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(WASHINGTON) — Secretary of State Hillary Clinton promised Wednesday that the U.S. would stay the course in Afghanistan by continuing to hand over security responsibilities to national forces so that the U.S. and NATO can keep their promise to withdraw from the country by 2014.
Doubts have been raised recently over the progress of the war, given the latest string of "insider attacks" against coalition troops that threaten to set back the process of getting Afghan forces up to speed with the Taliban still seemingly intent on achieving a military victory.
With Afghan Foreign Minister Zalmai Rassoul by her side at the State Department, Clinton conceded, "These past few months in particular have presented obstacles and some potential setbacks and we know that difficult days lie ahead."
Clinton also brought up the grim milestone of 2,000 Americans soldiers having lost their lives in the 11-year-war that came in response to the 9/11 terrorist attacks. The U.S. led an international coalition on Oct. 7, 2001 to destroy al Qaeda training camps in Afghanistan as well as ousting the Taliban regime.
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32. Jane FARRIS138 was born about 1759.1 She died about 1849 at the age of 90 in Tennessee.139
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In the Fall of 1811, Jane moved to Tennessee where she lived until about 1820 when the family to moved to Madison Co Missouri. Jane stayed in Missouri only about two years and returned to Tennessee. She is said to have lived to be about 90 years old in the papers of Stella Anthony. Strangely the short history of the Beaver Creek Church, states she died 7 Aug 1817.
Jane FARRIS and Rev. Joseph ANTHONY were married on 14 August 1777 in Cumberland County, Virginia.1,140 Rev. Joseph ANTHONY139,140 was born circa 1750 in Spotsylvania County, Virginia.140 He died in 1806 at the age of 56 in Henry County, Virginia.1 He was a Minister, Beaver Creek Baptist Church.14
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Information on his family to include the births of his children, is listed in the History of Beaver Creek Church, Henry Co VA, by Mrs. J. Frank (Stella Anthony) Thompson, 1933, a 13 page booklet as he was the first pastor. This book, too, quoted in Anthony Roots and Branches.
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SAN MARCOS -- Drummers and percussionists from more than 25 high schools and middle schools will gather in the San Marcos High School gymnasium Saturday to compete and perform with symbols, mallets, drums and xylophones during the American Drumline Competition.
"This is a pretty exciting thing for San Marcos to be hosting this tournament," said section leader Christian Hand, 18. "It's a nice event to have and it allows us to show our family and friends and teachers just what it is we do in our spare time."
The San Marcos group will be performing music from the movies"Beetlejuice" and "The Nightmare Before Christmas," music writtenby Danny Elfman for the competition, which begins at 11 a.m. andends at 4 p.m.
"This program gets pretty creative with the costumes and the makeup and the music," Hand said. "We wanted to reflect on teen angst and I think our show says it all."
Hand began playing the vibraphone, a percussion instrument resembling the xylophone but with metal bars and wheels, as a freshman because he wasn't able to play the drums.
"I really grew to like the thing and now I love playing it," he said. "They played this instrument a lot more during the days of jazz and the 50s, but it's gaining in popularity."
The high school senior, who hopes to attend the Air Force Academy or Texas A & M in the fall, particularly enjoys being the section leader of the band.
"It's really helped me in my leadership skills," he said. "We have a group of 25 or more kids spending every day together. Besides helping to keep everyone calm before the shows, I have to deal with relationships and hormones. I've learned a lot more in the past four years than just how to play the vibraphone."
Four middle schools have been invited to attend Saturday's program and San Marcos Middle School will be sending their drumline, which has placed in the top three in the past few festivals. This weekend they will be donning monster costumes and performing songs from the movie "The Exorcist," and from composers such as Bach and Fugue.
"Our program is entitled, "There's a Monster Under my Bed," said San Marcos Middle School's band director, Charlie McGhee. "Drumline is like kid's percussion theater. In this show, we have a child who is afraid of the dark in the beginning and by the end he is friends with the monsters."
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"I get to be a ghost, but I'm so tall my sneakers stick out of the bottom of my costume," the eighth-grader said. "It's kind of funny."
Hernandez plays the symbols because he said he wasn't sure if he could play any other instrument, although he plays the saxophone in the jazz band.
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Q: I recently broke up with my girlfriend. We got along great but I wasn't in love with her.
I broke the news without warning and she is devastated. She doesn't have many friends locally and her family lives a state away. She feels she doesn't have anyone to talk to and she needs someone around her to function. She made our relationship the center of her life and she feels her life is over.
My worst fear is that she might do something to harm herself or turn into a different person from this experience. I found out after we broke up about the abuse she's had from previous relationships and it made my heart sick to hear about her pain. She claims I'm the best thing that's happened to her and she's lost faith in future relationships. She doesn't like her job, her life or her situation.
I feel I'm responsible in some way. I'm also sad from the breakup, but I didn't want to fake being in love. Is the pain I'm feeling a sign that I was wrong to break up?
