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My life as a graduate - unexpected but educationalTal Fox
Jul 15, 2015
Today marks exactly a year since I graduated from the University of Birmingham. My first year as a graduate has not been anything like I imagined it would be but somehow I managed to get to where I hoped I would be by now.
While my social media accounts are filled with graduation photos and sentimental statuses, I fondly reminisce about my time as an undergraduate and how my experiences helped me in graduate life. Although I didn't graduate with the coveted 2:1, I am excitedly waiting to begin my Masters in Newspaper Journalism at City University, London in September.
University was incredibly fun and I'm still in touch with my friends – despite all returning to our own ends of the earth. I always look back with nostalgia but the graduate world isn't so bad either. So with a year of wisdom behind me, these are the most important lessons I have learned:
Why I fought for the Psychoactive Substances BillMaryon Stewart
Jul 14, 2015
It's every Jewish parent's worst nightmare 1a>to lose a child, especially needlessly1b>. That sadly was my experience on 26 April 2009, when my wonderful 21 year-old daughter Hester, a medical student at Sussex University, was given a legal high. She wasn't a drug taker, but a cheerleader and student mentor. Instead of surviving to become a doctor she went to sleep after an awards dinner and never woke up. Tonight, the House of Lords is hearing the debate on the Psychoactive Substances Bill.
We all want our children to stay safe and well so that they live to thrive to lead happy and fulfilled lives. These days' young people face many challenges during their teenage years and the party substances known as 'legal highs' are top of the list of pitfalls as many believe they are safe because, until now, they have been legal.
In 2010 I founded the Angelus Foundation in Hester's memory, to raise awareness about the dangers of 'legal highs' so that young people can make informed decisions and parents can have wise conversations with their children.
Antisemites - You Don't Even Go HereJosh Jackman
Jul 13, 2015
On July 4, during a 3a>neo-Nazi demonstration which was met with the full force3b> of Jewish and anti-fascist fury, there was one banner which stood out.
Referencing to the 2004 classic film Mean Girls (natch), the sign read "You Don't Even Go Here."
It was as hilarious as it was true. The fanatics, with their stereotypical skinheads and warped thinking, were an anachronism, completely out of place opposite the established democracy of Downing Street and two WWII monuments.
Omar Sharif: my secret crushSandy Rashty
Jul 10, 2015
We all have Hollywood crushes.
Omar Sharif was mine.
I would not be able to tell you how many times I've watched Funny Girl – the story of a young Jewish woman who falls in love with a beautiful, but unattainable, exotic man.
Is the BBC biased when it comes to Israel? Two of its journalists speak outSandy Rashty
Jul 10, 2015
Let's face it, the British Jewish community loves bashing the BBC.
I can't remember attending a communal event (or Shabbat dinner for that matter) where the taxpayer-funded corporation wasn't bashed for its "biased" coverage of Israel.
It's not hard to see why so many love to hate the BBC – especially when forced to watch it stand by reporters like Tim Willcox, who has claimed that "Palestinians suffer hugely at Jewish hands" live on air.
The Board of Deputies shouldn't insult non-Jewish schools, nor the parents who send kids to themKeren David
Jul 1, 2015
'If you don't live in a leafy suburb like Richmond,' said the new president of the Board of Deputies, Jonathan Arkush, 1a>last week,1b> 'you just won't send your children to the local schools. They are rife with problems – bullying, violence, drug-taking and racism.'
In Mr Arkush's day job he is a barrister, paid to construct clever arguments. In this statement, hidden within a double negative is a fearful view of the world outside a sealed sphere of privilege. For 'leafy' read affluent, for 'local' read working class and multi-cultural. Mr Arkush seems to believe that Jewish children can only be safe when removed from the mainstream. He speaks out against racism, but there is a disquieting undercurrent to his words that pulls in the other direction.
I wonder why Richmond escapes his gloomy view of the world. Perhaps he has friends who live there who send their children to local schools. Maybe these children are clearly happy and well-adjusted, neither bullied or bullying and manifestly drug-free. Richmond, he allows is the exception to the rule. A utopia where Jewish children are free to mingle with their non-Jewish peers, unlike the dystopian hell that rules elsewhere.
Rally result is a victory for our community - not a time to score pointsMarcus Dysch
Jun 30, 2015
There will inevitably be a lengthy post-mortem into the various co-ordinated and un-coordinated responses to the 5a>antisemitic demonstration due to take place this weekend5b>.
The roles of 1a>campaign groups1b>, security groups, 2a>politicians2b>, police, the media, and more will all be assessed.
There was, understandably, 3a>substantial concern within both the Jewish and local communities 3b>about the prospect of skinheads on the streets at the heart of our community this Shabbat.
Sacks and ViolenceSimon Rocker
Jun 29, 2015
Simon Rocker is Judaism Editor for the JC
Lord Sacks's new book, 3a>Not in God's Name – Confronting Religious Violence3b>, should be a must-read for any Jewish educator. Its central section is a close reading of some of the stories of Genesis, interpreting them in a way which shows how sacred texts can support conciliation between people of different faiths rather than confrontation.
While he depicts conflict between Jews, Christians and Muslims as a form of sibling rivalry, it is not a permanent condition, he argues. Genesis begins with fratricide – Cain murders Abel – but ends with the reconciliation of Joseph and his brothers.
An Open Letter to those living in the UKLiora Resnick
Jun 25, 2015
This blog was first shared on Facebook as an open letter from 16 year-old Hasmonean student Liora Resnick
Like all sixteen year olds my age, irrespective of my race, religion or ethnicity, I worry about normal sixteen-year old things: I worry about whether I have done the right homework and what to wear to the oh-so-important party next Saturday night. I worry about if I can afford those concert tickets that I am desperate to go to, and I worry about if that look that boy gave me that one time meant anything or not.
But unlike most other sixteen-year old girls, I worry about something that is far bigger than any of those trivial things:
Experts failed to see this school-places shortfall comingSimon Rocker
Jun 25, 2015
The 1a>competition for Jewish secondary school places1b> has clearly caught the community's educations leaders by surprise. With little over two months to go to the start of the new school year, you might have found a handful of children still waiting for places at this stage in the past few years. But there appear to be at least a classful this year.
What has fuelled anguish even more is that many of these children are at Jewish primary schools and had expected to go on to Jewish secondary schools. It must be galling to have invested in your children's Jewish education and be left in the lurch, when other, less committed, families may have clinched places through the entry lottery simply by turning up to synagogue a few times.
The opening of two new state-aided Jewish secondary schools in the north-west London area in the past decade - 3a>Yavneh College in Hertfordshire 3b>and the Jewish Community Secondary School in East Barnet - had led to fears of the opposite problem: too few Jewish pupils to fill them. Instead the reverse has happened in a relatively short space of time.


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For the past quarter of a century Renaissance sculptor Lorenzo Ghiberti's "The Doors of Paradise," designed for the Baptistery in Florence just across from the city's main cathedral, have been undergoing a major restoration and regilding that has gone on for nearly as long as it took Ghiberti to make them in the first place.
There are ten panels set on two bronze doors, and altogether they took from 1425-1452 to complete. Ghiberti had already finished a set of two earlier doors, with 28 panels depicting scenes from the New Testament, working from 1403-1424. So he was the doorman to the Renaissance, and his work on these two projects ushered in the greatest era of Western art like no other major visual scheme of the age.
Through Jan. 16 the Metropolitan Museum of Art is showing three of Ghiberti's now completely restored panels -- "Adam and Eve," "Jacob and Esau," and "David and Goliath" -- along with four figural sections of the doors' surrounding bronze jambs.
