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Cuff circumference
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Evolution of the "Dear Birthmother Letter"
Posted on October 8, 2010
Time makes change. People, relationships, technology, and laws all change with the passing of time. During the 23 years that I have been practicing adoption law, I have been witness to multiple changes in the law as well as in the composition of the families who are seeking to adopt. Singles, as well as gay and lesbian couples are seeking to adopt in equal or greater numbers than heterosexual couples. One is hard pressed to think of what has often been referred to as a non traditional family as non traditional anymore!
Along with these changes it is to be expected that the relationship between birth parents and prospective adoptive parent(s) would also change. Birth parents are no longer content with just knowing the first names, age and state in which their adoptive parent(s) reside. Birth parents want the opportunity to become familiar with their prospective family in a more intimate (yet not necessarily identifying) way than in the past. This is where today's Life Book or Adoptive Parent Profile comes into play.
Typically a birth parent and prospective adoptive parent have their initial communication with one another over the telephone. This may occur when a pregnant woman responds to an ad that prospective adoptive parents have placed in a publication or through an introduction by someone familiar with both of them. Typically the next step in this new relationship is for the birth mom to receive a written communication from the prospective family. Twenty some years ago prospective parents would dash off a letter or a card to the birth mom and this would be sufficient to establish a continuing relationship. No longer.
A pregnant woman who is considering adoption now knows that she can expect much more from a potential family. Today prospective families prepare a book about themselves for the birth mom and her extended family to review. This Life Book or Profile as it is sometimes referred to will include details about a family's home and environment, nuclear and extended family, support system, and values. In other words it will relay allow a prospective birth mother to preview the details of a family's life.
The importance of this profile cannot be underestimated. If a birth mother doesn't care whom she is choosing to place her baby with, chances are she is not serious about making an adoption plan. I always view it as a red flag if the birth mother is not interested in taking the time to get to know the family she in intending on placing with.
I urge the prospective adoptive families with whom I work to put time and effort into preparing these books. This book should reflect who you are personally; your interests, values and commitments. One cannot properly express these thoughts by copying text from sample books or the books of friends who have adopted in the past. The profile should not include generic statements and thoughts. This is your book and your life. This book will be a key factor in helping you to make your own special connection with the right birth mom.
These profiles should not read as resumes. Birth moms are not interested in the awards that you have won through your education and employment. If you are already a parent, you do not want to brag about how adorable, athletic and brilliant your child is. A birth mom isn't going to be hearing how much you love your child. What she will be worrying about is if the baby she is carrying can live up to this sibling. Will you be able to love her child as much?
The woman you will want to make an adoption plan with is the one who is concerned about the values and stability of the family she will be placing her child with for the rest of his/her life. She wants to be assured that her child will be safe, secure and loved unconditionally. A birth mom wants to be able to visualize the child's future routines, weekend activities, holiday celebrations and educational opportunities. A thoughtful Life Book is the way this can be accomplished. Once you have completed your story you will want to add photos to illustrate what you have discussed. Many birth moms reveal that they intend to hold on to these precious books as keepsakes. They often admit to sharing these books with people in their lives who are near and dear to them. A woman who feels this way is the woman with whom prospective parents have the best chance at making a successful adoption plan.
Suzanne B. Nichols Esq. has a Master's degree in counseling as well as a JD degree. Her practice has been limited to adoption for over 20 years. She is licensed to practice law in NY and NJ and has offices located in Westchester and Manhattan. She has been a Fellow of the American Academy of Adoption Attorneys since 1991. She has authored articles on domestic and international adoption for professional publications and is a frequent guest speaker at professional organizations.


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Vietnam's most celebrated figure
Ho Chi Minh, affectionately referred to as Uncle Ho, spent his life fighting for Vietnamese independence and, for this, he is still the country's most celebrated figure.
His images are found nearly everywhere—on signs, in schools, on money and of course it's the official name of the commercial capital, Ho Chi Minh City—but most casual visitors to Vietnam know little about the man. If you'd like to get to know Uncle Ho, head to the waterfront in District 4 to the Ho Chi Minh Museum.
Across the Ben Nghe Channel from downtown District 1, about a five-minute walk from the Vung Tau hydrofoil ferry dock along the banks of the Saigon River, the cubed-shaped, reddish building that is the Ho Chi Minh Museum sticks out from its isolated surroundings. Also known as the Dragon House, getting the name its flamboyant roof, the building was built in the mid 1800s, when it served as office space for a French merchant company. And it was around this very spot in 1911 that Uncle Ho boarded a French ship and began his 30 years of exile.
All three storeys of the museum's interior are dedicated to the man that bears its name. On the first two floors you'll find a collection of pieces from his personal life, from his favourite radio to more mundane pieces like a pair of his sandals or a toothpick he used. On the third floor you'll find an impressive gathering: the museum claims to have 3,000 Ho Chi Minh portraits. This floor also has a smaller sampling of Vietnamese artwork, mostly from children expressing their love to the great former leader.
It's certainly not the most diverse museum in the world, and most of the item descriptions and information is only in Vietnamese, but at the low admission price of 10,000 VND it's worth a visit. Even if you're not really into the history, the museum's pleasant garden alone is worth the visit. Be aware that the museum has some strange times of operation. Unlike most museums in the city, this one does not close for lunch, staying open from 7:30 to 17:00, but closing on Monday and Friday.
If you're on a quest for more museums, Saigon has more to offer within a 15-minute cab ride. The closest spots are the Ho Chi Minh City Museum, where you'll learn more of HCMC's story, and the Reunification Palace, the old headquarters of the South Vietnamese Government. Or, a little further away into Distirct 3, you'll find the War Remnants Museum.
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Some of the FORWARD to Professorship speakers are listed below (in alphabetical order by first name). Information for all other speakers can be obtained by following the links on our program page.
Amy E. Butler, Guest Speaker
Amy E. Butler serves as Executive Director of Foundation Relations at The George Washington University. Prior to GW, she spent 11 years working for national organizations such as NARAL Pro-Choice America, the Children's Defense Fund, American Rivers, and National Public Radio. She also has devoted 5 years as a grassroots fundraiser and educator for the Southern Tier AIDS Program and Southern Tier NAMES Project, as well as Foundation Directory for Planned Parenthood of Metropolitan Washington. Amy received her Bachelor's Degree in 1987 from the University of California, Los Angeles in United States History, as well as a Master's Degree in 1989 and Ph.D. in United States History in 1997 from Binghamton University. Amy is the author of Two Paths to Equality, a case study of the legislative and legal strategies used by national women's organizations to advance equal rights in the workplace. She is a member of the Association of Fundraising Professionals, American Association of Grant Professionals and currently serves on the board of the George Washington Institute for Spirituality and Health.
