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Join me in welcoming Karen Spears Zacharias, who has a powerful story to share with us today.
1. Karen, thanks for joining us at Dames of Dialogue. We are always curious about a writer's creative process. What can you tell us about how you came to write A Silence of Mockingbirds?
Thank you for this opportunity to share A Silence of Mockingbirds, a story that I will never be able to extricate myself from. If you come at writing from a journalist background, as I do, and someone you know
is murdered, how can you not tell that story?
Writing is how I process my life's moments, whether I'm writing about marriage or a murder. In the case of A Silence of Mockingbirds, it was the June 2005 murder of Karly Sheehan, the daughter of a close family
friend, which compelled me.
2. I can totally relate to the need to tell a story. As a journalist, you have a lot of experience interviewing subjects. But since you knew Sarah, the mother in this story, how was this process different for you?
The long answer to that question would require a bottle of wine and a late-night talk on a deck overlooking Mobile Bay or the Pacific Ocean.
I began my reporting career in the same Oregon community—Pendleton—where I had lived for over a decade, so it was not unusual for me to interview people I knew well. In many ways it gave me insights and an
institutional knowledge that others lacked. That knowledge cultivated fearlessness in me. I wasn't afraid to tread into the intimate places, yet, I was always respectful about it. These, after all, were my neighbors, too.
Even so, Sarah was like a daughter to me. I purposely avoided her at first, knowing that our emotional entanglement would lead me astray, away from the facts of the case, if I wasn't careful.
3. What, if anything, did you bring away from that experience that might inform future projects?
Every book I've written has taught me something about how to write the next book better. I'm not far enough removed from this project yet—I am still touring—to know how it will inform future works. But I'm confident that it will.
4. Your focus for this story was child abuse, and since April was Child Abuse Prevention month, do you have other projects along these same lines in your future?
My focus was on telling the truth. That is always my starting and ending point. I write books that educate and advocate. Those books cover a gamut of issues: women's rights, veterans' rights, and children's rights. My next book, a novel titled MOTHER OF RAIN, addresses the issue of post-partum psychosis, the sort that Andrea Yates displayed. But even the novel is designed to educate and advocate.
5. That sounds like an intriguing story. And since your goal is to educate and advocate, what, if anything, have you been able to accomplish that will impact future legislation to prevent tragedies such as Karly's?
By myself nothing, but as I've traveled around the nation, telling Karly's story, others have taken up the cause and are working to get a law like Karly's Law passed in their own states.
In Oregon, Karly's Law requires that a child who has been abused will have those injuries documented via photographs within 48-hours of the report of injury. Then, that child must be seen by a medical professional trained in child abuse within that same time period. Common sense would tell you that such laws ought to already be on the books, but they are not. In many cases, those suspected of causing the injuries are allowed to determine what medical professional will assess the child, which happened with Karly. Her mother picked the doctor—her own—to do the assessment on Karly.
6. As a retired social worker, I could relate so completely with your story. I could point to a number of cases that evoked a similar emotion in our community. How did your involvement in this story affect you personally?
I am a person of resolve. We cannot change that which we don't talk about, and child abuse repulses us. We draw back from it. I have noticed a significant silence among those who typically correspond with me. I know it's because of this book. They don't want to tell me that they haven't read it, so they avoid me. I suspect it's much like what anyone who works in this field experiences at a dinner party. All of sudden the person who asked the question sees someone else they must go speak to.
I am intentional about how I live my life. I am trying to do important things. I am trying to make the world a better place. I've no tolerance for those who simply want to be entertained. We have a real-life Hunger Games situation underway, where children are being led to their slaughter, while adults stand about gap-mouthed.
Abused children don't need our tears. They need our voices. They need our votes. Speak up.
For pity's sake don't tell me you can't read this book because it might make you weep. If I write a book about child abuse that doesn't make you weep, doesn't make you mad, doesn't compel you to take action, then I need to quit writing and get a job at Dairy Queen.
7. Oh, I couldn't agree more! And because we often tackle difficult topics, we do need to take care of ourselves. As writers, we often have rituals and routines that nourish our writing journey. Do you have a special writing space, or a routine you follow?
Much to my own chagrin, I am not a person of routine. I am a person of passion and, thus, obsessions. I work off a laptop that I carry with me from room to room, depending upon the weather, my mood, what the dogs—Portia and Poe—need at the moment.
I can most often be found in my office upstairs, overlooking fields of sagebrush and Russian Olives. Or downstairs in the red chair, next to a stained glass window of a garden scene that a local artist made. I
surround myself with bright art because the creativity of others inspires me.
8. What lovely views you have! Art and beauty do nourish the soul. What can you tell us about how you first decided to become a journalist?
It was not a profession I chose. It chose me. I majored in communications and education because I liked to talk and I liked kids. I made the choice to stay home and raise our family. But as a mother of four young children, I became engaged in the issues that concerned children. I became that woman—I am sure you have one in your community—who wrote letters to the editor all the time. I wrote well enough that the editor, who was a friend of mine, asked me to write for the newspaper. I started my first journalism job on my 40th
birthday. It seems all very surreal to me at times.
9. What were some of the defining moments along the way for you? Who or what inspired you?
Lewis Grizzard. I live in Oregon but was raised in Georgia. Every true Georgian adored Grizzard for his wit and wisdom. When I wrote my first book I tracked down Grizzard's former agent, Tony Privett, and asked for his help. Tony and I struck up a delightful friendship. Bob Steed, another writing wit and dear friend of Lewis, also helped me get my first book published with Mercer University Press.
10. What can you tell us about your family life?
I stayed in Oregon primarily because I married a wonderful Yankee. Tim and I met at Oregon State University. He's a teacher, former coach and current law school student (the reason he's a former coach). We have been married for 33 years and have four grown children, all who live in the Pacific Northwest. We are expecting our first grandchild, a boy, later this summer. And, yes, we are over the moon about it.
11. Congratulations! You are in for some wonderful experiences as a grandparent. We also love to learn about the settings where a writer lives and writes. What can you tell us about yours?
