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Hiding From Shame, Addicted to Optimism: The Tyranny of Our Collective Comfort Zones
Phil Rockstroh, CommonDreams.org
The technologies that inflicted upon the world the ongoing tragedies in both the Gulf of Mexico and Japan serve a dangerous addiction, an addiction to blind optimism, a habituation of mind that allows us to dwell within provisional comfort zones but renders vast spaces of the world into deathrealms.
After each catastrophe, there ensues a scramble to contain the damage leveled, as, concurrently, the apologist of the present system explain the anomalous nature of the event. Yet, this much should be obvious: Attempting to clean up the mess, after it occurs, as oppose to altering the way of life that incurs the damage, is analogous to an addict believing a few days in detox will serve as a solution to his addiction.
In the same way drug dealers are reliant on an addict's unwillingness to reflect on the carnage created in his life, as well as, the havoc reaped in the lives of those near him, engendered by his addiction, the small group of hyper-wealthy elites who benefit from the current system rely on collective cognitive dissidence (or, as it has been termed, the fear of fear itself) to dissuade the public at large from peering deeply into the pernicious situation.
One of an addict's biggest obstacles is his optimism i.e., he is convinced he can figure out somehow, someway to use his drug of choice in a less destructive way…and, by reflex, rebels against the deepening sorrow that he must change.
… Growing up in the deep south, … shame is a subject with which I'm well acquainted; it has taken me a lifetime (and it remains an ongoing process) to sort through and shake out the shame-based sensibility acquired there.
… A large number of the blustering, willfully ignorant, southern men that I grew up around, whether they are khaki clad, country club smoothies or leather jacket-donning punk rock belligerents, were twisted inside out, kicked and stomped insensate by shaming authority figures before they shed their baby teeth. If one listens closely, one can detect the voice of shame-bearing demons hissing in their every utterance.
Yet the knowledge of the origin and source of their suffering remains buried deep within these men. To acknowledge shame (even to oneself) is considered a tacit admission of having something to be ashamed of i.e., "If you ain't got nothing to be ashamed of, you miserable peckerwood, then you wouldn't have no need to feel it." So, more or less, the line of thinking, rather train wreck of pathology, passing for thought, goes.
Accordingly, a strong impulse arises to explain it all away — to claim the entire episode is a misunderstanding, or to dismiss their feelings as being trivial, or merely an indulgence of weak-willed, thin wrist losers, or impugn the motives of those who find grievance in the situation. This mode of mind has made multi-millionaires of the black magicians of rightwing talk shows, experts at performing emotional sleight of hand tricks that displace the shame of their listeners on a host of targets.
The cordiality of my fellow southerners is as facile as it is fragile. In southern culture, a great deal of psychic energy goes into distancing oneself from shame. Brooding beneath southern culture's superficial charm and gentility is the unspoken threat: "Be nice, now" that often translates to, "ya'll do as I say — and there won't be any trouble."
… While nice liberals retreat to their comfort zones, the forsaken laboring class constructs insulating walls of resentment. In the US, more and more, the criteria that forges personality and informs our condition is wrought by the calculus of enclosure: guarded gate communities; isolation in motor vehicles; the insular pixel fiefdoms of the internet; long work hours, often spent in cubicles, comprised of meaningless labor, and cut-off from both the norms of nature and resonate human contact.
(11 April 2011)
It's not just the South with this problem! The article reminds me of the late Joe Bageant -BA
Why the United States Is Destroying Its Education System
Chris Hedges, TruthDig.com
A nation that destroys its systems of education, degrades its public information, guts its public libraries and turns its airwaves into vehicles for cheap, mindless amusement becomes deaf, dumb and blind. It prizes test scores above critical thinking and literacy. It celebrates rote vocational training and the singular, amoral skill of making money. It churns out stunted human products, lacking the capacity and vocabulary to challenge the assumptions and structures of the corporate state. It funnels them into a caste system of drones and systems managers. It transforms a democratic state into a feudal system of corporate masters and serfs.
Teachers, their unions under attack, are becoming as replaceable as minimum-wage employees at Burger King. We spurn real teachers—those with the capacity to inspire children to think, those who help the young discover their gifts and potential—and replace them with instructors who teach to narrow, standardized tests. These instructors obey. They teach children to obey. And that is the point. The No Child Left Behind program, modeled on the "Texas Miracle," is a fraud. It worked no better than our deregulated financial system. But when you shut out debate these dead ideas are self-perpetuating.
… [anonymous teacher:] "I cannot say for certain—not with the certainty of a Bill Gates or a Mike Bloomberg who pontificate with utter certainty over a field in which they know absolutely nothing—but more and more I suspect that a major goal of the reform campaign is to make the work of a teacher so degrading and insulting that the dignified and the truly educated teachers will simply leave while they still retain a modicum of self-respect," he added. "In less than a decade we been stripped of autonomy and are increasingly micromanaged. Students have been given the power to fire us by failing their tests. Teachers have been likened to pigs at a trough and blamed for the economic collapse of the United States. In New York, principals have been given every incentive, both financial and in terms of control, to replace experienced teachers with 22-year-old untenured rookies. They cost less. They know nothing. They are malleable and they are vulnerable to termination."
… The truly educated become conscious. They become self-aware. They do not lie to themselves. They do not pretend that fraud is moral or that corporate greed is good. They do not claim that the demands of the marketplace can morally justify the hunger of children or denial of medical care to the sick. They do not throw 6 million families from their homes as the cost of doing business. Thought is a dialogue with one's inner self. Those who think ask questions, questions those in authority do not want asked. They remember who we are, where we come from and where we should go. They remain eternally skeptical and distrustful of power. And they know that this moral independence is the only protection from the radical evil that results from collective unconsciousness. The capacity to think is the only bulwark against any centralized authority that seeks to impose mindless obedience. There is a huge difference, as Socrates understood, between teaching people what to think and teaching them how to think. Those who are endowed with a moral conscience refuse to commit crimes, even those sanctioned by the corporate state, because they do not in the end want to live with criminals—themselves.
"It is better to be at odds with the whole world than, being one, to be at odds with myself," Socrates said.
(11 April 2011)
Also posted at Common Dreams. -BA
Of the 1%, by the 1%, for the 1%
Joseph Stiglitz, Vanity Fair
Americans have been watching protests against oppressive regimes that concentrate massive wealth in the hands of an elite few. Yet in our own democracy, 1 percent of the people take nearly a quarter of the nation's income—an inequality even the wealthy will come to regret.