Carol Hayes, Guest Speaker
Carol Hayes received her Ph.D. in English Literature from the University of California, Irvine in 2000. She joined The George Washington University as an Assistant Professor of Writing in 2002. Currently on sabbatical, she is engaged in both quantitative and qualitative research on student writing attitudes; the study she is leading attempts to measure the impact of public writing on helping first-year students transition to university-level writing and research. She is also writing a work of historical fiction. She served as Deputy Director of First-Year Writing at The George Washington University in 2005 and 2006, and then as Director in 2007 and 2008.
Cynthia Dowd, Guest Speaker
Cynthia Dowd is an Assistant Professor of Chemistry at George Washington University. She obtained her BA in Chemistry from the University of Virginia and PhD in Medicinal Chemistry from Virginia Commonwealth University. Following a postdoc at the University of Pennsylvania, Cindy was an intramural scientist at the National Institutes of Health (NIH). In 2007, she began her independent career at GWU where her research is focused on the design and synthesis of novel therapies against tuberculosis and other bacterial pathogens. She is the co-author/editor of The Chemistry of Drugs for Nurse Anesthetists, many peer-reviewed papers, reviews, and book chapters, and is the recipient of major awards from GWU and NIH.
Daniel Lundberg, Guest Speaker
Dr. Daniel Lundberg received his B.S. in Biology from Gallaudet University in 2002. Immediately after graduation, he was accepted as a post-baccalaureate fellow at the National Cancer Institute, NIH for one year where he studied and contributed to publications in signal transduction pathways important in cancer and pain. He then received a Ph.D. in Pharmacology from the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities Medical School in 2008. The focus of his dissertation was on cannabinoid modulation of synaptic transmission. He is currently Assistant Professor in the Department of Chemistry and Physics at Gallaudet University.
David Dolling, Guest Advisor
Dr. Dolling obtained a 1st Class Honors degree in Aeronautical Engineering from London University, UK, in 1971, and from 1971-1973, was an aerodynamicist at Hawker Siddeley Dynamics. He earned a graduate diploma in Fluid Dynamics at the von Karman Institute for Fluid Dynamics in 1974 and a Ph.D. degree from London University in 1977. From 1977-1983, he was a Research Engineer and Lecturer at the Gas Dynamics Laboratory at Princeton University. In 1983 he joined the Department of Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics (ASE/EM) at The University of Texas at Austin. He served as chairman of the ASE/EM Department from 1994 to 2003, and was Associate Dean for Academic Affairs in the College of Engineering from 2004 -2008.
He is a Fellow of AIAA, and Fellow of Royal Aeronautical Society. Dr Dolling served as Vice-President (Publications) of AIAA and member of AIAA Board of Directors from 2003-2006. Professor Dolling is an experimentalist with research interests in supersonic and hypersonic shock wave-induced, turbulent flows, with particular interests in unsteady separated flows.
He has been Dean of the School of Engineering and Applied Science at The George Washington University since September 2008.
Ellen Kandell, Guest Speaker
Ellen Kandell, is an attorney with over 30 years of diverse legal experience in the public and private sectors. She is the President of Alternative Resolutions, LLC which provides third party neutral services, conflict management training and consulting. She was trained as a mediator at Harvard Law School and is a certified mediator in Maryland. Her clients include non profits, associations, business, educational institutions, and government agencies. Her passion is working with organizations to resolve team and system wide conflicts.
She is an Adjunct Professor at Catholic University of American and the University of Maryland University College. She is also President of the Maryland Council for Dispute Resolution and a founding member of the Conflict Resolution Center of Montgomery County.
Prior to opening her own firm in 1999, Ms. Kandell was in the environmental enforcement office at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and managed their alternative dispute resolution program.
Jenepher Lennox Terrion, Guest Speaker
Jenepher Lennox Terrion, Ph.D. is Associate Professor in the Department of Communication at the University of Ottawa. She has an extensive practical and academic background in the field of communication, where her teaching and research interests are in the areas of interpersonal and organizational communication, training evaluation and program evaluation. Her research has examined the impacts of peer mentoring, leadership development, family support, and communication skills training programmes. She is particularly interested in the contribution of communication in building and maintaining social capital or interpersonal relationships, and the role that these networks and relationships play in fostering resiliency, retention and academic success, engagement and a sense of belonging. She has published in numerous peer-reviewed journals including Mentoring and Tutoring, Studies in Higher Education, the International Journal of Evidence Based Coaching and Mentoring and the Journal of Management Development as well as the Sage Handbook of Mentoring and Coaching in Education (2012). Dr. Lennox Terrion has provided consultation and training services throughout the private and public sectors since 1987 to hundreds of staff, managers and executives. She holds B.A., M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in Communication and speaks English and French.
James H. Johnson Jr., Guest Advisor
Dr. Johnson has been the Samuel P. Massie Professor of Civil Engineering and dean of the College of Engineering, Architecture and Computer Sciences at Howard University. He is recently retired.
He is the past chair of the Board of Scientific Counselors Executive Committee of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Office of Research and Development, a member of EPA's Science Advisory Board and the co-principal investigator of the Department of Energy-sponsored HBCU/MI Environmental Technology Consortium. Dr. Johnson is a member of the National Research Council's (NRC) Board on Environmental Studies and Toxicology, the American Society of Civil Engineers' Committee on Diversity and Women in Civil Engineering and the Board of Trustees of the Anne Arundel Community College. He also serves on several university and private sector advisory committees.
Dr. Johnson's research interests include the treatment and disposal of hazardous substances, the evaluation of environmental policy issues in relation to minorities, the use of nanomaterials for environmental restoration, the development of environmental curricula and strategies to increase the pool of underrepresented groups in the science, technology, engineering and math disciplines.
Dr. Johnson has authored over 60 scholarly articles, contributed to three books, and co-edited two books. Dr. Johnson is a registered professional engineer in the District of Columbia and a diplomate of the American Academy of Environmental Engineers. He is the 2005 recipient of the National Society of Black Engineers Lifetime Achievement Award in Academia.