I travel a great deal. I actually wrote the first draft of A Silence of Mockingbirds while serving as writer-in-resident at the Fairhope Center for the Writing Arts in Fairhope, Alabama. It was the perfect place to write this book because at the end of a long day of writing, I would walk down to the pier and watch the sun set over Mobile Bay. Surrounded by the beauty of Creator's hand, I always felt a cleansing, a renewing, strength for the day and bright hope for tomorrow sort of thing.
12. We love animals…do you have any pets? If so, what can you share about them?
I have two pets. Poe, an AKC registered Beagle, yes, named for Edgar. He's really my husband's dog. The one the kids gave Tim to keep him company whenever I'm away on some writing jaunt. Poe bit me in 2010
and nearly took my entire nose off. I'm not kidding. It was a horrifying and very painful experience, but makes for a great dinner party entertainment. That Poe lives after that is only further proof that in this household we practice grace.
Portia is a chocolate-lab rescue dog. She is actually my son's dog but he is spending his third summer working at Denali Park in Alaska so I informed him before he left that from this point forward Portia is mine. Portia seems delighted by the arrangement. She loves to go for rides and is quite content running errands with me. She often sleeps right under my feet, as she is now, while I write.
Thank you again for giving me this opportunity to share my stories with your readers.
Karen's Website: http://karenzach.com/
A Silence of Mockingbirds on Amazon.com
Karen blogs here: http://www.patheos.com/blogs/karenspearszacharias/
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The four, all Australian citizens with Somali and Lebanese backgrounds, were arrested in dawn raids on 19 properties across Melbourne, after a seven-month investigation involving several forces and Australia's national security agency ASIO.
The group in question is al Shabaab, which is conducting an international recruitment campaign backed by al Qaeda's propaganda network for fighters to join its push to take power in Mogadishu and impose strict Islamic rule.
Although al Shabaab plays up its link to the transnational network of Osama bin laden, attacking Western targets overseas is not its primary goal, which is overwhelmingly domestic.
But one consequence of its use of ethnic Somalis from the millions-strong diaspora community may be that veterans head home with the funds or skills to attack Western targets of their own volition, Western counter-terrorism officials say.
"The chances are extremely remote that this was Shabaab saying 'Go off and strike Australia'," said Will Hartley, Editor of Jane's Terrorism and Insurgency Center, a security consultancy and information provider.
"Far more likely is that Australia was targeted by Australians who had been in Somalia, were radicalized, and were intent on carrying out or expanding the jihad themselves ... not under Shabaab orders," he said.
The arrests coincide with a surge in Western concern about radicalization of some Western converts to Islam. On July 29 U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder warned of increased "radicalization" of Americans going abroad and then returning home with the "aim of doing harm to the American people."
He was speaking two days after seven people were arrested in North Carolina for allegedly plotting attacks overseas. Holder also expressed concerns about a group of young Somali men leaving the Minneapolis area to join al Shabaab.
Acting Australian Federal Police Commissioner Tony Negus said those arrested on Tuesday had planned to storm a suburban Sydney army base with automatic weapons and kill those inside.
Prosecutors told the Melbourne Magistrate's Court they had evidence some of the men had taken part in training in Somalia and at least one had engaged in frontline fighting in Somalia.
Western officials worry that today's chaotic Somalia resembles Afghanistan in the 1990s, when militants including bin Laden's associates used the safe haven of ungoverned areas on the Pakistan border to plan attacks on Western targets.
In a speech posted on militant web forums on July 30, an al Qaeda leader, Abu Yahya al-Libi, appeared to urge Somali supporters of Shabaab to widen their list of targets beyond the nationalist agenda of ending foreign occupation - a reference to African Union peacekeepers in Somalia.
"You and we are mujahideen in the Cause of Allah, fighters against the enemies of Allah. We are not merely resistance fighters who push out enemies who came to our lands," he said, according to a translation by the Site Intelligence Group. He added: "We fight to drive out the foreign occupation from our lands ... and to eliminate every regime or law that disagrees with our faith, and so that Islam alone rules our lands and so that all mankind are servants of Allah alone."
Rashid Abdi, a Somalia expert at the International Crisis Group, said al Qaeda's internationalist rhetoric in support of al Shabaab on militant chatrooms and Web sites had helped widen the group's appeal among radical communities around the world.
And al Shabaab's own propaganda has drawn parallels between itself and the Taliban in Afghanistan and insurgencies in Algeria and Chechnya, in an apparent attempt to attract hardcore militants elsewhere in the world to join its fight.
But domestic Somali politics was also a driver in al Shabaab's "moving into the al Qaeda orbit," Abdi said.
Al Shabaab, which holds swathes of south and central Somalia, has been enraged by Western and African backing for a new government formed this year and feels it would already have defeated the administration if it had not been for this support.
The United States has offered military support to Somalia's government, including more than 40 tons of weapons and ammunition, to help it fight insurgents, a senior U.S. official has said. It has also offered training for security forces.
Shabaab's radicalization "is a function of what is going on militarily and politically on the ground," Abdi said.
"They feel besieged, they feel that their victory has been snatched from them largely because of Western interference... You can see why the west is now more of a target for al Shabaab."
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Music Notes, Part 2: Bruce Springsteen's 'Magic'by Pamela Leavey
I'm an unabashed Springsteen fan, I must admit. I wasn't always a fan… when The Boss drifted from the classic E Street Band/Asbury Park sound, so too went my interest. But then something magical was born from Bruce Springsteen, in the wake of 9/11. The Rising. Through The Rising, Springsteen and the E Street Band collectively took our nations pain and gave us hope. Somehow, having never seen The Boss perform live before The Rising was released, I managed to catch two shows from the tour, at the beginning and the end of the tour. I was hooked and he hasn't let me down since. I've posted a couple of clips from Springsteen latest release, Live In Dublin in recent weeks. If you haven't seen or heard it, and you're a Springsteen fan… Well you don't know what you're missing. It's magical.
And speaking of 'Magic'… That's the title of the latest from Springsteen and The E Street Band, set to be released on October 2. 'Magic' was produced and mixed by Brendan O'Brien, who also produced The Rising and Devil's & Dust. It features eleven new Springsteen songs and "was cut over two months at Southern Tracks studios in Atlanta."
