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Merry… what?! Why the holidays could be harming your hearing
EDMONTON – All the shopping and socializing at this time of year can be enough to give you a headache, but could it actually be damaging your hearing?
On top of all the voices in busy stores and restaurants, many businesses pump up the music volume. So, when Global News received an email from a viewer concerned about noise levels, we decided to do an (admittedly unscientific) investigation.
Using a sound level meter and a smartphone app, we measured the decibel levels in various areas of an Edmonton mall with our viewer, Penny Jones.
"As a consumer, I'm faced with a barrage of noise all the time, no matter where I go," said the 66-year-old. "In some places, you can't even hear the cashier across the register.
"There's a difference between background noise and in-your-face noise."
The loudest part of the mall's food court measured about 76 decibels. The noisiest store we found, a women's clothing store, was also roughly 76 dB.
Audiologist Kathleen Jones (no relation to Penny) says those are acceptable noise levels. But she notes we did our measurements on a weekday afternoon – the mall would likely be louder on a weekend. Alberta's Occupational Health and Safety limit for an eight-hour shift is 85 dB.
"So (the noise level) can be a concern," said Kathleen Jones, "especially because the people that are working in those areas are there much longer than people coming and going."
Hearing loss is permanent – we can't regenerate the hair cells in our inner ears. That's why seniors tend to have more sensitive ears.
"As we age, our hearing tends to decline. And if you add more noise exposure to that, it's cumulative," explained the audiologist. "So it's not good for our ears, and they could be more susceptible to noise damage."
Penny has complained about music levels in businesses in the past. She says her concerns have largely been shrugged off by management, and she's worried about the employees.
"I can go and get out of here when my ears are ringing, and I can settle down and come back again," said Penny, "but (the employees) can't."
An Occupational Health and Safety representative emailed Global News this statement:
Employers in Alberta are responsible for minimizing the noise hazard at workplaces for employees and must adhere to the province's Occupational Health and Safety (OHS) legislation. More information about the OHS legislation can be found here.
It is often difficult for stores and restaurants to find a sound level that is acceptable to all customers; however, store management can help customers address such concerns. We invite you to first contact store management and, if necessary, property management to discuss your concerns about stores and restaurants that do not seem to be adhering to acceptable music levels.
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The proclamation extended today by the governor:
• Directs state agencies and departments to utilize state resources and to do everything reasonably possible to assist affected political subdivisions in an effort to respond to and recover from the fires;
• Orders into active state service the organized militia of Washington state to include the National Guard and the State Guard; and
• Instructs the Washington State Emergency Operations Center to coordinate all event-related assistance to the affected areas.
Additionally, the burn ban prohibits all outdoor burning, including but not limited to:
• Campfires
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• Residential yard debris clean-up, trash disposal, land clearing, weed abatement and agricultural burning activity
• Ignition of fireworks.
Liquid fueled or gas-fueled stoves are permitted provided the use is conducted over a non-flammable surface and at least five feet from flammable vegetation. Charcoal grills are permitted at private residences under the same conditions.
"With no rain in sight and dry conditions, we are in for the long haul," said Commissioner of Public Lands Peter Goldmark. "Local, state, federal, and Canadian firefighters are working to the limit to protect life and property. We need everyone's help to ensure that we do not have any human-caused fires in the next couple of weeks. Thank you to everyone for their help and cooperation."
Gregoire today also extended sympathies to the family and friends of a timber faller working to contain a blaze north of Wenatchee. The contract worker became ill on the fire line yesterday afternoon. He was treated by incident medical personnel and transported to a nearby hospital. He died yesterday evening.
"My thoughts and prayers are with this man's family tonight and the entire firefighting community" Gregoire said.
Meanwhile, Gregoire is urging Washingtonians to pay attention to air quality – as many parts of Eastern Washington are suffering from stagnant air and high pollution levels from smoke. Smoke from Eastern Washington wildfires will continue to affect communities near the fires over the next several days.
In some areas- including Wenatchee and Chelan – the air inversion and pollution levels are causing very unhealthy and hazardous air quality that could lead to aggravated respiratory problems, illness and even death for sensitive people. The worst air quality will be in the late night and morning hours because the smoke gets trapped near the ground during morning temperature inversions. Residents should take precautions by staying indoors, wearing masks if they need to go outside and check with their medical provider if they are having breathing problems.
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I love it when I'm using Spotify's "Discover Weekly" playlist and it brings up a song that I haven't heard in years, especially a song that I used to listen to over and over again during school. Funny how something played on repeat hundreds of times can still fade from memory.
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Is this the cure for hiccups?
I've been plagued all my life by randomly bad hiccups.
Tonight they struck again, but I may have found the solution.
- Breathe in2/3 through your nose (approximation) and mouth at the same time for 2 seconds.
- Breathe out in a very punchy manner from 90% your mouth and 10% your nose simultaneously – by punchy I mean you exhale quickly so the full breath is expelled in about half a second or less than a second.
- Repeat a few times (but less than a minute – say 45 seconds until you feel comfortable)
Boom. If it works like how it worked for me I hope to be awarded with an honorary doctorate somewhere.
People who have been kicked out of clubs for excessive hiccuping will be reborn.
30 Nov
Do you have a project to invest?
Today I got an e-mail:
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do u sell club ? or have project to invest ?
let me know. we are high interested
It was from Kazakhstan. Amusing; I looked up the company (Kulibayev Conglomerate) and unsurprisingly it was a scam.
A few hours later I had a meeting with an acquaintance. They were excited about a new project which they kept saying had funding from the Middle East. It sounded suspicious; a too good to be true opportunity. Mysterious investors from the almighty Middle East ("Rich people! Oil money!") willing to fund a brand new business.
I asked to see the e-mail chain; it was clearly a scam. The e-mail says for new projects they're willing to invest 1 million to 500 million dollars. Most suspicious, there was an abundance of words with capitalization that was unnecessary.
In short: Proper capitalization matters.
24 Nov
The secret of successful entrepreneurs
The ones who make it big are the ones that turn their 4 AM insomnia into results.
Just kidding. I felt like writing one of those lame inspirational sayings that are all over the internet. You know, the "What 3 traits do Elon Musk, Bill Gates, and Steve Jobs share?" Type of posts.
(This keyboard for the iPad Pro forced me to capitalize the T in type; I couldn't figure out how to change it so just left it. That's the real 4 AM attitude of the brain for you).
23 Nov
The Personal Blog
Sometime within the past few years it looks like the idea of a personal blog changed. The day-to-day recording of life has been shortened into Instagram or Dayre posts while people with blogs seem to do more long-form writing. Wonder why that is. Perhaps it's the adaptation of society to the short attention span, rapid-fire posting that the current tools of the web force upon us. Constant burts of posts with little content.
