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But for George West's Jimmy Hasette, 24, that fantasy became a reality on April 20 when he got the chance to perform alongside 1990's hit country musician Wade Hayes following his performance at Dosey Doe's in Conroe.
"It was a dream come true, and I'll never forget it for the rest of my life," Hasette said.
The clock was ticking for Hasette to hear Hayes perform live. Hayes was diagnosed with stage four colon cancer in December 2011, and the last of his tumors were removed in March 2012. Hasette didn't want to miss out on what could be his last chance to see him perform, so he drove three-and-a-half hours by himself to the performance.
"I didn't know if he was going to turn, so I said I was going to go no matter what," Hasette said.
He didn't go empty-handed.
Hasette brought a 1996 concert jacket and a few other pieces of memorabilia he had collected over the years and found on eBay for Hayes to autograph, along with his guitar – just in case.
"I took my guitar thinking 'if he did this I would be the happiest person on the planet,'" Hasette said. "It is not too often someone like me gets to play with their hero."
Hasette said he listened to all of Hayes' music while growing up in the 1990s and 2000s, including his side project with Alan Jackson's fiddler, McHayes.
So when Hayes finished performing that night for a full house of 250, Hasette asked for his autograph and tried his luck at doing something few musicians have done.
"I said, 'Mr. Hayes, I don't know if you would do this, or have done this, but would you indulge me and make a country boy's dream come true," Hasette said. "He just smiled and picked up his guitar and said 'of course I will.'"
Hasette is a self-taught country musician, blending rock, gospel and blues on his Takamine Sunburst six-string guitar. He said he started playing in 2005 when he and his friends would pick, strum and sing along with the radio. While attending George West High School, Hasette performed Rick Trevino's "Learning As You Go" at the district FFA convention.
But for now, Hasette performs when he can and practices daily while working the pipelines full time and taking classes at Coastal Bend College with aspirations to be a singer and songwriter or a DJ.
"I remember since I was a kid I wanted to play guitar and sing country music like Buck Jones or Merle Haggard," Hasette said. "Music is one of the driving forces in my life."
Hasette and Hayes performed one song together, "On A Good Night," while Hasette had someone take photos and video with his iPad to prove it happened.
To the onlooker, the videos and photos just look like two friends playing a song. But, there was a lot going on inside Hasette's mind as he fulfilled a lifelong dream.
"Oh my God, oh my God, oh my God; this is one of the biggest names in music, and here I am, a lowly country boy from George West, Texas, getting to play with one of the biggest artists on one of the biggest labels in the world," Hasette said as he explained what was going through his mind during their jam session. "I just stood there in the place (afterwards) and took in the ambiance; I mean history was right here. I got to play with my idol. I just took it in because it was one of the most beautiful sights in my life."


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I'm tandem nursing my 26 month old DD#1 and my 12 week old DD#2. DD#1 nurses a lot, she's night weaned but still asks to nurse sometimes at night, it's hard to distract her at night. During the day she nurses 5 to 6 times a day and that's because I distract her.
Since DD#2 was born I am feeling resentful toward DD#1 when she wants to nurse. I try to think how much I love her but it's still annoying to nurse her, especially if DD#2 is awake or fussing. Nursing both at the same time it's even worse. I set limits and count to 10 to stop the session and I feel very good after nursing her, like if saying, "I did it" but then just the thought of her wanting to nurse makes me feel uncomfortable and you have no idea how sad. I believe in child led weaning but is this feeling of resentment natural? I can't believe in Nature a mammal would continue to nurse if it feels this way. Is this really good for her? Is this really good for our relationship? I was so looking forward to nursing both my babies but now, I don't think I'll make it and I feel I'm failing. I went through nursing during pregnancy, I didn't mind the pain, I knew that was what I wanted for her, I went through all the criticism from family and friends, even my husband, which now supports my decision whichever it is. Why am I feeling this? Does this mean it's time to wean? Just to tell you something about me, I'm the most perseverant person, I would go all the way if necessary just to give my daughter the best but is this the best?
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Aight, so I'm feeling a little guilty about not posting enough blog stuff. Y'know, given that the CPGC gave us a ton of money and all. So I'm gonna post a few things about coming back. reverse-culture-shock and other such pseudo-intellectual claptrap.
actually, going back to the US was awesome. I could speak the language and get a burrito ( the two were often related) and it wasn't obscenely hot out. So much for terrible reverse shock and difficulties reassimilating and blah blah blah.
Anyway, I'm in israel now, which is a lot like Egypt but actually modernized. It has like AC and everything. SO all in all, a good shift. still has feral cats, though.
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Sorry I have been MIA for a few days or so. My DS was sleeping terrible.
On Thursday night my ds slept 3 hours then every hour after that :-( After the 3hour stretch I woke up with my left breast hard as a rock and painful. I had to manually remove some milk so that my son could latch. Even though this was an improvement, it still left me so exhausted I could barley keep myself from passing out!
Last night...my ds slept 5 1/2 hours and then every hour or two after that. After the 5 1/2 hour stretch..I woke up in so much pain!! My right breast was so hard and painful I cried. I tried removing some milk so relieve the pain and the fullness but it didn't help at all. My son at this point was screaming so I decided to feed him off the left..it was not full or painful at all. I then struggled to go back to sleep. When he woke up the other times I tried to nurse him on the painful right breast first but it was either WAY to painful or he couldn't latch. This morning I woke up around 8am and the pain was worse. I used my pump to try and relieve the pain but that didn't help at all. Now I am worried that something is wrong....my whole right breast hurts even when he isnt nursing, and now my nipple is bothering me I have messaged and used warm compresses and nursed my son on it every chance I get..nothing is helping.
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I believe it was Sigmund Freud who said, "Show me a child who refuses to color and I'll show you the next Adolf Hitler," which was a bold claim, considering Hitler was already alive and coloring his heart out in Austria at the time. The point Freud was making is that children are naturally drawn to the act of coloring. It's soothing, like a gentle pat on the back, or codeine. A new box of crayons is to kids as a new box of smokes is to American adults living below the poverty level. Everyone loves to color.
So it makes sense that over the years educators have tried to combine something kids love (coloring) with something they hate (learning). Unfortunately, just because you can create a simplified version of real-life events in an easy-to-color format doesn't mean you should. Some subjects are far too weighty for mulberry pink or macaroni-and-cheese orange. These coloring pages happen to be the worst of the bunch.
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Experts have known for years that coloring can be an effective form of therapy for kids. Unless, of course, you're asking them to color the very thing that traumatized them in the first place. For example, a giant intoxicated Easter bunny or a national tragedy.
Imagine you're a New Yorker sitting in a classroom 10 years after the World Trade Center attacks. To commemorate the anniversary, your teacher hands you a sheet that requires you to color the smoke billowing from the towers. Do you choose gray? Maybe a nice black-and-white mix with a little splash of cadet blue to add texture? The important thing is that you keep your strokes in the lines while remembering that under all those windows are thousands of trapped office workers and firefighters running for the exits before the buildings fall. It's tempting to give the publishers of this crime against taste the benefit of the doubt, as if their hearts were in the right place, even if they had the subtlety of a nuclear holocaust. The temptation to assume the best about the publisher is obliterated once you see the rest of the coloring book.
The commemorative 9/11 coloring book was published in August 2011, so the illustrators were sure to include the capture of Osama bin Laden as the perfect bookend to the WTC attacks. Not only are kids given the opportunity to color the gray in bin Laden's beard (maybe the same gray as the smoke from the towers?), they're also allowed to color his human shield -- a WOMAN. If you take the time to use the sharpener on the back of your coloring box, you can really capture the twinkle in her eyes. If you waited a year, you could get the 2012 edition, which included real-life terrorist trading cards. Youths finally have an excuse to ask each other if they'd like to trade a Loughner for an al-Ghamdi!
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If you want your kids to read about peace and harmony and all the good emotions and happy blessings that this world has to offer, hand them a transcript from an episode of The Cosby Show. If you want your kids to learn about warmongering, murder, gratuitous scenes of incest, and God-driven bear mauling, point them to the Bible, because it's all in there. Better yet, send them to Sunday school. There's a great chance the teacher will not only pass along the Bible story, but also make sure your kid does a craft to reinforce what he or she learned.
For example, do you remember the 10 plagues of Egypt? This was the series of atrocities God inflicted on the Egyptian people when the pharaoh wouldn't let the Hebrews leave the country, starting with turning the Nile into blood. Here's a craft any Sunday school teacher could use to help kids remember the first plague. The paper plate represents the Nile, the red crayons represent blood, and the enormous Seussian dead birds represent the wildlife killed by Pharoah's stubbornness. You can tell they're extra dead because of the "X"s where their eyes should be. I don't know why they're placed in that unfortunate sexual position, though.
Skipping ahead to the sixth plague, Egyptians were cursed with incurable boils. Not freckles or birthmarks or extra fingers or faulty broilers -- boils. Maybe boils that exploded in pus; the Bible isn't clear what they were filled with. But that's OK, because it's always better for children to use their imaginations anyway. How else will they learn?
Church House Collection
The "google" eyes will really make the picture.
Moving along, the 10th plague cuts to the chase and straight up murders the firstborn gentile children of Egypt. Don't worry, the Angel of Death does the deed while the kids are sleeping. He can tell who to kill by the blood on the door. If there's lamb's blood on the doorpost, the AoD passes over. Get it? Passover? Ha ha. Modern kids won't forget the lesson after coloring in the lamb blood or the gleam on the angel's sword.
It's hard to find coloring sheets depicting what happens when the houses aren't marked ... but not too hard!


