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Son with autism suffers from psychotic episodes
A Windham mother wants people to know how medical marijuana has helped her 12-year-old son.
Stephanie Lay said her son is autistic and suffers from psychotic episodes.
Lay said the changes she's seen in her son, Bryce, over the past few weeks have been nothing short of remarkable.
Medical marijuana users no longer have to register with the state so we don't know how many minors are using it, but Lay said marijuana and the synthetic drug Marinol, are the treatments that have helped her son the most.
Lay said she has holes in the wall of her house that Bryce made during one of his psychotic fits.
"It hurts. It's really hard to see because you're watching your child, you're watching your child hurt himself when he doesn't know why he's hurting himself and no one can figure out why he's hurting himself," said Lay.
She said she and Bryce have struggled to deal with his health almost all of his life, trying to find a treatment that works.
"After you've been on so many anti-psychotics and they're not rectifying the behavior, then you're willing to try anything, including marijuana," said Lay.
She said at first she baked marijuana into brownies for Bryce. She said he dramatically improved and the side effects were minimal.
How she gives him Marinol, an FDA-approved drug. She wants people to know that medical marijuana isn't just something that can help adults.
"Because if this is helping him, it could help a lot of other children," Lay said.
Dr. Dustin Sulak is the one who certified Bryce to use marijuana to help heal his head from an injury he inflicted on himself, and to keep him calm.
"We used to be told during the 'Just Say No' campaign that cannabis killed brain cells. But now that we know that it actually protects brain cells and actually stimulates the growth of new brain cells," said Sulak.
Gordon Smith of the Maine Medical Association, said experts told his organization that marijuana is a gateway drug so his association is concerned about pre-teens using it.
"We think that would be alarming to most people. Now, having said that, I don't contest that, in any number of conditions, that it might be helpful. That's really between the patient and the physician," said Smith.
Sulak said Bryce is not the youngest person he's certified to use medical marijuana. That patient, he said, was a 2-year-old cancer patient.


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Most importantly, please remember that we're trying to build a luxury brand around this logo, so it's got to say "high class".
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Second, if you or the service guy are going to be at the driveshaft, I would lube them. Personally, I see no reason why it would be better to not lubricate a shaft that is exposed to wear from hammering, rotation, and sliding forces, and also from corrosion and fretting due to moisture. I do not see why a BMW shaft should be lubricated but a Guzzi shaft should not be. Unlike an exposed shaft on a tractor that is admittedly exposed to dust and hay, the shaft on a Guzzi is protected and the grease cannot be contaminated by outside debris.This. I do it as a matter of course. When working in shop attached to an engineering firm we made good coin selling new PTO shafts or UJ's sinply because they had been left to run dry, and it showed.The swing-arm bearings on my 2013 are a sealed unit. No need to mess with them.Swede, one thing I do on the Breva when I have the swingarm off is flick the outer seal off, force some grease in there and spin the bearing. The reasoning behind this is not mine. It is a standard 6000 series bearing. In a swingarm it has limited movement and does not rotate, which means the balls stay in the same spot and the grease does not get spread around. A spin and grease puts them in a different spot with a fresh layer of lube. The reasoning made sense to me so I do it.
How exactly are you guys finding out about the recalls?
Further to the swingarm bearings:Today I had cause to go to our bearing supplier we use. This guy would be the most knowledgeable bearing guy I know. His view was that using a 6000 series bearing in a swingarm which is only oscillating is not ideal. The balls not only do not move from one position, they can actually squeeze the lube out where the ball is in contact with the outer. He expressed surprise that a needle bearing was not used at least. He considered squeezing more lube in on a regular basis and spinning the bearing was a fairly sound idea considering the type of bearing used is not ideal to start off with with the proviso that the outer seal will be compromised somewhat for weather tightness.
jacksonracingcomau: Another debatable point? Re: Your foto of a V9 drive shaft. Art or accurate?Does it truly indicate the positions of the universal joints? In my distant past w/bmw's; re-enforced when I was notified and sent parts by MG (Daytona recall); If 2 universals are on a drive shaft the out reaching fingers of the 1/2 universal from the gear box should be diametrically opposed (90 deg.), to the input 1/2 universal fingers, on the bevel box. bmw explained in detail the engineering behind the design preference. Though easy to imagine. it's long gone from my mind. Neither an oil, grease or tire thread but. If apologies should have been included, I'll stand to suffer. R3~
The difference in U-joint positioning, i.e. parallel yokes as opposed to 90deg. rotational separation was the latter is/was alleged to represent less friction/wear/vibration, thus less power loss due to smoother running. Regardless, a better reason for using 2 U-joints is most likely to be greater suspension travel. The fat tires on V9's demand 2 U-joints. I may try asking Kevin Cameron directly. He's nearby. Or perhaps Mr. Roper will deign this worthy of comment. Thank you, R3~
I am still of the opinion that a CV joint would solve some of the restrictions brought on by the use of UJ's, as well as being able to deliver greater rear suspension travel.Any reason why one could not be used?
As many more advantages as CV over U Joint, it is also a lot more expensive to produce as well as to maintain at one time...But over the long run, it is usually proven to be EVEN more costly when running U joint as replacement will usually happens more often...So I am going to guess the cost saving plays a major factor...
Other than the recall about the routing of wires/cables (done at first service) I have not found anything that needs to be done on my 2017 V7iii Anniversario. It is really great as is.
^^^This.^^^ Enjoy!
A few years back I had both CV joints fail on my Acura CL type S, 6 spd.. The 1st one went out @ 427,000 mi. The second @ 532,000 mi. Never needed a clutch. I let her go @ 585K. Perhaps a CV joint capable of managing the amount of torque would be too large? R3~
Im thinking size is a factor also. Even with the lower HP of these motorcycles your still going to be looking at a 2.5" + joint... with the sealing cover it will be pretty bulky.. also with just moving in one direction a correctly designed Ujoint and shaft should do the job on a normal motorcycle.
Thanks for the additional thoughts including "just ride the thing!". Interesting reading the discussions on the u joints and CV joints. I just laid the money down for the bike (and some farkles). If folks are curious, the splines were sufficiently greased. Also, the recall had already been done on this bike.The farkles or necessities (depending on your point of view) are:Center standHeated Grips. I've had Oxford before but Koso Apollo's were mentioned and what I decided to go with. It'll be interesting to see what I think of them in action.Various battery tender stuffLED brake light kit (extra lights in the rear tied into the braking system)ROX risers. Short arms and want a slightly more upright position. We'll see what I think.Metal fuel filter.Pazzo adjustable leversGivi engine guardsI'm also going to get some hand guards (to cut the wind), a windscreen (also to cut the wind ;) ), and some luggage but still sorting all that out.
Edit: For some reason I thought u had a carbon and it stuck in my head LOL...still a great choice :P
I remember Toyota and Honda needing CV joint replacements a lot back in the 80s before they would hit 100,000.
Right now I'm looking at LED replacement bulbs to support my heated gear wants. There was a good thread on that back in December so I'm using that as the kick off point. https://wildguzzi.com/forum/index.php?topic=98912.0Besides the heated grips I'm considering the Aerostich heated bib. 30 watts/2.5 amps. I think I can use one or the other without replacing the bulbs. Replacing the lamps may buy me enough breather to use them both if I want without draining the battery.
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When a tornado shrouded in darkness and wrapped in rain dropped quickly from the sky above this northwest Oklahoma town, many residents relied on television weathermen to warn them of impending devastation. Others learned of the monster twister from neighbors or calls from frantic relatives.
One backup they couldn't count on was the town's 20 outdoor tornado sirens, which were knocked out when lightning struck a tower used to activate the warning system.
The storms, which caused multiple outbreaks of severe weather most of Sunday from Kansas to Minnesota, were part of an exceptionally strong system tracked by the National Weather Service's Storm Prediction Center in Norman, Okla., which specializes in tornado forecasting. The center took the unusual step of warning people more than 24 hours in advance of a possible "high-end, life-threatening event."
In the end, only the Woodward tornado proved fatal. While it's unknown whether the disabled sirens contributed to the toll in Woodward, residents and officials in hard-hit areas of Kansas, Iowa and elsewhere credited days of urgent warnings from forecasters for saving lives.
