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The Marine lies on his side in the military hospital, his wheelchair parked nearby, waiting to be cast for his first pair of legs. The prosthetist dips strips of fabric coated in plaster into a bucket of warm water, then smooths them over thin pants covering Sgt. Collin Raaz's battle-scarred thighs.
Almost four months earlier, on June 15th, the 25-year-old scout sniper lost both legs above the knee after an insurgent bomb explosion in Afghanistan.
For partial leg amputations like his, prosthetists and technicians at San Diego Naval Medical Center take molds of the residual limbs and use them to make plastic sockets that fit over the thighs.
Brian Zalewski, Raaz's prosthetist, prefers to cast the sockets using his hands instead of a three-dimensional computer scanner. Bomb blasts cause uneven amputations bulging with scar tissue in places and sunken with voids of flesh in others. Sometimes bone grows out of control, floating in soft tissues where it can press sharply against the prosthetic socket.
The Long Walk Home: A Wounded Marine's Recovery
A growing number of troops who lost their legs fighting in Afghanistan are learning to walk again at San Diego Naval Medical Center. Staff writer Gretel C. Kovach and photographer Nelvin C. Cepeda shadowed Sgt. Collin Raaz through three months of his recovery and his new path on prosthetic legs.
Chapter 3: San Diego hospital ward
Chapter 4: Physical, mental rehabilitation
Chapter 5: First steps
Chapter 7:A reunion of Marine brothers
Chapter 8:Prospects after military service
"Because of all the debris from the blast, the limbs can be full of pieces of metal or fragments of bone. A lot of times they don't come to the surface right away," Zalewski says. "When we get our hands on them, we can feel the mass."
Prosthetic staffers custom shape each socket. They make windows to relieve pressure on obtrusions and ensure the overall fit distributes weight evenly across the limb.
When the plaster sets, Zalewski pops the mold off. It makes a sucking sound — a good sign for a snug fit. About a week later, in early October, Zalewski carries two short prosthetic legs out of the lab and shows them to Raaz.
First steps
The thigh sockets are connected to straight pylons about 6 inches tall, ending in small square metal foot pads.
Raaz must work with the "stubbies" before getting full-height prosthetic legs. The wounds on his thighs need to toughen, his balance improve and his muscles harden, so he can walk for longer stretches.
Usually patients spend about a month in the short legs. Raaz wants to beat that average.
He pulls silicone gel liners over his thighs for cushion, tugs the sockets on and stands at the parallel bars, while his mother, Julie Raaz, takes a video with her iPad.
This is the first time he has stood upright since he was wounded.
It feels strange, but good. His balance is off, the hard sockets pinch a bit and his thigh muscles strain to bear his weight. "Hopefully I won't faceplant," he says.
Then he takes a few wobbling steps, swinging the legs out to the side slightly, since they lack a knee.
"Like a baby," Raaz says. "I look like one too, all short."
His mother comes over for a hug. He used to look down at her from his height of 6 feet 2 inches. Now he is about 5 feet tall.
"I'm probably a hell of a dancer on these," Raaz says, thinking of the Marine Corps birthday ball coming up in less than two months. It would be nice to be there with the guys from my battalion, after they return this month from Afghanistan.


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In terms of the setting at Cannes, as you say in the film, it is both a celebration of cinema and a giant market. How do you see that balance between film as a business and film as an art as having shifted in recent years?
Terribly, terribly. You know how you get it -- in the use of the word "flop." It used to be that you couldn't call a movie that you thought was a great film a "flop," because flop was an insulting term. Now flop has just taken over and it means the same thing -- failed to make money. People are in effect saying if it lost a lot of money it's no good -- I feel that's a horrible way to talk about a movie that you like.
It was predicted, of all people, by Michael Eisner in the '80s, maybe in the late '70s. Eisner said a good movie is a movie that makes money; a bad movie is a movie that loses money. And I was thinking, what an awful position to take in relation to art. Little did I know that 30 years later, one would be considered almost bizarreLY naïve in just saying that that's the case.
That's what I think the real change has been -- and you can see it in certain actors and certain directors. Take De Niro -- we were going to do "The Gambler" together, we'd become very close at the time, and he was a very serious, dedicated actor and everything had to do with the quality of the work. Now he's become one of the most successful actors in movie history, but is doing films that would suggest he's not doing them for any other reason than the deal. And I think that in this cinematic world today you find a handful of actors, at most, who say "I don't do anything for money."
The vast majority of actors, and, for that matter, even directors will do something for the money and only then worry about the quality of the film. I've often wondered, since no one has offered me $20 million to make a movie, or 10 or eight, what kind of a prostitute I am capable of being. I would like to think that I would never do a movie that I am not excited about or that I'm not in totally and that I certainly would not agree to make a movie that I wouldn't eagerly see myself. You don't know really know unless you're in that position. I do know that I'd rather kill someone I don't like for money than shoot a movie I didn't like for money.
I feel like that's how you see people who have clearly talked themselves into liking a movie -- rationalized enthusiasm that wouldn't necessarily have been there if it would have been someone else's project.