It's an unprecedented exhibition that gives Americans a chance to see the work that has been at least in part paid for by American contributions, much of it desperately needed after more than 500 years of exposure to the elements. One of the panels was ripped from its moorings by the 1966 floods in Florence, and was thought lost until it was miraculously found, caked in mud and trapped by the iron railings that ring the Baptistery.
It's also a sort of early Christmas present, with as many delicately sculpted little figures as the annual Neapolitan creche the museum sets up around its Christmas trees (each Ghiberti panel is no more than 31 inches square).
The emotional naturalism of Ghiberti's scenes, even when (as in all three panels) they repeat characters in three or four places like a plot-heavy medieval fresco, was unprecedented at the time they appeared. In fact, it is difficult to really appreciate Ghiberti's achievement unless you look at other images made between 1401 and 1430.
Just about everywhere outside of Ghiberti's ever-growing studio it was the Middle Ages, and naked people looked like forked tubers, with rubbery limbs and unarticulated torsos, and buildings looked like shoulder patches sewn into the fabric of the picture. But wherever Ghiberti stood, it was the Renaissance, where idealized figures based on classical sculpture moved in the round and perspective created the illusion of deep, realistic space.
The most famous panel is the "Adam and Eve," which introduced the first sensuous female nude of the Renaissance. There was no precedent at all for Eve's marvelously modeled adolescent body, shown as God draws her, supported by cherubim, from Adam's side -- even the Greeks never conceived of such a tremulous beauty, attractive yet at once virginal. Eve is the heroine of the panel because medieval churchmen had long analogized this scene from the Old Testament with God's creation of the Roman Catholic Church, but Ghiberti's brilliant depiction of her long torso, topped by pert, apple-sized breasts, has its own meaning.
One, as any art history fan knows, not lost on the long line of mostly male Florentine painters and sculptors who trooped by these doors over the next 100 years.
The other two panels are famous for their own effects: "Jacob and Esau" for its introduction of single-point perspective (well, almost--the scored tiles on the right-hand side do not lead to the single point of the central frame, but that would have distorted them unrecognizably), and "David and Goliath" for its skilled shorthand at depicting masses of classical troops, suggesting there is indeed an army of thousands on a panel less than one yard square. They, too, would be copied over and over in succeeding centuries.
And to think, Ghiberti (1378-1455) wasn't even trained as a sculptor, but as a painter. He won the first commission when he was but 22 years old, defeating older and already famous competitors like Filippo Brunelleschi. (Both their competition reliefs survive, and Ghiberti's is almost always judged superior; an embittered Brunelleschi won the equally fabled commission to build the dome on the cathedral across the street, and looked down on the upstart's workplace every day for years afterward.)
The doors became Ghiberti's life's work, since the casting and fire-gilding of the two sets of doors took him to within two years of his death. Ever since, artists have viewed Ghiberti's life as exemplary, since it is enfolded between two magnificent projects that changed the course of art history and left him with no more than the loose change of a few months to reflect on them.
How did he do it? Clearly, Ghiberti was a remarkably sensitive and subtle dramatist, and a tireless antiquarian. But he was also, we know from period sources, a remarkably convivial man, whose ego became entirely subsumed in his project. All sorts of artists passed through his studio and worked on his doors, including the now equally famous Donatello and Paolo Francesco, who apparently worked with will and generosity. As competitive as they were, they all looked back on Ghiberti as a kindly and highly respected teacher.
The Mr. Fezziwig of Renaissance Florence -- not a bad way to be remembered.
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The Anarchist Federation of Great Britain have released issue 74 of their twice-yearly magazine Organise! Among the subjects tackled are casual work, origins of youth revolt in Greece and a critique of current radical approaches to unions and workplace organising.
The mission of Organise! is "to develop anarchist communist ideas. It aims to provide a clear anarchist viewpoint on contemporary issues and to initiate debate on ideas not normally covered in agitational papers." The latest issue includes a 2 page spread of art / photography beyond the usual riot porn subject matter.
Movement history is covered by a look back at how the AF covered the campaign against the Poll Tax. More widely, there's a feature on the English Revolution's Ranters, seeing them as more socially liberated than their Leveller contemporaries.
There are reviews of Yevgeny Zamyatin's novel We, which strongly influenced Orwell's 1984, AK Press's Italian Anarchism, a history of anarchism in New Zealand and some pamphlets.
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AMHERST - The rubber match - and a berth in the Division III boys sectional final - goes to the Crusaders.
An 18-2 run to end the first quarter and a 14-0 run in the second quarter gave the Saint Joseph's-Central boys basketball team an insurmountable lead as it went on to a 72-62 win over Lee Wednesday night at the Curry Hicks Cage on the campus of the University of Massachusetts.
The second-seeded Crusaders (16-6) will face the winner of the New Leadership-Lenox game, to be played later this evening, in the Western Massachusetts Division III final Saturday afternoon back here at the Cage.
"It was (the best half we played all year) and what it was was everyone being unselfish and sharing the ball,'' St. Joe's coach Paul Brindle said. "Mike McMahon scoring from the perimeter and getting rebounds, Dylan Casey, Danny Joslyn, Tank (Taverick Roberson) penetrating and looking for guys. Overall it was a five guy, six guy effort and at times I had three sophomores and two freshmen on the court.''
McMahon, a sophomore center, had no equal on the floor, scoring 19 of his game-high 20 points in the first half as the Crusaders, who split their season series with the Wildcats, built a 42-23 halftime lead.
The Wildcats (13-10) found a little bit of life when Roberson picked up his fourth foul early in the third quarter. The freshman point guard's absence was felt by the end of the quarter and into the fourth as Lee was able to chip away on offense while the Crusaders struggled on their offensive end.
"It got much closer than we thought it would when Tank came out of the game,'' Joslyn, a senior who had 10 points, said. "I struggled bringing the ball up the court and we weren't moving as well as we do with Tank in the game.
"They started hitting a lot of threes so that was mentally challenging,'' he added. "But luckily we made our foul shots and that's how we won the game.''
The lead was 15 for the Crusaders entering the final quarter but an 8-2 run, highlighted by back-to-back 3-pointers by Dalton Griffin (19 points) saw the Wildcats cut the lead to single digits at 55-46.
But St. Joe's put together an 8-0 run that included going 6-for-6 from the foul line and the Crusaders were once again in a comfortable position to ride out the rest of the game.
Roberson finished with 14 points, Kelsey had 13 and Brandon Casella scored 11, including hitting seven free throws.
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Do you know how many full length around half hour chess.com videos I can watch and how many games in game explorer I can view with 2 gb broadband?
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I don't actually know how big a 30 min chess.com video would be bandwidth wise, but I don't think the game explorer would use much.
hey willis u should be able to watch at least 4 videos
Not sure, but if you right click the little LAN connection icon (bottom tray in Win XP - it looks like two little monitors together) and then click "status", a window will appear which shows how much info is being downloaded (sent/received). With the video playing, just time it and it should give you an idea of broadband usage.
So can I only watch around 4 videos with 2gb? I thought it would be way more than that!
I would guess it would be more than that as well.
Give it some times... it may take a staff member to look at the video file sizes to truly answer this, but Kenneth's advice might be helpful in the meantime.
I just did a quick timing exercise. 1 minute of video takes 2.5mb, therefore 1024/2.5 = 409.60 min per Gb = 6.82hr per Gb. Don't know how long the videos are though, and I am on a basic 384kbps line.
But one minute of watching could finish downloading 30% of the 30 minute movie...
downloading is much 'cheaper' then. I haven't watched/downloaded any, just did the test.
EDIT: 6Jne - info downloaded is the same, therefore my 'cheaper' comment is irrelevant.
So I can watch for more than 13 hours with 2gb?
I would say so. BorgQueen - how do you download, as opposed to watching the video?
No idea.