"We've been together since 1974 and I don't think I've ever seen him more excited than he is right now about this record," says Jon Landau, Springsteen's manager…
The E Street Band mostly flew down on weekends to record, while Springsteen and O'Brien spent weekdays cutting vocals and recording overdubs. "This album is E Street Band heavy," Landau says. "Clarence [Clemons] has some great moments on it. You could say that it's a little more sonically guitar-driven than any past Bruce album. There are a few sort of pop, romantic touches that haven't shown up recently, but were very prominent on the very early records."
The lead single will be "Radio Nowhere," a track Landau says "has a real anthemic quality to it. If it doesn't get you out of your seat, I don't know what will." Landau is particularly excited about "The Long Walk Home," which was performed live on one occasion on the Seeger Sessions tour late last year. "It's sort of the summational song of the album," Landau says. "I think it's one of Bruce's great masterpieces." Another track, "Girls in Their Summer Clothes," Landau says has a "little bit of a Pet Sounds-type feeling mixed in with the sound of the E Street Band."
The final track, "Devil's Arcade," is described as one of the only songs on the album that delves into politics. "He gets some images across that are very powerful and will certainly give you a feeling of where he's coming from, but on balance [politics] is not the primary intention of this record."
A world tour with the E Street Band is reportedly going to kick off in early October, but Landau remains tight-lipped on the details. "As we speak, the tour has not been fully decided," he says. Springsteen is also planning to promote the album on television, including late-night talk shows.
I'm ready for the "Magic"… But until it's release on October 2, here's some classic Springsteen performed with The Sessions Band from Live In Dublin… Growing Up:
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Pamela, let's hope the album is better than the title. "Magic"? I keep thinking of the band America for some reason 😉
Bruce Springsteen and The E-Street Band rules!!
They´re the best ever!!
The Seeger Sessions was a great CD/DVD also. The Boss did a great job covering some old classic folk gems.
Seeger Sessions is awesome. But I have to say since I own both Seeger Session and Live in Dublin, Live in Dublin kicks is simply astounding. I went to the beach yesterday with two friends who are not Springsteen fans and they loved it.
I'm looking forward to this new release. Everything since The Rising has been gems.
Love Bruce Springsteen and have every studio release going back to Greetings from Asbury Park" in 1973. Totally agree about the Rising (though Born in the USA will always be my personal sentimental favorite). Can't wait to hear the next Springsteen album (and learn how to play it on piano). His musicianship and songwriting are like his political outlook circa 2004 (fantastic).


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Dark-Hunter: an immortal warrior who has traded his soul to Artemis for one moment of vengeance on his enemies.
In return, they swear to spend eternity protecting mankind from the daimons and vampires that prey on them. Dark-Hunter Wulf is an ancient Viking warrior with a useful but extremely aggravating power - amnesia.
No one who meets him in person can remember him five minutes later.
It makes it easy to have one-night stands, but hard to have a meaningful relationship, and without true love he can never regain his soul.
Then he meets Cassandra, the one woman who can remember him.
However, as the princess of the cursed race Wulf is sworn to hunt, she is forbidden to him...
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Wulf Tryggvasen is a Dark Hunter cursed with inducing amnesia in others. No one remembers him for more than five minutes, which means he will never find true love or regain his soul. Luckily, Wulf finally meets Cassandra Peters, the one woman who can remember him. Unfortunately, she belongs to the cursed race he is sworn to destroy. Can Wulf and Cassie overcome ancient curses, prophecies and meddling Gods to find true happiness?
An entertaining addition to the series. It should be noted that in terms of the timeline, this installment takes place in parallel to the events in Night Embrace and Dance with the Devil. Consequently, the other Dark Hunters are engaged elsewhere for most of the book and Cassie and Wulf are left to their own devices.
The world building continues with more intricate details about the Apollites and the Daimons as well as additional tantalizing hints regarding Acheron's true nature and identity. Intriguing questions are also raised concerning some of the new characters such as Cassandra's bodyguard, Kat.
The one problem is the overabundance of new characters and groups, which can be overwhelming and distracting because it is difficult to keep track of everyone.
Nevertheless, the story is engaging and the main characters are well-developed. Cassie and Wulf have great chemistry and their relationship is more emotional than in the earlier books. Of course, I am a sucker for the forbidden loves/opposites attract plot device. The dream sequences were a little weird but mesh well with the overall story.
Cassandra is a wonderful heroine. The way in which she copes with her eminent death demonstrates and incredible strength of will. Wulf is also an appealing character. It was interesting to see him come to terms with Cassie's heritage and realize that the Apollites are people suffering under a terrible curse. His banter with Chris contributes to some of the funniest moments in the book.
The villain is one of the most dangerous and threatening in the series so far. He has some vicious tendencies and it will be interesting to see what happens with him in future books.
In sum, the Dark Hunters is a well-written series with one of the most fascinating mythologies in the genre of paranormal romance. I look forward to continuing on to the next books.
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I spent last weekend in a cabin on the Shenandoah River with some blog/Facebook friends. It was a wonderful, relaxing weekend and such a joy to spend it with wonderful women, and maybe even a ghost or two……. Angie did a great job recapping it all on her blog, so be sure to head on over to Home Grown and read about The Amityville Cabin……
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A Message to AHA Members:
At an event this afternoon, the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations released a white paper on the nursing workforce shortage. According to their press release, "the growing shortage of nurses in America's hospitals is putting patient lives in danger and requires immediate attention." The release goes on to state, "failure to address this problem aggressively, JCAHO warns, is likely to result in increased deaths, complications, lengths-of-stay and other undesirable patient outcomes."
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It's clear to all who work in hospitals that registered nurses are key to ensuring good patient care. Unfortunately, today we have a severe shortage of registered nurses.
Building the workplace of the future is our number one challenge. Among the many issues facing the health care field, solving the growing workforce crisis is critical.
Currently, shortages are being reported in nearly every type of hospital job. Unlike previous periodic shortages, the current situation is long-term, broader and more severe.
That is why the AHA and the American Organization of Nurse Executives have been working over the last two years on multiple fronts to find solutions to the workforce shortage. It is clear that there isn't a "silver bullet" solution. The responsibility to solve the workforce shortage is held by multiple parties, including hospitals and the health care field, state and federal policymakers, business and workers.
Our initiatives to find solutions to the workforce shortage include:
A report, issued this spring by the AHA Commission on Workforce, which lays out concrete steps that can help hospital leaders deal with this problem now and in the future.