In other topics, isn't it funny how Instagram Stories came out and Snapchat lost a ton of users? Wonder how that's going to affect their IPO.
19 Nov
Midnight Diner
Recently I've been watching shows like Black Mirror, Westworld, The Walking Dead, and others. All are very engaging, but the world is portrayed as a dark, joyless place.
Last night I was randomly browsing through the Netflix queue, and this show "Midnight Diner" popped up. I'm a sucker for anything that takes place in a restaurant, bar, or late at night, and mix in the displaced feelings that Japan creates, and it's as if this show was tailored to me.
I watched five episodes in a row before going to bed; it's the perfect show that gives you a hug and tuck-in so you get a good night's rest.
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Holograms Everywhere
I'm not sure why this article says Microsoft isn't utilizing a headset but the Hololens certainly seems like something that essentially is a headset.
Anyway, it's a good read on what's happening with augmented reality and virtual reality on the Microsoft platform.
"How Microsoft plans to win VR without making a VR headset"
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Glarus Valley has long been the ancestral home of House Panteer, the royal family of Alderaan, and the site of the Elysium and Castle Panteer itself. The valley was once the seat of culture and democracy on Alderaan, a place where squabbling nobles could resolve their disputes peacefully.
Like so much of Alderaan, the land is now ravaged by war. Castle Panteer has fallen to House Ulgo, and the Elysium is all but abandoned. Although House Thul and House Organa maintain a small presence in the area, the disciplined soldiers of House Ulgo tighten their hold every day. There are rumors that the royal family is still in hiding somewhere in the valley, but even Ulgo has been unable to find them.
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The rain and wind put a damper on banding this week, but we have had some productive days. We are catching more of our Boreal breeding birds, with waves of Swainson's Thrushes, Yellow-bellied Flycatchers, Mourning Warblers, Magnolia Warblers, Blackburnian Warblers, Wilson's Warblers and Blackpoll warblers. Blackpolls, the renowned marathon migrants, are putting on fat at an incredible pace. Some have been weighing in over 19 grams, close to doubling their body weight with fat. Like many of our migrants, they have been sticking around for several days to gorge on insects, demonstrating the importance of TTP as a stopover habitat.
For days Cedar Waxwings have been in the area, their high-pitched whine often the only sign of their presence. I longed to catch these beautiful birds, and finally my wish came true – one male and one female! Their plush, velvety plumage is unsurpassed, such regal birds with their black masks and crown. And yes, the waxy tips on their feathers really DO look like the pictures!
There are more and more American Robin nests being found all over TTP, and we have seen the first fledglings of the year. Some of the resident breeders we are catching have brood patches – bare, vascularised skin on their bellies for incubating eggs. That means our Song Sparrows, Black-capped Chickadees and Red-winged Blackbirds have hatchlings on the way! We recently witnessed a male Common Yellowthroat giving an impressive broken-wing display, hopping along some low branches in a frantic attempt to draw our attention away from its nest.
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Traill's Flycatcher 8
Eastern Kingbird 1
Gray-cheeked Thrush 10
Swainson's Thrush 18
American Robin 2
Cedar Waxwing 2
Gray Catbird 3
Philadelphia Vireo 1
Red-eyed Vireo 9
Yellow Warbler 10
Chestnut-sided Warbler 5
Magnolia Warbler 15
Black-throated Blue Warbler 2
Black-throated Green Warbler 2
Blackburnian Warbler 6
Blackpoll Warbler 21
Black-and-White Warbler 2
American Redstart 12
Northern Waterthrush 1
Ovenbird 2
Mourning Warbler 3
Common Yellowthroat 9
Wilson's Warbler 15
Canada Warbler 6
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Honeywell International yesterday renewed its pledge to stay in New Jersey after the state's Economic Development Authority awarded it a $40 million tax credit to overhaul its Morris Township headquarters.
The credit, the maximum amount available under the state's Grow New Jersey Assistance Program, signals the end of a more than two-year effort by the Christie administration to keep the Fortune 100 company anchored in the state, where it employs more than 1,500 workers at various locations.
Honeywell, which manufactures everything from air purifiers to aerospace parts, has said it would cost less to build a new headquarters in Pennsylvania and relocate more than 1,000 of its workers there than it would to renovate its current campus, which it says is outdated and twice-the-size it currently needs. But with the EDA credit, which is to be paid over 10 years after the project is complete, the company said it is committed to investing $100 million into renovating its present headquarters. The EDA said the project would provide about $362 million in net benefits to the state over the next 15 years.
Another company, Dotcom Distribution, also netted a $40 million Grow New Jersey tax credit yesterday. The Edison Township company, which provides warehousing and fulfillment services for e-commerce firms, is looking to build a new 571,000 square-foot facility next to its current headquarters, at a cost of about $58 million. But the company, which employs 623 people in the state, also told EDA that it was considering moving to Pennsylvania without an incentive to stay in New Jersey.
A third Grow New Jersey grant, for $18.1 million in tax credits, was awarded to Spectra East, a clinical laboratory service provider based in Rockleigh. The company said it was considering relocating 302 of its workers to either a leased facility in Roseland, or moving its entire operations to Pearl River, N.Y.
The three awards approved yesterday push the total amount of Grow New Jersey tax credits awarded since the program started in January to $389.7 million, according to EDA memos. Grow New Jersey is meant to encourage large-scale capital investments of at least $20 million, and companies cannot claim the credit until after the investment – such as a new headquarters – has been completed.
In Honeywell's case, the company has pledged to reduce its tax credit if it does not end up spending the estimated cost of renovating its 147-acre campus and 1.1 million square-foot headquarters; for every dollar it spends below the $100 million estimated price tag, the tax credit would be cut by 60 cents, EDA said. The company is looking to consolidate its operations into a 350,000 square-foot building on its current campus and maintain a nearby 187,000 square-foot laboratory, according to an EDA memo. It would then look to sell off its excess land for redevelopment, a plan that's come under fire from a Morris Township citizens group.
"The Christie Administration has created the policies and programs that enable Honeywell to remain in New Jersey and now, after more than two years of discussion, we're ready for the Morris Township Committee to vote on plans to re-zone our campus for mixed-use development," Honeywell spokesman Rob Ferris said in a statement.
The tax credit quickly came under fire from New Jersey's Sierra Club. "This tax credit is about using taxpayer money to subsidize a politically connected company. This will not create any new jobs," said Jeff Tittel, the group's director. "While we give Honeywell all this money, they will make even more money by developing the rest of their site."
