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Dagga plantation found in Johannesburg suburb
Johannesburg - Four people arrested after the discovery of a dagga processing operation in Westdene will appear in the Johannesburg Magistrate's Court on Monday, Gauteng police said.
The men, aged between 29 and 44, were arrested in a separate house in Melville on Friday evening, following the discovery of the dagga in the backyard of the house in 4th Avenue, Westdene, earlier on Friday, Lieutenant Colonel Lungelo Dlamini said.
"They were arrested in a house where the dagga was found in a refined form and in different stages of processing," said Dlamini.
"It was a very sophisticated plantation in a laboratory form where different equipment [was] used."
The equipment included lights, back-up batteries, plant pots, manure and different types of chemicals.
Dlamini said the operation and stock was believed to be valued at thousands of rands.
"It is believed that this sophisticated dagga plantation was the work of a syndicate dealing in dagga and other drugs in Johannesburg," said Dlamini.
"There is a possibility that part of the syndicate's market is the students in the surrounding universities and night clubs."
Police were still searching for the owners of the house as nobody was found inside the house during the raid.
The men would face charges of dealing in dagga.


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Safety Chris Clemons and tight end Anthony Fasano have returned to practice for the Miami Dolphins.
Clemons (groin) and Fasano (chest) worked on a limited basis Thursday, as did cornerback Tyrone Culver (ankle) and receiver Roberto Wallace (knee).
Tackle Jake Long (knee) and linebacker Karlos Dansby (elbow) participated in the full practice after being limited Wednesday.
The Dolphins play Tennessee on Sunday.

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In 2009, Mark and Chris Heinritz meet longtime restaurateur Barry
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The race for Democratic National Committee chair has been going on for, it seems, a thousand years. It should mercifully conclude this month. If the Democrats are not idiots, they will give it to Keith Ellison, and move on to doing things of actual importance.


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Emergency Custody Decisions: Part One
April Baer- It's been nine months since the case of a lively, active 4-year-old named Sidney Sawyer first came to the attention of the Department of Children and Family Services, and eight months since she was beaten to death in her mother's Hough apartment. Still, Sidney's case is far from over. The county supervisor responsible for the case, 9-year agency veteran Tallis George Munro, was fired in July. Agency director Bill Denihan.
Bill Denihan- We believe that Mister Munro did not follow the tools he had in front of him and made a conscious decision not to follow the tools.
AB- The tools Denihan is talking about are series of investigative procedures county staff use to decide when if children should be taken under emergency custody. The decision is made dozens of times daily by county workers, like Denise Dembowski.
Denise Dembowski- You get the real deal though, walking all the way out here.
AB- Even on icy, snowy days like today, Dembowski is trudging four blocks to her parking space, heading out on her rounds. She's young, like most case workers. She came to the agency justa fter graduating from college. When a complaint about child abuse or neglect is called in, it's workers like her who find out what's going on, and make initial assessments. She's matter of fact about the tense family situations and tough neighborhoods she moves through.
DD- I never take anything except like the bare essentials, what I need.
AB- The average social worker has about seven to eight months experience. That's part of the reason the agency requires its caseworkers and their supervisors to use a risk assessment tool. It's a kind of test that helps staff quickly assess what's going on. Jim McCafferty is the agency's deputy director.
Jim McCafferty- A lot of them, friends of mine, say, "Hell, if I didn't have your risk assessment and I saw a child with bruises that have been beaten, I'm gonna take custody of the child". Well yeah, but when you get out there and the parent starts to tell you their version of the story and this is what happened, and it was an accident, and I don't know how it occurred. I was in the other room and I went in and there was a mark. I left my child with a babysitter, and the child came back this way.
AB- McCafferty says the risk assessment system the county uses gives workers questions to ask to get 18,000 complaints per year moving quickly and efficiently. The structured-decision-making tool, or SDM, as it's called, has its roots in actuarial science. It's not unlike the questionnaires used by insurance agents trying to assess financial risk. Driving out on her cases, Denise Dembowski says the SDM's questions about family behaviors, history, drug or alcohol problems, domestic abuse, are fairly straightforward and easy to follow.
DD- I mean, I go out on cases -- I don't actually pull the safety assessment out. I kind of know what questions to ask for, you look at the home, make sure that it's safe, so this household we'll see how it looks make sure the four year old isn't going to be getting hurt.
AB- After the initial home visit, a safety assessment form is completed and a score tallied. If the score indicates the child is not safe, the worker immediately takes action (and) gets emergency custody. If the score indicates no red flags, or if some means can be found to keep the child safe, like temporary placement with a grandparent, SDM guides the worker to avoid splitting the family.
Former County supervisor Tallis George Munro, lost his job last year over the Sidney Sawyer case. He says it was because the SDM score he and his subordinate calculated for Sidney Sawyer did not indicate the child was in immediate danger. Twenty nine days later, the child was pronounced dead, killed by blows to the abdomen that ruptured her small intestine. Munro says, in the case of Sidney Sawyer, SDM failed him.
Tallis George Munro- There are perhaps ten to fifteen percent of referrals that come into the agency, where this tool will not be able to assess risk to children.
AB- Munro wants his job back, and he says he doesn't deserve further liability for Sidney's death. More on his side of the story in part 2.


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PHOTOS: Pupil Transportation in Pictures — Winter/Spring 2017
An "LOL" bus, a student's egg carton artwork, and yellow buses in a Vietnamese parade are among the fascinating photos from the SBF Snapshots department and website.
The five-year anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks was observed last September. Anyone who's had to fly recently knows how much tighter airport security has become. The changes have made it more time-consuming and frustrating to move through an airport, but, more importantly, tougher for terrorists to mount an attack.
Over the past five years, how far has the K-12 educational community come in preparing its school transportation systems to thwart or respond to terrorist attacks on school buses? And how much further does it need to go?
Most industry watchers would probably agree that much has been done to address the security of school buses. The bombings of transit systems in London and Madrid have heightened the awareness of possible attacks on transportation systems in North America. Although it seems more likely that transit buses and passenger trains, rather than school buses, would be targeted, that's a dangerous assumption.
Let's take a look at how the school bus community has responded to the threat of terrorism and what steps it has taken to harden itself as a target.
Keeping watch
The need to train bus drivers to recognize possible terrorist activity was an obvious consequence to the attacks of 9/11. To that end, the School Bus Watch program was created. This training is modeled after the Highway Watch program for truck drivers.
More than three-quarters of respondents to a recent SCHOOL BUS FLEET survey said they have implemented School Bus Watch training, which is designed for all transportation staff, not just drivers.
"All of our drivers are required to complete the School Bus Watch training," says Mark Lindstrom, transportation director at Troup County (Ga.) Schools. "Many of them have had it twice."
For those not familiar with School Bus Watch (and some respondents said they had not heard of it), the program teaches staff how to observe, assess and report safety or security-related activities. The program was developed for pupil transportation by the three national industry associations — National Association for Pupil Transportation, National Association of State Directors of Pupil Transportation Services and National School Transportation Association — in cooperation with the Highway Watch program.
The program offers train-the-trainer instruction, as well as end-user training that can be taught by an instructor or through a DVD or videocassette. In a nutshell, the training emphasizes the need for transportation professionals to be aware of suspicious people, packages or activities and to report any concerns to the proper authorities. The focus of the training is on activity occurring on the highway rather than at the bus yard.
Those who've undergone the training are given a 24-hour toll-free Highway Watch call center number to report their observations. The information gathered from School Bus Watch participants is analyzed by the Highway Information Sharing and Analysis Center (ISAC), which in turn shares the information with law enforcement and national security agencies.