- The report contains almost 100 examples of successful strategies hospitals have used to retain and recruit health care workers. The report is centered on five chapters that contain specific recommendations of how hospitals can foster meaningful work, improve the workplace partnership, broaden the base of health care workers, collaborate with others and build societal support.
- The Commission was comprised of a diverse group of 27 leaders, including representatives from health care, labor, business and education.
- More than 30,000 copies have been distributed to hospital leaders, trustees, nurse executives and human resources executives, among others. Thousands have accessed this information via our website.
On the legislative front, we're asking policymakers to offer incentives to enter and stay in health professions, including providing fair and adequate reimbursement, helping hospitals help patients by cutting burdensome red tape, and proposing incentives to build new ways to care.
- Recent enactment of the Nurse Reinvestment Act is a good step forward.
Everyone who works within a hospital is dedicated to providing the best care possible to patients, and hospitals have checks and balances in place to ensure quality care. Still, the nursing shortage has put some real stress on our system.
That's why it's so important that we look for ways to further support the nurses and physicians on the front lines…whether it's freeing them up from unnecessary paperwork burdens, providing assistants who can help perform non-nursing duties or putting in place new technologies that help nurses and physicians deliver care.
This is a real challenge in a world of constrained resources. But hospitals are determined to do whatever it takes to ensure that patients continue to receive the right care, at the right time, in the right place.


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Sept 19 (Reuters) - LPL Financial Holdings Inc, the largest U.S. independent broker-dealer by revenue, said on Wednesday it added Pennsylvania-based Delaware Valley Financial Group to its network of independent advisers.
Delaware Valley will bring 24 financial advisers with about $500 million in total client assets under management to LPL Financial's broker-dealer platform.
The group, which specializes in life insurance, annuities, group benefits, qualified plans, and property and casualty insurance, is headquartered in King of Prussia, Pennsylvania, and has offices in New Jersey. It joined LPL Finiancial platform catering to registered investment advisers.
Boston-based LPL Financial provides brokerage, clearing and other professional services to roughly 13,100 self-employed brokers and advisers. In the second quarter, the firm generated $908 million in revenue from brokers overseeing $353 billion in client assets.
LPL Financial has expanded by adding individual advisers and teams as well as larger independent groups like Delaware Valley to its broker-dealer platform.
The firm last month added Alabama-based Bridgeworth Financial, with $1 billion in client assets, to its network.


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As technology evolves, it can often seem like the digital divide is growing larger. As estimated 51% of American households have a PC while in some poorer or developing nations that statistic drops to sometimes lower than 2%. With such a chasm between us, one might be tempted to think that the developing world has been all but left out of the digital age, but a visit to most of those places would reveal something that has leveled the playing field and, some would argue, even saved lives: everyone has a mobile phone.
In our tech savvy world, it's easy to think that most people use the Internet. In reality, and according to a recent survey by the United Nations, only about a quarter of the worlds 6.1 billion people are wired to the net. But the same UN report estimates that over 4 billion people have mobile phones. That puts nearly the entire planet, from the poorest of farmers in Ethiopia to the wealthiest Shah in Iran, on a level playing field with the information they want and need right at their fingertips.
Text messaging is playing a major role in enabling the non-net-connected among us to get the information they need and allowing businesses and social organizations of all kinds to better reach and service populations that might otherwise be invisible. Health initiatives in Malawi allow anyone with a mobile phone to easily connect with a medical professional and ask a question or get help, banking programs in Kenya are enabling person to person lending, and personal banking and payment to be done with nothing more than a mobile phone. Social organizations are quicky realizing that, to better serve, they have to adopt text messaging.
While it's tempting to believe that certain services can only be delivered by the Internet, the truth is that with a little creativity and work, nearly any useful service can be delivered by text messaging. Using nothing more than an inexpensive netbook, a mobile phone or GSM modem, and software like FrontLineSMS, anyone wanting to deploy a community initiative can do so easily and inexpensively. There's no need to expensive shortcodes, large grants, or even highly skilled (and costly) IT staff; even the most technically challenged person who's willing to take time to learn can deploy a text based system to serve their community.
Can text messaging change the world? Absolutely. Those with a passion and dedication to making the world a better place now have all the tools they need to effect social change. And that tool for change is right in the pockets of over 4 billion people.
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Can text messaging change the world?
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- February 27, 2010 at 1:34 AM
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"There's no need to expensive shortcodes, large grants, or even highly skilled (and costly) IT staff; even the most technically challenged person who's willing to take time to learn can deploy a text based system to serve their community". Great points Anthony.
I'm using it and I'm no coder.
I can build websites and hack open source apps for my own use and look what I've come up with using FronlineSMS.
- February 27, 2010 at 10:43 PM
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text: The notification bar seems to be a bit lacking in terms of features. It would be nice to be able to move around and remove individual notifications; maybe done by a little draggy thing on the left of every notification and an X box at the top right corner? Maybe the ability to move things in and out of ongoing? This just seems so basic (basic as in a core feature we should have; I'm sure it's quite a feat to actually incorporate it) that I'd be surprised if nobody's discussed the possibility before.


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- 2003 1 Nov
It's interesting to note Skillet has never recorded any of their six albums in the same style since their 1996 debut. All projects remain true to the band's sound, since lead singer and bassist John Cooper has always been the principal songwriter, yet each release has played with different genres: modern rock, industrial, techno/electronica, worship, and even unplugged acoustic. Part of it stems from an ever-changing lineup, which finally seems to have settled on the one established with 2001's
The first impression when listening to
While Skillet may lose some of their pop-inclined audience, they're likely to gain increased credibility among serious metal-heads. Collide demonstrates a new maturity in sound and songwriting. More than ever, they sound like a credible hard rock band. Lyrically, they rely less on gimmicky words, geared specifically for a youth group, and more on powerful emotions and ideas that teens and adults can equally appreciate.
