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YES! Recommends: Heifer International
There is something powerful and long-lasting about giving people a "hand up" not a "handout." And, Heifer International embraces this philosophy.
The inspirational non-profit is not just about raising and giving away lambs, chicks, and other animal offspring to those in need. What Heifer does is life changing for millions of people all over the world.
YES! recommends Heifer International and its resources on global trade and justice that demonstrate—thoughtfully and enthusiastically—how you and your students can loosen the grip on hunger and poverty and build a more sustainable world. Not only will your students learn how animals can lift people out of poverty and hunger, but also how to become more informed and active global citizens.
An abundance of service-learning activities, hands-on programs, and free, downloadable lessons, await you. Here is a sample of what's available. Be sure to check out Heifer's success stories and practical volunteer opportunities in your community.
Passing on the Gift
Passing on the Gift creates a living cycle of sustainability that develops community and enhances self-esteem by allowing project partners to become donors.
It starts with a donation that gives gifts of animals and agricultural training to families in need. The gifts ensure that these families are self-reliant because they now have income and something to eat; the benefit of a new cow means milk for the children and starting a farm. It also gives Heifer participants the ability to Pass on the Gift— "We don't eat just beans any more. And we share with the families who don't have any."
Passing on the Gift illuminates the possibilities. You may become the stone that starts the ripple of giving.
Visit Heifer's gift catalog here to see how you can pass on your own gift.
Here's a sample of Heifer's education resources:
"Our Animal Friends" Videos
Six animals—heifers, goats, honeybees, chickens, worms, and pigs—are featured in these quick, one-minute videos. Your students will learn more about the Heifer mission and how these creatures help hungry families.
To see videos, click here.
Get IT! Curriculum for Middle and High School
Global Education to Improve Tomorrow (Get IT!) teaches students about their roles as consumers and the effects their choices have in the global marketplace. The international trade of flowers, coffee and bananas—common products that people in the United States buy from Latin America—are the focus. Your students will be engaged as versatile learners and investigative journalists as they research, interview, write about and act on issues surrounding consumer choices and international trade.
Units include:
- History of the Products We Buy: the history of commerce between Latin America and the U.S. and the story of competing interests and values rooted in vigorous consumer marketing tactics.
- People and the Products We Buy: the people involved in the coffee, banana, and flower trade, and an explanation of free trade versus free market.
- Resources and the Products We Buy: the natural resources affected by growing coffee, bananas, flowers.
Get IT! lessons can be taught as a set or as stand-alone. The curriculum is written for middle school, but can be easily adapted for high school. It is accompanied by "Chores for Change," a service-learning program for those interested in combating global hunger by working on a local hunger-relief initiative.
You'll find the curriculum here.
- Student Reporter's Notebook
Written in encouraging first-person style, this guide gives your students sound, practical advice on how to be an astute researcher and write an eye-catching consumer article. Topics cover story ideas, interviewing tips, sample articles, and a resource guide.
YES! gives this resource a thumbs up because even if your students aren't going to write an article, they will learn how to do spot-on research, arming them with information that will help them make smart, ethical choices.
To see the notebook click here.
To download the free lessons, you will need to login. Registering is free, and please be assured that your email will not be shared. Please note that YES! Magazine does its best to provide educators with easily accessible teaching tools. We will recommend you register only when we believe the materials are worth your time and effort.
"Farm to Plate" Service-Learning Project
Heifer offers a number of service-learning opportunities. It would be safe to say that many people—let alone middle and high school students—don't think about where the food comes from. [The answer is not "the store."] "Farm to Plate" challenges your students to investigate the origins of their food and examine the pros and cons of consuming both locally grown foods and non-local foods.
More Heifer resources
Heifer classroom tools are at your fingertips right here.
Stay up to date on Heifer's education program and what your colleagues are doing with Heifer to build a better world. Sign up for Heifer's free email newsletter.
Heifer International is a global nonprofit with a proven solution to end hunger and poverty in a sustainable way. Established over 65 years ago, Heifer helps empower people who are hungry and in poverty through gifts of livestock, seeds and trees and extensive training. To date, millions of families in over 128 countries have been given gifts of self-reliance and hope.


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My reaction and opinion is that it was amazing! I didn't want to put the book down! I hope you like it too! I like it because it has action. My favorite part was the end. If you read it, you'll find out why! Lizzie reminds me of me because she is creative, dog-crazy and determined. Mutley changed in a good way. This book is part of a series called The Puppy Place.
I recommend this book because it has a happy ending and it keeps me busy and happy. A person who likes dogs and action should read it. But anyone should read it. What's interesting is that it is not like any other book I have read, and I think you will love it too.

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Novels are low-tech objects. They can't be plugged in, they've got no buttons or knobs, and they don't make your eyes pop out of your head as you watch creatures or asteroids zigzag across a screen. Usually, novels have no visual aids at all. So if you want to know what Anna Karenina looks like, well, you just have to read the book.
But Marisha Pessl's Night Film is eager to bust out of that old-fashioned, "he had blue eyes and she fell to her death" kind of storytelling. This sprawling book uses made-up documents of all kinds: newspaper clippings, photographs, police reports, magazine articles supposedly taken from publications like Time and Rolling Stone, and transcripts of chatter on an ultra-culty, closed online community called "The Blackboards," to tell its thriller of a story.
The narrator, Scott McGrath, is an investigative journalist who's long had his eye on a creepy filmmaker. Stanislas Cordova makes movies supposedly so terrifying that at so-called "red-band screenings," held in condemned buildings or tunnels under the city, some people faint in fear. This might remind you a little of David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest, in which there's a video that's supposed to be so incredibly entertaining that people who see it simply get totally absorbed in it and eventually die. Actually, readers have compared Pessl with Wallace before; her first novel was also brainy and fat and full of ideas. Night Film is brainy and fat and full of ideas, too, but instead of comparing it with other novels, like most book reviews, I'm tempted to compare it with movies. And that's the point.