"We can't do this with every event," said the prediction center's Ken Miller, noting that many storm systems are not as easy to predict whether they will be a potential threat to life and property.
Miller said he was pleased the warnings were heeded.
"We measure our success by how the public reacts," he said. "Do they take precautions seriously and act on them?"
In south central Kansas, Sedgwick County Emergency Management Director Randy Duncan credited the dire language warnings for saving lives.
"People become used to those warnings. That is a dangerous complacency," Duncan said. "We need to break through the clutter of everyday noise to get people's attention."
The warnings had Larry Hill's attention. The 72-year-old sifted Sunday through glass and debris of his home. Hours earlier, Hill had barricaded himself in a closet as a tornado ripped the roof off his home in the southwest Iowa town of Thurman. He kept a close ear on their television as Saturday night approached, and had bought extra groceries the night before.
"We'd been on the lookout for it for three days," he said. "... We were as ready as we could have been."
A National Weather Service official said a "month's worth" of tornados were spotted Sunday in Kansas. About 100 homes were damaged in a Wichita mobile home, but no serious injuries or fatalities were reported.
"We knew well ahead of time that this was going to be ugly. People listened" to the warnings, Sedgwick County Commissioner Tim Norton said.
The Woodward tornado hit after midnight and without warning from the town's knocked out siren system.
The state medical examiner's office identified the victims as Frank Hobbie and his 5-year-old and 7-year-old daughters, who died when the tornado hit the mobile home park, and Darren Juul and a 10-year-old girl who died when the home they were in a few miles away was hit. Office spokeswoman Amy Elliot said no other details were available but said a critically hurt child was airlifted to a Texas hospital.
"Our thoughts and prayers just go out to the families that have lost their loved ones, especially the children," said Oklahoma Gov. Mary Fallin, who declared a state of emergency Sunday after touring the damage. "It's always devastating to hear about the loss of life of children."
Many residents in tornado alley have grown up counting on tornado sirens to warn them when a twister has been spotted on the ground, but emergency officials say that can be one of the least reliable methods, especially when a tornado hits at night.
"An outdoor warning system should never be the only way or even the primary way to receive a warning," said Rick Smith, a warning coordination meteorologist with the National Weather Service. "Our message that we preach is you have to have several ways to receive a warning."
Curt and Andra Raymer had taken steps to prepare for the storm, but thought they were in the clear when a television meteorologist warned residents to take cover just minutes before the storm hit.
"We heard the sirens yesterday afternoon, and they blew for 40 minutes," said Andra Raymer, 44, as she picked through the rubble of her home that was covered with insulation, broken glass and splintered wood. "Last night when this one came through, we didn't hear anything."
The couple and their dogs took shelter in an interior bathroom as the roof was lifted from their home and smashed in their backyard.
"We're just lucky to be alive," Curt Raymer said. "We walked out into the street and just couldn't believe it."
Emergency management officials urged residents to take advantage of weather radios, smartphones and television warnings to keep them up to speed when weather turns dangerous. Sirens are not designed to wake residents who are sleeping or to penetrate the thick insulation in today's homes, said Albert Ashwood, the director of Oklahoma's Office of Emergency Management.
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rape, in law, the crime of sexual intercourse without the consent of the victim, often through force or threat of violence. The victim is deemed legally incapable of consenting if she or he is known to be mentally incompetent, intoxicated, drugged, or below the age of consent at the time of the rape. Such cases are known as statutory rape, and evidence of consent is not deemed relevant in court. Although the term rape has traditionally applied to the male use of force in sexual relations with females, applicable laws have been revised in many jurisdictions to include possibilities where a male is the victim.
Issues surrounding rape and the law have been fiercely debated for years in the United States, and recent efforts—particularly by feminist groups—have had marked success in expanding victims rights. One important reform, which has been in effect in most states in recent years, has been the removal of statutes requiring that rape victims physically resist the attack. Prior to this reform, victims of rape were required to display clear signs of injury in order to prove that they did not consent to sexual relations. Another reform has made marital rape a crime in many circumstances, with South Dakota becoming the first state to institute such law reforms in 1975. In the 1980s, "date rape," or acquaintance rape, became an important issue, particularly on college campuses. Victims of date rape contend that they were raped by an individual with whom they were acquainted. In many such cases, the establishment of guilt becomes difficult, particularly in cases where the victim displays no physical evidence of violence and there is only the testimony of the victim. In international law, rape was designated (2000) a war crime by the Yugoslav tribunal established by the United Nations at The Hague. Rape can cause profound psychological trauma in its victims.
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Since 1870, on late sunny afternoons, the sunshine has streamed into the interior of the Trusal Covered Bridge. Trusal is the oldest and smallest of Indiana County's covered bridges.
A New Roof for the Trusal Covered Bridge
In April 2016 a new roof was installed on the Trusal Covered Bridge, Indiana County's oldest covered bridge.
Covered Bridge Resident
Yes, you may find a black snake at our covered bridges from time to time. This one was basking in a sunny spot inside the Trusal Bridge one day. Black Rat Snakes are completely harmless and feed on mice and other rodents. This one's descendants have probably lived in and around the Trusal Bridge since it was constructed in 1870.


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Thursday, 25 January 2007
Everyone's Talking About Pink & Brown...
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- ALL THE BEST said...
Done well, it's fantastic!! I was so happy to see a photo of Jan Shower's work! I love her style.
- 25 January 2007 at 23:01
I themed my wedding in pink and brown a few years ago. We had chocolate cake (with chocolate icing) decorated with pink flowers. My dress was pink (very pale/dusky/musk colour) and my husband wore a chocolate brown suit. For favours we had chocolate brownies in a white box with pink ribbons. It was lovely!
- 25 January 2007 at 23:50
- The Peak of Chic said...
I adore that color combination. It's so snappy (for lack of a better word!). You're so right- just like Neopolitan ice cream!
- 25 January 2007 at 23:57
- a. said...
I love this color combo as well. No wonder we all get along! It does remind me of ice cream...subliminal messages through decor ;-)
My favorite of all time is pink and gold. Oh and a duck egg (no one uses that term in the US unfortunately) or robins egg blue.
- 26 January 2007 at 00:26
- Style Court said...
Love that particular Jan Showers vignette you chose! It's been a favorite for a while. Many thanks for the mention.
- 26 January 2007 at 00:28
- Di Overton said...
The Barclay Butera room is a real eye catcher. Look at those leaves sitting in front of those cushions. The colours of a Laduree box.
- 26 January 2007 at 03:14
You have a great blog, I love your designs, everything is beautiful!
- 26 January 2007 at 03:45
- design dna said...
the jan flowers photo is superb!
- 26 January 2007 at 06:44
- design dna said...
showers! terrible typist!
- 26 January 2007 at 06:44
Jan Showers = Little bit of heaven. Never thought of pink and gold and will now think often of it. I love that there are always new color combos occurring. Love the pink walls with the Chant covered chairs. Hmmm. reminds me a bit of something going on at a little pink casa...
- 26 January 2007 at 07:00
- Maryam in Marrakesh said...
first of all, I so wish I was at vic's wedding above:-) these colors are faaaaabulous together. so very glam.
PS Thank you for your sweet comment today - it meant a lot to me.
- 26 January 2007 at 08:54
- Anna Spiro said...
Wow Vic, your wedding sounds wonderful. Thanks for sharing.
- 26 January 2007 at 09:09
- Anna Spiro said...
Thanks ATB, Peak of Chic, PP, Stylecourt, Di, Amy, Pink & Maryam and also Christina for your lovely comments - I think we all like Pink & Brown - The Neopolitan Colour Combo!! Thanks for sharing your thoughts today and PP I think you're right - we all do have similar tastes and that is probably why we all get on so well!! Great post today PP might I also just add - Lurking Bloggers!! I think I might do a post about Lurkers following on from yours.
- 26 January 2007 at 09:12
- The Peak of Chic said...
Anna- Your post on brown and pink prompted a flashback last night- does anybody remember the article from House Beautiful (I think it was HB)from 2000/2001 that featured two young decorators, Heather Hoyt and Alison Levasseur? They had decorated a room at a showhouse in NYC and it was done completely in brown and pink. It was so feminine and slightly over the top, but I thought it was a good use of those two colors. I'll try to find it in my files and possibly post it on my blog. Does anybody know what became of Hoyt-Levasseur??? They seemed quite talented.