But when you watch the video, you will see a bar progress from left to right as it downloads and a different (more pronounced) bar to represent where you are up to viewing it. The download bar progresses a LOT faster than the viewing bar... at least for me anyway.
You must have a much faster line than me then. My viewing bar continually catches up with the download bar, and it buffers, making the picture freeze until it downloads more. As I said, mine is the basic 384kbps download speed, which struggles with video.
Ah. My download bar runs way ahead of the viewing bar. Perhaps your figures are right then!
Yes, but even though your download speed is quicker, it doesn't change how much info is being downloaded. So 2Gb memory still gives 6.82 hrs of video - or am I missing something?
i "think" each full video is around 50-80 MB, but not sure. dpruess would know.
Yes. The only advantage the extra speed gives is no choppy viewing or pausing. The video download size is still the same.
The experiment you did is probably accurate given that the download and viewing progress is about the same. If I did the same experiment it would not be accurate at all.
That sounds about right for a short video.
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Date: Feb 28, 2014
Time: 9:00 - 14:30
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8:50 - 9:00 Welcome
9:00 - 10:00 Early detection tools for grapevine canker diseases, and interactive survey of grower perceptions on treatment strategies
Dr. Kendra Baumgartner, USDA-ARS Research Plant Pathologist
10:00 - 10:45 The economics of trunk disease treatment practices
Dr. Jonathan Kaplan, Associate Professor, Sacramento State University
10:45 - 11:00 Break
11:00 - 12:00 Update on Red Blotch Disease
Dr. Mysore "Sudhi" Sudarshana, USDA-ARS Research Biologist
12:00 - 13:00 Catered lunch
13:00 - 13:45 Frost protection and salinity management considerations for drought conditions
Mark Battany, Viticulture/Soils Farm Advisor, UC Cooperative Extension
13:45 - 14:30 Application of irrigation scheduling tools for challenging drought conditions
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The director of the Dakar Rally said in presenting the 2013 edition of the event that the organization plans to continue to hold the off-road race in Latin American in the coming years.
"In the first place, because they've received us very well and have given us all the facilities. But also because it's inconceivable at the moment to go back to Africa," Etienne Lavigne said.
The director also referred to talks underway with Paraguay, Uruguay, Brazil and Ecuador to incorporate those countries into the race, which currently spans Argentina, Chile and Peru.
"But nothing's been finalized. There are political contacts and we've surveyed the terrain in some areas," he said.
Officials from Peru, Argentina and Chile were on hand for the presentation of the 2013 Dakar Rally, which will begin in Lima on Jan. 5 and end in Santiago two weeks later.
The president of the Peruvian Tourism Ministry's Dakar Commission, Gabriela Gutierrez, said the previous race generated some $70 million in direct revenue for her country and that figure is expected to double this time.
Next year's rally route will run for the fifth time through Argentina, whose tourism minister, Enrique Meyer, stressed the importance of the race remaining in Latin America.
He said Argentina estimates it earned some $180 million in revenue from the 2012 rally.
For his part, Chilean Secretary of State for Sports Gabriel Ruiz Tagle said the "Atacama desert is part of Dakar's DNA" and it is highly unlikely that region will be excluded from future editions.
Chile, which will host the final three stages of next year's rally, estimates the country earned $103 million in revenue from the 2012 event. EFE


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Dear editor, After reading the WTO this morning about Dr. Clark, the new superintendent. Brings back memories of Brandon Hufnage....
I think the School Board was very forthright. After all the Times Observer was, I believe, only required a Freedom of Information Act request to find out the real reason why Brandon Hufnagel left. The Board preferred for the Public not to know that there was virtually no institutional control and even more sad no apparent interest in oversight. The wink and nod approach of allowing an Administrator to utilize re-location expense monies to travel back and forth to visit his family was a complete misuse of the taxpayers money and the amazing thing was this Board didn't care.
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Funnel cloud or not?June 3rd, 2013 at 11:10 am by Nick Bannin under Weather
Since the June 1st tornado and more recently since horrific devastation in Oklahoma…more and more of you are playing an active role in observing the weather around you and sending pictures or information into the 22News Team.Often your reports include pictures, video or descriptions of what you see. From time to time you might tell us you've spotted a funnel cloud, tornado or even sent us pictures like the ones here from the storms on June 2nd 2013.
Photos: Severe Thunderstorms in Western Mass. June 2, 2013
You might assume that based on the upsidedown shape that these pictures are of funnel clouds, but don't be so sure. In order for a cloud to be considered a "funnel cloud" you need a rotating condensation funnel that is in contact with the cumulus clouds above (known in a thunderstorm as a wall cloud). Rotation is key…if a cloud is not rotating (even though it is moving), it may be considered a "scud" cloud or just a low hanging appendage of the main cloud above. To be clear, it's almost impossible to tell based on cloud pictures alone whether these were funnel clouds or not without seeing rotation.
Once you've determined that there is tight rotation in that cloud then you have to figure out if that cloud is a funnel cloud or a tornado.
A tornado is clear when you have a condensation funnel cloud that is in contact with the ground OR a rotating condensation funnel causing debris or dust to spin up on the ground below it. Even if you don't see the cloud touching the ground in some cases…if there's debris flying just below it then it's a tornado.


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GOBLES, MI – You can leave the gloves and long underwear tucked away, but it's time to break out the skis. Two West Michigan men, Luke and Adam Schrab, have created a way to hit the slopes in July.
The 33-year-old twins, who are former professional skiers, say you don't need frozen temperatures to continue freestyle skiing year-round.Their snow doesn't fall from the sky -- and it isn't white. Three years ago, the Schrabs designed mSnow, which they manufacture from recycled construction barrels. The synthetic snow comes in tiles of circular patterns of protruding pegs.
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"Our goal is to become the best maker of summer ski surfacing," said Luke Schrab, who lives in Plainwell. "The only other stuff in the world is very expensive and made in Italy, New Zealand and a few other places."
They haven't quit their day jobs yet, but they say sales are growing about 25 percent annually. Since 2010, the Schrabs estimate they've sold about 30,000 square feet of mSnow. They offer cheaper mSnow for kids building backyard jumps, which costs about $2.49 per tile, as well as commercial snow for businesses.
Luke Schrab, a mechanical engineer who works as a part-time terrain manager at Timber Ridge in Gobles and his brother Adam Schrab, a civil engineer who once competitively skied in the X Games, know a thing or two about the ski industry.
The twins grew up building jumps in their Wisconsin backyard and eventually followed their passion to Utah to ski competitively. While attending college, the twins traveled the country, competing in regional freestyle events and eventually launched a trick show called Absolute Zero Air, performed at various ski resorts. For eight years, they also hosted a ski event called "Hootenanny" at Boyne Mountain.
Over the years, they became familiar with synthetic snow, a plastic material skiers attach to plywood to create jumps.
The Schrabs' mSnow is created with a trade secret mixture, which Luke Schrab said enhances speed, withstands UV rays and is durable.
"My brother and I always had the entrepreneurial spirit and we were looking for the next thing after we got to know the industry so well, " Schrab said. "We could do the shows in the summer but we couldn't do them well. We became friends with a guy who has an ejection mold company. I designed the product and we built a prototype."
Most synthetic snow is made from recycled plastic, which can be expensive, Schrab said. So, the brothers decided to take recycling into their own hands, collecting spent roadside construction barrels that would otherwise end up in a landfill from Give 'Em A Brake Safety, a roadside safety equipment rental company in Grandville.
"We haul the barrels, chop them and wash them. We've taken a lot of steps out of the recycling program by doing it ourselves," Schrab said. "Every barrel bears about 12 square feet of mSnow and when we're working hard – and it's hard work to wash and chop – we can process 500 barrels.
