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TORONTO - H&R Real Estate Investment Trust (TSX:HR.UN) plans to acquire Primaris Retail REIT (TSX:(PMZ.UN) in a cash and stock deal that tops an earlier offer by consortium led by KingSett Capital.
Terms of the transaction, announced Wednesday night, would allow Primaris unitholders to choose either $28 in cash or 1.13 stapled unites of H&R for each unit held. Primaris has just under 98 million units.
The KingSett-led group had offered $26 per unit in a hostile bid set to expire Thursday that Primaris had rejected, saying it undervalued the company's assets.
Primaris owns 35 properties across Canada, including shopping centres in Alberta, Manitoba, Quebec and Ontario comprising some 14.7 million square feet.
The cash component of the H&R offer is subject to a limit of $700 million, which H&R says would amount to about 25 per cent of the total consideration.
In the event that Primaris unitholders elect more cash than is available, the cash consideration will be pro rated among those unitholders electing cash, the announcement said.
The cash price represents a 22 per cent premium over the $22.95 volume weighted average price of Primaris units for the 20 trading days up to Dec. 4, the day before KingSett Capital announced its hostile bid for Primaris.
The full proration price of $27.33 represents a 19.1 per cent premium over the same reference price. If the maximum cash is elected, Primaris unitholders will own approximately 30 per cent of the combined REIT.
The proposed transaction, expected to close by late March, is subject to approval by holders of two thirds of Primaris units and by a 50.1 per cent majority of H&R units.
Under the arrangement agreement, H&R is entitled to an effective $106.6 million break fee in certain circumstances, including the acceptance by Primaris of an unsolicited superior proposal from a third party.
The break fee is structured as a cash payment of $70 million and an option to acquire Dufferin Mall and certain Yonge Street properties in Toronto owned by Primaris, priced at an aggregate $36.6 million discount to the appraised values of the properties.
H&R has also been granted other typical deal protection provisions including a right to match any superior proposal that is received by Primaris on an unsolicited basis.
"This is a unique opportunity to acquire an irreplaceable and much sought-after enclosed shopping centre portfolio," H&R CEO Tom Hofstedter said in a release.
"It permits us to expand into a new and exciting asset class in Canada with an existing infrastructure having an experienced and dedicated professional team," Hofstedter said.
He added that H&R was also "excited to be able to participate in the U.S. retail expansion into Canada, with Target set to open in 10 Primaris shopping centres within the next few months."
"This will undoubtedly lead to increased traffic and sales within the Primaris portfolio and ultimately result in an increase in value to our combined unitholders."
H&R owns a North American portfolio of 42 office, 115 industrial and 138 retail properties comprising more than 45 million square feet and two development projects with a fair value of approximately $10 billion.
On the Toronto Stock Exchange, Primaris units closed down four cents at $26.51 on Wednesday, while H&R units closed down 11 cents at $23.79.


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Elkins Post 29 captures 6-2 win over Morgantown
Elkins Post 29 evened its record to 16-16 on the season with a 6-2 win over Morgantown Thursday night under soggy conditions at Robin Harvey Memorial Field.
Cody Gainer started on the mound for Post 29 and did not allow a hit in the first and second innings. Gainer did walk the bases full in the top of the first but the defense clamped down and Morgantown came away empty.
In the bottom of the first, Morgantown's Albi Eddy retired the first two Elkins batters he faced. Brennan Dettinger then laid down an infield single and Colby Gainer hit an RBI double to right for the game's first score.
Cody Gainer faced the top of the order for Morgantown in the third and put out the first batter. Jimmy Galuski then smacked a double and took third base on a wild pitch. He tagged up and scored on a Conner Leone flyout to center.
After plating its first run, Post 2 had three consecutive batters reach base, including a double by Travis Renner. Gainer got out of the jam by forcing a high flyout to end the threat.
Elkins scored two more runs in the bottom of the fourth. Colby Gainer started with a single and Cody Gainer was issued a walk. After being sacrificed over by Doug Smith, Garrett Riggleman belted a single to center that brought both Gainers home.
Post 2 scored its second run of the night in the fifth during a bad stretch for Cody Gainer. After retiring the first batter, he gave up a double to Connor Leone. After a walk and a wild pitch put runners at second and third, a strikeout followed but after granting two passes, Leone walked in for the score.
Post 29 responded though in dramatic fashion in the bottom of the frame. After a walk issued to Tyler Shreve, Colby Gainer hit the second pitch he saw over the left-field wall for a two-run homer.
Elkins notched another run in the home half of the seventh inning when Smith singled in Dettinger.
Tyler Scott entered the game in the sixth inning to relieve Cody Gainer on the mound for Elkins and held the visitors to no runs and no hits the rest of the way. Scott struck out three and walked one in earning the save.
Cody Gainer earned the win in five innings of action.
He allowed two runs on three hits, struck out three and walked eight.
Eddy took the loss for Morgantown as he gave up six runs on six hits, fanned three and walked six.
"We played good defense tonight along with getting good pitching performances, despite the wet conditions, from Cody and Tyler," Elkins general manager Chris George said. "Along with our timely hitting, including Colby's homer, it was a total effort tonight."
Post 29 will host Romney at 2 p.m. Saturday for a doubleheader at Robin Harvey Memorial Field.
Elkins will then entertain South Charleston Post 94 for a pair of games at 2 p.m. on Sunday also at Robin Harvey Memorial Field.


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Research interests: Youth Culture; Canadian YA/Children's Literature; History and Theory of the Bildungsroman and Bildung Aesthetics; Narrative Ethics; Gender
Selected Publications:
Journal Articles
"Breaking the Narrative Ties that Bind in Shyam Selvadurai's Funny Boy." English Studies in Canada. Special issue, "Childhood and its Discontents" 38.3 (Fall 2013).
""A Badly Brought up Member of the Family:" Early Adolescence as Narrative Rupture in Munro's The Lives of Girls and Women." Girlhood Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal. 5:2 (2012): 9-23.
Troping the Primitive: The Rhetoric of Socialization in Novels of Education and Educational Theory"
Review of Education, Pedagogy and Cultural Studies. 34.5 (2012): 282-295.
"A Family from a Continent of I don't Know What:' Refiguring Ways of Belonging in Coming-of-Age
Novels for Young Adults." The ALAN Review 38.2 (2011): 23-31
Grotesque Encounters with Adolescence: Reading Carson McCullers A Member of the Wedding.
Changing English: Studies in Culture and Education. 18.1 (2011): 67-73.
"The Angst of the Everyday: Using Narrative to Provoke an Affective Understanding of Adolescence." Narrative Works: Issues, Investigations and Interventions. 2.1 (2011):20-32.
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The Cult of Solitude: Wordsworths Child Figure In British and Canadian Contexts. In Lance Weldy, ed. Crossing Textual Boundaries in International Children's Literature. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Press, 2011. 344-360.
Edited Collections
Assistant Editor. Art, Literature and Place: An Ecopoetics Reader. Rishma Dunlop, ed. Special Edition of The Canadian Journal of Environmental Education, 31 (2): 2008. http://cjee.lakeheadu.ca
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"'Obvie, We're the Ladies!:' Post-feminism, Privilege and HBO's Newest Girls." Feminist Media Studies. 13: 2 (2013): 363-66.
