moment of my sons' official naming and entrance into the Jewish people. I gave birth to live healthy children -- a miracle in and of itself -- but also had the privilege to be able to give birth to them as Jews. By having a bris for each of my sons, that miracle of biology became holy. By having a bris for each of my sons, I was implicitly and explicitly telling each boy something that I will continue to convey each day of their lives: they are Jews, and for them, Judaism will be a lifetime of commitment, dedication and trust.
People often ask me why my sons have Hebrew names (i.e. their Hebrew names are their every-day "English" names). They assume my ex-husband was Israeli, but he wasn't. No, it's for a more meaningful reason. When I was looking for names for my sons, I wanted to pick names that would make it very clear to the world at large that they were Jewish. I wanted to make it impossible for them to hide behind more "American" or "English" names. I wanted them to never be able to forget who they were.
So too with the bris. When in the to-do of activity eight days after the birth of a newborn, a family takes the time and energy to come together to make their son a new Jew, they do so as an act of affirmation. They consecrate the boy to God and to being Jewish. Amid all the nova, whitefish and bagels, they make a strong, age-old statement: This Is Who We Are And Who We Will Be.
Nowadays, practicing the obligation of brit milah has also become, in some circles, an act of defiance. Last year, I wrote about the Nazi-like cartoons portraying "Monster Mohels" disseminated in San Francisco. And more recently, a German court ruled that circumcising young boys constituted grievous bodily harm, causing many German hospitals (as well as Austrian and Swiss hospitals) to recommend that the practice be halted. Hmm -- laws restricting religious freedoms in Germany. Where have I heard that one before?
I'm proud that the American Academy of Pediatrics has taken a stand that dovetails both with the health of children and the health of American ideals of religious freedom and dignity.
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Two more people have been sentenced in Newark federal court in connection with a wide range of fraud and other offenses stemming from their involvement in a construction project at 77 Hudson St. in Jersey City between 2007 and 2008, The Jersey Journal reports.
Those charged are Hackettstown couple Pasquale Zinna, 44, and Janeen Zinna, 43, and New York residents Eric Haynberg, 46, and Rocco Mazzaferro, 64, as well as Vincenzo Genovese, 75, and his nephew, Anselmo Genovese, 44, officials said. All have individually pleaded guilty to various charges, officials said.
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Lyndon Moss seemed nervous the first time I interviewed him.
"If you want to talk,'' he said after a minute, "you're going to have to walk around with me. I can't stand in the same place for too long. Somebody might sneak up behind me.''
The Amarillo Speedway race-car champion had a reputation for winning with aggressive driving. He never said "excuse me'' on the track. He was the definition of road rage.
Sometimes, other drivers didn't like his style.
That's why we had to walk.
This is not meant to imply that most stock-car racers would attack a fellow from behind with a lug wrench, just because of a misunderstanding that took place on a quarter-mile oval in a race for a trophy.
It is meant to imply that such a scenario was well within the realm of possibility in the summer of 1980, when Lyndon Moss had a lead foot and racing was serious business in Amarillo.
And that's exactly why I've grown to like race-car drivers. Not because of the occasional violence that takes place on the track or in the pits after the races. But because those people are so real.
They get mad, sometimes they fight.
They don't want to stand around and chat, they walk away.
They say what they think. They act out their feelings. They show their hearts.
The world would be a lot less complicated if everybody did that.
While I like a lot of the people who hang out at race tracks, I am not a huge fan of car racing.
It's too loud, it's too hard to tell who's winning and it's way too commercial for my taste.
So I was not watching when Dale Earnhardt, known to race fans as "The Intimidator,'' crashed into the wall at Daytona. But I was deeply saddened to hear about his death.
That's because his style of racing always reminded me of the hard-charging Lyndon "Mighty'' Moss.
I have a bunch of favorite stories about the man who's now retired from racing and operates a motorcycle shop.
Maybe the best was witnessed one Saturday night at Amarillo Speedway.
Moss rolled his car while driving all alone in the lead of a mid-season race. The crowd was hushed as it waited to see if he could climb out or if he'd need the ambulance that had been summoned from the infield.
He climbed out.
Then he walked to the back of his badly damaged race car and began kicking the rear tire as if it had somehow been responsible for the end of his race day.
If Dale Earnhardt had been able to walk away from his crash at Daytona, I suspect he might have done the same thing.