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BioClinica, Inc. is a leading global provider of integrated, technology-enhanced clinical trial management solutions. BioClinica supports pharmaceutical and medical device innovation with imaging core lab, internet image transport, electronic data capture, interactive voice and web response, clinical trial management and clinical supply chain design and optimization solutions. BioClinica solutions maximize efficiency and manageability throughout all phases of the clinical trial process. With over 20 years of experience and more than 2,000 successful trials to date, BioClinica has supported the clinical development of many new medicines from early phase trials through final approval. BioClinica operates state-of-the-art, regulatory-body-compliant imaging core labs on two continents, and supports worldwide eClinical and data management services from offices in the United States, Europe and Asia. For more information, please visit www.bioclinica.com
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#52260 - 01/09/02 11:01 AM draconian
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BBC news uses the word "draconian" to describe new law code proposed in an African country. We all have a general understanding of the term meaning a harsh penal code. But I have been unable to get a clear picture of why Draco's code was considered excessively harsh. I like the word "Eupatridae" '''.
The hereditary kingship of Athens was abolished in 683 BC by the nobles, or Eupatridae, who ruled Athens until the mid-6th century BC. The Eupatridae retained complete authority by their supreme power to dispense justice, often in an arbitrary fashion. In 621 BC the statesman Draco codified and published the Athenian law, thereby limiting the judiciary power of the nobles. A second major blow to the hereditary power of the Eupatridae was the code of the Athenian statesman and legislator Solon in 594 BC, which reformed the Draconian code and gave citizenship to the lower classes.
"Greece," Microsoft(R) Encarta(R) 98 Encyclopedia. (c) 1993-1997 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.
Who can tell us what specifically was excessively harsh in Draco's code?
#52261 - 01/09/02 11:17 AM Re: draconian
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I went looking in Internet for information about Draco, and found this, which seems to indicate that he was not hated. I find it hard to believe that he could have been suffocated this way.
621 BC: Draco's Law
This Greek citizen was chosen to write a code of law for Athens (Greece). The penalty for many offences was death; so severe, that the word "draconian" comes from his name and has come to mean, in the English language, an unreasonably harsh law. His laws were the first written laws of Greece. These laws introduced the state's exclusive role in punishing persons accused of crime, instead of relying on private justice. The citizens adored Draco and upon entering an auditorium one day to attend a reception in his honour, the citizens of Athens showered him with their hats and cloaks as was their customary way to show appreciation. By the time they dug him out from under the clothing, he had been smothered to death.
#52262 - 01/09/02 11:21 AM Re: draconian
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The citizens adored Draco and upon entering an auditorium one day to attend
a reception in his honour, the citizens of Athens showered him with their hats and
cloaks as was their customary way to show appreciation. By the time they dug him
out from under the clothing, he had been smothered to death.
thus codifying the phrase hat trick.
#52263 - 01/09/02 11:52 AM Re: draconian
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Dear tsuwm: I just thought of the explanation. All those hats and cloaks had just come back from the dry cleaners, and were so full of carbon tetrachloride fumes that poor Draco was gassed to death.
BBC didn't give specifics of new code proposed for Zimbabwe. But if you ever want to hear a draconian code, listen to Uniform Code of Military Justice read to Army recruits at frequent interval, or Navy's "Rocks and Shoals" and notice how often you hear the words: "Death, or such other penalty as a court-martial may direct".
#52264 - 01/09/02 04:59 PM Re: draconian
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In Napoleonic times (and probably later), in the English navy during times of conflict the Articles of War were read to ships' crews every week after Sunday services. I may have this wrong, but if I remember correctly the penalty for every "crime" except one was "death".
Now that's draconian!_________________________
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#52265 - 01/09/02 05:26 PM Re: draconian
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Dear CK: I remember vaguely some British Naval commanders getting very harsh treatment for failure to perform adequately. I never heard of anything comparable in US services. I remember one particular injustice toward an enlisted man. I read in TIME in early days of WWII, a Colonel who hated black men was inadvertently sent a black sergeant with a vehicle to drive him. When the black Sergeant came to the door, the Colonel whipped out his .45 and shot him. Can't remember if black man died or not. But only punishment of the Colonel was a bit of reduction in rank and loss of pay for perhaps six months. Imagine what the verdict would have been if the Sergeant had shot the Colonel! I never heard that the injustice was ever corrected.
#52266 - 01/09/02 05:36 PM Re: draconian
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Byng, John
Byng, John,
1704-57, British admiral; son of George Byng, Viscount
Torrington. Sent (1756) to prevent the French from taking
Minorca, he arrived when the island was already under siege
and, after an indecisive naval engagement, withdrew without
relieving the siege. His court-martial and execution for "failure
to do his utmost brought charges that he had been used as a
scapegoat for ministerial failure and prompted Voltaire's
suggestion (in Candide) that from time to time the British find it
desirable to shoot an admiral "pour encourager les autres [to
encourage the others].
#52267 - 01/09/02 07:42 PM Re: draconian
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I don't get your either your joke or your observation:
thus codifying the phrase hat trick.
I do get Bill's dry cleaning joke, but I don't understand this hat trick. I looked it up and it had to do with sports, but it didn't seem to have anything to do with suffocating.
Back into that ol' dark mud puddle,
#52268 - 01/09/02 09:03 PM Re: draconian
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> ... the penalty for every "crime" except one was "death"
Reminds me of Gary Larsen's cartoon about equine medicine - the cure for every horsy malady being "Shoot"
#52269 - 01/09/02 09:20 PM Re: draconian
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On behalf of tsuwm - who no doubt will supply the etymology of the phrase as I've forgotten it - a hat trick being an English-English term for three consecutive events of some significance. Examples are an individual player getting 3 goals in a single match, a cricketer (bowler) getting three people out off consecutive balls, a team winning three matches in a row etc. A player or team is said to be "on a hat trick" if they've completed two events and have the potential to complete the third.
I think tsuwm is using the term moreso for its "pun-itive" value.
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A 7-year-old girl woke up from a life-threatening coma when Adele's "Rolling in the Deep" came on the radio.
Charlotte Neve suffered a rare type of brain hemorrhage in mid-April, and slipped into a coma after two operations were performed to stop the bleeding. Doctors told her mother, Leila, that her daughter's chances didn't look good, The Telegraph reported.
The girl had been in a coma for a week when her mother stopped in one day and began singing to "Rolling in the Deep," which was on the radio.
Charlotte smiled in response, astounding doctors. Within two days, she started speaking and even managed to get out of bed, The Daily Mail reported.
"I couldn't believe it," Leila Neve told The Telegraph. "It was the first time she had reacted to anything since the hemorrhage. The nurses were astounded and told me to keep singing, and she smiled again...[They] said it was like I "unlocked her," and from that day she started getting better and better."
Since then, Charlotte's recovery has been speedy. She's partially blind and suffers from memory loss, but is already back in school part-time and taking dance classes.
"How she's still here is beyond everybody," Leila Neve said. "I was told that she was very lucky to survive."