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I think your compassion is important, and touching. You care about her and she's hurting, and certainly there's no way to argue that you haven't caused some of her pain.
It just happens that she caused most of it herself — surely anyone who has ever made a mess of themselves can sympathize — and she's nevertheless pushing it off on you. That reduces my sympathy to dust. Bad jobs? Been there, check. Stuck without close friends, check, far from family, check, over-invested in relationship, check, harboring painful past, check, check, check, a column of checks.
But what's with her keeping past abuse quiet when you were forging intimacy, but speaking up when she needed leverage? What's with saying you're "the best thing that's happened to her," when her leaning on you helped throw her life out of whack? What's with needing someone around for her to function?
They're all-but-naked bids (there's your next frontier) to get you to return out of sympathy, or even fear. Not love. And she's okay with that?
The following suggest a possible breakup mistake: (1) Dumpee takes it with such strength and sadness and grace that she wishes you well in your new life even though she wants nothing more than for you to stay in hers. (2) Dumpee's absence helps you see the value of her presence in ways you failed to grasp before — and you can see this while maintaining full awareness of what led you to split in the first place.
Becoming the human dartboard for every guilt-missile she can flip at you is not grounds to revisit your choice. It's sad to watch someone struggle with instability, it's scary, and it's hard to resist the pull of manipulation.
The rescue she needs, though, is the one only she can provide, by taking responsibility for the hole she dug, and proving to herself that she can hoist herself out if it — using her resourcefulness, stamina, her long-distance booster club and, if needed, her health insurance.
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Moms and dads of babies born with what's known as a "hole" in their heart usually brace themselves for open-heart surgery, the accepted route to fixing the life-threatening defect.
But a significantly less invasive procedure a University of Mississippi Medical Center pediatric cardiologist carries out in a catheterization lab is giving kids and parents a new option: A simple overnight hospital stay and a regular Band-Aid on their leg in lieu of a line of chest stitches.
Ten children have successfully undergone Dr. Makram Ebeid's procedure to plug a perimembranous ventricular septal defect in their heart's lower half by transporting the plug on a catheter that is advanced through the child's leg. It's a transformational development borne of clinical trials that could, in time, replace the decades-old standard of surgery requiring at least a three- to five-day stay and post-op care in the pediatric cardiac care unit, Ebeid said.
"It makes so much sense that this is the right thing to do," said Ebeid, professor of pediatric cardiology and director of the Pediatric Catheterization Lab.
If more parents only knew they could avoid open-heart surgery on their babies or toddlers, many would jump at the chance, said Dr. Jorge Salazar, professor of pediatric heart surgery and co-director of the UMMC Children's Heart Center.
"If we can achieve the exact same result using a catheter that goes up the leg, then why wouldn't we do it?" Salazar said. "I have seven children. If one had a hole in his heart, I would choose the catheter."
A ventricular septal defect is an opening in the septum wall that separates the heart's left and right ventricals. That congenital flaw is almost always repaired during open-heart surgery.
Ebeid, however, has developed a trans-catheter approach. Guided by X-ray imaging, Ebeid threads a wire through a tiny hole in the patient's leg and into a blood vessel or artery. The wire is guided to the patient's heart, and the cardiologist passes instruments over the wire that are used to make repairs, such as a plug to seal an opening in the heart, or replacement valves to relieve those that no longer work.
Save "a few scattered cases here and there," Ebeid said, he's the only cardiologist placing a plug in a perimembranous ventricular septal defect in a catheterization lab. A muscular ventricular septal defect, typically located a little lower in the ventrical, is more commonly repaired in a catheterization lab.
Ebeid was chosen as part of other clinical trials to test the small, nickel-and-platinum plug manufactured by St. Jude Medical.
"He definitely is one of the pioneers," Salazar said. "It's too new to have exact figures. Nobody has published them yet."
Few pediatric cardiologists are telling parents of the new treatment option, or perhaps know about it at all, Salazar said. "It's still a very prevalent opinion in the world that this particular hole can't be closed with a catheter, and that it shouldn't be done," he said. "But, that's based on the approaches and technology of the past."
Parents of Ebeid's patients get all of the information - and aren't pressured one way or the other, Ebeid said. "I'm very honest, and tell them that surgery has been tested for 30 to 40 years, and that this is new.
"A few shy away. But I tell them that if they'll allow me to do it in the catheterization lab, that I will do that," Ebeid said. "It's much easier, and you're done in a few hours, compared to having your chest opened up. I would never tell them that surgery is the wrong thing."
Pass Christian resident Lindsey Stout chose catheterization for her 2-year-old son Wyatt. His pediatric cardiologist first discovered a "massive hole" not long after Wyatt's birth, and after watching him carefully for a year, referred the family to Ebeid, Stout said.
"Dr. Ebeid told us 95 percent of cardiologists would just open him up, but that he felt comfortable closing it with a catheter," Stout said. "It wasn't a difficult decision for me."