Those people are so real.
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Abercrombie & Fitch (ANF) launched a new website and social media marketing campaign that abandons the branding it's had for more than 20 years.
Abercrombie & Fitch Introduces Redefined Brand Identity that Celebrates Individuality and Uniqueness of Today's Consumer
The new A&F fall/winter collection harkens back to the golden age of scantily clad models in Bruce Weber lifestyle shots.
Abercrombie & Fitch's (ANF) stock rating was reduced to 'sector weight' at KeyBanc.
Cramer is sticking with Kroger and says to sell WhiteWave.
Here, innovation trumps fears of the global economy and even fears of the Federal Reserve, Cramer says.
Abercrombie & Fitch is down 39% in 2016, and just bounced off its 52-week low. Here's what to do about the beaten-down stock.
In trading on Wednesday, shares of Abercrombie & Fitch Co. touched a new 52-week low of $16.39/share.
According to a new study, Gap has some serious challenges on its hands to win over fashion- and deal-seeking Millennials.
The most recent short interest data was recently released for the 08/15/2016 settlement date, and Abercrombie & Fitch Co. is one of the most shorted stocks of the Russell 3000, based on 8.98 "days to cover" versus the median component at 5.83.
Consumer cyclical and defensive names are showing bearish characteristics.
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Shares of Abercrombie & Fitch have plunged this week after releasing yet another poor earnings report.
Why can't Abercrombie and Aeropostale get it together?
Why can't Abercrombie and Aeropostale get it together?
Here are Thursday's top research calls, including price target adjustments for Abercrombie & Fitch and Salesforce, and bullish reports on EchoStar and Walgreens.
Following lower-than-expected second quarter results, Stifel lowered its rating on Abercrombie & Fitch (ANF) stock Wednesday morning to 'hold' from 'buy.'
The once-popular retail chain suffered its 14th consecutive quarter of lower sales.
U.S. stocks extended losses Tuesday as Wall Street factored in a near-term rate increase and some investors predicted the Federal Reserve could boost rates as soon as September.
Abercrombie & Fitch (ANF) reported a wider-than-expected loss for the second quarter this morning, which Stifel analysts say they believe is a result of a challenging retail environment.
U.S. stocks are lower Tuesday as Wall Street prices in an interest rate hike sooner rather than later.
Abercrombie & Fitch (ANF) 'can't manage to put it together,' despite strength at some of its competitors, Jim Cramer says.
Jim Cramer says Abercrombie & Fitch is out of fashion, but insists the shopping mall isn't dead.
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GRAND RAPIDS, MI – The Grand Rapids school board's finance committee today is recommending approval of next year's budget that would give elementary students a full year of art and music and provide students more teacher support for blended computer learning.
"I believe the program restorations support education in the district, not denigrate it as cuts in the past seemed to do," said board member Wendy Falb, chair of the finance committee. "The consistency of the delivery of instruction is essential."
"Kids will have a chance to learn now with the change to blended learning, and art and music teachers can plan a program for a whole year."
Not much has changed in the proposed budget, since the full board discussion last week. There are 16 teaching positions that would get cut because the district plans to lose 600 students, representing nearly $4.2 million in state funding, largely because of charter schools.
Superintendent Teresa Weatherall Neal also has to streamline administrative staff in the central office by cutting eight to 10 positions, primarily managers. The teacher and management cuts would save the district $1.4 million and $850,000, respectively.
Giving elementary kids a full year of art and music, instead of a semester, comes at a cost of $990,000 for 11 more teachers. The cost of eliminating the two-day teacher rotation for blended learning so teachers are in class giving face-to-face instruction with the more rigorous computer lessons is $1 million. Students and parents complained about the program initiated in 2010. Test scores released in the fall showed half the students failing, with only modest improvement last spring.
The full board will discuss the $209.8 million total general fund budget - $156 million for general programs. A public hearing on the budget is scheduled for 5:30 p.m. Wednesday and a vote is scheduled for Monday, June 18 at the board meeting.
"There are things we are going to have to do next year in order to bring this district to a position where we can hold steady for a few years and not be so reactive," Neal recently told board members about viewing the budget as a two-year process and the need to plan for restructuring this summer. "As a district, we need to answer the question, 'What does a world class district (stated goal in strategic plan) look like?' and not react every year to what's happening in Lansing or declining enrollment."
