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In the third quarter of the fifth century, the sanctuary of Saint Simeon Stylites was rapidly expanding: there were at least three basilicas, a mausoleum, a baptistery, and a monastery. Pilgrims were arriving from all parts of the Near East. To make travel easier, it seems, road stations were built, and of course there had to be churches for the pious travellers. One of these stations was at Mushabbak, halfway between modern Aleppo and the Saint Simeon complex.
We arrived there late in the afternoon; the sun was setting, and we were distracted by the young shepherd who arrived with his flock, carrying a lamb that was born only minutes before our arrival. It was easy to be distracted, but we did make some photos, now online.
While I was occupied with Cyrrhus and this little church, Bill Thayer put online Book 20 of Diodorus of Sicily's Library of World History, which deals with the years before the Battle of Ipsus. He is still proofreading, but the text can be consulted.


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Former President Bill Clinton and U.S. Senator Debbie Stabenow, the new chairman of the Senate Agriculture Committee, will be the distinguished speakers at the 2011 Agricultural Outlook Forum Plenary Session in Arlington, Va., Feb. 24.
Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack will deliver the Forum's keynote address, which will lead off two days of presentations on a broad range of issues related to risk management, renewable energy, rural communities, foreign trade, domestic markets, conservation and the environment, nutrition, land tenure, broadband, and sustainability. The Forum also will feature the traditional USDA commodity supply and demand and food price outlooks.
After leaving the White House in 2000, President Clinton established the William J. Clinton Foundation with the mission to strengthen the capacity of people in the United States and throughout the world to meet the challenges of global interdependence.
Today the Foundation has staff and volunteers around the world working to improve lives through several initiatives, including the Clinton Health Access Initiative, the Clinton Hunter Development Initiative, the Clinton Giustra Sustainable Growth Initiative, the Clinton Economic Opportunity Initiative, and the Clinton Global Initiative. In the United States, the Foundation is working to combat the alarming rise in childhood obesity through the Alliance for a Healthier Generation.
Senator Stabenow has a long history as a champion for agriculture, forestry, and rural communities, serving on agriculture committees in the Michigan House, the U.S. House, and now the U.S. Senate. In the U.S. Senate, she played a leading role in crafting the most recent farm bill, authoring the first-ever specialty crops title, and bringing a new focus to agricultural research and conservation.
USDA has hosted the Outlook Forum since 1923 to provide farmers and ranchers, government, and agribusinesses with sound information for decision-making. Attendees are expected to include members of farm organizations, food and fiber firms, academia, foreign governments, and the news media.
For further information and register for the Forum, please go to: www.usda.gov/oce/forum. The Forum will be held at the Crystal Gateway Marriott Hotel in Arlington, Va. Plenary speeches will be Webcast after 6:00 p.m. EST on Feb. 24, and breakout session speeches and PowerPoint presentations will be posted online after 6 p.m. Feb. 25.


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Cloudy vs. Clear Atmospheres on Exoplanets WASP-67 b and HAT-P-38 b
This diagram compares Hubble Space Telescope observations of two "hot Jupiter"-class planets orbiting very closely to different sunlike stars. Astronomers measured how light from each parent star is filtered through each planet's atmosphere. Hubble near-infrared observations were used to measure the spectral fingerprint caused by the presence of water vapor in the atmosphere. HAT-P-38 b did have a water signature indicated by the absorption-feature peak in the spectrum. This is interpreted as indicating the upper atmosphere is free of clouds or hazes. By contrast, a very similar hot Jupiter, WASP-67 b, has a flat spectrum that lacks any water-absorption feature. This suggests that most of the planet's atmosphere is masked by high-altitude clouds.
Artwork: NASA, ESA, and Z. Levy (STScI);
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Pear and Goat Cheese Pouches
Yield: 20
2-3 pears, peeled, cored, and chopped into small cubes. I used Bosc and Barrett.
2 logs chevre or goat cheese, plain flavor.
Heavy cream to thin as needed (about 1/2 cup)
1/4 cup sugar
1 tsp cinnamon
1 tsp nutmeg
1 tsp ground cloves
2 boxes phyllo dough, thaw if needed.
1 stick butter, melted.
- Toss pears in spices and sugar.
- Smooth cheese with cream to thin until creamy.
- Lay out phyllo dough carefully. It's torn apart easily. Be careful not to tear them. If you do, just replace with a new sheet.
- Brush one sheet with melted butter and lay another sheet on top, then brush that sheet with butter.
- Repeat the second step until you have 4 sheets and brush butter on top of the 4th sheet.
- Preheat oven to 400 F.
- Cut phyllo into 3"x4" square. I used a pizza cutter to cut it.
- Place about 1 tbs of pear and 1 tbs of goat cheese in the middle of cut square. If it's too much, you can adjust the amount. I ended up with 1/2 tbs of pear and 1/2 tbs of cheese.
- Use your hand and fingers to pinch the dough making a pouch.
- Place them on prepared baking sheet.
- Brush the outside pouches with melted butter.
- Bake at 400 F for 12-15 mins until golden brown.
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Casino Royale evening will help fund bicycle rickshaw
Fernhill House is organising a glitzy James Bond style evening to help fund a £6,500 bicycle rickshaw - or trishaw - for residents.
The event, on Friday December 15 at 7pm, is open to friends and families of the residents and anyone who fancies a fun evening. The Casino Royale evening will see guests enjoy a meal with wine in the bistro, prepared by the home's award winning chef.
Gambling chips are included in the £25 price and the winner at the end of the evening will walk off with a luxury hamper.
Home manager Pete Mandleberg explained: "We have such fun here at Fernhill House, with a huge focus on vibrancy.
We love running events here as well as going out and about. We regularly enjoy visits from some very talented musicians, have pottery classes, host piano and cocktail soirees and have some fascinating – and sometimes famous – guest speakers.
"Recent trips to the outside world have included a visit to an arboretum and eating fish and chips at the seaside. We'd love to get out and about locally even more and, having heard about the popularity of trishaws for older people in other countries, wanted to give it a whirl ourselves. Residents can sit in the side car with blankets in the inclement weather and be cycled around the grounds or into the village for a bit of a jaunt. Just being a bit older doesn't stop our residents from letting their hair down!"
The idea, Cycling without Age, was born in Denmark, whose progressive approach to retirement living has been adopted by Fernhill House, and has spread within Scandinavia and to ten other countries including Singapore. All money raised will be matched by the home's owners Majesticare.
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"They" say it takes six weeks to break a bad habit. I say it takes only six days to break a good one. My last post was written days after the seductive fog of a week in Roatan, Honduras. Immediately after that I slipped into an unannounced blog sabbatical. I could lie and say I was diligently funneling my effort into a new venture or some ambitious writing project, but, nope. Meanwhile, Jann Arden has written a book, is in the studio recording a new album, finished filming a television series with Vanilla Ice and is gathering material for her radio show. Now I feel like a slouch. Can I not commit to a weekly blog post?
It all started when I walked down to the Bellevue Diner in mid April with a bold mission and the swinging arms to match. I was listening to Elliot Brood (rather loudly) and only slowing to take in signs that we had survived winter. Robins hopscotching across snow-bit lawns. Maples squeezing out leaves as fast as tulips popping out bold heads of butter yellow and blood red. Waterfalls of wisteria.
I had read rave reviews about the "Squirrel Sandwich" and by god, on that April day, I was finally going to eat one. Even if I threw it up soon after on some dainty lawn dotted with carefully orchestrated flowerbeds on the way back. The Squirrel had been on my list of peculiar things to eat (in the company of tongue on brioche with bone marrow and jam donuts to finish at The Black Hoof). The Squirrel, losing a few adventure points after mentioning tongue and marrow donuts I'm sure, is still a gross mash-up: peanut butter, cucumber, hot sauce, cheese and–wait for it—canned sardines. On rye. For $10 it would be a cheap throw-up. It was reminiscent of something I would force upon my poor, unsuspecting kid sister with a sinister grin.
Kensington Market was its usual gong show of commotion: catwalk fashion, longboards scraping curbs, eco-gladiators in vegan shoes and bike bandits popping wheelies. I walked into the Bellevue much like that Joni Mitchell song, like I "was walking onto a yacht." I eyed Guinness on the taps and asked for a pint and the famed Squirrel sandwich. I boasted that I had come all the way from the Annex for this very moment.
"We don't make that sandwich anymore."
The wind was sucked out of my sails. The lumberjack plaid-shirted server shoved a menu towards me and suggested the trout, it was really good. Trout? I wanted the inappropriate marriage of sardines and peanut butter and a Guinness to choke the quagmire down with. The menu fell flat without the Squirrel option (but it is indeed worthy, I've eaten there before and swooned). I didn't even want the Guinness anymore.
"Don't you have the ingredients? Can't you just make it, even though it's not on the menu anymore? It's still listed on the menu outside the door, you know."
There was a quick conference and raised eyebrows with the matchingly plaid-shirted chef who marched out to see above mentioned menu for himself. Nope. Even though.
I left (politely, no slammed doors or dramatic Paris Hilton-esque rage scenes) and made my way back up to Bloor. I paused at Caplansky's on College and contemplated a smoked meat sandwich piled so high I'd have guaranteed lockjaw. Then my hungry thoughts drifted to Chippy's and their Guinness battered haddock as big as a cricket bat. The kind of fish n' chip feed that makes you moan midway and long for a supine position. Nah.
I felt like nothing but that stupid Squirrel sandwich, which I could have very easily made at home. Instead I made my way back to the Annex, very glum, and popped open a Niagara blonde beer and stabbed at the last of my girlfriend's mother's sugary pickled beets. I was going to write a blog about the Squirrel sandwich and felt the material was snatched away from me faster than the paperback my grade 6 BFF Tyra and I were reading at recess that mentioned sodomy. Asking our teacher directly what "sodomy" meant was obviously pre-Google days. And not a good idea.
And then summer inched into my life and I gave way to a new routine that forgot about blogging. Yes, I'll blame my hiatus on not having that sardine sandwich and summer. The soupy days when clothes transform into Saran Wrap on sweat-slick skin. When thunderstorms are so violent they rattle your bone marrow. Even the bone marrow in your donuts. When appetites give way to the flesh of robust fruit and the primal satisfaction found in grilled meat. The tart kiss of lime in mojitos. Sangria-soaked Sunday mornings. The distinct pleasure in gossipy nights on packed patios with beers sweating as much as those swallowing them.
The smell of hot heat, mown grass, gasoline. The day's sun radiates up from the sidewalks pockmarked with flattened bubblegum. Dogs hang their tongues lower than the breasts of women who have decided they are already too hot to wear bras, or anything mimicking support. There is a thwack of flip flops on bare feet, fish belly white skin and skin pink and angry from the humidity.
Soon kids will be screeching like little dolphins at the public pools–the whites of their eyes the colour of cotton candy. Their mouths stained orange and purple from sucking on the lifeblood only a freezie provides. There will be tears over upside-down ice cream cones and skinned knees from poor finger and toe holds on beckoning hard-barked trees.
I've already been to the island and embraced the coconut-oil infused breathing space of the beach. Shoved a bathtub warm beer can deep into the sand. This is my quintissential summer moment. Drowsy with an open book, a brothy lake wind whipping at my face and tangled hair. Cocky seagulls questioning personal space. Awkward frisbee throwers causing concern. Salty chips in a ziplock. A sandwich with inevitable sand actually in it. And a unity.
It's a truly Canadian moment when we tell our parkas and toques to F-off for a few months so we can scorch our skin and coagulate our blood and drink things with umbrellas and limes and do unpredictable things at drive-in theatres, despite not being teenagers anymore. We join an unspoken army that approves of burgers five nights out of seven, of grass-stained short bottoms, of putting off career ambitions and landmark decisions until September. And of thick milkshakes winning out over those protein shakes that taste like vanilla chalk and chocolate cement.
But, despite this carefree grace period, I will try to maintain my blog relationship. And if I can't blame a sardine sandwich and summer, I'm sure I'll find something else just as worthy to point a finger at.


