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Top-ranked children's hospital eyes S.A. for expansion
PHILADELPHIA — At the 18-week ultrasound for their first child, Eric and Kathleen Gustafson received the scary news that their unborn son had spina bifida, a defect in which the spine grows outside its protective sheath.
Normally, surgeons repair the problem after the baby is born. But the Gustafsons, who live in Boston — home to some of the finest medical care in the world — were told the problem could be corrected in the womb. In Philadelphia, 300 miles away.
The surgery took place in March, and baby Will was safely delivered two weeks ago.
"When they first told us, I did a double-take," said Eric Gustafson, a systems administrator for IBM. "We're in Boston, with all the medical schools, and it's like — you're sending us where?"
The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia was the first children's hospital in the United States, founded in 1855, three years after the Great Ormand Street Hospital for Sick Children in London, the first in the world. It remains among the very best children hospitals, again ranked No. 1 this month by U.S. News and World Report, tied with Boston Children's.
Now CHOP — an unfortunate acronym, but one that has stuck — along with Vanguard Health Systems, the parent of the Baptist Health System, has proposed building a freestanding children's hospital in San Antonio, one that would anchor a new network of pediatric services throughout the region.
A detailed proposal has been promised as early as the end of the month to the University of Texas Health Science Center, whose doctors and scientists would be critical to the project's success; and the tax-supported University Health System, which has been trying for several years to find a partner with which to build a new children's hospital.
While the details are still being finalized, the plan would call for CHOP and Vanguard to form a for-profit management company to oversee the new hospital and network. Vanguard would invest more than $300 million to build a 225-to 250-bed hospital, while CHOP would provide its expertise in managing pediatric care.
A nonprofit arm would be created for research and philanthropy.
That would make it a much different institution than CHOP, a 516-bed hospital which, like most of its elite peers, operates entirely as a nonprofit.
"We don't assume that San Antonio is the same as Philadelphia, in terms of its patient population, in terms of its politics, its geography," said Madeline Bell, president and chief operating officer of CHOP. "For us to be successful there, there's a certain expertise we can bring. But not impose."
The CHOP-Vanguard plan is one of three that has emerged in recent weeks — all competing for the affections of San Antonio's medical school.
Christus Santa Rosa Health System, which opened the city's first children's hospital in 1959, is transforming its downtown campus into a stand-alone children's hospital even as the medical school makes its decision.
The only nonprofit among the three, it now serves as the pediatric teaching hospital and has a base of affluent supporters in the region.
The Methodist Healthcare System, which is still developing a proposal, has the largest market share of pediatric patients in San Antonio and the largest pool of private pediatric subspecialists — who now favor a deal with the medical school.
Leaders at the health science center and UHS insist there's no favorite, and that they will carefully evaluate each of the three plans before endorsing one; yet they admit they've been impressed by discussions with CHOP and Vanguard so far.
"We're looking for an excellent outcome, and what they propose is a fairly significant investment in San Antonio," said Dr. Francisco González-Scarano, dean of medicine at the health science center, who worked with CHOP leaders during his 35 years at the University of Pennsylvania. "I don't want to say they're the favorite, but they certainly have a very strong commitment."
Never have to worry
In CHOP's cardiac unit, Julie Keeton's son Weston, 5, lies wired to monitors awaiting a new heart and lungs as he has for the past year — enough time for her youngest child, Ellie, to be born here four months ago. A congenital heart defect also damaged his lungs.
Her husband and five other children went back to their home in Northeast Tennessee, but visit when they can.
"Even knowing that we were doing the right thing for Weston, it was really hard," Keeton said.
Dr. Robert Shaddy, chief of cardiology, said his program strives to be the best in the world. Still, there are fewer and fewer complicated procedures — Weston's heart-lung transplant is one — that aren't done in most good children's hospitals.
That wasn't the case in 1993, when former Mayor Henry Cisneros brought his son John Paul here to correct a serious heart defect. That operation is now done in San Antonio.
"Most places are able to do most things," Shaddy said. "What we try to strive for is doing what we do very well, and to do it in a cost-efficient fashion with excellent outcomes."
And that might be the real key to a great children's hospital, doctors at CHOP say — creating a critical mass of highly skilled and motivated doctors that in turn attracts others like them.
"When I got ready to leave the military, I said I'm going to find the biggest, most advanced pediatric hospital I can possibly find, so I never have to worry about getting a line into a small baby or never have to worry about the anesthesiologist," said Dr. Doug Canning, CHOP's chief of urology. "I never wanted to look anywhere and not see somebody that was as skilled in their area as I was in mine."
CHOP's long history of innovation and research is also a draw. Dr. C. Everett Koop not only pioneered the subspecialty of pediatric heart surgery in his decades working here before becoming surgeon general in 1982, but also created the nation's first surgical neonatal intensive care unit — now a standard feature at most children's hospitals.
That focus on innovation drew Dr. Robert Campbell. For almost 20 years, Campbell had been among the most high-profile pediatric subspecialists in San Antonio — routinely trotted out by local leaders as a medical superstar.
In the mid-1980s, he and collaborators developed an adjustable titanium rib to repair missing or misshapen ribs in young children. As they grew, the implants could expand with them. Children from around the world came, and press conferences followed.
Titanium ribs are still implanted at Christus Santa Rosa Children's Hospital, but four years ago Campbell accepted a longstanding job offer at CHOP.
It was a difficult decision, he said, but the move freed him to do research on the diseases of the children he treated. It also was professionally satisfying, being part of "an unusual concentration of scientific horsepower that you really can't find anywhere else in the world."
Campbell was one of 20 pediatric subspecialists who have left the University of Texas Health Science Center since then. Of those, 18 went to places with academic, freestanding children's hospitals, said Dr. Thomas Mayes, chairman of pediatrics at the health science center.
Last month, the nonprofit Methodist Healthcare Ministries — half-owner of the Methodist system, released a report that found while San Antonio has pediatric subspecialists in most areas, there are too few for a region its size, and many are aging. Replacing them will be difficult, given the fierce competition from cities such as Philadelphia.
When I went there (to San Antonio) to visit and I asked about the number of pediatric subspecialists, I was shocked," Bell said. "We have 58 cardiologists here at CHOP. We have 36 gastroenterologists. These are the numbers I'm used to. And when I hear handfuls (of doctors) for a population where the pediatric density is so much higher than it is here, it's actually shocking to me."
San Antonio, by comparison, has about 10 full-time, board-certified pediatric cardiologists and five pediatric gastroenterologists, according to the Methodist study. They not only cover the San Antonio area, but a vast region of South Texas from Del Rio and beyond, to Brownsville.
CHOP officials are confident that having CHOP's name attached to the new San Antonio hospital would help with recruiting. "As we have with other community partners, we've been able to attract physicians by our physician leaders recruiting them," Bell, the president and COO, said.
Spending spree
Since 1974, when the present hospital was built adjacent to the University of Pennsylvania, CHOP has grown into a sprawling campus of five buildings — three devoted to research — consisting of 3.5 million square feet of patient care and research space. One more building is under construction; another is planned.
Beyond that, it operates 55 satellite clinics throughout Pennsylvania and New Jersey, along with inpatient pediatric units (under the CHOP brand) in 13 hospitals owned by others.
