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Citizens called to represent Golden Triangle in Austin
Anyone interested in having their voice heeard in face-to-face meetings with their state elected leaders in Austin is invited to make the five-hour drive to the capitol city alongside city officials during Golden Triangle Days in Austin, held Feb. 27 through March 1.
During the three-day conference, delegates and guests from the Orange and Jefferson county areas will meet with state leaders and make their opinions known to officials at the state level. Those in attendance will not only attend structured meetings with the state representatives but also have an opportunity to talk one-on-one with heads of departments, mingle during lunch and dinner mixers and join in a round of golf after the business is over.
The weather should be perfect for a road trip, but Port Arthur Chamber of Commerce President Mary Ann Reid said it's more of a business than pleasure trip for Orange and Jefferson counties' city and county leaders.
"This is the time for our small businesses and big industry to have their voices heard," she said. "We'd love to have anyone interested in joining us because these issues affect everyone in the community. What happens in industry affects everybody. It's thinking beyond ourselves now because it all comes back to affect us. Now is the time to make a difference, to do something bigger than yourself."
Reid exemplified her statement by touching on the issue of education. Even for taxpayers who don't have school-age children or aspirations of furthering their own education, she said, the issue affects the community as a whole.
"Those kids that maybe don't matter so much to you now are going to be your nurses, your caregivers," she said, adding to the list police officers, doctors, judges, etc. "We need to fight for these dollars to train them right so we have a quality of life in the future."
The agenda of issues slated for group conversation was still in the works at press time, but Reid said the group is seeking confirmation that funding already promised is still on the way. According to Reid, that includes "funding in higher education and protecting our resources."
The legislative priorities for Golden Triangle Days, according to information from the group executive summary, represent the crucial business issues in and around the cities of Beaumont, Orange and Port Arthur. In the agenda, the Golden Triangle adopts positions on education, the TCEQ, economic development and transportation issues. Reid said the members of the community attending the meetings will be able to voice their own opinions in these matters, as well as others.
Participants will converge on the three-day affair with a pre-event reception hosted by former state Sen. Carl Parker on Feb. 27 from 2-4 p.m. And after registration, guests will be treated to an evening of music and food starting at 6 p.m. at the "Meet the Maestro" event held in honor of Chelsea Tipton II, new resident music director for the Symphony of Southeast Texas.
The following day, participants will rise early and meet for breakfast at the state capitol before breaking off into a series of meetings. During that time, a resolution honoring Golden Triangle Days will be awarded to delegates from the group. A "Cajun Reception" will follow, with entertainment provided by Mark Chesnutt and the Floyd Domino Band, and food cooked up courtesy of Big Rich Courville and Courville's Catering. On the last day of the event, guests will attend a breakfast with Senate Education Committee Chair Sen. Florence Shapiro, then scurry over to a 9 a.m. rally with the governor. After a little free time, guests are then called on to get together for a relaxing round at the Wolfdancer Golf Club starting at noon.
Anyone is invited to register as a delegate. Delegates may attend all Sunday through Tuesday events at the $75 per individual registration fee. Golf tournament entry fees separate.
Non-delegates may attend the Sunday and Monday receptions only and pay a reduced rate of $50 per individual. An additional $25 will be assessed per attendee for registrations made after close of business Friday, Feb. 18. Registrations will close Wednesday, Feb. 23. According to Reid's count, more than 300 people have already signed up, but the more the merrier.
"We welcome everyone to come," she said, regardless of their views on the issues. "We have transportation issues that are different, but since it's regional we all can work together. But if your ideas are different, you can have a sidebar meeting with TxDOT. You may not know who to contact to express ideas or opinions you may have, and this is the perfect time to go and find who you need to talk to. A lot of time you want to say something and get on the phone and get the runaround. It's different when you're on the phone or in person with somebody.
"This is the big thing. Now is the time to step up and have your voice really heard by the people who need to hear it."
For more information, contact the Beaumont Chamber of Commerce at (409) 838-6581, the Orange Chamber of Commerce at (409) 883-3536, or the Port Arthur Chamber of Commerce at (409) 963-1107.


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CMTF, Excel Initiatives, Touring Camps and More Set for Broadway Workshop in 2013
Broadway Workshop, Manhattan's fastest growing acting program for young artists, now celebrating their 5th year, has announced their 2013 summer camp and summer intensive schedule.
Each summer, Broadway Workshop brings some of the most exciting programs to New York City and beyond. Broadway Workshop's goal is to provide opportunities for young actors to work with major theatre professionals, take part in specialized master classes, see Broadway productions, and gain skills in every area of the performing arts. Broadway Workshop's programs take place in New York City and on tour in Vermont, Kentucky, and Michigan.
Each summer, Broadway Workshop teams up with Project Broadway, a 501(c)3 non-profit organization that offers scholarships to students in financial need.
Broadway Workshop - New York City 2013 Schedule and Program Information:
The Children's Musical Theater Festival (CMTF)
Saturday, July 13 - Sunday, July 21, 2013
Ages 9-18
The Children's Musical Theater Festival is a 10-day performance based theater program. Students cast in the Festival will have the opportunity to originate roles in new musical works by up-and-coming theater writers. Students are split into two groups based on age and each group will perform two performances of their show at New York Live Arts in Chelsea. This program is by audition only, live auditions take place in Manhattan in March and video submissions can be mailed in until April. More CMTF information can be found at www.CMTFnyc.com.
Junior Excel Intensive
Monday, July 29 - Friday, August 2, 2013
Ages 9-13
New for 2013! Broadway Workshop's Junior Excel Intensive is a 5-day program geared toward student's ages 9-13 with an extremely strong passion for the performing arts. Junior Excel students will study the 3 disciplines of musical theatre in small groups. Students will prepare solo and small group pieces in preparation for our end of program production, where they will perform for a panel of New York agents, mangers and casting directors, as well as family and friends. More information can be found at www.BroadwayWorkshop.com.
Excel Teen Intensive
Monday, August 12 - Friday, August 16, 2013
Ages 14-18
Broadway Workshop's Excel Teen Intensive is a 5-day summer program geared toward older students with a strong passion for the performing arts. While every Excel student will study the 3 disciplines of musical theatre, this program allows students to choose a major; Acting, Voice or Dance. In addition to their core classes, Excel students will take master classes with New York's top Casting Directors, Broadway Actors, Musical Directors and Choreographers. Students will prepare solo and small group pieces in preparation for our end of program production, where they will perform for a panel of New York agents, mangers and casting directors, as well as family and friends. More information can be found at www.BroadwayWorkshop.com.
Camp NYC
Monday August 19 - Friday August 23, 2013
Ages 9-13
Camp NYC allows young actors of all skill levels the opportunity to immerse themselves in the world of Broadway. This program brings the best theatrical workshops and master classes directly to our students. Campers will take part in classes taught by Broadway's biggest stars and focused in every area of performance from Shakespeare to Stage Combat. Students will also spend the week rehearsing for our Off-Broadway Camp Finale featuring Broadway guest performers. More information can be found at www.BroadwayWorkshop.com.
Broadway Workshop - On Tour 2013 Schedule:
Camp Kentucky
Monday June 3 - Friday June 7, 2013
Ages 9-18
Broadway Workshop comes to the Carson Center for the second year! Camp Kentucky is a five day Musical Theatre Camp in Paducah, KY. Learn from Broadway Workshop's acclaimed staff from New York City, as well as other special guests from the Kentucky theater scene.
Camp Vermont
Monday July 8 - Friday July 12, 2013
Ages 9-16
Broadway Workshop is back for their sixth year at Saint Michael's College in Colchester, Vermont. Campers will take center stage performing in 2 different hit Broadway musicals medleys specifically arranged for Camp Vermont. In between rehearsals, campers will participate in theatrical workshops taught by special guest teachers.
Camp Detroit
Monday August 5 - Friday August 9, 2013
Ages 9-18
For the first time Broadway Workshop will bring their five day program to the Mosaic Youth Theatre in Detroit, Michigan. Students will work with Broadway Workshops acclaimed staff on various performing techniques in preparation for the end of week student showcase. In between rehearsals, campers will participate in theatrical workshops taught by special guest teachers.
To or learn more about any of Broadway Workshop's programs or to register visit: www.BroadwayWorkshop.com or call 212.262.2636.