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Installing Factory Stripes On Our Dodge Dart Sport
One of the many things that Mopar vehicles are known for is the use of accents. Be it hoodpins or emblems, to the sometimes over-the-top use of decals and even stripes, accents were, and still are, a big part of Mopar's eye-catching appeal.
Quite some time ago, when we finished our Dart Sport project, we told you we would show you how easy it was to install the stripes. Well, this led to that, and we regrettably forgot to print the tech article about it. Luckily, we're hands-on when it comes to working on our cars, so even though it's been a while since we did the install, we actually remember how easy it was, so we can write the article.
Installing this or any stripe is only as easy as you make it. If you take your time, think the process through before you begin, and use the right tools, you should have no problem. When we ordered our stripe kit from Phoenix Graphix, we were informed about a new application lubricant that would help our install. Their Slide-On application gel can't guarantee the perfect application of a stripe, but it will provide you with enough time to help you get it as correct as possible. The contents of the gel resists drying until you are ready to squeegee it out from underneath the vinyl surface, allowing you to position and reposition the stripe for the proper fit. Only after squeegee'd out from under the stripe does the graphic "set up."
The stripe on our Dart Sport can possibly be considered one of the harder "one piece" (actually, it comes in several sections, but when installed on the car it is one continuous stripe) stripes to install, but we were confident we could handle it. Our stripe runs the length of the car, up over the roof, and then back to the front of the car. Avoiding any wrinkles or fold-ups is not that hard to do if you take your time.
The install took a good half day to complete, but the results were exactly what we wanted-the stripe fit the body lines of the car, and the application gel really came in handy. Now our Sport has the look that Mopar designed, and it's a fresh new stripe which looks great.


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Can men get bacterial vaginosis from a female partner?
I was diagnosed with gardnerella vaginitis almost a year ago and I've been with the same guy for two years. I still have one symptom of vaginitis...the thick discharge and the last two times we've had sex, my fiance's semen has been thick and white instead of being thin and clear like normal. Is it possible that he has my infection? Can it be transmitted to a man?