The growth at CHOP is part of a national spending spree by children's hospitals — particularly at the elite level. The Kaiser News Network reported last year that children's hospitals spent $16 billion on new bricks and mortar in the past decade — much of it funded through tax-exempt bonds available to nonprofits.
"(CHOP CEO) Steven Altschuler has been a very dynamic leader, and some of (CHOP's growth) is due to him," said Mark Pauly, a health economist with the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. "But the general trend for pediatric hospitals is to do very well and to grow. The simplest explanation is that consumers and governments value care they can provide to sick kids."
As it has grown, CHOP has prospered — earning $116 million in profits (or surplus revenue, as nonprofits call it) on $1.54 billion in total earnings, according to tax records. Altschuler earned $4.17 million in salary, bonuses and deferred compensation.
Trip Pilgrim, senior vice president of the Nashville, Tenn.-based Vanguard, said the key to CHOP's financial success is its sprawling network of outpatient clinics and services that serve both affluent and not-so-affluent communities.
"If you look at a lot of children's hospitals around the country, they have large numbers of Medicaid patients," Pilgrim said. "What they've been able to do here in Philadelphia is create an (outpatient) platform that gives them the ability to serve not just the Medicaid population, but (health coverage) in all different aspects."
Vanguard, which just acquired a highly regarded, for-profit children's hospital in Detroit, also has been expanding — adding 13 hospitals in 2011 for a total of 28. In the first three quarters of this year, it reported $435 million in profits and annual revenues close to $6 billion.
Pilgrim, who commutes between Nashville and his home in San Antonio, originally approached CHOP with the idea of a San Antonio partnership. He argues that the proposed new hospital's for-profit status wouldn't affect its quality or charity care as it rewards investors.
"All it means is how you access capital," Pilgrim said. "You saw what happened in 2009 when the credit markets dried up. A lot of not-for-profits around the country couldn't access capital. By having investors... we can raise debt, we can raise equity. It gives us a lot more flexibility."
CHOP, on the other hand, has partnered with other nonprofits in the past — operating pediatric units in adult hospitals owned by others. It has never partnered with a for-profit business, Bell acknowledged.
So why is CHOP interested in the San Antonio deal?
"We've had a long track record of working with partners to help them build their capacity in pediatric care," Bell said. "Again, it's on a different scale and a different location, but we're investigating whether that would make sense for us and how it would actually look."
Dr. Philip Johnson, chief scientific officer, said access to the growing numbers of children in South Texas would help CHOP's vast research programs, since the birth rate in Philadelphia and throughout much of the northeast is flat. It currently has 1,700 active studies, budgeted at $325 million a year.
Johnson cited one of its largest research programs, a repository that now contains DNA samples from some 200,000 children and their families, to help unravel the genetic causes of diseases. Few of those samples now are from Hispanic children — who make up the nation's fastest growth demographic.
"CHOP has pretty much conquered the geography that it resides in," said Alan Zuckerman, a Philadelphia-based health care consultant. "I think (San Antonio) represents an opportunity to spread their influence, and potentially draw on a base of patients that could be part of their research, and potentially part of their teaching. Maybe even provide a little clinical care. And also, not unimportantly for CHOP, increase their fundraising base."
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In coming weeks, the Express-News will examine each of the competing efforts to build a new children's hospital and pediatric network in San Antonio.
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Christmas Recipes
Poached Salmon Mousseline
Today I made a salmon mousse flavored with horseradish, lemon zest and herbs. Whisked egg whites provide structural integrity to the mousse, and cream gives it an airy, ethereal texture. I poached the salmon mousseline in individual molds to keep the salmon moist and tender.
This is a great main course for an elegant Christmas meal. Come back tomorrow to see how I would serve this dish!
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Rose Cookies
I thought it would be nice to make a holiday cookie that captures the distinct flavor of rose. Rose, usually in the form of rose water, is often found in Indian and Middle Eastern desserts, but it's not commonly used in Western treats. For this dessert I used rose paste, because it adds a pleasing pink color to the cookies. I also added some rose to the cream filling as well.
I love making desserts like this for the holiday season because you can prepare several logs ahead of time and store them in the freezer for later use. That allows me to spend more time with visiting friends and family instead of being stuck in the kitchen.
In case anyone was wondering, I photographed the cookies with the reindeer because his expression reminded me of my little munchkin. The reindeer in the picture exactly mimics her expression when Lulu asks her his favorite question:
"How much do you love Lulu?" Lulu always asks.
"Thiiiiiiiiis much", our munchkin says and opens her arms, just as the reindeers does.
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Gingersnap Cookies
Gingersnap cookies really symbolize the holiday season. They're flavored with a blend of spices, which give the cookies a really intense flavor. I make mine with cinnamon, clove, allspice, nutmeg, black pepper, and of course, ginger.
The texture is chewy on the inside with a "snappy" outer layer. Lulu loves eating them with a warm cup of tea. I've been making us ginger tea with soy milk every evening to ward off the cold, and these cookies go perfectly with it.
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Caramelized Fuyu Persimmons
Fuyu persimmons are a nice substitute for Granny Smith apples in side dishes. I love caramelizing persimmons and pairing them with roasted duck breast. I don't think a holiday dinner menu can get much more fancy or decadent. We've just had our first crop of Fuyu persimmons this season in our garden, and I decided to take full advantage.
In case you were wondering, there are 2 main varieties of persimmons, Fuyu and Hachiya. The difference is the texture. For this recipe make sure you use Fuyu persimmons, which have are hard, almost carrot-like texture.
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Spinach and Pecan Stuffed Salmon Fillet with Hollandaise Sauce
The key to flavorful and tender salmon is to cook it medium-rare. Just quickly pan-sear the salmon on each side, then bake in the oven for a few minutes. It will come out moist and delicious.
Salmon by itself is incredibly good for you, and these tasty fillets are stuffed with ingredients rich in essential fatty acids and omega-rich nutrients such as pecans, pecan oil, cream cheese, sweet basil, spinach and onion chives.
To make the dish ultra fancy, I served the fish with a Hollandaise sauce, sautéed button mushrooms and wild rice. I figure that with all the healthy ingredients, a little decadence is deserved!
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Welcome! Since 1994, Nashville Podiatry has been working with patients to provide the best podiatric care for patients in the North Nashville area. Dr. Daniel Mendoza's experience in podiatry is coupled with genuine concern for his patients. All our staff is dedicated to your comfort and prompt attention as well. Our goal is to help you maintain healthy feet.
This web site provides you with an overview of our practice and the field of podiatry. As you navigate the site, you'll find information about Dr Mendoza's practice philosophy, our office locations, insurance policies, and appointment scheduling procedures. Please browse the site at your convenience and feel free to contact us with any questions. You can also request an appointment by clicking here.
You'll find a lot of valuable information on the web site about foot problems, diagnoses and treatments. We believe informed patients are better prepared to make decisions about their health and well being. We encourage you to review this information to help you understand any health concerns you may face.
What is a Podiatrist?