For more information about School Bus Watch, visit www.highwaywatch.com. Or you can call Danielle Abe at the National School Transportation Association at (703) 684-3200.
'24' on a school bus
Meanwhile, about two in five respondents to the survey have provided their drivers with the Transportation Security Administration's (TSA) training called "School Transportation Security Awareness" (STSA).
This DVD-based training program, unlike School Bus Watch, focuses on security concerns within the transportation system rather than the outside community.
According to TSA officials, more than 400 organizations in 42 states have registered for the full STSA training package. The training program has been embraced by law enforcement officials as well as school bus operators. The New York State Police has ordered DVDs for distribution to all school districts in its jurisdiction.
The DVD depicts a fictional scenario in which terrorists hijack a school bus, plant a bomb on it and try to blow up an elementary school. The stylized production has elements of the TV show 24 and provides entertainment value in addition to education.
In the story, two men hijack a school bus while it's picking up children along the route. One of the men holds a knife to the driver's throat, while the other forces the passengers to the back of the bus. The bus driver is forced to skip her stops and drive to a warehouse where the children are herded into a sequestered area and a bomb is loaded into the bus.
But the quick-thinking bus driver covertly calls 911 on her cell phone and leaves the line open. She's aided by an observant parent who reports seeing two men board her child's bus and a bus mechanic who discovers a radio-jamming device taped under a bus seat. School authorities do their part by evacuating the elementary school while the bus is en route. After it arrives on school grounds, SWAT teams surround the bus and subdue the would-be terrorist before he is able to detonate the bomb.
The scenario illustrates the importance of training, awareness and planning in successfully defusing an attempted attack. The training film is clear about the very real possibility of such an attack.
"School buses used as terrorist weapons clearly have enormous potential to cause destruction and loss of life," the narrator says. "None of us likes to imagine the possibility that our school buses could become the target of security threats, but the facts are unambiguous: Buses are vulnerable to attacks by hijackers, suicide bombers and remotely detonated explosive devices." For more information about the STSA training program (which can be ordered with a DVD Leader's Guide), visit www.tsa.gov/what_we_do/layers/school_trans_awareness.shtm or contact Dale Potts, TSA program manager, at (571) 227-3525 or [email protected].
Taking the next step
While the aforementioned programs are enhancing the knowledge base of drivers, managers and other transportation personnel, many operations believe more needs to be done in this area. More than half of the respondents to the survey said more driver training is necessary in the area of security.
At Owosso (Mich.) Public Schools, the transportation department receives training from local law enforcement in handling hostage situations, according to Transportation Director Jayne Campbell. She says Lt. Tom McComas of the Cabell County Sheriff's Department (and the lead member of the SWAT team) has lectured on that topic. "He has also presented information about the simple process of making bombs and things for the drivers to watch for," Campbell says. "We also did some training in hostage negotiations."
Owosso has a fleet of 17 school buses that serve two high schools, a middle school and seven elementary schools. Using law enforcement officers to provide security training imbues the session with more credibility than if it was delivered by a trainer. Campbell says McComas makes it clear to the drivers that terrorist activity is "a reality, can happen anywhere and affects everyone when it does happen."
Mock takeover of bus At Unionville-Chadds Ford School District in southeastern Pennsylvania, the transportation department was able to offer its drivers a demonstration of a mock takeover of a school bus.
Transportation Supervisor Gail Wolfel says she helped to arrange a demonstration of a bus takeover for an annual conference of the Pennsylvania Association of School Business Officials and then asked the same group — a SWAT team from Cumberland County, Pa. — to reprise the training program for her drivers. It was a huge success. "The drivers still talk about that in-service," Wolfel says. "It was the best one we ever had. The drivers liked being involved. Making it so real helped to convince them that this is something that can happen, and has happened, in many places across the country."
Since the SWAT team cannot make frequent visits to the school district, Wolfel also uses a videotape training session, "School Bus Held Hostage" from Strategies Training Systems.
Getting clear of trouble
Emergency response is also a critical link in the security chain. At South Country Central School District in Patchogue, N.Y., the transportation department practices school evacuation drills. "We have timed how long it would take to get the buses to the school, load the students and drive them away," says Transportation Supervisor Louise Colletti.
Colletti believes that the area of school transportation security training is constantly evolving and requires a proactive approach. She recently attended a course on prevention and response to suicide bombings offered by the New York Association for Pupil Transportation. "I try to take any class that would help and share the information with my district," she says. "There is always room for more knowledge. No one has it all."
Related Topics: school bus security, TSA
An "LOL" bus, a student's egg carton artwork, and yellow buses in a Vietnamese parade are among the fascinating photos from the SBF Snapshots department and website.
Fourth-grader Addison Hutchinson of California notices that her bus driver is hunched over the wheel. She calls 911 and then stays with the driver until paramedics arrive.
A new final rule adds four semi-synthetic opioids: hydrocodone, oxycodone, hydromorphone, and oxymorphone.
In a video recorded by a motorist, the New Jersey bus driver appears to be driving 80 mph where the speed limit is 65.
Two Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools buses have caught fire in the past month. Authorities are investigating, and buses of the same type are being re-inspected.
Vallo Transportation's campaign includes a presentation with a youth motivational speaker and distribution of thousands of bookmarks and wristbands.
The resource is part of Safe Kids Worldwide's "Take Action Toolkit: How to Fix an Unsafe School Zone."
The state directors' annual gathering also addresses the use of tablets and GPS units for school bus drivers.
Kerry Mullins of South Carolina brings her daughter to her bus stop, walks into the road to talk to the bus driver, and is hit by a motorist.
The winners in the school bus maintenance competition hail from Utah and Georgia.
Zonar Verify provides daily routing and student rider information directly to the school bus driver.
NAPT sessions show that vehicle technology is advancing rapidly, and the school bus industry needs to keep pace or be left behind.
The Tennessee driver gets all the students off the bus before the fire starts. An electrical problem with a cable near the battery is the cause of the fire, school administrators say.
This PSA from the Maryland State Department of Education shows the need to stop for school buses. Tougher penalties and stop-arm cameras in some areas have heightened public awareness, but there is still a long way to go, the PSA states.
School bus safety takes the spotlight in a reception at the Pennsylvania Governor's Residence.
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Beautiful potrait of Mother and Child. How sweet is that ?
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John P. Marquand 1893-1960
John Phillips Marquand, leading American writer of the twentieth century, was born on November 10, 1893, to Philip and Margaret Fuller Marquand, both descendants of old New England families. Although he was born in Wilmington, Delaware, and lived in Rye, New York, until he was fourteen, Marquand considered himself a New Englander. He was educated at the Newburyport (Massachusetts) High School and at Harvard University, from which he was graduated in 1915. From 1915 to 1917, he was assistant magazine editor of the Boston Transcript. After a brief period as advertising copywriter in 1920 and 1921, he became a novelist and published The Unspeakable Gentleman (1922). Marquand was a frequent contributor of short stories to several popular magazines of the day, most notably The Saturday Evening Post, Cosmopolitan, Collier's, and Good Housekeeping. Many of his novels were also serialized in shortened form in these magazines. A recurring theme in many of Marquand's works concerns the life and times of the middle and upper classes in twentieth-century New England–particularly Boston—as illustrated in The Late George Apley (1937), Wickford Point (1939), and H. M. Pulham, Esquire (1941). Marquand also wrote several mysteries featuring the Oriental detective Mr. Moto. Film versions of the Mr. Moto mysteries enjoyed great popularity. Marquand's writings were widely received and sold well. In addition, many of his works were successfully adapted for stage and screen. In 1922, Marquand married Christina Sedgwick. From this marriage, which lasted thirteen years, a son and a daughter were born. In 1936, Marquand married Adelaide Hooker. Two sons and a daughter were born of this union, which also ended in divorce in 1958. John P. Marquand died in his sleep of a heart attack on July 16, 1960 in Newburyport, Massachusetts.