It's no use pretending that what has obviously happened has not in fact happened. The upper 1 percent of Americans are now taking in nearly a quarter of the nation's income every year. In terms of wealth rather than income, the top 1 percent control 40 percent. Their lot in life has improved considerably. Twenty-five years ago, the corresponding figures were 12 percent and 33 percent. One response might be to celebrate the ingenuity and drive that brought good fortune to these people, and to contend that a rising tide lifts all boats. That response would be misguided. While the top 1 percent have seen their incomes rise 18 percent over the past decade, those in the middle have actually seen their incomes fall. For men with only high-school degrees, the decline has been precipitous—12 percent in the last quarter-century alone. All the growth in recent decades—and more—has gone to those at the top. In terms of income equality, America lags behind any country in the old, ossified Europe that President George W. Bush used to deride. Among our closest counterparts are Russia with its oligarchs and Iran. While many of the old centers of inequality in Latin America, such as Brazil, have been striving in recent years, rather successfully, to improve the plight of the poor and reduce gaps in income, America has allowed inequality to grow.
… In recent weeks we have watched people taking to the streets by the millions to protest political, economic, and social conditions in the oppressive societies they inhabit. Governments have been toppled in Egypt and Tunisia. Protests have erupted in Libya, Yemen, and Bahrain. The ruling families elsewhere in the region look on nervously from their air-conditioned penthouses—will they be next? They are right to worry. These are societies where a minuscule fraction of the population—less than 1 percent—controls the lion's share of the wealth; where wealth is a main determinant of power; where entrenched corruption of one sort or another is a way of life; and where the wealthiest often stand actively in the way of policies that would improve life for people in general.
(May 2011 edition)
According to Wikipedia, Stiglitz "is an American economist and a professor at Columbia University. He is a recipient of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences (2001) and the John Bates Clark Medal (1979). He is also the former Senior Vice President and Chief Economist of the World Bank. He is known for his critical view of the management of globalization, free-market economists (whom he calls "free market fundamentalists") and some international institutions like the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank." -BA
The Blowback World of Chalmers Johnson
Sheila K. Johnson, TomDispatch.com
Remembering the Man and His Work
In going through my husband's files, books, and papers after his death, I've been forcibly struck by two things. First, contrary to what many of his obituaries said, his writings and thoughts were remarkably consistent throughout his life. In other words, he was not a right-winger who became more liberal and outspoken as he got older. More than most people suspected, he was a radical all along, whose intellectual impulses were tempered only by his birth in the Depression year of 1931 and his determination to make a decent living without "joining the establishment." Second — and it was an unavoidable recollection — he worked with manic energy and maniacally hard all his life.
… he wrote his first "scholarly" article, published by World Politics, a distinguished academic journal, in which he sought to apply the wartime Chinese experience to other revolutionary situations. In "Civilian Loyalties and Guerrilla Conflict," he presciently argued:
"To approach the subject of guerrilla warfare as a purely military doctrine is to court disaster… General political and economic considerations must be taken into account, such as the abilities of local elites, the nature of a country's economy, its class structure, and a host of other variables that can only be altered by long-term reforms. By the time guerrilla warfare has actually broken out, the conflict may already be lost to the defenders and require a negotiated or stalemate solution."
… in 1973, he published a little book, Autopsy on People's War, in which he argued that Maoist theories of "people's war" would not lead to a general Asian conflagration. "It is useful to be reminded," he wrote, "that revolutions in the modern sense are also, in fact, civil wars. If other nations want to make a successful adjustment to them, they cannot ignore the fact that a domestic fight is going on between people who are agitated by issues other than the general course of human history. For this reason direct intervention in one is generally the worst thing that a prudent nation can do — not because the revolution is unimportant either ideologically or to the world balance of power but because foreign intervention, if it fails, is bound to antagonize in the most direct manner the victorious revolutionary state."
… In 1974, he was the first person to explain in English the Japanese system of amakudari, whereby retired bureaucrats were hired by big businesses to smooth their future relations with the government that regulated them — not unlike the revolving door in Washington that regularly spins retiring politicians and retired military officers into the arms of large American firms eager to lobby the government.
… In 1991, the Soviet Union simply disappeared and the Cold War was officially over, but as Chal quickly noted, no "peace dividend" followed. The American Raj simply sailed blissfully on as if nothing whatsoever had happened. This caught Chal's attention, along with what he later came to call "the American empire of bases" and the full-scale garrisoning of the planet that went with it. For the rest of his life he would focus his energies on the subject of American militarism, an ever more bloated military-industrial complex, and of course the growing power of the Pentagon, which in a weird sense functioned as an American MITI.
… During the Cold War, the Soviet Union had acquired an empire but, Chal argued, so had we. After the dismantling of the Berlin Wall, Eastern Europe and many parts of the Soviet Union itself — Ukraine, Georgia, Belarus, Kyrgystan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan — declared their independence, while the U.S. only expanded its overseas military bases. Chal decided to call his book "Blowback" (a term of tradecraft he'd first heard at the CIA for operations so secret that when they "blew back" on the U.S., ordinary Americans had no clue as to the connection). Even in those relatively quiet years of the 1990s when American pundits and others spoke of this country as the "sole superpower" on planet Earth, or even its towering "hyperpower," he became convinced that there would be a time of reckoning for the U.S., as there had been for the Soviet Union, and that it would not be as far off as almost everyone imagined.
… The Sorrows of Empire: Militarism, Secrecy, and the End of the Republic was published in January 2004. At its heart lay a region by region anatomy of America's global "baseworld" and how it worked, a subject that remained remarkably undiscussed and unanalyzed in this country. Subsequently, Chal gave many speeches and interviews in an effort to help deny George W. Bush — "likely the single worst president in the history of the American republic" — a second term. When Bush was reelected and the wars in both Iraq and Afghanistan continued to take their human and economic toll, he became determined to write a third book in what would become The Blowback Trilogy.
This time his tone was more alarmist, while his focus was on the way an American version of military Keynesianism was failing the country. He feared that the U.S. would be simultaneously overwhelmed by related tides of militarism and bankruptcy.
(10 April 2011)
Fascinating record of the intellectual odyssey of one of America's most influential scholars on foreign affairs. -BA
Swans and Zombies: Neoliberalism's Permanent Contradiction
Joshua Clover, The Nation
It wasn't a black swan.
The term was coined by Nassim Taleb, a former hedge-fund manager turned author of bestselling books on finance, and it served as a popular description of the 2008 financial crisis. It refers to an event of such peculiarity that it cannot be predicted or related to preceding developments. All swans are white until they aren't. Taleb's characterization had that charisma of the paradoxical analysis that says this can't be analyzed. At best you can expect the unexpected.
As months have passed and molten panic has cooled to the rocky facts of a global slowdown, this idea has been quietly abandoned. There are still a few ideologues who think the crisis was caused by the Community Reinvestment Act or by a claque of particularly invidious bankers; that it was just a few ill-advised or morally dubious decisions made by lenders, borrowers or speculators sometime in the 2000s that brought the economy to a halt. It is now high time—and highly possible—to move toward a more thorough understanding, and it is in this direction that much of the thinking and writing about the crisis has been going.