Ebeid discovered a total three holes, Stout said. "If we had done surgery, they would have had to break his ribs and to stop my almost 2-year-old's heart," she said. "The thought of that is still scary to me."
Open-heart surgery requires placing the child on a heart-lung bypass machine. The child is temporarily on a ventilator in the pediatric ICU, but goes home in five days or less. If Ebeid concludes a patient is a better candidate for surgery, even after he's begun catheterization, the child often can go to the operating room right then for surgery performed by Salazar.
The change in Wyatt's health was immediate, his mom said. "Before, he was tired all the time and ran out of breath quickly," she said.
"There are a lot of institutions closing atrial septal defects, but not many closing ventricular septal defects," said Dr. Rick Barr, Suzan B. Thames professor and chair of pediatrics. Ebeid, he said, is receiving referrals "from other institutions where they didn't feel comfortable closing it. And, it's not only that he's doing this procedure and doing it well, but on highly complex patients."
"In terms of the global picture, it's a little bit ironic that Mississippi is thought to be 50th in the nation on health care, but is leading the charge for advancing pediatric heart care," Salazar said.
Ebeid and Salazar know the procedure has worked when an echocardiogram shows improved function and heart size. And, Ebeid said, there's another sign of success, one that certainly brings joy to the heart of a parent.
"Once we're done with the patient, they're ready to play," he said of toddlers like Wyatt, who rode a tiny tricycle in the pediatric ward the morning after his procedure. "They're ready to play, even before they go home."


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Yes, it's far from perfect, but I'm a nurse, and have never done woodworking projects until this summer, and am learning!
The total cost was $17.00 – only for the stainless steel screws used on the front areas! No, that's not a typo! We happened to get a couple of pallets that were obviously nicer oak, so we've been saving them for a while until we were inspired. The inspiration came from the one pallet railing that was a piece of pine still quite raw – it had bark and tree limbs obviously still intact instead of just a couple of knot holes. We loved it! The old bark even had those worm holes still evident.
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Bedford Co., VA - Many people hit the Blue Ridge Parkway this time of year to look at the changing leaves. But another change has the National Park Service looking for someone to keep a popular landmark open.
The current contract to operate the Peaks of Otter Lodge expires November 25, and the deadline for proposals to run the lodge is Wednesday.
Bedford's tourism director is staying optimistic someone will come forward.
John Filipiak leads a tour group that visits every year from Virginia Beach.
"It's a great place. I can't imagine it not being here," said Filipiak. "This is the second time I've been here and first time, same thing. Very crowded."
Despite the peak season crowds ,the Virginia Peaks of Otter Company that currently operates the lodge, gift shop and restaurant has no interest in renewing its contract.
A temporary contract between the National Park Service and the Virginia Peaks of Otter Company has served as a bridge over the last couple of years keeping 58 workers on the job. But that contract is set to expire.
But beyond the employees...
"Well it certainly can affect us all, although there may be people who will come through the area on the parkway who will come into Bedford because there is no place to eat or to stay on the parkway," said Sergei Troubetzkoy, the tourism director for both Bedford city and county. "You get a very large number of visitors who come to Bedford by way of the parkway and the Peaks of Otter, so it's very, very important for this community."
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SummaryFun, but linear and too gimmicky
The GoodRaven Software is a veteran developer of first-person shooters. Titles like Hexen, Heretic, Soldier of Fortune and Star Trek: Elite Force firmly established their reputation as a major player in the field.
Singularity, however, was made during a different time, when FPS design was dominated by a very specific fashion. It is a linear shooter that relies on setpieces - a Half-Life kind of shooter. It is clear that Raven tried to create an "ultimate killer" in this game. It absorbed ideas, gameplay features, and stylistic elements from many great FPSs of the past. The two greatest inspirations were clearly Half-Life 2 and BioShock.
Just like Half-Life 2, Singularity is a tightly designed, cleverly constructed one-way-road, which is in a way one setpiece after another. It is full of those old "monster-in-a-box" moments. It is a game that will make you go "WHAT THE... ?!?!" more than once or twice. Actually, the whole game is built like a never-ending flow of events. Things keep happening. Explosions, collisions, sudden falls, enemies coming out of nowhere - all this is done really well.
The influence of BioShock is perhaps the strongest one. The premises of the games are very similar. Just like in BioShock, the protagonist arrives on the scene when the destruction has already happened. The stylish setting also takes a cue from that game here. Abundance of detail, plenty of typical Soviet paraphernalia (slogans, instructions, posters, notes., etc.), the whole "retro touch" with old phones, typewriters, and so on, a certain grand magnificence of the installation, evoking the feeling of a whole civilization being doomed to death - everything is heavily influence by the classic Rapture experience.
