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Ganglions are small sacs
(cysts) filled with fluid that often
appear as bumps on the hands and wrists. They can also develop on feet, ankles,
knees, or shoulders. A ganglion can grow out of a
joint capsule, which surrounds the joint,
or a tendon sheath, which covers the
tendon (the fibers connecting muscle to
bone). Ganglions aren't cancerous.
Most people with ganglions notice that the bumps appear suddenly. Bumps may be very small or bigger than a cherry. Ganglions may
get bigger as activity increases and more fluid collects in the sac. They may
also shrink and may break and go away on their own.
Anyone can get a ganglion: adults between 15
and 40 years old are most likely to be affected.1
Children don't usually have ganglions, but if they do, the ganglion will very
likely go away without any treatment.
Experts don't know the
exact cause of ganglions. They may be linked to:
Ganglions are usually
small, painless bumps and do not cause other symptoms.
Sometimes the bump can be tender to the touch, or there can be pain that gets worse with activity or pressure.
If the ganglion puts pressure on nearby nerves, you may have tingling in your fingers,
hand, or forearm. Some ganglions can weaken your grip or affect joint
A ganglion can
usually be diagnosed based on how it looks and where it is. Your doctor will also feel
the bump and shine a light alongside it. If the bump is a ganglion, the light
usually shines through it.
You may need an
X-ray if your doctor suspects
arthritis or injury.
Some of the fluid found in the ganglion may be removed and examined. In rare
cases, an MRI or
ultrasound may be done.
Ganglions usually don't
need treatment, and they often go away on their own. But treatment may be needed if the ganglion causes pain or other symptoms, limits what you can do, affects your bones or ligaments, or gets infected. You may also want treatment if you're bothered by how the bump looks.
Your doctor may treat a ganglion by:
With or without treatment, ganglions may come and go and may get bigger or smaller.
Learning about ganglions:
Getting treatment:
The American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons (AAOS)
provides information and education to raise the public's awareness of
musculoskeletal conditions, with an emphasis on preventive measures. The AAOS
website contains information on orthopedic conditions and treatments, injury
prevention, and wellness and exercise.
ASSH is a professional organization of hand surgeons
that provides education to the public about hand problems, such as Dupuytren's
disease, carpal tunnel syndrome, and tennis elbow. ASSH also provides education
about surgery, preventive tips to keep your hands safe, and an online tool to
find a hand surgeon.
CitationsAmerican Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons and American Academy of Pediatrics (2010). Ganglion of the wrist and hand. In JF Sarwark, ed., Essentials of Musculoskeletal Care, 4th ed., pp. 488–492. Rosemont, IL: American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons.Other Works ConsultedBednar MS, Light TR (2006). Hand surgery. In HB Skinner, ed., Current Diagnosis and Treatment in Orthopedics, 4th ed., pp. 535–596. New York: McGraw-Hill.Hasham S, Burke FD (2007). Diagnosis and treatment of swellings in the hand. Postgraduate Medical Journal, 83(979): 296–300.
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Ian King and Dick Olver, respectively chief executive and chairman of BAE Systems, are in for a rough ride now the planned deal with EADS has collapsed. When merger plans fall through, the people in the top jobs are always vulnerable. But recent experience suggests Mr King's future is more secure than Mr Olver's.
Take a look at a handful of recent abortive transactions – G4S's takeover of ISS in the support services sector, the tie-up between miners BHP Billiton and Rio Tinto (or, if you prefer, the uncompleted deal between Rio Tinto and Chinalco), the proposed merger of Prudential, the UK insurer, and AIA. The chief executives of all the companies involved are still in position, even though some (Nick Buckles of G4S, I'm talking about you) have suffered further setbacks since their favourite tie-ups unravelled. Read more

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text: The Gizmo Duck wiki last edited by JohnPannozzi on 08/13/15 07:04AM View full history Giz is also a constant annoyance to Darkwing Duck. He is often seen as more popular than Darkwing. An interesting fact is that Drake (Darkwing) and Fenton both are friends with Launchpad McQuack, so they both have a common ground.OriginGyro Gearloose created the Gizmo Duck armor to protect Uncle Scrooge's money bin. Fenton (Scrooge's accountant), wanting to protect the money (and get back Scrooge's Number One dime from the Beagle Boys), tries to put on the suit. Of course, he was only able to put it one when he accidentally said the magic word--Blatherin Blatherskite!--and he easily defeated the beagles.Major ArcsGosmo DuckRecently, Gyro Gearloose changed the password to thort Bulba. So, When Gosalyn Waddlemeyer said, "Keen Gear," she became the new possessor of the Gizmo Duck armor. She continued using this mantle until it was destroyed, in the Crisis on Infinite Darkwings arc, after it was damaged by Werewolf Darkwing. She gave up this persona after that event.Dangerous CurrencyCrackshell returned however after being gone a year. He had been abducted by Magica and Eve-IL to identify Scrooge's number one dime. He escaped however and came to warn Scrooge and Darkwing Duck of the coming danger. He is twisted by some of the mysterious ink and becomes evil, but this is stopped by the quick thinking of Scrooge.Gizmos (about the Gizmo Duck Armor!)A self propelled security system of incredible strength and fire power.When he says "Blatherin' Blatherskite!" (magical phrase that transforms him into Gizmo-Duck), which was the third word in a thesaurus meaning Nonsense. It is revealed that anyone can say the password and become Gizmo duck. However, when Taurus Bulba says the password, he is unable to become Gizmo Duck, as he is not considered alive (cyborg). In other words it only response to living non-robot people.One of the beagles, megabit beagle, was once able to create a remote control for Gizmo Duck for Ma beagle, who preceded to use Fenton to get what she wanted. It was ultimately destroyed, but the memory still haunts Giz.VersionsLaunchpad McQuackOnce, Louie, dewey and huey guessed gizmo duck is non other than Launchpad, much to the the annoyance of Gizmo duck. The beagle boys try to kidnap him, but they see Finton in the suit and think its Launchpad. To make matters worse, in a speech to the plublic in attempt to show he is not gizmo duck, Launchpad says the magic words and the armor is put on him. After the chaos created by the clueless launchpad, Finton is able to save the day himself and becomes a hero. The boys make a new list of possible gizmo duck secret identities. Finton is second on the list right after Mrs. Beakley.Child versionRecently, in Uncle Scrooge # 392, Webby and the nephews ( Huey, Dewey, and Louie) built their own version of the Gizmo Duck suit. The boys argue about letting Webby (a girl) use the suit. As one might guess, she does end up in the costume, and attempts to thwart the Beagle Boys from robbing Scrooge's art collection. The Boys eventually see through the disguise, and hold the children for ransom, until the real Gizmo Duck makes an appearance and saves the day.Darkwing Doubloon: Gizmo DuckThis version is set in the past in the time of pirates. He is the friend of DarkwingDoubloon. With the help of Doubloon, Gosayln, Launchpad, stegmutt. This Gizmo seems to have a motor in his suit to move, even with the time period.


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2009 Award Recipients
The NSVRC is pleased to announce the 2009 Visionary Voice Award Winners. The following individuals are recognized for their dedication and commitment to ending sexual violence in their local communities. To view the 2009 Press Release, please click here.