The EDA green-lighted several other projects yesterday:
• A plan to revise and add $100 million to the state's Urban Transit Hub Tax Credit program for large-scale residential projects. Under it, an eligible developer can get a tax credit of up to $35 million for an eligible project within one of the state's nine designated urban transit hub zones.
• A $50 million tax credit, paid over 10 years, to developers behind a Camden project to bring the Fresh Grocer supermarket to the city and expand the hospital Our Lady of Lourdes Care Services. EDA said the project would generate 356 new full- and part-time jobs.
• A $5 million tax credit, to be paid over 20 years, to DGMB Casino LLC, the developers of the proposed Margaritaville casino in Atlantic City.
Yesterday's meeting was the last to be chaired by Caren Franzini, the EDA's longtime chief executive. She'll be stepping down on Sept. 28 after 21 years with the agency. Michele Brown, a former federal prosecutor who worked under Gov. Christie when he was U.S. Attorney for the state, will take over the agency's leadership next month.


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Players hit the books as they prepare to hit the gridiron
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With 29 regular-season games remaining and the playoffs still in sight, Kobe Bryant is more determined than ever to prove he and the Lakers can become the force they thought they were.
Whether center Dwight Howard is a part of that attempted revival doesn't matter to Bryant, sources familiar with Bryant's thinking told FOX Sports Ohio.
Lakers general manager Mitch Kupchak has strongly nixed the notion that Howard could be moved prior to Thursday's trading deadline. But if Kupchak changes his mind, he'd have Bryant's full support, according to sources.
According to sources, a number of Lakers have their doubts about whether Howard takes the game seriously and "wants it" enough for the challenges the team now faces.
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GREENSBORO, N.C. – Jason Dufner's bid to take over No. 1 in the FedExCup standings hit a snag at the par-3 seventh hole.
He found the creek in front of the green and made a double bogey to fall back into a tie for sixth at 12 under, three strokes behind Sergio Garcia. Dufner, who started the week ranked No. 3, is now projected at second.


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Intermec, Inc. (NYSE:IN; "Intermec") today announced that Intermec stockholders voted overwhelmingly to approve the adoption of the previously announced Agreement and Plan of Merger between Intermec, Honeywell International Inc. ("Honeywell"), and Hawkeye Merger Sub Corp., a wholly owned subsidiary of Honeywell (the "Merger Agreement"). Approximately 99% of Intermec's shares voted at the special meeting of Intermec's stockholders held earlier today, or approximately 79% of Intermec's outstanding shares of common stock as of the close of business on January 25, 2013, the record date for the special meeting of stockholders, were voted in favor of the adoption of the Merger Agreement. Completion of the transaction remains subject to regulatory approvals (including the expiration or termination of the waiting period under the Hart-Scott Rodino Antitrust Improvements Act of 1976, as amended, and the requirements of certain foreign jurisdictions, including the European Commission) and other customary closing conditions. Intermec continues to expect that the transaction will close in the second quarter of 2013. About Intermec Intermec Inc. (NYSE:IN) is the workflow performance company. We design the leading data capture and information management solutions at the interface between mobile workers, assets, and customers. For more information about Intermec, visit www.intermec.com (which website is not incorporated herein by reference). Forward-Looking Statements Statements made in this press release and related statements that express Intermec's or our management's intentions, hopes, indications, beliefs, expectations, guidance, estimates, forecasts or predictions of the future constitute forward-looking statements, as defined by the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, and relate to matters that are not historical facts. The forward-looking statements contained herein include, without limitation, statements regarding: the potential acquisition of Intermec by Honeywell; the receipt of regulatory approval for the potential merger transaction; and the anticipated timing of the closing of the potential merger transaction, if at all. When used in this document and in documents it refers to, the words "anticipate," "believe," "will," "intend," "project" and "expect" and similar expressions as they relate to us or our management are intended to identify such forward- looking statements. These statements represent beliefs and expectations only as of the date they were made. We may elect to update forward-looking statements, but we expressly disclaim any obligation to do so, even if our beliefs and expectations change.
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A little background -- my brother-in-law and his girlfriend just announced that they are pregnant. She's 18, is suppose to start her freshman year of college in a few weeks, and they've only been dating for a few months. They are both smart and sensible people, they have loving and supportive families, and by all appearances they have a healthy, respectful, loving relationship.
This is a challenging road they started down, though, and I need some advice on how my husband and I can best support and help them without being intrusive, or condescending or just plain annoying.
Can any young mamas out there tell me what gifts/advice they really appreciated during their pregnancies? Were there things that your older relatives did that drove you up the wall?
Welcome to MDC. I can't comment on the young momma bit, as I was an inch from 40 before my two were born, but I think regardless of age:
Parents want advice IF THEY ASK. It is annoying for people to make comments, can feel like a judgement, unless they specifically ask. And I think young mothers get tons more comments than older women.
Food is fabulous after a birth. Something pre-made they can take from the freezer and heat up. You are just soooo tired with a newborn, and an easy meal is worth it's weight in gold. Way more than material gifts.
Ask what material gift they need. They will probably get tons of cute outfits, as that is what everyone likes to give; but they may NEED other things.
Share this site with them. There is a due date club she could join now. There are also a Dads forum under parents as partners.
They have a hard road ahead, getting to know each other as well as a new baby soon. It's great they have supportive family around!
Thanks for the ideas! I definitely don't want to start throwing unsolicited advice their way because I KNOW how obnoxious and futile that is, but I'm also anxious to make sure that they are aware of Atachemnt Parenting and all of its manifestations.
It was only by the barest chance that I learned about AP before my first was born and I shudder to think of what kind of parent I would be without it. I feel like I have a duty to spread the information around so that other parents know that there is another way. I think I'm doing a pretty good job of it just by being visible as a babywearing, breastfeeding mother in my small community, but I feel like I need to do more for a member of my family.
So, I guess what I really need are specific ideas on how to direct my BIL and his girlfriend to this website and others sources of AP info without seeming self-rightoues or interfering. Do I just continue my policy of "leading by example"? Targeted gifts? (I was thinking of something like a mei tai and a copy of Dr. Sears) Straight-forward email with a few links? ("These sites were a big help to me, maybe you'll find them useful too.")
Fort what it's worth, I don't think my BIL would be a hard sell, but I don't know his girlfriend very well and she's the one I don't want to offend!
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I say, it can't hurt to shoot her an email... I also think your gift ideas are good! good luck!! you are going to be a wonderful auntie!
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When I had my first, people were really condescending to me, so I try hard to make new moms feel like I'm supporting them rather than insulting them. I think it's especially important if they are a young mom (which I wasn't). Here are some things that I do:
- I do suggest parenting advice, but never like I'm trying to teach them. My favorite type of thing to do is buy them a copy of Dr. Sears' Baby Book and give it as a gift and say "I'm not sure if you guys had a parenting strategy yet, but this is my favorite book. It really helped me when I didn't know what else to do and it made my life SO much easier. Plus, I love it because it uses parenting practices that are really gentle on babies."