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Students across Oregon come back from Spring Break Monday. Thousands are starting the spring term at Portland State University.
PSU is already Oregon's largest university. And it's expected to get a whole lot bigger over the next decade.
It's hard to believe a school with nearly 30,000 students could be easy to miss. But PSU president, Wim Wiewel, says to some Portlanders it is.
"One of the comments that I get that drives me craziest is when people around town say 'oh, yeah, I know you guys, Portland State – you're on the southern end of downtown, but I never know quite where it is'," Wiewel says.
To be fair, the way PSU's modern buildings are mixed in with commercial and city offices does camouflage the campus a bit. And, PSU students tend to be older and live off-campus.
There are a few ways that Portland State could get more visible. For one, it might just get too big to miss.
PSU has grown by an average of seven hundred students a year for the last decade – helping Oregon to become the fastest-growing university system in the country.
But Wiewel plans for even faster growth at PSU.
"The way we see it, is that PSU has to grow to about 40,000 students, from the current 29,000."
Wiewel says to help Oregon reach its long-term college completion goals, PSU must add roughly one thousand students a year. It would mean doubling PSU's enrollment in the first quarter of the 21st century.
That might be hard to miss. But so will much of the construction PSU is doing to make room for it.
When its doors opened back in September, the 16-floor University Pointe tower increased housing capacity at PSU by almost fifty percent. Students are here from overseas, or like Sabrina Wilkin, from Hillsboro.
"I don't need to drive an hour and a half to see a teacher – I can just walk, like five minutes, which is a huge benefit," Wilkin says.
President Wiewel says by 2025 he wants a quarter of the student body to live on campus, or within a ten-minute walk. He says residential students do better academically, they create a livelier campus experience, and down the line, they're more likely to become donors.
"But that's not the motivation for building housing. That's a good subsidiary effect. The main thing is we know that the more engaged studentsare, the better the experience is, and the more likely they are to graduate."
In case ten thousand students in downtown Portland aren't obvious enough, Portland State is embarking on several high-profile projects.
Wiewel says PSU is not in the real estate development business. But Jordan Schnitzer is.
Schnitzer's philanthropic parents attended Lincoln and Shattuck Halls back when they were public school buildings.
Jordan Schnitzer was on hand to celebrate plans to turn Lincoln Hall's brick wall along Southwest Broadway into a three-story glass façade.
"We were blessed and fortunate to be at the right place at the right time and be able to fund this glass tower. I think oftentimes, people don't know where Portland State. And if there's anything that this glass tower, will be a beacon about 'here we are.' That will work both internally and externally."
The project will literally provide a window into what's happening at PSU's newly dubbed "College of the Arts." But as Schnitzer suggests, the glass wall could also signify how PSU is looking out to chart its future, too.
At the same time PSU is planning to grow, the dean of the business school at PSU, Scott Dawson, says the views of students are changing.
"People are now saying 'you know what? Maybe I don't need a degree, maybe I can just take a couple of courses in microelectronics, and that's good enough for me to get started in my career.' Universities are under a lot of pressure right now. It's not just 'open up the doors and let them come in,' any more."
The business school is at the heart of PSU's evolution.
It now shares a non-descript modern building on 6th Avenue with the School of Education. But there's a $60 million plan to relocate the education school out, add thousands of square feet of classroom space and effectively double the business school's footprint.
Dawson says higher education is also confronting online learning and the concept of the "21st century classroom" is changing.
"In many respects, online learning is a totally disruptive innovation, and no one can tell you what things are going to look like at the end of the day. But you have to try, and get something outthere, and do it with the knowledge that it's probably not going to be right."
PSU is now engaged in a broader discussion about how teaching and learning at the university should change. Dawson coined the phrase "ReThink PSU" for the effort. But president Wiewel, and the provost he hired, Sona Andrews, are the forces behind it.
Andrews launched "ReThink PSU" by reaching out to faculty members.
"So, we've actually set aside three million dollars of one-time money. I think that got people's attention, as well."
Andrews called for proposals to address technology, rising costs, changing student demographics, and therole of higher education.
She got 162 submissions. She says some suggest pretty big changes.
"There's one that has an undergraduate degree that would be online, takes into account credit for prior learning, credentialing learning for prior experience - and have it be a three-year degree."
PSU junior Linda Hoppes reviewed many ideas, and liked seeing the focus on high-tech spaces intended for class discussions.
But she wanted students to be consulted more. And she worried about the cost to students.
"Like everybody would need a computer – but what about the students that can't afford a computer, 24 hours a day? That's not going to be very equitable for them."
Participating faculty members will hear in the next few weeks who among them will get hundreds of thousands of dollars to work on their concepts.
Leaders expect the Portland State of 2025 to be bigger and better able to serve students living on campus and far away.
But Wiewel says PSU's quality and affordability depend on state funding.
"Without an increase in funding, you can not grow to that size. Because if we have to keep raising tuition to cover all the costs, students will not come."
A big player there is Governor John Kitzhaber.
Kitzhaber is behind the state's 2025 college completion goals that are partially driving PSU's expansion plans.
He has said that public education in Oregon is underfunded at all levels.
But Kitzhaber isn't offering unconditional support. He questioned the rising costs, in a recent interview on OPB's Think Out Loud.
"I will just throw this out and be a little provocative. We have not examined why the cost of higher education is going up as fast as it does."
Kitzhaber says universities could raise more private money, a step that lawmakers may facilitate if they approve a bill to let universities create their own oversight boards.
Philanthropy is already part of PSU's growth. The Schnitzer family is funding the big glass wall at Lincoln Hall. And that $60 million dollar project to re-build the business school? $40 million is state money. The rest is private - with $13 million still to raise.


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The moment her new teacher handed my eager 6 year old daughter a poem with a bag of colorful confetti attached to it at Meet the Teacher, and said, "Read this the night before school starts," I knew we were both going to love the first grade.
We read the poem the night before school and then we sprinkled the confetti under her pillow so she would sleep well and wake up ready. Because when you're going into the first grade, from new pencils to the school bus, everything is magical.
I gently shook her awake the next morning and she popped up, bright eyed and said, "the magic worked, Momma! I slept so good and I'm ready for the first grade!"
I smiled at her words, her innocence and her simple belief that the paper confetti scattered under her pillow worked it's magic. She believed it because I believed it with her.
It struck me again how powerful my words are over her, how she simply believes what I say because she trusts me. I believed the words on the poem would help her sleep well and calm her back-to-school anxiety, she believed it too.
Her first impression of God comes from me. She believes what I say and what I do until the world influences her otherwise and then she has a choice to make.
From the earliest age, we use our parental influence over our children by our words. We tell our toddlers the stove is hot. It only takes one touch to understand the truth of our words. We earn trust with our kids because we speak truth.
Words are like magic, when cast over someone they have the extraordinary power of influence. They can speak life or death; they can encourage or destroy.
When I tell my daughters they look beautiful, they believe me. With just a look, I can affirm what they are wearing or make them question their choice. Just as powerful as our positive words are, our negative ones can have the same devastating result and leaving lasting marks.
With that power and influence, we as mothers carry a heavy burden to choose our words well. Often we learn the truth of our words once they've been spoken in anger or reproach. I know I have cast ugly words like arrows I cannot retrieve. I am constantly readjusting my aim, so my words are used more carefully:
5 Things We Must Not Say to Our Daughters:
1. "Why can't you be more like ______?" We must not compare them to other girls. Our daughters need to have the freedom to be the unique person God created them to be.
2. "You should wear this. It will make you look pretty. Or if you lost a little weight…" We must not make their worth about their appearance. True beauty comes from the inside and it deserves equal praise.
3. "I hate my fat hips, lips, fill in the ____." [Mothers] We must not talk ugly about our own bodies. Our girls are taking cues from how we discuss our own body image.
4. "Everyone has a ____, or is doing ______,so you must too." We must not look to cultural norms as a model for our daughters. Just because the world is doing it, doesn't make it right. Our daughters live under enormous pressure to fit into our society. They don't have to.
5. "Sure, you can have a (Facebook account, wear whatever you want, have a boyfriend, etc) ______." Giving them too much freedom too soon puts them in a precarious, often dangerous place. It encourages them to grow up too quickly. It happens soon enough without us pushing them.
I choose to use my words to speak love and grace over my daughters because they have the power to influence who they are and who they will become.