In lieu of the black swan theory, the following things have become clear. The crisis wasn't financial but economic. The supposed failure of liquidity was, in fact, insolvency; it was a long time coming; finally there was not enough actual value (as opposed to paper profits) in the circuits to sustain the economic order. This wasn't a momentary event; we are in the fourth year of an unfolding sequence that is itself the climax of a lengthier reorientation of politics, economics and social relations commonly known as neoliberalism.
… John Quiggin's "Zombie Economics" … offers itself as a compendium of economic ideas from the past several decades that should have been slain by the force of overwhelming counterevidence—ideas that, nonetheless, still walk among us, neither living nor dead.
… These are the "Great Moderation," the idea that we may live amid the gentle swells of the business cycle but have tamed excessive risk and overcome the tendency toward dizzying bubbles and disastrous busts; the "Efficient Markets Hypothesis," which suggests the price is always right—that the market, as an aggregate of what everybody knows and intends, is itself the best information about value, and gets more perfect the more it grows and the less it is regulated; "Dynamic Stochastic General Equilibrium," an array of concepts revolving around monetary mechanisms to match supply and demand, designed to mitigate inflation before unemployment; "Trickle-Down Economics," the proposition that economic intervention should always help profit-making enterprises, said profits then purportedly flowing naturally toward wage workers and other poor people; and "Privatization," which is more of a worldview than an idea and should by this juncture need no parenthetical gloss, being a first principle of capitalism.
… "The Crisis of Neoliberalism" [by Duménil and Lévy] confronts the same situation as Zombie Economics, and its authors surely share much of the same skepticism regarding the intellectual landscape. Amplifying the glimpses found in Quiggin, French economists Gérard Duménil and Dominique Lévy proceed from the somewhat heterodox proposition that ruling ideas arise not from their persuasive power or inner logic but from the interest of ruling groups.
… It would not be terribly unfaithful to Duménil and Lévy's thesis to suggest that neoliberalism is less an economic system or social order than global capital's management style for a situation of lower profits. In this sense we might recognize the birth of neoliberalism not in the ideologies of Thatcher and Reagan but in the California tax revolts of 1978: what played at being a moral jihad of suburban homeowners was simply part of an intensifying competition for a smaller pool of profits. Similarly, New York City's 1975 brush with bankruptcy was a struggle between municipal government and Wall Street over insufficient revenues; the utter triumph of the latter was the shape of things to come.
But the seeming restoration of profit by the financial sector proved illusory. The neoliberal strategy of opening new markets to sell more widgets, and internalizing more cheap labor into the growing empire of capital, arrived both at diminishing returns and at the limits of the globe. One could say that the '70s crisis was a wound to the economy; the following decades provided a series of wrappings, poultices and painkillers. The blowout of 2008 was akin to their sudden removal—beneath which the old wound had only deepened and abscessed. Real profit was not restored, even if the profit rate briefly danced on air; it was a temporary fix to a permanent contradiction.
(25 April 2011 edition)


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The Best Of "What's Hot" On Google+December 9, 2011
By Mike Keliher, Group Account Director
Just yesterday, my buddy George wrote about Google+ and the potential power of press conferences conducted with Google+'s video Hangout feature.
Beyond that, though, he was a bit down on this relatively new social platform. Rather than take the opportunity to have a substantive discussion about the strengths and weaknesses of Google+, I'm going to take this opportunity to focus on a part of Google+ that simultaneously saddens and amuses me.
When I first heard about the addition of the What's Hot feature on Google+, I was excited. The obvious comparison is with the Trending Topics feature on Twitter, but I held out hope that Google+ would bring to the surface more meaningful or substantive content. Alas, What's Hot on Google+ is a mix of:
- barely funny photos or other oddities reminiscent of the stuff your grandma forwards to everyone he knows
- barely impressive photos that are only impressive because they've been so highly processed they can't help but be eye-catching
- barely interesting news from Google and its many tentacles
Every once in a while, though, I see things that are truly amusing or truly interesting. Or just truly weird. In that spirit — that scatter-brained spirit — I'm going to share a few of my favorite (sometimes for real favorite, sometimes facetious favorite) What's Hot on Google+ items. Enjoy.
Via Gary Whitta, a really creepy human-like robot:
Via Jessica Wood, grammar geekery! (Doesn't take very advanced grammar skills to catch that one, though.)
Via Tarah Gaa, a bizarre fashion trend. I would pay money to see one of my stylish colleagues wear these around the office.
Via Michael Cuffe, a totally rad art installation.
And last but most certainly not least, my very favorite…
Via Art Jonak, the one and only Tom Cruise lookin' all handsome and stuff on the very top of the world's tallest building. He does his own stunts, I hear. (See the photo larger here.)
God bless Google+.

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A dark, ambient masterpiece is made available once again with the release of Your Naked Ghost Comes Back at Night by the Franco-American electronic duo On, French composer Sylvain Chaveau and Chicago percussionist Stephen Hess of Pan American. Originally released in 2004 on Les Disques du Soleil et de l'Acier, but made available again by the always-impressive Type label, the release highlights a collaboration with Norwegian dark ambient pioneer Helge Sten, also known as Deathprod. Culling three hours of source material from an extended On studio jam, Sten hurls the prepared sound waves of Hess and Chaveau's compositions even further out into the abyss, adding a sinister sense of field atmospherics to the already dense and quiet tones. Warning: Don't listen to this alone at night.
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Toyota Motor Corp. on Monday launched the Agya compact car in Indonesia, it said, aiming to broaden its customer base in the emerging market with a low-priced, fuel-efficient vehicle.
The new compact developed by Toyota group company Daihatsu Motor Co. is priced from 99 million rupiah (about ¥850,000), to 120 million rupiah (about ¥1.03 million), Japan's largest automaker said. The company aims to sell 5,000 units each month.
In addition to the Toyota-brand Agya, Daihatsu launched the Ayla compact under its own brand, with prices starting from 76.1 million rupiah (about ¥650,000), Toyota said.


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The Dallas Theater Center's A Christmas Carol does what any good Christmas carol is supposed to do: It assails you with tidings of comfort and joy.
The company's current version of Charles Dickens' beloved tale showing the redemption for a crotchety old miser is the eighth and last outing of Richard Hellesen's adaptation at the Kalita Humphreys Theater. Joel Ferrell directed it in 2005 as the annual production moved from the old Arts District Theater when it was torn down to build the AT&T Performing Arts Center. Next season there will be a completely new version downtown at the Wyly Theatre.
If you've missed the previous seven incarnations of this script, make sure to see this one. Its unique flavor comes partly from the original music and songs by David de Berry, with new tunes that could almost be traditional English carols. Ferrell treats the show as a combination of a big musical and the kind of epic storytelling that went into the Royal Shakespeare Company's famous version of another Dickens book, Nicholas Nickleby. It's both spectacular and heartwarming.