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Dec. 21, 2006
The Lady Bisons put together a solid effort, but it wasn't a winning one.
In the second round of the Vanderbilt Holiday Classic at Memorial Gym the Lady Bisons fell 55-53 to Longwood University from Farmville, Va. The Lady Bisons slipped to 3-8. Longwood ended a six-game losing streak, upping its record to 5-9.
"I'm pleased that we competed better and that we played hard," Lipscomb coach Frank Bennett said. "We played hard defensively. We could have played a little smarter."
The Lady Bisons fell behind early in the first half with Longwood eventually opening up an 11-point lead at 19-8 with 8:42 left before intermission. The Lady Bisons slowly started chipping away at the Longwood lead, closing out the half with a 7-2 run to take a 29-27 lead on a lay-up by Penny Jones with 48 seconds left.
In the second half the Lady Bisons stretched their lead to 31-27 with 18:22 left to play on a lay-up by Jilian Partin, making her first start of the season.
Also making her first start was Katie Rollins.
Longwood made a comeback taking the lead at 38-37 on a 3-point shot by Courtney Dyer with 14:12 remaining. The Lady Bisons would stay close, and even tied the game at 42-42 with 8:59 left, and again at 44-44 with 8:27 left, but they never retook the lead. Longwood went on a 9-1 run at that point to lead 53-45 with 6:09 remaining.
"We gave up some easy stuff which put us in a big hole to come back from," Bennett said. "That really hurt us."
The Lady Bisons missed several opportunities to take over the game with off target lay-ups and free throws. They did tie the game one last time at 53-53 as Catie Woods hit a pair of free throws with 17 seconds left.
Longwood's Keiva Small hit a long jumper with two seconds left to give her team the final lead at 55-53.
"In the last 30 seconds Catie Woods did a nice job of hitting the free throws to tie the game," Bennett said. "We played pretty solid defense. Small made a tough shot. We took the timeout and tried to have a chance to finish it. With another second we might have been able to do it."
Woods led the Lady Bisons with 13 points. Partin scored a season-high 10 points.
Jones grabbed 10 rebounds tying Longwood's Odessa Williams for the game high. Jones scored nine points, barely missing a double-double. Julie Martin finished with nine boards and Partin took down eight.
The Lady Bisons were 17-of-55 from the field, 30.9 percent. They were 2-of-17 from 3-point range, 11.8 percent. The Lady Bisons were also 17-of-26 from the free throw line, a 65.4 percent performance.
The Lady Bisons held a 47-31 edge over Longwood in the rebounding category.
Longwood had a trio of scorers hit double figures. Dyer scored a game-high 14 points. Small finished with 12 and Ashleigh Hollman added 11.
The Lady Bisons are taking a holiday break until Dec. 27. They return to action Jan. 2 at Allen Arena in non-conference game with LaSalle.