- I NEVER tell new parents that they'll "change their mind" or things like "wait and see." Other parents still do this to me to this day and it's incredibly condescending and upsetting. If I make a parenting decision, I want people to support me, not treat me like I'm an idiot because it might not turn out the way I expect. Things don't always turn out the way anyone expects and there's no need to be insulting by stating the obvious. I just support the parent's decision.
- I love making new parents feel positive about parenting. Even the smallest little negative thing can have a profoundly negative affect on their parenting, even if your intentions are good. I throw in lots of things like "wow, you look so amazing," or "you guys are going to love being parents," or "you'll be an amazing mom, I can tell." Uplifting the parents has a more positive effect on their ability to parent than anything else. I feel like I would be a much better mom today if all of the other moms around me didn't drag me down from the start.
- Telling them things that let them know you support them is good, too. "People are going to tell you you're doing it all wrong. Don't listen to them. You'll be a great mom and know what's best for your baby. You do what you know your baby needs and screw what they think." And I have to say this knowing that I won't agree with all of their decisions, but that's all part of it. They don't have to do it the way I do.
- I don't know how other parents are, but I really hated when others bought me things for my baby. I don't know why. Maybe I'm nit-picky. I was annoyed at the types of clothes other people picked out (designs that I would NEVER pick out for my own child). I felt like I was being really ungrateful (and I was) so I never said anything. I just sucked it up. I'd say if you buy anything, just be sure to leave the tags on and say where you got it so they can take it back if they want to, or ask specifically what they need instead of just going out and buying things.
- And definitely the food idea! Offer to come over and help with laundry and cooking now and then. :)
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+1 on everything above.
My niece got pregnant at 17 and by the time she was 20 she had 3 (one set of twins) under 3 and was married and divorced. She told me that the one piece of advice I gave her was valuable beyond all others. Like others above have said, I told her to simply trust herself. That a lot of people were going to tell her a lot of different things (and they did, especially my sister and my elderly aunt), but that she should trust in her own instincts. And I just said that I'd be there if she needed me. Above all, I think support (moral or otherwise if possible) is valuable in these situations. Young parents need to be empowered to know that they have the same parenting tools as older parents.
What about offering to babysit? She might need some help while she does work for school.
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I was a teen mum (17) and the best thing anyone ever did for me was NOT treat me like a teen mum. They expected exactly the same from me as from any other mother. I didnt get special "teen mum" treatment. If I wanted to go out, I paid my dad to babysit. If i wanted to go to school or work I had to find daycare.
I saw many of my pregnant peers mothers step in and take over so thier teens could still be teenagers. Other mums I saw come in bc they didnt believe thier teen could parent without them.
All but ONE of those teen parents left thier kids with thier mother or the babys father to raise while they did thier own thing. And that was acceptable bc they were "young".
I didnt get that. The second my son was put into my arms he was my son. Period. I was no longer a teen. I was a mum. And I appreciated that more then anything. I still have my son 16 years later. He has never lived with anyone but me (and my husband).
So, that would be my answer. Dont treat them any different from the 38 year old mother who works as a teacher and is having her first child.
my sister was a teen mom, then had another 10 years later. i didn't realize until some of the conversations we had during her second pregnancy how profoundly self-conscious she was about her age while raising her first child. she was a really great mom, but she was always afraid people were judging her and her son because of her age. (e.g. thinking that he might not be very bright or that she was probably uneducated.) be extra careful about helping, and as pp's have said, tell her to trust her own instincts.
I was barely 15 when I had my first baby. What was awesome was when another (always older, because really, who was going to be younger? lol) mama just treated me as a fellow mom and not some pathetic pity/charity case. It was nice to know that I wasn't a total moron. ;) Just normal things like talking about pregnancy, birth, baby stuff etc was comforting. A feeling of acceptance as opposed to being some kind of social side show attraction. (not that I think you'd that of course!)
Practical things? Hand me down clothes, sitting with the kid while I take a freakin' shower or a phone call. And what I wouldn't have given for a good example of gentle, devoted, outside the box parenting back in the day!
Embrace the learning that is happening within the things that are actually happening!
I became pregnant with my son when I was 19 with a man I'd only known for about a month. Despite how it sounds he was planned. I wish I would've had more support and less criticism from people. Even when no one says anything insulting you just feel stupid walking around with a big belly and it just seems like everyone is "staring" at you. Aside from not offering advice that wasn't asked for never tell her she's young and always praise her when you see what a great parent she is. It always made me feel great when an older person would tell me what a good mom I was because I always felt judged bc of my age. I definitely second the person that said don't tell her "wait and see" or "she'll change her mind" everyone has a different style of parenting, there is no right or wrong. Don't buy any baby clothes plenty of ignorant people will do that for her. Any money you want to invest in her should go towards "needs". I had two baby showers where all I got was clothes. I wasn't working and my fiance was only making $500 bi-weekly. The only way we survived was on his student loans which put us $88,000 in debt. Ask her if she has a registry if she does let that be your guide, if not ask her what she wants. If you ever give her advice and she doesn't take it the first time DON'T BRING IT UP AGAIN! I cant stress that enough. My fiances mother brings up the same crap constantly it drives me NUTS. Something that helped us out (or saved our lives) was a goodnight trainer we bought at babies r us. After the baby is 4 months old (or 3 months if she formula feeds) you start using it. The device trains your baby to sleep in 10 nights or less guaranteed and we're the proof. It only took 3 nights for us. Diapers and wipes are always good and if she chooses to formula feed don't be judgmental and buy her some of that too. I believe bf is best too but its not my baby so I have no right to push anything, NO ONE DOES. Just be careful with how many links, books etc. you send because you may not be trying to be condescending but she might take it that way. If she welcomes the info the first time and asks for more than you're safe but if she ignores it than theres probably a reason. Most importantly be supportive and friendly no matter what. The fact that her and your BIL are in such a new relationship adds so much more stress it's hard to imagine. Also offer to take the baby from time to time when shes ready to have alone time with your BIL. They're going to have to get to know each other after the baby is born and her hormones are back to normal. I do agree with the woman that told you to treat her like an adult so I'm not telling you to be her free daycare. Although babysitting every once in awhile won't hurt her Independence. Basically treat her how you would want to be treated (if you were in her shoes) and everything will be fine!
Hello! OP here with a very belated "thanks" to everyone who took the time to share their wisdom. What I've gathered from everyone's comments is that the very best thing that I can do is to help her feel empowered and confident as a mom, to support her in her parenting decisions and to keep my mouth shut when I don't agree with them.