Boston Brahmins
The term "Boston Brahmins" refers to a class of wealthy, educated, elite members of Boston society in the nineteenth century. Oliver Wendell Holmes coined the term in a novel in 1861, calling Boston's elite families "the Brahmin Caste of New England." The Boston Brahmins have long held the interest of casual and professional historians because of their unique place in nineteenth-century American culture. They were mostly the descendants of Puritans, having made their fortunes as American merchants, and they could not be described as egalitarian. Rather, they were the closest thing the United States has ever had to a true aristocracy.
At Odds with Democracy
In her book Elite Families, Betty G. Farrell writes, "Visiting Boston for the first time in the 1830s, Harriet Martineau noted that it was 'perhaps as aristocratic, vain, and vulgar a city, as described by its own "first people," as any in the world.' What particularly distressed Martineau was the evidence of an aristocracy of wealth amid a new republic, a group whose cultural pretensions and social exclusivity she saw as particularly at odds with the democratic ideals of egalitarianism and inclusive citizenship."
Several factors, besides wealth, made Boston's Brahmins stand out as an aristocracy even from the wealthy of other cities. With waves of immigration to America's cities in the middle of the nineteenth century, the position of the wealthy and elite in every city was threatened. But in New York and Chicago, despite prejudice, the influence of immigrants quickly took root. In Boston, the Brahmins fought fiercely to close immigrants out. While they may have prided themselves on being the champions of abolitionism, they did not actually want black Americans, or any other non-Brahmin group, encroaching on their power or society.
Peninsula City
It was not difficult for upper class Bostonians to shut out their poorer counterparts. The unique geography of Boston, a peninsula city, made expansion possible only by landfill. All of Boston's new neighborhoods in the mid-nineteenth century were created by leveling off hills and using the dirt to fill areas of water to create new land. These new landfill areas were generally small and largely bordered by water, so it was easy to keep them exclusive. When immigrants did move in to the newly fashionable Old South End, the Brahmins moved out.
Athens of America
Besides money and the right real estate, a self-conscious set of shared values defined Boston's aristocracy. Boston Brahmins prized culture and education. Boston's elite liked to think of their city as the "Athens of America." For Boston Brahmins, Harvard College helped define this atmosphere. The Brahmins who didn't live in the prestigious Beacon Hill neighborhood of Boston lived in Cambridge, near the college. By the 1830s, an elite corporation governed Harvard, and students of elite families filled its halls. Through Harvard, these families were able to teach the next generation the educational and the moral values they held dear.
From: The Brahmin Caste Of New England by Oliver Wendell Holmes
There is nothing in New England corresponding at all to the feudal aristocracies of the Old World. Whether it be owing to the stock from which we were derived, or to the practical working of our institutions, or to the abrogation of the technical "law of honor," which draws a sharp line between the personally responsible class of "gentlemen" and the unnamed multitude of those who are not expected to risk their lives for an abstraction,—whatever be the cause, we have no such aristocracy here as that which grew up out of the military systems of the Middle Ages.
What we mean by "aristocracy" is merely the richer part of the community, that live in the tallest houses, drive real carriages, (not "kerridges,") kidglove their hands, and French-bonnet their ladies' heads, give parties where the persons who call them by the above title are not invited, and have a provokingly easy way of dressing, walking, talking, and nodding to people, as if they felt entirely at home, and would not be embarrassed in the least, if they met the Governor, or even the President of the United States, face to face. Some of these great folks are really well-bred, some of them are only purse-proud and assuming,—but they form a class, and are named as above in the common speech.
It is in the nature of large fortunes to diminish rapidly, when subdivided and distributed. A million is the unit of wealth, now and here in America. It splits into four handsome properties; each of these into four good inheritances; these, again, into scanty competences for four ancient maidens,—with whom it is best the family should die out, unless it can begin again as its great-grandfather did. Now a million is a kind of golden cheese, which represents in a compendious form the summer's growth of a fat meadow of craft or commerce; and as this kind of meadow rarely bears more than one crop, it is pretty certain that sons and grandsons will not get another golden cheese out of it, whether they milk the same cows or turn in new ones. In other words, the millionocracy, considered in a large way, is not at all an affair of persons and families, but a perpetual fact of money with a variable human element, which a philosopher might leave out of consideration without falling into serious error. Of course, this trivial and, fugitive fact of personal wealth does not create a permanent class, unless some special means are taken to arrest the process of disintegration in the third generation. This is so rarely done, at least successfully, that one need not live a very long life to see most of the rich families he knew in childhood more or less reduced, and the millions shifted into the hands of the country-boys who were sweeping stores and carrying parcels when the now decayed gentry were driving their chariots, eating their venison over silver chafing-dishes, drinking Madeira chilled in embossed coolers, wearing their hair in powder, and casing their legs in long boots with silken tassels.
There is, however, in New England, an aristocracy, if you choose to call it so, which has a far greater character of permanence. It has grown to be a caste,—not in any odious sense;—but, by the repetition of the same influences, generation after generation, it has acquired a distinct organization and physiognomy, which not to recognize is mere stupidity, and not to be willing to describe would show a distrust of the good-nature and intelligence of our readers, who like to have us see all we can and tell all we see.
If you will look carefully at any class of students in one of our colleges, you will have no difficulty in selecting specimens of two different aspects of youthful manhood. Of course I shall choose extreme cases to illustrate the contrast between them. In the first, the figure is perhaps robust, but often otherwise,—inelegant, partly from careless attitudes, partly from ill-dressing,—the face is uncouth in feature, or at least common,—the mouth coarse and unformed,—the eye unsympathetic, even if bright,—the movements of the face are clumsy, like those of the limbs,—the voice is unmusical,—and the enunciation as if the words were coarse castings, instead of fine carvings. The youth of the other aspect is commonly slender, his face is smooth, and apt to be pallid,—his features are regular and of a certain delicacy,—his eye is bright and quick,—his lips play over the thought he utters as a pianist's fingers dance over their music, and his whole air, though it may be timid, and even awkward, has nothing clownish. If you are a teacher, you know what to expect from each of these young men. With equal willingness, the first will be slow at learning; the second will take to his books as a pointer or a setter to his field-work.
The first youth is the common country-boy, whose race has been bred to bodily labor. Nature has adapted the family organization to the kind of life it has lived. The hands and feet by constant use have got more than their share of development,—the organs of thought and expression less than their share. The finer instincts are latent and must be developed. A youth of this kind is raw material in its first stage of elaboration. You must not expect too much of any such. Many of them have force of will and character, and become distinguished in practical life; but very few of them ever become great scholars. A scholar is, in a large proportion of cases, the son of scholars or scholarly persons.
That is exactly what the other young man is. He comes of the Brahmin caste of New England. This is the harmless, inoffensive, untitled aristocracy referred to, and which many readers will at once acknowledge. There are races of scholars among us, in which aptitude for learning, and all these marks of it I have spoken of, are congenital and hereditary. Their names are always on some college catalogue or other. They break out every generation or two in some learned labor which calls them up after they seem to have died out. At last some newer name takes their place, it maybe,—but you inquire a little and you find it is the blood of the Edwardses or the Chauncys or the Ellerys or some of the old historic scholars, disguised under the altered name of a female descendant.