Jeffrey Barrows, MD
Sara Benitez
Jackie Biskupski
Tillie Black Bear
Jennifer Carlson
Mary Grissim
Stephen Haas, PhD
Clema S. Lewis
Katherine Little, MD
Cristina Perez
Steven Rowe
Kristy M. Stewart
Jeffrey Barrows, MD
Dr. Jeffrey Barrows is an Obstetrician/Gynecologist in central Ohio. In 2005, Dr. Barrows was asked by the U.S. State Department's Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons (G/TIP) to research the health consequences of human trafficking. Since then, Dr. Barrows has submitted an annual report on the health consequences of human trafficking to the Director of G/TIP. This research resulted in the publication of an article entitled, "Human Trafficking and the Healthcare Professional" in the May 2008 issue of the Southern Medical Journal. His work has also included teaching healthcare professionals to recognize potential human trafficking victims by producing the first online Continuing Medical Education (CME) program on human trafficking. In 2006 he completed a consultation on the health needs of trafficking victims in Sierra Leone and Liberia for the State Department. He also serves as Founder and Executive Director of Gracehaven, a non-profit organization working to build a shelter for adolescent girls who have been commercially sexually exploited in central Ohio.
Sara is a feminist, sociologist, and professor committed to the eradication of violence against women. From April 2008 to January 2009 she was the Assistant Advocate of the Office of the Women Advocate (OWA) of Puerto Rico, where she was responsible for developing Project RURAL, a rural women's group leadership development project with a community-based focus. In this role she also worked directly on the development of Women's Agenda 2015 for Puerto Rico. She is the founder and first Director of the first Violence Against Women Prevention Program at the University of Puerto Rico (UPR) in Humacao, a program that has been replicated in the other UPR campuses throughout the Island. She belongs to the Advisory Committee for "Project Campus" of the California Coalition Against Sexual Assault. Sara is also a Board Member for the Sisters of Color Ending Sexual Assault (SCESA) organization.
Jackie Biskupski is a member of the Utah House of Representatives, representing the 30th District in Salt Lake County since 1999. As a legislator, businesswoman, and activist she is known for her courageous work on equal rights and civil justice issues. During Utah's 2009 Legislative Session, Representative Biskupski sponsored House Bill 132: Sexual Assault Victim Protocols. Advocating successfully for victims' rights, she was able to rally unanimous bi-partisan support for the measure, which will help ensure that rape victims are provided with timely information and access to emergency contraception when they seek medical care.
Tillie is a member of the Sicangu Lakota Nation/Rosebud Sioux Tribe. She is presently the Executive Director of the White Buffalo Calf Woman Society Shelter (Rosebud Sioux Nation), the oldest shelter on an Indian reservation in the United States and the first shelter for women of color still in existence in the United States (founded in 1977). She is a founding mother of the National Coalition Against Domestic Violence and of the South Dakota Coalition Against Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault. She is the first Native Woman to chair the National Coalition Against Domestic Violence. Ms. Black Bear has worked as a therapist, school counselor, administrator, and a college instructor. She holds a MA/ARD from the University of South Dakota.
Jen has been with the Sexual Assault Recovery and Prevention Agency (SARPA) in Arkansas since August 2005. She began as a victim advocate and later became the Director of Programs due to her intense involvement with the agency and the community involving sexual assault issues. Jen has accomplished the following at SARPA: increased outreach to appropriate agencies (medical, law enforcement, human services) to assist with SART and increase number of crisis and follow-up calls by primary and secondary survivors, increased one-on-one and support group advocacy, developed and implemented a support group curriculum, increased the number of volunteer advocates, collaborated with agencies to respond to the media about sexual assault issues to increase community awareness, increased number of agencies that are receiving sexual assault information on a consistent basis, increased the number of survivors who contact our agency either for the first time or as follow up, increased number of prevention education seminars and trainings to professionals in the community, and implemented SARPA's SANE clinic in the area.
Mary Grissim's experience in working with non-profits and community organizations for more than 20 years has prepared her for the work she does at the Sexual Assault Center (SAC) in Tennessee. She has a bachelor's degree in Social Work from Florida State University, and was Director of Education at Cheekwood Botanical Garden and Museum of Art for nine years before coming to the Center in 2006. She is a community organizer and prides herself on developing a plan and watching it materialize. Her extensive experience in community education and the implementation of non-profit curriculum in schools made her a perfect match for growing SAC's school-based personal safety curriculum Safe@Last (K-6th grade) and the teen curriculum Be. Promoting Healthy Relationships (7th, 9th and 11th grades). Since coming to SAC, Mary has focused on moving the focus of educational programs from risk reduction and intervention to primary prevention. The curricula have been rewritten to include primary prevention strategies to stop sexual assault. Her life's work in community organization and advocating for a cause has helped her to bring that same passion to the mission of stopping sexual violence through prevention education.
Since coming to the West Virginia's Statistical Analysis Center (SAC) in 2003, Dr. Haas has become increasingly involved in working with the state coalition on several research projects, in providing statistics and technical assistance, and in serving on three statewide committees facilitated by the coalition. Dr. Haas has worked with the sexual assault coalition on numerous projects, including a victim-service satisfaction survey. He serves on the state SANE Advisory Board, which is working to evaluate the collection of sexual assault evidence; the Key Players in Rape Prevention Committee, where he serves on the data committee; and the recently formed West Virginia Sexual Assault Response Technical Team, for which he is assisting in developing a modified safety audit. Dr. Haas lends much-needed expertise to professionals in our field. The area of evaluation is a very technical one and he graciously offers his time to assist the coalition, rape crisis centers, and allied professionals in creating methods to collect and analyze data.
Ms. Lewis holds a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Criminal Justice and a Master's degree in Counselor's Education. She is a nationally certified counselor. Clema Lewis has devoted 27 years of her life to helping sexual assault victims. She started with the Women's Coalition of St. Croix in the Virgin Islands as a dedicated volunteer and has served as the Co-Director since 1991. She provides direct support, counseling, and advocacy to victims on a daily basis, in addition to a multitude of administrative tasks in running the only victim services agency on the island of St. Croix. Ms. Lewis also co-facilitates a group for adult survivors of incest, provides numerous community and national educational presentations on the topics of domestic violence and sexual assault, and tackles policy-related sexual assault issues through her leadership and participation in numerous boards and task forces. She serves on the Virgin Islands Sex Offenders Registry Board and the National Sexual Violence Resources Center's Advisory Council, the St. Croix Child Abuse and Neglect Task Force, Juvenile Justice Supervisory Advisory Board, and the Virgin Islands Domestic Violence & Sexual Assault Council.
Dr. Little is a recently retired emergency room physician at Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center (DHMC) in NH and an Assistant Professor of Medicine at Dartmouth Medical School. She chaired the Domestic and Sexual Violence Task Force at DHMC where institution-wide protocols and a Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner (SANE) Program were established. She was an active member of the NH Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner Advisory Board, and the NH Healthcare Committee. Dr. Little has been a stalwart advocate for victims of sexual violence and during her many years working to strengthen the healthcare field's response to victims.