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Dear Fellow Alumni/ae,
Welcome to a new academic year. It is a very exciting time to be engaged in the life of our alma mater, and I am honored to be serving as the current President of our Alumni Association.
During my five years as a member of the SCSU Alumni Association Board of Directors, I have come to admire the dedication of Board members and the many alumni volunteers whose hard work is such an important support to the SCSU community. You, the members of our association, appreciate what the University has done for you and now, in overwhelming numbers, you contribute to scholarship funds, share career and professional expertise, create internships and support today's students as mentors in attaining their academic, career and life goals. Thank you.
Dr. Mary Papazian, SCSU President, has a bold vision for the future of Southern. She is hard at work with a new administrative team to realize that vision, and she understands the critical role that SCSU's alumni/ae will play in helping to achieve her goals. Certainly we will be asked to contribute financially. New buildings, new academic program growth, new services required to ensure that students have the best possible chance at a first-rate education... all these things will require new funding, at a time when public funds are diminishing. More important, I believe, will be the support that you and I can lend by telling our stories. If we share – often and proudly – how Southern helped us achieve our career and life goals, we will help build support for the University that cannot fail to attract highly motivated students and a wider community that will help to support them.
The Alumni Association and the Office of Alumni Relations are working diligently to plan events that will offer you the opportunity to reconnect with Southern. If you have not been back to campus in a while, you will be amazed at the campus and facilities, and you will delight in the warm, welcoming atmosphere. Events are being planned for you across Connecticut and across the country. We hope you will attend this year's events, bring fellow classmates from your years at SCSU, and help define ways that our Association can help Southern continue to provide the high quality education that current and future students deserve.
If you are not currently a member, I urge you to join or renew your membership by contributing to the Annual Giving Campaign currently in progress. A gift of $35 or more entitles you to membership in the Southern Alumni Association. You may make a gift online by clicking here. You may receive a phone call from one of our student phonathon callers and I hope you'll ask questions and give generously in support of our students. To keep up on future events, check our alumni upcoming events page.
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More than 15 years ago, the African nation of Rwanda experienced a devastating war caused by genocide, and as the country continues to heal, its past, present and future affect North Central College students, faculty and alumni.
Here are stories from an international student, a delegate representing Rwanda at the 2009 Model U.N. and an alumna who is among the first Peace Corps workers welcomed to the country.
1. Etienne Mashuli '12 has two vivid memories of arriving in the United States in January 2009: the bitter cold, which he'd never experienced before, and his first trip to buy food. "It was very emotional for me to go to the grocery store," he says. "There's just so much here." Over the past year he's gained a few pounds from eating burgers and lasagna and there's another change in his life: "For the first time if someone knocks on my door, I'm not afraid."
Mashuli is North Central's first student from Rwanda, an African country known for the violence that erupted in 1994 between the Hutus (majority tribe) and Tutsis (minority tribe) and documented in the movie Hotel Rwanda. Mashuli doesn't talk much about his memories of his childhood but acknowledges the difficulties of living in a refugee camp in Congo. "I lost a part of my life due to the violence—and that's something I can't regain," he says. "Yet it's shaped who I am."
A series of positive relationships resulted in Mashuli obtaining an education in Kenya, developing three languages (Kinyarwanda, French and English) and landing in Naperville. "I've had sponsors all my life," he explains. An Australian-Korean man helped him get out of Congo and paid his school fees in Kenya. After returning to Rwanda in 2005, Mashuli translated for missionaries from Village Baptist Church in Aurora, IL, and Pastor Richard Howard helped him apply to North Central. He also met and married an American student volunteering in Rwanda.
Last winter, Mashuli talked with North Central's Model U.N. team members as they prepared to represent Rwanda. He says that despite positive images in the media, problems remain with poverty and other aspects of the country. "I don't want to say too much because I still have family there," he says. "You can't get too political if you want to help your people."
An economics major, he has formed a not-for-profit organization called Ubuntu In Action to support education for young people and to foster dialog for healing. "Some of us made it out of the refugee camps and some did not," he says. "You can't forget those who died and you can feel guilty that you survived."
He and his wife envision returning to Rwanda, which is home to nice people, not those remembered from images of the genocide. "It's hard to understand how nice people can be a part of something that was so bad," he adds.
2. Peace Corps volunteer Charissa Knighton '07 is teaching English at Ecole Secondare Munyinya in the Northern Province. Rwanda has changed its education system from six years of education to nine years and its language of teaching from French to English. Education volunteers like Knighton are training teachers in English and in more advanced teaching methods.
Some of Knighton's impressions: "As friendly as the Rwandans are, we are definitely living in a post-conflict area. The government has worked hard on campaigning for reconciliation and rebuilding, and everyone I have met has subscribed to it. If you listen carefully though, many people are still aching for justice, others are waiting for it to blow over and would rather pretend nothing happened … You will hear people causally mention family members lost in the war … Rwandans are allowed to drop these hints about their past, but you are never allowed to ask … they know you can never really understand or sympathize with them. There are memorials everywhere because almost everywhere is a site of some event or killing field. Every time a new mass grave is discovered, people gather … trying to find a scrap that will identify a missing family member."
At press time, Knighton was adjusting to her home (with a mud brick kitchen and charcoal stove), preparing for teaching and dealing with unreliable Internet connections. To read her blog, visit http://icereinepontificate.blogspot.com.
3. Rima Gungor '10 has faced some hard assignments in six years of Model U.N. participation, but nothing tops her role last year as a defense attorney for the International Tribunal for Rwanda. "This was a trial designed for people charged with war crimes during the genocide," she says. "You're playing a role that goes against what you believe and it's even harder than it seems."
She threw herself into the assignment, developing 12 binders of research after examining international law, the Geneva Convention and other sources. At the simulation in New York City, the trial ran short on time but she was told she could have won. "Researching all sides of a conflict allows for greater understanding and justice," she says.
At a fund-raiser in Chicago, Gungor met Paul Rusesabagina, the hotel manager who housed more than 1,000 Tutsi refugees during their struggle against the Hutu militia. Gungor has since gotten involved with the Hotel Rwanda Rusesabagina Foundation, which aims to prevent future genocides and raise awareness about the need for a new truth and reconciliation process. "Listening to him speak was one of the most inspiring experiences I've had. It's important to hear his message."
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Toshiba Corp. and Panasonic Corp. have announced that the two companies had signed a share transfer agreement under which Toshiba will acquire all of Panasonic's 40% shares in Toshiba Matsushita Display Technology, a joint venture that develops, manufactures and sells liquid crystal displays (LCDs) and organic light emitting displays (OLEDs).
Established in 2002, TMD is an industry leader in small- and medium-sized LCDs for application in such products as mobile phones, portable PCs and in-vehicle displays. However, the company is now facing a very tough business environment: weak demand that is sharply down from last year, and continuous price erosion in small- and medium-sized LCD panels. In these circumstances, and as part of the action programs to improve profitability announced by Toshiba this January, TMD is now implementing restructuring initiatives in its LCD business, including closing certain manufacturing lines.
After completion of the share transfer transaction, TMD will become a wholly-owned subsidiary of Toshiba Group, and will change its name to Toshiba Mobile Display Company. The share transfer is scheduled to take place on April 28. Acquiring Panasonic's stake in TMD will allow Toshiba to further accelerate decision-making and promote comprehensive restructuring of TMD's business.
Looking to the future, TMD aims to establish OLEDs as an engine for growth and to enhance its display business in the medium- to long-term.