- 27 January 2007 at 00:06
Pink is/was always my favorite color. In the late 90s or early OOs, I saw a piece in Martha Stewart Living featuring a pink/brown decor. I'll never forget the dark brown velvet drapes with a pink silk lining peeking out....So Lovely!
It's been my signature combo ever since.
- 28 January 2007 at 05:01
- Anna Spiro said...
Thanks Jennifer - wow that pink/brown room sounds amazing - I especially like the sound of the dark brown velvet drapes with the pink silk lining!!
- 28 January 2007 at 21:35
- Anne said...
Thanks for showcasing one of my favorite art/design themes! The perfect pairing! I recently finished painting a hexagonal glass plate with these same colors. You can check it out and let me know what you think at: www.annechovie.etsy.com
Cheers and all the best to you!
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It's no surprise that Lindsay Lohan has experienced a roller coaster of events since starting in show business at a young age, and with that fame came multiple challenges.
The actress opened up to CNN host Piers Morgan during a candid interview for the U.K.'s Daily Mail, speaking about some of her darkest hours and stating that she wouldn't take any of it back.
"I believe things happen for a reason," she told him. "I live without regrets. There are certain things I have done, mistakes that I made, that I would change, but I don't regret them at all, because I've learned from them."
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Lohan shared that she lived a relatively normal teenage life, having her first drink at 17 and not drinking again for a while because she was "too scared," but admitted that once she moved to Los Angeles, things started going downhill.
"I got arrested for my first DUI when I was 20 and they found me with drugs. And from then on the press were on me all the time. It was the first time I'd taken drugs; I was out in a club with people I shouldn't have been with, and took cocaine, and got in the car. It was so stupid."
Contrary to common belief, Lindsay says she's only done cocaine "maybe four or five times in my life," even though "everyone thinks I've done it so many times." And the reason for that is her father, Michael Lohan, who's had his own struggle with drugs and alcohol.
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"It reminds me of my dad," she said. "I took it four times in a period from about the age of 20 to 23, and I got caught twice."
Lindsay continued to talk about her rocky relationship with Michael, telling Morgan, "He won't change. I just think there comes a point where you just kind of have to accept what it is. Whenever I do try to bring him back into my life, he creates chaos for me and uses it to his advantage. He's been really good and then really crazy my whole life."
Lohan also mentioned her relationship with her mother, Dina Lohan, sharing that they would hardly ever fight and that it was Dina's face when LiLo turned herself into jail that contributed to the unhappiest day of her life.
"The day I had to turn myself in to jail, and I had to see my mom's face. I spent 12 days inside and I felt utter shock and cried for four days straight."
NEWS: Lindsay fires her lawyer
Lohan, who recently checked into rehab at the Betty Ford Center, is hopeful that her lifestyle leading up to this change will help her get sorted out within the next three months.
"Being in New York has helped me. Just being with my family more, and being able to walk around and have more of a life."
As part of the conditions of her plea deal, Lindsay is required to complete 90 days in court-approved rehab facility.
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Crying onstage in front of a crowd is not my thing, but a few days ago, as I stood next to Serkalem Fasil, I couldn't hold back my tears. It was a bittersweet moment because Fasil had just received the prestigious PEN/Barbara Goldsmith Freedom to Write Award on behalf of her husband, Eskinder Nega.
He faces life in prison on charges of terrorism and incitement to violent revolt after writing an article discussing the implications of the Arab Spring uprising for democracy in Ethiopia. And Nega is not alone in being on the receiving end of an ongoing government crackdown on independent journalists in Ethiopia, many of whom are also being silenced by arrests and imprisonment. Many have fled the country to keep hope (and themselves) alive.
As the emcee for the evening, I was scheduled to make brief remarks and close the evening, but instead I was moved to ask the indulgence of the audience of some 500 writers, editors and publishers. Then I poured out my heart, so full, since this was the first time I had seen Fasil since 2007, when I visited her in Kality Prison, just outside of Addis Ababa.
Kality is where she and her husband, Nega, were then serving time for what the government called terrorism but which was, in fact, an instance in which independent journalists were doing their job reporting the news as honestly as they could. In this case they were reporting on the government's crackdown on opposition parties in the 2005 parliamentary election in which some 200 opposition supporters were killed, followed by mass arrests of journalists and others not aligned with the government.
Nega was not alone in his criticism of the Ethiopian government. The European Union accused the government of vote rigging, and the Carter Center (on whose board I serve) cited postelection irregularities. I had gone to Addis with two members of the Committee to Protect Journalists, on whose board I also serve, to encourage the government of Prime Minister Meles Zenawi not only to spare the journalists' lives — since the charge of terrorism carried the death penalty — but also to ask for their release altogether.
But in the short term, we wanted at least permission to visit them and take reading materials, which up to that point they had been denied. We got that permission, and when we arrived at the prison, we were escorted into a tiny, dusty room, where the guards soon produced several prisoners, including Nega and Fasil. A few years later, when I was asked to accept another press-freedom award from the International Women's Media Foundation on Fasil's behalf, I wrote about my first impressions of her that day in 2007:
She was such a tiny little thing, her head gracefully covered with a scarf, at that point her pregnancy barely showing because of the full, floor-length dress she was wearing. At first she seemed a little reserved, if not perplexed. At the same time, she had an air of calm about her and moved with a slow grace so at odds with her wretched surroundings.
But in no time, my two colleagues and I had established a rapport, and while Serkalem spoke mostly in Amharic, Ethiopia's native tongue, as her words came pouring out, the fragility disappeared and before my eyes, she was transformed into a woman determined to stand by her principles and to stand up for what she believed: that if she were guilty of anything, it was of standing for the freedom for her colleagues to speak truth to power. She didn't believe she belonged in prison, but she was prepared to stay and fight, as long as it took, as much as it might take out of her and her unborn child.
I wanted to see where Fasil was usually confined, but I was told by the guard that it was off-limits — a prohibition that I could not accept. I had no intention of coming that far and not seeing the conditions in which she, especially, was being kept. And so I just started walking alongside Fasil down a rocky, dusty path, talking to her in words that I knew she couldn't understand but that she pretended to, instinctively aware of what I was attempting.
Then Fasil saw Nega, whom she had not seen since their imprisonment, other than in the room where we had just met. And as I later recalled:
It was a moment too tender to describe as he reached for her tiny, but expanding tummy, and I quickly turned away to give them an all too fleeting moment, soon interrupted by a guard calling to Eskinder.
Serkalem was silent as we walked on, past children in rags playing on the enclosed dark and dusty prison yard in the women's area. Soon, we entered a long, dark rectangular room, sparse and stark, with rows of bunk beds and little else.
There were 60 women in the room, in addition to the rats that crawled over their beds at night.
Fasil walked slowly to the very end of the room where she introduced me to several of the prisoners. They promised me they would take care of her. That included sharing the cooked beans, rice and potatoes they had in pots under their bed — for who knows long — brought by family members to make up for the paltry meals served in the prison.
Despite the caring sentiments of the other prisoners, Fasil rarely had the kind of nutritious food she needed in her condition. Five months into her pregnancy, she had not seen a doctor, and later, her baby was born prematurely and severely underweight.
On this occasion, as I was leaving, I fought back the tears that five years later I would shed at the PEN dinner. But I determined to do all I could to get her and her husband and the others out of that prison.
They served a year and six months before they were released. But despite the ever-present threat of still another imprisonment, they continued to speak truth to power, insisting that, in Fasil's words last week, "to create the country we want, someone has to sacrifice."
And so it is that Nega is back in prison, his newspaper shut down since 2007, except for a presence online, and facing the death penalty. A newspaper editor who printed his verbatim statement in court, questioning the independence of the judiciary and fairness of the proceeding, was given a suspended four-month sentence and fined the equivalent of $113. And it has fallen to Fasil to use her words now to keep Nega's message and hope alive.
As a mother, I was keen to know about their son. Fasil told me through an interpreter that today he is strong. I asked his name, and she told me with the kind of smile that brings more moisture back to my eyes, "His name is Nafkot, which means 'longing.' "
It is time for me to return to Ethiopia and try to see the prime minister, to plead yet again for the journalists' freedom and for their right to free expression. And maybe, just maybe, in the interim, when Prime Minister Zenawi attends a G-8 Summit Food Security at Camp David on May 19, American officials can weigh in, too, on the importance not only of strategic partnerships but also of freedom of speech in a democracy.