"For us it's totally worth it. Most people don't want to recycle them because they are dirty, they can have lights and concrete is splashed on them and those stickers are hard to get off," he said. "They are not easy to process. The U.S. goes through 1 million barrels per year that end up in a landfill."
With the growing prominence of freestyle skiing, especially with the ski halfpipe added to the 2014 Olympics, the backyard mSnow product seems to be gaining traction, he said.
Schrab said mSnow will continue to focus on younger customers, who are building backyard jumps. The brothers hope to sign an agreement with a distributor in the near future and are planning on hosting more summer-time events at Timber Ridge.
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Amarillo police have identified the man who spent more than six hours in a southwest Amarillo home in a police standoff Tuesday that followed burglaries under investigation by APD.
The suspect, Cameron Mitchell Denton, 27, of Amarillo was booked into Randall County jail on charges of burglary of a habitation and criminal trespassing, police said.
About 10:10 a.m. Tuesday, officers responded to a series of burglary calls and a burglar alarm in the Puckett neighborhood, police said. When officers, Randall County Sheriff's Office deputies and Department of Public Safety troopers closed in on a suspect in the alley between Danbury Street and Carlton Drive, the man went into the backyard at 3510 Carlton Drive and broke into the home, police said.
Officers set up a perimeter, secured the area and a SWAT unit and APD negotiators arrived to assist about 11 a.m., police said.
SWAT officers deployed tear gas inside the house but did not enter due to concerns that Denton was armed, police said.
Ty Harvey, a plumber with Mays Plumbing and Construction, was working in a home across the street from where Denton was holed up.
"It was intense," he said. "We didn't know from minute to minute what would happen, if there would be bullets buzzing around or what."
About 10:15 a.m., next-door neighbor Isiah Nolan, 19, a city transit worker and mechanic, was asleep and home alone at 3512 Carlton Drive when shouts amplified through police bullhorns woke him.
"I woke up and I heard (police) saying, 'If you're in the house, come out with your hands up!'" he said. "I freaked out."
He opened his front door and spoke with an officer who told Nolan what was happening. The officer told him to stay in his house and stay in the side of the house farthest from the house police had surrounded. Nolan grabbed a family shotgun in case Denton somehow made his way next door, Nolan said.
About 2:30 p.m., SWAT officers evacuated Nolan, he said. He said they quickly escorted him to the end of the block where officers told him to put his hands up, then checked his pockets and patted him down. He said he had been on the phone with his mother Lori Nolan, who also lives at the home, and she had told him before he left that other neighbors had been evacuated.
Isiah Nolan went to work later that afternoon and said when he returned about 9 p.m., he saw his neighbors' front windows were broken and said the blinds had apparently been burned by tear gas canisters. He said the garage door was also heavily damaged.
"The neighbors' house was pretty torn up," he said. "The garage looked like it exploded."
Lori Nolan said vehicles were passing by the neighborhood in droves Wednesday evening. She suspected people were driving by to see the house where the standoff took place.
Isiah Nolan, who said he is an Eagle Scout, said he thinks residents should prepare themselves "for just about anything" in light of the standoff. He also said he thinks it's important for people to keep their wits about them in situations like the one he faced Tuesday.
"I think the main thing is stay calm, don't panic, do what you need to do to keep yourself safe," he said. "I knew my dad had a shotgun, so I went and got that … and I knew to stay away from that side of the house."
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"My career has been shaped by two start ups- Metricom and Airespace. Both were great and memorable experiences but Airespace was undoubtedly a case study on how you would want a start up to go. Airespace started as a vision at Storm Ventures around wireless in the enterprise and the incubation of four founders in their offices. I was fortunate enough to be one those founders and get to work with the partners of Storm Ventures. Tae Hea Nahm who is a partner at Storm ventures was our founding CEO and provided us key leadership in the early days of the company. While there are many factors to the success of any start-up, one of the key ones is understanding the problem and opportunity. Tae Hea provided the leadership, industry contacts and time necessary to understand the problem and define the product that allowed us to successfully raise money and ultimately deliver the solution that the market was looking for. So while there are many things needed for the success of a start-up, one of the key ones for any founder is correctly defining the solution up front and minimizing any course corrections that would require unplanned fund raising. With Storm's support and Tae Hea's early leadership in the company as CEO and later as a board member, Airespace was a great successful 3 ½ year adventure from defining the solution, fundraising, hiring the development and executive team to ultimately a very successful acquisition by Cisco."
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When Sharon Brown started working with Hispanic patients on diabetes self-management in Starr County, colleagues warned that previous efforts had failed.
After Brown, a professor in the School of Nursing at The University of Texas at Austin, started working in the rural county in the Rio Grande Valley, she realized why.
"They didn't speak the language," she said with a hint of exasperation.
Early efforts in diabetes self-management education programs with Hispanics along the Texas-Mexico border were conducted mostly in English, ignoring the fact that the 95-percent Hispanic population spoke mostly Spanish.
On a deeper level, previous projects ignored important aspects of Hispanic culture when devising diabetes self-management programs.
So Brown set out to do things differently in a series of experiments to find effective ways to educate Hispanics on managing diabetes. She didn't want to change their way of life, just help them live it in a healthier way.
In short, make tortillas, but lay off the lard.
During the past 20-plus years, Brown has pioneered programs that have helped participants reduce complications from diabetes. The programs have been adapted for use along the U.S.-Mexico border and in other parts of the United States.
"Dr. Brown has been a leader in the development and evaluation of culturally relevant programs for Hispanic adults with type 2 diabetes," said Robin Whittemore, an associate professor in the School of Nursing at Yale University who has studied diabetes treatments. "Her work has not only improved access and quality of care for the Latino community in Starr County, but has served as a model for programs around the country."
Converging Trends
The Hispanic population is the fastest growing segment in the United States, and it has one of the highest rates of diabetes. Projections are that Hispanics will make up 40 percent of the U.S. population by 2030, up from 20 percent today.
At the same time, rates of obesity and diabetes are rising throughout the country. Diabetes is the third-fastest-growing chronic disease.
Starr County, in the western Rio Grande Valley, is the third poorest county in the United States, with an average household income of $24,441. Many of its residents live in colonias, makeshift communities without basic services such as running water, sewers and electricity.
The county is designated by the State of Texas as "medically underserved," with ratios of residents to doctors and nurses double and triple the rates of Texas as a whole.
The county also has one of the highest rates of diabetes in the state 50 percent of residents 35 and older either have diabetes or have a close relative who does.
"Our goal, knowing they had little access to health care and few resources, was to determine what we could do to improve their health with what they did have," Brown said. "Because diabetes cuts off six to 10 years of your life."
Diabetes complications start with infections that don't heal, fatigue and vision changes. Higher on the severity spectrum are blindness, amputation of limbs usually feet kidney damage and failure, and death.
Getting Grounded
Brown was introduced to Starr County by Craig Hanis, a geneticist who has conducted diabetes research in the county since the early 1980s. Brown and Hanis have collaborated over the years.
Initially, Brown and her colleagues met with people from the community to hear what they wanted in such a program.
"We spent days just interviewing people, finding out what their experiences were with diabetes, what they thought the problem was, what they thought needed to be done and what they thought we needed to emphasize."
Diabetes management can get complicated quickly. Learning about food exchange lists, counting calories and weighing servings takes a lot of time and effort.
That's something Starr County subjects wanted no part of. They'd gotten a taste of those strategies in previous studies and viewed them as too intrusive.
"They told us they didn't want to live their lives counting and weighing. 'If you can't come up with something better than that, forget it,' " she said.
So Brown devised self-management education programs that were less strict.
For example, instead of using scales to measure how much food they consumed, the participants were encouraged to think of an appropriate portion as the size of their palm.
A New Diet Plan
Adjusting diet was a major part of the programs.