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My 17 month old nurses constantly. As I said in an earlier post, left to his own, he would nurse at least every hour - and that includes through the night! We share a family bed so I haven't had that much trouble nursing him, but it just doesn't seem to be getting any better. He doesn't each much solid food. In fact, a few weeks ago he woke up in the middle of the night and asked for food, which was shocking in itself - but when he took a bite of soft bread and swallowed it, he arched his back and screamed and wouldn't eat any more. We immediately took him to an ENT and a gastro specialist. He had a scan of his throat and nothing is wrong. The doctors seem to think he just doesn't like the texture of most foods and that he just enjoys nursing more.
Well, I deeply support the philosophy of nursing and the family bed and being there for my son, but I'm not functioning well at work and I'm having trouble stringing sentences together (thank goodness I can edit here). I don't want to push him away, but I do need to sleep at night. I also don't want to give up nursing completely - its such a beautiful, intimate moment.
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Ohio agriculture officials have set a first-ever quarantine around a southwestern Ohio county in an attempt to keep a deadly walnut-tree disease from spreading.
Stakes are high for Ohio's forestry industry. State forestry officials estimate the value of black walnut at about $1.2 billion and rank the state No. 3 in the nation for overall black walnut inventory.
The Ohio Department of Agriculture first confirmed the presence of thousand cankers disease in Butler County walnut trees in August. That came after insects known to carry the fungus that causes the disease, walnut twig beetles, were found in traps there in late 2012 and again in June.
The quarantine prohibits moving live walnut trees, lumber and wood out of the county. The agency followed a months-long public rule-making process to enact the quarantine, which takes effect on Thursday.
Erica Hawkins, an Agriculture spokeswoman, said the agency lacks an emergency declaration from the governor's office to declare a thousand-cankers quarantine on its own. The agency had such powers to try to slow the spread of emerald ash borers.
"They haven't been found anywhere other than Butler County at this point," Hawkins said of the beetles.
Emerald ash borers, which kill ash trees, quickly spread throughout the state despite quarantines and have been found in 72 of Ohio's 88 counties. It's not clear how fast thousand cankers might spread.
Walnut twig beetles move from tree to tree, carrying the fungus. When they tunnel into tree trunks and branches, the fungus creates cankers that spread and cut off a tree's water flow and nutrients.
Symptoms of the disease — thinning crowns; yellow, wilted leaves; and dead limbs — are most visible in summer months. There is no known treatment, and mature walnut trees typically die two to three years after they are infected.
Besides Ohio, the disease has been confirmed in 13 other states, including Pennsylvania and Virginia. In September 2012, the agency established a statewide quarantine intended to prohibit shipments of walnut lumber from infested states.
"It's a very valuable tree for high-quality veneer furniture wood," said Stephen Montgomery, the Ohio Nature Conservancy's Appalachian forests project manager.
Tom Macy, a forest-health forester for the Ohio Department of Natural Resources, called the disease "a major, major concern" for Ohio's forestry industry.
"A huge thing that we want to get out there is for people not to move wood around, even if you are in a county that does not have the pests," Macy said. "If you burn wood, burn wood that you got locally."


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In the face of a Congressional stalemate and a federal government shutdown, the Cochecton Town Board at its October 9 monthly meeting pressed on with town business.
The first order of business was opening the only sealed bid that was received for a 12-inch wood chipper. Highway Superintendent Kevin Esselman's initial request for purchase of a wood chipper, made during clean-up from Hurricane Sandy damage, had been tabled for several months because bids received on 18-inch and 15-inch chippers were considered by the board to be prohibitive in cost.
The town's need of a chipper was never in question. It was the size most appropriate for town highway needs that was debated among board members and Esselman, with Esselman urging purchase of a chipper capable of handling the largest mature pine tree damage.
Even though the bid for the 12-inch chipper was higher than the board would have liked, it was accepted unanimously (minus councilperson Anna Story, absent due to illness). When town supervisor Gary Maas opened the floor to public comment on the evening's agenda, councilperson candidate Joan Glase thanked the board for choosing the most frugal option.
Tax collector Eileen Hennessy reported that implementation of software that will permit credit card payment of tax bills is going forward. She explained that this will be accomplished at no cost to the town and that ongoing software support will also be provided free of charge.
Hennessy made clear that the service charge associated with each credit card payment will be incurred by the taxpayer and is calculated as a percentage of the payment amount.
Therefore, the higher the payment, the higher the service charge. And Hennessy mentioned that there is an additional "convenience fee," also paid by the taxpayer, that will be awarded to the town. Maas questioned the necessity of the convenience fee, remarking that he saw no reason for the town to derive monetary benefit from making the tax collection process more user-friendly. He will explore that issue further with the software manufacturer.
While announcing town revenue figures for the month, Maas revealed that the town had realized its first significant savings from the new remote banking deposit software, installed at no cost to the town.
In the past, the relatively high revenues would have meant several costly trips to the bank to make deposits. But the new software permits deposits to be made directly from town hall, thereby saving mileage allowances.
During Cochecton Youth Commission (CYC) liaison Ed Grund's report on the group's monthly activities, reflecting large turnouts for scheduled events, CYC board member Hennessy interjected that sustained high interest in commission events has prompted the board to plan more ambitious outings in the future.
Trips to New York City to attend the theatre and other cultural and entertainment events are in the works, as are trips to Binghamton for ice hockey games.
Upper Delaware Council (UDC) liaison Larry Richardson's report on the last meeting of the council included its decision to suspend its operations on October 25 and place its staff on unpaid furlough for the duration of the government shutdown.
Until the UDC resumes operations, Richardson will forego the $100 monthly stipend he receives from the town for his liaison duties.
Maas recessed the meeting until 7 p.m. on October 27, when the board will meet for a 2014 budget workshop session and will work with acting town attorney Karen Mannino to draft several legal documents, including a shared services agreement with nearby towns.


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The nightgowns fail to meet federal flammability standards for children's sleepwear, posing a risk of burn injuries to children.
Babycottons toll-free at (855) 922-2437 from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. ET Monday through Friday or online at www.babycottons.com and click on the Product Recall link on the bottom of the page for more information.
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This recall involves Babycottons children's 100% cotton nightgowns sold in sizes 24 months through toddler size 6. The nightgowns were sold in six prints including Alphabet (style 1413W245), BC Flowers (style 1413S220), Fairies (style 1413W125), Fairies Dots (style 1413W127), Mei Mei (style 1413S200) and Summertime (style 1413S190). The style numbers are printed on a hangtag attached to the garments. The white Alphabet gown has long sleeves with an alphabet print and image of an item beginning with that letter. The white and peach BC Flowers gown has the initials "BC" printed in the middle of the chest with a flower vines print. The white Fairies gown has long sleeves white pink fairies. The Fairies Dots gown has long sleeves with a white polka dot and solid pink background and a fairy applique in the center with a white ribbon. The white and pink polka dots Mei Mei gown has short sleeve with two girls printed on the center of the chest. The white Summertime gown has short sleeves with girls swimming in a coral and fish print. All of the gowns have ruffles on the sleeves, neck or bottom.
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Consumers should immediately take the recalled nightgowns away from children and return to Babycottons for a full refund.
Babycottons boutiques nationwide from February 2013 through July 2013 for $48.