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Receiving her Ed.D in Foundations in Education from UMass Amherst in 1982, Marie Sally Cleary has been a member of the Associates Program for independent scholars based at the Five Colleges since 1983. In her book Myths for the Millions: Thomas Bulfinch, His America, and His Mythology published in 2007, Cleary provides an in-depth study of the man behind the landmark work, The Age of Fable, which has been responsible for introducing many Americans to classical mythology since its original publication in 1855.
The collection consists of drafts and subject files related to the research and writing of Cleary's book.
- Bulfinch, Thomas, 1796-1867
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Montesquieu Winery has partnered with CNN Hero Doc Hendley, founder of the non-profit organization Wine to Water, and some of the top winemakers on earth in a quest to end the water crisis in the world. We proudly present our 4th wine in our Wine To Change The World Collection - Amazzi.
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Welcome to Montesquieu Winery
Montesquieu is a full-service wine group that connects wine lovers with the very best wines in the world. Domestically, we operate in the Burgundian negociant tradition, sourcing high quality juice from the top vineyards and handcrafting it into a finished wine, all with the utmost care and discrimination. Internationally, we work with growers and producers all over the world to import artisanal, terroir-driven wines for our clients.
The original Baron of Montesquieu – the philosopher and viticulturist Charles de Secondat – not only deeply influenced America's governmental structure with his famous treatise The Spirit of the Laws, but is also credited by many with the discovery of the Cabernet Sauvignon grape, now the principal varietal in the greatest wines of Bordeaux and Napa. We are pleased to carry on the tradition of winemaking begun by the Baron himself on his Bordeaux estate in the 18th century.
Whether we're sourcing wine internationally or producing it locally, we are committed to getting our clients handcrafted, small-run, outstanding wines, each of which offers a unique taste of the good life. If you're among the fortunate few who have the opportunity to acquire these wines, we promise that you'll experience a true work of art.
Frequently Asked Questions
A negociant is a wine merchant who sources grapes and/or juice from smaller growers and winemakers, finishes the wine and sells it under its own label or labels. It's a time-tested model in France that has resulted in some of the world's most prestigious wines.
Not all negociants are equally discriminating. Negociants in Burgundy have developed an approach that focuses on terroir-driven, site specific, limited run wines, rather than high-volume, commercially driven wines.
Montesquieu seeks to emulate this Burgundian negociant approach, sourcing small batches of juice from domestic artisanal growers and fashioning each wine so as to express its unique terroir.
Yes, we do; most of the domestic wine we sell was crafted by us. We have a winery license and a full-time winemaker who resides in Napa.
Like many high-end wineries in California, we do not own our own vineyards. Instead, we leverage our longstanding relationships with top domestic growers to seek out some of the best small-batch juice from the most prestigious regions on the West Coast. We then finish each wine in such a way as to draw out its unique character and complexity.
Our winemaker, Camille Benitah, is thrilled to be crafting wines at a new, state-of-the-art facility owned by Arkenstone Winery, located in Napa's Eastern mountains. Located high up on Howell Mountain, the property boasts spectacular views of the valley floor and a stunning cave for aging wines built into the side of the mountain. We share the winemaking equipment and underground cellars with Arkenstone and several other smaller wineries.
We want each label to express the uniqueness of each wine we make. We work with so many different wines each year that it would be inaccurate and confusing to label them all as "Montesquieu".
Each unique label indicates a unique wine that comes from a unique vineyard or set of vineyards. Of course when we work with the same vineyard and/or the same producer in successive years, we typically give each vintage the same label name so as to emphasize the continuity between the wines.
No, the international wines we source for our clients are mode and bottled by independent producers. We do seek to develop relationships with these growers and producers so as better to convey the story of each wine to our clients and to communicate our clients' experience with the wine back to the producers.
As a result of these relationships, Montesquieu is able to work with the producers from the beginning of the wine's life, assisting in the selection of ideal vineyard plots to cultivate into wines destined specifically for our clients (in most cases).
Montesquieu currently works with close to 100 growers and producers around the world, with more sending samples daily.
Fonda Hopkins and Frank Kryger founded the company in 1991 in Chicago. In 1992, the company acquired W.G. Best, an importer-distributor located in San Diego. Over the next fifteen years, we grew steadily, increasing our revenues and reach and opening up numerous sales offices.
Our winemaking facility is at Arkenstone Winery, up on Howell Mountain in Napa. Our administrative offices and warehouse are located in San Diego. We have sales offices and brokers around the country, located in San Francisco, Los Angeles, Newport Beach, San Diego, Orlando, Washington, D.C. and New York City.
Montesquieu currently has approximately 10,000 active clients throughout the United States.
Wine can be purchased through one of our brokers. With very few exceptions, our wine is only available through our brokers. Our wine is rarely available in retail shops or restaurants. If you'd like to speak to a broker, please call (800) 860-2378.
Montesquieu seeks to infuse pleasure and excitement into the process of learning to appreciate wine, while enabling each client to acquire wine personally tailored to their tastes and interests.
Unlike traditional wine merchants, our brokers work directly with their clients on an individual basis to expand their wine knowledge and to encourage them to trust their own palates. Brokers bridge a personal and meaningful connection between the winemaker and the client with the aim of deepening both parties' appreciation and understanding of how a wine's terroir shapes the client's experience. Through their broker, clients receive a window into the vineyard and cellar, learning about the vintage conditions, plot characteristics and winemaking decisions that give each wine a unique taste and identity.
Montesquieu clients also have direct access to rare and hard-to-obtain wines, most of which are not available in retail shops or restaurants.
Montesquieu's customer service is unparalleled in the wine industry – wines are guaranteed to the client's taste. If a client is unhappy with a purchase anytime within the first six months, we will refund or exchange the wines to ensure customer satisfaction.
Our Wines
Montesquieu wines - both those we make ourselves and those we bring in from vineyards around the world - undergo intense scrutiny to ensure that we only offer the best of the best to our clients. Our Montesquieu wine buyers not only seek small producers, they also are highly selective about which wines we carry. Montesquieu wine buyers taste hundreds of wines and visit scores of vineyards before choosing a deserving few to make available to our clients. As a result, you can be sure every bottle you receive from Montesquieu winery will be of the highest quality.


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Connections Matter to Homeless Youth
Anthony Ross was 13 years old when he lost his grandmother to heart disease. He didn't know his father, and his mother's substance abuse dependency would make staying with her impossible. Anthony wound up on the streets of Washington, DC.
Eventually, Anthony found his way to the welcoming doors of Sasha Bruce House, the emergency youth shelter operated by Sasha Bruce Youthwork (SBY). SBY is funded by the Family and Youth Services Bureau under the Runaway and Homeless Youth Act.
"My first time even enrolling into the program at the shelter it was like, 'Oh my goodness, I didn't know none of these people,' and I felt really awkward and uncomfortable sleeping in the bed next to complete strangers," Anthony said.
But relationships he developed with the staff at Sasha Bruce House, such as youth worker George Montgomery, helped keep him on track.
"Mr. George was always there if we needed to talk to him," Anthony said. "He was always able to listen and give us advice."
When Anthony decided that he wanted to go to college, George helped him think through his choices and even took him on college tours.
This spring, after serving as student body president, Anthony graduated Summa Cum Laude from St. Augustine University in Raleigh, NC. George attended Anthony's graduation.
"The great thing that Sasha Bruce imposes on people is that once you are in a program, they build a relationship with the homeless teenager and remain in their lives," Anthony said. "Because at the end of the day, they know that we didn't go through anything positive in our lives, and we need the support."


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Now more than ever, nonprofits are struggling to meet the needs of community members who have felt the effects of hard economic times. For Chicagoland nonprofit organizations, the $100,000 Humana Communities Benefit charitable grant in Chicago sponsored by the Humana Foundation, the philanthropic arm of health and well-being company Humana Inc., is an opportunity to help fulfill the financial demands of their organization.
For the 11th consecutive year, the Humana Communities Benefit program in Chicago will award a one-time, $100,000 grant to a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization dedicated to improving health experiences or building healthy communities. Eligible nonprofits located in Cook, DuPage, Kane, Kankakee, Lake or McHenry counties will be considered in the areas of childhood health, intergenerational health and active lifestyles and can apply through July 31. Following the selection process by a panel of local judges, the 2013 grant recipient will be announced at a celebratory event on Nov. 7.
"Humana's commitment to supporting the needs of health-focused nonprofit organizations in the Chicago area has remained strong over the last 11 years," said Tim O'Rourke, president of Humana's Great Lakes Medicare region. "For this reason, the Humana Communities Benefit grant in Chicago continues to help create and enhance programs that are vital for the health and well-being of Chicagoland residents."
The Humana Communities Benefit program in Chicago awarded the $100,000 grant to the Children's Place Association, a nonprofit dedicated to improving the overall quality of life of Chicago-area children and families living with HIV/AIDS or other life-changing conditions. The nonprofit organization has since used its one-time grant to purchase desktop computers for its learning classrooms, laptop computers for other facilities and home computers for local families.
"The Humana Communities Benefit grant has helped us open the gates to the digital world for many low-income families whose means are barely enough to survive," said Cathy Krieger, president and CEO of The Children's Place Association. "Our facility has seen a transformation in the lives of residents of all ages who are utilizing the internet as a tool to access anything from employment possibilities to medical care opportunities for their families."
Nonprofit organizations interested in applying for the 2013 grant can review guidelines and find more information on the application at www.Humana.com/HCB. Questions can also be directed to Humana by e-mail to email@example.com.
Humana Inc., headquartered in Louisville, Ky., is a leading health-care company that offers a wide range of insurance products and health and wellness services that incorporate an integrated approach to well-being.