Take the opening track "Forsaken," a plea of brokenness combining guilt and pain with comfort and hope. It does a nice job balancing Skillet's two sonic extremes, relying largely on metal guitar bombast, but also briefly stripping down to guitar and piano for the prayerful lyric, "Take my pain and numb me from this." All of that is equally true of the title track, which beautifully arranges strings against electronic-tinged hard rock. "Collide" wonderfully sums up a Christian's mixed emotions of fear and faith: "There's something deep inside that keeps my faith alive/When all you can do is hide from the fear that's deep inside of you/Something … to hold me close when I don't know." You could view the album's popular first single, "Savior," as a response to that fear and brokenness—a melodic sonic explosion written from Christ's perspective as a call for change and surrender.
The album's intensity rarely lets up. "My Obsession" is driving and powerful in its message of making Christ our focus, rather than our own selfish and fleeting desires. "Fingernails" paints a vivid picture of brokenness and clawing toward peace, and "Imperfection" is equally bold in its struggle with self-acceptance. There are a couple of melodic rock anthems suitable for Christian Hit Radio, and not surprisingly, they happen to be the tracks Korey Cooper co-wrote with John—"A Little More" and "Under My Skin." Still, both are aggressive in the chorus, raising the decibel level considerably from previous hit singles.
Can Skillet distinguish itself from similar sounding bands? In some ways they do, but the industrial electronica elements of their past albums made them that much more unique in the Christian music industry. With heavy guitars dominating the sound, they're now more similar than ever to other bands, most notably Bush, Metallica, and Nickelback. You almost wish


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Boeing has announced it has signed a multi-million dollar contract to supply concentrator photovoltaic (CPV) cell assemblies to an Australian company that produces renewable solar energy.
Under the contract with Solar Systems Pty. Ltd. of Hawthorn, Victoria, Boeing will deliver 500,000 concentrator solar cell assemblies for use at power stations that generate renewable energy for small, remote Australian communities. Spectrolab, Inc. of Sylmar, Calif., a wholly-owned Boeing subsidiary, will manufacture the cells. Deliveries will begin later this year.
The solar cell assemblies will be capable of generating more than 11 megawatts of electricity -- enough to power 3,500 average-sized homes.
"For the past 50 years, Spectrolab has been a leader in space-based solar cells," said Dr. David Lillington, president of Spectrolab, the world's leading producer of space and terrestrial concentrating solar cells.
"We have leveraged our expertise in space photovoltaic products and created terrestrial concentrating solar cells with record-breaking efficiencies averaging above 35 percent. We are now partnering with the best of industry and making great strides in reducing the cost of solar energy to homes and businesses worldwide."
This contract with Solar Systems continues an earlier relationship between the two companies. In April, Spectrolab and Solar Systems brought the world's first full-scale ultra high efficiency 35-kilowatt solar generator online in Australia. The system created a new benchmark for solar concentrator systems both in system efficiency and cost, and showed great promise for the future of renewable energy.
"The breakthrough demonstrated by this fully operating, full-scale system shows the potential for CPV to dramatically change the economics of solar power. We expect this to be the first commercial phase of a very large and valuable relationship," said Solar Systems Managing Director Dave Holland. "Our partnership with Spectrolab represents a new level of cooperation toward the common goal of meeting the community's power needs with clean, green electricity."
Solar Systems' concentrators resemble a satellite dish with curved reflecting mirrors shaped to concentrate sunlight onto the solar cells. A sun-tracking mechanism allows electricity to be produced from morning to late afternoon. Small, remote communities are using a number of concentrator dishes in "solar farms" for energy during the day and switching to diesel generators at night.
A significant advantage of concentrator systems is that fewer solar cells are required to achieve a specific power output. Large areas of semiconductor materials now can be replaced with lower cost concentration devices. The higher cost of ultra high efficiency multi-junction cells is offset by the need for fewer cells. Because multi-junction cells are so efficient, only a fraction of the cell area is required to generate the same power as crystalline silicon or thin-film flat-plate designs.
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Heritage Oil sells Ugandan stakes for $1.5 billion
Canadian-based Heritage Oil will sell its 50% share in two Ugandan oil fields to Italy's Eni for $1.5 billion. Uganda still has to approve the deal, which is expected to be completed early in 2010. Eni has interests in Angola, Nigeria, Gabon, Mozambique and the Republic of Congo, producing about 450,000 barrels of oil a day from its sub-Saharan fields. It says the Ugandan fields have the potential to produce one billion barrels of oil in total, which Eni expects to pipe to the Kenyan coast for onward supply to international markets. Analysts say the sale makes sense for Heritage as its expertise is in exploration and not development. Proceeds will be used to develop existing assets, including non-producing fields in Iraq's Kurdistan region, where the company made large oil finds earlier this year. Read more: Daily Telegraph, Times Online


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NEW YORK (CBSNewYork/AP) — U.S. Sen Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) announced Monday that he is asking for $100 million in funding for to curb the scourge of heroin in New York and across the country.
"New York City has become a hub for the heroin trade for the entire East Coast," Schumer said.
As 1010 WINS' Sonia Rincon reported, that is why Schumer wants the federal allocation for the U.S. Justice Department initiative called the High Intensity Drug Trafficking Areas Program – or HIDTA.


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The sharing economy typically solves first-world problems, but here's something novel.
Instead of getting young professionals their food faster, a Baltimore startup is using the sharing economy model to get food to people who need it most.
Based out of the Emerging Technology Centers' Haven Campus, Jason King is leading the development of Unsung, which, according to its website, is "hacking homeless hunger."
Work started about a year ago on the app-based service, which allows food businesses to arrange pickup of food that's slated to go to waste. Restaurants, bakeries and caterers often get rid of food at the end of the day.
"Getting ahold of food is not an issue," said King, a heavily bearded former homeless outreach worker who ran across the country to raise bitcoins for the homeless a couple of years ago.
Check! ✅ Another meal down for the day in #baltimore. #HackHunger pic.twitter.com/3JITvpWxOA
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Volunteers repackage the food, and drive it to places like shelters, encampments or directly to people in need. They're a lot like other sharing economy drivers, setting their own schedules.
King said Unsung has a presence in D.C., Austin, Los Angeles, San Francisco and Miami, and has a team of developers working in various places. But Baltimore is where it's based, and where the devs gathered over the summer to work on the app.
Days before the end of the stint, they suffered a break-in. Undaunted, the team is working toward a full launch later this fall.