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Frank Schwemmer's Treasure Island youth opera in Zürich
(February 2013)
Frank Schwemmer's success at creating new operas for young people that appeal across the age divide, from children through teenagers to parents, continued with the world premiere in Zürich in November of Die Schatzinsel based on Robert Louis Stevenson's classic Treasure Island, with a libretto by Michael Frowin. This was the first youth opera commissioned by Andreas Homoki, Zürich's new director, and as noted in the Neue Zürcher Zeitung he "demonstrated that you can appeal to the youngest audiences with themes and novelties appropriate to their age. And the fact that this doesn't merely rely on high-tech, computer games and Harry Potter fantasy can do no harm."
"Schwemmer's music is entirely at the service of the story and the text: strongly pointed towards a dramatic interplay of instrumental colours, it accompanies the stage events and in the quieter moments can lead directly to nightmarish and atmospheric painting, with harmonics on the strings and stormy noises in the woodwinds… The opera's success is that it communicates to the young audience without either cloying cuteness or wagging fingers."
Neue Zürcher Zeitung
A second production of Treasure Island opens at the Theater Erfurt in May. Robin Hood, Schwemmer's earlier youth opera, commissioned by Homoki when director of the Komische Oper in Berlin, continues to travel widely. With over 70 performances to date it has received further productions for Deutsche Oper am Rhein and in Karlsruhe, and Oslo plays host to its Norwegian premiere in the original staging in March.
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REGION — With sequestration, or across-the-board spending cuts now the law of the land, at least for the time being, federal entities of all stripes are being asked to make due with less. For the National Park Service (NPS), that means cutting the budget by 5%. For the Upper Delaware Scenic and Recreational River, that works out to about $164,000 for the remainder of this year.
NPS Superintendent Sean McGuiness said he will not be filling the position of facility manager, which is vacant due to a recent retirement. Additionally, three seasonal positions will not be filled this year: a law enforcement position, an interpretive employee who would lead walks and make presentations, and a maintenance employee who makes sure the trash is collected and the lawn is mown.
Because of the timing of the sequestration, the 5% cut must be absorbed over seven months as opposed to a full year. Because NPS funds the Upper Delaware Council, sequestration also means a cut to that budget of about $15,000.
Nationwide, NPS is looking at a loss of $85 billion. On a conference call with reporters on February 22, Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar said the cuts, if they hold, will mean "reduced hours of operation for visitors centers, shorter seasons, closing of campgrounds, hiking trails and other recreational areas when there is insufficient staff to ensure the protection of visitors, the staff and resources."
Other impacts
Lawmakers must vote on a continuing resolution before March 27 to allow the federal government to keep functioning. It's not clear if they will restore funds to various parts of the budget in that process, and, if they don't, cuts are expected in a wide range of programs that receive federal support. Some examples follow:
• Vaccine programs for children will be cut. In Pennsylvania, some 5,280 fewer children will receive vaccines for such illnesses as mumps and measles. In New York, the number would be 7,170.
• Low-income children would also be pushed out of Head Start programs. In New York, the number would be 4,300; in Pennsylvania, 2,300 children would be affected.
• Federal funds that help pay for meals for seniors will be cut. In Pennsylvania, the amount will be $849,000; in New York, the amount is $1.45 million.
• Federal funds used to prevent pollution from hazardous waste and pesticides and ensure clean water and good air quality will be cut. In Pennsylvania, the cut will be $5.7 million; in New York, the figure is $12.9 million.
• Federal funds meant to help states respond to public health threats such as infectious diseases and natural disasters will be cut. In Pennsylvania, the amount is about $1.2 million; in New York, it is $1.1 million.
• Funds targeted to the treatment of drug addiction will be cut. In Pennsylvania, the cut will result in 3,500 fewer admissions into rehabilitation programs; in New York, it will mean 6,000 fewer admissions.
• New York will lose about $42.7 million to be spent on education, which might mean the loss of 600 teachers and teacher aides. In Pennsylvania, the amount of funding to be cut is $26.4 million, and the number of teaching jobs is about 360.


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"When You Are Ten…"
"…you know more about your team than you ever will know again." – Dan Shaughnessy
This past week has seen me really take a deep look back to those salad days of my Phillies Phandom. My day of baseball at the Phillies' home opener was filled with wonderful recollections of those trips to Veterans Stadium to see my favorite team play my favorite sport. Later in the week, the third anniversary of the passing of Harry Kalas came and went, once again making me recall the magic of my youth and my passion for the Phillies.
To drive the point home, a few pieces of personal memorabilia have come in to my possession.
But before I get those items, I must bring your attention to a fellow photographer who sent along to me a blog post he published three years ago on the day Harry Kalas was taken away from us. From his website, Jerseystyle Photography:
"Back in 1989, the Phillies flat-out stunk. Stunk so bad I don't even want to remember. I was 19, as was my buddy Jim, and we both thought we were going to take the sportswriting nation by storm. We'd listen and agonize over the Nonphightin' Phils that summer. At some point, we thought 'Hey, they should let us do an inning or two. Break up the monontany.' So we drafted a letter to Harry and Ritchie and sent it off, never thinking twice. Little did we expect to receive a personalized response from The Voice himself. Complete with edit marks (this was WAY before email). An actual letter, polite and classy, back to a couple of dumb college freshman. That's what endures – Harry's class."
This is why we will always love HK.
About a month ago, my friend Tom, who I attended the home opener with, sent to me all the newspapers he collected on April 18, 1987, the day Michael Jack Schmidt cemented his place in the Hall of Fame when he parked a Don Robinson pitch over the left field wall in Pittsburgh for his 500th career home run.
The sight of the Philadelphia Inquirer's special section about Schmidt's life in baseball created a wave of emotion and nostalgia. As an 11-year old, I poured over that inset, digesting all the pictures, stories, and statistics about my baseball hero. I must have looked at it at least 10,000 times. And then noticing that this year marks the 25th anniversary of that blast, another realization of how the years are flying hit me.
But then Tom took it the next level. At the opener, we talked about our first Phillies games. The sights. The smells.
To this day, this is all I remember: It was a Sunday game. I went with my first Little League team. My dad, unfortunately, was not with me. We sat somewhere between the 500 and 700 level, on the first base side. Larry Christenson pitched. That's it.
Tom went home and immediately found the game on Baseball Reference.
The very next day, he sent me another email. We discovered that we actually both attended Game 4 of the 1993 World Series, and may have sat very close to each other in the high-altitude reaches of the 700 level in right field. In his search for his stub, he stumbled upon another ticket from 1982.
The same game. My first game. 30 years ago.
He was not in attendance. He had traded with another person to get this random game ticket. He popped it in the mail the very next day.
I will forever be in debt.
All of these artifacts could pique the interest of collectors and Phillies Phans. I don't know what these yellowing pieces of paper hold in terms of dollars and cents.
It's impossible to monetize.
That's the way it should be.


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Western Music professor, Dr. John Wacker, died in a vehicle crash on May 11.
The Western State Colorado University community is incredibly saddened by the tragic loss of Dr. John Wacker. John was a mentor, role model and friend to students, faculty and community members throughout the Gunnison Valley. He instilled a love of music and an ethic of hard work in students and friends alike. Our hearts and thoughts are with his family.
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Skip to comments.Fox News cost Mitt the debate [conservatives trapped in closed information feedback loop]
Posted on 10/21/2012 2:04:30 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
Romney stumbled on Libya because the GOP is reliant on a right-wing media machine that has no ideas, just scandals
Why did Mitt Romney embarrass himself on Libya in this weeks debate? One possibility: Because he, and the Republican Party in general, have opened up an alarming policy deficit between themselves and Barack Obama and the Democrats.