Dallas favorite Chamblee Ferguson first ventured the role of Ebenezer Scrooge two years ago and returns to it in this production. The original question was whether the generally lovable Ferguson could be mean enough to play this meanest of old men. He manages, but he's funny at the same time — not in ways that soften the character but in ways that make the audience, especially its youngest members, laugh at how ridiculous he is. The show's special effects might scare some children, but Ferguson's performance is likely to reassure them that they are safe.
For this last go at the Hellesen version, Ferrell has cast most of the other roles with ideal precision. Steven Michael Walters stuffs down his natural exuberance to make Bob Cratchit a beaten but eminently decent man. Lee Trull amplifies his own exuberance to make Scrooge's nephew Fred playful and witty, with boundless good humor. Christie Vela as Mrs. Cratchit emphasizes this mother's anxiety and sadness over the likely fate of her handicapped child, Tiny Tim.
Liz Mikel returns to her natural role as the bountiful Ghost of Christmas Present, while Southern Methodist University teacher Blake Hackler, in his company debut, gives the Ghost of Christmas Past a touch of aristocratic impertinence. Brian Gonzales' interpretation of the Ghost of Jacob Marley is both original and powerful, as he alternates between highly reasoned, if urgent, conversation with the terrified Scrooge and little verses mumbled as if they were gibberish.
This year's A Christmas Carol takes every emotion — terror, sorrow, hope and joy — and amps it up to the max. It sets a high standard for next year's replacement to top.
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Through Dec. 23 at the Kalita Humphreys Theater, 3636 Turtle Creek Blvd., Dallas. Runs 140 mins. $15 to $85. 214-880-0202. dallastheatercenter.org.


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Super Sprowtz Joins Children's Aid Iron Go!Chefs
The Children's Aid Society is gearing up for its fourth annual Iron Go! Chefs competition this Thursday, June 6 at the East Harlem Center. Approximately 100 elementary and middle school chefs from East Harlem, Washington Heights and the South Bronx will slice and dice their way to glory and the ultimate title of Iron Go!Chefs!
Recently, Stefania Patinella, director of food and nutrition programs at The Children's Aid Society, interviewed one of the judges for this year's competition, Radha Agrawal. Radha is the founder and CEO of Super Sprowtz, a children's multi-media nutrition education company whose mission is to engage children to make better food choices. Special guest Brian Broccoli—a character from Super Sprowtz—joined Radha and Stefania for the interview.
Where are you from?
Brian Broccoli: The Great Glass Greenhouse in New York City.
Radha Agrawal: I'm from Montreal, Canada.
Where did you go to school?
BB: School of Life
RA: I went to Cornell University.
Where have you worked?
BB: I work with the Super Sprowtz team.
RA: I worked as a film and TV producer, I own 2 restaurants, I just launched another fashion company and I produced a movie!
Why do you do the work you do?
BB: To save the world and to get kids to eat more vegetables!
RA: I love building something from scratch that's important and seeing it grow and I want kids to be healthier! You are the future of our country and our world!
What's going to knock the kids' socks off about you? And, of course, what's your favorite vegetable dish to make/eat?
BB: Super Sprowtz opened for President Obama in April for the annual Easter Egg Roll!
RA: I used to race motorcycles! Is that interesting?
BB: Favorite veggie dish: Broccoli and Hummus - it makes me feel super strong!
RA: Favorite vegetable dish to make/eat: Indian food - chickpea and vegetable curry.
Positive Deviance Project Finds Keys to School Success
Recently, a group of Bronx residents met at Children's Aid's Next Generation Center to discuss the solutions to school failure they're seeing among stronger students in the community and how to get other parents and students to model this positive behavior and achieve academic success.
This group of 25 volunteers is part of our "Positive Deviance" initiative, a two-year project that aims to boost school success rates for black and Latino males in Morrisania.
The positive deviance approach was developed in the early 1990s by researchers at Tufts University as a solution to malnutrition. It is based on the premise that every community has members whose behaviors and strategies help them find solutions to problems that their peers haven't, despite having access to the same resources and facing similar or worse challenges. Through positive deviance, the community identifies those people and their behaviors, and develops a plan of action to get the wider community to adopt shared solutions.
Our 25 volunteers are examining the barriers faced by young men of color and the strategies that successful community members have used to overcome them. The volunteers are students, teachers and other school staff, professionals from the community, Children's Aid Society staff members, parents and grandparents, as well as an expert from the Positive Deviance Initiative.
Here's a quick look at what the group has done to date:
- Created a problem statement: The majority of black and Latino male students living in the Bronx do not succeed in school. The desired outcome is that most black and Latino male students will be successful in school in the coming years.
- Developed a conceptual framework and related questionnaire: School success is impacted by: teen dating, respect in and out of school, family life, time management and social networking, after-school activities and violence.
- Identified stakeholders for group interviews: teachers, parents, siblings, friends, school guards, janitors, coaches, pastors, tutors, counselors, neighbors, principals, mentors, shop owners, police and community-based organization members. These stakeholders each impact the success of students and helped identify positive deviant behaviors in interviews.
- Determined selection criteria for positive deviants: an 80% average in all subjects and meets one or more criteria such as being subject to gang violence or tough police tactics, or living in a home with a single working parent or where English isn't the primary language.
- Conducted individual interviews with positive deviants and their families to see how their behaviors differ from the normative ones.
In late May, the group presented results from those interviews and engaged in a community dialogue about the findings from this research. The findings include actions students can take on their own—such as sitting near the front of class and being considerate to all students, even those you might not like—and actions families can take together—eating meals, reviewing homework and even activities like grocery shopping and running errands as a group on weekends.
Next, a replication phase will begin this summer, and in the fall, the group will launch a kick-off event for multiple replication projects. Stay tuned for updates on this exciting project.
To browse through our photo gallery, click here
Children's Aid Proudly Graduates its 2012-2013 Adult GED Class
Last night, 20 adult graduates affiliated with the Salome Urena Campus, a Children's Aid community school, celebrated the completion of their GEDs. This third annual graduation was organized by the adult education programming initiative, which provides free GED courses and other services to qualifying adults.
The night kicked off with a food reception and a viewing of adult artwork. Guests and graduates then headed to the auditorium to celebrate with student dances, a guest speaker, special awards, ESL course certificates and of course GED diplomas. Over 100 family members, friends and educators attended the event to mark this special milestone.
Congratulations to all of the graduates for their hard work and accomplishments!