There probably is not an experienced instructor anywhere in our Northern States who will not recognize at once the truth of this general distinction. But the reader who has never been a teacher will very probably object, that some of our most illustrious public men have come direct from the homespun-clad class of the people,—and he may, perhaps, even find a noted scholar or two whose parents were masters of the English alphabet, but of no other.
It is not fair to pit a few chosen families against the great multitude of those who are continually working their way up into the intellectual classes. The results which are habitually reached by hereditary training are occasionally brought about without it. There are natural filters as well as artificial ones; and though the great rivers are commonly more or less turbid, if you will look long enough, you may find a spring that sparkles as no water does which drips through your apparatus of sands and sponges. So there are families which refine themselves into intellectual aptitude without having had much opportunity for intellectual acquirements. A series of felicitous crosses develops an improved strain of blood, and reaches its maximum perfection at last in the large uncombed youth who goes to college and startles the hereditary class-leaders by striding past them all. That is Nature's republicanism; thank God for it, but do not let it make you illogical. The race of the hereditary scholar has exchanged a certain portion of its animal vigor for its new instincts, and it is hard to lead men without a good deal of animal vigor. The scholar who comes by Nature's special grace from an unworn stock of broad-chested sires and deep-bosomed mothers must always overmatch an equal intelligence with a compromised and lowered vitality. A man's breathing and digestive apparatus (one is tempted to add muscular) are just as important to him on the floor of the Senate as his thinking organs. You broke down in your great speech, did you? Yes, your grandfather had an attack of dyspepsia in '82, after working too hard on his famous Election Sermon. All this does not touch the main fact: our scholars come chiefly from a privileged order, just as our best fruits come from well-known grafts, though now and then a seedling apple, like the Northern Spy, or a seedling pear, like the Seckel, springs from a nameless ancestry and grows to be the pride of all the gardens in the land.
(from) A Grandson's Story
An address, "Fathers, Sons, and Grandsons: John P. Marquand," by Richard E. Welch III, delivered in the Meeting House of the First Unitarian Society (Unitarian Universalist), Newburyport, Massachusetts, February 17, 2002.
One of my early memories rests in this very church. I am eight years old, sitting in one of the front pews, very unsettled because my mother is beside me crying. The casket is highly polished mahogany and seems very large. I vaguely realize that the death of my grandfather is a big deal but I am primarily concerned about my mother's tears, the sudden tension around the house, and the swirl of activity that has disrupted my summer. Being a typical egocentric young boy, my thoughts are not on the man who, somewhat out of character, had gone out of his way to tell his grandson animated stories of Egyptian thieves, the Serengeti Plains, and Chinese warlords. This was the rather intimidating grandfather, who—even in my youthful ignorance—I vaguely realized was a somewhat famous person. The man who only days before had insisted that just the two of us soon have lunch—one of those intimidating formal lunches served by some housekeeper and replete with watered down wine and finger bowls—and discuss tales of old Newburyport. But, as I say, I was not reflecting on him. No, I am sure my thoughts were more focused on fishing that afternoon in the Artichoke River or considering some appropriate torture for my older sister.
The grandfather was John Phillips Marquand and his childhood was not as idyllic as mine. Imagine the following. A young boy, age 13, learns that his father has lost almost all of the family's money. The family will have to move from their extremely comfortable home in the wealthy suburb of Rye, New York. This boy will have to leave his private school classmates and attend a public high school. Even more startling, the mother and father will be leaving their son for an extended and indefinite period. The boy's father, a failed stock broker with an engineering degree, has found a job working on the new project called the Panama Canal and will be departing for that distant location with the boy's mother. The boy is to be shipped off to a small town in Massachusetts named Newburyport. And, he is to be raised by three elderly woman in an isolated country house.
This boy was, of course, John Philips Marquand. While born and initially raised elsewhere, he spent by far his most formative years in Newburyport. The sudden dissolving of John Marquand's immediate family and the resulting upbringing by his three aunts were the defining events in his life.
In 1949, John P. Marquand had reached the peak of both his craft and his fame. He had just published yet another best selling novel, this one went by the title of Point of No Return. The novel was receiving good reviews even from some of his more reluctant literary critics. He had won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction with his novel The Late George Apley. Every novel he wrote after Apley almost instantly became a best seller. In 1949, his face was on the cover of Time and Newsweek magazines with long feature articles that stressed the fact that this talented novelist of manners had become America's most successful writer of that era. Even the higher brow New Yorker magazine carried a long, glowing and clever profile of the author. John Marquand must have read these complimentary pieces at either his Beekman Place address in New York City or at his country home on Kent's Island in Newbury, Massachusetts. At either address he would have been surrounded by antiques and art work that would later be displayed in various museums. He was a wealthy and successful man. Given his introspective nature, it is almost certain that he recognized the irony of this fame. Here he was, a famous novelist, who was, at heart, still that young, insecure boy living in that charming but run down house with three spinster aunts, attending Newburyport High School and Sunday services in this church.
It does not take a child psychiatrist to understand that being abandoned as a child in the first year of adolescence by your parents and left with elderly women in a remote location would constitute a dramatic, even a shattering, event in one's life. But, as with many a Marquand character, the story is not that simple. When John Marquand was left with his three aunts at Curzon's Mill in Newburyport in his thirteenth year, his feelings were an ambivalent stew of loss, embarrassment and excitement.
He understood, even at the confusing and tender age of thirteen—an age more tender than thirteen is now—that his father was a financial failure. The stock market panic of 1907 had wiped out Philip Marquand's considerable inheritance. More than the reversal of financial fortune was the fact that the son had come to the realization that his father was an embarrassment. Phillip, his investment banker father having been given a comfortable nest egg, together with a seat on the New York Stock Exchange, tried his hand as a stock broker and had failed miserably. Indeed, he seemed to fail at most every professional venture. His father would never be a role model and John Marquand had little positive to say about him throughout his father's long life. ……………….
John Phillips Marquand, the man for who he was named. His grandfather was a very successful investment banker in New York who had married Margaret Curzon of Newburyport. As a result, he summered with the extended family at Curzon's Mill. The author would later recall that his grandfather obviously enjoyed the place but was not above complaining that everyone seemed to be living off him as it was only his money that kept the buildings painted and the gardens planted. His grandfather told young John how he first met his wife Margaret Curzon: "They were sitting under an apple tree, Margaret was painting a picture and they asked me to stay to supper and then they found there wasn't any supper. I took Margaret down in the carriage and bought some. That was forty years ago. I've been buying everybody's supper ever since. The whole damn family's supper." Later in his life, the author—who took pleasure and comfort in thinking that he (like his grandfather for who he was named) had inherited the Marquand trait of achieving success from humble beginnings—found that history was repeating itself only now it was his bank account that seemed to be buying the whole damn family's supper.