In its best moments, reading this book is like sitting in a movie theater in wraparound darkness, feeling a deep chill that's part air conditioning, part anticipation. A lovely, granular black-and-white quality haunts the novel. Pessl has created Cordova's body of work down to the titles and plots and tiny details, as if in some deep part of herself, she really believes these movies, with names like Thumbscrew and At Night All Birds Are Black exist. But that's what novelists do: They believe their own details, and this book is obsessive in the things it describes and catalogs.
What's less obsessive, though, are the descriptions of characters. Scott McGrath, while a lively enough narrator, feels as if he's come from Central Casting, and so does Ashley Cordova, the movie director's beautiful, troubled 24-year-old former piano prodigy of a daughter, who's found dead — probably a suicide — at the bottom of an elevator shaft in Chinatown, a discovery that sets the novel in motion. McGrath, who slandered Stanislas Cordova during a TV interview years earlier, is drawn back toward the story of this man and his daughter, even though it naturally puts him in peril.
Pessl channels hard-boiled movies and pulpy paperbacks here, and as a result, everyone feels a bit like a B-movie character; even their names sound phony. They sound a little like names of characters on the TV show Dark Shadows — Barnabas Collins — which I watched every day after school with Yodels and milk, when I was 9.
But most readers of this novel will not be 9. And maybe, like me, they'll be used to reading about characters who are as fleshed out as their surroundings. Granted, that would be a challenge in this case because Pessl has created surroundings that are uncommonly full and complicated, and a story that takes you down many paths and into various subcultures, such as an S+M club and a lawless and cruel wilderness program for problem teenagers. All of it is dark, dark stuff.
Or is it?
I realized, when I finished the book, that even though it dips into the unsavory and the scary, and even though while you read it you think, ooh, this is weird, heavy stuff, there's a surprisingly good-natured quality to all of it that keeps it mostly pretty PG. As for those terrifying Cordova movies, I guess I'll have to take Pessl's word for it. I never felt any fear when I imagined watching them. I can't say I minded, actually; I'm someone who was scared to death by the original version of The Fly, especially the part where the fly has the head of a white-haired old man, and in this tiny little voice, he says "Helllllp ... meeeeee ..." Just thinking about it still creeps me out. But thinking about Night Film, does not creep me out. It gives me a sort of pleasurable feeling as I recall its highly imagined world.
There's a very nifty ending — but then there's sort of another ending, and another. It was almost as if the author didn't want to let go, and I don't blame her. It must have been a fun and exhausting book to write, a total-immersion experience. Reading it isn't exhausting at all; it's easy and enjoyable.
This book is like a big fun-house — Pessl lets you decide if you want to believe its magic. I probably won't remember all that much of the plot a few weeks from now and the characters are basically vehicles for an overarching idea more than anything else. But Marisha Pessl had an extremely cool and intricate idea for a novel, and ultimately it works. I was totally happy to sit in the darkness until the very last page, and I didn't move a muscle until the lights came up.
Meg Wolitzer's latest novel is The Interestings.
Stanislas Cordova is reclusive. His fans adore him, but the movie director has stopped making public appearances. In his last known interview, he told "Rolling Stone" the human mind is a blackened, overgrown place.
Well, if the name Cordova doesn't ring any bells, that's because he's a fiction, the shadowy figure at the center of a new literary thriller from author Marisha Pessl. The book is called "Night Film," and Meg Wolitzer has our review.
MEG WOLITZER, BYLINE: Most novels are pretty low-tech. They don't have buttons or screens, or any kind of visual aids. So that means if you want to know what Anna Karenina looks like, well, you'll just have to read the book. But "Night Film," by Marisha Pessl, seems like it wants to be different. It uses made-up newspaper clips, photos, and articles from places like "Time" and "Rolling Stone."
The narrator is Scott McGrath. He's an investigative reporting looking into a creepy cult filmmaker. Stanislas Cordova makes movies that are supposedly so terrifying that people faint at the underground screenings. Pessl has created the filmmaker's body of work down to the titles. They have names like "Thumb Screw" and "At Night All Birds Are Black." She channels hard-boiled detective movies and pulpy novels, but that makes things complicated for her.
Scott McGrath is a lively narrator, but he's almost like a character from central casting. Same with Ashley Cordova. She's the beautiful daughter of the filmmaker, who's found dead in an elevator shaft at the beginning of the book. Even their names sound phony.
Now, all of this is probably deliberate. Pessl is extremely cerebral and playful and commanding. People aside, she's definitely created a world that is full and complex. It takes you to all kinds of places; like an S&M club, and a violent wilderness program for troubled teenagers.
At first, I was thinking that this was totally dark stuff, but when I finished the book, I realized that even though it dips into the unsavory and the scary, and even though while you read it you think, ooh, this is weird and heavy, there's a surprisingly good-natured quality to all of it that keeps it pretty PG.
This book is like a big fun house. Pessl lets you decide if you want to believe the magic of it all. I probably won't remember all that much of the winding plot a few weeks from now; and the characters are basically vehicles for overarching concepts, more than anything else.
But Marisha Pessl had an extremely cool and intricate idea for a novel and ultimately, it works. I was totally happy to sit in the darkness until the very last page, and I didn't move a muscle until the lights came up.
BLOCK: The book is "Night Film" by Marisha Pessl. Our reviewer is Meg Wolitzer. Her latest novel is "The Interestings." Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR.