What I mean by that is that Romney, Republicans and conservatives have, in case after case, simply given up on crafting viable public policy. That wasnt always the case. When Ronald Reagan took office, conservative think tanks were ready with a host of ideas for transforming what government did and the way it did it. As recently as the 2000 campaign, George W. Bush campaigned on, for example, No Child Left Behind and a faith-based initiative. Does Romney have anything similar hes talking about during this campaign? Not that Ive heard.
What hes substituted for policy is scandal, on the one hand, and symbolism, on the other.
Republicans reliance on a scandal framework is most obvious in their attacks on Barack Obama. The stimulus is reduced in this point of view to Solyndra. Energy? One pipeline to Canada.
Most of the time, theres almost no real attempt to construct an argument against actual policies, to treat government programs proposed by the president as policies that one might agree or disagree with. Thats not always true a lot of the arguments against the Affordable Care Act, and some of the case against the stimulus, really were policy-based. But more often Republicans have tried to frame their attacks around scandal.
The other frame theyve used, especially on foreign policy and national security, is pure symbolism. Often, as Paul Waldman pointed out this week, thats reduced down to the level of individual words. Its bad to apologize. Its important to speak up for Iranian protesters.
Its imperative to never, ever disagree with Israel. And Waldman missed the big one: Its absolutely critical that the president always, always, no matter what, and in every possible way, refer to the United States as exceptional. Dont forget: Many of the present generation of Republicans were trained by Newt Gingrich and Frank Luntz to believe in the power of certain words. They may sincerely believe that public policy really does only consist of finding the words that will force opponents to fear them and allies to be comforted.
And so, scandal and symbolism became a trap that turned the disaster in Benghazi from an opportunity to score points for Mitt Romney into a fiasco.
How? First, because instead of questioning the policies including the initial intervention that brought the Obama administration to the death of an ambassador, the immediate instinct of the Romney Republicans was to turn it into scandal. A coverup! Barack Obama and the State Department said one thing in the immediate aftermath, but some of those things turned out to be wrong. Now, a less scandal-obsessed party might have either moved quickly past that seemingly unimportant discrepancy and focused on how the problem happened in the first place, or investigated whether initial chaos was a sign of mismanagement. But neither of those fits the scandal frame as well.
Meanwhile, the focus on symbolic words in lieu of policy played right into the scandal frame in this case. The administration was denying terrorism! Because, er, they didnt use the word terrorist. Sure, they said act of terror, which to most of us sounds about the same, but thats because most of us arent obsessively focused on the symbolic importance of using the correct words all the time as the main responsibility of the president with regard to foreign policy and national security.
Most of us, that is, who are not trapped within the conservative closed information feedback loop, where Solyndra and Fast and Furious were major Obama administration scandals, and where, as Paul Ryan put it in his debate with Joe Biden, its obvious that Obamas foreign policy is unraveling before our eyes and as we turn on our television screens these days.
Of course, figuring out what any of that really means would take, well, some serious policy analysis. But thats exactly what Mitt Romney and the Republicans just dont have these days.
But at least they know they shouldnt apologize for it!
Bernstein needs to put down the Bong... he is seeing things..
Talk about projection. Liberals never want to argue about policy, everything is scandals and "gotcha" to them.
And Watergate and Abu-Grapes wasn't the Democrats reliance on scandals ?
Have I missed a debate?!
Thanks for posting. It's good now and then to keep abreast of what the lunatics on the left are saying to one another.
This will be all a moot point anyway when Romney wins the election ( God willing ).
Romney-Ryan merely have to use one or two words to point out that the president is a liar and his administration's scandalous policies are bubbling to the surface.
All the hotair is escaping from Leftists' "Hope and Change" Policy balloon.
Perhaps the Liberals suffer from projection because their actions are so low and despicable that even they cannot bear their actions; ergo, they claim their action on the opposition (us).
I prefer to get my news unfiltered and uncensored by conservatives who fear that it might undermine my morale or that we conservatives have no persuasive reply. It is vital to the effectiveness of this forum that we take these things head-on and rebut them.
Thanks for the courage to post this, you render a service to the conservative cause.
We have now entered a weird Orwellian world where the honest recording of reality is called "the conservative information feedback loop". The liars in the MSM have created an alternative universe of false narratives that they brag about. We have reached a point where the media is so corrupt they argue that lying is morally superior to telling the truth.
As always with Marxists and Progressives, the end justifies the means.
The writer's dripping contempt and emphasis on conservatives' insistence that America is exceptional, is so telling and descriptive of progressive "thought."
They absolutely hate the idea of America as a superpower and world leader.
June 2000 - David Horowitz: "Hillary Clinton and the Third Way" Progressive Narcissism
"...........It is Primary Colors insight into the minds of these missionaries that is striking. They see Clinton quite clearly as a flawed and often repellent human being. They see him as a lecher, a liar and a man who would destroy an innocent human being in order to advance his own career (this is, in fact, the climactic drama of the text). Yet through all the sordidness and lying, the personal ruthlessness and disorder, the idealistic missionaries faithfully follow and serve their leader.
They do it not because they are themselves corrupted and bought off through material rewards. The prospect of material return or fame is not what drives them. Think only of Ickes, personally betrayed and brutally cast aside by Clinton, who nonetheless refused to turn on him, even after the betrayal. Instead, Ickes kept his own counsel and protected Clinton, biding his time and waiting for Hillary to make her move, then joined her staff to manage her Senate campaign.
The idealistic missionaries in this true tale bite their tongues and betray their principles, rather than betray him. They do so because in Bill Clinton they see a necessary vehicle of their noble ambition and their chiliastic dreams. He, too, cares about social justice, about poor people and blacks (or so he makes them believe). They will serve him and lie for him and destroy for him, because he is the vessel of their salvationist hopes. Because Bill Clinton can gain the keys to the state, he is in their eyes the only prospect for advancing the progressive cause. Therefore, they will sacrifice anything and everything to make him succeed.
But Bill Clinton is not like those who worship him, corrupting himself and others for a higher cause. Unlike them, he betrays principles because he has none. He will even betray his country, but without the slightest need to betray it for something else for an idea, a party, a cause. He is a narcissist who sacrifices principle for power because his vision is so filled up with himself that he cannot tell the difference.
But the idealists who serve him -- the Stephanopouloss, the Ickess, the feminists, the progressives and Hillary -- can tell the difference. Their cyncism flows from the very perception they have of right and wrong. They do it for noble ends. They do it for the progressive faith. They do it because they see themselves as gods, as having the power -- through correct politics -- to redeem the world. It is that terrifyingly exalted ambition that fuels their spiritual arrogance and justifies their means.
And that is why they hate conservatives. They hate you because you are killers of their dream. You are defenders of a Constitution that thwarts their cause. They hate you because your reactionary commitment to individual rights, to a single standard and to a neutral and limited state obstructs their progressive designs. They hate you because you are believers in property and its rights as the cornerstones of prosperity and human freedom; because you do not see the market economy as a mere instrument for acquiring personal wealth and stocking political war chests, but as both means and end.