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Court battle over $20,000 dog will stay in Beaumont
Despite his best efforts, Guardian Angel Service Dogs founder Dan Warren will have to answer before a Southeast Texas judge as to why he feels he is entitled to nearly $70,000 for a puppy he himself values at (only) $20,000. The ruling was made by 58th District Court Judge Bob Wortham on Wednesday, Jan. 16, in response to a motion filed by Warren's attorney seeking to have the case squashed in Texas on a technicality outlined in an agreed to "Puppy Purchase" contract.
Wortham, however, did not interpret the contract in a manner consistent with Warren's legal counsel, and has deemed the argument a non-issue. Per the judge's ruling, the "Puppy Purchase" contract, which was inked between Warren and the McLeod family of Groves bringing the suit to court, failed to include any language stating Guardian Angel would be due any money over the agreed to purchase price. Accordingly, the disagreement over who is entitled to the excess funds would not be covered under the contract stipulation that insists all legal matters be conducted in Warren's home state of Virginia via a forum-selection clause.
"A common sense examination reveals that the (McLeods') claims are not within the scope of the agreement," Wortham wrote, "and, as a result, the forum-selection clause contained in the agreement does not apply." Warren has asserted claim to the McLeods' funds since the money was collected from fundraising events conducted by the family to purchase the $20,000 dog from Warren, despite Warren providing no assistance in the fund collection.
"There is nothing in the Puppy Purchase Agreement that could provide any basis for determining which party would be entitled to proceeds from fundraisers, or how to resolve a dispute over those proceeds," Wortham further states in his ruling. Wortham said he is expected to hear the case in his court barring any appeal granted to Warren's favor.
Send me an Angel
While still a hefty sum of money for Labrador retriever puppy, Ryan and Tara McLeod were able to pay the $20,000 price tag initially quoted for the animal thanks to fundraising efforts and donations from a generous community. The animal was supposed to be able to alert the family if and when their son, Racer, was in danger of complications associated with the Type 1 diabetes from which the child suffers.
The disease causes Racer's blood sugar levels to spike and drop to dangerous levels without notice, and puts the child in grave danger of falling into coma or dying in his sleep.
Racer's plight became urgent in late 2011 when the then-2-year-old was stricken with his first diabetic seizure. Racer's parents said that keeping their son's sugar level on a stable level has been an ongoing battle.
"That's when we started looking for some extra help to fight his disease," Ryan McLeod said. "Our main concern was at night. One night we checked him, he was perfectly normal to make it through to the morning, and 45 minutes later he was having a seizure." Fortunately, the toddler was sleeping with his mother that night and she felt Racer having the seizure. Had he not been under his mother's care, he could have died. It was too close a call for the McLeod family.
The McLeods started looking for a remedy to keep their son from falling victim to his ailment. That's when they found Guardian Angel Service Dogs and, in the process, Dan Warren.
Foregone honeymoon
"(Warren's) great working with you throughout the fundraising process leading up to buying the dog," Ryan McLeod told The Examiner, "but once he gets paid, it's impossible to get in touch with him and he passes off everything on to his trainers."
The warm fuzzy feelings McLeod said he had when he first learned there was a way through Guardian Angel Service Dogs to keep his son safe while he slept were lost immediately after receiving the untrained puppy, Gunner, in May 2012.
"We were told we'd be able to sleep through the night and if the dog noticed Racer's blood sugar change, he'd come and alert us," said McLeod, a Beaumont firefighter who is perplexed and frustrated with the whole situation. "My wife and I would've never gone with this company if we'd known we were going to have to train the dog ourselves."
According to McLeod, even though the family has had possession of the dog for 8 months, Gunner still cannot accurately alert and doesn't even attempt to alert at night.
"I work with the dog every day, but I'm not a certified trainer," McLeod said. "The dog is just not interested in alerting at all."
Although Warren has elected not to answer reporter queries, the matter of training the service dogs provided through his company is somewhat outlined on the nonprofit's website. "Warren Retrievers has developed a scent training protocol that is unique and unsurpassed in training circles," it reads. The training allegedly includes three weeks of training when the puppy is 7 weeks old, and periodic in-home training visits after the puppy is placed with its new family. "We are so certain that our DAD scent training works that we offer a money-back guarantee on that portion of the program." The exact opposite is expressed in the "Puppy Purchase" contract Warren has with the McLeods, however, which stipulates under the terms of the agreement that in order to be eligible for "a portion of the training costs" to be refunded, the family would need to document weekly updates to Guardian Angel Service Dogs and the trainer for 24 months. Then, "the amount of the refund shall be at the discretion of Guardian Angel."
Insult to injury
While trying to train a dog with no prior experience in doing such a thing, the McLeods were then hit with a kicker: Warren filed suit against the family, saying he was owed not just the $20,000 but all of the funds raised through the family's efforts, which amounted to "an excess of $60,000." Ryan McLeod said he was floored.
Aside from the fact that no such provision exists as part of the signed "Puppy Purchase" contract, McLeod said Warren's claims are ludicrous. The couple then filed a motion in Jefferson County's 58th District Court asking for relief from Warren's claims. The McLeods are seeking a declaration that they not be required to pay more than the $20,000 already paid for the dog and that Warren is not entitled to any money in Racer's separate account. That case is pending after Judge Wortham's recent ruling to move forward with the litigation.
Melinda Colon, a former Guardian Angel Service Dogs client, says she has evidence Warren is already collecting well over the value of the puppies he sells desperate families, as evidenced by purchase agreements between Warren and puppy providers, which are bought for anywhere between $500 and $2,000 before Warren ups the base price to $6,000 for sale to his nonprofit's clients. The rest of the $20,000 cost of a Guardian Angel dog, according to Warren's information, is for the dog's training.
However, in Warren's 2011 Form 990 submission to the IRS (a document used to file financial details for nonprofits), he states that he was paid in excess of $255,000 for dog purchases, with only $78,000 spent on training.
"He's taking advantage of people who are trying to deal with children diagnosed with a sickness that could kill them," Colon said, herself a mother of a child with special needs that could benefit from a proper service dog. "He preys on parents who are trying to deal with something they know nothing about."
The name game
Colon has taken to doing her own investigation of Warren after she realized he was not the kind of person she wanted to spend $20,000 with. With documents in hand, Colon started a Facebook page, and then a website, showcasing Warren and Guardian Angel Service Dogs as an example of who not to do business with when looking for an alert dog. In response, Warren filed suit against the mother of four in a four-count lawsuit demanding judgment for civil conspiracy, tortious interference with business relationships, defamtion, and tortious interference with contracts in an Orange County, Florida court.
"It's not defamation if it's true," Colon said in her defense.
In the meantime, Warren has changed the name of his company, which now goes by Service Dogs by Warren Retrievers. The newly branded business is still using the nonprofit status of its former self, granted by the government since, according to Warren, "The Corporation is organized exclusively for educational purposes and, to the extent that such educational purposes are coupled with a charitable component, for charitable purposes, within the meaning of Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code or the corresponding section of any future federal tax code." Warren's nonprofit status not only kept the proceeds of the corporation tax exempt, but it also allowed the company to receive a new vehicle courtesy of Toyota's "100 Cars for Good" program.
"The Toyota Highlander being awarded to Guardian Angel Service Dogs Inc. will enable the nonprofit to safely transport the medical service dog, trainer and all their equipment and supplies to their new home, thus greatly reducing overall travel costs," a statement announcing the winner touted. Whether the saved costs will be forwarded to the nonprofit's clients remains to be seen.
Warren, acting in official capacity as the "Board Chair" of the nonprofit he is also president of, said of his mission to help families, "It's our job to figure out how to make our program work for these individuals and families who are desperate for help for themselves or a loved one. We do not discriminate against age, geography, diagnosis or financial status. To look into someone's eyes and see hope where fear once lived is a tremendous motivator and extremely gratifying.
"One of our biggest challenges is securing adequate levels of funding that will ensure that we can continue providing hope to families in need. And the need is huge. We offer the opportunity for our families to do fundraising events in their local community to help offset the cost of obtaining a service dog. But with the right partnerships, we could do so much more."
But wait, there's more
And from the money raised to assist Racer in his fight to stay alive while growing up with a potentially deadly disease, Warren is looking for his cut – which, according to his litigation against the McLeods, is the whole enchilada.
But not if the McLeods and their attorneys prevail. Matthew Morgan of the Reaud, Morgan & Quinn law firm is assisting attorney John Werner in the matter for the McLeods pro bono and said the McLeods fulfilled their monetary obligation with Warren and his company by paying the agreed sum of $20,000 for the dog, and that any additional money raised is being used for Racer's ongoing medical care.
"They don't owe them money," said Morgan. "The McLeods paid the $20,000 for the dog. (Guardian Angel) owes them some training, but we've offered to cut that off and go our separate ways, but they won't."