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June 24, 2013
Island Way Sorbet: My Pick for Summer Sweets
I love sorbets. I also love to pretend that I'm in the tropics. Presto! Island Way Sorbet. I found these treats strolling through the aisles of Costco the other day and decided to give 'em a try. I was delighted. Read the rest of this entry »


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Daniel proved his will to compete during the 2009 campaign, when he made his debut...looks to bring that same drive in his junior year...also a solid performer in the classroom...named to the Athletic Director's Honor Roll in recognition of his achievements in the classroom.
AT TECH - (In 2010): Daniel ran in four meets during the cross country season...finished fifth on the team at the season-opening meet at Sewanee...clocked in a season-best time of 28:46 at Furman.
(2009): After waiting a year, Daniel made his Golden Eagle debut in the 2009 season and competed in four races...opened the year by placing sixth on the team at the Sewanee Invitational in 29:54.13...showed improved times in every single meet...career-best time of 28:50.67 came on the OVC Championship.
(In 2008): Daniel redshirted his freshman season because of a stress fracture.
HIGH SCHOOL: Daniel is a June graduate of Freedom High School where he received a total of 10 letters in three sports. In addition to his four letters in cross country, he also claimed three in track & field and three in swimming.
PERSONAL: Daniel Francis is the son of Noel and Beth Francis of Morganton, N.C...birthday is July 17, 1990...plans to major in electrical engineering.


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3 Swiss found dead with wreckage of plane in Kenya
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — A wildlife official says three Swiss nationals have been found dead along with the wreckage of their plane that went missing Thursday in Kenya.
Paul Mbugua, the spokesman of the Kenya Wildlife Service, said Saturday a KWS helicopter pilot involved in the search and rescue operation for the plane spotted the wreckage at 11,000 feet on one of the peaks of the Aberdares mountain range in central Kenya.
Mbugua says the helicopter pilot landed at the scene and confirmed the three occupants of the plane had died. Mbugua says the bodies will be retrieved Sunday.
A county police commander, Naomi Ichama, said Friday the Cessna 206 was headed to Wilson Airport in Nairobi from Nanyuki in central Kenya when it went missing at about 5 p.m. Thursday.


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Saturday is a work day in Juba, but it's also a day (the only day) when we have reliable internet because we're not at the Ministries. Taking advantage of this improved access, I wanted to post some of the articles that I managed to read during the week and thought that other people might find interesting.
- http://www.ted.com/talks/peter_eigen_how_to_expose_the_corrupt.html It's TED talk season. In this November 2009 TED talk, Peter Eigen, the former head of the World Bank for East Africa and founder of Transparency International, talks about how the global economy contributes to corruption and poor governance in emerging markets. I liked: that every company I have worked for requires all employees to take training on the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act which prohibits payments by US companies to foreign officials. Eigen talks about the lack of laws preventing bribery of Foreign Officials in Germany, France and the UK and it's nice to remember that the US has had a law on its books since 1977. I wished: that his discussion of civil society also addressed tools to expose foreign companies that use bribes to achieve their business objectives.
- http://atwar.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/02/15/marja-from-usaid-to-u-s-marines/?hp The New York Times At War blog describes the surreal experience of visiting a USAID compound from the 1960s in the Helmand Valley that had since been occupied by the Taliban and is now a police station for the Afghan police. I liked: the ballsy reporting. I wished: that it didn't make me think of the reserved parking space for the SPLA at our camp in Juba.
- http://aidwatchers.com/2010/02/four-ways-brain-drain/. AidWatch summarizes a counter-intuitive paper by William Easterly and Yaw Nyarko about the benefits of educated Africans living outside of their home country. I liked: that it added nuance to the debate over the challenges of building capacity in emerging markets by showing that there is benefit to training and education even if someone doesn't stick around. If this applies to migration out of a country, it certainly applies to someone switching jobs within a country. I wished: that it had also mentioned the costs of migration by the educated workforce (such as too few health workers). While the economic benefits of someone living overseas may outweigh the costs of training, there are other ramifications that aren't captured by looking solely at inflows and outflows.
- http://www.rovingbandit.com/2010/02/more-arguments-for-aid-as-direct-cash.html. Friends at Roving Bandit (the best Economics blog in Southern Sudan) argue that more aid should be direct cash transfers and less spent on expensive US-based consultants (like me). I liked: that it presents an interesting alternative to the traditional aid model (which doesn't always work). I wished: that it had mentioned that 51% of the GoSS budget is already spent on salaries and 59% of 2009 USAID funding for Sudan was spent on food.
This week's cool product: Google Goggles. You take a picture of painting, a monument, a strange-looking meal, a bottle of wine, or anything else and Google looks it up and tells you more about the object (the name of the artist, the history of the monument, the ingredients, the Wine Spectator score, whatever). It's search by picture as opposed to by text.
This week's bonus cool product: A machine that can print organs.


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SOUTH SUMMIT 13, MORGAN 12: South Summit came up with a big stop in the red zone in the final minute of play to secure the come-from-behind victory over visiting Morgan.
SAN JUAN 14, MONTICELLO 0: Bronze Eldredge hauled in a pair of third-quarter touchdown passes from Terrance Tate as San Juan overcame a sluggish first half to top Monticello.
BEAVER 37, KANAB 6: Michael Roberts and Bailey Bradshaw both returned interceptions for touchdowns, and Matthew Roberts returned a fumble for another as Beaver rolled past Kanab to improve to 2-0.
RICHFIELD 35, SOUTH SEVIER 6: Richfield's Ellis Brody was stellar in the backfield as the Richfield Wildcats blew past South Sevier. Brody finished the night with three scores.
PAROWAN 22, DIAMOND RANCH 9: Parowan cruised to victory over Diamond Ranch behind the performances of Justice Walker and Caleb Murphy. Walker caught two TD receptions in the first half, one for 28 yards and one for 76 yards, and Murphy bombed three TD passes in the game, two of which went for over 65 yards to lead the Rams' offense.