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A hot species for cool structures: Complex proteins in 3-D thanks to simple heat-loving fungus
A fungus that lives at extremely high temperatures could help understand structures within our own cells. Scientists at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) and Heidelberg University, both in Heidelberg, Germany, were the first to sequence and analyse the genome of a heat-loving fungus, and used that information to determine the long sought 3-dimensional structure of the inner ring of the nuclear pore. The study was published today in Cell.
The fungus Chaetomium thermophilum lives in soil, dung and compost heaps, at temperatures up to 60 C. This means its proteins including some which are very similar to our own have to be very stable, and the Heidelberg scientists saw this stability as an advantage.
"There are a number of structures that we couldn't study before, because they are too unstable in organisms that live at more moderate temperatures," explains Peer Bork, who led the genome analysis at EMBL. "Now with this heat-loving fungus, we can."
The scientists compared the fungus' genome and proteome to those of other eukaryotes organisms whose cells have a nucleus and identified the proteins that make up the innermost ring of the nuclear pore, a channel that controls what enters and exits a cell's nucleus. Having identified the relevant building blocks, the scientists determined the complex 3D structure of that inner ring for the first time.
"This work shows the power of interdisciplinary collaborations," says Ed Hurt, who led the structural and biochemical analyses at Heidelberg University: "the nuclear pore is an intricate biological puzzle, but by combining bioinformatics with biochemistry and structural biology, we were able to solve this piece of it for the first time."
The scientists have made C. thermophilum's genome and proteome publicly available, and are confident that these will prove valuable for studying other eukaryotic structures and their interactions, as well as general adaptations to life in hot places. Such knowledge could potentially lead to new biotechnology applications.
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When Hugh Pollock was hired by Arendell Parrott Academy as a teacher in 1968, he had no idea where the journey would take him.
Four state championships, six state runner-ups and countless lives touched later, it�s taken him all the way to the Kinston/Lenoir County Sports Hall of Fame.
When Hugh Pollock was hired by Arendell Parrott Academy as a teacher in 1968, he had no idea where the journey would take him.
Four state championships, six state runner-ups and countless lives touched later, it�s taken him all the way to the Kinston/Lenoir County Sports Hall of Fame.
Pollock, a former golf and boys basketball coach at Parrott now in administration, will officially be inducted into the Kinston/Lenoir County Sports Hall of Fame during a ceremony at the new Woodmen Community Center at 5:30 p.m. on Saturday.
�It�s been a real good fit for me,� Pollock said of Parrott. �I�ve just enjoyed working with young people and watching them grow up and mature. Hopefully I had something to do with making that a positive experience.�
At 22 years old, Pollock left Atlantic Christian College (now called Barton College) in Wilson and began teaching at Parrott in 1968. That same year he was offered to coach athletics for the Kinston/Lenoir County Parks and Recreation Department by department founder Pat Crawford.
In 1970 � the year Parrott began offering athletics � Pollock began his Patriots coaching career as an assistant on the football team, was its first head coach in varsity boys baseball and its first head coach in boys golf that spring.
In 26 seasons leading the basketball team the Patriots went 346-194 (.641), played for a state title in 1991, and Pollock was named league coach of the year eight times.
In golf � which Pollock retired from following the 2011 season � the Patriots enjoyed four state championships, five state runner-up finishes, 23 conference titles and 17 appearances in the N.C. Independent Schools Athletic Association state tournament.
For Pollock, who is presently the school�s assistant headmaster, all that success was because of the students he was coaching.
�I give the credit to the kids. It�s all about the boys. I coached some really great kids,� he said. �They kind of bought into the systems and it was a great effort all the way around.
�I treasure the memories all the way around.�
Pollock, a 1960 graduate of Jones Central High School � now known as Jones Senior � played basketball while in school but never golf. But that didn�t keep him from trying when offered the task to coach the upstart golf team.
�I knew I had a love for basketball (but) knew nothing about golf at the time,� Pollock said.
�I thought, �Well, this is going to be interesting.�
And it was.
�Coaching is truly one of the greatest things I�ve done,� Pollock said.
Longtime friend and former Parrott head football coach Bill Rowe lauded Pollock not for his career achievements, but for the relationships he�s built throughout the years and how he built them.
�He�s definitely a role model, and has always presented himself as a professional,� said Rowe, a 2010 KLCSHOF inductee. �He has always had the students and the players foremost in his mind and has always cared about them. He�s always been able to get the most out of his players and the most out of his students.
�He�s definitely a rock and a foundation for Parrott Academy,� Rowe added. �When you�re associated with Hugh Pollock you know you�re going to be exposed to a person of high character and quality.�
Pollock credits his coaching success to Crawford, also a KLCSHOF inductee this year.
�He�s the reason I got into coaching,� Pollock said.
When Pollock is formally inducted on Saturday, the moment will be about him. But the years that led to the moment will be about those he has coached and mentored.
�They may be honoring me with this award, but it�s a team award,� Pollock said. �It has to be spread all throughout the players. Their success was my success.�
Ryan Herman can be reached at 252-559-1073 or firstname.lastname@example.com. Follow him on Twitter: @KFPSports.
Hugh Pollock career highlights
n Led Parrott Academy�s golf team to four state titles and five state runner-ups
n Named conference coach of the year 12 times in golf
n Led its boys basketball team to a 346-194 record across 26 seasons
n Led the Patriots to the state title game in basketball in 1991
n An educator and administrator at Parrott from 1968-present
Kinston/Lenoir County Sports Hall of Fame
The Kinston/Lenoir County Sports Hall of Fame will induct its fourth class on Saturday at the Woodmen Community Center, the new permanent home of the KLCSHOF. The Free Press is running a series of articles by Ryan Herman and Bryan C. Hanks on all 10 new inductees and the teams that will be honored at the ceremony. Here is the schedule for the stories:
Monday, Oct. 8: Doug Bruton
Tuesday, Oct. 9: Otis Clark
Wednesday, Oct. 10: Thomas Cole
Thursday, Oct. 11: Pat Crawford
Friday, Oct. 12: Wayne Floyd
Saturday, Oct. 13: Vincent Jones
Sunday, Oct. 14: North Lenoir High School girls basketball � 1964-67
Monday: Coley Little
Today: Hugh Pollock
Wednesday: South Lenoir High School boys basketball � 1968-69
Thursday: Carolyn Goodley Souther
Friday: Fred Williams
Saturday: Grainger High School boys basketball � 1963-65
Kinston/Lenoir County Sports Hall of Fame
The Kinston/Lenoir County Sports Hall of Fame will induct 10 new members at 5:30 p.m. on Saturday at the Woodmen Community Center, the new permanent home for the KLCSHOF. Tickets cost $30. This year�s class includes: Douglas �Doug� Bruton, Otis Clark, Thomas George Cole, Pat Crawford, Wayne Floyd, Vincent Jones, Coley Little, Linwood Hugh Pollock, Carolyn Goodley Souther and Fred Williams. Boys basketball teams from Grainger (1963-64, 1964-65) and South Lenoir (1968-69) and girls teams from North Lenoir (1964-65, 1965-66, 1966-67) will also be recognized for their past achievements.
Tickets can be purchased at the Kinston/Lenoir County Parks and Recreation offices located upstairs at the Woodmen Community Center or at The Free Press.


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What can Goth do for politics?
This summer San Francisco has not one but two gallery exhibitions that explore the legacy of punk and post-punk. Wall of Sound, at Steven Wolf Fine Arts, presents artworks by seminal figures of the late-1970s music scene (including Monte Cazazza, V. Vale, and Exene Cervenka), and I'm So Goth – I'm Dead! at Queen's Nails Projects features mostly contemporary pieces that deal with the "Gothic[…..]


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Stroke Survivor at 34
Mike Oren was a typical 34-year-old man. He went to work, spent time with friends and enjoyed life to the fullest. He had borderline high blood pressure, but he paid little attention to it.
"I knew my blood pressure was high, but I only did the minimum to keep it under control," says Mike. "Had I known then what I know now, I would have done the maximum."
In the middle of a night in 2007, Mike awoke abruptly. He felt odd and he knew something was wrong.
"The room was spinning, and I couldn't keep my balance," says Mike. "Within moments, I was on the ground. That was it."
When Mike got to the hospital, he learned that he had suffered two major strokes. His blood pressure was 210/110, his speech was extremely slurred and the right side of his body was very weak. He was in for a long recovery, and his life would never be the same.
"I remember thinking, 'I'm only 34 and I just had a couple of strokes,' " says Mike. "I just can't believe it."
After he was stabilized, Mike began the long road to recovery. His journey began at Good Shepherd Rehabilitation Hospital-Allentown, where physical, speech and occupational therapists helped Mike relearn how to talk, walk and perform the daily tasks that he used to take for granted.
Following his time in the inpatient rehabilitation hospital, Mike continued his rehabilitation on an outpatient basis at the Good Shepherd Health & Technology Center in Allentown.
Today, Mike once again is walking and talking normally. He's eating healthier and keeping an eye on his blood pressure, and he's back to his job as a machine operator.
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How do I book? Where do I book? What do you mean I need to be pregnant?! Damn you!
I read about this on Dlisted. Quite frankly it creeps the hell out of me. The only demographic I could imagine this appealing to is the 'pregnant 6-year-old' crowd (granted, that label would apply to a LOT of chavs).
Would you not be bothered by Hello Kitty's silent, expressionless face staring at you wherever you went? I think it would GIVE me post-partum depression, not relieve it. :-c
OMG. I so wish I had given birth to my daughter in this hospital!! Pity it's so far away. x x x
Ah! It's so cute! It's like the room I didn't have when I was still in elementary! If it's possible to be jetted over to this hospital if I ever become pregnant, I will surely do it!
lol 🙂 I thought HK had covered just about everything but doh! no maternity ward 🙂 Have to admit, as sad as it is I think it's really cute.