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Video, color, silent, 30:00; LCD screen; laser disc; laser disc player
One of the three videos where water floods the body, this one depicts an overflowing mouth. The figure here is not Hamilton, but rather Katherine Gray, a glass artist who at the time was doing an internship at the Headlands Center for the Arts, Sausalito, California. Between 1989 and 1991, Hamilton was working on a commission for the Mess Hall at the Headlands Center for the Arts.
The persistent exploration of thresholds, particularly the ambiguity of what is inside and what is outside, and the slippage of borders are key to these videos—where the water seems to be flowing either in or out of the mouth. This exploration also reoccurs in later Hamilton works as different as Untitled, 2000, where long, dripping hairs seem to be either entering or spilling from a mouth, and Hamilton's tower · Oliver Ranch, completed in 2006, where entry is gained through a window and not a door, and light enters from an open roof, as well as through window wells.
The monitor used in the installation was a small, round-backed standard television set into the wall so that its screen was flush with the wall's surface; it was in 1993, when the video was editioned, that a flat-screen monitor, measuring 3 ½ × 4 ½ inches / 8.9 × 11.4 cm, was specified by the artist.
Text excerpted from Ann Hamilton: An Inventory of Objects. New York: Gregory R. Miller & Co., 2006. Joan Simon.


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This wikiHow teaches you how to add a tip for your driver using the Lyft mobile app at the time of the ride or up to three days after the ride.
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1. Open the Lyft app.
2. Tap or enter a tip amount.
3. Tap Next.
4. Tap a star rating.
5. Tap Submit.
At the Time of the Ride
1Open the Lyft app. It's a pink app with the word "lyft" in bold, white type.
2Tap a tip amount. The tip bar appears just below the driver's profile picture. The options are:
- No tip
- $1
- $2
- $5
- Tap Other to tip a different amount
3Tap Next. The tip will be added to the total and transferred to the driver.
4Tap a star rating.
- You can leave a review on this screen, if you wish.
5Tap Submit.
Within 72 Hours of the Ride
1Open the Lyft app. It's a pink app with the word "lyft" in bold, white type.
2Tap your profile icon. It's your image or a silhouette in the upper-left corner of the screen.
3Tap Ride History. It's next to a clock icon in the middle menu.
4Tap the ride for which you want to tip. You can only tip on rides that were completed within the previous 72 hours.[1]
5Tap Tip driver. Enter a tip amount and follow the on-screen instructions to complete the transaction.
- Lyft will send you an email with a receipt for your ride. These emails also contain a link you can follow to tip your Lyft driver within 72 hours of the ride.
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What if I forgot to tip? Can I tip afterward?wikiHow ContributorYes. Open LYFT and tap the profile icon in the top left corner. Select "Ride history." Select the ride/driver you wish to tip. Scroll down to "Add tip" and select the amount you wish to tip.
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What is Spine Surgery?
The world today is being run by the advancement of technology, there are now a lot of things that are making people's life easier because the technology today is really able to create wonderful devices. There were a lot of sicknesses before that claimed a lot of lives because there were still no technology that could help people cure them, even simple sickness killed a lot of people centuries ago. And one of the most visible sickness those days was the spine ache or back ache, a lot of people had problems with that pain centuries ago. This pain or illness will show up if the person will have some abnormalities in his or her spine obviously. And this is why a person must get spine surgery and not just from any surgeon but it is important that you get help from a spine surgeon because you have to have a professional for that kind. You have to make sure that you think about getting the spine surgery because it is not an easy decision and it is a serious thing so be sure that you are ready to do it before you decide. You have to make sure that you take this into account, surgery is not an easy thing so you really have to plan a couple of steps in advance for it.
The most important think in spine treatment is considering other ways to treat the spine problem, it is no only for spine surgery because there are also other ways to treat the spine so think about it carefully. First is that the patient will be able to know that there will be two main kind of surgery that they will be able to get, these spine surgery techniques will be pretty important as well.
You will have to know that the first spine surgery technique will be more conventional compared to the other major kind of spine surgery technique. And people will sometimes recall what a conventional surgery technique will be. It is a fact that conventional surgery techniques will be making a patient feel great amount of pain. This is because they choose to pay less and save more money from the spine surgery.
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You just have to make sure that you will think about it carefully, if you can handle the pain, you can go for first technique and just save more money, just get a good spine surgeon or you can go for paying more for the surgery technique to have less pain. These two options will be very important, this can save your life so be sure that you have already thought about the possibilities before you threw in your decision.
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They say that there's no such thing as a free lunch, by which they really mean that everything has a catch. However, there are times when you might find you are paying for something when you could get it for free. It may be that there really is no significant catch, or it might simply be that the catch is outweighed by the money you save.
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If your computer doesn't have anti-virus software, or it has software that is years out of date because you don't want to renew the subscription, then you should get some ASAP. The internet is a far safer place with some security software tucked away on your hard drive.
The problem for many people is that anti-virus packages usually aren't cheap as software goes, and you have to pay for them every single year. If you want a license that allows you to use it on multiple machines, this can be even more expensive. Fortunately, there are several completely free packages out there.
Before you balk at trusting your computer's safety (and by extension your passwords and bank details) to a free package, several free security suites regularly equal or outperform the big names in tests and expert reviews. There is really no safety compromise involved in choosing a free package. The catch is that these companies all have paid products, and they will send you advertisements and offers to try and get you to upgrade. Ignore them; free protection should be more than adequate for home users.
Freecycle, and similar initiatives such as Freegle, are local communities designed to allow people to simply give things away. The idea is to reduce waste and recycle items that would either be thrown away or languish unused in a cupboard, rehoming them with people who want or need them. People who have such items can advertise them to the group, and those who want the item can get in contact.
You can see all sorts of things on Freecycle, from furniture to freshly-laid eggs. You can also post requests, so if you are going to buy something that you think somebody might be willing to give away you can try posting a wanted ad before spending your money. However, there are some rules of etiquette to follow. It is usually considered rude and irritating to other users if you post too many "wanted" ads, so try not to get carried away. It is also a good idea not to post ridiculous requests. This may seem obvious, but there are people who will seriously post "wanted" adverts for items like cars or high-value electronics.