I suspected that this was the case, but I guess I needed confirmation. It makes sense that a parent who is outside the cultural norm for ANY reason would need extra big helpings of affirmation in their choices, not constant reminders (even unintentional ones) that the world-at-large expects them to screw up.
Many thanks!
Late addition here.... offers for a simple house cleaning. A gift card for last-minute baby items. Another gift card for new nursing bras or new clothes as the baby belly fades (but the thighs and breasts stay! I swear, *none* of my clothes ended up fitting me again.) *Asking* what I needed would have been appreciated. No guilt-trips about not being able to babysit the baby, or hold the baby or whatever. I just wanted to cocoon and have the world get by without me. (That was just my personality, though. When I'm stressed I just need everyone to disappear. That's a tall order when a new baby is in the family but a gift I would have found more wonderful than a mountain of treasure.)
The same for every mom, really. From the other young moms' posts, I see that was what they wanted most. To be treated like "every mom" and not as a kid with a kid.
"She is a mermaid, but approach her with caution. Her mind swims at a depth most would drown in."
I think sticking up for them in conversations and not letting others talk about them would be kind. I'm basing this on my own extended family, which is very gossipy and judgmental.
Little phrases like "a baby is always a blessing" could help.
I don't think any body of any age really has a clue what they are getting into when they have a child. Every one goes through an adjustment. I think that with young people others are more likely to add this judgmental BS about it being about their age rather than the simple fact that raising a child is difficult. (I had my kids in my 30's)
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Sure all the traditional foods will be there for dinner. However, what about breakfast time?
Whether you are planning a holiday breakfast for two people or a home filled with family and friends, we have the perfect morning meal. Today we are making cheese omelets with a skirt of sun-dried tomatoes and a display of snow peas. The combination on the palate is pleasingly sweet, tangy, savory, cheesy and crunchy. In addition, the plate presentation is beautiful, too. Enjoy!
Cheese Omelet with
Sun-Dried Tomatoes
makes one serving
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2 eggs
1/8 cup milk
pinch pepper
2 slices American cheese
2 teaspoons sweet butter
¼ cup chopped sun-dried
½ cup snow peas (fresh or
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Beat eggs, milk and pepper together. Heat a skillet to medium low; melt 1 teaspoon butter. Add egg mixture. Cook for one minute. If egg is still liquid on top, gently lift edges of omelet – top, both side and bottom, so liquid spreads equally under omelet until all liquid has solidified. Slice cheese into four equal pieces and place on omelet. Using a flipper double fold the omelet leaving a 'skirt' on the bottom end.
Turn heat off; allow to rest in pan. Meanwhile, chop sun-dried tomatoes. Plate omelet and place tomatoes on omelet skirt. Heat snow peas (wipe and use same skillet) with 1 teaspoon butter and heat on medium heat for about 2 minutes; plate with omelet. Keep omelet warm by placing plates or platter in a low oven, 250° F.
Personalize your plate: we used organic eggs, skim milk, American cheese, freshly ground white pepper and sweet butter (unsalted) for the omelet. These are preferences. You can easily switch up the ingredients to use any eggs, milk or cream, cheese – or combination of cheeses black pepper and salted butter. And, choose your own fruit or vegetable to accompany your omelet. Make it your own - Happy Holidays!
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After Their Murder-Suicide, Questions About Rufus and Lynn Flint Shaw's Shady Dealings Haunt Dallas
Let's do this.
Colleen McCain Nelson of The Dallas Morning News editorial board has suggested it was tasteless of me to publish former DART chair Lynn Flint Shaw's personal e-mails on our blog, Unfair Park, on March 11, the day after Shaw and her husband, Rufus, were found dead of an apparent murder-suicide.
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"I would have delayed publication," Nelson wrote that day on the Morning News editorial page blog. "This article feels like a somewhat random jab at the dead. Why not wait a week?"
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Why? Let me try to answer.
The first answer, the more personal one and less important, is that I realized I had transacted some difficult business with the Shaws shortly before their deaths, and I thought I needed to be the one to say so.
The less personal and more important reason was this: The e-mails I published on Unfair Park raise serious questions about the way public money and public contracts are handed out in this city and about the ethics of high public officials. Delaying mention would have played to the advantage of people eager to paper over these problems with platitudes, very much including The Dallas Morning News editorial page.
Generally speaking, the News' coverage of the Lynn Flint Shaw story—by the paper's regular news reporters—has been aggressive and comprehensive. But the paper, especially the editorial page, gets suddenly very tasteful and shy where the Shaw story collides with the story of Mayor Tom Leppert.
The ownership of the News is engaged right now in a strong-arm push for the development of a city-owned hotel downtown near large properties owned by the owners of the News. Leppert is carrying that water at City Hall, as he carried the News' water on the Trinity River referendum.
Like it or not, Leppert is a central figure in the Lynn Flint Shaw story. It was important to get the real story out and into the public discourse immediately. The best time to disinfect is while the wounds are fresh.
Lynn Flint Shaw, as my collection of e-mails clearly shows, was engaged in setting up a small group called "The Inner Circle" to control minority contracting with public entities in the city, especially at City Hall and at Dallas Area Rapid Transit. The Inner Circle's leverage comes entirely from the role this same handful of people played in getting Leppert elected mayor and helping him and the Dallas Citizens Council defeat the Trinity River toll road referendum.
Willis Johnson, the lead member of The Inner Circle, was Leppert's paid political consultant for his mayoral campaign in southern Dallas, a fact he still advertises on the Web page for his public relations company, JBJ Marketing.
In the e-mails I published, Lynn Flint Shaw promises the members of The Inner Circle that she will see to it Leppert pays up. In one e-mail, Shaw tells Leppert in very direct terms that any and all contacts between him and the black community must go through Johnson, a radio personality and entrepreneur:
"Willis is the guy," she writes Leppert. "He is the 'go to' person in all things southern sector and African-American. No one and I mean no one should be going around and usurping his authority..."
After receiving this e-mail, Leppert named Flint Shaw treasurer of "Friends of Tom Leppert," his political fund-raising committee, then helped engineer her ascent to the chairmanship of DART, an agency that carries roughly half a billion dollars' worth of public contracts at any given point in time. She told friends proudly that she was serving as DART chair, "because the mayor wants me to."
Johnson, the "go-to guy," is himself a contractor at DART and with other public entities in the city, providing radio and security equipment through another of his companies, Wai-Wize Inc.
A consistent theme in the e-mails is the stream of helpful information that Shaw fed to Johnson concerning contracts at DART, where she was a board member. For example, in one series of e-mails Johnson was fishing for information about how certain people "got on the GEC team." GEC is an abbreviation for general engineering consultant.