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The Joann Fabrics in my area is moving to a larger location across the street and is having a liquidation sale at the old location.
I went last week and many things were 33% off and the rest were 50% off. I went back today because it was so crazy there last week, and many things were 75% off.
I was able to stock up on basics, like needles, pins, purse hardware, marking pens, batting, etc., and scored big when I bought most of a bolt of Pellon fusible fleece. It was half off, but when you bought the bolt they upped it to 75% off. I paid less than $20 for what was $90 full price. I have enough to last me quite a while! All thread was also 75% off, so I purchased some Mettler silk that I have always wanted to try. On top of that some items were eligible for my 20% off everything coupon, although not too many. I ended up spending $90 for $240 worth of stuff. Yee ha!
For those in northwest Ohio/northeast Indiana/southeast Michigan, it's the Defiance OH Joann. There's still some quilting fabric, regular fabric, batting, notions, ribbon and a fair number of quilting books. They are also selling some of the fixtures and shelving, although most of that didn't look like it would work too well in a home studio.
The new store opens October 7, and the old store will stay open until October 6 unless they have sold everything before that.


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Frasch process
Frasch process fräsh [key] [for Herman Frasch, the German-American chemist who devised it], process for the extraction of sulfur from subsurface deposits. Three pipes, one inside another, are sunk to the bottom of the sulfur bed. Water heated under pressure to a temperature well above the melting point of the sulfur is conducted down the outer pipe, and air under pressure down through the innermost pipe. The heated water melts the sulfur and the compressed air forces it through the middle pipe to the surface.
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This reading list is designed to direct you to materials chronicling the experiences of African Americans past and present. If you need help locating any of the titles listed, please see one of the Adult Services librarians for assistance.
This reading list is designed to direct you to materials chronicling the experiences of African Americans past and present. If you need help locating any of the titles listed, please see one of the Adult Services librarians for assistance.
Non Fiction
|Ellis Cose
|The Envy of the World: On Being a Black Man in America, 305.38896 COS
|Lawrence Graham
|Our Kind of People: America's Black Upper Class, 305.869 GRA
|David Chappell
|A Stone of Hope: Prophetic Religion and the Death of Jim Crow, 323.1196 CHA
|Steven Kasher
|The Civil Rights Movement: A Photographic History, 1954-1968, 323.1196 KAS
|Robert J. Cottrol
|Brown vs. The Board of Education; Caste, Culture and the Constitution, 344.0798 BRO
|Gail Lumet Buckley
|American Patriots: The Story of Blacks in the Military from the Revolution to Desert Storm, 355.0089 BUC
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Wednesday, January 23, 2013
words worth reading: sabrina, 1954
"Paris isn't for changing planes, it's for changing your outlook. For throwing open the windows and letting in la vie en rose."
"I have learnt how to live... How to be In the world and Of the world, and not just to stand aside and watch. And I will never, never again run away from life. Or from love, either..."
"Oh never resist an impulse, Sabrina. Especially if it's terrible."
I was flipping through Netflix over the weekend determined to watch something new and not rely on one of my favorites. I stumbled upon Sabrina, the original 1954 Audrey Hepburn and Humphrey Bogart version and decided to give it a whirl. I've never been a huge fan of black and white, old films–to be honest Breakfast at Tiffany's, Casablanca, and Citizen Kane all were a bit over my head...–but i thoroughly enjoyed Sabrina. Probably because of the love triangle. Who doesn't love a good love triangle? And all the references to Paris! And the fact that Paris transformed Sabrina from an innocent, naive, ignorant girl into a stylish, headstrong woman, as it tends to do... I definitely recommend giving this one a try if you've never seen it. The opening scene where she tries to kill herself because a certain man doesn't notice her was dramatic to say the least, but I promise it gets better after that. Bogart has quite a few funny lines. I chuckled.
Have you seen Sabrina? Do you like old films? What are your favorites?
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- AnonymousJanuary 23, 2013 at 9:19 AM
I love absolutely love Sabrina! Great choiceReplyDelete
I love that film! I want to watch it again now!ReplyDelete
I've been craving an old film night! Thanks for the suggestion!ReplyDelete
- Time Stand Still
That's a great one! My top two favorite Audrey movies though are Roman Holiday, and How to Steal a Million (it was just on tv last night and I believe it's on Netflix :) - definitely watch that one if you can, and bonus it's in color!)ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJanuary 23, 2013 at 10:23 AM
Thanks for the suggestion. I've been wanting to see an old "classic' and you had me with "Paris'. Thanks!ReplyDelete
- EleanorJanuary 23, 2013 at 10:36 AM
I do actually really like old movies, my favorite is My Fair Lady, when Eliza starts singing I Could Have Danced All Night, I can't stop smiling! It always reminds me of falling in love for the first time.ReplyDelete
Sabrina is one of my favourite AH movies!! I love black and white films... they're so innocent and classic... :) le sigh...ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJanuary 23, 2013 at 11:56 AM
Charade! It's funny and quirky and Audrey Hepburn has the best clothes in the movie!ReplyDelete
I've love Breakfast at Tiffany's and Casablanca, but I've never seen Sabrina. Thanks for the suggestion! Sounds like a good movie.ReplyDelete
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If you liked Sabrina, you should check out Roman Holiday too. That was her first starring role, she was sooo young and innocent and the movie is just full of whimsy. Not to mention seeing Rome in the 50's is pretty magical.ReplyDelete
I love old films! I think the first old film I ever saw was Roman Holiday - with Audrey Hepburn and Gregory Peck. You should see it! A nice movie for curling up on the couch in this freezing weather...ReplyDelete
Any movie with Audrey Hepburn...WOW...another of my absolute favs is AN AFFAIR TO REMEMBER...what a movie, even my 12 year old got goosebumps watching it....ooohhh Doris Day, wonderful also!!! Sabrina, my daughter prefers the 'new' version with Julia Ormond and Harrison Ford, I LOVE the original Sabrina... :)ReplyDelete
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great quote. Love Paris and it's so true.ReplyDelete
I love old films! My favorites are Breakfast at Tiffany's, Some Like It Hot, and Rebel Without a Cause.ReplyDelete
Great choice! Give the Sabrina remake a try too! Harrison Ford is really the only actor who could possibly match Bogart's dreaminess.ReplyDelete
I also adore Grace Kelly, Bing Crosby and Frank Sinatra in High Society, and for an extra dose of Audrey + Paris + great clothes, How to Steal a Million
I've never seen Sabrina - but now I have to! The last good old film I watched was Roman Holiday- loved it!ReplyDelete
I know everyone digs the Audrey version..... But I have a confession. My all time favorite movie is the 90s version of Sabrina with Julia Ormond, Greg Kinnear, and Harrison Ford! If you ever find yourself wanting to watch an old favorite but also craving something new... try that version out! (There's no ridiculous suicide scene either)ReplyDelete
PS: Sabrina goes to Paris to study fashion instead of the culinary arts in this version too.... so, you know, the clothes are just amazing!
Huge fan of classic films and Audrey Hepburn! My favorite is Funny Face!ReplyDelete
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what a beautiful and classic photo! I'd love to wear a dress like that and out my hair up! Stunning and so polished.ReplyDelete