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"Once the decision had been made, to tarry in the opposition party would have been inconsistent with my whole past. I would have set my own infallibility in the place of the infallibility of the Church."
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The United Nations has stated the tree was on the far side of the security fence but still on the Israeli-side of the Blue Line, the United Nations declared border. Using press information that stated the conflict occurred between the Lebanese village of Aadaisseh and the Israeli village of Misgav Am along with photos of the incident I created the map below showing where the tree was. One can also view the area in Google Maps.
The Yellow Line is actually the Blue Line border. The Red Line is the security fence. The blue area is where the tree was. The area is less than 600 feet (about 175 meters) at its widest and less than 1,000 feet (less than 300 meters) long.
The last time a tree along a border was the subject of violence was in 1976 when North Korean soldiers killed American and South Korean soldiers in the Korean demilitarized zone. The Allied forces were removing a tree which was obstructing the view between two observation points along the DMZ. Removing the tree was necessary because the North Koreans had made raids trying to kidnap Allied soldiers using the tree as cover. The North Koreans ambushed the tree cutting patrol with axes. The Allies responded later with a massive show of force and tree cutting campaign.
The green mark is where the Korean DMZ tree was and where the ax murders occurred. The bridge to the west (left) is the infamous Bridge of No Return
The deaths in Israeli-Lebanon and in the Korean DMZ were in theory over one tree in a demilitarized zone. In reality the aggressive side wanted to score some geopolitical points. The trees were in no-man lands. Such is the sad geography where lives are laid down over a tree in useless land.


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To help control the symptoms of menopause, such as hot flashes, vaginal dryness and extreme mood fluctuations, some women choose to take hormone therapy.
But not all women should use hormone therapy. Make the decision to try hormone therapy only after talking with your doctor. Carefully consider your own personal risks and whether the benefits of hormone therapy might outweigh those risks.
Major risks of hormone therapy
Among the possible risks of taking hormone therapy are:
- Pulmonary embolism, a blockage in one of the arteries in your lungs
- Deep vein thrombosis, a condition where blood clots form in veins deep within your body, often in your legs
- Stroke
- Heart and blood vessel (cardiovascular) disease
- Breast cancer
Benefits of hormone therapy
Hormone therapy may provide these benefits:
- Symptom relief
- Protection for your bones, including a reduced risk of broken bones and osteoporosis
If you start hormone therapy early in menopause, other possible benefits include:
- Decreased risk of heart and blood vessel (cardiovascular) disease
- Decreased risk of dementia
- Decreased risk of stroke
Weighing the pros and cons
The balance of risks and benefits of hormone therapy for you may be influenced by a number of factors:
- Your age
- How long it's been since menopause began
- What symptoms you're experiencing
- Whether your menopause occurred spontaneously or as a result of surgery
- Whether you're experiencing early menopause
- Your family history of diseases such as heart and blood vessel (cardiovascular) disease, thrombosis or cancer
- Your personal history of cancer, including atypical hyperplasia and lobular carcinoma in situ (LCIS) of the breast
- Your risk of heart and blood vessel (cardiovascular) disease, thrombosis and osteoporosis
If you make the decision to take hormone therapy, your doctor will prescribe the lowest dose needed to control your symptoms. You'll take hormone therapy only as long as you need it for symptom relief.
Source: http://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/menopause/in-depth/menopause-hormone-therapy-pros-cons/art-20090258/


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Democrats said Republican Gov. Scott Walker's budget that freezes spending for public education will severely harm those schools that are still reeling from deep cuts over the past two years.
Walker's budget released Wednesday doesn't allow spending increases for schools while raising aid by about 1 percent, but that money will go toward lowering property taxes and not on education spending.
State Superintendent Tony Evers said schools are struggling to make ends meet and the Legislature should allow spending to increase at least $225 per student.
Assembly Minority Leader Peter Barca said Democrats are hoping to improve the budget's education proposals to help schools that he says are "struggling mightily."
Walker's budget also calls for expanding private school vouchers to districts with failing schools.


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Green Mountain Power fined more over Lowell WindThe Associated Press | February 07,2013LOWELL — Vermont utility regulators have fined Green Mountain Power $30,000 stemming from five violations in its permit to ship turbine parts to an industrial wind-power project last year.
The utility had reached a settlement that included a $7,500 fine over the violations with the state Department of Public Service. Regulators on the Vermont Public Service Board accepted the settlement, but disagreed with the amount.
Board members said a higher penalty is warranted for violating the transportation plan, the Caledonian-Record reports.
The investigation into alleged violations began during Green Mountain Power's shipments across Vermont of parts to the Lowell wind project.
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By day, Dr. Henry Foustka works in an institute whose task is to stamp out non-rational thinking. By night, he desperately seeks knowledge of the world beyond the rational. He finds it in the occult. He is visited at home by a mysterious figure who promises him the knowledge he seeks, and who suggests his girlfriend Vilma might be unfaithful. At the office party that night, while fending off the Director's advances, Foustka beguiles the innocent Marketa with his seductive brilliance, but then goes off with Vilma. The next day, the spurned Director attempts to exact his revenge, and Foustka is locked in a life and death struggle to protect his secret self. Trapped in a world where speaking the truth is impossible, never knowing whom to trust, Foustka's quest finally reaches its climax amongst capering demons at a witches' Sabbath masquerade party.


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Hundreds of Fort Drum Workers Called Back
Hundreds of furloughed Fort Drum workers reported for work Monday, after a decision by Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel over the weekend.
That includes 250 furloughed workers considered garrison employees, and all the medical employees on post, according to officials.
Just under 60 percent of Drum's medical employees were furloughed last week because of the government shutdown.
A union official said Monday morning that he believes all workers at Fort Drum have been recalled. The deputy garrison commander will brief the workforce Tuesday morning.
The decision by Defense Secretary Hagel is based on a Pentagon legal interpretation of a law called the Pay Our Military Act.
That measure was passed by Congress and signed by President Barack Obama shortly before the partial government shutdown began Tuesday.
Meanwhile, Fort Drum's commissary will reopen Tuesday. There was early word over the weekend that it would reopen Sunday, but officials said they would need more time to get the facility open.


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Douglas finally gets one to go
Gallo's 14 points on 6 FG and 8-8 FT is yet ANOTHER reasons why he needs to drive to the basket more...he basically draws fouls at will every time he does so.
TOs are killing us. Scoring is strangely efficient and rebounding is surprisingly NOT atrocious, but man we turn the ball over way too much (STAT, but also Felton).
Douglas also has to stop chucking 3's. 0-5 from 3...
I mean, Douglas can shoot the open 3 and can hit a spot up jumper but that doesn't mean he needs to be using 3's exclusively...he needs to realize that his strength comes on the break and utilize that more
Douglas finally gets one to go
"Hello my name ith Wilthon Chandluh"
jeez amare has been nice this game......GS has no interior d
Taking it to the basket and turning D into O. Amazing how 70-80% of the forum knew to do this before the team did.
I threw my remote when Chandler bricked a long 3 when we were only down by 3 and on that nice run. He's damn lucky he got the block on the break or I'd still be cursing him out.
Please stop chucking 3s against the weakest interior defense in the league. Even Gallo is taking it more to the rim.
Why did we take 29 three pointers and only hit 6 of them? Thats not how u win games
Stoudemire for Three!!! 33 points his new career high with the Knicks
OMFG. What play did we draw up in that timeout with 50s and 2 timeouts.
We storm out, Gallo is forcefed the rock FROM the inside, and he insta heaves up his WORST shot and possesin of the entire game.
And then "STAT" clanks his freebies.
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The Knicks hit 22.6% of there three's...When does Antoni give them the red light?
Chandler? Really?? He gets the last 3 to tie? Really? OMG!! UUUUGH!!
Liked the fight of the team coming back from 19 even though it was a loss. LOL at D'Antoni when he's mic'ed up, "you do what you do" encouraging his bricklayers to take those 3s.
I think its gonna take a month or two before this team gels properly. And i keep sayin it, we need azubuike back. Hes a legit starting 2 guard
The biggest problem tonight was defense...interior defense, to be specific. I think we woulda had this game if Ron Ron played