I see it all the time -- a lot of times where somebody is promoting somebody else's movie, because they are hilariously convoluted. There are some guys that are actually blunt about stating why they wanted to make the movie -- first thing they'll say is "I was paid." I was lucky, because it was cheaper for me to make movies then, but I also want to make my kind of movie. The reason "Seduced and Abandoned" was so easy to make was we only needed $2 million -- my guess is that had it been $5 or 6 million to make, it would have been much, much tougher. I don't even know that it would have been doable.
The figure that you're looking for your "Last Tango" film -- $25 million -- exemplifies a type of movie that Hollywood is moving away from.
I have a kind of cheerfully oblivious view to the removal of the world from straight to dramatic movies. It's still so hard for me to believe we've entered the realm of... I mean, look at the career of [Robert] Downey [Jr.], I invented him. I used him in "The Pick-Up Artist" and "Two Girls and a Guy" -- which remains by far his best performance -- and then "Black and White," which are all serious dramas. However much acclaim he got for that and the performances he gave, he became a billionaire when he suddenly became a cartoon. He's now the most successful cartoon in history, and it's a kind of metaphor for what happened. This guy who's done some great work, hasn't made anyone or himself much money, but he made everyone else a bunch of money when he turned himself into a cartoon.
The film includes these frank assessments from the people you speak to of different actors' star quality and their bankability. It seems like it would take someone as grounded at this point in his career as Alec Baldwin to listen to and remain unruffled by them. Did you find that the two of you had similar thoughts on the ideas of what being a star means these days?
Both of us are loose and noncategorical about how we think about things. Alec has more energy and broad intelligence and humor and self-awareness and trueness in judging people, not just in movies, than anyone I've met in my life. The quickness, subtleness, openness -- to all forms -- presentation of the self is a kind of quintessential modern figure. I think the only person doing it to the same degree, in a different way, is James Franco -- reinventing himself every 15 minutes or something.
Franco, who I love, I've known for a long time and I think we'd do something great together -- Franco doesn't rely on the most elegant and eloquent articulation the feelings the way Alec does. Alec is a great linguist. He has a feel for the right words and the right sentence and the right insight verbally. It enables him to shine in so many different areas. I actually got the idea that we should do a movie together from the thrill in our conversations that we would have during these lunches and dinners, saying "God, we gotta shoot this. It's too good not to use." He came up with the idea of doing it in Cannes.
It's hard for me to believe he'd never been before.
I know -- I think he's the first American actor to have traveled in Africa before he traveled in the Riviera.
"Seduced and Abandoned" has a cinematic look that's unusual for a documentary.
I have absolutely no intention of making a movie that isn't stylistic and original. Obviously, there are docs that are interesting and don't look good because of the circumstances. I like watching movies that are revealing in those certain ways, but I couldn't make one -- it's just not my plan on the planet. This movie did consist of a lot of stuff that had to be sudden and improvisational, but had enough that could be planned, and then had enough where I could find a style to make it rich and beautiful, with the split screen -- I tried it in "Tyson." And of course you could do things visually with color that you can't do with film.
I used to be quite nostalgic about film, to feel that film is to the unconscious as digital is to conscious mind. I used to think that film had an advantage over digital, but I no longer feel that way at all. First of all you have longer takes, and secondly, which is of huge importance, you can do these terrific embellishments with color and also music. Music was my great ambition, but unfortunately I was insufficiently talented to become a serious composer or pianist. I've gotten my revenge by using all of my favorite music in my movies. These films are all real fulfillments of deep-filled passions that I've had artistically.


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Natural Products Expo East ended on a very sad note when industry lost a good friend and colleague. Peter Eric Baskauskas died of sudden cardiac arrest on September 22 at the age of 56.
WholeFoods Magazine was pleased to honor many of the recipients of the 2012 Natural Choice Awards at Expo East. Publisher Heather Wainer and Editor/Associate Publisher Kaylynn Chiarello-Ebner visited the booths of the award winners recognized below:
Part of Whole Foods Market's success has come as a result of its efforts in engaging customers, and much of this happens through social media. At a seminar titled "What's Behind Whole Foods Market's Social Media Strategy?", Whole Foods Market digital marketing manager Ryan Amirault shared some insight into how his company's social media outreach has developed.
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CBI sources said the case against the company has been registered for alleged criminal conspiracy, criminal breach of trust and under provisions of Prevention of Corruption Act.
Agency teams carried out coordinated searches at the firm's office in Nagpur, two places in Raipur and one place in Raigad, they said.
The agency has registered the FIR as an offshoot of its preliminary enquiry into the allocation of coal blocks during the period 1993-2005.
The Gare Palma IV/4 coal block in Mand Raigarh, Chhattisgarh was allocated to the company in August, 1999 for their sponge iron plant stipulating that the party will wash the coal in a washery to a 20 per cent ash level and the middling produced by washing non-coking coal for its sponge iron plant will be used in its captive power plant.
It is alleged that the company resorted to excess mining of nearly 5.6 lakh MT coal since 2007-08 and onwards without obtaining prior permission from Central Government. CBI sources said the company was allowed to mine about 15.6 lakh MT coal whereas it mined 21.2 Lakh MT of coal.
The agency alleged that company intimated excess coal production to Coal Controller and state government authorities but no action was taken by them.
CBI sources said the company has so far only 0.255 MTPA capacity sponge iron plant instead of one MTPA as claimed by the company at the time of applying and despite that Coal Ministry approved revised mine plan, increasing the rated capacity of the mine from 0.48 MTPA to one MTPA.