Charlayne Hunter-Gault, a regular contributor to The Root, is the author of To the Mountaintop: My Journey Through the Civil Rights Movement, published by Roaring Brook Press and the New York Times Co.


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The crash happened just after 3 p.m., stalling traffic for hours. The truck was carrying asphalt, which was not hot, according to the Florida Highway Patrol.
According to the Florida Highway Patrol, 43-year-old John Henry was driving the truck southbound when the left front tire blew, causing him to steer toward the median. The front axle of the truck struck the guardrail, forcing the truck to vault over the guardrail.
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The dawn of a new year is the perfect time to reflect on all that Inkaterra has achieved in 2012; a year filled with great memories, discoveries and successes.
2012 began well with Inkaterra becoming the first Peruvian hotel chain to win the 'International Certificate in Sustainable tourism' by the CU Green Choice Sustainable Tourism Standard. The minister of Tourism and Commerce commented, "It is an honour that a Peruvian hotel chain is the first organization worldwide awarded with such an important Certification."
February was an exciting time for Inkaterra when two new species of orchids were found at Inkaterra Machu Picchu Pueblo Hotel. This harks back to an observation made back in 2001 by the American Orchid Society who announced that in all probability Inkaterra has the world's biggest collection of native orchid species (372) in their natural habitat, within a private setting.
Inkaterra was in the spotlight again in March with Conde Nast Johansens, the international luxury travel guide, who nominated Inkaterra Machu Picchu Pueblo Hotel as the "Most Excellent Eco Resort" in the 2012 Awards for Excellence. Inkaterra was the only hotel to receive an award in Peru.
The conservation efforts of Inkaterra were highlighted in April with the team picking up the award for Conservation at The Tourism of Tomorrow Awards. The Tourism for Tomorrow Awards are organised by the World Travel & Tourism Council (WTTC) and the winners were announced at the WTTC's Global Summit in Tokyo, April 16-19, 2012.
Throughout the summer we saw the continuation of the Peruvian food craze with the opening of fine dining restaurant Lima in London. With other Peruvian food diners launching across the globe, and the ever-growing empire of Gaston Acurio, Peruvian food is considered one of the most varied and rich of the world. The World Travel Awards took note of the trend naming Peru as the Best Culinary Destination in the world in 2012. Hailed as a 'gastronomic superpower', the South American country fought off stiff competition from notable foodie destinations such as France, China, Italy, Spain and Thailand to come out on top as the best place in the world to eat.
Festivals in Peru are a time for celebration and remembrance. This June, as they do every year, visitors from across South America and around the world travelled to Cusco for the annual Inti Raymi festival, the most important ceremony of the Inca Empire calendar. Each winter solstice, native residents honour the Sun God marking the beginning of a new year: the Festival of the Sun.
There were celebrations a plenty in October, as Inkaterra was recognised for the third consecutive year at this year's LATA Awards in London. This year Inkaterra was awarded for its efforts towards sustainability.
November was an exciting time for Peru, Inkaterra, and birding enthusiasts across the world. Inkaterra Associación (ITA), worked alongside the Ministry of Foreign Trade and Tourism (MINCETUR) & PROMPERU as co-organisers, to launch Peru's first ever Birding Rally Challenge. The challenge was a great success with the winning team from Louisiana State University, nicknamed the 'Tigrisomas', identifying 493 species of birds! The UK team – The Forest Falcons – came a close second, narrowly missing out on being crowned the winners by just three species.
In November, the awards continued with Inkaterra being nominated in The World Travel Awards for the World's Leading Corporate Social Responsibility Programme at Inkaterra Machu Picchu Pueblo Hotel. We were also delighted to received the Relais & Chateaux Sustainability Award at the R&C Congress in Torino.
To round off an excellent year, in December, Inkaterra Machu Picchu Pueblo Hotel was awarded first position in Peru in the Travel + Leisure 500 Best Hotels of the World in 2013.
Another great accolade for Inkaterra was brought about by education. Mr. Diego Comín, Professor at Harvard Business School (HBS) presented Inkaterra in its very own unique case study for Harvard Business School. The case discusses Inkaterra as a leading Peruvian ecotourism organisation and the unique business model that is currently in place.
2013 looks to be an exciting year already, with a further Birding Rally Challenge already in planning, and the opening of Inkaterra's Sacred Valley property 'Inkaterra Hacienda Urubamba', due in the second half of the year. On that optimistic note, Inkaterra looks forward to 2013 and wishes everyone a joyous Christmas, and a happy New Year.


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(CNN) -- Massachusetts is appealing a federal judge's ruling that the state must pay for the sex-change surgery of a transsexual prison inmate.
"Following a thorough review of the decision, we believe the court failed to give due deference to the fact that the Department (of Correction) has and continues to provide adequate medical treatment to address inmate Kosilek's gender identity disorder," said Diane Wiffin, public affairs director for the Massachusetts Department of Correction, in a statement Wednesday.
In an unprecedented court order earlier this month, U. S. District Court Chief Judge Mark L. Wolf determined that sex-reassignment surgery was the "only adequate treatment" for Michelle Kosilek, who was previously known as Robert. Kosilek has been incarcerated in an all-male prison, serving a life sentence without parole for murdering his wife in 1990.
Wolf ruled "that there is no less intrusive means to correct the prolonged violation of Kosilek's Eighth Amendment right to adequate medical care."
Kosilek's attorney's office declined to comment Thursday, citing the pending appeal.
The ruling September 6 sparked some heated reaction.
U.S. Sen. Scott Brown, R-Massachusetts, said the court's decision was "an outrageous abuse of taxpayer dollars."
State Senate Minority Leader Bruce Tarr commended the Department of Correction in a statement Wednesday "for standing up and opposing this outrageous request and for taking the necessary action to prevent it from being legitimized by a legal decision."
There was no immediate reaction from the office of Gov. Deval Patrick.
Many from the transgender community say the ruling should stand.
"Prisoners have a right to necessary medical care, and this is indisputably medical care, as the very strong district court decision established. There really is no legal ground for this appeal," Jennifer Levi, the director of the Gay and Lesbian Advocates and Defenders' transgender rights project, said in a statement released Wednesday with the Massachusetts Transgender Political Coalition.
"Care that is medically necessary for prisoners cannot be denied based on public opinion," said Gunner Scott, executive director of the Massachusetts Transgender Political Coalition.
It wasn't until 1999, when Kosilek first filed suit after repeatedly asking the prison for treatment for her disorder, that the court recognized her medical needs, according to Frances Cohen, one of Kosilek's lawyers.
In 2002, the court found that the Department of Correction had refused to provide Kosilek with the proper medical treatment she needed, as had been prescribed by the department's doctors.
That year, Kosilek began to receive psychotherapy and hormone treatments.
According to the American Society of Plastic Surgeons, with all operations, therapy, hormone injections and electrolysis, the cost of sex reassignment surgery can range from $30,000 to $80,000.
Court documents show Kosilek attempted to castrate herself and tried to commit suicide twice while incarcerated in an all-male prison in Norfolk. The court ruling left it up to the Department of Correction to decide where Kosilek will be incarcerated after the surgery.


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"For those unacquainted with American football, blocking and tackling are two of the most basic skills of the game –- necessary (but not sufficient) ingredients for winning. Teams that can't block or tackle are doomed. For executives, blocking and tackling represent work that's not glamorous but is important." (This quote is taken from "Blocking and tackling" –- the mother of all sports metaphors" by John Caddell — and is quoted with permission.)
In financial services practice management, "blocking and tackling" is one thing: contact.
As the definition above states, this is work. It is "not glamorous but is important." It is certainly a "best practice" very simply because those who do not do it or do it well simply do not succeed.
In my upcoming November Research magazine article, I defined the segments necessary for an overall communications strategy. At a minimum, you need to communicate to these segments: mass mail, prospects, people that you know (connections) and clients. A complete contact strategy would embrace these four elements.
1) What to say—your message.
2) Who to say it to—your segments.