Conservatives who think progressives are misinformed idealists will always be blind-sided by the sheer malice of the left -- by the cynicism of those who pride themselves on their principles; by the viciousness of those who champion sensitivity; by the intolerance of those who call themselves liberal; and by the ruthless disregard for the well-being of the poor on the part of those who preen themselves as their champions.
Conservatives are surprised because they see progressives as merely misguided, when they are, in fact, morally and ontologically -- misdirected. They are the messianists of a false religious faith. Since the redeemed future that justifies their existence and rationalizes their hypocrisy can never be realized, what really motivates progressives is a modern idolatry: their limitless passion for the continuance of Them."
And it is also good preparation for all the dirt that is going to be thrown from the MSM and districts to the left thereof from the morning of the 7 November and at least for four years on.
Yes that's right and some Republicans are following stupidly the "Dhimmocrap's" way to rely on made up "scandals".
What is more obvious and blatant is the Obama's ideology which explains all his foreign AND economical policy .
That's it that must be targeted, hit and destroyed in front of people fed up by medias
I rank Salon up there (or down there) with WND, no need to worry, It's just a rag that regurgitates second hand opinion ... Except for Joseph Farah who I think is good.
They are trying to rewrite history that literally just happened. Amazing they think they can get away with it.
I guess Big Bird, Binders and free condoms is real viable "policy"??
When the MSM tries to trip someone, they still call it a "stumble" even if their target manages to leap over their assailant's outstretched foot and land a crushing karate chop to the throat.
That of course is impossible unless you personally observe every event you consider newsworthy. You are always subjected to the filter of the publisher & author, whether it be conservative or liberal. Most stories in the media consist of some stated facts and commentary on these facts. The key is to seperate the two (often no easy task) and determine the credibilty and reliability of what is presented as fact. Then one can draw their own conclusions and determine if the commentary presented is reasonable.
Malice...and deviousness. All's fair, in their minds, because their cause is so righteous.
From Stalin and Mao to the local Dem party worker, every one of them has always viewed their every horrible action through this defective moral prism.
That of course is impossible unless you personally observe every event you consider newsworthy. You are always subjected to the filter of the publisher & author, whether it be conservative or liberal. Most stories in the media consist of some stated facts and commentary on these facts. The key is to seperate the two (often no easy task) and determine the credibilty and reliability of what is presented as fact. Then one can draw their own conclusions and determine if the commentary presented is reasonable.
Romney lost the debate but rises in the polls. Don't let these people have matches or sharp pointy objects.
Mitt won... kind of takes the wind out of this piece doesn't it?!
Jonathan, one part of the debate Romney surely won was foreign policy. He bombed obama 2 to 1 in various polls.
Huh? What planet is this guy on?
"Republicans reliance on a scandal framework is most obvious in their attacks on Barack Obama"
"Sure, they said act of terror, which to most of us sounds about the same, but thats because most of us arent obsessively focused on the symbolic importance of using the correct words all the time as the main responsibility of the president with regard to foreign policy and national security."
"Most of us, that is, who are not trapped within the conservative closed information feedback loop,..."
It's often interesting to see how the other side views things. Good post. I do believe, however, that it is customary to put "Barf Alert" in the title to warn off those who don't have strong stomachs.
If you're on FR and don't have thick skins or strong stomachs, you need to get 'em fast.
Fox News cost Mitt the debate
Are they talking about the debate that has not yet taken place? Isn't it a bit early to call it for Obama?
I can't believe I clicked on that link. I was turned off from the point this hack wrote "...that Romney, Republicans and conservatives have, in case after case, simply given up on crafting viable public policy."
Could this guy ever figure out that government is not the panacea and answer to all ills in the world and maybe "public policy" is not the answer in the first place?
I guess such a thought can not cross the mind of the "statist".
But, Mitt was accurate, OBAMA lied. The self-adoring Crowley screwed things up and admitted she was wrong - but the next morning when most of the previous night's viewers didn't hear her.
Crap like this is why liberals are perverse and evil.
Mitt was right, they were wrong. Post debate analysis of the incident is devastating for the libs. Candy looked to be a lame stream media JounrOhack who likely was in on the Obama scheme to spin his Benghazi failure with this laughable lie should Mitt give him an opening.
Did classy Michelle really break protocol by cheering when the "trap" was sprung?
I kind of feel sorry for this guy.
You think that maybe a colleague could have pulled him aside and said "geesh buddy, put some ice on it. Are you sure you shouldn't only send this to your mom and grandma or sumthin"?
He is actually describing himself and his Dear Leader slipping in conservatives in the place of progressives.
Alternate universe? Delusional? Projection? sore loser?
Terrible qualities, all.
The answer to any progressive that cares to ask "Why is America exceptional, silly conservative?" is...
...the Bill of Rights. Freedom of speech, from religious persecution, and the right to bear arms, among other rights, seperate America from the rest of the world.
To this writer and his followers, it's all about the UNION - labor, civil and European.
Is this guy for real? I'm reading his words in stunned amazement. Romney was embarrassed? When Obama lied his way through the debate and virtually everybody but dimwits like Bernstein refuse to acknowledge Obama's lying? Republicans don't have a plan? I can't believe libs are this stupid. Bernstein and Dem like him are the reason this country is in the mess it is.
"Meanwhile, the focus on symbolic words in lieu of policy"
Like the word "binder" perhaps?
get real.
blessings, bobo
Ah, yes, we yearn for the good old days of the Clinton Administration and "move on, nothing to see here".
As if Obama has any policies to run on...
He's flat-out lied in two debates about the last four years.
Amazing that this administration goes out its way, sometimes way way out its way to tell a LIE..
Its like ALL news from these people in the White House is agitprop.. or propaganda...
Not only the White House but the entire Executive branch..
This White House and executive branch is so cold war "Russian-like" its scary..
With Commissars(Tsars) and everything..
Its SOoo similar its uncanny.. meaning totally on purpose..
More amazing than that is so many republicans completely ignorant of it.. or feigning ignorance..
I can see no other explanation that a big part of republican hierarchy IS COMPLICIT with it..
Its like the John Birch Society fell in a black hole..
Since almost everything they predicted has come true AND even MORE THAN THAT..
John Birch did not have the internet... or an in your face proud Ultra liberal progressive(communist) President..
Kennedy, Johnston, Carter and CLintoon slowly converted Americans into Socialists.. it appears..
If your not worried about this election you should be..
AMerica may not have its nose full of Zero YET..
IF a fair election is even POSSIBLE NOW...
>>Being progressive means never having to live in Realville.
So true. I have to wonder which debate this author saw.
As far as stumbling goes, I'd say that after being ganged up on and blindsided with a rabbit punch, Romney "stumbled" but did not fall down. Anyone who was blindsided like that would be momentarily stunned. He recovered quickly and went on to win.
Sorry, Dems, saying things over and over doesn't make them true.
IMHO if Romney goes at this from the Position that this is the result of the Presidents Ideology it will Nail Obama to the wall,My point is that Anyone who has been paying any attention to This administration over the past 4 years KNOWS he is Sympathetic to the Muslims.
Romney should give a Brief Synopsis of all Obamas Actions that demonstrate this,Fort Hood Shootings,Failure to Call it Islamic terrorism,Trying Combatants in Civivlian Courts,The release Of Prisoners who go back on the Battlefield and Kill Americans,The Censoring of all Government documents that Mention Islamic Terrorism, They Refuse to Call out who we are Fighting against.