Likewise, Marquand was fascinated by his maiden aunts. His grandmother's sister, his great aunt Mary Russell Curzon, lived year round at the Yellow House, next to the Mill, and provided John Marquand with a unique glimpse into the past. Mary Russell Curzon was a well educated woman who had been courted by the poet John Greenleaf Whittier, who would row across the Merrimac to visit the Curzon sisters and write truly boring sonnets about these women, the river, and Curzon's "bowery mill." Another poet—William Ellery Channing—and the artist William Morris Hunt both proposed marriage to Mary. But, displaying an early feminist streak and good sense, she turned them all down, preferring her own company. [An ardent abolitionist, she offered her house as a stop on the Underground Railroad. Once, a very large male slave was delivered hidden in a wooden crate to her remote home. Upon unpacking the crate she made the tragic discovery that the man had been shipped upside down from Boston and was now definitively dead. With little hesitation, this temptress of poets and artists dragged the quickly stiffening body back to the orchard, buried the slave and planted a pear tree over the unmarked grave, a tree that flourishes still.] This was a woman who read the classics each morning as she arose early, who taught young John Marquand how to build a fire, how to stitch up one's own wounds with sewing thread, and who lived only by candle light and kerosene lamps, lighting both with a flint and steel (as she distrusted matches). As he later wrote, after having traveled extensively in every continent except Antarctica and having made the acquaintance of the powerful, the rich, and the famous, this elderly woman impressed him far more than anyone else that he ever had encountered. During most of the year, John Marquand lived alone with the three elderly women. All were serious Unitarians and accompanied young John to weekly services in this very church. Here he developed a faith—or at least one was drilled into him—that, while not necessarily a comfort, did hold him throughout a rather tumultuous life. The Mill and Yellow House were at the end of a long, unpopulated road. There were no neighbors. In many ways, it was a life tinged with antiquity, closely resembling the Federalist era, while the rest of America was hurrying towards the jazz age. But, for this brief interval—and perhaps for the first and last time—he felt truly a part of a place and, thus, in the truest sense, secure.
In the summers things changed when his wealthy and more sophisticated New York cousins would take over one of the buildings. Marquand was fond, yet envious, of these cousins who had retained their money, their family, and their casual confidence. These experiences, when mixed with a acute observation and substantial literary talent, laid the groundwork for Marquand's later gentle yet pointed social satires. Marquand was hardly the first author to use the pains and embarrassments of youth as artistic fodder. Had his immediate family not been shattered and its wealth lost, the author instead might have become a basically happy, if quietly desperate, member of the upper middle class like many of his fictional characters. And he might never have felt compelled to leave the contentment he found at Curzon's Mill and Newburyport to seek a life that never provided an equivalent sense of comfort and belonging—no matter how much fame and fortune he garnered. Again, this theme of lost security and happiness and the unsuccessful attempt to recapture it in the rush and mobility of contemporary America runs through Marquand's novels, and it often is as much an issue today as it was 50 years ago.
One would hope that the author also learned from the weaknesses and selfishness of his father and that he would make it a priority to raise a family that was not subjected to the same sense of abandonment as he had suffered. But that was not always to be. And, given the demands of writing and the psychic scars he may have carried, maybe it was too much to ask. John Marquand married twice. He first courted and won Christina Sedgwick from a faded aristocratic family in Stockbridge, Massachusetts. Two children were produced, John, Jr. and my mother, Christina Marquand. The marriage, however, failed and, as is often the case, both were a bit at fault. Christina Sedgwick, while charming and delightful, was far from practical and could not create the stable, peaceful home for which Marquand yearned. Marquand, wrapped up in beginning his literary career and feeling inferior to the Sedgwick family, was far from the model husband. Perhaps both were too young to appreciate what they had before it was ruined. But, Marquand did remain close to his first two children throughout his life. Marquand's second marriage was to a wealthy Connecticut heiress, Adelaide Hooker. While this marriage lasted longer, and produced three children, it was frequently rocked by arguments, affairs, and separations. The result was a chaotic—albeit privileged—upbringing for his last three children. The now famous author's relationship with these three children was little better than his relationship with his own father……..


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She may play a small role in Tim Burton's 'Beetlejuice,' but it's an important and very memorable one. Today's cosplay pays homage to the suicidal and sassy Miss Argentina.
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Some get the point, and others don't. Consider:
s The backers of the newly-dedicated Illinois Bayou Park. Just across U.S. Highway 64 from a Lake Dardanelle boat launch sorely in need of attention - or replacement - this fine addition to our area plays to one of our strengths: The lake itself. We editorialized recently about the effects a lack of strong community vision for the area's future growth on our towns and cities, and it's initiatives like this we would point to as positive examples for others to consider.
The lake is a valuable resource for the people of the Arkansas River Valley - but not if we don't capitalize on it. And sometimes, doing so quite literally means we must invest, well, capital.
t The spokesperson for the Pope County office of Court Appointed Special Advocates (CASA), a child advocacy group funded by taxpayer dollars, who questioned a reporter regarding why she wished to attend a meeting last week. Publicly-funded entities are by their nature subject to public scrutiny, without question. It gives us pause when a reporter encounters a scenario in which he or she is asked why they would like to view certain information - or attend certain meetings - protected under the state's Freedom of Information Act. It's a slippery slope for an organization or individual to move from idle curiosity to censorship. Public officials don't have the right to question why a reporter, or a citizen, would like to examine records or attend meetings. They also don't have the right to meet, even as a group of only two, to discuss official business of any sort, be it during a casual telephone conversation, at the lunch counter or in the aisles of Walmart.
We take these matters seriously - and won't hesitate to point fingers on the public's behalf. After all, we know there's a good chance a reporter being questioned very likely means a citizen without the might of the fourth estate in his or her corner may be denied outright.
s The level of community outreach on the part of groups like the Pope County Literacy Council, the Boys and Girls Club of the Arkansas River Valley and others, which has been fantastic this Easter holiday. We can't in recent memory recall a time in which so many Easter egg hunts open to the public at large were offered. It's a small thing, but in terms of quality of life, having safe, family-friendly events that will please kids and parents alike is huge, and it's part of that vision we spoke of earlier. Kudos, and keep up the good work.
t Friday's rain, which after a long, dreary winter, was a downer. But our skies are looking bright heading into this week. We hope yours are as well.
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If you're thinking about choosing the perfect brand name for you're business you've come to the right place. Here are some tips to helpyou through the process.
Avoid the Tendency to Depend on Google
There are tons of great findings on Google. Remember that people are just posting their own opinion on how to create that perfect brand name and normally have an ulterior motive.
Utilize Academic Research
This can be done through journals and publications found in a library, online, etc.
I utilized the University of Phoenix Library. I strongly suggest this as a more viable option with solid research done to back up any suggestions that may be offered to you.
Don't Rush
You are so excited that you can barely contain yourself to get your business started. Remember to still stay present, pay close attention to detail, and creativity fires from there.
While I was searching for my perfect brand name, I found many extremely simple meditation videos that created a whole new world of creative possibility. You can "YouTube" mediation for creativity and pick your favorite. Don't just stick to one either. You will find many that may fit your own interests.
Benefits of Meditation
- Self Compassion: A few minutes per day will teach you to remember to take it easy on yourself, while still maintaining focus.
- Drop the Ego: When we start a creative project, many people fear the possibility of failure. If you can learn to drop the ego, you will no longer carry this dead weight burden of fear.
- Stop Thinking So Much: Sounds crazy, right? I know. Let's face it. If you are still thinking about the mountains of distractions in the outside world, no creative genius idea will ever take place. Stillness of the mind becomes vitally important.
Use Daily Affirmations
Affirmations are positive statements about your project and your way of being with a call to action. You can write them out, and then say them in the mirror. Never underestimate the power and conviction you have to create just by looking at yourself in the mirror as you spout off these affirmations. Remember all great projects only come from breaking out of your own comfort zone.
" My intuition clearly guides me to the right brand name."
" The search for a brand name adds value to my company."