3) How often to say it—frequency.
4) How to deliver the message—channel.
In this post, I'm going to deal with the message component of a contact strategy. By "message" I mean your letters, e-mails, blog, or web posts. To put it bluntly, you have to have a message strategy, and you must stay on message.
The Three Identities
Very broadly, no matter the segment, you're trying to accomplish one thing: Build or sustain an identity of trusted advisor.
With your mass-mailing lists, you are obviously trying to build that identity. With your prospect and connections lists, you probably have a little bit of it. So we need to build more.
With your client list, at least some have granted you trusted advisor status. Those you have to sustain while you build a stronger relationship with those who have not yet granted this status.
In my experience, the "trusted advisor relationship" is built by creating its components. I have referred to these as the "three identities."
A person will not grant trusted advisor status unless they perceive that you are:
1) An expert financial advisor. You can see in the second that this perception alone is not sufficient. You could be an expert and a jerk. The jerk will never enjoy trusted advisor status except perhaps as granted by another jerk.
2) A caring and trustworthy, well-mannered individual. A trusted advisor must demonstrate these qualities. But these alone are not sufficient. Suppose you are perceived as an expert financial advisor as well as a caring trustworthy, well-mannered individual. But tomorrow, your clients read in the local paper that you have been arrested for a DUI. Not good. Any "trusted advisor relationship" you had developed will vanish instantly.
3) A good citizen. Whatever you do, don't forget "the Madoff effect." It takes time, persistence, and demonstrated good works to drive this perception into the minds of potential or current investors.
Building a Communications Strategy
Here are some specific ideas for your messaging strategy. Other channels — getting published, web and blog posts and telephone calls will be dealt with in subsequent blog entries.
To build or sustain your "expert financial advisor" identity, you should:
1) Send informational and educational article.
2) Produce educational seminar, with appropriate invitations.
3) Offer "white papers" and other informational material people might find of interest.
To enhance your "caring trustworthy, well-mannered individual" identity:
1) Please get a crisis management strategy in place. I can imagine few actions you can take that demonstrate better that you care than quick action in the face of a crisis. The core of your strategy is a hand-holding letter and/or email that is sent immediately. Your clients and prospects need to hear bad or alarming news from you first.
If you do not have a crisis management plan, do this: a) Read "Lessons Learned in Crisis Management: Sept 11." Then b) Go to the Bill Good Marketing Crisis Management page and download a free copy of our best hand-holding message. Be prepared.
2) Acknowledge in writing important dates in people's lives—birthday, anniversary, retirement date, important awards and recognitions.
3) Send lots of "etiquette cards and letters." Some of these should be hand-written. A very recent study from USPS says people only receive a hand-written note by mail about once every seven weeks. You want to get someone's attention? Send a hand-written note and exquisite card stock or stationery.
To sustain or build your "good citizen" identity:
1) Participate in the charitable, religious and social events of your community, and make sure you document this with photos and recognitions posted to club, church and charity websites. If no one knows it happened, it didn't happen. You can reference your good works in the PS of your letters and emails.
2) Send patriotic letters on Memorial Day and July 4.
This is a great strategy. How do I know? I've helped a few thousand advisors implement it.
I recently completed a series of articles on going paperless, which are archived on a "Paperless Resource Page" on my website.
Here's the link to my author page for Research magazine. Bookmark it and check it often for other wisdom.


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ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates—Vin Diesel and other members of the "Fast & Furious 7" cast are heading to the Mideast city of Abu Dhabi after months of uncertainty about the fate of the movie.
Abu Dhabi's government-backed twofour54 media hub said in a statement Wednesday that shooting in the United Arab Emirates capital is scheduled to take place in April.
Filming of "Fast & Furious 7" was put on hold in December following the death of star Paul Walker in a car crash.
A crew filmed some helicopter shots, stunt footage and other scenes in Abu Dhabi in November. Cast members including Diesel, Michelle Rodriguez and Chris "Ludacris" Bridges are expected to arrive when filming resumes next month.


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|Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Geng Shuang's Regular Press Conference on May 11, 2017
Q: Today President Xi Jinping had a telephone conversation with President Moon Jae-in of the Republic of Korea. Does this signal the improvement of the bilateral relations?
A: Today, President Xi Jinping had a telephone conversation with President Moon Jae-in. We have already released relevant information.
During the conversation, President Xi Jinping congratulated President Moon Jae-in on winning the election and pointed out that as close neighbors, China and the ROK have made big strides in the bilateral relationship since the establishment of diplomatic ties 25 years ago. Both sides should stay true to what we were committed to when we established diplomatic ties, respect each other's major concerns and legitimate interests, seek common ground while properly addressing differences for a better China-ROK relationship. This is in line with the common interests of our people and conducive to regional peace, stability and development.
President Moon Jae-in said that the ROK attaches great importance to its relations with China. The ROK will work with China to develop the bilateral relationship at a high-level and promote the practical strategic cooperative partnership. The ROK thinks highly of China's Belt and Road Initiative and expects the initiative to bring development and prosperity to China, the ROK and other countries and regions along the routes.
What I want to say is China is ready to work with the ROK to bring the bilateral relations back to the track of healthy and steady development.
Q: Chinese and ROK presidents talked about meeting each other in today's phone call. Was the timetable discussed in the conversation?
A: In the conversation, the two heads of state agreed to maintain contact and expected an early meeting.
Q: According to media reports, Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte said he had appointed Chair of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee Alan Peter Cayetano as the new foreign secretary. What is China's comment on that? What is China's expectation for working with Foreign Secretary Cayetano to develop bilateral relations?
A: Since last year, with the care and guidance of the two heads of state, the China-Philippines relations have achieved all-round improvement and bilateral cooperation has entered a new stage. Cooperation across the board has recovered and yielded fruitful outcomes. Our relationship is making overall progress.
We welcome the appointment and congratulate Mr. Cayetano. China is ready to work with him to implement the high-level consensus and keep deepening practical cooperation to push forward China-Philippines relations for greater benefits to our peoples and regional peace and stability.
Q: Reports say that 29 heads of state and government will attend the Belt and Road Forum for International Cooperation, one more than what we were previously told. Which country does the newly added head of state come from?
A: Kyrgyzstan.
Q: The Russian ambassador to China said that President Xi Jinping is going to visit Russia early July. Can you confirm this information?
A: You should know that the two heads of state have very close exchanges. As for the Chinese president's visit to Russia, we will release the information in due course.
Q: Chinese banana growing companies in Laos have been prevented from planting new plantations because the government there is concerned about the overuse of fertilizer. I am wondering if China and Laos are in communication on this issue. And in the context of the Belt and Road, does China need to properly address this kind of thing regarding its investment abroad?
A: I have no knowledge of the case you mentioned. But I think there is no need to make this kind of far-fetched link between a very isolated case and the Belt and Road Initiative.
In principle, we always ask Chinese enterprises abroad to follow the local laws and regulations, fulfill their social responsibilities and protect the local environment. At the same time, we hope that the legitimate rights and interests of Chinese enterprises can also be protected.
Q: Russian President Vladimir Putin will come to China for the Belt and Road Forum for International Cooperation. What is China's expectation for his visit? On what issues will the two sides exchange views?
A: President Putin is invited to attend the Belt and Road Forum for International Cooperation. Russia has expressed welcome and support for the Belt and Road Initiative at a very early stage. In fact, the two countries always maintain sound communication and coordination and enjoy close cooperation in this regard.
As far as I know, President Putin will hold talks with President Xi Jinping during the forum. The two sides will have in-depth exchange of views on bilateral relations and major international and regional issues of common interest.
As I said when answering the question from your colleague, the two leaders maintain close exchanges. Regular meetings between the two sides are of great significance to deepening the China-Russia comprehensive strategic partnership of coordination.
Q: The upcoming Belt and Road Forum for International Cooperation has drawn world-wide attention. Could you please update us on the preparation work?
A: This morning, secretary-general of the preparatory committee of the Belt and Road Forum for International Cooperation, Vice Foreign Minister Li Baodong gave an interview and talked about the preparation work. His key message was: We are ready!
Up to now, 29 heads of state and government and three leaders of major international organizations, including the secretary-general of the United Nations, will attend the Leaders Roundtable and other activities. Around 1,500 guests from over 130 countries will attend the forum as official representatives, and over 4,000 journalists around the world have registered to cover this forum, all of which are unprecedented.