Then you go to the Main FACTS that have emerged from the Stevens sensitive Documents sent from Bengahzi in the Weeks before his Murder, The ones that Mention that the recent attacks have NOT been Random but Organized and Coordinated,the statements That ISLAMIC EXTREMIST elements are GAINING strength and Security is NOT sufficient,THE ALQUEDA flag has Been Flying over Govt Buildings. The American Red Cross attacks were done by Extremists.
Then State that did you hear the President Mention Alqueda ,or Islamic Extremists in the Rose Garden statement?
All youm hear is The Intelligence we Had AT THE TIME! How about the Documents Labeled Sensitive From Ambassador Stevens HIMSELF On the Ground, The one In the Heat of the Battle and Living and seeing him for himself? He mentions Alqueda,Islamic Extremists over and Over,But Neither the President, The Secretary of State, The UN Ambassador in appearance after appearance never ONCE mention Alqueda or islamic Extremists ONCE. This IS the Presidents Ideology, Censor what doesnt fit HIS narrative.He has Lied to the American People,He said in the last debate he was offended that anyone would suggest that he would Mislead the american People about this. Well Mr. President you owe at the Very least an Apology to the American People for Misleading them and at worst,Intenionally withholding pertinent information that does not fit you reelection Narative.
Pathetic drivel, this kid must be a recent English major. He must be one of the budding young geniuses of the left. An emerging talent we
The first stage of the "filtering" process is the choice what to report and what NOT to report.
When you don't hear/read stated facts and commentary at all, there can't even be a personal vetting process.
People who get their news solely from a DBM newspaper or DBM TV news are woefully uninformed.
Example: The day after the Congressional hearings on Libya, the NY Times did not even have a report about the hearings on the front page.
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On the one day of the season where there are no big league games to be found, I found myself in Trenton , NJ to watch the Phuture Phillies show their stuff. The 2009 Eastern League All-Star Game (Double-A ball) and Home Run Derby was held at Waterfront Park and hosted by the Yankees-affiliate, Trenton Thunder. Five Reading Phillies participated in the game and one in the derby.
Joe Savery, the Phillies first-round draft pick in 2007, got the nod to start the Southern vs. Northern Division match-up. Vance Worley, another R-Phil, pitched a scoreless 7th inning to get the win with a final score of 5-3. And a native of my hometown, Akron pitcher Carlton Smith of Piscataway, NJ, earned the save. A few more R-Phils saw some action; Michael Taylor in right went 1 for 4 with an RBI; Quintin Berry, a fellow MLBlogger, was 1 for 1 with a walk, playing in center; and Neil Sellers struck out twice and played third base.
As entertaining as the game was, some of the fans were even more fun. At one point, a foul ball landed on the concrete walkway between seating areas and right at the feet of a mother and her 4-year old son.
No one else was around so they bent down to pick up the ball. At that moment, some idiot in the seating area above the walkway threw himself over the metal railing to try to steal the ball and landed ON the 4-year child. The photo to the right shows the poor child holding his nose, which may have been broken, and to make "amends", the rail-diving idiot gave the ball to the kid.
If that were not bad enough, a few minutes later, it an usher brought another ball over to the crazy man, with signatures on it, and handed it to the guy's daughter! A reward for nearly killing another child? Seemed a bit odd to me. It must have seemed a bit odd to the mother of the injured child too because a while later, 3 police officers reigned down upon the man and took him away. I figure she must have found an officer and said she would like to press charges. And who could blame her.
But the fun did not end there…take a look at the suicidal mascots playing around on the roof of the stadium:
I suppose if I had to wear these costumes, I may not have the will to live either. The poor "Thunder" mascot is actually a lightning bolt…someone must have told him and it was like hearing that there was no Santa Claus so, up to the roof he went… :o)
Then there was a very strange Mets fan in the stands.
This gentleman paraded around all day wearing a pink and powder blue colored Mets jersey, which was even signed, and wore a yellow collared shirt underneath. He looked like an Easter Egg. A very fruity Easter Egg. Did he not realize this was a women's jersey? Well, it's a Mets fan, what can you expect? (kidding! :O)
And how about the bat-fetching dog and Sumo wrestling fans? Awesome. Seriously awesome:
And even some of the players were lots of fun; Michael Taylor, a highly touted prospect who has been compared to Ryan Howard, provided me with the Photo of the Day. I asked him to smile for a picture and he said to me, "Not only will I smile for you, but I will do this as well…"
I officially love this kid. Thanks for the laugh, Michael…best of luck to you!
Here is the full Photo Album, including the home run derby. Enjoy!
Photos by Jenn
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Wow, sorry to hear about the idiot ball diver. That certainly can put a damper on a game for a fan. Glad the mom did something about it.
I miss minor league baseball. I used to go all the time to South Bend Silverhawks games back in the day. You could get great seats and have an awesome time for little money.
Good times…
Since I live in Clearwater, Florida, I tend to hit the Threshers games if the Rays are out of town and have an off day from games.
It is exciting to watch the guys play who are still doing it for the joy and love of the game more than the paycheck.
I know they all play for the money, but a 1,000 bonus seems like a million when you are in the FSL.
I heard a whisper last night that the Durham Bulls are trying to get a Triple-A All Star game in the near future. That would be worth a road trip!
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Two cars towed and 136 tickets issued on first night of snow disposal period
Drivers in La Crosse have a little more incentive to pay attention to where they park.
The city is starting to enforce new alternate side parking penalties. That includes triple fines and possibly towing cars.
The new penalties only go into effect when the city declares a snow disposal period.
Thursday night was the first time.
While some see it as an expensive inconvenience, they also do see the benefits.
Streets in La Crosse were a little bit wider this morning.
Sue Crothers of La Crosse said that's a good thing.
"Especially in the cases of the storms we've had, I think it just makes sense to have people move their cars so they can get the snow cleared," said Crothers. "It's just kind of a no brainer."
The city started cracking down on drivers not following the parking rules during the snow disposal period with triple fines or by towing cars.
That means what was normally a $10 ticket will cost you $30.
"It's really annoying," said Dani Larsen of La Crosse. "I think that's a little extreme, but then again I'm not a fan of it to begin with."
This was the first time ever the city declared a snow disposal period.
Compliance from drivers was pretty good. It was much better than what it normally sees.
"Up until yesterday, compliance was really poor," said Dale Hexom, director of Public Works in La Crosse. "I would say overall, better than 80 percent of the cars that had been there yesterday, were now moved to the correct side of the street. So that was in part reassuring. Crews were able to do a fairly decent job of plowing."
Two cars were towed and 136 tickets were issued.
And while wider and clearer streets is a good incentive for Larsen, she thinks drivers could do without the extra pinch in their pockets.
"It wasn't last night, but I've had a friend that was towed, and especially, a lot of times it's college students that forget which side to park on and that can really be financially crappy for them," said Larsen.
Of the 136 tickets that were issued nearly half of them were issued in the area around the UW-La Crosse Campus that is normally exempt from the alternate side parking ordinance.
The Snow Disposal Period is still in effect for Friday night.