Also taken straight from BioShock is a light RPG angle. Using the game's currency, you can purchase various nifty perks and upgrades. It is possible to develop your proficiency with a weapon of your choice, raising its attack power, ammo capacity, etc. You can enhance your special abilities, raise your HP bar, increase the amount of health packs you can carry, etc. Combined with the "two weapons only" feature from Halo, the limited inventory makes a bit more sense than it did in BioShock, where you could carry a crazy assortment of heavy weaponry, but only nine health packs.
Some might say that Singularity is a completely eclectic experience, and it's mostly true. It does, however, introduce a really cool idea - time-manipulation. Time-traveling and alike is always cool, but Singularity finds some rather original and exotic usages for it. Early in the game, you receive a device that allows you to revert objects in time. This is mostly used to solve the (very simple) puzzles; while the general idea for puzzle-solving is the same as in Half-Life 2 (moving objects around), Singularity gives it an additional touch. For example, it's not enough to just move over a crate to climb a higher surface - you should first age the crate, turn in into a flattened piece of metal, then pull it over to you through a narrow opening, rejuvenate it, and finally use it for your purposes. Pretty clever - at least until you begin to see how limited this feature turns out to be.
Even cooler is the implementation of these time powers during battles. Your aging ability doesn't limit itself to crates; you can use it on any enemy in the game! Making an enemy soldier die of old age certainly belongs to the coolest gimmicks I've ever seen in a game. Competing with it is the possibility to mutate soldiers by manipulating your time device accordingly. Imagine being ambushed by five or six soldiers and quickly turning two of them into mutants, who immediately start attacking their former brethren, causing general havoc and confusion. Even the object-throwing feature from Half-Life 2 gets an overhaul here, thanks to the time-shifting ability: now you can, besides grabbing stuff and throwing it an the enemies, also catch whatever they are throwing at you, freeze it in time, and send it back with kind regards.
The BadSingularity belongs to the FPS design school that sacrifices exploration to tight scripting and quick pace. Half-Life 2 was probably the most famous example of it, and Singularity owes quite a lot to that game. While Raven tried to exploit every possible trick and technique of this design thought, the result is still a very, very linear game. At least Half-Life 2 had some more or less vast areas with vehicles, which gave you a certain sense of exploration (even if it wasn't really there). Singularity is no-nonsense, unmasked, brutal linearity. You can't even fall down to your death in this game; the designers made it impossible to jump where you are not supposed to jump.
Just like in Half-Life 2, there is the irritating consensus on where you can go and where you can't. Come on, guys, I'm a soldier! I can run with a huge auto-cannon and behead big mummies! Why can't I make this tiny, teeny-weeny little jump?!.. Why do I have to put a crate to get to that opening? It's clearly visible that a normal human being wouldn't need a bloody crate to get there!.. Same applies to objects: why can I age supply boxes and soldiers, but nothing else? Why can't I age, say, a chair? Why can I throw conveniently placed inflammable barrels but can't throw a stone?.. And so on, and so on. In short: Singularity is a game in which you do what the designers want you to do, or else. I'm sure you can name hundreds of such examples from other FPSs, but they are all too obvious in Singularity.
The most serious problem of Singularity is its lack of more open-ended scenarios and any kind of realistic FPS mechanics. Singularity is all gimmicks. It might be worth playing once to experience whatever the designers invented, but it doesn't allow you to play the game the way you want. Your head is constantly full with all those clever tricks the game keeps throwing at you, and you don't have enough time to realize that you've been led by the hand through an admittedly attractive, but very limited game world.
Anyone familiar with the history of first-person shooters will immediately notice that Raven tried very hard to pack different cool ideas from other games into Singularity. The similarities to BioShock, however, are so strong that I couldn't help feeling they wanted to imitate that famous game too much. For example, the "uncovering the story of the past" gameplay element, which was so well-done in BioShock (and which it itself borrowed from System Shock games) sadly seems to be present in Singularity just because "BioShock did it and became a big hit, so let's do it too". The audio recordings of BioShock enriched the story and deepened the characters. The audio recordings of Singularity are just... well, audio recordings. You can listen to them or you can ignore them - not much will change. They are artificially placed, arranged too neatly in a linear fashion, and generally make little sense. Why would a guy take a bulky audio recorder while running away from a terrifying beast anyway?..
The Bottom LineThere's no doubt Singularity can be fun. The first playthrough keeps you interested with new features to toy with that the game keeps throwing at you. But the extremely linear level design, the overly heavy reliance on gimmicks, and the all-too-obvious borrowing of ideas from blockbusters will probably downgrade the game in the eyes of the more hardcore FPS fans.
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Less than two weeks from now, on Dec. 6, anyone over the age of 21 will be able to light a joint in Washington state and, practically speaking, there's nothing the government can really do to stop that. The same will be true in Colorado within a matter of weeks.
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PITMAN – The infamous banner that sparked a Christmas controversy will make its return this holiday season, gracing the intersection of Broadway and Second Avenue for more than four decades with the message, "Keep Christ in Christmas."
Last winter, the banner came under fire when The Freedom From Religion Foundation, a group aimed at protecting the separation of church and state, asked former Mayor Michael Batten to remove the banner, stating the banner does nothing but endorse the Christian faith.