A former DART board member, speaking to me not for attribution, told me, "The GEC is a gigantic slush fund for contracts." He explained that only the prime contractor—the main general engineering consultant—has to go through intense scrutiny and vetting.
There is much less scrutiny of the subcontracts. "No one cares who does the lighting fixtures," the former board member said. Therefore, a person with access to inside information about GEC subcontracts, not to mention access to a key board member, could shoulder aside other contractors on the way to the gravy train.
When Johnson asks Shaw about it in the e-mails, she answers him back quickly: "I need to talk to you about this. Found out some stuff."
Rule 21 of the DART board's rules of procedure provides: "If a Board member is contacted by anyone concerning an active DART procurement or ongoing procurement dispute, the Board member should not discuss any specific procurement information."
Leppert's response to any and all inquiries about these e-mails, the existence of an Inner Circle or the role of Willis Johnson has been sarcastic and dismissive. When Dallas Observer reporter Sam Merten asked him at a public event last week if Johnson had a special role as gatekeeper for minorities seeking contact with him, Leppert said, "If you look at my schedule, and you look at what I did, and anybody does, they would laugh in your face."
So I looked at his schedule. I'm not laughing.
The Inner Circle is not a mere figure of speech. It is a fairly formalized organization with a semi-monthly schedule of meetings. One of the e-mails, providing the schedule for the full year, starts out, "Subject: Inner Circle group schedule. Mayor Leppert has asked me to invite you to a meeting on Friday, August 17th at 7:30 a.m. and the location will be the Dallas Black Chamber of Commerce...He would like to meet with the entire group every other week."
I asked Leppert's chief of staff, Chris Heinbaugh, if Leppert had attended meetings at the Black Chamber on any of those dates. He e-mailed me back: "The calendar indicates 8/17 and 10/26."
I am taking that as a yes.
Let's talk about the Shaws. Not in news stories but in columns and editorials The Dallas Morning News has portrayed the Shaws as brave martyrs. The day they were found dead, the News published an editorial on its Web page calling Rufus Shaw "a gruff political analyst and stinging critic of Dallas' power structures."
No, he wasn't. He was a grifter with no visible means of support. His wife was smart, charming and a hard worker, but she, too, could be ruthless, cutting others dead in order to save her own skin. I spoke with one woman who was so wounded and humiliated by a scam Lynn Flint Shaw pulled on her that she had to leave the state for several years.
One story the News broke about the Shaws a day after their deaths was that police found evidence in their home indicating they had been paying their mortgage out of her city council campaign funds, which would be illegal.
I had been reporting for months about her misuse of campaign funds. I recently asked Heinbaugh, Leppert's chief of staff, why the mayor had never addressed her misuse of campaign funds, in spite of his very public call for higher ethical standards in the matter of campaign finance reports.
Heinbaugh answered me: "They are allegations, and the Mayor prefers not to respond to allegations. As you probably know, allegations of campaign finance disclosure violations are not handled at City Hall or under the City Ethics Code, but usually by the Texas Ethics Commission or in some cases, a District Attorney. Those would probably be the correct venues to have your allegations addressed."
Well, in fact, Section 12A-10 of the city's code of ethics is devoted entirely to campaign finances, and, as far as I have been able to determine, the proper party to go to the district attorney and make a complaint about violations would in fact be the city or a high city official. Like the mayor. But Leppert's response, through Heinbaugh, is a total blow-off.
Nelson of the Morning News editorial page asked "why not wait a week" before publishing the e-mails and raising questions about the Shaws. My answer is this. The questions aren't about the Shaws. The questions are all about Tom Leppert. About City Hall and DART. About that damn hotel the Morning News is pimping for so hard.
How many more crucially important public policy votes are going to tilt one way or the other because somebody in The Inner Circle got a contract?
In the last week I have received calls and communications from a number of people who have been involved in the development of DART, the Dallas Center for Performing Arts and various City Hall initiatives. I mean people who were involved at the top.
One person said to me: "Dallas should be taking the Shaw story the same way it took the Kennedy assassination," as an urgent call for a profound and searing self-examination.
Nothing in the lives of the Shaws merited their deaths. None of it was worth depriving their son of his parents. In that, there is no proportion. Instead, I see a sense in which they were victims, too, of a system that uses people cynically for its own narrow gain. I refer specifically to the Morning News editorial page.
But who are the ultimate victims? You're right. You. And me. We are. That's why we're the ones who have to clean up this cesspool. And I'm not just talking about South Dallas. The place to start is with Leppert and the Citizens Council.
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Today spring poked her head in. It was sunny and quiet mild, 40 degrees. My Mom and I took Noah for his very first walk around the block. We only made it to the end of the block where he promptly dropped to the ground and had a tantrum as he didn't want to cross the street or turn the corner. Noah spent some time on the neighbor's lawn and all I could think of was, wow, he sure looks like a garden gnome.
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LOL...he DOES look like a garden gnome! Precious little guy. :)
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Cake pops dipped in white chocolate then placed in mini cupcake liner for bonnets. Made pacifiers out of fondant and attached a sugar pearl with melted choc and made bows of fondant. Used melted choc for eyes, eyebrows, nose and to attach pacifier and bows. Used color dust to put color on for cheeks.


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Board mulls forum to recruit more candidates
GUILDERLAND — School leaders Tuesday gave a final overview of the $92 million budget proposal for next year; voters cast their ballots on May 20.
No members of the public spoke at the state-required public hearing as it comes too late in the process for any change in the spending plan.
School district voters next Tuesday will also decide on a $995,000 proposition for seven large buses and a plow truck.
And, they will cast their ballots in an uncontested election. Three candidates — incumbents Allan Simpson and Judy Slack along with newcomer Christopher McManus — are running for three seats on the nine-member unpaid board.
Late in Tuesday's meeting, board member Colleen O'Connell proposed that, for next year, the board hold a forum to encourage residents to run for the board.
She noted that last year, with another uncontested school board election, fewer than 2,800 people voted; Guilderland has 22,625 registered voters. She also said that seven residents picked up petitions this year but only three returned them.
"I feel it's not good for the district," O'Connell said, asserting that it depresses voter turnout and doesn't lead to robust debate.
"I think it endangers the budget process and the passage of the budget…The 'no's always come out," she said.
Board member Catherine Barber responded, "I know you didn't like the Citizens' Budget Advisory Committee." The defunct committee of volunteers spent weeks reviewing in detail the administration's budget proposal, a process that has been replaced by a series of public forums where residents comment on lists of potential cuts.
"A lot of us came from there," said Barber of serving on the committee. "It was a lot of information and getting to see the board in action and all the administrators."