The district was able to close a $9.4 million budget gap, primarily because of about a $3.2 million increase in Medicaid reimbursement and using $1.3 million in fund balance or reserves. The district would have $9.6 million in reserves next school year, 6 percent of the general fund.
More cuts would have been necessary, if lawmakers had not taken budget actions that kept the district from taking a $5.3 million hit that included getting flexibility for class size reduction grants and Title I funding use.
"We were able to save some funds but we need more support from Lansing," said board member Tony Baker, who is a finance committee member. "State funding has gone down over the years, while district expenses have gone up. Lawmaker are showing what their values are, when they make budget decisions."
The district's per pupil funding will remain the same next year at $6,917, but Baker said that doesn't make up for the $470 per pupil funding cut lawmakers approved last year.
Board member Jane Gietzen said the district needs to work on getting more students back in the district because there are still a lot of children they could be serving.
"I am excited for the restorations but we have hard decisions to make going forward," said Geitzen, who has talked about the district needing to be more competitive to keep charter schools and other districts from siphoning off students.
The public hearing will be in the auditorium of the district administrative building, 1331 Franklin St. SE.
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BIRMINGHAM, Alabama -- Bullying, hate crimes against gays and lesbians, and violations of the Americans with Disabilities Act are among the issues that will be discussed Thursday at a Civil Rights and Hate Crimes Symposium in Birmingham.
The symposium, sponsored by the U.S. Attorney's Office in Birmingham, will be held from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Thursday at the Harbert Center.
The symposium is being held as the nation nears the 50th anniversary of key historic events of the Civil Rights Movement that happened in 1963, the symposium announcement from U.S. Attorney Joyce White Vance noted.
Symposium sessions, according the U.S. Attorney's Office, will include: an overview of the Matthew Shepard and James Byrd Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act of 2009; the Americans with Disabilities Act; the Uniformed Services Employment and Re-employment Rights Act; and anti-bullying laws.
Among the speakers at the symposium will be Wayne Flynt, Alabama historian and author, and now editor-in-chief of the Encyclopedia of Alabama. He will speak on the topic of Evolving Civil Rights - The Past and Future.
Other speakers will include Albany County, Wyo., Sheriff David O'Malley, who as a detective in the Laramie, Wyo., Police Department investigated the 1998 murder of Matthew Shepard, a 21-year-old college student who was beaten to death because he was gay.
Last month Vance had announced the formation of a civil rights enforcement unit in the U.S. Attorneys Office to
pursue civil rights violations in the 31-county district of north Alabama.
The symposium is provided for law enforcement officers and the public, according to the U.S. Attorneys Office. Attendance is free, but space is limited.
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For decades now a substantial section of Philadelphia fandom has always thought The Other Guy would be an improvement over The Starter. Mike Boryla, Kevin Kolb, A.J. Feeley, and perhaps most of all the immortal Bobby Hoying are just a few of the not-quite-All-Pros that have been backed by Birds boosters to replace much more successful quarterbacks.
This most recent attack of second-quarterback syndrome has infected many fans with intense virulence because the Birds are bad and a savior is sought desperately. Six-foot-six rookie Nick Foles has been cast in that role, and with starter Michael Vick likely out for at least the upcoming game at Washington, Foles may be the man before long.
Foles, who was greeted by rapturous applause when he entered Sunday's loss to Dallas, showed flashes of competence in two-plus quarters of action. Foles has the physical tools for success but is a long way from being a successful NFL starting quarterback.
Fans who want Foles installed for good should remember that the Cowboys' game plan was set up to stop Vick's unique skills.
"Michael Vick is such a special player," Dallas coach Jason Garrett said. "He has such great unique gifts as a quarterback. He can run, he can extend plays with his feet, he can throw the ball all over the field, so you're always aware of those traits every time he snaps the football.
"Nick Foles is a young guy. He's more of a pocket passer for them, and yet you kind of understand who's under center now and what his strengths and weakness are. I thought he did a good job playing within the system and did some good things for them as well, but they are different. You just have to understand as a player and certainly as a defensive play caller, what the differences are, trying to accommodate and acclimate to those different situations."
Washington will have a week to "accommodate and acclimate" to Foles. That will make a difference.