Sephora Donates Prom Dresses to Children's Aid Teens
Prom season is in full force and for many households, paying for all its details can quickly become a daunting expense. For a group of 40 young ladies from Children's Aid Society teen programs such as the Dunlevy Milbank Center and the Hope Leadership Academy, finding the right prom dress was made easier thanks to a donation from Sephora Flatiron. As part of its Values Inside Out program, Sephora employees collected and donated nearly 100 gently used and cleaned prom dresses for the girls to choose from. The dresses were beautiful and the girls had so much fun trying them on and choosing their favorite! In addition, Sephora Flatiron will hold a "master class" for these young ladies, where Sephora experts will show the girls how to apply makeup and do their hair for prom. The girls will also go home with a fabulous goody bag of Sephora products.
Sephora's generosity doesn't end there. They will be selling a special make-up bag through the end of December, and $13 from each purchase will be donated to The Children's Aid Society.
From the Associates Council: The Hearts at the End of the Road
In the Wizard of Oz, the Tin Man meets Dorothy and states his yearning desire for a heart. He travels all the way to the Emerald City, along with the Cowardly Lion and the Scarecrow, merely to obtain a heart--one he deservingly receives, yet most likely already had.
Those of us on the Spring Committee feel like we have been whisked away to our very own magical (and sometimes chaotic) Land of Oz; however, we have no dearth of nerve, brains or of course, heart. Our fantastic Spring Committee members and volunteers have proven that they, indeed, are the carriers of warm, helpful and beating hearts. I'm offering this final blog in our Courage - Brains - Heart series to the entire committee, as well as to our outstanding leadership.
Specifically, I would first like to thank Kathleen Connelly and Malia Poai, the Director and Assistant Director of Children's Aid's Volunteer Services. They have guided our committee down the yellow brick road, gently advising us through all of the twists and turns. I would also like to thank Jennifer Gallivan, the President of the Associates Council, who has served as a source of guidance and inspiration to our committee. In addition, I'd like to thank my co-chair, Giuliana Vetrano, who has been my other half in this process, offering her witty charm along the way. And as for our wonderful committee members, I'd like to thank Nathaniel Soria, Maxi Adamski, Ali Barrett, Lexie Benenson, Meredith Burgess, Alexandra Cannon, Mishelle Galarza, Anjali Kar, Suzanne Nabavi, Ali Rotondo, Rebecca Steuer and Kate Ruque. They have truly served as the "heart" of our committee, as without them, we simply would not be throwing this event.
As the Tin Man gracefully put it, "If I ever go looking for my heart's desire again, I won't look any further than my own backyard. Because if it isn't there, I never really lost it to begin with." Similarly, one does not need to look farther than our very own committee in order to find a surplus of altruistic hearts. Come join us at the end of the yellow brick road, revel in the frills of Emerald City, and meet all of our kindhearted volunteers.
-- Sara Grace Moss, Co-Chair, Spring Event Committee
Children's Aid Holds a Division Wide Word Bee
Earlier in May, over 20 young people from our community centers gathered at the East Harlem Center to compete in the division wide Word Bee. Our kids prepared over the course of the entire academic year, diligently learning the words, their definitions and their parts of speech. All finalists in the Word Bee had previously won their first rounds of center-based competitions, and were excited to defend their titles surrounded by their peers and families. Our youth shined in not only their mastery of the words, but also their sportsmanship. It was truly a wonderful event, and all of the participants should be congratulated and celebrated for their hard work.
Written by Jaynemarie Angbah
Teens in Action Debut PSA
Salomé Ureña de Henriquez Campus (SU Campus) in Washington Heights has been buzzing with teen activity over the last few weeks.
For the past year, participants in the Teens in Action Program have worked to bring awareness on topics such as health and beauty to their family and friends. One of their most successful projects so far has been The Real You, a youth-developed public service announcement (PSA) on body image. After weeks of research online and through peer discussions, the group filmed a talk show that highlights teen perceptions on how society impacts their views on body image. The talk show also discussed eating disorders, body dysmorphic disorder and shared their thoughts on plastic surgery. The teens found that many of their peers agreed that getting plastic surgery such as breast enhancements can improve body image. The majority also agreed that being thin, blond and blue-eyed is what society considers "beautiful." Most importantly, the film educates the audience on the warning signs of someone with an eating disorder and how to get help for someone.
The group premiered their PSA to family and friends on April 26, and were also honored for their wonderful work.
Most recently, the teens hosted the annual "Spring in Action" community health fair at SU Campus on Saturday, May 4. The goal of the event was to bring together community members to take advantage of the helpful health information. Many organizations came together to bring health care enrollment, cosmetic care and nutrition programs to the community. Children's Aid Society home-finding services and foster care staff were on hand to provide assistance and recruit future foster care families. It was a full day of festivities, including face painting, raffles, aerobic instructions, massages and dance battles among adults and youth alike.
The Teens in Action Program at SU Campus, a Children's Aid Society community school, provides youth with personal and career development, leadership and community service opportunities. Teens are the most important information circulators, and these messages about taking care of yourself and knowing when to get help were loud and clear. We are extremely proud of these young people!
Written by Lorena Jimenez-Castro
At Drew Hamilton: Plantings & A Pep Talk from a Young Alum
The Children's Aid Society's Drew Hamilton Center recently had the pleasure of hosting two engaging visitors. The first was Charlette Mayfield (pictured), the mother of student NasZair Crabb, who provided a hands-on workshop for our children on the basics of planting in Drew Hamilton's yard, as part of the class's education series on plants. Under the instruction of Ms. Mayfield, the children, their teacher and a few parents joined in the labor intensive work of preparing the soil and planting flower seeds and grass, and are patiently watching for new growth.
The second visitor to Drew Hamilton was Andrew Fenteng (pictured), himself a graduate of the center's Early Childhood program. He came in to share his kindergarten experience with the preschool students here, and the children listened raptly as Andrew shared his wisdom and advice. After hearing Andrew speak, they became confident that they were ready for "big school," and their biggest fear about tying shoes was alleviated when he assured them that in his charter school, all children must wear Velcro sneakers or shoes.
Written by Donna Chandler
From the Associates Council: Over the Rainbow and Back Again
In my last blog post, I wrote about the abundance of heart within the Associates Council's spring event committee and our lively path down the "yellow brick road." Today, I am thrilled to announce that we successfully reached our destination, the great Emerald City.
Emerald City, which took place on May 8, turned out to be a spectacular, beautiful and record-breaking event filled with an abundance of red poppies, hors d'oeuvres and even a friendly (and photogenic) in-character Emerald City guard. Thanks to the good witches of both the East and West coasts and helpful hands along the way, we were able to raise $28,000 to fully benefit the Go!Healthy Program. This represents a 35% increase from last year and marks the most successful spring event the AC has ever had. We attribute the increase in revenue to our over 200 guests, wonderful sponsors (Goldman, Edelman, Jonathan Rose Companies, Scotia Bank and Trident Investment Management), individual donors, raffle ticket sales and those who supported scholarship opportunities for Go!Healthy participants.