The agency alleged that conditions stipulated that no coal mined from the block shall be sold, delivered or disposed of except for the stated captive mining purpose which was for the consumption in sponge iron plant.
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Hatter Alert is Stetson University's official emergency preparedness and notification website. You will find important information here regarding emergency procedures, and you will be notified through this website in the event of an actual emergency on campus. It is imperative that everyone register for Hatter Alert in order to receive important communication about any campus emergency.
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With thoughts of the Newtown tragedy still in the front of our minds, as President Libby stated in her email message to the university community, dated Jan. 16, now is the time to review what our own response should be – individually and collectively – should an active shooter event occur at Stetson.
The Center for Personal Protection and Safety, which works with more than 1,100 colleges and universities nationwide, has put together a training video that educates campuses in how to purposefully react in life-threatening situations. Along with Stetson's Emergency Management Team, President Libby strongly encourages the university community to become familiar with campus safety precautions and know how to seek cover or otherwise respond.
An active shooter is defined by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security as an individual actively engaged in killing or attempting to kill people in a confined and populated area; in most cases, active shooters use firearms and there is no pattern or method to their selection of victims. All faculty, staff and students are encouraged to watch the 28-minute video "Shots Fired On Campus" before Friday, Feb. 1.
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Please also be aware that our Emergency Management Team is currently working with local partners to increase fire safety and knowledge. In the near future, we will review our updated fire safety guidelines campus-wide and conduct fire drills. In the meantime, please adhere to safety protocols by exiting all buildings quickly and safely if an alarm is triggered.


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Clarke County's District 4 supervisor was honored by the community Monday.
Paul Mosley was recently elected president of the Mississippi Association of Supervisors. He's the first from Clarke County to hold that position. He served as first vice-president for the organization last year.
Mosley said he's thankful to serve Clarke County and have the support of his fellow board members. He said he hopes his position with the state association will benefit Clarke County and east Mississippi.
"In January, February and March we'll be lobbying at the Capitol for different things that our counties need," said Mosley. "And have close contact with our representatives, state senators, and that the biggest purpose. Trying to do things for our citizens back home."
Mosley was first elected county supervisor in 1991. He's currently serving his sixth term.
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Many see it as a tool of last resort to force school districts and municipalities (which are also subject to the cap) to reverse their thinking process: instead of deciding what's needed and telling taxpayers what they must pay, the new idea is to start with a "small" increase in what taxpayers paid the year before and telling districts to spend only what the taxpayers can afford.
The law clearly has unintended negative consequences, and it needs to be fixed. We want school officials to continue to be prudent in their budgeting, and to keep tax increases as low as possible. But their hands shouldn't be tied, either, by technicalities that can spell doom for even a well-thought-out budget.
Right now, high school officials are considering a budget with a tax levy increase below 1 percent. To require a supermajority of voters to pass it isn't in keeping with the spirit of the law, which is supposed to encourage responsible budgeting.
The district has been making budget cuts for several years. It is at the point where the cuts are starting to hurt, and any further reductions will start to have a negative effect on education. State aid simply doesn't keep up with the costs of the mandates the state hands down.
We call on Assemblywoman Michaelle Solages, Assemblyman Brian Curran and State Sen. Dean Skelos, who all represent parts of the Central High School District in Albany, to look into reforming the tax-cap law so these technicalities are corrected. In additional to holding districts to a maximum tax increase, perhaps there should be a provision that at least gives school districts a bottom number.
This isn't the first time the tax cap has caused issues with a Valley Stream budget. In 2012, a voter-sponsored bus referendum required District 13 to get at least 60 percent of the public vote to pass its tax-cap-compliant budget even if the referendum was rejected, which it was.
Our local state lawmakers need to examine these flaws in the law and make the necessary corrections. We hope our local school officials will urge them to, as well.
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DENVER – Third baseman Martin Prado left Friday's game in the sixth inning with a finger injury, but luckily for the Diamondbacks it doesn't appear to be as bad as it looked.
Prado's glove got pinned between the third-base bag and baserunner Charlie Blackmon's spikes on a stolen-base attempt. He looked to be in a lot of pain, and quickly left the field accompanied by assistant trainer Ryan DiPanfilo.
"It burned at the beginning," Prado said. "It was bleeding a lot. I got my (index) finger out of my glove, so my finger was exposed. Fortunately for me, it's just a little bit of skin off."
Prado did not require stitches, and both he and manager Kirk Gibson believe the laceration only will sideline him for a day or so.
The season hasn't begun the way Prado would have liked. Despite being the team's best hitter in spring training, he is just 4 for 28 (.143).
"It's one of those feelings where my timing is a little off," Prado said. "I'm working hard trying to get my timing because I'm going to have to start turning things around. I'm hoping I can start that streak tomorrow and start winning games."
Prado was 22 for 50 (.440) in the Cactus League, serving as another example of how little spring-training numbers seem to matter.
"That's the way it is, man," he said. "Hitting is tricky. It's very tricky. The thing is, I only have 30 at-bats. I have 600 more. So we'll see."
Gibson was asked before Friday's game if he had considered moving Prado out of the cleanup spot. He sounded reluctant.