GUNNISON 29, NORTH SEVIER 20: Tyson Moosman completed 9 of 26 passes for 162 yards and two touchowns as Gunnison built a big lead and held off North Sevier to improve to 2-0. Jayden Rogers came up huge for the Bulldogs, carrying the ball 26 times for 164 yards and two TDs.
RICH 20, SUMMIT ACADEMY 6: McKay Jarman scored on a pair of rushing touchdowns, and Rich's defense held Summit Academy scoreless until the final minute of the game to lift the Rebels to the season-opening victory. Benjamin Groll added a rushing touchdown in the second quarter for Rich.
AMERICAN LEADERSHIP 28, CARBON 14: Lincoln Henderson scored twice for the Eagles, giving American Leadership the edge on the road. Jeff Gardner scored on an 80-yard fumble recovery and Neil Davis had a 48-yard interception return to boost ALA.
GRANTSVILLE 21, TOOELE 0: Ky Fisher scored three times for Grantsville, all in the first half, as the Cowboys blanked rival Tooele to improve to 2-0.
MANTI 42, PROVO 17: Jared Schiess led Manti with 7.5 tackles, 2.5 sacks and one interception and added two second-half scores in the home victory. The Templars totaled 400 yards rushing on 50 carries and QB Connor Aste completed 7 of 13 passes for 107 yards and a TD.
JUAB 48, BEN LOMOND 12: Quarterback Nick Robins led the Wasps with 194 yards and five touchdowns on 10 for 12 passing. Jeff Rowley totaled 52 yards and a touchdown on five rush attempts; Kayden Whiting rushed for 62 yards on five attempts; and Dalton Harmon had 43 yards and one rushing TD on four attempts in addition to two passing scores.
UNION 28, NORTH SANPETE 21: Union battled back, scoring twice in the fourth quarter to escape with the narrow victory over North Sanpete. Villiam Lutui hauled in the game-winning 10-yard touchown pass from Tye Winterton with 6.6 seconds remaining in the game.
SNOW CANYON 25, SHADOW RIDGE, NEV. 6: Snow Canyon represented the state well against Nevada foe Shadow Ridge, thanks in part to a 67-yard touchdown run by Zach Kennedy.
PINE VIEW 42, OREM 14: Pine View outscored Orem 26-7 at the break and picked up where it left off in the second half. Bladen Hosner caught a 26-yard pass from Kody Wilstead in the third quarter.
SALEM HILLS 21, PAYSON 12: Porter Gustin threw for 266 yards and three touchdowns, two of which were caught by his brother, Gunner, in the win for Salem Hills. Gunner Gustin had nine catches for 94 yards while Porter Gustin had 81 yards on 19 carries. Zack Zobell added 134 yards and one touchdown on five catches.
STANSBURY 34, HURRICANE 21: Jesse Horowitz carried the ball 16 times for 150 yards and a touchdown to lead Stansbury to a solid victory over Hurricane to even its preseason record at 1-1. Chase Christiansen added 129 rushing yards on 12 carries, while Spencer Wihongi tallied 19 tackles.
DESERT HILLS 20, FOOTHILL, NEV. 16: Desert Hills ground out a close victory vs Foothill (Henderson, Nev.), highlighted by an 84-yard interception return in the third quarter by Braden Reber. Bridger Cowdin lead the offense with 86 yards rushing and one TD, while the defense once again took the stage in holding Foothill's spread offense to 200 total yards and forcing four turnovers.
CEDAR 63, CANYON VIEW 2: Cedar staked a big lead early and held on to defeat Canyon View.
UINTAH 42, GREEN RIVER, WYO. 7: Braxton Coonis finished with 370 passing yards and 166 rushing yards along with four passing touchdowns and another rushing score to lead the Utes on the road. Dakota Havens led the defense with seven tackles and Dylan Hanks had six tackles and seven assists.
BEAR RIVER 31, PRESTON, IDAHO 8: The Bears used balanced scoring to roll past visiting Preston, Idaho, to maintain their perfect record.
JUAN DIEGO 24, SKYLINE 17: After squandering a 17-2 second-half lead, Juan Diego regrouped in double overtime as Cole Nelson iced the victory with a 5-yard touchdown run to lift the Soaring Eagle to a 2-0 record. Braxton Chipman and Chris Williams scored back-to-back touchdowns in the second half to help send the game to overtime.
GRAND 48, EMERY 21: Grand County quarterback Jacob Francis rushed for three touchdowns and threw for two more as the Red Devils rolled to a big win over Emery. Grand County racked up more than 300 yards of total offense in the first half. Marco Mota scored two TDs for the Spartans.
SHELLEY, IDAHO 28, WEST JORDAN 6: West Jordan jumped out to an early 6-0 lead on a 70-yard touchdown reception by Chandler Frischknecht, but that was the Jaguars' only lead of the game as Shelley, Idaho pulled away for the victory at Idaho State University.
ALTA 35, LONE PEAK 17: Alta scored 32 straight points after trailing Lone Peak by three points. Mack Richards had 14 catches and 256 yards. Tanner Sansom had one rushing and one receiving touchdown and netted 139 total yards.
TAYLORSVILLE 33, MURRAY 0: Alex Lehauli led the Warriors with 91 yards on 5 for 11 passing and 146 yards and two TDs rushing. Isaiah Peete blasted a 98-yard touchdown run and totaled 178 rushing yards. Matthew Sterzer led the defensive effort with nine tackles as Taylorsville improved to 2-0 on the season.
GRANGER 25, KEARNS 22: Kylon Pierre scored two rushing touchdowns, one of them from 57 yards out, en route to the overtime victory.
CYPRUS 36, HILLCREST 28: The Pirates came alive in the second half, scoring two touchdowns late in the forth quarter to take home the win over the Huskies. Cyprus QB Dennis Kamakana rushed for 169 yards on 21 carries, and Elijah Reynolds came up with a big special teams play blocking a field goal in the second half.