Cristina Perez has been Women Organized Against Rape's (WOAR) Community Outreach Counselor since May 1998. She provides comprehensive support services to survivors of sexual violence, provides outreach to the Latino community in and around Phildelphia, PA, and recruits, trains, and manages 40 Spanish-speaking volunteers. Cristina has received multiple awards in recognition of her work, including Outstanding Advocate from the Philadelphia Coalition for Victim Advocacy and Mujeres Organizada en Contra de la Violacion. Cristina's goal is to help women and children who have experience violence gain self esteem and begin to build a new life for themselves everywhere. When no one else was particularly concerned about the plight of Latino immigrant women and their families Cristina saw their needs and began doing outreach single handedly. She organized a community coalition; she went door-to-door to educate the community and gain the confidence of victims/survivors to come to WOAR for help.
Rowe holds a law degree from the University of Maine School of Law, a Master's in Business Administration from the University of Utah, and a bachelor's from the United States Military Academy at West Point. Steve Rowe served as Maine's Attorney General from 2001 until 2009. Prior to taking office, he served four terms in the Maine House of Representatives, serving as Speaker of the House in his last term. As Attorney General, Rowe was instrumental in working to address and prevent stalking as well as violence against women and children through the development of task forces, conference sponsorship, and contributing his voice to efforts to engage men in the movement. Rowe emphasized issues related to children and families, health care, civil rights, consumer protection, and domestic, sexual, and elder abuse. Some highlights of his commitment to these issues include working to ensure that stalking safety kits are available for all sexual assault and domestic violence projects in Maine and that law enforcement is better prepared to respond to issues of stalking.
Kristy Stewart has been Coordinator of Crisis Services at Women's Resource Center in Norman, OK, since 2002, having served as a women's advocate since 1984. She quickly advanced from Intake Worker to Women's Advocate to Supervisor to her current position. Kristy is actively involved in the Oklahoma Coalition Against Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault, especially in the area of legislative initiative and technology development. Kristy led her agency's efforts in developing a model rape crisis center on the campus of Women's Resource Center that has set the standard for sexual assault services in Oklahoma.
Many thanks to the state and territory coalitions who participated in the selection process. For information about the 2010 Visionary Voice Award process, please click here, or email email@example.com.


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Topic: Faith-free grief support group
Hello all,
Although it seems that many here are quite religious, I am not, and I'm sure that there are some others out there who are not, either. As an atheist, I find no comfort in people praying for me or for my deceased wife Kristin; though well-intentioned, such prayers are not only meaningless to me but ultimately insulting. Telling me that my wife's death was God's will or that she has "gone to a better place" are equally unhelpful attempts at consolation. Consequently, I have found most grief support groups, either online or local, lacking, since most of the members are religious to one degree or another.
But I have finally found a group of like-minded people on a Facebook page called Grief Beyond Belief. According to their mission statement, it is "an online support network for people grieving the death of a child, parent, partner, or other loved one -- without belief in a higher power or an afterlife. Atheists, agnostics, humanists, freethinkers and anyone else living without religious beliefs are invited to participate. If you are in the process of reevaluating or letting go of previously held religious beliefs, you may also join the community and seek support."
If there are any of you out there who feel similarly, I hope you will join me in this online group. It has helped me tremendously in trying to process my wife's death nine months ago. Following is the link. All you have to do is "like" it, and you're a member. Bear in mind, however, that proselytizers will be booted.
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The A64 has re-opened following a three-car pile-up which closed a stretch of the road this morning.
The A64 westbound was closed from Towthorpe Moor Lane to Barr Lane due to the accident shortly after 8am.
Police said a 53-year-old man suffered minor injuries in the crash. He was treated at the scene. Nobody else was hurt.
Motorists experienced lengthy delays between Malton and the Hogrove Roundabout.
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Complaining about combat stress – rare practice in Estonian military
If compared to British troops, the number of Estonian soldiers diagnosed with combat stress and other psychological problems is 5-10 times lower. The reason may, in part, be limited availability of counselling and the practice of solving problems without a specialist.
Estonian Defense Forces psychologist Merle Tihaste considers that a masculine model dominates in Estonia, where complaining is frowned upon and admitting the problem is not common.
ERR reports that another contributing factor for the higher numbers in other countries could be the financial compensations offered.
Estonia provides social and psychological counselling to soldiers who have been injured while on service, and counselling is also available to all soldiers who have received the status of a veteran.
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Walter Burke @ 2017-08-22 23:59:35
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This is line doping case in Russia. Better to try to eliminate the messenger than the problem itself. I just wonder whether too many too high position persons are involved. Therefore nothing will happen, and Slesers & co can continue their f*** games. Just Latvia is their kindergarten.
Foreigner @ 2017-08-22 18:39:32
"Businessmen will be forces to pay more" Or perhaps forced to lay off people.
Linda @ 2017-08-22 15:36:03


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HOUSTON - A Houston police officer is in the hospital after being shot during traffic stop in northwest Houston Monday morning, and the man who shot him is dead, investigators said.
Police said two officers saw Jared Alvarez, 32, driving erratically on Saddle Rock near Sweetwater shortly after midnight and they followed him to try to pull him over.
But, instead of stopping, the officers said Alvarez continued to drive slowly on Saddle Rock with his car door open.
When Alvarez got to the end of the street, the officers got out of the patrol car and gave Alvarez verbal commands.
Investigators said Alvarez out his car in reverse then fired shots at the officers, wounding Officer W. Fikes in both arms.
Fikes' partner shot and killed Alvarez, detectives said.
Alvarez lived near the scene. According to court records, Alvarez had previously been in jail aggravated robbery and drug charges.
"Maybe he was afraid to go back to jail," neighbor Victoria Torres said.
"He told them, 'I'm not going back for nothing," said Daniel Torres, Alvarez's friend. "He only shot twice. They didn't have to go up to him and just shoot him."
Fikes was taken to Memorial Hermann Hospital and is expected to be OK.
Both officers have been with HPD for two years.
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If you don't have an account with the payee (like when you are just paying a friend), you don't have to bother searching. We'll just send your payment as a paper check.
If the address or account number from one of your bills can't be validated, and you are sure it is correct, you can proceed and we'll send the payment as a paper check. In the future, the payment may still upgrade to an electronic payment.
We hope this will lead to less confusion when adding payees and allow for more of your payments to be processed electronically.
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- AnonymousDecember 1, 2009 at 10:24 AM
It would be nice to be able to more quickly send a 1 time payment, without having to create a payee. Have you considered this functionality?ReplyDelete
That's an interesting idea that we haven't considered before. I'm guessing it is to keep your payee list clean when making payments to friends or not regularly recurring payees.ReplyDelete
While it sounds like a simple change, there are some technical hurdles we'd have to overcome. I'll add it to our enhancements list and we'll see if we can accommodate this in the future.
How long is the usual turn around for a paper check to get mailed after submitting the payment?ReplyDeleteReplies
Paper checks are mailed the same or next business day. In our regular monitoring, paper checks are delivered on the fourth business day. We suggest to allow for five to seven days due to weekends and holidays.Delete
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OTTAWA — Many people make a bucket list. Ottawa native Dena Coates
has one, too; visiting Cape Town, South Africa, was at the top of her
Her interest in the Rainbow Nation began during the 2010
World Cup that was held there. She immersed herself in learning all she
could about the country. About a year ago, Coates began her quest to
fulfill her dream. She searched for mission volunteer trips on the
Internet, and found one through Cross Cultural Solutions (CCS). "I
prayed, 'OK Lord, I have been thinking about his for a long time.' I had
such a strong desire to do it," she recalled. "I thought, 'I could go
there. I could do it.'"