The forum will provide various activities, including the Opening Session, Leaders Roundtable and High-level Dialogue. On the morning of May 14, President Xi Jinping will attend the Opening Session and deliver a keynote speech. After that, there will be the high-level plenary. On the afternoon of May 14, there will be six thematic sessions on five types of connectivity and think thank exchanges. On May 15, President Xi will preside over the roundtable, which includes two sessions and a working lunch. After that, President Xi will meet the press to talk about the major outcomes of the forum.
Moreover, China and participants to the roundtable will issue a joint communique, which will reflect their consensus on building the Belt and Road. During the forum, participants will synergize development strategies and work for a series of cooperation outcomes. A number of cooperation documents will be signed at that time.
All in all, China would like to take this forum as an opportunity to have extensive consultation with like-minded partners about cooperation, make joint contribution to building an open platform and share the benefits brought by development. Let us expect a great success of the forum!
Q: Do you have any update on when the precise schedule, the program of the forum will be published? Who will represent the EU? Will it be the president of the Commission, or only the vice president?
A: I only have a framework schedule. I can tell you that the media center of the forum will be operating from May 12 to 15 at the National Convention Center. They will provide more detailed information on the forum.
As for the attendance of the EU, you asked a similar question yesterday. As far as I know, there will be EU representatives attending the forum.
Q: Do you know who it is?
A: There will be EU representatives attending the forum.
Q: According to what we know, President Moon Jae-in will send a special envoy to China to discuss the THAAD issue and the Korean nuclear issue. Can you confirm this information? Will China invite representatives from the new ROK administration to attend the Belt and Road Forum for International Cooperation?
A: During today's conversation, President Moon Jae-in proposed to send a special envoy to China at an early date. China welcomed his suggestion. President Moon also said that the ROK thinks highly of the Belt and Road Initiative and expects the initiative to bring development and prosperity to China, the ROK and other countries and regions along the routes. If there is any information about high-level representatives of the new ROK administration attending the forum, we will release in a timely manner.
Q: My question is about the major traffic accident which caused the death of some Chinese and ROK children in Weihai, Shandong Province on May 9. Could you please update us on the latest developments?
A: Yesterday I briefed you about the relevant situation. As far as I know, relevant departments in Shandong Province and Weihai City are pushing forward investigation into the accident and properly dealing with the follow-up matters. China stays in touch with the ROK through diplomatic channels.
Today, in his telephone conversation with President Moon, President Xi mourned for the Chinese and ROK children killed in that accident, and asked President Moon to convey his condolences to the bereaved families in the ROK. President Moon thanked President Xi for his condolences and the swift response by the Chinese government to deal with the accident and the aftermath.
Q: You said before that China expects to bring the relationship with the ROK back to the track of sound and steady growth. What are the specific measures that China is going to take in order to make the relationship go back to the track?
A: During today's telephone conversation, the two leaders expressed the great importance they attach to the relations between China and the ROK, and their willingness to jointly advance the bilateral relationship.
Going forward, China will maintain close communication and contact with the new ROK administration and work in concert with them to bring the relationship back to the track of healthy and steady development as soon as possible.
Q: Reports say that the United Nations Human Rights Council reviewed the human rights situation in the Philippines and that some countries expressed concerns about the human rights conditions in the country. What is China's comment on that?
A: On May 8, the 27th Session of Universal Periodic Review of the United Nations Human Rights Council reviewed the human rights situation in the Philippines. Over 100 countries made remarks. Most countries including China, Russia, Cuba and Venezuela made positive comments on and commended the efforts and achievements made by the Philippines in eliminating poverty, promoting socio-economic development and improving and protecting human rights.
The Universal Periodic Review is an important mechanism for UN member states to conduct dialogue and cooperation on an equal footing in the area of human rights. We hope various parties can be objective and fair in viewing the human rights conditions in different countries and promote the human rights cause through dialogue and cooperation.
Drugs are the common enemy for all human beings, bringing pains to many developing countries, including China. China supports President Duterte and the Philippine government in combating drug-related crimes in accordance with the law. We hope the international community can respect the judicial sovereignty of the Philippines and support its efforts in fighting drug-related crimes through cooperation.
Q: My question is about Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy's visit to China for the Belt and Road Forum. He will meet with President Xi Jinping and Premier Li Keqiang. I want to know if you can give me some details on what will be the topics of their discussion, and what are the arrangements for their meetings.
A: Everybody is very interested in the arrangements during the forum. We will have many distinguished guests, so we are still coordinating with them to make proper arrangements for their activities. For the meetings and talks between President Xi or other Chinese leaders' and the foreign guests, according to the usual practice, we will release relevant information in a timely manner.


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Tenth Sentara OrthoJoint Center® opens
Sentara Halifax Regional Hospital joins nine other Sentara hospitals in providing patients and families a new approach to hip and knee replacement surgery with the introduction of its Sentara OrthoJoint Center®.
Focused on creating a more patient-centric experience, the center's comprehensive program is based on a national best practice model, structured around the fundamental principle of wellness and focused on enabling holistic treatment throughout the continuum of care it provides.
Now, undergoing orthopedic joint surgery at Sentara Halifax Regional Hospital is not a typical hip and knee replacement surgery experience for patients. For the past year, a team of orthopedic surgeons, administrative staff and orthopedic patient navigator Shannon Brown have been implementing this program to continuously improve outcomes and provide an exceptional experience for individuals having these procedures.
Critically, physicians and staff of the center do not think of these patients as being sick. Alternatively, we consider them healthy people who have elected to have these procedures because they have hip or knee pain and want to improve their quality of life by undergoing joint replacement surgery.
Following the proven design of other Sentara OrthoJoint Center locations, the concept of wellness is the primary priority of the entire program, which incorporates the most advanced minimally invasive pain management and rapid-recovery techniques. The center's patient focused environment enhances and maximizes recovery through pre-operative education, a culture of early mobility (getting patients up and moving), family involvement and group interaction.
For example, before surgery Sentara provides patients an educational class, including a thorough guidebook that explains their upcoming surgery, outlines pre-operative strengthening exercises and serves as their clinical journal for the duration of the experience. Further, the program encourages and enables family and caregiver involvement having each patient identify a "coach." Before, during and after discharge from the hospital, the coaches participate in educational sessions and training and receive motivational tips for patients. And, care doesn't end after discharge. Patients receive follow-up telephone calls from the Sentara OrthoJoint Center staff after discharge, and again one to two weeks later.
As a result of this new approach, Sentara OrthoJoint Center patients experience superior outcomes with better pain control which enables them to be more mobile earlier in the recuperation process and empowers them to return home sooner for more comfortable and faster recovery. Exemplifying this, between 2013 and 2015, Sentara OrthoJoint Centers across the Sentara Healthcare system saw a 15.21 percent reduction in hip and knee surgery patients' length of stay in the hospital (from 3.09 to 2.62 days). Further, the center's physicians and staff evaluate each patient on multiple clinical, functional and patient satisfaction criteria. The team then analyzes these outcomes to ensure our patients are receiving the quality of care they expect and deserve, as well as enable us to review and improve our patient care processes on an ongoing basis.
The following Sentara Healthcare facilities also offer Sentara OrthoJoint Center programs:
- Sentara CarePlex Hospital
- Sentara Leigh Hospital
- Sentara Martha Jefferson Hospital
- Sentara Northern Virginia Medical Center
- Sentara Obici Hospital
- Sentara Princess Anne Hospital
- Sentara RMH Medical Center
- Sentara Virginia Beach General Hospital
- Sentara Williamsburg Regional Medical Center


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The numbers, Southwest football coach Phil Padgett said, are history.
Nice? You bet. But they have no bearing on tonight when the Stallions face unbeaten Swansboro at The Corral. Kickoff is 7:30 p.m.
The numbers, Southwest football coach Phil Padgett said, are history.
Nice? You bet. But they have no bearing on tonight when the Stallions face unbeaten Swansboro at The Corral. Kickoff is 7:30 p.m.
While the teams haven�t played since 2008, Southwest (2-1) has won 20 consecutive games � 10 by shutout � over the Pirates (3-0), who last left the football field with a win over the Stallions on Nov. 4, 1988.