"I put him there for a reason," Gibson said. "I believe in him and I want him to know that I do. I feel confident that he's fine. The numbers don't show he's fine, but he's fine.
"We didn't lose that (Giants) series because Prado didn't do his job in the four hole. I think he had good at-bats. They didn't fall for him. Guys made some decent plays on him."
Short hops
The Diamondbacks will have $7.2 million to spend in this year's draft, the 11th-most in the majors, according to Baseball America.
Their top pick, at No. 16 overall, is valued at $2.3 million by baseball's slotting system. They pick 54th overall in the second round ($1 million) and have selections at Nos. 69 and 70, both of which are competitive balance picks valued at around $800,000.
Diamondbacks routed by Colorado Rockies
The Diamondbacks can redistribute the total purse however they want, i.e., by spending more or less than the slot amount on each pick, but can't go beyond $7.2 million without incurring penalties.
— The Diamondbacks claimed outfielder Roger Kieschnick off waivers from the San Francisco Giants and assigned him to Triple-A Reno. Kieschnick, a third-round pick in 2008, was once a well-regarded prospect in the Giants organization but depending on the year has either not hit as much as anticipated or battled injuries to his back and shoulder – or both.
— With an infield single in the eighth inning, first baseman Paul Goldschmidt extended his hit streak to 26 games. It's the longest active streak in the majors and the second-longest in franchise history, behind Luis Gonzalez's 30-gamer in 1999.
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Diamondbacks at Rockies
5:10 p.m. Saturday
Coors Field, Denver
RHP Brandon McCarthy (0-0, 6.75) vs. LHP Jorge De La Rosa (0-1, 10.38)
Despite giving up five runs in 6 2/3 innings in his first start of the season, McCarthy pitched well, running his fastball up to 94 mph and throwing strikes with it and his curveball. … McCarthy struck out four and walked one. … McCarthy, a Colorado native, did not fare well against his hometown team last year. In 18 innings against the Rockies, McCarthy allowed 12 runs on 28 hits (6.00 ERA). … De La Rosa started for the Rockies on Opening Day against the Marlins and gave up five runs in 41/3 innings. … He has a career 2.40 ERA in 971/3 innings in his career against the Diamondbacks. He posted a 2.38 ERA in four starts against them last season.
Projected starters
Sunday: At Colorado, 1:10 p.m., Diamondbacks LHP Wade Miley (1-1, 5.25) vs. Rockies LHP Brett Anderson (0-1, 4.50).
Monday: Off day.
Tuesday: At San Francisco, 1:35p.m., Diamondbacks RHP Trevor Cahill (0-2, 6.30) vs. Giants RHP Tim Hudson (1-0, 0.00).
Wednesday: At San Francisco, 7:15p.m., Diamondbacks Bronson Arroyo (0-0, 4.15) vs. Giants Tim Lincecum (0-0, 6.00).


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Ratings watch: CBS' Kansas-North Carolina telecast tops week
Kansas' 70-58 victory over North Carolina on Sunday on CBS topped the local ratings with a 10.7 as NCAA men's basketball tournament numbers soared in the first week. OU's 70-55 loss to San Diego State on TBS on Friday earned a 9.7, and OSU's 68-55 loss to Oregon on TNT on Thursday had an 8.7. CBS and Turner Sports combined to deliver the most-viewed first week of the tournament in 20 years, according to Nielsen Fast Nationals. The combined coverage averaged 8.9 million total viewers, up 9 percent over last year. In the women's tourney, OU's victory over UCLA on Monday on ESPN2 had a 4.1.
Sports events March 19-25
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2. Oklahoma vs. San Diego State, NCAA men's tournament, Friday, TBS, 9.7.
2. Denver at Oklahoma City, NBA, Tuesday, FSOK, 9.7.
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Friday, January 1, 12:00 a.m. PST
Thursday's walkthrough marked the last official practice of the 2009 season and final team workout in the careers of Oregon's senior class. The Ducks completed their weeklong stint at the Home Depot Center at approximately 11:30 a.m. before heading to Pasadena for a team photo at the Rose Bowl.
At the stadium, while getting ready for the granddaddy of all photo ops, the players were treated to a brief talk and Q&A session with Chesley "Sully" Sullenberger, the grand marshall of this year's Tournament of Roses parade. Captain Sullenberger was the pilot of US Airways Flight 1549, which he safely landed in New York's Hudson River after losing all power to both engines shortly after takeoff. The whole room was in awe of his story and would still be in there asking him questions if they didn't have a game to play today.
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In case you didn't have a chance to hear the Cowherd interview, Chip let the cat out of the bag with regard to Friday's uniforms. The Ducks will be wearing a new stealth ensemble, which renders the skill players invisible. However, viewers will still be able to see the linemen.
Enough babbling on my part. Happy New Year! Enjoy the pics...
The Ducks feel out the freshly cropped and painted natural grass surface at the Rose Bowl.
Mellow yellow for now. At 2:10 p.m. today? Not so much.
Jonathan Stewart never played in a Rose Bowl, but if he comes to the game as a fan, he should sit here.
Consider this blog your virtual Rose Bowl parade if it were held in the stadium with no floats.
Can you imagine WASHINGTON being painted in an Autzen endzone? UCLA must really hate Rose Bowl week when they aren't playing in the game.