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Christine Maggiore and Eliza Jane Scovill: Living and dying with HIV/AIDS denialism
On Science-Based Medicine, we strive to apply the light of science and reason on all manner of unscientific belief systems about medicine. For the most part, but by no means exclusively, we have concentrated on so-called "complementary and alternative medicine" (CAM) because there is an active movement to infiltrate faith-based, rather than science-based, modalities into "conventional" medicine. Indeed, such efforts are well-financed, both by public and private organizations, and are alarmingly successful at insinuating postmodernist and pseudoscientific beliefs into academia to form an unholy new monster that has been termed by some as "quackademic medicine."
However, one pseudoscientific belief system about medicine that we at SBM have perhaps not dealt with as much as we should is the belief that, contrary to the overwhelming scientific consensus built up over 25 years, the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) does not cause Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS). True, working with Tara Smith, our fearless leader Steve Novella has published an excellent primer on the phenomenon, but not on this blog. This belief system, which is commonly called HIV/AIDS denial or HIV/AIDS denialism, is championed by virologist Peter Duesberg, along with a panoply of groups, such as Alive & Well AIDS Alternatives and Rethinking AIDS; blogs, such as Science Guardian, HIV/AIDS Skepticism, and AIDS Is Over; podcasts, such as How Positive Are You?; books, such as What If Everything You Thought You Knew About AIDS Was Wrong? by Christine Maggiore; and movies, such as The Other Side of AIDS (which resembles in many ways the anti-evolution movie Expelled! and the pro-quackery movie The Beautiful Truth). The influence of HIV/AIDS denialism is horrific, too, particularly in Africa, where advocates of such nonsense, such as Matthias Rath, have advocated quackery over antiretroviral therapy and had the ear of South African President Thabo Mbeki, who lost power in late 2007.


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THOMPSON, PA — There will be a walk at the Florence Shelly Wetlands Preserve on Sunday, October 2 at 2 p.m., led by Hank Hartman, a retired forester with the U.S. Forest Service.
The 400-acre preserve features many species of trees that tell a unique tale about this particular area and its human and natural history. Hartman will help identify some of these trees, discuss their special qualities and describe some of the modern environmental challenges they are under.
Other indigenous trees at the preserve include maple, ash, a few species of oak, shadbush (named because they flower around the time the shad are running in the rivers), black cherry and many others. There is even a rare American elm. Walk participants will notice a line of sugar maples along the main trail, planted for convenient sugar tapping by the farm family who lived on the land a hundred years ago. Apple trees and a lilac half hidden in goldenrod and hardhack give further evidence of human habitation in what is now a wildlife refuge. Patches of Scotch and Austrian pines are remnants of the pine plantations planted by the Conservation Corps during the Depression more than 70 years ago and never thinned.
The walk will last approximately two hours.
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The faces are tan and smiling. A beautiful beach stretches out behind them. The moon is reflected in the waves that crash against the shore. The young faces are lit by the blue green light of a pool. They are smiling, laughing. It's New Years Day, 2011, just after midnight.
The moment is frozen in time. A group portrait.
To go from working all the time to being on vacation is a strange thing. It's a shift that is so drastic it shakes my core and makes me feel like a completely different person. My work self and my vacation self are two sides that never meet.
The movie that I raced to edit is finished, for now. And I am no longer spending every waking hour with Sean, the director. We are no longer hashing out ideas and squeezing creativity out of our over-tired bodies. Where there was once too much to cram into each day, now there is slow motion, with time for reading and playing games. Time for talking, eating, drinking and hanging out.
It was a lucky thing to have gotten out of New York City before the dreadful snowstorm hit last week. I was one of the last flights up into the skies before they opened up and dumped out heaps of white snow. As the plane lifted up, I breathed a massive sigh of relief having been on the other side of this equation more than once. I take a moment to be thankful not to have had my vacation plans ruined by the weather.
Now I am in Saint Martin, a small island in the Caribbean—half French and half Dutch. My girlfriend Emily has organized a massive trip. (She calls it "Camp Emily.") She is a fantastic and generous host. She cooks amazing food, which keeps everyone well fed. It is no small task, for we are 21 people. Everyone chips in, shares and helps.
Eventually we fill three houses on the beach. Each is unbelievably beautiful, and we have fun; it's the first group vacation of this size I've ever been on. It is amazing how quickly we turn into a small community and fall into a routine. We play hearts and Risk. Drink blended cocktails in the pool. We rent scooters and drive around the island.
I spend most of my days lounging around and relaxing, but a few excursions have kept me active enough (Zipline, Go Karts, Casino), at least for vacation standards.
I'm still responsible for some things on the movie so a few days are spent video chatting with my assistant editor to try to solve a problem at Technicolor. The work e-mails that I get from people accentuate the fact that they are operating at an entirely different intensity level than I am.
I dread going back to New York and think about how long it will take to re-acclimate to my life there. The worst part of a vacation is coming home. Did someone famous say that once?
My upcoming schedule is pretty crazy and January will take me up to Woodstock for a week for a sound mix and to Park City, Utah and Sundance for our premiere. (Goodbye warm weather!)
I wonder what it will be like to look back on that group portrait, a moment frozen in time, those young smiling faces, tanned in the warmth of the sun. I can imagine that at first it will make me miss the beach, this amazing house, the lack of responsibility and the camaraderie of having almost all of my friends on vacation with me.
But later, much later, I expect to look back at this photo with envy, jealous for a time and place when we were all young and carefree. For time, vacation or not, passes so quickly these days.


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(Bluefield)—Bluefield State College's Baccalaureate Nursing (BSN) program has been granted continuing national accreditation by the Commission on Collegiate Nursing Education (CCNE), a national accrediting agency recognized by the U.S. Department of Education. The BSC program received continuing accreditation for the maximum ten-year period, through the year 2019. CCNE, as the only national accrediting agency to focus exclusively on baccalaureate, masters, and doctoral education programs in nursing education, ensures the quality and integrity of higher-education degree programs preparing effective nursing professionals.
"CCNE accreditation means the BSC BSN program meets the highest standards and meets the needs of students, equipping our graduates to provide high quality nursing care to the people of this region," noted program director Beth Pritchett. "Our program meets the needs of working RNs with a design that utilizes 'blended learning,' combining face-to-face instruction and online courses."
About the BSC BSN program
For nearly 20 years, the BSC Baccalaureate Nursing Program has provided learning opportunities for acquiring the knowledge base and skills to practice nursing at the professional level. A broad perspective of nursing practices is presented in relation to management, leadership, values and ethics, critical analysis, research, and the application of the nursing process to families and other groups in the communities.
Program faculty include Beth Pritchett (Associate Professor & Program Director), Betty Nash (Associate Professor), and Dr. Betty Rader (Professor and Dean/School of Nursing & Allied Health). The program was first accredited by the National League for Nursing in 1992 and has attained and maintained continuing national accreditation by the Commission on Collegiate Nursing Education since 1999. The BSC BSN program is offered in both Bluefield and Beckley.
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"Because of its success on a regional level, the BSC Baccalaureate Nursing Program is preparing to seek Higher Learning Commission approval to provide the entire degree program online," Dr. Rader stated. "Once approval is obtained, this program will be available throughout the United States."
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I'm a new mom, my daughter is 4 weeks old. We've done really well breastfeeding from the very beginning, however at each feeding she only takes from one side. When she's finished one side, and has been burped, she's satisfied. I'm always sure to alternate at each feeding. Just wanted to check in to see if that's normal or okay.
My other concern is that I'm going back to work in 2 weeks. When is the best time to pump to "stock up" for my husband to feed her while I'm at work?