Jean Chin, Guest Speaker
Dr. Jean Chin is a Program Director at the National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS) of the National Institutes of Health (NIH). She oversees a portfolio of research (R01) grants in the areas of membrane structure and function as well as lipid metabolism. In addition, she manages a collaborative "glue" grant on lipidomics and two center grants for the production and structural determination of membrane proteins. She is also deeply committed to the NIH AREA or Academic Research Enhancement Award program which supports biomedical research for faculty in primarily undergraduate and teaching-intensive institutions. Dr. Chin received her B.S. in Chemistry from Simmons College and her Ph.D. in Biochemistry from Dartmouth College. After postdoctoral and junior faculty positions at Harvard University and at the Center for Blood Research in Harvard Medical School, she continued her research as a Senior Staff Fellow at the NIH before joining NIGMS in 1994 as a Program Director.
Kelly Mack, Guest Speaker
Dr. Kelly Mack received her Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Maryland Eastern Shore (UMES) in Biology and later the PhD degree from Howard University in Physiology. She returned to UMES in 1995 as an Assistant Professor. Currently, she is a Professor of Biology in the Department of Natural Sciences, making her the first African American woman and the first woman ever to be promoted to that rank in the history of the Department of Natural Sciences at UMES.
Dr. Mack has had extensive training in the area of cancer research. During her tenure as a graduate student at Howard University, she was involved in ongoing studies related to the cellular accumulation of cisplatin, an antitumor agent, in estrogen-sensitive and -insensitive human breast cancer cells in the presence of terbium, a lanthanide metal and calcium channel blocker. At Howard, she developed expertise in sterile tissue culture techniques, fluorescence spectroscopy, and atomic absorption spectrophotometry. Since then, her research efforts have varied in focus over the past several years to include mechanisms of androgen regulation of prostate tumor cells as well as the use of demethyltransferase inhibitors and histone deacetylase agents in inducing the re-expression of the estrogen receptor in human breast tumor cells. Most recently, Dr. Mack's research has focused on the use of bioflavonoids in the regulation of proliferation of estrogen receptor positive (ER+) and estrogen receptor negative (ER-) breast tumor cells. To address this research goal, Dr. Mack has established the UMES Genomics Facility, which utilizes microarray technology for determining global gene expression patterns.
Dr. Mack not only has a professional commitment to cancer research, but also teaching and academic leadership. As a member of the Board of Governors for the National Council on Undergraduate Research, an organization which is dedicated to promoting undergraduate research, scholarship, and creative activity in all fields of study, Dr. Mack has a vital role in facilitating the improvement of the state of undergraduate education in the US. As the Biology Program Group Leader at UMES, Dr. Mack provides leadership and strategic vision for the intellectual, educational, and professional development of biology majors. Dr. Mack also provides leadership in coordinating faculty associated with the Biology Program in providing quality instruction, research, and development activities. During her tenure at UMES, Dr. Mack has served as Principal Investigator, Director or Co-Director for several externally funded projects that have totaled over $12 million dollars. These include the UMES Minority Access to Research Careers (MARC) and Minority Biomedical Research Support (MBRS) Programs, sponsored by the National Institute of General Medical Sciences; the Historically Black Colleges and Universities Undergraduate Program; the University of Maryland Center of Excellence for Health Disparities; the University of Maryland Partnership in Cancer Research and Outreach; and the recently funded UMES ADVANCE Program, which has as its mission to increase the representation and advancement of women in academic science and engineering careers.
Keri Kornelson, Guest Speaker
Keri Kornelson received a Bachelor's degree with distinction from the University of Colordo, Boulder in 1989 and a Bachelor's degree in History from the University of Maryland, European Division (England) in 1992. She received her Master's degree in 1997 and her Ph.D. in Mathematics from the University of Colorado, Boulder, in 2001. She was an NSF-VIGRE postdoctoral fellow at Texas A&M University from 2001-4 and was an Assistant Professor at Grinnell College from 2004 to 2008. She solved her 2-body problem with a move to the University of Oklahoma, and is currently up for tenure and promotion to Associate Professor.
Her research interests include harmonic and functional analysis, particularly as applied to wavelets and frames, fractals, and iterated function systems. Along with this work, she has also been active in promoting women in STEM fields, creating research projects for undergraduates and early graduate students, and recruiting more students into the math major at OU.
Linda Heller, Guest Speaker
Linda Heller, award winning author, received her undergraduate degree in English with a focus on American Literature and her Masters degree in Elementary Education. Prior to writing novels, she crafted fiction of a different sort as a PR communications specialist at publicly-held technology company. Currently, she focuses on her own writing career and is a member of the Romance Writers of America and serves on the Board of the Washington Romance Writers. She lives in Washington, D.C. with her husband and two children.
Leah Jamieson, Keynote Speaker
Leah Jamieson is John A. Edwardson Dean of Engineering, Ransburg Distinguished Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Purdue University, and holds a courtesy appointment in Purdue's School of Engineering Education. She served as 2007 President and CEO of the IEEE. She is co-founder and past director of the EPICS Engineering Projects in Community Service Program. She has been recognized with the National Academy of Engineering's Gordon Prize for Innovation in Engineering and Technology Education, the NSF Director's Award for Distinguished Teaching Scholars, and the Anita Borg Institute's Women of Vision Award for Social Impact. She served on the steering committee for the NAE report Changing the Conversation: Developing Effective Messages for Improving Public Understanding of Engineering and is co-chair of the ASEE project Creating a Culture for Scholarly and Systematic Innovation in Engineering Education. Jamieson received her S.B. degree from M.I.T. and her Ph.D. from Princeton University. She is a member of the National Academy of Engineering and a Fellow of the IEEE and IEC.
Mary Ann Stepp, Guest Speaker
Mary Ann Stepp got her undergraduate (BS) and graduate (Ph.D.) degrees in Boston Massachusetts in 1980 and 1985 from Simmons College (Nutrition and Chemistry) and Boston University (Biochemistry) respectively. She did postdoctoral work at MIT in the Cancer Center as an American Cancer Society Fellow and went on to a position as Assistant Scientist and Instructor at Harvard's Schepen's Eye Research Institute. Getting her first NIH RO1 grant by the age of 32, she left Boston to join the GWU Medical School as a Research Assistant Professor in 1992 and has worked her way up to the position of Professor of Anatomy and Cell Biology and of Ophthalmology. She has 2 daughters. The older daughter graduated from Clark University in Worcester MA last year and is doing a year of Americorp service this year. The younger daughter is a junior at U of MD at College Park majoring in Mathematics Education.