Brown tells of going to a grocery store on one of her early visits to see how people shopped and what they bought.
It was hard not to notice that right inside the store was a pyramid stack of cans of lard. Brown said shoppers took two carts, put cans of lard in one and the rest of their groceries in the other.
"That became one of our main targets," Brown said. "How can they reduce the lard?"
Each education session included a demonstration of cooking healthier versions of Hispanic meals, such as substituting vegetable oil for lard and focusing on portion size.
The participants pressured one another to taste the healthier dishes, fully expecting them to taste terrible.
"Then they'd try stuff and find it's pretty good," Brown said.
The next step was a field trip to the grocery store where the dietician identified healthier foods and showed them how to read labels.
Eventually, Brown said, the grocery stores got involved and provided demonstrations on their own.
Social Support
Brown also designed the programs to tap into the social aspects of Hispanic culture. Although not exactly festive occasions, the sessions enabled the participants to talk about their diabetes and how they dealt with it and then draw support from their classmates.
The sessions were held in the evenings. At times, there were sessions every night of the workweek except Friday, which was reserved for football in the fall. Locations were community gathering places where people would feel comfortable, primarily churches and schools.
The participants enjoyed the social part of it, said Hilda Guerra, the manager of the Rio Grande City field office, who helped organize the sessions.
"People were able to turn to each other for support," she said. "That really helped them stick to their diets and stay with the program."
There was never a problem with recruiting participants for a program of classes or with absenteeism during the course of a program.
Measuring Progress
A key measure of diabetes is called glycosylated hemoglobin, known as HbA1c, which is a reflection of how high blood glucose has been over the past three months. Glucose molecules attach to the hemoglobin in the blood, and that causes eye and kidney damage. The higher the HbA1c, the worse the diabetes.
Brown said the HbA1c levels of program participants at the start of a project were as high as 18 percent.
"The first time we got those results, we reran them all," Brown said. The high levels were confirmed.
The average HbA1c level was 12. A non-diabetic level is less than 7, according to the American Diabetes Association.
The interventions resulted in reducing the average level to 9, a 25 percent decrease.
"For every point reduction, you reduce complications by 25 to 75 percent and extend life six to eight years," Brown said.
The results achieved by Brown's programs were as effective as a common diabetes drug. But the programs' cost was less than $400 per person for a year. The drug's cost at the time was $1,200 a year.
Brown said there is evidence that people can maintain improvements achieved through the classes as long as there is some ongoing contact with them such as checking in by phone.
The initial self-management education sessions were conducted weekly or biweekly for a year. Later, shorter versions were designed to be conducted weekly for two months.
"What we have found is that the typical few hours of instruction when people are diagnosed is not useful," she said. "And that more is better."
More hours, however, are more costly. But it's a reasonable price, Brown said.
"Particularly if you offset it with the decrease in the complications that occur," she said. "It's much more cost effective."
Overall, Brown received more than $7 million in research grants from the National Institutes of Health, the State of Texas and other sources. She and colleagues published more than 60 papers on diabetes interventions.
"The result has been a growing body of evidence about effective strategies to promote health and prevent worsening illness and diabetes complications for Mexican-American and other underserved groups," said Alexandra Garcia, an associate professor in the School of Nursing at The University of Texas at Austin. As a graduate student, Garcia worked with Brown in Starr County.
But the story of Brown's diabetes research projects is about more than numbers. It's about bringing a new health consciousness to a community and developing a supporting environment among those with diabetes.
That was brought home in the last meeting of a yearlong course when a student was uncharacteristically late none of the participants had missed a class.
When the man arrived, he explained that he'd been to his doctor who put him on a different diabetes regimen.
"He was scared to death because now everything's changed and the group is over," Brown said.
Before Brown or an instructor could say anything, members of the class started asking him questions. What exactly did the doctor say? What is the new medication? They compared his answers with what they had learned in the class and their own experiences.
"They problem-solved with him, gave him suggestions," Brown said. "There wasn't anything I had to correct. Everything they were telling him was right. It was amazing to watch."
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In July, Woolworth announced it was closing its 400 remaining five-and-dimes, Montgomery Ward filed for bankruptcy, Apple dismissed the chief executive it had hired with great fanfare 17 months earlier, AT&T hung up on Bob Allen's designated replacement, and the Dow hit 8000. Reading about the Woolworth move on the train one morning, I turned to a friend across the aisle-a trust-and-estates attorney who 20 years ago was pursuing a career in music-to comment on the passing of an American icon. "You know," she said, "it's really becoming an entirely different world than the one we grew up in."
Her words resonated with particular clarity because I've been so entrenched, these last few months, in putting together this 20th anniversary commemorative issue.
Change, after all, is sort of like aging. Unless you avoid looking in the mirror every day, you don't really notice you're not 25 anymore. Unless you steep yourself in clippings from old publications, in thinking and talking about the way things were, you don't really appreciate just how different the world has become-regardless of how often you repeat the phrase "change management."
Consider, for example, the burning issues covered in the following collection of articles dredged out of the library as background for this issue:
In August 1977, Fortune announced that "the basic attractions of overseas investments have vanished." The multinationals, the magazine claimed, were "showing signs of decay."
Continually bested by local competition, they were finding they had nothing new to offer. Those that succeeded did so in a climate where "the world glowers at them ever more menacingly, but has not yet found a way of dispensing with their services." It is obvious, Fortune concluded, "that American business is losing its taste for foreign adventure."
In March 1977, Business Week reported on the Kentucky-based Women and Employment Project, a group that visited companies struggling to diversify their work force. The group performed psychodramas showing how male employees might react to working alongside women. Later in the year, Forbes marveled at the fact that "the tide of women flowing from the home to the office and workshop is relentless" and quoted
Reporting on fear and loathing in an airline industry scared to death by a bipartisan push for deregulation,
Fortune, in August 1977, wrote that the airlines believed deregulation "would be catastrophic," resulting in "less frequent and dependable service, less comfort for passengers, and, eventually, slimmer margins of safety."
Earlier in the year, Fortune had discussed a "new species of highly specialized consulting firms…known in the doublespeak world of consulting as 'out-placement' or 'de-hiring' firms." While corporations that brought in "de-hirers" ultimately saved money when severed employees found new jobs more quickly, they waded in difficult waters "when the chief executive himself is getting the boot."
And Fortune's coverage of new trends in management also included a visit to
Hindsight, of course, is a wonderful tool. But the knowing smiles with which these blasts from the past are inevitably greeted might fade quickly if you transport yourself forward to 2017 and imagine the grins with which your successors might read of today's vexing issues.
Unless, of course, you put all this in the context of making progress. The sturm and drang through which we traveled to create a more diverse, less hierarchical workplace, for example, has, unarguably, changed the complexion of corporate
Though problems still exist, though a new debate on affirmative action is raging, though many women have, in fact, opted out of the maelstrom and charted their own paths, the opportunities are greater, and the workplace is becoming a more balanced, life-friendly place.
But the effect of all this change we've been managing obviously extends far beyond the question of diversity and the search for balance between work and life. It's evident in the global footprints of so many corporations. It's evident in a host of transforming technologies. It's evident in the inability of companies like Woolworth to compete with a growing array of category busters. It's evident in the impatience with which boards greet faltering chief executives. It's evident everywhere, and it's forced all workers, and particularly chief executives, to cast aside all manner of preconceptions.
Mike Cook, chief executive of Deloitte & Touche, may have summed it up best during the roundtable held for this special issue. "I am in a position today," he said, "where I am absolutely dependent on the ability to listen to people who will tell me things that are entirely different from my own personal experience." That, perhaps, is the point of boarding this time machine. The world, and business, have marched on. To avoid being left behind, it's useful to understand where we've been-and where we're heading. To start the tour, turn the page.