Also, it wasn't obvious on Monday that Foles was massively superior to Vick. Vick led the Eagles on an impressive opening drive and looked sharp doing so. He was playing well when he went out of the game. Foles did have one TD pass but had two turnovers as well, which is hardly surprising for a rookie.
Since turnovers have been one of the two major reasons -- along with a clueless defense -- for the Eagles' 3-6 record, and since rookie quarterbacks are really good at turning the ball over, Foles may not necessarily represent the solution.
Andy Reid has said about 722,639 times over the last month that Vick, if healthy, is the Eagles' starting quarterback and gives the team the best chance to win. Reid hasn't always been candid in his statements in the past, but this time, since his job is on the line, there's no reason to doubt he's doing what he thinks is best. Of course, his judgment can and will be questioned.
Eagles fans shouldn't get too attached to Foles, either. If, as seems increasingly likely, this is Reid's swan song, a new coach may well want to start with his own quarterback. It might be Foles. It might not.
And, frankly, this whole obsession with the quarterback situation is misplaced.
The quarterback has nothing to do with an offensive line that can't stop making mistakes at key moments, like King Dunlap's hands-to-the-face penalty that cost the Birds a first-and-goal.
The quarterback has nothing to do with a defense that can't tackle, that can't seem to understand that elite receivers need to be double-covered, and that lacks physicality and toughness.
The quarterback has nothing to do with a Pollyanna coaching staff that was badly and fatally fooled by the Birds' 4-0 finish in 2011 into thinking no major changes were needed.
The quarterback has nothing to do with poor drafts and personnel mistakes that are coming back to haunt the team.
Sure, with better quarterback play maybe the Eagles would be 4-5 or 5-4. But maybe not.
Maybe Nick Foles is the solution and savior the fans want. But maybe not. History would say almost surely not.
Second-quarterback syndrome, though, leaves no room for maybes. To those afflicted, The Other Guy's always better. To them, Foles is Dan Marino and Tom Brady in one package.
That's second-quarterback syndrome at its worst. And it's spreading.
Brad Wilson can be reached at email@example.com.


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Brazilian state-controlled oil company Petrobras said Monday that the failure of negotiations to bring Venezuela on board as a partner in the Abreu e Lima refinery does not close the door to possible cooperation in the future.
"It would be a lack of courtesy on our part not to be ready for an opening in case they appear," Petrobras executive Jose Consenza told a press conference in Rio de Janeiro.
Petrobras said last Friday in a regulatory filing that it had absorbed the company created to manage the refinery into its corporate structure after talks with Venezuelan state oil company PDVSA broke down.
"We had been negotiating with PDVSA for a long time, but at one point the Venezuelan company presented a very different proposal. What was established at the beginning of the negotiations remains valid," Consenza said.
While the refinery is now 100-percent owned by Petrobras, PDVSA can still acquire a stake if it accepts the initial conditions, he said.
Nearly $17 billion has already been invested in building the refinery in the northeastern Brazilian state of Pernambuco, which is projected to process 230,000 barrels per day at maximum capacity.
The original plan called for Petrobras to provide 60 percent of the investment, with the rest of the money - and most of the crude oil - coming from PDVSA.
The initiative was launched in 2005 by the then-presidents of Brazil and Venezuela, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva and the late Hugo Chavez, but the venture ran into trouble after Petrobras deemed the guarantees presented by PDVSA to be insufficient.
Petrobras began building the refinery on its own in 2007 and says it is now 80 percent complete.
The refinery is projected to begin operating in 2014 with an initial of 115,000 barrels per day.
Petrobras decided to assume full control of the project because it could no longer delay a decision on whether the refinery was to process heavy Venezuelan crude or the lighter variety of oil that comes out of Brazilian wells, Consenza said. EFE


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As large private insurers continue to cut homeowners' policies along the Gulf Coast, Mississippi Rep. Gene Taylor is reintroducing legislation to offer government-backed windstorm coverage.
"Apparently, the insurance industry no longer wants to cover people for wind damage in coastal America or will not provide that coverage at a cost that is reasonable," Taylor, D-Bay St. Louis, said today in a release.
The bill would give homeowners the option of buying both wind and flood coverage in the same policy. In 2007, the House of Representatives approved the idea as part of a broader overhaul of the federal flood insurance program, but the Senate later scotched it. Critics, such as Sen. Richard Shelby, R-Tuscaloosa, objected to adding more exposure to the flood insurance program, now more than $19 billion in debt to the federal treasury.