During the holiday season, members of the Wisconsin-based non-profit asked that the banner be placed on church grounds, rather than on the county roadway.
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Ohio State Basketball: Early Look at Buckeyes' Most Intriguing Games in 2014-15June 4, 2014
The 2014-15 Ohio State basketball season will be one of redemption after the team failed to live up to expectations last year.
Thad Matta lost Aaron Craft, LaQuinton Ross and Lenzelle Smith Jr. from last season's roster, but he hit the recruiting trail hard and brought in one of the best classes in the country. D'Angelo Russell, Keita Bates-Diop and Jae'Sean Tate highlight that group, but the only way Matta's recruiting efforts will pay off is with wins on the court.
With that in mind, let's take an early look at some of the most intriguing games on Ohio State's 2014-15 schedule.
At Louisville
The Big Ten/ACC Challenge is one of the highlights of the college basketball season every year, and the 2014-15 edition will be no different. Among the marquee contests is a showdown between Duke and Wisconsin, but Ohio State's Dec. 2 trip to Louisville will certainly make headlines as well.
The two conferences split the past two Challenges, and the Big Ten won the three before that. Of course, the ACC won the first 10.
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Much like Ohio State, Louisville lost a ton of talent with Russ Smith, Luke Hancock and Kevin Ware all departing. However, between Chris Jones, Terry Rozier, Wayne Blackshear and Montrezl Harrell, Rick Pitino still has a loaded roster that could compete for a Final Four. This will be a serious challenge for the young Buckeyes, especially given the fact that it will take place in the intimidating KFC Yum! Center.
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Another one of Ohio State's most interesting games will take place against Louisville's future ACC foe North Carolina.
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While the first two nonconference games will give Ohio State fans a look at some new faces, Wisconsin is the opponent from the Big Ten that should be circled on every team's calendar.
Bo Ryan and the Badgers have always been something of a thorn in Matta's side throughout his entire tenure at Ohio State, especially when Ohio State has to travel to the Kohl Center. The Buckeyes and Badgers typically duel it out in classic contests on the court, and the 2014-15 season should be no different.
Wisconsin made it all the way to the Final Four and lost a heartbreaker to Kentucky in March, but that experience and gained confidence should provide a boost for them this season. Josh Gasser, Traevon Jackson, Sam Dekker, Nigel Hayes and Frank Kaminsky all return and should have the Badgers as Big Ten favorites heading into conference play.
Considering the personnel losses from Michigan State and Michigan, this battle could go a long way toward deciding the Big Ten title or at least some of the more favorable seeds in the conference tournament.
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Play-based programs tend to have rocky relationships with regulation. This is not because play-based programs do not comply with regulations, but because the scope and authority of the regulations themselves don't exactly mesh evenly with the scope and authority of childhood and developmentally appropriate practice.
Never is this clearer than the definition of supervision as outlined by the state of Nebraska's child care center regulations, which state that "adequate and appropriate supervision includes: 1. Knowing the whereabouts and being within sight or sound of all children at all times; 2. Being awake, alert, attentive, and responsive to the needs of all children, and 3. Protecting or removing children from harm." This sounds wonderfully appropriate. A well-written description. One that is impossible to enforce correctly.
Because here's the deal. People file complaints about my program. Often. Nebraska ranks nearly last in Early Childhood Education in most studies. Americans generally don't know what early childhood education is supposed to look like, because the public perception has changed so many times in recent years as. Nebraskans in particular are exceedingly confused about it. People don't like the idea of children engaging with their independence and budding self-confidence because it does look scary to the untrained or under-educated eye.
So when people see my group of 3-6 year-old children toying with chopped-up 2x4's instead of sitting monotonously at a table with a coloring book or worksheet, they go into convulsions. When they observe our kids climbing up on our privacy fence (mind you, no more than two feet off the ground) to watch the whir of traffic in our city buzz past our school, they call CPS. Surely, they think, we must be neglectful to allow children touch something that might give them a splinter or climb something they could fall from and scrape their knee. Surely, we're just not paying attention.
I've written before about just how difficult it is to do this work. I truly believe, based on my experience, that running a classroom that is static, a tight ship, very controlled, in which children are "well behaved" and do not as a rule do not challenge authority is the easiest job you can get. You just have to be mean—disguised as firm. You just have to be controlling—disguised as respectfully formidable and consistent. You just have to be completely ignorant to the reality of child development—disguised as knowledgeable about education.
Because the exogenous influences of large corporations and higher government to build better office drones who do not have the skills to jump in with both feet, take risks, or expect better at all times is successful, these types of risk-free, danger-free, conflict-averse, authoritative environments are what a sufficient number of parents desire to motivate our local governments to encourage owners and operators of childcare environments to yield, because otherwise, these government licensing bodies may appear to these sadly mistaken parents as not doing their job. So in a way, we're alike, in that we're all being affected negatively by misinformation.