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HOLA x HI-FIVE. Built on and pivoting the lowest common denominator. HHF is a 312 thing, Joe. The sonic impetus being HOUSE, bet the farm these gents will quest beyond "genre" parameters. Point Guarded by drummer manuaLs aka Gabe Wallace (Gorillaz, De La Soul, 2NE1, etc) and rounded out by world class Chicago brethren, this squad is all about SWEAT manufacturing. Let the BPMs unleash the lerv within. #holahifive
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Google Once Again Under The Microscope For Their Apps And Service Restrictions
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For as long as Android has been around, we have known it to be Open Source. The big idea behind such a mobile operating system as Android, is to allow for OEM's, developers and anyone with a software engineering background or skills to mess with the operating system in ways that many of us may have never imagined. This wouldn't be the first time Google has been under the microscope for claims that their mobile OS wasn't as Open Source as advertised. There has been much debate over what Google's policies were in regards to Google mobile services and the inclusion of Google's "core apps" on OEM devices, namely and most recently with Samsung who is Android's biggest manufacturer currently. It seems that Google is once again being called out over mobile service restrictions, with the Wall Street Journal making claims that Google has a certain set of "strings attached" for manufacturers to use their apps and services. To use Google's services such as the Play Store and their core apps, Google requires the companies to sign a particular agreement called "The Mobile Application Distribution Agreement" that states the OEM's will have to meet a list of requirements to use said apps and services on their devices. Using Google's apps and services requires a few notable things from the OEM, which is to make Google Search the main search engine for the device, while other Google apps can be no further than one screen away. If you take a look at where Google makes the bulk of it's money, it isn't from Android, it's from their services like Search. So it makes sense from a business standpoint for Google to do this, but some feel it ruins the integrity of the idea that the Android Open Source Project(AOSP) was built upon.
The claims being brought up have caused European Anti-trust Authorities to take notice, which is now resulting in them starting an investigation to see if Google has violated any such Anti-trust laws. This ties in with the Anti-trust laws within Europe that require companies to harbor competition and endorse it. As some feel that Google has found a way to sidestep the competition in a sense, they are now being called into question for violating laws along those terms. While there are certainly some valid points being made about Google policies and practices surrounding their apps and services for Android OEM's, we would all do well to remember a few simple factors when and if looking at Google as a company that is guilty of the claims being made. Requiring the signing of an agreement that asks OEM's to meet Google's terms before having access to Google services and apps on their devices, does not make it so that right down to the consumer level, that users are prohibited from using other competing services. Bing for instance can still be used as search engine if any user so wishes. Mapquest has an app in the Play Store, that is available for download by anyone who prefers the service over Google's own maps application. There are also no laws within the United States that mirror those of the European countries, which won't make it easy to prove that Google has violated any Anti-trust laws in the first place.
While the restrictions may seem like they do the opposite of promote competition, Google's restrictions regarding their apps are far from being unreasonable. Google still allows anyone who wants to use the Android operating system to do so, but the services and apps such as the Play Store and others are Google's right, so they can require their services draw more attention for the cost of using them. Just like Microsoft promotes Bing as the default and main search engine for its Windows Phone devices, Google is doing the same for their operating system. The difference is that the Android OS at it's core can be manipulated however the OEM sees fit. You don't see any Windows Phone OEMs getting to change the look of Windows Phone with their own custom User Interfaces. When you take a step back and give the picture a good hard look, it boils down to the competition trying to find a way around actually competing. Having access to the Android OS along with a few terms for apps shouldn't put Google in the wrong here.


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- school;
- building(s) where instruction in one or more branches of knowledge takes place.
- Saint John Chrysostom School (1km)
- Nether Providence Elementary School (1.4km)
- Nether Providence Middle School (1.5km)
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- Notre Dame De Lourds School (1.9km)
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- Our Lady Of Peace School (2.6km)
- Jefferis School (2.9km)
- Leiperville School (3km)
- Woodlyn Elementary School (3km)
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Bioethics represents a dramatic revision of the centuries-old professional ethics that governed the behavior of physicians and their relationships with patients. This venerable ethics code was challenged in the years after World War II by the remarkable advances in the biomedical sciences and medicine that raised questions about the definition of death, the use of life-support systems, organ transplantation, and reproductive interventions. In response, philosophers and theologians, lawyers and social scientists joined together with physicians and scientists to rethink and revise the old standards. Governments established commissions to recommend policies. Courts heard arguments and legislatures passed laws.
This book is the first broad history of the growing field of bioethics. Covering the period 1947-1987, it examines the origin and evolution of the debates over human experimentation, genetic engineering, organ transplantation, termination of life-sustaining treatment, and new reproductive technologies. It assesses the contributions of philosophy, theology, law and the social sciences to the expanding discourse of bioethics. Written by one of the field's founders, The Birth of Bioethics is based on extensive archival research into sources that are difficult to obtain and on interviews with many of the leading figures in the moral debates in medicine. A very readable and comprehensive account of the evolution of bioethics, this book stresses the history of ideas but does not neglect the social and cultural context and the people involved. It will serve the information needs of philosophers, ethicists, social historians, and everyone interested in the origins of some of today's most hotly debated issues.
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Broken bother's Lullaby
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Poem by: BlackR0se
Shut your blood shot eyes.
Let me sing you a lullaby.
Just sleep away their lies.
Slip away again.
You thought I never knew.
I was the only one to notice.
I let it go when you stole my things.
I forgave all the fights you bring.
When you stole mom's money I took the blame.
You gave your little sister only a smile.
You act like this is some game.
I went through hell.
I feel deeper into my shell.
Still I forgive you.
Let your heavy head of lies rest.
Hopefully you have dreams, only the best.
I know that I can't do a thing.
So a lullaby will I sing.
Until you finally drift away.
I can just pray you'll wake up the next day.
When you sleep again.
You're almost the way you were back then.
Sometimes I don't want you to wake.
I know you have reasons for doing it.
But in truth I don't give a shit.
I don't care,
Because I'll always be there.
That's the only thing I can swear.
You did something you couldn't fix.
You came to me for help.
You shouldn't have.
Guns rushed all pointed at your heart.
Your baby blue eyes begging.
It tore my heart apart.
So I did something I can't regret.
They guns I meet.
I remember their whispers….
"She's was such a troubled child..."
"If only she was like her brother..."
"I heard she stole from her own family..."
"What a screwed up kid…"
Well you can't really call them that.