" I will find the perfect brand name.".
Tailor them to meet your own needs and personality. The trick to creating affirmations with power is three parts: See it! Think It!, Believe It!
Choose the Perfect Brand Name
After you use this information to start the initial selection process, you are the only one that will know when you are ready to make the final selection.
"Key Words" – These are the most often used words within your industry.
I suggest in the final stages once you have found enough mind stillness regarding your selection to spend a few days carrying around many of your industry key words on index-sized note cards. Spend a few minutes randomly throughout the day gazing at the words. You will be surprised what a powerful visual activity this can be. The final solution needs to be memorable, and concise. This really is the only rule.
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Pair jailed for stealing from Malaysian student during riots are freed
TWO men jailed for one of the most notorious crimes of last year's riots were freed yesterday after their convictions were quashed.
John Kafunda, 23, and Reece Donovan, 25, were found guilty of robbing a Malaysian student during the mayhem after posing as Good Samaritans.
CCTV captured the moment when two men appeared to come to the aid of Ashraf Rossli, 21, whose jaw was shattered by another rioter in Barking, east London, in August, last year.
A man is captured in the footage pretending to help the accountancy student to his feet as blood poured from his mouth. Another man is then seen rifling through his rucksack stealing a portable Sony PlayStation and games worth £500.
Kafunda and Donovan denied being the men on the CCTV footage. They were convicted by a jury at Wood Green Crown Court partly on the evidence of two anonymous witnesses.
Judge James Patrick jailed Donovan, of Romford, Essex, for five years for robbery, violent disorder and burglary in March, this year.
What you did became an iconic image of the lawlessness
Mr Kafunda, of Ilford, east London, was sentenced at the same time to four years and three months for robbery and violent disorder.
Judge Patrick said: "What you did became an iconic image of the lawlessness, which saw shops and businesses looted and members of the public too frightened to leave their homes."
He said the recorded images "when broadcast throughout the world brought shock to those who watched it and shame to this country". Mr Rossli, who had only been in Britain a month when he was attacked, needed two metal plates inserted in his jaw.
Yesterday, Britain's top judge Lord Chief Justice Lord Judge, sitting with Mr Justice Fulford and Mr Justice Bean, quashed the convictions of both men. The Court of Appeal hearing was held in private but the judges' ruling was announced in open court.
A spokesman for the Crown Prosecution Service said later: "Victims and witnesses are at the heart of the criminal justice system and it is important they have the support necessary to enable them to give their best evidence at court. Where it is necessary to protect the identification of a witness we can in certain circumstances apply to the court for witness anonymity. Our application for witness anonymity for two witnesses in this trial was allowed by the judge. Without anonymity being given these witnesses would not have given evidence.
"The Court of Appeal has quashed these convictions as a result of allowing this application. We are not seeking a retrial as the evidence now available without the ability to call these witnesses is not sufficient to provide a realistic prospect of conviction."


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In her regular column in the Cleveland Plain Dealer on September 15, 2010, Connie Schultz demonstrated once again the curious sense of entitlement that religious people have. She began as follows: "Years ago, I criticized atheists who wanted to dissuade believers of their faith. My argument was always the same: Why don't you just leave us alone?"
In response, I wrote her a personal email:
Dear Ms. Schultz,
I read with interest your column today that started by saying that years ago you criticized atheists who did not leave you alone but wanted to dissuade you from your faith.
What exactly were these atheists doing to bother you? Were they coming to your door? Were they stopping you on the street to hand out their literature? Do they have TV and radio shows that preach their viewpoint and warn of dire consequences if you do not convert to their point of view?
As an atheist myself, it doesn't bother me when people express their ideas in the public sphere, or even in the private sphere. Those people think they have the truth and want to convince me and that's their right. Similarly atheists think that they are right and seek to convince others of it. These kinds of exchanges are no different from debates over politics or anything else, where the goal is to win hearts and minds.
It also does not bother me that your newspaper provides almost saturation coverage of religious matters, especially concerning the recent closing of Catholic churches or religious festivals and parades in Little Italy. In fact, after an initial swipe at a few religious people, your entire column today was a paean to the virtues of religion. Despite the cutbacks in the size of the paper, it still has a Saturday page devoted to religious matters, with a column dedicated to advancing religious views. Do you think atheist views get anywhere near that level of coverage? Would they even consider allowing an atheist regular use of that Saturday column space?
So I find it a little odd that when atheists speak out about their disbelief, religious people feel as if they are being imposed upon, as if they have the right to be shielded from opposing views. Are they so insecure of what they believe that they need to be surrounded only by affirming views?
There is no reason why religious beliefs should be privileged and shielded from criticism. Surely we all benefit from a full airing of a wide diversity of views on issues?
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Henry C K Liu: The Race Toward Barbarism
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"China redefined
How it will influence the post financial crisis world
By Einar Tangen
Long before President Nixon's first trip to China, we in the West developed the habit of trying to interpret Beijing's ideas and actions as if we were reading tea leaves.
We looked at China and wove our own picture of its workings and motivations claiming that it is the only recourse in deciphering an opaque and "inscrutable" society. Viewing China through the looking glass of our own perceptions and values has not always been helpful, too often we have seen what we wanted to see.
As China's influence waxes and ours wanes we need to see China clearly. We need to understand that China is an evolving construct of ideological elements and pragmatic policies applied to an old and unique culture, not a competing political ideology or business model. Instead of reading tea leaves we need to begin a dialog with Chinese political, business and social thinkers about the China Construct in the post crisis world"
Thank you for this article. I really understand your spirit and I'm very sad for the kind of "modern ways" some eastern countries are choosing.


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Have you ever wanted to learn Biblical Greek, but weren't sure where to start? If so, we have great news for you. Accordance has partnered together with Dr. William Mounce, author of the best selling textbook Basics of Biblical Greek, to bring you an amazing new way to learn Biblical Greek. The Mounce Greek Study System: Learn Biblical Greek with Accordance is an approachable video guide to learning Greek using the powerful tools available in Accordance.
The first DVD set in the Mounce Greek Study System is The Biblical Greek Primer. This primer will lay the foundation for your Greek studies and enable you to effectively use Strong's Bibles, perform Greek word studies, and take advantage of better dictionaries and commentaries. This 3 DVD set features over 9 hours of instruction in 11 easy to follow lessons. Each lesson also includes an Accordance screencast, where Dr. Mounce teaches you how to put the lessons you just learned into action in Accordance. View the introductory video below.
The Biblical Greek Primer video is the first in a three-part DVD series for the Mounce Greek Study System. Parts Two (Church Greek) and Three (Functional Greek) will be released in the future and will also feature screencasts in Accordance.
Along with this video series, we have worked with Dr. Mounce to release a new set of modules designed for use with the Mounce Greek Study System. You can purchase these modules individually or together in the Mounce Greek Study System at a discount.
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Dear Parents,
Welcome back to school! I had a wonderful conversation with our Albion kiddos, where they informed me that they were devastated to be done with their Christmas and New Year vacation. I tried to explain to them that they must be mistaken and that I am sure that they missed me and their teachers so terribly, that tears were a common place occurrence. They weren't convinced.
But…. Your Albion staff and I did miss them terribly.
We have some of the most productive parts of the year ahead of us. Let's dig in and work hard for the next 5 months of the year. Please help us by:
1- Bringing your students to school on time and allowing them to stay for the full day.
2- Checking homework and backpacks daily.
3- Read with your kiddos every night!
4- Volunteer at the school whenever possible.