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WASHINGTON, Jan. 3, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Campaign for High School Equity (CHSE), a coalition of leading civil rights and education advocacy organizations focused on high school education reform, announced today that Rufina Hernandez, Esq., has been selected as its new executive director. Hernandez, the former associate director of the National Education Association's (NEA) National External Partnerships and Advocacy department, will guide the coalition's work to advance federal and state policies that give all students access to an equitable, high-quality public education.
"I am delighted to join this coalition in the tremendous task of raising every U.S. high school to the level of excellence upon which our nation's economic future depends," said Hernandez. "CHSE remains on the front lines of education policy reform. It will take nothing less than collaboration with policymakers, educators, communities, and parents to meet the specific needs of students of color, Native students, and those from low-income communities."
Hernandez's career showcases a track record of civil rights and education reform advocacy. During her ten-year tenure at NEA, she was director of the Human and Civil Rights department and developed strategies to support culturally competent teaching to improve the academic performance of students from diverse backgrounds. Considered a leading voice on solutions to the challenges facing Latino, Asian, African American, and Native students, she has been a frequent speaker at NEA and other forums focusing on the unique needs of those populations in public schools. Hernandez also served as executive director of the Latin American Research and Service Agency, a Colorado-based civil rights organization, where she advocated for policy reform within overarching civil rights issues impacting the Latino community, including health, education, employment, and immigration.
"Hernandez's unwavering commitment to public education reform is an energizing force," said Hal Smith, Vice President, Education & Youth Development with the National Urban League and CHSE governing board member. "Her vast experience in the education and civil rights policy sectors will contribute greatly to the coalition's work in improving our education system and closing the achievement and opportunity gaps that continue to plague students of color and students from low-income neighborhoods."
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Chicago - The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is advising some employees to stop taking antibiotics to ward off a possible anthrax infection after preliminary tests suggest it is "highly unlikely" they were inadvertently exposed to live anthrax bacteria earlier this month, a spokesman said on Monday.
The CDC conducted the tests after an incident in the agency's high-security bioterror response laboratory suggested live anthrax may have been transferred from that lab to employees in a lower-security facility who were not wearing proper protective gear, raising concerns that they may have been exposed to the deadly pathogen.
CDC spokesman Tom Skinner said preliminary results of environmental testing in the lower-security labs and some lab tests by the CDC suggest no viable bacteria left the lab.
Based on those results, most of the employees involved have been determined "to have no increased risk of exposure."
In addition to the testing, the CDC gave the employees a questionnaire asking how close they had come to the areas where the anthrax was worked on. Two groups of staff were selected: One including staff potentially exposed to aerosols in affected laboratory space and a second group not potentially exposed but having worked in or near affected laboratory space.
"Employees in these groups are having one-on-one appointments with medical staff in CDC's occupational health clinic who are reviewing all information with them and discussing the pros and cons of continuing post-exposure prophylaxis as part of shared decision making," Skinner said.
Some 29 individuals in the first group are being advised to continue taking antibiotics; 33 individuals in the latter group are being advised to stop taking them.
The CDC said a third group of employees who were initially thought to have been exposed were determined not to require treatment.
Dr. Harold Jaffe, the CDC's associate director for science, is leading an internal investigation into the circumstances surrounding this incident. He will submit a report to CDC Director Dr. Tom Frieden in early July.
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The emergence of junior safety Chip Thompson on East Carolina�s defense came as no surprise to Ruffin McNeill.
It�s exactly what the third-year Pirates coach expected.
GREENVILLE � The emergence of junior safety Chip Thompson on East Carolina�s defense came as no surprise to Ruffin McNeill.
It�s exactly what the third-year Pirates coach expected.
Thompson, who transferred with junior cornerback Adonis Armstrong from Hinds Community College, is part of a tandem of newcomers making an immediate impact on an injury-depleted unit that needed the help.
Thompson made a national name for himself this week when he was named the Bronko Nagurski defensive player of the week by the Football Writers Association of America for his efforts in Saturday�s 28-18 Conference USA win over Texas-El Paso.
A 6-foot, 210-pound native of Jackson, Miss., Thompson logged a career-high eight tackles and intercepted two fourth-quarter passes from Nick Lamaison � the second of which set up a key touchdown � to help shut down the Miners� comeback attempt.
Armstrong, a 5-foot-10, 181-pound go-getter from Clinton, Miss., sealed the deal when he picked off a Lamaison pass with 3:09 remaining in the game.
With cornerback Jacobi Jenkins, defensive end Justin Dixon and inside linebacker Daniel Drake all on the shelf in recent weeks, offering Thompson a scholarship during the summer before his sophomore year at Hinds has proven in hindsight to be a wise move.
�When signing Chip, we knew he would come in and be able to contribute early,� McNeill said. �The things you see him do on film � Chip and Adonis � we saw them do that at Hinds. They picked off passes, made plays, made hits, had a knack for doing it.�
Armstrong, who has started all five games for the Pirates (3-2, 2-0 C-USA) and is expected to start a sixth at Central Florida on Thursday, is fourth on the team with 26 tackles.
Thompson leads the team with two interceptions and is seventh with 18 tackles. He scored ECU�s first points of the season when he returned a fumble 45 yards against Appalachian State on Sept. 1.
But Saturday was the first time he played an entire game, an experience that he said was helpful.
�It felt better,� Thompson said. �I got a feel for the game and I could see the concepts and I could read my keys a lot faster.�
McNeill, himself a former ECU defensive back, expects the pair to continue displaying their �knack.�
�One game, it may be luck,� McNeill said. �But two to three games in a row, it becomes a skill.�
The question
Thompson�s fumble return against Appalachian was the longest by an ECU player since Kwabena Green�s 45-yarder against Tulane in 1999. Who holds the school record for the longest fumble return?
A real downer
Cody Lyon is listed on ECU�s roster as a safety, but there is a more descriptive term for what he really does.
On the team, he�s known as a �ball guy.�
Lyon, a senior special teams specialist who transferred from Campbell and walked on, lines up on the left end on the punt unit and bolts down the field to find the ball.
So far, he�s downed at least three Trent Tignor punts inside the 10-yard line, a fact that Tignor, especially, appreciates.
�I�m so glad I�ve got a guy like Cody Lyon on our punt team,� the junior punter said.
�Everyone on the line has a role, and it just happens to be his role has paid off in the downing of the punts.�
Lyon, a scrappy 5-foot-10, 184-pound Raleigh native with shoulder-length dark hair, said he practices downing punts every day. On Thursdays, he practices the jump-and-catch maneuver of keeping a bouncing, oblong ball out of the end zone.
Lyon believes he�s developed a nose for the ball.
�I guess you could say that,� he said. �I think all special teams comes down to effort, and if you�re willing to give and know your role on the team, you become successful.�
McNeill said Lyon plays with what special teams coach Kirk Doll calls �strain,� meaning that he displays a constant sense of urgency. The contributions of an otherwise anonymous player are not lost on the head coach.
�The kids respect him, and he earns it by how he practices,� McNeill said. �Every single day, he goes full speed and he strains.�
On this date
The PIrates picked up a 21-17 win at Marshall on their way to a second straight C-USA title on Oct. 3, 2009.
Strange days indeed
While he believes first-year starting quarterback Shane Carden is improving each week, offensive coordinator Lincoln Riley admits that it�s a little difficult to gauge.
Carden, a sophomore who won the job from junior Rio Johnson after the season�s second game, has started an important C-USA game at defending league champion Southern Miss, a non-conference rivalry game at North Carolina and Saturday�s home contest against UTEP, which was played in a nearly relentless downpour.
�He really just hasn�t had a normal game yet,� Riley said. �We�ve had two crazy ones on the road, and then that one (Saturday) night was just strange.�
Riley had Carden, whose style of play has been compared to that of his favorite player, Brett Favre, roll out more often against the Miners to move the pocket around.
Carden completed 28 of 40 passes for 258 yards and a touchdown and rushed for another score, but his three interceptions helped give UTEP a fighting chance.
Even if the games have been unusual, Carden feels like he�s evolving.
�Experience helps with anyone, any position,� he said.
�It�s kind of coming better and better in me. I�m feeling pretty good right now.�
Riley wants him to feel even better.
�If he can just keep taking the steps that he�s taking, then we�re going to improve rapidly,� Riley said. �And so will he.�
The answer
Ernie Lewis returned a fumble 97 yards during a 41-28 loss at West Virginia on Nov. 7, 1992.
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This book is the accumulation of 35 years of work of the authors who have helped shape the training and development field. Teachers, trainers, consultants, and continual learners themselves, the authors share their repertoire of concepts, strategies, and techniques. The authors identify the six phases of almost any consultant-client working relationship: engaging in initial contact and entry; formulating a contract and establishing a helping relationship; identifying problems through diagnostic analysis; setting goals and planning for action; taking action and cycling feedback; and completing the contract. This book emphasizes the role of the consultant (internal or external) in an organizational setting. The reader will learn to recognize the most appropriate, effective, and credible route to solving almost any consulting conundrum. The use every chart, checklist, and reference in this work will improve your job performance. Learn to: recognize the phases in consulting; cope with ethical dilemmas; assess and evaluate your projects; consult in internal settings; facilitate change; and more.
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Writing to Combat Memory Loss
Despite his literary transformation, the Lebanese writer Rashid al-Daif can still see the horrors of his country's civil war clearly in his mind's eye. Katja Brinkmann reports on the life and work of this author
The date is 22 January 1979. The place is West-Beirut, Lebanon. Civil war has been raging here for four years and Palestinian militia now control the western part of the city. On this day, Rashid al-Daif drives to the Lebanese University and gives a lecture. Afterwards, he drives home after being held up briefly by a student. He is almost home when a massive explosion rocks the entire city.
Al-Daif abandons his car, runs through the scene of devastation in front of the building in which he lives, and climbs the stairs to his flat. There is glass everywhere. The front door of the flat is hanging off its hinges; he kicks it down. Even inside, the floor is covered in shards. Ambulances and the militia pull up outside the building. A remote-controlled bomb hidden in a yellow Golf was detonated as Ali Hassan Salameh drove past in a convoy.
Salameh was one of the Palestinians responsible for taking Israeli athletes hostage at the Olympic Games in Munich in 1972. He managed to survive the carnage at the end of it. A short time later, he was released from prison in conjunction with the hijacking of a Lufthansa airplane. The Israeli secret service was probably behind the explosion in Beirut which killed ten people and injured countless others.
Everyone fighting everyone else
"I remember noticing the car that morning. I drove around it and looked inside. They could have detonated the bomb at any time. The events of 22 January 1979 were the straw that broke the camel's back. Back then we were communists."
But the war wasn't about the poor fighting the rich; it was a case of the rich and the poor fighting the poor and the rich. "Palestinians were fighting each other while Syrians were fighting with Palestinians against Christians, and then with Christians against Palestinians. Then you had the Christians fighting amongst themselves and against the Druses; everyone together and everyone against each other. Who was supposed to make head or tail of that?" It may be almost cynical, but it's true: "At the end of the day, we laughed about those who tried to analyse the situation."
What happened simply defied analysis. "The only thing I could do was to try and describe reality. Literature is a great way of talking about what is happening," says al-Daif. Writing became increasingly important. "Writing was a way of escaping the dreadfulness of the war. You never know why something happens. Things just happen. And I write about that. I write about people who exist."
Writing in the shadow of death
Between 1983 and 1992, three volumes of poetry, a children's book and five novels were published. Large parts of Beirut were destroyed by Israeli bomb attacks. Al-Daif himself sustained serious injuries in a grenade attack. In the novel Passage to Dusk, the first-person narrator describes an experience of death:
"Six men. I can't remember anything. I died instantly. They killed me because they were afraid of me. Definitely. They were afraid of me, so they killed me. 'He's dead!' That's what they said. Then they packed me in a plastic sack and brought me to the next militia post... But my parents didn't want to believe that the corpse was me." Al-Daif's descriptions are brutal, detailed and highly subjective. This novel is considered one of the most sublime literary commentaries on the Lebanese civil war.
A sort of literary process of coming to terms with the past
In 1991, after the end of the war, al-Daif returns to his old flat. From that point on, his impression of events no longer influences what he writes. The street where he lives is given a new name and a general amnesty is declared. In 1995, al-Daif reacts to the state-decreed memory loss with a fictive letter/novel to the Japanese Nobel Prize winner Yasunari Kawabata. "I chose Kawabata because he was dead. He committed suicide in 1972. He was attracted by nothingness. And because he was neither from the West nor the Middle East."
It was with the novel Dear Mr Kawabata, the only one of his novels for which an excellent German translation exists, that al-Daif made his international breakthrough in 1995. The letter-writing Rashid recounts highly personal events in his life to the Japanese recipient of his letter: the arrival of the modern age in his small Maronite/Christian village in northern Lebanon (in the form of Galileo's vision of the world in a geography lesson or radio transmissions about Gagarin's orbit of the earth), the consequences of the inhabitants' tribal feuds, and his time as a student in Beirut during the war – three people living in a four-bed room – until the time he was injured.
Since then, al-Daif has written four other novels that illustrate the tension between the traditional and the modern in contemporary Lebanese society. In Learning English, the reader is drawn into the inner monologue of a Beirut professor of literature, who is convinced of the need to pursue a vendetta for his father, only to be told by his mother, who is illiterate, about the recent existence of courts.
In search of openness and understanding
His novel To Hell with Meryl Streep is about an arranged marriage between a women who is influenced by the Rashid al-Daif was born in Ehden, close to Beirut, in 1945 and is now a lecturer in Arabic Literature at the Lebanese University in Beirut.western vision of woman and a man who is the epitome of the oriental husband. Al-Daif has this to say about his humorous tale: "I now want to write simple novels. They should have depth and be amusing. I never write much, never more than about 150 pages. I spend a lot of time fine-tuning the texts with a view to making it possible for a reader in Vietnam to understand what I'm trying to say."
Al-Daif feels that once everything had been destroyed, the time had come to start with himself. "There was an inflation of martyrs in Lebanon during the war. I don't want to speak ill of them. But it is necessary to ask the dead questions about what happened. It is an impossible request, but the only solution. I call on people to be afraid. To be afraid means to respect humanity, to respect the individual and to respect life."
Katja Brinkmann
© Qantara.de 2004
Translated from the German by Aingeal Flanagan