"I'm not for bringing back CBAC," said O'Connell, who had also served on the committee. "I think we were too reactive then."
Board member Judy Slack thought the forum to encourage candidates was "a good idea" but puzzled over how to get residents to attend, quipping, "Kick 'em, pull 'em?"
"Serve food," offered another board member.
Slack also said that more than half of the local school board elections are uncontested. "It's not just us," she said.
"We have it in our power to recruit…Some people need to be invited in," said O'Connell. "There are so many myths about being on the school board; people think you are taking complaints 24/7, which is just not true."
Board member Jennifer Charron referred to the district-wide meeting the day before to set priorities for the year and praised the young people "practicing their public-speaking skills." She recommended a student serve as a non-voting board member.
The board's communications committee will discuss the matter further and come back to the board with recommendations.
Budget overview
The $92 million budget proposal comes in just $12,427 below the state-set tax-levy limit; if it were over the limit, 60 percent, rather than 50 percent, approval would be required to pass it.
The levy is up 1.69 percent over this year, close to the $66.8 million maximum.
Assistant Superintendent for Business Neil Sanders said that the average home in Guilderland is assessed at $246,500 and its owner would pay $104 more in taxes next year if the budget passes.
If the budget were defeated, the board could put up the same or a modified budget or go directly to a contingent plan. A contingency budget eliminates such items as the purchase of new equipment or community use of school buildings and also must meet an administrative budget cap.
If Guilderland were forced to a contingency budget, Sanders said, "We would have to find $1.3 million more in reductions."
Superintendent Marie Wiles went over the reductions in the current budget proposal. A total of 33.85 jobs is being cut (8.5 teachers, 9.15 teaching assistants, and 16.2 support staff), bringing the total number of staff cuts to 180 since the gap elimination adjustment was introduced, reducing state aid.
"There's a good side to this story," Wiles went on.
She noted that the first-grade teaching assistants are being maintained at their current level, as is the seven-member high-school guidance-counselor staff, and the assistant coaches.
Wiles also named two increases: A reading-teacher post is being added at the elementary level as one is subtracted at the high school, and there is an increase in teaching English as a second language. Guilderland now has over 180 students who have a native tongue other than English; they speak over 30 different languages.
Wiles also highlighted several new initiatives. The proposed budget includes mini-course enrichment — focusing on science, technology, engineering, and math — for students in kindergarten through eighth grades, through the Board of Cooperative Educational Services.
Second, a distance-learning program will link Guilderland High School with Schenectady and Niskayuna.
And third, Guilderland High School will host a regional summer school to which students from Berne-Knox-Westerlo will be bused.
"The bottom line in all this is balancing," said Wiles, who spoke of fulfilling the district's mission with declining resources, and credited the community for its participation in the budget process.
"Without that insight from our community, I don't think we'd have the quality budget we do," she concluded.
Health insurance
Neil Sanders informed the board on recommendations for health insurance.
Guilderland has a committee made up of Sanders, Assistant Superintendent for Human Resources Lin Severance, and representatives of the district's 11 bargaining units that has been focusing on the Affordable Care Act — "Obamacare as it's affectionately known," said Sanders.
This year marked the opening of the state-run marketplace exchanges where individuals could choose from one of four levels of plans or face penalties.
The employers' "play or pay" mandate has been deferred until 2015, Sanders said. Guilderland has to begin tracking and reporting employees' work hours to determine to whom it must offer health insurance; any employee averaging 30 or more hours a week or 130 hours a month must be offered health coverage, or the district would have to pay a penalty.
"We have from now until next year to build the system to capture the data," Sanders told the board, adding in his written remarks, "This is another mandate that we will need to comply with by diverting more staff and resources away from present work."
The health committee made four recommendations for next year.
First, it recommends keeping the four current plans with no change to benefits since the grandfathered status keeps costs down. "The district will save about 2 percent on premium rate increases, which amounts to approximately $142,000 in total for all four plans," said Sanders.
Second, the committee recommends continuing Express Scripts self-insured prescription drug coverage with no change — $5 for generic, $25 for brand name, and $40 for brand name non-preferred drugs. The co-pays were structured this way for 2012-13 to encourage people to buy generic drugs, which has reduced costs overall.
Third, the committee recommends continuing the CanaRx mail-order prescription drug plan option for brand-name maintenance medication. The cost of drugs is lower in Canada and the employee has no co-pay. "The 2013 savings is just shy of $400,000," said Sanders.
Finally, the committee advises offering a Medicare Choice plan option for retirees over 65 years old; for next year, an out-of-area nationwide Blue Shield Medicare Choice plan will be offered. Currently, 68 Blue Shield retirees or their spouses over age 65 live outside the Medicare Choice coverage area.
The government-subsidized Medicare Choice plan from individual carriers provides comparable benefits less expensively than the federal government.
Currently, 225 participants are enrolled in a Medicare Advantage Plan, an increase of 30 over the year before, with a total savings to the district of $657,000 annually and $164,000 in savings for retirees. On average, the district saves $2,900 per participant with each retiree realizing contribution savings of $730 annually.
"It's a win-win," Sanders said, for the district and retirees.


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Carol Hively, Director - Public Relations and Team Communications
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Riddle me this: what has 18 legs and swarms across the U.S. changing lives, minds and learning habits for life each summer?
Answer: the Space Foundation education team.
Of the many things the Space Foundation does, none is more important than our work to transform the lives of teachers and students, and to reinvent education to better prepare our youth for tomorrow. While this is a never-ending effort, summer is when we aggressively mobilize, marshalling resources across the country to inspire, enable and propel students and teachers to integrate Space Across the Curriculum.
Summer 2010 was a milestone for our education enterprise. This summer, our professional educators delivered more teacher and student programs in more parts of the country than ever before. Along the way, we blazed trails with important new initiatives in early education and in at-risk communities. Plus, the support of our member companies and partner academic institutions made a huge difference in 2010 - perhaps more so than at any other time in our history.
It's not, therefore, surprising that this issue of Space Watch includes eight articles on Space Foundation education activities. National outreach to educators and to new education partners is expanding rapidly with significant partner support from: Analytical Graphics, Inc.; Colorado State University - Pueblo; Colorado Technical University; Honeywell; and Kroger.
Over the summer, we delivered four week-long Space Across the Curriculum courses at the Space Foundation Discovery Institute in Colorado Springs. Plus, we also unveiled two new two new programs, launched in partnership with Colorado State University - Pueblo (CSU - Pueblo):
But, our core courses in Colorado are only the tip of the iceberg. Two other major education programs were conducted this summer, truly making space education a national phenomenon:
It's been a full year since the opening of Jack Swigert Aerospace Academy, formed through a unique partnership between the Space Foundation and Colorado Springs School District 11 that is transforming a failing middle school into a vibrant educational hub where space is integrated throughout the curriculum.