Noel Brady, Guest Speaker
Noel Brady received a B.A. in mathematics from Trinity College Dublin in 1988 and a Ph.D. in mathematics from UC Berkeley in 1993. He held postdoctoral appointments at the University of Utah and at Cornell University. In 1998 he joined the mathematics faculty at the University of Oklahoma (OU), Norman campus. He is currently professor of mathematics at OU. He has served as graduate director of mathematics, and is currently chair of the OU research council.
Noel's research is in geometric group theory. This involves studying symmetries of objects (such as symmetries of wallpaper patterns and symmetries of crystallographic lattices), and investigating the nature of symmetry.
Pamela Cook, Guest Advisor
After completing her PhD. in Applied Mathematics at Cornell University, Pam Cook (-Ioannidis) received a NATO Postdoctoral Fellowship to Utrecht University, the Netherlands. For 10 years thereafter she was on the mathematics faculty at UCLA (the University of California at Los Angeles) where she rose to Associate Professor with tenure. Following that she moved to the University of Delaware where she has served as Chair of the Dept. of Mathematical Sciences, as Associate Dean for Research and Planning of the College of Arts and Sciences, and more recently as Associate Dean of Engineering for Faculty Development.
She has held visiting positions at California Institute of Technology, the University of Maryland, and at the Institute for Math and its Applications at the University of Minnesota. Dr. Cook's current research is on mathematical modeling and prediction of flow properties of complex fluids, especially highly entangled fluids such as wormlike micelles and monodisperse polymer solutions. Her mathematical interests are in modeling, nonlinear partial differential equations, asymptotics and perturbations. Her earlier work was in transonic aerodynamics and she is coauthor of a book by that name. Dr. Cook is strongly involved in understanding and implementing best practices in the recruitment and retention of faculty and graduate students especially women. She is a coPI and Director of the UD ADVANCE P.A.I.D. grant focused on those issues. She is currently Secretary (elected) of the Society of Industrial and Applied Mathematics (S.I.A.M.), has been Editor in Chief of the SIAM J. Applied Mathematics. Dr. Cook is an (inaugural) Fellow of S.I.A.M., and an Associate Fellow of A.I.A.A.
Philip Clifford, Guest Speaker
Philip Clifford is Associate Dean of the Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences and Professor of Anesthesiology and Physiology at the Medical College of Wisconsin. He is a cardiovascular physiologist who heads an active research program investigating the physiological mechanisms regulating skeletal muscle blood flow during exercise. He is a fellow of the American Heart Association and the American College of Sports Medicine and serves on the editorial boards of several physiological journals. He is also a consultant in the medical device industry and a member of the Anesthesia and Respiratory Devices Panel at the FDA. On a national level, he is an outspoken proponent of enhancing professional development programs for young scientists and contributed to the development of some of the key documents used in the postdoctoral community including the FASEB Individual Development Plan, the AAMC GREAT Group "Compact Between Postdoctoral Appointees and Their Mentors," and the NPA Postdoctoral Core Competencies.
Reza Malek-Madani, Guest Speaker
Reza Malek-Madani received his Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics from Brown University in 1979. He joined the faculty of the Mathematics Department at the U. S. Naval Academy in 1983, where he has served since. In 1996 he assumed the position of the of the Director of Research and Scholarship at USNA. In the year 2000 Reza Malek-Madani became a part-time detailee to the Office of Naval Research where he has served since in the capacity of the Program Manager for the Computational Analysis Program.
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Samantha is on a mission to understand and rebuild the world around her. Whether she is helping a client design their dream career, fixing relationships in corporations or in homes, or building a self-sustaining biosphere in her office, Samantha is adept at understanding how people and systems tick, what barriers stand in their way to happier performance, and then creating plans for an inspired future.
Samantha earned a Ph.D. in Biological Engineering at MIT in 2008, and a BS in Electrical Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2000. Samantha's coaching style is akin to the processes of scientific inquiry and product engineering: she and her clients gather data, watch for emerging patterns, understand the underlying causes, and then design and build a better product (your life!). Samantha couples the analytical and problem-solving skills of a scientist and engineer with the proaction and insight of a coach and mediator to guide clients in designing a life that inspires them.
Samantha originally joined the Handel Group through the MIT class Designing you Life. She served as a teaching assistant, and designed a curriculum to teach the class at other institutions. After training as a coach, Samantha joined the Private and Corporate Divisions of the Handel Group in 2008, and currently leads workshops and coaches individual clients of different ages, careers, and personal backgrounds. Samantha has given talks at corporations, government agencies, and universities such as the Scripps Research Institute and MIT.
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She joined the NSF (National Science Foundation) in 1999, when she became the Program Director of Petrology and Geochemistry in the Division of Earth Sciences. She is the representative for the Directorate of Geosciences for a number of Cross-Directorate activities including ADVANCE (Increasing the Participation and Advancement of Women in Academic Science and Engineering Careers), Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER), and the Science and Technology Center (STC) programs.
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Nikiski faces Barrow for small-schools state title
For the past 10 years the Nikiski football team has consistently fielded playoff teams only to see state championships go to neighboring schools on the central Kenai Peninsula.
Five for Kenai Central. Four for Soldotna. Zero for the Bulldogs.
That could finally change Saturday.
Nikiski makes its first trip to the small-schools title game since 2001, facing Barrow at noon at Chugiak High School.
"It's been a long process to get an opportunity like this," Bulldogs coach Ted Riddall said, crediting his staff and players. "They have sacrificed quite a bit to get to this point."
If that's not enough motivation, the Bulldogs face the only team to which they lost this season.
Nikiski enters with an 8-1 record, earning a share of the Greatland Conference regular-season title despite a 34-28 loss to Barrow (7-1) early this season.
It's been a dominant campaign for the Bulldogs, who won eight games by double digits and six by at least 39 points.
The lone blip is the defeat on the road against Barrow, which capitalized on a slow Nikiski start to salt the game away.
"It's the only unfinished thing they have before them," Riddall said. "We've said the whole time the best thing you can do is play together as long as you can. That means standing in Chugiak playing for a state title, and there's where we are."
Riddall said the key for his unit is to start fast.
In the early season loss, the Whalers built a 28-7 halftime lead and thwarted a last-minute Bulldogs drive to secure the win.
But quick starts have become commonplace for the Bulldogs, who have scored more than 50 points every game since the loss.
Much of the success stems from the offensive line, which has opened holes for running backs Kaden Spurgeon, Stephen Hartley and Josh Brown.
The trio has combined for more than 35 rushing touchdowns and each eclipsed 600 yards during the regular season. Throw in last week's playoff win over Eielson, and those three Bulldogs are closing in on 1,000 rushing yards apiece.