Michael Winkleman, Chief Executive's senior vice president for editorial operations and production, is the editor of this commemorative issue.


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By Kimberly Barsamian Kahn
We may be disheartened by the tragic events unfolding in Ferguson, Missouri, after the shooting of unarmed Michael Brown, but we should, sadly, not be surprised. From the shooting death of unarmed Amadou Diallo by NYPD in 1999 to Trayvon Martin's controversial shooting by a citizen neighborhood watch coordinator in 2012, examples abound of violence against unarmed minorities.
Social psychologists, including myself, have studied the effect of race and racial stereotypes on shooting decisions in response to these high profile shootings of minorities. After over a decade of research, researchers know a lot about the phenomenon of "shooter bias." Researchers have created quick-paced simulations in which we can systematically vary the race of individuals and the types of objects they are holding (wallet vs. a gun) and subsequently examine individuals' shooting decisions. Because of racial stereotypes that link minorities with criminality, researchers consistently find that people (both community members and police) are more likely to mistakenly shoot unarmed minorities compared to unarmed Whites. This racially biased response pattern is more likely to happen in dangerous neighborhoods, when people wear stereotypically dangerous clothing, and when minorities have darker, as compared to lighter, skin tone. My research has also shown that this same bias occurs across the range of use of force, from lower force levels to higher levels that peak at deadly force.
While explicit racial bias may have played a role in the events in Ferguson, it is not required for these stereotypes and biases to still affect behavior. Shooter bias is so pernicious because it is primarily caused by implicit bias, which represents stereotypes and bias that occur beneath people's conscious awareness. One may believe they are explicitly not prejudiced, yet still hold these implicit attitudes that can affect behavior.
With the increased understanding of the psychological factors that can lead to shooter bias, there is also momentum aimed at counteracting its effects. Organizations like the Center for Policing Equity pair academic researchers with police departments to study and intervene on race and gender equity issues. There is now a joint plan between academic researchers and police departments across the country to create a national database to study the role of race in police vehicle and pedestrian stops. Empirically based interventions continue to expand in scope and significance.
Ultimately, we must acknowledge that the shooting of Michael Brown and other unarmed minorities is not just a police problem, it is not just a Ferguson problem, but a societal level issue that needs our fullest attention, lest the pattern continues to repeat.
Kimberly Barsamian Kahn, Ph.D. is an assistant professor in Portland State University's department of psychology.


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BAY CITY — Washington Elementary Student Council members took their Valentine's Day message outside the classroom Monday.
The students delivered "Mugs of Love" to elderly residents of Bay Special Care Hospital and Pine Towers in Bay City.
The mugs were full of candy — an idea the student council came up with last year.
Watch the video below to see Washington Elementary's Student Council deliver Mugs of Love to Pine Towers residents:


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GRAND RAPIDS -- The 25-year-old woman faced down Mark Ball -- the man who raped her 11 years ago in her childhood bed with her parents sleeping nearby -- and told him he was a coward and a liar who deserved the highest punishment
Kent County Circuit Judge Mark Trusock agreed Thursday, sentencing the 50-year-old to 40 to 100 years in prison, virtually guaranteeing the child rapist will die behind bars.
"You know what you did to me 11 years ago, yet again like a coward, you clung to the one lie you could come up with, saying I invited you into my parent's house to have consentual sex," the young woman told her attacker.
"Because of your lies, I have had to relive the rape. I had to justify before a room full of strangers why I didn't scream the night of the attack while you sat smug in your chair, too weak to admit the truth and how sick you really are."
The victim, whom the Press does not identify as a matter of policy, testified through several hearings over the past year about how Ball held a knife to her throat and told her that he would rape her mother.
Jurors deliberated for less than an hour last month, prior to declaring Mark Ball guilty of three counts of raping the 13-year-old in the bedroom of her Kentwood home after he broke in during the early morning hours of May 17, 1998.
Ball, 50, was found guilty of first-degree criminal sexual conduct during a home invasion.
Ball was charged with the crime earlier this year, after he provided a DNA sample before his release from prison on an unrelated burglary conviction. The sample was connected via the DNA database to the decade-old sample taken the night of the attack
The rapist gave a rambling statement in which he claimed prison and Jesus Christ had changed him and turned him into a man who hated sin and hated the man he was 11 years ago -- a man he says he no longer is.
"My DNA has been resurrected from the dead to punish me for my crimes," said Ball, who described his behavior in 1998 as demonic and abominable. "My sins and my crimes have brought me to my knees."
But the young woman said she is not at all convinced that he is a new man. She said she went to visit him at the Kent County Jail and he confessed what he did, including scoping out the house for days prior to the rape. He said he got drunk after another young girl spurned his advances and rode his bike over to the house where he raped the child.
"I think if he was let out, he'd do it again," the victim said after the sentencing.
She said knowing he is in prison and knowing she won't have to see Ball again will help her put her life back together and move toward a better future.
"(The sentence) helps, but it doesn't take away what he did to me," she said.
Ball's attorney, Norman Miller, said his client expected a severe sentence and an appeal is unlikely.


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Pittsfield is now without a veterans' agent following the suspension without pay of Rosanne Frieri by Mayor Daniel Bianchi. Mayor Bianchi says the suspension is "work-related" and Ms. Frieri cites disputes within City Hall that may be at the root of the issue. What is most worrisome is that Ms. Frieri didn't make a case for herself because she was uncomfortable meeting with the mayor in his office.
Ms. Frieri told The Eagle's Jim Therrien that on a previous occasion the mayor "started yelling and screaming at me. I said, never again without a third party." Ms. Frieri is not the first person to claim to have experienced the mayor's wrath in his office -- most recently City Councilor Barry Clairmont said he was "dressed down" by the mayor when he was last in his office in City Hall. People will lose their tempers, but in the mayor's case, it appears to be a pattern and a counterproductive one when it comes to governing.
The mayor told The Eagle that there are other veterans' agents within Berkshire County to help with paperwork, but they are not as familiar with the cases as is Ms. Frieri. She is an experienced veteran regarded highly enough to serve as veterans' agent for several other Berkshire towns as an independent contractor. Her concerns about how efficiently the office will run in her absence are likely justified.
Ms. Frieri has been the veterans' agent for seven years, beginning during the tenure of Mayor James Ruberto, and if the two had any disputes, they didn't emerge in public with her suspension.


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Philadelphian rapper Beanie Sigel had a rapidly rising career, beginning with his appearance on one of underground rapper/producer DJ Clue's mix tapes, to his cameos on Jay-Z's Vol. 2: Hard Knock Life, to a consequent solo deal with Roc-A-Fella Records. His distinctive, slightly drawling delivery and his clever but hard-hitting rhymes were showcased on his debut album, 2000's The Truth, which featured contributions from Jay-Z, Memphis Bleek, Eve, and Scarface, and production by the Ruff Ryders' Swizz Beatz and Suave House's Tony Draper. His second album, The Reason, hit the streets in summer 2001, led by the single "Beanie (Mack B****)." Sigel soon launched his State Property line of clothing by announcing his gear would have hidden pockets and gun holsters. Legal problems plagued the rapper in 2003 when he was arrested on Federal weapon and drug charges stemming from a police chase where Sigel allegedly tossed a loaded handgun. He was arrested again in September the same year on attempted murder charges for allegedly shooting a man in the stomach. The attempted murder trial was thrown out of court once already by the beginning of 2005 but was set to be retried while Sigel was pleading guilty to the Federal weapon charges. Preparing for jail, Sigel went into high gear and completed a movie, an album, and five videos to support the new album. The album, The B. Coming, hit the shelves in March of 2005 while the movie, State Property 2, was released in April.