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Some on left target McCain's war record
The highest-voltage third rail of this presidential campaign may not be race, sex or age, but John McCain's military service.
On Sunday, McCain's campaign issued a pair of outraged statements after retired general and Barack Obama supporter Wesley Clark said he didn't think that McCain's service as a fighter pilot and prisoner of war was relevant to running the country. Obama has consistently praised McCain's service, and called him "a genuine American hero."
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But farther to the left — and among some of McCain's conservative enemies as well — harsher attacks are circulating. Critics have accused McCain of war crimes for bombing targets in Hanoi in the 1960s. A widely read liberal blog on Sunday accused McCain of "disloyalty" during his captivity in Vietnam for his coerced participation in propaganda films and interviews after he had been tortured.
"A lot of people don't know ... that McCain made a propaganda video for the enemy while he was in captivity," wrote Americablog.com's John Aravosis. "Putting that bit of disloyalty aside, what exactly is McCain's military experience that prepares him for being commander in chief?"
"Getting shot down, tortured and then doing propaganda for the enemy is not command experience," Aravosis wrote in the blog post, titled "Honestly, besides being tortured, what did McCain do to excel in the military?"
McCain's camp responded sharply to the Americablog posting Sunday night.
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"The American people know that John McCain's record of service and sacrifice is not a matter of debate. He has written about and discussed his service as a POW extensively — often in excruciating and painful detail," said McCain spokesman Brian Rogers. "The American people will judge harshly anyone who demeans or attacks that service."
McCain has written repeatedly of his service, including in a long 1973 magazine article and in his memoir, "Faith of My Fathers." A Navy aviator from a military family, he was shot down on his 23rd sortie over Vietnam on Oct. 26, 1967. His mission was to bomb a power plant in the North Vietnamese capital. Already suffering from broken limbs, he was beaten by a crowd before being taken to a POW camp. After being tortured there, he participated in some Vietnamese propaganda efforts.
"I had learned what we all learned over there: Every man has his breaking point. I had reached mine," he later wrote.
But he later defied his captors by refusing to meet with anti-war delegations from abroad, he wrote, and he also refused the most valuable special treatment he was offered: early release.
"I did not want to go out of order," he later wrote. He was finally released on March 14, 1973.
Obama and the Democratic establishment haven't challenged McCain's record. Indeed, even Clark's words came in response to a direct question from CBS's Bob Schieffer on the specific relevance of McCain's service to the presidency.
In April, Democratic West Virginia Sen. John D. Rockefeller IV cut a bit closer, suggesting that McCain's days as a fighter pilot were themselves a critique of his character.
"What happened when they [the missiles] get to the ground?" he asked. "He doesn't know. You have to care about the lives of people. McCain never gets into those issues."
Rockefeller promptly abjectly apologized, praising McCain's "honorable and noble service to our country" and deploring his own "inaccurate and wrong analogy." His apology reflected a conventional political wisdom that McCain's heroism is too well-established, and a climate of respect for soldiers too strong, for attacks on his service to do anything but backfire.
But Aravosis, who reiterated his criticism in an interview with Politico on Sunday night, isn't the only one to test this line of attack.
The newsletter CounterPunch published in April an article by Doug Valentine headed "Meet the Real John McCain: North Vietnam's Go-To Collaborator."
Valentine suggested McCain contemplated suicide — something the candidate has written about, and attributed in part to his guilt at not withstanding torture — because he was a "war criminal" whose bombs fell on civilians.
McCain, who sought — along with Sen. John F. Kerry — to debunk claims that Vietnam still held American prisoners into the 1990s, has been attacked in similar terms by leaders of the POW/MIA movement, whom he and Kerry cast as charlatans.
That movement has produced the most outlandish attacks on McCain, including widely dismissed and unsubstantiated claims that McCain was not tortured as well as a smear casting him as a "Manchurian candidate."