With efficient passing from quarterback Colton Anderson, who finished the regular season with 10 touchdowns to two interceptions, and the offense is clicking on all cylinders.
What it amounts to is a ton of momentum heading into the biggest game of the season.
"Momentum is a great thing. If you can get it going, it's hard to get it stopped," Riddall said. "When you are putting 50-plus points on the board a couple weeks in a row, it's a high-octane offense."
The Whalers, who came into existence as a program less than five years ago, have never competed in a championship game.
Barrow plays in the northernmost location of any high school team in the country, meaning the players are accustomed to rough conditions and long road trips.
That makes the Whalers a tough, versatile unit.
"They are big, physical kids," Riddall said. "They want to run the ball, but they also want to throw a little bit."
Barrow's biggest threat is running back and linebacker Trace Hudson, a player on whom Riddall said the Bulldogs will key.
Hudson scored twice in the teams' first meeting.
"We've talked a lot about trying to contain him," Riddall said. "He is definitely a huge part of their offense. Defensively we will pay attention to where he is."
Since neither team has played a game of this magnitude, Riddall told his players this week to focus on what's happening on the field - not in the stands or on the sidelines.
Do that, the coach said, and the small-schools state title will come back to Nikiski for the first time since it won consecutive championships in 2000 and 2001.
"Focus on the game, not the surroundings - one play at a time," Riddall said of his message to the players. "They haven't been in a game of that magnitude. It's going to be a battle."


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Dior is doing some impressive things lately. This fall, they've released two limited edition palettes–Dior Bonne Etoile and Constellation 5-Color Eye Palettes ($60 each). We're a bit behind the curve posting about these, but I'm hoping there are a few out there if you see anything that you like. Mostly, this post is a big rave for so many changes that Dior has been making to its line. We love an innovator!
Both palettes are part of the Mystic Metallic collections, which is a high-metal, high glamour. Dior Bonne Etoile has a range of cool blue and green-teal, a gorgeous complicated green, a sparkling bronze-brown and a high-shine cool champagne.
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Liz and I found that these are strong, high-shine colors. Any single one of these deeper shades was enough, all on it's own, to make a pretty eye. This palette has so much drama and glitz that we haven't yet worked up the courage to use them all at the same time. There's plenty of color and pigment here, this is a beautifully done palette. Here's Liz wearing the middle shade only:
Dior Constellation was part of Nordstrom's Annivesary Sale. It has a range of sparkling, metallic plums and pinks.
Up close, you can see this shimmery, highly pigmented color:
Here is Dior Constellation on Liz, using only the middle three colors:
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Belmont Stakes workouts: Orb gallops strongly
ELMONT, N.Y. – All 14 3-year-olds entered for Saturday's Belmont Stakes were on the grounds Wednesday, with Frac Daddy and Golden Soul the last two to arrive from Churchill Downs the previous day.
For the second consecutive morning, the weather was textbook perfect for training – low humidity, with temperatures in the high 50s to low 60s, and the racetrack fast but not lightning-quick, as it was last week and into the weekend.
Wednesday at Belmont Park
59 degrees, sunny, fast
The cool weather certainly seems to be agreeing with ORB, whose energy level definitely is back to where I'd seen it in the weeks leading up to his victory in the Kentucky Derby. Orb was full of himself from the moment he broke away from the pony near the mile marker at the head of the backstretch, pulling his way through a very strong gallop that concluded with a 15-second eighth-mile split from the wire to the 1 3/8-mile pole approaching the clubhouse turn.
After jogging an easy mile in their first morning on the track here Tuesday, both Preakness winner OXBOW and stablemate WILL TAKE CHARGE were given the opportunity to stretch their legs a bit more Wednesday by trainer D. Wayne Lukas, with bo th galloping a relatively easy 1 1/8 miles. Oxbow is not the prettiest mover at a jog or gallop, although he did seem to handle the surface relatively well Wednesday.
[BELMONT WORKOUTS: Mike Welsch's clocker reports, workout videos]
Oxbow did have his head cocked to the inside during Wednesday's session, in contrast to some of his pre-Derby training sessions at Churchill Downs, where he traveled with his head cocked sharply to the outside.
Will Take Charge, a big, strong-looking colt, reached out nicely and seemed to handle the local surface well.
GOLDEN SOUL arrived Tuesday and wasted little time getting a feel for the track. He made a very favorable first impression on local railbirds and gives every indication that he has bounced out of last week's sharp work at Churchill in good order.
FRAC DADDY turned in the most significant and, to be frank, surprising training session Wednesday. The last of the Belmont contenders to hit the track, shortly after 9:30 a.m., Frac Daddy flew around the 1 1/2-mile oval at better than a two-minute clip before really leveling off once entering the stretch, covering the quarter-mile straight to the finish line in 25.52.
He continued on very strongly past the wire and back into the turn, going 1 1/8 miles in 2:09 and change from the mile pole on my watch. Frac Daddy trained in a similarly energetic manner in the weeks leading up to the Derby but unfortunately was unable to duplicate those efforts over the sloppy track at Churchill in the Derby. Trainer Ken McPeek said he expects Frac Daddy to show big early speed after drawing the rail for the Belmont.
FREEDOM CHILD had another typically long and impressive training session, dragging his rider around a lot more aggressively than he had the previous morning.
[BELMONT STAKES: Live updates and video from Belmont Park]
None of trainer Todd Pletcher's Belmont quintet did anything more than jog once around the main track. OVERANALYZE looked the best of the Pletcher trio in a second set that included REVOLUTIONARY and PALACE MALICE. Revolutionary appeared a little stiff coming by the grandstand but strode out m uch more effici ently and showed a much higher energy level the farther he traveled.
INCOGNITO continues to do all his morning work on the training track, where he jogged two miles the wrong way near the outside fence while bouncing along on his toes and eager. He appeared to be eager to do more as he passed by the clocker's stand and trainer Kiaran McLaughlin the first time around.
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3-5-7-Tri-Ex Box-ORB Will Reedeem Himself-LOLK-DS
Wayne Lucas has got me more than once in the Belmont and I wish him only the best Orb should bounce back , I think after this race we see him again in late August . , So its Orb over Lucas , over Pletcher in the Belmont . With a saver on the longest shot over these three. Safe travels.
$100.00 to win. Hope he doesn't bounce..
Overanalyze will run a big one .
He put some weight back on. Had a full second slower breeze than before Preakness. And in 1 1/2 he should have room to circle. Still my pick. Palace Malice n Freedom Child.
overanalyze-incognito exacta, will pay like a slot machine
He will have a mud loving Orb to deal with.