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I know we are in a food & drink section, but I thought i'd bring home the bad side of Christmas and drink driving.
I saw this campaign today on my Twitter feed and thought i'd share some of the scary facts with you.
See: http://www.drink-driving-limit.co.uk/
What do you think? What scares you the most?
I'm quite scared by the way those statistics are presented. Presumably, they were produced by a reputable organisation, but some are skewed badly. By choosing arbitrary age ranges, they are able to show that the 25-59 year olds caused 2230 casualties, but the 16-24 year olds only caused 1350. How many people fall into the 25-59 range compared to the 16-24 range? How many people in the 16-24 range don't actually drive? How many over 60s drive as a proportion of the population. Sorry, but this is sloppy maths! 3 out of 10, must do better if they want to be taken seriously.
I've no argument with the basic message that drinking and driving is dangerous and wrong.


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On this day (June 3) in 1864, Union Gen. Ulysses S. Grant's Army of the Potomac suffered one of its bloodiest defeats at the hands of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia in the Battle of Cold Harbor.
This battle, fought near Mechanicsville in Hanover County, Va., some 10 miles northeast of the Confederate capital Richmond, was the third of four exceedingly bloody encounters in May and June 1864 between Grant and Lee.
As with the first two battles in this series of bloody conflicts (May 6-7 Battle of the Wilderness and the May 8-12 Battle of Spotsylvania), Union casualties far exceeded those of the always outmanned Confederate army. This sanguinary firefight was one of the final battles of Grant's Overland Campaign – a series of simultaneous offensives, which he put into effect shortly after his appointment March 12, 1864, as Union Army commander-in-chief.
By late May 1864, the two main coordinated campaigns of Grant's grandiose scheme to finally win the war were in place: 1. Gen. William T. Sherman's Atlanta Campaign; and 2. Grant's plan (he accompanied and directly supervised Gen. George G. Meade's Army of the Potomac) to destroy Lee's formidable Army of Northern Virginia and capture Richmond.
The Battle of Cold Harbor actually started June 1 when Union Gen. Philip Sheridan's Cavalry Corps occupied the vital crossroads of Old Cold Harbor, which was near the same area as the Battle of Gaines' Mill during the Seven Days Battles of 1862.
Sheridan's troopers repulsed an attack by Confederate infantry to recapture the village. The resultant June 1 casualty rate was unusually high. Union casualties exceeded 2,000 versus fewer than an estimated 500 for the Confederates. By the morning of June 2, Grant and Lee had brought up reinforcements and formed a 7-mile battlefront in preparation for the climatic third day of this historic battle.
At 4:30 a.m. June 3rd, Grant ordered three Union corps to attack through thick fog the well-entrenched main units of Lee's army. The result was a Union disaster, which resulted in the most lopsided casualties since the ill-fated Union assault on Marye's Heights at the Battle of Fredericksburg on Dec. 13, 1862. By noon June 3, Grant finally called off his futile attack and spent the rest of the day tending to his wounded troops and reassessing his plan to continue attacking the increasingly formidable Confederate trenches.
There followed the June 3 Union defeat a brief cession of hostilities between these two antagonists, which ended with still another bloody battle – the June 15-18 Battle of Petersburg.
At Cold Harbor, the approximate 109,000-man Army of the Potomac was confronted by a Confederate army half its size (approximately 59,000), but suffered an almost inexplicable defeat. After two months of almost continual fighting, the Federals had not been able to destroy Lee's army and were unable to capture Richmond. The Federal casualties in the three-day Battle of Cold Harbor were almost 15,000 (1,905 killed, 10,570 wounded, and 2,456 missing or captured). Since apparently no official records exist for Confederate losses, the Confederate losses were estimated to be only around 1,700.
The Union army paid a high price for its offensive campaign against well-entrenched, skillfully led Confederate defenders. For his bloody two-month (May-June 1864) offensive campaign against Gen. Lee, Grant was called "Butcher Grant" in northern newspapers.
In his memoirs, Grant wrote that he had "always regretted that last assault at Cold Harbor was ever made. ... No advantage whatever was gained to compensate for the heavy loss we sustained."
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Officials believe Jennifer Rodela, 36, might have been under the influence of alcohol when the vehicle rolled over while northbound along Interstate 37 early Saturday. The accident took place shortly before 5 a.m. Saturday at Mile Marker 50 just north of Swinney Switch, reports show.
Rodela's two young daughters, Deanna Revada and Reanna Revada , were both in the back in booster seats at the time of the accident, according to Ben Amoles, a Texas Department of Public Safety Trooper out of Beeville.
Deanna's booster was not secured by a seat belt, and as a result, she was thrown from the 2004 blue Mazda 3 and killed, Amoles said.
Reanna was not ejected. She received non-life-threatening injuries and was treated at an area children's hospital.
Authorities believe Rodela fell asleep behind the wheel and veered left into the median along NB I-37. She then is believed to have over-corrected and traveled across lanes into a grassy area off the road, which is where the car rolled. It ultimately came to rest upside down, reports show.
Initial reports indicate Rodela and daughter Reanna were trapped in the vehicle immediately following the accident.
Rodela has since been treated and released from the hospital. Her Monday whereabouts were not immediately clear and she was not available to comment on the accident.
At the time of the accident, Rodela is believed to have been on a trip from Corpus Christi to Austin — of which Del Valle is a suburb.
Until toxicology tests are completed, it is unclear if she will face any charges from the accident, Amoles said.
Intoxication manslaughter in the state of Texas is a second degree felony punishable by two to 20 years in prison and a $10,000 fine.
Reporter Melissa K. Lovett contributed to this report.