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Maryland celebrities' weddings
'Tis the season to get married, and local celebrities are no exception. From politicians to athletes and TV personalities, we've rounded up engagement and wedding photos from Baltimore's biggest names. Who knows? Perhaps you'll find inspiration for your own nuptials. -- L'Oreal Thompson
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The Software Engineering Institute (SEI) and the U.S. Army Aviation and Missile Research Development and Engineering Center (AMRDEC) -- the organization that provides research, development, and engineering technology and services for aviation and missile platforms across the program lifecycle -- have launched a one-year project to develop a comprehensive approach to overcome deficiencies with the testing now being done to validate software and system reliability. This comprehensive approach will include the development of a roadmap for the research and application of technologies such as model-based engineering, assurance cases, analytical tools, and industry standards, such as the Architecture Analysis and Design Language (AADL) in the assessment and validation of complex system reliability. Participants say they hope the framework they build can become an industry practice for analytical architectural validation.
"Avionics systems are going to more digitally oriented systems -- digital cockpits," says Willie J. Fitzpatrick, AMRDEC Aviation Division chief. "Assuring that those digital cockpits are safe has become a bigger problem. And the cost for assuring us they're safe, reliable, and dependable has been going up. Our customers, who are the project managers for the different aviation platforms, have limited budgets for delivering a system to a soldier in the field. They would rather invest in getting the soldier as much functionality as they can, but they can't trade off system safety."
"System safety, reliability, and performance are increasingly affected by system-level problems due to the time-sensitive nature of software interaction on a set of networked computers despite best design and test practices," added the SEI's Peter Feiler. "We bring to the table an architecture-centric model-based approach that allows us to discover these problems earlier in the life cycle and make the validation process, which is currently very heavily test based, more cost effective and efficient. Similarly, we will consider assurance cases, which have been used successfully in the UK to reason about what is sufficient evidence to certify safety-critical public transportation systems."
In the context of this project, architecture models with precise semantics drive quantitative and predictive analysis. Bruce Lewis, an SEI resident affiliate from AMRDEC, explains, "We're actually doing quantitative analysis of the system architecture -- software and hardware -- through virtual integration to determine if the system can perform in a way that is correct and meets the requirements for safety and other non-functional qualities before building it. This approach gives us deeper insight into the complexities of the hardware or software system and also integrates through the framework and roadmap deeper reasoning about evidence for assurance required and the correctness of requirements."
"This comprehensive approach and the roadmap will give us things that testing cannot do," says Fitzpatrick. "I'm hoping for a change in best practices. The approach in the past has always been 'Let's build it then test the heck out of it.' We will still rely on some testing. But even if we were given all the money required for testing, we wouldn't have enough time."
Lewis agrees, "Testing says given these test parameters, does the system work? An analytical approach gives you a much broader ability to say this will or won't work, and then, of course, you have to validate your assumptions and validate that the implementation actually does what you modeled."
"We are not looking for a specialized solution that works only for a particular program or just the Army," says Feiler. "We expect the framework will accommodate a range of technologies from the SEI and the research community. A roadmap will outline a strategy for its evolution and its incorporation into an industry-wide software-reliant system practice."


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|White, Jr., James
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Publication Type: Book / Chapter
Publication Acceptance Date: 2/11/2000
Publication Date: 12/1/2000
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Interpretive Summary: Symbiotic associations are numerous, ancient, and fundamental examples of complex and highly specific associations between plants and microbes. Several of these associations consist of microbes that live within the above ground portions of plants. Since the associations are so complex there is a need for a strong working definition that will apply to all known endophytes. In this chapter an RRC scientist in collaboration with two other scientists discuss the complexity, anatomical relationship, natural diversity and interactions in an attempt at defining endophytism universally. Fungal endophyte of grasses, trees, and shrubs are examined for a common denominator for endophytisim. This chapter is the introduction to the book Microbial Endophytes which deals with all aspects of endophytes.
Technical Abstract: Book Chapter In Microbial Endophytes, Bacon, C.W. and White, J.F., Jr. (Eds.), Marcel Dekker, Inc., New York, NY, pp 3-29.


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Power Pro Super 8 Slick Braided Line features an 8-strand Spectra fiber construction, which is specially braided under high tension to create a uniform surface that feels as smooth as silk. The super smooth surface reduces friction and line noise, allowing you to make longer casts with stealth and silence. Designed for anglers who demand high performance, PowerPro's EBT (Enhanced Body Technology) process also helps create a stronger, thinner, smoother and quieter line.
- 14 yarn Spectra fiber construction braided under high tension to create a live surface that feels smooth as silk.
- Reduced line friction on the spool and through the rod guides allows Super 8 Slick to cast like a bullet.
- Smooth surface design reduces friction and line noise, allowing you to fish with stealth and silence.


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By Sekou Smith, NBA.com
VIDEO: Mike Fratello joins the crew to talk about how the Thunder compensate without Serge Ibaka
HANG TIME HEADQUARTERS — Don't mess with Cleveland!
Not when the NBA Draft Lottery is going on.
Because no one does the Lottery like Cleveland, winners of three of the last four, including Tuesday night's affair that gives them the trump card in what projects to be one of the deepest Drafts in recent memory.
TNT and NBA TV's Mike Fratello, The Czar of the telestrator, knows exactly what we're talking about, having coached the Cavaliers for six seasons.
But as much as we're focused on the June Draft and the future, we're locked in on the conference finals and the battles within the battle going on between the San Antonio Spurs and Oklahoma City Thunder in the Western Conference and the Indiana Pacers and Miami Heat in the Eastern Conference.
Toss in the ongoing coaching carousel, which includes Steve Kerr taking over for Mark Jackson in Golden State, and we've got plenty to discuss with The Czar on Episode 161 of the The Hang Time Podcast.
We also introduce you to "DeBron Wade" and "Lex Morrison" (don't ask, just watch –below — and listen) … on yet another wild episode with the crew.
As always, we welcome your feedback. You can follow the entire crew, including the Hang Time Podcast, co-hosts Sekou Smith of NBA.com, Lang Whitaker of NBA.com's All-Ball Blog and renaissance man Rick Fox of NBA TV, as well as our new super producer Gregg (just like Popovich) Waigand and the best sound designer/engineer in the business, Jarell "I Heart Peyton Manning" Wall.
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OJS Roadmap
Development Roadmap
You will find the OJS development roadmap for 2009 below. Please note that these dates are not fixed. OJS development is currently following two development branches: a 'stable' 2.2.x line which includes mainly bugfixes and will be an easy upgrade for users of the current 2.2.2 release (and who do not need much in the way of new features); and a 'devel' 2.3 line, which includes large-scale changes in the underlying codebase as well as many new features.
While we do attempt to list all bugs tracked against a given release, quite often a bug report against one release will be ported to another (this is especially the case with 2.2.x bugfixes into the devel branch; less so with 2.3 enhancements into the stable branch). This is also the case with some bugs tracked against other applications such as Open Conference Systems. You are encouraged to browse our Bugzilla database fully.
Milestone 2.2.3 (Q1 2009)
This is a planned stability/bugfix release of the 2.2.x line, roughly scheduled for April 2009. Very few new features will be included with this release.
Milestone 2.3 (Q2 2009)
OJS 2.3 is a substantial upgrade from the 2.2.x line, including many new enhancements as well as all relevant bug fixes against 2.2.x., and is loosely scheduled for release around June 2009. This will be the first OJS release that will make use of the new abstracted PKP WAL common codebase. The User Interface will remain largely the same as the 2.2.x line. You can view all bug reports by type:
Milestone 3.0 (Q4 2009)
This proposed release will represent a large-scale revamping of the PKP codebase, including the completion of abstracting common code from all applications into the PKP WAL; modularization of the remaining OJS codebase (so that components can be mixed and matched as necessary); substantial and comprehensive User Interface refinements; and further overall code refinements. The release date is largely hypothetical at this point, and no bugs have yet been filed against 3.0.
- See Modularization of PKP Systems for details on the proposed modularization of PKP applications.


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among other things, Aben Sur is the Green Lantern still, Thomas Wayne is Batman, after Bruce was killed in a back alley, Atlantians sank western Europe, the Amazons conquered Britain, among other things
I know its mostly cheap tricks and an excuse for a big crossover event. But since it seems to be absolutely self-contained, I think I will continue reading it. Anyways, any thoughts on these things? Obviously more will follow as more issues come out.