What will Lee Corso (not pictured) wear this morning?
The main reason for our trip to Pasadena on Thursday.
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News Scan: In-store mobile payments catch on; Applebee's pledges a tablet at every table; more
>> In-store mobile payments are catching on
Close to one-third of U.S. online consumers who own a mobile phone are interested in or already use mobile payments for in-store purchases, almost double the percentage in 2011, according to a survey of 4,000 U.S. adults by Forrester Research. A full 61 percent of respondents have heard of a digital wallet, but only 11 percent use one. For digital wallets, respondents trust PayPal the most (38 percent), followed by banks and credit card issuers (35 percent) and Amazon.com (23 percent). Read more about the Forrester survey.
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>> Applebee's will put a tablet at every table
Restaurant chain Applebee's plans to have a tablet at every table by the end of next year, a total of nearly 100,000 tablets, according to a report by USA Today. Customers can use the tablets to view the menu, order food items, play video games and pay the check. Rival restaurant chain Chili's has already begun providing tablets at tables in its company-owned locations. "Looking out over the next decade, it will become fairly routine for consumers in table service restaurants to use tablets to view menus, place orders and pay bills," Hudson Riehle, senior vice president of research at the National Restaurant Association, tells the newspaper. Read more of the USA Today report.
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[More on Amazon: Holiday sales should get big boost from mobile | Amazon's new smartphones]
>> Smart connected device shipments to soar in Western Europe
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[More on Europe: Mamma mia! Windows Phone overtakes iOS in Italy | Personal mobile devices cause nearly one-third of corporate breaches in Europe]
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duPont-Columbia Awards: About
The Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Awards Center is dedicated to upholding the highest standards in journalism by:
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Every year about a dozen news stories are honored by the duPont-Columbia University Awards for the strength of their reporting, storytelling and impact in the public interest. The winning pieces are selected by the duPont jury from hundreds of entries vetted by a board of screeners. The awards are presented at Columbia University's Low Library in a ceremony hosted by some of the country's leading broadcast journalists. The evening features highlights of the award-winning reporting.
Winners receive a silver baton, or a gold baton for truly outstanding reporting, which is inscribed with the famous observation about the power of television by the late Edward R. Murrow:
"This instrument can teach, it can illuminate; yes, it can even inspire. But it can do so only to the extent that humans are determined to use it to those ends. Otherwise it is merely wires and lights in a box." Address to the Radio and Television News Directors Association, Chicago, October 15, 1958.
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Jessie Ball duPont created the awards as a memorial to her husband Alfred I. duPont, who died in 1935. Her goal was to honor his dedication to progressive reform and to freedom of information in the public interest by recognizing the "essential and patriotic service" that radio and its commentators provided during the early years of World War II. The criteria she established then still hold true today:
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Should You Manage Your Own Money?
Some Arguments for and Against
Do you really need a financial adviser? That depends on whom you ask.
Most of the nation's roughly 223,400 financial advisers will tell you you're better off using their services. Do-it-yourselfers, meanwhile, shun hired advice as a waste of time and, yes, money.
Whether you need an adviser depends largely on your financial situation. Are you nearing retirement, puzzling over when to take Social Security benefits or tap your 401(k)? Call an adviser. Need to beef up your emergency fund? Track your spending with an app or old-fashioned notebook—you'll probably be able to spot on your own instances where you could spend less and save more.
And whom you hire could make all the difference. "It's an obvious fact: Some financial advisers are more competent, more observant of their fiduciary duty than others," says former Vanguard Group CEO John Bogle.
Mr. Bogle suggests fee-only advisers, saying their interests tend to be better aligned with their clients' than those of advisers paid in other ways, such as by commission. (Advisers paid that way usually hope to sell you a product.)
For those on the fence about hiring professional help, some arguments for and against:
Advisers aren't just for the rich. You may have heard that you need to be rolling in dough to hire someone to help manage it. But planners like those with the Garrett Planning Network and the National Association of Personal Financial Advisors are fee-only and may not require minimum asset amounts.
Financial-planning site LearnVest.com also offers affordable advisory packages that connect you with a certified planner. For example, the site offers a Budget Starter plan, which includes a consultation with an adviser who designs a customized budget for you, and to whom you have unlimited email access, for $19 a month plus a one-time $89 setup fee (which includes the first month of service).
Eliminate emotion. Managing money is an emotional experience for many of us, says Eleanor Blayney, consumer advocate for the Certified Financial Planner Board of Standards, a financial-planning professional organization. So an unbiased third party, like a fee-only planner, can come in handy even for financially savvy clients. "You might be a brain surgeon—but would you operate on your own head?" Ms. Blayney says.
Your judgment may take a hit if you're experiencing acute financial difficulties, like debt or a sudden change in circumstances, she says. That's where an adviser would come in. Plus, Ms. Blayney says, while you can read as much personal-finance advice as you can find, executing it is often easier said than done, and might be best left to a seasoned professional.
Things aren't getting any simpler. As time goes on, your financial situation will likely grow more complex, says Greg McBride, chief financial analyst at personal-finance site Bankrate.com. Add children and, eventually, a potential inheritance or retirement into the mix, and there's suddenly a lot to keep track of.
Indeed, if ever you choose to consult a financial adviser, you should do so when you're getting ready to retire, says longtime personal-finance columnist Jane Bryant Quinn, who currently writes for AARP Bulletin.