While the emerald-filled event has come and gone, the vivid memories of a boisterous and action-packed night still linger in my thoughts. I will never forget the sound of uproarious applause after guest speaker Tanya Steel's compelling speech, the overwhelming feeling of laughter and warmth during the children's statements about how the Go!Healthy Program has improved their lives or the sense of comfort and satisfaction I received from being surrounded by a team of such brilliant and compassionate individuals. Days have passed and emerald suits and dresses, ruby red heels and accessories, and fashionable accents from the Wizard of Oz still occupy my thoughts. I cannot thank the Spring Event Committee enough for giving their time, energy and resources to the cultivation of this transformative event during the past six months. This experience has been one I truly enjoyed and will never forget. While the excitement of this year's event has passed, I'm already looking forward to the AC's fall fundraiser. We'll be announcing the date soon!
-- Sara Grace Moss, Co-Chair, Spring Event Committee
Richard Buery on the Huffington Post: The High Costs of Aging Out
For many young people, the transition from teen to independent adult is a gradual process that extends into their mid- to late 20s, with financial and emotional support from family. Most youth make it, but a significant number don't—and so they become disconnected.
Youth who age out of foster care have the hardest time getting on their feet, and without family to rely on, the odds of success are against them. But investments in the futures of these young people can result in significant benefits to them and to society.
On December 1, 2011, the Community Service Society of New York and The Children's Aid Society convened over 200 local and national experts, policymakers, service providers and advocates to discuss the issues faced by older youth in foster care and strategies to prevent and address their disconnection from anchor social institutions like school, work and family.
I discuss what's at stake for these young people in my latest essay on the Huffington Post.
You can also download the full report, called "Foster Care and Disconnected Youth: A Way Forward for New York," that emerged from our forum. It highlights and further develops the issues the forum raised, recommends policy directions and discusses successful program models that address the many challenges facing aging-out youth who become disconnected.


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The purpose of the meeting room policy is to provide a basis for equitable service to all customers who request to use the library's facilities and to clarify the responsibilities of both the library and its customers with regard to the use of the library's meeting rooms.
Durham County Library makes its meeting room facilities available to local groups and organizations for lawful public use on an equitable basis, regardless of the beliefs or affiliations of individuals or groups requesting their use. All meetings must be free and open to the public. No fees, dues or donations may be charged to or solicited from those attending meetings held in library facilities. Permission by the library to use its facilities does not constitute an endorsement by the library staff, the Library Board, or the Durham County Board of Commissioners.
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Mention the PTSA when you place an order with Jet's Pizza from 5 to 8 p.m. and Jet's Pizza will donate 25 percent of the total sales.
Call 234-334-0932 at the 3473 Hudson Drive, Cuyahoga Falls location to order or go online at jetspizza.com.
Proceeds will be used to fund year-end activities and events such as the All Night Party which gives seniors a safe gathering place after graduation.
Falls Student Council hosts Sr. citizen prom
The Cuyahoga Falls High School Student Council will host a senior citizen prom.
The event will take place on May 4 from 4:30-7:30 p.m. at the high school. Reservations can be made to firstname.lastname@example.com.
Reservations are not required, but are highly appreciated.
Registration open for St. Joe School
Registration for Saint Joseph Parish School's 2017-18 school year is now open.
Saint Joseph offers classes for Preschool through eighth grade. Some of the benefits include weekly Mass; 1:1 Chromebooks for grades 6 - 8; Chromebook stations for grades 3-5; technology Lab & iPads for all grades; science lab; music classes; beginner & advanced band; art; Spanish; physical education; extracurricular activities and clubs; CYO sports; gifted classes; and Learning Center including tutoring, speech therapy, early intervention, and guidance counselor.
Before Care (7-8 a.m.) and After Care (3:15-6 p.m.) programs are also available to students.
Come visit to take a tour and find out what X-STREAM learning is all about.
Call 330-928-2151 to schedule a visit.
For a registration packet or more information, contact 330-928-2151 or visit saintjoe.org.
Still time to join CFHS PTSA
The CFHS PTSA continues its Spring PTA Membership Drive through April 28.
Anyone purchasing a $5 membership will be entered into a drawing for a chance on a raffle prize.
Membership forms can be found in the CFHS Main Office or send in with your student your contact info and the $5 fee, checks payable to CFHS PTSA. It's never too late to join.
Find deals on CFHS Black Tiger Card
Still haven't bought a CFHS Black Tiger Card yet? There's still time.
Fifty percent of the proceeds benefit the CFHS Scholarship Fund for graduating seniors this school year.
Here's a list of the favorite local businesses offering discounts on the card:
Penn Station; Hungry Howies; Burger Fi; The Office; Monro; O'Charleys; Jimmy Biggs; Golden Dragon; Pizza Fire; El Meson; Great Clips; Planet Sub; Stricklands; Jubilee Donuts; Family Video; Brandywine; Dietz Falls Florist; Stonehedge; Downview Sports Center; and Ritchie's Sporting Goods.
The card can be used every day and expires Oct. 1, 2017 and costs $10.
They can be purchased in theCFHS Main Office or text the CFHS PTSA at 330-352-1184 for details on delivery of the card.
Your support is appreciated.


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April 2013
A few more things from 2 Sick Monkeys now in stock!!
Tapes - 2 new tape releases from 2 Sick Monkeys - "3 EP's, 2 Monkeys, 1 Tape" featuring their first 3 EP's ('Full Flavour Behaviour', 'Nowhere Nothing' and 'Why?'). 16 track cassette album (plays the same both sides).
And "The Curse of Shit Street" which features 2 albums (2005's 'Curse of the Monkeys' and 2010's live album 'Welcome To Shit Street') on 1 cassette...31 tracks including 6 bonus tracks!
You can find both tapes - HERE
T-Shirts - NEW 2 Sick Monkeys T-Shirts, 'Less is More...More or Less - HERE
2SM Patches - Back in stock!!! You can find them - HERE
February 2013
GLOBAL PARASITE / DEAD SUBVERTS vs THE PREDATORY PATHOCRACY - out on FEBRUARY 28th!!!! It's been a long time coming and finally it's here!!!
Pre-order it now - HERE
2 Sick Monkeys / Rash Decision - Less is More...More or Less split album is released today!!
Available on CD HERE
Massive thanks to: Pumpkin Records, Riot Ska Records, Side Effect Records & Atomsmasher Promotions for their help getting this release together...nice one folks!!
And after a long time in the making, it's finally here...A Tribute To Rudimentary Peni - 23 bands covering songs by one of the most influencial and original bands to come out of the early 80's Anarcho Punk scene...features The Restarts, Global Parasite, Autonomads, 2 Sick Monkeys, Dead Subverts and loads more!!!