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Subject: U.S. Marine Mace Harrison
Current Status: On his last leave of absence
Mission: A Secret Undercover Operation…as a Bogus Boyfriend!
Obstacle: This business arrangement is turning a little too pleasurable…
Mace Harrison is a decorated Marine. In his country's eyes, he's a hero. But in six months his last tour ends, and Mace's next step is unclear. Then he meets graphics designer and diner waitress Geneva Davis, and an immediate friendship turns into…well, a business deal. The terms? They feign a relationship to keep her ex-boyfriend off her back, and matchmaking pals off his.
It's uncomplicated. It's convenient. And as far as Geneva is concerned, uniformed dudes are entirely resistible—or so she'd always thought. But Mace is wickedly, mouthwateringly hot. And now she's in a heap of trouble, because this soldier is very ready, willing and able to serve…to her complete satisfaction!
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Both these stories are pretty predictable and basically dull. Sorry. I found my self fast forwarding and/or falling asleep.
Neither narrator was all that good and really bordered on bad. Have no idea where the five stars came from. Again, sorry!!!
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Report: Calipari, Cavs discussed $60 million deal before UK extension
John Calipari discussed a seven-year, $60 million-plus deal to become the president and coach of the Cavaliers before signing a seven-year, $52 million extension at Kentucky, according to Yahoo Sports.
Cavs owner Dan Gilbert was consistent in his pursuit of Calipari, the report said, but ultimately could not land the coach who has taken the Wildcats to three Final Fours in the last four seasons. Had Calipari taken the job, he would have worked with GM David Griffin but would have had the final say on personnel matters.
Calipari is said to have been intrigued with point guard Kyrie Irving as well as having the chance to welcome the NBA Draft's No. 1 pick after the Cavs won last month's draft lottery.
The report notes that had the Harrison twins — Aaron and Andrew – decided not to return for their sophomore seasons, Calipari likely would have taken this second NBA opportunity. He coached the New Jersey Nets for two-plus seasons in the late 1990s.
The Cavaliers have also reportedly met with Clippers assistants Alvin Gentry and Tyronn Lue, former Grizzlies coach Lionel Hollins, former Clippers coach Vinny Del Negro and collegiate coaches Tom Izzo (Michigan State) and Billy Donovan (Florida).
Yahoo Sports' Adrian Wojnarowski reports that Lue and Hollins will have second interviews for the job, and that Donovan has remained in contact with the team, but no one connected to the process believes the Gators coach would be interested in taking the position.


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A 16-YEAR-OLD boy has been charged with lighting a grass fire on a day of total fire ban at Bendigo, northwest of Melbourne.
Emergency services were called to the blaze at a reserve on Crusoe Road at Kangaroo Flat around 10.30pm (AEDT) on Friday.
The teenager has been charged with intentionally causing a bushfire and lighting a fire in the open air during a period of total fire ban, police said.
He has been remanded to appear at the children's court on Monday.
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For coastal California, it is cold. The streets and the cars are iced. The Christmas tree lingers for a last couple of days. Peet's Winter Solstice with a touch of mesquite honey… Throwing sparks of light that are nearly orange in a double walled glass. Fiery. Some lingering flavor notes of citrus and spice. Perfect for a night like this.
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SANTA CLARA, Calif. – Of all the things San Jose rookie forward Adam Jahn showed during his 24 game-changing minutes on the pitch in the Earthquakes' 2-1 victory against New York on Sunday, the one that stood out the most for coach Frank Yallop was the absence of one item.
"He wasn't afraid, mentally," Yallop said Tuesday. "And that's important. As a player, he's good enough. It's the mental side of the game where, can you play free of any thoughts of negative stuff? We just said to him, 'Go in there and make a difference.' And he certainly did that."
Jahn might be called upon to do more than just influence the final stages of the Quakes' next match, on the road Saturday in Columbus (5:30 pm ET, MLS LIVE).
Target men Alan Gordon and Steven Lenhart are still a couple weeks out from full fitness, according to Yallop, and newcomer Mike Fucito, who has started both matches so far alongside Chris Wondolowski, took a slight hamstring strain into the Red Bulls match and doubled down with a gash on his left ankle from a New York player that required multiple stitches to close.
READ: San Jose Earthquakes sign reinforcements in midfielder Abu Tommy, fullback Colin Mitchell
"It was a pretty good gash and really swollen this morning," Yallop said of Fucito. "So he could be a bit of a doubt."
Yallop said last week that if Fucito – who was publicly touted as a question mark against New York – couldn't play, his spot would likely be taken by second-year winger Sam Garza. That equation might have been upended, however, by Jahn's production Sunday.
He scored his first professional goal in the 83rd minute, then won a penalty kick six minutes later to set up Wondolowski's game-winning spot kick.
"Definitely," Jahn said when asked if he was prepared to make his first professional start. "If [Yallop] calls on me, I'm there."
Yallop tried to dampen expectations about the 22-year-old, pointing out the small sample size available.
READ: Find out if Jahn's game-changing performance earned him a spot on the Team of the Week
"It's one game … but we've seen enough in preseason [to know] that he can play the position," Yallop said of Jahn, the club's first-round Supplemental Draft selection out of Stanford earlier this year. "I didn't think he was ready to always be the man, to start, because it's tough. You never know how he's going to handle things."
There's also the possibility that the Quakes' bench can't afford to give up Jahn, given that they still lack Gordon, Lenhart, winger Marvin Chávez and attacking right back Steven Beitashour.
"As we proved last year, we don't always play all our top guys from the start," Yallop said. "It's a 90-minute game, and I think off the bench we need to have definitely some people that can change the game. We had that Sunday."
Geoff Lepper covers the Earthquakes for MLSsoccer.com. He can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com.


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Surge in demand for color ultrasound for China
Extensive reform to healthcare services and improved local supplier offerings is driving demand for color ultrasound equipment to new heights, according to a new report.
Extensive reform to healthcare services and improved local supplier offerings is driving demand for color ultrasound equipment to new heights, according to a new report from InMedica, a division of IMS Research, recently acquired by IHS Inc., The Chinese Market for Ultrasound Equipment – World – 2012.
The report observed color ultrasound equipment revenues increasing by 10% from 2010 to 2011; by 2015, market revenues for color are forecast to grow by more than 80%. While some growth is attributable to increased uptake of compact ultrasound equipment, most demand is being recorded in the low-end and mid-range cart segments (products less than $60,000).
Current demand for color ultrasound equipment is being driven mostly by large metropolitan (Tier 3) and county based (Tier 2) hospitals. "Use of color equipment provides higher fees of reimbursement for healthcare providers", commented Owen Tang, market analyst at InMedica. "This offers a better return on investment for color equipment compared to black and white."
Black and white systems are predominantly installed and used in Tier 1 health centres and family clinics in China. These institutions benefitted from strong investment in 2009 and 2010 as part of the Chinese healthcare reform. Now, reflecting rapid changes in demand, many low-end Chinese suppliers are entering the color market.
"Government support of Chinese black and white ultrasound suppliers prevented multinational suppliers competing on price in the entry level and low-end market," commented Stephen Holloway, senior analyst at InMedica. "Yet rising demand for higher specification color systems in Tier 2 hospitals is causing a convergence of interest for local and multinational suppliers, increasing the intensity of competition."