�Well,� Padgett said , �that�s behind us. That�s a nice history. That just means we�ve played pretty good football, and they�ve had some good teams. But the thing is this year their football team is very good.�
How good? The more important question, however, may be how fast?
�This is the fastest team we�ve seen this year,� Padgett said, �and that�s saying a lot because we�ve seen some speed.�
Ditto for the Stallions, Swansboro coach Tim Laspada said.
�They have three or four kids who are speed demons. I think our teams are a lot alike,� Laspada said. �I think our skills are about the same going in. I could be dead wrong come gametime, but looking on film I think we�re a lot alike.
�Our speed is good, but they have just as much if not more. That�s kind of what we�ve been preaching that this is the first team we�ve seen that can match, if not better us, in team speed.�
Swansboro�s first three wins have come against teams with a combined 3-5 record and include wins over a 4-A (Ashley) and 1-A (Lejeune) team, which may leave some skeptical of just how good the Pirates really are.
A win over the Stallions would certainly make believers of the skeptics.
�I�m sure we�re going to get their best shot,� Padgett said. �I really think they�re going to come up (and say), �Hey, this is how we make our mark. � Everybody talks about them in football. You beat them, that means you�re pretty good.��
Laspada didn�t dispute that feeling was out there � at least among some fans.
�We lack the depth, but the 11 we put on the field can play with just about everybody we go against,� Laspada said. �If we were fortunate enough to win, a lot of people in the area would say, �Oh, wait, look, Swansboro is the real deal,� because right now it�s like, �They haven�t played anybody.�
�Our kids know that we can play. But it�s a measuring stick in a sense of the area because Richlands lost to them by a point and Jacksonville beat them by a point. So our kids see that. They want to see how they measure up.�
The Pirates are certainly dangerous. While short on numbers, they are long on speed, led by do-everything De�Andre Thompkins, who�s scored seven touchdowns � three on passes and two on runs as well as one each on a kickoff return and an interception return.
Overall, Thompkins, who has committed to Penn State, has 500 all-purpose yards.
�Anybody that�s committed to Penn State is a player,� Padgett said. �Thompkins touches the ball, obviously he�s gone. But he�s not the only one. That�s the problem. They�ve got two or three kids that can go all the way any time they touch the football.�
Those players would include quarterback Chris Phipps and running back Markuise Hemby. Phipps has passed for 409 yards on 19 of 37 passes and five touchdowns and also rushed for a team-high 253 yards and four scores.
Hemby has 154 yards rushing on only 11 carries while also having caught eight passes for a team- leading 234 yards and three touchdowns.
Southwest, however, isn�t without some talent of its own.
Senior Tyler Smith has thrown for 311 yards while completing 31 of 57 passes and two TDs in his first year with the Stallions after transferring from Georgia. Isaiah Corbins leads the ground game with 214 yards while averaging 12.5 yards per carry.
J�Veon Walker (7 catches, 86 yards) and Corbins (7 catches, 66 yards) lead the receiving corps for the Stallions, whose only loss was 13-12 in their opener to Jacksonville (3-0).
Also, running back DaMonta Winbush, who had been sidelined the first two games with an ankle injury, returned last week and caught a 9-yard touchdown pass but gained just 29 yards on 9 carries as he continued to try to get back to 100 percent.
�He�s probably about 80 percent,� Padgett said.
While the Stallions are passing more than normal, their defense again is the team�s mainstay.
�I�ve got to say our defense has definitely given us a chance and our offense has been good enough to score and give us a chance to win,� Padgett said. �But our defense has kept us in the games so our offense didn�t have to score a lot of points.�
Southwest rallied from a 20-point deficit to beat Richlands 21-20 last week, which Padgett said �lifted the morale of the team because that would have been a tough loss.� But as he heads into game four of the season, Padgett is torn as he looks at his team.
�My problem is I keep seeing the potential and I like our upside because we�re not even close to it. As I say that, we�re 2-1, and our one loss is by a point. So I see a tremendous upside to this football team,� he said.
�But for some teams you�re at this point and you�re saying, �Hey we�re not going to get a whole lot better.� This team could get a lot better. So I�m hoping that occurs. I�d love for it to start Friday. But I think that�s probably pushing it.�
Make no mistake, Swansboro is the underdog, if for no other reason than the Stallions are the reigning state 1-AA champions and have a winning pedigree.
�It�s Southwest,� Laspada said.
And as for the 20-game losing streak to the Stallions, Laspada called it �a big deal� historically, but his players take the attitude they weren�t around for any of those losses. And while Laspada might like to agree with that sentiment, he can�t quite.
�To me, it�s a big deal,� he said. �It�s a measuring stick to see where we�re at and where we need to go and what we have to improve on. � Southwest has been the top team in the area. So it�s nice to go in there and see where we�re at.�


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The Central Connecticut women's track and field team competed at the AIC Yellow Jacket Invitational this weekend, earning fifth place overall out of 20 schools. Senior Shelby Tuttle led the Blue Devils with two silver-medal performances on the day.
In addition to the team competition at AIC, junior Ronea Saunders traveled to Gainesville, FL this weekend as the only female track student-athlete to represent the Blue Devils at the 2014 Florida Relays. Saunders, the CCSU record-holder in the high jump, cleared a height of 1.72m in the event.
Saunders finished 12th in a field of 20 jumpers from around the country.
At the AIC Invitational, Tuttle raced a career-best time of 14.41 seconds in the 100m hurdle event. She crossed the finish line second overall and was followed by freshman Melissa Wolliston in seventh, who also posted a career-best time, crossing in 15.29.
Tuttle also finished second overall in the 400m hurdles, posting a time of 1:04.71. Junior Jenean McCalla also competed in the race, joining Tuttle in the top ten with her time of 1:12.24, good for ninth.
Freshman Sherise Truman led Central in the sprint events, clocking a career-best 12.71 seconds in the 100m dash and taking seventh out of 53 sprinters. She was also the first Blue Devil to cross the line in the 200m dash, placing eighth of 68 with her time of 26.31. Wolliston also competed in the event, finishing 21st in 27.58.
In the 400m, it was sophomore Chantelle Deer who performed for Central, placing 12th in 1:02.40, followed by senior Meghan Burns in 1:03.59.
Junior Taylor LePage earned a bronze medal out of 66 runners in the 800m with her time of 2:20.38, followed by freshman Jazmin Booker in eighth (2:25.79). Sophomore Ally Gates also competed in the race, finishing 18th overall (2:30.21).
Out of 91 runners in the 1,500m run, Gates was the first Blue Devil to cross the finish line, placing 14th with her career-best time of 4:58.62. Joining her in the race for their first collegiate appearance in the event were freshmen Victoria Cronin (37th, 5:13.20) and Brandy LeClair (50th, 5:19.03).
Sophomore Chelse Terry led the Blue Devils in the field events, finishing second in the discus out of 25 throwers. Terry was one of just two competitors to qualify for the NEICAAA Championships in the event with her distance of 39.20m. Terry also finished eighth of 31 in the hammer throw, registering a distance of 39.18m.
Sophomore Megan Duplice threw for 28.0 meters in the javelin for 15th place, leading junior Ellen Lima (19th, 20.32m). Duplice also registered a toss of 8.22m in her first collegiate attempt at the shot put (28th).
In the pole vault, freshman Amanda Kulas leapt for 2.60m, good for ninth place.
Vermont claimed the victory at the AIC Invitational, registering 177.50 team points. Tufts finished second with 75.50 and was followed by American International in third (57). New Haven (55.50) and CCSU (52) rounded out the top five.
The Blue Devils will return to action on Saturday, April 12, when they travel to UMass and Bucknell.


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Vote to pass a bill that repeals the budget sequester for fiscal year 2013.
- Specifies that any sequestration order issued from the President for reductions in direct spending for defense in fiscal year 2013 shall have no force or effect (Sec. 706).
- Reduces the appropriation of funds for hospitals that serve a "disproportionate" share of Medicaid recipients and low-income patients for fiscal year 2022 (Sec. 212).
- Increases the percentage of salaries that federal employees pay into their retirement accounts by a total of 5 percent in the following manner (Sec. 501):
- 1.5 percent for 2013;
- 0.5 percent for 2014;
- 1 percent for 2015-2017.