Coates clicked the "enroll" button, before she changed her mind.
"My heart was thumping. I learned with God, all things are possible," she grinned.
effervescent Coates is employed as a personal trainer/group exercise
instructor at the Putnam County YMCA. She also provides exercise classes
to residents at local nursing homes. Two days before her departure, she
received her volunteer assignment, at a nursing home in Cape Town.
a 27-hour flight, arriving at 2:00 a.m. local time was no problem. A
representative of CCS was there to transport Coates to her "home" for
the next two weeks. "South Africa is the most warm and friendly place,"
she observed. "People are eager to help. I felt welcome as soon as I got
off the plane."
Coates roomed in a church's guesthouse, located
in the middle of Cape Town's central business district. There were
coffee houses, cafes, and restaurants everywhere. While it was only 30
minutes from the beach, swimming was not on the agenda. It was winter in
the southern hemisphere, and temperatures were in the mid- to lower
Eighteen volunteers, 15 women and three men ranging in ages
from 18-52, almost all from the United States, stayed in the guesthouse.
Coates shared a room with two other women. Household members shared
bathroom facilities. The staff included a chef, a housekeeper, and a
"We were like family by the time I left," Coates
acknowledged. "We were together all the time. One of my favorite things
was getting to hear others' stories and how we came to be in Cape Town
at the same time, and meeting people from all walks of life."
through Friday, a bell rang at 8 a.m. to alert the volunteers it was
time to board the bus to travel to their work sites. Volunteers went to
several different locations in Cape Town, including a school, a
childcare center, an HIV center, a psychiatric hospital, and the nursing
Coates and another young man assisted the home's
occupational therapist (OT). Coates taught chair aerobics three days a
week. She and the young man helped the OT with activities and games or
provided support to the residents when needed. She fondly recalled
memories of the residents. "They were a joy to be around. They were
witty and appreciative, and hugged me every day," Coates smiled. "One
lady, who was the second oldest resident, had such a beautiful
presence." Another resident spoke seven languages, and shared her
extensive travel stories. Music is very important to the South African
people; one male resident played his saxophone every day, while another
performed on the piano.
Coates favorite activity, by far, was
listening to the residents' personal stories. They willingly shared
their wisdom with her, which she appreciated. All the home's occupants
had lived through apartheid, a former social system in South Africa in
which black people and people from other racial groups did not have the
same political and economic rights as white people.
"South Africa
has such an interesting history," Coates stated. "I got to feel the
heartbeat of South Africa, and what is was really like, not just from a
tourist's perspective. Volunteering could not have been a better
experience. Getting to know those who had lived through South Africa's
history was a bonus."
Coates and her comrades spent afternoons and weekends exploring the city and the outlying areas.
city had so much beauty: statues, colorful building, lots of artistic
touches were everywhere. Their art is so expressive. There was lots of
traditional African music, although every time we were in a public
place, American pop music was playing," she described.
especially liked the District Six Museum. In the late 1860s, District
Six was a vibrant multicultural community comprised of people from all
walks of life. Black South Africans were displaced from the area
beginning in 1901. In the mid-1960s, the government bulldozed the area
to make room for an all-white settlement. The museum was established in
1994. It has many carefully reconstructed displays to show what life had
been in the area. Many artifacts people had collected from the era are
housed in the museum. A memory quilt at the historical institution
helped people reconnect with one another.
Another favorite
experience was attending a drum circle at the guesthouse. The leader did
music therapy for healing traumatic memories for people who experienced
Apartheid. "This was one of the best experiences I have ever had,"
Coates concluded. "I would go again, in a heartbeat."
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We're all aware that there's a recession going on and it doesn't look like it's going to disappear any time soon. Many people are looking to see how they can manage thanksgiving on a smaller budget this year.
We're all aware that there's a recession going on and it doesn't look like it's going to disappear any time soon. Many people are looking to see how they can manage thanksgiving on a smaller budget this year.
It's often the one holiday when we walk the stores and collect anything on the conveyor belt without considering the cost. Times have changed for many people from all walks of life.
Giving Instead of Receiving
Despite being short of funds, many people are thinking about staying at home or going out to enjoy a day with friends by volunteering to help others or donating some of the money they would have spent on Thanksgiving Day to more needy people.
Some folks are looking at new ways (which are really old ways just redesigned) to make Thanksgiving special.
Talk Thanksgiving Memories
One sure fire way to build up conversation and links between age groups is to reminisce with different generations. Whatever age you are, you can ask relatives about their memories of Thanksgiving Day in years gone by.
You can write down their thoughts or record them straight to your cell phone or camcorder. If you prepare this well in advance you can share those thoughts with other members of your family on Thanksgiving Day.
This is a sure way to develop fun between the different ages and encourages talking; something younger people appear to have forgotten about while on their favorite social networks and computers.
Go Green
Having a green Thanksgiving is another idea to tempt the imagination of children as well as their parents or guardians. Think about the food you can eat and how you can cook it. Compare your usual activities at Thanksgiving and see what consumes energy, what causes emissions. How can you cut down your carbon usage? Think local rather than ski hotels Sweden unless you live in the Nordic country.
Children's Thanksgiving Activities
You'll need to plan well ahead for children's games to be successful and not just a five minute wonder, but taking the time to plan activities can bring together the whole family. Remember it's not just the children who should play kids' games; get the whole family involved.
Thanksgiving Trees
Some people told of how as children they'd collect leaves in the fall. They'd preserve them in clear paper and sometimes make a Thanksgiving tree. Going back to the real theme of Thanksgiving Day, the children would write down what they were grateful for against each leaf.
If you follow this tradition, each year becomes a great time to review what they have written before and to see what this year brings. Don't forget to date them so you know what you thought and when! The tree idea can be made out of anything waiting to be recycled.
Thanksgiving Turkeys
Another twist on the tree is to make a Thanksgiving turkey, also from recycled goods. Instead of leaves they can collect feathers and stick them onto the turkey. As time goes by the turkey gets covered with more and more feathers with a full story to be told.
Think Pilgrims
When you're thinking about the children's activities and how they can include the adults, blindfold games are always a success. Everyone thinks they can do better until it's their turn.
The Pilgrims' 1620 voyage can be the theme of the game and it's something you can play indoors or outdoors, depending on where you live. Picking a person to represent the new world they can stand on a chair at one end of a room. Someone else can be the Mayflower. They stand blindfolded at the other end of the room/garden. All the other family or friends become rocks in the way. The new world gives directions for the Mayflower to find its way to the new world without hitting a single rock and finally making its way to safe ground, the harbor.
These Thanksgiving celebration ideas don't have to cost a lot and can lead to fun for the whole family. Why not plan for some of these as the holiday season approaches?
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June 3, 2011
A new program at The University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center showed that specifically matching targeted therapy to genetic changes in the tumors of patients with advanced cancer, an approach called personalized medicine, better controlled tumor growth and increased survival. Targeted therapy is a treatment that targets the cancer's specific genes, proteins, or the tissue environment that contributes to cancer growth and survival. Not all cancers have the same targets, and targeted therapy is often chosen based on the genes, proteins, and other factors involved in a person's cancer.
In this study, researchers looked at the tumors from 1,144 patients with advanced cancer to find specific changes to the tumor's genes, called mutations. The tumors from 460 patients had one or more genetic mutations. Each of these patients received a targeted therapy drug that targets the specific genetic mutation found in their tumor.