An adviser can help you sort through Social Security, retirement-account and tax questions particular to this milestone, she says. It's important to get these right the first time, she says, since your time to recover from faulty decision-making at this stage is more limited.
It's not rocket science. When you cut through it all, the keys to financial success are simple, Ms. Quinn says. Getting out of debt, structuring a budget, purchasing adequate life- and health-insurance coverage, saving enough—these are all common-sense tasks, she says.
While she says that tax planning is often best handled by an accountant, and estate documents, by an attorney, Ms. Quinn says most people have enough financial know-how to manage their own money—they just often lack the confidence.
You won't stick to a pro's advice, anyway. Advisers often waste their breath when coaching clients. Data from a 2013 Employee Benefit Research Institute survey show that 23% of workers say they received professional investment advice from a paid adviser. Of these, just 27% said they followed all the advice.
Automate everything. Not only do you not need a financial adviser to help you save, you won't miss the extra cash if you have a portion of your paycheck deposited directly into a savings or retirement account, Ms. Quinn says.
"The only magic in personal finance is automatic savings," she says. You can also set up automatic credit-card payments, as well as automatic bill payments for most regular expenses like utilities, cable, rent or club memberships to minimize hassle and ensure timely payments.
There's an app for that... There are a host of free personal-finance sites and apps that make it easy to track your spending and create savings goals. Take Mint.com and its companion app. You can securely link the service, which has more than 14 million users, to your bank, retirement and credit-card accounts. Mint depicts your spending as a pie chart or graph, and can alert you if you're approaching the limit for a category, such as entertainment or food and dining.
…or a software program. Then there are digital investment managers, subscription software services that not only track your spending and investments—they actually invest on your behalf.
Services such as FutureAdvisor represent human-digital "hybrid" advisers, says Bo Lu, CEO of FutureAdvisor, since the software moves money according to programs based on principles established by the firm's human analysts.
Human advisers can cost four times as much as such hybrid services, Mr. Lu says. (FutureAdvisor charges an annual 0.5% of assets under management and requires a $5,000 minimum.)
In addition to costing less, Mr. Lu says, the digital service gives you more bang for your buck because it's constantly monitoring and interacting with your funds, as opposed to a human financial adviser whose bandwidth likely wouldn't allow for such frequent transactions on behalf of clients.
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Mother's day is coming up and some moms are confessing to their secrets. A website called Scarymommy.com is a place where some moms go to make their confessions. Here's some of the things they've confessed.
• I hide when my kids throw up so my husband has to deal with it.
• When I'm really tired I accidentally blurt out the correct answers to my son's homework so we can get done faster.
• I know how to clean a house but have no idea how to keep a clean house.
• I pass gas in front of my toddler.
• Last week, I was caught eating Nutella from the jar. Not wanting to share, I told my kids it was poop. They, in turn, told every single one of their friends that I eat poop from a jar. Whatever. I'd do it again.
• I rush home from work so I can crawl into bed and snuggle my dog for 15 minutes before my husband gets home with the baby ... and sometimes, when they walk in, I'm disappointed they are home already.
• I actually considered waxing my 7 year old daughter's mustache before her communion
Slacker says he also runs away when his kids start vomiting. If he knows they are not going to choke to death he doesn't want to be around to hear or see it. He also skips pages in books so he can go to bed. He enjoys those 15 minutes when he can be home alone before the kids get home from football and karate.
Steve says if he ever were to get tired reading a bedtime story he would make up the pages and then skip to the end. He agrees with the kids thinking nutella is like poop. He would put vodka in sippy cup as a better disguise.
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I left my phone at one of the stores I went shopping at this weekend. I went back and
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Reconstructed 80s Bow Print Dress
It's been a while since I've done a complete reconstruction, but I did one recently.
When I saw the purple bow print material on the dress above, I immediately thought of my youngest sister. She loves purple. Plus, what teenage girl doesn't love a colorful bow print?
So, I reconstructed the dress into a little summer frock. Here is the dress, pictured on my adorable baby sis' (she's seventeen, but she's still the baby). Continue reading
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Turquoise Leopake Tie-Back Dress
I finished this reconstruction project more than a month ago, but I'd still like to show it to you….
I've tried to imagine what this print is actually supposed to be, but it boggles my mind.
It does seem like some sort of abstract mystery animal print. Is it supposed to be a drug-induced vision of a leopard? Or maybe a psychedelic snake? Or perhaps some sort of prehistoric bug? Maybe I'm completely off-base here, and its supposed to be interpreted as cracked dirt, or sections of cooled rock floating in molten lava….
Below are the steps in the reconstruction process. You can skip to the end if you're only interested in the final product…. Continue reading
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Pots Made from Lampshades and Tea Plates
The other day, when I was walking around the thrift store, I came up with an idea for inexpensive, decorative pots.
Every thrift store has unique little tea plates that are missing their tea cups, or just charming, ornamental plates.
These stores also have an array of glass lampshades from discarded light fixtures.
So I thought to myself, why not combine these two readily available items to make inexpensive and unique pots? Continue reading
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Picnicking with Petunias and Other Pretty Plants
When I saw this old picnic basket in the thrift store last week, it beckoned me to snatch it up and make it into a new home for some flowers.