BRIGHTON 38, FREMONT 0: The Bengals' Sione Heimuli broke off a 56-yard run in the fourth quarter to extend the lead, and Hunter Dall converted on a 35-yard field goal to finish off the game.
BINGHAM 37, HERRIMAN 24: Kyle Gearig passed for two touchdowns, and Jared Tupou scored on a touchdown late in the game as Bingham held off upset-minded Herriman to improve to 2-0. Herriman's Brandon Jensen scored on a 1-yard TD in the fourth quarter to cut Bingham's lead to 30-24 before Tupou iced it late.
SPRINGVILLE 21, CORNER CANYON 18: Springville was able to get the ball in the end zone to earn the tough road victory over Corner Canyon. Dylan Slavens completed 11 of his 17 passes for 192 yards and three TDs, while Rhett Clark finished with three receptions for 37 yards and two TDs to pave the way for the Red Devils.
OLYMPUS 21, NORTHRIDGE 17: Conner Haller hauled in a 22-yard touchdown pass from Chase Manning with a 1:43 left in the game to complete the second-half comeback for Olympus. Northridge turned the ball over five times in the loss.
WESTLAKE 42, OGDEN 7: Gavin Williams scored on rushing TDs of 5 and 2 yards in the first quarter, and Tyler Aldstadt extended the lead to 28-0 on a 28-yard interception return as Westlake rolled over Ogden to improve to 2-0.
BOX ELDER 28, LAYTON 7: Box Elder's Riley Burt rushed for 115 yards on 12 carries with two touchdowns in the Bees' win over Layton.
CATHEDRAL CATHOLIC, CALIF. 38, JORDAN 6: Jordan got roughed up against a motivated Cathedral Catholic, Calif., falling behind early thanks to several turnovers and the 'Diggers never recovered. Clay Moss scored Jordan's only touchdown in the second quarter.
BOUNTIFUL 42, VIEWMONT 0: Bountiful steamrolled rival Viewmont, racing to a 35-0 halftime lead on its way to an easy victory. Coming off last week's lost to Lone Peak, the Braves jumped out quick, with Tanner Redding, Max Latu and Houston Heimuli all scoring TDs in the first quarter. Redding tacked on two more receiving scores in the second quarter.
DAVIS 38, HUNTER 7: Mason White rushed for 111 yards and a 44-yard touchdown on 18 carries while quarterback Colton Chronister finished 16 of 22 with 175 yards and a 63-yard TD pass to Abel Porter to lead the Darts in the lopsided-sided victory.
SYRACUSE 17, HIGHLAND 14: Romney Harker booted a 33-yard field goal in double overtime as Syracuse rallied past upset-minded Highland in a defensive battle at Syracuse. Chase Bauerle scored a touchdown late in regulation to send the game into overtime, while both teams scored TDs in the first overtime to extend the game.
ROY 17, WEBER 14: In a back-and-forth game, Roy's Ben Aikuli drilled a 33-yard field goal as time expired to clinch the victory. Roy outscored the Warriors 11-0 in the fourth quarter to steal the victory.
WEST 26, COPPER HILLS 6: Alex Cody booted four field goals as the Panthers evened their record at 1-1. Isi Pupui added an interception return for the Panthers in a solid defensive performance.
AMERICAN FORK 35, MOUNTAIN CREST 14: Zach Katoa scored on a pair of rushing touchdowns as American Fork jumped out to an early 21-0 lead over Mountain Crest on its way to its first victory of the season. Jonah Trinnaman added a 59-yard touchdown run in the first quarter.
PLEASANT GROVE 21, TIMPVIEW 19: After giving up an early touchdown, the Vikings rallied with three consecutive scores to get the come-from-behind victory. Jeremiah Evans led the effort with two passing scores, including an 81-yard pass to Spencer Romney.
CLEARFIELD 12, BONNEVILLE 7: Kelly Thorpe kicked a pair of second-half field goals, and Blake Wilcox added a two-yard touchdown run in the second quarter as Clearfield eked out a victory over Bonneville.
TIMPANOGOS 34, SPANISH FORK 16: Jackson Dunford threw five touchdown passes to five different receivers as Timpanogos rolled past Spanish Fork after building a 20-0 first-half lead.
WASATCH 28, MOUNTAIN VIEW 3: Zack Reiss completed touchdown passes to both Kayden Connor (35 yards) and Carson Law (3 yards) while Hunter Pella and Zach Purdy also found the end zone to lead the Wasps over Mountain View.
SKY VIEW 44, MAPLE MOUNTAIN 13: The Bobcats scored early and often, led by four passing touchdowns from quarterback Braxton Godderidge, to grab the easy home win. Godderidge hit Logan Miller on two separate scores, including a 29-yard score and a 12-yard score.
DUCHESNE 21, NORTH SUMMIT 7: Matt Muir set the tone with an early touchdown, and Duchesne played outstanding defense the rest of the way as the Eagles tied a state record with their 36th straight victory. Matt Dye and Braxton Spencer also scored for the Eagles.
DIXIE 51, LEHI 22: Ammon Takau led the Flyers, who scored in all four quarters, with five passing touchdowns and another 16-yard rushing score in the home win.
RIVERTON 33, MADISON, IDAHO 3: Four Riverton players scored rushing touchdowns including a 20-yard scamper by Dallin Munger to lead the Silverwolves past visiting Madison, Idaho.
LAYTON CHRISTIAN 24, MOUNTAIN VIEW CHRISTIAN, NEV. 20: After Layton Christian fell behind 14-0 in the first quarter, the Eagles came storming back as Marquis Gibson, Jack Chandler and Grayson Jackson all scored touchdowns to spearhead the victory in Las Vegas.