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In the years following the Civil War, newly-freed slaves made many political and economic advances as the U.S. government created policies intended to reunite the country while punishing Southerners for seceding. By 1877, however, the period known as Reconstruction had ended and Southerners once again gained political control in their states. Determined to keep African Americans from fully participating in mainstream American life, Southern leaders passed state and local laws that required racial segregation. In 1896, the Supreme Court's Plessy v. Ferguson ruling declared that racial segregation was constitutional as long as the facilities for blacks and whites were equal. In reality, facilities for African Americans were seldom equal to those reserved for whites. Schools for African American children in southern communities, for example, were either nonexistent or substandard. As a result, most African Americans struggled to obtain a basic education. Without sufficient opportunities to attend school, these children did not have a fair chance to improve their situations.African American women had even fewer opportunities because they faced both gender and race discrimination. In the early 20th century, women's groups were continuing to fight for the right to vote, but these groups often denied membership to African American women. While white women who worked outside the home generally held clerical or sales jobs, the vast majority of African American women worked as farm laborers or domestic servants. As one historian claimed, African American women were "so hampered by the multiple burdens of gender, race, and class that of all groups in the nation, they have been on the farthest fringes of opportunity, economic security, and civic participation."1
Out of this oppressive climate, Mary McLeod Bethune rose to international prominence as a political activist. The child of former slaves, Bethune was fortunate enough to receive an education. Wanting to give other children of her race the same opportunity, she opened a school for African American girls in 1904. From very humble beginnings, this small school in Florida eventually grew into a fully accredited, co-educational university. Bethune's continued determination to improve the lives of all African Americans, and African American women in particular, led her to become active in several women's clubs as well as the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). In 1935, she founded the National Council of Negro Women (NCNW) to give African American women a means to be heard on the national level. In 1943, Bethune and the NCNW purchased a townhouse in Washington, D.C. to serve as a headquarters. From this building, NCNW coordinated national efforts to end discrimination and improve education, healthcare, and job opportunities for African Americans. Today, the site is administered by the National Park Service and is known as the Mary McLeod Bethune Council House National Historic Site.
1Audrey Thomas McCluskey and Elaine M. Smith, eds., Mary McLeod Bethune: Building a Better World: Essays and Selected Documents (Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 1999), 131.


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Online shoppers find it's getting easier to be 'green'
Targeting the eco-friendly: Danbury retailer joins in 'Green Tuesday'
Online consumers who lean "green" in their shopping habits now have a day for themselves with the launch of "Green Tuesday" in the final week of November.
Organized by GreenDeals.org, the day is ideal for purchasing an eco-friendly holiday gift, said Jonah Mytro, co-founder of the Green America daily deal website, who expects the event to annually occur the first Tuesday after Thanksgiving.
In contrast to the frenetic shopping fever generated by Black Friday and Cyber Monday, Green Tuesday's philosophy encourages holiday shoppers to think about and make eco-minded choices, Mytro said, seeking out fair-trade, sustainable, artisanal and "greener" goods.
"During the holiday season consumers are faced with a lot of shopping decisions," Mytro said. "Green Tuesday is designed to inspire consumers to make thoughtful, purposeful, eco-minded choices. It means really thinking about the money you are spending and buying the right gift for the right person while taking care of the planet at the same time."
GreenDeals.org offers discounts from "green" businesses, giving consumers the opportunity to shop sustainably throughout the year, Mytro said, calling it a community hub. It features eco-minded tips for everyday living and green coupons for cost savings.
Green Tuesday is a natural match for Danbury-based Funkoos Organic Baby Apparel, which markets clothing made from certified organic cotton for babies and children, said Sameer Joshi, co-founder of Funkoos Inc.
"We're participating in Green Tuesday to increase awareness about our products and company. We're offering 35 percent off our entire line," said Joshi, whose company launched in 2009 and has annual revenue of under $1 million.
Funkoos clothing is manufactured in India by suppliers that adhere to fair labor practices and do not employ children, according to the company.
Funkoos is one of about 30 companies participating in Green Tuesday. Washington, D.C.-based Green America, launched by Mytro's mother, Denise Hamler 30 years ago, has a certification process for "green" companies.
New Haven-based The Green Bride Guide, which sells "green" wedding items and whose 1,300-vendor guide lists "green" wedding gown and gift retailers, also is participating for many of the same reasons.
"It's part of our core mission. We work with a network of over 500 eco-friendly companies," said Kate L. Harrison, founder and chief executive officer. "This is one more way to highlight what we do and a way to support other green businesses."
Consumers should be wary of businesses that adopt superficial "greenwashing" measures to call themselves "green," Mytro, a resident of San Francisco, said.
"I think `green' is mainstream now. They think being eco-friendly is the right way to go," he said. "We are hoping Green Tuesday results in something of a paradigm shift. Our goal is to encourage a different way of thinking about holiday shopping -- one that's more deliberate, more purposeful and one that will inspire consumers to shop with the planet in mind when there's a greener form of a gift you were already planning to purchase."
A program like Green Tuesday can be a good marketing tool for businesses attempting to connect with eco-friendly online shoppers, but it will not lure consumers who do not have a penchant for "green," said Kevin McEvoy, marketing professor at the Stamford campus of the University of Connecticut.
"It pulls in business of people who are already `green' oriented, and it builds awareness for people who are not intensely green oriented," he said. "There are shades of green."


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In a recent interview with the magazine New Scientist, Professor Jim Al-Khalili, Professor of Physics at the University of Surrey, Broadcaster and member of Muslim Heritage Awareness Group (a network of experts working with FSTC) debated on several issues related to the Islamic scientific heritage and to the state of science in the Arabic speaking world. Besides his world fame as a scientist, Jim Al-Khalili is a well known expert in issues related to communication, social connections of science and the cultural perception of science. He published in the media several papers on the Islamic tradition of science in which he endeavoured to change the general perception about it among the general public (see resources below).
by FSTC Research Team*
Professor Al-Khalili browsing through the book 1001 Inventions: Muslim Heritage in Our World (chief editor Salim Al-Hassani, Manchester: FSTC, 2006). (Source)
In a recent interview with the magazine New Scientist, Professor Jim Al-Khalili, Professor of Physics at the University of Surrey, Broadcaster and member of Muslim Heritage Awareness Group (a network of experts working with FSTC) debated on several issues related to the Islamic scientific heritage and to the state of science in the Arabic speaking world. Besides his world fame as a scientist, Jim Al-Khalili is a well known expert in issues related to communication, social connections of science and the cultural perception of science. He published in the media several papers on the Islamic tradition of science in which he endeavoured to change the general perception about it among the general public (see resources below).
His book, The House of Wisdom and the Legacy of Arabic Science will be published in the Autumn of 2010. He is also presenting two science documentaries in the UK, The Secret Life of Chaos and the three-part series, Chemistry: A Volatile History on BBC4 in January 2010.
The interview with New Scientist, conducted by Sanjida O'Connell, was published in 13 January 2010 (magazine issue 2743: to read it online click here). It is entitled "Islam's House of Wisdom will rise again". Jim Al-Khalili explains in the interview his conviction that science in the Muslim world will flourish once more.
To the question about the reasons why the golden age of Arabic science is badly known in the West, Jim Al-Khalili considers that "the Arab empire was hugely powerful by late 8th and early 9th century; its rulers were getting taxes from across the empire and had money to spend on translations and patronage of scholarship. About this time the House of Wisdom was set up in Baghdad by one of the Abbasid caliphs, al-Ma'mun. It began as a translation house, translating Greek texts into Arabic and rapidly started to attract the greatest minds in the Islamic world, while Arabic became the international language of science. There was also a strong influence from Persia; an Arab scholar once said, "We Arabs have all the words but you Persians have all the ideas."
In this context, a widely held misconception claims that the Islamic world did no more than act as steward of Greek science. However, "an incredible number of important and original advances were made by Arab scientists, who were the first to undertake real science - theory and experimentation - several hundred years before the scientific revolution in Europe".
Jim Al-Khalili, British scientist, author and broadcaster (Source).
Examples illustrating this dynamic tradition of science and technology in the Islamic history are difficult to count. They concern mathematics, optics and physics, astronomy, and so many fields of science practiced in the ancient and medieval periods. The work of Al-Khwarizmi, the father of algebra opened no less than the field of algebra to mathematical investigation.
Professor Al-Khalili argues that "it turns out that no one was really doing proper algebra until he came along. The concept of an equation that you solve to find the unknown quantity, x, goes back to this one scholar". Ibn al-Haytham, "the greatest physicist of the medieval world", used geometry to prove how vision works. Jim al-Khalili observes that "it is obvious to us now but at the time no one understood that light travels in straight lines".
Professor Jim Al-Khalili at the conference "Muslim Heritage in our World: Social Cohesion" at Hoare Memorial Hall, Church House, Westminster (15 October 2008). (© FSTC 2008)
The intriguing question about the final decline of Arabic science came up in the interview. Observing that this decline should be relativised as it was not a sudden collapse of scientific activity since "there were great scholars in the Islamic world all the way up to and including the 15th century", Professor Al-Khalili considers several hypotheses proposed in the scholarship to explain what happened. These explanations include internal factors linked to the intellectual and ideological turn taken towards further orthodoxy and conservatism around the 11th-12th centuries as well as external factors, such as the impact of the Mongol invasion in the 13th century, which destroyed a large part of the heart of the Islamic civilisation in the Middle East.
Another important issue debated regards the reasons that make the classical Islamic science so little known in the Western world. Al-Khalili reminds the role played by Arabic learning in the renaissance of science in medieval Europe, before he turns to recent factors of modern history which might explain the disdain shown in the West towards Islamic learning, such as the état d'esprit that accompanied colonialism: "Some argue that colonialism played a role. When the British and the French were invading Asia, the Middle East and Africa they didn't want to hear that these places were once wonderful, flourishing civilisations; in order to justify what they were doing, they had to show that these people were ignorant savages".
The negative perceptions about Islam and Muslims which are unfortunately widely held contribute also to suppress the recognition of Arabic and Islamic legacy, especially in science. But on the other hand, the Islamic world itself isn't proud enough of its own heritage. Jim Al-Khalili regrets the anti-scientific attitudes in Islam today. In this regard, he emits a vibrant call that "the Muslim world needs to be reminded where it was 1000 years ago: it was tolerant of other religions, it was enlightened, it was doing curiosity-driven science (…). Many developing countries have poured money into science but only to drive their economy. You won't get real advances in science - real blue-sky thinking - unless you forget about what might come out of it and you do science for the sake of it. That's what the Islamic world was like 1000 years ago and until it gets back to that sort of mindset it will always be trying to catch up with the rest of the world".
The last part of the interview dealt with the efforts carried out in the Arab world to create a renaissance of science.
Professor Al-Khalili during the conference Muslim Heritage in our World: Social Cohesion organised by FSTC at UK Parliament in London in October 2008. See Muslim Heritage in our World: Social Cohesion
- Prof. Jim Al-Khalili, Science and Rationalism in 9th Century Baghdad
- Prof. Jim Al-Khalili, Remembering the Language of History and Science: When the World Spoke Arabic
- Prof. Jim Al-Khalili, "It's Time to Herald the Arabic Science That Prefigured Darwin and Newton"
- Prof. Jim Al-Khalili - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- ww.al-khalili.co.uk: the official website of Jim Al-Khalili.
- University of Surrey, Guildford
- The Muslim Heritage Awareness Group Meeting (24 March 2009, Royal Society, London)
- Muslim Heritage in our World: Social Cohesion (1001 Inventions in UK Parliament)
- FSTC in the British Science Festival in Surrey (5-10.09.2009)
- FSTC Muslim Heritage in Our World: Social Cohesion
*The members of FSTC Research Team include Salim Al-Hassani, Mohammed Abattouy, Mohammed El-Gomati, Salim Ayduz, Margaret Morris, Savas Konur, Cem Nizamoglu, Anne-Maria Brennan, Maurice Coles, and Ian Fenn.