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To the Journal editor:
The 22nd Annual Fishing Derby on the Michigamme River was a safe and huge success thanks again to the many volunteers, supporters and donators.
A special thank you to Dana Maze, who for numerous years, has donated a handmade fishing rod for the successful youth first place walleye winner, what a keepsake.
To everyone who generously gave to the fireworks fund, Roger Crimmins for the purpose of displaying the fireworks from his land, friends and families enjoyed a memorable weekend.
Hope to see you next year and please "Take a kid fishing!"
Charlie Hendrickson, president
Republic Sportsmen Club
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Palisades Medical Center, 7600 River Road, North Bergen, will hold a free seminar on surgical weight loss options on Thursday, Sept. 6. There will be free parking and refreshments. Check-in and registration will begin at 6:30 p.m. and the seminar will take place from 7 to 9 p.m. For information, call Nikki Mederos (201) 854-5704.
Palisades Medical Center, 7600 River Road, North Bergen, will offer one-day sessions on Saturdays from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Saturday and on Sept. 15. Only $125 per couple if delivering at Palisades Medical Center, $150 per couple, if delivering elsewhere. To register or for more information, call Robin Petrick at (201) 295-4823.
A Multicultural Day/Health and Wellness Fair will be held Saturday at 9 a.m. in Chosen Generation Ministries, 145 Hudson St., Newark, where Pastor Darrin Monroe is the senior pastor. There will be AIDS/HIV Education, HIV screening, hypertension screening, diabetes screening, visual evaluation and urological evaluation. There also will be refreshments, live entertainment, praise dancing, vendors, a drama ministry, spoken word, Pastor Candy Dixon. The event will also feature a free concert performance by Anita Wilson singing her hit "Speechless." From 5 to 9 p.m. In case of inclement weather the concert will be moved inside the church at 145 Hudson St., Newark. For information, call (973) 242-4494.
Stephen De Luca, candidate for U.S. House of Representatives, will host a blood drive with the New Jersey Blood Services at the Liberty Science Center Saturday from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Donors will receive a $3 discount for admission to the Liberty Science Center. For information, call (800) 933-2566.
New Jersey Blood Services is conducting blood drives that are open to the public. The following blood drives are scheduled:
Tomorrow, Liberty Science Center, 251 Phillip St., Jersey City, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Wednesday, Aug. 22, Hoboken Public Safety, 106 Hudson St., Hoboken, 6 a.m. to 8 p.m.
Wednesday, Aug. 22, Newport Tower, 525 Washington Blvd., Jersey City, 8:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m.
Thursday, Aug. 30 Hamilton Park Condominiums, 264 9th St., Jersey City, 3 p.m. to 9 p.m.
There will be a Donate Life, Bayonne and Jersey City meeting on Wednesday, Aug. 22 at 6:30 p.m. in Bayonne. Close to 5,000 New Jersey residents are awaiting a life-saving transplant and there are more than 115,000 people on the waiting list in the United States. Those interested in tissue or organ donations contact Alyssa D'Addio at email@example.com or M. Rosenberg at email@example.com. Participants can sign up to be an organ and tissue donor on Facebook on their timeline under health and wellness.
Palisades Medical Center will hold their 6th annual Casino Night on Thursday, Aug. 23 from 6 to 7 p.m. Gambling will take place from 7 to 10:30 p.m., followed by the drawing of a super 50/50 and other raffle prizes. Casino Night admission is $100 per person and includes a buffet dinner (beer, wine and soda) and $150 in casino chips for guests to try their luck at Blackjack, Texas Hold 'Em, Poker, Craps, Roulette and more. Additional chips may be purchased throughout the evening, and guests redeem chips at the end of the event for raffle prize tickets. For tickets or more information, call Denise Whitley at (201) 854-5011 or visit or visit www.palisadesmedicalfoundation.org.
The Meadowlands Hospital Medical center will host a free stroke prevention seminar on Friday, Aug. 24, at 9 a.m. in the Meadowlands Hospital Medical Center Cafeteria, 55 Meadowlands Pkwy., Secaucus. Antwan Ahad, M.D., will lead the seminar. Registration must be completed by Thursday, Aug. 23. To register and for more information call Carly Cricco at (201) 392-3221.
Palisades Medical Center in North Bergen will offer maternity classes. Mommy and Baby Care Group is a class for new mothers with babies ages 2 to 16 weeks that meets Thursdays from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. No registration is required for this class. A Sibling Preparation for Birth Class and Pizza Party for ages 3 and up will meet from 5:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. on Friday. To register or for more information, call Robin Petrick at (201) 295-4823.
Jersey City Medical Center, 355 Grand St., Jersey City, will offer three one-day sessions from 6 to 8 p.m. on Wednesday, Aug. 22 and Thursday, Sept. 20. Registration must be completed prior to class, $25 per couple. To register or for more information, call April Major at (201) 521-5900.
Jersey City Medical Center, 355 Grand St., Jersey City, and United Healthcare will present a free one-day community education session on Medicare and navigating its options on Wednesday from 5:30 to 6:30 p.m. in the lobby cafeteria at the JCMC. For more information visit www.medicare.gov.
The Palisades Medical Center, 7600 River Road, North Bergen, will hold the following events:
Newborn Baby Care Classes: Classes will take place on Wednesday from 7 to 9 p.m. and Wednesday, Sept. 19 from 7 to 9 p.m. Cost is $25 per couple if delivering at PMC; $50 if delivering elsewhere. The basics of newborn care, starting with the appearance and characteristics of a newborn. Other topics include: bonding, understanding cues, crying, colic, safety measures, health and development, sponge bathing and bathing. We practice swaddling, dressing, and diapering.
Friends & Family CPR: A three-hour course that teaches adult, child and baby CPR and choking relief. The class will take place on Saturday, Sept. 22, from 9 a.m. to noon. $25 per person.
Keys to Successful Breastfeeding: The classes will take place on Saturday and Monday, Sept. 17. Cost is $35 per couple if delivering at PMC; $50 if delivering elsewhere. Topics include: the importance of skin-to-skin contact, latching techniques, supply and demand as it relates to breastfeeding, positioning for breastfeeding, indications for breast pumps, including a demo, Dad's role in the breastfeeding relationship, and community resources available post delivery for breastfeeding assistance. Dads are encouraged to attend.
Sibling Prep Pizza Party: A preparatory course for children ages 3 and up who are expecting a new sibling. Saturday from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. $10 per child.
To register or for more information call Robin Petrick at (201) 295-4823 or visit www.palisadesmedical.org
The Northeast Regional Epilepsy Group, Jersey City Medical Center and the Epilepsy Foundation of New Jersey will co-sponsor the second annual Epilepsy Conference on Saturday, Sept. 22. The half-day conference is free to the public and will be held at Jersey City Medical Center, 355 Grand St., Jersey City. A series of experts will present seminars on the causes, treatments and symptoms of epilepsy. The conference begins at 8:30 a.m. with registration and a free breakfast. The program will run from 9 a.m. to noon. To pre-register or for information call (914) 428-9213 (option 6) or email email@example.com.
The Alzheimer's Association Walk to End Alzheimer's takes place on Saturday, Sept. 22, at Liberty State Park, 1 Audrey Zapp Dr., Jersey City at 9 a.m. Nearly 2,000 people from the Hudson County area will help to raise awareness and funds to fight Alzheimer's disease. Walk to End Alzheimer's participants, in addition to walking a three-mile route, will learn more about Alzheimer's disease, advocacy opportunities, clinical trial enrollment along with support programs and services of the Alzheimer's Association. Participants can start or join a team today at alz.org/walk or by calling (201) 261-6009.