Our Space Foundation Discovery Institute, the mother ship for our education programs, opened in conjunction with the Swigert Academy and was in full swing by October. Located on the Swigert campus, the Space Foundation Discovery Institute is a stand-alone facility that provides space-themed professional development, training, and support for teachers and students from around the world and serves as the base location for the Space Foundation's education team. It houses classrooms, a resource center and labs, including:
Over the past year the value of the programs we provide to teachers has grown with the addition of two new educational partners. Teachers can earn continuing education credits or graduate credits at Aurora (Ill.) University, CSU - Pueblo, Regis University, or the College of Education at the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs (UCCS), or work toward a master's degree in multiple related disciplines from Regis University or UCCS.
While summertime is the "peak season," our tremendously talented team of space education specialists is busy all year round. As students return to school across the country, programs are already in development for students and teachers all along the Front Range of Colorado. In a couple of weeks, we'll be delivering teacher and student programs on Maui, Hawai'i, in collaboration with our strategic partners at the Maui Economic Development Board. This fall our education team will also travel to Washington, D.C., for the USA Science and Engineering Festival, and to Denver for STEMapalooza and the Colorado Technical Educator Association (CTEA) Conference.
A season of in-service training at the Space Foundation Discovery Institute, along with planning for programs at the Space Foundation's 27th National Space Symposium and the 2011 International Space University (ISU) Space Symposium in Strasbourg, is also already under way.
As a resource to teachers and students, the Space Foundation provides previous editions of The Space Report: The Authoritative Guide to Global Space Activity for use as a classroom resource. Non-profit organizations, schools, and libraries may qualify for donation of past editions. These books contain valuable information that is still relevant for research, as well as diagrams, photos and articles that can be used for classroom projects. Published by the Space Foundation, The Space Report: The Authoritative Guide to Global Space Activity is the definitive overview of the global space industry and is the result of extensive research by our Washington, D.C.-based research and analysis group and a team of independent research organizations, who thoroughly examine the state of the space industry. To explore eligibility for donated past editions, contact Space Foundation Manager - Development & Education Partnerships Margo Hatton at [email protected].
While the Space Foundation is probably best known for the National Space Symposium and our national and international policy work, The View from Here is that the most important thing we do is our education enterprise. Developing our industry and our future academic and political leaders is critical to accomplishing the Space Foundation's mission "to advance space endeavors to inspire, enable and propel humanity."
We thank all the companies, foundations, academic institutions and individuals who make this work possible. If you're not already part of the Space Foundation's education program, we invite you to join us.
Elliot Holokauahi Pulham
Chief Executive Officer
P.S. - Special thanks to the Space Foundation education team: Vice President - Education Iain Probert; Space Foundation Director - Education Bryan DeBates; Space Education Specialist Bobby Gagnon; Space Education Specialist Allison Reilly; Education Programs Administrator Chrys Rheinbolt; Education Coordinator Natalie Olmsted; and Manager - Development & Education Partnerships Margo Hatton, as well as our Earth sciences subject matter expert Jay Temple and our curriculum advisor Mark Malone, Ph.D.
P.P.S - To support Space Foundation education programs contact Manager - Development & Education Partnerships Margo Hatton at [email protected], or Senior Vice President - Strategic Partnerships Elizabeth Wagner at [email protected]. Donations may be sent to: Space Foundation, 310 S. 14th St., Colorado Springs, CO 80904. The Space Foundation is an IRS 501(C)(3) not-for-profit organization, and your donation is tax deductible.
STEM* - science, technology, engineering and math
Elliot Holokauahi Pulham Chief Executive Officer
Carol Hively, Director - Public Relations and Team Communications
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We recommend four books you must check outĀthis weekend.
Tin Fish by Sudeep Chakravarti (Rs 250)
This fine coming-of-age novel is set in the mid-1970s in Mayo College, Ajmer, where four young boys learn about the very particular ethos of boarding-school life while simultaneously coping with an increasingly confused outside world (this being the era of the Emergency).
The principals are the narrator, Barun Ray, nicknamed Brandy on his first day in school, and his three closest friends: P T Shoe, the son of a Rajput princeling; Porridge, with whom Brandy plans to write a musical that the Rolling Stones will (hopefully) perform in; and the moody Fish, whose relationship with his domineering father leads the story towards its tragic climax.
This is slice of life at its most engaging: the narrative moves unselfconsciously from one episode to the next, without stopping to get preachy along the way (given the flow of this book, it's appropriate that there are no chapter divisions).
A couple of the characters aren't as fleshed out as they could have been, but that's a minor quibble. The writing is fluid -- easy to read and full of the kind of slang ('cat', 'king') that will awaken nostalgia in anyone who grew up in a similar environment in the 1970s.
Highly recommended if you're from that generation, but even more so if you don't know who Katy Mirza is or if you've never known a world without cellphones, cable TV and instant access to parents.
Bollywood Uncensored: What You Don't See On Screen And Why by Derek Bose (Rs 195)
An informative, comprehensive -- if sometimes gratuitous -- study, Bollywood Uncensored discusses the ambiguities and paradoxes surrounding censorship in the Indian film industry.
Bose discusses the chequered, often random, history of censorship in India and the inconsistencies in interpreting guidelines, traces cause and effect, and supplies some amusing anecdotes (along with a number of interesting photographs).
The writing is often uneven and there really isn't a conclusion worth the name, but writing on this very important subject is always welcome.
Zorro: The Novel by Isabel Allende (translated by Margaret Sayers Peden))
You've seen the films, flipped through the comics, maybe even read one of the books. Now Isabel Allende, the renowned Chilean writer, comes out with a new version of the Zorro legend.
If you know nothing of Zorro beyond Antonio Banderas, this is the story of Diego de la Vega, the son of an aristocratic Spanish military man-turned-landowner.
As a youngster, Diego witnesses the brutal injustice dealt Native Americans by European settlers and soon after joins a secret underground resistance movement devoted to helping the powerless and the poor. A hero is born and a legend begins.
The Saratchandra Omnibus (Volume 1) (Rs 595)
This collector's edition of Saratchandra Chattopadhyay's works in English translation brings together the great novelist's most renowned books.
This first volume features Srikanta, Devdas, Parineeta, Palli Samaj and Nishkriti -- all everyday stories, told in a simple yet gripping style, with strong characters, meticulous plotting and brilliant depictions of life in turn-of-the-century Bengal.
And if that isn't exciting enough, you can always compare Devdas and Parineeta to the opulent film versions.