A podiatrist, also called a doctor of podiatric medicine, is a specialist who provides medical diagnosis and treatment of foot and ankle problems, such as bunions, heel pain, spurs, hammertoes, neuromas, ingrown toenails, warts, corns and calluses. A podiatrist also renders care of sprains, fractures, infections, and injuries of the foot, ankle and heel. In addition to undergraduate medical school training, podiatrists also attend graduate school for a doctorate degree in podiatry. Podiatrists are required to take state and national exams, as well as be licensed by the state in which they practice.
According to the American Podiatric Medical Association, there are an estimated 15,000 practicing podiatrists in the United States. Podiatrists are in demand more than ever today because of a rapidly aging population. In addition, according to the association, foot disorders are among the most widespread and neglected health problems affecting people in this country.
Typically, podiatrists:
- Consult with patients and other physicians on how to prevent foot problems.
- Diagnose and treat tumors, ulcers, fractures, skin and nail diseases, vascular problems and deformities.
- Perform surgeries to correct or remedy such problems as bunions, clawtoes, fractures, hammertoes, infections, ruptured Achilles, and other ligaments and tendons.
- Prescribe therapies and perform diagnostic procedures such as x-rays, MRI, CAT scans, ultrasound and lab tests.
- Prescribes or fits patients with inserts called orthotics that correct walking patterns.
- Treat conditions such as: bone disorders, bunions, corns, calluses, cysts, heel spurs, infections, ingrown nails, and plantar fasciitis.


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I had been knowing Andy Miller ever since he came to Gastonia years ago, but here�s something that never came up:
I had been knowing Andy Miller ever since he came to Gastonia years ago, but here�s something that never came up:
Both his parents were deaf, and that had to be problematical. How does a kid learn to speak when both his parents can�t hear or talk?
So, on a later day, we sat down and discussed it.
You probably know about Andy Miller. Family physician in Gastonia for 37 years. Retired a dozen years ago and, with wife, Linda, moved into Covenant Village recently.
His life began in Shelby in 1930. Everything was fine with him at birth, but both his mom and dad were deaf mutes. Young Andrew remembers little about the first year or so, but he does remember that his grandmother lived with the family when she became blind and an LPN came to live with them to assist her. She came not only to help the grandmother, but also to help Andy and his two siblings learn to talk.
�We all lived together in a big house, and my mother and father simply couldn�t talk or hear,� he said. �They knew sign language and they communicated by using that. At about age 1 or 2, I was �signing� with them.�
His mother had normal hearing and speech until she was 10 years old when she had meningitis, resulting in the loss of hearing. Eventually, not hearing, she forgot how to talk. And was like that when her son Andy was born.
Between the nurse and what he learned from his grandmother, Andy caught on fast and was ready for school when the time came.
Not only Andy�s dad was born deaf but he also had two brothers so born. �They never heard a sound,� Andy said.
Andy attended Shelby Schools and graduated from Shelby High School in 1948. He had always wanted to be a doctor, so he enrolled in UNC Chapel Hill, getting undergrad and medical degrees there.
He spent a year as an intern in Brooklyn. He then went into the Army as a captain in the Medical Corps, being assigned to the 11th Airborne Division in Germany for two years.
When he came back to the states, he took his residency program at Columbus (Ga.) Medical Center in family practice. He established a practice in Gastonia in 1959 with Dr. Larry Baker. Miller retired in 1997.
Dr. Miller said that he lived in a quiet household as a boy. �My younger brother was partially deaf, so he wore hearing aids. When he was in the first grade, he was sent off to Fork Union Military School in Virginia. He became a portrait painter and is now retired in Myrtle Beach, S.C.�
He said that his father was a good writer, that he went to the School for the Deaf in Morganton. He didn�t go to college but became a lay minister for deaf people. �He was traveling most of the time over the Southeast, preaching the word of God to people who could not hear. He figured that his deaf friends needed to know what the Bible was all about,� he said.
Andy and his first wife, Becky, had three children. After Becky died, Andy married Linda Hollowell 12 years ago.
Bill Williams is a former editor of The Gaston Gazette and writes a weekly column.


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Mazilu Teodor
Great article. Very good read.
I'd like to point out – as someone else already hinted at – that designs are often steered in the wrong direction by the clients themselves. As a professional you can 'protest' and try to convince your client that you're the expert, but in the end you must either comply with their demands (because after all you've been hired to offer a service/product that meets the client's needs) or simply quit. It is the sad truth.
In my last design project (which got cancelled so unfortunately I can't show you anything), the CEO of the company I was redesigning the website for completely disagreed with my design decisions and decided to completely do it himself in Photoshop. I guess you can imagine the frustration I was going through..


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Scientists at the University of Rochester have discovered that the hormone estrogen plays a pivotal role in how the brain processes sounds.
The findings, published in the May 5 issue of The Journal of Neuroscience, show for the first time that a sex hormone can directly affect auditory function, and point toward the possibility that estrogen controls other types of sensory processing as well. Understanding how estrogen changes the brain's response to sound, say the authors, might open the door to new ways of treating hearing deficiencies.
Of particular interest is that estrogen modulates the gain of auditory neurons. This finding could be a critical to the successful treatment of sound discrimination problems and hypersensitivity to sounds in the future.


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Art Exhibit by Maura Schaffer to be Displayed at Wabashby Karen Handley • October 19, 2005 Share:
The Wabash College Art Department announces the opening of an exhibition featuring artist, Maura Schaffer. The exhibit opens Monday, October 24, and continues through Friday, December 9.
The exhibit called "Nightblue Fruit" combines multimedia elements with sculptural forms to create a dreamlike environment. Stars made of wire and spandex take on an animated and surreal quality when placed in an open "landscape" with projections and sound. In the exhibit there will be video and sound, a clock, and some other brown fabric that will be on the floor.
Schaffer was inspired to create this art form when a drawing by her five-year old daughter immediately recalled a quote from Joyce's Ulysses. "What spectacle confronted them when they, first the host, then the guest, emerged silently, doubly dark, from obscurity by a passage from the rear of the house into the penumbra of the garden? The heaventree of stars hung with humid nightblue fruit."
"I began to imagine the heaventree of stars and what imagery Joyce was invoking in that line, Schaffer said. My daughter's drawing seemed so fresh and vibrant and I just felt that the juxtaposition of the two ideas was the basis for further exploration." The exhibit invites the audience to explore the cycle of life and death and the illusion of time.
"Each piece of art that I create is a specific memory rendered by familiar objects and materials. Ideas about relationships and social mores are embedded within these memories. The images I use are often architectural, specifically the domestic space. In my early work, walls, windows, doors, and stairs are transformed as they are situated within the context of the human body."
Schaffer is currently an adjunct professor of sculpture at Purdue University. She is the recipient of the Individual Artist Program Grant by the Indiana Arts Commission for 2004-2005. For more information about the artist go to www.mauraschaffer.com.
The artist will be on hand for the opening from 8 to 9:30 p.m. Monday, October 24 in the Eric Dean Gallery of the Fine Arts Center at Wabash College. The event is free and open to the public and refreshments will be served. The hours for the Eric Dean Gallery are Monday through Friday from 8-5 p.m. and Saturday from 10-2 p.m. Admission is free.