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Tamesha Means was only 18 weeks pregnant on the morning of December 1, 2010, when her water broke. In a haze of pain, she called a friend for a ride to the only hospital in her central Michigan county. She had no idea that the hospital, Mercy Health Partners, was part of a Catholic health system. She just knew she needed help.
What happened next, contend the plaintiffs in a new lawsuit filed by the ACLU on Means's behalf, was not just the fault of a doctor, emergency room staff, or even the hospital. The blame goes right to the top—to the U.S. Catholic bishops. According to the lawsuit, over the course of the next 36 hours, Means was never told that her fetus had little chance of surviving. Nor was she told—as she would have been in a secular hospital—that doctors could induce labor or terminate her pregnancy. Instead, Means was twice sent home with painkillers and told to return only if she was having contractions three to four minutes apart. Unaware of the risks of continuing the pregnancy, she followed their instructions, still believing that she could have a healthy baby. On the night of December 2, as hospital staff prepared to discharge her for a third time, Means began to deliver her baby, which lived for fewer than three hours. She left the hospital with only an infection, but her condition—pre-term rupture of membranes—could have resulted in infertility.
Now, the ACLU is alleging that a series of directives from the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB), which opposes abortion, were responsible for Means's suffering. In its Ethical and Religious Directives for Catholic Health Care Services—a document last updated in 2009 that is at the heart of the ACLU's case—the bishops instruct Catholic hospitals not to provide artificial birth control of any kind, including sterilization, or facilitate surrogate pregnancies. Abortion is also forbidden, with a vague loophole for circumstances when the pregnant woman is suffering from a "proportionately serious pathological condition."
With the suit, the ACLU is assailing a favorite liberal bête noire. The USCCB has, of late, come to surpass even the papacy as a bastion of support for regressive policies. Cases like Means's underscore the USCCB's anti-woman reputation. "Tamesha Means's story is not unique," says Louise Melling, deputy legal director for the ACLU. "It's not about one hospital. We're shining a spotlight on a lack of basic care for women that happens all over the country."
Many doctors who work in Catholic hospitals chafe under these restrictions. In a study published in 2012, 52 percent of OB/GYNs who work in Catholic hospitals reported at least one ethical conflict over their employer's religious policies. Lori Freedman, a medical sociologist at the University of California-San Francisco and one of the study's authors, explains that in many cases, the directives hang over doctors' heads. "There are areas where the bishops are less interested in micro-managing the hospital," she says. "But in other places, the bishops are really involved, and doctors are scared to death."
Concerns about Catholic hospitals' constraints on reproductive health care are mounting thanks to the growing number of mergers between Catholic and secular health systems, a change spurred by incentives in the Affordable Care Act. In rural areas, this can mean—as in the case of Mercy Health Partners—that a Catholic hospital is the only gig in town. Currently, one in six Americans are treated in a Catholic facility; one-third of Catholic hospitals are in a rural area. If all of the mergers under consideration go through, this number could rise considerably. Coupled with anti-abortion policies adopted by a growing number of states that require abortion providers to have admitting privileges at a nearby hospital, the expansion of Catholic health systems could severely limit the number of doctors who can offer the procedure.
The Means case disturbingly echoes an incident in 2010, when a Catholic hospital administrator in Phoenix—a nun—was excommunicated after approving an abortion to save the life of a woman with heart failure. The nun was eventually returned to good standing in the church, but after the hospital refused to promise never to perform another abortion, the local bishop, Thomas Olsted, revoked its Catholic affiliation.
As chilling as these cases are, it's unclear whether the USCCB's directives—rather than the decisions of individual Catholic hospitals, doctors, or bishops—are to blame. The ACLU's complaint alleges that the Ethical and Religious Directives "require hospitals to abide by their terms, even when doing so places a woman's health or life at risk." John Berkman, a professor of moral theology at the University of Toronto, says that although the directives provide important direction for Catholic health-care providers, they're guidelines, not religious laws. "It's not like the USCCB is the general of the army and the hospitals are their subordinates," he says. "Anyone who thinks that the bishops say a word and everyone follows in lock step is naïve."
From a legal perspective, suing the USCCB rather than the doctor or the hospital is akin to blaming a professional organization for medical malpractice, says Robin Fretwell Wilson, a professor of law at the University of Illinois. Much of the ACLU's case hinges on the lack of information imparted to Means, which is generally considered to be the doctor's responsibility. "I don't doubt that if [Means] sued the hospital or the doctor, this would be plain-vanilla medical malpractice," she says. "But they're not suing the doctor, the hospital, the local bishops, the board of trustees—you're many layers removed from the person who really should owe this woman a remedy if everything in the complaint is taken as accurate."
The very notion that hospitals can decide what kind of care they will provide based on their religious affiliation is ensconced in federal law; shortly after Roe v. Wade was handed down, Congress passed a broadly worded "conscience clause" prohibiting public officials from requiring doctors or institutions who receive government funds to perform abortion or sterilization procedures if they object on moral grounds. Since then, virtually all of the states have enacted some kind of conscience clause legislation—Michigan allows both individual providers and institutions to refuse to provide abortion—and the federal government's protections on the religious right of refusal have only expanded.
Although federal and state law imparts wide discretion to religiously affiliated health care providers, Catholics are not of one mind about when an abortion is justified; there's considerable debate among ethicists about how far the right of refusal should go. Julie Hanlon Rubio, a professor of Christian ethics at St. Louis University, a Jesuit institution, says that many moral theologians were disturbed by Olmsted's condemnation of the Arizona hospital's decision, which the Catholic Health Association—an umbrella organization comprising more than 600 hospitals—concluded was an appropriate application of the USCCB's directives. But she adds that she and her colleagues were startled, in part because his action was so extreme. "In cases where both lives are threatened, there's no way to save both, and the operation that will save the mother will result in the baby's death, that seems morally justified," she says. "In some cases, a bishop might overstep boundaries. But it's not typical to have that kind of intervention."
Regardless of the suit's efficacy as a legal strategy, Means's story doesn't reflect well on the Catholic bishops and the growing Catholic health system. "It's hard for people to grasp how abortion is related to miscarriage or emergency obstetric care, but having real cases brings it home," Freedman says.
But the heart of the ACLU's complaint seems to be less about the directives themselves than the government's broad protections for conscientious refusal, which provides the legal justification for the guidelines in the first place. It's hard to argue that the USCCB shouldn't tell Catholic hospitals to follow Catholic teachings when U.S. law allows so much leeway for individual health care providers' religious beliefs, and explicitly counts institutions among those individuals. If Means's treatment at Mercy Health Partners was substandard, it's trickier to pin the blame on the directives than on bad interpretations from the hospital or the provider—or simple medical malpractice.
Efforts to paint broad-strokes portraits of Catholics as uniformly hostile to women's rights don't sit well with Rubio. But she understands why organizations like the ACLU would be anxious about the potential for the doctors or staff of a Catholic hospital to misunderstand the directives—or for bishops to use them too aggressively. "Obviously there have to be limits to religious liberty. We can't allow faith to be a trump card for law," she says. "But if people think Catholics are insensitive to this issue, that's not the case. Nobody wants women to die."