DELTA 7, MILLARD 0: Kale Leavitt found the end zone from 4 yards out to produce on the only score of the game, giving the Rabbits the road victory and their first win of the season.
WOODS CROSS 41, JUDGE MEMORIAL 14: Woods Cross led 21-7 lead at the half, then held on for the win. The Bulldogs' Mark Barnett ran back a 90-yard kick return. Michael Kearns also had a 16-yard run for the second score of the game.
ENTERPRISE 43, LINCOLN COUNTY, NEV. 12: Enterprise raced out to an early halftime lead against visiting Lincoln County, Nev., as it improved to 2-0. Dustin Tullis scored a touchdown and recovered a fumble in the end zone for another, while Kelton Hunt totaled 115 yards on a pair of rushing TDs of his own.
LYMAN, WYO. 40, ALTAMONT 20: Dylan Lindsay passed for a touchdown and rushed for another, but it wasn't enough as Lyman, Wyo., pulled away in the second half. Remington Funk added a rushing TD for the Longhorns, while Brady Farnsworth hauled in a 23-yard TD reception from Lindsay.
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TORONTO, Feb. 25, 2014 – A set of recommendations aimed at creating a safe sleep environment for infants will be unveiled in Toronto this week. The recommendations, contained in a clinical practice guideline titled Working with families to promote safe sleep for infants 0-12 months of age, were developed by the Registered Nurses' Association of Ontario (RNAO).
"A lot of myths and misunderstanding about the best way to position a baby still exist, and we hope this guideline will lay the debate to rest," says Elyse Maindonald, a nurse practitioner with the Windsor Family Health Team, who led the panel of experts that created the guideline.
Maindonald says the panel reviewed the evidence and came to the conclusion that the safest place for an infant to sleep is on their back, and alone, in a crib that meets Canadian safety standards. Maindonald says cradles and bassinets with sides that allow air flow are also considered safe places for a small infant to sleep.
RNAO's guideline backs up previous research that strongly encourages parents to avoid using blankets, pillows and other forms of sleep aids for their baby, including positioning devices, head coverings and soft toys, which can all block an infant's airway.
The panel conducted a comprehensive review of all the factors that can affect and shape a child's safe sleep environment. "Given what we know about Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS), we feel confident that putting a baby to sleep on his/her back along with other important considerations, such as not smoking and the importance of breastfeeding, greatly reduces risk," says Maindonald.
The 'back is best' recommendation applies throughout the first 12 months of a child's life. The guideline also lists sleep surfaces that are not recommended for infants. They include: an adult's bed, sofas, couches, armchairs, playpens, swings, strollers, slings and car seats.
While would-be and new parents may be tempted to choose from a myriad of baby products, the guideline recommends a firm mattress and fitted sheet are all that is needed to create the safest sleep surface for a baby. Maindonald says many people believe that it is necessary to keep a sleeping baby warm with blankets and head coverings, but the evidence runs counter to that idea. "Infants over two months of age who are overheated are actually at an increased risk of SIDS," she says.
Yolanda Guitar, a mother whose four-month-old son died of SIDS in 2004, says she hopes the guideline lends credibility to an issue that's important but one few people want to talk about. Guitar sat on RNAO's panel and is certified as a safe sleep expert. "We need to make sure that this subject is discussed more openly, whether it's during prenatal classes or after a woman has given birth in hospital. This shouldn't be a taboo topic."
Dr. Monique Lloyd, who leads guideline development for RNAO, says she hopes the guideline will be embraced by nurses and health-care organizations alike. "We want every nurse armed with the latest evidence about how to create as safe a sleep environment as possible so they can share this information with new parents," she says. Lloyd will be presenting the panel's recommendations at the Best Start Resource Centre's annual conference in Toronto on Thursday, Feb. 27, 2014 from 3:00 to 4:30 p.m. The conference is a key program of Health Nexus, which is funded by the Government of Ontario.
RNAO's Best Practice Guidelines Program is funded by the Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care, and was launched in 1999 to provide the best available evidence for patient care across a wide range of health-care settings. The 50 guidelines developed to date are a substantive contribution towards building excellence in Ontario's health-care system. They are available in several languages to nurses and other health-care professionals across Canada and abroad.
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The Hall of Vertebrate Origins traces the evolution of vertebrates, or animals with backbones, back more than 500 million years. Explored here are groups within the vertebrate family that exhibit crucial physical developments, including animals with jaws (gnathostomes), limbs (tetrapods), openings in the palate (sauropsids), openings in front of the eye on the muzzle (archosaurs), and watertight eggs (amniotes).
The Hall of Vertebrate Origins displays some 250 fossil specimens of the earliest vertebrates, animals that lacked a fully developed backbone but had a distinct head with a braincase; fishes, the most diverse group of vertebrates today; amphibians and their extinct early relatives, the first vertebrates to walk on land; crocodiles, turtles, lizards, snakes, and their relatives, the first animals to live their lives entirely on land; giant marine reptiles such as plesiosaurs, mosasaurs, and ichthyosaurs; and flying reptiles known as pterosaurs, the first flying vertebrates.
This hall also features several exhibits that allow visitors to touch the fossilized remains of long-extinct animals. These "touch fossils" include a 100-million-year-old fish; the tooth of one of the largest sharks ever to have lived; and a vertebra from a marine animal known as a plesiosaur.
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Dunkleosteus terrelli boasted a 20-foot-long body covered with bony plates of armor. Fossil records indicate that this huge fish, one of the first large jawed vertebrates in the ocean, was an aggressive predator.
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I've had the Clix for 2+ years now with no problems. Until this week. I wanted to do a mass change out of all my audio files (remove all the songs and replace them all with different stuff) so when I plugged my clix in and started up WMP - I clicked "OK" when WMP gave me the option of something like:
"Your device is almost full. Some of this may be stuff the manufacturer put on your device. Would you like to delete all of the data?"