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What Goes Around
Cynthia thinks the girls need to remember the golden rule.
Congratulations to Kim and Kroy. Kim's baby shower was beautiful, and she looked gorgeous. She was glowing and I've never seen her look happier. I wish you everlasting love, peace, and joy. I was especially touched by Brielle's speech. It was very sweet, and the part about her dad made me want to cry. It made me realize how much I appreciate the closeness between Noelle and her dad and also her relationship with Peter. As mothers, we love our children so much and try to give them the world. It is very challenging when the father is not in the picture. A strong father figure is important, because as hard as we try to be a mom and a dad, our children need the balance of both. I think Kroy's relationship with Kim's girls is wonderful. A man who loves your kids as much as he loves you is beautiful a win-win!
Tardy for the Party:
I was out of town doing a modeling shoot in Charleston. My flight got in late. Therefore I got to the shower late. I was exhausted when I landed, but I made every effort to make it anyway. After all, she did come to my wedding, brought her own bottle of wine, and said that Peter and I would not be married in a year. It was the least I could do.
Kim said I did not bring a present. I brought her the exact same present that she brought me to my wedding. Nothing. It took me hours to pick it out, and it was perfect.
Chateau Sheree:
Why is it always the people that have nothing going on that have the most to say? The only thing that Sheree knows about me is that I'm always up NeNe's a--. And all I know about Sheree is that she lost her man, lost her house, and lost her car. Did I leave anything out?
When Kandi asked you at the shower if you had talked to me, you made it very clear that you don't talk to me. So can you stop talking ABOUT me as well?
Puppy on a leash? Yes, and when I'm off my leash, I squeeze in time to be a mother, be a wife, take model bookings, and run my company, The Bailey Agency.
Peter thought he was going to punk Apollo? Epic fail! You must be thinking about She By Sheree. That was an epic fail.
It's not cute to borrow money from your wife? Well, I am his wife. For better or for worse, for richer or poorer?
Peter and NeNe are all bark and no bite. That's original. Did you think of that all by yourself?I was being mean to Phaedra? Um no. That would be the other way around.
Calling Phaedra:
I called Phaedra to catch up? No again. I called you about business once, and you did not call me back. Remember? However, you have reached out to me several times since then and I always pick up. Where's the beef? I would come see you if I had beef with you. We can sit down like southern belles over tea. Ever heard of a "beef and see"? It's in the same book as the "sip and see".
Village of children, a clean man, not using birth control and sleeping with everybody he ever met? Um. Throwing stones at a glass house is never wise. Strippers anyone?
Everybody Knows:
Proud Apollo did not beat Peter to a pulp? In what country?
Who is the bigger man? You pick your man and I pick mine. I guess it's a tie.
Yes, you chose to marry Apollo, and I chose to marry Peter. Do we get a medal or something?
There is a time and a place for everything. This was not the time or the place. I was surprised that Phaedra brought up the Uptown article at the shower. We all have each other's numbers and could have easily squashed this situation. There were so many mean things said at my wedding by some of the girls that I couldn't imagine that anything Peter said would even be an issue. How does this work? They talk crazy about us whenever they feel like it, and then freak out if we say anything about them. I don't think so. The rules are simple. Be nice to me and I'll be nice to you. Come for me, then I'm coming for you. Sheree gave me great advice over the summer, which was not to take anything negative said about me personally. I thank her for that advice, and since then I haven't. It's not personal, deal with it and move on.
Big hugs and kisses,


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Perennially I stumble into the question of when is the performance tuning effort finished? How do you know if enough has been done or there is still further to go?
Personally, I think this should be dictated specifically around Service Level Agreements (SLAs). If the throughput / response time is within the SLAs then we are done tuning. Any more tuning should only be done if the application (in a new release) starts slipping SLAs or the SLAs themselves have changed.
But not every one has defined or agreed upon SLAs which muddles the water. Say, for example, we're building a new application. We have a number of components that we're performance testing but we don't know if the results we are seeing are the best results that can be achieved. Well, that makes sense. If we have no experience working with a particular end point (i.e. database, messaging engine, etc) then obviously our lack of knowledge with that package or our application code will hamper the analysis.
This is where application monitoring comes in. Properly installed and configured the application monitoring tool should be able to provide enough information as to whether we have the best throughput and response time. Look at the metrics, compare CPU and memory utilization. Make sure all the resources under load are as close to maxed out as possible without introducing contention. Look at the throughput / response time graphs as load is ramped up and then how it does after reaching steady state. Once all these have come together you are probably ready to go the next step and over saturate the environment. Once you've proven that over saturation has occurred (because of the noted degradation) then you can probably tune no better. And it will probably take a lot of tuning work to get to the point where you are able to saturate all the resources. This will be through a variety of methods like increased thread pools, vertical/horizontal scaling out, increased memory settings, garbage collection policy analysis, changing application code, etc.
However, is it worth it? Does an organization really want to pay for the most optimal tuning when it may not be necessary? These efforts can be long and drawn out (i.e. months instead of weeks). It also can tie up a lot of highly technically skilled people on an effort that provides for some unknown possible improvement. Lets look at the only scenario I can think of (can you think of another?).
High volume applications tend to also be resource hogs requiring gobs (i.e. hundreds or thousands) of JVMs and the supporting infrastructure. This can get expensive real quick especially when factoring in all the administration, configuration, maintenance costs are factored in. In this one scenario I can see justification, even beyond defined SLAs, to have as best performance as possible in order to reduce the capacity needed to support the application.