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Let's say you create an SPQuery object from the default view of a list. Then you deploy your query, putting the result into an SPItemCollection object. That done, you want to determine a certain sequence of events based on the content type of the specific item when looping through the collection.
So, trying various methods in vain:
SPQuery query = new SPQuery()
SPListItemCollection items = list.GetItems(query);
foreach (SPListItem item in items)
if (item.ContentType.Name == "This line will throw an error)
//this condition never gets hit
if (item["ContentType"].ToString() == "So will this one")
//this one doesn't either
if (item.ContentType.ID == "you get the idea blah blah"
Kept getting "Cannot complete this action", "object not set to instance of an object", and when I tried Content Type ID some exception that had HRESULTS and big long hexy number and god knows what.
Then I thought - the view I ran the query from - I did display the content type on that - didn't I? I went in and ticked the ContentType field in the view so that it was visible?
Nope. I didn't. So it couldn't find it. D'oh! I hope reading this saves you the trouble I got into!


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In the book "Understanding Comics," Scott McCloud talks about this phenomenon with new artists where the first time they are inspired to practice the art-form that inspired them, they replicate it. What you get is a piece that is all surface, which didn't have the fundamentals of the art-form applied to it during its creation. Mr. McCloud then goes into the six steps where he explains how a new artist transforms into a professional and what kind of professional they can become.
Anyways, the important thing I got out of that section is that having pieces of work that essentially mimic the presentational styles of the artwork that inspired you won't really lead you anywhere. In fact, the web designers that do inspire me (Dean Curtis, Tim Van Damme, Joe Lifrieri, Jason Santa Maria, and so on) do so because their work shows that they're taking some fundamental knowledge in their field of design and applying it to the web (like Mike Kus or Jason Santa Maria, who if I recall correctly, used to be a print designer).
I could say web design is just print design with interactivity, but that's missing out multimedia or usability or other abstract attributes that are crucial in shaping a positive experience for a web browser (I'm of course referring to people or should I call them internet surfers or is that too 90s).
Anyways, amen! Thanks for this article. It's a good reminder for those who are drowning in the technicalities of web design and development. Now to pick up more books on design.


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She walked through the door, her backpack hanging off of her shoulder.
"Hey girl!" I said as I scooped her up into my arms. I carried her to the sofa, sat down and placed her onto my lap.
"How was school?" I asked.
She began telling me about her day. As she was talking, she put her hands on my cheeks and looked at my face. I smiled, because it was totally sweet and I love her so much.
"You know what, Mom?" She said as she held my face in her hands.
"What?" I responded lovingly, expecting her to say something precious.
"You're bloated."
I told her I didn't think that was a kind thing to say. She assured me she wasn't trying to hurt my feelings or be mean. She just thought my face looked a little puffy, was all.
Fair enough.
Five minutes later, she walked into my room and handed me half of her cookie. Because she just loves me so much.
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As I sit at my computer to write this, there is exactly one more week of school in Addison County; when this column appears, my daughters will have been on summer vacation for approximately 15 hours. Between now and then there are picnics and potlucks and packing up. My oldest daughter's Kindergarten will have "Move Up Day," when she will meet her new First Grade teacher. My second daughter will participate in a preschool graduation ceremony, during which we will celebrate her ability to play, do crafts, and sit in a circle for 15 minutes. (Really, I see no need to continue her education.)
This year -- our first in the Addison County public school system -- has been a wonderful school year for our family. In August, we'll send two daughters to public school, while their younger sister begins preschool; we've gotten our toes wet, and soon we'll be wading in deep. So now seems like a good time to reflect on the valuable lessons our family has learned this school year.
1. Don't panic. This spring, a bat got into our four-year-old daughter's preschool class. Her teacher told me later that, while the students screamed and ducked for cover, the teachers ushered them calmly into another room, saying: "Don't panic! When you panic, your brain shuts off." The non-panicking teachers used nets to trap the bat in an art bin. (My daughter reported that, when they released it, she realized it had been little and cute all along.) For a week after this incident, whenever anything the least bit exciting happened in our house, my daughter would shout: "Don't panic!" Excellent advice.
2. Don't talk about your birthday party at school. This was the rule in both my daughters' classrooms, and -- as far as I can tell -- it was never followed. My daughters and their friends talked about their birthdays constantly, months in advance of the actual event. Birthday invitations were dangled as rewards and revoked as punishments. But just because a rule gets broken doesn't mean it isn't a good rule, and this is a very good rule. We repeatedly discussed its intention in our house: that it's unfair to make promises that aren't yours to make (in our family, at least, the parents decide how many birthday invitations get issued!), and that it's hurtful to discuss something that might exclude some people. In all honesty, I care less about the academic side of school than I do about the social side: that my children are learning to be kind, to interact with different people, and to maneuver tricky social situations. This rule is a good first step towards social sensitivity -- something that most of us adults are continuing to learn as we go!
3. Don't expect to sleep in on weekends.The school sleep schedule was a learning experience for my husband and me. I still don't understand how it's possible that the same girls we had to pry from their beds at 6:30 on weekday mornings came bursting into our bedroom at 6:00 AM on Saturday and Sunday shouting, "We're bored!", "We're hungry!", "We have to go potty!" But it happened every week. Eventually I learned that if I wanted to have a few minutes of peace on the weekend to, say, wash my face without the company of four small people, I had to leave my alarm set to the same time as during the week.
4. Don't recycle artwork until 48 hours have passed. Our daughters love to draw, and every afternoon they'd bring home numerous pages of their own artwork, in addition to official school art projects and worksheets. I am irreverent about this artwork; there isn't room enough in our entire house to store it all, and it tends to be repetitive (like 236 drawings of the characters from Frozen). So, I will choose the year's best picture of Queen Elsa, and recycle the rest. I have found that this works just fine -- provided I wait 48 hours (72 hours for very "special" pieces). Anything under 48 hours, and one of my daughters may suddenly remember her masterpiece and set out on a frantic search, while I avoid eye contact and mumble, "Um, gee sweetie, I don't know. It was there on the counter...."
5. THANK YOUR CHILD'S TEACHERS AND ADMINISTRATORS...AND BUS DRIVERS! I'm overwhelmed by the thought of spending 2.5 months with all four of my children, all day long; their teachers just spent nine months with four times that many children. I'm deeply grateful that my children are surrounded by teachers and administrators who care for them and educate them -- often with more patience and kindness than I'm able to muster. I will endure summer vacation simply because they deserve it. And my daughter's bus driver, Margo, deserves special recognition: I can't imagine spending two hours a day driving a metal box filled with K-12 students, but Margo does it with a smile. She knows my daughter's name; she pays enough attention to know when our family is doing something fun over the weekend, when we have grandparents visiting, or when my daughter's been out sick; and she always takes a minute to chat with me when she drops off my daughter at the end of the driveway.
Now, excuse me; I've spent enough time writing. I need to return to constructing a child-proof bunker to which I can retreat sometime in early August -- when we've exhausted ice cream and the lake and camps and we're all driving each other crazy -- only to emerge when the schools are willing to take back my children.
Faith Gong has worked as an elementary school teacher, a freelance photographer, and a nonprofit manager. Since moving to Addison County in 2011, her work has involved caring for a house in the woods, four young daughters, one anxiety-prone puppy — and writing for her blog, The Pickle Patch.