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Find Your Passion: Making Lives Bigger
By Chris Bryant
"The kind of education I like best is one that shows students a new piece of the world they didn't know existed," says Dr. Robert Halli, dean of The University of Alabama's Honors College. "Their life's gotten bigger because of it."
UA junior Allison Garstecki can relate to Halli's comment. It was she who unearthed a key sandstone artifact, some 800 years old, during the final days of an archaeological expedition in which she and her 11 fellow classmates participated.
While Halli's comment about showing students a previously unknown piece of the world wasn't in direct reference to Garstecki's find, it's certainly applicable. In the fall 2007 Honors College class taught by Dr. Jim Knight, professor of anthropology in UA's College of Arts and Sciences, Garstecki and her classmates excavated portions of a small Mississippian Indian settlement occupied about 800 years ago.
At least two residences once stood at the site, located on the banks of the Black Warrior River. Those residents were, Knight said, part of the same tribe that built Moundville, the former bustling economic and ceremonial center some 14 miles away and which was once the largest city north of Mexico.
Garstecki, a biological sciences major and Mobile native planning for medical school, says she was surprised how much field work was involved in the class, which was geared toward non-anthropology majors within Honors College. "I thought it would be a classroom thing and every now and then we would excavate," Garstecki says. "It turns out, we went to the site every day. It was a lot more based on precision and technique than I ever would have thought. It was something I knew I would never do again in my life, something completely different to give me another perspective."
And, as it turns out, one of Garstecki's discoveries during the dig is adding to Knight's and other professional archaeologists' perspective, as well as her own.
Prevalent at the site is a particular type of sandstone that was frequently used by the Mississippian Indians in constructing paint palettes, an important craft item largely associated with Moundville. Prior to the class beginning, Knight said it was possible that the site had something to do with procuring the sandstone that was transported to Moundville for the palettes. Near the end of it, Garstecki added validity to the theory.
"I found a piece of sandstone that was being shaped for a palette to be painted," Garstecki says. "It must have broken in the process, so they didn't end up finishing. This pretty much confirmed that at this site they were doing palette production. It helped tell us more about the site. A palette would have been a really holy piece that only a priest would have had."
Knights says an Honors College class like this one can be an exciting once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for students like Garstecki.
"It's pretty enjoyable to a lot of people who have never personally excavated something that's a thousand years old," Knight says. "They pick up something and ask you, 'how old is that?' And you say, 'it's a thousand years old,' and … it's kind of hard to believe. No one has seen that in a thousand years. It's a little bit of a thrill."
Halli says if given the chance to start over as a student, such classes would be thrilling to him.
"If I were here as an undergraduate, I would have to go and take this class," Halli says. "I think that is one of the most important things that we can do in Honors College is offer students a life experience. I'm in favor, more and more, of education that gets you outside of the classroom. All education is, is experiences. All we do at this university is package it."
The mission of the UA Honors College is to recruit, educate and promote the best and brightest students at The University of Alabama. The creation of Honors College in 2003 affirms the University's commitment to empower students to achieve the very top of their potential, and then be rewarded for their achievement.
"One of the things that we try and get students to do is to try and realize their passions," Halli says. Garstecki's passion is geared to medicine, with a possible dermatology focus. "I like working with people and helping people," the UMS Wright graduate and UA presidential scholar says.
Her initial steps toward med school are routed through the preparatory path of UA's biological sciences department. It's a path enlightened, in some unexpected ways, by new pieces of the world along the way.
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|Courtesy of the Klamath County Museums
The obvious pride these fellows take in either installing the telephone, or having their pictures taken on the momentous event, makes this one of my favorite pictures.
|Courtesy of the Klamath County Museums
Life probably got a little easier with the convenience of telephones in Klamath Falls. Or maybe it got more complicated? You wonder if the Western Union people saw the writing on the wall. Love the big bold sign on the pole. I've never seen that before in old photos.ReplyDelete
Seems to me that the boldness of the sign goes well with the swaggery stance of all of those fellows. A Klamath Falls sort of thing, me thinks.Delete
Great history and take off for this weeks Sepia Saturday, I am now your 99th follower!
Jan, thanks for the nice words. I was hoping the picture was not too far off of the theme. Thank you for being a follower of this blog. Hope you enjoy my offerings.Delete
Pretty big pole and LOTS of those cool glass insulators that have no doubt gone on to their reward in antique shops somewhere. I like this picture too - especially the HUGE letters announcing the telephone.ReplyDelete
Boy, o, boy, I used to have a bunch f those glass insulators -- they were in my living room windows for years --- wonder what I did with them?? Good to be reminded about those old treasures. Thanks.Delete
Interesting the way those chimneys have been adapted - I wonder what that's about?ReplyDelete
Brett, you do ask interesting questions. I hadn't really noticed the chimneys, but now that I look at them more closely, I think it may have something to do with the draft. It looks as tho the chimneys with the metal extensions are lower on the roof line -- and behind the big facade -- so the smoke may not have been drawn out as well by the prevailing south winds.Delete
It looks very ordered, tidy and smart. Interesting pic.ReplyDelete
Yes, it does look ordered and tidy --- strange concept for my rollicking, cowboy town........but interest is the picture as well as my old home town.Delete
Was it a public telephone? (I'm looking at the huge sign on the pole.) Great photo.ReplyDelete
It must have been the first public telephone as the Midway Telephone and Telegraph Co.
offered 24-hour telephone service in Klamath Falls beginning in 1905. "Two rings for Central, and you can talk with the world any time day or night," manager O.B. Gates was quoted as saying. Given the look and size of the sign, I think this must have been the first public telephone.
The TELEPHONE sign really stands out!ReplyDelete
I was always rather taken with the size of the letters on the sign -- dinna want the telephone to be missed, eh?Delete
That must have been so exciting, really. I am enjoying your stories about Klamath Falls.
Kathy M.
Glad you are enjoying this bit of Klamath history. When ever I venture back over the mountains to Klamath Falls, I like to stop in at the Klamath County Museum --- they have some really great pictures.Delete
Wow. Those men really look pleased with themselves. I can see that they took a lot of pride in their work. Nice photo. Interesting twist on the theme.
Glad you enjoyed this little bit of early Klamath Falls history. I have been hoping to come upon a picture of the actual phone --- now that would be fun.Delete
Wow, what an historic event for the town. Thank you for sharing.ReplyDelete
I believe the word "telephone" is also shown on the front wall of the building, at the top. But apparently that was not clear enough.
This picture postcard dates from 1910. We are now well over a 100 years down the road and we still have giant "poles" to facilitate our mobile phones. Some things just don't change...
Unfortuantely, the cell towers are even taller --- and in our neck of the woods cause a whole lot of angst -- nobody wants those danged things in "my back yard.".Delete
We didn't have a telephone until the 1970s as there was a shortage of lines. We could have done with a public phone on our street.
Your's is a truly historic picture; those men can't be that comfortable posing with their legs so far apart.
The wide legged stance is pretty typical in those old cowboy towns-- even when they dinna ride horseback all that much. My younger cowboy relatives still have a similar stance.Delete
A great picture for tht theme and I enjoyed reeding about this small bit of Oregon history in 1910.ReplyDelete
I wonder who was the first person they phoned-up?ReplyDelete
Well when they entered the "phone-world" the manager said "two rings for Central and you can talk to the world." Me thinks their world was mighty small.
I am really enjoying reading everyone's posts this week. I joined Sepia Saturday last week and am so excited.ReplyDelete
P.S. I just became your 100th follower!!ReplyDelete
What a wonderful photo and description! Count me in as a follower too, and welcome to fun at SS!ReplyDelete
Karen, thanks for the warm welcome. I am so impressed with the variety of photos on SS -- I feel a bit overwhelmed. as you can most likely tell, I love the stories with the pictures.Delete
Great picture! In my imagination, I can see similar scenes playing out in small towns across the US as each got their first phone.ReplyDelete
When did Helena's family get telephone service installed?Delete
Great photo! I have many female relatives that were telephone operators in the 1910s-1920s.ReplyDelete
While this surely was a momentum moment for a community to connect with each others and the world out there, they had no idea what would come later. I wonder how they would react if they saw our mode of communication now.
Great pic!!