Keep in mind Overanalyze is probably the best bred mud horse in the race. Why he did not like the track at Churchill is a mystery. He's training superbly and may blow this field away. If he comes away from there with his customary early zip and is forwardly placed.......you will witness something spectacular.


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February 21, 2013
We're kicking off the National Conference on Ending Family and Youth Homelessness today!
Good morning, conference Attendees! Please find your way to the Grand Ballroom for the Opening Plenary beginning at 9 a.m. Alliance President and CEO Nan Roman will be delivering the keynote address. Also giving remarks will be Mark Johnston, HUD's Deputy Assistant Secretary for Special Needs and Delegated Authority over CPD Programs.
Among the workshops today:
1.1 Moving Forward: A Blueprint for Ending Youth Homelessness
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The University of Michigan men's tennis team (11-8 overall, 3-2 Big Ten) returns to the road next weekend for a pair of Big Ten duals. The Wolverines will travel to Evanston, Ill., to face Northwestern (12-9 overall, 1-4 Big Ten) at 2:30 p.m. CDT on Friday, April 4, before wrapping up the weekend on Sunday, April 6, with a dual against No. 11 Illinois (14-6 overall, 4-1 Big Ten) in Champaign, Ill., noon CDT.
Dual-Match Format
Each match this weekend will be for the best-of-seven team points. Each dual will begin with three doubles matches consisting of eight-game pro sets. The team that wins two of these three matches will enter the singles competition with one of seven points. After a brief intermission, six singles matches will be played. Each singles match will be the best-of-three tie-break sets and worth one point towards the team competition. Each overall dual match will be decided when one team secures four total points. Matches in progress when the dual match is clinched will be played to completion.
U-M is coming off a 2-0 weekend homestand at the Varsity Tennis Center, earning victories over Iowa (W, 5-2) and Nebraska (W, 7-0) on Saturday and Sunday, respectively.
Redshirt junior Justin Rossi leads the Wolverines in dual-match singles wins with 11. Dating back to Feb. 2, Rossi has won 10 of his last 11 singles matches.
Freshman Kevin Wong has won four consecutive singles matches and owns a 6-1 record during dual-match play.
The Wolverines have earned the doubles point in 13 of their first 19 matches this season, combining for a 28-17 doubles record, including an 11-2 mark by the tandem of senior Shaun Bernstein and freshman Kevin Wong, who have played at both the No. 2 and No. 3 positions this season. The 24th-ranked tandem of seniors Barrett Franks and Alex Buzzi make up U-M's No. 1 doubles team. The senior duo won their first five doubles matches to start the 2014 campaign, including three straight victories over top-20 ranked opponents. The Wolverines are 9-3 this season when claiming the doubles point.
Eight different Michigan players have clinched U-M's 11 dual wins this season: senior Barrett Franks (Mississippi and Detroit), junior Alex Petrone (LSU and Iowa) and freshman Kevin Wong (Western Michigan, Youngstown State) have each clinched two matches, while seniors Shaun Bernstein (Vanderbilt) and Alex Buzzi (Michigan State), juniors Michael Zhu (Toledo) and Vlad Stefan (Nebraska) and redshirt junior Justin Rossi (Hawaii) have each clinched one match apiece.
Over its last 12 matches, U-M has gone a combined 26-10 from the No.4 - No. 6 singles positions.
As has become tradition under the guidance of head coach Bruce Berque, Michigan has once again played a challenging schedule to start the season. Prior to this weekend's encounters with No. 11 Illinois and No. 37 Northwestern, the Wolverines have already squared off against 13 ranked opponents: No. 2 Ohio State, No. 10 Texas, No. 11 Mississippi, No. 13 Duke, No. 18 Vanderbilt, No. 22 Illinois, No. 24 Columbia, No. 26 Louisville, No. 27 Penn State, No. 30 LSU, No. 35 North Carolina State, No. 60 Nebraska and No. 68 Iowa.
Freshman Kevin Wong represented his native country of Hong Kong at the 2014 Davis Cup (Feb. 14-16) in Phuket, Thailand. Competing in Group II of the Asia/Oceania Zone, Hong Kong fell to Thailand, 4-1, in first round action at the Thanyapura Sports & Leisure Club. Wong teamed with former Duke four-time All-American Phillip King in the tournament's doubles competition. Wong is off to a strong start to his collegiate career, holding overall marks of 12-5 in singles and 18-6 in doubles. Wong and senior Shaun Bernstein are 14-2 this season and hold an 11-2 mark during dual-match play.
Junior Michael Zhu is off to a strong start to the dual-match season, owning an impressive 6-1 mark (.857) through seven matches. Zhu, who has earned victories from the No. 3, 4, 5 and 6 positions, has won four straight matches since a loss to North Carolina State on Feb. 2.
Freshman Tyler Gardiner owns a combined 4-0 record in singles and doubles play during U-M's dual-match season. A native of Novi, Mich., Gardiner is 2-0 at the No. 6 singles position and 2-0 at the No. 3 doubles position since making his dual-match debut against Detroit on March 15. Gardiner, who made his debut this fall, has posted a 4-4 mark through the first eight singles matches of his collegiate career.
Michigan is off to a 9-5 start at the Varsity Tennis Center this season. The Wolverines have been tough to beat at the VTC since the facility opened in 1997. Michigan is 82-29 (.739) since the 2005 season and is 142-49 (.743) overall at the complex.
At the conclusion of the fall season, seniors Shaun Bernstein and Barrett Franks and junior Alex Petrone were voted by their teammates to serve as team captains for the 2014 season. This marks the third consecutive season Bernstein has been voted a captain by his peers.
Michigan inked two top prep players -- Runhao (Leo) Hua (Shanghai, China/Edison Academics) and Cameron Norrie (Auckland, New Zealand/Macleans College) -- to National Letters of Intent during the early signing period this fall. Hua holds a career-best International Tennis Federation (ITF) Junior World Ranking of 138. Norrie has been ranked as high as No. 10 in the International Tennis Federation (ITF) Junior World Rankings and holds 12 ITF titles (five singles and seven doubles). Both players will join the Maize and Blue next fall.
Head coach Bruce Berque is in his 10th year at the helm of the Wolverine program, compiling a 153-97 overall record and 63-22 Big Ten mark over his tenure. Berque has led the Wolverines to eight consecutive NCAA Championships berths, including the 2008 Sweet 16, and has finished among the top four of the Big Ten in eight of nine seasons. Jeremy Wurtzman is in his first season as Michigan's associate head coach. A former ATP tour professional and a three-year standout at Ohio State, Wurtzman spent the last four years as the head coach of the University of Denver women's tennis program.