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Although (and also because) they exist at the margins of what we talk about when we talk about television -- cable drama eating up most of that air, unfairly -- cartoons are among the most original, personal, forward-looking and also historically conscious works the medium has to offer. And much as advances in home-recording technology democratized music, better and more affordable animation software has helped open up TV, in its coat of many platforms, to new and independent voices. Cartoons play with form and color, with music and sound in often exciting and unpredictable ways; they go crazy and make impossible worlds; they show the hand of their creators, most literally.
Here are three (fairly) recent excellent adventures in animation. They represent a range of endeavor, budget and venue: conventional television, Web (organized) and Web (self-posting). Coincidentally, they share two-word titles, each of which names and describes their main character: "Uncle Grandpa," "Doctor Lollipop," "King Douglas." All have made me happy.
The first clip (above) is from the free-associating "Uncle Grandpa," launched by Cartoon Network in September while I was temporarily blinded by the new fall season, and recently picked up for additional episodes. Created by Peter Browngardt ("Secret Mountain Fort Awesome"), it has a kind of kitchen-sink, thrift-store, roller-disco aesthetic -- late Jay Ward pumped up with tertiary Day-Glo colors and magazine clippings, with maybe a bit of Jim Woodring mixed in. It also reminds me a bit of late Philip Guston, which I'm sure was the intention of nobody at all.
The cartoon is a carnival of nonsense and dream sense. Uncle Grandpa (voiced by Browngardt) is everyone's uncle and also everyone's grandpa. He goes about in a bigger-on-the-inside RV, accompanied by his talking belly bag, a sentient slice of pizza, a dinosaur bodyguard and a giant realistic flying tiger named Giant Realistic Flying Tiger, represented photographically (but for the rainbow jet trail she leaves behind her). He wears a helicopter beanie and what look like lederhosen and has a detachable, swappable head, with a detachable, swappable nose; other parts are liable to pop off, as well, or an extra arm may appear from the cleft in his impressive chin. Sometimes there are two or more of him.
The clip directly below is the so-far single episode "Doctor Lollipop," created by "Miss Kelly Martin" and based on her self-published comic book. Directed by Aliki Grafft ("Phineas and Ferb"), it's available via Frederator Studios' YouTube channel, Cartoon Hangover. Frederator is an independent animation studio whose TV cartoons, including "The Fairly OddParents" and "Fanboy and Chum Chum," have aired mostly over Nickelodeon and Nicktoons; the single, signal exception is "Adventure Time," on Cartoon Network, whose creator Pen Ward, is also behind the Cartoon Hangover series "Bravest Warriors."
Doctor Lollipop (Chris Diamantopoulos) is a pink unicorn -- and a doctor -- in a forest of talking animals and storybook characters; he is attended in his work by a raccoon (voiced by Rose McGowan), a rabbit and a trio of little birds. In this short, he treats a raptor that has strayed into the woods and is eating everything in sight; stomach distress ensues. "Will I be using the bird anesthetic or the reptile," asks the nurse-rabbit in a nice dinosaur joke. "Let's get medical!" Doctor Lollipop cries when it's time to get medical.
The palette is pastel with some attractive Marimekko patterning in the foliage. As with "Uncle Grandpa," the awkward and garish Saturday morning cartoons of the 1970s and '80s, with their early touch of the Japanese, have influenced contemporary animation and graphic arts (in a good way) as much as Disney, Fleischer, Avery and Jones influenced earlier generations. (There will be rainbows.) There's an affectionate ironic regard in the borrowings, as is often the case nowadays when low culture is referenced or remixed. (The late Mike Kelly is the fine artist who comes to mind here.) Mixing the heroic and the banal is, of course, the defining comic attitude of the pre- and post-millennium.
A short interview with Martin and Grafft and some deleted scenes (or deleted seconds, really) are here.
I came to the wholly independent, Flash-animated "King Douglas," which also lives on YouTube, via a Facebook posting by the musician Howe Gelb (of Tucson's Giant Sand and divers solo works and collaborations), some of whose piano music is featured on the soundtrack, along with works by John Cage and Erik Satie -- setting a downbeat mood unusual for a cartoon. It seemed less unusual when I learned that creator Wyatt O'Connell, now 16, is the son of Kristin Hersh (of Boston's Throwing Muses and divers solo works and collaborations), who is also the voice of King Douglas. (Other family members round out the cast.)
King Douglas and his more aggressive friend General Miles are two kids who have created a nation, Lotvakia, from an empty lot and a citizenry from a jar of fish. They are pretending, and they are not pretending. In the first episode, which lasts all of 4½ minutes, they research ways to create a tourist economy and face an imperialistic challenge from Roderick Sliit, Sovereign Minister of Superia.
"We will fight you bare-handed until our knuckles shatter," Miles responds. "Then we will strangle you with the waistbands of our pants; then, when you make fun of us for being pantless... " At which point he is interrupted.
In the second episode, which is even shorter, the new enemies attempt, without success, to face off.
"Douglas has a bit of internal conflict about whether or not Roderick should be able to fulfill his agenda," O'Connell wrote in an email, answering my request for background. "I'm attracted to internal conflict which contrasts with rather than compliments external struggles."
The animation is limited even by the stands of limited animation, and the art has a compass-and-protractor look, but these qualities fit the theme and work in its favor: It is a homemade show about a homemade country. And for all its visual simplicity, its rhythms are seductive and its language sophisticated; it has its own special verbal music (the music of a precocious teenager, I suppose) and goes interesting places without fuss. Had I received a screener of this series in a package from Cartoon Network or Nickelodeon, I would have accepted it as an eccentric adult work, a departure even from the usual less-beaten paths. In any case, it is just to my taste.
O'Connell has written a third episode; the second ends with Douglas and Miles sitting in an airport, waiting to fly to Superia. "But I have to wait for my whole cast (read: family) to be together, which should be around Christmas."


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Erin Earley is editor of Lavasoft News and has written extensively about computer security issues.
According to a recent study by fraud-tracking firm Javelin Research, identity theft is becoming more prevalent with the number of victims rising 22 percent from 2007 to 2008. One reason sited for the increase is the worsening economy.
"Identity fraud has been dropping until last year, boom, there was a turn-up,"said Javelin Research's James Van Dyke in an interview with Reuters. "The only thing we can logically attribute that to is the economy. If people need to make money, and decide to do so illicitly, identity fraud is the logical opportunity."
Experts and law-enforcement officials who track online crime attest that scams have escalated in the past six months, capitalizing on anxiety over the recession to target both businesses and consumers, according to a recent Wall Street Journal article. Research company Gartner sited reports of cyber attacks on banks throughout the world having doubled in the past six months; at the same time, the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation's Internet Crime Complaint Center, which receives consumer complaints of cyber crime and fraud, has confirmed an increase in cyber attacks.
Without a doubt, the underground malware economy is booming. During November 2008 through January 2009, malware analysts at Lavasoft (where I work) saw a 169 percent increase in the total number of threats added to the Detection Database, compared to the three preceding months.