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In the past I have downloaded an audio morse programme "CGT Morse Translator". In my younger days I could cope with visual morse on the Aldis fairly well, for our certificates 6 words per minute and 8 for semaphore. The problem I find with audio is that I can read it faster than I can write with the breakdown rate of about 15 words per minute especially random single single letters and even with text at this speed with normal "joined up writing" I fall behind and evetually loose it. How ever can I reach the 25 word standard when at an age of 75yo my legible writing speed is about 15.


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The East Syracuse Minoa boys lacrosse team shook off a 10-day layoff with a 12-6 win over Carthage on Thursday in the Section III Class B boys lacrosse tournament.
"We were a little bit afraid of a slow start, but I was pretty pleased with the performance," ESM head coach Jon McCoy said. "This gives us some confidence headed into the next round."
ESM - now 15-2 on the season - held a 5-4 lead at the half, but pulled away with a 3-0 third period.
Andrew Rosso had three goals and a pair of assists, while Jeremy Perry had two goals and a pair of helpers. Thomas Van Deusen and Daniel Lewis scored twice each.
No. 2 seeded ESM gets top-seeded Jamesville-DeWitt - an 18-7 winner over New Hartford on Thursday - in the sectional final on Monday at 5 p.m. at the Carrier Dome.


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February 2010– Reach for the skies in Tower Bloxx Deluxe, a wacky skyscraper construction game brought to you by Focus Multimedia! Licensed from Digital Chocolate, a leading publisher of original multi-platform games, Tower Bloxx Deluxe is the latest title to join Focus' range of best-selling PC casual games. It is an award-winning and highly addictive puzzle game with over 4 million players on Facebook and other gaming platforms.
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Let the fun begin this summer - start it off right with a craft! Shield your kids' faces from the hot sun with these cute painted visors adorned with tiny flip-flops and sunglasses. Colorful foam paint makes this project as simple as a snap. Your kids will love decorating these easy kids' craft ideas with their favorite colors and shapes. These unique summer crafts also make great projects for your church's Vacation Bible School or Sunday School. Because they're so easy, these designs are easy to make with a large group.
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- Refer to photo for placement and attach stickers to visor.
- Use Hot Pink Foam Paint to paint "FUN" and dots beside sunglasses and alternate scallops at bottom edge. Let dry.
- Use Yellow to paint sunshine, dots on remaining scallops, and words "Let the" and "begin". Let dry.
- Reattach spring back at side when dry.
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CPO Program Coordinator Dan Schauer has confirmed that Aloha's Citizen Participation Organization 6 meeting scheduled for 7 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 6, has been canceled due to the winter storm.
Agenda items included drainage issues with the Butternut Creek, the Aloha-Reedville Study and a new park near Mountain View Middle School. A new date for the meeting has not yet been announced. Stay tuned for more updates.
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Ice and blowing snow are continuing to pelt Prince Edward Island even as April begins, causing widespread power outages and closing school for the fifth day in a row.
The corner of Central and First streets in downtown Summerside this morning.
Plows have been pulled off the secondary roads west of Charlottetown and will only be responding to emergencies.
The weather conditions brought down scores of power lines over the past couple of days in West Prince. The number of Maritime Electric customers without power has climbed to 4,500 in West Prince and 500 more in the Dover area.
"There is significant work to be done mostly in the west where there are poles down that need to be replaced," said Maritime Electric spokeswoman Kim Griffin in an email. "Poles are down in O'Leary and Sea Cow Pond that crews are focusing on and this could take all day to repair."
Disaster volunteers with the Canadian Red Cross are providing food delivery and other support at a couple of shelters set up in West Prince.
The shelters are at the Alberton Fire Hall, as well as at the John J. Sark Memorial School gymnasium on Lennox Island, where more than a dozen people spent the night.
The O'Leary Fire Hall is also open to the public for water and heat, but it is without power.
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Welcome to the first installment of Coffee on Broadway on NewYork.com, where notable names from all facets of theater sit down for a chat over coffee, sharing their current projects and their thoughts on the biggest trends for theater.