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The Region 8-AAAAA girls basketball tournament will begin — finally — Saturday.
The Apalachee High School Lady Wildcats will face Heritage at 6 p.m. in a game played at Loganville High School. The winner will meet Salem Monday at 7 p.m. If the Lady Wildcats win, they will get to play on their own home court. AHS is being used as extra host site for the quarterfinal rounds due to the tournament being delayed four days because of weather conditions.
The AHS boys will try to punch their ticket to the state tournament when they play the Loganville High School Red Devils. The game will be at LHS at 8:30 p.m. Monday. Semifinal games will be Tuesday with consolation rounds and finals on Wednesday.
Games could not begin Friday since area school systems remained closed.


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Friday, January 28, 2011
A Little Love Lives Here Goodness!!!
36 comments:
- Jill said...
Kristii, this is so, so, so adorably cute! I must admit that I hadn't seen the appeal of this stamp set yet . . . but now I get it! This is the sweetest card--I love it!
- January 28, 2011 at 11:40 PM
- Margaret M said...
Oh Wow! your card just took my breath away! I love how you combined the 2 stamps. The little "bird" houses are so sweet. Great job on the sketch!
- January 29, 2011 at 6:16 AM
- Nadine said...
Wonderful card, absolutely gorgeous again... love your work.
- January 29, 2011 at 6:43 AM
- Maggie said...
What a cool take on this sketch! Those birdhouses are adorable...love what you did with it!
- January 29, 2011 at 6:47 AM
- ~amy~ said...
::swoon:: this is soooooooooooo fabulous!!
- January 29, 2011 at 7:16 AM
- Karen C. said...
I just love this card Kristi!! The bright red and green colours make me smile!! I really like the way you've added the red gingham ribbons to the tops of the 'birdhouses' and the little hearts 'floating' in the tree. So Sweet!
- January 29, 2011 at 7:17 AM
- Mariana said...
Uhh the little houses in red! How lovely! And that ribbon on top! I have to say this set is growing on me!! Excellent enabling job lady!
- January 29, 2011 at 7:23 AM
- Felicia said...
Oh my! I simply love this card! Just beautiful!!
Stay warm!
- January 29, 2011 at 7:34 AM
- Jen Carter said...
Oh my! This is SO cute!! Love, LOVE, love this!! Love the hanging "bird" houses and the ribbon tied to the top! SO SWEET!
- January 29, 2011 at 8:16 AM
- LittleSurferGirl said...
Oh my gosh! Little bird houses! Adorable! This card is a show stopper!
- January 29, 2011 at 8:51 AM
- Kara said...
this has to be one of the best projects using this set......just perfect!!
- January 29, 2011 at 9:18 AM
- Cathy Weber said...
Kristii, this is really, really good! I love the birdhouses and the gingham ribbon. The grass along the bottom is so nice. I love your card.
- January 29, 2011 at 9:23 AM
- Audrey said...
Kirstii, I ADORE this card! Just got MLC and I have LLH already. Can't wait to use them together! And Gingham... *swoon*
- January 29, 2011 at 9:44 AM
- Kay said...
Squeal! This is absolutely delightful- genius idea for the little houses, and they turned out beautifully- love the colors, too!
- January 29, 2011 at 10:02 AM
- Heather Jensen said...
Kristi, I LOVE these adorable bird houses. Her set is perfect for this. You even have a tree for your bird houses. :)
- January 29, 2011 at 7:57 PM
- Jen said...
Oh my. This card is so utterly charming. I love what a difference the small modifications to the sketch have made. It has really given the sketch a more current edge to it. Glorious and sooo very inspiring.
- January 29, 2011 at 9:29 PM
- Lorraine said...
Oh this is just gorgeous! I love how you used the Love Lives Here stamps and your take on the sketch! Beautiful work!
- January 29, 2011 at 9:30 PM
- Mara... said...
LOVE this!!! The houses are adorable and I love the color combo on the card!!
- January 30, 2011 at 1:40 PM
- delightfuldaisy said...
this is such a sweet card! Love the color combo!
- February 1, 2011 at 10:38 AM
- Julie Tucker-Wolek said...
This is GORGEOUS Kristii! I loveeeeeeeeee the little houses!:):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):)
- February 2, 2011 at 11:35 AM
- Leslee said...
so very cute!
- February 2, 2011 at 6:04 PM
- Lorry said...
Totally in love with the Birdie houses!!! but then I love all things birdie related!! You did a great take on that sketch, I have to try this one out, I'm making valentines today so maybe something special will come?!?!
Have a great weekend and stay warm.
- February 3, 2011 at 7:57 AM
- Lee Anne said...
I don't even know where to start with this. It is absolutely stunning.
- February 4, 2011 at 5:28 PM
- Sue Ann said...
OH MY GOODNESS ....... Kristii this is just amazing. I do not have this set but I am really starting to lean towards the fact that I do need it. What a beautiful and fantastic creation that your hands made!!!
- February 4, 2011 at 5:53 PM
- christy compton hall said...
Oh. my. WORD. This card is jaw-dropping. I Love the colors and patterns.
- February 4, 2011 at 8:42 PM
- Tash Daly said...
Hi Kristii, I have spent some time looking at all your work. I love it all your work is truly beautiful!! Such an inspiration. I am now a follower and look forward to seeing what you continue to produce in 2011. Thanks for sharing your talent. :-)
- February 5, 2011 at 6:48 AM
- Carol's Ink Spot said...
What a super beautiful card this is! I love your little 'birdhouses' in this tree. So CUTE!
- February 5, 2011 at 5:23 PM
- Huguenot Girl said...
What a gorgeous card Kristii!
I wasn't that keen on this stamp set when it came out, but you have made me a convert! Thanks for enabling! Nicole x
- February 9, 2011 at 2:00 AM
- IamDerby said...
Love this! those ribbons are perfect.
- March 6, 2011 at 8:32 PM
- Krista said...
love the colors and all the stamping on this. also wanted to let you know I saw it pinned on Pinterest. :)
- May 26, 2011 at 9:31 AM
- Ida said...
How sweet and pretty. I lvoe this and your blog too. Just found you through Pinterest.
- August 30, 2011 at 9:54 AM
- Rhonda said...
Oh.My.Gosh. Love this Kristi!! Now I need Merry Little Christmas. Happy New Year!!
- January 1, 2012 at 7:06 PM
- Michelle McClure said...
What a gorgeous card! What talent!
- January 20, 2012 at 11:46 PM
- Carla said...
I found your card thru Pinterest and had to come see the details! This is just adorable!
- January 30, 2012 at 4:36 PM
- Susie said...
Coming your way through Pinterest. I love Papertrey Ink and especially love the Love Lives Here set. This is an adorable card and makes me love the set even more. Lovely blog. I invite you to visit me and take a peek at what I did with the set at http://www.summerwalkdesigns.com/2012/02/wisdom-of-love.html
- March 9, 2012 at 8:23 PM
- Shalim/Nelly said...
A message from France...
Your card is really beautiful !
I love it !
Bravo !
Best regards
- March 22, 2012 at 2:27 PM


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Vault: 9.125 (1/28/2012)
Beam: 9.575 (3/5/2011)
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2012: Made her college debut on the vault and floor ... Competed beam in two meets.
2011: Only competed beam due to injuries … Scored a personal best of 9.575 at Rutgers and placed ninth … 12th at ECAC Championships on beam with a 9.55 … Competed beam for the Bulldogs in all but two meets.
High School: Competed with Elite Gymnastics Center and New Milford High School … Won a total of five Connecticut AA High School Championships, three on the uneven parallel bars and two in the all-around, including an all-round repeat in her junior and senior years.
Personal: Majors in anthropology … Why Yale? "I chose Yale because it has so much to offer academically and athletically, and I immediately fell in love with it."