What accounts for this trend? While it may be difficult to directly prove whether criminals are becoming increasingly desperate -- as some sources contend " or even if more individuals are joining the ranks of the online crime world -- as others say -- certain types of attacks are being linked to the economic downturn. Today's cyber criminals know how to take advantage of current events to profit from consumers.
Many of the ploys that have kicked into high gear in recent months are the techniques that prey on the vulnerabilities of today's consumers, playing off of users' fears to leverage the current financial climate. Currently, the increased desire to save money, make money, or read news about the economic situation around the world makes unsuspecting computer users easier targets for misleading marketing and schemes.
Lavasoft malware analysts have seen an increase in techniques related to exploiting the fear and worry around the recession, shown by way of spam manipulating the credit crunch and job market -- topics attempting to spur interest either by focusing on dire news or, in contrast, with uplifting promises.
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Fake or misleading security software, also referred to as "scareware," is another threat that users are increasingly faced with, and must be vigilant about avoiding. An innocent attempt to keep personal data safe is what leads some users to fall for these rogue programs.
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WHEN SAN RAFAEL resident John Marino, 68, was diagnosed with rheumatoid arthritis at age 29, doctors said he'd probably spend the rest of his life using a cane, crutches or a wheelchair to get around.
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Q: What was it like having severe rheumatoid arthritis symptoms?
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Chances are, the HVAC system in your house uses a single-speed induction motor to power its fan, and the Department of Energy (DOE) wants to change that. The nation's energy watchdog wants to replace these inefficient motors that cycle on and off at full speed with variable-speed (VS) motors and has awarded a $200,000 grant to DynaMotors to explore the concept.
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The first thing that campus visitors might notice about Emily Okey and Kevin Granger is their ability to maintain a dialogue while walking backwards—a talent they share with dozens of fellow RIT Student Ambassadors.
The orange-clad ambassadors are routinely spotted traversing the campus and pointing out highlights to prospective students and their families. Granger says advocating for the university holds great appeal.
"I definitely felt strongly about RIT as I was making my choice to come here," recalls the second-year physics major, "but the school spirit immediately snowballed."
Okey and Granger increasingly take their advocacy online. Social media is an important source of engagement among members of the RIT community, and it's also an effective means to connect with university stakeholders beyond the campus boundaries, like prospective students.
Since its creation in 2004, Facebook has grown to more than 800 million users worldwide. It is the undisputed heavyweight that dominates the social-media realm, but the mainstreaming of Facebook has arguably impacted its "cool" factor—opening the door to alternative forms of online expression.
For the student ambassadors and a growing population of RIT's social-media superusers, Twitter is that alternative. It is often described as a microblog that provides a venue for personal observations, known as "tweets," no more than 140 characters in length. Twitter users are free to select which other users they wish to follow and potentially share insights. This could even include links to photos, videos, websites or online articles.
"It got really big over the past few years," says Okey, a fourth-year graphic design major. "It's really easy to tweet about what I'm doing. I can go and take a picture. Or, if I go to some event, I find it's really easy to disseminate information quickly to a large audience."
That's why RIT has made Twitter a key element of its outreach to prospective students. Last year, the Office of Undergraduate Admissions introduced the "5 RIT Students" initiative, which relies on social-media tools to showcase its day-in-the-life perspective of the student experience on campus. Okey, whose Twitter handle is @RIT_Emily, and Granger (@RIT_Kevin) are among the 5 RIT Students founding members.
Under the supervision of Ashley Hennigan (@ashleyhenn), assistant director of undergraduate admissions, the cast produces videos that sample a range of their activities—from the classrooms to the residence halls and everywhere in between. The videos bring the student experiences to life, and social media helps put it in front of an audience. In turn, cast members find these videos drive more followers to their personal Twitter accounts.
"We have a lot of prospective students tweeting at us to say they love our videos or to follow up on a campus visit," Okey explains. "It's more real to them than talking to an account with an RIT icon."
"The whole point of the 5 RIT Students project is to make it more personal and more real," Granger continues. "Our Twitter presence reflects that."
Additional units on campus are now tapping into Twitter to enhance outreach, including most of RIT's nine colleges. Nancy Dimock, events manager in the B. Thomas Golisano College of Computing and Information Sciences, oversees her college's account. The goal, she says, is to post interesting or valuable content that followers of the Golisano College (@RITGCCIS) might be inclined to share, or retweet, within their individual networks.
"We use it to build a community and occasionally offer perks to our followers, such as free game tickets for college hockey night. As soon as I send out a tweet that tickets are available, we usually see a stream of students come to get them."
Organizers of the university's marquee events, such as Brick City Homecoming (@RIT_BrickCity) and Imagine RIT (@Imagine_RIT), use Twitter as part of their outreach strategies. So do a growing number of student groups—ranging from the Electronic Gaming Society (@egsrit) to Eight Beat Measure (@8BeatMeasure).
Greg Pollock (@But_Greg_Said), president of Student Government, calls Twitter "an interactive network like no other." He has made it a priority to encourage student leaders and university administrators to get connected.
"The neat thing about Twitter is that RIT's most active community members have an account, so more often than not we're up to date with the situation on campus," says Pollock.
Not unexpectedly, Twitter has made its way into some RIT classrooms. Hinda Mandell (@hindamandell), assistant professor of communication in the College of Liberal Arts, requires her students to maintain an active account. Classmates are encouraged to engage in dialogue with each other online, which Mandell feels has positively influenced the classroom environment.
"Students who seem to have nothing in common, who sit on opposite sides of the classroom, are all of a sudden tweeting at each other," she says.
In terms of professional development, Mandell recognizes the importance of connecting her students to a Twitter community that reaches beyond 100 million active users —many of whom serve as thought leaders within their fields. Building their online networks now will enhance career prospects when they graduate.
"You can't be a journalist without using Twitter," she explains. "If I was interviewing somebody for a job today, I couldn't in good conscience hire someone who didn't have an active account."
On location with 5 RIT Students, the cast has kept busy finishing up its second season of the video series. And, mixed in with their academic responsibilities, Okey and Granger continue their outreach to prospective students—both on campus and online. Comments that cross their Twitter feeds let each know the effort is well received.
"It's always nice to get feedback and hear it's actually working," reflects Okey, "or to have people run up to you and say, 'Oh, I've seen your tweets.' "
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Apple and Oat Loaf and Sourdough boule's
My first attempt at some loaves from my 'bourke street bakery' book. A bakery in Australia and their book was discussed in Shiao-Ping's blog posting. It's a beautiful book filled with lovely color photos and recipes from this Australian bakery. My first attempt at the 3 sourdough boule's and one large Apple and Oak battard, listed in the derivative breads chapter.
My husband was very happy with the flavor and crumb of the boule and I loved the Apple and Oat with cream cheese for a nice breakfast toast.
Ingredients for the plain sourdough boule's
405 g (14 1/4 oz) white starter
765 g 91 lb 11 oz) organic plain flour - I use KAAP
400 ml (14 fl oz) water
20 g (3/4 oz/2 Tablespoons) sea salt
Mix the dough in the afternoon and retard in the refrigerator through the night. Placed the loaves in warm humid place for 1-4 hours and bake to have fresh bread for lunch/ in our case early dinner. Baked and steamed in a hot pre-heated oven on stones for 30minutes.