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7 Ways to keep your hair looking its best this summer
As the days get longer and the summer sun gets hotter, it's time to pay special attention to treating our tresses. Growing up on the beaches of New England, I always remember these tips my mother, Susan Costa, owner of Blue Moon Hair Studio in Rhode Island taught me for maintaining luscious locks all summer long:
- When beaching it or sitting by the pool, add a deep conditioner or hair mask with SPF to help prevent tangles, as well as provide protection against sun damage, salt water or chlorine. The heat from the sun will help to open the hair cuticle so the moisture can penetrate more efficiently. To prevent frizz, considering adding a serum or natural plant based oil such as coconut, hemp, or avocado. Adding aloe vera is also beneficial for locking in moisture a creating a protective barrier.
- If you're finding your hair is the opposite of dry, and it's getting oily from the humidity, use a touch of witch hazel on a cloth or cotton ball and blot your scalp along your part and around your hairline. Witch Hazel is a natural astringent that dissolves oil; just don't use it too much or you may over-dry your hair!
- Make sure to rinse your hair right after exposure in a lukewarm (not hot, not cold, but just right) shower. Consider installing a water filter on your shower head that softens the water; hard water contains a large amount of minerals that can leave hair feeling dry, brittle, lifeless and extremely knotty. When washing your hair after being in the ocean or in the sun all day, you want soft water that will help to eliminate any further UV damage and to wash away impurities (especially preventing the dreaded "green-head" for blondes!). With that being said, rinsing doesn't always mean using a shampoo. In the summer, try as best as you can to cut back on your shampoo usage, allowing your scalps oil production to balance out. When you do a wash with shampoo, use a product specific for summertime that is all natural with no drying sulfates. When rinsing your hair, first give yourself a 30 second scalp massage to exfoliate and increase circulation promoting hair growth and removing product build up. Rinse hair with apple cider vinegar mixed with water to help clarify the scalp. Follow by applying conditioner midway through your hair all the way to the ends and comb through using a wide-tooth comb.
- Cut split ends often, scheduling a trim every four to six weeks to maintain the health of your hair and the style. When I'm not able to head back to Rhode Island to visit Mom, I'll head to Warren-Tricomi in Greenwich.
- Keep hair in a loose braid when wanting to put it up—it doesn't break the hair as much as other hair styles and keeps it under control and out of your way. Putting hair up in a high and tight updo can cause a lot of damage during the summer months, when hair tends to get even more frizzy and dry. Avoid elastic bands with metal seams.
- Remember it is the summer, so going au-natural with sea inspired waves is on trend for the season. Save the straight hair or tight curls for other seasons and stay away from using heat styling tools such as a blow dryer, curling and flat iron. Also stay away from using large amounts of product, whether it's sticky hairsprays or mousse.
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First off, thank you all for your words of encouragement...I will need to call on them during the long crying/hunger bouts each night. To refresh, we did have some really tough nights. He seems to get worse each night, wanting the breast to go to sleep. And when I think that he's finally down for the count, I'll check to see if he has unlatched himself, which usually is the case. But as soon as he realizes that the nipple is no longer in his mouth, he wakes up crying. I tried the side lying position to give him the breast during the night, but my husband is worried that if I fall asleep and turn the wrong way, I could perhaps suffocate him with my breast...(sounds kinda funny, but I can see his point). He also worries about SIDS. His stand is "no stuffed toys, no blankets near his face", then why allow the breast to be in his face? So I only did that once. Then, I saw things were getting better and for 24 hours, the baby had a great latch and was getting really satisfied at each feeding. But I wasn't sure my latch was as good as it could be, so I had a LLL consultant come to the house and help me. I am not bashing her or the philosophy, but my son absolutely hated and refused her angle, position, etc. He refused to have his upper back shoved into the breast and fought it for the three hours that she was here. He cried alot when it came to feeding and would not latch on no matter what. Soooo, needless to say, after an awful night of him being confused, (she suggested I continue to try her way), we are now going back to the way I was doing it before.
Also, I had OB/GYN appt today, and took the baby with me. My ob/gyn says he has reflux and that is causing alot of his troubles at the breast. Her children had it as well. What's funny is that I did suggest that to others, and to the LLL and they said he probably doesn't have it.
Does anyone have any advice for handling the reflux when it comes to feedings? OB suggested short feedings, lots of burping and get sleep positioner for him. Any other thoughts on that?
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I was advised by my OB nurse to quit breastfeeding if it was too hard. At the time I was extremely depressed and exhausted, especially since we just moved to this area and have no family or friends to help out with all those household chores, and my husband is working 7 days a week. I thought maybe she was right. I wasn't enjoying my baby.
But then it seemed it was the antidepressant they had me on for PPD, which made me care about nothing at all - completely UNemotional. After I realized this and started weaning myself from the drug, I realized I did NOT want to stop breastfeeding! Unfortunately, I'd already bound myself for 2 days and was extremely engorged and in physical and extreme emotional pain. I unbound myself and it's been about a week since I started that whole mess, but I can only get very little milk out with pumping. If I use the supplementer while nursing the baby sucks down about 2 oz of formula.
This is so frustrating and disappointing! :'-( Thanks to anyone out there with advice.


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Lea Dundas of Lebanon, N.H., is arraigned for the armed robbery of Cumberland Farms in Wilder last month.
WHITE RIVER JUNCTION A New Hampshire woman has denied a charge that she robbed the Cumberland Farms in Wilder at knife-point to get money for heroin.
Despite an alleged written confession to police, Lea Dundas, 19, of Lebanon, N.H., pleaded innocent Tuesday in White River Junction criminal court to a felony charge of armed robbery.
Court records, quoting witnesses pumping gas at the Cumberland Farms on Tafts Flat shortly before midnight Nov. 24, said the store clerk ran outside yelling Im being robbed!
A petite figure in skinny jeans and Ugg boots was carrying a green plastic bag and heading for the snow-covered woods behind Bloods Seafood, the witnesses said.
Toby, the Windsor Police Departments canine, led officers to a place where footprints were seen in the inch of snow on the ground. Police said they came to a spot where about $40 in bills and change, along with several packs of cigarettes, had been dropped.
Hartford Detective Christopher Aher said Toby led them to a small house on Advent Lane in Wilder, where a resident told police that a young woman without a coat knocked on her door and said shed stomped off after an argument with her boyfriend and got lost.
The resident gave the woman an old jacket and a ride to a friends house, where police found her the next day.
Aher said Dundas initially claimed she hadnt gone near Cumberland Farms, but eventually wrote a confession.
She wrote that shed had a fight with her boyfriend and told him to let her out of his truck the night of the robbery, court records said.
I was really angry and dope-sick while I was walking, the alleged confession said. I just kept thinking about how I have nobody in the world and I was so sick I walked by the Cumberland Farms then I decided I had nothing to lose so I ripped my hat and pulled it over my face.
The statement continued, I dont remember all the details but I ran behind Cumberland Farms and fell down a steep ravine. I had a plastic bag with the money in it and gloves, a hat, and the knife in my pocket. They fell out and I dont know where they went. ... I was really scared. I couldnt believe that I actually did that and I was freaking out.
The alleged confession said Dundas got $150 from the robbery and she bought heroin the next morning. I shot up and momentarily felt better, then about an hour later the Hartford Police showed up to question me, the statement said.
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