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A clever deal between the social network and one of the leading online stock photo libraries means more choice of images and less hassle creating ads for small businesses. Which should mean more money from advertising for Facebook.
Facebook has announced a partnership with stock photo agency Shutterstock. The deal means that small business advertisements on the social network could become a lot more attractive–and marketeers who use a lot of images can use the Shutterstock library and avoid the rigmarole of uploading stacks and stacks of pictures.
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The medical and wellness clinic for Calcasieu Parish employees has been open for more than a year. Its mission, officials said, is educating patients on healthy living and ultimately preventing chronic health problems like diabetes and hypertension.
Health Connection, at 1106 Ryan St., is open 8:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m. Monday-Friday. It has been open since January 2013. Dr. Van Snider is the clinic's physician.
Jerry Milner, the parish's finance director, said the clinic was set up to reduce the cost of pharmacy and medical claims over the long term by stressing preventive care. One goal is to "be below the trend of inflation," and he said progress is already being made.
The combined costs for medical and pharmacy claims for 2012 was $8.37 million. With a medical inflation rate of 7.5 percent, the projected amount for claims during 2013 was just over $9 million. The actual medical claims for the year was $8.58 million, an increase of nearly 5 percent, he said.
This year, the projected amount for claims totals $9.58 million, which includes an adjusted inflation rate of 6.5 percent. As of August, the projected actual claims totals $9.06 million, an increase of 5.84 percent, Milner said.
"We're not having as good of a year in medical claims, but we're projecting below trend," he said. "We're having a lot of cancer this year. Cancer is not one of those things that is going to be immediately affected by preventative care. You can't budget for those."
Milner said it could take up to four years before the clinic "ends up paying for itself totally." Next year, he said, the parish will cover testing for spouses of parish employees.
"These are lifestyle changes," Milner said. "It's not an immediate process."
Laura Bolton, the parish's director of risk management, said the benefit levels have changed, and that employees get a discount through Health Connection. She said the parish also has a new pharmacy benefit manager who works with the clinic "to get the best-quality and most cost-effective prescriptions to be written for the members."
'Getting longer time'
Bolton said about "65 percent of members," including employees, spouses and dependent children, are registered patients with the clinic. Milner said the initial goal was having 50 percent of members registered by year two.
The clinic sees 16 patients per day, Bolton said. But the focus is more on the quality of the visit, rather than how many patients are seen.
"They are getting longer time with the physician," she said. "They can really discuss any other issues besides just going in there with a cold."
Snider said that spending more time with patients often convinces them to get certain screenings done.
"We're beginning to find cancers that really, probably would not have been diagnosed had we not been a little more aggressive," he said. "But we're finding them at an earlier stage, so they're easier to treat."
The parish has been self-insured since 1992. Milner said the parish covers the first $200,000 in individual claims per year.
"If we can get those costs to go down, that savings helps us to sustain the health fund," he said.
'Savings across board'
Bolton said the clinic is also used for physical exams for those wanting to obtain a commercial driver's license and for workers' compensation.
"There's savings across the board because we used to have to send that out or pay another facility to handle that," she said.
Snider said he was "very impressed with the level of benefits that the parish offers its employees." He said it is also taking steps to maintain those benefits.
"If you look nationally, you see the cost of health care to businesses or municipalities going up every year," he said. "So, if you don't begin to be proactive in doing things for your employees that ultimately will help contain costs, then most industries and businesses will begin to reduce benefits."
Since Moss Regional entered into a public-private partnership with Lake Charles Memorial Hospital last year, Snider said the clinic has taken over some of Moss' duties. The clinic now oversees medical services at the Calcasieu Correctional Center, the Calcasieu Sheriff's Prison and the parish Juvenile Detention Center.


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Costa Rican-style hearts of palm ceviche; from Uruguay a strip steak on a bed of chayote and mango salad; from Trinidad and Tobago, crab and cassava cakes. And so deliciously on.
The traditional recipes and presentations from the various countries are not slavishly replicated but rather used as launching pads by executive chef Winston Guerrero. Co-proprietor with him and general manager is Eduardo Gomez Jr., who also serves as host. Their own ethnicity is Colombian, but the cuisines of 19 countries are sampled.
It's an easy place to miss, since there's not a broad array of busy diners behind a row of windows but rather a small cloth sign and a fluttering "Open" flag. You enter at the back of the building, passing a patio for dining in warm weather and a steel drum barbecue grill that promises more than hotdogs and burgers. Inside it's inviting, with widely spaced uncovered wooden tables and local art on the walls. One corner is permanently set up for Saturday night music.
My friend Rob happened upon the place a few weeks before and liked the experience. His recommendations get extra points since he also writes about food.
We went for lunch, and although the mid-day menu is light on entrées, most of the evening's antojitos are served, so we decided to have a kind of Latin American tapas spread.
We perused the opportunities. On a previous visit he had sampled the Brazilian bolinhos de bacalhau, salted cod and potato croquettes, but he wanted a more exciting starter this time. But we both latched onto the Panamanian camarones ($12); the grilled shrimp were marinated in ginger and cumin, skewered on splinters of sugarcane and served on a crisp corn cake. Very nice, especially under the light white sauce. Next, being in Rhode Island, we could not ignore their take on calamari: calamares ($10), a la Sonora, Mexico. They were corn dusted and fried but greaseless, the way we are accustomed, but then tossed with chorizo for a spicy high-protein boost. The featured item was relatively sparse, though, under a large pile of vinegared pepper rings. The sweet-sour guaymas dipping sauce worked nicely.
Neither could I pass up the Salvadoran pupusa ($11). These simple corn cakes can be little pillows of softness or little round bricks. The Mosaic version is intentionally firm, for textural contrast, but what was piled high atop could have made up for things if I had chipped a tooth. Sweet pulled pork, and on top of that coleslaw. Called mango slaw on the menu, it was conventional cabbage with lots of red onions and only a couple of garnish strips of mango. Tasty, but tsk-tsk.
The empanada con "chancho en piedra" ($6) from Chile lived up to its name — and I don't mean the Chilean funk-rock band of the same name. The "pig on a rock" was a simple tomato sauce, but the rocks were the two weapon-grade empanadas, too hard, though appetizingly filled with braised beef and raisins.