Hoboken University Medical Center, 308 Willow Ave., will offer a newborn care workshop, on Tuesdays, from 6:30 to 9:30 p.m. and a weekend workshop on Sundays, from 9:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Cost $25 for couples delivering at HUMC, $35 per couple delivering at other facilities. To register, dates or for more information, call the Childbirth Education Office at (201) 418-1015. If you need information in Spanish, call (201) 418-2021.
Hoboken University Medical Center, 308 Willow Ave., will offer "Breastfeeding made simple for Moms" who want to breastfeed their babies. Workshop are on Tuesdays from 6:30 to 9:30 p.m., and a weekend workshop on Sundays from 2:30 to 5:30 p.m.. Cost $25 for couples delivering at HUMC, $35 per couple delivering at other facilities. To register, dates or for more information, call the Childbirth Education Office at (201) 418-1015. If you need information in Spanish, call (201) 418-2021.
Classes in rare traditional Chinese health exercises are being offered every Wednesday at 7:30 p.m. at St. Paul's Episcopal Church, 38 Duncan Ave., Jersey City. Cost is $100 per month plus annual membership fee. For information, call (212) 330-8327 or visit www.dayanqigong.com.
The Centro Romeu Cascaes Portuguese American Community Center, 308 William St., Harrison will resume regular zumba classes on Mondays and Thursdays and zumba toning class on Wednesdays. The one hour class starts at 7:30 p.m. For more information or to register, call Maria Marieiro at (201) 401-0826 or e-mail firstname.lastname@example.com.
Jersey City Medical Center's "I Quit Smoking" program is designed to help smokers quit featuring an intense assessment of each patient's tobacco addiction and a look at why treatment has proven ineffective in the past. The program is located on the second floor of the hospital, 355 Grand St., Jersey City. For more information or to make an appointment for a consultation, call 1-800-45-SMOKE (76653).
The Ostomy Alliance of Jersey City will offer free assistance, guidance and support for those who have undergone a bowel or bladder ostomy. Meetings are held on the first Monday of every month from 4 p.m. to 6 p.m. in room 9 at Jersey City Medical Center, 355 Grand St., Jersey City. Membership is open to those who have undergone one or more surgeries. For more information, contact Larry Pilarski at (201) 339-5251.
Free eye screenings by an ophthalmologist are available on the second Monday of every month. To arrange an appointment, call the Visiting Homemaker Service at (201) 656-6001 and ask for the SCILS program.
Jersey City Medical Center, 355 Grand St., meets the third Tuesday of the month at 6:30 p.m. Call Lisa Nathari at (201) 499-3883 or Rachel Bogom at (201) 915-2041.
Secaucus Library, 1379 Paterson Plank Road, meets the first Monday of the month at 7 p.m. Call Louise Munsch or Eydie Shapiro at (201) 340-2238. September's meeting will be on Monday, Sept. 10, due to Labor Day.
Bayonne Medical Center is the only hospital in Hudson County offering a complete Bariatric Surgical Program with monthly support group meetings. The weight loss support group meetings will be held every fourth Tuesday of the month from 6 p.m. to 7 p.m. at Bayonne Medical Center, 29 East 29th St., in the main lobby. Topics include body image, relationships and social situations, health snacking, staying active and on track and family meals and much more. The meeting is free and all are welcome to attend. For more information, contact (201) 858-5393, (201) 858-5297 or 877-618-THIN to register.
Five Corners, 678 Newark Ave., Jersey City, will offer the Kinship Caregiver Support Group in conjunction with the Kinship Navigator Program on the third Wednesday of every month from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. in the Conference Room. Kinship caregivers are people who have taken on the responsibility of caring for their relatives' children. These children might be the caregiver's siblings, nieces, nephews, or, most often, grandchildren. The program is free. For more information, call the branch library at (201) 547-4543.
The Bayonne Public Library hosts a free Healthy Bones exercise program at 10 a.m. Mondays in the upstairs gallery of the main library, Avenue C and 31st Street. Call (201) 436-1928 for more information.
Christ Hospital in Jersey City holds a therapeutic group for seniors dealing with issues related to aging including anxiety, depression, bereavement, loss, loneliness, socialization, physical and medical issues, elder abuse and grandparenting on Tuesdays from 10:30 a.m. to 11:45 a.m. For more information or to register, call (201) 795-8416.
The Jersey City Medical Center offers a free support group for individuals coping with the loss of a family member or close friend. Meetings are held the third Wednesday of every month from 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. Social workers will facilitate. The group meets in Conference Room 5 in the lobby of Jersey City Medical Center, 355 Grand St. Call (201) 915-2058 or (201) 915-2897 for information.
Women affected by perinatal mood disorders can contact the Hudson Perinatal Consortium at (201) 876-8900 for information. The New Jersey Department of Health and Senior Services provides a statewide perinatal mood disorder helpline at (800) 328-3838, 24 hours a day, seven days a week to answer questions and provide information on available resources, as well as a comprehensive informational website at njspeakup.gov.
The New Jersey Department of Health and Human Services is offering three services to help residents quit smoking:
New Jersey Quitline 1-866-NJ-STOPS is a free, telephone-based counseling and referral service, available six days a week in 26 different languages.
New Jersey QuitNet nj.quitnet.com is a free, online information, counseling and referral service to help people break the control of nicotine, available 24 hours a day, six days a week.
Quit 2 Win Individuals trying to quit, physicians seeking referral information for patients and employers wanting to help their employees take the first steps to quitting, can find all information on the states comprehensive Quit Services Web site, njquit2win.com.
The NJA of Family Support Organizations-Hudson County is offering free support, education and advocacy to parents and caregivers of children with behavioral, emotional and/or mental health challenges in the community. NJA of Family Support Organizations-Hudson County has a wealth of knowledge, programs and resources for families, including support groups. Groups for bilingual and Spanish speaking families are every Thursday from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. All parents are welcome to come every Friday from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Both are at 895 Bergen Ave., Suite 300 in Jersey City. In addition, there is a father/male caregiver group on Wednesdays from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. at the Urban League of Hudson County at 253 Martin Luther King Dr., Jersey City. For information, call Paula Hollenback (201) 915-5140.
The Senior Community Independent Living Services program provides free services to visually impaired and blind seniors to make them more independent, enhance confidence in their abilities and decrease the likelihood of them having to enter a nursing home. If you or someone you know has a visual impairment and wants to maintain his/her independence at home and outdoors, or if you would like to volunteer two hours a week to assist a visually impaired senior, call (201) 795-1317.
HEALTH NOTES is published each Tuesday in The Jersey Journal. If you have an announcement you would like included, send it to LOIS DiTOMMASO, The Jersey Journal, 30 Journal Square, Jersey City, 07306. You may also FAX it to (201) 653-1414, or you may e-mail it to firstname.lastname@example.com.


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About 1:30 in the morning on April 15, 2008 our dogs started barking like crazy. We got up to find this black bear had knocked the bottom of the bird feader and was lying on the ground, enjoying his trophy breakfast. After a couple of pictures, he slowly got up and walked away, clearly irratated by the flash of the camera.
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Only surface water plant in Carter County opens
CARTER COUNTY, Tn. - An area that once didn't have enough water, now does.
A ribbon-cutting ceremony Friday celebrated the opening of a new surface water plant in Carter County.
The plant finally opened after tough times with financing. It had to sell $8.5 million of municipal bonds, and the city of Elizabethton gave a capital contribution of $5 million.
Bryon Trantham, director of the Watauga Regional Water Authority, says the plant will serve plenty of Carter County residents.
"It's the only surface water plant in the entire county, and it has the capabilities of producing 2 million gallons of water a day with a footprint in place to produce 4 million gallons a day. With a little bit of engineering, we can go to 8 million gallons a day."
Trantham says he hopes the plant will one day supply enough water for all of Carter County.