Three nice little sourdough boules
Apple and Oat loaf - I experimented ' because we were going out for the evening and I had no time left for bread making' with this loaf by mixing and bulk retarding the dough and shaping the loaf the next morning before baking. All in all it turned out tasting very good. The stones were pre-heated at 500F before the temperature was reduced for steaming and baking. They were a little to hot for the loaves as the bottom was browned a bit dark.
If you wish, you can play around with the ratio of oats to dough in this loaf and change its texture. Reducing the quantity of oats will mean it will not be as dense and can be cooked for a little less time.
70g (21/2oz) organic rolled oats
40 ml (1 1/4 fl oz water) This water is to soak the oats in for about 5 minutes.
715 g ( 1 lb 9 oz) sourdough dough
185 g (6 1/2 oz) apples, peeled, cored and cut into 2-3 cm (3/4-1 1/2inch) pieces
Alternately, you can place the loaves on a baking tray lined with baking paper, seam side down. Place in the refrigerator loosely covered with a plastic bag for 8-12 hours.
Baked on stones in a pre-heated steamed oven 450F reduced to 425F for 35 minutes for two loaves. I baked a little longer for the single battard. For not getting all the attention this recipe deserved it turned out pretty tasty.


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"Finding Dory" may be undergoing a sea change as Pixar is taking a page from a little-seen whale documentary.
The Walt Disney-owned animation studio is hard at work on "Finding Dory," a follow-up to the 2003 oceanic blockbuster "Finding Nemo." But this spring, after Pixar executives viewed "Blackfish," which raises sharp questions about the health of whales in captivity, the studio decided to make substantial changes to the "Dory" script.
According to Louie Psihoyos, who directed the Oscar-winning dolphin slaughter documentary "The Cove," Pixar chief creative officer John Lasseter and "Dory" director Andrew Stanton sat down with "Blackfish" director Gabriela Cowperthwaite in April after seeing her movie.
"At the end of the [Pixar] movie, some marine mammals are sent to an aquatic park/rehab facility -- a SeaWorld-type environment," explained Psihoyos, who heard about the meeting through a friend in the animal rights movement who lives near Pixar's Emeryville, Calif., campus. "After seeing 'Blackfish,' they retooled the film so that the sea creatures now have the choice to leave that marine park. They told Gabriela they didn't want to look back on this film in 50 years and have it be their 'Song of the South,'" a reference to the 1946 Disney musical that was widely viewed to be racist.
Pixar declined to comment. Cowperthwaite confirmed she screened the film on the studio's Northern California campus, but would only say that employees there were deeply "impacted" by her movie.
"These are obviously people who are dedicated to researching every topic they cover," the filmmaker said. "Whether 'Blackfish' affects their creative decisions, I can't say."
The plot for "Finding Dory," set for release in November 2015, is not yet locked. At Pixar, as at many other animation studios, filmmakers often make changes to stories up until the final months before release.
However, the story will revolve around an amnesiac blue fish voiced by Ellen DeGeneres who doesn't know who raised her. Dory was a key character in "Finding Nemo," a box office hit that grossed $921.7 million worldwide and won the Oscar for animated feature.
Although Pixar films are intended for family audiences, it's not unusual for them to examine social or political issues -- the Lasseter-directed "Cars 2" included a subplot about alternative fuel; Stanton's "WALL-E" takes place on a deserted, trash-strewn future Earth.
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"Blackfish" is a look into what caused a killer whale to fatally attack SeaWorld trainer Dawn Brancheau in 2010. The movie began its limited theatrical release in mid-July and has grossed around $700,000. The documentary will likely be wider seen when it debuts on CNN on Oct. 24.
The well-reviewed movie has raised the ire of SeaWorld. Days before the film hit theaters, the company sent a letter to film critics addressing what it claims are inaccuracies in the movie. In recent weeks, the heat on the park chain has increased as two separate videos depicting animals stranded outside of SeaWorld pools have gone viral.
Times staff writer Rebecca Keegan contributed to this report.
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Governor Dennis Daugaard Wants Flexibility in Medicaid Expansion
PIERRE - South Dakota Gov. Dennis Daugaard says he hopes Congress will change the federal health care law to give states more flexibility in expanding Medicaid.
Daugaard wants the state to delay a decision on whether to add thousands of South Dakotans to the state-federal program that pays medical bills for low-income people. He says he is uncertain the federal government can keep its promise to pick up most of the cost.
The proposed expansion would add an estimated 48,000 people, mostly adults without children, to Medicaid. But the Republican governor says about half those people would also be eligible for federal subsidies to buy private health insurance.
He says he would be interested in expanding Medicaid to cover those who do not qualify for subsidies to buy private insurance.
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Free Digital Template Download! Are you a digital scrapbooker? Download our digital version of the February 2011 CK Sketch and use the layered PSD file to create a page using your favorite digital scrapbooking elements.
Not only does this issue's sketch pack in plenty of 4" x 6" and wallet size photos, it also shows how easy it is to highlight a focal-point photo on your layout. You'll love using this sketch to show off your favorite photo while including several more from the same event or story.
Snow Day by Laura Onosato, as seen in the February 2011 issue of Creating Keepsakes.
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Living with MyType2 launched on World Diabetes Day (November 14, 2009). A pilot project created to support teens, the site was an online resource for anyone living with diabetes.
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Park AdVenue, Ithaca College's American Advertising Federation chapter, is a great place for IMC students, or other students just interested in advertising, to learn more about the industry and get started working with some clients. AAF members work together on projects for local business and charities. Members also have the opportunity to attend the Advertising Women of New York (AWNY) conference, attend guest speaker events, and network with fellow students and professors.
About the national organization:
The American Advertising Federation (AAF), headquartered in Washington, D.C., acts as the "Unifying Voice for Advertising." The AAF is the oldest national advertising trade association, representing 40,000 professionals in the advertising industry. The AAF has a national network of 200 ad clubs located in ad communities across the country. Through its 226 college chapters, the AAF provides 8,000 advertising students with real-world case studies and recruitment connections to corporate America.


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Rex was a 4-A All-State second team performer for Brownsburg High School. She also plays for the Circle City volleyball club based in Indianapolis.
"The Circle City volleyball club is a very competitive club," Rosenthal said. "They are always in the mix of playing for the national championship every year.
"She comes for great training and from a very competitive atmosphere. She is a great girl. She knows the game well."
As a senior Rex set a new school record for digs in a season with 647. She averaged 6.7 digs per set. She recorded more than 1,405 digs for her career.
She was named the "best" defensive player in 2007, 2008 and 2009.
"She is going to get a good shot to play the libero position starting her freshman year," Rosenthal said. "Stephanie is very relaxed out there.
"She is not a huge vocal leader. But when she wants to get stuff done she is not afraid to step up into the mix and let everybody know this is what we have to get done."
In 2009 she was selected for the Indiana All-Star South Team for Division 4-A/3-A.
In 2009 Rex was named first team All-District. She was a second team pick in 2008 and 2009. She was also a member of the All-Conference team in 2007, 2008 and 2009.
As a senior she was named to PrepVolleyball.com's "Defensive Dandies" third team.