Consequently, a dramatic shift is forecast for the China market, with color ultrasound equipment set to dominate. "Cost will remain a significant factor in tender bidding" added Tang, "although brand and feature sets of ultrasound products are becoming increasingly important". Furthermore, with more than 3,000 Tier 2 hospitals and 28,000 Tier 1 healthcare centres and clinics in China, the potential for growth remains high. "The market in China is far from saturated", continued Holloway. "We project double-digit revenue growth from 2013, as the bulk of investment in equipment replacement is implemented. Longer-term, the potential of the Tier 1 market could drive even stronger growth."
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Before the calendar turned, 2016 already had the makings of a pivotal year for manufacturing, and for the world.
There were the big events for the year, including the United States as Partner Country at Hannover Messe in April and the 2016 International Manufacturing Technology Show in Chicago in September. There's also the matter of the U.S. presidential elections in November, which promise to shape policy in manufacturing for years to come.
But the year started with global economic turmoil, as a slowdown in Chinese manufacturing triggered a worldwide stock hiccup that sent values plummeting. The continued plunge in world oil prices has resulted in a slowdown in exploration and, by extension, the manufacture of exploration equipment.
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Seth Rudetsky , Lea Salonga - Backstage at the Broadway musical Disaster! at the Nederlander Theatre. at Nederlander Theatre, - New York, New York, United States - Wednesday 10th February 2016 (1 Picture)
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Top Ten Funniest Fictional Babies
As a general rule on television, kids aren't funny. They're too young to deliver anything other than 'awwe that's cute' laughter and they're rarely really laugh-out-loud funny. There are, of course, exceptions, and Gunaxin even ranked them for television. But let's take it a step back and examine the funniest babies. There aren't any. So we'll examine the funniest fictional babies.
Little Jack gets a spot on this list because he remembers and constantly repeats the word 'Ass-'ole.'
Typically, talking babies are creepy, but the dialogue is humorous enough to keep us interested. This is all despite the fact that E*Trade is no longer even close to the best place to have your money.
Pubert gets a spot simply because of his name. His shenanigans were hokey but… come on… his name is Pubert! That's hilarious!
The Canadian-born Ike is more cute than funny, but occasionally repeats the proper words that his big brother Kyle will say, and is often surrounded with a historical subplot for him to deliver the humor.
Compared to the other, Maggie is more cute than laugh-out-loud funny, but she's had good moments and I'd be crucified if I left baby Simpson off this list.
Baby ogres running around releasing all sorts of gas and solids is too good to miss.
A superhero baby! His powers? He morphs into the lovechild of the Tazmanian Devil and… the devil.
Here is a parody video:
There isn't really much to this character other than him running around and smashing things. The bit never got old.
This was Stewie Griffin before Family Guy. Baby Herman set the bar for wise-cracking smartass babies.
This is an obvious choice and we make no apologies for it. No other baby in pop culture has delivered more outrageous laughs than Stewie Griffin, who is hellbent on world domination and isn't quite sure if he's homosexual or not. Kudos goes to that redheaded baby that he's at odds with.


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Danny O'Donoghue's snag not in the Script
THE Voice coach Danny O'Donoghue flew into a rage after he almost missed a concert in Dubai because of the TV show.
Because of the new format this year, filming did over run.
The Script frontman, 32, had to finish filming the pre-recorded sections of the BBC talent series on Thursday evening in London before flying to the Middle East.
He told bosses of the BBC 1 show, due back on our screens next month, he had to be out by 10.30pm.
But filming was delayed after coaches Jessie J, 24, will.i.am, 37, and Tom Jones, 72, took too long picking acts for the live shows and the recording didn't finish until 11.45pm.
Anxious Danny fled the studios for his late flight as The Script were booked to play a festival in Dubai.
Despite the panic, he made it in time.
A BBC source said: "Because of the new format this year, filming did over run."


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You should enter this in the Decatur Cemetery Photo Contest.
The Decatur Cemetery is having a Winter/Spring Photo Contest January 1, 2013 through May 31, 2013. There will be 3 prizes awarded, 1st, 2nd, and 3rd. The winning photos will be displayed on the Decatur website and will be displayed in the Decatur Cemetery Office or Public Works Office. Both amateur and professional photographers are welcome to participate.
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Awesome photo Chris! Keep up the good work! Reminds me of a scene from the Canterbury Tales to go on pilgrimages at the first sign of spring.
Hmmmmmm (I like this noise/word/whatever), where could Decatur folkes go for a pilgrimage?


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WASHINGTON - Nearly half of American dads under 45 this Father's Day say they have at least one kid who was born out of wedlock. And the share of fathers living apart from children is more than double what it was not so long ago.
In encouraging news, though, among married fathers, children are said to be getting more attention from both parents at home than ever before.
A Pew Research Center report highlights the changing roles of parents as U.S. marriage rates and traditional family households fall to historic lows.
For example, college-educated men who tend to marry and get better jobs are more involved with their children than lesser-skilled men struggling to get by.
"When a father can't provide monetarily for his offspring, he often becomes estranged," said Beth Latshaw, an assistant sociology professor at Appalachian State University, who researches changing paternal roles. She pointed to an economic advantage for college graduates hired at companies with better benefits and family-friendly policies, contrasted with the situation for the larger ranks of low-wage workers.
"As a result, many women now raise children outside of marriage or without a father figure," Latshaw said.
Pew's survey and analysis of government data, released Wednesday, found that more than one in four fathers - or 27 percent - with kids 18 or younger live away from at least one of their children. That number is more than double the share of fathers who lived apart from their kids in 1960.
On the other hand, married fathers who live with their children are devoting more time helping their wives with caregiving at home, a task once seen almost exclusively as a woman's duty.
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When the Red Sox acquired Mark Melancon last December in a trade with the Astros, they expected him to be a vital piece of the bullpen.
But Melancon has been far from the lights-out closer who shined in Houston.
Through his first 33 games for the Red Sox, which were interrupted with a nearly two-month-long detour to Pawtucket, Melancon had a 7.71 ERA. This September, however, he's shown the promise that first interested Boston general manager Ben Cherington.
Over his last seven outings entering Saturday, Melancon has posted a 1.08 ERA and struck out 12 batters over 8 1/3 innings. Melancon says the results are just part of what has changed.
"Just attitude and mentality, and pitching with a little more emotion," Melancon told MLB.com. "Kind of just — I've never been a person to be angry or anything, but to pitch with kind of some … I don't know what to call it, but a little more fiery."
The emotion has fueled Melancon to his strong September, and he said he hopes his drastic turnaround will bode well for next season.
"It's always nice to finish strong," Melancon said. "The great part of me finishing strong now is I think it's going to propel into the offseason and work even extra hard to continue that success as opposed to putting it off and counting on it to come back."
The results have been so good, in fact, that Melancon is better off than the rest of his Red Sox teammates from what has been a rough year.
"As bad as this season has been, I feel like this month has been kind of an uplifting month," he said. "I'm still excited about playing. I definitely don't want it to end right now. Normally with a season like this, you do want it to end. But my fire is burning high right now. It's going to be sad to end the season right now."
When it comes to picking emotions, Melancon will take "fiery" over "sad" any day.
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if i had to ascribe this tea an image it would be this: http://fineartamerica.com/featured/black-purple-calla-lilies—1—macro-flowers-fine-art-photography-artecco-fine-art-photography—photograph-by-nadja-drieling.html …this tea unfurls, draws attention, is unusual. you won't forget it soon, nor should you.
dark chocolate overtones, but no sweetness. molasses. very low acidity. this is a heavy tea that moves and changes in the space between sipping and swallowing.
it metamorphoses in the second steep. it becomes mineral heavy. it has an odd (but not unpleasant) refractive granular quality, but is somehow still smooth.