There were no problems with the removal process and no problems filling it back up with songs. However, the next morning I noticed that the audio quality sounded bad. It sounded as if the tracks were dragging and being played at half speed. After troubleshooting for a bit (reloading songs, rebooting device, recovering and reinstalling frimware [yes, i have the latest version according to my firmware updater], checking to makes sure the songs sounded right when playing on my computer, checking my settings, and returning my settings back to default) I found that as soon as I enter the custom EQ menu in the settings, the sound returns to normal and plays at normal speed.
Problem solved, right? Well not really. The problem comes back every time I plug my Clix back into my PC!?!?!? Even if I don't sync any songs to it and am just charging the battery, as soon as I unplug the USB cable and try to listen to tunes - the songs sound like they're playing at half speed and I have to go to the custom EQ settings menu to get it to start playing right. So the problem is somewhat fixable - but it is still annoying and I'd rather solve the problem if it's possible. Also, I've noticed that when I unplug my device - it does tell me on the main screen that I'm using the "Custom EQ".
Again, I have reinstalled firmwarm and it is up to date. Did something get screwed up when I deleted all the files from my Clix? Or are the two unrelated? Any help here would be greatly appreciated. I do love my Clix and don't really need anything bigger as I'm always changing out what I'm listening to. Thanks in advance.
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MANCHESTER - Manchester Police SWAT members trained in emergency and tactical medicine this week, including the use of a product the military uses to stop severe life-threatening bleeding in battle.
Lt. Maureen Tessier said the SWAT members do monthly training and last month's training focused on emergency medicine, perfecting skills like the tourniquet placed on the left leg of wounded police officer Daniel Doherty that is credited with helping save his life after he was shot by Myles Webster last March.
Tessier said a part of this week's training session included the use of mannequins that "bleed" and continue to do so if the tourniquet or special wound material is not property applied.
The special wound material used in the SWAT training, called QuikClot, is a rayon/polyester gauze that has been impregnated with kaolin, or white clay, an inert mineral that promotes clotting. The military uses the kaolin-based material in treatment of life-threatening bleeding from external wounds that are not suitable for tourniquet application.
Tessier said the SWAT members train monthly on various skills to maintain certification. The Manchester SWAT unit is one of 12 teams in the New Hampshire Tactical Officers Association and holds membership in the National Tactical Officers Association.
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Ravens rookie defensive lineman Brandon Williams is sidelined with a right foot injury and is in a walking boot.
The third-rounder from Missouri Southern said he got hurt against the St. Louis Rams in the preseason finale and he remains hopeful that it won't be a long-term injury.
"I think so, I really don't know," Williams said. "They really haven't said much about it yet. I'm walking, I can walk."
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In typical Apple fashion, the announcement had lots of dazzle and little technical detail, but a few specifications emerged. Fusion Drive uses separate SSD and HDD to provide 128 Gbytes of flash and 1T to 3Tbytes of spinning disk.
I guessed Fusion Drive's magic happened via caching. It seemed reasonable. Several caching products are already available for Windows PCs. Intel's SRT (Smart Response Technology) is the best-known caching solution for PCs. It uses up to 64 Gbytes of SSD as a cache managed by the RAID features of its Z68 chipset. This approach limits SRT to enthusiasts, such as this humble reporter, who are willing to build a PC using a Z68 motherboard.
Users with more conventional PCs can buy SSDs with bundled caching software from SANdisk, whose ReadyCache SSD comes bundled with Condusive's ExpressCache. (Condusive is best known for its DiskKeeper defragmentation software). OCZ and the Crucial division of Micron bundle Nvelo's Dataplex with its Synapse and Adrenaline caching SSDs.
However, I was wrong. My friend Stephen Foskett's announcement-day blog post, which described the Fusion Drive as file-level tiering, was closer to the mark.
Apple's Fusion Drive marries the kind of sub-LUN tiering that many hybrid disk arrays perform as well as Flash-based write caching. All of this is managed through Apple's core storage logical volume manager. Sub-LUN tiering is more complex than caching because it requires a storage system, or operating system in this case, to track data access frequency for all the data on the disk.
When an SSD and hard drive are combined into a single volume in Apple's core storage, the volume manager will dedicate 4 Gbytes of the SSD as a write cache and place newly written data there. Frequently accessed data will be promoted from the hard disk to the SSD, as well. The 128 Gbytes of flash Apple uses should be enough to hold all the programs and data most desktop users access more than once in a blue moon, giving those programs SSD-like performance.
At the announcement, Apple execs said Fusion Drive would be available only with new iMacs and Mac Minis. However, Tumblr blogger Jolyjinx, whose real name is Patrick Stein, discovered that the secret sauce is all in core storage in the latest version of OSX. He found this out by enabling Fusion Drive on his older Mac with a plain-vanilla OCZ SSD. He even managed to run ZFS on top of Fusion Drive, though I would probably use ZFS's SSD support with mirrored SSDs for the ZIL (write cache).
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The Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) and M&M Meat Shops Ltd. are warning people with allergies to mustard and gluten not to consume M&M Meat Shops brand Marinated Barbecue Chicken Kabob, described below. The affected product contains mustard and gluten which are not declared on the label.
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Gerhardt is Assistant Professor of German at UH Mānoa where she teaches courses in 20th and 21st-century German literature, culture and film.
In this lecture, Gerhardt presents and analyzes print media coverage of social movements and terrorist groups in West Germany between 1967 and 1970 and 1972. Her talk considers both corporate media, in particular the newspapers of the Springer press, and in leftist publications, such as Agit 883, revealing how their political concerns - expressed in content and form - reflect, intervene in and shape perceptions of the social movements.