At first, I wanted to put some daisies in it (I am inexplicably drawn to daisies—all the time), but I decided to go against my natural inclination. I put a combination of plants with different leaves, colors, and heights into the basket. Continue reading
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The Sound of Music Dress
Some of you may recall a post that I wrote about The Sound of Music last summer (See it here, if you'd like). At the end of the post, I made a remark about the possibility of a future dress … Continue reading
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Hint of Spring Skirt
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Villa Noise: Spaceman Benteke and Rocketman Carew
8th Mar 2013
Carew previously suggested he was in a pub next to Birmingham's Rocket Club.
But on Goals on Sunday on Sky Sports he revealed he was fined for a late-night jaunt to the gentleman's club in the city centre.
However, he remained adamant he was injured at the time and not in the frame to play against the Dutch giants the following evening.
He said: "I had a great time with Martin O'Neill at Aston Villa. He feels the energy and the mood, the confidence of the team. He plays on that.
"He would shout one time and be really calm the next time. He always did the right thing at the right time.
"But he has a great temper. We all know that. He's up there and then down there.
"He fined me a couple of times. Everyone knows about the one occasion. There was one strip club situation.
"But I wasn't going to play the next day. I knew that.
"It was just the circumstances. That made it difficult. He had to give me a fine.
"I was not going to a strip club the day before the game in that way. I knew I wasn't going to play.
"He knew it too. I wasn't in the squad beforehand. It wasn't that I was in the squad and then got dropped because of the strip club incident."
Carew also spoke affectionately about his time in claret and blue alongside Stan Petrov.
Villa's former No.10 spoke of Petrov's strength of character and how the "love" from everyone at Villa will help him through his fight against illness.
He added: "It was great. He was one of my best friends from the very first day, actually. We really connected as friends and we played great football together aswell.
"There are certain players who find you a bit easier than other ones on the pitch. Stan was one of them.
"Obviously it's sad what happened. I talk to him every second week. He is strong.
"He is doing well. He is a very strong character. If someone is going to beat this, he's the guy. I am sure he will.
"He is an extremely positive person. All the love and good energy will help him through this.
"The fan tribute in the 19th minute is tremendous. He is loved and the fans are amazing. Everyone is supporting him. Everyone is behind him. He will get through this."
Match magazine is our favourite publication at present - after its 'relegation crunch' prediction of 2-1 to Villa against Reading this weekend.
They said: "Reading have a decent home record and Villa don't travel well.
"But Paul Lambert's side have more class up front.
"That will make the difference, with Christian Benteke bagging the winner."
They picked out Benteke as the key man, adding: "The giant striker destroys defenders with his raw power and is unbeatable in the air."
Christian Benteke is renowned around the football globe after his brilliant performances this season - and seemingly further afield too.
Two football fans - on hand for Lynx - dressed up as astronauts in the Trinity Road Stand at the Villa v Man City clash before unveiling a banner, saying 'Benteke is out of this world.'
It was quite a sight - especially when the pair stood up in the 19th minute to applaud Stan Petrov!
The advertising astronauts have been promoting The Lynx Space Academy - which will see 22 lucky people, including one Brit - launched into orbit.
They have been spotted on the London Underground, Buckingham Palace and now Villa Park.
AVTV gets good audience figures for their pre-match show - but they accidentally had an extra 100 listeners this week.
Filming links outside the William McGregor statue, Jack Woodward's radio microphone was beamed into a conference meeting being held in the 1874 Lounge by West Midlands NHS.
So instead of finding out about best practice in the medical professional, learned industry leaders were learning out about the origins behind the formation of Villa in 1874.
Not a bad way to spend your Wednesday afternoon!
Really interesting to find out that Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - creator of fictional detective sleuth Sherlock Holmes - spent three years in Aston as part of his medical degree.
Usually our 'From the Archives' features are festooned with facts - much like the cases of Holmes - but we took a leap into the fantastical this week in suggesting that Conan Doyle could have been a Villa fan.
He lived a stone's throw from their Perry Barr ground and he will have been acquainted with the club's Scottish dignitaries like William McGregor and Archie Hunter.
Unfortunately, information around that time is very limited when it comes to Conan Doyle and Villa but it's not too much of a step to think he could have been of claret and blue persuasion.
If not, the game was most certainly afoot!
Justin Bieber has been in the news all week, with his huge 'Believe' tour taking in Birmingham, Nottingham and London.
While the press had a field day with his on-stage tardiness, we came across a tale of more intrinsic value to those of claret and blue appetite.
We discovered, via social media site Twitter, that songwriter and best pal Ryan Butler is a Villa fan.
Canadian Butler, who travels the globe as part of Bieber's entourage, was brought up to support the club by his Bloxwich-born dad Martin.
He told Twitter followers that he would be wearing his vintage Villa top at the LG Arena and hoped to see other Villa fans doing the same.
We tracked Ryan down and he was thrilled to appear on AVFC.co.uk discussing his support.
His favourite players are Gabby Agbonlahor and Christian Benteke and he's promised to get the exhaustingly-busy Bieber into Villa soon.
Our tweet, promoting the story of his support, was retweeted by the man himself - and then by 'Beliebers' - the nickname for Bieber's fanatical fans - all over the world.