Researchers found that when patients were matched with the drugs that target one of their tumor's genetic mutations, they lived around four months longer than patients who were not matched with a specific treatment. In addition, 27% of patients with a mutation who received a matched treatment had their cancer slow or stop growing, compared with 5% of patients who did not receive the matched treatment. It also took longer for the matched treatments to stop working when compared to both the unmatched treatments and previous treatments.
What this means for patients
"The ability to look at tumor genetics and the development of targeted therapies has led to an increasing interest in a personalized medicine approach," said lead author Apostalia-Maria Tsimberidou, MD, PhD, Associate Professor in the Department of Investigational Cancer Therapeutics at The University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston. "This treatment strategy should eventually be used for every patient with cancer." Researchers have not yet found specific genetic mutations for all types of cancers, so this treatment method may only be available for some patients. Use the questions below as a starting point to talk with your doctor about whether targeted therapy is appropriate for you.
Questions to ask your doctor?
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GALVESTON, Texas - Children's Protective Service is looking into claims that a boy was forced to live in a box.
Court documents obtained by Local 2 indicate David Wieseckel, 42, used a wooden box as a room for his 9-year-old son.
Investigators with the Galveston Police Department indicate they first learned of this when the boy was reported missing on July 22.
According to court documents, when police found the boy, he told them he had run away from home because he didn't want to be locked in his room.
Returning to the home, investigators claimed Wieseckel led them to his son's room, which police described as a particle board box measuring 8 feet by 6 feet with a pair of locks outside.
Court documents said a small blanket, a pair of socks and a book were found inside the box.
"There was a room built for him so he wouldn't damage windows, rooms, wood and everything else," David Wieseckel told Local 2 reporter Nefertiti Jaquez. "It was his bedroom. He had everything in there. He had blankets, a bed, and he damaged it all, wrecked it all."
According to investigators, no one has been charged or arrested in this case.
The boy is now in foster care, Child Protective Services said.
The next status hearing is scheduled for September.
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Ohio Officers Not Fooled By Drunken Pizza Driver
EASTLAKE, Ohio
Police in northeast Ohio say an off-duty pizza delivery driver put the company's sign on his car roof and pretended to be on the job to avoid being stopped for drunken driving.
But it didn't work. Police in Eastlake, east of Cleveland, stopped 29-year-old Michael Christian earlier this week after another motorist reported that he was weaving on the road. Christian couldn't finish the field sobriety test and was arrested.
Det. Lt. Robert Gonzalez of the Eastlake Police Department tells WJW-TV that the man admitted that he had done it before, putting the pizza sign on his car when he wasn't working so he could drive drunk without police pulling him over.
He's due in court next week. No attorney information was immediately available.
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You exercise your body to stay physically in shape, so why shouldn't you exercise your brain to stay mentally fit? With these daily exercises you will learn how to flex your mind, improve your creativity and boost your memory. As with any exercise, repetition is necessary for you to see improvement, so pick your favorite exercises from our daily suggestions and repeat them as desired. Try to do some mentalrobics every single day!
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Playboy's "Nude Is Muse" fete, hosted by Neville Wakefield, Brooke Geahan, Jimmy Jellinek, and Lorna Donohoe, easily takes the cake. Artists including Vanessa Beecroft, Terence Koh, Olympia Scarry, Scott Campbell, and Lola Schnabel were all asked to present a nude in a unique way. Beecroft wowed guests immediately upon arrival by staging her 18 standing nudes in the shallow end of the pool (left) at The Standard. Instead of presenting a nude, Scarry cheekily covered herself entirely with a burka-style ensemble designed exclusively for her by Givenchy's Riccardo Tisci.
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DIS Magazine and OHWOW teamed up with Aaron Bondaroff, David Benjamin Sherry, and Ryan Trecartin to host a consistently fantastic option for late-night fun at Rokbar. Nightly DJ sets by downtown favorites such as Brian DeGraw, Fatima Al Qadiri, and Venus X drove crowds wild. The atmosphere was packed with the likes of Pin-Up's Felix Burrichter, Horatio Silva, Gordon Hull, and even Lady Gaga, who arrived masked and flanked by an army of merry pranksters.
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HANOVER, N.H. - Penn dug itself a hole on Saturday in itsw Ivy League match at Dartmouth, allowing two goals in the opening 33 minutes. The early disadvantage was too much for the Red and Blue to overcome as the quakers were defeated by the Big Green, 3-1.
Travis Cantrell scored his team-leading sixth goal of the season for the Quakers right before halftime, cutting Penn's deficit in half. Cantrell positioned himself in perfect space at the top of the box, allowing an Alex Reddy pass to be deposited just inside the far post in the 43rd minute.
Cantrell's goal came just ten minutes after Dartmouth took a two-goal lead via a Robin Almas header in the 33rd minute. Almas finished a set piece for the Big Green, heading in a corner kick. Dartmouth had taken an early lead in teh seventh minute off a Patrick Murray header from Brian Joseff.
The Quakers had nine shots in the second half, but were unable to find the tying marker. Instead, it was Dartmouth which scored -- an Andoni Georgiou strike from 18 yards out off an Alex Adelabu pass in the 76th minute.
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STARTLED Europeans will see cartoon superhero Danger Mouse and his faithful sidekick Penfold zipping across the continent in a bright yellow sports car next weekend.
The dynamic duo are in fact James Rose of Colwall and Nick Baldwin of Malvern, who are taking part in Europe's biggest banger rally, the Scumrun.
Starting at Brand's Hatch early on Thursday. May 8, the Scumrun will see 100 teams drive across Europe for four days, navigating to secret locations only revealed to them on the day.
The rules of the challenge include picking up a banger for no more than £500, and adapting it to get it road-ready for the 3,000-mile journey.
Mr Rose, a civil servant , aged 32, and data analyst Mr Baldwin, 41, will be driving an 18-year-old Mazda MX5 bought for £475.
Mr Baldwin said: "The Scumrun is a real challenge and we've spent a lot of time finding a suitable car and getting it prepared for the road. It wasn't in too bad condition but a seized crank shaft pulley bolt caused a few scraped knuckles, and wrapping a car in yellow vinyl is not as easy as tutorial videos would have you believe."
But there is a serious side to the zany stunt, as the Scumrun raises money for pregnancy and baby charity Tommy's.
"Tommy's is a great charity and we're really happy to be fundraising for them this year," said Mr Baldwin.
To donate, visit virginmoneygiving.com/team/NickAndJamesScumRun or see them in costume at Ledbury car boot sale on Sunday, May 4, off the A449 Ross Road.


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Satellite TV, not social media, was the driving force behind the Arab Spring
Friday, September 13, 2013
Kurt Johansen, Executive Director of SAT-7, Christian satellite TV for the Middle East, earlier this week visited the international headquarters of Aid to the Church in Need (ACN), in Königstein, Germany. ACN communications official Maria Lozano conducted this interview.
How long have you been involved with SAT-7?
SAT-7 is 17 years old now; we are still a teenager. We grew out of this awareness that this was the first time in Church history that we could go into more than half the homes in the Middle East because everybody has a satellite dish. It was a very difficult beginning; back then, we had television only one hour per week and even producing for that was very difficult. Now we have five channels and are broadcasting 24 hours a day—so we've grown a lot.