- Requires taxpayers to include a Social Security number on tax returns in order to claim child tax credits (Sec. 611).
- Repeals the program of block grants to states for social services (Sec. 621).
- Repeals the authority of the Federal Government to liquidate certain banks (Sec. 311).
- Prohibits the Secretary of the Treasury from providing assistance on behalf of any homeowner under the Home Affordable Mortgage Program (Sec. 323).
- Limits eligibility for the Supplemental Nutritional Assistance Program for households requiring nutritional assistance and/or receiving "cash benefits" from state programs, whereas existing law allows for households receiving any benefits from state programs (Sec. 103).
- Reduces funding for workforce and employment training related to the Supplemental Nutritional Assistance Program from $90 million to $79 million for fiscal year 2013 (Sec. 107).
- Repeals bonus payments to states for enrollment and retention costs associated with the Children's Health Insurance Program and Medicaid (Sec. 215).
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Title: Sequester Replacement Reconciliation Act of 2012
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Black or Red is a book of essays on books, book collectors, literary hoaxes, now forgotten classics, and one lone, strange chapter about a parrot. I read the bird essay to the end, looking for the books to make an appearance (after all, this is a book about books - says so in the title), but to no avail. But other than the bird chapter, Black or Red is one of the most delightful books of the genre I have read to date.
There are two chapters devoted to the literary hoax. The literary hoax can be an elaborate practical joke of sorts, intended to make the book collector seem a fool, or the literary hoax can be a forgery, where ill gotten money, not mockery, is the intended result. One such forgery which Pearson describes is the curious case of the "eminent French mathematician, M. Michel Chasles, who between 1861 and 1870 bought more than twenty-seven thousand forgeries, and paid out 150,000 francs for them."
Pearson says of the forger:
A man with a meager education, colossal assurance, and a strong right arm concocted these forgeries, and he must have worked at an average rate of about eight a day over a long period of years. His name was Vrain-Denis Lucas. The documents and letters included letters from Pascal (by the hundred), from Shakespeare (twenty-seven of them), hundreds from Rabelias, and others from Newton, from Louis XIV, from the Cid, from Galileo. But these were only the less remarkable items of the collection; the gems included letters from Sappho, Virgil, Julius Caesar, St. Luke, Plato, Pliny, Alexander the Great, and Pompey! There was a letter from Cleopatra to Caesar, discussing their son Cesarion; a note from Lazarus to St. Peter; and a chatty little epistle from Mary Magdalene to the King of the Burgundians. Why did he neglect to include the first A.L.S. recorded in history - the letter from David to Joab, which he sent by the hand of Uriah? Consider that these were all written on the same kind of paper, not on parchment, and that all of them, even those from Biblical personages, were written in French.Perhaps the greatest literary hoax of all time was perpetrated not for monetary gain, but for mere amusement. In 1840, eminent book collectors of the day received in the mail a sixteen page catalogue of books collected by the now deceased "Jean Nepomucene-Auguste Pichauld, comte de Fortsas," of Belgium. What made his collection remarkable, irresistible actually was the fact that,
He would own no book of which any other copy existed. No matter what price he had paid, let him find one of his books mentioned by a bibliographer, and he would sell, give away, or . . . destroy it! As a result, this collection, 'very rich but few in number,' represented a mere fragment of the Count's former library. The numbers in the catalogue ran up to 222, but there were many gaps, and only about fifty-two items actually appeared."Of the items appearing in the catalogue, one was an infamous autobiography of an eminent prince, purported to contain a history of his exploits and conquests, a book for which a living royal relative was willing to pay dearly in order to avoid familial scandal.
In the days leading up to the bidding, collectors descended on the small Belgium town, frightening the bewildered citizens who had never heard of this "Jean Nepomucene-Auguste Pichauld" nor his famous book collection. This being a time of unrest in Europe, the residents began to suspect these odd-looking men - waving around pamphlets and speaking of foreign princes and green bindings - to be dangerous characters, maybe even spies.
I happen to think this particular, little story would make a great movie. The movie opens with each collector sitting down in his (they were all men) respective library, filled to the rafters with sumptuous bindings and rare folios, opening the days mail, happening upon the unassuming catalogue, then packing a steamer trunk, booking passage on the S.S. Somethingorother, bound for Belgium. Next scene, Binche, Belgium, a small town in the shadow of ancient castles and brooding mountains, foreigners swelling the inns, baffling the locals. And just like the collectors themselves, the viewing audience wouldn't know until the last scene that the whole thing was just an elaborate hoax. It would be beautiful.
Besides the chapters on Literary Hoaxes, my favorite essay is entitled "The Lost First Folio," an essay almost entirely composed of a series of letters between a Mr. Agamemnon Jackson and his elderly Aunt Martha, who lives in Raspberry, Maine. Aunt Martha has taken in a friend for the winter, Mrs. Fessenden, who very much likes preserved damsons, whatever those are. Aunt Martha blathers on and on about tea, and popovers, and whether or not to sell stock, and how her nerves forbid her to read the newspaper. After she relates how old Deacon Bradley dyed his beard to look young and it turned bright green, she appends a postscript in which she writes:
There are a lot of old books in that box of your uncle's in the garret. Do you want them? I will send them to you if you do, for what with papers and the magazines, I don't want any more books than those we have in the bookcase in the parlor now. You remember what a great reader your uncle was. And he was executor of Dr. Perley's estate - and part of the books came to him by the will. You wouldn't recall old Dr. Perley - his wife was a perfect martyr, I always said, and kept everything going while he was gallivanting about Europe buying more books than he ever could read. Besides, Mrs. Fessenden's niece who is a teacher in the High School, brings home books all the time from the library. So you can have them if you want them. I'll get old Dave Lunt to pack them up.After reading a few of Aunt Martha's letters, I'm reminded of the old lady from Arsenic and Old Lace, the short, plump happy aunt to poor Mortimor. Always prattling on and on about everything and nothing, but failing to mention the dead bodies buried in the basement. Books aren't exactly dead bodies, but Aunt Martha fails to understand that Agamemnon is a heel and cares only about the books, one book in particular, number 8 in a list of fifteen up in Aunt Martha's garret. Number 8 is listed as Shakespeare's Comedies, &c.
After many letters pass between Aunt Martha and Agamemnon, it becomes obvious that number 8 is indeed a very rare Shakespeare, and dear Agie is desperate to acquire it, a fact to which Auntie is oblivious. She spills much ink on Mrs. Buntin's great-grandson, you remember him, don't you? who smokes cigarettes, and Mrs. Fessenden who uses Agamemnon's letters as curling papers, yet she always forgets to answer his questions about the Shakespeare.
Agie's desperation is palpable in his thought scrawled across the bottom of Martha's letter about Mrs. Buntin's smoking grandson (Suffering Cats! was there ever such a woman!) and his terse reply.
Dear Aunt Martha - Will you please answer the questions about the Shakespeare I asked in my letter?
In haste,
A. Jackson
To find out what comes of the folio and Agamemnon, you must get your hands on the book. And that must be all for now. Cruel, maybe, but if I told all, your enjoyment in reading would be less. And as I'm writing the final paragraph of this post, I'm reminded of The Carey Girls, another chapter in Black or Red that deserves mentioning, but in the hopes of saving at least one jewel for you to discover, I'll only quote a small portion without elaborating or explaining.
In Miss Cary's library you stood and wondered what was behind those paper covers. What strange voyage or extraordinary chapters of wonder might be disclosed if you took one of those volumes home? There had been some great moments. A tale of a suicide club, and the story of a rajah's diamond had been found in one called "The New Arabian Nights," by a Scotchman whose life was then drawing to a close in the South Sea Islands. There were some crisp and tingling little stories about India by a newspaper man from Lahore, who had just offended America by his flippant account of his visit to this country. My brother had recently come home with two poems which filled me with delight. They were also by this newspaper man from India, and they were called "Gunga Din" and "Mandalay." And for the next ten years I never hesitated to horrify my elders by saying that Kipling and Stevenson were far better than Sir Walter Scott. Now it is my turn to be horrified and disgusted when I hear that boys in school and college think that only old fogies read Kipling and Stevenson.
Lovely, isn't it?