"Stephanie is very quick on the court," Rosenthal said. "One of the things she does the best is she reads plays well. Her volleyball I.Q. is very high. We teach how to think about the game.
"What we are looking for is a player who continues to do the right things over and over. She lends herself to that. To be named to that volleyball list is quite an accomplishment. We continue to find players who might be a little bit under the radar but are very good volleyball players."
Last season Katie Rose, who will be a junior this season, moved into the libero spot. Rosenthal would like to move Rose back to the front row as a middle blocker, her position as a freshman.
"Katie Rose did a great job for us last season," Rosenthal said. "This spring we moved Katie back to the front row. We had a good spring and she got a lot of reps on the front row.
"The nice part about it is we know what Katie can do. We will see what happens the early part of the fall season. The nice thing about it is we know what Katie can do at libero if we have to have her jump back in there."
Rosenthal calls Rose one of the "unsung" heroes from last season.
"Katie just went about her business and got the job done," Rosenthal said. "There is no way we could have done what we did last year without her.
"It was not a seamless transition. It has always been a matter of putting the team first for Katie. She worked very hard at it. She deserves more accolades for what she did."
Also providing support at the position are seniors Elly Kaiser and Tory Ashcraft, also a setter.
Stephanie is the daughter of Marcia and Bill Rex.
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New Obama And Romney Ads Are Linked By Guilt
Two ads released Wednesday by the campaigns of President Obama and Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney are worth noting because of how they illustrate the very different challenges now facing the two candidates.
One thing both ads rest on is some form of guilt.
For Obama, who has the advantage of being ahead in new polls in several battleground states, the challenge is to keep his supporters from assuming the president has victory in the bag, and therefore not voting.
It's also a way to get them to vote in an election that lacks the history-making excitement of 2008, and which finds the hope of four years ago tempered by Washington reality.
So Obama's new ad uses the tried-and-true marketing technique of anticipatory guilt.
In an ad clearly aimed at younger voters with gay or female friends, the narrator says:
"What are you going to tell them? You were just too busy. You didn't think it mattered." (At this point, the screen is occupied by young men with video controllers in their hands who appear fixated on a game.)
"Is that what you're going to tell your friends who can't get married? The ones who couldn't serve openly in the military? Are you going to tell them they can't make decisions about their own bodies anymore because you didn't think your vote counted?"
You get the picture. With more than a month to go before Election Day, but with early voting either already under way or soon to start in some swing states, the Obama campaign is tugging firmly on the cord connected to the human guilt response.
Romney, by contrast, was working on doing some damage control following the release of the now-infamous video in which he can be seen talking about the "47 percent" of the electorate.
While he hasn't technically apologized for his remarks, Romney was clearly guilty of creating a controversy that appears to have hurt him in the polls.
To many who saw the video Mother Jones made famous, Romney was reminiscent of Gordon Gekko. It didn't help that he was already being likened to that fictional Wall Street master of the universe even before the video from the fundraiser emerged.
So Romney's ad featured the candidate talking directly into the camera to demonstrate that he does care about the concerns of average Americans. Repeating an argument he has turned to in recent days, Romney says in the ad:
"Too many Americans are struggling to find work in today's economy. Too many of those who are working are living paycheck to paycheck trying to make falling incomes meet rising prices for food and gas. More Americans are living in poverty than when President Obama took office and 15 million more are on food stamps.
"President Obama and I both care about poor and middle-class families. The difference is my policy will make things better for them ... "
Obviously, no presidential campaign would choose to spend its time and money essentially telling voters "I care" this late in the game. But it's a message Romney was forced into by the video made at the Boca Raton, Fla., fundraiser.
Meanwhile, the Obama campaign is already shifting its media messaging into get-out-the-vote mode. And in any election, it's getting out your vote that, in the end, really matters.


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Saturday, October 05, 2013
Box 0.41 (icon theme)
I'd like to thank Julien Lavergne for collecting every upload we made and creating a handy deb package, and my partner at the Lubuntu Artwork Team, Alexander Andjelkovich, without you this theme wouldn't exist.If you're going to download and install Lubuntu 13.10 you'll have it by default (check release schedule). If not, you can check it out here, and choose your architecture here. Next step? Maybe a full Unity compliant Box theme ;)
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- Pierre GobinOctober 06, 2013 7:16 pm
Very nice job, as always :)ReplyDelete
- AnonymousOctober 06, 2013 7:19 pm
Thank you so much, Pierre :)ReplyDelete
- Pierre GobinOctober 06, 2013 9:20 pm
Oh, I have a question : what is the app which corresponds to the first icon of the fourth line on the picture ?ReplyDelete
- AnonymousOctober 06, 2013 9:26 pm
It's brightside, the hot corner manager. We use combined with Compton to emulate a complete Compiz environment.ReplyDelete
- Pierre GobinOctober 06, 2013 10:18 pm
Ok, I should test it :)ReplyDelete
An other thing : is it planned to have a box icon for the "minimize all windows" button for next versions of Lubuntu ? I think I've already seen such icon in some screenshots (maybe yours).
Amazing set of icons. Thanks a lot for this! Happy Halloween.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousOctober 11, 2013 9:59 pm
@Pierre, sorry for replying so late. The answer is yes, I plan to complete as much as possible the Box theme. And not O_o maybe we'll use the Razor panel in the next release, or not. I don't know yet ;)ReplyDelete
@Kaf thank you so much
In this tutorial i will show you how to replace the 'Post A Comment' text that appears ... To replace "Post A Comment" message in your Blogger / Blogspot blog follow the ... Tick the "Expand Widget Templates" checkbox. ... I like your blog themes.ReplyDelete
Is there a box icon yet for Arora browser?ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJanuary 24, 2014 7:54 pm
Not yet, but noted. It's a great browser, and I use it sometimes, so just wait for it. It'll be ready on next update.ReplyDelete
Thanks Rafael. I must say I'm blown away by Arora. What a great browser, and I owe a great BIG thank you to the developers. Now I only need to figure out the best way to make the adblocker work similarly to the extensions/plugins for Firefox and Chrome and then my resurrection project on this Dell will be complete. I installed it on my old Dell Dimension 2400 with only 768mb of RAM. which is running Lubuntu 13.10 nicely with the exception being a decent web browser I tried were CPU heavy except until I tried Arora.ReplyDelete
I hit submit too soon. I meant to thank YOU for the great Icon theme. Many, many thanks! It is absolutely the best I've seen yet for Lubuntu. It looks tidy and visually "tight". I wish I had your talent.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJanuary 28, 2014 12:38 am
Please, you'll make me blush :D Thank you so much for accepting this theme. It was a very very risky proposal to users. And you see the result.ReplyDelete
About the web browsers thing, have you test QupZilla? I installed it and it's amazing. And new versions are improving and getting faster. Have a look: http://www.qupzilla.com/download
Oh, and thanks again ;)
Now, I haven't tried it yet. I did just see a news bit about it at OMGUBUNTU and was giving it a consider. :)ReplyDelete
Follow up. Tried it. Impressed. Using it now instead of Arora. Much faster, lighter on CPU and RAM and the Adblocker does everything I need that was lacking from Midori and Arora. Awesome recommendation. Many thanks!ReplyDelete