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Warren Buffett took over Berkshire Hathaway about 45 years ago. At that time, Berkshire was a struggling textile firm, but after a few years, due to Mr. Buffett's influence, the company moved away from that business and entered the insurance industry, offering property and casualty products. These operations provided Mr. Buffett with capital, which he, in turn, invested, purchasing additional subsidiaries, and within several years, built an international conglomerate. Berkshire Hathaway is now an insurance giant, with well-known companies under its flag like GEICO and General Re. It also owns dozens of other businesses that include electric utilities, a railroad, building supply companies, and retailers. These businesses are predominantly run independently, with profits and excess cash being channeled to Berkshire's Omaha, Nebraska headquarters.
Mr. Buffett and his partner Charles T. Munger utilize this capital to purchase additional companies, as well as to bolster its huge equity positions. It owns large blocks of stock in several blue chip corporations, like Coca-Cola (KO - Free Analyst Report), American Express (AXE - Free Analyst Report), and Proctor & Gamble (PG - Free Analyst Report), to name just a few. Its total equity portfolio now stands at more than $50 billion, and the dividends received from these stocks are also used to bolster and expand Berkshire's large footprint.
Under Mr. Buffett, Berkshire Hathaway has grown exponentially and is now one of the largest and most profitable companies in the world. In 2009, which some consider a mediocre year for the company (when compared with many prior years), it earned more than $8 billion. Meanwhile, since Mr. Buffett and his team took the reins, the stock has richly rewarded shareholders. Since 1965, the equity, on average, has returned 22% compounded annually through 2009. Needless to say, over this time frame, the stock has handily outperformed the Dow Jones Industrial Average, the S&P 500 and every other commonly-used benchmark. It is this level of profitability and share-price performance that has pundits, and current, as well as prospective, investors greatly interested about Berkshire's future without Mr. Buffett at the helm.
Over the years, people have offered suggestions and speculated as to who will take over once Mr. Buffett, now almost 80 years old, steps down from his post. Just recently, during an interview, Mr. Munger (86 years old himself) suggested that Li Lu, a successful investor and hedge fund manager may be in the mix to become one of Berkshire's top investment officers. Mr. Buffett refused to provide any additional color in regard to the comments, and at this time, the succession plan remains a mystery. In our view, whoever picks up the ball will, in all likelihood, be very qualified and have an immensely profitable company to run.
Which brings us to one of those big questions: Will the company's culture and strategy change? In our view, we would be surprised to see Berkshire's focus shift in any material way. We believe that the company will remain an insurance powerhouse, with an ever-growing list of profitable subsidiaries. Indeed, its aggressive acquisition strategy isn't likely to change. Berkshire's equity portfolio is sure to grow further, too, as it continues to park excess funds in blue chip corporations and other high-quality equities.
Will the stock continue to post excellent annual returns? This question is a little harder to answer, as Berkshire may become a victim of its own success. These days, although a large acquisition, for instance the recent $26 billion purchase of railroad Burlington Northern Santa Fe, may increase shareholder value and company profitability potential, it is unlikely to be a game changer due to the immense size of Berkshire's existing portfolio of subsidiaries. We believe that Berkshire, with or without Mr. Buffett and Mr. Munger, will possess dozens of successful and profitable companies, but assuming that the stock will continue to provide investors with 22% annual returns is unrealistic.
That said, investors may be presented with a buying opportunity down the line. There is certainly a group of current shareholders worried about the succession plan who fear that Berkshire's salad days will end with Mr. Buffett's exit. In addition, some active traders are probably also waiting for that day, and plan on profiting from any possible price drop. At that time, if the price does decline materially, it would, in our opinion, trigger a buying opportunity for buy-and-hold investors interested in taking a position in an immensely profitable and financially sound company. In addition to its subsidiaries and large equity portfolio, Berkshire possesses almost $30 billion in cash assets and a small amount of debt.
Mr. Buffett has built an empire from the ground up and has used his financial acumen to create one of the largest corporations in the world, with operations that span the globe. His investment strategies are continuously studied and investors constantly attempt to mirror his actions. Every word that Mr. Buffett utters is pondered in the hopes of discovering and getting ahead of his next move. And while the succession plan is ambiguous at present, we believe that his choice will be the right one and that the chosen individual(s) will be eager to continue the strategies that made Berkshire Hathaway incredibly successful. Thus, we view a changing of the guard not as a negative, but as a potential buying opportunity for investors.


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Meriam Ibrahim, family welcomed as long journey ends in ManchesterStaff Report
July 31. 2014 9:27PM
MANCHESTER — Meriam Ibrahim, the Sudanese woman sentenced to death for refusing to renounce her Christian faith, arrived in Manchester with her family on Thursday night.
"God heard our prayers," said Gabriel Wanni of Manchester, Ibrahim's brother-in-law.
Ibrahim and Wanni's brother, Daniel, along with their children, flew from Rome to Philadelphia and then on to Manchester.
No party was planned for Thursday night.
"They're going to be tired and exhausted," Wanni said.
Daniel Wani, a U.S. citizen since 2005, met his wife on a trip to Sudan in 2011. He went to Sudan last summer to arrange for his wife and child to move to New Hampshire, where the Wanni brothers immigrated in 1998 after fleeing the war-torn African country.
However, she was jailed in February after a member of her family told authorities she recently converted from Islam to marry her Christian husband. In May, while eight months pregnant, Ibrahim was given a death sentence by a Sudanese court.
Her conviction was quashed in June, but Sudan's government accused her of trying to leave the country with falsified papers, preventing her departure for the United States with her husband and two children.
She was initially detained, then released and moved into the U.S. embassy in Khartoum.
After Ibrahim's release, the family met Pope Francis at the Vatican July 24.
Wanni on Thursday thanked those who helped secure Ibrahim's release.
"I appreciate what everyone did," Wanni said.
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