Butler is pictured above with Stan Collymore at Bodymoor Heath in 1998.
Here's our latest caption competition.
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Please email us with your suggestion at firstname.lastname@example.com.
All legitimate entries will be put into a draw and the one picked out will have their name in the next Jack Reacher book by Lee Child, an avid Villa fan.
We've had a plethora of people emailing in and some from non-literary works - but equally enthralling.
We didn't realise that Aston Villa appear in the film Hannibal with Anthony Hopkins.
In one scene in a police station, Villa are seen playing on the TV in the background.
Also, it was news to us that footage from Villa's 1980-81 championship team is seen in the music video to Bob Marley's smash-hit One Love.
It's true that you learn something every day!
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AVFCFilmFriday this week features the movies of Julia Roberts.
Find the best answers below.
Andy Marshall's playful dig at Brad Guzan's fashion sense backfired on him this week.
Mischievous Marshall couldn't resist chipping in on a Twitter Q&A that his fellow goalkeeper Guzan was conducting through the social media platform.
Unfortunately for the veteran stopper, Shay Given was on hand to make it known who the real fashion victim is in the Bodymoor Heath goalkeeping department.
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As mentioned in a previous post, I worked in a candy store when I was a teenager where I made hand made candy. This low carb white chocolate almond bark recipe is another low carb spin on one of the candies we used to make and sell. We sold both white and regular chocolate almond bark. It was a simple recipe where we had to melt the chocolate disks in the microwave and then mix almonds in and spread it out in a pan to harden. The white chocolate was always my favorite. I had been hooked on white chocolate even as a kid. While all my siblings would get the regular chocolate bunnies at Easter, my mother would always get a white chocolate one for me.
White chocolate is basically cocoa butter with milk, sugar and possibly vanilla flavor added. I was able to find food grade cocoa butter for a reasonable price in a natural food store. There's also a great organic cocoa butter made by East Bluff Trading Co. that is available here at Amazon.com. I recently bought some powdered xylitol so I thought I'd try it in this candy. If you don't have xylitol, I'm sure powdered erythritol and/or stevia would also work just fine. This sugar free white chocolate almond bark is fine to store at room temperature, but I like to keep it cold in the refrigerator.
White chocolate is a candy I loved as a child. It was probably due to its intense sweetness. Here's a low carb version I created without all the sugar.
- 5 ounces cocoa butter, food grade
- 2/3 cup powdered erythritol, Swerve, or xylitol*
- 1 teaspoon sugar-free vanilla extract
- 1 ¾ cups almonds
- Powdered milk (optional)
- Melt cocoa butter and sweetener together in microwave. Once melted, stir in vanilla extract and almonds.
- Spread evenly on a jellyroll pan lined with plastic wrap (a little water can be added under the plastic wrap to keep it from sticking to the pan).
- Refrigerate (or freeze) for until solid. Break into desired sizes.
- Store covered in refrigerator or room temperature.
* NOTE: Xylitol has been shown to be toxic to pets so keep it away from animals if you have them
For improved texture, add a small amount of whole fat powdered milk (1/4 - 1/2 cup).
Makes 7 servings
Per serving: 386 calories, 32.4g fat, 7g carb, 4.2g fiber, 2.8g net carbs, 7.6g protein


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Boston Globe Agrees that the Solution to Hazardous Dams is Removal
Over the past several weeks, flooding in New England has resulted in:
- The failure of the Forge Pond Dam in Freetown, Massachusetts, causing the evacuation of homes and businesses downstream.
- The failure of the Bolivar Street Dam in Canton, Massachusetts, causing the evacuation of an apartment building and sending sewage into the building.
- Leaks in the Rutan Dam in Stonington, Connecticut, causing the evacuation of homes downstream – the same homes that also had to be evacuated in a past flood because of the dam.
- A dam inspector falling ten feet into a hidden sinkhole on the Hathaway Pond Dam in Rochester, Massachusetts that had scoured out and threatened the failure of the entire structure. (Fortunately the inspector was not badly hurt).
- The mayor of Montville, Connecticut evacuated a portion of town out of concerns that the Rand-Whitney Dam could breach.
- The failure of the Colcord Pond Dam in Porter, Maine, destroying a road downstream.
Unfortunately these are not isolated incidents. It is a systemic problem brought about by the number and age of so many of our dams. There are more than 23,000 dams in the northeast part of the country from Pennsylvania to Maine. Many, probably most, no longer provide the function that they were built to provide. They are relics of an industrial past and many are now hazardous to public safety. In fact, The Boston Globe ran a feature story on this in Sunday's issue.
According to Massachusetts' state records, the state has 62 dams that are classified as high hazard – meaning that their failure will likely cause extensive property damage or loss of life – AND are in poor or unsafe condition. 62 dams that could kill someone and are in poor condition! We are able to present that incredible and perplexing data here because Massachusetts has done a good job inspecting dams and maintaining records. This is certainly not a problem in Massachusetts alone. There, and in other states, it is time to move beyond just inspections and short-term repairs to ensure public safety for the long-term.
The Boston Globe recognized in an editorial today that the only real, permanent solution to outdated dams is to remove them.
Watch the trailer for our forthcoming DVD on how communities around the country have removed dams and set back levees to increase their resilience to flooding and request your own complimentary copy.