It's just I want to fight the misinformation. I will not yield to it. I don't want to perpetuate it.
Among the recent complaint that was filed were claims that we had no toys for the children. I wrote about that in our last blog post. That children were sitting on countertops using scissors to cut paper. That children were crying and not being attended to. That children were climbing up a repurposed bunk bed we've turned into a loft, without a standard ladder. That children were wandering into hallways and other rooms/closets and that teachers were unaware. That children were removing slats from a table to play inside the frame of the table, which had sharp edges. That children were climbing onto windowsills in the wall and jumping from them to the ground and that teachers were watching this and not telling children "no".
Now, literally all of this is something you can expect to see in a play-based childcare program. It might not look like the children are "well-controlled" but that has never been and will never be our goal. Our goal is to develop respectful relationships where children do not damage our property or hurt anyone, and we do not refuse them the opportunities they need to learn and grow. Pretty simple, correct? Even in the case of children who are crying and not being attended to, it's fairly clear that when a child is crying and you have a respectful enough relationship with that child to know if and how they want to be approached, or perhaps if they happen to have any special needs that involve short-lived outbursts that would be refueled by unnecessary adult engagement, that perception and subjectivity play a major role there.
So, imagine my surprise when I open a letter with a summary of a complaint investigation that states that the entire complaint was substantiated upon review.
I have several issues with how the investigation was conducted. First, it was conducted by an inspector we've never met—someone completely unacquainted to or educated on our philosophy. Second, this inspector never properly identified herself nor why she was there. Third, as it became apparent why she was there, staff had tried to give a cliff's notes explanation about our philosophy, my education, and my beliefs, to which the inspector responded, in paraphrase, "I know who Travis is and what he believes and sometimes I think he takes it a little too far". Fourth, in her notes, she used language that staff "attempted to supervise" children, but children had "no concept" that they needed to stay in one place. Our entire facility is one large open room with a back hallway, storage rooms, and restrooms all situated off of the open room. The idea that a child opening a door to a storage room or walking through a back hallway is a breach of supervision but letting a child close the door behind them in a restroom is not is mind-boggling. Plus, the phrasing that staff "attempted" to supervise and children have "no concept" of staying in the main room is asinine, offensive, unprofessional, and just plain stupid.
That said, below I present my response to this inspector's notes and substantiations of the complaint in the hopes that others fighting for childhood and the freedom of/to play may be able to also file objections to any time government officials impede the work and progress we impact every day.
Programs like ours are becoming more and more popular, and every one I visit operates like ours, and many have unfortunately horrible relationships with licensing bodies due to severe misunderstandings of the newest research validating our practice. I would like for that to not be the case in Nebraska. Below are just some of my objections that I would love to discuss in an administrative meeting with representatives of the department.
- Scissors that belong in the program are meant for children's use. They're children's scissors. These scissors are sharp enough to cut paper but not enough to cut hair or skin. The inspector noted that children were using children's scissors and still chose to substantiate the claim that we were not removing children from harm by allowing them to use scissors while sitting safely on a countertop. The idea that scissors like these present an immediate risk to children in our care is overly sensitive and in all honesty, laughably asinine. It implies that children are not by nature self-preservative and danger-averse, which doesn't bode well as the very first substantiation. If DHHS is to start off this case believing children would just wander off of cliffs if adults weren't there to yell at them and tell them "no", there's no hope for our program's practices, and no hope for childhood in Nebraska.
- We care for a number of children with special needs and operate with an anti-bias, anti-apologist approach in these regards. [Redacted to protect sensitive information regarding children, summarized that some of our children just cry... a lot...] It is not a violation of the standard of supervision to seem to "not notice" behaviors that we are explicitly instructed to allow the space to exist. For DHHS to imply, through use of the phrase "not notice", that our staff are just idiotically unaware of their surroundings due to the fact that we do not force children to move/play in groups, but rather individuals, is not a professional approach to the attempt to substantiate claims of subtle neglect. Phrasing matters. Supervision is a highly subjective word. Even the definition as laid out in the regulations is too vague to substantiate claims that letting children express their emotions freely without unnecessary and provocative attempts to coddle or soothe could be considered a violation of supervision standards.