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TRUenergy's former head of human resources,
Mr Purvis said he did not conduct a formal investigation at the time he was first made aware of the claim in March 2010 because the victim, corporate affairs and government relations director Kate Shea, "explicitly rejected" an offer to conduct one.
Mr Purvis told the court on Friday he was no longer friends with Ms Shea, despite the two knowing each other for 25 years, sharing a house together at university and him being the godfather of one of her children.
He said he and his wife had suffered "great angst" because of the situation. He said he did not trust Ms Shea and may have said to her he wanted her to "stay away" from his wife and children.
Mr Purvis told the court he excused himself from the company's restructure process and the termination of Ms Shea because he thought it was a conflict given their history. On Thursday, Mr Purvis told the court Ms Shea initially told him the company's then chief financial officer, Kevin Holmes, had "propositioned" her after a work function in Hong Kong in February 2010.
Ms Shea is suing the company – now known as EnergyAustralia – for unfair dismissal, claiming she was terminated from her almost $500,000 a year job because she made the complaints. The company claims Ms Shea was terminated following a restructure. She alleges Mr Holmes rubbed her back, touched the nape of her neck and had his hand on her thigh.
Mr Holmes told the court on Thursday he placed his hand on her shoulder and "very fleetingly" might have touched her wrist. He claims he did this in sympathy when she told him about her husband's medical condition.
The company claimed Ms Shea's employment was terminated because of a restructure. The case continues and is expected to resume in October.
EnergyAustralia group retail manager Adrian Merrick, who joined the company in April 2011, said the restructure was necessary because the way the company was dealing with significant billing issues was "disjointed".\
Mr Merrick said the company had seen "fundamental improvement" since the restructure and the feedback internally and externally "backed up" this decision.
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In the beginning I was just a fan like any other. Then, in early 1974, I personally got to know two of the pillars of the great Werder-successes of the past decades: Dr. Franz Böhmert and Klaus-Dieter Fischer, back then President and Vice-President of the Club. From this meeting grew a trusting cooperation and finally a long lasting friendship, which was the starting point of my career as manager of Werder Bremen. A simple handshake with Klaus-Dieter Fischer sealed the deal on the contract assigning me as the manager of Bremen's Football Club. November 11th of 1981 was the day my personal passion became my profession.
Having served as the manager of Werder for 18 years, I can look back on a series of moving memories. Most memorable was the great occasion that Werder came off as a winner in the Winner's Cup match against AS Monaco in the year 1992. This was definitely a reason to celebrate as this was the first time Bremen had won a European title in football. Another very important event was the match against FC Bayern Munich in 1999, which led to another turning point in my life. It was not until the penalty-shootouts that Werder could celebrate the victory. This terrific win was the perfect gift at the ending of my term as manager, before I switched to the field of politics. I like looking back on these great moments, but unfortunately I have also experienced some sad moments along the way. Otto Rehhagel's decision in particular to leave the club after 13 years was especially hard to deal with. His transfer to FC Bayern Munich, the team we were constantly fighting with, didn't make the loss any easier on Werder. Luckily, to this day, he and I have managed to maintain a good relationship and look back at our days as coach and manager with fond memories and gratitude.
Even though I have new tasks to fulfil, my passion for football and for SV Werder Bremen has not decreased. Staying true to the fan in me, I still attend the home matches of SV Werder Bremen regularly and passionately support my favourite club. Always keeping that perspective in mind and adding my decades-long experience enables me as Chairman of the Club to make those decisions that are in the interest of the Club's economic needs, the sporting administration, our many members, and in the interest of our great community of fans.
In my function as Special Adviser to the UN Secretary-General on Sport for Development and Peace, I am rather looking at the significance of football as a mass sport, and at how it can be used as a tool to advance education and human development worldwide. Still the scope of my work is strongly connected with my experience at SV Werder Bremen: the atmosphere at Werder is filled with readiness for action, solidarity and respect. Exactly these values are to be achieved and conveyed on a global level, using sport as an alternative to violence and disputes, and as the way towards a better tomorrow.
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Date of Stay: December, 2012
Not a bad park with the exceptions being poor cable TV(stations constantly going in and out, and pitiful wifi, being so slow as to be non-useable or just not available at all. Spoke to several seasonal residents and they all confirmed that it has always been this way, yet when we inquired before reserving, the office assured us these amenities worked great. We were here three years ago and the wifi was just as bad then.
Date of Stay: March, 2012
Very nice "Class A Motorcoach only" RV resort on beautiful Lake Greenwood. New name is "Lake Greenwood RV Resort". Large level concrete sites. Great Wi-Fi and friendly host. Plan to return soon.
Date of Stay: November, 2011
Great class "A" RV resort in a great town. Gated entrance, wide streets and large sites, each with a gazebo. Two swimming pools and very nice clubhouse/laundry facilities. Strong Wi-Fi and good cable. Very private private and extremely quiet. We stayed here for a month and will definitely be back.
Date of Stay: August, 2010
The good: close to the interstate, Wi-Fi & cable worked. The bad: site not level and the sewer connection was so high that you had to lift your hose repeatedly to drain your tanks. They don't accept credit cards and did not tell us when we made the reservations. Also, several run down rigs that appear to be permanent renters.
Date of Stay: May, 2010
This is an older park and is definitely NOT "big rig" friendly. The road coming in to the park, and a different road leaving the park, are both very curvy and narrow. It is impossible to avoid tree branches and if you meet another vehicle, one of you will have to back up, possibly up hill and a considerable distance. We reserved their most expensive site but could not use it unless we jacked the rear wheels off the ground or dug out an area in the adjacent bank so the coach steps could fully extend. And this was with a tree branch across the top of the living room slide. Later in the day I saw where another camper in a 42' coach had taken a shovel and cleared an area so his steps could fully extend. And finally the wifi did not work. I would never return to this park, even in a much smaller coach.
Date of Stay: November, 2008
We have stayed at this park many times and have always found the owners to be pleasant and helpful. The sites are level and easily accommodate our 41' motorhome. The wifi and cable have always been perfect. Well worth the $$.
Date of Stay: November, 2008
Close to the interstate with pull-thru sites, but not much else. I have stayed here three times this year and the "free wifi" has only worked at the office. Lady manager is a bit abrasive and gives the impression that she wishes you weren't there.
Date of Stay: September, 2008
This park is in Plattekill not Newburgh and is 65 miles from NY City. Definitely NOT big rig friendly. The road to the park is very narrow, and the roads and sites in the park are tight and impossible to navigate without hitting tree branches. The wifi is a joke. Over priced. Would not stay here again.