You can find it HERE
Also in stock is the latest compilation from the good chaps at Riot Ska Records - South West Underground - Vol 1. Featuring Subhumans, Bus Station Loonies, Citizen Fish, Rash Decision, 2 Sick Monkeys 51st State and loads more, 21 tracks from the best bands in the South West of England...you can find it HERE
NEW IN STOCK (May 2012)
New vinyl added - 'Shut The Fuck Up & Listen - Vol 5', a 13 band, 7" EP and PKDores' Kriticado EP (Latin American S.H.A.R.P Oi/Street Punk).
2 Sick Monkeys patches now in stock too!!
NEW IN STOCK (Sept 2011)
Autonomads & Power Is Poison vinyl!!
Plus CD's from Beng Beng Cocktail, Braindead, Burnt Cross, The Fractions, Moral Dilemma, Paradox and Six Fish!!
We now have a limited amount of a cassette EP from an Australian Anarcho/Hardcore band called Leprosy - check 'em out at: www.myspace.com/leprosypunks.
You'll find the cassette on the Vinyl page if you want to pick up a copy.
We're always on the lookout for more things to add to our stock, so if any Bands/Zines/Distros/Labels out there would be interested in us stocking your merch or doing trades...then please get in touch.


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Hotel Troulos Bay
in Troulos, Skiathos, Greek Islands
Hotel Troulos Bay details
The Hotel Troulos Bay is set right on the beach and offers up great views from its restaurant and pool area.
One of the best things about the Hotel Troulos Bay is the swimming pool. It's a good size, and is framed by a spacious sun terrace. Sunloungers and parasols line the edge of the water, while a grassy lawn provides the perfect vantage point for enjoying the sea views.
Talking of which, this property is right on the beach – a swathe of golden sand backed by trees. There are plenty of loungers along the shore, so it's easy to find a sunbathing spot.
When it comes to mealtimes, you can look forward to buffet spreads for breakfast and a la carte meals for lunch and dinner. If you want to look out to see while you eat, pick a table out on the shaded terrace.
Another plus point of this place is the different room options. If you're coming away with the family, you can opt for a maisonette-style room that sleeps up to four.
Location• The centre of Troulos, with its tavernas and bars, is a short stroll away • Troulos Beach offers a range of watersports
Transfer time
30 minutes
Swimming pool
• Swimming pool • Sun terrace • Sunbeds • Parasols
• Troulos Bay à la carte restaurant serving lunch and dinner • Buffet breakfast restaurant
• Lounge bar • Satellite TV area with limited channels
Room facilities
All rooms have air-conditioning Jul & Aug - at a charge, additional shower, phone, satellite TV with limited channels, mini-fridge and balcony or terrace. Cots available but reduce the room occupancy. Standard double rooms sleeping 2 people with garden view and Standard twin rooms sleeping up to 3 with limited sea-view are also available.
We also offer Maisonette-style family rooms.
Maisonette-style family rooms sleep up to 4 people with 1 double and 2 single beds. Maisonette-style family rooms with sea view also available.
Official rating:
B Class
Extra Local Charges
Some facilities may incur extra local charges, please see the A-Z Guide.
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6And the words of the Lord are flawless,
like silver purified in a crucible,
like gold#6 Probable reading of the original Hebrew text; Masoretic Text earth refined seven times.
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I am a talker, not a writer; I am well known (maybe even famous in my very small circle) for talking. Ask anyone who knows me and they will tell you – I love to talk, I talk loudly, I butt in on conversations, and I just love to hear people's stories. I want to know who, where, what and when.
I embarrass my children by talking to strangers at the bus stop or in the supermarket. I talk to the homeless guy who lives outside our local 7-11.
I am sure this was what partly attracted my husband (a man of few words) to me, and 21 years later he still likes the fact that I am the voice of our family. Even though his eyes glaze over at least 4 or 5 times a week when I am telling him something.
I get that from my Mum.
Since she died 14 long, long months ago after a very short and unexpected illness, the talking thing seems to have left my life along with her.
Don't get me wrong – I still talk (it's in my DNA) but now I chit chat, I pass the time of day, I talk when I have to. I talk (hopefully) lovingly to my children. I talk at work; I talk to my husband, brother and sister.
It's just not the same, because I can't really talk about how I feel, which is wretched… an old fashioned word I know but it is I how I feel.
I avoid people I see who don't know mum died as I can't say the words without crying and that just embarrasses them and they don't know what to do with the 46-year-old woman in aisle 5 who can't talk for crying.
A lot of the time I am furious with the world because everyone is going about their daily business and getting on with things and I want to scream – how can this be, my gorgeous, vibrant, funny, loving and compassionate mum is dead….
Mum was a talker, always had an opinion, but without judgement……. She taught me to be inquisitive but always compassionate. I loved her for that alone.
I still cry everyday on my own, because people don't understand the hole she has left in my life.
I am a just get on with it kind of person (she taught me that also) ….. But that is easier said than done when I don't have her by my side cheering me on.
The hardest thing is that the two people who understand the most about how I feel are the most difficult to talk to. My wonderful and amazing Brother and sister… because they are living this nightmare too and just trying to get through each day the best they can.
Who can you talk to, when the one person you talked to the most about everything is gone?
Julia is a working mum with two boys aged 17 and 5 (that's a whole other story). She is originally from Scotland and has been married 21 years.


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PARIS (Jul. 21)
The Jewish Agency has established an Israeli Economic Information Office here to advise prospective investors and immigrants, it was announced today by M. Kurland, the Agency's European representative. Mr. Kurland revealed that similar offices have already been set up in Belgium, Holland, Italy and the Scandinavian countries and that one is planned for Britain.


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On Thursday 21 April 2005 20:32, Kris Jurka wrote: > On Thu, 21 Apr 2005, Oliver Siegmar wrote: > > here's a patch that adds functionality to the PGInterval class. I'd be > > happy to see this in upstream. > > You cannot use regex code in this class because it must compile with 1.2 > and 1.3 JDKs. Can it be placed in the JDBC3 package, then? This requires JDK 1.4 anyway, right? Oliver
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The following day Nike unveiled several new shoes and garments for the Spring 2010 line, as well as some small refinements in two recently released models.
The LunaraElite, which draws inspiration from Nike's original blue and yellow waffle-soled shoe from the early '80s, is lighter and features a lower profile, and might be used by top runners for their faster distance runs or by more average athletes for speedwork or even as a marathon racer.
The LunarSwift, which should retail for $85, looks very much like the LunarTrainer, expanding that shoe's midsole design to incorporate the Dynamic Support features.
Indeed, Phil McCartney, head of the running shoe division at Nike, says the company is looking ahead to expanding Dynamic Support into more of the line, and is already examining how to combine the technology with some of its existing signature features like Nike Air.