- There are "holes in the walls" as defined in the report. Our building was originally an office space that had large windows to every office. When the space was re-purposed for childcare, construction workers removed the glass and made these free openings in the walls lined with trim, like windowsills. Yes, we allow children to climb on them and do not intend on ever ending this practice. They're child-height. They're safe for climbing. They are a temptation not because climbing is wrong, but because climbing is necessary for proper development. Children need it and seek it out when it's a possibility. Childhood is risky business. Risks must be taken to properly live. Chaos must be embraced. Any concern that a fall from this height would present serious risk is unfounded. As a student of Neuroscience, explicitly studying children and currently in the throes of research regarding concussions in children, this notion is bad comedy at best. Children fall and get hurt just walking due to the height of their head from the floor. Shall we make them crawl for life to avoid any possible injury? What about playground equipment that involves similar climbing? Monkey bars are surely higher and far more risky. Slides? A child could turn their body and fall right off the top. Zip lines? A child could become airborne for yards with the right momentum. If a child has the dexterity to climb up something, they develop the dexterity to balance on that as well, and even the ability to climb down. If they fall, their body creates muscle memory for the purpose of not falling again. This is basic child development. The choice to substantiate that we are not properly removing children from harm implies that "harm" has a very liberal definition--anything that could potentially make a child sad. Shall I ban paper because allowing children to handle paper is not sufficiently removing children from the harm of papercuts? Stepping on a LEGO is surely a similar pain to falling from a height of 36 inches, will DHHS be banning blocks?
- I understand my staff may not have appropriately discussed the purpose behind the lack of materials in the classroom due to the inspector never properly identifying herself or her purpose of visiting. I have addressed this here: http://www.progressivepreceptors.com/blog/we-removed-all-of-the-toys-from-our-childcare-center Staff were also told that the inspector was aware of my beliefs and that the inspector believed that sometimes they just "go too far". I'm missing the point where embracing scientific findings and adapting practice to suit facts can be considered "going too far". Perhaps Nebraska just isn't ready for how far we have to go before children are in truly developmentally appropriate care conditions? I don't want to believe that, but in regard to this investigation, I have my serious doubts about how knowledgeable our licensing body truly is.
- The substantiation that a child wandering into a separate room in a 2000-square-foot classroom that is just through an open door (or no door at all) is a violation of the regulation "staff must be present in rooms where children are receiving care at all times" is a bastardization of the intent of that regulation. To also write that children do not have the "concept" that they must stay in one room at all times is incredibly offensive to the intelligence of the children for whom we care. They are independent. They are curious. They explore. They do not lack "the concept". We are not going to put the fear of God in them that they must be non-curious and dependent at all times in order to "stay safe" as defined by a licensing inspector. It is not the children's responsibility to make sure adults know where they are. In a program as small as ours, it's physically impossible to not know where a child is, even if you can't see them. To suggest that a child walking into a hallway that is part of the classroom is a violation of supervision is to suggest that if a child is sitting behind a shelf in any other program to where a teacher can't see them, supervision is violated. Nebraska's credentialed early childhood education teachers are taught to separate the classroom into areas with shelving, so surely every childcare program is out of supervision compliance based on that standard, since DHHS clearly doesn't understand what the word "or" means if supervision means "within sight or sound of children" and we can be written up for not being in sight of children. Further, I noticed you've substantiated the claim that we are allowing children to play near open wires when in your own words you conceded that the wires are not at all electrical? That seems confusing to me.
- Again, if children have the muscular dexterity to climb our loft, they will climb our loft and no, we will not tell children they are "not allowed" to climb or jump. We would not have any of this furniture in this environment if it were not explicitly built for children to be children around. I don't believe there should ever be a single item in the early childhood environment that children are not allowed to utilize with their whole body. If a single piece of furniture could not support the whole weight of a child standing or jumping on it, it would be, frankly, stupid to have it in an environment that I advertise as being "for children". We will not be purchasing any stairs for our loft until I see that DHHS has implemented a policy of forcing childcare centers to get rid of any non-stair climbing equipment such as ladders that lead to objects like monkey bars, slides, and other large-motor play equipment and replace them with stairs. If we are to be forced to engage in an anti-risk, anti-climbing regulation that simply does not exist, I want other programs to be held to a similar standard before I will begrudgingly pretend to comply.
- There is a severe misunderstanding of childhood, play, and our mission if you can believe for even a second that we are just oblivious to the fact that children take risks at our program that may look scary to the untrained or under-educated-on-the-topic eye. What sets us apart from other programs is that we do not kill children's imagination and budding self-confidence in order to reduce risk. I could in some other dimension get a set of stars for the loft, but I would forever encourage children to never use those stairs and climb up using their arms and core, because core dexterity is a major component today's children are lacking as a prerequisite for handwriting.
- We will not be enforcing a nap time. We offer nap every day to children after lunch. This does not include any kind of forceful group activity. We offer nap by asking if anyone's tired, multiple times throughout the day. This leads to children napping frequently, and honestly, wherever they drop. Many times, we will move the child to a cot and sit with them in the nap area. Other times, especially for our children who have specific special needs, we will follow our directions from their primary caregivers to let them sleep where they are uninterrupted.
- Perhaps the reason Nebraska has been previously labeled one of the last states in the nation for quality of early childhood education could be the fact that programs are intimidated to treat children as if they're all the same, intimidated to embrace low-activity, low-risk, and low-work curricula, to treat children's environments like hospitals, and to avoid every shred of risk of even the slightest injury. At least, that's what major research says is killing children's experiences in the early years. Adopting overly academic, overly rigorous, overly cautious, and overly authoritative child development programs that are completely unsupported by science or statistics is causing far too many problems for the education field as a whole, and it starts with the decisions we make as early childhood practitioners. If we cannot be supported or reach compromises with our licensing bodies in these regards, the state of Early Childhood Education in Nebraska will be doomed. Therefore, I will continue to object to any enforcement I deem unnecessary and egregious to property advocate for and further what I know to be correct and right.