17 years doesn't seem like much and yet it is a lot in the context of media development, especially when you think about the powerful tools linked to the internet today. Is the internet an important force in the Middle East?
The internet is not very widespread in the Middle East. The number of Internet users is between 15 and 20 percent of the population. The Middle East is the least wired region in the world. It also has to do with literacy—30 percent of the population cannot read and write. How can they use the internet? So the internet is there and it's used by many, but the majority do not have internet and cannot use it. For the majority, especially the poor, satellite TV is the preferred if not the only media.
And yet many consider social media, especially Facebook and Twitter, to have been the driving forces behind the revolutions experienced in the Middle East today?
That's partly right, but not the whole truth. Very few have access and you have to keep in mind that Facebook and Twitter are also used by the military or the security agents and so there was a lot of false information—a lot of information about people being killed that were documented by photos, but in the end these photos were shown to have come from other countries—so you can manipulate a lot. The revolution was driven mainly by satellite media. It started in Tunisia and in the beginning none of the bigger networks believed that there was something going on; then Al Jazeera started showing it, and then Al Arabia, and then CNN, and so on. Because so many stations started showing it, people started believing that this was the truth. So I think it's fair to say that Twitter and Facebook played a role not the only one—to mobilize those millions needed could not be done by Facebook alone, because too few people have Facebook and so it had to be done through satellite television.
In the Middle East some of these networks are showing scenes that in Europe we are not used to seeing: live images of the war; very bloody and cruel. What are your thoughts about the power and the influence of these images on the children who are watching this violence—almost the whole day long and often carrying messages of hate?
Yes, TV in the Middle East is very different from the news channels that we have in Europe and the US that present both sides of the story and where there are certain limitations and rules that you follow. This is not the case in the Middle East. Most of the channels are propaganda oriented. Organizations like Hezbollah, or Hamas, or the Muslim Brotherhood who have their own channels, speak for themselves and against others. Very few talk with each other; very few try to be balanced. A lot of TV stations promote hatred: hatred against the Jews and against others, hatred against Christians and so on.
How does SAT-7 respond to this?
We have decided right from the beginning that we are not here to criticize any religion, we are not here to promote hate or violence—we are here to present Christ and his teaching, to represent the churches of the region. We teach love and forgiveness, to love your enemies and so on, and of course we are just one voice out of many but, what else can you do? You have to begin somewhere and I think our Kid's Channel, for example, has become very popular because there is no promotion of hate, there is no violence, it is all about good values. There's also no half-naked western girls promoting Coca-Cola or whatever, it's very safe. In fact, the SAT-7 tagline is: "Where your children can be safe."
That's why I think we have a lot of Muslim viewers watching our programs. In fact a recent study said that one out of four children in Saudi Arabia are watching SAT-7 Kids and one out of three children in Iraq are—of course with the permission of their parents. Here they can find good educational and inspiring programs that are opening the minds of children.
So there is a visible impact of this philosophy, promoting these kinds of values?
Sure, if not, the people would not watch it. There are 600 other channels to choose from so, yes I think we are making a difference.
Muslim and Christian values in some areas of life are similar; of course there are fundamental differences, each community has its own ideas. But there are common values?
Yes, every Saturday night we have a live program and the viewers can call in and comment. In these programs we have Muslims and Christians discussing common issues because everybody is interested in security: how to survive, how to find good schools, how to build a good future. We have things in common and at least we should try and live peacefully together. We disagree on things but we should live together as they have done in Egypt for so many years. It's only recently that problems have arisen and so we should come back and live peacefully, protect each other and respect each other. Coming together and having an honest dialogue with the understanding that we are different, that we have different views on the Prophet, on the Church and so on—but at least we can talk and show what we're doing.
One of the areas with significant differences has to do with the role of women. You have programs speaking about women and for women. Do you have problems with this kind of message in a world where the dominant vision of the role of women is perhaps different?
We have many problems. And there are a few Fatwas issued against us but this is something that we take for granted. If we speak about women's rights we will have a lot of problems. The local understanding of women's rights is very different from the Western vision. Women have a very difficult life in most of the Arab countries and don't have equal rights. In a court case, the testimony of a woman is less valued than that of a man, so we talk about that. Also we talk about the fact that the rate of sexual harassment in Egypt, for example, is almost 100 percent. There's a lot of rape, and unwanted and improper touching of women and we talk about that as well. Indeed, there is a lot of pressure that even Christian women should wear the headscarf and not wear jeans and so on. We talk about the serious problem of women as head of households: in Egypt perhaps 30 percent of women are divorced, and to be a divorced woman is a traumatic experience; you're a victim of gossip, you have difficulty surviving financially and raising your children. In many countries men can get a divorce easily but for women it is impossible.
Do you mean women are divorced not because they want to, but because the man can leave his wife at will?
Yes, the man can just leave her and take a new wife. We show women what they can do to overcome their problems. We don't want to treat them as victims, we want to show positive role models who say: "Yes, I'm divorced, yes it's very difficult and yet I just started a small stall in the market..." We have live programs with call ins from women talking about how they have overcome their problems and in fact a lot of men have called asking forgiveness saying: "On behalf of all men of the Middle East, I did not know that this was a problem, that the culture was like this—it was a part of my upbringing, but I can see, now that we are talking about this, that this is a terrible way to treat women."
I suppose that it is important that the people producing these programs are not people from the West - because our ideas on marriage and family are very different and that these are programs are produced by people from the same culture?
Yes, 80 percent of the programs we broadcast are produced in the Middle East by Middle Eastern Christians; we from the West can only support them. We are not producing the programs. We have three Arabic channels all staffed by Arabic Christians: we have one channel for Iran and all the staff are from Iran, and we have one channel for Turkey and again all the staff is from Turkey.
Some of the countries you mentioned, like Iran and Turkey, do not allow religious freedom—at least not full freedom. How do Christians deal with this situation because they are a minority and have no full rights?
Yes, in Iran we do not have a studio. We send the programs in from outside of Iran due to the severe lack of religious freedom. In Egypt, Lebanon and in Turkey the governments allow us to have studios because it is a fact that there are Christians there and we are representing the local Christians. We are not criticizing Islam, we are not criticizing any denomination at all—we are here to improve society, to talk about social problems. These governments understand that and they see us not as a tool of Western missionary activity but as a truly local ministry or TV station that serves the local Christian community.
Is it forbidden to watch SAT-7 in Iran?
It is forbidden to own a satellite dish, a ban not aimed specifically against SAT-7; they don't want anyone to watch any outside programs. However, although there is still a ban on the ownership of satellite dishes in Iran, many millions have a satellite dish anyway. There are many paradoxes in this country and one of them is that the government turns a blind eye but that everybody knows it's done.
You are interested in speaking to Christians living in these countries but also to those Christians who originate from these countries but live abroad—as there is a lot of emigration from this region for both security and economic reasons.
Right, SAT-7 also covers Europe so that the 12 to 14 million Arabs, Persians and Turks living there can also benefit from SAT-7. In a way we are a free gift to the Church in Europe. We provide 24 hours of quality programming for the immigrants living there. In the case of Iran, because we don't have a studio in Iran, we are cooperating with the many Iranians who are living in other countries and who love to give their time to SAT-7 and so we can produce almost 24 hours of programming daily.
Are you worried about the situation in the Middle East?