This week, I had the pleasure of chatting with Tony nominated actor, and all-around nice guy, Bobby Steggert. For those of you who aren't familiar, Bobby's had quite the season, having been in the musical Big Fish last fall, and currently starring in Terrence McNally's latest play, Mothers and Sons alongside Tyne Daly. Bobby was kind enough to have me stop by his dressing room for a chat. He even made the coffee himself with his trusty Coffeemate.
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What was the first Broadway show you attended?
Damn Yankees at the Marriott Marquis starring Bebe Neuwirth. And I loved it. Just loved it! It felt so unattainable to me, so otherworldly. That little boy today would just be shocked to see where I am today.
How did you get started in theater?
I've been realizing that I'm older than I think I am because it's harder for me to remember these things. I started singing and was in choirs starting in elementary school for many years. Then I started doing opera. And it turned out I loved creating characters more than I loved singing. So I did a bunch of community theatre and then realized I was serious about it, so I studied at NYU.
How did you get your first professional role?
I was really lucky. This girl in my class had been doing Les Miserables while she was at NYU and she had an agent. She thought I was good so she introduced me to her agent…who signed me without ever seeing me in anything. And she's still my agent today. That kind of instinctual loyalty and belief in someone just by speaking to them is incredible.
How have things changed in the theatre industry since you first started out?
I guess when I was a kid, it seemed to be easier to produce a Broadway show, so there was slightly riskier material. As time goes by, producers are getting a little less bold. I think that the projects that people put their money around, especially in musical theatre, are based on movies and branded stories. And that doesn't mean they can't be good. Like Once is an incredible musical.
I think it's a shame. But because of the economic element, new musicals, and even plays, are rare. So that's why I'm really excited about [Mothers and Sons] because it's a brand new American play…and not based on any story. So I hope that brave producers will emerge and produce things that are original works, that are based on the inspiration and creativity of a writer.
What are your thoughts on increasing access to the theatre?
I think it's up to the producers…to hold some tickets for the benefit of young and poor theatregoers. Because what are you going to do when your audience dies out? You need to cultivate an interest and a passion in the younger generations. I think it's especially the responsibility of a show that is making money because they can afford to do that. They can afford to eat the cost for the sake of future theatregoers.
Do you think that filming and streaming of theatre will start to play a larger role as time goes on?
Nothing beats live theatre in the room and I don't think it can be replaced by filming or streaming. I think the answer is in really good cast albums. And it's really important that shows be preserved that way. It's a really wonderful way to get into theatre. If you can fall in love with the score of a musical…
How do you think theatre plays a role in shaping people's mindset?
The world is changing at this shockingly quick rate when it comes to the civil rights movement. Young people have no idea what this city was like in the 1980s and they have no idea how marginalized gay people were just a couple decades ago. Mothers and Sons specifically is so good and so captivating at showing how this world has changed, and how it continues to change. It gives me an incredible appreciation for what gay men have gone through before me to give me the rights and privileges that I enjoy. It shows us our responsibility as young people, to demand equality and fair treatment for all people. I think we'll look back on this time and think of it as a really significant moment in social history.
The play does it in a way that's really succinct and clear. All the young people leave the theatre feeling inspired, grateful, and lucky to be born when they were, to be young people now in this society. The play is inspiring and hopeful and educational to people. It's important for people to see actors portray healthy, married gay men on a Broadway stage. Because it must be normalized. And this is an important step in doing that.
How did you get involved in Mothers and Sons?
Terrence [McNally] had invited me to do quite a few readings over the years….And last summer I was in between the out-of-town tryout of Big Fish and the Broadway run, and I got a call about a new Terrence McNally play at the Bucks County Playhouse.
I read the script, my part barely existed. I said, "Well, it's beautifully written and I love what it has to say, although the part's not there yet. But I love Terrence and Tyne Daly so I'll do it." In rehearsals, he wrote the part on me. He watched the interactions and finished the first draft in Bucks County in front of us. Literally, we'd be rehearsing and he'd be typing away at his laptop. So I'm so glad I did it. What ended up happening was that he wrote a play around us.
Final words:
I just want to say how delightful it is to be in a very serious drama that is so f**king funny! It's exciting to be in a play that is as moving as it is funny. Terrence is one of those rare playwrights who understands the responsibility to entertain. He is incredibly funny and his whit is weaved into every character. I always tell my friends that they'll have a great time, and a profound time.
Amanda Bohan will be chatting with theater insiders regularly for NewYork.com. Click here to read more Coffee on Broadway.