Please reply to me with a phone-call or a meeting. This is all I will offer in writing at this time. I'm opening the door with the written word in hopes that it can be read more than once by more than one person and properly digested in order to make further discussion more productive by voice or in person.
Thank you.


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The last time Tampa Electric Co. scarred a neighborhood by installing towering new power poles, the utility promised to reach out and work with affected communities in the future. So much for that. Residents in Ybor City were caught by surprise by new poles Tampa Electric is installing in the old Latin quarter. Some are eight stories high. Meeting with residents Tuesday, a company representative conceded: "We obviously missed something."
That "something" was a good-faith effort to warn residents in the National Historic Landmark District that the utility would be replacing old wooden poles with new and larger contraptions made of concrete or steel. That "something" was the same level of communication that went missing in 2003 when Tampa Electric planted even larger poles, without warning, in another Tampa community, Egypt Lake, north of downtown. And that "something" now that the poles are in place is a tangible solution to the residents' complaints.
Tampa Electric said it is replacing the poles in response to a state order to harden its infrastructure. That is fine; Floridians understand the need to strengthen the electric grid to better withstand severe weather. But it should have engaged these residents on the front end. The utility did notify neighborhood groups, but the company characterized the work as the Port of Tampa project, not the Ybor City project. And it did not show what the new poles would look like. Residents understandably feel deceived and worry the poles are ugly enough to jeopardize the architectural underpinnings of the district's historic status.
Tampa Electric has given no indication it intends to remove the poles or do anything truly meaningful beyond look for ways to prevent another such public relations disaster from happening again. But the company promised that the last time around, too, so it clearly learned nothing from its misbehavior in Egypt Lake.
The city deserves better from its electric provider. Tampa Electric needs to submit its plans for upgrading power lines in residential areas to a more robust public review. Residents deserve to know in advance how the utility intends to alter the character of their neighborhood — and affect their property values. The hurricane defense sounds good, but there always seems to be a surprise with Tampa Electric — followed by an empty promise to avoid repeating the mistake.


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Upper Marlboro mulch pile continues to smolder
Firefighters have put out a huge mulch fire in Prince George's County, but concerns it could start again still remain. The fire started Wednesday night on Ritchie Marlboro Road in Upper Marlboro and sent huge flames shooting into the sky.
Officials say the fire will continue to smolder for a few days while fire crews continue to extinguish it.
The 30-by-100 foot pile of mulch caught fire at about 8 p.m., sending a massive plume of smoke into the sky and illuminating the night with heavy flames.
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Fire crews from throughout the region, including several regional airports, Joint Base Andrews and units from as far away as Charles County, responded to help battle the massive fire.
By 4 a.m., officials say much of of the visible surface fire had been put out, but crews remained on standby while the pile continued to smolder. No people or buildings were ever threatened by the huge fire.
Many of the 150 firefighters who responded also were called upon to put out small brush fires that were caused by flying embers carried by strong winds.


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Charge: Caretaker killed elderly Normandy Park man with his own gun
Updated 6:10 pm, Tuesday, January 28, 2014
A 22-year-old Normandy Park man accused of killing an elderly man for whom he was caring during an unprovoked fit of rage has been charged with murder.
King County prosecutors contend Shane R. Chamberlain killed Philip Hamlin on Saturday after attacking his granddaughter with a crowbar at Hamlin's home. Chamberlain is alleged to have killed Hamlin with his own gun after beating the young woman.
Shortly before 3 p.m., Normandy Park police were called to the 18500 block of Normandy Terrace Southwest after Chamberlain called 911 and told dispatchers he'd killed Hamlin, a Normandy Park detective said in court papers. Asked why he shot the elderly man, Chamberlain allegedly explained only that he "broke."
Hamlin's granddaughter told investigators Chamberlain first attacked her with a crowbar, the detective said in court papers. She described the attack as "unexpected and unprovoked," and claimed she was able to fend Chamberlain off long enough to flee the home.
Investigators contend Chamberlain then retrieved Hamlin's .38 pistol and shot Hamlin in the face as the older man sat on a sofa in his home's family room.
Chamberlain surrendered to police without incident. Officers at the scene recovered the pistol and a bloodied crowbar. Chamberlain is described in court papers as a live-in caregiver to Hamlin; it seems he and his wife lived in the home.
According to charging papers, Chamberlain declined to speak with police following the shooting. He has since been charged with first-degree murder and first-degree assault, and remains jailed on $2 million bail.
Chamberlain is expected to appear in court on Feb. 10 at the Norm Maleng Regional Justice Center in Kent.
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