Finally, the LunaRacer, which was unveiled in early 2008 and has been worn in Olympic and major marathon victories, has been tweaked ever so slightly, following Dathan Ritzenhein's admonition to "not #@&% it up!" The midsole profile has been lowered slightly, by a millimeter in both the heel and forefoot, while the outsole has been slightly beveled in the rear and added more durable rubber in the front. Finally, a slight arch contour has been molded into the midsole to provide runners with a bit more support in the latter stages of a marathon when their form might be deteriorating slightly.


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PINELLAS PARK — Flea market king Hardy Huntley plans to buy the former Golden Lantern Mobile Home Park.
If all goes well, he will close on the property in November, said Peter Creighton, a spokesman for Huntley.
The now-vacant land is in the unincorporated area on the edge of Pinellas Park, just across Park Boulevard from Huntley's Wagon Wheel Flea Market.
Huntley doesn't plan to expand his flea market to the 19.74 acres. It will more likely become the location of a wholesale membership club like a Costco or Sam's, said Creighton.
Creighton declined to name the retailer, however, saying, "I don't believe you've heard of this" one.
Construction could start late next year.
"We feel it would be a nice improvement," Creighton said. "We're hoping to change this eyesore to something positive for the area."
The Golden Lantern was the site of 178 shabby mobile homes in January 2005 when then-owner Robert Keathley applied for a zoning and land-use change that would clear the way for construction of apartments, townhomes or condominiums and a small retail strip center.
Residents fought the move and, in 2006, most accepted a monetary settlement to drop their opposition to the zoning change.
The property was sold in November 2006 to Mas Verde Mobile Home Estates Inc. of Union City, Tenn., for about $4.8 million. The Pinellas County property appraiser estimates the current market value of the land at about $1.4 million.
Mas Verde never did anything with the property.
Now Huntley has asked the county to change the zoning to commercial. The request is scheduled to go before the County Commission for preliminary approval in November and final approval in January.
Huntley is well-known in Pinellas Park as the owner of the Wagon Wheel Flea Market, 7801 Park Blvd. He also owns the Mustang and Gunn Highway flea markets, as well as hundreds of acres of undeveloped land in the bay area.
Part of that is 185 acres in the Gateway Centre area on the opposite side of Pinellas Park from the Wagon Wheel and Golden Lantern. It includes commercial frontage on heavily traveled U.S. 19 and Gandy Boulevard. Huntley bought it last year for an undisclosed amount from a lender that had taken it back from developer Grady Pridgen.
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If you find overtime rules unjust, try this …
Published: January 20th, 2011 | Tags: Sudden death overtime, Curly Lambeau, Elmer Layden, George Halas
The Packers and Bears have the longest running rivalry in the NFL, dating back to the 1920s, with the team's meeting for the 182nd time on Sunday. This time, for a trip to the Super Bowl.
The most amazing thing about the series is that the teams have only met once in the playoffs — back in 1941 — again for a chance to play for the NFL title (against the Giants). It was that game that forced the NFL to adopt its "sudden death" overtime rules.
According to the Pro Football Hall of Fame's Pete Fierle, the "sudden death system" was not put into the by-laws until 1941. Then commissioner Elmer Layden met with Packers coach Curly Lambeau and Bears coach George Halas during the week before the playoff game to go over the new rules. The mere notion of "sudden death" drew considerable pregame hype.
Though, it was all for naught as the Bears won convincingly, 33-14. Obviously games not living up to the hype is not a current phenomenon.
The most amazing thing is that the "sudden death" rules only applied to the divisional championship game, and not the NFL title game. If the 1941 NFL Championship Game had ended in a tie at the conclusion of regulation, team teams would have been deemed co-champions, according to the Pro Football Hall of Fame.
Could you imagine teams settling for co-championships instead of being able to settle it in "sudden death" overtime?
Well, that would have been easier for Donovan McNabb to understand. But it does show just how far we have come. When you think of how unfair the previous "sudden death" rules were, realize that it could have been much, much worse.


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Abigail McGillivray '14, biochemistry major, Crystal Lake, Ill.
Abby McGillivray has already determined her goal in life: to do the most good. She eventually intends to work as a medical missionary in South America or Africa and "help the people who need it most." But for now, her primary goal is a career in research.
She enrolled at Carroll, and will graduate, as a biochemistry major, but her graduate school focus has shifted from medical studies to medical research. Next year she will begin a doctorate program in the interdisciplinary biomedical sciences at Medical College of Wisconsin.
Abby's interest in research was fostered in the lab of Dr. Greg Marks, assistant professor of biochemistry. He personally selected her to work as a lab assistant during her junior and senior years. Abby and his other assistants are trying to conclude if an enzyme in estrogen is affected by the dioxin TCDD, an environmental pollutant that can cause sterility. They hope to quantify how much estrogen production happens in a cell that is exposed to varying levels of dioxin for different periods of time. Abby and senior Amanda Schoeberle will present a poster on this research project at the American Chemical Society National Meeting in Dallas, Texas, in March 2014.
Abby will have another poster to present at the national conference, too. Last summer, she received funding from the National Science Foundation for an undergraduate research internship in the lab of Dr. D.K. Srivastava of the Chemistry and Biochemistry Department at North Dakota State University. Her job was to find inhibitory molecules for the metabolic enzymes SIRT5, which is a member of an enzyme family that is linked to aging, Alzheimer's disease and some forms of cancer. Abby found two inhibitors for her enzyme out of 411 compounds during her 10-week internship.
When Abby presents these research findings at ACS, it will be the second time she shares her knowledge with others. She first participated in the Younger Chemists Committee poster symposium at the November 2013 meeting of the ACS Milwaukee Section. Of the 34 undergraduate and graduate students who presented, her poster won first place.
She believes her advantage was that her poster made the research easy to understand for everyone, not just scientific minds. Marks, who encouraged Abby to present, said, "This win is particularly impressive because most of the competition was graduate students."
Even more impressive, Abby is a co-author of a paper that was recently published in the prestigious "Journal of Biochemistry." During her time at NDSU, she assisted in a comparison of HDAC8 inhibitors, or compounds that interfere with the function of an enzyme that causes cancer and memory loss. The research team examined a pharmaceutical that is approved for the treatment of T-cell lymphoma, and a new, structurally similar HDAC8 inhibitor. They determined that the existing treatment is preferential in effectiveness and for potentially fewer side effects.
Outside of the lab, Abby is a resident assistant in Frontier Hall. She is involved in Chemistry Club, is treasurer for Pre-Health Professionals Club and is president of the new Residence Life Leadership organization. In her final semester at Carroll, she is taking "fun classes" like Endocrinology, Human Physiology and Drawing.
"It has taken a lot of luck and long hours to get me where I am - but that's science," Abby said. "People can go years without finding anything. I'm an undergraduate with a publication. It's cool because it's not normal."
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