If they say them so loud.
But I'm proud.
So ill never let them know it hurt.
So ill never say a word about anything.
Just let me sing you a lullaby.
And say my final goodbye.
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The Broadway tomboys, rebel nuns, and funny girls, who upset the 1950s gender norms: Mary Martin, Ethel Merman, Julie Andrews, and Barbra Streisand
American musical theater has long been considered integral to gay male culture, but what does it have to offer lesbian viewers? Plenty, argues Wolf, an English professor at the University of Texas at Austin and a self-confessed "feminist musical theater fan." While many people generally think of 1950s musicals as having a conservative slant and upholding conventional social norms, Wolf argues that the myriad "funny girls" of the '50s and '60s specifically Ethel Merman, Julie Andrews, Mary Martin and Barbra Streisand repeatedly appeared in roles that explicitly critiqued postwar gender norms. Wolf frequently insists she's not concerned with figuring out the actual sexual orientation of these actresses (though she often pauses to do so, decoding the Hollywood gossip surrounding Martin's marriage to gay actor Richard Halliday with obvious glee). Nor does she argue that they actually "played" lesbians on stage or in film. Rather, she's interested in using the tools of feminist and queer theory to examine the women's performances and public images. Her analysis of Martin's "tomboy" star persona (particularly as it is presented in South Pacific and Peter Pan) is shrewd, as is her discussion of Streisand's unconventional beauty and her explicit Jewishness. Unfortunately, Wolf only briefly considers why the genre of the musical itself might lend itself to such interpretive practice, and some readers may wish for a more general analysis of musical theater rather than such close attention to the minute details of these four individuals' performance histories. (Aug.) Forecast: While Wolf's points are sound, the book's target audience musical theater buffs may already be overfamiliar with her theme. Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information.


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NCV One Year Bible
Our NCV One Year Bible collection includes Bibles in the New Century Version translation that are designed to be read over the period of one year. These New Century Version One Year Bibles are a great way to make sure you read the entire Bible in a year. With the easy to understand english of the New Century Version (NCV) - you can rest assured there will be no 'thees and thous' - just plain easy to understand english - the hallmark of the New Century Version.


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Over the next seventeen years he drove longhorn cattle up the trails from Texas to various buyers in Oklahoma, Kansas, Colorado, Wyoming, and Montana, and as far north as the Canadian border. In the summer of 1885 he delivered 2,500 head from Tom Green County to B.H. (Barbecue) Campbell, manager of the Capitol Syndicate's Buffalo Springs division in Dallam County. Campbell had contracted to buy cattle for the newly established XIT Ranch, and this was the first herd from South and West Texas to arrive. Blocker devised the XIT brand, for which the syndicate's ranch was named. Afterward he was involved in the dispute at Fort Supply, Oklahoma, resulting from the attempts of Kansas ranchers to quarantine the herds of his brother and other South Texas cattlemen and keep the Texans from crossing their land.
Beginning in 1887 Blocker tried cotton farming for two years, but a period of drought soon put him back in the saddle. In 1890 he was made range boss of his brother's Chupadero Ranch, near Eagle Pass. His last overland trail drive was to Deadwood, South Dakota, with Harris Franklin's herd in 1893. In 1896 he married Florence Baldwin; they had a daughter. The family resided on a ranch in La Salle County, fifteen miles southeast of Cotulla, until a prolonged drought ruined them financially. In 1903, after living in Oklahoma for a year, the Blockers returned to Eagle Pass and subsequently took up residence again at the Chupadero Ranch. There they remained until 1912, when Blocker began working for the Texas Cattle Raisers Association (later the Texas and Southwestern Cattle Raisers Association). He died in San Antonio on August 9, 1943, and was buried in Dignowity Cemetery.
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Sunday, March 20, 2016
Lego Club Special Meeting!
We will have a Lego Club meeting Monday, March 21, from 3:30 to 4:30pm at the library. This will take the place of our regular meeting on the last Monday of the month, due to Spring Break. If you like to build with Legos, and you're in Kindergarten or 5th grade or any grade in-between, join us, won't you?
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Tuesday, March 15, 2016
New Display
Cameron Grohler, age 12, of Paxton, created this photo display and brought it to Paxton Carnegie Library. The beautiful, artistic photos were taken by Cameron and his friends from the Walltown 4-H Club.
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Thursday, March 3, 2016
Lego Fun!
The Lego Club was pleased to accept a large donation of Legos in February!
Many thanks to Sally and Michael Warnick, of Paxton!
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HGV and cycle safety campaign comes to Sutton Coldfield
Members of the public will have a chance to sit in the driver's seat of a HGV and experience first-hand the blind spots faced by drivers of large vehicles as part of a road safety event in Sutton Park, Sutton Coldfield, this weekend.
The city council's Birmingham Cycle Revolution team will be on hand for the Birmingham Exchanging Places campaign event – being staged at the Boldmere Gate entrance from 10am to 3pm on Saturday (March 7).
Council officers will be joined by colleagues from West Midlands Police and Jaguar Land Rover to offer members of the public useful safety information, discuss the various scenarios that can occur whilst cycling near HGVs, and give practical advice about staying safe on the road.
The aim of these events is to help avoid cycling casualties caused by cyclist-driver collisions. Experienced officers will be on-hand to explain how these types of collisions can happen and the various measures both drivers and cyclists can take to avoid them. This includes drivers using mirrors and safety equipment, good road positioning and communication.
Cllr James McKay, Cabinet Member for Social Cohesion, Equalities and Community Safety, whose portfolio covers road safety, said: "We can all help to make our roads safer by being aware of the dangers and taking steps to reduce the risk of collisions.
"Some insider knowledge about how HGVs operate, together with some driving and cycling do's and don'ts can help us all travel more safely on our roads.
"The cycling 'buzz' in Birmingham is gaining momentum and it is therefore essential to ensure everyone is as safe as possible.' Our Birmingham Exchanging Places events aim to raise awareness of responsible driving and cycling so that we can all share the roads safely."
For more information on the project, progress updates and information on how you can get involved please visit www.birmingham.gov.uk/bcr
Birmingham Cycle Revolution is part of the Birmingham Connected vision to reinvent the way people and goods move across the city, find out more at www.birmingham.gov.uk/connected


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