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The Everglades National Park covers a good portion of southern Florida from coastal islands to the inland "river of grass." Here at its northwestern edge, the park overlaps the southern portion of the Ten Thousand Islands, a maze of small islands and winding waterways. Nearly all of the island land above water is covered by mangroves. The resemblance of one island to the next and the winding waterways among them (many without exit) give the area the sense of a vast labyrinth. Navigation by map or prior experience is usually required!
The United States is one of the most diverse countries on earth, jam packed full of amazing sights from St. Patrick's cathedral in New York to Mount Hollywood California.The Northeast region is where it all started. Thirteen British colonies fought the American Revolution from here and won their independence in the first successful colonial rebellion in history. Take a look at these rolling hills carpeted with foliage along the Hudson river here, north of New York City.The American south is known for its polite people and slow pace of life. Probably they move slowly because it's so hot. Southerners tend not to trust people from "up north" because they talk too fast. Here's a cemetery in Georgia where you can find graves of soldiers from the Civil War.The West Coast is sort of like another country that exists to make the east coast jealous. California is full of nothing but grizzly old miners digging for gold, a few gangster rappers, and then actors. That is to say, the West Coast functions as the imagination of the US, like a weird little brother who teases everybody then gets famous for making freaky art.The central part of the country is flat farmland all the way over to the Rocky Mountains. Up in the northwest corner you can find creative people in places like Portland and Seattle, along with awesome snowboarding and good beer. Text by Steve Smith.


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The corpses of our fallen beasts and minions are there to remind us of their failings in carrying out the Great Lord's wishes and their flesh and blood may be used to sustain us through times of hunger and thirst.
It is not allowed however to desecrate their memories by chopping off their heads and carrying them around as where they trophies of war and conquest. If one might make a mistake in their bloodlust and removes the head of one of our fallen, we urge them to leave it there to rest with the other remains so that the worms may feast on it for the Great Lord's glory!
Any beast of minion of the Great Lord's hordes who is caught doing so on purpose will have to answer to me or the other Chosen and will be subject to the punishment of our whims, only limited by our leniency (up and to death and/or warranting).
Heed this warning!
Razhak the Chosen
PS on an ooc note I invite our friends of the BG clans to reissue their decree about same side scalping as well so that this is a clear statement that this is a form of griefing frowned upon in northern PK.


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Buck Showalter doesn't know how many wins it will take to win the American League East this year. The Orioles manager said he had a recent discussion about it, but couldn't come up with a ballpark figure.
"Maybe 90?" Showalter said. "I don't know. I don't think so."
Even though the Orioles open their four-game series in Kansas City tonight winners of seven of their last eight, the two teams in front of them are just as hot, and because of that they're still 3 ½ games behind division-leading Boston.
The Red Sox took two of three from the Yankees this weekend, including Sunday night's 8-7 walkoff win in 11 innings. Orioles fans can thank Mike Napoli for that one. He hit two homers, including the game winner.
The Rays, who are two games ahead of the Orioles in second place, are sizzling. Tampa Bay is 15-2 this month.
But with the Rays opening a four-game series tonight in Boston, the Orioles finally have an opportunity to move up the standings if they can build on their first road sweep of the season in Texas. Right now, the Rays and Orioles are sitting in the two AL Wild Card spots, and the Orioles can thank their play this weekend in Arlington for that.
Meanwhile, the struggling Yankees have fallen 3 ½ games back of Baltimore for that second Wild Card spot. Texas is 1 ½ games back and Cleveland is 3 ½ back. If the Orioles can continue to get this kind of starting pitching – Chris Tillman gave the O's their seventh quality start in eight games – they will remain in the hunt.
"You know when they say it's not about then money? It's about the money," Showalter quipped. "They say it's not about the pitching. It's about the pitching."
Darren O'Day got the save last night with closer Jim Johnson unavailable. And even though the bullpen hasn't been overworked because of sparkling starting efforts, Showalter said it is always difficult to get the relievers back into a groove after the break.
"It could take us through the next series to get through it," Showalter said.
Johnson had thrown 41 pitches over the first two games of the Texas series, so he's seen enough work so far. But Troy Patton, T.J. McFarland and Jairo Asencio have yet to pitch in the second half. In some ways, it's a good problem to have. It means you're not on speed dial to Triple-A Norfolk trying to get an extra arm – which had been the case at times earlier this season.


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An appeal appearing last November on Hayley Bowden�s Facebook page, made by a man identifying himself as her uncle, provides insight into the life of the 16-year-old murder suspect.
An appeal appearing last November on Hayley Bowden�s Facebook page, made by a man identifying himself as her uncle, provides insight into the life of the 16-year-old murder suspect.
�My niece is missing again,� the post said. �She 16 hayley bowden traveling with a 22-year-old man from Mexico ��
Walton County deputies were hunting for runaway Bowden last Thursday when they found her in the company of Chrispen Ramirez, 22.
A news release said Ramirez pulled a knife and threatened to harm the law enforcement officers, but the two were detained without anyone being injured.
The next day, another group of officers made a gruesome discovery that led to Bowden and Ramirez facing more serious charges � arson and an open count of murder.
The Walton County Sheriff�s Office says the two killed 77-year-old caretaker Arthur G. Anderson when he caught them breaking into a home at 158 West Juniper Ave. in Mossy Head, the small north-county community where all three lived.
Investigators declined again Monday to say which of the pair they believe killed Anderson or whether they acted together. They also refused to say how Anderson died.
After the homicide, authorities said, Bowden and Ramirez attempted to burn the home where they�d killed Anderson and then took his car.
It was found the next day half-submerged in a lake on nearby Beaver Dam Road.
Assistant State Attorney Josh Mitchell declined to comment Monday regarding the extent of fire damage to the home where Anderson�s body was found.
�We are in the infancy stages of this investigation,� Mitchell said.
Property records indicate the home belonged to Thomas Wentz.
In statements made Monday, relatives and friends of Ramirez indicated their disbelief.
�He was a follower. That girl was basically one of his first girlfriends,� said Ramirez family friend Bobbi Mischel.
Mischel described him as �a very good kid.�
�He doesn�t have the mindset to do anything like that,� she said. �Every single person that knows Chris knows he would never be able to do that.�
Mitchell, the assistant state attorney, declined to comment on what they may or may not have learned about the Bowden/Ramirez relationship.
Neither would he comment on whether either Bowden or Ramirez knew the man they are accused of killing.
�We are in the process of determining relationships between all parties,� he said.
Anderson family members were also contacted Monday through social media. They declined comment.
Contact Daily News Staff Writer Tom McLaughlin at 850-315-4435 or firstname.lastname@example.com. Follow him on Twitter @TomMnwfdn.


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Teen charged in deadly Ohio school shooting pleads guilty
CHARDON, Ohio – A teenager charged with killing three students at an Ohio high school pleaded guilty to aggravated murder charges on Tuesday.
Eighteen-year-old T.J. Lane entered the plea in a deal with prosecutors. Lane pleaded guilty to three counts of aggravated murder, among other charges. As part of the agreement, prosecutors removed the death penalty specifications.
Lane's appearance in the Geauga County courtroom came one day before the anniversary of the deadly shootings at Chardon High School, east of Cleveland.
Lane had been charged with fatally shooting three students and injuring others.
Both the defense and the prosecution had sought court-ordered psychiatric testing for Lane to determine if he would be competent to stand trial.
Before the case went to adult court last year, a juvenile court judge ruled that Lane was mentally competent despite evidence he suffers from hallucinations, psychosis and fantasies.
Investigators say he admitted shooting at students but said he didn't know why he did it. Prosecutors say Lane took a .22-caliber pistol and a knife to the school last Feb. 27 and fired 10 shots at a group of students in the cafeteria.
Lane attended an alternative school for students who haven't done well in traditional schools. He was at Chardon waiting for a bus.
He pleaded guilty Tuesday to three counts of aggravated murder, two counts of attempted aggravated murder and one count of felonious assault.
He faces a maximum sentence of life in prison without parole if convicted. He isn't eligible for the death penalty because he was 17 at the time of the shootings, even though he was charged as an adult.