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WINTER PARK, Fla.--The Barry University men's soccer team found themselves in a familiar position Friday night. In recent years the Bucs have been able to beat Rollins in the regular season but have lost to the Tars in postseason play the last two years.
This season has been a role reversal as it was the Tars whom defeated the Buccaneers twice in the regular season while the Bucs return the favor by outing them of the NCAA Tournament. Barry defeated Rollins by a final of 3-1, advancing to the Second Round of the NCAA Tournament.
The Buccaneers (12-3-5) came out of the gate aggressively and were hit with a few cautions in the early going of the match. Mark Anderson was issued a yellow card 45 seconds into the period, but this would not phase the Bucs.
On a chilly, autumn night the men set the tone of the game from the start and jumped out to an early 1-0 lead. Senior forward Kendal Seally was able to get behind the Tars' keeper, Keneil Baker, caught out of position and punch it in for the game's first score.
The Tars (15-4-0) would counter with a couple scoring opportunities, but goalkeeper Johnny Rodrigues was up to the task as he made two diving saves early on. After that, the Buccaneer defense tightened up for the remainder of the half and would limit the Tars offensively.
The Bucs kept applying the pressure offensively and in the 29th minute junior Joe Conkleton found Randy Taylor who connected for the second goal of the game lifting Barry to a 2-0 lead at the intermission.
The second half would prove to be as hard fought as the first, and just after the 79th minute mark the Tars cut the deficit to one goal after converting a penalty kick. However this group of Buccaneers were up to the challenge and tightened up the backline, and were able to put the game away in the final seconds when Anderson, the nation's leading goal scorer, chipped a goal over the head of reserve keeper Anthony White for the final score.
The Bucs now will face rival Lynn in the Second Round of the NCAA Tournament on Sunday afternoon at 3 p.m. The Fighting Knights won the regular season meeting 2-0 and drew the second time they faced off in the SSC Tournament Semifinal (Bucs advanced on PK's).
Follow along with live action through the Barry University athletic site, GOBARRYBUCS.COM.
Soccer Game Summary (Final)
2011 Barry University Soccer
#25 Barry vs #11 Rollins (11/11/11 at Winter Park, Fla.)
Barry (12-3-5) vs. Rollins (15-4)
Date: 11/11/11 Attendance: 610
Weather: definitely fall is in the air
Goals by period 1 2 Tot
Barry......................... 2 1 - 3
Rollins..................... 0 1 - 1
1. 13:41 BUM Kendall Sealy (Guilherme Oliveira) - misplayed ball by Rollins defense
2. 29:49 BUM Randy Taylor (Joe Conkleton) - serve from left side
3. 79:24 RCM Matt Bauchle (5) Penalty kick
4. 89:41 BUM Mark Anderson (unassisted) - breakaway, chip over keeper
Shots: Barry 15, Rollins 13
Saves: Barry 3 (Johnny Rodrigues 3), Rollins 4 (Anthony White 2; Keneil Baker 1; TEAM 1)


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Remember when Sony announced that they were going to make most of the PSP library Vita compatible? Well, they're taking their sweet time, and a lot of high profile games still aren't on the Vita storefront.
As of today though, you can finally pick up Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker for use on your Vita. If you already bought the game on your PSP, just load up your Vita and download it from the PSN.
It's a bummer that Peace Walker HD never came out on the Vita, but this is the next best thing, and for many people, the only way to experience the game (which I highly recommend by the way). For those who are interested, note that Transfarring will not work for this version.
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Chris Brown + Girlfriend Get Zodiac Tattoos Together
Another day, another tattoo for Chris Brown. The R&B singer and his girlfriend, Karrueche Tran, went to the tattoo parlor and got inked at the same dame time. The couple wanted to celebrate their Chinese zodiac signs and got their tats in rather unique places.
Breezy chose to get a snake tattoo on his back, which represents his birth year of 1989 ("Year of the Snake"). It's a gnarly-looking serpent with huge fangs and a triangle with an eye for a rattle. He posted a photo on his Twitter with the caption, "The impossible triangle: year of the snake!!!!!!"
Meanwhile, Tran got a colorful dragon to represent her birth year of 1988. The female dragon covers her entire her hand(!) with its tongue going down to her middle finger. Tran's tat will certainly be an eye-catcher if she ever flips the bird at someone.
Afterward, Tran went on her Twitter account to show off her unique artwork to her followers. "Maybe I'm crazy," she tweeted. Um, that might be the understatement of the year.
Brown and Tran both got inked by Peter Koskela (aka PeterTattooist), who also did Brown's huge wolf tattoo on his neck and "The Bandit" tat.
"@petertattoist is the best, hands down!" commented Tran. We have to agree.
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What Time World Needs..
Posted: Tue Nov 13, 2012 12:40 pm
I believe that there should be more slots for alliance/hostilities. Nobody should have to temporarily stop an alliance just to wage war on another galaxy. Maybe have 3 slots for alliance and 3 different ones for hostilities? This should be an easy fix and help all galaxies on the Facebook TimeWorld. Some other suggestions would be to implement a chance for a critical heal, when using the skill card. a Critical heal may sound silly, but would be fun and break the monotony of the many WoH game types. Of course, the alliance slots are of the most importance! Please offer your feedback and suggestions!


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First Look at Faraway Worlds main content.
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At long last, two teams of scientists have directly glimpsed the feeble light of planets orbiting distant stars through the lenses of telescopes. Before now, all of the 325 planets discovered outside our solar system had been located by indirect means, such as measuring their gravitational effects on their host star.
The two teams used enhanced optical techniques to bring the planets into view. One group, led by Paul Kalas of the University of California-Berkeley, used the Hubble Space Telescope to block the blinding light of the star Fomalhaut to resolve a planet orbiting in the star's surrounding disk of dust. The other group, a Canadian team led by Christian Marois of the Herzberg Institute of Astrophysics in British Columbia, saw not one but three planets around the star HR 8799. They used a method called adaptive optics to sharpen an Earth-based telescope image enough to spot the planetary system. Now, scientists can scan the light from these planets to learn what they are made of, their temperatures, and other intriguing details.


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The Secretary, in carrying into effect the provisions of this chapter, is authorized on and after July 12, 1943, to cooperate with associations and scientific societies in the revision of the United States Pharmacopoeia and in the development of methods of analysis and mechanical and physical tests necessary to carry out the work of the Food and Drug Administration.
21 U.S. Code § 377. Revision of United States Pharmacopoeia; development of analysis and mechanical and physical tests
(July 12, 1943, ch. 221, title II, 57 Stat. 500; 1953 Reorg. Plan No. 1, § 5, eff. Apr. 11, 1953, 18 F.R. 2053, 67 Stat. 631.)
Section was enacted as part of the Labor-Federal Security Appropriation Act, 1944, and not as part of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act which comprises this chapter.
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For transfer of functions of Federal Security Administrator to Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare [now Health and Human Services], and of Food and Drug Administration in the Department of Agriculture to Federal Security Agency, see notes set out under section 321 of this title.


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