I try to be an optimist but it is difficult to be so at this time. Then again, Christianity has survived 2000 years in the Middle East; there have been worse times and still the Church has survived. I am very inspired and very impressed by the local Churches and how they have been salt and light during their long history. I speak to the Christians in Egypt and Lebanon and they say they are committed to stay, they see their calling to be there in spite of the security issues, in spite of persecution and discrimination and in spite of all the negative things going on.
What is your biggest difficulty—financial or dealing with people's attitudes?
We visited all the churches in the region and they all thought it was a very good idea but impossible: how would you find the finances? How would you find the local talent willing to be exposed on television? How to get all the churches to work together—and they are often from many different countries—and how would you find local studios? How would you get air time on satellite? So there were many obstacles, but somehow God wanted this to continue.
Do you still fight these same problems or have they changed?
The problems we have now are mostly financial problems. We have a lot of missions and we always want to do more; we have accomplished a lot, like having a Turkish channel and we have been allowed to broadcast on Nilesat, which is a satellite platform controlled by the government of Egypt. So we have two channels on that platform. Unfortunately our income has been flat for five years now so we had to downscale a little bit and lay off staff in this difficult climate. 2012 was a very difficult year, but thanks to the support of our partners 2013 has been much better. Financing is always a problem, however. We just lost five editors from Egypt to a major television station based in Dubai but in a way we are proud of that because our staff is so talented that they are sought after by other stations. And we have this dilemma: we do not know how long we can continue - what is happening in Egypt can stop us anytime - but for the time being we can do it - so let's do it. This is the mentality we have and that is very important.
Has the support of Aid to the Church in Need been effective?
Aid to the Church in Need came to us at the very beginning and has been very, very generous and very faithful since our start so many years ago. I think that you have given us more than $250,000 through the years and it is not only that, but we work together hand in hand. You have a lot of contacts all over the world that you give us and you have come to see us and you pray for us. You're not just a donor, you are a partner and that's very important for us to have partners; we love donors but we love partners even more because it means that you pray for us, you give us advice and critique and try to help us any way you can. Aid to the Church in Need is a role model of what we would like our supporters to be, so thank you for that.
It is the mission of ACN to respond to the vital material and spiritual needs of priests, religious, and laity in more than 145 countries—in many of which they suffer severe persecution, with Syria and Egypt grabbing the headlines at present. In 2012, ACN spent more than $85M on some 5,000 projects around the world.


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- Prep-School Predators: The Horace Mann School's Secret History of Sexual Abuse
Prep-School Predators: The Horace Mann School's Secret History of Sexual Abuse
By Amos Kamil
From the elevated platform of the No. 1 train's last stop at 242nd Street, you can just about see the lush 18-acre campus of the Horace Mann School. The walk from the station is short, but it traverses worlds. Leaving the cluttered din of Broadway, you enter the leafy splendor of Fieldston, an enclave of mansions and flowering trees that feels more like a wealthy Westchester suburb than the Bronx. Head up the steep hill, turn left, then walk a bit farther, past the headmaster's house. From the stone wall that runs along Tibbett Avenue, you can see practically the whole school: Pforzheimer Hall, Mullady Hall, the auditorium, the gymnasium and, right in the center, the manicured green expanse of the baseball field, home of the Lions, pride of the school.
It was this field that drew me to Horace Mann 33 years ago, pulling me out of Junior High School 141 in the Bronx, with its gray-green walls and metal-caged windows. At 141, my friends' résumés read like a crime blotter: Jimmy stole a pizza truck and dropped out after ninth grade; Eggy was done with 141 after he smashed the principal's glasses with a right hook; Ish liked to pelt the Mister Softee truck with rocks; Bend-Over Bob OD'd and lived; Frankie was not so lucky. My future would have tracked swiftly in the same direction but for one factor: baseball. By 14, I had a sweet swing, with the arm, hands and game smarts to match.
That's what brought me to the attention of R. Inslee Clark Jr., then headmaster of Horace Mann, a private school so elite that most students at 141 had never even heard of it. Inky Clark, a tireless scout of baseball talent, started showing up at my games, and he was not someone you could easily miss. He was a big guy with a powerful handshake, bright blue eyes and a booming voice. In his loud pink cardigans and madras pants, he always looked as if he came straight off the Kennedy compound or the bow of a yacht. He drove a bright orange Cadillac convertible, its rear bumper covered with Yankees stickers.
Clark was a legendary reformer. As dean of undergraduate admissions at Yale in the 1960s, he broke that institution's habit of simply accepting students from fancy boarding schools, whatever their academic standing; instead, he started scouring the country for the most talented, highest-achieving students from any school and any background. "You will laugh," William F. Buckley Jr. wrote in 1967, "but it is true that a Mexican-American from El Paso High with identical scores on the achievement test and identically ardent recommendations from the headmaster, has a better chance of being admitted to Yale than Jonathan Edwards the Sixteenth from Saint Paul's School." As more minorities started appearing in the freshman classes, the university's alumni and trustees did not laugh. But the rest of the Ivy League followed Clark's bold lead, forever altering the history of the American meritocracy.
He brought that same crusading spirit to Horace Mann, where he welcomed girls to what had long been a proudly all-boys school. And he used his passion for baseball, the sport he coached, as a Trojan horse to bring promising students from rough schools to a campus otherwise reserved for the city's most privileged children.
Clark could work a room like a politician, zeroing in on whomever he was speaking to, making him feel like he was the most interesting person in the world. He started calling me "the Mouse," as my friends at 141 did, and he suggested I might find a home at Horace Mann. Touched, as was everyone who met him, by his tremendous personal charisma, I took it as a thrilling compliment. My parents saw the bigger picture: the opportunities that a Horace Mann education could bring, the ways it could change a kid's life.
So in September 1979, I stood in the glassed-in breezeway through which students entered campus, wearing the pink Lacoste shirt my brother had somewhat optimistically insisted would help me fit in. All around me, the natives swarmed past — to the classrooms, to the science labs, to the brilliant futures they had been born to assume.
I was an outsider, but I was one of Inky's boys and, as I quickly learned, that counted for a lot. I gathered with my new teachers and classmates in the auditorium and proudly sang Horace Mann's alma mater: "Great is the truth and it prevails; mighty the youth the morrow hails./Lives come and go; stars cease to glow; but great is the truth and it prevails."
Shortly after my arrival, a new friend walked me around the school, pointing out teachers to avoid.
"What do you mean? Like, they're hard graders?"
"No. Perverts. Stay away from them. Trust me."
I heard about some teachers who supposedly had a habit of groping female students and others who had their eyes on the boys. I heard that Mark Wright, an assistant football coach, had recently left the school under mysterious circumstances. I was warned to avoid Stan Kops, the burly, bearded history teacher known widely as "the Bear," who had some unusual pedagogical methods. Even Clark came in for some snickering: he had no family of his own, and he had a noticeably closer-than-average relationship to the Bear, another confirmed bachelor.
It was juicy gossip, of course, but not all that different from what already swirls around the minds of sex-obsessed high-school students. Certainly it wasn't that different from what swirled around the hallways of typically homophobic high schools at the time, when anyone who was a bit different was suspected of being gay and any teacher who was gay was suspected of being a pedophile.
(To read the full essay, visit this New York Times link)


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Protesters against Spanish airline Iberia's plans to slash 3,800 jobs and cut salaries hold a rally in Madrid on Thursday. Placards read "Prisoners of IAG (International AirlinesGroup) caused by the silence of counselors. IAG, is a fraud" and "Inmoral bonds = Labour extinction."
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First home buyers not keen on going west to invest
SYDNEY isn't unaffordable, as a global survey suggested this week, it's just that first home buyers are too fussy and need to compromise if they want to get a leg-up on the property ladder, say western suburb agents.
Of the major cities it looked at, the Demographia International Housing Affordability Survey found Sydney to be the third most expensive in the world, after Hong Kong and Vancouver.
Agent Vince Movizio, of Ray White Fairfield, said while he "couldn't imagine a first home buyer going straight into Mosman unless they've won Powerball", in his area there were still plenty of affordable properties. There were units for less than $200,000, while good-size houses could still be bought for $300,000.
"I think they are very fussy," he said, adding the desire of these buyers to be close to the city was probably the biggest factor in their reluctance to move west.
Louis Christopher, the managing director SQM Research, said those from the inner ring had to compromise if they wanted to become homeowners.
"This is all about status versus affordability," Mr Christopher said. "Most first home buyers want to buy in the [inner city]. But the reality is because everybody else wants to live there, they can't get in because they don't have the budget."
Figures from Fairfax Media-owned Australian Property Monitors showed that, including the central coast, Sydney has 101 suburbs with a median house price under $400,000 and 23 suburbs under $300,000. And many of these were performing well.
"If you're buying a house in the $300,000 to $400,000 range the upside is pretty good," said APM's senior economist, Andrew Wilson.
But the founder and executive chairman of Aussie Home Loans, John Symond, said first home buyers had a right to be fussy about moving west as Sydney's transport infrastructure was "moribund" – although they had to start somewhere.
"If first home buyers want a home they need to head west where prices are more affordable," he said.
But many western Sydney agents see very few of them.
Douglas Driscoll, the chief executive of Starr Partners Real Estate, which has a network of offices in western Sydney, said his agents were selling to family buyers from the inner city, but not young first home buyers.
And it was the same in the upper Blue Mountains, where Kylie King, of LJ Hooker Katoomba, sees almost none.
This drought is borne out by home loan figures for November, which were the lowest for 20 years, indicating that many first home buyers have been slow to take the O'Farrell government's bait of a $15,000 grant to buy new property.
But a survey from Mortgage Choice suggests young people buying in these more affordable areas would be financially better off paying a mortgage rather than renting. The weekly repayment on the average first home buyer loan of $308,300 is $422, compared with the median house rent of $500.


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February 22, 2013
The annual basketball game between St. Vladimir's Orthodox Theological Seminary (SVOTS), and St. Tikhon's Orthodox Theological Seminary (STOTS) in South Canaan, PA, rescheduled due to Hurricane Sandy, will take place on Friday, February 22, at 4:00 p.m. The game will be held at the Holy Trinity Greek Orthodox Church gymnasium [1], a few miles from the Seminary on 10 Mill Road, New Rochelle, NY. Following the game, St. Vladimir's will host the players afterwards for a post–game pizza fest.
Both teams are practicing hard and anticipating the spirit of friendly competition that characterizes the event. SVOTS alumni are invited to come and support the team, for what promises to be an exciting match–up.


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Rangers show fight until last out in loss to Yanks
Ninth-inning rally dies in left field; Arencibia has career-high seven RBIs
ARLINGTON -- J.P. Arencibia had already jumped over the dugout fence ready to dogpile Adrian Beltre in celebration Tuesday night.
The stage was set for a ninth-inning comeback that seemed all but impossible just a few minutes earlier. The Rangers had scored two runs in the ninth to cut the Yankees' lead to one run, and in Beltre, they had their most dominant hitter at the plate.
Bases loaded. Full count. Two outs.
Arencibia rose to his feet and prematurely began to celebrate, as Beltre launched a deep fly ball off a 91-mph cutter toward the left-field fence.
The 41,934 in attendance at Globe Life Park joined Arencibia. But Beltre himself wasn't convinced. Seconds later, Yankees left fielder Brett Gardner proved him right, when he squeezed his glove around the ball, recording the final out and stripping the Rangers of the chance at a walk-off in a 12-11 loss to New York.
"I could tell by [looking at ] him that he didn't hit it out. He wasn't celebrating," Yankees closer David Robertson said. "But any time you see him take a cut like that and hit a ball in the air, there's always a worry that it's gone."
The Rangers have now lost 20 games in the month of July. The last time they lost 20 games in any month was in May 2007, but the last time they lost 20 games in July dates back to 1983.
But Tuesday's loss was as agonizing as they come, especially when the Rangers had their best hitter at the plate in the end.
"I want him every single day. He's the ultimate pro. I could sit here for hours and talk about how amazing he is," Arencibia, who had a career-high seven RBIs, said. "For a team to be able to rally back, that's a good team over there. And a good bullpen, too. To be able to take your punches and punch back and make it to the last out, that was exciting. It was nice."
The Rangers led, 4-1, going into the sixth before the Yankees scored seven off of Rangers starter Nick Martinez and reliever Shawn Tolleson.
"A couple of base hits, and I walked a guy," Martinez said. "It got away from me one inning. It was a little frustrating not to finish that inning on a high note."
The Yankees added two more in the seventh off reliever Roman Mendez, and that appeared to have put the game away. Turns out, that wasn't the case.
"We didn't quit," said Rangers manager Ron Washington. "We kept fighting. If you go back to the sixth inning, not many people thought we had a chance, but we were one swing away and had the right man at the plate. We just didn't get it done."
Arencibia started the comeback with a seventh-inning grand slam, the Rangers' first of the season. Mark Teixeira responded with a two-run home run in the top of the eighth off Neal Cotts, making it 12-8.
The Rangers manufactured a run in the eighth and then almost pulled it out in the ninth against Robertson.
Arencibia struck out to begin the inning, but Leonys Martin singled and Robinson Chirinos walked. Rougned Odor's grounder moved the runners to second and third, and Shin-Soo Choo loaded the bases with a walk. Elvis Andrus followed with a two-run single to make it a one-run game, and Alex Rios drew another walk to reload the bases. That brought up Beltre.
Robertson got ahead with two quick strikes, but then Beltre worked the count full. Roberton threw one more pitch, and Beltre hit it, but not deep enough.
"I thought that it had a chance to get out," Arencibia said. "But unfortunately, it was short and it ended up being their night."
Grace Raynor is an associate reporter for MLB.com. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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Blog Migration
I've done some updating of links on the righthand side of this page, trying to get up to speed with art blogs by some our our alumni. I hope that this blog can serve as a hub for readers to keep up on students both present and past. Here is a sampling of material that has appeared on the blogs of graduated students, after having bid the SNC campus adieu:
I've also added a couple blogs by alumni that I probably should have added to the blogroll a while ago — from Brittany Sterling, Alexandra Rubio and Mickey Ross. If there's any other student, past or present, whose art blog I should be linking to, let me know and I'll roll them in.
Lastly, this isn't a blog, but a current student directed me to a small online portfolio of some work by Jeff Calhoun, who went on from SNC to enroll in a graduate program at the Academy of Art University in San Francisco. Here's a sample of what's he's been working on lately — click here for more.